{"name": "Water Masking Plugin", "package_name": "water_masking", "description": "A comprehensive tool for extracting water masks and generating smoothed waterbody polygons from multispectral satellite imagery.", "about": "Water Masking Plugin is a specialized QGIS toolkit designed to extract accurate water masks and generate smoothed waterbody polygons from multispectral satellite imagery.\r\n\r\nCore Workflow:\r\n1-Indices Calculation: Calculates NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), MNDWI (Modified Normalized     Difference Water Index), and NWI (New Water Index).\r\n2-Water Masking Equation: Uses the equation (MNDWI > 0) AND (NWI > 0) AND (NDVI < 0.1) to extract the water mask.\r\n3-Noise Removal: Applies a sieve filter to remove isolated noise pixels.\r\n4-Geometry Smoothing: Rounds the sharp stair-step edges of the final polygon.", "homepage": "https://github.com/Nasef2017/Water-Masking", "repository": "https://github.com/Nasef2017/Water-Masking", "tracker": "https://github.com/Nasef2017/Water-Masking/issues", "author": "Mohamed Aly Nasef", "tags": ["water", "polygon", "hydrology", "remote sensing", "mask", "satellite", "smoothing"], "downloads": 283, "latest_version": "1.0", "versions": [{"version": "1.0", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.0.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 283, "uploaded_by": "nasefmaly", "upload_datetime": "2026-05-29T17:42:23.812477"}]}