“…A suite of machine learning classifiers are available for image analysis such as Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Classification and Regression Trees (CART), Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), Neural Network (NN), and others. They have become increasingly popular within the field of remote sensing in recent years due to their applicability across large datasets and their ability to generate more accurate and consistent results (Yuan et al, 2009;Ali et al, 2016;Godinho et al, 2016;Kussui et al, 2016;Ming et al, 2016;Rogers et al, 2017;Shelestov et al, 2017;Xiong et al, 2017;Bunting et al, 2018;Gauci et al, 2018;Karakizi et al, 2018;Maxwell et al, 2018;Liu et al, 2019). Machine learning algorithms such as maximum-likelihood are well established within the field, but an increasing number of non-parametric classifiers have emerged, providing decision trees, plane fitting, clustering and deep-learning algorithms such as neural networks.…”