Water Detection in High Resolution Satellite Images using the waterdetect python package

Enjoy an easy-to-use unsupervised water detection algorithm for Sentinel 2 and Landsat 8 images that uses a multi-dimensional clustering coupled with naïve bayes classifier for improved performance.

Maurício Cordeiro
Towards Data Science
10 min readNov 25, 2020

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Figure 1. Example of water mask extracted from a Camargue scene in France. Image by author.

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Ph.D. Geospatial Data Scientist and water specialist at Brazilian National Water and Sanitation Agency. To get in touch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cordmaur/