Spectral-spatial Classification of Hyperspectral Images Using Signal Subspace Identification and Edge-preserving Filter

Hyperspectral images in remote sensing include hundreds of spectral bands that provide valuable information for accurately identify objects. In this paper, a new method of classifying hyperspectral images using spectral spatial information has been presented. Here, using the hyperspectral signal subspace identification (HYSIME) method which estimates the signal and noise correlation matrix and selects a subset of eigenvalues for the best representation of the signal subspace in order to minimize the mean square error, subsets from the main sample space have been extracted. After subspace extraction with the help of the HYSIME method, the edge-preserving filtering (EPF), and classification of the hyperspectral subspace using a support vector machine (SVM), results were then merged into the decision-making level using majority rule to create the spectral-spatial classifier. The simulation results showed that the spectral-spatial classifier presented leads to significant improvement in the accuracy and validity of the classification of Indiana, Pavia and Salinas hyperspectral images, such that it can classify these images with 98.79%, 98.88% and 97.31% accuracy, respectively.