Analysis of hyperspectral data with diffusion maps and Fuzzy ART

The presence of large amounts of data in hyperspectral images makes it very difficult to perform further tractable analyses. Here, we present a method of analyzing real hyperspectral data by dimensionality reduction using diffusion maps. Diffusion maps interpret the eigenfunctions of Markov matrices as a system of coordinates on the original data set in order to obtain an efficient representation of data geometric descriptions. A neural network clustering theory, Fuzzy ART, is further applied to the reduced data to form clusters of the potential minerals. Experimental results on a subset of hyperspectral core imager data show that the proposed methods are promising in addressing the complicated hyperspectral data and identifying the minerals in core samples.