WEST OF IRAQ SATELLITE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING FUZZY LOGIC

Abstract

In this paper, land use/cover classification using fuzzy techniques which involves several steps, from designing the parameters of the membership functions through classification of the satellite image to the refining the final product. To decide the threshold parameters of membership functions that lead to appropriate classification of the scene, one band of landsat-5 were investigated by the features of the histogram of each area to be classified. The results of fuzzy system (Mamdani type) has been compared with the classical method (* Maximum likelihood classification *) and encourage us to use this technique for other bands with optimum rules for future works.