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Applications and Advances
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Victor V. Klemas
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Contents
Preface...............................................................................................................................................ix
Editors ...............................................................................................................................................xi
Contributors ...................................................................................................................................xiii
Acronyms .......................................................................................................................................xvii
Section i i ntroduction to the Use of Remote Sensing for
Wetland Mapping
Chapter 1 Wetlands: An Overview ...............................................................................................3
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Chapter 2 Classification of Wetland Types for Mapping and Large-Scale Inventories ..............19
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Chapter 3 Introduction to Wetland Mapping and Its Challenges ...............................................43
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Chapter 4 Early Applications of Remote Sensing for Mapping Wetlands ..................................67
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Chapter 5 Advances in Remotely Sensed Data and Techniques for Wetland Mapping
and Monitoring ...........................................................................................................79
Megan W. Lang, Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Ralph W. Tiner,
and Victor V. Klemas
Section ii S ummaries of Remote Sensing technologies
and their Application for Mapping Wetlands
Chapter 6 Mapping and Monitoring Surface Water and Wetlands with Synthetic
Aperture Radar .........................................................................................................119
Brian Brisco
Chapter 7 Wetland InSAR: A Review of the Technique and Applications ..............................137
Shimon Wdowinski and Sang-Hoon Hong
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Chapter 8 Radar and Optical Image Fusion and Mapping of Wetland Resources ...................155
Elijah Ramsey III and Amina Rangoonwala
Chapter 9 Theory and Applications of Object-Based Image Analysis and Emerging
Methods in Wetland Mapping ..................................................................................175
Joseph F. Knight, Jennifer M. Corcoran, Lian P. Rampi, and Keith C. Pelletier
Chapter 10 Unmanned Aerial Systems and Structure from Motion Revolutionize
Wetlands Mapping....................................................................................................195
Marguerite Madden, Thomas Jordan, Sergio Bernardes, David L. Cotten,
Nancy O’Hare, and Alessandro Pasqua
Section iii A pplications of Remote Sensing for Mapping
Specific Wetland Habitats
Chapter 11 Remote Sensing of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation and Coral Reefs ......................223
Sam Purkis and Chris Roelfsema
Chapter 12 Remote Sensing of Mangroves .................................................................................243
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Chapter 13 Tidal Marsh Classification Approaches and Future Marsh Migration Mapping
Methods for Long Island Sound, Connecticut, and New York ................................265
Mark Hoover and Adam Walton Whelchel
Chapter 14 Using Moderate-Resolution Satellite Sensors for Monitoring the Biophysical
Parameters and Phenology of Tidal Marshes ...........................................................283
Deepak R. Mishra and Shuvankar Ghosh
Chapter 15 Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Mapping ...................................................................315
Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Zachary M. Laubach, Anthony J. Landon,
Elizabeth C. Banda, Michael J. Battaglia, Sarah L. Endres, Mary Ellen Miller,
Robb D. Macleod, and Colin N. Brooks
Chapter 16 Mapping Wetlands and Surface Water in the Prairie Pothole Region of
North America ..........................................................................................................347
Jennifer Rover and David M. Mushet
Chapter 17 Mapping the State and Dynamics of Boreal Wetlands Using Synthetic
Aperture Radar .........................................................................................................369
Daniel Clewley, Jane Whitcomb, Mahta Moghaddam, and Kyle McDonald
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Chapter 18 Fusion of Multispectral Imagery and LiDAR Digital Terrain Derivatives
for Ecosystem Mapping and Morphological Characterization of a Northern
Peatland Complex .....................................................................................................399
Antonio Difebo, Murray Richardson, and Jonathan Price
Chapter 19 Airborne LiDAR-Based Wetland and Permafrost-Feature Mapping on an
Arctic Coastal Plain, North Slope, Alaska ...............................................................413
Jeffrey G. Paine, John R. Andrews, Kutalmis Saylam, and Thomas A. Tremblay
Chapter 20 Hybrid Mapping of Pantropical Wetlands from Optical Satellite Images,
Hydrology, and Geomorphology ..............................................................................435
Thomas Gumbricht
Chapter 21 Capturing the Dynamics of Amazonian Wetlands Using Synthetic Aperture
Radar: Lessons Learned and Future Directions ......................................................455
Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, John Melack, Annia Susin Streher,
Jefferson Ferreira-Ferreira, and Luiz Felipe de Almeida Furtado
Chapter 22 Mapping China’s Wetlands and Recent Changes with Remotely Sensed Data .......473
Zhenguo Niu
Chapter 23 Mapping Invasive Wetland Plants ............................................................................491
Carol A. Johnston
Chapter 24 Multisatellite Remote Sensing of Global Wetland Extent and Dynamics ...............511
Catherine Prigent and Fabrice Papa
Section iV Promising Developments and Future challenges
Chapter 25 Promising Developments and Future Challenges for Remote
Sensing of Wetlands ................................................................................................533
Megan W. Lang, Sam Purkis, Victor V. Klemas, and Ralph W. Tiner
