IGARSS 2013 - 2013 IEEE

International Geoscience and

Remote Sensing Symposium

Melbourne, Australia

21 - 26 July 2013

Pages 3052-3800

IEEE Catalog Number: CFP13IGA-POD

ISBN: 978-1-4799-1112-7

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TH2.104.4: A NEW FAPAR RETRIEVAL MODEL FOR CONTINUOUS VEGETATIONYuan Liu, Wenjie Fan, Xiru Xu, Gaoxing Chen, Peking University, China

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TH2.104.5: EVALUATING THE USE OF PHYSICS-BASEDMODELLING TO SUPPORT STUDIES 3056

INTO REFLECTIVE HYPERSPECTRAL SENSOR TARGET DETECTION PERFORMANCE

S. B. Can, A. C. Brady, S. Kharabash, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia

TH3.104: OPTICAL AND INFRARED MODELLING IV

TH3.104.2: EFFECTS OF SAND GRAIN SHAPE ONTHE SPECTRAL SIGNATURE OF SANDY 3060

LANDSCAPES IN THE VISIBLE DOMAIN

Gladimir V.G. Baranoski, Bradley W. Kimmel, Term F. Chen, Erik Miranda, Daniel Yim, University ofWaterloo, Canada

TH3.104.3: MULTISENSORY DATA FUSION METHODSFOR THE ESTIMATION OF BEACH 3064

SEDIMENT FEATURES: MINERALOGICAL, GRAIN SIZE AND MOISTURE

Carlo Innocenti, Federico Filipponi, Emiliana Valentini, Andrea Taramelli, Istituto per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale,

Italy

TH3.104.4: DOWNWELLING SHORTWAVE SURFACE FLUX FROM MSGGEOSTATIONARY 3068

SATELLITE: IMPACT ASSESSMENT ONLAND SURFACEMODELS AND IMPROVEMENTS ON

CONSIDERATION OF AEROSOL EFFECTS

Xavier Ceamanos, Jean-Louis Roujean, Dominique Carrer, Catherine Meurey, Mitio-France, France

TH3.104.5: ESTIMATION OF FRACTION OF ABSORBED PHOTOSYNTHETICALLYACTIVE 3072

RADIATION FROM MULTIPLE SATELLITE DATA

Xin Tao, Shunlin Liang, Too He, University ofMaryland, College Park, United States

TH4.104: TIR HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING FOR THE GEOSCIENCES

TH4.104.3: TIR HYPERSPECTRAL INTERPRETATION OF QUARTZ CRYSTALLINITY AND 3076

COMPOSITION WITHIN SDLICATE BEARING ROCKS

Robert Hewson, RMIT University, Australia; Thomas Cudahy, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation,Australia

TH4.104.4: ERROR ANALYSIS FOR EMISSTVITY MEASUREMENTUSING FTIR SPECTROMETER 3080

Kai Yan, Huazhong Ren, Ronghai Hu, Xihan Mu, Zhao Liu, Guangjian Yan, Beijing Normal University, China

TH1.105: SAR IMAGE ANALYSIS III

THl.105.1: AN ADAPTIVE TOTAL VARIATION REGULARIZATIONMETHOD FOR SAR IMAGE 3084

DESPECKLING

Yao Zhao, Institute ofElectronics, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Jianguo Liu, Imperial College, United Kingdom;Bingchen Zhang, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Institute ofElectronics, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

TH1.105.2: RADON TRANSFORM BASED EDGE DETECTIONFOR SAR IMAGERY 3088

Surender Varma Gadhiraju, Biplab Banerjee, Arnab Muhuri, Avik Bhattacharya, Krishna Mohan Buddhiraju, Indian Institute of

Technology Bombay, India

TH1.1053: ANALYSIS OF POLARIMETRIC VESSEL SIGNATURES IN SAR IMAGE BASED ON 3092

POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITIONFan Wu, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Yixian Tang, Centerfor Earth Observation andDigital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

TH1.105.4: A NOVEL QUALITY EVALUATION ALGORITHM FOR SAR IMAGE BASED ON HUMAN 3096

VISUAL SYSTEM

Yu-Jing Liu, Ze Yu, Chun-Sheng Li, Beihang University, China

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TH1.105.5: ANGULAR SUPERRESOLUTION FOR REAL BEAM RADAR WITH ITERATIVE ADAPTIVE 3100

APPROACH

Yongchao Zhang, Yin Zhang, Wenchao Li, Yulin Huang, Jianyu Yang, School ofElectronic Engineering, University ofElectronic

Science and Technology of China, China

TH2.105: STATISTICAL AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

TH2.105.2: NONLINEAR BAYESIAN UNMIXING OF GEOSPATIAL DATA BASED ON GD3BS 3104

SAMPLING

Ryuei Nishii, Pan Qin, Daisuke Uchi, Kyushu Univeristy, Japan

TH2.105.3: ENHANCING TIR IMAGE RESOLUTION VIA INTERACTING SEQUENTIAL BAYESIAN 3108

ESTIMATION

Paolo Addesso, Maurizio Longo, Rocco Restaino, Gemine Vivone, University ofSalerno, Italy

TH2.105.4: DOMAIN ADAPTATION WITH HIDDEN MARKOV RANDOM FBELDS 3112

Jan-PieterJacobs, Guy Thoonen, University ofAntwerp, Belgium; Devis Tuia, Ecole Polytechnique Fiderale de Lausanne,

Switzerland; Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de Valencia, Spain; Birgen Haest, VITO, Belgium; Paul Scheunders, UniversityofAntwerp, Belgium

TH2.105.5: A NEW CONTEXTUAL VERSION OF SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINEBASED ON 3116

HYPERPLANE TRANSLATION

Rogerio Negri, Sidnei Joao Siqueira Sant'Anna, Luciano Dutra, Institute) Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil

TH3.105: IMAGE CLASSIFICATION I

TH3.105.1: TRANSFORMATION-INVARIANT IMAGE DESCRIPTORS FOR CHANGE MONITORING 3120

BASED ON MULTI-MODALITYIMAGERY

Roman Palenichka, Frederik Doyon, Ahmed Lakhssassi, Marek Zaremba, University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada

TH3.105.2: CONNECTIVITY THRESHOLDS AND DATA TRANSFORMATIONS FOR SAMPLE 3124

SUPERVISED SEGMENT GENERATION

ChristoffFourie, Elisabeth Schoepfer, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH3.105.3: COMPARISONOF VHRPANCHROMATICTEXTURE FEATURES FOR TALLAGE 3128

MAPPING

Nesrine Chehata, Arnaud Le Bris, IGN, France; Philippe Lagacherie, INRA, France

TH3.105.4: A PERCEPTION-INSPntED BUILDING INDEX FOR AUTOMATIC BUDLT-UP AREA 3132

DETECTION IN HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES

Gang Liu, Gui-Song Xia, Xin Huang, Wen Yang, Liangpei Zhang, Wuhan University, China

TH3.105.5: A HYBRTO SIMILARITY MEASUREFOR APPROXIMATE SPECTRAL CLUSTERING OF 3136

REMOTE SENSING IMAGES

Kadim Tasdemir, Antalya International University, Turkey

TH4.105: IMAGE CLASSIFICATION II

TH4.105.1: AUTOMATIC REMOTE SENSINGIMAGE CLASSIFICATION METHODBASED ON 3140

SPECTRAL ANGLE AND SPECTRAL DISTANCE

Zhonghua Lv, Xianchuan Yu, Zhongjun Zhang, Guian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China

TH4.105.2: URBAN LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATIONFROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE 3144

SENSINGIMAGERY

Safaa Bedawi, National Authorityfor Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Egypt; Mohamed Moustafa, American University in

Cairo, Egypt; Mohamed S. Kamel, University of Waterloo, Canada

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TH4.105.3: SPATIAL CORRELATED INFORMATION BASED BATCH MODEACTIVE LEARNING 3148

METHOD FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION

Qian Shi, Liangpei Zhang, Bo Du, Wuhan University, China

TH4.105.5: MULTISOURCE DATA FUSION FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING FISHER 3152

CRITERION BASED NEAREST FEATURE SPACE APPROACH

Yang-Lang Chang, Yi Chun Wang, Min-Yu Huang, Jin Nan Liu, Yi-Shiang Fu, National Taipei University ofTechnology, Taiwan;

Bormin Huang, University ofWisconsin-Madison, United States; Chin-Chuan Han, National United University, Taiwan

TH1.106: ALONG TRACK SARINTEFEROMETRY

TH1.106.1: DIGITAL ELEVATIONMODEL (DEM) GENERATION OF CRATERS BY AN AIRBORNE 3156

1NTERFEROMETRIC SAR (PI-SAR2)

Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Toshihiko Umehara, Jyunpei Uemoto, Makoto Satake, Shoichiro Kojima, Takeshi Matsuoka, AkitsuguNadai, Seiho Uratsuka, National Institute ofInformation and Communications Technology, Japan

TH1.106.2: DEVELOPMENT OF PI-SAR2 ALONG-TRACKINTERFEROMETRIC SAR SYSTEM 3159

Shoichiro Kojima, Toshihiko Umehara, Jyunpei Uemoto, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Makoto Satake, Seiho Uratsuka, National

Institute ofInformation and Communications Technology, Japan

TH1.106.3: POLARIMETRIC ATI SLOWTARGET DETECTION IN A LOGLIKELIHOOD 3163

FRAMEWORK

Nick Stacy, Mark Preiss, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia

TH1.106.5: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR TARGET RECONSTRUCTION FROM COMPRESSIVE 3167

MEASUREMENTS WITH PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Zaidao Wen, Biao Hou, Shuang Wang, Key Laboratory ofIntelligent Perception and Image Understanding ofMinistry ofEducation, China

TH2.106: POLSAR METHODS

TH2.106.1: A NEW METHOD BASED ON X-BRAGG MODELFOR TARGET CHARACTERIZATION 3171

AND ITS APPLICATION TO FOREST/NONFOREST DISCRIMINATION

Junjun Yin, Department ofElectronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China; Zheng-Shu Zhou, Peter Caccetta, CSIRO

Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Australia; Jian Yang, Department ofElectronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

TH2.106.2: USE OF POINCARE SPHERE PARAMETERS FOR FAST SUPERVISED POLSARLAND 3175

CLASSIFICATION

Fang Shang, Akira Hirose, The University of Tokyo, Japan

TH2.106.3: POLARMETRIC SAR IMAGES CLASSD7ICATION BASED ON SPARSE REPRESENTATION 3179

THEORY

Lamei Zhang, Yongyou Chen, Da Lu, Bin Zou, Harbin Institute ofTechnology, China

TH2.106.4: UNSUPERVISED POLSAR IMAGE CLASSD7ICATION BASED ONENSEMBLE 3183

PARTITIONING

Xiaoshuang Yin, Hui Song, Wen Yang, Chu He, Xin Xu, School ofElectronic Information, Wuhan University, China

TH2.106.5: SINGLE-LOOK POLSAR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USING FRACTIONAL MOMENTS OF 3187

POLARIMETRICWHITENINGFILTERSalman Saeed Khan, Raffaella Guida, University ofSurrey, United Kingdom

TH3.106: POLSARAPPLICATIONS

TH3.106.1: AN APPLICATION OF POLARIMETRIC RADAR ANALYSIS ON GEOPHYSICAL 3191

PHENOMENA

Takashi Shibayama, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Niigata University, Japan

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TH3.106.2: RECENTADVANCES ON SAR POLARIMETRY TO OBSERVE SURFACTANTS AND 3195

TARGETS AT SEA

Maurizio Migliaccio, Ferdinando Nunziata, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Armando Marino, ETH Zurich,

Switzerland; Irena Hajnsek, ETH Zurich /German Aerospace Center (DLR), Switzerland

TH3.106.3: SNOW WETNESS ESTIMATION BASED ON POL-SAR DECOMPOSITIONTECHNIQUE 3199

Surendar Manickam, Indian Institute ofTechnology Bombay, India; Gulab Singh Singh, Niigata University, Japan; Avik

Bhattacharya, Gopalan Venkataraman, P. Arun Bharathi, Indian Institute ofTechnology Bombay, India

TH3.106.4: LOW FREQUENCY HIGH RESOLUTIONSAR IMAGING AND POLARIMETRIC 3203

ANALYSIS OF A QUEENSLANDTROPICAL FOREST

Paul Pincus, Mark Preiss, Alvin Goh, Nick Stacy, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia; Douglas Gray,

University ofAdelaide, Australia

TH3.106.5: UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF POLSARDATA BASED ON THE IMPROVED 3207

AFFINITY PROPAGATION CLUSTERING

Shuang Wang, Yachao Liu, Kun Liu, Xidian University, China; Xiaojin Hou, DFH Satellite Co. Ltd, China; Biao Hou, Xidian

University, China

TH4.106: POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES

TH4.106.3: FREEMAN'S DECOMPOSITION MODEL BASED NEW SPILL DETECTOR 3211

Fan Yang, Jian Yang, Junjun Yin, Tsinghua University, China

TH4.106.4: COHERENT DUAL-POL HH-HV SAR DATA TO EXTRACT COASTLINE 3215

Ferdinando Nunziata, Maurizio Migliaccio, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

TH1.109: AGRICULTURE: ACTIVE REMOTE SENSING FOR CROP PROPERTIES

THl.109.1: ESTIMATING WHEAT GROWTH FOR RADAR VEGETATATION INDICES 3219

Yihyun Kim, Sukyoung Hong, Kyoungdo Lee, National Academy ofAgricultural Science, Rural Development Administration,

Republic of Korea; Thomas Jackson, Rajat Bindlish, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service,

USDA, United States; Gunho Jung, National Institute ofCrop Science (NICS), Republic ofKorea; Soyeong Jang, Sangil Na,National Academy ofAgricultural Science, Rural Development Administration, Republic ofKorea

TH1.109.3: METHANE EMISSIONS MONITORINGOF RICE FIELDS USING RADARSAT-2 DATA 3223

Mingquan Jia, Ling Tong, Yan Chen, Longfei Tan, University ofElectronic Science and Technology of China, China; Youchun

Lu, China Centrefor Resources Satellite Data and Application, China

TH1.109.4: DEFINING THE SENSITIVITY OF POLARIMETRICPARAMETERS TO CROP RESIDUE 3227

PATTERNS DURING-HARVEST

Lingli Zhao, Jie Yang, Pingxiang Li, Shaoping Deng, Lu Liao, Wuhan University, China

TH1.109.5: COMBINING ENVISAT ASAR AND SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDICES TO EVALUATE 3231

GRASS PROPERTIES IN OTWAY, AUSTRALIA

Xin Wang, Xiaojing Li, Linlin Ge, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University ofNew South Wales, Australia

TH2.109: AGRICULTURE: REMOTE SENSING OF VEGETATION PROPERTIES II

TH2.109.1: ASSESSMENTOF RELATIVE EFFICBENCY OF USING MODIS DATA TO WINTER 3235

WHEAT YIELD FORECASTING IN UKRAINE

Olga Kussul, National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Ukraine; Nataliia Kussul, Sergii Skakun,Oleksii Kravchenko, Andrii Shelestov, Andrii Kolotii, Space Research Institute NASU-SSAU, Ukraine

TH2.109.2: WHEAT PRODUCTION FORECASTING FOR PAKISTAN FROM SATELLITE DATA 3239Jan Dempewolf, University ofMaryland, United States; BernardAdusei, Radius Technology Group, Inc, United States; Inbal

Becker-Reshef Brian Barker, Peter Potapov, Matt Hansen, Christopher Justice, University ofMaryland, United States

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TH2.1093: MANAGING WHEATFROM SPACE: LINKING MODIS NDVI AND CROP MODELS FOR 3243

AUSTRALIAN DRYLAND WHEAT

Eileen Perry, Elizabeth Morse-McNabb, James Nuttall, Garry O'Leary, Rob Clark, Department ofEnvironment andPrimary

Industries, Australia

TH2.109.4: ESTIMATION AND MONITORING OF RICE GROWTH STAGES IN NORTHERN PART 3246

OF JAPAN USING CONSTELLATION SATELLITE AND GIS

Koji Wakamori, Dorj Ichikawa, Rei Niimi, Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation, Japan; Mitsuo Suzuki, Tokyo University of

Agriculture, Japan

TH3.109: AGRICULTURE: REMOTE SENSING OF VEGETATION PROPERTIES III

TH3.109.1: VALIDATION OF MODIS ALBEDO PRODUCTS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION ALBEDO 3250

ESTIMATES FROM FORMOSAT-2

Maria Mira, Dominique Courault, Albert Olioso, Marie Weiss, Olivier Marloie, INRA, France; Frederic Baret, Institut National

de Recherche Agronomique, France; Olivier Hagolle, CNES, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, France; Belen Gallego-Elvira, INRA, France

TH3.109.2: ESTIMATE RICE ACREAGE IN HUNAN PROVINCE USING THE CHINA 3254

ENVIRONMENT SATELLITE DATA

Huanxue Zhang, Qiangzi Li, Xin Du, Miao Zhang, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences,

China

TH3.109.3: TEMPORAL KERNELSFOR THE IDENTOTCATION OF GRASSLANDMANAGEMENT 3258

USING TIME SERffiS OF HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES

Pauline Dusseux, Thomas Corpetti, Laurence Hubert-Moy, University ofRennes 2, France

TH3.109.4: APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS AS APEX MODELINPUT FOR 3261

ESTIMATING SODL EROSION

Magda S. Galloza, Bernard Engel, Melba M. Crawford, Purdue University, United States; Gary Heathman, USDA, United States;

Jimmy R. Williams, Blackland Research and Extension Center, United States

TH3.109.5: LAND SURFACE LEAF AREA INDEX ESTIMATION BASED ON TIME SERIES 3265

MULTI-ANGULAR REMOTE SENSINGDATA

Libiao Guo, Jindi Wang, Zhiqiang Xiao, Hongmin Zhou, Beijing Normal University, China

TH4.109: AGRICULTURE: REMOTE SENSING OF LAND AND WATER MANAGEMENT II

TH4.109.1: SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING OF CROP WATERUSE IN AN DJRIGATION AREA OF 3269

SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA

MohammadAbuzar, Des Whitfield, Andy McAllister, Gavan Lamb, Kathryn Sheffield, Mark O'Connell, Department ofEnvironment and Primary Industries, Australia

TH4.109.2: CROP WATERPRODUCTIVITY MAPPING USING ASTER IMAGERY FOR IRRIGATED 3273

FIELDS OF AL-KHARJ REGION IN EASTERN PROVINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA

V.C. Patil, K.A. Al-Gaadi, M. Rangaswamy, E. Tola, S. Marey, A. Al-Dosari, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

TH4.1093: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANEWMODELON VEGETATION WATER CONTENT 3277Chen Du, Qingye Meng, Qiming Qin, Heng Dong, Peking University, China

TH4.109.5: MAPPING THE PLANTING DATES: AN EFFORT TO RETRIVE CROP PHENOLOGY 3281

INFORMATION FROMMODIS NDVI TIME SERIES IN AFRICA

Zhe Guo, International Food Policy Research Institute, United States

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TH1.110: LAND COVER CHANGE: GLOBAL AND REGIONAL MAPPING

TH1.U0.1: DATA CONTINUITY AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR LAND COVER MONITORING 3285

Adam Lewis, Geoscience Australia, Australia; Tim Malthas, Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation,Australia

TH1.110.2: TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF MODIS EVI DATA FOR REGULARLAND COVER 3289

MAPPING IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA

Elizabeth Morse-McNabb, Kathryn Sheffield, Rob Clark, Department ofEnvironment and Primary Industries, Victoria, Australia

TH1.110.3: CROP DISTRIBUTION MAPPING USING HARD AND SOFT CHANGE DETECTION 3293

METHOD WITH MULTI-TEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES

Shuang Zhu, Jinshui Zhang, Wei Zhou, Guanyuan Shuai, Beijing Normal University, China; Wenna Wang, National Bureau ofStatistics of China, China; Yaozhong Pan, Beijing Normal University, China

TH1.110.4: DYNAMIC LAND COVER DATASET VERSION 2: 2001-NOW...ALAND COVER ODYSSEY 3297

Leo Lymburner, Peter Tan, Alexis Mclntyre, Adam Lewis, Medhavy Thankappan, Geoscience Australia, Australia

TH1.110.5: HEDGEROWSEGMENTATION ONVHROPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGESFOR HABITAT 3301

MONITORING

Marcela Arias, Jordi Inglada, Centre d'fctudes Spatiales de la BlOsphere, France; Richard Lucas, Aberystwyth University,United Kingdom; Palma Blonda, CNR-ISSIA, Italy

TH2.110: LAND COVER CHANGE: URBAN

TH2.110.1: SIMDEO: AN INTEGRATED SYSTEMFOR LANDFDLL DETECTION AND 3305

MONITORING USING EO DATA.

Enrico Giuseppe Cadau, Cosimo Putignano, Serco, Italy; Renato Aurigemma, Andrea Melchiorre, Eurosoft, Italy; PasqualeBosco, Foxbit, Italy; Andrea Tesseri, Serco, Italy; Fabrizio Battazza, ASI, Italy

TH2.110.2: CHRACTERIZING URBAN LAND USE PATTERNS BY VARIOGRAMS PARAMETERS 3309

FROM MULTISPECTRAL HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES: ANAPPLICATION IN SALVADOR, BAHIA - BRAZIL

Daniele Barros, Escola Politecnica da USP, Brazil; Patricia Lustosa Brito, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil; Ana Paula

Camargo Larocca, Mariana Abrantes Giannotti, Escola Politecnica da USP, Brazil; Eduardo Jun Shinohara, CompanhiaAmbiental do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Juliana Rolling, Linda Lee Ho, Jose Alberto Quintanilha, Escola Politecnica da USP,Brazil

TH2.110.3: GLOBAL LAND COVER MAPS FOR MONITORING THE REGIONAL HUMAN INDUCED 3313

CHANGES: A COMPARATIVESTUDY IN THE BRAZILIAN SAVANNAManuel Ferreira, Jovenita Santos, Federal University ofGoids, Brazil

TH2.110.4: QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE DD7FERENT METHODS ADDRESSINGTHE 3317

ENDMEMBER VARIABILITY

Yuhan Rao, Jin Chen, Xuehong Chen, Jianmin Wang, Beijing Normal University, China

TH2.110.5: A MODULAR NEURAL NETWORKMODELFOR CHANGE DETECTION IN EARTH 3321

OBSERVATION IMAGERY

Victor-Emil Neagoe, Radu-Mihai Stoica, Alexandru-Ioan Ciurea, Polytechnic University ofBucharest, Romania

TH3.110: LAND COVER CHANGE: OPTICAL

TH3.110.2: RESEARCH ONDYNAMICEVOLUTION OF SOIL SALINIZATION IN TIANJIN COSTAL 3325

AREA USINGREMOTE SENSING

Jun Wang, Peking University, China; Zhoujing Li, China Agricultural University, China; Xuebin Qin, Xiucheng Yang, QimingQin, Ning Zhang, Peking University, China

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TH3.1103: DETECTING BEETLE INFESTATIONS IN PINE FORESTS USINGMOMS NDVI 3329

TIME-SERIES DATA

AsimAnees, Jan Olivier, Malgorzata O'Rielly, Jagannath Aryal, University ofTasmania, Australia

TH3.110.4: LAND USE AND LAND COVER INFERENCE IN LARGE AREAS USING 3333

MULTI-TEMPORAL OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGES

Shutaro Hashimoto, Hokkaido University, Japan; Takeo Tadono, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Masahiko

Onosato, Hokkaido University, Japan; Masahiro Hori, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

TH3.110.5: OBJECT-BASEDLAND COVER CLASSIFICATION IN HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION 3337

REMOTE SENSING IMAGERYOF MOUNTAIN AREA, A CASE STUDY IN MIYUN RESERVOIR

AREA

Quanzhi Yuan, Bingfang Wu, Lei Zhang, Xiaosong Li, Qiang Xing, Institute ofRemote Sensing andDigital Earth, Chinese

Academy ofSciences, China

TH4.110: LAND COVER CHANGE: RADAR

TH4.110.2: THE PHENOLOGY OF AN AGRICULTURALREGIONAS EXPRESSED BY 3339

POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITIONAND VEGETATION INDICES

Jeanine Engelbrecht, Councilfor Geoscience, South Africa; Jaco Kemp, Stellenbosch University, SouthAfrica; Michael Inggs,

University ofCape Town, South Africa

TH4.110.5: AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDINGFOR LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION IN SAR 3347

IMAGES

Bhogendra Mishra, Junichi Susaki, Kyoto University, Japan

TH1.111: ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING - SPACEBORNE

THl.lll.l: A METHOD FOR PHYSICALLY FUSING XC02 MEASUREMENTSRETRIEVED FROM 3351

SCIAMACHY AND GOSAT

Tianxing Wang, Jiancheng Shi, Yingying Jing, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences,

China

TH1.111.2: SPACEBORNE HF/VHF-RADAR SYSTEM FOR IONOSPHERE SOUNDING 3355

Zhuo Li, Jie Chen, Chun-Sheng Li, Beihang University, China

TH1.11L3: DETECTION OF SPORADIC E LAYERSOVER THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN 3359

Harts Haralambous, Frederick Research Center, Cyprus

TH2.111: ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING - AIRBORNE AND IN-SITU

TH2.111.1: THEMICROWAVETEMPERATURE PROFILER PERFORMANCE IN RECENT 3363

AIRBORNE CAMPAIGNS

Boon Lim, Michael Mahoney, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Julie Haggerty, NCAR, United States; Richard Denning,

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH2.111.2: OPEN-LOOP TRACKING OF RISING AND SETTING GNSS RADIO-OCCULTATION 3367

SIGNALS FROM AN AIRBORNE PLATFORM: SIGNAL MODELAND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Kuo-Nung Wang, PaytsarMuradyan, James Garrison, Purdue University, United States; JenniferHaase, University ofCalifornia, San Diego, UnitedStates; Brian Murphy, Ulvi Acikoz, Purdue University, United States; Tyler Lulich, EmergentSpace Technologies, United States

TH2.111.5: NDSA MEASUREMENTSBETWEEN TWO COUNTERROTATING LEO SATELLITES: 3371

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AT GLOBAL SCALE IN KU, K ANDM BANDS

Fabrizio Cuccoli, RaSSCNIT, Italy; Luca Facheris, CNIT, Italy; Andrea Garzelli, Claudia Zoppetti, University ofSiena, Italy

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TH3.111: LIDARS AND FORESTRY

TH3.111.1: STUDYING CANOPY STRUCTURE THROUGH 3-D RECONSTRUCTION OF POINT 3375

CLOUDS FROM FULL-WAVEFORM TERRESTRIAL LIDAR

Xiaoyuan Yang, Crystal Schaaf, University ofMassachusetts Boston, United States; Alan Strahler, Than Li, Boston University,United States; Zhuosen Wang, University ofMassachusetts Boston, United States; Tian Yao, Montclair State University, United

States; Feng Zhao, University ofMaryland, United States; Edward Saenz Ian Paynter, University ofMassachusetts Boston,

United States; Ewan Douglas, Boston University, United States; Supriya Chakrabarti, Timothy Cook, Jason Martel, Glenn

Howe, University ofMassachusetts Lowell, UnitedStates; Curtis Woodcock, Boston University, United States; David L B. Jupp,Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia; Darius Culvenor, Environmental Sensing Systems,

Australia; Glenn Newnham, Jenny Lovell, Commonwealth Scientific andIndustrial Research Organisation, Australia

TH3.111.2: PRELIMINARYLEAF AREA INDEX ESTIMATES FROMAIRBORNE SMALL FOOTPRINT 3379

FULL-WAVEFORMLIDAR DATA

Karolina D. Fieber, Ian J. Davenport, University ofReading, United Kingdom; Mihai A. Tanase, University ofMelbourne,Australia; James M. Ferryman, Robert J. Gurney, University ofReading, United Kingdom; Jeffrey P. Walker, Monash University,Australia; Jorg M. Hacker, Flinders University, Australia

TH3.111.3: SEPARATING LEAVESFROM TRUNKS AND BRANCHES WITH DUAL-WAVELENGTH 3383

TERRESTRIAL LIDAR SCANNING

Than Li, Ewan Douglas, Alan Strahler, Boston University, United States; Crystal Schaaf, Xiaoyuan Yang, Zhuosen Wang,University ofMassachusetts Boston, United States; Tian Yao, Montclair State University, United States; Feng Zhao, UniversityofMaryland, United States; Edward Saenz, Ian Paynter, University ofMassachusetts Boston, United States; Curtis Woodcock,Boston University, United States; Supriya Chakrabarti, Timothy Cook, Jason Martel, Glenn Howe, University ofMassachusettsLowell, UnitedStates; David L. B. Jupp, Darius Culvenor, Glenn Newnham, Jenny Lovell, Commonwealth Scientific andIndustrial Research Organisation, Australia

TH3.111.4: RAPID CHARACTERISATION OF FOREST STRUCTUREFROM TLS AND 3D 3387

MODELLING

Andrew Burt, Mathias Disney, University College London, United Kingdom; Pasi Raumonen, Tampere University ofTechnology,Finland; John Armston, University ofQueensland, Australia; Kim Calders, Wageningen University, Netherlands; Philip Lewis,University College London, United Kingdom

TH3.111.5: EXTRACTION OF DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL (DTM) OVER VEGETATED AREA IN 3391

TROPICAL RAINFORESTUSING LIDAR

Abd Wahid Rasib, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia; Zamri Ismail, Muhammad ZulkarnainAbdul Rahman, SurayaJamaluddin, Wan Hazli Wan Kadir, Azman Ariffin, Faculty OfGeoinformation and Real Estate, Malaysia; Khamarrul Azahari

Razak, Chuen Siang Kang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

TH4.111: LIDARS AND ENVIRONMENT

TH4.111.1: INVESTIGATION ONTHREE KEY PROBLEMS FOR THE OPTICAL SIGNAL 3395

DETECTION IN SPACE-BORNE COHERENT WIND LIDAR

Long Gao, Yu-Liang Tao, Ao-You Wang, Beijing Institute ofSpace Mechanics & Electricity, China

TH4.111.2: FULL-WAVEFORM LIDAR SIGNAL FILTERING BASED ON EMPIRICAL MODE 3399

DECOMPOSITION METHOD

Duan Li, Lijun Xu, Xiaolu Li, Lian Ma, Beihang University, China

TH4.111.3: THE BENEFITS OF SPECTRAL LEDAR FOR FOPEN APPLICATIONS 3403

Joshua Broadwater, Jean Dougherty, The Johns Hopkins University, United States

TH4.111.4: VOXELIZATION OF FULL WAVEFORMLIDAR DATA FOR FUSION WITH 3407HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY

Hongzhou Wang, Craig Glennie, Saurabh Prasad, University ofHouston, United States

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TH4.111.5: ENHANCINGCLASSIFICATION ACCURACY VIA REGISTRATION OF DISCRETE 3411

RETURN LIDAR AND AERIAL IMAGERYUSING THE LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT

NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATIONMETHOD

Madhurima Bandyopadhyay, Jan A.N. vanAardt, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Rochester Institute ofTechnology, United States

TH1.112: SMOS NEW APPLICATION AND BASIC RESEARCH RESULTS I

TH1.112.2: SPATIAL BIASES ANALYSIS AND MITIGATION METHODS IN SMOS IMAGES 3415

Ignasi Corbella, Francesc Torres, Lin Wu, Nuria Dujfo, Israel Duron, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain;

Manuel Martin-Neira, European Space Agency, Netherlands

TH2.112: SMOS NEWAPPLICATION AND BASIC RESEARCH RESULTS II

TH2.112.2: SMOS L2 RETRIEVAL RESULTS OVER THE AMERICAN CONTINENT AND 3419

COMPARISONS WITH INDEPENDENT DATA SOURCES

Rachid Rahmoune, Yogesh Kumar Singh, Paolo Ferrazzoli, University ofRome Tor Vergata, Italy; Yann H. Kerr, Philippe

Richaume, Ahmad Al Bitar, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BlOsphere, France; Christophe Moisy, INRA, France

TH2.112.4: ON THE SYNERGY OF SMOS AND TERRA/AQUA MODIS: HIGH RESOLUTION SOIL 3423

MOISTURE MAPS IN NEAR REAL-TIME

Maria Piles Guillem, Merce Vall-llossera Ferran, Adriano Camps, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain; Nilda

Sanchez, Jose Martinez Fernandez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; Justino Martinez, Verdnica Gonzalez Gambau, Institut de

Ciencies del Mar CSIC, Spain; Ramon Riera, Diputacid de Barcelona, Spain

TH3.112: SMOS NEW APPLICATION AND BASIC RESEARCH RESULTS III

TH3.112.1: L-BAND CHARACTERIZATION OF DOME-C REGION USINGGROUND AND 3427

SATELLITES DATA

Giovanni Macelloni, Marco Brogioni, Simone Pettinato, Francesco Montomoli, IFAC-CNR, Italy; Fabiano Monti, WSL Institute

for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland; Tania Casal, European Space Agency /ESTEC, Netherlands

TH4.112: SMOS NEWAPPLICATION AND BASIC RESEARCHRESULTS IV

TH4.112.3: A PARTICLE SMOOTHERWITH SEQUENTIALIMPORTANCERESAMPLING FOR 3431

RADIATIVE TRANSFER PARAMETER ESTIMATION

Carsten Montzka, Research Centre Julich, Germany; Jennifer Grant, Lund University, Sweden; Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen,

Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany; Matthias Drusch, European Space Agency/ESTEC, Netherlands; Harry Vereecken,

Research Centre Julich, Germany

TH1.207: CHANGE DETECTION AND MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS I

THl.207.1: A MULTISCALE CONTEXTUAL APPROACH TO CHANGE DETECTION IN 3435

MULTISENSOR VHR REMOTE SENSING IMAGES

Gabriele Moser, Michaela De Martino, Sebastiano Serpico, University ofGenoa, Italy

TH1.207.2: SAR IMAGE CHANGE DETECTIONBY LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST IN 3439

MULTI-TEMPORAL TIME SERIES

Xin Su, Telecom ParisTech, France; Charles-Alban Deledalle, Universite Bordeaux 1, France; Florence Tupin, Telecom

ParisTech, France; Hong Sun, Wuhan University, China

TH1.2073: DETECTION OF CHANGED BUILDINGS IN MULTITEMPORAL VERY HIGH 3443

RESOLUTION SAR IMAGESCarlo Marin, Francesco Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University ofTrento, Italy

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TH1.207.4: DETECTING LAND-COVER MODIFICATIONS FROM MULTI-RESOLUTION 3447

SATELLITE IMAGE TIME SERIES

Francois Petitjean, Monash University, Australia; Jordi Inglada, CNES, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, France;

Pierre Gancarski, LSIIT/University ofStrasbourg, France

TH1.207.5: A KERNEL VERSION OF MULTIVARIATE ALTERATIONDETECTION 3451

Allan A. Nielsen, Jacob S. Vestergaard, Technical University ofDenmark, Denmark

TH2.207: CHANGEDETECTION AND MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS II

TH2.207.1: A COMPARISON OF SVM-BASED CASCADEMULTITEMPORAL CLASSD7EERS 3455

Raul Feitosa, Ligia Tarazona, Gilson da Costa, Pontifical Catholic University ofRio de Janeiro, Brazil

TH2.207.2: A SPATIO-TEMPORAL AUTOCORRELATION CHANGE DETECTIONAPPROACH USING 3459

HYPER-TEMPORAL SATELLITE DATA

Waldo Kleynhans, Brian Salmon, Konrad Wessels, Councilfor Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Jc Olivier,

University ofTasmania, Australia

TH2.207.3: NON-LINEAR TIME SAMPLING DRIVEN BY SURFACE TEMPERATURE FOR THE 3463

MONITORING OF VEGETATED AREAS USING MULTI- ANDHYPER-TEMPORAL SATELLITE

IMAGE TIME SERIES

Isabel Rodes, Jordi Inglada, Olivier Hagolle, Jean-Franqois Dejoux, Gerard Dedieu, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BlOsphere,

France

TH2.207.4: A 4-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO IMAGE TIME SERIES VISUALIZATION AND 3467

ANALYSIS

Francesco Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University ofTrento, Italy

TH2.207.5: INTERACTIVE SATELLITE IMAGE CHANGE DETECTION 3471

Hichem Sahbi, CNRS TELECOM ParisTech, France

TH3.207: NEXT GENERATION RADAR INSTRUMENTS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR FUTURE

MISSIONS AND MISSION CONCEPTS I

TH3.207.2: INSTRUMENT ARCHITECTURE, ADVANCED DIGITAL BEAMFORMING 3475

TECHNIQUES, AND OPERATION MODES FOR AN ENHANCED SIGNAL MISSION CONCEPT

Paco Lopez-Dekker, Marwan Younis, Sebastian Bertl, Gerhard Krieger, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH3.207.4: COREH20: HIGH-RESOLUTION X/KU-BAND RADAR IMAGINGOF COLD LAND 3479

PROCESSES

Helmut Rott, University ofInnsbruck, Austria; Donald Cline, National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration/NWS, United

States; Claude Duguay, University ofWaterloo, Canada; Richard Essery, University ofEdinburgh, United Kingdom; Pierre

Etchevers, Meteo-France, France; Irena Hajnsek, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Michael Kern, European Space

Agency, Netherlands; Giovanni Macelloni, IFAC-CNR, Institute ofApplied Physics, Italy; Eirik Malnes, Norut IT, Norway; Jouni

Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Simon Yueh, California Institute ofTechnology, United States

TH3.207.5: ORBITING ARID SUBSURFACEAND ICE SHEET SOUNDER (OASIS): EXPLORING 3483

DESERT AQUIFERS AND POLAR ICE SHEETS AND THEIR ROLE IN CURRENT AND PALEO-

CLIMATE EVOLUTION

Essam Heggy, Paul Rosen, Richard Beatty, Tony Freeman, Yonggyu Gim, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH4.207: SUPER-PIXEL BASED IMAGE PROCESSING AND CLASSIFICATION

TH4.207.2: LARGE SCALE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA SEGMENTATIONBY RANDOM SPATIAL 3487

SUBSPACE CLUSTERING

Yi Guo. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia; Junbin Gao, Charles Sturt University,

Australia; Feng Li, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

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TH4.2073: SUPERPKEL-BASED MARKOV RANDOM FIELD FOR CLASSIFICATION OF 3491

HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES

Shanshan Li, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Xiuping Jia, University ofNew

South Wales, Australia Defense Force Academy, Australia; Bing Zhang, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese

Academy ofSciences, China

TH4.207.4: A GRAPH-CUT-BASED METHOD FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL SEGMENTATION OF FIRE 3494

FROM SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS

Yuliya Tarabalka, Guillaume Charpiat, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Miditerranie, France

TH4.207.S: HYPERSPECTRALIMAGE RECONSTRUCTION BASED SUPER-PIXEL MAPPING 3498

USING CROSS-CHANNEL SPARSE MODEL

Jie Li, Chao Zeng, Qiangqiang Yuan, Liangpei Zhang, Huanfeng Shen, Wuhan University, China

TH1.208: SPACEBORNE IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY MISSIONS - CURRENT AND FUTURE

ACTIVITIES I

TH1.208.1: OVERVIEW OF TERRESTRIALIMAGING SPECTROSCOPY MISSIONS 3502

KarlStaenz, University ofLethbridge, Canada; Andreas Mueller, UtaHeiden, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1.2083: THE PRISMA HYPERSPECTRAL MISSION: SCIENCE ACTIVITffiS AND 4558

OPPORTUNITIES FOR AGRICULTURE AND LAND MONITORING

Stefano Pignatti, IMAA-CNR, Italy; Nicola Acito, Accademia Navale, Universita di Pisa, Italy; Umberto Amato, IAC-CNR,

Italy; Raffaele Casa, Universita della Tuscia, Italy; De Bonis Roberto, Universita di Roma, Italy; Marco Diani, Universita di

Pisa, Italy; Giovanni Laneve, Universita di Roma, Italy; Stefania Matteoli, Universita di Pisa, Italy; Angelo Palombo, Simone

Pascucci, Filomena Romano, Federico Santini, Tiziana Simoniello, IMAA-CNR, Italy; Cristina Ananasso, Italian Space Agency

(ASI), Italy; Giovanni Corsini, Universita di Pisa, Italy; Vincenzo Cuomo, IMAA-CNR, Italy

TH1.208.5: DEVELOPMENT OF CANADIAN HYPERSPECTRALIMAGER ONBOARD 3506

MICRO-SATELLITES

Shen-En Qian, Ralph Girard, Guennadi Kroupnik, Canadian Space Agency, Canada

TH2.208: SPACEBORNE IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY MISSIONS - ACTIVITIES &

CALIBRATION

TH2.208.2: CURRENT STATUS OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER SUITE (HISUI) 3510

Tsuneo Matsunaga, National Institutefor Environmental Studies, Japan; Akira Iwasaki, The University ofTokyo, Japan; Satoshi

Tsuchida, National Institute ofAdvancedIndustrial Science and Technology, Japan; Jun Tanii, Osamu Kashimura, Japan SpaceSystems, Japan; Ryosuke Nakamura, Hirokazu Yamamoto, National Institute ofAdvanced Industrial Science and Technology,Japan; Tetsushi Tachikawa, Japan Space Systems, Japan; Shuichi Rokugawa, The University ofTokyo, Japan

TH2.208.4: A STUDY ON VICARIOUS CALD3RATIONAND CROSS CALIBRATION FOR HISUI 3514

HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERHirokazu Yamamoto, Satoshi Tsuchida, GSJ, Japan

TH2.208.5: RADIOMETRIC ABSOLUTE ACCURACY IMPROVEMENTSFOR IMAGING 3518

SPECTROMETRY WITH HYSICS

Greg Kopp, Peter Pilewskie, Chris Belting, Zach Castleman, Ginger Drake, Joey Espejo, Karl Heuerman, Bret Lamprecht, Paul

Smith, Bill Vermeer, University ofColorado, United States

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TH3.208: NEWDEVELOPMENTS IN MONITORING OF OCEAN SURFACE FEATURES WITH

SPACEBOURNE SAR

TH3.208.1: TROPICAL CYCLONE VECTOR WINDS FORM C-BAND DUAL-POLARIZATION 3S22

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR

Biao Zhang, Nanjing University ofInformation Science & Technology, China; William Perrie, Bedford Institute of

Oceanography, Canada; Yijun He, Zhongfeng Qiu, Nanjing University ofInformation Science & Technology, China; Jie Guo,Yantai Institute ofCoastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

TH3.208.2: DETECTION OF OIL SPILLS WITH THE SECOND STOKES PARAMETER OF THE 3526

HYBIRD POLARIMETRIC SAR

HaiYan Li, Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics, Chinese Academy ofSciences/Earth Science College, UniversityofChinese Academy ofSciences; Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute ofOceanography, China; William Perrie,

Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute ofOceanography, Canada

TH4.208: SUBSURFACE SENSING I

TH4.208.2: AUTOMATIC CLASSD7ICATION OF SUBSURFACE FEATURES IN RADAR SOUNDER DATA ....... 3530

ACQUntED IN ICY AREAS

Ana-Maria Ilisei, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

TH4.208.3: APPLICATION OF FREEMANDECOMPOSITIONTO FULL POLARIMETRIC GPR 3534

Xuan Feng, Yue Yu, Qi Lu, Cai Liu, Jilin University, China; Jianguo Zhao, China University of Petroleum, China; Yon Zhang,CongMei Xie, WenJing Liang, Delihai Enhe, Ning Hu, HongLi Li, Qianci Ren, Jilin University, China

TH4.208.4: A SIMPLE AND ACCURATE MEANS OF PREDICTING THE LOCUS OF CONSTANT 3538

TRAVEL TIME OF AN UNDERGROUND SCATTERER FOR AIR-LAUNCHED BISTATIC GPR

Carey Rappaport, Ann Morgenthaler, Northeastern University, United States

TH4.208.5: RADIO-WAVE DETECTION AND ESTIMATION OF SUB-SURFACE HYDRAULIC 3542

FRACTURES AT MFBAND

Jiangfeng Wu, Kamal Sarabandi, The University ofMichigan, United States

THP.P1: SAR: IMAGE PROCESSING METHODS

THP.P1.1: A NEW METHODFOR CONSISTENT INTENSITY ADJUSTMENTONAZIMUTH IN 3546

SAR IMAGES OFLOW ALTITUDE PLATFORMS

Xiuqing Liu, Yanfei Wang, Xin Gao, Zhuo Pan, Xueli Zhan, Zhigang Pan, Institute ofElectronics, Chinese Academy ofSciences,China

THP.P1.2: AN AUTO-REGISTRATION METHOD FOR SPACE-BORNE SAR IMAGES BASED ON 3550

FFT-SHIFT THEORY AND CORRELATION ANALYSIS IN MULTI-SCALE SCHEMEYixian Tang, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Digital Earth, ChineseAcademy ofSciences, China;Yongjie He, Beijing Normal University, China

THP.P1.3: INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGING: AIR-TO-AIR AND 3554

AIR-TO-SURFACE EXAMPLESHubert Cantalloube, Office National d'Etudes et Recherches Aerospatiales, France

THP.P2: SAR: IMAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS

THP.P2.4: LAKE SHORE EXTRACTION EXPLOITING COMPLEX DECOMPOSITION 3558Fabio Baselice, Giampaolo Ferraioli, Vito Pascazio, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

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THP.P2.5: SHIP WAKECFAR DETECTIONALGORITHM IN SAR IMAGES BASED ONLENGTH 3562

NORMALIZED SCAN

Jie Nan, Chao Wang, Bo Zhang, Fan Wu, Hong Zhang, Yixian Tang, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese

Academy ofSciences, China

THP.P2.6: AN AUTOMATIC DETECTIONSYSTEMFOR NATURAL OIL SEEP ORIGIN 3566

ESTIMATION IN SAR IMAGES

Gopika Suresh, University ofBremen, MARUM (Centerfor Marine Environmental Sciences), Germany; Georg Heygster,Universitdt Bremen, Germany; Gerhard Bohrmann, MARUM (CenterforMarine Environmental Sciences), Germany; Christian

Melsheimer, University ofBremen, Germany; Jan-Hendrik Korber, MARUM (Centerfor Marine Environmental Sciences),

Germany

THP.P2.7: TARGET DETECTION ON HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR IMAGE USING PART-BASED CFAR 3570

MODEL

Chu He, Yu Zhang, School ofElectronic Information, Wuhan University, China; Xin Su, Institution Telecom, Telecom Paris,

France; Xin Xu, School ofElectronic Information, Wuhan University, China; Mingsheng Liao, The State Key LaboratoryforInformation Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China

THP.P2.8: WEATHER RADAR DATA VISUALIZATION USING FIRST-ORDER INTERPOLATION 3574

Roman Kvasov, Sandra Cruz-Pol, Jose Colom-Ustdriz, Leyda Leon Colon, University ofPuerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, Puerto

Rico; Paula Rees, University ofMassachusetts Amherst, United States

THP.P3: IMAGE CLASSIFICATION III

THP.P3.9: SUPERVISED LOCALLYLINEAR EMBEDDING BASED DIMENSION REDUCTION 3578

FOR HYPERSPECTRALIMAGE CLASSD7ICATION

Yushi Chen, Changbo Qu, Zhouhan Lin, Harbin Institute ofTechnology, China

THP.P3.10: CLASSD7ICATION ALGORITHM FOREMBEDDED SYSTEMS USING 3582

HIGH-RESOLUTIONMULTISPECTRAL DATAIvan Villalon-Turrubiates, TTESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Mexico

THP.P3.11: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CLASSD7ICATION ACCURACY FOR RISAT-1 COMPACT 3586

POLARIMETRICDATA FOR VARIOUS LAND-COVERS

Varsha Turkar, Shaunak De, Y. S. Rao, Sanjay Shitole, Avik Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India; AnupKumar Das, Indian Space Research Organisation, India

THP.P4: IMAGE PROCESSING III

THP.P4.13: STUDY OF TOPSIDEELECTRON DENSITY PROFILES OBTAINED BY COSMIC 3590SATELLITES AND AN IONOSONDE OVER CYPRUS DURING A FOUR YEARPERIODHaris Haralambous, Christina Oikonomou, Frederick Research Center, Cyprus

THP.P4.14: GIS DATA INTEGRATION FORSRTM-LANDSAT ETM+-RADARSAT-1 IMAGES TO 3594DELINEAT SUBSURFACEPALEOLAKES.WADI WATIR AREA, EGYPTMono Kaiser, Suez Canal University, Egypt

THP.P4.15: SHAPE-BASED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS FOR REMOTEPHENOLOGY STUDffiS 3598

Ricardo Torres, University of Campinas, Brazil; Makoto Hasegawa, Salvatore Tabbone, Universite Nancy 2, France; JurandyAlmeida, Jefersson A. dos Santos, University ofCampinas, Brazil; Bruna Alberton, Patricia Morellato, Sao Paulo StateUniversity, Brazil

THP.P4.17: EFFECT OF BANDWIDTH OF PANCHROMATIC IMAGE ON THE QUALITY OF 3602

PANSHARPENED MULTISPECTRALIMAGEMasayuki Matsuoka, Kochi University, Japan; Hiroki Yoshioka, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan; Kenta Obata, University ofHawaii, United States; Takeo Tadono, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

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THP.P5: SNOW REMOTE SENSING III

THP.P5.19: TEMPORAL SERIES ANALYSIS OF SNOWWATEREQUIVALENT OF SATELLITE 3606

PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA IN NORTHERN SEASONAL SNOW CLASSES (1978-2010)

Jiuliang Liu, Zhen Li, Centerfor Earth Observation andDigital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP.P5.21: VERIFICATION OF A GROUNDMETEOROLOGICAL FORCING DATASETAND ITS 3610

APPLICATION ON PERMAFROST REGION OF QEVGHAI-TEBETANPLATEAU

Hao Chen, Zhuotong Nan, Cold andArid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of

Sciences, China

THP.P6: ICE SHEETS AND GLACIERS II

THP.P6.22: RADAR-CODING IN THE APPLICAITON OF SAR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION IN THE 3614

DISTRICT OF GLACIERS

Fu Sitao, Li Then, Tian Bangsen, Xing Qiang, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences,

China

THP.P6.23: COMBINING A DIGTIAL ELEVATION MODEL AND THERMAL INFORMATIONFOR 3618

AUTOMATED GLACIER MAPPING

Lili Yan, Jian Wang, Xiaohua Hao, Zhiguang Tang, Cold andArid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute,

Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP.P6.24: MONITORING RECENT VARIATIONS OF THE MOVEMENTS ON THE 3622

POLYTHERMAL GLACIERS- A CASE STUDY IN THE NYAINQENTANGLHA MOUNTAINS

Junchao Shi, Massimo Menenti, Delft University ofTechnology, Netherlands

THP.P7: SEA ICE II

THP.P7.25: ORIENTATION EFFECTS ON POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES OF SEA ICE 3626

Armando Marino, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Irena Hajnsek, ETH Zurich /German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

THP.P7.26: COMPARISON BETWEENSAR DERIVED SEA ICE DISPLACEMENT AND HINDCASTS 3630

BY THE OPERATIONALOCEAN MODELHIROMB

Anders Berg, Chalmers University ofTechnology, Sweden; Lars Axell, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute,

Sweden; LeifE. B. Eriksson, Chalmers University ofTechnology, Sweden

THP.P8: GISAPPLICATIONS II

THP.P8.28: AN EFFICIENT METHOD OF PREDICTING TRAFFIC NOISE USING GIS 3634

Jianghua Zhao, Qiming Qin, Chao Xie, Jianhua Wang, Qingye Meng, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Geographic Information

System, Peking University, China

THP.P8.29: WEB SERVICE-BASED VEGETATION CONDITION MONITORING SYSTEM - 3638

VEGSCAPE

Zhengwei Yang, USDA NASS, United States; Genong Yu, Liping Di, Bei Zhang, Weiguo Han, George Mason University, United

States; Rick Mueller, USDA NASS, United States

THP.P8.30: A PARALLEL STRATEGY FOR PLANE SWEEPALGORITHM IN MULTI-CORE 3642

SYSTEM

Qiang Qiu, Institute ofComputing Technology, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Xiaomin Zhu, Shandong Computer

Science Center, China; Xiangzhen Yao, China Electronics Standardization Institute, China; Jinyun Fang, Institute of Computing

Technology, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

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THP.P8.31: RESEARCH ON THE COMPOSITION TECHNIQUED OF MARINE GIS MODEL 3646

SERVICES

WeiLiao, Beijing Research Institute ofOil, China; Yawen He, China University ofPetroleum, China; Yunyan Du, Institute of

Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP.P8.32: AUTOMATIC GEOGRAPHICWEB SERVICE CHAINING BASED-ON IMPROVED 3650

AND/OR GRAPH

Li Liu, Lei Cao, Jinyun Fang, Institute ofComputing Technology, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Dui Liang, China

Electric Equipment and System Engineering Co. Ltd, China

THP.P8.33: A FAST APPROACH FOR SPATIAL CO-LOCATION PATTERN MINING 3654

Fei He, Institute ofComputing Technology, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Xuemin Deng, CNPC Bohai Drilling

Engineering Co., Ltd, China; Jinyun Fang, Institute ofComputing Technology, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP.P8.34: VEHICLE ACCELERATION NOISE: A SOLUTION FOR REAL-TIME HIGHWAY 3658

TRAFFIC ESTIMATION BASED ON LOW-SPEED FLOATING VEHICLES

Chao Xie, Qiming Qin, Jun Li, Jianghua Zhao, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Geographic Information System, Peking

University, China

THP.P8.35: FAST PARALLEL INTERPOLATION ALGORITHM USING CUDA 3662

Yanwei Zhao, Qiang Qiu, Jinyun Fang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Liang Li, The

Second Academy ofAerospace, China

THP.P9: LANDSLIDES, VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKE

THP.P9.36: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRffiUTION OF DISASTER EVENTS EN 3666

MOUNTAINOUS TOWNSHIPS OF TAIWAN

Chien-Yuan Chen, Department ofCivil and Water Resources Engineering, National Chiayi University, Taiwan; Jui-Tang Chiang,

Sianghuo Salvage Branch, First Corps, Chiayi County Fire Bureau, Taiwan

THP.P9.37: THE MULTITEMPORAL CHANGE ANALYSIS OF DEEP-SEATED LANDSLIDE - 3670

HSIAOLIN SLIDE

Jin-King Liu, Secretary General/Taiwan Group on Earth Observations and CEO/LIDAR Technology Co., Taiwan; Kuan-TsungChang, Feng-Chi Yu, Assistant Professor/Minghsin University ofScience and Technology, Taiwan; Chin-Shyong Hou, Chief/Central Geological Survey, Ministry ofEconomic Affairs, Taiwan; Li-Yuan Fei, Director/Central Geological Survey, Ministry ofEconomicAffairs, Taiwan

THP.P9.38: EARTHQUAKE BUILDING DAMAGEDETECTIONWITH OBJECT-ORIENTED 3674

CHANGEDETECTION

Lixia Gong, Qiang Li, Jingfa Zhang, Institute ofCrustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration, China

THP.P9.39: A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR CHARACTERIZINGLANDSLIDE CAUSEDBY HEAVY 3678

RAINFALL AND SEVEREEARTHQUAKE

Kuan-Tsung Chang, Assistant Professor/Minghsin University ofScience and Technology, Taiwan; Jin-King Liu, SecretaryGeneral/Taiwan Group on Earth Observations and CEO/LIDAR Technology Co., Ltd., Taiwan; Wei-Chen Hsu, Ph.D candidate/

National Chiao Tung University and General Manager/LIDAR Technology Co., Ltd., Taiwan; Tian-Yuan Shih, National Chiao

Tung University, Taiwan

THP.P9.40: GEODYNAMIC ACTIVITY OF MALAYSIA: INSIGHT FROM SPACE-BASED 3682

TECHNOLOGY ANDKNOWLEDGEDRIVEN APPROACHRabieahtul Abu Bakar, Tajul AnuarJamaluddin, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia; Kamaludin Mohd Omar,Khamarrul Azahari Razak, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

THP.P9.41: THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREAT EARTHQUAKERISK ASSESSMENTSYSTEM 3686BASED ON HIGH RESOLUTION GRID DATA

Xiang Ding, Xiaoqing Wang, Aixia Dou, Xiaoxiang Yuan, Long Wang, Institute ofEarthquake Science, China

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THP.P9.42: TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATIONS OF SEISMICITY PARAMETERS FOR 3690

NORTHWEST HIMALAYA

Madan Mohan Rout, JosodhirDas, Kamal Kamal, Indian Institute ofTechnology, India

THP.P10: WATER RELATED DISASTERS

THP.P10.43: REMOTE: - A SATELLITE BASED TSUNAMI EARLY DETECTION SYSTEM 3694

Frank Lin, Weiwei Zhu, University ofMarylamd Eastern Shore, United States; Kingkam Sookhanaphibarn, Piyarat

Silapasuphakornwong, Bangkok University, Thailand

THP.P10.44: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LOW-COST GEOINFORMATICS FOR DISASTER RISK 3698

REDUCTION APPLICATIONS IN COASTAL REGIONS

Mathias Leidig, Richard Teeuw, Andy Gibson, University ofPortsmouth, United Kingdom

THP.P10.45: SIMULATION OF TSUNAMI IMPACT ON TAIWAN COASTALAREA 3702

Yang-Lang Chang, Min-Yu Huang, Yi Chun Wang, Wen-Da Lin, Jyh Pemg Fang, National Taipei University of Technology,Taiwan; Bormin Huang, University ofWisconsin-Madison, United States; Tung-Ju Hsieh, National Taipei University of

Technology, Taiwan

THP.P11: MISCELLANEOUS HAZARDS

THP.P11.46: NON-POINT SOURCE P POLLUTION RISK ASSESSMENTFOR BASIN AREA BASED 3706

ON REMOTE SENSINGIMAGE

Shudong Wang, Xia Zhang, Haitao Zhu, Xiaoping Chen, Tong Shuai, Zhi Zhuang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications,Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP.P11.47: OIL SPILL DETECTION USING MULTI FREQUENCY MICROWAVESENSOR 3710

ONBOARD SATELLITE; SSM/I AND AMSR-E

Opn Calla, Harendra Dadhich, Shruti Singhal, International Centrefor Radio Science, India

THP.P11.48: THE INFUENCE OF OIL SPDLL AND ENTEROMORPHA ON SYNTHETIC APERTURE ....... 3714

RADAR BACKSCATTER COEFFICDZNT AND WIND FIELD INVERSION.

lie Guo, Yantai Institute ofCoastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Yijun He, Biao Zhang, School ofMarine Sciences.Nanjing University ofInformation Science and Technology, China

THP.P11.49: AUTOMATIC ROAD DAMAGE DETECTION USING HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE 3718

IMAGES AND ROAD MAPS

Haijian Ma, National Earthquake Infrastructure Service, China; Nan Lu, Peking University, China; Linlin Ge, the University ofNew South Wales, Australia; Qiang Li, Xinzhao You, Xiaoxuan Li, National Earthquake Infrastructure Service, China

THP.P11.50: DISCRIMINATINGWHEAT APHID DAMAGELEVEL USING SPECTRAL 3722

CORRELATION SIMULATINGANALYSIS

Wenjiang Huang, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Juhua Luo, NanjingInstitute ofGeography and Limnology, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Qingsong Guan, Institute ofRemote Sensing and

Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Jinling Zhao, Jingcheng Zhang, Beijing Research Centerfor InformationTechnology in Agriculture, Beijing Academy ofAgriculture and Forestry Sciences, China

THP.P11.51: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE FOR DISCRIMINATING APHID AND APHID DAMAGE 3726

REGION OF WINTER WHEAT LEAF

Juhua Luo, Nanjing Institute ofGeography andLimnology, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Wenjiang Huang, QingsongGuan, Key Laboratory ofDigital Earth Sciences, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences,China; Jinling Zhao, Zhang Jingcheng, Beijing Research Centerfor Information Technology in Agriculture, Beijing Academy ofAgriculture and Forestry Sciences, China

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THP.P13: SOILMOISTURE RETRIEVAL II

THP.P13.52: VALIDATION OF AMSR-E SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT AND THE FUTURE 3730

PERSPECTIVE OF SODL MOISTURE ESTIMATION USING SMOS DATA OVER TROPICAL

REGION

Chuen Siang Kang, Kasturi Devi Kanniah, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

THP.P13.53: THE REMOTE SENSING QUANTITATIVE MONITORING OF SOIL MOISTURE IN 3734

THE UPSTREAM OF MINJIANG VALLEY

YuxiaLi, University ofElectronic Science and Technology of China, China; Wunian Yang, Chengdu University ofTechnology,

China; Lei He, Ling Tong, University ofElectronic Science and Technology ofChina, China; JianCheng Shi, University of

California, Santa Barbara, United States

THP.P13.54: IMPROVEMENT OF SODL MOISTURE MONITORINGUSING EVI AS A KEY 3738

PARAMETER BASED ON TVDI IN THE NORTH CHINA PLAIN

Yue Shan, Adu Gong, Yongrong Su, Wenyu Liu, Jing Li, Yunhao Chen, Weiguo Jiang, Beijing Normal University, China

THP.P13.56: US NATIONAL CROPLAND SOn, MOISTURE MONITORINGUSING SMAP 3746

Zhengwei Yang, Rick Mueller, USDA NASS, United States; Wade Crow, USDA ARS, United States

THP.P13.58: THE ANALYSIS OF SOIL LINE ACCURACY AFFECTED DROUGHT MONITORING 3750

ACCURACY

Haixia Feng, Shan Dong Jiao Tong University, China; Liming Wang, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese

Academy ofSciences, China; Jianwei Tian, Maying Tian, Shandong Jiao Tong University, China; Jinliang Wang, Qingye Meng,

Peking University, China; Yu Jiu Xiong, Sheng Lin Tan, Sun Yat-sen University, China

THP.P13.59: SODL MOISTURE MONITORINGBASED ON HJ-1C S-BAND SAR IMAGE AND 3754

EXPERIMENTAL DATA

Lei He, Ling Tong, Yan Chen, Mingquan Jia, University ofElectronic Science and Technology ofChina, China; Jiancheng Shi,

University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara, United States

THP.P13.60: ESTIMATE OF SOIL MOISTURE USING REFINED MICROWAVE VEGETATION 3758

INDEX BASED ON AMSR-E

Shu Wang, Lingmei Jiang, Beijing Normal University, China; Tianjie Zhao, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese

Academy ofSciences, China; Juntao Yang, Beijing Normal University, China

THP.P14: SOIL PHYSICAL AND CHEMICALPROPERTIES

THP.P14.61: EXTRACTION OF SALINE LAND BASED ON DECISION TREE APPROACH USING 3762

LANDSATTMDATA

Yueru Wu, Weizhen Wang, Jinxin Zhuang, Chunfeng Ma, Suhua Liu, Lizong Wu, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and

Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP.P14.63: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF MODISLAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE PRODUCTS 3766

USING NSSR

Wenping Yu, Mingguo Ma, Xufeng Wang, Junlei Tan, Liying Geng, Shuzhen Jia, Cold andArid Regions Environmental and

Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP.P14.64: USE OF REMOTE SENSE IMAGERY FOR MAPPING DEEP PLANT-DERIVED 3770

CARBON STORAGE IN AMAZONIAN PODZOLS IN REGIONAL SCALE

Osvaldo Jose Ribeiro Pereira, Celia Regina Montes, University ofSao Paulo, Brazil; Yves Lucas, Universite du Sud Toulon-Var,France; Adolpho Jose Melfi, University ofSao Paulo, Brazil

THP.P15: WETLANDS II

THP.P15.65: VALIDATION OF THE COMMUNITYLAND MODELANDANIMPROVED SOIL 3773

PARAMETERIZATION SCHEME IN TYPICAL WETLAND SITES

Huoping Pan, Jiancheng Shi, Tianxing Wang, Institute ofRemote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

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THP.P15.66: ESTIMATIONOF CH4 EMISSION OF NATURAL WETLAND IN SIBERIA

Sude Suriguge, Wataru Takeuchi, The University ofTokyo, Japan

THP.P16: INLAND WATERS II

THP.P16.68: CHARACTERIZINGSPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATIONS OF SURFACE

TEMPERATURE OF LAKE TANA (ETHIOPIA) USING MODIS DATA

Zheng Duan, W.G.M Bastiaanssen, Delft University ofTechnology, Netherlands

THP.P16.69: THE PRELIMINARYINQUHtY OF CHLOROPHYLL-A INVERSION ALGORITHMS

APPLICABLE TO GUANTING RESERVOIR

Fei Xie, Ziqi Guo, Ye Tian, Caixia Liu, Xia Lei, Institute ofRemote Sensing andDigital Earth, ChineseAcademy ofSciences,

China

THP.P17: FORESTS AND VEGETATION II

THP.P17.71: ANALYSIS OF SNOW-FREE VEGETATION AND BARE SOIL ALBEDOSAND

APPLICATION TO NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION

Dominique Carrer, Xavier Ceamanos, Jean-Louis Roujean, Meteo-France, France

THP.P17.72: REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS AT CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERIMENT SITES IN

EUROPE

Lea Hallik, Estonian University ofLife Sciences, Estonia; Joel Kuu.sk, Tartu Observatory, Estonia; Simone Mereu, Universita

degli Studi di Sassari, Italy; Inger Kappel Schmidt, University ofCopenhagen, Denmark

THP.P17.73: REMOTE SENSING OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY OF ARCTIC VEGETATION

Taras Kazantsev, Estonian University ofLife Sciences, Estonia; OlafRaim, University of Tartu, Estonia

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