The detailed analysis of urban regions is among those areas which most benefited from the availability of high-resolution satellite data such as e.g. IKONOS and QUICKBIRD. These data offer as well high spatial, radiometric and temporal resolution, competing with aerial photographs for several applications. Merging these characteristics allows the detection of intra-urban targets and consequentl...

The modern remote sensing imaging sensors, like those in the IKONOS and QuickBird satellites, are capable of generating panchromatic images with about one meter spatial resolution. The principal objective of fusion in remote sensing is to obtain images that can combine the spectral characteristic of the lowresolution multispectral images with the spatial information of the high-resolution panch...

On board of Quickbird satellite two types of sensors are present: panchromatic and multispectral. The first acquires earth images within spectral range 0.405 μm – 1.053 μm; the second acquires simultaneously four images of the same scene, each of them within shorter range of spectrum (Blue, Green, Red, Near-Infrared). Panchromatic images present geometric resolution 0.60 m while multispectral o...

On October 8, 2009, WorldView-2 joined its sister satellites, WorldView-1 and QuickBird, in orbit. WorldView-2 is a remote-sensing satellite principally used to capture high-resolution images of the earth. The images provided by the satellite can be used for applications such as mapping, land planning, disaster relief, exploration, defense and intelligence, visualization and simulation of envir...

Seagrass distribution is a very important index for costal management and protection. Seagrass distribution changes can be used as indexes to analyze the reasons for the changes. In this paper, in situ hyperspectral observation and satellite images of QuickBird, CBERS (China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite data) and Landsat data were used to retrieve bio-optical models and seagrass (Enhalus ac...

Target identification from high resolution remote sensing image is a common task for many applications. In order to improve the performance of target identification, multiple classifier combination is used to QuickBird high resolution image, and some key techniques including selection and design of member classifiers, classifier combination algorithm and target identification methods are invest...

With the recent availability of commercial high resolution remote sensing multispectral imagery from sensors such as IKONOS and QuickBird, we can’t get the accuracy of land-cover classification expected using pixel-based approach. In this paper, we bring about object-based approach combined with the nearest neighbor to classify the QuickBird image of LianYungang city. Firstly, the image is segm...

As known, at the present time, remote sensing technologies are being improved and year by year, by launching new satellites whose image taking configurations are improved with new techniques, images can be obtained faster with high quality. The satellites which had been launched recently for example; Quickbird, Ikonos and Orbview-3 have 1m and better resolution, continue their missions with qui...

In remote sensing, because of the wide diversity of image characteristics (size, spatial and radiometric resolution, terrain relief, observation poses, etc.), image registration methods that may work well on certain satellite images will not produce acceptable results for others, requiring more powerful techniques. A variety of registration techniques for images with non-rigid geometric differe...