Land use and land cover classification using Chinese GF-2 multispectral data in a region of the North China Plain

摘要

The newly launched GF-2 satellite is now the most advanced civil satellite in China to collect high spatial resolution remote sensing data.This study investigated the capability and strategy of GF-2 multispectral data for land use and land cover (LULC) classification in a region of the North China Plain.The pixel-based and object-based classifications using maximum likelihood (MLC) and support vector machine (SVM) classifiers were evaluated to determine the classification strategy that was suitable for GF-2 multispectral data.The validation results indicated that GF-2 multispectral data achieved satisfactory LULC classification performance,and object-based classification using the SVM classifier achieved the best classification accuracy with an overall classification accuracy of 94.33％ and kappa coefficient of 0.911.Therefore,considering the LULC classification performance and data characteristics,GF-2 satellite data could serve as a valuable and reliable high-resolution data source for land surface monitoring.Future works should focus on improving LULC classification accuracy by exploring more classification features and exploring the potential applications of GF-2 data in related applications.