Using Geobia and Data Fusion Approach for Land use and Land Cover Mapping

Wężyk Piotr (), Hawryło Paweł, Szostak Marta, Pierzchalski Marcin and Kok Roeland De
Additional contact information
Wężyk Piotr: Institute of Forest Resources Management, University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland
Hawryło Paweł: Institute of Forest Resources Management, University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland
Szostak Marta: Institute of Forest Resources Management, University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland
Pierzchalski Marcin: ProGea Consulting, Faculty of Forestry Kraków, Poland
Kok Roeland De: ProGea Consulting, Faculty of Forestry Kraków, Poland

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2016, vol. 35, issue 1, 93-104

Abstract: Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) maps play an important role in an environmental modelling, and for many years efforts have been made to improve and streamline the expensive mapping process. The aim of the study was to create LULC maps of three selected water catchment areas in South Poland using a Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) in order to highlight the advantages of this innovative, semi-automatic method of image analysis. the classification workflow included: multi-stage and multi-scale analyses based on a data fusion approach. Input data consisted mainly of BlackBridge (RapidEye) high resolution satellite imagery, although for distinguishing particular LULC classes, additional satellite images (LANDSAT TM5) and GIS-vector data were used. Accuracy assessment of GEOBIA classification results varied from 0.83 to 0.87 (kappa), depending on the specific catchment area. The main recognized advantages of GEOBIA in the case study were: performing of multi-stage and multi-scale image classification using different features for specific LULC classes and the ability to using knowledge-based classification in conjunction with the data fusion approach in an efficient and reliable manner.

Keywords: classification; hydrology; OBIA; rapideye; SaLMaR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2016-0009 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:quageo:v:35:y:2016:i:1:p:93-104:n:9

DOI: 10.1515/quageo-2016-0009

Access Statistics for this article

Quaestiones Geographicae is currently edited by Andrzej Kostrzewski

More articles in Quaestiones Geographicae from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().