Abstract
Since the launch of the first land observation satellite Landsat-1 in 1972, many machine learning algorithms have been used to classify pixels in Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery. Classification methods range from parametric supervised classification algorithms such as maximum likelihood, unsupervised algorithms such as ISODAT and k-means clustering to machine learning algorithms such as artificial neural, decision trees, support vector machines, and ensembles classifiers. Various ensemble classification algorithms have been proposed in recent years. Most widely used ensemble classification algorithm is Random Forest. The Random Forest classifier uses bootstrap aggregating for form an ensemble of classification and induction tree like tree classifiers.
A few researchers have used Random Forest for land cover analysis. However, the potential of Random Forest has not yet been fully explored by the remote sensing community. In this paper we compare classification accuracy of Random Forest with other commonly used algorithms such as the maximum likelihood, minimum distance, decision tree, neural network, and support vector machine classifiers.
Publisher
International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication
Date of publication
3-18-2016
Language
english
Persistent identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/341
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Kulkarni, Arun D. and Lowe, Barrett, "Random Forest Algorithm for Land Cover Classification" (2016). Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations. Paper 1.
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/341
Publisher Citation
Arun D. Kulkarni, Barrett Lowe, March 16 Volume 4 Issue 3, “Random Forest Algorithm for Land Cover Classification”, International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication (IJRITCC), ISSN: 2321-8169, PP: 58 - 63