An automated method for extracting rivers and lakes from Landsat imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5067-5089

  Jiang, Hao ^a,b   Feng, Min ^c   Zhu, Yunqiang ^a   Lu, Ning ^a   Huang, Jianxi ^d   Xiao, Tong ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Lake; Mixed pixels; Remote sensing; River; Water index

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; LAKES; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; WATER RESOURCES;

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; KAPPA COEFFICIENT; MIXED PIXEL; OMISSION AND COMMISSION ERRORS; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; THRESHOLDING METHODS; WATER INDEX;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84986889043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6065067     Document Type: Article

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