SURVEYING AND MAPPING THE RED CRANE ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS CHANGES IN
YANCHENG NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY.
Abstract
Yancheng National Nature reserve is included in UNESCO international man
and the biosphere reserve area with the critical purpose of conserving,
protecting, and providing overwintering habitat for endangered bird
species as Red-crane bird. The core zone of the nature reserve is
strict, guarded, and prohibited from any anthropogenic pressure.
However, Remote sensing technology such as multispectral and
hyperspectral satellite imaging with UAV technology was used in
surveilling and monitoring the vegetation distribution pattern changes
and phenology of its ecosystem from 2003-2018 (15 Years). Support vector
machine and Maximum Likelihood classification were used as a multiple
classifier in the training of vegetation ecotones, which helps in
solving the confusion matrix and maximizing the accuracy assessment of
various vegetation land cover in YNNR. Furthermore, Suaeda Salsa, a
native grass in the zone and mostly preferred habitat for foraging,
breeding, and overwintering by these endangered bird species, are
extensively being threatened by invasive cordgrass Spartina Alterniflora
and its native counterpart Phragmites Australis. These salt marshes are
shrinking out the living and dominating the ecosystem of Suaeda Salsa in
YNNR. Also, Spartina Alterniflora is currently suffering from cliff
erosion at the shoreline, which in turn reverses the morphology and
growth pattern of the cordgrass from seaward direction growth to the
inland direction.