Patent ID: 8001115

Claim:
One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of utilizing high-resolution remotely sensed imagery (“imagery”) to identify terrestrial objects that have changed in a certain manner, the method comprising: providing a first instance of change-detection information that characterizes a first change pattern between features of a) a first image of a terrestrial object and b) a second image of said terrestrial object; identifying sets of images having respective corresponding change patterns that are similar to that of said first change pattern from among a plurality of stored image sets related to other terrestrial objects; ranking the identified sets of images according to how similar each respective change pattern of each identified set is to that of said first change pattern, thereby providing results that include a plurality of ranked instances of image sets and their corresponding change patterns; and presenting at least a portion of said ranked instances based on the ranking of the identified sets of images.