Automated extraction of coastline from satellite imagery by integrating Canny edge detection and locally adaptive thresholding methods

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 937-958

  Liu, H ^a   Jezek, K C ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

ITERATIVE GAUSSIAN CURVE FITTING PROCESS; SATTELITE IMAGERY;

COASTAL ZONES;

COASTAL ZONE; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPPING; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 1542442300     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143116031000139890     Document Type: Article

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