Using Descartes to extract vector outline of raster data?

Bentley Descartes 08.11.09.601

I often have rasters representing sonar data that look something like this;

What I would like to do is extract an outline polygon of the area containing the actual data in the red hue. Can anyone suggest a tool or workflow that I could use to get this done? At the moment I am just digitizing the outline which is time consuming and not highly accurate.

Thanks.

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  • Thanks fmcallis, sorry if I was being unclear. I have attached another image below to perhaps explain better what I am after. I have hand digitized the green boundary below. I was hoping that rather than hand digitizing this boundary, Descartes might be able to use the raster to vector tools to extract the green boundary automatically. This image is only a tiny sample of the full size image and there is a continual flow of these so I am trying to find a better method then hand digitization.