Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing is the research area in which the Earth's surface is studied, usually using the reflectance spectrum of the Sun. Vision Lab has built expertise in the processing and analysis of multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing images. Topics of research include the development of techniques for image denoising, restoration, fusion, segmentation, classification and spectral unmixing. Recently, research is shifted to more close-range applications, for which we have our own acquisition equipement (spectrometer 400-2500 nm; VNIR camera 400-900 nm and SWIR camera 1000-1700 nm). Applications are material characterization (corrosion, soil moisture, powder material composition).

Journal publications

2012

G. Thoonen, Hufkens, K., Vanden Borre, J., Spanhove, T., and Scheunders, P., “Accuracy assessment of contextual classification results for vegetation mapping”, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 15, pp. 7 - 15, 2012.
G. Thoonen, Mahmood, Z., Peeters, S., and Scheunders, P., “Multisource classification of color and hyperspectral images using color attribute profiles and composite decision fusion”, Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of, vol. 5, pp. 510 - 521, 2012.
G. Verdoolaege and Scheunders, P., “On the geometry of Multivariate Generalized Gaussian models”, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 180-193, 2012.

2011

R. Heylen, Burazerovic, D., and Scheunders, P., “Fully constrained least-squares spectral unmixing by simplex projection”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 4112-4122, 2011.PDF icon PDF (1.11 MB)Package icon Matlab code (1.93 KB)
Z. Mahmood and Scheunders, P., “Enhanced visualization of hyperspectral images”, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing letters, vol. 8, pp. 869-873, 2011.
R. Heylen, Burazerovic, D., and Scheunders, P., “Nonlinear spectral unmixing by geodesic simplex volume maximization”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 534-542, 2011.

2010

K. Hufkens, Thoonen, G., Vanden Borre, J., Scheunders, P., and Ceulemans, R., “Habitat reporting of a heathland site: Classification probabilities as additional information, a case study”, Ecological Informatics, vol. 5, pp. 248 - 255, 2010.

2009

K. Hufkens, Ceulemans, R., and Scheunders, P., “Ecotones in vegetation ecology: methodology and definitions revisited”, Ecological Research, vol. 24, pp. 977-986, 2009.
Y. Zhang, De Backer, S., and Scheunders, P., “Noise-resistant wavelet-based Bayesian fusion of multispectral and hyperspectral images”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 47, pp. 3834-3843, 2009.
K. Hufkens, Scheunders, P., and Ceulemans, R., “Validation of the sigmoid wave curve fitting algorithm on a forest-tundra ecotone in the Northwest Territories, Canada”, Ecological Informatics, vol. 4, pp. 1-7, 2009.

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