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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-7-W4-51-2015</article-id>
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<article-title>Multi-sensor multi-resolution image fusion for improved vegetation and urban area classification</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kumar</surname>
<given-names>U.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Milesi</surname>
<given-names>C.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nemani</surname>
<given-names>R. R.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Basu</surname>
<given-names>S.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>NASA Ames Research Center/ORAU, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 80803, USA</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>26</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2015</year>
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<volume>XL-7/W4</volume>
<fpage>51</fpage>
<lpage>58</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2015 U. Kumar et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2015</copyright-year>
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<p>In this paper, we perform multi-sensor multi-resolution data fusion of Landsat-5 TM bands (at 30 m spatial resolution) and
multispectral bands of World View-2 (WV-2 at 2 m spatial resolution) through linear spectral unmixing model. The advantages of
fusing Landsat and WV-2 data are two fold: first, spatial resolution of the Landsat bands increases to WV-2 resolution. Second,
integration of data from two sensors allows two additional SWIR bands from Landsat data to the fused product which have
advantages such as improved atmospheric transparency and material identification, for example, urban features, construction
materials, moisture contents of soil and vegetation, etc. In 150 separate experiments, WV-2 data were clustered in to 5, 10, 15, 20
and 25 spectral classes and data fusion were performed with 3x3, 5x5, 7x7, 9x9 and 11x11 kernel sizes for each Landsat band. The
optimal fused bands were selected based on Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, RMSE (root mean square error) and
ERGAS index and were subsequently used for vegetation, urban area and dark objects (deep water, shadows) classification using
Random Forest classifier for a test site near Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA. Accuracy assessment of the
classified images through error matrix before and after fusion showed that the overall accuracy and Kappa for fused data
classification (93.74%, 0.91) was much higher than Landsat data classification (72.71%, 0.70) and WV-2 data classification
(74.99%, 0.71). This approach increased the spatial resolution of Landsat data to WV-2 spatial resolution while retaining the original
Landsat spectral bands with significant improvement in classification.</p>
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