REFERENTIAL CLASSIFICATION - A NEW INTELLIGENCE BASED CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM

Abstract

This paper describes a recently developed method which can be used in the classification of pixels in satellite images. The new method named 'Referential Classification' is a concept in which the spectral contents of the pixels are not considered alone; but instead they are correlated with a kind of ancillary data that involves the coordinates of corresponding pixels and their possible variations of spectral data base. The referential classification process is carried out in two subsequent stages. The application of this method in classifying remotely-sensed images resulted in higher accuracy and less demand for the user intervention during the classification course which implies higher degree of automating the classification process without decreasing its accuracy.