On September 6th, 2008, HJ-1A/B, which is a Micro-satellite Constellation for Environment and Disaster Monitoring, was successfully launched in China. HJ-1A/B is composed by two small satellites named as Satellite-A (HJ-1A) and Satellite-B (HJ-1B). The payloads of HJ-1A include a multispectral imager and an interferometric imaging spectrometer; the payloads of HJ-1B include an infrared scanner ...

Methods for fusing multispectral low-resolution remotely sensed images with a more highly resolved panchromatic image are described. The goal is to obtain a high-resolution multispectral image which combines the spectral characteristic of the low-resolution data with the spatial resolution of the panchromatic image. Unlike other applications, e.g. image fusion in military missions or computer-a...

This paper shows the potential of LIDAR for extracting buildings and other objects from medium resolution satellite imagery. To that end, the study integrated multispectral and LIDAR elevation data in a single imagery file and then classified it using the Support Vector Machine. To determine the method’s potential, the study used a SPOT5 satellite from an area situated southeast of Madrid, Spai...

QuickBird satellite imagery, provided by DigitalGlobe Inc., has the highest resolution, among the satellite imaging systems that are commercially available. The QuickBird imaging system simultaneously collects 67-72 centimeter resolution stereo panchromatic and 2.44-2.88 meter resolution multispectral images. In this research, a QuickBird stereo pair of basic imagery product that was taken over...

The launch of Ikonos satellite at the end of September 1999 marked the beginning of a new era for the application of satellite images. Being able to provide up to one-metre resolution panchromatic and four-metre resolution multispectral images, thus available in the past for military purposes or from aerial surveys only, this satellite offers considerable improvements and broadens the applicati...

A new algorithm based on the fusion of edge and multispectral information is proposed for the pixel-wise classification of very high-resolution (VHR) remotely sensed imagery. It integrates the multispectral, spatial and structural information existing in the image. The edge feature is first extracted using an improved multispectral edge detection method, which takes into account the original mu...

Multispectral satellite imagery registration is a fundamental step for remote sensing applications such as global change detection, feature classification, and image fusion. Since image registration via the manual selection of control points is a repetitive and time-intensive task, a more efficient automatic coarse-to-fine algorithm for multispectral remote sensing image registration is propose...

The studies on radiometric camera calibration of multispectral camera of the BiLSAT satellite is presented in this work. During the study, various dark images and flat-field images have been taken, and deviations from ideal has been investigated. Various sources of error have been studied and the non-homogeneous response of the CCD is explicitly modeled. Images have been corrected according to ...