Water body extraction based on region similarity combined adaptively band selection

Abstract

ABSTRACT Water monitoring is an important part of water resource protection. The extraction of water body from multispectral remote-sensing images has been proven to be an efficient and fast way for water monitoring. This paper presents a water body extraction algorithm from multispectral remote-sensing image based on region similarity and boundary information by combining adaptive band selection and over-segmentation. First of all, three bands are adaptively chosen by similarity-based band selection algorithm. Then, the image domain is partitioned into a series of homogeneous sub-regions by over-segmentation incorporating spectral and spatial information. On the sub-regions, the regional similarity is defined with respect to the similarities of texture and spectral features which are extracted using structure analysis method. After that, boundary information is extraction by Canny algorithm, then the water body is extracted by using the Fractal Net Evolution Approach (FNEA) which combines regional similarity and boundary information. The proposed algorithm is used to extract six water bodies with different complex texture backgrounds from multispectral sensors. According to the accuracy evaluation of water body extraction results, the overall accuracy (OA) is higher than 97.9100% and all Kappa coefficients (K) are up to 0.9436. We calculated the relative error (RE) of the area between the reference water body and the water body extracted by the proposed algorithm, the minimum and maximum relative error range is between [0.6180%, 7.7050%]. The experiments show that the proposed algorithm is feasible and effective.