It is difficult for a single classifier to resolve the problem of high dimension in the hyperspectral image classification applications. Combination of multiple classifiers can make full use of the complementary of the existing classifiers, thus owns better classification performance. A novel multiple classifiers based on C5.0 decision tree is proposed. It reduces the hyperspectral dimension through wavelet-PCA transform algorithm firstly. Then three supervised classifiers, namely Minimum Distance, Maximum Likelihood and SVM, combined by C5.0 decision tree, are used to realize hyperspectral classification. Experiments based on AVIRIS hyperspectral image data show that higher classification accuracy may be achieved via the multiple combined classifiers than a single sub-classifier. The proposed method can reduce the dimension of features and improve the classification performance efficiently.
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