Spectral-Spatial Crop Classification Using Wavelet-Based Parallel Bidirectional LSTM Networks
摘要
Accurate crop classification using hyperspectral data is essential for precision agriculture and environmental monitoring. This study presents a hybrid framework combining wavelet transform and parallel bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) networks. The wavelet transform is first employed to extract multi-resolution spatial features from the hyperspectral cube, which are then processed through parallel BiLSTM branches to capture forward and backward spectral dependencies. These outputs are combined and transmitted through a dense classification layer. The model was evaluated on five standard hyperspectral datasets; Indian Pines, Salinas, and Wuhan UAV borne hyperspectral image dataset series, which have three different datasets HanChuan, HongHu, and LongKou for crop classification, demonstrating high classification performance with overall accuracy of values ranging from 99.28%, 99.73%, 99.70%, 99.17% to 99.68%, respectively. The results underscore the effectiveness of combining spectral-spatial decomposition with sequential modeling for precise crop type identification.