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Fusion of hyperspectral and multispectral infrared astronomical images

image fusion; hyperspectral imaging; inverse problems

IEEE SAM 2020: Special Sessions > Unsupervised Computing and Large-Scale Optimization for Multi-Dimensional Data Processing

This paper presents a data fusion method dedicated to high dimensional astronomical imaging. The fusion process reconstructs a high spatio-spectral resolution datacube, taking advantage of a multispectral observation image with high spatial resolution and a hyperspectral image with high spectral resolution.
We define a regularized inverse problem accounting for the specificities of the astronomical observation instruments, as spectrally variant blurs. To handle convolution operators as well as the high dimensionality of the data, the problem is solved in the frequency domain and in a low-dimensional subspace. The fusion model is evaluated on simulated observations of the Orion Bar and shows an excellent spatial and spectral reconstruction of the observed scene.