[general]
icon=icon.png
name=Water Masking Plugin
qgisMinimumVersion=3.0
qgisMaximumVersion=4.99
version=1.0
author=Mohamed Aly Nasef
email=Eng.m.nasef2017@gmail.com
description=A comprehensive tool for extracting water masks and generating smoothed waterbody polygons from multispectral satellite imagery.

about=<h3>Water Masking Plugin: Advanced 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.</p>
    
    <p><b>Core Workflow:</b></p>
    <ul>
        <li><b>1. Indices Calculation:</b> Calculates NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), MNDWI (Modified Normalized Difference Water Index), and NWI (New Water Index).</li>
        <li><b>2. Water Masking Equation:</b> Uses the equation (MNDWI &gt; 0) AND (NWI &gt; 0) AND (NDVI &lt; 0.1) to extract the water mask.</li>
        <li><b>3. Noise Removal:</b> Applies a sieve filter to remove isolated noise pixels.</li>
        <li><b>4. Geometry Smoothing:</b> Rounds the sharp stair-step edges of the final polygon.</li>
    </ul>

    <p><i>Developed by Mohamed Aly Nasef</i></p>

homepage=https://github.com/Nasef2017/Water-Masking
repository=https://github.com/Nasef2017/Water-Masking
tracker=https://github.com/Nasef2017/Water-Masking/issues

tags=water, mask, remote sensing, satellite, polygon, smoothing, hydrology
category=Raster
changelog=v1.0: Initial release.
