Arid Zone Research ›› 2022, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (2): 638-645.doi: 10.13866/j.azr.2022.02.30

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A multi-scale integrated classification method for landforms

YANG Weitao1,2,3(),SUN Jianguo1,2,3(),MA Hengli1,2,3,HUANG Zhuo1,2,3   

  1. 1. Faculty of Geomatics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
    2. National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Technologies and Applications for National Geographic State Monitoring, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
    3. Gansu Provincial Engineering Laboratory for National Geographic State Monitoring, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
  • Received:2021-05-18 Revised:2021-11-19 Online:2022-03-15 Published:2022-03-30
  • Contact: Jianguo SUN E-mail:913117597@qq.com;sunjguo@mail.lzjtu.cn

Abstract:

Landform objects span a broad range of sizes. Existing automatic landform classification methods do not fully consider size, however, which restricts classification accuracy. This study proposes a multi-scale integrated classification method for landform that considers the size of different features. The method consists of three steps: multi-scale segmentation, screening according to scale order, and multi-scale merging. The screening according to scale order is an iterative confirmation process of classified objects based on multi-scale feature extraction and supervised classification, with small scale (small size) priority and probability maximization as criteria. According to experimental results from the Loess Plateau, the method is simple and reliable (overall accuracy reached 75.16% and the Kappa coefficient reached 0.71) and can be used for detailed classification of landform.

Key words: landforms, classification, multi-scale, Loess Plateau