Land cover classification improvements by remote sensing data fusion

Computer processing and analysis of satellite data is an urgent task of the science of remote sensing of the earth. Such processing can range from adjusting the contrast and brightness of the images of an amateur photographer to a group of scientists using neural network classification to determine the types of minerals in a hyperspectral satellite image. This article implements a method of satellite data fusion, which improves the digital image interpretation and image quality for further analysis. For fusion, a multispectral image with a resolution of 30 m Landsat 5 with 6 channels was taken, with three more significant and informative in their composition were used, as well as a panchromatic (monochrome) image with a resolution of 15 m. To evaluate the resolution of the images and the resulting images before and after the image fusion algorithm, image slices along a straight line and intersecting buildings, green mass, roads and industrial areas presented. For testing, test territories taken from Google Earth and the field work results.