Methods for remote sensing interpretation of coastline information

This paper provides a useful method to derive coastline information from TM/ETM imagery. When the accurate cartography data of study district are rare or out of date, the data of remote sensing (RS) are further more important. It gives the data processing workflow and the necessary working steps to be taken in the processing of coastline fetching. The coastline information in Fujian province of China is derived using this method and it fits the 1:100000 scale map very well. At last, as a argument, a kind of high resolution RS data, IKNOS imagery is also presented, which will be mainly used in the coastline information fetching in the future.