2010 IEEE International

Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Symposium

(IGARSS 2010)

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA25 - 30 July 2010

Pages 2428 - 3246

4 IEEE IEEE Catalog Number: CFP10IGA-PRT

ISBN: 978-1-4244-9565-8

4/6

WE4-L02.2: SURF ZONE SURFACE DISPLACEMENTMEASUREMENTS USING 2428

INTERFEROMETRIC MICROWAVE RADAR

Gordon Farquharson, University of Washington, United States; Stephen J. Frasier, University ofMassachusetts, United States;Briti Raubenheimer, Steve Elgar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States

WE4-L02.3: TIDAL CURRENT MEASUREMENT WITH TERRASAR-X ALONG-TRACK 2432

INTERFEROMETRY

Steffen Suchandt, Hartmut Runge, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Roland Romeiser, University ofMiami, United

States; Nuria Tous-Ramon, Ulrich Steinbrecher, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE4-L02.5: STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF OCEAN SURFACE HEIGHTS USING REMOTE 2436

SENSORS WITH VARIABLE LINE OF SIGHT ANGLE.

Josue Alvarez-Borrego, Ceniro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Mexico; Beatriz Martin-

Atienza, UniversidadAutonoma de Baja California, Mexico

WE4-L03: OPTICAL AND INFRARED MODELING

WE4-L03.1: A TWO-LEVEL ALGORITHM FOR GLOBAL RADIATION TRANSFER OF LARGE 2440

3D VEGETATION CANOPIES AT PIXEL SCALE

Huaguo Huang, Beijing Forestry University, China; Qinhuo Liu, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Wenhan Qin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WE4-L03.2: A MODIFIED VEGETATION INDEX BASED ALGORITHM FOR THERMAL 2444

IMAGERY SHARPENING

Ling Chen, Guangjian Yan, Huazhong Ren, AihuaLi, Beijing Normal University, China

WE4-L03.4: A SINGLE-CHANNEL ALGORITHM FOR LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE 2448

RETRIEVAL FROM HJ-1B/IRS DATA BASED ON A PARAMETRIC MODEL

Hua Li, Qinhuo Liu, Bo Zhong, Yongming Du, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, China; Heshun Wang, BeijingResearch Institute of Uranium Geology, China; Qiao Wang, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry ofEnvironmental Protection,

China

WE4-L03.5: SURFACE SOLAR IRRADIANCE MAPS FROM SEVIRI MSGDATA 2452

Attilio Gamhardella, Thomas Huld, Jean Verdebout, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy

WE4-L04: DATA SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING DATA ACCESS AND

USABILITY - CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS II

WE4-L04.3: CUSTOM ON-DEMAND AND DATA ACCESS SERVICES FOR NEWS MERGED 2456

A-TRAIN DATA

Hook Hua, Eric Fetzer, Steven Lewis, Mathew Henderson, Alexandre Guillaume, Seungwon Lee, Manuel de la Torre-Juarez, Van

Dang, Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

WE4-L04.4: CLASS PLANS PROVIDING ARCHIVE, ACCESS, AND DISTRIBUTION 2460

SERVICES FOR GOES-R DATA

Robert Rank, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Scott McCormick, Global Science & Technology, Inc., United Slates; Constantino

Cremidis, CSC, United States

WE4-L05: SYNERGY OF EO PRODUCTS TO MAP THE ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE

BIOMASS II

WE4-L05.2: USING AIRBORNE & SPACE LIDARS FOR LARGE-AREA INVENTORY 2463

Ross Nelson, NASA GoddardSpace Flight Center, United States; Goran Stahl, Soren Holm, Swedish University ofAgricultural

Sciences, Sweden; Timothy Cregoire, Yale University, United States; Erik Ntesset, Terje Gobakken, Noi-wegian University of Life

Sciences, Norway

WE4-L06: IMAGE ANALYSIS

WE4-L06.1: REMOTE SENSING IMAGE SYNTHESIS 2467

Ying Liu, Alexander Wong, Paul Fieguth, University ofWaterloo, Canada

WE4-L06.2: TRANSFORMATION-INVARIANT EXTRACTION OF MULTI-LOCATION IMAGE 2471

FEATURES FROM REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY

Roman Palenichka, Ahmed Lakhssassi, Marek Zaremba, University ofQuebec in Outaouais, Canada

WE4-L06.3: DETECTING AIRCRAFT WITH A LOW RESOLUTION INFRARED SENSOR 2475

Jeremie Jakubowicz, Telecom ParisTech, France; Sidonie Lefebvre, ONERA, France; Eric Moulines, Telecom ParisTech, France

WE4-L06.4: LEAST DEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR TRACE GASES RETRIEVAL 2478

FROM SATELLITE DATA

Pia Addabbo, Maurizio di Bisceglie, Caimela Galdi, University ofSannio, Italy

WE4-L06.5: ROBUST REAL TIME VEHICLE CONTOURTRACKING ON LOW QUALITY 2482

AERIAL INFRA RED IMAGERY

Salman Aslam, Aaron Bobick, Christopher Barnes, Georgia Institute ofTechnology, United States

WE4-L07: AIRBORNE AND SPACEBORNE MEASUREMENTS OF RADIO-FREQUENCYINTERFERENCE

WE4-L07.1: K-BAND RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE SURVEY OF 2486

SOUTHEASTERNMICHIGAN

Shannon Cuny, University ofMichigan, United States; Michael Ahlers, Technical University ofDenmark, Denmark; HarveyElliot, Steve Gross, Darren McKague, Sidhaith Misra, John Puckelt, Christopher Ruf University ofMichigan, United States

WE4-L07.2: STUDIES OF RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE AT L-BAND USING AN 2490

AIRBORNE 2-DINTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETER

Martti Hallikainen, Juha Kainulainen, Jaakko Seppdnen, Anssi Hakkarainen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Aalto University, Finland

WE4-L07.3: CHARACTERIZATION OF K-BAND RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE 2492

FROM AMSR-E, WINDSAT AND SSM/I

Darren McKague, John Puckett, Christopher Ruf, University ofMichigan, United States

WE4-L07.4: A RST-BASED STUDY OF AMSRE C-BAND RADIO FREQUENCY 2495

INTERFERENCES

Teodosio Lacava, Irina Coviello, Nicola Pergola, Institute ofMethodologiesfor Environmental Analysis - National Research

Council, Italy; Valeria Tramutoli, University ofBasilicata, Italy

WE4-L07.5: RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE DETECTION ALGORITHM BASED ON 2499

SPECTROGRAM ANALYSIS

Jose Miguel Tarongi, Adriano Camps, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

WE4-L08: SNOW AND LANCE ICE II

WE4-L08.2: AIRBORNE 3D BASAL DEM AND ICE THICKNESS MAP OF PINE ISLAND 2503

GLACIER

William Blake, Lei Shi, Joshua Meisel, ChristopherAllen, Prasad Gogineni, CReSIS, United States

WE4-L08.3: ICE SHEET ANISOTROPY MEASURED WITH POLARIMETRIC ICE 2507

SOUNDING RADAR

J0rgen Dall, Technical University ofDenmark, Denmark

WE4-L09: POLARIMETRIC IMAGE PROCESSING

WE4-L09.1: ROLL INVARIANT TARGET DETECTION BASED ON POLSAR CLUTTER 2511

MODELS

Lionel Bombrun, Gabriel Vasile, Michel Gay, GIPSA-lab/ Grenoble INP, France; Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, ONERA, France;

Frederic Pascal, SONDRA Research Alliance, France

WE4-L09.2: POLARIMETRIC SAR ESTIMATION BASED ON NON-LOCALMEANS 2515

Charles-Alban Deledalle, Florence Tupin, Telecom ParisTech, France; Lo'ic Denis, Observatoire de Lyon, CNRS CRAL, UCBL,

ENS de Lyon, Universile de Lyon, France

WE4-L09.3: MEAN-SHIFT AND HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING FOR TEXTURED 2519

POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGE SEGMENTATION/CLASSIFICATION

Jean-Marie Beaulieu, Laval University, Canada; Ridha Touzi, Natural Resources Canada, Canada

WE4-L09.4: ORTHOGONAL POLARIMETRICSAR PROCESSOR BASED ON SIGNAL AND 2523

INTERFERENCESUBSPACE MODELS

Frederic Brigui, Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre, SONDRA/Supelec, France; Guillaume Ginolhac, Philippe Forster, SATIE/ UniverSud,

France

WE4-L09.5: RECENT ADVANCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OPEN SOURCE 2527

TOOLBOX FOR POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA

PROCESSING: THE POLSARPRO V4.1.5 SOFTWARE

Eric Pottier, I.E.T.R - UMR CNRS 6164, France

WE4-L10: IGARSS AT 30: PERSPECTIVES ON REMOTE SENSING SCIENCE AND SENSORS

TH1-L01: REMOTE SENSING OF TSUNAMIS AND OTHER NATURAL HAZARDS USING

GNSS AND RADAR MEASUREMENTS I

TH1-L02: OCEAN SURFACE WINDS

TH1-L02.2: TOWARDS AN IMPROVED WIND AND RAIN BACKSCATTER MODEL FOR 2531

ASCAT

Michael Owen, David G. Long, Brigham Young University, United States

TH1-L02.3: IMPROVED HURRICANE ACTIVE/PASSIVE SIMULATED WIND VECTOR 2535

RETRIEVALS

Suleiman Alsweiss, Peth Laupattarakasem, Salem El-Nimri, W. Lumood Jones, University of Central Florida, UnitedStates;

Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH1-L02.4: PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF SPLASH EFFECTON HIGH WIND 2539

C-BAND HH-POL MODEL FUNCTION

James R. Carswell, Remote Sensing Solutions Inc, United States; Dragana Perkovic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CaliforniaInstitute ofTechnology, United States; Tao Chu, University of Massachusetts / Stanford university, United States; Stephen J.

Frasier, University ofMassachusetts, United States; Paul S. Chang, Zorana Jelenak, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR-UCAR, United States

TH1-L03: ELECTROMAGNETIC FORWARD AND INVERSE SCATTERING MODELS I

TH1-L03.1: BISTATIC RADAR CROSS SECTION OF AN COMPLEX TARGETON SEA 2543

SURFACE

Yacine Bennani, Ali Khenchaf, Fabrice Comblet, Ania Ali-Yahia, ENSIETA, France

TH1-L03.2: FULL WAVE ANALYSIS OF VIIF-UHF FOREST BISTATIC SCATTERING 2547

MECHANISMS AN INVESTIGATION ON THE INFLUENCE OFELECTROMAGNETIC

COUPLING

Sami Bellez, Laboratoire des signaux et systemes (L2S), France; Helene Roussel, Cyril Dahon, UPMC Univ Paris6-L2E, France

TH1-L03.5: 3D MARKOV RANDOM FIELD IN REALISTIC INVERSE SCATTERING 2551

Roberta Aittieri, Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Michele D'Urso, Giugliano Research Center, Large System Unit, SELEX

Sistemi Integrati, Italy; Christelle Eyraud, Amelie Litman, Institut Fresnel UMR 6133, France; Vito Pascazio, Universita di

Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Tommaso hernia, Universita Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy

TH1-L04: CHANGE DETECTION AND MULTITEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS I

TH1-L04.1: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKFOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH 2555

RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES

Lorenzo Bruzzone, Francesco Bovolo, University ofTrento, Italy

TII1-L04.3: MULTITEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF MULTISENSOR DATA: INFORMATION 2559

THEORETICAL APPROACHES

Lionel Gueguen, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy; Shiyong Cui, Gottfried Schwarz, Mihai Datcu, German

Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1-L04.4: CHANGE DETECTION USING ITERATIVELY REWEIGHTED REGRESSION 2563

WITH NEURAL NETWORKS

Prashanth R Marpu, Paolo Gamba, University ofPavia, Italy; Morton J. Canty, Juelich Research Center, Gennany

TH1-L04.5: UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTIONFRAMEWORKSFOR VERY HIGH 2567

SPATIAL RESOLUTIONIMAGES

Fabio Pacifici, Christopher Padwick, Giovanni Marchisio, DigitalGlobe, Inc., United States

TH1-L05: APPLICATIONS FOR NASA'S DECADAL SURVEY MISSIONS AND

OPPORTUNITIES TO TAKE RESEARCH TO OPERATIONS

TH1-L05.1: FOSTERING APPLICATIONS OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE NASA SOIL 2571

MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION

Susan Moran, USDA Southwest Watershed Research Center, United States; Peggy O 'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,

United States; Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, United States; Eni Njoku, Kent Kellogg, Jet Propulsion

Laboratory, United States

TH1-L05.5: PROPOSED INVESTIGATIONS FROM NASA'S EARTH VENTURE-1 (EV-1) 2575

AIRBORNE SCIENCE SELECTIONS

B. Danette Allen, NASA ESSP Program Office, United States; Scott A. Braun, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States;

James H. Crawford, NASA Langley Research Center, United Slates; Eric J. Jensen, NASA Ames Research Center, United States;

Charles B. Miller, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Mahta Moghaddam, University ofMichigan, United States;

Hal Mating, NASA Headquarters, United States

TH1-L06: LIDAR SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE

TH1-L06.1: STATISTICS OF DEPOLARIZATION RATIO FROM AN AIRBORNE BACKSCATTER 2579

LIDAR

John Yorks, Science Systems andApplications Inc., United States; Matthew McGill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United

States; Dennis Hlavka, William Hart, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States

TH1-L06.2: OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS IN THELOWER 2583

TROPOSPHERE USING MULTIPLE SENSORS

Kevin Repasky, Amin Nehrir, David Hoffman, Michael Thomas, John Carlsten, Joseph Shaw, Montana State University, United

States

TH1-L06.3: REVIEW OF OBSERVINGSYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS TO 2587

EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF LIDAR WINDS ON WEATHER PREDICTION

Robert Atlas, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TH1-L06.4: AIRBORNE DOPPLER WIND LIDAR INVESTIGATIONS OF WESTERN PACIFIC 2591

TYPHOON GENESIS AND EVOLUTION

George Emmitt, Simpson WeatherAssociates, United States

TH1-L06.5: REMOTE SENSING ATMOSPHERIC C02 COLUMN ABUNDANCE USING AN 2595

AIRBORNE PULSED LASER SOUNDER AT 13 KM ALTITUDE

Graham Allan, Sigma Space Corporation at NASA/GSFC, United States; William Hasselbrack, Sigma Space Corporation, United

States; Haris Riris, James B. Abshire, Clark Weaver, Jianping Mao, Xiaoli Sun, NASA, UnitedStates; Arlyn Andrews, National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TH1-L07: INNOVATIVE OPTIONS FOR DEVELOPING FUTURE EARTH SCIENCE

CAPABILITIES

TH1-L07.1: THE NEED FOR AN INSTRUMENT FIRST, SPACECRAFT SECOND MISSION 2599

DEVELOPMENT APPROACH

Claude Freaner, NASA, United States; Robert Bitten, The Aerospace Corporation, United States

TH1-L07.2: INSTRUMENT FIRST, SPACECRAFT SECOND: ANEW PARADIGM IN SPACE 2603

MISSION DEVELOPMENT

Robert Bitten, Eric Mahr, The Aerospace Corporation, United States

TH1-L07.4: AUTONOMOUS SATELLITE OPERATIONS VIA SECURE VIRTUAL MISSION 2607

OPERATIONS CENTEREric Miller, General Dynamics, United States; Phillip Paulsen, Michael Pasciuto, NASA, United States

TH1-L08: APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING AND CI TO MONITORING SNOW ANDMANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

TH1-L08.2: 3D IMAGING OF ICE SHEETS 2611

John Paden, Christopher Allen, Prasad Gogineni, CReSIS, United States

TH1-L08.4: TERRASAR-X OBSERVATIONS OVER THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET 2614Dana Floricioiu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Kenneth Jezek, Ohio State University, United States; Michael

Eineder, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Katy Farness, Ohio State University, United States; Wael Abdel Jaber,Nestor Yague-Martinez, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1-L09: INTERFEROMETR1C SAR PROCESSING

TH1-L09.2: ADVANCES IN THE GENERATION OF DEFORMATION TIME SERIES FROM 2618

SAR DATA SEQUENCES IN AREAS AFFECTED BY LARGE DYNAMICS

Francesco Casu, Andrea Manconi, Antonio Pepe, Mariarosaria Manzo, Riccardo Lanari, 1REA - CNR, Italy

TH1-L09.3: ALGAE: A FAST ALGEBRAIC ESTIMATION OF INTERFEROGRAM PHASE 2622

OFFSETS IN SPACE VARYING GEOMETRIES

Stefano Tebaldini, Guido Gatti, Mauro Mariotti d'Alessandro, Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milcmo, Italy

TH1-L09.4: ACCURATE FOCUSING OF SINGLE-PASS AIRBORNE INSAR DATA AT L-BAND 2625

Marcus Schwaebisch, Intennap Technologies GmbH, Germany; Bryan Mercer, Qiaoping Zhang, Wei Huang, Intermap

Technologies Corporation, Canada

TH1-L09.5: INVESTIGATIONS ON TOPS INTERFEROMETRY WITH TERRASAR-X 2629

Pau Prats, Luca Marotti, Stejfen Wollstadt, Rolf Scheiber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1-L10: TANDEM-X MISSION

TH1-L10.2: TANDEM-X COMMISSIONING PHASE STATUS 2633

Jaime Hueso Gonzalez, Markus Bachmann, Harald Hofinann, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1-L10.3: MONOSTATIC CALIBRATION OF BOTH TANDEM-X SATELLITES 2636

Marco Schwerdt, Jaime Hueso Gonzalez, Markus Bachmann, Dirk Schrank, Clemens Schulz, Bjom Doring, German AerospaceCenter (DLR), Germany

TH1-L10.4: PROCESSING OF BISTATIC TANDEM-X DATA 2640

Helko Breit, Thomas Fritz, Ulrich Balss, Andreas Niedermeier, Michael Eineder, Nestor Yague-Martinez, Cristian Rossi, German

Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1-L10.5: VALIDATION OF TIE-POINT CONCEPTS BY THE DEM ADJUSTMENT 2644

APPROACH OF TANDEM-X

Martin Huber, Astrid Gruber, Birgit Wessel, Markus Breunig, Anna Wendleder, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

THP1-PA: OPTICAL REFLECTANCE

THP1-PA.4: COMBINING OBSERVATIONS IN THE REFLECTIVE SOLARAND THERMAL 2648

DOMAINS FOR IMPROVED MAPPING OF CARBON, WATER AND ENERGY FLUXES

Rasmus Houborg, NASA, United States; Martha Anderson, Bill Kustas, USDA-ARS, United States; Matthew Rodell, NASA,United States

THP1-PA.5: ESTIMATION OF BOREAL FOREST LAI IN WINTER CONDITIONS: TEST OF A 2652

NEW METHOD USING WIDE OPTICS AIRBORNE IMAGES

Terhikki Manninen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Luuri Korhonen, University ofEastern Finland, Finland; Pekka

Voipio, Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla), Finland; Panu Lahtinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Pauline

Stenberg, University of Helsinki, Finland

THP1-PA.7: AUSCOVER CALVAL: COORDINATING AUSTRALIAN ACTIVITIES IN 2656

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION

Simon Jones, RMIT University, Australia; Tim Malthus, CSIRO Land and Water, Australia; Elizabeth Farmer, RMIT University,Australia; Alex A, Held, CSIRO Division ofMarine andAtmospheric Research, Australia; Karin Reinke, Rakhesh Devedas, RMIT

University, Australia

THP1-PA.8: SYNCHRONOUS RETRIEVAL OF FOREST CANOPY COVER BY AIRBORN 2660

LIDAR AND OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING

Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Yunfei Bao, BeijingInstitute OfSpace Mechanics and Electricity, China; Hao Drang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP1-PA.9: SPATIAL-TEMPORAL VARIATIONS OF PHOTOSYNTHETICALLYACTIVE 2664

RADIATION BASED ON SATELLITE DATA IN HEIHE RIVER BASIN FROM 2000 TO 2008

Jiangtao Xiao, Shihua Li, Hao Jiang, University vfElectronic Science and Technology ofChina, China

THP1-PA.10: LEAF AREA INDEX RETRIEVAL FROM REMOTELY SENSED DATA: SCALING 2668

EFFECT AND PROPAGATION MECHANISMS

Hua Wu, Bo-HuiTang, Institute ofGeographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China;

Chuanrong Li, Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhao-Liang Li, Institute ofGeographic

Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP1-PB: OPTICAL VEGETATION MAPPING

THP1-PB.1: ESTIMATING REGIONAL ABOVEGROUND FOREST BIOMASS USING HJ-1 2672

SATELLITE DATA AND ICESAT

Hong Chi, Zhifeng Guo, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Guoqing Sun, University

ofMaryland, United States

THP1-PB.2: RETRIEVAL OF FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT FROM HYPERSPECTRAL DATA 2676

VIA PARTIAL LEAST SQUARElie Zhang, lianjun Wu, Lei Zhou, Beijing Normal University, China

THP1-PB.3: SPECTROSCOPIC DETERMINATION OF LEAF WATER CONTENT USING 2680

CONTINUOUS WAVELET ANALYSIS

Tao Cheng, Benoit Rivard, Arturo Sdnchez-Azofeifa, University ofAlberta, Canada

THP1-PB.6: EARLY CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ACTIVE FIRE DETECTION PRODUCTS 2683

DERIVED FROM THE NEXT GENERATION NPOESS/VIIRS AND GOES-R/ABI INSTRUMENTS

Wilfrid Schroeder, University ofMaryland, United States; Ivan Csiszar, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,United States; Louis Giglio, Evan Ellicott, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Christopher Schmidt, lay

Hoffmann, Scott Lindstrom, Cooperative Institutefor Meteorological Satellite Studies, United States

THP1-PB.8: ASTER TEMPERATUREAND EMISSIVITY VALIDATION ON VOLCANOTEIDE 2687

Stefania Amici, Alessandro Piscini, Maria Fahrizia Buongiorno, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

THP1-PB.10: A METHODOLOGY TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF OPTICAL AND 2691

ELECTRONIC CROSSTALK IN A NEW GENERATION OF SENSORS USING HERITAGE DATA

Hassan Oudrari, Thomas Schwarting, Kwo-Fu Chiang, leffMclntire, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Chunhui Pan,

Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Xiaoxiong (lack) Xiong, lames 1. Butler, National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration, United States

THP1-PB.11: MULTI-IMAGE SPACE RESECTION BASED GEOMETRIC CALIBRATION FOR 2695

FOUR BANDS CCDCAMERA

Xingfeng Chen, Xingfa Gu, State key Laboratory ofRemote Sensing Science, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese

Academy ofSciences, China; Huibin Ge, Jinjin Zhang, Henan Polytechnic University, China; liping Chen, State key LaboratoryofRemote Sensing Science, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Fengjie Zheng, GuotiYuan, Henan Polytechnic University, China; lun Liu, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, China, China

THP1-PC: VEGETATION GENERAL

THP1-PC.1: TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION PHENOLOGY FROMMODIS AND MERIS 2699SENSOR DATA

C leganathan, University ofSouthampton, United Kingdom; Sangram Ganguly, NASA Ames Research Center, United States;ladu Dash, University ofSouthampton, United Kingdom; Mark Friedl, Boston University, United States; Peter Atkinson,University ofSouthampton, United Kingdom

THP1-PC.3: EXTRACTING TREES AND STRUCTURE PARAMETERS VIA INTEGRATION OF 2703

LIDAR DATA AND GROUND IMAGERY

Xuemei Gong, Beijing Institute ofTechnology, China; Daiyong Wei, Beijing Normal University, China; Guoqing Zhou, Old

Dominion University, United States

THP1-PC.6: HABITAT MAPPING AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF HEATHLANDSUSING A 2707

MODIFIED KERNEL-BASED RECLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE

Guy Thoonen, University ofAntwerp, Belgium; Toon Spanhove, Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Belgium; Birgen Haest,

Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Belgium; Jeroen Vanden Borre, Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Belgium;Paul Scheunders, University ofAntwerp, Belgium

THP1-PC.7: SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES REGRESSION FORESTIMATION OF 2711

FOREST PARAMETERS FROMAIRBORNE LASER SCANNING DATA

Jean-Matthieu Monnet, Frederic Berger, Cemagref France; Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute ofTechnology, France

THP1-PC.8: GROUND TRUTHMETHODASSESSMENT FOR SVM-BASED LANDSCAPE 2715

CLASSIFICATION

Robin Pouteau, Benoit Stoll, Sebastien Chabrier, South Pacific Geosciences Laboratory - University of French Polynesia, French

Polynesia

THP1-PC.9: MULTI-SOURCE SVM FUSION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING IN 2719

THE MARQUESAS ARCHD7ELAGO

Robin Pouteau, Benoit Stoll, Sebastien Chabrier, University ofFrench Polynesia, French Polynesia

THP1-PD: URBAN REMOTE SENSING POSTER I

THP1-PD.1: ON THE RELATIVE PREDICTIVEVALUE OF THE NEW SPECTRAL BANDS 2723

IN THE WORLDVIEW-2 SENSOR

Giovanni Marchisio, Fabio Pacifici, Christopher Padwick, DigitalGlobe, Inc., United States

THP1-PD.2: INTERPRETATION OF BUILDINGS IN HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES 2727

BASED ON ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD

Fengli Zhang, Yun Shao, Zi Wan, Xiao Zhang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP1-PD.3: IMPERVIOUS SURFACE COVERAGE AND THEIR IMPACT ON OTHER 2731

COMPONENTS OF THE URBAN ECOSYSTEM IN BEIJING

Dan Meng, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Wenji Zhao, Yanfang Li, Capital Normal University, China

THP1-PD.4: APPLICATION OF ASPECT ANGLE NORMALIZED POLSAR IMAGES FOR 2735

URBAN BUILDING DETECTION

Lu Zhang, Huadong Guo, Xinwu Li, Wenxue Fu, The Key Laboratory of Digital Earth, Centerfor Earth Observation and DigitalEarth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP1-PD.5: AUTOMATIC BUILDING IDENTIFICATION USING GPS AND MACHINE 2739

LEARNING

Robert Woodley, Warren Noll, Joseph Barker, 21st Century Systems, Inc, United States; Donald Wunsch, Missouri University ofScience and Technology, United States

TIIP1-PD.6: STUDY ON QUANTITATIVE EARTHQUAKE DAMAGEOFDUJIANGYAN CITY, 2743

CAUSED BY 2008 MS=8.0 WENCHUAN, CHINA EARTHQUAKE BASED ON AERIAL IMAGERY

Xiaoqing Wang, Aixia Dou, Xiang Ding, Institute ofEarthquake Science, China

THP1-PD.7: HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL AND SAR IMAGE FUSION FORROAD 2747

DATABASE UPDATING

Vincent Poulain, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Jordi Inglada, CNES-CESBIO, France; Marc Spigai,Thales Alenia Space, France; Jean-Yves Tourneret, Philippe Marthon, University of Toulouse, France

THP1-PD.9: PREDICTION OF URBAN LAND USE EVOLUTION USING TEMPORAL 2751

REMOTE SENSING DATA ANALYSIS AND A SPATIAL LOGISTIC MODEL

Hongga Li, Xiaoxia Huang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Bo Huang, Chinese

University ofHong Kong, China; Ping Luo, Shenzhen Real Estate Research Center, Shenzhen Municipality Bureau ofLand and

Resources, China

THP1-PD.10: BUILDING EXTRACTION FROM VHR MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGES USING 2754

RULE-BASED OBJECT-ORIENTED METHOD: A CASE STUDY

Qulin Tan, Beijiing Jiaotong University, China; Qingchao Wei, Fei Liang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

THP1-PE: POLLUTION AND CONTAMINATION POSTER

THP1-PE.1: APPLY SEMI-SUPERVISED SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION FOR 2757

REMOTE SENSING WATER QUALITY RETRIEVING

Xili Wang, Lei Ma, Shaanxi Normal University, China; Xilin Wang, Beijing Forestry University, China

THP1-PE.3: AN EXPERIMENT FOR OIL SPILL RECOGNITION USING RADARSAT-2 IMAGE 2761

Wei Tian, Yun Shao. Junna Yuan, Shiang Wang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China;

Yang Liu, Research Institute ofPetroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChma, China

THP1-PE.4: METALLIC OBJECTSAND OIL SPILL DETECTION WITH 2765

MULTI-POLARIZATION SAR

Ferdinando Nunziata, Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Xiaofeng Li, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Maurizio Migliaccio,Antonio Montuori, Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; William Pichel, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States

THP1-PE.5: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION VARIATION AND 2769

METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS ANALYZING OF ALGALBLOOMS BASED ON HJ-1

SATELLITES IN LAKE DIANCHI, CHINA, 2009

Li Zhu, Chuancpng Wu, Yanjuan Yao, Yongjun Zhang, Satellite Environment Center, Ministiy ofEnvironmental Protection, China

THP1-PE.6: FORECASTING AIR QUALITY BY INTEGRATION OF SATELLITE DATA AND 2773

HYSPLIT TRAJECTORY MODEL

Jie Guang, YongXue, Linlu Mei, Yingjie Li, Ying Wang, HuiXu, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Jianping Guo, Chinese Academy ofMeteorological Sciences, China

THP1-PE.7: RESEARCH OF AIR POLLUTION IMPACT OF STRAW BURNING BASED ON 2777

MODIS

QingLi, Qiao Wang, Zhongting Wang, Satellite Environmental Center, Ministiy ofEnvironmental Protection ofChina, China;

Jinglei Ding, Renmin University of China, China; Xiang Zhao, Beijing Normal University, China; Lijuan Zhang, ChunyanZhou, Satellite Environmental Center, Ministiy ofEnvironmental Protection ofChina, China; Xin Yang, China University ofGeosciences, China

THP1-PE.8: SPECTRAL RESPONSE OF WHEAT (TRITIZNM AESTIVUM L.) LEAVES TO 2780

COPPER STRESS

Ying Qu, Suhong Liu, Jiangzhou Xia, Beijing Normal University, China

THP1-PE.9: MODELLINGOF TAILING SPECTRUM OF THE TUNISIAN SEMI-ARID 2784CONTEXT

Nouha Mezned, Sdadi Abdeljaouad, Faculte des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisia; Mohamed Racked Boussema, Ecole Nationaled'Ingenieurs, Tunisia

THP1-PE.10: CUMULATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND SOCIAL VULNERABILITY 2788IN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIAGanlin Huang, Jonathan London, University of California, Davis, United States

THP1-PE.11: AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS FROM MODIS DATA AT 500M RESOLUTION 2792FORTWO EXTREME AEROSOL EVENTS ANALYSIS

Ying Wang, YongXue, Jie Guang, Yingjie Li, Linlu Mei, HuiXu, JianwenAi, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, ChineseAcademy ofSciences, China; Qiang Li, Shandong University ofScience and Technology, China

THP1-PF: HYPERSPECTRAL DATA: CLASSIFICATION

THPl-PF.l: SPARSITY-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY 2796

Yi Chen, Johns Hopkins University, United States; Nasser Nasrabadi, US Army Research Laboratory, United States; Trac Tran,

Johns Hopkins University, United States

THP1-PF.2: CALIBRATING PROBABILITIES FOR HYPERSPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION OF 2800

ROCK TYPES

Sildomar Monteiro, RichardMurphy, University ofSydney, Australia

THP1-PF.3: A FULL DIAGONAL BANDWIDTH GAUSSIAN KERNEL SVM BASED 2804

ENSEMBLE LEARNING FOR HYPERSPECTRALCHEMICAL PLUME DETECTION

Prudhvi Curram, Heesung Kwon, Army Research Laboratory, United States

THP1-PF.4: APPLYING OPTIMAL ALGORITHM TO DATA-DEPENDENT KERNEL FOR 2808

HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION

I-Ling Chen, National Taichung University, Taiwan; Cheng-Hsuan Li, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan; Bor-Chen Kuo,National Taichung University, Taiwan; Hsiao- Yun Huang, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

THP1-PF.5: OPTIMAL KERNELBANDWIDTH ESTIMATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL 2812

KERNEL-BASED ANOMALY DETECTION

Heesung Kwon, Prudhvi Gurram, Army Research Laboratory, United States

TIIP1-PF.7: A NOVEL CLASSIFICATION PROCESSING BASED ON THE SPATIAL 2816

INFORMATION AND THE CONCEPT OF ADABOOST FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE

CLASSIFICATION

Bor-Chen Kuo, Shih-Syun Lin, Huey-Min Wu, National Taichung University, Taiwan; Chun-Hsiang Chuang, National Chiao-

Tung University, Taiwan

THP1-PF.8: UNDERWATER TARGETDETECTION WITH HYPERSPECTRAL 2820

REMOTE-SENSING IMAGERY

Sylvain Jay, Mireille Guillaume, Fresnel Institute, France

THP1-PG: LAND COVER, LAND USE, CLASSIFICATION

TIIP1-PG.1: CLUSTER-BASED ACTIVE LEARNING FOR COMPACT IMAGE 2824

CLASSIFICATION

Devis Tuia, Mikhail Kanevski, University ofLausanne, Switzerland; Jordi Munoz Man, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de

Valencia, Spain

THP1-PG.3: HYBRID SVM AND SVSA METHODFOR CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE 2828

SENSING IMAGES

Gulsen Taskin Kaya, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey; Okan K. Ersoy, Purdue University, United States; Mustafa E.

Kamasak, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

THP1-PG.4: INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF ENSEMBLE CLASSIFICATION ON 2832

REMOTELY SENSED DATA FOR LAND COVER MAPPING

Bolanle Abe, Anthony Gidudu, University ofthe Witwatersrand, South Africa; Tshilidzi Marwala, University ofJohannesburg,South Africa

THP1-PG.6: LCLU INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR OBJECT-ORIENTED NOMENCLATURE 2836

Eva Savina Malinvemi, Anna Nora Tassetti, Primo Zingaretti, Polytechnic University ofMarche, Italy

THP1-PG.7: HIGH-PRECISE WATER EXTRACTION BASED ON SPECTRAL-SPATIAL 2840

COUPLED REMOTE SENSING INFORMATION

Jiancheng Luo, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Yongwei Sheng, University ofCalifornia, United States; Zhanfeng Shen, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Junli

Li, University ofCalifornia, United States

THP1-PG.8: TEXTURE ESTIMATION IN SAR IMAGES: THE IMPACT OF SCALE AND 2844

MODEL ORDER

Mihai Datcu, Daniela Espinoza-Molina, Amaia de Miguel, Gottfried Schwarz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

THP1-PG.9: USING LOCAL TRANSITION PROBABILITY MODELS IN MARKOV RANDOM 2848

FIELD FOR MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION

Wei Fit, Ziqi Guo, Qiang Zhou, Caixia Liu, Baogang Zhang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP1-PG.10: VINEYARD IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION BASED ON 2852

TEXTURE ANALYSIS IN THE HELDERBERG BASIN (SOUTH AFRICA)

Antoine Lefebvre, Laboratoire COSTEL, France; Thomas Corpetti, LIAMA, China; Valerie Bonnardot, Hen>e Quenol, Laurence

Hubert-May, Laboratoire COSTEL, France

THP1-PG.12: METHODOLOGY FOR EDDIES RECOGNITIONFROM SATELLITE IMAGES 2856

Rosa Cristhyna Paes, Gutemberg Franqa, Victor Daher, Federal University ofRio de Janeiro, Brazil; Angelo Sartori, Petrobras/

CENPES, Brazil; Nelson Ebecken, Federal University ofRio de Janeiro, Brazil

THP1-PH: HIGHER RESOLUTION SAR

THP1-PH.4: SHIP DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT USING THE TERRASAR-X 2860

DUAL-RECEIVE ANTENNA MODE

Stejfen Suchandt, Hartmut Runge, Ulrich Steinbrecher, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

THP1-PH.5: QUASAR SBK ACCURATE INTERNAL CALIBRATION 2864

Javier del Castillo, Juan Manuel Cuerda, Juan Ramon Larranaga, Spanish National InstituteforAerospace Technology (1NTA),

Spain

THP1-PH.6: AIRBORNE DINSAR TIME SERIES AT X-BAND 2868

Stefano Penia, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Christian Wimmer, Joao Moreira, Orbisat Remote Sensing,Brazil; Gianfranco Fomaro, National Research Council (CNR), Italy

THP1-PH.7: THE DIGITAL WIDEBAND CHIRP PULSE GENERATOR AND PROCESSOR 2872

FOR PI-SAR2

Shingo Matsuo, Takashi Fujimura, Isamu Oihara, Eiji Totsuka, Yoshitaka Ohura, Tsunekazu Kimura, NEC, Japan

THP1-PH.8: VALIDATION FOR THE ABSOLUTE RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION OF THE 2876

HJ-1B CCD SENSORS OF CHINA

Hongbo Jiang, Qiming Qin, Jun Li, Shaohua Zhao, Heng Dong, Weilin Yuan, Rongbo Cui, Peking University, China

THP1-PI: GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETER EXTRACTION BY RADAR

THP1-PI.1: SPACEBORNE P-BAND SAR FOR BIOMASS MISSION 2880

Sophie Ramongassie, Shadi Khureim-Castiglioni, Jerdme Lorenzo, Eric Labiole, Yannick Baudasse, Carlo Svara, LuigiCEREOLI, Thales Alenia Space, France; Florence Heliere, Cyril Mangenot, Kees Van't Klooster, Nelson FONSECA, EuropeanSpace Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Hubert DIEZ, Daniel BELOT, CNES, France

THP1-PI.3: SIGNAL: SAR FOR ICE, GLACEER AND GLOBAL DYNAMICS 2884Thomas Bonier, Francesco De Zan, Paco Lopez-Dekker, Gerhard Krieger, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos Papathanassiou,Michelangelo Villano, Marwan Younis, Andreas Danklmayer, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Wolfgang Dierking,Alfred-Wegener Institute, Gennany; Thomas Nagler, Helmutt Rott, Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH (ENVEO),Austria; Susanne Lehner, Gennan Aerospace Center (DLR), Gennany; Thomas Fiigen, EADS Astrium GmbH, Germany; AlbertoMoreira, Gennan Aerospace Center (DLR), Gennany

THP1-PI.4: COMPARSION OF POLARIMETRIC CALBRATION TECHNIQUES AND THEIR 2888APPLICATIONS

Wuping Lu, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Centerfor Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; kaiJiang, Xi Chen, East China Research Institute of Electronic Engineering, China

THP1-PI.8: SIMULATING AND MITIGATING IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN SYNTHETIC 2892

APERTURE RADAR

A. Philip Roth, Barton D. Huxtable, Kancham Chotoo, Susan D, Chotoo, User Systems, Incorporated, United States

THP1-PI.9: DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FORA DUAL-FREQUENCY RADAR FOR SEA 2896

SPRAY MEASUREMENT IN HURRICANES

Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Stephen Durden, Julian Chaubell, Kenneth Cooper, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

THP1-PJ: INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES

THP1-PJ.1: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION IN INSAR DATA 2900

BASED ON THEWEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL (WRF)

Wenyu Gong, Franz Meyer, Peter Webley, Don Morton, University ofAlaska, Fairbanks, United States; Shizhou Liu, Delft

University ofTechnology Delft, Netherlands

THP1-PJ.2: THE MATHEMATICMODEL OF MULTIPATH ERROR IN AIRBORNE 2904

INTERFEROMETRIC SAR SYSTEM

Yongfei Mao, Maosheng Xiang, Lideng Wei, Songtao Han, Institute ofElectronics, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP1-PJ.3: ESTIMATION AND COMPENSATION OF IONOSPHERIC DELAY FOR SAR 2908

INTERFEROMETRY

Ramon Brcic, Alessandro Parizzi, Michael Eineder, Richard Bamler, Geiman Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Franz Meyer,

University ofAlaska, United States

THP1-PJ.4: PHASE RETRffiVAL IN SAR INTERFEROGRAMS USING DIFFUSION AND 2912

INPAINTING

Alfio Borzi, Maurizio di Bisceglie, Carmela Galdi, Luca Pallotta, Silvia Liberata Ullo, University ofSannio, Italy

THP1-PJ.5: AUTOMATIC EXCLUSION OF SURFACE DEFORMATION IN INSAR DEM 2916

GENERATION USING DIFFERENTIAL RADAR INTERFEROMETRY

Jung Hum Yu, Linlin Ge, SSIS University ofNSW, Australia

THP1-PJ.7: BUILDING HEIGHT EXTRACTION VIA A DETERMINISTIC APPROACH USING 2920

A TERRASAR-X DATA STACK

Kang Liu, Timo Balz, Mingsheng Liao, Wuhan University, China

THP1-PJ.8: MULTI-BASELINE ALONG TRACK SAR INTERFEROMETRIC SYSTEMS FOR 2924

GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION

Alessandra Budillon, University ofNaples Parthenope, Italy; Annarita Evangelista, University ofCassino, Italy; Vito Pascazio,

Gilda Schirinzi, University ofNaples Parthenope, Italy

THP1-PJ.9: ATMOSPHERIC PHASE SCREEN-ESTIMATION FOR PSINSAR APPLIED TO 2928

TERRASAR-X HIGH RESOLUTION SPOTLIGHT-DATA

Markus Even, Fraunhofer Research Institutefor Optronics and Pattern Recognition, Gennany; Alexander Schunert, Leibniz

Universitdt Hannover, Germany; Karsten Schulz, Fraunhofer Research Institute for Optronics and Pattern Recognition,Gennany; Uwe Soergel, Leibniz Universitdt Hannover, Germany

THP1-PJ.10: ACCELERATING INSARRAW DATA SIMULATION ON GPU USING CUDA 2932

Fan Zhang, Beijing University ofChemical Technology, China; Bing-nan Wang, Maosheng Xiang, Institute ofElectronics,Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP1-PK: ATMOSPHERIC SENSING

THP1-PK.1: ASSESSMENT OF REANALYSIS DATASETS USING AIRS AND IASI 2936

HYPERSPECTRAL RADIANCES

Likun Wang, Dell Perot Systems, United States; Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States; Xingpin Liu, Dell Perot

System, United States; Lihang Zhou, NOAA NPOESS IPO, United States

THP1-PK.2: A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IONOSPHERIC 2940

CORRECTIONAND DATA CONTROLFOR GPS RADIO OCCULTATION IN AUSTRALIA

Kefei Zhang, RMIT University, Australia; John Le Marshall, Bureau ofMeteorology, Australia; Robert Norman, Chuan-Sheng

Wang, Erjiang Fu, Ying Li, RMIT University, Australia; Yuriy Kuleshov, Bureau ofMeteorology, Australia

THP1-PK.3: OBSERVATION OF LONG TERM TRENDS IN THE AMOUNT OF 2944

ATMOSPHERICWATER VAPOR BY SPACE GEODESY AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES

Rudiger Haas, Tong Ning, Elgered Gunnar, Chalmers University ofTechnology, Sweden

THP1-PK.4: IMPROVED DETERMINATION OF SURFACEAND ATMOSPHERIC 2948

TEMPERATURES USING ONLY SHORTWAVE AIRS CHANNELS: THE AIRS VERSION-6

RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM

Joel Susskind, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States; John Blaisdell, Lena Iredell, Science ApplicationsInternational Corporation, United States

THP1-PK.5: THE ACTIVE TEMPERATURE, OZONE AND MOISTURE MICROWAVE 2952

SPECTROMETER (ATOMMS), A NEW GLOBAL CLIMATE SENSOR

Emil Kursinski, Angel Otarola, Dale Ward, Abram Young, Sarmad Albanna, University ofArizona, United States; Christopher

Groppi, Arizona Slate University, United States; Robert Stickney, Michael Stovem, Brian Wheelwright, Brian Duffy, Michael

Schein, Katherme Sammler, University ofArizona, United States; Rod Frehlich, National Centerfor Atmospheric Research,

United Stales; Willy Bertiger, Herb Pickett, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United Stales; DavidRind, NASA Goddard InstituteforSpace Sludies, United States; Martin Ross, The Aerospace Corporation, United States

THP1-PK.7: WAVELET FILTERING OF GPS NETWORK DATA FOR IDENTIFICATION OF 2956

IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES ASSOCIATED WITH TSUNAMIS

Yu-Ming Yang, James Garrison, See-Chen Lee, Put-due University, United States

THP1-PK.10: NEURAL NETWORK FOR THE SATELLITE RETRIEVAL OF PRECIPITABLE 2960

WATER VAPOR OVER LAND

Vinia Mattioli, Stefania Bonafoni, Patrizia Basili, University ofPerugia, Italy; Giovanni Carlesimo, University ofVAquila, Italy;Piero Ciotti, University ofVAquila, Italy; Luca Pulvirenti, Nazzareno Pierdicca, University La Sapienza ofRome, Italy

THP1-PK.11: SPATIAL FILTERING AND RESAMPLING OF MULTI-RESOLUTION 2964

MICROWAVE SOUNDER OBSERVATIONS

Jenna Samra, William Blackwell, R. Vincent Leslie, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology Lincoln Laboratory, United States

THP1-PK.12: MULTI-BAND NDSA MEASUREMENTS BETWEEN TWO 2968

COUNTER-ROTATING LEO SATELLITES FOR ESTIMATING THE TROPOSPHERIC WATER

VAPOR PROFILE

Fabrizio Cuccoli, Luca Facheris, CNIT, Italy

THP1-PL: MICROWAVE SCATTERING I

THPl-PL.l: MODELING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING THROUGH A 2972

WALL WITH ROUGH INTERFACES

Pasquale Imperatore, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Universita di Napoli Federico 11, Italy

THP1-PL.3: PHYSICAL OPTICS-BASED METHOD TO COMPUTE THERADAR SIGNATURE 2976

OF COMPLEX OBJECTS OVER A SEA SURFACE

Majid Rochdi, Alexandre Baussard, AH Khenchaf, e3i2 laboratory, France

THP1-PL.5: PHYSICAL-BASEDMODELS OF SPECKLE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION SAR 2980

IMAGES

Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello, University ofNaples "Federico H", Italy

THP1-PL.6: FRACTAL BASED FILTERING OF SAR IMAGES 2984

Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello, Ivana Zinno, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy

THP1-PL.7: COMPARISON OF A MULTILATERAL-BASED ACQUISITION WITH 2988

TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNER AND PROFILOMETER TECHNIQUEFOR SOIL ROUGHNESS

MEASUREMENT

Carlos Perez-Gutierrez, University ofSalamanca, Spain; Jesus Alvarez-Mozos, Public University ofNavarra, Spain; Jose

Martinez-Fernandez, Nilda Sanchez, University ofSalamanca, Spain

THP1-PL.8: ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS OF BOREHOLE RADAR FORMETAL 2992

ORE DETECTION

Sixin Liu, Junfeng Zhou, Junjun Wu, Zhaofa Zeng, Jilin University, China

THP1-PL.9: TOPOGRAPHICEFFECTS ON SPACEBORNE RADIOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS 2995

AND POSSIBLE CORRECTION STRATEGIES

Luca Pulvirenti, Nazzareno Pierdkca, Frank Marzano, Sapienza University ofRome, Italy

THP1-PL.10: CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SCATTERED FIELD BY AN URBAN AREA IN 2999

THE X-FREQUENCYBAND FOR BISTATIC AND MONOSTATIC RADAR CONFIGURATIONS

Ngoc Truong Minh Nguyen, David Lautru, Helene Roussel, UPMC Univ Paris 6, UR2, L2E, France

THP1-PL.11: MICROWAVE SCATTERING MODELFOR A CORN CANOPY 3003

Yang Du, Wenzhe Yan, Zhejiang University, China; Zengyuan Li, Erxue Chen, Bingxiang Tan, Zhihai Gao, Chinese Academy ofForestiy, China

THP1-PM: MICROWAVE SCATTERING II

THP1-PM.2: A PHYSICALLY-BASED APPROACH TO OBSERVE MAN-MADEMETALLIC 3007

OBJECTS IN DUAL-POLARIZED SAR DATA

Ferdinando Nunziata, Maurizio Migliaccio, Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Carl Emil Brown, Environment Canada,

Canada

THP1-PM.3: DETERMINATION OF LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM AMSR-E DATA 3011

FOR BARE SURFACES

Zeng-Lin Liu, Hua Wu, Institute ofGeographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China;

Shi Qiu, LSIIT, UdS, CNRS; Bid Sebastien Brant, BP10413, 67412 Illkirch, France, France; Yuan-Yuan Jia, Academy ofOpto-Electronics, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Zhao-Liang Li, Institute ofGeographic Sciences and Natural Resources

Research, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

THP1-PM.6: SIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT OF RELIEF EFFECTS ON PASSIVE 3015

MICROWAVE RADIATION

Xinxin Li, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Shaojie Zhao, Tianjie Zhao, Beijing Normal University, China

THP1-PM.7: PERFORMANCE OF ROUGHNESS CORRECTION MODELS FOR 3019

RETRIEVAL OF SEA SURFACE SALINITY FROM AIR- AND SATELLITE-BORNE L-BAND

RADIOMETERS

Derek Burrage, Joel Wesson, Paul Hwang, David Wang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

THP1-PM.8: A PARAMETERIZEDMICROWAVEMODEL FORSHORT VEGETATION 3023

LAYER

Linna Chai, Beijing Normal University, China; Jiancheng Shi, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Lixin

Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Beijing Normal University, China

THP1-PM.10: SCATTERING FROMA CLUSTER OF PLANT OR TREE COMPONENTS: 3027

ANALYSIS OF THE INTERACTION EFFECT

Qianyi Zhao, Roger Lang, George Washington University, United States

THP1-PM.11: ELECTROMAGNETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SIMPLE TARGETS 3031

EMBEDDED IN CHIRAL MULTILAYER STRUCTURES

Sidnei J. S. SantAnna, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil; J. C, da S. Lacava, David Femandes, Instituto

Tecnoldgico de Aerondutica, Brazil

TH2-L01: REMOTE SENSING OF TSUNAMIS AND OTHER NATURAL HAZARDS USING

GNSS AND RADAR MEASUREMENTS II

TH2-L01.1: ON THE FEASIBILITY OF TSUNAMI DETECTION USING SATELLITE-BASED 3035

SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENTS

Benjamin Hamlington, Robert Leben, University ofColorado at Boulder, United States; Oleg Godin, Vladimir Irisov, National

Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration, United States

TH2-L01.3: RAPID GPS-BASED DETERMINATION OF EARTHQUAKE DISPLACEMENT 3039

FIELD AND MAGNITUDE FOR TSUNAMI PROPAGATION MODELING ANDWARNING

Hans-Peter Flag, GeoffBlewitt, William Hammond, Come Kreemer, University ofNevada, Reno, United States; Yoaz Bar-Sever,Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH2-L01.4: TSUNAMI MONITORING SYSTEM USING GPS BUOY - PRESENT STATUS 3043

AND OUTLOOK -

Teruyuki Kato, University ofTokyo, Japan; Yukihiro Terada, Kochi National College ofTechnology, Japan; Toshihiko Nagai,Port andAirport Research Institute, Japan; Shunichi Koshimura, Tohoku University, Japan

TH2-L01.5: TSUNAMI DETECTION FROMSPACE USING GNSS REFLECTIONS: 3047

RESULTS AND ACTIVITIES FROM GFZ

Ralf Stosius, Georg Beyerle, Maximilian Semmling, Deuisches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Germany; Achim Helm, EADS,

Germany; Andreas Hoechner, Jens Wickert, Jorn Lauterjung, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Germany

TH2-L02: OCEAN WAVES AND CURRENT

TH2-L02.1: PROPAGATION OF SUBINERTIAL VARIATIONS IN THE SOYA WARM 3051

CURRENT REVEALED BY HF OCEAN RADARS

Naoto Ebuchi, Yasushi Fukainachi, Kay Ohshima, Hokkaido University, Japan

TH2-L02.3: SURFACE CURRENT RETRIEVAL FROM TERRASAR-X DATA USING DOPPLER 3055

MEASUREMENTS

Cristian Rossi, Hartmut Range, Helko Breit, Thomas Fritz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH2-L02.4: CURRENTS IN RIVERS, COASTAL AREAS, AND THE OPEN OCEAN FROM 3059

TERRASAR-X ALONG-TRACKINSAR

Roland Romeiser, University ofMiami, United States; Steffen Suchandt, Hartmut Runge, German Aerospace Center (DLR),Germany; Hans Graber, University ofMiami, United States

TH2-L03: ELECTROMAGNETIC FORWARD AND INVERSE SCATTERING MODELS II

TH2-L03.1: MODELING, SIMULATION, INVERSION AND CHANG E-l DATA VALIDATION 3063FOR MICROWAVE EMISSION REMOTE SENSING OF LUNAR SURFACE MEDIA

Ya-Qiu Jin, Wenzhe Fa, Fudan University, China

TH2-L03.4: CHARACTERIZATION OF VOLUME SCATTERING OF DRY SAND AT 3067MILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCIESAdib Nashashibi, Kamal Sarabandi, University ofMichigan, United States; Fahad Al-Zaid, Sami Alhumaidi, King Abdulaziz Cityfor Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

TH2-L04: CHANGE DETECTION AND MULTITEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS II

TH2-L04.1: LAND-COVER MAPS FROM PARTIALLY CLOUDY MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE 3070SERIES: OPTIMAL TEMPORAL SAMPLING AND CLOUD REMOVAL

Jordi Inglada, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere (CESBIO), France; Sebastien Garrigues, INRA EMMAH, France

TH2-L04.2: A NEARLY LOSSLESS 2D REPRESENTATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF 3074

CHANGE INFORMATION IN MULTISPECTRALIMAGES

Francesca Bovolo, Silvia Marchesi, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University ofTrento, Italy

TH2-L04.3: AUTOMATIC CHANGE DETECTION IN RAPIDEYE DATA USING THE 3078

COMBINED MAD AND KERNEL MAFMETHODS

Allan Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Antje Hecheltjen, Frank Thonfeld, University ofBonn, Germany;

Morton J. Canty, Research Center Jiilich, Germany

TH2-L04.4: UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION WITH VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION 3082

SAR IMAGES BY MULTISCALE ANALYSIS ANDMARKOV RANDOM FIELDS

Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy

TH2-L04.5: PROGRESSIVE CHANGE DETECTION IN TIME SERIES OF SAR IMAGES 3086

Gregoire Mercier, Institut Telecom; Telecom Bretagne, France

TH2-L05: RADAR ESTIMATION OF VEGETATION INFORMATION

TH2-L05.1: MONITORING GRASSLANDS WITH RADARSAT 2 QUAD-POL IMAGERY 3090

Joseph Buckley, Royal Military College ofCanada, Canada; Anne Smith, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada

TH2-L05.2: ROBUST ESTIMATION OF PASTURE BIOMASS USING DUAL-POLARISATION 3094

TERRASAR-X IMAGERY

Stephen McNeill, David Pairman, Stella Belliss, Dawn Dalley, Landcare Research New Zealand, New Zealand; Robyn Dynes,

AgResearch, New Zealand

TH2-L05.4: INTEGRATING OBJECT-ORIENTEDIMAGE ANALYSIS AND DECISION TREE 3098

ALGORITHM FORLAND USE AND LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION USING RADARSAT-2

POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGERY

Zhixin Qi, Anthony Yeh, University ofHong Kong, China; Xia Li, Zheng Lin, Sun Yal-Sen University, China

TH2-L05.5: TOWARDS FULLY AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF LAND COVER MAPS FROM 3102

POLARIMETRIC AND METRIC-RESOLUTION SAR DATA

Chiara Pratola, Marco Del Greco, Fabio Del Frate, Giovanni Schiavon, Domenico Solimini, Tor Vergata University, Italy

TH2-L06: LASER TECHNOLOGY: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND LESSONS LEARNED

TH2-L06.1: NASA'S LASER RISK REDUCTION PROGRAM: A RISK REDUCTION APPROACH 3106

FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Eduardo Torres-Martinez, William Heaps, Upendra Singh, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States

TH2-L06.2: ONE MICRON LASER TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS AT GSFC 3110

William Heaps, NASA Goddard, United States

TH2-L07: MICROWAVE RADIOMETER TECHNOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTATION

TII2-L07.4: ON-GROUND TESTS ANDMEASUREMENTS OF THE PASSIVE ADVANCED 3114

UNIT SYNTHETIC APERTURE (PAU-SA)

Isaac Ramos-Perez, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Enric Valencia, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Universitat Politecnica

de Catalunya, Spain; Merce Vall-llossera, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya UPC, Spain; Giuseppe Forte, Universitat

Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

TH2-L07.5: FOCALPLANE APPROXIMATION FORNEAR FIELD INTERFEROMETRIC 3118

RADIOMETER IMAGING

Cheng Zhang, Ji Wu, Hao Liu, Jingye Yan, Centerfor Space Science andAppliedResearch, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

TH2-L08: SEA ICE

TH2-L08.1: THE POTENTIAL FOR DETERMINING HISTORIC SEA-ICE EXTENTFROM 3122

1960'S NIMBUS HRIR SATELLITE DATA

David Gallaher, University of Colorado, United States; Dennis Wingo, NASA Ames Research Center/Skycorp Incorporated,,

United States

TH2-L08.3: EFFECTS OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON SEA ICE FREEBOARD RETRIEVAL 3126

WITH AN AIRBORNE KU-BAND SAR RADAR ALTIMETER

Stefan Hendricks, Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany; Lars Stenseng, Technical University ofDenmark, Denmark; Veil Helm,

Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany; Christian Haas, University ofAlberta, Canada

TH2-L08.4: ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADAR MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW THICKNESS OVER 3130

SEA ICE

Ben Panzer, Carl Leuschen, Aqsa Patel, University ofKansas, United States; Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight

Center, United States; Prasad Gogineni, University ofKansas, United States

TH2-L09: POLARIMETRIC RADARSAT2

TH2-L09.1: MONITORING TREE FARMS AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS USING 3134

RADARSAT-2 POLSAR DATA

Jong-Sen Lee, Tom Ainsworth, Yarning Wang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Kun-Shan Chen, Chih-Tien Wang,National Central University, Taiwan

TH2-L09.3: ROTATED DIHEDRAL AND VOLUME SCATTERING BEHAVIOR IN 3138

CROSS-POLARIMETRIC SAR

Sang-Hoon Hong, Shimon Wdowinski, University ofMiami, United States

TH2-L09.4: CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS OF VEHICLE TARGET IN QUAD-POL RADARSAT-2 3142

SARIMAGES

Bo Zhang, Hong Zhang, Chao Wang, Fan Wu, Yixian Tang, Centerfor Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

TH2-L10: ESA'S SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSION - INSTRUMENT

PERFORMANCE AND FIRST RESULTS

TH2-L10.2: OVERVIEW OF SMOS LEVEL 2 OCEAN SALINITY PROCESSING AND FIRST 3146

RESULTS

Jordi Font, Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC, SMOS-BEC, Spain; Jacqueline Boutin, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Laboratoire

d'Oceanographie et du Climat—Experimentation et Approches Numeriques (LOCEANj, France; Nicolas Reul, Institut Franqaisde Recherche pour VExploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), France; Paul Spurgeon, ARGANS Limited, United Kingdom; JoaquimBallabrera, Unitat de Tecnologia Marina CSIC, SMOS-BEC, Spain; Andrei Chuprin, ARGANS Limited, United Kingdom;Carolina Gabarrd, Jerome Gourrion, Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC, Spain; Claire Henocq, ACRI-ST, France; Samantha

Lavender, ARGANS Limited, United Kingdom; Nicolas Martin, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie et

du Climat—Experimentation etApproches Numeriques (LOCEAN), France; Justino Martinez, Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC,Spain; Michael McCulloch, ARGANS Limited, United Kingdom; Ingo Meirold-Mautner, Franqois Petitcolin, ACRI-ST, France;

Marcos Porlabella, Unitat de Tecnologia Marina CSIC, Spain; Roberto Sabia, Marco Talone, Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC,Spain; Joseph Tenerelli, CLS - Environment BOOST, France; Antonio Turiel, Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC, Spain; Jean-Luc

Vergely, ACRI-ST, France; Philippe Waldteufel, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Laboratoire ATmospheres Milieux Observations

Spatiales (LATMOS), France; Xiaobin Yin, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie et du Climat—

Experimentation et Approches Numeriques (LOCEAN), France; Sonia Zine, Universite Joseph Fourier, France

TH2-L10.3: SMOS PAYLOAD PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT 3150

Manuel Martm-Neira, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Ignasi Corbella, Francesc Torres, Universitat Politecnica

de Calalunya, Spain; Franqois Cabot, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BlOsphere (CESBIO) and Centre National d 'Etudes

Spatiales (CNES), France; Josep Closa, CASA Espacio, Spain; Juha Kainulainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland;

Rita Castro, Jose Barbosa, Antonio Gutierrez, Deimos Engenharia, Portugal; Fernando Martm-Porqueras, CEC, ESA/ESAC,

Spain; Roger Oliva, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Eric Anterrieu, Observatoire Midi Pyrinees, France;

Michael Brown, Kevin McMullan, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands

TH2-L10.4: SMOS LI ALGORITHMS 3154

Antonio Gutierrez, Jose Barbosa, Nuno Catarino, Rita Castro, Sofia Freitas, Bruno Lucas, Henrique Candeias, Deimos

Engenharia, Portugal; Jose Freitas, Marco Ventura, Critical Software, Portugal; Michele Zundo, European Space Agency,

Netherlands

TH3-L01: ADVANCED METHODS IN SATELLITE PHOTO-/RADARGRAMMETRY I

TH3-L01.3: AUTOMATICAND GENERIC MOSAICING OF SATELLITE IMAGES 3158

Francois Bignalet-Cazalet, Simon Baillarin, Daniel Greslou, Chantal Panem, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES),

France

TH3-L01.4: BRDF AND ILLUMINATION CALIBRATION FOR VERY HIGH RESOLUTION 3162

IMAGING SENSORS

Xiaoliang Wu, Simon Collings, Peter Caccetta, CSIRO, Australia

TH3-L02: SMOS AND OCEAN SURFACE SALINITY

TH3-L02.1: SMOS MEASUREMENTS PRELIMINARY VALIDATION AGAINST MODELED 3166

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES AND EXTERNAL-SOURCE SALINITY DATA

Roberto Sabia, Unitat de Tecnologia Marina CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Jerome Gourrion, Institut de

Ciencies del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Marcos Portabella, Unitat de Tecnologia Marina CSIC - SMOS

Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Carolina Gabarro, Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain;Marco Talone, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Joaquim Ballabrera, Antonio

Turiel, Justino Martinez, Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Adriano Camps, Universitat

Politecnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Alfredo Lopez de Aretxabaleta, Institut de Ciencies del Mar

CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Alessandra Monerris, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona

Expert Centre, Spain; Jordi Font, Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain

TH3-L02.2: PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF SMOS PRODUCTS (LEVELS 3 AND 4) 3170

Jerome Gourrion, Joaquim Ballabrera, Alfredo L, Aretxabaleta, Antonio Turiel, Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC - SMOS

Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Baptiste Mourre, NATO Undersea Research Centre, Italy; Sofia Kalaroni, Nina Hoareau,

Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain

TH3-L02.4: SIMULATIONS OF ROUGHNESS-SALINITY-TEMPERATURE ANOMALEES AT 3174

S-L-BANDS

Victor Raizer, Zel Technologies, LLC, United States

TH3-L02.5: AN IMPROVED WIDE BAND OCEAN EMISSIVITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER 3178

MODEL

Salem El-Nimri, W. LinwoodJones, Sonya Crofton, Sayak Biswass, University of Central Florida, United States

TH3-L03: INTERNATIONAL OPEN STANDARDS FOR GEOSCIENCES - STANDARDS

DEVELOPMENT

TH3-L04: OPTICAL IMAGERY FOR SURFACE CHANGE DETECTION: TECHNIQUES AND

APPLICATIONS I

TH3-L04.3: SUB-PIXEL STEREO MATCHING 3182

Neus Sabater, Jean-Michel Morel, ENS Caelum, CNRS, UniverSud, France; Andres Almansa, CNRS & TELECOM ParisTech,

France

TH3-L04.5: CHANGE DETECTION OF LANDSLIDES AND DEBRIS IN SOUTH TAIWAN 3186

AFTER "MORAKOT" TYPHOON BASED ON HJ-l-B SATELLITE IMAGES

Lili Tang, Deyong Hu, Capital Normal University, China; Xiaojuan Li, Key Laboratory ofIntegrated Disaster Assessment and

Risk Governance of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, China; Jian Lian, Capital Normal University, China

TH3-L05: REGIONAL LAND COVER CHANGE I

TH3-L05.2: MONITORING LAND USE CHANGES AROUND THE INDIGENOUS LANDS OF 3190

THE XINGU BASIN IN MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL

Damien Arvor, Universite Rennes 2 - NEVANTROPIC, France; Margareth Simoes Penello Meirelles, Embrapa Labex Europe,Brazil; Rafaela Vargas, IHEAL, France; Ladislau Araujo Skorupa, Embrapa Meio Ambiente, Brazil; Elaine Cristina Cardoso

Fidalgo, Embrapa Solos, Brazil; VincentDubreu.il, Universite Rennes 2, France; Isabelle Herlin, Jean-Paul Berroir, INRIA,

France

TH3-L05.5: PARTICULAR AGRICULTURAL LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION CASE STUDY 3194

OF TSAGAANNUUR, MONGOLIA

Erdenee Batzorig, Tateishi Ryutaro, Tana Gegen, Chiba University, Japan

TH3-L06: CHANGE DETECTION

TH3-L06.1: LOGISTIC REGRESSION FOR DETECTING CHANGES BETWEEN DATABASES 3198

AND REMOTE SENSING IMAGES

Marie Chabert, Jean-Yves Toumeret, University ofToulouse, France; Vincent Poulain, Jordi Inglada, Centre National d'Etudes

Spatiales (CNES), France

TH3-L06.2: BLOCK-DIAGONAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR COVARIANCE-BASED 3202

ANOMALOUS CHANGE DETECTORS

Anna Matsekh, James Theiler, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States

TH3-L06.3: NORMALIZING LANDSATAND ASTER DATA USING MODIS DATA PRODUCTS 3206

FOR FOREST CHANGE DETECTION

Feng Gao, NASA GSFC/ERT Inc., United States; Jeffrey Masek, Robert Wolfe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United

States; Bin Tan, NASA GSFC /ERTInc., United States

TH3-L06.4: CHANGE DETECTION FOR EARTHQUAKEDAMAGE ASSESSMENT IN 3210

BUILT-UP AREAS USING VERY HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICALAND SAR IMAGERY

Dominik Brunner, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University ofTrento, Italy; Guido Lemoine, European Commission, Italy

TII3-L06.5: EFFICIENT BUILDING CHANGE DETECTION IN SPARSELY POPULATED 3214

AREAS USING COUPLED MARKED POINT PROCESSES

Csaba Benedek, Computer andAutomation Research Institute, Hungary

TH3-L07: AMSR-EI

TH3-L07.1: INTERCALIBRATION OF AMSR-E AND WINDSAT BRIGHTNESS 3218

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS OVER LAND SCENES

Thomas Meissner, Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, United Slates

TH3-L07.4: RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR FROM AMSR-E AND THE 3220

APPLICATION FORNWPAT JMA

Masahiro Kazumori, Takumu Egawa, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan

TH3-L07.S: AMSR-E ADVANCED WIND SPEED RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM AND ITS 3224

APPLICATION TO MARINEWEATHER SYSTEMS

Leonid Mitnik, Maia Mitnik, V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy ofSciences,

Russian Federation

TH3-L08: ARCTIC SEA ICE CHANGE AND IMPACTS I

TH3-L09: RADARSATI

TH3-L09.3: RADARSAT-2 CONTINUING SYSTEM OPERATIONS AND PERFORMANCE 3228

Anthony Hillman, Philippe Rolland, Rene Periard, Tony Luscombe, Marielle Chabot, Charlie Chen, MDA, Canada; Nick

Martens, Telesat, Canada

TH3-L09.4: RADARSAT CONSTELLATION, MOVING TOWARD IMPLEMENTATION 3232

Jerome Colinas, Guy Seguin, Patrick Plourde, Canadian Space Agency, Canada

TH3-L10: THE NASA SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MISSION (SMAP): DATA

PRODUCTS, SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS I

TH3-L10.1: THE NASA SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION: OVERVIEW 3236

Peggy O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology,

United States; Eni Njoku, Kent Kellogg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United Slates

TH3-L10.2: THE SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION L-BAND 3240

RADAR/RADIOMETER INSTRUMENT

Michael Spencer, Kevin Wheeler, Christopher White, Richard West, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of

Technology, United States; Jeffrey Piepmeier, Derek Hudson, James Medeiros, NASA GoddardSpace Flight Center, United

States

THP2-PA: RADAR MAPPING

THP2-PA.1: RECENT ADVANCES IN THEORETICAL STUDIES OF L-BAND ACTIVEAND 3244

PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING OF FORESTS

Paolo Ferrazzoli, Leila Guerriero, RachidRahmoune, Universitd di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy