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TitleAutomated surface water extraction from RapidEye imagery including cloud and cloud shadow detection
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LicencePlease note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada supersedes any previous licences.
AuthorOlthof, I
SourceGeomatics Canada, Open File 52, 2019, 20 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/315176 Open Access logo Open Access
Year2019
PublisherNatural Resources Canada
Documentopen file
Lang.English
Mediaon-line; digital
File formatpdf (Adobe® Reader®)
Subjectshydrogeology; geophysics; Science and Technology; surface waters; hydrography; floods; remote sensing; satellite imagery; mapping techniques; statistical analyses; soils; soil moisture; National Hydrographic Network; Methodology; Automation; Geographic data; Data processing
Illustrationslocation maps; tables; satellite images; plots; frequency distribution diagrams
ProgramRemote Sensing Science
Released2019 09 19
AbstractMapped surface water extents represent fundamental geospatial information required by a large number of public and private sector stakeholders in Canada. Currently available surface water maps from Canada's National Hydrographic Network (NHN) are out-of-date in many locations in part due to the vintage of the maps themselves, and also because water extents are dynamic and changing. Previously, a significant amount of Canada's NHN base geospatial data was manually interpreted from airphotos and other sources of high-resolution imagery, which enabled detailed mapping but required significant human and financial resources. Satellite imagery can provide a cheaper alternative due to the free availability of certain data and potential for automated feature extraction. Freely available medium resolution data from sensors such as Landsat can provide information at a scale of 1:50 k while more detail is needed to map smaller water courses that can only be resolved from high resolution sensors (< 5 m) such as RapidEye. This Open File describes a robust, fully automated procedure to extract surface water from RapidEye imagery including cloud and cloud shadow screening, as a potential method to enhance future NHN updating. The method is applied to RapidEye imagery residing in the Government of Canada's image archive over the St-John, Red and Richelieu Rivers. Qualitative assessment of the Richelieu product shows high overall agreement with water features in Google Earth imagery and NHN, with errors stemming from spectral confusion with dark soil and urban shadow. Canada's RapidEye archive currently covers approximately 30 % of provinces while its 5 m spatial resolution provides a good compromise between detail and data volume that can be processed on modern workstations. Similar spectral bands available in other higher resolution satellite sensors (< 2 m) such as WorldView suggest more detailed surface water extents may become available using methods developed here and adapted to these sensors.
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This open file describes a new technique to extract open surface water from high resolution optical imagery from the RapidEye satellite constellation. The Government of Canada has purchased and maintains a significant coverage of RapidEye imagery over our landmass, covering approximately 30 % of southern provinces. The National Hydrographic Network (NHN) needs updating while previous methods relying on airphotos is expensive and time consuming and therefore, partners in Sherbrooke Geobase are seeking alternative solutions. We expect this work will form part of a new, more cost effective and efficient solution to help with NHN updating. Developing this capacity also helps the Emergency Geomatics Services in case similar high-resolution imagery becomes available during a flood event, as it did in 2017 when the Disasters Charter was activated over Ottawa-Montreal.
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