Sandia-UT Academic Alliance Project Summary
This project seeks to leverage various hyperspectral tensor products for the purposes of target classification/detection/prediction. In addition to hyperspectral, these products may be images, time series, geometries, or other modalities. The scenarios in which the targets of interest must be identified are typically from remote sensing platforms such as satellites. As such, there are numerous real-world constraints that drive algorithmic formulation. Cost, complexity, and feasibility of the algorithm should all be considered. Targets of interest are exceedingly rare, and collecting many data samples is prohibitively expensive. Furthermore, model interpretability is paramount due to the application space. The goal of this project is to develop a constrained supervised tensor factorization framework for use on hyperspectral data products. Supervised tensor factorizations already exist in the literature, although they have not seen widespread adoption in the remote sensing domain. The novelty of this project will be the formulation and inclusion of constraints that take into account mission considerations and physics based limits to learn a factorization that is both physically interpretable and mission deployable. This will represent a new contribution to the field of remote sensing for performing supervised learning tasks with hyperspectral data.