  During the last decade, there has been an explosive growth in survey data and
deep learning techniques, both of which have enabled great advances for
astronomy. The amount of data from various surveys from multiple epochs with a
wide range of wavelengths, albeit with varying brightness and quality, is
overwhelming, and leveraging information from overlapping observations from
different surveys has limitless potential in understanding galaxy formation and
evolution. Synthetic galaxy image generation using physical models has been an
important tool for survey data analysis, while deep learning generative models
show great promise. In this paper, we present a novel approach for robustly
expanding and improving survey data through cross survey feature translation.
We trained two types of neural networks to map images from the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey (SDSS) to corresponding images from the Dark Energy Survey (DES).
This map was used to generate false DES representations of SDSS images,
increasing the brightness and S/N while retaining important morphological
information. We substantiate the robustness of our method by generating DES
representations of SDSS images from outside the overlapping region, showing
that the brightness and quality are improved even when the source images are of
lower quality than the training images. Finally, we highlight several images in
which the reconstruction process appears to have removed large artifacts from
SDSS images. While only an initial application, our method shows promise as a
method for robustly expanding and improving the quality of optical survey data
and provides a potential avenue for cross-band reconstruction.
