Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Spectral–Spatial Composite Kernels Discriminant Analysis

This paper proposes a framework for hyperspectral images (HSIs) classification with composite kernels discriminant analysis (CKDA). The CKDA uses the spectral and spatial information extracted by Gaussian weighted local mean operator (GWLM) and is suitable to solve few labeled samples classification problem of HSI, which has very important practical significance for the case that training samples are insufficient due to high cost. Experimental results show that the spatial information extracted by GWLM can greatly improve the performance, and demonstrate the superiority of CKDA for HSI classification in the case of few labeled samples. Compared with other state-of-the-art spectral-spatial kernel methods, the proposed methods also show very good advantages, especially the parallel kernel method.