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Since water has uniform brightness, expressed as the value (V) component in the hue, saturation, value (HSV) colour model, the reduction in question is attained by extracting V and investigating its histogram to identify areas where V does not vary considerably. A set of 30 nadir UAV-acquired photos, taken at five different locations in Poland, were used to validate the approach. For 67% of all analysed images (both wide and narrow rivers were photographed), the detection rate was above 50% (with the false hit rate ranged between 5.00% and 61.36%, mean 36.62%). When the analysis was limited to wide rivers, the percentage of images in which detection rate exceeded 50% increased to 80%, and the false hit rates remained similar. Apart from the river width, land cover in the vicinity of the river, as well as uniformity of water colour, were found to be factors which influence the waterline detection performance. 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