Remote Sensing Applications for Sustainable Coastal Habitat Management


Author(s)

R. Uma Devi,
School of Science, GITAM (Deemed to Be) University, Hyderabad-502329, Telangana State, India.

Arshid Hussain Malik,
School of Science, GITAM (Deemed to Be) University, Visakhapatnam-530045, Andhra Pradesh, India.

K. Bala Chandu,
BVRIT Engineering College, Medak-502313, Telangana State, India.

ISBN 978-93-5547-717-0 (Print)
ISBN 978-93-5547-718-7 (eBook)
DOI: 10.9734/bpi/mono/978-93-5547-717-0

Food, fossil fuels, electricity, transportation, and recreation may all be found in abundance in the coastal and marine environment, which is also home to a plethora of complex ecosystems that are vital to the long-term health of our planet. But human actions like tourism, urbanisation, navigation, fishing, agriculture, and aquaculture diminish these vital economic and cultural benefits. By giving data that can be utilised in decision-making to protect and maintain the environment, remote sensing is a widely employed method. The interpretation of remote sensing photos enables physical and biogeographers, ecologists, agricultural researchers, and foresters to quickly discover what vegetation is present in certain regions, its growth potential, and occasionally what conditions are conducive to its existence. Additionally, remote sensing provides the capacity to collect information over a wide region, characterise natural characteristics or physical items on the ground, examine surface areas or objects on a regular basis, and integrate this data with other information to help make better decisions.

Thus the first part of the book (Chapter-1) deals with coastal habitats, their importance ; the second part (Chapters-2) deals with the significance of various unique coastal ecosystems, and the last part (Chapters-3) focuses on remote sensing applications for coastal habitats to achieve sustainable coastal habitat management.

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Remote Sensing Applications for Sustainable Coastal Habitat Management

R. Uma Devi, Arshid Hussain Malik , K. Bala Chandu

Remote Sensing Applications for Sustainable Coastal Habitat Management, 19 July 2022, Page 1-40
https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/mono/978-93-5547-717-0

The natural habitats such as mangroves, seagrass, salt marshes, coral reefs, coastal lagoons, Estuaries are unique habitats for the coastal biodiversity. They provide a wide range of goods and services, such as food supply, regulation of water-quality processes, storm protection, and carbon storage. However, in recent decades, they have been subject to strong anthropogenic pressure and extreme natural disasters. Therefore, it is essential to protect these coastal habitats. Remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) provide a systematic, synoptic framework for expanding scientific knowledge of the Earth as a complex system of geophysical events that frequently result in natural hazards, both directly and through interacting processes. Hence, in the present book, the remote sensing applications that supports for sustainable coastal habitat management are presented.