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The process of increasing an image\u2019s resolution, image super-resolution, aims to obtain a clearer image. High-resolution (HR) images are affected by various input conditions, such as motion, imaging blur, down-sampling matrix, and various types of noise. Changes in these conditions seriously affect low-resolution (LR) images, so if the imaging process is a pathological problem, super-resolution reconstruction is a pathological anti-problem. To optimize the imaging quality of satellites without changing the optical system, we chose to reconstruct images acquired by satellites using deep learning. We changed the original super-resolution generative adversarial nets network, upgraded the generator\u2019s network part to ResNet-50, and inserted an additional fully connected (FC) layer in the network of the discriminator part. We also modified the loss function by changing the weight of regularization loss from 2 \u00d7 10\u22128 to 2 \u00d7 10\u22129, aiming to preserve more detail. In addition, we carefully and specifically chose remote sensing images taken under low-light circumstances from GF-5 satellites to form a new dataset for training and validation. The test results proved that our method can obtain good results. The reconstruction peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) at the scaling factors of 2, 3, and 4 reached 32.6847, 31.8191, and 30.5095 dB, respectively, and the corresponding structural similarity (SSIM) reached 0.8962, 0.8434, and 0.8124. The super-resolution speed was also satisfactory, making real-time reconstruction more probable.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15205064","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,22]],"date-time":"2023-10-22T07:02:53Z","timestamp":1697958173000},"page":"5064","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["The Use of a Stable Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (SSRGAN) on Remote Sensing Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Boyu","family":"Pang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Siwei","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China"}]},{"given":"Yinnian","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"537","DOI":"10.5194\/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B1-537-2012","article-title":"Pleiades System Architecture and Main Performances","volume":"XXXIX-B1","author":"Gleyzes","year":"2012","journal-title":"ISPRS-Int. 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