Ciencias Marinas ISSN: 0185-3880
[email protected] Universidad Autónoma de Baja California México Kovacs, JM; Zhang, C; Flores-Verdugo, FJ Mapping the condition of mangroves of the Mexican Pacific using C-band ENVISAT ASAR and Landsat optical data Ciencias Marinas, vol. 34, núm. 4, 2008, pp. 407-418 Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Ensenada, México Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=48013188001 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Ciencias Marinas (2008), 34(4): 407–418 Mapping the condition of mangroves of the Mexican Pacific using C-band ENVISAT ASAR and Landsat optical data Cartografía de la condición de los manglares del Pacífico mexicano usando datos de la banda C de ENVISAT ASAR y datos ópticos de Landsat JM Kovacs1*, C Zhang2, FJ Flores-Verdugo3 1Department of Geography, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario P1B 8L7, Canada. * E-mail:
[email protected] 2Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University, Box 70357, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA. 3Instituto del Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 82000 Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México Abstract To determine whether spaceborne C-band SAR data could be used alone, or in conjunction with optical data, for accurately mapping mangrove forests of the Mexican Pacific, four scenes of dual-polarized ENVISAT ASAR data, at two incidence angles, were collected for the Teacapán-Agua Brava-Las Haciendas estuarine-mangrove complex.