Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS

Rajan KS

Publications

• Research Article
  Inventorying, Mapping and Monitoring of Mangroves towards SustainableManagement of West Coast, India
  Author(s): Prakash N Mesta, Bharath Setturu, Subash Chandran MD, Rajan KS, Ramachandra TVPrakash N Mesta, Bharath Setturu, Subash Chandran MD, Rajan KS, Ramachandra TV
  
  Mangroves are one of the productive and highly adaptive ecosystems on the Earth, and provide invaluable services to the coastal communities. Ecological and sustainable management of the mangrove ecosystem requires crucial knowledge of variability and dynamics over a time and space. There are no reliable recent spatial extent estimates of mangroves or trend of coverage in West coast. The mapping from medium spatial resolution remote sensing data often leads to the underestimation of spatial extent. An attempt has been made to provide detailed information of mangroves species distribution using remote sensing data of high spatial resolution integrated with the other collateral field information through GIS. The coastline changes and the mangrove dynamics during 1989–2010 were assessed using supervised classifier technique provided the spatial distribution of mangrove species namel.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2169-0049.1000130

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