A Multi Views Approach for Remote Sensing Fusion Based on Spectral, Spatial and Temporal Information

The objectives of this chapter are to contribute to the apprehension of image fusion approaches including concepts definition, techniques ethics and results assessment. It is structured in five sections. Following this introduction, a definition of image fusion provides involved fundamental concepts. Respectively, we explain cases in which image fusion might be useful. Most existing techniques and architectures are reviewed and classified in the third section. In fourth section, we focuses heavily on algorithms based on multi-views approach, we compares and analyses the process model and algorithms including advantages, limitations and applicability of each view. The last part of the chapter summarized the benefits and limitations of a multi-view approach image fusion; it gives some recommendations on the effectiveness and the performance of these methods. These recommendations, based on a comprehensive study and meaningful quantitative metrics, evaluate various proposed views by applying them to various environmental applications with different remotely sensed images coming from different sensors. In the concluding section, we fence the chapter with a summary and recommendations for future researches

Multisource Data Integration in Remote Sensing

Papers presented at the workshop on Multisource Data Integration in Remote Sensing are compiled. The full text of these papers is included. New instruments and new sensors are discussed that can provide us with a large variety of new views of the real world. This huge amount of data has to be combined and integrated in a (computer-) model of this world. Multiple sources may give complimentary views of the world - consistent observations from different (and independent) data sources support each other and increase their credibility, while contradictions may be caused by noise, errors during processing, or misinterpretations, and can be identified as such. As a consequence, integration results are very reliable and represent a valid source of information for any geographical information system

Segmentation non supervisée d'images non stationnaires avec champs de Markov évidentiels

- Fréquemment utilisés en traitement statistique d'images, les champs de Markov cachés (CMC) sont des outils puissants qui peuvent fournir des résultats remarquables. Cette qualité est principalement due à l'aptitude du modèle de prendre en compte des dépendances spatiales des variables aléatoires, même lorsqu'elles sont en très grand nombre, pouvant dépasser le milion. Dans un tel modèle le champ caché X est supposé markovien et doit être estimé à partir du champ observé Y . Un tel traitement est possible du fait de la markovianité de X conditionnellement Y . Ce modèle a été ensuite généralisé au champs de Markov couples (CMCouple), où l'on suppose directement la markovianité du couple (X,Y), qui offrent les mêmes possibilités de traitements que les CMC et permettent de mieux modéliser le bruit ce qui permet, en particulier, de mieux prendre en compte l'existence des textures. Par la suite, les CMCouples ont été généralisés aux champs de Markov triplet (CMT), où la loi du couple (X,Y) est une loi marginale d'un champ de Markov triplet T = (X,U,Y), avec un champ auxiliaire U . Par ailleurs, la théorie de l'évidence peut permettre une amélioration des résultats obtenus par des traitements bayésiens dans certaines situations. Le but de cet article est d'aborder le problème de la segmentation non supervisée d'images non stationnaires en utilisant les champs de Markov évidentiels (CME), en exploitant, en particulier, un lien existant entre les CME et les CMT

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture RADAR and Radargrammetry towards the Categorization of Building Changes

The purpose of this work is the investigation of SAR techniques relying on multi image acquisition for fully automatic and rapid change detection analysis at building level. In particular, the benefits and limitations of a complementary use of two specific SAR techniques, InSAR and radargrammetry, in an emergency context are examined in term of quickness, globality and accuracy. The analysis is performed using spaceborne SAR data

Statistical Fusion of Multi-aspect Synthetic Aperture Radar Data for Automatic Road Extraction

In this dissertation, a new statistical fusion for automatic road extraction from SAR images taken from different looking angles (i.e. multi-aspect SAR data) was presented. The main input to the fusion is extracted line features. The fusion is carried out on decision-level and is based on Bayesian network theory

Detection and height estimation of buildings from SAR and optical images using conditional random fields

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