IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP09IGA-PRT 978-1-4244-3394-0

2009 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2009)

Cape Town, South Africa 12 – 17 July 2009

Volume 1 Pages 1-251

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MO3.O1: DATA PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT ASI-VOLCANIC RISK SYSTEM (SRV): A PILOT PROJECT TO DEVELOP EO DATA PROCESSING MODULES AND PRODUCTS FOR VOLCANIC ACTIVITY MONITORING, FIRST RESULTS. .................................................... 1

M. Musacchio, M. Silvestri, M. Buongiorno, C. Spinetti, S. Corradini, V. Lombardo, L. Merucci, E. Sansosti, S. Pugnaghi, S. Teggi, S. Vignoli, A. Amodio, L. Dini

LOSSLESS COMPRESSION USING DICTIONARY INDEX ARCHIVING........................................................................................... 5R. Radescu, R. King

MO3.O2: GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS I DRAINAGE NETWORK AND SEISMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ACTIVE TECTONICS IN NANGA PARBAT HARAMOSH MASSIF, PAKISTAN ............................................................................................................................................. 9

F. Shahzad, S. A. Mahmood, R. Gloaguen

GULLY EROSION MAPPING USING ASTER DATA AND DRAINAGE NETWORK ANALYSIS IN THE MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT .............................................................................................................................................................................. 13

M. Bouaziz, A. Wijaya, R. Gloaguen

TEMPERATURE, COLOR AND DEFORMATION MONITORING OF VOLCANIC REGIONS IN NEW ZEALAND......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17

K. E. Joyce, S. Samsonov, G. Jolly

INSAR MONITORING OF LANDSLIDES USING RADARSAT ............................................................................................................ 21V. Singhroy, K. Murnaghan, Z. Jianlong

MO3.O3: OPTICAL MODELING AND INVERSION COMPARISON OF LST RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS BETWEEN SINGLE-CHANNEL AND SPLIT-WINDOWS FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION INFRARED CAMERA ............................................................................................................ 25

L. Zhu, J. Li, C. Wu, B. Yang, Q. Li, H. Gong

LIGHT SCATTERING BY THIN CURVED DIELECTRIC SURFACE AND CYLINDER ................................................................ 29S. S. Seker, G. Apaydin

AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF EMISSIVITY MAPS ON A EUROPEAN SCALE......................................................................... 33E. Caselles, F. Abad, E. Valor, J. M. Galve, V. Caselles

MO3.O4: SENTINEL-1, THE EUROPEAN RADAR CONSTELLATION I SENTINEL-1 MISSION OVERVIEW .......................................................................................................................................................... 36

E. Attema, M. Davidson, P. Snoeij, B. Rommen, N. Floury

ANALYSIS OF SENTINEL-1 MISSION CAPABILITIES ........................................................................................................................ 40P. Snoeij, E. Attema, A. Pietropaolo, V. Mastroddi, M. Abbate, C. Bruno

FDBAQ A NOVEL ENCODING SCHEME FOR SENTINEL-1 ............................................................................................................... 44P. Snoeij, E. Attema, A. Guarnieri, F. Rocca

INNOVATIVE AND EFFICIENT STRATEGY OF CALIBRATING SENTINEL-1 ............................................................................. 48M. Schwerdt, B. Doring, M. Zink, B. Brautigam, D. Schrank

MO3.O5: SAR EFFICIENT CONFIGURATIONS OF SAR SENSORS FOR IMPROVED RANGE RESOLUTION ................................................ 52

D. Cristallini, D. Pastina, P. Lombardo

COHERENT MULTI-FREQUENCY-BAND RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 56

E. Zaugg, D. Long, M. Edwards, A. Margulis

3D SAR FOCUSING FOR SUBSURFACE POINT TARGETS ................................................................................................................ 60M. Albahkali, M. Moghaddam

ADAPTIVE SCAN-ON-RECEIVE BASED ON SPATIAL SPECTRAL ESTIMATION FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION, WIDE-SWATH SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR .................................................................................................... 64

F. Bordoni, M. Younis, E. Varona, G. Krieger

FOCUSING SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR (SAS) DATA WITH THE OMEGA-K TECHNIQUE ........................................... 68R. Paulis, C. Prati, F. Rocca, S. Scirpoli, S. Tebaldini

MO3.O6: HYPERSPECTRAL SENSING I SPECTRAL STABILITY MONITORING OF AN IMAGING SPECTROMETER BY MEANS OF ONBOARD SOURCES ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 72

P. D'Odorico, E. Alberti, F. Dell'Endice, A. Hueni, M. Schaepman

PLEIADES-HR SYSTEM QUALIFICATION: A FOCUS ON GROUND PROCESSING AND IMAGE PRODUCTS PERFORMANCES, A FEW MONTHS BEFORE LAUNCH ............................................................................................. 76

S. Baillarin, L. Lebegue, P. Kubik

COMPARISON OF AVIRIS AND AISA FOR CHEMISTRY MAPPING .............................................................................................. 80D. Goodenough, K. Niemann, G. Quinn, P. Gordon, A. Gross, T. Han, G. Hobart, H. Chen, A. Dyk

VISUALISATION, PROCESSING AND STORAGE OF SPECTRODIRECTIONAL DATA BASED ON THE SPECTRAL DATABASE SPECCHIO.......................................................................................................................................................... 84

A. Hueni, S. Rey, D. Schlapfer, J. Schopfer, M. Kneubuehler

MO3.O7: FOREST RESOURCES OF AFRICA DETECTION OF LAND COVER CHANGES IN EL RAWASHDA FOREST, SUDAN: A SYSTEMATIC COMPARISON ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 88

W. Nori, H. Sulieman, I. Niemeyer

MO3.O8: TRMM AND GPM I UAE MAPPED ATTENUATION AT RF FREQUENCIES (UAE-MARF).............................................................................................. 92

A. Bushahab, K. Mubarak, A. Dawood, R. Shubair

NPP CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) PREDICTED SENSOR PERFORMANCE CALIBRATION AND PRELIMINARY DATA PRODUCT PERFORMANCE .................................................... 96

K. Priestley, G. Smith, S. Thomas, D. Cooper, R. Lee, D. Walikainen, P. Hess, Z. Szewczyk, R. Wilson

MO3.O10: SATELLITE SENSOR SYNERGY: OBSERVING THE AFRICAN LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS I OBSERVATIONS OF THERMAL VARIATIONS IN THE MIXED LAYER DEPTH OF THE EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC .....................................................................................................................................................................................................100

K. Agyekum, G. Wiafe, B. Houghton, S. Dolk, T. Drake, A. Vogel

MO3.O11: SATELLITE SENSING OF HIGH OCEAN SURFACE WINDS A STATISTICAL STUDY OF WIND FIELD DISTRIBUTION WITHIN EXTRA-TROPICAL CYCLONES FROM 7-YEARS OF QUIKSCAT WIND DATA ......................................................................................................................................104

Z. Jelenak, K. Ahmad, J. Sienkiewicz, P. Chang

THE COMBINED EFFECT OF SURFACE RAIN AND WIND ON SCATTEROMETER OBSERVATIONS OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS .............................................................................................................................................................................108

D. Weissman, M. Bourassa

MO3.O13: THE TIGER INITIATIVE: SUPPORTING AFRICAN EFFORTS TOWARDS A WATER OBSERVATION SYSTEM I REMOTE SENSING AND GEOLOGICAL MAPPING FOR A GROUNDWATER RECHARGE MODEL IN THE ARID AREA OF SEBT RBRYKINE: DOUKKALA, WESTERN MOROCCO. .........................................................................112

K. Labbassi, A. Tajdi, A. Er-Raji

THE MEDIUM RESOLUTION SOIL MOISTURE DATASET: OVERVIEW OF THE SHARE ESA DUE TIGER PROJECT........................................................................................................................................................................................................116

M. Doubkova, A. Bartsch, C. Pathe, D. Sabel, W. Wagner

MAPPING AND MONITORING URBAN GROWTH ON WETLANDS IN HUMID TROPICAL CONTEXT USING EARTH OBSERVATION TECHNOLOGY: CASE STUDY OF MANGROVE ZONES AROUND DOUALA IN CAMEROON ..........................................................................................................................................................................120

N. Chretien, O. Tiafack, D. Charley

MO4.O2: GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS II A HIGH SPEED MICROWAVE INTERFEROMETER USED FOR MONITORING STROMBOLI VOLCANO ........................124

L. Noferini, D. Mecatti, G. Macaluso, M. Pieraccini, C. Atzeni, M. Ripepe

ERS-ENVISAT TANDEM CROSS-INTERFEROMETRY COHERENCE ESTIMATION ...............................................................128U. Wegmuller, M. Santoro, C. Werner, T. Strozzi, A. Wiesmann

HIGH RANGE RESOLUTION DIRECTIONAL BOREHOLE RADAR FOR 3-D FRACTURE DELINEATION ........................132M. Sato, T. Takayama

MO4.O3: OPTICAL MODELING ADVANCES IN BRDF FIELD MEASUREMENT: NEW PRINCIPLE AND INSTRUMENT ..........................................................136

M. Schwarzbach, M. Schoenermark

THE ANGULAR & SPECTRAL KERNEL MODEL FOR BRDF AND ALBEDO RETRIEVAL.....................................................140S. Liu, Q. Liu, Qinhuo. Liu, J. Wen, X. Li, Q. Xiao, X. Xin

A MODEL FOR INSTANTANEOUS FAPAR RETRIEVAL: THEORY AND VALIDATION .........................................................144X. Tao, D. Wang, D. Wu, B. Yan, W. Fan, X. Xu, Y. Yao

IMPROVED FULL SPECTRUM CLOUDY SCENE SIMULATION ....................................................................................................148R. Sundberg, S. Richtsmeier, R. Haren

ON THE PREDICTIVE MODELING OF VISIBLE LIGHT INTERACTION WITH FRESH AND ENVIRONMENTALLY STRESSED MONOCOTYLEDONOUS LEAVES.........................................................................................152

G. Baranoski

MO4.O4: SENTINEL-1, THE EUROPEAN RADAR CONSTELLATION II SENTINEL - 1 INTERFEROMETRY APPLICATIONS .........................................................................................................................156

R. Hanssen, F. Rocca

MO4.O5: GROUND PENETRATING RADAR ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS: HAZARD DETECTION AND SUBSURFACE MAPPING PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS ON DETECTING TUNNELS USING UNDERGROUND FOCUSING SPOTLIGHT SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR ............................................................................................................................................................160

J. Martinez-Lorenzo, C. Rappaport

MODELING AND VALIDATION OF GPR WAVE SCATTERING WITH THE SEMI-ANALYTIC MODE MATCHING ALGORITHM: CHOOSING OPTIMAL COORDINATE SCATTERING CENTERS...............................................164

A. Morgenthaler, C. Rappaport

A NEURAL NETWORK ELECTROMAGNETIC APPROACH FOR GPR PAVEMENT DIAGNOSTIC: A PRELIMINARY STUDY ..............................................................................................................................................................................168

S. Caorsi, M. Stasolla

2-1/2 DIMENSIONAL BI-STATIC GPR PROPAGATION AND SCATTERING MODELING OF ROADWAYS AND TUNNELS WITH PROJECTED 2D FDTD......................................................................................................................................172

K. Belli, C. Rappaport, S. Wadia-Fascetti

MO4.O6: HYPERSPECTRAL SENSING II FEATURE REDUCTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING AUTOASSOCIATIVE NEURAL NETWORKS ALGORITHMS .....................................................................................................................................................................176

G. Licciardi, F. Frate, R. Duca

A SPECTRAL FITTING MODEL FOR CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE RETRIEVAL AT GLOBAL SCALE .............................................................................................................................................................................................................180

M. Mazzoni, P. Falorni, D. Guzzi, I. Pippi, W. Verhoef

REQUIREMENTS ON SPECTRAL RESOLUTION OF REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR CROP STRESS DETECTION ..................................................................................................................................................................................................184

J. Franke, T. Mewes, G. Menz

IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION ON CHINESE FIRST EARTH OBSERVATION HYPERSPECTRAL SATELLITE....................................................................................................................................................................................................188

B. Zhang, Z. Chen, J. Li, L. Gao

MO4.O7: OCEAN SURFACE SCATTERING A POLARIMETRIC SEA SURFACE BACKSCATTERING MODEL..................................................................................................192

A. Gambardella, F. Nunziata, M. Migliaccio

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING FROM OCEAN SURFACE AT LOW GRAZING ANGLES ..............................196N. Sajiad, A. Khenchaf, A. Coatanhay

MO4.O8: TRMM AND GPM II IMPROVING RAINFALL ESTIMATION FROM GROUND BASED RADAR MEASUREMENTS USING NEURAL NETWORKS.................................................................................................................................................................................200

A. Alqudah, Y. Wang, V. Chandrasekar

DETECTING TROPICAL CYCLONE WATER VAPOR TRANSPORTATION WITH THE TRMM AND ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT (AMSU) ......................................................................................................................204

W. Xin, F. Xiang, Q. Hong, Z. Yuanjing

COMBINED KU AND KA BAND OBSERVATIONS OF PRECIPITATION AND RETRIEVALS FOR GPM GROUND VALIDATION .............................................................................................................................................................................208

M. Le, V. Chandrasekar, S. Lim

LEVEL 1 ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT OF SPACEBORNE DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADAR (DPR) FOR GPM ............................................................................................................................................................................212

S. Shimizu, M. Yoshida, H. Hanado, T. Higashiuwatoko

A LONG-TERM TREND OBSERVED IN TRMM/PR MONTHLY RAINFALL PRODUCTS AND AN EVALUATION OF SAMPLING ERROR BY A BOOTSTRAP METHOD ..........................................................................................216

Y. IIda, T. Kubota, T. Iguchi, R. Oki

MO4.O9: SATELLITE SENSOR SYNERGY: OBSERVING THE GLOBAL MARINE ECOSYSTEMS II MET OFFICE AND ECMWF CONTRIBUTION TO NPP AND NPOESS CAL/VAL EFFORT ......................................................220

N. Atkinson, S. English, W. Bell

MO4.O10: SATELLITE SENSOR SYNERGY: OBSERVING THE GLOBAL MARINE ECOSYSTEMS II

OBSERVATION OF MESOSCALE EDDIES BY USING SAR DATA COMPLEMENTED WITH OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING AND IN SITU MEASUREMENTS ........................................................................................................................224

R. Uiboupin, J. Laanemets

MONITORING OF ENTEROMORPHA PROLIFERA IN QINGDAO MARINE BY EXPLOITING THE SYNERGY OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING DATA .................................................................................................228

D. Wu, B. Zhang, J. Li, Y. Wu, H. Zhang, Q. Shen

MO4.O11: SATELLITE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE QA FOR SATELLITE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES USING THE ISAR SHIP-BORNE RADIOMETRIC SYSTEM ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................232

W. Wimmer, I. Robinson, C. Donlon

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEA REGIONS WITH HIGH THERMAL VARIABILITY AND WILDFIRES FROM 1981 TO 2008 .....................................................................................................................................................................................236

L. Nunez-Casillas, M. Arbelo, J. A. Moreno-Ruiz, P. A. Hernandez-Leal, A. Barreto, A. Alonso-Benito

PRE-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AND FEATURES EXTRACTION FOR OCEAN MESO-SCALE STRUCTURES DETECTION IN SST IMAGES .......................................................................................................................................240

G. Noel, Y. Hamam, L. Drapeau

MO4.O13: THE TIGER INITIATIVE: SUPPORTING AFRICAN EFFORTS TOWARDS A WATER OBSERVATION SYSTEM II LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION AND CHANGE DETECTION AS A BASIS FOR HYDROLOGICAL RUNOFF MODELLING IN THE MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT VALLEY ...............................................................................................244

S. Haas, R. Gloaguen

TIGER: EARTH OBSERVATION TO IMPROVE AFRICAN WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT .....................................248D. Fernandez, F. Palazzo, A. Lipponen, S. Iris

TU1.O1: ALOS AND OTHER ESA THIRD PARTY MISSIONS – APPLICATIONS FOR AFRICA I STEREO EVALUATION OF ALOS PRISM AND IKONOS DATA IN YEMEN ................................................................................252

R. Muller, M. Schneider, P. V. Radhadevi, P. Reinartz, F. Schwonke

SYNERGETIC USE OF MULTI-TEMPORAL ALOS PALSAR AND ENVISAT ASAR DATA FOR TOPOGRAPHIC/LAND COVER MAPPING AND MONITORING AT NATIONAL SCALE IN AFRICA...................................256

F. Holecz, M. Barbieri, A. Cantone, P. Pasquali, S. Monaco

EXPLOITATION OF ALOS-PALSAR SAR FULL-POLARIMETRY DATA TO THE MAPPING OF AN AFRICAN REGION ......................................................................................................................................................................................260

E. Pottier, L. Ferro-Famil

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING IN THE ZONE OF CHOTTS, TUNISIA, USING ALOS SENSORS. ....................................................264J. P. Deroin, D. Dhont, M. Jabbour, J. Chorowicz, B. Fruneau

TU1.O2: TERRASAR-X: SCIENTIFIC RESULTS I EXTRACTION OF TRAFFIC FLOWS AND SURFACE CURRENT INFORMATION USING TERRASAR-X ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRY DATA .......................................................................................................................................268

S. Suchandt, H. Runge, A. Kotenkov, H. Breit, U. Steinbrecher

ANALYSIS OF FIRST TERRASAR-X ALONG-TRACK INSAR-DERIVED SURFACE CURRENT FIELDS .............................272R. Romeiser, S. Suchandt, H. Runge, U. Steinbrecher

MONITORING A TUNNELING IN AN URBANIZED AREA WITH TERRASAR-X INTERFEROMETRY – SURFACE DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS AND ATMOSPHERIC ERROR TREATMENT................................................276

S. Knospe, W. Busch

INVESTIGATION OF TERRASAR-X AND RADARSAT-2 DATA FOR RIVER ICE CLASSIFICATION...................................280S. Mermoz, S. Allain, M. Bernier, E. Pottier

MULTI-THEMATIC EXPLOITATION OF TERRASAR-X IMAGES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE KALIDEOS REFERENCE DATASETS ...........................................................................................................................................................................284

S. Garrigues, S. May, N. Baghdadi, I. Champion, J. L. Froger, T. Rabaute, P. Durand, N. Pourthie

TU1.O3: BISTATIC SAR EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS WITH BISTATIC SAR TOMOGRAPHY .............................................................................................288

S. Duque, P. Lopez-Dekker, J. J. Mallorque, A. Y. Nashashibi, A. M. Patel

STUDY ON BISTATIC SAR OCEAN WAVE IMAGING MECHANISM ............................................................................................292Y. Yu, X. Wang, M. Zhu, J. Chong

A NEW CALCULATION METHOD OF NUSAR FOR TRANSLATIONAL VARIANT BISTATIC SAR .....................................296X. Qiu, D. Hu, C. Ding

A GPS SIGNAL BASED NUMERIC RANGE MIGRATION ALGORITHM OF SPACE-SURFACE BISTATIC SAR ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................300

J. Zhen, Z. Zhang, S. Wu

CHIRP SCALING ALGORITHM FOR PARALLEL BISTATIC SAR DATA PROCESSING .........................................................304Z. Zhang, M. Xing, L. Li, J. Zhen, Z. Bao

TU1.O5: STUDENT PAPER CONTEST I THE CONTRIBUTION OF CHRIS/PROBA DATA FOR TROPICAL PEAT SWAMP LANDSCAPE DISCRIMINATION PURPOSES.................................................................................................................................................................308

V. Liesenberg, H. D. V. Boehm, R. Gloaguen

A NOVEL APPROACH TO THE SELECTION OF SPATIALLY INVARIANT FEATURES FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES ...........................................................................................................................312

C. Persello, L. Bruzzone

LEARNING THE RELEVANT IMAGE FEATURES WITH MULTIPLE KERNELS.......................................................................316D. Tuia, G. Matasci, G. Camps-Valls, M. Kanevski

TU1.O6: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERS: CALIBRATION, MODELING & COMPENSATION I LABORATORY CHARACTERIZATION OF THE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER FOR THE COASTAL OCEAN (HICO) .............................................................................................................................................................................................320

D. R. Korwan, R. L. Luck, N. R. McGlothlin, S. D. Butcher, D. L. Wood, J. H. Bowles, M. Corson, W. A. Snyder, C. O. Davis, D. T. Chen

AN ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ITERATIVE METHOD FOR HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION AEROSPACE IMAGING SPECTROMETERS ........................................................................................................................................324

D. Guzzi, A. Barducci, P. Marcoionni, I. Pippi

HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER CHARACTERIZATION AND CALIBRATION ................................................................................328J. T. Woodward, S. W. Brown, A. W. Smith, K. R. Lykke

CALIBRATION ALGORITHMS FOR AN IMAGING SPECTROMETER.........................................................................................332F. Dell'Endice

TU1.O7: ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING TECHNIQUES UNPOLARIZED INFRARED EMISSIVITY OF OIL FILM ON SEA SURFACES ............................................................................336

N. Pinel, C. Bourlier

HYBRID OF THE METHOD OF MOMENTS/ MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUE AND A SURFACE SCATTERING MODEL FOR ESTIMATING THE RADAR BACKSCATTERS OF HARVESTED FARM FIELDS ............................................................................................................................................................................................................340

Y. Oh, J. H. Hwang

A FAST NUMERICAL METHOD FOR SCATTERING FROM DIELECTRIC ROUGH SURFACES...........................................344B. Liu, Y. Du

BISTATIC REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY ROUGH SURFACES WITH LARGE HEIGHTS AND SLOPES ...........................................................................................................................348

D. Liang, P. Xu, K. S. Chen, Z. Gui, L. Tsang

DEVELOPMENT OF A SIMPLE SCATTERING MODEL FOR VEGETATION CANOPIES AND EXAMINATION OF ITS VALIDITY WITH SCATTEROMETER MEASUREMENTS OF GREEN-ONION FIELDS ............................................................................................................................................................................................................352

Y. Oh, S. G. Kwon

TU1.O8: SENSORS AND ALGORITHMS FOR LANDMINE DETECTION ESTIMATION AND APPLICATION OF DISCRETE SPECTRUM OF RELAXATIONS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION RESPONSES ............................................................................................................................... 356

M. H. Wei, W. R. Scott Jr., J. H. McClellan

NUMERICAL MODELING OF A SPIRAL-ANTENNA GPR SYSTEM ..............................................................................................360M. McFadden, W. R. Scott Jr.

WIENER PREDICTION-BASED CHANGE DETECTION FOR LOCATING MINES IN MULTILOOK SAR IMAGERY ......................................................................................................................................................................................................364

N. M. Nasrabadi

A STUDY OF ACOUSTIC METHODS FOR COMPLIANT LANDMINES DETECTION BY USING THE SURFACE ACCELERATION PARAMETER ..........................................................................................................................................368

A. Bulletti, S. Valentini, G. Borgioli, L. Capineri, M. Calzolai, M. Mazzoni

THREE-DIMENSIONAL REAL-TIME LOCALIZATION OF SUBSURFACE OBJECTS – FROM THEORY TO EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION .......................................................................................................................................................372

L. Lizzi, F. Viani, P. Rocca, G. Oliveri, M. Benedetti, A. Massa

TU1.O9: TARGET AND OBJECT DETECTION AN AUTOMATIC METHOD FOR COUNTING OLIVE TREES IN VERY HIGH SPATIAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES .......................................................................................................................................................................................376

Y. Bazi, H. Al-Sharari, F. Melgani

FOCUS PRE-PROCESSING CHAIN FOR OBJECT DETECTION IN HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES .......................................................................................................................................................................................380

J. Nichel, C. Valladeau, J. Inglada

TARGET DETECTION WITH SPATIO-SPECTRAL DATA VIA CONCORDANCE LEARNING................................................384M. M. Dundar

ON THE EFFECTS OF PAN-SHARPENING TO TARGET DETECTION .........................................................................................387A. Garzelli, L. Capobianco, F. Nencini

CONTRIBUTION OF THE INTER-CHANNEL POLARIMETRIC COHERENCE FOR SOIL CLASSIFICATION........................................................................................................................................................................................391

H. Jenzri, R. Abdelfattah

TU1.O10: ACTIVE/PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF TERRESTRIAL SNOW I RETRIEVAL OF SNOW PARAMETERS FROM KU-BAND AND X-BAND RADAR BACKSCATTER MEASUREMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................................................395

H. Rott, M. Heidinger, T. Nagler, D. Cline, S. Yueh

COMPARISON WITH CLPX II AIRBORNE DATA USING DMRT MODEL ...................................................................................399X. Xu, D. Liang, K. M. Andredis, L. Tsang, E. G. Josberger

ESTIMATION OF SNOW WATER EQUIVELANT USING A PARAMETERIZED SNOW SCATTERING MODEL ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................403

J. Du, J. Shi

EXPERIMENTAL AND MODELING STUDIES OF MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF SEASONAL SNOW ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................407

M. T. Hallikainen, J. Lemmetyinen, P. Sievinen

TU1.O11: FREQUENCY ALLOCATION FOR REMOTE SENSING AND RFI MITIGATION FOR MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY AIRBORNE L-BAND RFI OBSERVATIONS IN THE SMAPVEX08 CAMPAIGN WITH THE L-BAND INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSING RADIOMETER ................................................................................................................................409

N. Mahurec, J. Park, N. Niamsuwan, M. Frankford, J. T. Johnson

INVERSION ALGORITHM FOR ESTIMATING RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE CHARACTERISTICS BASED ON KURTOSIS MEASUREMENTS ....................................................................................................413

S. Misra, C. Ruf

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A CROSS-FREQUENCY DETECTOR OF PULSED SINUSOIDAL RFI IN MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY ..................................................................................................................................................................417

B. Guner, J. T. Johnson, N. Majurec

TU1:O12: GNSS REMOTE SENSING OF ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN AND LAND I NON-SPACE APPLICATIONS OF GNSS-R: FROM RESEARCH TO OPERATIONAL SERVICES. EXAMPLES OF WATER AND LAND MONITORING SYSTEMS. .....................................................................................................421

A. Egido, M. Delas, M. Garcia, M. Caparrini

ADVANCED PARIS ALTIMETER BASED ON DELAY COMPENSATION OF DOPPLER WAVEFORMS ..............................425S. D'Addio, M. Martin-Neira

COMPARING WIND SPEED RETRIEVALS FROM GPS REFLECTOMETRY WITH SFMR SURFACE WIND SPEEDS IN HURRICANE IKE (2008)........................................................................................................................................................429

V. U. Zavorotny, D. M. Akos, E. J. Walsh

SIMULATION OF GNSS RETURNS FOR DELAY-DOPPLER ANALYSIS OF THE OCEAN SURFACE ...................................433M. P. Clarizia, M. D. Bisceglie, C. Galdi, C. Gommenginger, M. Srokosz

TU1:O13: REMOTE SENSING FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF SAVANNA PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS I DETAILED STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISATION OF THE SAVANNA FLUX SITE AT SKUKUZA, SOUTH AFRICA...........................................................................................................................................................................................................437

A. Kirton, B. Scholes, M. Verstraete, S. Archibald, K. Mennell, G. Asner

SPECTRAL VARIABILITY WITHIN SPECIES AND ITS EFFECTS ON SAVANNA TREE SPECIES DISCRIMINATION.......................................................................................................................................................................................441

M. A. Cho, P. Debba, R. Mathieu, J. V. Aardt, G. Asner, L. Naidoo, R. Main, A. Ramoelo, B. Majeke

TREE COVER, TREE HEIGHT AND BARE SOIL COVER DIFFERENCES ALONG A LAND USE DEGRADATION GRADIENT IN SEMI-ARID SAVANNAS, SOUTH AFRICA ................................................................................445

R. Mathieu, K. Wessels, G. Asner, D. Knapp, J. V. Aardt, R. Main, M. Cho, B. Erasmus, I. Smit

THREE-DIMENSIONAL WOODY VEGETATION STRUCTURE ACROSS DIFFERENT LAND-USE TYPES AND LAND-USE INTENSITIES IN A SEMI-ARID SAVANNA ............................................................................................................449

J. Fisher, B. F. N. Erasmus, E. Witkowski, J. V. Aardt, G. Asner, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin, D. Knapp, R. Mathieu, K. Wessels

TU2:O1: ALOS AND OTHER ESA THIRD PARTY MISSIONS – APPLICATIONS FOR AFRICA II CHRIS/PROBA TOOLBOX FOR HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTIANGULAR DATA EXPLOITATIONS...............................453

L. Alonso, L. Gomez-Chova, J. Moreno, L. Guanter, C. Brockmann, N. Fomferra, R. Quast, P. Regner

THE USE OF ALOS PALSAR FOR SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE FOREST USE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: A CASE STUDY IN MALAWI ........................................................................................................................................................................457

G. F. Cassells, I. H. Woodhouse, E. R. A. Mitchard, M. D. Tembo

L-BAND AND C-BAND INSAR STUDIES OF AFRICAN VOLCANIC AREAS.................................................................................461C. Wauthier, A. M. Oyen, P. S. Marinkovic, V. Cayol, J. Fernandez, P. Gonzalez, R. F. Hanssen, F. Kervyn, N. D'Oreye, M. Shirzaei, T. R. Walter

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA EMPLOYED FOR SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION IN THE PIKETBERG REGION, SOUTH AFRICA ................................................................................................................................................465

J. Engelbrecht

TU2:O2: TERRASAR-X: SCIENTIFIC RESULTS II PRELIMINARY TERRASAR-X OBSERVATIONS FOR TEMPERATE GLACIERS ON THE CHAMONIX MONT BLANC TEST SITE .........................................................................................................................................................................469

O. Harant, R. Fallourd, L. Bombrun, M. Gay, E. Trouve, G. Vasile, J. M. Nicolas

COMPARISON OF HELICOPTER-BORNE THIN SEA ICE THICKNESS PROFILES WITH POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURES OF DUAL-POL TERRASAR-X DATA ..........................................................................................473

T. Busche, I. Hajnsek, K. Papathanassiou, T. Krumpen, L. Rabenstein, J. Hoelemann, C. Haas, S. Willmes

TERRASAR-X OBSERVATIONS OF THE RECOVERY GLACIER SYSTEM, ANTARCTICA....................................................477K. Jezek, D. Floricioiu, K. Farness, N. Yague-Martinez, M. Eineder

DETERMINATION OF VARIATIONS IN GLACIER SURFACE MOVEMENTS THROUGH HIGH RESOLUTION INTERFEROMETRY; BYLOT ISLAND, CANADA ...................................................................................................481

K. Whitehead, B. J. Moorman, P. Wainstein

TU2.O3: BISTATIC SAR: INSTRUMENTS, EXPERIMENTS AND APPLICATIONS BISTATIC EXPERIMENT WITH THE UWB-CARABAS SENSOR - FIRST RESULTS AND PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE APPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................485

D. Henke, A. Barmettler, E. Meier

RESULTS AND ANALYSIS OF HYBRID BISTATIC SAR EXPERIMENTS WITH SPACEBORNE, AIRBORNE AND STATIONARY SENSORS............................................................................................................................................489

I. Walterscheid, T. Espeter, C. Gierull, J. Klare, A. R. Brenner, J. H. G. Ender

NEW PROCESSING APPROACH AND RESULTS FOR BISTATIC TERRASAR-X/F-SAR SPACEBORNE-AIRBORNE SAR EXPERIMENTS .............................................................................................................................................................493

M. Rodriguez-Cassola, P. Prats, S. V. Baumgartner, G. Krieger, A. Nottensteiner, R. Horn, I. Hajnsek, A. Moreira

REPEAT-PASS INTERFEROMETRY USING A FIXED-RECEIVER AND ERS-2/ENVISAT AS TRANSMITTERS OF OPPORTUNITY.....................................................................................................................................................497

S. Duque, P. Lopez-Dekker, J. J. Mallorque, J. C. Merlano

TU2.O5: STUDENT PAPER CONTEST II TOPOGRAPHY OF SAND COVERED BEDROCK USING A TWO-FREQUENCY AIRBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC SAR MEASUREMENTS .....................................................................................................................................501

A. Elsherbini, K. Sarabandi

INVESTIGATION ON THE APPLICATIONS OF DECORRELATION ANALYSIS IN POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY ...................................................................................................................................................................................505

Y. S. Zhou, W. Hong, F. Cao

HIGH RESOLUTION SUBSURFACE IMAGING OF DEEP TARGETS BASED ON DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS...................................................................................................................................................................................................509

F. T. Dagefu, K. Sarabandi

TU2.O6: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERS: CALIBRATION, MODELING & COMPENSATION II RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MODTRAN® ATMOSPHERIC MODEL AND IMPLICATIONS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL COMPENSATION ....................................................................................................................................................513

A. Berk, P. Acharya, G. Anderson, B. Gossage

AFFINE COMPENSATION OF ILLUMINATION IN HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES.................................517P. L. Carmona, J. E. Moreno, F. Pla, C. B. Schaaf

ATMOSPHERIC COMPENSATION FOR IMAGING SPECTROMETER SYSTEMS WITH CHANGING IMAGING GEOMETRY ..............................................................................................................................................................................521

G. W. Felde, G. P. Anderson, T. W. Cooley, R. W. McMullen

TU2.O7: VOLUME SCATTERING FOAM EMISSIVITY MODELS FOR MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS OF OCEANS FROM SPACE........................................525

M. D. Anguelova, P. W. Gaiser, V. Raizer

REFINEMENTS AND TESTS OF A MICROWAVE EMISSION MODEL FOR FORESTS.............................................................529R. Rahmoune, A. D. Vecchia, P. Ferrazzoli, L. Guerriero, F. Martin-Porqueras

A UNIFIED POLARIMETRIC APPROACH FOR SAR SEA OIL SLICK OBSERVATION ............................................................533F. Nunziata, A. Gambardella, M. Migliaccio

TU2.O8: THE USE OF OCEAN COLOUR DATA AT REGIONAL SCALES: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND APPLICATIONS SATELLITE ESTIMATES OF PHYTOPLANKTON PRIMARY PRODUCTION AT SANTOS BIGHT, SOUTHWESTERN-SOUTH ATLANTIC: COMPARISON OF ALGORITHMS ................................................................................537

M. Kampel, S. Sathyendranath, T. Platt, S. A. Graeta

TU2.O9: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND FEATURE EXTRACTION SPATIALLY ADAPTIVE CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA WITH GAUSSIAN PROCESSES.......................541

G. Jun, J. Ghosh

AN EFFICIENT HIERARCHICAL HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING BINARY QUATERNION-MOMENT-PRESERVING THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUE ..................................................................................545

L. Chang, C. M. Cheng, Y. L. Chang

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION OF SPECTRALLY SIMILAR MINERALS .........................................................................................549P. Debba

OPTIMIZING WAVELETS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION........................................................................553A. Daamouche, F. Melgani, L. Hamami

SEMI-SUPERVISED CONTEXTUAL CLASSIFICATION AND UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA BASED ON MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS ................................................................................................................................................557

R. Nichii, T. Ozaki, Y. Sawamura

TU2:O10: ACTIVE/PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF TERRESTRIAL SNOW II MODELING OF EMISSION FROM SNOW-COVERED GROUND FOR PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING.........................................................................................................................................................................................................561

L. Jiang, S. Tjuatja, J. Shi, J. Du

A COMBINED MICROWAVE EMISSION MODEL FOR COLD LAND............................................................................................565T. Zhao, L. Zhang, L. Jiang, J. Shi, S. Zhao, J. Pan, L. Chai, Y. Zhang

MONITORING OF SNOW COVER PROPERTIES DURING THE SPRING MELTING PERIOD IN FORESTED AREAS ......................................................................................................................................................................................569

J. T. Koskinen, J. T. Pulliainen, K. P. Luojus

TU2:O12: GNSS REMOTE SENSING OF ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN AND LAND II THE PARIS IN-ORBIT DEMONSTRATOR .............................................................................................................................................573

M. Martin-Neira, S. D'Addio, C. Buck, N. Floury, R. Prieto-Cerdeira

ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING USING GNSS IN THE AUSTRALASIAN REGION: FROM TEMPERATE CLIMATES TO THE TROPICS .......................................................................................................................................577

C. Rizos, S. Lim, J. A. Musa, S. Ses, A. Sharifuddin, K. Zhang

TU2:O13: REMOTE SENSING FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF SAVANNA PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS II A COST-EFFECTIVE, RULE-BASED TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE FORESTRY INVENTORY ON A NATIONAL SCALE ......................................................................................................................................................................................581

G. Stephenson, A. V. Niekerk

CONNECTING THE DOTS BETWEEN LASER WAVEFORMS AND HERBACEOUS BIOMASS FOR ASSESSMENT OF LAND DEGRADATION USING SMALL-FOOTPRINT WAVEFORM LIDAR DATA ..................................585

J. Wu, J. A. N. V. Aardt, G. P. Asner, R. Mathieu, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin, D. Knapp, K. Wessels, B. F. N. Erasmus, I. Smit

USING MISR FULL SPATIAL RESOLUTION LEVEL 1B2 DATA TO CHARACTERIZE THE SAVANNAH ENVIRONMENT AROUND THE SKUKUZA CSIR RESEARCH SITE..............................................................................................589

M. M. Verstraete, L. Hunt, R. J. Scholes

TUP.A: GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS I APPLICATION OF SAR REMOTE SENSING DATA TO LITHOLOGICAL MAPPING: A CASE STUDY IN RAILWAY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY........................................................................................................................................................593

Q. Tan, J. J. Gao, X. Li

INVERSE Q FILTERING TO ENHANCE SEISMIC RESOLUTION...................................................................................................596N. Tu, W. Lu

FAST EXTRACTING AND CHANGE DETECTION OF DAMMED LAKES USING HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES: A CASE STUDY OF TANGJIASHAN DAMMED LAKE.....................................................................................................600

Y. Shao, S. Wang, W. Tian, H. Gong, F. Zhang

NEOTECTONIC INFORMATION FROM DRAINAGE BASIN GEOMETRY IN THE TAJIK DEPRESSION ...........................604A. Kabner, R. Gloaguen

A SUITALBE SOLUTION FOR EXTRACTION OF ALTERATION ANOMALIES FROM THE REMOTE SENSING DATA: A CASE STUDY OF THE BAOGUTU PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSIT INTRUSION, XINJIANG, CHINA USING ASTER DATA ..............................................................................................................................................608

Y. Chen, Q. Lin, H. Guo, Y. Wei, Q. Wang

SPATIAL SUBDIVISION AND CODING OF A GLOBAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRID:SPHEOID DEGENERATED-OCTREE GRID .............................................................................................................................................................612

J. Yu, L. Wu

USING PERMANENT SCATTERER INSAR TO DETECT LAND SUBSIDENCE AND GROUND FISSURES: A CASE STUDY IN XI'AN CITY ....................................................................................................................................................................616

D. Ge, Y. Wang, L. Zhang, X. Guo

REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS OF QUATERNARY DEFORMATION USING RIVER NETWORKS IN HINDUKUSH REGION ................................................................................................................................................................................620

S. A. Mahmood, F. Shahzad, R. Gloaguen

TUP.B: GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS II A STUDY ON RECOGNITION CHARACTERIZATION OF PASSIVE SUPER LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC EXPLORING CURVES OF GOAF..................................................................................................................624

Q. Qin, B. Li, X. Ye, H. Jiang, R. Cui, W. Tian

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PASSIVE SUPER LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA PROCESSING SOFTWARE ........................................................................................................................................................................627

R. Cui, Q. Qin, B. Li, Q. Wang

REMOTE SENSING EROSION ESTIMATION.......................................................................................................................................631R. Gloaguen, M. Leidig, C. Andermann

A METHOD OF CORRECTION FOR MARINE SEISMIC ACQUISITION.......................................................................................635J. Wang, W. Lu

RESEARCH ON METHOD FOR 3D URBAN GEOLOGICAL MODELING......................................................................................639D. Che, C. Xiu, Z. Yin

A CONVENIENT DESIGNATION FOR THE OPTIMAL HYDRAULIC CROSS-SECTION OF "RECTANGLE-V" SHAPED DRAINAGE CANAL OF VISCOUS DEBRIS FLOW ......................................................................................................643

Y. Yong, L. Jinfeng, C. Xingshang, P. Huali

RESERCH ON DRIVING FACTORS OF LAND SUBSIDENCE WITH REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY ..........................647K. Zhu, H. Gong, X. Li, Y. Su, L. Jing

TUP.C: GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS III ESTIMATION OF SEISMIC INTENSITY DUE TO THE 2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE......................................................651

B. Jeong, M. Hosokawa, S. Zama, O. Takizawa

A GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION PORTAL FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL DISASTERS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................655

Yong Tu, Q. Li, R. Liu

CHARACTERISTICS AND RISK ANALYSIS OF QINGLIN DEBRIS FLOW INDUCED BY "5.12" WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE IN BEICHUAN COUNTY, SICHUAN, CHINA .................................................................................659

X. Chen, Y. Yong, C. Peng, L. Jinfeng

ANALYSIS ON THE WATER VAPOR ANOMALY BEFORE WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE BASED ON MODIS DATA ................................................................................................................................................................................................663

S. Liu, L. Cui, L. Wu, Z. Wang

THE JANUARY 2002 ERUPTION OF NYIRAGONGO VOLCANO (DRC) CAPTURED BY INSAR ............................................667C. Waithier, V. Cayol, F. Kervyn, N. D'Oreye

EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY ESTIMASTION AND DAMAGE DETECTION USING REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR GLOBAL RESCUE OPERATIONS ......................................................................................................................................671

M. Hosokawa, B. Jeong, O. Takizawa

TUP.D: LIDAR SENSING CSIR-NLC MOBILE LIDAR FOR ATMOSPHERE REMOTE SENSING ..........................................................................................675

V. Sivakumar, M. Tesfaye, J. Botai, D. Moema, A. Sharma, C. Bollig, C. J. H. Rautenbach

CHARACTERIZATION OF SOIL SURFACE ROUGHNESS FROM TERRISTRIAL LASER SCANNER DATA .....................679W. Ni, G. Sun, Z. Guo, Y. Pang

SPECTRAL RATIO LIDAR FOR OBJECTS DETECTION ..................................................................................................................683S. Song, P. Li, W. Gong, L. Zhang, B. Zhu, L. Lv, D. Zhang

AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF BUILDING GEOMETRIC FEATURES FROM RAW LIDAR DATA ...................................687Z. Wang, L. Wu

SIMULATION OF 3D LASER SYSTEMS .................................................................................................................................................691G. Berging, M. Jouffroy

TUP.E: HYPERSPECTRAL AND OPTICAL SENSING A FIRST APPROACH TO AUTOMATIC MONITORING PROCEDURE OF CASE II WATER QUALITY FROM HJ-1 SATELLITE IMAGES ...........................................................................................................................................................695

Y. Wu, B. Zhang, J. Li, H. Zhang, Q. Shen, D. Wu

A DUAL-SWATH BUCKEYE EO IMAGING SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATIONS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTERS ..................................................................................................................................................699

X. Sun, W. Chen

ESTIMATION OF THE MTF OF A SATELLITE IMAGING-SYSTEM FROM CELESTIAL SCENES .......................................703S. Faram, I. Eshet, N. Yehezkel, J. Molcho

SIZE-OF-SOURCE EFFECT AND DISTANCE EFFECT ESTIMATION OF THREE TRANSFER RADIOMETERS FOR PREFLIGHT CROSS-CALIBRATION EXPERIMENT ................................................................................707

F. Sakuma, S. Kawakami, A. Kuze

DEVELOPING A NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED “BRDF” TOOL FOR THE UAE COASTAL AND INLAND ZONES.............................................................................................................................................................................................................711

A. A. Suwaidi, A. A. Rais, H. Ghedira, M. Temimi

ALISEO ON MIOSAT: AN AEROSPACE IMAGING INTERFEROMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION .............................715A. Barducci, F. Castagnoli, G Castellini, D. Guzzi, P. Marcoionni, I. Pippi

TUP.F: OCEAN BIOLOGY POSTERS ZOOPLANKTON TRANSPORT AND DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE GULF OF LIONS: ESTIMATES FROM A LAGRANGIAN MODEL AND OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING DATA...............................................................................................719

Z. Qiu, A. M. Doglioli, F. Carlotti

REMOTELY-SENSED INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF YANGTZE RIVER’S DISCHARGE TO THE EAST CHINA SEA.........................................................................................................................................................................................723

C. Chen, S. Tang, P. Shi, H. Zhan

MONITORING OF HARBOR DREDGING USING REMOTE SENSING AND OPTICAL IN SITU DATA .................................727L. Sipelgas, U. Raudsepp

TUP.G: OCEAN REMOTE SENSING: MEASUREMENTS AND SIMULATIONS 3D COASTAL BATHYMETRY RECONSTRUCTION USING TOPSAR DATA ...............................................................................730

M. Marghany

RADAR SIGNAL RETRODIFFUSION BY WATER SURFACE ...........................................................................................................734J. F. Nouvel, J. C. Souyris

FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL FOR MODELING SEA SURFACE CURRENT FROM RADARSAT-1 SAR DATA ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................738

M. Marghany

SEA SURFACE SIMULATION FOR SAR REMOTE SENSING BASED ON THE FRACTAL MODEL.......................................742D. Guo, X. Gu, T. Yu, X. Li, J. Zheng, H. Xu

MERIDIONAL VARIABILITY IN SMOS SALINITY RETRIEVALS: TRADE-OFF BETWEEN SENSITIVITY TO GEOPHYSICAL EFFECTS AND INCREASED TEMPORAL SAMPLING .................................................................................746

R. Sabia, A. Camps, M. Talone, J. Gourrion, J. Ballabrera, M. Vall-Llossera, J. Font

CHARACTERISTICS OF SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT IN CHINA SEAS AND THEIR ADJACENT WATERS FROM MERGED ALTIMETRY DATA ..................................................................................................................................750

J. Yang, X. Chen, R. Zhang, J. Wang, W. Huang

SPATIO-TEMPORAL INDEXING OF THE QUIKSCAT WIND DATA .............................................................................................754F. R. Rodriguez, M. Barrena

TUP.H: ATMOSPHERIC SENSING, AEROSOLS AND CHEMISTRY DESIGN AND APPLICATION OF HAZE OPTIC THICKNESS RETRIEVAL MODEL FOR BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES .......................................................................................................................................................................................758

S. Li, L. Chen, F. Zheng, D. Han, Z. Wang

RETREIVAL OF TROPOSPHERIC NITROGEN DIOXIDE VERTICAL COLUMN DENSITY DURING THE 2008 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES IN BEIJING ...................................................................................................................................762

D. Han, L. Chen, W. Wu, S. Li, Z. Wang

RESEARCH ON DARK DENSE VEGETATION ALGORITHM BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE CCD DATA .....................................................................................................................................................................................................766

S. Li, L. Chen, Z. Wang, Q. Li, F. Zheng

A TECHNIQUE TO DERIVE THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF RAIN INTENSITY FROM NWP DATA ..............................770C. Capsoni, L. Luini

THE RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OVER LAND SURFACES FROM CBERS02B IN BEIJING AREA ........................................774Z. Wang, L. Zhang, L. Chen, Q. Li, S. Li, Y. Zhang, Z. Wang, C. Yu

SIMULTANEOUS RETRIEVAL OF GEOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS FROM THE INFRARED HYPERSPECTRAL RESOLUTION SOUNDING DATA USING NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUE ...........................................................................................................................................................................778

N. Wang, B. H. Tang, Z. L. Li

CHARACTERIZATION OF AEROSOL PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES FROM A COMBINATION OF GROUND-BASED AND HAND-HELD SUN-PHOTOMETER DATA OF SINGAPORE............................................................782

S. V. Salinas, C. B. Ning, S. C. Liew

FOG FORECASTING, DETECTION AND MONITORING IN THE UAE USING SEVIRI-MSG DATA ......................................786A. Bushahab, A. A. Suwaidi, H. Ghedira, K. Mubarak

TUP.I: UAV AND AIRBORNE SENSING DESIGN OF A STAND ALONE NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING POSITION ESTIMATION ALGORITHM ............................790

M. Jayachandran, J. Manikandan, Y. Hwegy

HIGH-COMPACTED FM-CW SAR FOR BOARDING ON SMALL UAVS........................................................................................794R. Acevo-Herrera, A. Aguasca, J. J. Mallorqui, X. Fabregas

THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION FOR UAV POLARIZATION REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM.....................................798L. Yan, H. Sun, H. Tang, P. Gao, R. Liang

FULLY AUTOMATIC AND ROBUST UAV CAMERA CALIBRATION USING CHESSBOARD PATTERNS...........................802K. Douterloigne, S. Gautama, W. Philips

USING AERIAL IMAGES TO CALIBRATE THE INERTIAL SENSORS OF A LOW-COST MULTISPECTRAL AUTONOMOUS REMOTE SENSING PLATFORM (AGGIEAIR) ..................................................................806

A. M. Jensen, Y. Han, Y. Q. Chen

TUP.J: LAND SURFACE SNOW AND ICE B A NEW, BLENDED SNOW PRODUCT USING VISIBLE, PASSIVE MICROWAVE AND SCATTEROMETER SATELLITE DATA .......................................................................................................................................................................................810

J. Foster, D. Hall, J. Eylander

MERGING FLAT/FOREST AND MOUNTAINOUS SNOW PRODUCTS FOR EXTENDED EUROPEAN AREA .....................814P. Lahtinen, A. G. Erturk, J. Pulliainen, J. Koskinen

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON SNOW COVER MONITORING OF DIFFERENT SPATIAL RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES ....................................................................................................................................................................818

J. Hongbo, Q. Qiming, Z. Ning, Z. Shaohua, Y. Lin, D. Heng

TUP.K: LAND SURFACE SNOW AND ICE A ESTABLISHING A BASE CAMP SERVER FOR REMOTE SENSING OF ICE SHEETS IN ILLULISSAT, GREENLAND.................................................................................................................................................................................................822

L. Hayden, J. H. Powell, E. Akers

DERIVATION OF GLACIER VELOCITY FROM SAR AND OPTICAL DATA WITH FEATURE TRACKING .......................825L. Huang, Z. Li

THE GLACIER MOVEMENT ESTIMATION AND ANALYSIS WITH INSAR IN THE QINHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU .......................................................................................................................................................................................................829

Z. Li, J. Zhou, B. Tian

EVALUATION OF GLACIER RUNOFF IN TAILAN BASIN BY MONTHLY DEGREE-DAY MODEL ......................................833S. Zhang, X. Zhang

DISTRIBUTION OF WINTER FROZEN SOIL DEPTH IN QILIAN MOUNTAIN AND ITS RESPONSE TO TEMPERATURE CHANGE ........................................................................................................................................................................837

J. Wang, H. Zhang, Z. Liu, B. Huang

SEA ICE CO NCENTRATION AND TYPE ANALYSIS FROM DUAL POL RADARSAT-2 AND MODIS IMAGES IN THE BALTIC SEA..................................................................................................................................................................841

R. Uiboupin, L. Sipelgas, U. Raudsepp

GROUND BASED SAR SURVEY OF BASAL INTERFACE AT NEEM DRILL SITE......................................................................845W. Blake, C. Leuschen, C. Laird, D. Dahl-Jensen

POTENTIALS OF RADARSAT-2 DATA TO MONITOR FREEZING/THAWING CYCLES OVER AGRICULTURAL LANDS IN CANADA ..................................................................................................................................................849

L. P. Rousseau, R. Magagi, R. Leconte, A. Berg, B. Toth

TUP.L: LAND SURFACE SNOW AND ICE C THE RESULTS OF PRELIMINARY MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW AND WATER ICE MICROWAVE REFLECTION AND EMISSION ANGULAR DEPENDENCES AT 5,6GHZ.......................................................................................853

A. K. Hambaryan, A. K. Arakelyan, H. G. Muradyan, V. V. Karyan, G. G. Hovhannisyan, A. A. Arekelyan, M. L. Grigoryan, I. K. Hakobyan, M. R. Manukyan

ESTIMATION OF ACCUMULATION AREA RATIO OF A GLACIER FROM MULTI-TEMPORAL SATELLITE IMAGES USING SPECTRAL UNMIXING .......................................................................................................................857

J. C. W. Chan, J. V. Ophem, P. Huybrechts

THE ATMOSPHERE INFLUENCE TO AMSR-E MEASUREMENTS OVER SNOW-COVERED AREA: SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT ..........................................................................................................................................................861

Y. Qiu, J. Shi, J. Lemmetyinen, A. Kontu, J. Pulliainen, H. Guo, L. Jiang, J. R. Wang, M. Hallikainen, L. Zhang

IMPROVED SNOW DEPTH RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM IN CHINA AREA USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING DATA .........................................................................................................................................................................865

S. Chang, J. Shi, L. Jiang, L. Zhang, H. Yang

EVALUATING SNOW DEPTH IN WESTERN CHINA BASED ON PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING.........................................................................................................................................................................................................869

X. Yun, J. Shi, J. Du, J. Lingmei

ANALYSIS ON FACTORS AFFECTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALPINE PERMAFROST IN CENTRAL-EASTERN QILIANSHAN MOUNTAINS, NORTHWEST CHINA .......................................................................................................873

J. Li, Y. Sheng, S. Jiao, G. Yang

MEASUREMENT AND SIMULATION OF THE SNOW PROPERTIES AT AN ALPINE VALLEY SITE...................................877Y. Liu, L. Jiang, J. Shi, L. Zhang, J. Pan, S. Zhao, Y. Zhang

SNOW DENSITY ESTIMATION USING POLARIMETRIC ASAR DATA ........................................................................................881G. Singh, G. Venkataraman

DISASTER MONITORING AND EARLY-WARNING SYSTEM FOR SNOW AVALANCHE ALONG TIANSHAN HIGHWAY ...............................................................................................................................................................................885

X. Liu, Y. Liu, L. Li, Y. Ren

TUP.M: GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS ESTABLISHMENT AND APPLICATION OF NWA SYSTEM IN WATERSHED ECOSYSTEM QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON RS AND GIS ..................................................................................................................................................889

C. Yuan, Y. Xie, C. Zhao, Z. Feng

NEW TECHNIQUES OF REMOTE SENSING IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING ......................893R. Shi, M. Xu, L. Zhu

STUDY ON TOBACCO SPATIAL AGGLOMERATION PATTERNBASED ON REMOTE SENSING AND GIS METHODS IN HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA...........................................................................................................................................897

M. Deng, D. Wu, F. Li, W. Fan

HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY LOCATION DESIGN USING GIS...............................................................................................................901D. Qiu, M. Du, S. Lu, R. Shi

AN IMPROVED FRACTAL CONSTRUCTION ON 3D DEM TERRAIN PROFILE.........................................................................905W. He, Z. Niu, L. Liang

HOW TO DECIDE THE UNITS OF DRAINAGE PATTERN OF GENERALIZATION...................................................................909L. Jiang, Q. Qi, A. Zhang

GIS-BASED SUPPORT MODELS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ERHAI LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM ...........................................................................................................................................913

J. Zhao

RESEARCH AND APPLICATION OF PLANNING SUPPORT SYSTEM BASED ON 3S TECHNIQUES FOR POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION AFTER WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA ........................................................917

W. Zhou, F. Mao, Z. Liu, Q. Li, Q. Fu

TUP.N: ELECTROMAGNETICS AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT OF INFRARED REMOTE SENSING IMAGES:HJ-1B CASE .................................921

G. Yang, Q. Liu, Z. Xing, W. Huang, X. Li

A DISCRETE INTERFEROMETRIC MODEL FOR A LAYER OF RANDOM MEDIUM ..............................................................925S. S. Seker, R. H. Lang

THE COHERENT MICROWAVE EMISSION OF FREEZING SOIL: EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AND MODEL SIMULATION................................................................................................................................................................................929

S. Zhao, L. Zhang, Y. Zhang, L. Jiang, W. Xing, T. Zhao

SENSITIVE ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS MEASUREMENT ERRORS ON TEMPEARTURE AND EMISSIVITY SEPARATION METHOD WITH HYPERSPECTRAL DATA ...............................................................................................................933

X. Ouyang, X. Wang, B. H. Tang, Z. L. Li

CANOPY MODELING AND VALIDATION FOR ROW PLANTED CROPS OF KEY GROWTH STAGES ...............................937Y. Yao, Q. Liu, Q. Liu

EXPERIMENTS OF SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL BASED ON EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER ...........................................941R. Zhong, Q. Li, W. Zhao

SYNTHETIC RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH AND SURFACE REFLECTANCE USING TERRA AND AQUA PLATFORMS IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS ...........................................................................................................945

J. Guang, Y. Xue, X. Li, Y. Wan, Y. Li, J. Ai, L. Bai, L. Mei

MICROWAVE SATELLITE DATA APPLIED FOR AGRICULTURE AREA - CASE STUDY POLAND ....................................949K. Dabrowska-Zielinska, A. Ciolkosz, W. Kowalik, M. Budzynska

COMBINED USE OF CASSINI RADAR ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MEASUREMENTS TO CHARACTERIZE TITAN MORPHOLOGY ..............................................................................................................................................................................953

B. Ventura, D. Casarano, C. Notanicola, M. Janssen, F. Posa

AN IMPROVEMENT OF METHOD FOR MONITORING DROUGHT USING REMOTE SENSING ..........................................957J. Zhu, J. Shi, H. Chu, Q. Feng, A. Wang

STUDY ON THE BACKSCATTERING CHARACTERISTIC OF TYPICAL EARTH SUBSTANCES IN NORTHWEST OF CHIANA ........................................................................................................................................................................961

Z. Liu, C. Yan, M. Jia, T. Ling, C. Xu

TUP.O: MICROWAVE SCATTERING AND PROPAGATION MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER AT FREQUENCIES OF AMSU-B: EFFECTS OF UNCERTAINTIES IN ICE PERMITTIVITY ON BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES .........................................................................................................965

X. Xie, J. Miao, W. Wang

PASSIVE REAL-TIME LOCALIZATION THROUGH WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS ..........................................................969F. Viani, M. Martinelli, L. Ioriatti, M. Benedetti, A. Massa

DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS STUDY OVER OCEAN, LAND AND ICE FROM SPACE .....................................................................973P. Ferre-Lillo, N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, X. Bosch-Lluis, E. Valencia, J. F. Marchan-Hernandez, I. R. P. A. Camps

TEMPORAL VARIATION OF SIMULATED RICE BACKSCATTERING OF S-BAND HJ-1 SAR...............................................977F. Zhang, K. Li, X. Li, M. Xu

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM MULTIPLE CYLINDERS........................................................................................981W. Yan, D. Liu, Y. Du, H. T. Ewe

POLARIZATION PLANE ROTATION EFFECTS ON SAR POLARIMETRIC ATTRIBUTES .....................................................985S. J. S. Sant'Anna, J. C. D. S. Lacava, D. Fernandes

MICROWAVE SCATTERING BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS OF TYPICAL TARGETS WITH SAR IMAGE..................................989X. Li, K. Li, F. Zhang, Y. Shao, Q. Tan

QUASIOPTICAL BEAM PROPAGATION FOR REMOTE SENSING................................................................................................993S. Zvanovec, P. Pechac, M. Mazanek

CORRECTION OF TARGET DATA TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE TROPOSPHERE REFRACTIVITY ...........................................................................................................................................................................................996

I. B. Shirokov, Y. B. Gimpilevich, G. V. Jandieri, I. B. Serdyuk

ON THE VALUE OF HIGH RESOLUTION WEATHER MODELS FOR ATMOSPHERIC MITIGATION IN SAR INTERFEROMETRY ........................................................................................................................................................................1000

S. Liu, R. Hanssen, A. Mika

TU3.O1: RADARSAT I RADARSAT-2 INITIAL SYSTEM OPERATIONS AND PERFORMANCE......................................................................................1004

A. Hillman, P. Rolland, R. Periard, A. Luscombe, M. Chabot, C. Chen, N. Martens

IMAGE QUALITY AND CALIBRATION OF RADARSAT-2 .............................................................................................................1008A. Luscombe

TU3.O2: TANDEM-X: THE MISSION STATUS TANDEM-X DEM CALIBRATION: CORRECTION OF SYSTEMATIC DEM ERRORS BY BLOCK ADJUSTMENT.............................................................................................................................................................................................1012

A. Gruber, B. Wessel, M. Huber

PROCESSING SYSTEM AND ALGORITHMS FOR THE TANDEM-X MISSION.........................................................................1016H. Breit, T. Fritz, M. Eineder, R. Bamler, M. Lachaise, R. Brcic, N. Adam, N. Yague-Martinez

ENSURING GLOBALLY THE TANDEM-X HEIGHT ACCURACY: ANALYSIS OF THE REFERENCE DATA SETS ICESAT, SRTM AND KGPS-TRACKS .........................................................................................................................................1020

M. Huber, B. Wessel, D. Kosmann, A. Felbier, V. Schwieger, M. Habermeyer, A. Wendleder, A. Roth

TU3.O3: COSMO-SKYMED MISSION: STATUS AND RESULTS I COSMO-SKYMED MISSION STATUS: THREE OUT OF FOUR SATELLITES IN ORBIT ........................................................1024

F. Covello, F. Battazza, A. Coletta, G. Manoni, G. Valentini

SEA SURFACE TRANSPORT DERIVED BY FREQUENT REVISIT TIME SERIES OF COSMO-SKYMED SAR DATA ....................................................................................................................................................................................................1028

A. Ciappa, L. Pietranera, A. Coletta

COSMO-SKYMED CONTRIBUTION IN OIL SPILL MONITORING OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA ...............................1032F. Nirchio, G. Pandiscia, G. Ruggieri, R. Santoleri, F. Tataranni, A. Giancaspro, P. Trivero, N. Pinardi, A. Masnini, C. Castellani

TU3.O4: 18 YEARS ESA ERS AND ENVISAT EARTH OBSERVATIONS 18 YEARS OF INTERFEROMETRY, AS SEEN FROM POLIMI.......................................................................................................1036

F. Rocca

TU3.O5: PERFORMANCE OPERATIONAL SURFACE DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS FROM RADAR INTERFEROMETRY I SCIENTIFIC REQUIREMENTS AND FEASABILITY ON AN L-BAND MISSION DEDICATED TO MEASURE SURFACE DEFORMATION ................................................................................................................................................1040

M. Eineder, A. Friedrich, C. Minet, R. Bamler, F. Flerit, I. Hajnsek

MISSION DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE FOR SYSTEMATIC DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS WITH A SPACEBORNE SAR SYSTEM ..............................................................................................................................................................1044

F. D. Zan, P. Prats, G. Krieger

DEFORMATION MONITORING USING THE ALOS/PALSAR........................................................................................................1048M. Shimada, Y. Miyagi

TU3.O6: DATA ASSIMILATION INTO NUMERICAL MODELS IMPACT STUDIES OF AMSR-E OCEAN SURFACE WIND SPEED DATA IN NWP AT JMA ...................................................1052

Masahiro Kazumori

ASSIMILATING FY-3A VASS DATA INTO CHINESE 3DVAR ASSIMILATION SYSTEM (GRAPES 3DVAR).....................1056Q. Lu, X. Wu, P. Zhang, S. Gu, C. Dong, J. Gong, X. Shen, C. Qi, G. Ma

EARLY DETECTION OF HURRICANES ORIGIN IN OCEANS WITH REMOTE SENSING METHODS AND INFORMATION MODELING TECHNLOGIES....................................................................................................................................1060

V. F. Krapivin, A. G. Grankov, S. P. Golovachev, A. A. Mil'Shin, A. M. Shutko, V. Y. Soldatov, S. Marechek, A. A. Chuklantsev, G. K. Zagorin

DATA ASSIMILATION FOR CONVECTIVE CELLS TRACKING IN MSG IMAGES .................................................................1064C. Thomas, T. Corpetti, E. Memin

TU3.O7: SPECIAL TECHNIQUES ON VOLUME AND SURFACE SCATTERING MODELLING OF ROUGHNESS EFFECTS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES PROPAGATION ABOVE SEA SURFACE USING 3D PARABOLIC EQUATION. .......................................................................................................................1068

O. Benhmammouch, N. Caouren, A. Khenchaf

COMPARISON BETWEEN ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY A RAIN INDUCED SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND FIELD DATA ...........................................................................................................................................................1072

P. Sobieski, C. Craeye, L. F. Bliven

STABLE COHERENT AREA IN SAR INTERFEROMETRY .............................................................................................................1076G. Hochard, R. Binet, J. M. Nicolas

ANALYZING RADAR BACKSCATTER OF LAND WITHIN THE TRMM FOOTPRINT USING HIGH RESOLUTION SAR ....................................................................................................................................................................................1080

J. Fritz, V. Chandrasekar

TU3.O8: COASTAL OCEAN BIOLOGY AND WATER QUALITY RETRIEVAL OF WATER CONSTITUENTS FROM MULTIPLE EARTH OBSERVATION SENSORS IN LAKES, RIVERS AND COASTAL ZONES ............................................................................................................................................1084

T. Heege, V. Kiselev, D. Odermatt, J. Heblinski, K. Schmieder, T. V. Khac, T. T. Long

MONITORING TURBIDITY AND SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION OF COASTAL AND INLAND WATERS USING SATELLITE DATA....................................................................................................................................1088

S. C. Liew, B. Saengtuksin, L. K. Kwoh

TU3.O9: KERNEL-BASED FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION RANDOM ENSEMBLE FEATURE SELECTION FOR LAND COVER MAPPING........................................................................1091

A. Gidudu, A. T. Bolanle, T. Marwala

KERNEL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE EXTENDED MORPHOLOGICAL PROFILE................................................................................................................................................................1094

M. Fauvel, J. Chanussot, J. A. Benediktsson

FEATURE SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA BASED ON MODIFIED RECURSIVE SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES ................................................................................................................................................................................1098

R. Zhang, J. Ma, X. Chen, Q. Tong

SUPPORT VECTOR SELECTION AND ADAPTATION FOR CLASSIFICATION OF EARTHQUAKE IMAGES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1102

G. T. Kaya, O. K. Ersoy, M. E. Kamasak

AN EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE KERNEL APPROACH TO INCREASE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY .........................................................................................................1106

B. Demir, S. Erturk

TU3.O10: MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING OF SNOW SNORTEX (SNOW REFLECTANCE TRANSITION EXPERIMENT): REMOTE SENSING MEASUREMENT OF THE DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF THE BOREAL SNOW-FOREST IN SUPPORT TO CLIMATE AND WEATHER FORECAST: REPORT OF IOP-2008 .................................................................................................................................1110

J. L. Roujean, T. Manninen, A. Kontu, J. Peltoniemi, O. Hautecoeur, A. Riihela, P. Lahtinen, N. Siljamo, M. Lotjonen, H. Suokanerva, T. Sukuvaara, S. Kassalainen, O. Aulamo, V. Aaltonen, L. Tholix, J. Karhu, J. Suomalainen, T. Hakala, H. Kaartinen

SEVEN YEARS OF SNOW COVER MONITORING WITH MODIS TO MODEL CATCHMENT DISCHARGE IN NEW ZEALAND ....................................................................................................................................................................................1114

P. Sirguey, R. Mathieu, Y. Arnaud, B. B. Fitzharris

EVALUATION OF THE SINGLE REFERENCE IMAGE SNOW-COVERED AREA ESTIMATION METHOD FOR THE BOREAL FOREST ZONE.......................................................................................................................................................1118

K. Luojus, J. Pulliainen, S. Metsamaki

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION ACTIVITIES OF HUT SNOW EMISSION MODEL ................................................................1122J. Lemmetyinen, A. Kontu, Y. Qiu, J. Pulliainen, M. Hallikainen

TU3.O12: GNSS REMOTE SENSING OF ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN AND LAND III IMAGING THE IONOSPHERE OVER SOUTHERN AFRICA USING GNSS SIGNALS: APPLICATIONS IN RADIO ASTRONOMY AND SPACE WEATHER .................................................................................................................................1126

B. D. L. Opperman, P. J. Cilliers

INVESTIGATION OF IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION OVER SOUTH AFRICA AND THE SOUTH ATLANTIC ANOMALY USING GPS SIGNALS: FIRST RESULTS..................................................................................................1130

P. Cilliers, B. Opperman, R. Meyer

GPS ASSISTANCE IN MODELLING THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN IONOSPHERE .....................................................................1134L. A. McKinnell, J. B. Habarulema, P. Cilliers, B. Opperman

TU3.O13: THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN REGIONAL SCIENCE INITIATIVE – SAFARI 2000 I THE AEROSOL MEASUREMENT AND PROCESSING SYSTEM AND APPLICATIONS TO AFRICAN STUDIES .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1137

S. Paradise, M. J. Garay, A. Braverman, B. Wilson

TU4.O2: NEW SAR SYSTEMS RADARSAT-1 AND -2 GOVERNMENT CALIBRATION ACTIVITIES ...........................................................................................1141

S. Cote, S. Srivastava, R. Hawkins, S. Muir, T. Lukowski

RADARSAT CONSTELLATION, PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND STATUS....................................................................................1145G. Seguin, S. Ahmed

TERRASAR-X AND RADARSAT-2 FOR CROP CLASSIFICATION AND ACREAGE ESTIMATION .....................................1149H. McNairn, J. Shang, C. Champagne, X. Jiao

TU4.O2: NEW SAR SYSTEMS F-SAR – DLR’S NEW MULTIFREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC AIRBORNE SAR ........................................................................1153

R. Horn, A. Nottensteiner, A. Reigber, J. Fischer, R. Scheiber

RBX: THE NEW X-BAND RADAR FROM INTA..................................................................................................................................1157M. G. Rodriguez, J. F. C. Muradas, J. R. L. Sudupe

THE RADARSAT CONSTELLATION MISSION: MEETING THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA’S NEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS .............................................................................................................................................................................1161

D. Flett, Y. Crevier, R. Girard

DEVELOPMENT OF X-BAND AIRBORNE POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR WITH SUB-METER SPATIAL RESOLUTION ...........................................................................................................................................................1164

A. Nadai, S. Uratsuka, T. Umehara, T. Matsuoka, T. Kobayashi, M. Satake

INTASAR PROGRAM ................................................................................................................................................................................1168M. J. G. Bonilla, B. G. Miguel, J. M. C. Munoz, J. R. L. Sudupe, M. G. Rodriguez

TU4.O3: COSMO-SKYMED MISSION: STATUS AND RESULTS II USE OF COSMO-SKYMED DATA FOR SEISMIC RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ASI-SIGRIS PROJECT...............................................................................................................................................................................1172

S. Salvi, S. Vignoli, M. Serra, V. Bosi

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRIPMAP AND SPOTLIGHT SAR INTERFEROMETRY WITH COSMO-SKYMED CONSTELLATION ..................................................................................................................................................................1176

D. O. Nitti, R. Nutricato, F. Bovenga, F. Rana, D. Conte, G. Milillo, L. Guerriero

THE OPERA PROJECT: EO-BASED FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT IN ITALY .........................................................................1180G. Boni, L. Candela, F. Castelli, S. Dellepiane, M. Palandri, D. Persi, N. Pierdicca, R. Rudari, S. Serpico, F. Siccardi, C. Versace

USING COSMO-SKYMED DATA FOR FLOOD MAPPING: SOME CASE-STUDIES ..................................................................1184N. Pierdicca, M. Chini, L. Pulvirenti, L. Candela, P. Ferrazzoli, L. Guerriero, G. Boni, F. Siccardi, F. Castelli

TU4.O4: AIRBORNE AND GROUND BASED RADAR MEASUREMENTS IN SUPPORT OF SPACE BASED INSTRUMENTS I RETRIEVAL OF SOIL MOISTURE WITH AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE MICROWAVE SENSORS ....................................1188

E. Santi, S. Paloscia, P. Pampaloni, S. Pettinato, M. Brogioni

EXTRAPOLATION OF AIRBORNE POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA FOR VALIDATION OF BIO-GEO-RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS FOR FUTURE SPACEBORNE SAR MISSIONS ........................1192

R. Scheiber, S. K. Lee, K. P. Papathanassiou, N. Floury

IMPACT OF ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR ON THE DESIGN OF A KU BAND GEOSYNCHRONOUS SAR SYSTEM...............................................................................................................................................................................................1196

A. M. Guarnieri, F. Rocca, A. B. Ibars

SATELLITE GROUND DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS: AN ON-DEMAND GRID INSAR PROCESSING SYSTEM EXPLOITING THE SBAS ALGORITHM .............................................................................................................................1200

F. Casu, R. Cossu, L. Fusco, S. Guarino, R. Lanari, M. Manunta, G. Mazzarella, E. Sansosti

ROBUST SATELLITE TECHNIQUES FOR THERMAL VOLCANIC ACTIVITY MONITORING, EARLY WARNING AND POSSIBLE PREDICTION OF NEW ERUPTIVE EVENTS ..................................................................................1204

F. Marchese, C. Filizzola, G. Mazzeo, R. Paciello, N. Pergola, V. Tramutoli

TU4.O6: COLLABORATIVE ADAPTIVE SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE ATTENUATION MARGIN REQUIREMENTS IN A NETWORKED RADAR SYSTEM FOR OBSERVATION OF PRECIPITATION .................................................................................................................................................................................1208

V. Chandrasekar, D. Willie, Y. Wang, S. Lim

DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY (ZDR) CALIBRATION FOR CASA RADAR NETWORK USING PROPERTIES OF THE OBSERVED MEDIUM ....................................................................................................................................1211

J. M. Trabal, V. Chandrasekar, E. Gorgucci, D. J. McLaughlin

COVERAGE COMPARISON OF SHORT RANGE RADAR NETWORKS VS. CONVENTIONAL WEATHER RADAR: CASE STUDY IN THE NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES..........................................................................................1215

J. L. Salazar, A. Hopf, R. F. Contreras, B. Philips, E. J. Knapp, D. McLaughlin, J. Brotzge, K. Brewster

CASA PHASED ARRAY RADAR SYSTEM DESCRIPTION, SIMULATION AND PRODUCTS.................................................1219A. P. Hopf, J. L. Salazar, R. Medina, V. Venkatesh, E. J. Knapp, S. J. Frasier, D. J. McLaughlin

TU4.O7: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS AND APPLICATIONS IN AFRICA MONITORING SOIL MOISTURE CHANGE IN NORTH AFRICA WITH USING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING AND LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM ...................................................................................................................1223

H. Lu, T. Koike, H. Fujii, T. Ohta, K. Tamagawa

EVALUATION OF A SOIL MOISTURE DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM OVER WEST AFRICA .........................................1227J. Bolten, W. Crow, X. Zhan, T. Jackson, C. Reynolds

TU4.O8: CHANGE DETECTION ICA AND KERNEL ICA FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES ......................1231

S. Marchesi, L. Bruzzone

A VARIATIONAL LEVEL-SET METHOD FOR UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN REMOTE SENSING IMAGES .....................................................................................................................................................................................1235

Y. Bazi, F. Melgani

CONDITIONAL MIXED STATE MODEL FOR STRUCTURAL CHANGE ANALYSIS FROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL IMAGES.........................................................................................................................................................1239

B. Belmudez, V. Prinet, J. F. Yao, P. Bouthemy, X. Descombes

SIMILARITY MEASURE BETWEEN VECTOR DATA BASES AND OPTICAL IMAGES FOR CHANGE DETECTION ................................................................................................................................................................................................1243

J. Y. Tourneret, V. Poulain, M. Chabert, J. Inglada

SEMI-SUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION VIA GAUSSIAN PROCESSES ................................................................................1247K. Chen, C. Huo, Z. Zhou, H. Lu, J. Cheng

TU4.O9: ESTIMATION AND CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS AUTOMATIC UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF SNOW-COVERED AREAS BY DECISION-TREE CLASSIFICATION AND MINIMUM-ERROR THRESHOLDING ....................................................................................................1251

G. Macchiavello, G. Moser, G. Boni, S. B. Serpico

A DATA INTERPRETION CHAIN FOR HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA AIMED AT BASIC VEGETATION MAPPING APPLICATIONS .........................................................................................................................................1255

K. Bakos, P. Gamba

FUSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND LIDAR REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR THE ESTIMATION OF TREE STEM DIAMETERS....................................................................................................................................................................................1259

M. Dalponte, L. Bruzzone, D. Gianelle

EVALUATING ROBUSTNESS OF A HMM-BASED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM OF VOLCANO-SEISMIC EVENTS AT COLIMA AND POPOCATEPETL VOLCANOES .........................................................................................................1263

G. Cortes, R. Arambula, L. A. Gutierrez, C. Benitez, J. Ibanez, P. Lesage, I. Alvarez, L. Garcia

TU4.O10: REMOTE SENSING OF LAND ICE AND GLACIERS DOMEX-2 : L-BAND MICROWAVE EMISSION MEASUREMENTS OF THE ANTARCTIC PLATEAU ................................1267

G. Macelloni, M. Brogioni, A. Crepaz, M. Drinkwater, J. Zaccaria

CASE STUDIES OF FROZEN GROUND MONITORING USING PALSAR/ALOS DATA............................................................1271N. Longepe, T. Tadono, M. Shimada, E. Pottier, S. Allain

POLARIMETRIC ICE SOUNDING AT P-BAND: FIRST RESULTS.................................................................................................1275J. Dall

SURFACE VELOCITY AND VARIATIONS OF OUTLET GLACIERS OF THE PATAGONIA ICEFIELDS BY MEANS OF TERRASAR-X........................................................................................................................................................................1279

D. Floricioiu, M. Eineder, H. Rott, N. Yague-Martinez, T. Nagler

TU4.O11: MAPPING INNUNDATED WETLANDS WITH SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING II MAPPING CANADIAN WETLANDS USING L-BAND RADAR SATELLITE IMAGERY ...........................................................1283

J. Whitcomb, M. Moghaddam, K. McDonald, E. Podest

CALIBRATION, PARAMETERIZATION AND APPLICATION OF MERIS WATER CONSTITUENT ALGORITHMS FOR PERIALPINE LAKES ..........................................................................................................................................1287

D. Odermatt, V. Kiselev, T. Heege, C. Giardino, M. Bresciani, M. Kneubuhler, J. Nieke, K. Itten

TU4.O12: GOES-R, STATUS AND APPLICATIONS FROM THE NEXT GENERATION U.S. GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE SYSTEM PREPARING FOR RAINFALL NOWCASTING IN THE GOES-R ERA USING SEVIRI AND POLAR-ORBITING MICROWAVE DATA OVER AFRICA ..............................................................................................................................1291

R. J. Kuligowski

TU4.O13: THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN REGIONAL SCIENCE INITIATIVE – SAFARI 2000 II AIRBORNE IMAGING DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY: TRACE-GAS MEASUREMENTS FROM THE SUBURBS TO THE SUB-CONTINENT ........................................................................................1295

S. Broccardo, S. Piketh, K. P. Heue, U. Platt

LAKE VICTORIA AQUATIC WEEDS MONITORING BY HIGH SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY.............................................................................................................................................................................1299

R. M. Cavalli, L. Fusilli, G. Laneve, S. Pascucci, A. Palombo, S. Pignatti, F. Santini

WE1.O1: ADVANCED METHODS FOR POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION II SELECTABLE TARGET DETECTOR USING THE POLARIZATION FORK ...............................................................................1303

A. Marino, I. H. Woodhouse

HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USING HETEROGENEOUS CLUTTER MODELS ..................................................................................................................................................................................1307

L. Bombrun, J. M. Beaulieu, G. Vasile, J. P. Ovarlez, F. Pascal, M. Gay

PARAMETRIC VERSUS NON-PARAMETRIC COMPLEX-VALUES IMAGE ANALYSIS ........................................................1311J. Singh, M. Soccorsi, M. Datcu

ANALYSIS OF SAR IMAGE TIME-SERIES WITH A TIME-FREQUENCY METHOD ...............................................................1315C. Tison

WE1.O2: THREE-DIMENSIONAL SAR I 3D ANALYSIS OF SCATTERING EFFECTS BASED ON RAY TRACING TECHNIQUES .........................................................1319

S. Auer, X. Zhu, S. Hinz, R. Bamler

TOMOGRAPHIC 3D RECONSTRUCTION FROM AIRBORNE CIRCULAR SAR .......................................................................1323M. Pinheiro, P. Prats, R. Scheiber, M. Nannini, A. Reigber

JOINT SAR IMAGING AND DEM RECONSTRUCTION FROM MULTICHANNEL LAYOVER-AFFECTED SAR DATA ....................................................................................................................................................................................................1327

F. Baselice, A. Budillon, G. Ferraioli, V. Pascazio

3D CHARACTERIZATION OF BUILDINGS IN A DENSE URBAN ENVIRONMENT USING L-BAND POL-INSAR DATA WITH IRREGULAR BASELINES..................................................................................................................................1331

Y. Huang, L. Ferro-Famil

3D TOPOGRAPHY AND FOREST RECOVERY FROM AN L-BAND SINGLE-PASS AIRBORNE POLINSAR SYSTEM ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1335

B. Mercer, Q. Zhang, M. Schwaebisch, M. Denbina

WE1.O3: ACTIVE SENSING OF OCEAN WAVES, CURRENTS AND RAIN SWELL INFLUENCE ON OCEAN SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND RADAR SCATTERING FROM THE OCEAN SURFACE......................................................................................................................................................................................1339

P. A. Hwang, W. J. Plant

IMPROVING SEA STATES MONITORING OF NAUTICAL RADAR USING DISPERSION RELATION OF NONLINEAR OCEAN WAVES ................................................................................................................................................................1343

H. Li, L. Cui, Z. Qiu, S. Zhang, Y. He

ON SENSITIVITY OF KUROSHIO MODELING IN THE LUZON STRAIT WITH ERS-1/2 WIND FIELD FORCING .....................................................................................................................................................................................................1347

G. Liu, Y. He, H. Shen

WE1.O4: AIRBORNE AND GROUND BASED RADAR MEASUREMENTS IN SUPPORT OF SPACE BASED INSTRUMENTS II A VEGETATION CORRECTION METHODOLOGY APPLIED FOR SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM C-BAND RADAR OBSERVATIONS ........................................................................................................................................................1351

A. T. Joseph, R. Van Der Velde, P. E. O'Neill, R. Lang, T. Gish

WE1.O5: QUANTITATIVE REMOTE SENSING FOR GEOMORPHOLOGY AND ACTIVE TECTONICS I SURVEY OF LANDSLIDE ACTIVITY AND ROCKGLACIER MOVEMENT IN THE SWISS ALPS WITH TERRASAR-X ..............................................................................................................................................................................................1355

T. Strozzi, U. Wegmuller, C. Werner, A. Wiesmann, R. Delaloye, H. Raetzo

SEMI-DETERMINISTIC ESTIMATION OF EROSION WITH REMOTE SENSING DATA .......................................................1359M. Leidig, R. Gloaguen

DETECTION OF MICROWAVE SIGNALS ASSOCIATED WITH ROCK FAILURES IN AN EARTHQUAKE FROM SATELLITE-BORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA...............................................................................................1363

T. Maeda, T. Takano

ROBUST SATELLITE TECHNIQUES (RST) FOR MONITORING THERMAL ANOMALIES IN SEISMICALLY ACTIVE AREAS.............................................................................................................................................................1367

C. Aliano, R. Corrado, C. Filizzola, N. Genzano, V. Lanorte, G. Mazzeo, N. Pergola, V. Tramutoli

COSEISMIC SURFACE DEFORMATION CAUSED BY THE WENCHUAN M8 EARTHQUAKE FROM INSAR DATA ANALYSIS ..........................................................................................................................................................................1371

X. Song, X. Shan, C. Qu, G. Zhang, L. Guo, G. Zhang

WE1.O6: THE MATURING A-TRAIN CONSTELLATION: INTEGRATED SYSTEMS EARTH SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS CONSTELLATIONS: A NEW PARADIGM FOR EARTH OBSERVATIONS .................................................................................1375

A. C. Kelly, S. M. Volz, C. L. Yuhas, W. F. Case

AMSR-E AND ITS FOLLOW-ON, AMSR2.............................................................................................................................................1379E. Lobl, R. W. Spencer, K. Imaoka, K. Nakagawa

MODES OF NATURAL AND FORCED CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN 6 YEARS OF AIRS AND AMSU DATA ......................1383A. Ruzmaikin, H. H. Aumann

WE1.O7: SOIL MOISTURE OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS) MISSION OVERVIEW ON CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION ACTIVITIES FOR ESA'S SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSION ...................................................................................................................................................................1387

S. Mecklenburg, C. Bouzinac, S. Delwart

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDEX FOR FUTURE SMOS APPLICATIONS ...........................1391L. Chen, J. Shi

WE1.O8: MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY IN REMOTE SENSING MULTISCALE STOCHASTIC WATERSHED FOR UNSUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION .......................................................................................................................................................................................1395

J. Angulo, S. Velasco-Forero, J. Chanussot

MORPHOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTE FILTERS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF VERY HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES ..................................................................................................................................................................1399

M. D. Mura, J. A. Benediktsson, B. Waske, L. Bruzzone

EROSION AFTER GRADIENT (ERAGRAD) MORPHOLOGICAL PROFILE ..............................................................................1403R. Bellens, S. Gautama

CLASSIFICATION BASED MARKER SELECTION FOR WATERSHED TRANSFORM OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES ...................................................................................................................................................................1407

Y. Tarabalka, J. Chanussot, J. A. Benediktsson

MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE DISTANCES FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DIMENSIONALITY EXPLORATION USING KERNEL-PCA AND ISOMAP .....................................................................................................................................................1411

S. Velasco-Forero, J. Angulo, J. Chanussot

WE1.O9: PRECIPITATION: MEASUREMENTS, ANALYSIS AND TECHNOLOGY I ANALYSIS OF THE MEAN RAINDROP SHAPE MODEL FOR DUAL POLARIZATION RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATION ..............................................................................................................................................................................................1415

E. Gorgucci, L. Baldini

MONITORING WINTER MARINE WEATHER SYSTEMS USING SATELLITE MULTISENSOR OBSERVATIONS AND GROUND-BASED DATA ................................................................................................................................1419

L. Mitnik, M. Mitnik, E. Zabolotskikh, I. Gurvich, M. Pichugin

RADIO BASE NETWORK AND TOMOGRAPHIC PROCESSING FOR REAL TIME ESTIMATION OF THE RAINFALL RATE FIELDS .......................................................................................................................................................................1423

F. Cuccoli, L. Facheris, S. Gori

WE1.O10: SEA ICE SEA ICE TYPE CLASSIFICATION FROM MULTICHANNEL PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATASETS ....................................1427

N. Hughes

SEA ICE SAR CLASSIFICATION BASED ON EDGE FEATURES ...................................................................................................1431J. Karvonen, M. Hallikainen

WE1.O11: REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL PROPERTIES ANGULAR DEPENDENCE OF THE EMISSIVITY OF BARE SOILS IN THE THERMAL INFRARED...................................1435

V. Garcia, M. Mira, E. Valor, V. Caselles, C. Coll, J. M. Galve

RECOVERING SPECTRAL EMISSIVITY WITH ASTER-THERMAL DATA FROM TENERIFE ISLAND ............................1439A. Barreto, M. Arbelo, L. Nunez-Casillas, P. Hernandez-Leal, A. Gonzalez-Calvo, A. Alonso-Benito

OPTIMIZATION OF IMAGE PARAMETERS USING A HYPERSPECTRAL LIBRARY: APPLICATION TO SOIL IDENTIFICATION ...........................................................................................................................................................................1443

S. Kandasamy, F. Tavin, A. Minghelli-Roman, S. Mathieu, W. Liu, F. Baret, P. Gouton

THE MAPPING AND MODELLING OF SOIL PATTERNS BY APPLYING SPATIAL DATA INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES ON VARIOUS RASTER LAYERS ................................................................................................................................1447

H. M. Van Den Berg, H. L. Weepener

WE1.O12: HUMAN HEALTH AND LANDSCAPE EPIDEMIOLOGY

SPATIAL VARIATION OF INHALABLE PARTICULATE MATTER AND ITS INFLUENCE FACTOR ANALYSIS DURING THE REGIONAL AIR POLLUTION STUDY..................................................................................................1450

W. Zhao, H. Gong, W. Zhao, Z. Lin, T. Tao

RS & GIS BASED ASSESSMENT OF ADSORPTIVE NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION IN EUCALYPTUS AND RUBBER PLANTATION AT THE WATER SOURCE AREA OF HAINAN ...........................................................................1454

H. Zeng, D. Zheng, S. Yang, X. Wang, Y. Gao, Z. Fu

WE1.O13: REMOTE SENSING OF FIRE OCCURRENCE AND CHARACTERISTICS IN AFRICA: OPERATIONAL AND SCIENCE APPLICATION CONTINENTAL AFRICA BIOMASS BURNING TEMPORAL DYNAMICS DERIVED FROM MSG SEVIRI ........................1458

G. Roberts, M. J. Wooster, E. Lagoudakis, P. Freeborn, W. Xu

IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL FIRES FROM SATELLITE-DERIVED BURNED AREA DATA ..................................................1462S. Archibald, D. P. Roy

WE2.O1: POLARIMETRY ON THE ACCURACY OF SCATTERERS LOS ROTATION ESTIMATION PROCEDURES IN RADAR POLARIMETRY..........................................................................................................................................................................................1466

R. Z. Schneider

VALIDATION OF RADARSAT-2 POLARIMETRIC SAR MEASUREMENTS OF OCEAN WAVES.........................................1470Y. He, B. Zhang, W. Perrie

WE2.O2: THREE-DIMENSIONAL SAR II DETECTION OF DOUBLE SCATTERERS IN SAR TOMOGRAPHY..............................................................................................1474

A. De Maio

FULL-RESOLUTION ADAPTIVE DIFFERENTIAL TOMOGRAPHY ............................................................................................1478F. Lombardini

ASPECTS OF 3D TOMOGRAPHY FOR MULTIPLE-PASS SPOTLIGHT-MODE AIRBORNE SAR ........................................1482P. B. Pincus, M. Preiss, D. A. Gray

A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING ALGORITHM FOR TOMOGRAPHY SAR ......................................................................1486X. Ren, X. Yin, R. Yang, W. Yu

WE2.O3: HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE SENSING OF OCEAN WAVES SUBSATELLITE EXPERIMENTS IN A NORTH-EAST PART OF THE BLACK SEA .................................................................1490

V. V. Bakhanov, N. A. Bogatov, A. V. Ermoshkin, E. M. Zuikova, V. I. Kazakov, O. N. Kemarskaya, I. A. Repina, V. I. Titov, Y. I. Troitskaya

NON-LINEAR INTERNAL WAVES IN THE BANDA SEA ON SATELLITE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR AND VISIBLE IMAGES .............................................................................................................................................................1494

L. Mitnik, V. Dubina

SURFACE MANIFESTATIONS OF NON-TIDAL INTERNAL WAVES IN THE NORTH-EASTERN BLACK SEA AS VIEWED BY SATELLITE SENSORS.......................................................................................................................................1498

M. Mityagina, O. Lavrova

WE2.O4: ADVANCED CONCEPTS FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS I EXPLOITING MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS IN MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY .......................................................................1502

R. Autieri, M. D'Urso, T. Isernia, V. Pascazio

A VARIATIONAL BAYESIAN APPROACH TO REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CHANGE DETECTION ..................................1506K. Chen, Z. Li, J. Cheng, Z. Zhou, H. Lu

FIRST ASSESSMENT OF THE PERMANENT SCATTERER LINEAR DISPLACEMENT MODEL IN AIRBORNE INSAR TIME SERIES ..........................................................................................................................................................1510

K. A. Camara De Macedo, R. Scheiber, A. Moreira

COMPLEX WAVELET REGULARIZATION FOR SOLVING INVERSE PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING ....................1514M. Carlavan, P. Weiss, L. Blanc-Feraud, J. Zerubia

WE2.O5: QUANTITATIVE REMOTE SENSING FOR GEOMORPHOLOGY AND ACTIVE TECTONICS II EROSION IN THE HIMALAYAS ON CATCHMENT SCALE. INTEGRATIVE REMOTE SENSING ASSESMENT ................................................................................................................................................................................................1518

C. Andermann, S. Bonnet, R. Gloaguen

USE OF NEURAL NETWORKS AND SAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR THE AUTOMATIC RETRIEVAL OF TECTONIC PARAMETERS......................................................................................................................................................................1522

S. Stramondo, F. Del Frate, M. Picchiani, G. Schiavon

USING REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND LANDSLIDE DISTRIBUTION AND DYNAMICS IN NEW ZEALAND....................................................................................................................................................1526

K. E. Joyce, G. D. Dellow, P. J. Glassey

WE2.O6: REMOTE SENSING DATA APPLICATIONS FAUCON NOIR UAV PROJECT - DEVELOPMENT OF A SET OF TOOLS FOR MANAGING, VISUALIZING AND MOSAICING CENTIMETRIC UAV IMAGES .............................................................................................................................1530

A. Gademer, F. Mainfroy, L. Beaudoin, L. Avanthey, V. Germain, C. Cheron, S. Monat, J. P. Rudant

THE DESIGN AND REALIZATION OF THE SPATIAL DATABASE FOR EMERGENCY EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT BASED ON RS AND GIS .............................................................................................................................1534

L. Wang, X. Wang, X. Ding, A. Dou

WE2.O7: OCEAN BIOLOGY FROM SPACE THE MERIS WATER PRODUCTS: PERFORMANCE, CURRENT ISSUES AND POTENTIAL FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS.......................................................................................................................................................................................1538

M. Bouvet, P. Goryl, J. P. Huot, D. Antoine, K. Barker, L. Bourg, P. Y. Deschamps, R. Doerffer, J. Fischer, C. Mazeran, M. Ondrusek, R. Santer, J. Werdell, F. Zagolski, G. Zibordi

RETRIEVAL OF SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION IN THE PEARL RIVER ESTUARY FROM MERIS USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES ................................................................................................................................1541

S. Tang, Q. Dong, C. Chen, F. Liu, G. Jin

WE2.O8: REGISTRATION REGISTRATION OF MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGES WITH ORIENTATION-RESTRICTED SIFT.....................1545

M. F. Vural, Y. Yardimci, A. Temizel

IMAGE NAVIGATION AND REGISTRATION IMPROVEMENTS USING GPS ...........................................................................1549J. Harris, A. Kamel, H. Kim

ROBUST REGISTRATION OF SATELLITE IMAGES WITH LOCAL DISTORTIONS...............................................................1553A. Borzi, M. Di Bisceglie, C. Galdi, G. Giangregorio

ROBUST FEATURE MATCHING AND SELECTION METHODS FOR MULTISENSOR IMAGE REGISTRATION .........................................................................................................................................................................................1557

Y. Zhang, Y. Guo, Y. Gu

WE2.O9: PRECIPITATION: MEASUREMENTS, ANALYSIS AND TECHNOLOGY II PRECIPITATION DATA MERGING USING GENERAL LINEAR REGRESSION .......................................................................1561

A. C. Turlapaty, N. H. Younan, V. Anantharaj

ESTIMATION OF RAINFALL RATE FROM TERRESTRIAL MICROWAVE LINK MEASUREMENTS ...............................1565R. J. Watson, D. D. Hodges

WAVEFORM CONSIDERATIONS FOR DUAL-POLARIZATION DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR WITH SOLID-STATE TRANSMITTERS ............................................................................................................................................................1569

N. Bharadwaj, K. V. Mishra, V. Chandrasekar

WE2.O10: OPTICAL SENSORS CALIBRATION PERFORMANCE OF MODIS THERMAL EMISSIVE BANDS ON-ORBIT CALIBRATION ALGORITHM ...........................1573

X. Xiong, T. Chang

REFLECTANCE-BASED CALIBRATION OF BEIJING-1 MICRO-SATELLITE ..........................................................................1577Z. Chen, B. Zhang, X. Zhang, H. Zhang, J. Li

NORMALIZATION OF ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS FOR GROUND BASED HYPERSPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS USING DUAL FIELD OF VIEW SPECTRORADIOMETERS AND BRDF CORRECTIONS ....................1581

J. Stuckens, B. Somers, W. W. Verstraeten, R. Swennen, P. Coppin

A SOUTH AFRICAN INITIATIVE FOR PRE-FLIGHT RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION OF SATELLITE IMAGERS .....................................................................................................................................................................................................1585

D. Griffith, M. D. Lysko, D. Bezuidenhout

WE2.O11: SOIL MOISTURE FIELD EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING THE GPS AND RADIOMETRIC JOINT OBSERVATIONS EXPERIMENT AT THE REMEDHUS SITE (ZAMORA-SALAMANCA REGION, SPAIN) ........................................................................................................................................1588

A. Monerris, N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, M. Vall-Llossera, A. Camps, M. Piles, J. Martinez-Fernandez, N. Sanchez-Martin, C. Perez-Gutierrez, G. Baroncini-Turricchia, R. Acevo, A. Aguasca

MICROWAVE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL UNDER TREES USING A MODIFIED TAU-OMEGA MODEL .........................................................................................................................................................................................................1592

P. O'Neill, R. Lang, M. Kurum, A. Joseph, M. Cosh, T. Jackson

A PHYSICAL MODEL FOR MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY OF FOREST CANOPIES...............................................................1596M. Kurum, R. H. Lang, C. Utku, P. E. O'Neill

SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM HUT-2D SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER DATA........................................1600J. Seppanen, J. Kainulainen, J. Lemmetyinen, K. Rautiainen, M. Hallikainen, M. Makynen

WE2.O12: DESERTIFICATION AND DEFORESTATION MONITORING DESERTIFICATION USING EO TECHNOLOGIES: EXPERIENCE OF THE ESA DUE DESERTWATCH PROJECT.....................................................................................................................................................................1604

M. Paganini, G. Pace, P. Castracane, G. Del Barrio, H. Van Delden, M. Iannetta, J. Hill, C. Zucca, D. Fernandez-Prieto

LAND USE/COVER CHARACTERIZAITOIN WITH MODIS TIME SERIES DATA WITH HYBRID CLASSIFICATION MOTHED OVER AUSTRALIA FOR 2001 AND 2003 .......................................................................................1608

K. Song, M. Jia, M. Hafeez, Z. Wang, D. Lu, L. Zeng, D. Liu, B. Zhang, J. Du, Q. Liu

CHANGE DETECTION IN THE SEMI-ARID LANDSCAPE USING RADIOMETRIC ROTATION APPLIED TO REMOTE SENSING DATA ................................................................................................................................................................1612

J. R. Santos, C. A. Mena, F. D. Maldonado, J. E. Gajardo, M. M. Valeriano, Y. M. Ormazabal, Y. A. Morales

500M SPATIAL RESOLUTION LAND COVER MAP IN INSULAR SOUTHEAST ASIA.............................................................1616J. Miettinen, C. M. Wong, S. C. Liew

ANALYSIS OF MULTI-TEMPORAL LAND OBSERVATION AT C-BAND ...................................................................................1620C. Theil, O. Cartus, R. Eckardt, N. Richter, C. Thiel, C. Schmullius

WE2.O13: REMOTE SENSING FOR BIODIVERSITY IN AFRICA – FROM OBSERVATIONS TO INFORMED ACTIONS FOR BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENTS MONITORING BIODIVERSITY FROM SPACE: THE ESA DIVERSITY PROJECT ...................................................................1624

M. Paganini, B. Koetz, S. Kleeschulte, P. Mumby, P. Gaspar, L. Pettersson, D. Fernadez-Prieto

COMBINATION OF REMOTE SENSING AND IN SITU MEASUREMENTS FOR A DETAILED ASSESSMENT OF BIOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EAST AFRICAN RAINFORESTS: A CASE STUDY FOR KAKAMEGA FOREST, KENYA, AND BUDONGO FOREST, UGANDA ...............................................................................1628

T. Kraus, M. Schmidt, S. Dech, C. Samimi

WEP.A: URBAN AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT FUSION OF SAR AND OPTICAL DATA FOR URBAN EXTENT EXTRACTION IMPROVEMENT ........................................1632

M. Stasolla, P. Gamba

A GRAMMATICAL FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING ROOFTOP EXTRACTION .......................................................................1636Q. Wang, Z. Jiang

AN ANALYSIS ON THE COUPLING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URBAN VEGETATION AND LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN HANGZHOU BASED ON ASTER IMAGERY .............................................................................1640

C. Huang, Q. Chen, S. Ying, F. Zhao, Y. Shao, W. Yu, J. Chen, F. Liu, X. Xu, J. Li

MAPPING URBAN TREE COVERAGE USING OBJECT-ORIENTED IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD: A CASE STUDY ...............................................................................................................................................................................................1644

Q. Tan, J. Wang

MAPPING URBAN SURFACE IMPERVIOUSNESS USING SPOT MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGES .....................1648Q. Tan, Z. Liu, X. Li

LAND SUBSIDENCE MONITORING AND FLOOD SIMULATION USING MULTI-TEMPORAL DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS..............................................................................................................................................................................1651

P. Hsu, W. Su

STUDY OF THERMAL ENVIRONMENT BASED ON REMOTE SENSING IN BEIJING-CAPITAL ZONE............................1655D. Meng, H. Gong, X. Li, W. Zhao, Z. Gong, L. Zhu, D. Hu

WEP.B: COASTAL AND WETLANDS APPLICATIONS POSTERS I EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF MODIS VISIBLE AND THERMAL CHANNELS IN MONITORING AND ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF DESALINATION PLANT DISCHARGES IN THE ARABIAN GULF .......................................1659

A. Al Muhairi, H. Ghedira, H. Al-Ahmad, A. Dawood, M. Al-Mualla

REMOTELY SENSED STUDY OF AIR-SEA CO2 FLUXES VARIABILITY IN THE NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA ..................................................................................................................................................................................................1663

F. Liu, S. Tang, C. Chen

LINEAR ALGORITHM FOR SALINITY DISTRIBUTION MODELLING FROM MODIS DATA..............................................1667M. Marghany

ESTIMATION OF VEGETATION NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY OF BEIJING YEYAHU WETLAND BASED ON REMOTE SENSING ..............................................................................................................................................................1671

Y. Su, L. Zhu, H. Gong, W. Zhao, L. Jing

WEP.C: REMOTE SENSING FOR POLLUTION AND URBAN AREA MONITORING POTENTIAL ANALYSIS OF MARITIME OIL SPILL MONITORING BASED ON MODIS THERMAL INFRARED DATA.......................................................................................................................................................................................1675

Y. Li, G. Lan, J. Li, L. Ma

RESEARCH ON OIL SPILL IDENTIFICATION BASED ON TEXTURE FEATURES-A CASE STUDY OF “HEBEI SPIRIT” ACCIDENT...................................................................................................................................................................1679

L. Ma, Y. Li, B. Zhang, Y. Liu, C. Gao, S. Yu

OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF RADARSAT-2 FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF OIL SLICKS IN THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO ..............................................................................................................................1683

K. Bannerman, M. H. Rodriguez, F. P. De Miranda, E. C. Pedroso, R. G. Caceres, O. L. Castillo

PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR AUTOMATIC FEATURES EXTRACTION FROM COSMO-SKYMED AND TERRASAR-X IMAGERY ............................................................................................................................................1686

F. Del Frate, G. Licciardi, F. Pacifici, C. Pratola, D. Solimini

GETTING IT FOR FREE: USING GOOGLE EARTH AND ILWIS TO MAP SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS IN JOHANNESBURG.......................................................................................................................................................................................1690

A. W. Gunter

3D SPATIAL MODELING FOR URBAN SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE SEAMLESS INTEGRATION..................................1694D. Che, L. Wu, Z. Yin

WEP.D: OPTICAL SENSORS CALIBRATION II VICARIOUS CALIBRATION OF CCD ON CBERS02B USING GONGGER TEST SITE .............................................................1698

H. Gong, T. Yu, G. Tian, X. Gu, H. Gao, X. Li, D. Jupp, Y. Qin

CALIBRATION OF VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED CHANNELS OF THE FY1C USING TIME-SERIES OBSERVATION BASED ON PSEUDO-INVARIANT TARGET SITES IN CHINA ........................................................................1702

H. Gao, X. Gu, T. Yu, X. Hu, X. Li, H. Gong, J. Li

WEP.E: LAND COVER CHARACTERIZATION PARAGE PROJECT: ASSESSING AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES AND FRENCH GUIANA ............................................................................................................................................................................1706

G. Baillarin, G. Laine, S. Dupuy, B. Ariaux, J. M. Fotsing, K. Ose, G. Gonzales

A STUDY ON LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION BASED ON HJ-1 CCD IMAGE ........................................................................1710Y. Ren, Y. Liu, J. Fan, H. Xu, L. Yi

THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIES IN SEMI-ARID REGION: A CASE STUDY OF QINGHAI SPRUCE (PICEA CRASSLIOLIA) IN QILIAN MOUNTAIN, GANSU PROVINCE,CHINA .....................................................................................................................................................................1714

Z. Xu, C. Zhao, Z. Feng, H. Peng, C. Wang

UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION OF AGRICULTURAL REGIONS USING TERRASAR-X IMAGES ...............................1718E. Bratsolis

TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILE RETRIEVAL USING THE INTERFERENCE PATTERN GNSS-R TECHNIQUE........................1722N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, J. F. Marchan-Hernandez, A. Camps, X. Bosch-Lluis, E. Valencia, I. Ramos-Perez, M. Vall-Llossera, A. Monerris, J. Martinez-Fernandez, C. Perez-Gutierrez, G. Baroncini-Turricchia, N. Sanchez-Martin, J. M. Nieto

PALEOTERRAIN MODEL OF THE YAMATO MARSH, PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA................................................1726M. B. Crile, C. Roberts

REMOTE SENSING MONITORING FOR VEGETATION CHANGE IN MINING AREA BASED ON SPOT-VGT NDVI ....................................................................................................................................................................................................1730

B. Ma, L. Wu, S. Liu

URBAN DYNAMIC CHANGE DETECTION IN SOUTHEASTERN CHINA BASED ON INTERFEROMETRIC SAR ................................................................................................................................................................................................................1734

H. Chi, G. Sun, F. Ling

MONITORING SLOW GROUND MOUVEMENTS AROUND TUNIS CITY BY DIFFERENT SAR INTERFEROMETRIC MEASURES ........................................................................................................................................................1738

F. Chaabane, K. Elagouni, M. Baccouche, N. Pourthie, C. Tison, P. Briole

SUB-CLASSIFICATION OF FARMLAND IN HIGH RESOLUTION RS IMAGES BASED ON TEXTURAL AND SPECTRAL FEATURES...................................................................................................................................................................1742

S. Lu, J. Tian, D. Qiu, M. Du, R. Shi

WEP.F: AGROECOSYSTEMS II MULTIPLE CROP YIELD PREDICTION USING DUAL-POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X STRIPMAP IMAGERY ....................................................................................................................................................................................................1745

T. Dhar, D. Gray, C. Menges

LIFE-CYCLE SPECTRAL VARIATION ANALYSIS OF CORN LEAVES USING HYPERTEMPORAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL IN SITU MEASUREMENT DATA .......................................................................................................................1749

H. Wu, S. Liu, Y. Qu

STUDY ON OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS IN CROP GROWTH AND DROUGHT MONITORING USING MULTIPLE SATELLITE DATA: CASE STUDY IN XINJIANG, CHINA.........................................................................................1753

C. Xia, J. Li, Qiang Liu, Qinhuo Liu, Y. Tang, Y. Yao

THE IDENTIFICATION OF INDICATOR GRASS SPECIES OF GRASSLAND DEGRADATION BASED ON THE FIELD SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS....................................................................................................................................1757

H. Wang, L. Zhou, B. Yan, Y. Cui, D. Wu, W. Fan, X. Xu

CLUES: A WEB-BASED LAND USE EXPERT SYSTEM FOR THE WESTERN CAPE................................................................1761A. Van Niekerk

DATA REDUCTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR CROP STRESS DETECTION USING DIFFERENT BAND SELECTION METHODS.........................................................................................................................1765

T. Mewes, J. Franke, G. Menz

PARAMETER-FREE CLUSTERING: APPLICATION TO FAWNS DETECTION ........................................................................1769D. Cerra, M. Israel, M. Datcu

DETECTION OF WATER DEFICIT USING OPTICAL DATA - CASE STUDY POLAND ...........................................................1772K. Dabrowska-Zielinska, W. Kowalik, M. Budzynska, A. Guerra

IRRIGATION WATER AMOUNT IN SEMI-ARID CROPLANDS USING TIME SERIES OF FORMOSAT-2 IMAGES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1776

B. Duchemin, I. Benhadj, R. Hadria, O. Hagolle, M. H. Kharrou, B. Mougenot, D. Courault, A. Chehbouni

SPATIALIZATION OF CROP LEAF AREA INDEX AND BIOMASS BY COMBINING A SIMPLE CROP MODEL SAFY AND HIGH SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS REMOTE SENSING DATA ...................................1780

M. Claverie, V. Demarez, B. Duchemin, O. Hagolle, P. Keravec, B. Marciel, E. Ceschia, J. F. Dejoux, G. Dedieu

WEP.G: SOIL MOISTURE REMOTE SENSING- PASSIVE USE OF IN SITU AND MODELLED SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATES TO EVALUATE MICROWAVE REMOTELY SENSED PRODUCTS IN SOUTH-WESTERN FRANCE .............................................................................................1784

C. Albergel, C. Rudiger, J. Calvet, D. Carrer, T. Pellarin

ANALYSIS OF 7 YEARS AQUA AMSR-E DERIVED SOIL MOISTURE DATA OVER INDIA ..................................................1788Y. S. Rao, A. A. Chaudhari

ADVANCED MULTI-TEMPORAL PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA ANALYSIS FOR SOIL WETNESS MONITORING AND FLOOD RISK FORECAST..................................................................................................................................1792

T. Lacava, G. Calice, I. Coviello, G. Mazzeo, N. Pergola, V. Tramutoli

DEVELOPING LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM BASED ON ENKF, 3DVAR TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY LAND MODEL .................................................................................................................................................................1796

Q. Lu, Z. Yang, H. Yang, Z. Zhen, Y. Bi, X. Wu, G. Li

WEP.H: SOIL MOISTURE REMOTE SENSING – ACTIVE SURFACE PARAMETERS RETRIEVAL FROM ALLUVIAL FAN IN EJINA AREA OF INNER MONGOLIA USING MULTI-POLARIZATION SAR DATA ......................................................................................................................................1800

J. Liao, Z. Pang

SUB-CANOPY GROUND CHARACTERISTICS RETRIEVAL OF POLINSAR USING SPECTRAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE................................................................................................................................................................................................1804

Y. Huang, X. Li, L. Ferro-Famil, E. Pottier, H. Guo

PRELIMINARY MEASUREMENTS OF BARE SOIL AND WAVED WATER SURFACE MICROWAVE REFLECTION AND EMISSION ANGULAR DEPENDENCES AT 5,6GHZ.....................................................................................1808

A. K. Hambaryan, A. K. Arakelyan, H. G. Muradyan, V. V. Karyan, G. G. Hovhannisyan, A. A. Arakelyan, M. L. Grigoryan, I. K. Hakobyan, M. R. Manukyan

USE OF RADARSAT-2 IMAGES TO DEVELOP A SCALING METHOD OF SOIL MOISTURE OVER AN AGRICULTURAL AREA...........................................................................................................................................................................1812

I. Gherboudj, R. Magagi, A. Berg, B. Toth

MODELING THE EFFECT OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON THE BACK-SCATTERING COEFFICIENT AND EMISSIVITY OF A SOIL-LITTER MEDIUM USING A NUMERICAL MODEL .................................................................1816

H. Lawrence, F. Demontoux, J. P. Wigneron, Y. Kerr, T. D. Wu, P. Borderies, P. Paillou, L. Chen, J. C. Shi

DERIVATION OF SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE USING MULTI-ANGLE ASAR DATA IN THE MIDDLE STREAM OF HEIHE RIVER BASIN .......................................................................................................................................................1820

S. Wang, X. Han, X. Li, R. Jin, H. Lu

SOIL MOISTURE IMPACT ON LAB MEASURED REFLECTANCE OF BARE SOILS IN THE OPTICAL DOMAIN [0.4 - 15 µM] ................................................................................................................................................................................1824

A. Lesaignoux, S. Fabre, X. Briottet, A. Olioso

WEP.I: SOIL PROPERTIES ESTIMATING EVAPOTRANSPIRATION BY SATELLITE SENSORS OVER A HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPE................................................................................................................................................................................................1828

Y. Liu, X. Xin, Q. Liu

APPLICATION OF TWO SHORTWAVE INFRARED WATER STRESS INDICES TO DROUGHT MONITORING OVER NORTHWESTERN CHINA .............................................................................................................................1832

S. Zhao, Q. Qin, L. You, Y. Yao, N. Yang, J. Li

SPATIAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHT INDICATOR IN AN OASIS ECOSYSTEM ...............................................................................................................................................................................................1836

M. Lin, C. Chu

MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL-BASED SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT SEGMENTATION FROM MODIS SATELLITE DATA ......................................................................................................................................................................1840

K. Ho, Y. Tzeng, C. Woo

COMPRISION STUDY ON MAPPING OF ET IN THE CIA OF MURRUMBIDGEE CATCHMENT WITH REMOTE SENSED SATELLITE DATA: EXAMPLES FROM NATIONAL AIRBORNE FIELD EXPERIMENTATION ................................................................................................................................................................................1844

K. Song, M. Hafeez, J. Du, D. Liu, Z. Wang, L. H. Zeng, U. Rabbani

SUBSURFACE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING AND SCATTERING MODELLING ON HYPER-SALINE SOIL: EXAMPLE OF LOP NUR...............................................................................................................................................................1848

H. Gong, Y. Shao, A. Cai, C. Xie

DETECTION OF SUBSURFACE HYPER-SALINE SOIL IN LOP NUR USING FULL-POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA .............................................................................................................................................................................................................1852

Y. Shao, H. Gong, C. Xie, A. Cai

WEP.J: VEGETATION PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS INVESTIGATION ON THE WATER STRESS IN ALPINE VEGETATION USING HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................1856

B. Hoshino, G. Kudo, T. Yabuki, M. Kaneko, S. Ganzorig

A SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE FOR A LARGE SCALE LAI INVERSION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA .....................................................................................................................................................................................1859

A. Gonsamo, P. Pellikka

RESEARCH ON THE POLARIZED CHARACTERISTIC OF LEAVES ..........................................................................................1863D. Xie, P. Wang, Q. Zhu

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S. Odagawa, M. Kato, T. Suhama, J. Sasaki, U. Kuniaki, Y. Kosugi, G. Saito

RESPONSE OF VEGETATION COVERAGE ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN ARID MOUNTAIN OF NORTHWEST CHINA ...............................................................................................................................................................................1871

L. Zhou, G. Yang, Y. Ding, J. Wang

ASSIMILATION OF FIELD MEASURED LAI INTO CROP GROWTH MODEL BASED ON SCE-UA OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM ..............................................................................................................................................................1875

J. Ren, F. Yu, Y. Du, J. Qin, Z. Chen

IMAGING SYSTEM OF SOLOR-INDUCED PLANT FLUORESCENCE FOR MONITORING OF PLANT LIVING STATUS .........................................................................................................................................................................................1879

H. Tanaka, Y. Saito, T. Kanayama, F. Kobayashi, K. Kobayashi

WEP.K: FIRE AND DISTURBANCE FUSION OF ALOS PALSAR AND LANDSAT ETM DATA FOR LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION AND BIOMASS MODELING USING NON- LINEAR METHODS ..............................................................................................................1883

A. Wijaya, R. Gloaguen

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MAPPING AND MONITORING CLEAR-CUTS IN SWEDISH FOREST USING ALOS PALSAR SATELLITE IMAGES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1891

A. Pantze, A. H. Krantz, J. E. S. Fransson, H. Olsson, M. Santoro, L. E. B. Eriksson, L. M. H. Ulander

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M. Tanase, M. Santoro, J. De La Riva, F. Perez-Cabello

ESTIMATION OF THE BURNED BIOMASS BASED ON THE QUASI-CONTINUOUS MSG/SEVIRI EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM .........................................................................................................................................................................1899

G. Laneve, E. G. Cadau, G. Santilli

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F. Lu, J. Xu, W. P. Menzel, C. S. Velden

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A. G. Erturk, H. Barbosa

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F. Junyent, V. Chandrasekar, N. Bharadwaj

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L. Sun

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REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUD COVER IN THE HIGH ALTITUDE REGION FROM MTSAT-1R DATA DURING THE HEI'HE EXPERIMENT...................................................................................................................................................1925

G. Su, X. Xin, Q. Liu, B. Zhou

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Y. Ma, W. Gong, Z. Zhu, L. Zhang, P. Li

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X. Zhang, S. Zhang

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L. Tan, R. Yang, W. Yu

ESTIMATING LEAF AREA INDEX BY COUPLING RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL AND A DYNAMIC MODEL FROM MULTI-SOURCE REMOTE SENSING DATA.........................................................................................................1960

X. Wu, Z. Xiao, J. Wang

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Y. Liu, X. Xin, Q. Liu

ESTIMATING LAND SURFACE ENERGY AND WATER FLUXES BY USING THE LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM DEVELOPED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (LDASUT) .........................................................1968

H. Lu, T. Koike, K. Yang, H. Tsutsui, K. Tamagawa

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COMPARISON OF GAUSSIAN AND RAYLEIGH NOISE MODELS IN INVERSION OF SUBSURFACE PARAMETERS OF LAYERED ROUGH SURFACES USING SIMULATED ANNEALING .........................................................1975

A. Tabatabaeenejad, M. Moghaddam

AN ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION METHOD FOR REMOTELY SENSED HYPERSPECTRAL THERMAL INFRARED DATA.......................................................................................................................................................................................1979

X. Wang, X. Ouyang, Z. Li, X. Jiang, L. Ma

TARGET TRACKING ENHANCEMENT USING A KALMAN FILTER IN THE PRESENCE OF INTERFERENCE ........................................................................................................................................................................................1983

S. A. Elgamel, J. Soraghan

WEP.O: CLASSIFICATION AND DATA MINING A FUZZY FUSION ALGORITHM TO COMBINE MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS ..............................................................................1987

B. Kuo, C. Huang, H. Liu, C. Hung

EFFICIENT INCORPORATION OF MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS IN CHANGE DETECTION ...............................................1991H. Aanoes, A. A. Nielsen, J. M. Carstensen, R. Larsen, B. Ersboll

ACTIVE LEARNING FOR CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES .......................................................................1995L. Bruzzone, C. Persello

CLASSIFICATION OF A REFERENCE IMAGE USING AUXILIARY IMAGES ..........................................................................1999O. A. Maximo, D. Fernandes

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X. Sun, B. Zhang, L. Gao, L. Yang

SPATIAL HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BY PRIOR SEGMENTATION ........................................................2011J. Driesen, G. Thoonen, P. Scheunders

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W. An, Y. Cui, J. Yang

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G. Mercier, P. Frison

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B. Marti-Cardona, C. Lopez-Martinez, J. Dolz-Ripolles

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M. Gabele, B. Brautigam, D. Schulze, U. Steinbrecher, N. Tous-Ramon, M. Younis

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M. Younis, S. Huber, A. Patyuchenko, F. Bordoni, G. Krieger

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J. Kainulainen, K. Rautiainen, J. Lemmetyinen, M. Hallikainen, F. Martin-Porqueras, M. Martin-Neira

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E. Valencia, J. F. Marchan-Hernandez, A. Camps, N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, J. M. Tarongi, M. Piles, I. Ramos-Perez, X. Bosch-Lluis, M. Vall-Llossera, P. Ferre

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J. Marcello, A. Hernandez-Guerra, F. Eugenio

A STUDY OF RIVERBED DYNAMICS USING REMOTE SENSING: A 3D CASE STUDY OF RIVIÈRE DES GALETS, LA RÉUNION ISLAND ............................................................................................................................................................2055

J. Kemp, N. Villeneuve, L. Chevallier, Z. Servadio, F. Jacquard

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J. F. Veseckey, K. E. Laws, J. D. Paduan

WE3.O5: MONITORING A CHANGING CONTINENT WITH ALOS SENSORS I PALSAR CALVAL UPDATED 2009 AND CHANGE DETECTIONS AT THE FOREST AND THE POLAR REGIONS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................2067

M. Shimada, O. Isoguchi, T. Tadono

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J. Takaku, T. Tadono

TIME TREND EVALUATIONS OF ABSOLUTE ACCURACIES FOR ALOS OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS...............................2075T. Tadono, M. Shimada, H. Murakami, J. Takaku, S. Kawamoto

WE3.O6: DATA MINING AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR REMOTE SENSING SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING AND DISCOVERY OF UNKNOWN STRUCTURES AMONG DATA: APPLICATION TO SATELLITE IMAGE ANNOTATION. ................................................................................................................2079

P. Blanchart, M. Datcu

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R. Ramachandran, S. Graves, T. Berendes, M. Maskey, C. Chidambaram, S. Christopher, P. Hogan, T. Gaskins

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M. C. Bowman, G. Cervone, P. Franzese

SENSOR WEB AND DATA MINING APPROACHES FOR HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM DETECTION AND MONITORING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO REGION .......................................................................................................................2091

B. Gokaraju, S. S. Durbha, R. L. King, N. H. Younan

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W. Lin, X. Dong, Y. Zhou, H. Liu, J. Jiang

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A. Nadai, T. Umehara, T. Matsuoka, S. Uratsuka, T. Kobayashi, M. Satake

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S. Soisuvarn, Z. Jelenak, P. S. Chang, Q. Zhu

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C. Yang, Y. Kim, K. Ouchi

WE3.O8: CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING A LEARNING-BASED SUPERRESOLUTION MAPPING TECHNIQUE ..................................................................................................................................2115

F. A. Mianji, Y. Zhang, Y. Gu

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J. Li, J. M. Bioucas-Dias, A. Plaza

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M. Jabloun, C. Mihai, I. Vanhamel, T. Geerinck, H. Sahli

UTILIZATION OF LOCAL AND GLOBAL HYPERSPECTRAL FEATURES VIA WAVELET PACKETS AND MULTICLASSIFIERS FOR ROBUST TARGET RECOGNITION ....................................................................................................2127

T. West, S. Prasad, L. M. Bruce, D. Reynolds

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C. Costes, J. P. Artis, R. Garello, G. Mercier

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E. Ruzanski, Y. Wang, V. Chandrasekar

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P. Heas, E. Memin

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Y. Blanchard, A. Royer, N. T. O'Neill, J. Blanchet

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C. Bredin, T. Amiot, N. Mohamed, L. Costes, J. M. Goutoule

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C. J. Maclellan, T. J. Malthus

HJ-1A THERMAL INFRARED BAND CROSS-CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION ..................................................................2167J. Li, X. Gu, L. Zhu, T. Yu, X. Li, Y. Zhang, H. Gao, H. Gong

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N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, A. Monerris, X. Bosch-Lluis, A. Camps, M. Vall-Llossera, J. F. Marchan-Hernandez, I. Ramos-Perez, E. Valencia, J. Martinez-Fernandez, N. Sanchez-Martin, G. Baroncini-Turricchia, C. Perez-Gutierrez

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G. Lehureau, M. Campedel, F. Tupin, C. Tison, G. Oller

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P. Sievinen, J. Praks, M. Hallikainen, J. Koskinen, A. L Hellsten, J. Kukkonen

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T. Esch, D. Klein, V. Himmler, M. Keil, H. Mehl, S. Dech

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R. Sato, Y. Yamaguchi, Y. Yamada

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D. Kim, S. Park, H. Lee, W. M. Moon

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N. Adam, X. X. Zhu, C. Minet, W. Liebhart, M. Eineder, R. Bamler

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M. Costantini, S. Falco, F. Malvarosa, F. Minati, F. Trillo

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S. Paloscia, P. Pampaloni, S. Pettinato, E. Santi, F. Conti, S. De Santis

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L. A. Jones, J. S. Kimball, E. Podest, K. C. McDonald, S. K. Chan, E. G. Njoku

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T. Eltoft, A. Doulgeris, S. N. Anfinsen

POLSAR AND POLINSAR MODEL BASED INFORMATION ESTIMATION ...............................................................................2261C. Lopez-Martinez, X. Fabregas, L. Pipia

ESTIMATION AND SEGMENTATION IN NON-GAUSSIAN POLSAR CLUTTER BY SIRV STOCHASTIC PROCESSES .................................................................................................................................................................................................2265

G. Vasile, J. P. Ovarlez, F. Pascal

AN ALGEBRAIC APPROACH TO GROUND-VOLUME DECOMPOSITION FROM MULTI-BASELINE POLINSAR DATA .......................................................................................................................................................................................2269

S. Tebaldini

MULTI-BASELINE POL-INSAR STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED MEDIA..............................................................................................................................................................................2273

L. Ferro-Famil, M. Neumann, Y. Huang

WE4.O7: IMAGE CLASSIFICATION SEMI-AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE FOR UPDATING LANDUSE MAPS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL IMAGES.........................................................................................................................................................2277

C. Notarnicola, A. Frick, S. Kass, P. Rastner, G. Pulighe, M. Zebisch

K-WAY TREE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON SEMI-GREEDY STRUCTURE APPLIED TO MULTISOURCE REMOTE SENSING IMAGES ..................................................................................................................................................................2281

Y. Chang, Z. Chen, J. Fang, W. Hsu, W. Liang, T. Hsieh, H. Ren, K. Chen

WAVELET SHRINKAGE DENOISING OF INTRINSIC MODE FUNCTIONS OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE BANDS FOR CLASSIFICATION WITH HIGH ACCURACY.............................................................................................................2285

B. Demir, S. Erturk, M. K. Gullu

SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING FOR CLASSIFICATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR-DATA .................................................2289R. Hansch, O. Hellwich

AN END-TO-END ERROR MODEL FOR CLASSIFICATION METHODS BASED ON A SAR INTENSITY RATIO ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................2293

A. Bouvet, T. L. Toan

WE4.O8: PANSHARPENING AND RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT A COMBINED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE RESTORATION AND FUSION APPROACH .........................................................2297

Y. Zhang, A. Duijster, P. Scheudners

NON-HOMOGENEOUS AR MODEL BASED PRIOR FOR MULTIRESOLUTION FUSION ......................................................2301K. Rudraraju, M. Joshi

SUPERRESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT FOR TEMPORAL HYPERSPECTRAL-ORIENTED DATA SETS ..........................2305J. C. Chan, J. Ma, F. Canters

A SUP-PIXEL MAPPING ALGORITHM BASED ON ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY..................................................................................................................................................................................2309

Y. Zhong, L. Zhang, P. Li, H. Shen

SPATIAL-SPECTRAL DATA FUSION FOR RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2313

F. A. Mianji, Y. Zhang, Y. Gu, A. Babakhani

WE4.O9: CLOUDS: MEASUREMENTS, ANALYSIS AND TECHNOLOGY II EVALUATION OF PASSIVE SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUD LIQUID WATER ................................................2317

A. Horvath, S. Chellappan

CROSS-COMPARISON AND VALIDATION OF MODIS AQUA CLOUD MASK BY USING CLOUDSAT AND CALIPSO DATASETS ................................................................................................................................................................................2321

D. Di Rosa, C. Notarnicola, F. Posa

A SUB MILLIMETRE-WAVE AIRBORNE DEMONSTRATOR FOR THE OBSERVATION OF PRECIPITATION AND ICE CLOUDS ....................................................................................................................................................2325

J. E. Carlton, S. Buehler, E. Defer, C. Prigent, B. Moyna, C. Lee, P. De Maagt, V. Kangas

WE4.O10: CALIBRATION OF INTERFEROMETRIC MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS PHASE NOISE REQUIREMENTS IN INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS ............................................................................2329

F. Torres, I. Corbella, E. Castro, M. Segarra, R. Vilaseca

CONICAL BEAM INTERFEROMETER: FPIR CONCEPT AND DEVELOPMENT .....................................................................2333J. Yan, J. Wu, H. Liu, S. Zhang, H. Liu, J. Jiang

ONE POINT CALIBRATION IN INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS: ERROR ASSESSMENT.........................................2337F. Torres, I. Corbella, N. Duffo, V. Gonzalez-Gambau

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AND BREADBOARDING ACTIVITIES OF GEOSTATIONARY INTERFEROMETRIC MICROWAVE SOUNDER (GIMS).................................................................................................................2341

H. Liu, J. Wu, S. Zhang, J. Yan, C. Zhang, W. Sun, L. Niu

WE4.O11: VEGETATION STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS I POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS OVER AFRICAN SAVANNA WOODLAND USING ALOS/PALSAR .........................................2345

C. Paradzayi, H. Annegarn, B. Erasmus, C. Schmullius

BACKSCATTER AND INTERFEROMETRY FOR ESTIMATING ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS OF SPARSE WOODLAND: A CASE STUDY IN BELIZE ..........................................................................................................................................2349

K. M. Viergever, I. H. Woodhouse, A. Marino, M. Brolly, N. Stuart

WE4.O12: URBAN REMOTE SENSING II ASSESSMENT OF URBAN EXTEND AND IMPERVIOUSNESS OF CAPE TOWN USING TERRASAR X AND LANDSAT IMAGES....................................................................................................................................................................................2353

D. Klein, T. Esch, V. Himmler, M. Thiel, S. Dech

URBAN THERMAL ENVIRONMENT SIMULATION AND PREDICTION BASED ON REMOTE SENSING AND GIS........................................................................................................................................................................................................2357

P. Du, P. Liu, Y. Luo

CURVELET-BASED CHANGE DETECTION FOR MAN-MADE OBJECTS FROM SAR IMAGES ..........................................2361A. Schmitt, B. Wessel, A. Roth

ANALYSIS OF NOCTURNAL COLD-AIR CURRENTS FORMED IN SATOYAMA (URBAN-NEIGHBORING HILLS AND FORESTS) USING AIRBORNE MSS DATA AND CFD SIMULATION.....................................................................2365

A. Hoyano, J. He

WE4.O13: THE CONTRIBUTION OF REMOTE SENSING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE MINING DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES II DERIVING INDICES OF LANDSCAPE FUNCTION FROM SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE OF GRASSLAND AND SAVANNA ON GOLD MINES IN SOUTH AFRICA ...................................................................................................................2369

D. Furniss, I. Weiersbye, D. Tongway, R. Stark, N. Margalit, H. Nel, E. Grond, E. T. Witkowski

MONITORING OF SUPERFICIAL CONTAMINATION PRODUCED BY MASSIVE SULPHIDE MINE WASTE ALONG THE ODIEL RIVER (ANDALUSIA, SPAIN) USING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA............................................2373

A. Riaza, V. Carrere

REMOTE SENSING: IT'S NOT ONLY ABOUT SATELLITES!! .......................................................................................................2377J. H. Crotty, G. Chunnett, A. Rompel, E. Rutherford

TH1.O1: IONOSPHERE EFFECTS IN POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR IMAGERY I MAPPING AURORA ACTIVITY WITH SAR – A CASE STUDY ......................................................................................................2381

F. J. Meyer, J. Nicoll, B. Bristow

TH1.O2: LOW FREQUENCY SAR CALIBRATION, PROCESSING, MODELLING AND APPLICATIONS I DEPENDENCE OF P-BAND INTERFEROMETRIC HEIGHT ON FOREST PARAMETERS FROM SIMULATION AND OBSERVATION .....................................................................................................................................................2385

M. Lavalle, M. L. Williams, S. Hensley, E. Pottier, D. Solimini

EVALUATING VHF-BAND SAR AUTOFOCUS ALGORITHMS USING A FOREST BACKSCATTER MODEL ...................2389A. Wyholt, L. M. H. Ulander

POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR FOREST APPLICATIONS AT P-BAND: POTENTIALS AND CHALLENGES...................................................................................................................................................................................2393

S. K. Lee, F. Kugler, K. Papathanassiou, I. Hajnsek

TH1.O3: TEN YEARS OF MODIS EARTH OBSERVATIONS I AN OVERVIEW OF MODIS CALIBRATION AND CHARACTERIZATION AND LESSONS LEARNED ...............................2397

X. Xiong, B. Wenny, W. Barnes, V. Salomonson

TH1.O4: COASTAL AND WETLANDS APPLICATIONS I APPLICATION OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS TO MANAGE NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE LAKE VICTORIA BASIN ......................................................................................................................................................................................2401

S. Habib, F. Policelli, D. Irwin, T. Korme, B. Adler, Y. Hong

REMOTE SENSING ASSESSMENT OF COASTAL EROSION IN AL BATINAH, SULTANATE OF OMAN ..........................2405A. Y. Kwarteng

COASTAL MONITORING USING REMOTE SENSING AND GEOINFORMATION SYSTEMS: ESTIMATION OF EROSION AND ACCRETION RATES ALONG GAZA COASTLINE.............................................................2409

K. A. Alhin, I. Niemeyer

MONITORING LAND SUBSIDENCE WITHIN THE VENICE LAGOON WITH SAR INTERFEROMETRY ON TRIHEDRAL CORNER REFLECTORS ..........................................................................................................................................2413

T. Strozzi, L. Tosi, P. Teatini, C. Werner, U. Wegmuller

TH1.O5: USE OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES FOR SURFACE DEFORMATION MONITORING AND DAMANGE DETECTION IN VOLCANIC AND SEISMOGENIC AREAS I EXPERIENCES IN OPTICAL AND SAR IMAGERY ANALYSIS FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT IN THE WUHAN, MAY 2008 EARTHQUAKE......................................................................................................................................................2417

F. Dell-Acqua, G. Lisini, P. Gamba

SBAS-INSAR ANALYSIS OF SURFACE DEFORMATION AT MAUNA LOA AND KILAUEA VOLCANOES IN HAWAII...................................................................................................................................................................................................2421

F. Casu, R. Lanari, E. Sansosti, G. Solaro, P. Tizzani, M. Poland, A. Miklius

TH1.O6: HIGH PERFORMANCE GEOCOMPUTATION AND REMOTE SENSING I A HIGH PERFORMANCE REMOTE SENSING RETRIEVAL APPLICATION ON AN INSTITUTIONAL DESKTOP GRID..........................................................................................................................................................................................2425

W. Wei, Y. Xue, S. Lu, J. Guang

A NEW FRAMEWORK OF CLUSTER-BASED PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE GEO-COMPUTING....................................................................................................................................................2429

Y. Ma, D. Liu, J. Li

THE KAMAL EWIDA EARTH OBSERVATORY: A NATO SUPPORTED REAL-TIME REMOTE SENSING RECEIVING STATION BEING ESTABLISHED IN EGYPT WITH HPC-ENABLED NEAR-REAL-TIME DATA PRODUCTS FOR MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL & PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS ......................................2433

G. Rochon, M. A. Wahab, G. S. El-Afandi, G. Altay, O. Ersoy, X. C. Song, L. Zhao, D. Niyogi, L. Biehl, D. Grant, B. Elleithy, M. Shokr, M. A. Mohamed, T. El-Ghazawi

GPU-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR DISTRIBUTED INTERACTIVE 3D VISUALIZATION OF MULTIMODAL REMOTE SENSING DATA .......................................................................................................................................................................2437

M. Lambers, A. Kolb

A DYNAMIC GRID WORKFLOW FOR REMOTE SENSING QUANTITATIVE RETRIEVAL SERVICE ..............................2441J. Ai, Y. Xue, Y. Li, J. Guang, Y. Wang, L. Bai

TH1.O7: INVERSION OF LAND SURFACE AND BIOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES I ROBUST MULTIBAND DETECTION OF THERMAL ANOMALIES USING THE MINIMUM COVARIANCE DETERMINANT ESTIMATOR ................................................................................................................................................................2445

T. Beltramonte, C. Clemente, M. Di-Bisceglie, C. Galdi

BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION WITH ADAPTIVE GAUSSIAN PROCESSES.....................................................2449G. Camps-Valls, L. Gomez-Chova, J. Munoz-Mari, J. Vila-Frances, J. Amoros, S. Valle-Tascon, J. Calpe-Maravilla

USE OF AN ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER FOR REAL-TIME INVERSION OF LEAF AREA INDEX FROM MODIS TIME SERIES DATA ...................................................................................................................................................................2453

Z. Xiao, S. Liang, J. Wang, X. Wu

POTENTIAL FIRE DETECTION BASED ON KALMAN-DRIVEN CHANGE DETECTION ......................................................2457F. Van-Den-Bergh, G. Udahemuka, B. J. Van-Wyk

PROBABILISTIC CALIBRATION OF A COUPLED VEGETATION AND FIRE MODEL USING SATELLITE DATA .............................................................................................................................................................................................................2461

J. L. Gomez-Dans, M. Wooster, P. Lewis, A. Spessa

TH1.O8: SOURCE SEPARATION: FROM ICA TO UNMIXING UNMIXING OF SPARSE HYPERSPECTRAL MIXTURES ................................................................................................................2465

M. D. Iordache, J. Bioucas-Dias, A. Plaza

ROBUST ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION IN THE PRESENCE OF ANOMALIES .........................................................................2469O. Duran, M. Petrou

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS OF POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA FOR SEPARATING GROUND AND VEGETATION COMPONENTS .....................................................................................................................................................2473

O. Tannous, D. Kasilingam

ON THE USE OF ICA FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS ..............................................................................................2477A. Villa, J. Chanussot, C. Jutten, J. A. Benediktsson, S. Moussaoui

TH1.O9: SEGMENTATION-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION RECURSIVE TEXTURE FRAGMENTATION AND RECONSTRUCTION SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM APPLIED TO VHR IMAGES ....................................................................................................................................................................2481

R. Gaetano, G. Scarpa, G. Poggi

ADVANCES IN TEXTURE-BASED SEGMENTATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2485

R. Gaetano, G. Scarpa, G. Poggi

COMPLETELY AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF SATELLITE MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF LAND COVER MAPS ....................................................................................................................................2489

G. Licciardi, C. Pratola, F. D. Frate

A VARIATIONAL CO-TRAINING FRAMEWORK FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE SEGMENTATION ............................2493K. Chen, Z. Li, J. Cheng, Z Zhou, H. Lu

TH1.O10: CALIBRATION OF MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS MICROWAVE RADIOMETER INTER-CALIBRATION USING THE VICARIOUS CALIBRATION METHOD ...................2497

D. McKague, C. Ruf, J. J. Puckett

PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE PASSIVE ADVANCED UNIT SYNTHETIC APERTURE (PAU-SA)................................2501I. Ramos-Perez, X. Bosch-Lluis, A. Camps, E. Valencia, J. F. Marchan-Hernandez, N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, F. Canales-Contador

RECEIVER AS A RADIOMETER CALIBRATION TARGET............................................................................................................2505V. Kangas, A. Colliander

TH1.O11: VEGETATION STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS II FOREST PARAMETERS INVERSION USING POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA ...........................2509

M. Lavalle, D. Solimini, E. Pottier, Y. L. Desnos

QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF THE ECO-WATER INDICES BASED ON REMOTE SENSING ..................................................2513Y. Li, W. Yang, L. Tong, J. Jian, X. Gu

FOREST PARAMETER RETRIEVAL USING A GENERAL REPEAT-PASS POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC VEGETATION MODEL ...................................................................................................................................2517

M. Neumann, L. Fero-Famil, A. Reigber

VARIABLE WIND INFLUENCE ON INSAR IMAGERY OF FORESTS ..........................................................................................2521M. Benson, L. Pierce, K. Sarabandi

TH1.O12: ACTIVE REMOTE SENSING AND LAND CHARACTERIZATION A POLARIMETRIC VEGETATION MODEL TO RETRIEVE PARTICLE AND ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS ..................................................................................................................................................2525

M. Neumann, L. Ferro-Famil, M. Jager, A. Reigber, E. Pottier

C-BAND D-INSAR AND FIELD DATA FOR CALIBRATING A GROUNDWATER FLOW AND LAND SUBSIDENCE MODEL ..............................................................................................................................................................................2529

A. I. Calderhead, R. Martel, A. Rivera, J. Garfias, P. J. Alasset

CORRECTING ESTIMATES OF LAND COVER CHANGE AND CHANGE DETECTION ACCURACY FOR ERROR IN GROUND REFERENCE DATA ...........................................................................................................................................2533

G. M. Foody

DEM PRODUCTION UTILIZING STEREOTECHNOLOGY OF THE TERRASAR-X DATA.....................................................2537T. Nonaka, T. Hayakawa, S. Griffiths, B. Mercer

TH1.O13: LIDAR-BASED REMOTE SENSING – THE NEXT WAVE I THE MOBLAS-6 SATELLITE LASER RANGING STATION AT HARTEBEESTHOEK, SOUTH AFRICA; TECHNOLOGY AND DATA APPLICATIONS. ....................................................................................................................................2541

L. Combrinck

TH2.O1: IONOSPHERE EFFECTS IN POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR IMAGERY II ESTIMATION AND CORRECTION OF IONOSPHERIC INDUCED PHASE ERRORS IN SAR IMAGES USING COHERENT SCATTERERS........................................................................................................................................................2545

R. Z. Schneider, K. Papathanassiou

TH2.O2: LOW FREQUENCY SAR CALIBRATION, PROCESSING, MODELLING AND APPLICATIONS II COMPARISON OF L- AND P-BAND BIOMASS RETRIEVALS BASED ON BACKSCATTER FROM THE BIOSAR CAMPAIGN .................................................................................................................................................................................2549

G. Sandberg, L. M. H. Ulander, J. E. S. Fransson, J. Holmgren, T. Le-Toan

TROPICAL FOREST BIOMASS RECOVERY USING GEOSAR OBSERVATIONS .....................................................................2553M. L. Williams, T. Milne, I. Tapley, J. J. Reis, M. Sanford, B. Kofman, S. Hensley

SETHI, THE ONERA AIRBORNE SAR SENSOR, AND HIS LOW FREQUENCY CAPABILITY ..............................................2557S. Angelliaume, P. Dubois-Fernandez, D. H. Oriot, C. Coulombeix

TH2.O4: COASTAL AND WETLANDS APPLICATIONS II NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHM AND BACKSCATTERING MODEL FOR BIOMASS ESTIMATION OF WETLAND VEGETATION IN POYANG LAKE AREA USING ENVISAT ASAR DATA .............................................................2560

J. Liao, L. Dong, G. Shen

DISPERSAL OF SUSPENDED SEDIMENT IN THE SOUTHWEST INSHORE OFF THE MODERN HUANGHE (YELLOW) RIVER ESTUARY ...........................................................................................................................................2564

Y. Liu, H. Huang, H. Fan

CLASSIFICATION OF COASTAL ZONE BASED ON DECISION TREE AND PPI ......................................................................2568S. Li, B. Zhang, L. Gao, L. Zhang

REAL TIME MONITORING OF FLOODED AREAS BY A MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL SATELLITE DATA .....................................................................................................................................................................................2572

M. Faroulo, I. Coviello, T. Lacavo, N. Pergola, V. Tramutoli

TH2.O6: HIGH PERFORMANCE GEOCOMPUTATION AND REMOTE SENSING II IMPROVING THE SCALABILITY OF PARALLEL ALGORITHMS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS USING ADAPTIVE MESSAGE COMPRESSION ............................................................................................................2576

A. Plaza, J. Plaza, A. Paz

RESEARCH ON PARALLEL BUFFER ANALYSIS WITH GRIDED BASED HPC TECHNOLOGY .........................................2580L. Pang, G. Li, Y. Yan, Y. Ma

HARDWARE-ACCELERATED EDGE DETECTION FOR POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA .............................................................................................................................................................................................2584

Q. H. Nguyen, K. Y. Lee, M. T. Aung, T. Bretschneider, I. McLoughlin

PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SEISMIC WAVE FIELD MODELING WITH COMBINED LINUX CLUSTERS AND GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS ..........................................................................................................................2588

T. Danek

A QUICK AND FEATURE BASED VISUALIZATION ALGORITHM FOR LARGE-SCALE FLOW DATA ............................2592L. Zhong, H. T. Chi, X. Zhang

TH2.O7: INVERSION OF LAND SURFACE AND BIOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES II AN APPROACH TO SAR TOMOGRAPHY WITH LIMITED NUMBER OF TRACKS.................................................................2596

V. Severino, M. Nannini, A. Reigber, R. Scheiber, A. Capozzoli, G. D'Elia, A. Liseno, P. Vinetti

LEAF AREA INDEX INVERSION AND VALIDATION FOR COTTON IN XINJIANG BASED ON THE DMC REMOTELY SENSED MINI-SATELLITE DATA.................................................................................................................................2600

Y. Yao, W. Fan, D. Wu, B. Yan, Q. Liu

A QUALITATIVE TWO-STEP INVERSION APPROACH FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF SUBSURFACE DEFECTS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................2604

M. Donelli, M. Benedetti, D. Lesselier, A. Massa

TH2.O8: IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND TEXTURES SPECTRAL RULES AND GEOSTATISC FEATURES FOR CHARACTERIZING OLIVE GROVES IN QUICKBIRD IMAGES ...............................................................................................................................................................................2608

N. Amoruso, A. Baraldi, C. Tarantino, P. Blonda

HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION OF VEGETATION AREAS IN HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES BY FUSION OF MULTISPECTRAL INFORMATION .......................................................................................................2612

F. Calderero, F. Marques, J. Marcello, F. Eugenio

THE SYNTHETIC IMAGE TESTING FRAMEWORK (SITEF) FOR THE EVALUATION OF MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS ....................................................................................................................2616

A. R. S. Marcal, A. Rodrigues, M. Cunha

TH2.O9: TIME-SERIES ANALYSES FOR CHANGE DETECTION AN A-CONTRARIO APPROACH FOR UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN RADAR IMAGES ................................2620

A. Robin, G. Mercier, G. Moser, S. Serpico

THE QUEST FOR AUTOMATED LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION USING SATELLITE TIME SERIES DATA .............................................................................................................................................................................................................2624

B. P. Salmon, J. C. Olivier, W. Kleynhans, K. J. Wessels, F. Van-Den-Bergh

MAPPING AND MONITORING LAND COVER IN ACRE STATE, BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA, USING MULTITEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING DATA .................................................................................................................................2628

Y. E. Shimabukuro, V. Duarte, E. Arai, R. M. Freitas, P. R. Martini, A. Lima

TEMPORAL SERIES OF EVI/MODIS TO IDENTIFY LAND CONVERTED TO SUGARCANE ................................................2632B. F. T. Rudorff, M. Adami, D. A. Aguiar, A. Gusso, W. F. Silva, R. M. Freitas

IMPROVING NDVI TIME SERIES CLASS SEPARATION USING AN EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER. ...............................2636W. Kleynhans, J. C. Olivier, B. P. Salmon, K. J. Wessels, F. Van-Den-Bergh

TH2.O10: HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IN AFRICA I FIELD SPECTROMETRY OF PAPYRUS VEGETATION (CYPERUS PAPYRUS L.) IN SWAMP WETLANDS OF ST LUCIA, SOUTH AFRICA ..............................................................................................................................................................2640

M. I. E. Adam, O. Mutang, D. Rugege, R. Ismail

INTEGRATING REMOTE SENSING AND ANCILLARY DATA FOR REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT: EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS AGRO-SYSTEM IN KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA .................................2644

M. Cho, J. Van-Aardt, R. Main, B. Majeke, A. R. Plessis, R. Mathieu, M. Norris-Rogers, M. Du-Plessis

HAND-HELD SPECTROMETRY FOR ESTIMATING THRIPS (FULMEKIOLA SERRATA) INCIDENCE IN SUGARCANE ...............................................................................................................................................................................................2648

E. M. Abdel-Rahman, M. Van-Den-Berg, M. J. Way, F. B. Ahmed

WITHIN- AND BETWEEN-CLASS VARIABILITY OF SPECTRALLY SIMILAR TREE SPECIES ..........................................2652P. Debba, M. A. Cho, R. Mathieu

TH2.O11: REMOTE SENSING OF VEGETATION PROCESSES I RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN VEGETATION MONITORING PRODUCTS FROM AUSTRALIA’S NATIONAL CARBON ACCOUNTING SYSTEM .................................................................................................................................2656

S. L. Furby, P. A. Caccetta, J. F. Wallace, E. A. Lehmann, K. Zdunic

A NARROW BAND COMBINATION MODEL TO DETERMINE LEAF NITROGEN AND WATER CONTENT IN RICE .........................................................................................................................................................................................................2660

S. Song, P. X. Li, W. Gong, L. Zhang, B. Zhu, L. Lv, D. Zhang

A STUDY ON GPP INVERSION OF DIFFERENT ECOSYSTEMS BY REMOTE SENSING AND IMPACT FACTORS COMPARISON ........................................................................................................................................................................2664

L. Li, C. Liangfu, G. Yanhua, L. Qinhuo

TH2.O12: GEOSTATIONARY DATA PRODUCTS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE LAND SURFACE ALBEDO FROM MSG/SEVIRI: RETRIEVAL METHOD, VALIDATION, AND APPLICATION FOR WEATHER FORECAST .....................................................................................................................................2668

D. Carrer, B. Geiger, J. L. Roujean, O. Hautecoeur, J. Cedilnik, J. F. Mahfouf, C. Meurey, L. Franchisteguy

MONTHLY LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE MAPS OVER EUROPE USING ADVANCED ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER DATA FOR 2007 .......................................................................................................................2672

M. J. Galve, C. Coll, F. Prata

THP.A: LAND USE AND LAND COVER REMOTE SENSING BASED SEASON CALENDAR FOR INDIAN DISTRICTS USING MODIS DATA ...................................2676

S. Gupta, V. Pandit, K. S. Rajan

SCALING UP EQUIVALENT WATER THICKNESS IN SAVANNA ENVIRONMENTS: FROM LOCAL TO BIOME SCALE, VIA GROUND, HYPERION, AND MODIS DATA ..................................................................................................2680

L. G. Ferreira, G. P. Asner, E. A. Davidson, M. Bustamante

CHANGE DETECTION OF THE TANGJIASHAN BARRIER LAKE BASED ON MULTI-SOURCE REMOTE SENSING DATA ..........................................................................................................................................................................................2683

M. Xu, C. Cao, H. Zhang, Y. Xue, Y. Li, J. P. Guo, C. Chang, Q. He, M. Gao, X. Li

SUBPIXEL MAPPING OF WATER COVER WITH MODIS IN TIBETAN PLATEAU .................................................................2687C. Liu, D. Xie, J. Shi, S. Gao

LAND USE/LAND COVER (LULC) CHARACTERIZAITOIN WITH MODIS TIME SERIES DATA IN THE AMU RIVER BASIN ...................................................................................................................................................................................2690

K. Song, Z. Wang, Q. Liu, D. Lu, G. Yang, L. Zeng, D. Liu, B. Zhang, J. Du

THE CHANGE OF LANDSCAPE PATTERN IN ARID MOUNTAIN OF THE UPPER REACHES OF SHULE RIVER BASIN IN NORTHWEST CHINA...............................................................................................................................................2694

G. Yang, B. Ye, Y. Ding, L. Zhou

DEVELOPING NEW SPECTRAL INDICES FOR KARST ROCKY DESERTIFICATION MONITORING IN SOUTHWEST CHINA ................................................................................................................................................................................2698

Y. Yue, K. Wang, J. Li, B. Zhang, B. Liu, Q. Jiao, X. Zhang

THE INFLUENCE OF RAINFALL, VEGETATION, ELEPHANTS AND PEOPLE ON FIRE FREQUENCY OF MIOMBO WOODLANDS, NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE...................................................................................................................2702

N. S. Ribeiro, G. S. Okin, H. H. Shugart, R. J. Swap

VARIATION OF ALBEDO WITH THE INCREASED IMPERVIOUS SURFACE IN BEIJING-TIANJIN AREA OF CHINA ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2706

X. Zhou, B. Zhang, L. Lei, L. Liu, Z. Chen, J. Fan, H. Liu

THP.B: REMOTE SENSING OF LAND SURFACE PROPERTIES AND WETLANDS ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF HEATHLAND VEGETATION BY CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING SPATIAL INFORMATION .........................................................................................................2710

G. Thoonen, J. V. Borre, S. Backer, P. Scheunders

WOODY COVER AND HETEROGENEITY IN THE SAVANNAS OF THE KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH AFRICA..........................................................................................................................................................................................2714

G. Bucini, S. Saatchi, N. Hanan, R. B. Boone, I. Smit

USING MODIS-BASED VEGETATION AND MOISTURE INDICES FOR OASIS LANDSCAPE MONITORING IN AN ARID ENVIRONMENT.....................................................................................................................................2718

M. L. Lin, C. W. Chen, J. Y. Shih, Y. T. Lee, C. H. Tsai, Y. T. Hu, F. Sun, C. Y. Wang

MODELING SURFACE-FLOW CHARACTERISTICS IN GLACIATED LANDSCAPES.............................................................2722J. H. Gritzner

PARAMETRIZATION OF INTEGRATED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL OF NAM CO LAKE CATCHMENT ON TIBETAN PLATEAU USING SYNERGY OF SAR AND OPTICAL DATA ...............................................................................2726

J. Kropacek, V. Hochschild

REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS: ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT EFFECT ANALYSIS OF WIDGEON LAKE WETLAND CHANGE IN BEIJING REGION ............................................................................................................................2730

G. Zhaoning, L. Xiaojuan, W. J. Zhao

THP.C: FOREST AND VEGETATION APPLICATIONS BIOMASS ESTIMATION OF PINUS RADIATA (D. DON) STANDS IN NORTHWESTERN SPAIN BY UNMIXING CCD CBERS DATA ..............................................................................................................................................................2734

E. Sevillano-Marco, A. Fernandez-Manso, C. Quintano, Y. E. Shimabukuro

MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF PADDY FIELD BY POLARIMETRIC GB-SAR .............................................................2738N. Hayashi, M. Sato

SPECTRAL CHARACTERISATION AND MAPPING OF WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS IN NAMIBIA...................................2742R. Kellenberger, M. Kneubuhler, T. Kellenberger

MAPPING OF WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY IN THE NAMIB DESERT .........................................................................................................................................................................................2746

T. W. Kellenberger, M. Kneubuhler

MODELING CANOPY INTERCEPTION OF PICEA CRASSIFOLIA FOREST IN QILIAN MOUNTAINS USING QUICKBIRD SATELLITE DATA ..............................................................................................................................................2750

H. Peng, C. Zhao, W. Shen, Z. Xu, Z. Feng

REGIONAL YIELD PREDICTION OF WINTER WHEAT BASED ON RETRIEVAL OF LEAF AREA INDEX BY REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY...............................................................................................................................................2754

J. Ren, Z. Chen, X. Yang, X. Liu, Q. Zhou

YIELD ESTIMATION OF WINTER WHEAT IN NORTH CHINA PLAIN USING RS-P-YEC MODEL ....................................2758W. Peijuan, Z. Jiahua, X. Donghui, Z. Yuyu, S. Rui

STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF DROUGHT TO CROP GROWTH BASED ON SAR REMOTE SENSING .........................2762A. Cai, Y. Shao, F. Zhang, H. Gong

ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF CROWN STRUCTURE CHANGES ON BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT USING MODELING AND SAR DATA .......................................................................................................................2766

Z. Guo, W. Ni, G. Sun

THP.D: BUILDINGS AND URBAN AREAS A MODIFIED SFS ALGORITHM BASED ON STEREO IMAGES FOR THE-DIMENSION RECONSTRUCTION OF URBAN BUILDINGS ....................................................................................................................................2770

H. Tang, L. Yan, P. Gao

HIGH-ACCURACY OF ORTHORECTIFICATION MODEL WITH SELF-GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT FOR HIGH BUILDINGS IN URBAN AREA ....................................................................................................................................................2774

W. Xie, G. Zhou

URBAN AREAS CHARACTERIZATION FROM POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USING HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL .........................................................................................................................................................................................................2778

W. He, M. Jager, O. Hellwich

BAYESIAN BUILDING EXTRACTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA......................................2782W. He, O. Hellwich

ACCURATE POSE AND LOCATION ESTIMATION OF UNCALIBRATED CAMERA IN URBAN AREA .............................2786W. Xie, L. Zhang, G. Zhou, Y. Xue

AUTOMATED DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF INTACT ROAD NETWORKS IN MULTI-SENSORIAL SPACEBORNE IMAGERY FOR NEAR-REALTIME DISASTER MANAGEMENT .............................................2790

D. Frey, M. Butenuth, S. Hinz

HYPERIMAGE CONCEPT: MULTIDIMENSIONAL TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS APPLIED TO SAR IMAGING .....................................................................................................................................................................................................2794

M. Duquenoy, J. P. Ovarlez, L. Ferro-Famil, E. Pottier

ANALYSIS OF NARROW RIDGE ESTIMATION FOR LINEAR CCD RFM MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION ...................2798D. Yan, Y. Kou, F. Wang, F. Chen

QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF DATA PRODUCTS FROM A NEW GENERATION AIRBORNE IMAGING SPECTROMETER.......................................................................................................................................................................................2802

L. Alparone, M. Selva, L. Capobianco, S. M. L. Chiarantini, F. Butera

THP.E: DATA PROCESSING I CHARACTERISTICS OF SHADOW AND REMOVAL OF ITS EFFECTS FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2806

F. Yamazaki, W. Liu, M. Takasaki

A PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING BURIED OBJECT CHARACTERISTICS IN GPR IMAGES ..............................................................................................................................................................................................2810

E. Pasolli, F. Melgani, M. Donelli

A TRACK-BEFORE-DETECT ALGORITHM USING KA-HT BASED ON TARGET DOPPLER PROPERTY........................2814G. Shaonan, Z. Xiaoling, F. Ling

SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION BY NEURAL NETWORKS USING POLARIMETRIC TIME-FREQUENCY SIGNATURES ..............................................................................................................................................................................................2818

M. Duquenoy, J. P. Ovarlez, C. Morisseau, G. Viellard, L. Ferro-Famil, E. Pottier

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL COMPUTATION WITH SPOT 5 PANCHROMATIC AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES USING LOW STEREOSCOPIC ANGLE AND GEOMETRIC MODEL REFINEMENT .............................................................................................................................................................................................2822

S. May, C. Latry

RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF SAR IMAGE USING A MULTIFRAME SUPER RESOLUTION TECHNIQUE................................................................................................................................................................................................2826

Y. Ito

AN IMPROVED FUSION METHOD FOR PAN-SHARPENING BEIJING-1 MICRO-SATELLITE IMAGES ..........................2830H. Liu, B. Zhang, X. Zhang, J. Li, Z. Chen, X. Zhou

AN ACCURACY ASSESMENT OF ML TEXTURE TRACKING ALGORITHM OVER MULTITEMPORAL SAR IMAGES ...............................................................................................................................................................................................2834

E. Erten, A. Reigber, O. Hellwich, P. Prats

SPECKLE REDUCTION OF TERRASAR-X IMAGERY USING TV SEGMENTATION ..............................................................2838J. R. Sveinsson, B. Waske, J. A. Benediktsson

SPECKLE REDUCTION OF SAR IMAGES USING SURE-BASED ADAPTIVE SIGMOID THRESHOLDING IN THE WAVELET DOMAIN ..................................................................................................................................................................2842

J. R. Sveinsson, M. O. Ulfarsson, J. A. Benediktsson

THP.F: DATA PROCESSING AND DATA COMPRESSION A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF TARGET CONTOUR EXTRACTION BASED ON SCATTERING MECHANISM USING POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES .....................................................................................................................2846

L. Zhang, H. Guo, X. Li, Q. Lin, Y. Qiu

OIL SLICK SPOT DETECTION USING K DISTRIBUTION MODEL OF THE SEA BACKGROUND ......................................2850H. Z. Li, C. Wang, H. Zhang, F. Wu, J. Li

EVALUATION OF JP3D FOR LOSSY AND LOSSLESS COMPRESSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY ......................2854J. Zhang, J. E. Fowler, N. H. Younan, G. Liu

NEW THOUGHTS FOR ONBOARD COMPRESSION OF SATELLITE IMAGES ........................................................................2858L. Gao, Q. Ran, B. Zhang, Y. Chi, Z. Wang

MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE INDEXING BASED ON VECTOR LIFTING SCHEMES..................................................................2862S. Sakji-Nsibi, A. Benazza-Benyahia

SEISMIC HYPERBOLIC PATTERN DETECTION AND VELOCITY ANALYSIS BY SIMULATED ANNEALING................................................................................................................................................................................................2866

K. C. Huang, K. Y. Huang, L. K. Wang, Y. L. Chou, Y. H. Hsieh, S. C. Hsieh

STUDY ON A PRACTICAL EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING SYSTEM BASED ON RS AND GIS..................................................................................................................................................................................................2870

X. Ding, X. Wang, A. Dou, L. Wang

AUTOMATIC BAND MATCHING FOR BEIJING1 MICROSATELLITE MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES .................................2874G. B. Ma, W. Y. Zhang, F. Chen, P. Huang, L. Guo

ADAPTIVE DATA COMPRESSION FOR EFFICIENT SEQUENTIAL TRANSMISSION AND CHANGE UPDATING OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES. ....................................................................................................................................2878

A. Mamun, X. Jia, M. Ryan

PROGRESSIVE COMPRESSION OF DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA USING MESHES ..............................................................2882K. Kose, E. Yilmaz, A. E. Cetin

THP.G: CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS APPLIED TO X-BAND SAR FOR URBAN LAND USE CLASSIFICATION ...................2886

M. Chini, F. Pacifici, W. J. Emery

SWIMMING POOLS LOCALIZATION IN COLOUR HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES ........................................2890C. Galindo, P. Moreno, J. Gonzalez, V. Arevalo

SHIP DETECTION AND RECOGNITION IN HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES ......................................................2894J. Antelo, G. Ambrosio, J. Gonzalez, C. Galindo

DETECTION AND RADIATION AREA ESTIMATION OF ANOMALOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE RELATED TO EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR.............................................................................2898

T. Sato, I. Takumi, M. Hata, H. Yasukawa

VOLCANO-SEISMIC SIGNAL DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION PROCESSING USING HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS. APPLICATION TO SAN CRISTÓBAL VOLCANO, NICARAGUA ...........................................................2902

L. Gutierrez, J. Ibanez, G. Cortes, J. Ramirez, C. Benitez, V. Tenorio, I. Alvarez

IMPROVING FEATURE EXTRACTION IN THE AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF SEISMIC EVENTS. APPLICATION TO COLIMA AND ARENAL VOLCANOES.............................................................................................................2906

I. Alvarez, G. Cortes, A. Torre, C. Benitez, L. Garcia, P. Lesage, R. Arambula, M. Gonzalez

DETECTING SMALL AMPLITUDE SIGNAL AND TRANSIT TIMES IN HIGH NOISE: APPLICATION TO HYDRAULIC FRACTURE MONITORING ...........................................................................................................................................2910

Q. Liu, S. Bose, H. P. Valero, R. G. Shenoy, A. Ounadjela

SPECTRAL IMAGE PROCESSING USING SPARSE LINEAR TRANSFORMS ............................................................................2914S. A. Robila

LOCALIZED SHRINKAGE COVARIANCE ESTIMATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION......................................................................................................................................................................................2918

H. Y. Huang, B. C. Kuo, J. F. Liu, N. Yang

THP.H: INTERFEROMETRY A COMBINATION OF PARTICLE FILTER, MATRIX PENCIL AND REGION GROWING TECHNIQUES FOR PHASE UNWRAPPING IN SAR INTERFEROMETRY .............................................................................................................2922

J. J. Martinez-Espla, T. Martinez-Marin, J. M. Lopez-Sanchez, J. D. Ballester-Berman

ENHANCING COMPLEX INTERFEROGRAMS BY ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION ......................................................................2926F. R. Gonzalez, M. Datcu

SIMULATION OF DUAL-CHANNEL SAR-GMTI FOR VELOCITY ESTIMATION AND COMPENSATION ........................2930Y. K. Kwag, J. H. Jung, C. H. Jung

INTERFEROMETRIC SAR CALIBRATION WITH AREA CALIBRATION SITE OF SAME HEIGHT ...................................2934W. Zhang, M. Xiang, Y. Wu

LARGE SCALE LAND SUBSIDENCE MONITORING WITH A REDUCED SET OF SAR IMAGES ........................................2938D. Ge, Y. Wang, L. Zhang, Y. Xia, X. Guo

MOTION MEASUREMENT ERRORS ANALYSIS FOR THE “ONE-ACTIVE” LASAR ..............................................................2942W. Yinbo, Z. Xiaoling, L. Weihua, S. Jun

THP.I: SAR INSTRUMENTS, MISSIONS AND CALIBRATION A REVISED RADIOMETRIC NORMALISATION STANDARD FOR SAR .....................................................................................2946

D. Small, N. Mirando, E. Meier

EFFECT OF LINEAR ARRAY ELEMENTS SPACING ON ANGLE IMAGING PERFORMANCE OF DOWNWARD-LOOKING 3D-SAR ..........................................................................................................................................................2950

Y. Wang, L. Du, W. Hong, Y. Wu, L. Wei

RESEARCH ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SATELLITE ATTITUDE STABILITY AND INTERFEROMETRIC PERFORMANCE ...............................................................................................................................................2954

L. Wei, L. Chunsheng, C. Jie, L. Yujing

AN INTERNAL CALIBRATION SCHEME FOR POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR SYSTEM ........................................................................................................................................................................................................2958

S. Wang, W. Yu, H. Qi

CALIBRATION OF THE HIGH PERFORMANCE AIRBORNE SAR SYSTEM (PI-SAR2)..........................................................2962T. Matsuoka, T. Umehara, A. Nadai, T. Kobayashi

TRANSPOLARIZING TRIHEDRAL MEASUREMENT USING UPC X-BAND GBSAR ...............................................................2966P. J. Ferrer, J. Romeu, J. M. Gonzalez-Arbesu, A. Agausca, L. Pipia, C. Lopez-Martinez, X. Fabragas

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT OF THE FIRST HIGH-RESOLUTION IFSAR CAMPAIGN OVER THE COORONG REGION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA ...................................................................................................................................2970

C. Menges, F. Marre, T. Dhar

THP.J: SAR POSTERS A KERNEL REGRESSION-BASED BACKGROUND PREDICTING METHOD FOR TARGET DETECTION IN SAR IMAGE .................................................................................................................................................................................................2973

Y. Gu, X. Liu, J. Han, Y. Zhang

PSLR ESTIMATION CONSIDERING CLUTTER BACKGROUND FROM SAR IMAGE DATA................................................2977C. H. Jung, Y. K. Kwag

COMBINED METAL DETECTOR AND GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR SENSOR EXPERIMENTS IN A VARIETY OF SOIL CONDITIONS .........................................................................................................................................................2981

D. M. Kim, S. H. Kim, S. Lee, K. Kim

ANTI-JAMMING TECHNIQUES FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR....................................................................................2985W. Li, X. L. Wang, X. M. Wang

THE EFFECTS OF MULTI-PATH SCATTERING ON THE SAR IMAGE OF CYLINDER CAVITY ........................................2989Z. Yueting, D. Chibiao, Y. Hongjian, Q. Xiaolan

SAR RAW SINGAL SIMULATION ACCOUNTING FOR ANTENNA ATTITUDE VARIATIONS .............................................2993T. Xiaoqing, X. Maosheng, W. Lideng, W. Yirong

SAR RAW SIGNAL SIMULATION BASED ON GPU PARALLEL COMPUTATION ...................................................................2997W. Bingnan, Z. Fan, X. Maosheng

SAR TARGET RECOGNITION BASED ON SUB-BLOCK STATISTICAL FEATURES EXTRACTED FROM THE GABOR FILTERED IMAGE ...........................................................................................................................................................3001

F. M. Hu, X. H. Fan, R. L. Yang

AN IMAGING METHOD AND THE CORRECTION OF DISTORTION FOR SPACEBORNE-AIRBORNE BISTATIC SAR ............................................................................................................................................................................................3005

Y. Yue, X. L. Zhang, Z. Zuo, Y. Haiguang

THP.K: SAR POSTERS B SPOTLIGHT SAR PROCESSOR BY USING EXTENDED FREQUENCY SCALING ....................................................................3009

D. Kim, J. Keum, M. Kim, S. Ra

DATA PROCESSING FRAME FOR AIRBORNE SAR PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT..............................................................3013B. Gomez, M. J. Gonzalez, J. M. Cuerda, J. F. Cores, N. Casal, N. Gimeno, P. Cifuentes, A. Arenas, A. Lopez

ANTENNA POINTING MEASUREMENT FOR SPACEBORNE SAR BASED ON SIGN-MLCC ALGORITHM .....................3017Y. Gao, K. Wang, X. Liu, W. Yu

FLOOD DISASTER MONITORING WITH ALOS/PALSAR OBSERVATION ...............................................................................3021N. Kawano, M. Shimada

A WEB APPLICATION WITH VISUAL SAR PROCESSOR FOR EDUCATION ...........................................................................3025Y. Ito, Y. Teramoto, K. Abe

THP.L: MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY: INSTRUMENTS AND APPLICATIONS NOISE WAVE ANALYSIS OF DICKE AND NOISE INJECTION RADIOMETERS: COMPLETE S-PARAMATER ANALYSIS AND EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS ..............................................................................3029

A. Camps

MULTIFREQUENCY EXPERIMENTAL RADIOMETER WITH INTERFERENCE TRACKING FOR EXPERIMENTS OVER LAND AND LITTORAL: MERITXELL.......................................................................................................3033

J. M. Tarongi, A. Camps

LINEARITY CHARACTERIZATION OF DETECTORS FOR INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS..................................3037C. Gonzalez-Haro, F. Torres, N. Dufo, I. Corbella, R. Vilaseca, P. Paco, M. Martin-Neira

GSOC'S SCATTEROMETRY GNSS RECEIVER FOR OCEAN REMOTE SENSING: DESIGN AND INITIAL RESULTS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................3041

R. Rivas, A. Grillenberger, M. Markgraf

TH3.O1: REMOTE SENSING FOR SEA POLLUTION MERIS–BASED AQUATIC PETROLEUM POLLUTION MONITORING MODE .........................................................................3045

M. F. Huang, X. P. Zhang, K. J. Lu, X. F. Xing

ALOS-PALSAR POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA TO OBSERVE SEA OIL SLICKS.........................................................................3049M. Migliaccio, A. Gambardella, F. Nuziata, M. Shimada, O. Isoguchi

COMPARISON WITH L-, C-, AND X-BAND REAL SAR IMAGES AND SIMULATION SPILLED OIL ON SEA SURFACE ............................................................................................................................................................................................3053

C. S. Yang, Y. S. Kim, K. Ouchi, J. H. Na

TH3.O2: HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR IMAGE PROCESSING AUTOMATED INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES: TERRASAR-X IMAGE INTERPRETATION APPLICATIONS .....................................................................................................................................3057

G. Schwarz, M. Soccorsi, H. Chaabouni-Chouayakh, D. Espinoza, D. Cerra, F. Rodriguez, M. Datcu

SPECKLE REDUCTION AND EDGE DETECTION FOR TERRASAR-X SINGLE-LOOK DUAL-POLARIZATION IMAGERY ....................................................................................................................................................................3061

K. Y. Lee, T. R. Bretschneider, C. L. Koh

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION OF AIRCRAFT MODELS BASED ON ISAR IMAGES .............................................3065M. N. Saidi, K. Daoudi, A. Khenchaf, B. Hoeltzener, D. Aboutajdine

FIRST VALIDATION EXPERIMENT FOR A MULTI-CHROMATIC ANALYSIS (MCA) OF SAR DATA STARTING FROM SLC IMAGES............................................................................................................................................................3069

F. Bovenga, V. M. Giacovazzo, A. Refice, N. Veneziani, R. Vitulli

TH3.O3: RECENT ADVANCES IN HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING AND INFORMATION EXTRACTION I A NEYMAN-PEARSON APPROACH TO ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF ENDMEMBERS ..................................................3073

J. Broadwater, A. Banerjee

FRAME BASED KERNEL METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION IN HYPERSPECTRAL DATA .....................3077J. J. Bendedetto, W. Czaja, J. C. Flake, M. Hirn

ADVANCES IN HYPERSPECTRAL PROCESSING FOR PROVINCE AND CONTINENTAL- WIDE MINERAL MAPPING.................................................................................................................................................................................3081

R. D. Hewson, T. J. Cudahy, M. Caccetta, A. Rodger, M. Jones, C. Ong

TH3.O4: COASTAL AND WETLANDS APPLICATIONS III HIGH RESOLUTION DEM DERIVED FROM THERMAL INFRARED IMAGES : EXAMPLE OF ABER BENOIT (FRANCE) ....................................................................................................................................................................................3085

D. Guadin, C. Delacourt, P. Allemand, M. Jaud, J. Ammann, C. Tisseau, V. Cuq

NEAR REAL TIME OIL SPILL DETECTION AND MONITORING USING SATELLITE OPTICAL DATA ..........................3089C. S. L. Grimaldi, I. Coviello, T. Lacava, N. Pergola, V. Tramutoli

SEA-CLUTTER ANALYSIS AT MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS (L,C,X) FOR TARGET-CLUTTER CONTRAST ASSESSMENT IN LITTORAL WATERS ........................................................................................................................3093

C. Menges, F. Marre, T. Dhar

TH3.O5: MEASURING EARTH DYNAMICS USING L-BAND INTERFEROMETRY A STUDY OF FOREST VERTICAL STRUCTURE ESTIMATION USING COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY COUPLED TO A MACRO-ECOLOGICAL SCATTERING MODEL ................................................................................................3097

S. R. Cloude, M. Brolly, I. H. Woodhouse

ESTIMATION OF FOREST VERTICAL SRUCTURE PARAMETER BY MEANS OF MULTI-BASELINE POL-INSAR ..................................................................................................................................................................................................3101

F. Kugler, S. K. Lee, K. P. Papathanassiou

PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE ADVANCED L-BAND TRANSMISSION AND REFLECTION OBSERVATION OF THE SEA SURFACE (ALBATROSS) CAMPAIGN: PREPARING THE SMOS CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION ACTIVITIES..............................................................................................................................3105

M. Talone, A. Camps, J. F. Marchan-Hernandez, J. M. Tarongi, M. Piles, X. Bosch-Lluis, I. Ramos-Perez, E. Valencia, N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, M. Vall-Llossera, P. Ferre

ON THE USE OF COMPACT L-BAND DICKE RADIOMETER (ARIEL) AND UAV FOR SOIL MOISTURE AND SALINITY MAP RETRIEVAL: 2008/2009 FIELD EXPERIMENTS ........................................................................................3109

R. Acevo-Herrera, A. Aguasca, X. Bosch-Lluis, A. Camps

TH3.O6: OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVES FOR REMOTE SENSING – ORFEO TOOLBOX I THE ORFEO TOOLBOX REMOTE SENSING IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE ...................................................................3113

J. Inglada, E. Christophe

OBJECT COUNTING IN HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES WITH OTB ......................................................3117E. Christophe, J. Inglada

REFERENCE ALGORITHM IMPLEMENTATIONS IN OTB: TEXTBOOK CASES ....................................................................3121J. Michel, T. Feuvrier, J. Inglada

IMAGE SEMANTIC CODING USING OTB...........................................................................................................................................3125M. Lienou, M. Campedel

ASSESSMENT OF INTEREST POINTS DETECTION ALGORITHMS IN OTB ............................................................................3129O. Lahlou, J. Michel, D. Pichard, J. Inglada

TH3.O7: DATA FUSION I FUSION OF KALMAN FILTER AND ANOMALY DETECTION FOR MULTISPECTRAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL TARGET TRACKING ...........................................................................................................................................3133

O. Duran, E. Onasoglou, M. Petrou

NOVEL METHODS FOR PANCHROMATIC SHARPENING OF MULTI/HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGE DATA ....................3137C. C. Borel, C. H Spencer

CLOUD SCREENING WITH COMBINED MERIS AND AATSR IMAGES.....................................................................................3141L. Gomez-Chova, J. Munoz-Mari, E. Izquierdo-Verdiguier, G. Camps-Valls, J. Calpe, J. Moreno

EDGE-PRESERVING CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTE-SENSING IMAGES BY MARKOVIAN DATA FUSION .................................................................................................................................................................3145

G. Moser, S. B. Serpico

BUILDING DETECTION BY FUSION OF OPTICAL AND SAR FEATURES IN METRIC RESOLUTION DATA .............................................................................................................................................................................................................3149

H. Sportouche, F. Tupin, L. Denise

TH3.O8: ADVANCED CONCEPTS FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS II FUZZY SPATIAL RELATIONS FOR HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGE ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF "TO GO ACROSS" ...................................................................................................................................................................3153

M. C. Vanegas, I. Bloch, J. Inglada

AN ADAPTIVE MULTISCALE RANDOM FIELD TECHNIQUE FOR UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN VHR MULTITEMPORAL IMAGES .........................................................................................................................3157

F. Bovolo, L. Bruzzone

GENERAL FRAMEWORK ON CHANGE DETECTION IN A SPARSE DOMAIN ........................................................................3161A. M. Atto, G. Mercier, D. Pastor

TH3.O9: REMOTE SENSING AND GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR AGRICULTURAL DECISION SUPPORT PREPARATION FOR HYSPIRI SPACEBORNE IMAGING SPECTROMETER OBSERVATIONS FOR PRECISION VEGETATION MAPPING .................................................................................................................................................3165

S. Prasad, L. M. Bruce, H. Kalluri

WEB SERVICE BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR US NATIONAL CROP PROGRESS MONITORING SYSTEM ...................3169G. Yu, Z. Yang, L. Di

INTEGRATION OF RADARSAT-2 SCANSAR AND AWIFS FOR OPERATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LAND USE MONITORING OVER THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES ..................................................................................................................3173

J. Shang, H. McNairn, C. Champagne, X. Jiao, I. Jarvis, X. Geng

LAI ESTIMATION OF AGRICULTURAL CROPS FROM OPTICAL DATA AT DIFFERENT SPATIAL RESOLUTION .............................................................................................................................................................................................3177

G. Satalino, F. Mattia, S. Ruggieri, M. Rinaldi

A COMPARISON OF VEGETATION INDICES FOR CORN AND SOYBEAN VEGETATION CONDITION MONITORING.............................................................................................................................................................................................3181

Z. Yang, H. Zhao, L. Di, G. Yu

TH3.O10: OPTICAL SENSING METHODS AND SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT OF THE POTENTIAL FUTURE HIGH AND MEDIUM RESOLUTION SENSORS ON GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT FOR COASTAL ZONE MONITORING...........................................................................................3185

M. Lei, A. Minghelli-Roman, S. Mathieu, J. M. Froidefond, A. Bricaud, P. Gouton

PERFORMANCE OF THE NPOESS CRIS SENSOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS ...........................................3189N. Adreas, P. Moffa, F. Sabet-Peyman, T. Christensen, D. Gu, D. Hagan, N. Grumman

ASSESSMENT OF THE SHORT-TERM RADIOMETRIC STABILITY BETWEEN TERRA MODIS AND LANDSAT 7 ETM+ SENSORS ..................................................................................................................................................................3193

T. Choi, X. Xiong, G. Chander, A. Angal

TH3.O11: REMOTE SENSING OF LAI LEAF AREA INDEX ESTIMATION FROM HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING A GROUP DEVISION METHOD ......................................................................................................................................................................................................3197

T. Asano

THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE CROP CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT INDICES BASED ON A NEW LAI DETERMINATION INDEX .......................................................................................................................................................................3201

R. Cui, Q. Qin, N. Yang, X. Tao, S. Zhao

THE METHOD ON GENERATING LAI PRODUCTION BY FUSING BJ-1 REMOTE SENSING DATA AND MODIS LAI PRODUCT..............................................................................................................................................................................3205

S. Jinling, W. Jindi, X. Zhiqiang, X. Yuetiing

TH3.O12: LAND USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION – AFRICA FOCUS I MALARIA SURVEILLANCE WITH REMOTE SENSING AND GIS IN OWERRI, NIGERIA ....................................................3209

A. O. Lartey, S. O. Nwaneri

ANALYSIS OF 1982-2006 SUDANO-SAHELIAN VEGETATION DYNAMICS USING NOAA-AVHRR NDVI DATA AND NORMALIZED RAIN-USE EFFICIENCY .......................................................................................................................3213

E. Vintrou, M. Claden, A. Begue, D. Ruelland

TH3.O13: LIDAR SENSING CSIR-NLC MOBILE LIDAR – FIRST SCIENTIFIC RESULT............................................................................................................3217

V. Sivakumar, M. Tesfaye, D. Moema, A. Sharma, C. Bollig

FULLANALYZE: A RESEARCH TOOL FOR HANDLING, PROCESSING AND ANALYZING FULL-WAVEFORM LIDAR DATA .....................................................................................................................................................................3221

A. Chauve, F. Bretar, S. Durrieu, M. Pierrot-Deseilligny, W. Puech

TH4.O1: ADVANCED METHODS FOR POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION I AN EVALUATION OF POLSAR IMAGE SPECKLE FILTERS .........................................................................................................3225

S. Foucher, C. Lopez-Martinez

THE EFFECT OF ORIENTATION ANGLE COMPENSATION ON POLARIMETRIC TARGET DECOMPOSITIONS ...................................................................................................................................................................................3229

J. S. Lee, T. L. Ainsworth, K. S. Chen

ANALYSIS AND OBSERVATION OF POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING BEHAVIOR IN WETLAND AREA .........................3233R. Sato, Y. Yamaguchi, H. Yamada

MULTI-RESOLUTION TARGET SCATTERING DECOMPOSITION FOR URBAN FEATURE CHARACTERIZATION USING POLARIMETRIC SAR.....................................................................................................................3237

R. Touzi, A. Bhattacharya, K. Mattar

TH4.O2: INTERFEROMETRY I AIRBORNE D-INSAR AT X-BAND: RESULTS WITH THE COMPLETE REPEAT-PASS PROCESSING METHODOLOGY .......................................................................................................................................................................................3241

K. A. C. Macedo, C. Wimmer, S. E. Barbin, S. Perna

SAR TOMOGRAPHY FROM SPARSE SAMPLES ...............................................................................................................................3245A. Budillon, A. Evangelista, G. Schirinzi

SPACE-BORNE HIGH RESOLUTION TOMOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY...........................................................................3249X. X. Zhu, N. Adam, R. Bamler

RADARSAT-1 DEFORMATION TIME SERIES ANALYSIS BASED ON THE SBAS-DINSAR ALGORITHM........................3253M. Bonao, A. Pepe, L. D. Euillades, E. Sansosti, P. Berardion, R. Lanari

TH4.O3: RECENT ADVANCES IN HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING AND INFORMATION EXTRACTION II ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR INCORPORATING SPATIAL INFORMATION IN THE DESIGN OF ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS FROM HYPERSPECTRAL DATA ..............................................3257

G. Martin, A. Plaza, M. Zortea

TARGET DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL MINERAL DATA USING WAVELET ANALYSIS ..........................................3261M. Mitchley, M. Sears, S. Damelin

REDUCING THE DIMENSIONALITY OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING DIFFUSION MAPS ..........................................3265L. Plessis, S. Damelin, M. Sears

TH4.O4: REMOTE SENSING FOR LAND AND AIR POLLUTION MONITORING RAPID DETECTION OF AGRICULTURAL FOOD CROP CONTAMINATION VIA HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING....................................................................................................................................................................................3269

T. West, S. Prasad, L. M. Bruce, D. Reynolds, T. Irby

RED MUD SOIL CONTAMINATION NEAR AN URBAN SETTLEMENT ANALYZED BY AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING ...............................................................................................................................................3273

S. Pascucci, C. Belviso, R. M. Cavalli, G. Laneve, A. Misurovic, C. Perino, S. Pignatti

OPTIMUM SAMPLING SCHEME FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF MINE TAILINGS .............................................................3277P. Debba, E. J. M. Carranza, A. Stein, F. D. Van-Der-Meer

DETECTION OF SAHARAN DUST BY SPATIAL/SPECTRAL SIGNATURES IN VIS-TIR SATELLITE RADIANCES ................................................................................................................................................................................................3281

V. Tramutoli, C. Filizzola, R. Paciello, N. Pergola, C. Pietrapertosa, G. Mazzeo

DEVELOPING A NEW AUTOMATED TOOL FOR DETECTING AND MONITORING DUST AND SAND STORMS USING MODIS AND METEOSAT SEVIRI-MSG DATA ...................................................................................................3285

H. Ghedira, A. A. Rais, A. A. Suwaidi

TH4.O5: TROPOSPHERIC PROPAGATION EFFECTS IN RADAR MEASUREMENTS COMPARISON OF PRECIPITATION EFFECTS IN SPACE-BORNE X- AND KA-BAND SAR IMAGING .............................3289

A. Danklmayer, M. Chandra

MODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF RAIN EFFECT ON KA-BAND SINGLE PASS INSAR PERFORMANCE ........................3293S. Addio, M. Ludwig

USE OF RADAR IMAGES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROPAGATION ORIENTED SPACE-TIME RAIN MODEL ..............................................................................................................................................................................................3297

C. Capsoni, L. Luini

TH4.O6: OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVES FOR REMOTE SENSING – ORFEO TOOLBOX II THE USE OF ORFEO TOOLBOX IN THE CONTEXT OF MAP UPDATING ................................................................................3301

C. Simler, C. Beumier, C. Leignel, O. Debeir, E. Wolff

IMPLEMENTING KOHONEN'S SOM WITH MISSING DATA IN OTB .........................................................................................3304G. Mercier, B. A. Latif

URBAN AREA DETECTION AND SEGMENTATION USING OTB .................................................................................................3308S. May, J. Inglada

TOWARD A GUI REMOTE-SENSING ENVIRONMENT BUILT OVER OTB ...............................................................................3312D. Dubois, R. Lepage, T. Tanzi

OVERVIEW OF THE POLSARPRO V4.0 SOFTWARE. THE OPEN SOURCE TOOLBOX FOR POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA PROCESSING. .................................................3316

E. Pottier, L. Ferro-Famil, S. Allain, S. Cloude, I. Hajnsek, K. Papathanassiou, A. Moreira, M. Williams, A. Minchella, M. Lavalle, Y. L. Desnos

TH4.O7: DATA FUSION II HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON DECISION LEVEL FUSION .........................................................................................................................................................................................................3320

P. Du, W. Zhang, S. Zhang, J. Xia

ENSEMBLE METHODS FOR SPECTRAL-SPATIAL CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN HYPERSPECTRAL DATA .............................................................................................................................................................................................................3324

X. L. Wang, B. Waske, J. A. Benediktsson

DECISION FUSION FOR SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION......................................................................................................................................................................................3328

H. Yang, B. Ma, Q. Du

FUSION OF MULTISOURCE DATA SETS FROM AGRICULTURAL AREAS FOR IMPROVED LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION ......................................................................................................................................................................3332

B. Waske, J. A. Benediktsson, J. R. Sveinsson

FUSION OF HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL AND SAR IMAGES WITH VECTOR DATA BASES FOR CHANGE DETECTION .............................................................................................................................................................................3336

V. Poulain, J. Inglada, M. Spigai, J. Y. Tourneret, P. Marthon

TH4.O8: REMOTE SENSING OF LAND HYDROLOGICAL PARAMETERS FOR APPLICATION TO FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES MANAGEMENT HIGH RESOLUTION MAPPING OF SOIL MOISTURE BY SAR: DATA INTEGRATION AND EXPLOITATION OF PRIOR INFORMATION .....................................................................................................................................3340

N. Pierdicca, L. Pulvirenti, C. Bignami, F. Ticconi, M. Laurenti

AN OPERATIONAL ALGORITHM FOR SNOW COVER MAPPING IN HYDROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS .....................3344S. Pettinato, E. Santi, M. Brogioni, S. Paloscia, P. Pampaloni

MULTIFREQUENCY THEORETICAL SIMULATIONS OF BACKSCATTERING FROM FLOODED AREAS .....................3348S. Caizzone, P. Ferrazzoli, L. Guerriero, N. Pierdicca, L. Pulvirenti, M. Chini

IMPROVEMENT OF BARE SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION WITH L-BAND MULTI-POLARIZATION RADAR .........................................................................................................................................................................3351

R. Sun, J. Shi, T. Jackson, K. Chen, Y. Oh

TH4.O9: SHIP DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION: APPLICATION OF SAR TECHNIQUES IN THE FRAMEWORK OF HIGH RESOLUTION SENSORS OPERATIONAL APPROACH FOR SHIP DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION........................................................................3355

G. Margarit, J. Mallorqui

ADVANCES IN UNSUPERVISED SHIP DETECTION WITH MULTISCALE TECHNIQUES....................................................3359M. Tello, C. Lopez-Martinez, J. J. Mallorqui, T. Tares, H. Greidanus

SHIP DETECTION IN THE BRAZILIAN COAST USING TERRASAR-X SAR IMAGES ............................................................3363R. L. Paes, J. A. Lorenzzetti, D. F. M. Gherardi

SHIP DETECTION FROM POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES.............................................................................................................3367M. Liao, C. Wang, Y. Wang, X. Song

TH4.O10: UAV SENSING AN AUTONOMOUS SENSOR PLATFORM VESSEL FOR MARINE PROTECTED AREA MONITORING ...........................3371

K. E. Laws, C. Bazeghi, S. C. Petersen, J. F. Vesecky

AGGIEAIR - A LOW-COST AUTONOMOUS MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING PLATFORM: NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS .............................................................................................................................................3375

A. M. Jensen, Y. Q. Chen, M. McKee, T. Hardy, S. L. Barfuss

INTA’S DEVELOPMENTS FOR UAS AND SMALL PLATFORMS: QUASAR ..............................................................................3379J. M. C. Munoz, M. J. G. Bonilla, B. G. Miguel, J. R. L. Sudupe, M. G. Rodriguez

INSTATANEOUS GEO-LOCATION OF MULTIPLE TARGETS FROM MONOCULAR AIRBORNE VIDEO .......................3383K. Han, G. N. Desouza

TH4.O11: REMOTE SENSING OF VEGETATION PROCESSES II USE OF MODIS ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX TO DETECT SEASONAL PATTERNS OF LEAF PHENOLOGY IN CENTRAL AMAZON VARZEA FOREST .............................................................................................................3387

L. Hess, P. Ratana, A. Huete, C. Potter, J. Melack

COMPARISON OF THREE INDIRECT FIELD MEASURING METHODS FOR FOREST CANOPY LEAF AREA INDEX ESTIMATION....................................................................................................................................................................3391

Z. Fu, J. Wang, J. Song, H. Zhou, H. Huang, B. Chen

FRACTION IMAGES DERIVED FROM EO-1 HYPERION MULTITEMPORAL DATA FOR DRY SEASON GREEN UP ANALYSIS IN TAPAJOS NATIONAL FOREST, BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA.............................................................3395

R. M. Freitas, Y. E. Shimabukuro, R. R. Rosa, A. Huete

TH4.O12: LAND USE / LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION – AFRICA FOCUS II MODELLING THE IMPACT OF WILDFIRE ON SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE ..........................................................................3399

P. Lewis, T. Quaife, J. Gomez-Dans, M. Disney, M. Wooster, D. Roy, B. Pinty

THE ECOCLIMAP-II PROGRAMME: A NEW LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION AT 1 KM FROM MODIS AND VEGETATION DATA TIME SERIES OVER THE WESTERN AFRICA IN THE FRAME OF AMMA PROJECT......................................................................................................................................................................................................3403

A. Kaptue, J. L . Roujean, S. Faroux

THE EVOLUTION OF LAND COVER DATA, IN A SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT, IN LINE WITH EVER INCREASING USER DEMANDS .............................................................................................................................................................3407

S. L. Cundill, P. Sevenhuysen, M. W. Thompson

TH4.O13: PHENOLOGY, INTER-ANNUAL CHANGE AND MODELLING LARGE SCALE WETLAND MAPPING IN SEMI ARID AFRICA USING 250-METER MODIS PHENOLOGY METRICS AND TOPOGRAPHIC VARIABLES....................................................................................................................................3410

T. Landmann, A. Dietz, S. Dech

REMOTELY SENSED PHENOLOGY FOR MAPPING BIOMES AND VEGETATION FUNCTIONAL TYPES. ....................3414K. J. Wessels, K. Steenkamp, G. Von-Maltitz, S. Archibald, R. J. Scholes, S. Miteffi, A. Bachoo

PHENOLOGY AND PHENOLOGICAL VARIABILITY OF MEXICAN ECOSYSTEMS..............................................................3418R. R. Coldtiz, G. Lopez, P. Maeda, I. Cruz, R. Ressl

TEMPLATE PHENOLOGY FOR VEGETATION MODELS. .............................................................................................................3422A. Bradley, F. Gerard, N. Bardier, G. Weedon, C. Huntingford, P. Zelazowski, L. Anderson, L. Eduardo, O. C. Aragao, J. Kaduk

FR1.O1: SAR POLARIMETRY: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS I POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS FROM COMPACT-POL MEASUREMENTS: POTENTIAL AND LIMITATION....................3426

M. Truong-Loi, P. Dubois-Fernandez, E. Pottier, S. Angelliaume, J. Souyris

SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION USING A MULTI-ANGULAR MODIFIED THREE COMPONENT POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION ....................................................................................................................................................3430

T. Jagdhuber, Irena Hajnsek, K. P. Papathanassiou, A. Bronstert

FR1.O2: INTERFEROMETRY II ONE-DIMENSIONAL RADAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR LINE-INFRASTRUCTURE ..............................................................3434

R. F. Hanssen, F. J. Van Leijen

INSAR PERMANENT SCATTERERS SELECTION USING SAR SVA FILTERING.....................................................................3438F. Chaabane, M. Sellami, J. Nicolas, F. Tupin

BAYESIAN RESTORATION OF INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE THROUGH BIASED ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION ..................................................................................................................................................................................................3442

F. R. González, M. Datcu

A NEW ALGORITHM FOR THE PHASE UNWRAPPING OF INTERFEROGRAM STACKS ...................................................3446G. Fornaro, A. Pauciullo, D. Reale

A GPU BASED TIME-DOMAIN RAW SIGNAL SIMULATOR FOR INTERFEROMETRIC SAR .............................................3450Z. Xiang, K. Wang, X. Liu, W. Yu

FR1.O3: IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY INITIATIVES IN EUROPE RECENT ACTIVITIES IN THE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING NETWORK (HYPER-I-NET): A EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOSTERING IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY RESEARCH ......................................................................................3454

A. Plaza, P. Gamba, M. Kneubuehler, A. Mueller, M. Schaepman

FR1.O4: SATELLITE PHOTO/RADARGRAMMETRY WITH THE NEW GENERATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION SENSORS I ORTHORECTIFICATION AND DSM GENERATION WITH ALOS-PRISM DATA IN URBAN AREAS .................................3458

T. Krauß, M. Schneider, P. Reinartz

MATCHING OF HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL DATA TO A SHADED DEM ............................................................................3462M. Schneider, P. Reinartz

CALIBRATION OF RADARGRAMMETRIC DEMS FROM RADARSAT-2 HIGH-RESOLUTION AND FINE-QUAD MODES.............................................................................................................................................................................................3466

T. Toutin, R. Chénier, C. Schmitt, I. Zakharov

USING GEOMETRIC ACCURACY OF TERRASAR-X DATA FOR IMPROVEMENT OF DIRECT SENSOR ORIENTATION AND ORTHO-RECTIFICATION OF OPTICAL SENSOR DATA .......................................................................3469

P. Reinartz, R. Müller, S. Suri, M. Schneider, P. Schwind, R. Bamler

INTERACTIVE OBJECT SEGMENTATION IN HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES..................................................3473J. Osman, J. Inglada, E. Christophe

FR1.O5: GEOSPATIAL BASED ANALYSIS I REVERSIBLE INTEGER WAVELET EVALUATION FOR DEM PROGRESSIVE COMPRESSION........................................3477

J. Zheng, J. Fang, C. Han

DYNAMIC TOLERANCE SETTING METHOD FOR PLANE SWEEP ALGORITHM .................................................................3481X. Zhu, H. Zhao, J. Fang

3D DIGITAL TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP ANALYSIS FOR SPATIAL ENTITY WITH FUZZY BOUNDARY .................................................................................................................................................................................................3485

G. Jiateng, W. Lixin

ADAPTIVE BOUNDS FOR QUADRIC BASED GENERALIZATION...............................................................................................3489A. Dayal

HIERARCHICAL GIS CLUSTERING USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS .................................................................................3493A. Dayal

FR1.O6: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS I HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS: PERSPECTIVE AND STATE-OF-THE-ART ................................................................................................................................................................................3497

A. Plaza, Q. Du, Y. Chang

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE OF RANDOM-PROJECTION-BASED DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY ...............................................................................................................................3501

J. E. Fowlwe, Q. Du, W. Zhu, N. H. Younan

UNSUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL BAND SELECTION USING PARALLEL PROCESSING ...............................................3505H. Yang, Q. Du

BAND SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES BASED ON PARALLEL PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION SCHEMES ....................................................................................................................................................................3509

Y. Chang, J. Fang, J. A. Benediktsson, L. Chang, H. Ren, K. Chen

ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION FROM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY USING A PARALLEL ENSEMBLE APPROACH WITH CONSENSUS ANALYSIS ......................................................................................................................................3513

F. Ayuso, J. Setoain, M. Prieto, C. Tenllado, F. Tirado, J. Plaza, A. Plaza

FR1.O9: SPATIOTEMPORAL DATA MINING AND PATTERN DISCOVERY I NEEDS AND APPLICATIONS FOR DATA MINING IN LARGE SERIES OF REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES .....................3517

W. Bijker

SWARM INTELLIGENCE FOR UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES..............................3521A. Paoli, F. Melgani, E. Pasolli

FR1.O10: URBAN APPLICATIONS I REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED MONITORING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC POLLUTION IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................................................3525

L. Ioriatti, M. Martinelli, F. Viani, M. Benedetti, A. Massa

SAR MONITORING OF SUBURBAN AREAS BASED ON AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING MODEL ...................3529R. Guida, A. Iodice, D. Riccio

DAMAGE ANALYSIS OF 2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE USING SAR IMAGES .................................................................3533K. Jiang, C. Wang, H. Zhang, W. Chen, B. Zhang, Y. Tang, F. Wu

URBAN BUILDING DAMAGE DETECTION FROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY USING ONE-CLASS SVM AND SPATIAL RELATIONS ............................................................................................................................................3537

P. Li, H. Xu, S. Liu, J. Guo

FR1.O11: FOREST MAPPING THE ALOS PALSAR MOSAIC OVER THE AFRICAN CONTINENT – A REFERENCE BASELINE DATASET FOR FOREST- AND LAND COVER CHANGE MONITORING ........................................................................................................3540

A. Rosenqvist, F. De Grandi

POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURES AND CLASSIFICATION OF TROPICAL LAND COVERS ....................................................3543T. M. Kuplich, Y. E. Shimabukuro, E. Servello, E. Sano

KARST FOREST TYPE DISCRIMINATION IN SOUTHWEST CHINA USING SPACEBORNE POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA...................................................................................................................................................................3547

Z. Xia, M. Xu, C. Xie, R. Touzi, F. Zhang, H. Gong, W. Tian

MULTISENSOR SAR ANALYSIS FOR FOREST MONITORING IN BOREAL AND TROPICAL FOREST ENVIRONMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................................................3551

R. Knuth, Carolin Thiel, Christian Thiel, R. Eckardt, N. Richter, C. Schmullius

FR1.O12: ATMOSPHERIC SENSING AND PROFILING SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS OF TRACE GASES USING BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION .................................................3555

P. Addabbo, M. Di Bisceglie

DELAY SUPER RESOLUTION FOR GNSS-R.......................................................................................................................................3559M. P. Clarizia, M. Di Bisceglie, C. Galdi, C. Gommenginger, L. Landi

FR1.O13: SYNERGY OF SAR AND LIDAR FOR CHARACTERIZING VEGETATION 3D STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS I DETERMINATION OF SCATTERING MECHANISMS INSIDE RICE PLANTS BY MEANS OF PCT AND HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR IMAGING..............................................................................................................................................3563

J. D. Ballester-Berman, J. M. Lopez-Sanchez, M. Sanjuan

FR2.O1: SAR POLARIMETRY: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS II DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF URBAN AREAS USING ALOS PALSAR POLARIMETRIC DATA....................................3567

L. Ferro-Famil, M. Lavalle

POLARIMETRIC COHERENCE OPTIMIZATION FOR INTERFEROMETRIC DIFFERENTIAL APPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................3571

L. Pipia, X. Fabregas, A. Aguasca, C. Lopez-Martinez, J. J. Mallorquí

POLARIZED POINT SCATTERERS: AN ALGORITHM FOR DETECTION USING ALOS-PALSAR DATA .........................3575S. R. Cloude

SCATTERING COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION FOR POL-INSAR DATASET AND ITS APPLICATIONS ........................3579H. Yamada, R. Komaya, Y. Yamaguchi, R. Sato

CALIBRATION OF SPACEBORNE POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM .................................3583T. Moriyama

FR2.O2: INTERFEROMETRY AND SAR A NEW APPROACH TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF BASELINE ESTIMATION FOR SPACEBORNE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY..................................................................................................................................................................3587

K. Zhang, A. H. Ng, X. Li, H. Chang, L. Ge, C. Rizos

LOCAL, NONLINEAR ADAPTIVE COREGISTRATION OF MASTER AND SLAVE INTERFEROMETRIC SAR COMPLEX IMAGE DATA FOR HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL ELEVATION MAP GENERATION ...................................3591

R. Natsuaki, A. Hirose

CAPON/APES BASED SAR PROCESSING: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS............................................................................3593P. López-Dekker, J. J. Mallorquí

PROCESSING MULTIPLE SAR MODES WITH BASEBAND AZIMUTH SCALING ...................................................................3597P. Prats, R. Scheiber, J. Mittermayer, A. Moreira

FR2.O3: RECENT ADVANCES IN MICROWAVE RADIOMETER TECHNOLOGY SATELLITE RADIOMETER PRE-LAUNCH SENSITIVITY ESTIMATION USING ANECHOIC CHAMBER AND CHANNEL INTER-COMPARISON ...............................................................................................................................................3601

A. Colliander, M. Martin-Neira, J. Closa, J. Benito

ON-FLIGHT CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SMOS PAYLOAD DURING THE COMMISSIONING PHASE......................3605I. Corbella, F. Torres, N. Duffo, V. González, A. Camps, M. Vall-Llossera

DIGITAL BEAMFORMING ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE OF A DIGITAL L-BAND PSEUDO-CORRELATION RADIOMETER.............................................................................................................................................................3609

X. Bosch-Lluis, I. Ramos-Perez, A. Camps, N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, J. F. Marchan-Hernandez, E. Valencia, J. M. Nieto, M. A. Guerrero

FR2.O4: SATELLITE PHOTO/RADARGRAMMETRY WITH THE NEW GENERATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION SENSORS II ANALYSIS OF ALOS-PRISM IMAGE GEOMETRY FOR ADVANCED PHOTOGRAMMETRIC APPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................3613

L. Falala, P. Favé, P. Gigord

QUANTITATIVE GEOMETRIC CALIBRATION & VALIDATION OF THE RAPIDEYE CONSTELLATION ......................3617B. Robertson, K. Beckett, C. Rampersad, R. Putih

DUBAISAT-1: MISSION OVERVIEW, DEVELOPMENT STATUS AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS .......................................3621A. Al Rais, A. Al Suwaidi, H. Ghedira

FR2.O5: GEOSPATIAL BASED ANALYSIS II AGENT-BASED SIMULATION FOR URBAN EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING ..............................................................3625

J. Ma, F. Mao, W. Zhou

BUFFER GENERATION USING SPHERICAL GEOMETRY ............................................................................................................3629A. Dayal

FR2.O6: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS II PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS USING NVIDIA GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNITS .......................................................................................................................................................3633

A. Plaza, J. Plaza, S. Sánchez

FPGA-BASED ON-BOARD MULTI/HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE COMPRESSION SYSTEM ....................................................3637G. Yu, T. Vladimirova, M. N. Sweeting

A PARALLEL DIFFERENTIAL BOX COUNTING ALGORITHM APPLIED TO HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................................................................3641

Y. C. Tzeng, K. T. Fan, Y. J. Su, K. S. Chen

REAL-TIME PROCESSING OF SIMPLEX GROWING ALGORITHM...........................................................................................3645C. Wu, C. Chang, H. Ren, Y. L. Chang

FR2.O7: A QUALITY ASSURANCE FRAMEWORK FOR EARTH OBSERVATION (QA4EO) TO UNDERPIN GEOSS WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH OPTICAL BASED SENSORS II SOME NEEDED STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICES FOR CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF REMOTE SENSING DATA .......................................................................................................................................................................3649

I. Alber, S. J. Khalsa

GLOBAL CHANGE OBSERVATION MISSION ...................................................................................................................................3653H. Shimoda

THE MOON AS A RADIOMETRIC REFERENCE SOURCE FOR ON-ORBIT SENSOR STABILITY CALIBRATION ...........................................................................................................................................................................................3657

T. C. Stone

AN ASSESSMENT OF AFRICAN TEST SITES IN THE CONTEXT OF A GLOBAL NETWORK OF QUALITY-ASSURED REFERENCE STANDARDS..............................................................................................................................3661

G. Chander, X. Xiong, A. Angal, T. Choi

FR2.O8: GLOBAL DEM INTEROPERABILITY: ASTER GDEM: INITIAL ASSESSMENT II A FIRST ASSESSMENT OF ASTER GDEM TILES FOR ABSOLUTE ACCURACY, RELATIVE ACCURACY AND TERRAIN PARAMETERS...............................................................................................................................................................3665

H. I. Reuter, A. Nelson, P. Strobl§, W. Mehl§, A. Jarvis

FR2.O9: SPATIOTEMPORAL DATA MINING AND PATTERN DISCOVERY II CASE-BASED REASONING APPROACH IN GEOGRAPHICAL DATA MINING EXPERIMENT AND APPLICATION ............................................................................................................................................................................................3669

Y. Du, C. Li, F. Su, W. Wen, F. Cao

SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA MINING ON MCS OVER TIBETAN PLATEAU USING SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL DATASETS ..........................................................................................................................................................3673

Y. Yang, H. Lin

FINDING COMPOUND STRUCTURES IN IMAGES USING IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND GRAPH-BASED KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY ....................................................................................................................................................................3677

D. Zamalieva, S. Aksoy, J. C. Tilton

ACTIVE LEARNING OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA WITH SPATIALLY DEPENDENT LABEL ACQUISITION COSTS...............................................................................................................................................................................3681

A. Liu, G. Jun, J. Ghosh

SPECIES DISTRIBUTION AND FOREST TYPE MAPPING IN MEXICO ......................................................................................3685A. Cord, R. R. Colditz, M. Schmidt, S. Dech

FR2.O10: URBAN APPLICATIONS II RESEARCH THE DYNAMICS OF LANDSCAPE SPATIAL PATTERNS OF URBAN-RURAL ECOTONE USING MULTI-TEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE ...............................................................................................................3689

Z. Liu, F. Mao, W. Zhou, Q. Li

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URBAN HEAT SINK AND HEAT ENERGY EXCHANGE IN BEIJING, CHINA ......................3693M. Du, G. Cai, D. Qiu

AUTOMATIC ROAD NETWORK EXTRACTION USING HIGH RESOLUTION MULTI-TEMPORAL SATELLITE IMAGES ................................................................................................................................................................................3697

V. Pandit, S. Gupta, K. S. Rajan

ROUGH THIN PAVEMENT THICKNESS ESTIMATION BY GPR..................................................................................................3701N. Pinel, L. Liu, C. Bourlier, Y. Wang, C. Le Bastard

FR2.O11: WETLANDS AND FLOODING FLOOD AND DISCHARGE MONITORING OVER UPPER MISSISSIPPI WATERSHEDS DURING THE 2008 IOWA FLOOD USING AMSR-E DATA ..................................................................................................................................................3705

M. Temimi, H. Ghedira, R. Khanbilvardi

AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CALCULATING AIR-WATER SURFACE REFLECTANCE OF SKYLIGHT FROM WATER SURFACE MEASURED SPECTRA............................................................................................................................3709

J. Li, B. Zhang, Q. Shen, H. Zhang, Y. Wu, D. Wu

AERIAL IMAGERY FOR MONITORING LAND USE IN EAST AFRICAN WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS .................................3713J. Franke, M. Becker, G. Menz, S. Misana, E. Mwita, P. Nienkemper

FR2.O12: REMOTE SENSING OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE HOW ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY INFLUENCES MODELS RESULTS OF SATELLITE OBSERVED UPPER TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR PROPERTIES ...............................................................................................................3717

J. R. Dim, H. Murakami, T. Takamura, M. Hori, T. Y. Nakajima

NDSA MEASUREMENTS BETWEEN TWO LEO SATELLITES IN KU AND K BANDS FOR THE TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR ESTIMATE: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AT GLOBAL SCALE ............................3721

F. Cuccoli, L. Facheris

FR2.O13: SYNERGY OF SAR AND LIDAR FOR CHARACTERIZING VEGETATION 3D STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS II FOREST BIOMASS RETRIEVAL FROM LIDAR AND RADAR .......................................................................................................3725

G. Sun, K. Jon Ranson

FOREST PARAMETER MAPPING BASED ON LIDAR AND SAR DATA ......................................................................................3729Z. Zhang, L. Zhang, W. Ni, Z. Guo, G. Sun

BOREAL FOREST HEIGHT ESTIMATION WITH SAR INTERFEROMETRY AND LASER MEASUREMENTS ......................................................................................................................................................................................3733

J. Praks, M. Hallikainen, J. Seppänen, J. Hyyppä

FR3.O1: ACTIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRUM ESTIMATION BY SWIM INSTRUMENT ON CFOSAT ...................................................3737

C. Tison, T. Amiot, J. Bourbier, D. Hauser, V. Enjolras, L. Rey, P. Castillan

SWIM, A STATE OF THE ART MULTI-INCIDENCE BEAMS KU-BAND WAVES SCATTEROMETER TO GO BEYOND CURRENT RADAR SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................3741

V. Enjolras, L. Rey, L. Cros, S. Poyez, T. Amiot, C. Tison, P. Castillan

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR EFFECTS ON SPACEBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC SAR IMAGING: COMPARISON WITH GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS AND METEOROLOGICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS AT DIFFERENT SCALES ............................................................................................................................................3745

N. Pierdicca, F. Rocca, B. Rommen, P. Basili, S. Bonafoni, D. Cimini, P. Ciotti, F. Consalvi, R. Ferretti, W. Foster, F. S. Marzano, V. Mattioli, A. Mazzoni, M. Montopoli, R. Notarpietro, S. Padmanabhan, D. Perissin, E. Pichelli, S. Reising, S. Sahoo, G. Venuti

FR3.O2: INTERFEROMETRY – MOVING TARGETS A LINEAR KALMAN FILTER APPROACH FOR ESTIMATION OF A VEHICLE'S MOTION PARAMETERS USING RANGE-DOPPLER TRACKING AND ROAD INFORMATION ..........................................................................................3749

U. Gebhardt, P. Berens

GRLT DETECTION OF MOVING TARGET BY ALONG TRACK SAR INTERFEROMETRIC SYSTEMS ............................3753A. Budillon, M. Ciaramello, A. Evangelista, V. Pascazio, G. Schirinzi

SAR INTERFEROMETRY AND SPECKLE TRACKING APPROACH FOR GANGOTRI GLACIER VELOCITY ESTIMATION USING ERS-1/2 AND TERRASAR-X SPOTLIGHT HIGH RESOLUTION DATA ........................3757

V. Kumar, G. Venkataraman, Y. S. Rao

A NOVEL STAP ALGORITHM USING SPARSE RECOVERY TECHNIQUE................................................................................3761K. Sun, H. Zhang, G. Li, H. Meng, X. Wang

CHIRP SCALING BASED DETECTION OF MOVING TARGETS IN SAR IMAGES ...................................................................3765D. Cristallini, P. Lombardo, D. Pastina, A. Mennella

FR3.O4: REMOTE SENSING TOOLS FOR PLANT PRODUCTION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT A SOLUTION FOR THE MIXTURE PROBLEM IN AGRICULTURAL REMOTE SENSING.....................................................3769

B. Somers, J. Stuckens, L. Tits, S. Verreynne, W. W. Verstraeten, P. Coppin

DETECTING CITRUS TREE WATER STATUS BY INTEGRATING HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING AND PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA IN A WATER FLOW–STORAGE MODEL...................................................................................3773

S. Dzikiti, S. Verreynne, A. Strever, J. Stuckens, W. W. Verstraeten, R. Swennen, P. Coppin

IMPROVING SOIL ORGANIC CARBON (SOC) PREDICTION BY FIELD SPECTROMETRY IN BARE CROPLAND BY REDUCING THE DISTURBING EFFECT OF SOIL ROUGHNESS ...................................................................3776

A. Denis, B. Tychon, A. Stevens, B. Van Wesemael

FR3.O5: GEOSPATIAL APPLICATIONS THE ECORS SYSTEM: A MOBILITY DECISION-MAKING TOOL BASED ON EARTH OBSERVATION DATA .............................................................................................................................................................................................................3780

G. Grandjean, S. Angéliaume

HIGH-RATE GNSS TECHNIQUES FOR THE DETECTION OF LARGE SEISMIC DISPLACEMENTS .................................3784T. Ning, J. M. Johansson, H. Scherneck, P. O. J. Jarlemark, R. Emardson

EVALUATING SENSOR OBSERVATION SERVICE IMPLEMENTATIONS ................................................................................3788G. McFerren, D. Hohls, G. Fleming, T. Sutton

FR3.O7: EARTH OBSERVATION SENSOR WEB: TECHNOLOGIES, SOLUTIONS, AND PERSPECTIVES I AN ONTOLOGY MERGING TOOL TO FACILITATE INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN COASTAL SENSOR NETWORKS ...............................................................................................................................................................................3792

S. Bheemireddy, S. S. Durbha, R. L. King, S. K. Amanchi, N. H. Younan

FR3.O9: ADVANCES IN DATA SYSTEMS FOR FUTURE MISSIONS AND EARTH SCIENCE RESEARCH I

EVOLUTION OF WEB SERVICES IN EOSDIS - SEARCH AND ORDER METADATA REGISTRY (ECHO) ........................3796

A. Mitchell, H. Ramapriyan, D. Lowe

USING SENSORML TO DESCRIBE SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS IN DISTRIBUTED WEB SERVICE ENVIRONMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................................................3800

T. Van Zyl, A. Vahed

TALKOOT: DISCOVER, TAG, SHARE, AND REUSE COLLABORATIVE SCIENCE ................................................................3803R. Ramachandran, S. Movva, H. Conover, C. Lynnes

FR3.O10: REMOTE SENSING EDUCATION USING REMOTE SENSING FREE SOFTWARE IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ............................................................................3807

T. J. H. Coulibaly, J. P. Deroin, I. Savane

THE ITC GEONETCAST TOOLBOX: A GEO CAPACITY BUILDING COMPONENT FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEO-INFORMATION PROVISION TO SOCIETY ......................................................................................................................................................................................................3810

C. M. Mannaerts, B. P. M. Maathuis, M. Molenaar, R. Lemmens

TOWARDS BEST PRACTICE IN EARTH OBSERVATION RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ............................3814I. H. Woodhouse, G. Cassells, M. Tembo

FR3.O11: AGROECOSYSTEMS MAPPING CULTIVATED AREA IN WEST AFRICA USING MODIS IMAGERY AND AGROECOLOGICAL STRATIFICATION .....................................................................................................................................................................................3818

E. Vintrou, M. Houles, D. L. Seen, C. Baron, C. Feau, G. Laine, A. Bégué

USING REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR PRIORITIZATION OF AREAS FOR SITE SPECIFIC AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA.........................................................................................................................................................................................................3822

B. M. Petja, R. R. Ramugondo, A. E. Nesamvuni

ROBUST ESTIMATION OF CROP RESIDUE COVER VIA MULTI/HYPERSPECTRAL SENSING ........................................3826J. G. Monty, M. Crawford, C. S. T. Daughtry

DATA MINING BY DECISION TREE FOR OBJECT ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION OF THE SUGAR CANE CUT KINDS ..................................................................................................................................................................................................3830

E. Goltz, G. F. B. Arcoverde, D. A. De Aguiar, B. F. T. Rudorff, E. E. Maeda

TIME SERIES OF POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC OBSERVATIONS OF TERRASAR-X DATA OVER RICE FIELDS IN SPAIN ...............................................................................................................................................................3834

J. M. Lopez-Sanchez, J. D. Ballester-Berman, I. Hajnsek

FR3.O12: SENSORS, ALGORITHM TECHNIQUES, AND CASE STUDIES IN AEROSOLS & ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION I RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS FROM HJ-1A/B IMAGES USING STRUCTURE FUNCTION METHOD ...............................................................................................................................................................................3838

C. Zhou, Q. Liu, B. Zhong, L. Sun, X. Xin

AERL – A SMALL SATELLITE FOR MEASUREMENT OF AEROSOL PROPERTIES OVER LAND SURFACES ...................................................................................................................................................................................................3842

H. Rott, T. Nagler, A. Robert, T. Sephton, A. Wishart, K. Strauch, K. Gantois

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVAL OVER LAND USING MODIS DATA AND ITS APPLICATION IN MONITORING AIR QUALITY ................................................................................................................................................................3846

L. Mei, Y. Xue, J. Guang, Y. Li, Y. Wan, L. Bai, J. Ai

INFLUENCE OF SUN PHOTOMETER FILTER FUNCTION ON RETRIEVING AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH...................3850H. Zhang, B. Zhang, D. Yan, J. Li, Q. Shen, Y. Wu

FR4.O1: ACTIVE MICROWAVE SENSOR APPLICATIONS ESTIMATION OF TARGET MOTION AND 3D TARGET GEOMETRY USING MULTISTATIC ISAR MOVIES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................3854

K. Suwa, T. Wakayama, M. Iwamoto

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RADAR BACKSCATTER CROSS SECTION AND OCEAN WAVE PARAMETERS AT LOW INCIDENCE ANGLES .................................................................................................................................3858

X. Chu, Y. He, G. Chen

MEASUREMENTS OF OCEAN WAVE SPECTRA WITH VERTICAL POLARIZATION X-BAND RADAR IMAGE SEQUENCES.................................................................................................................................................................................3862

L. Cui, Y. He

A RADAR SUITE FOR ICE SHEET ACCUMULATION MEASUREMENTS AND NEAR-SURFACE INTERNAL LAYER MAPPING................................................................................................................................................................3866

C. Lewis, A. Patel, H. Owen, F. Rodriguez-Morales, C. Leuschen, S. A. Seguin, J. Ledford, K. Player, S. Gogineni

FR4.O3: PRESENT AND FUTURE OF SATELLITE ALTIMETRY II SRAL, A RADAR ALTIMETER DESIGNED TO MEASURE A WIDE RANGE OF SURFACE TYPES.....................................3870

Y. Le Roy, M. Deschaux-Beaume, C. Mavrocordatos, F. Borde

SAR ALTIMETER RETRACKER PERFORMANCE BOUND OVER WATER SURFACES ........................................................3874C. Martin-Puig, G. Ruffini

FR4.O5: GEODESY IN AFRICA APPLICATIONS OF GNSS IN WEST AFRICA .....................................................................................................................................3878

D. M. J. Fubara, T. A. Yakubu

FR4.O7: EARTH OBSERVATION SENSOR WEB: TECHNOLOGIES, SOLUTIONS, AND PERSPECTIVES II SECURE SERVICE COMPOSITION IN SENSOR WEB .....................................................................................................................3882

G. Yu, L. Di

SELF-ORGANISING SENSOR WEB USING CELL-FATE OPTIMISATION .................................................................................3886T. L. Van Zyl, E. M. Ehlers

MOBILE COMPUTING AND SENSOR WEB SERVICES FOR COASTAL BUOYS......................................................................3890S. K. Amanchi, S. S. Durbha, R. L. King, S. Bheemireddy, N. H. Younan

A WSN-BASED SOLUTION FOR PRECISION FARM PURPOSES ..................................................................................................3894M. Martinelli, L. Ioriatti, F. Viani, M. Benedetti, A. Massa

FR4.O9: ADVANCES IN DATA SYSTEMS FOR FUTURE MISSIONS AND EARTH SCIENCE RESEARCH II MODIS SCIENCE ALGORITHMS AND DATA SYSTEMS LESSONS LEARNED ........................................................................3898

R. E. Wolfe, B. L. Ridgway, F. S. Patt, E. J. Masuoka

OBJECT MODEL AND KNOWLEDGE DATABASE FOR AUTOMATED OBJECT-BASED ANALYSIS OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY...............................................................................................................................................................3902

M. Reinhold, P. Selsam

FR4.O12: SENSORS, ALGORITHM TECHNIQUES, AND CASE STUDIES IN AEROSOLS & ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION II GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVALS OVER LAND AND OCEAN FROM AATSR...........................................................................................................................................................................................................3906

S. L. Bevan, P. R. J. North, S. O. Los, W. M. F. Grey

METHODS FOR ANALYSIS OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS FROM FUTURE SPACEBORNE HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION LIDAR DATA ............................................................................................................................................3910

C. J. McPherson, J. A. Reagan, R. A. Ferrare, C. A. Hostetler, J. W. Hair

A RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH FROM MODIS MULTI-SPATIAL SCALE DATA BASED ON MUTUAL INFORMATION .....................................................................................................................................3914

Y. Li, Y. Xue, J. Guang, Y. Wang, L. Mei

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