Spectral and Spatial Feature Integrated Edge Extraction Method for High Resolution Remote Sensing Image

摘要

With urban and township development and E-Govemment program promotion in China city remote sensing as base data has developed rapidly. The technique demands in accuracy and effective edge detection and extraction from higher resolution image become important focal area. In the current popular image processing software packages there are some existing edge detection convolution kernels such as Sobel, Robert, Prewitt, Kirsch, Gauss-Laplace kernels. In general the kernels all work based on algorithm of convolution kernel in spatial territory of the image. However, satellite sensors capture spatial and spectral signatures of surface at same time. Use of both spatial and spectral features to establish a edge detection process is a new notion for achieving more accuracy results. In the paper we introduce a spatial and spectral integrated method which is designed in four stages. The result suggests that four stages process can achieve more cleanly and accuracy edges of city constructions than that results of using other algorithms. The procedure is summarized in figure 1.