Spatial quality assessment of pan-sharpened high resolution satellite imagery based on an automatically estimated edge based metric

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6539-6559

  Javan, Farzaneh Dadras ^a   Samadzadegan, Farhad ^a   Reinartz, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Edge based; Fusion; High resolution satellite imagery; Pan sharpening; Quality as assessment

Indexed keywords

EDGE-BASED; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; IMAGE FUSION METRIC; IMAGE FUSION TECHNIQUES; PAN-SHARPENING; PANCHROMATIC IMAGES; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE FUSION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84891404835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5126539     Document Type: Article

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