Application of Skew-normal in Classification of Satellite Image

10.6339/JDS.2010.08(4).624

Mohammad Reza Zadkarami；Mahdi Rowhani

Classification ； LDF ； pixels ； QDF ； SDF ； skew-normal

Journal of Data Science

8卷4期（2010 / 10 / 01）

597 - 606

英文

The aim of this paper is to investigate the flexibility of the skew-normal distribution to classify the pixels of a remotely sensed satellite image. In the most of remote sensing packages, for example ENVI and ERDAS, it is assumed that populations are distributed as a multivariate normal. Then linear discriminant function (LDF) or quadratic discriminant function (QDF) is used to classify the pixels, when the covariance matrix of populations are assumed equal or unequal, respectively. However, the data was obtained from the satellite or airplane images suffer from non-normality. In this case, skew-normal discriminant function (SDF) is one of techniques to obtain more accurate image. In this study, we compare the SDF with LDF and QDF using simulation for different scenarios. The results show that ignoring the skewness of the data increases the misclassification probability and consequently we get wrong image. An application is provided to identify the effect of wrong assumptions on the image accuracy.

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