Kernel-based Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis for hyperspectral image classification

Abstract

Linear spectral mixture analysis (LSMA) has been widely used in remote sensing community. Recently, kernel-based approaches have received considerable interest in hyperspectral image analysis where nonlinear kernels are used to resolve the issue of nonlinear separability in classification. This paper extends the LSMA to kernel-based LSMA where three least squares-based LSMA techniques, least squares orthogonal subspace projection (LSOSP), non-negativity constrained least squares (NCLS) and fully constrained least squares (FCLS) are extended to their kernel counterparts, KLSOSP, KNCLS and KFCLS.