Hyperspectral image classification using Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection with fusion deep learning network

Hyperspectral images (HSI) are crucial for remote sensing applications as they provide detailed spectral information that accurately identifies and analyzes various materials and land features. HSI classification faces challenges due to large data volumes and high dimensionality. Dimensionality reduction techniques help address these problems by simplifying model computation, reducing redundancy, and improving feature selection. However, traditional methods struggle to capture nonlinear structures and local–global relationships in hyperspectral data. We propose a new multi-feature fusion classification model called the Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) and Simple Attention Module (SimAM) mechanism fusion network (UMAPSAMFN). The main workflow of the model consists of several steps. The network uses UMAP to map high-dimensional HSI data into a low-dimensional space while maintaining a local and global structure. The feature data are sent to the convolutional neural network (CNN) and graph convolutional network (GCN) modules to capture pixel-level features and contextual information. These data are separately processed through multi-head attention modules to enhance the ability to represent feature information. Finally, the processed data are jointly fed into a fusion module with an attention mechanism to boost feature information and achieve deep modeling results. The experimental results on three benchmark HSI datasets show that UMAPSAMFN consistently exhibits the highest classification accuracy, with overall classification accuracies of 93.28%, 96.13%, and 97.73% on the Indian Pines, Pavia University, and Salinas datasets, respectively.