Editing Landsat program (section)

==== Forestry ====
An ecological study used 16 [[Orthophoto|ortho-rectified]] Landsat images to generate a land cover map of [[Mozambique]]'s [[mangrove]] forest. The main objective was to measure the mangrove cover and above ground [[biomass]] on this zone that until now could only be estimated, the cover was found with 93% accuracy to be 2909 square kilometers (27% lower than previous estimates). Additionally, the study helped confirm that geological setting has a greater influence on biomass distribution than latitude alone - the mangrove area is spread across 16° of latitude but it the biomass volume of it was affected more strongly by geographic conditions.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Landscape-scale extent, height, biomass, and carbon estimation of Mozambique's mangrove forest with Landsat ETM+ and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission elevation data|journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences|volume=113|last=Fatoyinbo|first=Temilola|date=March 2017|pages=n/a|doi=10.1029/2007JG000551|doi-access=free}}</ref>