ROTATION XGBOOST BASED METHOD FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION WITH LIMITED TRAINING SAMPLES

The classification of hyperspectral image (HSI) has become the focus of the remote sensing field. However, limited training data, which makes the classification task face a major challenge, is inevitable in remote sensing. To eliminate the negative effects of limited labeled samples, an enhanced ensemble method named RoXGBoost, which inherently combines Rotation Forest (RoF) and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) is proposed in this paper. This algorithm could increase the diversity of base classifiers by random feature selection and data transformation. Five ensemble learning methods, Random Forest (RF), AdaBoost, RoF, Rotation Boost and XGBoost, are applied as comparisons. The results on two benchmark datasets, Indian Pines and Pavia University, demonstrate the effectiveness of the RoXGBoost.