Incremental Classification Algorithm of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images Based on Spectral-spatial Information

Abstract

An incremental classification algorithm INC_SPEC_MP_ext was proposed for hyperspectral remote sensing images based on spectral and spatial information. The spatial information was extracted by building morphological profiles based on several principle components of hyperspectral image. The morphological profiles were combined together in extended morphological profiles (MP_ext). Combine spectral and MP_ext to enrich knowledge and utilize the useful information of unlabeled data at the most extent to optimize the classifier. Pick out high confidence data and add to training set, then retrain the classifier with augmented training set to predict the rest samples. The process was performed iteratively. The proposed algorithm was tested on AVIRIS Indian Pines and Hyperion EO-1 Botswana data, which take on different covers, and experimental results show low classification cost and significant improvements in terms of accuracies and Kappa coefficient under limited training samples compared with the classification results based on spectral, MP_ext and the combination of sepctral and MP_ext.