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Development of Recognition Technology for the Shoreline Extraction of Waisanding Sandbar in Satellite Images
by Hsien-Kuo Chang, Wei-Wei Chen*, Jin-Cheng Liou, Yung-Fang Chiu , Wen-Chang Yang and Meng-Syue Li
Abstract
The Waisanding sandbar has suffered from continuous beach erosion and is gradually disappearing. It is necessary and urgent to solve this problem under the homeland protection policy. We have provided a satellite-image-based solution for this problem. We found that the northern end of the Waisanding sandbar has been reduced by 2.1km in the past 15 years, and the southern end has been significantly shortened and rotated counterclockwise. Since 2011, the southern tip has been submerged in the wate...