Remote sensing provides a useful source of data from which updated land cover information can be extraction for
assessing and monitoring environment changes. This paper aims at achieving improved land cover classification
performance based image segmentation and support vector machines (SVMs) classification. The object-based
classification approach overcame the problem of salt-and-pepper effects found in classification results from traditional
pixel-based approaches. The proposed method is a three-stage process, which makes use of the object information from
neighboring pixels. Firstly, a robust image segmentation algorithm is used to achieve more homogeneous regions.
Secondly, feature information is extracted from each segment and training samples is interactive selected in geographical
information system platform. Thirdly, support vector machines classifier is employed to classify the land covers. The
experimental results indicate that improved classification accuracy and smoother (more acceptable) is achieved compare
with the traditional pixel-based method. Because of the image segmentation process significantly reduces the number of
training samples, make SVMs classification method can be applied to information extraction from remotely sensed data.
Remote sensing is a powerful tool for precision forestry, providing the forestry industry with spatial information on environment impacts, growth and yield, site variables and damage assessment. Nonetheless the extraction of information from remotely sensed imagery is presently labor intensive requiring highly qualified remote sensing experts, making this information source expensive and slow. With the improvement of spatial resolution, very high resolution remote sensing image are now a competitive alternative to aerial photography and field visits in forest resource survey. In recent years, numerous classification methods were described in the literature and they can be classified into two large classes: traditional pixel-based classification and object-oriented image analysis method. Traditional pixel-based classification techniques either supervised methods or unsupervised method all based on spectral analysis of individual pixels and significant progress has been achieved in recent years. However, these approaches have their limitations since the problem of mixed pixels is indeed reduced, but the internal variability and the noise within land cover classes are increased the improved spatial resolution. In order to improve the classification accuracy, object-oriented image analysis concept has been proposed. This paper explores the use of object oriented image analysis approaches in mapping forest resource and introduces a fast and robust segmentation algorithm--mean shift. The study is based on SPOT-5 image covering the national forest park of Tian'eshan, Zixing City, Hunan, China. Image processing included geometric and atmospheric correction and image segmentation and classification using spectral and spatial information to separate 5 classes. 86.5342% overall accuracy was achieved with this approach. In additional, object oriented image analysis method is compared with traditional pixel based method. The results show the importance, capabilities and challenges of object oriented approaches in providing detailed and accurate information about the physical structure of forest areas.
Image classification is an important technology in the application of remote sensing. Traditional methods of image classification are based on low or medium-resolution images, and the accuracy of classification is always very low. In recent years, high-resolution remote sensing images have significant improvements, but there is still no good method of classification. Studies showed that the accuracy of classified high-resolution images is even lower than that of low or medium -resolution images by traditional classification methods. This turns out that traditional classification technologies appeared to have serious error when using high-resolution images. In this paper, a method of multi-feature classification was introduced to high-resolution remote sensing image, thus avoiding the method of single-feature and pixel-based classification. In this method, pixel-based high-resolution images are changed into object-based images by segmentation. Models of area, perimeter, length, width, symmetry, ratio of length and width, rectangular fit and compactness were established to measure features of segmented objects. More over, the new method of using spectral and texture features to classify high-resolution images was completed. The result showed that the accuracy of image classification can be up to 91.6% by the multi-featured classification, which proved to have improved high-resolution remote sensing image classification.
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