The first phase of TIGER ended in 2008.


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Land Use / Land Cover

Land use / land cover maps for the period 1987 to 2006 of the irrigated agricultural zones of the Souss-Massa basin. Derived from multi-sensor and multi-temporal satellite data.

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Land use / land cover change map of the irrigated agricultural zones of the Souss-Massa basin. Derived from multi-sensor and multi-temporal satellite data.

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Land cover/ land use map of the Limpopo basin derived from SRTM DEMs (Digital Elevation Models) and optical satellite data using the Java Neural Network Simulator (JavaNNs).

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Land cover maps of the Orange-Fish River Basin, Namibia, derived from Landsat TM imagery from 2004 (map A), and AATSR imagery from 2004 (map B).

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Land use/Land cover map of the Kuils-Eerste river catchment showing 36 classes derived from SPOT 5 satellite imagery from 2005 and other data

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ENVISAT MERIS FR image merge with basin wide vegetation monitoring result showing the SAI region (Système d’Aquifère d’Iullemeden) in December 2005.

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Medium-resolution land cover map, Kafue River Basin, derived from MERIS FR 11/11/2003 and ASAR WS composite 10/2003-03/2004.

IWAREMA project website

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[IWAREMA project website]

Land cover map of Ben Gardane, Tunisia, based on SPOT 5 optical satellite imagery from June 2006.

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Seasonal NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index) dynamic map over SAI (Système d'Aquifères d'Iullemeden), derived from a time series of MERIS full resolution optical data.

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Geology and Ground Water

Land use / land cover change map of the irrigated agricultural zones of the Souss-Massa basin. Derived from multi-sensor and multi-temporal satellite data.

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ENVISAT MERIS FR image merge with basin wide vegetation monitoring result showing the SAI region (Système d’Aquifère d’Iullemeden) in December 2005.

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Map showing the probability of the existence of ground water in a region of Niger in 2007, using as input DEMs (Digital Elevation Models), water shed modelling tools and automatic linear feature extraction.

WADE project website

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[WADE project website]

Geological map of the Sebt Brikyne area, produced with input from satellite imagery and auxiliary data.

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Map showing hydrographic network and risk of exposure to floods, derived from optical and radar satellite imagery, DEMs (Digital Elevation Models) and field observation data.

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Map showing morphological structure of the western highlands of Cameroon, derived from DEM (Digital Elevation Model) and other inputs.

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Map showing ground water potential for the Irherm area in Morocco derived from satellite and auxiliary data.

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Digital elevation model layer over SASS aquifer and landcover map layer over the site of Tozeur, derived from satellite imagery.

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Digital elevation model and fractures diagram of the area around Lake Nyos in the north west province of Cameroon.

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Map of subsidence feature south-east of El-Alia (Algeria) 2003 – 2006 using differential radar interferometry.

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Surface Water and Flood

Map showing flood patterns in 2005 in the Okavango Delta Wetlands using 13 Radar images. Areas identified as open water surfaces are highlighted in blue and water surfaces covered by vegetation in green. The spatial resolution of 150m captures small scale flooding patterns such as channels and lagoons.

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Surface water map of the Tillaberi and Dosso regions of Niger in 2007, derived from ERS and Envisat radar data.

WADE project website

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[WADE project website]

Small reservoir delineated on ENVISAT ASAR images. With (bottom) and without (top) Bragg scatter induced by wind (indicated). Yellow arrow depicts look direction.

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ASAR AP image (top) and LANDSAT ETM+ (center) showing a part of Kafue Flats during flooding, ASAR highest backscatter signal has been noticed at locations with inundated vegetation. (bottom) Village of fisherman in Kafue Flats during flooding season.

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Surface water mapping in Burkina Faso using multi date Radarsat 1 SAR imagery.

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Open surface water inventory over SAI (Système d'Aquifères d'Iullemeden), derived from IRS optical satellite data, SRTM DEM (Digital Elevation Model) water mask and Geocover Land Cover data.

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Digital Elevation Models and displacement

3D simulated terrain of the Volta River Basin on stereoscopic DEM (Digital Elevation Model) derived from high resolution IKONOS satellite data.

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Multidate ENVISAT 3D map showing land cover of the Bamboutos Mountain area, in the western highlands of Cameroon.

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Digital elevation model and fractures diagram of the area around Lake Nyos in the north west province of Cameroon.

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DEM (Digital Elevation Model) derived from radar interferometry over the SAI (Système d'Aquifères d'Iullemeden).

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Basin wide DEM (Digital Elevation Model) derived from radar interferometry over the SAI (Système d'Aquifères d'Iullemeden).

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Map of subsidence feature south-east of El-Alia (Algeria) 2003 – 2006 using differential radar interferometry.

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Geographic Information Systems

Digital elevation model layer over SASS aquifer and landcover map layer over the site of Tozeur, derived from satellite imagery.

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Geographic Information System developed over Lake Chad for the Lake Chad Basin Commission.

GlobWetland project website

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[GlobWetland project website]

Decision support tool for disaster response over the Lower Limpopo River Basin.

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Lake Surface Temperature

Lake surface temperature (in °Celsius) of Lake Victoria on February 6th, 2006 from AATSR. The surrounding land is from a MERIS image of the same date.

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Lake surface temperature of Lake Chad derived from ENVISAT AATSR on 10th October 2007

GlobWetland project website

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[GlobWetland project website]

Temperature of the surface of Lake Victoria derived from 3 ENVISAT AATSR scenes: 16th, 19th and 24th Aug 2006.

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Water Level

MERIS image of lakes Tanganyika and Rukwa. The inset shows 7 years of relative water level variations for a section of Lake Tanganyika derived from ERS Radar Altimeter data.

River and Lake project website

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[River and Lake project website]

Water level of Lake Victoria derived from the ERS Radar Altimeter from 1995 to 2004.

River and Lake project website

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[River and Lake project website]

Soil Moisture

Soil moisture composite (1km) for entire SADC (Southern African Development Community) from November 2007 (grey – no data, white – water).

SHARE project website

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[SHARE project website]

Scaling layer for SADC (Southern African Development Community). Green colour indicates regions where coarse resolution soil moisture products (25km) can be applied on local scale.

SHARE project website

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[SHARE project website]

Mean surface soil moisture over East Africa derived from ASAR GM in May 2007, May 2008 and May 2009.

SHARE project website

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[SHARE project website]

Mean surface soil moisture anomaly over East Africa derived from ASCAT in May 2008 and May 2009.

SHARE project website

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[SHARE project website]

Training and Outreach

The goal of the Nile River Awareness Kit (Nile RAK) project was to promote the sustainable management and use of resources within the Nile Basin.

Nile River Awareness Kit

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[Nile River Awareness Kit]

The TIGER Training Kit aims to contribute to the creation of EO-knowledge in Africa.

TIGER Training Kit


[TIGER Training Kit]

TIGER Project Publications.

UNESCO publications

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[UNESCO publications]

Water balance, precipitation, evapotranspiration

Basin wide annual actual evapotranspiration map over SAI (Système d'Aquifères d'Iullemeden) for 2005. Measured indirectly through a combined application of energy balance modelling and meteorological satellite data analyses.

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Basin wide water balance map over SAI (Système d'Aquifères d'Iullemeden) for 2005. Calculated as difference between rainfall and actual evapotranspiration, and measured indirectly through a combined application of energy balance modelling and meteorological satellite data analyses.

AQUIFER project website

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[AQUIFER project website]

Water Quality

Relative Chlorophyll-A Product over Lake Manzalah in Egypt, generated with MERIS(250m) from 2009-07-29.

Lake Quality Egypt project website

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[Lake Quality Egypt project website]

Chlorophyll concentration of Lake Chad derived from ENVISAT MERIS on 5th November 2007

GlobWetland project website

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[GlobWetland project website]

Total suspended matter in Lake Chad derived from ENVISAT MERIS on 5th November 2007

GlobWetland project website

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[GlobWetland project website]

Yellow matter in Lake Chad derived from ENVISAT MERIS on 5th November 2007

GlobWetland project website

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[GlobWetland project website]

Total chlorophyll in Lake Victoria.

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Total Suspended Matter in Lake Victoria derived from ENVISAT MERIS scene acquired on 4th September 2006.

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Water hyacinths on the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria derived from ENVISAT ASAR time series: 2nd March, 26th May, 4th Aug, 17th Nov 2006.

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Relative Total Dissolved Solids in Lake Manzalah, Egypt derived from ENVISAT MERIS 11th September 2009.

Lake Quality Egypt project website

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[Lake Quality Egypt project website]

Relative Turbidity of Lake Manzalah, Egypt derived from ENVISAT MERIS 29th July 2009.

Lake Quality Egypt project website

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[Lake Quality Egypt project website]