State Key Laboratory of Hydrology Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering

Remote sensing-based monitoring of water hyacinth invasion dynamics and socioeconomic impacts in Lake Abaya, Ethiopia

Abstract Water hyacinth, an invasive aquatic plant originally from the Amazon Basin, has posed a severe threat to the Lake Abaya ecosystem since 1990. This study utilized Sentinel-2A satellite imagery from 2017 to 2023 to analyse the spatiotemporal dynamics and socioeconomic impa...