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Contrast Based Band Selection For Optimized Weathered Oil Detection In Hyperspectral Images, Florian Levaux, Charles R. Bostater, Xavier Neyt

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Hyperspectral imagery offers unique benefits for detection of land and water features due to the information contained in reflectance signatures such as the bi-directional reflectance distribution function or BRDF. The reflectance signature directly shows the relative absorption and backscattering features of targets. These features can be very useful in shoreline monitoring or surveillance applications, for example to detect weathered oil. In real-time detection applications, processing of hyperspectral data can be an important tool and Optimal band selection is thus important in real time applications in order to select the essential bands using the absorption and backscatter information. In the present …