A Systematic Review of Machine Learning Applications in Land Use Land Cover Change Detection using Remote Sensing

Abstract

Background/Purpose: The objective of this literature review is to explore different land use and land cover methods using machine learning techniques and also their applications in change detection. Reviewing various methods adopted in this domain opens up a new path for taking up further research by extending the current approaches.

Design/Methodology/Approach: The research findings presented in various scholarly articles are collected from secondary resources including scholarly journal publications. These articles are analyzed, and the interpretations are highlighted in this review paper.

Findings/Result: This research provides insight into various techniques used to classify remote sensing imagery. The gaps identified during the analysis with different approaches have helped to get a clear picture when formulating research questions in the remote sensing geographic information systems domain.

Research limitations/implications: This study has surveyed various applications of remote sensing in GIS. This study is limited to a review of the various machine-learning approaches used for implementing change detection. The various deep learning architectures for image classification could be further explored.

Originality/Value: The articles selected for review in this study are from scholarly research journals and are cited by other authors in their publications. The papers selected for review are relevant to the research work and research proposal presented in this paper.

Paper Type: Literature review paper.