scholarly journals Land use/cover classification in the Brazilian Amazon using satellite images

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 1185-1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dengsheng Lu ◽  
Mateus Batistella ◽  
Guiying Li ◽  
Emilio Moran ◽  
Scott Hetrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Data Fusion ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Classification Tree ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Sensing Data

Land use/cover classification is one of the most important applications in remote sensing. However, mapping accurate land use/cover spatial distribution is a challenge, particularly in moist tropical regions, due to the complex biophysical environment and limitations of remote sensing data per se. This paper reviews experiments related to land use/cover classification in the Brazilian Amazon for a decade. Through comprehensive analysis of the classification results, it is concluded that spatial information inherent in remote sensing data plays an essential role in improving land use/cover classification. Incorporation of suitable textural images into multispectral bands and use of segmentation‑based method are valuable ways to improve land use/cover classification, especially for high spatial resolution images. Data fusion of multi‑resolution images within optical sensor data is vital for visual interpretation, but may not improve classification performance. In contrast, integration of optical and radar data did improve classification performance when the proper data fusion method was used. Among the classification algorithms available, the maximum likelihood classifier is still an important method for providing reasonably good accuracy, but nonparametric algorithms, such as classification tree analysis, have the potential to provide better results. However, they often require more time to achieve parametric optimization. Proper use of hierarchical‑based methods is fundamental for developing accurate land use/cover classification, mainly from historical remotely sensed data.

scholarly journals A Review of the Application of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Data Fusion to Land Use Mapping and Monitoring

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neha Joshi ◽  
Matthias Baumann ◽  
Andrea Ehammer ◽  
Rasmus Fensholt ◽  
Kenneth Grogan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Data Fusion ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Radar Remote Sensing ◽  
Sensing Data

scholarly journals REMOTE SENSING DATA FUSION TO DETECT ILLICIT CROPS AND UNAUTHORIZED AIRSTRIPS

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-3 ◽  
pp. 1363-1368
Author(s):  
J. A. Pena ◽  
T. Yumin ◽  
H. Liu ◽  
B. Zhao ◽  
J. A. Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Data Fusion ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Identification Accuracy ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
Crop Area ◽  
Area Monitoring

Remote sensing data fusion has been playing a more and more important role in crop planting area monitoring, especially for crop area information acquisition. Multi-temporal data and multi-spectral time series are two major aspects for improving crop identification accuracy. Remote sensing fusion provides high quality multi-spectral and panchromatic images in terms of spectral and spatial information, respectively. In this paper, we take one step further and prove the application of remote sensing data fusion in detecting illicit crop through LSMM, GOBIA, and MCE analyzing of strategic information. This methodology emerges as a complementary and effective strategy to control and eradicate illicit crops.

scholarly journals Spatial evapotranspiration, rainfall and land use data in water accounting – Part 1: Review of the accuracy of the remote sensing data

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 507-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Karimi ◽  
W. G. M. Bastiaanssen
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Hydrological Modeling ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Actual Evapotranspiration ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Suitable Alternative ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Water Accounting

Abstract. The scarcity of water encourages scientists to develop new analytical tools to enhance water resource management. Water accounting and distributed hydrological models are examples of such tools. Water accounting needs accurate input data for adequate descriptions of water distribution and water depletion in river basins. Ground-based observatories are decreasing, and not generally accessible. Remote sensing data is a suitable alternative to measure the required input variables. This paper reviews the reliability of remote sensing algorithms to accurately determine the spatial distribution of actual evapotranspiration, rainfall and land use. For our validation we used only those papers that covered study periods of seasonal to annual cycles because the accumulated water balance is the primary concern. Review papers covering shorter periods only (days, weeks) were not included in our review. Our review shows that by using remote sensing, the absolute values of evapotranspiration can be estimated with an overall accuracy of 95% (SD 5%) and rainfall with an overall absolute accuracy of 82% (SD 15%). Land use can be identified with an overall accuracy of 85% (SD 7%). Hence, more scientific work is needed to improve the spatial mapping of rainfall and land use using multiple space-borne sensors. While not always perfect at all spatial and temporal scales, seasonally accumulated actual evapotranspiration maps can be used with confidence in water accounting and hydrological modeling.

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