The advantages of using drones over space-borne imagery in the mapping of mangrove forests

• Monika Ruwaimana ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: monruw@gmail.com

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, Ecology and Biodiversity (APNA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Department of Biology, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3891-4177

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• Behara Satyanarayana ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

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• Viviana Otero,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

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• Aidy M. Muslim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

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• Muhammad Syafiq A.,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

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• Sulong Ibrahim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Mangrove Research Unit (MARU), Institute of Oceanography and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

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• Dries Raymaekers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), Mol, Belgium

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• Nico Koedam,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecology and Biodiversity (APNA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

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• Farid Dahdouh-Guebas

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Systems Ecology and Resource Management, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, Ecology and Biodiversity (APNA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

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