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MA 58: Preliminary study on mapping changes of mangrove ecosystem in Rekawa l...
Abstract

Mangrove forests have drastically changed over the past few decades due to anthropogenic activities and natural disasters. Since the comprehensive field surveys are highly expensive, time consuming and labour intensive, remote sensing satellite images can be used to map the changing pattern of mangrove ecosystems over a large period of time. This study focused to evaluate on how far remote sensing data give information on mangrove mapping and to estimate the temporal variations for the eff...

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Keywords
Mangroves , mage classification , Kappa accuracy , Remote Sensing
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Coastal and Marine Sensitive Habitats
flora and/or fauna in natural environment. Examples: wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sealife, wetlands, habitat
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JS 2
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English
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Bandara M.M.S.C and T.W.S. Warnasuriya ( 2017 ).Preliminary study on mapping changes of mangrove ecosystem in
Rekawa lagoon, Sri Lanka using medium res...

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