UN-sensored very high resolution Land-Cover mapping

Land-Cover databases (LC-DB) are mandatory for environmental purposes, but need to be regularly updated to provide robust and instructive spatial indicators. Moreover, an increasing number of sensors, such as optical and SAR satellite images or Lidar point cloud, allow to cover large areas regularly, and with a very high precision. Thus, automatic methods have to be developed to take into account the complementarity of available observations. In this paper, several fusion methods are proposed and introduced in an existing Land-Cover mapping framework. Those methods are compared on several scenarii (based on optical, SAR and Lidar datasets), and evaluated thanks to a very high resolution LC-DB.