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: Received: 20 September 2017 / Approved: 29 September 2017 / Online: 29 September 2017 (12:51:40 CEST)
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Luo, K.; Tao, F.; Moiwo, J.P. When to Detect Changes in Object-Based Image Analysis: Before or after Classification?. Preprints2017, 2017090155. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201709.0155.v1
Luo, K.; Tao, F.; Moiwo, J.P. When to Detect Changes in Object-Based Image Analysis: Before or after Classification?. Preprints 2017, 2017090155. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201709.0155.v1
Luo, K.; Tao, F.; Moiwo, J.P. When to Detect Changes in Object-Based Image Analysis: Before or after Classification?. Preprints2017, 2017090155. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201709.0155.v1
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Luo, K., Tao, F., & Moiwo, J.P. (2017). When to Detect Changes in Object-Based Image Analysis: Before or after Classification?. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201709.0155.v1
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Luo, K., Fu-lu Tao and Juana P. Moiwo. 2017 "When to Detect Changes in Object-Based Image Analysis: Before or after Classification?" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201709.0155.v1
Abstract
This study compared two object-oriented land use change detection methods—detection after classification (DAC) and classification after detection (CAD) —based on a digital elevation model, slope data, and multi-temporal Landsat images (TM image for 2000 and ETM image for 2010). We noted that the overall accuracy of the DAC (86.42%) was much higher than that of the CAD (71.71%). However, a slight difference between the accuracies of the two methods exists for deciduous broadleaf forest, evergreen coniferous forest, mixed wood, upland, paddy, reserved land, and settlement. Owing to substantial spectrum differences, these land use types can be extracted using spectral indexes. The accuracy of DAC was much higher than that of CAD for industrial land, traffic land, green shrub, reservoir, lake, river, and channel, all of which share similar spectrums. The discrepancy was mainly because DAC can completely utilize various forms of information apart from spectrum information during a two-stage classification. In addition, the change-area boundary was not limited at first, but was adjustable in the process of classification. DAC can overcome smoothing effects to a great extent using multi-scale segmentations and multi-characters in detection. Although DAC yielded better results, it was more time-consuming (28 days) because it uses a two-stage classification approach. Conversely, CAD consumed less time (15 days). Thus, a hybrid of the two methods is recommended for application in land use change detection.
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