Title
Spatial/spectral endmember extraction by multidimensional morphological operations
Abstract
Spectral mixture analysis provides an efficient mechanism for the interpretation and classification of remotely sensed multidimensional imagery. It aims to identify a set of reference signatures (also known as endmembers) that can be used to model the reflectance spectrum at each pixel of the original image. Thus, the modeling is carried out as a linear combination of a finite number of ground components. Although spectral mixture models have proved to be appropriate for the purpose of large hyperspectral dataset subpixel analysis, few methods are available in the literature for the extraction of appropriate endmembers in spectral unmixing. Most approaches have been designed from a spectroscopic viewpoint and, thus, tend to neglect the existing spatial correlation between pixels. This paper presents a new automated method that performs unsupervised pixel purity determination and endmember extraction from multidimensional datasets; this is achieved by using both spatial and spectral information in a combined manner. The method is based on mathematical morphology, a classic image processing technique that can be applied to the spectral domain while being able to keep its spatial characteristics. The proposed methodology is evaluated through a specifically designed framework that uses both simulated and real hyperspectral data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/TGRS.2002.802494
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature extraction,geophysical signal processing,image classification,mathematical morphology,remote sensing,spectral analysis,spectral-domain analysis,classification,endmember extraction,ground components,image processing technique,interpretation,mathematical morphology,multidimensional morphological operations,reference signatures,reflectance spectrum,remotely sensed multidimensional imagery,spatial correlation,spatial information,spatial/spectral endmember extraction,spectral domain,spectral information,spectral mixture analysis,spectral unmixing,unsupervised pixel purity determination
Spatial analysis,Endmember,Multidimensional analysis,Remote sensing,Image processing,Artificial intelligence,Subpixel rendering,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Hyperspectral imaging,Feature extraction,Pixel,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
40
9
0196-2892
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
192
19.63
13
Authors
4
Search Limit
100192
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Plaza13475262.63
pablo martinez261758.77
Rosa Pérez344345.46
Javier Plaza456158.04