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Although the increasing importance of shrimp aquaculture in Vietnam has brought significant financial benefits to the local communities, the rapid and largely uncontrolled increase in aquacultural area has contributed to a considerable loss of mangrove forests and to environmental degradation. Although different approaches have been used for mangrove classification, no approach to date has addressed the challenges of the special conditions that can be found in the aquaculture-mangrove system in the Ca Mau province of the MD. This paper presents an object-based classification approach for estimating the percentage of mangroves in mixed mangrove-aquaculture farming systems to assist the government to monitor the extent of the shrimp farming area. The method comprises multi-resolution segmentation and classification of SPOT5 data using a decision tree approach as well as local knowledge from the region of interest. The results show accuracies higher than 75% for certain classes at the object level. Furthermore, we successfully detect areas with mixed aquaculture-mangrove land cover with high accuracies. Based on these results, mangrove development, especially within shrimp farming-mangrove systems, can be monitored. However, the mangrove forest cover fraction per object is affected by image segmentation and thus does not always correspond to the real farm boundaries. It remains a serious challenge, then, to accurately map mangrove forest cover within mixed systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs5010183","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,7]],"date-time":"2013-01-07T11:07:53Z","timestamp":1357556873000},"page":"183-201","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":125,"title":["Remote Sensing in Mapping Mangrove Ecosystems \u2014 An Object-Based Approach"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Quoc","family":"Vo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"German Remote Sensing Data Center, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, D-82234 Wessling, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9444-4654","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Natascha","family":"Oppelt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Remote Sensing & Environmental Modelling, Department of Geography, Kiel University, Ludewig-Meyn-Str 14, D-24098 Kiel, Germany"}]},{"given":"Patrick","family":"Leinenkugel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"German Remote Sensing Data Center, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, D-82234 Wessling, Germany"}]},{"given":"Claudia","family":"Kuenzer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"German Remote Sensing Data Center, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, D-82234 Wessling, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"313","article-title":"The return of ecosystem goods and services in replanted mangrove forests\u2014Perspectives from local communities in Gazi Bay, Kenya","volume":"34","author":"Rona","year":"2007","journal-title":"Environ. 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