Partially supervised hierarchical clustering of SAR and multispectral imagery for urban areas monitoring

Luis Gomez-Chova; Diego Fernandez-Prieto; Javier Calpe; Emilio Soria; Joan Vila; Gustavo Camps-Valls

doi:10.1117/12.565276

10 November 2004 Partially supervised hierarchical clustering of SAR and multispectral imagery for urban areas monitoring

Luis Gomez-Chova, Diego Fernandez-Prieto, Javier Calpe, Emilio Soria, Joan Vila, Gustavo Camps-Valls

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Proceedings Volume 5573, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing X; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.565276
Event: Remote Sensing, 2004, Maspalomas, Canary Islands, Spain

Abstract

In some key operational domains, users are not specially interested in obtaining an exhaustive map with all the thematic classes present in an area of interest, but rather in identifying accurately a single class of interest. In this paper, we present a novel partially supervised classification technique that faces this interesting practical and methodological problem. We have adopted a two-stage classification scheme based on an unsupervised approach, which allows us to introduce supervised information about the class of interest without an additional sample labeling. The first stage of the process consists in an initial clustering of the image using the Self-Organizing Map algorithm. The second stage consists in a partially supervised hierarchical joint of clusters. We modify the employed criterion of similarity by introducing fuzzy membership functions that make use of the supervised information. The method is tested on urban monitoring, where the objective is to produce an automatic classification of 'Urban/Non-Urban' by using optical and radar data (Landsat TM and 35-days interferometric pairs of ERS2 SAR). We compare classification accuracy of the proposed method to its parametric version, which uses the Expectation-Maximization algorithm. The good performance confirms the validity of the proposed approach: 90% classification accuracy using supervised information only in the coherence map.

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Luis Gomez-Chova, Diego Fernandez-Prieto, Javier Calpe, Emilio Soria, Joan Vila, and Gustavo Camps-Valls "Partially supervised hierarchical clustering of SAR and multispectral imagery for urban areas monitoring", Proc. SPIE 5573, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing X, (10 November 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.565276

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