The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (Mar 2015)

HIGH RESOLUTION AIRBORNE SAR IMAGE CHANGE DETECTION IN URBAN AREAS WITH SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ACQUISITION GEOMETRIES

  • E. Mendez Dominguez,
  • D. Henke,
  • D. Small,
  • E. Meier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-3-W2-127-2015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. XL-3/W2
pp. 127 – 133

Abstract

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Before applying change detection, high resolution SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imagery benefits from advanced denoising mechanisms to preserve details and minimize speckle. We propose a change detector based on a MCA (Morphological Components Analysis) of a difference image (DI). With MCA, the data is decomposed into image features utilizing sparse representations of the image content. By introducing a priori knowledge of the content of the scenes, and exploiting shape information corresponding to the changes provided by MCA, we can significantly improve performance under adverse conditions, such as inconsistent acquisition geometries.