On Scale Correction Model of Coastline and its Application for Coastline Remote Sensing Monitoring

Abstract:

This paper focuses on the scale correction of coastline extracted from remote sensing images. Measurement of coastline is one of the basic and core work of coastal zone remote sensing monitoring projects. Based on analysis of coastline scale effect and multi-scale simulation of coastline, a scale correction method is presented for remote sensing coastline. This method can be used to correct remote sensing coastline to specified map scale, in order to obtain high-precision remote sensing monitoring results of coastline. The results of application example showed that the absolute error of coastline length is reduced to about one third of the original error after correction using the presented method. So the presented method can increase the accuracy of remote sensing coastline for specified scale substantially.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 303-306)
• Pages: 734-739
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.303-306.734
• Online since: February 2013
• Authors: Hua Guo Zhang, Dong Ling Li, Ai Qin Shi
• Keywords: Coastline, Coastline Measure, Remote Sensing, Scale Correction

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