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The AfriPop project was initiated in July 2009 with an aim of producing detailed and freely-available population distribution maps for the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. The AfriPop team assembled a unique spatial database of linked information on contemporary census data across Africa, satellite-imagery derived settlement maps and land cover ...
Combined green: Definition of "sub-Saharan Africa" as used in the statistics of United Nations institutions Lighter green: The Sudan, classified as a part of North Africa by the United Nations Statistics Division [2] instead of Eastern Africa, though the organization states that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any ...
Astra 4A (originally Sirius 4) is one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES at the Astra 5°E orbital slot providing digital television and radio broadcasts, data, and interactive services to Nordic countries, eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa in the 11.70 GHz-12.75 GHz range of the K u band and 18.8 GHz-21.75 GHz range of the K a band.
The Maghreb is a region of northwest Africa encompassing the coastlands and Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The Sahara Desert is the massive sparsely populated region in North Africa that contains the world's largest hot deserts; Sub-Saharan Africa is the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara.
On satellite Astra 28.2°E, SES, HD+ Ghana, GTV (Gateway TV) - to differentiate from Ghana Television (GTV)-, a British-based company, became the next contender in sub-saharan Africa providing digital satellite television. But on 30 January. 2009, the Board of Directors of Gateway Broadcast Services (GBS) approved plans to liquidate the company ...
2 Sub-Saharan Africa. Toggle Sub-Saharan Africa subsection. 2.1 Eastern Africa. 2.2 Middle Africa. 2.3 Southern Africa. 2.4 Western Africa. 3 See also. 4 References ...
Sub-Saharan Africa, home to 1.2 billion people, contains less than 10% of sites inscribed on the list. Moreover, Africa has a higher percentage of World Heritages sites in danger than any other ...
Land cover disagreement over Africa in croplands and forests available for analysis in Geo-wiki. Global land cover validation exercises are feasible as images less than 2.5 meter resolution provide very detailed information on land cover with global coverage of at least 20% [6] with more high-resolution, up to date images continuously being added.