Rapid detection of new and expanding human settlements in the Limpopo province of South Africa using a spatio-temporal change detection method》.pdf

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 40 (2015) 74–80 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation j o u rn al h omepage: w w w. elsev /locate/jag Rapid detection of new and expanding human settlements in the Limpopo province of South Africa using a spatio-temporal change detection method W. Kleynhans a,c,∗ , B.P. Salmon c,d , K.J. Wessels c,b , J.C. Olivier d a Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa b Department of Geography, University of Pretoria, South Africa c Remote Sensing Research Unit, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa d School of Engineering, University of Tasmania, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Recent development has identified the benefits of using hyper-temporal satellite time series data for land Received 23 December 2014 cover change detection and classification in South Africa. In particular, the monitoring of human settle- Accepted 13 April 2015 ment expansion in the Limpopo province is of relevance as it is the one of the most pervasive forms of Available online 21 April 2015 2 land-cover change in this province which covers an area of roughly 125 000 km . In this paper, a spatio- temporal autocorrelation change detection (STACD) method is d