Land Cover Classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper Images Using Pseudo Invariant Feature Normalization Applied to Change Detection

Abstract

A radiometric normalization technique for compensating illumination and atmospheric differences between multi-temporal images should allow classification of the images with a single classification algorithm. This allows a simpler approach to land cover change detection. Land cover classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery with and without Pseudo Invariant Feature Normalization was performed to demonstrate the effect on classification and change detection accuracy. A post-classification change detection method using two separate classification algorithms, one for each data, was performed as a baseline comparison. Land cover classification using one classification algorithm was attempted with and without gain and offset correction to serve as another comparison. Accuracy verification was performed on the classification results by comparing random samples against ground truth. Theses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA217427

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  • Tim Hawes

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  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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  • Sensors

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  • Air Force
  • Change Detection
  • Classification
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Mining
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Image Processing
  • Images
  • Information Science
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • United States
  • Unsupervised Machine Learning
  • Urban Areas

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  • Computer science

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