Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

The over-abundance of remotely sensed data has resulted inthe realization that we do not have nor could ever acquire asufficient number of highly trained image analysts to parse theavailable data.  Automated techniques are needed to perform low levelfunctions, identifying scenarios of importance from the availabledata, so that analysts may be reserved for higher level interpretativeroles. Data fusion has been an important topic in intelligence sincethe mid-1980s and continues to be a necessary concept in thedevelopment of these automated low-level functions. We propose anapproach to multimodal data fusion to combine images of varyingspatial and spectral resolutions with digital elevation models.Furthermore, our objective is to perform this fusion at the imagefeature level, specifically utilizing Gabor filters because of theirresemblance to the human visual system.