The Performance of Fuzzy Operators on Fuzzy Classification of Urban Land Covers

The research discussed in this paper evaluates the performance of selected fuzzy operators (e.g., maximum, minimum, algebraic sum, algebraic product, and gamma operators) for integrating fuzzy membership values associated with multiple spectral bands for mapping the complex spatial mixture that characterises urban land covers. Accordingly, a supervised classification approach based on the fuzzy c-means algorithm was implemented to generate fuzzy memberships of selected

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