《Semi-automated procedures for shoreline extraction using single RADARSAT-1 SAR image》.pdf

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 95 (2011) 395e400 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science journal homepage: /locate/ecss Semi-automated procedures for shoreline extraction using single RADARSAT-1 SAR image A’kif Al Fugura a, Lawal Billa b, Biswajeet Pradhan b, * a Surveying Department, Faculty of Engineering, Al al-Bayt University, P.O.BOX 130040, Mafraq 25113, Jordan b Spatial and Numerical Modeling Laboratory, Institute of Advanced Technology, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Coastline identification is important for surveying and mapping reasons. Coastline serves as the basic Received 17 May 2011 point of reference and is used on nautical charts for navigation purposes. Its delineation has become Accepted 11 October 2011 crucial and more important in the wake of the many recent earthquakes and tsunamis resulting in Available online 20 October 2011 complete change and redraw of some shorelines. In a tropical country like Malaysia, presence of cloud cover hinders the application of optical remote sensing data. In this study a semi-automated technique Keywords: and procedures are presented for shoreline delineation from RADARSAT-1 image. A scene of RADARSAT-1 remote sensing satellite image was processed using enhanced fil