Classification Methods for Remote Sensed Data Book

The extraction of thematic information from remotely sensed images is a key area of research into the applications of remote sensing data. Standard methods of classificationbased on similarity and probability measures, such as the maximum likelihood procedure, are now being superseded by neural/connectionist and artificial intelligence algorithms. Concepts such as fuzzy decision rules and soft classification are extending the traditional boundaries of pattern recognition. This book provides a survey of these new methods, together with a guide to the essential preliminaries such as sampling methods, orthogonal transforms, feature selection, and accuracy assessment. Methods of quantifying texture using fractals and other techniques, of estimating contexts using Markov random fields, and incorporating these features in multi-source classifications are described in the later part of the book.Read More