Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on Nonlinear Spectral–Spatial Network

Recently, for the task of hyperspectral image classification, deep-learning-based methods have revealed promising performance. However, the complex network structure and the time-consuming training process have restricted their applications. In this letter, we construct a much simpler network, i.e., the nonlinear spectral-spatial network (NSSNet), for hyperspectral image classification. NSSNet is developed from the basic structure of a principal component analysis network. Nonlinear information is included in NSSNet, to generate a more discriminative feature expression. Moreover, spectral and spatial features are combined to further improve the classification accuracy. Experimental results indicate that our method achieves better performance than state-of-the-art deep-learning-based methods.