The invention discloses a braided river complex form characterization method and
system, and the method comprises the steps: 1, carrying out the preliminary screening and
cutting of an original
remote sensing image in a set time period and a set research region, setting a
cloud cover ratio threshold value of the research region, carrying out the screening, obtaining an initial
remote sensing image, and carrying out the preprocessing; step 2, calculating an initial
remote sensing image MNDWI index to obtain an MNDWI index image set; 3, calculating a segmentation threshold value of each pixel in the images in the MNDWI index image set, and carrying out preliminary extraction on the
water body of the braided river image to obtain a preliminary extraction
water body set, and 4, obtaining a final
water body set based on the preliminary extraction water body set; and step 5, based on the extracted final water body set and the delimited river boundary, performing morphological sampling, calculating morphological parameters, and returning a morphological parameter set of the river reach in the form of a data table. According to the method, the time required for extracting morphological features of the braided river is remarkably shortened, and braided river
research based on remote sensing images is facilitated.