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- Title
Manifold Learning Co-Location Decision Tree for Remotely Sensed Imagery Classification.
- Authors
Guoqing Zhou; Rongting Zhang; Dianjun Zhang
- Abstract
Because traditional decision tree (DT) induction methods cannot efficiently take advantage of geospatial knowledge in the classification of remotely sensed imagery, several researchers have presented a co-location decision tree (CL-DT) method that combines the co-location technique with the traditional DT method. However, the CL-DT method only considers the Euclidean distance of neighborhood events, which cannot truly reflect the co-location relationship between instances for which there is a nonlinear distribution in a high-dimensional space. For this reason, this paper develops the theory and method for a maximum variance unfolding (MVU)-based CL-DT method (known as MVU-based CL-DT), which includes unfolding input data, unfolded distance calculations, MVU-based co-location rule generation, and MVU-based CL-DT generation. The proposed method has been validated by classifying remotely sensed imagery and is compared with four other types of methods, i.e., CL-DT, classification and regression tree (CART), random forests (RFs), and stacked auto-encoders (SAE), whose classification results are taken as “true values.” The experimental results demonstrate that: (1) the relative classification accuracies of the proposed method in three test areas are higher than CL-DT and CART, and are at the same level compared to RFs; and (2) the total number of nodes, the number of leaf nodes, and the number of levels are significantly decreased by the proposed method. The time taken for the data processing, decision tree generation, drawing of the tree, and generation of the rules are also shortened by the proposed method compared to CL-DT, CART, and RFs.
- Subjects
DECISION trees; GEOSPATIAL data; EUCLIDEAN distance; DATA; REMOTE sensing; CART algorithms; NODES (Botany); ELECTRONIC data processing
- Publication
Remote Sensing, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 10, p855
- ISSN
2072-4292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rs8100855