Efficient pan-sharpening of satellite images with the contourlet transform

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1979-2002

  Metwalli, Mohamed R ^a   Nasr, Ayman H ^a   Faragallah, Osama S ^b   El Rabaie, El Sayed M ^b   Abbas, Alaa M ^b,d   Alshebeili, Saleh A ^c   Abd El Samie, Fathi E ^b,c  

^a National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING;

ADAPTIVE PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; DECOMPOSITION LEVEL; DIRECTIONAL FILTER BANKS; MULTI RESOLUTION DECOMPOSITION; NON-SUB-SAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORMS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUICKBIRD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPOT; TRANSFORM;

EID: 84896872781     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.873832     Document Type: Article

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