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Land cover change detection using autocorrelation analysis on MODIS time-series data: detection of new human settlements in the Gauteng Province of South Africa
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posted on 2023-05-17, 13:09 authored by Kleynhans, W, Brian SalmonBrian Salmon, Jan OlivierJan Olivier, van den Bergh, F, Wessels, KJ, Grobler, TL, Steenkamp, KCHuman settlement expansion is one of the most pervasive forms of land cover change in the Gauteng province of South Africa. A method for detecting new settlement developments in areas that are typically covered by natural vegetation using 500 m MODIS time-series satellite data is proposed. The method is a per pixel change alarm that uses the temporal autocorrelation to infer a change index which yields a change or no-change decision after thresholding. Simulated change data was generated and used to determine a threshold during an off-line optimization phase. After optimization the method was evaluated on examples of known land cover change in the study area and experimental results indicate a 92% change detection accuracy with a 15% false alarm rate. The method shows good performance when compared to a traditional NDVI differencing method that achieved a 75% change detection accuracy with a 24% false alarm rate for the same study area.
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Publication title
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote SensingVolume
5Pagination
777 - 783ISSN
1939-1404Department/School
School of EngineeringPublisher
IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing SocietyPlace of publication
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