Background:
Deep Learning (DL) neural network methods have become a hotspot subject
of research in the remote sensing field. Classification of aerial satellite images depends on spectral
content, which is a challenging topic in remote sensing.
Objective:
With the aim to accomplish a high performance and accuracy of Egyptsat-1 satellite image
classification, the use of the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is raised in this paper because
CNN is considered a leading deep learning method. CNN is developed to classify aerial photographs
into land cover classes such as urban, vegetation, desert, water bodies, soil, roads, etc. In our work, a
comparison between MAXIMUM Likelihood (ML) which represents the traditional supervised classification
methods and CNN method is conducted.
Conclusion:
This research finds that CNN outperforms ML by 9%. The convolutional neural network
has better classification result, which reached 92.25% as its average accuracy. Also, the experiments
showed that the convolutional neural network is the most satisfactory and effective classification
method applied to classify Egyptsat-1 satellite images.