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Water Masking Plugin QGIS 4 compatibility
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Yes — Water Masking Plugin supports QGIS 4 (declared max version 4.99.0).
Advanced high-performance scientific tool for extracting water masks and generating smoothed waterbody polygons from multispectral satellite imagery.
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<h3>Water Masking Plugin: Scientific Waterbody Extraction</h3> <p><b>Water Masking Plugin</b> is a specialized QGIS toolkit designed to extract accurate water masks and generate smoothed waterbody polygons from multispectral satellite imagery using a high-performance scientific engine.</p> <p><b>Core Capabilities:</b></p> <ul> <li><b>7 Water Masking Methods:</b> Otsu NDWI, Manual NDWI, 3 Indices, Smart Hybrid Auto, Tiled Adaptive Otsu, Modified AWEI Single-SWIR, and Spectral Slope Decision Tree.</li> <li><b>Geodesic Ellipsoidal Geometry:</b> Physical area (ha, km²) and perimeter measurements on the WGS-84 ellipsoid regardless of projection (UTM or EPSG:4326).</li> <li><b>Vector Polygon Override:</b> Direct support for custom ROI boundaries.</li> <li><b>Noise Removal & Smoothing:</b> Sieve filtering for isolated pixel suppression and sub-pixel edge smoothing for cartographic coastal boundaries.</li> </ul> <p><i>Developed by Mohamed Aly Nasef</i></p>
| Author | Mohamed Aly Nasef |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 1,274 |
| Latest version | 2.1 |
| Last updated | 2026-09-13 (32 days ago) |
| Min QGIS | 3.0.0 |
| Max QGIS | 4.99.0 |
| QGIS 4 ready | Yes |
| Maintenance | Active |
| Category | Remote sensing |
| Tags | remote sensing, mask, water, satellite, hydrology, smoothing, polygon, bathymetry, shoreline, sentinel-2, landsat, otsu, ndwi, mndwi, awei |
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