An efficient framework for segmentation and classification ofwater bodies from aerial images

Abstract

newline There is a growing need for the classification of water bodies using newlineremote sensing images. Water-body analysis is significant in extracting new newlinewater-bodies from aerial images and also helps in preserving existing water-bodies newlineby continuous monitoring. Extraction of water bodies from high-resolution aerial newlineimages is seen as a necessary activity for both civilian and military purposes. newlineWater-body segmentation helps in extracting water bodies like lakes, ponds, rivers newlineand reservoirs from high-resolution aerial images. This also helps in discovering newlinenew water bodies. newlineThe state-of-the-art methods include rule based, thresholding based, newlineregion based, edge based, gradient based, clustering based and neural network newlinebased methods. To address the water-body segmentation problem, new methods newlinehave to be proposed. The challenges that need to be tackled in the study are newlineboundary detection and shadow removal.