NDLI: Impacts of Feature Normalization on Optical and SAR Data Fusion for Land Use/Land Cover Classification

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hongsheng Zhang Hui Lin Yu Li
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	Land use/land cover (LULC) classification using optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images is becoming increasingly important to produce more accurate LULC products. As an important step, feature normalization techniques have been studied by the areas of pattern recognition. Nevertheless, because of the totally different imaging mechanisms of optical and SAR sensors, most of the existing normalization approaches are not suitable for optical and SAR data fusion. Moreover, whether normalization is a significant step remains unclear regarding optical and SAR fusion. Taking the Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (SPOT-5) and the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS)/Phased Array type L-band SAR (PALSAR) (HH and HV polarizations) as the optical and SAR data, this letter aims to evaluate the impact of feature normalization. Experimental results indicated that feature normalization is not necessarily significant depending on fusion methods. For instance, distribution-dependent classifiers (e.g., a maximum likelihood classifier) are independent of feature normalization; thus, it has no impact on the results when using these classifiers. Moreover, advanced classifiers (e.g., a support vector machine) with built-in normalization are also not influenced by feature normalization. In contrast, a minimum distance classifier and an artificial neural network (ANN) depend on the input values of optical and SAR features and thus can be influenced by feature normalization. However, our experiments showed a fluctuation in classification accuracy using an ANN with normalized features. Therefore, more experiments are required to investigate the optimal normalization approaches for the optical and SAR images when using an ANN as the fusion method.
Sponsorship	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
Starting Page	1061
Ending Page	1065
Page Count	5
File Size	944636
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1545598X
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	5
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Synthetic aperture radar Optical imaging Remote sensing Optical sensors Accuracy Adaptive optics Feature extraction polarimetric SAR Land use/land cover (LULC) normalization optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data fusion
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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