A comparison of texture measures for the per-field classification of Mediterranean land cover

Lloyd, C.D., Berberoglu, S., Curran, P.J. and Atkinson, P.M. (2004) A comparison of texture measures for the per-field classification of Mediterranean land cover. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25 (19), 3943-3965. (doi:10.1080/0143116042000192321).

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Abstract

Land cover of a Mediterranean region was classified within an artificial neural network (ANN) on a per-field basis using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery. In addition to spectral information, the classifier used geostatistical structure functions and texture measures extracted from the co-occurrence matrix. Geostatistical measures of texture resulted in a more accurate classification of Mediterranean land cover than statistics derived from the co-occurrence matrix. The primary advantage of geostatistical measures was their robustness over a wide range of land cover types, field sizes and forms of class mixing. Spectral information and the variogram (geostatistical texture measure) resulted in the highest overall classification accuracies.

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