Title :
River boundaries extraction in mountain areas for SAR images with fusing GIS information
Author :
Xiaoliang, Wang ; Chunsheng, Li ; Renbiao, Wu
Author_Institution :
Tianjin Key Lab. for Adv. Signal Process., Civil Aviation Univ. of China, Tianjin, China
Abstract :
River boundaries extraction on SAR images is valuable for flood monitoring. Traditional methods usually failed in high relief areas. We proposed a river boundaries extraction method to conquer the difficulty to discriminate rivers from mountain shadows through fusing GIS information.
Keywords :
geographic information systems; geophysical image processing; image segmentation; remote sensing by radar; rivers; synthetic aperture radar; SAR image segmentation; flood monitoring; fusing GIS information; mountain areas; river boundaries extraction method; Educational institutions; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Laser radar; Level set; Rivers; Vectors; Active Contour Model; Information Fusion; Level Set; SAR; Segmentation;
Conference_Titel :
Radar (Radar), 2011 IEEE CIE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8444-7
DOI :
10.1109/CIE-Radar.2011.6159867
