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This paper proposes a multi-label classification model for multi-source RSIs that combines dense convolution and an attention mechanism. This method adds fusion channel attention and a spatial attention mechanism to each dense block module of the DenseNet, and the sigmoid activation function replaces the softmax activation function in multi-label classification. The improved model retains the main features of RSIs to the greatest extent and enhances the feature extraction of the images. The model can integrate local features, capture global dependencies, and aggregate contextual information to improve the multi-label land cover classification accuracy of RSIs. We conducted comparative experiments on the SEN12-MS and UC-Merced land cover dataset and analyzed the evaluation indicators. 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