Identification of Remote Sensing-Based Land Cover Types Combining Nearest-Neighbor Classification and SEaTH Algorithm
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Identification of Remote Sensing-Based Land Cover Types Combining Nearest-Neighbor Classification and SEaTH Algorithm Jinling Zhao1, • Yan Fang1 • Mingmei Zhang2 • Yingying Dong3,4 Received: 10 July 2019 / Accepted: 28 July 2020 / Published online: 6 August 2020 Ó Indian Society of Remote Sensing 2020
Abstract The development of spaceborne remote sensing has greatly facilitated the land cover mapping at various spatial scales. Classification accuracy, however, is usually affected by the heterogeneous spectra of different land cover types for medium–low-spatial-resolution images. The study is aimed at improving the classification accuracy at a city scale by proposing a hierarchical classification method. Time-series Landsat-5 and Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager remote sensing images of 4 years were used as the classified images. A total of six first-class land cover types were determined, namely woodland, grassland, cropland, wetland, artificial surface and others. The object-based image analysis was chosen over pixel-based approaches. More specifically, the nearest-neighbor (NN) classification and SEparability and THresholds (SEaTH) algorithm were combined to produce a hierarchical classification method (NN-SEaTH). SEaTH algorithm was first used to extract the wetland after performing image segmentation in eCognition Developer. Then, the non-wetland was further classified to vegetation and non-vegetation by using a normalized difference vegetation index image. Finally, the other types were then obtained using the NN classification. To validate the proposed method, the NN classifier and NNSEaTH method were compared. The proposed technique is shown to increase the overall accuracy (OA) and kappa coefficient (k) for the 4 years. The OA and k are, respectively, 96.46% and 0.9231, 96.63% and 0.9269, 96.88% and 0.9394, 95.22% and 0.9239 that are much larger than 88.13% and 0.7503, 88.83% and 0.7660, 88.64% and 0.7630, 87.33% and 0.7371 derived from the NN approach. The study provides a reference for medium-resolution-based land cover mapping by a hierarchical classification. Keywords Land cover Landsat-8 Nearest-neighbor classification Remote sensing SEaTH
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& Yingying Dong [email protected] 1
National Engineering Research Center for Agro-Ecological Big Data Analysis & Application, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
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Department of Geology and Surveying and Mapping, Shanxi Institute of Energy, Jinzhong 030600, China
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Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
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Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
The environmental crises facing the Earth have to be considered such as cropland loss, soil erosion, water pollution, forest destruction, with increasing population size. It is of great significance to dynamically monitor and estimate the various Earth resources at regional/local, national, continental and global scales. Land c
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