The fusion of high-spectral/low-spatial resolution multispectral and low-spectral/high-spatial resolution panchromatic satellite images is a very useful technique in various applications of remote sensing. Recently, some studies showed that a wavelet-based image fusion method provides high quality spectral content in fused images. However, most wavelet-based methods yield fused results with spa...

A new image fusion algorithm of the multispectral image and the panchromatic image is proposed by using the non-subsampled contourlet transform and the lαβ color space. The non-subsampled contourlet transform is used to decompose an image into a low frequency approximate component and several high frequency detail components, and an edge enhancement method is employed to extract features from a...

Image fusion is a technique of obtaining high spatial resolution multispectral images from low spatial resolution multispectral and high spatial resolution panchromatic images. Various techniques exist to perform such fusion. These techniques, however, do not seem to preserve the spectral information content of original multispectral image in the fused image. Hence, in this study a recent and e...

Recently, sparse representation (SR) and joint sparse representation (JSR) have attracted a lot of interest in image fusion. The SR models signals by sparse linear combinations of prototype signal atoms that make a dictionary. The JSR indicates that different signals from the various sensors of the same scene form an ensemble. These signals have a common sparse component and each individual sig...

Most bamboo forests grow in humid climates in low-latitude tropical or subtropical monsoon areas, and they are generally located in hilly areas. Bamboo trunks are very straight and smooth, which means that bamboo forests have low structural diversity. These features are beneficial to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) microwave penetration and they provide special information in SAR imagery. Howeve...

Considering human visual system and characteristics of images, a novel image fusion strategy is presented for panchromatic high resolution image and multispectral image in non-subsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain. The NSCT can give an asymptotic optimal representation of edges and contours in image by virtue of its characteristics of good multiresolution, shiftinvariance, and high dire...

In remote sensing, image fusion technique is a useful tool used to fuse high spatial resolution panchromatic images (PAN) with lower spatial resolution multispectral images (MS) to create a high spatial resolution multispectral of image fusion (F) while preserving the spectral information in the multispectral image (MS).There are many PAN sharpening techniques or Pixel-Based image fusion techni...

Considering of the human visual system and the characteristics of remote sensing images, a novel image fusion strategy is presented for panchromatic high resolution image and multispectral image in nonsubsampled contourlet (NSCT) domain. The NSCT can give the asymptotic optimal representation of the edges and contours in image by virtue of the characteristics of good multiresolution, shift-inva...

A two-step approach to enhance the resolution of remote sensing thermal infrared (TIR) images is proposed in this paper. For difference in imaging principles between TIR image and optical images, traditional image fusion techniques, such as component substation and MRA methods will not be proper. In our study, we use Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) to regress the relationship between TIR image a...