Contents



Gordana Kaplan, Zehra Yigit Avdan and Ugur Avdan

### Chapter 7 **A Collection of Novel Algorithms for Wetland Classification with SAR and Optical Data 109**

Bahram Salehi, Masoud Mahdianpari, Meisam Amani, Fariba M. Manesh, Jean Granger, Sahel Mahdavi and Brian Brisco

Preface

management regulations and conservations.

lands. To do so, the book is divided into five main sections:

2. Water Quality and Diversity in Wetlands

field by collecting data.

1. Introduction

4. Human-made Structures 5. Valuation of Wetlands

have been possible without them.

Wetlands are ecosystems where water is the major controlling factor for the environment and cover a small area of the earth's surface (4–6%). These ecosystems are some of the most productive environments in the world. Major wetland types (marine/coastal wetlands, in‐ land wetlands, and human-made wetlands) are becoming more crucial than ever for the sus‐ tenance of life in the world. Wetlands are the only ecosystems for whose conservation an international convention—the Ramsar Convention—was adopted as early as 1971. On the other hand, wetlands are constantly under threat by different effects, especially human ac‐ tivities. More essentially, some publications reveal the situations (political, institutional, cul‐ tural, economic, and ecologic) in countries that shape their wetland monitoring and

*Wetlands Management—Assessing Risk and Sustainable Solutions* is among a number of books that look at the deficiencies in the issue. Particularly, climatic change and industrialization by anthropogenic activities are now accepted as a fact by most wetland ecosystem scientists. The purpose of this book is to help graduate scholars, scientists, and decision-makers utilize a methodology appropriate for a specific problem. Each chapter takes a crucial look at dif‐ ferent approaches to the solution and analyzes wetland problems in the laboratory or in the

The principal objective of this book is to provide unity and coherence in the studies of wet‐

3. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing Application

The book aims to remedy this deficiency and both its content and authors have been select‐ ed with this purpose. Each author has knowledge of research, management, or practice on wetland assessment. Thus, the book concludes with an international view on wetland classi‐ fication, problems, solutions, conservation, and restoration. I wish to thank all authors from many different regions of the world (Canada, China, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Africa, Swaziland, Taiwan, Turkey, United States of America, and Zimbabwe). This book could not

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