For this study, Sarupria was interested in examining the proportion of Delmarva farmland land cover that was identified as salt patches or marshes. Having used drone images of salt patches on farms ...

See All Key Ideas An area of salt marsh twice the size of Singapore has disappeared since the turn of the century, NASA scientists determined by analyzing satellite images from around the globe.

For this study, Sarupria was interested in examining the proportion of Delmarva farmland land cover that was identified as salt patches or marshes. Having used drone images of salt patches on ...

conducting research in the salt marshes at UNF’s Webb Coastal Research Station. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

We used the Landsat archive, the longest continuous satellite record of Earth’s surface, to document changes to salt-marsh areas between 2000 and 2019 (Fig. 1). We compared images collected ...