Mangrove species mapping in Kuala Sepetang Mangrove Forest, Perak using high resolution airborne data

Mangrove vegetation is widely employed and studied as it is a unique ecosystem which is able to provide plenty of goods and applications to our country. In this paper, high resolution airborne image data obtained the flight mission on Kuala Sepetang Mangrove Forest Reserve, Perak, Malaysia will be used for mangrove species mapping. Supervised classification using the retrieved surface reflectance will be performed to classify the airborne data using Geomatica 2013 software package. The ground truth data will be used to validate the classification accuracy. High correlation of R²=0.873 was achieved in this study indicate that high resolution airborne data is reliable and suitable used for mangrove species mapping.