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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-3-W2-177-2015</article-id>
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<article-title>IMPROVING LINEAR SPECTRAL UNMIXING THROUGH LOCAL ENDMEMBER DETECTION</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ramak</surname>
<given-names>R.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Valadan Zouj</surname>
<given-names>M. J.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mojaradi</surname>
<given-names>B.</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>KNTU, Geomatics Engineering Faculty, 1996715433 Mirdamad and Valiasr ,Tehran, Iran</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>IUST, Civil Engineering Faculty, 1684613114 Narmak ,Tehran, Iran</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>10</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2015</year>
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<volume>XL-3/W2</volume>
<fpage>177</fpage>
<lpage>181</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2015 R. Ramak et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2015</copyright-year>
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<p>There are a considerable number of mixed pixels in remotely sensed images. Different sub-pixel analyses have been recently
developed correspondingly. A well-known method is linear spectral unmixing which obtains an abundance of each endmember in a
given pixel. This model assumes that each pixel is a linear combination of all endmembers in a scene. This assumption is not correct
since each pixel can only be a composition of some surrounding endmembers. Even though, a fully mathematical technique is used
for spectral analysis, the output of the model may not represent the physical nature of the objects over the pixel under test. In this
regard, this paper proposes a Local Linear Spectral Unmixing which is based on neighbor pixels classes. Having classified the
image, using a supervised classifier, it is scanned through a window of an appropriate size. For each pixel at the center of the
window, the endmember matrix is formed only based on the majority classes existed in the window. Then the amount of each one is
calculated. The LLSU method was evaluated on an AVIRIS data set collected from an agricultural area of northern Indiana. The
results of the proposed method demonstrate a significant improvement in comparison with the LSU results. Moreover, due to the
dimension reduction of the endmember matrix in this method, the computation time of the LLSU speeds up by three to eight times
compared to the conventional Linear Spectral Unmixing method. As a result, the proposed method is efficient over the spectral
unmixing tasks.</p>
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