6. A hypothetical case study

A hypothetical case study is presented to show the application of land cover/land use mapping in real-life scenario. Assume the XXX company wants to plan their production center construction in Madurai city. For the production centre to be established, large area is needed and thus unoccupied areas in the city have to be

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investigated. Also, it sends out waste material that is toxic and should not be present in the urban areas. The products, which the company produces, are sent to other parts of the country and some are exported. So, road routes also have to be checked.

So, initially a place has to be selected and a plan to be made accordingly. In order to plan the construction, it acquires the satellite image of Madurai city. Then the features are obtained using wavelet feature extraction method, and the classified output is obtained using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system classification. The classified image can be clearly understood and can be given to the construction planning team for their further processing. Here, also in addition if the PAN image of the Madurai city and MS image of the Madurai city are fused and then if classification is performed, it would yield still better classification results.
