Monitoring of the mangrove ecosystem on the coastal of Ecuador during the period 2018-2022

Résumé

​​SERVIR AMAZONIA is part of SERVIR Global, a joint development initiative between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). As part of the SERVIR-Amazonia program, the EcoCiencia Foundation, as a local partner in Ecuador, signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Research Center for El Niño Phenomenon (CIIFEN) to generate various tools and services for comprehensive land management. ​To contribute to coastal management and facilitate mangrove monitoring, the EcoCiencia Foundation developed MANGLEE, an open, multi-user tool based on Synthetic Aperture Radar data, optical satellite images, cloud computing (Google Earth Engine), and machine learning. ​MANGLEE includes data preprocessing for Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, Random Forest classification (mangrove - non-mangrove), distributed change detection in three modules, and a visualization app. MANGLEE's performance was tested in the Ecuadorian mangroves during the period 2018-2022, resulting in 10-meter coverage maps. ​The maps generated in this service are also available on the APP MANGLEE ​The methodology and the diffusion workshops can be found at: ​https://sites.google.com/view/mangleetrain/inicio