A comparative data-fusion analysis of multi-sensor satellite images

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 671-687

  Abdikan, Saygin ^a   Balik Sanli, Fusun ^a   Sunar, Filiz ^b   Ehlers, Manfred ^c  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

accuracy; image fusion; image processing; multisensor; SAR

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXTRACTING INFORMATION; INTENSITY HUE SATURATIONS; MULTI SENSOR; MULTI-SENSOR FUSION METHOD; MULTI-SENSOR SATELLITE IMAGES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84902493863     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2012.748846     Document Type: Article

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