Quantifying the Long-Term Expansion and Dieback of Spartina Alterniflora Using Google Earth Engine and Object-Based Hierarchical Random Forest Classification
The overwhelming spread of Spartina alterniflora (S.alterniflora) (smooth cordgrass) over recent decades has put many native plant communities and coastal environments at risk.Therefore, long-term monitoring of S.alterniflora dynamics is necessary to better understand and manage the invasion of the species.However, it is difficult to map Spartina s