An area-based image fusion scheme for the integration of SAR and optical satellite imagery

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2212-2220

  Byun, Younggi ^a   Choi, Jaewan ^b   Han, Youkyung ^c  

^a Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)   (South Korea)

^b Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Area based fusion scheme; co registration; hybrid pansharpening; multisensor imag fusion; wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

AREA-BASED; COREGISTRATION; MULTI SENSOR; MULTISENSOR IMAGE FUSION; OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGERY; PAN-SHARPENING; PANCHROMATIC (PAN) IMAGE; SAR(SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR);

ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84884815898     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2272773     Document Type: Article

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