Land use and land cover inference in large areas using multi-temporal optical satellite images

Shutaro Hashimoto, Takeo Tadono, Masahiko Onosato, Masahiro Hori

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Abstract

This paper describes a new land use and land cover (LULC) classification method for classifying multi-temporal high-resolution satellite data in large areas. The classification method uses combined value of both reflectance of a pixel and its observation date as an input data, and calculates its probability distribution among all LULC classes via Bayesian inference based on a generative model estimated by kernel density estimation. This method can be easily applied to multi-temporal data to exploit phenological change information of vegetation, even if available multi-temporal data have a seasonal bias. In this paper, we conducted the classification over the entire land mass of Japan, using the multi-temporal data observed by the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2 (AVNIR-2) aboard the ALOS, and we evaluated its accuracy in comparison to conventional methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2013 - Proceedings
Pages3333-3336
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 33rd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2013 - Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Duration: 2013/07/212013/07/26

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Conference

Conference2013 33rd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2013
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne, VIC
Period2013/07/212013/07/26

Keywords

  • GPGPU acceleration
  • Generative model
  • Kernel density estimation
  • Land use and land cover classification
  • Multi-temporal classification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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