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Semi-supervised scene classification approaches can transfer the knowledge learned from previously annotated data to remote sensing images with scarce samples for satisfactory classification results. However, due to the differences between sensors, environments, seasons, and geographical locations, cross-domain remote sensing images exhibit feature distribution deviations. Therefore, semi-supervised scene classification methods may not achieve satisfactory classification accuracy. To address this problem, a novel semi-supervised subcategory centroid alignment (SSCA)-based scene classification approach is proposed. The SSCA framework is made up of two components, namely the rotation-robust convolutional feature extractor (RCFE) and the neighbor-based subcategory centroid alignment (NSCA). The RCFE aims to suppress the impact of rotation changes on remote sensing image representation, while the NSCA aims to decrease the impact of intra-category variety across domains on cross-domain scene classification. The SSCA algorithm and several competitive approaches are validated on two datasets to demonstrate its effectiveness. 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