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Stoney The CEOS/GEO Constellation Concept Bryant Cramer, Stephen Ungar COSMO-SkyMed Mission and Applications Mo02AH1 Room: 131 COSMO-SkyMed: An Advanced Dual System for Earth Observation Francesco Caltagirone, Gius Angino, Fabr Impagnatiello, Arna Capuzi, Sand Fagioli, Robe Leonardi Interopelability, Expandability and Multi Mission-Sensor COSMO-SkyMed Capabilities Giuseppe Francesco De Luca, Graziano Marano, Matteo Piemontese, Bruno Versini, Francesco Caltagirone, Gianni Casonato, Alessandro Coletta, Maurizio De Carlo High Resolution COSMO - SkyMed SAR Images for Oil Spills Automatic Detection Paolo Trivero, Walter Biamino, Francesco Nirchio High Resolution COSMO/SkyMed SAR Data Analysis for Civil Protection from Flooding Events Giorgio Boni, Fabio Castelli, Luca Ferraris, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Sebastiano Serpico, Franco Siccardi The SBAS-InSAR Technique as a Tool for the Observation of Active Volcanic Areas: Results and Future Perspectives Paolo Berardino, Francesco Casu, Gianfranco Fornaro, Riccardo Lanari, Michele Manunta, Mariarosaria Manzo, Antonio Pepe, Susi Pepe, Eugenio Sansosti, Francesco Serafino, G. Solaro, P. Tizzani, G. Zeni Remote Sensing for Humanitarian Demining Mo03AH1 Room: 133 Possibilistic Multi-Sensor Fusion for Humanitarian Demining Nada Milisavljevic, Isabelle Bloch Hand Held Dual Sensor ALIS and Its Valuation Test in Cambodia Jun Fujiwara, Motoyuki Sato, Kazunori Takahashi Broadband Electromagnetic Induction Sensor for Detecting Buried Landmines Waymond R. Scott, Jr. Use of an Application-Specific Dictionary for Matching Pursuits Discrimination of Landmines and Clutter Raaz Mazhar, Joseph N. Wilson, Paul Gader Polarimetric Feature Fusion in GPR for Landmine Detection Vsevolod O. Kovalenko, Alexander G. Yarovoy, Leo P. Ligthart Ocean Surface Processes-I Mo04AF Room: 120 Concept Design of a Near-Space Radar for Tsunami Detection Michele Galletti, Gerhard Krieger, Thomas Boerner, Nicolas Marquart, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth Towards an Ocean Salinity Error Budget Estimation within the SMOS Mission Roberto Sabia, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Marco Talone, Jordi Font Oil Spill Detection and Tracking by Means of SAR and VIS/NIR Imagery Maria Adamo, Giacomo De Carolis, Vito De Pasquale, Guido Pasquariello Comparison of Modeled and Observed Microwave Emissivities of Water Surfaces in the Presence of Breaking Waves and Foam Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven C. Reising, William E. Asher, Victor Raizer, Peter W. Gaiser Measurements of the Effect of Rain-Induced Sea Surface Roughness on the Satellite Scatterometer Radar Cross Section David E. Weissman, Mark A. Bourassa NOAA Coral Reef Watch’s Near-Real-Time Satellite Monitoring of the 2005 Record Breaking Coral Bleaching Event in the Caribbean Gang Liu, C. Mark Eakin, Jessica Morgan, Tyler Christensen, Scott Heron, William Skirving, Alan E. Strong, Dwight Gledhill Computing Coastal Ocean Surface Currents from Ocean Color Satellite Imagery Roge Crocker, William Emery Seasonal and Interannual Patterns of Chlorophyll Bloom Timing in the Gulf of Cádiz Gabriel Navarro, Laura Prieto, I. Emma Huertas, Javier Ruiz, Jesús Gómez-Enri A Multi-Channel Atmospheric Correction Algorithm For Remote Sensing of Coastal Waters Bo-Cai Gao, Marcos J. Montes, Rong-Rong Li Electromagnetic Methods in Remote Sensing I Mo05AF Room: 121 Bistatic Scattering from a 3D Target above Rough Surface Ya-Qiu Jin, Hongxia Ye Application of the Stochastic Second-Degree Iterative Method to EM Scattering from Randomly Rough Surfaces Yang Du, J. A. Kong Frequency and Polarimetric Dependence of Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing Signatures in Rough Surface Problems with Small to Moderate rms Heights Peng Xu, Leung Tsang, Kun-Shan Chen Moment Method/ Monte Carlo Simulation of the Microwave Backscatter of Wet-Land Rice Fields Yisok Oh, Jin-Young Hong Extension of Advanced Integral Equation Model for Calculations of Fully Polarimetric Scattering Coefficient from Rough Surface Hung-Wei Lee Lee, Kun-Shan Chen, Jeng Chuan Wang, Tzong-Dar Wu, Jong-Sen Lee, J.C. Shi Bistatic Scattering from Bare Soils: Sensitivity to Soil Moisture and Surface Roughness Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Francesca Ticconi Derivation of Validity Region of SPM Simulation of One-Dimensional Two-Layer Rough Surfaces Using a Fast Solver and Simulated Annealing Method Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Mahta Moghaddam, Eric Michielssen Comparison of Different Separable Basis Functions for the Application of the Method of Moments on Rough Surface Scattering Jose Luis Alvarez-Perez, Mercè Vall-llossera, J.C. Nieto-Borge Improvement of 3D Radar Backscatter Model By Matrix-Doubling Methods Wenjian Ni, Zhifeng Guo, Guoqing Sun, Fang Wang Effective Dielectric Constant for a Random Medium with Different Scattering Species after Renormalization of the Helmholtz Equation Jose Luis Alvarez-Perez Bistatic and Multistatic Radar Mo06AF Room: 122 Feasibility of Spaceborne Bistatic Radar Missions for Land Applications Giuliano Della Pietra, Fabrizio Capobianco, Stefano Falzini, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Ludovico De Titta Phase and Temporal Synchronization in Bistatic SAR Systems Using Sources of Opportunity Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Pau Serra-Morales, Jesus Sanz-Marcos Space-Based Moving Target Positioning Using Radar with a Switched Aperture Antenna Joachim H. G. Ender, Christoph Gierull, Delphine Cerutti-Maori Assessment of Interferometric Baseline Performances in a Multistatic Radar Formation Flight for High-Accurate DEM Generation Andreas Kohlhase, Remc Kroes Bistatic SAR Interferometry Using ENVISAT and a Ground Based Receiver: Experimental Results Paco López-Dekker, Juan C. Merlano, Sergi Duque, Jesus Sanz-Marcos, Albert Aguasca, Jordi J. Mallorquí Constraints of the Bistatic SAR Processing Koba Natroshvili, Otmar Loffeld, Holger Nies, Ulrich Gebhardt, Joachim H. G. Ender Experimental Investigation of Digital Beamforming SAR Performance Using a Ground-Based Demonstrator Jung-Hyo Kim, Alicja Ossowska, Werner Wiesbeck Position and Orientation Estimation of Two Airborne Platforms Towards Each Other Matthias Weiß, Giovanni Marino Performance Results of the SHARAD Instrument Franco Fois, Renato Croci, Roberto Seu, Giovanni Picardi, Enrico Flamini Bistatic SAR Imaging: A Novel Approach Using a Stationary Receiver Adib Nashashibi, Fawwaz Ulaby SAR Data Processing Mo07AF Room: 123 Improvement of Interferometric SAR Coherence Estimates by Slope-Adaptive Range Common-Band Filtering Maurizio Santoro, Charles Werner, Urs Wegmüller, Oliver Cartus Polarimetric Phase Gradient Autofocus Marco Martorella, Mark Preiss, Brett Haywood, Bevan Bates Delay/Doppler Altimeter Data Processing Davide D‘Aria, Pietro Guccione, Betlem Rosich, Robert Cullen Merging of the Stereogrametry and Interferometry Techniques as Relative Bandwidth Grows. Illustration with VHF Carabas SAR Images Hubert M. J. Cantalloube, Elise K. Colin, P.O. Frölind, Lars M. H. Ulander Evaluation of the Bistatic Range Migration Processor Ingo Walterscheid, Andreas R. Brenner, Joachim H. G. Ender, Otmar Loffeld A SAR Processing Algorithm for TOPS Imaging Mode Based on Extended Chirp Scaling Pau Prats, Rolf Scheiber, Josef Mittermayer, Adriano Meta, Alberto Moreira, Jesus Sanz-Marcos Investigations on the TOPSAR Acquisition Mode with TerraSAR-X Adriano Meta, Josef Mittermayer, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Pau Prats Tomographic Processing of Multi-Baseline P-Band SAR Data for Imaging of a Forested Area Othmar Frey, Felix Morsdorf, Erich Meier Accurate Phase-Preserving Processing of Spaceboene TOPS Mode Data Ole Morten Olsen Analysis of Non-Gaussian POLSAR Data Anthony Doulgeris, Stian Anfinsen, Normann Anfinsen, Torbjorn Eltoft SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications Mo08AF Room: 124 Classification Comparisons Between Dual-Pol and Quad-Pol SAR Imagery T. L. Ainsworth, J.-S. Lee, L.-W. Chang Analysis of Fully Polarimetric SAR Data Based on the Cloude-Pottier Decomposition and the Complex Wishart Classifier Fang Cao, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Eric Pottier Evaluation and Bias Removal of Multi-Look Effect on Entropy/Alpha/Anisotropy Jong-Sen Lee, T. L. Ainsworth, John Kelly, Carlos López-Martínez Multidimensional Speckle Noise Reduction in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Carlos López-Martínez, Xavier Fàbregas Review of Existing Monographs and Books on Radar Polarimetry and Polarimetric SAR with the Aim of Justifying the Need of Updates Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Jong-Sen Lee Monitoring Temperate Glaciers by High Resolution Pol-InSAR Data: First Analysis of Argentière E-SAR Acquisitions and In-Situ Measurements Tania Landes, Michel Gay, Emmanuel Trouvé, Jean-Marie Nicolas, Lionel Bombrun, Gabriel Vasile, Irena Hajnsek Sub-Band Interferometry on Polarimetric SAR Dataset Jean-François Nouvel, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Sébastien Angelliaume, Mimoun David Polarimetric Temporal Information for Urban Deformation Map Retrieval Luca Pipia, Xavier Fàbregas, Albert Aguasca, Carlos López-Martínez, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Antoni Broquetas, Oscar Moraline Pol-DinSAR: Polarimetric SAR Differential Interferometry Using Coherent Scatterers Rafael Zandona Schneider, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou Classification of Stricken Residential Houses by the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake Based on POLSAR Image Analysis Ryoichi Sato, Koji Soma, Yuki Yajima, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada Space Agencies Missions and Technologies Mo09AF Room: 129 The Restructured NPOESS and NPP Programs: Their Projected Ability to Help Fulfill the Global Meteorological & Climate Missionsand Their Potential Contributions to these GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas Stephen A. Mango Global Change Observation Missions Haruhisa Shimoda The Contribution of the European Space Agency to the ALOS PRISM / Commissioning Phase Sebastien Saunier, Philippe Goryl, Marc Bouvet, Richard Santer, Armin Gruen, Kirsten Wolf, Francoise Viallefont The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Sensor Suite Hal Bloom ESA Future Earth Observation Explorer Missions Jean-Loup Bézy, Paolo Bensi, Chun-Chi Lin, Yannig Durand, Florence Hélière, Amanda Regan, Paul Ingmann, Joerg Langen, Michael Berger, Malcolm Davidson, Helge Rebhan The C-SAR Instrument for the GMES Sentinel-1 Mission Friedhelm Rostan, Sebastian Riegger, W. Pitz, Andrea Torre, Ramon Torres SRAL SAR Radar Altimeter for Sentinel-3 Mission Yves Le Roy, Marc Deschaux-beaume, Constantin Mavrocordatos, Miguel Aguirre, Florence Hélière ENVISAT AP Mode Data and AIS Used for Ship Detection Tonje Nanette Arnesen The COSMO-SkyMed Satellites Development and Qualification Claudio Galeazzi, Edmondo Scorzafava, Claudia Fiorentino, Mauro Protto, Mauro Petruccioli, Paolo Venditti, Andrea Torre, Pasquale Capece, Alessandro Bonfiglietti, Aniceto Panetti COSMO-SkyMed: System End-to-End Verification Enrico Zampolini Faustini, Anna Notarantonio, Graziano Marano, Venturino Gualtieri, Vittorio Magna, Gianni Casonato, Fabio Covello, Giuseppe Francesco De Luca, Claudia Fiorentino, Edmondo Scorzafava Microwave Radiometer Technology Mo10AF Room: 130 GAS: The Geostationary Atmospheric Sounder Jacob Christensen, Anders Carlström, Hans Ekström, Anders Emrich, Johan Embertsen, Peter de Maagt, Andreas Colliander Assimilation of Simulated Geostationary Passive Microwave Albin J. Gasiewski, Bob L. Weber, Jian Wen Bao A Dual-gain Antenna Option for GeoSTAR Alan B. Tanner, Bjorn H. Lambrigsten, Todd C. Gaier The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer - An Octave Bandwidth Synthetic Thinned Array Radiometer Christopher S. Ruf, Ruba Amarin, M.C. Bailey, Boon H. Lim, Robbie Hood, Mark James, James Johnson, Linwood Jones, Vanessa Rohwedder, Karen Stephens Radiometric Analysis of the Rotating Synthetic Aperture Radiometers Utilizing Grid-Based Measurement Approach Hao Liu, Peter De Maagt, Jacob Christensen, Anders Emrich, Ji Wu The Influence of Antenna Pattern on Faraday Rotation in Remote Sensing at L-band D. M. Le Vine, S. D Jacob, S. Abraham, Emmanuel P. Dinnat, Paolo de Matthaeis Radiometric Performance of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radiometer HUT-2D Juha Kainulainen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Martti Hallikainen, Matias Takala Synthetic Aperture PAU: A New Instrument to Test Potential Improvements for Future SMOSops Isaac Ramos-Perez, Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Juan F. Marchan-Hernandez, Nerea Rodriguez-Alvarez, Enric Valencia, Fabio Frascella, Paolo Campigotto, Marco Donadio Estimation of 3-D Water Vapor Distribution Using a Network of Compact Microwave Radiometers Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven C. Reising, Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, Jothiram Vivekanandan The Ground-Based Scanning Radiometer: A Tool for Arctic Atmospheric Research Ed R. Westwater, Domenico Cimini, Albin J. Gasiewski, Marian Klein, Vladimir Leuski Feature Extraction and Reduction Mo11AF Room: 132 Feature Extraction from Remote Sensing Data using Kernel Orthonormalized PLS Jerónimo Arenas-García, Gustavo Camps-Valls Feature Extraction of Gabled-Roofed Buildings Based on Multi-Aspect High-Resolution InSAR Data Antje Thiele, Erich Cadario, Karsten Schulz, Ulrich Thoennessen, Uwe Soergel An Efficient Wavelet Dictionary for Texture Separation Mohamed Anis Loghmari, Faten Katlane, Mohamed Saber Naceur A New Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Method with Application to Hyperspectral Image Analysis Shen-En Qian, Guangyi Chen Extract Roads from High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery: A Semi-automatic Method Min Wang Quantitative Analysis of Texture Parameter Estimation in SAR Images Olivier D‘Hondt, Carlos López-Martínez, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Eric Pottier High Resolution Urban Feature Extraction for Global Population Mapping Using High Performance Computing Veeraraghavan Vijayaraj, Eddie A. Bright, Budhendra L. Bhaduri Unsupervised Band Selection for Hyperspectral Image Analysis Qian Du, He Yang Texture Retrieval Using Grey-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix for Ikonos Panchromatic Images of Earthquake in Java 2006 Bingbing Liu, Soo Chin Liew Identification of Generalized Self-Similar Principal Components of Single Image for Image Filtering and Pattern Decomposition Qiuming Cheng 16:20 - 18:00 TECHNICAL SESSIONS Ocean Surface Processes-I Mo04AF Room: 120 Concept Design of a Near-Space Radar for Tsunami Detection Michele Galletti, Gerhard Krieger, Thomas Boerner, Nicolas Marquart, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth Towards an Ocean Salinity Error Budget Estimation within the SMOS Mission Roberto Sabia, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Marco Talone, Jordi Font Oil Spill Detection and Tracking by Means of SAR and VIS/NIR Imagery Maria Adamo, Giacomo De Carolis, Vito De Pasquale, Guido Pasquariello Comparison of Modeled and Observed Microwave Emissivities of Water Surfaces in the Presence of Breaking Waves and Foam Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven C. Reising, William E. Asher, Victor Raizer, Peter W. Gaiser Measurements of the Effect of Rain-Induced Sea Surface Roughness on the Satellite Scatterometer Radar Cross Section David E. Weissman, Mark A. Bourassa NOAA Coral Reef Watch’s Near-Real-Time Satellite Monitoring of the 2005 Record Breaking Coral Bleaching Event in the Caribbean Gang Liu, C. Mark Eakin, Jessica Morgan, Tyler Christensen, Scott Heron, William Skirving, Alan E. Strong, Dwight Gledhill Computing Coastal Ocean Surface Currents from Ocean Color Satellite Imagery Roge Crocker, William Emery Seasonal and Interannual Patterns of Chlorophyll Bloom Timing in the Gulf of Cádiz Gabriel Navarro, Laura Prieto, I. Emma Huertas, Javier Ruiz, Jesús Gómez-Enri A Multi-Channel Atmospheric Correction Algorithm For Remote Sensing of Coastal Waters Bo-Cai Gao, Marcos J. Montes, Rong-Rong Li Electromagnetic Methods in Remote Sensing I Mo05AF Room: 121 Bistatic Scattering from a 3D Target above Rough Surface Ya-Qiu Jin, Hongxia Ye Application of the Stochastic Second-Degree Iterative Method to EM Scattering from Randomly Rough Surfaces Yang Du, J. A. Kong Frequency and Polarimetric Dependence of Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing Signatures in Rough Surface Problems with Small to Moderate rms Heights Peng Xu, Leung Tsang, Kun-Shan Chen Moment Method/ Monte Carlo Simulation of the Microwave Backscatter of Wet-Land Rice Fields Yisok Oh, Jin-Young Hong Extension of Advanced Integral Equation Model for Calculations of Fully Polarimetric Scattering Coefficient from Rough Surface Hung-Wei Lee Lee, Kun-Shan Chen, Jeng Chuan Wang, Tzong-Dar Wu, Jong-Sen Lee, J.C. Shi Bistatic Scattering from Bare Soils: Sensitivity to Soil Moisture and Surface Roughness Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Francesca Ticconi Derivation of Validity Region of SPM Simulation of One-Dimensional Two-Layer Rough Surfaces Using a Fast Solver and Simulated Annealing Method Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Mahta Moghaddam, Eric Michielssen Comparison of Different Separable Basis Functions for the Application of the Method of Moments on Rough Surface Scattering Jose Luis Alvarez-Perez, Mercè Vall-llossera, J.C. Nieto-Borge Improvement of 3D Radar Backscatter Model By Matrix-Doubling Methods Wenjian Ni, Zhifeng Guo, Guoqing Sun, Fang Wang Effective Dielectric Constant for a Random Medium with Different Scattering Species after Renormalization of the Helmholtz Equation Jose Luis Alvarez-Perez Bistatic and Multistatic Radar Mo06AF Room: 122 Feasibility of Spaceborne Bistatic Radar Missions for Land Applications Giuliano Della Pietra, Fabrizio Capobianco, Stefano Falzini, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Ludovico De Titta Phase and Temporal Synchronization in Bistatic SAR Systems Using Sources of Opportunity Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Pau Serra-Morales, Jesus Sanz-Marcos Space-Based Moving Target Positioning Using Radar with a Switched Aperture Antenna Joachim H. G. Ender, Christoph Gierull, Delphine Cerutti-Maori Assessment of Interferometric Baseline Performances in a Multistatic Radar Formation Flight for High-Accurate DEM Generation Andreas Kohlhase, Remc Kroes Bistatic SAR Interferometry Using ENVISAT and a Ground Based Receiver: Experimental Results Paco López-Dekker, Juan C. Merlano, Sergi Duque, Jesus Sanz-Marcos, Albert Aguasca, Jordi J. Mallorquí Constraints of the Bistatic SAR Processing Koba Natroshvili, Otmar Loffeld, Holger Nies, Ulrich Gebhardt, Joachim H. G. Ender Experimental Investigation of Digital Beamforming SAR Performance Using a Ground-Based Demonstrator Jung-Hyo Kim, Alicja Ossowska, Werner Wiesbeck Position and Orientation Estimation of Two Airborne Platforms Towards Each Other Matthias Weiß, Giovanni Marino Performance Results of the SHARAD Instrument Franco Fois, Renato Croci, Roberto Seu, Giovanni Picardi, Enrico Flamini Bistatic SAR Imaging: A Novel Approach Using a Stationary Receiver Adib Nashashibi, Fawwaz Ulaby SAR Data Processing Mo07AF Room: 123 Improvement of Interferometric SAR Coherence Estimates by Slope-Adaptive Range Common-Band Filtering Maurizio Santoro, Charles Werner, Urs Wegmüller, Oliver Cartus Polarimetric Phase Gradient Autofocus Marco Martorella, Mark Preiss, Brett Haywood, Bevan Bates Delay/Doppler Altimeter Data Processing Davide D‘Aria, Pietro Guccione, Betlem Rosich, Robert Cullen Merging of the Stereogrametry and Interferometry Techniques as Relative Bandwidth Grows. Illustration with VHF Carabas SAR Images Hubert M. J. Cantalloube, Elise K. Colin, P.O. Frölind, Lars M. H. Ulander Evaluation of the Bistatic Range Migration Processor Ingo Walterscheid, Andreas R. Brenner, Joachim H. G. Ender, Otmar Loffeld A SAR Processing Algorithm for TOPS Imaging Mode Based on Extended Chirp Scaling Pau Prats, Rolf Scheiber, Josef Mittermayer, Adriano Meta, Alberto Moreira, Jesus Sanz-Marcos Investigations on the TOPSAR Acquisition Mode with TerraSAR-X Adriano Meta, Josef Mittermayer, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Pau Prats Tomographic Processing of Multi-Baseline P-Band SAR Data for Imaging of a Forested Area Othmar Frey, Felix Morsdorf, Erich Meier Accurate Phase-Preserving Processing of Spaceboene TOPS Mode Data Ole Morten Olsen Analysis of Non-Gaussian POLSAR Data Anthony Doulgeris, Stian Anfinsen, Normann Anfinsen, Torbjorn Eltoft SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications Mo08AF Room: 124 Classification Comparisons Between Dual-Pol and Quad-Pol SAR Imagery T. L. Ainsworth, J.-S. Lee, L.-W. Chang Analysis of Fully Polarimetric SAR Data Based on the Cloude-Pottier Decomposition and the Complex Wishart Classifier Fang Cao, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Eric Pottier Evaluation and Bias Removal of Multi-Look Effect on Entropy/Alpha/Anisotropy Jong-Sen Lee, T. L. Ainsworth, John Kelly, Carlos López-Martínez Multidimensional Speckle Noise Reduction in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Carlos López-Martínez, Xavier Fàbregas Review of Existing Monographs and Books on Radar Polarimetry and Polarimetric SAR with the Aim of Justifying the Need of Updates Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Jong-Sen Lee Monitoring Temperate Glaciers by High Resolution Pol-InSAR Data: First Analysis of Argentière E-SAR Acquisitions and In-Situ Measurements Tania Landes, Michel Gay, Emmanuel Trouvé, Jean-Marie Nicolas, Lionel Bombrun, Gabriel Vasile, Irena Hajnsek Sub-Band Interferometry on Polarimetric SAR Dataset Jean-François Nouvel, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Sébastien Angelliaume, Mimoun David Polarimetric Temporal Information for Urban Deformation Map Retrieval Luca Pipia, Xavier Fàbregas, Albert Aguasca, Carlos López-Martínez, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Antoni Broquetas, Oscar Moraline Pol-DinSAR: Polarimetric SAR Differential Interferometry Using Coherent Scatterers Rafael Zandona Schneider, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou Classification of Stricken Residential Houses by the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake Based on POLSAR Image Analysis Ryoichi Sato, Koji Soma, Yuki Yajima, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada Space Agencies Missions and Technologies Mo09AF Room: 129 The Restructured NPOESS and NPP Programs: Their Projected Ability to Help Fulfill the Global Meteorological & Climate Missionsand Their Potential Contributions to these GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas Stephen A. Mango Global Change Observation Missions Haruhisa Shimoda The Contribution of the European Space Agency to the ALOS PRISM / Commissioning Phase Sebastien Saunier, Philippe Goryl, Marc Bouvet, Richard Santer, Armin Gruen, Kirsten Wolf, Francoise Viallefont The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Sensor Suite Hal Bloom ESA Future Earth Observation Explorer Missions Jean-Loup Bézy, Paolo Bensi, Chun-Chi Lin, Yannig Durand, Florence Hélière, Amanda Regan, Paul Ingmann, Joerg Langen, Michael Berger, Malcolm Davidson, Helge Rebhan The C-SAR Instrument for the GMES Sentinel-1 Mission Friedhelm Rostan, Sebastian Riegger, W. Pitz, Andrea Torre, Ramon Torres SRAL SAR Radar Altimeter for Sentinel-3 Mission Yves Le Roy, Marc Deschaux-beaume, Constantin Mavrocordatos, Miguel Aguirre, Florence Hélière ENVISAT AP Mode Data and AIS Used for Ship Detection Tonje Nanette Arnesen The COSMO-SkyMed Satellites Development and Qualification Claudio Galeazzi, Edmondo Scorzafava, Claudia Fiorentino, Mauro Protto, Mauro Petruccioli, Paolo Venditti, Andrea Torre, Pasquale Capece, Alessandro Bonfiglietti, Aniceto Panetti COSMO-SkyMed: System End-to-End Verification Enrico Zampolini Faustini, Anna Notarantonio, Graziano Marano, Venturino Gualtieri, Vittorio Magna, Gianni Casonato, Fabio Covello, Giuseppe Francesco De Luca, Claudia Fiorentino, Edmondo Scorzafava Microwave Radiometer Technology Mo10AF Room: 130 GAS: The Geostationary Atmospheric Sounder Jacob Christensen, Anders Carlström, Hans Ekström, Anders Emrich, Johan Embertsen, Peter de Maagt, Andreas Colliander Assimilation of Simulated Geostationary Passive Microwave Albin J. Gasiewski, Bob L. Weber, Jian Wen Bao A Dual-gain Antenna Option for GeoSTAR Alan B. Tanner, Bjorn H. Lambrigsten, Todd C. Gaier The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer - An Octave Bandwidth Synthetic Thinned Array Radiometer Christopher S. Ruf, Ruba Amarin, M.C. Bailey, Boon H. Lim, Robbie Hood, Mark James, James Johnson, Linwood Jones, Vanessa Rohwedder, Karen Stephens Radiometric Analysis of the Rotating Synthetic Aperture Radiometers Utilizing Grid-Based Measurement Approach Hao Liu, Peter De Maagt, Jacob Christensen, Anders Emrich, Ji Wu The Influence of Antenna Pattern on Faraday Rotation in Remote Sensing at L-band D. M. Le Vine, S. D Jacob, S. Abraham, Emmanuel P. Dinnat, Paolo de Matthaeis Radiometric Performance of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radiometer HUT-2D Juha Kainulainen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Martti Hallikainen, Matias Takala Synthetic Aperture PAU: A New Instrument to Test Potential Improvements for Future SMOSops Isaac Ramos-Perez, Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Juan F. Marchan-Hernandez, Nerea Rodriguez-Alvarez, Enric Valencia, Fabio Frascella, Paolo Campigotto, Marco Donadio Estimation of 3-D Water Vapor Distribution Using a Network of Compact Microwave Radiometers Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven C. Reising, Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, Jothiram Vivekanandan The Ground-Based Scanning Radiometer: A Tool for Arctic Atmospheric Research Ed R. Westwater, Domenico Cimini, Albin J. Gasiewski, Marian Klein, Vladimir Leuski Feature Extraction and Reduction Mo11AF Room: 132 Feature Extraction from Remote Sensing Data using Kernel Orthonormalized PLS Jerónimo Arenas-García, Gustavo Camps-Valls Feature Extraction of Gabled-Roofed Buildings Based on Multi-Aspect High-Resolution InSAR Data Antje Thiele, Erich Cadario, Karsten Schulz, Ulrich Thoennessen, Uwe Soergel An Efficient Wavelet Dictionary for Texture Separation Mohamed Anis Loghmari, Faten Katlane, Mohamed Saber Naceur A New Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Method with Application to Hyperspectral Image Analysis Shen-En Qian, Guangyi Chen Extract Roads from High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery: A Semi-automatic Method Min Wang Quantitative Analysis of Texture Parameter Estimation in SAR Images Olivier D‘Hondt, Carlos López-Martínez, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Eric Pottier High Resolution Urban Feature Extraction for Global Population Mapping Using High Performance Computing Veeraraghavan Vijayaraj, Eddie A. Bright, Budhendra L. Bhaduri Unsupervised Band Selection for Hyperspectral Image Analysis Qian Du, He Yang Texture Retrieval Using Grey-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix for Ikonos Panchromatic Images of Earthquake in Java 2006 Bingbing Liu, Soo Chin Liew Identification of Generalized Self-Similar Principal Components of Single Image for Image Filtering and Pattern Decomposition Qiuming Cheng GEOSS Architecture and Implementation Mo12AH2 Room: 128 GEOSS Architecture and Data Management: A global approach to Earth information Jay Pearlman The GEOSS Interoperability Process Pilot Project Siri Jodha Khalsa, Stefano Nativi, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Tim Ahern, David Thomas Experiments with User-Centric GEOSS Architectures Daniel Mandl, Rob Sohlberg, Chris Justice, Stephen Ungar, Troy Ames, Stuart Frye, Steve Chien, Pat Cappelaere, Danny Tran Automatic Co-Registration of GEOSS Imagery Products: Examples of Time-Series and Data Fusion Analysis Nevin Bryant, Walt Bunch, Rich Fretz, Thom Logan, Albe Zobrist Data Quality Guidelines for GEOSS Consideration - The CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) Stephen Ungar, Petya K. E. Campbell, Michael Rast, Changyoung Cao Data Fussion II: Pan-sharpening and Resolution Enhancement Mo13AH2 Room: 131 Pan-sharpening via the Contourlet Transform Vijay Shah, Nicolas H. Younan, Roger L. King Pan-Sharpening Using Induction Muhammad M. Khan, Jocelyn Chanussot, Annick Montanvert, Laurent Condat Smoothing of Fused Spectral Consistent Satellite Images with TV-Based Edge Detection Johannes R. Sveinsson, Henrik Aanaes, Jon Atli Benediktsson Fusion of MeRIS and ETM Images for Coastal Water Monitoring Audrey Minghelli-Roman, Laurent Polidori, Sandrine Mathieu-Blanc, François Cauneau Image Information Mining Mo14AH2 Room: 133 A Bayesian Multi-Class Image Content Retrieval Ines Maria Gomez Muñoz, Mihai Datcu User-Specific Semantics for Modeling Content-Based Information in Geospatial Knowledge Adri Barb, Chi-Ren Shyu Semantics-Enabled Metadata Generation, Tracking and Validation in the Geospatial Web Service Composition for Distributed Images Peng Yue, Liping Di, Wenli Yang, Genong Yu, Peisheng Zhao, Jianya Gong Application of the Contourlet Transform for Image Information Mining in Earth Observation Data Archives Vijay Shah, Nicholas Younan, Surya Durbha, Roger L. King Image Information Mining for Coastal Disaster Management Surya Durbha, Roger L. King, Vijay Shah, Nicolas H. Younan 18:00 - 19:30 POSTER SESSIONS 18:00 - 19:30 Electromagnetic Models Mo03EP Room: Foyer-2 Global Analysis of Pyramidal Horn Antennas Using EFIEE and Fresnel Integral Ahcene Boualleg, Salah Redadaa, Malek Benslama Impact of Topography on Microwave Emissivity Retrieval from Satellite Radiometers Nazzareno Pierdicca, Luca Pulvirenti, Frank S. Marzano Model Study of Forests at L-Band: Active, Passive and Bistatic Systems Andrea DellaVecchia, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Leila Guerriero, Francesca Ticconi, Emanuele Santi Localizing Metallic Small Spheres by a Linear Distributional Approach Raffaele Solimene, Aniello Buonanno, Rocco Pierri, Leone Giovanni Measurement and Analysis of Depolarisation Generated by Scattering over Constructive Obstacles at 5.8 GHz Iñigo Cuiñas, Manuel García Sánchez, Ana Vázquez Alejos Short-term rain attenuation prediction at EHF band using financial time series models Louis de Montera, Cécile Mallet, Laurent Barthès Microwave Spectroscopic Dielectric Model of Moist Soils using Physical and Hydrological Characteristics as Input Parameters Pavel P. Bobrov, Valery L. Mironov, Olga A. Ivchenko, Valentina N. Krasnoukhova Field Measurement of Gobi Surface Emissivity Using CE312 and Infragold Board at Dunhuang Calibration Site of China Yong Zhang, Zhiguo Rong , Xiuqing Hu, Jinging Liu, Lijun Zhang, Yuan Li, Xingying Zhang Novel Measurement of Backscatter Enhancement for Surface Scattering at EHF Band Chin-Yuan Hsieh How does multiple scattering affect the CloudSat measurements at ranges longer than the true surface range? Alessandro Battaglia, Clemens Simmer Wind Effect on the Scattering from Vegetation at Cellular Phone Frequencies Iñigo Cuiñas, Ana Vázquez Alejos, Manuel García Sánchez, Paula Gómez, Rafael F.S. Caldeirinha 18:00 - 19:30 Image Calibration, Correction and Registration Mo04EP Room: Foyer-2 Cloud-Contaminated Image Reconstruction with Contextual Spatio-Spectral Information Souad Benabdelkader, Farid Melgani, Mohammed Boulemden Combination of Feature-Based and Area-Based Image Registration Techniques for High Resolution Remote Sensing Image Gang Hong, Yun Zhang A Novel Approach to Automatic Registration of Point Clouds Rui Liu, Darius Burschka, Gerd Hirzinger A Novel Method for Multispectral Aerial Image Registration Jianying Jia, Qiming Zeng High Accurate Geometric Correction for NOAA AVHRR Data Considering Elevation Effect An Ngoc Van, Yoshimitsu Aoki Steerable Filter Based Multiscale Registration Method for JERS-1 SAR and ASTER Images Qi Li, Isao Sato, Yutaka Murakami Affine Registration of Multimodality Images by Optimization of Mutual Information Using a Stochastic Gradient Approximation Technique Qi Li, Isao Sato, Yutaka Murakami Fractal Characteristics of Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery Yu Zeng, Jixian Zhang, Haitao Li 18:00 - 19:30 Feature Extraction and Reduction Mo05EP Room: Foyer-2 A Feature Selection Algorithm for Class Discrimination Improvement Claudio De Stefano, Francesco Fontanella, Cristina Marrocco, Gilda Schirinzi GIFTS SM EDU Data Processing and Algorithms Jialin Tian, David G. Johnson, Robert A. Reisse, Michael J. Gazarik Classification of Landsat TM Image Based on Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Jiamian Ren, Xianchuan Yu, Bixin Hao Morphological Feature Extraction for Automatic Registration of Multispectral Images Antonio J. Plaza, Jacqueline Le Moigne, Nathan S. Netanyahu Texture Representation Through Fractal Singularity Spectrum Daniele Giusto, Valeria Orani Three-dimensional Tree with Spatial Features Modeling Based on Rules Zhangang Wang, Dafang Zhuang Knowledge Centred Earth Observation: Feature Extraction Amaia de Miguel, Gottfried Schwarz, Mihai Datcu, Andrea Colapicchioni Elimination of Oil Spill Like Structures from Radar Image using MODIS Data Liis Sipelgas, Rivo Uiboupin 18:00 - 19:30 Detection and Object Recognition Mo06EP Room: Foyer-2 Self-Organized Maps-Based Spectral Prediction of Rotylenchulus Reniformis Numbers Rushabh Doshi, Roger L. King, Gary Lawrence Automatic Extraction of Lineament Map from DEM Reza Nekovei Ship detection in ENVISAT ASAR Alternating Polarization images Harm Greidanus, Francois-xavier Thoorens, Tony Bauna, Marte Indregard, Tonje-Nanette Arnesen Automatic Counting of Fission Tracks Using Object-Based Image Analysis for Dating Applications Judith Lippold, Prashanth R. Marpu, Richard Gloaguen, Raymond Jonckheere Application of 3D-SAR Nearfield Imaging Algorithms to GPR Data Uschkerat Udo Target Separation in SAR Image with the MUSIC Algorithm Philip Thompson, Matteo Nannini, Rolf Scheiber Road Extraction from ETM Panchromatic Image Based on Dual-Edge Following Haijian Ma, Qiming Qin, Shihong Du, Lin Wan, Chuan Jin Target recognition in SAR images with Support Vector Machines (SVM) Céline Tison, Nadine Pourthié, Jean-Claude Souyris Uunsupervised Sealed Surface Detection in LANDSAT and SPOT-5 Imagery Mattia Stasolla, Paolo Gamba, Andrea Baraldi A New Robust Affine Invariant Feature Detector Cheng Liang, Han Peng, Gong Jianya, Yang Zhigao Semi-Automatic Fast Recognition of Areas of Interest for SAR Image Interpretation Gemma Pons Bernad, Léonard Denise, Philippe Réfrégier Particle Swarm Optimization as an Inversion Tool for a Nonlinear UXO Model Jack Stalnaker, Eric Miller Cloud Detection with SVM Technique Christophe Latry, Chantal Panem, Philippe Dejean Object Recognition Algorithms for Weather Radar Felix Yanovsky, Vita Marchuk, Yaro Ostrovsky Surface Roughness Estimation towards a Buried Target Characterization Octavien Cmielewski, Hervé Tortel, Amélie Litman, Marc Saillard 18:00 - 19:30 Data Compression Techniques Mo07EP Room: Foyer-2 Observation Sequences and Onboard Data Processing Unit of Japanese Venus Observation Program, Planet-C Makoto Suzuki, Takeshi Imamura, Takahiro Yamada, Masato Nakamura, Hiroki Hihara, Masahiro Hamai, Jun Takada, Shuji Senda, Munetaka Ueno, Satoshi Ichikawa An Automatic Approach to Lossy Compression of AVIRIS Images Nikolay N. Ponomarenko, Vladimir V. Lukin, Mikhail S. Zriakhov, Arto Kaarna, Jaakko T. Astola A Fast Progressive Lossless Image Compression Method for Space and Satellite Images Jun Takada, Shuji Senda, Hiroki Hihara, Masahiro Hamai, Takeshi Oshima, Shinji Hagino, Makoto Suzuki, Satoshi Ichikawa 18:00 - 19:30 SAR Data Processing Mo08EP Room: Foyer-2 Range Migration Algorithm for Real Measured SAR Data Junjie Wu, Xiaozhen none Xiong, Yuli Huang, Jian Yang The Analysis and Compensation for the Unwrapped Phase Error Raised by the Dynamic Baseline of DSS-INSAR Hui Liu, Yinqing Zhou, Huaping Xu, Chunsheng Li, Muha Sun, Guohui Liu Spaceborne SAR Raw Signal Simulation of Ocean Scene Zhihua He, Zhen Dong, Haifeng Huang, Anxi Yu Speckle Denoising Based on Bivariate Shrinkage Functions and Dual-tree Complex Wavelet Transform Xing Shuai, Xu Qing, Jin Guowang, He Yu, Sun Wei Relationship between Antenna Pointing Stability and Spaceborne ScanSAR Scalloping Calibration Jie Wei CAESAR-XInSAR: a New Software for Interferometric SAR Processing Yixian Tang, Hong Zhang, Chao Wang, Tao Wu ISAR Imaging of Targets with Moving Parts using Micro-Doppler Detection on the Range Profile Image Hwee Siang Tan, Chanzheng Ma, Tat Soon Yeo, Qun Zhang, Chun Sum Ng, Bin Zou A Multiprocessng Framework for SAR Image Processing Christian Andres, Torben Keil, Raik Hermann, Rolf Scheiber Evaluation of the Single and Two Data Set STAP Detection Algorithms using Measured Data Elias Aboutanios, Bernard Mulgrew Combined Wavelet and Curvelet Denosing of SAR Images Using TV Segmentation Johannes R. Sveinsson, Jon Atli Benediktsson A New for Doppler Centroid Estimation for Spaceborne SAR Based on Chirp Scaling Algorithm Yunhua Zhang, Wenshuai Zhai Ortho-rectification of Radarsat Image in High Mountain Areas Mingjun Liu, Zong Lin, Jixi Zhang, Qin Yan, Guom Huang Clutter Analysis of High Resolution Millimeter-Wave SAR-Data in the Spatial and Wavelet Domain Peter Wellig, Konrad Schmid, Helmut Essen, Anika Kurz, Hartmut Schimpf, Thorsten Brehm Fine Micro-Doppler Analysis in ISAR Imaging Antoine Ghaleb, Luc Vignaud, Jean-Marie Nicolas Region Feature Extraction Based on Improved Regularization Method in SAR Image Feng Xu, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang Reconstruction of 3D Stereo Building Objects from Multi-Aspect Metric-Resolution SAR Images Ya-Qiu Jin, Feng Xu, Erya Dai The Extraction of Ocean Wind, Wave, and Current Parameters Using SAR Imagery Moon-Kyung Kang, Hoonyol Lee, Moonjin Lee, Yong-Wook Park, Wang-Jung Yoon Unsupervised Land Cover Classification of SAR Image by Contour Tracing Vijaya V. Chamundeeswari, Dharmendra Singh, Kuldip Singh Blending SAR Wind into Numerical Models Will Perrie, Weiqing Zhang, Hui Shen, Mark Bourassa, Paris Vachon Parallel Computation of SAR Raw Data Marc Kalkuhl, Peter Droste, Wolfgang Wiechert, Holger Nies, Otmar Loffeld, Martin Lambers A Velocity Vector Estimation Algorithm Tested on Simulated SAR RAW Data Andrea Radius, Domenico Solimini The Equivalence of Cameron’s Unit Disc and Poincaré’s Sphere for Symmetric Scattering Characterisation and Classification Elisa Giusti, Marco Martorella, Fabrizio Berizzi, Carlo Petronio Effects of Attitude Error on Spaceborne ScanSAR Mosaic Jie Wei Phase Distortion Modelling Due to Motion in Wave Scattering Mechanism Applied to SAR Images Analysis Vincent Gras, Christophe Sintes, René Garello Geological Lineament and Shoreline Detection in SAR Images Tzong-Dar Wu, Min-Tzer Lee A Distributed Approach to Efficient Time-Domain SAR Processing Andreas Reigber, Marc Jäger, Andreas Dietzsch, Ronny Hänsch, Michael Weber, Heiko Przybyl, Pau Prats Three Dimensional SAR Image Focusing from Non-Uniform Samples Federica Meglio, Gaetano Panariello, Gilda Schirinzi Variational-Based Speckle Noise Removal of SAR Imagery Chaomin Shen, Yaxin Peng, Ling Pi, Zhibin Li Design of GMTI Combining Networks Florian Schulz, Olaf Saalmann SAR Interferogram Filtering in the wavelet domain using a coherence map mask Aymen BOUZID, Riadh ABDELFATTAH Dyadic Resolution Multilook Image Generation by Wavelet Packet Transform Correlation of Complex SAR Signals C. Bhattacharya Spotlight-Mode SAR Data Focusing Using a Modified Wavenumber Domain Algorithm Wang Yu, Otmar Loffeld, Stefan Knedlik Speckle Reduction of SAR Images in the Bandelet Domain Johannes R. Sveinsson, Jon Atli Benediktsson Contrast Optimization Autofocus Algorithm Based on Linear Optimization Methods Deng Yun-kai, Wang Yu, Zhang Zhi-min, Guo Zhen-yong 18:00 - 19:30 Instrumentation and Techniques I (Active) Mo09EP Room: Foyer-2 A Combined Sensor System of Digital Camera with LiDAR Wenling Xuan, Zhaoqiang Huang, Xiuwan Chen, Zongjian Lin A Compact Passive Broadband Hexagonal Spiral Array Antenna for VHF Remote Sensing Richard J. Barton, Peter J. Collins, Paul E. Crittenden, Michael J. Havrilla, Andrew J. Terzuoli A High Resolution SAR Sensor for Space and Airborne Applications Rudolf Zahn, Kosmas Weidmann, Joachim Boukamp Advanced NASA Earth Science Mission Concept for Vegetation 3D Structure, Biomass and Disturbance Jon Ranson, Diane Wickland, Bryan Blair, Sassan Saatchi, William Emanuel, Andrea Razzaghi An Advanced Airborne Multisensor Imaging System for Fast Mapping and Change Detection Applications Xiuhong Sun, Robert Fischer, James Eichholz, Peter Shu, William Chen Applications of GPS-RTK Technique in a New Digital Photogrammetric Camera System Hongyou Liang, Xingfa Gu, Tao Yu, Liuzhao Wang, Chaofei Qiao Application of Spaceborne P-band SAR for Global Estimation of Aboveground Forest Biomass Sassan Saatchi Disaster Monitoring and Environmental Alert in Taiwan by Repeat-Pass Spaceborne SAR Chih-Tien Wang, Kun-Shen Chen, Hong-Wei Lee, Jong-Sen Lee, Woflgam Martin Boerner, Ruei-Yuan Wang, Hong-Sen Wan Investigation of H.264 Intra Coding for SAR Image Xingsong Hou, Yujie Dun, Rongjing Ji Optimum Design of Antenna Pattern for Spaceborne SAR Performance Using Improved NSGA-II Jiang Xiao, Yongqiang Chen, Xiaoqing Wang, Minhui Zhu, Xiao Liu Safe Driving System Based on Wireless Sensor Technology Jungsook Kim, Dohyun Kim, Kyungbok Sung, Byungtae Jang Study on Shooting Control Algorithm of Remote Sensing Control System for UAV Pengqi Gao, Lei Yan, Hongying Zhao, Shuqiang Lu Surface Clutter Analysis and Ranging Sidelobe Level Requirements for Spaceborne Meteorological Radars Xiaolong Dong, Honggang Yin, Di Zhu, Heguang Liu, Jingshan Jiang Scientific Use of TerraSAR-X Achim Roth, Ursu Marschalk The Bistatic Aspect of the TanDEM-X Mission Holger Nies, Otmar Loffeld, Koba Natroshvili, Marc Kalkuhl The Device for 3D Measurement of Speed and Direction of Turbulent Air Movement Igor B. Shirokov, Sergey N. Polivkin, Andrey Korobitsyn, Vladimir K. Dyurba UAV Based Collision Avoidance Radar Sensor Young K Kwag, Chul H. Jung Policy-Based Dynamic Privacy Protection Framework for Mobile RFID Sensor Networks Namje Park, Dongho Won A UAV Avionics System to Facilitate VHF Depth Sounding and SAR William A. Blake, Kai Siegele, Robert Burns COSMO-SkyMed Operations Management Innovative Concepts Giuseppe F. De Luca, Fabrizio Battazza, Alessandro Coletta, Fabio Covello, Mario Profili, Elvira Caliò, Francesca Spataro, Silvia Abete, Attilio Santellocco A P-Band SAR Mission for Biomass Monitoring Thuy Le Toan, Shaun Quegan 18:00 - 19:30 Mapping & Urban Remote Sensing Applications Mo10EP Room: Foyer-2 Retrieval and Analysis of Surface Albedo of Nanjing Area Based on ETM+ Remote Sensing Data Wei Zheng, Chuang Liu, En Long Study on Characteristics of Rural Settlements in the Northeast Loess Plateau of China by RS&GIS Wenyong Feng, Nai-ang Wang, Cuiyun Wang, Gang Li, Chunhui Zhang Urban Environmental Evaluation in Beijing’s Residential Districts and Communities Yin Weihong, Duan Meiyan, Zhang Xiaojun, Dong Soucheng Evaluation and Transformation Analysis of Ecological Environment in Beijing Based on Remote Sensing Zhuowei Hu, Wenji Zhao, Xiaojuan Li, Ying Chen, Liying Zhu, Songmei Zhang, Fusheng Wang Study on Urban Spatial Morphology with RS & Fractal: The Case of Wuwei in Arid Region of Northwest China from 1967 to 2004 Chunhui Zhang, Gang Li, Nai-ang Wang, Yong Huang, Cuiyun Wang Monitoring and Modeling Urbanization across Chesapeake Bay Watershed (USA) and Assessing the Impacts on Resource Lands and Stream Biota Scott Goetz, Patr Jantz, Greg Fiske, Clai Jantz Analysis of Thermal Environment and Urban Heat Island Using Remotely Sensed Imagery over the Nord and South Slope of the Qinling Mountain,China Dengzhong Zhao, Wanchang Zhang, Bing Yong Calibration of the Sleuth Model Based on the Historic Growth of Houston Hakan Oguz, Andr Klein, Ragh Srinivasan An Estimate of the City Population in China Using DMSP Night-Time Satellite Imagery Liyu Cheng, Yi Zhou, Litao Wang, Shixin Wang, Cong Du Spatial Distribution Mapping of Vegetation Cover in Urban Environment Using TDVI for Quality of Life Monitoring Abdou Bannari, Ayse Ozbakir, Andr Langlois A Novel Approach Based on the Combination Image of Fraction Image and Normalized MNF Image to Urban Land Use/Cover Mapping Li Su, Zhou Jianjun, Li Wenzheng, Zhuang Dafang, Wang Yong Inspiration of Foreign Metropolis Development on Arable Land Protection of Beijing Pan Gong, Zhongxin Chen, Huajun Tang A Research on Temporal and Spatial Change of Urban Heat Field in Beijing by Remote Sensing and Ground Measurements Qijiang Zhu, Jiacong Hu, Donghui Xie, Hua Wu Multi-Objective Processing of ASTER Image for Urban Environmental Analysis Peijun Du , Pei Liu , Huapeng Zhang , Hairong Zhang Research on Dynamic Evolvement of Desertification in Beijing and its Neighboring Areas by Remote Sensing Dan Meng, Zhiqiang Zhang, Tao Yang, Huili Gong, Wenji Zhao, Xiaojuan Li, Zhaoning Gong, Yanhui Wang, Zhuowei Hu, Yonghua Sun A New Method For GPS-Based Urban Vehicle Tracking Using Pareto Frontier And Fuzzy Comprehensive Judgment Yikai Chen, Yuncai Liu Research on the Relationship between Vegetation and Urban Land Surface Heat Field in Beijing City Shenghai Chen, Qijiang Zhu, Donghui Xie Urban Land Use Change of Nanjing, China, Using Multitemporal Satellite Data Chang-Qing Ke Spatial and Spectral Comparison among IKONOS, CBERS, and ASTER Images to Identify and Detect Land Occupation Changes around Urban Railway in Säo Paulo - Brazil Jose A. Quintanilha, Leonardo Ercolin Filho, Alessandra M. K. Beltrame Application of very High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Vulnerability Assessment in Mega Cities: A Case Study in Delhi / India Niebergall Susan, Loew Alexander, Mauser Wolfram The Role of Explicit Modeling for Inferring Traffic Activity from Remote Sensing Data Stefan Hinz Towards High Accuracy Road Maps Generation from Massive GPS Traces Data Tao Guo, Kazuaki Iwamura, Masashi Koga 18:00 - 19:30 Electromagnetic scattering Mo11EP Room: Foyer-2 Dielectric Spectroscopic Model for Tussock and Shrub Tundra Soils Valery L. Mironov, S. V. Savin, Roger D. De Roo An Enhanced Description of Multiple Scattering within the Flair Model Using the Photon Re-Collision Probability Approach K. Omari, H. P. White, Karl Staenz Diffraction by a Rough Knife Kedge: A First Step toward a Stochastic Theory of Diffraction Giorgio Franceschetti, Antonio Iodice, Antonio Natale, Daniele Riccio Dielectric Spectroscopy of Bound Water in the Bentonite Clay Yurij I. Lukin, Sergey A. Komarov Avalanche Beacon Magnetic Field Calculations for Rescue Techniques Improvement Natalia Ayuso, José Antonio Cuchí, Francisco Lera, José Luis Villarroel Cassini RADAR: Investigation of Titan‘s Surface Parameters by Means of Bayesian Inversion Technique and Gravity-Capillary Waves Modelling of Liquid Hydrocarbons Surfaces Bartolomeo Ventura, Domenico Casarano, Notarnicola Claudia, Francesco Posa Closed Form Expressions for Scattering Matrix of Simple Targets in Multilayer Structures Sidnei João Siqueira Sant‘Anna, J. C. da S. Lacava, David Fernandes 18:00 - 19:30 Electromagnetic Problems Mo12EP Room: Foyer-2 The Semi-Analytic Mode Matching (SAMM) Algorithm for Efficient Computation of Nearfield Scattering in Lossy Ground from Borehole Sources Ann Morgenthaler, He Zhan, Carey Rappaport Parameterization of the Angular Distribution of Multiple Scattering Radiation Using Photon Re-Collision Probability Khalid Omari, Richard Fernandes, Nadia Rochdi, Karl Staenz, H. P. White Pulse Electromagnetic Sounding of the Petroleum-Containing Layered Medium Sergey A. Komarov, Valery L. Mironov, Konstantin V. Muzalevsky Validation of the Soil Dielectric Spectroscopic Models with Input Parameters Based on Soil Composition Valery L. Mironov, Lyudmila G. Kosolapova, Sergey V. Fomin Polarimetric Microwave Emission from Snow Surfaces: 4th Stokes Component Analysis Parag S. Narvekar, Georg Heygster, Thomas J. Jackson, Rajat Bindlish On the Possible Retrieval of Wind–Wave States from Optical and NearIR Remote Sensing Imagery of the Ocean Santo V. Salinas Remote Sensing Estimation of FPAR Using Monte Carlo Method Zhou bin, Chen Liangfu, Gao yanhua RAMI: A Practical Approach to RT Model Benchmarking Jean-Luc Widlowski , Bernard Pinty, Malcolm Taberner, Monica Robustelli Propagation and Distortion of a Gaussian Pulse in a Gyromagnetic Medium Seungyup Rhee, Eunseok Park, Jay K. Lee Simulation of Atmospheric Radiation Transfer for High-Resolution Thermal Infrared Imaging Yang Gui-Jun, Liu Qin-Huo, Liu Qiang, Wen Jian-Guang, Cheng Jie, Gu Xing-Fa Scattering from 2D-Dielectric Random Surfaces Effect of Roughness and Moisture of Seedbed Surfaces upon the Bistatic Scattering Coeffecient Karim Aït , Richard Dusséaux, Odile Taconet, Edwige Vannier, Gérard Granet Simulation of Terrain Propagation and Diffraction Using a 2D High-Order Accurate FMM-Accelerated Nystrom‘s Solver DaHan Liao, Eric Michielssen, Kamal Sarabandi 18:00 - 19:30 Electromagnetics Mo13EP Room: Foyer-2 Study of Millimeter-Wave Radar for Helicopter Assisted Landing System Mustafa Rangwala, Feinian Wang, Kamal Sarabandi Scattering from Rough Heterogeneous Surfaces, Test of a Splitting Rule for Three Dimensional Geometries Pierre Mallet, Charles-Antoine Guérin, Patrick Chaumet, Anne Sentenac, Jean-Pierre Segaud The Effect of Polarization Ratio on RADARSAT Wind Vector Retrievals Yijun He, Biao Zhang, Hui Shen, William Perrie, Jie Guo A Simulator for SAR Sea Surface Waves Imaging Ferdinando Nunziata, Attilio Gambardella, Maurizio Migliaccio Studying on BRF and BINDVI from Heterogeneous Scenes Based on Radiosity-Graphic Combined Model Donghui Xie, Qijiang Zhu, Jindi Wang TAIC Algorithm for the Visibility of the Elliptical Orbits’ Satellites Rongfu Tang, Dongyun Yi, Jubo Zhu, Qiang Luo, Jing Yao 18:00 - 19:30 Agriculture Mo14EP Room: Foyer-2 Crop Backscattering Coefficient Simulation Wang Fang The Expansion of Agriculture in Para State, Brazil Adriano Venturieri, Andr Coelho, Marc Thales, Deni Bacelar Study on the Agroecosystem Health Assessment in Western China Bo Li, Hualin Xie, Jianzhai Wu, Rui Hong, Jie Chong, Chuangshen Wang Detecting Date Palm Trees Health and Vegetation Greenness Change in the Eastern Coast of the United Arab Emirates Using SAVI Mohamed Alhammadi, Edwa Glenn Irrigation Requirement Estimation Using MODIS Vegetation Indices and Inverse Biophysical Modeling Marc Imhoff, Laho Bounoua, Robe Harriss, Gord Wells, Vict Dukhovny, Leah Orlovsky Estimating Maize Yield From MODIS NDVI and Spatial Rainfall Data Celeste Frost, Joha Malherbe, Tali Germishuyse, Terr Newby, Harold Annegarn, Mala Kneen Three Regionalised Analyses of a Time-series of Annual Pasture Production for Southwest Western Australia Rebecca N. Handcock, Graham E. Donald, Stefano G. Gherardi Monitoring the Growth of Large-Area Tobacco with MODIS Data Wu Mengquan Estimation of Winter Wheat Yield in Hebei Plain of China by Improved CASA Model Xia Li, Xiao-bing Li, Hong Wang, Yong-qin Ge, Hui-ling Long, Cheng Zhang The Analysis of Long - Term Time and Spatial Variations Of Vegetation Productivity Using of Remote Sensing Data Lev Spivak, Irina Vitkovskaya, Madina Batyrbayeva Agriculture Remote Sensing Xiaocheng Zhou, Xiao Wang, Tian Xiang Management Decision-Making Support System of Precision Agriculture Based on CNCS Qingyuan Ma, Zhenghua Chen, Chao Zhang, Zhen Yang Crop Classification in the U.S. Corn Belt Using MODIS Imagery Paul Doraiswamy, Alan Stern, Bakhyt Akhmedov Regional Yield Prediction for Winter Wheat Based on Crop Biomass Estimation Using Multi-Source Data Jianqiang Ren, Su Li, Zhongxin Chen, Qingbo Zhou, Huajun Tang Mapping Saline Soil Using Landsat Imagery in Arid Irrigated Lands Yousef Aldakheel The Climate Change and Its Ecosystem in the Upper Yellow River Jianying Feng, Zhizong Yao, Ni Guo, Mingling Gu, Hui Guo Plant Growth Monitoring and Within-Field Variability Assessment by Means of High Resolution E.O. Data Katja Richter, Francesco Vuolo, Luigi Dini A Global Crop Growth Monitoring System Based on Remote Sensing Meng Jihua, Wu Bing-fang Study on the Crop Condition Monitoring Methods with Remote Sensing Meng Jihua, Wu Bing-fang A New Winter Wheat Yield Estimation Model Using NOAA AVHRR Data Xingang Xu, Bingfang Wu, Jihua Meng, Wenjing Cao Regional Crop Yield Estimation Using a Simplified Crop Growing System and Remote Sensing Data Jose L. Gomez-Dans, Alfredo Sotelo-Arcos, Juan P. Ruiz-Castellano, Carmen Navarro-Mezquita, Antonio J. Rodriguez-Perez Assimilating MODIS Data into a Crop Growth Model in Andalusia (Spain) Jose L. Gomez-Dans, Alfredo Sotelo-Arcos, Juan P. Ruiz-Castellano, Carmen Navarro-Mezquita, Antonio J. Rodriguez-Perez Estimation of Crop Evapotranspiration Using Spectral Vegetation Indices and Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing Maria P. Gonzalez-Dugo, Christopher M. U. Neale, Luciano Mateos, William P. Kustas, Fuquin Li Digital Camera Based Measurement of Crop Cover for Wheat Yield Prediction Gang Pan, Feng-min Li, Guo-jun Sun 18:00 - 19:30 SAR Image Processing Techniques Mo15EP Room: Foyer-2 Shape from Shading of SAR Imagery in Fourier Space Shaheen Ghayourmanesh , Yun Zhang High Resolution SAR Imaging along Circular Trajectories Hubert M. J. Cantalloube, Elise K. Colin, Hélène Oriot Automobile-Based Bistatic SAR Processing and Experimental Results Gong Zhenqiang, Tian Zhong, Zhang Xiaoling Frequency Domain Imaging Algorithm for Spaceborne/Airborne Hybrid Bistatic SAR Zhe Liu, Jianyu Yang, Xiaoling Zhang, Yiming Pi A Quadtree Algorithm for High Squint SAR Imaging Sanyuan Xu, Jianguo Wang ISAR Imaging of Helicopter Chang Zheng Ma, Tat Soon Yeo, Hwee Siang Tan, Zhoufeng Liu, Xiujie Dong, Bin Zou 18:00 - 19:30 Ocean Surface Process Posters Mo16EP Room: Foyer-2 Performance of Region-based Matching Techniques to Compute the Ocean Surface Motion Javier Marcello, Francisco Eugenio, Ferran Marqués Distributed Target Detection in SAR Images Using Improved Chaos-Based Method Yafei Zhang, Minhui Zhu, Jinsong Chong Atmospheric Correction of Directional Polarized Ocean Color Sensors Xiaofeng Yang, Xingfa Gu , Liangfu Chen, Haibo Zhang The calculation method of sea surface scene coherent time for SAR imaging Qing Dong Semi-Analytic Algorithm for Retrieving Pigment Concentrations In the Red Tides Areas of the East China Sea Zhongfeng Qiu, Yijun He, Jun-wu Tang, Hongyan Xu Kuroshio-Induced Cold Eddy Streets in the Lee of Isolated Islands Osamu Isoguchi, Masanobu Shimada, Futoki Sakaida, Hiroshi Kawamura Morphometric Characterisation of Rocky Reef Using Multibeam Acoustic Bathymetric Data Vanessa Lucieer A Case Study on Swell Modulation Caused by Surface Winds Using Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Jian Sun , Hiroshi Kawamura Oil Spill Detection from Thermal Anomaly Using ASTER Data in Yinggehai of Hainan, China Guoyin Cai, Jian WU, Yong Xue, Wei Wan, Xiaoxia Huang Complex dielectric constant of sea foam for microwave remote sensing applications Magdalena Anguelova, Peter Gaiser The Effects of Calibration Errors on Ocean Retrievals from Polarimetric Microwave Radiometers Michael H. Bettenhausen, Peter W. Gaiser Surface Signature of Ocean Convection in the Greenland Sea as Detected by SAR and Enhanced by Statistical Pattern Analysis Flavio Parmiggiani, David Morales, Miguel Moctezuma A FEXP Model Short Range Dependence Analysis for Improving Oil Slicks and Low-wind Areas Discrimination in Sea SAR Imagery Massimo Bertacca Integration of wave curvature in calculating Reflectivity from one-dimensional rough surfaces by ray tracing technique including multiple reflections pier schott Analysis of ocean current features in spaceborne SAR images Xiaofeng Li, William Pichel A Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Radiation Transfer Model Ying Xi, Keping Du, Yonggang Gao, Jindi Wang Methodology for the Estimation of Ocean Surface Currents using Region Matching and Differential Algorithms Javier Marcello, Francisco Eugenio, Ferran Marqués Sea Surface Temperature Retrieval Using IR-Radiometry and Atmospheric Modeling: Simulation and Experimental Results Using PAU-IR Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Juan F. Marchan-Hernandez Sunlight reflectance and polarization components simulation with BRDF over wind-roughed water surface Guanhua Zhou, Qinh Liu, Guol Tian, Zhig Liu Microwave Radiometric Signatures of Ocean Internal Waves Victor Raizer Integrated Satellite Tracking of Pollution : A New Operational Program Marie-France Gauthier, Laurie Weir, Ziqiang Ou, Matt Arkett, Roger De Abreu The Contribution of ASTER, CBERS, R99/SIPAM e OrbiSAR-1 Data to Improve the Oceanic Monitoring – An Example of Oil and Frontal Eddy Detection Cristina Maria Bentz, Alexandre Tadeu Politano, Patricia Genoves, João Antônio Lorenzzetti, Milton Kampel Automatic Recognition of Coastal and Oceanic Environmental Events with Orbital Radars Cristina Maria Bentz, Alexandre Tadeu Politano, Nelson Francisco F. Ebecken An Angular-Dependent Split-Window Equation for SST Retrieval from Off-NADIR Observations Raquel Niclòs, César Coll, Vicente Caselles, María Jose Estrela High Resolution Millimeterwave SAR for the Remote Sensing of Wave Patterns Helmut Essen, Hans-Hellmuth Fuchs, Anke Pagels Microwave Emission Fluctuations Induced by Sea Foam and Spray Victor Raizer A Robust Model for Extracting Sea Surface Current Patterns from SAR Shattri Mansor, Mohamed Maiyas, Maged Marghany, Helm Mohd Shafri, Zailani Khuzimah Monitoring of oil pollution by Remote Rensing and GIS and assesment of hydrocarbons Aicha Benmecheta, A. Lansari Robust Model for Simulating Sea Surface Current from RADARSAT-1 SAR Data Maged Marghany, Mohamed Maiys, Mazlan Hashim, Shattri Mansor Exstreme Wind Conditions in Tropical Cyclones Observed from Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Antonio Reppucci, Susanne Lehner, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth, Helko Breit Textural Analysis of Sea SAR Images for Oil Spill Detection Bahia Lounis, Aichouche Belhadj Aïssa Analysis of the Disturbances in Interferometric Radar Measurements Salah Redadaa, Fouzia Maamri, Malek Benslama Remotely-Sensed Estimation of the Euphotic Depth in South China Sea Shilin Tang, Chuqun Chen, Haigang Zhan, Dazhi Xu A derivative Spectrum Algorithm for Determination of Chlorophyll-a Concentration in the Pearl River Estuary Chuqun Chen, Shilin Tang, Qianguo Xing, Jinkun Yang, Haigang Zhan, Heyin Shi Determination of Environmental Parameters From Hyperspectral Imagery Using a Look-Up-Table Approach Jeffrey Bowles, Ellen Bennert, David Gillis, Daniel Korwan, Gia Lamela, David Miller, Marcos Montes, Joseph Rhea, William Snyder Synchronous Atmospheric Correction and SST Retrieval by AATSR Data Wenjie Fan, Zhaoliang Li, Xiru Xu Bistatic SAR Simulation for Ocean Wang Xiaoqing, Yu Ying, Chen Yongqiang , Jiang Xiao, Zhu Minhui Ocean Water Vapor and Cloud Burden Trends Derived from the Topex Microwave Radiometer Shannon Brown, Shailen Desai, Stephen Keihm, Wenwen Lu, Christopher S. Ruf An Anisotropic Ocean Surface Emissivity Model based on a Two-scale Code Tuned to WindSat Polarimetric Brightness Observations Dean F. Smith, Bob L. Weber, Albin J. Gasiewski Study of the Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Shallow Waters Bathymetry with Artificial Neural Network Technology Shi Yingni, Zhang Tinglu, Shi Lijian Using MODIS and ERS-2 SAR to Detect Oil Spill Shi Lijian A Multi-Sensor Approach and Ranking Analysis Procedure for Oil Seeps Detection in Marine Environments Enrico Campos Pedroso, Fernando Pellon de Miranda, Karen Bannerman, Carlos Henrique Beisl, Miguel Herrera Rodríguez, Ricardo Gómez Cáceres Exact Electromagnetic Modeling of the Scattering of Realistic Sea Surfaces for HFSWR Applications Yaël Demarty, Vincent Gobin, Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre, Régis Guinvarc‘h, Marc Lesturgie Airborne Passive Microwave Measurements of Sea Surface Salinity, Temperature and Roughness, and Implications for Satellite Salinity Retrieval. Derek M. Burrage, Joel C. Wesson, David W. Wang, Stephan D. Howden Vertical Variability of Sea Surface Salinity and Influence on L-Band Brightness Temperature Claire Henocq, Jacqueline Boutin, François Petitcolin, Sabine Arnault, Philippe Lattes Measurement of Extreme Wave Height by ERS-2/SAR and Numerical Wave Model (WAM) Xiao-Ming Li, Thomas Koenig, Susanne Lehne, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth Remote Sensing of Waved Sea Surface: Combined Passive and Active Microwave Measurements During the CAPMOS‘05 Experiment Emanuele Santi, Paolo Pampaloni, Michael N. Pospelov, Alexey V. Kuzmin , Stefano Zecchetto, Francesco De Biasio, Niels Skou, Sten Søbjærg Wave Measurements under the Typhoon by 9.25MHz Ocean Radar Shoichiro Kojima, Motohiko Kashima Effect of Spectral Resolution in Hyperspectral Data Analysis Elena Torrecilla, Ismael F. Aymerich, Sergi Pons, Jaume Piera Determine the Location of a Thermal Front in the Iroise Sea by Using HF Radar Data and Tide Model Results Iris Ehlert, Thomas Schlick, Klaus-Werner Gurgel, Benoit Seille Analysis of the SMOS Ocean Salinity Inversion Algorithm Carolina Gabarró, Marcos Portabella, Marco Talone, Jordi Font Wavelet Polarimetric SAR Signature Analysis of Sea Oil Spills and Look-alike Features Attilio Gambardella, Maurizio Migliaccio, Gianfranco De Grandi Multi-sensor sea surface observations in severe weather conditions Yves Quilfen, Catherine Prigent, Bertrand Chapron, Alexis MOUCHE, Naima Houti Simulation of SAR Image Cross Spectra from Mixed Ocean Waves Jingsong Yang, He Wang, Qingmei Xiao, Weigen Huang Atmospheric Correction of IKONOS with Cloud and Shadow Image Features Chew Wai Chang, Santo V. Salinas, Soo Chin Liew, Z.P Lee Development of an Ocean Surface Emissivity Model for Wide Swath Imaging of Wind Speed to Hurricane Force Salem F. El-Nimri, James W. Johnson, W. Linwood Jones, Eric W. Uhlhorn High Quality Sea Surface Temperatures from the WindSat Radiometer: Algorithm and Validation Thomas Meissner, Frank Wentz Evaluation of ocean color algorithms in the Cape Bathurst polynya using MODIS and SeaWiFS spectral bands Sélima Ben Mustapha, Pierre Larouche Internal Waves in South China Sea Hui Shen, Yijun He Tuesday, July 24th 09:00 - 10:40 TECHNICAL SESSIONS Land Cover Data Products Tu01MH1 Room: 123 ECOCLIMAP-II: A Climatologic Global Data Base of Ecosystems and Land Surface Parameters at 1 km Based on the Analysis of Time Series of Vegetation Data Stéphanie Faroux, Valéry Masson, Jean-Louis Roujean Improving Access to MODIS Biophysical Science Products for NACP Investigators Robert E. Wolfe, Feng Gao, Jeffrey T. Morrisette, Gregory A. Ederer, Jeffrey Pedelty Prototyping Algorthm for Retrieving FAPAR Using MSG Data in the Context of the LSA SAF Project Fernando Camacho-de Coca, Javier García Haro, Joaquín Meliá, Jean-Louis Roujean Generating a Long-Term Land Data Record from the AVHRR and MODIS Instruments Jeffrey Pedelty, Sadashiva Devadiga, Edward J. Masuoka, Molly Brown, Jorge Pinzon, Compton Tucker, Eric Vermote, Stephen Prince, Jyotheshwar Nagol, Christopher Justice, David Roy, Junchang Ju, Crystal Schaaf, Jicheng Liu, Jeffrey Privette, Ana Pinheiro TerraLook: Providing Easy, No-Cost Access to Satellite Images for Busy People and the Technologically Disinclined Gary N. Geller, Eugene A. Fosnight, Sujoy Chaudhuri Data Compression Techniques Tu02MH1 Room: 132 Sampling Quantization Analysis and Results for FMCW SAR Adriano Meta, Peter Hoogeboom, Leo P. Ligthart Hyperspectral Image Compression with the 3D Dual-Tree Wavelet Transform Joseph B. Boettcher, Qian Du, James E. Fowler Image Data Compression Scheme for a Future MARS Lander Peter Rueffer, Jan-Pierre Jaspers Spectral-Decorrelation Strategies for the Compression of Hyperspectral Imagery Hrishikesh Tamhankar, James E. Fowler Two New Tasseled Cap Vegetation Indices for Landsat and MODIS Data. Warren Cohen, Zhiqiang Yang Atmospheric applications Tu03MF Room: 120 Differential Absorption Microwave Radar Measurements for Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Pressure Roland Lawrence, Dion Fralick, Steve Harrah, Bing Lin, Yongxiang Hu, Patrica Hunt Advanced Processing Algorithms For GRAS Instrument Data J. J. W. Wilson, J-P. Luntama Detection of the May 2006 Saharan Dust Outbreak over Granada, Spain, by Combination of Active and Passive Remote Sensing Lucas Ala, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Hassan Lyamani, Jaime Elías Gil, Alberto Cazorla, Francisco José Olmo The Vertical Distribution of Saharan Dust over the Western and Central Mediterranean through Dust Modelling and Lidar Observations Maria Grazia Frontoso, Nicola Spinelli, Carlos Pérez, Michaël Sicard, Adolfo Comerón, José Maria Baldasano Examination of Hygroscopic Properties of Aerosols Using a Combined Multiwavelength Elastic – Raman Lidar Daniela Viviana Vladutescu, Yonghua Wu, Barry Gross, Leona Charles, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed IASI on MetOp: Advanced Temperature and Humidity Sounding Peter Schluessel, Thomas August, Xavier Calbet, Tim Hultberg, Olusoji Oduleye, Arlindo Arriaga Ground-Based Integrated Profiling Stations Ground-Based Integrated Profiling Stations for Temperature, Humidity and Cloud Tim J. Hewison, Catherine Gaffard, John Nash, Tim Oakley Passive and Active Microwave Sensing of Cold Air Outbreaks over the Northwest Pacific Ocean Leonid M. Mitnik, Maia L. Mitnik End to End Simulation for Normalized Differential Spectral Attenuation (NDSA) Measurements between Two LEO Satellites: Performance Analysis in the Ku/K Bands Fabrizio Cuccoli, Luca Facheris Analysis of Historical AVHRR PATMOS Aerosol Data in Support of the Long-term Trend Study Tom X.-P. Zhao, Istvan Laszlo, Wei Guo, Andrew Heidinger, Changyong Cao, Aleksandar Jelenak, Dan Tarpley, Jerry Sullivan Student Prize Paper Competition Award Session Tu04MF Room: 121 Hurricane Wind Field Estimation from SeaWinds at Ultra High Resolution Brent A. Williams, David G. Long Partially-Supervised Updating of Land-Cover Maps: A P2S2VM Technique and a Circular Validation Strategy Mattia Marconcini, Lorenzo Bruzzone Variants of Principal Components Analysis Wei-min Liu, Chein-I Chang Validation of a Backscatter Model for a River Ice Covers Using Radarsat-1 Images Imen Gherboudj, Monique Bernier, Robert Leconte Application of Persistent Scatterer InSAR and GIS for Urban Subsidence Monitoring Alex H. Ng, Linlin Ge An Ultra-Lightweight L-band Digital Lobe-Differencing Correlation Radiometer for Airborne UAV SSS Mapping Eric M. McIntyre, Al. J. Gasiewski Multibaseline POL-InSAR Analysis of Urban Scenes for 3D Modeling and Physical Feature Retrieval at L-Band Stefan Sauer, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Andreas Reigber, Eric Pottier An Investigation of PN Sequences for Multistatic SAR/InSAR Applications Karan Jumani, Kamal Sarabandi Obtaining A Ship’s Speed and Direction from Its Kelvin Wake Spectrum Using Stochastic Matched Filtering Andreas Arnold-Bos, Arnaud Martin, Ali Khenchaf Empirical Determination of the Soil Emissivity at L-band: Effects of Soil Moisture, Soil Roughness, Vine Canopy, and Topography Alessandra Monerris, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera CLOUDSAT & CALIPSO and the Potential of the A-Train Virtual Observatory Tu05MF Room: 122 An Overview of CloudSat and the A-Train – A New Resource for the Study of Earths Clouds Deborah G. Vane, Graeme L. Stephens Cloud Profiling Radar Performance Eastwood Im, Simone Tanelli, Stephen Durden, Kyung Pak The Vertical Distribution and Occurrence Statistics of Clouds as Derived From Jay Mace, Qiuq Zhang, Roger T. Marchand, Charles Trepte, Graeme Stephens, Dave M. Winker CALIPSO Mission Overview Dave M. Winker CALIPSO Lidar Performance William Hunt CALIOP Algorithm Development and Data Products Mark Vaughan, Zhaoyan Liu, Ralph Kuehn, David Winker, Stuart Young, Kathleen Powell, Ali Omar, Chris Hostetler, Kam-Pui Lee, J. Chris Currey Augmented and Improved Scene Classifications for the MODIS Swath Derived Using Data Fusion Techniques Applied to Collocated CALIPSO and MODIS Nadir Track Measurements Sharon Rodier, Yongxiang Hu, Robe Holz, Mark Vaughan A-Train Data Depot: Integrating and Exploring Data Along the A-Train Tracks Gregory Leptoukh, Steve Kempler, Peter Smith, Andrey Savtchenko, Robert Kummerer, A. Galopan, J. Farley, Aijun Chen Characterizing the Radiation Fields in the Atmosphere Using a Cloud-Aerosol-Radiation Product from Integrated CERES, MODIS, CALIPSO and CloudSat Data Patrick Minnis, Bruce Wielicki, Charles A. Trepte, Sunny Sun-Mack, Yan Chen, Sharon Gibson, Seiji Kato, Graeme Stephens Missouri Satellite Air Quality Project Verne Kaupp, Tim Haithcoat, Robert Reed, Nichole Hilstrom, Connor Henley, Jacob Mueth, Jordan Parshall, Joe Engeln, Jeff Bennett, Leanne Tippett-Mosby Pol-InSAR Techniques and Applications Tu06MF Room: 124 X-band Extinction in Boreal Forest: Estimation by Using E-SAR POLInSAR and HUTSCAT Jaan Praks, Martti Hallikainen, Florian Kugler, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou Potential of Forest Height Estimation Using X Band by Means of Two Different Inversion Scenarios Florian Kugler, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou, Irena Hajnsek, Angelo Coscia Compact PolInSAR for Vegetation Characterisation Sébastien Angelliaume, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Jean-Claude Souyris POLINSAR for FOPEN Using Flashlight Mode Images Along Circular Trajectories Hubert M. J. Cantalloube, Elise K. Colin Exploring Pol-InSAR in C-band for Agricultural Parameter Estimation Irena Hajnsek, Chri Andres Volume and Double-Bounce Decorrelation Effects in the OVoG Model for Single-Tx PolInSAR Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, J. David Ballester-Berman, Yolanda Marquez-Moreno Vertical Profile Reconstruction with PolInSAR Data of a Subpolar Glacier Jayanti J. Sharma, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou PolInSAR Signatures of Alpine Snow Keith Morrison, Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou, Rolf Scheiber Ship Detection with the Fuzzy C-Mean Clustering Algorithm Using Fully Polarimetric SAR Haiyan Li, Yijun He, Hui Shen ENVISAT ASAR Land Applications Tu07MF Room: 128 Large Plain Flood Mapping and Monitoring Based on EO data: Five Years of Improvement from ERS SAR to ENVISAT MERIS ASAR Synergy Herve Yesou, Remi Andreoli, Kader Fellah, Nadinr Tholey, Stephen Clandillon, Stephanie Batiston, Bernard Allenbach, Colette Meyer, Claude Bestault, Paul de Fraipont Sixteen Years of Land Cover Mapping with ESA‘s ERS-1/-2 and ASAR Christiana Schmullius, Maurizio Santoro, Tanja Riedel, Oliver Cartus Rice Monitoring Using SAR Data Le Toan Thuy Surface Deformation Analysis of the Campi Flegrei Caldera, Italy, by Exploiting the ENVISAT ASAR Data with the SBAS-DInSAR Technique Paolo Berardino, Francesco Casu, Gianfranco Fornaro, Riccardo Lanari, Michele Manunta, Mariarosaria Manzo, Antonio Pepe, Susi Pepe, Eugenio Sansosti, Francesco Serafino, G. Solaro, P. Tizzani, G. Zeni Optimizing Interferogram Generation, Pixel Selection and Data Processing for High Non-Linear Deformation Monitoring with Orbital DInSAR Pablo Blanco-Sánchez, Sergi Duque, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Dani Monells SPN Examples of Long and Short TERM ERS/ENVISAT Subsidence Monitoring and Validation Alain Arnaud, Moni Sanchez, Nuno Miranda, Gera Cooksley, Javi Duro ASAR Parallel-Track PS Analysis in Urban Sites Daniele Perissin, Claudio Prati, Fabio Rocca Uncertainty Analysis in Advanced Differential Interferometric SAR Processing M. Crosetto, O. Monserrat, M. Agudo, B. Crippa, G. Rossi Research on Land Use and Land Cover Change Pattern in Fuzhou Area Based on ERS SAR and ENVISAT ASAR Data Henglin Chen, Xiaoqin Wang, Feilong Ling, Huiguo Li Increased Export of Grounded Ice After the Collapse of Northern Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, Observed by Envisat ASAR Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Wolfgang Rack Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture I Tu08MF Room: 129 Development of A Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm for Spaceborne Passive Microwave Radiometers and Its Application to AMSR-E and SSM/I Hui Lu, Toshio Koike, Tetsu Ohta, David Kuria, Tobias Graf, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Hideyuki Fujii, Katsunori Tamagawa Calibration of AMSR-E Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms Using MIRS and LDAS Simulations Xiwu Zhan, Sid Boukabara, Thomas Jackson, Dan Tarpley, Fuzhong Weng Validation of AMSR Soil Moisture Algorithms with Ground Based Networks Thomas J. Jackson, Michael Cosh, Rajat Bindlish, Jinyang Du NPOESS Soil Moisture Satellite Data Assimilation: Progress Using WindSat Data Andrew Jones, Cynthia Combs, Tarendra Lakhankar, Scott Longmore, Thomas H. Vonder Haar, Gary McWilliams, Michael Mungiole, George Mason WindSat Soil Moisture Algorithm and Validation Li Li, Peter W. Gaiser, Tomhas J. Jackson, Rajat Bindlish, Jinyang Du Algorithm for High-Resolution Soil Moisture Retrieval With Coincident Active and Passive L-Band Measurements Dara Entekhabi, Eni G. Njoku Surface Temperature Effect on Soil Moisture Retrieval from AMSR-E Ying Guo, Jiancheng Shi, Kebiao Mao In Situ Soil Moisture Observations for the CAL/VAL of SMOS: The SMOSMANIA Network Jean-Christophe Calvet, Noureddine Fritz, Françis Froissard, David Suquia, Alain Petitpa, Bruno Piguet Validating Observations of Soil Moisture: Some Theoretical Considerations Cihan Erbas, Brian Hornbuckle Estimates of Surface Soil Moisture in Prairies Using L-Band Passive Microwaves Kauzar Saleh, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Patricia de Rosnay, M. J. Escorihuela, Yann Kerr, Jean-Christophe Calvet, M. Schwank, Philippe Waldteufel Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow - I Tu09MF Room: 130 Core-H2O – A Dual-Frequency SAR Mission for Hydrology and Climate Research Helmut Rott, Don Cline, Thomas Nagler, Jouni Pulliainen, Helge Rebhan, Simon Yueh The SARALPS-2007 Measurement Campaign on X- and Ku-Band Backscatter of Snow Keith Morrison, Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Helge Rebhan, Patrick Wursteisen Overview of the Second Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX-II) Don Cline, Kell Elder, Simon Yueh, Jare Entin, Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler Airborne Ku-Band Radar Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow Cover Simon Yueh, Donald Cline, Kelly Elder Modeling Multilayer Effects in Microwave Remote Sensing of Dry Snow Using Dense Media Radiative Transfer Theory (DMRT) Based on Quasicrystalline Approximation Ding Liang, Edward G. Josberger, Xiaolan Xu, Leung Tsang, Konstantinos M. Andreadis, Edward G. Josberger A Multi-Scattering and Multi-Layer Snow Model and Its Validation Jinyang Du, Jiancheng Shi, Saibun Tjuatja, Kun-Shan Chen Microwave Remote Sensing of Alpine Snow Andreas Wiesmann, Tazio Strozzi, Charles Werner, Urs Wegmüller, Maurizio Santoro Use of QuikScat Ku-Band Scatterometer Data for Retrieval of Seasonal Snow Characteristics in Finland Martti Hallikainen, Pauli Sievinen, Yuanzhi Zhang, Pekka Halme Airborne Measurements of Snow Depths over Sea Ice Using an Ultra-Wideband FMCW Radar Carl Leuschen, Prasad Gogineni, Thorsten Markus Combined use of InSAR and ICESat / GLAS Data for High Accuracy DEM Generation on Antarctica Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, Koichiro Doi, Kazuo Shibuya Educational activities in Remote Sensing Tu10MF Room: 131 Satellite Eye for the Galathea 3 Ship Expedition: Global Tour 2006-2007 Charlotte Hasager, Merete Bruun Christiansen, Peter Sørensen, Jürg Lichtenegger, Leif Pedersen, Ole Andersen, Jacob Høyer, Pete Jørgensen, Niels Højerslev, Rune Nielsen, Michael Rasmussen, Lote Nyborg The Weather RATS: K-12 Educational Outreach of CASA Missy Taft, Julie Conlonova GeoBrain: Facilitating Remote Sensing Education With Innovative Technologies Meixia Deng, Liping Di, Mark Abolins, Hongmian Gong, Guoqing Zhou, Robert E. Ford Remotely Sensed Ocean Surface Winds - A Collaborative Educational Effort Zorana Jelenak, Joan M. VonAhn, Michael Brennan, Joseph Sienkiewicz, Paul S. Chang An Internet-Based Remote Sensing Educational Activity in China Shengbo Chen, Zhiguo Meng, Xuqing Zhang, Xizhou Yan, Xiang Wang Development of Educational Partnerships Dedicated to Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets Cyberinfrastructure Linda B. Hayden, David Braaten A Model for Frequency Management Method of Improving Remote Sensing Capabilities Tuncay Ercan, Tohid Ahmed Rana Global Earth Observation – Benefit Estimation: Now, Next and Emerging Michael Obersteiner, Florian Kraxner, Steffen Fritz, Ian McCallum PolarView@FIMR: WWW-based Delivery of Baltic Sea Ice Products to End-Users Juha Karvonen, Jari Haapala, Jonni Lehtiranta, Ari Seinä Remote Sensing and GIS Research and Applications on the African Continent Tu11MF Room: 133 An Environmental Information System for the Spatial Modelling of Land Use Dynamics in the North Region of Cameroon Eric Fotsing , Maurice Tchuente, Wouter T. De Groot Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Brushfire in the Provinces of Burkina Faso during the Fire Seasons from 2004 to 2006 Amani Massalabi, Louis Blanc Traoré Comparative Analysis of Reflectance Spectroscopy and Laboratory Based Assessment of Asbestos Pollution in the Rehabilitated Mining Environment, South Africa Brilliant M. Petja, Yaw A. Twumasi, George T. Tengbeh Simulation of the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Productivity Gamal Salah El Afandi Assessment of Prosopis Juliflora Using Geoinformation Techniques Hussein O. Farah, M.K. Muuo, J.M. Gathemya Spectroscopy to Characterize Expansive Soils Fekerte Arega, Freek van der Meer, Harald van der Werff, Wolt Zigterman Monotoring the Interaction of Human Activities and Earth Surface Proceses in the Coastal Area Located between Gamasa Drain and El-Gharbeya Drain, North Nil Delta, Egypt, through the Last Two Decades E. A. Hermas, W. E. Asi, M. A. El-Demerdash, H. M. Ahmed, A. A. Khedr, S. B. El-Kafrawy The TIGER Initiative: Improving Water Governance in Africa Using Earth Observation Diego Fernandez-Prieto, Francesco Palazzo Remote Sensing Applications for Sustainable Aquaculture in Africa Joseph E. Quansah , Gilbert L. Rochon, Kwamena K. Quagrainie, Steve Amisah, Mucai Muchiri, Charles Ngugi Mapping Rural Savanna Woodlands in Malawi: a Comparison of Maximum Likelihood and Fuzzy Classifiers Lobina Palamuleni, Harold Annegarn, Melaine Kneen, Tobias Landmann 11:00 - 12:40 TECHNICAL SESSIONS Atmospheric applications Tu03MF Room: 120 Differential Absorption Microwave Radar Measurements for Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Pressure Roland Lawrence, Dion Fralick, Steve Harrah, Bing Lin, Yongxiang Hu, Patrica Hunt Advanced Processing Algorithms For GRAS Instrument Data J. J. W. Wilson, J-P. Luntama Detection of the May 2006 Saharan Dust Outbreak over Granada, Spain, by Combination of Active and Passive Remote Sensing Lucas Ala, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Hassan Lyamani, Jaime Elías Gil, Alberto Cazorla, Francisco José Olmo The Vertical Distribution of Saharan Dust over the Western and Central Mediterranean through Dust Modelling and Lidar Observations Maria Grazia Frontoso, Nicola Spinelli, Carlos Pérez, Michaël Sicard, Adolfo Comerón, José Maria Baldasano Examination of Hygroscopic Properties of Aerosols Using a Combined Multiwavelength Elastic – Raman Lidar Daniela Viviana Vladutescu, Yonghua Wu, Barry Gross, Leona Charles, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed IASI on MetOp: Advanced Temperature and Humidity Sounding Peter Schluessel, Thomas August, Xavier Calbet, Tim Hultberg, Olusoji Oduleye, Arlindo Arriaga Ground-Based Integrated Profiling Stations Ground-Based Integrated Profiling Stations for Temperature, Humidity and Cloud Tim J. Hewison, Catherine Gaffard, John Nash, Tim Oakley Passive and Active Microwave Sensing of Cold Air Outbreaks over the Northwest Pacific Ocean Leonid M. Mitnik, Maia L. Mitnik End to End Simulation for Normalized Differential Spectral Attenuation (NDSA) Measurements between Two LEO Satellites: Performance Analysis in the Ku/K Bands Fabrizio Cuccoli, Luca Facheris Analysis of Historical AVHRR PATMOS Aerosol Data in Support of the Long-term Trend Study Tom X.-P. Zhao, Istvan Laszlo, Wei Guo, Andrew Heidinger, Changyong Cao, Aleksandar Jelenak, Dan Tarpley, Jerry Sullivan Student Prize Paper Competition Award Session Tu04MF Room: 121 Hurricane Wind Field Estimation from SeaWinds at Ultra High Resolution Brent A. Williams, David G. Long Partially-Supervised Updating of Land-Cover Maps: A P2S2VM Technique and a Circular Validation Strategy Mattia Marconcini, Lorenzo Bruzzone Variants of Principal Components Analysis Wei-min Liu, Chein-I Chang Validation of a Backscatter Model for a River Ice Covers Using Radarsat-1 Images Imen Gherboudj, Monique Bernier, Robert Leconte Application of Persistent Scatterer InSAR and GIS for Urban Subsidence Monitoring Alex H. Ng, Linlin Ge An Ultra-Lightweight L-band Digital Lobe-Differencing Correlation Radiometer for Airborne UAV SSS Mapping Eric M. McIntyre, Al. J. Gasiewski Multibaseline POL-InSAR Analysis of Urban Scenes for 3D Modeling and Physical Feature Retrieval at L-Band Stefan Sauer, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Andreas Reigber, Eric Pottier An Investigation of PN Sequences for Multistatic SAR/InSAR Applications Karan Jumani, Kamal Sarabandi Obtaining A Ship’s Speed and Direction from Its Kelvin Wake Spectrum Using Stochastic Matched Filtering Andreas Arnold-Bos, Arnaud Martin, Ali Khenchaf Empirical Determination of the Soil Emissivity at L-band: Effects of Soil Moisture, Soil Roughness, Vine Canopy, and Topography Alessandra Monerris, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera CLOUDSAT & CALIPSO and the Potential of the A-Train Virtual Observatory Tu05MF Room: 122 An Overview of CloudSat and the A-Train – A New Resource for the Study of Earths Clouds Deborah G. Vane, Graeme L. Stephens Cloud Profiling Radar Performance Eastwood Im, Simone Tanelli, Stephen Durden, Kyung Pak The Vertical Distribution and Occurrence Statistics of Clouds as Derived From Jay Mace, Qiuq Zhang, Roger T. Marchand, Charles Trepte, Graeme Stephens, Dave M. Winker CALIPSO Mission Overview Dave M. Winker CALIPSO Lidar Performance William Hunt CALIOP Algorithm Development and Data Products Mark Vaughan, Zhaoyan Liu, Ralph Kuehn, David Winker, Stuart Young, Kathleen Powell, Ali Omar, Chris Hostetler, Kam-Pui Lee, J. Chris Currey Augmented and Improved Scene Classifications for the MODIS Swath Derived Using Data Fusion Techniques Applied to Collocated CALIPSO and MODIS Nadir Track Measurements Sharon Rodier, Yongxiang Hu, Robe Holz, Mark Vaughan A-Train Data Depot: Integrating and Exploring Data Along the A-Train Tracks Gregory Leptoukh, Steve Kempler, Peter Smith, Andrey Savtchenko, Robert Kummerer, A. Galopan, J. Farley, Aijun Chen Characterizing the Radiation Fields in the Atmosphere Using a Cloud-Aerosol-Radiation Product from Integrated CERES, MODIS, CALIPSO and CloudSat Data Patrick Minnis, Bruce Wielicki, Charles A. Trepte, Sunny Sun-Mack, Yan Chen, Sharon Gibson, Seiji Kato, Graeme Stephens Missouri Satellite Air Quality Project Verne Kaupp, Tim Haithcoat, Robert Reed, Nichole Hilstrom, Connor Henley, Jacob Mueth, Jordan Parshall, Joe Engeln, Jeff Bennett, Leanne Tippett-Mosby Pol-InSAR Techniques and Applications Tu06MF Room: 124 X-band Extinction in Boreal Forest: Estimation by Using E-SAR POLInSAR and HUTSCAT Jaan Praks, Martti Hallikainen, Florian Kugler, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou Potential of Forest Height Estimation Using X Band by Means of Two Different Inversion Scenarios Florian Kugler, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou, Irena Hajnsek, Angelo Coscia Compact PolInSAR for Vegetation Characterisation Sébastien Angelliaume, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Jean-Claude Souyris POLINSAR for FOPEN Using Flashlight Mode Images Along Circular Trajectories Hubert M. J. Cantalloube, Elise K. Colin Exploring Pol-InSAR in C-band for Agricultural Parameter Estimation Irena Hajnsek, Chri Andres Volume and Double-Bounce Decorrelation Effects in the OVoG Model for Single-Tx PolInSAR Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, J. David Ballester-Berman, Yolanda Marquez-Moreno Vertical Profile Reconstruction with PolInSAR Data of a Subpolar Glacier Jayanti J. Sharma, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou PolInSAR Signatures of Alpine Snow Keith Morrison, Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou, Rolf Scheiber Ship Detection with the Fuzzy C-Mean Clustering Algorithm Using Fully Polarimetric SAR Haiyan Li, Yijun He, Hui Shen ENVISAT ASAR Land Applications Tu07MF Room: 128 Large Plain Flood Mapping and Monitoring Based on EO data: Five Years of Improvement from ERS SAR to ENVISAT MERIS ASAR Synergy Herve Yesou, Remi Andreoli, Kader Fellah, Nadinr Tholey, Stephen Clandillon, Stephanie Batiston, Bernard Allenbach, Colette Meyer, Claude Bestault, Paul de Fraipont Sixteen Years of Land Cover Mapping with ESA‘s ERS-1/-2 and ASAR Christiana Schmullius, Maurizio Santoro, Tanja Riedel, Oliver Cartus Rice Monitoring Using SAR Data Le Toan Thuy Surface Deformation Analysis of the Campi Flegrei Caldera, Italy, by Exploiting the ENVISAT ASAR Data with the SBAS-DInSAR Technique Paolo Berardino, Francesco Casu, Gianfranco Fornaro, Riccardo Lanari, Michele Manunta, Mariarosaria Manzo, Antonio Pepe, Susi Pepe, Eugenio Sansosti, Francesco Serafino, G. Solaro, P. Tizzani, G. Zeni Optimizing Interferogram Generation, Pixel Selection and Data Processing for High Non-Linear Deformation Monitoring with Orbital DInSAR Pablo Blanco-Sánchez, Sergi Duque, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Dani Monells SPN Examples of Long and Short TERM ERS/ENVISAT Subsidence Monitoring and Validation Alain Arnaud, Moni Sanchez, Nuno Miranda, Gera Cooksley, Javi Duro ASAR Parallel-Track PS Analysis in Urban Sites Daniele Perissin, Claudio Prati, Fabio Rocca Uncertainty Analysis in Advanced Differential Interferometric SAR Processing M. Crosetto, O. Monserrat, M. Agudo, B. Crippa, G. Rossi Research on Land Use and Land Cover Change Pattern in Fuzhou Area Based on ERS SAR and ENVISAT ASAR Data Henglin Chen, Xiaoqin Wang, Feilong Ling, Huiguo Li Increased Export of Grounded Ice After the Collapse of Northern Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, Observed by Envisat ASAR Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Wolfgang Rack Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture I Tu08MF Room: 129 Development of A Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm for Spaceborne Passive Microwave Radiometers and Its Application to AMSR-E and SSM/I Hui Lu, Toshio Koike, Tetsu Ohta, David Kuria, Tobias Graf, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Hideyuki Fujii, Katsunori Tamagawa Calibration of AMSR-E Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms Using MIRS and LDAS Simulations Xiwu Zhan, Sid Boukabara, Thomas Jackson, Dan Tarpley, Fuzhong Weng Validation of AMSR Soil Moisture Algorithms with Ground Based Networks Thomas J. Jackson, Michael Cosh, Rajat Bindlish, Jinyang Du NPOESS Soil Moisture Satellite Data Assimilation: Progress Using WindSat Data Andrew Jones, Cynthia Combs, Tarendra Lakhankar, Scott Longmore, Thomas H. Vonder Haar, Gary McWilliams, Michael Mungiole, George Mason WindSat Soil Moisture Algorithm and Validation Li Li, Peter W. Gaiser, Tomhas J. Jackson, Rajat Bindlish, Jinyang Du Algorithm for High-Resolution Soil Moisture Retrieval With Coincident Active and Passive L-Band Measurements Dara Entekhabi, Eni G. Njoku Surface Temperature Effect on Soil Moisture Retrieval from AMSR-E Ying Guo, Jiancheng Shi, Kebiao Mao In Situ Soil Moisture Observations for the CAL/VAL of SMOS: The SMOSMANIA Network Jean-Christophe Calvet, Noureddine Fritz, Françis Froissard, David Suquia, Alain Petitpa, Bruno Piguet Validating Observations of Soil Moisture: Some Theoretical Considerations Cihan Erbas, Brian Hornbuckle Estimates of Surface Soil Moisture in Prairies Using L-Band Passive Microwaves Kauzar Saleh, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Patricia de Rosnay, M. J. Escorihuela, Yann Kerr, Jean-Christophe Calvet, M. Schwank, Philippe Waldteufel Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow - I Tu09MF Room: 130 Core-H2O – A Dual-Frequency SAR Mission for Hydrology and Climate Research Helmut Rott, Don Cline, Thomas Nagler, Jouni Pulliainen, Helge Rebhan, Simon Yueh The SARALPS-2007 Measurement Campaign on X- and Ku-Band Backscatter of Snow Keith Morrison, Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Helge Rebhan, Patrick Wursteisen Overview of the Second Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX-II) Don Cline, Kell Elder, Simon Yueh, Jare Entin, Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler Airborne Ku-Band Radar Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow Cover Simon Yueh, Donald Cline, Kelly Elder Modeling Multilayer Effects in Microwave Remote Sensing of Dry Snow Using Dense Media Radiative Transfer Theory (DMRT) Based on Quasicrystalline Approximation Ding Liang, Edward G. Josberger, Xiaolan Xu, Leung Tsang, Konstantinos M. Andreadis, Edward G. Josberger A Multi-Scattering and Multi-Layer Snow Model and Its Validation Jinyang Du, Jiancheng Shi, Saibun Tjuatja, Kun-Shan Chen Microwave Remote Sensing of Alpine Snow Andreas Wiesmann, Tazio Strozzi, Charles Werner, Urs Wegmüller, Maurizio Santoro Use of QuikScat Ku-Band Scatterometer Data for Retrieval of Seasonal Snow Characteristics in Finland Martti Hallikainen, Pauli Sievinen, Yuanzhi Zhang, Pekka Halme Airborne Measurements of Snow Depths over Sea Ice Using an Ultra-Wideband FMCW Radar Carl Leuschen, Prasad Gogineni, Thorsten Markus Combined use of InSAR and ICESat / GLAS Data for High Accuracy DEM Generation on Antarctica Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, Koichiro Doi, Kazuo Shibuya Educational activities in Remote Sensing Tu10MF Room: 131 Satellite Eye for the Galathea 3 Ship Expedition: Global Tour 2006-2007 Charlotte Hasager, Merete Bruun Christiansen, Peter Sørensen, Jürg Lichtenegger, Leif Pedersen, Ole Andersen, Jacob Høyer, Pete Jørgensen, Niels Højerslev, Rune Nielsen, Michael Rasmussen, Lote Nyborg The Weather RATS: K-12 Educational Outreach of CASA Missy Taft, Julie Conlonova GeoBrain: Facilitating Remote Sensing Education With Innovative Technologies Meixia Deng, Liping Di, Mark Abolins, Hongmian Gong, Guoqing Zhou, Robert E. Ford Remotely Sensed Ocean Surface Winds - A Collaborative Educational Effort Zorana Jelenak, Joan M. VonAhn, Michael Brennan, Joseph Sienkiewicz, Paul S. Chang An Internet-Based Remote Sensing Educational Activity in China Shengbo Chen, Zhiguo Meng, Xuqing Zhang, Xizhou Yan, Xiang Wang Development of Educational Partnerships Dedicated to Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets Cyberinfrastructure Linda B. Hayden, David Braaten A Model for Frequency Management Method of Improving Remote Sensing Capabilities Tuncay Ercan, Tohid Ahmed Rana Global Earth Observation – Benefit Estimation: Now, Next and Emerging Michael Obersteiner, Florian Kraxner, Steffen Fritz, Ian McCallum PolarView@FIMR: WWW-based Delivery of Baltic Sea Ice Products to End-Users Juha Karvonen, Jari Haapala, Jonni Lehtiranta, Ari Seinä Remote Sensing and GIS Research and Applications on the African Continent Tu11MF Room: 133 An Environmental Information System for the Spatial Modelling of Land Use Dynamics in the North Region of Cameroon Eric Fotsing , Maurice Tchuente, Wouter T. De Groot Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Brushfire in the Provinces of Burkina Faso during the Fire Seasons from 2004 to 2006 Amani Massalabi, Louis Blanc Traoré Comparative Analysis of Reflectance Spectroscopy and Laboratory Based Assessment of Asbestos Pollution in the Rehabilitated Mining Environment, South Africa Brilliant M. Petja, Yaw A. Twumasi, George T. Tengbeh Simulation of the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Productivity Gamal Salah El Afandi Assessment of Prosopis Juliflora Using Geoinformation Techniques Hussein O. Farah, M.K. Muuo, J.M. Gathemya Spectroscopy to Characterize Expansive Soils Fekerte Arega, Freek van der Meer, Harald van der Werff, Wolt Zigterman Monotoring the Interaction of Human Activities and Earth Surface Proceses in the Coastal Area Located between Gamasa Drain and El-Gharbeya Drain, North Nil Delta, Egypt, through the Last Two Decades E. A. Hermas, W. E. Asi, M. A. El-Demerdash, H. M. Ahmed, A. A. Khedr, S. B. El-Kafrawy The TIGER Initiative: Improving Water Governance in Africa Using Earth Observation Diego Fernandez-Prieto, Francesco Palazzo Remote Sensing Applications for Sustainable Aquaculture in Africa Joseph E. Quansah , Gilbert L. Rochon, Kwamena K. Quagrainie, Steve Amisah, Mucai Muchiri, Charles Ngugi Mapping Rural Savanna Woodlands in Malawi: a Comparison of Maximum Likelihood and Fuzzy Classifiers Lobina Palamuleni, Harold Annegarn, Melaine Kneen, Tobias Landmann Multisource Land Cover Mapping Tu12MH2 Room: 123 Extraction of Forest Parameters in a Mire Biotope Using High-Resolution Digital Surface Models and Airbone Imagery Lars T. Waser, Christian Ginzler, Meinrad Kuechle, Patrick Thee, Emmanuel Baltsavias, Henri Eisenbeiss Retrieving Land Cover Information from MERIS and MODIS Data: A Comparative Study for Landscape Characterization in Portugal Hugo Carrão, Pedro Sarmento, António Araújo, Mário Caetano Comparison of Multisource Data Support Vector Machine Classification for Mapping of Forest Cover Arief Wijaya, Richard Gloaguen Mapping and Modelling the Snowmelt and Greenup Pattern in Southern Norway by Combining Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing Sensors Stein Rune Karlsen, Eirik Malnes, Jörg Haarpaintner, Rune Solberg Qualitative Approaches to Rapidly Identify Completely Submerged Rice Due to Tropical Cyclone Using Satellite Data Abhijat Abhyankar, Anand Patwardhan, Arun Inamdar Image Calibration, Correction and Registration Tu13MH2 Room: 132 The Role of Spatial Interactions for Prediction of the Spectral Structure of the Atmospheric Phase Screen Giovanni Cuozzo, Maurizio di Bisceglie, Adele Fusco Image Data Cleaning: Detection of Aliasing Alexandre Mallet, Alain Giros, Mihai Datcu How many bits? Radiometric Resolution as a Factor in Obtaining Forestry Information with Remotely Sensed Measurements Shannon Franks, Jeffrey G. Masek Automatic Monitoring of Autumn Colours Using MODIS Data Yrjö Rauste, Heikki Astola, Tuomas Häme, Robin Berglund, Laura Sirro, Teppo Veijonen, Brita Veikkanen, Eero Kubin, Osmo Aulamo Investigation of Rigorous Sensor Models and Adjustment Parameters for Modeling Satellite Orbits Taejung Kim 14:20 - 16:00 TECHNICAL SESSIONS Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere Environment Tu01AH1 Room: 122 Process Process Linkages Between Vorticity Patterns in the Polar Sea Ice and the Upper Atmosphere Ellsworth LeDrew Monitoring Changes in Arctic Sea Ice, Radiation, and Wind Field Son Nghiem, Pablo Clemente-Colón, Yi Chao, Donald K. Perovich, Ernesto RODRIGUEZ, John W. Weatherly, Peggy Li, Gregory Newman Arctic Sea Ice Melt: Synthesis of Satellite, Submarine and Model Data Wieslaw Maslowski, Terry McNamara, Jay Zwally, Jaclyn Clement-Kinney, Jaromir Jakacki, Ron Kwok Ocean Surface Process-2 Tu02AF Room: 120 X-Band Backscatter from the Ocean at Low-Grazing Angles William J. Plant, William C. Keller, Kenneth Hayes Recent Advances in the Use of Spaceborne Along-Track InSAR Data for River Runoff Monitoring Roland Romeiser, Steffen Grünler, Detlef Stammer Bora Events in the Adriatic Sea and Black Sea Studied by Multi-Sensor Satellite Imagery and In-Situ Measured Meteorological Data Werner Alpers, Ivanov Andrei SAR Simulation of Ocean Scenes Covered by Oil Slicks With Arbitrary Shapes Alessandro Danisi, Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello, Marivi Tello, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Carlos López-Martínez Oil Spill Segmentation of SAR Images Via GRAPH Cuts Sonia A. Pelizzari, José B. Dias A Physically Consistent Stochastic Model to Observe Oil Spills and Strong Scatterers on SLC SAR Images Maurizio Migliaccio, Giuseppe Ferrara, Attilio Gambardella, Ferdinando Nunziata, Antonio Sorrentino Identification of Oil Spills Based on Ratio of Alternating Polarization Images from ENVISAT Vladimir Malinovsky, Stein Sandven, Alexey Mironov, Aleksander Korinenko Retrieved Sea Surface Salinity Spatial Variability Using High Resolution Data within the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Mission Roberto Sabia, Adriano Camps, Christine Gommenginger, Meric Srokosz Sun Glint and Sea Surface Salinity Remote Sensing Emmanuel P. Dinnat, Paolo De Matthaeis, D. M. Le Vine Special Session Celebrating the Contributions to Remote Sensing Science of Tanos Mikhaël Elfouhaily Tu03AF Room: 121 Tonas M. Elfouhaily: Student Researcher at NASA Wallops Flight Facility. Larry Bliven A tribute to Tony Elfouhaily from NOC Christine Gommenginger, Meric Srokosz, Peter Challenor, Graham Quartly Retrieval of Wind Speed Using an L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Frank M. Monaldo, Donald R. Thompson, Merete Bruun Christiansen Computation of Doppler spectra in the microwave range: which model for sea surface ? Gabriel Soriano, Marc Saillard, Mamirina Joelson Application of an airborne laser scanner as in-situ verification data for bistatic GNSS measurements James L. Garrison, Jill Parrin Sea Surface Slopes‘ PDF from GNSS Reflected Signals Estel Cardellach, Antonio Rius Probability Density Function of Ocean Surface Slopes from Radar Observations Daniele Hauser, Gérard Caudal, Sébastien Guimbard, Alexis Mouche Comparison of Geometric Optics and Diffraction Effects in Radar Scattering From Steep and Breaking Waves Valery U. Zavorotny, Alexander G. Voronovich The Reduced Local Curvature Approximation for Rough Surface Scattering Tanos Elfouhaily, Joel T. Johnson The GO-SSA Two-scale Model for ocean surfaces Soriano Gabriel, Guérin Charles-Antoine Measurement-based Data Systems Tu04AF Room: 123 Vision for Earth Science Measurement-Based Data Systems Martha Maiden, Fran Lindsay, Math Schwaller Distributed Data Integration Prototype System for Satellite, In-situ and Model Data Satoko Miura, Kengo Aizawa A General Model of Data Service in Spatial Information Grid Dingsheng Liu, Yi Zeng, Guoqing Li, Fang Huang A service-based reconfigurable measurement system for supporting sensor webs Liping Di Autonomous Objectively Optimized Observing Systems David J. Lary NASA‘s NPOESS Property Project Science Data Segment: A Framework for Measurement-Based Earth Sciences Data Systems Mathew Schwaller, Robert Schweiss Atmospheric Composition Processing System (ACPS): Evolution from Instrument-Based to Measurement-Based Processing Curt A. Tilmes, Albert J. Fleig, Mike Linda The Atmosphere Product and Evaluation and Test Element (PEATE) for the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) Liam Gumley, Hank Revercomb, Scot Mindock, Paol Antonelli, Richard Frey, Stev Dutcher, Bryan Baum, Robe Holz A Measurement-based System for Producing Long-term Land Data Records Robert E. Wolfe, Edward J. Masuoka, Mich Teague, Jeffrey Pedelty, Eric Vermote, Sada Devadiga, Davi Roy, Chris Justice, Jeffrey Thomas Morisette RADARSAT Tu05AF Room: 124 RADARSAT 1: Mission Performance and Plans Surendra Parashar, Dani Showalter, Ahme Mahmood, Satish Srivastava RADARSAT-2 Program Update Luc Brule, Hans Baeggli, Cath Casgrain, Tony Hillman, Jill Smyth, Phil Rolland Image Quality Control Operations at CSA for RADARSAT Satellites Satish Srivastava, Stephane Cote, Robert K Hawkins The RADAR Constellation Payload Design Ralph Girard, Patrick Plourde, Guy Séguin RADARSAT-2 SOAR Program Update Daniel De Lisle, Jill Smyth, Wendy Branson, Gordon Staples, Diane Thibault Ship Signatures in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery: Validation Using Automatic Identification System Data Paris W. Vachon, Ryan A. English, John Wolfe Operational Ice and Pollution Surveillance in Canadian Coastal Waters with RADARSAT-2 Roger De Abreu, Dean Flett, Mari Gauthier The Value of SAR Multi-Polarization Data in Delivering Annual Crop Inventories Heather McNairn, Catherine Champagne, Jiali Shang Potential Application of RADARSAT Constellation Vern Singhroy, Francois Charboneau, Guy Seguin, Dirk Geudtner ERS SAR and ENVISAT ASAR Performance, Calibration, Validation and Optimisation Tu06AF Room: 128 Ocean Surface Currents Estimation using ASAR Scansar Doppler Grid Fabrice Collard, Bertrand Chapron, Fabrice Ardhuin, Celine Danilo, Johnny Johannessen, Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Dmitry Akimov, Knut-Frode Dagestad, Betlem Rosich ASAR Instrument Performance and Product Quality Evolution Betlem Rosich, Peter J. Meadows, Massimo Tranfaglia, Mirko Santuari, Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Davide D‘Aria, Ignacio Navas Traver ERS-2 SAR Performance, Product Evolution and Interferometric Exploitation of Zero Gyro Mode Data Peter J. Meadows, Betlem Rosich, Alan Pilgrim, Massimo Tranfaglia Antenna Calibration Technique Exploiting Permanent Scatterers Davide D‘Aria, Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Betlem Rosich, Davi Giudici Optimising EnviSat ASAR Interferometry Opportunities by Orbit Maintenance Dirk Kuijper, Itziar Barat, Berthyl Duesmann ASAR ScanSAR Interferometry: Availability and Results Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Davide D‘Aria, Paolo Pasquali, Betlem Rosich SAR Ocean Wind and Waves Projects: Developments and Validations Results Vincent Kerbaol, Fabrice Collard, Harald Johnsen, Jochen Horstmann Envisat ASAR Wave Mode Upgrade, Reprocessing and Validation Fabrice Collard, Harald Johnsen, Bertrand Chapron Generation of ENVISAT ASAR Mosaics Accessible On-line Christophe Caspar, Olivier Colin, Henri Laur, Betlem Rosich , Emmanuel Mathot, Giuseppe Tandurella, Pedro Goncalves, Fabrice Brito Error Analysis of Envisat ASAR Level 2 Algorithm Based on Simulation Technique Jingsong Yang, He Wang, Weigen Huang, Qingmei Xiao Microwave Monitoring of Vegetation at both Local and Global Scales Tu07AF Room: 129 Microwave Vegetation Indices Derived from Satellite Microwave Radiometers Jiancheng Shi, Thomas J. Jackson, Jing Tao, Jinyang Du, Rajat Bindlish Improved Treatment of Vegetation Scattering in the Tau-Omega Model Brian Hornbuckle Ground-Based Microwave Investigations of Forest Plots in Italy Emanuele Santi, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato ComRAD Active / Passive Microwave Measurements of Tree Canopies Peggy O‘Neill, Alicia Joseph, Ross Nelson, Roger H. Lang, Mehm Kurum, Michael Cosh, Thomas J. Jackson, Mark Spicknall A Statistical and Theoretical Study About Radar Sensitivity to Crop Growth from S to X Band Andrea Della Vecchia, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Leila Guerriero, Tazio Strozzi, Urs Wegmüller Estimating Forest Parameters and Underlying Layers of Soil Moisture with Low-Frequency Radar. Mahta Moghaddam, Yuri Goykhman, Alir Tabatabaenejad Characterising and Correcting Ionospheric Effects on P-band Biomass Measurements from Space Shaun Quegan Estimation of Leaf Area Index of Qinghai Spruce (Picea Crassifolia) Forest using Remote Sensing in Qilian Mountains, Northwest China Chuanyan Zhao, Yanhong Jia, Guodong Cheng, Shoubo Li Microwave Signature and its Sensitivity to Soil Moisture Changes for Dynamic Vegetation Jasmeet Judge, Kai-Jen C. Tien Vegetation Water Content Retrieval Using MERIS and AATSR Data over the Loess Plateau Rong Liu, Jun Wen, Tangtang Zhang, Yuanyong Liu, Zhengchao Li Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow - II Tu08AF Room: 130 Emissivities of Rough Surface over Layered Media in Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow Peng Xu, Leung Tsang, Li Li, Kun-Shan Chen Programming-Faced Discrete Version of the QCA-DMRT Equation and Its Solutions for Passive and Active Jin Pan, Leung Tsang Validation of Microwave Emission Models by Simulating AMSR-E Brightness Temperature Data from Ground-Based Observations Anna Kontu, Jouni Pulliainen, Pauli Heikkinen, Hanne Suokanerva, Matias Takala Empirical SWE Retrieval Using Airborne Microwave and in Situ Snow Measurements B. Boba Stankov, Donald Cline, Marco Tedesco Monitoring Snow Cover in Alpine Regions with Multi-Frequency Microwave Sensors Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Simo Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simo Pettinato , Em Santi, Stefano Zecchetto Snow Microwave Modeling and Retrievals: Performance, Resolution, and Evolution Edward Kim, Marco Tedesco The Contribution of Multi-Scale Passive Microwave Data for Resolving Satellite Scale Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Issues in a Canadian Open Tundra Environment Andrew Rees, Chris Derksen, Michael English, Anne Walker Modelling of Snow Hydrology of Siberia for Carbon Budget Calculations Noel Robertson, Shaun Quegan GB Microwave Interferometric Measurements Over a Snow Covered Slope: An Experimental Data Collection in Tyrol (Austria) Guido Luzi, Massimiliano Pieraccini, Linhsia Noferini, Daniele Mecatti, Giovanni Macaluso, Carlo Atzeni, Philipp Joerg, Rudolf Sailer Operational Snow Map Production for whole Eurasia Using Microwave Radiometer and Ground-Based Observations Juha-Petri Kärnä, Juha Lemmetyinen, Martti Hallikainen, Panu Lahtinen, Jouni Pulliainen, Matias Takala Image Processing Tu09AF Room: 131 Deconvolution Algorithms in Image Reconstruction for Aperture Synthesis Radiometers Maria Piles, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Alessandra Monerris, Marco Talone, Jose Luis Alvarez-Perez Improved IBP with Super Resolution for Remote Sensing Images Feng Li, Dona Fraser, Xiuping Jia Landcover Classification of Satellite Imagery with Tesselated Spatial Structure Model Yoshikazu Iikura Automated Detection of Objects Using Multiple Hierarchical Segmentations H. Gokhan Akcay, Selim Aksoy Identification Scales for Urban Vegetation Classification Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Data Zhang Youjing, Fan Hengtong Multifractal Pre-Processing of AVHRR Images to Improve the Determination of Smoke Plumes from Large Fires Hussein Yahia, Isabelle Herlin, Antonio Turiel, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Poulicos Prastacos, Jacopo Grazzini Speckle Noise Reduction in SAR Imaging Using Lattice Filters Based Subband Decomposition Gokhan Karasakal, Isin Erer Segmentation of High-resolution Multispectral Image Based on Extended Morphological Profiles Peijun Li, Hongtao Hu, Jiancong Guo Dynamical Post-Processing of Environmental Electronic Maps Extracted from Large Scale Remote Sensing Imagery Ivan E. Villalon-Turrubiates, Yuriy Shkvarko Image Classification - Joint GRSS-ISPRS Session Tu10AF Room: 132 A SVM Ensemble Approach for Spectral-Contextual Classification of Optical High Spatial Resolution Imagery Maciel Zortea, Michaela De Martino, Sebastiano Serpico Boundary-Adaptive MRF Classification of Optical Very High Resolution Images Giovanna Trianni, Paolo Gamba A Joint Spatial and Spectral SVM‘s Classification of Panchromatic Images Mathieu Fauvel, Jocelyn Chanussot, Jon Atli Benediksson On the Complementarity of an Ontology and a Nearest Neighbour Classifier for Remotely Sensed Image Interpretation Sébastien Derivaux, Nicolas Durand, Cédric Wemmert Thematic Mapping with Sensor Formations John A. Richards Combination of One-Class Remote Sensing Image Classifiers Jordi MuÑoz-Mari, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Luis Gómez-Chova, Javier Calpe-Maravilla The Use of ASAR Data for Class Cover Identification from Small Swatches Giorgos Christoulas, Vassilis Anastassopoulos, Maria Petrou Evaluation of Asar and Optical Data Synergy for High Resolution Land Cover Mapping in Portugal André Pinheiro, Hugo Carrão, Mário Caetano Semi-Supervised Cloud Screening with Laplacian SVM Luis Gómez-Chova, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Jordi Muñoz-Marí, Javier Calpe-Maravila A Parallel Positive Boolean Function Approach to Supervised Multispectral Image Classification Yang-Lang Chang, Jyh-Perng Fang, Long-Shin Liang, Li-De Chen, Kun-Shan Chen Hyperspectral Processing and Analysis Tu11AF Room: 133 Imaging Spectroscopy Measurement Requirements for Ecosystem Research and Status of a Recent NASA Spaceborne Imaging Spectrometer Mission Concept Robert Green, Gregory P Asner, Step Ungar EO-1 Mission: Transition from Technology Demonstration to Science Path Finder Stephen Ungar, Daniel Mandl, Stuart Frye, Lawrence Ong, Joseph Young Forest Information Products from Hyperspectral Data – Victoria and Hoquiam Test Sites David G. Goodenough, Andrew Dyk, Geordie Hobart, Hao Chen Integration of First and Last Return LiDAR with Hyperspectral data to Characterize Forested Environments K. Olaf Niemann, Gordon Frazer, Rafael Loos, Fabio Visintini, Roger Stephen Local Intrinsic Dimensionality of Hyperspectral Imagery from Non-linear Manifold Coordinates T. L. Ainsworth, Charles M. Bachmann, R. A. Fusina A CHRIS Triplet for Forest Attributes Andrew Dyk, David G. Goodenough, K. Olaf Niemann, Geordie Hobart, Hao Chen Bathymetric Retrieval from Manifold Coordinate Representations of Hyperspectral Imagery Charles M. Bachmann, T. L. Ainsworth, Robert A. Fusina, Marcos J. Montes, Jeffrey H. Bowles, Daniel R. Korwan A Novel Non-Parametric Weighted Feature Extraction Method for Classification of Hyperspectral Image with Limited Training Samples Jinn-Min Yang, Pao-Ta Yu, Bor-Chen Kuo, Hsiao-Yun Huang Investigation of Nonlinearity in Hyperspectral Remotely Sensed Imagery: A Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Approach Tian Han, David G. Goodenough Hyperspectral Classification Using Markov Random Field and “Spatial Probability Density Function“ ahmad Keshavarz, Hass Ghassemian 16:20 - 18:00 TECHNICAL SESSIONS Ocean Surface Process-2 Tu02AF Room: 120 X-Band Backscatter from the Ocean at Low-Grazing Angles William J. Plant, William C. Keller, Kenneth Hayes Recent Advances in the Use of Spaceborne Along-Track InSAR Data for River Runoff Monitoring Roland Romeiser, Steffen Grünler, Detlef Stammer Bora Events in the Adriatic Sea and Black Sea Studied by Multi-Sensor Satellite Imagery and In-Situ Measured Meteorological Data Werner Alpers, Ivanov Andrei SAR Simulation of Ocean Scenes Covered by Oil Slicks With Arbitrary Shapes Alessandro Danisi, Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello, Marivi Tello, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Carlos López-Martínez Oil Spill Segmentation of SAR Images Via GRAPH Cuts Sonia A. Pelizzari, José B. Dias A Physically Consistent Stochastic Model to Observe Oil Spills and Strong Scatterers on SLC SAR Images Maurizio Migliaccio, Giuseppe Ferrara, Attilio Gambardella, Ferdinando Nunziata, Antonio Sorrentino Identification of Oil Spills Based on Ratio of Alternating Polarization Images from ENVISAT Vladimir Malinovsky, Stein Sandven, Alexey Mironov, Aleksander Korinenko Retrieved Sea Surface Salinity Spatial Variability Using High Resolution Data within the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Mission Roberto Sabia, Adriano Camps, Christine Gommenginger, Meric Srokosz Sun Glint and Sea Surface Salinity Remote Sensing Emmanuel P. Dinnat, Paolo De Matthaeis, D. M. Le Vine Special Session Celebrating the Contributions to Remote Sensing Science of Tanos Mikhaël Elfouhaily Tu03AF Room: 121 Tonas M. Elfouhaily: Student Researcher at NASA Wallops Flight Facility. Larry Bliven A tribute to Tony Elfouhaily from NOC Christine Gommenginger, Meric Srokosz, Peter Challenor, Graham Quartly Retrieval of Wind Speed Using an L-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Frank M. Monaldo, Donald R. Thompson, Merete Bruun Christiansen Computation of Doppler spectra in the microwave range: which model for sea surface ? Gabriel Soriano, Marc Saillard, Mamirina Joelson Application of an airborne laser scanner as in-situ verification data for bistatic GNSS measurements James L. Garrison, Jill Parrin Sea Surface Slopes‘ PDF from GNSS Reflected Signals Estel Cardellach, Antonio Rius Probability Density Function of Ocean Surface Slopes from Radar Observations Daniele Hauser, Gérard Caudal, Sébastien Guimbard, Alexis Mouche Comparison of Geometric Optics and Diffraction Effects in Radar Scattering From Steep and Breaking Waves Valery U. Zavorotny, Alexander G. Voronovich The Reduced Local Curvature Approximation for Rough Surface Scattering Tanos Elfouhaily, Joel T. Johnson The GO-SSA Two-scale Model for ocean surfaces Soriano Gabriel, Guérin Charles-Antoine Measurement-based Data Systems Tu04AF Room: 123 Vision for Earth Science Measurement-Based Data Systems Martha Maiden, Fran Lindsay, Math Schwaller Distributed Data Integration Prototype System for Satellite, In-situ and Model Data Satoko Miura, Kengo Aizawa A General Model of Data Service in Spatial Information Grid Dingsheng Liu, Yi Zeng, Guoqing Li, Fang Huang A service-based reconfigurable measurement system for supporting sensor webs Liping Di Autonomous Objectively Optimized Observing Systems David J. Lary NASA‘s NPOESS Property Project Science Data Segment: A Framework for Measurement-Based Earth Sciences Data Systems Mathew Schwaller, Robert Schweiss Atmospheric Composition Processing System (ACPS): Evolution from Instrument-Based to Measurement-Based Processing Curt A. Tilmes, Albert J. Fleig, Mike Linda The Atmosphere Product and Evaluation and Test Element (PEATE) for the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) Liam Gumley, Hank Revercomb, Scot Mindock, Paol Antonelli, Richard Frey, Stev Dutcher, Bryan Baum, Robe Holz A Measurement-based System for Producing Long-term Land Data Records Robert E. Wolfe, Edward J. Masuoka, Mich Teague, Jeffrey Pedelty, Eric Vermote, Sada Devadiga, Davi Roy, Chris Justice, Jeffrey Thomas Morisette RADARSAT Tu05AF Room: 124 RADARSAT 1: Mission Performance and Plans Surendra Parashar, Dani Showalter, Ahme Mahmood, Satish Srivastava RADARSAT-2 Program Update Luc Brule, Hans Baeggli, Cath Casgrain, Tony Hillman, Jill Smyth, Phil Rolland Image Quality Control Operations at CSA for RADARSAT Satellites Satish Srivastava, Stephane Cote, Robert K Hawkins The RADAR Constellation Payload Design Ralph Girard, Patrick Plourde, Guy Séguin RADARSAT-2 SOAR Program Update Daniel De Lisle, Jill Smyth, Wendy Branson, Gordon Staples, Diane Thibault Ship Signatures in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery: Validation Using Automatic Identification System Data Paris W. Vachon, Ryan A. English, John Wolfe Operational Ice and Pollution Surveillance in Canadian Coastal Waters with RADARSAT-2 Roger De Abreu, Dean Flett, Mari Gauthier The Value of SAR Multi-Polarization Data in Delivering Annual Crop Inventories Heather McNairn, Catherine Champagne, Jiali Shang Potential Application of RADARSAT Constellation Vern Singhroy, Francois Charboneau, Guy Seguin, Dirk Geudtner ERS SAR and ENVISAT ASAR Performance, Calibration, Validation and Optimisation Tu06AF Room: 128 Ocean Surface Currents Estimation using ASAR Scansar Doppler Grid Fabrice Collard, Bertrand Chapron, Fabrice Ardhuin, Celine Danilo, Johnny Johannessen, Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Dmitry Akimov, Knut-Frode Dagestad, Betlem Rosich ASAR Instrument Performance and Product Quality Evolution Betlem Rosich, Peter J. Meadows, Massimo Tranfaglia, Mirko Santuari, Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Davide D‘Aria, Ignacio Navas Traver ERS-2 SAR Performance, Product Evolution and Interferometric Exploitation of Zero Gyro Mode Data Peter J. Meadows, Betlem Rosich, Alan Pilgrim, Massimo Tranfaglia Antenna Calibration Technique Exploiting Permanent Scatterers Davide D‘Aria, Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Betlem Rosich, Davi Giudici Optimising EnviSat ASAR Interferometry Opportunities by Orbit Maintenance Dirk Kuijper, Itziar Barat, Berthyl Duesmann ASAR ScanSAR Interferometry: Availability and Results Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Davide D‘Aria, Paolo Pasquali, Betlem Rosich SAR Ocean Wind and Waves Projects: Developments and Validations Results Vincent Kerbaol, Fabrice Collard, Harald Johnsen, Jochen Horstmann Envisat ASAR Wave Mode Upgrade, Reprocessing and Validation Fabrice Collard, Harald Johnsen, Bertrand Chapron Generation of ENVISAT ASAR Mosaics Accessible On-line Christophe Caspar, Olivier Colin, Henri Laur, Betlem Rosich , Emmanuel Mathot, Giuseppe Tandurella, Pedro Goncalves, Fabrice Brito Error Analysis of Envisat ASAR Level 2 Algorithm Based on Simulation Technique Jingsong Yang, He Wang, Weigen Huang, Qingmei Xiao Microwave Monitoring of Vegetation at both Local and Global Scales Tu07AF Room: 129 Microwave Vegetation Indices Derived from Satellite Microwave Radiometers Jiancheng Shi, Thomas J. Jackson, Jing Tao, Jinyang Du, Rajat Bindlish Improved Treatment of Vegetation Scattering in the Tau-Omega Model Brian Hornbuckle Ground-Based Microwave Investigations of Forest Plots in Italy Emanuele Santi, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato ComRAD Active / Passive Microwave Measurements of Tree Canopies Peggy O‘Neill, Alicia Joseph, Ross Nelson, Roger H. Lang, Mehm Kurum, Michael Cosh, Thomas J. Jackson, Mark Spicknall A Statistical and Theoretical Study About Radar Sensitivity to Crop Growth from S to X Band Andrea Della Vecchia, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Leila Guerriero, Tazio Strozzi, Urs Wegmüller Estimating Forest Parameters and Underlying Layers of Soil Moisture with Low-Frequency Radar. Mahta Moghaddam, Yuri Goykhman, Alir Tabatabaenejad Characterising and Correcting Ionospheric Effects on P-band Biomass Measurements from Space Shaun Quegan Estimation of Leaf Area Index of Qinghai Spruce (Picea Crassifolia) Forest using Remote Sensing in Qilian Mountains, Northwest China Chuanyan Zhao, Yanhong Jia, Guodong Cheng, Shoubo Li Microwave Signature and its Sensitivity to Soil Moisture Changes for Dynamic Vegetation Jasmeet Judge, Kai-Jen C. Tien Vegetation Water Content Retrieval Using MERIS and AATSR Data over the Loess Plateau Rong Liu, Jun Wen, Tangtang Zhang, Yuanyong Liu, Zhengchao Li Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow - II Tu08AF Room: 130 Emissivities of Rough Surface over Layered Media in Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow Peng Xu, Leung Tsang, Li Li, Kun-Shan Chen Programming-Faced Discrete Version of the QCA-DMRT Equation and Its Solutions for Passive and Active Jin Pan, Leung Tsang Validation of Microwave Emission Models by Simulating AMSR-E Brightness Temperature Data from Ground-Based Observations Anna Kontu, Jouni Pulliainen, Pauli Heikkinen, Hanne Suokanerva, Matias Takala Empirical SWE Retrieval Using Airborne Microwave and in Situ Snow Measurements B. Boba Stankov, Donald Cline, Marco Tedesco Monitoring Snow Cover in Alpine Regions with Multi-Frequency Microwave Sensors Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Simo Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simo Pettinato , Em Santi, Stefano Zecchetto Snow Microwave Modeling and Retrievals: Performance, Resolution, and Evolution Edward Kim, Marco Tedesco The Contribution of Multi-Scale Passive Microwave Data for Resolving Satellite Scale Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Issues in a Canadian Open Tundra Environment Andrew Rees, Chris Derksen, Michael English, Anne Walker Modelling of Snow Hydrology of Siberia for Carbon Budget Calculations Noel Robertson, Shaun Quegan GB Microwave Interferometric Measurements Over a Snow Covered Slope: An Experimental Data Collection in Tyrol (Austria) Guido Luzi, Massimiliano Pieraccini, Linhsia Noferini, Daniele Mecatti, Giovanni Macaluso, Carlo Atzeni, Philipp Joerg, Rudolf Sailer Operational Snow Map Production for whole Eurasia Using Microwave Radiometer and Ground-Based Observations Juha-Petri Kärnä, Juha Lemmetyinen, Martti Hallikainen, Panu Lahtinen, Jouni Pulliainen, Matias Takala Image Processing Tu09AF Room: 131 Deconvolution Algorithms in Image Reconstruction for Aperture Synthesis Radiometers Maria Piles, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Alessandra Monerris, Marco Talone, Jose Luis Alvarez-Perez Improved IBP with Super Resolution for Remote Sensing Images Feng Li, Dona Fraser, Xiuping Jia Landcover Classification of Satellite Imagery with Tesselated Spatial Structure Model Yoshikazu Iikura Automated Detection of Objects Using Multiple Hierarchical Segmentations H. Gokhan Akcay, Selim Aksoy Identification Scales for Urban Vegetation Classification Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Data Zhang Youjing, Fan Hengtong Multifractal Pre-Processing of AVHRR Images to Improve the Determination of Smoke Plumes from Large Fires Hussein Yahia, Isabelle Herlin, Antonio Turiel, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Poulicos Prastacos, Jacopo Grazzini Speckle Noise Reduction in SAR Imaging Using Lattice Filters Based Subband Decomposition Gokhan Karasakal, Isin Erer Segmentation of High-resolution Multispectral Image Based on Extended Morphological Profiles Peijun Li, Hongtao Hu, Jiancong Guo Dynamical Post-Processing of Environmental Electronic Maps Extracted from Large Scale Remote Sensing Imagery Ivan E. Villalon-Turrubiates, Yuriy Shkvarko Image Classification - Joint GRSS-ISPRS Session Tu10AF Room: 132 A SVM Ensemble Approach for Spectral-Contextual Classification of Optical High Spatial Resolution Imagery Maciel Zortea, Michaela De Martino, Sebastiano Serpico Boundary-Adaptive MRF Classification of Optical Very High Resolution Images Giovanna Trianni, Paolo Gamba A Joint Spatial and Spectral SVM‘s Classification of Panchromatic Images Mathieu Fauvel, Jocelyn Chanussot, Jon Atli Benediksson On the Complementarity of an Ontology and a Nearest Neighbour Classifier for Remotely Sensed Image Interpretation Sébastien Derivaux, Nicolas Durand, Cédric Wemmert Thematic Mapping with Sensor Formations John A. Richards Combination of One-Class Remote Sensing Image Classifiers Jordi MuÑoz-Mari, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Luis Gómez-Chova, Javier Calpe-Maravilla The Use of ASAR Data for Class Cover Identification from Small Swatches Giorgos Christoulas, Vassilis Anastassopoulos, Maria Petrou Evaluation of Asar and Optical Data Synergy for High Resolution Land Cover Mapping in Portugal André Pinheiro, Hugo Carrão, Mário Caetano Semi-Supervised Cloud Screening with Laplacian SVM Luis Gómez-Chova, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Jordi Muñoz-Marí, Javier Calpe-Maravila A Parallel Positive Boolean Function Approach to Supervised Multispectral Image Classification Yang-Lang Chang, Jyh-Perng Fang, Long-Shin Liang, Li-De Chen, Kun-Shan Chen Hyperspectral Processing and Analysis Tu11AF Room: 133 Imaging Spectroscopy Measurement Requirements for Ecosystem Research and Status of a Recent NASA Spaceborne Imaging Spectrometer Mission Concept Robert Green, Gregory P Asner, Step Ungar EO-1 Mission: Transition from Technology Demonstration to Science Path Finder Stephen Ungar, Daniel Mandl, Stuart Frye, Lawrence Ong, Joseph Young Forest Information Products from Hyperspectral Data – Victoria and Hoquiam Test Sites David G. Goodenough, Andrew Dyk, Geordie Hobart, Hao Chen Integration of First and Last Return LiDAR with Hyperspectral data to Characterize Forested Environments K. Olaf Niemann, Gordon Frazer, Rafael Loos, Fabio Visintini, Roger Stephen Local Intrinsic Dimensionality of Hyperspectral Imagery from Non-linear Manifold Coordinates T. L. Ainsworth, Charles M. Bachmann, R. A. Fusina A CHRIS Triplet for Forest Attributes Andrew Dyk, David G. Goodenough, K. Olaf Niemann, Geordie Hobart, Hao Chen Bathymetric Retrieval from Manifold Coordinate Representations of Hyperspectral Imagery Charles M. Bachmann, T. L. Ainsworth, Robert A. Fusina, Marcos J. Montes, Jeffrey H. Bowles, Daniel R. Korwan A Novel Non-Parametric Weighted Feature Extraction Method for Classification of Hyperspectral Image with Limited Training Samples Jinn-Min Yang, Pao-Ta Yu, Bor-Chen Kuo, Hsiao-Yun Huang Investigation of Nonlinearity in Hyperspectral Remotely Sensed Imagery: A Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Approach Tian Han, David G. Goodenough Hyperspectral Classification Using Markov Random Field and “Spatial Probability Density Function“ ahmad Keshavarz, Hass Ghassemian User Applications in Remote Sensing Technical Committee Contributions Tu12AH2 Room: 122 Towards The Virtual Remote Sensing Laboratory: Simulation Software For Intelligent Post-Processing Of Large Scale Remote Sensing Imagery Yuriy Shkvarko, Juan Gutierrez, Luis G. Guerrero Wind energy: user applications in remote sensing charlotte Hasager, Mark Ahlstrom, Thierry Ranchin, Fran van Hulle Informing Decision Making in the Energy Sector Using NASA Spaceborne Observations and Models Richard Eckman, Paul Stackhouse Study of Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics and Wind Field by Using Formosat-2 Satellite Data Yuei-An Liou, Jasson Lin, An-ming Wu, G.S. Chang Ocean winds from SAR used in offshore wind energy planning Merete Bruun Christiansen, Charlotte B. Hasager, Morten Nielsen, Lars B. Hansen, Frank M. Monaldo, Donald R. Thompson 18:00 - 19:30 POSTER SESSIONS 18:00 - 19:30 Radar and SAR Calibration Tu01EP Room: Foyer-2 Parameter Based SAR Simulator for Image Quality Evaluation Chul H. Jung, Min. S Choi, Young K. Kwag ALOS PALSAR Calibration and Validation Results from Sweden Leif E. B. Eriksson, Gustaf Sandberg, Lars M. H. Ulander, Gary Smith-Jonforsen, Björn Hallberg, Klas Folkesson, Johan E. S. Fransson, Mattias Magnusson, Hakan Olson, Anders Gustavsson, Björn Flood Transpolarizing Surfaces for Polarimetric SAR Systems Calibration Pere J. Ferrer, Carlos López-Martínez, Xavier Fàbregas, Jose M. González-Arbesú, Jordi Romeu, Albert Aguasca, Christophe Craeye New Polarimetric Calibration Proposal and Its Evaluation Using ALOS PALSAR Calibration Campaign Measurements Hajime Fukuchi, Tomohiro Furuya, Hidekazu Noda, Makoto Satake Polarimetric Calibration Experiment of ALOS PALSAR with Polarization-Selective Dihedrals Makoto Satake, Takeshi Matsuoka, Toshihiko Umehara, Akitsugu Nadai, Seiho Uratsuka, Hajime Fukuchi A Comparison of Internal Calibration Schemes for Spaceborne Single-pass InSAR Applications Yu Wang, Xing-dong Liang, Yi-rong Wu Analysis of Dual Channels Phase Imbalance for Single-Pass Spaceborne InSAR Applications Yu Wang, Liang-jiang Zhou, Xing-dong Liang, Yi-rong Wu COSMO-SkyMed Active Calibrator: A Sophisticated Tool for SAR Image Calibration Stefano Falzini, Victor Speziale, Elena De Viti Overview of The Active TerraSAR-X Calibrators and First Results Rainer Lenz, Werner Wiesbeck The Role of Performance Modelling in Active Phased Array SAR Luigi Cereoli, Andrea Torre Geometric Correction of ASAR and PALSAR Data With and Without Ground Control Points Philip Cheng 18:00 - 19:30 Pol-InSAR Applications Tu02EP Room: Foyer-2 Comparison of PolInSAR methods and strategies for trees height estimation Paolo Pasquali, Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Davide D‘Aria, Betlem Rosich Ortho-Rectification and Terrain Correction of Polarimetric SAR Data Applied in the ALOS/Palsar Context Yrjö Rauste, Anne Lönnqvist, Matthieu Molinier, Jean-Baptiste Henry, Tuomas Häme A Sub-Canopy Soil Moisture Estimation Method Study Using PolinSAR Xinwu Li, Zhen LI, Qing Dong Robust Forest Height Extraction using Polarimetry SAR Interferometry Xi Chen, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang An Improved RVoG Scattering Model for Parameters Inversion using PolInSAR Images Bin Zou, Hongjun Cai, Lamei Zhang, Junping Zhang Study of Ground Surface Displacement Estimation Using ALOS/PALSAR D-InSAR Interferometry Atsushi Iwashita, Marina Kudo, Hisatoshi Baba, Toshikazu Morohoshi, Masanao Hara, Yu-Feng Lin, Wen-Qing Jiang SHARAD Design and Operation Renato Croci, Franco Fois, Diego Calabrese, Enrico Zampolini, Roberto Seu, Giovanni Picardi, Enrico Flamini Evaluation of the Interaction between L-BAND SAR Signal and Structural Parameters of Forest Cover Igor S. Narvaes, Arnaldo Q. Silva, J. R. Santos 18:00 - 19:30 Geological Applications Tu03EP Room: Foyer-2 Assessing Spatial-Temporal Variation of Heavy Metals Contamination of Sediments Using GIS 3D Spatial Analysis Methods in Dexing Mines, Jiangxi Province, China Cuihua Chen, Shijun Ni, Chengjiang Zhang, Binbin He Surface Approximation with Faults: Application to Geophysical Surfaces Christian Gout, Mathieu Lefebvre, Lucia Romani Regional Probabilistic and Statistical Mineral Potential Mapping of Copper Deposits using GIS in the Southeast Area, Mongolia Saro Lee, Hyun-Joo Oh, Minjinsor Tsogtsaihkhan Fracture Analysis using Extracted Data from ASTER and IRS-Pan Images, and DEM: A Case Study of the Kuh-e Asmari Anticline in the Zagros Fold-thrust Belt, SW Iran Mehran Azizzadeh , Sohrab Shahriari Application of A Physical Model to Topographic and Atmosphic Correction In Jiangxi Rugged Area,China Jianguang Wen, Qinhuo Liu, Qing Xiao , Xiaowen Li, Guijun Yang, Jie Chen Digital image processing of multi-spectral ASTER data and SIG applied in geology and geomorphology for wine terroir identification in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: Encruzilhada do Sul and Pinheiro Machado Rosemary Hoff, Jorge R. Ducati, Carlos M. F. Iglesias Fusion of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Imagery to Aid Geological Mapping: An Example from Mapping in Madagascar Jeanine Engelbrecht, Paul H. Macey Assessment of Surface Weathering Degree on Granite Bedrock Using Reflectance Spectroscopy Chang-Uk Hyun, Hyeong-Dong Park A Digital Geological Mapping System Based on Geographic Information System Weifeng Ma, Xiao Wang, Chon Xue, Lin Li, Jian Cui , Hong Chang Remote Sensing Potential for Oil Exploration. Example of the Zagros Mountains (Iran) Richard Gloaguen, Ken McClay, Tim Dooley Classification of Satellite Images Applied to Geological Mapping (Douro Region – Northeastern Portugal) Ana M. P. Vicente, T. Rabaça, Alcides J. S. C. Pereira Assessing Environment Quality of Soils Using GIS Methods in Dexing Mines, Jiangxi Province, China Cuihua Chen, Shijun Ni, Chengjiang Zhang, Binbin He Assessing Potential Ecological Risk of Sediments Using GIS Methods in Dexing, Jiangxi Province, China Cuihua Chen, Shijun Ni, Chengjiang Zhang, Binbin He Remote Sensing Analysis of Recent Tectonics in the Eger Rift (Czech Republic) Alexandra Käßner, Richard Gloaguen, Klaus-Peter Stanek Uplift Rates from River Profiles: Methodology and Case Study, Oriente, Cuba Florian Wobbe, Klaus-Peter Stanek, Richard Gloaguen Statistical Modeling of a Fold System Southeast of ZAGROS (Iran) Richard Gloaguen, Davod Poreh Recognizing Salt-Structures on the Basis of Geophysical and Remote Sensing Data: The Case of Monte Real Salt-Structure (Onshore West-Central Portugal) Fernando C. Lopes, Alcides J. S. C. Pereira, Ana M. P. Vicente Structural Lineaments in a Volcanic Island Evaluated through Remote Sensing Techniques: The Case of Santiago Island (Cape Verde) Alcides J. S. C. Pereira, Sónia Victória, Ana M. P. Vicente, Luis J. P. F. Neves Application of Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing Data to the Tectonics and Lithostratigraphy of Metasedimentary Rocks: The Case of Douro Region (Northeastern Portugal) António Sequeira, Ana M. P. Vicente, Alcides J. S. C. Pereira, Luís C. G. Pereira Preliminary Study on Monitoring of Land Surface Temperature at Coal Mine District by Thermal Remote Sensing Peng Nan, Qiming Qin, Yun-jun Yao, Chuan Jin 18:00 - 19:30 Atmospheric applications Tu04EP Room: Foyer-2 The climate focused 5-year Terra-based monthly CERES radiative flux and cloud products. David R. Doelling, Dennis F. Keyes, Fred G. Rose, Takmeng Wong Return from Insects in the Clear-Air Convective Boudary Layer Robert Contreras, Stephen Frasier Neural Networks for Tropospheric Profiling from GPS-LEO Radio Occultation Patrizia Basili, Stefania Bonafoni , Vinia Mattioli, Fabrizio Pelliccia, Piero Ciotti Comparison of Total Water Vapor Columns Retrieved from Satellite Measurements: Microwave Radiances from AMSU-B and Visible Spectra from GOME/SCIAMACHY Christian Melsheimer, Sebastian Mieruch, Stefan Noël, Georg Heygster Dedicated Neural Networks Algorithms for Direct Estimation of Tropospheric Ozone from Satellite Measurements Pasquale Sellitto, Alessandro Burini, Fabio Del Frate, Domenico Solimini, Stefano Casadio A Improvement for the Surface Solar Insolation Retrieval from Geostationary Sensor Jong-Min Yeom, Kyung-Soo Han, Youn-Young Park, Chang-Suck Lee, Young-Seup Kim Stratospheric Ozone Layer Observations over Tsukuba, Japan by NIES Ozone DIAL Boyan Tatarov, Chan B. Park, Hideaki Nakane, Nobuo Sugimoto, Ichiro Matsui, Yasuhiro Sasano Retrieval of Atmospheric Water Vapor Column Content with CE318 Measurements Based on Differential Absorption Method Zifeng Wang, Liangfu Chen, Zhongting Wang, Xingfa Gu Estimating Evapotranspiration of Haihe Basin: An Operational Processing Chain for MODIS 1B and Meteorological Data Xiong Jun, Wu Bingfang , Yan Nana, Li Jing, Zeng Yuan Calibration and Validation of IASI Temperature and Humidity Soundings Xavier Calbet, Peter Schluessel, Arlindo Arriaga, Tim Hultberg, Thomas August, Olusoji Oduleye Mono-Window Algorithm for Retrieval of Land Surface Net Long-Wave Radiation in Mountainous Area Wanchang Zhang, Yefei Zhu, Shijin Xu Methodology of Cloud Height Estimation over Rugged Terrain Using Landsat TM Imagery Yoshikazu Iikura A Neural Network Algorithm to Retrieve Near-Surface Air Temperature from Landsat ETM+Imagery over the Hanjiang River Basin, China Dengzhong Zhao, Wanchang Zhang, Xu Shijin The Earth Surface Reflectance Retrieval by Exploiting the Synergy of TERRA and AQUA MODIS Data Jiakui Tang, Aijun Zhang, Zhengmin He Atmospheric Vertical Profiles Obtained by Lidar over Évora During CAPEX Project Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Hassan Lyamani, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Ana María Silvia, Frank Wagner, Sergio Pereira 18:00 - 19:30 Water Monitoring and Hazards Tu05EP Room: Foyer-2 Integrating Dual Frequency Side Scan Sonar and High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery for Monitoring Coral Reef Benthic Communities Evanthia Karpouzli, Tim J. Malthus Calculation and Analysis of Sea Background Radiance in Infrared Band Esra Erdem, Feza Arikan, Cemil B. Erol Comparison of the Waterline Characteristics on the Intertidal Flats Appeared on the Image Observed by Satellite and Ground Camera Taerim Kim Duckweed at Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela: A Multisensor Approach to Monitor and Understand the Dynamics of a Large Aquatic Plant Invasion Eduardo Klein, Carlos Castillo, Iliana Chollett, Federico Troncone, Frank E. Müller-Karger Revision of the CREPAD Products. Description and Results of the New Algorithms Alix Fernández-Renau, Cristina Robles González, Mª Angeles Domínguez Barroso New Tide Gauge and GPS Technologies at l‘Estartit for Monitoring Sea level Marina Martinez-Garcia, Miquel Angel Ortiz-Castellon, Roman Leckzinsky, Elena Tel, Maria Jesus Garcia, Begoña Perez, Josep Pascual, Juan Jose Martinez-Benjamin Change Detection of Hongze Lake Wetland Using Rule-Based Inferring Renzong Ruan, Liliang Ren Spatial Modeling and Analysis of the Wetland Dynamic Change in Minjiang River Estuary Dongshui Zhang, Zhangren Lan, Xiaoqin Wang, Qinmin Wang Seafloor Surfaces Approximation from Rapidly Varying Bathymetric Data Using Pre-Processing Daniel Cervantes Cabrera, Pedro Gonzalez-Casanova, Christian Gout Identification Mode of ChemicaL Oxygen Demand in Water Based on Remotely Sensing Technique and Its Application Miaofen Huang, Xu-feng Xing, Xiao-ping Qi, Wu-yi Yu, Yi-mi Zhang An Adaptative Technology Geoinformation Monitoring of the Environment Ferdenant Mkrtchyan, Vlad Krapivin Vulnerability Assessment of the Mountain-Basin System in the Northern Tianshan Mountains, China Bo Li, Jianzhai Wu, Jie Chong, Rui Hong, Xinshi Zhang Research on the Landscape Change of YeYaHu Wetland Based on Remote Sensing Fusion Wenji Zhao, Zhaoning Gong, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Zhuowei Hu, Songmei Zhang, Fusheng Wang 18:00 - 19:30 Hyperspectral Data Classification Tu06EP Room: Foyer-2 Vegetation Classification Using Hyperspectral and Multi-Angular Remote Sensing Data Baoxin Hu, James Freemantle, John R. Miller, Anne Smith Hierarchical Classification Systems for Hyperspectral Image Classification Bor-Chen Kuo, Min-Hung Chi, Jinn-Min Yang, Chih-Wei Yang Why is it Good to be Slightly Naive? A Look at the Effect of Ignoring Correlation when Estimating Covariance Matrices for Hyperspectral Image Classification Asbjørn Berge, Are C. Jensen, Anne S. Solberg A Binary Decision Tree Classifier Implementing Logistic Regression as a Feature Selection and Classification Method and Its Comparison with Maximum Likelihood Helio Radke Bittencourt, Denis A. O. Moraes, Victor Haertel Hyperspectral Image Classification by Recursive Spatial Boosting Based on the Bootstrap Method Shuji Kawaguchi, Ryuei Nishii Nonnegative Principal Components for Hyperspectral Imaging Peter Bajorski Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Wavelet Networks Pai-Hui Hsu, Hsiu-Han Yang Hyperspectral Classification Fusion for Classifying Different Military Targets Ting Liu, George A. Lampropoulos Hyperspectral Data Classification Using RVM with Pre-Segmentation and RANSAC Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk Applications of Components Analysis in Hyperspectral Image Classification Xiaoli Jiao, Chein-I Chang A New Scheme for Decomposition of Mixed Pixels Based on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Xuetao Tao, Bin Wang, Liming Zhang, Jian Qiu Zhang 18:00 - 19:30 Agricultural Applications of Remote Sensing Tu07EP Room: Foyer-2 Relationship Between the Land Cover Change and the Thermal Environment in An Agricultural Region of Japan Using Multi-Temporal Airborne MSS Akinobu Murakami, Akira Hoyano, Keehan Kim Testing and Evaluation of Annualized Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Model in Miyun Reservoir Watershed, China Qinghui Lin, Xiaoyan Wang, Zhixian Li Remote Sensing Native Vegetation Condition S D Jones, K Sheffield, K J Reinke, N Miura, A Lechner Desertification Process Monitoring Based on New Meteorological Parameter. Yuriy Petrov, A‘lo Abdullaev, Svetlana Nikolaeva Assessing Value of Grassland Ecosystem Services in Gansu Province, Northwest of China Zhenghua Chen, Qingyuan Ma, Jian Wang, Zhen Yang LAI and fPAR Spatial and Temporal Trends in the Brazilian Savanna Region Laerte Ferreira, Fabio Lobo, Mercedes Bustamante, Greg Asner, Manuel Ferreira, Nilson Ferreira Analysis of Climate Change from Dry to Wet Phase in NW China with An Aridity-Wetness Homogenized Index Pengxiang Wang, Youfei Zheng , Jinhai He , Qiang Zhang, Baojian Wang Land Use and Land Cover Changes Based on Remote Sensing and GIS in Heihe River Basin, China Fu Kun, Chen Xingpeng, Liu Qingguang, Li Chunhua Study on the Variation of NDVI and the Relationship between Precipitation in Zulihe Basin, Northwest China Han Hui, Zhao Chuanyan, Ma SHiying Assessing Vegetation Degradation in Loess Plateau by Using Potential Vegetation Index Jianguo Sun , Tinghua Ai, Chuanyan Zhao, Haowen Yan The Research on Ecological Environment Change and Its Spatial Extension in Frontier Zone Based on RS and GIS Gan Shu, He Daming, Chen Wenhua, Wang Dandan Effects of Agro-Activities on the Soil Organic Carbon and Soil Properties in the Middle Reaches of Heihe River, Northwestern China Zhongren Nan, Junhua Zhang, Guozhen Zhang, Chuanyan Zhao 18:00 - 19:30 Modeling Tu08EP Room: Foyer-2 Real Time Landscape Modelling and Visualization Rui Liu, Darius Burschka, Gerd Hirzinger GPP Seasonal Dynamic and Interannual Variation in Poyang Lake Basin based on Remote Sensing and Model Simulation Qian Zhang, Jiyuan Liu, Tianxiang Yue Comparison of NDVI of Ground Measurement, Atmospheric Corrected ASTER L1B Data and ASTER Surface Reflectance Product (AST07) Data Buhe Aosier, Masami Kaneko, Masayuki Takada The Application of RS and GIS in Landscape Analysis of Frontier Zone Yang Feiling, Zhang Peng, Gan Shu Expert System for the Operative Environmental Diagnostics Vlad Krapivin, Ferdenant Mkrtchyan Research of the Coordinated Development on the Economy and Ecological Environment in Northwest China Cuiyun Wang, Bo Shao, Wenyong Feng, Gang Li, Chunhui Zhang The Application and Practice of Region-ecological-economy Theory in Western China Zhang Xiaojun, Xiao Bilin The Evolutional Analysis of Coupling Relationship between Population and Resource-Environment in Gansu Province, China Wenheng Wu, Shuwen Niu, Zhen Yang, Gang Li Dinamica EGO Software, a Platform for Environmental System Modeling Britaldo Soares-Filho, Herm Rodrigues, Will Lelles 18:00 - 19:30 Soil Moisture Tu09EP Room: Foyer-2 Effective Single Scattering Albedo of Corn at C and X-Band Zhongjun Zhang, Jiancheng Shi, Andrea Della Vecchia Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of C-Band Brightness Temperature over the Brazilian Tropical Savanna Angélica Giarolla, Edson E. Sano, Marcos Adami, Thomas J. Jackson Ku-Band, Polarimetric, Combined, Short Pulse Scatterometer-Radiometer System for Stationary Fixed Platform, Vessel and Airborne Applications Artashes Arakelyan, Arse Arakelyan, S. A. Darbinyan, Mela Grigoryan, Izab Hakobyan, Astghik Hambaryan, Vani Karyan, Mush Manukyan, Gagi Hovhannisyan, N. G. Poghosyan, Stev Clifford Vegetation Water Inversion Using MODIS Satellite Data Xiaoning Song , Qinhuo Liu, Shifeng Huang, Xiaotao Li Estimation of Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity from AMSR-E Data Yuan-Yuan Jia, Bohui Tang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhao-Liang Li Two-Dimensional Synthetic Aperture Radiometry during Soil Moisture Experiment in 2003 (SMEX03) Dongryeol Ryu, Thomas J. Jackson, Rajat Bindlish, David LeVine, Michael Haken Using Microwave Satellite Data to Study the Spatial Soil Moisture Changes on the Tibetan Plateau Tzu-Yin Chang, Yuei-An Liou Study of Atmospheric Effects on AMSR-E Microwave Brightness Temperature over Tibetan Plateau Yubao Qiu, Jiancheng Shi, Lingmei Jiang, Kebiao Mao Assessing Pine Barrens Soil Moisture Regimes using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Techniques Michael A. Edwards, Margaret Winslow, Reginald Blake Aggregation and Disaggregation of Synthetic L-Band Soil Moisture Data over South-Western France in Preparation of SMOS Christoph Rüdiger, Jean-Christophe Calvet, Aurore Brut, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Beatrice Berthelot, Andre Chanzy, Sylvain Cros, Michael Berger Measurement and Simulation of Diurnal Radiobrightness Variations for a Bare Unfrozen Soil Valery L. Mironov, Sergey A. Komarov, Aleksey A. Bogdanov, Alexander S. Komarov, Vsevolod V. Scherbinin Retrieval of corn field soil moisture during the growing cycle from ENVISAT-ASAR AP data Wang Fang, Sun Guoqing Short Vegetation Influence on Surface Parameter Estimations Sandrine Daniel, Sophie Allain, Eric Pottier A New Long-term Experimental Site for the Validation and Scaling of Soil Moisture Observations Brian Hornbuckle, Witold Krajewski, Amy Kaleita, Anton Kruger, William Eichinger, Sally Logsdon, Tom Sauer Surface Soil Moisture Status over the Mackenzie River Basin Using a Temperature/Vegetation Index Naira Chaouch, Robert Leconte, Ramata Magagi, Marouane Temimi The SMOS Mediterranean Ecosystem L-Band characterisation EXperiment (MELBEX) over natural shrubs Aurelio Cano, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, C. Millán-Scheiding, Carmen Antolín, Jan Balling, Jennifer Grant, Alain Kruszewski, Kauzar Saleh, Sten Søbjærg, Niels Skou, Ernesto Lopez-Baeza Retrieving soil moisture of agricultural fields in Northern Italy from ENVISAT/A-SAR data C. Bignami, N. Pierdicca, L. Pulvirenti, F. Ticconi Modeling of Soil Roughness Using Terrestrial Laser Scanner for Soil Moisture Retrieval Carlos Perez-Gutierrez, Jesus Alvarez-Mozos, Jose Martinez-Fernandez, Nilda Sánchez The 2005 and 2006 Australian National Airborne Field Experiments: Edward Kim, Jeff Walker, Rocco Panciera, Olivier Merlin, Jetse Kalma A Method to Retrieve Soil Moisture Using ERS Scatterometer Data Ruijing Sun, Jiancheng Shi, Lingmei Jiang 18:00 - 19:30 Image Processing Tu10EP Room: Foyer-2 A Fuzzy Logic Based Solution for Supervised Image Segmentation Travis Maxwell, Yun Zhang Unsupervised Image Segmentation by Identifying Natural Clusters Prashanth R. Marpu, Irmgard Niemeyer, Richard Gloaguen A Method for Speckle Noise Reduction of Remote Sensing Image based on SUSAN Xiaobing Zang, Yijin Chen, Shuqing Wang Identification of Individual Tree Crowns from Satellite Image and Image-to-Map Rectification Mamoru Kubo, Shu Nishikawa, Eiji Yamamoto, Ken-ichiro Muramoto Obtaining and Monitoring of Global Oceanic Circulation Patterns by Multifractal Analysis of MicroWave Sea Surface Temperature Images Antonio Turiel, Jordi Sole, Veronica Nieves, Emilio Garcia-Ladona Optical/SAR Sensors Stereo Positioning Xing Shuai, Xu Qing, Zhang Yan, He Yu, Jin Guowang Automated Underwater Image Restoration and Retrieval of Related Optical Properties Weilin Hou, Deric J. Gray, Alan D. Weidemann, Georges R. Fournier, J. L. Forand A Hierarchical Segmentation Algorithm for Multiresolution Satellite Images Raffaele Gaetano, Giuseppe Scarpa, Giovanni Poggi Mapping Land Cover Change in the Taita Hills, Kenya, Utilising Multi-Scale Segmentation and Object Oriented Classification of SPOT Satellite Imagery Barnaby Clark, Petri Pellikka A Cloudless Land Atmosphere Radiosounding Database for Generating Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Algorithms Joan Miquel Galve, César Coll, Vicente Caselles, Raquel Niclòs, Enric Valor, Juan Manuel Sánchez, Maria Mira Improved Polarimetric Whitening Speckle Filter Based on C-Mean Value Classification for SAR Imagery Xiaojun Wang, Shusheng Yan, Hong Sun Using P2DHMM to Detect Airplane Variations in Remote Sensing Image Ma Jianwen, Xi Xiaoyan, Wen Qi, Li Liwei High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Image Segmentation Using Temporal Independent Pulse-Coupled Neural Network Li Liwei, Ma Jianwen, Chen Xue, Wen Qi, Xi Xiaoyan A Feasible Atmospheric Correction Method to Remote Sensing Image and It’s Application to TM Image Wei Zheng, Chuang Liu, En Long A New Method to Reduce the Sun Angle Effects and Noise Contamination in Extracting the Vegetation Indices from Satellite Images Mohammad Hassan Anvar, S.M.T. Almodarresi 18:00 - 19:30 Change Detection and Multitemporal Analysis Tu11EP Room: Foyer-2 Multitemporal Change Detection by Spectral and Multivariate Texture Information Peijun Li, Tao Cheng, Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico, Defeng Ma Hybrid Change Detection for Watershed Impervious Surface Using Multi-Time Remotely Sensed Data Zhang Youjing, Ma Xuemei, Chen Liang Co-Registration of Optically Sensed Images and Correlation (COSI-Corr): An Operational Methodology for Ground Deformation Measurements Sebastien Leprince, Francois Ayoub, Yann Klinger, Jean-Philippe Avouac Land-Cover Change Detection Using Multi-Temporal MODIS NDVI Data Ross Lunetta, Joseph F Knight, Jay Ediriwickrema, John Lyon, L. D Worthy Inference on Time Series based on Change Points Hong Wang, Jun Zhang, Hong Zhao Change Detections from SAR Images for Damage Estimation Based on a Spatial Chaotic Model Yu-Chang Tzeng, S. H Chiu, Dana Chen, Kun-Shan Chen The Change Vector Analysis Method for Change Detection of Inundation Extent using Multi-temporal Multi-polarized SAR Image Guozhuang Shen, Huadong Guo, Jingjuan Liao Parallel Algorithms for Change Detection based on Spatial/Spectral Multitemporal Endmember Extraction Pablo J. Martínez, Rosa M. Pérez, J. J. Merino, David Valencia, Antonio J. Plaza, J. Plaza Application of Projection Pursuit Learning Network to Subpixel Classification Bo Wu Wavelets Transform and Linear Spectral Mixture Model Applied to MODIS Time Series for Land Cover Change Analysis Ramon Freitas, Yosio E. Shimabukuro, Reinaldo Rosa Self-Organizing Property of Nonlinear Mapping for Change Detection Kuniaki Uto, Yukio Kosugi Usage of Multitemporal Filtering of SAR Images for Change Detection Rosana Romero, Jesus Sanz-Marcos, Daniel Carrasco, Victoriano Moreno, Juan Luis Valero, Marc Lafitte Estimation of Bare Surface Soil Moisture Using Geostationary Satellite Data Xiaoyu Zhang, Bohui Tang, Yuan-Yuan Jia, Zhao-Liang Li Change Detection using Spatial Data: Problems and Challenges Markus Törmä, Pekka Härmä, Elise Järvenpää Glacier-Lake variations in the Tibetan Plateau Yanhong Wu, Liping Zhu, Qinghua Ye Spectral Change Detection Osmar A. Carvalho Júnior, Renato F. Guimarães, Roberto A. T. Gomes, Nilton C. Silva Time Series Interpolation Osmar A. Carvalho Júnior, Renato F. Guimarães, Roberto A. T. Gomes, Nilton C. Silva Computing Invariants for Structural Change Detection in Urban Areas F.F. Tang, Veronique Prinet 18:00 - 19:30 Digital Elevation and Surface Models Tu12EP Room: Foyer-2 Research on the Macroscopically Topographic Factors based on 1:10000 Scaled DEMs: A Case Study in the Loess Plateau of North Shaanxi Province Hongchun Zhu, Guoan Tang, Lin Sun, Yulin Cai The Mega Capture of the Negro River, Central Amazônia, Brazil: A Novel Feature Revealed by SRTM Data Raimundo Almeida-Filho, Fernando Pellon Miranda, Carlos Beisl Accuracy Comparison of Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Using LiDAR Digital Elevation Model Junghum Yu, Linlin Ge, Sungheuk Jung, Jeakee Lee High Resolution DSM Generation from ALOS PRISM Junichi Takaku, Noriko Futamura, Tetsuji Iijima, Takeo Tadono, Masanobu Shimada Extraction of Landform Information in Changbai Mountains Based on Srtm-DEM and TM Data En Long, Wei-ming Cheng, Cheng-hu Zhou, Yong-hui Yao, Hai-jiang Liu Assessment of Different Topographic Correction Effects for Forest Classification Huabing Huang, Peng Gong 18:00 - 19:30 Urban Applications Tu13EP Room: Foyer-2 Land Cover Classification using IKONOS PAN and Pan-Sharpen Images Mitsuharu Tokunaga Expansion of Urban Area in the Yellow River Zone, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China from DMSP OLS Nighttime Lights Data Xiaoming Qi, Mark Chopping Blended Remote Sensing Tools for House Management Mu-Lin Wu, Yu-Ming Wang, Deng-Ching Wong, Ming-Hon Hwang, Ching-Mei Chu Measuring and Modeling Urban Dynamics: Impact on Quality of Life and Hydrology. Objectives and Methodology Frank Canters, Tim Van de Voorde, Okke Batelaan, Jef Dams, Yves Cornet, Marc Binard, Rudi Goossens, Dennis Devriendt, Frederik Tank, Guy Engelen, Carlo Lavalle, José Barredo Urban Land Cover Classification: Potential of High and Very-High Resolution SAR Imagery Fabio Pacifici, Fabio Del Frate, Domenico Solimini, Alessandro Burini A Strategy for Analyzing Urban Forest Using Landsat ETM+ Imagery Chudong Huang, Yun Shao, Jinsong Chen, Jinghui Liu, Jieqiong Chen, Jing Li Detecting Urban Vegetation Using a Object-oriented Method with QUICKBIRD Imagery Chang-Qing Ke, Guo-Dong Tang, Xue Cao Analysis of Spatial Expansion and Distribution of Industrial Land Based on RS and GIS Xinbo Li, Jinmin Hao, Hongyong Sun, Minxin Men, Fuzhang Zhang Using the Sleuth Urban Growth Model to Simulate the Impacts of Future Policy Scenarios on Urban Land Use in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria CMSA Hakan Oguz, Andr Klein, Ragh Srinivasan Study on Village Pattern Evolution in the Middle Region of Huang-Huai-Hai Plain Lingling Yuan, Yuanqing He, Wenheng Wu, Gang Li, Zhen Yang 18:00 - 19:30 Image Classification Tu14EP Room: Foyer-2 SAR Images Classification using Case-based Reasoning Method Fulong Chen, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Fan Wu Improvement Estimation of Abundances via Spectral Feature Extraction and Using Total Least Square bo wu Urban Textures from High Resolution Satellite Images: A Multiscale Analysis of Slums Mauro N. M. Barros Filho Optimal Cluster Numbers of Unsupervised Classification in Minkowski Spaces Ming-Der Yang, Chan-Hsiang Hsu, Tung-Ching Su Decomposition of Mixed Pixels Using Bayesian Self-Organizing Map (BSOM) Neural Networks Lifan Liu, Bin Wang, Liming Zhang, Jian Qiu Zhang A New Endmember Extraction Algorithm Based on Orthogonal Bases of Subspace Formed by Endmembers Xuetao Tao, Bin Wang, Liming Zhang, Jian Qiu Zhang Public Health choroplethic Mapping Techniques based on Spatial Clusters Fei Li, Chenghu Zhou, Rongguo Chen A Wavelet Based Targets Detection Method for High Resolution Airborne SAR Data Sirui Tian, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Fan Wu The Methodology of Detailed Vegetation Classification Based on Environmental Knowledge and Remote Sensing Images Zhigang Xu, Dafang Zhuang A New Artificial Immune System Algorithm for Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing Image Analysis Zuohua Miao, Hong Xu, Yaol Liu Hierarchical Object-Oriented Classification for Images of High Spatial Resolution using Spatials and Spectrals Datas Marlos Batista, Vito Haertel Study on the Land Cover and Land Change Using Time-Series TM in Zulihe basin, Northwest China Han Hui, Zhao Chuanyan, Ma SHiying Extraction of Building Roofs from High Resolution Satellite Imagery Based on Colour Morphology and Mark Point Process Yu Li, Jona Li, Mich Chapman, Yipe Yuan Study of Support Vector Machine Learning Parameters Anil Kumar, V. K Dadhwal, S. K Ghosh A Possibilistic C Repulsive Medoids Clustering Approach to Mixed-Pixel Classification for Remotely Sensed Imagery Dai Xiaoyan, Xu J. Jianhua, Dong Shan, Wang Zhihai Automatic Classification Algorithm for NOAA-AVHRR Data Using Mixels Yoichi Kageyama, Ikuma Sato, Makoto Nishida Influence of Training Sampling Protocol and of Feature Space Optimization Methods on Supervised Classification Results Sylvie Durrieu, Thierry Tormos, Pascal Kosuth, Catherine Golden Application of Random Set-Based Clustering to Landmine Detection with Hyperspectral Imagery Jeremy Bolton, Paul Gader Clustering Method to Extract Buildings from Airborne Laser Data Mitsuharu Tokunaga, Thuy T. Vu A Two-Stage Subpixel Classification Method for Multispectral Remote Sensing Images Hsuan Ren, Yang-Lang Chang Multispectral Image Classification Using Rough Set Theory and the Comparison with Parallelepiped Classifier Chih-Cheng Hung, Hendri Purnawan, Bor-Chen Kuo Methodology for the Definition and Delimitation of Validation Areas for Remote Sensing Algorithms and Low-resolution Products. Application to the Valencia and Alacant Anchor Stations Sara Vidal, Cecilia Narbón, Aurelio Cano, Ernesto López-Baeza Visualization of Hyperplanes for SVM Classification Arko Lucieer Performance of Different Learning Algorithms for Object-based Mapping of Urban Land Cover using High-resolution Satellite Imagery Tim De Roeck, Frank Canters Hierarchical Classification of Land-Cover Types using RAG-Based Merging Sang-Hoon Lee Adaptive Filtering Approaches for Multispectral Image Classification Lena Chang, Ching-Min Cheng, Fu-Chuan Ni Pol-SAR Image Classification Based on Wavelet SVM Bin Zou, Caihong Pei, Lamei Zhang, Junping Zhang Classification of Clouds in the Japan Sea Area Using NOAA AVHRR Satellite Images and Self-Organizing Map Mamoru Kubo, Ken-ichiro Muramoto Remote Sensing Image Classification Based on Dot Density Function Weighted FCM Clustering Algorithm Xiaofang Liu, Xiaowen Li, Ying Zhang, Cunjian Yang, Wenbo Xu, Min Li, Huanmin Luo Satellite Mapping of the Demolition of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant Marco Chini, William J. Emery, Fabio Pacifici On the Use of Ancillary Data by Applying the Concepts of the Theory of Evidence to Remote Sensing Digital Image Classification Rodrigo Lersch, Victor Haertel, Yosio E. Shimabukuro Combining Modern Techniques for Urban 3D Modelling Georgeta Pop (Manea), Alexander Bucksch 18:00 - 19:30 Differential Interferometry Tu15EP Room: Foyer-2 Innovations in Corner Reflector Design for Permanent Scatterer and Geolocation Studies Don Atwood, Wade Albright, Orion Sky Lawlor, Joe Lovick Using Artificial Point Targets for Monitoring Landslides With Interferometric Processing Adrian McCardle, Bernhard Rabus, Parw Ghuman, Lis Rabaco, Clau Amaral, Rena Rocha Urban Subsidence Observed by InSAR in Tianjin Region Shiyu Zhang, Tao Li, Jingnan Liu, Youwen Liu, Lianjun Shao, Ye Xia, Yanxiang Jiang, Xu Lu Evaluation of Accuracy in PS-Based Radar Interferometry with Simulated Data Qiang Chen, Xiaoli Ding, Guoxiang Liu, Yongshu Li Glacier Displacement Field Estimation Using Airborne SAR Interferometry Pau Prats, Christian Andres, Rolf Scheiber, Karlus A. C. de Macedo, Jens Fischer, Andreas Reigber A Stability Analysis of the Lambda Estimator for Solving the Ambiguity Problem in Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Stefan Gernhardt, Franz Meyer, Richard Bamler, Nico Adam Point Target Interferometry for Natural and Artificial Scatterers Valentin Poncos, Shilong Mei, Vern Singhroy Monitoring of Mining Induced Land Subsidence Using L- and C-Band SAR Interferometry Tomonori Deguchi, Masatane Kato, Hakan Akcin, Hakan Kutoglu A Novel Simulator of Random Interferogram Generation for InSAR Systems Jing Yao, Peng-cheng Nie, Dong-yun Yi, Ju-bo Zhu Deformation Monitoring over a Large Area Via the ESD Technique with Data Takes on Adjacent Tracks Gianfranco Fornaro, Francesco Serafino, A. Pauciullo Radar Interferometry for 3-D Mining Deformation Monitoring Hsing-Chung Chang, Linlin Ge, Chris Rizos, Tony Milne Six Years of Land Subsidence in Shanghai Revealed by JERS-1 SAR Data Peter Damoah-Afari, Xiao-li Ding, Zhiwei Li, Zhong Lu, Makoto Omura Correction of Tropospheric Water Vapour Effect on ASAR Interferogram Using Synchronous MERIS Data Qiming Zeng, Ying Li, Xiaofan Li A Modified Algorithm for Permanent Scatterers Candidates Selection Yusen Dong, Zhi Zhang, Kui Zhang, Linlin Ge, Hsing-Chun Chang A Terrestrial Real-Aperture Interferometer for Measurement of Surface Deformation. Charles Werner, Andreas Wiesmann, Urs Wegmüller, Tazio Strozzi Development of a Open Source Permanent Scatterer System Joseph Lovick, Orion Lawlor, Don Atwood, Ken Dean Persistent Scatterer Density Improvement Using Adaptive Deformation Models Freek J. van Leijen, Ramon F. Hanssen Research on Differential Interferometry for Spaceborne Bistatic SAR Xilong Sun, Anxi Yu, Zhen Dong, Diannong Liang 18:00 - 19:30 Bistatic and Multistatic Radar Tu16EP Room: Foyer-2 Elevation-­Dependent Motion Compensation for Frequency-­Domain Bistatic SAR Image Synthesis Hubert M.J. Cantalloube, Gerhard Krieger Performance Analysis of Bistatic SAR Configurations Giovanni Nico, Manlio Tesauro First Results from Flight Tests of the NASA/JPL UAVSAR Radar Scott Hensley, Kevin Wheeler, Greg Sadowy, Scott Shaffer, Joanne Shimada, Cathleen Jones, Tim Miller, Ken Vines, David Robinson, Howard Zebker Bistatic Forward-looking SAR Imaging Using ISFFT Kefeng Yang, Feng He, Diannong Liang A Bistatic SAR Interferometric Simulator for Fixed Receiver Configurations Sergi Duque, Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Carlos López-Martínez Second-Order Motion Compensation in Bistatic Airborne SAR Based on a Geometrical Approach Amaya Medrano Ortiz, Otmar Loffeld, Holger Nies, Stefan Knedlik Influence of Mechanical Antenna Distortions on the Performance of the HRWS SAR System Alicja Ossowska, Jung-Hyo Kim, Werner Wiesbeck Synchronization Techniques for the Bistatic Spaceborn/Airborne SAR Experiment with TerraSAR-X and PAMIR Thomas Espeter, Ingo Walterscheid, Jens Klare, Joachim H. G. Ender Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Bistatic SAR System Operating in the Double Sliding Spotlight Mode Ingo Walterscheid, Thomas Espeter, Joachim H. G. Ender Translational Variant Bi-Static SAR Signal Space-Time Feature and Processing Method Shi Jun, Zhang Xiaoling, Yang Jianyu Vehicleborne Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Yulin Huang, Jianyu Yang, Li Xian, Haiguang Yang, Zhong Tian Study on Clutter Cancellation for Space Borne Bistatic SAR Giovanni Picardi, Marco Iorio, A. Masdea, F. Temussi, A. Bazzoni, L. Borgarelli, R. Venturini Comparison between MARSIS & SHARAD Results Franco Fois, Riccardo Mecozzi, Marco Iorio, Diego Calabrese, Ornella Bombaci, Clau Catallo, A. Croce, R. Croci, Mauro Guelfi, Enrico Zampolini, D. Ravasi, M. Molteni, P. Ruggeri, A. Ranieri, M. Ottavianelli, Enrico Flamini, Giovanni Picardi, Roberto Seu, D. Biccari, R. Orosei, M. Cartacci, A. Cicchetti, A. Masdea, E. Giacomoni, M. Cutigni, M. Provenziani, O. Fuga, G. Alberti, S. Mattei, C. Papa, P. Marras, B. Tattarletti, D. Vicari, F. Bonaventura, T. Paternò, A. Di Placido, A. Morlupi 18:00 - 19:30 Education and Policy --Remote Sensing applications Tu17EP Room: Foyer-2 A Low Cost Testbed for Synthetic Aperture Techniques Paulo Marques, Inene Dias, Élio Fernandes GLOBE Students in Sunland Park, New Mexico Study Satellite Images to Decipher August 2006 Flood Damage Robin L. Hoffer, Albert Ortiz, Joel Gilbert A Study on Population Distribution Characteristics and Pattern in Mountainous Region Guozhu Li Evaluation on the Eco-economic Benefits of Rural Energy Construction and Sloping Land Conversion to Forest Program Guozhu Li, Shuwen Niu, Zhengguang Liu, Zhen Yang Region Selection of Converting Slope Farmlands into Forestlands and Grasslands Based on Relationship Between Land Gradient and Soil Erosion Data: A Case Study of Yellow River Basin, China Yang Zhen, Shuwen Niu, Guozhu Li Study on Mechanism of Landuse Conversion in Metropolitan Area: A Case Study of Lanzhou Metropolitan Area, China Yang Zhen, Shuwen Niu, Huimin Liu, Guozhu Li Universal Map for Spatial Information Society by Using REAL TIME GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing Sota Shimano, Mitoshi Moriya, Masaaki Shikada, Tatsuo Azuma Map Renewal Technique by Using Collaboration of GPS, GIS and Remote Sensing Mitoshi Moriya, Sota Shimano, Masaaki Shikada Interactive Software Tools to Process ALOS Satellite Images Makoto Ono Handheld Microwave Radiometer (HMR) into Classroom Environment –An Introduction Eric Chikando, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Jame Whitney, Carl White Benchmarking: The End of the Process Verne Kaupp, Tim Haithcoat, Vlad Likholetov, Charles Hutchinson, Sam Drake, Wim Van Leeuwen MERIT Erasmus Mundus: An Opportunity for International Cooperation in Remote Sensing Education in Europe Francesc Torres, Werner Wiesbeck, Claudio Beccari, Benoit Macq Development of Web-Based SAR Processor for Education Yosuke Ito, Yuuhei Teramoto, Kenji Abe City Air Temperature Observations used as Educational Resources Kazuya Takemata, Yoshiyuki Kawata, Tsugio Chiba An Integrated Approach to Using NASA Earth Science Climate Data in Science Classrooms Erica J. Alston, Lin H. Chambers, Susan W. Moore, Penny C. Oots, Dennis D. Diones, Carrie S. Phelps Interagency Collaborations in the United States: USGEO Architecture and Data Management Working Group Kathy Fontaine Blended Tools for Remote Sensing Education Mu-Lin Wu, Yu-Ming Wang, Deng-Ching Wong, Ming-Hon Hwang, Ching-Mei Chu Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets for Underrepresented and Handicapped Middle School Students Linda B. Hayden, Terrance Hughes, Darnell Johnson Integrating Applied Remote Sensing Methodology in Secondary Education Kerstin Voss, Roland Goetzke, Florian Thierfeldt, Gunter Menz Lidar Education at Georgia Tech Gary G. Gimmestad, Leanne L. West Remote Sensing Information Visualization Using Volume Based Objects in World Wind Tobias Spies, Robert Moorhead, Manfred Brill Multi-waveform Radar for Ice Sheet Measurements and Classroom Demonstration Cameron Lewis, Heather Owen, Deebu Abi, Jon Hecker, James Sulzen A Review and Analysis of Remote Sensing Capability for Air Quality Measurements as a Potential Decision Support Tool Conducted by the NASA DEVELOP Program A. Ross, A. Richards, K. Keiths, C. Frew, J. Boseck, S. Sutton, C. Watts, Elbert Cox, D. Rickman Effects of Climate Change and Urbanization on Energy Demand William Crosson, Maur Estes, Maud Khan, Dale Quattrochi Wednesday, July 25th 09:00 - 10:40 TECHNICAL SESSIONS Radar Polarimetry We01MH1 Room: 124 Application of Bootstrap Techniques for the Estimation of Target Decomposition Parameters in RADAR Polarimetry Samuel Foucher, Grégory Farage, Goze B. Bénié Comments on Hybrid-Polarity SAR Architecture R. Keith Raney Unsupervised Classification of Polarimetric SAR Data Using Graph Cut Optimization Marc Jaeger, Andreas Reigber, Olaf Hellwich The Use of Multidimensional Copulas to Describe Amplitude Distribution of Polarimetric SAR Data Grégoire Mercier, Lynda Bouchemakh, Youcef Smara Segmentation of Polarimetric SAR Data using Contour Information via Spectral Graph Partitioning Kaan Ersahin, Ian G. Cumming, Rabab K. Ward Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture II We02MH1 Room: 129 Topography Effects on the L-band Emissivity of Soils: TuRTLE 2006 Field Experiment Alessandra Monerris, Pablo Benedicto, Mercè Vall-llossera, Adriano Camps, Maria Piles, Enric Santanach, Ricard Prehn Calibration of L-MEB for Soil Moisture Retrieval over Forests Jennifer Grant, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Adriaan A. Van de Griend, Massimo Guglielmetti, Kauzar Saleh, M. Schwank Introducing CMEM, a Community Microwave Emission Model Thomas R. H. Holmes, Matthias Drusch, Richard de Jeu Impact of Surface Heterogeneity on Surface Soil Moisture Retrievals from Passive Microwave Data at the Regional Scale: The Upper Danube Case Alexander Loew Optical Calibration We03MH1 Room: 132 An Overview of Four Decades of Landsat Calibration Ronald W. Hayes, Gyanesh Chander, Jon B. Christopherson Radiometric Trending of Landsat TM Using Pseudo-Invariant Sites Dennis Helder, Rimy Malla, Gyanesh Chander, Julia Barsi, Brian Markham Sensor On-Orbit Calibration and Characterization Using Spacecraft Maneuvers Xiaoxiong Xiong, Jim Butler, William Barnes, Bruce Guenther Intercalibrating MetOP/AVHRR and Aqua/MODIS with Improved SNO Accuracy Changyong Cao, Aisheng Wu, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Xiangqian Wu Report on the First Meeting of Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) Research Working Group Xiangqian Wu Clouds and precipitation We04MF Room: 120 Dual-Polarization and Dual-Frequency Radar Scattering From Ice Crystals Kultegin Aydin, Enrique Santiago Modeling of Multiple Scattering Effects for Spaceborne W-band Pulsed Radar Alessandro Battaglia, Satoru Kobayashi, Simone Tanelli, Clemens Simmer, Eastwood Im Cloud Particle Size Measurements in Arctic Clouds Using Lidar and Radar Data Edwin W. Eloranta, Taneil Uttal, Matthew Shupe Preciptation Retrieval Over Land from SSMIS Nai-Yu Wang, Ralph Ferraro Processing Disdrometer Raindrop Spectra Time Series from Various Climatological Regions Using Estimation abd Autoregressive Methods Mario Montopoli , Gianfranco Vulpiani , Marios N. Anagnostou, Emmanouil N. Anagnostou, Frank S. Marzano A Networked Radar Approach for Resolving Range Ambiguity Nitin Bharadwaj, V. Chandrasekar Neural Network Retrieval of Precipitation Using NPOESS Microwave Sensors Frederick Chen, Laura Bickmeier, William Blackwell, Laura G. Jairam, Vince Leslie Short-Wave Infrared Hyperspectral Determination and Mapping of Cloud Water Phase During the AIRS II Program George E. Leblanc A Neural Network Based Approach for Multi-Spectral Snowfall Detection and Estimation Yajaira Mejia, Hosni Ghedira, Shayesteh Mahani, Reza Khanbilvardi Preliminary Quantitative Analysis of S-Band FMCW Radar Data from Atmospheric Observation Turker Ince Forest Applications We05MF Room: 121 Algorithm of Retrieving Needle Leaf Chlorophyll Content from Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Yongqin Zhang, Jing M. Chen, John R. Miller, Thomas L. Noland Modeling Fractional SHRUB/Tree Cover and Multitemporal Changes in Mire Ecosystems Using High-Resolution Digital Surface Models and CIR Aerial Images Lars T. Waser, Christian Ginzler, Meinrad Kuechler, Emmanuel Baltsavias, Henri Eisenbeiss Spatial Patterns of the Canopy Stress During 2005 Drought in Amazonia Liana Oighstein Anderson, Yadvinder Malhi, Luiz E.O.C. Aragao, Sassan Saatchi Using Phenological Information Derived from MODIS-data to Aid Nutrient Modeling. First Experiences Markus Törmä, Katri Rankinen, Pekka Härmä The Evaluation of the Mangrove Ecosystem Services Value Change in Zhangjiang River Estuary Based on Remote Sensing Dongshui Zhang, Zhangren Lan, Qinmin Wang, Xiaoqin Wang, Wei Zhang, Zheng Li Using MODIS and GLAS Data to Develop Timber Volume Estimates in Central Siberia Jon Ranson, Daniel Kimes, Guoqing Sun, Ross Nelson, Viatcheslav Kharuk, Paul Montesano Aboveground biomass estimation in Alaska-Yukon Porcupine Caribou habitat area from coarse resolution satellite data Junhua Li, Wenjun Chen Deforestation Due to Population and Relief Energy through Spatially-Correlated Logit Models Shojiro Tanaka, Ryuei Nishii Vegetation Identification and Classification in the Domain Limits of Powerlines in Brazilian Amazon Forest Alessandra M. K. Beltrame, Mauricio G. M. Jardini, Rogeiro M. Jacobsen, Jose A. Quintanilha Near Real Time Detection of Hot Spots on Meteosat Second Generation Images: from Forest Fires to Volcanic Eruptions Laurent Beaudoin, Antoine Gademer, Ahmed Amir, Loïca Avanthey, Vincent Germain, Alexandre Pocheau Forest Mapping with SAR Measurements We06MF Room: 122 Estimation of Tropical Forest Structure and Aboveground Biomass from P-band SAR Sassan Saatchi, Davi Clark, Robi Chazdon, Miri Marlier, Jero Chave, Thom Gillespie Vegetation Modelling for Height Inversion Using InSAR/Pol-InSAR Data Franck Garestier, Thuy Le Toan Forest Monitoring with JERS-1/SAR and ALOS/PALSAR Manabu Watanabe, Masanobu Shimada, Kazuo Ouchi, Haipeng Wang, Masayuki Matsuoka, Motoyuki Sato Detection of Forest Changes Using ALOS PALSAR Satellite Images Johan E. S. Fransson, Mattias Magnusson, Håkan Olsson, Leif E. B. Eriksson, Gustaf Sandberg, Gary Smith-Jonforsen, Lars M. H. Ulander Estimation of the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function of Subarctic Boreal Forest Using C-Band SAR Aku Riihelä, Terhikki Manninen JERS-1 SAR Data in Forest Biomass Mapping in Northern Taiga Zone Yrjö Rauste, Heikki Ahola, Terhikki Manninen, Heikki Smolander, Pekka Voipio Analysis of Airbone SAR Data (L-BAND) for Discrimination Land Use / Land Cover Types in the Brazilian Amazon Region J. R. Santos, Fábio G. Gonçalves, Luciano Vieira Dutra, José C. Mura, Waldir R. Paradella Backscatter and Interferometry for Estimating Above-Ground Biomass inTropical Savanna Woodland Karin M. Viergever, Iain H. Woodhouse, Neil Stuart Mapping of Wind-Thrown Forests Using VHF/UHF SAR Images Johan E. S. Fransson, Mattias Magnusson, Klas Folkesson, Björn Hallberg, Gustaf Sandberg, Gary Smith-Jonforsen, Anders Gustavsson, Lars M. H. Ulander Bistatic Border Effect Modeling in Forest Scattering Ludovic Villard, Pierre Borderies, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Jean-François Nouvel Change Detection and Multitemporal Analysis We07MF Room: 123 Comparison of Similarity Measures of Multi-Sensor Images for Change Detection Applications Vito Alberga, Maha Idrissa, Vinc Lacroix, Jordi Inglada A Probabilistic Generative Model for Unsupervised Invariant Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images Fernando P. Nava, Alejandro P. Nava Normalized Difference Reflectance: An Approach to Quantitative Change Detection Paolo Villa, Giovanmaria Lechi An Unsupervised Change-Detection Technique Based on Bayesian Initialization and Semi-Supervised SVM Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Mattia Marconcini Change Detection Using the Object Features Irmgard Niemeyer, Prashanth R. Marpu, Sven Nussbaum A Robust Neural Network Design for Detecting Changes from Multispectral Satellite Imagery Fabio Pacifici, Fabio Del Frate, Chiara Solimini, William J. Emery Large Scale Change Detection Techniques Dedicated to Flood Monitoring Using ENVISAT Wide Swath Mode Data Remi Andreoli, Hervé Yésou Comparison and Evaluation of Polarimetric Change Detection Techniques in Aerial SAR Data Matthieu Molinier, Yrjö Rauste Detecting Changes in Polarimetric SAR Data with Content-Based Image Retrieval Matthieu Molinier, Jorma Laaksonen, Yrjö Rauste, Tuomas Häme Conditional Copula for Change Detection on Heterogeneous SAR Data Grégoire Mercier, Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico ENVISAT MERIS/AATSR Applications We08MF Room: 128 Decadal Changes in Global Ocean Colour David Antonie, Fabrizio D‘Ortenzio, Annick Bricaud GlobCOLOUR: Global Ocean Colour Time Series for Carbon Cycle Research Odile Fanton d‘Andon, Anto Mangin, Samantha Lavender, Andr Morel, Davi Antoine, Gilb Barrot, Juli Demaria, Yasw Pradhan, Domi Durand, Stép Maritoréna Remote Sensing of Optical Properties of Coastal Waters: A Regional Modular Procedure for MERIS data Roland Doerffer, Helmut Schiller, Carsten Brockmann, Marco Peters, Peter Regner Application of AATSR‘s dual-view to measurements of precise sea surface temperature, atmospheric properties and climate change David Llewellyn-Jones AATSR data contributes through the Medspiration project to enhancement of global SST data quality. Ian S. Robinson, Jean-Francois Piollé, Pierre Le Borgne, David J. S. Poulter, Craig J. Donlon, Olivier Arino New Applications of AATSR Land Surface Temperature Elizabeth Noyes, Gary Corlett, John Remedios, Xin Kong, David Llewellyn-Jones Validation of the Operational MERIS FAPAR Nadine Gobron, Bernard Pinty, Ophélie Aussedat, Thomas Lavergne, Frédéric Mélin, Monica Robustelli, Malcolm Taberner ALBEDOMAP: MERIS Land Surface Albedo Retrieval using Data Fusion with MODIS BRDF and its Validation using Contemporaneous EO and In Situ Data Products Jan-Peter Muller, Réné Preusker, Jürgen Fischer, Marco Zühlke, Carsten Brockmann, Peter Regner The GLOBCARBON Initiative: Global Biophysical Products for Terrestrial Carbon Studies Stephen Plummer, Olivier Arino, Franck Ranera, Kevin Tansey, Jing Chen, Gerard Dedieu, Hugh Eva, Isidoro Piccolini, Roland Leigh, Geert Borstlap, Bart Beusen, Walter Heyns, Riccardo Benedetti GlobCover: ESA Service for Global Land Cover from MERIS Olivier Arino, Dorit Gross, Franck Ranera, Marc Leroy, Patrice Bicheron, Carsten Brockmann, Pierre Defourny, Christine Vantcuntsen, Frederic Achard, Laurent Durieux, Ludovic Bourg, John Lathan, Antonio Di Gregorio, Ron Witt, Martin Herold, Jacqueline Sambale, Stephen Plummer, Jean-Louis Weber Microwave Radiometer Calibration We09MF Room: 130 On-Orbit Calibration of WindSat Brightness Temperatures Michael Bettenhausen, Elizabeth M. Twarog, Peter W. Gaiser Validating the Calibration of Satellite Microwave Radiometers on Decadal Time Scales Frank Wentz, Kyle Hilburn, Lucr Ricciardulli An approach for spaceborne aperture synthesis radiometer calibration Markus Peichl, Volk Wittmann Lessons Learned from the Aquarius Radiometer Engineering Model Jeffrey Piepmeier, Fernando Pellerano, Mich Triesky, Josh Forgione, Jame Caldwell Characterization of the Aquarius and Juno Radiometers Using a Programmable Digital Noise Source Jinzheng Peng, Christopher S. Ruf, Shannon Brown, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier Calibration and Performance Analysis of the PAU-RAD Instrument Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Juan F. Marchan-Hernandez, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Xavi Banqué, Miguel A. Guerrero Calibration of a Ground Based Radiometer for a One-Year Experiment in Antarctica : A Contribution to SMOS Calibration Giovanni Macelloni, Marco Brogioni, Sylvain Vey Field Tests of the GeoSTAR Demonstrator Instrument Alan B. Tanner, Shannon Brown, Todd C. Gaier, Bjorn H. Lambrigsten, Boon H. Lim, Christopher S. Ruf, Francesc Torres Performance Measurements on Active Cold Loads for Radiometer Calibration Niels Skou, Sten Søbjærg, Jan Balling Geohazards-1 We10MF Room: 131 Flood Disaster Response and Decision-Making Support System Based On Remote Sensing and GIS Zhuowei Hu, Xiaojuan Li, Yonghua Sun, Zhaoning Gong, Yanhui Wang, Liying Zhu Decision Support for Flood Event Prediction and Monitoring Darka Mioc, Francois Anton, Genseng Liang, Bradford Nickerson Providing Satellite-based Early Warnings of Fires to Reduce Fire Flashovers on South Africa’s Transmissions Lines Philip Frost, Harold Annegarn Assessing use of SAR Imagery for End of Season Fire Perimeter Mapping in Alaska Richard M. Guritz, Parker Martyn, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Don Atwood Quality Assessment of the Fire Hazard Forecast based on a Fire Potential Index for the Mediterranean Area by Using a MSG/SEVIRI Based Fire Detection System Giovanni Laneve, Enrico G. Cadau InSAR Monitoring of Landslides on Permafrost Terrain in Canada Vern Singhroy, Pierre-Jean Alasset, Rejean Couture, Valentin Poncos Generation and WebGIS Representation of Landslide Susceptibility Maps Using VHR Satellite Data Klaus Granica, A. Almer, M. Hirschmugl, H. Proske, M. Wurm, Th. Schnable, L.W. Kenyi, Mathias Schardt Application of Remote Sensing Data and GIS Tools for Regional Landslide Hazard Analysis at Cameron Highland, Malaysia by Using Logistic Regression Model Biswajeet Pradhan, Shattri Mansor Application of Neuro-Fuzzy System for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping using Remote Sensing and GIS Saro Lee, Hyun-Joo Oh Rapid Prototyping: A Concept for Moving Earth Science to Operations for Societal Benefit We11MF Room: 133 Extending NASA Research Results to Benefit Operational Systems E. Lucien Cox Integration of NASA’s Aura OMI-derived NO2 observations with EPA ground network data for improved air quality forecasting: An RPC validation experiment. Margaret Pippin, Mary Kleb, Pete Parker, Ray Rhew, Dore Neil A Rapid Synthesis of Measurements and Models to Assess Regional Influences on Local Air Quality During the 2006 TexAQS Campaign R. B Pierce, Jassim Al-Saadi, Kevin Bowman, Wall McMillan, Chri Hostetler, Davi Winker, Brya Lambeth, Chie Kittaka, Todd Schaack, Arli da Silva WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solution Network P. R. Houser, D. R. Belvedere, W. Pozzi, B. Imam, R. Schiffer, C. Welty, R. Lawford, C. A. Schlosser, H. V. Gupta, C. Vorosmarty, D. Matthews Evolving a Solutions Network of Resource Conservation and Development Councils, Watershed Management Teams, and NASA Research Institutions Across the Nation Mr. Howard V. "Mike" Doherty, Mr. Jeffrey Ward, Dr. Mark Wigmosta, Dr. David Garen, Ms. Roberta Jeanquart, Ms. Cathy Lear, Mr. Gerald Sehlke, Dr. Jerry Freilich, Dr. William Eaton Evaluation of Integrating the Invasive Species Forecasting System to Support National Park Service Decisions on Fire Management Activities and Invasive Plant Species Control Peter Ma, Jeffrey T. Morisette, Ann Rodman, Craig McClure, Jeffrey Pedelty, Nate Benson, Kara Paintner, Neal Most, Asad Ullah, Weijie Cai, Monique Rocca, Joel Silverman, John Schnase The Model Web: A Concept for Ecological Forecasting Gary N. Geller, Woody Turner Enhancing the EPA’s Pest Infestation Risk Management Program in Transgenic Corn Using NASA’s EO-1 Hyperion Instrument Ashutosh Limaye, John Glaser, Charles Laymon, Jose Casas Use of remote sensing and dust modelling to evaluate ecosystem phenology and pollen dispersal jeffrey Luvall, Bill Sprigg, Caro Watts, Patr Shaw Implementing an Applied Science Program Doug Rickman, Joan Presson 11:00 - 12:40 TECHNICAL SESSIONS Clouds and precipitation We04MF Room: 120 Dual-Polarization and Dual-Frequency Radar Scattering From Ice Crystals Kultegin Aydin, Enrique Santiago Modeling of Multiple Scattering Effects for Spaceborne W-band Pulsed Radar Alessandro Battaglia, Satoru Kobayashi, Simone Tanelli, Clemens Simmer, Eastwood Im Cloud Particle Size Measurements in Arctic Clouds Using Lidar and Radar Data Edwin W. Eloranta, Taneil Uttal, Matthew Shupe Preciptation Retrieval Over Land from SSMIS Nai-Yu Wang, Ralph Ferraro Processing Disdrometer Raindrop Spectra Time Series from Various Climatological Regions Using Estimation abd Autoregressive Methods Mario Montopoli , Gianfranco Vulpiani , Marios N. Anagnostou, Emmanouil N. Anagnostou, Frank S. Marzano A Networked Radar Approach for Resolving Range Ambiguity Nitin Bharadwaj, V. Chandrasekar Neural Network Retrieval of Precipitation Using NPOESS Microwave Sensors Frederick Chen, Laura Bickmeier, William Blackwell, Laura G. Jairam, Vince Leslie Short-Wave Infrared Hyperspectral Determination and Mapping of Cloud Water Phase During the AIRS II Program George E. Leblanc A Neural Network Based Approach for Multi-Spectral Snowfall Detection and Estimation Yajaira Mejia, Hosni Ghedira, Shayesteh Mahani, Reza Khanbilvardi Preliminary Quantitative Analysis of S-Band FMCW Radar Data from Atmospheric Observation Turker Ince Forest Applications We05MF Room: 121 Algorithm of Retrieving Needle Leaf Chlorophyll Content from Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Yongqin Zhang, Jing M. Chen, John R. Miller, Thomas L. Noland Modeling Fractional SHRUB/Tree Cover and Multitemporal Changes in Mire Ecosystems Using High-Resolution Digital Surface Models and CIR Aerial Images Lars T. Waser, Christian Ginzler, Meinrad Kuechler, Emmanuel Baltsavias, Henri Eisenbeiss Spatial Patterns of the Canopy Stress During 2005 Drought in Amazonia Liana Oighstein Anderson, Yadvinder Malhi, Luiz E.O.C. Aragao, Sassan Saatchi Using Phenological Information Derived from MODIS-data to Aid Nutrient Modeling. First Experiences Markus Törmä, Katri Rankinen, Pekka Härmä The Evaluation of the Mangrove Ecosystem Services Value Change in Zhangjiang River Estuary Based on Remote Sensing Dongshui Zhang, Zhangren Lan, Qinmin Wang, Xiaoqin Wang, Wei Zhang, Zheng Li Using MODIS and GLAS Data to Develop Timber Volume Estimates in Central Siberia Jon Ranson, Daniel Kimes, Guoqing Sun, Ross Nelson, Viatcheslav Kharuk, Paul Montesano Aboveground biomass estimation in Alaska-Yukon Porcupine Caribou habitat area from coarse resolution satellite data Junhua Li, Wenjun Chen Deforestation Due to Population and Relief Energy through Spatially-Correlated Logit Models Shojiro Tanaka, Ryuei Nishii Vegetation Identification and Classification in the Domain Limits of Powerlines in Brazilian Amazon Forest Alessandra M. K. Beltrame, Mauricio G. M. Jardini, Rogeiro M. Jacobsen, Jose A. Quintanilha Near Real Time Detection of Hot Spots on Meteosat Second Generation Images: from Forest Fires to Volcanic Eruptions Laurent Beaudoin, Antoine Gademer, Ahmed Amir, Loïca Avanthey, Vincent Germain, Alexandre Pocheau Forest Mapping with SAR Measurements We06MF Room: 122 Estimation of Tropical Forest Structure and Aboveground Biomass from P-band SAR Sassan Saatchi, Davi Clark, Robi Chazdon, Miri Marlier, Jero Chave, Thom Gillespie Vegetation Modelling for Height Inversion Using InSAR/Pol-InSAR Data Franck Garestier, Thuy Le Toan Forest Monitoring with JERS-1/SAR and ALOS/PALSAR Manabu Watanabe, Masanobu Shimada, Kazuo Ouchi, Haipeng Wang, Masayuki Matsuoka, Motoyuki Sato Detection of Forest Changes Using ALOS PALSAR Satellite Images Johan E. S. Fransson, Mattias Magnusson, Håkan Olsson, Leif E. B. Eriksson, Gustaf Sandberg, Gary Smith-Jonforsen, Lars M. H. Ulander Estimation of the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function of Subarctic Boreal Forest Using C-Band SAR Aku Riihelä, Terhikki Manninen JERS-1 SAR Data in Forest Biomass Mapping in Northern Taiga Zone Yrjö Rauste, Heikki Ahola, Terhikki Manninen, Heikki Smolander, Pekka Voipio Analysis of Airbone SAR Data (L-BAND) for Discrimination Land Use / Land Cover Types in the Brazilian Amazon Region J. R. Santos, Fábio G. Gonçalves, Luciano Vieira Dutra, José C. Mura, Waldir R. Paradella Backscatter and Interferometry for Estimating Above-Ground Biomass inTropical Savanna Woodland Karin M. Viergever, Iain H. Woodhouse, Neil Stuart Mapping of Wind-Thrown Forests Using VHF/UHF SAR Images Johan E. S. Fransson, Mattias Magnusson, Klas Folkesson, Björn Hallberg, Gustaf Sandberg, Gary Smith-Jonforsen, Anders Gustavsson, Lars M. H. Ulander Bistatic Border Effect Modeling in Forest Scattering Ludovic Villard, Pierre Borderies, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Jean-François Nouvel Change Detection and Multitemporal Analysis We07MF Room: 123 Comparison of Similarity Measures of Multi-Sensor Images for Change Detection Applications Vito Alberga, Maha Idrissa, Vinc Lacroix, Jordi Inglada A Probabilistic Generative Model for Unsupervised Invariant Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images Fernando P. Nava, Alejandro P. Nava Normalized Difference Reflectance: An Approach to Quantitative Change Detection Paolo Villa, Giovanmaria Lechi An Unsupervised Change-Detection Technique Based on Bayesian Initialization and Semi-Supervised SVM Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Mattia Marconcini Change Detection Using the Object Features Irmgard Niemeyer, Prashanth R. Marpu, Sven Nussbaum A Robust Neural Network Design for Detecting Changes from Multispectral Satellite Imagery Fabio Pacifici, Fabio Del Frate, Chiara Solimini, William J. Emery Large Scale Change Detection Techniques Dedicated to Flood Monitoring Using ENVISAT Wide Swath Mode Data Remi Andreoli, Hervé Yésou Comparison and Evaluation of Polarimetric Change Detection Techniques in Aerial SAR Data Matthieu Molinier, Yrjö Rauste Detecting Changes in Polarimetric SAR Data with Content-Based Image Retrieval Matthieu Molinier, Jorma Laaksonen, Yrjö Rauste, Tuomas Häme Conditional Copula for Change Detection on Heterogeneous SAR Data Grégoire Mercier, Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico ENVISAT MERIS/AATSR Applications We08MF Room: 128 Decadal Changes in Global Ocean Colour David Antonie, Fabrizio D‘Ortenzio, Annick Bricaud GlobCOLOUR: Global Ocean Colour Time Series for Carbon Cycle Research Odile Fanton d‘Andon, Anto Mangin, Samantha Lavender, Andr Morel, Davi Antoine, Gilb Barrot, Juli Demaria, Yasw Pradhan, Domi Durand, Stép Maritoréna Remote Sensing of Optical Properties of Coastal Waters: A Regional Modular Procedure for MERIS data Roland Doerffer, Helmut Schiller, Carsten Brockmann, Marco Peters, Peter Regner Application of AATSR‘s dual-view to measurements of precise sea surface temperature, atmospheric properties and climate change David Llewellyn-Jones AATSR data contributes through the Medspiration project to enhancement of global SST data quality. Ian S. Robinson, Jean-Francois Piollé, Pierre Le Borgne, David J. S. Poulter, Craig J. Donlon, Olivier Arino New Applications of AATSR Land Surface Temperature Elizabeth Noyes, Gary Corlett, John Remedios, Xin Kong, David Llewellyn-Jones Validation of the Operational MERIS FAPAR Nadine Gobron, Bernard Pinty, Ophélie Aussedat, Thomas Lavergne, Frédéric Mélin, Monica Robustelli, Malcolm Taberner ALBEDOMAP: MERIS Land Surface Albedo Retrieval using Data Fusion with MODIS BRDF and its Validation using Contemporaneous EO and In Situ Data Products Jan-Peter Muller, Réné Preusker, Jürgen Fischer, Marco Zühlke, Carsten Brockmann, Peter Regner The GLOBCARBON Initiative: Global Biophysical Products for Terrestrial Carbon Studies Stephen Plummer, Olivier Arino, Franck Ranera, Kevin Tansey, Jing Chen, Gerard Dedieu, Hugh Eva, Isidoro Piccolini, Roland Leigh, Geert Borstlap, Bart Beusen, Walter Heyns, Riccardo Benedetti GlobCover: ESA Service for Global Land Cover from MERIS Olivier Arino, Dorit Gross, Franck Ranera, Marc Leroy, Patrice Bicheron, Carsten Brockmann, Pierre Defourny, Christine Vantcuntsen, Frederic Achard, Laurent Durieux, Ludovic Bourg, John Lathan, Antonio Di Gregorio, Ron Witt, Martin Herold, Jacqueline Sambale, Stephen Plummer, Jean-Louis Weber Microwave Radiometer Calibration We09MF Room: 130 On-Orbit Calibration of WindSat Brightness Temperatures Michael Bettenhausen, Elizabeth M. Twarog, Peter W. Gaiser Validating the Calibration of Satellite Microwave Radiometers on Decadal Time Scales Frank Wentz, Kyle Hilburn, Lucr Ricciardulli An approach for spaceborne aperture synthesis radiometer calibration Markus Peichl, Volk Wittmann Lessons Learned from the Aquarius Radiometer Engineering Model Jeffrey Piepmeier, Fernando Pellerano, Mich Triesky, Josh Forgione, Jame Caldwell Characterization of the Aquarius and Juno Radiometers Using a Programmable Digital Noise Source Jinzheng Peng, Christopher S. Ruf, Shannon Brown, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier Calibration and Performance Analysis of the PAU-RAD Instrument Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Juan F. Marchan-Hernandez, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Xavi Banqué, Miguel A. Guerrero Calibration of a Ground Based Radiometer for a One-Year Experiment in Antarctica : A Contribution to SMOS Calibration Giovanni Macelloni, Marco Brogioni, Sylvain Vey Field Tests of the GeoSTAR Demonstrator Instrument Alan B. Tanner, Shannon Brown, Todd C. Gaier, Bjorn H. Lambrigsten, Boon H. Lim, Christopher S. Ruf, Francesc Torres Performance Measurements on Active Cold Loads for Radiometer Calibration Niels Skou, Sten Søbjærg, Jan Balling Geohazards-1 We10MF Room: 131 Flood Disaster Response and Decision-Making Support System Based On Remote Sensing and GIS Zhuowei Hu, Xiaojuan Li, Yonghua Sun, Zhaoning Gong, Yanhui Wang, Liying Zhu Decision Support for Flood Event Prediction and Monitoring Darka Mioc, Francois Anton, Genseng Liang, Bradford Nickerson Providing Satellite-based Early Warnings of Fires to Reduce Fire Flashovers on South Africa’s Transmissions Lines Philip Frost, Harold Annegarn Assessing use of SAR Imagery for End of Season Fire Perimeter Mapping in Alaska Richard M. Guritz, Parker Martyn, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Don Atwood Quality Assessment of the Fire Hazard Forecast based on a Fire Potential Index for the Mediterranean Area by Using a MSG/SEVIRI Based Fire Detection System Giovanni Laneve, Enrico G. Cadau InSAR Monitoring of Landslides on Permafrost Terrain in Canada Vern Singhroy, Pierre-Jean Alasset, Rejean Couture, Valentin Poncos Generation and WebGIS Representation of Landslide Susceptibility Maps Using VHR Satellite Data Klaus Granica, A. Almer, M. Hirschmugl, H. Proske, M. Wurm, Th. Schnable, L.W. Kenyi, Mathias Schardt Application of Remote Sensing Data and GIS Tools for Regional Landslide Hazard Analysis at Cameron Highland, Malaysia by Using Logistic Regression Model Biswajeet Pradhan, Shattri Mansor Application of Neuro-Fuzzy System for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping using Remote Sensing and GIS Saro Lee, Hyun-Joo Oh Rapid Prototyping: A Concept for Moving Earth Science to Operations for Societal Benefit We11MF Room: 133 Extending NASA Research Results to Benefit Operational Systems E. Lucien Cox Integration of NASA’s Aura OMI-derived NO2 observations with EPA ground network data for improved air quality forecasting: An RPC validation experiment. Margaret Pippin, Mary Kleb, Pete Parker, Ray Rhew, Dore Neil A Rapid Synthesis of Measurements and Models to Assess Regional Influences on Local Air Quality During the 2006 TexAQS Campaign R. B Pierce, Jassim Al-Saadi, Kevin Bowman, Wall McMillan, Chri Hostetler, Davi Winker, Brya Lambeth, Chie Kittaka, Todd Schaack, Arli da Silva WaterNet: The NASA Water Cycle Solution Network P. R. Houser, D. R. Belvedere, W. Pozzi, B. Imam, R. Schiffer, C. Welty, R. Lawford, C. A. Schlosser, H. V. Gupta, C. Vorosmarty, D. Matthews Evolving a Solutions Network of Resource Conservation and Development Councils, Watershed Management Teams, and NASA Research Institutions Across the Nation Mr. Howard V. "Mike" Doherty, Mr. Jeffrey Ward, Dr. Mark Wigmosta, Dr. David Garen, Ms. Roberta Jeanquart, Ms. Cathy Lear, Mr. Gerald Sehlke, Dr. Jerry Freilich, Dr. William Eaton Evaluation of Integrating the Invasive Species Forecasting System to Support National Park Service Decisions on Fire Management Activities and Invasive Plant Species Control Peter Ma, Jeffrey T. Morisette, Ann Rodman, Craig McClure, Jeffrey Pedelty, Nate Benson, Kara Paintner, Neal Most, Asad Ullah, Weijie Cai, Monique Rocca, Joel Silverman, John Schnase The Model Web: A Concept for Ecological Forecasting Gary N. Geller, Woody Turner Enhancing the EPA’s Pest Infestation Risk Management Program in Transgenic Corn Using NASA’s EO-1 Hyperion Instrument Ashutosh Limaye, John Glaser, Charles Laymon, Jose Casas Use of remote sensing and dust modelling to evaluate ecosystem phenology and pollen dispersal jeffrey Luvall, Bill Sprigg, Caro Watts, Patr Shaw Implementing an Applied Science Program Doug Rickman, Joan Presson Pol-InSAR Applications and Methodology We12MH2 Room: 124 Analysis of the Temporal Behavior of Coherent Scatterers (CSs) in ALOS PalSAR Data Luca Marotti, Rafael Zandona Schneider, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou DTM Extraction Beneath Tropical Canopy Using X-, L-, and P-Band Polarimetric InSAR Data from the INDREX-II Campaign in Indonesia Bryan Mercer, Qiaoping Zhang, Parivash Lumsdon Inversion Algorithms Comparison Using L-Band Simulated Polarimetric Interferometric Data for Forest Parameters Estimation Emanuele Angiuli, Fabio Del Frate, Andrea Della Vecchia, Marco Lavalle, Domenico Solimini, Giorgio Licciardi Multi-Track PS-InSAR Datum Connection Gini Ketelaar, Freek J. van Leijen, Petar Marinkovic, Ramon F. Hanssen The Comparison of the V-Fold and the Monte-Carlo Cross Validation to Estimate the Number of Clusters for the Fully Polarimetric SAR Data Segmentation Fang Cao, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Eric Pottier Wetlands We13MH2 Room: 129 Wetlands Map of Alaska Using L-Band Radar Satellite Imagery Jane Whitcomb, Mahta Moghaddam, Kyle McDonald, Erika Podest, Josef Kellndorfer Two-Dimensional Surface River Flow Patterns Measured With Paired RiverSondes Calvin C. Teague, Donald E. Barrick, Peter M. Lilleboe, Ralph T. Cheng Monitoring Winter Flooding of Rice Fields on the Coastal Wetland of Ebre Delta with Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images Pere Serra, Gerard Moré, Xavier Pons Surface Lidar Data Analysis We14MH2 Room: 132 Exploiting Full-Waveform Lidar Data and Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis for Vertical Object Detection and Recognition Christopher E. Parrish Detection of Foliage-Obscured Vehicle Using a Multiwavelength Polarimetric Lidar Songxin Tan, Jason Stoker, Susan Greenlee Automatic Extraction of Salient Geometric Entities from LIDAR Point Clouds Stefan Auer, Stefan Hinz Automatic Feature Extraction from Airborne Lidar Measurements to Identify Cross-Shore Morphologies Indicative of Beach Erosion Mike Starek, R. K. Vemula, K. Clint Slatton, Ramesh Shrestha, Bill Carter ICESat laser altimetry near Ibiza, Spain Bob Schutz, Timothy Urban, Amy Neuenschwander, Juan Jose Benjamin 14:20 - 16:00 TECHNICAL SESSIONS Forest Mapping with VNIR Measurements We01AH1 Room: 132 Remote Sensing of Air Pollution and Climate Change Impacts on Pinus uncinata in the Pyrenees of Catalonia. Shawn Kefauver, Angela Ribas, Josep Penuelas Advances in Mapping Woody Plant Canopies Using the NASA MISR Instrument on Terra Mark Chopping, Lihong Su, Naushad Kollikkathara, Libertad Urena Monitoring Native Foresters in Southern Brazil. Dejanira Luderitz Saldanha, Laurindo Guasselli, Maria do Carmo Lima e Cunha, Paulo Brack, Vitor Haertel, Jorge Ricardo Ducati, José Luis Rockembach, Rodrigo Nascimento Silva, Mônica Tagliari Kreling Monitoring of an Andean Rainforest Environment with Remote Sensing Anna Goerner, Richard Gloaguen, Franz Makeschin Impact of Off-Nadir Surface Reflectance Retrieval on the Determination of Equivalent Water Thickness of a Vegetation Canopy H. P. White, A. Abuelgasim Ocean Winds 1 We02AF Room: 120 A Geophysical Model Function for WindSat Polarimetric Radiometer Wind Retrievals Using Linear Polarizations Seubson Soisuvarn, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang A Comparison of Models for Retrieving High Wind Speeds Yijun He, Hui Shen, Jie Guo, William Perrie On SAR Hurricane Wind Speed Ambiguities Hui Shen, William Perrie, Yijun He Airborne Observations of High-Incidence C-band Ocean Surface Backscatter Daniel Esteban Fernandez, Tao Chu, Robert Contreras, Paul S Chang, James R Carswell Satellite Winds for Climate Research Frank J. Wentz, Deborah Smith Dependency Analysis of Normalized Radar Cross Section of Ocean Surface on Ocean Winds Using an Airborne Dual-Frequency Polarimetric SAR Akitsugu Nadai, Toshihiko Umehara, Takeshi Matsuoka, Makoto Satake, Seiho Uratsuka Investigation of Tropical Cyclones Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Jochen Horstmann, Donald R. Thompson, Wolfgang Koch, Frank Monaldo, Hans C. Graber Extracting Geophysical Parameters from Multi-Polarization SAR Imagery of the Ocean Surface Donald R. Thompson, Frank M. Monaldo, Jochen Horstmann ASCAT Scatterometer Ocean Calibration Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Jeroen Verspeek, Anton Verhoef, Jur Vogelzang Electromagnetic Methods in Remote Sensing II We03AF Room: 121 Scattering from Sahelian Grassland: A Coherent Modeling Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero, Isabelle Chenerie, Kamal Sarabandi Forward and Inverse Scattering Problems: Convenience and Limitations of the Contrast Source-Extended Born Model Michele d‘Urso, Tommaso Isernia Measurement and Analysis of Scattering from Periodic Surfaces at 5.8 GHz Iñigo Cuiñas, Manuel García Sánchez, Ana Vázquez Alejos, Emmanuel Van Lil, Iris De Coster, Dave Trappeniers, Antoine Van de Capelle Half-Space Born Approximation Modeling and Inversion for Cross-Well Radar Sensing of Contaminants in Soil He Zhan, Ann Morgenthaler, Qiuzhao Dong, Carey Rappaport, Eric Miller Canopy Bidirectional Reflectance Calculation Based on Adding Method and SAIL Formalism Abdelaziz Kallel, Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle, Catherine Ottlé, Laurence Hubert-Moy Refocusing Through Single Layer Building Wall Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Mojtaba Dehmollaian, Kamal Sarabandi Simulation Studies of Forest Structure Using 3D Lidar and Radar Models Guoqing Sun, Jon Ranson, Dawei Liu, Benjamin Koetz Two-Dimensional Full-Wave Scattering from Discrete Random Media in Layered Rough Surfaces Chih-hao Kuo, Mahta Moghaddam Inversion Model Validation of Ground Emissivity. Contribution to the Development of SMOS Algorithm François Demontoux, Bénédicte Le Crom, Gilles Ruffié, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Jennifer Grant, Daniel Medina Hernandez Space - Time and Frequency - Polarization Variations in the Electromagnetic Wave Interacting with the Forest Canopy Valery L. Mironov, Eugene D. Telpukhovsky, Vladimir P. Yakubov, Sergey N. Novik, Andrew V. Klokov Change Detection and Image Analysis We04AF Room: 123 Change Detection of Buildings in Urban Environment from Very High Spatial Resolution Satellite Images Using Existing Cartographic Data and Prior Knowledge Mourad Bouziani, Kalifa Goïta, Dong-Chen He Semi-Supervised Multitemporal Classification with Support Vector Machines and Genetic Algorithms Noureddine Ghoggali, Farid Melgani Testing an Automated Unsupervised Classification Algorithm with Diverse Land Covers John Cipar, Ronald Lockwood, Thomas Cooley, Peggy Grigsby Grigsbsy Abrupt Change Detection on Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images: A Statistical Overview of Methodologies Applied on Real Cases Tarek Habib, Jocelyn Chanussot, Jordi Inglada, Grégoire Mercier Reducing the Impacts of Intra-Class Spectral Classification and its Implications for Super-Resolution Mapping Huong T. X. Doan, Giles M. Foody Change Detection and Analysis with Radarsat-1 SAR Image Fan Wu, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Bo Zhang Area Spatial Object Co-Registration between Imagery and GIS data for Spatial-Temporal Change Analysis Deyan Zhang, Guoqing Zhou Coherent Change Detection and Classification in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery Using Canonical Correlation Analysis Mahmood R Azimi-Sadjadi, Sarv Srinivasan SAR-Based Estimation of the Baltic Sea Ice Motion Juha Karvonen, Markku Similä, Jonni Lehtiranta Technique of Remote Sensing Image Processing in Active Faults Survey Aixia Dou, Xiaoqing Wang, Guoyan Wang, Dongliang Wang Repeat-Pass Differential Pol-SAR Interferometry We05AF Room: 124 Need for Developing Repeat-Pass Differential POL-SAR Interferometry Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Kun-Shan Chen Quad-Polarimetry and Interferometry from Repeat-Pass Dual-Polarimetric SAR Imagery T. L. Ainsworth, Mark Preiss, N. J. S. Stacy, J.-S. Lee Multi-Baseline Polarimetrically Optimised Phases and Scattering Mechanisms for InSAR Applications Andreas Reigber, Maxim Neumann, Esra Erten, Marc Jäger, Pau Prats Multibaseline POLInSAR Coherence Modelling and Optimization Maxim Neumann, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Andreas Reigber Disaster Monitoring and Environmental Alert in Taiwan Chih-Tien Wang, Kun-Shen Chen, Hong-Wei Lee, Jong-Sen Lee, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Ruei-Yuan Wang, Hong-Sen Wan Application of Polarimetric SAR Images Acquired in Square-Loop Flights Motoyuki Sato, Koichi Iribe, Takashi Hamasaki Coherence Dependency of the PALSAR POLinSAR on Forest in Japan and Amazon Masanobu Shimada Estimation of Physical Properties of Persistent Scatters Using JERS-1 Data Jun-su Kim, Wooil M. Moon PolSAR Image Filtering based on Feature Detection using the Wavelet Transform Grégory Farage, Samuel Foucher, Goze B. Bénié Snow Wetness Monitoring using Multi-Temporal Polarimetric ASAR Data and Multi-Layer Hybrid Model Nicolas Longépé, Sophie Allain, Eric Pottier ESA´s Optical Data Portfolio and Application in the Land Domain We06AF Room: 128 Intercomparison of multispectral imagers over natural targets Marc Bouvet Analyses of Hyperspectral Directional Data from CHRIS/PROBA Using Land Surface Models Heike Bach, Silke Begiebing The Use of High Resolution Optical Data in Land Surface Studies: Science and Applications with Proba/CHRIS Data Jose F. Moreno, Luis Alonso, Luis Guanter, Glor Fernandez, Sole Gandia, Juan Fortea, Mari Gonzalez, Jesu Delegido, Luis Gomez-Chova, Javier Calpe-Maravilla IMAGE2006: A Component of the GMES Precursor Fast Track Service on Land Monitoring Maria Vanda Nunes de Lima, Conrad Bielski, Joanna Nowak Integrated Water Resouces Management for Zambia: satellite-derived geo-information to support policy- and decision-making processes Mirko Gregor, Imas Nyambe, Jona Kampata, Jack Nkhoma, Rees Mwasambili, Chri Chileshe, Geor Phiri, Greg D’Hulst, Manu Löhnertz Preliminary Radiometric Calibration Assessment of ALOS AVNIR-2 Marc Bouvet, Philippe Goryl, Gyanesh Chander, Richard Santer, Sebastien Saunier Monitoring Glaciers and Related Hazards using the ALOS PRISM Instrument. Approaches, Accuracy, Applications. Andreas Kääb Stereo Evaluation of ALOS/PRISM Data on ESA-AO Test Sites - First DLR Results Manfred Lehner, Rupe Mueller, Pete Reinartz Sentinel-2 Optical High Resolution Mission for GMES Operational Services Philippe Martimort, Olivier Arino, Michael Berger, Roberto Biasutti, Bernardo Carnicero, Umberto Del Bello, Valérie Fernandez, Ferran Gascon, Bruno Greco, Pierluigi Silvestrin, François Spoto, Omar Sy Mapping & Urban Remote Sensing Applications We07AF Room: 129 Building Feature Extraction via a Deterministic Approach: Application to Real High Resolution SAR Images Giorgio Franceschetti, Raffaella Guida, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello, Uwe Stilla Mapping Urban Areas using the Fusion of 500 m MODIS Satellite Imagery and Ancillary Data Sources Annemarie Schneider, Mark Friedl Classification of Man-made Structures using IKONOS Imagery for Urban Stormwater Pollution Management Mi-Hyun Park, Michale K. Stenstrom Spatial Syntactic Configuration of Urban Land Use Patterns Victor Mesev P-band Radar Images of Desert Landforms Tom Farr Mapping Subsurface Geology in Arid Africa using L-band SAR Philippe Paillou, Sylv Lopez, Yannick Lasne, A. Rosenqvist, Tom Farr Radar Imaging of Urban Areas by Means of Very High Resolution SAR and Interferometric SAR Andreas R. Brenner, Ludwig Roessing Building Characterisation in VHR SAR Data Acquired under Controlled EMSL Conditions Dominik Brunner, Guido Lemoine, Joaquim Fortuny-Guasch, Lorenzo Bruzzone Potential Problems with Using Reconstruction in Morphological Profiles for Classification of Remote Sensing Images from Urban Areas Rik Bellens, Leyden Martinez-Fonte, Sidharta Gautama, Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Frank Canters Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and RFI Mitigation for Microwave Radiometry We08AF Room: 130 A Survey of the Scientific Usage of Microwave Frequencies for NASA Earth Science remote sensing Satellites Fritz Policelli, Robe Ryan, Troy Frisbie Spectrum Allocation Issues Affecting Remote Sensing for the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07) John E. Zuzek Sensitivity of the Kurtosis Statistic as a Detector of Pulsed Sinusoidal Radio Frequency Interference in a Microwave Radiometer Receiver Roger D. De Roo, Sidharth Misra, Christopher S. Ruf Analog RFI Detectors for Microwave Radiometers Jeffrey Piepmeier, Pris Mohammed, Jose Knuble Cross-frequency Blanking for RFI Mitigation: A C-band Case Study Joel T. Johnson, Baris Guner CoSMOS: Performance of Kurtosis Algorithm for Radio Frequency Interference Detection and Mitigation Sidharth Misra, Steen S. Kristensen, Sten Søbjærg, Niels Skou An L-Band Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) Detection and Mitigation Testbed for Microwave Radiometry Roger D. De Roo, Christopher S. Ruf, Kazem Sabet Detection of Radio Frequency Interference with the Aquarius Radiometer Christopher S. Ruf, Sidharth Misra Weather Radar Networks: Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere We09AF Room: 131 Rainfall Estimation and Rain Gauge Comparison for X-Band Polarimetric CASA Radars Jorge M. Trabal, David J. McLaughlin Radar Network Characterization Francesc Junyent, V. Chandrasekar Simulation of Minimal Infrastructure Short-Range Radar Networks Brian C. Donovan, David J. McLaughlin, Michael Zink, Jim Kurose Evaluation of First Generation CASA Radar Waveform in the IP1 Testbed Nitin Bharadwaj, V. Chandrasekar , Francesc Junyent Implementation of a New Refractivity Estimation Algorithm on a Network of S-Band Radars Jason Fritz, V. Chandrasekar Low Cross-Polarization Antenna Array for CASA Student Test bed Radar Víctor J. Marrero-Fontánez, Rafael A. Rodríguez-Solís Phase Shifter System Using Vector Modulation For X-Band Phased Array Radar Applications José G. Colom, Luis Giraldo Castañeda, Eric Kanpp Real-Time Three-Dimensional Radar Mosaic in CASA IP1 Testbed Yuxiang Liu, Yanting Wang, V. Chandrasekar, V.N. Bringi A Grid Based Weather Radar Data Retrieval and Processing Framework* Diego Arias, Cesar Sandoval, Wilson Rivera Atmospheric Lidar We10AF Room: 122 Ground- and Space-Based Polarization Lidar Sensing of Asian Dust Transport: AFARS and CALIPSO Studies Kenneth Sassen, Jiang Zhu, Javier Fochesatto Intercomparison of Spanish Advanced Lidars in the Framework of EARLINET Michaël Sicard, Mohd Nadrzi Md Reba, Francesc Rocadenbosch, Eduard Gregorio, D. Kumar, Francisco Molero, Adolfo Comerón, Sergio Tomás, Manuel Pujadas, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Roberto Pedros, José Antonio Martínez Regional Aerosol Transport Study Using a Compact Aircraft Lidar. Jasper R. Lewis, Russell J. DeYoung, Kurt Severance Lidar Determination of the Frequency of Variations of the Boundary-Layer Top Giovanni Martucci, Renaud Matthey, Valentin Mitev, Hans Richner Statistical Considerations on the Extinction Error Variance for the Raman Lidar Inversion Algorithm Francesc Rocadenbosch, Adolfo Comerón, Michaël Sicard, Mohd Nadzri Md Reba Speed Measurements with a Continuous Wave Lidar Prototype Constantino Muñoz, Alejandro Rodríguez, Adolfo Comerón, Òscar Batet, David Garcia, Francesc Rocadenbosch, Michaël Sicard A Wind Speed and Fluctuation Simulator for Characterizing the Wind Lidar Correlation Method Sergio Tomás, Michaël Sicard, Jordi Masjuan, Mohd Nadzri Md Reba, Constantino Muñoz, Francesc Rocadenbosch Numerical Simulation of a Heterodyne Doppler LIDAR for Wind Measurement in a Turbulent Atmospheric Boundary Layer Sébastien Brousmiche, Laurent Bricteux, Piotr Sobieski, Benoit Macq, Grégoire Winckelmans Coherent Lidar Modulated with Frequency Stepped Pulse Trains for Unambiguous High Duty Cycle Range and Velocity Sensing in the Atmosphere Petter Lindelöw, Johan J. Mohr Intercomparison of Calibration Techniques for the 1064nm Channel on a Nd:YAG Elastic Lidar Shuki Chaw, Yonghua Wu, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed Hyperspectral Programs & Applications We11AF Room: 133 Remote Sensing of Crop Residue Cover Using Hyperion (EO-1) Data Abdou Bannari, Karl Staenz, Shahid Khurshid Mapping Physical Properties of Mudflat sSdiments using Hperspectral DAIS 7915 and ROSIS Airborne Spectrometer Data, Bourgneuf Bay (South West France) Charles Verpoorter, Véronique Carrère, M. Robin Spectral Image Utility Prediction Marcus Stefanou, John Kerekes Use of CHRIS PROBA Images for Land Use Products Fabio Del Frate, Riccardo Duca, Pasquale Sellitto, Domenico Solimini An Operational Land Imager for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission James R. Irons, Jeanine Murphy-Morris Geological Mapping on Mars by Segmentation of Hyperspectral OMEGA Data Harald van der Werff, Frank van Ruitenbeek, Freek van der Meer Combined Microwave and Hyperspectral Infrared Retrievals of Atmospheric Profiles in the Presence of Clouds Using Nonlinear Stochastic Methods William Blackwell, Frederick Chen, Laura G. Jairam Wavelet-SOM in Feature Extraction of Hyperspectral Data for Classification of Nematode Species Rushabh Doshi, Roger L. King, Gary Lawrence Phase Correlation Based Supervised Classification of Hyperspectral Images Using Multiple Class Representatives Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk 16:20 - 18:00 TECHNICAL SESSIONS Ocean Winds 1 We02AF Room: 120 A Geophysical Model Function for WindSat Polarimetric Radiometer Wind Retrievals Using Linear Polarizations Seubson Soisuvarn, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang A Comparison of Models for Retrieving High Wind Speeds Yijun He, Hui Shen, Jie Guo, William Perrie On SAR Hurricane Wind Speed Ambiguities Hui Shen, William Perrie, Yijun He Airborne Observations of High-Incidence C-band Ocean Surface Backscatter Daniel Esteban Fernandez, Tao Chu, Robert Contreras, Paul S Chang, James R Carswell Satellite Winds for Climate Research Frank J. Wentz, Deborah Smith Dependency Analysis of Normalized Radar Cross Section of Ocean Surface on Ocean Winds Using an Airborne Dual-Frequency Polarimetric SAR Akitsugu Nadai, Toshihiko Umehara, Takeshi Matsuoka, Makoto Satake, Seiho Uratsuka Investigation of Tropical Cyclones Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Jochen Horstmann, Donald R. Thompson, Wolfgang Koch, Frank Monaldo, Hans C. Graber Extracting Geophysical Parameters from Multi-Polarization SAR Imagery of the Ocean Surface Donald R. Thompson, Frank M. Monaldo, Jochen Horstmann ASCAT Scatterometer Ocean Calibration Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Jeroen Verspeek, Anton Verhoef, Jur Vogelzang Electromagnetic Methods in Remote Sensing II We03AF Room: 121 Scattering from Sahelian Grassland: A Coherent Modeling Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero, Isabelle Chenerie, Kamal Sarabandi Forward and Inverse Scattering Problems: Convenience and Limitations of the Contrast Source-Extended Born Model Michele d‘Urso, Tommaso Isernia Measurement and Analysis of Scattering from Periodic Surfaces at 5.8 GHz Iñigo Cuiñas, Manuel García Sánchez, Ana Vázquez Alejos, Emmanuel Van Lil, Iris De Coster, Dave Trappeniers, Antoine Van de Capelle Half-Space Born Approximation Modeling and Inversion for Cross-Well Radar Sensing of Contaminants in Soil He Zhan, Ann Morgenthaler, Qiuzhao Dong, Carey Rappaport, Eric Miller Canopy Bidirectional Reflectance Calculation Based on Adding Method and SAIL Formalism Abdelaziz Kallel, Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle, Catherine Ottlé, Laurence Hubert-Moy Refocusing Through Single Layer Building Wall Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Mojtaba Dehmollaian, Kamal Sarabandi Simulation Studies of Forest Structure Using 3D Lidar and Radar Models Guoqing Sun, Jon Ranson, Dawei Liu, Benjamin Koetz Two-Dimensional Full-Wave Scattering from Discrete Random Media in Layered Rough Surfaces Chih-hao Kuo, Mahta Moghaddam Inversion Model Validation of Ground Emissivity. Contribution to the Development of SMOS Algorithm François Demontoux, Bénédicte Le Crom, Gilles Ruffié, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Jennifer Grant, Daniel Medina Hernandez Space - Time and Frequency - Polarization Variations in the Electromagnetic Wave Interacting with the Forest Canopy Valery L. Mironov, Eugene D. Telpukhovsky, Vladimir P. Yakubov, Sergey N. Novik, Andrew V. Klokov Change Detection and Image Analysis We04AF Room: 123 Change Detection of Buildings in Urban Environment from Very High Spatial Resolution Satellite Images Using Existing Cartographic Data and Prior Knowledge Mourad Bouziani, Kalifa Goïta, Dong-Chen He Semi-Supervised Multitemporal Classification with Support Vector Machines and Genetic Algorithms Noureddine Ghoggali, Farid Melgani Testing an Automated Unsupervised Classification Algorithm with Diverse Land Covers John Cipar, Ronald Lockwood, Thomas Cooley, Peggy Grigsby Grigsbsy Abrupt Change Detection on Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images: A Statistical Overview of Methodologies Applied on Real Cases Tarek Habib, Jocelyn Chanussot, Jordi Inglada, Grégoire Mercier Reducing the Impacts of Intra-Class Spectral Classification and its Implications for Super-Resolution Mapping Huong T. X. Doan, Giles M. Foody Change Detection and Analysis with Radarsat-1 SAR Image Fan Wu, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Bo Zhang Area Spatial Object Co-Registration between Imagery and GIS data for Spatial-Temporal Change Analysis Deyan Zhang, Guoqing Zhou Coherent Change Detection and Classification in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery Using Canonical Correlation Analysis Mahmood R Azimi-Sadjadi, Sarv Srinivasan SAR-Based Estimation of the Baltic Sea Ice Motion Juha Karvonen, Markku Similä, Jonni Lehtiranta Technique of Remote Sensing Image Processing in Active Faults Survey Aixia Dou, Xiaoqing Wang, Guoyan Wang, Dongliang Wang Repeat-Pass Differential Pol-SAR Interferometry We05AF Room: 124 Need for Developing Repeat-Pass Differential POL-SAR Interferometry Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Kun-Shan Chen Quad-Polarimetry and Interferometry from Repeat-Pass Dual-Polarimetric SAR Imagery T. L. Ainsworth, Mark Preiss, N. J. S. Stacy, J.-S. Lee Multi-Baseline Polarimetrically Optimised Phases and Scattering Mechanisms for InSAR Applications Andreas Reigber, Maxim Neumann, Esra Erten, Marc Jäger, Pau Prats Multibaseline POLInSAR Coherence Modelling and Optimization Maxim Neumann, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Andreas Reigber Disaster Monitoring and Environmental Alert in Taiwan Chih-Tien Wang, Kun-Shen Chen, Hong-Wei Lee, Jong-Sen Lee, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Ruei-Yuan Wang, Hong-Sen Wan Application of Polarimetric SAR Images Acquired in Square-Loop Flights Motoyuki Sato, Koichi Iribe, Takashi Hamasaki Coherence Dependency of the PALSAR POLinSAR on Forest in Japan and Amazon Masanobu Shimada Estimation of Physical Properties of Persistent Scatters Using JERS-1 Data Jun-su Kim, Wooil M. Moon PolSAR Image Filtering based on Feature Detection using the Wavelet Transform Grégory Farage, Samuel Foucher, Goze B. Bénié Snow Wetness Monitoring using Multi-Temporal Polarimetric ASAR Data and Multi-Layer Hybrid Model Nicolas Longépé, Sophie Allain, Eric Pottier ESA´s Optical Data Portfolio and Application in the Land Domain We06AF Room: 128 Intercomparison of multispectral imagers over natural targets Marc Bouvet Analyses of Hyperspectral Directional Data from CHRIS/PROBA Using Land Surface Models Heike Bach, Silke Begiebing The Use of High Resolution Optical Data in Land Surface Studies: Science and Applications with Proba/CHRIS Data Jose F. Moreno, Luis Alonso, Luis Guanter, Glor Fernandez, Sole Gandia, Juan Fortea, Mari Gonzalez, Jesu Delegido, Luis Gomez-Chova, Javier Calpe-Maravilla IMAGE2006: A Component of the GMES Precursor Fast Track Service on Land Monitoring Maria Vanda Nunes de Lima, Conrad Bielski, Joanna Nowak Integrated Water Resouces Management for Zambia: satellite-derived geo-information to support policy- and decision-making processes Mirko Gregor, Imas Nyambe, Jona Kampata, Jack Nkhoma, Rees Mwasambili, Chri Chileshe, Geor Phiri, Greg D’Hulst, Manu Löhnertz Preliminary Radiometric Calibration Assessment of ALOS AVNIR-2 Marc Bouvet, Philippe Goryl, Gyanesh Chander, Richard Santer, Sebastien Saunier Monitoring Glaciers and Related Hazards using the ALOS PRISM Instrument. Approaches, Accuracy, Applications. Andreas Kääb Stereo Evaluation of ALOS/PRISM Data on ESA-AO Test Sites - First DLR Results Manfred Lehner, Rupe Mueller, Pete Reinartz Sentinel-2 Optical High Resolution Mission for GMES Operational Services Philippe Martimort, Olivier Arino, Michael Berger, Roberto Biasutti, Bernardo Carnicero, Umberto Del Bello, Valérie Fernandez, Ferran Gascon, Bruno Greco, Pierluigi Silvestrin, François Spoto, Omar Sy Mapping & Urban Remote Sensing Applications We07AF Room: 129 Building Feature Extraction via a Deterministic Approach: Application to Real High Resolution SAR Images Giorgio Franceschetti, Raffaella Guida, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello, Uwe Stilla Mapping Urban Areas using the Fusion of 500 m MODIS Satellite Imagery and Ancillary Data Sources Annemarie Schneider, Mark Friedl Classification of Man-made Structures using IKONOS Imagery for Urban Stormwater Pollution Management Mi-Hyun Park, Michale K. Stenstrom Spatial Syntactic Configuration of Urban Land Use Patterns Victor Mesev P-band Radar Images of Desert Landforms Tom Farr Mapping Subsurface Geology in Arid Africa using L-band SAR Philippe Paillou, Sylv Lopez, Yannick Lasne, A. Rosenqvist, Tom Farr Radar Imaging of Urban Areas by Means of Very High Resolution SAR and Interferometric SAR Andreas R. Brenner, Ludwig Roessing Building Characterisation in VHR SAR Data Acquired under Controlled EMSL Conditions Dominik Brunner, Guido Lemoine, Joaquim Fortuny-Guasch, Lorenzo Bruzzone Potential Problems with Using Reconstruction in Morphological Profiles for Classification of Remote Sensing Images from Urban Areas Rik Bellens, Leyden Martinez-Fonte, Sidharta Gautama, Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Frank Canters Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and RFI Mitigation for Microwave Radiometry We08AF Room: 130 A Survey of the Scientific Usage of Microwave Frequencies for NASA Earth Science remote sensing Satellites Fritz Policelli, Robe Ryan, Troy Frisbie Spectrum Allocation Issues Affecting Remote Sensing for the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07) John E. Zuzek Sensitivity of the Kurtosis Statistic as a Detector of Pulsed Sinusoidal Radio Frequency Interference in a Microwave Radiometer Receiver Roger D. De Roo, Sidharth Misra, Christopher S. Ruf Analog RFI Detectors for Microwave Radiometers Jeffrey Piepmeier, Pris Mohammed, Jose Knuble Cross-frequency Blanking for RFI Mitigation: A C-band Case Study Joel T. Johnson, Baris Guner CoSMOS: Performance of Kurtosis Algorithm for Radio Frequency Interference Detection and Mitigation Sidharth Misra, Steen S. Kristensen, Sten Søbjærg, Niels Skou An L-Band Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) Detection and Mitigation Testbed for Microwave Radiometry Roger D. De Roo, Christopher S. Ruf, Kazem Sabet Detection of Radio Frequency Interference with the Aquarius Radiometer Christopher S. Ruf, Sidharth Misra Weather Radar Networks: Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere We09AF Room: 131 Rainfall Estimation and Rain Gauge Comparison for X-Band Polarimetric CASA Radars Jorge M. Trabal, David J. McLaughlin Radar Network Characterization Francesc Junyent, V. Chandrasekar Simulation of Minimal Infrastructure Short-Range Radar Networks Brian C. Donovan, David J. McLaughlin, Michael Zink, Jim Kurose Evaluation of First Generation CASA Radar Waveform in the IP1 Testbed Nitin Bharadwaj, V. Chandrasekar , Francesc Junyent Implementation of a New Refractivity Estimation Algorithm on a Network of S-Band Radars Jason Fritz, V. Chandrasekar Low Cross-Polarization Antenna Array for CASA Student Test bed Radar Víctor J. Marrero-Fontánez, Rafael A. Rodríguez-Solís Phase Shifter System Using Vector Modulation For X-Band Phased Array Radar Applications José G. Colom, Luis Giraldo Castañeda, Eric Kanpp Real-Time Three-Dimensional Radar Mosaic in CASA IP1 Testbed Yuxiang Liu, Yanting Wang, V. Chandrasekar, V.N. Bringi A Grid Based Weather Radar Data Retrieval and Processing Framework* Diego Arias, Cesar Sandoval, Wilson Rivera Atmospheric Lidar We10AF Room: 122 Ground- and Space-Based Polarization Lidar Sensing of Asian Dust Transport: AFARS and CALIPSO Studies Kenneth Sassen, Jiang Zhu, Javier Fochesatto Intercomparison of Spanish Advanced Lidars in the Framework of EARLINET Michaël Sicard, Mohd Nadrzi Md Reba, Francesc Rocadenbosch, Eduard Gregorio, D. Kumar, Francisco Molero, Adolfo Comerón, Sergio Tomás, Manuel Pujadas, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Roberto Pedros, José Antonio Martínez Regional Aerosol Transport Study Using a Compact Aircraft Lidar. Jasper R. Lewis, Russell J. DeYoung, Kurt Severance Lidar Determination of the Frequency of Variations of the Boundary-Layer Top Giovanni Martucci, Renaud Matthey, Valentin Mitev, Hans Richner Statistical Considerations on the Extinction Error Variance for the Raman Lidar Inversion Algorithm Francesc Rocadenbosch, Adolfo Comerón, Michaël Sicard, Mohd Nadzri Md Reba Speed Measurements with a Continuous Wave Lidar Prototype Constantino Muñoz, Alejandro Rodríguez, Adolfo Comerón, Òscar Batet, David Garcia, Francesc Rocadenbosch, Michaël Sicard A Wind Speed and Fluctuation Simulator for Characterizing the Wind Lidar Correlation Method Sergio Tomás, Michaël Sicard, Jordi Masjuan, Mohd Nadzri Md Reba, Constantino Muñoz, Francesc Rocadenbosch Numerical Simulation of a Heterodyne Doppler LIDAR for Wind Measurement in a Turbulent Atmospheric Boundary Layer Sébastien Brousmiche, Laurent Bricteux, Piotr Sobieski, Benoit Macq, Grégoire Winckelmans Coherent Lidar Modulated with Frequency Stepped Pulse Trains for Unambiguous High Duty Cycle Range and Velocity Sensing in the Atmosphere Petter Lindelöw, Johan J. Mohr Intercomparison of Calibration Techniques for the 1064nm Channel on a Nd:YAG Elastic Lidar Shuki Chaw, Yonghua Wu, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed Hyperspectral Programs & Applications We11AF Room: 133 Remote Sensing of Crop Residue Cover Using Hyperion (EO-1) Data Abdou Bannari, Karl Staenz, Shahid Khurshid Mapping Physical Properties of Mudflat sSdiments using Hperspectral DAIS 7915 and ROSIS Airborne Spectrometer Data, Bourgneuf Bay (South West France) Charles Verpoorter, Véronique Carrère, M. Robin Spectral Image Utility Prediction Marcus Stefanou, John Kerekes Use of CHRIS PROBA Images for Land Use Products Fabio Del Frate, Riccardo Duca, Pasquale Sellitto, Domenico Solimini An Operational Land Imager for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission James R. Irons, Jeanine Murphy-Morris Geological Mapping on Mars by Segmentation of Hyperspectral OMEGA Data Harald van der Werff, Frank van Ruitenbeek, Freek van der Meer Combined Microwave and Hyperspectral Infrared Retrievals of Atmospheric Profiles in the Presence of Clouds Using Nonlinear Stochastic Methods William Blackwell, Frederick Chen, Laura G. Jairam Wavelet-SOM in Feature Extraction of Hyperspectral Data for Classification of Nematode Species Rushabh Doshi, Roger L. King, Gary Lawrence Phase Correlation Based Supervised Classification of Hyperspectral Images Using Multiple Class Representatives Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk Lidar Sensing of Forest Structure We12AH2 Room: 132 Automatic Extraction of Forest Fuel and Terrain Variables with Airborne LiDAR for the Determination of Spatial Fire Risk Luis Gonçalves-Seco, Bruño Fraga-Bugallo, David Miranda, Rafael Crecente 3D Mapping of Mangrove Forest Canopy: a Comparison Between SRTM C-band, SRTM X-band, AIRSAR, ICEsat/GLAS Waveforms and Airborne Lidar Data Marc Simard, Keqi Zhang, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy Comparison of SRTM–NED Data to LIDAR Derived Canopy Metrics Lado Kenyi, R. Dubayah, Michelle A. Hofton, J.B. Blair, Mathias Schardt Extracting Tree Crown Properties from Ground-Based Scanning Laser Data Inian Moorthy, John R. Miller, Baoxin Hu, Jose A. Jiménez-Berni, Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada, Qingmou Li Retrieving 3D Canopy Structure from Synergistic Analysis of Multi-Angle and Lidar Data Mitchell Schull, Sangram Ganguly, Arindam Samanta, Julian Jenkins, Yuri Knyazikhin, Ranga B. Myneni, Dong Huang 18:00 - 19:30 POSTER SESSIONS 18:00 - 19:30 Optical Techniques We01EP Room: Foyer-2 Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Determination from AVHRR Data Sanjaa Tuya, Koji Kajiwara, Yoshiaki Honda Temporal Air Quality Monitoring Using Surveillance Camera C. J. Wong, M. Z. MatJafri, Khiruddin Abdullah, H. S. Lim, K. L. Low Multispectral Absorption Algorithm for Retrieving TSS Concentrations in Water Sami Gumaan Daraigan, Syahril Amin Hashim, Mohd. Zubir Mat Jafri, Khiruddin Abdullah, Wong Chow Jeng, Nasirun Mohd. Saleh Validation of POLDER Surface BRDF and Albedo Products Based on a Review of other Satellites, Ground and Climate Databases Olivier Hautecoeur, Jean-Louis Roujean Improvement of the Thermal Emissivity Calculated with the Vegetation Cover Method by Using Optical Atmospherically Corrected Images Lucas Martínez, Vicenç Palà, Roman Arbiol, Vicente Caselles, Enric Valor Methods of MODIS Level 1B Data Processing Zhiming Gui, Wenjie Fan Numeric Simulation of Viewing Geometry of Multi-Directional Polarimeteric Sensor Influence on the Retrieval of Aerosols over Land Surfaces Zhongting Wang, Liangfu Chen, Xingfa Gu Reflectance Spectroradiometer Measurement System in 30 Meter Mast for Validating Satellite Images Timo Sukuvaara, Jouni Pulliainen, Esko Kyrö, Hanne Suokanerva, Pauli Heikkinen, Juha Suomalainen Accurate Geometric References from Low B/H Stereoscopic Airborne Acquisition Jean-Marc Delvit, Christophe Latry Fire monitor Xiaocheng Zhou, Xiaoqin Wang AHS: Operational Use and Quality Assessment Alix Fernández-Renau, José A. Gómez, Eduardo de Miguel, Alberto Amaro, Óscar Gutiérrez de la Cámara, Marcos Jiménez, Elena Prado BRDF Calibration of Natural Samples in Support of Remote Sensing Georgi T. Georgiev, Charles K. Gatebe, James J. Butler, Michael D. King Improved Outgassing Models for the Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper Esad Micijevic, Gyanesh Chander, Ronald W. Hayes An Experimental Study on IMU/DGPS/Camera System Calibration Dahai Guo Guo, Qiu Li Li Comparision Research on Positioning Ways of Photogrammetry Lijun Zhang, Qiu Li, Dahai Guo Estimation of Height Measurement Accuracy for ALOS PRISM Triplet Images Makoto Maruya, Hiroshi Ohyama A Rapid Meshing Technique for Simulations of Near-Surface Phenomena Involving Remote Sensing Technology Owen J. Eslinger, Jerrell R. Ballard, Jr., Amanda M. Hines The Implications of Non-Uniformity in Fields-of-View of Commonly Used Field Spectroradiometers Alasdair A. Mac Arthur, Chris MacLellan, Tim J. Malthus MRTWeb: Enhanced MODIS Data Discovery and Delivery Services from the LP DAAC Thomas K. Maiersperger Semi-Automatic True Orthophoto Production by Using LIDAR Data Arif Günay, Hossein Arefi, Michael Hahn Sensitivity Study for Sensor Optical and Electric Cross-talk Based on Spectral Measurements:An Application to Developmental Sensors Using Heritage Sensors Such As MODIS Hassan Oudrari, Sanxiong Xiong, Nianzeng Che, Xiaoxiong Xiong, James J. Butler Validation of Airborne Hyperspectral Scanner (AHS) surface reflectance obtained with water vapor and visibility scene derived Marcos Jimánez, Cristina Robles, Eduardo de Miguel, José A. Gómez, Alix Fernández, Almudena García, Elena Prado 18:00 - 19:30 Instrumentation and Techniques II (Passive) We02EP Room: Foyer-2 Operational Derivation of Surface Albedo and Downwelling Shortwave Radiation Based on MSG Observations in the Frame of the SAF Programme on Land Surface Analysis Dominique Carrer, Bernhard Geiger, Jean-Louis Roujean, Olivier Hautecoeur, Catherine Meurey PAU One-Receiver Ground-based and Airbone Instruments Adriano Camps, Albert Aguasca, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Juan F. Marchan-Hernandez, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Francesc Bou, Carlos Ibañez, Xavier Banqué, Ricard Prehn PAU-RAD Instrument Web-Based Remote Control Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Maruan Moussaif, Adriano Camps, Juan F. Marchan-Hernandez, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez Implementing Assisted Navigation in Hybrid Sensor Networks Franco Frattolillo, Nicola Quarantiello, Silvia L. Ullo An Airborne Multi-Angle Power Line Inspection System Guangjian Yan, Junfa Wang, Qiang Liu, Lin Su, Pengxin Wang, Junming Liu, Wuming Zhang, Zhiqiang Xiao Accuracy Evaluation on Technologies of Photogrammetry Lijun Zhang, Qiu Li, Dahai Guo Spatial Decision Support System for Tobacco Enterprise based on Spatial Data Mining mei xin, liu junyi, wu mengquan, yang xiaodong ASAP, Towards a PARIS Instrument for Space Serni Ribó, Juan Carlos Arco, Estel Cardellach, Oleguer Nogués-Correig, Antonio Rius, María Teresa Álvarez, Jesús Tabero Automatic Block Generation and 3D Line Extraction in Photogrammetric Power Line Inspection Wuming Zhang, Guangjian Yan, Ning Wang, Qiaozhi Li, Wei Zhao Constrained-Trajectory Based GPS/INS Integration for Reliable Position and Attitude Determination Pakorn Ubolkosold, Stefan Knedlik, Ezzaldeen Edwan, Otmar Loffeld K-Band Radiometer Designed for Academic Purposes: Intercomparison of Performances as Total Power, Dicke or Noise Injection Radiometers Jose Miguel Tarongi, Adriano Camps, Jose Antonio Pulido Distributed Cooperative Sensor Networks using Intelligent Adaptive Antennas Emma Jones From Sensor Net to Sensor Grid: A Survey and Taxonomy on Sensor Web Dafei Yin, Yu Fang Geometric Correction and Automatic DEM Extraction of High Resolution Data Philip Cheng UAV Remote Sensing Grounded Simulation System Based on DM270 and TCP/IP Shi-hu Zhao, Lei Yan, Zhou-hui Lian, Hui Zhou High Performance Computing for Vegetation Parameters Retrieval Luigi Dini, Giovanni Milillo, Guido D’Urso , Antonio Valentino Internal Approach for the Geometric Accuracy Evaluation of Some Orthorectification Models Applied to QuickBird Images Carlos Pérez, Nilda Sánchez Laboratory Characterization of Scanning Radiometers Charles K. Gatebe, Michael D. King, John W. Cooper, James J. Butler Non Ideal behaviour of TXA Equipment: Simulated BER Performance Mario Cossu, Michelangelo L‘Abbate, Adriano Lupi, Ugo Pattacini, Paolo Venditti Perspective of Remote Optical Measurement Techniques (ROMTs) Eduard Gregorio, Francesc Rocadenbosch The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) - Current Status Hermann Kaufmann, Karl Segl, Stefan Hofer, Timo Stuffler, Andreas Mueller, Rudolf Richter, Christian Chlebek The Impact of Surface Meteorological Measurements on GPS Height Determination Chuan-Sheng Wang, Yuei-An Liou, Ta-Kang Yeh Urban Ecotope Mapping Using QuickBird Imagery Renzong Ruan, Liliang Ren Multiple Aperture Imaging of Millimeter Sources via Image-Plane Interferometry Dennis Prather, Indraneil Biswas, Christopher Schuetz, Richard Martin, Mark Mirotznik TECHNOLOGIES FOR DISTRIBUTED APERTURE MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETRIC IMAGING USING OPTICAL UPCONVERSION Christopher A. Schuetz, Richard D. Martin, Indraneil Biswas, Mark S. Mirotznik, Dennis W. Prather 18:00 - 19:30 Solid Earth 1 We03EP Room: Foyer-2 Mars ionosphere data inversion by MARSIS Subsurface Signals analysis Giovanni Picardi, Roberto Seu, Dani Biccari, Andrea Cicchetti, Artu Masdea, Marco Cartacci, Marco Iorio, Marco Provenziani, Marco Cutigni Evalutation of the Forest Damage by a Typhoon Using Remote Sensing Technique Buhe Aosier, Masami Kaneko, Masayuki Takada An Quantitative Model for Tectonic Activity Analysis And Earthquake Magnitude Predication Based on Satellite Thermal Infrared Anomaly Jinping Li, Lixin Wu, Yanqing Dong, Xianbo Yang, Shanjun Liu a novel method for earthquake-related thermal anomalies detection Yali Wang, Guihua Chen, Qian Zhang, Chunli Kang Applying NDVI as vegetation recovery index in Jiou-Jiou Mountain, Taiwan Ming-Der Yang, Zhe-Chuan Xiou, Tung-Ching Su Forest Monitoring of Fire-Damaged Areas by Using IKONOS Multispectral Data Choen Kim, Sung-Hoo Hong Fuzzy Risk Evaluation of Geological Hazard Zhaoqiang Huang, Hongxi Li Statistical Landslide Hazard Mapping Using Remote Sensing Data and GIS: Case Study in Northeastern Region of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil Silvia B. A. Rolim, Roberto N. Vanacôr Landslide Susceptibility Mapping using RS & GIS Ezatallah Ghanavati, Zahr Peiryai Identification of the Affected Areas by Mass Movement through a Physically Based Model of Landslide Hazard Combined with a Two-Dimensional Flood Routing Model for Simulating Debris Flow Renato F. Guimarães, Roberto A. T. Gomes, Osmar A. Carvalho Júnior, Nelson F. Fernandes, Eurípedes A. Vargas Júnior, Éder S. Martins Subsidence and Landslide Monitoring using D- and CR-INSAR Ye Xia, Herm Kaufmann, Xiao Guo, Daqi Ge Alteration Mineral Mapping Using Masking Technique and Fusion With Geochemical Data For Mineral Exploration: A Case Study In Areletuobie, Xinjiang (China) Lei LIU, Jun ZHOU, Yu WANG, Bao- LIU, Yan- XU Modeling Depth Displacement of Rupture Zone of Ms8.1Kunlun Earthquake by Boundary Conditions of D-InSAR Co-Seismic Deformation Field Ma Chao, Ma Xuedong, Shan Xinjian Extracting the Flood Inundated Area on basis of ASAR Image and TM Image Wei Zheng, Chuang Liu, En Long Local Times of Major Earthquakes in Coastal Regions Kiyo Tomiyasu Geographic Information Systems applied to Teziutlán México’s Debris Flow Guillermo Cardoso Extraction of landslide-related factors from ASTER imagery and its application to landslide susceptibility mapping using GIS Saro Lee, Hyun Oh, No-W Park, Sung Lee Mapping Subsidence in Tianjin Area Using ASAR Images Based on PS Technique Jinghui Fan, Xiaofang Guo, Huadong Guo, Zhengmin He, Daqing Ge, Shengwei Liu Earthquake Damage Detection Using Remote Sensing Data Masafumi Hosokawa, Byeong-pyo Jeong, Osamu Takizawa Improvement and Validation of MODIS Performance in Automated Detection and Extent Estimate of Wildfires Barbara Hirn, Concettina Di Bartola, Fabrizio Ferrucci 3-D Tsunami Coastal Hazard Mapping in Sri Lanka by Very-High Resolution, Airborne and Spaceborne Remote-Sensing Fabrizio Ferrucci, Gianluca Calabretta, Franco Coren, Barbara Hirn, Fabio Rocca, Giuliano Savio, Paolo Sterzai GIS Support for Flood Rescue Genseng Liang, Darka Mioc, Francois Anton Early Warning Monitoring and Management of Disasters Wenling Xuan, Xiuwan Chen, Gang Zhao DInSAR Monitoring of Land Subsidence in Orihuela City, Alicante, Spain: Comparison with Geotechnical Data Roberto Tomas, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, Jose Delgado, Fernando Vicente, Artemio Cuenca, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Pablo Blanco-Sánchez, Sergi Duque Automatic Landslide Detection from Remote Sensing Images Using Supervised Classification Methods Gaelle Danneels, Eric Pirard, Hans-Balder Havenith Landslide Interpretation Based on Data Fusion Techniques in Region Research Lijun Zhang ENSO impact on vegetation patterns in Indonesia during 1982-2003 Pavel A. Propastin, Martin Kappas, Oleg Parfyonov, Stefan Erasmi Assessment of Different Classification Algorithms for Burnt Land Discrimination Olivier Zammit, Xavier Descombes, Josiane Zerubia Investigation and Evaluation of Geological Disasters Using Remote Sensing in the Tibetan Part of National Highway 317 Lin-qing Yu, An-xin Lu, Li-hong Wang, Zhi-yu Jia, De-fu Ran Investigation and Evaluation of Geological Hazards Using Remote Sensing in the Tibetan Part of National Highway 214 An-xin Lu, Li-hong Wang, Zhi-yu Jia, Lin-qing Yu, De-fu Ran Harmonic Analysis of Time-Series NOAA/AVHRR Images for Hotspot Detection and Land Features Classification Rohit Singh Gautam, Dharmendra Singh, Ankush Mittal, Sumit Bhatia Ground deforamtion monitoring survey project with SAR Interferometry. Kozin Wada, Shigeru Matsuzaka, Midori Fujiwara, Tomomi Amagai, Mikio Tobita, Hiroshi Yarai Applying Fire Spread Simulation over Two Study Sites in California. Lessons Learned and Future Plans Alan Forghani, Bob Cechet, John Radke, Mark Finney, Bret Butler Monitoring landslides with Differential SAR Interferometry Using Corner Refletors. Jinghui Fan, Xiaofang Guo, Guang Liu, huadong Guo, Daqing Ge, Shengwei Liu 18:00 - 19:30 Data Mining and Archival We04EP Room: Foyer-2 A Disk-Based System for Producing and Distributing Science Products from MODIS Edward J. Masuoka, Robert E. Wolfe, Scott S. Sinno, Gang Ye, Michael J. Teague Semi-Automatic Metadata Extraction from Imagery and Cartographic Data Laura Díaz, Cristian Martín , Michael Gould, Carlos Granell, Miguel Ángel Manso The Data Management Technology of the Sustainable Development Information Sharing System of China Dawei Zhong, Tianhe Chi, Xin Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhao, Qinghui Sun A Map-based Geographic Information Retrieval System for Geo-Tagged Web Content You-Heng Hu, Linlin Ge The Realization of Fast Importing and Exporting Remote Sensing Images Database Peidong Jin, Yingjie Zhou, Du Xiao, Jianchao Wang SPATIAL OUTLIER ANALYSIS FOR OPTIMAL PLANNING Kiran mai Cherukuri, Mura I.V Study on Method of Time Series with Missing Data Jun ZHANG, Hong WANG Legal Protection and Data Access of Remote Sensing and GIS Database Yi-Ping Chen, Ming-Der Yang 18:00 - 19:30 Weather Radar Networks: Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere We05EP Room: Foyer-2 Student Developed Meteorological Radar Network for the Western Part of Puerto Rico: First Node Manuel A. Vega, José G. Colom An Algorithm to Improve the NEXRAD Rain Rate Estimates Nazario Ramirez, Sandra Cruz-Pol, Xiomara Ortiz, Joan M. Castro, Robert Kuliwoski Reflectivity Retrieval in a Networked Radar Environment: Demonstration from the CASA IP1 Radar Network Sanghun Lim, V. Chandrasekar, Panhoo Lee, A.P. Jayasumana 18:00 - 19:30 Multisensor Analysis and Data Fusion We06EP Room: Foyer-2 Wavelet Image Fusion based on the High Order Polynominal Regression Xiaobin Cai, Xiaoling Chen, Shoujin Yin, Chuqun Chen A Study on Optical and SAR Data Fusion For Extracting Flooded Area Sun Yonghua, Li Xiaojuan, Gong Huili, Zhao Wenji, Gong Zhaoning Multisource Remote Sensing Images Classification/ Data Fusion Using a Multiple Classifiers System Weighted by a Neural Decision Maker Yu-Chang Tzeng, S. H Chiu, Dana Chen, Kun-Shan Chen Toward a Semi-Automatic Interpretation of Scenes Issued from Multisensor Satellite Images Saheb Ettabaa Karim, Farah Imed Riadh, Soulaiman Bassel, Ben Ahmed Mohamed Object-Based Classification of Multi-Sensor Optical Imagery to Generate Terrain Surface Roughness Information for Input to Wind Risk Simulation Alan Forghani, Bob Cechet, Krishna Nadimpalli Remote Sensing Image Fusion Based on the Scale-invariant Predictive Model Junping Zhang, Chen Qi, Bin Zou, Weny Tang Spatial Aspects of Multi-Sensor Data Fusion: Aerosol Optical Thickness Gregory Leptoukh, Viktor Zubko, Arun Gopalan A Zero Saturation Distortion Image Fusion Method Based on the GCOS Framework Ying Zhang, Xiaowen Li, Qiang Liu, Cunjian Yang, Xiaofang Liu, Min Li, Huanmin Luo Pansharpening - A Contribution towards Quantitative Evaluation. Uwe Weidner Wavelet Image Fusion based on Local High Order Polynomial Regression xiaobin cai, Xiaoling Chen Multsensor Fusion Based On Dempster-Shaefer Evidence Using Beta Mass Function Sang-Hoon Lee Unmixing Based Landsat ETM+ and ASTER Image Fusion For Hybrid Multispectral Image Analysis Nouha Mezned, Saadi Abdeljaoued, M. Rached Boussema An Adaptive Multi- Resolution Image Fusion Hassan Ghassemian Classification of Natural Areas in Northern Finland Using Optical Remote Sensing Images and Data Fusion Markus Törmä Lidar Application in Selection and Design of Power Line Route Lijun Zhang, Qiu Li, Zizheng Wang, Huijie Liu, Zhongsheng Li, Yao Gui, Robert Kletzli, Xiaodong Yang, Shuming Chen, Yanjing Liu Fusion of MODIS, AVHRR and ASTER Data Using Curvelet Transform for Land Cover Classification Harish Kumar, Dharmendra Singh, Ankush Mittal The Role of Spectral and Spatial Resolution in the Fusion of ALI Data Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos Multisensor Comparison and Data Fusion of Total Column Ozone Mohan L. Nirala Hypercomplex Principle Component Weighted Approach to Multiplespectral and Panchromatic Images Fusion Huijuan Yang, Jian Qiu Zhang, Bin Wang 18:00 - 19:30 Soil Properties We07EP Room: Foyer-2 Field and laboratory spectrometry (optical – reflexive) for mapping and monitoring soil degradation and for setting satellite image analysis in the Turbolo River catchment (Calabria, south Italy) Massimo Conforti, Antonio Leone, Pietrp Patrizio Ciro Aucelli, Carmine Maffei, Gaetano Robustelli, Fabio Scarciglia Assessment of Land Salinization Change Using Remote Sensing Technequies in Minqin Basin, Northwest China Youhao E, Jihe Wang, Ping Yan, Hui Han, Dekui Zhang Monitoring and Analyzing the Soil Erosion Changes In Northern China During the Latest Twenty Years. A Case Study in Upper Chao River Basin of China Qinghui Lin, Zhixian Li Neural Network-Based Experimental Study on Shaft Water Sealing by Grouting Lijun Zhang, Qiu Li, Yanbo Song Using point spectrometry and geostatistical analysis for detailed soil mapping. An example for a Mediterranean agro-forestry system of Molise region, southern Italy. Antonio P. Leone, Pietro P.C. Aucelli, Angelo De Angelis, Carmine Maffei, Carmen M. Rosskopf Permittivity Estimation in TDR: A Numerical Study Phil Neveux Evaluation of Five Algorithms for Extracting Soil Emissivity from Hyperspectral FTIR Data Jie Cheng, Qing Xiao , Xiaowen Li, Qinhuo Liu, Yongming Du, Aixiu Nie Algorithm Study on Mid-Infrared Emissivity Extraction from Field Measurements: A Case Study of Soil Jie Cheng, Qing Xiao , Xiaowen Li, Qinhuo Liu, Lin sun Preliminary Measurements of Polarization and Correlative Features between Ruffled Water Surface, Snow and Bare Soil Microwave Reflective and Emissive Characteristics at 15GHz Artashes Arakelyan, Arse Arakelyan, S. A. Darbinyan, Mela Grigoryan, Izab Hakobyan, Vani Karyan, Mush Manukyan, Gagi Hovhannisyan, Astghik Hambaryan, Stev Clifford Quantitative Assessment of Regional Soil Erosion in Chengdu Plain of Sichuan Province Jianxi Huang, Feng Maol, Wenbo Xu, Jinqiu Zou Researches Radiophysical and Dielectric Behaviors of Ore Minerals in the Microwave Range Olga Polyakova, Vasiliy Tikhonov, Dmitriy Boyarskii Study on Complex Dielectric Properties of Frozen Soil Liying Li, Lixi Zhang, Shao Zhao, kebi mao Research on Factors Analysis Model of Dualistic Soil Salinization Sensitivity in Typical Northwestern Arid Area Tao Sun, Shibing Pan, Shifeng Huang, Haiying Deng 18:00 - 19:30 Lidar We08EP Room: Foyer-2 Piece-Wise Variance Method for Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimation in Elastic/Raman Lidar Signals Mohd Nadzri Md Reba, Francesc Rocadenbosch, Michaël Sicard, Constantino Muñoz, Sergio Tomás Design Methodology of a Ceilometer Lidar Prototype Eduard Gregorio, Francesc Rocadenbosch, Adolfo Comerón Statistical Classification Methodology of SHOALS 3000 Backscatter to Mapping Coastal Benthic Habitats Antoine Collin, Antoine Cottin, Bernard Long, Philippe Archambault, Pim Kuus, John H. Clarke, Gunho Sohn, John R. Miller What Optech‘s Bathymetric Lidar Sees Underwater Bernard Long, Antoine Cottin, Antoine Collin Laser Sounder Approach for Global Measurement of CO2 Concentrations in the Troposphere James Abshire, Haris Riris, S. Randy Kawa, Xiaoli Sun, Michael Krainak, Jianping Mao, Pey-Schuam Jian, Graham Allan, G. James Collatz, Mark Stephen Morphological Segmentation of Lidar Digital Elevation Models to Extract Stream Channels in Forested Terrain Hyun-chong Cho, Kittipat Kampa, K. Clint Slatton River water surface effects on minimum water depth detection from LiDAR: a theoretical study on waveforms Jean-Stéphane Bailly, Audrey Lesaignoux, Denis Feurer Sensitivity studies of three Lidar configurations Julia Walterspiel, John N. Porter, David Bates CALIPSO-AERONET Combined Application for Weather and Climate Research Wei Gong, Yingying Ma, Zhongmin Zhu, Pingxiang Li, Shalei Song, Mengyu Liu, Zhongyu Hao, Jun Li Modeling of small footprint airborne laser scanning returns using radiative-transfer modeling and fractal tree models Felix Morsdorf, Othmar Frey, Benjamin Koetz, Erich Meier LIDAR Detection of Plankton in the Ocean James Churnside 18:00 - 19:30 Hyperspectral Image Analysis We09EP Room: Foyer-2 A Physics-Based Statistical Signature Model for Hyperspectral Target Detection Trym V. Haavardsholm, Torbjørn Skauli, Ingebjørg Kåsen A Simulated Annealing Feature Extraction Approach for Hyperspectral Images Yang-Lang Chang, Jyh-Perng Fang, Jin-Nan Liu, Hsuan Ren, Wen-Yew Liang Integration of Field Work and Hyperspectral Data for Oil and Gas Exploration Daqi Xu, Guoqiang Ni, Tao Jiang, Lili Jiang, Mingmin Chi Blind Separation of Component Information from Mixed Pixels in Hyperspectral Imagery Xin Tao, Wenjie Fan, Xiru Xu Hyperspectral Signal Subspace Estimation Jose M. P. Nascimento, José M. Bioucas-Dias Parallel projected gradient nonnegative factorization for hyperspectral images Stefan Robila, Lukasz Maciak Radiative Modeling and Characterization of Aerosol Plumes in Hyperspectral Imagery Alexandre Alakian, Rodolphe Marion, Xavier Briottet Study on Inversion Models for the Severity of Winter Wheat Stripe Rust Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Jinbao Jiang, Yunhao Chen, Adu Gong, Jing Li A Classification Based Linear Projection of Labeled Hyperspectral Data Lior Weizman, Jacob Goldberger Computational Load Reduction for Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Images: An Experimental Comparative Analysis Nicola Acito, Giovanni Corsini, Marco Diani SLEX-NWFE Feature Extraction Method for Hyperspectral Image Classification Hsiao-Yun Huang, Bor-Chen Kuo, Hsiang-Chuan Liu, Yu-Lung Liu A Compact Inversion Algorithm for Hyperspectral Data Xu Liu, Peter Schluessel, Dan Zhou, allen Larar, William smith, Stephen Mango A new approach for atmospheric effects removal in endmember extraction from hyperspectral data Mario Costantini, Claudio Testa, Massimo Zavagli Reconfigurable Acceleration for Hyperspectral Target Detection Reza Nekovei, Mohammad Ashtijou NEW PARADIGM FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA ANALYSIS Barat Mojaradi, Hamid Abrishami Moghadam, Mohamad Javad Valadan Zoej Impact of Spectrally Dependent Gain Errors in Hyperspectral Data on the Determination of Chlorophyll Concentrations in Vegetation R. J. Soffer, R. A. Neville, Karl Staenz, H. P. White 18:00 - 19:30 Evapotranspiration We10EP Room: Foyer-2 Estimating Actual Evapotranspiration by means of Remote Sensing Data and Sap Flow Measurements in Pinus Sylvestris Forest Stands in a Mediterranean Mountain Region Jordi Cristóbal, Miquel Ninyerola, Xavier Pons, Rafael Poyatos, Pilar Llorens A Modified S-SEBI Algorithm to Estimate Evapotranspiration Using Landsat ETM+ Image and Meteorological Data over the Hanjiang Basin, China Dengzhong Zhao, Wanchang Zhang, Chuansheng Liu Remotely-sensed Evapotranspiration of Typical Oasis in the Southern Edge of Tarim Basin and its Relationship to Land Cover Changes Chuansheng Liu, Wanchang Zhang, Dengzhong Zhao, Yongnian Gao A New Algorithm for Estimating Evapotranspiration Based on Thermal Inertial Miaofen Huang, Xu-feng Xing, Shan-shan Hu, Jian-cheng Li Application Research of Using TM to Evaluate Evapotranspiration in Zulihe basin, Northwest China Han Hui, Zhao Chuanyan, Li Shoubo Estimating Daily Evapotranspiration Using Remote Sensing Shoubo Li, Chua Zhao Estimation of Evapotranspiration on Discontinuous Crop Canopies using High Resolution Thermal Imagery Jose A. Jiménez-Berni, Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada, Elias Fereres, Guadalupe Sepulcre-Cantó, Luca Testi, Fernando Iniesta, Francisco J. Villalobos, Francisco Orgaz, David A. Goldhamer, Mario Salinas 18:00 - 19:30 Ocean Wind Posters We11EP Room: Foyer-2 Measurements of Eddies in the Ocean Surface Wind Field by a Mix of Single and Multiple Frequency HF Radars on Monterey Bay California John F. Vesecky, Jessica A. Drake, Kenneth E. Laws, Frank L. Ludwig, Calvin C. Teague, Jeff Paduan, Douglas Sinton Active Beamforming Improves Uncertainty And Ambiguity Of Ocean-Surface Wind Estimation From Space Pasquale Lombardi Global Analysis of a 2 Year ERS-2 Wavemode Dataset Over the Oceans Thomas König, Susanne Lehner, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth A Novel Method for Estimating Offshore Wind Fields Using Synthetic Aperture Radar and Meteorological Model Data Iain Cameron, Iain Woodhouse, Nick Walker Validation of a New Empirical SAR Algorithum Guiting Song, Susanne Lehner, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth, Helko Breit, Hartmut Grassl Refined Measurements and Wind Vector Retrievals from WindSat Instrument in Storm Environments Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang, Qi Zhu, Seubson Soisuvarn Validation of an X Band SAR Wind Algorithm by SIR C/X SAR Data Susanne Lehner, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth, Stephan Brusch, Michael Eineder Cantarell Natural Seep Modelation Using SAR Derived Ocean Surface Wind and Meteo-Oceanographic Buoy Data Miguel Herrera Rodríguez, Ricardo Gómez Cáceres, Karen Bannerman, Fernando Pellon de Miranda, Enrico Campos Pedroso Use of Tandem Pairs of ERS-2 and ENVISAT SAR Data for the Analysis of Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth, Susanne Lehner, Thomas König, Antonio Reppucci, Stephan Brusch Instrument Design Simulations for Synthetic Aperture Microwave Radiometric Imaging of Wind Speed and Rain Rate in Hurricanes Ruba Amarin, Salem F. El-Nimri, James W. Johnson, W. Linwood Jones, Boon H. Lim, Christopher S. Ruf Computation of Wind Direction from SAR Images without External a Priori Information Stefano Zecchetto, Francesco De Biasio, Paolo Trivero Hurricane winds from spaceborne SAR and their applications in numerical weather prediction Xiaofeng Li, William Pichel, Cheng-zhi Zou, Cheng-zhi Zou L-band Doppler spectra: modelling and comparison with data Marc Saillard, Gabriel Soriano, Phil Forget, Mami Joelson 18:00 - 19:30 Hyperspectral Applications We12EP Room: Foyer-2 Indices-based Approach for Crop Chlorophyll Content Retrieval from Hyperspectral Data Driss Haboudane, John R. Miller, Nicolas Tremblay, Philippe Vigneault Research on Hyperspectral Reflectance Characteristics for Spring Wheat in Rainfed Agriculture Areas of Loess Plateau Xiaoping Wang, Ni Guo, Jing Wang Forest Structure Mapping Using Spectral Linear Mixing Model and an Inverted Geometric-Optical Model in Three Gorges Region of China Yuan Zeng, Michael E. Schaepman, Bingfang Wu, Jan G.P.W. Clevers, Arnold K. Bregt Soybean LAI estimation with in-situ collected hyperspectral data based on BP-neural networks Li Guozhu, Niu Shuwen, Song Kaishan 18:00 - 19:30 Clouds and precipitation We13EP Room: Foyer-2 A New High-Altitude Airborne Millimeter-Wave Radar for Atmospheric Research Gordon Farquharson, Eric Loew, Jothiram Vivekanandan, Wen-Chau Lee Radar application for MJO study in the equatorial region Eddy Hermawan , Tri Hadi, Find Renggono, Mega Puspawardhany, Sopi Lestari, Fikr Muhammad A.W Optimal Estimation of Cross-correlation Function to Improve Polarimetric Radar Measurements in the Presence of Noise Guifu Zhang, Qing Cao, Richard J. Doviak, Dusan S. Zrnic Numeric Simulation of Flow Field Construct of Meso-βCloud Clusters yun chen, qiang li, zechun li Cloud Detection Based on the Spectral, Multi-Angular, and Polarized Characteristics of Cloud tianhai Cheng, Xingfa Gu, Liangfu Chen, Tao Yu, Guoliang Tian Numerical Simulation Analysis of Rainstorm in South China based on FY-2C satellite cloud drift wind yun chen, qiang li, Baogui Bi, Tao Chen, Bin Huang Mining the Features of Mesoscale Convective Systems over the Tibetan Plateau Based on Spatial Association Rule Zhongyang Guo, Xiaoyan Dai An Improved Method for MODIS Cloud Detecting SUN Lin, LIU Qinhuo, Chen Liangfu, LIU Qiang Spatially and Temporally Varying Thresholds for Cloud Detection in Satellite Imagery Gary Jedlovec, Stephanie Haines Observations of Tropical Cyclones with a 60, 118 and 183 GHz Microwave Sounder Shannon Brown, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Alan B. 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