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- Title
Detecting Shoreline Changes in Typical Coastal Wetlands of Bohai Rim in North China.
- Authors
Wang, Yuandong; Hou, Xiyong; Shi, Ping; Yu, Liangju
- Abstract
Coastal wetland shoreline change represents one of the most important land-ocean interaction processes in complex and dynamic coastal environment. This paper presents the detecting of shoreline changes in four typical coastal wetlands of ecological importance along Bohai rim based on multi-temporal shorelines extracted from obtained Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) images using automatic binarization algorithm. Results showed that although there were statistical uncertainties dominant trends of the shoreline changes could be detected and sections that had significant area changes could be identified from satellite images. The reasons for corresponding changes occurred in these wetlands were stated in terms of natural processes and anthropogenic activities. It is our anticipation that this work would help future studies to reveal the regional/national pattern of wetland changes and support wetland protection and management in China's coast zone.
- Subjects
CHINA; WETLAND management; AQUATIC resources; SHORELINES; ANTHROPOGENIC effects on nature; REMOTE-sensing images
- Publication
Wetlands, 2013, Vol 33, Issue 4, p617
- ISSN
0277-5212
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13157-013-0418-9