Mangrove Forest Change Detection along the Coast of the Red Sea
Abstract
Mangroves Forest form unique ecosystem that are able to thrive in environments with harsh weather conditions. They are also are very productive systems offering diversity and abundant of natural resources, in addition they also work as carbon sinks. However, mangrove Forest around the world are in rapid decline and are constantly changing due to both anthropogenic and natural factors. Remote sensing can be used to obtain data to detect mangrove change globally, satellite imagery data can be used to analyze and better understand environmental situations of mangrove ecosystems. The objective of this study is to detect mangrove forest change located at the coast of the Red Sea of the during the years of 2000 and 2017. We use the Google Earth Engine (GEE) to assess the LANDSAT images and process the detection of mangrove forest distribution changes in the study area. The result indicates that some areas in the Red Sea experienced increase of mangrove coverage in the nearly 20 years.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFM.B23J2664F
- Keywords:
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- 0439 Ecosystems;
- structure and dynamics;
- BIOGEOSCIENCESDE: 0480 Remote sensing;
- BIOGEOSCIENCESDE: 1632 Land cover change;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1807 Climate impacts;
- HYDROLOGY