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Coastal Fringe Habitat Monitoring using Kite Aerial Photography: A Remote Sensing-based Case Study

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dc.contributor.author Madurapperuma, B.D.
dc.contributor.author Dellysse, J.E.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-16T03:42:50Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-16T03:42:50Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.citation Madurapperuma, B.D., Dellysse, J.E.(2018).Coastal Fringe Habitat Monitoring using Kite Aerial Photography: A Remote Sensing-based Case Study, Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment Vol. 8, No. 01 (2018) 25-35 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/10609
dc.description.abstract Monitoring coastal ecosystem resilience for climatic and/or anthropogenic vulnerabilities is challenging with moderately resolution Landsat images. A simple, low-cost Kite Aerial Photograph platform (KAP) was vital to obtain high-resolution images for a small area to develop coastal GIS models. This study examines post-tsunami relief in two coastal shrub ecosystem and a mangrove ecosystem in terms of vegetation bioshield mass and sea level rise perspectives. A KAP platform was created using two light-weight automatic cameras with dual bandpass Red-NIR filters, a Picavet stabilizing rig, a GPS tracker and a Parafoil Kite. The KAP images were processed to build mosaic images, orthorectified and geo-referenced Digital Elevation Model (DEM) using structure-from-motion (SFM) and remote sensing software (Agisoft PhotoScan and ENVI respectively). KAP has been utilised for coastal mapping under three scenarios: (i) object-orient feature extraction for discriminate Prosopis juliflora, an invasive alien species, and texture analysis for coastal shrub and herbaceous vegetation classification (ii) DEM for sea level rise, and (iii) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for mangrove bioshield mass estimation. The image processing produced a point cloud with an average density of 35 points/m2; a DEM with 17 cm resolution; and an orthophoto mosaic with an average resolution of 4.0 cm. The results showed that object orient feature extraction can discriminate Prosopis juliflora from the coastal shrubs with 62% accuracy, while supervised classification accuracy was 51%. Mangrove vegetation in Rekawa was discriminated from grassland and other coastal shrub vegetation types at ≥4 NDVI threshold resulted in 0.33 ha of mangroves (28% of 1.15 ha of the total area). The Kahandamodara beach coastal vegetation was dominant by Ipomoea pes-capre with 26% coverage. In conclusion, KAP has a wide potential to bridge science with high spatial/temporal resolution in-situ data for coastal habitat mapping, where the researchers can utilize the data within a low-cost budget. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Forestry and Environmental Science University of Sri Jayewardenepura en_US
dc.subject kite mapping, coast, DEM, mangrove, NDVI en_US
dc.title Coastal Fringe Habitat Monitoring using Kite Aerial Photography: A Remote Sensing-based Case Study en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.31357/jtfe.v8i1.3480 en_US


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