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Title: Super-resolution of remotely sensed images with variable-pixel linear reconstruction
Author: Merino Espasa, María Teresa
Núñez de Murga, Jorge, 1955-
Keywords: Teledetecció
Processament d'imatges
Image reconstruction
Image resolution
Remote sensing
Issue Date: 2007
Publisher: IEEE
Abstract: This paper describes the development and applications of a super-resolution method, known as Super-Resolution Variable-Pixel Linear Reconstruction. The algorithm works combining different lower resolution images in order to obtain, as a result, a higher resolution image. We show that it can make significant spatial resolution improvements to satellite images of the Earth¿s surface allowing recognition of objects with size approaching the limiting spatial resolution of the lower resolution images. The algorithm is based on the Variable-Pixel Linear Reconstruction algorithm developed by Fruchter and Hook, a well-known method in astronomy but never used for Earth remote sensing purposes. The algorithm preserves photometry, can weight input images according to the statistical significance of each pixel, and removes the effect of geometric distortion on both image shape and photometry. In this paper, we describe its development for remote sensing purposes, show the usefulness of the algorithm working with images as different to the astronomical images as the remote sensing ones, and show applications to: 1) a set of simulated multispectral images obtained from a real Quickbird image; and 2) a set of multispectral real Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) images. These examples show that the algorithm provides a substantial improvement in limiting spatial resolution for both simulated and real data sets without significantly altering the multispectral content of the input low-resolution images, without amplifying the noise, and with very few artifacts.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2007.893271
It is part of: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2007, vol. 45, núm. 5 (Part 2), p. 1446-1457.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/8565
Related resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2007.893271
ISSN: 0196-2892
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