ThecharacteristicsofsuspendedsedimentimagecanbereflectedbythecoefficientsofbiorthogonalwavelettransformofCDF(2,2).Basedonthepowerdistributionindifferentscales,anadaptivealgorithmisproposedinthispaper,wherebythecoefficientsareadjustednon-linearly.Theparticleinformationcanbewellretainedwhiletheuselessbackgroundisremoved.Inthisway,satisfactorybinaryimagecanbeobtainedforfurtheranalysisofthesedimentparticle.