Comparison of pansharpening algorithms: Outcome of the 2006 GRS-S data-fusion contest

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3012-3021

  Alparone, Luciano ^a   Wald, Lucien ^b   Chanussot, Jocelyn ^c   Thomas, Claire ^b   Gamba, Paolo ^d   Bruce, Lori Mann ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c GIPSA LAB   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^e MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Multispectral (MS) imagery; Pansharpening; Quality assessment; QuickBird (QB); Simulated Pl iades data

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MODELS; AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; COARSER RESOLUTION; COMPONENT SUBSTITUTION; DATA SETS; EVALUATION RESULTS; GEOSCIENCES; HIGH-PASS; HIGHER RESOLUTION; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; PAN-SHARPENING; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; QUICKBIRD; RESEARCH GROUPS; SATELLITE SENSORS; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; GEOLOGY; INFORMATION FUSION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; REMOTE SENSING;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 37449020710     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.904923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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