Remote Sensing in Studying Vegetation Cover, Sudan
Eisa M. Ahmed *
Department of Crop Protection, Faculty of Natural Resources & Environmental Studies, University of Kordofan, P.O Box 160 –Elobeid, 51111, Sudan.
El Gunaid F. Hassan
Department of Forestry and Range Sciences, University of Bakht Er-Ruda, Ad Duwem, Sudan.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
This paper aimed at to view some of the studies about the application of remote sensing in Sudan with a focus on vegetation cover in different areas by many of scholars; the integration of remote sensing in the gum Arabic belt; southern Gadarif region; ahable and wad grabou area, white Nile state; east of the Nile Khartoum State, and in the centre during a half-century.
Recommendations stated from these studies are; the use of assessment indicators including NDVI, SAVI and PCA –manipulated in color composite and/or unsupervised classification can be used as an appropriate mean for rangeland monitoring and assessment was recommended from the study of North Kordofan state.
Keywords: Remote sensing, vegetation, Sudan, land cover, change detection