River Detection in Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Gabor Filtering and Path Opening

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Kang Yang, Manchun Li, Yongxue Liu, Liang Cheng, Qiuhao Huang, Yangming Chen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
• Subjects: river detection; Gabor filter; path opening; Landsat 8; Greenland; Yukon; Yukon Basin; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70708779

Detecting rivers from remotely sensed imagery is an initial yet important step in space-based river studies. This paper proposes an automatic approach to enhance and detect complete river networks. The main contribution of this work is the characterization of rivers according to their Gaussian-like...