a case study of traditional marine ownership at Bipi Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea Sipuman, Jerome A. creator Delsol, Jean Pierre Chairperson Kaew Nualchawee Examination committee Honda, Kiyoshi Examination Committee MUCIA - Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities Inc Scholarship donor Papua New Guinea Higher Education Project - Unitech Lae Scholarship donor text series technical report th Bangkok Asian Institute of Technology 1997 continuing eng 69 leaves Shallow Water Mapping provided by Satellite Imagery is an innovation that is most welcome by coastal marine scientist and researches alike. This is due to present stage of mapping development by conventional surveying method as an exceptionally expensive tool to produce. The developments into the processing of Satellite Imagery for shallow water mapping has not been improved much due to complex configuration of the air and water in which makes the problem challenging. Satellite Remote Sensing offers a unique means to map and monitor coastal zones developments. The visible bands of Spot Satellite Imagery acquired on March 1988 was used to create shallow water maps and portraying of reefal features to delineate traditional marine ownership on Bipi Island in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. For shallow water mapping, the diffuse attenuation coefficient an essential parameter in the radiance model was used to process a remotely-sensed image for bottom mapping of coral reefs on Sabben Island Groups on the south west coast of Manus. Spectral values of Spot Bandl, Band2 and Bandl/Band2 was used to compute diffuse attenuation coefficient and with field data measurements from lagoon. This image was then processed to obtain maps of the bottom corrected for shallow water maps for the traditional marine ownership of the Silikou Group A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1997 Papua New Guinea Remote-sensing maps Asian Institute of Technology. http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B14147 http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B14147 250399 20260818213850.0