A Cooperative Multitemporal Segmentation Method for SAR and Optical Images Change Detection

This paper proposes an extension version of our previous work MS-CC to achieve optical and SAR images change detection. The proposed method introduces a cooperative multitemporal segmentation, whose merging process considers the heterogeneity of SAR and optical images as parallel information, making sure that the multitemporal information can be fully utilized without interfering with each other. Then, the change detection strategy based on compound classification is carried out on the segmentation results, obtaining the multi-scale change detection maps. Experimental validation is conducted with GoaFen3 and Google Earth data.