Wetlands play significant role in maintaining the ecological balance of both biotic and abiotic life in coastal and inland environments. Hence, understanding of their occurrence, spatial extent of change in wetland environment is very important and can be monitored using satellite remote sensing technique. The extraction of wetland features using remote sensing has so far been carried out using visual/ hybrid digital analysis techniques, which is time consuming. To monitor the wetland and their features at National/ State level, there is a need for the development of automated technique for the extraction of wetland features. A knowledge based algorithm has been developed using hierarchical decision tree approach for automated extraction of wetland features such as surface water spread, wet area, turbidity and wet vegetation including aquatic for pre and post monsoon period. The results obtained for Chhattisgarh, India using the automated technique has been found to be satisfactory, when compared with hybrid digital/visual analysis technique.
The study presents an approach to map Land Use / Land Cover Change (LULCC) at large scale and processing techniques that permit higher accuracy. IRS RESOURCESAT-2 LISS-IV images of Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh were used to apply the classification technique. In multi-scale feature extraction approach LULCC takes two forms i.e. conversion from one category of LULCC to another and modification of condition within a category. Thus, major LULCC classes were extracted using object based approach and uncertain classes were identified using onscreen knowledge based method. The results showed in 2009, the accuracy of cropland, water body and built-up segments were 99.3%, 94.79% and 89.72%, respectively, whereas, in 2013 the accuracies were 94.31%, 88.26% and 81.20%, respectively. Hence, this classification approach can be useful in different landscape structure over the time, which can be quantified and assessed to achieve a better understanding of the land cover.
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