Research Article

Comparison of Remote Sensing Classification Techniques for Water Body Detection: A Case Study in Atikhisar Dam Lake (Çanakkale)

Volume: 40 Number: 3 September 30, 2019
EN TR

Comparison of Remote Sensing Classification Techniques for Water Body Detection: A Case Study in Atikhisar Dam Lake (Çanakkale)

Abstract

Water resources management is one of the most important issues of today. Satellite remote sensing have been successfully used to detect the presence of water bodies. In this study, four remote sensing methods: (1) normalized difference water index (NDWI), (2) support vector machine (SVM), (3) geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) and (4) NDWI supported GEOBIA (GEOBIA_NDWI) were examined for water body area detection. For this purpose, Atikhisar Dam Lake, the only water source of Çanakkale central district of Turkey was selected as study area. As remote sensing data nine multitemporal Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) multispectral satellite images between 2013 and 2017 were used. For the accuracy assessment, area values extracted from the used methods were tested with in-situ measurement lake area values. The main issues discussed in this study can be specified as follows: (i) Is pixel-based classification SVM or object-based image classification GEOBIA more successful in the water body detection?, (ii) Are the image classification methods (SVM and GEOBIA) or the water index (NDWI) more successful in the water body detection? and (iii) What is the contribution of NDWI to GEOBIA_NDWI (GEOBIA_NDWI) classification in the water body detection? The results show that meteorological factors and irrigation were influential in lake area variations. NDWI was found to be superior to other methods in determining water body and allowed for better detection of the lake boundary. Additionally, NDWI made a better separation of the land cover classes adjacent to water at the border. The object based GEOBIA was better than the pixel based SVM for distinguishing water and other land cover classes adjacent to border. GEOBIA_NDWI lake area results were more accurate than the standard object-based classification. Mixed pixels out of the lake area was determined less in the NDWI and GEOBIA_NDWI results.

Keywords

References

  1. [1] Demirel K. and Kavdır Y., Effect of Soil Water Retention Barriers on Turfgrass Growth and Soil Water Content, Irrigation Science, 31-4 (2013) 689-700.
  2. [2] Genç L., Demirel K., Çamoglu G., Asık S. and Smith S. Determination of plant water stress using spectral reflectance measurements in watermelon (citrullus vulgaris), American-Eurasian Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, 11-2 (2011) 296-304.
  3. [3] Çamoğlu G., Demirel K., Genc L. Use of infrared thermography and hyperspectral data to detect effects of water stress on pepper, Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal, 15-1 (2018) 81-94.
  4. [4] Özelkan E. and Karaman M., The Analysis of the Effect of Meteorological and Hydrological Drought on Dam Lake via Multitemporal Satellite Images: A Case Study in Atikhisar Dam Lake (Çanakkale), Omer Halisdemir University Journal of Engineering Sciences, 7-2 (2018) 1023-1037.
  5. [5] Karaman M., Budakoglu M., Uca Avci Z.D., Özelkan E., Bülbül A., Civas M. and Tasdelen S., Determination of Seasonal Changes in Wetlands Using CHRIS/Proba Hyperspectral Satellite Images: A Case Study from Acigöl (Denizli), Turkey, Journal of Environmental Biology, 36 (2015) 73-83.
  6. [6] Liu Z., Yao Z. and Wang R., Assessing Methods of Identifying Open Water Bodies Using Landsat 8 OLI Imagery, Environmental Earth Sciences, 75-10 (2016) 1-13.
  7. [7] Karaman M., Özelkan E. and Tasdelen S., Influence of Basin Hydrogeology in the Detectability of Narrow Rivers by Sentinel2-A Satellite Images: A Case Study in Karamenderes (Çanakkale), Journal of Natural Hazards and Environment, 4 (2018) 140-155.
  8. [8] Ji L., Zhang L. and Wylie B., Analysis of Dynamic Thresholds for the Normalized Difference Water Index, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 75-11 (2009) 1307–1317.

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

-

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

September 30, 2019

Submission Date

April 20, 2019

Acceptance Date

September 13, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 40 Number: 3

APA
Özelkan, E. (2019). Comparison of Remote Sensing Classification Techniques for Water Body Detection: A Case Study in Atikhisar Dam Lake (Çanakkale). Cumhuriyet Science Journal, 40(3), 650-661. https://doi.org/10.17776/csj.556440

Cited By

As of 2026, Cumhuriyet Science Journal will be published in six issues per year, released in February, April, June, August, October, and December