Abstract
The aim of the pansharpening scheme is to improve the spatial information of multispectral images using the panchromatic (PAN) image. In this study, a novel pansharpening scheme based on two-dimensional discrete fractional Fourier transform (2D-DFRFT) is proposed. In the proposed scheme, PAN and intensity images are transformed using 2D-DFRFT and filtered by highpass filters, respectively. The filtered images are inverse transformed and further used to generate the pansharpened image using appropriate fusion rule. The additional degree of freedom in terms of its angle parameters associated with the 2D-DFRFT is exploited for obtaining better results in the proposed pansharpening scheme. Simulation results of the proposed technique carried out in MATLAB are presented for IKONOS and GeoEye-1 satellite images and compared with existing fusion methods in terms of both visual observation and quality metrics. It is seen that the proposed pansharpening scheme has improved spectral and spatial resolution as compared to the existing schemes.
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