a procedure for high resolution satellite imagery quality assessment高分辨率卫星图像质量评估的过程.pdfVIP

Sensors 2009, 9, 3289-3313; doi:10.3390/ OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article A Procedure for High Resolution Satellite Imagery Quality Assessment Mattia Crespi 1,* and Laura De Vendictis 2 1 DITS, Area di Geodesia e Geomatica - Sapienza Università di Roma - via Eudossiana 18 - 00184 Rome, Italy 2 Telespazio S.p.A. - via Tiburtina 956 - 00156 Rome, Italy; E-mail: guest517.devendictis@ (L.D.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: mattia.crespi@uniroma1.it (M.C.); Tel. +39-06-4458597; Fax: +39-06 Received: 10 April 2009; in revised form: 22 April 2009 / Accepted: 5 May 2009 / Published: 5 May 2009 Abstract: Data products generated from High Resolution Satellite Imagery (HRSI) are routinely evaluated during the so-called in-orbit test period, in order to verify if their quality fits the desired features and, if necessary, to obtain the image correction parameters to be used at the ground processing center. Nevertheless, it is often useful to have tools to evaluate image quality also at the final user level. Image quality is defined by some parameters, such as the radiometric resolution and its accuracy, represented by the noise level, and the geometric resolution and sharpness, described by the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF). This paper proposes a procedure to evaluate these image quality parameters; the procedure was implemented in