Coastline detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images by integrating Watershed transformation and controllable gradient vector flow (GVF) snake model

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 375-383

  Sheng, Guofeng ^a   Yang, Wen ^a   Deng, Xinping ^a   He, Chu ^a   Cao, Yongfeng ^b   Sun, Hong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUIZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coastline detection; gradient vector flow (GVF); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); watershed transformation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; CURVE EVOLUTION; EDGE DETECTORS; ENVISAT-ASAR; EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS; FINE RESOLUTION; GRADIENT MAP; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; INITIAL CONTOUR; SAR IMAGES; SNAKE MODEL; SPECKLE EFFECTS; STRONG SIGNAL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TERRASAR-X; WATERSHED TRANSFORMATIONS;

DETECTORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATERSHEDS;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84863987656     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2012.2191998     Document Type: Article

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