Detecting Changes in Multispectral Satellite Images using Time Dependent Angle Vegetation Indices

Change detection using satellite images is of major concern to government agencies, military, and scientists. Government agencies can monitor the construction activity on a region automatically by detecting changes. They can update maps accordingly. Forests in satellite images may be monitored automatically for any change in their condition. As for military applications, strategic plans may be updated based on the observed changes on targets. After a natural disaster, even if that region can not be reached, automatically detecting changes in the region´s satellite image may provide necessary information to measure the effect of the damage. To solve all these and related problems, there exists commercially available high resolution satellite images. The problem here is automatically detecting changes using these images. In this study, we introduce a method using multispectral information to detect changes on Ikonos imagery.