Protection of Mangrove Forests using Image Processing Techniques

With the increasing degradation of mangroves, the coastal areas are getting affected to such an extent that, the mangroves are on the verge of extinction. In this paper, discussion regarding various methods to determine the mangrove cover in a particular area is done. Two images will be taken at different time intervals of that particular area and pre-processing of the images will be done along with feature extraction and a difference image will be produced. This difference image would help in determining the cause of mangrove destruction and kind of measures which could be taken to prevent such destruction. This paper proposes various image processing algorithms which can be used for mangrove extraction and detection.