Title
Unsupervised Land Cover Change Detection: Meaningful Sequential Time Series Analysis
Abstract
An automated land cover change detection method is proposed that uses coarse spatial resolution hyper-temporal earth observation satellite time series data. The study compared three different unsupervised clustering approaches that operate on short term Fourier transform coefficients computed over subsequences of 8-day composite MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) surface reflectance data that were extracted with a temporal sliding window. The method uses a feature extraction process that creates meaningful sequential time series that can be analyzed and processed for change detection. The method was evaluated on real and simulated land cover change examples and obtained a change detection accuracy exceeding 76% on real land cover conversion and more than 70% on simulated land cover conversion.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2053918
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fourier transforms,geophysical image processing,image resolution,radiometers,terrain mapping,time series,Fourier transform coefficient,Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer surface reflectance data,automated land cover change detection method,coarse spatial resolution,feature extraction process,hypertemporal observation satellite time series data,land cover change simulation,land cover conversion simulation,sequential time series analysis,unsupervised land cover change detection method,Change detection,clustering,satellite,time series
Time series,Change detection,Sliding window protocol,Remote sensing,Short-time Fourier transform,Feature extraction,Spectroradiometer,Cluster analysis,Land cover,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
2
1939-1404
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.53
6
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Brian P. Salmon115027.18
Jan C. Olivier214829.36
Konrad J. Wessels39820.52
Waldo Kleynhans411127.45
Frans van den Bergh518921.35
Karen C. Steenkamp6496.48