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Articles | Volume XXXIX-B7
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B7-253-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B7-253-2012
01 Aug 2012
 | 01 Aug 2012

CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVE MICROWAVE AND PASSIVE OPTICAL DATA BASED ON BAYESIAN THEORY AND MRF

F. Yu, H. T. Li, Y. S. Han, and H. Y. Gu

Keywords: Active and passive remote sensing, Classification, Bayesian theory, MRF, ASAR, TM

Abstract. A classifier based on Bayesian theory and Markov random field (MRF) is presented to classify the active microwave and passive optical remote sensing data, which have demonstrated their respective advantages in inversion of surface soil moisture content. In the method, the VV, VH polarization of ASAR and all the 7 TM bands are taken as the input of the classifier to get the class labels of each pixel of the images. And the model is validated for the necessities of integration of TM and ASAR, it shows that, the total precision of classification in this paper is 89.4%. Comparing with the classification with single TM, the accuracy increase 11.5%, illustrating that synthesis of active and passive optical remote sensing data is efficient and potential in classification.