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However, due to the high dimensionality of HSIs, landcover mapping applications usually suffer from the curse of dimensionality, which degrades the efficiency of supervised classifiers due to insufficient training samples. Feature extraction (FE) is a popular dimension reduction strategy for this issue. This paper proposes an unsupervised FE algorithm that involves extracting endmembers and clustering spectral bands. The proposed method first extracts existing endmembers from the HSI data via a vertex component analysis method. Using these endmembers, it subsequently constructs a prototype space (PS) in which each spectral band is represented by a point. Similar\/correlated bands in the PS remain near one another, forming several clusters. Therefore, our method, in the next step, clusters spectral bands into multiple clusters via K-means and fuzzy C-means algorithms. Finally, it combines all the spectral bands in the same cluster using a weighted average operator to decrease the high dimensionality. The extracted features were evaluated by applying an SVM classifier. The experimental results confirmed the superior performance of the proposed method compared with five state-of-the-art dimension reduction algorithms. It outperformed these algorithms in terms of classification accuracy on three widely used hyperspectral images (Indian Pines, KSC, and Pavia Centre). The suggested technique also showed comparable or even stronger performance (up to 9% improvement) compared with its supervised competitor. Notably, the proposed method exhibited higher accuracy even when only a limited number of training samples were available for supervised classification. Using only five training samples per class for the KSC and Pavia Centre datasets, our method\u2019s classification accuracy was higher than that of its best-performing unsupervised competitors by about 7% and 1%, respectively, in our experiments.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15153855","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,3]],"date-time":"2023-08-03T11:13:06Z","timestamp":1691061186000},"page":"3855","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["An Unsupervised Feature Extraction Using Endmember Extraction and Clustering Algorithms for Dimension Reduction of Hyperspectral Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2992-4277","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sayyed Hamed","family":"Alizadeh Moghaddam","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen\u2019s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N9, Canada"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4368-6682","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Saeed","family":"Gazor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen\u2019s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N9, Canada"}]},{"given":"Fahime","family":"Karami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography and Planning, Queen\u2019s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9495-4010","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Meisam","family":"Amani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China"},{"name":"WSP Environment and Infrastructure Canada Limited, Ottawa, ON K2E 7L5, Canada"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5108-4828","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuanggen","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China"},{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1803","DOI":"10.1109\/LGRS.2015.2424911","article-title":"Classification of hyperspectral images using subspace projection feature space","volume":"12","author":"Aghaee","year":"2015","journal-title":"IEEE Geosci. 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