Automatic extraction of shorelines from Landsat TM and ETM+ multi-temporal images with subpixel precision

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-11

  Pardo Pascual, Josep E ^a   Almonacid Caballer, Jaime ^a   Ruiz, Luis A ^a   Palomar Vázquez, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beach management; Coastal processes; Landsat images; Shoreline subpixel detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; COASTAL PROCESS; CORRECTION MODELS; DESCRIPTORS; ERROR ASSESSMENT; GEOMETRIC METHOD; HIGH PRECISION; HIGH-GAIN; HIGH-RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES; LAND-COVER TYPES; LANDSAT IMAGERY; LANDSAT IMAGES; LANDSAT TM; MAXIMUM ERROR; MEAN ERRORS; MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE; SUB PIXELS; SUBPIXEL DETECTION; SUBPIXEL PRECISION;

ALGORITHMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

ERRORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BEACH NOURISHMENT; ERROR CORRECTION; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PIXEL; PRECISION; PROBABILITY; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHORELINE;

EID: 84860513575     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.02.024     Document Type: Article

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