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Original Research Articles                      Volume : 11, Issue:5, May, 2022

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Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci.2022.11(5): 115-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2022.1105.015


Evaluation of Machine Learning Classifiers for Crop Classification – A Case Study of Veppanthattai Taluk, Perambalur District
Sakthivel1 and B. Linda Theres2*
1Department of Geography, Guindy Campus, University of Madras, Chennai – 600025, India, 2Department of Civil Engineering, SASTRA Deemed to be University, Thanjavur – 613401, India
*Corresponding author
Abstract:

India is a country that has major dependence on agriculture. In spite of all the careful measures, there is a loss of agricultural land due to improper use of land. One way to tackle the issue is hand, is by monitoring and quantifying the crop. Also, Crop discrimination and Acreage estimation are essential for planning and policymaking at various administrative levels. In earlier days, a field-based survey was executed with meddlesome factors like time consumption, and labor-intensive. But with remote sensing and GIS technology in the picture, the survey became a cakewalk. It can provide timely and accurate crop inventory information. Also, with a focus on Machine Learning in recent years, crop classification became more precise. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC), Minimum Distance to Mean classification (MDMC), Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification, and Neural Net (NN) classification for crop discrimination and acreage estimation in Veppanthattai Block of Perambalur District in Tamil Nadu using Sentinel 2B. Ground truth data were collected randomly over the study area, in that 60% of data used for training and 40% data was used for testing the classification. It was inferred that MLC was the best with a kappa coefficient of 0.89, compared with MDMC, SVM, and NN which exhibited poor classification results with a kappa coefficient of 0.47, 0.85, and 0.83 respectively.


Keywords: Crop classification, Maximum Likelihood Classifier, Minimum Distance to Mean Classifier

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Sakthivel, R. and Linda Theres, B. 2022. Evaluation of Machine Learning Classifiers for Crop Classification – A Case Study of Veppanthattai Taluk, Perambalur District.Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 11(5): 115-124. doi: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2022.1105.015
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