INTEGRATION OF MULTITEMPORAL SENTINEL-1 AND SENTINEL-2 IMAGERY FOR LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS
Using space-borne remote sensing data is widely used for land-cover classification (LCC) due to its ability to provide a big amount of data with a regular temporal revisit time. In recent years, optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery have become available for free, and their integration...
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| description | Using space-borne remote sensing data is widely used for land-cover classification (LCC) due to its ability to provide a big amount of data with a regular temporal revisit time. In recent years, optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery have become available for free, and their integration in time series have improved LCC. This research evaluates the classification accuracy using multitemporal (MT) Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) imagery. Pixel-based LCC is made for S1 and S2 imagery, and for a combination of both datasets with Random Forest (RF) and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost; XGB). The extent of the study area, is located in the south-east of France, in Lyon. Regardless of LCC using single-date or MT data, the highest classification results were achieved with integrated S1 and S2 imagery and XGB method, whereas overall accuracy (OA) and Kappa coefficient (Kappa) increased from 85.51% to 91.09%, and from 0.81 to 0.88, respectively. Furthermore, the integration of MT imagery significantly improved the classification of urban areas and reduced misclassification between forest and low vegetation. In this paper, in terms of the pixel-based classification, XGB produced slightly better results than RF, and outperformed it in terms of computational time. This research improved LCC with integration of radar and optical MT imagery, which can be useful for areas hampered by a frequent cloud cover. Future work should use the aforementioned data for specific applications in remote sensing, as well as evaluate the classification performance with different approaches, such as neural networks or deep learning. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c2321877e92e4fe580d4ff2302b4fb752022-12-21T19:40:12ZengCopernicus PublicationsThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences1682-17502194-90342020-08-01XLIII-B1-2020919810.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B1-2020-91-2020INTEGRATION OF MULTITEMPORAL SENTINEL-1 AND SENTINEL-2 IMAGERY FOR LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODSD. Dobrinić0D. Medak1M. Gašparović2Faculty of Geodesy, Chair of Geoinformatics, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, CroatiaFaculty of Geodesy, Chair of Geoinformatics, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, CroatiaFaculty of Geodesy, Chair of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, CroatiaUsing space-borne remote sensing data is widely used for land-cover classification (LCC) due to its ability to provide a big amount of data with a regular temporal revisit time. In recent years, optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery have become available for free, and their integration in time series have improved LCC. This research evaluates the classification accuracy using multitemporal (MT) Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) imagery. Pixel-based LCC is made for S1 and S2 imagery, and for a combination of both datasets with Random Forest (RF) and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost; XGB). The extent of the study area, is located in the south-east of France, in Lyon. Regardless of LCC using single-date or MT data, the highest classification results were achieved with integrated S1 and S2 imagery and XGB method, whereas overall accuracy (OA) and Kappa coefficient (Kappa) increased from 85.51% to 91.09%, and from 0.81 to 0.88, respectively. Furthermore, the integration of MT imagery significantly improved the classification of urban areas and reduced misclassification between forest and low vegetation. In this paper, in terms of the pixel-based classification, XGB produced slightly better results than RF, and outperformed it in terms of computational time. This research improved LCC with integration of radar and optical MT imagery, which can be useful for areas hampered by a frequent cloud cover. Future work should use the aforementioned data for specific applications in remote sensing, as well as evaluate the classification performance with different approaches, such as neural networks or deep learning.https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLIII-B1-2020/91/2020/isprs-archives-XLIII-B1-2020-91-2020.pdf |
| spellingShingle | D. Dobrinić D. Medak M. Gašparović INTEGRATION OF MULTITEMPORAL SENTINEL-1 AND SENTINEL-2 IMAGERY FOR LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| title | INTEGRATION OF MULTITEMPORAL SENTINEL-1 AND SENTINEL-2 IMAGERY FOR LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS |
| title_full | INTEGRATION OF MULTITEMPORAL SENTINEL-1 AND SENTINEL-2 IMAGERY FOR LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS |
| title_fullStr | INTEGRATION OF MULTITEMPORAL SENTINEL-1 AND SENTINEL-2 IMAGERY FOR LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS |
| title_full_unstemmed | INTEGRATION OF MULTITEMPORAL SENTINEL-1 AND SENTINEL-2 IMAGERY FOR LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS |
| title_short | INTEGRATION OF MULTITEMPORAL SENTINEL-1 AND SENTINEL-2 IMAGERY FOR LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS |
| title_sort | integration of multitemporal sentinel 1 and sentinel 2 imagery for land cover classification using machine learning methods |
| url | https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLIII-B1-2020/91/2020/isprs-archives-XLIII-B1-2020-91-2020.pdf |
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