“…In addition, the concept of PSO and FODPSO has been used for other applications such as image clustering, classification, data compression, and feature selection in the remote-sensing community. For more information on other applications of the PSO family, we refer interested readers to (Ghamisi et al 2013(Ghamisi et al , 2015a(Ghamisi et al , 2015bKargozar Nahavandi et al 2015 andGhamisi andBenediktsson 2015) …”