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.