Multi-spectral remote sensing image enhancement method based on PCA and IHS transformations

This paper introduces a new enhancement method for multi-spectral satellite remote sensing imagery,based on principal component analysis(PCA) and intensity-hue-saturation(IHS) transformations.The PCA and the IHS transformations are used to separate the spatial information of the multi-spectral image into the first principal component and the intensity component,respectively.The enhanced image is obtained by replacing the intensity component of the IHS transformation with the first principal component of the PCA transformation,and undertaking the inverse IHS transformation.The objective of the proposed method is to make greater use of the spatial and spectral information contained in the original multi-spectral image.On the basis of the visual and statistical analysis results of the experimental study,we can conclude that the proposed method is an ideal new way for multi-spectral image quality enhancement with little color distortion.It has potential advantages in image mapping optimization,object recognition,and weak information sharpening.

Fusion and Classification of Beijing-1 Small Satellite Remote Sensing Image for Land Cover Monitoring in Mining Area

In order to promote the application of Beijing-1 small satellite(BJ-1) remote sensing data,the multispectral and panchromatic images captured by BJ-1 were used for land cover classification in Pangzhuang Coal Mining.An improved Intensity-Hue-Saturation(IHS) fusion algorithm is proposed to fuse panchromatic and multispectral images,in which intensity component and panchromatic image are combined using the weights determined by edge pixels in the panchromatic image identified by grey absolute correlation degree.This improved IHS fusion algorithm outper-forms traditional IHS fusion method to a certain extent,evidenced by its ability in preserving spectral information and enhancing spatial details.Dempster-Shafer(D-S) evidence theory was adopted to combine the outputs of three member classifiers to generate the final classification map with higher accuracy than that by any individual classifier.Based on this study,we conclude that Beijing-1 small satellite remote sensing images are useful to monitor and analyze land cover change and ecological environment degradation in mining areas,and the proposed fusion algorithms at data and decision levels can integrate the advantages of multi-resolution images and multiple classifiers,improve the overall accuracy and produce a more reliable land cover map.