Satellite Imagery For Semi-automatic Map Revision

Abstract—This research presents an integrated framework for satellite image retrieval, segmentation, and visualization, utilizing Python-based algorithms and geospatial data processing methods. It incorporates Google Maps-based image acquisition, a Tkinter-powered interactive GUI, and the U-Net segmentation model to efficiently process satellite imagery. Satellite image segmentation, powered by U-Net, plays a vital role in geospatial analysis, enabling automated classification and extraction of key features from high-resolution imagery. The framework facilitates seamless high-resolution map generation, segmentation, and an- alytical visualization through interactive tools like bar graphs and pie charts. By leveraging U-Net’s robust architecture, this implementation enhances segmentation accuracy and supports applications in urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. Through the automation of retrieval, processing, and visualization of satellite imagery, this research advances geospatial intelligence and provides a scalable solution for efficient image segmentation workflows. Keywords—Satellite Image Segmentation, Land Cover Classi- fication, Remote Sensing, Image Processing, Semantic Segmen- tation, Deep Learning Models, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), U-Net Architecture, Geospatial Analysis, Land Use Analysis

Possiblistic-Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Approach for the Segmentation of Satellite Images in HSL Color Space

The Real time monitoring of forest area, coastal regions, sea, river basins, nation borders etc. helps in quick determination of devastations caused by natural or man-made catastrophes, which can lead to emergency situations. Real-time Segmentation of satellite images is essential to detect fire, floods, volcanoes, earthquakes etc. of a specific geographical zone. Effective determination of such calamities and taking proactive measures can save a lot of lives and natural resources. In this paper, an efficient FSM based architecture is proposed for performing segmentation of satellite Images procured from NASA’s Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 and Landsat 5. The K-means clustering algorithm even after five decades of it’s existence is quite effective and mostly used for big data applications, owing to its lower complexity. However, it’s effective implementation has started only in the last couple of years. Here a FSM-based reconfigurable architecture is proposed for K-means algorithm taking into consideration the real-time segmentation of satellite Images. Compared to other architectures in the literature, the proposed one has reduced hardware usage, lower area, power consumption with a satisfactory clock frequency, most importantly it is reconfigurable and can be used with the on-board circuitry within satellites. The testing is carried out on eight latest satellite images of natural and human devastations, taken from NASA’s OLI. The number of possible clusters within the geographical image is studied with the help of histogram analysis based on Otsu’s thresholding method. The performance analysis is carried out by computing the Peak Signal to Noise (PSNR) and Mean Structural Similarity Index (M-SSIM) of the resultant clusters. It is observed that by increasing the number of clusters, the detailed classes were effectively segmented and the quality of clustering is ensured by the improvement in PSNR and M-SSIM values. Comparison of the obtained clusters with their true land features also yielded satisfactory results.

Different scenarios can be found in land classification and segmentation of satellite images. First, when prior knowledge is available, the training data is generally selected by randomly picking samples within classes. When no prior knowledge is available the system can pick samples at random among all unlabeled data, which is highly unreliable or it can rely on the expert collaboration to improve progressively the training data applying an active learning function. We suggest a scheme to tackle the lack of prior knowledge without actively involving the expert, whose collaboration may be expensive. The proposed scheme uses a clustering technique to analyze the feature space and find the most representative samples for being labeled. In this case the expert is just involved in labeling once a reliable training data set for being representative of the feature space. Once the training set is labeled by the expert, different classifiers may be built to process the rest of samples. Three different approaches are presented in this paper: the result of the clustering process, a distance based classifier, and support vector machines (SVM).

The satellite image segmentation is a key area for current research and numerous work has been done for exploration of this area. The nature inspired optimization algorithms are very promising with image segmentation techniques to provide a platform for processing of satellite images. In this paper a literature review of different nature based optimization algorithms such as modified artificial bee colony (MABC) algorithm, ABC algorithm, particle swarm optimization (PSO), Darwinian PSO, genetic algorithm (GA), Wind driven optimization (WDO) and cuckoo search(CS) using different objective functions has been discussed to find the optimized multilevel thresholds. These nature influenced optimization methods and their performances are compared using different objective functions for optimal multilevel thresholding. The comparative study shows that the MABC algorithm and different variants of CS algorithm are very strong and accurate in results generating using image segmentation. Both methods search multilevel thresholds very efficiently and correctly, and in MABC an improved bee’s search solution are used and in CS the cuckoo search solution are used.

The problem of interpretation of spatial data on satellite images is considered in the article. It is proposed to use the decomposition of images by topological features to highlight objects of interest, global and detailed structures on satellite images. The description of the method and the features of its implementation for creating a software product with effective algorithms for processing big data are given. The functionality of the developed software, which includes the classification of objects on satellite images, segmentation, binarization, noise removal is described. It is shown that these algorithms are built on a single theoretical basis in the form of a topological decomposition. Examples of using the program for segmentation and binarization of satellite images from urban neighborhoods are demonstrated.

The segmentation and classification of high-resolution satellite images (HRSI) are useful approaches to extract information. In recent times, roads and buildings have been classified for analysis of urban areas in a better manner. Apart from these, healthy trees are also an important factor in HRSI, i.e. adjacent to roads, and vegetation. They reflect the area in an image as land cover. Other important information, shadow, is extracted from satellite images, which indicates the presence of trees and built-up areas such as buildings, flyovers, etc. In this article, a weighted membership-function-based fuzzy c-means with spatial constraints (WMFCSC) approach for automated satellite image classification is proposed. Initially, spatially fuzzy clustering is used to classify the satellite images in healthy trees with vegetation, roads, and shadows, which includes the information of spatial constraints. The road results of the classified image are still having non-road segments. Therefore, the proposed four intermediate stages (IS) are used to extract the road information, followed by the results of road areas of the WMFCSC approach. The framework of IS helps to remove the false road segments which are adjacent to roads and renovates the segmented roads due to the shadow effect. A final step of a hybrid WMFCSC-IS approach is used to extract the road network. The results of classified images confirm the effectiveness of the WMFCSC-IS approach for satellite image classification.

Fast fuzzy clustering

Classifying the pixels of satellite images into homogeneous regions is a very challenging task as different regions have different types of land covers. Some land covers contain more regions, while some contain relatively smaller regions (e.g., bridges, roads). In satellite image segmentation, no prior information is available about the number of clusters. Here, in this paper, we have solved this problem using the concepts of semi-supervised clustering which utilizes the property of unsupervised and supervised classification. Three cluster validity indices are utilized, which are simultaneously optimized using AMOSA, a modern multiobjective optimization technique based on the concepts of simulated annealing. The first two cluster validity indices, symmetry distance based Sym-index, and Euclidean distance based I-index, are based on unsupervised properties. The last one is a supervised information based cluster validity index, Minkowski index. For supervised information, initially fuzzy C-mean clustering technique is used. Thereafter, based on the highest membership values of the data points to their respective clusters, randomly 10 % data points with their class labels are chosen. The effectiveness of this proposed semi-supervised clustering technique is demonstrated on three satellite image data sets of different cities of India. Results are also compared with existing clustering techniques.

In the proposed article, an innovative approach for the segmentation of region of interest (ROI) based on fuzzy and neural network (SOM-self organizing map) is investigated. In image analysis, clustering is an unique imperative practice wherein the complete data is separated as group of pixels and/or regions using its features. A satellite image is huge collection information. Many approaches and algorithms suggested for the dissection of satellite imagesto extract the indispensable and hidden information. In this work, fuzzy based FCM, PCM, PFCM, MFCM and SOM is applied to the satellite images to retrieve the information. The proposed method transforms the image in RG to HSL model prior to clustering. HSL model has some distinct characteristics such as perceptual, intuitive, polar coordinated, approximate the vision. The segmentation result is validated with image quality measures.

This paper presents a novel method for segmentation and change detection of multispectral images using proximal splitting-based clustering and multiclass support vector machine (MSVM). Initially, the multitemporal satellite images are preprocessed and then textures are extracted using Difference of Offset Gaussian filter. In general, the traditional clustering method uses Euclidean distance as a prime factor for segmentation process. For multitextured images such as remotely sensed images, this metric provides inconsistent output. To achieve better segmented results, proximal splitting algorithm has been proposed. This method has been considered as a solution for iterative minimization problem, which is required to find exact changes between the multitemporal images. The MSVM is chosen to group the segmented clusters into a fixed number of classes, since the clusters obtained from the proximal splitting algorithm are not independent with each other. Then, the classified images are subjected to image differencing method to detect the changes. Experimentation is performed with two real data sets of Landsat7 images, which illustrates that the mean of difference in area obtained by the proposed method is reduced by an average of 35.24% compared to the conventional system. The validity index obtained for data set 1 using proposed algorithm is lower than the existing methods.

As the problems caused by the global ecological environment become more and more serious, environmental protection has become an important issue in countries all over the world. In order to prevent natural disasters and monitor natural conditions, including monitoring areas affected by deforestation and floods, satellite image segmentation and automatic monitoring of forests and water bodies are becoming more and more important, which leads to the research work of satellite image segmentation in this paper. This paper is a continuation of the previous work of Fw-U-Net, and the model architecture proposed in the previous work still has many shortcomings, such as the design of the basic network architecture and the setting of parameters are not optimal, resulting in the performance cannot be further improved, which means that there are more directions that can be more improved. In the work of this paper, we make more in-depth improvements on Fw-U-Net. Pay attention to the realization of a lot of details and the exploration of the essence. It has been verified that the segmentation verification scores of our upgraded model in forest cover area and water area performance test set are 87.48% (84.51%) and 90.7% (85.83%) respectively, compared with previous work. Increased by 3.11% (0.86%) and 2.71% (0.41%), respectively, and the loss value was reduced to a certain extent. Transfer learning has higher accuracy and reference value for forest and water satellite image segmentation.

A technique based on the utilization of both textural and contextual information is proposed for the segmentation of satellite images. Markov random fields are taken as a unified framework for the modeling of satellite images, for the representation of textural as well as contextual information, and, finally, for the formulation of the scene labeling problem. The labeling problem is then solved by a new algorithm based on game strategies. In order to improve its effectiveness, information contained in geographic maps is used for the selection of optimal texture feature descriptors of the images. An adaptive estimation technique is also applied to obtain contextual information. Experimental results show that the technique is very efficient and effective. >

Deep Markov models of multidimensional random fields

With the widespread scope of image processing in fields such as ground classification, segmentation of satellite images, biomedical surface inspection and content-based image retrieval (CBIR), texture analysis is an important domain with a wide scope. The process of texture analysis comprises the following important steps: texture classification, segmentation and synthesis. Texture is a significant property of images which is difficult to define even though the human eye may recognize it with ease. Texture classification has remained an intangible pattern recognition task despite numerous studies. The prime issue in any texture classification application is how to select the features and which features to consider for representing texture. Another major issue remains the type of metric to be used for comparing the feature vectors. The traditional way of texture classification is to convert the texture image into a vector representing the features using a set of filters. This is followed by classification with a few smoothening steps involved in between. This paper outlines a picture of the basic features of an image as texture, colour and shape which are to be extracted to form the feature vector. The concept of applying Machine learning for the purpose of classification is explored and implemented. The use of Soft Computing Technique—Artificial Neural Networks is illustrated for the purpose of classification. The texture features are extracted using the GLCM method and used as input and fed to the neural network. The algorithm used in training the neural networks is the traditional backpropagation algorithm. The results show which configuration of the multi-layer feedforward architecture is best suited according to our experimental set-up.