ANR PHOENIX

Workgroup STAMPIONS

[Space Time Adaptive Multivariate Processing of Image Observations and Non-Stationarities]

[In collaboration with ONERA and Supéléc/SONDRA]

 

Context:

Remote sensing data with passive (multispectral, hyperspectral, etc.) or active (synthetic aperture radar, etc.) sensors offer a unique opportunity to record, to analyze and to predict the evolution of the earth, city, and region of interest. In the last decade, many new satellite remote sensing missions (Sentinel-1, forthcoming Copernicus program) have been launched, resulting in drastic improvement in the image acquisition capabilities. With regular acquisition plans and free data access policy. This results in new challenge for handling and processing such huge volume of data. This increasing number of Earth Observation systems involves an enhanced possibility to acquire multi-temporal and multi-dimensional images of the Earth surface, with improved temporal and spatial resolution. Such new scenario significantly increases the interest of the time series processing. The development of novel data processing techniques to address new important and challenging applications seems promising.

The potential applications are abundant: infrastructure monitoring, long time sea or urban traffic surveillance.

 

Objectives:

The objective of ‘STAMPIONS’ is to develop new methodologies related to multi-temporal data analysis, by investigating:

·        Adaptive detection from parametric multivariate random vector models that tolerate mismatches, in a context of robust statistics.

·        Using the observable spatial structure in order to take into account directionality and multi-resolution information.

·        Reducing the computational cost by obtaining a parsimonious description of image time series.

·        Application on real SAR data (from Sentinel 1A and 1B) and optic data (from Sentinel 2A and 2B).

 

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