Study on the utility of IRS 1D LISS-III data and the classification techniques for mapping of Sunderban mangroves

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 123-137 - 2010
S. Nandy1, S. P. S. Kushwaha1
1Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organisation, Dehradun, India

Tóm tắt

Mangrove conservation and management is a stupendous task chiefly due to the inaccessibility and the hostile substrate conditions. Remote sensing technology serves as an important tool in providing fast, accurate and up-to-date baseline information on the status of mangroves. It is almost impossible to carry out conventional field surveys in these swampy areas. The present study aims at the classification and mapping of the mangroves in Sunderban Biosphere Reserve (SBR) in the West Bengal province of India using IRS 1D LISS-III satellite data. Different classification approaches, viz., on-screen visual interpretation, supervised and unsupervised classifications were tried. The study showed that four mangroves classes, viz., Avicennia, Phoenix, mixed mangroves, and mangrove scrub and eight non-mangrove classes could be delineated using all the three approaches. All the mangrove and non-mangrove classes were field verified and the overall accuracy as well as user’s and producer’s accuracies for each category were determined. It was observed that among the three approaches, on-screen visual interpretation yielded higher classification accuracy (91.67%) compared to supervised (79.90%) and unsupervised classifications (71.08%). The results obtained through on-screen visual interpretation showed that all mangrove categories together cover 23.21% of the total geographical area of SBR, of which the mixed mangrove category covers maximum area (18.31%). Among the non-mangrove classes, the waterbody occupies largest area (35.36%) followed by agriculture (34.51%).

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