GIS-based analysis and accuracy assessment of low-resolution satellite imagery for coastline monitoring

Dionysios Apostolopoulos; Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos; Vassilios Boumpoulis; Nikolaos Depountis

doi:10.1117/12.2573440

20 September 2020 GIS-based analysis and accuracy assessment of low-resolution satellite imagery for coastline monitoring

Dionysios Apostolopoulos, Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos, Vassilios Boumpoulis, Nikolaos Depountis

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Proceedings Volume 11534, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications XI; 115340B (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2573440
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

It is well known that in order to study the shoreline evolution in an accurate way, successive time series of high-resolution images are needed. However, the availability of historical high-resolution data is limited to analogue air photos while the more recent high-resolution satellite images are quite expensive. Thus, many researchers have based their coastal evolution studies on low-resolution images like Sentinel and Landsat data. As a result, a main question is raised about the accuracy of the results of such studies. As the Landsat program has started in 1972, there is archival data spanning almost 50 years. This is a great tool for longterm shoreline change monitoring in researchers’ hands. Another advantage of the specific data set is the existence of diverse multispectral bands and the opportunity to extract band ratios sensitive to existence or not of water. The biggest challenge for using this archive for shoreline monitoring is its limited spatial resolution (30m). In the current study, the accuracy of low-resolution satellite data such as Sentinel-2 MSI and Landsat ΤΜ, ΕΤΜ+ and 8 OLI for coastal monitoring is under control. Many low-resolution images were digitally processed, and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as well as on-screen digitizing are used in order to automatically and manually separate the sea from the land respectively and extract the coastline in different periods. Then, the shoreline vectors derived from the Landsat and Sentinel-2 data were compared to the respective shorelines derived from high resolution satellite data such as Worldview-2 (0.5 m resolution) and orthomosaics created from digital airphotos with 1m spatial resolution. The study area is located in the Gulf of Patras in the North Peloponnese, Greece. The accuracy control covered three different periods from 1996 to 2018 and in every case, shorelines extracted from low resolution data sets were compared to shorelines created from high resolution data sets. Statistical analysis was performed, and the results are presented and discussed in the current paper.

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Dionysios Apostolopoulos, Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos, Vassilios Boumpoulis, and Nikolaos Depountis "GIS-based analysis and accuracy assessment of low-resolution satellite imagery for coastline monitoring", Proc. SPIE 11534, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications XI, 115340B (20 September 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2573440

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