Mapping of hyperspectral AVIRIS data using machine-learning algorithms

Hyperspectral imaging provides detailed spectral and spatial information from the land cover that enables a precise differentiation between various surface materials. On the other hand, the performance of traditional and widely used statistical classification methods is often limited in this context, and thus alternative methods are required. In the study presented here, the performance of two machine-learning techniques, namely support vector machines (SVMs) and random forests (RFs), is investigated and the classification results are compared with those from well-known methods (i.e., maximum likelihood classifier and spectral angle mapper). The classifiers are applied to an Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) dataset that was acquired near the Hekla volcano in Iceland. The results clearly show the advantages of the two proposed classifier algorithms in terms of accuracy. They significantly outperform the other methods and achieve overall accuracies of approximately 90%. Although SVM and RF show some diversity in the classification results, the global performance of the two classifiers is very similar. Thus, both methods can be considered attractive for the classification of hyperspectral data.

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