1i.pansharpen(1) GRASS GIS User's Manual i.pansharpen(1)
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6 i.pansharpen - Image fusion algorithms to sharpen multispectral with
7 high-res panchromatic channels
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10 imagery, fusion, sharpen, Brovey, IHS, HIS, PCA
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13 i.pansharpen
14 i.pansharpen --help
15 i.pansharpen [-slr] red=name green=name blue=name pan=name output=base‐
16 name method=string bitdepth=integer [--overwrite] [--help] [--ver‐
17 bose] [--quiet] [--ui]
18 Flags:
20 -s
21 Serial processing rather than parallel processing
22 -l
24 Rebalance blue channel for LANDSAT
25 -r
27 Rescale (stretch) the range of pixel values in each channel to the
28 entire 0-255 8-bit range for processing (see notes)
29 --overwrite
31 Allow output files to overwrite existing files
32 --help
34 Print usage summary
35 --verbose
37 Verbose module output
38 --quiet
40 Quiet module output
41 --ui
43 Force launching GUI dialog
44 Parameters:
46 red=name [required]
47 Name of raster map to be used for <red>
48 green=name [required]
50 Name of raster map to be used for <green>
51 blue=name [required]
53 Name of raster map to be used for <blue>
54 pan=name [required]
56 Name of raster map to be used for high resolution panchromatic
57 channel
58 output=basename [required]
60 Name for output basename raster map(s)
61 method=string [required]
63 Method for pan sharpening
64 Options: brovey, ihs, pca
65 Default: ihs
66 bitdepth=integer [required]
68 Bit depth of image (must be in range of 2-30)
69 Options: 2-32
70 Default: 8
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73 i.pansharpen uses a high resolution panchromatic band from a multispec‐
74 tral image to sharpen 3 lower resolution bands. The 3 lower resolution
75 bands can then be combined into an RGB color image at a higher (more
76 detailed) resolution than is possible using the original 3 bands. For
77 example, Landsat ETM has low resolution spectral bands 1 (blue), 2
78 (green), 3 (red), 4 (near IR), 5 (mid-IR), and 7 (mid-IR) at 30m reso‐
79 lution, and a high resolution panchromatic band 8 at 15m resolution.
80 Pan sharpening allows bands 3-2-1 (or other combinations of 30m resolu‐
81 tion bands like 4-3-2 or 5-4-2) to be combined into a 15m resolution
82 color image.
83 i.pansharpen offers a choice of three different ’pan sharpening’ algo‐
84 rithms: IHS, Brovey, and PCA.
85 For IHS pan sharpening, the original 3 lower resolution bands, selected
86 as red, green and blue channels for creating an RGB composite image,
87 are transformed into IHS (intensity, hue, and saturation) color space.
88 The panchromatic band is then substituted for the intensity channel
89 (I), combined with the original hue (H) and saturation (S) channels,
90 and transformed back to RGB color space at the higher resolution of the
91 panchromatic band. The algorithm for this can be represented as: RGB ->
92 IHS -> [pan]HS -> RGB.
93 With a Brovey pan sharpening, each of the 3 lower resolution bands and
94 panchromatic band are combined using the following algorithm to calcu‐
95 late 3 new bands at the higher resolution (example for band 1):
96 band1
97 new band1 = ----------------------- * panband
98 band1 + band2 + band3
99 In PCA pan sharpening, a principal component analysis is performed on
100 the original 3 lower resolution bands to create 3 principal component
101 images (PC1, PC2, and PC3) and their associated eigenvectors (EV), such
102 that:
103 band1 band2 band3
104 PC1: EV1-1 EV1-2 EV1-3
105 PC2: EV2-1 EV2-2 EV2-3
106 PC3: EV3-1 EV3-2 EV3-3
107 and
108 PC1 = EV1-1 * band1 + EV1-2 * band2 + EV1-3 * band3 - mean(bands 1,2,3)
109 An inverse PCA is then performed, substituting the panchromatic band
110 for PC1. To do this, the eigenvectors matrix is inverted (in this case
111 transposed), the PC images are multiplied by the eigenvectors with the
112 panchromatic band substituted for PC1, and mean of each band is added
113 to each transformed image band using the following algorithm (example
114 for band 1):
115 band1 = pan * EV1-1 + PC2 * EV1-2 + PC3 * EV1-3 + mean(band1)
116 The assignment of the channels depends on the satellite. Examples of
117 satellite imagery with high resolution panchromatic bands, and lower
118 resolution spectral bands include Landsat 7 ETM, QuickBird, and SPOT.
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121 The module works for 2-bit to 30-bit images. All images are rescaled to
122 8-bit for processing. By default, the entire possible range for the se‐
123 lected bit depth is rescaled to 8-bit. For example, the range of
124 0-65535 for a 16-bit image is rescaled to 0-255). The ’r’ flag allows
125 the range of pixel values actually present in an image rescaled to a
126 full 8-bit range. For example, a 16 bit image might only have pixels
127 that range from 70 to 35000; this range of 70-35000 would be rescaled
128 to 0-255. This can give better visual distinction to features, espe‐
129 cially when the range of actual values in an image only occupies a rel‐
130 atively limited portion of the possible range.
131 i.pansharpen temporarily changes the computational region to the high
132 resolution of the panchromatic band during sharpening calculations,
133 then restores the previous region settings. The current region coordi‐
134 nates (and null values) are respected. The high resolution panchromatic
135 image is histogram matched to the band it is replaces prior to substi‐
136 tution (i.e., the intensity channel for IHS sharpening, the low res
137 band selected for each color channel with Brovey sharpening, and the
138 PC1 image for PCA sharpening).
139 By default, the command will attempt to employ parallel processing, us‐
140 ing up to 3 cores simultaneously. The -s flag will disable parallel
141 processing, but does use an optimized r.mapcalc expression to reduce
142 disk I/O.
143 The three pan-sharpened output channels may be combined with d.rgb or
144 r.composite. Colors may be optionally optimized with i.colors.enhance.
145 While the resulting color image will be at the higher resolution in all
146 cases, the 3 pan sharpening algorithms differ in terms of spectral re‐
147 sponse.
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150 Pan sharpening of LANDSAT ETM+ (Landsat 7)
151 LANDSAT ETM+ (Landsat 7), North Carolina sample dataset, PCA method:
152 # original at 28m
153 g.region raster=lsat7_2002_10 -p
154 d.mon wx0
155 d.rgb b=lsat7_2002_10 g=lsat7_2002_20 r=lsat7_2002_30
156 # i.pansharpen with PCA algorithm
157 i.pansharpen red=lsat7_2002_30 \
158 green=lsat7_2002_20 blue=lsat7_2002_10 \
159 pan=lsat7_2002_80 method=pca \
160 output=lsat7_2002_15m_pca -l
161 # color enhance
162 i.colors.enhance blue=lsat7_2002_15m_pca_blue \
163 green=lsat7_2002_15m_pca_green red=lsat7_2002_15m_pca_red
164 # display at 14.25m, IHS pansharpened
165 g.region raster=lsat7_2002_15m_pca_red -p
166 d.erase
167 d.rgb b=lsat7_2002_15m_pca_blue g=lsat7_2002_15m_pca_green r=lsat7_2002_15m_pca_red
168 LANDSAT ETM+ (Landsat 7), North Carolina sample dataset, IHS method:
170 # original at 28m
171 g.region raster=lsat7_2002_10 -p
172 d.mon wx0
173 d.rgb b=lsat7_2002_10 g=lsat7_2002_20 r=lsat7_2002_30
174 # i.pansharpen with IHS algorithm
175 i.pansharpen red=lsat7_2002_30 \
176 green=lsat7_2002_20 blue=lsat7_2002_10 \
177 pan=lsat7_2002_80 method=ihs \
178 output=lsat7_2002_15m_ihs -l
179 # color enhance
180 i.colors.enhance blue=lsat7_2002_15m_ihs_blue \
181 green=lsat7_2002_15m_ihs_green red=lsat7_2002_15m_ihs_red
182 # display at 14.25m, IHS pansharpened
183 g.region raster=lsat7_2002_15m_ihs_red -p
184 d.erase
185 d.rgb b=lsat7_2002_15m_ihs_blue g=lsat7_2002_15m_ihs_green r=lsat7_2002_15m_ihs_red
186 # compare before/after (RGB support under "Advanced"):
187 g.gui.mapswipe
188 Pan sharpening comparison example
190 Pan sharpening of a Landsat image from Boulder, Colorado, USA (LANDSAT
191 ETM+ [Landsat 7] spectral bands 5,4,2, and pan band 8):
192 # R, G, B composite at 30m
193 g.region raster=p034r032_7dt20010924_z13_20 -p
194 d.rgb b=p034r032_7dt20010924_z13_20 g=lp034r032_7dt20010924_z13_40
195 r=p034r032_7dt20010924_z13_50
196 # i.pansharpen with IHS algorithm
197 i.pansharpen red=p034r032_7dt20010924_z13_50 green=p034r032_7dt20010924_z13_40
198 blue=p034r032_7dt20010924_z13_20 pan=p034r032_7dp20010924_z13_80
199 output=ihs321 method=ihs
200 # ... likewise with method=brovey and method=pca
201 # display at 15m
202 g.region raster=ihs542_blue -p
203 d.rgb b=ihs542_blue g=ihs542_green r=ihs542_red
204 Results:
206  R, G, B composite of Landsat at 30m  R, G, B composite of Brovey sharpened image at 15m
208  R, G, B composite of IHS sharpened image at 15m  R, G, B composite of PCA sharpened image at 15m"
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222 • Behnia, P. (2005). Comparison between four methods for data fu‐
224 sion of ETM+ multispectral and pan images. Geo-spatial Informa‐
225 tion Science, 8(2), 98-103.
226 • Du, Q., Younan, N. H., King, R., Shah, V. P. (2007). On the
228 Performance Evaluation of Pan-Sharpening Techniques. Geoscience
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230 • Karathanassi, V., Kolokousis, P., Ioannidou, S. (2007). A com‐
232 parison study on fusion methods using evaluation indicators.
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245 i.his.rgb, i.rgb.his, i.pca, d.rgb, r.composite
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248 Michael Barton (Arizona State University, USA)
249 with contributions from Markus Neteler (ITC-irst, Italy); Glynn
250 Clements; Luca Delucchi (Fondazione E. Mach, Italy); Markus Metz; and
251 Hamish Bowman.
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254 Available at: i.pansharpen source code (history)
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