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Sunday, September 22nd


Monday, July 23rd

14:20 - 16:00
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
GEOSS Challenges and Opportunities Mo01AH1
Room: 128
Observing System for Climate
Jean-Louis Fellous

Progress in Global Earth Observation System of Systems
Helen Wood, Melba Crawford

The Atmospheric Composition Constellation: A Proposed Example of an Integrated Earth Observing System for GEOSS
Ernest Hilsenrath, Joerg Langen

The Evolving World of Land Imaging Satellites: a GEOSS Opportunity
William E. Stoney

The CEOS/GEO Constellation Concept
Bryant Cramer, Stephen Ungar

COSMO-SkyMed Mission and Applications Mo02AH1
Room: 131
COSMO-SkyMed: An Advanced Dual System for Earth Observation
Francesco Caltagirone, Gius Angino, Fabr Impagnatiello, Arna Capuzi, Sand Fagioli, Robe Leonardi

Interopelability, Expandability and Multi Mission-Sensor COSMO-SkyMed Capabilities
Giuseppe Francesco De Luca, Graziano Marano, Matteo Piemontese, Bruno Versini, Francesco Caltagirone, Gianni Casonato, Alessandro Coletta, Maurizio De Carlo

High Resolution COSMO - SkyMed SAR Images for Oil Spills Automatic Detection
Paolo Trivero, Walter Biamino, Francesco Nirchio

High Resolution COSMO/SkyMed SAR Data Analysis for Civil Protection from Flooding Events
Giorgio Boni, Fabio Castelli, Luca Ferraris, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Sebastiano Serpico, Franco Siccardi

The SBAS-InSAR Technique as a Tool for the Observation of Active Volcanic Areas: Results and Future Perspectives
Paolo Berardino, Francesco Casu, Gianfranco Fornaro, Riccardo Lanari, Michele Manunta, Mariarosaria Manzo, Antonio Pepe, Susi Pepe, Eugenio Sansosti, Francesco Serafino, G. Solaro, P. Tizzani, G. Zeni

Remote Sensing for Humanitarian Demining Mo03AH1
Room: 133
Possibilistic Multi-Sensor Fusion for Humanitarian Demining
Nada Milisavljevic, Isabelle Bloch

Hand Held Dual Sensor ALIS and Its Valuation Test in Cambodia
Jun Fujiwara, Motoyuki Sato, Kazunori Takahashi

Broadband Electromagnetic Induction Sensor for Detecting Buried Landmines
Waymond R. Scott, Jr.

Use of an Application-Specific Dictionary for Matching Pursuits Discrimination of Landmines and Clutter
Raaz Mazhar, Joseph N. Wilson, Paul Gader

Polarimetric Feature Fusion in GPR for Landmine Detection
Vsevolod O. Kovalenko, Alexander G. Yarovoy, Leo P. Ligthart

Ocean Surface Processes-I Mo04AF
Room: 120
Concept Design of a Near-Space Radar for Tsunami Detection
Michele Galletti, Gerhard Krieger, Thomas Boerner, Nicolas Marquart, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth

Towards an Ocean Salinity Error Budget Estimation within the SMOS Mission
Roberto Sabia, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Marco Talone, Jordi Font

Oil Spill Detection and Tracking by Means of SAR and VIS/NIR Imagery
Maria Adamo, Giacomo De Carolis, Vito De Pasquale, Guido Pasquariello

Comparison of Modeled and Observed Microwave Emissivities of Water Surfaces in the Presence of Breaking Waves and Foam
Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven C. Reising, William E. Asher, Victor Raizer, Peter W. Gaiser

Measurements of the Effect of Rain-Induced Sea Surface Roughness on the Satellite Scatterometer Radar Cross Section
David E. Weissman, Mark A. Bourassa

NOAA Coral Reef Watch’s Near-Real-Time Satellite Monitoring of the 2005 Record Breaking Coral Bleaching Event in the Caribbean
Gang Liu, C. Mark Eakin, Jessica Morgan, Tyler Christensen, Scott Heron, William Skirving, Alan E. Strong, Dwight Gledhill

Computing Coastal Ocean Surface Currents from Ocean Color Satellite Imagery
Roge Crocker, William Emery

Seasonal and Interannual Patterns of Chlorophyll Bloom Timing in the Gulf of Cádiz
Gabriel Navarro, Laura Prieto, I. Emma Huertas, Javier Ruiz, Jesús Gómez-Enri

A Multi-Channel Atmospheric Correction Algorithm For Remote Sensing of Coastal Waters
Bo-Cai Gao, Marcos J. Montes, Rong-Rong Li

Electromagnetic Methods in Remote Sensing I Mo05AF
Room: 121
Bistatic Scattering from a 3D Target above Rough Surface
Ya-Qiu Jin, Hongxia Ye

Application of the Stochastic Second-Degree Iterative Method to EM Scattering from Randomly Rough Surfaces
Yang Du, J. A. Kong

Frequency and Polarimetric Dependence of Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing Signatures in Rough Surface Problems with Small to Moderate rms Heights
Peng Xu, Leung Tsang, Kun-Shan Chen

Moment Method/ Monte Carlo Simulation of the Microwave Backscatter of Wet-Land Rice Fields
Yisok Oh, Jin-Young Hong

Extension of Advanced Integral Equation Model for Calculations of Fully Polarimetric Scattering Coefficient from Rough Surface
Hung-Wei Lee Lee, Kun-Shan Chen, Jeng Chuan Wang, Tzong-Dar Wu, Jong-Sen Lee, J.C. Shi

Bistatic Scattering from Bare Soils: Sensitivity to Soil Moisture and Surface Roughness
Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Francesca Ticconi

Derivation of Validity Region of SPM Simulation of One-Dimensional Two-Layer Rough Surfaces Using a Fast Solver and Simulated Annealing Method
Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Mahta Moghaddam, Eric Michielssen

Comparison of Different Separable Basis Functions for the Application of the Method of Moments on Rough Surface Scattering
Jose Luis Alvarez-Perez, Mercè Vall-llossera, J.C. Nieto-Borge

Improvement of 3D Radar Backscatter Model By Matrix-Doubling Methods
Wenjian Ni, Zhifeng Guo, Guoqing Sun, Fang Wang

Effective Dielectric Constant for a Random Medium with Different Scattering Species after Renormalization of the Helmholtz Equation
Jose Luis Alvarez-Perez

Bistatic and Multistatic Radar Mo06AF
Room: 122
Feasibility of Spaceborne Bistatic Radar Missions for Land Applications
Giuliano Della Pietra, Fabrizio Capobianco, Stefano Falzini, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Ludovico De Titta

Phase and Temporal Synchronization in Bistatic SAR Systems Using Sources of Opportunity
Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Pau Serra-Morales, Jesus Sanz-Marcos

Space-Based Moving Target Positioning Using Radar with a Switched Aperture Antenna
Joachim H. G. Ender, Christoph Gierull, Delphine Cerutti-Maori

Assessment of Interferometric Baseline Performances in a Multistatic Radar Formation Flight for High-Accurate DEM Generation
Andreas Kohlhase, Remc Kroes

Bistatic SAR Interferometry Using ENVISAT and a Ground Based Receiver: Experimental Results
Paco López-Dekker, Juan C. Merlano, Sergi Duque, Jesus Sanz-Marcos, Albert Aguasca, Jordi J. Mallorquí

Constraints of the Bistatic SAR Processing
Koba Natroshvili, Otmar Loffeld, Holger Nies, Ulrich Gebhardt, Joachim H. G. Ender

Experimental Investigation of Digital Beamforming SAR Performance Using a Ground-Based Demonstrator
Jung-Hyo Kim, Alicja Ossowska, Werner Wiesbeck

Position and Orientation Estimation of Two Airborne Platforms Towards Each Other
Matthias Weiß, Giovanni Marino

Performance Results of the SHARAD Instrument
Franco Fois, Renato Croci, Roberto Seu, Giovanni Picardi, Enrico Flamini

Bistatic SAR Imaging: A Novel Approach Using a Stationary Receiver
Adib Nashashibi, Fawwaz Ulaby

SAR Data Processing Mo07AF
Room: 123
Improvement of Interferometric SAR Coherence Estimates by Slope-Adaptive Range Common-Band Filtering
Maurizio Santoro, Charles Werner, Urs Wegmüller, Oliver Cartus

Polarimetric Phase Gradient Autofocus
Marco Martorella, Mark Preiss, Brett Haywood, Bevan Bates

Delay/Doppler Altimeter Data Processing
Davide D‘Aria, Pietro Guccione, Betlem Rosich, Robert Cullen

Merging of the Stereogrametry and Interferometry Techniques as Relative Bandwidth Grows. Illustration with VHF Carabas SAR Images
Hubert M. J. Cantalloube, Elise K. Colin, P.O. Frölind, Lars M. H. Ulander

Evaluation of the Bistatic Range Migration Processor
Ingo Walterscheid, Andreas R. Brenner, Joachim H. G. Ender, Otmar Loffeld

A SAR Processing Algorithm for TOPS Imaging Mode Based on Extended Chirp Scaling
Pau Prats, Rolf Scheiber, Josef Mittermayer, Adriano Meta, Alberto Moreira, Jesus Sanz-Marcos

Investigations on the TOPSAR Acquisition Mode with TerraSAR-X
Adriano Meta, Josef Mittermayer, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Pau Prats

Tomographic Processing of Multi-Baseline P-Band SAR Data for Imaging of a Forested Area
Othmar Frey, Felix Morsdorf, Erich Meier

Accurate Phase-Preserving Processing of Spaceboene TOPS Mode Data
Ole Morten Olsen

Analysis of Non-Gaussian POLSAR Data
Anthony Doulgeris, Stian Anfinsen, Normann Anfinsen, Torbjorn Eltoft

SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications Mo08AF
Room: 124
Classification Comparisons Between Dual-Pol and Quad-Pol SAR Imagery
T. L. Ainsworth, J.-S. Lee, L.-W. Chang

Analysis of Fully Polarimetric SAR Data Based on the Cloude-Pottier Decomposition and the Complex Wishart Classifier
Fang Cao, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Eric Pottier

Evaluation and Bias Removal of Multi-Look Effect on Entropy/Alpha/Anisotropy
Jong-Sen Lee, T. L. Ainsworth, John Kelly, Carlos López-Martínez

Multidimensional Speckle Noise Reduction in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
Carlos López-Martínez, Xavier Fàbregas

Review of Existing Monographs and Books on Radar Polarimetry and Polarimetric SAR with the Aim of Justifying the Need of Updates
Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Jong-Sen Lee

Monitoring Temperate Glaciers by High Resolution Pol-InSAR Data: First Analysis of Argentière E-SAR Acquisitions and In-Situ Measurements
Tania Landes, Michel Gay, Emmanuel Trouvé, Jean-Marie Nicolas, Lionel Bombrun, Gabriel Vasile, Irena Hajnsek

Sub-Band Interferometry on Polarimetric SAR Dataset
Jean-François Nouvel, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Sébastien Angelliaume, Mimoun David

Polarimetric Temporal Information for Urban Deformation Map Retrieval
Luca Pipia, Xavier Fàbregas, Albert Aguasca, Carlos López-Martínez, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Antoni Broquetas, Oscar Moraline

Pol-DinSAR: Polarimetric SAR Differential Interferometry Using Coherent Scatterers
Rafael Zandona Schneider, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou

Classification of Stricken Residential Houses by the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake Based on POLSAR Image Analysis
Ryoichi Sato, Koji Soma, Yuki Yajima, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada

Space Agencies Missions and Technologies Mo09AF
Room: 129
The Restructured NPOESS and NPP Programs: Their Projected Ability to Help Fulfill the Global Meteorological & Climate Missionsand Their Potential Contributions to these GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas
Stephen A. Mango

Global Change Observation Missions
Haruhisa Shimoda

The Contribution of the European Space Agency to the ALOS PRISM / Commissioning Phase
Sebastien Saunier, Philippe Goryl, Marc Bouvet, Richard Santer, Armin Gruen, Kirsten Wolf, Francoise Viallefont

The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Sensor Suite
Hal Bloom

ESA Future Earth Observation Explorer Missions
Jean-Loup Bézy, Paolo Bensi, Chun-Chi Lin, Yannig Durand, Florence Hélière, Amanda Regan, Paul Ingmann, Joerg Langen, Michael Berger, Malcolm Davidson, Helge Rebhan

The C-SAR Instrument for the GMES Sentinel-1 Mission
Friedhelm Rostan, Sebastian Riegger, W. Pitz, Andrea Torre, Ramon Torres

SRAL SAR Radar Altimeter for Sentinel-3 Mission
Yves Le Roy, Marc Deschaux-beaume, Constantin Mavrocordatos, Miguel Aguirre, Florence Hélière

ENVISAT AP Mode Data and AIS Used for Ship Detection
Tonje Nanette Arnesen

The COSMO-SkyMed Satellites Development and Qualification
Claudio Galeazzi, Edmondo Scorzafava, Claudia Fiorentino, Mauro Protto, Mauro Petruccioli, Paolo Venditti, Andrea Torre, Pasquale Capece, Alessandro Bonfiglietti, Aniceto Panetti

COSMO-SkyMed: System End-to-End Verification
Enrico Zampolini Faustini, Anna Notarantonio, Graziano Marano, Venturino Gualtieri, Vittorio Magna, Gianni Casonato, Fabio Covello, Giuseppe Francesco De Luca, Claudia Fiorentino, Edmondo Scorzafava

Microwave Radiometer Technology Mo10AF
Room: 130
GAS: The Geostationary Atmospheric Sounder
Jacob Christensen, Anders Carlström, Hans Ekström, Anders Emrich, Johan Embertsen, Peter de Maagt, Andreas Colliander

Assimilation of Simulated Geostationary Passive Microwave
Albin J. Gasiewski, Bob L. Weber, Jian Wen Bao

A Dual-gain Antenna Option for GeoSTAR
Alan B. Tanner, Bjorn H. Lambrigsten, Todd C. Gaier

The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer - An Octave Bandwidth Synthetic Thinned Array Radiometer
Christopher S. Ruf, Ruba Amarin, M.C. Bailey, Boon H. Lim, Robbie Hood, Mark James, James Johnson, Linwood Jones, Vanessa Rohwedder, Karen Stephens

Radiometric Analysis of the Rotating Synthetic Aperture Radiometers Utilizing Grid-Based Measurement Approach
Hao Liu, Peter De Maagt, Jacob Christensen, Anders Emrich, Ji Wu

The Influence of Antenna Pattern on Faraday Rotation in Remote Sensing at L-band
D. M. Le Vine, S. D Jacob, S. Abraham, Emmanuel P. Dinnat, Paolo de Matthaeis

Radiometric Performance of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radiometer HUT-2D
Juha Kainulainen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Martti Hallikainen, Matias Takala

Synthetic Aperture PAU: A New Instrument to Test Potential Improvements for Future SMOSops
Isaac Ramos-Perez, Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Juan F. Marchan-Hernandez, Nerea Rodriguez-Alvarez, Enric Valencia, Fabio Frascella, Paolo Campigotto, Marco Donadio

Estimation of 3-D Water Vapor Distribution Using a Network of Compact Microwave Radiometers
Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven C. Reising, Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, Jothiram Vivekanandan

The Ground-Based Scanning Radiometer: A Tool for Arctic Atmospheric Research
Ed R. Westwater, Domenico Cimini, Albin J. Gasiewski, Marian Klein, Vladimir Leuski

Feature Extraction and Reduction Mo11AF
Room: 132
Feature Extraction from Remote Sensing Data using Kernel Orthonormalized PLS
Jerónimo Arenas-García, Gustavo Camps-Valls

Feature Extraction of Gabled-Roofed Buildings Based on Multi-Aspect High-Resolution InSAR Data
Antje Thiele, Erich Cadario, Karsten Schulz, Ulrich Thoennessen, Uwe Soergel

An Efficient Wavelet Dictionary for Texture Separation
Mohamed Anis Loghmari, Faten Katlane, Mohamed Saber Naceur

A New Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Method with Application to Hyperspectral Image Analysis
Shen-En Qian, Guangyi Chen

Extract Roads from High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery: A Semi-automatic Method
Min Wang

Quantitative Analysis of Texture Parameter Estimation in SAR Images
Olivier D‘Hondt, Carlos López-Martínez, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Eric Pottier

High Resolution Urban Feature Extraction for Global Population Mapping Using High Performance Computing
Veeraraghavan Vijayaraj, Eddie A. Bright, Budhendra L. Bhaduri

Unsupervised Band Selection for Hyperspectral Image Analysis
Qian Du, He Yang

Texture Retrieval Using Grey-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix for Ikonos Panchromatic Images of Earthquake in Java 2006
Bingbing Liu, Soo Chin Liew

Identification of Generalized Self-Similar Principal Components of Single Image for Image Filtering and Pattern Decomposition
Qiuming Cheng


16:20 - 18:00
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Ocean Surface Processes-I Mo04AF
Room: 120
Concept Design of a Near-Space Radar for Tsunami Detection
Michele Galletti, Gerhard Krieger, Thomas Boerner, Nicolas Marquart, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth

Towards an Ocean Salinity Error Budget Estimation within the SMOS Mission
Roberto Sabia, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Marco Talone, Jordi Font

Oil Spill Detection and Tracking by Means of SAR and VIS/NIR Imagery
Maria Adamo, Giacomo De Carolis, Vito De Pasquale, Guido Pasquariello

Comparison of Modeled and Observed Microwave Emissivities of Water Surfaces in the Presence of Breaking Waves and Foam
Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven C. Reising, William E. Asher, Victor Raizer, Peter W. Gaiser

Measurements of the Effect of Rain-Induced Sea Surface Roughness on the Satellite Scatterometer Radar Cross Section
David E. Weissman, Mark A. Bourassa

NOAA Coral Reef Watch’s Near-Real-Time Satellite Monitoring of the 2005 Record Breaking Coral Bleaching Event in the Caribbean
Gang Liu, C. Mark Eakin, Jessica Morgan, Tyler Christensen, Scott Heron, William Skirving, Alan E. Strong, Dwight Gledhill

Computing Coastal Ocean Surface Currents from Ocean Color Satellite Imagery
Roge Crocker, William Emery

Seasonal and Interannual Patterns of Chlorophyll Bloom Timing in the Gulf of Cádiz
Gabriel Navarro, Laura Prieto, I. Emma Huertas, Javier Ruiz, Jesús Gómez-Enri

A Multi-Channel Atmospheric Correction Algorithm For Remote Sensing of Coastal Waters
Bo-Cai Gao, Marcos J. Montes, Rong-Rong Li

Electromagnetic Methods in Remote Sensing I Mo05AF
Room: 121
Bistatic Scattering from a 3D Target above Rough Surface
Ya-Qiu Jin, Hongxia Ye

Application of the Stochastic Second-Degree Iterative Method to EM Scattering from Randomly Rough Surfaces
Yang Du, J. A. Kong

Frequency and Polarimetric Dependence of Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing Signatures in Rough Surface Problems with Small to Moderate rms Heights
Peng Xu, Leung Tsang, Kun-Shan Chen

Moment Method/ Monte Carlo Simulation of the Microwave Backscatter of Wet-Land Rice Fields
Yisok Oh, Jin-Young Hong

Extension of Advanced Integral Equation Model for Calculations of Fully Polarimetric Scattering Coefficient from Rough Surface
Hung-Wei Lee Lee, Kun-Shan Chen, Jeng Chuan Wang, Tzong-Dar Wu, Jong-Sen Lee, J.C. Shi

Bistatic Scattering from Bare Soils: Sensitivity to Soil Moisture and Surface Roughness
Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Francesca Ticconi

Derivation of Validity Region of SPM Simulation of One-Dimensional Two-Layer Rough Surfaces Using a Fast Solver and Simulated Annealing Method
Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Mahta Moghaddam, Eric Michielssen

Comparison of Different Separable Basis Functions for the Application of the Method of Moments on Rough Surface Scattering
Jose Luis Alvarez-Perez, Mercè Vall-llossera, J.C. Nieto-Borge

Improvement of 3D Radar Backscatter Model By Matrix-Doubling Methods
Wenjian Ni, Zhifeng Guo, Guoqing Sun, Fang Wang

Effective Dielectric Constant for a Random Medium with Different Scattering Species after Renormalization of the Helmholtz Equation
Jose Luis Alvarez-Perez

Bistatic and Multistatic Radar Mo06AF
Room: 122
Feasibility of Spaceborne Bistatic Radar Missions for Land Applications
Giuliano Della Pietra, Fabrizio Capobianco, Stefano Falzini, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Ludovico De Titta

Phase and Temporal Synchronization in Bistatic SAR Systems Using Sources of Opportunity
Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Pau Serra-Morales, Jesus Sanz-Marcos

Space-Based Moving Target Positioning Using Radar with a Switched Aperture Antenna
Joachim H. G. Ender, Christoph Gierull, Delphine Cerutti-Maori

Assessment of Interferometric Baseline Performances in a Multistatic Radar Formation Flight for High-Accurate DEM Generation
Andreas Kohlhase, Remc Kroes

Bistatic SAR Interferometry Using ENVISAT and a Ground Based Receiver: Experimental Results
Paco López-Dekker, Juan C. Merlano, Sergi Duque, Jesus Sanz-Marcos, Albert Aguasca, Jordi J. Mallorquí

Constraints of the Bistatic SAR Processing
Koba Natroshvili, Otmar Loffeld, Holger Nies, Ulrich Gebhardt, Joachim H. G. Ender

Experimental Investigation of Digital Beamforming SAR Performance Using a Ground-Based Demonstrator
Jung-Hyo Kim, Alicja Ossowska, Werner Wiesbeck

Position and Orientation Estimation of Two Airborne Platforms Towards Each Other
Matthias Weiß, Giovanni Marino

Performance Results of the SHARAD Instrument
Franco Fois, Renato Croci, Roberto Seu, Giovanni Picardi, Enrico Flamini

Bistatic SAR Imaging: A Novel Approach Using a Stationary Receiver
Adib Nashashibi, Fawwaz Ulaby

SAR Data Processing Mo07AF
Room: 123
Improvement of Interferometric SAR Coherence Estimates by Slope-Adaptive Range Common-Band Filtering
Maurizio Santoro, Charles Werner, Urs Wegmüller, Oliver Cartus

Polarimetric Phase Gradient Autofocus
Marco Martorella, Mark Preiss, Brett Haywood, Bevan Bates

Delay/Doppler Altimeter Data Processing
Davide D‘Aria, Pietro Guccione, Betlem Rosich, Robert Cullen

Merging of the Stereogrametry and Interferometry Techniques as Relative Bandwidth Grows. Illustration with VHF Carabas SAR Images
Hubert M. J. Cantalloube, Elise K. Colin, P.O. Frölind, Lars M. H. Ulander

Evaluation of the Bistatic Range Migration Processor
Ingo Walterscheid, Andreas R. Brenner, Joachim H. G. Ender, Otmar Loffeld

A SAR Processing Algorithm for TOPS Imaging Mode Based on Extended Chirp Scaling
Pau Prats, Rolf Scheiber, Josef Mittermayer, Adriano Meta, Alberto Moreira, Jesus Sanz-Marcos

Investigations on the TOPSAR Acquisition Mode with TerraSAR-X
Adriano Meta, Josef Mittermayer, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Pau Prats

Tomographic Processing of Multi-Baseline P-Band SAR Data for Imaging of a Forested Area
Othmar Frey, Felix Morsdorf, Erich Meier

Accurate Phase-Preserving Processing of Spaceboene TOPS Mode Data
Ole Morten Olsen

Analysis of Non-Gaussian POLSAR Data
Anthony Doulgeris, Stian Anfinsen, Normann Anfinsen, Torbjorn Eltoft

SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications Mo08AF
Room: 124
Classification Comparisons Between Dual-Pol and Quad-Pol SAR Imagery
T. L. Ainsworth, J.-S. Lee, L.-W. Chang

Analysis of Fully Polarimetric SAR Data Based on the Cloude-Pottier Decomposition and the Complex Wishart Classifier
Fang Cao, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Eric Pottier

Evaluation and Bias Removal of Multi-Look Effect on Entropy/Alpha/Anisotropy
Jong-Sen Lee, T. L. Ainsworth, John Kelly, Carlos López-Martínez

Multidimensional Speckle Noise Reduction in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
Carlos López-Martínez, Xavier Fàbregas

Review of Existing Monographs and Books on Radar Polarimetry and Polarimetric SAR with the Aim of Justifying the Need of Updates
Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Jong-Sen Lee

Monitoring Temperate Glaciers by High Resolution Pol-InSAR Data: First Analysis of Argentière E-SAR Acquisitions and In-Situ Measurements
Tania Landes, Michel Gay, Emmanuel Trouvé, Jean-Marie Nicolas, Lionel Bombrun, Gabriel Vasile, Irena Hajnsek

Sub-Band Interferometry on Polarimetric SAR Dataset
Jean-François Nouvel, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Sébastien Angelliaume, Mimoun David

Polarimetric Temporal Information for Urban Deformation Map Retrieval
Luca Pipia, Xavier Fàbregas, Albert Aguasca, Carlos López-Martínez, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Antoni Broquetas, Oscar Moraline

Pol-DinSAR: Polarimetric SAR Differential Interferometry Using Coherent Scatterers
Rafael Zandona Schneider, Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou

Classification of Stricken Residential Houses by the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake Based on POLSAR Image Analysis
Ryoichi Sato, Koji Soma, Yuki Yajima, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada

Space Agencies Missions and Technologies Mo09AF
Room: 129
The Restructured NPOESS and NPP Programs: Their Projected Ability to Help Fulfill the Global Meteorological & Climate Missionsand Their Potential Contributions to these GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas
Stephen A. Mango

Global Change Observation Missions
Haruhisa Shimoda

The Contribution of the European Space Agency to the ALOS PRISM / Commissioning Phase
Sebastien Saunier, Philippe Goryl, Marc Bouvet, Richard Santer, Armin Gruen, Kirsten Wolf, Francoise Viallefont

The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Sensor Suite
Hal Bloom

ESA Future Earth Observation Explorer Missions
Jean-Loup Bézy, Paolo Bensi, Chun-Chi Lin, Yannig Durand, Florence Hélière, Amanda Regan, Paul Ingmann, Joerg Langen, Michael Berger, Malcolm Davidson, Helge Rebhan

The C-SAR Instrument for the GMES Sentinel-1 Mission
Friedhelm Rostan, Sebastian Riegger, W. Pitz, Andrea Torre, Ramon Torres

SRAL SAR Radar Altimeter for Sentinel-3 Mission
Yves Le Roy, Marc Deschaux-beaume, Constantin Mavrocordatos, Miguel Aguirre, Florence Hélière

ENVISAT AP Mode Data and AIS Used for Ship Detection
Tonje Nanette Arnesen

The COSMO-SkyMed Satellites Development and Qualification
Claudio Galeazzi, Edmondo Scorzafava, Claudia Fiorentino, Mauro Protto, Mauro Petruccioli, Paolo Venditti, Andrea Torre, Pasquale Capece, Alessandro Bonfiglietti, Aniceto Panetti

COSMO-SkyMed: System End-to-End Verification
Enrico Zampolini Faustini, Anna Notarantonio, Graziano Marano, Venturino Gualtieri, Vittorio Magna, Gianni Casonato, Fabio Covello, Giuseppe Francesco De Luca, Claudia Fiorentino, Edmondo Scorzafava

Microwave Radiometer Technology Mo10AF
Room: 130
GAS: The Geostationary Atmospheric Sounder
Jacob Christensen, Anders Carlström, Hans Ekström, Anders Emrich, Johan Embertsen, Peter de Maagt, Andreas Colliander

Assimilation of Simulated Geostationary Passive Microwave
Albin J. Gasiewski, Bob L. Weber, Jian Wen Bao

A Dual-gain Antenna Option for GeoSTAR
Alan B. Tanner, Bjorn H. Lambrigsten, Todd C. Gaier

The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer - An Octave Bandwidth Synthetic Thinned Array Radiometer
Christopher S. Ruf, Ruba Amarin, M.C. Bailey, Boon H. Lim, Robbie Hood, Mark James, James Johnson, Linwood Jones, Vanessa Rohwedder, Karen Stephens

Radiometric Analysis of the Rotating Synthetic Aperture Radiometers Utilizing Grid-Based Measurement Approach
Hao Liu, Peter De Maagt, Jacob Christensen, Anders Emrich, Ji Wu

The Influence of Antenna Pattern on Faraday Rotation in Remote Sensing at L-band
D. M. Le Vine, S. D Jacob, S. Abraham, Emmanuel P. Dinnat, Paolo de Matthaeis

Radiometric Performance of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radiometer HUT-2D
Juha Kainulainen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Martti Hallikainen, Matias Takala

Synthetic Aperture PAU: A New Instrument to Test Potential Improvements for Future SMOSops
Isaac Ramos-Perez, Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Juan F. Marchan-Hernandez, Nerea Rodriguez-Alvarez, Enric Valencia, Fabio Frascella, Paolo Campigotto, Marco Donadio

Estimation of 3-D Water Vapor Distribution Using a Network of Compact Microwave Radiometers
Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven C. Reising, Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, Jothiram Vivekanandan

The Ground-Based Scanning Radiometer: A Tool for Arctic Atmospheric Research
Ed R. Westwater, Domenico Cimini, Albin J. Gasiewski, Marian Klein, Vladimir Leuski

Feature Extraction and Reduction Mo11AF
Room: 132
Feature Extraction from Remote Sensing Data using Kernel Orthonormalized PLS
Jerónimo Arenas-García, Gustavo Camps-Valls

Feature Extraction of Gabled-Roofed Buildings Based on Multi-Aspect High-Resolution InSAR Data
Antje Thiele, Erich Cadario, Karsten Schulz, Ulrich Thoennessen, Uwe Soergel

An Efficient Wavelet Dictionary for Texture Separation
Mohamed Anis Loghmari, Faten Katlane, Mohamed Saber Naceur

A New Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Method with Application to Hyperspectral Image Analysis
Shen-En Qian, Guangyi Chen

Extract Roads from High Spatial Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery: A Semi-automatic Method
Min Wang

Quantitative Analysis of Texture Parameter Estimation in SAR Images
Olivier D‘Hondt, Carlos López-Martínez, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Eric Pottier

High Resolution Urban Feature Extraction for Global Population Mapping Using High Performance Computing
Veeraraghavan Vijayaraj, Eddie A. Bright, Budhendra L. Bhaduri

Unsupervised Band Selection for Hyperspectral Image Analysis
Qian Du, He Yang

Texture Retrieval Using Grey-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix for Ikonos Panchromatic Images of Earthquake in Java 2006
Bingbing Liu, Soo Chin Liew

Identification of Generalized Self-Similar Principal Components of Single Image for Image Filtering and Pattern Decomposition
Qiuming Cheng

GEOSS Architecture and Implementation Mo12AH2
Room: 128
GEOSS Architecture and Data Management: A global approach to Earth information
Jay Pearlman

The GEOSS Interoperability Process Pilot Project
Siri Jodha Khalsa, Stefano Nativi, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Tim Ahern, David Thomas

Experiments with User-Centric GEOSS Architectures
Daniel Mandl, Rob Sohlberg, Chris Justice, Stephen Ungar, Troy Ames, Stuart Frye, Steve Chien, Pat Cappelaere, Danny Tran

Automatic Co-Registration of GEOSS Imagery Products: Examples of Time-Series and Data Fusion Analysis
Nevin Bryant, Walt Bunch, Rich Fretz, Thom Logan, Albe Zobrist

Data Quality Guidelines for GEOSS Consideration - The CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV)
Stephen Ungar, Petya K. E. Campbell, Michael Rast, Changyoung Cao

Data Fussion II: Pan-sharpening and Resolution Enhancement Mo13AH2
Room: 131
Pan-sharpening via the Contourlet Transform
Vijay Shah, Nicolas H. Younan, Roger L. King

Pan-Sharpening Using Induction
Muhammad M. Khan, Jocelyn Chanussot, Annick Montanvert, Laurent Condat

Smoothing of Fused Spectral Consistent Satellite Images with TV-Based Edge Detection
Johannes R. Sveinsson, Henrik Aanaes, Jon Atli Benediktsson

Fusion of MeRIS and ETM Images for Coastal Water Monitoring
Audrey Minghelli-Roman, Laurent Polidori, Sandrine Mathieu-Blanc, François Cauneau

Image Information Mining Mo14AH2
Room: 133
A Bayesian Multi-Class Image Content Retrieval
Ines Maria Gomez Muñoz, Mihai Datcu

User-Specific Semantics for Modeling Content-Based Information in Geospatial Knowledge
Adri Barb, Chi-Ren Shyu

Semantics-Enabled Metadata Generation, Tracking and Validation in the Geospatial Web Service Composition for Distributed Images
Peng Yue, Liping Di, Wenli Yang, Genong Yu, Peisheng Zhao, Jianya Gong

Application of the Contourlet Transform for Image Information Mining in Earth Observation Data Archives
Vijay Shah, Nicholas Younan, Surya Durbha, Roger L. King

Image Information Mining for Coastal Disaster Management
Surya Durbha, Roger L. King, Vijay Shah, Nicolas H. Younan


18:00 - 19:30
POSTER SESSIONS
18:00 - 19:30
Electromagnetic Models
Mo03EP
Room: Foyer-2
Global Analysis of Pyramidal Horn Antennas Using EFIEE and Fresnel Integral
Ahcene Boualleg, Salah Redadaa, Malek Benslama

Impact of Topography on Microwave Emissivity Retrieval from Satellite Radiometers
Nazzareno Pierdicca, Luca Pulvirenti, Frank S. Marzano

Model Study of Forests at L-Band: Active, Passive and Bistatic Systems
Andrea DellaVecchia, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Leila Guerriero, Francesca Ticconi, Emanuele Santi

Localizing Metallic Small Spheres by a Linear Distributional Approach
Raffaele Solimene, Aniello Buonanno, Rocco Pierri, Leone Giovanni

Measurement and Analysis of Depolarisation Generated by Scattering over Constructive Obstacles at 5.8 GHz
Iñigo Cuiñas, Manuel García Sánchez, Ana Vázquez Alejos

Short-term rain attenuation prediction at EHF band using financial time series models
Louis de Montera, Cécile Mallet, Laurent Barthès

Microwave Spectroscopic Dielectric Model of Moist Soils using Physical and Hydrological Characteristics as Input Parameters
Pavel P. Bobrov, Valery L. Mironov, Olga A. Ivchenko, Valentina N. Krasnoukhova

Field Measurement of Gobi Surface Emissivity Using CE312 and Infragold Board at Dunhuang Calibration Site of China
Yong Zhang, Zhiguo Rong , Xiuqing Hu, Jinging Liu, Lijun Zhang, Yuan Li, Xingying Zhang

Novel Measurement of Backscatter Enhancement for Surface Scattering at EHF Band
Chin-Yuan Hsieh

How does multiple scattering affect the CloudSat measurements at ranges longer than the true surface range?
Alessandro Battaglia, Clemens Simmer

Wind Effect on the Scattering from Vegetation at Cellular Phone Frequencies
Iñigo Cuiñas, Ana Vázquez Alejos, Manuel García Sánchez, Paula Gómez, Rafael F.S. Caldeirinha

18:00 - 19:30
Image Calibration, Correction and Registration
Mo04EP
Room: Foyer-2
Cloud-Contaminated Image Reconstruction with Contextual Spatio-Spectral Information
Souad Benabdelkader, Farid Melgani, Mohammed Boulemden

Combination of Feature-Based and Area-Based Image Registration Techniques for High Resolution Remote Sensing Image
Gang Hong, Yun Zhang

A Novel Approach to Automatic Registration of Point Clouds
Rui Liu, Darius Burschka, Gerd Hirzinger

A Novel Method for Multispectral Aerial Image Registration
Jianying Jia, Qiming Zeng

High Accurate Geometric Correction for NOAA AVHRR Data Considering Elevation Effect
An Ngoc Van, Yoshimitsu Aoki

Steerable Filter Based Multiscale Registration Method for JERS-1 SAR and ASTER Images
Qi Li, Isao Sato, Yutaka Murakami

Affine Registration of Multimodality Images by Optimization of Mutual Information Using a Stochastic Gradient Approximation Technique
Qi Li, Isao Sato, Yutaka Murakami

Fractal Characteristics of Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery
Yu Zeng, Jixian Zhang, Haitao Li

18:00 - 19:30
Feature Extraction and Reduction
Mo05EP
Room: Foyer-2
A Feature Selection Algorithm for Class Discrimination Improvement
Claudio De Stefano, Francesco Fontanella, Cristina Marrocco, Gilda Schirinzi

GIFTS SM EDU Data Processing and Algorithms
Jialin Tian, David G. Johnson, Robert A. Reisse, Michael J. Gazarik

Classification of Landsat TM Image Based on Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
Jiamian Ren, Xianchuan Yu, Bixin Hao

Morphological Feature Extraction for Automatic Registration of Multispectral Images
Antonio J. Plaza, Jacqueline Le Moigne, Nathan S. Netanyahu

Texture Representation Through Fractal Singularity Spectrum
Daniele Giusto, Valeria Orani

Three-dimensional Tree with Spatial Features Modeling Based on Rules
Zhangang Wang, Dafang Zhuang

Knowledge Centred Earth Observation: Feature Extraction
Amaia de Miguel, Gottfried Schwarz, Mihai Datcu, Andrea Colapicchioni

Elimination of Oil Spill Like Structures from Radar Image using MODIS Data
Liis Sipelgas, Rivo Uiboupin

18:00 - 19:30
Detection and Object Recognition
Mo06EP
Room: Foyer-2
Self-Organized Maps-Based Spectral Prediction of Rotylenchulus Reniformis Numbers
Rushabh Doshi, Roger L. King, Gary Lawrence

Automatic Extraction of Lineament Map from DEM
Reza Nekovei

Ship detection in ENVISAT ASAR Alternating Polarization images
Harm Greidanus, Francois-xavier Thoorens, Tony Bauna, Marte Indregard, Tonje-Nanette Arnesen

Automatic Counting of Fission Tracks Using Object-Based Image Analysis for Dating Applications
Judith Lippold, Prashanth R. Marpu, Richard Gloaguen, Raymond Jonckheere

Application of 3D-SAR Nearfield Imaging Algorithms to GPR Data
Uschkerat Udo

Target Separation in SAR Image with the MUSIC Algorithm
Philip Thompson, Matteo Nannini, Rolf Scheiber

Road Extraction from ETM Panchromatic Image Based on Dual-Edge Following
Haijian Ma, Qiming Qin, Shihong Du, Lin Wan, Chuan Jin

Target recognition in SAR images with Support Vector Machines (SVM)
Céline Tison, Nadine Pourthié, Jean-Claude Souyris

Uunsupervised Sealed Surface Detection in LANDSAT and SPOT-5 Imagery
Mattia Stasolla, Paolo Gamba, Andrea Baraldi

A New Robust Affine Invariant Feature Detector
Cheng Liang, Han Peng, Gong Jianya, Yang Zhigao

Semi-Automatic Fast Recognition of Areas of Interest for SAR Image Interpretation
Gemma Pons Bernad, Léonard Denise, Philippe Réfrégier

Particle Swarm Optimization as an Inversion Tool for a Nonlinear UXO Model
Jack Stalnaker, Eric Miller

Cloud Detection with SVM Technique
Christophe Latry, Chantal Panem, Philippe Dejean

Object Recognition Algorithms for Weather Radar
Felix Yanovsky, Vita Marchuk, Yaro Ostrovsky

Surface Roughness Estimation towards a Buried Target Characterization
Octavien Cmielewski, Hervé Tortel, Amélie Litman, Marc Saillard

18:00 - 19:30
Data Compression Techniques
Mo07EP
Room: Foyer-2
Observation Sequences and Onboard Data Processing Unit of Japanese Venus Observation Program, Planet-C
Makoto Suzuki, Takeshi Imamura, Takahiro Yamada, Masato Nakamura, Hiroki Hihara, Masahiro Hamai, Jun Takada, Shuji Senda, Munetaka Ueno, Satoshi Ichikawa

An Automatic Approach to Lossy Compression of AVIRIS Images
Nikolay N. Ponomarenko, Vladimir V. Lukin, Mikhail S. Zriakhov, Arto Kaarna, Jaakko T. Astola

A Fast Progressive Lossless Image Compression Method for Space and Satellite Images
Jun Takada, Shuji Senda, Hiroki Hihara, Masahiro Hamai, Takeshi Oshima, Shinji Hagino, Makoto Suzuki, Satoshi Ichikawa

18:00 - 19:30
SAR Data Processing
Mo08EP
Room: Foyer-2
Range Migration Algorithm for Real Measured SAR Data
Junjie Wu, Xiaozhen none Xiong, Yuli Huang, Jian Yang

The Analysis and Compensation for the Unwrapped Phase Error Raised by the Dynamic Baseline of DSS-INSAR
Hui Liu, Yinqing Zhou, Huaping Xu, Chunsheng Li, Muha Sun, Guohui Liu

Spaceborne SAR Raw Signal Simulation of Ocean Scene
Zhihua He, Zhen Dong, Haifeng Huang, Anxi Yu

Speckle Denoising Based on Bivariate Shrinkage Functions and Dual-tree Complex Wavelet Transform
Xing Shuai, Xu Qing, Jin Guowang, He Yu, Sun Wei

Relationship between Antenna Pointing Stability and Spaceborne ScanSAR Scalloping Calibration
Jie Wei

CAESAR-XInSAR: a New Software for Interferometric SAR Processing
Yixian Tang, Hong Zhang, Chao Wang, Tao Wu

ISAR Imaging of Targets with Moving Parts using Micro-Doppler Detection on the Range Profile Image
Hwee Siang Tan, Chanzheng Ma, Tat Soon Yeo, Qun Zhang, Chun Sum Ng, Bin Zou

A Multiprocessng Framework for SAR Image Processing
Christian Andres, Torben Keil, Raik Hermann, Rolf Scheiber

Evaluation of the Single and Two Data Set STAP Detection Algorithms using Measured Data
Elias Aboutanios, Bernard Mulgrew

Combined Wavelet and Curvelet Denosing of SAR Images Using TV Segmentation
Johannes R. Sveinsson, Jon Atli Benediktsson

A New for Doppler Centroid Estimation for Spaceborne SAR Based on Chirp Scaling Algorithm
Yunhua Zhang, Wenshuai Zhai

Ortho-rectification of Radarsat Image in High Mountain Areas
Mingjun Liu, Zong Lin, Jixi Zhang, Qin Yan, Guom Huang

Clutter Analysis of High Resolution Millimeter-Wave SAR-Data in the Spatial and Wavelet Domain
Peter Wellig, Konrad Schmid, Helmut Essen, Anika Kurz, Hartmut Schimpf, Thorsten Brehm

Fine Micro-Doppler Analysis in ISAR Imaging
Antoine Ghaleb, Luc Vignaud, Jean-Marie Nicolas

Region Feature Extraction Based on Improved Regularization Method in SAR Image
Feng Xu, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang

Reconstruction of 3D Stereo Building Objects from Multi-Aspect Metric-Resolution SAR Images
Ya-Qiu Jin, Feng Xu, Erya Dai

The Extraction of Ocean Wind, Wave, and Current Parameters Using SAR Imagery
Moon-Kyung Kang, Hoonyol Lee, Moonjin Lee, Yong-Wook Park, Wang-Jung Yoon

Unsupervised Land Cover Classification of SAR Image by Contour Tracing
Vijaya V. Chamundeeswari, Dharmendra Singh, Kuldip Singh

Blending SAR Wind into Numerical Models
Will Perrie, Weiqing Zhang, Hui Shen, Mark Bourassa, Paris Vachon

Parallel Computation of SAR Raw Data
Marc Kalkuhl, Peter Droste, Wolfgang Wiechert, Holger Nies, Otmar Loffeld, Martin Lambers

A Velocity Vector Estimation Algorithm Tested on Simulated SAR RAW Data
Andrea Radius, Domenico Solimini

The Equivalence of Cameron’s Unit Disc and Poincaré’s Sphere for Symmetric Scattering Characterisation and Classification
Elisa Giusti, Marco Martorella, Fabrizio Berizzi, Carlo Petronio

Effects of Attitude Error on Spaceborne ScanSAR Mosaic
Jie Wei

Phase Distortion Modelling Due to Motion in Wave Scattering Mechanism Applied to SAR Images Analysis
Vincent Gras, Christophe Sintes, René Garello

Geological Lineament and Shoreline Detection in SAR Images
Tzong-Dar Wu, Min-Tzer Lee

A Distributed Approach to Efficient Time-Domain SAR Processing
Andreas Reigber, Marc Jäger, Andreas Dietzsch, Ronny Hänsch, Michael Weber, Heiko Przybyl, Pau Prats

Three Dimensional SAR Image Focusing from Non-Uniform Samples
Federica Meglio, Gaetano Panariello, Gilda Schirinzi

Variational-Based Speckle Noise Removal of SAR Imagery
Chaomin Shen, Yaxin Peng, Ling Pi, Zhibin Li

Design of GMTI Combining Networks
Florian Schulz, Olaf Saalmann

SAR Interferogram Filtering in the wavelet domain using a coherence map mask
Aymen BOUZID, Riadh ABDELFATTAH

Dyadic Resolution Multilook Image Generation by Wavelet Packet Transform Correlation of Complex SAR Signals
C. Bhattacharya

Spotlight-Mode SAR Data Focusing Using a Modified Wavenumber Domain Algorithm
Wang Yu, Otmar Loffeld, Stefan Knedlik

Speckle Reduction of SAR Images in the Bandelet Domain
Johannes R. Sveinsson, Jon Atli Benediktsson

Contrast Optimization Autofocus Algorithm Based on Linear Optimization Methods
Deng Yun-kai, Wang Yu, Zhang Zhi-min, Guo Zhen-yong

18:00 - 19:30
Instrumentation and Techniques I (Active)
Mo09EP
Room: Foyer-2
A Combined Sensor System of Digital Camera with LiDAR
Wenling Xuan, Zhaoqiang Huang, Xiuwan Chen, Zongjian Lin

A Compact Passive Broadband Hexagonal Spiral Array Antenna for VHF Remote Sensing
Richard J. Barton, Peter J. Collins, Paul E. Crittenden, Michael J. Havrilla, Andrew J. Terzuoli

A High Resolution SAR Sensor for Space and Airborne Applications
Rudolf Zahn, Kosmas Weidmann, Joachim Boukamp

Advanced NASA Earth Science Mission Concept for Vegetation 3D Structure, Biomass and Disturbance
Jon Ranson, Diane Wickland, Bryan Blair, Sassan Saatchi, William Emanuel, Andrea Razzaghi

An Advanced Airborne Multisensor Imaging System for Fast Mapping and Change Detection Applications
Xiuhong Sun, Robert Fischer, James Eichholz, Peter Shu, William Chen

Applications of GPS-RTK Technique in a New Digital Photogrammetric Camera System
Hongyou Liang, Xingfa Gu, Tao Yu, Liuzhao Wang, Chaofei Qiao

Application of Spaceborne P-band SAR for Global Estimation of Aboveground Forest Biomass
Sassan Saatchi

Disaster Monitoring and Environmental Alert in Taiwan by Repeat-Pass Spaceborne SAR
Chih-Tien Wang, Kun-Shen Chen, Hong-Wei Lee, Jong-Sen Lee, Woflgam Martin Boerner, Ruei-Yuan Wang, Hong-Sen Wan

Investigation of H.264 Intra Coding for SAR Image
Xingsong Hou, Yujie Dun, Rongjing Ji

Optimum Design of Antenna Pattern for Spaceborne SAR Performance Using Improved NSGA-II
Jiang Xiao, Yongqiang Chen, Xiaoqing Wang, Minhui Zhu, Xiao Liu

Safe Driving System Based on Wireless Sensor Technology
Jungsook Kim, Dohyun Kim, Kyungbok Sung, Byungtae Jang

Study on Shooting Control Algorithm of Remote Sensing Control System for UAV
Pengqi Gao, Lei Yan, Hongying Zhao, Shuqiang Lu

Surface Clutter Analysis and Ranging Sidelobe Level Requirements for Spaceborne Meteorological Radars
Xiaolong Dong, Honggang Yin, Di Zhu, Heguang Liu, Jingshan Jiang

Scientific Use of TerraSAR-X
Achim Roth, Ursu Marschalk

The Bistatic Aspect of the TanDEM-X Mission
Holger Nies, Otmar Loffeld, Koba Natroshvili, Marc Kalkuhl

The Device for 3D Measurement of Speed and Direction of Turbulent Air Movement
Igor B. Shirokov, Sergey N. Polivkin, Andrey Korobitsyn, Vladimir K. Dyurba

UAV Based Collision Avoidance Radar Sensor
Young K Kwag, Chul H. Jung

Policy-Based Dynamic Privacy Protection Framework for Mobile RFID Sensor Networks
Namje Park, Dongho Won

A UAV Avionics System to Facilitate VHF Depth Sounding and SAR
William A. Blake, Kai Siegele, Robert Burns

COSMO-SkyMed Operations Management Innovative Concepts
Giuseppe F. De Luca, Fabrizio Battazza, Alessandro Coletta, Fabio Covello, Mario Profili, Elvira Caliò, Francesca Spataro, Silvia Abete, Attilio Santellocco

A P-Band SAR Mission for Biomass Monitoring
Thuy Le Toan, Shaun Quegan

18:00 - 19:30
Mapping & Urban Remote Sensing Applications
Mo10EP
Room: Foyer-2
Retrieval and Analysis of Surface Albedo of Nanjing Area Based on ETM+ Remote Sensing Data
Wei Zheng, Chuang Liu, En Long

Study on Characteristics of Rural Settlements in the Northeast Loess Plateau of China by RS&GIS
Wenyong Feng, Nai-ang Wang, Cuiyun Wang, Gang Li, Chunhui Zhang

Urban Environmental Evaluation in Beijing’s Residential Districts and Communities
Yin Weihong, Duan Meiyan, Zhang Xiaojun, Dong Soucheng

Evaluation and Transformation Analysis of Ecological Environment in Beijing Based on Remote Sensing
Zhuowei Hu, Wenji Zhao, Xiaojuan Li, Ying Chen, Liying Zhu, Songmei Zhang, Fusheng Wang

Study on Urban Spatial Morphology with RS & Fractal: The Case of Wuwei in Arid Region of Northwest China from 1967 to 2004
Chunhui Zhang, Gang Li, Nai-ang Wang, Yong Huang, Cuiyun Wang

Monitoring and Modeling Urbanization across Chesapeake Bay Watershed (USA) and Assessing the Impacts on Resource Lands and Stream Biota
Scott Goetz, Patr Jantz, Greg Fiske, Clai Jantz

Analysis of Thermal Environment and Urban Heat Island Using Remotely Sensed Imagery over the Nord and South Slope of the Qinling Mountain,China
Dengzhong Zhao, Wanchang Zhang, Bing Yong

Calibration of the Sleuth Model Based on the Historic Growth of Houston
Hakan Oguz, Andr Klein, Ragh Srinivasan

An Estimate of the City Population in China Using DMSP Night-Time Satellite Imagery
Liyu Cheng, Yi Zhou, Litao Wang, Shixin Wang, Cong Du

Spatial Distribution Mapping of Vegetation Cover in Urban Environment Using TDVI for Quality of Life Monitoring
Abdou Bannari, Ayse Ozbakir, Andr Langlois

A Novel Approach Based on the Combination Image of Fraction Image and Normalized MNF Image to Urban Land Use/Cover Mapping
Li Su, Zhou Jianjun, Li Wenzheng, Zhuang Dafang, Wang Yong

Inspiration of Foreign Metropolis Development on Arable Land Protection of Beijing
Pan Gong, Zhongxin Chen, Huajun Tang

A Research on Temporal and Spatial Change of Urban Heat Field in Beijing by Remote Sensing and Ground Measurements
Qijiang Zhu, Jiacong Hu, Donghui Xie, Hua Wu

Multi-Objective Processing of ASTER Image for Urban Environmental Analysis
Peijun Du , Pei Liu , Huapeng Zhang , Hairong Zhang

Research on Dynamic Evolvement of Desertification in Beijing and its Neighboring Areas by Remote Sensing
Dan Meng, Zhiqiang Zhang, Tao Yang, Huili Gong, Wenji Zhao, Xiaojuan Li, Zhaoning Gong, Yanhui Wang, Zhuowei Hu, Yonghua Sun

A New Method For GPS-Based Urban Vehicle Tracking Using Pareto Frontier And Fuzzy Comprehensive Judgment
Yikai Chen, Yuncai Liu

Research on the Relationship between Vegetation and Urban Land Surface Heat Field in Beijing City
Shenghai Chen, Qijiang Zhu, Donghui Xie

Urban Land Use Change of Nanjing, China, Using Multitemporal Satellite Data
Chang-Qing Ke

Spatial and Spectral Comparison among IKONOS, CBERS, and ASTER Images to Identify and Detect Land Occupation Changes around Urban Railway in Säo Paulo - Brazil
Jose A. Quintanilha, Leonardo Ercolin Filho, Alessandra M. K. Beltrame

Application of very High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Vulnerability Assessment in Mega Cities: A Case Study in Delhi / India
Niebergall Susan, Loew Alexander, Mauser Wolfram

The Role of Explicit Modeling for Inferring Traffic Activity from Remote Sensing Data
Stefan Hinz

Towards High Accuracy Road Maps Generation from Massive GPS Traces Data
Tao Guo, Kazuaki Iwamura, Masashi Koga

18:00 - 19:30
Electromagnetic scattering
Mo11EP
Room: Foyer-2
Dielectric Spectroscopic Model for Tussock and Shrub Tundra Soils
Valery L. Mironov, S. V. Savin, Roger D. De Roo

An Enhanced Description of Multiple Scattering within the Flair Model Using the Photon Re-Collision Probability Approach
K. Omari, H. P. White, Karl Staenz

Diffraction by a Rough Knife Kedge: A First Step toward a Stochastic Theory of Diffraction
Giorgio Franceschetti, Antonio Iodice, Antonio Natale, Daniele Riccio

Dielectric Spectroscopy of Bound Water in the Bentonite Clay
Yurij I. Lukin, Sergey A. Komarov

Avalanche Beacon Magnetic Field Calculations for Rescue Techniques Improvement
Natalia Ayuso, José Antonio Cuchí, Francisco Lera, José Luis Villarroel

Cassini RADAR: Investigation of Titan‘s Surface Parameters by Means of Bayesian Inversion Technique and Gravity-Capillary Waves Modelling of Liquid Hydrocarbons Surfaces
Bartolomeo Ventura, Domenico Casarano, Notarnicola Claudia, Francesco Posa

Closed Form Expressions for Scattering Matrix of Simple Targets in Multilayer Structures
Sidnei João Siqueira Sant‘Anna, J. C. da S. Lacava, David Fernandes

18:00 - 19:30
Electromagnetic Problems
Mo12EP
Room: Foyer-2
The Semi-Analytic Mode Matching (SAMM) Algorithm for Efficient Computation of Nearfield Scattering in Lossy Ground from Borehole Sources
Ann Morgenthaler, He Zhan, Carey Rappaport

Parameterization of the Angular Distribution of Multiple Scattering Radiation Using Photon Re-Collision Probability
Khalid Omari, Richard Fernandes, Nadia Rochdi, Karl Staenz, H. P. White

Pulse Electromagnetic Sounding of the Petroleum-Containing Layered Medium
Sergey A. Komarov, Valery L. Mironov, Konstantin V. Muzalevsky

Validation of the Soil Dielectric Spectroscopic Models with Input Parameters Based on Soil Composition
Valery L. Mironov, Lyudmila G. Kosolapova, Sergey V. Fomin

Polarimetric Microwave Emission from Snow Surfaces: 4th Stokes Component Analysis
Parag S. Narvekar, Georg Heygster, Thomas J. Jackson, Rajat Bindlish

On the Possible Retrieval of Wind–Wave States from Optical and NearIR Remote Sensing Imagery of the Ocean
Santo V. Salinas

Remote Sensing Estimation of FPAR Using Monte Carlo Method
Zhou bin, Chen Liangfu, Gao yanhua

RAMI: A Practical Approach to RT Model Benchmarking
Jean-Luc Widlowski , Bernard Pinty, Malcolm Taberner, Monica Robustelli

Propagation and Distortion of a Gaussian Pulse in a Gyromagnetic Medium
Seungyup Rhee, Eunseok Park, Jay K. Lee

Simulation of Atmospheric Radiation Transfer for High-Resolution Thermal Infrared Imaging
Yang Gui-Jun, Liu Qin-Huo, Liu Qiang, Wen Jian-Guang, Cheng Jie, Gu Xing-Fa

Scattering from 2D-Dielectric Random Surfaces Effect of Roughness and Moisture of Seedbed Surfaces upon the Bistatic Scattering Coeffecient
Karim Aït , Richard Dusséaux, Odile Taconet, Edwige Vannier, Gérard Granet

Simulation of Terrain Propagation and Diffraction Using a 2D High-Order Accurate FMM-Accelerated Nystrom‘s Solver
DaHan Liao, Eric Michielssen, Kamal Sarabandi

18:00 - 19:30
Electromagnetics
Mo13EP
Room: Foyer-2
Study of Millimeter-Wave Radar for Helicopter Assisted Landing System
Mustafa Rangwala, Feinian Wang, Kamal Sarabandi

Scattering from Rough Heterogeneous Surfaces, Test of a Splitting Rule for Three Dimensional Geometries
Pierre Mallet, Charles-Antoine Guérin, Patrick Chaumet, Anne Sentenac, Jean-Pierre Segaud

The Effect of Polarization Ratio on RADARSAT Wind Vector Retrievals
Yijun He, Biao Zhang, Hui Shen, William Perrie, Jie Guo

A Simulator for SAR Sea Surface Waves Imaging
Ferdinando Nunziata, Attilio Gambardella, Maurizio Migliaccio

Studying on BRF and BINDVI from Heterogeneous Scenes Based on Radiosity-Graphic Combined Model
Donghui Xie, Qijiang Zhu, Jindi Wang

TAIC Algorithm for the Visibility of the Elliptical Orbits’ Satellites
Rongfu Tang, Dongyun Yi, Jubo Zhu, Qiang Luo, Jing Yao

18:00 - 19:30
Agriculture
Mo14EP
Room: Foyer-2
Crop Backscattering Coefficient Simulation
Wang Fang

The Expansion of Agriculture in Para State, Brazil
Adriano Venturieri, Andr Coelho, Marc Thales, Deni Bacelar

Study on the Agroecosystem Health Assessment in Western China
Bo Li, Hualin Xie, Jianzhai Wu, Rui Hong, Jie Chong, Chuangshen Wang

Detecting Date Palm Trees Health and Vegetation Greenness Change in the Eastern Coast of the United Arab Emirates Using SAVI
Mohamed Alhammadi, Edwa Glenn

Irrigation Requirement Estimation Using MODIS Vegetation Indices and Inverse Biophysical Modeling
Marc Imhoff, Laho Bounoua, Robe Harriss, Gord Wells, Vict Dukhovny, Leah Orlovsky

Estimating Maize Yield From MODIS NDVI and Spatial Rainfall Data
Celeste Frost, Joha Malherbe, Tali Germishuyse, Terr Newby, Harold Annegarn, Mala Kneen

Three Regionalised Analyses of a Time-series of Annual Pasture Production for Southwest Western Australia
Rebecca N. Handcock, Graham E. Donald, Stefano G. Gherardi

Monitoring the Growth of Large-Area Tobacco with MODIS Data
Wu Mengquan

Estimation of Winter Wheat Yield in Hebei Plain of China by Improved CASA Model
Xia Li, Xiao-bing Li, Hong Wang, Yong-qin Ge, Hui-ling Long, Cheng Zhang

The Analysis of Long - Term Time and Spatial Variations Of Vegetation Productivity Using of Remote Sensing Data
Lev Spivak, Irina Vitkovskaya, Madina Batyrbayeva

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