With the development of remote sensing technology, fusion of remotely sensed images, such as SPOT panchromatic (SPOT P) with SPOT multispectral images (SPOT XS) or Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM), has become more important in order to obtain richer information in the spatial and spectral domains simultaneously. Many fusion methods have been developed based on the two-band wavelet transformation. H...

Thermal infrared satellite sensor images are widely used for assessing the thermal urban environment as well as for identifying the Urban Heat Islands (UHI) in highly urbanized areas. In this study, the relationship between urban growth and UHI in the megacity of Istanbul was investigated using the Landsat 5 TM satellite sensor data and temperature recordings obtained from the meteorological st...

For the years 1997 to 2000 it is expected that a number of new satellites will be launched into orbit by private companies which are specified to deliver panchromatic imagery of the earth surface with a spatial resolution as fine as 1m. In contrast to the panchromatic band, the spectrally resolved bands will have a four times coarser ground resolution. Therefore, image fusion algorithms will be...

Two demonstration sites in southeast Idaho were used to extend the scope of remote sensing of leafy spurge research toward investigating coarser scale detection limits. Hyperspectral images were obtained to produce baseline leafy spurge maps, from which spatially and/or spectrally degraded images were subsequently derived for comparative purposes with Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM). The baselin...

The aim of this research is to determine an accuracy assessment of different multispectral gradient-based edge detectors. We will present and evaluate three different approaches: the mean-, the maximumand the multispectral gradient approach. The mean approach determines the overall gradient as the arithmetic mean of all (band-wise) gradient vectors, whereas the maximum approach selects the grad...