MangMap, the satellite platform for monitoring mangroves, is now open

Published on 16/12/2024

Mangroves must be preserved and restored for the many ecosystem services they provide, including acting as a natural barrier against some of the effects of climate change. Thanks to the SCO Mangroves project, there is now an online platform, which will gradually cover all the mangroves on the planet: MangMap.

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Home of the MangMap website, which provides access to the eponymous mapping platform. © MangMap

Defining and implementing public policies for the restoration and conservation of mangroves requires knowledge of the state and dynamics of mangroves, with information that is standardized, reliable, regularly updated and easy to access. Supported by a community of users involved in the study and management of these ecosystems, the Mangroves project is responding to these challenges with MangMap, both a satellite monitoring platform and a website for sharing information and feedback.

Today MangMap opens in Demo mode on 5 sites: Madagascar (Bombetoka Bay), New Caledonia (North Province West coast), Djibouti (Obock District East coast), Senegal (South coast) and French Guyana (Cayenne-Kourou coast). 16 other sites, spread across South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania, will form the first geographical extension of the platform.

MangMap provides a wealth of information for displaying various indicators and temporal summaries of the mangroves monitored. It also offers services at the user's request, such as launching calculations in the user's own zone of interest, downloaded or entered on screen, for a chosen period of time. All products viewed, manipulated or calculated on the platform are freely downloadable.

Although MangMap is freely accessible, you need to create a local account (or log in with your Theia account) to benefit from all the services on offer.

🖱️ Discover MangMap.org

👉Consult the methodology and implementation details of the project

🤝The Espace-Dev Joint Research Unit has been leading the MangMap initiative since 2020, labelled by the SCO the same year. In its current version, developed by the company Magellium, MangMap is an IRD software infrastructure operated by the UMR Espace-dev and deployed in its infrastructures at the Montpellier Data and Services Centre (CDS), under construction within the collaborative frameworks proposed by the Theia Cluster and the Data Terra National Infrastructure.