In this study, we use Landsat remote sensing image data for water range extraction. The accuracy verification results of water body extraction showed a high accuracy, indicating that Landsat has a relatively high spatial resolution and can be applied to water body range extraction. There are many studies using Landsat remote sensing data in the water research field (
Jiang et al., 2018;
Rokni et al., 2014;
Wang et al., 2018;
Zhang et al., 2017b). In addition, other remote sensing images with a high spatial resolution or other advantages are used in the field of water extraction.
Adrian et al. (2021) used Sentinel-1 radar data and Sentinel-2 optical data for fusion, and then conducted research to improve classification accuracy. Therefore, we can try to do this in the future when there is no need to make long-time-series analyses. What’s more, remote sensing image data is susceptible to factors such as instrument noises, atmospheric conditions and surface conditions. The impact of microwave radar data is mainly manifested in structural sensitivity, imaging distortion, speckle noises and imaging system interferences. One major flaw is speckle noises, which are caused by the interferences of return waves at the radar aperture. Many studies use median filtering methods to smooth remote sensing images (
Li et al., 2019). Optical remote sensing images are susceptible to interferences from clouds and atmospheric moisture content, especially in tropical and subtropical regions. Synthetic aperture radar images can effectively avoid such drawbacks, but are susceptible to interferences from terrain and vegetation. Many methods are used to compensate for shortcomings in remote sensing data quality.
Li et al. (2020) proposed an object-based fully-convolutional network to overcome interferences from different data sources. Image filtering is an important means of eliminating background noises. Currently, existing filtering methods include mean filtering, median filtering, Gaussian filtering and wavelet filtering (
Geusebroek et al., 2003;
Saxena and Rathore, 2013). In addition, many studies have fused remote sensing image data from different sensors to carry out coastline change detection, environmental monitoring, forest resource monitoring, leaf area index, land use mapping and other fields (
Houborg and McCabe, 2018;
Lunetta et al., 2006;
Seo et al., 2018;
Yousif and Ban, 2014). Rule-based water area classification algorithms fuse optical and radar images to obtain the best results for water masks (
Ahmad et al., 2020). With the improvement of scientific and technological level, remote sensing images have been significantly improved in terms of temporal resolution, spatial resolution and spectral resolution. Especially, spatial resolution has developed, and the improvement of spectral resolution has led to the development of remote sensing images from multispectral to hyperspectral level (
Andréfouët et al., 2001a,
2001b,
2003;
Mumby and Edwards, 2002).
Wieland et al. (2023) found that high-resolution satellites (IKONOS, GeoEye-1, WorldView-2, WorldView-3, and four different airborne camera systems) and aerial images could improve model performance.
Feng et al. (2019) utilized high-spatial-resolution Gaofen-2 and WorldView-2 remote sensing images to classify images into water and non-water areas.
Zhang et al. (2021) demonstrated that Gaofen-3 SAR images could be used to validate the neural network method, while other studies got similar results (
Hertel et al., 2023;
Nemni et al., 2020;
Ni et al., 2021;
Xue et al., 2021). With the deepening of research, when extracting water body information in a short period of time, we can make improvements in remote sensing data sources and research methods, and combine the above methods to further improve the accuracy of water body information extraction.