Spatial Classification of Hyperspectral Data of Dune Vegetation along the Belgian Coast

This work evaluates a classification method, including spatial information, for dune vegetation along the Belgian coastline. The used method is a recursive supervised segmentation algorithm based on a tree-structured Markov Random Field. This technique describes a K-ary field as a sequence of binary Markov Random Fields, each of which is represented by a node in the tree. The obtained classification results were compared to results with the same data set, for a purely spectral classification and a spectral classification, followed by spatial smoothing.