EMSAfrica supported the production of the Sub-meter resolution digital elevation models and orthomosaics of the Kruger National Park, South Africa, v1.0, September-October 2018 dataset archived at CEDA.

EMSAfrica is a collaborative research project between South Africa and Germany. The project brings together different scientific disciplines and approaches to understand the impacts of land use and climate change on the structure and function of South African terrestrial ecosystems. The data and products are used to develop and test models and produce information relevant to ecosystem management in the region. The project uses six observation sites in South Africa established by its predecessor project ARS Africa (2014-2018). These sites represent a climatic gradient and different land management types from peri-urban to grazed and protected, natural-like environments. To disentangle the impacts of land management from the impacts of climate, the sites are "paired" so that the managed sites are located as close as possible to a similar site in a natural-like environment. This way, observed differences between the sites are due to land use rather than climate. Each of the project work packages conducts different measurements on these sites. By working together and integrating our data, analyses and results, it becomes possible to build models on the Southern African vegetation patterns and carbon balance. Furthermore, the aim is to scale up this information into combined models that can be used to aid land-use decision making.",

The PI for the EMSAfrica project is Steve Higgins and received funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under grant_number: 01LL1801.