Wetlands are valuable natural resources that provide many benefits to the environment.
Therefore, mapping wetlands is crucially important. Several review papers on remote …

Appropriate integration of remote sensing technologies into ecosystem services concepts
and practices leads to potential practical benefits for the protection of biodiversity and the …

Spatially and thematically explicit information of wetlands is important to understanding
ecosystem functions and services, as well as for establishment of management policy and …

Abstract The 1971 Ramsar Convention promotes wetland conservation worldwide, yet
climate change impacts on wetland extent and associated biodiversity are unclear …

Lakes are sensitive indicators of anthropogenic climate change and also respond to direct
human activities. Yet, long-term lake inventories and quantitative evaluation of the factors …

Herbaceous marsh is the most widely distributed type of marsh wetland ecosystem, and has
important ecological functions such as water conservation, climate regulation, carbon …

Coastal wetlands, composed of coastal vegetation and non-vegetated tidal flats, play critical
roles in biodiversity conservation, food production, and the global economy. Coastal …

Humans benefit from multiple ecosystem services of wetlands, but massive wetland loss has
occurred worldwide due to rapid urbanization. To assess the problem, it is necessary to …

We have produced the first 30 m resolution global land-cover maps using Landsat Thematic
Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data. We have classified over …

Tidal flats (non-vegetated area), along with coastal vegetation area, constitute the coastal
wetlands (intertidal zone) between high and low water lines, and play an important role in …