Title :
Statistical, Structural, Hybrid, and Graph Theoretical Features to Measure Land Development
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng, Yeditepe Univ., Istanbul
Abstract :
Extracting information on a developing region from its sequential satellite images has many benefits. Therefore, in a previous study, we introduced graph theoretical and conditional statistical features to measure land development in a predefined region. There, we only used the grayscale information from the satellite image at hand. Here, we extend that work by introducing novel statistical, hybrid, and graph theoretical features using multispectral information. We also introduce novel structural features based on three different structure extraction methods. We test our new features on a diverse data set and report their performances in measuring land development.
Keywords :
geophysical techniques; graph theory; land use planning; remote sensing; statistical analysis; graph theoretical features; land development; multispectral information; sequential satellite images; statistical features; structural features; structure extraction methods; Fusion of features; graph theoretical features; hybrid features; land development; multispectral information; structural features;
Journal_Title :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LGRS.2008.2007753