Identification of Water Bodies from High and ...

Water bodies are precious resources which play an important role in agriculture, transportation, drinking water supply and environmental balance of ground water level and so on. Assessment on water-bodies as well as escribing on its characteristics is the most crucial work to be done in India where land is being occupied at a very high rate. Satellite images are not clear all the time and will have shadow effects, which has to identified and distinguished. Water body image may appear similar to shades of huge buildings due to reflection and echoing. Few substantial research have been conducted to extract information about water bodies from several multi-resolution satellite images. This paper proposes a novel methodology based on texture and spectral information of the satellite images to extract water bodies.