Feature extraction of an urban area is one of the most important directions of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) applications. A high-resolution PolSAR image has the characteristics of high dimensions and nonlinearity. Therefore, to find intrinsic features for target recognition, a building area extraction method for PolSAR images based on the Adaptive Neighborhoods selection Neighborhood Preserving Embedding (ANSNPE) algorithm is proposed. First, 52 features are extracted by using the Gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and five polarization decomposition methods. The feature set is divided into 20 dimensions, 36 dimensions, and 52 dimensions. Next, the ANSNPE algorithm is applied to the training samples, and the projection matrix is obtained for the test image to extract the new features. Lastly, the Support Vector machine (SVM) classifier and post processing are used to extract the building area, and the accuracy is evaluated. Comparative experiments are conducted using Radarsat-2, and the results show that the ANSNPE algorithm could effectively extract the building area and that it had a better generalization ability; the projection matrix is obtained using the training data and could be directly applied to the new sample, and the building area extraction accuracy is above 80%. The combination of polarization and texture features provide a wealth of information that is more conducive to the extraction of building areas.unsupervised fuzzy mean classification method to extract the building area. Texture feature images and filter images obtained by wavelet transform, according to Zhu et al. [5], are used as an input layer of the BP (Back Propagation) neural network, and the texture classification of high-resolution SAR images is completed. However, in the field of radar remote sensing, a new synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation has been successfully launched in recent years. As SAR data have shown explosive growth, the SAR big data era has been flourishing. High-resolution polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (referred to as PolSAR) images can obtain ground scene information from multiple dimensions, on the one hand to provide rich information for identification of features and on the other hand to increase the complexity of information extraction. In the context of big data, rapid and accurate automatic extraction technology is the future development trend and is of great significance in promoting the application of PolSAR.Feature extraction is the most critical and central part of information extraction on SAR images. Studying the feature extraction method for high-resolution PolSAR images, reducing the space dimension and removing redundant information are highly important for the fast and accurate automatic extraction of building areas. Traditional feature extraction methods based on the global linear structure hypothesis premise feature of a PolSAR image set are proposed. Although they can achieve the purpose of reducing dimension, the intrinsic structure of high-dimension...