A wavelet-based method for the determination of the relative resolution between remotely sensed images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2539-2548

  Núñez, Jorge ^a,b   Fors, Octavi ^a,b   Otazu, Xavier ^c   Palà, Vicenç ^d   Arbiol, Román ^d   Merino, Maria Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Observatori Fabra   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Cartographic Institute of Catalonia ICC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Image resolution; Relative resolution; Wavelet decomposition

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; SENSORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; RELATIVE RESOLUTION; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33646701342     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.875359     Document Type: Article

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