Abstract: Abstract: Hyperspectral remote sensing image includes hundreds of narrow contiguous spectral bands with high spectral resolution, and can provides a contiguous spectral curve for each pixel, which is an important tool for the cropland monitoring in rapid and large-scale way. However, due to the contradiction between spectral resolution and spatial resolution, hyperspectral remote sensing image usually possesses relative low spatial resolution. Therefore, it is very important to mix various vegetation and soil at one pixel point for spectral decomposition in hyperspectral image and spectral unmixing of farmland. The first step in spectral unmixing is usually endmember extraction. Endmember extraction from a hyperspectral remote sensing image is to find some pixels (endmembers) and regard them as pure spectral reflectance of the vegetation and soil in the image to get the best accuracy of spectral unmixing results. So endmember extraction from hyperspectral remote sensing image can be regarded as a typical discrete optimization problem, which can be solved by swarm intelligence optimization algorithm. Before optimization, the spectral dimension of the image should be reduced by deep learning. In order to solve the problem of spectral unmixing of hyperspectral images, a method of extracting farmland endmember based on deep learning and shuffled frog leaping algorithm (SFLA) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, deep learning model named stacked auto encoders (SAE) was used to extract spectral features . SAE performs a non-linear transfer from the original spectral signals to a form with significant features and less dimensions. In the low-dimension space, the candidate endmembers were selected as the input of the SFLA. The purpose of extracting the candidate endmembers is to simplified the computational complexity in the next step. Secondly, the endmember extraction of hyperspectral image was transferred into the combinatorial optimization and the objective function was constructed, then the SFLA was used to optimize the objective functionto get the best combination of endmembers. The objective function in study was designed as the RMSE (root mean square error) between the real hyperspectral remote sensing image and the simulated hyperspectral remote sensing image using the endmembers and abundance after endmember extraction and spectral unmixing. Thirdly, 2 groups experiments were carried out on the synthetic hyperspectral datasets with 3 different SNR (signal to noise ratio, 20 , 30 and 40 dB) and the real AVIRIS hyperspectral remote sensing dataset in Salinas region, respectively. In experiments, the experimental results of the proposed method was compared with that of 3 traditional methods for endmember extraction including the sequential maximum angle convex cone (SMACC), N-FINDR, Vertex Component Analysis (VCA). The results were evaluated by RMSE and spectral angle. The results showed that the RMSE was 0.050 8, 0.015 9, 0.005 1, 0.006 7 for 20, 30 and 40 dB dataset, and the real dataset, respectively. The average spectral angle was 0.106 88, 0.030 32, 0.009 94 for 20, 30 and 40 dB dataset respectively. The proposed method was better than traditional methods in terms of extraction accuracy, which had wide potential applications on cropland monitoring using hyperspectral remote sensing. The method proposed in this paper reduced the influence of the non-linear factors and the noise, better endmember extraction and spectral unmixing results (both less spectral angle and less RMSE) could be obtained, and the proposed method was robust when the noise of the image increased sharply. In conclusion, the endmember extraction method proposed by this study is of significant importance for the cropland monitoring using hyperspectral remote sensing and has a prosperous future for the application on the remote sensing of agriculture.