Survey of Coastal Vegetation around Gulf of Cambay-Gujarat, Using Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics Tools

Monitoring species diversity is a useful positive management practice to assessing damage to the system and good species diversity. The paper reports the wetland plants in some coastal areas of Gulf of Cambay, Gujarat. The survey was conducted in 2011-2014 and collected specimens were deposited in the Herbarium of the Department of Botany, Gujarat University. Mangrove area map were prepared using unsupervised classification techniques of LISS III and IV satellite data for the year 2010 to 2013. The Avicennia marina is the common dominant species of all the area. Present investigation was done along the coast line of entire Gulf area covered by 7 Districts viz Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad, Anand, Bharuch, Surat, Navsari and Valsad. They were studied by undertaking extensive field work. The result revealed that total 113 wetland plants under 94 genera and 56 families were recorded. The total 14 mangrove species were documented throughout the study.