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Fluctuations of water level and the hydrological regime of Lake Kyoga influence the dynamics and occurrence of wetlands and water reservoirs within its surroundings. During the last 20 years many of them have become nearly entirely overgrown and afflicted by siltation. The aim of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries in Uganda is to use these waters and wetlands for extensive fish production. Landsat and Terra Aster satellite data were used to analyze the occurrence of free water and wetlands between the years 1986 and 2006. Multispectral classification of these data provides information on how to detect localities potentially suitable for free water restoration and establishing of the BOMOSA fish farming system. The results have shown significant decrease of wetlands and water bodies within the analyzed time horizon.
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Many thanks to our African partners involved in the BOMOSA project for their support during ground truthing, for comments and reviews – Kenya Marine & Fisheries Research Institute, Sangoro Aquaculture Station, Kenya Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, NFLARR, Sebetha, Ethiopia, Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya,Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Dept of Aquaculture, Entebbe, Uganda, Moi University, Dept of Zoology, Eldoret, Kenya, Kenyan Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, Sagana Fish Farm, Kenya, as well as our European partners from University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, University of Bologna, Italy, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Limnology, IPGL-Office, Mondsee Austria. Financial support was provided by BOMOSA (INCO-CT-2006-032103) and by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic NPV 2B06023 projects. Special thanks to Prof. Patrick Denny for valuable comments on the issue and for correction of the paper. Source for free Landsat data set was the Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF), http://www.landcover.org.
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Hesslerová, P., Pokorný, J. (2010). Wetland Analyses in Lake Kyoga Region and Kamuli District in Uganda. In: Vymazal, J. (eds) Water and Nutrient Management in Natural and Constructed Wetlands. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9585-5_20
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