Spectral unmixing is an important problem in hyperspectral data exploitation. It amounts at characterizing the mixed spectral signatures collected by an imaging instrument in the form of a combination of pure spectral constituents (endmembers), weighted by their correspondent abundance fractions. Linear spectral unmixing is a popular technique in the literature which assumes linear interactions...

Spectral unmixing is a type of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) sub-pixel analysis where the constituent spectra and abundances within the pixel are identified. However, validating the results obtained from spectral unmixing is very difficult due to a lack of real-world data and ground-truth information associated with these real-world images. Real HSI data is preferred for validating spectral unmix...

Hyperspectral imagery (HSI) unmixing is a process that decomposes pixel spectra into a collection of constituent spectra (endmembers) and their correspondent abundance fractions. Without knowing any knowledge of HSI data, the unmixing problem is transformed into a blind source separation (BSS) problem. Several methods have been proposed to deal with the problem, like independent component analy...

Abstract—Mixing in the hyperspectral imaging occurs due to the low spatial resolutions of the used cameras. The existing pure materials “endmembers” in the scene share the spectra pixels with different amounts called “abundances”. Unmixing of the data cube is an important task to know the present endmembers in the cube for the analysis of these images. Unsupervised unmixing is done with no info...

-Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer imagery provides frequent and low-cost coverage of the earth, but its coarse spatial resolution (-1.1 km by 1.1 km) does not lend itself to standard techniques of automated categorization of land cover classes because the pixels are generally mixed; that is, the extent of the pixel includes several land use/cover classes. Unmixing procedures were develo...

Hyperspectral instruments acquire electromagnetic energy scattered within their ground instantaneous field view in hundreds of spectral channels with high spectral resolution. Very often, however, owing to low spatial resolution of the scanner or to the presence of intimate mixtures (mixing of the materials at a very small scale) in the scene, the spectral vectors (collection of signals acquire...

An acceleration algorithm for spectral unmixing approach is proposed based on subset selection. The method classifies the pixels in a spectral image into accurate and approximated unmixing groups based on the similarity and dissimilarity of geomorphological features in neighboring areas. Real spectral images are used for unmixing benchmark tests for accuracy and performance verification. The re...

Hyperspectral imaging is a new technique in remote sensing that collects hundreds of images, at different wavelength values, for the same area in the surface of the Earth. For instance, the Airborne Visible Infra-Red Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) instrument operated by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory collects 224 spectral channels in the wavelength range from 40 to 250 nanometers using narrow s...

Sparse hyperspectral unmixing from large spectral libraries has been considered to circumvent limitations of endmember extraction algorithms in many applications. This strategy often leads to ill-posed inverse problems, which can benefit from spatial regularization strategies. While existing spatial regularization methods improve the problem conditioning and promote piecewise smooth solutions, ...