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Articles | Volume XXXIX-B7
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B7-213-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B7-213-2012
31 Jul 2012
 | 31 Jul 2012

LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION OF MULTI-SENSOR IMAGES BY DECISION FUSION USING WEIGHTS OF EVIDENCE MODEL

P. Li and B. Song

Keywords: weights of evidence, multi-sensor, land cover classification, decision fusion

Abstract. This paper proposed a novel method of decision fusion based on weights of evidence model (WOE). The probability rules from classification results from each separate dataset were fused using WOE to produce the posterior probability for each class. The final classification was obtained by maximum probability. The proposed method was evaluated in land cover classification using two examples. The results showed that the proposed method effectively combined multisensor data in land cover classification and obtained higher classification accuracy than the use of single source data. The weights of evidence model provides an effective decision fusion method for improved land cover classification using multi-sensor data.