The trend of the annual maximum NDVI was calculated using
pixelwise least square statistics. The map shows the strong
greening up trend in the central Sahel from 1982 to 2004. The
small figure shows the shift in the isoline for max NDVI = 50
together with the N-S shift in the 300 mm isohyet for Mauritania
and Senegal. Click here or under the map to see trends for
Burkina Faso and Mali,
or Niger and Nigeria.
