Pansharpening quality assessment using the modulation transfer functions of instruments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3880-3891

  Khan, Muhammad Murtaza ^a   Alparone, Luciano ^a   Chanussot, Jocelyn ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Fusion; Image quality; Modulation transfer function (MTF); Pansharpening; Spatial distortion; Spectral distortion

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE FUSION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CONSISTENCY PROPERTY; HIGHEST RESOLUTIONS; IMAGING INSTRUMENTS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION (MTF); PAN-SHARPENING; SPATIAL DISTORTION; SPECTRAL ANGLE MAPPERS; SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING METHOD; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PANCHROMATIC IMAGE; QUALITY CONTROL; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 70350624695     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2029094     Document Type: Article

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