Published January 14, 2026 | Version 29

Global Mangrove Watch: Mangrove Habitat Mask

  • 1. Aberystwyth University
  • 2. soloEO
  • 3. Wetlands International

Description

This is the habitat mask used to define the locations where mangroves can be found. It was used during the creation of the Global Mangrove Watch (GMW; https://www.globalmangrovewatch.org) extent products. Details of how this layer was originally produced are within Bunting et al., 2018 but it has subsequently been edited with further regions added as the GMW layers have been updated and improved. This is considered a living dataset which is edited, and new versions are produced when missing areas or improvements are identified. New versions will be uploaded here on zenodo.

Relevant publications:

Bunting, P., Rosenqvist, A., Lucas, R., Rebelo, L.-M., Hilarides, L., Thomas, N., Hardy, A., Itoh, T., Shimada, M., Finlayson, C., 2018. The Global Mangrove Watch—A New 2010 Global Baseline of Mangrove Extent. Remote Sens-basel 10, 1669. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101669

Bunting, Pete, Rosenqvist, Ake, Lucas , Richard, Rebelo, Lisa-Maria, Hilarides, Lammert, Thomas, Nathan, Hardy, Andy, Itoh, Takuya, Shimada, Masanobu, & Finlayson, Max. (2019). Global Mangrove Watch (1996 - 2016) Version 2.0 (2.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5658808

Bunting, P., Rosenqvist, A., Hilarides, L., Lucas, R.M., Thomas, N., 2022. Global Mangrove Watch: Updated 2010 Mangrove Forest Extent (v2.5). Remote Sens-basel 14, 1034. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14041034

Pete Bunting, Ake Rosenqvist, Lammert Hilarides, Richard M. Lucas, & Nathan Thomas. (2022). Global Mangrove Watch 2010 Baseline (v2.5) (2.5) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5828339

Bunting, P., Rosenqvist, A., Hilarides, L., Lucas, R.M., Thomas, N., Tadono, T., Worthington, T.A., Spalding, M., Murray, N.J., Rebelo, L.-M., 2022. Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996–2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0. Remote Sens-basel 14, 3657. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14153657

Bunting, P., Rosenqvist, A., Hilarides, L., Lucas, R., Thomas, N., Tadono, T., Worthington, T., Spalding, M., Murray, N., Rebelo, L.-M., (2022) Global Mangrove Watch (1996 - 2020) Version 3.0 Dataset. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6894273



 

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2026-01-14