Thisstudywasonsuperiorityofthenon-negativematrixfactorization(NMF)algorithmforapplicationofinformationextractedwithaerialimages.First,NMFwasusedforaerialimageinformationextraction,andthenthisdatawascomparedwithaprincipalcomponentanalysis(PCA)inwhichr(thenumberofrowsorcolumnsofbasicmatrix)andEignum(thenumberofeigenvalues)weregivendifferentvalues.ExperimentalresultsshowedthattheruntimeofNMFwithr=20or50waslessthanthatofPCAwithanEignum=20or50.Also,therecognitionrateofNMFwithr=50washigherthanthatofanEignum=50.Theexperimentshowedthatnonnegativematrixfactorizationhadadvantagesofashorttimeperiodwithahighrecognitionrate.