Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the methods of object –oriented fuzzy classification for extracting information of land use in Dong Anh - Ha Noi. The study area is the suburban areas of Hanoi, where the land cover/land use fragmented, complicated by the process of urbanization and industrialization. Object – oriented fuzzy classification is a modern method. This is a flexible classification based on the particular characteristics of the objects image to extract land use data. The characteristics that is not only the spectral values of the pixels, but also consider the shape, texture and contextual information.