With the rapid development of urbanization and population migration, since the 20th century,
the natural and eco-environment of coastal areas have been under tremendous pressure …

Rapid and sustained coastal development, land reclamation, and intense use of
surrounding waters by ship**, have changed the original land-and seascape of Singapore …

Approximately 60% of the southern Thai coastline used to be occupied by mangroves
according to the first mangrove forest assessment in 1961. During the past three decades …

The purpose of this study is to apply different remote sensing techniques to monitor shifting
mangrove vegetation in the Danshui River estuary in Taipei, Taiwan, in order to evaluate a …

Mangrove forests grow in intertidal zones in tropical and subtropical regions and have
suffered a dramatic decline globally over the past few decades. Remote sensing data …

Definitions of what constitutes an 'old-growth'forest are manifold and often ambiguous. This
chapter starts with a review of existing concepts and critically examines their usefulness in …

This study presents a sea-level curve from∼ 9500 to∼ 6500calBP for the farfield location of
Singapore, on the Sunda Shelf in southeast Asia. The curve is based on more than 50 …

The Quaternary stratigraphy of many coastal areas in Southeast Asia is poorly understood.
Develo** a detailed framework is important as many coastal cities are built on these …

In remote sensing, traditional methodologies for image classification consider the spectral
values of a pixel in different image bands. More recently, classification methods have used …

Mangroves are threatened worldwide, and their loss or degradation could impact functioning
of the ecosystem. Our aim was to investigate three aspects of mangroves at a global …