Feature extraction from high resolution satellite images using K-means and colour threshold approach

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt.

2 Space Center - Egyptian Armed Forces, Egypt.

10.1088/1757-899X/610/1/012045

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In recent year developments in satellite sensors tend to the availability of high spatial and spectral resolution images. The motivation of this research paper is to obtain maximum benefits of different bands from high resolution satellite images in order to put into practice an image processing algorithm solution for extraction and classification of land cover and manmade objects can be used by non-professionals. In this research paper a novel approach for image classification is presented by applying k-means algorithm and colour threshold approach onto high resolution World View 2 (WV2) image. K-means algorithm is applied on a reflectance image to extract land cover classes and manmade objects based on a colour-based segmentation method. The proposed technique is applied through MATLAB environment. The user is asked to select few points of the desired classes and the algorithm do the rest and produce vector layers of the selected classes. The experimental results prove the effectiveness of our framework to enhance the quality of classification in aspects of computational time and precision. The preliminary results are considered promising.

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International Conference on Aerospace Sciences and Aviation Technology
Volume 18, Issue 18
18th International Conference on Aerospace Sciences & Aviation Technology 9–11 April 2019
April 2019
Pages 1-12

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