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The reliability of individual automatic  change-detection algorithms is currently below operating requirements when considering the intrinsic uncertainty of a change-detection algorithm and the complexity of detecting changes in remote-sensing images. In particular, most of these algorithms are only suited for a specific image data source, study area and research purpose. Only a number of comprehensive change-detection methods that consider the reliability of the algorithm in different implementation situations have been reported. This study attempts to explore the advantages of combining several typical change-detection algorithms. This combination is specifically designed for a highly reliable change-detection task. Specifically, a fusion approach based on reliability is proposed for an exclusive land use or land cover  change-detection. First, the reliability of each candidate algorithm is evaluated. Then, a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is used to generate a reliable change-detection approach. This evaluation is a transformation between a one-way evaluation matrix and a weight vector computed using the reliability of each candidate algorithm. Experimental results reveal that the advantages of combining these distinct change-detection techniques are evident.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs5031134","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,3,1]],"date-time":"2013-03-01T13:09:27Z","timestamp":1362143367000},"page":"1134-1151","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["A Reliability-Based Multi-Algorithm Fusion Technique in Detecting Changes in Land Cover"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"5","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1821-538X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Penglin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, No. 129 of Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"Joint Spatial Information Research Laboratory Between The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Wuhan University, No.129 of Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Wenzhong","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, No. 129 of Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"Joint Spatial Information Research Laboratory Between The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Wuhan University, No.129 of Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6439-6775","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Man","family":"Wong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, No. 129 of Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"Joint Spatial Information Research Laboratory Between The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Wuhan University, No.129 of Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Jiangping","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, No. 129 of Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"Joint Spatial Information Research Laboratory Between The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Wuhan University, No.129 of Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,3,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"369","DOI":"10.14358\/PERS.69.4.369","article-title":"Land use\/land cover change-detection using improved change-vector analysis","volume":"69","author":"Chen","year":"2003","journal-title":"Photogramm. 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