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Traditional detection methods cannot accurately identify small tributaries due to incomplete mining and insufficient utilization of semantic information, and the edge information of segmentation is rough. To solve the above problems, we propose a multi-scale feature aggregation network. In order to improve the ability of the network to process boundary information, we design a deep feature extraction module using a multi-scale pyramid to extract features, combined with the designed attention mechanism and strip convolution, extraction of multi-scale deep semantic information and enhancement of spatial and location information. Then, the multi-branch aggregation module is used to interact with different scale features to enhance the positioning information of the pixels. Finally, the two high-performance branches designed in the Feature Fusion Upsample module are used to deeply extract the semantic information of the image, and the deep information is fused with the shallow information generated by the multi-branch module to improve the ability of the network. Global and local features are used to determine the location distribution of each image category. The experimental results show that the accuracy of the segmentation method in this paper is better than that in the previous detection methods, and has important practical significance for the actual water area segmentation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14010206","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,9]],"date-time":"2022-01-09T23:06:15Z","timestamp":1641769575000},"page":"206","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":56,"title":["Multi-Scale Feature Aggregation Network for Water Area Segmentation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7181-9935","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kai","family":"Hu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, B-DAT, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3156-9836","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Meng","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, B-DAT, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4681-9129","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Min","family":"Xia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, B-DAT, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]},{"given":"Haifeng","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"104805","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cageo.2021.104805","article-title":"DeepRivWidth: Deep learning based semantic segmentation approach for river identification and width measurement in SAR images of Coastal Karnataka","volume":"154","author":"Verma","year":"2021","journal-title":"Comput. 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