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O. N. Shela, “Naturalization of Lake Malawi Levels and Shire River Flows: Challenges of Water Resources Research and Sustainable Utilization on the Lake Malawi – Shire River System,” Water Net Symposium: Sustainable Use of Water Resources, Maputo, 1-2 November 2000, pp. 1-12.

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• TITLE: Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULC) in the Lake Malawi Drainage Basin, 1982-2005

  AUTHORS: Geoffrey Chavula, Patrick Brezonik, Marvin Bauer

  KEYWORDS: AVHRR, Lake Malawi, Lake Surface Temperature, MODIS, Reflectance

  JOURNAL NAME: International Journal of Geosciences, Vol.2 No.2, May 26, 2011

  ABSTRACT: Changes in land use and land cover (LULC) in the drainage basin of Lake Malawi over the period 1982-2005 were estimated from satellite imagery, and possible relationships were evaluated among the four major land-cover classes: cropland, forest, water, and savanna/shrub/woodland. AVHRR and MODIS sensors gave different values of areal extent of the four classes, limiting the feasibility of establishing consistent temporal trends over the entire period of the study, but forest land showed the least change among three land cover types, and extent of water bodies remained virtually unaltered over the period. AVHRR results show that cropland was mainly derived from savanna/shrub/woodland, which declined by almost 90% over the period 1982-1995.