1st International ICST Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Research Article

CBERS-02 remote sensing data mining using decision tree algorithm

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/wkdd.2008.2661,
        author={Xingping Wen and Guangdao Hu and Xiaofeng Yang},
        title={CBERS-02 remote sensing data mining using decision tree algorithm},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={WKDD},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.4108/wkdd.2008.2661}
    }
    
  • Xingping Wen
    Guangdao Hu
    Xiaofeng Yang
    Year: 2010
    CBERS-02 remote sensing data mining using decision tree algorithm
    WKDD
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/wkdd.2008.2661
Xingping Wen1,*, Guangdao Hu1, Xiaofeng Yang2
  • 1: Institute of Mathematic Geology and Remote Sensing Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
  • 2: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China.
*Contact email: wfxyp2008@gmail.com

Abstract

In recent years, decision tree algorithms have been successfully used for land cover classification from remote sensing data. In this paper, CART (classification and regression trees) and C5.0 decision tree algorithms were used to CBERS-02 remote sensing data. Firstly, the remote sensing data was transformed using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and multiple-band algorithm. Then, the training data was collected from the combining total 20 processed bands. Finally, the decision tree was constructed by CART and C5.0 algorithm respectively. Comparing two results, the most important variables are clearly band3,4, band1,4 and band2,4. The depth of the CART tree is only two with the relative high accuracy. The classification outcome was calculated by CART tree. In order to validate the classification accuracy of CART tree, the Confusion Matrices was generated by the ground truth data collected using visual interpretation and the field survey and the kappa coefficient is 0.95.