Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The analysis of multi-temporal remote-sensing images is one of the main applications in Earth’s observation and monitoring. In this paper, we present a Matlab toolbox for change detection analysis of optical multi-temporal remote-sensing data in which unsupervised approaches, iterative principal component analysis (ITPCA), and iteratively reweighted multivariate alteration detection (IR-MAD) are implemented and optimized. The optimization is represented by the implementation of novel pre- and post-processing strategies that aim to mitigate the side effects introduced by different acquisition conditions affecting change detection analysis. Special modules have been designed in order to decrease the required memory when large data sets are processed.