Fernand Koffi Kouame Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Remote Sensing, Geomatics
University Center for Research and Application in Teledetection (CURAT),University of Cocody, Ivory Coast
Fernand Kouamé is Doctor of State (HDR) in Natural Sciences and Professor-Researcher at the Félix HOUHPOUËT-BOIGNY University of Abidjan-Cocody (Ivory Coast). He coordinates teaching and research activities in Geomatics applied to natural resource management at the University Center for Research and Application in Remote Sensing (CURAT). Member of the "Remote Sensing Network" of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, he has participated in numerous research projects on the digital processing of satellite data and their integration into Geographic Information Systems.
Research Article Open Access
Author(s): Jean Homian Danumah*, Mahaman Bachir Saley, Samuel Nii Odai, Michael Thiel, Lucette You Akpa and Fernand Koffi Kouame
The purpose of this study is to analyze the land use/land cover dynamics change in relation to urban sprawl during 1990, 2002 and 2014 of Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast in West Africa and develop urban structure type (UST) classification using oriented based image analysis (OBIA) method of Abidjan, the capital of Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa. This was done by using the maximum likelihood classification algorithm and postclassification change detection procedure. The spatial-temporal land use/ land cover dynamics change in relation to urbanization sprawl was assessed based on a series of Landsat images for 1990, 2002 and 2014. Afterwards, Spot 5 image from 2013 was used for UST classification through process trees method. The results revealed urban... view more»