Toronto, April 2007: AUG Signals is pleased to announce we have secured the Canadian Space Agency’s support for our new project, entitled “Conflation Capabilities for Spaceborne Remote Sensing: Automatic Co-registration and Vector Image Alignment.”

The objective of this work is to advance and expand the existing registration software of AUG Signals. Specifically, novel technologies will be developed to automatically register vector and image data, EO and SAR data at a user defined high registration accuracy.

The uniqueness of the technology lies in its simultaneous utilization of multiple common feature image pairs generated from originally different data sources. Due to the different image characteristics of the different sensors, automatic registration of EO and SAR is always a challenge. Poor accuracy of the geo-information of the vector data and/or image data causes large discrepancies between vectors and the same features presented in the image data when the two datasets are directly overlaid. AUG Signals’ new technology solves these problems by identifying correct control point pairs in the multi-layer feature image pairs. This will lead to novel approaches and solutions that will exploit currently available techniques resulting in increased registration/conflation performance for images from multiple sensors.

These conflation capabilities offer a significant value-added tool for registration – one of the fundamental tools for data analysis – and can be applied to a variety of diverse markets, from agriculture, forestry, and environmental applications to natural resources, topographic mapping, military and defence, etc.

For more information, please contact the Project Manager, Yifeng Li.