Comparative analysis of product-level fusion, support vector machine, and artificial neural network approaches for land cover mapping

Increasing the accuracy of thematic maps generated using satellite imagery is a crucial task in remote sensing. In this study, a product-level fusion (PLF) approach based on integration of different land-type maps generated using various satellite-derived indices including normalized difference water index (NDWI), normalized difference built-up index (NDBI), enhanced vegetation index (EVI), and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is proposed to improve the accuracy of land cover mapping. The suitability of the proposed approach for land cover mapping is evaluated in comparison with two high-performance image classification techniques including support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural network (ANN). The results show that the overall accuracy and kappa values of about 95.95 % and 0.95, 94.91 % and 0.94, and 85.32 % and 0.82 are achieved for the PLF, SVM, and ANN approaches, respectively. The results indicate superiority of the PLF approach than SVM and ANN techniques for land cover classification of Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) imagery, especially for the extraction of forest, rice, and citrus classes. However, SVM technique also provided reliable result for land cover mapping.

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