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Mohamed Rami Mahmoud1, Luis A Garcia2, Ahmed Abd Elhamid3
1National Water Research Center, Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation, Cairo, Egypt. mohamed_rami@nwrc.gov.eg.
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Invasive water hyacinth threatens Lake Tana, Ethiopia-the source of the Blue Nile. This study presents the first comprehensive 11-year (2013-2024) remote sensing assessment of the water hyacinth invasion dynamics. It introduces a novel environmental coherence framework-grounded in established indirect validation paradigms-to evaluate 11 multisensor algorithms (using Landsat 8/9, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 data) against hydro-meteorological drivers, providing an ecologically grounded validation alternative when systematic field surveys are impractical. This environmental coherence framework identified Sentinel-2 NDVI and NDVI + FAI as the best indicators, achieving the highest relative environmental coherence scores among the 11 indicators tested. The time series generated by this framework follows a complex 'boom-bust' invasion cycle, with a peak phase (2018-2019), a subsequent decline, and a recent resurgence. Our findings establish a replicable, Google Earth Engine based workflow for monitoring aquatic invasions in data-scarce tropical regions and provide critical, data-driven insights for targeted environmental management.
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