Estimating urban impervious surfaces from Landsat-5 TM imagery using multilayer perceptron neural network and support vector machine

Zhongchang Sun; Huadong Guo; Xinwu Li; Linlin Lu; Xiaoping Du

doi:10.1117/1.3539767

1 January 2011 Estimating urban impervious surfaces from Landsat-5 TM imagery using multilayer perceptron neural network and support vector machine

Zhongchang Sun, Huadong Guo, Xinwu Li, Linlin Lu, Xiaoping Du

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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 053501 (January 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3539767

Abstract

In recent years, the urban impervious surface has been recognized as a key quantifiable indicator in assessing urbanization impacts on environmental and ecological conditions. A surge of research interests has resulted in the estimation of urban impervious surface using remote sensing studies. The objective of this paper is to examine and compare the effectiveness of two algorithms for extracting impervious surfaces from Landsat TM imagery; the multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPNN) and the support vector machine (SVM). An accuracy assessment was performed using the high-resolution WorldView images. The root mean square error (RMSE), the mean absolute error (MAE), and the coefficient of determination (R²) were calculated to validate the classification performance and accuracies of MLPNN and SVM. For the MLPNN model, the RMSE, MAE, and R² were 17.18%, 11.10%, and 0.8474, respectively. The SVM yielded a result with an RMSE of 13.75%, an MAE of 8.92%, and an R² of 0.9032. The results indicated that SVM performance was superior to that of MLPNN in impervious surface classification. To further evaluate the performance of MLPNN and SVM in handling the mixed-pixels, an accuracy assessment was also conducted for the selected test areas, including commercial, residential, and rural areas. Our results suggested that SVM had better capability in handling the mixed-pixel problem than MLPNN. The superior performance of SVM over MLPNN is mainly attributed to the SVM's capability of deriving the global optimum and handling the over-fitting problem by suitable parameter selection. Overall, SVM provides an efficient and useful method for estimating the impervious surface.

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Zhongchang Sun, Huadong Guo, Xinwu Li, Linlin Lu, and Xiaoping Du "Estimating urban impervious surfaces from Landsat-5 TM imagery using multilayer perceptron neural network and support vector machine," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 5(1), 053501 (1 January 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3539767

Published: 1 January 2011

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