River boundaries extraction in mountain areas for SAR images with fusing GIS information

Authors :: Wang Xiaoliang
Wu Renbiao
Li Chunsheng
Source :: Proceedings of 2011 IEEE CIE International Conference on Radar.
Publication Year :: 2011
Publisher :: IEEE, 2011.
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.

Subjects :: Synthetic aperture radar
Geographic information system
Flood myth
Computer science
business.industry
Extraction methods
Computer vision
Extraction (military)
Image segmentation
Artificial intelligence
business
Remote sensing

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