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Considering the multiple sizes of research objects, remote sensing images with high resolutions have unique resolution advantages to support the extraction of tidal flat wetlands for subsequent monitoring. The purpose of this study is to propose and evaluate a tidal flat wetland delineation and classification method from high-resolution images. First, remote sensing features and geographical buffers are used to establish a decision tree for initial classification. Next, a natural shoreline prediction algorithm is designed to refine the range of the tidal flat wetland. Then, a range and standard deviation descriptor is constructed to extract the rock marine shore, a category of tidal flat wetlands. A geographical analysis method is considered to distinguish the other two categories of tidal flat wetlands. Finally, a tidal correction strategy is introduced to regulate the borderline of tidal flat wetlands to conform to the actual situation. The performance of each step was evaluated, and the results of the proposed method were compared with existing available methods. The results show that the overall accuracy of the proposed method mostly exceeded 92% (all higher than 88%). Due to the integration and the performance superiority compared to existing available methods, the proposed method is applicable in practice and has already been applied during the construction project of Hengqin Island in China.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi10070451","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,1]],"date-time":"2021-07-01T02:44:39Z","timestamp":1625107479000},"page":"451","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["A Tidal Flat Wetlands Delineation and Classification Method for High-Resolution Imagery"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6568-4998","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hong","family":"Pan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yonghong","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dawei","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tianyu","family":"Xiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fuzhi","family":"Duan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"354","DOI":"10.1676\/0043-5643(2001)113[0354:OL]2.0.CO;2","article-title":"Wetland ecology: Principles and conservation","volume":"113","author":"Batzer","year":"2001","journal-title":"Wilson Bull."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Cahoon, D.R., Hensel, P.F., Spencer, T., Reed, D.J., and Saintilan, N. 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