Change detection in hyperspectral imagery using temporal principal components

Abstract

Change detection is the process of automatically identifying and analyzing regions that have undergone spatial or spectral changes from multi temporal images. Detecting and representing change provides valuable information of the possible transformations a given scene has suffered over time. Change detection in sequences of hyperspectral images is complicated by the fact that change can occur in the temporal and/or spectral domains. This work studies the use of Temporal Principal Component Analysis (TPCA) for change detection in multi/hyperspectral images. Two additional methods were implemented in order to compare its results with TPCA. These were: Image Differencing and Conventional Principal Component Analysis. Experimental results using phantom hyperspectral imagery taken with Surface Optics SOC-700 hyperspectral camera are presented. The algorithms were implemented using Matlab, and their performance is compared in terms of false alarms, missed changes and overall error. Results show that the performance of TPCA was the best, obtaining the smallest percentages of error, missed changes, and false alarms using global or local threshold. TPCA with local threshold gave the best performance.