Bi-CCD: Improved Continuous Change Detection by Combining Forward and Reverse Change Detection Procedure
Hongrui Zhenga b, Peijun Dua b, Shanchuan Guoa b, Xin Wanga b, Wei Zhanga b, Sicong Liuc, Xiaojuan Lid
- aJiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology, Key Laboratory for Land Satellite Remote Sensing Applications of Ministry of Natural Resources, School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- bJiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- cCollege of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
- dCollaborative Innovation Center for the South China Sea Studies, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Abstract
Continuous change detection (CCD) is one of the most famous algorithms in remote sensing time series change detection, making any improvements on it are of great significance for the practice of monitoring land cover dynamics. Inspired by the directionality of CCD, a bidirectional CCD (Bi-CCD) is proposed to improve the accuracy of change detection by selecting the optimal result from the results of CCD running from both the forward and backward directions of time series. Three criteria including root mean square error (RMSE), Akaike information criterion (AIC), and Bayesian information criterion (BIC) were adopted to define the “optimal” in this study, and their effects under three common parameter settings were evaluated in a simulation dataset. The quantitative results show that Bi-CCD based on different result selection criteria can indeed improve the accuracy of change detection in terms of omission error and commission error. In general, Bi-CCD based on RMSE achieved the lowest omission error, while Bi-CCD based on BIC obtained the lowest commission error. Compared with the unidirectional CCD, Bi-CCD reduces the omission error and commission error by at most 11.19% and 15.08%, respectively. In addition, the different effects of different optimal result selection criteria on the accuracy of Bi-CCD enable Bi-CCD more flexible to handle different tasks than the standard CCD.