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In this paper a new approach for fractal based dimensionality reduction of hyperspectral data has been proposed. The features have been generated by multiplying variogram fractal dimension value with spectral energy. Fractal dimension bears the information related to the shape or characteristic of the spectral response curves and the spectral energy bears the information related to class separation. It has been observed that, the features provide accuracy better than 90 % in distinguishing different land cover classes in an urban area, different vegetation types belonging to an agricultural area as well as various types of minerals belonging to the same parent class. Statistical comparison with some conventional dimensionality reduction methods validates the fact that the proposed method, having less computational burden than the conventional methods, is able to produce classification statistically equivalent to those of the conventional methods.
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Mukherjee, K., Ghosh, J.K. & Mittal, R.C. Variogram Fractal Dimension Based Features for Hyperspectral Data Dimensionality Reduction. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 41, 249–258 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-012-0225-4
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