10.1016/0967-0653(93)94857-u

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to assess the potential of Landsat TM for detecting and quantifying marine habitat changes on the Fasht Al-Adham reef complex of the east coast of Bahrain. The raw data comprized several digital TM images acquired between 1985 and 1992 during different tidal conditions. Following pre-processing and registration to a digitized UTM marine chart, the image processing proceeded in two parts. In the first part, visual interpretation was employed using a combination of principal component and false color composites (FCCs) of the multi-temporal images to identify the changed areas. Then, and in conjunction with extensive field data, the changed areas between the two dates were identified.