- Title
- Monitoring the impact of deforestation on an aquatic ecosystem using remote sensing: a case study of the Mngazana mangrove forest in the eastern cape province.
- Creator
- Madasa, Akhona
- Subject
- Remote sensing
- Subject
- Mangrove forests
- Subject
- Climatic changes
- Date
- 2020-12
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/20815
- Identifier
- vital:46598
- Description
- Coastal mangrove vegetation at Mngazana continues to be threatened and reduced periodically due to unmonitored harvesting. Covering an area of 148ha, the Mngazana mangrove forest remains unreserved, thus, research on the Mngazana mangroves is essential in order to monitor their state and sustainable management. Since in-situ monitoring of mangrove areas is both challenging and time-consuming, remote sensing technologies have been used to monitor these ecosystems. This study was carried out to monitor the impact of deforestation using ASTER satellite images over ten years: from 2008 - 2018. Validation was carried out by comparing classification results with the ground-referenced data, which yielded satisfactory agreement, with an overall accuracy of 94.64 percent and Kappa coefficient of 0.93 for 2008; and in 2009, the overall accuracy was 88.62 percent and a Kappa coefficient of 0.85. While the overall accuracy of 95.08 percent and a Kappa coefficient of 0.92 for 2016 and 2018 were observed, the overall accuracy of 93.58 percent and a Kappa coefficient of 0.91 was yielded. NDVI and SAVI indices were used as monitoring indicators. The results obtained in the study indicated that the canopy density of the mangrove forest remained unchanged in the years under investigation. However, insignificant changes in canopy density were identified between 2009 and 2016.
- Description
- Thesis (MSc) (Applied Remote Sensing & GIS) -- University of Fort Hare, 2021
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (56 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science and Agriculture
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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