Pixel-Based Image Classification

Pixel-based image classification is a fundamental remote-sensing technique that assigns each individual pixel in a satellite or aerial image to a thematic land-cover category based solely on its spectral values across multiple bands. Systematically surveyed and formalized by Lu and Weng (2007), the approach encompasses both supervised methods—where labeled training samples guide the classifier—and unsupervised clustering approaches that discover natural spectral groupings without prior labels.