Jenny M. McCarthy,^* Thomas Gumbricht,^** Terence McCarthy,^*** Philip Frost,^**** Konrad Wessels,^***** Frank Seidel<sup>******


*</sup>Jenny McCarthy holds a PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She is specializing in remote sensing of land cover and various landscape features, applied in several studies of the Okavango Delta. Her address: Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden. jennymcc@kth.se
^**Thomas Gumbricht holds a PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He has been head of geoinformatics at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, and has recently been a postdoc at the University of the Witwatersrand, working with the Okavango Delta for the past 3 years. His address: Tema Vatten, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden. thomas_gumbricht@hotmail.com
^***Terence McCarthy is a professor in geochemistry and has conducted research in the Okavango Delta since the mid-1980s. His address: Department of Geology University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050 Wits, South Africa. mccarthyt@geosciences.wits.ac.za
^****Philip Frost is a remote sensing researcher at the Institute for Soil, Climate and Water. He is currently busy with his Master’s degree looking at fire frequency in southern Africa. His address: Institute for Soil, Climate and Water, Private Bag X79, Pretoria 0001, South Africa. pfrost@iscw.agric.za
^*****Konrad Wessels is a PhD student at the University of Maryland. He has also been an employee of the Institute for Soil, Climate and Water during the research of the report. His address: Department of Geography, University of Maryland, 2181 LeFrak Hall, Collage Park, MD 20742, USA. wessels@neelix.umd.edu
^******Frank Seidel is a student of geodesy at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. frank_sdl@gmx.de