| Summary: | Wetlands contribute significantly to biodiversity and water resources supports. They have been deteriorated for fifty years, mainly due to human pressures, altering their functions. In order to carry out effective actions of protection and restoration, it is necessary to perform an inventory of these areas not only on specific sites of a few hectares but on entire watersheds. The objective of this article is to present a geomatics approach that was developed to delineate and characterize these environments characterized by high spatial and temporal dynamics on an entire watershed. We propose a new multiscalar approach based on remote sensing tools and spatial analysis. This approach was applied here on a sub-watershed of the Dordogne river basin of 650 km²(France) in order to, on the one hand, comprehensively and uniformly define wetlands and, on the other hand, map hydrologic, biogeochemical and ecological functions at the scale of management units. The results show that it can be a useful awareness and decision support tool for environmental planning and resource management.
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