Inland water body extraction in complex reliefs from Sentinel-1 satellite data.

Water body classification is a topic of great interest, especially for the effective management of floods. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging has demonstrated a great potential for water monitoring, given its capacity to register images independent of weather conditions. Several algorithms for w...

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Autores: JUAN CARLOS VALDIVIEZO NAVARRO, ADAN SALAZAR GARIBAY, ALEJANDRO TELLEZ QUIÑONES, Mauricio Orozco del Castillo, ALEJANDRA AURELIA LOPEZ CALOCA
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:México
Institución:Centro de Investigación en Ciencias de Información Geoespacial
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional Centro GEO
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:centrogeo.repositorioinstitucional.mx:1012/306
Acceso en línea:http://centrogeo.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1012/306
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/25
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/2505
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/250505
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Sumario:Water body classification is a topic of great interest, especially for the effective management of floods. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging has demonstrated a great potential for water monitoring, given its capacity to register images independent of weather conditions. Several algorithms for water detection using SAR images are based on optimal thresholding techniques. However, these simple methodologies produce false classification results when small water bodies embedded in mountain ranges are presented in the image. We present an unsupervised and easy-to-implement methodology, based on local Moran index of spatial association in combination with morphological closing operations, for inland water body extraction. According to several experiments, we demonstrate that our method is capable of effectively extracting lakes and rivers located at different land surface reliefs without the requirement of a training step. In addition, comparisons with the state-of-the-art techniques demonstrate the effectiveness of our procedure, performing an overall accuracy of 96.37% and Kappa ¼ 0.927.