BFASTm-L2, an unsupervised LULCC detection based on seasonal change detection - An application to large-scale land acquisitions in Senegal

Ngadi Scarpetta Yasmine, Lebourgeois Valentine, Laques Anne-Elisabeth, Dieye Mohamadou, Bourgoin Jeremy, Bégué Agnès. 2023. BFASTm-L2, an unsupervised LULCC detection based on seasonal change detection - An application to large-scale land acquisitions in Senegal. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 121:103379, 14 p.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103379

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Résumé : In the context of Global Change Research, detection, monitoring and characterization of land use/land cover (LULC) changes are of prime importance. The increasing availability of dense satellite image time series (SITS) has led to a shift in the change detection paradigm, with algorithms able to exploit the full temporal information laid down in SITS. So far, most of these algorithms have focused on the detection of abrupt and gradual changes, and thus developed breakpoint detection based on significant deviations from the mean. However, LULC changes may manifest themselves in other patterns, particularly changes in seasonality (amplitude, number and length of the growing seasons) that are harder to detect. In this paper, we propose a simple method to automatically select the breakpoint linked to the biggest seasonal change in long and dense SITS with multiple breakpoints. This approach - BFASTm-L2 - relies on linking a high-speed algorithm (BFAST monitor) with a time series similarity metric (Euclidian distance L2) sensitive to seasonal changes. The capacity of BFASTm-L2 to identify the date of change in different situations was tested on two data sets, and compared to the performances of three other algorithms (BFAST monitor, BFAST lite, and Edyn). The data sets are 1. a published benchmark data set composed of 25 200 simulated SITS with different change types and change magnitudes, and 2. the 2000–2020 MODIS NDVI SITS over a 200x200 pixels area in Senegal including different study sites which have undergone recent LULC changes due to agricultural large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) (as reported in the ground field database used in this study). The results show that BFASTm-L2 is efficient in accurately detecting in time most of the changes, and, in contrast with BFAST Lite and BFASTmonitor, to spatially highlight LSLAs-induced changes without the need of any prior knowledge. The automatic proposed approach, faster than BFAST Lite and Edyn, and with very few tuneable parameters, may thus be easily implemented in unsupervised pipelines to map and analyse generic LULC changes at regional scale.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : télédétection, utilisation des terres, changement de couvert végétal, modèle de simulation, étude de cas, déboisement, cartographie de l'utilisation des terres

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Sénégal

Mots-clés libres : Satellite Image Time Series, MODIS, NDVI, LSLA, Change detection

Classification Agris : U30 - Méthodes de recherche

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 5 (2019-) - Territoires

Agences de financement hors UE : Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales

Projets sur financement : (FRA) Institut Convergences en Agriculture Numérique

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