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In addition to the commonly used green band-based water indices, Landsat-8 OLI\u2019s ultra-blue, blue, and red band-based water indices were also tested in this research. Two unsupervised (the zero-water index threshold H0 method and Otsu\u2019s automatic threshold selection method) and one supervised (the k-nearest neighbor (KNN) method) image classification algorithms were employed for conducting the image classification. Through comparing a total of 2880 Landsat image classification results with the alternate ground truth data, this study showed that (1) it is not necessary to use some supervised image classification methods for extracting water bodies from Landsat imagery given the high computational cost associated with the supervised image classification algorithms; (2) the unsupervised classification algorithms such as the H0 and Otsu methods could achieve comparable accuracy as the KNN method, although the H0 method produced more large error outliers than the Otsu method, thus the Otsu method is better than the H0 method; and (3) the ultra-blue band-based AWEInsuB is the best water index for the H0 method, and the ultra-blue band-based MNDWI2uB is the best water index for both the Otsu and KNN methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12101611","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,18]],"date-time":"2020-05-18T11:34:14Z","timestamp":1589801654000},"page":"1611","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":52,"title":["A Comparative Study of Water Indices and Image Classification Algorithms for Mapping Inland Surface Water Bodies Using Landsat Imagery"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4373-7566","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Feifei","family":"Pan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6979-170X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaohuan","family":"Xi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Earth, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}]},{"given":"Cheng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Earth, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"585","DOI":"10.1126\/science.aat0636","article-title":"Global extent of rivers and streams","volume":"361","author":"Allen","year":"2018","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"Shiklomanov, I.A., and Sokolov, A.A. 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