Classification of Multisource Remote Sensing Data Using Slice Mamba

The multisource remote sensing (RS) data have yielded promising results in target detection and classification tasks. However, most existing methods primarily focus on the spatial features inherent in spectral information, while the continuous spectral characteristics are generally neglected. This oversight leads to insufficient extraction of spectral information, thereby limiting detection performance. Recently, the Mamba architecture, based on state space models (SSMs), integrates the advantages of long-range sequence modeling and linear computational efficiency, demonstrating significant potential in low-dimensional scenarios. Inspired by this, we propose Slice Mamba for multisource RS data fusion classification. Specifically, we design two scanning methods: lateral slice scanning (LatSS) and longitudinal slice scanning (LonSS), which construct sequences from lateral and longitudinal perspectives to facilitate information interaction between pixels. In conjunction with the Mamba architecture, we develop the lateral slice Mamba block (LatSMB) and the longitudinal slice Mamba block (LonSMB) to capture continuous spatial-spectral features. Based on this, we establish the slice feature extraction (SFE) module for extracting spatial-spectral feature information and design the cross-information fusion (CIF) module to form a complementary structure for effectively modeling spatial-spectral features, thereby achieving the fusion and classification of multisource heterogeneous features. Experimental results on three benchmark datasets demonstrate that Slice Mamba outperforms existing advanced methods in fusion classification performance and exhibits greater robustness when applied to multispectral datasets.