We propose a powerful alternative to customary linear spectral unmixing, with a new neural model, which achieves locally linear but globally non-linear unmixing. This enables unmixing with respect to a large number of endmembers, while traditional linear unmixing is limited to a handful of endmembers.

Spectral mixing is inherent in any finite-resolution digital imagery of a heterogeneous surface, so that mixed pixels are inevitably created when multispectral images are scanned. Solving the spectral mixture problem is, therefore, involved in image classification, referring to the techniques of spectral unmixing. The invention of imaging spectrometers especially promotes the potential of apply...

In the past several decades, hyperspectral imaging has drawn a lot of attention in the field of remote sensing. Yet, due to low spatial resolutions of hyperspectral imagers, often the response from more than one surface material can be found in some hyperspectral pixels. These pixels are called mixed pixels. Mixed pixels bring challenges to traditional pixel-level applications, such as identifi...

Method for unmixing, category decomposition of the mixed pixel (MIXEL) of remote sensing satellite imagery data taking into account the effect due to Bi-Directional Reflectance Distribution Function: BRDF is proposed. Although there is not so small BRDF effect on estimation mixing ratios, conventional unmixing methods do not take into account the effect. Through experiments, the effect is clari...

Unmixing method for estimation of mixing ratio of the components of which the pixel in concern consists based on inversion theory is proposed together with its application to sea ice estimation method with satellite based visible to near infrared radiometer data. Through comparative study on the different unmixing methods with remote sensing satellite imagery data, it is found that the proposed...

Change detection by unmixing has been shown to provide enhanced change detection performance for hyperspectral images with respect to more traditional approaches, especially when the temporal images contain sub-pixel level changes. In a recent paper, change detection by spectral unmixing was investigated in detail and the advantages that can be gained by using such an approach were systematical...