Nowadays, an ever increasing number of multi-temporal images is available, giving the possibility of having with high
temporal frequency information about the land-cover evolution on the ground. In general, the production of accurate
land-cover maps requires the availability of reliable ground truth information on the considered area for each image to be
classified. Unfortunately the rate of ground truth information collection will never equal the remote sensing image
acquisition rate, making supervised classification unfeasible for land-cover maps updating. This problem has been faced
according to domain adaptation methods that update land-cover maps under the assumption that: i) training data are
available for one of the considered multi-temporal acquisitions while they are not for the others and ii) set of land-cover
classes is same for all considered acquisitions. In real applications, the latter assumption represents a constraint which is
often not satisfied due to possible changes occurred on the ground and associated with the presence of new classes or the
absence of old classes in the new images. In this work, we propose an approach that removes this constraint by
automatically identifying whether there exist differences between classes in multi-temporal images and properly
handling these differences in the updating process. Experimental results on a real multi-temporal remote sensing data set
confirm the effectiveness and the reliability of the proposed approach.
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