A comparison of land surface water mapping using the normalized difference water index from TM, ETM+ and ALI

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5530-5549

  Li, Wenbo ^a   Du, Zhiqiang ^b   Ling, Feng ^c   Zhou, Dongbo ^d   Wang, Hailei ^a   Gui, Yuanmiao ^a   Sun, Bingyu ^a   Zhang, Xiaoming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES   (China)

^b Mapping and Remote Sensing   (China)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Advanced land imager (ALI); Image segmentation; Land surface water mapping; Landsat; Normalized difference water index; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE WATERS;

ADVANCED LAND IMAGERS; INFORMATION SOURCES; LANDSAT; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; WATER MAPPING; YANGTZE RIVER BASIN;

MAPPING;

EID: 84901504726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5115530     Document Type: Article

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