Hyperspectral remote sensing images terrain classification in DCT SRDA subspace

Hyperspectral remote sensing images terrain classification faces the problems of high data dimensionality and lack of labeled training data, resulting in unsatisfied terrain classification efficiency. The feature extraction is required before terrain classification for preserving discriminative information and reducing data dimensionality. A hyperspectral remote sensing images feature extraction method, i.e., discrete cosine transform （DCT） spectral regression discriminant analysis （SRDA） subspace method, was presented to solve the above problems. The proposed DCT SRDA subspace method firstly takes DCT in the original spectral space and gets the DCT coefficients of each pixel spectral curve; secondly performs SRDA in the DCT coefficients space and obtains the DCT SRDA subspace. Minimum distance classifier was designed in the resulting DCT SRDA subspace to evaluate the feature extraction performance. Experiments for two real airborne visible/infrared imaging spectrometer （AVIRIS） hyperspectral images show that, comparing with spectral LDA subspace method, the proposed DCT SRDA subspace method can improve terrain classification efficiency.

Advances in spaceborne hyperspectral remote sensing in China

With the maturation of satellite technology,Hyperspectral Remote Sensing(HRS)platforms have developed from the initial ground-based and airborne platforms into spaceborne platforms,which greatly promotes the civil application of HRS imagery in the fields of agriculture,forestry,and environmental monitoring.China is playing an important role in this evolution,especially in recent years,with the successful launch and operation of a series of civil hyper-spectral spacecraft and satellites,including the Shenzhou-3 spacecraft,the Gaofen-5 satellite,the SPARK satellite,the Zhuhai-1 satellite network for environmental and resources monitoring,the FengYun series of satellites for meteorological observation,and the Chang’E series of spacecraft for planetary exploration.The Chinese spaceborne HRS platforms have various new characteristics,such as the wide swath width,high spatial resolution,wide spectral range,hyperspectral satellite networks,and microsatellites.This paper focuses on the recent progress in Chinese spaceborne HRS,from the aspects of the typical satellite systems,the data processing,and the applications.In addition,the future development trends of HRS in China are also discussed and analyzed.