Aquaponics for improved food security in Africa: A review

KA Obirikorang, W Sekey, BA Gyampoh… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Increasing demand on water resources, reduced land water availability, and concerns over
food security have spurred the evolution of many innovative and complex food production …

Sources and levels of particulate matter in North African and Sub-Saharan cities: a literature review

L Naidja, H Ali-Khodja, S Khardi - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2018 - Springer
In order to assess the significance of PM in ambient air, it is necessary to evaluate their
physical and chemical characteristics as well as identify their major emission sources. On a …

Fire influence on regional to global Environments and air quality (FIREX‐AQ)

C Warneke, JP Schwarz, J Dibb… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The NOAA/NASA Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air
Quality (FIREX‐AQ) experiment was a multi‐agency, inter‐disciplinary research effort to:(a) …

Desert dust, industrialization, and agricultural fires: Health impacts of outdoor air pollution in Africa

SE Bauer, U Im, K Mezuman… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The African continent continuously experiences extreme aerosol load conditions, during
which the World Health Organization clean air standard of 10 μg/m3 of PM2. 5 mass is …

[HTML][HTML] The CLoud–Aerosol–Radiation interaction and forcing: Year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) measurement campaign

JM Haywood, SJ Abel, PA Barrett… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
The representations of clouds, aerosols, and cloud–aerosol–radiation impacts remain some
of the largest uncertainties in climate change, limiting our ability to accurately reconstruct …

Prototyping a global algorithm for systematic fire-affected area mapping using MODIS time series data

DP Roy, Y Jin, PE Lewis, CO Justice - Remote sensing of environment, 2005 - Elsevier
The remote sensing of Earth surface changes is an active research field aimed at the
development of methods and data products needed by scientists, resource managers, and …

Burned area mapping using multi-temporal moderate spatial resolution data—A bi-directional reflectance model-based expectation approach

DP Roy, PE Lewis, CO Justice - Remote sensing of environment, 2002 - Elsevier
While remote sensing offers the capability for monitoring land surface changes, extracting
the change information from satellite data requires effective and automated change …

Examination of Sentinel-2A multi-spectral instrument (MSI) reflectance anisotropy and the suitability of a general method to normalize MSI reflectance to nadir BRDF …

DP Roy, J Li, HK Zhang, L Yan, H Huang, Z Li - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The Sentinel-2A multi-spectral instrument (MSI) acquires multi-spectral reflective wavelength
observations with directional effects due to surface reflectance anisotropy and changes in …

Southern Africa validation of the MODIS, L3JRC, and GlobCarbon burned-area products

DP Roy, L Boschetti - IEEE transactions on Geoscience and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three available global multi-annual burned area products (L3JRC, GlobCarbon, and
MODIS) are validated for a burning season across southern Africa. Validation is undertaken …

Variability of biomass burning aerosol optical characteristics in southern Africa during the SAFARI 2000 dry season campaign and a comparison of single scattering …

TF Eck, BN Holben, DE Ward… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of the column‐integrated aerosol optical properties in the southern African
region were made by Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) Sun‐sky radiometers at several …