Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 45, Issue 9, Pages 2940-2952Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.902824
Keywords
change detection; neural networks (NNs); urban environment; very high resolution optical imagery
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The advent of new high spatial resolution optical satellite imagery has greatly increased our ability to monitor land cover changes from space. Satellite observations are carried out regularly and continuously, and provide a great deal of insight into the temporal changes of land cover use. High spatial resolution imagery better resolves the details of these changes and makes it possible to overcome the mixed-pixel problem that is inherent with more moderate resolution satellite sensors. At the same time, high-resolution imagery presents a new challenge over other satellite systems, in that a relatively large amount of data must be analyzed and corrected for registration and classification errors to identify the land cover changes. To obtain the accuracies that are required by many applications to large areas, very extensive manual work is commonly required to remove the classification errors that are introduced by most methods. To improve on this situation, we have developed a new method for land surface change detection that greatly reduces the human effort that is needed to remove the errors that occur with many classification methods that are applied to high-resolution imagery. This change detection algorithm is based on neural networks, and it is able to exploit in parallel both the multiband and the multitemporal data to discriminate between real changes and false alarms. In general, the classification errors are reduced by a factor of 2-3 using our new method over a simple postclassification comparison based on a neural-network classification of the same images.
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