Comparison of Different Mapping Techniques for Classifying Hyperspectral Data

Hyperion is a space borne sensor which provides powerful tool in discriminating land cover features including urban area and in preparation of urban maps. It gives hyperspectral images in 242 bands within 400 nm to 2,500 nm wavelength range with 10 nm band-width. The Hyperion image in raw form is badly affected with several atmospheric effects which cause haziness. In this study hyperspectral image is atmospherically corrected by using FLAASH model of ENVI. After atmospheric correction the urban area was mapped using the spectral endmember collected by the procedure which includes minimum noise fraction (MNF), pixel purity index (PPI) and n-dimensional visualization in ENVI software. The aim of this study is to map the urban area using several mapping techniques such as Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM), Mixture Tune Matched Filtering (MTMF) and Linear Spectral Unmixing. The urban land covers displayed noticeable differences from one another in the spectral responses in the Hyperion image. The overall accuracy of the SAM classified map was 89.41%, which indicated good potential of Hyperion image for Classification. Use of the other approaches, linear spectral unmixing and MTMF have improved the classification results.