Aerial view of Brousse Tigree in Niger

Description:

This is an aerial view of Brousse Tigree in an arid landscape in Niger. This picture was taken from the book of Dale (1999) which itself was extracted from Thiery et al. (1995). The area shown is about 1km x 1.3km.

Format:

The file is a csv and contains 786 rows and 597 columns.

Usage:

The data can be read into R using

X <- as.matrix(read.table("brousse.csv",header=F,sep=","))

References:

Dale, M. R. (1999). Spatial pattern analysis in plant ecology. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Thiery, J. M., d'Herbes, J. M., & Valentin, C. (1995). A model simulating the genesis of banded vegetation patterns in Niger. Journal of Ecology, 497-507.