Automatic image classification often fails at separating a large number of land cover classes that punctually may present similar spectral reflectances. To improve the classification accuracy in such situations, multi-temporal satellite data has proven to be valuable auxiliary information. In this paper, we present a study exploring the usefulness of intra-annual satellite images timeseries for...

land cover classification is one of the most important applications of polarimetric radar images, especially in urban areas. there are numerous features that can be extracted from these images for the use of their high potential, hence feature selection plays an important role in polsar image classification. in this study, three main steps are used to improve the classification: 1) feature extr...

The importance of accurate and timely information describing the nature and extent of land resources and changes over time is increasing, especially in mountainous areas. We have developed a methodology to map and monitor land cover change using multitemporal Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and ASTER data in Zagros mountains of Iran for 1990, 1998, and 2006. Land-use/cover mapping is achieved thro...

Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite images offer a great potential for the extraction of landuse and land-cover related information for urban areas. The available techniques are diverse and need to be further examined before operational use is possible. In this paper we applied two pixel-by-pixel classification techniques and the object-oriented image analysis approach (eCognition) for a land-...

The accuracy of the Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) data derived from remote sensing images is critical for many applications. Classification error is caused by the interaction of numerous factors, including landscape characteristics, sensor resolution, spectral overlap, preprocessing algorithms, and classification procedures. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impacts of landscape characte...

Land covers mix and high input dimension are two important issues that affect the classification accuracy of remote sensing images. Fuzzy classification has been developed to represent the mixture of land covers. Two fuzzy classifiers of fuzzy rules-based (FRB) and fuzzy neural network (FNN) were studied to illustrate the interpretability of fuzzy classification. Based on the FNN classifier, a ...

This thesis describes the study of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based techniques for the classification of aerial images for various types of land-use. In this study both gray-scale and multispectral aerial images were used in land-use classification. Three approaches were used for the preparation of the data as inputs to the ANN, including histograms of the pixel intensities, textural param...

Multispectral remote sensing images have been widely used for automated land use and land cover classification tasks. Often thematic classification is done using single date image, however in many instances a single date image is not informative enough to distinguish between different land cover types. In this paper we show how one can use multiple images, collected at different times of year (...

The major aim of processing satellite images is to prepare topical and effectivemaps. The selection of appropriate classification methods plays an important role. Amongvarious methods existing for image classification, artificial neural network method is ofhigh accuracy. In present study, TM images of 1987, and ETM+ images of 2000 and 2006were analyzed using artificial fuzzy ARTMAP neural netwo...