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Automatic Co-registration of Cloud-covered High-resolution Multi-temporal Imagery

구름이 포함된 고해상도 다시기 위성영상의 자동 상호등록

  • Han, You Kyung (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Yong Il (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Won Hee (Department of Civil Engineering, Chosun University)
  • 한유경 (서울대학교 건설환경공학부) ;
  • 김용일 (서울대학교 건설환경공학부) ;
  • 이원희 (조선대학교 토목공학과)
  • Received : 2013.11.05
  • Accepted : 2013.12.09
  • Published : 2013.12.31
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Abstract

Generally the commercial high-resolution images have their coordinates, but the locations are locally different according to the pose of sensors at the acquisition time and relief displacement of terrain. Therefore, a process of image co-registration has to be applied to use the multi-temporal images together. However, co-registration is interrupted especially when images include the cloud-covered regions because of the difficulties of extracting matching points and lots of false-matched points. This paper proposes an automatic co-registration method for the cloud-covered high-resolution images. A scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), which is one of the representative feature-based matching method, is used, and only features of the target (cloud-covered) images within a circular buffer from each feature of reference image are used for the candidate of the matching process. Study sites composed of multi-temporal KOMPSAT-2 images including cloud-covered regions were employed to apply the proposed algorithm. The result showed that the proposed method presented a higher correct-match rate than original SIFT method and acceptable registration accuracies in all sites.

일반적으로 상용화되고 있는 고해상도 위성영상에는 좌표가 부여되어 있지만, 촬영 당시 센서의 자세나 지표면 특성 등에 따라서 영상 간의 지역적인 위치차이가 발생한다. 따라서 좌표를 일치시켜주는 영상 간 상호등록 과정이 필수적으로 적용되어야 한다. 하지만 영상 내에 구름이 분포할 경우 두 영상 간의 정합쌍을 추출하는데 어려움을 주며, 오정합쌍을 다수 추출하는 경향을 보인다. 이에 본 연구에서는 구름이 포함된 고해상도 KOMPSAT-2 영상간의 자동 기하보정을 수행하기 위한 방법론을 제안한다. 대표적인 특징기반 정합쌍 추출 기법인 SIFT 기법을 이용하였고, 기준영상의 특징점을 기준으로 원형 버퍼를 생성하여, 오직 버퍼 내에 존재하는 대상영상의 특징점만을 후보정합쌍으로 선정하여 정합률을 높이고자 하였다. 제안 기법을 구름이 포함된 다양한 실험지역에 적용한 결과, SIFT 기법에 비해 높은 정합률을 보였고, 상호등록 정확도를 향상시킴을 확인할 수 있었다.

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