ANFIS Based Land Cover/Land Use Mapping of LISS IV Imagery Using Optimized Wavelet Packet Features

Digital image classification is the process of sorting all the pixels in an image into a finite number of individual classes. But, it is difficult to classify satellite images since they include both pure pixels and boundary pixels. The boundary pixels are ‘mixed’ pixels, representing an area occupied by more than one ground cover. That is, class boundaries represented by pixels, are not sharp but fuzzy. This paper discuses the application of Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) for classification of remotely sensed images that contains mixed pixels. Decision making was performed in two stages: feature extraction using the Wavelet Packet Transforms (WPT) and the ANFIS trained with the back propagation gradient descent method in combination with the least squares method for classification. Genetic Algorithms (GA) based approach is analysed for the selection of a subset from the combination of Wavelet Packet Statistical Features (WPSF) and Wavelet Packet Co-occurrence (WPC) textural feature set, which are used to classify the LISS IV images. GA has been employed to reduce the complexity and increase the accuracy of classification. Four indices—user’s accuracy, producer’s accuracy, overall accuracy and kappa co-efficient are used to assess the accuracy of the classified data. Experiments show that the proposed approach produces better results compared to the results obtained when classical classifiers are used.     

Land Cover/Land use Mapping Using Different Wavelet Packet Transforms for LISS IV Madurai Imagery

Texture in high resolution satellite images requires substantial improvement in the conventional segmentation algorithms. The use of wavelet packet transforms for texture analysis and image classification of high spatial resolution LISS IV imagery provide more details about the urban areas. This paper analyses the performance of a combination of Wavelet Packet Statistical Features (WPSFs) and Wavelet Packet Co-occurrence Features (WPCFs) for the classification of LISS IV images. The classification accuracy per pixel is improved in this paper by varying the window size. Four indices—user’s accuracy, producer’s accuracy, overall accuracy and kappa co-efficient are used to assess the accuracy of the classified data. Experimental results show that a multi-band and multi-level wavelet packet approach can be used to drastically increase the classification accuracy.     

NWFE结合纹理特征的SVM土地覆被分类方法研究

为提高土地覆被分类精度,采用非参数权重特征提取(nonparametric weighted feature extraction,NWFE)结合纹理特征的支持向量机(support vector machines,SVM)的分类法,对新疆玛纳斯河流域绿洲区2006年的土地覆被进行分类,并将该方法与主成分分析(principal component analysis,PCA)结合纹理特征的SVM分类、原始波段结合纹理特征的SVM分类进行对比。结果表明,NWFE结合纹理特征的SVM分类结果优于其他2种分类结果,不仅反映了土地覆被分布的整体情况,而且使不同土地覆被类型得到较好的区分,总体分类精度达89.17%。     

基于小波与遗传算法的特征提取与特征选择

高维遥感数据的分类与识别与传统的多光谱遥感分类技术具有明显的区别。本文提出了一种基于遗传算法和小波／小波包分析相结合的特征提取方法用于高维遥感数据降维与分类。该方法综合了遗传算法的全局优化和小波／小波包分析的多尺度、多分辨率的特点。首先,通过离散的小波变换(DWT)或小波包变换(WP)将高光谱信号变换到特征域进行光谱分解。由于DWT变换是一种线性变换,不同尺度的DWT系数可作为线性光谱特征。然后,对这些线性光谱特征利用遗传算法结合训练样本计算类内／类间距离搜索最优分类子集,其具体染色体编码取可能的特征号,适应度函数基于样本平均Jeffries-Matusita距离计算。所用的分类器采用最大似然分类器。试验结果表明该方法与常规特征提取算法如主成分变换(PCA)、判别分析特征提取(DAFE)、决策边界特征提取(DBFE)相比,能提高分类精度约1.1％-6.5％。     

A new approach for finding an appropriate combination of texture parameters for classification

This article is an attempt to suggest a new approach for eliminating the lengthy process of selecting various parameters for extracting texture features and to quantify the relative importance of the parameters affecting textural classification. A multivariate data analysis technique called ‘conjoint analysis’ has been used in the study to analyse the relative importance of these parameters. Results indicate that the choice of texture feature and window size have higher relative importance in the classification process than quantization level or the choice of image band for extracting texture feature. Results of the classification of an Indian urban environment using spatial property (texture) have also been reported. It was observed that the classification incorporating texture features using grey level co-occurrence matrix and wavelet-based approach improves the overall accuracy in a statistically significant manner in comparison to pure spectral classification.     

An Analysis of Texture Measures in PCA-Based Unsupervised Classification of SAR Images

In single-band single-polarized SAR images, intensity and texture are the information source available for unsupervised land cover classification. Every textural feature measure identifies texture patterns by different approaches. For efficient land cover classification, textural measures have to be chosen suitably. Therefore, in this letter, the role of various intensity and textural measures is analyzed for their discriminative ability for unsupervised SAR image classification into various land cover types like water, urban, and vegetation areas. To make the algorithm adaptable, these textural features are fused using principal component analysis (PCA), and principal components are used for classification purposes. To highlight the effectiveness of PCA, the difference between PCA- and non-PCA-based classifications is also analyzed. Analysis of the role of texture measures for unsupervised classification of real-world SAR data with application of PCA is presented in this letter. The analysis of how every individual feature measure contributes for classification process is presented, and then, textural measures for a feature set are chosen according to their role in improving classification accuracy. By analysis, it is observed that the feature set comprising mean, variance, wavelet components, semivariogram, lacunarity, and weighted rank fill ratio provides good classification accuracy of up to 90.4% than by using individual textural measures, and this increased accuracy justifies the complexity involved in the process.     

ALOS PALSAR and Hyperion Data Fusion for Land Use Land Cover Feature Extraction

Detailed and enhanced land use land cover (LULC) feature extraction is possible by merging the information extracted from two different sensors of different capability. In this study different pixel level image fusion algorithms (PCA, Brovey, Multiplicative, Wavelet and combination of PCA & IHS) are used for integrating the derived information like texture, roughness, polarization from microwave data and high spectral information from hyperspectral data. Span image which is total intensity image generated from Advanced Land observing Satellite-Phase array L-band SAR (ALOS-PALSAR) quad polarization data and EO-1 Hyperion data (242 spectral bands) were used for fusion. Overall PCA fused images had shown better result than other fusion techniques used in this study. However, Brovey fusion method was found good for differentiating urban features. Classification using support vector machines was conducted for classifying Hyperion, ALOS PALSAR and fused images. It was observed that overall classification accuracy and kappa coefficient with PCA fused images was relatively better than other fusion techniques as it was able to discriminate various LULC features more clearly.     

基于多特征的遥感影像分类方法

提出了一种基于多特征的遥感分类方法。首先 ,制定类方案并分解各个类 ,据此得到相应的子类 ;然后 ,通过选用适当的特征 ,使得每一个类都能以一个独特的特征组合来表达。与此同时 ,通过影像分割得到影像对象 ,并测量这些对象的各个特征 ,如光谱特征、几何特征及拓扑特征等。凭借这些特征 ,影像对象可以较为容易地被识别和分类。与传统的分类方法的比较表明 ,文中所提出的分类方法具有明显的优越性和良好的前景。     

Margin-based feature selection for hyperspectral data

A margin-based feature selection approach is explored for hyperspectral data. This approach is based on measuring the confidence of a classifier when making predictions on a test data. Greedy feature flip and iterative search algorithms, which attempts to maximise the margin-based evaluation functions, were used in the present study. Evaluation functions use linear, zero–one and sigmoid utility functions where a utility function controls the contribution of each margin term to the overall score. The results obtained by margin-based feature selection technique were compared to a support vector machine-based recurring feature elimination approach. Two different hyperspectral data sets, one consisting of 65 bands (DAIS data) and other with 185 bands (AVIRIS data) were used. With digital airborne imaging spectrometer (DAIS) data, the classification accuracy by greedy feature flip algorithm and sigmoid utility function was 93.02% using a total of 24 selected features in comparison to an accuracy of 91.76% with full set of 65 features. The results suggest a significant increase in classification accuracy with 24 selected features. The classification accuracy (93.4%) achieved by the iterative search margin-based algorithm with 20 selected features using sigmoid utility function is also significantly more accurate than that achieved with 65 features. To judge the usefulness of margin-based feature selection approaches, another hyperspectral data set consisting of 185 features was used. A total of 65 selected features were used to evaluate the performance of margin-based feature selection approach. The results suggest a significantly improved performance by greedy feature flip-based feature selection technique with this data set also. This study also suggest that margin-based feature selection algorithms provide a comparable performance to support vector machine-based recurring feature elimination approach.     

多层级二值模式的高光谱影像空-谱分类

利用高光谱遥感影像的空间纹理特征，可以提高高光谱遥感影像的分类精度。提出了一种多层级二值模式的高光谱影像空-谱联合分类方法。该方法将高光谱影像转化为局部二值模式特征图像获取像元微观特征，基于特征图像生成多层级特征向量获取像元宏观特征。为验证该方法的有效性，选取PaviaU、Salinas和Chikusei高光谱影像数据，利用核极限学习机分类器，分别针对光谱、局部二值模式、多层级二值模式等特征开展实验。结果表明，多层级二值模式空-谱分类总体精度分别达到97.31%、98.96%和97.85%，明显优于传统光谱、3Gabor空-谱等分类方法。该方法可为高光谱影像分类提供更加有效的类别判定特征，有助于提高影像分类精度并获取更加平滑的分类结果图。     

利用深层卷积神经网络实现地形辅助的多波束海底底质分类

海底底质分类对于海洋资源开发与利用、海洋科学研究等多方面具有重要意义。目前,多波束探测是实现大范围海底底质分类的有效手段之一,通常基于多波束反向散射强度提取角度响应(AR)特征及反向散射图像特征进行底质分类。由于特征来源较单一,分类器结构简单,往往分类精度不高。为此,本文提出了一种基于深层卷积神经网络(CNN)的多波束海底底质分类方法。除反向散射强度特征外,还利用地形特征,将特征向量转换为波形图,再输入卷积神经网络进行训练和分类。试验对比不同特征组合以及BP网络、支持向量机(SVM)、K近邻(KNN)、随机森林(RF)4种常规分类器,本文模型算法总体分类精度达到94.86%,Kappa系数为0.93,精度具有明显优势,效率也比较高。表明该方法有效利用两种数据类型所蕴含的海底底质信息,充分发挥卷积神经网络权值共享、高效率等特点,实现高分辨率海底底质分类,可对海底底质分类研究提供参考。     

面向遥感目标识别耦合GA与SVM的特征优选方法

提出了GA-SVM耦合用于高分遥感目标识别的特征优选方法,将GA中的特征降维和适应度函数构建与SVM中的特征空间映射、样本训练以及分类结果在内容上耦合,利用SVM的识别结果指导GA的进化方向。同时,为减小未成熟收敛风险,对传统GA做了改进。实验表明,该方法在高分遥感影像目标识别中效果较好。     

融和启发信息的蚁群特征选择方法

特征提取和选择是模式识别核心问题之一,它极大地影响着分类器的设计和性能,高维的特征选择更是一个NP难题。针对特征选择这一组合优化及多目标优化问题,本文提出了改进的融合启发信息ACO(Antcolony optimization)特征选择的新方法,该算法比不用启发信息的ACO方法能更好地找出代表问题空间的最优特征子集,降低分类系统的搜索空间,从而提高搜索效率。以航空纹理影像的特征选择和分类问题为例,利用原始蚂蚁算法和改进的蚂蚁算法选择的特征分别进行识别,结果证明该算法不仅能够比没有改进的蚂蚁找出有效特征集、降低图像特征空间维数、减少图像分类的工作量,而且提高了分类识别正确率。     

Dimensionality reduction of hyperspectral data using spectral fractal feature

A new approach for dimensionality reduction of hyperspectral data has been proposed in this article. The method is based on extraction of fractal-based features from the hyperspectral data. The features have been generated using spectral fractal dimension of the spectral response curves (SRCs) after smoothing, interpolating and segmenting the curves. The new features so generated have then been used to classify hyperspectral data. Comparing the post classification accuracies with some other conventional dimensionality reduction methods, it has been found that the proposed method, with less computational complexity than the conventional methods, is able to provide classification accuracy statistically equivalent to those from conventional methods.     

PCA、ICA和Gabor小波决策融合的SAR目标识别

提出了一种基于主成分分析(PCA)、独立分量分析(ICA)和Gabor小波决策融合的合成孔径雷达SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar)图像目标识别方法。首先用PCA、ICA和Gabor小波变换分别对SAR目标图像提取特征向量,再用3个支持向量机分类器分别对3种方法提取得到的特征向量分类,通过基于等级的决策融合方法对3个支持向量机分类器的输出进行决策融合,得到最终类别决策结果。采用MSTAR数据库中3个目标进行识别实验,实验结果表明,PCA、ICA和Gabor小波决策融合后得到的识别率高于单独用其中任何一个特征得到的识别率。因此,该方法可提高目标的正确识别率,是一种有效的SAR图像目标识别方法。     

单变量特征选择的苏北地区主要农作物遥感识别

遥感识别多源特征综合和特征优选是提高遥感影像分类精度的关键技术。农作物遥感识别中,识别特征的相对单一和数量过多均会导致作物识别精度不理想。随机森林(random forests)采用分类与回归树(CART)算法来生成分类树,结合了bagging和随机选择特征变量的优点,是一种有效的分类方法。单变量特征选择(univariate feature selection)能够对每一个待分类的特征进行测试,衡量该特征和响应变量之间的关系,根据得分舍弃不好的特征,优选得到的特征用于分类。本文基于随机森林和单变量特征选择,利用多时相光谱信息、植被指数信息、纹理信息及波段差值信息,设计多组分类实验方案,对江苏省泗洪县的高分一号(GF-1)和环境一号(HJ-1A)影像进行分类研究,旨在选择最佳的分类方案对实验区主要农作物进行识别和提取。实验结果表明:(1)多源信息综合的农作物分类精度明显高于单一的原始光谱特征分类,说明不同类型特征的引入能改善分类效果;(2)基于单变量特征选择算法的优选特征分类效果最佳,总体精度97.07%,Kappa系数0.96,表明了特征优选在降低维度的同时,也保证了较高的分类精度。随机森林和单变量特征选择结合的方法可以提高遥感影像的分类精度,为农作物的识别和提取研究提供了有效的方法。     

加入不变矩的高分辨率遥感图像分类

不变矩是表达图像几何形状信息的参数,具有几何变换的稳定性,在图像识别领域已经得到广泛应用。本文将3种常用的不变矩,即胡氏矩、Zern ike矩和小波矩,运用到高分辨率遥感图像分类中,并与只利用光谱信息的图像分类结果进行对比。结果表明,在高分辨率图像分类中加入不变矩图像可以显著提高分类精度,尤其是对那些具有相似光谱特征但同时具有不同形状和结构特征的地物分类更加有效。     

Exploitation of TerraSAR-X Data for Land use/Land Cover Analysis Using Object-Oriented Classification Approach in the African Sahel Area, Sudan

Recently, object-oriented classification techniques based on image segmentation approaches are being studied using high-resolution satellite images to extract various thematic information. In this study different types of land use/land cover (LULC) types were analysed by employing object-oriented classification approach to dual TerraSAR-X images (HH and HV polarisation) at African Sahel. For that purpose, multi-resolution segmentation (MRS) of the Definiens software was used for creating the image objects. Using the feature space optimisation (FSO) tool the attributes of the TerraSAR-X image were optimised in order to obtain the best separability among classes for the LULC mapping. The backscattering coefficients (BSC) for some classes were observed to be different for HH and HV polarisations. The best separation distance of the tested spectral, shape and textural features showed different variations among the discriminated LULC classes. An overall accuracy of 84 % with a kappa value 0.82 was resulted from the classification scheme, while accuracy differences among the classes were kept minimal. Finally, the results highlighted the importance of a combine use of TerraSAR-X data and object-oriented classification approaches as a useful source of information and technique for LULC analysis in the African Sahel drylands.     

小波理论在遥感图像融合中应用

小波变换用于多源遥感图像融合已得到了国内外学者的广泛关注,并且又提出了很多小波变换与传统融合方法结合的融合算法。本文在对这些算法进行总结的基础上,讨论了基于小波包变换和最优树变换以及多进制小波变换在融合中的应用,分析他们在融合中各自的特色,以便使用时根据具体情况进行选择。     

基于高分六号红边特征的面向对象桉树人工林信息提取

有效监测桉树林空间分布对区域生态环境保护及有关部门的统筹决策具有重要指导意义。本文在现有研究的基础上,以国内首个提供红边波段的多光谱高分六号（GF-6）卫星影像为数据源,选取广西鹿寨县为典型研究区域,结合光谱特征、植被指数特征和红边特征,设计不同特征组合分类方案,采用面向对象多尺度分割方法,对不同尺度层分别构建隶属度函数和CART决策树模型以进行分类提取桉树人工林信息。试验结果表明,红边特征在CART决策树模型构建中具有重要影响,融入GF-6红边特征能有效提高桉树人工林分类提取精度,总体精度达到91.75%,相比仅采用传统波段和植被指数的分类方案,精度提高了11.25%。本文研究结果在利用国产卫星红边波段识别提取桉树人工林方面具有重要的理论意义和实用价值。