위성 이미지는 토지 표면 조사에서 매우 중요하다. 따라서 위성에서 지상국으로 이미지를 전송하기 위해 다양한 방법을 사용하고 있다. 그러나 전송 시스템의 품질 저하로 인해 이미지는 왜곡에 취약하고 올바른 데이터를 제공하지 못하고 있다. 그러한 이미지의 세그먼트 결과는 토지 표면 데이터를 올바르게 분류할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 위성영상에 대한 자동인코더 기반의 영상 전처리 방법을 제안한다. 실험결과 사전 향상 기술을 사용하여 세그멘테이션 결과도 크게 향상될 수 있음을 보여주었다. 또한 본 논문에서 적용한 항공 이미지 향상기법은 토지 자원의 정확한 평가에 이바지할 수 있음을 확인하였다.
Satellite imageries are at a greatest importance for land cover examining. Numerous studies have been conducted with satellite images and uses semantic segmentation techniques to extract information which has higher altitude viewpoint. The device which is taking these images must employee wireless communication links to send them to receiving ground stations. Wireless communications from a satellite are inevitably affected due to transmission errors. Evidently images which are being transmitted are distorted because of the information loss. Current semantic segmentation techniques are not made for segmenting distorted images. Traditional image enhancement methods have their own limitations when they are used for satellite images enhancement. This paper proposes an auto-encoder based image pre-enhancing method for satellite images. As a distorted satellite images dataset, images received from a real radio transmitter were used. Training process of the proposed auto-encoder was done by letting it learn to produce a proper approximation of the source image which was sent by the image transmitter. Unlike traditional image enhancing methods, the proposed method was able to provide more applicable image to a segmentation model. Results showed that by using the proposed pre-enhancing technique, segmentation results have been greatly improved. Enhancements made to the aerial images are contributed the correct assessment of land resources.