• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2009.03a
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• pp.186-189
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• 2009

KOMPSAT-2 고해상도 위성영상이 제공됨에 따라, 국내에서도 고해상도 위성영상을 활용한 다양한 연구 및 활용 사례가 증대되고 있다. KOMPSAT-2는 높은 공간해상도의 흑백영상과 멀티스펙트럴 영상을 동시에 제공하고 있는데, 개체 추출 및 고해상도의 토지 피복도 생성, 영상의 시각화를 위한 고해상도 멀티스펙트럴 영상 취득이 주요한 실정이다. 따라서 서로 다른 공간, 분광해 상도를 가지는 센서 자료를 이용하여 두 개의 장점을 모두 가지는 영상으로 재구성하는 영상융합은 원격탐사분야에서 중요한 연구분야이다. 이를 위해 다양한 영상융합기법이 연구되었지만, 대부분의 알고리즘들이 융합 후에 원 멀티스펙트럴 영상의 분광정보를 왜곡시키는 문제점을 지니고 있다. 본 연구에서는 영상 유도기법을 이용하여 융합영상의 분광정보를 향상시키는 방법을 제안하였다. 원 멀티스펙트럴 영상과 해상도를 낮춘 융합영상과의 비교 분석을 통하여 융합영상의 공간해상도 왜곡은 최소한으로 줄이고 왜곡된 분광정보를 최대한 보정하였다. 다양한 알고리즘을 통해 얻은 KOMPSAT-2 융합 영상에 본 알고리즘을 적용한 결과, 분광정보 왜곡량이 기존의 융합결과에 비해 줄어든 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, 이러한 결과는 다양한 응용분야에 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.175-181
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• 2011

In remote sensing, it has been a difficult task to obtain a multispectral image with high spatial resolution because of the technical limitation of satellite sensors. In order to solve these problems, various pansharpening algorithms have been tried and proposed. However, most pansharpened images created by various approaches tend to distort the spectral characteristics of the original multispectral image or decrease the visual sharpness of the panchromatic image. To minimize the spectral distortion of pansharpened image while preserving spatial information of the panchromatic image, a hybrid pansharpening algorithm based on the spatial correlation was proposed. In this paper, we analyzed the spatial and spectral distortion of the hybrid pansharpened images generated by the various spatial correlation methods. In the experiments, we proved that the method by using Laplacian filtering was more efficient than other high frequency extraction algorithms in the viewpoint of spectral distortion and spatial sharpness.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.125-135
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• 2009

Owing to its fast computing capability for fusing images, the FIHS(Fast Intensity Hue Saturation) fusion is widely used for fusion purposes. However, the FIHS fusion also distorts color in the same way such as the IHS(Intensity Hue Saturation) fusion technique. In this paper, a FIHS fusion technique(FIHS-BR) which reduces color distortion by using the ratio of each spectral band and an adaptive FIHS fusion(FIHS-SABR) using spatial information and the ratio of each spectral band are proposed. The proposed FIHS-BR fusion reduces color distortion by adding different spatial detail improvement values for each spectral band. The spatial detail improvement values are derived from the ratio of spectral band. And the proposed FIHS-SABR fusion reduces more color distortion by readjusting the spatial detail improvement values for each spectral band according to the ratio of the spectral bands. The spatial detail improvement values are derived adaptively from the characteristics of spatial information of the local image. To evaluate the performance of the proposed FIHS-BR fusion and FIHS-SABR fusion, a computer simulation is performed for IKONOS remote sensing image. Results from the experiments show that the proposed methods have less color distortion for the forest regions which reveal severe color distortion in the traditional FIHS fusion. From the evaluation results of the characteristics of spectral information for fused image, we show that the proposed methods have best results.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.15-20
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• 2008

High-spatial resolution remote sensing satellites (IKONOS-2, QuickBird and KOMPSAT-2) have provided low-spatial resolution multispectral images and high-spatial resolution panchromatic images. Image fusion or Pan-sharpening is a very important in that it aims at using a satellite image with various applications such as visualization and feature extraction through combining images that have a different spectral and spatial resolution. Many image fusion algorithms are proposed, most methods could not preserve the spectral information of original multispectral image after image fusion. In order to solve this problem, modified induction technique which reduce the spectral distortion of fused image is developed. The spectral distortion is adjusted by the comparison between the spatially degraded pan-sharpened image and original multispectral image and our algorithm is evaluated by QuickBird satellite imagery. In the experiment, pan-sharpened image by various methods can reduce spectral distortion when our algorithm is applied to the fused images.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.577-582
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• 2011

In remote sensing, spatial/spectral distortions are recognized as two of the main problems in the pansharpening algorithm. Most pansharpening methodologies show a tendency to distort spatial information from objects such as buildings and vehicles because there are local spatial dissimilarities among multispectral bands in Worldview-2 satellite imagery. In this paper, we propose a new pansharpening algorithm in order to minimize the effects of the local displacement of spatial information in the pansharpening process. In experiments using Worldview-2 images, our method provided better spectral and spatial quality than pre-existing pansharpening methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.13-19
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 보다 정확한 식생지수의 분석을 위해서 영상융합에 의한 공간해상도 향상 가능성에 대해서 평가하였다. 식생지수는 광범위한 지역의 산림 모니터링이나 산불재해와 같은 분야에서 폭넓게 사용되고 있으며, 영상융합은 저해상도의 다중분광대 영상을 고해상도의 단일분광대를 이용하여 분광해상도는 그대로 유지하면서 공간해상도를 향상시키는 기법이다. 본 연구에서는 공간해상도 향상을 위해서 wavelet, PCA, IHS, Brovey, multiplicative 변환 등의 영상융합기법을 적용하였으며, 융합된 영상과 원영상으로부터 식생지수를 계산하고 상관계수의 비교를 수행하였다. 그 결과 PCA 방법이 공간해상도 증가와 함께 식생지수의 왜곡이 가장 적은 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.14 no.1 s.35
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• pp.21-27
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• 2006

Among various image fusion methods, intensity-hue-saturation(IHS) technique is capable of quickly merging the massive volumes of data. For IKONOS imagery, IHS can yield satisfactory 'spatial' enhancement but may introduce 'spectral' distortion, appearing as a change in colors between compositions of resampled and fused multispectral bands. To solve this problem a fast IHS fusion technique with spectral adjustment is presented. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can provide better performance than the conventional IHS method, in both processing speed and image quality.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.79-86
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• 2010

Generally, image fusion is defined as generating re-organized image by merging two or more data using special algorithms. In remote sensing, image fusion technique is called as Pan-sharpening algorithm because it aims to improve the spatial resolution of original multispectral image by using panchromatic image of high-spatial resolution. The pan-sharpened image has been an important task due to various applications such as change detection, digital map creation and urban analysis. However, most approaches have tended to distort the spectral information of the original multispectral data or decrease the spatial quality compared with the panchromatic image. In order to solve these problems, a novel pan-sharpening algorithm is proposed by considering the spectral and spatial characteristics of multispectral image. The algorithm is applied to the KOMPSAT-2 and QuickBird satellite image and the results showed that our method can improve the spectral/spatial quality compared with the existing fusion algorithms.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.14 no.1 s.36
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• pp.85-94
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• 2006

Image fusion techniques are widely used to integrate a lower spatial resolution multispectral image with a higher spatial resolution panchromatic image. However, the existing techniques either cannot avoid distorting the image spectral properties or involve complicated and time-consuming decomposition and reconstruction processing in the case of wavelet transform-based fusion. In this study a simple spectral preserve fusion technique: the Smoothing Filter-based Replacement(SFR) is proposed based on a simplified solar radiation and land surface reflection model. By using a ratio between a higher resolution image and its low pass filtered (with a smoothing filter) image, spatial details can be injected to a co-registered lower resolution multispectral image minimizing its spectral properties and contrast. The technique can be applied to improve spatial resolution for either colour composites or individual bands. The fidelity to spectral property and the spatial quality of SFM are convincingly demonstrated by an image fusion experiment using IKONOS panchromatic and multispectral images. The visual evaluation and statistical analysis compared with other image fusion techniques confirmed that SFR is a better fusion technique for preserving spectral information.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.471-478
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• 2011

High resolution Pan-sharpening technique is becoming increasingly important in the field of remote sensing image analysis as an essential image processing to improve the spatial resolution of original multispectral image. The general scheme of pan-sharpening technique consists of upsampling process of multispectral image and high-pass detail injection process using the panchromatic image. The upsampling process, however, brings about image blurring, and this lead to spectral distortion in the pan-sharpening process. In order to solve this problem, this paper presents a new method that adopts image restoration techniques based on optimization theory in the pan-sharpening process, and evaluates its efficiency and application possibility. In order to evaluate the effect of image restoration techniques on the pansharpening process, the result obtained using the existing method that used bicubic interpolation were compared visually and quantitatively with the results obtained using image restoration techniques. The quantitative comparison was done using some spectral distortion measures for use to evaluate the quality of pan-sharpened image.