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Advancing land-sea integration for ecologically meaningful coastal conservation and management

Author: Harris, LR ; Bessinger, M ; Dayaram, A ; Holness, S ; Kirkman, S ; Livingstone, TC ; Lombard, AT ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Pfaff, M ; Sink, KJ ; Skowno, AL ; Van Niekerk, Lara Date: Sep 2019 Coasts are among our most valuable natural assets but are under intense pressure from human use and climate change. Despite this, coasts – as a coherent ecological unit – have been poorly included in conservation plans, largely because they ... Read more
Assessing habitat type in KZN estuaries using VHR remote sensing imagery

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Mbolambi, Cikizwa ; Van Niekerk, Lara ; Rautenbach, K ; Adams, J Date: Oct 2014 Within the presented project, we are comparing ecosystem and land cover classifications for the Greater St Lucia region derived from multispectral RapidEye (5m resolution), WorldView-2 (2m resolution), SPOT-6 (5.55m resolution) data with and ... Read more
Assessing South Africa’s coastal climate change risk

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: Oct 2019 In South Africa, about 40% of the people are living within 60km of the Oceans' coasts, and approximately 60% of the South African economy depends on coastal natural resources and trade infrastructure such as ports. These figures highlight the ... Read more
Assessment of accuracy: systematic reduction of training points for maximum likelihood classification and mixture discriminant analysis (Gaussian and t-distribution)

Author: Ritchie, Michaela C ; Debba, Pravesh ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Goodall, V Date: Sep 2018 Remote sensing provides a valuable tool for monitoring land cover across large areas of land. A simple yet popular method for land cover classification is Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC), which assumes a single normal distribution of ... Read more
Assessment of coastal Strandveld integrity using WorldView-2 imagery in False Bay, South Africa

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Mbolambi, C Date: May 2018 The coastal zone as interface between land and sea faces much pressure from human activities. These pressures make it difficult for the coastal zones to fulfil their natural functions, so threatening the state of coastal environments and ... Read more
Assessment of coastal vegetation degradation in False bay, South Africa, using WV-2 imagery

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Mbolambi, C Date: May 2017 Vegetation of the coast around the world fulfils an important role. It acts as a buffer against the impacts from the oceans such as waves and wind and protects the coastal hinterland from wind-blown sand and coastal erosion. However, due to ... Read more
Biodiversity monitoring in Europe: the EU FP7 EBONE project. European biodiversity observation NEtwork

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Jongman, R Date: Sep 2008 On April 1st, 2008 the EU FP7 project EBONE was launched. The aim of the project is the development of a (cost-effective) biodiversity data collection and monitoring system based on local field data, landscape metrics and remote sensing data ... Read more
Coastal flood risk

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: Jul 2017 This presentation provided an overview of the degree of risk of coastal flooding in South Africa and demonstrated decision support tools for mitigation and adaptation. Read more
Coastal remote sensing – towards integrated coastal research and management

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: Oct 2012 The CSIR’s coastal systems research group conducts trans-disciplinary research from basic research up to the provision of policies and technical guidelines to prepare the coastal communities in South Africa and beyond with coastal protection ... Read more
Coastal vulnerability and climate change adaptation in South Africa: Remote sensing challenges and opportunities

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: May 2022 South Africa is nestled between the Atlantic, the Southern and the Indian Ocean. Its coast is about 3000 km long and comprises 300 estuaries. Its coast stretches across three bioclimatic regions, namely the Cool Temperate South-West, a Warm ... Read more
Coloniality of birds in the Kalahari – spatial distribution of trees and nests of the Sociable Weaver (Philetairus socius)

Author: Rösner, S ; Giesselmann, UC ; Meyer, J ; Schwager, M ; Wiegand, T ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Brandl, R Date: 2010 The spatial distribution of suitable nest sites is a limiting resource for many colonial breeding animals. Therefore, we investigated and mapped the spatial distribution of nests of Sociable Weaver (Philetairus socius) to evaluate whether the ... Read more
Comparative assessment of the GIS based bathtub model and an enhanced bathtub model for coastal inundation

Author: Williams, LL ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: Mar 2020 Coastal zones are dynamic spaces where human activities and infrastructure are exposed to natural forces, climate change and extreme weather events such as storm surges. Coastal inundation is regarded as one of the most dangerous and destructive ... Read more
Compound flooding due to interaction of waves and river discharge at Breede Estuary, South Africa

Author: Kupfer, S ; Santamaria-Aguilar, S ; Pieterse, Amy ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Vafeidis, AT Date: May 2022 Recent studies on compound flooding have considered the interaction of storm-tide and fluvial or pluvial flood drivers, whereas the contribution of waves to compound flooding so far has been neglected. In this study, we investigate compound ... Read more
Ecosystem pressures: Ecklonia maxima and Laminaria pallida

Author: Dunga, LVA ; Blamey, LK ; Rothman, MD ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Sink, K Date: Jun 2017 This poster depicts the generation of a distribution map of Kelp forests on South Africa's coasts using Sentinel-2 Satellite imagery Read more
Extraction of coastal ocean wave characteristics using remote sensing and computer vision technologies

Author: Johnson, M ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: May 2017 The coastal zone occurs at the interface of three major natural systems. These systems include the atmosphere, the ocean and the land surface. Ocean waves are among the most important forces shaping the world¿s coastlines. They drive environmental ... Read more
Finite mixture models for sub-pixel coastal land cover classification

Author: Ritchie, Michaela C ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Debba, Pravesh ; Goodall, V Date: May 2017 Medium spatial resolution sensors (10-30 m pixel size) have been used for land cover classification and monitoring for decades. However, these sensors do not have the required resolution to detect coastal specific land cover classes and ... Read more
Geographic information system data considerations in the context of the enhanced bathtub model for coastal inundation

Author: Williams, LL ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: Oct 2022 This study determines input data appropriateness for geographic information system-based enhanced bathtub model (eBTM) modeling of coastal inundation in an urban setting. Various tests were conducted concerning digital surface models (DSMs) ... Read more
Geographic information system data considerations in the context of the enhanced bathtub model for coastal inundation

Author: Williams, LL ; Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: Oct 2022 This study determines input data appropriateness for geographic information system-based enhanced bathtub model (eBTM) modeling of coastal inundation in an urban setting. Various tests were conducted concerning digital surface models (DSMs) ... Read more
The Green Book online tool: Towards climate resilient settlements

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie ; Pieterse, Amy ; Van Niekerk, Cornelia W Date: Sep 2022 The Green Book is as an open-access online planning tool to support local government towards climate-resilient cities and towns in South Africa (www.greenbook.co.za). It was launched in 2019. Extensive research and development took place to ... Read more
The Green Book: Adapting settlements for the future

Author: Lück-Vogel, Melanie Date: Sep 2022 The Green Book is as an open-access online planning tool to support local government towards climate-resilient cities and towns in South Africa (www.greenbook.co.za). It was launched in 2019. Extensive research and development took place to ... Read more

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