Comparison of land-cover classification methods in the Brazilian Amazon Basin.

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Author(s): LU, D.; MAUSEL, P.; BATISTELLA, M.; MORAN, E.

Summary: Four distinctly different classifiers were used to analyze multispectral data. Which of these classifiers is most suitable for a specific study area is not always clear. This paper provides a comparison of minimum-distance classifier (MDC), maximumlikelihood classifier (MLC), extraction and classification of homogeneous objects (ECHO), and decision-tree classifier based on linear spectral mixture analysis (DTC-LSMA). Each of the classifiers used both Landsat Thematic Mapper data and identical field-based training sample datasets in a western Brazilian Amazon study area. Seven land-cover classes? mature forest, advanced secondary succession, initial secondary succession, pasture lands, agricultural lands, bare lands, and water?were classified. Classification results indicate that the DTC-LSMA and ECHO classifiers were more accurate than were the MDC and MLC. The overall accuracy of the DTCLSMA approach was 86 percent with a 0.82 kappa coefficient and ECHO had an accuracy of 83 percent with a 0.79 kappa coefficient. The accuracy of the other classifiers ranged from 77 to 80 percent with kappa coefficients from 0.72 to 0.75.

Publication year: 2004

Types of publication: Journal article

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