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Slide 7: SAR image (synthetic aperture radar) of the Virunga region showing entire range of mountains from Lake Mutanda in Uganda to Lake Kivu and the Gishwati Forest Reserve.  Vegetation belts (vertical zonation) as well as agricultural land use patterns are clearly discernible. See also Tour II Slide 9 as well as the Virunga Locator Map
Credit: Courtesy NASA.
 

Created 12 February 1998. Last updated 11 October 1998  by JDH.