Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping ›› 2025, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (9): 39-44,77.doi: 10.13474/j.cnki.11-2246.2025.0907

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Extracting linear water bodies from water index combined with DEM adaptive search algorithm

XU Wenting1,2,3, YAN Dongmei4,5, WANG Hu6, WU Yarui6, WANG Meijing6, SHEN Qian4,5   

  1. 1. Qinghai Eco-Environmental Monitoring Cente, Xi'ning 810000, China;
    2. State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Eco-Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Xi'ning 810000, China;
    3. Qinghai Key Laboratory of Eco-Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Xi'ning 810000, China;
    4. International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing 100094, China;
    5. Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China;
    6. College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China
  • Received:2025-01-15 Published:2025-09-29

Abstract: To address the common issue of discontinuities in traditional single water body extraction methods,an adaptive search algorithm combining remote sensing spectral information and DEM is used to extract linear water bodies and assess the algorithm's applicability for extracting linear water bodies from data with different spatial resolutions.The study focuses on the water bodies in Guangzhou,using 30 m Landsat OLI and 16 m GF1 WFV imagery to obtain normalized difference water index information.Then,30 m resolution ASTER GDEM and 12.5 m resolution ALOS elevation data are selected to obtain river network data.By choosing appropriate search windows and elevation thresholds as extraction parameters,river data is extracted.To address the discontinuities in some areas of the water body index extraction results,the river data is used for spatial overlay to obtain the final river information.The results show that compared with the single water body index extraction results,the linear water bodies extracted by the water body index combined with the DEM adaptive search algorithm (NDWI+12.5 m DEM and NDWI+30 m DEM)are continuous and accurate,with overall accuracies of 90.5%and 95%,respectively.Especially the 12.5 m DEM data shows a more obvious advantage in detail capture and has higher precision.

Key words: normalized difference water index, DEM, lineal water extraction, Guangzhou city

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