Assessment of mangrove vegetation based on remote sensing and ground-truth measurements at Tumpat, Kelantan Delta, East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1635-1650

  Satyanarayana, Behara ^a,b,c   Mohamad, Khairul Azwan ^a   Idris, Indra Farid ^a   Husain, Mohd Lokman ^a   Dahdouh Guebas, Farid ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LAND USE; MAPPING; VEGETATION;

BRUGUIERA GYMNORRHIZA; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE DATA; NORMALIZED DIFFERENTIAL VEGETATION INDICES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL INDICES; VEGETATION TYPE;

REMOTE SENSING;

DELTA; LAND COVER; LAND USE; MANGROVE; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; NDVI; QUICKBIRD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

COASTS; FORESTRY; MALAYA; MANGROVE; MAPPING; RATING; REMOTE SENSING;

KELANTAN; MALAYSIA; TUMPAT; WEST MALAYSIA;

AVICENNIA ALBA; BRUGUIERA GYMNORHIZA; NYPA FRUTICANS; RHIZOPHORA APICULATA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SONNERATIA CASEOLARIS;

EID: 79953178224     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160903586781     Document Type: Article

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