Change Detection & Spatio-temporal Analysis

Purpose: separate real surface change from the four great impostors — misregistration, radiometric drift, phenology, and classification error. Every method below exists to control one of them; skipping the controls produces confident maps of nothing.

Preconditions (where change detection is won or lost)

Preconditions 1 and 2 are checked here but established elsewhere. When either fails, the owning skill leads and this skill resumes once comparable observations exist. Precondition 3 is this skill's own problem and is never a reason to route away.