Segmentation of High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Images of Mountainous Areas Based on the Improved Mean Shift Algorithm

Using conventional Mean Shift Algorithm to segment high spatial resolution Remote sensing images of mountainous areas usually leads to an unsatisfactory result, due to its rich texture information. In this paper, we propose an improved Mean Shift Algorithm in consideration of the characteristics of these images. First, images were classified into several homogeneous color regions and texture regions by conducting variance detection on the color space. Next, each homogeneous color region was directly segmented to generate the preliminary results by applying the Mean Shift Algorithm. For each texture region, we conduct a high-dimensional feature space by extracting information such as color, texture and shape comprehensively, and work out a proper bandwidth according to the normalized distribution density. Then the bandwidth variable Mean Shift Algorithm was applied to obtain segmentation results by conducting the pattern classification in feature space. Last, the final results were obtained by merging these regions by means of the constructed cost functions and removing the oversegmented regions from the merged regions. It has been experimentally segmented on the high spatial resolution remote sensing images collected by Quickbird and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV). We put forward an approach to evaluate the segmentation results by using the segmentation matching index(SMI). This takes into consideration both the area and the spectrum. The experimental results suggest that the improved Mean Shift Algorithm outperforms the conventional one in terms of accuracy of segmentation.

Combining Spectral with Texture Features into Objectoriented Classification in Mountainous Terrain Using Advanced Land Observing Satellite Image

Most existing classification studies use spectral information and those were adequate for cities or plains.This paper explores classification method suitable for the ALOS(Advanced Land Observing Satellite) in mountainous terrain.Mountainous terrain mapping using ALOS image faces numerous challenges.These include spectral confusion with other land cover features,topographic effects on spectral signatures(such as shadow).At first,topographic radiometric correction was carried out to remove the illumination effects of topography.In addition to spectral features,texture features were used to assist classification in this paper.And texture features extracted based on GLCM(Gray Level Cooccurrence Matrix) were not only used for segmentation,but also used for building rules.The performance of the method was evaluated and compared with Maximum Likelihood Classification(MLC).Results showed that the object-oriented method integrating spectral and texture features has achieved overall accuracy of 85.73% with a kappa coefficient of 0.824,which is 13.48% and 0.145 respectively higher than that got by MLC method.It indicated that texture features can significantly improve overall accuracy,kappa coefficient,and the classification precision of existing spectrum confusion features.Object-oriented method Integrating spectral and texture features is suitable for land use extraction of ALOS image in mountainous terrain.