Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2017, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (2): 79-85.doi: 10.11978/2016055CSTR: 32234.14.2016055

• Orginal Article • Previous Articles     Next Articles

A fusion method of high-resolution full polarimetric SAR and moderate-resolution optical image

Jianhua WAN1(), Jinxia ZANG1(), Shanwei LIU1, Guangbo REN2   

  1. 1. School of Geosciences in China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China
    2. The First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China
  • Received:2016-06-03 Revised:2016-11-07 Online:2017-03-20 Published:2017-04-06
  • Supported by:
    Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (ZR2016DM16);Coastal Zone Remote Sensing Monitoring and Application Demonstration of High Resolution Earth Observation System Major Projects;A Application Study on Aerial Survey and Remote Sensing Technology in Detection of Pipeline

Abstract:

A method was proposed to solve the fusion problem of full polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and moderate-resolution optical remote sensing image, based on principal components analysis (PCA) and HSV transform, where HSV stands for hue, saturation, and value. First, the four bands of full polarization SAR went through principal component analysis, and the first principal component was extracted. Second, moderate-resolution optical image was transformed into the HSV space, and the V component was replaced by the first principal component. Finally, the desired image was obtained by using inverse IHS transform. The experiment was performed using Radarsat-2 full polarimetric SAR and TM/ETM+ moderate-resolution optical image. A comparison of the proposed method with the fusion of single polarimetric SAR and optical image based on a traditional method (PCA transform, HSV transform, or wavelet transform) showed that the proposed method made effective use of the texture information of full polarimetric SAR and improved the capability of image interpretation.

Key words: full polarimetric synthetic aperture radar, moderate-resolution optical image, image fusion, principal component analysis, HSV transformation

CLC Number: 

  • P237