Image fusion using the Ehlers spectral characteristics preservation algorithm

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 93-116

  Klonus, Sascha ^a   Ehlers, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING METHOD; PANCHROMATIC IMAGE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247509383     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.44.2.93     Document Type: Article

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