Cattle Corridors A Seno Plain, Mali story
Agriculture
Some of the dark lines in the images might look like roads. Those lines are a transportation network of sorts, just not transportation for people. They are cattle corridors that connect grazing lands (dark patches) and sometimes connect to villages. They are lined with hedges to keep the cattle out of the crops.
One line that goes all the way across these images is indeed a road. It passes through the city of Bankass. But the other lines are cattle corridors.
Location
Nov. 9, 1986, Landsat 5 (path/row 196/50) — cattle corridors, Mali
Oct. 20, 1999, Landsat 7 (path/row 196/50) — cattle corridors, Mali
Oct. 26, 2016, Landsat 8 (path/row 196/50) — cattle corridors, Mali
Seno Plain, Mali Additional Imagery & Stories
Corona and WV-2
To get an even more detailed view of this region, we can actually go back to satellite imagery from 1967. This pre-Landsat imagery, while black-and-wh...
Cropland
These close-up images from Landsat show the Seno Plain in a bit more detail. The images were acquired during the dry season, so crops were not growing...
WorldView-2 Detail
On the edge of the Seno Plain, up against the Bandiagara escarpment, a brighter red appears in a few areas. This is denser tree cover and vegetation n...