Impact of Space Technology on Natural Sites: Monitoring and Management Monitoring the Ancient Countryside: Remote Sensing and GIs at the Chora

Over recent years, remotely sensed data and spatial analysis techniques by providing timely and relatively inexpensive information, has proved useful for inventorying and motoring of widelife habitat in protected areas. To investigate on land cover pattern and the land use change in the Pendjari Biosphere Reserve , a time series of satellite imageries including LANDSAT TM and SPOT XS were used . Ancillary data were also used .The procedure of mapping land cover land use change involved three stages as follows: (i) data collection , preprocessing and visual interpretation (ii) defining land use land cover types (iii) Evaluation of land use change In addition to land use and land cover mapping, decision support maps were elaborated using GIS. These maps included the following themes: infrastructure, monitoring, plan for