DEVELOPING A SATELLITE IMAGE-BASED MAPPING SERVICE FOR MONITORING ILLICIT ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE GOLD MINING IN GHANA
Foster Kwame Mensah1, Stella Ofori-Ampofo1, Mary Amponsah2, Emil A. Cherrington3 and Rebekke Muench4, (1)Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS), University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana, (2)Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS), , University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)NASA DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA, United States