A High-Reliability, High-Resolution Method for Land Cover Classification into Forest and Non-forest

摘要

We present several methods for per-region land-cover classification based on distances on probability distributions and whole-region probabilities. We present results on using this method for locating forest areas in high-resolution aerial images with very high reliability, achieving more than 95% accuracy, using raw radiometric channels as well as derived color and texture features. Region boundaries are obtained from a multi-scale hierarchical segmentation or from a registration of cadastral maps.