MO3.O1.1: CONSTELLATIONS: A NEW PARADIGM FOR EARTH OBSERVATIONS
Angelita Kelly, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Stephen Volz, Cheryl Yuhas, NASA Headquarters, United States; Warren Case, SGT, Inc., United States
MO3.O1.2: AMSR-E AND ITS FOLLOW-ON, AMSR2
E. Lobl, R. Spencer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States; K. Imaoka, EORC/JAXA, Japan; K. Nakagawa, GCOM/JAXA, Japan
MO3.O1.3: MODES OF NATURAL AND FORCED CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN 6 YEARS OF AIRS AND AMSU DATA
Alexander Ruzmaikin, Hartmut Aumann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States
MO3.O1.4: INSIGHTS INTO TROPOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY: NEW RESULTS UTILIZING EOS TES, OMI, AND MOPITT ON THE A-TRAIN
Annmarie Eldering, Kevin Bowman, John Worden, Reinhard Beer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ Caltech, United States; Pawan Bhartia, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Pieternel Levelt, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Netherlands; John Gille, David Edwards, Merritt Deeter, National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States
MO3.O2.1: DRAINAGE NETWORK AND SEISMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ACTIVE TECTONICS IN NANGA PARBAT HARAMOSH MASSIF, PAKISTAN
Faisal Shahzad, Syed Amer Mahmood, Richard Gloaguen, Remote Sensing Group, Germany
MO3.O2.2: GULLY EROSION MAPPING USING ASTER DATA AND DRAINAGE NETWORK ANALYSIS IN THE MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT
Moncef Bouaziz, Arief Wijaya, Richard Gloaguen, TU-Freiberg, Institut für Geologie, Germany
MO3.O2.3: SOME EARLY DEFORMATION MEASUREMENT RESULTS FROM UAVSAR
Scott Hensley, JPL, United States; Howard Zebker, Stanford University, United States; Cathleen Jones, Thierry Michel, Alex Fore, Marc Simard, Charles Le, Bruce Chapman, Ron Muellerschoen, JPL, United States
MO3.O2.4: TEMPERATURE, COLOR AND DEFORMATION MONITORING OF VOLCANIC REGIONS IN NEW ZEALAND
Karen Joyce, Sergey Samsonov, Gill Jolly, GNS Science, New Zealand
MO3.O2.5: INSAR MONITORING OF LANDSLIDES USING RADARSAT AND ALOS
Vern Singhroy, CCRS, Canada
MO3.O3.1: COMPARISON OF LST RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS BETWEEN SINGLE-CHANNEL AND SPLIT-WINDOWS FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION INFRARED CAMERA
Li Zhu, China Environmental Monitoring Centre, Beijing, China; Jiaguo Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chuanqing Wu, China Environmental Monitoring Centre, Beijing, China; Bingfeng Yang, Nanjing Normal University, Jiangsu, Nanjing, China; Qing Li, China Environmental Monitoring Centre, China
MO3.O3.2: LIGHT SCATTERING BY THIN CURVED DIELECTRIC SURFACE AND CYLINDER
S. Selim Seker, Bogazici University, Turkey; Gokhan Apaydin, University of Technology, Switzerland
MO3.O3.3: TEST OF THE SAIL-THERMIQUE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL FOR SIMULATING THERMAL INFRARED EMISSIVITY AND EMISSIVITY SPECTRA OF PLANT CANOPIES
Albert Olioso, INRA, France; Jose Sobrino, Guilhem Soria, University of Valencia, Spain; Michaël Chelle, INRA, France; Benoît Duchemin, Frederic Jacob, IRD, France
MO3.O3.4: AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF EMISSIVITY MAPS ON A EUROPEAN SCALE
Eduardo Caselles, University of Valencia, Spain; Francisco Abad, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain; Enric Valor, Joan Miquel Galve, Vicente Caselles, University of Valencia, Spain
MO3.O3.5: MAPPING HIGH-RESOLUTION LAND SURFACE RADIATIVE FLUXES FROM MODIS
Shunlin Liang, University of Maryland, United States
MO3.O4.1: ANALYSIS OF THE SENTINEL-1 RADAR CONFIGURATION FOR SEA ICE MAPPING APPLICATIONS
Wolfgang Dierking, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
MO3.O4.2: SENTINEL - 1 INTERFEROMETRY APPLICATIONS
Fabio Rocca, Politecnico, Italy; Ramon Hanssen, T. U. Delft, Italy
MO3.O4.3: ACCURACY OF SENTINEL-1 GEOPHYSICAL INFORMATION PRODUCTS
Malcolm Davidson, Evert Attema, Nicolas Floury, Bjorn Rommen, Paul Snoeij, ESA, Netherlands
MO3.O4.4: SENTINEL-1 LAND SURFACE PARAMETER APPLICATIONS
Christiane Schmullius, Oliver Cartus, Tanja Reidel, University Jena, Germany; Maurizio Santoro, Gamma Remote Sensing Corporation, Switzerland; Robert Eckardt, Nicole Richter, Carolin Thiel, Christian Thiel, University Jena, Germany
MO3.O5.1: EFFICIENT CONFIGURATIONS OF SAR SENSORS FOR IMPROVED RANGE RESOLUTION
Diego Cristallini, Debora Pastina, Pierfrancesco Lombardo, University of Rome, Italy
MO3.O5.2: COHERENT MULTI-FREQUENCY-BAND RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Evan Zaugg, David Long, Brigham Young University, United States; Matthew Edwards, Alex Margulis, ARTEMIS Inc., United States
MO3.O5.3: 3D SAR FOCUSING FOR SUBSURFACE POINT TARGETS
Majid Albahkali, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States
MO3.O5.4: ADAPTIVE SCAN-ON-RECEIVE BASED ON SPATIAL SPECTRAL ESTIMATION FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION, WIDE-SWATH SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Federica Bordoni, Marwan Younis, Eduardo Makhoul Varona, Gerhard Krieger, Microwaves and Radar Institute (IHR), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
MO3.O5.5: FOCUSING SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR (SAS) DATA WITH THE OMEGA-K TECHNIQUE
Riccardo De Paulis, Eni E&P Division, Italy; Claudio Prati, Fabio Rocca, Silvia Scirpoli, Stefano Tebaldini, Politecnico, Italy
MO3.O6.1: SPECTRAL STABILITY MONITORING OF AN IMAGING SPECTROMETER BY MEANS OF ONBOARD SOURCES
Petra D'Odorico, Edoardo Alberti, Francesco Dell'Endice, Andreas Hueni, Michael Schaepman, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
MO3.O6.2: PLEIADES-HR SYSTEM QUALIFICATION: A FOCUS ON GROUND PROCESSING AND IMAGE PRODUCTS PERFORMANCES, A FEW MONTHS BEFORE LAUNCH
Simon Baillarin, Laurent Lebegue, Philippe Kubik, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France
MO3.O6.3: COMPARISON OF AVIRIS AND AISA FOR CHEMISTRY MAPPING
David G. Goodenough, Natural Resources Canada, Canada; K. Olaf Niemann, Tian Han, University of Victoria, Canada; Piper Gordon, Geordie Hobart, Geoff Quinn, Hao Chen, Andrew Dyk, Natural Resources Canada, Canada
MO3.O6.4: OFFSHORE HYDROCARBON SEEPAGE CHARACTERIZATION THROUGH SPECTROSCOPY, QUIMIOMETRY AND OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING
Talita Lammoglia, Carlos Souza Filho, Geosciences Institute, University of Campinas, Brazil
MO3.O6.5: VISUALISATION, PROCESSING AND STORAGE OF SPECTRODIRECTIONAL DATA BASED ON THE SPECTRAL DATABASE SPECCHIO
Andreas Hueni, Stefan Rey, Daniel Schläpfer, Juerg Schopfer, Mathias Kneubühler, University of Zurich, Switzerland
MO3.O7.1: DISTRIBUTION OF ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS IN AFRICAN WOODLAND SAVANNAS
Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Niall Hanan, Colorado State University, United States; Wolfgang Buermann, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Edward Mitchard, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Herman H. Shugart, University of Virginia, United States
MO3.O7.2: REMOTE SENSING AND FOREST RESOURCES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Pauline Dube, B. P. Parida, Mogodisheng M. B. Sekhwela, University of Botswana, Botswana; Balakidzi B. Nduna, Ministry of Education, Botswana
MO3.O7.3: DETECTING CHANGES OF WOODY BIOMASS IN FOUR AFRICAN FOREST-SAVANNA LANDSCAPES USING MULTI-TEMPORAL L-BAND SAR
Edward Mitchard, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom; Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Patrick Meir, Iain Woodhouse, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom; Lee White, Gabon Delegation to UNFCCC, Gabon; Katherine Abernethy, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
MO3.O7.4: DETECTION OF LAND COVER CHANGES IN EL RAWASHDA FOREST, SUDAN: A SYSTEMATIC COMPARISON
Wafa Nori, Irmgard Niemeyer, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
MO3.O7.5: LONG TERM MONITORING OF WOODLAND COVER AND BIOMASS CARBON IN AFRICAN WOODLANDS
John Grace, Iain Woodhouse, Casey Ryan, Mathew Williams, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
MO3.O8.1: UAE MAPPED ATTENUATION AT RF FREQUENCIES (UAE-MARF)
Abdulla Bushahab, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates; Khaled Mubarak, Ali M. Dawood, Raed Shubair, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, United Arab Emirates
MO3.O8.2: SPACE-BORNE MEASUREMENTS OF CHANGES IN CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS AND CLOUD DROP SIZE ASSOCIATED WITH PRECIPITATION
Takahisa Kobayashi, Ahoro Adachi, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan
MO3.O8.3: VALIDATION OF SATELLITE RAINFALL PRODUCTS OVER DIFFERENT PARTS OF AFRICA
Tufa Dinku, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), United States
MO3.O8.4: THE NPP ATMOSPHERE PRODUCT EVALUATION AND ALGORITHM TEST ELEMENT (PEATE): A FACILITY FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF VIIRS ATMOSPHERE PRODUCTS AND GENERATION OF CLIMATE DATA RECORDS
Liam Gumley, Hank Revercomb, Bob Holz, Scott Mindock, Steve Dutcher, Geoff Cureton, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
MO3.O8.5: NEW REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES IN IDENTIFYING THE OCEANIC ORIGIN OF THE PRECIPITATION JUMP IN THE SAHEL
W. Timothy Liu, Xiaosu Xie, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
MO3.O9.1: THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT: POST-LAUNCH CALIBRATION/VALIDATION PLAN OVERVIEW
Karen St.Germain, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, United States
MO3.O9.2: NASA CALIBRATION AND CHARACTERIZATION IN THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT (NPP)
James Butler, Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Hassan Oudrari, Chunhui Pan, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., United States; James Gleason, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
MO3.O9.3: NPP ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SENSOR (ATMS): SENSOR CALIBRATION AND PRELIMINARY DATA PRODUCT PERFORMANCE
William Blackwell, Laura G. Jairam, R. Vincent Leslie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Lincoln Lab, United States
MO3.O9.4: NPP CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) PREDICTED SENSOR PERFORMANCE CALIBRATION AND PRELIMINARY DATA PRODUCT PERFORMANCE
Kory Priestley, NASA's Langley Research Center, United States
MO3.O9.5: THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT (NPP) CROSS-TRACK INFRARED SCANNER (CRIS) PREDICTED SENSOR PERFORMANCE CALIBRATION AND PRELIMINARY DATA PRODUCT PERFORMANCE
Gail Bingham, Chad Fish, Vladimir V. Zavyalov, Christopher D. Barnet, Dave Tobin, Larrabee Strow, Denise Hagan, Utah State University, United States
MO3.O10.1: DAILY COASTAL UPWELLING INDEX DERIVED FROM MODIS SST DATA AND SURF ZONE THERMISTORS
Ruth Branch, University of Washington, United States; Christo Whittle, Maya Pfaff, George Branch, University of Cape Town, South Africa
MO3.O10.2: RECIPE FOR SYNERGETIC ANALYSES OF SATELLITE DATA OF THE GREATER AGULHAS CURRENT REGIME
Johnny A. Johannessen, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway; Bertrand Chapron, IFREMER, France; Fabrice Collard, CLS, France; Vladimir Kudryavtsev, NIERSC, Russian Federation; Marjolaine Rouault, CSIR, South Africa
MO3.O10.3: CASE STUDIES OF SATELLITE TRMM MICROWAVE IMAGER SIGNATURES OF SEA SURFACE COOLING ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL CYCLONES OVER THE SOUTH-WEST INDIAN OCEAN
Alberto Mavume, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique; Lars Rydberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Mathieu Rouault, Johann Lutjeharms, University of Cape Town, South Africa
MO3.O10.4: OBSERVATIONS OF THERMAL VARIATIONS IN THE MIXED LAYER DEPTH OF THE EASTERN EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC
Kwame Agyekum, George Wiafe, Department of Oceanography & Fisheries, University of Ghana, Ghana; Bob Houghton, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, United States; Shaun Dolk, NOAA, United States; Thomas Drake, Coastal Geosciences Program, Office Naval Research, United States; Augustus Vogel, African Partnership Station, United States
MO3.O10.5: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED COASTAL EROSION ASSESSMENT PROGRAM ALONG THE COASTLINE OF GHANA
George Wiafe, Selorm Ababio, Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of Ghana, Ghana; Addo Appeaning, Cheryl Hapke, Accra Polytechnic, Ghana; Kwame Agyekum, Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of Ghana, Ghana; Tom Lipmann, University of New Hampshire, United States; Dano Roelvink, UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands; Andrew Ashton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States; Thomas Drake, Coastal Geosciences Program, Office of Naval Research, United States; Augustus Vogel, Africa Partnership Station, United States
MO3.O11.1: ON SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR BACKSCATTERED CROSS-SECTIONS UNDER HURRICANES
Hui Shen, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; William Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada; Yijun He, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhongfeng Qiu, Institute of Oceanology, China
MO3.O11.2: WIND RETRIEVAL OF TROPICAL CYCLONES USING C-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS
Jochen Horstmann, NATO Undersea Research Center, Italy; Xiaofeng Li, William G. Pichel, NOAA/NESDIS, United States
MO3.O11.3: VALIDATION OF REMOTELY-SENSED HURRICANE FORCE WINDS IN EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES
Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; James Carswell, Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., United States; Stephen Frasier, Tao Chu, University of Massachusetts, United States
MO3.O11.4: STATISTICAL STUDY OF WIND FIELD DISTRIBUTION WITHIN EXTRA-TROPICAL CYCLONES FROM 7-YEARS OF QUIKSCAT WIND DATA
Zorana Jelenak, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR, United States; Joseph Sienkiewicz, Khalil Ahmad, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/OPC, United States; Paul Chang, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR, United States
MO3.O11.5: THE COMBINED EFFECT OF SURFACE RAIN AND WIND ON SCATTEROMETER OBSERVATIONS OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS
David Weissman, Hofstra University, United States; Mark Bourassa, Florida State University, United States
MO3.O12.1: PANEL SESSION: OPPORTUNITIES IN GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVATION
Robert Scholes, CSIR, South Africa
MO3.O13.1: EARTH OBSERVATION AND GIS: INTEGRATION WITHIN A PROBABILISTIC APPROCH FOR GOUNDWATER PROSPECTING IN ARID ZONE (IGHREM, MOROCCO)
Ahmed Er raji, Driss El Hadani, CRTS, Morocco
MO3.O13.2: MONITORING MANGROVES EVOLUTION OF BOANAMARY USING LANDSAT DATA (NORTH WEST OF MADAGASCAR)
Fanja Razafindramasy, Solofo Rakotondraompiana, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar
MO3.O13.3: REMOTE SENSING AND GEOLOGICAL MAPPING FOR A GROUNDWATER RECHARGE MODEL IN THE ARID AREA OF SEBT RBRYKINE: DOUKKALA, WESTERN MOROCCO.
Kamal Labbassi, Amina Tajdi, University of El Jadida, Morocco; Ahmed Er-raji, Royal Centre of Remote Sensing, Morocco
MO3.O13.4: THE MEDIUM RESOLUTION SOIL MOISTURE DATASET: OVERVIEW OF THE SHARE ESA DUE TIGER PROJECT
Marcela Doubkova, Annett Bartsch, Carsten Pathe, Daniel Sabel, Wolfgang Wagner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
MO3.O13.5: MAPPING AND MONITORING URBAN GROWTH ON WETLANDS IN HUMID TROPICAL CONTEXT USING EARTH OBSERVATION TECHNOLOGY, CASE STUDY OF MANGROVE ZONES AROUND DOUALA CITY IN CAMEROON
Ngouanet Chrétien, National Institute of Cartography, Cameroon; Dzalla Ngangue Guy Charly, University of Douala, Cameroon; Ojuku Tiafack, University of Youande 1, Cameroon
MO4.O2.1: A HIGH SPEED MICROWAVE INTERFEROMETER USED FOR MONITORING STROMBOLI VOLCANO
Linhsia Noferini, Daniele Mecatti, Giovanni Macaluso, Massimiliano Pieraccini, Carlo Atzeni, Maurizio Ripepe, University of Firenze, Italy
MO4.O2.2: HYDROCARBON SEEPAGE DETECTION THROUGH GEOBOTANIC AND MULTISPECTRAL AND MULTI-TEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING
Carlos Souza Filho, Vagney Augusto, Talita Lammoglia, Wilson Oliveira, University of Campinas/Geosciences Institute, Brazil
MO4.O2.3: ERS-ENVISAT TANDEM CROSS-INTERFEROMETRY APPLICATIONS
Urs Wegmüller, Maurizio Santoro, Charles Werner, Tazio Strozzi, Andreas Wiesmann, Gamma Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland
MO4.O2.4: HIGH RANGE RESOLUTION DIRECTIONAL BOREHOLE RADAR FOR 3-D FRACTURE DELINEATION
Motoyuki Sato, Takuya Takayama, Tohoku University, Japan
MO4.O2.5: DETECTION OF PHYLLOSILICATE MINERAL ZONATIONS ON MARS BY CONTEXTUAL PROCESSING OF MARS EXPRESS OMEGA IMAGERY
Harald van der Werff, Frank van Ruitenbeek, Freek D. van der Meer, ITC, Netherlands
MO4.O3.1: ADVANCES IN BRDF FIELD MEASUREMENT: NEW PRINCIPLE AND INSTRUMENT
Marc Schwarzbach, Maria von Schoenermark, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
MO4.O3.2: THE NEW ANGULAR & SPECTRAL KERNEL MODEL FOR BRDF AND ALBEDO RETRIEVAL
Sihan Liu, Qiang Liu, Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, China; Xiaowen Li, Beijing Nomal University, China; Qing Xiao, Xiaozhou Xin, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, China
MO4.O3.3: A MODEL FOR INSTANTANEOUS FAPAR RETRIEVAL: THEORY AND VALIDATION
Xin Tao, Wenjie Fan, Xiru Xu, Peking University, China; Dacheng Wang, Zhejiang University, China; Yanjuan Yao, Binyan Yan, Peking University, China
MO4.O3.4: IMPROVED FULL SPECTRUM CLOUDY SCENE SIMULATION
Robert Sundberg, Steven Richtsmeier, Spectral Sciences, Inc., United States; Raymond Haren, AFRL/RYJT, United States
MO4.O3.5: ON THE PREDICTIVE MODELING OF VISIBLE LIGHT INTERACTION WITH FRESH AND ENVIRONMENTALLY STRESSED MONOCOTYLEDONOUS LEAVES
Gladimir Baranoski, University of Waterloo, Canada
MO4.O4.1: SENTINEL-1 MISSION OVERVIEW
Evert Attema, Malcolm Davidson, Paul Snoeij, Bjorn Rommen, Nicolas Floury, European Space Agency, Netherlands
MO4.O4.2: ANALYSIS OF SENTINEL-1 MISSION CAPABILITIES
Paul Snoeij, Evert Attema, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Andrea Pietropaolo, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy; Vanessa Mastroddi, InterConsulting, Italy; Michelangelo L'Abbate, Claudio Bruno, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy
MO4.O4.3: THE SENTINEL-1 C-SAR INSTRUMENT DESIGN
Friedhelm Rostan, Markus Huchler, Sebastian Riegger, EADS Astrium GmbH, Germany; Renato Croci, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy; Ramon Torres, ESA-ESTEC, Netherlands
MO4.O4.4: FDBAQ A NOVEL ENCODING SCHEME FOR SENTINEL-1
Paul Snoeij, Evert Attema, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Andrea Monti Guarnieri, Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
MO4.O4.5: INNOVATIVE AND EFFICIENT STRATEGY OF CALIBRATING SENTINEL-1
Marco Schwerdt, Benjamin Bräutigam, Björn Döring, Manfred Zink, German Aerospace Centre, Germany
MO4.O5.1: PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS ON DETECTING TUNNELS USING UNDERGROUND FOCUSING SPOTLIGHT SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Carey Rappaport, Jose Angel Martinez Lorenzo, Northeastern University, United States
MO4.O5.2: IMAGING OF UNDERGROUND ANOMALIES USING RF TOMOGRAPHY AND LATERAL WAVES
Lorenzo Lo Monte, General Dynamics Information Technology, United States; Danilo Erricolo, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States; Francesco Soldovieri, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; Michael C. Wicks, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States
MO4.O5.3: 3D MODELING AND VALIDATION OF GPR WAVE SCATTERING WITH THE SEMI-ANALYTIC MODE MATCHING (SAMM) METHOD
Ann Morgenthaler, Carey Rappaport, Qiuzhao Dong, Northeastern University, United States
MO4.O5.4: A NEURAL NETWORK ELECTROMAGNETIC APPROACH FOR GPR PAVEMENT DIAGNOSTIC: A PRELIMINARY STUDY
Salvatore Caorsi, Mattia Stasolla, University of Pavia, Italy
MO4.O5.5: 2-1/2 DIMENSIONAL BISTATIC GPR PROPAGATION AND SCATTERING MODELING OF ROADWAYS AND TUNNELS WITH PROJECTED 2D FDTD
Kim Belli, Christopher Udall, Carey Rappaport, Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Northeastern University, United States
MO4.O6.1: FEATURE REDUCTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING AUTOASSOCIATIVE NEURAL NETWORKS ALGORITHMS
Giorgio Licciardi, Riccardo Duca, Fabio Del Frate, UNIVERSITA' DI TOR VERGATA ROMA, Italy
MO4.O6.2: A SPECTRAL FITTING MODEL FOR CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE RETRIEVAL AT GLOBAL SCALE
Marina Mazzoni, Pierluigi Falorni, Donatella Guzzi, Ivan Pippi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; Wouter Verhoef, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Netherlands
MO4.O6.3: REQUIREMENTS ON SPECTRAL RESOLUTION OF REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR CROP STRESS DETECTION
Jonas Franke, Thorsten Mewes, University of Bonn, Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL), Germany; Gunter Menz, University of Bonn, Remote Sensing Research Group (RSRG), Germany
MO4.O6.4: IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION ON CHINESE FIRST EARTH OBSERVATION HYPERSPECTRAL SATELLITE
Bing Zhang, Zhengchao Chen, Junsheng Li, Lianru Gao, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, China
MO4.O6.5: ASTER IN MINERAL EXPLORATION: REVIEWS AND PROSPECTS
Carlos Souza Filho, University of Campinas, Brazil
MO4.O7.1: NUMERICAL MODELING OF DOPPLER SPECTRUM EVOLUTION FOR SIGNALS SCATTERED BY BREAKING WAVES
Valery Zavorotny, Alexander Voronovich, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, United States
MO4.O7.2: A POLARIMETRIC SEA SURFACE BACKSCATTERING MODEL
Attilio Gambardella, Ferdinando Nunziata, Maurizio Migliaccio, Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
MO4.O7.3: TEMPORAL COHERENCE OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SCATTERED BY A MOVING SEA SURFACE IN L-BAND
Arnaud Coatanhay, ENSIETA, France
MO4.O7.4: ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING FROM OCEAN SURFACE AT LOW GRAZING ANGLES
Naheed Sajjad, Ali Khenchaf, Arnaud Coatanhay, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs des Etudes et Techniques d'Armement, France
MO4.O7.5: ON THE PRACTICAL APPLICABILITY OF KIRCHHOFF APPROACH FOR SCATTERING FROM FRACTAL SURFACES
Giorgio Franceschetti, Antonio Iodice, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy; Stefano Perna, Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Daniele Riccio, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
MO4.O8.1: IMPROVING RAINFALL ESTIMATION FROM GROUND BASED RADAR MEASUREMENTS USING NEURAL NETWORKS
Amin Alqudah, Yanting Wang, V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States
MO4.O8.2: DETECTING TROPICAL CYCLONE WATER VAPOR TRANSPORTATION WITH THE TRMM AND ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT (AMSU)
Xin Wang, Xiang Fang, Hong Qiu, Yuanjing Zhu, China Meteorological Administration, China
MO4.O8.3: COMBINE KU AND KA BAND OBSERVATIONS OF PRECIPITATION AND RETREIVALS FOR GPM GROUND VALIDATION
Minda Le, V. Chandrasekar, Sanghun Lim, Colorado state university, United States
MO4.O8.4: LEVEL 1 ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT OF SPACEBORNE DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADAR (DPR) FOR GPM
Shuji Shimizu, Naofumi Yoshida, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Hiroshi Hanado, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; Tomohiko Higashiuwatoko, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan
MO4.O8.5: A LONG-TERM TREND OBSERVED IN TRMM/PR MONTHLY RAINFALL PRODUCTS AND AN EVALUATION OF SAMPLING ERROR BY A BOOTSTRAP METHOD
Yasuhisa Iida, Takuji Kubota, JAXA, Japan; Toshio Iguchi, NICT, Japan; Riko Oki, JAXA, Japan
MO4.O9.1: NPP OZONE MAPPING AND PROFLIER SUITE (OMPS) SENSOR CALIBRATION AND PREDICTED DATA PRODUCT PERFORMANCE
Scott Janz, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Glen Jaross, Matthew Kowalewski, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., United States; Lawrence Flynn, Bruce Guenther, NOAA, United States; Quinn Remund, Juan Rodriguez, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., United States; Paul Lee, James Done, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, United States
MO4.O9.2: NPP VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION AND PREDICTED DATA PRODUCT PERFORMANCE
Frank DeLuccia, Aerospace, Corp, United States
MO4.O9.3: MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS ON NPP AND NPOESS WITH THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SOUNDER AND THE MICROWAVE IMAGER/SOUNDER
David Kunkee, Aerospace, Corp, United States
MO4.O9.4: MET OFFICE AND ECMWF CONTRIBUTION TO NPP AND NPOESS CAL/VAL EFFORT
Nigel Atkinson, Stephen English, United Kingdom Met Office, United Kingdom; William Bell, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom
MO4.O9.5: IMPROVED DESTRIPING FOR TERRA AND AQUA MODIS DATA: ALGORITHM DESCRIPTION AND QUANTITATIVE RADIOMETRIC ASSESSMENT
Liam Gumley, Kathy Strabala, W. Paul Menzel, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
MO4.O10.1: SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND CHLOROPHYLL SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF INSTABILITY WAVES IN THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN
Milton Kampel, Ramon M. Freitas, Luciano P. Pezzi, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
MO4.O10.2: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE ASAR RADIAL CURRENT PRODUCT IN THE AGULHAS CURRENT REGION
Marjolaine Rouault, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ecosystem Earth Observation, South Africa; Fabrice Collard, Collecte Localisation Satellites, Radar Division, France; Johnny A. Johannessen, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway
MO4.O10.3: SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE SURVEY USING METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION ALONG THE SENEGALESE COAST
Mbaye Diop, Laboratoire d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Géomatique, Campus universitaire de l’ESP, Senegal
MO4.O10.4: OBSERVATION OF THE EVOLUTION OF EDDIES IN THE BALTIC SEA USING SAR, SST, OCEAN COLOR DATA AND IN SITU MEASUREMENTS
Rivo Uiboupin, Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
MO4.O10.5: MONITORING OF ENTEROMORPHA PROLIFERA IN QINGDAO MARINE BY EXPLOITING THE SYNERGY OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING DATA
Di Wu, Bing Zhang, Junsheng Li, Yuangfeng Wu, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, China; Hao Zhang, Qian Shen, institute of remote sensing application Chinese academy of sciences, China
MO4.O11.2: VALIDATIONS OF AMSR-E SST IN ARCTIC OCEAN
Akira Shibata, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan
MO4.O11.3: QA FOR SATELLITE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES USING THE ISAR SHIP-BORNE RADIOMETRIC SYSTEM
Werenfrid Wimmer, Ian Robinson, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; Craig Donlon, European Space Research & Technology Centre, Netherlands
MO4.O11.4: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEA REGIONS WITH HIGH THERMAL VARIABILITY AND WILDFIRES FROM 1981 TO 2008
Laia Nuñez-Casillas, Manuel Arbelo, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain; Jose Andres Moreno-Ruiz, Universidad de Almería, Spain; Pedro A. Hernandez-Leal, Africa Barreto, Alfonso Alonso-Benito, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
MO4.O11.5: PRE-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AND FEATURES EXTRACTION FOR OCEAN MESO-SCALE STRUCTURES DETECTION IN SST IMAGES
Guillaume Noel, Yskandar Hamam, F'SATIE, South Africa; Laurent Drapeau, IRD, France
MO4.O12.1: INSPIRE: A EUROPEAN CONTRIBUTION TO GEOSS
Paul Smits, European Commission, Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit, Netherlands
MO4.O12.2: THE NAMIBIAN FLOOD/VECTOR DISEASE SENSORWEB PILOT PROJECT FOR EARLY WARNING
Stuart Frye, NASA SensorWeb Project, United States; Guido Van Langenhove, Hydrological Services Namibia, Namibia; Joerg Szarzinski, Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER), United States; Dan Mandl, Pat Cappelaere, NASA SensorWeb Project, United States; Karen Moe, NASA-Earth Science Technology Office, United States; Granville Paules, Kelly Anderson, United States
MO4.O12.3: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GEOSS ARCHITECTURE USING OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM (OGC) STANDARDS FOR GEOINFORMATICS
Ingo Simonis, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. / International Geospatial Services Institute GmbH, Germany; George Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., Germany
MO4.O12.4: GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS CAPACITY BUILDING IN AFRICA
Andiswa Mlisa, I. Salooje, Umvoto Africa (Pty) Ltd., South Africa
MO4.O12.5: HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT: THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE FULL POTENTIAL FOR SPACE SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
V. Munsami, T. Sebitloane, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa
MO4.O13.1: CAPACITY NEEDS AND CAPACITY BUILDING TO SUPPORT A WATER OBSERVATION SYSTEM FOR AFRICA
Zoltán Vekerdy, Arno M. van Lieshout, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands; Diego Fernández Prieto, European Space Agency (ESA), Italy
MO4.O13.2: USE OF EARTH OBSERVATION TO INVESTIGATE THE WATER QUALITY OF LAKE MANZALA
Mona Faisal, Akram Elganzori, Drainage Research Institute, Egypt; Thomas Puestow, C-CORE, Canada
MO4.O13.3: REMOTE SENSING BASED WATER BALANCE ESTIMATION IN THE MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT VALLEY
Susanne Haas, Richard Gloaguen, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
MO4.O13.4: TIGER: EARTH OBSERVATION TO IMPROVE AFRICAN WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Diego Fernandez, European Space Agency (ESA), Italy; Francesco Palazzo, SERCO SPA, Italy; Annukka Lipponen, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), France; Steve Iris, Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Canada
MO4.O13.5: CONTRIBUTION OF SATELLITE IMAGE TO COMMON MANAGEMENT OF SHARED RESOURCES. CASE OF NWSAS THROUGH GEOAQUIFER.
Djamel Latrech, SAHARA AND SAHEL OBSERVATORY, Tunisia
TU1.O1.1: ALOS AND ESA THIRD PARTY MISSIONS FOR APPLICATIONS IN EUROPE AND AFRICA
Bianca Hoersch, European Space Agency, Italy
TU1.O1.2: STEREO EVALUATION OF ALOS PRISM AND IKONOS DATA IN YEMEN
Rupert Müller, Mathias Schneider, Peter Reinartz, German Aerospace Center DLR, Germany; Friedhelm Schwonke, Federal Institute for Geosiences and Natural Resources BGR, Germany
TU1.O1.3: SYNERGETIC USE OF MULTI-TEMPORAL ALOS PALSAR AND ENVISAT ASAR DATA FOR TOPOGRAPHIC/LAND COVER MAPPING AND MONITORING AT NATIONAL SCALE IN AFRICA
Francesco Holecz, Massimo Barbieri, Alessio Cantone, Paolo Pasquali, Stefano Monaco, sarmap, Switzerland
TU1.O1.4: EXPLOITATION OF ALOS-PALSAR SAR FULL-POLARIMETRY DATA TO THE MAPPING OF AN AFRICAN REGION
Eric Pottier, IETR UMR CNRS 6164 - University of Rennes 1, France; Laurent Ferro-Famil, IETR UMR CNRS 6164, France
TU1.O1.5: GEOLOGICAL MAPPING IN THE ZONE OF CHOTTS, TUNISIA, USING ALOS SENSORS.
Jean-Paul Deroin, University of Reims, France; Damien Dhont, Majed Jabbour, University of Pau, France; Jean Chorowicz, University of Paris 6, France; Bénédicte Fruneau, University of Paris Est-Marne la Vallée, France
TU1.O2.1: EXTRACTION OF TRAFFIC FLOWS AND SURFACE CURRENT INFORMATION USING TERRASAR-X ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRY DATA
Steffen Suchandt, Hartmut Runge, Alexander Kotenkov, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Helko Breit, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
TU1.O2.2: ANALYSIS OF FIRST TERRASAR-X ALONG-TRACK INSAR-DERIVED SURFACE CURRENT FIELDS
Roland Romeiser, University of Miami, United States; Steffen Suchandt, Hartmut Runge, Ulrich Steinbrecher, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
TU1.O2.3: MONITORING A TUNNELLING IN AN URBANIZED AREA WITH TERRASAR-X INTERFEROMETRY – SURFACE DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS AND ATMOSPHERIC ERROR TREATMENT
Steffen Knospe, Wolfgang Busch, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
TU1.O2.4: INVESTIGATION OF RADARSAT-2 AND TERRASAR-X DATA FOR RIVER ICE CLASSIFICATION
Stephane Mermoz, IETR, INRS, France; Sophie Allain, IETR, France; Monique Bernier, INRS, France; Eric Pottier, IETR, France
TU1.O2.5: MULTI-THEMATIC EXPLOITATION OF TERRASAR-X IMAGES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE KALIDEOS REFERENCE DATASETS
Sébastien Garrigues, CNES, France; Nicolas Baghdadi, CIRAD, France; Jean-Luc Froger, OPGC, France; Philippe Durand, CNES, France; Isabelle Champion, INRA, France; Thierry Rabaute, Stéphane May, CNES, France
TU1.O3.1: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS WITH BISTATIC SAR TOMOGRAPHY
Sergi Duque, Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Adib Y. Nashashibi, Amit M. Patel, University of Michigan, United States
TU1.O3.2: STUDY ON BISTATIC SAR OCEAN WAVE IMAGING MECHANISM
Ying Yu, Xiaoqing Wang, Minhui Zhu, Jin-Song Chong, The Institute of Electronics,ChineseAcademy of Sciences, China
TU1.O3.3: A NEW CALCULATION METHOD OF NUSAR FOR TRANSLATIONAL VARIANT BISTATIC SAR
Xiaolan Qiu, Donghui Hu, Chibiao Ding, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TU1.O3.4: A GPS SIGNAL BASED FAST NUMERIC RANGE MIGRATION ALGORITHM OF SPACE-SURFACE BISTATIC SAR
Jie Zhen, Xidian University, China; Zhenhua Zhang, No.704 Institute, Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., China; Shunjun Wu, Xidian University, China
TU1.O3.5: CHIRP SCALING ALGORITHM FOR PARALLEL BISTATIC SAR PROCESSING
Zhenhua Zhang, China Aerospace Science and Technology corporation, China; Lianghai Li, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, China; Jie Zhen, Mengdao Xing, Zheng Bao, XiDian University, China
TU1.O4.1: GMES SPACE COMPONENT: STATUS AND PROSPECTS
Josef Aschbacher, Pierre Potin, ESA, Italy
TU1.O4.2: SENTINEL-1 MISSION OVERVIEW AND IMPLEMENTATION STATUS
Malcolm Davidson, Evert Attema, Paul Snoeij, Guido Levrini, ESA, Netherlands
TU1.O4.3: SENTINEL-2 OPTICAL HIGH RESOLUTION MISSION FOR GMES LAND OPERATIONAL SERVICES
Ferran Gascon, Philippe Martimort, François Spoto, Umberto Del Bello, ESA ESTEC, Netherlands
TU1.O4.4: SENTINEL-3 MISSION OVERVIEW
Bruno Berruti, Craig Donlon, Johannes Frerick, Ulf Klein, Constantin Mavrocordatos, Jens Nieke, Bernd Seitz, Jürgen Stroede, Helge Rebhan, European Space Agency, Netherlands
TU1.O4.5: SENTINEL 4 AND 5 - GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS
Michael Berger, ESA ESRIN, Italy
TU1.O5.1: THE CONTRIBUTION OF CHRIS/PROBA DATA FOR TROPICAL PEAT SWAMP LANDSCAPE DISCRIMINATION PURPOSES
Veraldo Liesenberg, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany; Hans-Dieter Viktor Boehm, Kalteng Consultans, Germany; Richard Gloaguen, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany
TU1.O5.2: A NOVEL APPROACH TO THE SELECTION OF SPATIALLY INVARIANT FEATURES FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES
Claudio Persello, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy
TU1.O5.3: LEARNING THE RELEVANT IMAGE FEATURES WITH MULTIPLE KERNELS
Devis Tuia, Giona Matasci, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de Valencia, Spain; Mikhail Kanevski, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
TU1.O5.4: A CHANGE DETECTION ALGORITHM FOR RETRIEVING HIGH-RESOLUTION SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE FROM SMAP L-BAND RADAR AND RADIOMETER OBSERVATIONS
Maria Piles, Adriano Camps, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain; Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
TU1.O5.5: CHARACTERIZATION OF L-BAND RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE ACROSS THE CONTINENTAL USA USING A KURTOSIS DETECTOR
Sidharth Misra, Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States
TU1.O6.1: LABORATORY CHARACTERIZATION OF THE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER FOR THE COASTAL OCEAN (HICO)
Daniel Korwan, Robert Lucke, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Norman McGlothlin, Steven Butcher, Daniel Wood, Praxis, Inc, United States; Jeffrey Bowles, Michael Corson, William Snyder, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Curtiss Davis, Oregon State University, United States; Davidson Chen, Naval Research Laboratory, United States
TU1.O6.2: AN ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ITERATIVE METHOD FOR HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION AEROSPACE IMAGING SPECTROMETERS
Donatella Guzzi, Alessandro Barducci, Paolo Marcoionni, Ivan Pippi, CNR-IFAC, Italy
TU1.O6.3: ADVANCED RADIOMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE VALIDATION METROLOGY FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEMS
John T. Woodward IV, Steven W. Brown, Allan W. Smith, Keith R. Lykke, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
TU1.O6.4: CALIBRATION ALGORITHMS FOR AN IMAGING SPECTROMETER
Francesco Dell'Endice, Remote Sensing Laboratories - University of Zurich, Switzerland
TU1.O6.5: COMPENSATION OF ATMOSPHERIC AND DIRECTIONAL EFFECTS IN MODIS REFLECTANCE DATA
Crystal Schaaf, Boston University, United States; Eric Vermote, University of Maryland, United States; Miguel Román, Boston University, United States; Gail Anderson, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States
TU1.O7.1: UNPOLARIZED INFRARED EMISSIVITY OF OIL FILM ON SEA SURFACES
Nicolas Pinel, Christophe Bourlier, Université de Nantes, France
TU1.O7.2: HYBRID OF THE METHOD OF MOMENTS/ MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUE AND A SURFACE SCATTERING MODEL FOR ESTIMATING THE RADAR BACKSCATTERS OF HARVESTED FARM FIELDS
Yisok Oh, Ji-Hwan Hwang, Hongik University, Republic of Korea
TU1.O7.3: A FAST NUMERICAL METHOD FOR SCATTERING FROM DIELECTRIC ROUGH SURFACES
Bin Liu, Yang Du, Zhejiang University, China
TU1.O7.4: BISTATIC REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY ROUGH SURFACES WITH LARGE HEIGHTS AND SLOPES
Ding Liang, University of Washington, United States; Peng Xu, Wuhan University, China; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan; Zhiqian Gui, Leung Tsang, University of Washington, United States
TU1.O7.5: DEVELOPMENT OF A SIMPLE SCATTERING MODEL FOR VEGETATION CANOPIES AND EXAMINATION OF ITS VALIDITY WITH SCATTEROMETER MEASUREMENTS OF GREEN-ONION FIELDS
Yisok Oh, Soon-Gu Kwon, Hongik University, Republic of Korea
TU1.O8.1: ESTIMATION AND APPLICATION OF DISCRETE SPECTRUM OF RELAXATIONS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION RESPONSES
Mu-Hsin Wei, Waymond Scott, James Mcclellan, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
TU1.O8.2: NUMERICAL MODELING OF A SPIRAL-ANTENNA GPR SYSTEM
Michael McFadden, Waymond Scott, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
TU1.O8.3: WIENER PREDICTION-BASED CHANGE DETECTION FOR LOCATING MINES IN MULTILOOK SAR IMAGERY
Nasser Nasrabadi, US Army Researcl laboratory, United States
TU1.O8.4: A STUDY OF ACOUSTIC METHODS FOR COMPLIANT LANDMINES DETECTION BY USING THE SURFACE ACCELERATION PARAMETER
Giovanni Borgioli, Andrea Bulletti, Marco Calzolai, Lorenzo Capineri, University of Florence, Italy; Marina Mazzoni, National Council of Researches, Italy; Samuela Valentini, University of Florence, Italy
TU1.O8.5: THREE-DIMENSIONAL REAL-TIME LOCALIZATION OF SUBSURFACE OBJECTS – FROM THEORY TO EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION
Leonardo Lizzi, Federico Viani, Paolo Rocca, Giacomo Oliveri, Manuel Benedetti, Andrea Massa, ELEDIA Research Group - University of Trento, Italy
TU1.O9.1: AN AUTOMATIC METHOD FOR COUNTING OLIVE TREES IN VERY HIGH SPATIAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Yakoub Bazi, Al-Jouf University, Saudi Arabia; Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy; Hamed Al-Sharari, Al-Jouf University, Saudi Arabia
TU1.O9.2: FOCUS PRE-PROCESSING CHAIN FOR OBJECT DETECTION IN HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Cyrille Valladeau, Julien Michel, CS, France; Jordi Inglada, CNES, France
TU1.O9.3: TARGET DETECTION WITH SPATIO-SPECTRAL DATA VIA CONCORDANCE LEARNING
Murat Dundar, Indiana University - Purdue University (IUPUI), United States
TU1.O9.4: ON THE EFFECTS OF PAN-SHARPENING TO TARGET DETECTION
Andrea Garzelli, Luca Capobianco, Filippo Nencini, UNIVERSITY OF SIENA, Italy
TU1.O9.5: CONTRIBUTION OF THE INTER-CHANNEL POLARIMETRIC COHERENCE FOR SOIL CLASSIFICATION
Hamdi Jenzri, Riadh Abdelfattah, Higher School of Communications of Tunis, Tunisia
TU1.O10.1: RETRIEVAL OF SNOW PARAMETERS FROM KU-BAND AND X-BAND RADAR BACKSCATTER MEASUREMENTS
Helmut Rott, Markus Heidinger, Thomas Nagler, ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria; Donald Cline, NOAA-NOHRSC, United States; Simon Yueh, NASA-JPL, United States
TU1.O10.2: CHARACTERISTICS OF SNOW COVER AND SNOW MELT IN NORTHERN EURASIA FROM MICROWAVE RADIOMETER OBSERVATIONS: RELATION TO THE EXTENT OF PERMAFROST
Jouni Pulliainen, Matias Takala, Ari Laaksonen, Heikki Järvinen, Kari Luojus, Anna Luomaranta, Kirsti Jylhä, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
TU1.O10.3: COMPARISON WITH CLPX II AIRBORNE DATA AT ALASKA AND COLORADO WITH DMRT THEORY
Xiaolan Xu, Ding Liang, Konstantinos Andreadis, Tsang Leung, University of Washington, United States; Edward Josberger, United States Geological Survey, United States
TU1.O10.4: ESTIMATION OF SNOW WATER EQUIVELANT USING A PARAMETERIZED SNOW SCATTERING MODEL
Jinyang Du, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, CAS, China, China; Jiancheng Shi, Institute for Computational Earth System Sciences, United States
TU1.O10.5: EXPERIMENTAL AND MODELING STUDIES OF MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF SEASONAL SNOW
Martti Hallikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Pauli Sievinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
TU1.O11.1: AIRBORNE L-BAND RFI OBSERVATIONS IN THE SMAPVEX08 CAMPAIGN WITH THE L-BAND INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSING RADIOMETER
Ninoslav Majurec, James Park, Noppasin Niamsuwan, Mark Frankford, Joel Johnson, Ohio State University, United States
TU1.O11.3: INVERSION ALGORITHM FOR ESTIMATING RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE CHARACTERISTICS BASED ON KURTOSIS MEASUREMENTS
Sidharth Misra, Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States
TU1.O11.4: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A CROSS-FREQUENCY DETECTOR OF PULSED SINUSOIDAL RFI IN MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY
Baris Guner, Joel Johnson, Ninoslav Majurec, The Ohio State University, United States
TU1.O12.1: NON-SPACE APPLICATIONS OF GNSS-R: FROM RESEARCH TO OPERATIONAL SERVICES. EXAMPLES OF WATER AND LAND MONITORING SYSTEMS.
Alejandro Egido, Starlab, Spain; Matthieu Delas, Star2Earth, Netherlands; Miquel Garcia, Marco Caparrini, Starlab, Spain
TU1.O12.2: ADVANCED PARIS ALTIMETER BASED ON WAVEFORM DELAY COMPENSATION
Salvatore D'Addio, Manuel Martín-Neira, European Space Agency, Netherlands
TU1.O12.3: COMPARING WIND SPEED RETRIEVALS FROM GPS REFLECTOMETRY WITH SFMR SURFACE WIND SPEEDS IN HURRICANE IKE (2008)
Valery Zavorotny, NOAA, United States; Dennis Akos, University of Colorado, United States; Edward Walsh, NASA, United States
TU1.O12.4: AN EVALUATION OF GEODETIC GPS RECEIVERS FOR MEASURING SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE
Kristine Larson, University of Colorado, United States; Valery Zavorotny, NOAA, United States; John Braun, UCAR, United States; Andria Bilich, NGS, United States; Eric Small, University of Colorado, United States; Ethan Gutmann, NCAR, United States
TU1.O12.5: SIMULATION OF GNSS RETURNS FOR DELAY-DOPPLER ANALYSIS OF THE OCEAN SURFACE
Maria Paola Clarizia, National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS), United Kingdom; Maurizio Di Bisceglie, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy; Carmela Galdi, Universita' degli Studi del Sannio, Italy; Christine Gommenginger, Meric Srokosz, National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS), United Kingdom
TU1.O13.1: DETAILED STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISATION OF THE SAVANNA FLUX SITE AT SKUKUZA, SOUTH AFRICA
Robert Scholes, CSIR, South Africa; Michel Verstraete, JRC, Italy; Sally Archibald, Kathleen Mennell, CSIR, South Africa; Gregory Asner, Carnegie Institute, Stanford University, United States
TU1.O13.2: SPECTRAL VARIABILITY WITHIN SPECIES AND ITS EFFECTS ON SAVANNA TREE SPECIES DISCRIMINATION
Moses Azong Cho, Pravesh Debba, Renaud Mathieu, Bongani Majeke, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Jan van Aardt, Center for Imaging Science, United States
TU1.O13.3: INFLUENTIAL ECOLOGICAL FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED WHEN MAPPING GRASS BIOCHEMICAL CONCENTRATION IN AN AFRICAN SAVANNA SYSTEM
Nichola Knox, Andrew Skidmore, International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation, Netherlands
TU1.O13.4: FRACTIONAL COVER AND STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS ALONG A LAND USE DEGRADATION GRADIENT IN SAVANNAS IN AND AROUND THE KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH AFRICA
Renaud Mathieu, CSIR Natural Resource and the Environment, South Africa; Konrad Wessels, CSIR Meraka, South Africa; Gregory Asner, Carnegie Institute, Stanford University, United States; David Knapp, Stanford University, United States; Jan van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States; Moses Cho, CSIR Natural Resource and the Environment, South Africa; Barend Erasmus, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Izak Smit, South African National Parks, South Africa
TU1.O13.5: THREE-DIMENSIONAL WOODY VEGETATION STRUCTURE ACROSS LAND-USE INTENSITIES IN A SEMI-ARID SAVANNA
Jolene Fisher, Barend Erasmus, Edward Witkowski, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Jan Van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States; Gregory Asner, Carnegie Institute, Stanford University, United States; Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, David Knapp, Ruth Emerson, James Jacobson, Carnegie Institution for Science, United States; Renaud Mathieu, Konrad Wessels, Natural Resources in the Environment, South Africa
TU2.O1.1: CHRIS/PROBA TOOLBOX FOR HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTIANGULAR DATA EXPLOITATIONS
Luis Alonso, Luis Gómez-Chova, Jose Moreno, University of Valencia, Spain; Luis Guanter, GFZ-Potsdam, Germany; Carsten Brockmann, Norman Fomferra, Ralf Quast, Brockmann Consult, Germany; Peter Regner, ESA-ESRIN, Italy
TU2.O1.2: THE USE OF ALOS PALSAR FOR SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE FOREST USE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: A CASE STUDY IN MALAWI
Gemma F. Cassells, Iain Woodhouse, Edward Mitchard, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Mavuto Tembo, University of Mzuzu, Malawi
TU2.O1.3: L-BAND CONTRIBUTION TO C-BAND INSAR STUDIES OF AFRICAN VOLCANIC AREAS
Christelle Wauthier, 1: Royal Museum for Central Africa / 2: University of Liège, Belgium; Anneleen Oyen, Petar Marinkovic, Ramon Hanssen, Institute of Earth Observation and Space Systems, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Nicolas d'Oreye, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg; François Kervyn, 1: Royal Museum for Central Africa / 2: Centre d’Informations Géographiques SODERU, Belgium; José Fernández, Instituto de Astronomia y Geodesia (CSIC-UCM), Facultad de Ciencias Mathematicas, University of Madrid, Spain; Valérie Cayol, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Blaise Pascal, France
TU2.O1.4: ALOS PALSAR DATA EMPLOYED FOR SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION IN THE BO-PIKETBERG AREA, SOUTH AFRICA
Jeanine Engelbrecht, Council for Geoscience, South Africa
TU2.O1.5: INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING DATA TOWARDS THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT (NSBA)
Christoph Schultz, Mathieu Rouget, Nokuthula Wistebaar, Zuziwe Jonas, South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa
TU2.O2.1: PRELIMINARY TERRASAR-X OBSERVATIONS FOR TEMPERATE GLACIERS ON THE CHAMONIX MONT BLANC TEST SITE
Olivier Harant, GIPSA-lab, France; Renaud Fallourd, LISTIC, France; Lionel Bombrun, Michel Gay, GIPSA-lab, France; Emmanuel Trouve, LISTIC, France; Gabriel Vasile, GIPSA-lab, France; Jean-Marie Nicolas, TELECOM ParisTech, France
TU2.O2.2: COMPARISON OF HELICOPTER-BORNE THIN SEA ICE THICKNESS PROFILES WITH POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURES OF DUAL-POL TERRASAR-X DATA
Thomas Busche, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center, Germany; Thomas Krumpen, Lasse Rabenstein, Jens Hoelemann, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany; Christian Haas, University of Alberta, Canada; Sascha Willmes, University of Trier, Germany
TU2.O2.3: TERRASAR-X OBSERVATIONS OF THE RECOVERY GLACIER SYSTEM, ANTARCTICA
Kenneth Jezek, The Ohio State University, United States; Dana Floricioiu, German Aerospace Center, Germany; Katy Farness, The Ohio State University, United States; Nestor Yague-Martinez, Michael Eineder, German Aerospace Center, Germany
TU2.O2.4: FRACTURE EVOLUTION ON WILKINS ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA
Angelika Humbert, University of Münster, Germany; Matthias Braun, University of Bonn, Germany; Dietmar Gross, Ralf Müller, Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Germany
TU2.O2.5: DETERMINATION OF VARIATIONS IN GLACIER SURFACE MOVEMENTS THROUGH HIGH RESOLUTION INTERFEROMETRY; BYLOT ISLAND, CANADA
Ken Whitehead, Brian Moorman, Pablo Wainstein, University of Calgary, Canada
TU2.O3.1: BISTATIC EXPERIMENT WITH THE UWB-CARABAS SENSOR - FIRST RESULTS AND PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE APPLICATIONS
Daniel Henke, Arnold Barmettler, Erich Meier, University of Zurich, Switzerland
TU2.O3.2: RESULTS AND ANALYSIS OF HYBRID BISTATIC SAR EXPERIMENTS WITH SPACEBORNE, AIRBORNE AND STATIONARY SENSORS
Ingo Walterscheid, Thomas Espeter, Christoph Gierull, Jens Klare, Andreas R. Brenner, Joachim H. G. Ender, FGAN-FHR, Germany
TU2.O3.3: NEW PROCESSING APPROACH AND RESULTS FOR BISTATIC TERRASAR-X/F-SAR SPACEBORNE-AIRBORNE SAR EXPERIMENTS
Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Stefan Baumgartner, Pau Prats, Gerhard Krieger, Anton Nottensteiner, Ralf Horn, Irena Hajnsek, Alberto Moreira, DLR, Germany
TU2.O3.4: CONFIGURATION, SYNCHRONIZATION AND IMAGING FOR A BISTATIC SAR EXPERIMENT UNDERGOING PREPARING
Xiaolan Qiu, Liangjiang Zhou, Xingdong Liang, Donghui Hu, Chibiao Ding, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TU2.O3.5: REPEAT-PASS INTERFEROMETRY USING A FIXED-RECEIVER AND ERS-2/ENVISAT AS TRANSMITTERS OF OPPORTUNITY
Sergi Duque, Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Juan C. Merlano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
TU2.O4.1: THE USE OF THE SENTINEL MISSIONS FOR SCIENCE
Michael Berger, ESA ESRIN, Italy
TU2.O4.2: POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE: OCEANS AND CRYOSPHERE
Johnny A. Johannessen, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway
TU2.O4.4: POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF GMES / SENTINELS TO EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE: LAND SURFACE
Jose Moreno, University of Valencia, Spain
TU2.O4.5: THE SENTINEL-1 MISSION: CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOLID EARTH SCIENCES
Ramon Hanssen, Andy Hooper, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
TU2.O5.1: MICROWAVE SCATTERING PROPERTIES OF DRY SNOW USING THE BI-CONTINOUS RANDOM MEDIA
Xiaolan Xu, University of Washington, United States; Kung-Hau Ding, Air Force Research Laborator, United States; Leung Tsang, University of Washington, United States
TU2.O5.2: MODELING NEAR-EARTH GROUNDWAVE PROPAGATION OVER RANDOM TERRAIN ROUGHNESS WITH AN EFFECTIVE LOW-GRAZING REFLECTION COEFFICIENT
DaHan Liao, Kamal Sarabandi, The University of Michigan, United States
TU2.O5.3: TOPOGRAPHY OF SAND COVERED BEDROCK USING A TWO-FREQUENCY AIRBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC SAR MEASUREMENTS
Adel Elsherbini, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, United States
TU2.O5.4: INVESTIGATION ON THE APPLICATIONS OF DECORRELATION ANALYSIS IN POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Yong-Sheng Zhou, Wen Hong, Fang Cao, National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, China
TU2.O5.5: HIGH RESOLUTION SUBSURFACE IMAGING OF DEEP TARGETS BASED ON DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS
Fikadu Dagefu, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
TU2.O6.1: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MODTRAN(R) ATMOSPHERIC MODEL AND IMPLICATIONS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL COMPENSATION
Alexander Berk, Spectral Sciences, Inc, United States; Gail Anderson, United States Air Force Laboratories, United States; Prabhat Acharya, Spectral Sciences, Inc, United States; Brett Gossage, Invariant Corporation, United States
TU2.O6.2: AFFINE COMPENSATION OF ILLUMINATION IN HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Pedro Latorre Carmona, Universidad Jaume I, Spain; Jose Moreno, Universidad de Valencia, Spain; Filiberto Pla, Universidad Jaume I, Spain; Crystal Schaaf, Boston University, United States
TU2.O6.3: ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION OF ENMAP DATA OVER LAND AND WATER
Rudolf Richter, DLR - German Aerospace Center, Germany; Thomas Heege, EOMAP GmbH, Germany; Luis Guanter, GFZ-Geo-Research-Center, Germany; Xingjuan Wang, Andreas Mueller, DLR-German Aerospace Center, Germany; Hermann Kaufmann, Telegrafenberg 326, Germany
TU2.O6.4: ATMOSPHERIC COMPENSATION FOR IMAGING SPECTROMETER SYSTEMS WITH CHANGING IMAGING GEOMETRY
Thomas Cooley, Gail Anderson, Gerald Felde, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States; Robert McMullen, Boston College, United States
TU2.O6.5: PRACTICAL ILLUMINATION CORRECTION OF SATELLITE IMAGERY IN CONSIDERATION OF ANISOTROPIC SKYLIGHT COMPONENT
Yoshikazu Iikura, Hirosaki Unversity, Japan
TU2.O7.1: FOAM EMISSIVITY MODELS FOR MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS OF OCEANS FROM SPACE
Magdalena D. Anguelova, Peter W. Gaiser, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Victor Raizer, Zel Technologies, LLC, United States
TU2.O7.2: RADAR SOUDER ECHOES FROM STRATIFIED MEDIA WITH ROUGH INTERFACES AND SIMULATION OF LUNAR EXPLORATION
Ya-Qiu Jin, Wenzhe Fa, Fudan University, China
TU2.O7.3: MODELING IMPACTS OF ENVIORNMENTAL CONDITIONS AND VARIABILITY OF FOREST ARCHITECTURE ON POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF FOREST HEIGHT
Sassan Saatchi, Shadi Oveisgharan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TU2.O7.4: REFINEMENTS AND TESTS OF A MICROWAVE EMISSION MODEL FOR FORESTS
R. Rahmoune, A. Della Vecchia, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Leila Guerriero, Tor Vergata University, Italy; F. Martin-Porqueras, ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands
TU2.O7.5: A UNIFIED POLARIMETRIC APPROACH FOR SAR SEA OIL SLICK OBSERVATION
Ferdinando Nunziata, Attilio Gambardella, Maurizio Migliaccio, Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
TU2.O8.1: TAILORED ALGORITHMS FOR OCEAN COLOUR APPLICATIONS AT REGIONAL SCALES: GEOGRAPHIC AND OPTICAL APPROACHES
Mark Dowell, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy; Stewart Bernard, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
TU2.O8.2: OCEAN COLOUR OBSERVATION SYSTEMS FOR HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS IN THE BENGUELA
Stewart Bernard, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Lisl Robertson, University of Cape Town, South Africa
TU2.O8.3: VALIDATION OF MERIS OCEAN COLOUR RADIOMETRY IN THE SOUTHERN BENGUELA
Lisl Robertson, Stewart Bernard, Alex Fawcett, Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa
TU2.O8.4: REMOTE SENSING OF WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS AND CYANOBACTERIAL ALGAL BLOOMS USING MULTI-SPECTRAL MERIS AND LANDSAT, AND IN SITU HYPERSPECTRAL RADIOMETRIC DATA, IN ZEEKOEVLEI LAKE, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
Mark Matthews, Stewart Bernard, Kevin Winter, University of Cape Town, South Africa
TU2.O8.5: SATELLITE ESTIMATES OF PHYTOPLANKTON PRIMARY PRODUCTION AT SANTOS BIGHT, SOUTHWESTERN-SOUTH ATLANTIC: COMPARISON OF ALGORITHMS
Milton Kampel, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE, Brazil; Shubha Sathyendranath, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom; Salvador A. Gaeta, Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
TU2.O9.1: SPATIALLY ADAPTIVE CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA WITH GAUSSIAN PROCESSES
Goo Jun, Joydeep Ghosh, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
TU2.O9.2: AN EFFICIENT HIERARCHICAL HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING BINARY QUATERNION-MOMENT-PRESERVING THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUE
Lena Chang, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan; Yang-Lang Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan; Ching-Min Cheng, Chunghwa Telecommunictation, Taiwan
TU2.O9.3: ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION OF SPECTRALLY SIMILAR MINERALS
Pravesh Debba, The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
TU2.O9.4: OPTIMIZING WAVELETS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Abdelhamid Daamouche, Ecole Nationale Polytechnique of Algiers, Algeria; Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy; Latifa Hamami, Ecole Nationale Polytechnique of Algiers, Algeria
TU2.O9.5: SEMI-SUPERVISED CONTEXTUAL CLASSIFICATION AND UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA BASED ON MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS
Ryuei Nishii, T. Ozaki, Y. Sawamura, Kyushu University, Japan
TU2.O10.1: MODELING OF EMISSION FROM SNOW-COVERED GROUND FOR PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING
Lingmei Jiang, Beijing Normal Universtiy, China; Saibun Tjuatja, The University of Texas at Arlington, United States; Jiancheng Shi, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
TU2.O10.2: ON THE RETRIEVAL OF THE SNOW TEMPERATURE PROFILE ON THE ANTARCTIC PLATEAU AT DOME-C FROM MICROWAVE DATA
Marco Brogioni, CNR-IFAC, Italy
TU2.O10.3: A COMPOSED MICROWAVE EMISSION MODEL FOR COLD LAND
Tianjie Zhao, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, China; Jiancheng Shi, Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
TU2.O10.4: MONITORING OF SNOW COVER PROPERTIES DURING THE SPRING MELTING PERIOD IN FORESTED AREAS
Jarkko Koskinen, Jouni Pulliainen, Kari Luojus, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
TU2.O10.5: MULTI.TEMPORAL OBSERVATIONS OF SNOW COVER CHARACTERISTICS IN ALPINE REGIONS WITH MULTIFREQUENCY PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS AND COMPARISON WITH C-BAND SAR DATA.
Paolo Pampaloni, Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Simonetta Paoloscia, Enrico Palchetti, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi, National Research Council, Italy; Andrea Crepaz, Anselmo Cagnati, ARPA Veneto, Italy
TU2.O11.1: LESSONS LEARNED AND HERITAGE APPLICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROWAVE IMAGER/SOUNDER (MIS)
Rebecca Hamilton, Chris Brann, United States Air Force, United States; David Kunkee, Dan M. Walker, Robert Platt, The Aerospace Corporation, United States
TU2.O11.2: PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NPOESS MICROWAVE IMAGER/SOUNDER (MIS) RADIOMETER
David Kunkee, Dan M. Walker, Craig K. Smith, David A. Thompson, Ye Hong, Robert Platt, The Aerospace Corporation, United States
TU2.O11.3: TRADE STUDIES FOR OFFSET REFLECTORS WITH APPLICATIONS FOR CONICAL SCANNING RADIOMETERS
David A. Thompson, David Kunkee, The Aerospace Corporation, United States
TU2.O11.4: FUTURE MICROWAVE IMAGER/SOUNDER (MIS) DATA PRODUCTS: TEMPERATURE DATA RECORDS (TDR), SENSOR DATA RECORDS (SDR) AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS (EDR)
Ye Hong, The Aerospace Corporation, United States; Derek Reimer, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, United States; David Kunkee, Dan M. Walker, The Aerospace Corporation, United States; Chris Brann, Rebecca Hamilton, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, United States
TU2.O11.5: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SOUNDER (ATMS) ON THE NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM (NPOESS)
David Kunkee, Ye Hong, David A. Thompson, The Aerospace Corporation, United States
TU2.O12.1: SEA ALTIMETRY AND SCATTEROMETRY USING GPS EARTH REFLECTED SIGNALS
Antonio Rius, Estel Cardellach, Instituto Ciencias del Espacio (CSIC/IEEC), Spain
TU2.O12.2: SIMULATION OF REFLECTED BOC-MODULATED SATELLITE NAVIGATION SIGNALS
James Garrison, Purdue University, United States
TU2.O12.3: THE PARIS IN-ORBIT DEMONSTRATOR
Manuel Martín-Neira, Salvatore D'Addio, European Space Agency, ESTEC, Netherlands; Christopher Buck, Nicolas Floury, Roberto Pietro-Cerdeira, European Space Agency, Netherlands
TU2.O12.4: PROSPECTS OF RADAR ALTIMETRY AND GNSS REFLECTOMETRY FOR GEODYNAMIC STUDIES
C.K. Shum, Hyongki Lee, The Ohio State University, United States; P.A.M. Abusali, University of Texas, United States; Alexander Braun, University of Calgary, Canada; Guy de Carufel, Georgia Fotopouloous, University of Toronto, Canada; Chungyen Kuo, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
TU2.O12.5: ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING USING GNSS IN THE AUSTRALASIAN REGION: FROM TEMPERATE CLIMATES TO THE TROPICS
Chris Rizos, Samsung Lim, University of New South Wales, Australia; Tajul Musa, Shahrum Ses, Amir Sharifuddin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia; Kefei Zhang, RMIT University, Australia
TU2.O13.1: FIRE AS BROWSER:USING LIDAR TO VISUALISE AND QUANTIFY WOODY STRUCTURE ON A LONG-TERM FIRE EXPERIMENT IN AN AFRICAN SAVANNA
Izak Smit, South African National Parks, South Africa; Gregory Asner, Carnegie Institute, Stanford University, United States; Navashni Govendor, South African National Parks, South Africa; Shaun Levick, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, David Knapp, Ruth Emerson, James Jacobson, Carnegie Institution for Science, United States; Renaud Mathieu, Konrad Wessels, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Barend Erasmus, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Basjan van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
TU2.O13.3: CONNECTING THE DOTS BETWEEN WAVEFORM LIDAR, WOODY AND HERBACEOUS BIOMASS, AND FRACTIONAL COVER FOR ASSESSMENT OF LAND DEGRADATION USING SMALL-FOOTPRINT WAVEFORM LIDAR DATA
Jiaying Wu, Jan van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States; Gregory Asner, Carnegie Institute, Stanford University, United States; Renaud Mathieu, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, David Knapp, Carnegie Institution for Science, United States; Konrad Wessels, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Barend Erasmus, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Izak Smit, Kruger National Park, South Africa
TU2.O13.4: TESTING THE UTLITY OF MAPPING ACACIA MEARNSII USING EO-1 HYPERION HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Nitesh Poona, Innocent Shezi, Fethi Ahmed, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
TU2.O13.5: USING MISR FULL SPATIAL RESOLUTION LEVEL 1B2 DATA TO CHARACTERIZE THE SAVANNAH ENVIRONMENT AROUND THE SKUKUZA CSIR RESEARCH SITE
Michel Verstraete, EC DG-JRC, Italy; Linda Hunt, SSAI, United States; Robert Scholes, CSIR, South Africa
TUP.A.1: TIME-QUEFRENCY ANALYSIS FOR DETECTION OF INTERVALS BETWEEN PROXIMITY SIMILAR EVENTS
Koji Nagano, Ken-Ichi Itakura, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
TUP.A.2: APPLICATION OF SAR REMOTE SENSING DATA TO LITHOLOGICAL MAPPING: A CASE STUDY IN RAILWAY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Qulin Tan, JiaoJiao Gao, Xiaofang Li, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
TUP.A.3: INVERSE Q FILTERING TO ENHANCE SEISMIC RESOLUTION
Ning Tu, Wen-Kai Lu, Tsinghua University, China
TUP.A.4: VALIDATION OF WATERSHED SCALE SOIL MOISTURE DERIVED FROM MODIS REMOTE SENSING DATA: A CASE STUDY IN THE YIHE BASIN OF CHINA
Wanchang Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiongfeng Chen, Nanjing University, China; Qingguo Tai, Shandong Meteorological Bureau, China; Lingzhi Wu, Linyi Meteorological Bureau, China
TUP.A.5: FAST EXTRACTING AND CHANGE DETECTION OF DAMMED LAKES USING HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES: A CASE STUDY OF TANGJIASHAN DAMMED LAKE
Yun Shao, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Shiang Wang, Wei Tian, Huaze Gong, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Fengli Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.A.6: NEOTECTONIC INFORMATION FROM DRAINAGE BASIN GEOMETRY IN THE TAJIK DEPRESSION
Alexandra Kaessner, Richard Gloaguen, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
TUP.A.7: A SUITALBE SOLUTION FOR EXTRACTION OF ALTERATION ANOMALIES FROM THE REMOTE SENSING DATA: A CASE STUDY OF THE BAOGUTU PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSIT INTRUSION, XINJIANG, CHINA USING ASTER DATA
Yu Chen, Qizhong Lin, Huadong Guo, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yongming Wei, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qinjun Wang, Jingjuan Liao, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.A.8: THE DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINNERING APPLICATION OF BOREHOLE RADAR IN CHINA
Sheng Zhong, Sichuan University, China; Lixin Wu, Northeastern University, China; Chuanying Wang, The Chinese Academy of Science, China; Shanjun Liu, Northeastern University, China
TUP.A.9: SPATIAL SUBDIVISION AND CODING OF A GLOBAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRID:SPHERE DEGENERATED-OCTREE GRID
Jie-Qing Yu, Lixin Wu, Beijing Normal University, China
TUP.A.10: USING PERMANENT SCATTERER INSAR TO DETECT LAND SUBSIDENCE AND GROUND FISSURES: A CASE STUDY IN XI'AN CITY
Daqing Ge, Yan Wang, Ling Zhang, Xiaofang Guo, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China
TUP.A.11: DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATIC GEOLOGICAL LINEAMENT EXTRACTION SOFTWARE FOR SUPPORTING CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES
Chang-Uk Hyun, Hyeong-Dong Park, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
TUP.A.12: REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS OF QUATERNARY DEFORMATION USING RIVER NETWORKS IN HINDUKUSH REGION
Syed Amer Mahmood, Faisal Shahzad, Richard Gloaguen, TU Freiberg, Germany
TUP.B.1: INSAR DISPLACEMENTS ASSOCIATED TO THE NOVEMBER 2006 NYAMULAGIRA ERUPTION
Valérie Cayol, Lab. Magmas et Volcans, Université Blaise Pascal – UMR 6524, France; Nicolas D'Oreye, Dept. of Geophysics/Astrophysics, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg; François Kervyn, Christelle Wauthier, Dept. of Geology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium; GVO Team, Goma Volcanological Observatory, Democratic Republic of the Congo
TUP.B.2: EVALUATION OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES USING GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENTS IN EARTH OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES
Andiswa Mlisa, Chris Hartnady, Umvoto Africa, South Africa
TUP.B.4: A PILOT STUDY ON INTERPRETATION MARKS OF SUPER LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM CURVES OF GOAVES IN MINE
Qiming Qin, Baishou Li, Xia Ye, Rongbo Cui, Wei Tian, Peking University, China
TUP.B.5: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PASSIVE SUPER LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA PROCESSING SOFTWARE
Rongbo Cui, Qimin Qin, Baishou Li, Qingpei Wang, Peking University, China
TUP.B.7: REMOTE SENSING EROSION ESTIMATION
Richard Gloaguen, Remote Sensing Group, Germany
TUP.B.8: A METHOD OF CORRECTION FOR MARINE SEISMIC ACQUISITION
Ji Wang, Wen-Kai Lu, Tsinghua University, China
TUP.B.9: RESEARCH ON METHOD FOR 3D URBAN GEOLOGICAL MODELING
De-Fu Che, Chun-Hua Xiu, Northeastern University, China; Zuo-Ru Yin, Kailuan Mining Graup, China
TUP.B.10: A CONVENIENT DESIGNATION FOR THE OPTIMAL HYDRAULIC CROSS-SECTION OF "RECTANGLE-V" SHAPED DRAINAGE CANAL OF VISCOUS DEBRIS FLOW
Yong You, Jinfeng Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xingzhang Chen, Southwest University of Science and Technology, China; Huali Pan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.B.11: RESERCH ON DRIVING FACTORS OF LAND SUBSIDENCE WITH REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY
Lin Zhu, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Yaoming Su, Lingling Jin, Capital Normal University, China
TUP.B.12: ANALYSIS OF THE PYROPHYLLITE DEPOSIT ALTERATION AREA IN NOHWA ISLAND OF KOREAN PENINSULA USING ASTER IMAGES
Moon-Kyung Kang, Young-Sun Son, Wang-Jung Yoon, Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea
TUP.C.1: ESTIMATION OF SEISMIC INTENSITY DYE TO THE 2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE
Byeong-Pyo Jeong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, Japan; Masafumi Hosokawa, Fire and Disaster Management Agency, Japan, Japan; Shisaku Zama, National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, Japan, Japan; Osamu Takizawa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, Japan
TUP.C.3: A GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION PORTAL FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF NATRUAL DISASTERS
Yong Tu, Qi Li, Xi Mao, Peking University, China
TUP.C.4: CHARACTERISTICS AND RISK ANALYSIS OF QINGLIN DEBRIS FLOW INDUCED BY "5.12" WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE IN BEICHUAN COUNTY, SICHUAN, CHINA
Xingzhang Chen, Southwest University of Science and Technology, China; Yong You, Peng Cui, Jinfeng Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.C.7: THE IMPORTANCE OF REMOTE SENSING IN THE MONITORING OF VOLCANIC ACTIVITY IN THE GOMA REGION (DR OF CONGO): EXPERIENCE FROM THE GORISK PROJECT.
Anne-Catherine van Overbeke, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium; Monfort Bagalwa, Goma Volcanological Observatory, Congo; Jacques Durieux, United Nation Risk Management Unit, Congo; Deogracias Kavotha, Goma Volcanological Observatory, Democratic Republic of the Congo; François Kervyn, Centre d'Informations Géographiques / Royal Museum for Central Africa, Congo; Antoine Kies, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; François Lukaya, Goma Volcanological Observatory, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Prudence Mitangala, Centre scientifique et médical de l’ULB pour ses activités de coopération, Belgium; Nicolas d'Oreye, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg; Etoy Osodundu, Goma Volcanological Observatory, Congo; Benoît Smets, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium; Dario Tedesco, Second University of Naples, Italy; Christelle Wauthier, Royal Museum for Central Africa / University of Liège, Belgium; Mathieu Yalire, Goma Volcanological Observatory, Congo
TUP.C.8: POST-SEISMIC CRUSTAL DEFORMATION DETECTION ON COHERENT TARGETS: A CASE STUDY IN KUNLUN FAULT AFTER 2001 KOKOXILI EARTHQUAKE
Yanmei Zhang, Zaisen Jiang, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China; Xiao Cheng, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.C.9: ANALYSIS ON THE WATER VAPOR ANOMALY BEFORE WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE BASED ON MODIS DATA
Shanjun Liu, Institute for Geo-informatics & Digital Mine Research, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110004, China, China; Lihua Cui, College of Resources and Environment, Hebei Polytechnic University, Tangshan, 063000, China, China; Lixin Wu, Zhi Wang, Institute for Geo-informatics & Digital Mine Research, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110004, China, China
TUP.C.10: THE JANUARY 2002 ERUPTION OF NYIRAGONGO VOLCANO (DRC) CAPTURED BY INSAR
Christelle Wauthier, 1: Royal Museum for Central Africa / 2: University of Liège, Belgium; Valérie Cayol, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Blaise Pascal, France; François Kervyn, 1: Royal Museum for Central Africa / 2: Centre d’Informations Géographiques SODERU, Belgium; Nicolas d'Oreye, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg
TUP.C.11: THE MW 5.9 FEBRUARY 3RD 2008 BUKAVU EARTHQUAKE
Nicolas d'Oreye, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg; Pablo Gonzalez, Institute of Astronomy and Geodesy (CSIC-UCM), Spain; Ashley Shuler, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, United States; Louis Bagalwa, Goma Volcanological Observatory, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Goran Ekstöm, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, United States; Deogracias Kavotha, Goma Volcanological Observatory, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Francois Kervyn, Royal Museum of Central Africa, Belgium; François Lukaya, Etoy Osodundu, Goma Volcanological Observatory, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Adrien Oth, European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology, Luxembourg
TUP.C.12: EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY ESTIMASTION AND DAMAGE DETECTION USING REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR GLOBAL RESCUE OPERATIONS
Masafumi Hosokawa, National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, Japan; Byeong-Pyo Jeong, Osamu Takizawa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
TUP.D.1: CSIR-NLC MOBILE LIDAR FOR ATMOSPHERE REMOTE SENSING
Sivakumar Venkataraman, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Melaku Tesfaye, CSIR - National Laser Centre, South Africa; Joel Botai, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Dineo Moema, Ameeth Sharma, Christoph Bollig, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; C. J . DeW. Hannes Rautenbach, University of Pretoria, South Africa
TUP.D.2: CHARACTERIZATION OF SOIL SURFACE ROUGHNESS FROM TERRISTRIAL LASER SCANNER
Wenjian Ni, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States; Zhifeng Guo, Institute of Remote Sensing Application, Chinese Acadmy of Science, China; Yong Pang, Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Acadmy of Forest, China
TUP.D.3: SPECTRAL RATIO LIDAR FOR OBJECTS DETECTION
Shalei Song, Pingxiang Li, Wei Gong, Liangpei Zhang, Bo Zhu, Lilei Lv, wuhan university, China
TUP.D.4: AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF BUILDING GEOMETRIC FEATURES FROM RAW LIDAR DATA
Zhi Wang, Lixin Wu, College of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110004, China
TUP.D.5: SIMULATION OF 3D LASER SYSTEMS
Gerard Berginc, Michel Jouffroy, THALES, France
TUP.E.1: A FIRST APPROACH TO AUTOMATIC MONITORING PROCEDURE OF CASE II WATER QUALITY FROM HJ-1 SATELLITE IMAGES
Yuanfeng Wu, Bing Zhang, Junsheng Li, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Hao Zhang, Qian Shen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Di Wu, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.E.2: A DUAL-SWATH BUCKEYE EO IMAGING SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATIONS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTERS
Xiuhong Sun, Flight Landata, Inc, United States
TUP.E.3: ESTIMATION OF THE MTF OF A SATELLITE IMAGING-SYSTEM FROM CELESTIAL SCENES
Sagi Faran, Israeli Aerospace Industries, MBT Space-Division, Israel; Itay Eshet, Aeroxel ltd, Israel; Nissim Yehezkel, Israeli Aerospace Industries, MBT Space-Division, Israel; Jonathan Molcho, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben Gurion University, Israel
TUP.E.4: SIZE-OF-SOURCE EFFECT AND DISTANCE EFFECT ESTIMATION OF THREE TRANSFER RADIOMETERS FOR PREFLIGHT CROSS-CALIBRATION EXPERIMENT
Fumihiro Sakuma, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Industry, Japan; Shuji Kawakami, Akihiko Kuze, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan
TUP.E.5: VICARIOUS CALIBRATION OF THE VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED CHANNELS OF VARIOUS IN-FLIGHT RADIOMETERS BY DUNHUANG SITE IN 2008
Yuan Li, Zhiguo Rong, Jingjing Liu, Lijun Zhang, Institute of Satellite Meteorology, China
TUP.E.7: DEVELOPING A NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED BRDF MODEL FOR THE UAE COASTAL AND INLAND ZONES
Ali Al Suwaidi, Adnan Al Rais, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology (EIAST), United Arab Emirates; Hosni Ghedira, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Marouane Temimi, NOAA-CREST, United States
TUP.E.9: ALISEO ON MIOSAT: AN AEROSPACE IMAGING INTERFEROMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION
Alessandro Barducci, Francesco Castagnoli, Guido Castellini, Donatella Guzzi, Paolo Marcoionni, Ivan Pippi, CNR-IFAC, Italy
TUP.F.1: ANALYSIS ON WATER INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES IN LIAODONG BAY OF CHINA
Miao-Fen Huang, Dalian Fisheries University, China; Jun-Wu Tang, Qing-Jun Song, National Satellite Ocean Application Service, China; Xu-Feng Xing, Dalian Fisheries University, China
TUP.F.2: ZOOPLANKTON TRANSPORT AND DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE GULF OF LIONS: ESTIMATES FROM A LAGRANGIAN MODEL AND OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING DATA
Zhongfeng Qiu, Andrea Doglioli, Francois Carlotti, Aix Marseille Université, France
TUP.F.3: REMOTELY-SENSED INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF YANGTZE RIVER’S DISCHARGE TO THE EAST CHINA SEA
Chuqun Chen, Shilin Tang, Ping Shi, Haigang Zhan, South China Sea Institute of Oceanography, China
TUP.F.4: MONITORING OF HARBOR DREDGING USING REMOTE SENSING AND OPTICAL IN SITU DATA
Liis Sipelgas, Marine Systems Institute at TUT, Estonia
TUP.F.5: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RED TIDE EVENT AND BROAD CURRENT PATTERN DERIVED FROM OCEAN SURFACE RADAR IN A CLOSED SEA
Shin'ichi Sakai, Takumi Yoshii, Takaki Tsubono, Masafumi Matsuyama, Central Research Insitute of Electric Power Industry, Japan; Akihide Tada, Takehiro Nakamura, Nagasaki University, Japan
TUP.F.6: CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION ALGORITHMS IN APULIAN COASTAL AREAS
Vito De Pasquale, ISSIA-CNR, Italy; Raffaella Matarrese, Università di Bari, Italy; Guido Pasquariello, ISSIA-CNR, Italy; Maria Teresa Chiaradia, Università di Bari, Italy
TUP.G.2: 3D COASTAL BATHYMETRY RECONSTRUCTION USING TOPSAR DATA
Maged Marghany, Department of Remote Sensing Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
TUP.G.3: RADAR SIGNAL RETRODIFFUSION BY WATER SURFACE
Jean-François Nouvel, ONERA, France; Jean-Claude Souyris, CNES, France
TUP.G.4: FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL FOR MODELING SEA SURFACE CURRENT FROM DIFFERENT RADARSAT-1 SAR MODE DATA
Maged Marghany, Department of Remote Sensing Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
TUP.G.5: SEA SURFACE SIMULATION FOR SAR REMOTE SENSING BASED ON THE FRACTAL MODEL
Ding Guo, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China;State key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, CAS.;Demonstration Center of Spaceborne Remote Sensing National Space Administration,, China; Xingfa Gu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China;State key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of China;Demonstration Center of Spaceborne Remote Sensing National Space Administration, China; Tao Yu, Xiaoying Li, Hui Xu, Jingjun Zheng, State key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of China;Demonstration Center of Spaceborne Remote Sensing National Space Administration, China
TUP.G.6: MERIDIONAL VARIABILITY IN SMOS SALINITY RETRIEVALS: TRADE-OFF BETWEEN SENSITIVITY TO GEOPHYSICAL EFFECTS AND INCREASED TEMPORAL SAMPLING
Roberto Sabia, Adriano Camps, Marco Talone, Mercè Vall-llossera, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Jordi Font, Institut de Ciències del Mar, Spain
TUP.G.7: CHARACTERISTICS OF SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT IN CHINA SEAS AND THEIR ADJACENT WATERS FROM MERGED ALTIMETRY DATA
Jingsong Yang, Xiaoyan Chen, Rong Zhang, Juan Wang, Weigen Huang, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China
TUP.G.8: DESIGN OF AN AIRBORNE FULL-POLARIZED RADAR SCATTEROMETER FOR OCEAN SURFACE REMOTE SENSING
Xiaolong Dong, Di Zhu, Bo Sun, Heguang Liu, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.G.9: TOGA - A GNSS REFLECTIONS INSTRUMENT FOR REMOTE SENSING USING A DIGITAL PHASED ARRAY
Stephan Esterhuizen, Tom Meehan, David Robison, Jeff Tien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TUP.G.11: SPATIO-TEMPORAL INDEXING OF THE QUIKSCAT WIND DATA
Félix Rodríguez Rodríguez, Manuel Barrena García, University of Extremadura, Spain
TUP.G.12: GNSS REFLECTOMETRY: APPLICATIONS AND PROGRESSES
Shuanggen Jin, O. Luo, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Republic of Korea
TUP.H.1: DESIGN AND APPLICATION OF HAZE OPTIC THICKNESS RETRIEVAL MODEL FOR BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES
Shenshen Li, Liangfu Chen, Dong Han, Zifeng Wang, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China
TUP.H.2: RETREIVAL OF TROPOSPHERIC NITROGEN DIOXIDE VERTICAL COLUMN DENSITY DURING THE 2008 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES IN BEIJING
Dong Han, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy, ; Liangfu Chen, Shenshen Li, Zifeng Wang, the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.H.3: RESEARCH ON DARK DENSE VEGETATION ALGORITHM BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE CCD DATA
Shenshen Li, Liangfu Chen, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China; Zhongting Wang, Qing Li, Environmental Satellite Center Preparing Office, State Environmental Protection Ministry, China, China
TUP.H.4: PROVISON OF REAL-TIME TROPOSPHERE DELAY CORRECTIONS BY UTILIZATION OF GENERAL PURPOSE GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS
Thomas Hobiger, Ryuichi Ichikawa, Yasuhiro Koyama, Tetsuro Kondo, NICT, Japan
TUP.H.5: A TECHNIQUE TO DERIVE THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF RAIN INTENSITY FROM NWP DATA
Carlo Capsoni, Lorenzo Luini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
TUP.H.6: THE RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OVER LAND SURFACES FROM CBERS02B IN BEIJING AREA
Zhongting Wang, Environmental Satellite Center Preparing Office, China; Lijuan Zhang, China University of Geosciences, China; Liangfu Chen, the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qing Li, .Environmental Satellite Center Preparing Office, China; Shenshen Li, the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.H.7: SIMULTANEOUS RETRIEVAL OF GEOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS FROM THE INFRARED HYPERSPECTRAL RESOLUTION SOUNDING DATA USING NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUE
Ning Wang, Bo-Hui Tang, Zhao-Liang Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.H.8: DESIGN, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF GROUND BASED MICROWAVE SPECTROMETER FOR ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE SOUNDING
Xiaolong Dong, Yuchi Zhou, Shengwei Zhang, Bo Sun, Heguang Liu, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciencesd, China
TUP.H.9: CHARACTERIZATION OF AEROSOL PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES FROM A COMBINATION OF GROUND-BASED AND HAND-HELD SUS PHOTOMETER DATA OF SINGAPORE
Santo V. Salinas, Boon N. Chew, Soo Chin Liew, National University of Singapore, Singapore
TUP.H.10: FOG FORECASTING, DETECTION AND MONITORING IN THE UAE USING SEVIRI-MSG DATA
Abdulla Bushahab, Ali Al Suwaidi, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology (EIAST),, United Arab Emirates; Hosni Ghedira, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Khaled Mubarak, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research (KUSTAR)., United Arab Emirates
TUP.I.1: DESIGN OF A STAND ALONE NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING POSITION ESTIMATION ALGORITHM
M. Jayachandran, Al-Fetah University, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Manikandan J, National Institute of Technology Trichy (NIT-T), India; Yousef Hwegy, Al-Fatah University, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
TUP.I.4: HIGH-COMPACTED FM-CW SAR FOR BOARDING IN SMALL UAVS
Rene Acevo-Herrera, Albert Aguasca, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Xavier Fàbregas, UPC, Spain
TUP.I.5: THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION FOR UAV POLARIZATION REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM
Lei Yan, Huabo Sun, Hongzhao Tang, Pengqi Gao, Peking University, China; Rui Liang, China University of Mining & Technology, China
TUP.I.6: RECTIFICATION FOR LINEAR PUSHBROOM IMAGE OF UAV
Ling Zhu, Wuming Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China; Ruoming Shi, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China
TUP.I.7: FULLY AUTOMATIC AND ROBUST UAV CAMERA CALIBRATION USING CHESSBOARD PATTERNS
Koen Douterloigne, Sidharta Gautama, Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Belgium
TUP.I.8: USING AERIAL IMAGES TO CALIBRATE THE INERTIAL SENSORS OF A LOW-COST MULTISPECTRAL AUTONOMOUS REMOTE SENSING PLATFORM (AGGIEAIR)
Austin Jensen, Yiding Han, Yangquan Chen, Utah State University, United States
TUP.I.10: ESA AIRBORNE CAMPAIGNS – A NEW SOURCE OF DATA FOR REMOTE SENSING SCIENCE
Malcolm Davidson, Remo Bianchi, Patrick Wursteisen, ESA, Netherlands
TUP.J.1: DETECTION OF SNOW AND FROST DISASTER IN SOUTHERN CHINA USING AMSR-E SCATTERING AND POLARIZATION INDEXES
Ya-Qiu Jin, Hao Chen, Fudan University, China
TUP.J.2: OBSERVATIONS OF SEASONAL SNOW COVER AND SNOW MASS IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE FROM 1979-2006 USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA
James Foster, Dorothy Hall, NASA, United States; John Eylander, USAF/AFWA, United States
TUP.J.3: A NEW, BLENDED SNOW PRODUCT USING VISIBLE, PASSIVE MICROWAVE AND SCATTEROMETER SATELLITE DATA
James Foster, Dorothy Hall, NASA, United States; John Eylander, USAF, United States
TUP.J.4: MERGING FLAT/FOREST AND MOUNTAINOUS SNOW PRODUCTS FOR EXTENDED EUROPEAN AREA
Panu Lahtinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Aydin Gurol Erturk, Turkish State Meteorological Service, Turkey; Jouni Pulliainen, Jarkko Koskinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
TUP.J.6: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MONITORING SNOW COVER BASED ON DIFFERENT SPATIAL RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IAMGERIES
Hongbo Jiang, Qiming Qin, Ning Zhang, Shaohua Zhao, Ling You, Heng Dong, Peking University, China
TUP.J.7: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SNOW GRAIN MORPHOLOGY AND IN-SITU CALIBRATED NEAR INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHS
Alexandre Langlois, Alain Royer, Benoît Montpetit, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; Ghislain Picard, Ludovic Brucker, Laurent Arnaud, CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier, France; Kalifa Goïta, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; Michel Fily, CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier, France
TUP.J.9: MULTI-SQUINT RADAR SOUNDER PROCESSING
Ernesto Rodriguez, Ana Bertran, Chandini Veeramachaneni, Eric Belz, Xiaoqing Wu, JPL/CalTech, United States; Kenneth Jezek, Ohio State University, United States; Sivaprasad Gogineni, Kansas University, United States
TUP.K.1: ESTABLISHING A BASE CAMP SERVER FOR REMOTE SENSING OF ICE SHEETS IN ILLULISSAT, GREENLAND
Je'aime Powell, Linda Hayden, Elizabeth City State University, United States
TUP.K.2: DERIVATION OF GLACIER VELOCITY FROM SAR AND OPTICAL DATA WITH FEATURE TRACKING
Lei Huang, 1,Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth,Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2,Graduate University, CAS, China; Zhen Li, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.K.3: THE GLACIER MOVEMENT ESTIMATION AND ANALYSIS WITH INSAR IN THE QINHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU
Zhen Li, Jianmin Zhou, Bangsen Tian, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.K.4: EVALUATION OF GLACIER RUNOFF IN TAILAN BASIN BY MONTHLY DEGREE-DAY MODEL
Shiqiang Zhang, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, China; Xiaowen Zhang, Lanzhou Commercial College, China
TUP.K.5: DISTRIBUTION OF WINTER FROZEN SOIL DEPTH IN QILIAN MOUNTAIN AND ITS RESPONSE TO TEMPERATURE CHANGE
Jinsong Wang, Hongfen Zhang, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China; Zhiguo Liu, Lanzhou Central Meteorological Observatory, China; Bin Huang, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China
TUP.K.6: COMPARISON OF MODELED AND OBSERVED SUPRAGLACIAL LAKES AT THE WESTERN MARGIN OF THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET
Steven Palmer, Aud Sundal, Andrew Shepherd, Peter Nienow, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
TUP.K.7: EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS:CHARACTERIZING ICE SHEET THICKNESS AND HYDROLOGIC POTENTIAL OF SUB-GLACIAL LAKE ENVIRONMENTS
Randy Justin, Pennsylvania State University, United States; Eduardo Cabret, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Pennsylvania State University, United States
TUP.K.8: SEA ICE CO NCENTRATION AND TYPE ANALYSIS FROM DUAL POL RADARSAT-2 AND MODIS IMAGES IN THE BALTIC SEA
Rivo Uiboupin, Liis Sipelgas, Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
TUP.K.9: GROUND BASED SAR SURVEY OF BASAL INTERFACE AT NEEM DRILL SITE
William Blake, Carl Leuschen, Claude Laird, Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, United States; Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institutet, Denmark
TUP.K.10: GEOPEBBLES: WIRELESS SENSORS NODES FOR SEISMIC MONITORING OF ICE SHEETS
Jerome Mitchell, University of Kansas, United States; Peter Burkett, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
TUP.K.11: POTENTIALS OF RADARSAT-2 DATA TO MONITOR FREEZING/THAWING CYCLES OVER AGRICULTURAL LANDS IN CANADA
Rousseau Louis-Philippe, Ramata Magagi, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; Robert Leconte, École de technologie supérieure, Canada; Aaron Berg, University of Guelph, Canada; Brenda Toth, Environment Canada, Canada
TUP.L.1: THE RESULTS OF PRELIMINARY MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW AND WATER ICE MICROWAVE REFLECTION AND EMISSION ANGULAR DEPENDENCES AT 5,6GHZ
Astghik Hambaryan, Artashes Arakelyan, Hrant Muradyan, Vanik Karyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Izabela Hakobyan, Mushegh Manukyan, ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd., Armenia
TUP.L.2: REGIONAL RETRIEVAL OF SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT (SWE) USING THERMODYNAMIC SNOW MODELS IN QUÉBEC, CANADA
Alexandre Langlois, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; Ludovic Brucker, CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier, France; Jacqueline Kohn, Alain Royer, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; Chris Derksen, Environment Canada, Canada; Patrick Cliche, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; Ghislain Picard, CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier, France; Jean-Marie Willemet, Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, France; Michel Fily, CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier, France
TUP.L.3: ESTIMATION OF ACCUMULATION AREA RATIO OF A GLACIER FROM MULTI-TEMPORAL SATELLITE IMAGES USING SPECTRAL UNMIXING
Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Jeremy Van Ophem, Philippe Huybrecht, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
TUP.L.4: LATITUDINAL VARIATIONS OF SNOW PROPERTIES USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA OVER NORTH EASTERN CANADA
Alexandre Langlois, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; Ludovic Brucker, CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier, France; Alain Royer, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; Michel Fily, Ghislain Picard, Laurent Arnaud, CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier, France; Chris Derksen, Environment Canada, Canada; Kalifa Goïta, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; Anne Walker, Environment Canada, Canada; Patrick Cliche, Patrick Harvey-Collard, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
TUP.L.5: EVALUATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE INFLUENCE TO AMSR-E MEASUREMENTS OVER SNOW-COVERED AREA USING BELOW-ATMOSPHERE REFERENCE MEASUREMENTS AND IN-SITU DATA IN SODANKYLÄ, FINLAND
Yubao Qiu, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiancheng Shi, Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, United States; Juha Lemmetyinen, Anna Kontu, Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Arctic Research Centre, Finland; James R. Wang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Finland; Lingmei Jiang, School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, China; Martti Hallikainen, Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Li Zhang, Huadong Guo, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.L.6: IMPROVED SNOW DEPTH RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM IN CHINA AREA USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING DATA
Sheng Chang, Beijing Normal University, China; Jiancheng Shi, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Lingmei Jiang, Lixin Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China; Hu Yang, China Meteorological Administration, China
TUP.L.7: EVALUATING SNOW DEPTH IN WESTERN CHINA BASED ON PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING
Xiaojun Yin, Institute of Remote Sensing Application , Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiancheng Shi, Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Jinyang Du, Institute of Remote Sensing Application , Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lingmei Jiang, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, China
TUP.L.8: ANALYSIS ON FACTORS AFFECTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALPINE PERMAFROST IN CENTRAL-EASTERN QILIANSHAN MOUNTAINS, NORTHWEST CHINA
Jing Li, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Anyang Normal University, China; Yu Sheng, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Shixing Jiao, Anyang Normal University, China; Guojing Yang, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.L.9: SNOW COVER EFFECTS ON SAR INTERFEROGRAMS
Hiroshi Kimura, Sho Ohara, Gifu University, Japan
TUP.L.10: COMPARISON OF SNTHERM MODEL TO EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS
Yu Liu, Lingmei Jiang, Beijing Normal University, China; Jiancheng Shi, California University ,Santa Barbara,CA, United States; Lixin Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China
TUP.L.11: SNOW DENSITY ESTIMATION USING POLARIMETRIC ASAR DATA
Gulab Singh, Gopalan Venkataraman, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
TUP.L.12: DISASTER MONITORING AND EARLY-WARNING SYSTEM FOR SNOW AVALANCHE ALONG TIANSHAN HIGHWAY
Xudong Liu, Yalan Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Li Li, China Trans GEOMATICS CO.LTD, China; Yuhuan Ren, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.M.1: ESTABLISHMENT AND APPLICATION OF NWA SYSTEM IN WATERSHED ECOSYSTEM QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON RS AND GIS
Chunxia Yuan, Yaowen Xie, Chuanyan Zhao, Feng Zhaodong, Lanzhou University, China
TUP.M.2: NEW TECHNIQUE OF REMOTE SENSING IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
Ruoming Shi, Min Xu, Ling Zhu, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China
TUP.M.3: STUDY ON TOBACCO DISTRIBUTION PATTERN BASED ON REMOTE SENSING AND GIS METHODS IN HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA
Mengzhi Deng, Chinese Academy of Science, China; Daihui Wu, Peking University, China; Fuxin Li, Henan province tobacco corporation, China; Wenjie Fan, Peking University, China
TUP.M.4: HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY LOCATION DESIGN USING GIS
Dongwei Qiu, Mingyi Du, Shuqiang Lu, Ruoming Shi, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China
TUP.M.5: LBS-P: A LBS PLATFORM SUPPORTING ONLINE MAP SERVICES
Yingwei Luo, Xiaolin Wang, Xiao Pang, Haibo Wang, Peking University, China
TUP.M.6: RESEARCH ON EFFICIENT VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING DATA
Jing Nong Weng, Jian Huang, Heng Cai, Beihang University, China
TUP.M.7: AN IMPROVED FRACTAL CONSTRUCTION ON 3D DEM TERRAIN PROFILE
Wenbin He, Zheng Niu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lijiao Liang, Dongguan University of Technology, China
TUP.M.8: DISCUSS AND RESEARCH ON THE CHANGING OF THE SILK ROAD USING GEO-SPATIAL TECHNOLOGY
Jiantao Bi, Xingxing Wang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth CAS, China
TUP.M.9: HOW TO DECIDE THE UNITS OF DRAINAGE PATTERN OF GENERALIZATION
Lili Jiang, Qingwen Qi, An Zhang, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, China
TUP.M.10: GIS-BASED SUPPORT MODELS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ERHAI LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
Junsan Zhao, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China
TUP.M.11: TOPOGRAPHY POLARIZATION ORIENTATION SHIFT ANALYSIS OF VEGETATED TERRAIN USING L BAND POLSAR DATA
Yang Li, Fang Cao, Wen Hong, 1. National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology. 2. Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.M.12: RESEARCH AND APPLICATION OF PLANNING SUPPORT SYSTEM BASED ON 3S TECHNIQUES FOR POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION AFTER WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA
Wensheng Zhou, Feng Mao, Ze Liu, Qiang Li, Qiang Fu, Tsinghua University, China
TUP.N.1: SIMULATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT OF INFRARED REMOTE SENSING IMAGES:HJ-1B CASE
Guijun Yang, National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, China; Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Application, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhurong Xing, . Shandong university of science and technology Department of photogrammetry and remote sensing ,Qingdao 266510,China, China; Wenjiang Huang, National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, China; Xian Li, School of Geomatics , Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin , Liaoning 123000,China, China
TUP.N.2: A DISCRETE INTERFEROMETRIC MODEL FOR A LAYER OF RANDOM MEDIUM
S. Selim Seker, Bogazici University, Turkey; Roger Lang, George Washington University, United States
TUP.N.4: THE COHERENT MICROWAVE EMISSION OF FREEZING SOIL: EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AND MODEL SIMULATION
Shaojie Zhao, Lixin Zhang, Yongpan Zhang, Weipo Xing, Beijing Normal University, China
TUP.N.5: SENSITIVE ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS MEASUREMENT ERRORS ON TEMPEARTURE AND EMISSIVITY SEPARATION METHOD WITH HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Xiaoying Ou Yang, Xinhong Wang, Bo-Hui Tang, Zhao-Liang Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.N.6: CANOPY MODELING AND VALIDATION FOR ROW PLANTED CROPS OF KEY GROWTH STAGES
Yanjuan Yao, Peking University, China; Qiang Liu, Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Wenjie Fan, Peking University, China; Xiaowen Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.N.7: EXPERIMENTS OF SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL BASED ON EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER
Ruofei Zhong, Qin Li, Wenji Zhao, Capital Normal University, China
TUP.N.8: SYNTHETIC RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH AND SURFACE REFLECTANCE USING TERRA AND AQUA PLATFORMS IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS
Jie Guang, Yong Xue, Xiaowen Li, Ying Wan, Yingjie Li, Jianwen Ai, Linyan Bai, Linlu Mei, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.N.9: MICROWAVE SATELLITE DATA APPLIED FOR AGRICULTURE AREA - CASE STUDY POLAND
Katarzyna Dabrowska - Zielinska, Andrzej Ciolkosz, Wanda Kowalik, Maria Budzynska, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Poland
TUP.N.10: COMBINED USE OF CASSINI RADAR ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MEASUREMENTS TO CHARACTERIZE TITAN MORPHOLOGY
Bartolomeo Ventura, Dipartimento Interateneo Fisica bari, Italy; Domenico Casarano, CNR IRPI, Italy; Claudia Notarnicola, EURAC, Italy; Michael Janssen, JPL, United States; Francesco Posa, Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Italy
TUP.N.11: AN IMPROVEMENT OF METHOD FOR MONITORING DROUGHT USING REMOTE SENSING
Ji Zhu, 1. State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2. Shijiazhuang University of Economics., China; Jiancheng Shi, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Hanfang Chu, Shijiazhuang University of Economics, China; Qiang Feng, Center of Earth Observation and Digital Earth , Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Angsheng Wang, Institute of Atomspheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TUP.N.12: STUDY ON THE BACKSCATTERING CHARACTERISTIC OF TYPICAL EARTH SUBSTANCES IN NORTHWEST OF CHIANA
Zengcan Liu, Yan Chen, Ling Tong, Mingquan Jia, Chunliang Xu, Electronics University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
TUP.O.1: MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER AT FREQUENCIES OF AMSU-B: EFFECTS OF UNCERTAINTIES IN ICE PERMITTIVITY ON BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES
Xinxin Xie, Jungang Miao, Wei Wang, Beihang University, China
TUP.O.2: PASSIVE REAL-TIME LOCALIZATION THROUGH WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Federico Viani, Mauro Martinelli, Luca Ioriatti, Manuel Benedetti, Andrea Massa, ELEDIA Research Group - University of Trento, Italy
TUP.O.3: DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS STUDY IN SPACE SCENARIOS: OCEAN, LAND AND ICE
Pau Ferre-Lillo, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Enric Valencia, Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Adriano Camps, Politechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
TUP.O.5: TEMPORAL VARIATION OF SIMULATED RICE BACKSCATTERING OF S-BAND HJ-1 SAR
Fengli Zhang, Kun Li, Xiaofang Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of sciences, China; Maosong Xu, Academy of Forestry Inventory, Planning and Designing, State Forestry Administration, China
TUP.O.6: ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM MULTIPLE CYLINDERS
Wenzhe Yan, Dawei Liu, Zhejiang University, China; Hong Tat Ewe, Tunku Abdul Rahman University, Malaysia; Du Yang, Zhejiang University, China
TUP.O.8: POLARIZATION PLANE ROTATION EFFECTS ON SAR POLARIMETRIC ATTRIBUTES
Sidnei Sant'Anna, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil; José Lacava, David Fernandes, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil
TUP.O.9: MICROWAVE SCATTERING BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS OF TYPICAL TARGETS WITH SAR IMAGE
Xiaofang Li, Beijing Jiaotong University, China; Kun Li, Fengli Zhang, Yun Shao, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, China; Qulin Tan, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
TUP.O.10: QUASIOPTICAL BEAM PROPAGATION FOR REMOTE SENSING
Stanislav Zvanovec, Pavel Pechac, Milos Mazanek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
TUP.O.11: CORRECTION OF TARGET DATA TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE TROPOSPHERE REFRACTIVITY
Igor Shirokov, George Jandieri, Yuri Gimpilevich, Igor Serdyuk, Georgian Technical University, Georgia
TUP.O.12: ON THE VALUE OF HIGH RESOLUTION WEATHER MODELS FOR ATMOSPHERIC MITIGATION IN SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Shizhuo Liu, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Ágnes Mika, BMT ARGOSS, Netherlands; Ramon Hanssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
TU3.O1.1: RESULTS AND PROGRAM STATUS OF RADARSAT-1
Surendra Parashar, Canadian Space Agency, Canada
TU3.O1.2: RADARSAT-2 GOVERNMENT ORDER HANDLING OPERATION
Satish Srivastava, Daniel Bujold, Canadian Space Agency, Canada
TU3.O1.3: RADARSAT-2: CAPABILITIES AND BENEFITS FOR THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
Daniel De Lisle, Luc Brule, Denis Auger, Canadian Space Agency, Canada
TU3.O1.4: RADARSAT-2 INITIAL SYSTEM OPERATIONS AND PERFORMANCE
Anthony Hillman, Philippe Rolland, Rene Periard, Marielle Chabot, Charlie Chen, MDA, Canada; Nick Martens, Telesat, Canada
TU3.O1.5: IMAGE QUALITY AND CALIBRATION OF RADARSAT-2
Anthony Luscombe, MDA, Canada
TU3.O2.1: TANDEM-X: SCIENCE ACTIVITIES AND PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
Irena Hajnsek, Thomas Busche, Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center, Germany
TU3.O2.2: TANDEM-X DEM CALIBRATION: CORRECTION OF SYSTEMATIC DEM ERRORS BY BLOCK ADJUSTMENT
Astrid Gruber, Birgit Wessel, Martin Huber, DLR, Germany
TU3.O2.3: PROCESSING SYSTEM AND ALGORITHMS FOR THE TANDEM-X MISSION
Michael Eineder, Thomas Fritz, Helko Breit, Nico Adam, DLR, Germany; Nestor Yague-Martinez, TU-München, Germany; Marie Lachaise, Ramon Brcic, DLR, Germany
TU3.O2.4: ENSURING GLOBALLY THE TANDEM-X HEIGHT ACCURACY: ANALYSIS OF THE REFERENCE DATA SETS ICESAT, SRTM AND KGPS-TRACKS
Martin Huber, Birgit Wessel, Detlev Kosmann, German Aerospace Center, Germany; Andreas Felbier, Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Germany; Volker Schwieger, University of Stuttgart, Germany; Martin Habermeyer, Anna Wendleder, Achim Roth, German Aerospace Center, Germany
TU3.O2.5: SINGLE PASS X-BAND SAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR FOREST PARAMETER ESTIMATION: A FIRST ASSESSMENT OF THE TANDEM-X POTENTIAL
Florian Kugler, Seung-Kuk Lee, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Irena Hajnsek, German Aerospace Center, Germany
TU3.O3.1: COSMO-SKYMED MISSION STATUS: THREE OUT OF FOUR SATELLITES IN ORBIT
Giovanni Valentini, Fabrizio Battazza, Alessandro Coletta, Fabio Covello, Gemma Manoni, ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy
TU3.O3.2: ACCESS, USE AND DATA EXPLOITATION OF THE COSMO-SKYMED SYSTEM
Fabrizio Battazza, Alessandro Coletta, Fabio Covello, Gemma Manoni, Giovanni Valentini, ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy
TU3.O3.3: SAR INTERFEROMETRY ANALYSES AND EXPERIMENTS WITH COSMO-SKYMED
Mario Costantini, Federico Minati, Fabio Malvarosa, Telespazio/e-GEOS, Italy; Fabrizio Battazza, ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy
TU3.O3.4: SEA SURFACE TRANSPORT DERIVED BY FREQUENT REVISIT TIME SERIES OF COSMO-SKYMED SAR DATA
Achille Ciappa, Luca Pietranera, Telespazio/e-GEOS, Italy; Alessandro Coletta, ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy
TU3.O3.5: COSMO-SKYMED CONTRIBUTION IN OIL SPILL MONITORING OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Francesco Nirchio, Italian Space Agency, Italy; Gianfranco Pandiscia, Giovanni Ruggieri, Telespazio, Italy; Rosalia Santoleri, ISAC-CNR, Italy; Francesco Tataranni, Consorzio Innova, Italy; Antonio Giancaspro, Telespazio, Italy; Paolo Trivero, Università Piemonte Orientale, Italy; Nadia Pinardi, INGV, Italy; Andrea Masini, FlyBy, Italy; Chiara Castellani, ACS, Italy
TU3.O4.1: 18 YEARS ESA ERS AND ENVISAT EARTH OBSERVATIONS
Wolfgang Lengert, Yves-Louis Desnos, ESA, Italy
TU3.O4.2: 18 YEARS OF INTERFEROMETRY
Fabio Rocca, Politecnico, Italy
TU3.O4.3: 18 YEARS OF SAR OCEAN IMAGING WITH FOCUS ON THE GREATER AGULHAS CURRENT REGIME
Johnny A. Johannessen, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway; Bertrand Chapron, IFREMER, France; Fabrice Collard, CLS, France; Vladimir Kudryavtsev, NIERSC, Russian Federation; Harald Johnsen, Norut, Norway
TU3.O4.4: THE CONTRIBUTION OF 18 YEARS OF ALTIMETRY TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF OCEANIC PLANETARY WAVES
Paolo Cipollini, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
TU3.O4.5: THE ATSR SERIES - PIONEERING THE TRANSITION FROM EXPERIMENTAL SENSOR TO OPERATIONAL SYSTEM FOR CLIMATE MONITORING AND OTHER APPLICATIONS
David Llewellyn-Jones, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
TU3.O5.1: DESDYNI'S ABILITY TO ESTIMATE SOURCE PARAMETERS FOR SOLID EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
Paul Rosen, Andrea Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Bradford Hager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Zhen Liu, Paul Lundgren, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Mark Simons, California Institute of Technology, United States; Frank Webb, Sang-Ho Yun, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TU3.O5.2: ON THE SENTINEL-1 POTENTIAL FOR SURFACE DEFORMATION MAPPING
Ramon Hanssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Evert Attema, European Space Agency, Netherlands
TU3.O5.3: SCIENTIFIC REQUIREMENTS AND FEASABILITY ON AN L-BAND MISSION DEDICATED TO MEASURE SURFACE DEFORMATION
Michael Eineder, DLR, Germany; Anke Friedrich, LMU, Germany; Christian Minet, Richard Bamler, DLR, Germany; Frederic Flerit, LMU, Germany; Irena Hajnsek, DLR, Germany
TU3.O5.4: MISSION DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE FOR SYSTEMATIC DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS WITH A SPACEBORNE SAR SYSTEM
Francesco De Zan, Pau Prats, Gerhard Krieger, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
TU3.O5.5: DEFORMATION MONITORING USING THE ALOS PALSAR
Masanobu Shimada, Yousuke Miyagi, JAXA, Japan
TU3.O6.1: THE ECMWF SURFACE ANALYSIS: USE OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA FOR SOIL MOISTURE ANALYSIS
Patricia de Rosnay, Gianpaolo Balsamo, ECMWF, United Kingdom; Matthias Drusch, ESA, Netherlands; Klaus Scipal, TU Wien, Austria; Joaquín Muñoz Sabater, ECMWF, United Kingdom
TU3.O6.2: IMPACT STUDIES OF AMSR-E OCEAN SURFACE WIND SPEED DATA IN NWP AT JMA
Masahiro Kazumori, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan
TU3.O6.3: ASSIMILATING FY-3A VASS DATA INTO CHINESE 3DVAR ASSIMILATION SYSTEM(GRAPES 3DVAR)
Qifeng Lu, Xuebao Wu, Peng Zhang, Songyan Gu, Chaohua Dong, National Satellite Meteorological Center, CMA, China; Jiandong Gong, National Meteorological Center, CMA, China; Xueshun Shen, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, China; Chenli Qi, Gang Ma, National Satellite Meteorological Center, CMA, China
TU3.O6.4: EARLY DETECTION OF HURRICANES ORIGIN IN OCEANS WITH REMOTE SENSING METHODS AND INFORMATION MODELING TECHNLOGIES
Alexander Grankov, Sergey Golovachev, Vladimir Krapivin, Alexander Mil'shin, Anatolij Shutko, Gennadij Zagorin, Vladimir Soldatov, Alexander Chukhlantsev, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences (IRE RAS), Russian Federation
TU3.O6.5: DATA ASSIMILATION FOR CONVECTIVE CELLS TRACKING IN MSG IMAGES
Claire Thomas, IRISA - Univ Rennes 1, France; Thomas Corpetti, IRISA - COSTEL - CNRS, France; Etienne Mémin, IRISA - INRIA, France
TU3.O7.1: MODELLING OF ROUGHNESS EFFECTS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES PROPAGATION ABOVE SAE SURFACE USING 3D PARABOLIC EQUATION.
Othmane Benhmammouch, Natacha Caouren, Ali Khenchaf, ENSIETA, France
TU3.O7.2: COMPARISON BETWEEN ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY A RAIN INDUCED SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND FIELD DATA
Piotr Sobieski, Christophe Craeye, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium; Larry Bliven, NASA, United States
TU3.O7.3: STABLE COHERENT AREA IN SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Guillaume Hochard, Renaud Binet, CEA, France; Jean-Marie Nicolas, Telecom-Paristech, France
TU3.O7.4: ANALYZING RADAR BACKSCATTER OF LAND WITHIN THE TRMM FOOTPRINT USING HIGH RESOLUTION SAR
Jason Fritz, V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States
TU3.O7.5: RAY-TRACED TROPOSPHERE SLANT DELAYS FROM NUMERICAL WEATHER MODELS AS CORRECTIONS FOR INSAR
Thomas Hobiger, NICT, Japan; Masato Furuya, Youhei Kinoshita, Hokkaido University, Japan; Ryuichi Ichikawa, Yasuhiro Koyama, NICT, Japan
TU3.O8.1: RETRIEVAL OF WATER CONSTITUENTS FROM MULTIPLE EARTH OBSERVATION SENSORS IN COASTAL AND INLAND WATER ENVIRONMENTS
Thomas Heege, Viacheslav Kiselev, EOMAP GmbH & Co.KG, Germany; Daniel Odermatt, University of Zuerich, Switzerland
TU3.O8.2: DETECTION OF SHORT-TERM CHLOROPHYLL-A CHANGE WITH SEA SURFACE COOLING FROM SATELLITE DATA
Yoshimi Kawai, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan; Akiyoshi Wada, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan
TU3.O8.3: NIR REFLECTANCE AND ITS APPLICATION TO FLUORESCENCE, CHLOROPHYLL AND ALGAL BLOOM RETRIEVALS IN COASTAL WATERS
Samir Ahmed, Alex Gilerson, Jing Zhou, Ruhul Amin, Rushane Dyer, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, City College of the City University of NY, United States
TU3.O8.4: MONITORING TURBIDITY AND SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION OF COASTAL AND INLAND WATERS USING SATELLITE DATA
Soo Chin Liew, Boredin Saengtuksin, Leong Keong Kwoh, National University of Singapore, Singapore
TU3.O8.5: RETRIEVAL OF INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF TURBID COASTAL WATERS USING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING
Jonathan Barton, Michael Jasinski, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
TU3.O9.1: RANDOM ENSEMBLE FEATURE SELECTION FOR LAND COVER MAPPING
Anthony Gidudu, Bolanle Abe, Tshilidzi Marwala, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
TU3.O9.2: KERNEL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE EXTENDED MORPHOLOGICAL PROFILE
Mathieu Fauvel, MISTIS-INRIA, LJK, France; Jocelyn Chanussot, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble INP, France; Jón Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland
TU3.O9.3: FEATURE SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA BASED ON MODIFIED RECURSIVE SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES
Rui Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jianwen Ma, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xue Chen, Qingxi Tong, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TU3.O9.4: SUPPORT VECTOR SELECTION AND ADAPTATION FOR CLASSIFICATION OF EARTHQUAKE IMAGES
Gulsen Taskin Kaya, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey; Okan K. Ersoy, Purdue University, United States; Mustafa E. Kamasak, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
TU3.O9.5: AN EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE KERNEL APPROACH TO INCREASE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY
Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk, Kocaeli University, Turkey
TU3.O10.1: SNORTEX (SNOW REFLECTANCE TRANSITION EXPERIMENT): REMOTE SENSING MEASUREMENT OF THE DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF THE BOREAL SNOW-FOREST IN SUPPORT TO CLIMATE AND WEATHER FORECAST: REPORT OF IOP-2008
Jean-Louis Roujean, CNRS / Météo France, France; Terhikki Manninen, Anna Kontu, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Jouni Peltoniemi, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland; Olivier Hautecoeur, CNRS / Météo France, France; Aku Riihelä, Panu Lahtinen, Niilo Siljamo, Hanne Suokanerva, Timo Sukuvaara, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Sanna Kaasalainen, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland; Osmo Aulamo, Veijo Aaltonen, Laura Thölix, Juha Karhu, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Juha Suomalainen, Teemu Hakala, Harri Kaartinen, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland
TU3.O10.2: SEVEN YEARS OF SNOW COVER MONITORING WITH MODIS TO ASSESS AND IMPROVE MODELLING OF CATCHMENTS DISCHARGE IN NEW ZEALAND
Pascal Sirguey, School of Surveying, University of Otago, New Zealand; Renaud Mathieu, CSIR–NRE, Earth Observation Research Group, South Africa; Yves Arnaud, IRD–Great Ice, LGGE, France; Blair Fitzharris, Department of Geography, University of Otago, New Zealand
TU3.O10.3: EVALUATION OF THE SINGLE REFERENCE IMAGE SNOW-COVERED AREA ESTIMATION METHOD FOR THE BOREAL FOREST ZONE
Kari Luojus, Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Sari Metsämäki, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
TU3.O10.4: USING ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION OF SNOW BRDF FOR VISIBLE CHANNEL CALIBRATION
Igor Appel, IMSG, United States
TU3.O10.5: EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION ACTIVITIES OF HUT SNOW EMISSION MODEL
Juha Lemmetyinen, Anna Kontu, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Yubao Qiu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Martti Hallikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
TU3.O11.1: ASSEMBLY OF AN INUNDATED WETLANDS EARTH SYSTEM DATA RECORD: GLOBAL MONITORING OF WETLANDS EXTENT AND DYNAMICS
Erika Podest, Kyle McDonald, Bruce Chapman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; John Kimball, The University of Montana, United States; Laura Hess, University of California in Santa Barbara, United States; Mahta Moghaddam, The University of Michigan, United States; Elaine Matthews, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, United States; Catherine Prigent, Observatoire de Paris, France
TU3.O11.2: INUNDATION MAPPING FOR GLOBAL WETLAND REGIONS: THE ALOS KYOTO & CARBON INITIATIVE WETLANDS PRODUCTS
Laura Hess, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Ake Rosenqvist, Joint Research Centre, Italy; John Lowry, National Centre for Tropical Wetland Research, Australia; Maycira Costa, University of Victoria, Canada; Dirk Hoekman, SarVision, Netherlands; Thuy Le Toan, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France; Richard Lucas, University of Aberystwyth, United Kingdom; Kyle McDonald, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Anthony Milne, University of New South Wales, Australia; Lisa Rebelo, International Water Management Institute, Ethiopia; William Salas, Applied Geosolutions, United States; Kevin Telmer, University of Victoria, Canada
TU3.O11.3: MONITORING OF INUNDATED WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS WITH INTEGRATED SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING
Erika Podest, Kyle McDonald, Ronny Schroeder, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TU3.O11.4: GLOBAL WETLAND INUNDATION DYNAMICS DERIVED FROM PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING
Ronny Schroeder, Kyle McDonald, Erika Podest, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States; Reiner Zimmermann, University of Hohenheim, Germany
TU3.O11.5: MODELING MANGROVE FOREST PRODUCTIVITY AT THE LANDSCAPE SCALE WITH REMOTE SENSING
Marc Simard, Temilola E. Fatoyinbo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TU3.O12.1: THREE-DIMENSIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE RETRIEVAL USING GNSS
Susan Skone, Natalya Nicholson, University of Calgary, Canada
TU3.O12.2: IMAGING THE IONOSPHERE OVER SOUTHERN AFRICA USING GNSS SIGNALS: APPLICATIONS IN RADIO ASTRONOMY AND SPACE WEATHER
Ben Opperman, Pierre Cilliers, Hermanus Magnetic Observatory, South Africa
TU3.O12.3: INVESTIGATION OF IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION OVER SOUTH AFRICA AND THE SOUTH ATLANTIC ANOMALY USING GPS SIGNALS: FIRST RESULTS
Pierre Cilliers, Ben Opperman, Rory Meyer, Hermanus Magnetic Observatory, South Africa
TU3.O12.4: PREDICTION OF TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT OVER SOUTH AFRICA USING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM AND NEURAL NETWORKS
John Bosco Habarulema, Lee-Anne McKinnell, Hermanus Magnetic Observatory/Rhodes University, South Africa; Pierre Cilliers, Ben Opperman, Hermanus Magnetic Observatory, South Africa
TU3.O12.5: GPS ASSISTANCE IN MODELLING THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN IONOSPHERE
Lee-Anne McKinnell, John Bosco Habarulema, Hermanus Magnetic Observatory/Rhodes University, South Africa; Pierre Cilliers, Hermanus Magnetic Observatory, South Africa; Ben Opperman, Hermanus Magnetic Observatory/Rhodes University, South Africa
TU3.O13.1: ENSO AND COUPLING OF ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORTS OVER TROPICAL AND SUB-TROPICAL SOUTHERN AFRICA
Joseph Katongo Kanyanga, Zambia Meteorological Department, Zambia; Harold Annegarn, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Daniel Nyanganyura, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany; Robert J. Swap, University of Virginia, United States
TU3.O13.2: CHARACTERIZATION OF AEROSOL AND SURFACE BRDF IN SOUTHERN AFRICA FROM AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS TAKEN DURING SAFARI 2000
Charles Gatebe, UMBC/NASA GSFC, United States
TU3.O13.3: THE AEROSOL MEASUREMENT AND PROCESSING SYSTEM AND APPLICATIONS TO AFRICAN STUDIES
Susan Paradise, Amy Braverman, Brian Wilson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TU3.O13.4: CLIMATOLOGY OF AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Antonio Queface, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique; Stuart Piketh, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Alberto Mavume, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique; Thomas Eck, Si-Chee Tsay, NASA Goddard, United States
TU3.O13.5: EXPLORING RADIANCE VERTICAL PROFILES TO INVESTIGATE ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL STRATIFICATION BY COMBINING MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING
Julião Cumbane, Universidade Edurado Mondlane, Mozambique; Charles Gatebe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Michael King, University of Colorado, United States; Harold Annegarn, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
TU4.O1.1: RADARSAT-1 AND -2 GOVERNMENT CALIBRATION ACTIVITIES
Stephane Cote, Canadian Space Agency, Canada; Stephanie Muir, Calian Technologies Ltd, Canada; Satish Srivastava, Canadian Space Agency, Canada; Tom Lukowski, Defence R&D Canada, Canada; Robert Hawkins, Natural Resources Canada, Canada
TU4.O1.2: RADARSAT-2 ADVANCED POLARIMETRIC APPLICATIONS
Gordon Staples, MDA, Canada
TU4.O1.3: OPERATIONAL ICE MONITORING WITH RADARSAT-2 – BEYOND SCANSAR WIDE HH
Roger De Abreu, Matt Arkett, Angela Cheng, Gaetan Langlois, Tom Zagon, Andre April, Vladimir Zabeline, Canadian Ice Service, Canada
TU4.O1.4: TERRASAR-X AND RADARSAT-2 FOR CROP CLASSIFICATION AND ACREAGE ESTIMATION
Heather McNairn, Jiali Shang, Catherine Champagne, Xianfeng Jiao, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
TU4.O1.5: RADARSAT CONSTELLATION, PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND STATUS
Guy Séguin, Canadian Space Agency, Canada
TU4.O2.1: F-SAR – DLR’S NEW MULTIFREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC AIRBORNE SAR
Ralf Horn, Anton Nottensteiner, Andreas Reigber, Jens Fischer, Rolf Scheiber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
TU4.O2.2: RBX: THE NEW X-BAND RADAR FROM INTA
Marcos García Rodríguez, Juan Francisco Cores Muradas, Juan Ramón Larrañaga Sudupe, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Spain
TU4.O2.3: THE RADARSAT CONSTELLATION MISSION: MEETING THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA’S NEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS
Dean Flett, Yves Crevier, Ralph Girard, Canadian Space Agency, Canada
TU4.O2.4: DEVELOPMENT OF X-BAND AIRBORNE POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR WITH SUB-METER SPATIAL RESOLUTION
Akitsugu Nadai, Seiho Uratsuka, Toshihiko Umehara, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Takeshi Matsuoka, Makoto Satake, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
TU4.O2.5: INTASAR PROGRAM
María José González Bonilla, Beatriz Gómez Miguel, Juan Manuel Cuerda Muñoz, Juan Ramón Larrañaga Sudupe, Marcos García Rodríguez, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Spain
TU4.O3.1: USE OF COSMO-SKYMED DATA FOR SEISMIC RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ASI-SIGRIS PROJECT
Stefano Salvi, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Stefano Vignoli, Advanced Computer Systems, Italy; Marco Serra, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy; Vittorio Bosi, Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, Italy
TU4.O3.2: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRIPMAP AND SPOTLIGHT SAR INTERFEROMETRY WITH COSMO-SKYMED CONSTELLATION
Davide Oscar Nitti, Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Raffaele Nutricato, Geophysical Applications Processing s.r.l. - Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Fabio Bovenga, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; Domenico Conte, Luciano Guerriero, Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Giovanni Milillo, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy
TU4.O3.3: THE OPERA PROJECT: EO-BASED FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT IN ITALY
Giorgio Boni, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; Laura Candela, ASI, Italy; Fabio Castelli, University of Florence, Italy; Silvana Dellepiane, University of Genova, Italy; Monica Palandri, Telespazio S.p.A., Italy; Davide Persi, Hydrodata S.p.A., Italy; Nazzareno Pierdicca, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy; Roberto Rudari, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genova, Italy; Franco Siccardi, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; Cosimo Versace, Acrotec s.r.l. and COS(OT) consortium, Italy
TU4.O3.4: USING COSMO-SKYMED DATA FOR FLOOD MAPPING: SOME CASE-STUDIES
Nazzareno Pierdicca, Marco Chini, Luca Pulvirenti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Laura Candela, Italian Space Agency, Italy; Paolo Ferrazzoli, Leila Guerriero, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Giorgio Boni, Franco Siccardi, CIMA Foundation, Italy; Fabio Castelli, University of Florence, Italy
TU4.O3.5: POMPEI PROJECT: MONITORING AND DISCOVERY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES
Gianfranco Pandiscia, e-GEOS/Telespazio, Italy; Giovanni Milillo, Luigi Dini, ASI, Italy; Tina Lorè, Antonio Valentino, INNOVA, Italy; Franco Marucci, ASI, Italy
TU4.O4.1: AIRBORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF SOIL MOISTURE AND COMPARISON WITH SAR DATA
Emanuele Santi, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Marco Brogioni, CNR-IFAC, Italy
TU4.O4.2: EXTRAPOLATION OF AIRBORNE POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA FOR VALIDATION OF BIO-GEO-RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS FOR FUTURE SPACEBORNE SAR MISSIONS
Rolf Scheiber, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Nicolas Floury, European Space Agency (ESA), Netherlands
TU4.O4.3: DLR’S MULTI-MODE AIRBORNE SAR CAMPAIGNS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION
Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Rolf Scheiber, Ralf Horn, Pau Prats, Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center, Germany
TU4.O4.4: PALS-ADD AND AIRBORBE CAMPAIGNS TO SUPPORT SOIL MOISTURE AND SEA SURFACE SALINITY MISSIONS
Simon Yueh, Steve Dinardo, Steven Chan, Eni Njoku, California Institute of Technology, United States; Thomas Jackson, Rajat Bindlish, United States Department of Agriculture, United States; Joel Johnson, Ohio State University, United States; Jeffrey Piepmeier, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States
TU4.O4.5: HIGH-RESOLUTION KU-BAND AIRBORNE SAR SYSTEM AND CCD FIELD TEST EXPERIMENT
Hideki Hasegawa, Yu Okada, Noboru Oishi, Masayoshi Tsuchida, Yosuke Nakano, Masafumi Iwamoto, Yoshihisa Hara, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
TU4.O5.1: THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC PATH DELAY ON GEODYNAMIC PARAMETER RETRIEVAL FROM L-BAND SAR
Franz Meyer, Jeremy Nicoll, Peter Webley, Jeff Freymueller, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States; Mark Fahnestock, University of New Hampshire, United States
TU4.O5.2: IMPACT OF ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR ON THE DESIGN OF A KU BAND GEOSYNCHRONOUS SAR SYSTEM
Andrea Monti Guarnieri, Fabio Rocca, Politecnico, Italy; Antoni Broquetas Ibars, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
TU4.O5.3: QUICK EXTRACTION OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE INFORMATION FROM SAR INTENSITY IMAGERY
Yanfang Dong, Xiaoqing Wang, Aixia Dou, Long Wang, Xiang Ding, Yan Wang, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China
TU4.O5.4: SATELLITE GROUND DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS: AN ON-DEMAND GRID INSAR PROCESSING SYSTEM EXPLOITING THE SBAS ALGORITHM
Francesco Casu, IREA-CNR, Italy; Roberto Cossu, Luigi Fusco, ESA, Italy; Riccardo Lanari, Michele Manunta, IREA-CNR, Italy; Giuseppe Mazzarella, Università degli studi di Cagliari, Italy; Eugenio Sansosti, IREA-CNR, Italy
TU4.O5.5: ROBUST SATELLITE TECHNIQUES FOR THERMAL VOLCANIC ACTIVITY MONITORING, EARLY WARNING AND POSSIBLE PREDICTION OF NEW ERUPTIVE EVENTS
Francesco Marchese, Irina Coviello, Teodosio Lacava, Carolina Filizzola, CNR, Italy; Giuseppe Mazzeo, Emilio Miraglia, University of Basilicata, Italy; Rossana Paciello, Nicola Pergola, CNR, Italy; Valerio Tramutoli, University of Basilicata, Italy
TU4.O6.1: ATTENUATION MARGIN REQUIREMENTS IN A NETWORKED RADAR SYSTEM FOR OBSERVATION OF PRECIPITATION
V Chandrasekar, Delbert Willie, Yanting Wang, Sanghun Lim, Colorado State University, United States; David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
TU4.O6.2: DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY (ZDR) CALIBRATION FOR CASA RADAR NETWORK USING PROPERTIES OF THE OBSERVED MEDIUM
Jorge Trabal, University of Massachusetts, United States; V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State Universiy, United States; Eugenio Gorgucci, (3) Istituto di Scienze dell’ Atmosfera e del Clima, Italy; David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts, United States
TU4.O6.3: A MEASUREMENT STUDY OF A SENSOR/ACTUATOR NETWORK FOR METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
Michael Zink, Eric Lyons, David Westbrook, Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
TU4.O6.4: COVERAGE COMPARISON OF SHORT RANGE RADAR NETWORKS VS. CONVENTIONAL WEATHER RADAR: CASE STUDY IN THE NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES
Jorge L. Salazar, Anthony P. Hopf, Robert F. Contreras, Brenda Philips, David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts, United States; Jerry Brotzge, Keith Brewster, University of Oklahoma, United States
TU4.O6.5: CASA PHASED ARRAY RADAR SYSTEM DESCRIPTION, SIMULATION AND PRODUCTS
Anthony P. Hopf, Jorge L. Salazar, Rafael Medina, Vijay Venkatesh, Eric J. Knapp, Stephen Frasier, David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts, United States
TU4.O7.1: MORNITORING SOIL MOISTURE CHANGE IN NORTH AFRICA WITH USING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING AND LAND DATA ASSIMILAITON SYSTEM
Hui Lu, Toshio Koike, Hydeyuki Fujii, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Tetsu Ohta, Katsunori Tamagawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
TU4.O7.2: EVALUATION OF A SOIL MOISTURE DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM OVER WEST AFRICA
John Bolten, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States; Wade Crow, United States Department of Agriculture, United States; Xiwu Zhan, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Thomas Jackson, Curt Reynolds, United States Department of Agriculture, United States
TU4.O7.3: ACCESS TO SOIL MOISTURE VALUES OVER A SAHELIAN AREA: MODELING, REMOTE SENSING, AND GROUND MEASUREMENTS.
Claire Gruhier, François Cabot, Yann Kerr, CESBIO, France; Patricia De Rosnay, ECMWF, United Kingdom
TU4.O7.4: APPLICATION OF DESDYNI TO WATER RESOURCE DECISION SUPPORT
Diane Evans, Tom Farr, Paul Rosen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TU4.O7.5: EXAMINING THE SOIL MOISTURE SPATIAL VARIABILITY USING THE ASAR GLOBAL MONITORING MODE SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT OVER THE NAFE05 AREA
Venkat Lakshmi, University of South Carolina, United States
TU4.O8.1: ICA AND KERNEL ICA FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Silvia Marchesi, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy
TU4.O8.2: A VARIATIONAL LEVEL-SET METHOD FOR UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Yakoub Bazi, Al-Jouf University, Saudi Arabia; Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy
TU4.O8.3: CONDITIONAL MIXED STATE MODEL FOR STRUCTURAL CHANGE ANALYSIS FROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL IMAGES
Benjamin Belmudez, CASIA / INRIA, China; Veronique Prinet, Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), China; Jian-Feng Yao, University of Rennes 1, France; Patrick Bouthemy, IRISA Vista, France; Xavier Descombes, INRIA Ariana, France
TU4.O8.4: SIMILARITY MEASURE BETWEEN VECTOR DATA BASES AND OPTICAL IMAGES FOR CHANGE DETECTION
Jean-Yves Tourneret, IRIT-ENSEEIHT-TéSA, France; Vincent Poulain, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France; Marie Chabert, IRIT-ENSEEIHT-TéSA, France; Jordi Inglada, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France
TU4.O8.5: SEMI-SUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION VIA GAUSSIAN PROCESSES
Keming Chen, Chunlei Huo, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhixin Zhou, Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing, China; Hanqing Lu, Jian Cheng, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TU4.O9.1: AUTOMATIC UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF SNOW-COVERED AREAS BY DECISION-TREE CLASSIFICATION AND MINIMUM-ERROR THRESHOLDING
Giorgia Macchiavello, CIMA Foundation, Italy; Gabriele Moser, Giorgio Boni, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy
TU4.O9.2: A DATA INTERPRETION CHAIN FOR HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA AIMED AT BASIC VEGETATION MAPPING APPLICATIONS
Karoly Bakos, Paolo Gamba, Università di Pavia, Italy
TU4.O9.3: AUTOMATIC AND HIGH-PRECISE EXTRACTION OF WATER INFORMATION USING A HIERARCHICAL ITERATIVE METHOD
Jiancheng Luo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yongwei Sheng, University of California, United States; Zhanfeng Shen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Junli Li, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TU4.O9.4: FUSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND LIDAR REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR THE ESTIMATION OF TREE STEM DIAMETERS
Michele Dalponte, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy; Damiano Gianelle, Fondazione E. Mach, Italy
TU4.O9.5: EVALUATING ROBUSTNESS OF A HMM-BASED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM OF VOLCANO-SEISMIC EVENTS AT COLIMA AND POPOCATEPETL VOLCANOES
Guillermo Cortés, Universidad de Granada, Spain; Raúl Arámbula, Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico; Ligdamis A. Gutiérrez, Carmen Benítez, Universidad de Granada, Spain; Jesús Ibañéz, Instituto Andaluz de Geofísica, Spain; Philippe Lesage, Universidad Autónoma de México, France; Isaac Álvarez, Luz García, Universidad de Granada, Spain
TU4.O10.1: DOMEX-2 : L-BAND MICROWAVE EMISSION MEASUREMENTS OF THE ANTARCTIC PLATEAU
Giovanni Macelloni, Marco Brogioni, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi, CNR-IFAC, Italy; Andrea Crepaz, Centro Difesa Valanghe, Italy; Mark Drinkwater, ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands
TU4.O10.2: ICE MOTION OF ANTARCTIC PENINSULA OUTLET GLACIERS ABOVE LARSEN ICE SHELF OBSERVED BY TERRASAR-X IMAGE TIME SERIES
Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria; Michael Eineder, Dana Floricioiu, DLR IMF, Germany
TU4.O10.3: FROZEN GROUND MONITORING USING PALSAR/ALOS DATA
Nicolas Longépé, Takeo Tadono, Masanobu Shimada, JAXA, Japan; Eric Pottier, Sophie Allain, University of Rennes, France
TU4.O10.4: POLARIMETRIC ICE SOUNDING AT P-BAND: FIRST RESULTS
Jorgen Dall, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
TU4.O10.5: SURFACE VELOCITY AND VARIATIONS OF OUTLET GLACIERS OF THE PATAGONIA ICEFIELDS BY MEANS OF TERRASAR-X
Dana Floricioiu, Michael Eineder, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Helmut Rott, Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria; Thomas Nagler, ENVEO IT, Austria
TU4.O11.1: MAPPING CANADIAN WETLANDS USING L-BAND RADAR SATELLITE IMAGERY
Jane Whitcomb, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States; Kyle McDonald, Erika Podest, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TU4.O11.2: ESTIMATING CARBON STOCK SIZES AND DISTRIBUTION OF METHANE SOURCES FOR UPPER AMAZON PALM SWAMP ECOSYSTEMS USING IN SITU MEASUREMENTS, OPTICAL IMAGERY AND AND MULTI-TEMPORAL MAPPING WITH PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MICROWAVES
Reiner Zimmermann, University of Hohenheim, Germany; Viviana Horna, University of Goettingen, Germany; Kyle McDonald, Ronny Schroeder, Erika Podest, Jet Propulsion Lab, United States; Heiner Flessa, Hermann Behling, University of Goettingen, Germany; Pedro Vasquez, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru; Johannes Dietz, World Agroforestry Center Nairobi, Kenya; Matthias Heckmann, University of York, United Kingdom; Annett Boerner, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany
TU4.O11.3: CALIBRATION, PARAMETERIZATION AND APPLICATION OF MERIS WATER CONSTITUENT ALGORITHMS FOR PREALPINE LAKES
Daniel Odermatt, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Viacheslav Kiselev, Thomas Heege, EOMAP GmbH & Co., Germany; Mathias Kneubühler, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Claudia Giardino, Mariano Bresciani, National Research Council (CNR-IREA), Italy; Jens Nieke, ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands; Klaus Itten, University of Zurich, Switzerland
TU4.O11.4: LANDSCAPE CHANGE DETECTION USING FUZZY DECISION MAKING AND GRFM JERS-1 DATA CLASSIFICATION ON WETLANDS IN THE CENTRAL AMAZONIA, BRAZIL
Carlos Beisl, Alexandre Evsukoff, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Fernando Pellon de Miranda, Petrobras Research and Development Center, Brazil
TU4.O11.5: ANALYSIS OF LAKE SHRINKAGE ACROSS THE TIBETAN PLATEAU USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY
Cheng Qiao, Jiancheng Luo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yongwei Sheng, University of California, United States; Zhanfeng Shen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Junli Li, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TU4.O12.1: THE NEXT GENERATION GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE: GOES-R THE UNITED STATES ADVANCED WEATHER SENTINEL
Hal Bloom, NOAA/NESDIS USA, United States
TU4.O12.2: GOES-R SATELLITE PROVING GROUND AND USER READINESS
Steven J. Goodman, James J. Gurka, DOC/NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Timothy J. Schmit, Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS, United States
TU4.O12.3: GOES-R ALGORITHM WORKING GROUP
Mitchell Goldberg, Jaime Daniels, Walter Wolf, Lihang Zhou, Kenneth Lowe, NOAA/NESDIS, United States
TU4.O12.4: PREPARING FOR RAINFALL NOWCASTING IN THE GOES-R ERA USING SEVIRI AND POLAR-ORBITING MICROWAVE DATA OVER AFRICA
Robert Kuligowski, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States
TU4.O12.5: GOES-R OVERVIEW OF AVIATION APPLICATIONS FOR DETECTION OF CONVECTION, TURBULENCE, AND VOLCANIC ASH
Wayne Feltz, University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, United States
TU4.O13.1: OPTICAL AND MICROPHYSICAL RETRIEVALS OF MARINE STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS OFF THE COAST OF NAMIBIA FROM SATELLITE AND AIRCRAFT
Steven Platnick, NASA GSFC, United States; Michael King, University of Colorado, United States; Paul Hubanks, Wyle, United States; Galina Wind, G. Thomas Arnold, NASA GSFC, United States
TU4.O13.2: AIRBORNE IMAGING DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY: TRACE-GAS MEASUREMENTS FROM THE SUBURBS TO THE SUB-CONTINENT
Stephen Broccardo, Stuart Piketh, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Klaus-Peter Heue, Ulrich Platt, Universitat Heidelberg, Germany
TU4.O13.3: PERSPECTIVES ON POLAR-ORBITING INFRARED SOUNDERS FOR APPLICATION IN REGIONAL AIR QUALITY MONITORING
Nadia Smith, Johannesburg University, South Africa; Allen Huang, Elisabeth Wiesz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States; Harold Annegarn, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
TU4.O13.4: LAKE VICTORIA WATER BIO-OPTICAL COMPOUNDS ASSESSMENT THROUGH HIGH SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY
Rosa Maria Cavalli, Lorenzo Fusilli, CNR, Italy; Giovanni Laneve, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy; Stefano Pignatti, Federico Santini, CNR, Italy
WE1.O1.1: POLARIMETRIC TARGET DETECTOR BY THE USE OF THE POLARISATION FORK
Armando Marino, Iain Woodhouse, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
WE1.O1.2: HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USING HETEROGENEOUS CLUTTER MODELS
Lionel Bombrun, GIPSA-lab, France; Jean-Marie Beaulieu, Laval University, Canada; Gabriel Vasile, GIPSA-lab, France; Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, ONERA, France; Frédéric Pascal, SONDRA Research Alliance, France; Michel Gay, GIPSA-lab, France
WE1.O1.3: PARAMETRIC VERSUS NON-PARAMETRIC COMPLEX-VALUES IMAGE ANALYSIS
Jagmal Singh, Matteo Soccorsi, Mihai Datcu, DLR, Germany
WE1.O1.4: BUILDING EXTRACTION FROM POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA USING BAYESIAN NETWORK
Wenju He, Olaf Hellwich, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
WE1.O1.5: ANALYSIS OF SAR IMAGE TIME-SERIES WITH A TIME-FREQUENCY METHOD
Céline Tison, CNES, France
WE1.O2.1: 3D ANALYSIS OF SCATTERING EFFECTS BASED ON RAY TRACING TECHNIQUES
Stefan Auer, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany; Stefan Hinz, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany; Richard Bamler, German Aerospace Center, Germany
WE1.O2.2: TOMOGRAPHIC 3D RECONSTRUCTION FROM AIRBORNE CIRCULAR SAR
Muriel Pinheiro, Pau Prats, Rolf Scheiber, Matteo Nannini, Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
WE1.O2.3: JOINT SAR IMAGING AND DEM RECONSTRUCTION FROM MULTICHANNEL LAYOVER-AFFECTED SAR DATA
Fabio Baselice, Alessandra Budillon, Giampaolo Ferraioli, Vito Pascazio, Universita' di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
WE1.O2.4: 3D CHARACTERIZATION OF BUILDINGS IN A DENSE URBAN ENVIRONMENT USING L-BAND POL-INSAR DATA WITH IRREGULAR BASELINES
Yue Huang, Laurent Ferro-Famil, University of Rennes 1, Institute of Telecommunications and Electronics of Rennes, France
WE1.O2.5: 3D TOPOGRAPHY AND FOREST RECOVERY FROM AN L-BAND SINGLE-PASS AIRBORNE POLINSAR SYSTEM
Bryan Mercer, Qiaoping Zhang, Intermap Technologies Corp., Canada; Marcus Schwaebisch, Intermap Technologies Gmbh, Germany; Michael Denbina, Intermap Technologies Corp., Canada
WE1.O3.1: MAPPING OCEAN WIND BY BROADBAND ACOUSTIC INTERFEROMETRY
Alexander Voronovich, Cecile Penland, NOAA, United States
WE1.O3.2: SWELL INFLUENCE ON OCEAN SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND RADAR SCATTERING FROM THE OCEAN SURFACE
Paul Hwang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; William Plant, University of Washington, United States
WE1.O3.3: IMPROVING SEA STATES MONITORING OF NAUTICAL RADAR USING DISPERSION RELATION OF NONLINEAR OCEAN WAVES
Haiyan Li, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Limin Cui, Zhong Feng Qiu, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Shu Fang Zhang, Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, China; Yijun He, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE1.O3.4: ON SENSITIVITY OF KUROSHIO MODELING IN THE LUZON STRAIT WITH ERS-1/2 WIND FIELD FORCING
Guoqiang Liu, Yijun He, Hui Shen, Institute of oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE1.O3.5: OCEAN SURFACE BACKSCATTERING AT EXTREMELY LOW GRAZING ANGLES OBSERVED BY C-BAND POLARIMETRIC DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR
Makoto Satake, Seiji Kawamura, National Inst. of Info. and Com. Technology, Japan; Yukari Shusse, Nagoya University, Japan; Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Toshio Iguchi, National Inst. of Info. and Com. Technology, Japan
WE1.O4.1: NEAR-NADIR KA-BAND RADAR BACKSCATTERING STATISTICS FOR SURFACE WATER INTERFEROMETRIC ALTIMETRY
Delwyn Moller, Remote Sensing Solutions, United States; Ernesto Rodriguez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States
WE1.O4.2: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM C- AND L-BAND RADAR OBSERVATIONS ACQUIRED DURING THE CORN GROWTH CYCLE
Alicia Joseph, NASA/GSFC, United States; Rogier van der Velde, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands; Peggy O'Neill, NASA/GSFC, United States; Roger Lang, George Washington University, United States; Timothy Gish, United States Department of Agriculture, United States
WE1.O4.3: DUAL WAVELENGTH, DUAL POLARIZED RADAR SYSTEM FOR GPM GROUND VALIDATION EXPERIMENTS
James Carswell, Remote Sensing Solutions, United States; M. Schwaller, Manuel Vega, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States
WE1.O4.4: DESIGNING AND SIMULATING THE NEXT GENERATION OCEAN VECTOR WINDS MISSION
Ernesto Rodriguez, Bryan Stiles, Stephen Durden, Dragana Perkovic, Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Scott Dunbar, Robert Gaston, JPL/CalTech, United States; Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States
WE1.O4.5: EVALUATING THE SURFACE WATER OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY MISSION HYDROLOGIC OBSERVATIONS
Konstantinos Andreadis, University of Washington, United States; Michael Durand, Ohio State University, United States; Sylvain Biancamaria, LEGOS, France; Elizabeth Clark, University of Washington, United States; Ernesto Rodriguez, NASA JPL, United States; Delwyn Moller, Remote Sensing Solutions, United States; Doug Alsdorf, Ohio State University, United States; Dennis Lettenmaier, University of Washington, United States; Nelly Mognard, LEGOS, CNES, France
WE1.O5.1: SURVEY OF LANDSLIDE ACTIVITY AND ROCKGLACIER MOVEMENT IN THE SWISS ALPS WITH TERRASAR-X
Tazio Strozzi, Gamma Remote Sensing, Switzerland; Reynald Delaloye, University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Hugo Raetzo, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland; Urs Wegmüller, Charles Werner, Andreas Wiesmann, Gamma Remote Sensing, Switzerland
WE1.O5.2: SEMI-DETERMINISTIC ESTIMATION OF EROSION WITH REMOTE SENSING DATA
Mathias Leidig, Richard Gloaguen, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
WE1.O5.3: DETECTION OF MICROWAVE SIGNALS ASSOCIATED WITH ROCK FAILURES IN AN EARTHQUAKE FROM SATELLITE-BORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA
Takashi Maeda, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Tadashi Takano, Nihon University, Japan
WE1.O5.4: ROBUST SATELLITE TECHNIQUES (RST) FOR MONITORING THERMAL ANOMALIES IN SEISMICALLY ACTIVE AREAS
Carolina Aliano, Rosita Corrado, University of Basilicata, Italy; Carolina Filizzola, National Research Council, Italy; Nicola Genzano, University of Basilicata, Italy; Nicola Pergola, National Research Council, Italy; Valerio Tramutoli, University of Basilicata, Italy
WE1.O5.5: COSEISMIC SURFACE DEFORMATION CAUSED BY THE WENCHUAN M8 EARTHQUAKE FROM INSAR DATA ANALYSIS
Xiaogang Song, Xinjian Shan, Chunyan Qu, Guifang Zhang, Limin Guo, Guohong Zhang, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, China
WE1.O6.1: ASI-VOLCANIC RISK SYSTEM (SRV): A PILOT PROJECT TO DEVELOP EO DATA PROCESSING MODULES AND PRODUCTS FOR VOLCANIC ACTIVITY MONITORING, FIRST RESULTS.
Massimo Musacchio, Malvina Silvestri, Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno, Claudia Spinetti, Stefano Corradini, Valerio Lombardo, Luca Merucci, INGV, Italy; Eugenio Sansosti, IREA, Italy; Sergio Pugnaghi, Sergio Teggi, UNIMORE, Italy; Stefano Vignoli, ACS, Italy; Angelo Amodio, G+, Italy; Luigi Dini, ASI, Italy
WE1.O6.2: THE POLAR DATA CATALOGUE: SECURING THE IPY LEGACY THROUGH ARCHIVING OF METADATA AND DATA
Ellsworth LeDrew, University of Waterloo, Canada
WE1.O6.3: ASSESSING EXISTING SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE (SDI) FRAMEWORK FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT (DM) IN WEST AFRICA; A CASE OF SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE ACCESS BY THE EMERGENCY AGENCIES IN NIGERIA.
Olufunmilayo Thontteh, Regional Center for Training in Aerospace Surveys (RECTAS), Nigeria
WE1.O6.4: TABLE LOOK-UP LOSSLESS COMPRESSION USING INDEX ARCHIVING
Radu Radescu, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania; Roger King, Mississippi State University, United States
WE1.O6.5: CLIMATE DATA PROCESSING MADE CHEAP
Scott Mindock, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
WE1.O7.1: THE SMOS MISSION A NEW TOOL FOR MONITORING KEY ELEMENTS OF THE GLOBAL WATER CYCLE
Yann Kerr, François Cabot, CESBIO, France; Philippe Waldteufel, IPSL-SA, France; Achim Hahne, ESA-ESTEC, Netherlands; Susanne Mecklenburg, ESA-ESRIN, Italy
WE1.O7.2: THE PROTOTYPE SMOS SOIL MOISTURE ALGORITHM
Yann Kerr, CESBIO, France; Philippe Waldteufel, IPSL-SA, France; Philippe Richaume, François Cabot, CESBIO, France; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, INRA EPHYSE, France; Ali Mahmoodi, Array Systems Computing Inc., Canada; Steven Delwart, ESA-ESTEC, Canada
WE1.O7.3: OVERVIEW ON CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION ACTIVITIES FOR ESA'S SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSION
Susanne Mecklenburg, Catherine Bouzinac, Steven Delwart, European Space Agency, Italy
WE1.O7.4: ECMWF ACTIVITES IN PREPARATION FOR THE LAUNCH OF THE SMOS SATELLITE
Joaquín Muñoz Sabater, Patricia de Rosnay, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Matthias Drusch, European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast, United Kingdom
WE1.O7.5: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDEX FOR FUTURE SMOS APPLICATIONS
Liang Chen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, China; Jiancheng Shi, Institute for Computational Earth System Science, United States
WE1.O8.1: MULTISCALE STOCHASTIC WATERSHED FOR UNSUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION
Jesus Angulo, Santiago Velasco-Forero, MINES Paristech, France; Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
WE1.O8.2: MORPHOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTE FILTERS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF VERY HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Mauro Dalla Mura, University of Trento, University of Iceland, Italy; Jón Atli Benediktsson, Björn Waske, University of Iceland, Iceland; Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy
WE1.O8.3: EROSION AFTER GRADIENT (ERAGRAD) MORPHOLOGICAL PROFILE
Rik Bellens, Sidharta Gautama, Ghent University, Belgium
WE1.O8.4: CLASSIFICATION BASED MARKER SELECTION FOR WATERSHED TRANSFORM OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES
Yuliya Tarabalka, Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France; Jón Atli Benediktsson, University Of Iceland, Iceland
WE1.O8.5: MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE DISTANCES FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DIMENSIONALITY EXPLORATION USING KERNEL-PCA AND ISOMAP
Santiago Velasco-Forero, Jesus Angulo, MINES Paristech, France; Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
WE1.O9.1: ANALYSIS OF THE MEAN RAINDROP SHAPE MODEL FOR DUAL POLARIZATION RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATION
Eugenio Gorgucci, Luca Baldini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
WE1.O9.2: ESTIMATIONS OF SNOWFALL PARAMETERS FROM RADAR MEASUREMENTS AT DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES
Sergey Matrosov, University of Colorado and NOAA ESRL, United States; Carroll Campbell, NOAA, United States; David Kingsmill, Ellen Sukovich, University of Colorado and NOAA ESRL, United States; Timothy Schneider, NOAA, United States
WE1.O9.3: MONITORING WINTER MARINE WEATHER SYSTEMS USING SATELLITE MULTISENSOR OBSERVATIONS AND GROUND-BASED DATA
Leonid Mitnik, Maia Mitnik, V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation; Elizaveta Zabolotskikh, Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, Russian Federation; Irina Gurvich, Michael Pichugin, V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
WE1.O9.4: RADIO BASE NETWORK AND TOMOGRAPHIC PROCESSING FOR REAL TIME ESTIMATION OF THE RAINFALL RATE FIELDS
Fabrizio Cuccoli, Luca Facheris, CNIT, Italy
WE1.O9.5: GROUND-BASED REMOTE SENSING OF SNOWFALL THROUGH ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SENSOR SYNERGY
Ulrich Löhnert, Stefan Kneifel, University of Cologne, Germany; Martin Hagen, Deustches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt, Germany; Lutz Hirsch, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany; Alessandro Battaglia, University of Bonn, Germany
WE1.O10.1: SEA ICE TYPE CLASSIFICATION FROM MULTICHANNEL PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATASETS
Nick Hughes, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway
WE1.O10.2: ANALYSIS OF C-BAND POLARIMETRIC RADAR BACKSCATTER FROM MELT POND COVERED FIRST-YEAR SEA ICE
Randall Scharien, John Yackel, University of Calgary, Canada
WE1.O10.3: SEA ICE SAR CLASSIFICATION BASED ON EDGE FEATURES
Juha Karvonen, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland; Martti Hallikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
WE1.O10.4: TRENDS OF SEA ICE DISTRIBUTION IN THE CANADIAN ARCHIPELAGO REGION
Mohammed Shokr, Tom Agnew, Environment canada, Canada
WE1.O10.5: DETECTION OF ICE SHELF VARIATION AT WESTERN SIDE OF LUTZOW HOLM BAY, ANTARCTICA
Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan; Koichiro Doi, Kazuo Shibuya, Shigeru Aoki, National Insitute of Polar Research, Japan
WE1.O11.1: ANGULAR DEPENDENCE OF THE EMISSIVITY OF BARE SOILS IN THE THERMAL INFRARED
Maria Mira, Vicente García, César Coll, Enric Valor, Vicente Caselles, Joan Miquel Galve, University of Valencia, Spain
WE1.O11.2: RECOVERING SPECTRAL EMISSIVITY WITH ASTER-THERMAL DATA FROM TENERIFE ISLAND
Africa Barreto, Manuel Arbelo, Laia Nuñez-Casillas, Pedro A. Hernandez-Leal, Alejandro Gonzalez-Calvo, Alfonso Alonso-Benito, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
WE1.O11.3: CHARACTERIZATION OF SALT-AFFECTED SOILS USING HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA - A CASE STUDY OF MATHURA DISTRICT, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA
Gautam Ghosh, S. K. Saha, Suresh Kumar, Indian institute of remote sensing, India
WE1.O11.4: OPTIMIZATION OF IMAGE PARAMETERS USING A HYPERSPECTRAL LIBRARY: APPLICATION TO SOIL IDENTIFICATION
Sivasathivel Kandasamy, Audrey Minghelli-Roman, François Tavin, University of Burgundy, France; Sandrine Mathieu, Thalès Alenia Space, France; Liu Weidong, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China; Frédéric Baret, INRA, France; Pierre Gouton, University of Burgundy, France
WE1.O11.5: THE MAPPING AND MODELLING OF SOIL PATTERNS BY APPLYING SPATIAL DATA INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES ON VARIOUS RASTER LAYERS
Hennie van den Berg, IRIS International, South Africa; Harold Weepener, ARC-ISCW, South Africa
WE1.O12.1: MAPPING THE RISK OF RIFT VALLEY FEVER RE-EMERGENCE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA USING REMOTE SENSING DATA
Assaf Anyamba, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Kenneth Linthicum, USDA-Center for Medical, Agricultural, & Veterinary Entomology, United States; Jennifer Small, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Robert Swanepoel, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa; Seth Britch, USDA-Center for Medical, Agricultural, & Veterinary Entomology, United States; Edwin Pak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Pierre Formenty, World Health Organization, Switzerland; Stephan DeLaRocque, FAO - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Italy
WE1.O12.2: EARTH OBSERVATION AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS FOR AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR MENINGITIS OR MALARIA
Kathrin Weise, Jena-Optronik GmbH, Germany
WE1.O12.3: DETECTING SOIL HEAVY METAL ELEMENTS CONTENT BASED ON REFLECTANCE SPECTRA
Lu Wang, Yunxuan Zhou, East China Normal University, China; Qizhong Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yongming Xu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China; Hui Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE1.O12.4: SPATIAL VARIATION OF INHALABLE PARTICULATE MATTER AND ITS INFLUENCE FACTOR ANALYSIS DURING THE REGIONAL AIR POLLUTION STUDY
Wen-Hui Zhao, Huili Gong, Wen-Ji Zhao, Beijing Key Lab of Resource Environment and GIS, China; Tao Tang, Department of Geography and Planning, United States
WE1.O12.5: RS & GIS BASED ASSESSMENT OF ADSORPTIVE NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION IN EUCALYPTUS AND RUBBER PLANTATION AT THE WATER SOURCE AREA OF HAINAN
Hongjuan Zeng, Donghai Zheng, Shengtian Yang, Xuelei Wang, Yunfei Gao, Zhuo Fu, Beijing Normal University, China
WE1.O13.1: THE SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF FIRE IN THE AMAZON BASIN AND SATELLITE NEEDS FOR CHARACTERIZING THESE DYNAMICS IN THE CONGO BASIN
Mark A. Cochrane, Christopher P. Barber, Erik Lindquist, South Dakota State University, United States; Carlos M. Jr. Souza, Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente na Amazônia (IMAZON), Brazil
WE1.O13.2: REMOTE SENSING CONTRIBUTIONS TO FOREST FIRE RISK ASSESSMENT
Emilio Chuvieco, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
WE1.O13.3: CONTINENTAL AFRICA BIOMASS BURNING TEMPORAL DYNAMICS DERIVED FROM MSG SEVIRI
Gareth Roberts, Martin Wooster, Emmanouil Lagoudakis, Patrick Freeborn, Weidong Xu, Kings College London, United Kingdom
WE1.O13.4: HUMAN IMPACTS ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FIRE IN AFRICA - AN ANALYSIS OF BURNT AREA, FIRE SIZE, AND FIRE NUMBER AS DETERMINED FROM REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY
Sally Archibald, CSIR, South Africa; Robert Scholes, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; David Roy, V. Lehsten, South Dakota State University, United States
WE1.O13.5: HUMANIZING REGIONAL-SCALE STUDIES OF AFRICAN FIRE REGIMES
Paul Laris, California State University, Long Beach, United States
WE2.O1.1: ON THE ACCURACY OF SCATTERERS LOS ROTATION ESTIMATION PROCEDURES IN RADAR POLARIMETRY
Rafael Zandona-Schneider, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
WE2.O1.2: VALIDATION OF RADARSAT-2 POLARIMETRIC SAR MEASUREMENTS OF OCEAN WAVES
Yijun He, Institute of oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Biao Zhang, William Perrie, Bedford Institute of oceanography, DFO,canada, Canada
WE2.O1.3: MOMENT-BASED GOODNESS-OF-FIT TESTS FOR POLARIMETRIC RADAR DATA
Stian Normann Anfinsen, Torbjørn Eltoft, Anthony Doulgeris, University of Tromsø, Norway
WE2.O1.4: COMPACT POLARIMETRY: NEURAL NETWORK ASSISTED RECONSTRUCTION OF FULL POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION
Thanh Hai Le, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Ken Yoong Lee, Ian McLoughlin, Timo Bretschneider, EADS Innovation Works Singapore, Singapore
WE2.O1.5: POLARIMETRIC RADAR CHARACTERISTICS ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT LAND COVER TYPES USING POLSAR DATA
Moon-Kyung Kang, Wang-Jung Yoon, Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea
WE2.O2.1: DETECTION OF MULTIPLE SCATTERERS IN SAR TOMOGRAPHY
Antonio De Maio, University of Naples, Italy; Antonio Pauciullo, Gianfranco Fornaro, National Reseach Council (CNR), Italy
WE2.O2.2: FULL-RESOLUTION ADAPTIVE DIFFERENTIAL TOMOGRAPHY
Fabrizio Lombardini, University of Pisa, Italy
WE2.O2.3: FOCUSING TECHNIQUES FOR 3D SPOTLIGHT-MODE SAR: APERTURE EXPLOITATION AND OPTIMAL BEAMFORMING
Paul Pincus, DSTO, Australia; Doug Gray, University of Adelaide, Australia; Mark Preiss, DSTO, Australia
WE2.O2.4: A COMPARATIVE TOMOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF AIRBORNE MULTI-BASELINE SAR DATA AT P- AND L-BAND
Othmar Frey, Erich Meier, University of Zurich, Switzerland
WE2.O2.5: A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING ALGORITHM FOR TOMOGRAPHY SAR
Xiaozhen Ren, Xiaofei Yin, Ruliang Yang, Weidong Yu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE2.O3.1: HIGH RESOLUTION OCEAN WINDS RETRIEVED FROM TERRASAR-X
Jochen Horstmann, NATO Undersea Research Center, Italy; Donald R. Thompson, Johns Hopkins University, United States; Alexis Mouche, CLS, France; Wolfgang Koch, GKSS Research Center, Germany; Nathaniel S. Winstead, Frank M. Monaldo, Johns Hopkins University, United States
WE2.O3.2: SUBSATELLITE EXPERIMENTS IN A NORTH-EAST PART OF THE BLACK SEA
Victor Bakhanov, Institute of Applied Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation; Nikolai Bogatov, Aleksei Ermoshkin, Emma Zuykova, Vasilii Kazakov, Olga Kemarskaya, Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Russian Federation; Yulia Troitskaya, Victor Titov, Institute of Applied Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation; Irina Repina, Obukhov Instituteof Atmospheric Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
WE2.O3.3: STUDY OF ATMOSPHERIC FRONTAL LINES OVER SEA AREAS BORDERED BY COASTAL MOUNTAIN RANGES USING MULTISENSOR SATELLITE DATA AND NUMERICAL MODELS
Werner Alpers, University of Hamburg, Germany
WE2.O3.4: NON-LINEAR INTERNAL WAVES IN THE BANDA SEA ON SATELLITE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR AND VISIBLE IMAGES
Leonid Mitnik, Vyacheslav Dubina, V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
WE2.O3.5: SURFACE MANIFESTATIONS OF NON-TIDAL INTERNAL WAVES IN THE NORTH-EASTERN BLACK SEA AS VIEWED BY SATELLITE SENSORS
Marina Mityagina, Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation; Olga Lavrova, Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
WE2.O4.1: EXPLOITING MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS IN MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY
Roberta Autieri, Universita' di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Michele D'Urso, Selex Sistemi Integrati, Italy; Tommaso Isernia, Universita' Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy; Vito Pascazio, Universita' di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
WE2.O4.2: A VARIATIONAL BAYESIAN APPROACH TO REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CHANGE DETECTION
Keming Chen, Zhenglong Li, Jian Cheng, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhixin Zhou, Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing, China; Hanqing Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE2.O4.3: MULTI-SCALE IMAGE ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE DATA USING PERCEPTUAL GROUPING
Geerinck Thomas, Cosmin Mihai, Mohamed Jabloun, Iris Vanhamel, Hichem Sahli, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
WE2.O4.4: FIRST ASSESSMENT OF THE PERMANENT SCATTERER LINEAR DISPLACEMENT MODEL IN AIRBORNE INSAR TIME-SERIES
Karlus Alexander Câmara de Macedo, OrbiSat, Brazil; Rolf Scheiber, Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
WE2.O4.5: COMPLEXWAVELET REGULARIZATION FOR SOLVING INVERSE PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING
Mikael Carlavan, Pierre Weiss, Laure Blanc-Féraud, Josiane Zerubia, INRIA/I3S/CNRS, France
WE2.O5.1: INSAR REPEAT INTERVAL: ERROR ANALYSIS AND IMPACTS ON DETERMINING POSTSEISMIC GEOPHYSICAL PROCESSES
Andrea Donnellan, Jay Parker, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States
WE2.O5.2: EROSION IN THE HIMALAYAS ON CATCHMENT SCALE. INTEGRATIVE REMOTE SENSING ASSESMENT
Christoff Andermann, Stéphane Bonnet, Universté de Rennes 1, France; Richard Gloaguen, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
WE2.O5.3: USE OF NEURAL NETWORKS AND SAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR THE AUTOMATIC RETRIEVAL OF TECTONIC PARAMETERS
Salvatore Stramondo, INGV, Italy; Fabio Del Frate, Matteo Picchiani, Giovanni Schiavon, Tor Vergata University, Italy
WE2.O5.4: REMOTE SENSING STUDY OF THE HYDROLOGIC HISTORY OF THE EASTERN SAHARA
Tom Farr, Ron Blom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Philippe Paillou, Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers, France
WE2.O5.5: USING REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND LANDSLIDE DISTRIBUTION AND DYNAMICS IN NEW ZEALAND
Karen Joyce, Grant Dellow, Phil Glassey, GNS Science, New Zealand
WE2.O6.1: TEACHING AND LEARNING REMOTE SENSING WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Raffaella Guida, Surrey Space Center, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
WE2.O6.2: FAUCON NOIR UAV PROJECT - DEVELOPMENT OF A SET OF TOOLS FOR MANAGING, VISUALIZING AND MOSAICKING CENTIMETRIC UAV IMAGES
Antoine Gademer, ESIEA Recherche / Université Paris-Est, France; Florent Mainfroy, Laurent Beaudoin, ESIEA Recherche, France; Jean-Paul Rudant, Université Paris-Est, France
WE2.O6.3: MANAGING TERRESTRIAL CARBON IN THE NORTHEASTERN U.S.: EARLY EXPERIENCES WITH RGGI
Richard Houghton, Thomas Stone, Scott Goetz, Josef Kellndorfer, The Woods Hole Research Center, United States
WE2.O6.4: THE DESIGN AND REALIZATION OF THE SPATIAL DATABASE FOR EMERGENCY EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT BASED ON RS AND GIS
Long Wang, Xiaoqing Wang, Xiang Ding, Aixia Dou, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China
WE2.O6.5: TREATY MONITORING FROM SPACE - SATELLITE IMAGERY ANALYSIS WITHIN COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION REGIMES
Irmgard Niemeyer, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
WE2.O7.1: THE MERIS WATER PRODUCTS: PERFORMANCE, CURRENT ISSUES AND POTENTIAL FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS
Marc Bouvet, ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands; Philippe Goryl, ESA, Italy; Jean-Paul Huot, ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands; David Antoine, Laboratoire Océanographie Villefranche-sur-mer, France; Kathryn Barker, ARGANS, United Kingdom; Ludovic Bourg, ACRI, France; Pierre-Yves Deschamps, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, France; Roland Doerffer, GKSS, Germany; Juergen Fischer, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany; Constant Mazeran, ACRI, France; Michael Ondrusek, NOAA, United States; Richard Santer, Université du Littoral, France; Jeremy Werdell, NASA, United States; Francis Zagolski, PARBLEU, Canada; Giuseppe Zibordi, JRC, Italy
WE2.O7.2: VIIRS OCEAN PRODUCTS FROM NPOESS / NPP
Justin Ip, Hiroshi Agravante, Bruce Hauss, Sid Jackson, Merit Shoucri, Nancy Andreas, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, United States; Curtis Mobley, Sequoia Scientific, Inc., United States
WE2.O7.3: COMPARISON OF TWO ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ALGORITHMS IN COASTAL WATERS FOR SEAWIFS IMAGES: VALIDATION AND SENSITIVITY STUDY
Cédric Jamet, Hubert Loisel, LOG/Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale, France; Kevin Ruddick, MUMM, Belgium; David Doxaran, LOV/CNRS, France; David Dessailly, LOG/Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale, France
WE2.O7.4: RETRIEVAL OF SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION IN THE PEARL RIVER ESTUARY FROM MERIS USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES
Shilin Tang, Qing Dong, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chuqun Chen, Fenfen Liu, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE2.O7.5: TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATIONS OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND CHLOROPHYLL A IN COASTAL WATERS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Brittany Maybin, Spelman College, United States; Yao Messan, North Carolina Agriculture & Technical State University, United States; Phillip Moore, St. Augustine's College, United States; Linda Hayden, Jinchun Yuan, Elizabeth City State University, United States
WE2.O8.1: REGISTRATION OF MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGES WITH ORIENTATION-RESTRICTED SIFT
Mehmet Firat Vural, ASELSAN Inc., Turkey; Yasemin Yardimci, Alptekin Temizel, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
WE2.O8.2: IMAGE NAVIGATION AND REGISTRATION IMPROVEMENTS USING GPS
Joseph Harris, IEM Inc, France; Ahmed Kamel, Kamel Engineering Services, United States; Handol Kim, Korean Aerospace Research Institute, Republic of Korea
WE2.O8.3: ROBUST EXTRACTION OF CONTROL-POINT PAIRS FOR ELASTIC REGISTRATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES
Javier Gonzalez, Vicente Arevalo, Cipriano Galindo, University of Málaga, Spain
WE2.O8.4: ROBUST REGISTRATION OF SATELLITE IMAGES WITH LOCAL DISTORTIONS
Alfio Borzì, Universita' degli Studi del Sannio, Italy; Maurizio Di Bisceglie, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy; Carmela Galdi, Generoso Giangregorio, Universita' degli Studi del Sannio, Italy
WE2.O8.5: ROBUST FEATURE MATCHING AND SELECTION METHODS FOR MULTISENSOR IMAGE REGISTRATION
Ye Zhang, Yan Guo, Yanfeng Gu, School of Electronics and Information Technique,Harbin Institute of Technoloty, China
WE2.O9.1: PRECIPITATION DATA MERGING USING GENERAL LINEAR REGRESSION
Anish Turlapaty, Nicolas Younan, Valentine Anantharaj, Mississippi State University, United States
WE2.O9.2: NRC AIRBORNE W AND X-BAND (NAWX) RADAR CAPABILITIES AND PERFORMANCE
Mengistu Wolde, National Research Council of Canada, Canada; Andrew Pazmany, ProSensing Inc., United States
WE2.O9.3: ESTIMATION OF RAINFALL RATE FROM TERRESTRIAL MICROWAVE LINK MEASUREMENTS
Robert Watson, Duncan Hodges, University of Bath, United Kingdom
WE2.O9.4: VALIDATION OF RADAR BASED ICE WATER CONTENT RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS USING CLOUDSAT AND AIRBORNE RADAR AND IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS
Faisal Boudala, Environment Canada, Canada; Mengistu Wolde, National Resaerch Council of Canada, Canada; George Isaac, Stewart Cober, Dave Hudak, Emvironment Canada, Canada; Zlatko Vukovic, Hong Lin, Environement Canada, Canada
WE2.O9.5: WAVEFORM CONSIDERATIONS FOR DUAL-POLARIZATION DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR WITH SOLID-STATE TRANSMITTERS
Nitin Bharadwaj, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Chandrasekar Chandra, Colorado State University, United States
WE2.O10.1: PERFORMANCE OF MODIS THERMAL EMISSIVE BANDS ON-ORBIT CALIBRATION ALGORITHMS
Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, NASA/GSFC, United States; Tiejun Chang, SSAI, United States
WE2.O10.2: REFLECTANCE-BASED CALIBRATION OF BEIJING-1 MICRO-SATELLITE
Zhengchao Chen, Bing Zhang, Hao Zhang, Junsheng Li, Xiaoyong Zhang, Center for Earth Obsercation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE2.O10.3: LONG-TERM CALIBRATION STUDY OF GRAY-SCALE SPECTRALON DIFFUSERS BRDF
Georgi Georgiev, Science Systems and Applications, Inc, United States; James Butler, NASA - GSFC, United States
WE2.O10.4: NORMALIZATION OF ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS FOR GROUND BASED HYPERSPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS USING DUAL FIELD OF VIEW SPECTRORADIOMETERS AND BRDF CORRECTIONS
Jan Stuckens, Ben Somers, Willem W. Verstraeten, K.U.Leuven, Belgium; Pol Coppin, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
WE2.O10.5: A SOUTH AFRICAN INITIATIVE FOR PRE-FLIGHT RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION OF SATELLITE IMAGERS
Derek Griffith, Meena D. Lysko, Dirk Bezuidenhout, CSIR, South Africa
WE2.O11.1: THE GPS AND RADIOMETRIC JOINT OBSERVATIONS EXPERIMENT AT THE REMEDHUS SITE (ZAMORA-SALAMANCA REGION, SPAIN)
Alessandra Monerris, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Mercè Vall-Llossera, Adriano Camps, Maria Piles, UPC, Spain; Jose Martinez-Fernandez, Nilda Sanchez-Martin, Carlos Perez-Gutierrez, Guido Baroncini-Turricchia, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; Rene Acevo-Herrera, Albert Aguasca, UPC, Spain
WE2.O11.2: MICROWAVE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL UNDER TREES USING A MODIFIED TAU-OMEGA SCATTERING MODEL
Peggy O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Roger Lang, Mehmet Kurum, George Washington University, United States; Alicia Joseph, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Michael Cosh, Thomas Jackson, US Dept. of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, United States
WE2.O11.3: A PHYSICAL MODEL FOR MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY OF FOREST CANOPIES
Mehmet Kurum, Roger Lang, The George Washington University, United States; Cuneyt Utku, Peggy O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
WE2.O11.4: SENSITIVITY OF L-BAND BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES TO SOIL ROUGHNESS PARAMETERIZATION. THE SMOSREX CASE STUDY.
Joaquín Muñoz Sabater, Patricia de Rosnay, Gianpaolo Balsamo, European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast, United Kingdom
WE2.O11.5: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM HUT-2D SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER DATA
Jaakko Seppänen, Juha Kainulainen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Martti Hallikainen, Marko Mäkynen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
WE2.O12.1: MONITORING DESERTIFICATION USING EO TECHNOLOGIES: EXPERIENCE OF THE ESA DUE DESERTWATCH PROJECT
Marc Paganini, European Space Agency, Italy; Gaetano Pace, Paolo Castracane, ACS, Italy; Diego Fernández-Prieto, European Space Agency, Italy; Juan Puigdefabregas, Estación Experimental de Zonas Aridas (EEZA), Spain; Hedwig van Delden, RIKS, Netherlands; Massimo Iannetta, ENEA, Italy; Joachim Hill, University of Trier, Germany
WE2.O12.2: LAND USE/COVER CHARACTERIZAITOIN WITH MODIS TIME SERIES DATA WITH HYBRID CLASSIFICATION MOTHED OVER AUSTRALIA FOR 2001 AND 2003
Kaishan Song, Mingming Jia, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Mohsin Hafeez, International Water Centre, Charles Sturt University, Australia; Zongming Wang, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Dongmei Lu, Computer Science and Engineering College, Jilin Architectural and Civil Egineering Institute, China; Dianwei Liu, Bai Zhang, Fang Li, Jia Du, Qingfeng Liu, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE2.O12.3: CHANGE DETECTION IN THE SEMI-ARID LANDSCAPE USING RADIOMETRIC ROTATION APPLIED TO REMOTE SENSING DATA
João Roberto Santos, National Institute for Space Research - INPE, Brazil, Brazil; Carlos A. Mena, Talca University, Chile, Chile; Francisco Dario Maldonado, Fundação de Ciência, Aplicações e Tecnologias Espaciais - FUNCATE, Brazil, Brazil; John E. Gajardo, Talca University, Chile, Chile; Marcio de Morrison Valeriano, National Institute for Space Research - INPE, Brazil, Brazil; Yony M. Ormazábal, Yohana A. Morales, Talca University, Chile, Chile
WE2.O12.4: 500M SPATIAL RESOLUTION LAND COVER MAP IN INSULAR SOUTHEAST ASIA
Jukka Miettinen, Choong Min Wong, Soo Chin Liew, Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing, Singapore
WE2.O12.5: ANALYSIS OF MULTI-TEMPORAL LAND OBSERVATION AT C-BAND
Carolin Thiel, Oliver Cartus, Robert Eckardt, Nicole Richter, Christian Thiel, Christiane Schmullius, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
WE2.O13.1: USING REMOTE SENSING AND EXPERT KNOWLEDGE TO MAP LANDSCAPE-LEVEL LAND DEGRADATION IN NAMAQUALAND - SOUTH AFRICA
Nokuthula Wistebaar, South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa; Prof Timm Hoffman, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Phil Desmet, Private Consultant, South Africa; Mathieu Rouget, Zuziwe Jonas, South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa; Christoph Schults, South African National Biodiveristy Institute, South Africa
WE2.O13.2: MONITORING BIODIVERSITY FROM SPACE: THE ESA DIVERSITY PROJECT
Marc Paganini, European Space Agency, Italy; Benjamin Koetz, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Diego Fernández-Prieto, European Space Agency, Italy; Stefan Kleeschulte, Geoville, Austria; Peter Mumby, Marine Spatial Ecology Lab, University of Exeter, United Kingdom; Philipe Gaspar, CLS, France; Lasse Pettersson, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway
WE2.O13.3: ADDING SPATIAL ATTRIBUTES TO LANDCOVER DATA – AN ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE.
Martin Wegmann, Dept. of Remote Sensing, Univ. Wuerzburg, Germany; Michael Schmidt, Stefan Dech, German Aerospace Center (DLR) – German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Germany
WE2.O13.4: COMBINATION OF REMOTE SENSING AND IN SITU MEASUREMENTS FOR A DETAILED ASSESSMENT OF BIOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EAST AFRICAN RAINFORESTS: A CASE STUDY FOR KAKAMEGA FOREST, KENYA, AND BUDONGO FOREST, UGANDA
Kraus Tanja, Michael Schmidt, Stefan Dech, German Aerospace Center, Germany; Cyrus Samimi, Univesity of Vienna, Austria
WE2.O13.5: USING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TO MAP PHYTODIVERSITY OF ARLY NATIONAL PARK, EASTERN BURKINA FASO
Oumarou Ouédraogo, Adjima Thiombiano, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Karen Hahn-Hadjali, Goethe-University, Germany; Sita Guinko, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
WEP.A.2: FUSION OF SAR AND OPTICAL DATA FOR URBAN EXTENT EXTRACTION IMPROVEMENT
Mattia Stasolla, Paolo Gamba, Università di Pavia, Italy
WEP.A.3: A GRAMMATICAL FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING ROOFTOP EXTRACTION FROM A SINGLE AERIAL IMAGE
Qiongchen Wang, Zhiguo Jiang, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
WEP.A.4: AN ANALYSIS ON THE COUPLING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URBAN VEGETATION AND LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN HANGZHOU BASED ON ASTER IMAGERY
Chudong Huang, Qianhu Chen, Si'ai Ying, Feng Zhao, Zhejiang University of Technology, China, China; Yun Shao, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Wenbo Yu, Fuying Liu, Zhejiang University of Technology, China, China; Jinsong Chen, The Chinese university of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China; Xin Xu, Zhejiang University of Technology, China, China; Jing Li, College of Foreign Studies, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, China
WEP.A.6: MAPPING URBAN TREE COVERAGE USING OBJECT-ORIENTED IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD: A CASE STUDY
Qulin Tan, Beijing Jiaotong University, China; Jinfei Wang, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
WEP.A.7: MAPPING URBAN SURFACE IMPERVIOUSNESS USING SPOT MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGES
Qulin Tan, Beijing Jiaotong University, China; Zhengjun Liu, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, China; Xiaofang Li, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
WEP.A.9: LAND SUBSIDENCE MONITORING AND FLOODING SIMULATION USING MULTI-TEMPORAL DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS
Pai-Hui Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
WEP.A.10: STUDY OF THERMAL ENVIRONMENT BASED ON REMOTE SENSING IN BEIJING-CAPITAL ZONE
Dan Meng, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Science, China; Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Wenji Zhao, Zhaoning Gong, Lin Zhu, Deyong Hu, Capital Normal University, China
WEP.B.3: EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF MODIS VISIBLE AND THERMAL CHANNELS IN MONITORING AND ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF DESALINATION PLANT DISCHARGES IN THE ARABIAN GULF
Ammar Al Muhairi, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology, United Arab Emirates; Hosni Ghedira, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Khaled Mubarak, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research (KUSTAR), United Arab Emirates
WEP.B.4: REMOTELY SENSED STUDY OF AIR-SEA CO2 FLUXES VARIABILITY IN THE NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA
Fenfen Liu, LED,South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Shilin Tang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chuqun Chen, LED, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.B.7: LINEAR ALGORITHM FOR SALINITY DISTRIBUTION MODELLING FROM MODIS DATA
Maged Marghany, Department of Remote Sensing Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
WEP.B.10: ESTIMATION OF VEGETATION NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY OF BEIJING YEYAHU WETLAND BASED ON REMOTE SENSING
Yaoming Su, Lin Zhu, Huili Gong, Wenji Zhao, Lingling Jing, Capital Normal University, China
WEP.C.2: OIL SPILL MONITORING USING MODIS THERMAL INFRARED DATA
Ying Li, Guoxin Lan, Dalian Maritime University, China; Long Ma, Yu Liu, Dalian Maritime Universiy, China; Wuyi Yu, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, China
WEP.C.3: RESEARCH ON OIL SPILL IDENTIFICATION BASED ON TEXTURE FEATURES-A CASE STUDY OF “HEBEI SPIRIT” ACCIDENT
Long Ma, Ying Li, Yu Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China; Baocheng Zhang, Shandong Maritime Safety Administration People' s Republic of China, China; Chao Gao, Dalian Maritime University, China
WEP.C.4: REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES FOR OIL SLICK MONITORING IN OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION ACTIVITIES -CASE STUDY IN BOHAI SEA,CHINA
Wuyi Yu, Xiaoping Qi, Yang Liu, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, China
WEP.C.6: OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF RADARSAT-2 FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF OIL SLICKS IN THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO
Karen Bannerman, MDA, Canada; Miguel Herrera, PEMEX, Mexico; Fernando Pellon de Miranda, Petrobras, Brazil; Enrico Pedroso, LabSAR Coppetec, Brazil; Ricardo Gomez, MDA, Mexico; Oscar Lopez, PEMEX, Mexico
WEP.C.9: PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR AUTOMATIC FEATURES EXTRACTION FROM COSMO-SKYMED AND TERRASAR-X IMAGERY
, Fabio Del FrateGiorgio Licciardi, Fabio Pacifici, Chiara Pratola, Domenico Solimini, Tor Vergata University, Italy
WEP.C.11: GETTING IT FOR FREE: USING GOOGLE EARTH AND ILWIS TO MAP SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS IN JOHANNESBURG
Ashley William Gunter, Monash South Africa and University of Johannesburg, South Africa
WEP.C.12: 3D SPATIAL MODELING FOR URBAN SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE SEAMLESS INTEGRATION
De-Fu Che, Li-Xin Wu, Northeastern University, China; Zuo-Ru Yin, Kailuan Mining Graup, China
WEP.D.1: VICARIOUS CALIBRATION OF CCD CAMERA ON CBERS02B USING GONGGER TEST SITE
Hui Gong, Tao Yu, Guoliang Tian, Xingfa Gu, Hailiang Gao, Xiaoying Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.D.2: CALIBRATION OF VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED CHANNELS OF THE FY1C USING TIME-SERIES OBSERVATION BASED ON PSEUDO-INVARIANT TARGET SITES IN CHINA
Hailiang Gao, Xingfa Gu, Tao Yu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiuqing Hu, National Satellite Meteorological Center,China Meteorological Administration, China; Xiaoying Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.D.3: EVALUATION OF AUTOMATED RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELLING IN AN OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT ON POORLY CALIBRATED MEDIUM RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY
Wolfgang Lück, CSIR SAC, South Africa; Melanie Vogel, CSIR NRE, South Africa
WEP.E.1: PARAGE PROJECT: ASSESSING AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES AND FRENCH GUIANA
Florence Baillarin, SPOT IMAGE, France; Gérard Laine, Stéphane Dupuy, CIRAD, France; Béatrice Ariaux, SIG BEA, France; Jean-Marie Fotsing, Kenji Ose, IRD, France; Ghislain Gonzales, SPOT IMAGE, France
WEP.E.2: A STUDY ON LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION BASED ON HJ-1 CCD IMAGE
Yuhuan Ren, Yalan Liu, Junchuan Fan, Hua Xu, Ling Yi, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.E.3: THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIES IN SEMI-ARID REGION: A CASE STUDY OF QINGHAI SPRUCE (PICEA CRASSLIOLIA) IN QILIAN MOUNTAIN, GANSU PROVINCE,CHINA
Zhonglin Xu, Chuanyan Zhao, Zhaodong Feng, Huanhua Peng, Lanzhou University, China
WEP.E.4: UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION OF AGRICULTURAL REGIONS USING TERRASAR-X IMAGES
Emmanuel Bratsolis, University of Athens, Greece
WEP.E.5: TOPOGRAPHY RETRIEVAL USING GNSS-R TECHNIQUES
Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez, Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Enric Valencia, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Mercè Vall-Llossera, Juan Manuel Nieto, Politechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
WEP.E.6: PALEOTERRAIN MODEL OF THE YAMATO MARSH, PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA
Mary Beth Crile, ITT Corporation, United States; Charles Roberts, Florida Atlantic University, United States
WEP.E.7: REMOTE SENSING MONITORING FOR VEGETATION CHANGE IN MINING AREA BASED ON SPOT-VGT NDVI
Baodong Ma, Institute for Geoinformatics & Digital Mine Research, Northeastern University, China; Lixin Wu, Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, China; Shanjun Liu, Institute for Geoinformatics & Digital Mine Research, Northeastern University, China
WEP.E.8: URBAN DYNAMIC CHANGE DETECTION IN SOUTHEASTERN CHINA BASED ON INTERFEROMETRIC SAR
Hong Chi, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States; Feilong Ling, Institute of Forest Resources Information techniques Chinese Academy of Forestry, China
WEP.E.9: MONITORING SLOW GROUND MOUVEMENTS AROUND TUNIS CITY BY DIFFERENT SAR INTERFEROMETRIC MEASURES
Ferdaous Chaabane, Khaoula Aggouni, Moez Baccouche, Ecole Superieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia; Nadine Pourthié, Céline Tison, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, France; Pierre Briole, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
WEP.E.10: COMPARING OF THE GRAIN PRODUCTIVITY FOR CULTIVATED LAND OCCUPATION AND COMPENSATION IN SOUTHEAST AND MIDDLE CHINA
Bilin Xiao, Yinjun Chen, Bu Lu, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regionnal Planning,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Jing Chen, Beijing Geely University, China; Wilko Schweers, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regionnal Planning,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Qingchun Zhang, Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Center(LCRC),The Ministry of Land Resources,, China; Yong Wang, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regionnal Planning,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
WEP.E.11: LAND COVER CHANGES BETWEEN 1977 AND 2007 IN HORQIN SANDY LAND, INNER MONGOLIA AUTONOMOUS REGION, CHINA
Hasi Bagan, Yoshiki Yamagata, Yoshifumi Yasuoka, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
WEP.E.12: SUB-CLASSIFICATION OF FARMLAND IN HIGH RESOLUTION RS IMAGES BASED ON TEXTURAL AND SPECTRAL FEATURES
Shuqiang Lu, Juhui Tian, Dongwei Qiu, Mingyi Du, Ruoming Shi, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China
WEP.F.1: MULTIPLE CROP YIELD PREDICTION USING DUAL-POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X STRIPMAP IMAGERY
Tishampati Dhar, Doug Gray, University of Adelaide, Australia; Carl Menges, Apogee Imaging International, Australia
WEP.F.2: LIFE-CYCLE SPECTRAL VARIATION ANALYSIS OF CORN LEAVES USING HYPERTEMPORAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL IN SITU MEASUREMENT DATA
Hao Wu, Suhong Liu, Ying Qu, Beijing Normal University, China
WEP.F.3: STUDY OF OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS IN CROP GROWTH AND DROUGHT MONITORING USING MULTIPLE SATELLITE DATA: CASE STUDY IN XINJIANG, CHINA
Chuanfu Xia, Jing Li, Qiang Liu, Qinhuo Liu, Yong Tang, Yanjuan Yao, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China
WEP.F.4: THE IDENTIFICATION OF INDICATOR GRASS SPECIES OF GRASSLAND DEGRADATION BASED ON THE FIELD SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS
Huanjiong Wang, Peking University, China; Lei Zhou, Chinese Academy of Agricultural, China; Binyan Yan, Yaokui Cui, Daihui Wu, Wenjie Fan, Xiru Xu, Peking University, China
WEP.F.6: DATA REDUCTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR CROP STRESS DETECTION USING DIFFERENT BAND SELECTION METHODS
Thorsten Mewes, Jonas Franke, Gunter Menz, University of Bonn, Germany
WEP.F.7: PARAMETER-FREE CLUSTERING: APPLICATION TO FAWNS DETECTION
Daniele Cerra, Martin Israel, Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Germany
WEP.F.8: DETECTION OF WATER DEFICIT USING OPTICAL DATA - CASE STUDY POLAND
Katarzyna Dabrowska - Zielinska, Maria Budzynska, Wanda Kowalik, Alexandre Guerra, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Poland
WEP.F.9: IRRIGATION WATER AMOUNT IN SEMI-ARID CROPLANDS USING TIME SERIES OF FORMOSAT-2 IMAGES
Benoît Duchemin, Iskander Benhadj, IRD, France; Rachid Hadria, UCAM, Morocco; Olivier Hagolle, CNES, France; Mohamed Hakim Kharrou, ORMVAH, Morocco; Bernard Mougenot, IRD, France; Dominique Courault, INRA, France; Abdelghani Chehbouni, IRD, France
WEP.F.10: SPATIALIZATION OF CROP LEAF AREA INDEX AND BIOMASS BY COMBINING A SIMPLE CROP MODEL SAFY AND HIGH SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS REMOTE SENSING DATA
Martin Claverie, Valérie Demarez, CESBIO, France; Benoît Duchemin, IRD, France; Olivier Hagolle, CNES, France; Pascal Keravec, Bernard Marciel, Eric Ceschia, Jean-Francois Dejoux, Gérard Dedieu, CESBIO, France
WEP.F.11: REMOTE SENSING SOLUTIONS FOR CONSERVATION CHALLENGES: DEALING WITH HETEROGENEITY
Barend Erasmus, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
WEP.F.12: USING 15 YEARS OF LAND COVER CHANGE DATA TO INFORM CONSERVATION PLANNING
Kaera Coetzer, Barend Erasmus, Edward Witkowski, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
WEP.G.1: MODELLING SMOS BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE BY USE OF COUPLED SVAT AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS OVER THE VALENCIA ANCHOR STATION
Silvia Juglea, Yann Kerr, Arnaud Mialon, CESBIO, France; Ernesto Lopez-Baeza, Aurelio Cano, Universitat de Valencia, Spain; Jean-Christophe Calvet, METEO-FRANCE/CNRM, France; Ahmad Albitar, CESBIO, France; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, EPHYSE INRA, France
WEP.G.2: USE OF IN SITU AND MODELLED SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATES TO EVALUATE MICROWAVE REMOTELY SENSED PRODUCTS IN SOUTHWESTERN FRANCE
Clement Albergel, CNRM/GAME (Météo-France, CNRS), Toulouse, France, France; Christoph Rüdiger, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, France; Jean-Christophe Calvet, Dominique Carrer, CNRM/GAME (Météo-France, CNRS), Toulouse, France, France; Thierry Pellarin, LTHE (UMR 5564), Grenoble, France, France
WEP.G.3: ANALYSIS OF 7 YEARS AQUA AMSR-E DERIVED SOIL MOISTURE DATA OVER INDIA
Subrahmanyeswara Rao Yalamanchili, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
WEP.G.4: ON THE PROBLEM OF MODELLING AND CORRECTING THE INFLUENCE OF THE RELIEF ON THE OBSERVATIONS OF MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS
Luca Pulvirenti, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Frank Silvio Marzano, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
WEP.G.6: EFFECTS OF TOPOGRAPHY ON THE L-BAND EMISSION OF SOILS. ANALYSIS OF COSMOS-AUSTRALIA CAMPAIGN
Albert Zurita, EADS CASA Espacio, Spain; Peter van Oevelen, International GEWEX Project Office, United States; Mark Drinkwater, Roger Haagmans, European Space Agency - ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands
WEP.G.7: ADVANCED MULTI-TEMPORAL PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA ANALISYS FOR SOIL WETNESS MONITORING AND FLOOD RISK FORECAST
Teodosio Lacava, Giovanni Calice, Irina Coviello, Nicola Pergola, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA) - National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Valerio Tramutoli, Department of Engineering and Physics of the Environment (DIFA), University of Basilicata, Italy
WEP.G.8: THE EFFECT OF DEW ON THE X-BAND TERRESTRIAL BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DURING SMEX05
Jinyang Du, Thomas Jackson, USDA Agricultural Research Service, United States; Brian Hornbuckle, Iowa State University, United States; Rajat Bindlish, Michael Cosh, USDA Agricultural Research Service, United States; Erik Kabela, Savannah River National Laboratory, United States; Li Li, Naval Research Laboratory, United States
WEP.G.9: VALIDATION OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE (AMSR-E) PRODUCTS IN THE YIHE CATCHMENT, SHANDONG PROVINCE OF CHINA
Jiongfeng Chen, Nanjing University, China; Wanchang Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Kexin Zhang, Xuemei Lv, Linyi Meteorological Bureau, China
WEP.G.10: DEVELOPING LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM BASED ON ENKF, 3DVAR TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY LAND MODEL
Qifeng Lu, Zhongdong Yang, Hu Yang, Zhaojun Zhen, Yanmeng Bi, Guicai Li, National Satellite Meteorological Center, CMA, China
WEP.H.1: SURFACE PARAMETERS RETRIEVAL FROM ALLUVIAL FAN IN EJINA AREA OF INNER MONGOLIA USING MULTI-POLARIZATION SAR DATA
Jingjuan Liao, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zizhen Pang, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.H.2: SUB-CANOPY GROUND CHARACTERISTICS RETRIEVAL OF POLINSAR USING SPECTRAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE
Yue Huang, University of Rennes 1, Institute of Telecommunications and Electronics of Rennes, France; Xinwu Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Laurent Ferro-Famil, Eric Pottier, University of Rennes 1, Institute of Telecommunications and Electronics of Rennes, France; Huadong Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.H.4: PRELIMINARY MEASUREMENTS OF BARE SOIL AND WAVED WATER SURFACE MICROWAVE REFLECTION AND EMISSION ANGULAR DEPENDENCES AT 5,6GHZ
Astghik Hambaryan, Artashes Arakelyan, Hrant Muradyan, Vanik Karyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Izabela Hakobyan, Mushegh Manukyan, ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd., Armenia
WEP.H.5: SYNERGY OF DATA OF BARE SOIL, SNOW, ICE AND WAVED WATER SURFACE MICROWAVE REFLECTION AND EMISSION ACQUIRED BY C AND KA-BAND COMBINED SCATTEROMETER-RADIOMETER SYSTEMS
Artashes Arakelyan, Hrant Muradyan, Astghik Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Arsen Arakelyan, Sargis Darbinyan, ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd., Armenia
WEP.H.6: USE OF RADARSAT-2 IMAGES TO DEVELOP A SCALING METHOD OF SOIL MOISTURE OVER AN AGRICULTURAL AREA
Imen Gherboudj, Ramata Magagi, University of sherbrooke, Canada; Aaron Berg, University of Guelph, Canada; Brenda Toth, Environment Canada, Canada
WEP.H.7: MODELING THE EFFECT OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON THE BISTATIC SCATTERING COEFFICIENT AND EMISSIVITY OF A SOIL-LITTER MEDIUM USING A NUMERICAL MODEL
Heather Lawrence, Bordeaux 1 University and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France; François Demontoux, Bordeaux 1 University, France; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France; Pierre Borderies, ONERA(Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales) French Aerospace Laboratory, France; Philippe Paillou, Bordeaux 1 University, France; Liang Chen, Jiancheng Shi, University of California, United States
WEP.H.8: DERIVATION OF SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE USING MULTI-ANGLE ASAR DATA IN THE MIDDLE STREAM OF HEIHE RIVER BASIN
Shuguo Wang, Xujun Han, Xin Li, Rui Jin, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Hui Lu, University of Tokyo, Japan
WEP.H.9: IMPROVEMENT OF SOIL PARAMETER INVERSION RESULTS OF LS AND S BAND POLARIMETRIC IMAGES FROM EMSL DATA
Qiang Yin, Wen Hong, Fang Cao, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.H.10: INFERRING SOIL MOISTURE IN WEIHE BASIN WITH MODIS PRODUCT
Wanchang Zhang, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhao-Yuan Tong, Nanjing University, China
WEP.H.12: SOIL MOISTURE IMPACT ON LAB MEASURED REFLECTANCE OF BARE SOILS IN THE OPTICAL DOMAIN [0.35 - 15 µM]
Audrey Lesaignoux, Sophie Fabre, Xavier Briottet, ONERA, France; Albert Olioso, INRA, France
WEP.I.1: ESTIMATING EVAPOTRANSPIRATION BY SATELLITE SENSORS OVER A HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPE
Yani Liu, Xiaozhou Xin, Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.I.2: APPLICATION OF TWO SHORTWAVE INFRARED WATER STRESS INDICES TO DROUGHT MONITORING OVER NORTHWESTERN CHINA
Shaohua Zhao, Qiming Qin, Lin You, Yunjun Yao, Nan Yang, Peking University, China; Jianping Li, Ningxia Provincial Institute of Meteorology, China
WEP.I.7: SPATIAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHT INDICATOR IN AN OASIS ECOSYSTEM
Meng-Lung Lin, Aletheia University, Taiwan; Chien-Min Chu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
WEP.I.8: MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL-BASED SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT SEGMENTATION FROM MODIS SATELLITE DATA
Ken-Chung Ho, Yu-Chang Tzeng, Chun-Long Woo, National United University, Taiwan
WEP.I.9: COMPRISION STUDY ON MAPPING OF ET IN THE CIA OF MURRUMBIDGEE CATCHMENT WITH REMOTE SENSED SATELLITE DATA: EXAMPLES FROM NATIONAL AIRBORNE FIELD EXPERIMENTATION
Kaishan Song, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS, China; Mohsin Hafeez, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia; Jia Du, Lihong Zeng, Northeast Insitute of Geography and Agricultrual Ecology, CAS, China; Umair Rabbani, International Centre of Water for Food Security, Charles Sturt University, China
WEP.I.10: DOWNSCALING OF SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVED FROM MULTI-SENSOR REMOTE SENSING DATA OVER THE ZHANGHE IRRIGATION AREA, CHINA
Dengzhong Zhao, Debao Tan, Sui Zhang, Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute, China
WEP.I.11: SUBSURFACE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING AND SCATTERING MODELLING ON HYPER-SALINE SOIL: EXAMPLE OF LOP NUR
Huaze Gong, Yun Shao, Aimin Cai, Chou Xie, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.I.12: DETECTION OF SUBSURFACE HYPER-SALINE SOIL IN LOP NUR USING FULL-POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Yun Shao, Huaze Gong, Chou Xie, Aimin Cai, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.J.1: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MICROCLIMATE, VEGETATION AND SOIL TEMPERATURES, AND INITIATION OF XYLEM SAP FLUX DURING SEASONAL THAW TRANSITIONS IN A BOREAL FOREST AND THEIR CHARACTERIZATION WITH RADAR REMOTE SENSING
Kyle McDonald, Erika Podest, David Ganem, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States; Reiner Zimmermann, University of Hohenheim, Germany
WEP.J.2: INVESTIGATION ON THE WATER STRESS IN ALPINE VEGETATION USING HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS
Buho Hoshino, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan; Gaku Kudo, Hokkaido University, Japan; Tetsuo Yabuki, Masami Kaneko, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan; Sumiya Ganzorig, Hokkaido University, Japan
WEP.J.3: A SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE FOR A LARGE SCALE LAI INVERSION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA
Alemu Gonsamo, Petri Pellikka, University of Helsinki, Finland
WEP.J.4: SPECTRAL-BASED DETECTION OF GANODERMA DISEASE INFECTION IN OIL PALM
Helmi Zulhaidi Mohd Shafri, Mohd Rozni Mohd Yusof, Mohd Izzudin Anuar, Nasrulhapiza Hamdan, Afizzul Misman, Universiti Putra malaysia, Malaysia
WEP.J.5: ANALYSING DROUGHT RELATED STRESS IN A SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENT USING MSG-SEVIRI TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
Silvia Huber, Rasmus Fensholt, Simon Proud, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Cheikh Mbow, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Denmark
WEP.J.6: RESEARCH ON THE POLARIZED CHARACTERISTIC OF LEAF
Donghui Xie, Beijing Normal University, China; Peijuan Wang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China; Qijiang Zhu, Beijing Normal University, China
WEP.J.8: REMOTE SENSING OF TRENTINO FOREST BIOPHYSICAL VARIABLES USING IRS SATELLITE DATA
Loris Vescovo, Sergio Tonolli, Michele Dalponte, Markus Neteler, Fondazione Edmund Mach, CRI, Italy; Lorenzo Bruzzone, Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy; Damiano Gianelle, Fondazione Edmund Mach, CRI, Italy
WEP.J.9: EVALUATION OF PADDY YIELD AND QUALITY ESTIMATION METHODS BASED ON VARIOUS VEGETATION INDICES, NDSI AND PLS USING BRDF-CORRECTED AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Shinya Odagawa, Masatane Kato, Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center, Japan; Tomoyuki Suhama, PASCO corporation, Japan; Jiro Sasaki, Miyagi Prefectural Furukawa Agricultural Experiment Station, Japan; Kuniaki Uto, Yukio Kosugi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Genya Saito, Tohoku University, Japan
WEP.J.10: RESPONSE OF VEGETATION COVERAGE ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN ARID MOUNTAIN OF NORTHWEST CHINA
Lihua Zhou, Guojing Yang, Yongjian Ding, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.J.11: ASSIMILATION FIELD MEASURED LAI INTO CROP GROWTH MODEL BASED ON SCE-UA OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM
Jianqiang Ren, Fushui Yu, Institute of Agricultural Resources & Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Yunyan Du, The State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jun Qin, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhongxin Chen, Institute of Agricultural Resources & Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
WEP.J.12: IMAGING SYSTEM OF SOLOR-INDUCED PLANT FLUORESCENCE FOR MONITORING OF PLANT LIVING STATUS
Hirokazu Tanaka, Yasunori Saito, Kazuki Kobayashi, Tomoaki Kanayama, Fumitoshi Kobayashi, Shinshu University, Japan
WEP.K.1: FUSION OF ALOS PALSAR AND LANDSAT ETM DATA FOR LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION AND BIOMASS MODELING USING NON LINEAR METHODS
Arief Wijaya, Richard Gloaguen, Remote Sensing Group, TU Bergakademie, Germany
WEP.K.2: SATELLITE MONITORING OF DISTURBANCES IN ARCTIC ECOSYSTEMS
Ana Prieto-Blanco, Mathias Disney, Philip Lewis, José Gómez-Dans, University College London, United Kingdom
WEP.K.3: MAPPING AND MONITORING CLEAR-CUTS IN SWEDISH FOREST USING ALOS PALSAR SATELLITE IMAGES
Anders H. Krantz, Johan E.S. Fransson, Håkan Olsson, Andreas Pantze, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; Maurizio Santoro, GAMMA Remote Sensing, Switzerland; Leif E.B. Eriksson, Gustaf Sandberg, Lars M. H. Ulander, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
WEP.K.4: BACKSCATTER PROPERTIES OF MULTITEMPORAL TERRASAR-X DATA AND THE EFFECTS OF INFLUENCING FACTORS ON BURN SEVERITY EVALUATION, IN A MEDITTERANEAN PINE FOREST
Mihai Tanase, University of Zaragoza, Spain; Maurizio Santoro, Gamma Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland; Juan de la Riva, Fernando Perez-Cabello, University of Zaragoza, Spain
WEP.K.5: ESTIMATION OF THE BURNED BIOMASS BASED ON THE QUASI-CONTINUOUS MSG/SEVIRI EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM
Giovanni Laneve, Giancarlo Santilli, Enrico Cadau, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
WEP.K.6: FOREST TYPE DISCRIMINATION USING POLARIMETRIC RADARSAT 2 DATA
Maosong Xu, Academy of Forestry Inventory, Planning and Designing, State Forestry Administration (SFA), China, China; Fengli Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of sciences, China; Zhongsheng Xia, Forest Resource Management and Conservation Station, Guizhou Province,China, China; Chou Xie, Xiaofang Li, Kun Li, Zi Wan, Huaze Gong, Wei Tian, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of sciences, China
WEP.K.7: ASSESSMENT OF DUAL AND FULL POLARIMETRIC MODE OF PALSAR DATA FOR LAND USE OCCUPATION AND DEFORESTATION OVER EQUATORIAL REGIONS
Cedric Lardeux, Calvin Dikongo Ndjomba, David Niamen, Pierre-Louis Frison, University Paris-Est Marne la vallée, France; Eric Pottier, University of Rennes 1, France; Jean-Paul Rudant, University Paris-Est Marne la vallée, France
WEP.K.8: THE FOREST WATCH SERVICE: AUTOMATED FORESTRY GEOINFORMATION PRODUCTS FROM REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY
Wolfgang Lück, CSIR / SAC, South Africa
WEP.K.9: AN IMPROVED ALGORITHM OF WILD FIRE DETECTION FOR MODIS IMAGERY
Koji Nakau, Haruyoshi Katayama, Yoshihiko Okamura, Masahiro Suganuma, Masataka Naitoh, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Yoshio Tange, Earth Observation Research Center, Japan
WEP.K.10: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A 7 YEAR, 500M DAILY BURNT AREA PRODUCT FOR THE BOREAL FORESTED ZONE
Charles George, France Gerard, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom
WEP.K.11: AUTOMATED PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR THE GENERATION OF A NATIONAL FOREST PLANTATION MASK FOR 1972 USING HISTORIC HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY FROM CORONA, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND LANDSAT MSS.
Wolfgang Lück, CSIR / SAC, South Africa
WEP.L.1: GEOMETRIC CLOUD TOP HEIGHT ASSIGNMENT BY GEOSYNCHRONOUS METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE IMAGES
Feng Lu, National Satellite Meteorological Center(NSMC), China; Jianmin Xu, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China; W. Paul Menzel, Christopher S. Velden, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), United States
WEP.L.2: DETECTING V-STORMS USING METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION SEVIRI IMAGE AND ITS APPLICATIONS: A CASE STUDY OVER WESTERN TURKEY
Aydin Gurol Erturk, Turkish State Meteorological Service, Turkey; Humberto Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil
WEP.L.3: DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS OF SURFACE CLIMATE CHANGE OVER NW CHINA IN 1960-2006
Pengxiang Wang, CMA Lanzhou Research Institute of Arid Meteorology & Gansu/CMA Key Laboratory for Arid Climate Change and Disaster Reduction, China
WEP.L.5: UNCERTAINTIES IN PHASE AND FREQUENCY ESTIMATION WITH A MAGNETRON RADAR: IMPLICATION FOR CLEAR AIR AND PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS.
Francesc Junyent, V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States
WEP.L.6: THE CHANGE CHARACTERISTICS OF SANDSTORM IN GANSU PROVINCE AND ITS IMPACTS TO AGRICULTURE
Landong Sun, CMA Lanzhou Research Institute of Arid Meteorology & Gansu/CMA Key Laboratory for Arid Climate Change and Disaster Reduction, China
WEP.L.7: IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PRECIPITATION IN THE UPSTREAM OF LIUJIAXIA RESERVOIR
Landong Sun, Jingjing Lin, CMA Lanzhou Research Institute of Arid Meteorology & Gansu/CMA Key Laboratory for Arid Climate Change and Disaster Reduction, China
WEP.L.8: REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUD COVER IN THE HIGH ALTITUDE REGION FROM MTSAT-1R DATA DURING THE HEIHE EXPERIMENT
Gaoli Su, Xiaozhou Xin, Qinhuo Liu, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Binrong Zhou, Meteorological scientific research institute of Qinhai Province,, China
WEP.L.9: THE DYNAMICS OF WATER DEPLETION AND GLOBAL WARMING
Benjamin Uchenna Nwaneri, Lagos State University, Nigeria; Abigail Lartey, Alabama A&M University, United States; Faithful Ogadi Ugorji, Beeches School of Graduate Studies (Wisconsin Internatinal University), Nigeria; Sam O. Nwaneri, Alcorn State University, United States
WEP.L.11: CLOUD AMOUNT AND AEROSOL CHARACTERISTIC RESEARCH IN THE ATMOSPHERE OVER HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA
Yingying Ma, Wei Gong, Wuhan University, China
WEP.M.2: AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR MAPPING DEBRIS-COVERED GLACIERS WITH SATELLITE MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE DATA AND DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL
Xiaowen Zhang, Lanzhou Commercial College, China; Shiqiang Zhang, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, China
WEP.M.3: A METHOD FOR COMPOSITING MODIS SATELLITE IMAGES TO REMOVE CLOUD COVER
Alexander Fraser, Robert Massom, Kelvin Michael, University of Tasmania, Australia
WEP.M.5: CLOUD MOTION ESTIMATION IN SEVIRI IMAGE SEQUENCES
Javier Marcello, Francisco Eugenio, University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria, Spain; Ferran Marques, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
WEP.M.6: DISTRIBUTED TARGETS DETECTION BASED ON LOCAL SPECTRAL HISTOGRAMS AND AGENTS
Xichi Hu, Minhui Zhu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.M.7: A DATA-FUSION BASED SEMI-AUTOMATIC TREE COUNTING ALGORITHM FOR USE IN EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS PLANTATIONS
Wesley Roberts, CSIR, South Africa; Fethi Ahmed, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Jan van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
WEP.M.8: AIRBORNE RADAR DEPTH SOUNDING OF FAST FLOWING GLACIERS
Logan Smith, Jilu Li, William Blake, Carl Leuschen, Sivaprasad Gogineni, Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, United States
WEP.N.1: ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD INVERSION OF FOREST HEIGHTS WITH POLINSAR DATA
Lulu Tan, Ruliang Yang, Institute of electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, China; Weidong Yu, Institute of electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.N.3: ESTIMATING LEAF AREA INDEX BY COUPLING RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL AND A DYNAMIC MODEL FROM MULTI-SOURCE REMOTE SENSING DATA
Xiyan Wu, Zhiqiang Xiao, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by Beijing Normal University and Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, CAS,Research Center for Remote Sensing and GIS, School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, China
WEP.N.5: MODIS AND LANDSAT ETM+ SCALING STUDY ON THE DAILY EVAPOTRANSPIRATION OVER HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES
Yani Liu, Xiaozhou Xin, Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.N.6: ESTIMATING LAND SURFACE ENERGY AND WATER FLUXES BY USING THE LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM DEVELOPED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (LDASUT)
Hui Lu, Toshio Koike, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Kun Yang, The Institute of Tibet Plateau Research, China; Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Katsunori Tamagawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
WEP.N.7: LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL FROM MODIS AND AMSR-E ON THE TIBET PLATEAU
Liying Li, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiancheng Shi, Jinyang Du, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.N.8: COMPARISON OF GAUSSIAN AND RAYLEIGH NOISE MODELS IN INVERSION OF SUBSURFACE PARAMETERS OF LAYERED ROUGH SURFACES USING SIMULATED ANNEALING
Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States
WEP.N.9: MODEL FREE GRAVIMETRIC DETECTION
Hoyt Koepke, Marina Meila, University of Washington, United States
WEP.N.10: AN ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION METHOD FOR REMOTELY SENSED HYPERSPECTRAL THERMAL INFRARED DATA
Xinhong Wang, Academy of Opto-electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaoying Ouyang, Zhao-Liang Li, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaoguang Jiang, Lingling Ma, Academy of Opto-electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.N.11: TARGET TRACKING ENHANCEMENT USING A KALMAN FILTER IN THE PRESENCE OF INTERFERENCE
Sherif Elgamel, John Soraghan, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
WEP.N.12: ISAR IMAGING FOR MULTIPLE MOVING TARGETS BASED ON RANGE PROFILE SEPARATION
Yanan Li, 1.National University of Defense Technology 2 National University of Singapore, Singapore; Yaowen Fu, 1.National University of Defense Technology 2 McMaster University, Canada; Xiang Li, National University of Defense Technology, China; Le-Wei Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore
WEP.O.1: A FUZZY FUSION ALGORITHM TO COMBINE MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS
Bor-Chen Kuo, Chih-Sheng Huang, National Taichung University, Taiwan; Hsiang-Chuan Liu, Asia University, Taiwan; Chih-Cheng Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University, United States
WEP.O.2: SIMULATED ANNEALING TECHNIQUES IN CONTEXTUAL FUZZY C-MEANS APPROACH FOR SUB-PIXEL CLASSIFICATION
Amitava Dutta, Anil Kumar, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, India; Valentyn Tolpekin, ITC, Netherlands
WEP.O.3: EFFICIENT INCORPORATION OF MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS IN CHANGE DETECTION
Henrik Aanaes, Allan Aasbjerg Nielsen, Jens Michael Carstensen, Rasmus Larsen, Bjarne Ersbøll, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
WEP.O.4: ACTIVE AND SEMISUPERVISED LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Lorenzo Bruzzone, Claudio Persello, University of Trento, Italy
WEP.O.5: CLASSIFICATION OF A REFERENCE IMAGE USING AUXILIARY IMAGES
Orlando Alves Máximo, Instituto de Estudos Avançados, Brazil; David Fernandes, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil
WEP.O.6: IDENTIFYING SOCIOECONOMIC PATERNS IN URBAN AREAS TROUGH FUZZY MODELING AND OBJECT ORIENTED IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Alexandre Evsukoff, Adriano Vasconcelos, Alexandre Carvalho, Carlos Beisl, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil
WEP.O.7: FEASIBILITY OF ECO-ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT INFORMATION EXTRACTION WITH IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY IN KARST REGION, SOUTHWEST CHINA
Yuemin Yue, Kelin Wang, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Bo Liu, State Key Lab of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Bing Zhang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Ru Li, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China; Quanjun Jiao, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yizun Yu, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.O.8: MULTIPLE TECHNIQUES FOR LUNAR SURFACE MINERALS MAPPING USING SIMULATED DATA
Haixia He, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Bing Zhang, Zhengchao Chen, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Ru Li, Institute of space and earth information science, the Chinese university of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China
WEP.O.9: A STUDY ON SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS EXTRACTION USING FOURIER APPROXIMATION THEORY
Xu Sun, Bing Zhang, Lianru Gao, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lina Yang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WEP.O.11: SPATIAL HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BY PRIOR SEGMENTATION
Jef Driesen, Guy Thoonen, Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium
WE3.O1.1: THREE-COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR
Wentao An, Yi Cui, Jian Yang, Tsinghua University, China
WE3.O1.2: STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SINCLAIR MATRIX: APPLICATION TO POLARIMETRIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION
Gregoire Mercier, Institut Telecom; Telecom Bretagne, France; Pierre-Louis Frison, Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France
WE3.O1.3: WETLAND CHARACTERIZATION USING POLARIMETRIC L AND C-BAND ALOS AND RADARSAT-2
Ridha Touzi, A.M. Demers, G. Gosselin, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada
WE3.O1.4: ANALYSIS OF ASAR/ENVISAT POLARIMETRIC BACKSCATTERING CHARACTERISTICS OF DOÑANA NATIONAL PARK WETLANDS
Belen Marti-Cardona, Carlos López-Martínez, Josep Dolz-Ripolles, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
WE3.O1.5: ADAPTIVE DECOMPOSITION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR COVARIANCE MATRICES
Motofumi Arii, California Institute of Technology, United States; Jakob van Zyl, Yunjin Kim, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
WE3.O2.1: TERRASAR-X DUAL RECEIVE ANTENNA MODE - CHANNEL RECONSTRUCTION AND IMPACT ON THE GMTI PERFORMANCE -
Martina Gabele, Benjamin Bräutigam, Daniel Schulze, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Nuria Tous-Ramon, Marwan Younis, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
WE3.O2.2: MULTI-PATH CORRECTION MODEL FOR MULTI-CHANNEL AIRBORNE SAR
Muriel Pinheiro, Pau Prats, Rolf Scheiber, Jens Fischer, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
WE3.O2.3: FIRST EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OF BISTATIC SAR WITH SABRINA-X AND TERRASAR
Paco López-Dekker, Antoni Broquetas, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Juan C. Merlano, Sergi Duque, Mario Fortes, Xavier Costa, Jose A. Garcia-Molina, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
WE3.O2.4: KA-BAND SAR INTERFEROMETRY STUDIES FOR THE SWOT MISSION
Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Lee-Lueng Fu, Ernesto Rodriguez, Richard Hodges, Shannon Brown, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
WE3.O2.5: DIGITAL BEAM-FORMING FOR SPACEBORNE REFLECTOR- AND PLANAR-ANTENNA -A SAR SYSTEM PERFORMANCE COMPARISON-
Marwan Younis, Siguard Huber, Anton Patyuchenko, Federica Bordoni, Gerhard Krieger, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Germany
WE3.O3.1: SEA SURFACE SALINITY RETRIEVAL DEMONSTRATION USING DATASETS OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER HUT-2D
Juha Kainulainen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Martti Hallikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
WE3.O3.2: AQUARIUS SATELLITE MISSION TO MAP SEA SURFACE SALINITY FROM SPACE
Gary Lagerloef, Earth and Space Research, United States; David Le Vine, Gene Feldman, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Yi Chao, Simon Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing System, United States
WE3.O3.3: TOWARDS THE VALIDATION OF OCEAN SURFACE SALINITY MEASUREMENTS FROM THE ESA SMOS MISSION
Christine Gommenginger, Meric Srokosz, Helen Snaith, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
WE3.O3.4: EXPERIMENTAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SEA BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE CHANGES AND THE GNSS-R DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS
Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez, Enric Valencia, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
WE3.O3.5: MODELING L-BAND EMISSIVITY OF A WIND-DRIVEN SEA SURFACE
Victor Raizer, Zel Technology, LLC, United States
WE3.O4.1: EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE OVER THE NW AFRICAN COAST
Javier Marcello, Alonso Hernandez-Guerra, Francisco Eugenio, University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria, Spain
WE3.O4.2: A STUDY OF RIVERBED DYNAMICS USING REMOTE SENSING: A 3D CASE STUDY OF RIVIÈRE DES GALETS, LA RÉUNION ISLAND
Jaco Kemp, University of Réunion Island, R+®union; Nicolas Villeneuve, Institut de Recherche pour la Developpement, R+®union; Luc Chevallier, Council for Geoscience, South Africa; Zarah Servadio, Fabrice Jacquard, University of Réunion Island, R+®union
WE3.O4.3: OBSERVING LITTORAL WAVES BY DOPPLER RADAR
Stylianos Flampouris, Friedwart Ziemer, Joerg Seemann, GKSS Research Center, Germany
WE3.O4.4: THE APPLICATION OF EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEMS AND REAL-TIME WATER MONITORING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Amir Ali Khan, Government of Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada; Thomas Puestow, C-CORE, Canada; Haseen Khan, Government of Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
WE3.O4.5: USING HF SURFACE WAVE RADAR AND THE SHIP AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (AIS) TO MONITOR COASTAL VESSELS
John Vesecky, Kip Laws, University of California at Santa Cruz, United States; Jeffery Paduan, Naval Postgraduate School, United States
WE3.O5.1: GEODETICALLY ACCURATE IMAGING OF POORLY MAPPED REGIONS USING MOTION-COMPENSATED ALOS DATA AND PRECISE ORBITS
Howard Zebker, Stanford University, United States; Scott Hensley, Paul Rosen, JPL, United States
WE3.O5.2: PALSAR CALVAL UPDATED 2009 AND CHANGE DETECTIONS AT THE FOREST AND THE POLAR REGIONS
Masanobu Shimada, Osamu Isoguchi, Takeo Tadono, JAXA, Japan
WE3.O5.3: HIGH RESOLUTION DSM GENERATION FROM ALOS PRISM - STATUS UPDATES ON OVER THREE YEAR OPERATIONS -
Junichi Takaku, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan; Takeo Tadono, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan
WE3.O5.4: IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION ON ALOS/PRISM AND AVNIR-2 - LATEST EVALUATION RESULTS-
Akira Mukaida, Naritoshi Imoto, Sachi Kawamoto, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan; Takeo Tadono, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan
WE3.O5.5: TIME TREND EVALUATIONS OF ABSOLUTE ACCURACIES FOR ALOS OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS
Takeo Tadono, Masanobu Shimada, Hiroshi Murakami, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Junichi Takaku, Sachi Kawamoto, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan
WE3.O6.1: INFORMATION THEORETICAL APPROACH FOR ACTIVE LEARNING : APPLICATION TO SATELLITE IMAGES ANNOTATION.
Pierre Blanchart, Mihai Datcu, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France
WE3.O6.2: GLIDER: A COMPREHENSIVE SOFTWARE TOOL TO VISUALIZE, ANALYZE AND MINE SATELLITE IMAGERY
Rahul Ramachandran, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
WE3.O6.3: SOURCE DETECTION OF ATMOSPHERIC RELEASES USING SYMBOLIC MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION AND REMOTE SENSING
Mark Bowman, Northrop-Grumman Information Technology and George Mason University, United States; Guido Cervone, Pasquale Franzese, George Mason University, United States
WE3.O6.4: SENSOR WEB AND DATA MINING APPROACHES FOR HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM DETECTION AND MONITORING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO REGION
Balakrishna Gokaraju, Surya Durbha, Roger King, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States
WE3.O6.5: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DATA MINING APPROACHES IN REMOTE SENSING
Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
WE3.O7.1: SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF SPACE-BORNE RADAR OCEAN WAVE SPECTROMETER
Wenming Lin, Xiaolong Dong, Yuchi Zhou, Heguang Liu, Jingshan Jiang, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Adademy of Sciences, China
WE3.O7.2: POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE DEPENDENCY OF BACKSCATTERING FROM OCEAN SURFACE ON WIND DIRECTION
Akitsugu Nadai, Toshihiko Umehara, Takeshi Matsuoka, Seiho Uratsuka, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Makoto Satake, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
WE3.O7.3: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A C-BAND ADVANCED SCATTEROMETER (ASCAT) GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION AT NOAA/NESDIS
Seubson Soisuvarn, NOAA/NESDIS-UCAR, United States; Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang, Qi Zhu, NOAA/NESDIS, United States
WE3.O7.4: UNCERTAINTY IN SCATTEROMETER DERIVED VORTICITY
Mark Bourassa, Florida State University, United States
WE3.O7.5: VELOCITY ESTIMATION OF MOVING TARGETS ON THE SEA SURFACE BY AZIMUTH DIFFERENTIALS OF SAR IMAGE
Youn-Seop Kim, Chan-Su Yang, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Republic of Korea; Kazuo Ouchi, National Defecse Academy, Japan
WE3.O8.1: RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING A LEARNING-BASED SUPERRESOLUTION MAPPING TECHNIQUE
Fereidoun A. Mianji, Ye Zhang, Yanfeng Gu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
WE3.O8.2: SEMI-SUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON A NARKOV RANDOM FIELD AND SPARSE MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION
Jun Li, José Bioucas-Dias, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal; Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain
WE3.O8.3: MULTISPECTRAL DATA CLASSIFICATION BASED ON SPECTRAL INDICES AND FUZZY C-MEAN
Mohamed Jabloun, Cosmin Mihai, Iris Vanhamel, Thomas Geerinck, Hichem Sahli, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
WE3.O8.4: UTILIZATION OF LOCAL AND GLOBAL HYPERSPECTRAL FEATURES VIA WAVELET PACKETS AND MULTICLASSIFIERS FOR ROBUST TARGET RECOGNITION
Terrance West, Lori Bruce, Saurabh Prasad, Mississippi State University, United States
WE3.O8.5: NONLINEAR MIXTURE ANALYSIS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Nareenart Raksuntorn, Qian Du, Mississippi State University, United States
WE3.O9.1: WEATHER HAZARD INTERPRETATION AND FORECAST BY AN AIRBORNE RADAR
Clementine Costes, Jean-Paul Artis, Thales Airborne Systems, France; Rene Garello, Gregoire Mercier, TELECOM Bretagne, France
WE3.O9.2: SCALE DECOMPOSITION OF PRECIPITATION PATTERNS AND NOWCASTING IN A HIGH-RESOLUTION X-BAND RADAR NETWORK
Evan Ruzanski, Yanting Wang, V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States
WE3.O9.3: SALIENT FEATURES OF THE RADAR NODES IN THE PUERTO RICO TROPICAL WEATHER TESTBED
Miguel B. Galvez, Colorado State University, United States; Jose G. Colom, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; V. Chandrasekar, Francesc Junyent, Colorado State University, United States; Sandra Cruz-Pol, Rafael Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
WE3.O9.4: INFERENCE ON GIBBS OPTIC-FLOW PRIOR: APPLICATION TO ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE CHARACTERIZATION
Patrick Heas, Etienne Mémin, INRIA, France
WE3.O9.5: RETRIEVING CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH AND ICE PARTICLE SIZE USING THERMAL AND FAR IR RADIOMETRY IN AN ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT
Yann Blanchard, Alain Royer, Norm O'Neill, CARTEL, Canada; Jean-Pierre Blanchet, UQAM, Canada
WE3.O10.1: INNOVATIVE FOCAL PLANES IN SUBMILLIMETER WAVE RADIOMETERS FOR ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY STUDY AND ICE CLOUDS OBSERVATION
Carine Bredin, EADS ASTRIUM France, France; Thierry Amiot, CNES France, France; Nardjisse Mohamed, Laurent Costes, Jean-Marc Goutoule, EADS ASTRIUM France, France
WE3.O10.2: EXPOSURE ADJUSTMENT OF SATELLITE CAMERAS
Qiong Ran, Yaobin Chi, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhiyong Wang, Beijing Landview Mapping Information Technology,co.,ltd, China; Lianru Gao, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE3.O10.3: COMPARISONS OF IN-ORBIT RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION RESULTS BETWEEN THE FIELD MEASUREMENT AND THE ONBOARD BLACKBODY METHODS OF FY-3A VIRR SPLIT-WINDOW CHANNELS
Yong Zhang, NSMC.CMA, China; Yuan Li, Liyang Zhang, Xiuqing Hu, Zhiguo Rong, NSMC,CMA, China
WE3.O10.4: HIGH PERFORMANCE DUAL FIELD OF VIEW SPECTRORADIOMETER WITH NOVEL INPUT OPTICS FOR, AUTONOMOUS REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS OVER AN EXTENDED SPECTRAL RANGE
Christopher J. MacLellan, Natural Environment Research Council Field Spectroscopy Facility, United Kingdom; Timothy J. Malthus, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
WE3.O10.5: HJ-1A THERMAL INFRARED BAND CROSS-CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION
Jiaguo Li, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xingfa Gu, Institute of Remote Sensing Application of GUCAS, China; Li Zhu, China Environmental Monitoring Centre, China; Tao Yu, Xiaoying Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Application of GUCAS, China; Yuxiang Zhang, Chinese National Satellite Meteorological Center, China; Hailiang Gao, Hui Gong, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE3.O11.1: HIGH RESOLUTION MAPPING OF SOIL MOISTURE WITH SMAP RADAR AND RADIOMETER IN SUPPORT OF NEW APPROACHES TO WATER CYCLE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS
Dara Entekhabi, MIT, United States; Eni Njoku, NASA JPL, United States; Peggy O'Neill, NASA GSFC, United States; Wade Crow, USDA ARS, United States; Thomas Jackson, NASA GSFC, United States; Joel Johnson, Ohio State University, United States; John Kimball, University of Montana, United States; Randy Koster, NASA GSFC, United States; Kyle McDonald, NASA JPL, United States; Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States; Susan Moran, USDA ARS, United States; Rolf Reichle, NASA GSFC, United States; Jiancheng Shi, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Leung Tsang, University of Washington, United States; Jakob Van Zyl, NASA JPL, United States; Jared Entin, NASA Headquarters, United States; Kent Kellogg, NASA JPL, United States
WE3.O11.2: ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT USING THE SMAP ALGORITHM TESTBED
Steven Chan, Scott Dunbar, Andreas Colliander, Eni Njoku, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technologyy, United States
WE3.O11.3: SMAPVEX08 : SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE VALIDATION EXPERIMENT 2008
T. Jackson, Michael Cosh, Rajat Bindlish, USDA Agricultural Research Service, United States; Simon Yueh, S. Dinardo, Jet Propulsion Lab, United States; C. Laymon, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States; Peggy O'Neill, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Rafael Rincon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
WE3.O11.4: HOW WILL DEW ON VEGETATION AFFECT SMAP? A CASE STUDY IN THE AGRICULTURAL MIDWEST OF THE UNITED STATES
Brian Hornbuckle, Tracy Rowlandson, Iowa State University, United States; Anton Kruger, Bill Eichinger, University of Iowa, United States; Tom Sauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, United States; Amy Kaleita, Iowa State University, United States; Sally Logsdon, USDA Agricultural Research Service, United States; Witold F. Krajewski, University of Iowa, United States; Simon Yueh, Steve Dinardo, NASA, United States
WE3.O11.5: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL USING GNSS-R: VEGETATION EFFECTS
Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Sandra Monerris, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Enric Valencia, Mercè Vall-Llossera, Juan Manuel Nieto, Politechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
WE3.O12.1: ESTIMATING URBAN IMPERVIOUS SURFACES BY LINEAR SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS
Jing Jin, Bin Wang, Liming Zhang, Fudan University, China
WE3.O12.2: COMBINING SAR AND OPTICAL FEATURES IN A SVM CLASSIFIER FOR MAN-MADE STRUCTURES DETECTION
Gabrielle Lehureau, Marine Campedel, Florence Tupin, Telecom-ParisTech, France; Céline Tison, CNES, France; Guillaume Oller, Magellium, France
WE3.O12.3: URBAN MORPHOLOGY RETRIEVAL BY MEANS OF REMOTE SENSING FOR CLIMATE MODELING NEEDS
Pauli Sievinen, Jaan Praks, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Jarkko Koskinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Martti Hallikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
WE3.O12.4: MODELING OF IMPERVIOUS SURFACE IN GEMRANY USING LANDSAT IMAGES AND TOPOGRAPHIC VECTOR DATA
Thomas Esch, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Doris Klein, Vitus Himmler, University of Wuerzburg, Germany; Manfred Keil, Harald Mehl, Stefan Dech, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
WE3.O12.5: DATASET FUSION AND ALGORITHM INTEGRATION IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF URBAN SPRAWL ALONG TRUNK TRANSPORT CORRIDORS IN THE GAUTENG GLOBAL CITY REGION
Brian Mubiwa, UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG, South Africa; Harold Annegarn, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Philip Goyns, INSTITUTE OF ENERGY ECONOMICS RATIONAL USE OF ENERGY (IER), UNIVERISTY OF STUTTGART, South Africa; Mathetha Mokonyama, CSIR, South Africa
WE3.O13.1: EXPERIENCES OF COAL FIRE DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION FOR RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Christian Fischer, German Aerospace Center, Germany; Stefan Schloemer, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany; Andreas Hirner, German Aerospace Center, Germany; Manfred Teschner, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany
WE3.O13.2: THE CONTRIBUTION OF REMOTE SENSING TO SUSTAINABLE MINING DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA
Fatima Ferraz, Anglo America, South Africa
WE3.O13.3: VERY HIGH SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IN MINING-RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE WITWATERSRAND GOLD FIELD
Stephane Chevrel, BRGM, France; Henk Coetzee, Council for Geoscience, South Africa; Anne Bourguignon, Francis Cotterd, BRGM, France
WE3.O13.4: FIELD SPECTRORADIOMETRY AND ASTER IMAGERY PROCESSING FOR DETECTION AND MAPPING OF AMD-GENERATING MATERIAL OVER THE LIGNITE OPENCAST MINE OF SOKOLOV, CZECH REPUBLIC
Stephane Chevrel, Anne Bourguignon, BRGM, France; Veronika Kopackova, Czech Geological Survey, Czech Republic; Petr Rojik, Sokolovska Uhelna a. s., Czech Republic
WE3.O13.5: CAN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND CANOPY SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES OF A PHREATOPHYTE TREE (RHUS LANCEA) BE USED TO IDENTIFY DEVELOPING SINKHOLES AND ACID ROCK DRAINAGE IN A DOLOMITIC GRASSLAND?
Joseph Chauke, Isabel Weiersbye, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Robi Stark, Nir Margalit, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop, Israel; Henk Nel, AngloGold Ashanti Ltd, South Africa; Tal Feingersh, Gil Revivo, Yoav Zur, Ofer Braun, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop, Israel
WE4.O1.1: POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING FEATURE ESTIMATION FOR ACCURATE VEGETATION AREA CLASSIFICATION
Ryoichi Sato, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Niigata University, Japan
WE4.O1.2: CLASSIFICATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA OVER ARID AND WET REGIONS OF INDIA
Subrahmanyeswara Rao Yalamanchili, Varsha Tukar, Gopalan Venkataraman, IIT Bombay, India
WE4.O1.3: INVESTIGATION OF MULTIPLE FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC SAR SIGNAL BACKSCATTERING FROM TIDAL FLATS
Duk-Jin Kim, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea; Sang-Eun Park, University of Rennes1, France; Hyo-Sung Lee, Sunchon National University, Republic of Korea; Wooil M. Moon, University of Manitoba, Canada
WE4.O1.4: MULTIBAND RADAR FOR MAPPING INUNDATION PATTERNS IN SEMI-ARID WETLAND ENVIRONMENTS;MACQUARIE MARSHES, NEW SOUTH WALES
Anthony Milne, University of New South Wales, Australia; Ian Tapley, Horizon Geoscience Consulting, Australia; Anthea Mitchell, University of New South Wales, Australia
WE4.O1.5: RECENT ADVANCES OF POL-SAR, POL-IN-SAR & RP-POL-IN-SAR IMAGERY FOR REMOTE SENSING OF WET AND ARID VEGETATED REGIONS
Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
WE4.O2.1: EXPLOITATION OF DISTRIBUTED SCATTERERS IN INTERFEROMETRIC DATA-STACKS
Alessandro Ferretti, Alfio Fumagalli, Fabrizio Novali, Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E., Italy; Claudio Prati, Fabio Rocca, Alessio Rucci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
WE4.O2.2: TECHNIQUES AND EXAMPLES FOR THE 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF COMPLEX SCATTERING SITUATIONS USING TERRASAR-X
Nico Adam, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; Xiao Zhu, Technische Universität München, Germany; Christian Minet, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; Werner Liebhart, Technische Universität München, Germany; Michael Eineder, Richard Bamler, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
WE4.O2.3: SAR TOMOGRAPHY FOR IMAGING AND MONITORING COMPLEX TARGETS
Gianfranco Fornaro, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Diego Reale, University of Naples, Italy; Francesco Serafino, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
WE4.O2.4: METHOD OF PERSISTENT SCATTERER PAIRS (PSP) AND HIGH RESOLUTION SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Mario Costantini, Salvatore Falco, Fabio Malvarosa, Federico Minati, Francesco Trillo, Telespazio S.p.A., Italy
WE4.O2.5: MULTIPLE SCATTERERS IDENTIFICATION IN COMPLEX SCENARIOS WITH ADAPTIVE DIFFERENTIAL TOMOGRAPHY
Fabrizio Lombardini, Matteo Pardini, University of Pisa, Italy
WE4.O3.1: GLOBAL MONITORING OF HYDROLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN AFRICA BY USING BOTH ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS
Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi, CNR-IFAC, Italy
WE4.O3.2: A METHOD FOR DERIVING NORTHERN HEMISPHERE VEGETATION PHENOLOGY, LAND SURFACE WETNESS, AND OPEN WATER FRACTION FROM AMSR-E
Lucas Jones, John Kimball, University of Montana, United States; Kyle McDonald, Steven Chan, Eni Njoku, California Institute of Technology, United States
WE4.O3.3: MONITORING RAIN AND FLOODING EVENTS IN DE LA PLATA BASIN USING AMSR-E SIGNATURES
P. Ferrazzoli, Rahmoune R., Tor Vergata University, Italy; F. Grings, M. Salvia, M. Barber, H. Karszembaum, IAFE, Argentina; A. Soldano, D. Goniaski, Instituto Nacional del Agua, Argentina; G. Parmuchi, C. Montenegro, Secretaría de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sustentable, Argentina; P. Kandus, M. Borro, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
WE4.O3.4: ON THE ABILITY OF THE ERS SCATTEROMETER TO DETECT VEGETATION PROPERTIES
Marcela Doubkova, Vahid Naeimi, Wolfgang Wagner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Geoffrey Henebry, Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence (GIScCE), United States
WE4.O3.5: A STUDY ON ESTIMATION OF ABOVEGROUND WET BIOMASS BASED ON THE MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDICES
Linna Chai, Beijing Normal University, China; Jiancheng Shi, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Jinyang Du, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, CAS, China; Jing Tao, Beijing Normal University, China; T. Jackson, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, United States; Peggy O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Lixin Zhang, Ying Qu, J. D. Wang, Beijing Normal University, China
WE4.O4.1: LANDCOVER CHANGES ALONG THE BOTETI RIVER, BOTSWANA
Elmar Schuran, Cornelis Vanderpost, Ronald Motsholapheko, Susan Ringrose, Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre, Botswana
WE4.O4.2: A SPATIAL TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF WETLAND LOSSES IN THE LAGOS COASTAL REGION, SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA, USING MULTI-DATE SATELLITE IMAGERY
Olalekan John Taiwo, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Olusegun Areola, University of Botswana, Botswana
WE4.O4.3: MONITORING OF SAVANNA DEGRADATION IN NAMIBIA USING LANDSAT TM/ETM+ DATA
Melanie Vogel, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Marianne Strohbach, University of Pretoria, South Africa
WE4.O4.4: FIRE, WEALTH AND ACCESS TO WETLAND RESOURCES IN THE PANHANDLE OF BOTSWANA'S OKAVANGO DELTA
Lin Cassidy, University of Botswana, Botswana
WE4.O4.5: FOREST VEGETATION MONITORING AND RUNOFF IN WATER SUPPLY CATCHMENTS AFFECTED BY DRYING CLIMATE
Jeremy Wallace, Ming Li, Anthony Traylen, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia
WE4.O5.1: A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON DEFOREDTION MONITORING IN SUMATRA ISLAND BY PALSAR
Osamu Isoguchi, Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Yumiko Uryu, WWF, Japan
WE4.O5.2: MONITORING DECADAL LAND CHANGE BY COMPARING JERS-1 AND ALOS PALSAR L-BAND SAR
Don Atwood, Rudi Gens, Geophysical Institute- University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States
WE4.O5.3: AN ASSESSMENT OF ALOS L-BAND POLARIMETRY FOR LAND-USE MONITORING IN MALAWI
Shane Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom; Gemma F. Cassells, Iain Woodhouse, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Mavuto Tembo, University of Mzuzu, Malawi
WE4.O5.4: DECADAL CHANGE IN NORTHERN WETLANDS BASED ON DIFFERENTIAL ANALYSIS OF JERS AND PALSAR DATA
Jane Whitcomb, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States; Kyle McDonald, Erika Podest, Bruce Chapman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
WE4.O5.5: ALOS PALSAR IMAGE MOSAICS OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: AN IMAGE LAYER FOR WETLANDS MAPPING
Bruce Chapman, Kyle McDonald, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Laura Hess, UCSB, United States; Mahta Moghaddam, Jane Whitcomb, U. Michigan, United States
WE4.O6.1: MODEL-BASED STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF POLSAR DATA
Torbjørn Eltoft, Anthony Doulgeris, Stian Anfinsen, University of Tromsø, Norway
WE4.O6.2: POLSAR AND POLINSAR MODEL BASED INFORMATION ESTIMATION
Carlos López-Martínez, Xavier Fàbregas, Luca Pipia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya UPC, Spain
WE4.O6.3: ESTIMATION AND SEGMENTATION IN NON-GAUSSIAN POLSAR CLUTTER BY SIRV STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
Gabriel Vasile, Grenoble-Image-sPeech-Signal-Automatics Lab / CNRS, France; Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, French Aerospace Lab, France; Frédéric Pascal, SONDRA, France
WE4.O6.4: AN ALGEBRAIC APPROACH TO GROUND-VOLUME DECOMPOSITION FROM MULTI-BASELINE POLINSAR DATA
Stefano Tebaldini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
WE4.O6.5: MULTI-BASELINE POL-INSAR STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED MEDIA
Laurent Ferro-Famil, Maxim Neumann, Yue Huang, University of Rennes 1, France
WE4.O7.1: SEMI-AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE FOR UPDATING LANDUSE MAPS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL IMAGES
Claudia Notarnicola, EURAC, Italy; Annett Frick, LUP - LUFTBILD UMWELT PLANUNG, Germany; Steve Kass, Philipp Rastner, Giuseppe Pulighe, Marc Zebisch, EURAC, Italy
WE4.O7.2: K-WAY TREE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON SEMI-GREEDY STRUCTURE APPLIED TO MULTISOURCE REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Yang-Lang Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan; Zhi-Ming Chen, Hsuan Ren, National Central University, Taiwan; Jyh-Perng Fang, Wen-Yew Liang, Tung-Ju Hsieh, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
WE4.O7.3: WAVELET SHRINKAGE DENOISING OF INTRINSIC MODE FUNCTIONS OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE BANDS FOR CLASSIFICATION WITH HIGH ACCURACY
Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk, Kemal Güllü, Kocaeli University, Turkey
WE4.O7.4: SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING FOR CLASSIFICATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR-DATA
Ronny Hänsch, Olaf Hellwich, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
WE4.O7.5: AN END-TO-END ERROR MODEL FOR CLASSIFICATION METHODS BASED ON A SAR INTENSITY RATIO
Alexandre Bouvet, Le Toan Thuy, CESBIO, France
WE4.O8.1: A COMBINED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE RESTORATION AND FUSION APPROACH
Yifan Zhang, Arno Duijster, Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium
WE4.O8.2: NON-HOMOGENOUS AUTO-REGRESSIVE MODEL BASED PRIOR FOR MULTIRESOLUTION FUSION
Krishna Rudraraju, Manjunath Joshi, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology, India
WE4.O8.3: SUPERRESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT FOR TEMPORAL HYPERSPECTRAL-ORIENTED DATA SETS
Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Jianglin Ma, Frank Canters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
WE4.O8.4: A SUP-PIXEL MAPPING ALGORITHM BASED ON ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY
Yanfei Zhong, Liangpei Zhang, Pingxiang Li, Huanfeng Shen, Wuhan University, China
WE4.O8.5: SPATIAL-SPECTRAL DATA FUSION FOR RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Fereidoun A. Mianji, Ye Zhang, Yanfeng Gu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Asad Babakhani, Gamma Irradiation Research Center, Iran
WE4.O9.1: INVESTIGATION OF SPATIAL WATER VAPOR AND LIQUID WATER INHOMOGENEITY WITH SCANNING MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY
Stefan Kneifel, Susanne Crewell, Ulrich Loehnert, Jan Schween, University of Cologne, Germany
WE4.O9.2: EVALUATION OF PASSIVE SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUD LIQUID WATER
Akos Horvath, Seethala Chellappan, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
WE4.O9.3: CROSS-COMPARISON AND VALIDATION OF MODIS AQUA CLOUD MASK BY USING CLOUDSAT AND CALIPSO DATASETS
Daniela Di Rosa, Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica Bari, Italy; Claudia Notarnicola, Eurac, Italy; Francesco Posa, Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica Bari, Italy
WE4.O9.4: WHAT CAN AQUA AND TERRA DIRECT BROADCAST DO FOR YOU?
Kathy Strabala, Liam Gumley, Hung-Lung Huang, Elisabeth Weisz, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
WE4.O9.5: A SUB MILLIMETRE-WAVE AIRBORNE DEMONSTRATOR FOR THE OBSERVATION OF PRECIPITATION AND ICE CLOUDS
Janet Charlton, Sula Systems, United Kingdom; Stefan Buehler, Lulea Technical University, Sweden; Eric Defer, Catherine Prigent, L'Observatoire de Paris, France; Brian Moyna, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, United Kingdom; Clare Lee, The Met Office, United Kingdom; Peter de Maagt, Ville Kangas, European Space Agency, Netherlands
WE4.O10.1: PHASE NOISE REQUIREMENTS IN INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS
Francesc Torres, Ignasi Corbella, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
WE4.O10.2: COMPARISON OF CENTRALISED AND DISTRIBUTED NOISE INJECTION CALIBRATION METHODS FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER
Kimmo Rautiainen, Juha Kainulainen, Martti Hallikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
WE4.O10.3: CONICAL BEAM INTERFEROMETER: FPIR CONCEPT AND DEVELOPMENT
Jingye Yan, Ji Wu, Hao Liu, Shengwei Zhang, Heguang Liu, Jingshan Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE4.O10.4: ONE POINT CALIBRATION IN INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS: ERROR ASSESSMENT
Francesc Torres, Ignasi Corbella, Nuria Duffo, Verónica González-Gambau, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
WE4.O10.5: CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AND BREADBOARDING ACTIVITIES OF GEOSTATIONARY INTERFEROMETRIC MICROWAVE SOUNDER (GIMS)
Hao Liu, Ji Wu, Shengwei Zhang, Jingye Yan, Cheng Zhang, Weiying Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
WE4.O11.1: RETRIEVING TREE HEIGHTS IN AFRICAN SAVANNA WOODLANDS USING THREE STAGE SINC INVERSION
Charles Paradzayi, Harold Annegarn, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Barend Erasmus, University of Witswatersrand, South Africa; Christiane Schmullius, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany
WE4.O11.2: EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF ALOS/PALSAR FOR MONITORING FOREST RESOURCES IN CENTRAL AFRICA
Danae Maniatis, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Sassan Saatchi, California Institute of Technology, United States; Lee White, Wildlife Conservation Society, Gabon; Laurent Tellier, SylvAfrica, Gabon; Rostand Aba'a, Malcolm Starkey, Wildlife Conservation Society, Gabon; Mathieu Schwartzenberg, Leroy Gabon, Gabon; Yadvinder Malhi, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
WE4.O11.3: THE SARVANNA PROJECT: SAR MAPPING OF VEGETATION STRUCTURE IN THE AFRICAN SAVANNA.
Christiane Schmullius, University Jena, Germany; Harold Annegarn, Charles Paradzayi, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Izak Smit, DLR, Germany; Wolfgang Lück, CISR-SAC, South Africa; Barend Erasmus, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; Irena Hajnsek, DLR, Germany; Renaud Mathieu, Melanie Vogel, CSIR-NRE, South Africa; Konrad Wessels, CSIR-Meraka, South Africa
WE4.O11.4: EXAMINATION OF THE SRTM CORRELATION DATA FOR VEGETATION STRUCTURE ESTIMATION
Bruce Chapman, Robert Treuhaft, Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Paul Siqueira, University of Massachusetts, United States
WE4.O11.5: BACKSCATTER AND INTERFEROMETRY FOR ESTIMATING ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS OF SPARSE WOODLAND: A CASE STUDY IN BELIZE
Karin Viergever, Iain Woodhouse, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
WE4.O12.1: ASSESSMENT OF URBAN EXTEND AND IMPERVIOUSNESS OF CAPE TOWN USING TERRASAR X AND LANDSAT IMAGES
Doris Klein, University of Würzburg, Germany; Thomas Esch, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Vitus Himmler, Michael Thiel, University of Würzburg, Germany; Stefan Dech, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
WE4.O12.2: URBAN THERMAL ENVIRONMENT SIMULATION AND PREDICTION BASED ON REMOTE SENSING AND GIS
Peijun Du, Pei Liu, Yan Luo, Huapeng Zhang, China University of Mining and Technology, China
WE4.O12.3: CURVELET-BASED CHANGE DETECTION FOR MAN-MADE OBJECTS FROM SAR IMAGES
Andreas Schmitt, Birgit Wessel, Achim Roth, German Aerospcae Center, Germany
WE4.O12.4: ANALYSIS OF NOCTURNAL COLD-AIR CURRENTS FORMED IN SATOYAMA (URBAN-NEIGHBORING HILLS AND FORESTS) USING AIRBORNE MSS DATA AND CFD SIMULATION
Akira Hoyano, Jiang He, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
WE4.O12.5: STUDY ON THE SEASONAL CHANGE OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND PHENOMENON USING AIRBORNE THEMAL IMAGE
Akinobu Murakami, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Akira Hoyano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
WE4.O13.1: POLLUTION DETECTION IN MINING ENVIRONMENTS USING AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICAL AND OTHER REMOTELY SENSED DATA
Henk Coetzee, Council for Geoscience, South Africa
WE4.O13.2: ASSOCIATION OF MINERAL SPECTRAL SIGNATURES WITH GOLD AND URANIUM MINING AND OFF-SITE IMPACTS IN A SEASONAL SUMMER RAINFALL ENVIRONMENT - THE WITWATERSRAND BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA
Malcolm Sutton, AngloGold Ashanti Limited / University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Isabel Weiersbye, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Nir Margalit, Robi Stark, Daniela Heller, Tal Feingersh, Gil Revivo, Yoav Zur, Ofer Braun, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics - Elop, South Africa; Jacky Galpin, Hlanganani Tutu, David Billing, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
WE4.O13.3: DERIVATION OF INDICES OF LANDSCAPE FUNCTION ANALYSIS (LFA) FROM HYPER-SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE DATA: A CASE STUDY ON FOUR TYPES OF GRASSLAND IN THE WITWATERSRAND BASIN GOLD MINING REGION OF SOUTH AFRICA
David Furniss, Isabel Weiersbye, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; David Tongway, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Australia; Robi Stark, Nir Margalit, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics - Elop, Israel; Henk Nel, Etienne Grond, AngloGold Ashanti Ltd, South Africa; Edward Witkowski, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
WE4.O13.4: MONITORING OF SUPERFICIAL CONTAMINATION PRODUCED BY MASSIVE SULPHIDE MINE WASTE ALONG THE ODIEL RIVER (ANDALOUSIA, SPAIN) USING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Asuncion Riaza, IGME, Spain; Véronique Carrère, Université de Nantes, France
WE4.O13.4: GROUND PENETRATING RADAR FOR DIAGNOSIS OF FAULTING ALONG PARTING PLANES IN SOUTH AFRICAN BUSHVELD MINES
Declan Vogt, Michael Van Schoor, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
WE4.O13.5: REMOTE SENSING: IT'S NOT ONLY ABOUT SATELLITES!!
James Crotty, Gordon Chunnett, Anglo Platinum Limited, South Africa; Andreas Rompel, Engel Rutherford, Anglo American PLC, South Africa
TH1.O1.1: THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MORPHOLOGY OF IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES AND THEIR POSSIBLE INFLUENCE ON SAR APPLICATIONS FOR L-BAND AND LOWER FREQUENCIES.
Brenton Watkins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States
TH1.O1.2: MICRO AND MACRO STRUCTURE OF THE GEOMAGNETIC EQUATORIAL PLASMA BUBBLE OBSERVED BY THE PALSAR
Masanobu Shimada, JAXA, Japan; Yasushi Muraki, Konan University, Japan; Yuichi Otsuka, Nagoya University, Japan
TH1.O1.3: A STATISTICAL SURVEY OF IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON L-BAND SAR DATA
Jeremy Nicoll, Franz Meyer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States
TH1.O1.4: MAPPING AURORA ACTIVITY WITH SAR – A CASE STUDY
Franz Meyer, Jeremy Nicoll, Bill Bristow, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States
TH1.O1.5: IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITY EFFECTS ON P-BAND SAR IMAGERY AND THEIR POSSIBLE CORRECTION USING PGA
Zheng-Wen Xu, China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, China; Shaun Quegan, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; Jian Wu, China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, China; Jim J. Green, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
TH1.O2.1: RETRIEVAL OF SUBSURFACE PARAMETERS FOR THREE-LAYER MEDIA
Yuriy Goykhman, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States
TH1.O2.2: DEPENDENCE OF P-BAND INTERFEROMETRIC HEIGHT ON FOREST PARAMETERS FROM SIMULATION AND OBSERVATION
Marco Lavalle, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Mark Williams, Fugro-EarthData, United States; Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Domenico Solimini, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Eric Pottier, University of Rennes 1, France
TH1.O2.3: EVALUATING VHF-BAND SAR AUTOFOCUS ALGORITHMS USING A FOREST BACKSCATTER MODEL
Annelie Wyholt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Lars M. H. Ulander, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden
TH1.O2.4: P-BAND TOMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE REMNINGSTORP FOREST SITE
Stefano Tebaldini, Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
TH1.O2.5: POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR FOREST APPLICATIONS AT P-BAND: POTENTIALS AND CHALLENGES
Seung-Kuk Lee, Florian Kugler, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Irena Hajnsek, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
TH1.O3.1: TEN YEARS OF CLOUD MICROPHYSICS MEASUREMENTS FROM MODIS
Michael King, University of Colorado, United States; Steven Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
TH1.O3.2: 10 YEARS OF CLOUD PROPERTIES AND AMOUNT FROM MODIS
Steven Ackerman, W. Paul Menzel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
TH1.O3.3: AN OVERVIEW OF MODIS CALIBRATION AND CHARACTERIZATION AND LESSONS LEARNED
Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, NASA/GSFC, United States; Brian Wenny, SSAI, United States; William Barnes, UMBC, United States; Vince Salomonson, University of Utah, United States
TH1.O3.4: 10 YEARS OF MODIS: THE MODIS FIRE PRODUCTS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON SOUTHERN AFRICAN VALIDATION
David Roy, South Dakota State University, United States; Louis Giglio, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., United States; Luigi Boschetti, Christopher O. Justice, University of Maryland, United States
TH1.O3.5: TEN YEARS OF AEROSOL CLIMATE DATA RECORDS FROM MODIS OVER LAND AND OCEAN: SOURCE, PATHWAY, AND TREND
N. Christina Hsu, Lorraine Remer, NASA, United States; Rob Levy, SSAI, United States; Si-Chee Tsay, NASA, United States; Michael King, University of Colorado, United States; Brent Holben, NASA, United States
TH1.O4.1: APPLICATION OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS TO MANAGE NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE LAKE VICTORIA BASIN
Shahid Habib, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Fritz Policelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Dan Irwin, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States; Tesfaye Korme, RCMRD, Kenya; Bob Adler, Univ of Maryland, United States; Yang Hong, Univ of Oklahoma, United States
TH1.O4.2: REMOTE SENSING ASSESSMENT OF COASTAL EROSION IN AL BATINAH, SULTANATE OF OMAN
Andy Kwarteng, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
TH1.O4.3: COASTAL MONITORING USING REMOTE SENSING AND GEOINFORMATION SYSTEMS: ESTIMATION OF EROSION AND ACCRETION RATES ALONG GAZA COASTLINE
Khaldoun Abu Al Hin, Irmgard Niemeyer, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
TH1.O4.4: PREDICTING FLOODPLAIN VEGETATION STATE FROM REMOTE SENSING-DERIVED HYDROLOGICAL HISTORY
Michael Murray-Hudson, Piotr Wolski, University of Botswana, Botswana
TH1.O4.5: MONITORING LAND SUBSIDENCE WITHIN THE VENICE LAGOON WITH SAR INTERFEROMETRY ON TRIHEDRAL CORNER REFLECTORS
Tazio Strozzi, Gamma Remote Sensing, Switzerland; Luigi Tosi, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Pietro Teatini, University of Padova, Italy; Charles Werner, Urs Wegmüller, Gamma Remote Sensing, Switzerland
TH1.O5.1: EXPERIENCES IN OPTICAL AND SAR IMAGERY ANALYSIS FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT IN THE WUHAN MAY 2008 EARTHQUAKE
Fabio Dell'Acqua, University of Pavia, Italy; Gianni Lisini, Institute for Advanced Studies (IUSS), Italy; Paolo Gamba, University of Pavia, Italy
TH1.O5.2: SBAS-INSAR ANALYSIS OF SURFACE DEFORMATION AT MAUNA LOA AND KILAUEA VOLCANOES IN HAWAII
Francesco Casu, Riccardo Lanari, IREA-CNR, Italy; Asta Miklius, Michael Poland, USGS, United States; Eugenio Sansosti, IREA-CNR, Italy; Giuseppe Solaro, Pietro Tizzani, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy
TH1.O5.3: THE 12 MAY 2008 SICHUAN (CHINA) EARTHQUAKE: NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL FAULT MODELS CONSTRAINED BY ALOS-PALSAR INTERFEROMETRY
Elisa Trasatti, Christian Bignami, Simone Atzori, Marco Chini, Christos Kyriakopoulos, Salvatore Stramondo, Cristiano Tolomei, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy
TH1.O5.4: SEISMIC AND VOLCANIC ACTIVITY IN AFRICA MONITORED BY INSAR
Nicolas d'Oreye, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg; Eric Calais, Purdue University, United States; Valérie Cayol, Univ. Blaise Pascal, France; José Fernández, Institute of Astronomy and Geodesy (CSIC-UCM), Spain; Corine Frischknecht, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Pablo Gonzalez, Institute of Astronomy and Geodesy (CSIC-UCM), Spain; Sandra I.N. Heleno, ICIST - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal; Francois Kervyn, Royal Museum of Central Africa, Belgium; Petar Marinkovic, Anneleen Oyen, Delft Inst. of Earth Obs. and Space Systems, Delft Univ. of Tech., Netherlands; Christelle Wauthier, Royal Museum of Central Africa, Belgium
TH1.O5.5: SAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR MONITORING GROUND DEFORMATION IN NEW ZEALAND
Sergey Samsonov, Karen Joyce, GNS Science, New Zealand; Kristy Tiampo, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Pablo Gonzalez, Instituto de Astronomia y Geodesia, Spain; Caitlin Latimer, University of Western Ontario, Canada; José Fernández, Instituto de Astronomia y Geodesia, Spain
TH1.O6.1: A HIGH PERFORMANCE REMOTE SENSING RETRIEVAL APPLICATION ON AN INSTITUTIONAL DESKTOP GRID
Wei Wan, China Center for Resource Satellite Data and Application, China; Yong Xue, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, China; Jianning Guo, Shuning Lu, China Center for Resource Satellite Data and Application, China; Jie Guang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, China
TH1.O6.2: A NEW FRAMEWORK OF CLUSTER-BASED PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE GEO-COMPUTING
Yan Ma, Dingsheng Liu, Jingshan Li, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TH1.O6.3: THE KAMAL EWIDA EARTH OBSERVATORY: A NATO SUPPORTED REAL-TIME REMOTE SENSING RECEIVING STATION BEING ESTABLISHED IN EGYPT WITH HPC-ENABLED NEAR-REAL-TIME DATA PRODUCTS FOR MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL & PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS
Gilbert Rochon, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, United States; Magdy Abdel Wahab, CAIRO UNIVERSITY, Egypt; Gamal Salah El Afandi, AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY, Egypt; Gulay Altay, BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY, Turkey; Okan K. Ersoy, Purdue University, United States; Xiaohui Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Larry Biehl, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, United States; Belal Elleithy, NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR REMOTE SENSING & SPACE SCIENCES, Egypt; Mohammed Shokr, ENVIRONMENT CANADA, Canada; Mohamed Mohamed, UNITED NATIONS, Chad; Tarek El Ghazawi, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, United States
TH1.O6.4: GPU-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR DISTRIBUTED INTERACTIVE 3D VISUALIZATION OF MULTIMODAL REMOTE SENSING DATA
Martin Lambers, Andreas Kolb, University of Siegen, Germany
TH1.O6.5: A DYNAMIC GRID WORKFLOW FOR REMOTE SENSING QUANTITATIVE RETRIEVAL SERVICE
Jianwen Ai, Yong Xue, Yingjie Li, Jie Guang, Ying Wang, Linlu Mei, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, China
TH1.O7.1: ROBUST MULTIBAND DETECTION OF THERMAL ANOMALIES USING THE MINIMUM COVARIANCE DETERMINANT ESTIMATOR
Tiziana Beltramonte, Carmine Clemente, Maurizio Di Bisceglie, Carmela Galdi, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy
TH1.O7.2: BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION WITH ADAPTIVE GAUSSIAN PROCESSES
Gustavo Camps-Valls, Luis Gómez-Chova, Jordi Muñoz-Mari, Joan Vila-Frances, Julia Amoros, Secundino del Valle-Tascon, Javier Calpe-Maravilla, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
TH1.O7.3: USE OF AN ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER FOR REAL-TIME INVERSION OF LEAF AREA INDEX FROM MODIS TIME SERIES DATA
Zhiqiang Xiao, Beijing Normal University, China; Shunlin Liang, University of Maryland, United States; Jindi Wang, Beijing Normal University, China
TH1.O7.4: POTENTIAL FIRE DETECTION BASED ON KALMAN-DRIVEN CHANGE DETECTION
Frans van den Bergh, Gustave Udahemuka, Meraka Institute, South Africa; Barend J. van Wyk, French South African Technical Institute in Electronics, South Africa
TH1.O7.5: PROBABILISTIC CALIBRATION OF A COUPLED ECOSYSTEM AND FIRE MODEL USING OPTICAL AND THERMAL SATELLITE DATA
Jose Gomez-Dans, Martin Wooster, King's College London, United Kingdom; Philip Lewis, University College London, United Kingdom; Allan Spessa, University of Reading, United Kingdom
TH1.O8.1: UNMIXING OF SPARSE HYPERSECTRAL MIXTURES
Marian-Daniel Iordache, José Bioucas-Dias, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal; Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura/Escuela Politecnica de Caceres, Spain
TH1.O8.2: ROBUST ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION IN THE PRESENCE OF ANOMALIES
Olga Duran, Maria Petrou, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
TH1.O8.3: INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS OF POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA FOR SEPARATING GROUND AND VEGETATION COMPONENTS
Ola Tannous, Dayalan Kasilingam, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States
TH1.O8.4: ON THE USE OF ICA FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS
Alberto Villa, Jocelyn Chanussot, Christian Jutten, Grenoble Institut of technology (INPG), France; Jón Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland; Said Moussaoui, Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes, France
TH1.O8.5: AN APPROACH BASED ON SELF-ORGANIZING MAP AND FUZZY MEMBERSHIP FOR DECOMPOSITION OF MIXED PIXELS
Lifan Liu, Bin Wang, Liming Zhang, Fudan University, China
TH1.O9.1: TOOLS FOR VALUE ADDING BY SEMANTIC CODING: THE EARTH OBSERVATION IMAGE LIBRARIAN
Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center DLR, Germany; Mihai Costache, ParisTech, France; Gottfried Schwarz, Amaia de Miguel, DLR, Germany
TH1.O9.2: RECURSIVE TEXTURE FRAGMENTATION AND RECONSTRUCTION SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM APPLIED TO VHR IMAGES
Raffaele Gaetano, Giuseppe Scarpa, Giovanni Poggi, University Federico II of Naples, Italy
TH1.O9.3: ADVANCES IN TEXTURE-BASED SEGMENTATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY
Raffaele Gaetano, Giuseppe Scarpa, Giovanni Poggi, University Federico II of Naples, Italy
TH1.O9.4: COMPLETELY AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF SATELLITE MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF LAND COVER MAPS
Giorgio Licciardi, Chiara Pratola, Fabio Del Frate, UNIVERSITA' DI TOR VERGATA ROMA, Italy
TH1.O9.5: A VARIATIONAL CO-TRAINING FRAMEWORK FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE SEGMENTATION
Keming Chen, Zhenglong Li, Jian Cheng, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhixin Zhou, Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing, China; Hanqing Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TH1.O10.1: THE 183-GHZ HAMSTRAD-TROPO RADIOMETER: VALIDATION OVER THE PYRENEES MOUNTAINS (FRANCE) AND FIRST MEASUREMENTS AT DOME C (ANTARCTICA)
Philippe Ricaud, Benjamin Gabard, Olivier Drasin, Solene Derrien, Jean-Pierre Chaboureau, Jean-Luc Attié, Laboratoire d'Aerologie, France; Thomas Rose, Andreas Mombauer, Harald Czekala, RPG, Germany
TH1.O10.2: THE HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER (HIRAD): INSTRUMENT STATUS AND PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS
Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States; M.C. Bailey, University of Central Florida, United States; Steven Gross, University of Michigan, United States; Robbie Hood, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Mark James, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States; James Johnson, Linwood Jones, University of Central Florida, United States; Timothy Miller, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States; Eric Uhlhorn, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States
TH1.O10.3: MICROWAVE RADIOMETER INTER-CALIBRATION USING THE VICARIOUS CALIBRATION METHOD
Darren McKague, Christopher Ruf, John Puckett, Universtity of Michigan, United States
TH1.O10.4: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE PASSIVE ADVANCED UNIT SYNTHETIC APERTURE (PAU-SA)
Isaac Ramos-Perez, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Enric Valencia, Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Francisco Canales-Contador, Politechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
TH1.O10.5: RECEIVER AS A RADIOMETER CALIBRATION TARGET
Ville Kangas, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Andreas Colliander, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States
TH1.O11.1: DISCRIMINATING THE EARLY STAGES OF SIREX NOCTILIO INFESTATION USING RESAMPLED HYMAP DATA
Riyad Ismail, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Onisimo Mutanga, University of KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa; Lalit Kumar, University of New England, Australia
TH1.O11.2: FOREST PARAMETERS INVERSION USING POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA
Marco Lavalle, Domenico Solimini, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Eric Pottier, University of Rennes 1, France; Yves-Louis Desnos, European Space Agency, Italy
TH1.O11.3: QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF THE ECO-WATER INDICES BASED ON REMOTE SENSING
Yuxia Li, Institute of Geo-Spatial Information Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Wunian Yang, Chengdu University of Technology, China; Ling Tong, Institute of Geo-Spatial Information Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Ji Jian, Chengdu University of Technology, China; Xingfa Gu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TH1.O11.4: FOREST PARAMETER RETRIEVAL USING A GENERAL REPEAT-PASS POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC VEGETATION MODEL
Maxim Neumann, Laurent Ferro-Famil, University of Rennes 1, France; Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
TH1.O11.5: VARIABLE WIND INFLUENCE ON INSAR IMAGERY OF FORESTS
Michael Benson, Leland Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michgan, United States
TH1.O12.1: A POLARIMETRIC VEGETATION MODEL TO RETRIEVE PARTICLE AND ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS
Maxim Neumann, Laurent Ferro-Famil, University of Rennes 1, France; Marc Jaeger, Berlin University of Technology, Germany; Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Eric Pottier, University of Rennes 1, France
TH1.O12.2: CHANGE DETECTION OVER A SEMI ARID AREA FROM A DATA FUSION APPROACH (OPTICAL, RADAR AND RAINFALL)
Daouda Sylla, Ramata Magagi, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; Samuel Corgne, Université de Rennes2, France
TH1.O12.3: C-BAND D-INSAR AND FIELD DATA FOR CALIBRATING A GROUNDWATER FLOW AND LAND SUBSIDENCE MODEL
Angus Calderhead, Richard Martel, University of Quebec, Canada; Pierre-Jean Alasset, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada; Alfonso Rivera, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada; Jaime Garfias, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Mexico
TH1.O12.4: CORRECTING ESTIMATES OF LAND COVER CHANGE AND CHANGE DETECTION ACCURACY FOR ERROR IN GROUND REFERENCE DATA
Giles Foody, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
TH1.O12.5: DEM PRODUCTION UTILIZING STEREOTECHNOLOGY OF THE TERRASAR-X DATA
Takashi Nonaka, Tomohiro Hayakawa, PASCO Corporation, Japan; Stephen Griffiths, Bryan Mercer, Intermap Technologies Ltd, Canada
TH1.O13.1: THE INTERNATIONAL LASER RANGING SERVICE AND ITS IMPACT ON GEOSS
Michael Pearlman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, United States
TH1.O13.2: EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS FOR SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR)
Steven Klosko, SGT Inc., United States
TH1.O13.3: THE MOBLAS-6 SATELLITE LASER RANGING STATION AT HARTEBEESTHOEK, SOUTH AFRICA; TECHNOLOGY AND DATA APPLICATIONS.
Ludwig Combrinck, Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa
TH1.O13.4: LASER SENSING OF THE CRYOSPHERE: ICESAT-1 RESULTS AND FUTURE MISSIONS
Jay Zwally, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
TH1.O13.5: SCANNING, PHOTON COUNTINGLIDARS FOR LARGE SCALE, HIGH RESOLUTION, TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING FROM HIGH ALTITUDES
John Degnan, Sigma Space Corporation, United States
TH2.O1.1: ESTIMATION AND CORRECTION OF IONOSPHERIC AND ATMOSPHERIC INDUCED PHASE ERRORS IN SAR IMAGES USING COHERENT SCATTERERS
Rafael Zandona-Schneider, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
TH2.O1.2: CHARACTERISATION AND CORRECTION OF IONOSPHARIC EFFECTS IN LOW FREQUENCY (L- AND P-BAND) SAR IMAGERY
Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Koichi Iribe, Francesco de Zan, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
TH2.O1.3: IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS AND MITIGATION FOR DESDYNI
Paul Rosen, Elaine Chapin, Curtis Chen, Scott Hensley, Xiaoqing Pi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TH2.O1.4: COMPENSATION OF IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS INHERENT IN ALOS / PALSAR L-BAND POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGERY
Thomas Ainsworth, Jong-Sen Lee, Naval Research Laboratory, United States
TH2.O1.5: IONOSPHERIC PATH DELAY ESTIMATES FOR SPACEBORNE SAR DATA: PROSPECTS AND LIMITS
Michael Jehle, David Small, Erich Meier, University of Zurich, Switzerland
TH2.O2.1: BIOMASS - A P-BAND SAR MISSION TO MAP FOREST BIOMASS AT GLOBAL SCALE
Malcolm Davidson, ESA, Netherlands; Thuy Le Toan, CESBIO, France; Heiko Baltzer, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Philippe Paillou, Universite de Bordeaux, France; Stephen Plummer, IGBP Joint Projects Office, Italy, Italy; Konstantinos Papathanassiou, DLR, Germany; Shaun Quegan, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; Lars M. H. Ulander, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden; Sassan Saatchi, JPL, United States; Herman H. Shugart, University of Virginia, United States
TH2.O2.2: COMPARISON OF L- AND P-BAND BIOMASS RETRIEVALS BASED ON BACKSCATTER FROM THE BIOSAR CAMPAIGN
Gustaf Sandberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Lars M. H. Ulander, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden; Johan E.S. Fransson, Johan Holmgren, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; Thuy Le Toan, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biospère, France
TH2.O2.3: TROPICAL FOREST BIOMASS RECOVERY USING GEOSAR OBSERVATIONS
Mark Williams, Fugro-EarthData, United States; Tony Milne, University of New South Wales, Australia; Ian Tapley, Horizon Geoscience Consulting, Australia; Tom Carson, Jim Reis, Mark Sanford, Boris Kofman, Fugro-EarthData, United States; Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TH2.O2.4: SETHI, THE ONERA AIRBORNE SAR SENSOR, AND HIS LOW FREQUENCY CAPABILITY
Sébastien Angéliaume, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Philippe Dreuillet, Hélène Oriot, ONERA, France
TH2.O2.5: UHF FOLIAGE PENETRATION AND SCATTERING MODEL FOR POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR APPLICATIONS
Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TH2.O3.1: SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES FROM THE MODERATE-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS)
Peter Minnett, Robert Evans, Otis Brown, University of Miami, United States
TH2.O3.2: MODIS ALBEDO AND REFLECTANCE ANISOTROPY PRODUCTS FOR CLIMATE AND VEGETATION STUDIES
Crystal Schaaf, Alan Strahler, Zhuosen Wang, Miguel Román, Ziti Jiao, Yanmin Shuai, Qingling Zhang, Boston University, United States; Feng Gao, NASA/GSFC (ERT), United States; Jicheng Liu, Xiaoyang Zhang, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Wolfgang Lucht, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany; Shunlin Liang, University of Maryland, United States; Philip Lewis, Jan-Peter Muller, University College London, United Kingdom; Michael Barnsley, University of Wales, Swansea (posthumous), United Kingdom; Xiaowen Li, Beijing Normal University, China
TH2.O3.3: ADVANCES IN OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY FROM MODIS
Charles Mcclain, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Zia Ahmad, Earth Resources Technology, United States; Sean Bailey, Future Tech, United States; Michael Behrenfeld, Oregon State University, United States; Gene Feldman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Bryan Franz, Science Applications International Corporation, United States; Gerhard Meister, Future Tech, United States; Fred Patt, Science Applications International Corporation, United States; Jeremy Werdell, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., United States
TH2.O3.4: THE MODIS TIME SERIES OF SUSPENDED CALCIUM CARBONATE IN THE GLOBAL OCEAN
William M. Balch, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, United States
TH2.O3.5: TEN YEAR OF LAND REMOTE SENSING FROM MODIS
Christopher O. Justice, University of Maryland, United States; David Roy, South Dakota State University, United States
TH2.O4.1: NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHM AND BACKSCATTERING MODEL FOR BIOMASS ESTIMATION OF WETLAND VEGETATION IN POYANG LAKE AREA USING ENVISAT ASAR DATA
Jingjuan Liao, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lei Dong, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Guozhuang Shen, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TH2.O4.2: DISPERSAL OF SUSPENDED SEDIMENT IN THE SOUTHWEST INSHORE OFF THE MODERN HUANGHE (YELLOW) RIVER ESTUARY
Yanxia Liu, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research for Sustainable Development, China; Haijun Huang, Institute of Oceanology, China; Hui Fan, Institute for Development Strategy of Science and Technology, China
TH2.O4.3: 3-D VEGETATION MAPPING OF COASTAL FORESTS IN AFRICA
Temilola E. Fatoyinbo, Marc Simard, Naiara Sardinha-Pinto, Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
TH2.O4.4: CLASSIFICATION OF COASTAL ZONE BASED ON DECISION TREE AND PPI
Shanshan Li, Bing Zhang, Lianru Gao, Liang Zhang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TH2.O4.5: REAL TIME MONITORING OF FLOODED AREAS BY A MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL SATELLITE DATA
Mariapia Faruolo, Irina Coviello, Teodosio Lacava, Nicola Pergola, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA) - National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Valerio Tramutoli, Department of Engineering and Physics of the Environment (DIFA) - University of Basilicata, Italy
TH2.O5.1: NEAR REAL TIME FORECASTING OF LAVA FLOW PATHS USING MAGFLOW MODELDRIVEN BY THERMAL SATELLITE DATA
Annamaria Vicari, Ciro Del Negro, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Sezione di Catania, Italy; Gaetana Ganci, Università di Catania, Italy; Alexis Herault, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Sezione di Catania, Italy
TH2.O5.2: INSAR DATASTACKS FOR VOLCANO MONITORING: POTENTIAL AND DRAWBACKS
Alessandro Ferretti, Marco Bianchi, Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E. s.r.l., Italy; Alessio Rucci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Raffaella Ratti, Maria Lucia Tampellini, Carlo Gavazzi Space S.p.a., Italy; Frank Martin Seifert, European Space Agency - ESRIN, Italy
TH2.O5.3: GLOBVOLCANO: GLOBAL MONITORING OF VOLCANOES FROM SPACE
Maria Lucia Tampellini, Raffaella Ratti, Carlo Gavazzi Space, Italy; Frank Martin Seifert, European Space Agency ESRIN, Italy; Sven Borgstrom, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia- Osservatorio Vesuviano, Italy; Jean Christophe Komorowski, Edouard Kaminsky, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France; Fabrizio Novali, Tele-Rilevamento Europa – T.R.E. S.r.l., Italy
TH2.O5.4: VOLCANO MONITORING IN NEAR REAL-TIME USING ENVISTAT AATSR
Miguel Angel Rubio, University of Granada, Spain; Olivier Colin, Emmanuel Mathot, Paula Landart, European Space Agency (ESA), Italy
TH2.O5.5: MULTI SENSOR SATELLITE DATA TO MONITOR SEISMICALLY ACTIVE REGION
Ramesh Singh, Waseem Mehdi, Anup Prasad, Menas Kafatos, Chapman University, United States
TH2.O6.1: IMPROVING THE SCALABILITY OF PARALLEL ALGORITHMS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS USING ADAPTIVE MESSAGE COMPRESSION
Antonio Plaza, Javier Plaza, Abel Paz, University of Extremadura, Spain
TH2.O6.2: RESEARCH ON PARALLEL BUFFER ANALYSIS WITH GRIDED BASED HPC TECHNOLOGY
Lv Pang, Guoqing Li, Yunxuan Yan, CEODE,CAS, China
TH2.O6.3: HARDWARE-ACCELERATED EDGE DETECTION FOR POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA
Quang Huy Nguyen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Myo Tun Aung, Ken Yoong Lee, EADS Innovation Works Singapore, Singapore; Ian McLoughlin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Timo Bretschneider, EADS Innovation Works Singapore, Singapore
TH2.O6.4: PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SEISMIC WAVE FIELD MODELING WITH COMBINED LINUX CLUSTERS AND GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS
Tomasz Danek, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Poland
TH2.O6.5: A QUICK AND FEATURE BASED VISUALIZATION ALGORITHM FOR LARGE-SCALE FLOW DATA
Liang Zhong, Tianhe Chi, Xin Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TH2.O7.1: AN APPROACH TO SAR TOMOGRAPHY WITH LIMITED NUMBER OF TRACKS
Vincenzo Severino, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy; Matteo Nannini, Andreas Reigber, Rolf Scheiber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Amedeo Capozzoli, Giuseppe D'Elia, Angelo Liseno, Pietro Vinetti, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy
TH2.O7.2: LEAF AREA INDEX INVERSION AND VALIDATION FOR COTTON IN XINJIANG BASED ON THE DMC REMOTELY SENSED MINI-SATELLITE DATA
Yanjuan Yao, Wenjie Fan, Peking University, China; Qiang Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Application, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Daihui Wu, Binyan Yan, Peking University, China; Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Application, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TH2.O7.3: AN INSAR GROUND DEFORMATION INVERSION SCHEME USING A FEM-BASED FAULT SLIP MODEL: AN APPLICATION TO ETNA VOLCANO
Gilda Currenti, Ciro Del Negro, Danila Scandura, Istituto Nazional di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Charles Williams, GNS Science, New Zealand
TH2.O7.4: A QUALITATIVE TWO-STEP INVERSION APPROACH FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF SUBSURFACE DEFECTS
Massimo Donelli, Manuel Benedetti, ELEDIA Research Group - University of Trento, Italy; Dominique Lesselier, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (CNRS-SUPELEC-UPS11), France; Andrea Massa, ELEDIA Research Group - University of Trento, Italy
TH2.O7.5: IMPROVING THE RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY OF INVERSION STRATEGIES THROUGH ENERGETIC CONSTRAINTS
Davide Franceschini, Manuel Benedetti, Federico Viani, Andrea Massa, ELEDIA Research Group - University of Trento, Italy
TH2.O8.1: SPECTRAL RULES AND GEOSTATISC FEATURES FOR CHARACTERIZING OLIVE GROVES IN QUIKBIRD IMAGES
Nicola Amoruso, CNR, Italy; Andrea Baraldi, JRC, Italy; Palma Blonda, CNR, Italy
TH2.O8.2: LOCATION-ADAPTIVE TEXTURE: AN EXPERIMENT USING QUICKBIRD, ASTER AND LANDSAT ETM+ IMAGERY
Timothy Warner, West Virginia University, United States
TH2.O8.3: HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION OF VEGETATION AREAS IN HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES BY FUSION OF MULTISPECTRAL INFORMATION
Felipe Calderero, Ferran Marques, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain; Javier Marcello, Francisco Eugenio, University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria, Spain
TH2.O8.4: THE SYNTHETIC IMAGE TESTING FRAMEWORK (SITEF) FOR THE EVALUATION OF MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS
Andre Marcal, Arlete Rodrigues, Mario Cunha, Faculdade Ciencias, Univ. Porto, Portugal
TH2.O8.5: IMAGE CLASSIFICATION WITH SPECTRAL AND TEXTURE FEATURES BASED ON SVM
Fen Chen, Zhiru Zhang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Dongmei Yan, CAS, China
TH2.O9.1: AN A-CONTRARIO APPROACH FOR UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN RADAR IMAGES
Amandine Robin, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Gregoire Mercier, Institut Telecom; Telecom Bretagne, France; Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy
TH2.O9.2: THE QUEST FOR AUTOMATED LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION USING SATELITE TIME SERIES DATA
Jan Olivier, Waldo Kleynhans, Brian Salmon, Konrad Wessels, Frans Van Den Bergh, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
TH2.O9.3: MAPPING AND MONITORING LAND COVER IN ACRE SATE, BRAZILIAN AMAZÔNIA, USING MULTITEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING DATA
Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, Valdete Duarte, Egidio Arai, Ramon M. Freitas, Paulo R. Martini, André Lima, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
TH2.O9.4: SPECTRAL-TEMPORAL SERIES OF EVI/MODIS TO IDENTIFY LAND USE COVER CHANGED TO SUGARCANE
Bernardo Rudorff, Marcos Adami, Daniel Aguiar, Aníbal Gusso, Wagner Silva, Ramon M. Freitas, National Institute for Space Resarch, Brazil
TH2.O9.5: IMPROVING NDVI TIME SERIES CLASS SEPARATION USING AN EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER.
Waldo Kleynhans, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Corne Olivier, CSIR, South Africa; Brian Salmon, University of Preoria, South Africa; Konrad Wessels, Frans van den Bergh, CSIR, Meraka Insitute, South Africa
TH2.O10.1: FIELD SPECTROMETRY OF PAPYRUS VEGETATION (CYPERUS PAPYRUS L.) IN SWAMP WETLANDS OF ST LUCIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Elhadi Adam, Onisimo Mutanga, University of KZN, South Africa
TH2.O10.2: INTEGRATION OF REMOTE SENSING AND ANCILLARY DATA TO DESCRIBE THE PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE OF EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS PLANTATION
Moses Azong Cho, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa; Jan van Aardt, Center for Imaging Science, United States; Bongani Majeke, Russell Main, Abel Ramoelo, Renaud Mathieu, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Mark Norris-Rogers, Marius Du Plessis, Mondi SA, South Africa
TH2.O10.3: ESTIMATION OF SUGARCANE THRIPS (FULEKIOLA SERRATA) DENSITY USING SPECTROSCOPIC DATA SETS
Elfatih Abdel-Rahman, Fethi Ahmed, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Maurits van den Berg, Mike Way, South African Sugarcane Research Institute, South Africa
TH2.O10.4: APPLICATIONS OF HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IN AFRICA
Anna Gerber, Phil Harris, Anglo American, South Africa
TH2.O10.5: WITHIN- AND BETWEEN-CLASS VARIABILITY OF SPECTRALLY SIMILAR TREE SPECIES
Pravesh Debba, The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
TH2.O11.1: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN VEGETATION MONITORING PRODUCTS FROM AUSTRALIA’S NATIONAL CARBON ACCOUNTING SYSTEM
Suzanne Furby, Peter Caccetta, Jeremy Wallace, Eric Lehmann, Katherine Zdunic, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia
TH2.O11.2: GIS INFORMATION LAYER SELECTION DIRECTED BY REMOTE SENSING FOR ECOLOGICAL UNIT DELINEATION
Enguerran Grandchamp, UAG, France
TH2.O11.3: A NARROW BAND COMBINATION MODEL TO DETERMINE LEAF NITROGEN AND WATER CONTENT IN RICE
Shalei Song, Pingxiang Li, Wei Gong, Liangpei Zhang, wuhan university, China
TH2.O11.4: EVAPOTRANSPIRATION MONITORING OVER THE ALPILLES-CRAU-CAMARGUE AREA FROM REMOTE SENSING DATA
Albert Olioso, Aline Bsaïbes, Emmanuel Kpemlie, Dominique Courault, Olivier Marloie, INRA, France; Dominique Chauvelon, Marc Pichaud, Tour du Valat, France; Jose Sobrino, Monica Gomez, Juan-Carlos Gimenez-Munoz, University of Valencia, Spain; Frederic Jacob, IRD, France
TH2.O11.5: A STUDY ON GPP INVERSION OF DIFFERENT ECOSYSTEMS BY REMOTE SENSING AND IMPACT FACTORS COMPARISON
Li Li, Liangfu Chen, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yanhua Gao, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qinhuo Liu, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TH2.O12.1: LAND SURFACE ALBEDO FROM MSG/SEVIRI: RETRIEVAL METHOD, VALIDATION, AND APPLICATION FOR WEATHER FORECAST
Dominique Carrer, Météo-France, France; Bernhard Geiger, ESA/ESAC, Spain; Jean-Louis Roujean, Olivier Hautecoeur, Météo-France, France; Jure Cedilnik, Slovenian Meteorological Service, Slovenia; Jean-François Mahfouf, Catherine Meurey, Laurent Franchistéguy, Météo-France, France
TH2.O12.2: DEVELOPING LAND PRODUCTS FOR THE U.S. GOES-R SATELLITE MISSION
Yunyue Yu, Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States; Dan Tarpley, Short & Associates, United States; Ivan Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States
TH2.O12.3: PRE-LAUNCH ASSESSMENT OF NPOESS/NPP VIIRS LAND ALGORITHMS
Alain Sei, Justin Ip, Sid Jackson, Alex Foo, Bruce Hauss, Merit Shoucri, NORTHROP GRUMMAN SPACE TECHNOLOGY, United States; Nancy Andreas, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, United States
TH2.O12.4: MONTHLY LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE MAPS OVER EUROPE USING ADVANCED ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER DATA FOR 2007
Joan Miquel Galve, César Coll, University of Valencia, Spain; Fred Prata, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway
TH2.O12.5: A SIMPLIFIED METHOD FOR MEASURING LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND EMISSIVITY USING THERMAL INFRARED SPLIT-WINDOW CHANNELS
Yunyue Yu, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States; Hui Xu, IMSG, United States; Dan Tarpley, Short & Associates, United States; Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States
TH2.O13.1: USING BATHYMETRIC LIDAR TO MAP SHALLOW COASTAL AND INLAND WATERS
David Millar, Jerry Wilson, Fugro Pelagos, Inc., United States
TH2.O13.2: SMALL OBJECT DETECTION USING SHOALS BATHYMETRIC LIDAR
Eric Yang, Paul LaRocque, Optech Inc., Canada; Gary Guenther, Optech International, United States; Karen Francis, David Reid, Wenbo Pan, Michael Sitar, Optech Inc., Canada
TH2.O13.3: RECENT ADVANCES IN DOPPLER LIDAR INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGY AT NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
Bruce Gentry, Matthew McGill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Geary Schwemmer, Science Engineering Services Inc, United States; R. Michael Hardesty, Wm. Alan Brewer, NOAA ESRL, United States; Thomas Wilkerson, Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory, United States; Marcos Sirota, SigmaSpace Corp, United States; Scott Lindemann, Michigan Aerospace Corp, United States; Floyd Hovis, Fibertek, United States
TH2.O13.4: DOPPLER LIDAR WIND MEASUREMENTS: RECENT PROGRESS AND CURRENT STATUS
R. Michael Hardesty, Wm. Alan Brewer, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, United States; Sara C. Tucker, University of Colorado, United States; Robert M. Banta, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, United States; Yelena L. Pichugina, Brandi J. McCarty, Christoph J. Senff, University of Colorado, United States
TH2.O13.5: LASER SOUNDER FOR GLOBAL MEASUREMENTS OF CO2 CONCENTRATION FROM AN ORBITING PLATFORM.
Graham Allan, NASA-GSFC / Sigma Space Co., United States; William Hasselbrack, Sigma Space, United States; Haris Riris, James B. Abshire, NASA-GSFC, United States; Clark Weaver, UMCP, United States; Jianping Mao, Xiaoli Sum, NASA-GSFC, United States
THP.A.1: REMOTE SENSING BASED SEASON CALENDAR FOR INDIAN DISTRICTS USING MODIS DATA
Sudhir Gupta, Vinay Pandit, Krishnan S Rajan, International Institute of Information Technology, India
THP.A.2: SCALING UP EQUIVALENT WATER THICKNESS IN SAVANNA ENVIRONMENTS: FROM LOCAL TO BIOME SCALE, VIA GROUND, HYPERION, AND MODIS DATA
Laerte Ferreira, Federal University of Goias, Brazil; Gregory Asner, Carnegie Institute, Stanford University, United States; David Knapp, Carnegie Institution, United States; Eric Davidson, The Woods Hole Research Center, United States; Mercedes Bustamante, University of Brasilia, Brazil
THP.A.3: CHANGE DETECTION OF THE TANGJIASHAN BARRIER LAKE BASED ON MULTISOURCE REMOTE SENSING DATA
Min Xu, Chunxiang Cao, Hao Zhang, Yong Xue, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jianping Guo, China Meteorological Administration, China; Chaoyi Chang, Qisheng He, Mengxu Gao, Xiaowen Li, Yingjie Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.A.4: SUBPIXEL MAPPING OF WATER COVER WITH MODIS ON TIBETAN PLATEAU
Chenzhou Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Application, China; Donghui Xie, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by Beijing Normal University and the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, CAS;Beijing Key Laboratory for Remote Sensing of Environment and Digital Cities, Beijing Normal University, China; Jiancheng Shi, Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, United States; Shuai Gao, Institute of Remote Sensing Application, China
THP.A.5: LAND USE/COVER CHANGE DETECTION IN THE AMUR RIVER BASIN USING MODIS TIME SERIES DATA WITH HYBRID CLASSIFICATION METHOD
Kaishan Song, Zongming Wang, Qingfeng Liu, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Dongmei Lu, Computer Science and Engineering College, Jilin Architectural and Civil Egineering Institute, China; Cui Jin, Lihong Zeng, Dianwei Liu, Bai Zhang, Jia Du, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.A.6: REMOTE SENSING IMAGE GEO-COGNITION APPROACH TO LAND TYPE CLASSIFICATION
Jing Wang, China Institute of Land Surveying and Planning, Ministry of Land and Resources, China; Chen Yongqi, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China; He Ting, China Institute of Land Surveying and Planning, China; Liu Aixia, China Institute of Land Surveying and Planning, Ministry of Land and Resources, China
THP.A.7: CLASSIFICATION OF VEGETATION TYPE USING SPECTRAL INVARIANT PARAMETERS
Mitchell Schull, X. Lu, Boston University, United States; Pedro Latorre Carmona, Jaume I University, Spain; Arindam Samanta, Boston University, United States; Julian Jenkins, Lucie Plourde, University of New Hampshire, United States; Sangram Ganguly, Ranga Myneni, Yuri Knyazikhin, Boston University, United States
THP.A.8: THE CHANGE OF LANDSCAPE PATTERN IN ARID MOUNTAIN OF THE UPPER REACHES OF SHULE RIVER BASIN IN NORTHWEST CHINA
Guojing Yang, Baisheng Ye, Yongjian Ding, Lihua Zhou, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.A.9: DEVELOPING NEW SPECTRAL INDICES FOR KARST ROCKY DESERTIFICATION MONITORING IN SOUTHWEST CHINA
Yuemin Yue, Kelin Wang, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Junsheng Li, Bing Zhang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Bo Liu, State Key Lab of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Quanjun Jiao, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaonan Zhang, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.A.10: THE INFLUENCE OF RAINFALL, VEGETATION, ELEPHANTS AND PEOPLE ON FIRE FREQUENCY OF MIOMBO WOODLANDS, NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE
Natasha Ribeiro, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique; Gregory S. Okin, University of California, United States; Herman H. Shugart, Robert J. Swap, University of Virginia, United States
THP.A.11: TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHANGE OF ALBEDO IN BEIJING-TIANJIN AREA OF CHINA
Xiaoxue Zhou, Bing Zhang, Liping Lei, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhengchao Chen, Earth Obeserving and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Junchuan Fan, Haixia Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.A.12: THE EFFECTS OF LAND USE CHANGES ON WATER AND SOIL EROSION IN DONGHE BASIN OF CHINA BASED ON SWAT MODEL
Aixia Liu, China Land Surveying and Planning Institute, China; Junfeng Chen, The Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, China; Jing Wang, China Land Surveying and Planning Institute, China; Zhengjun Liu, Chinese Academy of Surveying & Mapping, China
THP.B.1: ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF HEATHLAND VEGETATION BY CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING SPATIAL INFORMATION
Guy Thoonen, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Jeroen Vanden Borre, Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Belgium; Steve De Backer, Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium
THP.B.2: RECONSTRUCTION OF CLOUD-FREE VEGETATION DYNAMICS ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU BY APPLYING HANTS ALGORITHM
Lei Zhong, Yaoming Ma, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Suhyb Salama, Bob Su, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Netherlands
THP.B.3: MONITORING NDVI WITH MSG SEVIRI
Peter Romanov, University of Maryland, United States; Hui Xu, IMSG, United States
THP.B.4: SCALING EFFECT ANALYSIS AND CORRECTIONS ON TIME SERIES OF NASA MODIS LAI PRODUCTS
Wanchang Zhang, Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Shan Zhong, Nanjing University, China
THP.B.5: TOWARDS THE OPTIMAL MODIS-BASED PHOTOCHEMICAL REFLECTANCE INDEX FOR ARID AREAS
Anna Goerner, Markus Reichstein, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany; Serge Rambal, CEFE-CRNS, France
THP.B.6: WOODY COVER AND HETEROGENEITY IN THE SAVANNAS OF THE KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH AFRICA
Gabriela Bucini, Colorado State University, United States; Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Niall Hanan, Michael Lefsky, Randall B. Boone, Colorado State University, United States
THP.B.7: USING MODIS-BASED VEGETATION AND MOISTURE INDICES FOR OASIS LANDSCAPE MONITORING IN AN ARID ENVIRONMENT
Meng-Lung Lin, Aletheia University, Taiwan; Cheng-Wu Chen, Shu-Te University, Taiwan; Jyh-Yi Shih, Yung-Tan Lee, Aletheia University, Taiwan; Chung-Hung Tsai, Taiwan Hospitality & Tourism College, Taiwan; Yen-Tsui Hu, Sinotech Engineering Consultants Inc., Taiwan; Fujun Sun, Shenyang Agricultural University, China; Chun-Ying Wang, Tatung High School, Taiwan
THP.B.8: ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHANGE AND CORRIDOR EFFECT OF IN YELLOW RIVER HEADWATERS REGION
Luo Guo, Central University for Nationalities, China; Shihong Du, Peking University, China; Dayuan Xue, Central University for Nationalities, China
THP.B.9: MODELING SURFACE-FLOW CHARACTERISTICS IN GLACIATED LANDSCAPES
Janet Gritzner, South Dakota State University, United States
THP.B.10: PRAMETRIZATION OF INTEGRATED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL OF NAM CO LAKE CATCHMENT ON TIBETAN PLATEAU USING SYNERGY OF SAR AND OPTICAL DATA
Jan Kropacek, Volker Hochschild, University of Tuebingen, Germany
THP.B.11: ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT EFFECT ANALYSIS OF WETLAND CHANGE IN BEIJING REGION
Zhaoning Gong, Xiao-Juan Li, Wen-Ji Zhao, Capital Normal University, China
THP.C.1: BIOMASS ESTIMATION OF PINUS RADIATA (D. DON) STANDS IN NORTHWESTERN SPAIN BY UNMIXING CCD CBERS DATA
Eva Sevillano-Marco, Alfonso Fernández-Manso, University of León, Spain; Carmen Quintano, University of Valladolid, Spain; Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
THP.C.2: MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF PADDY FIELD BY POLARIMETRIC GB-SAR
Naoki Hayashi, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Japan; Motoyuki Sato, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Japan
THP.C.3: SPECTRAL CHARACTERISATION AND MAPPING OF WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS IN NAMIBIA
Roman Kellenberger, Mathias Kneubühler, Tobias Kellenberger, University of Zürich, Switzerland
THP.C.4: MAPPING OF WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY IN THE NAMIB DESERT
Tobias W. Kellenberger, swisstopo, Switzerland; Mathias Kneubühler, Remote Sensing Laboratories (RSL), Switzerland
THP.C.5: MODELING CANOPY INTERCEPTION OF PICEA CRASSLIOLIA FOREST IN QILIAN MOUNTAINS USING QUICKBIRD SATELLITE DATA
Huanhua Peng, Chuanyan Zhao, Lanzhou University, China; Weihua Shen, Chinese academy of sciences, China; Zhonglin Xu, Lanzhou University, China
THP.C.6: REGIONAL YIELD PREDICTION OF WINTER WHEAT BASED ON RETRIEVAL OF LEAF AREA INDEX BY REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY
Jianqiang Ren, Zhongxin Chen, Institute of Agricultural Resources & Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Xiaomei Yang, The State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xingren Liu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qingbo Zhou, Institute of Agricultural Resources & Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
THP.C.7: INFORMATION EXTRACTION OF HARVEST INDEX FOR WINTER WHEAT BASED ON EOS-MODIS DATA IN HUANGHUAIHAI PLAIN IN CHINA
Jianqiang Ren, Institute of Agricultural Resources & Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Xingren Liu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhongxin Chen, Institute of Agricultural Resources & Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Yunyan Du, The State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Huajun Tang, Institute of Agricultural Resources & Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
THP.C.8: YIELD ESTIMATION OF WINTER WHEAT IN NORTH CHINA PLAIN USING RS-P-YEC MODEL
Peijuan Wang, Jiahua Zhang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China; Donghui Xie, Beijing Normal University, China; Yuyu Zhou, Purdue University, United States; Rui Sun, Beijing Normal University, China
THP.C.9: INDIVIDUAL TREE HEIGHT AND DBH EXTRACTION USING MULT-SCAN GROUND-BASED LIDAR DATA
Huabing Huang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiao Cheng, Beijing Normal University, China
THP.C.10: STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF DROUGHT TO CROP GROWTH BASED ON SAR REMOTE SENSING
Aimin Cai, Yun Shao, Fengli Zhang, Huaze Gong, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.C.11: ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF CROWN STRUCTURE CHANGES ON BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT USING MODELING AND SAR DATA
Zhifeng Guo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Science, China; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States
THP.D.1: A MODIFIED SFS ALGORITHM BASED ON STEREO IMAGES FOR THE-DIMENSION RECONSTRUCTION OF URBAN BUILDINGS
Hongzhao Tang, Lei Yan, Pengqi Gao, Peking University, China
THP.D.2: AUTOMATIC ROAD EXTRACTION FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES APPLIED OVER URBAN AREAS
Mohamed Naouai, URPAH/Image, Ville et Environnement, Tunisia; Atef Hamouda, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Unit of Research in Programming, Algorithmic and Heuristic, Tunisia; Christiane Weber, University of Strasbourg Laboratory « Image, Ville and Environnement », UMR7011-CNRS, France
THP.D.3: INTEGRATING MULTISCALE INFORMATION FOR URBAN VHR IMAGERY: VECTOR STACKING AND FUZZY APPROACHES
Xin Huang, Wuhan University, China
THP.D.4: HIGH-ACCURACY OF ORTHORECTIFICATION MODEL WITH SELF-GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT FOR HIGH BUILDINGS IN URBAN AREA
Wenhan Xie, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, China; Guoqing Zhou, Old Dominion University, United States
THP.D.5: FUNSION METHOD OF MULTI-SOURCE REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES FOR AVOIDING REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
Xiaodong Hu, Zhanfeng Shen, Jiancheng Luo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.D.6: URBAN AREAS CHARACTERIZATION FROM POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USING HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL
Wenju He, Marc Jäger, Olaf Hellwich, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
THP.D.7: BAYESIAN BUILDING EXTRACTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Wenju He, Olaf Hellwich, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
THP.D.8: ACCURATE POSE AND LOCATION ESTIMATION OF UNCALIBRATED CAMERA IN URBAN AREA
Wenhan Xie, Li Zhang, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, China; Guoqing Zhou, Old Dominion University, United States; Yucai Xue, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
THP.D.9: AUTOMATED DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF INTACT ROAD NETWORKS IN MULTI-SENSORIAL SPACEBORNE IMAGERY FOR NEAR-REALTIME DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Daniel Frey, Matthias Butenuth, TU Muenchen, Germany; Stefan Hinz, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
THP.D.10: HYPERIMAGE CONCEPT: MULTIDIMENSIONAL TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS APPLIED TO SAR IMAGING
Mickaël Duquenoy, Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, ONERA, France; Laurent Ferro-Famil, Eric Pottier, IETR, France
THP.D.11: ANALYSIS OF NARROW RIDGE ESTIMATION FOR LINEAR CCD RPC MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION
Dongmei Yan, Tianyou Kou, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth,Chinese Academy of Science, China; Fenfei Wang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Science, China; Feng Chen, College of Automation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
THP.D.12: QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF DATA PRODUCTS FROM A NEW-GENERATION AIRBORNE IMAGING SPECTROMETER
Luciano Alparone, University of Florence, Italy; Francesco Butera, Selex Galileo S.p.A., Italy; Luca Capobianco, University of Florence, Italy; Leandro Chiarantini, Selex Galileo S.p.A., Italy; Sandro Moretti, Massimo Selva, University of Florence, Italy
THP.E.1: CHARACTERISTICS OF SHADOW AND REMOVAL OF ITS EFFECTS FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY
Fumio Yamazaki, Makiko Takasaki, Chiba University, Japan
THP.E.2: NATURAL-COLOR IMAGE SIMULATION BASE ON SPECTRUM ANALYSIS
Jinxiang Shen, Liao Yang, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiancheng Luo, Zhanfeng Shen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.E.3: A PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING BURIED OBJECT CHARACTERISTICS IN GPR IMAGES
Edoardo Pasolli, Farid Melgani, Massimo Donelli, University of Trento, Italy
THP.E.4: A TRACK-BEFORE-DETECT ALGORITHM USING KA-HT BASED ON TARGET DOPPLER PROPERTY
Shaonan Guo, Xiaoling Zhang, Ling Fan, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
THP.E.5: SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION BY NEURAL NETWORKS USING POLARIMETRIC TIME-FREQUENCY SIGNATURES
Mickaël Duquenoy, Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, Christèle Morisseau, Gilles Vieillard, ONERA, France; Laurent Ferro-Famil, Eric Pottier, IETR, France
THP.E.6: DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL COMPUTATION WITH SPOT 5 PANCHROMATIC AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES USING LOW STEREOSCOPIC ANGLE AND GEOMETRIC MODEL REFINEMENT
Stéphane May, Christophe Latry, CNES, France
THP.E.7: RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF SAR IMAGE USING A MULTIFRAME SUPER RESOLUTION TECHNIQUE
Yosuke Ito, Naruto University of Education, Japan
THP.E.8: AN IMPROVED FUSION METHOD FOR PAN-SHARPENING BEIJING-1 MICRO-SATELLITE IMAGES
Haixia Liu, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Bing Zhang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xia Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Junsheng Li, Zhengchao Chen, Xiaoxue Zhou, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.E.9: A COMPARISON OF TRACKING ALGORITHM STATISTICS IN MULTITEMPORAL SAR IMAGES
Esra Erten, Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center, Germany; Olaf Hellwich, Technical University Berlin, Germany
THP.E.10: SPECKLE REDUCTION OF TERRASAR-X IMAGERY USING TV SEGMENTATION
Johannes Sveinsson, Björn Waske, Jón Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland
THP.E.11: SPECKLE REDUCTION OF SAR IMAGES USING SURE-BASED ADAPTIVE SIGMOID THRESHOLDINGS IN THE WAVELET DOMAIN
Johannes Sveinsson, Magnus Orn Ulfarsson, Jón Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland
THP.E.12: ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION OF SATELLITE IMAGES OVER RUGGED TERRAIN
Yoshikazu Iikura, Hirosaki University, Japan
THP.F.1: REGULARIZED INVERSION OF FULL-POLARIMETRIC DATA FOR THE SMOS SPACE MISSION
Ali Khazaal, Eric Anterrieu, Université de Toulouse & CNRS, France
THP.F.2: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF TARGET CONTOUR EXTRACTION BASED ON SCATTERING MECHANISM USING POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES
Lu Zhang, Huadong Guo, Xinwu Li, Qizhong Lin, Yubao Qiu, Laboratory of Digital Earth Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.F.3: OIL SLICK SPOT DETECTION USING K DISTRIBUTION MODEL OF THE SEA BACKGROUND
Hong-Zhong Li, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Fan Wu, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, China
THP.F.4: EVALUATION OF JP3D FOR LOSSY AND LOSSLESS COMPRESSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Jing Zhang, James Fowler, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States; Guizhong Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University,, China
THP.F.5: NEW METHOD FOR ONBOARD COMPRESSION OF SATELLITE IMAGES
Lianru Gao, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiong Ran, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Bing Zhang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yaobin Chi, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhiyong Wang, Beijing Landview Mapping Information Technology Co. Ltd., China
THP.F.6: MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE INDEXING BASED ON VECTOR LIFTING SCHEMES
Sarra Sakji-Nsibi, SUP'COM, Tunisia; Amel Benazza-Benyahia, SUP'COM-Tunis, Tunisia
THP.F.7: SEISMIC HYPERBOLIC PATTERN DETECTION AND VELOCITY ANALYSIS BY SIMULATED ANNEALING
Kuo-Chen Huang, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan; Kou-Yuan Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Luke K. Wang, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan; Ying-Liang Chou, Yueh-Hsun Hsieh, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Shan-Chih Hsieh, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
THP.F.8: STUDY ON A PRACTICAL EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING SYSTEM BASED ON RS AND GIS
Xiang Ding, Xiaoqing Wang, Aixia Dou, Long Wang, Institute of Earthquake Science, China
THP.F.9: AUTOMATIC BAND MATCHING FOR BEIJING1 MICROSATELLITE MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES
Guangbin Ma, Wenyi Zhang, Fu Chen, Peng Huang, Lixia Guo, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.F.10: COMPARISON OF IMAGE-BASED FUNCTIONAL MONITORING THROUGH RESAMPLING AND COMPRESSION
Steven Simske, Margaret Sturgill, Jason Aronoff, Hewlett-Packard Labs, United States
THP.F.11: ADAPTIVE DATA COMPRESSION FOR EFFICIENT SEQUENTIAL TRANSMISSION AND CHANGE UPDATING OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES.
Md. Al Mamun, Xiuping Jia, Mike Ryan, UNSW@ADFA, Australia
THP.F.12: PROGRESSIVE COMPRESSION OF DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA USING MESHES
Kivanc Kose, Bilkent University, Turkey; Erdal Yilmaz, Middle East Technical University, Turkey; A. Enis Cetin, Bilkent University, Turkey
THP.G.1: MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS APPLIED TO X-BAND SAR FOR URBAN LAND USE CLASSIFICATION
Marco Chini, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Fabio Pacifici, Tor Vergata University, Italy; William J. Emery, University of Colorado, United States
THP.G.2: SWIMMING POOLS LOCALIZATION IN COLOUR HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES
Cipriano Galindo, Pablo Moreno, Javier Gonzalez, Vicente Arevalo, University of Málaga, Spain
THP.G.3: SHIP DETECTION AND RECOGNITION IN HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES
Javier Gonzalez, Cipriano Galindo, Gregorio Ambrosio, Jose Antelo, University of Málaga, Spain
THP.G.4: DETECTION AND RADIATION AREA ESTIMATION OF ANOMALOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE RELATED TO EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR
Tokiyasu Sato, Ichi Takumi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan; Masayasu Hata, Chubu University, Japan; Hiroshi Yasukawa, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan
THP.G.6: VOLCANO-SEISMIC SIGNAL DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION PROCESSING USING HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS. APPLICATION TO SAN CRISTÓBAL VOLCANO, NICARAGUA
Ligdamis A. Gutiérrez, Universidad de Granada, Ugr, Spain; Jesús Ibañéz, Instituto Andaluz de Geofísica, Spain; Guillermo Cortés, Javier Ramirez, Carmen Benitez, Universidad de Granada, Ugr, Spain; Virginia Tenorio, . Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (INETER), Nicaragua; Isaac Álvarez, Universidad de Granada, Ugr, Spain
THP.G.7: IMPROVING FEATURE EXTRACTION IN THE AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF SEISMIC EVENTS. APPLICATION TO COLIMA AND ARENAL VOLCANOES
Isaac Álvarez, Universidad de Granada, Spain; Guillermo Cortés, Angel De la Torre, M Carmen Benitez, Luz García, University of Granada, Spain; Philippe Lesage, University of Savoie, France; Raúl Arámbula, Miguel González-Amezcua, University of Colima, Mexico
THP.G.8: DETECTING SMALL AMPLITUDE SIGNAL AND TRANSIT TIMES IN HIGH NOISE: APPLICATION TO HYDRAULIC FRACTURE MONITORING
Qiuhua Liu, Sandip Bose, Henri-Pierre Valero, Ram Shenoy, Abderrhamane Ounadjela, Schlumberger-Doll Research, United States
THP.G.10: SPECTRAL IMAGE PROCESSING USING SPARSE LINEAR TRANSFORMS
Stefan Robila, Montclair State University, United States; ,
THP.G.11: LOCALIZED SHRINKAGE COVARIANCE ESTIMATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Hsiao-Yun Huang, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan; Bor-Chen Kuo, National Taichung University, Taiwan; Jeng-Fu Liu, Nanping Yang, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
THP.H.1: A COMBINATION OF PARTICLE FILTER, MATRIX PENCIL AND REGION GROWING TECHNIQUES FOR PHASE UNWRAPPING IN SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Juan J Martinez-Espla, Tomas Martinez-Marin, J. David Ballester-Berman, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, University of Alicante, Spain
THP.H.2: ENHANCING COMPLEX INTERFEROGRAMS BY ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION
Fernando Rodríguez González, Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
THP.H.3: SURFACE AND DOUBLE-BOUNCE DISCRIMINATION BY MEANS OF POLINSAR SINGLE- AND ALTERNATE- TRANSMIT MODES
Maxim Neumann, Shaharyar Khwaja, Laurent Ferro-Famil, University of Rennes 1, France
THP.H.4: SIMULATION OF DUAL-CHANNEL SAR-GMTI FOR VELOCITY ESTIMATION AND COMPENSATION
Young K Kwag, Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea; Jae H Jung, LIG NEX1, Republic of Korea; Chul H Jung, Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea
THP.H.5: OBTAIN LONGEST AXIS OF COHERENCE REGION AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO ESTIMATE TOPOGRAPHIC PHASE
Lu Bai, Wen Hong, Fang Cao, Jin-Song Chong, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.H.6: POLARIMETRIC, X-BAND RADAR NETWORK: SIMULATION RESULTS AND EARLY DATA EVALUATION
Piotr Domaszczynski, Anton Kruger, Witold F. Krajewski, The University of Iowa, United States
THP.H.7: INTERFEROMETRIC SAR CALIBRATION WITH AREA CALIBRATION SITE OF SAME HEIGHT
Wei Zhang, Maosheng Xiang, Yirong Wu, Institute of Electronics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.H.8: LARGE SCALE LAND SUBSIDENCE MONITORING WITH A REDUCED SET OF SAR IMAGES
Daqing Ge, Yan Wang, Ling Zhang, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Ye Xia, GeoForschungsZentrumPotsdam, Germany; Xiaofang Guo, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China
THP.H.9: MONITORING LANDSLIDES IN THE THREE GORGES AREA USING TERRASAR-X DATA
Xiaofan Li, Jan-Peter Muller, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom; Yonghong Zhao, PEKING UNIVERSITY, China
THP.H.10: MOTION MEASUREMENT ERRORS ANALYSIS FOR THE “ONE-ACTIVE” LASAR
Yinbo Wang, Xiaoling Zhang, Jun Shi, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
THP.I.1: LANDSCAPES OF TITAN
Tom Farr, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Alexander Hayes, California Institute of Technology, United States; Randolph Kirk, US Geological Survey, United States; Karl Mitchell, Rosaly Lopes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Ralph Lorenz, Johns Hopkins University, United States; Ellen Stofan, Proxemy Research, United States; Jani Radebaugh, Brigham Young University, United States; Steve Wall, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Chuck Wood, Wheeling Jesuit College, United States
THP.I.2: A REVISED RADIOMETRIC NORMALISATION STANDARD FOR SAR
David Small, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Nuno Miranda, European Space Agency, Italy; Erich Meier, University of Zurich, Switzerland
THP.I.4: THE FEASIBILITY OF A COMPACT POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR FOR POLSAR AND POLINSAR APPLICATIONS
Marco Lavalle, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Eric Pottier, University of Rennes 1, France; Domenico Solimini, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Yves-Louis Desnos, European Space Agency, Italy
THP.I.5: EFFECT OF LINEAR ARRAY ELEMENTS SPACING ON ANGLE IMAGING PERFORMANCE OF DOWNWARD-LOOKING 3D-SAR
Yanping Wang, Lei Du, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Lideng Wei, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.I.6: RESEARCH ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SATELLITE ATTITUDE STABILITY AND INTERFEROMETRIC PERFORMANCE
Wei Li, Chunsheng Li, Jie Chen, Yujing Liu, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
THP.I.7: AN INTERNAL CALIBRATION SCHEME FOR POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR SYSTEM
Shuo Wang, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Weidong Yu, Haiming Qi, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.I.8: CALIBRATION OF THE HIGH PERFORMANCE AIRBORNE SAR SYSTEM (PI-SAR2)
Takeshi Matsuoka, Toshihiko Umehara, Akitsugu Nadai, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Makoto Satake, Seiho Uratsuka, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
THP.I.9: SCALED MODEL FOR SAND-COVERED BEDROCK MAPPING INTERFEROMETRIC SAR
Adel Elsherbini, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, United States
THP.I.10: TRANSPOLARIZING TRIHEDRAL MEASUREMENT USING UPC X-BAND GBSAR
P.J. Ferrer, J. Romeu, J.M. González-Arbesú, Albert Aguasca, Luca Pipia, Carlos López-Martínez, Xavier Fàbregas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
THP.I.11: ACCURACY ASSESSMENT OF THE FIRST HIGH-RESOLUTION IFSAR CAMPAIGN OVER THE COORONG REGION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Carl Menges, Fabrice Marre, Tishampati Dhar, Apogee Imaging International, Australia
THP.J.1: CIRCULAR SAR IMAGING VIA COMPRESSED SENSING
Yun Lin, Wei-Xian Tan, Wen Hong, Yanping Wang, Jin-Song Chong, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.J.2: KERNEL REGRESSION-BASED BACKGROUND PREDICTING METHOD FOR TARGET DETECTION IN SAR IMAGE
Yanfeng Gu, Xing Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Jinglong Han, harbin institute of technology, China; Ye Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
THP.J.3: PSLR ESTIMATION CONSIDERING CLUTTER BACKGROUND FROM SAR IMAGE DATA
Chul H Jung, Young K Kwag, Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea
THP.J.4: DETECTION OF LANDMINES IN A VARIETY OF SOIL CONDITIONS USING A GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR AND A METAL DETECTOR
Jihyuk Cho, Dae Man Kim, Kangwook Kim, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
THP.J.5: ANTI-JAMMING TECHNIQUES FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Wei Li, Xing Liang Wang, AirForce Engineering University, China; Xian-Ming Wang, Nanjing 14th Institute, China
THP.J.6: THE EFFECTS OF MULTI-PATH SCATTERING ON THE SAR IMAGE OF CYLINDER CAVITY
Yueting Zhang, Chibiao Ding, Hongjian You, Xiaolan Qiu, Institute of Electronics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.J.7: SAR RAW SINGAL SIMULATION ACCOUNTING FOR ANTENNA ATTITUDE VARIATIONS
Xiao Qing Tang, Mao Sheng Xiang, Li Deng Wei, Yirong Wu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.J.8: SAR RAW SIGNAL SIMULATION BASED ON GPU PARALLEL COMPUTATION
Bing-Nan Wang, Fan Zhang, Maosheng Xiang, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.J.10: SAR TARGET RECOGNITION BASED ON SUB-BLOCK STATISTICAL FEATURES EXTRACTED FROM THE GABOR FILTERED IMAGE
Fengming Hu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xuehua Fan, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Ruliang Yang, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
THP.J.11: AN IMAGING METHOD AND THE CORRECTION OF DISTORTION FOR SPACEBORNE-AIRBORNE BISTATIC SAR
Yang Yue, e.e department of uestc cheng du china, China; Xiaoling Zhang, Zijin Zuo, E.E.dept. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Haiguang Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
THP.J.12: DEVELOPEMENT OF AN EFFICIENT SCAN SAR PRCESSOR USING INTEGRATED SPECAN ALGORITHMS
Wookyung Lee, Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea; Jung Hwan Song, Korea Aerospace Univ., Republic of Korea
THP.K.1: SPOTLIGHT SAR PROCESSOR BY USING EXTENDED FREQUENCY SCALING
Dong Kim, Moon Kim, Satrec Initiative co., Republic of Korea; Jung Keum, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Republic of Korea
THP.K.2: DATA PROCESSING FRAME FOR AIRBORNE SAR PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT
Beatriz Gomez, Maria Gonzalez, Juan Cuerda, Juan Cores, Nuria Casal, Nuria Gimeno, Patricia Cifuentes, Alvaro Arenas, Adolfo Lopez, INTA, Spain
THP.K.3: ANTENNA POINTING MEASUREMENT FOR SPACEBORNE SAR BASED ON SIGN-MLCC ALGORITHM
Yesheng Gao, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
THP.K.6: FLOOD DISASTER MONITORING WITH ALOS/PALSAR OBSERVATION
Noriyuki Kawano, Masanobu Shimada, Earth Observation Research Center Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan
THP.K.7: A WEB APPLICATION WITH VISUAL SAR PROCESSOR FOR EDUCATION
Yosuke Ito, Naruto University of Education, Japan; Yuuhei Teramoto, Kenji Abe, Ateral, Inc., Japan
THP.L.2: NOISE WAVE ANALYSIS OF DICKE AND NOISE INJECTION RADIOMETERS: COMPLETE S-PARAMATER ANALYSIS AND EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS
Adriano Camps, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - IEEC/CRAE-UPC, Spain
THP.L.3: MULTIFREQUENCY EXPERIMENTAL RADIOMETER WITH INTERFERENCE TRACKING FOR EXPERIMENTS OVER LAND AND LITTORAL: MERITXELL
José Miguel Tarongi, Adriano Jose Camps, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
THP.L.4: PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN ELABORATION, TESTING AND PUTTING TO PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF AIRPLANE, UNMANNED AND MOBILE PLATFORMS WITH MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS ON BOARD AS PRINCIPAL INSTRUMENTS ALONG WITH INFRARED AND OPTICAL SENSORS WHERE APPROPRIATE
Anatolij Shutko, Vladimir Abramov, Alexanser Haldin, Eugene Novichikhin, Vladimir Krapivin, Sergey Golovachev, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences (IRE RAS), Russian Federation; Victor Pliushchev, Igor Sidorov, Radio Corporation VEGA, Russian Federation; Eugene Biriukov, Joint Stock Company (Radio Corporation VEGA, Russia, Russian Federation; Roland Haarbrink, Miramap, Netherlands, Netherlands; Frank Archer, Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (AAMU, USA), United States; P. Hristov, E. Gavrailov, Varna Free University (VFU, Bulgaria), Bulgaria; Alexander Chukhlantsev, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences (IRE RAS), Russian Federation
THP.L.5: LINEARITY CHARACTERIZATION OF DETECTORS FOR INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS
Cristina Gonzalez, Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Roger Vilaseca, MIER SA, Spain; Manuel Martín-Neira, European Space Agency, Netherlands
THP.L.10: GNSS SCATTEROMETRY OF THE EARTH SURFACE: MODEL ANALYSIS OF GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETER SENSITIVITY AND INSTRUMENT REQUIREMENTS
Leila Guerriero, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy; Stefano Landenna, Thales Alenia Space, Italy; Nazzareno Pierdicca, Ivano Ricciarelli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Alberto Zin, Thales Alenia Space, Italy
THP.L.11: GSOC'S SCATTEROMETRY GNSS RECEIVER FOR OCEAN REMOTE SENSING: DESIGN AND INITIAL RESULTS
Rodrigo Rivas, Andreas Grillenberger, Markus Markgraf, German Aerospace Center(DLR), Space Flight Technology Department, Germany
THP.L.12: RECENT AIRBORNE EXPERIMENTS IN MULTISTATIC GNSS SENSING OF OCEAN ROUGHNESS USING GISMOS
James Garrison, Justin Voo, Tyler Lulich, Jennifer Haase, Purdue University, United States
TH3.O1.1: MERIS–BASED AQUATIC PETROLEUM POLLUTION MONITORING MODE
Miao-Fen Huang, Dalian Fisheries University, China; Xiang-Ping Zhang, Ke-Jie Lu, National Natural Sciences Foundation of Chain, China; Xu-Feng Xing, Dalian Fisheries University, China
TH3.O1.2: ALOS-PALSAR POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA TO OBSERVE SEA OIL SLICKS
Maurizio Migliaccio, Attilio Gambardella, Ferdinando Nunziata, Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Masanobu Shimada, Osamu Isoguchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan
TH3.O1.3: A STUDY ON OIL SPILL DETECTION WITH X-BAND MARINE RADAR
Ying Li, Shuiming Yu, Duo Chen, Dalian Maritime University, China; Jijun Li, Maritime Safety Administration of Shandong China, China
TH3.O1.4: COMPARISON WITH L-, C-, AND X-BAND REAL SAR IMAGES AND SIMULATION SPILLED OIL ON SEA SURFACE
Chan-Su Yang, Youn-Seop Kim, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Republic of Korea; Kazuo Ouchi, National Defense Academy, Japan; Jae-Ho Na, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Republic of Korea
TH3.O1.5: OIL SPILL DETECTION, MONITORING AND RESPONSE IN THE NIGERIAN COASTAL ENVIRONMENT USING GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (GIT)
Mahmoud Ibrahim Mahmoud, NATIONAL OIL SPILL DETECTION AND RESPONSE AGENCY (NOSDRA)/FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY MINNA, Nigeria
TH3.O2.1: AUTOMATED INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES: TERRASAR-X IMAGE INTERPRETATION APPLICATIONS
Gottfried Schwarz, German Aerospace Center DLR, Germany; Matteo Soccorsi, Houda Chaabouni, Daniela Espinoza, Daniele Cerra, Fernando Rodriguez, Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
TH3.O2.2: GEOLOCATION ACCURACY OF TERRASAR-X HIGH-RESOLUTION PRODUCTS
Adrian Schubert, David Small, Michael Jehle, Erich Meier, University of Zurich, Switzerland
TH3.O2.3: SPECKLE REDUCTION AND EDGE DETECTION FOR TERRASAR-X SINGLE-LOOK DUAL-POLARIZATION IMAGERY
Ken Yoong Lee, Timo Bretschneider, Choo Leng Koh, EADS Innovation Works Singapore, Singapore
TH3.O2.4: AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION OF AIRCRAFT MODELS BASED ON ISAR IMAGES
Mohamed Nabil Saidi, Laboratory E3I2-EA3876 ENSIETA, France; Khalid Daoudi, CNRS-IRIT, France; Brigitte Hoeltzener, Ali Khenchaf, Laboratory E3I2-EA3876 ENSIETA, France; Driss Aboutajdine, GSCM-LRIT, Morocco
TH3.O2.5: FIRST VALIDATION EXPERIMENT FOR A MULTI-CHROMATIC ANALYSIS (MCA) OF SAR DATA STARTING FROM SLC IMAGES
Fabio Bovenga, Vito Martino Giacovazzo, Alberto Refice, Nicola Veneziani, National Council of Research, Italy; Raffaele Vitulli, European Space Agency, Netherlands
TH3.O3.1: A NEYMAN-PEARSON APPROACH TO ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF ENDMEMBERS
Joshua Broadwater, Amit Banerjee, The Johns Hopkins University, United States
TH3.O3.2: A GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXING MODEL FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
David Gillis, Jeffrey Bowles, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Emmett Ientilucci, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
TH3.O3.3: ANALYSIS OF SUB-MANIFOLD STRUCTURE IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Charles Bachmann, Thomas Ainsworth, Robert Fusina, Naval Research Laboratory, United States
TH3.O3.4: FRAME BASED KERNEL METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION IN HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
John Benedetto, Wojciech Czaja, Justin Flake, Matthew Hirn, University of Maryland College Park, United States
TH3.O3.5: ADVANCES IN HYPERSPECTRAL PROCESSING FOR PROVINCE AND CONTINENTAL- WIDE MINERAL MAPPING
Robert Hewson, Thomas Cudahy, Michael Caccetta, Andrew Rodger, Cindy Ong, CSIRO, Australia
TH3.O4.1: STANDARDIZED SEA FLOOR AND WATER DEPTH MAPPING USING OPTICAL AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE DATA
Thomas Heege, Jörg Heblinski, EOMAP GmbH & Co KG, Germany; Halina Kobryn, Kristin Wouters, Nicole Pinnel, Murdoch University, Australia; Peter Reinartz, German Aerospace Center, Germany
TH3.O4.2: HIGH RESOLUTION DEM DERIVED FROM THERMAL INFRARED IMAGES : EXAMPLE OF ABER BENOIT (FRANCE)
Damien Gaudin, Christophe Delacourt, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer - Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France; Pascal Allemand, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France; Marion Jaud, Jérôme Ammann, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer - Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France; Chantal Tisseau, Institut Européen Universitaire de la Mer - Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France
TH3.O4.3: INFRARED REMOTE SENSING OF COHERENT STRUCTURES IN AN ESTUARINE RIVER
Andrew Jessup, Chris Chickadel, University of Washington, United States
TH3.O4.4: NEAR REAL TIME OIL SPILL DETECTION AND MONITORING USING SATELLITE OPTICAL DATA
Caterina Livia Sara Grimaldi, Department of Engineering and Physics of the Environment (DIFA) - University of Basilicata, Italy; Irina Coviello, Teodosio Lacava, Nicola Pergola, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA) - National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Valerio Tramutoli, Department of Engineering and Physics of the Environment (DIFA) - University of Basilicata, Italy
TH3.O4.5: SEA-CLUTTER ANALYSIS AT MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS (L,C,X) FOR TARGET-CLUTTER CONTRAST ASSESSMENT IN LITTORAL WATERS
Carl Menges, Fabrice Marre, Tishampati Dhar, Apogee Imaging International, Australia
TH3.O5.1: A STUDY OF FOREST VERTICAL STRUCTURE ESTIMATION USING COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY COUPLED TO A MACRO-ECOLOGICAL SCATTERING MODEL
Shane Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom; Matthew Brolly, Iain Woodhouse, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
TH3.O5.2: ERRORS IN TROPICAL-FOREST STRUCTURE PARAMETERS ESTIMATED FROM REPEAT-TRACK POLARIMETRIC INSAR AT L-BAND
Robert Treuhaft, Bruce Chapman, Scott Hensley, George Purcell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Fabio Goncalves, Oregon State University, United States; Joao Roberto dos Santos, Luciano Dutra, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
TH3.O5.3: ESTIMATION OF FOREST VERTICAL SRUCTURE BY MEANS OF MULTI-BASELINE POL-INSAR AT L-BAND
Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Seung-Kuk Lee, Florian Kugler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
TH3.O5.4: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE ADVANCED L-BAND TRANSMISSION AND REFLECTION OBSERVATION OF THE SEA SURFACE (ALBATROSS) CAMPAIGN: PREPARING THE SMOS CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION ACTIVITIES
Marco Talone, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez, José Miguel Tarongi, Maria Piles, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Enric Valencia, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Remote Sensing LAB, Spain
TH3.O5.5: ON THE USE OF COMPACT L-BAND DICKE RADIOMETER (ARIEL) AND UAV FOR SOIL MOISTURE AND SALINITY MAP RETRIEVAL: 2008/2009 FIELD EXPERIMENTS
Rene Acevo-Herrera, Albert Aguasca, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, UPC, Spain
TH3.O6.1: THE ORFEO TOOLBOX REMOTE SENSNIG IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE
Jordi Inglada, CNES, France; Emmanuel Christophe, CRISP, Singapore
TH3.O6.2: OBJECT COUNTING IN HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES WITH OTB
Emmanuel Christophe, CRISP, Singapore; Jordi Inglada, CNES, France
TH3.O6.3: REFERENCE ALGORITHM IMPLEMENTATIONS IN OTB: TEXTBOOK CASES
Julien Michel, Thomas Feuvrier, CS, France; Jordi Inglada, CNES, France
TH3.O6.4: IMAGE SEMANTIC CODING USING OTB
Marine Campedel, Marie Liénou, TELECOM ParisTech, France
TH3.O6.5: ASSESSMENT OF INTEREST POINTS DETECTION ALGORITHMS IN OTB
Otmane Lahlou, Julien Michel, Damien Pichard, CS, France; Jordi Inglada, CNES, France
TH3.O7.1: FUSION OF KALMAN FILTER AND ANOMALY DETECTION FOR MULTISPECTRAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL TARGET TRACKING
Olga Duran, Efstathios Onasoglou, Maria Petrou, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
TH3.O7.2: NOVEL METHODS FOR PANCHROMATIC SHARPENING OF MULTI/HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGE DATA
Christoph Borel, Clyde Spencer, Ball Aerospace, United States
TH3.O7.3: CLOUD SCREENING WITH COMBINED MERIS AND AATSR IMAGES
Luis Gómez-Chova, Jordi Muñoz-Marí, Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Javier Calpe-Maravilla, Jose Moreno, University of Valencia, Spain
TH3.O7.4: EDGE-PRESERVING CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTE-SENSING IMAGES BY MARKOVIAN DATA FUSION
Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy
TH3.O7.5: BUILDING DETECTION BY FUSION OF OPTICAL AND SAR FEATURES IN METRIC RESOLUTION DATA
Helene Sportouche, Florence Tupin, Institut TELECOM; TELECOM ParisTech; CNRS LTCI, France; Leonard Denise, THALES Communications; Land & Joint Systems, France
TH3.O8.1: SEMANTIC OBJECT-BASED IMAGE DECOMPOSITION FOR AUTOMATED GIS DATABASE POPULATION
Cosmin Mihai, Iris Vanhamel, Mohamed Jabloun, Thomas Geerinck, Hichem Sahli, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
TH3.O8.2: ICA BASED VISUAL WORDS FOR DESCRIBING UNDER METER HIGH RESOLUTION SATELITTE IMAGES
Payam Birjandi, Mihai Datcu, Institute of Technology, Telecom Paris, France
TH3.O8.3: FUZZY SPATIAL RELATIONS FOR HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGE ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF "TO GO ACROSS"
Maria Carolina Vanegas, Isabelle Bloch, TELECOM ParisTech, CNRS LTCI, UMR 5141, France; Jordi Inglada, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France
TH3.O8.4: AN ADAPTIVE MULTISCALE RANDOM FIELD TECHNIQUE FOR UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN VHR MULTITEMPORAL IMAGES
Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy
TH3.O8.5: GENERAL FRAMEWORK ON CHANGE DETECTION IN A SPARSE DOMAIN
Abdourrahmane Atto, Gregoire Mercier, Dominique Pastor, Institut Telecom; Telecom Bretagne, France
TH3.O9.1: PREPARATION FOR HYSPIRI SPACEBORNE IMAGING SPECTROMETER OBSERVATIONS FOR PRECISION VEGETATION MAPPING
Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce, Hemanth Kalluri, Mississippi State University, United States
TH3.O9.2: WEB SERVICE BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR US NATIONAL CROP PROGRESS MONITORING SYSTEM
Genong Yu, George Mason University, United States; Zhengwei Yang, United States Department of Agriculture, United States; Liping Di, George Mason University, United States
TH3.O9.3: INTEGRATION OF RADARSAT-2 SCANSAR AND AWIFS FOR OPERATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LAND USE MONITORING OVER THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES
Jiali Shang, Heather McNairn, Catherine Champagne, Xianfeng Jiao, Ian Jarvis, Xiaoyuan Geng, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
TH3.O9.4: LAI ESTIMATION OF AGRICULTURAL CROPS FROM OPTICAL DATA AT DIFFERENT SPATIAL RESOLUTION
Giuseppe Satalino, Francesco Mattia, ISSIA-CNR, Italy; Sergio Ruggieri, Michele Rinaldi, CRA-SCA, Italy
TH3.O9.5: A COMPARISON OF VEGETATION INDICES FOR CORN AND SOYBEAN VEGETATION CONDITION MONITORING
Zhengwei Yang, United States Department of Agriculture, United States; Hu Zhao, Liping Di, Genong Yu, George Mason University, United States
TH3.O10.1: SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL MONITORING: TWO NEW 20-METRE SATELLITES JOIN THE DMC CONSTELLATION TO SIGNIFICANTLY EXPAND CAPACITY.
J. Paul Stephens, Stephen Mackin, Gary Crowley, DMC International Imaging Ltd, United Kingdom
TH3.O10.2: ASSESSMENT OF THE POTENTIAL FUTURE HIGH AND MEDIUM RESOLUTION SENSORS ON GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT FOR COASTAL ZONE MONITORING
Manchun Lei, Audrey Minghelli-Roman, University of Burgundy, France; Sandrine Mathieu, Thalès Alenia Space, France; Jean-Marie Froidefond, University of Bordeaux 1, France; Annick Bricaud, LOV/CNRS, France; Pierre Gouton, University of Burgundy, France
TH3.O10.3: PERFORMANCE OF THE NPOESS CRIS SENSOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS
Nancy Andreas, Phil Moffa, Farhang Sabet-Peyman, Tom Christensen, Degui Gu, Denise Hagan, Northrop Grumman Corporation, United States; Ronald Glumb, ITT Corporation, United States; Richard Slonaker, Integrated Program Office, United States; Gail Bingham, Space Dynamics Laboratory, United States
TH3.O10.4: ASSESSMENT OF THE SHORT-TERM RADIOMETRIC STABILITY BETWEEN TERRA MODIS AND LANDSAT 7 ETM+ SENSORS
Taeyoung (Jason) Choi, Science Systems & Applications, Inc., United States; Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States; Gyanesh Chander, SGT/USGS/EROS, United States; Amit Angal, Science Systems & Applications, Inc., United States
TH3.O10.5: RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION PLAN OF GEOSTATIONARY OCEAN COLOR IMAGER (GOCI)
Seongick Cho, Yu-Hwan Ahn, Hee-Jeong Han, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Chan-Su Yang, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute (KORDI), Republic of Korea
TH3.O11.1: MAPPING THE VEGETATION CLUMPING INDEX AND LAI USING MULTI-ANGLE AIRBORNE IMAGERY
Anita Simic, Jing Chen, University of Toronto, Canada
TH3.O11.2: MAPPING OF FOREST UNDERSTORY USING MULTI-ANGULAR MISR DATA FOR IMPROVEMENT OF GLOBAL LEAF AREA INDEX PRODUCTS
Jan Pisek, Jing Chen, University of Toronto, Canada
TH3.O11.3: LEAF AREA INDEX ESTIMATION FROM HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING A GROUP DEVISION METHOD
Taro Asano, Yukio Kosugi, Kuniaki Uto, Naoko Kosaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Shinya Odagawa, Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center, Japan; Kunio Oda, Yamagata Prefectural College of Agriculture, Japan
TH3.O11.4: THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE CROP CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT INDICES BASED ON A NEW LAI DETERMINATION INDEX
Rongbo Cui, Qimin Qin, Nan Yang, Xin Tao, Shaohua Zhao, Peking University, China
TH3.O11.5: THE METHOD ON GENERATING LAI PRODUCTION BY FUSING BJ-1 REMOTE SENSING DATA AND MODIS LAI PRODUCT
Jinling Song, Beijing Normal University, China
TH3.O12.1: EVALUATION OF REMOTE SENSING PRODUCTS OVER THE AMMA-CATCH OBSERVATORY IN WEST AFRICA.
Manuela Grippa, Eric Mougin, Valérie Demarez, Laurent Kergoat, Claire Gruhier, Pierre Hiernaux, Fréderic Baup, CESBIO, France; Patricia De Rosnay, ECMWF, United Kingdom; Thierry Pellarin, Sylvie Galle, Thierry Lebel, LTHE, France; Christophe Peugeot, Bernard Cappelaere, Jerome Demarty, Nicolas Boulain, HSM, France; Luc Descroix, LTHE, France; Catherine Ottle, Stephane Saux-Picart, LSCE, France; Mehrez Zribi, CETP, France
TH3.O12.2: MALARIA SURVEILLANCE WITH REMOTE SENSING AND GIS IN OWERRI, NIGERIA
Faithful Ogadi Ugorji, Christina Igono, Beeches School of Graduate Studies (Wisconsin International University), Nigeria; Sam O. Nwaneri, Alcorn State University, United States
TH3.O12.3: DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTROL LAND DEGRADATION IN THE SAHEL?
Rasmus Fensholt, K. Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Cheikh Mbow, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar-Sénégal, Senegal
TH3.O12.4: ANALYSIS OF 1982-2006 SUDANO-SAHELIAN VEGETATION DYNAMICS USING NOAA-AVHRR NDVI DATA AND NORMALIZED RAIN-USE EFFICIENCY
Elodie Vintrou, Agnes Begue, UMR TETIS - CIRAD, France; Denis Ruelland, UMR HSM - CNRS, France
TH3.O12.5: FIRE DISTRIBUTION IN NORTHWESTERN BOTSWANA: CROSS-COMPARISON OF MODIS FIRE PRODUCTS, LANDSAT ETM, AND POPULATION DENSITY
Kelley A. Crews, University of Texas, United States; Thoralf Meyer, Services for GeoInformation, Botswana
TH3.O13.1: CSIR-NLC MOBILE LIDAR – FIRST SCIENTIFIC RESULT
Sivakumar Venkataraman, Melaku Tesfaye, Dineo Moema, Ameeth Sharma, Christoph Bollig, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
TH3.O13.2: USING A MULTI-BEAM AUTONOMOUS PORTABLE LASER EQUIPEMENT TO STUDY OPTICAL BEHAVIORS IN SHALLOW WATERS
Valérie Robitaille, Bernard Long, institut national de la recherche scientifique, Canada
TH3.O13.3: COMPACT, 2 MICRON HIGH-ENERGY LASER TRANSMITTER FOR COHERENT WIND LIDAR
Upendra Singh, Jirong Yu, Michael Kavaya, Grady Koch, NASA Langley Research Center, United States
TH3.O13.4: THE INTEGRATED ATMOSPHERIC CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM
Gary Gimmestad, David Roberts, John Stewart, Georgia Tech Research Institute, United States; David Whiteman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
TH3.O13.5: FULLANALYZE: A RESEARCH TOOL FOR HANDLING, PROCESSING AND ANALYZING FULL-WAVEFORM LIDAR DATA
Adrien Chauve, Frédéric Bretar, Institut Géographique National, France; Sylvie Durrieu, CEMAGREF, France; Marc Pierrot-Deseilligny, Insititut Géographique National, France; William Puech, LIRMM, France
TH4.O1.1: AN EVALUATION OF POLSAR IMAGE SPECKLE FILTERS
Samuel Foucher, Computer Research Institute of Montreal, Canada; Carlos López-Martínez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain; Grégory Farage, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
TH4.O1.2: THE EFFECT OF ORIENTATION ANGLE COMPENSATION ON POLARIMETRIC TARGET DECOMPOSITIONS
Jong-Sen Lee, Thomas Ainsworth, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
TH4.O1.3: USE OF MULTI-TEMPORAL AND MULTI-POLARISATION RADAR DATA FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY: A CASE STUDY IN THE FERLO REGION, SENEGAL
Céline Tison, Nadine Pourthié, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France; Pierre-Louis Frison, Université Paris Est, France; Jean-Claude Souyris, CNES, France; Murielle Lafaye, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France; Jean-Pierre Lacaux, Medias-France, France; Anne Urdiroz, Altamira Information, Spain
TH4.O1.4: ANALYSIS AND OBSERVATION OF POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING BEHAVIOR IN WETLAND AREA
Ryoichi Sato, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Niigata University, Japan
TH4.O1.5: URBAN FEATURE CHARACTERIZATION USING POLARIMETRIC AND POL-IN SAR DATA
Ridha Touzi, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada; K. Mattar, Defence R&D Canada, Canada; A. Bhattacharya, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada
TH4.O2.1: AIRBORNE D-INSAR AT X-BAND: RESULTS WITH THE COMPLETE REPEAT-PASS PROCESSING METHODOLOGY
Karlus Alexander Câmara de Macedo, Christian Wimmer, OrbiSat, Brazil; Silvio Barbin, University of São Paulo and CTI Renato Archer, Brazil; Stefano Perna, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy
TH4.O2.2: PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY ON THE ENTIRE ERS/ENVISAT ARCHIVE OVER THE ITALIAN TERRITORY: THE PST-A/2 PROJECT
Mario Costantini, Telespazio S.p.A., Italy; Alessandro Ferretti, Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E. S.r.l., Italy; Federico Minati, Telespazio S.p.A., Italy; Davide Colombo, Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E. S.r.l., Italy; Maria Grazia Ciminelli, Telespazio S.p.A., Italy; Salvatore Costabile, Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare, Italy
TH4.O2.3: SAR TOMOGRAPHY FROM SPARSE SAMPLES
Alessandra Budillon, Universita' di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Annarita Evangelista, Universita' di Cassino, Italy; Gilda Schirinzi, Universita' di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
TH4.O2.4: SPACE-BORNE HIGH RESOLUTION TOMOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY
Xiaoxiang Zhu, Technival University of Munich (TUM), Germany; Nico Adam, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Richard Bamler, Technival University of Munich (TUM), Germany
TH4.O2.5: RADARSAT-1 DEFORMATION TIME SERIES ANALYSIS BASED ON THE SBAS-DINSAR ALGORITHM
Manuela Bonano, Pepe Antonio, IREA-CNR, Italy; Leonardo Euillades, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo,, Argentina; Paolo Berardino, Eugenio Sansosti, Riccardo Lanari, IREA-CNR, Italy
TH4.O3.1: ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR INCORPORATING SPATIAL INFORMATION IN THE DESIGN OF ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS FROM HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Gabriel Martin, Antonio Plaza, Maciel Zortea, University of Extremadura, Spain
TH4.O3.2: TARGET DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL MINERAL DATA USING WAVELET ANALYSIS
Michael Mitchley, Michael Sears, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Steven Damelin, Georgia Southern University, United States
TH4.O3.3: REDUCING THE DIMENSIONALITY OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING DIFFUSION MAPS
Louis du Plessis, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Steven Damelin, Georgia Southern University, United States; Michael Sears, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
TH4.O3.4: PIPELINE PROCESSING OF LARGE VOLUMES OF HYPERSPECTRAL DRILL CORE IMAGERY
Neil Pendock, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Phil Harris, Anglo American, South Africa; Paul Linton, AngloGold Ashanti, South Africa
TH4.O3.5: NEW HYPERSPECTRAL AND ASTER METHODS AND PRODUCTS FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION AND SURFACE MATERIALS MAPPING IN AUSTRALIA
Matilda Thomas, Geoscience Australia, Australia; Thomas Cudahy, CSIRO, Australia; Mal Jones, Geological Survey of Queensland, Australia; Carsten Laukamp, James Cook University, Australia
TH4.O4.1: RAPID DETECTION OF AGRICULTURAL FOOD CROP CONTAMINATION VIA HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING
Terrance West, Lori Mann Bruce, Saurabh Prasad, Daniel Reynolds, Mississippi State University, United States
TH4.O4.2: RED MUD SOIL CONTAMINATION NEAR AN URBAN SETTLEMENT ANALYZED BY AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING
Simone Pascucci, Claudia Belviso, Rosa Maria Cavalli, CNR, Italy; Giovanni Laneve, Università di Roma, Italy; Ana Misurovic, Ecotoxitological, Yugoslavia; Cinzia Perrino, Stefano Pignatti, CNR, Italy
TH4.O4.3: OPTIMUM SAMPLING SCHEME FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF MINE TAILINGS
Pravesh Debba, The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa; Emmanual John M Carranza, Alfred Stein, Freek D. van der Meer, International Institute for GeoInformation Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands
TH4.O4.4: DETECTION OF SAHARAN DUST BY SPATIAL/SPECTRAL SIGNATURES IN VIS-TIR SATELLITE RADIANCES
Valerio Tramutoli, University of Basilicata, Italy; Carolina Filizzola, Rossana Paciello, Nicola Pergola, Carla Pietrapertosa, National Research Council, Italy
TH4.O4.5: DEVELOPING A NEW AUTOMATED TOOL FOR DETECTING AND MONITORING DUST AND SAND STORMS IN SUB-AFRICA USING MODIS AND METEOSAT SEVIRI-MSG DATA
Hosni Ghedira, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Adnan Al Rais, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology (EIAST), United Arab Emirates
TH4.O5.1: COMPARISON OF PRECIPITATION EFFECTS IN SPACE-BORNE X- AND KA-BAND SAR IMAGING
Andreas Danklmayer, German Aerospace Center, Germany; Madhu Chandra, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
TH4.O5.2: MODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON KA-BAND SINGLE PASS INSAR PERFORMANCE
Michael Ludwig, Salvatore D'Addio, ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands
TH4.O5.3: USE OF RADAR IMAGES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROPAGATION ORIENTED SPACE-TIME RAIN MODEL
Carlo Capsoni, Lorenzo Luini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
TH4.O5.4: DROP SHAPE STUDIES IN RAIN USING 2D VIDEO DISDROMETER AND POLARIMETRIC, DUAL-WAVELENGTH RADAR
Merhala Thurai, Viswanathan Bringi, Colorado State University, United States; Peter May, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research - A Partnership between the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, Australia, Australia
TH4.O5.5: INSAR TROPOSPHERIC ARTIFACTS FOR AFRICAN VOLCANOES CLOSE TO THE INTER TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ)
Sandra I.N. Heleno, Instituto de Engenharia de Estruturas, Território e Construção, Portugal; Corine Frischknecht, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Nicolas D’Oreye, National museum of natural history, Luxembourg; J. Nuno P. Lima, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal; Bruno Faria, Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Geofísica, Cape Verde; Richard J. Wall, Durham University, United Kingdom; François Kervyn, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium
TH4.O6.1: THE USE OF ORFEO TOOLBOX IN THE CONTEXT OF MAP UPDATING
Christophe Simler, Royal Military Academy, Belgium; Christine Leignel, Olivier Debeir, Eléonore Wolff, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; Charles Beumier, Royal Military Academy, Belgium
TH4.O6.2: IMPLEMENTING KOHONEN'S SOM WITH MISSING DATA IN OTB
Gregoire Mercier, Bassam Abdel Latif, Institut Telecom; Telecom Bretagne, France
TH4.O6.3: URBAN AREA DETECTION AND SEGMENTATION USING OTB
Stéphane May, Jordi Inglada, CNES, France
TH4.O6.4: TOWARD A GUI REMOTE-SENSING ENVIRONMENT BUILT OVER OTB
David Dubois, Richard Lepage, École de Technologie Superieure, Canada; Tullio Tanzi, Telecom ParisTech, France
TH4.O6.5: OVERVIEW OF THE POLSARPRO V4.0 SOFTWARE. THE OPEN SOURCE TOOLBOX FOR POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA PROCESSING.
Eric Pottier, IETR UMR CNRS 6164 - University of Rennes 1, France; Laurent Ferro-Famil, Sophie Allain, IETR UMR CNRS 6164, France; Shane Cloude, AELc, United Kingdom; Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Alberto Moreira, DLR-HR, Germany; Mark Williams, GeoSAR, United States; Andrea Minchella, Marco Lavalle, Yves-Louis Desnos, ESA-ESRIN, Italy
TH4.O7.1: HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON DECISION LEVEL FUSION
Peijun Du, Wei Zhang, Shubi Zhang, China University of Mining and Technology, China
TH4.O7.2: ENSEMBLE METHODS FOR SPECTRAL-SPATIAL CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Jón Atli Benediktsson, Björn Waske, University of Iceland, Iceland; Xinlu Wang, University of Iceland/Jilin University, Iceland
TH4.O7.3: DECISION FUSION FOR SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
He Yang, Qian Du, Mississippi State University, United States
TH4.O7.4: FUSION OF MULTISOURCE DATA SETS FROM AGRICULTURAL AREAS FOR IMPROVED LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
Björn Waske, Jón Atli Benediktsson, Johannes Sveinsson, University of Iceland, Iceland
TH4.O7.5: FUSION OF HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL AND SAR IMAGES WITH VECTOR DATA BASES FOR CHANGE DETECTION
Vincent Poulain, Jordi Inglada, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France; Marc Spigai, Thales Alenia Space, France; Jean-Yves Tourneret, Philippe Marthon, IRIT, France
TH4.O8.1: SPACE-BORNE SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENTS IN SUPPORT OF FLOOD HYDROLOGY: THE NASA SMAP APPROACH
Wade Crow, USDA ARS HRSL, United States; Dara Entekhabi, MIT, United States; Eni Njoku, Cal-Tech/NASA JPL, United States; Peggy O'Neill, NASA GSFC, United States; Thomas Jackson, USDA ARS HRSL, United States
TH4.O8.2: HIGH RESOLUTION MAPPING OF SOIL MOISTURE BY SAR: DATA INTEGRATION AND EXPLOITATION OF PRIOR INFORMATION
Nazzareno Pierdicca, Luca Pulvirenti, Marco Laurenti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Christian Bignami, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy
TH4.O8.3: AN OPERATIONAL ALGORITHM FOR SNOW COVER MAPPING IN HYDROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Simone Pettinato, Marco Brogioni, Emanuele Santi, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, National Research Council, Italy
TH4.O8.4: MULTIFREQUENCY THEORETICAL SIMULATIONS OF BACKSCATTERING FROM FLOODED AREAS
S. Caizzone, P. Ferrazzoli, L. Guerriero, Tor Vergata University, Italy; N. Pierdicca, L. Pulvirenti, Sapienza University, Italy; M. Chini, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy
TH4.O8.5: IMPROVEMENT OF BARE SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION WITH L-BAND MULTI-POLARIZATION RADAR
Ruijing Sun, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiancheng Shi, ICESS University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Thomas Jackson, United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, United States; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan; Yisok Oh, Hongik University, Republic of Korea
TH4.O9.1: OPERATIONAL APPROACH FOR SHIP DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION
Gerard Margarit, GMV A&D, Spain; Jordi J. Mallorquí, UPC, Spain
TH4.O9.2: ADVANCES IN UNSUPERVISED SHIP DETECTION WITH MULTISCALE TECHNIQUES
Marivi Tello, Carlos López-Martínez, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain; Teemu Tares, Harm Greidanus, Joint Research Centre, Italy
TH4.O9.3: SHIP DETECTION IN THE BRAZILIAN COAST USING TERRASAR-X SAR IMAGES
Rafael L. Paes, Advanced Research Institute (IEAv), Brazil; João Antonio Lorenzzetti, Douglas Francisco M. Gherardi, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
TH4.O9.4: SHIP DETECTION FROM POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES
Mingsheng Liao, Changcheng Wang, Wuhan university, China; Yong Wang, East Carolina University, United States; Xiaogang Song, China earthquake administration, China
TH4.O9.5: THE CIRCULAR TRAJECTORY OPTION FOR A FULL SEA CLUTTER AND SHIP SIGNATURE CHARACTERISATION AT L AND X BAND.
Sébastien Angéliaume, Jean-François Nouvel, Hélène Oriot, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Olivier Ruault du Plessis, ONERA, France; Philippe Durand, Valerie Foix, CNES, France
TH4.O10.1: MOVING OBJECT DETECTION IN UAV-VIDEO USING FLUX TENSORS
Kannappan Palaniappan, University of Missouri, United States; Adel Hafiane, ENSI-Bourges, France; Ilker Ersoy, University of Missouri, United States; Guna Seetharaman, Syracuse University, United States
TH4.O10.2: AUTONOMOUS SENSORS FOR MARINE PROTECTED AREA MONITORING
Eric Castilo, Kenneth Laws, John Vesecky, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
TH4.O10.3: AGGIEAIR - A LOW-COST AUTONOMOUS MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING PLATFORM: NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS
Austin Jensen, Yangquan Chen, Thomas Hardy, Mac Mckee, Utah State University, United States
TH4.O10.4: INTA’S DEVELOPMENTS FOR UAS AND SMALL PLATFORMS: QUASAR
Juan Manuel Cuerda Muñoz, María José González Bonilla, Beatriz Gómez Miguel, Juan Ramón Larrañaga Sudupe, Marcos García Rodríguez, RADAR Laboratory, Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA), Spain
TH4.O10.5: INSTATANEOUS GEO-LOCATION OF MULTIPLE TARGETS FROM MONOCULAR AIRBORNE VIDEO
Kyung Min Han, Guilherme DeSouza, University of Missouri, United States
TH4.O11.1: USE OF MODIS ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX TO DETECT SEASONAL PATTERNS OF LEAF PHENOLOGY IN CENTRAL AMAZON VARZEA FOREST
Laura Hess, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Piyachat Ratana, Alfredo Huete, University of Arizona, United States; Chris Potter, NASA Ames, United States; John Melack, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
TH4.O11.2: COMPARISON OF THREE INDIRECT FIELD MEASURING METHODS FOR FOREST CANOPY LEAF AREA INDEX ESTIMATION
Zhuo Fu, Jindi Wang, Jinling Song, Hongmin Zhou, Beijing Normal University, China
TH4.O11.3: EVALUATION OF MODIS VEGETATION PRODUCTS FOR SAHELIAN LANDSCAPES (GOURMA, MALI)
Eric Mougin, Valérie Demarez, Pierre Hiernaux, Manuela Grippa, Laurent Kergoat, Lionel Jarlan, CESBIO, France; Valerie Trichon, ECOLAB, France; Mamadou Diawara, CESBIO, France; Nogmana Soumaguel, IRD-Bamako, France
TH4.O11.4: FRACTION IMAGES DERIVED FROM EO-1 HYPERION MULTITEMPORAL DATA FOR DRY SEASON GREEN UP ANALYSIS IN TAPAJOS FOREST, BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA
Ramon Morais de Freitas, Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, Reinaldo Roberto Rosa, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil; Alfredo Huete, University of Arizona, United States
TH4.O11.5: ANNUAL MAPPING OF DEFORESTATION IN MAJOR TROPICAL FORESTS USING THE MULTI-SATELLITE DMC CONSTELLATION - PROVIDING AN OBJECTIVE OPERATIONAL BASELINE FOR REDD.
J. Paul Stephens, Stephen Mackin, Owen Hawkins, David Hodgson, DMC International Imaging, United Kingdom
TH4.O12.1: MODELLING THE IMPACT OF WILDFIRE ON SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE
Philip Lewis, University College London, United Kingdom; Jose Gomez-Dans, University College London/King's College London, United Kingdom; Mathias Disney, University College London, United Kingdom; Martin Wooster, King's College London, United Kingdom; David Roy, South Dakota State University, United States; Mathias Disney, EC Joint Research Centre, Italy
TH4.O12.2: EVIDENCE OF AN INCREASE IN POND SURFACE DURING THE MULTIDECENNIAL DROUGHT IN PASTORAL SAHEL.
Julie Gardelle, Pierre Hiernaux, Laurent Kergoat, Manuela Grippa, Eric Mougin, CESBIO, France
TH4.O12.3: THE ECOCLIMAP-II PROGRAMME: A NEW LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION AT 1 KM FROM MODIS AND VEGETATION DATA TIME SERIES OVER THE WESTERN AFRICA IN THE FRAME OF AMMA PROJECT
Armel Kaptue, Jean-Louis Roujean, Stéphanie Faroux, Météo-France, France
TH4.O12.4: STRATEGIES FOR MONITORING SAVANNAS USING MODERATED RESOLUTION IMAGERY
Nilson Ferreira, Federal Center for Technologic Education, Brazil; Laerte Ferreira, Federal University of Goias, Brazil
TH4.O12.5: THE EVOLUTION OF LAND COVER DATA, IN A SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT, IN LINE WITH EVER INCREASING USER DEMANDS
Sharon Cundill, Pieter Sevenhuysen, Mark Thompson, GeoTerraImage (Pty) Ltd, South Africa
TH4.O13.1: LARGE SCALE WETLAND MAPPING IN SEMI ARID AFRICA USING 250-METER MODIS PHENOLOGY METRICS AND TOPOGRAPHIC VARIABLES
Tobi Landmann, Andreas Dietz, University of Wuerzburg, DLR, Germany; Stefan Dech, German Aerospace Centre, DLR, Germany
TH4.O13.2: REMOTELY SENSED PHENOLOGY FOR MAPPING BIOMES AND VEGETATION FUNCTIONAL TYPES.
Konrad Wessels, Karen Steenkamp, Graham Von Maltitz, Sally Archibald, Robert Scholes, Simeon Miteff, Asheer Bachoo, CSIR, South Africa
TH4.O13.3: PHENOLOGY AND PHENOLOGICAL VARIABILITY OF MEXICAN ECOSYSTEMS
René R. Colditz, Gerardo Lopez, Pedro Maeda, Isabel Cruz, Rainer Ressl, National commission for the knowledge and use of the biodiversity, Mexico
TH4.O13.4: TEMPLATE PHENOLOGY FOR VEGETATION MODELS
Andrew Bradley, France Gerard, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom; Nicolas Barbier, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Graham Weedon, Christopher Huntingford, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom; Liana Anderson, Przemyslaw Zelazowski, Luiz Aragão, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
TH4.O13.5: CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS IN CENTRAL ASIA: ANALYSING THE PHENOLOGY OF CROPLANDS AND WETLANDS IN THE AMU DARYA DELTA USING MODIS DATA
Christopher Conrad, University of Wuerzburg, Germany; René R. Colditz, CONABIO - Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Mexico; Stefan Dech, German Aerospace Center, Germany; Doris Klein, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
FR1.O1.1: POLARIMETRIC APPLICATIONS OF THE UAVSAR INSTRUMENT
Scott Hensley, Howard Zebker, Cathleen Jones, Thierry Michel, Alex Fore, Bruce Chapman, JPL, United States
FR1.O1.2: POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS FROM COMPACT-POL MEASUREMENTS: POTENTIAL AND LIMITATION
My-Linh Truong-Loï, Sébastien Angéliaume, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, ONERA, France; Eric Pottier, Université Rennes 1, France; Jean-Claude Souyris, CNES, France
FR1.O1.3: ANALYSIS AND APLICATION OF DUAL-POL SAR IMAGERY
Thomas Ainsworth, Jong-Sen Lee, Naval Research Laboratory, United States
FR1.O1.4: SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION USING A MULTI-ANGULAR MODIFIED THREE COMPONENT POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION
Thomas Jagdhuber, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center, Germany
FR1.O1.5: RECENT ADVANCES IN MICROWAVE MULTI-MODAL (POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC) SAR REMOTE SENSING OF THE TERRESTRIAL COVERS
Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
FR1.O2.1: ONE-DIMENSIONAL RADAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR LINE-INFRASTRUCTURE
Ramon Hanssen, Freek van Leijen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
FR1.O2.2: INSAR PERMANENT SCATTERERS SELECTION USING SAR SVA FILTERING
Ferdaous Chaabane, Mohamed Sellami, Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia; Jean-Marie Nicolas, Florence Tupin, TELECOM ParisTech, France
FR1.O2.3: BAYESIAN RESTORATION OF INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE THROUGH BIASED ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION
Fernando Rodríguez González, Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
FR1.O2.4: A NEW ALGORITHM FOR THE PHASE UNWRAPPING OF INTERFEROGRAM STACKS
Gianfranco Fornaro, Antonio Pauciullo, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Diego Reale, University of Naples, Italy
FR1.O2.5: A GPU BASED TIME-DOMAIN RAW SIGNAL SIMULATOR FOR INTERFEROMETRIC SAR
Zheng Xiang, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
FR1.O3.1: RECENT ACTIVITIES IN THE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING NETWORK (HYPER-I-NET): A EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOSTERING IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY RESEARCH
Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain; Paolo Gamba, University of Pavia, Italy; Mathias Kneubühler, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Andreas Mueller, German Remote Sensing Data Center (DLR), Germany; Michael Schaepman, Wageningen University, Netherlands
FR1.O3.2: KERNEL METHODS IN ORTHOGONALIZATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Allan Aasbjerg Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
FR1.O3.3: HYPERSPECTRAL (HSR) ACTIVITY IN ISRAEL: FROM POINT TO SPATIAL SPECTROSCOPY IN ALL DOMAINS
Eyal Ben-Dor, Tel Aviv University, Israel
FR1.O3.4: FLUORESCENCE EXPLORER (FLEX): A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR THE OBSERVATION OF GLOBAL VEGETATION PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Jose Moreno, University of Valencia, Spain; Yves Goulas, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France; Elizabeth Middleton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Franco Miglietta, IBIMET-CNR, Italy; Peter North, University of Wales Swansea, United Kingdom; Wout Verhoef, National Aerospace Laboratory, Netherlands; Uwe Rascher, Research Centre Julich, Germany; Sune Svanberg, Lund University, Sweden; Michael Berger, Matthias Drusch, Ferran Gascon, Bernardo Carnicero, Jean-Loup Bezy, European Space Agency, Italy; Luis Guanter, German Research Centre For Geosciences GFZ, Germany; Federico Magnani, University of Bologna, Italy
FR1.O3.5: THE ENMAP HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER – AN ADVANCED OPTICAL PAYLOAD FOR EARTH OBSERVATION
Hermann Kaufmann, Luis Guanter, Karl Segl, GeoResearchCenter Potsdam, Germany; Stefan Hofer, Bernhard Sang, Kayser-Threde GmbH, Germany; Andreas Mueller, German Aerospace Establishment, Germany; Christian Chlebek, German Space Agency, Germany
FR1.O4.1: ORTHORECTIFICATION AND DSM GENERATION WITH ALOS-PRISM DATA IN URBAN AREAS
Thomas Krauß, Mathias Schneider, Peter Reinartz, German Aerospace Center, DLR, Germany
FR1.O4.2: MATCHING OF HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL DATA TO A SHADED DEM
Mathias Schneider, Peter Reinartz, DLR - German Aerospace Center, Germany
FR1.O4.3: 3D RADARGRAMMETRIC MODELING AND CALIBRATION OF RADARSAT-2 STEREO DATA
Thierry Toutin, René Chénier, Natural Resources Canada, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada
FR1.O4.4: USING GEOMETRIC ACCURACY OF TERRASAR-X DATA FOR IMPROVEMENT OF DIRECT SENSOR ORIENTATION AND ORTHO-RECTIFICATION OF VHR OPTICAL SENSOR DATA
Peter Reinartz, Rupert Mueller, Sahil Suri, Peter Schwind, Richard Bamler, DLR, Germany
FR1.O4.5: INTERACTIVE OBJECT SEGMENTATION IN HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES
Julien Osman, Jordi Inglada, CNES, France; Emmanuel Christophe, CRISP, Singapore
FR1.O5.1: REVERSIBLE INTEGER WAVELET EVALUATION FOR DEM PROGRESSIVE COMPRESSION
Jing-Jing Zheng, Jinyun Fang, Cheng-De Han, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jian-Qun Xu, Alcatel-lucent Qingdao Company, China
FR1.O5.2: DYNAMIC TOLERANCE SETTING METHOD FOR PLANE SWEEP ALGORITHM
Xiaomin Zhu, Hongchao Zhao, Jinyun Fang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, China
FR1.O5.3: 3D RASTER TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP ANALYSIS FOR SPATIAL ENTITY WITH FUZZY BOUDARY
Jiateng Guo, Lixin Wu, Northeastern University, China
FR1.O5.4: ADAPTIVE BOUNDS FOR QUADRIC BASED GENERALIZATION
Abhinav Dayal, IDV Solutions Inc., United States
FR1.O5.5: HIERARCHICAL GIS CLUSTERING USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS
Abhinav Dayal, IDV Solutions Inc., United States
FR1.O6.1: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS: PERSPECTIVE AND STATE-OF-THE-ART
Antoio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain; Qian Du, Mississippi State University, United States; Yang-Lang Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
FR1.O6.2: CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE OF RANDOM-PROJECTION-BASED DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
James Fowler, Qian Du, Wei Zhu, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States
FR1.O6.3: UNSUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL BAND SELECTION USING PARALLEL PROCESSING
He Yang, Qian Du, Mississippi State University, United States
FR1.O6.4: BAND SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES BASED ON PARALLEL PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION SCHEMES
Yang-Lang Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan; Hsuan Ren, National Central University, Taiwan; Lena Chang, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan; Wei-Lieh Hsu, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Jyh-Perng Fang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
FR1.O6.5: ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION FROM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY USING A PARALLEL ENSEMBLE APPROACH WITH CONSENSUS ANALYSIS
Fermin Ayuso, Javier Setoain, Manuel Prieto, Christian Tenllado, Francisco Tirado, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Javier Plaza, Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain
FR1.O7.1: QA4EO: MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE GEO BENEFITS THROUGH INTEROPERABILITY AND HARMONISATION
David Llewellyn-Jones, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Gyanesh Chander, SGT/USGS/EROS, United States; Nigel Fox, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), United Kingdom; Pascal LeComte, European Space Agency - ESRIN, Italy; Gregory Stensaas, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States
FR1.O7.2: CLIMATE DATA RECORDS OF GEOPHYSICAL VARIABLES FROM SPACECRAFT RADIOMETRY
Peter Minnett, University of Miami, United States
FR1.O7.3: THE NEED FOR MISSION OVERLAP IN CREATING CLIMATE DATA RECORDS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE ATSR SERIES
Gary Corlett, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
FR1.O7.4: PRE-LAUNCH CALIBRATION PROCEDURES AND THE ASSOCIATED TRACEABILITY ISSUES FOR EXISTING AND FUTURE INFRARED RADIOMETERS IN SPACE
Smith David, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
FR1.O7.5: STANDARDS AND INTEROPERABILITY FOR GLOBAL DEMS
Jan-Peter Muller, University College London, United Kingdom
FR1.O8.1: INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF ASTER DEMS OVER THE CEOS-WGCV-TMSG TEST SITES IN EUROPE AND CHINA
Jan-Peter Muller, University College London, United Kingdom
FR1.O8.2: VALIDATION OF THE ASTER GDEM OVER THE UNITED STATES: COMPARISON WITH SRTM, THE USGS NATIONAL ELEVATION DATASET, AND GPS BENCHMARKS
Dean Gesch, Jeffrey Danielson, U.S. Geological Survey, United States; Norman Bliss, ASRC, United States; Bryan Bailey, U.S. Geological Survey, United States; Kenneth Duda, SGT, United States; Gayla Evans, U.S. Geological Survey, United States; Jane Zhang, ADNet, United States
FR1.O8.3: ICESAT LASER ALTIMETER EVALUATION OF THE ASTER GLOBAL DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (GDEM)
Claudia C. Carabajal, Sigma Space Corp.@NASA/GSFC, United States; David J. Harding, NASA/GSFC, United States; Vijay P. Suchdeo, Sigma Space Corp. @NASA/GSFC, United States
FR1.O8.4: EVALUATION OF SAMPLES OF THE ASTER GLOBAL DEM USING STAR-3I INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA
Bryan Mercer, Qiaoping Zhang, Michael Denbina, Intermap Technologies Corp., Canada
FR1.O8.5: ASSESSMENT OF ASTER GDEM AGAINST VARIOUS SOURCES, INCLUDING SPOT 5
Laurent Cunin, Roland Gachet, IGN Espace, France; Marc Bernard, Spot Image, France
FR1.O9.1: BASED ON MULTI-SCALE AND MULTI-FEATURE INFORMATION MINING TECHNIQUE FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE AND APPLICATION
Xiaomei Yang, LREIS, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China; Wei Cui, Beihang University, China; Jianming Gong, Tao Zhang, LREIS, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China
FR1.O9.2: KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY FROM DATA MINING OF THE ASRIS POINT DATABASE: SOIL NUTRIENTS
Elisabeth Bui, CSIRO Land and Water, Australia; Brent Henderson, CSIRO, Australia; Karin Viergever, Ecometrica, United Kingdom
FR1.O9.3: AN AUTOMATED APPROACH TO DETECT PHENOMENA FROM NAM MODEL OUTPUTS
Rahul Ramachandran, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
FR1.O9.4: NEEDS AND APPLICATIONS FOR DATA MINING IN LARGE SERIES OF REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES
Wietske Bijker, International Institute for Geo-information and Earth Observation, Netherlands
FR1.O9.5: SWARM INTELLIGENCE FOR UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES
Andrea Paoli, Farid Melgani, Edoardo Pasolli, University of Trento, Italy
FR1.O10.1: REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED MONITORING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC POLLUTION IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
Luca Ioriatti, Mauro Martinelli, Federico Viani, Manuel Benedetti, Andrea Massa, ELEDIA Research Group - University of Trento, Italy
FR1.O10.2: SAR MONITORING OF SUBURBAN AREAS BASED ON AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING MODEL
Raffaella Guida, Surrey Space Center, University of Surrey, United Kingdom; Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Biomedica, Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy
FR1.O10.3: DAMAGE ANALYSIS OF 2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE USING SAR IMAGES
Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Fan Wu, Bo Zhang, Yixian Tang, Hongan Wu, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, China
FR1.O10.4: URBAN BUILDING DAMAGE DETECTION FROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY USING ONE-CLASS SVM AND SPATIAL RELATIONS
Peijun Li, Haiqing Xu, Jiancong Guo, Peking University, China
FR1.O10.5: VALIDATION OF AN EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE MAP FROM VHR OPTICAL IMAGES USING A GROUND SURVEY
Marco Chini, Christian Bignami, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Nazzareno Pierdicca, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy; Salvatore Stramondo, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; William J. Emery, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
FR1.O11.1: THE ALOS PALSAR MOSAIC OVER THE AFRICAN CONTINENT – A REFERENCE BASELINE DATASET FOR FOREST- AND LAND COVER CHANGE MONITORING
Ake Rosenqvist, Frank De Grandi, EC Joint Research Centre, Italy
FR1.O11.2: FUSION OF MULTI-SENSOR DATA FOR FOREST STRUCTURAL PARAMETER RETRIEVAL USING 3D RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING
Guoqing Sun, Jeremy Rubio, University of Maryland, United States; K. Jon Ranson, D. Kimes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Benjamin Koetz, University of Zurich, Switzerland; J. Gastellu-Etchegorry, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
FR1.O11.3: POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURES AND CLASSIFICATION OF DIFFERENT TROPICAL LAND COVERS
Tatiana Kuplich, CRS/INPE, Brazil; Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, Emerson Servello, DSR/INPE, Brazil; Edson Sano, EMBRAPA, Brazil
FR1.O11.4: FOREST TYPE DISCRIMINATION IN SOUTHWEST CHINA USING SPACEBORNE POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Zhongsheng Xia, Forest Resource Management and Conservation Station of Guizhou, China; Maosong Xu, State Forestry Administration, China; Chou Xie, Fengli Zhang, Huaze Gong, Wei Tian, Chinese Academy of Science, China
FR1.O11.5: MULTISENSOR SAR ANALYSIS FOR FOREST MONITORING IN BOREAL AND TROPICAL FOREST ENVIRONMENTS
Ralf Knuth, Carolin Thiel, Robert Eckardt, Nicole Richter, Christian Thiel, Christiane Schmullius, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
FR1.O12.1: GOES SOUNDING SYSTEM – THE CURRENT APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE NEEDS
Jun Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States; Timothy J. Schmit, James J. Gurka, Steven J. Goodman, Jaime Daniels, Mitchell Goldberg, NESDIS, United States
FR1.O12.2: CORRELATION OF SEVERE STORMS IDENTIFIED WITH AIRS AND HEAVY PRECIPITATION MEASURED WITH AMSRE ON THE EOS AQUA.
Hartmut Aumann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
FR1.O12.3: REGULARIZED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FOR GEOSTATIONARY ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDERS
Eric Anterrieu, Université de Toulouse & CNRS, France; Andreas Colliander, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Tapani Narhi, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Jacob Christensen, RUAG Aerospace AB, Sweden; Peter de Maagt, European Space Agency, Netherlands
FR1.O12.4: SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS OF TRACE GASES USING BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION
Pia Addabbo, Maurizio Di Bisceglie, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy
FR1.O12.5: DELAY SUPER RESOLUTION FOR GNSS-R
Maria Paola Clarizia, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; Maurizio Di Biscegle, Carmela Galdi, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy; Christine Gommenginger, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; Luciano Landi, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy
FR1.O13.1: EXTRAPOLATION OF FOREST STRUCTURE ESTIMATES THAT USED SAR AND LIDAR TO AREAS WITH NO LIDAR
Leland Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi, The University of Michigan, United States
FR1.O13.2: SYNERGISTIC USE OF MULTI-SENSOR DATA FOR ESTIMATING THE ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS OF AFRICA
Scott Goetz, Alessandro Baccini, Nadine Laporte, Mindy Sun, Tom Stone, Woods Hole Research Center, United States
FR1.O13.3: DETERMINATION OF SCATTERING MECHANISMS INSIDE RICE PLANTS BY MEANS OF PCT AND HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR IMAGING
J. David Ballester-Berman, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, University of Alacant, Spain; Maria-Jose Sanjuan, German Aerospace Center, Germany
FR1.O13.4: USE OF LIDAR DATA TO SUPPORT RETRIEVAL OF SAVANNA BIOMASS AND STRUCTURE FROM SAR
Daniel Clewley, Richard Lucas, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom; John Armston, Department of Natural Resources and Water, Australia; Peter Bunting, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom; Joao Carreiras, Tropical Research Institute, Portugal
FR1.O13.5: MAPPING VEGETATION 3D STRUCTURE WITH LIDAR, RADAR AND ANCILLARY DATA.
Marc Simard, Naiara Pinto, Lola Fatoyinbo, Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
FR2.O1.1: DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF URBAN AREAS USING ALOS PALSAR POLARIMETRIC DATA.
Laurent Ferro-Famil, University of Rennes 1, France; Marco Lavalle, Tor Vergata University, Italy
FR2.O1.2: POLARIMETRIC COHERENCE OPTIMIZATION FOR INTERFEROMETRIC DIFFERENTIAL APPLICATIONS
Luca Pipia, Xavier Fàbregas, Albert Aguasca, Carlos López-Martínez, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
FR2.O1.3: POLARIZED POINT SCATTERERS: AN ALGORITHM FOR DETECTION USING ALOS-PALSAR DATA
Shane Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom
FR2.O1.4: SCATTERING COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION FOR POL-INSAR DATASET AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Hiroyoshi Yamada, Ryutaro Komaya, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Ryoichi Sato, Niigata University, Japan
FR2.O1.5: CALIBRATION OF SPACEBORNE POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM
Toshifumi Moriyama, Nagasaki University, Japan
FR2.O2.1: A NEW APPROACH TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF BASELINE ESTIMATION FOR SPACEBORNE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY
Kui Zhang, Alex Hay-Man Ng, Hsing-Chung Chang, Linlin Ge, The University of New South Wales, Australia; Yusen Dong, China University of Geosciences, China; Chris Rizos, The University of New South Wales, Australia
FR2.O2.2: LOCAL, NONLINEAR ADAPTIVE COREGISTRATION OF MASTER AND SLAVE INTERFEROMETRIC SAR COMPLEX IMAGE DATA FOR HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL ELEVATION MAP GENERATION
Ryo Natsuaki, Akira Hirose, The University of Tokyo, Japan
FR2.O2.3: CAPON/APES BASED SAR PROCESSING: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
FR2.O2.4: PROCESSING MULTIPLE SAR MODES WITH BASEBAND AZIMUTH SCALING
Pau Prats, Rolf Scheiber, Josef Mittermayer, Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
FR2.O2.5: TERRASAR-X INTERFEROMETRY FOR LANDSLIDE MONITORING
Ye Xia, Hermann Kaufmann, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany; Xiao Fang Guo, Remote Sensing Centre of the Ministry of Land & Resources China, China; Xu Dong Yang, Institute for Environment Monitoring of the Ministry of Land & Resources China, China
FR2.O3.1: DIGITAL MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS: DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE CAPABILITIES VS. RADIOMETER SENSOR PERFORMANCE
Christopher Ruf, Steven Gross, Jinzheng Peng, University of Michigan, United States
FR2.O3.2: SATELLITE RADIOMETER PRE-LAUNCH SENSITIVITY ESTIMATION USING ANECHOIC CHAMBER AND CHANNEL INTER-COMPARISON
Andreas Colliander, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Manuel Martín-Neira, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Josep Closa, Javier Benito, EADS-CASA Espacio, Spain
FR2.O3.3: ON-FLIGHT CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SMOS PAYLOAD DURING THE COMMISSIONING PHASE
Ignasi Corbella, Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Veronica Gonzalez, Adriano Camps, Merce Vall.Llossera, UPC, Spain
FR2.O3.4: DIGITAL BEAMFORMING ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE OF A DIGITAL L-BAND PSEUDO-CORRELATION RADIOMETER
Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Adriano Camps, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez, Enric Valencia, Juan Manuel Nieto, Politechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
FR2.O3.5: ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENTS WITH FINE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION USING 3D TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES FROM A GROUND-BASED RADIOMETER NETWORK
Steven C. Reising, Colorado State University, United States; Sharmila Padmanabhan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; J Vivekanandan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States; Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Swaroop Sahoo, Colorado State University, United States
FR2.O4.1: ANALYSIS OF ALOS-PRISM AND KOMPSAT2 IMAGE GEOMETRY FOR ADVANCED PHOTOGRAMMETRIC APPLICATIONS
Laurent Falala, Pascal Favé, Institut Géographique National - France, France
FR2.O4.2: QUANTITATIVE GEOMETRIC CALIBRATION & VALIDATION OF THE RAPIDEYE CONSTELLATION
Brian Robertson, Keith Beckett, Chris Rampersad, Rony Putih, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Canada
FR2.O4.3: CALIBRATION OF FORMOSAT-2 STEREO DATA OVER A CANADIAN STUDY SITE
Stéphane Huriez, Laurent Coeurdevey, Spot Image, France; Thierry Toutin, Natural Resources Canada, Canada
FR2.O4.4: DUBAISAT-1: MISSION OVERVIEW, DEVELOPMENT STATUS AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS
Adnan Al Rais, Ali Al Suwaidi, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology (EIAST), United Arab Emirates; Hosni Ghedira, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
FR2.O4.5: THE TIME DELAY BETWEEN PANCHROMATIC AND MULTISPECTRAL BANDS OF QUICKBIRD SENSORS
Jianwei Tao, Qiming Qin, Peking University, China
FR2.O5.1: BYTE-MAP: A NOVEL MOBILE MAP FORMAT USING TWO-BYTE COORDINATES
Yingwei Luo, Xiao Pang, Xiaolin Wang, Haibo Wang, Peking University, China
FR2.O5.2: AGENT-BASED SIMULATION FOR URBAN EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING
Jinfeng Ma, Feng Mao, Wensheng Zhou, Tsinghua University, China
FR2.O5.3: ENHANCED ONLINE GENERALIZATION ALGORITHM
Ahmed Abdel-Hamid, Mahmoud Ahmed, faculty of computers and information, Helwan university, Egypt, Egypt; Yehia Helmy, faculty of computers and information - helwan university, Egypt
FR2.O5.4: BUFFER GENERATION USING SPHERICAL GEOMETRY
Abhinav Dayal, IDV Solutions Inc., United States
FR2.O5.5: A MULTISPECTRAL APPROACH FOR LIDAR SUPPORTED PREDEVELOPMENT MODELS
Mary Beth Crile, ITT Corporation, United States
FR2.O6.1: PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS USING NVIDIA GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNITS
Antonio Plaza, Javier Plaza, Sergio Sánchez, University of Extremadura, Spain
FR2.O6.2: AN FPGA-BASED ON-BOARD MULTI/HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE COMPRESSION SYSTEM
Guoxia Yu, Tanya Vladimirova, Martin Sweeting, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
FR2.O6.3: PARALLEL COMPUTING OF HIGH ORDER ANOMALY DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Hsuan Ren, National Central University, Taiwan; Yang-Lang Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
FR2.O6.4: A PARALLEL DIFFERENTIAL BOX COUNTING ALGORITHM APPLIED TO HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONS
Yu-Chang Tzeng, K. T. Fan, Y. J. Su, National United University, Taiwan; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
FR2.O6.5: REAL-TIME PROCESSING OF SIMPLEX GROWING ALGORITHM
Chao-Cheng Wu, Chein-I Chang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States; Hsuan Ren, National Central University, Taiwan; Yang-Lang Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
FR2.O7.1: SOME NEEDED STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICES FOR CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF REMOTE SENSING DATA
Irwin Alber, IEEE/ICEO, United States; Siri Jodha Khalsa, NSIDC/ICEO, United States
FR2.O7.2: GLOBAL CHANGE OBSERVATION MISSION
Haruhisa Shimoda, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan
FR2.O7.3: RADIATION TRANSFER MODELS AND QA4EO: CURRENT AND FUTURE EFFORTS FOR TRACEABILITY AND VALIDATION
Jean-Luc Widlowski, European Commission, Italy; Jean-Francois Cote, University of Sherbrooke, Canada; Yves Govaerts, EUMETSAT, Germany; Nigel Fox, National Physics Laboratory, United Kingdom; Pascal Lecomte, Philippe Goryl, Giuseppe Ottavianelli, European Space Agency, Italy
FR2.O7.4: THE MOON AS A RADIOMETRIC REFERENCE SOURCE FOR ON-ORBIT SENSOR STABILITY CALIBRATION
Thomas Stone, United States Geological Survey, United States
FR2.O7.5: AN ASSESSMENT OF AFRICAN TEST SITES IN THE CONTEXT OF A GLOBAL NETWORK OF QUALITY-ASSURED REFERENCE STANDARDS
Gyanesh Chander, SGT/USGS/EROS, United States; Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, NASA/GSFC, United States; Amit Angal, SSAI, United States; Taeyoung (Jason) Choi, Science Systems & Applications, Inc., United States
FR2.O8.1: COMPARISON OF ASTER GDEM AND A PHOTOGRAMMETRICALLY DERIVED SPOT-5 DEM FOR ALLUVIAL LANDFORM MODELING APPLICATIONS IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN AFRICA
Peter Chirico, US Geological Survey, United States
FR2.O8.2: ASTER GLOBAL DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL EVALUATION USING PRISM ONBOARD ALOS
Takeo Tadono, Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Junichi Takaku, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan
FR2.O8.3: THE GLOBAL ELEVATION REPLACEMENT PROJECT: AFRICA HYDROLOGICAL COMPARISONS AND SOURCE EVALUATIONS BETWEEN THE 1 ARC-SECOND ASTER GDEM AND COMPARABLE HIGHER RESOLUTION DATA SOURCES
Jeffrey Danielson, Dean Gesch, U.S. Geological Survey, United States; Norman Bliss, ASRC Research and Technology Solutions, United States
FR2.O8.4: MERGING GDEM, SRTM AND OTHER DATA SETS TO OPTIMIZE GLOBAL COVERAGE
Michael Kobrick, Robert Crippen, Thomas Farr, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
FR2.O8.5: EVALUATION OF ASTER GDEM WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON VOID DETECTION AND FILLING
Hannes Isaak Reuter, Andrew Nelson, independent spatial consultant, Italy; Wolfgang Mehl, Peter Strobl, Andrew Jarvis, Joint Research Centre, Italy
FR2.O9.1: A STUDY ON GEO-CBR AND ITS APPLICATION IN SPATIAL DATA MINING FRAMEWORK
Yunyan Du, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, CAS,, China; Ce Li, ESRI China(Beijing) Limited, China; Fenzhen Su, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, CAS,, China; Wei Wen, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research,, China; Feng Cao, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China
FR2.O9.2: SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA MINING ON MCS OVER TIBETAN PLATEAU USING SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL DATASETS
Yubin Yang, Nanjing University, China; Hui Lin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
FR2.O9.3: FINDING COMPOUND STRUCTURES IN IMAGES USING IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND GRAPH-BASED KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
Daniya Zamalieva, Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Turkey; James Tilton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
FR2.O9.4: ACTIVE LEARNING OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA WITH SPATIALLY DEPENDENT LABEL ACQUISITION COSTS
Alexander Liu, Goo Jun, Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas at Austin, United States
FR2.O9.5: SPECIES DISTRIBUTION AND FOREST TYPE MAPPING IN MEXICO
Anna Cord, German Aerospace Center – German Remote Sensing Data Center, Germany; René R. Colditz, National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Mexico; Michael Schmidt, Stefan Dech, German Aerospace Center – German Remote Sensing Data Center, Germany
FR2.O10.1: RESEARCH THE DYNAMICS OF LANDSCAPE SPATIAL PATTERNS OF URBAN-RURAL ECOTONE USING MULTI-TEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE
Ze Liu, Feng Mao, Wensheng Zhou, Qiang Li, Tsinghua University, China
FR2.O10.2: AN ANALYSIS OF URBAN HEAT SINK IN BEIJING USING ASTER DATA
Mingyi Du, Guoyin Cai, Dongwei Qiu, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China
FR2.O10.3: AUTOMATIC ROAD NETWORK EXTRACTION USING HIGH RESOLUTION MULTI-TEMPORAL SATELLITE IMAGES
Vinay Pandit, Sudhir Gupta, Krishnan S Rajan, International Institute of Information Technology, India
FR2.O10.4: ROUGH THIN PAVEMENT THICKNESS ESTIMATION BY GPR
Nicolas Pinel, Université de Nantes, France; Cédric Le Bastard, Laboratoires régionaux des Ponts et Chaussées d'Angers (LRPCA), France; Limei Liu, Guangdong University of Technology, China; Christophe Bourlier, Yide Wang, Université de Nantes, France
FR2.O10.5: REMOTE SENSING ARCHAEOLOGY USING HISTORICAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
Biao Deng, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, China; Huadong Guo, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, China; Yueping Nie, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, China; Lin Yang, National Museum of China, China
FR2.O11.1: FLOOD AND DISCHARGE MONITORING OVER UPPER MISSISSIPPI WATERSHEDS DURING THE 2008 IOWA FLOOD USING AMSR-E DATA
Marouane Temimi, NOAA-CREST, United States; Hosni Ghedira, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Reza Khanbilvardi, NOAA-CREST, United States
FR2.O11.2: AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CALCULATING AIR-WATER SURFACE REFLECTANCE OF SKYLIGHT FROM WATER SURFACE MEASURED SPECTRA
Junsheng Li, Bing Zhang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qian Shen, Hao Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yuanfeng Wu, Di Wu, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
FR2.O11.3: AERIAL IMAGERY FOR MONITORING LAND USE IN EAST AFRICAN WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS
Jonas Franke, University of Bonn, Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL), Germany; Mathias Becker, University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), Germany; Gunter Menz, University of Bonn, Department of Geography, Remote Sensing Research Group (RSRG), Germany; Salome Misana, Emiliana Mwita, Dar es salaam University College of Education, United Republic of Tanzania; Pamela Nienkemper, University of Bonn, Department of Geography, Remote Sensing Research Group (RSRG), Germany
FR2.O11.4: REMOTE SENSING OF SMALL RESERVOIRS: REGIONAL INVENTORIES, ASSESSMENT OF STORAGE VOLUMES, AND CALIBRATION OF HYDROLOGICAL MODELS
Jens R. Liebe, University of Bonn, Germany; Frank Annor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; Marc Andreini, International Water Management Institute, United States; M. Todd Walter, Tammo S. Steenhuis, Cornell University, United States; Nick van de Giesen, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands
FR2.O11.5: EARLY FLOOD WARNING FOR LINYI WATERSHED BY GRAPES/XXT MODEL USING TIGGE DATA
Jingwen Xu, Wanchang Zhang, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
FR2.O12.1: RETRIEVING ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES WITH HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTRAL INFRARED MEASUREMENTS
Xuebao Wu, Peng Zhang, Hong Qiu, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China; Jun Li, University of Wisconsin, United States
FR2.O12.2: EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING IN THE UPPER MESOSPHERE-LOWER THERMOSPHERE REGION USING SATELLITE AND HF RADAR DATA SETS
Nkanyiso Mbatha, Hermanus Magnetic Observatory, South Africa; Venkataraman Sivakumar, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Sandile Malinga, Hermanus Magnetic Observatory, South Africa; Hassan Bencherif, Université de La Réunion, France
FR2.O12.3: HOW ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY INFLUENCES MODELS RESULTS OF SATELLITE OBSERVED UPPER TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR PROPERTIES
Jules Rostand Dim, Hiroshi Murakami, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan; Tamio Takamura, Chiba University, Japan; Masahiro Hori, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan; Takahashi Y. Nakajima, Tokai University, Japan
FR2.O12.4: RIMT: A TOOL FOR REGIONAL IONOSPHERIC MAPPING AND TOMOGRAPHY USING GPS DATA
Shuanggen Jin, University of Texas at Austin, United States; J. Cho, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Republic of Korea
FR2.O12.5: NDSA MEASUREMENTS BETWEEN TWO LEO SATELLITES IN KU AND K BANDS FOR THE TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR ESTIMATE: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AT GLOBAL SCALE
Fabrizio Cuccoli, Luca Facheris, CNIT, Italy
FR2.O13.1: BIOMASS AND VEGETATION STRUCTURE ESTIMATES FROM COMBINED LIDAR, SAR, AND INSAR OBSERVATIONS OVER THE HARVARD FOREST
Paul Siqueira, Razi Ahmed, University of Massachusetts, United States; Kathleen Bergen, University of Michigan, United States; Bruce Chapman, Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
FR2.O13.2: MODEL-BASED INTEGRATION OF INSAR AND LIDAR FOR CANOPY STRUCTURE
Mariko Buergin, The University of Michigan, United States; Jinha Jung, Purdue University, United States; Mahta Moghaddam, The University of Michigan, United States; Melba Crawford, Purdue University, United States
FR2.O13.3: FOREST BIOMASS RETRIEVAL FROM LIDAR AND RADAR
K. Jon Ranson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States
FR2.O13.4: FOREST HEIGHT MAPPING BASED ON LIDAR AND SAR DATA
Zhiyu Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, College Park, United States; Wenjian Ni, Zhifeng Guo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lixin Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China
FR2.O13.5: BOREAL FOREST HEIGHT ESTIMATION WITH SAR INTERFEROMETRY AND LASER MEASUREMENTS
Jaan Praks, Martti Hallikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Juha Hyyppä, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland; Jaakko Seppänen, Helsinki University of technology, Finland
FR3.O1.1: DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRUM ESTIMATION BY SWIM INSTRUMENT ON CFOSAT
Céline Tison, Thierry Amiot, CNES, France; Danièle Hauser, CNRS / CETP, France; Vivien Enjolras, Laurent Rey, Thalès Alenia Space, France; Patrick Castillan, CNES, France
FR3.O1.2: SWIM, A STATE OF THE ART MULTI-INCIDENCE BEAMS KU-BAND WAVES SCATTEROMETER TO GO BEYOND CURRENT RADAR SYSTEMS
Vivien Enjolras, Laurent Rey, Thales Alenia Space, France; Thierry Amiot, Céline Tison, Patrick Castillan, CNES, France
FR3.O1.3: KASOARI : LOW RISK AND LOW COST SWATH ALTIMETER FOR OPEN OCEAN AND COASTAL AREAS TOPOGRAPHY MEASUREMENT
Laurent Phalippou, Vivien Enjolras, Thales Alenia Space, France
FR3.O1.4: DIGITAL BEAMFORMING SCATTEROMETER
Rafael Rincon, Manuel Vega, NASA/GSFC, United States; Luko Krnan, Dynamic Systems Technology, United States; Manuel Buenfil, Alessandro Geist, Lawrance Hilliard, Paul Racette, NASA/GSFC, United States
FR3.O1.5: ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR EFFECTS ON SPACEBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC SAR IMAGING: COMPARISON WITH GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS AND METEOROLOGICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS AT DIFFERENT SCALES
Nazzareno Pierdicca, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Fabio Rocca, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy; Bjorn Rommen, ESA-ESTEC, Netherlands; Patrizia Basili, Stefania Bonafoni, University of Perugia, Italy; Domenico Cimini, University of L'Aquila, Italy; Piero Ciotti, Università dell'Aquila, Italy; Fernando Consalvi, Fondazione U. Bordoni, Italy; Rossella Ferretti, University of L'Aquila, Italy; Willow Foster, Colorado State University, United States; Frank Silvio Marzano, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Vinia Mattioli, University of Perugia, Italy; Augusto Mazzoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Mario Montopoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy; Riccardo Notarpietro, Politechnic of Turin, Italy; Sharmila Padmanabhan, Colorado State University, United States; Daniele Perissin, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy; Emanuela Pichelli, University of L'Aquila, Italy; Steven C. Reising, Sahoo Swaroop, Colorado State University, United States; Giovanna Venuti, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
FR3.O2.1: A LINEAR KALMAN FILTER APPROACH FOR ESTIMATION OF A VEHICLE'S MOTION PARAMETERS USING RANGE-DOPPLER TRACKING AND ROAD INFORMATION<BR>
Ulrich Gebhardt, Patrick Berens, Jürgen Holzner, Forschungsgesellschaft für Angewandte Naturwissenschaften e.V. (FGAN), Germany
FR3.O2.2: GRLT DETECTION OF MOVING TARGET BY ALONG TRACK SAR INTERFEROMETRIC SYSTEMS
Alessandra Budillon, Universita' di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Massimo Ciaramello, Annarita Evangelista, Universita' di Cassino, Italy; Vito Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi, Universita' di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
FR3.O2.3: SAR INTERFEROMETRY AND SPECKLE TRACKING APPROACH FOR GANGOTRI GLACIER VELOCITY ESTIMATION USING ERS-1/2 AND TERRASAR-X SPOTLIGHT HIGH RESOLUTION DATA
Vijay Kumar, Gopalan Venkataraman, Y S Rao, IIT Bombay, India
FR3.O2.4: CLUTTER SUPPRESSIUON VIA SPARSE SPACE-TIME SIGNAL RECOVERY
Ke Sun, Gang Li, Huadong Meng, Hao Zhang, Xiqin Wang, Tsinghua University, China
FR3.O2.5: CHIRP SCALING BASED DETECTION OF MOVING TARGETS IN SAR IMAGES
Diego Cristallini, Pierfrancesco Lombardo, Debora Pastina, University of Rome, Italy
FR3.O3.1: DISCOVERING A CURRENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY WITH ALTIMETRY
Mathieu Rouault, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Gerold Siedler, University of Kiel, Germany
FR3.O3.2: A MULTI-SENSOR APPROACH TOWARDS COASTAL OCEAN PROCESSES MONITORING
Jerome Bouffard, Ananda Pascual, Simón Ruiz, Guillermo Vizoso, Joaquim Tintoré, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Spain
FR3.O3.3: THE CONTRIBUTION OF IMPROVED ALTIMETRY TO A STUDY OF NW MEDITERRANEAN SEA COASTAL DYNAMICS
Laurent Roblou, Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, France; Paolo Cipollini, National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom; Florence Birol, Stefano Vignudelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
FR3.O3.4: CNES/PISTACH PROJECT APPROACH TO GET BETTER MEASUREMENTS OVER INLAND WATER BODIES: EARLY RESULTS
Franck Mercier, CLS, France; Nicolas Picot, CNES, France; Pierre Thibaut, CLS, France; Anny Cazenave, CNES/LEGOS, France; Frederique Seyler, IRD/LMTG/HyBAM, Brazil; Pascal Kosuth, CEMAGREF/TETIS, France
FR3.O3.5: CNES/PISTACH PROJECT APPROACH TO GET BETTER ALTIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS CLOSE TO THE COASTS : EARLY RESULTS
Pierre Thibaut, Sylvie Labroue, Jean Christophe Poisson, Franck Mercier, Collecte Localisation Satellite, France
FR3.O4.1: INTEGRATING HYPERSPECTRAL AND IN SITU DATA FOR THE STEERING OF PLANT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Willem W. Verstraeten, Pol Coppin, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
FR3.O4.2: ANTENNAS WITH ELECTRONIC BEAM STEERING IN EARTH OBSERVATION APPLICATIONS
Vladimir Volskiy, Hadi Aliakbarian, Wim Aerts, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
FR3.O4.3: A SOLUTION FOR THE MIXTURE PROBLEM IN AGRICULTURAL REMOTE SENSING
Ben Somers, Jan Stuckens, Laurent Tits, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Stephan Verreynne, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; Willem W. Verstraeten, Pol Coppin, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
FR3.O4.4: DETECTING CITRUS TREE WATER STATUS BY INTEGRATING HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING AND PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA IN A WATER FLOW–STORAGE MODEL
Sebinasi Dzikiti, Stephan Verreynne, Albert Strever, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; Jan Stuckens, Willem W. Verstraeten, Ronny Swennen, Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium; Pol Coppin, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
FR3.O4.5: IMPROVING SOIL ORGANIC CARBON (SOC) PREDICTION BY FIELD SPECTROMETRY IN BARE CROPLAND BY REDUCING THE DISTURBING EFFECT OF SOIL ROUGHNESS
Antoine Denis, Bernard Tychon, University of Liège ULg, Belgium; Antoine Stevens, Bas van Wesemael, University Chatolic of Louvain UCL, Belgium
FR3.O5.1: INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE CONGO BASIN BASED ON EARTH OBSERVATION-BASED OPERATIONAL SERVICES BEING DEVELOPED IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE AMESD PROGRAMME IN CENTRAL AFRICA
Charles Tanania Kabobo, Julie Ladel, International Commission for Congo-Ubangui-Sangha Basin (CICOS), Australia; Marc Leroy, African Union-Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
FR3.O5.2: EVALUATION OF SOUTH AFRICAN RADAR AND REMOTELY SENSED SURFACE PARAMETERS TO PREDICT FLOODING IN BOTSWANA
Otukile Lekote, Tom Whitney, Stephen Katzberg, South Carolina State University, United States
FR3.O5.3: THE ECORS SYSTEM: A MOBILITY DECISION-MAKING TOOL BASED ON EARTH OBSERVATION DATA
Gilles Grandjean, BRGM, France; Sébastien Angéliaume, ONERA, France
FR3.O5.4: HIGH-RATE GNSS TECHNIQUES FOR THE DETECTION OF LARGE SEISMIC DISPLACEMENTS
Tong Ning, Jan Johansson, Hans-Georg Scherneck, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Per Jarlemark, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden
FR3.O5.5: EVALUATING SENSOR OBSERVATION SERVICE IMPLEMENTATIONS
Graeme McFerren, Derek Hohls, Meraka Institute, South Africa; Gavin Fleming, Mintek, South Africa
FR3.O7.1: CEOS SENSOR WEB COLLABORATIONS SUPPORTING GEOSS
Karen Moe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Terence L. van Zyl, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
FR3.O7.2: CONNECTING SENSOR WEB AND EARTH SYSTEM MODELS
Liping Di, Genong Yu, George Mason University, United States
FR3.O7.3: AN ONTOLOGY-BASED APPROACH TO SIMULATION OF HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES IN HEIHE BASIN, CHINA
Liang Chen, Lanzhou university, China; Song-Bing Zou, The Cold and Arid Region Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, CAS, China; Chuanyan Zhao, Zhaodong Feng, Lanzhou University, China
FR3.O7.4: AN ONTOLOGY MERGING TOOL TO FACILITATE INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN COASTAL SENSOR NETWORKS
Shruthi Bheemireddy, Surya Durbha, Roger King, Santhosh Amanchi, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States
FR3.O7.5: USING WEB MINING TO LOCATE UNREGISTERED TOPONYM IN WEB MAP SERVICES
Yingwei Luo, Haibo Wang, Xiaolin Wang, Xiao Pang, Peking University, China
FR3.O9.1: NOAA'S ARCHIVE PROCESSES FOR JASON-2/OSTM - A SUCCESS STORY IN THE ADOPTION OF STANDARDS
Robert Rank, John Lillibridge, Jeremy Throwe, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Kenneth Casey, Yongsheng Zhang, NOAA, United States
FR3.O9.2: NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM’S KEY TO LOW DATA LATENCY: SAFETYNET(TM)
David Lubar, Paul Koster, Raytheon Company, United States; Geoffrey Cook, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, United States; Michael Jamilkowski, Raytheon Company, United States
FR3.O9.3: EVOLUTION OF WEB SERVICES IN EOSDIS
Andrew Mitchell, Hampapuram Ramapriyan, Dawn Lowe, NASA, United States
FR3.O9.4: USING SENSORML TO DESCRIBE SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS IN DISTRIBUTED WEB SERVICE ENVIRONMENTS
Terence L. van Zyl, Anwar Vahed, Graeme Mcferren, Petrus Shabangu, Bheki Cwele, Meraka Institute, South Africa
FR3.O9.5: TALKOOT: DISCOVER, TAG, SHARE, AND REUSE COLLABORATIVE SCIENCE WORKFLOWS
Rahul Ramachandran, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
FR3.O10.1: E-LEARNING IN REMOTE SENSING: AVANTAGES AND ISSUES IN AFRICA
Brigitte Leblon, Armand Larocque, UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK, Canada; Maria Luz Gil, UNIVERSITAD SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain
FR3.O10.2: USING REMOTE SENSING FREE SOFTWARE IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Talnan Jean Honore Coulibaly, university of abobo-Adjame, Cote d'Ivoire; Jean-Paul Deroin, University of Reims, France; Issiaka Savane, university of abobo-Adjame, Cote d'Ivoire
FR3.O10.3: THE ITC GEONETCAST TOOLBOX: A GEO CAPACITY BUILDING COMPONENT FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEO-INFORMATION PROVISION TO SOCIETY
Chris Mannaerts, Ben Maathuis, Martien Molenaar, Rob Lemmens, ITC (Int'l Inst. Geo-information Sciences & Earth Observation), Netherlands
FR3.O10.4: TOWARDS BEST PRACTICE IN EARTH OBSERVATION RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Iain Woodhouse, Gemma F. Cassells, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Mavuto Tembo, The University of Mzuzu, Malawi
FR3.O10.5: GEOINFORMATION TRAINING AND EDUCATION IN GUINEA CURRENT LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM REGION OF AFRICA
Peter Chigozie Nwilo, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Jimmy Adegoke, University of Missuori, United States; Saba Ekechukwu, Map & Image Systems Ltd, Nigeria
FR3.O11.1: MAPPING CULTIVATED AREA IN WEST AFRICA USING MODIS IMAGERY AND AGROECOLOGICAL STRATIFICATION
Elodie Vintrou, Marion Houles, Danny Lo Seen, UMR TETIS - CIRAD, France; Christian Baron, UPR AIVA, France; Christian Feau, UMR TETIS - CIRAD, France; Gérard Laine, UMR TETIS, CIRAD, France
FR3.O11.2: USING REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR PRIORITIZATION OF AREAS FOR SITE SPECIFIC AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA.
Brilliant Mareme Petja, Richard Rendani Ramugondo, Azwihangwisi Edward Nesamvuni, Limpopo Department of Agriculture, South Africa
FR3.O11.3: ROBUST ESTIMATION OF CROP RESIDUE COVER VIA MULTI/HYPERSPECTRAL SENSING
James Monty, Melba Crawford, Purdue University, United States; Craig Daughtry, USDA-ARS, United States
FR3.O11.4: DECISION TREE DATA MINING IN OBJECT ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION FOR SUGAR CANE HARVEST TYPES
Elizabeth Goltz, Gustavo Arcoverde, Daniel Aguiar, Bernardo Rudorff, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil; Eduardo Maeda, University of Helsinki, Finland
FR3.O11.5: TIME SERIES OF POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC OBSERVATIONS OF TERRASAR-X DATA OVER RICE FIELDS IN SPAIN
Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, J. David Ballester-Berman, University of Alicante, Spain; Irena Hajnsek, German Aerospace Center DLR, Germany
FR3.O12.1: RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS FROM HJ-1A/B IMAGES USING STRUCTURE FUNCTION METHOD
Chunyan Zhou, Qinhuo Liu, the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lin Sun, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
FR3.O12.2: AERL – A SMALL SATELLITE FOR MEASUREMENT OF AEROSOL PROPERTIES OVER LAND SURFACES
Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria; Alice Robert, Astrium SAS, France; Tony Sephton, Alex Wishart, Astrium Ltd, United Kingdom; Karsten Strauch, Kristof Gantois, ESA-ESTEC, Netherlands
FR3.O12.3: AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVAL OVER LAND USING MODIS DATA AND ITS APPLICATION IN MONITORING AIR QUALITY
Linlu Mei, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Yingjie Li, Ying Wang, Linyan Bai, Jianwen Ai, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
FR3.O12.4: NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT OZONE MAPPER AND PROFILER SUITE SENSOR SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION AND DELIVERY – PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Maria Caponi, Integrated Program Office, NOAA/ Aerospace, United States; Lawrence Flynn, Integrated Program Office, NOAA, United States; Bruce Guenther, Integrated Program Office,, United States; Charles Hanks, Integrated Program Office, United States; John Hornstein, Integrated Program Office,, United States; Scott Janz, Integrated Program Office and NASA, United States; Maria Larsen, Integrated Program Office, United States
FR3.O12.5: INFLUENCE OF SUN PHOTOMETER FILTER FUNCTION ON RETRIEVING AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH
Hao Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Bing Zhang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Dongchuan Yan, Capital Normal University, China; Junsheng Li, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qian Shen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yuanfeng Wu, Di Wu, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
FR3.O13.1: MERIS AND (A)ATSR DATA FOR AFRICAN USERS
Peter Regner, Diego Fernandez, ESA/ESRIN, Italy
FR3.O13.2: MULTI-SENSOR IMAGE ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN LAND AND WATER SURFACES USING THE BEAM TOOLBOX
Carsten Brockmann, Norman Fomferra, Brockmann Consult GmbH, Germany; Peter Regner, ESA ESRIN, Italy; Kerstin Stelzer, Brockmann Consult GmbH, Germany
FR3.O13.3: ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION AND WATER CONSTITUENTS RETRIEVAL PROCEDURES FOR TURBID COASTAL AND LAKE WATER SCENES OF MERIS
Roland Doerffer, GKSS Research Center, Germany
FR3.O13.4: MERIS/AATSR SYNERGY ALGORITHMS FOR CLOUD SCREENING, AEROSOL RETRIEVAL AND ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION OVER OCEANS
Juergen Fischer, Free University Berlin, Germany; Carsten Brockmann, Brockmann Consult, Germany; Luis Gómez-Chova, Universitat de Valencia, Spain; Will Gray, Andreas Heckel, Swansea University, United Kingdom; Jose Moreno, Universitat de Valencia, Spain; Peter North, Swansea University, United Kingdom; Rene Preusker, Free University Berlin, Germany; Peter Regner, ESA/ESRIN, Italy
FR3.O13.5: GLOBCOLOUR - THE EUROPEAN SERVICE FOR OCEAN COLOUR
Odile Fanton d'Andon, Antoine Mangin, ACRI-ST, France; Samantha Lavender, ARGANS, United Kingdom; David Antoine, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, France; Stéphane Maritorena, Institute for Computational Earth System Science - University of Santa Barbara, United States; André Morel, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, France; Gilbert Barrot, Julien Demaria, ACRI-ST, France; Simon Pinnock, European Space Agency, Italy
FR4.O1.1: A NEW CONCEPT OF SPACEBORNE MARITIME SURVEILLANCE RADAR
Jacques Richard, Thales Alenia Space, France
FR4.O1.2: ESTIMATION OF TARGET MOTION AND 3D TARGET GEOMETRY USING MULTISTATIC ISAR MOVIES
Kei Suwa, Toshio Wakayama, Masafumi Iwamoto, Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan
FR4.O1.3: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RADAR BACKSCATTER CROSS SECTION AND OCEAN WAVE PARAMETERS AT LOW INCIDENCE ANGLES
Xiaoqing Chu, Yijun He, Gengxin Chen, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
FR4.O1.4: MEASUREMENTS OF OCEAN WAVE SPECTRA WITH VERTICAL POLARIZATION X-BAND RADAR IMAGE SEQUENCES
Limin Cui, Yijun He, Institute of oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
FR4.O1.5: A RADAR SUITE FOR ICE SHEET ACCUMULATION MEASUREMENTS AND NEAR-SURFACE INTERNAL LAYER MAPPING
Cameron Lewis, Aqsa Patel, Heather Owen, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Carl Leuschen, Sarah A. Seguin, Sivaprasad Gogineni, University of Kansas, United States
FR4.O3.1: ADVANCES IN COASTAL ALTIMETRY: THE COASTALT PROJECT OUTLOOK
Paolo Cipollini, Christine Gommenginger, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; Henrique Coelho, Hidromod Modelação em Eng., Lda, Portugal; Joana Fernandes, Universidade do Porto, Portugal; Jesus Gomez-Enri, University of Cadiz, Spain; Cristina Martin-Puig, Starlab, Spain; Stefano Vignudelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; Philip Woodworth, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, United Kingdom; Salvatore Dinardo, SERCO, Italy; Jérôme Benveniste, European Space Agency, Italy
FR4.O3.2: A RADIOMETER CONCEPT TO ENABLE HIGH-RESOLUTION WET PATH DELAY RETRIEVALS FOR THE SWOT MISSION
Shannon Brown, Behrouz Khayatian, John Farrara, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
FR4.O3.3: SRAL, A RADAR ALTIMETER DESIGNED TO MEASURE A WIDE RANGE OF SURFACE TYPES
Yves Le Roy, Marc Deschaux-Beaume, THALES ALENIA SPACE, France; Constantin Mavrocordatos, Franck Borde, ESTEC, Netherlands
FR4.O3.4: SAR ALTIMETER RETRACKER PERFORMANCE BOUND OVER WATER SURFACES
Cristina Martin-Puig, Giulio Ruffini, Starlab Barcelona S.L., Spain
FR4.O3.5: ASSESSING THE ALTIMETRIC PRECISION OF DELAY DOPPLER ALTIMETRY OVER THE OCEAN WITH NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS FROM THE CRYOSAT MISSION PERFORMANCE SIMULATOR
Christine Gommenginger, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; Cristina Martin-Puig, Starlab, Spain; P. David Cotton, SatOC, United Kingdom; Keith Raney, Johns Hopkins University, United States; Jérôme Benveniste, ESA/ESRIN, Italy
FR4.O5.1: THE AFRICAN GEODETIC REFERENCE FRAME (AFREF) PROJECT: STATUS AND FUTURE
Hussein Farah, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development(RCMRD), Kenya
FR4.O5.2: AFRICA'S ROLE IN THE GLOBAL GEODETIC OBSERVING SYSTEM
Ruth Neilan, Hans-Peter Plag, Markus Rothacher, Global Geodetic Observing System, United States
FR4.O5.3: APPLICATIONS OF GNSS IN WEST AFRICA
Alabo Dagogo M.J. Fubara, Rivers State University of Science & Technology, Nigeria
FR4.O5.4: GPS METEOROLOGY IN AFRICA: HIGHLIGHTS FROM AMMA PROJECT
Olivier Bock, Samuel Nahmani, IGN, France
FR4.O5.5: AN EVALUATION OF THE EARTH GEOPOTENTIAL MODEL 2008 (EGM2008) IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Charles Merry, University of Cape Town, South Africa
FR4.O7.1: SECURE SERVICE COMPOSITION IN SENSOR WEB
Genong Yu, Liping Di, George Mason University, United States
FR4.O7.2: SELF-ORGANISING SENSOR WEB USING CELL-FATE OPTIMISATION
Terence L. van Zyl, Elizabeth M Ehlers, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
FR4.O7.3: MOBILE COMPUTING AND SENSOR WEB SERVICES FOR COASTAL BUOYS
Santhosh Amanchi, Surya Durbha, Roger King, Shruthi Bheemireddy, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States
FR4.O7.4: A WSN-BASED SOLUTION FOR PRECISION FARM PURPOSES
Mauro Martinelli, Luca Ioriatti, Federico Viani, Manuel Benedetti, Andrea Massa, ELEDIA Research Group - University of Trento, Italy
FR4.O7.5: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL 3D ANTENNAS FOR WEATHER AND TORNADO SENSING APPLICATIONS
Anya Traille, Manos M. Tentzeris, Georgia Tech, United States
FR4.O9.1: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GEOSPATIAL WEB SERVICES AND WORKFLOWS IN GEOBRAIN
Liping Di, Peisheng Zhao, Weiguo Han, Xiaoyan Li, Meixia Deng, George Mason University, United States
FR4.O9.2: THE GEOBRAIN DATA-INTENSIVE ON-LINE ENVIRONMENT FOR ENABLING EASY ACCESS AND INTEGRATION OF DISTRIBUTED GEOSPATIAL RESOURCES
Meixia Deng, George Mason University, United States
FR4.O9.3: NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM INTERFACE DATA PROCESSING SEGMENT ARCHITECTURE
William Sullivan, Raytheon Company, United States; Joseph Mulligan, NOAA, United States; Kerry Grant, David Smith, Michael Jamilkowski, Raytheon Company, United States
FR4.O9.4: MODIS SCIENCE ALGORITHMS AND DATA SYSTEMS LESSONS LEARNED
Robert Wolfe, Edward Masuoka, Bill Ridgway, Fred Patt, NASA GSFC, United States
FR4.O9.5: OBJECT MODEL AND KNOWLEDGE DATABASE FOR AUTOMATED OBJECT-BASED ANALYSIS OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY
Markus Reinhold, Peter Selsam, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
FR4.O11.1: UTILIZING REMOTE SENSING DATA TO ASCERTAIN SOIL MOSITURE APPLICATIONS AND AIR QUALITY CONDITIONS
Steven Kempler, Gregory Leptoukh, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; William Teng, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center SESDA2, United States; Lawrence Friedl, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Headquarters, United States; Christopher Lynnes, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
FR4.O11.2: USING EARTH OBSERVATIONS FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH: EXPERIENCES, CHALLENGES, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS
Tristram West, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
FR4.O11.3: THE LONG, HARD JOURNEY: EXPANDING THE USE OF NASA DATA AND MODELS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AROUND THE WORLD
Maudood Khan, Ashutosh Limaye, William Crosson, Universities Space Research Association, United States; Alper Unal, Nancy Kete, EMBARQ, World Resources Institute (WRI) Center for Sustainable Transport, United States; Douglas Rickman, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States
FR4.O11.4: MONITORING LAND SURFACE SEASONAL FREEZE/THAW STATE FOR QUANTIFYING CONTROLS ON BOREAL ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY: LINKING TERRESTRIAL WATER AND CARBON CYCLES WITH NASA’S SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE/PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION
Kyle McDonald, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States; John Kimball, The University of Montana Flathead Lake Biological Station, United States
FR4.O11.5: DEVELOPMENT OF THE DATA GENERATION, MANAGEMENT, AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR GEOSTATIONARY OCEAN COLOR IMAGER IN KOREA OCEAN SATELLITE CENTER
Hee-Jeong Han, Yu-Hwan Ahn, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Chan-Su Yang, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Republic of Korea
FR4.O12.1: UTILIZATION OF NASA’S GLORY AEROSOL POLARIMETRIC SENSOR PRODUCTS IN VISUAL AIR QUALITY IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM
Yahya Golestani, The Aerospace Corporation, United States
FR4.O12.2: GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVALS OVER LAND AND OCEAN FROM AATSR
Suzanne Bevan, Peter North, Swansea University, United Kingdom; William Grey, Met Office, United Kingdom; Sietse Los, Swansea University, United Kingdom
FR4.O12.3: SHORT-TERM AEROSOL TRENDS: REALITY OR MYTH
Gregory Leptoukh, NASA, United States; Viktor Zubko, Wyle/ADNET, United States
FR4.O12.4: METHODS FOR ANALYSIS OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS FROM FUTURE SPACEBORNE HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION LIDAR DATA
Christopher McPherson, John Reagan, University of Arizona, United States; Richard Ferrare, Chris Hostetler, Johnathan Hair, NASA Langley Research Center, United States
FR4.O12.5: A RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH FROM MODIS MULTI-SPATIAL SCALE DATA BASED ON MUTUAL INFORMATION
Yingjie Li, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Ying Wang, Linlu Mei, Intitute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China