Possibilistic context identification for SAS imagery

Abstract This paper proposes a possibilistic context identification approach for synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery. SAS seabed imagery can display a variety of textures that can be used to identify seabed types such as sea grass, sand ripple and hard-packed sand, etc. Target objects in SAS imagery often have varying characteristics and features due to …

Spatial and Spectral Unmixing Using the Beta Compositional Model

Abstract This paper introduces the beta compositional model (BCM) for hyperspectral unmixing and four algorithms for unmixing given the BCM. Hyperspectral unmixing estimates the proportion of each endmember at every pixel of a hyperspectral image. Under the BCM, each endmember is a random variable distributed according to a beta distribution. By using a beta distribution, …

Accounting for Spectral Variability in Hyperspectral Unmixing Using Beta Endmember Distribution

Abstract Hyperspectral imaging is widely used in the field of remote sensing (Goetz, et al., 1985; Green, et al., 1998). In a hyperspectral imaging system, sensors collect radiance/reflectance values over an area (or a scene) across hundreds of spectral bands (Goetz, et al., 1985). The hyperspectral image yielded by such system can be represented by …