Cloud Publications International Journal of Advanced Forest Science and Management 2012, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 1-16, Article ID Sci-18 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mapping and Change Detection Analysis of Marine Resources in the Tuticorin and Vembar Group of Island Using Remote Sensing Blessy Monishiya G. 1 and Raj Chandar Padmanaban 2 1, 2 Department of Remote Sensing, Anna University of Technology Chennai, Regional Centre Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India Correspondence should be addressed to Blessy Monishiya G., blessypce@gmail.com and Raj Chandar P., charaj7@gmail.com Publication Date 01 October 2012 Article Link http://scientific.cloud-journals.com/index.php/IJAFSM/article/view/Sci-18 Copyright © 2012 Blessy Monishiya G. and Raj Chandar P. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract In this project, the Marine Resource Information System has been suggested with the help of Remote Sensing and GIS. The system provides the resources map and statistical data of marine resources present in the Tuticorin and Vembar group of islands. The project is carried out in various islands situated in the Gulf of Mannar region such as Karaichalli Tivu (8º57’, 78º14’) Kasuwar island (8º52’, 78º13’) and Van Tivu (8º50’, 78º13’) and Upputhanni island (9º05’, 78º30’). Satellite Remote Sensing is a resourceful tool that has been adopted increasingly for the discovering, narrative, quantification, monitoring and management of the marine resources. The classification of marine resources are identified and mapped with help of IRS-P6 and IRS-P4 satellite data. The IRS data provides Multi Coverage Information about vegetation and open water vegetation. The various marine resources such as mangroves, sea grass, corals and algae are classified with the assist of Digital Image Classification techniques such as Unsupervised, Maximum likelihood and Spectral Angular Mapper. The several year satellite data of various islands are analyzed with the aid of Geographical Information System environment. The change detection analysis generated with the facility of GIS analysis such Statistical analysis and Proximity analysis. Finally Resources Map and Statistical Graphs for various islands are produced with the help of ARCGIS and ENVI. Keywords Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System, Spectral Angular Mapper, Image Classification, Change Detection Analysis, Field Survey. 1. Introduction Coastal environment take part in nation's economy by asset of the resources, productive habitats and wealthy biodiversity. They are gifted with a very wide range of coastal ecosystems like mangroves, coral reefs, lagoons, sea grass, salt marsh, estuary etc. The mixture of freshwater and salt water in coastal estuaries produce some of the mainly productive and richest habitats on earth; the resulting bounty in fishes and other marine life can be of great value to coastal nations. Coastal ecosystem management is thus greatly significant for the sustainable use, development and protection of the coastal and marine areas and resources. Coastal processes that influence the Open Access Research Article