The invention discloses a hyperspectral image classification method based on image regular low-rank expression dimensionality reduction. The method includes the steps that a mean shift technology is used for conducting pre-segmentation on a hyperspectral image first, image regular low-rank coefficient expression is conduced on the hyperspectral image after pre-segmentation to obtain an image regular low-rank coefficient matrix, a characteristic value equation is constructed, a mapping matrix of the dimensionality reduction is studied, and original high dimensional data are transformed to low-dimensional space to be further classified. According to the hyperspectral image classification method, a hyperspectral image local manifold structure is excavated, the spatial distribution character of an original image is kept, effective dimensionality reduction space is studied, the classification accuracy of hyperspectral images is improved, computation complexity is lowered, the problems that the dimensionality of the hyperspectral image is too high so that the calculation amount can be large, and an existing method is low in classification accuracy are mainly solved, and the hyperspectral image classification method can be used for important fields such as precision agriculture, object identification and environment monitor.