“…A very challenging problem in the remote sensing community is to generate land-cover maps for semantically characterizing Earth's surface [1,2,3,4,5,6]. As one of the most widely used approaches, hyperspectral image (HSI) classification has recently gained in popularity and attracted research interests from other scientific disciplines such as image processing, machine learning, and computer vision [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15].…”