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Depending on the instantaneous water condition and the laser incidence angle, laser dropouts can appear, causing null returns or empty holes found in the collected LiDAR data. This variable intensity response offers a valuable opportunity for using airborne LiDAR sensors for automatic identification of water regions, and thus, we previously proposed an airborne LiDAR-based ratio index named the scan line intensity-elevation ratio (SLIER). Over the water surface, airborne LiDAR data are always found to have a high fluctuation of the intensity value and low variation of the elevation along each scan line, and thus, the water region has a higher SLIER value compared to the land. We examined the SLIER on a multispectral airborne LiDAR dataset collected by Optech Titan and a monochromatic airborne LiDAR dataset collected by Optech Galaxy on a natural rocky shore and a man-made shore. Our experiments showed that SLIER was able to provide a high separability between land and water regions and was able to outperform the traditional normalized difference water index (NDWI) for estimation of the water surface. 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