A Novel Method of Change Detection in Bi-Temporal PolSAR Data Using a Joint-Classification Classifier Based on a Similarity Measure

Accurate and timely change detection of the Earth’s surface features is extremely important for understanding the relationships and interactions between people and natural phenomena. Owing to the all-weather response capability, polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) has become a key tool for change detection. Change detection includes both unsupervised and supervised methods. Unsupervised change detection is simple and effective, but cannot detect the type of land cover change. Supervised change detection can detect the type of land cover change, but is easily affected and depended by the human interventions. To solve these problems, a novel method of change detection using a joint-classification classifier (JCC) based on a similarity measure is introduced. The similarity measure is obtained by a test statistic and the Kittler and Illingworth (TSKI) minimum-error thresholding algorithm, which is used to automatically control the JCC. The efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated by the use of bi-temporal PolSAR images acquired by RADARSAT-2 over Wuhan, China. The experimental results show that the proposed method can identify the different types of land cover change and can reduce both the false detection rate and false alarm rate in the change detection.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Remote Sensing

• Publication date

  2017-08-15

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3390/rs9080846
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