Semiautomatic coastline detection in remotely sensed images

Author

Bo, Giancarlo ; Dellepiane, Silvana ; Laurentiis, Raimondo De

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biophys. & Electron. Eng., Genoa Univ., Italy

Volume

5

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1869

Abstract

Regarding the application of remote sensing and related data processing methodologies to the analysis and monitoring of the coastal environment, an innovative technique for the extraction of the coastline from space borne or aerial images has been developed. The interactive method proposed is based on the involvement of the local contextual information which is always present in remotely sensed data. The exploitability and reliability of the algorithm for the shoreline identification have been tested by processing images from different sensors. Some of the obtained results are shown

Keywords

fuzzy logic; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; image processing; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; terrain mapping; algorithm; coast; coastline; geomorphology; geophysical measurement technique; identification; image processing; land surface; remote sensing; semiautomatic detection; shoreline; terrain mapping; Data engineering; Data mining; Data processing; Environmental management; Image analysis; Pixel; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellites; Sea measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.858150

Filename

858150