Keynote and Invited Speakers

"Trends in the Remote Sensing of rangeland productivity: Lessons from an Africa Environment" Prof. Onisimo Mutanga School of Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Science, University of KwaZulu, Natal

Anthropogenic and natural factors, including climate change have dramatically altered rangeland productivity (quality and quantity) to the detriment of livestock and wildlife grazing sustainability. The talk will track developments in the remote sensing landscape to estimate and map the quantity and quality of grazing resources in heterogeneous African landscapes. We demonstrate the utility of hyperspectral data, and lessons learnt from the associated technical processing (band optimisation and machine learning) to upscale to cheap and freely available new generation multispectral data to match requirements for poor African countries.