IGARSS 2008

Session Index

Monday, July 7

MO3.101: Mapping Subsurface Geology in Arid Regions using Radar

MO3.102: RADARSAT

MO3.103: ALOS in 2008 II

MO3.104: Crop and Forest Monitoring with Microwave Radiometric Sensors I

MO3.105: Remote Sensing Applications to Archaeology I

MO3.107: Frontiers for Classification of Hyperspectral Data I

MO3.108: Information Extraction from High Resolution SAR images I

MO3.109: NPOESS and SENTINEL Missions

MO3.110: Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications I

MO3.111: Ocean Surface Winds

MO3.203: Advances in Passive Microwave and Infrared Imaging and Sounding (In Honor of the Accomplishments of Prof. David H. Staelin) I

MO3.210: Implementation of GEOSS: Technical and Application Developments

MO4.101: Subsurface Object Detection

MO4.102: Moving Targets

MO4.103: ALOS in 2008 I

MO4.104: Crop and Forest Monitoring with Microwave Radiometric Sensors II

MO4.105: Remote Sensing Applications to Archaeology II

MO4.107: Frontiers for Classification of Hyperspectral Data II

MO4.108: Information Extraction from High Resolution SAR images II

MO4.109: Reflective-Band Vicarious Calibration for Intersensor Comparisons

MO4.110: Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications II

MO4.111: Ocean Wind and Weather Sensing

MO4.203: Advances in Passive Microwave and Infrared Imaging and Sounding (In Honor of the Accomplishments of Prof. David H. Staelin) II

MO4.210: Implementation of GEOSS: Science and Modeling

MOP.A: Techniques for Agroecosystem Monitoring

MOP.B: Applications of Agroecosystem Monitoring

MOP.C: Ocean Wind Measurements

MOP.D: Active and Passive Ocean Observations

MOP.E: SAR Observations of Ocean Processes

MOP.F: Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications III

MOP.G: Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications IV

Tuesday, July 8

TU1.210: Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), Radiance Data Assimilation and Ocean Synoptics

TU1.101: Subsurface Sensing I

TU1.102: Joint Time-Frequency Analysis of SAR

TU1.103: Student Paper Prize Competition I

TU1.104: Passive Microwave Soil Moisture Algorithms

TU1.105: Advanced Lidar Technologies and Applications to 3D Landcover Structure I

TU1.107: Data Fusion I

TU1.108: New Challenges and Perspectives with High Resolution Spaceborne SAR Systems

TU1.109: Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Application Developments for Hyperspectral Imaging Systems

TU1.110: Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation I

TU1.111: Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and Radio Frequency Interference Effects in Microwave Radiometry I

TU1.203: Synergism of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors I

TU2.101: Subsurface Sensing II

TU2.102: TerraSAR-X Commissioning Phase Results

TU2.103: Student Paper Prize Competition II

TU2.104: Tower and Aircraft Soil Moisture Remote Sensing

TU2.105: Lidar Sensors and Applications I

TU2.107: Data Fusion II

TU2.108: Spatial Data Fusion in PolSAR and Pol-InSAR Imaging

TU2.109: Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Hyperspectral Sensing of Forests

TU2.110: Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation II

TU2.111: Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and Radio Frequency Interference Effects in Microwave Radiometry II

TU2.203: Synergism of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors II

TU2.210: Assimilation of Satellite Radiances

TU3.101: Remote Sensing for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Identification and Removal I

TU3.102: TerraSAR-X satellite: Status and First Application Results I

TU3.103: Ionospheric Effects in Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Imagery I

TU3.104: Radar Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

TU3.105: EARLINET -- The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network I

TU3.107: Urban Areas and Buildings

TU3.108: Multichannel - Multidimensional Coherent SAR Data Combination Techniques I

TU3.109: Rare Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery I

TU3.110: Forests and Vegetation: SAR Interferometry and Polarimetry I

TU3.111: Microwave Radiometer Technology I

TU3.203: High Wind Speed Retrievals from SAR and Scatterometry I

TU3.210: Radiance Assimilation and Retrieval Methods I

TU4.101: Remote Sensing for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Identification and Removal II

TU4.102: TerraSAR-X satellite: Status and First Application Results II

TU4.103: Ionospheric Effects in Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Imagery II

TU4.104: Global Soils and Soil Moisture Products

TU4.105: EARLINET -- The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network II

TU4.107: Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing I

TU4.108: Multichannel - Multidimensional Coherent SAR Data Combination Techniques I

TU4.109: Rare Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery II

TU4.110: Forests and Vegetation: SAR Interferometry and Polarimetry II

TU4.111: Microwave Radiometer Technology II

TU4.203: High Wind Speed Retrievals from SAR and Scatterometry II

TU4.210: Memorial Session for Professor Jin Au Kong

TUP.A: Passive Microwave Sensing of Soil Moisture

TUP.B: Soil Moisture Experimental Observations

TUP.C: Surface Roughness and Soil Properties I

TUP.D: Surface Roughness and Soil Properties II

TUP.E: Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation III

TUP.F: Radar and Soil Moisture

TUP.G: Radiance Assimilation and Retrieval Methods II

TUP.H: Applications in Data and Image Processing

TUP.I: Image Analysis and Classification I

TUP.J: Image Analysis and Classification II

TUP.K: Target Detection and Pattern Recognition

TUP.L: Feature Extraction and Reduction

TUP.M: Multitemporal Processing

TUP.N: Hyperspectral: Compression and Implementation

TUP.O: Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Classification

TUP.P: High Resolution Optical Data Processing

TUP.Q: Image Processing: Calibration and Correction

TUP.R: Spatial Resolution - Registration

TUP.S: Lidar Sensors and Applications II

TUP.T: Lidar Sensors and Applications III

TUP.U: Microwave Synthetic Aperture Radiometers I

TUP.V: Microwave Real Aperture Radiometers: Technology and Calibration I

TUP.W: Microwave Real Aperture Radiometers: Technology and Calibration II

TUP.X: Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Missions

TUP.Y: Landslides and Geological Hazards

TUP.Z: Geological Applications of Radar

TUP.AA: Geological Applications and GIS

TUP.BB: Geographic Information Science Tools

TUP.CC: Geographic Information Science Applications I

TUP.DD: Geographic Information Science Applications II

TUP.EE: Geographic Information Science Outreach

Wednesday, July 9

WE1.210: Earth Science Decadal Survey NASA Missions

WE1.101: Near Sub-Surface Electromagnetic Imaging: Methods and Applications I

WE1.102: SAR/PolSAR/InSAR for Environmental Monitoring I

WE1.103: Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow I

WE1.104: Soils and Hydrologic Applications

WE1.105: Ocean Altimetry

WE1.107: Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing II

WE1.108: TerraSAR-X & TanDEM-X: Features & Calibration

WE1.109: Atmospheric Compensation Techniques for Imaging Spectrometer Data I

WE1.110: Land Cover Classification

WE1.111: Change Detection

WE1.203: Atmospheric Profiling I

WE2.101: Near Sub-Surface Electromagnetic Imaging: Methods and Applications II

WE2.102: SAR/PolSAR/InSAR for Environmental Monitoring I

WE2.103: Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow II

WE2.104: Scaling Issues in Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

WE2.105: Ocean and Ice Altimetry

WE2.107: Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing III

WE2.108: Multi Aperture Multistatic SAR

WE2.109: Atmospheric Compensation Techniques for Imaging Spectrometer Data II

WE2.110: Forest Structure and Biomass

WE2.111: Analysis Techniques: Land Use / Land Cover

WE2.203: Atmospheric Profiling II

WE2.210: Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geoscience I

WE3.101: Geological Applications of Hyper- and Multi-spectral Imaging

WE3.102: PolSAR and Pol-InSAR for Agricultural Information Product Development I

WE3.103: Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow I

WE3.104: Multiscale Processing

WE3.105: Coastal Altimetry I

WE3.107: Data Fusion III

WE3.108: Bistatic SAR I

WE3.109: Remote Sensing Education and Outreach

WE3.110: Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation

WE3.111: Image Information Mining I

WE3.203: Retrieval of Aerosol Characteristics from Ground-based and Satellite Observations

WE3.210: Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geoscience II

WE4.101: Geological Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar

WE4.102: PolSAR and Pol-InSAR for Agricultural Information Product Development II

WE4.103: Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow II

WE4.104: Evapotranspiration Estimation at Field Scale

WE4.105: Coastal Altimetry II

WE4.107: Geospatial Based Analysis

WE4.108: Bistatic SAR II

WE4.109: Remote Sensing and Policy Decisions

WE4.110: Remote Sensing on the African Continent

WE4.111: Image Information Mining II

WE4.203: Optical & Infrared Modeling for Remote Sensing I

WE4.210: Advanced Lidar Technologies and Applications to 3D Landcover Structure II

WEP.A: Land Cover Classification and Characterization

WEP.B: Hyperspectral and Optical Remote Sensing of Vegetation

WEP.C: Optical & Infrared Modeling for Remote Sensing II

WEP.D: Forests and Vegetation: MODIS

WEP.E: Forests and Vegetation: Modeling, Algorithms and Simulations

WEP.F: Forests and Vegetation: Seasonal Processes

WEP.G: Forests and Vegetation: Fire, Disturbance, and Recovery

WEP.H: Drought and Evapotranspiration

WEP.I: Ocean Altimetry

WEP.J: Atmospheric Profiling III

WEP.K: Satellite Data-based Methods for Determining Aerosol Characteristics

WEP.L: Aerosol and Trace Gas Monitoring using a Combination of Ground-based and Satellite Observations

WEP.M: Data Fusion IV

WEP.N: Data Mining Tools & Applications

WEP.O: Ensemble Filtering and Data Assimilation

WEP.P: Inverse Methods and Data Processing

WEP.Q: Statistical and Physics-Based Inverse Methods

WEP.R: SAR Image Methods

WEP.S: SAR Instruments, Missions and Atmospheric Effects

WEP.T: Moving and Stationary Targets

WEP.U: Multistatic SAR and 3-D Imaging

WEP.V: Urban Remote Sensing I

WEP.W: Urban Remote Sensing II

WEP.X: Urban Remote Sensing III

WEP.Z: Remote Sensing of Road Networks and Vehicles

WEP.AA: Remote Sensing of Urban Heat Islands

WEP.BB: Soil & Air Pollution Monitoring

WEP.CC: Water Pollution Monitoring

WEP.DD: Data Management and Systems I

WEP.EE: Education, Outreach and Policy

Thursday, July 10

TH1.210: Human and Environmental Health

TH1.101: Crustal Deformation and Subsurface Sensing

TH1.102: Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction I

TH1.103: Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere I

TH1.104: Change Detection in Forested Landscapes I

TH1.105: Sensing and Modeling Ocean Physics

TH1.107: Image Analysis for Classification and Detection

TH1.108: Interferometry I

TH1.109: Space Hyperspectral Sensors and Programs I

TH1.110: Remote Sensing of Agricultural Production and Sustainability I

TH1.111: Improving Access to Earth Science Data: New Tools and Services I

TH1.203: Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission I

TH2.101: 3D Urban Mapping I

TH2.102: Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction II

TH2.103: Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere II

TH2.104: Recent Advances in Change Detection Techniques

TH2.105: High Resolution Microwave Sensing of Ocean Wind and Waves

TH2.107: Kernel Methods for Image Analysis and Classification

TH2.108: Interferometry II

TH2.109: Space Hyperspectral Sensors and Programs II

TH2.110: Remote Sensing of Agricultural Production and Sustainability II

TH2.111: Improving Access to Earth Science Data: New Tools and Services II

TH2.203: Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission II

TH2.210: Atmospheric Remote Sensing for Air Pollution and Human Health

TH3.101: 3D Urban Mapping II

TH3.102: SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications I

TH3.103: Active Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere I

TH3.104: Change Detection in Land Use / Land Cover I

TH3.105: Optical Sensing in the Coastal Ocean

TH3.107: Image Classification - Techniques and Applications

TH3.108: SAR Processing I

TH3.109: Future Space-based Optical Instruments

TH3.110: Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters I

TH3.111: Data Management and Systems II

TH3.203: Global Precipitation Mission I

TH3.210: A Climate of Change -- NASA's Applied Sciences Program I

TH4.101: Urban Road Networks

TH4.102: SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications II

TH4.103: Active Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere II

TH4.104: Change Detection in Urban Landscapes I

TH4.105: Surface Temperature and Salinity I

TH4.107: Image Analysis and Classification - Quality Issues

TH4.108: SAR Processing II

TH4.109: Technologies for Hyperspectral Imaging

TH4.110: Pollution Monitoring

TH4.111: Data Management and Systems III

TH4.203: Global Precipitation Mission II

TH4.210: A Climate of Change -- NASA's Applied Sciences Program II

THP.A: Change Detection in Forested Landscapes II

THP.B: Change Detection in Land Use / Land Cover II

THP.C: Change Detection in Urban Landscapes II

THP.D: Land Use/Land Cover Classification I

THP.E: Land Use/Land Cover Classification II

THP.F: Land Use/Land Cover Classification III

THP.G: Applications in Land Use / Land Cover Characterization I

THP.H: Applications in Land Use / Land Cover Characterization II

THP.I: Retrieval of Water and Energy Balance Parameters I

THP.J: Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters II

THP.K: Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters III

THP.L: Ocean Color

THP.M: Surface Temperature and Salinity II

THP.N: Clouds and Precipitation I

THP.O: Clouds and Precipitation II

THP.P: Land Ice and Snow I

THP.Q: Land Ice and Snow II

THP.R: Land Ice and Snow III

THP.S: Sea Ice

THP.T: Microwave Scattering and Propagation I

THP.U: Volume and Surface Scattering

THP.V: Microwave Scattering and Propagation II

THP.W: Interferometry II

THP.X: Interferometry / Polarimetry

THP.Y: SAR Processing III

THP.Z: SAR Processing IV

THP.AA: SAR Processing V

THP.BB: UAV Sensor Systems

THP.CC: Optical Instrument Calibration

THP.DD: Optical Technologies

THP.EE: Active Microwave Remote Sensing I

Friday, July 11

FR1.210: Baseline Climate Identification and Global Change

FR1.101: Mapping Urban Areas I

FR1.102: Digital Beamforming for Future Remote Sensing Systems I

FR1.103: Passive Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere

FR1.104: Land Use/Land Cover Classification IV

FR1.105: Pansharpening

FR1.107: Geospatial Standards & Services I

FR1.108: Active Microwave Remote Sensing - Weather

FR1.109: Rough Surface Scattering and Remote Sensing I

FR1.110: Forest Parameter Estimation from Space using SAR I

FR1.111: Earth Observation Sensor Web I

FR1.203: Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere I

FR2.101: Mapping Urban Areas II

FR2.102: Digital Beamforming for Future Remote Sensing Systems II

FR2.103: Sea Ice as an Indicator for Climate Change I

FR2.104: Land Use/Land Cover Classification V

FR2.105: Image Processing: Registration

FR2.107: Geospatial Standards & Services II

FR2.108: Active Microwave Remote Sensing II

FR2.109: Rough Surface Scattering and Remote Sensing II

FR2.110: Forest Parameter Estimation from Space using SAR II

FR2.111: Earth Observation Sensor Web II

FR2.203: Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere II

FR2.210: AMSR-E I

FR3.101: Urban Remote Sensing VII

FR3.102: Polarimetric SAR Image Segmentation and Analysis

FR3.103: Sea Ice as an Indicator for Climate Change II

FR3.104: Microwave Remote Sensing for Land Use and Land Cover Change

FR3.107: Hyperspectral Image Analysis for Detection and Classification

FR3.108: Microwave Synthetic Aperture Radiometers II

FR3.109: Electromagnetic Methods for Remote Sensing I

FR3.110: Vegetation 3D Structure: Combining Lidar and Radar I

FR3.111: Data Assimilation and Ensemble Filtering

FR3.203: Clouds and Precipitation III

FR3.210: AMSR-E II

FR4.101: Urban Remote Sensing VIII

FR4.104: Retrieval of Water and Energy Balance Parameters II

FR4.107: Optical Sensor Technology

FR4.108: Low-cost Aerial and UAV Remote Sensing

FR4.109: Electromagnetic Methods for Remote Sensing II

FR4.110: Vegetation 3D Structure: Combining Lidar and Radar II

FR4.111: Data-Validated Inverse Methods

FR4.203: Clouds and Precipitation IV

MO3.101: Mapping Subsurface Geology in Arid Regions using Radar

MO3.101.1: 70-CM RADAR PROBING OF THE MOON: A NEW VIEW BELOW THE SURFACE
Bruce Campbell, Donald Campbell, Lynn Carter, Rebecca Ghent

MO3.101.2: MAPPING BURIED AND EXPOSED LAVA FLOWS IN ARID VOLCANIC TERRAINS USING POLARIMETRIC AND MULTIPLE FREQUENCIES SAR AND GPR
Essam Heggy, Kozin Wada, Shuhab Khan, Thomas Staudacher, Edouard Kaminski, Taoufik Gabsi, Philippe Lognonné, Steve Tait, Alain Bonneville, Jean Christophe Komorowski, Satoshi Fujiwara, Josephine Boisson, Nicolas Villeneuve, Marius Necsoiu

MO3.101.3: PHASE DIFFERENCES IN LONGER WAVELENGTH POLARIMETRIC SAR - SURFACE OR SUBSURFACE EFFECTS?
Anthony Freeman, Philippe Paillou, Yannick Lasne, Bruce Campbell, Kyle McDonald, Tom Farr

MO3.101.4: MAPPING WATER BASINS IN THE EASTERN SAHARA BY SRTM DATA
Eman Ghoneim, Farouk El-Baz

MO3.101.5: A PALSAR MOSAIC OF SAHARA TO MAP SUBSURFACE GEOLOGY
Philippe Paillou, Tom Farr, Ake Rosenqvist, Sylvia Lopez

MO3.102: RADARSAT

MO3.102.1: TWELVE YEARS OF RADARSAT-1 CALIBRATION: OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE AND LESSONS LEARNED
Stephane Cote, Satish Srivastava, Robert Hawkins

MO3.102.2: CAPABILITIES OF RADARSAT-2 AND USE BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
Luc Brûlé, Daniel De Lisle, Jill Smyth

MO3.102.3: INITIAL EVALUATION OF RADARSAT-2 FOR OPERATIONAL SEA ICE MONITORING
Dean Flett, Roger De Abreu, Matt Arkett, Marie-France Gauthier

MO3.102.4: RADARSAT-2 MOVING OBJECT DETECTION EXPERIMENT (MODEX)
Shen Chiu, Chuck Livingstone, Ishuwa Sikaneta, Christoph H. Gierull, Pete Beaulne

MO3.102.5: RADARSAT-2 APPLICATIONS POTENTIAL FOR CANADA AND APPLICATIONS DEVELPOMENT SUPPORT PROGRAMS
Daniel De Lisle, Jill Smyth, Wendy Branson

MO3.103: ALOS in 2008 II

MO3.103.1: PALSAR CALVAL AND GENERATION OF THE CONTINENT SCALE MOSAIC PRODUCTS FOR KYOTO AND CARBON PROJECT
Masanobu Shimada, Osamu Isoguchi, Ake Rosenqvist

MO3.103.2: POLARIMETRIC PALSAR SYSTEM MODEL ASSESSMENT AND CALIBRATION
Ridha Touzi, Masanobu Shimada, Stefan Nedelcu

MO3.103.3: CALIBRATION OF ALOS/PALSAR POLARIMETRIC DATA USING POLARIZATION ORIENTATION
Hiroshi Kimura

MO3.103.4: POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE OF L-BAND MEASUREMENTS OVER THE OCEAN ON SURFACE WIND AT 23-25 INCIDENCE ANGLES
Osamu Isoguchi, Masanobu Shimada

MO3.103.5: NEW EYES IN THE SKY: CLOUD-FREE TROPICAL FOREST MONITORING FOR REDD WITH ALOS/PALSAR
Josef Kellndorfer, Wayne Walker, Claudia Stickler, Katie Kirsch, Masanobu Shimada, Ake Rosenqvist, Daniel Nepstad, Paul Lefebvre

MO3.104: Crop and Forest Monitoring with Microwave Radiometric Sensors I

MO3.104.1: MODELING THE MULTIFREQUENCY EMISSION OF FORESTS AND THEIR COMPONENTS
Andrea Della Vecchia, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Leila Guerriero, Rachid Rahmoune, Simonetta Paoloscia, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi

MO3.104.2: FOREST CANOPY EFFECTS ON THE ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE AT L-BAND
Mehmet Kurum, Roger Lang, Peggy O'Neill, Alicia Joseph, Michael Cosh, Thomas Jackson

MO3.104.3: MICROWAVE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL UNDER TREES
Peggy O'Neill, Roger Lang, Mehmet Kurum, Alicia Joseph, Thomas Jackson, Michael Cosh

MO3.104.4: L-BAND MICROWAVE EMISSION OF SOIL, LITTER AND GRASS LAYERS UNDERNEATH A FOREST CANOPY
Jennifer Grant, Mike Schwank, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Adriaan Van de Griend

MO3.104.5: MICROWAVE EMISSION FROM FORESTED AREAS BY USING MICROWAVE AMSR-E AND GROUND-BASED DATA
Simonetta Paloscia, Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi

MO3.105: Remote Sensing Applications to Archaeology I

MO3.105.1: WIDE-AREA, PLANNING LEVEL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS USING SAR AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES
Douglas Comer

MO3.105.2: SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL STRUCTURES AT NABTA PLAYA, EGYPT
Paul Rosen, Thomas Brophy, Masanobu Shimada

MO3.105.3: THE APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SEGMENT OF GRAND CANAL IN SHANDONG PROVINCE
Feng Mao, Qiang Li, Jianxi Huang, Zhihua Tang, Wensheng Zhou, Ze Liu

MO3.105.4: SENSING WHAT LIES BENEATH: CANOPY REFLECTANCE AS AN INDICATOR OF ANCIENT SETTLEMENT
William Saturno

MO3.105.5: THE ANALYSIS OF AGRARIAN-BASED LOW-DENSITY URBANISM AND THE ROLE OF REMOTE SENSING
Roland Fletcher

MO3.107: Frontiers for Classification of Hyperspectral Data I

MO3.107.1: AN EFFICIENT ACTIVE LEARNING ALGORITHM WITH KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER FOR HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA
Goo Jun, Joydeep Ghosh

MO3.107.2: AUTOMATED ESTIMATION OF SPECTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD SIZE IN MANIFOLD COORDINATE REPRESENTATIONS OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY: IMPLICATIONS FOR ANOMALY FINDING, BATHYMETRY RETRIEVAL, AND LAND APPLICATIONS
Charles Bachmann, Thomas Ainsworth, Robert Fusina

MO3.107.3: PARALLEL MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY USING EXTENDED OPENING AND CLOSING BY RECONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS
Antonio Plaza, Javier Plaza

MO3.107.4: ENSEMBLE METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Jón Atli Benediktsson, Xavier Ceamanos Garcia, Björn Waske, Mathieu Fauvel, Johannes R. Sveinsson

MO3.107.5: A NOVEL APPROACH TO THE SELECTION OF ROBUST AND INVARIANT FEATURES FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES
Lorenzo Bruzzone, Claudio Persello

MO3.108: Information Extraction from High Resolution SAR images I

MO3.108.1: PHYSICS AND EXPERIMENTAL ISSUES ON HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGING OF URBAN AREA
Hubert Cantalloube, Hélène Oriot, Élise Colin-Koeniguer

MO3.108.2: NORMALIZED COHERENCY MATRIX ESTIMATION UNDER THE SIRV MODEL - ALPINE GLACIER POLSAR DATA ANALYSIS
Gabriel Vasile, Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, Frédéric Pascal, Céline Tison, Lionel Bombrun, Michel Gay, Emmanuel Trouvé

MO3.108.3: ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELLING FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES OF URBAN AREAS
Giorgio Franceschetti, Raffaella Guida, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio

MO3.108.4: AUTOMATED INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM TERRASAR-X DATA
Mihai Datcu, Daniele Cerra, Houda Chaabouni-Chouayakh, Amaia de Miguel, Daniela Espinoza Molina, Gottfried Schwarz, Matteo Soccorsi

MO3.108.5: OPTIMAL MULTILOOKING FOR ROBUST SAR IMAGE INDEXING
Gottfried Schwarz, Daniela Espinoza Molina, Helko Breit, Mihai Datcu

MO3.109: NPOESS and SENTINEL Missions

MO3.109.1: THE NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM (NPOESS): IMPROVED CAPABILITIES FOR WEATHER FORECASTING AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
Dan Stockton, Carl Hoffman, John (Mike) Haas, Craig Nelson

MO3.109.2: EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) SENSOR
Bruce Guenther, Karen St. Germain, Heather Kilcoyne, Bonnie Reed, Carl Hoffman

MO3.109.3: WINDSAT SPACE BORNE POLARIMETRIC MICROWAVE RADIOMETER: SENSOR CALIBRATION AND SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
Peter Gaiser, Michael H. Bettenhausen, Elizabeth Twarog, Ian Adams, William Johnston, Li Li

MO3.109.4: THE EUROPEAN GMES SENTINEL-1 RADAR MISSION
Evert Attema, Malcolm Davidson, Nicolas Floury, Guido Levrini, Betlem Rosich, Björn Rommen, Paul Snoeij

MO3.109.5: THE SENTINEL-1 C-SAR INSTRUMENT : STATUS AND PERFORMANCE
Friedhelm Rostan, Wolfgang Pitz, Sebastian Riegger, Renato Croci, Ramon Torres

MO3.110: Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications I

MO3.110.1: SENSIVITY ANALYSIS OF A HYPERSPECTRAL INVERSION MODEL FOR REMOTE SENSING OF SHALLOW COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS
Carolina Gerardino-Neira, James Goodman, Miguel Velez-Reyes, Wilson Rivera-Gallego

MO3.110.2: APPLICATION OF THERMAL IMAGING TO MEASURE ESTUARINE SURFACE VELOCITIES
C. Chris Chickadel, Andrew Jessup

MO3.110.3: THERMAL INFRARED ESTIMATION OF TIDAL FLAT POROSITY
Jim Thomson

MO3.110.4: MONITORING INUNDATION DYNAMICS IN PARANA RIVER, ARGENTINA, BY C AND L BAND SAR
Mercedes Salvia, Grings Francisco, Haydee Karszenbaum, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Patricia Kandus, Leila Guerriero

MO3.111: Ocean Surface Winds

MO3.111.1: WINDSAT OCEAN RETRIEVALS AT MULTIPLE RESOLUTIONS
Michael H. Bettenhausen, Ian Adams, Peter Gaiser, William Johnston

MO3.111.2: A NEW CROSS-CALIBRATED, MULTI-SATELLITE OCEAN SURFACE WIND PRODUCT
Robert Atlas, Ross Hoffman, Joseph Ardizzone, Mark Leidner, Juan-Carlos Jusem

MO3.111.3: A KU-BAND ACTIVE/PASSIVE WIND VECTOR RETRIEVAL OVER THE OCEAN
Suleiman Alsweiss, Pet Laupattarakasem, W. Linwood Jones, Robert Roeder

MO3.111.4: HIGH-RESOLUTION ASCAT SCATTEROMETER WINDS NEAR THE COAST
Ad Stoffelen, Marcos Portabella, Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, Jur Vogelzang

MO3.111.5: VALIDATION OF NOAA'S NEAR REAL-TIME ASCAT OCEAN VECTOR WINDS
Seubson Soisuvarn, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang, Qi Zhu, Gordana Sindic-Rancic

MO3.203: Advances in Passive Microwave and Infrared Imaging and Sounding (In Honor of the Accomplishments of Prof. David H. Staelin) I

MO3.203.1: NEURAL NETWORK ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES USING AIRS/IASI/AMSU DATA IN THE PRESENCE OF CLOUDS
William Blackwell, Michael Pieper, Frederick Chen

MO3.203.2: FALLING SNOW RETRIEVALS, HIGH FREQUENCIES, GPM, AND PROF. STAELIN
Gail Skofronick-Jackson

MO3.203.3: GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS OF PRECIPITATION USING SATELLITE PASSIVE MILLIMETER-WAVE SENSORS
Chinnawat Surussavadee

MO3.203.4: DEVELOPMENT OF AN OBSERVATIONAL SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT (OSSE) FOR A GEOSTATIONARY MICROWAVE IMAGER
Albin Gasiewski, Bob Weber, Ambarish Jash

MO3.203.5: MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES: FROM STAELIN AND BARRETT TO THE NASA JUNO MISSION
Paul Steffes

MO3.210: Implementation of GEOSS: Technical and Application Developments

MO3.210.1: GEOSS FROM ORBIT, A SENSOR WEB APPROACH
Terence Lesley van Zyl

MO3.210.2: GEOSS ARCHITECTURE IMPLEMENTATION PILOT
George Percivall, Joshua Lieberman

MO3.210.3: SERVER-BASED SUPPORT TO AUTOMATIC CO-REGISTRATION OF SATELLITE IMAGERY
Nevin Bryant, Walter Bunch, Richard Fretz, Thomas Logan, Albert Zobrist

MO3.210.4: THE GLOBAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS INFORMATION CENTER (GOSIC) – A PORTAL FOR GEOSS RELATED DATA & INFORMATION.
Christina Lief

MO3.210.5: SHARING EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATION TO SUPPORT THE GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS (GEOSS)
Myra Bambacus, Chaowei Yang, John Evans, Zhenlong Li, Wenwen Li

MO4.101: Subsurface Object Detection

MO4.101.1: TEXTURE FEATURE SELECTION FOR BURIED MINE DETECTION IN AIRBORNE MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY
Spandan Tiwari, Sanjeev Agarwal, Anh Trang

MO4.101.2: INCORPORATING UNCERTAINTY IN UXO DISCRIMINATION
Laurens Beran, Doug Oldenburg

MO4.101.3: A PARAMETER-ESTIMATION-BASED CHANGE DETECTION METHODOLOGY FOR LANDMINE LOCALIZATION FROM GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR DATA
Olga Lopera, Nada Milisavljevic, Benoit Macq, Sebastien Lambot

MO4.101.4: REJECTION OF SURFACE CLUTTER BASED ON AVERAGED WIGNER DISTRIBUTIONS FOR TARGET DETECTION
Nicolas Morelle, Markus Testorf, Nadege Thirion-Moreau, Marc Saillard

MO4.101.5: STEPPED-FREQUENCY RADAR SYSTEM IN GATING MODE: AN EXPERIMENT AS A NEW HELICOPTER-BORNE GPR SYSTEM FOR GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Dieter Eisenburger, Yvonne Krellmann, Harald Lentz, Gunnar Triltzsch

MO4.102: Moving Targets

MO4.102.1: MOVING TARGET RELATIVE SPEED ESTIMATION IN THE PRESENCE OF STRONG STATIONARY SURROUNDING USING A SINGLE ANTENNA UWB SAR SYSTEM
Thomas K. Sjögren, Viet Thuy Vu, Mats Pettersson

MO4.102.2: MOVING TARGET DETECTION BY FOCUSING FOR FREQUENCY DOMAIN ALGORITHMS IN UWB LOW FREQUENCY SAR
Viet Thuy Vu, Thomas K. Sjögren, Mats Pettersson

MO4.102.3: EXTENDING AIRBORNE SAR-ATI ALGORITHMS TO RADARSAT-2 MOVING OBJECT DETECTION EXPERIMENT
Marina Dragosevic, Shen Chiu

MO4.102.4: CHANGE DETECTION FOR TRAFFIC MONITORING IN TERRASAR-X IMAGERY
Gintautas Palubinskas, Hartmut Runge

MO4.102.5: TARGET DETECTION IN MULTIPLE-VIEWING THROUGH-THE-WALL RADAR IMAGING
Christian Debes, Moeness Amin, Abdelhak Zoubir

MO4.103: ALOS in 2008 I

MO4.103.1: PALSAR INSAR OBSERVATION OF CRUSTAL DEFORMATION DUE TO THE 2007 CHUETSU-OKI EARTHQUAKE (M6.8)
Masato Furuya, Youichiro Takada, Yosuke Aoki

MO4.103.2: UPDATED RESULTS OF CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF ALOS OPTICAL SENSORS
Takeo Tadono, Masanobu Shimada, Hiroshi Murakami, Junichi Takaku, Sachi Kawamoto

MO4.103.3: HIGH RESOLUTION DSM GENERATION FROM ALOS PRISM - CALIBRATION UPDATES-
Junichi Takaku, Takeo Tadono, Masanobu Shimada

MO4.103.4: ACCURATE DEM AND ORTHO-RECTIFIED IMAGE PRODUCTION FROM ALOS/PRISM
Makoto Maruya, Hiroshi Ohyama

MO4.103.5: IMPROVEMENT OF AVNIR-2 RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION BY TOA DIRECTIONAL-REFLECTANCE CROSS-CALIBRATION AND ON-BOARD CALIBRATION DATA
Hiroshi Murakami, Takeo Tadono, Hiroko Imai, Masanobu Shimada

MO4.104: Crop and Forest Monitoring with Microwave Radiometric Sensors II

MO4.104.1: VALIDATION OF THE SMOS LEVEL 2 RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM OVER CROPS AND PRAIRIES FROM THE COSMOS-NAFE CAMPAIGN
Kauzar Saleh, Gilles Boulet, Yann Kerr, Philippe Maisongrande, Philippe Richaume, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Steven Delwart, Rocco Panciera, Jeffrey Walker

MO4.104.2: MONITORING OF MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS OF GROWING CROPS DURING THE MICROWAVE WATER ENERGY BALANCE EXPERIMENTS (MICROWEXS)
Jasmeet Judge, Wendy Graham, Jennifer Jacobs, James Jones

MO4.104.3: EVALUATION OF A FIRST-ORDER TAU-OMEGA MODEL OF TERRESTRIAL MICROWAVE EMISSION
Brian Hornbuckle, Tracy Rowlandson

MO4.104.4: MONITORING VEGETATION WATER CONTENT USING MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDICES
Jing Tao, Jiancheng Shi, Thomas Jackson, Jinyang Du, Rajat Bindlish, Lixin Zhang

MO4.104.5: MONITORING WINTER WHEAT GROWTH WITH GRAND BASED MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS (GBMR)
Hui Lu, Toshio Koike, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Tobias Graf, David Kuria

MO4.105: Remote Sensing Applications to Archaeology II

MO4.105.1: HYDROLOGIC HISTORY OF THE EASTERN SAHARA FROM ORBITAL SAR: A SUPPORT TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION
Philippe Paillou, Tom Farr, Ron Blom

MO4.105.2: APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING TO ARCHAEOLOGY: REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESS AND EXAMPLES FROM DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS
Ronald Blom

MO4.105.3: ANGKOR AND BEYOND: APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING TO EARLY SETTLEMENT SITES IN CAMBODIA
Damian Evans, Roland Fletcher

MO4.105.4: 3D MAPPING OF THE PERFORMANCE OF URBAN PLACES
Aysegul Ozbakir

MO4.107: Frontiers for Classification of Hyperspectral Data II

MO4.107.1: FAST HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING BINARY QUATERNION-MOMENT-PRESERVING THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUE
Lena Chang, Ching-Min Cheng, Yang-Lang Chang

MO4.107.2: CLUSTER-BASED ENSEMBLE CLASSIFICATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Mingmin Chi, Kun Qian, Jón Atli Benediktsson

MO4.107.3: SPATIALLY ADAPTED MANIFOLD LEARNING FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY WITH INSUFFICIENT LABELED DATA
Wonkook Kim, Melba Crawford, Joydeep Ghosh

MO4.107.4: A NOVEL RANDOM SUBSPACE METHOD USING SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL INFORMATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Bor-Chen Kuo, Chun-Hsiang Chuang, Chih-Cheng Hung, Szu-Wei Yang

MO4.107.5: EC-GLRT: DETECTING WEAK PLUMES IN NON-GAUSSIAN HYPERSPECTRAL CLUTTER USING AN ELLIPTICALLY-CONTOURED GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST
James Theiler, Bernard Foy

MO4.108: Information Extraction from High Resolution SAR images II

MO4.108.1: SAR IMAGE DESPECKLING IN THE UNDECIMATED CONTOURLET DOMAIN: A COMPARISON OF LMMSE AND MAP APPROACHES
Fabrizio Argenti, Tiziano Bianchi, Giovanni Martucci di Scarfizzi, Luciano Alparone

MO4.108.2: SAR IMAGE FILTERING VIA LEARNED DICTIONARIES AND SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS
Samuel Foucher

MO4.108.3: STATISTICAL SIMILARITY MEASURE FOR OIL SLICK DETECTION IN SAR IMAGE
Bahia Lounis, Gregoire Mercier, Aichouche Belhadj Aissa

MO4.108.4: IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING DATA COMPRESSION BASED TECHNIQUES
Daniele Cerra, Mihai Datcu

MO4.108.5: COMPARISON OF THREE UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS FOR SAR DATA IN URBAN AREAS
Wenju He, Marc Jäger, Olaf Hellwich

MO4.109: Reflective-Band Vicarious Calibration for Intersensor Comparisons

MO4.109.1: REFINEMENT OF THE METHOD FOR USING PSEUDO-INVARIANT SITES FOR LONG TERM CALIBRATION TRENDING OF LANDSAT REFLECTIVE BANDS
John R. Schott, Clifton R. Anderson, Julia A. Barsi

MO4.109.2: PRE-FLIGHT AND VICARIOUS CALIBRATION OF ARTEMIS
Kurtis Thome, Ronald Lockwood, Stuart Biggar, Nikolaus Anderson, Jeffrey Czapla-Myers, Steven Miller, Thomas Chrien, Stephen Schiller, John Silny, Mary Ann Glennon, Thomas Cooley

MO4.109.3: USE OF SMALL PSEUDO-INVARIANT SITES FOR LONG-TERM SENSOR CALIBRATION
Dennis Helder, Daniel Morstad

MO4.109.4: CLIMATE QUALITY BROADBAND AND NARROWBAND SOLAR REFLECTED RADIANCE CALIBRATION BETWEEN SENSORS IN ORBIT
Bruce Wielicki, David Doelling, David Young, Donald Garber

MO4.109.5: REFLECTIVE BANDS VICARIOUS CALIBRATION OF THE MODIS AND AVHRR SENSORS USING OCEAN, CLOUDS AND DESERT OBSERVATIONS
Eric Vermote

MO4.110: Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications II

MO4.110.1: RADAR MONITORING OF WETLAND HYDROLOGY: DYNAMIC INFORMATION FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Megan Lang, Gregory W. McCarty, Jerry Ritchie, Ali Sadeghi, Dean Hively

MO4.110.2: SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION AT LEAF AND PATCH SCALE OF INVASIVE WETLAND WEEDS
Laurie Chisholm, John Marthick

MO4.110.3: STUDYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS RETRIEVED FROM REMOTELY-SENSED IMAGES AND RIFT VALLEY FEVER IN SENEGAL
Pietro Ceccato, Vincent Martin, Judy Omumbo, Ousmane Ndiaye, Michael Bell, Madeleine Thomson, Assaf Anyamba, Yaya Thiongane, Baba Sall

MO4.110.4: RISK MAPPING OF THE SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN MINAS GERAIS STATE, BRAZIL, USING MODIS AND SOCIOECONOMICS SPATIAL DATA
Flávia Toledo Martins, Corina Costa Freitas, Luciano Vieira Dutra, Fernanda Rodrigues da Fonseca, Ricardo José de Paula Souza e Guimarães, Ronaldo Santos do Amaral, Ana Clara Mourão Moura, Omar dos Santos Carvalho

MO4.110.5: RECOGNITION OF URBAN PATTERNS RELATED TO LEPTOSPIROSIS CONTAMINATION RISKS USING OBJECT BASED CLASSIFICATION OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY. TEST AREAS: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS OF THE RAILROAD SUBURB OF SALVADOR, BRAZIL.
Patricia Brito, Helbert Arenas, Nina Lam, José Alberto Quintanilha

MO4.111: Ocean Wind and Weather Sensing

MO4.111.1: GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM-REFLECTOMETRY (GNSS-R) FROM THE UK-DMC SATELLITE FOR REMOTE SENSING OF THE OCEAN SURFACE
Maria Paola Clarizia, Christine Gommenginger, Scott Gleason, Carmela Galdi, Martin Unwin

MO4.111.2: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF GNSS-R SPACE BASED SCATTEROMETRY BY MEANS OF DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS
Salvatore D'Addio, Christopher Buck

MO4.111.3: HURRICANE WIND RETRIEVALS FROM THE QUIKSCAT SCATTEROMETER AND COMPARISON WITH H*WIND OCEAN VECTOR WINDS
Pet Laupattarakasem, W. Linwood Jones, Christopher C. Hennon

MO4.111.4: HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER WIDE SWATH SIMULATION FOR WIND SPEED AND RAIN RATE
Salem El-Nimri, Suleiman Alsweiss, W. Linwood Jones, Eric Uhlhorn, James Johnson

MO4.111.5: STATISTIAL ANALYSIS OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SCATTERED BY THE OCEAN SURFACE IN VARIOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS: A NUMERICAL STUDY IN L-BAND
Arnaud Coatanhay

MO4.203: Advances in Passive Microwave and Infrared Imaging and Sounding (In Honor of the Accomplishments of Prof. David H. Staelin) II

MO4.203.1: NPOESS MICROWAVE IMAGER/SOUNDER (MIS): THE NEXT GENERATION OPERATIONAL MICROWAVE IMAGING AND SOUNDING RADIOMETER
David Kunkee

MO4.203.2: RFI MITIGATION IN SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS
Jeffrey Piepmeier

MO4.203.3: EMISSION AND SCATTERING EFFECTS IN PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS OF ANTARCTICA
Philip Rosenkranz

MO4.203.4: MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY FOR REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE AND SNOW
Edward Kim

MO4.203.5: DEVELOPMENT OF A LOBE-DIFFERENCING CORRELATION RADIOMETER (LDCR) FOR AIRBORNE UAV SSS MAPPING
Eric McIntyre, Albin Gasiewski, Vladimir Leuski

MO4.203.6: IMPROVED SIMULATION METHODOLOGY FOR RETRIEVAL OF CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION FROM SPACEBORNE PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS
R. Vincent Leslie, Laura Bickmeier, William Blackwell, Laura Jairam, Frederick Chen

MO4.210: Implementation of GEOSS: Science and Modeling

MO4.210.1: HOW GEOSS INFRASTRUCTURE ENABLES INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE
Siri Jodha Khalsa, Stefano Nativi, Gary Geller, Reece Lumsden

MO4.210.2: THE CEOS CALVAL PORTAL: PATHWAY TO GEOSS DATA COMPARABILITY TOWARD CONSISTENT CALIBRATION USING COMMON PRACTICES AND CALVAL SITES
Changyong Cao, Stephen Ungar, Pascal Lecomte, Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, Xiwu Zahn, Petya Campbell

MO4.210.3: THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A VIRTUAL SENSOR WEB PLATFORM OF TARGET OBSERVING FOR BAD WEATHER MONITORING
Hong Fan, Liping Di, Genong Yu

MO4.210.4: GPS RADIO OCCULTATION AS PART OF THE GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM
Anthony J. Mannucci, Chi O. Ao, Byron A. Iijima, Attila Komjathy, Thomas Yunck, Marc K. Pestana, Brian D. Wilson

MO4.210.5: OCEAN/SEA-ICE CLIMATE MONITORING INC - ESTABLISHING A ROUTINE OCEAN/SEA-ICE CLIMATE MONITORING AND MEASURING FACILITY
Chris Hill, Patrick Heimbach

MOP.A: Techniques for Agroecosystem Monitoring

MOP.A.1: RELATING SURFACE ALBEDO AND VEGETATION INDEX WITH SURFACE DRYNESS USING LANDSAT ETM+ IMAGERY
Yunjun Yao, Qiming Qin, Abduwasit Ghulam, Lin Zhu, Nan Yang

MOP.A.2: ESTIMATION OF THE REGIONAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION OVER RICE PADDY USING MULTI-SPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA
Tzu-Yin Chang, Yuei-An Liou, Yi-Ying Chen, Han-Jie Ho

MOP.A.3: THE INTEGRATION OF MAGNITUDE AND SHAPE RELATED FEATURES IN HYPERSPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS TO MONITOR WEEDS IN CITRUS ORCHARDS
Ben Somers, Kenneth Cools, Stephanie Delalieux, Willem W. Verstraeten, Jan Verbesselt, Stefaan Lhermitte, Pol Coppin

MOP.A.4: APPLICATION OF SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING FOR SPATIAL MODELLING OF MINIMUM TEMPERATURES IN SPRING FROST SITUATIONS IN THE CHAMPAGNE VINEYARD
Malika Madelin, Hervé Quénol

MOP.A.5: SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE OF DATE PALM TREES RELATIONSHIP TO YIELD AND N-FERTILIZATION
Yousef Aldakheel, Faisal Zeinldin, Massoud Abdel Aati

MOP.B: Applications of Agroecosystem Monitoring

MOP.B.1: WINTER WHEAT YIELD ESTIMATION USING VGT-NDVI AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA
Hao Yan, Yingbo Song, Yingyu Hou, Yonglan Qian, Jianlin Wang, Liuxi Mao

MOP.B.2: THE TAKE-ALL OF WHEAT DISEASES FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD STUDY BY USING GROUND SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT DATA AND TM MULTISPECTRAL DATA
Jianwen Ma, Xue Chen, Fangyan Yuan, Hongbo Qiao

MOP.B.3: MONITORING WINTER WHEAT PHENOLOGY USING SPOT/VEGETATION DATA
Linlin Lu, Huadong Guo, Jingjuan Liao

MOP.B.4: FEASIBILITY OF USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES TO DETECT SPIDER MITE DAMAGE IN STONE FRUIT ORCHARDS
Minghua Zhang, Adam Hale, Eike Luedeling

MOP.B.5: STUDY ON PHENOPHASE OF WINTER WHEAT FROM MODIS DATA IN HEBEI, CHINA
Feng Yan, Peijun Shi, Jianjun Wu, Yanjiao Wang

MOP.B.6: APPLICATION OF SEBS TO DROUGHT MONITORING IN NORTH CHINA PLAIN
Yanbo He, Houquan Lu, Jianlin Wang, Huanping Wu

MOP.B.7: APPLYING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES INTO CROP EMERGENCE MONITORING
Yanbo He, Jingwen Guo, Huanping Wu

MOP.B.8: DROUGHT MONITORING IN NORTHERN CHINA PLAIN COMBINING RS AND GIS TECHNOLOGY
Jian Wu, Guoyin Cai, Yong Xue, Mingyi Du

MOP.B.9: STUDY ON THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICE VALUE IN THE NORTH SLOPE OF TIANSHAN MOUNTAINS
Bo Li, Jie Chong, Rui Hong, Shu-Hui Zhang, Xin-Shi Zhang

MOP.C: Ocean Wind Measurements

MOP.C.1: VALIDATION OF QSCAT-1 GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION USING SEAWINDS LEVEL 2 AND BUOY DATA
Xuetong Xie, Qiming Zeng, Weidong Hu, Wenxian Yu, Kehai Chen, Yu Fang

MOP.C.2: OPERATIONAL TECHNIQUE IN TYPHOON WIND RADII USING SATELLITE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSOR DATA
Jun Park, Jae-Young Byon, Eunha Sohn, Yoonjae Kim

MOP.C.3: A SPACEBORNE RADAR FOR DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRUM ESTIMATION: FIRST PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS
Céline Tison, Danièle Hauser, Guy Carayon, Juliette Lambin, Patrick Castillan, Jean-Claude Souyris

MOP.C.4: EFFECTIVENESS OF QUIKSCAT'S ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES IN DETERMINING TROPICAL STORM EYE LOCATION
Faozi Said, David G. Long

MOP.C.5: SYSTEM DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE SIMULATION OF A SPACEBORNE KU-BAND ROTATION FAN-BEAM SCATTEROMETER
Xiaolong Dong, Wenming Lin

MOP.C.6: NEURAL NETWORK RETRIEVAL OF SEA SURFACE WIND SPEED FROM ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-E DATA
Biao Zhang, Yijun He, Wang Lijing

MOP.C.7: HIGH RESOLUTION WIND VECTOR RETRIEVALS IN TROPICAL CYCLONES USING WINDSAT
Ian Adams, Michael H. Bettenhausen, Peter Gaiser

MOP.C.8: PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS FOR A SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER MEASURING PEAK SURFACE WIND SPEED IN HURRICANES
Ruba Amarin, Christopher Ruf, James Johnson, W. Linwood Jones

MOP.C.9: DEPENDENCY OF NRCS OF OCEAN SURFACE ON WIND DIRECTION USING AN AIRBORNE DUAL-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC SAR OBSERVATION
Akitsugu Nadai, Toshihiko Umehara, Takeshi Matsuoka, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Seiho Uratsuka

MOP.C.10: AN ANISOTROPIC OCEAN SURFACE EMISSIVITY MODEL BASED ON WINDSAT POLARIMETRIC BRIGHTNESS OBSERVATIONS
Dean Smith, Bob Weber, Albin Gasiewski

MOP.D: Active and Passive Ocean Observations

MOP.D.1: PRELIMINARY POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF RUFFLED WATER SURFACE RADAR BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS AND BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES ANGULAR DEPENDENCES AT 15GHZ
Arsen Arakelyan, Artashes Arakelyan, Sargis Darbinyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Izabela Hakobyan, Astghik Hambaryan, Vardan Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Mushegh Manukyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan

MOP.D.2: MONITORING OF SURFACE OCEAN CIRCULATION IN THE GULF OF LIONS (NORTH-WEST MEDITERRANEAN SEA) USING WERA HF RADARS
Philippe Forget, Barbin Yves, Gael André

MOP.D.3: POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING MECHANIZMS OF OCEAN SURFACE FROM WAVE BREAKING OR AT LARGE INCIDENT ANGLES
Haiyan Li, Shufang Zhang, Hui Shen, Yijun He

MOP.D.4: ESTIMATION OF SURFACE VELOCITY FROM INFRARED IMAGES USING THE GLOBAL OPTIMAL SOLUTION TO AN INVERSE MODEL
Wei Chen, Richard Mied, Colin Shen

MOP.D.5: AN IMPROVED TWO-SCALE MODEL FOR THE OCEAN SURFACE BISTATIC SCATTERING
Naheed Sajjad, Ali Khenchaf, Arnaud Coatanhay, Ahmad Awada

MOP.D.6: PROPERTIES OF MESOSCALE EDDIES AROUND THE PHILIPPINE SEA DERIVED FROM SATELLITE DATA AND A NUMERICAL MODEL
Woei-Jen Sheu, Chau-Ron Wu

MOP.D.7: OBSERVATIONS OF OCEAN-ATMOSPHERIC COUPLING IN THE TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES DURING LA NIÑA
Wang Xin, Fang Xiang, Qiu Hong, Zhu Yuanjing

MOP.D.8: A STUDY ON GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION MODELING WITH WATER SURFACE TEMPERATURE AS ONE OF THE INPUT PARAMETERS
Xuetong Xie, Kehai Chen, Wenxian Yu, Weidong Hu, Qiming Zeng, Yu Fang

MOP.D.9: OCEAN SURFACE OBSERVATION BY C-BAND POLARIMETRIC WEATHER RADAR IN OKINAWA ISLAND
Makoto Satake, Yukari Shusse, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Shoichiro Kojima, Shinsuke Sato

MOP.E: SAR Observations of Ocean Processes

MOP.E.1: SIMULATION STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF WIND DIRECTION ON SAR IMAGING OF SHALLOW WATER BATHYMETRY
Kaiguo Fan, Mingxia He, Weigen Huang, Bin Fu, Xilin Gan

MOP.E.2: ESTIMATION OF OCEAN CURRENT VELOCITY IN COASTAL AREA USING RADARSAT-1 SAR IMAGES AND HF-RADAR DATA
Moon-Kyung Kang, Hoonyol Lee, Chan-Su Yang, Wang-Jung Yoon

MOP.E.3: OCEANOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION OF IEODO AREA OF KOREAN PENINSULA USING SAR DATA
Chan-Su Yang, Moon-Kyung Kang

MOP.E.4: SAR MEASUREMENT OF OCEAN SURFACE WIND USING A PHYSICS MODEL
Qing Xu, Hui Lin, Xiaobin Yin, Quanan Zheng, Yuguang Liu, Yongcun Cheng

MOP.E.5: DRESSED AND UNDRESSED SEA SPECTRA IN OCEANIC REMOTE SENSING
Frédéric Nouguier, Charles-Antoine Guérin, Bertrand Chapron

MOP.E.6: A PARAMETRIC ALGORITHM TO RETRIEVE OCEAN WAVE SPECTRA FROM INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Zhang Biao, He Yijun

MOP.F: Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications III

MOP.F.1: REMOTELY MONITORING GREAT LAKES COASTAL WETLANDS WITH MULTI-SENSOR, MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR, AND MULTI-SPECTRAL DATA
Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Mitch Nowels, Kevin Riordan, Nicole Miller, Richard Powell

MOP.F.2: INTEGRATION OF SPATIAL CHAOTIC MODEL AND TYPE-2 FUZZY SETS TO COASTLINE DETECTION IN SAR IMAGES
Yu-Chang Tzeng, Dana Chen, Kun-Shan Chen

MOP.F.3: THE EFFECT OF HURRICANE KATRINA ON LOUISIANA'S GULF COAST
Willis Hawkins Jr.

MOP.F.4: MONITORING WATER CONSTITUENTS AND SALINITY VARIATIONS OF SALTWATER USING EO-1 HYPERION SATELLITE IMAGERY IN THE PEARL RIVER ESTUARY, CHINA
Li-Gang Fang, Shui-Sen Chen, Hong-Li Li, Cai-Dong Gu

MOP.F.5: RESEARCH ON EVOLUTION PROCESS OF RIVERWAY IN QINGKOU REGION BASED ON MULTI-TEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES
Qiang Hu, Feng Mao, Jianxi Huang, Weijun Sun, Qiang Li, Wensheng Zhou

MOP.F.6: SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SUAEDA JAPONICA AND ITS DISTRIBUTINON ASSOCIATED WITH MORPHOLOGIC CHANGE OF THE GANGHWA-DO TIDAL FLAT, KOREA
Yoon-Kyung Lee, Jin-Ah Eom, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Joong-Sun Won

MOP.F.7: POYANG LAKE WETLAND PLANTS MICROWAVE SCATTERING CHARACTERISTICS RESEARCH AND BIOMASS INVERSION
Guozhuang Shen, Lei Dong, Jingjuan Liao, Huadong Guo

MOP.F.8: COMPARISON OF SHIP DETECTABILITY USING SAR POLARIZATION DATA: ENVISAT ASAR AP MODE
Chan-Su Yang, Kazuo Ouchi

MOP.F.9: SIMULATION STUDY ON OPTIMAL CONDITIONS FOR SHALLOW WATER BATHYMETRY OBSERVATION BY SAR
Kaiguo Fan, Weigen Huang, Mingxia He, Bin Fu

MOP.G: Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications IV

MOP.G.1: DYNAMIC CHANGES OF COASTAL WETLANDS IN XIAMEN WESTERN BAY IN THE RECENT 100 YEARS
Weiguo Wang, Zhikun Lai, Jun Liu

MOP.G.2: METHODOLOGY FOR STORM SURGE RISK ANALYSIS
Junhua Teng, Tianyu Zhang, Meixian Sun, Fujiang Yu, Miao Yu

MOP.G.3: RETRIVING WATER DEPTH, INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND BOTTOM REFLECTANCE BY SPECTRUM MATCHING IN TURBID COASTAL WATERS
Narvada Dewkurun, Wang Cheng Alice Heng, Chew Wai Chang, Soo Chin Liew

MOP.G.4: SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF COASTAL CHANGES IN ACEH AFTER THE 2004 TSUNAMI
Soo Chin Liew, Avijit Gupta, Poh Poh Wong, Leong Keong Kwoh

MOP.G.5: USE OF ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS) SURFACE AIR AND SKIN TEMPERATURE DATA OVER URBAN-INDUSTRIAL CENTERS IN CANADA AND USA
Alex Wallace, Julie Wallace

MOP.G.6: USING AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE IMAGERY TO DISTINGUISH AND MAP BLACK MANGROVE ALONG THE SOUTH TEXAS GULF COAST
Tashieka James, Shobha Sriharan, James Everitt, Chenghai Yang

MOP.G.7: MAPPING RIPARIAN AND WETLAND WEEDS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY
Shobha Sriharan, James Everitt, Chenghai Yang, Reginald Fletcher

MOP.G.8: QUALITY EVALUATION OF MODIS AND MERIS CHLOROPHYLL AND WATER LEAVING REFLECTANCE L2 PRODUCTS IN COASTAL AREA BY COMPARISON TO IN SITU DATASET
Andrea Guerriero, Vito de Pasquale, Raffaella Matarrese, Ciriaco Pasquale

MOP.G.9: A STUDY ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS BY USING SAR DATA IN THE GANGHWA TIDAL FLAT
Kye Lim Kim, Sang-Wan Kim, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Sang-Hoon Hong

TU1.210: Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), Radiance Data Assimilation and Ocean Synoptics

TU1.210.1: THE USE OF SATELLITE DATA IN OPERATIONAL NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PLANS
Louis Uccellini

TU1.210.2: ALL DATA ARE USEFUL, BUT NOT ALL DATA ARE USED! WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
Ross Hoffman

TU1.210.3: USING SATELLITE-DERIVED SST FRONTS TO EVALUATE AN EDDY RESOLVING NUMERICAL CIRCULATION MODEL
Peter Cornillon, Andrew Eichmann

TU1.101: Subsurface Sensing I

TU1.101.1: THE ORFEUS PROJECT(OPTIMISED RADAR FOR FINDING EVERY UTILITY IN THE STREET)
Massimiliano Pieraccini

TU1.101.2: DISPERSION INVERSION OF GPR DATA FOR PROPERTIES OF A MULTILAYER WAVEGUIDE
Jan van der Kruk, Robert Jacob

TU1.101.3: GPR IMAGING USING COMPRESSED MEASUREMENTS
Ali Cafer Gurbuz, James H. McClellan, Waymond R. Scott

TU1.101.4: COMBINING NSMC AND HIGH QUALITY MPV-TD DATA FOR UXO DISCRIMINATION
Fridon Shubitidze, Benjamin E. Barrowes, Irma Shamatava, Juan Pablo Fernández, Kevin O'Neill

TU1.101.5: MATCHING PURSUITS DECOMPOSITION FOR DISCRIMINATION OF UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE: ISOLATED AND OVERLAPPING SIGNATURES
Jeremiah Remus, Leslie Collins

TU1.102: Joint Time-Frequency Analysis of SAR

TU1.102.1: SAR TRAFFIC MONITORING USING TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS FOR DETECTION AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION
Stefan V. Baumgartner, Gerhard Krieger

TU1.102.2: S-METHOD BASED APPROACH FOR IMAGE FORMATION, MOTION COMPENSATION, AND IMAGE ENHANCEMENT OF MOVING TARGERTS IN ISAR AND SAR
Thayananthan Thayaparan, Ljubisa Stankovic, Milos Dakovic

TU1.102.3: LOCALIZATION OF VIBRATING TARGETS USING DUAL-FREQUENCY SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR AND TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
Yimin Zhang, Moeness Amin, Fauzia Ahmad

TU1.102.4: COMPARISON OF POLARIMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS FOR THE TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF URBAN AREAS AT L BAND
Laurent Ferro-Famil, Andreas Reigber, Jean-Claude Souyris

TU1.102.5: ESTIMATING SURFACE WATER SPEEDS USING TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
Paul Kersten, Robert Jansen, Thomas Ainsworth, Jakov Toporkov, Mark Sletten

TU1.103: Student Paper Prize Competition I

TU1.103.1: MULTIPLE-WINDOW ANOMALY DETECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Wei-Min Liu, Chein-I Chang

TU1.103.2: MULTIPLE KERNEL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS AND DECISION FUSION FOR ROBUST SUB-PIXEL HYPERSPECTRAL TARGET RECOGNITION
Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce

TU1.103.3: RETRIEVAL OF 3-D WATER VAPOR FIELD USING A NETWORK OF SCANNING COMPACT MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS
Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven Reising, Jothiram Vivekanandan

TU1.103.4: LOW FREQUENCY SEA AND ICE SHEET IMPULSE RESPONSES ACQUIRED BY THE GLOBAL ICE SHEET MAPPING ORBITER (GISMO) DEMONSTRATOR
Noppasin Niamsuwan, Joel Johnson

TU1.103.5: TOWARD AN OPERATIONAL METHOD FOR REFINED SNOW CHARACTERIZATION USING DUAL-POLARIZATION C-BAND SAR DATA
Nicolas Longepe, Sophie Allain, Eric Pottier

TU1.104: Passive Microwave Soil Moisture Algorithms

TU1.104.1: THE PROTOTYPE SMOS SOIL MOISTURE ALGORITHM
Yann Kerr, Philippe Waldteufel, Philippe Richaume, Jean Pierre Wigneron, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Arnaud Mailon, Ali Mahmoodi, Steven Delwart

TU1.104.2: APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS TO SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS FROM L-BAND RADIOMETRIC DATA
Emanuele Angiuli, Alessandra Monerris Belda, Fabio Del Frate

TU1.104.3: IMPROVING THE AMSR-E SOIL MOISTURE ALGORITHM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO THROUGH FIELD EXPERIMENTS AND PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION
Hui Lu, Toshio Koike, Tetsu Ohta, Hydeyuki Fujii, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Katsunori Tamagawa

TU1.104.4: A FIVE-YEAR VALIDATION OF AMSR-E SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCTS
Thomas Jackson, Michael Cosh, Rajat Bindlish

TU1.104.5: ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE WITH DUAL-FREQUENCY RADIOMETER - PALS
Jiancheng Shi, Eni Njoku, Thomas Jackson, Peggy O'Neill, Kun-Shan Chen

TU1.105: Advanced Lidar Technologies and Applications to 3D Landcover Structure I

TU1.105.1: SEAFLOOR AND LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION THROUGH AIRBORNE LIDAR AND HYPERSPECTRAL DATA FUSION
Chris Macon, Jennifer Wozencraft

TU1.105.2: A MEDIUM-FOOTPRINT, WAVEFORM LIDAR SURVEY OF GREENLAND
Michelle Hofton, J. Bryan Blair, David Rabine, Scott Luthcke

TU1.105.3: PERFORMANCE PREDICTION FOR LOW-SNR LIDAR SENSORS
Tristan Cossio, Kris Shrestha, K. Clint Slatton, William E. Carter

TU1.105.4: ROBUST EXTRACTION OF EXTERIOR BUILDING BOUNDARIES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC LIDAR DATA
Stephen Lach, John Kerekes

TU1.105.5: 3D ORGANIZATION OF 2D URBAN IMAGERY
Peter Cho

TU1.107: Data Fusion I

TU1.107.1: AN ADAPTIVE SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATION APPROACH TO PAN-SHARPENING
Vijay Shah, Nick Younan, Roger King

TU1.107.2: A REGULARIZATION APPROACH FOR INSAR AND OPTICAL DATA FUSION
Loic Denis, Florence Tupin, Jerome Darbon, Marc Sigelle

TU1.107.3: HIGH-RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY BASED ON PANCHROMATIC IMAGERY
Sang-Hoon Lee

TU1.107.4: SEMI-SUPERVISED CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES FOR CLASSIFYING REMOTE SENSING DATA
Björn Waske, Jón Atli Benediktsson

TU1.107.5: UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY FROM FUSION OF SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL INFORMATION
Yonghong Li, Curt H. Davis

TU1.108: New Challenges and Perspectives with High Resolution Spaceborne SAR Systems

TU1.108.1: HIGH BANDWIDTH SPOTLIGHT SAR INTERFEROMETRY WITH TERRASAR-X
Michael Eineder, Nico Adam, Nestor Yague-Martinez, Thomas Fritz

TU1.108.2: HIGH RESOLUTION INTERFEROMETRIC STACKING WITH TERRASAR-X
Nico Adam, Michael Eineder, Nestor Yague-Martinez

TU1.108.3: PRECISE ORBIT AND BASELINE DETERMINATION FOR TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-X
Yongjin Moon, Rolf Koenig, Grzegorz Michalak, Markus Rothacher, Byron Tapley

TU1.108.4: AUTOMATIC SHIP DETECTION: EXPERIMENTS AND POTENTIALS WITH THE COSMO-SKYMED SATELLITES CONSTELLATION
Luca Pietranera, Massimo Zavagli, Mario Costantini, Giovanni Valentini, Alessandro Coletta

TU1.108.5: SAR INTERFEROMETRY POTENTIALS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION X-BAND SYSTEMS: ANALYSES AND EXPERIMENTS WITH COSMO-SKYMED DATA
Mario Costantini, Federico Minati, Fabio Malvarosa, Fabrizio Battazza, Alessandro Coletta

TU1.109: Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Application Developments for Hyperspectral Imaging Systems

TU1.109.1: VERY SHALLOW WATER BATHYMETRY RETRIEVAL FROM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY AT THE VIRGINIA COAST RESERVE (VCR’07) MULTI-SENSOR CAMPAIGN
Charles Bachmann, Marcos Montes, Robert Fusina, Christopher Parrish, Jon Sellars, Alan Weidemann, Wesley Goode, Victoria Hill, Richard Zimmerman, C. Reid Nichols, Patrick Woodward, Kevin McIlhany, Daniel Korwan, Melba Crawford, James Monty, Barry Truitt, Arthur Schwarzschild

TU1.109.2: COMPARISON OF AVIRIS AND AISA AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL SENSING FOR ABOVE-GROUND FOREST CARBON MAPPING
David G. Goodenough, K. Olaf Niemann, Andrew Dyk, Geordie Hobart, Piper Gordon, Matthew Loisel, Hao Chen

TU1.109.3: MEASUREMENT OF SUB NANOMETER SPECTRAL SHIFTS WITH A 10 NM IMAGING SPECTROMETER FOR UNDERSTANDING OF CHEMISTRY/COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION IN VEGETATION, MINERALS AND SNOW PACKS
Robert Green

TU1.109.4: POTENTIAL UTILITY OF FUSED 3-D LADAR DATA AND HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Mark Folkman, John Shepanski, Christopher Folley

TU1.109.5: MULTI-ANGLE MEASUREMENTS WITH CHRIS FOR FOREST PARAMETERS
Andrew Dyk, David G. Goodenough, K. Olaf Niemann, Anita Simic, Jing M. Chen, Geordie Hobart, Hao Chen

TU1.110: Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation I

TU1.110.1: EXPLORING THE BIOPHYSICAL DRIVERS OF AMAZON PHENEOLOGY: PREPARING DATA SETS TO IMPROVE DYNAMIC GLOBAL VEGETATION MODELS.
Andrew Bradley, France Gerard, Graham Weedon, Chris Huntingford, Przemyslaw Zelazowski, Liana Anderson, Nicolas Barbier, Luiz Eduardo O.C. de Aragão

TU1.110.2: VALIDATION OF FOREST STRUCTURE RETRIEVALS FROM A GROUND-BASED LIDAR INSTRUMENT (ECHIDNA®)
Alan Strahler, Curtis E. Woodcock, Crystal Schaaf, Ranga Myneni, Jicheng Liu, Glenn J. Newnham, David L. B. Jupp, Darius S. Culvenor, Jenny L. Lovell, Wenge Ni-Meister, Shihyan Lee, Xiaowen Li, Feng Zhao, Xiaoyuan Yang, Tian Yao, Qingling Zhang, Mitchell Schull, Miguel O. Román III, Zhuosen Wang, Yanmin Shuai

TU1.110.3: COMPARING FIELD MEASUREMENTS AND VEGETATION INDICES IN SUPPORT OF MODERATE RESOLUTION REMOTELY SENSED PHENOLOGY
Manish Verma, Mark Friedl, Nathan Phillips, Andrew Richardson

TU1.110.4: UTILITY OF AN IMAGE-BASED CANOPY REFLECTANCE MODELING TOOL FOR REMOTE ESTIMATION OF LAI AND LEAF CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT IN CROP SYSTEMS
Rasmus Houborg, Martha C. Anderson

TU1.110.5: SUBARCTIC BOREAL FOREST ALBEDO ESTIMATION USING ENVISAT ASAR FOR BRDF DETERMINATION
Terhikki Manninen, Aku Riihelä

TU1.111: Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and Radio Frequency Interference Effects in Microwave Radiometry I

TU1.111.1: RESULTS FROM THE 2007 WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE (WRC-07) FOR REMOTE SENSING AND A PREVIEW OF ISSUES FOR THE 2011 WRC
John Zuzek

TU1.111.2: PULSE AND KURTOSIS DETECTION OF RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI): AN EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON
Priscilla N. Mohammed, Joseph Knuble, Jeffrey Piepmeier

TU1.111.3: COMPARISON OF PULSED SINUSOID RFI DETECTION ALGORITHMS USING TIME AND FREQUENCY SUBSAMPLING
Sidharth Misra, Christopher Ruf

TU1.111.4: ON THE SHAPIRO-WILK TEST FOR THE DETECTION OF PULSED SINUSOIDAL RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE
Baris Guner, Mark Frankford, Joel Johnson

TU1.111.5: A STUDY OF ALGORITHMS FOR DETECTING PULSED SINUSOIDAL INTERFERENCE IN MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY
Joel Johnson, Lee Potter

TU1.203: Synergism of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors I

TU1.203.1: THE EFFECT OF RAIN ON SATELLITE SENSOR ESTIMATES OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS CONDITIONS AND ON THE AIR-SEA MOMENTUM FLUX
David Weissman, Mark Bourassa

TU1.203.2: THE AQUARIUS/SAC-D MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING OCEAN SALINITY, THE WATER CYCLE AND OTHER APPLICATIONS
Gary Lagerloef, F. Raul Colomb, David Le Vine, Simon Yueh, Frank Wentz

TU1.203.3: COMPENSATION OF FARADAY ROTATION IN MULTI-POLARIZATION SCATTEROMETRY
Mark Frankford, Joel Johnson

TU1.203.4: ACTIVE-PASSIVE OBSERVATIONS OF SOIL MOISTURE - IMPLEMENTATION CONCEPT FOR THE SMAP MISSION
Eni Njoku, Dara Entekhabi, Peggy O'Neill

TU1.203.5: VALIDATION OF COARSE RESOLUTION MICROWAVE SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCTS
Zoltan Bartalis, Wolfgang Wagner, Craig Anderson, Hans Bonekamp, Vahid Naeimi, Stefan Hasenauer

TU2.101: Subsurface Sensing II

TU2.101.1: HIERARCHICAL METHODS FOR LANDMINE DETECTION WITH WIDEBAND ELECTRO-MAGNETIC INDUCTION AND GROUND PENETRATING RADAR MULTI-SENSOR SYSTEMS.
Paul Gader, Joseph Wilson, Dominic Ho, Seniha Yuksel, Ganesh Ramachandran, Gyeongyong Heo

TU2.101.2: DUAL SENSOR ALIS FOR HUMANITARIAN DEMINING AND ITS EVALUATION TEST IN MINE FIELDS IN CROATIA
Motoyuki Sato

TU2.101.3: THERMAL NOISE ANALYSIS ON THE RESISTIVE VEE DIPOLE ANTENNA FOR GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR APPLICATIONS
Kangwook Kim

TU2.101.4: SUBSURFACE SENSING OF NEAR-SURFACE OBJECT USING CAVITY BACKED SLOT ANTENNA
Suman Kumar Gunnala, Mingyu Lu, Jonathan Bredow, Saibun Tjuatja

TU2.101.5: GRAVIMETRIC DETECTION BY COMPRESSED SENSING
Marina Meila, Caren Marzban, Ulvi Yurtsever

TU2.102: TerraSAR-X Commissioning Phase Results

TU2.102.1: TERRASAR-X COMMISSIONING PHASE EXECUTION AND RESULTS
Josef Mittermayer, Schättler Birgit, Marwan Younis

TU2.102.2: TERRASAR-X INSTRUMENT, SAR SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND COMMAND GENERATION
Josef Mittermayer, Robert Metzig, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Carolina Gonzalez, Donata Polimeni, Johannes Böer, Younis Marwan, José Márquez Martínez, Steffen Wollstadt, Daniel Schulze, Adriano Meta, Nuria Tous-Ramon, Carlos Ortega Miguez

TU2.102.3: TERRASAR-X CALIBRATION RESULTS
Marco Schwerdt, Benjamin Bräuitigam, Markus Bachmann, Björn Döring, Dirk Schrank, Jaime Hueso Gonzalez

TU2.102.4: TERRASAR-X PAYLOAD DATA PROCESSING: RESULTS FROM COMMISSIONING AND EARLY OPERATIONAL PHASE
Helko Breit, Birgit Schättler, Thomas Fritz, Ulrich Balss, Heiko Damerow, Egbert Schwarz

TU2.102.5: TERRASAR-X IMAGE PRODUCTS: CHARACTERIZATION AND VERIFICATION
Thomas Fritz, Helko Breit, Birgit Schättler, Marie Lachaise, Ulrich Balss, Michael Eineder

TU2.103: Student Paper Prize Competition II

TU2.103.1: A NOVEL STRATEGY FOR RADAR IMAGING BASED ON COMPRESSIVE SENSING
Marivi Tello, Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorqui

TU2.103.2: VOLUME COHERENCE ESTIMATION FOR RANDOM FOREST HEIGHT RETRIEVAL BASED ON POLINSAR DATA
Tao Xiong, Guangyi Zhou, Jian Yang, Weijie Zhang

TU2.103.3: INVESTIGATION OF A NEW MULTIFUNCTIONAL HIGH PERFORMANCE SAR SYSTEM CONCEPT EXPLOITING MIMO TECHNOLOGY
Junghyo Kim, Werner Wiesbeck

TU2.103.4: ON THE USE OF DUAL-POLARIZED SAR DATA FOR OIL SPILL OBSERVATION WITH AND WITHOUT SURFACE SLICKS
Ferdinando Nunziata, Attilio Gambardella, Maurizio Migliaccio

TU2.103.5: ENHANCEMENT OF ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRY FOR GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION
Robert Kohlleppel, Christoph H. Gierull

TU2.104: Tower and Aircraft Soil Moisture Remote Sensing

TU2.104.1: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL USING AN L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER DURING THE SOIL MOISTURE EXPERIMENTS 2003 (SMEX03) AND 2004 (SMEX04)
Dongryeol Ryu, Thomas Jackson, Rajat Bindlish, David Le Vine, Michael Haken

TU2.104.2: COMBINED PASSIVE AND ACTIVE SOIL MOISTURE OBSERVATIONS DURING CLASIC
Rajat Bindlish, Thomas Jackson, Simon Yueh, Steve Dinardo

TU2.104.3: NEAR REAL-TIME PASSIVE C-BAND MICROWAVE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL DURING CLASIC 2007
Eric McIntyre, Albin Gasiewski, Damian Manda

TU2.104.4: PASSIVE AND ACTIVE L-BAND SYSTEM AND OBSERVATIONS DURING THE 2007 CLASIC CAMPAIGN
Simon Yueh, Steve Dinardo, Steven Chan, Eni Njoku, Thomas Jackson, Rajat Bindlish

TU2.104.5: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL USING GNSS-R TECHNIQUES: MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN IN A WHEAT FIELD
Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Fernando Marchán-Hernandez, Adriano Camps, Enric Valencia, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Pérez, Juan Manuel Nieto

TU2.105: Lidar Sensors and Applications I

TU2.105.1: QUANTIFYING SURFACE REFLECTIVITY FOR SPACEBORNE LIDAR MISSIONS
Mathias Disney, Philip Lewis

TU2.105.2: A PREPROCESSING METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC BREAKLINES DETECTION
Mohammed Yassine Belkhouche, Bill P. Buckles, Xiaohui Yuan, Laura Steinberg

TU2.105.3: FOURIER ERROR ANALYSIS OF RAY TRACING ON A GEOSPATIAL POLYGONAL MODEL
Brandon Baker

TU2.105.4: ESTIMATING AND MONITORING LAI AND FOLIAGE PROFILES USING GROUND-BASED LASER SCANNING
Glenn J. Newnham, David L. B. Jupp, Darius S. Culvenor, Jenny L. Lovell

TU2.105.5: RETRIEVAL OF CANOPY VERTICAL STRUCTURE USING MODIS DATA
Zhuosen Wang, Crystal Schaaf, Yuri Knyazikhin, Tian Yao, Mitchell Schull, Alan Strahler

TU2.107: Data Fusion II

TU2.107.1: A METHOD FOR MEASURING THE INCREMENTAL INFORMATION CONTRIBUTED FROM NON-STATIONARY SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA TO BE FUSED
Carolyn Krekeler, Karthik Nagarajan, K. Clint Slatton

TU2.107.2: A NOVEL PROTOCOL FOR ACCURACY ASSESSMENT IN CLASSIFICATION OF VERY HIGH RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL AND SAR IMAGES
Lorenzo Bruzzone, Claudio Persello

TU2.107.3: MULTIRESOLUTION FUSION IN REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES USING AN IGMRF PRIOR AND MAP ESTIMATION
Manjunath Joshi, André Jalobeanu

TU2.107.4: A ROBUST MULTI-CLASSIFIER DECISION FUSION FRAMEWORK FOR HYPERSPECTRAL, MULTI-TEMPORAL CLASSIFICATION
Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce, Hemanth Kalluri

TU2.107.5: CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES BASED ON MRF FUSION AND MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION
Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico

TU2.108: Spatial Data Fusion in PolSAR and Pol-InSAR Imaging

TU2.108.1: DATA FUSION STUDY BETWEEN POLARIMETRIC SAR, HYPERSPECTRAL AND LIDAR DATA FOR FOREST INFORMATION
David G. Goodenough, Hao Chen, Andrew Dyk, Geordie Hobart, Ashlin Richardson

TU2.108.2: IMAGING CRUSTAL DEFORMATION ALONG THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT SYSTEM WITH ALOS INSAR AND GPS
David Sandwell, Bridget Smith-Konter, Matt Wei

TU2.108.3: SCATTERING TYPE PHASE FOR WETLAND CLASSIFICATION USING C-BAND POLARIMETRIC SAR
Ridha Touzi, Alice Deschamps, Gershon Rother

TU2.108.4: SEASONAL CHANGE MONITORING OF WETLANDS BY USING AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE POLSAR SENSING
Ryoichi Sato, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner

TU2.108.5: RECENT ADVANCES IN POL-SAR & POL-IN-SAR IMAGING OF NATURAL HABITATS AND WETLAND REMOTE SENSING
Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Yoshio Yamaguchi

TU2.109: Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Hyperspectral Sensing of Forests

TU2.109.1: SOIL BACKGROUNDS ARTIFACTS ANALYSIS ON CHLOROPHYLL INDICES USING AIRBORNE (PROBE-1) AND SATELLITE (HYPERION EO-1) HYPERSPECTRAL DATA IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE
Abdou Bannari, Karl Staenz, Driss Haboudane

TU2.109.2: HYPERSPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF JAPANESE OAK WILT TO DETERMINE NORMALIZED WILT INDEX
Kuniaki Uto, Yuji Takabayashi, Yukio Kosugi, Toshinari Ogata

TU2.109.3: VEGETATION SPECIES IDENTIFICATION USING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY AND A PROGRESSIVE ANALYSIS
Baoxin Hu, James Freemantle, Josee Levesque, Jean Pierre Ardouin

TU2.109.4: ASSESSING CROP RESIDUE COVER USING HYPERION DATA
James Monty, Craig Daughtry, Melba Crawford

TU2.109.5: TOXIC INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL EFFECTS ON POPLAR, CANOLA, AND WHEAT DETECTABLE OVER THE 450 – 2500 NM SPECTRAL RANGE.
Derek Rogge, Benoit Rivard, Mike Deyholos, Josee Levesque, Anthony Faust

TU2.110: Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation II

TU2.110.1: RELATING A SPECTRAL INDEX FROM MODIS AND TOWER-BASED MEASUREMENTS TO ECOSYSTEM LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY FOR A FLUXNET-CANADA CONIFEROUS FOREST
Elizabeth Middleton, Yen-Ben Cheng, Thomas Hilker, Karl Huemmrich, Andrew Black, Praveena Krishnan, Nicholas Coops

TU2.110.2: SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION OF SURFACE PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION AND ALBEDO FROM GOES
Kaicun Wang, Shunlin Liang, Dongdong Wang, Tao Zheng

TU2.110.3: COUPLING IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY AND ECOSYSTEM PROCESS MODELLING - THE IMPORTANCE OF SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED FOLIAR BIOCHEMICAL CONCENTRATION ESTIMATES FOR MODELLING NPP OF GRASSLAND HABITATS
Achilleas Psomas, Mathias Kneubühler, Silvia Huber, Klaus Itten, Niklaus Zimmermann

TU2.110.4: LONG TERM GLOBAL LAI DATASET FROM AVHRR: EVALUATION AND VALIDATION
Sangram Ganguly, Arindam Samanta, Mitchell Schull, Nikolay Shabanov, Yuri Knyazikhin, Ranga Myneni

TU2.110.5: VALIDATING PREDICTIVE ABILITY OF SPECTRAL INDICES FOR PHOTOSYNTHETIC EFFICIENCY AND CAPACITY - ANALYSIS OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND CO2 FLUX MEASUREMENTS IN RICE FIELD -
Yoshio Inoue, Josep Penuelas, Akira Miyata, Masami Mano

TU2.111: Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and Radio Frequency Interference Effects in Microwave Radiometry II

TU2.111.1: THE DETECTION AND MITIGATION OF RFI WITH THE AQUARIUS L-BAND SCATTEROMETER
Adam Freedman, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Mark Fischman, Dalia McWatters, Michael Spencer

TU2.111.2: RFI MEASUREMENT DATABASE ASSEMBLED DURING THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY SITE QUALIFICATION CAMPAIGNS.
Michael Inggs, Sydney Dunn, Justin Jonas

TU2.111.3: A SIMPLIFIED CALCULATION OF THE KURTOSIS FOR RFI DETECTION
Roger De Roo

TU2.111.4: EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SIXTH MOMENT TO ELIMINATE A KURTOSIS BLIND SPOT IN THE DETECTION OF INTERFERENCE IN A RADIOMETER.
Roger De Roo, Sidharth Misra

TU2.111.5: DETECTABILITY OF RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE DUE TO SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATION SIGNALS USING THE KURTOSIS ALGORITHM
Sidharth Misra, Christopher Ruf, Rachael Kroodsma

TU2.203: Synergism of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors II

TU2.203.1: CROSS-VALIDATION OF WIND PRODUCTS FROM SEAWINDS AND AMSR ON ADEOS-II
Naoto Ebuchi

TU2.203.2: THE INFLUENCE OF AIR DENSITY ON SCATTEROMETER RETRIEVALS OF SURFACE TURBULENT STRESS
Mark Bourassa, David Weissman

TU2.203.3: OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE COUPLING OVER MID-LATITUDE OCEAN FRONTS
W. Timothy Liu, Xiaosu Xie

TU2.203.4: DYNAMIC PHENOMENA IN THE COASTAL WATERS OF THE NORTH-EASTERN BLACK SEA RETRIEVED FROM SATELLITE DATA
Marina Mityagina, Olga Lavrova

TU2.203.5: ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITE PALSAR OBSERVATIONS OF THE OCEANIC DYNAMIC PHENOMENA IN THE COASTAL ZONE
Leonid Mitnik

TU2.210: Assimilation of Satellite Radiances

TU2.210.1: MICROWAVE AND INFRARED RADIANCES ASSIMILATION FOR WEATHER FORECASTING
Quanhua (Mark) Liu, Fuzong Weng, Yong Han, Yong Chen

TU2.210.2: STOCHASTIC GENERATION OF CONDITIONAL PRECIPITATION REPLICATES FOR ENSEMBLE FORECASTING AND DATA ASSIMILATION.
Rafal Wojcik, Alexandra Konings, Dennis McLaughlin, Dara Entekhabi

TU2.210.3: ERROR MODELING RELATED TO MICROWAVE RADIANCE ASSIMILATION OF CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION
Ralf Bennartz, Mark Kulie, Christopher O'Dell, Min-Jeong Kim

TU2.210.4: TOWARD ASSIMILATION OF MWR TBS INTO CRM: ENSEMBLE FORECAST ERROR DISTRIBUTION AND COVARIANCE OF CRM VARIABLES AND TBS
Kazumasa Aonashi

TU2.210.5: DATA ASSIMILATION EXPERIMENTS USING QUALITY CONTROLLED AIRS VERSION 5 TEMPERATURE SOUNDINGS
Joel Susskind

TU3.101: Remote Sensing for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Identification and Removal I

TU3.101.1: TECHNOLOGIES FOR AIRBORNE MINEFIELD DETECTION
Miranda Schatten Silvious

TU3.101.2: THE BENEFITS OF CONTEXT ESTIMATION FOR TARGET SPECTRA DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Jeremy Bolton, Paul Gader

TU3.101.3: STATISTICAL MODELS FOR GROUND PENETRATING RADAR: APPLICATIONS TO SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION AND STATISTICAL PRE-SCREENING
Peter Torrione, Leslie Collins

TU3.101.4: CONTEXT-DEPENDENT MULTI-SENSOR FUSION FOR LANDMINE DETECTION
Hichem Frigui, Lijun Zhang, Paul Gader

TU3.101.5: BROADBAND ARRAY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION SENSORS FOR DETECTING BURIED LANDMINES
Waymond R. Scott

TU3.102: TerraSAR-X satellite: Status and First Application Results I

TU3.102.1: STATUS REPORT ON THE TERRASAR-X MISSION
Stefan Buckreuss, Roth Achim

TU3.102.2: RAPID LAND MAPPING BY TERRASAR-X VHR DATA
Gianni Lisini, Fabio Dell'Acqua, Paolo Gamba

TU3.102.3: TERRASAR-X MULTI-SCALE TEXTURAL ANALYSIS FOR URBAN CLASSIFICATION
Marco Chini, Fabio Pacifici, William J. Emery

TU3.102.4: EXPLORING THE POLIMETRIC MODES OF TERRASAR-X FOR QUANTIATIVE PARAMETER ESTIMATION
Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos Papathanassiou

TU3.102.5: ASSESSMENT OF THE POTENTIAL OF TERRASAR-X WITH RESPECT TO MAPPING APPLICATIONS USING RADARGRAMMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES
Hannes Raggam, Karlheinz Gutjahr, Mathias Schardt

TU3.103: Ionospheric Effects in Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Imagery I

TU3.103.1: DISCOVERY OF ANOMALOUS STRIPES OVER THE AMAZON BY THE PALSAR ONBOARD ALOS SATELLITE
Masanobu Shimada, Yasushi Muraki, Yuichi Otsuka

TU3.103.2: EVALUATION OF GPS VS. POLARIMETRY BASED APPROACHES FOR CORRECTION OF FARADAY ROTATION IN SAR DATA
Anthony Freeman, Xiaoqing Pi, Elaine Chapin, Bruce Chapman

TU3.103.3: A POSTERIORI POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION: COMPENSATING FOR FARADAY ROTATIONS AND IONOSPHERE IRREGULARITIES
Thomas Ainsworth, Tony Freeman, Jong-Sen Lee

TU3.103.4: THE IMPACT OF THE IONOSPHERE ON INTERFEROMETRIC SAR PROCESSING
Franz Meyer, Jeremy Nicoll

TU3.103.5: DETECTION OF IONOSPHERIC STRUCTURES WITH L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS
Paul Bernhardt, Thomas Ainsworth, Keith Groves

TU3.104: Radar Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

TU3.104.1: A VEGETATION CORRECTION METHODOLOGY FOR TIME SERIES BASED SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM C-BAND RADAR OBSERVATIONS
Alicia Joseph, Peggy O'Neill, Rogier van der Velde, Roger Lang, Timothy Gish

TU3.104.2: C- AND L-BAND POLARIMETRIC DATA FOR SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION OVER AGRICULTURAL FIELDS
Eric Gauthier, Heather McNairn, Jiali Shang, Anna Pacheco, Catherine Champagne, Ridha Touzi

TU3.104.3: INVERSION ALGORITHM FOR SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM POLARIMETRIC BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS OF VEGETATION CANOPIES
Yisok Oh, Seung-Gun Jung

TU3.104.4: SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION AND ANALYSIS IN WESTERN AFRICA BASED ON ERS SCATTEROMETER
Mehrez Zribi, Mickaël Pardé, Bertrand Decharme, Patricia De Rosnay

TU3.104.5: SURFACE PARAMETER ESTIMATION OVER PERIODIC SURFACES USING TIME-FREQUENCY APPROACH
Sandrine Daniel, Sophie Allain, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Eric Pottier

TU3.105: EARLINET -- The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network I

TU3.105.1: THE EUROPEAN AEROSOL RESEARCH LIDAR NETWORK (EARLINET): AN OVERVIEW
Francesc Rocadenbosch, Ina Mattis, Christine Böckmann, Gelsomina Pappalardo, Jens Bösenberg, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Aldo Amodeo, Albert Ansmann, Arnoud Apituley, Dimitris Balis, Anatoly Chaikovsky, Adolfo Comerón, Volker Freudenthaler, Ove Gustafsson, Georg Hansen, Rodanthi-Elisabeth Mamouri, Valentin Mitev, Constantino Muñoz, Doina Nicolae, Alexandros Papayannis, Carlos Pérez, Maria Rita Perrone, Aleksander Pietruczuk, Manuel Pujadas, Jean-Philippe Putaud, Francois Ravetta, Vincenzo Rizi, Michaël Sicard, Valentin Simeonov, Nicola Spinelli, Dimitar Stoyanov, Thomas Trickl, Ulla Wandinger, Matthias Wiegner

TU3.105.2: EARLINET APPROACH TO OPTIMISATION OF INDIVIDUAL NETWORK INSTRUMENTS WITH THE AIM OF HOMOGENISATION OF AEROSOL DATA PRODUCTS AND INCREASED DATA COVERAGE
Arnoud Apituley, Volker Freudenthaler, Francesc Rocadenbosch

TU3.105.3: BACKSCATTER LIDAR MEASUREMENT IN THE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER : DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION CAPABILITIES
Valentin Mitev, Renaud Matthey, Giovanni Martucci

TU3.105.4: FROM EARLINET-ASOS RAMAN-LIDAR SIGNALS TO MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES VIA ADVANCED REGULARIZATION SOFTWARE
Christine Böckmann, Detlef Müller, Lukas Osterloh, Pornsarp Pornsawad

TU3.105.5: THE GAW AEROSOL LIDAR OBSERVATION NETWORK (GALION)
Raymond Hoff, Jens Boesenberg, Gelsomina Pappalardo

TU3.107: Urban Areas and Buildings

TU3.107.1: DETECTION OF TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY
Gintautas Palubinskas, Franz Kurz, Peter Reinartz

TU3.107.2: CARTOGRAPHIC ELEMENTS EXTRACTION USING HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY AND XML MODELING
Erick Lopez-Ornelas, Florence Sedes

TU3.107.3: AUTOMATED ROAD EXTRACTION USING BOTH GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND CLUSTERING ANALYSIS FROM PAN-SHARPENED IKONOS IMAGES
Hesamodin Dehghanian, Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej, Hamid Ebadi, Mehdi Mokhtarzadeh

TU3.107.4: SEQUENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF MULTIPLE VISUAL CUES FOR 3-D BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION
Dong Guo, Chye Hwang Yan, Soo Chin Liew, Leong Keong Kwoh

TU3.107.5: CONTEXTUAL MODELS FOR AUTOMATIC BUILDING EXTRACTION IN HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGE USING OBJECT-BASED BOOSTING METHOD
Xian Sun, Kun Fu, Hui Long, Yanfeng Hu, Lun Cai, Hongqi Wang

TU3.108: Multichannel - Multidimensional Coherent SAR Data Combination Techniques I

TU3.108.1: ON THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF TRACKS FOR SAR TOMOGRAPHY
Matteo Nannini, Rolf Scheiber, Alberto Moreira

TU3.108.2: COMBINING TIME-DOMAIN BACK-PROJECTION AND ADVANCED SPECTRAL ESTIMATION METHODS FOR TOMOGRAPHIC SAR PROCESSING
Othmar Frey, Erich Meier

TU3.108.3: A NEW METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF PERSISTENT SCATTERERS IN SERIES OF SAR IMAGES
Mario Costantini, Salvatore Falco, Fabio Malvarosa, Federico Minati

TU3.108.4: DETECTION OF SINGLE AND MULTIPLE SCATTERERS IN MULTIBASELINE MULTITEMPORAL SAR DATA
Gianfranco Fornaro, Fabrizio Lombardini, Matteo Pardini, Antonio Pauciullo

TU3.108.5: 3D TOMOGRAPHIC AND DIFFERENTIAL TOMOGRAPHIC RESPONSE TO PARTIALLY COHERENT SCENES
Fabrizio Lombardini

TU3.109: Rare Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery I

TU3.109.1: LEVERAGING CONVEXITY IN THE FACE OF HIGH DIMENSIONALITY TO DETECT, QUANTIFY AND IDENTIFY RARE AND SMALL TARGETS
Joseph Boardman

TU3.109.2: IMAGE FACTORIZATION FOR SMALL OBJECT DETECTION
Michael Winter

TU3.109.3: HYPERSPECTRAL DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION WITH CONSTRAINED TARGET SUBSPACES
Steven Adler-Golden, John Gruninger, Robert Sundberg

TU3.109.4: CLUTTER REMOVAL VIA TOPOLOGY FOR IMPROVED TARGET DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Bill Basener, David Messinger

TU3.109.5: ANOMALOUS CHANGE DETECTION IN LONGWAVE INFRARED GROUND-BASED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING DATA
Kevin Mitchell

TU3.110: Forests and Vegetation: SAR Interferometry and Polarimetry I

TU3.110.1: SAR COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR BOREAL FOREST WITH AID OF LASER MEASUREMENTS
Jaan Praks, Florian Kugler, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Juha Hyyppä, Martti Hallikainen

TU3.110.2: ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL DECORRELATION IN DUAL-BASELINE POLINSAR VEGETATION PARAMETER ESTIMATION
Yong-Sheng Zhou, Wen Hong, Fang Cao, Yan-Ping Wang, Yi-Rong Wu

TU3.110.3: MODELING AND INTERPRETATION OF THE MULTITEMPORAL AND MULTIBASELINE POLINSAR COHERENCE
Maxim Neumann, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Andreas Reigber

TU3.110.4: TEMPORAL DECORRELATION STUDIES FOR VEGETATION PARAMETER ESTIMATION WITH SPACEBORNE RADARS
Razi Ahmed, Paul Siqueira, Scott Hensley, Bruce Chapman, Kathleen Bergen

TU3.111: Microwave Radiometer Technology I

TU3.111.1: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER (HIRAD)
Christopher Ruf, M. C. Bailey, Roger De Roo, Steven Gross, Robbie Hood, Mark James, James Johnson, W. Linwood Jones, David Simmons, Karen Stephens

TU3.111.2: THE ROLE OF GRAPHICS SIMULATION IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE NPOESS MICROWAVE IMAGER SOUNDER (MIS) SENSOR CONCEPT
David Kunkee

TU3.111.3: THE AQUARIUS MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS
Fernando Pellerano, Jeffrey Piepmeier, James Caldwell, Terence Doiron, Joshua Forgione, Kevin Horgan, Michael Triesky, David Levine, Simon Yueh, Gary Lagerloef

TU3.111.4: RETRIEVAL OF 3-D WATER VAPOR FIELD USING A REMOTE SENSOR NETWORK OF SCANNING COMPACT MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS
Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven Reising, Jothiram Vivekanandan, Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, Willow Foster

TU3.111.5: INITIAL RESULTS OF A DIGITAL RADIOMETER WITH DIGITAL BEAMFORMING
Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Pérez, Adriano Camps, Juan Fernando Marchán-Hernandez, Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Enric Valencia, Miguel Angel Guerreo, Juan Manuel Nieto

TU3.203: High Wind Speed Retrievals from SAR and Scatterometry I

TU3.203.1: SAR DERIVED WIND AND OCEAN WAVE FIELDS OF MESOSCALE CYCLONES
Susanne Lehner, Stephan Brusch, Antonio Reppucci

TU3.203.2: RADARSAT SCANSAR WIND RETRIEVAL AND RAIN EFFECTS ON SCANSAR MEASUREMENTS UNDER HURRICANE CONDITIONS
Congling Nie, David G. Long

TU3.203.3: EFFECTS OF TROPICAL CYCLONES ON KUROSHIO AND THE ADJACENT SHELF-SLOPE WATERS
Chau-Ron Wu, Yu-Lin Chang

TU3.203.4: WIND RETRIEVAL OF TROPICAL CYCLONES USING C-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Jochen Horstmann, Wolfgang Koch, Donald R. Thompson, Frank M. Monaldo

TU3.203.5: IMPACTS OF SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA ON HURRICANE FORECASTING
Hui Shen, Yijun He, William Perrie

TU3.210: Radiance Assimilation and Retrieval Methods I

TU3.210.1: 1D-VAR RETRIEVAL USING SUPERCHANNELS
Xu Liu, Dan Zhou, Allen Larar, Bill Smith, Peter Schluessel, Stephen Mango, Karen St. Germain

TU3.210.2: RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC INTEGRATED WATER VAPOR AND CLOUD LIQUID WATER CONTENT OVER THE OCEAN FROM SATELLITE DATA USING THE 1-D-VAR ICE CLOUD MICROPHYSICS DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM (IMDAS)
Cyrus Raza Mirza, Toshio Koike, Yang Kun, Tobias Graf

TU3.210.3: VARIATIONAL PRESSURE IMAGE ASSIMILATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC MOTION ESTIMATION
Thomas Corpetti, Patrick Heas, Etienne Mémin, Nicolas Papadakis

TU3.210.4: SOIL MOISTURE FROM METOP SCATTEROMETER DATA: ASSIMILATION RESULTS FROM A NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION EXPERIMENT
Klaus Scipal, Matthias Drusch

TU3.210.5: GAUSSIAN MODEL ADAPTIVE TIME DOMAIN FILTER (GMAT) FOR WEATHER RADARS
Cuong Nguyen, V. Chandrasekar, Dmitri Moisseev

TU4.101: Remote Sensing for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Identification and Removal II

TU4.101.1: UXO IDENTIFICATION USING BERKELEY UXO DISCRIMINATOR (BUD)
Erika Gasperikova, Torquil Smith, Karl Kappler, Frank Morrison, Alex Becker

TU4.101.2: MAGNETIC DISCRIMINATION OF HELICOPTER DATA FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF UXO CONTAMINATED SITES
Stephen Billings, David Wright, Jack Foley

TU4.101.3: MODELING HIGHLY PERMEABLE AND CONDUCTIVE ELLIPSOIDAL CLUTTE FOR THE DETECTION OF UXO IN THE ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION REGIME
Tomasz M. Grzegorczyk, Benjamin E. Barrowes, Kevin O'Neill

TU4.101.4: ANALYSIS OF AN INFORMATION-BASED SENSOR MANAGER APPLICABLE TO LANDMINE DETECTION
Mark Kolba, Leslie Collins

TU4.101.5: AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF BURIED OBJECTS IN GPR IMAGES USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES
Edoardo Pasolli, Farid Melgani, Massimo Donelli, Redha Attoui, Mariette De Vos

TU4.102: TerraSAR-X satellite: Status and First Application Results II

TU4.102.1: INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICABILITY OF TERRASAR-X FOR REPEATTRACK INTERFEROMETRY
Charles Werner, Urs Wegmüller, Andreas Wiesmann, Tazio Strozzi

TU4.102.2: ANALYSIS OF ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION EFFECTS IN TERRASAR-X IMAGES
Andreas Danklmayer, Bjoern Doering, Marco Schwerdt, Madhukar Chandra

TU4.102.3: HIGH RESOLUTION WIND FIELDS FROM TERRASAR-X DATA
Jochen Horstmann, Donald R. Thompson, Nathaniel S. Winstead, Frank M. Monaldo

TU4.102.4: FIRST RESULTS ON THE USE OF TERRASAR-X DATA FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS
Susanne Lehner, Stephan Brusch

TU4.102.5: FIRST ASSESSMENT OF SIMULATED TANDEM-X SCIENCE PRODUCTS
Irena Hajnsek, Thomas Busche, Alberto Moreira

TU4.103: Ionospheric Effects in Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Imagery II

TU4.103.1: MAPPING THE IONOSPHERE USING L-BAND SAR DATA
Jeremy Nicoll, Franz Meyer

TU4.103.2: QUANTIFYING AND CORRECTING IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON P-BAND SAR IMAGES
Shaun Quegan, Jim Green, Konstantinos Papathanassiou

TU4.103.3: POLINSAR AT LOW FREQUENCY AND IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS
Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Sebastien Angelliaume, My-Linh Truong-Loi, Anthony Freeman, Eric Pottier

TU4.103.4: A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF ORBITAL AND ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS ON THE ESTIMATION OF REGIONAL TRENDS IN MULTI-INTERFEROGRAM DATA-STACKS
Alessandro Ferretti, Alfio Fumagalli, Fabrizio Novali, Pietro Panzeri, Emanuele Passera

TU4.103.5: IMAGE FORMATION ALGORITHM FOR TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE SOUNDING WITH SPACEBORNE HF-SAR SYSTEM
Jie Chen, Zhuo Li, Wei Liu, Chunsheng Li, Yinqing Zhou

TU4.104: Global Soils and Soil Moisture Products

TU4.104.1: GLOBAL EVALUATION OF REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS
Wade Crow

TU4.104.2: THE WINDSAT GLOBAL SOIL MOISTURE DATA SET
Li Li, Peter Gaiser

TU4.104.3: IMPACT OF LAND MODEL PHYSICS ON SOIL MOISTURE ASSIMILATION
Rolf Reichle, Sujay Kumar, Randal Koster, Christa Peters-Lidard, Wade Crow

TU4.104.4: INTEGRATION OF SATELLITE-RETRIEVED SOIL MOISTURE OBSERVATIONS WITH A GLOBAL TWO-LAYER SOIL MOISTURE MODEL
John Bolten, Wade Crow, Xiwu Zhan, Thomas Jackson, Curt Reynolds

TU4.104.5: SOIL MOISTURE REMOTE SENSING FOR NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: L-BAND EMISSION MODELING OVER LAND SURFACES, THE COMMUNITY MICROWAVE EMISSION MODEL (CMEM)
Patricia de Rosnay, Matthias Drusch, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Thomas Holmes, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Aaron Boone, Jean-Christophe Calvet, Yann Kerr

TU4.105: EARLINET -- The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network II

TU4.105.1: PHOTON-COUNTING LIDAR FOR AEROSOL DETECTION AND 3-D IMAGING
Richard Marino, Jonathan Richardson, Robert Garnier, David Ireland, Laura Bickmeier, Christina Siracusa, Patrick Quinn

TU4.105.2: USING 532 NM HSRL AND 1064 NM ELASTIC-SCATTER LIDAR OBSERVATIONS TO VERIFY AND UPDATE CRAM DUAL-WAVELENGTH AEROSOL RETRIEVAL MODELS
John Reagan, Christopher McPherson, Rich Ferrare, Chris Hostetler, John Hair

TU4.105.3: ANALYSIS OF SAHARAN DUST OBSERVATIONS BY CALIPSO IN THE CONTEXT OF CRAM
Christopher McPherson, John Reagan

TU4.105.4: LIDAR NETWORK FOR MONITORING ASIAN DUST AND AIR POLLUTION AEROSOLS
Nobuo Sugimoto, Ichiro Matsui, Atsushi Shimizu, Tomoaki Nishizawa

TU4.107: Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing I

TU4.107.1: SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA CLASSIFICATION
Salman Siddiqui, Stefan Robila, Jing Peng, Dajin Wang

TU4.107.2: COMPARISON AMONG SPECTRA SIMILARITIES MEASURES BASED ON ENTROPY, EUCLIDIAN DISTANCE AND CORRELATION COEFFICIENT IN HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Marco Antonio Pizarro, David Fernandes

TU4.107.3: ON THE SPECTRAL CORRELATION STRUCTURE OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING DATA
Dimitris Manolakis, Ronald Lockwood, Thomas Cooley

TU4.107.4: HYPERSPECTRAL DATA SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE: A MULTI-SCALE ANALYSIS
Yannick Lanthier, Abdou Bannari, Driss Haboudane, John R. Miller, Nicolas Tremblay

TU4.107.5: PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF TARGET AND ANOMALY DETECTION ALGORITHMS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Abel Paz, Antonio Plaza, Soraya Blazquez

TU4.108: Multichannel - Multidimensional Coherent SAR Data Combination Techniques I

TU4.108.1: ANALYSIS OF COHERENCE MATRIX FOR THE CHARACTERISATION OF DECORRELATING TARGETS
Alessandro Ferretti, Alfio Fumagalli, Fabrizio Novali, Claudio Prati, Fabio Rocca, Alessio Rucci

TU4.108.2: SAR TOMOGRAPHY OVER DECORRELATING TARGETS: A MODEL BASED APPROACH
Andrea Monti Guarnieri, Fabio Rocca, Stefano Tebaldini

TU4.108.3: ESTIMATION OF GROUND TOPOGRAPHY IN FORTESTED TERRAIN BY MEANS OF POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Florian Kugler, Carlos Lopez-Martinez, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Seung-Kuk Lee

TU4.108.4: MULTIBASELINE COHERENCE OPTIMISATION IN PARTIAL POLARIMETRIC MODES
Andreas Reigber, Maxim Neumann, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Marc Jäger, Pau Prats

TU4.108.5: A PUBLIC DATABASE OF SIMULATED MULTIDIMENSIONAL SAR DATA FOR TECHNIQUES VALIDATION
Gerard Margarit, Jordi J. Mallorqui, Carlos Lopez-Martinez

TU4.109: Rare Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery II

TU4.109.1: HYPERSPECTRAL CHANGE DETECTION: METHODOLOGIES AND CHALLENGES
Michael Eismann, Joseph Meola

TU4.109.2: GENERALIZED CHROMODYNAMIC DETECTION
Alan Stocker, Pierre Villeneuve

TU4.109.3: EFFECTS OF ENDMEMBER DIMENSIONALITY ON SUBPIXEL DETECTION PERFORMANCE
Joshua Broadwater

TU4.109.4: SPECTRAL IMAGE UTILITY SENSITIVITY TO IMAGE PREPROCESSING AND INFORMATION EXPLOITATION PARAMETERS
Marcus Stefanou, John Kerekes

TU4.109.5: DETECTION OF HUMAN SKIN IN NEAR INFRARED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Abel Nunez, Michael Mendenhall

TU4.110: Forests and Vegetation: SAR Interferometry and Polarimetry II

TU4.110.1: EXTRACTION OF FOREST BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS USING POLARIMETRIC SAR
Michael Wollersheim, Michael Collins

TU4.110.2: ANALYSIS AND CORRECTION OF SPECKLE NOISE EFFECTS ON POLINSAR DATA BASED ON COHERENT MODELING
Carlos Lopez-Martinez, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Luca Pipia

TU4.110.3: ROBUST VEGETATION HEIGHT EXTRACTION USING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION FOR DUAL-BASEDLINE POLINSAR
Shunjun Wei, Xiaoling Zhang, Di Han

TU4.110.4: FOREST SPATIAL STRUCTURE ENHANCING NON-GAUSSIAN TEXTURE IN AIRBORNE L-BAND POLSAR IMAGES
Seisuke Fukuda

TU4.110.5: TOWARDS COMPLEX-VALUED NEURAL ALGORITHMS FOR FOREST PARAMETERS ESTIMATION FROM POLINSAR DATA
Emanuele Angiuli, Fabio Del Frate, Chiara Solimini, Domenico Solimini

TU4.111: Microwave Radiometer Technology II

TU4.111.1: INTERNAL COLD LOADS FOR RADIOMETER CALIBRATION
Niels Skou, Sten S. Soebjaerg, Jan Balling

TU4.111.2: CALIBRATION OF AN L-BAND SOIL MOISTURE RADIOMETER USING SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES
Miao Tian, Albin Gasiewski

TU4.111.3: W-BAND 2-D SCANNING FULLY-POLARIMETRIC RADIOMETER SYSTEM FOR REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS
Sung-Hyun Kim, Jin-Taek Seong, Hyuk Park, Ho-Jin Lee, Obolonsky Valeriy, Denisov Alexander, Yong-Hoon Kim

TU4.111.4: BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE RETRIEVALS FROM THE SMALL AIRBORNE MIRAS
Ignasi Corbella, Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera

TU4.111.5: ELBARAII, L-BAND RADIOMETER SYSTEM
Andreas Wiesmann, Charles Werner, Mike Schwank, Christian Mätzler, Beat Elsasser, Urs Wegmüller

TU4.203: High Wind Speed Retrievals from SAR and Scatterometry II

TU4.203.1: WIND SPEED RETRIEVALS FROM MULTI-SENSOR SATELLITE DATA FROM HURRICANES AND TROPICAL CYCLONES
Yijun He, Biao Zhang, Hui Shen, William Perrie

TU4.203.2: HIGH-VELOCITY WIND MEASUREMENTS USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
William Pichel, Xiaofeng Li, Frank M. Monaldo, Todd Sikora, Christopher Jackson

TU4.203.3: RAIN AND WIND ESTIMATION FROM SEAWINDS IN HURRICANES AT ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION
Brent Williams, David G. Long

TU4.203.4: SCATTEROMETER-DERIVED WIND FIELDS FOR MID-LATITUDE STORMS
Mark Bourassa

TU4.203.5: WIND POWER DENSITY OVER GLOBAL OCEAN
W. Timothy Liu, Wenqing Tang, Xiaosu Xie

TU4.210: Memorial Session for Professor Jin Au Kong

TU4.210.1: PROFESSOR KONG’S RESEARCH IN REMOTE SENSING AND HIS INSPIRATIONAL SUPERVISION
Leung Tsang, Simon Yueh, Joel Johnson, Maurice Borgeaud

TU4.210.2: J. A. KONG AND HIS INFLUENCE ON REMOTE SENSING DEVELOPMENT IN EAST ASIA
Ya-Qiu Jin, Du Yang, Kun-Shan Chen

TU4.210.3: J A KONG: HIS OUTSTANDING SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION TO THEORY OF MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING, HIS TIRELESS ACTIVITY IN ORGANIZING SCIENTIFIC EVENTS
Paolo Pampaloni

TU4.210.4: CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROFESSOR KONG AND HIS MIT GROUP TO ADVANCING RADAR AND SAR POLARIMETRY
Jakob van Zyl

TU4.210.5: J. A. KONG AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REMOTE SENSING OF VEGETATION/FORESTRY IN THE EARLY 1990 POLARIMETRIC ASPECTS OF J. A. KONG'S REMOTE SENSING RESEARCH
Thuy Le Toan, Jean-Claude Souyris

TUP.A: Passive Microwave Sensing of Soil Moisture

TUP.A.1: A WEB MAPPING SERVICE FOR LAND SURFACE PARAMETERS FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS
Richard De Jeu, John Van De Vegte, Thomas Holmes, Manfred Owe, Nils De Reus

TUP.A.2: STUDY OF ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVED BY AMSR-E BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE OVER TIBETAN PLATEAU
Yongqian Wang, Jiancheng Shi, Lingmei Jiang, Bangsen Tian

TUP.A.3: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA: A SENSITIVITY STUDY USING A COUPLED SVAT-RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL AT THE UPPER DANUBE ANCHOR SITE
Florian Schlenz, Alexander Loew, Wolfram Mauser

TUP.A.4: EFFECTS OF OPTIMAL DECONVOLUTION ON SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL ACCURACY
Ashutosh Limaye, William Crosson, Charles Laymon

TUP.A.5: A SIMULATION STUDY TO QUANTIFY THE RELIEF EFFECTS ON THE OBSERVATIONS PERFORMED BY AMSR-E AND SMAP MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS
Nazzareno Pierdicca, Luca Pulvirenti, Frank Marzano

TUP.A.6: ADAPTING SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR DATA ASSIMILATION INTO WEATHER FORECASTING MODELS
Francesco Posa, Claudia Notarnicola

TUP.A.7: EXPLICIT INVERSE OF SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING DATA: SUITABILITY FOR FUTURE USE
Soo-See Chai, Bert Veenendaal, Geoff West, Jeffrey Walker, Graciela Metternicht

TUP.A.8: INPUT PATTERN ACCORDING TO STANDARD DEVIATION OF BACKPROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORK: INFLUENCE ON THE ACCURACY FOR SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL
Soo-See Chai, Bert Veenendaal, Geoff West, Jeffrey Walker, Graciela Metternicht

TUP.A.9: VALIDATING AMSR-E LEVEL-3 LAND SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT WITH CEOP-3/4 DATA IN CHINA AND MONGOLIA
Zhen Li, Lei Wang, Xinwu Li, Quan Chen, Wei Wu

TUP.A.10: DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL WITH NEW SOIL WATER PARAMETERIZATION FOR INTEGRATING REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE AT WATERSHED SCALE
Jiongfeng Chen, Wan-Chang Zhang

TUP.B: Soil Moisture Experimental Observations

TUP.B.1: L-BAND EMISSION FROM BARE SOIL: DIURNAL EFFECTS
Cihan Erbas, Brian Hornbuckle

TUP.B.2: HILLSLOPE-SCALE CONTROLS ON REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE WITH MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY
Alejandro Flores, Valeriy Ivanov, Dara Entekhabi, Rafael Bras

TUP.B.3: AN AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING EXPERIMENT FOR CATCHMENT-SCALE WATER CYCLE STUDY IN A TYPICAL INLAND RIVER BASIN OF CHINA
Xin Li, Jian Wang, Mingguo Ma, Qiang Liu, Zeyong Hu, Qinhuo Liu, Tao Che, Peixi Su, Rui Jin, Weizhen Wang

TUP.B.4: REMOTE SENSING OF CANOPY WATER CONTENT DURING SMEX’04 AND SMEX’05 USING SHORTWAVE-INFRARED REFLECTANCES
E. Raymond Hunt Jr., M. Tugrul Yilmaz, Thomas Jackson

TUP.B.5: L-BAND RADIOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS OF SUN-GLINT OVER LAND SURFACES
Alessandra Monerris Belda, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Enric Santanach, Pablo Benedicto

TUP.B.6: ROCK FRACTION EFFECTS ON THE SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATES FROM L-BAND RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS
Alessandra Monerris Belda, Mercè Vall-llossera, Adriano Camps, María Piles

TUP.B.7: HIGH RESOLUTION AIRBORNE SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING
Jeffrey Walker, Rocco Panciera, Edward Kim

TUP.B.8: EFFECT OF PROPAGATION PATH CHARACTERISTICS ON LOW-FREQUENCY ON CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING SIGNAL PARAMETERS.
Prakash Ramani, Kenneth Cummins, Nathan Goodman

TUP.C: Surface Roughness and Soil Properties I

TUP.C.1: TEMPERATURE DEPENDABLE MICROWAVE DIELECTRIC MODEL FOR MOIST SOILS
Valery Mironov, Sergej Fomin

TUP.C.2: ERROR ANALYSIS OF SOIL ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS ESTIMATED FROM MEASURED SURFACE PROFILE DATA
Masahiko Nishimoto

TUP.C.3: APPLICATION OF TIR IMAGERY AND SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE EXTRACTION OF SOIL TEXTURAL INFORMATION AT FOWLERS GAP, WESTERN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.
Rob Hewson, Geoff Taylor, Lew Whitbourn

TUP.C.4: SURFACE ROUGHNESS CLASSIFICATION WITH MULTIPOLARIZED C-BAND SAR DATA AS A PRIORI INFORMATION FOR SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL
Mélanie Trudel, François Charbonneau, Robert Leconte

TUP.C.5: A NOVEL METHOD FOR 2-D AGRICULTURAL SOIL ROUGHNESS CHARACTERIZATION BASED ON A LASER SCANNING TECHNIQUE
Francisco Grings, Matias Barber, Carolina Pepe, Pablo Perna, Julio Cesar Alberto Jacobo-Berlles, Marc Thibeault, Haydee Karszenbaum

TUP.C.6: POTENTIAL OF C-BAND MULTIPOLARIZED AND POLARIMETRIC SAR FOR SOIL DRAINAGE CLASSIFICATION AND MAPPING
Mohamed Abou Niang, Michel C. Nolin, Monique Bernier, Isabelle Perron

TUP.C.7: SAR REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR SUBSURFACE TARGETS DETECTION AND LOP NUR LAKE EVOLUTION AND EXTINCTION STUDY
Yun Shao, Huazhe Gong, Qing Dong

TUP.C.8: A DECISION TREE ALGORITHM FOR FREEZE/THAW CLASSIFICATION OF SURFACE SOIL USING SSM/I
Rui Jin, Xin Li

TUP.C.9: COMPARISON OF MODIS EMISSIVITY OBSERVATION WITH GROUND MEASUREMENTS
Maria Mira, Thomas Schmugge, Vicente Caselles, Enric Valor

TUP.C.10: THE AMSR-E INSTANTANEOUS EMISSIVITY ESTIMATION AND ITS CORRELATION, FREQUENCY DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS OVER DIFFERENT LAND COVER
Yubao Qiu, Jiancheng Shi, Martti Hallikainen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Jouni Pulliainen, Jarkko Koskinen, Anna Kontu

TUP.D: Surface Roughness and Soil Properties II

TUP.D.1: CALIBRATION OF IEM MODEL FOR THE SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING OF NON-INUNDATED PADDY FIELDS USING ALOS/PALSAR DATA
Junichi Susaki

TUP.D.2: PRELIMINARY POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF BARE AND VEGETATED SOILS RADAR BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS AND BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES ANGULAR DEPENDENCES AT 15GHZ
Artashes Arakelyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Izabela Hakobyan, Astghik Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Mushegh Manukyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan

TUP.D.3: BISTATIC SAR AND GNSS REFLECTOMETRY FOR LAND GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETER RETRIEVAL
Nazzareno Pierdicca, Leila Guerriero, Luca Pulvirenti, Francesca Ticconi

TUP.D.4: ERROR ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE DERIVED FROM ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS AND MODEL DATA
Klaus Scipal, Thomas Holmes, Richard De Jeu, Vahid Naeimi, Wolfgang Wagner

TUP.D.5: RETRIEVAL OF SUBSURFACE SOIL MOISTURE USING SAR OBSERVATION AT UHF/VHF BANDS
Ya-Qiu Jin, Renyuan Qi

TUP.D.6: INCORPORATING REMOTE SENSING DATA IN A SIMPLE DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL FOR RUNOFF AND SPATIAL SOIL MOISTURE SIMULATION
Xianghu Li, Liliang Ren, Guizuo Wang

TUP.D.7: SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT RETRIEVAL IN AN ARID TO SEMI-ARID REGION IN THE XINJIANG PROVINCE
Qin Li, Xi Chen, Frank Veroustraete, Anming Bao

TUP.D.8: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS AS A NEW TOOL TO INVESTIGATE TIME SERIES OF SOIL MOISTURE INDICES OVER WINTER
Sonia Heitz, Patrick Matgen, Guy Schumann, Laurent Pfister

TUP.D.9: AN AUTOMATED MULTI-SATELLITE APPROACH FOR SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING USING VISIBLE/INFRARED, PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA AND TOPOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTES
Marouane Temimi, Robert Leconte, Reza Khanbilvardi

TUP.E: Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation III

TUP.E.1: RETRIEVAL OF THE OVERSTORY AND UNDERSTORY LEAF AREA INDEX OF FOREST STANDS USING A MODEL OF FOREST CANOPY REFLECTANCE
Jianxi Huang, Feng Mao, Weijun Sun, Wenbo Xu, Wensheng Zhou

TUP.E.2: ESTIMATING WHEAT EQUIVALENT WATER THICKNESS USING LANDSAT TM/ETM+ DATA
Abduwasit Ghulam, Tim Kusky, Qiming Qin, Zhao-Liang Li, Alim Kasim

TUP.E.3: ESTIMATING BIOPHYSICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS AND YIELD OF WINTER WHEAT BASED ON LANDSAT TM IMAGES
Yansong Bao, Liangyun Liu, Jihua Wang

TUP.E.4: FOLIAR BIO-PHYSICAL AND SPECTRAL PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH LIGHT ENVIRONMENT IN A MATURE POPLAR STAND
Petya Campbell, Elizabeth Middleton, Lawrence Corp, Geoffrey Parker, Yen-Ben Cheng, Debojit Nayak, Qing Yuan

TUP.E.5: TOWARD A GLOBAL TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO COCONUT TREES SENSING USING HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL DATA
Raimana Teina, Dominique Béréziat, Benoît Stoll, Sébastien Chabrier

TUP.E.6: IMPROVING LAND SURFACE PIXEL LEVEL ALBEDO CHARACTERIZATION USING SUB-PIXEL INFORMATION RETRIEVED FROM REMOTE SENSING
Wenjun Liu, Baoxin Hu, Shusen Wang

TUP.E.7: VALIDATION OF IMPROVED FOREST CANOPY MEASUREMENTS FROM A GROUND-BASED LIDAR INSTRUMENT (ECHIDNA™)
Xiaoyuan Yang, Tian Yao, Alan Strahler, Curtis E. Woodcock, Crystal Schaaf, Ranga Myneni, Jicheng Liu, Glenn J. Newnham, David L. B. Jupp, Darius S. Culvenor, Jenny L. Lovell, Wenge Ni-Meister, Shihyan Lee, Xiaowen Li, Feng Zhao, Qingling Zhang, Mitchell Schull, Miguel O. Román III, Zhuosen Wang, Yanmin Shuai

TUP.E.8: NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY AND BIOMASS ESTIMATION IN INNER MONGOLIA (CHINA) BASED ON SPOT NDVI AND A LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY MODEL
Huiling Long, Xiaobing Li, Hong Wang, Dandan Wang, Lingmei Huang

TUP.F: Radar and Soil Moisture

TUP.F.1: KU-BAND SENSITIVITY TO SOIL MOISTURE. AN EVALUATION STUDY FOR MONITORING TEMPORAL SOIL MOISTURE CHANGE DETECTION OVER THE NAFE06 STUDY AREA.
Iliana Mladenova, Venkat Lakshmi, Thomas Jackson, Jeffrey Walker

TUP.F.2: SOIL MOISTURE CHANGE RETRIEVAL USING S-BAND RADAR DATA DURING SGP99 AND SMEX02
Quan Chen, Zhen Li, Lei Wang

TUP.F.3: A NEW METHOD TO RETRIEVE SOIL MOISTURE AT BARE SOIL SURFACE USING ERS SCATTEROMETER DATA
Ruijing Sun, Jiancheng Shi, Lingmei Jiang, Jinyang Du

TUP.F.4: CHARACTERIZATION OF BACKSCATTER BY SURFACE FEATURES IN L-BAND ACTIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE
Narendra Das, Binayak Mohanty, Eni Njoku

TUP.F.5: VALIDATION OF SPACE-BORNE SAR DATA FOR PERIODIC OBSERVATION AND INVERSION OF SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE IN SARDINIA
Monique Bernier, Imen Gherboudj, Rebecca Filion, Claudio Paniconi, Massimo Melis, Antonino Soddu, Ralf Ludwig

TUP.F.6: ANALYSIS OF VALID RANGES IN SOIL INVERSION MODELS BASED ON THE CLOUDE-POTTIER DECOMPOSITION
Qiang Yin, Fang Cao, Wen Hong

TUP.F.7: ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE IN HEIHE RIVER BASIN OASIS USING ASAR DATA
Shuguo Wang, Xin Li, Rui Jin

TUP.F.8: APPLICATION OF MICROWAVE DATA FOR AGRICULTURAL AREA
Katarzyna Dabrowska-Zielinska, Maria Gruszczynska, Wanda Kowalik, Yoshio Ynoue

TUP.F.9: CAPABILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF SATELLITE ACTIVE MICROWAVE DATA IN SOIL MOISTURE AND DROUGHT MONITORING IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN ENVIRONMENT.
Hosni Ghedira

TUP.F.10: SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING IN TYPICAL SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF CHINA BY USING ENVISAT ASAR DATA
Jiongfeng Chen, Wan-Chang Zhang

TUP.F.11: SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE IN SEMI-ARID REGION OF NORTHERN CHINA
Jiongfeng Chen, Wan-Chang Zhang

TUP.G: Radiance Assimilation and Retrieval Methods II

TUP.G.1: DEVELOPMENT OF A LAND-SURFACE HYDROLOGICAL MODEL TOPX AND ITS COUPLING STUDY WITH REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL RIEMS
Bin Yong, Wan-Chang Zhang

TUP.G.2: THE PREDICTION AND PROBABILITY ESTIMATION OF TEMPERATURES AND SNOWFALL OVER THE PLATEAU BY CONSIDERING ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT
Wen Wang, Xiaojun Cai, Dongliang Li

TUP.G.3: A MODEL-BASED DIAGNOSTIC STUDY OF “99.6” MEIYU FRONT RAINSTORM
Wen Wang, Xiaojun Cai, Xiao Long

TUP.G.4: VERTICAL PROMOTION OF CLOUDS CONTAMINATION BY BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE (A MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING APPROACH)
Sam Nwaneri, Ugorji Faithful O. D.

TUP.H: Applications in Data and Image Processing

TUP.H.1: AN ADAPTIVE METHOD FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL FROM LIDAR DATA
Xiaohui Yuan, Liangmei Hu, Bill P. Buckles, Laura Steinberg, Vaibhav Sarma

TUP.H.2: LIDAR IMAGE DATA AUTHENTICATION USING PSEUDORANDOM POLYGONS
Y. M. Y. Hasan, Ahmed F. Elaksher, Samir M. Al Shariff

TUP.H.3: FOURIER ARRAY PROCESSING FOR BURIED VICTIMS DETECTION USING ULTRA WIDE BAND RADAR WITH UNCALIBRATED SENSORS
Ludvik Lidicky

TUP.H.4: AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF OCEANIC EDDIES IN SEAWIFS-DERIVED COLOR IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND SHAPE ANALYSIS
Samarth Patel, Ramprasad Balasubramanian, Avijit Gangopadhyay

TUP.H.5: SEISMIC FAULT DETECTION BASED ON A LINEAR SUPPORT
Barna Keresztes, Olivier Lavialle, Monica Borda

TUP.H.6: SELF ORGANIZING MAP: APPLICATION IN MORPHOMETRIC FEATURE IDENTIFICATION IN HUMID AND HYPER ARID ENVIRONMENTS
Amir Houshang Ehsani, Friedrich Quiel

TUP.H.7: TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BEIJING URBAN HEAT ISLAND BASED ON MODIS IMAGE DATA
Shanshan Li, Huili Gong, Wenji Zhao, Zhiwei Ye, Lin Zhu

TUP.H.8: IMPACT OF CORRELATORS AND RECEIVERS FAILURES ON THE MIRAS INSTRUMENT ONBOARD SMOS
Eric Anterrieu, Ali Khazaal, Hervé Carfantan

TUP.H.9: ASSIMILATION OF SST SATELLITE IMAGES FOR ESTIMATION OF OCEAN CIRCULATION VELOCITY
Etienne Huot, Isabelle Herlin, Gennady Korotaev

TUP.H.10: ESTIMATING BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS FROM REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY WITH GAUSSIAN PROCESSES
Luca Pasolli, Farid Melgani, Enrico Blanzieri

TUP.H.11: SUPEROVERLAY DEPLOYMENT IN GRID-ENABLED IMAGE PROCESSING
Guido Lemoine, Dominik Brunner, Francois-Xavier Thoorens

TUP.I: Image Analysis and Classification I

TUP.I.1: RESEARCH ON URBAN SPATIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND LAND USE ANALYSIS
Wen Liu, Qiuhai Zhong, Jiancheng Luo, Zhanfeng Shen

TUP.I.2: A NEW ADAPTIVE FUZZY CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES
Chih-Cheng Hung, Wenping Liu, Bor-Chen Kuo

TUP.I.3: INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE PATTERN AND CLASSIFICATION TREE FOR LAND USE CLASSIFICATION IN INLAND RIVER BASIN OF CHINA ARID REGION
Yuan Qi, Jianhua Wang, Zhen Xu, Changwei Lin

TUP.I.4: CLASSIFICATION OF LIDAR DATA USING STANDARD DEVIATION OF ELEVATION AND CHARACTERISTIC POINT FEATURES
Krista Amolins, Yun Zhang, Peter Dare

TUP.I.5: FUZZY SUPER-RESOLUTION MAPPING BASED ON MARKOV RANDOM FIELD
Valentyn Tolpekin, Nicholas Hamm

TUP.I.6: REDUCING NEED FOR COLLOCATED GROUND AND SATELLITE BASED OBSERVATIONS IN STATISTICAL AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH ESTIMATION
Debasish Das, Vladan Radosavljevic, Slobodan Vucetic, Zoran Obradovic

TUP.I.7: A FUZZY HOMOGENEITY TEST FOR THE ITERATIVE GUIDED SPECTRAL CLASS REJECTION ALGORITHM
Rhonda Phillips, Layne Watson, Randolph Wynne

TUP.J: Image Analysis and Classification II

TUP.J.1: STUDY ON CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTELY SENSED IMAGE BASED ON SYNTHETICALLY UNDERSTANDING MODEL
Siyuan Wang, Daliang Gong, Lun Cai, Tengbo Ma, Xingyu Fu

TUP.J.2: COMPARISON OF CORRELATION FILTERS FOR VEHICLES DETECTION IN HIGH RESOLUTION AIRBORNE IMAGERY
Daniel A. Lavigne, Walid Ben Tara, Henri H. Arsenault

TUP.J.3: MAN-MADE OBJECTS ROBUST SEGMENTATION FROM 3D SURFACE DATA USING PSEUDO-COLOR IMAGES
Ki In Bang, Ayman Habib

TUP.J.4: NON-PARAMETER CORRELATION ANALYSIS IN POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURE AND ITS APPLICATION TO CHANGE DETECTION IN POLARIMETRIC SAR
Bangsen Tian, Zhen Li, Yongqian Wang

TUP.J.5: DISCRIMINATION OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS SITES BY SEISMIC SIGNALS USING INTRINSIC MODE FUNCTIONS AND MULTI-MODAL DATA SPACE
Jose Chilo, Jason M. Kinser, Thomas Lindblad

TUP.J.6: SYNCHRONOUS AND HIERARCHICAL SEISMIC PATTERN DETECTION USING SIMULATED ANNEALING
Kou-Yuan Huang, Ying-Liang Chou

TUP.J.7: A NEW METHOD OF OBTAINING SURFACE RUNOFF PARAMETERS OF SIMTOP FROM DEM
Jingwen Xu, Wan-Chang Zhang

TUP.K: Target Detection and Pattern Recognition

TUP.K.1: AUTOMATIC POINT TARGET DETECTION FOR INTERACTIVE VISUAL ANALYSIS OF SAR IMAGES
Martin Lambers, Andreas Kolb

TUP.K.2: SAR TARGET RECOGNITION BASED ON MRF AND GABOR WAVELET FEATURE EXTRACTION
Ruohong Huan, Ruliang Yang

TUP.K.3: SUPER-RESOLUTION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES BASED ON TARGET DECOMPOSITION AND POLARIMETRIC SPATIAL CORRELATION
Bin Zou, Huijun Hao, Xingjie Guo

TUP.K.4: DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB-BASED APPLICATION TO EVALUATE TARGET FINDING ALGORITHMS
David Snyder, John Kerekes, Ian Fairweather, Robert Crabtree, Jeremy Shive, Stacey Hager

TUP.L: Feature Extraction and Reduction

TUP.L.1: REDUCING THE COMPUTATIONAL LOAD OF HYPERSPECTRAL BAND SELECTION USING THE ONE-BIT TRANSFORM OF HYPERSPECTRAL BANDS
Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk

TUP.L.2: ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR FEATURE SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE
Lintao Wen, Qian Yin, Ping Guo

TUP.L.3: EXTENDED SUBSPACE METHOD FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Hasi Bagan, Wataru Takeuchi, Buhe Aosier, Masami Kaneko, Xiaohui Wang, Yoshifumi Yasuoka

TUP.L.4: KERNEL-BASED NONLINEAR FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Po-Wen Chou, Pi-Fuei Hsieh

TUP.L.5: TEXTURE ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION FOR SINGLE-BAND SAR THEMATIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION
Deyong Hu, Wenji Zhao, Xiaojuan Li, Huili Gong

TUP.L.6: EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION PRE-PROCESS FOR HIGHER ACCURACY HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk

TUP.L.7: ADABOOST-NWFE CLASSIFICATION SCHEME FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE
Hsiao-Yun Huang, Bor-Chen Kuo, Yu-Ling Lee

TUP.L.8: WAVELET PACKET TREE PRUNING METRICS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL FEATURE EXTRACTION
Terrance West, Lori Bruce, Saurabh Prasad

TUP.M: Multitemporal Processing

TUP.M.1: SPATIO-TEMPORAL SEGMENTATION BASED ON SUBSEQUENCES OF SATELLITE IMAGE TIME SERIES
Stefaan Lhermitte, Willem W. Verstraeten, Pol Coppin, Jan Verbesselt

TUP.M.2: ESTIMATING BIOPHYSICAL VARIABLES AT 250 M WITH RECONSTRUCTED EOS/MODIS TIME SERIES TO MONITOR FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPES
Rémi Lecerf, Laurence Hubert-Moy, Frédéric Baret, Bassam Abdel Latif, Thomas Corpetti, Hervé Nicolas

TUP.M.3: COMPARAISON OF MULTITEMPORAL MODIS-EVI SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO CROP MONITORING
Damien Arvor, Milton Jonathan, Margareth Simões Penello Meirelles, Vincent Dubreuil, Rémi Lecerf

TUP.M.4: A SEMI-PHYSICAL APPROACH FOR GENERATION OF TEMPORALLY COMPLETE DAILY NADIR BRDF-ADJUSTED MODIS REFLECTANCE TIME SERIES
Junchang Ju, David Roy

TUP.M.5: INFERRING DEFORMATION FIELDS FROM MULTIDATE SATELLITE IMAGES
André Jalobeanu, Delphine Fitzenz

TUP.N: Hyperspectral: Compression and Implementation

TUP.N.1: HYPERSPECTRAL-IMAGES COMPRESSION BASED ON THE PROTECTION OF INFORMATION OF INTEREST
Junping Zhang, Weiming Peng, Yushi Chen, Ye Zhang

TUP.N.2: AN EFFICIENT ON-BOARD LOSSLESS COMPRESSION DESIGN FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE DATA
Guoxia Yu, Tanya Vladimirova, Martin Sweeting

TUP.N.3: ANOMALY-BASED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE COMPRESSION
Qian Du, Wei Zhu, James Fowler

TUP.N.4: LOSSLESS COMPRESSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY VIA LOOKUP TABLES AND CLASSIFIED LINEAR SPECTRAL PREDICTION
Bruno Aiazzi, Luciano Alparone, Stefano Baronti

TUP.N.5: IMPROVEMENTS TO 3D TARP CODING FOR THE COMPRESSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Jing Zhang, James Fowler, Qian Du, Guizhong Liu

TUP.N.6: PARALLEL DATA COMPRESSION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
He Yang, Qian Du, Wei Zhu, Ioana Banicescu, James Fowler

TUP.N.7: PARALLEL PROCESSING FOR NORMAL MIXTURE MODELS OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING A GRAPHICS PROCESSOR
Yuliya Tarabalka, Trym Vegard Haavardsholm, Ingebjørg Kåsen, Torbjørn Skauli

TUP.N.8: A PARALLEL SIMULATED ANNEALING APPROACH TO BAND SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Yang-Lang Chang, Jyh-Perng Fang, Wen-Yew Liang, Hsuan Ren, Kun-Shan Chen

TUP.N.9: TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF A FLEXIBLE HYPERSPECTRAL PROCESSING CHAIN: PRELIMINARY CASE STUDY USING HIGH-RESOLUTION URBAN DATA
Jacopo Nairoukh, Giovanna Trianni, Antonio Plaza, Paolo Gamba, Fabio Dell'Acqua

TUP.O: Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Classification

TUP.O.1: A NOVEL FUZZY C-MEANS METHOD FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Bor-Chen Kuo, Wen-Chun Huang, Hsiang-Chuan Liu, Shiau-Chian Tseng

TUP.O.2: KERNEL-BASED K-NN AND GAUSSIAN CLASSIFIERS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Bor-Chen Kuo, Jinn-Min Yang, Tian-Wei Sheu, Szu-Wei Yang

TUP.O.3: IMPACT OF SEARCH STRATEGIES TO IMPROVEMENT OF N-FINDR ALGORITHM IN HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Omid Ghaffari, Barat Mojaradi, Amir Moini Rad, Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej, Hamid Ebadi

TUP.O.4: AUGMENTING A HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFIER FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA BY EXPLOITING SPATIAL CORRELATION
Hrishikesh Bhattacharya, Aditya Saurabh

TUP.O.5: CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES USING GAUSSIAN PROCESSES
Yakoub Bazi, Farid Melgani

TUP.O.6: AN IMPROVED HYPERSPECTRAL MAPPING USING MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER COMBINATION
Xingping Wen, Guangdao Hu, Xiaofeng Yang

TUP.O.7: A PARALLEL APPROACH FOR INITIALIZATION OF HIGH-ORDER STATISTICS ANOMALY DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Hsuan Ren, Yang-Lang Chang

TUP.P: High Resolution Optical Data Processing

TUP.P.1: SUPERVISED REGION-BASED SEGMENTATION OF QUICKBIRD MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY
Ben Wuest

TUP.P.2: HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGE ANALYSIS WITH EXOGENOUS DATA: A GENERIC FRAMEWORK
Vincent Poulain, Jordi Inglada, Marc Spigai

TUP.P.3: STEGONOGRAPHY FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION COLOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE
Xianmin Wang, Ruiqing Niu

TUP.P.4: QUICKBIRD PANCHROMATIC IMAGES FOR MAPPING DAMAGE AT BUILDING SCALE CAUSED BY THE 2003 BAM EARTHQUAKE
Marco Chini, Christian Bignami, William J. Emery, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Salvatore Stramondo

TUP.P.5: A COMBINED GLOBAL AND LOCAL APPROACH FOR AUTOMATED REGISTRATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES USING OPTIMUM EXTREMA POINTS
Yonghong Li, Curt H. Davis

TUP.P.6: SHADOW SEGMENTATION AND COMPENSATION IN HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES
Haijian Ma, Qiming Qin, Xinyi Shen

TUP.P.7: THE RESEARCH ON IMAGE CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING BASED ON AN IMPROVED NEURAL NETWORK
Mu Bai, Huiping Liu, Wenli Huang, Xiaoluo Zhou, Xiaodong Mu

TUP.P.8: A STUDY FOR NEAR-SHORE CHARACTERIZATION USING HIGH-RESOLUTION HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES
Giuliana Pennucci, Raffaele Grasso, Charles Trees

TUP.Q: Image Processing: Calibration and Correction

TUP.Q.1: AN ALGORITHM TO CALIBRATE FIELD CAMERAS FOR STEREO CLOUDS
Jiuxiang Hu, Anshuman Razdan, Joseph Zehnder

TUP.Q.2: FAST COLOUR BALANCE ADJUSTMENT OF IKONOS IMAGERY USING CUDA
Yong Kiat Allan Tan, Wee Juan Tan, Leong Keong Kwoh

TUP.Q.3: GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION MODELS FOR REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS
Nicholas Hamm, Jadunandan Dash

TUP.Q.4: IMPROVED MSG-SEVIRI IMAGES CLOUD MASKING AND EVALUATION OF ITS IMPACT ON THE FIRE DETECTION METHODS
Enrico Cadau, Giovanni Laneve

TUP.Q.5: HIGHLY ACCURATE GEOMETRIC CORRECTION FOR NOAA AVHRR DATA CONSIDERING THE VARIATION OF ELEVATION AND THE FEATURE OF COASTLINE
An Ngoc Van, Mitsuru Nakazawa, Yoshimitsu Aoki

TUP.Q.6: POSITION ESTIMATION USING TEXTURE INFORMATION IN NOAA-AVHRR DATA FOR GEOMETRIC CORRECTION
Yoichi Kageyama, Yoshiaki Shoji, Makoto Nishida

TUP.Q.7: CONSTRUCTION OF AN IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR USE ON BOARD AN LEO SATELLITE
Izak van Zyl Marais, Willem Herman Steyn, Johan Adam du Preez

TUP.Q.8: INFLUENCE OF CAMERA DISTORTIONS IN SATELLITE IMAGE REGISTRATION AND CHANGE DETECTION APPLICATIONS
Francois Ayoub, Sebastien Leprince, Renaud Binet, Kevin Lewis, Oded Aharonson, Jean-Philippe Avouac

TUP.Q.9: SINGULAR UNIT RESTORATION BASED ON COMPLEX-VALUED MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL FOR INSAR INTERFEROGRAMS
Ryo Yamaki, Akira Hirose

TUP.R: Spatial Resolution - Registration

TUP.R.1: SPATIAL RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF SMOS DATA: A COMBINED FOURIER WIENER APPROACH
Maria Piles, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Marco Talone

TUP.R.2: USING SYNTHETIC VARIABLE RATIO METHOD TO FUSE MULTI-SOURCE REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES BASED ON SENSOR SPECTRAL RESPONSE
Shen Chen, Jiancheng Luo, Zhanfeng Shen, Geping Luo, Changming Zhu

TUP.R.3: RESEARCH ON IMPROVING SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF RS IMAGES BASED ON QUAD-TREE DECOMPOSITION
Yonghua Sun, Xiaojuan Li, Huili Gong, Chunping Zhou

TUP.R.4: A NOVEL STRATEGY FOR PRECISE GEOMETRIC REGISTRATION OF GIS AND SATELLITE IMAGES
Qi Li, Isao Sato, Fumihiro Sakuma

TUP.R.5: MULTI-SENSOR IMAGE FUSION BASED ON TRANSFERABLE PARAMETERS
Junping Zhang, Chen Qi, Wenyan Tang

TUP.R.6: A PROGRESSIVE REFINEMENT APPROACH TO AERIAL IMAGE REGISTRATION USING LOCAL TRANSFORM PERTURBATIONS
Stephen DelMarco, Helen Webb, Victor Tom, Todd Jenkins

TUP.R.7: UAV-VIDEO REGISTRATION USING BLOCK-BASED FEATURES
Adel Hafiane, Kannappan Palaniappan

TUP.R.8: A NOVEL FEATURE ENHANCED MMI BASED REGISTRATION ALGORITHM FOR AUTOMATED MAPS AND IMAGES
Xiaofeng Fan, Harvey Rhody, Eli Saber

TUP.R.9: AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF OPTICAL IMAGES, A STAKE FOR FUTURE MISSIONS: APPLICATION TO ORTHO-RECTIFICATION, TIMES SERIES AND MOSAIC PRODUCTS
Simon Baillarin, Patrick Gigord, Olivier Hagolle

TUP.R.10: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ATTRACTIVENESS ANALYSIS THROUGH GEO-REFERENCED PHOTO ALIGNMENT
Paul Chippendale, Michele Zanin, Claudio Andreatta

TUP.S: Lidar Sensors and Applications II

TUP.S.1: OVERVIEW OF WIND LIDAR TECHNIQUES AND CURRENT RELATED DEVELOPMENTS AT THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA
Sergio Tomás, Constantino Muñoz, Michaël Sicard, Francesc Rocadenbosch, Alejandro Rodríguez, Adolfo Comerón

TUP.S.2: SIMULATIONS OF SPACE-BASED CO2 MEASUREMENTS: MEASUREMENT IMPACTS ON MESOSCALE TRANSPORT MODELING
T. Scott Zaccheo, Thomas Connor, Janusz Eluszkiewicz, Michael Dobbs, Hilary Snell

TUP.S.3: ASIAN DUST AND AIR POLLUTION AEROSOL MONITORING LIDAR NETWORK
Nobuo Sugimoto, Ichiro Matsui, Atsushi Shimizu, Tomoaki Nishizawa

TUP.S.4: SPACE BORNE LASER AND LIDAR AIRBORNE EXPERIENCES AT L'ESTARTIT (SPAIN)
Juan Jose Martinez-Benjamin, Bob Schutz, Timothy Urban, Miquel Angel Ortiz Castellon

TUP.S.5: USING THE SCOTT AND LONGUET-HIGGINS ALGORITHM AND NEURAL NETWORKS TO REGISTER IKONOS IMAGES AND LIDAR-BASED DEMS
Ahmed F. Elaksher, Samir Shariff

TUP.S.6: ACCURACY ANALYSIS OF GEO-REFERENCING BY VEHICLE-BORNE POSITION AND ORIENTATION SYSTEM IN LASER SCANNING
Ruofei Zhong, Yongwei Kang, Weibing Feng, Jianxi Huang

TUP.S.7: STUDY ON THE RESOLUTION OF LASER SCANNING POINT CLOUD
Ling Zhu, Yuqing Mu, Ruoming Shi

TUP.S.8: EXACT TOPOLOGICAL BOUNDARY TRACING FOR BUILDING MODEL RECONSTRUCTION FROM AIRBORNE LASER DATA
Xianfeng Huang, Xiaoguang Cheng, Fan Zhang, Jianya Gong, Hui Li

TUP.S.9: STUDY AND ANALYSIS ON THE SINGLE FACTORS OF LANDSLIDE BASED ON GIS
Qiu Li, Hongyang Cao, Changao Shi

TUP.S.10: LASER INTENSITY USED IN CLASSIFICATION OF LIDAR POINT CLOUD DATA
Hui Li, Liping Di, Xianfeng Huang, Deren Li

TUP.S.11: AUTOMATIC BUILDING DETECTION AND EXTRACTION FROM LIDAR POINT CLOUD DATA AND HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGERY
Nima Ekhtari, Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej, Mahmod Reza Sahebi, Ali Mohammadzadeh

TUP.T: Lidar Sensors and Applications III

TUP.T.1: THE USE OF THE SHOALS WAVEFORMS TO ASSESS HABITAT COMPLEXITY WITHIN THE BENTHOSCAPE
Antoine Collin, Bernard Long, Philippe Archambault

TUP.U: Microwave Synthetic Aperture Radiometers I

TUP.U.1: INITIAL RESULTS OF THE PASSIVE ADVANCED UNIT SYNTHETIC APERTURE (PAU-SA)
Isaac Ramos-Pérez, Enric Valencia, Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Juan Fernando Marchán-Hernandez, Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Francisco Canales-Contador, Marco Donadio

TUP.U.2: FAST PROCESSING TOOL FOR SMOS DATA
Ignasi Corbella, Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Veronica Gonzalez, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera

TUP.U.3: A GENERAL PLATFORM FOR MILLIMETER WAVE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER
Qingxia Li, Fei Hu, Wei Guo, Ke Chen, Liang Lang, Jing Zhang, Yaoting Zhu, Zuyin Zhang

TUP.U.4: A RECTANGULAR ARRAY FOR MOTION INDUCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER
Hyuk Park, Sung-Hyun Kim, Ho-Jin Lee, Nam-Won Moon, Yong-Hoon Kim

TUP.U.5: ASSESSMENT ON LINEARITY ERRORS IN DETECTORS FOR INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS
Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Cristina González-Haro, Roger Vilaseca, Lluís Sagués, Manuel Martín-Neira

TUP.U.6: THE SMOS MISSION PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE PLANS
Yann Kerr, Philippe Waldteufel, Jordi Font, Achim Hahne, Susanne Mecklenburg

TUP.U.7: SMOS SYSTEM PERFORMANCES BASED ON END-TO-END SIMULATIONS
Francois Cabot, Philippe Richaume, Arnaud Mialon, Yann Kerr

TUP.U.8: IMAGE RETRIEVAL SIMULATIONS FOR THE GEO ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDER (GAS)
Anders Carlström, Jacob Christensen, Anders Emrich, Peter de Magt

TUP.U.9: CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF THE GEOSTATIONARY INTERFEROMETRIC MICROWAVE SOUNDER (GIMS)
Hao Liu, Ji Wu, Shengwei Zhang, Jingye Yan

TUP.V: Microwave Real Aperture Radiometers: Technology and Calibration I

TUP.V.1: DUAL-643GHZ AND 874GHZ AIRBORNE RADIOMETERS FOR ICE CLOUD MEASUREMENTS
Zhaonan Zhang, Bryan Monosmith

TUP.V.2: PAU ONE-RECEIVER AIRBORNE INSTRUMENT: INITIAL RESULTS
Enric Valencia, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Albert Aguasca, Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Isaac Ramos-Pérez, Juan Fernando Marchán-Hernandez, Mathilde Glenat, Francesc Bou

TUP.V.3: COMPACT DUAL POLARIZATION FEEDING SYSTEM OF HY-2 CALIBRATION RADIOMETER
Hongjian Wang, Bin Fan

TUP.V.4: BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL WITH SCALE-MODEL ANTENNA PATTERNS OF THE AQUARIUS L-BAND RADIOMETER
Seung-Bum Kim, Frank Wentz

TUP.V.5: POST-LAUNCH ASSESSMENT OF THE METOP-A AMSU-A PERFORMANCE
Tsan Mo

TUP.V.6: FY-3 MICROWAVE HUMIDITY SOUNDER T/V TEST AND CALIBRATION
Zhenzhan Wang, Jing Li, Qiong Wu, Shengwei Zhang, Baoyu He, Zhenfan Zheng, Jing-Shan Jiang, Heguang Liu

TUP.V.7: DESIGN AND TEST OF A NEW TRUCK-MOUNTED MICROWAVE RADIOMETER FOR REMOTE SENSING RESEARCH
Shaojie Zhao, Lixin Zhang, Zhongjun Zhang

TUP.V.8: RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION OF KOREAN SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DREAM
Sung-Hyun Kim, Ho-Jin Lee, Nam-Won Moon, Jin-Taek Seong, Hoon Wi, Eun-Sup Sim, De-Hai Zhang, Jing-Shan Jiang, Yong-Hoon Kim

TUP.V.9: PROCESSING TECHNIQUES TO MITIGATE EOS AMSU-A CALIBRATION ANOMALIES
Kent Anderson

TUP.V.10: SPURIOUS 3RD AND 4TH STOKES SIGNALS (“SHADOWING”) IN POLARIMETRIC MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY OVER THE OCEANS: ORIGIN, CHARACTERISTICS, AND MITIGATION
Craig Smith, David Thompson

TUP.W: Microwave Real Aperture Radiometers: Technology and Calibration II

TUP.W.1: COMBINED AIRBORNE RADIO-INSTRUMENTS FOR OCEAN AND LAND STUDIES (CAROLS)
Mehrez Zribi, Mickaël Pardé, Danièle Hauser, Pascal Fanise, Paul Leroy, Monique Dechambre, Niels Skou, Sten Søbjærg, Jacqueline Boutin, Jean-Christophe Calvet, Gilles Reverdin, Nicolas Reul, Jean Pierre Wigneron

TUP.W.2: CAROLS CAMPAIGN: SCIENTIFIC DATA ANALYSIS RESULTS
Mickaël Pardé, Mehrez Zribi, Danièle Hauser, Paul Leroy, Pascal Fanise, Sonia Zine, Nicolas Reul, Jacqueline Boutin

TUP.X: Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Missions

TUP.X.1: EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS OF LAND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) SENSOR
Bonnie Reed, Bruce Guenther, Carl Hoffman, Heather Kilcoyne, Karen St. Germain

TUP.X.2: EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS OF OCEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) SENSOR
Bonnie Reed, Bruce Guenther, Carl Hoffman, Heather Kilcoyne, Karen St. Germain

TUP.X.3: EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS OF THE CLOUD ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) SENSOR
Heather Kilcoyne, Bruce Guenther, Karen St. Germain, Bonnie Reed, Carl Hoffman

TUP.X.4: EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS OF THE AEROSOL ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) SENSOR
Heather Kilcoyne, Bruce Guenther, Karen St. Germain, Bonnie Reed, Carl Hoffman

TUP.X.5: NPOESS: ITS POTENTIAL ROLE IN AN EMERGING CLIMATE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION AND THE ONE AFTER
Stephen Mango

TUP.X.6: RADIOMETRIC VALIDATION OF MICROWAVE SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS USING THE NPOESS AIRCRAFT SOUNDER TESTBED-MICROWAVE (NAST-M) SENSOR
Laura Jairam, Laura Bickmeier, William Blackwell, R. Vincent Leslie, Fred Chen

TUP.X.7: RADIOMETRIC PERFORMANCE OF CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) INSTRUMENT SENSORS ABOARD EOS TERRA AND AQUA SPACECRAFT
Susan Thomas, Kory Priestley, Denise Cooper, Phillip Hess, Z. Peter Szewczyk, Dale Walikainen, Robert Wilson

TUP.X.8: INTER-SATELLITE VALIDATION OF DECADAL SCALE PASSIVE MICROWAVE CLIMATE DATA RECORDS
Shannon Brown, Shailen Desai, Wenwen Lu

TUP.X.9: INTER-SATELLITE RADIOMETER CALIBRATION OF WINDSAT, TMI AND SSMI
Kaushik Gopalan, W. Linwood Jones, Takis Kasparis, Thomas Wilheit

TUP.X.10: USE OF DISCOVER MICROWAVE OCEAN PRODUCTS IN CLIMATE STUDIES
Deborah Smith, Kyle Hilburn, Frank Wentz, Chelle Gentemann

TUP.X.11: PROSPECTED RADIO OCCULTATION MISSION FOR GLOBAL WEATHER MONITORING AND PREDICTION
Chen-Joe Fong, Nick Yen, Vicky Chu, Yuei-An Liou, Sien Chi

TUP.Y: Landslides and Geological Hazards

TUP.Y.1: THE GEOMORPHOMETRY OF RAINFALL-INDUCED LANDSLIDES IN ALISHAN AREA OBTAINED BY AIRBORNE LIDAR AND DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Jin-King Liu, Zu-Yi Liao, Chi-Chung Lau, Tian-Yuan Shih, Pai-Hui Hsu

TUP.Y.2: MULTI-PARAMETER REMOTE SENSING ANOMALIES BEFORE MAJOR EARTHQUAKES IN CHINA
Jinping Li, Lixin Wu, Huanping Wu, Zhiyong Wen, Shanjun Liu

TUP.Y.3: PREDICTION ON CHANGES OF PERMAFROST IN NORTHEASTERN CHINA DURING THE 21ST CENTURY USING THE COMBINATION OF THE EQUIVALENT-LATITUDE AND FINITE ELEMENT MODELS
Zhi Wei, Huijun Jin, Jianming Zhang

TUP.Y.4: LOESS MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY IN CENTRAL ASIA AND ITS PALEOCLIMATIC SIGNIFICANCE
Yougui Song, Hongmei Dong

TUP.Y.5: ASSESSING IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR MAPPING LANDSLIDES
Karen Joyce, Grant Dellow, Phil Glassey

TUP.Y.6: REGIONAL LANDSLIDE HAZARD ASSESSMENT BASED ON DISTANCE EVALUATION MODEL
Jiacun Li, Jin Li

TUP.Y.7: REGIONAL LANDSLIDE HAZARD ASSESSMENT BASED ON PROBABILITY INDEX MODEL
Jiacun Li, Jing Li

TUP.Y.8: LAND SUBSIDENCE INVESTIGATION ALONG RAILWAY USING PERMANENT SCATTERER SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Daqing Ge, Yan Wang, Xiaofang Guo, Yi Wang

TUP.Y.9: LANDSLIDE HAZARD ASSESSMENT IN THE THREE GORGES OF THE YANGTZE RIVER WITH TRMM DATA
Lina Xu, Ruiqing Niu, Xianmin Wang, Ling Peng, Ting Wu, Shengli Wu

TUP.Y.10: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRAIN FIELD AND THERMAL FIELD OF LOADING ROCK
Shanjun Liu, Guoliang Li, Qunlong Chen, Lixin Wu

TUP.Y.11: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEFORMATION FIELD AND TEMPERATURE FIELD BEFORE EARTHQUAKE
Shanjun Liu, Lixin Wu, Guoliang Li, Qunlong Chen

TUP.Z: Geological Applications of Radar

TUP.Z.1: KEY TECHNIQUES OF PS INSAR IN MONITORING DANGXIONG FAULT MOVEMENT
Jingfa Zhang

TUP.Z.2: CR-BASED SAR-INTERFEROMETRY FOR LANDSLIDE MONITORING
Ye Xia

TUP.Z.3: THE APPLICATION OF INSAR TO CHINO BASIN HYDROGEOLOGIC ANALYSIS AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
David Cohen, Andrew Malone, Francis Riley

TUP.Z.4: MAI (MULTIPLE APERTURE INTERFEROGRAM) GENERATION FROM INTERFEROMETRIC PAIR WITH LARGE SURFACE DISPLACEMENT
Hyung-Sup Jung, Joong-Sun Won, Zong Lu, Min-Jeong Jo, Wook Park

TUP.Z.5: A STUDY ON USING PASSIVE SUPER LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TO EXPLORE GOBS IN MINE
Xia Ye, Qiming Qin, Baishou Li, Zexun Zhang

TUP.Z.6: INSAR ANALYSIS OF LAND SUBSIDENCE CAUSED BY GROUNDWATER EXPLOITATION IN CHANGPING, BEIJING, CHINA
Youquan Zhang, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Taiguang Liu, Wen Yang, Beibei Chen, Angsheng Li, Yaoming Su

TUP.Z.7: A MODEL OF IN-DEPTH DISPLACEMENT UNDER MS8.1 AT KUNLUN EARTHQUAKE WITH D-INSAR CO-SEISMIC DEFORMATION FIELD
Ma Chao, Zhang Guifang, Ma Xuedong, Shan Xinjian

TUP.AA: Geological Applications and GIS

TUP.AA.1: USING REMOTE SENSING FOR MAPPING THE EFFECTS OF NATURAL HAZARDS IN NEW ZEALAND
Karen Joyce, Sergey Samsonov, Richard Jongens, Julie Lee, Phil Glassey

TUP.AA.2: ASSESSING EXPANSIVE SOIL ENGINEERING PARAMETERS USING SPECTROSCOPY
Fekerte Arega, Freek van der Meer, Harald van der Werff, Wolter Zigterman

TUP.AA.3: GEOLOGICAL LINEAMENT EXTRACTION FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF UNDERGROUND CAVERN CONSTRUCTION SITE IN KOREA
Chang-Uk Hyun, Hyeong-Dong Park

TUP.AA.4: REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS OF NEOTECTONICS IN PAMIR USING DEM: RIVER PROFILE APPROACH
Syed Amer Mahmood, Richard Gloaguen, Faisal Shahzad

TUP.AA.5: USE OF MULTISPECTRAL DATA EXTRACTING INFORMATION OF GOLD ORE BEARING ROCKS BY MPH TECHNIQUE IN HATU GOLD OCCURRENCE AREA IN WESTERN CHINA
Jianwen Ma, Fangyan Yuan, Yijin Chen, Xue Chen

TUP.AA.6: INTEGRATION OF INTEGRATED MINERAL POTENTIAL MAPS OF GOLD-SILVER DEPOSITS USING GIS
Hyun-Joo Oh, Saro Lee

TUP.AA.7: DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED LANDSLIDE-SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPS USING GIS
Saro Lee, Hyun-Joo Oh

TUP.AA.8: REMOTE SENSING BASED OIL-GAS POTENTIALS EVALUATION IN THE WEST SLOPE OF SONGLIAO BASIN BASIN, NORTHEAST CHINA
Shengbo Chen, Xuqing Zhang, Zhiguo Meng

TUP.AA.9: DISCRIMINATION OF GEOLOGICAL END MEMBERS USING HYPERION IMAGERY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS, BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS
David Leverington

TUP.BB: Geographic Information Science Tools

TUP.BB.1: SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION OF GEOGRAPHIC CONCEPT BASED ON ONTOLOGY PROPERTY
Hong Wang, Lin Li, Ping-Chao Song

TUP.BB.2: TRUST MANAGEMENT MODEL IN DISTRIBUTE GIS
Kun Fang

TUP.BB.3: A SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINE FOR SPATIAL WEB PORTALS
Wenwen Li, Chaowei Yang

TUP.BB.4: RESEARCH ON QUERYING FOR METADATA SERVICE BASED ON GEO-ONTOLOGY
Yunpeng Yan, Wenchen Jia, Zhengmin He

TUP.BB.5: ANALYSIS OF THE SATELLITE IMAGES MISREGISTRATION ERRORS. A CASE STUDY FOR ROMANIA
Corina Alecu, Simona Oancea, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Gheorghe Stancalie

TUP.BB.6: A TWO-PHASE LOAD-BALANCING FRAMEWORK OF PARALLEL GIS OPERATIONS
Zhong Xie, Zi Ye, Liang Wu

TUP.BB.7: UTILIZING GRID COMPUTING TO SUPPORT NEAR REAL-TIME GEOSPATIAL APPLICATIONS
Jibo Xie, Chaowei Yang, Ying Cao, Menas Kafatos

TUP.BB.8: INFORMATION SEMANTIC TOOLS FOR KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN INTEGRATED OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM
Surya Durbha, Roger King, Nicolas Younan, Shruthi Bheemireddy, Santosh Akamanchi

TUP.BB.9: THE DESIGN OF GUI OF DYNAMIC GRID WORKFLOW WEB PORTAL APPLIED TO REMOTE SENSING INFORMATION SERVICE
Jianwen Ai, Yong Xue, Wei Wei, Jianping Guo, Guoping Lei, Shutao Hou, Yuqing Li, Fenghai Yang, Zhihua Wang

TUP.BB.10: GLOSDC: A FRAMEWORK FOR A GLOBAL SPATIAL DATA CATALOG
Pengfei Wu, Yu Fang, Bin Chen

TUP.CC: Geographic Information Science Applications I

TUP.CC.1: WATER TRANSFER SCHEMES SIMULATION BASED ON 3D GEOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTING
Siyuan Liu, Gaojin Wen, Wenjing Cao, Shengzhong Feng, Jianping Fan

TUP.CC.2: DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT SYSTEM OF FLOOD DISASTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE: TECHNICAL DEMANDS, STATUS AND TRENDS
Zhuo-Wei Hu, Xiaojuan Li, Huili Gong, Yan-Bing Wang, Yan-Hui Wang

TUP.CC.3: OPTIMIZATION OF URBAN DRAIN LAYOUT USING GIS
Dongwei Qiu, Shanshan Wan, Shuqiang Lv, Dean Luo

TUP.CC.4: STUDY ON DECISION MAKING METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE SYSTEM BASED ON GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
Wu Huanping, Luo Bing, Tang Wei, Zheng Weijiang, Liu Shanjun

TUP.CC.5: UTILIZATING GIS TO STUDY GROUNDWATER QUALITY EVALUATION AND ITS DISTRIBUTION IN NORTHERN ORDOS CRETACEOUS ARTISAN BASIN, CHINA
Yaoming Su, Lin Zhu, Huili Gong, Wenji Zhao

TUP.CC.6: STUDY ON CHINA DIGITAL OCEAN PROTOTYPE SYSTEM
Xiansan Liu, Hui Qu, Xin Zhang, Tianhe Chi

TUP.CC.7: AN APPROACH TO REDUCE BOUNDARY DISTORTION IN COMPRESSING GRID DEM DATA WITH WAVELET TRANSFORM
Zhanqiang Chang, Lixin Wu, Li Jiacun

TUP.DD: Geographic Information Science Applications II

TUP.DD.1: MULTI-SCALE VISUALIZATION FOR GIS ROAD FEATURES IN MOBILE APPLICATIONS SYSTEM
Yan-Hui Wang, Yan-Bing Wang, Zhuo-Wei Hu

TUP.DD.2: ON THE GTP-BASED 3D MODELING METHOD FOR COMPLEX GEOLOGICAL BODY
De-Fu Che, Li-Xin Wu, Zuo-Ru Yin

TUP.DD.3: ESTIMATION OF TERRAIN SLOPE USING A COMPENSATION-LAMBERTIAN METHOD FROM SINGLE-PASS POLSAR DATA
Yang Li, Wen Hong, Fang Cao, Yan-Ping Wang, Yi-Rong Wu

TUP.DD.4: INTEGRATING 3D LASER SCANNING WITH DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY FOR INVESTIGATION ON DISEASES OF TIBET MURALS
Aiwu Zhang, Feng Gao, Shaoxing Hu, Guangjie Cai, Xiao Zhou

TUP.DD.5: ACCESSIBILITY ASSESSMENT OF URBAN GREEN SPACE:A QUANTITATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Ze Liu, Feng Mao, Wensheng Zhou, Qiang Li, Jianxi Huang, Xianlong Zhu

TUP.DD.6: K6N9-I MODEL: A HEXAHEDRON-BASED COMPUTABLE 3D TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP MODEL
Lixin Wu, Jiateng Guo

TUP.DD.7: MATCHING RESEARCH OF OBJECT MODEL WITH TERRAIN IN MULTI-SCALE 3D SCENE
Ruoming Shi, Shengtao Lu

TUP.DD.8: MAPPING MINERAL POTENTIAL BY COMBINING MULTI-SCALE AND MULTI-SOURCE GEO-INFORMATION
Wenlei Wang, Qiuming Cheng

TUP.EE: Geographic Information Science Outreach

TUP.EE.1: GIS OUTREACH AND EDUCATION FOR RURAL MISSISSIPPI IN A POST-KATRINA WORLD
Nel Ruffin

TUP.EE.2: RESEARCH ON THE SHARING AND INTEROPERATION OF GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF GRDI AND OGC
Yumei Sun, Yu Fang, Bin Chen, Jiayuan Lin, Lihong Bi

TUP.EE.3: THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE VIDEO-DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM BASED ON THE TECHNOLOGY OF VEHICLE-BORNE MOBILE DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM
Huilian Chen, Ruofei Zhong, Jianxi Huang

TUP.EE.4: SERVING AURA HIRDLS LEVEL 2 DATA THROUGH OGC WCS
Peichuan Li, Liping Di, Genong Yu

TUP.EE.5: AUGMENTING THE OGC WEB PROCESSING SERVICE WITH MESSAGE-BASED ASYNCHRONOUS NOTIFICATION
Min Min, Liping Di, Genong Yu, Nengcheng Chen

TUP.EE.6: THREE DIMENSIONAL TERRAIN VISUALIZATION ON THE INTERNET USING NURBS METHOD
Xiao Wang, Xiuwan Chen

TUP.EE.7: A HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATION PROGRAM FOR A GPS-BASED VEHICLE TRACING MOBILE PLATFORM
Qifeng Zhao, Hong Fan, Qinhan Lian

TUP.EE.8: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMON MAP SYMBOL SYSTEM IN GIS
Miao Yu, Meixian Sun, Xiaojuan Li, Weiguang Zhang, JunHua Teng

WE1.210: Earth Science Decadal Survey NASA Missions

WE1.210.1: THE DECADAL SURVEY’S ICESAT-II MISSION: A FUNDAMENTAL TOOL FOR UNDERSTANDING THE EARTH’S RAPIDLY CHANGING ICE COVER
Waleed Abdalati, Peter Zwally, John Loiacono

WE1.210.2: THE SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE/PASSIVE MISSION (SMAP)
Dara Entekhabi, Eni Njoku, Peggy O'Neill, Thomas Jackson, Jared Entin, Eastwood Im

WE1.210.3: DEFORMATION, ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE, AND DYNAMICS OF ICE (DESDYNI)
Andrea Donnellan, Paul Rosen, Howard Zebker, Jon Ranson

WE1.210.4: THE NRC DECADAL SURVEY CLIMATE ABSOLUTE RADIANCE AND REFRACTIVITY OBSERVATORY: NASA IMPLEMENTATION
Donald Anderson, Kenneth Jucks, David Young

WE1.101: Near Sub-Surface Electromagnetic Imaging: Methods and Applications I

WE1.101.1: IMAGING SOIL INSIDE A CYLINDRICAL MICROWAVE SCANNER: FIRST RESULTS WITH PHANTOMS
Raphael Lencrerot, Amelie Litman, Jean-Michel Geffrin, Herve Tortel, Jamal Zbitou

WE1.101.2: COMPRESSIVE SENSING AND SIGNAL SUBSPACE METHODS FOR INVERSE SCATTERING INCLUDING MULTIPLE SCATTERING
Edwin Marengo

WE1.101.3: ACCURATE VECTOR-IMAGING OF GPR DATA BASED ON EXACT RADIATION PATTERNS
Jan van der Kruk, Rita Streich, Mark Grasmueck

WE1.101.4: NONLINEAR INVERSION OF CROSS-WELL ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA IN METALLIC CASED WELLS
Jianguo Liu, Aria Abubakar, Tarek Habashy

WE1.101.5: SPACE-FREQUENCY ULTRAWIDEBAND TIME-REVERSAL IMAGING METHOD AS APPLIED TO SUBSURFACE OBJECTS
Mehmet E. Yavuz, Fernando L. Teixeira

WE1.102: SAR/PolSAR/InSAR for Environmental Monitoring I

WE1.102.1: RECENT ADVANCES IN RP-POL-IN-SAR HAZARD MONITORING OF TECTONIC STRESS AND LAND-SLIDES
Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Kun-Shan Chen

WE1.102.2: A LAND-COVER MONITORING FOR VOLCANOES BY USING ALOS-PALSAR QUAD-POL. DATA
Yutaka Wada, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Ohkura, Motoo Ukawa

WE1.102.3: RIVER ICE MAPPING FROM POLSAR IMAGES
Stephane Mermoz, Sophie Allain, Monique Bernier, Eric Pottier, Imen Gherboudj

WE1.102.4: MAPPING SUBSIDENCE NEAR HAONI, VIETNAM FROM ENVISAT ASAR DATA
Chin-Fu Chao, Chih-Tien Wang, Kun-Shan Chen, Jun-Yee Yen, Jong-Sen Lee

WE1.102.5: GB-SAR/PISAR SIMULTANEOUS EXPERIMENT FOR A TRIAL OF FLOOD AREA DETECTION
Manabu Watanabe, Masayoshi Matsumoto, Masanobu Shimada, Motoyuki Sato

WE1.103: Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow I

WE1.103.1: SCIENTIFIC PREPARATIONS FOR COREH20, A DUAL FREQUENCY SAR MISSION FOR SNOW AND ICE OBSERVATIONS
Helmut Rott, Donald Cline, Claude R. Duguay, Richard Essery, Christian Haas, Giovanni Macelloni, Eirik Malnes, Jouni Pulliainen, Helge Rebhan, Simon Yueh

WE1.103.2: POLSCAT KU-BAND RADAR REMOTE SENSING OF TERRESTRIAL SNOW COVER
Simon Yueh, Donald Cline, Kelly Elder

WE1.103.3: STUDIES OF MULTI-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC BACKSCATTERING CHARACTERISTICS OF SNOW COVER AND GLACIERS MEASURED IN THE HELISNOW-2008 CAMPAIGN
Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Stefan Kern, Detlef Stammer, Helge Rebhan, Jiancheng Shi

WE1.103.4: MODELING ACTIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF MULTILAYER DRY SNOW USING DENSE MEDIA RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY
Ding Liang, Leung Tsang, Simon Yueh

WE1.103.5: DEVELOPMENT OF A PARAMETERIZED SNOW SCATTERING MODEL
Jinyang Du, Jiancheng Shi

WE1.104: Soils and Hydrologic Applications

WE1.104.1: AIRBORNE SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING IN SUPPORT OF RELIEF EFFORTS IN TEXAS DURING FLOODING EVENTS OF 2007
Albin Gasiewski, Eric McIntyre, Damian Manda, Marian Klein, Gordon Wells, Teresa Howard, Jackson Thomas

WE1.104.2: LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING USING REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE
Ram Ray, Jennifer Jacobs

WE1.104.3: A NEW APPROACH TO LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL MAPPING USING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE ALGORITHM
Thomas Oommen, Laurie Baise

WE1.104.4: REMOTE SENSING RETRIEVAL OF SUBSTRATE BEARING STRENGTH FROM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY AT THE VIRGINIA COAST RESERVE (VCR’07) MULTI-SENSOR CAMPAIGN
Charles Bachmann, C. Reid Nichols, Marcos Montes, Rong-Rong Li, Patrick Woodward, Robert Fusina, Wei Chen, Melba Crawford, Vimal Mishra, Wonkook Kim, James Monty, Kevin McIlhany, Ken Kessler, Daniel Korwan, David Miller, Ellen Bennert, Geoff Smith, David Gillis, Jon Sellars, Christopher Parrish, Art Schwarzschild, Barry Truitt

WE1.104.5: RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF MAXIMUM BOUND WATER FRACTION IN SOIL
Valery Mironov, Pavel Bobrov, Alexander Yaschenko

WE1.105: Ocean Altimetry

WE1.105.1: STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GLOBAL OCEAN SURFACE CIRCULATIONS FROM SATELLITE ALTIMETRY
Peter C. Chu

WE1.105.2: PARIS ALTIMETRY PRECISION PREDICTION WITH GALILEO SIGNALS-IN-SPACE
Salvatore D'Addio, Christopher Buck, Manuel Martín-Neira

WE1.105.3: ALTIKA INSTRUMENT FOR SPACE ALTIMETRY WITH IMPROVED PERFORMANCES AND OCEAN SAMPLING : INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT STATUS AND FIRST TEST RESULTS
Jacques Richard, Benoît Durand, Frédéric Robert, Nicolas Taveneau, Nathalie Steunou, Pierre Sengenes

WE1.105.4: SPACE ALTIMETRY FROM NANO-SATELLITES : PAYLOAD FEASIBILITY, MISSIONS AND SYSTEM PERFORMANCES
Jacques Richard, Juliette Vallon, Philippe Escudier

WE1.105.5: CLASSIFICATION OF ALTIMETRIC SIGNALS USING LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS
Jean-Yves Tourneret, Corinne Mailhes, Laiba Amarouche, Nathalie Steunou

WE1.107: Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing II

WE1.107.1: WAVELET-BASED MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE RESTORATION
Arno Duijster, Steve De Backer, Paul Scheunders

WE1.107.2: NOISE REDUCTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY: A NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEM APPROACH
Tian Han, David G. Goodenough

WE1.107.3: COMPARING SAMPLING METHODS IN FASTER COMPUTATION OF NON-NEGATIVE TENSOR FACTORIZATION OF SPECTRAL IMAGES
Arto Kaarna, Alexey Andriyashin

WE1.107.4: PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS IN MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING OF SPECTRAL IMAGES
Arto Kaarna, Andrey Norkin, Jaakko Astola

WE1.107.5: A NOVEL TECHNIQUE FOR HYPERSPECTRAL SIGNAL SUBSPACE ESTIMATION IN TARGET DETECTION APPLICATIONS
Nicola Acito, Giovanni Corsini, Marco Diani, Stefania Matteoli, Salvatore Resta

WE1.108: TerraSAR-X & TanDEM-X: Features & Calibration

WE1.108.1: TERRASAR-X A COMPLEX IMAGE APPROACH FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND MODELING
Matteo Soccorsi, Mihai Datcu

WE1.108.2: AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF WATER BODIES FROM TERRASAR-X DATA
Thomas Hahmann, Achim Roth, Martin Habermeyer

WE1.108.3: DETERMINING THE OPTIMUM COMPROMISE BETWEEN SAR DATA COMPRESSION AND RADIOMETRIC PERFORMANCE –AN APPROACH BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF TERRASAR-X DATA–
Marwan Younis, Johannes Böer, Carlos Ortega, Daniel Schulze, Sigurd Huber, Josef Mittermayer

WE1.108.4: TANDEM-X: DEM CALIBRATION CONCEPT
Birgit Wessel, Astrid Gruber, Markus Bachmann, Jaime Hueso, Martin Huber, Detlev Kosmann, Achim Roth

WE1.108.5: TANDEM-X DEM CALIBRATION AND PROCESSING EXPERIMENTS WITH E-SAR
Jaime Hueso Gonzalez, Markus Bachmann, Christian Andres, Gerhard Krieger, Rolf Scheiber

WE1.109: Atmospheric Compensation Techniques for Imaging Spectrometer Data I

WE1.109.1: GLOBAL DAILY ATMOSPHERIC STATE PROFILES FROM THE ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER
Thomas Pagano, Hartmut Aumann, Eric Fetzer, Bill Irion, Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, Mous Chahine

WE1.109.2: ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE OSS RADIATIVE TRANSFER METHOD IN APPLICATION TO REAL-TIME ATMOSPHERE CHARACTERIZATION FROM STALLITE SOUNDING AND IMAGING DATA
Jean-Luc Moncet, Gennady Uymin, Alan Lipton, Robert d'Entremont

WE1.109.3: IMPACT OF MODTRAN™5.1 ON ATMOSPHERIC COMPENSATION
Alexander Berk, Gail P. Anderson

WE1.109.4: ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION IN THE SOLAR SPECTRUM: METHODS AND VALIDATION.
Eric Vermote

WE1.109.5: IMPROVEMENTS IN AEROSOL RETRIEVAL FOR ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION
Steven Adler-Golden, Michael Matthew, Alexander Berk, Marsha Fox, Jamine Lee, Anthony Ratkowski

WE1.110: Land Cover Classification

WE1.110.1: SEGMENTATION OF ALOS PALSAR IMAGES FOR MAPPING OF CLEAR-CUTS
Klas Folkesson, Leif E. B. Eriksson, Gustaf Sandberg, Lars M. H. Ulander

WE1.110.2: AUTOMATIC FOREST SPECIES CLASSIFICATION USING COMBINED LIDAR DATA AND OPTICAL IMAGERY
Wen Zhang, Baoxin Hu, Linhai Jing, Murray Woods, Paul Courville

WE1.110.3: DETECTING URBAN VEGETATION USING A OBJECT-ORIENTED METHOD WITH QUICKBIRD IMAGERY
Chang-Qing Ke, Guo-Dong Tang, Xue Cao

WE1.110.4: COMPARISON OF WINTER WHEAT CLASSIFICATION USING MULTI-TEMPORAL IRS-P6 IMAGES
Yanfei Lei, Wenquan Zhu, Yaozhong Pan, Chao Xu

WE1.110.5: ESTIMATION OF DIRECTIONAL VEGETATION FRACTION COVER FROM TOA SPECTRAL DATA OF AATSR
Yu-Li Shi, Guang-Jian Yan, Zhao-Liang Li

WE1.111: Change Detection

WE1.111.1: A CONTEXT-SENSITIVE TECHNIQUE ROBUST TO REGISTRATION NOISE FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES
Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Silvia Marchesi

WE1.111.2: CHANGE DETECTION WITH MISS-REGISTRATION ERRORS
Gregoire Mercier, Jordi Inglada

WE1.111.3: AN ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUE BASED ON SIMILARITY MEASURES FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES
Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone

WE1.111.4: A NEW ADDITIVE KERNEL FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY USING SVM
Tarek Habib, Jordi Inglada, Gregoire Mercier, Jocelyn Chanussot

WE1.111.5: A DCT-BASED CHANGE DETECTION METHOD FOR MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR IMAGES
Hongtao Yu, Zhiping Lin, Geok Ling Chai, Chye Hwang Yan, Nalliah Raman

WE1.203: Atmospheric Profiling I

WE1.203.1: NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHMS FOR TROPOSPHERIC OZONE RETRIEVAL FROM ESA-ENVISAT SCIAMACHY AND NASA-AURA OMI SATELLITE DATA
Pasquale Sellitto, Fabio Del Frate, Domenico Solimini

WE1.203.2: JOINT TEMPERATURE AND NITROGEN DIOXIDE VERTICAL PROFILES FROM UV/VIS SATELLITE DATA FOR AIR POLLUTION MONITORING FROM SPACE
Pasquale Sellitto, Fabio Del Frate, Domenico Solimini

WE1.203.3: COMBINING CALIPSO AND METEOSAT IMAGES TO STUDY THE DISTRIBUTION OF ATMOSPHERIC DUST
Ben Wiltshire, Rajesh Govindan, Ivan Astin, Adrian Evans

WE1.203.4: MULTI-DOPPLER MEASUREMENTS OF ATMOSPHERIC ROTORS AND TURBULENT MOUNTAIN WAVES
Samuel Haimov, Vanda Grubisic, Jeffrey French, Larry Oolman

WE1.203.5: THE TIME SERIES OF TERRA AND AQUA MODIS NEAR-IR WATER VAPOR PRODUCTS
Bo-Cai Gao, Rong-Rong Li

WE2.101: Near Sub-Surface Electromagnetic Imaging: Methods and Applications II

WE2.101.1: NEAR SURFACE FEATURES BY TDEM IMAGING
Alberto Godio, Gaetano Ranieri

WE2.101.2: LINEAR INVERSIONS OF PEC SCATTERERS
Adriana Brancaccio, Colomba Di Dio, Giovanni Leone

WE2.101.3: MULTI-FREQUENCY INVERSION ALGORITHM FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF SUBSURFACE PROPERTIES OF LAYERED SOIL MEDIA FROM VHF/UHF RADAR MEASUREMENTS
Chih Kuo, Mahta Moghaddam

WE2.101.4: MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY BASED CHARACTERIZATION OF BURIED PLASTIC PIPE FILLED WITH DIFFERENT FLUIDS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
Francesco Soldovieri, Lorenzo Crocco, Elena Pettinelli, David Redman, Peter Annan

WE2.101.5: UNDERSTANDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA OVER SOUTHWEST EGYPT
Cordula Robinson

WE2.102: SAR/PolSAR/InSAR for Environmental Monitoring I

WE2.102.1: INSAR MONITORING OF LANDSLIDES IN CANADA.
Vern Singhroy, Pierre-Jean Alasset, Valentin Poncos, Rejean Couture

WE2.102.2: A COMBINED SMALL BASELINE AND PERSISTENT SCATTERER INSAR METHOD FOR RESOLVING LAND DEFORMATION IN NATURAL TERRAIN
Tom R. Lauknes, Piyush Shanker A., Howard Zebker, Yngvar Larsen

WE2.102.3: DUAL POLARIZATION DETECTION OF SHIPS AND ICEBERGS – RECENT RESULTS WITH ENVISAT ASAR AND DATA SIMULATIONS OF RADARSAT-2
Carl Howell, Desmond Power, Michael Lynch, Kelley Dodge, Pradeep Bobby, Charles Randell, Paris Vachon, Gordon Staples

WE2.102.4: A REAL-APERTURE RADAR FOR GROUND-BASED DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY
Charles Werner, Tazio Strozzi, Andreas Wiesmann, Urs Wegmüller

WE2.102.5: DAILY OIL POLLUTION MONITORING WITH RADARSAT-2 SCANSAR – FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Roger De Abreu, Laurie Weir, Dean Flett, Paris Vachon

WE2.103: Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow II

WE2.103.1: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF SNOW AT LARGE SPATIAL SCALES
Marco Tedesco

WE2.103.2: DEVELOPMENT OF SAR DATA-BASED SNOW-COVERED AREA ESTIMATION METHOD FOR BOREAL FOREST ZONE
Kari Luojus, Jouni Pulliainen, Sari Metsämäki, Guifre Molera, Risto Nakari, Juha-Petri Kärnä, Martti Hallikainen

WE2.103.3: PRELIMINARY POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW MICROWAVE REFLECTIVE AND EMISSIVE CHARACTERISTICS ANGULAR DEPENDENCES AT 15GHZ
Astghik Hambaryan, Artashes Arakelyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Sargis Darbinyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Izabela Hakobyan, Vardan Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Mushegh Manukyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan

WE2.103.4: IMPACT OF VEGETATION IN THE RETRIEVAL OF SNOW PARAMETERS FROM BACKSCATTERING MEASUREMENTS AT THE X- AND KU-BANDS
Giovanni Macelloni, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi, Helmut Rott, Donald Cline, Helge Rebhan

WE2.103.5: AIRBORNE MEASUREMENT OF SNOW THICKNESS OVER SEA ICE
Unquiea Wade

WE2.104: Scaling Issues in Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

WE2.104.1: ON THE DISAGGREGATION OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE SOIL MOISTURE DATA USING A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE OF TEMPORALLY PERSISTENT SOIL MOISTURE FIELDS
Alexander Loew, Wolfram Mauser

WE2.104.2: APPLICATION OF A BAYESIAN APPROACH FOR DOWNSCALING OF SMOS OBSERVATIONS
Rocco Panciera, Jeffrey Walker, Edward Kim, Iliana Mladenova

WE2.104.3: DOWNSCALING OF GLOBAL SOIL MOISTURE USING AUXILIARY DATA
Genong Yu, Liping Di, Wenli Yang

WE2.104.4: INFLUENCE OF FOREST COVER ON L-BAND SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM HETEROGENEOUS PIXELS
Jennifer Grant, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Rocco Panciera, Kauzar Saleh, Jeffrey Walker, Adriaan Van de Griend

WE2.104.5: SURFACE HETEROGENEITY ISSUES IN REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE
William Crosson, Ashutosh Limaye, Charles Laymon

WE2.105: Ocean and Ice Altimetry

WE2.105.1: ANALYSIS OF ICESAT LASER ALTIMETRY ELEVATIONS OVER OCEAN SURFACES: SEA STATE AND CLOUD EFFECTS
Timothy Urban, Roberto Gutierrez, Bob Schutz

WE2.105.2: BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF ALTIMETER ECHO PARAMETERS
Jerome Severini, Corinne Mailhes, Pierre Thibaut, Jean-Yves Tourneret

WE2.105.3: NEW THEORETICAL MODEL OF SAR ALTIMETER SIGNAL OVER WATER SURFACES
Cristina Martin-Puig, Jose Marquez, Giulio Ruffini, David Cotton, Christine Gommenginger, Peter Challenor, R. Keith Raney, Jérôme Benveniste

WE2.105.4: INTERMITTENCY IN THE EAST MADAGASCAR FLOW
Graham Quartly

WE2.105.5: LINKING SURFACE AND SUB-SURFACE VARIABILITY IN DRAKE PASSAGE
Graham Quartly, Jesus Gómez-Enri, Gabriel Navarro

WE2.107: Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing III

WE2.107.1: MINIMUM VOLUME SIMPLEX ANALYSIS: A FAST ALGORITHM TO UNMIX HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Jun Li, Jose Manuel Bioucas Dias

WE2.107.2: AUTOMATIC APPROACHES TO ON-LAND/ON-BOARD FILTERING AND LOSSY COMPRESSION OF AVIRIS IMAGES
Nikolay Ponomarenko, Vladimir Lukin, Mikhail Zriakhov, Arto Kaarna, Jaakko Astola

WE2.107.3: A NEW LINEAR MIXTURE MODEL FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS
Nareenart Raksuntorn, Qian Du

WE2.107.4: HYPERSPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION FUSION FOR CLASSIFYING DIFFERENT MILITARY TARGETS
George Lampropoulos, Ting Liu, Shen-En Qian, Chuhong Fei

WE2.107.5: DESTRIPING MODIS DATA BASED ON SURFACE SPECTRAL CORRELATION
Zifeng Wang, Liangfu Chen, Xingfa Gu, Tao Yu

WE2.108: Multi Aperture Multistatic SAR

WE2.108.1: MULTISTATIC SCENARIOS FOR A GPS SAR SYSTEM
Frédéric Maussang, Franck Daout, Guillaume Ginolhac, Françoise Schmitt

WE2.108.2: REFLECTIVITY AND DEM ESTIMATION FROM MULTI-BASELINE COMPLEX SAR SIGNALS
Annarita Evangelista, Federica Meglio, Gilda Schirinzi

WE2.108.3: SMART MULTI-APERTURE RADAR TECHNIQUES FOR SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING
Marwan Younis, Federica Bordoni, Nico Gebert, Gerhard Krieger

WE2.108.4: GMTI PERFORMANCE OF A HIGH RESOLUTION WIDE SWATH SAR OPERATION MODE
Martina Gabele, Gerhard Krieger

WE2.108.5: GROUND MOVING TARGETS DETECTION AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR MULTI-CHANNEL SAR SYSTEM
Shengqi Zhu, Guisheng Liao, Yi Qu, Zhengguang Zhou

WE2.109: Atmospheric Compensation Techniques for Imaging Spectrometer Data II

WE2.109.1: ADVANCES IN QUANTIFYING THE SPECTRAL RADIATIVE PROPERTIES OF CLOUDS AND AEROSOLS FROM AIRBORNE FIELD STUDIES
Peter Pilewskie, Sebastian Schmidt, Odele Coddington, Bruce Kindel, Patrick McBride

WE2.109.2: RADIATIVE IMPACT OF BOREAL SMOKE AND ASIAN DUST IN THE ARCTIC: OBSERVED VERSUS MODELED
Robert S. Stone, Gail P. Anderson, Eric Shettle, Konstantin Loukachine, Elizabeth Andrews, Ellwsorth G. Dutton, Crystal Barker Schaaf, Miguel O. Román III, Alexander Berk

WE2.109.3: A NEW METHOD FOR TEMPERATURE/EMISSIVITY SEPARATION FROM HYPERSPECTRAL THERMAL INFRARED DATA
Xinhong Wang, XiaoYing OuYang, Zhao-Liang Li, Renhuang Zhang

WE2.109.4: A GENERIC FLIGHT INTERFEROMETER FOR ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING FROM GEO ORBIT.
Frederic Grandmont, Jacques Giroux, Marc-Andre Soucy, Henry Buijs

WE2.109.5: COMPARISON OF SPLIT-WINDOW AND SINGLE-CHANNEL METHODS FOR LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL FROM MODIS AND AATSR DATA
Joan M. Galve, César Coll, Vicente Caselles, Enric Valor, María Mira

WE2.110: Forest Structure and Biomass

WE2.110.1: MAPPING TROPICAL AFRICA ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS USING SATELLITE DATA
Alessandro Baccini, Nadine T. Laporte, Scott Goetz, Mindy Sun

WE2.110.2: MAPPING ABOVEGROUND FOREST BIOMASS FROM IKONOS HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGE AND MULTI-SOURCE GEOSPATIAL DATA USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND KRIGING INTERPOLATION
Lacina Coulibaly, Pierre Migolet, Hector Guy Adegbidi, Richard Fournier, Eric Hervet

WE2.110.3: POLINSAR FOR FOREST BIOMASS RETRIEVAL: PALSAR OBSERVATIONS AND MODEL ANALYSIS
Marco Lavalle, Domenico Solimini, Eric Pottier

WE2.110.4: EXTRACTING SAVANNA TREE STRUCTURE PARAMETERS FROM MULTIANGULAR REMOTE SENSING
Martin Beland, Richard Fournier

WE2.110.5: COMBINING ABOVE-CANOPY DOWNWARD-LOOKING AND BELOW-CANOPY UPWARD HEMISPHERICAL-SCANNING LIDAR FOR IMPROVED ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS RETRIEVAL
Wenge Ni-Meister, Shihyan Lee, Alan Strahler, Curtis E. Woodcock, David L. B. Jupp, Guoqing Sun, Jon Ranson, J. Bryan Blair, Michelle Hofton

WE2.111: Analysis Techniques: Land Use / Land Cover

WE2.111.1: TREE DENSITY DETECTION USING SPECTRAL UNMIXING WITHOUT KNOWN TARGET SPECTRA
Matthias Schramm, Tobias Landmann

WE2.111.2: SATELLITE DATA FUSION TECHNIQUES FOR TERRAIN AND SURFICIAL GEOLOGICAL MAPPING
Goran Pavlic, Vern Singhroy, Alejandra Duk-Rodkin

WE2.111.3: APPLYING SMOOTHING CURVES TO AVHRR AND MODIS SATELLITE IMAGERY TO DETECT THE ONSET OF SPRING IN THE MIDWEST AND NORTHEAST UNITED STATES
Jonathan Hanes

WE2.111.4: AN EVALUATION OF ECOTOPE CLASSIFICATION USING SUPERRESOLUTION IMAGES DERIVED FROM CHRIS/PROBA DATA
Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Jianglin Ma, Pieter Kempeneers, Frank Canters, Jeroen Vandenborre, Desiré Paelinckx

WE2.111.5: MORPHOLOGICAL SEGMENTATION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES FOR LAND COVER MAPPING
Mohamed Sellami, Ferdaous Chaabane, Catalin Fetita

WE2.203: Atmospheric Profiling II

WE2.203.1: THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT CLIMATE RESEARCH FACILITIES ON THE NORTH SLOPE OF ALASKA
Mark Ivey, Hans Verlinde, Bernard Zak, Jeffrey Zirzow

WE2.203.2: WATER VAPOR AND LIQUID WATER PATH RETRIEVALS FROM MICROWAVE, MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH, AND INFRARED RADIOMETERS DURING RHUBC
Ed R. Westwater, Domenico Cimini, Vinia Mattioli, Dave Turner, Albin Gasiewski, Marian Klein, Vladimir Leuski

WE2.203.3: A SEMI-DECADAL MULTI-SENSOR GRIDDED DATA RECORD OF OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (OLR) FROM AQUA M. HALEM, D. CHAPMAN, P. NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY HALEM@UMBC.EDU
Milton Halem, David Chapman, Phuong Nguyen

WE2.203.4: A BASELINE FOR THE DECADAL-SURVEY PATH MISSION
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, Alan Tanner, Todd Gaier, Pekka Kangaslahti

WE2.203.5: APPLICATION OF AMSR-E DATA TO STUDY INTEGRATED ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS OVER THE POLAR OCEAN USING NEURAL NETWORKS-BASED ALGORITHMS
Elizaveta Zabolotskikh, Leonid Mitnik, Leonid Bobylev

WE2.210: Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geoscience I

WE2.210.1: INVESTMENTS IN REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGIES
Janice Buckner

WE2.210.2: PATHFINDER ADVANCED RADAR ICE SOUNDER: PARIS
R. Keith Raney, Carl Leuschen, Marshall Jose

WE2.210.3: A MULTI-FUNCTIONAL FIBER LASER LIDAR FOR GEO-SCIENCE.
Michael Dobbs, William Krabill, Mike Cisewski, Wallace Harrison, C. K. Shum, Doug McGregor, Mark Neal, Sheldon Stokes

WE2.210.4: HIGH-ALTITUDE IMAGING WIND AND RAIN AIRBORNE RADAR (HIWRAP)
Lihua Li, Gerald Heymsfield, James Carswell, Dan Schaubert, Justin Creticos, Manuel Vega

WE2.210.5: PASSIVE A-BAND WIND SOUNDER(PAWS)FOR MEASURING TROPOSPHERIC WIND VELOCITY
Robert Pierce, Shane Roark, Christian Grund, Philip Slyamaker, Pei Huang, Paul Kaptchen

WE3.101: Geological Applications of Hyper- and Multi-spectral Imaging

WE3.101.1: XRD AND INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC VALIDATION OF WEATHERING SURFACES FROM ULTRAMAFIC AND MAFIC LITHOLOGIES EXAMINED USING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY, CROSS LAKE AREA, CAPE SMITH BELT, NORTHERN QUEBEC, CANADA
Lori Wickert, Jeanne Percival, William Morris, Jeff Harris

WE3.101.2: THE USE OF HIGH SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL RESOLUTION AIRBORNE IMAGERY FOR ALTERATION MAPPING AND WASTE CHARACTERIZATION AT THE COMSTOCK LODE, NEVADA
David Coulter, Phoebe Hauff, William Peppin

WE3.101.3: MAPPING ROCK-FORMING MINERALS AT DAYLIGHT PASS, DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA USING SEBASS THERMAL-INFRARED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE DATA
Zan Aslett, James Taranik, Dean Riley

WE3.101.4: MODIS BORNE ANALYSIS OF LONG SERIES OF RADIANT FLUXES AT ACTIVE LAVA LAKES
Barbara R. Hirn, Concettina Di Bartola, Francesca Ferro, Fabrizio Ferrucci

WE3.101.5: SEVIRI ONBOARD METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION, AND THE QUANTITATIVE MONITORING OF EFFUSIVE VOLCANOES IN EUROPE AND AFRICA
Barbara R. Hirn, Concettina Di Bartola, Giovanni Laneve, Enrico Cadau, Fabrizio Ferrucci

WE3.102: PolSAR and Pol-InSAR for Agricultural Information Product Development I

WE3.102.1: CONTRIBUTION OF MULTI-FREQUENCY, MULTI-SENSOR, AND MULTI-TEMPORAL RADAR DATA TO OPERATIONAL ANNUAL CROP MAPPING
Jiali Shang, Heather McNairn, Catherine Champagne, Xianfeng Jiao

WE3.102.2: A NEW APPROACH FOR MAPPING FROZEN SOIL OF AGRICULTURAL LAND UNDER SNOW COVER USING RADARSAT-1
Jalal Khaldoune, Eric van Bochove, Monique Bernier, Michel C. Nolin

WE3.102.3: SIMULTANEOUS FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH PALSAR OBSERVATIONS FOR SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION
Manabu Watanabe, Gaku Kadosaki, Masami Fukuda, Motoyuki Sato

WE3.102.4: ANALYSIS AND SURFACE PARAMETER RETRIEVAL FROM MULTITEMPORAL AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE DATA DURING AGRISAR 2006
Alexander Loew, Sebastian Osenstetter

WE3.102.5: ANALYSIS OF POLARIMETRIC SURFACE SCATTERING IN HIGH RESOLUTION SAR
Sang-Eun Park, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Sophie Allain, Eric Pottier

WE3.103: Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow I

WE3.103.1: ESTIMATING SNOW PARAMETERS WITH MULTIFREQUENCY MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY
Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Enrico Palchetti, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi, Anselmo Cagnati, Andrea Crepaz

WE3.103.2: RESULTS FROM MICROWAVE RADIOMETER CAMPAIGN OF SEASONAL SNOW AND COMPARISON WITH EMISSION MODELS
Martti Hallikainen, Panu Lahtinen, Timo Piepponen, Lauri Honkavaara, Aleksis Schäfer

WE3.103.3: ESTIMATION OF WET SNOW AND SNOW MELT IN EURASIA FROM 1979 TO 2007
Matias Takala, Jouni Pulliainen, Jarkko Koskinen, Kari Luojus

WE3.103.4: MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA-DERIVED SNOW COVER OF NORTHERN EURASIA FOR CLIMATE MODEL VALIDATION
Jouni Pulliainen, Jarkko Koskinen, Matias Takala, Panu Lahtinen, Anna Kontu, Heikki Järvinen, Juha-Petri Kärnä, Kirsti Jylhä, Anna Parvio, Kari Luojus

WE3.103.5: A RADIANCE BASED ASSIMILATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF SWE AND SNOW DEPTH FROM AMSR-E AND SSM/I DATA
Marco Tedesco, Alexander Loew, Thorsten Markus, Rolf Reichle

WE3.104: Multiscale Processing

WE3.104.1: SUBPIXEL TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION FROM LOW RESOLUTION THERMAL INFRARED REMOTE SENSING
Catherine Ottlé, Abdelaziz Kallel, Guillaume Monteil, Sylvie Le Hégarat, Benoit Coudert

WE3.104.2: RESEARCH ON THE SCALE EFFECT OF THE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION RETRIEVED BY SATELLITE SENSORS
Yani Liu, Xiaozhou Xin, Qinhuo Liu

WE3.104.3: IMPROVING THE SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER IMAGERY USING AUXILIARY INFORMATION: APPLICATION TO THE SMOS MISSION
Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Maria Piles, Francesc Torres, Ignasi Corbella, Nuria Duffo

WE3.104.4: A GEOSTATISTICAL INVERSE MODELING APPROACH FOR PRODUCING EARTH SURFACE ESTIMATES FROM MULTIPLE REMOTELY SENSED DATASETS
Tyler Erickson, Brian Thelen

WE3.104.5: MONOTONICITY OF AREA AVERAGED NDVI AS A FUNCTION OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION BASED ON A VARIABLE ENDMEMBER LINEAR MIXTURE MODEL
Hiroki Yoshioka, Takahiro Wada, Kenta Obata, Tomoaki Miura

WE3.105: Coastal Altimetry I

WE3.105.1: REPROCESSING ALTIMETER DATA RECORDS ALONG EUROPEAN COASTS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE ALTICORE PROJECT
Stefano Vignudelli, Andrey Kostianoy, Anna Ginzburg, Nickolay Sheremet, Sergey Lebedev, Akexander Sirota, Helen M. Snaith, Jérôme Bouffard, Laurent Roblou, Paolo Cipollini

WE3.105.2: COASTAL SEA SURFACE HEIGHTS FROM IMPROVED ALTIMETER DATA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Luciana Fenoglio-Marc, Maraike Fehlau, Lucilla Ferri, Yong Gao, Stefano Vignudelli, Matthias Becker

WE3.105.3: WET TROPOSPHERIC CORRECTION FOR COASTAL SATELLITE ALTIMETRY
M. Joana Fernandes, David Fernandes, Nelson Pires, Virgilio Mendes, Alexandra Nunes

WE3.105.4: TIDE CORRECTIONS FOR COASTAL ALTIMETRY: STATUS AND PROSPECTS
Richard Ray, Gary Egbert

WE3.105.5: FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION OF SATELLITE TEMPERATURE AND SEA LEVEL DATA IN THE COASTAL OCEAN AND ADJACENT DEEP SEA
John Wilkin, Julia Levin, Javier Zavala-Garay, Weifeng Zhang

WE3.107: Data Fusion III

WE3.107.1: MULTI-SCALE SEGMENTATION AND OPTIMIZED COMPUTATION OF SPATIAL REASONING GRAPHS FOR OBJECT DETECTION IN REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Julien Michel, Jordi Inglada

WE3.107.2: A GENERIC FRAMEWORK FOR DISPARITY MAP ESTIMATION BETWEEN MULTI-SENSOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Jordi Inglada, Julien Michel, Thomas Feuvrier

WE3.107.3: A FUSION METHOD FOR MIXED PIXELS BASED ON CLASSIFICATION OF PANCHROMATIC IMAGE
Linhai Jing, Qiuming Cheng, Wenlei Wang

WE3.107.4: MULTISOURCE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON PARALLEL MINIMUM CLASSIFICATION ERROR LEARNING
Yang-Lang Chang, Lena Chang, Jyh-Perng Fang, Kun-Shan Chen

WE3.107.5: OBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGE FUSION BASED ON THE SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION
Zhu Weigang, Zhou Yinqing, Chen Jie, Sun Bin, Hou Guojiang

WE3.108: Bistatic SAR I

WE3.108.1: BISTATIC SPACEBORNE-AIRBORNE EXPERIMENT TERRASAR-X/F-SAR: DATA PROCESSING AND RESULTS
Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Stefan V. Baumgartner, Gerhard Krieger, Anton Nottensteiner, Ralf Horn, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Robert Metzig, Markus Limbach, Rolf Scheiber, Marco Schwerdt, Alberto Moreira

WE3.108.2: BISTATIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY EXPERIMENTS WITH THE INGARA IMAGING RADAR
Alvin Goh, Mark Preiss, Nick Stacy, Douglas Gray

WE3.108.3: OPTIMIZING THE INDIVIDUAL AZIMUTH CONTRIBUTION OF TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER PHASE TERMS IN LOFFELD’S BISTATIC FORMULA (LBF) FOR BISTATIC SAR PROCESSING
Qurat Ul-Ann, Otmar Loffeld, Holger Nies, Robert Wang, Stefan Knedlik

WE3.108.4: GPS/INS INTEGRATION FOR FOOTPRINT CHASING IN BISTATIC SAR EXPERIMENTS
Stefan Knedlik, Junchuan Zhou, Zhen Dai, Ezzaldeen Edwan, Pakorn Ubolkosold, Otmar Loffeld

WE3.108.5: A NEW BISTATIC-BASED SPARSE LINEAR ARRAY 3D IMAGING SAR MODEL
Yinbo Wang, Xiaoling Zhang, Weihua Li, Jun Shi

WE3.109: Remote Sensing Education and Outreach

WE3.109.1: USING ICEBOX TO VIEW AND EXPLORE SATELLITE IMAGES OF THE GULF OF MAINE
Annette Schloss, Denise Blaha, William Armstrong, Amy Cline

WE3.109.2: FOREST WATCH: A K-12 OUTREACH PROGRAM TO ENGAGE PRE-COLLEGE STUDENTS IN AUTHENTIC, HANDS-ON SCIENCE
Barrett Rock, Michael Gagnon

WE3.109.3: ADVANCED PREVIEW OF NPOESS METEOROLOGICAL PRODUCTS
Thomas Lee, Arunas Kuciauskas, F. Joseph Turk, Cristian Mitrescu, Jeffrey Hawkins, Kim Richardson, Steven Miller

WE3.109.4: POLSARPRO V3.3: THE EDUCATIONAL TOOLBOX FOR POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA PROCESSING
Eric Pottier, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Sophie Allain, Shane Cloude, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Alberto Moreira, Mark Williams, Andrea Minchella, Yves-Louis Desnos

WE3.109.5: WINDOWS ON EARTH - MUSEUM & WEB VISITORS EXPLORE EARTH AS VIRTUAL ASTRONAUTS
Daniel Barstow

WE3.110: Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation

WE3.110.1: LEAF AREA INDEX ESTIMATION USING LIDAR AND FOREST REFLECTANCE MODELLING OF AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Holger Lange, Svein Solberg

WE3.110.2: EVALUATION OF HYPERION EO-1 HYPERSPECTRAL DATA TO ESTIMATE WHEAT CROP CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE CONTEXT
Abdou Bannari, K. Shahid Khurshid, Karl Staenz, John Schwarz

WE3.110.3: REFINING A HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTI-ANGLE MEASUREMENT CONCEPT FOR VEGETATION STRUCTURE ASSESSMENT
Anita Simic, Jing M. Chen

WE3.110.4: SPATIAL CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA OF DUNE VEGETATION ALONG THE BELGIAN COAST
Guy Thoonen, Steve De Backer, Sam Provoost, Pieter Kempeneers, Paul Scheunders

WE3.110.5: STABILITY OF HYPERSPECTRALLY-DERIVED SYSTEM STATE INDICATORS ACROSS SEASONS IN A MANAGED, EVEN-AGED EUCALYPTUS STAND
Moses Cho, Jan van Aardt, Bongani Majeke, Russell Main

WE3.111: Image Information Mining I

WE3.111.1: IMAGE INFORMATION MINING FOR EARTH OBSERVATION: A NEW ERA OF TECHNOLOGY
Mihai Datcu, Gottfried Schwarz, Klaus Seidel

WE3.111.2: THE INTEGRATION OF GRAPH BASED KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY WITH IMAGE SEGMENTATION HIERARCHIES FOR DATA ANALYSIS, DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
James C. Tilton, Diane J. Cook, Nikhil Ketkar

WE3.111.3: AN APPLICATION OF GRAPH COMMUTE TIMES TO IMAGE INDEXING
Régis Behmo, Nikos Paragios, Véronique Prinet

WE3.111.4: RAPID DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FROM HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY
Veeraraghavan Vijayaraj, Edward A. Bright, Budhendra L. Bhaduri

WE3.111.5: ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN CONTENT MINING AND SEMANTIC QUERIES IN SATELLITE IMAGE DATABASES
Adrian Barb, Chi-Ren Shyu

WE3.203: Retrieval of Aerosol Characteristics from Ground-based and Satellite Observations

WE3.203.1: CONSTRUCTION OF SATELLITE DERIVED PM2.5 MAPS USING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AOD AND PM2.5 AT THE CABAUW EXPERIMENTAL SITE FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH (CESAR) – THE NETHERLANDS
Arnoud Apituley, Martijn Schaap, Robert Koelemeijer, Renske Timmermans, Robin Schoemaker, Gerrit de Leeuw

WE3.203.2: ON THE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF AEROSOLS AND LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT INFERRED FROM CALIPSO SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS
Charles Trepte, Dave Winker, Cheiko Kittka

WE3.203.3: AN EVALUATION OF THE GOES-R ABI AEROSOL RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM
Hongqing Liu, Istvan Laszlo, Pubu Ciren, Mi Zhou, Shobha Kondragunta

WE3.203.4: NPOESS AEROSOL PRODUCT RETRIEVALS FROM THE VIIRS INSTRUMENT
John Jackson, Eric Vermote, Eric Shettle

WE3.203.5: COMPARISON STUDY BETWEEN MODIS TERRA AND AQUA FOR AOT RETRIEVAL OVER OCEAN
Sriharsha Madhavan, John Qu, Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong

WE3.210: Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geoscience II

WE3.210.1: LASER SOUNDER FOR GLOBAL MEASUREMENT OF CO2 CONCENTRATIONS IN THE TROPOSPHERE FROM SPACE
Haris Riris, James Abshire, Graham Allan, Xiaoli Sun, Jeffrey Chen, Randy Kawa, Jian-Ping Mao, Mark Stephen, John Burris, Mike Krainak

WE3.210.2: TROPOSPHERIC INFRARED MAPPING SPECTROMETERS (TIMS) TO PROVIDE MEASUREMENTS WITH MUCH IMPROVED VERTICAL, TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION IN THE LOWER TROPOSPHERE
John B. (Jack) Kumer, Aidan E. Roche, Richard L. Rairden, John L. Mergenthaler, Jack Doolittle, Ronald Blatherwick, Toufic Hawat, Robert Chatfield

WE3.210.3: PROGRESS IN OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR AEROSOL AND CLOUD REMOTE SENSING WITH THE MULTIANGLE SPECTROPOLARIMETRIC IMAGER (MSPI)
Anna-Britt Mahler, Russell Chipman, Steve McClain, David Diner, Ab Davis, Nasrat Raouf

WE3.210.4: DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONS FOR A SPACEBORNE DIGITAL RADIOMETER
Christopher Ruf, Steven Rogacki, Steven Gross

WE3.210.5: UAVSAR - DEVELOPING A HIGHLY CAPABLE AIRBORNE INSTRUMENT TO SUPPORT EARTH SCIENCE
Robert Smith, Scott Hensley, Dennis Flower, Frank Cutler, Thomas Mace, Kevin Wheeler

WE4.101: Geological Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar

WE4.101.1: SAR MONITORING OF PERMAFROST MELT IN THE LOWER MACKENZIE VALLEY, CANADA.
Pierre-Jean Alasset, Valentin Poncos, Vern Singhroy, Rejean Couture

WE4.101.2: AUTOMATIC RETRIEVAL OF TECTONIC PARAMETERS WITH NEURAL NETWORKS AND SAR INTERFEROMETRY: AN ASSESSMENT WITH EXPERIMENTAL DATA
Fabio Del Frate, Giovanni Schiavon, Salvatore Stramondo

WE4.101.3: AVALANCHE IMAGING RADAR
Lei Wang, Paul Brennan

WE4.101.4: ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE FOR EXTRACTION OF LOCAL AND FAINT CHANGES FROM A SATELLITE-BORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA
Takashi Maeda, Tadashi Takano

WE4.101.5: INSAR PHASE UNWRAPPING BASED ON A COMBINATION OF MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS AND HYPERGEOMETRIC PHASE PDF MODELS
Amor Elmzoughi, Ahmed Maalij, Riadh Abdelfattah, Ziad Belhadj

WE4.102: PolSAR and Pol-InSAR for Agricultural Information Product Development II

WE4.102.1: CLASSIFICATION OF WHEAT CROPS FROM ASAR AND PALSAR DATA
Giuseppe Satalino, Francesco Mattia

WE4.102.2: SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION IN TIME WITH AIRBORNE D-INSAR
Irena Hajnsek, Pau Prats

WE4.102.3: SMALL TEMPORAL BASELINE SUBSET (STBAS):A NEW INSAR TECHNIQUE FOR MULTI-TEMPODAL MONITORING WETLAND’S WATER LEVEL CHANGES
Sang-Hoon Hong, Shimon Wdowinski, Sang-Wan Kim, Falk Amelung, Timothy H. Dixon

WE4.102.4: MICROWAVE SCATTERING PROFILES OF A RICE SAMPLE BY MEANS OF POLARIZATION COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY
Maria-Jose Sanjuan, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, J. David Ballester-Berman

WE4.102.5: COMPARISON BETWEEN MULTITEMPORAL AND POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA FOR LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
Henning Skriver

WE4.103: Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow II

WE4.103.1: SNOW RADIANCE ASSIMILATION REQUIREMENTS: A CASE STUDY USING CLPX-1
Edward Kim, Michael Durand, Steve Margulis

WE4.103.2: SNOW EMISSION AT AMSU FREQUENCIES: MEASUREMENT AND MODELLING RESULTS FROM THE ALASKA PHASE OF THE COLD LAND PROCESSES EXPERIMENT (CLPX-II)
R. Chawn Harlow

WE4.103.3: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MEAN RADIUS OF SNOW GRAINS AND SNOW CORRELATION LENGTHS ASCERTAINED FROM MICROWAVE SCATTERING THEORY
R. Chawn Harlow

WE4.103.4: CORRECTING BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS OVER SNOW FROM NASA’S ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER – EOS
Richard E. J. Kelly, Marco Tedesco, James Foster

WE4.103.5: SEASONAL RETRIEVAL OF SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT (SWE) AND TEMPERATURE USING IN-SITU PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY IN SOUTHERN QUÉBEC
Alexandre Langlois, Ludovic Brucker, Alain Royer, Patrick Harvey-Collard, Michel Fily, Ghislain Picard, Ken Asmus, Anne Walker, Kalifa Goïta, Jean-Marie Willement

WE4.104: Evapotranspiration Estimation at Field Scale

WE4.104.1: CAN WE DERIVE NEAR DAILY EVAPOTRANSPIRATION MAPS AT FIELD SCALE RESOLUTION WITH THE AVAILABLE SPACEBORNE SYSTEMS?
Nurit Agam, William P. Kustas, Martha C. Anderson, Fuqin Li, Paul D. Colaizzi

WE4.104.2: A METHOD TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE SPATIAL RESOLUTION REQUIRED FOR MONITORING CROP GROWTH IN A GIVEN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE
Grégory Duveiller, Pierre Defourny, Bruno Gerard

WE4.104.3: SOLAR RADIANCE ESTIMATION BY MEANS OF METEOSAT 2ND GENERATION DATA AND NEURAL PROCESSING: A VINEYARD PRECISION FARMING CASE STUDY
Alessandro Burini, Chiara Solimini, Roberto Cossu, Luigi Fusco, Domenico Solimini, Stefania Argentini

WE4.104.4: ESTIMATION OF PLANT CHLOROPHYLL USING HYPERSPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS: SPECTRAL INDICES SENSITIVITY AND CROP-TYPE EFFECTS
Driss Haboudane, Nicolas Tremblay, John R. Miller, Philippe Vigneault

WE4.104.5: AN DIURNAL MODEL BASED ON GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE DATA FOR LAND SURFACE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
Changsen Zhao, Jun Xia, Xiaoyu Zhang, Renhua Zhang, Zhaoliang Li, Penelope Serrano-Ortiz, Sergio Contreras

WE4.105: Coastal Altimetry II

WE4.105.1: INVESTIGATING OCEAN ALTIMETER DATA AND APPLICATIONS IN THE GULF OF MAINE
Doug Vandemark, Hui Feng, Remko Scharroo

WE4.105.2: IMPROVED COASTAL ALTIMETRY APPLIED TO MONITOR SMALL SCALE DYNAMICS OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
Jérôme Bouffard, Laurent Roblou, Stefano Vignudelli, Patrick Marsaleix, Paolo Cipollini, Yves Ménard, Florence Birol

WE4.105.3: DEVELOPING RADAR ALTIMETRY IN THE OCEANIC COASTAL ZONE: THE COASTALT PROJECT
Paolo Cipollini, Jesus Gómez-Enri, Christine Gommenginger, Cristina Martin-Puig, Stefano Vignudelli, Philip Woodworth, Jérôme Benveniste

WE4.105.4: MONITORING SEA LEVEL BY RADAR ALTIMETER AND CGPS IN THE NORTH-WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Juan Jose Martinez-Benjamin, Jose Martin Davila, Jorge Garate Pasquin, Pascal Bonnefond, Marina Martinez-Garcia, Miquel Angel Ortiz Castellon, Julia Talaya Lopez, Gema Rodriguez Velasco, Begoña Perez Gomez

WE4.105.5: ON THE COHERENCE OF NADIR ALTIMETER SIGNALS OVER WATER WITH ENVISAT RA-2 INDIVIDUAL ECHOES
Christine Gommenginger, Graham Quartly, Peter Challenor, Catherine Rogers, Jérôme Benveniste

WE4.107: Geospatial Based Analysis

WE4.107.1: GIS CUSTOMIZATION FOR GLOBAL SEA ICE ANALYSES
Brian Melchior

WE4.107.2: DELINIATION OF SLOPE UNITS BASED ON SCALE AND RESOLUTION INVARIANT 3D CURVATURE EXTRACTION
Erdem Akagunduz, Arzu Erener, Ilkay Ulusoy, H. B. Sebnem Duzgun

WE4.107.3: FLOOD FORECASTING AND RISK MAPPING USING A WEB-BASED SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SERVICES APPROACH
Lei Wang, Qiuming Cheng

WE4.107.4: MINING OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGE ARCHIVES USING SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP HISTOGRAMS
Selim Aksoy, Firat Kalaycilar, Asli Kale, Daniya Zamalieva

WE4.107.5: VEGETATION PHENOLOGY METRICS DERIVED FROM TEMPORALLY SMOOTHED AND GAP-FILLED MODIS DATA
Bin Tan, Jeffrey Morisette, Robert Wolfe, Feng Gao, Gregory Ederer, Joanne Nightingale, Jeffrey Pedelty

WE4.108: Bistatic SAR II

WE4.108.1: ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING OF SPACEBORNE/AIRBORNE BISTATIC SAR DATA
Yu (Robert) Wang, Otmar Loffeld, Qurat Ul-Ann, Holger Nies, Amaya Medrano Ortiz, Ashraf Samarah

WE4.108.2: FORWARD AND BACKWARD BISTATIC INTERFEROMETRY
Sergi Duque, Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorqui, Juan Carlos Merlano

WE4.108.3: POLARIMETRIC BISAR IMAGE SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS
Ya-Qiu Jin, Feng Xu

WE4.108.4: AIRBORNE BISTATIC SAR RECEIVER WITH THE CAPABILITY OF USE DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITY TRANSMITTERS.
Juan Carlos Merlano, Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorqui, Sergi Duque

WE4.108.5: SECOND-ORDER MOTION COMPENSATION IN BISTATIC AIRBORNE SAR BASED ON THE WINDOWED FOURIER-TRANSFORMATION
Amaya Medrano Ortiz, Otmar Loffeld, Holger Nies, Robert Wang

WE4.109: Remote Sensing and Policy Decisions

WE4.109.1: STUDY ON LAND-USE MANAGEMENT MODE FOR BEIJING DONGCHENG DISTRICT BASED ON RS & GIS
Xindong He, Cuilin Hu, Yingchang Song, Yuyan Meng, Benfan Liang

WE4.109.2: MAINTAINING DATA RECORDS TO TRACK CHANGE IN THE CRYOSPHERE: PRACTICAL DECISIONS REQUIRED FOR DATA SET PRIORITIZATION, PRESERVATION AND ACCESS
Ronald L. S. Weaver, Ruth M. Duerr, Walter N. Meier

WE4.109.3: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM REMOTE SENSING TO POLICY DEVELOPMENT RELATED TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS IN US AGRICULTURE
Dr. John Glaser, Kenneth Copenhaver, Joe Casas, Karen Stephens, Glen Alexander

WE4.109.4: THE SIGRIS PROJECT: A REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM FOR SEISMIC RISK MANAGEMENT
Christian Bignami

WE4.110: Remote Sensing on the African Continent

WE4.110.1: ASSESSING THE USE OF COARSE RESOLUTION IMAGERY FOR PRIORITIZING DROUGHT PRONE/SEVERELY DEGRADED AREAS FOR MITIGATION POLICY OPTIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Brilliant Petja, Dawie van Zyl, Phila Sibandze, Mokhele Moeletsi, Sylvester Mpandeli, Matiga Motsepe, Thabo Mashego

WE4.110.2: FIELD SURVEYS FOR BIOMASS ASSESSMENT IN AFRICAN SAVANNA WOODLANDS
Charles Paradzayi, Harold John Annegarn, Ruwadzano Matsika, Barend Erasmus

WE4.110.3: USING SATELLITE IMAGERY TO MAP THE VEGETATION OF MOLEMANE EYE NATURE RESERVE IN THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA
Wilfred Seitlhamo, David Makgale

WE4.110.4: OVERCOMING BANDWIDTH AND SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITATIONS TO ACCELERATE APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING AND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EGYPT, NIGERIA AND SOUTH AFRICA
Gilbert Rochon, M. Magdy Abdel Wahab, Gad El-Qady, Gamal El Afandi, Ado Dan-Isa, Happy Sithole, Khomotso Kganyago, Souleymane Fall, Joseph Emmanuel Quansah, Bereket Araya

WE4.110.5: A LAND COVER CHANGE SYNTHESIS STUDY FOR THE GLOWA VOLTA BASIN IN WEST AFRICA USING TIME TRAJECTORY SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS AND CELLULAR AUTOMATION MODELS
Tobias Landmann, Miriam Machwitz, Quang Bao Le, Lulseged Desta, Paul Vlek, Stefan Dech, Michael Schmidt

WE4.111: Image Information Mining II

WE4.111.1: INTELLIGENT DATA THINNING ALGORITHMS FOR SATELLITE IMAGERY
Rahul Ramachandran, Xiang Li, Sunil Movva, Sara Graves, Bradley Zavodsky, Michael Splitt, Steven Lazarus, Mike Lueken, William Lapenta William Lapenta

WE4.111.2: A PROPOSAL FOR THE STANDARDIZATION OF IMAGE INFORMATION MINING SYSTEMS VIA OGC WEB SERVICES FRAMEWORK
Surya Durbha, Roger King, Nicolas Younan, Balakrishna Gokaraju

WE4.111.3: SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING WATERSHED
Yuliya Tarabalka, Jocelyn Chanussot, Jón Atli Benediktsson, Jesus Angulo, Mathieu Fauvel

WE4.111.4: IMPROVING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON GRAPHS USING SPATIAL PREPROCESSING
Santiago Velasco-Forero, Vidya Manian

WE4.111.5: TERRASAR-X IMAGING FOR UNSUPERVISED LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION AND FIRE MAPPING
Cosimo Putignano, Domenico Solimini, Alessandro Burini, Fabio Del Frate, Giovanni Schiavon, Giorgio Licciardi, Lazzarini Michele, Paolo Manunta, Francesco De Biasi

WE4.203: Optical & Infrared Modeling for Remote Sensing I

WE4.203.1: ATMOSPHERIC COMPENSATION USING A GEOMETRICALLY-COMPENSATED EMPIRICAL LINE METHOD
Stephen Lach, John Kerekes

WE4.203.2: A PRACTICAL ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR PREDICTING SAND SPECTRAL SIGNATURES
Bradley Kimmel, Gladimir Baranoski

WE4.203.3: ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS OF LOW ALTITUDE THERMAL INFRARED AIRBORNE IMAGES ACQUIRED OVER A TROPICAL CROPPED AREA
Lebourgeois Valentine, Labbe Sylvain, Jacob Frédéric, Begue Agnès

WE4.203.4: MODELING OF THICKNESS DEPENDENT THERMAL CONTRAST OF NATIVE AND CRUDE OIL COVERED WATER SURFACES
Wei-Chuan Shih, A. Ballard Andrews

WE4.203.5: STATUS OF THE AER RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS
Vivienne Payne, Mark Shephard, Karen Cady-Pereira, Jennifer Delamere, Eli Mlawer, Mike Iacono, Jean-Luc Moncet, Tony Clough

WE4.210: Advanced Lidar Technologies and Applications to 3D Landcover Structure II

WE4.210.1: SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION USING SMALL-FOOTPRINT FULL-WAVEFORM AIRBORNE LIDAR
Amy Neuenschwander, Lori Magruder, Roberto Gutierrez

WE4.210.2: TWO-STAGE APPROACHES FOR DECOMPOSITION OF ICESAT WAVEFORMS
Jinha Jung, Melba Crawford

WE4.210.3: EXPLORING THE MEASUREMENT OF FORESTS WITH FULL WAVEFORM LIDAR THROUGH MONTE-CARLO RAY TRACING
Steven Hancock, Mathias Disney, Philip Lewis, Jan-Peter Muller

WE4.210.4: PREDICTING L-BAND MICROWAVE ATTENUATION THROUGH FOREST CANOPY USING DIRECTIONAL STRUCTUING ELEMENTS AND AIRBORNE LIDAR
William Wright, Pang-Wei Liu, K. Clint Slatton, Ramesh Shrestha, William E. Carter

WE4.210.5: THE SWATH IMAGING MULTI-POLARIZATION PHOTON-COUNTING LIDAR (SIMPL): A SPACEFLIGHT PROTOTYPE
David Harding, James Abshire, Philip Dabney, Antonios Seas, Christopher Shuman, Xiaoli Sun, Susan Valett, Aleksey Vasilyev, Tony Yu, Tim Huss, Joe Marzouk, Yunhui Zheng

WEP.A: Land Cover Classification and Characterization

WEP.A.1: A COMPARISON OF PRESENT AND POTENTIAL SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF VEGETATION IN THE GROUNDWATER-FLUCTUATING BELT IN LOWER REACHES OF HEIHE RIVER, NORTHWESTERN CHINA
Yanhong Jia, Chuanyan Zhao, Zhongren Nan

WEP.A.2: APPLE ORCHARD CHARACTERIZATION USING REMOTE SENSING & GIS FOR KULLU DISTRICT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
Alka Sharma

WEP.A.3: THE CHARACTERIZATION OF A FOREST COVER THROUGH SHAPE AND TEXTURE PARAMETERS FROM QUICKBIRD IMAGERY
Choen Kim, Sung-Hoo Hong

WEP.A.4: COMPARISON STUDY ON NDII AND NDVI BASED ON RICE EXTRACTION FROM RICE AND GINKGO MIXED AREA
Chao Xu, Xiufang Zhu, Yaozhong Pan, Wenquan Zhu

WEP.A.5: A MULTI-SCALE APPROACH FOR RETREIVING PROPORTIONAL COVER OF LIFE FORMS
Ursula Gessner, Christopher Conrad, Christian Hüttich, Manfred Keil, Michael Schmidt, Matthias Schramm, Stefan Dech

WEP.A.6: POLARIMETRIC CLASSIFICATION OF VEGETATION IN PRAIRIE LANDSCAPES
Joseph Buckley

WEP.A.7: AIRBORNE LASER MAPPING OF GAPS IN MANGROVE FORESTS IN EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, USA
Keqi Zhang, Marc Simard, Michael Ross, Victor Rivera-Monroy

WEP.A.8: PREDICTION OF PLANT NITROGEN: SPECTRAL WAVELENGTHS STABLE THROUGH VEGETATION STATES
Nicky Knox, Andrew Skidmore

WEP.A.9: MAPPING FOREST TYPES USING MULTI-SENSOR REMOTE SENSING METHODS
Amber Smith, Barrett Rock

WEP.B: Hyperspectral and Optical Remote Sensing of Vegetation

WEP.B.1: EVALUATION OF SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDEX TRANSLATION EQUATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-TERM DATA RECORDS
Tomoaki Miura, Hiroki Yoshioka, Tomoko Suzuki

WEP.B.2: DEVELOPMENT OF RICE YIELD ESTIMATION METHOD BASED ON SPACEBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA: PRELIMINARY STUDY USING AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Shinya Odagawa, Masatane Kato, Tomoyuki Suhama, Jiro Sasaki, Kuniaki Uto, Yukio Kosugi, Genya Saito

WEP.B.3: MONITORING GROWTH STATUS OF SPRING WHEAT IN RAINFED AGRICULTURE AREA IN LOESS PLATEAU WITH HYPERSPECTRAL REFLECTANCE DATA AT CANOPY AND LEAF LEVEL
Xiaoping Wang, Ni Guo, Jing Wang, Jie Zhang, Jingsong Wang

WEP.B.4: AN ANALYSIS OF SEASONAL EFFECT ON TREE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION USING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA AND ADVANCED CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES
Ramanathan Sugumaran, Matthew Voss

WEP.B.5: SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE (DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS ZIMM.) HAZARD MODELING IN NORTH CAROLINA – INCORPORATION OF REMOTELY SENSED VARIABLES
Jason Moan, Randolph Wynne, Scott Salom

WEP.C: Optical & Infrared Modeling for Remote Sensing II

WEP.C.1: CORRELATED-K BASED FAST, ACCURATE BANDPASS RADIANCE AND TRANSMITTANCE CALCULATIONS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL SCENES
Prabhat Acharya, Alexander Berk, Raphael Panfili, Steven Adler-Golden, Alan Wetmore, Richard Shirkey

WEP.C.2: SIMULATON OF HYPERSPECTRAL SCENE WITH FULL ADJACENCY EFFECT
Guorui Jia, Huijie Zhao, Na Li

WEP.C.3: USING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA TO IMPROVE BACKGROUND MODELING OF AIRBORNE PANCHROMATIC IMAGERY
Jerrold Baum

WEP.C.4: DRIVING REALISTIC TEXTURE IN SIMULATED LONG-WAVE INFRARED IMAGERY
Jason Ward, John R. Schott, Niek Sanders, Scott Brown

WEP.C.5: ESTIMATION OF GLOBAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE AT THE COMPLICATE TERRAINS IN ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA
Gaoli Su, Xiaozhou Xin, Qinhuo Liu

WEP.C.6: LEAF AREA INDEX AND SURFACE ALBEDO ESTIMATION: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS FROM VEGETATION INDEXES TO RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS
Katja Richter, Francesco Vuolo, Guido D'Urso

WEP.C.7: LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIVAL FOR FRIGID ZONE WITH MICROWAVE DATA
Danqing Peng, Yunhao Chen, Jing Li, Ji Zhou

WEP.C.8: THE LAI INVERSION BASED ON DIRECTIONAL SECOND DERIVATIVE OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Xiaochen Liu, Wenjie Fan, Qingjiu Tian, Xiru Xu

WEP.C.9: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DIRECTIONAL BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES AND HEMISPHERICAL THERMAL EMISSION OVER THREE SCENES
Yu-Li Shi, You-Jun Dou

WEP.C.10: NUMERICAL STUDIES OF POLARIZED LIGHT REFLECTION FROM WIND ROUGHED LIQUID SURFACE
Santo V. Salinas Cortijo, Soo Chin Liew

WEP.C.11: ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ERROR MODEL VALIDATION USING HYPERSPECTRAL MULTI-ALTITUDE DATA
Shems-eddine Zidane, Norm O'Neill, Martin Bergeron

WEP.D: Forests and Vegetation: MODIS

WEP.D.1: A SEVEN-YEAR ANALYSIS OF WATER RELATED INDICES FOR GEORGIA DROUGHT ASSESSMENT OVER THE 2007 WILDFIRE REGIONS
Lingli Wang, John Qu, Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong

WEP.D.2: DOWNSCALING THE MODIS NDVI PRODUCT FOR PINE ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY ESTIMATES
Valquiria Quirino, Randolph Wynne, Xue Liu, Christine Blinn

WEP.D.3: QUANTIFYING NDVI CROSS-SCALE RELATIONSHIP USING SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION
Xiaoling Chen, Shoujing Yin

WEP.D.4: GLOBAL STATISTICS RETRIEVED FROM THE MODIS BRDF PRODUCTS FOR EACH IGBP CLASS
Qingling Zhang, Crystal Schaaf, Alan Strahler, Michael King, Eric Moody

WEP.D.5: ESTIMATION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY IN SEMI-ARID ECOSYSTEMS WITH THE MODIS-DERIVED PHOTOCHEMICAL REFLECTANCE INDEX
Anna Goerner, Markus Reichstein, Serge Rambal

WEP.D.6: ASSESSMENT OF SURFACE ALBEDO DERIVED FROM MODIS OVER FORESTED LANDSCAPES
Miguel O. Román III, Crystal Schaaf, Alan Strahler, Manish Verma, Nathan Phillips, Mark Friedl

WEP.D.7: COMPARISION OF LANDSAT AND MODIS ESTIMATES OF HEAT FLUXES: EFFECT OF SURFACE HETEROGENIETY
Xiaodong Zhang, Tedros Berhane, George Seielstad

WEP.D.8: ASSESSING THE EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON HONEY BEES USING SCALE HIVE RECORDS AND SATELLITE VEGETATION PHENOLOGY PRODUCTS
Joanne Nightingale, Wayne Esaias, Robert Wolfe, Nickeson Jaime, Jeffrey Pedelty

WEP.D.9: A STUDY OF CHINESE GRASSLAND PRODUCTIVITY USING MODIS DATA
Shirong Chen, Yida Fan, Feng Xu, Guicai Li

WEP.D.10: AN ANGULAR INDEX TO INDICATE SURFACE HETEROGENEOUS BEHAVIORS FROM MODIS
Ziti Jiao, Crystal Schaaf, Feng Gao, Alan Strahler, Xiaowen Li, Jindi Wang, Jicheng Liu

WEP.D.11: APPLICATION OF VEGETATION CONDITION INDEX AND STANDARDIZED VEGETATION INDEX FOR ASSESMENT OF SPRING DROUGHT IN SOUTH KOREA
Jung Sool Park, Kyung Tak Kim, Yun Seok Choi

WEP.E: Forests and Vegetation: Modeling, Algorithms and Simulations

WEP.E.1: THE SIMULATION OF A SIMPLIFIED BRANCH BASED ON RADIOSITY METHOD
Xinyun Wang, Guoqing Sun, Wenhan Qin, Zhifeng Guo

WEP.E.2: 3D DIGITIZING OF PADDY RICE AND MODELING FOR THE SCATTERING SIMULATION
Junichi Susaki, Atsushi Koura, Masayuki Tamura

WEP.E.3: BUILDING GOOD SPECTRAL VEGETATION BACKGROUNDS IN THE VNIR
James (Jim) Kester

WEP.E.4: COMPARISONS BETWEEN IN SITU ANISOTROPIC REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS AND SIMULATIONS FOR VEGETATION CANOPIES: VALIDATION AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
Yen-Ben Cheng, Lawrence Corp, Elizabeth Middleton, Karl Huemmrich, Qingyuan Zhang, Petya Campbell, Geoffrey Parker

WEP.E.5: INTRODUCTION OF THE SHADOWING KERNEL FOR BRDF ANALYSIS
Yoshiyuki Kawata

WEP.E.6: UNDERSTANDING THE VEGETATION EFFECTS AT FROZEN ENVIROMENT BY THEORY AND FIELD EXPERIMENT
Yue Zheng, Zhongjun Zhang, Guoqing Sun, Lixin Zhang, Shengli Wu

WEP.E.7: LANDSAT-BASED PROCESS MODELING FOR LOBLOLLY PINE CARBON MANAGEMENT
Randolph Wynne, Christopher Potter, Xue Liu, Christine Blinn

WEP.E.8: ANISOTROPIC CHARACTERISTICS ANALYSIS OF RED EDGE PARAMETERS FOR WINTER WHEAT
Xuehong Zhang, Yansong Bao

WEP.F: Forests and Vegetation: Seasonal Processes

WEP.F.1: COPMARISION OF INDIVIDUAL CROWNS AMONG SPECIES IN JAPANESE CONIFER PLANTATIONS USING AIRBORNE DATA FOR LEAF-ON AND LEAF-OFF CONDITIONS
Masato Katoh

WEP.F.2: STUDY OF IMPACT OF URBANIZATION ON PHENOLOGY USING MULTISOURCE SATELLITE DATA
Hong Xu, Xi Yang, Qingxu Huang, Weihua Fang, Peijun Shi

WEP.F.3: DISCRIMINATION OF THE RESPECTIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF UNDERSTORY AND TREE CANOPY TO THE SEASONAL DYNAMICS OF REFLECTANCE OF MARITIME PINE FOREST IN SOUTHWEST FRANCE
Nathalie Yauschew-Raguenes, Dominique Guyon, Alain Kruszewski, Olivier Hagolle, Jean-Pierre Wigneron

WEP.F.4: MEASUREMENTS OF SEASONAL CHANGES IN VEGETATION REFLECTANCE SPECTRA
John Cipar, Thomas Cooley, Ronald Lockwood

WEP.F.5: LONG-TERM PHENOLOGY AND VARIABILITY OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN VEGETATION.
Karen Steenkamp, Konrad Wessels, Sally Archibald, Graham von Maltitz

WEP.F.6: PASTURE MONITORING FROM POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X DATA
David Pairman, Stephen McNeill, Dawn Dalley, Robyn Dynes

WEP.F.7: STUDY ON THE VEGETATION DYNAMIC CHANGE USING LONG TIME SERIES OF REMOTE SENSING DATA
Jinlong Fan, Xiaoyu Zhang

WEP.F.8: TRACKING LOBLOLLY PINE GROWTH THROUGH TIME WITH LANDSAT IMAGERY
Christine Blinn, Randolph Wynne, Ralph Amateis, Thomas Fox

WEP.F.9: WEB CAMERAS IN AUTOMATIC AUTUMN COLOUR MONITORING
Heikki Astola, Matthieu Molinier, Tapani Mikkola, Eero Kubin

WEP.G: Forests and Vegetation: Fire, Disturbance, and Recovery

WEP.G.1: ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT METHODS FOR BURNT AREA ESTIMATION USING REMOTE SENSING AND GROUND TRUTH DATA
Alfonso Alonso Benito, Pedro Hernández Leal, Alejandro González Calvo, Manuel Arbelo, África Barreto

WEP.G.2: REMOTE SENSING ASSESSMENT OF FIRE AND BURN SEVERITY IN THE ALASKA BOREAL FOREST REGION
Nancy French, Eric Kasischke

WEP.G.3: EFFECT OF BURN SCAR PATTERN VARIABILITY ON MEDIUM RESOLUTION BURNT AREA MAPPING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Soo Chin Liew, Jukka Miettinen

WEP.G.4: RETRIEVAL OF SUBPIXEL FIRE TEMPERATURE AND FIRE AREA USING SIMULATED HJ-1B DATA
Yonggang Qian, Guang-Jian Yan, Zhao-Liang Li, Sibo Duan, Renhua Zhang, Xiangsheng Kong

WEP.G.5: LINKING EL NIÑO TO WILDFIRES GLOBALLY FROM REMOTE SENSING (1981-2000)
David Riaño, José A. Moreno-Ruíz, Daniel Isidoro, Julio Barón-Martinez, Manuel Arbelo, Susan L. Ustin

WEP.G.6: EVALUATION OF ALGORITHMS AND REMOTE SENSING DATASETS FOR FIRE MAPPING IN CHINA
Wu Jianjun, Lü Aifeng

WEP.G.7: MONITORING DEFORESTATION USING REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS AND CHANGE DETECTION METHODS: THE CASE OF CEDAR FOREST DECLINE IN MOROCCO
Driss Haboudane, El Mustapha Bahri, Mohamed Qarro, Mohamed Sabir

WEP.G.8: USE OF FORMOSAT-2 SATELLITE IMAGERY TO DETECT NEAR REAL TIME DEFORESTATION IN AMAZONIA
Florence Baillarin, Ghislain Gonzales, Carlos Souza

WEP.G.9: IDENTIFICATION OF HURRICANE IMPACTED FOREST AREAS AND SEVERITY USING MODIS MEASUREMENTS
Wanting Wang, John Qu, Xianjun Hao, Yongqiang Liu

WEP.G.10: EVIDENTIAL REASONING APPLIED TO MAPPING REGENERATION OF FOREST STAND USING MULTISOURCE GEOSPATIAL DATA
Brice Mora, Richard Fournier, Samuel Foucher, Goze B. Bénié, Kim Lowell

WEP.G.11: POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA FOR FOREST AND DEFORESTATION MAPPING IN GUIZHOU PROVINCE, SOUTHWEST OF CHINA
Maosong Xu, Fengli Zhang, Zhongsheng Xia, Huaze Gong

WEP.H: Drought and Evapotranspiration

WEP.H.1: NORMALIZATION OF MODIFIED PERPENDICULAR DROUGHT INDEX USING AVHRR AND MODIS DATA FOR DROUGHT ASSESSMENT IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN UNITED STATES
Abduwasit Ghulam, Alimujiang Kasimu, Tim Kusky

WEP.H.2: DROUGHT MONITORING IN NORTHERN CHINA BASED ON SATELLITE DATA AND LAND SURFACE MODELING
Renhua Zhang, Hongbo Su, Paul Houser, Jing Tian, Zhaoliang Li, Shaohui Chen, Jinyan Zhan, Xiangzheng Deng, Xiaomin Sun, Jianjun Wu

WEP.H.3: MONITORING FUEL MOISTURE AND IMPROVING THE PREDICTION OF WILDFIRE POTENTIAL IN BOREAL ALASKA WITH SATELLITE C-BAND IMAGING RADAR
Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Kevin Riordan, Gorden Garwood

WEP.H.4: ESTIMATING LATENT AND SENSIBLE HEAT FLUXES USING THE TEMPERATURE VEGETATION DRYNESS INDEX (TVDI) AND MODIS DATA
Monica Garcia, Francisco Fernandez-Abad, Alicia Palacios-Orueta, Francisco Domingo, Luis Villagarcia, Juan Puigdefabregas

WEP.H.5: THE PRELIMINARY APPLICATION OF THE NEW METHOD FOR MONITORING FARMLAND DROUGHT BASED ON N-DIMENSIONAL SPECTRAL FEATURE SPACE---TAKING WHEAT DROUGHT MONITORING IN NING XIA AS AN EXAMPLE
Nan Yang, Qiming Qin, Chuan Jin, Yunjun Yao

WEP.H.6: SATELLITE DERIVED EVAPORATION
Thomas Holmes, Richard de Jeu, John Gash, Han Dolman, Eleanor Blyth

WEP.H.7: AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR ESTIMATING GLOBAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION BASED ON SATELLITE DETERMINATION OF SURFACE NET RADIATION, VEGETATION INDEX,TEMPERATURE AND SOIL MOISTURE
Kaicun Wang, Shunlin Liang

WEP.H.8: EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF VI-LST TRIANGLE MODEL FOR QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE USING OPTICAL IMAGERY
A. K. M. Hossain, Greg Easson

WEP.H.9: CROP DROUGHT MONITORING USING MODIS NDDI OVER MID-TERRITORY OF CHINA
Chenglin Liu, Jianjun Wu

WEP.H.10: COMBINING A TWO-SOURCE PATCH MODEL WITH SATELLITE DATA TO MONITOR DAILY EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AT A REGIONAL SCALE
Juan Manuel Sánchez, Vicente Caselles, William P. Kustas, Giusy Scavone, Enric Valor, César Coll, María Mira

WEP.H.11: CHARACTERIZING SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERNS AND DYNAMICS OF ECOLOGICAL WATER DEMAND FOR VEGETATIONS BY MEANS OF REMOTELY SENSED EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND SOIL MOISTURE CONDITIONS
Chuansheng Liu, Wan-Chang Zhang, Jiongfeng Chen

WEP.I: Ocean Altimetry

WEP.I.1: VARIABILITY IN THE ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION AND HEAT TRANSPORT DETECTED REMOTELY FROM ARGO FLOATS
Peter C. Chu, Charles Sun, Chenwu Fan

WEP.I.2: SEA LEVEL FROM SPACE: APPLICATIONS OF OCEAN ALTIMETRY DATA
Margaret Srinivasan, Robert Leben

WEP.I.3: BASIC RADAR ALTIMETRY TOOLBOX
Jérôme Benveniste, Vinca Rosmorduc, Sander Neimeijer, Nicolas Picot

WEP.J: Atmospheric Profiling III

WEP.J.1: STUDY OF ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION IN THE REMOTE SENSING BASED ON A MIE/RAMAN/DIAL LIDAR SYSTEM AND SUNPHOTOMETER
Jinye Zhang, Wei Gong, Jun Li, Feiyue Mao, Rongliang Zeng, Zhenluan Hu, Liangpei Zhang, Pingxiang Li

WEP.J.2: OBSERVATION OF PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR USING THE 18TH AND 19TH BAND OF MODIS
Xiaoping Gu, Xingming Wang, Zhanping Wu, Pengju Tian

WEP.J.3: OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH AND NETWORKING WITH GROUND BASED REMOTE SENSING FOR ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING AT THE CABAUW EXPERIMENTAL SITE FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH (CESAR) – THE NETHERLANDS
Arnoud Apituley, Herman Russchenberg, Hans van der Marel, Fred Bosveld, Reinout Boers, Harry ten Brink, Gerrit de Leeuw, Remco Uijlenhoet, Bertram Arbresser-Rastburg, Thomas Röckmann

WEP.J.4: VOLUMETRIC GAS MONITORING THROUGH AN IR LASER NETWORK FOR THE CONTROL OF THE GAS EMISSION FLUX BY SENSITIVE AREAS: METHODS AND SIMULATION RESULTS
Fabrizio Cuccoli, Luca Facheris

WEP.J.5: VERTICAL VELOCITY TURBULENCE OBSERVED WITH FMCW RADAR
Stephen Frasier, Andreas Muschinski, Pei-Sang Tsai, Mario Behn

WEP.J.6: CHANNEL FREQUENCY OPTIMIZATION OF A FUTURE AMSU-B-LIKE MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETER FOR INTEGRATED WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL IN POLAR REGIONS
Haibo Zhao, Jungang Miao

WEP.J.7: PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHT AND WIND FIELD CHARACTERIZATION BY MEANS OF A LIDAR AT THE TEIDE OBSERVATORY IN THE CANARY ISLANDS
Michaël Sicard, Sergio Tomás, Adolfo Comerón, Francesc Rocadenbosch

WEP.J.8: A NOVEL GROUND-BASED MICROWAVE RADIOMETER FOR HIGH PRECISION ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS BETWEEN 10 AND 90 GHZ
Dorle Nörenberg, Susanne Crewell, Ulrich Löhnert, Thomas Rose, Antonio Martellucci

WEP.J.9: A HIGH RESOLUTION FULL EARTH DISK MODEL FOR MICROWAVE ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING FROM GEO
Boon Lim, Christopher Ruf, Alan Tanner

WEP.K: Satellite Data-based Methods for Determining Aerosol Characteristics

WEP.K.1: FAST AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVAL FROM MODIS
Jianping Guo, Huadong Xiao, Chunxiang Cao, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Jianwen Ai, Xiaozhou Xin

WEP.K.2: GRID ENABLED SIMULTANEOUS RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL AND GROUND SURFACE REFLECTANCE FROM INTEGRATION OF AERONET AND SATELLITE DATA
Wei Wan, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Linyan Bai, Ying Wang, Jianwen Ai, Yinjie Li

WEP.K.3: AN ADVANCED QUANTITATIVE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH OVER LAND FROM TERRA AND AQUA MODIS DATA
Yingjie Li, Yong Xue, Wei Wan, Linyan Bai, Jie Guang, Ying Wang

WEP.K.4: REGIONAL QUANTITATIVE RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH USING TERRA AND AQUA MODIS DATA
Linyan Bai, Yong Xue, Guang Jie, Ying Wang, Yingjie Li, Wei Wan

WEP.K.5: A NEW STUDY OF DETECTING BIOMASS BURNING EMPLOYING MODIS DATA APPLYING BROADBAND AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS
Ying Wang, Yong Xue, Linyan Bai, Wei Wan, Jie Guang, Yingjie Li

WEP.K.6: RETREIVAL OF AEROSOL FROM SPACE-BORNE POLARIMETRIC DATA IN BEIJING
Zhongting Wang, Liangfu Chen, Xingfa Gu

WEP.K.7: RETRIEVAL OF SPECTRAL AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS OVER LAND SURFACE FROM MULTI-WAVELENGTH POLARIZATION SPACE-BORNE SENSORS
Xinli Hu, Liangfu Chen, Xingfa Gu

WEP.K.8: RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL FROM CBERS02 USING CONTRAST REDUCTION METHOD IN BEIJING
Ying Zhang, Zhongting Wang, Liangfu Chen, Xingfa Gu

WEP.K.9: AN APPROACH FOR AEROSOL RETRIEVALS OVER CANADA’S LANDMASS FROM HISTORICAL AVHRR 1-KM OBSERVATIONS
Alexander Radkevich, Alexander Trishchenko

WEP.K.10: ESTIMATION OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF ASIAN DUST OVER THE LAND SURFACE BY POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS
Takashi Kusaka, Hiroto Kitaguchi

WEP.K.11: COMPARISON OF AIRS, SBUV2 AND OMI OZONE MEASUREMENTS
Xianjun Hao, John Qu

WEP.L: Aerosol and Trace Gas Monitoring using a Combination of Ground-based and Satellite Observations

WEP.L.1: WEEKDAY AND SEASONAL VARIATIONS IN NO2 IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO, CANADA USING DATA FROM THE OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENT (OMI)
Julie Wallace, Pavlos Kanaroglou

WEP.L.2: RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTIES BASED ON MEASUREMENTS OF LIDAR, SUN-PHOTOMETER, AND CALIPSO AT WUHAN, CHINA
Jun Li, Wei Gong, Yingying Ma, Zhongmin Zhu, Pingxiang Li, Liangpei Zhang

WEP.L.3: VALIDATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS) COLLECTION 005 AEROSOL PRODUCTS USING THE AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORK (AERONET) GROUND-BASED DATA IN CHINA
Chunyan Zhou, Qinhuo Liu, Yong Tang, Lin Sun, Xiaozhou Xin

WEP.L.4: AEROSOL RETRIEVAL AND IMPROVED SURFACE ALBEDO OVER URBAN SCENES USING COMBINED MODIS AND SUNPHOTOMETER MEASURMENTS
Min Oo, Matthias Jerg, Eduardo Hernandez, Julia He, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed

WEP.L.5: ANALYSIS OF CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTICS AND INFLUENCING FACTORS OF SAND-DUST EVENTS IN NORTHWEST CHINA
Jianhong Tao, Jinsong Wang, Feng Wei

WEP.L.6: IMPROVEMENT OF AEROSOL RETRIEVAL THROUGH CLOUD IDENTIFICATION
Yingying Ma, Wei Gong, Jun Li, Liangpei Zhang, Pingxiang Li

WEP.M: Data Fusion IV

WEP.M.1: DATA FUSION OF DIGITAL CAMERA AND LIDAR DATA FOR CLASSIFICATION OF DUNE VEGETATION
Pieter Kempeneers, Bart Deronde, Sam Provoost

WEP.M.2: SAR IMAGE FUSION IN MULTI SENSOR CONTEXT FOR SMALL URBAN AREA DETECTION
Christophe Gouinaud

WEP.M.3: OBJECT-ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION FOR CHANGE DETECTION WITH DIFFERENT SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES
Yongdae Gweon, Yun Zhang

WEP.M.4: MULTISCALE INTEGRATION FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL ECOCLIMATIC ECOREGIONING DELINEATION
Didier Leibovici, Mike Jackson

WEP.M.5: FUSION OF HIGH RESOLUTION POLARIMETRIC SAR AND MULTI-SPECTRAL OPTICAL DATA FOR PRECISION VITICULTURE
Alessandro Burini, Domenico Solimini, Giovanni Schiavon

WEP.M.6: BINARY CLASSIFICATION STRATEGIES FOR MAPPING URBAN LAND COVER WITH ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS
Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Luca Demarchi, Tim Van de Voorde, Frank Canters

WEP.M.7: THE EFFECT OF LANDSCAPE PATTERNS ON THE ACCURACY OF LAND COVER MAP FROM MULTI-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING DATA CLASSIFICATION
Yanchen Bo, Danxia Song

WEP.M.8: LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERTEMPORAL DATA USING ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS
Thomas Udelhoven, Björn Waske, Sebastian van der Linden, Sonia Heitz

WEP.M.9: MULTISOURCE DATA CLASSIFICATION USING A HYBRID SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING SCHEME
Ranga Vatsavai, Budhendra L. Bhaduri, Shashi Shekhar, Thomas Burk

WEP.M.10: DATA FUSION OF VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SAR AND OPTICAL DATA FOR URBAN LAND-USE CLASSIFICATION
Marco Chini, Fabio Pacifici, William J. Emery

WEP.M.11: SPECTRAL MAGNITUDE AND SPECTRAL DERIVATIVE FEATURE FUSION FOR IMPROVED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES
Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk

WEP.N: Data Mining Tools & Applications

WEP.N.1: DETECTION OF ANOMALOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BY STATISTICAL PROPERTY IN MAGNETIC FIELD AZIMUTH
Tokiyasu Sato, Ichi Takumi, Masayasu Hata, Hiroshi Yasukawa

WEP.N.2: FLOW MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION IN 3DGIS
Hua Xu, Qiang Wu, Peng Zhao, Chao Han, Wenyu Zhang

WEP.N.3: STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF MOTION DATA FOR MOVING OBJECTS IN 3D GIS
Huanzhuo Ye

WEP.N.4: SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN SATELLITE DATA FOR GLOBAL MONITORING AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
Efim Kudashev

WEP.N.5: THE OPTIMIZATION OF REMOTE SPATIAL JOIN QUERIES ON SPATIAL INFORMATION GRID
Chuanjie Xie, Gaohuan Liu, Bingbo Gao, Wentao Sheng

WEP.N.6: PARALLEL COORDINATE PLOT: AN APPLICATION TO VISUALIZE THE UNCERTAINTY IN THEMATIC CLASSIFICATIONS OF REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY
Yong Ge, Sanping Li

WEP.N.7: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM OF GRAND CANAL OF CHINA
Wensheng Zhou, Feng Mao, Zhihua Tang, Weijun Sun

WEP.O: Ensemble Filtering and Data Assimilation

WEP.O.1: COMBINING REMOTE SENSING MEASUREMENTS AND MODEL ESTIMATES THROUGH HYBRID DATA ASSIMILATION SCHEME TO PREDICT HYDROLOGICAL FLUXES AT A WATERSHED SCALE
Baburao Kamble, Ayse Irmak

WEP.O.2: MODELING AND ASSIMILATION OF REGIONAL ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION USING THE ESSI DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL WITH ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER
Dengzhong Zhao, Wan-Chang Zhang, Jiongfeng Chen

WEP.O.3: GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS (GSA) MEASURES THE QUALITY OF PARAMETER ESTIMATION. CASE OF SOIL PARAMETER ESTIMATION WITH A CROP MODEL.
Hubert-Vincent Varella, Martine Guérif, Samuel Buis

WEP.O.4: ESTIMATING THE SPATIAL EXCHANGE OF CARBON THROUGH THE ASSIMILATION OF EARTH OBSERVATION (EO) DERIVED PRODUCTS USING AN ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER
Martin De Kauwe, Tristan Quaife, Philip Lewis, Mathias Disney, Mathew Williams

WEP.O.5: OPTIMAL SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION (OSD) FOR REMOTELY SENSED OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION
Peter C. Chu

WEP.O.6: ESTIMATION OF REGIONAL SOIL MOISTURE BY ASSIMILATING MULTI-SENSOR PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS BASED ON ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER
Chunlin Huang, Xin Li, Juan Gu

WEP.O.7: VEGETATION ISOLINE EQUATIONS WITH HIGHER ORDER INTERACTION TERMS TO IMPROVE ACCURACY IN RETRIEVAL OF VEGETATION BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS
Munenori Miura, Hiroki Yoshioka

WEP.O.8: A SIMPLIFIED DATA ASSIMILATION METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING TIME-SERIES MODIS NDVI DATA
Juan Gu, Xin Li, Chunlin Huang

WEP.O.9: LAI RETRIEVAL FROM CYCLOPES AND MODIS PRODUCTS USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Linna Chai, Yonghua Qu, Lixin Zhang, Jindi Wang

WEP.O.10: SPATIAL CORRELATION PATTERNS OF L-BAND MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE
Xujun Han, Xin Li, Rui Jin, Shuguo Wang

WEP.O.11: STUDY ON ENVISAT ASAR DATA ASSIMILATION IN RICE GROWTH MODEL FOR YIELD ESTIMATION
Shenbin Yang, Shuanghe Shen, Bingbai Li, Bingxiang Tan, Thuy Le Toan

WEP.P: Inverse Methods and Data Processing

WEP.P.1: MULTIPLE PASS METRIC-BASED AUTOFOCUS FOR 3D SAR IMAGING
Forest Lee-Elkin

WEP.P.2: PHASE COMPONENTS ANALYSIS OF PERMANENT SCATTERERS INSAR TECHNIQUE
Wenliang Jiang, Jingfa Zhang

WEP.P.3: NAER FIELD IMAGING OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER
Cheng Zhang, Ji Wu, Hao Liu, Weiying Sun, Jingye Yan

WEP.P.4: CART-BASED RARE HABITAT INFORMATION EXTRACTION FOR LANDSAT ETM+ IMAGE
Zili Zhang, Qiming Qin, Junping Gao, Yuzhi Dong, Yunjun Yao, ZhaoQiang Wang, FanWei Dai

WEP.P.5: QUANTATIVE INVERSION BASED ON HYPERSPECTRAL DATA FOR SOIL SALINIZATION IN THE ECOLOGICAL CORRIDOR OF TARIM RIVER, XINJIANG, CHINA
Cun Chang, Xi Chen, Anming Bao, Geping Luo

WEP.P.6: CASE STUDIES IN HIGH THROUGHTPUT COMPUTING (HTC) USING CONDOR FOR PHYSICS-BASED REMOTE SENSING ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION
Rolando Raqueno, Robert Krzaczek

WEP.P.7: COMPARISON BETWEEN THE KALMAN AND THE NON-LINEAR LEAST-SQUARES ESTIMATORS IN LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO LIDAR INVERSION
Francesc Rocadenbosch, Michaël Sicard, Adolfo Comerón, M. N. Md. Reba, Adriano Camps

WEP.P.8: COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVE MARKOV MODELS FOR SEA FLOOR GRAIN SIZE INTERPOLATION AND ESTIMATION
Robert Weisenseel, Ssu-Hsin Yu

WEP.P.9: PRECISE EVALUATION OF TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS IN SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR ILLUMINATION CORRECTION
Yoshikazu Iikura

WEP.P.10: AN IMPROVED ALGORITHM TO PRODUCE SPATIO-TEMPORALLY CONTINUOUS MODIS ALBEDO PRODUCT IN CHINA
Tao He, Zhiqiang Xiao, Jindi Wang

WEP.P.11: THE BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE SIGNATURE OF TYPICAL LAND SURFACES AND COMPARISON OF MISR AND MODIS BRDF PRODUCTS
Yongmei Chen, Jindi Wang, Shunlin Liang, Dongwei Wang, Bin Ma, Yanchen Bo

WEP.Q: Statistical and Physics-Based Inverse Methods

WEP.Q.1: INVERSE SCATTERING OF EXTENDED TARGETS BY SIGNAL SUBSPACE APPROACHES AND THE LEVEL SET METHOD
Fred Gruber, Edwin Marengo

WEP.Q.2: AN INVERSE SCATTERING METHOD BASED ON LAMÉ CURVES FOR IMAGING BURIED CRACKS AND VOIDS
Lorenzo Crocco, Michele D'Urso, Tommaso Isernia

WEP.Q.3: VELOCITY UNFOLDING IN NETWORKED RADAR SYSTEM
Edin Insanic, Paul Siqueira

WEP.Q.4: WELL LOG DATA INVERSION USING HIGHER ORDER NEURAL NETWORKS
Kou-Yuan Huang, Liang-Chi Shen, Chun-Yu Chen

WEP.Q.5: PERFORMANCE OF 3D CANONICAL SHAPE FEATURE EXTRACTION FROM BISTATIC RADAR
Julie Ann Jackson, Randolph Moses

WEP.Q.6: AN IMAGING APPROACH FOR INTRAWALL INSPECTIONS
Ilaria Catapano, Lorenzo Crocco

WEP.Q.7: MODELLING THE ERROR STATISTICS IN SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION OF SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM INFRARED DATA
Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico

WEP.Q.8: SAHELIAN-GRASSLAND PARAMETER ESTIMATION FROM BACKSCATTERED RADAR RESPONSE
Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero, Isabelle Chenerie, Kamal Sarabandi

WEP.Q.9: USE OF VECTOR VELOCITY ESTIMATE ACCURACY FOR IMPROVED RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A NETWORK OF RADARS
Edin Insanic, Paul Siqueira

WEP.Q.10: INVERSION OF BACKSCATTER IONOGRAMS OPTIMISATION BY USING SIMULATED ANNEALING AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS
Eulàlia Benito, Alain Bourdillon, Stéphane Saillant, Jean-Philippe Molinié, Véronique Rannou

WEP.Q.11: SEMI-SUPERVISED SUPPORT VECTOR BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION
Gustavo Camps-Valls, Jordi Munoz-Mari, Luis Gomez-Chova, Javier Calpe-Maravilla

WEP.Q.12: SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE SIMULATED ANNEALING METHOD TO MEASUREMENT NOISE FOR THE INVERSION OF SUBSURFACE PARAMETERS OF TWO LAYER ROUGH SURFACES
Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Mahta Moghaddam

WEP.R: SAR Image Methods

WEP.R.1: APPLICATION OF SPATIAL SPECTRUM ESTIMATION TECHNIQUE IN MULTIBASELINE SAR FOR LAYOVER SOLUTION
Bin Wang, Yan-Ping Wang, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu

WEP.R.2: THE EFFECTS OF FINITE RESOLUTION ON RADAR IMAGES OF FRACTAL PROFILES
Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello

WEP.R.3: REGION FEATURE EXTRACTION BASED ON IMPROVED REGULARIZATION METHOD IN SAR IMAGE
Feng Xu, Shirong Chen, Yida Fan, Chao Wang

WEP.R.4: AUTOMATED DETECTING IMAGE CONTROL POINTS FROM SAR IMAGERY BASED ON DATABASE OF OPTICAL IMAGE PATCHES
Hui Long, Kun Fu, Hongqi Wang, Chuanzhao Han, Wudi Wang

WEP.R.5: ON THE MODEL OF OPTIMUM DATA VECTOR FOR MULTIBASELINE SAR INTERFEROMETRY PHASE UNWRAPPING
Zhijie Mao, Guisheng Liao

WEP.R.6: ANALYSIS OF SAR SPECKLE NOISE STATISTICS TO SUPPORT IMAGE FILTERING AND INTERPRETATION
Andreas Schenk, Thomas Esch, Achim Roth, Stefan Dech

WEP.R.7: COMBINED WAVELET AND CONTOURLET DENOISING OF SAR IMAGES
Johannes R. Sveinsson, Jón Atli Benediktsson

WEP.R.8: MOTION COMPENSATION PROCESSING OF AIRBORNE SAR DATA
Pietro Guccione, Ciro Cafforio

WEP.R.9: SPECKLE REDUCTION OF SAR IMAGES IN THE BANDLET DOMAIN
Johannes R. Sveinsson, Zohra Semar, Jón Atli Benediktsson

WEP.R.10: UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN SAR IMAGE USING GRAPH CUTS
Chen Keming, Huo Chunlei, Zhou Zhixin, Lu Hanqing

WEP.S: SAR Instruments, Missions and Atmospheric Effects

WEP.S.1: TRANSPONDER WITH UNDERSAMPLING METHOD
Wang Yiding

WEP.S.2: A NEW STAR IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHM BASED ON MATCHING PROBABILITY
Junfeng Xie, Wanshou Jiang, Jianya Gong

WEP.S.3: EXTRACTION OF ATMOSPHERIC PATH DELAYS FROM SAR DATA
Michael Jehle, David Small, Erich Meier

WEP.S.4: COMPARISON OF ATMOSPHERIC PHASE DELAY ON ALOS PALSAR INTERFEROGRAM AND CLOUD DISTRIBUTION PATTERN ON SIMULTANEOUSLY OBSERVED AVNIR-2 IMAGES
Chinatsu Yonezawa, Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, Nobuhiro Tomiyama, Yoshinari Oguro

WEP.S.5: RAIN IMPACT ON SENSITIVITY OF KA-BAND SCAN-ON-RECEIVE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS
Salvatore D'Addio, Michael Ludwig

WEP.T: Moving and Stationary Targets

WEP.T.1: A NEW SAR-GMTI METHOD FOR FOUR PHASE CENTERS ON TWO SATELLITES FLYING IN CLOSE FORMATION
Bin Cai, Diannong Liang, Zhen Dong, Anxi Yu

WEP.T.2: ROBUST MOVING TARGET DETECTION AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION BASED ON THREE-CHANNEL SAR IMAGES
Zhengguang Zhou, Guisheng Liao, Shengqi Zhu

WEP.T.3: MOVING TARGET DETECTION IN ALONG TRACK SAR INTERFEROMETRY FROM IN-PHASE AND QUADRATURE COMPONENTS DATA
Alessandra Budillon, Vito Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi

WEP.T.4: DOPPLER PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR SINGLE-CHANNEL SAR MOVING TARGET BASED ON A NOVEL MODEL IN COMPLEX IMAGE DOMAIN
Yu Zuo, Jia Xu, Yingning Peng

WEP.T.5: COMPUTATION OF OPTIMUM AZIMUTH SAMPLING TIME FOR DUAL-CHANNEL DPCA SYSTEM BASED ON SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO
Li Linlin, Li Jingwen

WEP.T.6: MOVING TARGETS DETECTION AND ANALYSIS ON MULTI-LOOK POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USING PWF METHOD
Bin Zou, Tao Wei, Lamei Zhang

WEP.T.7: A NEW METHOD OF SAR IMAGE TARGET RECOGNITION BASED ON ADABOOST ALGORITHM
Wei Guo, Qingwen Qi, Lili Jiang, Ping Zhang

WEP.T.8: GMTI PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FOR CIRCULAR SCANNING SAR EQUIPPED ON SLOW PLATFORM
Bing Sun, Yinqing Zhou, Jie Chen

WEP.U: Multistatic SAR and 3-D Imaging

WEP.U.1: COMPENSATION OF THE RANGE VARIANT BISTATIC DEFORMATION TERM FOR LBF
Kefeng Yang, Feng He, Diannong Liang

WEP.U.2: INFLUENCE AND DEPENDENT PARAMETERS OF TERRAIN UNDULATION TO BISTATIC SAR IMAGING
Xiaolan Qiu, Donghui Hu, Chibiao Ding, Daojing Li

WEP.U.3: RESOLUTION ANALYSIS FOR BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Yuanyao Lu, Jingzhang Wang

WEP.U.4: A SYNTHESIZED PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FOR DISTRIBUTED SPACEBORNE INSAR SYSTEM
Jiying Liu, Haifeng Huang, Yongsheng Zhang, Jubo Zhu

WEP.U.5: SYNCHRONIZATION OF GEO SPACEBORNE-AIRBORNE BISTATIC SAR
Ling Lei, Yinqing Zhou, Jingwen Li, Jie Chen, Weigang Zhu

WEP.U.6: 3-D RANGE STACKING ALGORITHM FOR FORWARD-LOOKING SAR 3-D IMAGING
Weixian Tan, Wen Hong, Yan-Ping Wang, Yi-Rong Wu

WEP.U.7: IMAGING GEOMETRY ANALYSIS OF 3D SAR USING LINEAR ARRAY ANTENNAS
Yan-Ping Wang, Bin Wang, Wen Hong, Lei Du, Yirong Wu

WEP.V: Urban Remote Sensing I

WEP.V.1: REVEALING INTRA-URBAN FEATURES USING OPTICAL AND SAR IMAGES
Yasuyo Makido, Yoshiki Yamagata, Shobhakar Dhakal

WEP.V.2: URBAN LAND USE CHANGE OF NANJING, CHINA, USING MULTITEMPORAL SATELLITE DATA
Chang-Qing Ke

WEP.V.3: HOW DO PEOPLE PERCEIVE THE CITY’S GREEN SPACE? A VIEW FROM SATELLITE IMAGERY (IN HANOI, VIETNAM)
Thi Thanh Hien Pham, Dong-Chen He

WEP.V.4: RESEARCH ON THE URBAN FABRIC OF WUHAN BASED ON GIS AND MAS
Xiang Huali, Ye Huanzhuo

WEP.V.5: MEASUREMENT OF URBAN ECOLOGICAL COMPENSATION FROM IKONOS DATA
Taiyang Zhong, Xiuying Zhang, Weiguo Wang, Xianjin Huang

WEP.V.6: EVALUATING INFLUENCES OF ZONING TO URBAN ECOLOGICAL PARAMETERS WITH REMOTE SENSING
Taiyang Zhong, Xiuying Zhang, Weiguo Wang, Xianjin Huang

WEP.V.7: URBAN CHANGE DETECTION BASED ON LOCAL FEATURES AND MULTISCALE FUSION
Chunlei Huo, Zhixin Zhou, Jian Cheng, Hanqing Lu, Keming Chen

WEP.V.8: RESEARCH ON CURRENT SITUATION INVESTIGATION BY REMOTE SENSING AND DIVISION PROTECTION ZONE OF GREAT WALL OF MING DYNASTY IN BEIJING
Ou Zhang, Xiaojuan Li, Huili Gong, Weiguang Zhang, Yonghua Sun

WEP.V.9: A GLOBAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF URBAN SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS DURING THE LAST FOUR DECADES USING COURSE RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING DATA AND GIS
Alimujiang Kasimu, Abduwasit Ghulam, Ryutaro Tateishi

WEP.V.10: SENSITIVITY OF SPATIAL INDICATORS FOR URBAN TERRAIN CHARACTERIZATION
Nathalie Long, Erwan Bocher, Thomas Leduc, Guillaume Moreau

WEP.V.11: USING NODE TO IMPROVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PATH FINDING SOLUTION
Lei Niu, Guobin Zhu

WEP.V.12: DAMAGE ASSESSMENT ON BUILDINGS USING MULTISENSOR MULTIMODAL VERY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES AND ANCILLARY DATA
Anne-Lise Chesnel, Renaud Binet, Lucien Wald

WEP.W: Urban Remote Sensing II

WEP.W.1: DETECTION AND CHARACTERISATION OF URBAN OBJECTS FROM VHR OPTICAL IMAGE DATA
Alan Steel, Dominik Brunner

WEP.W.2: URBANIZATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON STREAM HEALTH: RESULTS FROM THE MID-ATLANTIC AND SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND USA
Scott Goetz, Greg Fiske

WEP.W.3: RESEARCH ON MONITORING,EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT MODELS ABOUT REGIONAL ECOLOGICAL SECURITY
Xiuping Zou, Qingwen Qi

WEP.W.4: STORM WATER RUNOFF: EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN IMPERVIOUS SURFACES
Tahmina Shirmeen, Greg Easson

WEP.W.5: COMPARISON OF EXTRACTING RURAL RESIDENTIAL AREA FROM SATELLITE IMAGES WITH MULTIRESOLUTION
Cunjian Yang, Xiaoyan Wang, He Huang

WEP.W.6: A FLOOD HAZARD RISK ASSESSMENT MAP IN GROWING URBAN AREAS BY INTEGRATING REMOTE SENSING AND DEM DATA
Vincent De Paul Onana, Jean-Paul Rudant, Emmanuel Trouvé, Gilles Mauris, Nadine T. Laporte, Wayne Walker

WEP.W.7: CNGI BASED RESOURCE & ENVIRONMENT DECISION SERVICE SYSTEM FOR LANCANG-MEKONG SUB-REGION SECURITY
Qingwen Qi, Qiao Guo, Lili Jiang, An Zhang, Zhaiwei Chen, Li Xu, Zhangbao Ma

WEP.W.8: ADVANCED DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION FOR PSI USING HIRES SAR DATA
Stefan Gernhardt, Stefan Hinz, Richard Bamler

WEP.W.9: EVALUATION OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY WITH HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES
Meichun Yan, Xiufeng He, Wengang Sang

WEP.W.10: SUB-PIXEL STEREO-MATCHING FOR DEM GENERATION FROM NARROW BASELINE STEREO IMAGERY
Gareth Morgan, Jian Guo Liu, Hongshi Yan

WEP.W.11: CHARACTERIZING THE MESO-SCALE ENVIROMENTAL THERMAL EFFECTS DUE TO DIFFERENT LANDUSE TYPES USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES AND INDICES IN TAOYUAN, NORTH TAIWAN
Chia-Kai Yang, Chih-Hung Tan, Chung-Hsin Juan, Meng-Lung Lin

WEP.W.12: RESEARCH ON URBAN THERMAL FIELD OF LANZHOU CITY IN SUMMER BASED ON GIS
Guodong Li, Junhua Zhang

WEP.X: Urban Remote Sensing III

WEP.X.1: DSM GENERATION OF BUILDINGS BASED ON CORRESPONDING OBJECT CONSTRAINT
Xinyi Shen, Qiming Qin, Haijian Ma

WEP.X.2: A FIELD-BASED DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR CITY AIR POLLUTANTS INFORMATION SYSTEM
Fengru Huang, Xuesong Wang, Bin Chen, Yu Fang

WEP.X.3: RESEARCH AND APPLICATION OF SPATIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON GRAND CANAL OF CHINA
Feng Mao, Ze Liu, Wensheng Zhou, Jianxi Huang, Qiang Li

WEP.X.4: TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN BEIJING UTILIZING REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY
Chudong Huang, Yun Shao, Jinsong Chen, Jinghui Liu, Jing Li

WEP.X.5: A COMPARISON OF TEXTURE FEATURE ALGORITHMS FOR URBAN SETTLEMENT CLASSIFICATION
Leonce P. Abeigne Ella, Frans van den Bergh, Barend J. van Wyk, M. Antonie van Wyk

WEP.X.6: VISUALIZATION AND PHOTO-REALISTIC RENDERING OF URBAN BUILDINGS WITH LIDAR DATA AND AREIAL PHOTOS
Hongjoo Park, Samsung Lim

WEP.X.7: APPLICATION OF GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE ENGINEERING MANAGE OF ROLLER COMPACTION CONSTRUCTION
Jian Zhang, Xiaoling Chen

WEP.X.8: RAPID EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE DETECTION USING HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Fujun Zhao, Rui Yan, Zhihui Li, Jingfa Zhang

WEP.X.9: SURFACE DEFORMATION RETRIEVAL OF YANCHENG CITY(CHINA) BASED ON SMALL BASELINE DINSAR TECHNIQUE
Hong Zhang, Hong'an Wu, Chao Wang, Tao Wu, Yixian Tang

WEP.X.10: SUBSIDENCE MONITORING USING ASCENDING AND DESCENDING SAR DATA BASED ON COHERENT PIXEL INTERFEROMETRY
Yixian Tang, Hong Zhang, Chao Wang, Tao Wu, Hong'an Wu

WEP.X.11: APPLICATION OF WAVELET TRANSFORM ON SEISMIC IMAGE PROCESSING
Lei Zhang, Jingfa Zhang, Fujun Zhao, Shan Cai

WEP.Z: Remote Sensing of Road Networks and Vehicles

WEP.Z.1: TRAFFIC SPATIAL MEASURES AND INTERPRETATION OF ROAD NETWORK USING AERIAL REMOTELY SENSED DATA
Daiyong Wei, Guoqing Zhou

WEP.Z.2: USE OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGE DATA IN AN ASPHALTED URBAN ROAD EXTRACTION
Marcos Resende, Silvio Jorge, George Longhitano, José Alberto Quintanilha

WEP.Z.3: OPTIMIZATION OF GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR) MIXTURE MODEL IN ROAD PAVEMENT DENSITY DATA ANALYSIS
Helmi Zulhaidi Mohd Shafri, Raja Syamsul Azmir Raja Abdullah, Mardeni Roslee, Ratnasamy Muniandy

WEP.Z.4: EFFECTIVENESS OF 2D FDTD GROUND PENETRATING RADAR MODELING FOR BRIDGE DECK DETERIORATION EVALUATED BY 3D FDTD
He Zhan, Kim Belli, Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Carey Rappaport

WEP.Z.5: AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF VEHICLES AND THEIR SPEEDS FROM DIGITAL AERIAL IMAGES
Fumio Yamazaki, Wen Liu, T. Thuy Vu

WEP.Z.6: A FRAMEWORK TO MONITOR VEHICLE VISUALIZED AND INTUITIVELY BASED ON X3D
Jihua Hu, Hao Liu

WEP.AA: Remote Sensing of Urban Heat Islands

WEP.AA.1: QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND (UHI) BASED ON REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY: INTEGRATING UHI MAGNITUDE AND FOOTPRINT
Ji Zhou, Yunhao Chen, Jing Li

WEP.AA.2: VEGETATION COVERAGE AND LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RELATIONSHIP FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND
Wei Ma, Yunhao Chen, Ji Zhou

WEP.AA.3: EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION OF HEAT-ISLAND MAP WITH SATELLITE AND AIRBORNE THERMAL INFRARED DATA
Naoki Takagi, Akira Hoyano, Akinobu Murakami, Tsuneo Matsunaga

WEP.AA.4: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND AND ASSOCIATED LAND COVER CHANGE BASED IN SUZHOU CITY USING LANDSAT DATA
Yongming Xu, Zhihao Qin, Yansong Bao

WEP.AA.5: CALCULATION OF CORRIDOR STRUCTURE EFFECT ON URBAN HEAT ISLAND USING HIGHLY SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES IN BEIJING, CHINA
Mingyi Du, Weixian Sun, Guoyin Cai

WEP.AA.6: ANALYSIS OF AN URBAN HEAT SINK USING THERMAL INERTIA MODEL FROM ASTER DATA IN BEIJING, CHINA
Guoyin Cai, Mingyi Du, Yong Xue, Shan Li

WEP.AA.7: STUDY ON URBAN HEAT ISLAND OF BEIJING USING ASTER DATA ---- A QUANTITATIVE REMOTE SENSING PERSPECTIVE
Binyan Yan, Wenjie Fan, Xin Tao, Xiru Xu

WEP.AA.8: STUDY ON URBAN HEAT ISLAND PHENOMENON IN A LOCAL SMALL CITY OF JAPAN USING AIRBORNE THEMAL IMAGE
Akinobu Murakami, Akira Hoyano

WEP.BB: Soil & Air Pollution Monitoring

WEP.BB.1: ASSESSMENT OF ENVI FOREST HEALTH TOOL IN DETECTION DUST AND SEEPAGE CONTAMINATED FOREST AREAS
Jyrki Tuominen

WEP.BB.2: AN INVESTIGATION OF AIR POLLUTION IN HONG KONG WITH ASTER DATA
Jie Guang, Yong Xue, Linyan Bai, Wei Wan, Jianping Guo, Xiaowen Li

WEP.BB.3: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF URBAN AIRBORNE INHALABLE PARTICLE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND THEIR MECHANISM IN BEIJING USING RS AND GIS
Wenhui Zhao, Huili Gong, Zhaoning Gong

WEP.BB.4: ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC HORIZONTAL VISIBILITY FROM SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA
Xiaofeng Yang, Xingfa Gu, Liangfu Chen

WEP.BB.5: AIR POLLUTION MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON GEOSENSOR NETWORK
Young Jin Jung, Yang Koo Lee, Dong Gyu Lee, Keun Ho Ryu, Nittel Silvia

WEP.BB.6: ESTIMATION OF THE LOAD OF TOTAL NITROGEN AND TOTAL PHOSPHORUS IN THE ENCLOSED BAY WATERSHED USING GIS
Mikihiro Ioka, Masaaki Takahashi, Satoshi Chiba

WEP.CC: Water Pollution Monitoring

WEP.CC.1: OIL SPILL MONITORING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR AND MICROWAVE SCATTEROMETER DATA
Yun Shao, Wei Tian, Shiang Wang, Fengli Zhang

WEP.CC.2: ON THE MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION OF THE SAR OIL-SPILL OBSERVATION PROBLEM
Attilio Gambardella, Giorgio Giacinto, Maurizio Migliaccio

WEP.CC.3: MULTISENSOR APPROACH TO OPERATIONAL OIL POLLUTION MONITORING IN COASTAL ZONES
Olga Lavrova, Marina Mityagina, Tatiana Bocharova, Andrey Kostianoy, Vladimir Krovotyntsev

WEP.CC.4: DETECTION OF OIL SLICKS IN SAR IMAGES USING HIERARCHICAL MRF
David Morales, Miguel Moctezuma, Flavio Parmiggiani

WEP.CC.5: DYNAMIC MONITORING THE ALGAE BLOOM IN THE TAIHU LAKE USING MODIS IMAGES
Di Wu, Bing Zhang, Junsheng Li, Qian Shen, Hao Zhang, Yuanfeng Wu

WEP.CC.6: MONITORING ALGAE BLOOMS BY REMOTE SENSING IN LAKE TAIHU, CHINA
Qian Shen, Bing Zhang, Junsheng Li, Hao Zhang, Yuanfeng Wu, Di Wu

WEP.CC.7: A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF OIL SPILL IN ENVISAT ASAR IMAGES
Wei Tian, Yun Shao, Shiang Wang

WEP.CC.8: OBSERVATION OF CRUDE OIL SPILL OFF THE WEST COAST OF KOREA USING TERRASAR-X, ENVISAT ASAR AND ALOS PALSAR
Duk-Jin Kim, Boyeol Yoon, Younsoo Kim, Yongseung Kim

WEP.DD: Data Management and Systems I

WEP.DD.1: APPLICATION OF REAL TIME GIS, REMOTE SENSING AND IC TAG FOR REALIZATION OF GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
Sota Shimano, Mitoshi Moriya, Sayaka Takeuchi, Masaaki Shikada

WEP.DD.2: ENERGY CONSUMPTION ESTIMATION IN HYBRID SENSOR NETWORKS RUNNING ASSISTED NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS
Franco Frattolillo, Federica Landolfi, Silvia Liberata Ullo

WEP.DD.3: A TOOL TO QUERY AND VISUALIZE THE COMPLETE SRTM DATA SET INDEXED BY THE Q-TREE IN AN OPEN GIS
Félix Rodríguez Rodríguez, José Julián Hernández Piñero, Manuel Barrena García

WEP.DD.4: DISTRIBUTING GLOBAL WILDFIRE INFORMATION THROUGH THE FIRE INFORMATION FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (FIRMS)
Min Minnie Wong, Diane Davies, Shriram Ilavajhala

WEP.DD.5: REUSE READINESS LEVELS AS A MEASURE OF SOFTWARE REUSABILITY
James Marshall, Robert Downs

WEP.DD.6: THE AIRBORNE ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT AND PROFILING SYSTEM - A REVOLUTIONARY DATA AND VISUALIZATION SYSTEM
James Carswell, James Canniff, Daniel Robinson, John Hill, Paul Chang

WEP.DD.7: DATABASE SYSTEM FOR ARCHIVING AND MANAGING REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Jianting Shi, Fujun Zhao

WEP.DD.8: DATA ANALYIS SYSTEM DESIGN FOR LIDAR EXPERIMENTATION
Nimmi Sharma, Jo Ann Parikh

WEP.EE: Education, Outreach and Policy

WEP.EE.1: GILMANTON SCHOOL AND UNH FOREST WATCH - COMPARING CLASSROOM COLLECTED DATA TO SPECTRAL INDICES: BENEFITS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
Mary Fougere

WEP.EE.2: INTRODUCING STUDENTS TO THE GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES, USING SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA FROM SPACE
David Llewellyn-Jones, Gary Corlett

WEP.EE.3: BENEFITS TO STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF PARTICIPATION IN THE FOREST WATCH PROGRAM
Robert Schongalla

WEP.EE.4: PROMOTING SCIENCE THROUGH GIS AND REMOTE SENSING
Valentina David

WEP.EE.5: CALIBRATING THE DMSP-OLS STABLE NIGHT LIGHTS DATA TO MAP URBAN AREA IN CHINA FROM 1992 TO 1993 BY USING GIS ANCILLARY DATA
Yang Yang, Chunyang He, Qingxu Huang, Yuanyuan Zhao

WEP.EE.6: YOU BE THE POLAR SCIENTIST: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF UNDERREPRESENTED K-12 STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ACTIVITIES RELATED TO REMOTE SENSING OF ICE SHEETS
Linda Hayden, Darnell Johnson

WEP.EE.7: TRAINING MINORITY UNDERGRADUATES IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES BY USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES
Shobha Sriharan, James Everitt, Reginald Fltecher

TH1.210: Human and Environmental Health

TH1.210.1: REMOTE SENSING TO MEET THE CHALLENGES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Gregory Glass

TH1.210.2: OCEANS, CLIMATE, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, AND HUMAN HEALTH: FROM GENE PROBES TO REMOTE SENSING
Rita Colwell

TH1.210.3: FROM STEMS TO CONTINENTS, GENES TO ECOSYSTEMS: REMOTE SENSING TO PREDICT HUMAN DISEASE
Maria A. Diuk-Wasser

TH1.101: Crustal Deformation and Subsurface Sensing

TH1.101.1: REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS OF CRUSTAL DEFORMATION USING RIVER NETWORKS
Richard Gloaguen

TH1.101.2: DEFORMATION MONITORING BY LONG TERM D-INSAR ANALYSIS IN THREE GORGES AREA, CHINA
Teng Wang, Daniele Perissin, Mingsheng Liao, Fabio Rocca

TH1.101.3: MONITORING CRUSTAL DEFORMATION ALONG THE XIANSHUIHE FAULT IN THE EASTERN TIBETAN MARGIN AREA WITH ENVISAT SCANSAR INTERFEROMETRY
Liming Jiang, Hui Lin, Fang Liu

TH1.101.4: EXTRACTION OF FLUID MOVEMENT RELATED SPECTRAL FEATURES FROM SEISMIC TRACES
Georgiy Bordakov, Sreechakra Goparaju, Jaideva Goswami

TH1.101.5: SENSING ROOF CONDITIONS AHEAD OF A LONGWALL MINING USING THE SHEARER AS A SEISMIC SOURCE
Xun Luo, Andrew King, Matt Van de Werken

TH1.102: Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction I

TH1.102.1: SPECKLE FILTERING OF DUAL-POLARIZATION AND POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA BASED ON IMPROVED SIGMA FILTER
Jong-Sen Lee, Thomas Ainsworth, Kun-Shan Chen

TH1.102.2: TURBO SPECKLE FILTERING APPLIED TO POLSAR DATA
Gregory Farage, Samuel Foucher, Carlos Lopez-Martinez, Goze B. Bénié

TH1.102.3: POLARIMETRIC DATA DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERIZATION BY USING MUTIDIMENSIONNAL COPULAS
Lynda Bouchemakh, Gregoire Mercier, Youcef Smara

TH1.102.4: CLASSIFICATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USING RADIOMETRIC AND TEXTURE INFORMATION
Jean-Marie Beaulieu, Ridha Touzi

TH1.102.5: ANALYSIS OF NATURAL SCENES USING POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA STATISTICS IN PARTICULAR CONFIGURATIONS
Laurent Ferro-Famil, Maxim Neumann

TH1.103: Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere I

TH1.103.1: CHARACTERISTICS OF RECENT TRENDS IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SNOW COVER EXTENT
Ross Brown, Stephen Déry

TH1.103.2: RECENT ICE SHEET AND GLACIER ELEVATION CHANGES IN GREENLAND FROM AIRCRAFT LASER ALTIMETRY.
William Krabill, Robert Thomas, John Sonntag, Serdar Manizade

TH1.103.3: ALASKAN GLACIOLOGY FROM SPACE
Richard Forster, Jeff Van Looy, Dorothy K. Hall, Ryo Michishita

TH1.103.4: MULTITEMPORAL, MULTISENSOR FUSION FOR MONITORING CRYOSPHERIC CHANGES IN ANTARCTICA FROM ICESAT ALTIMETRY AND IMAGERY
Beata Csatho, Toni Schenk, Taehun Yoon, Sudhagar Nagarajan

TH1.103.5: MODELING TIMESERIES OF MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE AT DOME-C, ANTARCTICA, USING NEW SNOW STRUCTURE MEASUREMENTS.
Ludovic Brucker, Hélène Brunjail, Ghislain Picard, Laurent Arnaud, Jean-Marc Barnola, Paul Duval, Michel Fily

TH1.104: Change Detection in Forested Landscapes I

TH1.104.1: CHANGE DETECTION IN IMAGE TIME-SERIES AFFECTED BY DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE AND PHENOLOGICAL VARIABILITY: APPLICATION TO FOREST DISTURBANCE MONITORING
Eric Nielsen, Mark Finco, Everett Hinkley

TH1.104.2: EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF L BAND POLSAR DATA TO DISCRIMINATE DEFORESTATION INCREMENT AREAS IN AMAZON RAIN FOREST
Júlio Bandeira Guerra, Corina da Costa Freitas, José Claudio Mura

TH1.104.3: NON-LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS TO IDENTIFY FUNCTIONAL FORMS OF DEFORESTATION
Shojiro Tanaka, Ryuei Nishii

TH1.104.4: MAPPING FOREST CHANGE WITH LANDSAT 7 SLC-OFF DATA
Mutlu Ozdogan, Curtis E. Woodcock

TH1.104.5: USE OF OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR ASSESSING LAND USE AND ECOSYSTEM CARBON STOCK IN SLASH-AND-BURN ECOSYSTEMS IN THE MOUNTAINOUS MAINLAND OF LAOS
Yoshio Inoue, Jiaguo Qi, Albert Olioso

TH1.105: Sensing and Modeling Ocean Physics

TH1.105.1: SUBINERTIAL VARIATIONS IN THE SOYA WARM CURRENT REVEALED BY HF OCEAN RADARS, COASTAL TIDE GAUGES, AND BOTTOM-MOUNTED ADCP
Naoto Ebuchi, Yasushi Fukamachi, Kay Ohshima, Masaaki Wakatsuchi

TH1.105.2: INVESTIGATION OF ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES AND ROTORS IN THE MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER USING SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES
Werner Alpers

TH1.105.3: THE IMPACT OF SURFACE SCATTERING ON OCEAN ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (ABL) WIND PROFILE ESTIMATES FROM AN AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR
Tao Chu, Stephen Frasier, Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Paul Chang, James Carswell

TH1.105.4: MEASURING AND MODELING THE NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION OF THE SEA FOR BACKSCATTER
Plant William, William Keller, Kenneth Hayes, Gene Chatham

TH1.105.5: SEDIMENT MODELING BASED ON RADAR OBSERVED SURFACE HYDRODYNAMICS
Stephan Sedlacek, Friedwart Ziemer, Marius Cysewski

TH1.107: Image Analysis for Classification and Detection

TH1.107.1: ACTIVE LEARNING OF VERY-HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL IMAGERY WITH SVM: ENTROPY VS MARGIN SAMPLING
Devis Tuia, Frédéric Ratle, Fabio Pacifici, Alexei Pozdnoukhov, Mikhail Kanevski, Fabio Del Frate, Domenico Solimini, William J. Emery

TH1.107.2: CONTEXTUAL UNMIXING OF GEOSPATIAL DATA BASED ON GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS AND MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS
Ryuei Nishii, Shuji Kawaguchi, Akiko Nakamoto, Yoko Sawamura

TH1.107.3: REGION-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF MULTISENSOR OPTICAL-SAR IMAGES
Raffaele Gaetano, Gabriele Moser, Giovanni Poggi, Giuseppe Scarpa, Sebastiano Serpico

TH1.107.4: ASSESSMENT OF FEATURE SELECTION TECHNIQUES FOR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFICATION OF SATELLITE IMAGERY
Tarek Habib, Jordi Inglada, Gregoire Mercier, Jocelyn Chanussot

TH1.107.5: MODELING AND CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES FOR MULTI-BAND CHANGE DETECTION
Karin Griffis, Maja Bystrom

TH1.108: Interferometry I

TH1.108.1: PALSAR SCANSAR-SCANSAR INTERFEROMETRY
Masanobu Shimada

TH1.108.2: ADVANCES IN TIME SERIES PERSISTENT SCATTERER INSAR
Howard Zebker, Piyush Agram

TH1.108.3: TECTONIC PARAMETERS DERIVED FROM WRAPPED SAR INTERFEROGRAMS
Béatrice Pinel-Puysségur, Rémi Michel, Jean-Philippe Avouac

TH1.108.4: BISTATIC POLINSAR SCENARIO AND EVALUATION BY FOREST SCATTERING SIMULATIONS
Ludovic Villard, Irena Hajnsek, Pierre Borderies, Konstantinos Papathanassiou

TH1.108.5: POTENTIAL OF ERS-2/ENVISAT TANDEM EXPERIMENT FOR GENERATING LOW-TOPOGRAPHY DEMS
Franz Meyer, Zhong Lu, Richard Guritz, Don Atwood

TH1.109: Space Hyperspectral Sensors and Programs I

TH1.109.1: THE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER FOR THE COASTAL OCEAN (HICO) ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Michael Corson, Daniel Korwan, Robert Lucke, William Snyder, Curtiss Davis

TH1.109.2: THE PRISMA PROGRAM
Claudio Galeazzi, Andrea Sacchetti, Andrea Cisbani, Gianni Babini

TH1.109.3: RESULTS OF THE DECADAL SURVEY HYSPIRI IMAGING SPECTROMETER CONCEPT STUDY: A HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO AND HIGH UNIFORMITY GLOBAL MISSION TO MEASURE PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND FUNCTIONAL TYPE
Robert Green, Greg P. Asner, Stephen Ungar, Robert Knox

TH1.109.4: ENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING AND ANALYSIS PROGRAM (ENMAP) – RECENT ADVANCES AND STATUS
Hermann Kaufmann, Luis Guanter, Karl Segl, Stefan Hofer, Klaus-Peter Förster, Timo Stuffler, Andreas Mueller, Rudolf Richter, Heike Bach, Patrick Hostert, Christian Chlebek

TH1.109.5: EARTH OBSERVING ONE (EO-1): LESSONS NOT LEARNED!
Stephen Ungar

TH1.110: Remote Sensing of Agricultural Production and Sustainability I

TH1.110.1: SOME INFORMATION NEEDS FOR AGRICULTURE
Dorsey Plunk, Sheryl Kunickis, Leonard Jolley

TH1.110.2: LOW-ALTITUDE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY TECHNIQUE TO ASSESS EPHEMERAL GULLY EROSION
James Frankenberger, Chi-Hua Huang, Kossi Nouwakpo

TH1.110.3: THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING AND COMPUTER MODELING AS AIDS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF INVASIVE PLANT SPECIES IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES.
Raymond Carruthers, Sarah Swope, David Bubenheim, Christopher Potter, Marc Kramer, Lee Johnson

TH1.110.4: REMOTE SENSING AND MODELING METHODS FOR CROP GRAIN YIELD ASSESSMENT
Paul C. Doraiswamy, Bakhyt Akhmedov, Sushil Milak, Alan Stern

TH1.110.5: MAPPING EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND DROUGHT AT LOCAL TO CONTINENTAL SCALES USING THERMAL REMOTE SENSING
Martha C. Anderson, William P. Kustas

TH1.111: Improving Access to Earth Science Data: New Tools and Services I

TH1.111.1: MODELING AND ON-THE-FLY SOLUTIONS FOR SOLID EARTH SCIENCES: WEB SERVICES AND DATA PORTAL FOR EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM
Yehuda Bock, Brendan Crowell, Linette Prawirodirdjo, Paul Jamason, Ruey-Juin Chang, Peng Fang, Melinda Squibb, Marlon Pierce, Xiaoming Gao, Frank Webb, Sharon Kedar, Robert Granat, Jay Parker, Danan Dong

TH1.111.2: USING THE NASA NEESPI PORTAL DATA TO STUDY LAND, CLIMATE, AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGES IN NORTHERN EURASIA
Gregory Leptoukh, Suhung Shen, Ivan Csiszar, Peter Romanov, Tatiana Loboda, Irina Gerasimov

TH1.111.3: PROVIDING GRIDDED ATMOSPHERIC RADIANCE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM MODIS AND AIRS INSTRUMENTS ON NASA'S AQUA SATELLITE
Milton Halem, Curt Tilmes, Yelena Yesha, David Chapman, Phuong Nguyen

TH1.111.4: INTEGRATING AND MANAGING DATA FROM MULTIPLE A-TRAIN SENSORS
Andrey Savtchenko, Steven Kempler, Peter Smith, Gregory Leptoukh, Graeme Stephens, David Winker

TH1.111.5: THE ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION PROCESSING SYSTEM (ACPS): EXTENDING OZONE PROCESSING TO THE COMMUNITY
Curt Tilmes

TH1.203: Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission I

TH1.203.1: EVALUATION OF THE EFFECT OF THE ORBIT BOOST OF THE TRMM SATELLITE ON THE PR RAIN ESTIMATES
Shuji Shimizu, Toshio Iguchi, Riko Oki, Masafumi Hirose, Tetsuya Tagawa

TH1.203.2: EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF SURFACE REFERENCE TECHNIQUES FOR THE TRMM PR
Shinta Seto, Taikan Oki, Toshio Iguchi

TH1.203.3: DERIVATION OF SUB-FOOTPRINT SCALE SIGMA^0 OBSERVED BY TRMM PRECIPITATION RADAR
Tetsuya Tagawa, Shuji Shimizu, Riko Oki

TH1.203.4: BROADENING TRMM-PR REFLECTIVITY SPECTRUM BASED ON HIGHLY-SENSITIVE CLOUDSAT-CPR DATA FOR USE IN AUGMENTED DIURNAL PRECIPITATION STUDIES
Eric A. Smith, Kwo-Sen Kuo, Hezekiah M. Carty

TH1.203.5: SOME APPROACHES TO VALIDATING TRMM AND GPM RADAR PRODUCTS AND ALGORITHMS
Robert Meneghini, Liang Liao, John Kwiatkowski, Toshio Iguchi

TH2.101: 3D Urban Mapping I

TH2.101.1: EXTRACTION OF BUILDING HEIGHTS FROM VHR SAR IMAGERY USING AN ITERATIVE SIMULATION AND MATCH PROCEDURE
Dominik Brunner, Guido Lemoine, Lorenzo Bruzzone

TH2.101.2: 3D URBAN REMOTE SENSING USING DUAL-BASELINE POL-INSAR IMAGES AT L-BAND
Stefan Sauer, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Andreas Reigber, Eric Pottier

TH2.101.3: CLASSIFICATION OF BASIC ROOF TYPES BASED ON VHR OPTICAL DATA AND DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL
Silvia Valero, Jocelyn Chanussot, Philippe Gueguen

TH2.101.4: BUILDING DETECTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION POLSAR DATA BY COMBINING REGION AND EDGE INFORMATION
Yinghua Wang, Florence Tupin, Chongzhao Han, Jean-Marie Nicolas

TH2.101.5: OPTIMAL PROCESSING FOR GEOMETRIC AND TOPOLOGICAL FEATURES EXTRACTION FROM TERRASAR-X DATA
Houda Chaabouni-Chouayakh, Mihai Datcu

TH2.102: Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction II

TH2.102.1: URBAN FEATURE CHARACTERIZATION USING POLARIMETRIC AND POL-IN SAR DATA
Ridha Touzi, Karim Mattar, Laurence Gray

TH2.102.2: COHERENT DECOMPOSITION OF FULLY POLARIMETRIC RADAR DATA
Yoshio Yamaguchi, Jun Nakamura, Kazuyasu Aoyama, Hiroyoshi Yamada

TH2.102.3: SETHI, THE NEW ONERA MULTISPECTRAL AIRBORNE SAR SYSTEM
Philippe Dreuillet, Gregory Bonin, Olivier Ruault du Plessis, Sebastien Angelliaume, Hubert Cantalloube, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Xavier Dupuis

TH2.102.4: ASSESSMENT OF TERRASAR-X DUAL-POL MODES FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY: A STUDY CASE IN FERLO REGION, SENEGAL
Jean-Claude Souyris, Nadine Pourthié, Céline Tison, Murielle Lafaye, Jean-Pierre Lacaux, Oscar Miranda, Alain Arnaud, Anne Urdiroz

TH2.102.5: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE SUPER-RESOLUTION PROCESSING OF POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR TOMOGRAPHY
Honglei Chen, Dayalan Kasilingam

TH2.103: Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere II

TH2.103.1: A WIDEBAND RADAR FOR ICE SHEET SURFACE ELEVATION MEASUREMENTS AND NEAR-SURFACE INTERNAL LAYER MAPPING
Cameron Lewis, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Heather Owen, Aqsa Patel, Deebu Abi, Carl Leuschen, Sivaprasad Gogineni

TH2.103.2: MAPPING SNOW GRAIN SIZE OVER GREENLAND FROM MODIS
Alexei Lyapustin, Yujie Wang, Marco Tedesco, Alexander Kokhanovsky

TH2.103.3: BALTIC SEA ICE THICKNESS CHARTS BASED ON THERMODYNAMIC SNOW/ICE MODEL, C-BAND SAR CLASSIFICATION AND ICE MOTION DETECTION
Juha Karvonen, Bin Cheng, Markku Similä, Martti Hallikainen

TH2.103.4: COMPARISON OF AIRBORNE RADAR ALTIMETER AND GROUND-BASED KU-BAND RADAR MEASUREMENTS ON THE ICE CAP AUSTFONNA, SVALBARD
Ola Brandt, Robert L. Hawley, Jack Kohler, Jon Ove Hagen, Elizabeth Morris, Julian B. T. Scott, Trond Eiken, Thorben Dunse, Geir Moholt

TH2.103.5: ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH ARCTIC GLACIERS WITH ASAR DATA
Anthony Doulgeris, Kirsty Langley, Torbjørn Eltoft

TH2.104: Recent Advances in Change Detection Techniques

TH2.104.1: A MULTILEVEL CONTEXTUAL APPROACH TO CHANGE DETECTION FOR VERY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES
Chunlei Huo, Keming Chen, Zhixin Zhou, Hanqing Lu, Jian Cheng

TH2.104.2: DETECTION OF LAND COVER CHANGE USING AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK WITHIN A TEMPORAL SLIDING WINDOW ON MODIS TIME SERIES DATA
Jan Olivier, Konrad Wessels, Seare Araya

TH2.104.3: DEVELOPMENT OF A SCALE INDEPENDENT APPROACH FOR LANDSCAPE PATTERN METRICS USING FOURIER VECTOR ANALYSIS OF SATELLLITE IMAGES
Alvin Spivey, Anthony Vodacek

TH2.104.4: OBJECT-LEVEL SEMANTIC CHANGE INTERPRETATION FOR MULTI-BAND REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY
Karin Griffis, Maja Bystrom

TH2.104.5: LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND ITS SIMULATION USING GIS, LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY AND THE MARKOV MODEL
Jiayu Wu, Hongguang Cheng, Ayan Zeng, Fanghua Hao, Dan Wang, Li Gong

TH2.105: High Resolution Microwave Sensing of Ocean Wind and Waves

TH2.105.1: AN L-BAND WIND RETRIEVAL MODEL FUNCTION DERIVED FROM PALSAR
Osamu Isoguchi, Masanobu Shimada

TH2.105.2: OBSERVATION OF BORA EVENTS USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Jochen Horstmann, Werner Alpers, Richard P. Signell

TH2.105.3: CROSS COMPARISON OF ALOS PALSAR L-BAND WIND RETRIEVAL MODEL FUNCTIONS
Frank M. Monaldo, Donald R. Thompson

TH2.105.4: COINCIDENT ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVE SIGNATURES FROM ENVISAT ASAR AND MERIS
Jochen Horstmann, Todd Sikora, Iain Cameron, Nathaniel S. Winstead

TH2.105.5: VALIDATION AND EVALUATION OF QUIKSCAT ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION WIND RETRIEVAL IN THE GULF OF MAINE
Amanda Plagge, Doug Vandemark, David G. Long

TH2.107: Kernel Methods for Image Analysis and Classification

TH2.107.1: MULTIVARIATE AR MODEL BASED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE FOR MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Pei-Gee Peter Ho, Chi-Hau Chen

TH2.107.2: A FLEXIBLE METRIC NEAREST-NEIGHBOR CLASSIFICATION BASED ON THE DECISION BOUNDARIES OF SVMS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE
Hsin-Hua Ho, Bor-Chen Kuo, Jin-Shiuh Taur, Cheng-Hsuan Li

TH2.107.3: SEMI-SUPERVISED KERNEL ORTHOGONAL SUBSPACE PROJECTION
Luca Capobianco, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Andrea Garzelli

TH2.107.4: VERY-HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS AND SVM
Devis Tuia, Fabio Pacifici, Alexei Pozdnoukhov, Christian Kaiser, Domenico Solimini, William J. Emery

TH2.107.5: GRADIENT OPTIMIZATION FOR MULTIPLE KERNEL'S PARAMETERS IN SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES CLASSIFICATION
Alberto Villa, Mathieu Fauvel, Jocelyn Chanussot, Paolo Gamba, Jón Atli Benediktsson

TH2.108: Interferometry II

TH2.108.1: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENTS FROM MERIS AND SAR
Franz Meyer, Richard Bamler, Ronny Leinweber, Juergen Fischer

TH2.108.2: BAYESIAN DEM RECONSTRUCTION FROM SAR AND OPTICAL DATA
Giampaolo Ferraioli, Fabio Baselice, Vito Pascazio

TH2.108.3: TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF SCANSAR INTERFEROGRAMS USING THE SMALL BASELINE SUBSET (SBAS) TECHNIQUE
Krishnavikas Gudipati, Sean M. Buckley

TH2.108.4: AN EXPERIMENT OF GB-SAR INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF TARGET DISPLACEMENT AND ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION
Hoonyol Lee, Jae-Hee Lee, Seong-Jun Cho, Nak-Hoon Sung, Jung-Ho Kim

TH2.108.5: SCANSAR DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY AND WET DELAY CORRECTION: CASE STUDIES IN DANGXIONG, TIBET
Jianying Jia, Qiming Zeng, Jian Jiao, Ying Li, Xiai Cui

TH2.109: Space Hyperspectral Sensors and Programs II

TH2.109.1: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACEBORNE IMAGING SPECTRSOCOPY (ISIS) WORKING GROUP
A. Alexander Held

TH2.109.2: THE WORLD’S FIRST COMMERCIAL HYPERSPECTRAL DATA SERVICE FROM EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE
Duke Takahashi

TH2.109.3: ADVANCED RESPONSIVE TACTICALLY-EFFECTIVE MILITARY IMAGING SPECTROMETER (ARTEMIS)
Thomas Cooley, Ronald Lockwood, Richard Nadile, James Gardner, Peter Armstrong, Abraham Payton, Thom Davis, Stan Straight

TH2.109.4: METHODOLOGY FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF VEGETATION CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE FROM SPACE IN THE FRAME OF THE FLEX MISSION PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES
Luis Guanter, Karl Segl, Hermann Kaufmann, Wout Verhoef, Luis Alonso, Luis Gomez-Chova, Jose Moreno, Juergen Fischer, Rene Preusker, Ferran Gascon

TH2.109.5: SPACEBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE GENERATION BASED ON AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE
Junping Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Haibin Jiao, Ye Zhang

TH2.110: Remote Sensing of Agricultural Production and Sustainability II

TH2.110.1: LIDAR BASED PARTICULATE FLUX MEASUREMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL FIELD OPERATIONS
Gail E. Bingham, Christian Marchant, Vladimir V. Zavyalov, Douglas J. Ahlstrom, Kori Moore, Thomas D. Wilkerson, Larry E. Hipps, Randal S. Martin, Jerry L. Hatfield, John Prueger

TH2.110.2: IMPROVED REMOTELY-SENSED ESTIMATES OF CROP RESIDUE COVER BY INCORPORATING SOILS INFORMATION
Guy Serbin, C. S. T. Daughtry, E. Raymond Hunt Jr., Gregory W. McCarty, Paul C. Doraiswamy, David J. Brown

TH2.110.3: COMBINING HYPERSPECTRAL INDICES FOR NITROGEN PREDICTIONS IN CORN CANOPIES
Pengfei Chen, Driss Haboudane, Nicolas Tremblay, Jihua Wang, Philippe Vigneault

TH2.110.4: WATER FOR FOOD PRODUCTION - OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND-WATER MANAGEMENT USING REMOTE SENSING
Ana P. Barros

TH2.110.5: PHYSICALLY-BASED METHODS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF CROP WATER REQUIREMENTS FROM E.O. OPTICAL DATA
Francesco Vuolo, Guido D'Urso, Katja Richter, John Prueger, William P. Kustas

TH2.111: Improving Access to Earth Science Data: New Tools and Services II

TH2.111.1: BUILDING NEW TOOLS OUTSIDE THE BROWSER: A NEW LOOK AT CUSTOM STAND-ALONE APPLICATIONS FOR EARTH DATA ACCESS AND VISUALIZATION
Bruce Caron

TH2.111.2: MINING SCIENTIFIC DATA USING INTERNET AS THE COMPUTER
Sara Graves, Rahul Ramachandran, Manil Maskey, Ken Keiser, Christopher Lynnes, Long Pham

TH2.111.3: RECENT EXPERIENCE IN ASSEMBLING DATA SETS FOR PRECIPITATION RESEARCH AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DATA SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS
Kwo-Sen Kuo, Hezekiah M. Carty, Eric A. Smith, Steve Bilanow, Michael A. Hensley, Deborah Vane, Graeme Stephens

TH2.111.4: DATA ACCESS TOOLS - FILLING THE USABILITY GAP IN CRYOSPHERE DATA
David Gallaher, Julienne Stroeve, Ross Swick, Ronald L. S. Weaver

TH2.111.5: A WEB SERVICES APPROACH FOR IEOS
Francis Lindsay, Lyndon Oleson

TH2.203: Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission II

TH2.203.1: HYBRID NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUE TO ESTIMATE RAINFALL FROM TRMM MEASUREMENTS
V. Chandrasekar, Amin Alqudah, Yanting Wang

TH2.203.2: PRECIPITATION FEATURE CHARACTERISTICS DURING AN AFRICAN EASTERLY WAVE PASSAGE
Robert Cifelli, Timothy Lang, Steven Rutledge

TH2.203.3: AN IMPROVED OCEANIC RAINFALL RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR THE SEAWINDS SCATTEROMETER
Khalil Ahmad, W. Linwood Jones, Takis Kasparis

TH2.203.4: PROGRESS TOWARD VALIDATION OF QUIKSCAT ULTRA-HIGH-RESOLUTION RAIN RATES USING TRMM PR
Michael P. Owen, David G. Long

TH2.203.5: A KALMAN FILTER APPROACH TO CMORPH PASSIVE MICROWAVE RAINFALL ESTIMATION
Robert Joyce, Pingping Xie

TH2.210: Atmospheric Remote Sensing for Air Pollution and Human Health

TH2.210.1: DEVELOPING AEROSOL HEIGHT FROM MODIS FOR AIR QUALITY APPLICATION AND SYNERGY WITH CALIPSO MEASUREMENTS IN EVALUATING RETRIEVAL UNCERTAINTIES
D. Allen Chu, James Szykman, Chieko Kittaka, Mian Chin, H.-C. Liu, Lorraine Remer, David Winker

TH2.210.2: APPLICATION OF SATELLITE AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH AND AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATING SPATIAL GRADIENT OF FINE PARTICULATE MATTER IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
James Szykman, Jassim Al-Saadi, Rebecca Rosen, Carol Bohnenkamp, D. Allen Chu, John Hair, Richard Ferrare, Chris Hostetler, Ajith Kaduwela, Gary Arcemont, Shobha Kondragunta, Chieko Kittaka, Jasper Lewis

TH2.210.3: STUDY OF GLOBAL AIR QUALITY AND BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE UV RADIATION FROM SATELLITES
Pawan Bhartia, Nickolai Krotkov, Xiong Liu, Omar Torres, James Gleason

TH2.210.4: ANALYSIS OF THE INTERACTION OF AEROSOL TRANSPORT LAYERS ON LOCAL AIR QUALITY
Chuen Gan, Leona Charles, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed

TH2.210.5: THE THREE DIMENSIONAL AIR QUALITY SYSTEM (3D-AQS)
Raymond Hoff, Jill Engel-Cox

TH3.101: 3D Urban Mapping II

TH3.101.1: LAND SUBSIDENCE MONITORING AND ANALYSIS USING MULTI-SOURCE MULTI-TEMPORAL DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS
Pai-Hui Hsu

TH3.101.2: 3D MEASUREMENT THROUGH PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHY
Qiaozhen Huang, Shaoxing Hu

TH3.101.3: 3D URBAN GEOLOGICAL MODELING AND ITS APPLICATION IN CHINA: TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENTS
De-Fu Che, Li-Xin Wu, Zuo-Ru Yin

TH3.101.4: EXTRACTING HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION ABOUT HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS OF BEIJING USING SHADOW IN SPOT-5 DATA
Zhiwei Ye, Lin Zhu, Huili Gong

TH3.101.5: PROBABILISTIC REPRESENTATION OF STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF URBAN BUILDINGS IN REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES
Zhiqiang Chen, Tara Hutchinson

TH3.102: SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications I

TH3.102.1: POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS OF DUAL-POL SAR IMAGERY
John Kelly, Thomas Ainsworth, Jong-Sen Lee

TH3.102.2: REVIEW OF POLARIMETRIC INDICATORS FOR FOREST CHARACTERISATION OVER SEVERAL SITES
Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Sebastien Angelliaume, Isabelle Champion, Lars M. H. Ulander

TH3.102.3: AGRICUTLURAL VEGETATION PARAMETER ESTIMATION USING POL-INSAR
Irena Hajnsek, Helmut Schön, Thomas Jagdhuber, Konstantinos Papathanassiou

TH3.102.4: DEFORMATION MAPS RETRIEVAL OF URBAN AREAS USING GROUND-BASED POLSAR ACQUISITIONS
Luca Pipia, Xavier Fabregas, Albert Aguasca, Sergi Duque, Jordi J. Mallorqui, Carlos Lopez-Martinez

TH3.102.5: POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING MODEL DECOMPOSITION FOR POL-INSAR DATA
Hiroyoshi Yamada, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Ryoichi Sato

TH3.103: Active Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere I

TH3.103.1: MONITORING CHANGES IN THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET FROM 1978 TO 2007
Benjamin Lambert, David G. Long

TH3.103.2: DECADAL MASS BALANCE OF THE GREENLAND AND ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS FROM HIGH RESOLUTION ELEVATION CHANGE ANALYSIS OF ERS-2 AND ENVISAT RADAR ALTIMETRY MEASUREMENTS
Yonghong Li, Curt H. Davis

TH3.103.3: APPLICATION OF ALOS PALSAR AND LANDSAT ETM+ DATA FOR THE STUDY OF PERIGLACIAL FEATURES AND PERMAFROST WITHIN THE SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS, WESTERN ANTARCTICA
Magaly Koch, Jerónimo López-Martínez, Thomas Schmid, Enrique Serrano, José Gumuzzio

TH3.103.4: VELOCITIES OF MAJOR OUTLET GLACIERS OF THE PATAGONIA ICEFIELD OBSERVED BY TERRASAR-X
Dana Floricioiu, Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Michael Eineder

TH3.103.5: ESTIMATION OF ACCUMULATION AREA RATIO OF A GLACIER FROM MULTI-TEMPORAL SATELLITE IMAGES USING SPECTRAL UNMIXING
Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Jeremy Van Ophem, Philippe Huybrechts

TH3.104: Change Detection in Land Use / Land Cover I

TH3.104.1: ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF MODIS COLLECTION 5 ON CHANGE DETECTION IN THE BRAZILIAN SAVANNA
Laerte Ferreira, Marlon Nemayer, Genival Fernandes, Manuel Ferreira, Nilson Ferreira

TH3.104.2: USING REMOTE SENSING DATA TO QUANTIFY CHANGES IN VEGETATION OVER PEATLAND AREAS
Natasha MacBean, Mathias Disney, Philip Lewis, Phil Ineson

TH3.104.3: MAPPING THE HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF LAND-FALLING HURRICANES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES – A DEMONSTRATION FOR ISABEL
Julien Brun, Ana P. Barros

TH3.104.4: FINE-RESOLUTION EROSION ESTIMATION ON LARGE SCALE BASED ON REMOTE SENSING DATA - AN APPROACH FOR TIBET AND CONNECTED REGIONS
Mathias Leidig, Richard Gloaguen

TH3.104.5: RADAR POLAR DECOMPOSITION FOR THE CARTOGRAPHY OF NATURAL SURFACES
Cedric Lardeux, Pierre-Louis Frison, Jean-Claude Souyris, Céline Tison, Benoît Stoll, Jean-Paul Rudant

TH3.105: Optical Sensing in the Coastal Ocean

TH3.105.1: EARTH OBSERVATION BASED ASSESSMENT OF ANTHROPOGENIC STRESS TO CORAL REEFS - A GLOBAL ANALYSIS
Christoph Aubrecht, Christopher D. Elvidge, Mark Eakin

TH3.105.2: MULTI-ANGULAR MULTI-SPECTRAL POLARIZED REFLECTANCE FROM COASTAL WATERS FOR THE SEPARATION OF WATER ORGANIC AND INORGANIC PARTICULATE COMPONENTS
Alberto Tonizzo, Rushane Dyer, Jing Zhou, Alex Gilerson, Jacek Chowdhary, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed

TH3.105.3: APPLICATION OF UV AND NIR BANDS FOR THE ADVANCED IOP RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS IN COASTAL WATERS
Ioannis Ioannou, Nicholas Steiner, Jing Zhou, Alexander Gilerson, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed

TH3.105.4: AN INCREASED POTENTIAL FOR THE LANDSAT DATA CONTINUITY MISSION (LDCM) TO CONTRIBUTE TO WATER QUALITY STUDIES FOR INLAND, CASE 2 WATERS
Aaron Gerace, John R. Schott

TH3.105.5: AIRCRAFT AND IN SITU SALINITY AND OCEAN COLOR MEASUREMENTS AND COMPARISONS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO
Joel Wesson, Derek Burrage, Chris Osburn, Stephan Howden, Xiagong Chen

TH3.107: Image Classification - Techniques and Applications

TH3.107.1: MULTIDIMENSIONAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON INFLUENCE CONTROLLERS OF THE CLASSES IN THE IMAGES
Orlando Alves Maximo, David Fernandes

TH3.107.2: SEMI-SUPERVISED REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON CLUSTERING AND KERNEL MEANS
Luis Gomez-Chova, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Javier Calpe-Maravilla

TH3.107.3: ON COMBINING UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION AND ONTOLOGY KNOWLEDGE
Germain Forestier, Cédric Wemmert, Pierre Gançarski

TH3.107.4: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION OF GRASS SPECIES IN NORTHEAST JAPAN
Sildomar Monteiro, Kuniaki Uto, Yukio Kosugi, Kunio Oda, Yoshiyuki Iino, Genya Saito

TH3.107.5: AUTOMATIC MAPPING OF LINEAR WOODY VEGETATION FEATURES IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES
Selim Aksoy, Gokhan Akcay, Gokberk Cinbis, Tom Wassenaar

TH3.108: SAR Processing I

TH3.108.1: A NEW SUPERRESOLUTION SAR IMAGING ALGORITHM BASED ON EXTRAPOLATION
Ping Zhang, Ruliang Yang

TH3.108.2: IDENTIFICATION OF COHERENT SCATTERERS: SPECTRAL CORRELATION VS. MULTI-CHROMATIC PHASE ANALYSIS
Vito Martino Giacovazzo, Alberto Refice, Fabio Bovenga, Nicola Veneziani

TH3.108.3: IMPROVEMENT OF RANGE AMBIGUITIES BY UP/DOWN-CHIRP CODING
Josef Mittermayer, Steffen Wollstadt, Nuria Tous-Ramon, Adriano Meta

TH3.108.4: FOCUSING SAR DATA ACQUIRED FROM NON-LINEAR SENSOR TRAJECTORIES
Othmar Frey, Christophe Magnard, Maurice Rueegg, Erich Meier

TH3.108.5: IMAGE REGISTRATION OF TERRASAR-X DATA USING DIFFERENT INFORMATION MEASURES
Holger Nies, Otmar Loffeld, Baki Dönmez, Amina Ben Hammadi, Robert Wang

TH3.109: Future Space-based Optical Instruments

TH3.109.1: DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPACT, LIGHTWEIGHT, PASSIVE FABRY-PEROT RADIOMETER FOR MEASUREMENTS OF TRACE GASES IN THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE
Elena Georgieva, William Heaps, Emily Wison

TH3.109.2: STATUS OF THE OPTICAL PAYLOAD AND PROCESSOR DEVELOPMENT OF ESA’S SENTINEL 3 MISSION
Jens Nieke, Johannes Frerick, Juergen Stroede, Constantin Mavrocordatos, Bruno Berruti

TH3.109.3: STATUS OF ESA FUTURE EARTH OBSERVATION EXPLORER MISSIONS
Gregory Bazalgette Courrèges-Lacoste, Paolo Bensi, Michael Berger, Jean-Loup Bézy, Bernardo Carnicero Dominguez, Malcolm Davidson, Mark Drinkwater, Yannig Durand, Florence Heliere, Paul Ingmann, Joerg Langen, Chung-Chi Lin, Roland Meynart, Helge Rebhan, Pierluigi Silvestrin, Alan Thompson

TH3.109.4: OPTICAL SENSING BY "SATURATION" WITH E-CORCE CONCEPT: ONE EARTH, ONE METER, ONE DAY
Antikidis Jean-Pierre

TH3.109.5: OMPS - THE NEXT GENERATION SENSOR SUITE FOR GLOBAL OZONE MONITORING
Kenneth Eastman, Scott Asbury, Lester Farwell, Quinn Remund, Juan Rodriguez

TH3.110: Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters I

TH3.110.1: APPLYING MULTI-ANGLE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA TO DETECT HUMAN-INDUCED CHANGES CAUSING WETLAND DEGRADATION IN SEMI-ARID AREAS (NATIONAL PARK LAS TABLAS DE DAIMIEL, SPAIN)
Thomas Schmid, José Antonio Domínguez, Jesús Solana, José Gumuzzio, Magaly Koch

TH3.110.2: MAPPING WETLANDS COVER TYPES WITH DIRECTIONAL POLARIZATION SIGNATURES
Vern C. Vanderbilt, Jonathan Greenberg, Gerald Livingston, Shruti Khanna, Leslie Morrissey, Susan L. Ustin, Ute Böttger

TH3.110.3: REMOTE MEASUREMENT AND MONITORING OF INLAND WATER HEIGHTS GLOBALLY USING MULTI-MISSION SATELLITE RADAR ALTIMETRY
Jérôme Benveniste, Philippa Berry

TH3.110.4: MOSAICKING OF ALOS PALSAR DATA FOR GLOBAL WETLANDS MAPPING
Bruce Chapman, Kyle McDonald, Laura Hess

TH3.110.5: A REMOTE SENSING MODEL ESTIMATING LAKE EVAPORATION
Junming Wang, Ted Sammis, Vince Gutschick

TH3.111: Data Management and Systems II

TH3.111.1: GEOBRAIN ONLINE RESOURCES FOR SUPPORTING COLLEGE-LEVEL DATA-INTENSIVE GEOSPATIAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Meixia Deng, Liping Di

TH3.111.2: DATACASTING: INFORMED PULL OF EARTH SCIENCE DATA USING RSS
Andrew Bingham, Timothy Stough

TH3.111.3: ESTABLISHMENT OF MAP UPDATE TECHNIQUE FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT BY USING GPS, GIS, AND REMOTE SENSING
Mitoshi Moriya, Sota Shimano, Sayaka Takeuchi, Masaaki Shikada

TH3.111.4: TOWARDS A STANDARD ARCHIVAL FORMAT FOR SCIENCE DATA: STORING NASA ECS DATA USING HDF5 ARCHIVAL INFORMATION PACKAGES (AIP)
Ruth M. Duerr, Kent (MuQun) Yang

TH3.111.5: AUTOMATING THE GENERATION AND COLLECTION OF PROVENANCE FOR LONG TERM GEOSCIENCE REMOTE SENSING DATA SETS
Albert J. Fleig, Curt Tilmes, Mike Linda

TH3.203: Global Precipitation Mission I

TH3.203.1: THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT (GPM) MISSION: OVERVIEW AND U.S. SCIENCE STATUS
Arthur Hou

TH3.203.2: THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT (GPM) PROJECT
Candace Carlisle, Ardeshir Azarbarzin

TH3.203.3: SIMULATION OF SPACE BORNE DUAL-WAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS BASED ON GROUND-BASED DUAL POLARIZED RADAR MEASUREMENTS: APPLICATION FOR GPM-DPR SYSTEM AND ALGORITHM EVALUATION
Direk Khajonrat, V. Chandrasekar

TH3.203.4: CROSS CALIBRATION OF MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS IN THE GPM CONSTELLATION
Thomas Wilheit, Keiji Imaoka, Misako Kachi, Akira Shibata, Christian Kummerow, Wesley Berg, Eric Stoner, W. Linwood Jones, Kaushik Gopalan, Christopher Ruf, Darren McKague, John J. Puckett, Fuzhong Weng, Banghua Yan, Song Yang, Arthur Hou, Gail Skofronick-Jackson

TH3.203.5: VICARIOUS CALIBRATION OF GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS
Darren McKague, Christopher Ruf, John J. Puckett

TH3.210: A Climate of Change -- NASA's Applied Sciences Program I

TH3.210.1: A CLIMATE OF CHANGE – NASA’S APPLIED SCIENCES PROGRAM
Teresa Fryberger, Lawrence Friedl

TH3.210.2: APPLICATION OF NASA CLIMATE MODELS AND MISSIONS TO AGRICULTURE DSS: THE SOLUTIONS NETWORK APPROACH
Cynthia Rosenzweig, Radley Horton

TH3.210.3: CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER RESOURCES
Jared Entin, Paul Houser, C. Adam Schlosser, Charles Vorosmarty, Richard Lawford

TH3.210.4: MONITORING AND FORECASTING PROTECTED AREA ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS USING THE TERRESTRIAL OBSERVATION AND PREDICTION SYSTEM (TOPS)
Ramakrishna Nemani, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Petr Votava, Forrest Melton, Weile Wang, Andrew Michaelis, Cristina Milesi, Samuel Hiatt

TH3.210.5: EXPANDED USE OF NASA SCIENCE FOR LAND RESOURCE DECISION MAKING: A PLAN FOR AGRICULTURE
Bradley Doorn

TH4.101: Urban Road Networks

TH4.101.1: EVALUATION OF A STATISTICAL FUSION OF LINEAR FEATURES IN SAR DATA
Karin Hedman, Stefan Hinz, Uwe Stilla

TH4.101.2: ROAD EXTRACTION AND NETWORK BUILDING FROM SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES USING A-PRIORI INFORMATION
Rob Dekker

TH4.101.3: ROAD VEHICLE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION FROM VERY-HIGH-RESOLUTION COLOR DIGITAL ORTHOIMAGERY BASED ON OBJECT-ORIENTED METHOD
Qulin Tan, Jinfei Wang, David Andrew Aldred

TH4.101.4: ROAD NETWORK DETECTION IN URBAN AREA FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES
Xiaofang Li, Qulin Tan

TH4.101.5: SURVEY AND ANALYSIS OF LAND SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING APPLIED IN TRANSPORTATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE AND SYSTEM ENGINEERING
Guoqing Zhou, Daiyong Wei

TH4.102: SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications II

TH4.102.1: POLARIMETRIC AND POLARIMETRIC-INTERFEROMETRIC APPLICATIONS OF THE NASA/JPL UAVSAR
Scott Hensley, Howard Zebker, Bruce Chapman, Charles Le, Cathleen Jones, Thierry Michel, Paul Rosen, Marc Simard

TH4.102.2: POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING ANALYSIS FOR SIMPLIFIED MAN-MADE STRUCTURE MODEL ON ROUGH AND/OR INCLINED GROUND PLANE
Ryoichi Sato, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada

TH4.102.3: ESTIMATION OF THE EQUIVALENT NUMBER OF LOOKS IN POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGERY
Stian Normann Anfinsen, Anthony Doulgeris, Torbjørn Eltoft

TH4.102.4: HYBRID-QUAD-POL SAR
R. Keith Raney

TH4.102.5: IMPROVING RANGE AMBIGUITY PERFORMANCE IN QUAD-POL SAR
Anthony Freeman, R. Keith Raney

TH4.103: Active Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere II

TH4.103.1: P-BAND POLARIMETRIC ICE SOUNDER: CONCEPT AND FIRST RESULTS
Jorgen Dall, Carlos Cilla Hernández, Anders Kusk, Jan Balling, Steen Savstrup Kristensen

TH4.103.2: A VHF RADAR FOR DEPLOYMENT ON A UAV FOR BASAL IMAGING OF POLAR ICE
William Blake, John Ledford, Chris Allen, Carl Leuschen, Sivaprasad Gogineni, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Lei Shi, Kevin Player

TH4.103.3: SAR IMAGE ANALYSIS TO ESTIMATE FREEZE-THAW DATES FOR A HIGH LATITUDE LAKE IN ALASKA
Avinash Uppuluri, Randy Jost, Chris Luecke, Michael White

TH4.103.4: SIMULATION OF ASIRAS MULTILOOKED ECHOES FOR SNOW COVERED SEA ICE
Marko Mäkynen, Martti Hallikainen

TH4.103.5: AN OVERVIEW OF THE GEOPHYSICAL VARIABLES CAUSING ICE ROUGHNESS STRUCTURES TO BE DETECTED ON SAR IMAGES.
Eric Hudier

TH4.104: Change Detection in Urban Landscapes I

TH4.104.1: MONITORING AND MODELING URBAN LAND-USE CHANGE WITH MULTITEMPORAL SATELLITE DATA
Roland Goetzke, Matthias Braun, Hans-Peter Thamm, Gunter Menz

TH4.104.2: X-BAND INSAR OBSERVATIONS IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
Sang-Wan Kim, Shimon Wdowinski, Falk Amelung, Timothy H. Dixon, Sang-Hoon Hong

TH4.104.3: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS TO GENERATE CHANGE DETECTION MAP USING SAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR LAND SUBSIDENCE MONITORING OF NEW ORLEANS CITY OF USA
Vijaya Chamundeeswari, Dharmendra Singh, Kuldip Singh, Werner Weisbeck

TH4.104.4: PER PIXEL CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION FOR CLASSIFICATION OF VHR IMAGES OF URBAN AREAS
Rik Bellens, Koen Douterloigne, Sidharta Gautama, Wilfried Philips

TH4.104.5: DEVELOPING AN APPROACH TO DETECT URBAN EXPANSION BY USING LANDSAT 7 ETM+ PANCHROMATIC DATA
Qingxu Huang, Chunyang He, Peijun Shi, Yuanyuan Zhao, Yang Yang

TH4.105: Surface Temperature and Salinity I

TH4.105.1: PRECISE SST FOR CLIMATE APPLICATIONS FROM THE ADVANCED ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER (AATSR) ON ENVISAT.
David Llewellyn-Jones, Gary Corlett

TH4.105.2: REGIONAL FUSED SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE SYSTEM FOR THE GULF OF MAINE
Nadya Vinogradova, T. Scott Zaccheo, Christian Alcala, Doug Vandemark

TH4.105.3: GROUND-BASED GNSS-R MEASUREMENTS WITH THE PAU INSTRUMENT AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE SEA SURFACE SALINITY RETRIEVAL: FIRST RESULTS
Juan Fernando Marchán-Hernandez, Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Adriano Camps, Isaac Ramos-Pérez, Enric Valencia, Xavier Bosch-Lluis

TH4.105.4: EXTENDED OCEAN SALINITY ERROR BUDGET ANALYSIS WITHIN THE SMOS MISSION
Roberto Sabia, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera

TH4.105.5: AIRBORNE L-BAND RADIOMETER OBSERVATIONS OF SEA SURFACE SALINITY GRADIENTS AND AZIMUTH SIGNATURES.
Sten Schmidl Søbjærg, Niels Skou

TH4.107: Image Analysis and Classification - Quality Issues

TH4.107.1: A GENETIC AUTOMATIC GROUND-TRUTH VALIDATION METHOD FOR MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Noureddine Ghoggali, Farid Melgani

TH4.107.2: A METHOD FOR SELECTING TRAINING DATA AND ITS EFFECT ON AUTOMATED LAND COVER MAPPING OF LARGE AREAS
Rene R. Colditz, Michael Schmidt, Rainer Ressl, Matthew C. Hansen, Stefan Dech

TH4.107.3: GENERATING HIGH-QUALITY TRAINING DATA FOR AUTOMATED LAND-COVER MAPPING
Umaa Rebbapragada, Rachel Lomasky, Carla Brodley, Mark Friedl

TH4.107.4: DEM ACCURACY REQUIREMENTS FOR RELIABLE ORTHORECTIFICATION OF SAR AND OPTICAL DATA
Leland Pierce

TH4.107.5: MODEL FREE EARTH OBSERVATION IMAGE ARTIFACTS DETECTION
Alexandre Mallet, Mihai Datcu

TH4.108: SAR Processing II

TH4.108.1: RADAR BACKSCATTERING MEASUREMENTS OF PADDY RICE FIELD USING MULTIFREQUENCY(L, C AND X) AND FULL POLARIZATION
Yi Hyun Kim, Sukyoung Hong, Jisung Park, Eunsun Lee, Hoonyol Lee

TH4.108.2: COMPARISON BETWEEN SAR ATMOSPHERIC PHASE SCREENS AT 30’ BY MEANS OF ERS AND ENVISAT DATA
Daniele Perissin, Claudio Prati

TH4.108.3: THE IMPACT OF ADAPTIVE SPECKLE FILTERING ON MULTI-CHANNEL SAR CHANGE DETECTION
Jason Fritz, V. Chandrasekar

TH4.108.4: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MULTIVARIATE INTERPOLATION METHODS FOR SCATTERED DATA IN GEOSCIENCE APPLICATIONS
Matthew Foster, Adrian Evans

TH4.108.5: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF UWB TEM HORN ANTENNA FOR GROUND PENETRATING RADAR APPLICATIONS
Chine-Ping Kao, Jing Li, Richard Liu

TH4.109: Technologies for Hyperspectral Imaging

TH4.109.1: LABORATORY-BASED BRDF OF SOIL SAMPLES FOR REMOTE SENSING
Georgi Georgiev, Charles Gatebe, James Butler, Michael King

TH4.109.2: ON THE USE OF THIN PLASTIC FILMS AS GAS-PHASE ANALOG TARGETS
Ronald Resmini, Herbert Mitchell

TH4.109.3: SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO FOR SPECTRAL SENSORS WITH OVERLAPPING BANDS
Zhipeng Wang, J. Scott Tyo

TH4.109.4: AN ARTIFICIAL WOODLAND SCENE MODEL FOR SIMULATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEM
Bin Zou, Guihua Gu, Donglai Chen, Huijun Li

TH4.109.5: HYDROCARBON DETCTION USING A PLURALITY OF SPECTRAL BANDS
A. Ballard Andrews, Wei-Chuan Shih

TH4.110: Pollution Monitoring

TH4.110.1: AEROSOL LAYER PROPERTIES AND THEIR EFFECT ON OPTICAL DEPTH RELATIONS TO PM2.5 CONCENTRATIONS
Viviana Vladutescu, Julian Diaz, Leona Charles, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed

TH4.110.2: A BPM TWO-SCALE CONTRAST MODEL
Ferdinando Nunziata, Piotr Sobieski, Maurizio Migliaccio

TH4.110.3: IDENTIFICATION OF ROADS FOR URBAN RUNOFF POLLUTION MANAGEMENT
Mi-Hyun Park, Michael Stenstrom

TH4.110.4: SEASONAL EVALUATION OF TEMPERATURE INVERSION OVER CAIRO
Mohamed Abd El-Kader, Basman El Hadidi, Atef Sherif

TH4.110.5: MONITORING OF OIL SPILLS IN THE NORTH CASPIAN SEA USING SAR IMAGERY AND MULTI-SENSOR SATELLITE DATA
Konstantin Litovchenko, Andrei Ivanov

TH4.111: Data Management and Systems III

TH4.111.1: THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT SCIENCE DATA SEGMENT: THE FINAL AS BUILT DESCRIPTION
Robert J. Schweiss, Mary Hunter, Shahin Samadi

TH4.111.2: THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT (NPP) SCIENCE DATA SEGMENT (SDS) DATA DEPOSITORY AND DISTRIBUTION ELEMENT (SD3E) SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
Evelyn L. Ho, Robert J. Schweiss

TH4.111.3: EXPERIENCES DEVELOPING OAIS-RM RECOMMENDED SUBMISSION AGREEMENTS
Robert Rank, Constantino Cremidis, Scott McCormick, Jeremy Throwe

TH4.111.4: NASA’S EARTH SCIENCE DATA SYSTEMS STANDARDS PROCESS
Richard Ullman, Yonsook Enloe

TH4.111.5: CLIMATE DATA PROCESSING MADE EASY
Scott Mindock

TH4.203: Global Precipitation Mission II

TH4.203.1: THE NEXT GENERATION OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE RAIN RETRIEVALS IN THE GPM ERA
Kyle Hilburn, Frank Wentz

TH4.203.2: GSMAP PASSIVE MICROWAVE PRECIPITATION RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM: ALGORITHM DESCRIPTION AND VALIDATION
Kazumasa Aonashi

TH4.203.3: GPM PRE-LAUNCH ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT FOR PHYSICALLY-BASED FALLING SNOW RETRIEVALS
Gail Skofronick-Jackson, Ali Tokay, Anne Kramer, David Hudak

TH4.203.4: MICROPHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF SNOWFALL EVENTS DURING C3VP
Robert Cifelli, Timothy Lang, Steven Rutledge, V. Bringi, Walter Petersen, Roger Shi, Wei-Kuo Tao, Steve Lang, David Hudak

TH4.203.5: RAIN AND SNOWFALL RETRIEVALS AT HIGH LATITUDES USING MILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS
Chinnawat Surussavadee, David Staelin

TH4.210: A Climate of Change -- NASA's Applied Sciences Program II

TH4.210.1: NASA SCIENCE SERVING SOCIETY: IMPROVING CAPABILITIES FOR FIRE CHARACTERIZATION TO EFFECT REDUCTION IN DISASTER LOSSES
Vincent Ambrosia, Everett Hinkley

TH4.210.2: MERGING MODELS WITH OBSERVATIONS FOR EARTH MONITORING DATA FOR EARLIER FAMINE EARLY WARNING
Molly Brown, Christopher Funk, Richard Choularton, James Verdin

TH4.210.3: USING REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS TO DETERMINE LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY IN CORN
Karl Huemmrich, Lawrence Corp, Andrew Russ, Elizabeth Middleton, William P. Kustas, John Prueger, Yen-Ben Cheng

TH4.210.4: VARIATION OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION IN THE NORTHWEST OF MEXICO AND ITS EFFECT ON THE CLIMATE CHANGE
Judith Ramos, Ildiko Pelczer, Fernando González Villareal

TH4.210.5: MONITORING OF SUMMER HIGH TEMPERATURE BY USING MODIS DATA
Hao Yan, Jiahua Zhang

THP.A: Change Detection in Forested Landscapes II

THP.A.1: IMPACT OF LAND-USE CHANGES ON SOIL EROSION IN UPPER REACHES OF SHIYANG RIVER IN ARID NORTHWEST CHINA
Guojing Yang, Yongjian Ding, Lihua Zhou

THP.A.2: STUDY ON ECO-ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN MADOI COUNTY, YELLOW RIVER SOURCE REGIONS, CHINA
Wenrui Wang, Yu Cheng, Chunhui Zhang, Chunhua Li, Junsheng Nie

THP.A.3: CLEARCUT MAPPING FOR SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT USING TERRASAR-X IMAGERY
Matthieu Molinier, Yrjö Rauste, Tuomas Häme

THP.A.4: ASSESSING LAND COVER PERFORMANCE IN THE GRAND CANAL OF CHINA USING SPOT DATA
Jianxi Huang, Feng Mao, Wenbo Xu, Zhihua Tang

THP.B: Change Detection in Land Use / Land Cover II

THP.B.1: INTEGRATION OF SPATIAL CHAOTIC MODEL AND TYPE-2 FUZZY SETS FOR SAR IMAGES CHANGE DETECTION
Yu-Chang Tzeng, Dana Chen, Kun-Shan Chen

THP.B.2: LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION WITH MULTI-POLARIZATION SAR IMAGERY
Fan Wu, Xi Chen, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Yixian Tang

THP.B.3: THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR MODELING DIFFERING LEVELS OF GRASSLAND IMPROVEMENT WITHIN THE WELSH LANDSCAPE
Johanna Breyer, Richard Lucas, Katie Medcalf, Peter Bunting

THP.B.4: OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH AND TEXTURE ANALYSIS FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES
Antoine Lefebvre, Thomas Corpetti, Laurence Hubert-Moy

THP.B.5: COMPARISON OF TWO APPROACHES ON TERRAIN CHANGE DETECTION AND UPDATING
Song Xia, Huanzhuo Ye, Laixing Liu

THP.B.6: SPATIAL CHANGES OF MINQIN OASIS IN THE NORTHWEST CHINA OVER THE LAST 2000 YEARS
Yaowen Xie, Fahu Chen, Yuan Qi

THP.B.7: FRACTAL STUDIES ON CHANGES OF LAND USE STRUCTURE AND URBAN FORM IN TIANJIN CITY
Xinping Bai

THP.B.8: CHANGE DETECTION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGE BASED ON ORIENTED-OBJECT AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE
Di Fengping, Zhu Chongguang, Liu Yani

THP.B.9: INTEGRATION OF RADARSAT-2 DUAL AND QUAD POLARIZATION DATA INTO PIPELINE THIRD PARTY ENCROACHMENT MONITORING
Carl Howell, Karen Russell, Sherry McHugh, Desmond Power, Thomas Puestow, Charles Randell

THP.C: Change Detection in Urban Landscapes II

THP.C.1: AGENT-BASED APPROACHES TO LAND USE CHANGE IN EASTERN CHINA
Chang-Qing Ke

THP.C.2: A COMPARISON OF OBJECT-ORIENTED WITH PIXEL-BASED LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION IN THE BALTIMORE METROPOLITAN AREA USING MULTITEMPORAL HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING DATA
Weiqi Zhou, Austin Troy, Morgan Grove

THP.C.3: A STUDY ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN REGION USING HYPER-SPECTRUM DATA AT AVIRIS
Yuichiro Amano, Naoki Takagi

THP.C.4: STUDY ON LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE WITH THE INTEGRATION OF RS, GIS AND GPS TECHNOLOGIES--THE CASE OF BAOTOU CITY IN THE ECOTONE OF AGRICULTURE-ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, CHINA
Yu Cheng, Gang Li, Chunhui Zhang, Wenrui Wang, Junsheng Nie

THP.C.5: MONITORING URBAN EXPANSION IN BEIJING, CHINA BY MULTI-TEMPORAL TM AND SPOT IMAGES
Wenli Huang, Huiping Liu, Qingzu Luan, Mu Bai

THP.C.6: BEIJING CITY LAND USE DYNAMIC MONITORING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL SPOT DATA FROM 1986 TO 2004
Xianlong Zhu, Feng Mao, Jianxi Huang

THP.C.7: EXPLORING THE 3D SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF CULTURAL PRINTS USING REMOTE SENSING AND GISCIENCE: “ISTANBUL: THE CITY ON SEVEN HILLS”
Yaprak Has

THP.C.8: LAND USE DYNAMIC CHANGES AND ECOLOGICAL EFFECT IN THE JIAODONG REGION, CHINA
Wenchen Jia, Juanle Wang, Chongliang Sun

THP.C.9: DYNAMIC SIMULATION ON THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF LAND USE IN THE AREA OF CONTINUED HYDROPOWER STATION CONSTRUCTION IN THE UPPER REACH OF YELLOW RIVER
Dan Wang, Hongguang Cheng, Fanghua Hao, Ayan Zeng, Jiayu Wu, Li Gong

THP.C.10: STUDIES ON THE CHANGES AND DRIVING FORCES OF LANDSCAPE PATTERN OF URBAN LAND USE IN TIANJIN CITY
Xinping Bai

THP.C.11: ANALYSIS OF LAND USE AND LANDSCAPE PATTERN IN BEIJING CITY BASED ON GIS
Ronghua Wang, Xiaojuan Li, Yonghua Sun, Jian Lian

THP.D: Land Use/Land Cover Classification I

THP.D.1: ASSESSMENT OF SUITABILITY OF LAND USES USING A MULTI-SOURCE INFORMATION FUSION METHOD
Lei Wang, Xiangzheng Deng, Jinyan Zhan, Yujiang Li, Hongbo Su

THP.D.2: VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN ARID AND SEMI-ARID ECOTONE – A CASE STUDY IN YANCHI COUNTY
Yuan Qi, Changzhen Yan, Jianhua Wang, Zhen Xu

THP.D.3: TASSELED TAP TRANSFORMATION AND NEURAL NETWORKS FOR THE DESIGN OF AN OPTIMUM IMAGE CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM USING MULTISPECTRAL DATA
Giorgio Licciardi, Cosimo Putignano, Fabio del Frate

THP.D.4: AN OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH OF EXTRACTING SPECIAL LAND USE CLASSIFICATION BY USING QUICK BIRD IMAGE
Wenbo Xu, Guoping Zhang, Jianxi Huang

THP.D.5: DETECTION OF WOODED HEDGEROWS IN HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES USING AN OBJECT-ORIENTED METHOD
Clémence Vannier, Laurence Hubert-Moy

THP.D.6: NEURAL NETWORKS AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF SATELLITE IMAGERY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS FOR LAND COVER MAPS
Fabio Del Frate, Fabio Pacifici, Roberto Basili, Matteo Luciani, Francesco Mesiano, Rossi Riccardo

THP.D.7: HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING BASED QUANTIFICATION OF THE REMNANT VEGETATION COVER IN THE ARAGUAIA RIVER BASIN, CENTRAL BRAZIL
Manuel Ferreira, Laerte Ferreira, Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse, Fausto Miziara

THP.D.8: LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MULTITEMPORAL CHRIS/PROBA IMAGES AND MULTITEMPORAL TEXTURE
Huiran Jin, Peijun Li, Wenjie Fan

THP.D.9: SOUTHERN ITALY BURN SCAR MAPPING BY MYME2 PROCEDURE USING IRS P6 LISS3
Barbara R. Hirn, Fabrizio Ferrucci

THP.D.10: ECO-ENVIRONMENTAL SYNTHETIC ANALYSIS BASED ON RS AND GIS TECHNOLOGIES IN YELLOW RIVER BASIN, CHINA
Siyuan Wang, Kun Fu, Wudi Wang, Chuanzhao Han, Tengbo Ma, Xingyu Fu

THP.D.11: RBF NEURAL NETWORK SUPPORTED CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES BASED ON TM/ETM+ IN NANJING
Kai Cao, Bo Huang, Heng Lu, Biao Liu

THP.E: Land Use/Land Cover Classification II

THP.E.1: EXPANSION SCENARIOS OF THE BIOFUEL AGRIBUSINESS OVER SAVANNA AREAS IN CENTRAL BRASIL
Noely Ribeiro, Laerte Ferreira, Nilson Ferreira

THP.E.2: REGIONAL LAND DEGRADATION MAPPING BY DECISION TREE (DT) AND MODIS DATA IN A TRANSITION ZONE BETWEEN GRASSLAND AND CROPLAND OF NORTHEAST CHINA
Shengbo Chen, Ping Rao

THP.E.3: IMPACT OF ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION PROJECT ON VEGETATION VARIATION: A CASE STUDY IN NINGXIA PROVINCE, CHINA
Hao Yan

THP.E.4: THE MONITORING AND EFFECT EVALUATION OF RESTORING GRAZING TO GRASSLAND PROJECT IN MAQU COUNTY OF CHINA BASED ON EOS/MODIS DATA
Jing Wang, Ni Guo, Xiaoping Wang, Jinsong Wang, Jie Zhang

THP.E.5: RESEARCH ON THE LAND DESERTIFICATION OF BEIJING PIEDMONT PLAIN AREA BASED ON REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY
Wenji Zhao, Ke Liu, Songmei Zhang, Zhuo-Wei Hu, Zhaoning Gong, Feina Lin, Hua Zhang, Yi Zheng

THP.E.6: EVALUATION OF MODIS LAND COVER PRODUCT OF EAST CHINA
Haobo Lin, Jindi Wang, Xiuping Jia, Yanchen Bo, Dongwei Wang

THP.E.7: LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION IN QINLING MOUNTAINS IN CHINA, USING TIME-SERIES MODIS NDVI DATA
Quanfang Wang, Li Xiao, Jiayong Li, Xin Mei

THP.F: Land Use/Land Cover Classification III

THP.F.1: FROM MULTI-SPECTRAL TO HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERY: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE IMPROVEMENTS IN TERMS OF LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
Riccardo Duca, Fabio Del Frate, Ferran Gascon Roca

THP.F.2: A METHOD TO ESTIMATE LAND COVER CHANGES BY USING CBERS2-CCD DATA AND GIS DATA
Wenbo Xu, Zou Jinqiu, Jianxi Huang

THP.F.3: ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL LAND COVER CHANGE USING THE ESA ROLLING ARCHIVES
Maurice Borgeaud, Matthias Tschudi

THP.F.4: EXTRACTING LAND USE INFORMATION FROM BEIJING-1 MICRO-SATELLITE IMAGES
Cunjian Yang, Rong He

THP.F.5: STUDIES ON THE CHANGE OF LAND USE/COVER AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICE VALUES OF THREE-BELT OF MOUNTAIN_OASIS_DESERT IN THE NORTHWESTERN CHINA
Bo Li, Jian-Zhai Wu, Jie Chong, Li-Xia Hao, Xiao-Yuan Song, Xin-Shi Zhang

THP.F.6: LAND COVER SEGMENTATION OF ALOS POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Mohammed Dabboor, Vassilia Karathanassi, Alexander Braun

THP.F.7: INTERPOLATING THE INFORMATION OF SITE-BASED SOIL ORGANIC CARBON STOCKS INTO SURFACE: A CASE STUDY IN THE NORTH CHINA PLAIN
Jinyan Zhan, Nana Shi, Xiangzheng Deng, Hongbo Su, Dongsheng Qiu

THP.G: Applications in Land Use / Land Cover Characterization I

THP.G.1: INTERFEROMETRIC DATA FUSION FOR TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILE RECONSTRUCTION
Ferdaous Chaabane

THP.G.2: STUDY ON THE INTEGRATED INDICATORS OF THE ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT EVALUATION ON KARST ROCK DESERTIFICATION
Xiaoping Gu, Fei Yu, Yuxiang Luo, Jianguo Mo

THP.G.3: A MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL-BASED FUSION APPROACH TO SEGMENTATION OF SAR AND OPTICAL IMAGES
Yi Yang, Chongzhao Han, Deqiang Han

THP.G.4: APPROXIMATION ERROR IN DIFFERENTIAL SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Xilong Sun, Anxi Yu, Bin Cai, Diannong Liang

THP.G.5: REMOTE SENSING DETECTION FOR COAL MINING SUBSIDENCE-RESULTED WATER BODY BY MODIFIED NDWI INDEX
Baodong Ma, Lixin Wu, Shanjun Liu

THP.G.6: VERY HIGH RESOLUTION INTERFEROGRAM ACQUISITION CAMPAIGN AND ANALYSIS
Xavier Dupuis, Hélène Oriot

THP.G.7: RELATIVE RADIOMETRIC NORMALIZATION OF REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES BASED ON IMPROVED ASCR
Xiaomin Yu, Yunhao Chen, Siyuan Liu

THP.H: Applications in Land Use / Land Cover Characterization II

THP.H.1: IMPACTS OF LAND USE AND COVER CHANGE ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES VALUE
Cheng Zhang, Xiaobing Li, Li Zhang, Lingmei Huang, Yongqin Ge

THP.H.2: THEMATIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM IKONOS IMAGERY BASED ON OBJECTS AND VARIOUS FEATURES
Deyong Hu, Wenji Zhao, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Jiacun Li

THP.H.3: LAND-USE/COVER MAPPING AND CHANGE DETECTION IN THE RUSTENBURG MINING REGION USING LANDSAT IMAGES
Olusola Ololade, Harold Annegarn, Daniel Limpitlaw, Melanie Kneen

THP.H.4: RESEARCH OF THE RESPONSE OF ECOSYSTEM TO LUCC IN BEIJING BASED ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES VALUATION
Xu Xu, Xiaobing Li, Dandan Wang, Yongqin Ge, Chao Li

THP.H.5: ECOCLIMAP-II ON EUROPE
Stéphanie Faroux, Jean-Louis Roujean, Valéry Masson

THP.H.6: LAND USE SUPERVISION AND MANAGEMENT BASED ON REMOTE SENSING IMAGE EVIDENCE
Lijun Zhang, Qiu Li, Yuan Zhou, Changao Shi

THP.H.7: PREDICTING SOIL ORGANIC CARBON DYNAMICS IN A REGIONAL LEVEL UNDER VARIOUS SCENARIOS USING DATA ASSIMILATION STRATEGY: A CASE STUDY IN THE NORTH CHINA PLAIN
Xiangzheng Deng, Jinyan Zhan, Lei Wang, Hongbo Su, Huimin Yan

THP.H.8: A MODULAR STANDARD FOR THE CHINESE CADASTRAL DOMAIN
Weiwei Zhang, Qingyun Du, Zhongjun Zhao, Yan Guo, Hong Wang

THP.H.9: ANALYSIS ON ALBEDO IN ARID REGION WITH ASYMMETRY SURFACE IN NORTHWEST CHINA FROM MODIS
Jie Zhang, Jin Song Wang, Jing Wang, Xiao Ping Wang, Run Yuan Wang

THP.H.10: HOUSING SPATIAL INFORMATION ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT BASED ON 3S
Yan-Bing Wang, Huili Gong, Yan-Hui Wang, Zhuo-Wei Hu

THP.H.11: HOUSEBREAKING COST EVALUATION SYSTEM BASED ON REMOTE SENSING IMAGE
Lijun Zhang, Qiu Li, Yuan Zhou, Changao Shi

THP.I: Retrieval of Water and Energy Balance Parameters I

THP.I.1: SPATI-TEMPORAL CHANGES OF NDVI AND THEIR RELATIONS WITH PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE IN YANGTZE RIVER BASIN FROM 1981 TO 2001
Li Zhang, Xiaoling Chen

THP.I.2: ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF CULTIVATED LAND LOSS AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON CULTIVATED LAND POTENTIAL PRODUCTIVITY IN BEIJING, CHINA
Yuanyuan Zhao, Chunyang He, Xiaobing Li, Qingxu Huang, Yang Yang

THP.I.3: SIMULATING POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE DROUGHT TRANSITION ON LAND USE IN THE FARMING-PASTORAL ZONE OF NORTHERN CHINA
Xiaobing Li, Hong Wang, Huiling Long, Xu Xu, Cheng Zhang

THP.I.4: A GIS-BASED LOCAL SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION FOR DROUGHT RISK ASSESSMENT USING REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY IN ARID ENVIRONMENTS
Meng-Lung Lin, Chien-Min Chu, Cheng-Wu Chen, Yu Cao, Jyh-Yi Shih, Yung-Tan Lee, Lih-Der Ho

THP.I.5: MONITORING DROUGHT DYNAMICS IN THE EJIN OASIS USING DROUGHT INDICES FROM MODIS DATA
Meng-Lung Lin, Yu Cao, Chung-Hsin Juan, Cheng-Wu Chen, I-Chen Hsueh, Qiu-Bing Wang, Yung-Tan Lee

THP.I.6: UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND REMOTE SENSING INDICES USING MULTIVARIATE STEPWISE REGRESSION METHODS AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES
Chung-Hsin Juan, Chia-Kai Yang, Chih-Hung Tan, Meng-Lung Lin

THP.I.7: MONITORING OF GROUND SURFASE CONDITIONS OF OASES AROUND THE TARIM BASIN, CHINA
Ayshamgul Wayit, Katsuaki Koike, Muhtar Qong

THP.J: Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters II

THP.J.1: SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF WETLAND LOSS AND INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITY ON THE FITNESS OF MIGRATORY BIRD SPECIES
James A. Smith, Jill L. Deppe

THP.J.2: REMOTE SENSING RETRIEVAL OF DAILY EVAPOTRANSPIRATION OVER THE HEIHE RIVER BASIN BY INTEGRATING THE PENMAN METHOD
Xingmin Li, Ling Lu, Xin Li, Wenfeng Yang, Chunlin Huang, Zhao Wang

THP.J.3: SEMI-DISTRIBUTED DAILY RUNOFF PROCESS MODELING WITH THE AID OF GIS: A CASE STUDY OF YANQI CATCHMENT IN BEIJING, NORTHERN CHINA
Mingfeng Lu, Qiang Zhao

THP.J.4: ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS AND DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF PAHS IN YANGTZE RIVER SEDIMENTS
Hongyuan Wang, Zhenyao Shen

THP.J.5: WATER CONSTITUENT ESTIMATION IN PREALPINE LAKES WITH MERIS DATA AND A PHYSICALLY BASED PROCESSOR
Daniel Odermatt, Thomas Heege, Jens Nieke, Mathias Kneubühler, Klaus Itten

THP.J.6: EXTRACTING WATERBODY FROM BEIJING-1 MICRO-SATELLITE IMAGES BASED ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
Cunjian Yang, Rong He, Siyuan Wang

THP.J.7: IDENTIFICATION OF EFFECTIVE WAVEBANDS OF AERIAL HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY FOR WETLAND VEGETATION MAPPING IN FORT. DRUM MARSH, FLORIDA
Chung-Hsin Juan, Chih-Hung Tan, John Criag, Jonathan D. Jordan

THP.J.8: A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE (GISCI) APPROACH TO EVALUATING AIRBOAT USE IN THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES
James Trice, III, Rakesh Malhotra, Albert Barnett, Marguerite Madden

THP.J.9: RETRIEVALS OF CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION IN TAIHU LAKE USING MODIS IMAGE DATA
Shuo Yang, Shixin Wang, Yi Zhou, Fuli Yan

THP.J.10: ALOS PALSAR INVESTIGATIONS OF TONLE SAP, CAMBODIA
Joong-Sun Won, Jung Hun Choi, Chang-Wook Lee

THP.J.11: ESTIMATION OF GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY OF AN OMBROTROPHIC BOG IN SOUTHERN SWEDEN
Per Schubert, Magnus Lund, Lars Eklundh

THP.K: Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters III

THP.K.1: ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT EFFECT ANALYSIS OF WETLAND CHANGE IN BEIJING REGION USING GIS AND RS
Zhaoning Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Lin Zhu

THP.K.2: EXTRACTING WETLAND INFORMATION FORM SPOT5 IMAGERY IN NANSIHU AREA OF SHANDONG PROVINCE
Qiang Li, Feng Mao, Jianxi Huang, Qiang Hu, Wensheng Zhou, Ze Liu

THP.K.3: ANALYSIS OF FLOOD INUNDATED AREA USING HYDROLOGICAL MODEL AND RADARSAT SAR IMAGERY
Kyung Tak Kim, Jung Sool Park, Joo Hun Kim

THP.K.4: THE CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION VARIABLE PROCESS AND CLIMATE VARIABLES IN ALPINE-COLD WETLAND IN ARID AREA
Yan Dou, Xi Chen, Anming Bao, Geping Luo, Guli Jappar, Junli Li

THP.K.5: MONITORING DE LA PLATA BASIN USING PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS
Fernando Moccia, Mercedes Salvia, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Patricia Kandus, Haydee Karszenbaum, Francisco Grings, Gabriela Parmuchi, Albaro Soldano

THP.K.6: A METHOD OF IDENTIFYING DEGRADATION OF RUOERGAI WETLAND IN SICHUAN
Wenbo Xu, Antao Xie, Jianxi Huang

THP.K.7: REMOTE SENSING AS A BASIC TOOLBOX FOR MONITORING WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS AND AS A SYSTEM OF SURVEILLANCE OF CYANOBACTERIAL HARMFUL ALGAE BLOOMS (SCYANOHABS)
José Antonio Domínguez, Covadonga Alonso, Ana Alonso

THP.K.8: TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW PATTERNS OBSERVED AT THREEMILE SLOUGH USING TWO RIVERSONDES
Calvin Teague

THP.K.9: COMPARISON OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS OF TIDAL FLAT ESTIMATED FROM AIRSAR AND ALOS OBSERVATIONS
Junsu Kim, Wooil Moon

THP.L: Ocean Color

THP.L.1: WATER COMPONENTS RETRIEVAL IN THE PEARL RIVER ESTUARY FROM MERIS DATA
Hongyan Xi, Yuanzhi Zhang, Jinnian Chen

THP.L.2: UNDERSTANDING PHYTOPLANKTON VARIABILITY THROUGHOUT SPENCER GULF, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, VIA SATELLITE DERIVED CHLOROPHYLL-A
Paul Bierman, Megan Lewis, Jason Tanner, Bertram Ostendorf

THP.L.3: APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES FOR MAPPING POSIDONIA OCEANICA MEADOWS
Raffaella Matarrese, Maria Acquaro, Alberto Morea, Khalid Tijani, Maria Teresa Chiaradia

THP.L.4: A SPECIALIZED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE FOR COASTAL WATER CHLOROPHYLL RETRIEVAL FROM WATER LEAVING REFLECTANCES
Raffaella Matarrese, Vito De Pasquale, Maria Teresa Chiaradia, Guido Pasquariello

THP.L.5: EVALUATION OF OCEAN COLOR ALGORITHM AND SPATIAL SCALES OF VARIABILITY USING MODIS AND SEAWIFS DATA IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC WATERS: THE BEAUFORT SEA
Sélima Ben Mustapha, Pierre Larouche

THP.L.6: CLIMATOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON THE BREEDING OF TERNS
Graham Quartly, Sebastien Jaquemet, Matthieu Le Corre, David Monticelli, Jaime Ramos

THP.L.7: PRE-LAUNCH PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF THE VIIRS OCEAN COLOR/CHLOROPHYLL ALGORITHM
Justin Ip, Bruce Hauss, Curtis Mobley

THP.L.8: VALIDATION OF MODIS FLH ALGORITHM USING SATELLITE IMAGERY
Soe Hlaing, Rushane Dyer, Jason Borrero, Jing Zhou, Alexander Gilerson, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed

THP.L.9: VALIDATION OF CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION ALGORITHMS IN APULIAN COASTAL AREAS
Vito De Pasquale, Raffaella Matarrese, Guido Pasquariello, Maria Teresa Chiaradia

THP.M: Surface Temperature and Salinity II

THP.M.1: SUMMERTIME SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FRONTS IN THE TAIWAN STRAIT
Kuo-Wei Lan, Ming-An Lee, Yi Chang, Hsueh-Jung Lu, Chen-Hsin Liao

THP.M.2: UPWELLING DETECTION IN AVHRR SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST) IMAGES USING NEURAL-NETWORK FRAMEWORK
Swapnil Chaudhari, Ramprasad Balasubramanian, Avijit Gangopadhyay

THP.M.3: MODELING OF L-BAND FOAM EMISSIVITY AND IMPACT ON SURFACE SALINITY RETRIEVAL
Victor Raizer

THP.M.4: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE SMOS LEVEL 2 RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM: OPTIMIZATION OF THE COST FUNCTION.
Marco Talone, Adriano Camps, Carolina Gabarró, Roberto Sabia, Mercè Vall-llossera, Baptiste Mourre, Jordi Font

THP.M.5: THE SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSION - AN OVERVIEW
Susanne Mecklenburg, Yann Kerr, Jordi Font, Achim Hahne

THP.M.6: VALITATION OF AVHRR/MODIS/AMSR-E SATELLITE SST PRODUCTS IN THE WEST TROPICAL PACIFIC
Peng Guo, Yanchen Bo

THP.M.7: SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS INFLUENCE ON SALINITIES OBSERVED WITH AN AIRBORNE L-BAND MICROWAVE RADIOMETER: MODEL INTER-COMPARISONS, VALIDATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SATELLITE SALINITY RETRIEVAL
Derek Burrage, Joel Wesson, David Wang, Stephan Howden, Nicolas Reul

THP.M.8: SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND CHLOROPHYLL-A FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH OCEANIC FRONTS IN THE EAST CHINA SEA
Ming-An Lee, Yi Chang, Jui-Wen Chan, Qian-Wei Zhu, Ming-Zhi Hong, Kuo-Tien Lee

THP.M.9: VARIABILITY OF SURFACE HEAT BUDGET IN CHINA COASTAL SEAS
Hongna Wang, Jinnian Chen, Yijun He

THP.M.10: RECENT RESULTS ON THE ACCURATE MEASURTEMENTS OF THE DIELECTRIC CONSTANT OF SEAWATER AT 1.413 GHZ
Roger Lang, Yalcin Tarkocin, Cuneyt Utku, David Le Vine

THP.M.11: MODELING THE SPECTRAL SHAPE OF ABSORPTION BY WATER CONSTITUENTS IN TAIHU LAKE
Qinghua Fu, Shixin Wang, Yi Zhou, Fuli Yan, Yani Liu

THP.M.12: A NEW TSUNAMI DETECTION CONCEPT USING SPACE BASED MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY
Rebecca Myers, John Draim, Paul Cefola, Victor Raizer

THP.N: Clouds and Precipitation I

THP.N.1: A COMPARISON OF SHORT TERM CLOUD FORECASTS GENERATED USING A NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL INITIALIZED WITH SATELLITE LIQUID WATER PATH ASSIMILATION TO THOSE PRODUCED BY ADVECTING SATELLITE NEPHANALYSIS FIELDS
James Drake

THP.N.2: IDENTIFICATION OF ATMOSPHERIC BROWN CLOUDS (ABCS) USING CALIPSO MEASUREMENTS
Jianping Huang, Patrick Minnis, Bin Chen

THP.N.3: TENDENCY OF DRYNESS/WETNESS OVER NORTHWEST CHINA IN RECENT 50 YEARS
Jinsong Wang, Jianhong Tao

THP.N.4: THE STUDY ON EVAPOTRANSPIRATION’S PARAMETER RETRIEVAL FORM RS DATA AND IT’S VALIDATION-WITH ZHELIN BASIN AS AN EXAMPLE
Chongliang Sun, Dong Jiang, Wenchen Jia

THP.N.5: SATELLITE IMAGERY PERSPECTIVES ON TYPHOON INTENSITY AND ITS VARIATION
Koung-Ying Liu, Tian-Yow Shyu, Chung-Chih Liu

THP.N.6: MULTIANGULAR POLARIZED CHARACTERISTICS OF CIRRUS CLOUDS AT 1380 NM
Tianhai Cheng, Xingfa Gu, Liangfu Chen, Tao Yu

THP.N.7: INFLUENCE OF ICE SURFACE EMISSIVITY VARIATIONS ON THE ACCURACY OF WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL IN POLAR REGIONS USING AMSU-B CHANNELS
Mu Qiao, Jungang Miao

THP.N.8: MODELING ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS OF INSAR MEASUREMENTS BASED ON MERIS AND GPS OBSERVATIONS
Huili Gong, Youquan Zhang, Xiaojuan Li, Angsheng Li, Beibei Chen, Huan Zhou, Yonghua Sun

THP.N.9: TOTAL RAINFALL IN RELATION TO METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS OVER TRIVANDRUM
Rajasri Sen Jaiswal, S. Uma Vijaysrinivasan

THP.N.10: ANALYSIS OF QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION OF PRECIPITATION USING DIFFERENT ALGORITHMS WITH DOPPLER RADAR DATA
Yuehong Shao, Wanchang Zhang

THP.O: Clouds and Precipitation II

THP.O.1: INTEGRATED RETRIEVAL OF SURFACE AND ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS OVER THE ARCTIC FROM AMSR-E SATELLITE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA USING INVERSE METHODS
Christian Melsheimer, Georg Heygster, Leif Toudal Pedersen

THP.O.2: THE APPLICATION OF TROPICAL RAINFALL POTENTIAL TECHNIQUE IN TAIWAN AREAS
Chung-Chih Liu, Sung-Ching Chi, Hsin-Chia Yang

THP.O.3: DETERMINATION OF ICE WATER CONTENT IN CONVECTIVE CLOUD USING SATELLITIC MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT AND LIGHTING ACTIVITY
Fang Xiang, Wang Xin, Qiu Hong, Zhu Yuanjing

THP.O.4: THE APPLICATION OF AMSU DATA FOR THE ENVIROMENTAL WATER VAPOR TRANSPORTATION AROUND THE TROPICAL CYCLONES
Wang Xin, Fang Xiang, Qiu Hong, Zhu Yuanjing

THP.O.5: MIE VERSUS POINT MATCHING ALGORITHM FOR RADAR RAIN PROPERTIES RETRIEVAL
Dirk Klugmann, Ondrej Fišer

THP.O.6: POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUD MODELING AND SEASONAL FORECASTS WITH SATELLITE DATA
Ryan Aschbrenner, James Griffin, Hilary Snell

THP.O.7: RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION VARIABILITY ESTIMATED USING ENSEMBLE STATISTICS
Christopher Williams

THP.O.8: NETWORKED WAVEFORM SYSTEM FOR RANGE VELOCITY AMBIGUITY MITIGATION
Nitin Bharadwaj, Chandrasekar V. Chandra

THP.O.9: A NOVEL SOLID-STATE, DUAL-POLARIZED, DUAL WAVELENGTH PRECIPITATION DOPPLER RADAR / RADIOMETER
James Carswell, Steven Bidwell, Robert Meneghini

THP.O.10: SCALABLE MULTIFUNCTION DENSE RADAR NETWORK
Anthony P. Hopf, Eric J. Knapp, David J. McLaughlin

THP.O.11: WEATHER RADAR NETWORK DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Francesc Junyent, V. Chandrasekar

THP.P: Land Ice and Snow I

THP.P.1: SYNTHETIC RADIOMETRIC DATA ASSIMILATION SCHEME FOR ESTIMATION OF SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT USING THE ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER.
Ally Mounirou Toure, Kalifa Goïta, Alain Royer

THP.P.2: CAPABILITIES OF FULL-POLARIMETRIC PALSAR/ALOS FOR SNOW EXTENT MAPPING
Nicolas Longepe, Masanobu Shimada, Sophie Allain, Eric Pottier

THP.P.3: DETECTION OF PAN-ARCTIC TERRESTRIAL SNOWMELT FROM QUIKSCAT, 2000 – 2005
Libo Wang, Chris P. Derksen, Ross Brown

THP.P.4: A COMPARISION OF SNOWPACK PROPERTIES DERIVED FROM SSM/I EMISSIVITY DATA WITH SNOWPACK PROPERTIES DERIVED FROM SSM/I BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DATA
Narges Shahroudi, Amir E Azar, Alfred Powell, Reza Khanbilvardi

THP.P.5: A RE-ANLYSIS OF COLD LAND PROCESSES FIELD EXPERIMENT (CLPX) DATA
Amir E Azar, Alfred Powell, Dugwon Seo, Reza Khanbilvardi

THP.P.6: THE RADIATION BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS OF THIN SNOW COVER BASED ON FIELD MEASUREMENTS BY A MULTI-FREQUENCY MICROWAVE RADIOMETER
Sheng Chang, Lixin Zhang, Jiancheng Shi, Lingmei Jiang

THP.P.7: COMPARISON OF DRY SNOW EMISSION MODEL AND THE PRIMARY STUDY ON SATELLITE DATA SIMULATION
Tianjie Zhao, Lingmei Jiang, Lixin Zhang, Jinyang Du

THP.P.8: DETERMINATION OF SNOW EMISSION ON LAKE ICE FROM AIRBORNE PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS
Anna Kontu, Sami Kemppainen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Jouni Pulliainen

THP.P.9: A PERMANENT SCATTERERS METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF DEFORMATION OVER PERMAFROST REGIONS OF QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU
Chou Xie, Zhen Li, Xinwu Li

THP.P.10: PULSE ELECTROMAGNETIC SOUNDING OF THE PERMAFROST LAYERED MEDIUM
Valery Mironov, Konstantin Muzalevsky

THP.P.11: MELTING SNOW IN GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA FROM SPACE-BORNE MICROWAVE DATA: UPDATED TRENDS, CLIMATE MODELS AND CLIMATE PATTERNS
Marco Tedesco, Xavier Fettweis, Andrew Monaghan, David Bromwich

THP.Q: Land Ice and Snow II

THP.Q.1: THE GLACIER IDENTIFICATION USING SAR INTERFERMETRIC AND POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION IN QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU
Zhen Li, Jianmin Zhou, Bangsen Tian, Chou Xi

THP.Q.2: ESTIMATION THE MOVEMENT OF GLACIER IN QINHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU USING SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY
Jianmin Zhou, Zhen Li

THP.Q.3: DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS USING A GB-SAR INTERFEROMETER FOR MONITORING GLACIERS: THE CASE STUDY OF BELVEDERE GLACIER
Massimiliano Pieraccini, Linhsia Noferini, Guido Luzi, Giovanni Macaluso, Daniele Mecatti, Carlo Atzeni

THP.Q.4: ASTER-DERIVED DEMS FOR GLACIER STUDIES: COMPARISON OF FOUR SOFTWARE PACKAGES
Adina Racoviteanu, Siri Jodha Khalsa

THP.Q.5: VARIABILITY IN CENTRAL ASIA SEASONAL SNOW COVER DURING THE MODIS PERIOD OF RECORD
Siri Jodha Khalsa, Vladimir Aizen

THP.Q.6: REFLECTANCE PROPERTIES OF SNOW AND FOREST CANOPY: IMPACT ON SNOW RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS
Miia Eskelinen, Jouni Pulliainen, Sari Metsämäki, Anna Kontu, Hanne Suokanerva

THP.Q.7: LONG TERM ANALYSES ON SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL EVALUATION OF SNOW COVERS IN NORTHERN CHINA BY USING RS AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA
Xue-Mei Bi, Wan-Chang Zhang

THP.Q.8: ENHANCEMENT OF THE MODIS SNOW AND ICE PRODUCT SUITE UTILIZING IMAGE SEGMENTATION
James C. Tilton, Dorothy K. Hall, George A. Riggs

THP.Q.9: OBSERVATIONS OF SMALL DEVIATIONS IN GLACIER VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS
Richard Norland

THP.Q.10: EVALUATING THE UTILITY OF SEAWINDS/QUIKSCAT SCATTEROMETER OBSERVATIONS FOR MONITORING ICE PHENOLOGY ON GREAT BEAR AND GREAT SLAVE LAKES, CANADA
Stephen Howell, Kyung-Kuk Kang, Laura Brown, Claude R. Duguay

THP.R: Land Ice and Snow III

THP.R.1: INSAR COHERENCE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES FOR SNOW COVER MAPPING IN HIMALAYAN REGION
Gulab Singh, Gopalan Venkataraman, V. Kumar, Y. S. Rao, Sneh Mani

THP.R.2: THE H/A/ALPHA POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION THEOREM AND COMPLEX WISHART DISTRIBUTION FOR SNOW COVER MONITORING
Gulab Singh, Gopalan Venkataraman, V. Kumar, Y. S. Rao, Sneh Mani

THP.R.3: LONG-TERM CHANGES OF SNOW DEPTH IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE BASED ON THE SNOW RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM
Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Toshio Koike

THP.R.4: SPACEBORNE INSAR TECHNIQUE FOR STUDY OF HIMALAYAN GLACIERS USING ENVISAT ASAR AND ERS DATA
Vijay Kumar, Gopalan Venkataraman, Gulab Singh, Yalamanchali Subramanyam Rao, Sneh Mani

THP.S: Sea Ice

THP.S.1: A STUDY ON SEA ICE OBSERVATION IN THE SEA OF OKHOTSK BY POLARIMETRIC SAR
Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Kazuki Nakamura, Fumihiko Nishio

THP.S.2: SEA ICE SAR FEATURE EXTRACTION BY NON-NEGATVE MATRIX AND TENSOR FACTORIZATION
Juha Karvonen, Arto Kaarna

THP.S.3: COMPARISON BETWEEN ENVISAT SAR AND 3-D LASER SCANNER STATISTICS FOR THE BALTIC SEA ICE
Markku Similä, Marko Mäkynen, Istvan Heiler, Martti Hallikainen

THP.S.4: AN AUTOMATED APPROACH FOR SEA ICE MAPPING AND ICE FRACTION DETERMINATION FOR THE FUTURE GOES-R ADVANCED BASELINE IMAGER (ABI)
Marouane Temimi, Hosni Ghedira, Rouzbeh Nazari, Kim Smith, Reza Khanbilvardi, Peter Romanov

THP.S.5: CONJUNCTIVE RADAR AND LASER ALTIMETRY DATA PROCESSING TO MEASURE SNOW THICKNESS
Deepthi Puthalapat, Carl Leuschen, Thorsten Markus, Donald Cavalieri, William Krabill, John Sonntag, Mathew Sturm, James Maslanik

THP.S.6: DEVELOPMENT OF GROUNDING LINE DATABASE AT ANTARCTICA BY INSAR TECHNIQUE
Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, Koichiro Doi, Kazuo Shibuya

THP.T: Microwave Scattering and Propagation I

THP.T.1: INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN MECHANISMS APPEARING IN FORESTED AREA FOR MONOSTATIC AND BISTATIC CONFIGURATIONS.
Sami Bellez, Cyril Dahon, Hélène Roussel

THP.T.2: DECOMPOSITION OF POLARIMETIRC SCATTERING OF PADDY RICE
Junichi Susaki, Yoshifumi Kawatani

THP.T.3: SCATTERING FROM A DIELECTRIC CIRCULAR CYLINDER OF FINITE LENGTH
Wenzhe Yan, Hao Wu, Du Yang, JinAu Kong

THP.T.4: FORWARD PROPAGATION OVER OIL SPILLS ON SEA SURFACES FOR A COASTAL COHERENT RADAR
Nicolas Pinel, Christophe Bourlier

THP.T.5: FDTD INVESTIGATION FOR THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM THE TARGET ABOVE A RANDOMLY ROUGH SEA SURFACE
Juan Li, Li-Xin Guo, Hao Zeng

THP.T.6: MODELING OF HEIGHT SPECTRUM AND RADAR CROSS SECTION OF OIL SLICKS ON SEA SURFACES
Nicolas Pinel, Christophe Bourlier

THP.T.7: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR GROUND CLUTTER DATA
Yanzhao Wu, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Xiaoyang Wen, Bo Zhang

THP.T.8: APPLICATION OF GIS IN THE ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE USING DATA FROM AMSR
Ruofei Zhong, Peipei Wang, Jianxi Huang

THP.U: Volume and Surface Scattering

THP.U.1: MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT RADAR REAL-TIME IMAGING MODELING AND ALGORITHM
Lei Wentai, Su Yi

THP.U.2: CALCULATING FAR-FIELD PATTERNS OF ANTENNAS POSITIONED ON GLACIAL ICE
Mike Hughes, Kenneth Demarest

THP.U.3: BISTATIC SCATTERING FROM A SEA-LIKE ONE-DIMENSIONAL ROUGH SURFACE WITH THE PERTURBATION THEORY IN HF-VHF BAND
Yohann Brelet, Christophe Bourlier

THP.U.4: INTERPRETATION OF PERTURBATIVE SOLUTION FOR THE SCATTERING FROM LAYERED STRUCTURE WITH ROUGH INTERFACES
Pasquale Imperatore, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio

THP.U.5: POLARIMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION OF MAGNETIC FLAT DIPOLE EMBEDDED IN MULTILAYER STRUCTURES
Sidnei J. S. Sant'Anna, José Carlos Lacava, David Fernandes

THP.U.6: CORRELATION BETWEEN THE NRCS AND THE WIND SPEED OVER SEA IN BOTH MONOSTATIC AND BISTATIC CONFIGURATIONS
Ahmad Awada, Ali Khenchaf, Arnaud Coatanhay

THP.U.7: STUDY OF EMISSION FROM FINITE-SIZE OBJECTS USING FDTD
Luis Camacho, Mingyu Lu, Saibun Tjuatja

THP.U.8: MICROWAVE SUBSURFACE CROSSWELL IMAGING USING FINITE DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY DOMAIN MODELING
Qiuzhao Dong, Carey Rappaport

THP.U.9: LAYERED SUBSURFACE RADAR PROFILING WITH COMBINED ESPRIT AND SVA ALGORITHMS
Yunhua Zhang, Xiang Gu, Wenshuai Zhai, Jing-Shan Jiang

THP.V: Microwave Scattering and Propagation II

THP.V.1: POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING FROM TWO-DIMENSIONAL DIELECTRIC ROUGH SURFACES WITH LARGE RMS SLOPE
Li-Xin Guo, Yu-Chao Ren

THP.V.2: RESEARCH ON BACKSCATTERING FROM ROUGH SOIL SURFACE OF LAYERED MEDIUM
Xin-Cheng Ren, Li-Xin Guo

THP.V.3: THE MEASUREMENT ON THE DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF FRESH-WATER ICE WITH RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE AT 2.6GHZ-3.9GHZ
Yanli Zhao, Yan Chen, Ling Tong, Liang Zhong, Mingquan Jia

THP.V.4: SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF MICROWAVE EMISSION FROM NON-GAUSSIAN CORRELATED SURFACE USING AIEM MODEL
Hung-Wei Lee, Kun-Shan Chen, Jiancheng Shi

THP.V.5: AN OCEAN WAVE SPECTRUM DERIVED FROM POLARIMETRIC MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA
Xiaobin Yin, Zhenzhan Wang, Lei Han, Qing Xu

THP.V.6: ANALYSIS OF SAR IMAGES IN THE FRAMEWORK OF SCALE MIXTURE OF GAUSSIAN MODELS
Torbjørn Eltoft

THP.V.7: THE HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR IMAGE SIMULATION OF TARGET ON ROUGH SURFACE
Xiaoyang Wen, Chao Wang, Yanzhao Wu, Hong Zhang

THP.V.8: THE IMAGING WIND AND RAIN AIRBORNE PROFILER (IWRAP) DATA ARCHIVE
Robert Contreras, Stephen Frasier, Tao Chu, Dragana Perkovic, John McManus, Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak, James Carswell, Daniel Esteban-Fernandez

THP.V.9: BIOPHYSICAL ESTIMATION OF PADDY RICE WITH CANOPY SCATTERING MODEL AND ALOS/PALSAR IMAGERY IN SOUTHEAST CHINA
Cuizhen Wang, Jiaping Wu, Yuan Zhang

THP.V.10: ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES PROPAGATION ABOVE ROUGH SAE SURFACE : APPLICATION TO EVAPORATION DUCT.
Othmane Benhmammouch, Ali Khenchaf, Natacha Caouren

THP.V.11: COMMUNITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL (CRTM) FOR MICROWAVE SCATTERING TRANSFER AND APPLICATIONS
Quanhua (Mark) Liu, Fuzhong Weng

THP.W: Interferometry II

THP.W.1: VERY LARGE BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY BASED ON SAR SATELLITES FOR HIGH RESOLUTION DEM
Bin Cai, Jiying Liu, Zhen Dong, Haifeng Huang

THP.W.2: USING SMALL BASELINE SAR INTERFEROMETRY TO INVESTIGATE LAND SUBSIDENCE INDUCED BY UNDERGROUND COAL MINING
Daqing Ge, Yan Wang, Qiong Hu, Junhai Gao, Xiaofang Guo

THP.W.3: SURFACE SUBSIDENCE MONITORING WITH COHERENT POINT TARGET SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Daqing Ge, Yan Wang, Qiong Hu, Xiaofang Guo

THP.W.4: MONITORING A LARGE AND COMPLEX LAND SUBSIDENCE IN COAL MINING AREAS WITH A SMALL-BASELINE INTERFEROGRAM STACKING TECHNIQUE
Liming Jiang, Hui Lin, Qing Zhao, Yao Wang

THP.W.5: A STUDY OF LAND SUBSIDENCE BY RADAR REMOTE SENSING AT DATONG JURASSIC & CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD COALFIELD
Ma Chao, Jia Xiuming, Hao Bingyuan, Hu Haifeng, Zhang Guifang, Shan Xinjian

THP.W.6: TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION OF SPASE LASAR 3-D SAR VIA LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER METHOD
Zhang Xiaoling, Shi Jun, Yang Jianyu

THP.W.7: DIRECTLY ORTHO-RECTIFYING SPACE-BORNE SAR BASED ON FINE REGISTERED SIMULATION IMAGE
Hongjian You, Kun Fu, Hui Long, Daliang Gong

THP.W.8: AN ESTIMATION METHOD FOR INSAR INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE BASED ON JOINT CORRELATION STEERING VECTOR
Hai Li, Guisheng Liao

THP.W.9: PHASE UNWRAPPING USING 2D-KALMAN FILTER - POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS
Holger Nies, Otmar Loffeld, Robert Wang

THP.W.10: INSAR PHASE UNWRAPPING BY MEANS OF A PARTICLE FILTER
Juan J. Martinez-Espla, Tomas Martinez-Marin, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, J. David Ballester-Berman

THP.W.11: EFFECT OF THE UNWRAPPING PROCESS ON THE CORRELATIONS AMONG INSAR DIFFERENCES FOR THE SAME AREA
Paola Ballatore, Janusz Wasowski

THP.X: Interferometry / Polarimetry

THP.X.1: THEMATIC APPLICATIONS OF ERS-ENVISAT CROSS-INTERFEROMETRY
Maurizio Santoro, Urs Wegmüller, Tazio Strozzi, Charles Werner, Andreas Wiesmann, Wolfgang Lengert

THP.X.2: A NOVEL METHOD OF INSAR PROCESSING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION BASED ON IDEAL INTERFEROMETRIC FACTORS
Qingsong Wang, Haifeng Huang, Zhen Dong

THP.X.3: EVALUATION OF TERRASAR-X OBSERVATIONS FOR WETLAND INSAR APPLICATION
Shimon Wdowinski, Sang-Hoon Hong, Sang-Wan Kim

THP.X.4: SEPARATION OF RESIDUAL MOTION ERRORS USING A STACK OF INTERFEROMETRIC AIRBORNE SAR IMAGES
Christian Andres, Martin Keller, Pau Prats, Rolf Scheiber, Irena Hajnsek

THP.X.5: APPLICATION OF INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS ON ERS SAR INTERFEROGRAMS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF SPURIOUS ARTIFACTS
Paola Ballatore

THP.X.6: EXTRACTION OF AREA AVERAGED URBAN PARAMETERS FROM POLSAR MEASUREMENT
Hajime Fukuchi, Yuichiro Aso, Akihito Takeshiro, Yusuke Komatsu, Makoto Satake

THP.X.7: ANALYSIS OF SIMULATED POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES FROM A MULTILAYER ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING MODEL
Sidnei J. S. Sant'Anna, José Carlos Lacava, David Fernandes

THP.X.8: AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION BY MEANS OF POLARIMETRIC ISAR IMAGES AND NEURAL NETWORKS
Marco Martorella, Elisa Giusti, Amerigo Capria, Fabrizio Berizzi, Bevan Bates

THP.Y: SAR Processing III

THP.Y.1: HEAVY-TAILED RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION: A NEW TOOL FOR THE MODELING OF SAR AMPLITUDE IMAGES
Zengguo Sun, Chongzhao Han

THP.Y.2: AUTOMATIC RANGE-MIGRATION CORRECTION IN SAR IMAGING
Junfeng Wang, Xingzhao Liu

THP.Y.3: IMAGING EXPERIMENTS FROM PHASE-CORRUPTED AIRBORNE L-SAR DATA
Qulin Tan

THP.Y.4: SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGE PROCESSING USING THE SUPERVISED TEXTURAL-NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM.
Oscar Garcia-Pineda, Ian MacDonald

THP.Y.5: A NONLINEAR REFINED EXTENDED CHIRP SCALING ALGORITHM FOR SPACEBORNE SCANSAR
Jie Wei, Houjin Chen, Xiaofeng Zhong

THP.Y.6: ALONG-TRACK RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT FOR WIDE-BANDWIDTH, LOW-FREQUENCY SAR BY ACCOUNTING FOR THE WAVELENGTH CHANGE OVER THE BANDWIDTH
Evan C. Zaugg, David G. Long

THP.Y.7: SAR IMAGE COMPRESSION WITH VECTOR QUANTIZATION OF WAVELET TREES AT LOW BIT RATES
Aili Wang, Ye Zhang, Yushi Chen, Yanfeng Gu

THP.Y.8: LAND COVER CHARACTERIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION USING POLARIMETRIC ALOS PALSAR
Xinwu Li, Ridha Touzi, Huadong Guo

THP.Y.9: INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM TERRASAR-X DATA USING SECOND GENERATION WAVELETS
Matej Kseneman, Dusan Gleich

THP.Y.10: RECONSTRUCTION SPARSE APERTURE IMAGING USING CLEAN METHOD
Long Zhuang, Xingzhao Liu, Junfeng Wang

THP.Z: SAR Processing IV

THP.Z.1: 3D IMAGING OF GROUND BASED SAR DATA
Diego Reale, Vito Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi

THP.Z.2: A COMPARISON BETWEEN FAST FACTORIZED BACKPROJECTION AND FREQUENCY-DOMAIN ALGORITHMS IN UWB LOW FREQUENCY SAR
Viet Thuy Vu, Thomas K. Sjögren, Mats Pettersson

THP.Z.3: REMOVAL OF AZIMUTH AMBIGUITIES IN SAR IMAGE WITH TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
Ping Yao, Zhensong Wang

THP.Z.4: RADAR SIGNAL LEVEL FUSION IMAGING
Fan Ye, Feng He, Zaoyu Sun

THP.Z.5: ADAPTIVE SUBAPERTURE APPROACH FOR SPOTLIGH SAR AZIMUTH PROCESSING
Lihua Jin, Xingzhao Liu, Junfeng Wang

THP.Z.6: A NEW LASAR FAST 3-D IMAGING METHOD VIA WAVELET APPROXIMATION
Shi Jun, Zhang Xiaoling, Yang Jianyu

THP.Z.7: THROUGH-THE-WALL IMAGING: MEASUREMENT AND MODELING TECHNIQUES
Mojtaba Dehmollaian, Kamal Sarabandi

THP.Z.8: AIRBORNE SPOTLIGHT SAR IMAGING WITH SUPER HIGH RESOLUTION BASED ON BACK-PROJECTION AND AUTOFOCUS ALGORITHM
Weixian Tan, Daojing Li, Wen Hong

THP.AA: SAR Processing V

THP.AA.1: PRECISE SIMULATION OF SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR AND ITS EVALUATION
Li Ran, Li Jingwen

THP.AA.2: OIL SPILL IDENTIFICATION BASED ON TEXTURAL INFORMATION OF SAR IMAGES
Fengli Zhang, Yun Shao, Wei Tian, Shiang Wang

THP.AA.3: STUDY ON THE GEOMETRIC DISTORTION CORRECTION ALGORITHM FOR CIRCULAR-SCANNING SAR IMAGING
Yong Li, Daiyin Zhu, Ling Wang

THP.AA.4: A NEW INTERFERENCE ELIMINATION METHOD FOR MULTI-SATELLITE SAR SYSTEM
Bing-Zhang Sun, Jing-Wen Li

THP.AA.5: ADAPTIVE SAR DESPECKLING USING A PROXIMITY MEASURE TO BOUNDARY
Sang-Hoon Lee

THP.AA.6: ANALYSIS OF 3D-SAR BASED ON ANGLE COMPRESSION PRINCIPLE
Lei Du, Yan-Ping Wang, Wen Hong, Yi-Rong Wu

THP.AA.7: CORNER REFLECTOR EXPERIMENTS WITH ASAR ACQUISITIONS
Lixia Gong, Jingfa Zhang, Qiming Zeng, Yi Luo, Shiyong Yan

THP.AA.8: TOWARDS THE VIRTUAL REMOTE SENSING LABORATORY: INTELLIGENT EXPERIMENT DESIGN PARADIGM
Yuriy V. Shkvarko, Hector Perez Meana, Alejandro Castillo Atoche

THP.BB: UAV Sensor Systems

THP.BB.1: THE UAVSAR FLIGHT PLANNING SYSTEM
Bruce Chapman, Joanne Shimada, Scott Hensley, Anhua Chu, Elaine Chapin

THP.BB.2: COURSE PROGRAM AND CONTROL OF VARIATIONAL BASELINE DIGITAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY BASED ON DEM
Fuzhou Duan, Huili Gong, Lin Zhu, Deyong Hu

THP.BB.3: A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON USING UAV-MOUNTED DIGITAL CAMERA AND OBEJECT-ORIENTED SEGMENTATION METHODOLOGY TO MONITOR NITROGEN STATUS
Jinxia Zhu, Jinsong Deng, Fenfang Lin, Ke Wang, Xiaodong Ding

THP.BB.4: PROCESSING CHALLENGES FOR AN ULTRA-SMALL LIGHTWEIGHT L-BAND UAV SAR SYSTEM
Richard Carande, Aaron Rogan, Albert Burgstahler, Mike Casey, Dan Bindbeutel

THP.CC: Optical Instrument Calibration

THP.CC.1: INTERCOMPARISON OF IMAGING SENSORS USING AUTOMATED GROUND MEASUREMENTS
Kurtis Thome, Jeffrey Czapla-Myers, John Buchanan, Nathan Leisso, Joel McCorkel