A spectral preservation fusion method based on band ratio and weighted combination

Abstract

With the availability of multi-sensor data in the field of remote sensing, sensor fusion has emerged as a promising research area. This study presents a simple spectral preservation fusion approach based on band ratio and weighted combination. It injects spatial features into multi-spectral images to improve the spatial information, and adjusts the ratio between the high spatial resolution image and the multi-spectral image with a weight factor to reduce the color distortion. This method is applied to merge SPOT and LANDSAT (TM) images. Visual and statistical analysis prove that the technique presented here is clearly better than the conventional image fusion techniques for preserving the spectral properties with the spatial detail improved synchronously.