Objective quality assessment measurement for typhoon cloud image enhancement

Abstract

There are kinds of enhancement methods for satellite image, however, visual quality of them are basically assessed by human eyes. This can result in wrong identification. This will result in wrong prediction for center and intensity of the typhoon. It is necessary to find an objective measure to evaluate the visual quality for enhanced typhoon cloud image. In order to solve this problem, we give an objective assessment measurement based on information, contrast and peak-signal-noise-ratio. We design an experiment to certify the proposed measure by using the typhoon cloud images which are provided by China Meteorological Administration, China National Satellite Meteorological Center. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.