SAR image change detection by likelihood ratio test in multi-temporal time series

This paper presents a change detection method between two Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images with similar incidence angles and using a likelihood ratio test (LRT). To address the composite hypothesis problem of the LRT, we propose to replace the noise-free values by their estimated results. Thus, a multi-temporal non local means denoising method proposed in [1] is used in this paper to estimate the noise-free values using both spatial and temporal information. The change detection results show the effective performance of the proposed method compared with the state of the art ones, such as log-ratio operator and generalized likelihood ratio test.