Processing of Multiresolution Thermal Hyperspectral and Digital Color Data: Outcome of the 2014 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest

Author

Wenzhi Liao ; Xin Huang ; Van Coillie, Frieke ; Gautama, Sidharta ; Pizurica, Aleksandra ; Philips, Wilfried ; Hui Liu ; Tingting Zhu ; Shimoni, Michal ; Moser, Gabriele ; Tuia, Devis

Author_Institution

TELIN-IPI-iMinds, Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

Volume

8

Issue

6

fYear

2015

fDate

6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2984

Lastpage

2996

Abstract

This paper reports the outcomes of the 2014 Data Fusion Contest organized by the Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee (IADF TC) of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IEEE GRSS). As for previous years, the IADF TC organized a data fusion contest aiming at fostering new ideas and solutions for multisource remote sensing studies. In the 2014 edition, participants considered multiresolution and multisensor fusion between optical data acquired at 20-cm resolution and long-wave (thermal) infrared hyperspectral data at 1-m resolution. The Contest was proposed as a double-track competition: one aiming at accurate landcover classification and the other seeking innovation in the fusion of thermal hyperspectral and color data. In this paper, the results obtained by the winners of both tracks are presented and discussed.

Keywords

geophysical image processing; hyperspectral imaging; image colour analysis; image fusion; image resolution; land cover; remote sensing; AD 2014; IEEE GRSS data fusion contest; IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society; Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee; digital color data processing; double-track competition; land cover classification; long-wave infrared hyperspectral data; multiresolution thermal hyperspectral data processing; multisensor fusion; multisource remote sensing study; optical data multiresolution; thermal hyperspectral color data; thermal hyperspectral fusion data; thermal infrared hyperspectral data; Data integration; Feature extraction; Hyperspectral imaging; Image analysis; Image resolution; Vegetation mapping; Hyperspectral; image analysis and data fusion (IADF); landcover classification; multimodal-; multiresolution-; multisource-data fusion; thermal imaging;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1939-1404

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2420582

Filename

7109121