# Hyperspectral pansharpening: a review

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04531 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1504.04531/

## Key facts

- Cited by 55 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 17 Apr 2015.

## Built on by (most cited first, 30 of 55)

- [Deep Learning in Multimodal Remote Sensing Data Fusion: A Comprehensive Review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.01380/) (2022)
- [HyperTransformer: A Textural and Spectral Feature Fusion Transformer for Pansharpening](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.02503/) (2022)
- [ESSAformer: Efficient Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.14010/) (2023)
- [Unsupervised Hyperspectral Pansharpening via Low-rank Diffusion Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.10925/) (2023)
- [Decoupled-and-Coupled Networks: Self-Supervised Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution with Subpixel Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.03742/) (2022)
- [Fast and High-Quality Blind Multi-Spectral Image Pansharpening](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.09943/) (2021)
- [Superpixel-based and Spatially-regularized Diffusion Learning for Unsupervised Hyperspectral Image Clustering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.15447/) (2023)
- [Hyperspectral Pansharpening Based on Improved Deep Image Prior and Residual Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.02630/) (2021)
- [Model Inspired Autoencoder for Unsupervised Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.11591/) (2021)
- [Tensor Decompositions for Hyperspectral Data Processing in Remote Sensing: A Comprehensive Review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.06407/) (2022)
- [A Spectral Diffusion Prior for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.08955/) (2023)
- [Hyperspectral and multispectral image fusion with arbitrary resolution through self-supervised representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.17818/) (2024)
- [Hyperspectral Pansharpening: Critical Review, Tools and Future Perspectives](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.01355/) (2024)
- [Advancing Image Super-resolution Techniques in Remote Sensing: A Comprehensive Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.23248/) (2025)
- [A Refreshed Similarity-based Upsampler for Direct High-Ratio Feature Upsampling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.02283/) (2024)
- [Band-wise Hyperspectral Image Pansharpening using CNN Model Propagation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.06510/) (2023)
- [Hyperspectral Image Denoising Using Non-convex Local Low-rank and Sparse Separation with Spatial-Spectral Total Variation Regularization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.02812/) (2022)
- [Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution via Dual-domain Network Based on Hybrid Convolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.04589/) (2023)
- [Joint RGB-Spectral Decomposition Model Guided Image Enhancement in Mobile Photography](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.17996/) (2024)
- [U-Know-DiffPAN: An Uncertainty-aware Knowledge Distillation Diffusion Framework with Details Enhancement for PAN-Sharpening](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.06243/) (2024)
- [Towards Lightweight Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution with Depthwise Separable Dilated Convolutional Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.00374/) (2025)
- [A Review of Landcover Classification with Very-High Resolution Remotely Sensed Optical Images-Analysis Unit,Model Scalability and Transferability](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.03342/) (2022)
- [Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion Using the Conditional Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.03423/) (2023)
- [CD-GAN: a robust fusion-based generative adversarial network for unsupervised remote sensing change detection with heterogeneous sensors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.00948/) (2022)
- [Unsupervised Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Blind Fusion Based on Deep Tucker Decomposition Network with Spatial-Spectral Manifold Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.09670/) (2024)
- [PAN-Crafter: Learning Modality-Consistent Alignment for PAN-Sharpening](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.23367/) (2025)
- [Feedback Refined Local-Global Network for Super-Resolution of Hyperspectral Imagery](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.04354/) (2021)
- [Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution in Arbitrary Input-Output Band Settings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.10614/) (2021)
- [From Less to More: Spectral Splitting and Aggregation Network for Hyperspectral Face Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.13584/) (2021)
- [Robust Hyperspectral Image Fusion with Simultaneous Guide Image Denoising via Constrained Convex Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.11979/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Pansharpening aims at fusing a panchromatic image with a multispectral one, to generate an image with the high spatial resolution of the former and the high spectral resolution of the latter. In the last decade, many algorithms have been presented in the literature for pansharpening using multispectral data. With the increasing availability of hyperspectral systems, these methods are now being adapted to hyperspectral images. In this work, we compare new pansharpening techniques designed for hyperspectral data with some of the state of the art methods for multispectral pansharpening, which have been adapted for hyperspectral data. Eleven methods from different classes (component substitution, multiresolution analysis, hybrid, Bayesian and matrix factorization) are analyzed. These methods are applied to three datasets and their effectiveness and robustness are evaluated with widely used performance indicators. In addition, all the pansharpening techniques considered in this paper have been implemented in a MATLAB toolbox that is made available to the community.