@CONFERENCE\{IMM2016-06928, author = "A. A. Nielsen and K. Conradsen and H. Skriver", title = "Change detection in a short time sequence of polarimetric {C-}band {SAR} data", year = "2016", month = "may", booktitle = "{ESA} Living Planet Symposium", volume = "", series = "", editor = "", publisher = "", organization = "", address = "Prague, Czech Republic", note = "CORRECTION: the figures on page 3 are not correct, correct figures can be found on http://people.compute.dtu.dk/alan/lps2016correction.pdf.", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/6928-full.html", abstract = "Based on an omnibus likelihood ratio test statistic for the equality of several variance-covariance matrices following the complex Wishart distribution with an associated p-value and a factorization of this test statistic, change analysis in a short time series of multilook, polarimetric {SAR} data in the covariance matrix representation is carried out. The omnibus test statistic and its factorization detect if and when change(s) occur. The technique is demonstrated on airborne {EMISAR} {C-}band data but may be applied to Sentinel-{1,} Cosmo-SkyMed, TerraSAR{-X,} {ALOS} and RadarSat-2 data also." }