Mapping Shoreline of Hangzhou Bay with Remote Sensing Images from 1979 to 2005

Author

Huo Dan ; Feng Yongjiu ; Song Lijun

Author_Institution

Coll. of Marine Sci., Shanghai Ocean Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2012

fDate

1-3 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Shoreline information extraction and change detection using remotely sensed imageries is of great significance to local comprehensive coastal management. Using the Landsat MSS/TM images acquired in 1979, 1985, 2000, and 2005 respectively, the shorelines of Hangzhou Bay in China were detected with an integrated method of GIS, image enhancement, unsupervised classification, and map generalization. Further, the fractal dimension of each shoreline was computed and the shoreline change across 26 years was investigated systematically. Moreover, amongst the whole shoreline of Hangzhou Bay, 6 representative sections (i.e. Southern Ningbo, Shaoxing, Northern Jiaxing, Jinshan, Fengxian, and Luchaogang) experienced drastic changes were selected and analyzed in detail.

Keywords

geographic information systems; geophysical image processing; oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; AD 1979 to 2005; China; Fengxian; GIS integrated method; Hangzhou Bay shoreline; Jinshan; Landsat MSS images; Landsat TM images; Luchaogang; Northern Jiaxing; Shaoxing; Southern Ningbo; change detection; image enhancement; local comprehensive coastal management; map generalization method; remote sensing images; shoreline fractal dimension; shoreline information extraction; unsupervised classification; Complexity theory; Feature extraction; Fractals; Remote sensing; Rivers; Sea measurements; Sea surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE), 2012 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0872-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RSETE.2012.6260621

Filename

6260621