IDENTIFICATION OF MANGROVE FORESTS USING MULTI-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY

Abstract

The development of remote sensing technology for identifying various of coastal and marine ecosystems which one of them is mangrove forest increasing rapidly. Identification of mangrove forests visually is constrained by much of combinations of RGB composite. The aims of this research is to determine the best combination of RGB composite for identifying mangrove forest in Segara Anakan, Cilacap using Optimum Index Factor (OIF) method. The image data used represents 3 levels of intermediate to high resolution spatial resolution including Landsat 8 imagery (30 m) acquisition on 30 May 2013, Sentinel 2A image (10 m) acquisition on 18 March 2018 and SPOT 6 image (6 m) acquisition on 10 January 2015. Data of mangrove distributions used were the results of field measurements in the period 2013-2015. The results showed that the band composites of 564 (NIR+SWIR+Red) of Landsat 8 image and the band composites of 8a114 (Vegetation Red Edge+SWIR+Red) of Sentinel 2A are the best RGB composites for identifying mangrove forest, while the band composites of 341 (Red+NIR+Blue) of SPOT 6 image is  also the best colour composites (R-G-B) for identifying mangrove forest in Segara Anakan, Cilacap. The RGB composites of images developed from Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2A image are able to distinguish objects of mangrove forest from surrounding objects more clearly, but image composites from SPOT 6 image still require additional of association elements to identify mangrove objects.The development of remote sensing technology for identifying various of coastal and marine ecosystems which one of them is mangrove forest increasing rapidly. Identification of mangrove forests visually is constrained by much of combinations of RGB composite. The aims of this research is to determine the best combination of RGB composite for identifying mangrove forest in Segara Anakan, Cilacap using Optimum Index Factor (OIF) method. The image data used represents 3 levels of intermediate to high resolution spatial resolution including Landsat 8 imagery (30 m) acquisition on 30 May 2013, Sentinel 2A image (10 m) acquisition on 18 March 2018 and SPOT 6 image (6 m) acquisition on 10 January 2015. Data of mangrove distributions used were the results of field measurements in the period 2013-2015.The results showed that the band composites of 564 (NIR+SWIR+Red) of Landsat 8 image and the band composites of 8a114 (Vegetation Red Edge+SWIR+Red) of Sentinel 2A are the best RGB composites for identifying mangrove forest, while the band composites of 341 (Red+NIR+Blue) of SPOT 6 image is  also the best colour composites(R-G-B) for identifying mangrove forest in Segara Anakan, Cilacap. The RGB composites of images developed from Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2A image are able to distinguish objects of mangrove forest from surrounding objects more clearly, but imagecomposites from SPOT 6 image still require additional of association elements to identify mangrove objects.