Abbrevia on Full Form Context / Meaning
Acquiring informa on about Earth’s surface from
RS Remote Sensing
satellites/UAVs without physical contact
Classifica on of land into categories like urban,
LULC Land Use and Land Cover
agriculture, forest, water, etc.
SVM Support Vector Machine Classical ML algorithm used for classifica on in RS
Ensemble ML method for classifica on/regression in RS
RF Random Forest
tasks
DT Decision Tree Tree-based ML algorithm used in early LULC studies
Convolu onal Neural Deep learning model for extrac ng spa al/local image
CNN
Network features
Transformer-based model capturing global dependencies
ViT Vision Transformer
in images
Fully Convolu onal
FCN Early DL model for seman c segmenta on
Network
Encoder-decoder CNN for segmenta on with skip
U-Net –
connec ons
OA Overall Accuracy Evalua on metric in classifica on/segmenta on
Class-wise Producer
CPA Accuracy metric per class in LULC studies
Accuracy
F1 F1 Score Harmonic mean of Precision & Recall
IoU Intersec on over Union Overlap measure between predicted and true regions
Mean Intersec on over
mIoU Average IoU across mul ple classes
Union
RGB Red, Green, Blue Standard 3-channel color bands in imagery
SAR Synthe c Aperture Radar Microwave radar imaging sensor, penetrates clouds
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Drones used for sub-meter resolu on data collec on
LU/LC Land Use / Land Cover Another way of wri ng LULC
Linear Imaging Self-
LISS Op cal sensor onboard IRS satellites (e.g., LISS-III)
Scanning Sensor
Indian Remote Sensing
IRS India’s Earth observa on satellite program
(Satellite series)