The information obtained on the current status and overall
changes of the mangrove forest area in the Matang Mangrove
Forest will be of value to the forestry department, local authorities
and other stakeholders in a number of ways. The findings have
improved the understanding of the spatial distribution of Matang
Mangrove Forest and assessed their location of deforestation and
causative factor of each cause for management purposes. The
findings revealed that deforestation of this protected forest can be
detected precisely using remote sensing data as monitoring and
managing a large mangrove forest area can be a tedious job. The
method used to map the mangrove area can contribute to a new
awareness on the management of the area as a whole since the
classical way of ground inventory for mapping of the mangrove
area is tremendously difficult, time consuming and costly.