A Hierarchical Framework for the Classification of Multispectral Imagery

Out of the abundant digital image data available, multispectral imagery is one which gives us information about the earth we live in. To gain knowledge from multispectral imagery, it is essential to classify the data present in the image based on spectral information. Classification plays a significant role in understanding the remotely sensed data obtained from the satellites. This paper brings out a new classification scheme based on a hierarchical framework. The hierarchical model proposed in this paper helps to understand the imagery at different levels of abstractness and concreteness to serve different applications like town planning, facility management and so on. The model depicts classification of the multispectral imagery on three abstract levels. The algorithm proposed outputs classification at different levels with an average accuracy of 72.6% in level 1 and 78.3% in level 2. The time sensitivity analysis of the algorithm shows that it outperforms the traditional SVM classifier. A detailed analysis of the algorithm proposed is detailed in this paper with respect to the parameters influencing the classification accuracy.