Quantitative evaluation of variations in rule-based classifications of land cover in urban neighbourhoods using WorldView-2 imagery

被引:83
作者
Belgiu, Mariana [1 ]
Dragut, Lucian [2 ]
Strobl, Josef [1 ]
机构
[1] Salzburg Univ, Dept Geoinformat Z GIS, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
[2] West Univ Timisoara, Dept Geog, Timisoara 300223, Romania
基金
奥地利科学基金会;
关键词
Land Cover; Comparison; Image; Accuracy; Urban; Experiment; OBIA; DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX; OBJECT-BASED ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION; NDWI; MULTIRESOLUTION; EXTRACTION; PARAMETER; ACCURACY; IKONOS; SCALE;
D O I
10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2013.11.007
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
The increasing availability of high resolution imagery has triggered the need for automated image analysis techniques, with reduced human intervention and reproducible analysis procedures. The knowledge gained in the past might be of use to achieving this goal, if systematically organized into libraries which would guide the image analysis procedure. In this study we aimed at evaluating the variability of digital classifications carried out by three experts who were all assigned the same interpretation task. Besides the three classifications performed by independent operators, we developed an additional rule-based classification that relied on the image classifications best practices found in the literature, and used it as a surrogate for libraries of object characteristics. The results showed statistically significant differences among all operators who classified the same reference imagery. The classifications carried out by the experts achieved satisfactory results when transferred to another area for extracting the same classes of interest, without modification of the developed rules. (C) 2013 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS) Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:205 / 215
页数:11
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