The study adresses the problem of spectral unmixing hyperspectral images, technique allowing the spectra and abundance of each pure material present in each pixel of a scene to be extracted. We first remark that the linear model commonly used in spectral unmixing is exactly the same as the model used in the Independant Component Analysis (ICA), a blind source separation technique studied in the...

In this work, we jointly process high spectral and high geometric resolution images and exploit their synergies to (a) generate a fused image of high spectral and geometric resolution; and (b) improve (linear) spectral unmixing of hyperspectral endmembers at subpixel level w.r.t. the pixel size of the hyperspectral image. We assume that the two images are radiometrically corrected and geometric...

A snow-cover mapping method accounting for forests (SnowFrac) is presented. SnowFrac uses spectral unmixing and endmember constraints to estimate the snow-cover fraction of a pixel. The unmixing is based on a linear spectral mixture model, which includes endmembers for snow, coniferous trees, branches of leafless deciduous trees and snow-free ground. Model input consists of a land-cover fractio...

Nonlinear spectral mixture analysis (NSMA) is a widely used unmixing algorithm. It can fit the mixed spectra adequately, but collinearity effect among true and virtual endmembers will decrease the retrieval accuracies of endmember fractions. Use of linear spectral mixture analysis (LSMA) can effectively reduce the degree of collinearity in the NSMA. However, the inadequate modeling of mixed spe...

Spectral unmixing is a critical issue in multi-spectral data processing, which has the ability to identify the constituent components of a pixel. Most of the hyperspectral unmixing current methods are based on Linear Mixture Model (LMM) and have been widely used in many scenarios. However, both the noise contained in the LMM and the requirement of essential prior knowledge strongly limit their ...

This paper proposes a new hyperspectral unmixing method for nonlinearly mixed hyperspectral data using a semantic representation in a semi-supervised fashion, assuming the availability of a spectral reference library. Existing semisupervised unmixing algorithms select members from an endmember library that are present at each of the pixels; most such methods assume a linear mixing model. Howeve...

This work describes the minimum volume enclosing simplex problem, which is known to be a multimodal Global Optimization problem. The problem has been used as a basis to estimate so-called endmember and abundance data in unmixing spectral data of hyperspectral sensors. This estimation problem is a big challenge. We explore the possibility of a new estimation algorithm using the minimum volume en...

As a supplement or an alternative to classification of hyperspectral image data the linear mixture model is considered in order to obtain estimates of abundance of each class or endmember in pixels with mixed membership. Full unmixing and the partial unmixing methods orthogonal subspace projection (OSP), constrained energy minimization (CEM) and an eigenvalue formulation alternative are dealt w...

This paper presents a nonlinear mixing model for hyperspectral image unmixing. The proposed model assumes that the pixel reflectances are post-nonlinear functions of unknown pure spectral components contaminated by an additive white Gaussian noise. The nonlinear effects are approximated by a polynomial leading to a polynomial post-nonlinear mixing model. A Bayesian algorithm is proposed to esti...