SATELLITE IMAGE REGISTRATION AND IMAGE STITCHING

Satellite image registration and stitching system is used to create panoramas of satellite images. Panorama is a picture made by combining a series of photos into one large picture so that we will get a full view of an area. The paper proposes a stitching technique based on image registration. Here we geometrically align one image onto another image of the same scene taken at different time, from different viewpoints or by different sensors. Image stitching algorithm take the alignment estimates produced by the registration algorithm and blend the images in a seamless manner. It also deals with potential problems such as blurring or ghosting caused by parallax and scene movement as well as varying image exposures.