A PCA-PD fusion method for change detection in remote sensing multi temporal images

Abstract

In remote sensing, for applications as environment monitoring, change detection based on image processing is one of the most important techniques. To reach high performance various techniques of fusion are exploited using a combination of multi-temporal, multispectral and panchromatic satellite images. A solution for handling such kind of images holds when using some simple statistical methods like the Percent Difference (PD) technique as well as the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) one. In this paper, an automatic change detection method issued from the two previous techniques is proposed and applied on multispectral and panchromatic images captured by a high resolution optical satellite. This approach is characterized by two aspects: the first one consists of the fusion of the different data and the second one performs the detection of the changes for the resulting images. The experimental results show the reasonable quantitative performance and the effectiveness of the proposed method for change detection, consisting of an automatic extraction of most of change information as well as the obtention of better results for most precision metrics consisting of an overall accuracy of up to 91% and a Kappa coefficient of up to 66%, comparing to those obtained using the simple PD and PCA techniques.

Keywords:

• Remote sensing
• change detection
• principal component analysis (PCA)
• percent difference (PD)
• fusion

Disclosure statement

The research being report in this publication was supported by the Algerian Directorate-General for scientific research and technological development (DGRSDT).