Author:
ZUBAIR, AYODEJI OPEYEMI

ABSTRACT
This project examines the use of GIS and Remote Sensing in mapping Land Use Land Cover in Ilorin between 1972 and 2001 so as to detect the changes that has taken place in this status between these periods. Subsequently, an attempt was made at projecting the observed land use land cover in the next 14 years. In achieving this, Land Consumption Rate and Land Absorption Coefficient were introduced to aid in the quantitative assessment of the change. The result of the work shows a rapid growth in built-up land between 1972 and 1986 while the periods between 1986 and 2001 witnessed a reduction in this class. It was also observed that change by 2015 may likely follow the trend in 1986/2001. Suggestions were therefore made at the end of the work on ways to use the information as contained therein optimally.

A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY,
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE
AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE (MSc) DEGREE IN
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
OCTOBER, 2006

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Report of the Second Workshop on The Biology and Conservation of Small Cetaceans and Dugongs of South-East Asia

Editor:
W. F. Perrin,
R. R. Reeves,
M. L. L. Dolar,
T. A. Jefferson,
H. Marsh,
J. Y. Wang
J. Estacion

Introduction
This document is the report of the Second Workshop on the Biology and Conservation of Small Cetaceans and Dugongs of Southeast Asia,
held in the Philippines at Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, 24-26 July, 2002. The first workshop was held in 1995, also at Silliman University; it was sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (Perrin et al. 1996). The second workshop was sponsored by the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), also known as the Bonn Convention. Additional support for participants was provided by the Ocean Park Conservation Foundation in Hong Kong, WWF-US, and WWF-Philippines. Content and participation were organized by the Southwest Fisheries Science Center of U.S. NOAA Fisheries and the consulting firm Tropical Marine Research. Travel and local arrangements were organized by the Marine Laboratory of Silliman University (SUML). Scientists and conservationists were present from Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China (Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong), Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, U.S. and Vietnam.

Published by :
UNEP/CMS Secretariat, Bonn, Germany, 161 pages
CMS Technical Series Publication No. 9 - 2005

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Technorati : Biology, CMS, Cetaceans, Conservation, Dugongs, NOAA, South-East Asia, TMR, UNEP, WWF