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An Adaptive Pansharpening Method by Using Weighted Least Squares Filter


Abstract:

Multisensor image fusion or pansharpening aims to sharpen a multispectral (MS) image by integrating the detail map derived from a panchromatic (Pan) image. The intensity-...Show More

Abstract:

Multisensor image fusion or pansharpening aims to sharpen a multispectral (MS) image by integrating the detail map derived from a panchromatic (Pan) image. The intensity-hue-saturation (IHS)-based methods are well adopted in pansharpening applications. However, the pansharpened MS images by IHS-based methods usually suffer from serious spectral distortions and local artifacts due to the mismatch between the estimated detail map and its ground truth. To overcome these defects, we propose a weighted least squares (WLS)-filter-based method in this letter. Different from existing IHS-based methods, the proposed method eliminates the influence of the low-frequency components of the Pan and MS images with the WLS filter. Moreover, the derived detail map is further refined based on the spectral signatures for different bands of the MS image. We test the proposed method on various satellites data; the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method performs well in both spectral and spatial qualities.
Published in: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters ( Volume: 13, Issue: 1, January 2016)
Page(s): 18 - 22
Date of Publication: 04 November 2015

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