Fresco Land Cover and Land Use Report

The land use mapping module is a study requested by Component 2 of WA BiCC Program ‘Increasing coastal resilience’, implemented in the administrative area (Prefecture) of Fresco. The coastline of this prefecture forms part of the catchment area for the Bolo and Niouniourou coastal rivers and is closely associated with activities in the locality. Satellite images were used to map land cover and land use at different dates: 1990 and 2017 for the whole prefecture and 2018 for the Fresco lagoon landscape.

Fresco Land Cover and Land Use Report
March 29, 2021 2:43 pm Reports

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The land use mapping module is a study requested by Component 2 of WA BiCC Program ‘Increasing coastal resilience’, implemented in the administrative area (Prefecture) of Fresco. The coastline of this prefecture forms part of the catchment area for the Bolo and Niouniourou coastal rivers and is closely associated with activities in the locality. Satellite images were used to map land cover and land use at different dates: 1990 and 2017 for the whole prefecture and 2018 for the Fresco lagoon landscape.