Changes of Land Use and Land Cover(LULC)affect atmospheric,climatic,and biological spheres of the earth.Accurate LULC map offers detail information for resources management and intergovernmental cooperation to debate ...Changes of Land Use and Land Cover(LULC)affect atmospheric,climatic,and biological spheres of the earth.Accurate LULC map offers detail information for resources management and intergovernmental cooperation to debate global warming and biodiversity reduction.This paper examined effects of pansharpening and atmospheric correction on LULC classification.Object-Based Support Vector Machine(OB-SVM)and Pixel-Based Maximum Likelihood Classifier(PB-MLC)were applied for LULC classification.Results showed that atmospheric correction is not necessary for LULC classification if it is conducted in the original multispectral image.Nevertheless,pansharpening plays much more important roles on the classification accuracy than the atmospheric correction.It can help to increase classification accuracy by 12%on average compared to the ones without pansharpening.PB-MLC and OB-SVM achieved similar classification rate.This study indicated that the LULC classification accuracy using PB-MLC and OB-SVM is 82%and 89%respectively.A combination of atmospheric correction,pansharpening,and OB-SVM could offer promising LULC maps from WorldView-2 multispectral and panchromatic images.展开更多
基金The authors would like to thank Aerial Survey Office,Forest Bureau of TaiwanROC for their supports in both financial and data collection under the project 102AS-13.3.1-FB-e3.
文摘Changes of Land Use and Land Cover(LULC)affect atmospheric,climatic,and biological spheres of the earth.Accurate LULC map offers detail information for resources management and intergovernmental cooperation to debate global warming and biodiversity reduction.This paper examined effects of pansharpening and atmospheric correction on LULC classification.Object-Based Support Vector Machine(OB-SVM)and Pixel-Based Maximum Likelihood Classifier(PB-MLC)were applied for LULC classification.Results showed that atmospheric correction is not necessary for LULC classification if it is conducted in the original multispectral image.Nevertheless,pansharpening plays much more important roles on the classification accuracy than the atmospheric correction.It can help to increase classification accuracy by 12%on average compared to the ones without pansharpening.PB-MLC and OB-SVM achieved similar classification rate.This study indicated that the LULC classification accuracy using PB-MLC and OB-SVM is 82%and 89%respectively.A combination of atmospheric correction,pansharpening,and OB-SVM could offer promising LULC maps from WorldView-2 multispectral and panchromatic images.