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In order to improve the accuracy of the extracted coastlines, we developed the Canny algorithm by automatically calculating the local low and high thresholds via the intensity histogram of each image to derive thresholds to distinguish ice sheet from water. A visual comparison between extracted coastlines and mosaics from remote sensing images shows good agreement. In addition, comparing manually extracted coastline, based on prior knowledge, the accuracy of planimetric position of automated extraction is better than two pixels of Landsat images (30 m resolution). Our study shows that the percentage of deviation (&lt;100 m) between automatically and manually extracted coastlines in nine areas around the Antarctica is 92.32%, and the mean deviation is 38.15 m. Our results reveal that the length of coastline around Antarctica increased from 35,114 km in 2005 to 35,281 km in 2010, and again to 35,672 km in 2017. Meanwhile, the total area of the Antarctica varied slightly from 1.3618 \u00d7 107 km2 (2005) to 1.3537 \u00d7 107 km2 (2010) and 1.3657 \u00d7 107 km2 (2017). We have found that the decline of the Antarctic area between 2005 and 2010 is related to the breakup of some individual ice shelves, mainly in the Antarctic Peninsula and off East Antarctica. We present a detailed analysis of the temporal and spatial change of coastline and area change for the six ice shelves that exhibited the largest change in the last decade. The largest area change (a loss of 4836 km2) occurred at the Wilkins Ice Shelf between 2005 and 2010.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11161844","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,8]],"date-time":"2019-08-08T11:05:32Z","timestamp":1565262332000},"page":"1844","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Automatically Extracted Antarctic Coastline Using Remotely-Sensed Data: An Update"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Yining","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China"},{"name":"University Corporation for Polar Research, Beijing 100875, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhilun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China"},{"name":"University Corporation for Polar Research, Beijing 100875, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mohammed","family":"Shokr","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON M3H5T4, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fengming","family":"Hui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China"},{"name":"University Corporation for Polar Research, Beijing 100875, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6910-6565","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiao","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China"},{"name":"University Corporation for Polar Research, Beijing 100875, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4842-9573","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhaohui","family":"Chi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geospatial Science, Applications &amp; Technology Center, Department of Geography, Texas A&amp;M University, 3147 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3147, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2078-0342","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Petra","family":"Heil","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian Antarctica Division and Antarctica Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhuoqi","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China"},{"name":"University Corporation for Polar Research, Beijing 100875, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"387","DOI":"10.1007\/s10661-009-1057-8","article-title":"Quantitative analysis of shoreline changes at the Mediterranean Coast in Turkey","volume":"167","author":"Kuleli","year":"2010","journal-title":"Environ. 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