Wetland Classification Through Integration of GF-3 SAR and Sentinel-2B Multispectral Data over the Yellow River Delta

It is of great significance to monitor dynamic change of wetland over the Yellow River Delta for rational utilization, development and protection of wetland resources. Both Gaofen-3 (GF-3) SAR data and Sentinel-2B multispectral data were used to analyze the spectral, index, polarization scatter and texture feature information of seven types of ground objects over the Yellow River Delta wetland, and then supervised classification was implemented with maximum likelihood (ML), decision tree (DT) and support vector machine (SVM) classifier. The performances of both the joint and the individual classifications with GF-3 and Sentinel-2B data were also evaluated. The results of three algorithms show that the overall accuracy of the joint classification can reach 90.4%, 95.4%, 95.7%, significantly higher than that of the individual classifications, showing the promising potential of GF-3 SAR and Sentinel-2B multi-spectral images in joint wetland classification.