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[digital image processing]
An abbreviation of panchromatic sharpening. A method of radiometric or image color transformation in which a higher-resolution, panchromatic image is fused with a lower-resolution, multispectral image dataset; used to increase spatial resolution and improve the ability to resolve finer details in a multispectral image.