Spatial/spectral endmember extraction by multidimensional morphological operations
Plaza, A.
Martinez, P.
Perez, R.
Plaza, J.
Neural Networks & Signal Process. Group, Univ. of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain
This paper appears in: Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Publication Date: Sept. 2002
Volume: 40
,
Issue: 9
On page(s):
2025
- 2041
ISSN: 0196-2892
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802494
Current Version Published: 2002-12-10
Abstract
Spectral mixture analysis provides an efficient mechanism for the interpretation and classification of remotely sensed multidimensional imagery. It aims to identify a set of reference signatures (also known as endmembers) that can be used to model the reflectance spectrum at each pixel of the original image. Thus, the modeling is carried out as a linear combination of a finite number of ground components. Although spectral mixture models have proved to be appropriate for the purpose of large hyperspectral dataset subpixel analysis, few methods are available in the literature for the extraction of appropriate endmembers in spectral unmixing. Most approaches have been designed from a spectroscopic viewpoint and, thus, tend to neglect the existing spatial correlation between pixels. This paper presents a new automated method that performs unsupervised pixel purity determination and endmember extraction from multidimensional datasets; this is achieved by using both spatial and spectral information in a combined manner. The method is based on mathematical morphology, a classic image processing technique that can be applied to the spectral domain while being able to keep its spatial characteristics. The proposed methodology is evaluated through a specifically designed framework that uses both simulated and real hyperspectral data.
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