Methodology of Digital Land Condition Mapping and Concept of Complex Scene for Land Cover Classification by MSS Data

Study on digital land condition mapping using remote sensing data (1)

Abstract

Reconsideration of land for the planning of suburbs shows the necessity of knowing all physical land conditions and the cultural-historical background of an area.Therefore it is important to develope a system for grasping and representing land conditions to plan an area properly rapidly and at low cost.
Definition of Digital Land Condition (DLC) map is given and the concept of Complex Scene, which is areal pixel-sets in MSS data represented on a DLC map, is described.
Finally the methods for recognizing and discriminating Complex Scenes are described.In brief, the characteristics of Complex Scenes are grasped quantitatively by the attributes of thier histograms (density level, mean, standard deviation, kurtosis, skewness etc.) and are then classified by the Matching or Linear discriminant function etc.