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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2003.19.4.329

Unsupervised Image Classification through Multisensor Fusion using Fuzzy Class Vector  

이상훈 (경원대학교 산업공학과)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.19, no.4, 2003 , pp. 329-339 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, an approach of image fusion in decision level has been proposed for unsupervised image classification using the images acquired from multiple sensors with different characteristics. The proposed method applies separately for each sensor the unsupervised image classification scheme based on spatial region growing segmentation, which makes use of hierarchical clustering, and computes iteratively the maximum likelihood estimates of fuzzy class vectors for the segmented regions by EM(expected maximization) algorithm. The fuzzy class vector is considered as an indicator vector whose elements represent the probabilities that the region belongs to the classes existed. Then, it combines the classification results of each sensor using the fuzzy class vectors. This approach does not require such a high precision in spatial coregistration between the images of different sensors as the image fusion scheme of pixel level does. In this study, the proposed method has been applied to multispectral SPOT and AIRSAR data observed over north-eastern area of Jeollabuk-do, and the experimental results show that it provides more correct information for the classification than the scheme using an augmented vector technique, which is the most conventional approach of image fusion in pixel level.
Keywords
Multisensor Fusion; Fuzzy Classification; Unsupervised Classification; Satellite Image;
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