Shoreline extraction from RADARSAT-2 intensity imagery using a narrow band level set segmentation approach

Marine Geodesy

Volumn 33, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 187-203

  Shu, Yuanming ^a   Li, Jonathan ^a   Gomes, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Level set segmentation; Narrow band; RADARSAT 2; Shoreline mapping

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; RADARSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHORELINE; MAPPING METHOD; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77954268519     PISSN: 01490419     EISSN: 1521060X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490419.2010.496681     Document Type: Article

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