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In this paper, we use the optimized spatial gradient transfer method for data fusion, which can effectively solve the strong heterogeneity of heterogeneous data fusion. The entropy rate superpixel segmentation algorithm over-segments HSI and LiDAR to extract local spatial and elevation information, and a Gaussian density-based regularization strategy normalizes the local spatial and elevation information. Then, the spatial gradient transfer model and l1-total variation minimization are introduced to realize the fusion of local multi-attribute features of different sources, and fully exploit the complementary information of different features for the description of ground objects. Finally, the fused local spatial features are reconstructed into a guided image, and the guided filtering acts on each dimension of the original HSI, so that the output maintains the complete spectral information and detailed changes of the spatial fusion features. It is worth mentioning that we have carried out two versions of expansion on the basis of the proposed method to improve the joint utilization of multi-source data. Experimental results on two real datasets indicated that the fused features of the proposed method have a better effect on ground object classification than the mainstream stacking or cascade fusion methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14081814","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,9]],"date-time":"2022-04-09T05:13:08Z","timestamp":1649481188000},"page":"1814","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Optimized Spatial Gradient Transfer for Hyperspectral-LiDAR Data Classification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5802-9496","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bing","family":"Tu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information and Communication Engineering, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang 414000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information and Communication Engineering, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang 414000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3107-5446","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chengle","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information and Communication Engineering, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang 414000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3640-6817","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Siyuan","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information and Communication Engineering, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang 414000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Antonio","family":"Plaza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Department of Technology of Computers and Communications, Escuela Politecnica, University of Extremadura, E-10003 Caceres, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"9837","DOI":"10.1109\/JSTARS.2021.3111740","article-title":"Structure-Aware Multikernel Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification","volume":"14","author":"Zhou","year":"2021","journal-title":"IEEE J. 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