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