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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2021.37.5.1.30

Waterbody Detection from Sentinel-2 Images Using NDWI: A Case of Hwanggang Dam in North Korea  

Kye, Changwoo (Research Institute, SELab Inc.)
Shin, Dae-Kyu (Research Institute, SELab Inc.)
Yi, Jonghyuk (SELab Inc.)
Kim, Jingyeom (Water Resources Management Research Center, K-water Research Institute)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.37, no.5_1, 2021 , pp. 1207-1214 More about this Journal
Abstract
In thisletter, we developed technology which can exclude effect of cloudsto perform remote waterbody detection based on Sentinel-2 optical satellite imagery to calculate the area of ungauged reservoirs and applied to the Hwanggang dam reservoir, a representative ungauged reservoir, to verify usability. The remote waterbody detection technology calculates the cloud blocking ratio by comparing the cloud boundary in the Sentinel-2 imagery and the reservoir boundary first. Next, itselects data whose cloud blocking ratio does not exceed a specific value and calculates NDWI (Normalized Difference Water Index) with selected imagery. In last, it calculatesthe area of the reservoir by counting the number of grids which have NDWI value considered as waterbody within the boundary of the target reservoir and correcting with cloud blocking ratio. To determine cloud blocking ratio threshold forselecting image, we performed the area calculation of Hwanggang dam reservoir from July 2018 to October 2021. As a result, when the cloud blocking ratio threshold wasset 10%, we confirmed that the result with large error due to clouds were filtered well and obtained 114 results that can show changes in Hwanggang dam reservoir area among 220 images.
Keywords
Ungauged reservoir; Sentinel-2; Waterbody detection;
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