MODIFIED OPTIMIZATION WATER INDEX (MOWI) FOR LANDSAT-8 OLI/TIRS

Dynamic Threshold Selection for the Classification of Large Water Bodies within Landsat-8 OLI Water Index Images

Surface water distribution extracted from remote sensing data has been used in water resource assessment, coastal management, and environmental change studies. Traditional manual methods for extracting water bodies cannot satisfy the requirements for mass processing of remote sensing data; therefore, accurate automated extraction of such water bodies has remained a challenge. The histogram bimo...

Characterization of Landsat - 7 to Landsat - 8 reflective wavelength and 1 normalized difference vegetation index continuity

A Modified Normalized Difference Impervious Surface Index (MNDISI) for Automatic Urban Mapping from Landsat Imagery

Impervious surface area (ISA) is a key factor for monitoring urban environment and land development. Automatic mapping of impervious surfaces has attracted growing attention in recent years. Spectral built-up indices are considered promising to map ISA distributions due to their easy, parameter-free implementations. This study explores the potentials of impervious surface indices for ISA mappin...

A New Bare-soil Index for Rapid Mapping Developing Areas Using Landsat 8 Data

One of the most basic classification tasks is to distinguish bare-soil areas from urban region. Bare-soil plays an important role in the ecosystem. It could be the reason of dust storms and the indicator of urban expansion. It is also important to monitor the bare-soil areas, but there was no good idea to automatically extraction bare-soil areas using existing method. In this work, a new barene...

Application of Landsat 8 for Monitoring Impacts of Wastewater Discharge on Coastal Water Quality

1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, 2 Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Department of Earth, Environment, and Physics, Worcester State University, Worcester, ...