An Automated Method for Extracting Rivers and Lakes from Landsat Imagery

The water index (WI) is designed to highlight inland water bodies in remotely sensed imagery. The application of WI for water body mapping is mainly based on the thresholding method. However, there are three primary difficulties with this method: (1) inefficient identification of mixed water pixels...

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Main Authors: Hao Jiang, Min Feng, Yunqiang Zhu, Ning Lu, Jianxi Huang, Tong Xiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-05-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/6/5067