The concept of chromosome differentiation, commonly witnessed in nature as male and female sexes, is incorporated in genetic algorithms with variable length strings for designing a nonparametric classification methodology. Its significance in partitioning different landcover regions from satellite images, having complex/overlapping class boundaries, is demonstrated. The classifier is able to evolve automatically the appropriate number of hyperplanes efficiently for modeling any kind of class

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... ndaries optimally. Merits of the system over the related ones are established through the use of several quantitative measure.