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22 September 1998 Multispectral inverse problems in satellite image processing
Scott A. Starks, Vladik Kreinovich
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Abstract
Satellite imaging is nowadays one of the main sources of geophysical and environmental information. It is, therefore, extremely important to be able to solve the corresponding inverse problem,: reconstruct the actual geophysics- or environmental-related image from the observed noisy data. Traditional image reconstruction techniques have been developed for the case when we have a single observed image. This case corresponds to a single satellite photo. Existing satellites take photos in several wavelengths. To press this multiple-spectral information, we can use known reasonable multi-image modifications of the existing single-image reconstructing techniques. These modifications, basically, handle each image separately, and try to merge the resulting information. Currently, a new generation of image satellites is being launched, that will enable us to collect visual images for about 500 different wavelengths. This two order of magnitude increase in data amount should lead to a similar increase in the processing time, but surprisingly, it does not. An analysis and explanation of this paradoxical simplicity is given in the paper.
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Scott A. Starks and Vladik Kreinovich "Multispectral inverse problems in satellite image processing", Proc. SPIE 3459, Bayesian Inference for Inverse Problems, (22 September 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323793
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KEYWORDS
Satellite imaging

Satellites

Data modeling

Earth observing sensors

Inverse problems

Geophysics

Image processing

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