Multi-temporal SAR classification according to change detection operators

Abstract

Multitemporal SAR images are a very useful source of information for geophysicists, especially for change monitoring. In this paper, a new SAR change detection and monitoring approach is proposed through the analysis of a time series of SAR images covering the same region. The first contribution of this work is the SAR filtering preprocessing step using an extension of the spatial NL-means filter to the temporal domain. Then, the Rayleigh Kullback Leibler measure is used to detect the changes between a reference image and each SAR image. This leads to the second contribution which consists on a temporal classification based on changes images and describing the temporal behaviour of the changing regions.