Patent Document ID: 9224192
Application ID: 14092162
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for the processing of remote sensing data comprising the steps of: processing first digital image data, wherein first digital image data, which are, or were, obtained by remote sensing and which are the image data of at least one first measuring channel with the use of second digital image data, which are, or were, obtained by remote sensing from a registration range in common with the first image data and which, in comparison with the first image data, are image data with a finer local resolution of at least a second measuring channel, wherein a) refining a local resolution of the first digital image data, at least for a section of the common registration range, without utilization of image values of the second digital image data, temporarily in such a way that a local resolution of the temporarily refined first image data corresponds to the local resolution of the second digital image data, and that one pixel of the temporarily refined first digital image data corresponds to every pixel of the second digital image data, b) determining a weighting value for each pixel in a plurality of pixels of the second digital image data in the section of the common registration range, which corresponds to a weighting of an image value of the pixel in a ratio of the image value of the pixel to image values of surrounding pixels in a local environment of the pixel, c) implementing, dependent on how large a difference of the image value of the pixel to at least one of the image values of the surrounding pixels and the image values of a part of the surrounding pixels is, before or with the determination of the weighting value, a smoothing of a local plot of the image values in an area of the pixel and its environment such that the weighting value in case of larger values of the difference is based on an additional smoothing of image values in the area of the pixel and its environment and in case of smaller values of the difference not, or such that the weighting value in case of larger values of the difference is based on a stronger smoothing of image values in the area of the pixel and its environment than with smaller values of the difference, d) weighting every pixel of the temporarily refined first digital image data which corresponds to a pixel of the plurality of pixels of the second digital image data with the weighting value of the corresponding pixel of the second digital image data and in this way refined first image data are obtained, which were obtained using information about the finer-resolution second digital image data.