Index Terms — Multi-Temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar

This paper presents a change detection method between two Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images with similar in-cidence angles and using a likelihood ratio test (LRT). To address the composite hypothesis problem of the LRT, we propose to replace the noise-free values by their estimated results. Thus, a multi-temporal non local means denoising method proposed in [1] is used in this paper to estimate the noise-free values using both spatial and temporal information. The change detection results show the effective performance of the proposed method compared with the state of the art ones, such as log-ratio operator and generalized likelihood ratio test