International audienceThis article presents new results on the structure and above-ground biomass of the Mangrove forest of Madagascar north-western coast. These are part of French research program (ECOFOR) which aims at a better understanding of human pressure and management of this ecosystem. In such a context, we need more spatial information on the mangrove area and wood resources. Hence, we use satellites images and ground surveys to improve knowledge on the forest resource by i) using rule-based classification of spot imagery after object-oriented segmentation, ii) reaching an accurate information on vegetation cover and species diversity of mangrove, iii) attempting to set up a relation between allometric equation and image objets in...