Pakistan Coastal Ecosystem - Mapping and Monitoring

Pakistan Coastal Ecosystem - Mapping and Monitoring
by
Dr. Hammad Gilani
International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Pakistan
October 24, 2023
Webinar sponsored by IEEE GRSS
This talk would showcase the existing work on understanding the dynamics of the Pakistan Coastal Ecosystem, particularly focusing on mangroves using Earth Observation technologies. In Pakistan, mangrove forest areas are distributed in five distinct geographic pockets: Indus Delta, Sandspit, Sonmiani Khor, Kalmat Khor, and Jiwani. The comprehensive study on mangrove cover change assessment using satellite images from 1990 to 2020, at five-year intervals, revealed at the national scale, an estimated 477 km2 was covered with mangroves in 1990, which increased to 1463 km2 in 2020, a 3.74% annual rate of change. Mangrove forest above and soil organic carbon stocks were estimated in the Indus Delta, the world’s largest arid climate mangrove site, by integrating in-situ measurements with satellite images in the machine learning algorithms and spaceborne LiDAR datasets for canopy height mapping.
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