Spectral-spatial Rotation Forest for hyperspectral image classification

Rotation Forest (RoF) is a decision tree ensemble classifier, which uses random feature selection and data transformation techniques to improve both the diversity and accuracy of base classifiers. Traditional RoF only considers data transformation on spectral information. In order to further improve the performance of RoF, we introduce spectral-spatial data transformation into RoF and thus propose a spectral-spatial Rotation Forest (SSRoF). The proposed method is experimentally investigated on a hyperspectral remote sensing image collected by the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) sensor. Experimental results indicate that the proposed methodology achieves excellent performance.