Hyperspectral Unmixing

Hyperspectral unmixing is a signal processing technique that decomposes each pixel of a hyperspectral image into a collection of pure material spectra (endmembers) and their corresponding fractional abundances. Because sensor resolution often causes multiple land-cover types to co-occupy a single pixel, unmixing recovers sub-pixel compositional information that conventional classification cannot. Keshava and Mustard (2002) provided the foundational signal-processing framework that unified prior geological and remote-sensing work under a rigorous linear mixture model.