Development a Software Package For Remote Sensing Area Estimators Used in Image Classification

Dr. Tarek El-Damaty
Page No. 8-20

Accurate estimation of areas covered by land use classes is an important factor to many resource
management and monitoring programs, crop yield forecasting, forest and environmental
management. This paper is focusing on developing a software package for area estimation
techniques that used in remote sensing classifications and applying it. Soft classified image with a
reference map are used. A comparative study has been done using the developed software. The
results show that all areas which are estimated by based confusion matrix area estimators are more
accurate and closer to the true areas than that by proportional counting estimator and the results
show that; the developed software is an effective tool in supporting area estimation techniques.
Keywords : Area estimation, Remote sensing, Image classification, Land use.