Research Article

Land Cover Information Extraction Based on Daily NDVI Time Series and Multiclassifier Combination

Table 6

Classification results of multiclassifier combination.

Index SAM + minimum distance + statistics SAM + SVM + QUEST
PA (%)UA (%)PA (%)UA (%)

C169.19 (65.15)75.90 (79.63)95.20 (92.68)93.09 (95.32)
C274.18 (73.91)67.24 (76.62)77.72 (77.72)82.90 (85.37)
C377.87 (70.22)87.42 (88.93)91.53 (93.44)98.82 (99.71)
C486.79 (90.93)87.24 (90.70)99.48 (99.48)96.24 (96.73)
C588.92 (84.28)81.18 (86.51)95.10 (95.36)99.46 (99.46)
C678.14 (73.50)92.56 (91.81)93.40 (93.72)98.30 (98.56)
C784.80 (90.93)73.61 (59.82)96.50 (98.40)79.90 (80.92)
C8100.00 (100.00)99.19 (100.00)100.00 (99.45)99.73 (100.00)
C969.21 (81.19)75.91 (77.80)98.17 (98.62)94.07 (94.71)
C1068.12 (81.74)70.17 (75.57)87.47 (92.92)96.69 (95.25)

Overall accuracy80.49% (81.15%)93.60% (94.28%)
Kc0.7832 (0.7905)0.9289 (0.9365)

Note. The columns show the classification results of the original multiclassifier with those for the improved multiclassifier combination shown in parentheses; PA: prod accuracy; UA: user accuracy; Kc: Kappa coefficient; C1: woodland; C2: kiwi orchard; C3: bare rocky gravel; C4: river canal; C5: beach; C6: sandy ground; C7: rural residential area; C8: cultivated land; C9: town; C10: apple orchard.