Neural network classification with optimization by genetic algorithms for remote sensing imagery

Abstract

On the remote sensing imagery classification, the traditional methods based on statistical principle has the difficulties in distinguishing the objects with similar spectral characteristics, while the back propagation neural network method has the difficulties in sufficiency and convergence. Therefore, a new method based on neural network classification with optimization by genetic algorithms for remote sensing imagery is proposed in this paper. On the basis of the back propagation( BP )neural network classification, the optimization method by genetic algorithms is presented, including the numbers, the thresholds and the connection weights of nerve nodes of the hide layer in BP neural network. An approach on float coding with alterative length for genetic algorithms is proposed, and the evolution method is improved to obtain an optimal BP neural network. In the end, an experimental test on the remote sensing classification using TM image of Dianshan Lake is carried out, and higher classification accuracy has obtained compared to other methods, which is proved the feasibility and validity of the proposed approach.