Summary: | When using coarse-resolution remote sensing images, super-resolution reconstruction is widely desired, and can be realized by reproducing the intrinsic features from a set of coarse-resolution fraction data to fine-resolution remote sensing images that are consistent with the coarse fraction information. Prior models of spatial structures that encode the expected features at the fine (target) resolution are helpful to constrain the spatial patterns of remote sensing images to be generated at that resolution. These prior models can be used properly by multiple-point statistics (MPS), capable of extracting the intrinsic features of patterns from prior models such as training images, and copying them to the simulated regions using hard and soft conditional data, or even without any conditional data. However, because traditional MPS methods based on linear dimensionality reduction are not suitable to deal with nonlinear data, and isometric mapping (ISOMAP) can reduce the dimensionality of nonlinear data effectively, this paper presents a sequential simulation framework for generating super-resolution remote sensing images using ISOMAP and MPS. Using four different examples, it is demonstrated that the structural characteristics of super-resolution reconstruction of remote sensing images using this method, are similar to those of training images.
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