Abstract:This paper deals with automatic river detection in SAR images. A new method is proposed using the boundary extraction in wavelet domain and merging the water region by ridge tracing. In the method, edge detection is approached by direct spatial correlation of wavelet transform at several adjacent scales. It is much easier than the algorithm of WTMM proposed by Mallat and proved to be more efficient. And the ridge tracking based on gray scale image , which is applied in fingerprint tracing, is introduced here to complete the river bank linking and river connecting. This improvement avoids the disadvantages of the Snake model widely used in linking the coastline. The river detection result from the method is good at connection and location. And the method is much more efficient and adaptive to the complicated bank.
胡正磊; 孙进平; 袁运能; 毛士艺. 基于小波边缘提取和脊线跟踪技术的SAR图像河流检测算法[J]. 电子与信息学报, 2007, 29(3): 524-527 .
Hu Zheng-lei; Sun Jin-ping; Yuan Yun-neng; Mao Shi-yi. River Detection in SAR Images Based on Edge Extraction in Wavelet Domain and Ridge Tracing Technique. , 2007, 29(3): 524-527 .