Mangrove vulnerability modelling in parts of Western Niger Delta, Nigeria using satellite images, GIS techniques and Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis (SMCA)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 178, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 39-51

  Omo Irabor, Omo O ^a,b,c   Olobaniyi, Samuel B ^a,b   Akunna, Joe ^a,c   Venus, Valentijn ^a,d   Maina, Joseph M ^a,e,f   Paradzayi, Charles ^a,g,h  

^a West African Management Coastal Initiative (WACMI)   (Nigeria)

^b DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e Macquarie University ^*  (Kenya)

^f MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^h MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Coastal management; Data management; Environmental monitoring; Satellite remote sensing; Spatial modelling; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL MODELLING; VULNERABILITY;

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OIL WELLS; REMOTE SENSING;

DECISION MAKING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; OIL;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATA MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MANGROVE; MODELING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMIDITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; MANGROVE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NIGERIA; OIL SPILL; POPULATION DENSITY; POVERTY; PRECIPITATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; WATER POLLUTANT;

AVICENNIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NIGERIA; POPULATION GROWTH; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; RHIZOPHORACEAE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SEAWATER; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPACECRAFT;

NIGER DELTA; NIGERIA;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 79960406347     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1669-z     Document Type: Article

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