Multi-sensor remote sensing image alignment based on fast algorithms

Abstract Remote sensing image technology to the ground has important guiding significance in disaster assessment and emergency rescue deployment. In order to realize the fast automatic registration of multi-sensor remote sensing images, the remote sensing image block registration idea is introduced, and the image reconstruction is processed by using the conjugate gradient descent (CGD) method. The scale-invariant feature transformation (SIFT) algorithm is improved and optimized by combining the function-fitting method. By this way, it can improve the registration accuracy and efficiency of multi-sensor remote sensing images. The results show that the average peak signal-to-noise ratio of the image processed by the CGD method is 25.428. The average root mean square value is 17.442. The average image processing time is 6.093 s. These indicators are better than the passive filter algorithm and the gradient descent method. The average accuracy of image registration of the improved SIFT registration method is 96.37%, and the average image registration time is 2.14 s. These indicators are significantly better than the traditional SIFT algorithm and speeded-up robust features algorithm. It is proved that the improved SIFT registration method can effectively improve the accuracy and operation efficiency of multi-sensor remote sensing image registration methods. The improved SIFT registration method effectively solves the problems of low accuracy and long time consumption of traditional multi-sensor remote sensing image fast registration methods. While maintaining high registration accuracy, it improves the image registration speed and provides technical support for a rapid disaster assessment after major disasters such as earthquakes and floods. And it has an important value for the development of the efficient post-disaster rescue deployment.