Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery Reveals Many Millions of Termite Mounds Across the West African Sahel

Brianna M Lind1, Martin Brandt2, Ankit Kariryaa3, Jennifer L. Small4, Katherine A Melocik4, Compton J Tucker5 and Niall P Hanan6, (1)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (2)University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, København K, Denmark, (3)University of Bremen, Human Computer Interaction Group, Bremen, Germany, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Plant and Environment Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States