Terrain Categorization

Terrain categorization is an important example of machine exploitation using multispectral images. Based on pattern recognition techniques, the decompressed image pixels are classified into groups representing different terrain and land covers. This image shows the effects of compression artifacts on classification errors for a five-band subset of a Landsat scene. Clearly, the image compressed by modulated lapped transform yields a better categorization score than the JPEG.

original MLT JPEG DCT
OriginalMLT 8 to 1
89% correct
JPEG DCT 8 to 1
81% correct
original MLT JPEG DCT

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