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MESMA was adopted to tackle the mixing pixel problem induced by medium resolution data. Specifically, 35 optimal endmembers were selected to construct a total of 3111 models in the MESMA procedure to derive accurate fraction information. A multi-dimensional feature space was constructed including the normalized difference water index (NDWI), topographical parameters of height, slope, and aspect together with the fraction maps. A Random Forest classifier consisting of 200 decision trees was adopted to classify the post-flood image based on the above multi-features. Experimental results indicated that the proposed method can extract the inundated areas precisely with a classification accuracy of 94% and a Kappa index of 0.88. The inclusion of fraction information can help improve the mapping accuracy with an increase of 2.5%. Moreover, the proposed method also outperformed the maximum likelihood classifier and the NDWI thresholding method. This research provided a useful reference for flood mapping using medium resolution optical remote sensing imagery.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70912539","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,9,23]],"date-time":"2015-09-23T12:24:25Z","timestamp":1443011065000},"page":"12539-12562","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":57,"title":["Flood Mapping Based on Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis and Random Forest Classifier\u2014The Case of Yuyao, China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Quanlong","family":"Feng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.20, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, 100101 Beijing, China"}]},{"given":"Jianhua","family":"Gong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.20, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, 100101 Beijing, China"},{"name":"Zhejiang-CAS Application Center for Geoinformatics, No.568, Jinyang East Road,  314100 Jiashan, China"}]},{"given":"Jiantao","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.20, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, 100101 Beijing, China"}]},{"given":"Yi","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.20, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, 100101 Beijing, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,9,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"687","DOI":"10.3390\/rs5020687","article-title":"Flood mapping and flood dynamics of the Mekong Delta: ENVISAT-ASAR-WSM based time series analyses","volume":"5","author":"Kuenzer","year":"2013","journal-title":"Remote Sens."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5122","DOI":"10.3390\/rs5105122","article-title":"Varying scale and capability of Envisat ASAR-WSM, TerraSAR-X Scansar and TerraSAR-X Stripmap data to assess urban flood situations: A case study of the Mekong Delta in Can Tho Province","volume":"5","author":"Kuenzer","year":"2013","journal-title":"Remote Sens."},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"381","DOI":"10.3390\/w6020381","article-title":"Real time estimation of the Calgary floods using limited remote sensing data","volume":"6","author":"Schnebele","year":"2014","journal-title":"Water"},{"key":"ref_4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3681","DOI":"10.1080\/01431160110114484","article-title":"An efficient method for mapping flood extent in a coastal floodplain using Landsat TM and DEM data","volume":"23","author":"Wang","year":"2002","journal-title":"Int. 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