CLASSIFICATION OF MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR IMAGES FOR RICE CROPS USING COMBINED ENTROPY DECOMPOSITION AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE TECHNIQUE

Water is an important natural resource in our daily life. Water resources play a major role in sustainable development. Surveying and continuous monitoring of water bodies in a vast area is a tedious and timeconsuming task by conventional surveying techniques. Keeping track of changes in the areas of waterbodies due to urbanization and industrialization is very important. The present study aims at determining the spatiotemporal changes in the water bodies from 2008 to 2018 in the drought-hit area of Mahbubnagar, Telangana using satellite-derived spectral index namely,Modified Normalized Difference Water Index (MNDWI) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) technique using Resourcesat-1 Data. Extraction of water bodies using MNDWI and SVM can be done very easily with very little effort as compared to conventional surveying techniques. Using the MNDWI technique,the total area of waterbodies is 322.64 square kilometers in the year 2008 and 362.61 square kilometers in the year 2018. Using the SVM technique, the area of waterbodies is 368.17 square kilometers in the year 2008 and 395.72 in the year 2018. The kappa index values of 2018 by MNDWI technique and SVM technique are 0.86 and 0.91 respectively. The kappa index values of 2008 by MNDWI technique and SVM technique are 0.85 and 0.89 respectively. It is observed that the SVM technique is more accurate than the MNDWI technique. The area of water bodies has increased during the study period mainly due to increased awareness among the public on the importance of water and also initiatives taken by the Government of Telangana, like Mission Kakatiya for the revival of water bodies in the study area.

This article presents the fault diagnosis of the face milling tool using sound signal. During milling, sound signals of the face milling tool under healthy and fault conditions are acquired. Discrete wavelet transform (DWT) features are extracted from the acquired sound signals. The support vector machine (SVM) technique is used to classify the face milling tool conditions using the extracted DWT features. Also, a comparison of classification efficiencies of different classifiers with respect to different features extraction methods is carried out. It is shown that, all extracted DWT features demonstrate better results than those obtained from selected statistical features and empirical mode decomposition features. The SVM technique is the best classifier as it has given an encouraging result in this study when compared to other classifiers, and it has provided 83% classification accuracy for the given experimental conditions and workpiece of steel alloy 42CrMo4. Hence, the SVM method and DWT technique can be put forward for the applications of condition monitoring of the face milling tool with sound signal.

Early detection of gradual concept drifts by text categorization and Support Vector Machine techniques: The TRIO algorithm

Cancer is the most common disease to threaten human health. The ability to screen individuals with malignant tumours with only a blood sample would be greatly advantageous to early diagnosis and intervention. This study explores the possibility of discriminating between cancer patients and normal subjects with serum surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and a support vector machine (SVM) through a peripheral blood sample. A total of 130 blood samples were obtained from patients with liver cancer, colonic cancer, esophageal cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, gastric cancer, as well as 113 blood samples from normal volunteers. Several diagnostic models were built with the serum SERS spectra using SVM and principal component analysis (PCA) techniques. The results show that a diagnostic accuracy of 85.5% is acquired with a PCA algorithm, while a diagnostic accuracy of 95.8% is obtained using radial basis function (RBF), PCA–SVM methods. The results prove that a RBF kernel PCA–SVM technique is superior to PCA and conventional SVM (C-SVM) algorithms in classification serum SERS spectra. The study demonstrates that serum SERS, in combination with SVM techniques, has great potential for screening cancerous patients with any solid malignant tumour through a peripheral blood sample.

Landslides are among the most harmful natural hazards for human beings. This study aims to delineate landslide hazard zones in the Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal, India using a novel ensemble approach combining the weight-of-evidence (WofE) and support vector machine (SVM) techniques with remote sensing datasets and geographic information systems (GIS). The study area currently faces severe landslide problems, causing fatalities and losses of property. In the present study, the landslide inventory database was prepared using Google Earth imagery, and a field investigation carried out with a global positioning system (GPS). Of the 326 landslides in the inventory, 98 landslides (30%) were used for validation, and 228 landslides (70%) were used for modeling purposes. The landslide conditioning factors of elevation, rainfall, slope, aspect, geomorphology, geology, soil texture, land use/land cover (LULC), normalized differential vegetation index (NDVI), topographic wetness index (TWI), sediment transportation index (STI), stream power index (SPI), and seismic zone maps were used as independent variables in the modeling process. The weight-of-evidence and SVM techniques were ensembled and used to prepare landslide susceptibility maps (LSMs) with the help of remote sensing (RS) data and geographical information systems (GIS). The landslide susceptibility maps (LSMs) were then classified into four classes; namely, low, medium, high, and very high susceptibility to landslide occurrence, using the natural breaks classification methods in the GIS environment. The very high susceptibility zones produced by these ensemble models cover an area of 630 km2 (WofE& RBF-SVM), 474 km2 (WofE& Linear-SVM), 501km2 (WofE& Polynomial-SVM), and 498 km2 (WofE& Sigmoid-SVM), respectively, of a total area of 3914 km2. The results of our study were validated using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and quality sum (Qs) methods. The area under the curve (AUC) values of the ensemble WofE& RBF-SVM, WofE & Linear-SVM, WofE & Polynomial-SVM, and WofE & Sigmoid-SVM models are 87%, 90%, 88%, and 85%, respectively, which indicates they are very good models for identifying landslide hazard zones. As per the results of both validation methods, the WofE & Linear-SVM model is more accurate than the other ensemble models. The results obtained from this study using our new ensemble methods can provide proper and significant information to decision-makers and policy planners in the landslide-prone areas of these districts.

The advancement of anomaly diagnosis methods plays a crucial role in classifying and analyzing data, particularly in distinguishing between normal and abnormal patterns. This study explores the utilization of Support Vector Machine (SVM) techniques to facilitate the selection of pertinent data, thus enhancing the accuracy of anomaly detection. Furthermore, this research delves into the condition assessment process, which offers valuable insights into the real-time state of entities passing through power metering devices. Drawing upon a wealth of secondary data sources, this study employs the SSD algorithm to gain a comprehensive understanding of power metering devices and their interrelated aspects. The SSD algorithm, with its diverse anchor points, is revealed as a powerful tool for quantifying the energy flow passing through the power metering device. This approach not only aids in precise energy measurement but also provides essential insights into the functioning of power metering systems. By combining anomaly diagnosis, SVM techniques, and the SSD algorithm, this study contributes to a deeper comprehension of power metering devices' performance and their capacity to accurately measure energy. These insights have significant implications for improving the overall reliability and efficiency of power metering in various applications.

Increasing the accuracy of thematic maps generated using satellite imagery is a crucial task in remote sensing. In this study, a product-level fusion (PLF) approach based on integration of different land-type maps generated using various satellite-derived indices including normalized difference water index (NDWI), normalized difference built-up index (NDBI), enhanced vegetation index (EVI), and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is proposed to improve the accuracy of land cover mapping. The suitability of the proposed approach for land cover mapping is evaluated in comparison with two high-performance image classification techniques including support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural network (ANN). The results show that the overall accuracy and kappa values of about 95.95 % and 0.95, 94.91 % and 0.94, and 85.32 % and 0.82 are achieved for the PLF, SVM, and ANN approaches, respectively. The results indicate superiority of the PLF approach than SVM and ANN techniques for land cover classification of Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) imagery, especially for the extraction of forest, rice, and citrus classes. However, SVM technique also provided reliable result for land cover mapping.

ABSTRACTSentinel-1A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data present an opportunity for acquiring crop information without restrictions caused by weather and illumination conditions, at a spatial resolution appropriate for individual rice fields and a temporal resolution sufficient to capture the growth profiles of different crop species. This study investigated the use of multi-temporal Sentinel-1A SAR data and Landsat-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data to map the spatial distribution of paddy rice fields across parts of the Sanjiang plain, in northeast China. The satellite sensor data were acquired throughout the rice crop-growing season (May–October). A co-registered set of 10 dual polarization (VH/VV) SAR and NDVI images depicting crop phenological development were used as inputs to Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest (RF) machine learning classification algorithms in order to map paddy rice fields. The results showed a significant increase in overall classification when the NDVI time-series data were integrated with the various combinations of multi-temporal polarization channels (i.e. VH, VV, and VH/VV). The highest classification accuracies overall (95.2%) and for paddy rice (96.7%) were generated using the RF algorithm applied to combined multi-temporal VH polarization and NDVI data. The SVM classifier was most effective when applied to the dual polarization (i.e. VH and VV) SAR data alone and this generated overall and paddy rice classification accuracies of 91.6% and 82.5%, respectively. The results demonstrate the practicality of implementing RF or SVM machine learning algorithms to produce 10 m spatial resolution maps of paddy rice fields with limited ground data using a combination of multi-temporal SAR and NDVI data, where available, or SAR data alone. The methodological framework developed in this study is apposite for large-scale implementation across China and other major rice-growing regions of the world.

The characteristics of a ground-to-ground radar link maintenance protocol for airfield communications are investigated. Such links are typically made at high speed over optical fibre in modern airfields and an appropriate method to identify both known traffic and unauthorised use is extremely important. Here, the pattern recognition technique of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) is employed for classification, recognising trends by supervised learning and using them to identify anomalies. The work is motive by the EU SESAR project which is developing a unified digital communication platform for air traffic management. To achieve this, it is necessary to gather network information and present it in segments. Packet transmission possesses two key parameters, packet payload and the time interval between transmissions. A simulation including these elements was performed, and SVM employed to search for traffic patterns. This was successful in that two known patterns were identified using a nonlinear polynomial SVM kernel. It is thus shown that it is possible to monitor discrete statistical traffic flows using SVM. Further payload types could be classified as anomalies enabling a significant reduction in the workload of the network engineer to monitor a critical optical network.

ABSTRACTThis paper presents a method to estimate the aboveground biomass (AGB) through the selection of different estimation methods based on numerous vegetation types (i.e., broadleaf forest, coniferous forest, shrub and grassland) at a regional scale. The proposed method is based on three models, namely, the stepwise regression, an improved back-propagation neural network (Improved BBPNN) model based on the Gaussian error function, and the support vector machine (SVM) technique, Meanwhile, Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI)/Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) image data and geo-parameters are employed to select 68 feature variables and optimize 213 data samples. Our results reveal that, the stepwise regression method provides the best AGB estimation performance for broadleaf forests and coniferous forests, while the SVM technique shows the best performance for grasslands and shrubs. Different vegetation types should be selected for additional biomass estimation models that have been proven to enhance the biomass estimation. This study on the AGB not only promotes research on the net primary productivity (NPP), but also plays a key role in global carbon cycle research.

The aim of this chapter is to provide readers with a basic knowledge of satellite monitoring and data mining for anomaly detection using a support vector machine (SVM) technique. The author describes the design and implementation of an SVM and an example of the use of the satellite hardware anomaly detection to discover instability in the attitude rate bias of a gyro sensor. This anomaly is caused by a change in the characteristic parameter of the gyro hardware: a statistical parameter related to noise specifications. The detection is demonstrated using telemetry data that have been sent by an actual science satellite. This chapter is divided into three sections: first, the author describes the target satellite and the basic mathematical modelling and formulation of attitude dynamics of the satellite. In the formulation, kinematics and model parameter estimation technique using Kalman filter method is described to provide readers the key parameter; the drift parameters of attitude rate gyro, which are to be dealt with in the following sections in detail. Estimation of unknown parameter of the formulation is also shown using actual telemetry data. This scheme called observers is most popular method for almost every satellite. Second, a brief introduction of the SVM technique is given and followed by a design and implementation of the SVM technique to the gyro bias instability detection. This analysis and calculation are performed using a set of real telemetry data are given. Finally, a software architecture is proposed that will make it easier to migrate SVM software into an onboard computer as a step toward realizing onboard autonomy. Although the formulation developed in this chapter is concerned with attitude rate sensors of a particular satellite, this approach can be applied to other types of remote systems; a remote system that is designed to be operated by human operators in a distant site by communicating using telemetry systems. This type of onboard autonomous system monitoring seems to be promising not only in all remote systems that are working at server circumstances such as space or deep underwater but also in some consumer products such as cars and trains.

Power transmission lines are extremely important for the power system to deliver energy of electricity from the plant to the load. The short circuit of fault often occurs in the transmission line and may lead to disconnecting the power supply to the load. This study implements a hybrid technique that is Discrete Wavelet Transformation (DWT) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) for classification of fault in the transmission line. The DWT was created to extract the detailed signal of transient D8 and D9 (order of 4) at 50 kHz for sampling frequency. The value of Root Mean Square (RMS) will be determined by the coefficients D8 and D9 for training and test data using SVM technique. Furthermore, SVM is utilized to detect the fault for each phase and the ground is discovered in the type of fault. The SVM technique has been run using parameter C and kernel scale to achieve the great results of classification of the fault. Type of simulating fault has a variation of location of the fault, fault of resistance and initial angle. The training and test data run for the Test System of Riau, Indonesia. The test result for the classification of fault reaches the highest accuracy of 100%.

Breast cancer risk assessment and early diagnosis using Principal Component Analysis and support vector machine techniques

Getting an accurate prediction of a digital currency, also known as a cryptocurrency price index, becomes a significant factor in helping investors make the right decision. Failure to predict the movement of the crypto market gives a huge impact on profit loss. The difficult part is that market is dynamic in a way that is driven by many factors including inflation rate, economics, and natural calamities. This creates a chaos in the price of index so does the sentiment of the investor. This study proposes a machine learning model that applies a combination of sentiment-based support vector machine that is optimized by the whale optimization algorithm for predicting the daily price of a digital currency. Support Vector Machine (SVM) technique is used with the Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) which is inspired by the swarm optimization algorithms. The proposed Hybrid Sentiment-based Support Vector Machine with a Whale Optimization Algorithm (SVMWOA). will be evaluated and compared based on performance measures. The proposed method is compared with Support Vector Machine Optimized by Genetic Algorithm (SVMGA) and the Support Vector Machine Optimized by Harmony Search (SVMHS). The proposed model is found robust to be used in other fields of study.

In this paper, the energy characteristics of Gabor texture are used for cloud detection in high-resolution multispectral images. First, the satellite remote-sensing image is divided into superpixels using simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC), and then, the energy characteristics of Gabor texture and spectral characteristics are computed by extracting the texture features of the superpixels. The features of the cloud superpixels are used as the learning sample of the support vector machine (SVM) classifier, and a classification model is obtained by training the SVM classifier. Finally, a cloud-detection experiment is conducted for various sensor images with three visible bands and one near-infrared band. The experimental results showed that the proposed method provides an excellent average overall accuracy for thick and thin clouds in a complex background of forests, harbours, snow and mountains. The characteristic parameters of this paper are not limited by the image parameters; thus, they provide good results and universality for various types of sensors.