Pixel level fusion techniques for SAR and optical images: A review

Information Fusion

Volumn 59, Issue , 2020, Pages 13-29

  Kulkarni, Samadhan C ^a   Rege, Priti P ^a  

^a Department of Instrumentation & Control Engineering   (India)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Optical imagery; Quality metrics; SAR imagery

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION; MICROWAVE SENSORS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PIXELS; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; OPTICAL IMAGERY; QUALITY METRICS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; SAR IMAGERY; WAVELET-BASED FUSION APPROACH;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 85078213705     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2020.01.003     Document Type: Article

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