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INTRODUCTION Over the past years carrying out an effective control of fishing activities has become essential to guarantee a sustainable exploitation of sea resources. (ie estimating fishing effort) Traditional reconnaissance can be time consuming and expensive (e.g MFRD spends 1-2 months to counts canoes along the 550km stretch Ghana’s coastline) Satellite-based imageries provides a powerful surveillance capability which can be utilized in canoe frame surveys Canoes scattered along the beach area

METHODOLOGY The imagery covers part of central region. The area itself, is one of the largest fishing area and covering an area of approximately 20,000 km2 is economically important in terms of fisheries An adjusted Quickbird image ( data used)

Threshold Preprocessing Gray Image [isolating of beach area] Conversion of Image in Binary Shape measurement analysis APPROACH Canoe detection Original Quickbird Image Flowchart of the developed routine Obtaining Result

THRESHOLDING Thresholding is the simplest method of image segmentation. From a grayscale image, it can be used to create binary images (Shapiro, et al. 2001:83). Images in grayscale have digital numder (DN) The histogram method used shows the pixel distribution through which the threshold could be obtained. Histogram showing pixel distribution

GRAYSCALE TO BINARY IMAGE Canoe The binary image 1:100,1:100 window of the gray image

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