A New Registration Algorithm for Multimodal Remote Sensing Images

Abstract

Automatic registration of remote sensing images is a challenging problem in the applications of remote sensing. The multimodal remote sensing images have significant nonlinear radiometric differences, which lead to the failure of area-based and feature-based registration methods. In this paper, to overcome significant nonlinear radiometric differences and large scale differences of multimodal remote sensing images, we propose a new registration algorithm, which can meet the need of initial registration of multimodal remote sensing images that conform to similarity transformation model. Our synthetic and real-data experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and good performance of the proposed method in terms of visualization and registration accuracy.