Abstract
In this study, a method was developed to monitor habitat structure in river-floodplain systems using high-resolution satellite images from 2010 to 2012 across a 30-km longitudinal section of the Tagliamento River, Northeast Italy. Three ortho-corrected RapidEye satellite images at 5-m spatial resolution and cloud cover of 89%) than that of the conventional unsupervised ISODATA method (> 83%) as river water and vegetation could be differentiated more accurately using this new method. The unchanged area was greater for river water than for vegetation and bare alluvium. These results indicated that habitat distribution changed spatially and temporally, especially for fluvial habitats, while the composition of habitat types was preserved in the middle reaches of the Tagliamento River. This method can be used to continuously and accurately monitor the large-scale spatiotemporal dynamics of habitat structures.
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