New transform techniques for enhancement and fusion of multispectral and hyperspectral images

This paper presents a new approach to the development of multispectral/hyperspectral image enhancement and fusion algorithms. In approaches used up to now for image enhancement, the bands are typically processed separately, and this results in considerable distortion. The amount of information in many bands are also not very efficiently used. The objective of this work is to utilize the amount of information available more effectively, remove such distortions and to improve the appearance of the images. To realize this goal, we developed two new algorithms using transform techniques. In the resulting algorithms developed, image enhancement and image fusion are considered together.