A Distributed and Parallel Method of Change Detection in Remote Sensing Image Based On Fully Connected Conditional Random Field

Change Detection in Remote sensing image is, in essence, to detect the changes of ground features with regard to time from remote sensing perspective. It is usually realized by analyzing and processing multi-temporal high resolution images. Change Detection based on fully connected conditional random field not only improves the detection accuracy of remote sensing image, but also achieves better robustness. However, with the growth of high-resolution data volumes, this algorithm consumes a huge amount of time and computational resources, and therefore needs to be improved accordingly. Spark is an open-source distributed general- purpose cluster-computing framework. It has powerful memory computing and efficient task scheduling capabilities for complex iterative calculations. Based on Spark, this paper proposes a distributed and parallel method of change detection in remote sensing image based on Fully Connected Conditional Random Field that analyzes the data input form, and proposes a multi-temporal image reading strategy on cloud platforms. This method decomposes the algorithm flow, and performs distributed parallel processing on each stage and makes full use of the processing advantages of data locality to implement a reasonable intermediate data storage. Experimental results demonstrate that this parallel method achieves a promising speedup with high scalability, while guaranteeing remarkable detection accuracy.