Water and Irrigation Management

Water and Irrigation Management

Integration of different land classification methods using fuzzy algorithm with the help of integration of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 satellite images

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Ardeshir Sassani 1
Seyed Fazlolah Saghravani 2
Behnaz Bigdeli 2
1 Water Resources Engineering and Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran.
2 Faculty of Civil Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran.
10.22059/jwim.2024.369527.1125
Abstract
Remote sensing and image processing techniques have brought about a great transformation in traditional measurements by providing spatial and temporal information and have the potential to increase our knowledge in technical and engineering fields, including computers, water resources engineering, hydraulic structures, and mapping such as snow, geology, and geography. The ability to measure the amount of precipitation and flow is one of the basic applications of remote sensing and image processing. Different image integration methods are used to simultaneously use satellite image's spectral and spatial information. In the integrated image, the ability to interpret increases, and it brings more acceptable results because data with different characteristics are combined with each other. In this research, the integrated image of two satellites (Landsat 8) and (Sentinel 2) for the study area of Bastam Shahrood was processed with five methods of maximum likelihood, minimum distance, support vector machine (SVM), artificial neural network and random forest. The artificial neural network method with a Kappa coefficient of 0.93 and the minimum distance method with a Kappa coefficient of 0.34 had the best and worst results, respectively. Then, four classification methods of maximum likelihood, support vector machine(SVM), artificial neural network, and random forest were combined with a fuzzy algebraic summation algorithm, and the Kappa coefficient was 0.94, which shows that combining the best classification results can bring better and more accurate classification results.
Keywords
Image integration
Image processing
Fuzzy method
Kappa coefficient
Remote sensing satellite
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Water and Irrigation Management
Volume 14, Issue 4
Winter 2025
Pages 811-825