Since the traditional hard classifiers are parametric in nature and expect the data to follow a Gaussian distribution, they perform poorly on high resolution satellite images in which land features and classes exhibit extensive overlapping in spectral space. Further, integrating ancillary data like digital elevation model, slope, texture, contextual information, etc. into spectral bands is difficult in such classifiers, because ancillary data results in a non-Gaussian distribution of the resultant data. Hence, generating a satisfactory classified image from the higher spectral and spatial,...