A study was conducted on the south Texas Gulf Coast to evaluate color-infrared (CIR) aerial photography and CIR true digital imagery combined with unsupervised image analysis techniques to distinguish and map black mangrove [Avicennia germinans (L.) L.] populations. Accuracy assessments performed on computer-classified maps of photographic and digital images of the same study site had both producer's and user's accuracies of 100% for black mangrove. An accuracy assessment performed on a computer-classified map of a digital image only of a second study site had a producer's accuracy of 78.6% and a user's accuracy of 100%. These results indicate that CIR photography and digital imagery combined with image analysis techniques can be used successfully to distinguish and quantify the extent of black mangrove along the south Texas Gulf Coast.
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1 January 2007
Evaluation of Color-Infrared Photography and Digital Imagery to Map Black Mangrove on the Texas Gulf Coast
J. H. Everitt,
C. Yang,
K. R. Summy,
F. W. Judd,
M. R. Davis
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Journal of Coastal Research
Vol. 2007 • No. 231
January 2007
Vol. 2007 • No. 231
January 2007
accuracy assessment
Avicennia germinans
computer image analysis
remote sensing
Texas Gulf Coast