Neuro-fuzzy and soft computing in classification of remote sensing data.

Hybrid intelligent systems are discussed. These systems combine neural networks, which recognize patterns and adapt themselves to cope with changing environments, and fuzzy inference systems that incorporate human knowledge and perform inferencing and decision making. The integration of these? complimentary techniques along with derivative-free optimization techniques based on genetic algorithms, results in a novel. discipline called neuro-fuzzy and soft computing. These approaches will lee discussed and applied in classification of multisource remote sensing and geographic data. Both the rationale of the approaches and the results obtained by the methods will be compared to more traditional techniques.