Abstract
For purpose of improving the accuracy of the built-up quick mapping, this paper proposed an improved optimal segmentation threshold algorithm, namely the improved double-window flexible pace search (IDFPS) approach, by redesigning the valuation criteria and the sampling method based on the double-window flexible pace search (DFPS) approach. Moreover, the Normalized Difference Built-up Index (NDBI), the Index-based Built-up Index (IBI), the Enhanced Built-up and Bareness Index (EBBI) and the Urban Index (UI) inversed from Landsat 5 TM images were used for quick mapping by the IDFPS approach and the DFPS approach in different geographical areas. Results from the experiments exemplified by Chongqing (a mountain city) and Chengdu (a plain city) showed that the IDFPS approach was comprehensively superior to the DFPS approach. The IDFPS approach had more than 4.30% higher overall accuracy and 0.12 higher Kappa coefficients than the DFPS approach when both were implemented simultaneously at both the above-mentioned study areas. Besides, a new discovery in this paper was found that the UI had a better performance with higher overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient, lower omission error and commission error than the NDBI, IBI and EBBI because of the strong relationship between the UI and the density of built-up land. This new method has an important reference value for built-up quick mapping and some other applied researches.
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