Satellite Image

Study Area

Classifiers

Results

Landsat ETM + and Terra ASTER [25]

Istanbul, Turkey

MXL and ANN

MXL algorithm dominated road class over the image whilst ANN classifier was slightly sensitive to inland water class.

Landsat 7 ETM + [36]

Ayvalık district, Turkey

PP, MD and MXL

MXL gave better results than MD and PP.

Landsat TM

[37]

Saudi Arabia

ISODATA, MXL, MhD and MD

MXL method gave the best results while both MD and MhD methods overestimated agriculture land and suburban areas