“…Mangrove mapping—as per the target of identifying different vegetation details—has been conducted with low to very high-resolution spaceborne (e.g., Landsat, IKONOS, QuickBird, GeoEye-1) and airborne remote sensing data ( Dahdouh-Guebas et al, 2000 ; Sulong et al, 2002 ; Wang et al, 2004 ; Seto & Fragkias, 2007 ; Giri et al, 2008 ; Dahdouh-Guebas & Koedam, 2008 ; Spalding, Kainuma & Collins, 2010 ; Giri et al, 2011 ; Hansen & Loveland, 2012 ; Leempoel et al, 2013 ; Proisy et al, 2016 ). Also, the potential of moderate resolution data like Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS) and Sentinel for mangrove studies is well recognised ( Hartoko et al, 2015 ; Castillo et al, 2017 ; Chen et al, 2017 ). The optical remote sensing data which were often limited by cloud cover to study mangrove ecosystems have been compensated through the radar and drone imageries in recent years ( Walters et al, 2008 ; Cornforth et al, 2013 ; De Santiago, Kovacs & Lafrance, 2013 ; Kovacs et al, 2013 ; Hamdan, Khali Aziz & Mohd Hasmadi, 2014 ; Lucas et al, 2014 ; Jhonnerie et al, 2015 ; Aslan et al, 2016 ; Tian et al, 2017 ).…”