Spatially weighted supervised classification for remote sensing

Impact of land-use and land-cover change on groundwater quality in the Lower Shiwalik hills: a remote sensing and GIS based approach

“…land cover) and continuous (e.g. biophysical) properties [15]. Remote sensing provides an attractive source of thematic maps, as it offers a map-like representation of the Earth's surface that is spatially continuous, as well as potentially being available at a range of spatial and temporal scales [8].…”

The distribution of selected CORINE land cover classes in different natural landscapes in Slovakia: Methodological framework and applications

“…Modelling efficiency was improved with the subsequent incorporation of autocorrelation into the model. If the aim is the prediction of the occurrence of a certain event and not knowledge about the importance of the predictors employed, then non-parametric modelling approaches, such as neural networks, may be more appropriate -especially when attempting to generalise information across data sets (Atkinson, 2004;Pijanowski et al, 2005);…”

Remnant Vegetation Analysis of Guanabara Bay Basin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Using Geographical Information System

“…The software SPRING 5.1.7 was used to develop a statistical characterization of the reflectance for each information class for producing thematic maps of the land cover present in an image. It was made supervised classification (Atkinson, 2004;Foody, 2002;Richards, 1993), using Maximum Likelihood algorithm to extract the information and allow the mapping of land use and vegetation remaining (Waleed and Grealish, 2004). The area was classified into five major thematic categories as following: 1)vegetation -tropical rainforest (ombrophilous forest), forested wetlands include mangrove swamps and pioneer formations and reforestation; 2-fields -including deforested areas, fields of altitude called "campos rupestres"; agriculture and pasture; 3) anthropogenic (Urban or Built-up Land)-including urban and industrial areas and 4) exposed areas (Transitional Areas) including nonforest, temporarily bare areas as construction is planned for such future uses as residences, shopping centers, industrial complexes.…”