JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH, vol.24, pp.983-991, 2008 (Journal Indexed in SCI)
Decrease of habitat, coastal erosion, and shoreline changes are recent issues for coastal management. In this study, an algorithm which extracts coastlines efficiently and automatically by processing low- or medium-resolution satellite images has been developed. The junction of sea and land is a common result yielded by the automatic coastline extraction method.