mahdi naderi
Abstract
In recent decades, land use and land cover changes information has been successfully derived from remote sensing data at various levels, from local to global scale. Accurate and frequent monitoring of these changes is required for urban planning and sustainable management of land resources. In this study, ...
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In recent decades, land use and land cover changes information has been successfully derived from remote sensing data at various levels, from local to global scale. Accurate and frequent monitoring of these changes is required for urban planning and sustainable management of land resources. In this study, an object-oriented approach using a combination of GLCM, SNIC, and machine learning algorithms is presented to classify the LULC of a part of the lands of North Mahabad, West Azerbaijan, in 2019 using satellite images in Google Earth Engine. For this purpose, after preparing the initial dataset, which contains the bands of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images, the ALOS digital surface model, and NDVI, BSI, SAVI, and total scattering power indices, two pixel-based and object-oriented approaches, as well as the random forest algorithm, were used to classify land use and land cover, and their results were compared to explain the best approach in terms of the accuracy of the various classes. In the object-oriented approach, textural measures were extracted by applying the GLCM matrix to the initial dataset. Due to the increase in the number of bands, the PCA method was used to reduce the dimensions of the image. Finally, by combining the segmentation layer obtained from the SNIC algorithm and the PC1 layer, the random forest algorithm was considered to produce land use and land cover maps of the study area. According to the research findings, the object-oriented approach performed better than the pixel-based approach in classifying various land use classes in the study area, with an overall accuracy and kappa coefficient of 86.40% and 0.8307, respectively, compared to 82.73% and 0.8028. The results of the accuracy evaluation criteria showed that the producer accuracy of most of the classes except for corn, fall irrigated vegetables, and wheat, and barley irrigated in the object-oriented approach was higher than the pixel-based method, and their classification accuracy was more than 90%. Additionally, water, build-up, corn, and sugar beet classes have the highest user accuracy in the object-oriented LULC map. The findings showed that the appropriate determination of the super-pixel size of the SNIC clustering algorithm and the use of GLCM texture criteria effectively improved the performance of the proposed approach in land use and land cover classification.
