Title
Forest type classification using data fusion of multispectral and panchromatic high-resolution satellite imageries.
Abstract
This paper proposes fusion analysis of high-resolution multispectral and panchromatic satellite imageries for forest type classification.We have shown the performance of forest type classification using panchromatic and multispectral high-resolution QuickBird satellite imageries separately. With texture features obtained from a panchromatic imagery, forest was classified into two types, such as coniferous and broad-heaved forests. On the other hand, with spectral features obtained from a multispectral imagery, forest was classified into six types, such as three coniferous, one broad-heaved and two mixed forests. These results showed that both texture and spectral features are effective for classification of forest types.In this paper, we apply the object-based classification using the common segments obtained from a pansharpen imagery to fusion and single imagery analysis in order to compare the difference only between texture and spectral features. The mean value of each texture and spectral feature from a segment is adopted in the supervised classification, the standard nearest neighbor method, using radiometrically corrected satellite imageries. We selected the contrast as texture feature, and normalized hand values and differences between normalized band values as spectral features. From the comparison of the result with ones obtained from a single imagery analysis, we demonstrated that data fusion analysis exceeds a single imagery analysis in accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1525695
IGARSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
forest type classification, fusion analysis, high-revolution satellite imagery, multispectral imagery, panchromatic imagery
Nearest neighbour algorithm,Computer vision,Satellite,Normalization (statistics),Computer science,Panchromatic film,Remote sensing,Multispectral image,Image segmentation,Sensor fusion,Artificial intelligence,Imagery analysis
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
4
3
0.67
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Naoko Kosaka11611.70
Tsuyoshi Akiyama23210.84
Bien Tsai330.67
Toshiharu Kojima441.71