Analysis of Homomorphic Filtered Remotely Sensed Imagery and Multiple Geophysical Images

  • Ryu Hee-Young (Dept. of Geoscience Education, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee Kiwon (Dept. of Information Systems Hansung University) ;
  • Kwon Byung-Doo (Dept. of Geoscience Education, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2004.10.01

Abstract

In this study, the digital image processing with image enhancement based on homomorphic filtering was performed using geophysical imaging data such as gravity, magnetic data and sub-scenes of satellite images such as LANDSAT, IKONOS, and KOMPSAT. Windows application program for executing homomorphic filtering was designed and newly implemented. In general, homomorphic filtering is technique that is based on Fourier transform, which enhances the contrast of image by removing the low frequencies and amplifying the high frequencies in frequency domain. We can enhance the image selectively using homomorphic filtering as compared with the existing method, which enhance the image totally. Through several experiment using remotely sensed imagery and geophysical image with this program, it is concluded that homomorphic filtering is more effective to reveal distinct characteristics for some complicated and multi-associated features on image data.

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