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This study proposes a multidimensional CNN model named MDAN, which is constructed with an attention mechanism, to achieve an ideal classification performance of CNN within the framework of few-shot learning. In this model, a three-dimensional (3D) convolutional layer is carried out for obtaining spatial\u2013spectral features from the 3D volumetric data of HSI. Subsequently, the two-dimensional (2D) and one-dimensional (1D) convolutional layers further learn spatial and spectral features efficiently at an abstract level. Based on the most widely used convolutional block attention module (CBAM), this study investigates a convolutional block self-attention module (CBSM) to improve accuracy by changing the connection ways of attention blocks. The CBSM model is used with the 2D convolutional layer for better performance of HSI classification purposes. The MDAN model is applied for classification applications using HSI, and its performance is evaluated by comparing the results with the support vector machine (SVM), 2D CNN, 3D CNN, 3D\u20132D\u20131D CNN, and CBAM. The findings of this study indicate that classification results from the MADN model show overall classification accuracies of 97.34%, 96.43%, and 92.23% for Salinas, WHU-Hi-HanChuan, and Pavia University datasets, respectively, when only 1% HSI data were used for training. The training and testing times of the MDAN model are close to those of the 3D\u20132D\u20131D CNN, which has the highest efficiency among all comparative CNN models. The attention model CBSM is introduced into MDAN, which achieves an overall accuracy of about 1% higher than that of the CBAM model. The performance of the two proposed methods is superior to the other models in terms of both efficiency and accuracy. 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