In cooperation with WASCAL, a new paper has been published in the Journal of Arid Environments about the assessment of vegetation degradation in Burkina Faso utilizing MODIS NDVI data. The full paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.01.005
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