Integrating remote sensing data and rapid appraisals for land-cover change analyses in Uganda

This article presents methods for investigating mechanisms of land-cover change that combines remotely sensed data, archival data, and rapid appraisals. Presents a case where increasing human activity results in accumulation of woody biomass on edaphic grasslands of a forest-grassland mosaic, rather than the expansion of grasslands at the expense of forests as is currently understood in that area.