The CCRS SAR/MSS Anderson River Data Set

Abstract

Technical Committee no. 7 of the International Association of Pattern Recognition is seeking test data sets that would further research into pattern recognition for remote sensing. Such data sets are usually expensive to acquire and are rarely made available. The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) has chosen to make the SAR/MSS Data Set for Anderson River available. This paper describes the contents and structure of the data set. Several major studies were conducted using these data by the authors and their colleagues. This paper will also summarize the results of these investigations conducted over four years. Studies included classification accuracies with and without terrain slope and aspect corrections, optimum sensor and feature selection, texture features, and multisensor data integration. Finally, the authors describe the procedure whereby other scientists can gain access to the data set.