Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2016, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (4): 397-404.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2016.04.005

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Remote Sensing Image Classification for NationalGeomatics Monitoring Based on ConditionalRandom Field

ZHANG Chun-sen1, FENG Chen-yi1, CUI Wei-hong2, ZHENG Yi-wei1, SUN Zhi-wei3   

  1. 1. College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China;
    2. School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China;
    3. GEOWAY, Beijing 100043, China
  • Received:2016-01-17 Revised:2016-03-22 Online:2016-07-30 Published:2016-07-30

Abstract:

A method of high-resolution remote sensing image classification for national geomatics monitoring based on conditional random field (CRF) is proposed. Different from object-based classification, the proposed method is based on probabilistic graphical models that calculate an energy function composed of potentials. The potentials are defined on the pixel-level and the object-level, and the level between pixels and objects. The energy function can be computed by solving a minimum s-t cut problem using a move making algorithm based on powerful graph cut. Since the classification method fully expresses relationship between pixels and objects, classification errors caused by segmentation is effectively reduced. High-resolution remote sensing images of GW-1 are used in the experiment. The overall classification accuracy and average classification accuracy reached 91.08% and 86.95% respectively, much higher than the results of object-based classification.

Key words: national geomatics monitoring, conditional random field (CRF), image classification, land cover information extraction

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