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In particular, we investigated how tuning parameters affect the classification accuracy with different training sample sizes. We found that: (1) SVM and NB were superior to CART and KNN, and both could achieve high classification accuracy (&gt;90%); (2) the setting of tuning parameters greatly affected classification accuracy, particularly for the most commonly-used SVM classifier; the optimal values of tuning parameters might vary slightly with the size of training samples;  (3) the size of training sample also greatly affected the classification accuracy, when the size of training sample was less than 125. Increasing the size of training samples generally led to the increase of classification accuracies for all four classifiers. In addition, NB and KNN were more sensitive to the sample sizes. This research provides insights into the selection of classifiers and the size of training samples. It also highlights the importance of the appropriate setting of tuning parameters for different machine learning classifiers and provides useful information for optimizing these parameters.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70100153","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,26]],"date-time":"2014-12-26T05:52:39Z","timestamp":1419573159000},"page":"153-168","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":335,"title":["Comparing Machine Learning Classifiers for Object-Based Land Cover Classification Using Very High Resolution Imagery"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Yuguo","family":"Qian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Urban and Region Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqinglu 18, Beijing 100085, China"}]},{"given":"Weiqi","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Urban and Region Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqinglu 18, Beijing 100085, China"}]},{"given":"Jingli","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Urban and Region Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqinglu 18, Beijing 100085, China"}]},{"given":"Weifeng","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Urban and Region Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqinglu 18, Beijing 100085, China"}]},{"given":"Lijian","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Urban and Region Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shuangqinglu 18, Beijing 100085, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3285","DOI":"10.1080\/01431161003745657","article-title":"Object-based urban detailed land cover classification with high spatial resolution ikonos imagery","volume":"32","author":"Pu","year":"2011","journal-title":"Int. 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