@inproceedings{413217887ed04fa597423021a5057825,
title = "A 'dynamic' land masking algorithm for synthetic aperture radar images",
abstract = "A novel approach to land masking in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is designed and implemented. The developed algorithm takes as input an archived shoreline from a public domain database and modifies it to draw the actual shoreline on SAR images by analysing backscatter values. Starting with data from the GSHHS (the global self-consistent hierarchical high-resolution shoreline database), coastline positioning is improved by evaluating the radiometric intensity gradient in coastal areas of the SAR image. A further enhancement is obtained by applying the Canny edge detection algorithm. The methodology is tested on Envisat and ERS images, as well as on ALOS and COSMO SkyMed images.",
keywords = "GSHHS, SAR, georeferencing, shoreline",
author = "W. Biamino and M. Borasi and M. Cavagnero and A. Croce and \{Di Matteo\}, L. and F. Fontebasso and F. Tataranni and P. Trivero",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2015 ; Conference date: 26-07-2015 Through 31-07-2015",
year = "2015",
month = nov,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7326783",
language = "English",
series = "International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "4324--4327",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2015 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}