About the Authors

Hastings Shamaoma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

hshamaoma@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia

Paxie W. Chirwa

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Jules C. Zekeng

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Forest Engineering, Advanced Teachers Training School for Technical Education, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon, Oliver R Tambo Africa Research Chair Initiative (ORTARChI), Chair of Environment and Development, Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia

Abel Ramoelo

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Environmental Studies (CFES), Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology after CFES, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Earth Observation Programme, South African National Space Agency (SANSA), Pretoria, South Africa

Andrew T. Hudak

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

F. Handavu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geography, Environment and Climate Change, Mukuba University, Kitwe, Zambia

Stephen Syampungani

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Oliver R Tambo Africa Research Chair Initiative (ORTARChI), Chair of Environment and Development, Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.