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A new supervised classifier exploiting spectral-spatial information in the Bayesian framework

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Emanuele Barca *
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Annamaria Castrignanò
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Sergio Ruggieri
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Michele Rinaldi
DOI:10.1016/j.jag.2019.101990delete
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Conventional machine learning methods are often unable to achieve high degrees of accuracy when only spectral data are involved in the classification process. The main reason of that inaccuracy can be brought back to the omission of the spatial information in the classification. The present paper suggests a way to combine effectively the spectral and the spatial information and improve the classification's accuracy. In practice, a Bayesian two-stage methodology is proposed embodying two enhancements: i) a geostatistical non-parametric classification approach, the universal indicator kriging and the smooth multivariate kernel method. The former provides an informative prior, while the latter overcomes the assumption (often not true) of independence of the spectral data. The case study reports an application to land-cover classification in a study area located in the Apulia region (Southern Italy). The methodology performance in terms of overall accuracy was compared with five state-of-the-art methods, i.e. naive Bayes, Random Forest, artificial neural networks, support vector machines and decision trees. It is shown that the proposed methodology outperforms all the compared methods and that even a severe reduction of the training set does not affect seriously the average accuracy of the presented method.
Keywords:
Land-cover classification
Bayes' method
multivariate smooth kernel
universal indicator kriging
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International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation cover
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
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