Shoreline Segmentation as a Proxy to Coastal Erosion Detection

Author

Mello, C.A.B. ; Dos Santos, T.J. ; Medeiros, H.R. ; Pereira, P.S.

Author_Institution

Centro de Inf., Univ. Fed. de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

13-16 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1217

Lastpage

1222

Abstract

This paper presents a new method for shoreline segmentation. The images are generated by five digital cameras installed on the roof of a building at Boa Via gem beach, Recife, Brazil. The five images are joined creating a mosaic. The proposed method deals with different color systems, removal of details from the background of the image, edge detection by Canny algorithm and a final step for edge removal and restoration. The proposal is applied to a set of images collected from different hours (from morning to night) and different days. Shoreline identification is an important step in the monitoring of coastal areas in order to analyze the effects of erosion.

Keywords

feature extraction; geophysical image processing; image restoration; image segmentation; oceanographic techniques; Boa Viagem beach; Brazil; Recife; coastal erosion detection; color systems; digital cameras; edge detection; edge removal; edge restoration; erosion effects; image background; shoreline identification; shoreline segmentation; Cameras; Detectors; Image color analysis; Image edge detection; Image restoration; Image segmentation; Sea measurements; coastal monitoring; image segmentation; shoreline;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMC.2013.211

Filename

6721964