Multitemporal Hyperspectral Images Change Detection Based on Joint Unmixing and Information Coguidance Strategy

The richness of spectral information in multitemporal hyperspectral images (MHSIs) offers the possibility to effectively detect subtle changes and properties of grounds. However, severe spectral variabilities and inadequate spatial co-exploitation capabilities limit the performance of existing methods due to differences in acquisition times and conditions. Therefore, this article proposes a strategy of joint unmixing and multitemporal spatial information coguidance (JUC) to fully exploit the spatio-temporal-spectral features. First, a multitemporal joint unmixing method is used to achieve endmembers’ extraction and abundance estimation. Wherein the method adds spectral perturbed regularization when compared to the traditional unmixing strategy, making it robust to spectral variability. Second, we propose a multitemporal coguidance method that highlights the contrast between changed and unchanged regions and removes the noise by transferring the common structure information between the multitemporal first principal component map and the abundance difference maps. It will obtain an enhanced abundance difference maps and achieve effective combination of multitemporal spatial information. The final change result can be obtained by combining and thresholding these enhanced abundance difference maps. Experiments on some data sets demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is sufficiently valid and robust for multitemporal images, especially for data containing spectral variabilities and obvious structures.