Multifeature Extraction and Seafloor Classification Combining LiDAR and MBES Data around Yuanzhi Island in the South China Sea

Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) full waveforms and multibeam echo sounding (MBES) backscatter data contain rich information about seafloor features and are important data sources representing seafloor topography and geomorphology. Currently, to classify seafloor types using MBES, curve features are extracted from backscatter angle responses or grayscale, and texture features are extracted from backscatter images based on gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). To classify seafloor types using LiDAR, waveform features are extracted from bottom returns. This paper comprehensively considers the features of both LiDAR waveforms and MBES backscatter images that include the eight feature factors of the LiDAR full waveforms (amplitude, peak location, full width half maximum (FWHM), skewness, kurtosis, area, distance, and cross-section) and the eight feature factors of MBES backscatter images (mean, standard deviation (STD), entropy, homogeneity, contrast, angular second moment (ASM), correlation, and dissimilarity). Based on a support vector machine (SVM) algorithm with different kernel functions and penalty factors, a new seafloor classification method that merges multiple features is proposed for a beneficial exploration of acousto-optic fusion. The experimental results of the seafloor classification around Yuanzhi Island in the South China Sea indicate that, when LiDAR waveform features are merged (using an Optech Aquarius system) with MBES backscatter image features (using a Sonic 2024) to classify three types of sands, reefs, and rocks, the overall accuracy is improved to 96.71%, and the kappa reaches 0.94. After merging multiple features, the classification accuracies of the SVM, genetic algorithm SVM (GA-SVM) and particle swarm optimization SVM (PSO-SVM) increase by an average of 9.06%, 3.60%, and 2.75%, respectively.

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