Title
A novel method for enhancement of radiometric resolution using image fusion
Abstract
The Resourcesat-I satellite is equipped with different types of sensors with varied characteristics. For the effective utilization of the available multi-sensor, multi-temporal, multi-spectral and multi-radiometric data from these sensors, fusion of digital image data has become a valuable technique. Image fusion enhances the information content and helps in better discrimination of various land cover types. The Resourcesat-1 has equipped with three sensors, AWiFS, LISS-III and LISS-IV, which are having identical spectral resolutions, with different spatial, radiometric and temporal resolutions. The spatial resolutions ratio of the data set for merging are required to be maximum of 1:6, where as the data sets (AWiFS and LISS-III) that are used in the current study are having the ratio of 1:2.5 approximately. A novel merging technique is designed, which retains the multi-spectral response of the input data in the output data. The merged data set provides the higher spatial and radiometric resolutions. In order to evaluate the fusion merits quantitatively, all the data sets are digitally classified and studied the output classes for homogeneity and clear discrimination. A comprehensive comparative study is carried out between the fused image and the LISS-III image based on the contingency matrix and the scatter plots, which demonstrates the strength of fused image for discriminating the object classes at 23.5m spatial and 10-bit radiometric resolutions. The merged data set gives the improved classification accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.jag.2008.02.007
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Classification,Contingency matrix,Scatter plot,Fusion,Merging,Image registration,Resolution,Radiometry,Wavelet transform
Data set,Image fusion,Remote sensing,Image processing,Digital image,Radiometry,Geography,Image resolution,Image registration,Wavelet transform
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
2
0303-2434
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ch. Venkateswara Rao110.71
K.M.M. Rao210.37
P. Shasidhar Reddy310.37
Girish Pujar420.75