# Deep learning approaches to Earth Observation change detection

Source: [Deep learning approaches to Earth Observation change detection](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a561e209131cea2780f>)

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Authors: Antonio Di Pilato, Nicol\\\`o Taggio, Alexis Pompili, Michele Iacobellis, Adriano Di Florio, Davide Passarelli, Sergio Samarelli

Published: 2021-07-13T14:34:59.000Z

## Abstract

The interest for change detection in the field of remote sensing has increased in the last few years. Searching for changes in satellite images has many useful applications, ranging from land cover and land use analysis to anomaly detection. In particular, urban change detection provides an efficient tool to study urban spread and growth through several years of observation. At the same time, change detection is often a computationally challenging and time-consuming task, which requires innovative methods to guarantee optimal results with unquestionable value and within reasonable time. In this paper we present two different approaches to change detection (semantic segmentation and classification) that both exploit convolutional neural networks to achieve good results, which can be further refined and used in a post-processing workflow for a large variety of applications.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06132>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.06132.pdf>)