@CONFERENCE\{IMM2017-06987, author = "M. J. Canty and A. A. Nielsen", title = "Site Monitoring with Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite Imagery", year = "2017", month = "may", booktitle = "39th {ESARDA} Symposium on Safeguards and Nuclear Non-Proliferation", volume = "", series = "", editor = "", publisher = "", organization = "", address = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/6987-full.html", abstract = "Based on a statistical test for the equality of polarimetric matrices following the complex Wishart distribution and a factorization of the test statistic, change analysis in a time series of multi-look polarimetric {SAR} data in variance-covariance or polarimetric matrix representation is carried out. The test statistic and its factorization detect if and when change(s) occur. This paper provides a short explanation of the method, describes available software, and gives examples of potential applications for site monitoring." }