Mapping spatial distribution and geographic shifts of East African highland banana (Musa spp.) in Uganda.

ABSTRACT: East African highland banana (Musa acuminata genome group AAA-EA; hereafter referred to as banana) is critical for Uganda's food supply, hence our aim to map current distribution and to understand changes in banana production areas over the past five decades. We collected banana presence/absence data through an online survey based on high-resolution satellite images and coupled this data with independent covariates as inputs for ensemble machine learning prediction of current banana distribution. We assessed geographic shifts of production areas using spatially explicit differences between the 1958 and 2016 banana distribution maps. The biophysical factors associated with banana spatial distribution and geographic shift were determined using a logistic regression model and classification a

SUBMITTER: Ochola D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8853547 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature