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A Pansharpening Algorithm Based on Morphological Filters

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Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing (ISMM 2015)

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The fusion of multispectral and panchromatic images acquired by sensors mounted on satellite platforms represents a successful application of data fusion called Pansharpening. In this work we propose an algorithm based on morphological pyramid decomposition. This approach implements a Multi Resolution scheme based on morphological gradients for extracting spatial details from the panchromatic image, which are subsequently injected in the multispectral one. Several state-of-the-art methods are considered for comparison. Quantitative and qualitative results confirm the capability of the proposed technique to obtain pansharpened images that outperform state-of-the-art approaches.

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  1. Dept. of Information Eng., Electrical Eng. and Applied Math. (DIEM), University of Salerno, Fisciao, Italy

    Rocco Restaino

  2. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science and Technology Organization (STO) Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, La Spceizia, Italy

    Gemine Vivone

  3. GIPSA-lab, Grenoble-INP, Saint Martin d’Hères, France

    Mauro Dalla Mura & Jocelyn Chanussot

  4. Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Jocelyn Chanussot

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  1. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Jón Atli Benediktsson

  2. Université de Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

    Jocelyn Chanussot

  3. ESIEE Paris, Noisy-le-Grand Cedex, France

    Laurent Najman

  4. ESIEE Paris, Noisy-le-Grand Cedex, France

    Hugues Talbot

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Restaino, R., Vivone, G., Dalla Mura, M., Chanussot, J. (2015). A Pansharpening Algorithm Based on Morphological Filters. In: Benediktsson, J., Chanussot, J., Najman, L., Talbot, H. (eds) Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing. ISMM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9082. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18720-4_9

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