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Abstract
This article presents a vectorial boundary-based sub-pixel mapping (VBSPM) method to obtain the land-cover distribution with finer spatial resolution in mixed pixels. With inheritance from the geometric SPM (GSPM), VBSPM first geometrically partitions a mixed pixel using polygons, and then utilizes a vectorial boundary extraction model (VBEM), rather than the rasterization method in GSPM, to determine the location and length of each edge in the polygon, while these edges are located at the boundary of and within the interior of the mixed pixel. Furthermore, VBSPM uses a decay function to manage the mixed pixels along the image boundary region due to the missing parts of their neighbours. Finally, a ray-crossing algorithm is employed to determine the land-cover class of each sub-pixel in terms of vectorial boundaries. The experiments with artificial and remotely sensed images have demonstrated that VBSPM can reduce the inconsistency between the boundaries of different land-cover classes, approximately calculating errors with an odd zoom factor, and achieve more accurate sub-pixel mapping results than the hard classification methods and GSPM.
Funding
This research was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 40971222].