Fast principal component analysis for hyperspectral imaging based on cloud computing

Principal component analysis (PCA) is an important method for feature extraction of hyperspectral remote sensing image. With the development of hyperspectral sensors, the magnitude of hyperspectral data grows quickly, and it is a challenging task to efficiently reduce the data dimension and compress massive data volumes in hyperspectral imaging. In this paper, a distributed parallel optimization of PCA algorithm (PCA_DP) is presented on cloud computing architecture. The realization of the proposed method using Apache Hadoop and MapReduce model is described and evaluated. The experiments conducted on real hyperspectral images of different sizes, demonstrate significant acceleration factor of PCA_DP. It is efficient for massive hyperspectral data processing.