Recently, deep learning-based methods have drawn increasing attention in hyperspectral imagery (HSI) classification, due to their strong nonlinear mapping capability. However, these methods suffer from a time-consuming training process because of many network parameters. In this paper, the concept of broad learning is introduced into HSI classification. Firstly, to make full use of abundant spectral and spatial information of hyperspectral imagery, hierarchical guidance filtering is performing on the original HSI to get its spectral-spatial representation. Then, the class-probability structure is incorporated into the broad learning model to obtain a semi-supervised broad learning version, so that limited labeled samples and many unlabeled samples can be utilized simultaneously. Finally, the connecting weights of broad structure can be easily computed through the ridge regression approximation. Experimental results on three popular hyperspectral imagery datasets demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve better performance than deep learning-based methods and conventional classifiers.

At present many researchers pay attention to a combination of spectral features and spatial features to enhance hyperspectral image (HSI) classification accuracy. However, the spatial features in some methods are utilized insufficiently. In order to further improve the performance of HSI classification, the spectral-spatial joint classification of HSI based on the broad learning system (BLS) (SSBLS) method was proposed in this paper; it consists of three parts. Firstly, the Gaussian filter is adopted to smooth each band of the original spectra based on the spatial information to remove the noise. Secondly, the test sample’s labels can be obtained using the optimal BLS classification model trained with the spectral features smoothed by the Gaussian filter. At last, the guided filter is performed to correct the BLS classification results based on the spatial contextual information for improving the classification accuracy. Experiment results on the three real HSI datasets demonstrate that the mean overall accuracies (OAs) of ten experiments are 99.83% on the Indian Pines dataset, 99.96% on the Salinas dataset, and 99.49% on the Pavia University dataset. Compared with other methods, the proposed method in the paper has the best performance.

With the development of science and technology, hyperspectral image (HSI) classification has been studied in depth by researchers as one of the important means of human cognition in living environments and the exploration of surface information. Nevertheless, the shortage of labeled samples is a major difficulty in HSI classification. To address this issue, we propose a novel HSI classification method called class-weighted domain adaptation network (CWDAN). First, the convolutional domain adaption network (ConDAN) is designed to align the marginal distributions and second-order statistics, respectively, of both domains via multi-kernel maximum mean discrepancy (MK-MMD) and CORAL loss. Then, the class-weighted MMD (CWMMD) is defined to simultaneously consider the conditional distribution discrepancy and changes of class prior distributions, and the CWMMD-based domain adaptation term is incorporated into the classical broad learning system (BLS) to construct the weighted conditional broad network (WCBN). The WCBN is applied to reduce the conditional distribution discrepancy and class weight bias across domains, while performing breadth expansion on domain-invariant features to further enhance representation ability. In comparison with several existing mainstream methods, CWDAN has excellent classification performance on eight real HSI data pairs when only using labeled source domain samples.

Multimodal remote sensing data classification can enhance a model’s ability to distinguish land features through multimodal data fusion. In this context, how to help models understand the relationship between multimodal data and target tasks has become the focus of researchers. Inspired by the human feedback learning mechanism, causal reasoning mechanism, and knowledge induction mechanism, this paper integrates causal learning, reinforcement learning, and meta learning into a unified remote sensing data classification framework and proposes causal meta-reinforcement learning (CMRL). First, based on the feedback learning mechanism, we overcame the limitations of traditional implicit optimization of fusion features and customized a reinforcement learning environment for multimodal remote sensing data classification tasks. Through feedback interactive learning between agents and the environment, we helped the agents understand the complex relationships between multimodal data and labels, thereby achieving full mining of multimodal complementary information.Second, based on the causal inference mechanism, we designed causal distribution prediction actions, classification rewards, and causal intervention rewards, capturing pure causal factors in multimodal data and preventing false statistical associations between non-causal factors and class labels. Finally, based on the knowledge induction mechanism, we designed a bi-layer optimization mechanism based on meta-learning. By constructing a meta training task and meta validation task simulation model in the generalization scenario of unseen data, we helped the model induce cross-task shared knowledge, thereby improving its generalization ability for unseen multimodal data. The experimental results on multiple sets of multimodal datasets showed that the proposed method achieved state-of-the-art performance in multimodal remote sensing data classification tasks.

Multimodal remote sensing data classification can enhance the model’s ability to distinguish land features through multimodal data fusion. In this context, how to help models understand the relationship between multimodal data and target tasks is the focus of researchers. Inspired by human feedback learning mechanisms, causal reasoning mechanisms, and knowledge induction mechanisms, this paper integrates causal learning, reinforcement learning, and meta learning into a unified remote sensing data classification framework and proposed the causal meta-reinforcement learning (CMRL). First, based on feedback learning mechanisms, we have overcome the limitations of traditional implicit optimization of fusion features and customized a reinforcement learning environment for multimodal remote sensing data classification tasks. Through feedback interactive learning between agents and the environment, we help them understand the complex relationships between multimodal data and labels, thereby achieving full mining of multimodal complementary information. Second, based on the causal inference mechanism we designed causal distribution prediction action, classification reward, and causal intervention reward, capturing pure causal factors in multimodal data and cutting off false statistical associations between non-causal factors and class labels. Finally, based on the knowledge induction mechanism, we designed a bi-layer optimization mechanism based on meta-learning. By constructing a meta training task and meta validation task simulation model in the generalization scenario of unseen data, we helped the model induce cross-task shared knowledge, thereby improving its generalization ability for unseen multimodal data. The experimental results on multiple sets of multimodal datasets show that the proposed method achieved state-of-the-art performance in multimodal remote sensing data classification tasks.

Labeled hyperspectral image (HSI) information is commonly difficult to acquire, so the lack of valid labeled data becomes a major puzzle for HSI classification. Semi-supervised methods can efficiently exploit unlabeled and labeled data for classification, which is highly valuable. Graph-based semi-supervised methods only focus on HSI local or global data and cannot fully utilize spatial–spectral information; this significantly limits the performance of classification models. To solve this problem, we propose an adaptive global–local feature fusion (AGLFF) method. First, the global high-order and local graphs are adaptively fused, and their weight parameters are automatically learned in an adaptive manner to extract the consistency features. The class probability structure is then used to express the relationship between the fused feature and the categories and to calculate their corresponding pseudo-labels. Finally, the fused features are imported into the broad learning system as weights, and the broad expansion of the fused features is performed with the weighted broad network to calculate the model output weights. Experimental results from three datasets demonstrate that AGLFF outperforms other methods.