Potential Payoff of Fusion Between HSI and Other Sensors

2 Telephone (781) 981-2920; Fax (781) 981-7271; e-mail [email protected] Abstract In this paper, two examples of sensor fusion are demonstrated. The first is hyperspectral imaging (HSI) with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and the other is HSI with high-resolution panchromatic imaging (HPI). HSI and SAR fusion exploits different phenomenologies from distinctly different sensors. HSI and HPI fusion optimizes their superior respective spectral and spatial information. Examples are illustrated using field measurements as well as simulated data. Fusion of SAR and HSI data is established at feature level. The fusion results showed reduced false detection and confirmed target detection in the SAR image with background characterization and material identification from HSI. Fusion of HSI and HPI is shown at both data and feature levels. The combined high-resolution spatial-spectral analysis is illustrated for enhanced target identification.