Global Mangrove Watch (1996 - 2020) Version 3.0 Dataset
DOI10.5281/zenodo.6894273Zenodo6894273MaRDI QIDQ6693181FDOQ6693181
Dataset published at Zenodo repository.
Takeo Tadono, Lisa-Maria Rebelo, Richard Lucas, Ake Rosenqvist, Thomas A Worthington, Pete Bunting, Lammert Hilarides, Nicholas J Murray, Nathan Thomas, Mark Spalding
Publication date: 24 July 2022
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
This study has used L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) global mosaic datasets from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for 11 epochs from 1996 to 2020 to develop a long-term time-series of global mangrove extent and change. The study used a map-to-image approach to change detection where the baseline map (GMW v2.5) was updated using thresholding and a contextual mangrove change mask. This approach was applied between all image-date pairs producing 10 maps for each epoch, which were summarised to produce the global mangrove time-series. The resulting mangrove extent maps had an estimated accuracy of 87.4% (95th conf. int.: 86.2 - 88.6%), although the accuracies of the individual gain and loss change classes were lower at 58.1% (52.4 -63.9%) and 60.6% (56.1 -64.8%), respectively. Sources of error included a mis-registration in the SAR mosaic datasets, which could only be partially corrected for, but also confusion in fragmented areas of mangroves, such as around aquaculture ponds. Overall, 152,604km2 (133,996 -176,910) of mangroves were identified for 1996, with this decreasing by -5,245km2(-13,587 -3686) resulting in a total extent of 147,359km2(127,925 -168,895) in 2020, and representing an estimated loss of 3.4% over the 24-year time period. The Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0 represents the most comprehensive record of global mangrove change achieved to date and is expected to support a wide range of activities, including the ongoing monitoring of the global coastal environment, defining and assessments of progress towards conservation targets, protected area planning and risk assessments of mangrove ecosystems worldwide. The paper which goes along with this dataset is available at the following reference: Bunting, P.; Rosenqvist, A.; Hilarides, L.; Lucas, R.M.; Thomas, T.; Tadono, T.; Worthington, T.A.; Spalding, M.; Murray, N.J.; Rebelo, L-M. Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996 2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0. Remote Sensing. 2022
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