Mapping mangroves extents on the Red Sea coastline in Egypt using polarimetric SAR and high resolution optical remote sensing data

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Abdel Hamid, Ayman ^a,b   Dubovyk, Olena ^a   El Magd, Islam Abou ^b   Menz, Gunter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences   (Egypt)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Mangroves mapping; OBIA; Polarimetric SAR; RapidEye; Red Sea

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; COASTAL ZONE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MANGROVE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PALSAR; RAPIDEYE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION MAPPING;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 85042697098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10030646     Document Type: Article

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