Feng Yongjiu, Han Zhen. Cellular automata approach to extract shoreline from remote sensing imageries and its application[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2012, 17(3): 441-446. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20120320.
Extraction shoreline information from remotely sensed imagery is important for islands investigation With remote sensing and the coastal comprehensive management. In order to accurately extract the information of shorelines
a new algorithm was developed based on a "bottom-up" approach cellular automata (CA) by considering the direction information of images. The algorithm was developed under a Matlab environment
which includes functions such as mean smooth
land/water segmentation
discrete objects removal
and shoreline tracing.Using the proposed algorithm
the shorelines of an artificially coast at the Changxing-Hengsha islands of Shanghai and a muddy coast at Chongming Dongtan of Shanghai were extracted from Landsat ETM+ images.The results demonstrate that the CA based shoreline extractor can accurately detect shoreline information of different coast types (e.g.artificially coast and muddy coast) from remote sensing images.