Remote Sensing of Image Pansharpening

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue wishes to address the challenges, opportunities and solutions for improving the resolution and/or the radiometric quality of remote sensing images by means of data fusion. Spatial resolution and radiometric quality of remote sensing image data, which are crucial issues for users in a variety of applications, are generally complementary and limited by technological constraints of the hardware, by the atmosphere, and by the bottleneck of the data downlink. Multi-source and/or multi-spectral data provide complementary information. The fusion of such an information according to the respective acquisition models is an effective way to obtain remote sensing images with high resolutions and/or high radiometric qualities. The terms multi/hyper-spectral and thermal pan/hyper-sharpening encompass a number of viable solutions tailored to the variety of current and upcoming airborne and spaceborne instruments.

Of particular interest are papers that focus on (but are not limited to):

1) Spatio-spectral image fusion of spectrally overlapped channels (pan-sharpening)

2) Spatio-spectral image fusion of spectrally non-overlapped channels (hyper-sharpening, thermal sharpening)

3) Novel representations of multi/hyper-spectral data suitable for their fusion

4) Fusion of heterogeneous datasets, e.g., optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data

5) Fusion methods preserving quantitative product of optical remote sensing (e.g., surface reflectance, NDVI, etc.)

6) Fusion-based radiometric/atmospheric corrections of remote sensing data

7) Reconstruction of missing information by means of data fusion

8) Novel applications of the data with improved resolution and/or radiometric quality

Dr. Luciano Alparone
Dr. Bruno Aiazzi
Guest Editors

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• Data fusion
• Image pan-sharpening and hyper-sharpening
• Remote sensing
• Radiative transfer model
• Atmosphere
• Multispectral scanners
• Imaging spectrometers
• Thermal scanners
• Modulation transfer function (MTF)
• Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)