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Purpose: separate real surface change from the four great impostors — misregistration, radiometric drift, phenology, and classification error. Every method below exists to control one of them; skipping the controls produces confident maps of nothing.
Preconditions 1 and 2 are checked here but established elsewhere. When either fails, the owning skill leads and this skill resumes once comparable observations exist. Precondition 3 is this skill's own problem and is never a reason to route away.
point-cloud-lidar — a datum
offset is not subsidence.remote-sensing-analysis (HLS for Landsat↔Sentinel-2, relative
normalization with PIFs, BOA_ADD_OFFSET across the Sentinel-2 2022
baseline change).| Situation | Method |
|---|---|
| Two dates, continuous "how much" | Index differencing (ΔNDVI, ΔNBR...) with statistical thresholding |
| Two dates, categorical "from-what-to-what" | Post-classification comparison (only with strong classifiers) |
| Two dates, multivariate robust | Change vector analysis (CVA); MAD/iMAD for sensor-robust detection |
| Dense stack, gradual + abrupt | Trend + break analysis (BFAST/LandTrendr/CCDC family; at archive scale → google-earth-engine) |
| Structure change (buildings) | DL bi-temporal segmentation (siamese U-Net) → geo-deep-learning |
| SAR pairs (clouds, disasters) | Log-ratio of calibrated backscatter + speckle handling |
| Vector vintages (parcels, buildings) | Geometry+attribute diff with tolerance (below) |
Difference images need a defensible threshold: μ ± k·σ on the difference histogram (report k), Otsu when bimodal, or supervised thresholds calibrated on labeled change/no-change samples. Deliver the histogram with the chosen cut marked. Sensitivity: report changed-area at k-0.5 and k+0.5; if the story flips, the detection is fragile — say so.
PCC error compounds: two 90%-accurate maps yield ≤ ~81% change accuracy, and biased errors create systematic false transitions. Rules:
Change is rare, so random sampling wastes effort on stable pixels — use stratified sampling (strata: change/no-change or per-transition) with good-practice area estimation (Olofsson et al. protocol): report user's/producer's accuracy per stratum AND area estimates with confidence intervals adjusted for map error. A raw pixel count of the change map is a biased area estimate — always say the adjusted number.
## Change: <phenomenon>, <T1> → <T2 or period>
- Data: <sensor/level>, co-registration RMSE: <px>, valid overlap: <%>
- Method: <...> threshold/params: <...> (sensitivity: <stable/fragile>)
- Transitions: <matrix or top-5 list with areas ± CI>
- Accuracy: stratified n=<>, UA/PA per class, adjusted areas ± CI
- Impostor controls: season <matched?>, radiometry <harmonized?>
name: change-detection description: >- Change analysis, once the observations are comparable. Not for cases whose blocker is comparability itself: mixed sensors, product levels or processing baselines to remote-sensing-analysis, undocumented vertical datums to point-cloud-lidar, multi-decade archive trends over large areas to google-earth-engine. Matching product level does not prove comparability. Otherwise invoke for what, where or how much changed: two-scene comparison, deforestation, urban growth, disaster damage, parcel-change audits, bi-temporal differencing, post-classification comparison, adjusted area, break detection in a series in hand (BFAST/LandTrendr/CCDC). Seasonal mismatch is this skill's own confounder; a documented datum with a stated accuracy budget is settled comparability. Keep both. license: MIT metadata: author: Muhammed Enes Duran
--- name: change-detection description: >- Change analysis, once the observations are comparable. Not for cases whose blocker is comparability itself: mixed sensors, product levels or processing baselines to remote-sensing-analysis, undocumented vertical datums to point-cloud-lidar, multi-decade archive trends over large areas to google-earth-engine. Matching product level does not prove comparability. Otherwise invoke for what, where or how much changed: two-scene comparison, deforestation, urban growth, disaster damage, parcel-change audits, bi-temporal differencing, post-classification comparison, adjusted area, break detection in a series in hand (BFAST/LandTrendr/CCDC). Seasonal mismatch is this skill's own confounder; a documented datum with a stated accuracy budget is settled comparability. Keep both. license: MIT metadata: author: Muhammed Enes Duran --- # Change Detection & Spatio-temporal Analysis Purpose: separate real surface change from the four great impostors — misregistration, radiometric drift, phenology, and classification error. Every method below exists to control one of them; skipping the controls produces confident maps of nothing. ## Preconditions (where change detection is won or lost) Preconditions 1 and 2 are *checked* here but *established* elsewhere. When either fails, the owning skill leads and this skill resumes once comparable observations exist. Precondition 3 is this skill's own problem and is never a reason to route away. 1. **Co-registration**: sub-pixel alignment between dates (AROSICS or manual tie-points). Half a pixel of shift creates edge-shaped phantom change everywhere. Verify: flicker-compare crisp features. For elevation surfaces or point clouds, vertical datum agreement, co-registration and the vertical-accuracy budget belong to `point-cloud-lidar` — a datum offset is not subsidence. 2. **Radiometric consistency**: same processing level (surface reflectance), same sensor, same processing baseline. If any of the three differ, this is a harmonization problem, not a thresholding one: hand it to `remote-sensing-analysis` (HLS for Landsat↔Sentinel-2, relative normalization with PIFs, `BOA_ADD_OFFSET` across the Sentinel-2 2022 baseline change). 3. **Same season / phenological stage** for bi-temporal work — a May vs September pair "detects" summer. If season can't be matched, use composites or time-series methods instead. 4. **Cloud/shadow masks intersected across dates**; analyze only mutually valid pixels and report that coverage %. ## Method selection | Situation | Method | |---|---| | Two dates, continuous "how much" | Index differencing (ΔNDVI, ΔNBR...) with statistical thresholding | | Two dates, categorical "from-what-to-what" | Post-classification comparison (only with strong classifiers) | | Two dates, multivariate robust | Change vector analysis (CVA); MAD/iMAD for sensor-robust detection | | Dense stack, gradual + abrupt | Trend + break analysis (BFAST/LandTrendr/CCDC family; at archive scale → `google-earth-engine`) | | Structure change (buildings) | DL bi-temporal segmentation (siamese U-Net) → `geo-deep-learning` | | SAR pairs (clouds, disasters) | Log-ratio of calibrated backscatter + speckle handling | | Vector vintages (parcels, buildings) | Geometry+attribute diff with tolerance (below) | ## Thresholding — never eyeball it Difference images need a defensible threshold: μ ± k·σ on the difference histogram (report k), Otsu when bimodal, or supervised thresholds calibrated on labeled change/no-change samples. Deliver the histogram with the chosen cut marked. Sensitivity: report changed-area at k-0.5 and k+0.5; if the story flips, the detection is fragile — say so. ## Post-classification comparison (PCC) — handle with care PCC error compounds: two 90%-accurate maps yield ≤ ~81% change accuracy, and biased errors create systematic false transitions. Rules: - Use ONE classifier trained on both dates' imagery (same legend, same features) rather than two independent legacy maps. - Build the full **transition matrix** (from-class → to-class areas), not just a change/no-change binary — impossible transitions (water→forest in 1 year) are your error detector. - Apply a minimum mapping unit consistent across dates before differencing. ## Time-series (dense stack) analysis - Build a gap-filled, cloud-masked index stack (xarray, time dimension). - Decompose trend + seasonality + breaks; per-pixel linear trends need significance testing (Mann-Kendall + Sen's slope for monotonic trends — and FDR correction across millions of pixels, or your "greening map" is noise). - Label break DATES, not just presence — timing is usually the analytic payload (when did clearing start?). - Validate detected breaks against known events (fires, construction permits, disaster dates) wherever records exist. ## Vector change audit (two vintages of the same layer) - Match features by stable ID if it exists; else spatial matching with IoU threshold (report it). - Classify: added / removed / geometry-changed (area delta > tolerance) / attribute-changed. Tolerances absorb digitization jitter — 1-2 m for cadastre-grade, more for digitized-from-imagery. - Sum area deltas by class and reconcile totals; unexplained residual = matching bugs. ## Accuracy assessment (the deliverable's spine) Change is rare, so random sampling wastes effort on stable pixels — use **stratified sampling** (strata: change/no-change or per-transition) with good-practice area estimation (Olofsson et al. protocol): report user's/producer's accuracy per stratum AND **area estimates with confidence intervals** adjusted for map error. A raw pixel count of the change map is a biased area estimate — always say the adjusted number. ## Reporting template ``` ## Change: <phenomenon>, <T1> → <T2 or period> - Data: <sensor/level>, co-registration RMSE: <px>, valid overlap: <%> - Method: <...> threshold/params: <...> (sensitivity: <stable/fragile>) - Transitions: <matrix or top-5 list with areas ± CI> - Accuracy: stratified n=<>, UA/PA per class, adjusted areas ± CI - Impostor controls: season <matched?>, radiometry <harmonized?> ``` ## Pitfalls checklist - Phantom edge-change from misregistration. - Seasonal difference sold as land cover change. - PCC with two independently produced legacy maps. - Threshold chosen "because it looked right", no sensitivity. - Raw changed-pixel counts reported as area (no error-adjusted estimate). - Trend maps without multiple-testing control. - SAR change on unfiltered linear-power images. ## Execution contract - **Workflow:** define the change question; harmonize extent, season, radiometry, resolution, and registration; select method; estimate change; validate; report uncertainty. - **Decision rules:** use direct differencing only for comparable continuous signals, post-classification comparison for stable class legends, and time-series methods when a dense temporal stack exists. - **Verification protocol:** quantify co-registration, valid overlap, threshold sensitivity, transition accounting, and accuracy-adjusted area with confidence intervals. - **Failure modes:** reject causal change claims when season, sensor, clouds, registration, or independent map errors can explain the signal. - **Deliverables:** change map, transition or trend table, parameter record, validation sample and metrics, adjusted-area estimate, and limitations. - **Source freshness:** consult [the authoritative source registry](references/authoritative-sources.md) before using version-sensitive products or APIs and record the checked date.
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