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Rule Images in Supervised Classi�cation

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A rule image is a greyscale image that shows intermediate classi�cation results for a selected class. The pixel values represent different metrics, which are
described below.

With the following classi�cation tools, ENVI creates one rule image where each band represents a rule image for each class:

• Mahalanobis Distance classi�cation: Pixel values represent the distance from the class mean.
• Maximum Likelihood classi�cation: Pixel values contain a maximum likelihood discriminant function with a modi�ed Chi Squared probability distribution.
Higher rule image values indicate higher probabilities.
• Minimum Distance classi�cation: Pixel values represent the Euclidean distance from the class mean.
• Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM) classi�cation: Pixel values represent the spectral angle in radians from the reference spectrum for each class. Lower spectral
angles represent better matches to the endmember spectra.

With the following tools, ENVI creates multiple rule images, one for each class. For example, if a classi�cation involves 10 classes, then 10 rule images will be
created. To create rule images for these classi�cation methods, toggle the Output Rule Images? option to Yes.

• Binary Encoding classi�cation: Pixel values represent the percentage (0-100%) of bands that matched that class.
• Parallelepiped classi�cation: Pixel values range from 0 to n (where n is the number of bands). They represent the number of bands that satis�ed the
parallelepiped criteria.
• Spectral Information Divergence (SID) classi�cation: One rule image is created for each endmember. Pixel values represent the SID value (the output of the
equation that de�nes SID for a pair of spectral vectors). Lower spectral divergence measures represent better matches to the endmember spectra.
• Support Vector Machine (SVM): Pixel values represent the percentage (0-100%) of bands that matched that class.

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