Mapping and monitoring fractional woody vegetation cover in the arid savannahs of northern Namibia using machine learning, LiDAR and SAR data.


Konrad Wessels1, Frans van den Bergh2, Renaud Mathieu2, Nichola Knox3, Russell Main4, Laven Naidoo2 and Karen Steenkamp2, (1)George Mason University, Geography and GeoInformation Science, Fairfax, United States, (2)CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa, (3)Namibian University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia, (4)Precision Agriculture Group, Advanced Agriculture and Food Cluster, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa