2011 IEEE International

Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Symposium

(IGARSS 2011)

Vancouver, BC, Canada

24-29 July 2011

Pages 1-853

4 IEEE IEEE Catalog Number: CFPllIGA-PRT

ISBN: 978-1-4577-1003-2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MO3-T01: MICROWAVE SCATTERING AND EMISSION MODELS AND APPLICATIONS, IN

HONOR OF PROFESSOR ADRIAN K. FUNG

MO3-T01.2: APPLICATIONS OF THE INTEGRAL EQUATION MODEL IN MICROWAVE 1

REMOTE SENSING OF LAND SURFACEPARAMETERS

Jiancheng Shi, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences / University ofCalifornia Santa Barbara,United States; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan

MO3-T01.3: A STUDY OF DENSE MEDIUM SCATTERINGAND ITS APPLICATIONS IN 5

SEA ICE RESEARCH IN ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTICAYu Jen Lee, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia; Wee Keong Lim, Multimedia University, Malaysia; Hong Tat Ewe, Hean

Teik Chuah, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia

MO3-T02: ADVANCED METHODS FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR INFORMATIONEXTRACTIONI

MO3-T02.1: RECENT ADVANCES IN SCATTERING MODEL-BASED 9

DECOMPOSITIONS: AN OVERVIEW

Jong-Sen Lee, Thomas Ainsworth, Yanting Wang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

MO3-T02.3: CHARACTERIZATION OF SINGULAR STRUCTURES IN POLARIMETRIC 13

SAR IMAGES BY WAVELET FRAMES

Gianfranco De Grandi, Commission of European Communities, Italy; Pete Bunting, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom;Alexandre Bouvet, Commission ofEuropean Communities, Italy; Thomas Ainsworth, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

MO3-T02.5: ON THE USE OF POLARIMETRIC ORIENTATION FOR POLSAR 17

CLASSIFICATION AND DECOMPOSITION

Hiroshi Kimura, Gifu University, Japan

MO3-T03: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE VALIDATION

MO3-T03.2: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE VALIDATION WITH U.S. IN SITU NETWORKS 21

Thomas Jackson, USDA ARS, United States; Rajat Bindlish, SSAl, United States; Michael Cosh, USDA ARS Hydrology andRemote Sensing Laboratory, United States; Tianjie Zhao, USDA ARS, United States

MO3-T03.4: ESTIMATING SMOS ERROR STRUCTURE USING TRIPLE 24

COLLOCATION

Delphine Leroux, Yann H. Kerr, Philippe Richaume, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BlOsphere (CESBIO), France; Beatrice

Berthelot, VEGA Technologies, France

MO3-T04: US JOINT POLAR SATELLITE SYSTEM I

MO3-T04.2: EXPERIMENTS OF SATELLITE DATA SIMULATION BASED ON THE 28

COMMUNITYLAND MODELAND SCE-UA ALGORITHM

Shenglei Zhang, Jiancheng Shi, Youjun Dou, Xiaojun Yin, Liying Li, Chenzhou Liu, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications,Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MO3-T04.3: NPP ATMS PRELAUNCHPERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTAND SENSOR ,32

DATA RECORD VALIDATION

William J. Blackwell, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology Lincoln Laboratory, UnitedStates; Lynn Chidester, Space Dynamics

Laboratory, Utah State University Research Foundation, United States; Edward J. Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,

United States; R. Vincent Leslie, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology Lincoln Laboratory, United States; Joseph Lyu, NASA

Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Tsan Mo, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service,

Satellite Applications andResearch, United States

MO3-T04.5: PRE-LAUNCH CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S 35

RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) FLIGHT MODEL 5 (FM5) INSTRUMENT ON NPP

Susan Thomas, SSAI, United States; Kory Priestley, NASA, United States; Mohan Shankar, Nathaniel Smith, Mark Timcoe, SSAI,

United States

MO3-T05: LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE I

MO3-T05.3: A FRAMEWORKFOR THE SIMULATION OF HIGH TEMPORAL 39

RESOLUTION IMAGE SERIES

Jordi Inglada, Olivier Hagolle, Gerard Dedieu, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/ Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la

BlOsphere (CESBIO), France

MO3-T05.4: SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE BASED DECISION TREE FOR VERY 43

HIGH RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL FOREST MAPPING

Petra Krahwinkler, Juergen Rossmann, Bjoern Sondermann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

MO3-T05.5: MULTI-SPECTRAL SATELLITEIMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING 47

GLOWWORM SWARM OPTIMIZATION

Senthilnath J, Omkar S.N., Mani V, Indian Institute ofScience, India; Tejovanth N, National Institute ofTechnology, India;

DiwakarP. G., 1SRO, India; Archana Shenoy B, National Institute of Technology, India

MO3-T06: SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING: SYSTEMS

MO3-T06.1: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE FREQUENCY-DOMAIN DORT 51

IMAGING METHOD WITH UWB RADARFOR A FINITE-SIZED TARGET

Takuya Sakamoto, Tom Sato, Kyoto University, Japan

MO3-T06.2: WIDE BAND STEPPED-FREQUENCY GROUND PENETRATING RADAR 55

Takashi Kido, Yuya Yokota, Tohoku University, Japan; Fumika Kawahara, Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Japan; Motoyuki

Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

MO3-T06.3: CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE FOR BROADBAND ELECTROMAGNETIC 59

INDUCTION SENSORS

Waymond Scott, Georgia Institute ofTechnology, United States

MO3-T06.4: LANDMINE DETECTION USING AN ENSEMBLE OF CONTINUOUS 63

HMMS WITH MULTD?LE FEATURES

Anis Hamdi, Hichem Frigui, University ofLouisville, United States

MO3-T06.5: A RECONFIGURABLESTEPPED FREQUENCY GPR (GPR-R) 67

Filippo Parrini, University ofFirenze, Italy; Raffaele Persico, Istituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali (IBAM-CNR), Italy;

Massimiliano Pieraccini, Alessandro Spinetti, Giovanni Macaluso, Matteo Fratini, Devis Dei, University ofFirenze, Italy; Guido

Manacorda, IDS - Ingegneria dei Sistemi SpA, Italy

MO3-T07: SUPERRESOLUTION AND SUB-PIXEL CLASSIFICATION

MO3-T07.1: UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION AND SPECTRAL UNMIXING FOR 71

SUB-PIXEL LABELLING

Alberto Villa, Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute ofTechnology, France; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University ofIceland,

Iceland; Christian Jutten, Grenoble Institute ofTechnology, France

MO3-T07.3: LI NETWORK INVERSION FOR ROBUST OUTLIER REJECTION IN 75

PERSISTENT SCATTERERINTERFEROMETRY

Fernando Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Akanksha Bhutani, Nico Adam, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

MO3-T07.4: LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE BASED SUPER-RESOLUTION MAPPING FROM 79

REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY

Haobo Lin, Hebei University, China; Yanchen Bo, Jindi Wang, Beijing Normal University, China; Xiuping Jia, UniversityCollege, the University ofNew South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia

MO3-T08: EMERGING TRENDS AND CHALLENGES IN REMOTE SENSING DATA

PROCESSING I

MO3-T08.2: ARCHAEOLOGICAL LAND USE CHARACTERIZATION USING 86

MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA

Ivan E. Villalon-Twrubiates, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico; Maria J. Llovera-Torres, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis

Potosi, Mexico

MO3-T08.3: MONITORING HYDROLOGICAL VARIATIONS USING MULTISPECTRAL 90

SPOT-5 DATA: REGIONAL CASE OF JALISCO IN MEXICO

Ivan E. Villalon-Turrubiates, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico

MO3-T09: CHANGEDETECTIONAND MULTITEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS I

MO3-T09.1: AN AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS APPROACH TO DETECTING LAND 94

COVER CHANGE USING HYPER-TEMPORAL TIME-SERHCS DATA

Waldo Kleynhans, Brian Salmon, Jan C. Olivier, University ofPretoria, South Africa; Konrad Wessels, Frans van den Bergh,Council for Scientific andIndustrial Research, South Africa

MO3-T09.2: HYPERSPECTRAL CHANGE DETECTION USING IR-MAD AND FEATURE 98

REDUCTION

Prashanth Reddy Marpu, University of Iceland, Iceland; Paolo Gamba, University ofPavia, Italy; Jon Atli Benediktsson,

University ofIceland, Iceland

MO3-T09.3: MULTITEMPORAL REGION-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF 102

HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES BY MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS AND MULTISCALE

SEGMENTATION

Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University ofGenoa, Italy

MO3-T09.4: UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN THE FEATURE SPACE USING 106

KERNELS

Michele Volpi, University ofLausanne, Switzerland; Devis Tula, Gustavo Camps-Valls, University of Valencia, Spain; Mikhail

Kanevski, University ofLausanne, Switzerland

MO3-T09.5: RECENT ADVANCES IN OBJECT-BASED CHANGEDETECTION 110

Clemens Listner, Irmgard Niemeyer, Forschungszentrum Jtilich, Germany

MO3-T10: OCEAN BIOLOGY (COLOR) AND WATER QUALITY I

MO3-T10.1: ESTIMATION OF THE DIFFUSE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT 114

KD(LAMBDA) WITH A NEURAL NETWORK INVERSION

Cedric Janet, Hubert Loisel, David Dessailly, Laboratoire d'Oceanologie et de Geosciences, France

MO4-T01: SURFACE SCATTERING ANDRADIATIVE TRANSFER

MO4-T01.4: CONICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES DIFFRACTION FROM SASTRUGI 122

TYPE SURFACES OF LAYERED SNOW DUNES ON GREENLAND ICE SHEETS IN PASSIVE

MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING

Wenmo Chang, Leung Tsang, University ofWashington Seattle, United States

MO4-T02: ADVANCED METHODS FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR INFORMATION EXTRACTION

II

MO4-T02.2: MAPPING DYNAMIC WETLAND PROCESSES WITH A ONE YEAR 126

RADARSAT-2 QUAD POL TIME-SERIES

Cecile Marechal, Erie Pottier, Sophie Allain, Stephane Meric, IETR CNRS 6164 - University ofRennes 1, France; Laurence

Hubert-Moy, Samuel Corgne, COSTEL UMR 6554 - University ofHaute Bretagne, France

MO4-T02.3: POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING FEATURE ESTIMATION FOR ACCURATE 130

WETLAND BOUNDARY CLASSIFICATION

Ryoichi Sato, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Niigata University, Japan

MO4-T02.4: FOREST MAPPING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA 134

IN SOUTHWEST CHINA

Yun Shao, Fengli Zhang, State Key Laboratory ofRemote Sensing Science, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications,Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Maosong Xu, Academy ofForestry Inventory, Planning and Designing, State ForestryAdministration (SFA), China; Zhongsheng Xia, Forest Resource Management and Conservation Station, China; ChouXie, Kun

Li, Zi Wan, State Key Laboratory ofRemote Sensing Science, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Ridha Touzi, Canada Centrefor Remote Sensing, Canada

MO4-T02.5: CONTRIBUTION OF THE POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION IN ORDER 138

TO DISCRIMINATE TARGETFROM INTERFERENCE SUBSPACES. APPLICATION TO FOPEN

DETECTION WITH SAR PROCESSING.

Frederic Brigui, University ofToulouse, France; Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre, SONDRA, France; Guillaume Ginolhac, PhilippeForster, SATIE, France

MO4-T03: SOIL MOISTURE FROM MICROWAVE TIME SERIES

MO4-T03.1: ON THE USE OF MULTI-TEMPORAL SERIES OF COSMO-SKYMED 142

DATA FOR LANDCOVER CLASSIFICATION AND SURFACE PARAMETER RETRIEVAL OVER

AGRICULTURAL SITES

Anna Balenzano, Giuseppe Satalino, Antonella Belmonte, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi

Intelligentiper VAutomazione (ISSIA), Italy; Guido D'Urso, Fulvio Capodici, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Agraria e Agronomiadel Territorio - Universita Federico II (UniNa), Italy; Vito Iacobellis, Andrea Gioia, Politecnico di Bari (PoliBa) - Dipartimentodi Ingegneria delle Acque e di Chimica, Italy; Michele Rinaldi, Sergio Ruggieri, Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazionein Agricoltura, Unila di Ricerca sui Sistemi Colturali perAmbienti caldo-aridi (CRA-SCA), Italy; Francesco Mattia, ConsiglioNazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per VAutomazione (ISSIA), Italy

MO4-T03.4: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL OVER LOW-VEGETATION SURFACES 146

USING TIME-SERIES RADAR OBSERVATIONS AND A LOOKUP TABLE REPRESENTATION OF

FORWARD SCATTERING

Seung-Bum Kim, California Institute ofTechnology/Jet Propulsion Lab, United States; Shaowu Huang, Leung Tsang, Universityof Washington, United States; Joel Johnson, The Ohio State University, United States; Eni Njoku, California Institute ofTechnology/Jet Propulsion Lab, United States

MO4-T03.S: MEASUREMENT OF A TEMPORAL SEQUENCE OF DINSAR PHASE 150

CHANGES DUE TO SOIL MOISTURE VARIATIONS

Keith Morrison, Cranfield University, United Kingdom; John Bennett, Sheffield University, United Kingdom; Matt Nolan,

University ofAlaska Fairbanks, United States; Raghav Menon, Cranfield University, United Kingdom

MO4-T04: US JOINT POLAR SATELLITE SYSTEM II

MO4-T04.4: PRE-LAUNCH EVALUATION OF THE NPP VIIRS LAND AND 154

CRYOSPHERE EDRS TO MEET NASA'S SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Miguel Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Christopher Justice, University ofMaryland, United States;

Ivan Csiszar, NOAA Centerfor Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Jeffrey R. Key, NOAA National Environmental

Satellite, Data, and Information Service, United States; Sadashiva Devadiga, Carol Davidson, Sigma Space Corp, /NASAGoddard Space Flight Center, United States; Robert Wolfe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; JeffPrivette,NOAA National Climatic Data Center, United States

MO4-T05: LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE H

MO4-T05.1: LAND COVER IDENTIFICATION FOR FINDING HAZELNUT FIELDS 158

USING WORLDVIEW-2 IMAGERY

Kadim Tasdemir, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy; Selguk Reis, Aksaray University, Turkey

MO4-T05.3: RETRAINING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS USING A 166

LOW-RANK MODEL

Amt-B0rre Salberg, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

MO4-T05.4: MAPPING SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF LAND COVER CLASSD3TCATION 170

ERRORS

Maria Joao Pereira, Amttcar Soares, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal

MO4-T05.5: IMPROVING CHANGE VECTOR ANALYSIS IN MULTI-TEMPORAL SPACE 174

TO DETECT LAND COVER CHANGES BY USING CROSS-CORRELOGRAM SPECTRAL

MATCHING ALGORITHM

Yuanyuan Zhao, Chunyang He, Beijing Nonnal University, China

MO4-T06: SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING: APPLICATIONS

MO4-T06.1: ROBUST ESTIMATION OF DIELECTRIC CONSTANT BY GPR USING AN 178

ANTENNA ARRAY

Hai Liu, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

MO4-T06.2: A NEWMETHOD OF THROUGH WALL MOVING TARGET DETECTION 182

AND IMAGING USING UWB-SP RADAR

Shiyou Wu, Yanyun Xu, Jie Chen, Shengwei Meng, Guangyou Fang, Hejun Yin, Institute ofElectronics, Chinese Academy of

Sciences, China

MO4-T06.3: ANTARCTIC ICE SHELF 3D CROSS SECTIONAL PROFILE IMAGING 186

USING MIMO RADAR

Aivind Hari Narayanan, Paul Brennan, Ralph Benjamin, University College London, United Kingdom; Fabien Gillet-Chaulet,

Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Giophysique de I'Environnement, France; Keith Nicholls, British Antarctic Survey, United

Kingdom

MO4-T06.4: ESTIMATION OF BIOMASS OF TREE ROOTS BY GPR WITH HIGH 190

ACCURACY POSITIONING SYSTEM

Yuya Yokota, Masayoshi Matsumoto, Ahmed Caber, Tohoku University, Japan; Mark Grasmueck, University ofMiami, United

States; Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

MO4-T06.5: INTERFEROMETRY BY MULTIDIMENSIONAL DECONVOLUTION FOR 194

TIME-LAPSE CONTROLLED SOURCE ELECTROMAGNETICS

Juerg Hunziker, Evert Slob, Kees Wapenaar, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

MO4-T07: HIGHRESOLUTION OPTICAL SENSING I

MO4-T07.1: A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON IMAGING TIME DIFFERENCE AMONG 198

BANDS OF WORLDVIEW-2 AND ITS POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

Jianwei Tao, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MO4-T07.2: UNSUPERVISED URBAN LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING 201

WORLDVIEW-2 DATA AND SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS

lie Zhang, John Kerekes, Rochester Institute ofTechnology, United States

MO4-T07.4: QUERY EXPANSION FOR VHR IMAGE DETECTION 205

Huaxin Zheng, Huigang Zhang, Xiao Bai, Huijie Zhao, Beihang University, China

MO4-T07.5: MULTI-SCALE SEGMENTATION IN CHANGE DETECTION FOR URBAN 209

HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES

Junping Zhang, Chunfang Mu, Hao Chen, Ye Zhang, Harbin Institute ofTechnology, China

MO4-T08: EMERGING TRENDS AND CHALLENGES INREMOTE SENSING DATA

PROCESSING II

MO4-T08.2: AGGREGATION OF PARALLEL COMPUTING AND HARDWARE/SOFTWARE 217

CO-DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS

Alejandro Castillo Atoche, Orlando Palma Marrufo, Luis Ricalde Castellanos, Universidad Aulonoma de Yucatan, Mexico

MO4-T08.4: GPU-BASED SPATIALLIY DIVIDED PREDICTIVE PARTITIONED VECTOR 221

QUANTIZATION FOR GIFTS ULTRASPECTRAL DATA COMPRESSION

Shih-Chieh Wei, Tamkang University, Taiwan; Bonnin Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

MO4-T09: CHANGE DETECTIONAND MULTITEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS II

MO4-T09.1: DETECTION OF LAND-COVER TRANSITIONS IN MULTITEMPORAL 225

IMAGES WITH ACTIVE-LEARNING BASED COMPOUND CLASSIFICATION

Begum Demir, Francesco Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University ofTrento, Italy

MO4-T09.3: A SEMANTIC-BASED MULTILEVELAPPROACH TO CHANGE DETECTION 229

IN VERY HIGH GEOMETRICAL RESOLUTION MULTITEMPORAL IMAGES

Lorenzo Bruzzone, Francesco Bovolo, University ofTrento, Italy

MO4-T09.4: AN ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING APPROACH TO MULTEPLE-CHANGE 233

DETECTION IN MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES

Francesco Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University ofTrento, Italy

MO4-T09.5: LOCAL PATCHES FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH 237RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES

Xing Gong, Institute ofAutomation, Chinese Academy ofScience, China; Thomas Corpetti, CNRS-L1AMA, France

MO4-T10: OCEANS II

MO4-T10.1: OBSERVATION OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FEATURES ON THE SEA 241

SURFACEFROM SAR SATELLITE IMAGERY WITH IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS

Chris Maingot, Alexander Soloviev, Mikhail Gilman, Silvia Matt, Jenny Fenton, Nova Southeastern University, United States;

Susanne Lehner, Domenico Velotto, Stephan Brusch, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; William Perrie, Biao Zhang,

Bedford Institute ofOceanography, Canada

MO4-T10.2: SHIP DETECTION WITH QUAD POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X DATA: AN 245

ADAPTIVE NOTCH FILTER

Armando Marino, The University ofAlicante, Spain; Nick Walker, eOsphere Limited, United Kingdom

MO4-T10.3: MARITIME AWARENESS FOR COUNTER-PIRACY IN THE GULF OF ADEN 249

Monica Posada, Harm Greidanus, Marlene Alvarez, Michele Vespe, Tulay Cokacar, Silvia Falchetti, European Commission -

JointResearch Centre, Italy

MO4-T10.4: INTERNAL WAVES IN THE LOMBOK STRAIT REVEALED BY ALOS 253

PALSAR IMAGES

/ Wayan Gede Astawa Karang, Fwnihiko Nishio, Chiba University, Japan

MO4-T10.5: ON THE BOUND WAVE SCATTERING IN A WIND-WAVE TANK 257

Lei Liu, Xiangzhen Yu, Xiaoqing Wang, Jinsong Chong, Wen Hong, Institute ofElectronics, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-A: ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING AND DATA ANALYSIS

MOP-A.2: A MULTI-LEVEL RADIATION TRANSFER SOLUTION FOR 3D LANDSCAPE 261

Huaguo Huang, Beijing Forestry University, China

MOP-A.3: INVESTIGATING SPATIAL AGGREGATION TECHNIQUES USING A 265

HETEROGENEOUS RADAR LANDSCAPE SIMULATOR FOR REDUCING UNCERTAINTIES OF

SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM SMAP

Mariko Burgin, Mahta Moghaddam, University ofMichigan, United States

MOP-A.6: ESTIMATION OF CLEAR-SKY DOWNWARDLONGWAVE RADIATION 269

FROM SATELLITE DATA IN HEIHE RIVER BASIN OF NORTHWEST CHINA

Shanshan Yu, Xiaozhou Xin, Qinhuo Liu, Hailong Zhang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences,

China

MOP-A.7: A COMPARISON OF FOUR-STREAM APPROXIMATIONS FOR THE 273

RADIATIVE FLUX CALCULATIONS

Weizhen Hou, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences /Shanghai Centerfor Satellite Remote

Sensing Applications /Graduate School, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Qiu Yin, Shanghai Centerfor Satellite Remote

Sensing Applications, China

MOP-A.9: OVER THE HORIZON SKY WAVE RADAR SIMULATOR FOR IONOSPHERE 277

AND EARTH SURFACE SOUNDING

Fabrizio Cuccoli, CNIT, Italy; Luca Facheris, Francesco Sermi, Dipartimento Ing. Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Italy

MOP-B: ELECTROMAGNETICMODELING OF RANDOM ROUGH SURFACES AND

VOLUMES

MOP-B.l: VHF RADAR ECHOES FROM LAYERING SCATTER MEDIA AND 281

APPLICATIONSTO LUNAR EXPLORATION AND LANDSLIDES MONITORING

Ya-Qiu Jin, Fudan University, China; Feng Xu, Intelligent Automation, Inc, United States

M0P-B.2: THE INFLUENCE OF PRECIPITATION ON X-BAND POLARIMETRIC SAR: 285

RESULTS FROMTERRASAR-X AND COSMO-SKYMED AND TERRESTRIAL WEATHER

RADARS

Jason Fritz, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States

MOP-B.3: TWO - DIMENSIONAL MULTI - RESOLUTION TIME - DOMAIN 289

FORWARDMODELING OF ELECTROMAGENTIC SCATTERING

Shuai Cui, Yu Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xiaojuan Zhang, Guangyou Fang, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy ofSciences,

China

MOP-B.4: VALIDATION OF THE LAND SURFACE TEMPERATUREDERIVED FROM 293

HJ-1B/IRS DATA WITH GROUND MEASUREMENTS

Hua Li, Qinhuo Liu, Jinxiong Jiang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Heshun

Wang, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, China; Lin Sun, Shandong University ofScience and Technology, China

MOP-B.5: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF TEMPORAL NORMALIZATION OF MODIS 297

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE

Si-Bo Duan, Hua Wu, Ning Wang, Xiao-Ming Zhou, Bo-Hui Tang, Zhao-Liang Li, State Key Laboratory ofResources and

Environmental Information System, Institute ofGeographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of

Sciences, China

MOP-B.7: LAND SURFACE EMISSIVITY RETRIEVAL FROM HJ-1B SATELLITE DATA 301

USING A COMBINED METHOD

Hua Li, Qinhuo Liu, Jinxiong Jiang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Heshun

Wang, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, China; Qing Li, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry ofEnvironmental

Protection of China, China; Lin Sun, Shandong University ofScience and Technology, China

MOP-B.8: SPLIT-WINDOW METHOD FOR LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE 305

ESTIMATION FROM FY-3A/VIRR DATA

Jinxiong Jiang, Qinhuo Liu, Hua Li, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Huaguo

Huang, Beijing Forestry University, China

MOP-B.9: ANALYSIS OF ISAR IMAGING USING COMBINED MUSIC AND ICA 309

ALGORITHMS

Jeffrey Hall, Saibun Tjuatja, The University ofTexas at Arlington, United States

MOP-C: HIGHRESOLUTION AND MULTI-CHANNEL SAR

MOP-C.l: COMPARISON OF COVAMCOH AND ILU IMAGE PRODUCTS FOR 313

INTERFEROMETRIC VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGE PAIRS

Karsten Schulz, Dominik Brunner, Markus Boldt, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Gennany

MOP-C.2: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGERY SHIP DETECTION BASED ON 316

EXS-C-CFAR IN ALPHA-STABLE CLUTTERS

Xiangwei Xing, Kefeng Ji, Huanxin Zou, Jixiang Sun, Shilin Zhou, National University ofDefense Technology, China

MOP-C.4: CONCURRENT SUBBANDS MODE FOR MULTICHANNEL SAR IMAGING 320

Huifang Zheng, Yunkai Deng, Robert Wang, Qian Chen, Institute ofElectronics, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-C.6: BUILDING EDGE DETECTION FROM SAR COMPLEX DATA 328

Fabio Baselice, Giampaolo Ferraioli, Alessandro Grassia, Vito Pascazio, Universita' di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

MOP-C.7: NONUNIFORM SAMPLING PFA FOR SQUINT SPOTLIGHT SAR IMAGING 332

Huaping Xu, Derning Guo, Jingwen Li, Beihang University, China

MOP-C.8: BACK PROJECTIONALGORITHMFOR HIGH RESOLUTION GEO-SAR 336

IMAGE FORMATION

Zhuo Li, Chunsheng Li, Ze Yu, Jian Zhou, Jie Chen, Beihang University, China

MOP-C.9: VELOCITY ESTIMATION OF MOVING TARGETS USING SAR 340

Junfeng Wang, Xingzliao Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-D: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR

MOP-D.2: ANALYSIS OF ALOS PALSAR AND TERRASAR-XDATA FOR PROTECTED 348

AREA MAPPING: A CASE OF THE BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK-UGANDA

John Richard Otukei, Tliomas Blaschke, University ofSalzburg, Austria; Michael Collins, Yasser Maghsoudi, University of

Calgary, Canada

MOP-D.3: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF GLRT MOVING TARGETS DETECTION ON 352

TERRASAR-X DATA

Alessandra Budillon, Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Annarita Evangelista, Universita di Cassino, Italy; Vito Pascazio,

Gilda Schirinzi, Universita di Napoli Paithenope, Italy

MOP-D.5: FEASIBILITY OF HIGH RESOLUTION SAR AND MULTISPECTRAL DATA 356

FUSION

R Chandrakanth, J Saibaba, Geeta Varadan, ADRIN, India; P Ananth Raj, Osmania University, India

MOP-D.6: SUPPER RESOLUTIONRADARIMAGING: A VIRTUAL ARRAY CONCEPT 360

APPROACH

Gaohuan Lv, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-D.7: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION: THE 363

GENERALIZED BACKPROJECTIONALGORITHM

Angel Ribalta, Fraunhofer FHR, Germany

MOP-D.8: SAR SUPER RESOLUTION VIA MULTI-DICTIONARY 366

Chu He, Longzhu Liu, Ming Liu, Qian Feng, School ofElectronic Information, Wuhan University, China; Mingsheng Liao, The

State Key Laboratoryfor Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China

MOP E: POLARIMETRIC SAR APPLICATIONS

MOP-E.l: A REMOTE SENSING STUDY IN SUPPORTOF THE KOKODA TRACK 370

CONSERVATION INITIATIVE

Alina Yohannan, Mark Williams, Cooperative Research Centrefor Spatial Information, United States; Ian Tapley, Horizon

Geoscience Consulting, Australia; Julian Fox, University ofMelbourne, Australia; Anthony Milne, Horizon Geoscience

Consulting, Australia; Andrew Taplin, James Sabi, Government ofPapua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea

MOP-E.2: A VISUALIZATION METHOD FOR SAR IMAGES 374

Guangyi Zhou, Tsinghua University, China; Wentao An, National Satellite Ocean Application Service, China; Jian Yang, Hua

Zhong, Tsinghua University, China

MOP-E.3: SIMILARITY-ENHANCED TARGET DETECTION ALGORITHMBASED ON 378

MULTIPLE POLSAR SIMILARITY PARAMETER

Lamei Zhang, Bin Zou, Wenyan Tang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

MOP-E.4: BUILDING PARAMETERS EXTRACTION FROM POLINSAR IMAGE USING 382

HYBRID METHOD

Hongjun Cai, Peng He, Bin Zou, MaoliuLin, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

MOP-E.5: A FURTHER INVESTIGATION ON RECONSTRUCTION OF VERTICAL 386

PROFILES USING POLARIZATION COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY

Junhua Wang, Zhenhai Xu, Xuesong Wang, Guoyu Wang, Siwei Chen, The School ofElectronic Science and Engineering,

National University ofDefense Technology, China

M0P-E.6: SOME PECULIARITIES OF POLARIMETRIC CLASSIFICATION FOR 389

WINTER DATA TAKES

Ludmila Zakharova, Institute ofRadioengineering and Electronics ofRussian Academy ofSciences, Russian Federation

MOP-E.7: ESTIMATION OF LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI) USING POLINSAR: A 393

PRELIMINARY RESEARCH

Wenxue Fu, Huadong Guo, Xinwu Li, Centerfor Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-E.8: TARGET DETECTION BASED ON L- AND C-BAND POLSAR DATA 397

Bin Zou, Hongjun Cai, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Wooil M Moon, University ofManitoba, Canada; Maoliu Lin,

Harbin Institute of Technology, China

MOP-E.9: CHARACTERIZING MULTI-LAYERED VEGETATION WITH 401

DUAL-POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X IMAGERY

TishampatiDhar, Doug Gray, Carl Menges, University ofAdelaide, Australia

MOP-E.10: BIOMASS RELATED PARAMETER RETRIEVING FROM QUAD-POL 405

IMAGES BASED ON FREEMAN-DURDEN DECOMPOSITION

Xing-Ou Xu, Centerfor Space Science andApplied Research, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Armando Marino, The

University ofAlicante, Spain; Lei Li, Wuhan University, China

MOP-F: POLARIMETRIC SARI

MOP-F.l: PHASE-DIFFERENCE CHARACTERISTICS OF URBAN AREAS IN 409

POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES

Kyung-Yup Lee, Youn-Soo Kim, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Republic ofKorea; Yisok Oh, Hongik University,

Republic ofKorea

MOP-F.2: POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR A CLASSIFICATION 413

SCHEME BASED ON SCATTERING TYPE ALPHA

Chunle Wang, Weidong Yu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-F.3: VALIDATION OFFOUR-COMPONENTDECOMPOSITION WITH ROTATED 416

COHERENCY MATRIX OF TERRASAR-X

Toshifumi Hiramatsu, Takashi Nonaka, Takashi Shibayama, PASCO Corporation, Japan

MOP-F.4: PARAMETRIC AND NON-PARAMETRIC FOREST BIOMASS ESTIMATION 420

FROM POLINSAR DATA

Maxim Neumann, Sassan Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Lars M. Ulander, Chalmers University,

Sweden; Johan Fransson, Swedish University ofAgricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden

MOP-F.S: UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF POLSAR DATA BASED ON THE 424

POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION AND THE CO-POLARIZATION RATIO

Shuang Wang, Jingjing Pel, Kun Liu, Shuang Zhang, Bo Chen, Xidian University, China

MOP-F.6: POLARIMETRIC OPTIMIZATION FOR BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETER 428

ESTIMATION

Maxim Neumann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

MOP-F.7: A HIGH PRECISION FPGA-BASED ACTIVE RADAR CALIBRATOR 432

Chih-Yuan Chu, Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan

MOP-F.8: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EIGENVALUES METHOD FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR 436

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION

Shuiping Gou, Xin Qiao, L.C. Jiao, Xidian University, China

MOP-G: POLARIMETRIC SAR TECHNIQUES

MOP-G.l: COMPARISON OF CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY BETWEEN FULLY 440

POLARIMETRIC AND DUAL-POLARIZATION SAR IMAGES

Varsha Turkar, Rinki Deo, IJT Bombay, India; Siddharth Hariharan, TERNA Engineering College, India; S Rao Y, IITBombay,India

MOP-G.4: EDGE DETECTION FROM POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USING 448

POLARIMETRIC WHITENING FILTER

Shaoping Deng, Wuhan University, China; Jixian Zhang, Chinese Academy ofSwveying and Mapping, China; Pingxiang Li,

Wuhan University, China; Guoman Huang, Chinese Academy ofSwyeying and Mapping, China

MOP-G.5: LEARNING BASED DECOMPOSITION FOR POLARMETRIC SAR IMAGES 452

Chu He, Qian Feng, Ming Liu, Xiaonian Liu, School ofElectronic Information, Wuhan University, China; Mingsheng Liao, The

State Key Laboratoryfor Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China

MOP-G.6: COMPARISON OF DUALAND FULL POLARIMETRICENTROPY/ALPHA 456

DECOMPOSITIONS WITH TERRASAR-X, SUITABILITY FOR USE IN CLASSIFICATION

Tishampati Dhar, Doug Gray, Carl Menges, University ofAdelaide, Australia

MOP-G.7: WISHART SUPERVISED CLASSD7ICATION RESULTS OF C-BAND 459

POLARIMETRIC GB-SAR IMAGE DATA

Moon-Kyung Kang, Kwang-Eun Kim, Seong-Jun Cho, Korea Institute ofGeoscience and Mineral Resources, Republic ofKorea;

Hoonyol Lee, Kangwon National University, Republic ofKorea; Jae-Hee Lee, Korea Institute ofGeoscience and Mineral

Resources, Republic ofKorea

MOP-G.8: A MODEL INCORPORATING ORIENTATION ANGLE SHIFT EFFECT FOR 463

POLARIMETRIC SAR CALIBRATION

Shiqi Xing, Canbin Hu, Zhenhai Xu, Dejun Feng, Dahai Dai, School ofElectronic Science and Engineering, National University

of Defense Technology, China

MOP-G.9: QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION FOR COMPACT POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGE 467

RECONSTRUCTIONBASED ON INFORMATION-THEORETIC ANALYSIS

Jie Chen, Yu Li, Xianzhong Wen, Chunsheng Li, Beihang University, China

MOP-H: HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL SENSING II

MOP-H.1: DSM MEASUREMENTFOR EXPOSED GRAVEL SURFACE USING 471

CLOSE-RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY WITH MULTI-SCALE IMAGES

Jui-Teng Tsung, Chi-Kuei Wang, National Cheng Rung University, Taiwan

MOP-H.2: OBJECT ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH SPATIAL IMAGERY 475

USING GABOR TEXTURES AND COMPOSITE KERNELS

Lian-Zhi Huo, Ping Tang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Hong-Can Wu,

Research Institute ofForest Resource Information Techniques,Chinese Academy ofForestry, China

MOP-H.3: EXTENDED THREE-STEP FOCUSING ALGORITHMFOR SLIDING 479

SPOTLIGHT AND TOPS DATA IMAGE FORMATION

Wei Yang, Chunsheng Li, Jie Chen, Pengbo Wang, Beijing University ofAeronautics and Astronautics, China

MOP-H.4: SPECTRAL QUALITY EVALUATION OF PIXEL-FUSED DATA FOR 483

IMPROVED CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES

Yuhendra, Ilham Alimuddin, Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumanlyo, Hiroaki Kuze, Chiba University, Japan

MOP-H.6: A GEOMETRICALRECTIFICATION ALGORITHMOF UAV REMOTE 487

SENSING IMAGES BASED ON FLIGHT ATTITUDE PARAMETERS

Yuxia Li, Zheng Li, Ling Tong, YangTian Yan, Dong Guo, University ofElectronic Science and Technology of China, China

M0P-H.7: GRAPH-BASED SHIP EXTRACTION SCHEME FOR OPTICAL SATELLITE 491

IMAGE

Feng Chen, Wenxian Yu, Xingzhao Liu, Kaizhi Wang, Lin Gong, Wentao Lv, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-H.8: A CONTEXT-BASEDAPPROACH FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF 495

SATELLITE IMAGE TIME SERIES

Camille Kurtz, Francois Petitjean, Pierre Gancarski, LSIIT- University ofStrasbourg, France

MOP-I: IMAGE PROCESSINGAND ANALYSIS I

MOP-I.1: VERY FAST SIMULATED ANNEALING FOR PATTERN DETECTION AND 499

SEISMIC APPLICATIONS

Kou-Yuan Huang, Yueh-Hsun Hsieh, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

MOP-I.2: EXTRACTION OF CRATERS AS CONCENTRIC CIRCLE PATTERNS OF 503

CONTOURS ON THE LUNAR DIGITAL TERRAINMODEL

Shin Sato, Noriaki Asada, Hirohide Demura, Nam Hirata, University ofAizu, Japan

MOP-I.3: AN IMPROVED ROAD AND BUILDING DETECTOR ON VHR IMAGES 507

Christophe Simler, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany

MOP-I.4: ROTATION INVARIANT TEXTURE FEATURE ALGORITHMSFOR URBAN 511

SETTLEMENT CLASSIFICATION

Phumzile Khumalo, UKZN - CSIR, South Africa; Frans Van Den Bergh, CSIR, South Africa; Jules Tapamo, UKZN, South Africa

MOP-I.5: TECHNIQUES BASED ON SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR CLOUD 515

DETECTION ON QUICKBIRD SATELLITE IMAGERY

Riccardo Rossi, Roberto Basili, Fabio Del Frate, Matteo Luciani, Francesco Mesiano, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor

Vergata, Italy

MOP-I.6: IMAGE SHARPENING USING HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL 519

DATA

Norimasa Mayumi, Akira lwasaki, The University ofTokyo, Japan

MOP-I.8: MULTIRESOLUTION FUSION USING CONTOURLET TRANSFORM 523

BASED EDGE LEARNING

Kishor Upla, Prakash Gajjar, Manjunath Joshi, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute ofInformation and Communication Technology,India

MOP-I.10: KERNEL IMAGE SIMILARITY CRITERION 527

Vicent Talens, Jose Moreno, Gustavo Camps-Vails, Universitat de Valencia, Spain

MOP-J: IMAGE PROCESSING ANDANALYSIS II

MOP-J.l: MULTIRESOLUTION INPAINTING FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF MISSING 531

DATA IN VHR IMAGES

Luca Lorenzi, FaridMelgani, University ofTrento, Italy; Gregoire Mercier, Telecom Bretagne, France

MOP-J.2: EFFECTS OF RECEIVER SATURATION ON IMAGE FORMATION 535

Zhou Li, Chunsheng Li, Ze Yu, Beihang University, China; Yongqiang Zhang, Beijing Institute ofTracking andTelecommunication Technology, China

MOP-J.3: RPC GENERATIONS ON ALOS PRISM AND AVNIR-2 539

Junichi Takaku, Remote Sensing Technology Center, Japan; Takeo Tadono, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

MOP-J.4: MAPPING AND RECOVERING CLOUD-CONTAMINATED AREA IN 543

MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY WITH VISD3LE AND NEAR-INFRARED BANDS

Yi-Shiang Shiu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Meng-Lung Lin, Aletheia University, Taiwan; Tzu-How Chu, National

Taiwan University, Taiwan

M0P-J.5: BASED ON REMOTE SENSING PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY 547

ESTIMATING LEAVES STOMATAL DENSITY OF POPULUS EUPHRATICA

Shengqi Man, Chuanyan Zhao, Yang Zhao, Key Laboratory ofArid and GrasslandEcology with the Ministry ofEducation,Lanzhou University, China

MOP-J.7: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK OF ALGORITHMMANAGEMENT FORREMOTE 551

SENSING IMAGE ANALYSIS

Yongke Ding, Kaizhi Wang, Wenxian Yu, Xingzliao Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-J.8: ADAPTIVE FILTERING APPROACH TO MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE 555

PROCESSING

Andrzej Lesniak, Mateusz Twardowski, AGH University ofScience and Technology, Poland

MOP-J.9: HIGH PERFORMANCE IMAGE PROCESSING OF SATELLITE IMAGES 559

USING GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS

Michal Rumanek, Tomasz Danek, Andrzej Lesniak, AGH University ofScience and Technology, Poland

MOP-J.10: DISPARITY COMPUTATION OF CORNER POINTS BY ENHANCING 562

FEATURE EXTRACTORS FOR SPARSE NARROW-BASELINE STEREO MATCHING

Raghavendra Bhalerao, Shirish Gedam, ITT Bombay, India

MOP-K: IMAGE REGISTRATION AND CHANGE DETECTION

MOP-K.1: FEATURE-BASED IMAGE REGISTRATION OF ALOS PALSAR AND AVNIR-2 566

IMAGES

Tee-Ann Teo, Shin-Yu Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

MOP-K.2: REGISTRATION OF VECTOR DATA AND AERIAL THERMAL IMAGES USING 570

MODD7IED MUTUAL INFORMATION

Koen Douterloigne, Sidharta Gautama, Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Belgium

MOP-K.3: AUTO-REGISTRATION OF SATELLITE IMAGE WITH THE EXISTING 574

VECTORMAP

Luping Lu, Yong Zhang, Wuhan University, China

MOP-K.4: FAST AND ACCURATE GCPS SELECTION SCHEMEFOR SAR IMAGE 578

REGISTRATION BASED ON AN IMPROVED TRAJKOVIC CORNER DETECTOR

Quang Huy Nguyen, Ian Mcloughlin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Timo Bretschneider, EADS Innovation

Works Singapore, Singapore

MOP-K.5: ESTIMATING GEOMETRICAL TRANSFORMPARAMETERS FOR 582

AFFINE-TRANSFORM-BASE GEOMETRICAL CORRECTIONS

Hiroyuki Saito, Hirosaki University, Japan

MOP-K.6: A NEW MULTI-SENSOR APPROACH TO MEASUREMENTOF 586

TOPOGRAPHIC CHANGES RESULTING FROM ACTIVE VOLCAN1SM

DavidMcAlpin, Franz Meyer, Peter Webley, University ofAlaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, United States

MOP-K.7: MANAGING MASSIVE REMOTE SENSING DATA IN A DATABASE: USING A 590

PURE OBJECT DATABASE AS A SOLUTION

David Gallaher, Glenn Grant, University ofColorado, United States

MOP-K.8: SUB-PIXEL MAPPING BASED ON SUB-PIXEL TO SUB-PIXEL SPATIAL 593

ATTRACTION MODEL

Liguo Wang, Qunming Wang, Danfeng Liu, College ofInformation and Communications Engineering, Harbin Engineering

University, China

M0P-K.9: CONTRAST PYRAMID BASED IMAGE FUSION SCHEMEFOR INFRARED 597

IMAGE AND VISIBLE IMAGE

Dongxu He, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences / Graduate University, Chinese Academy of

Sciences, China; Yu Meng, Chengyi Wang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-L: IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND OBJECT DETECTION

MOP-L.2: HIGH-RESOLUTIONSATELLITE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND 605

SEGMENTATION USING LAPLACIAN GRAPH ENERGY

Meng Zhao, Xiao Bai, Beihang University, China

MOP-L.3: GROUND-TRUTH ASSISTED DESIGN FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE 609

CLASSIFICATION

Edoardo Pasolli, Farid Melgani, University ofTrento, Italy

MOP-L.4: VHR IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING OVER SEGMENTED REGIONS IN A 613

MRF MODEL

Orsan Aytekin, YousefRezaeitabar, Ilkay Ulusoy, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

MOP-L.5: SHAPE CONTEXT BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION AND TRACKING IN 617

STRUCTURED UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT

Kyung Mill Han, Hyun Taek Choi, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Republic ofKorea

MOP-L.6: OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATION USING REGION GROWING 621

SEGMENTATION

Sang-Hoon Lee, Kyungwon University, Republic ofKorea

MOP-M: SAR DATA ANALYSIS I

MOP-M.l: SAR IMAGING FROMCOMPRESSEDMEASUREMENTS BASED ON Ll/2 625

REGULARIZATION

Jinshan Zeng, Zongben Xu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China; Hai Jiang, Bingchen Zhang, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Institute ofElectronics, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-M.2: ATOMIC DECOMPOSITION-BASED SAR IMAGING TECHNIQUE 629

Yesheng Gao, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-M.3: IMPROVEMENT OF SHIP-SEA CLUTTER RATIO OF SAR IMAGERY 632

USING STANDARD DEVIATION FILTER

MotofumiArii, Mitsubishi Space Software Co. Ltd., Japan

MOP-M.5: BLOCK ADAPTIVE COMPRESSED SENSING OF SAR IMAGES BASED ON 640

STATISTICAL CHARACTER

Nana Wang, Jingwen Li, Beihang University, China

MOP-M.6: CONCURRENT SAR IMAGES DENOISINGAND SEGMENTATION BASED 644

ON A NOVEL MODEL OF WAVELET COEFFICIENTS

Wentao Lv, Feng Chen, Wenxian Yu, Qiuze Yu, Kaizhi Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-M.7: RE-IMAGING OF SAR IMAGE VIA THE UNDERLYING INFORMATION 648

Xin Lu, Mengling Liu, Yongmin Shuai, Rang Chen, Hui Yin, Hong Sun, Signal Processing Laboratory, Department ofCommunication Engineering, school ofElectronic Information, Wuhan University, China

MOP-M.8: DATA INTERPOLATION AND RESAMPLING FOR A SYNTHETIC APERTURE 652

RADAR DATA

Shunichi Kusano, Motoyuki Sato, Yuya Yokota, Tohoku University, Japan

M0P-M.9: EFFECTS OFNOISE, SAMPLING RATE AND SIGNAL SPARSITY FOR 656

COMPRESSED SENSING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR PULSE COMPRESSION

Peng Xiao, Chunsheng Li, Ze Yu, Beihang University, China

MOP-N: LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE III

MOP-N.l: MAPPING THE DISTRIBUTION OF CROFTON WEED (EUPATORIUM 660

ADENOPHORUMSPRENG) IN SOUTHWEST OF CHINA USING TIME SERIES REMOTE

SENSING DATA

Ying Qu, Zhengqing Xiao, Gongqi Zhou, Xiaojia Liang, Xijia Li, Beijing Normal University, China

MOP-N.2: LANDSCAPE CHANGEAND THE DRIVING FORCES IN SOURCEAREA OF 664

SHULE RIVER IN ARID NORTHWESTCHINA

Guojing Yang, Baisheng Ye, XiaXie, LihuaZhou, Cold andArid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute,

Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-N.4: LINEAR OBJECTS IMPACT ON GRASSLAND DEGRADATION IN THE 672

TYPICAL STEPPE REGION OF CHINA

Suying Li, InnerMongolia University of Technology, China; Peter Verburg, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands; Shihai Lv,

Chinese Research Academy ofEnvironmental Sciences, China; Shangyu Gao, Beijing Normal University, China; Jingle Wu,

Arizona State University, United States

MOP-N.5: LANDSCAPE CHANGEAND HUMAN ACTIVITY ANALYSIS ON 676

DESERTD7ICATION PROCESS IN NORTHERN CHINA

Lihua Zhou, Guojing Yang, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of

Sciences, China

MOP-N.6: LAND USE AND LANDSCAPE PATTERN CHANGES IN NANJING DURING 680

1988-2007

Zhihui Wang, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Qiu Yin, Shanghai Centerfor

Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, China

MOP-N.7: SPATIO-TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF HILLY CULTIVATED A CASE 684

STUDY IN SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA

Ting-Xu Dong, Mianyang Normal University, China; Qi-Ming Qui, Hong-Bo Jiang, Peking University, China; Hua-Ming Ke,

Mianyang Normal University, China

MOP-N.8: A COMPARISON OF FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS WITHIN A 688

SPATIO-TEMPORAL LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION FRAMEWORK

Waldo Kleynhans, Brian Salmon, Jan C. Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Konrad Wessels, Frans van den Bergh,Councilfor Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

MOP-N.9: CONTINENTAL SCALE LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MODIS 692

SURFACE REFLECTANCE PRODUCTS

Haruhisa Shimoda, Kiyonari Fukue, Tokai University, Japan

MOP-N.10: DETECTION AND MAPPING OF IRRIGATEDFARMLAND IN 696

CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND

David Painnan, Stella Belliss, Landcare Research, New Zealand; Jeromy Cuff, Environment Canterbury, New Zealand; Stephen

McNeill, Landcare Research, New Zealand

MOP-N.ll: LAND COVER CHANGE AND EFFECT ON AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION 700

BASED ON RS AND GIS FOR 20 YEARS IN YANQING COUNTY, BEIJING

Linrui Song, Jing Zhang, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Jingyu Zhang, Capital Normal University, China

MOP-N.12: A PROTOCOL FOR EXPEDITE AND EFFECTIVE RETRIEVAL OF LAND 704

CONVERSION INFORMATION IN SAVANNA ENVIRONMENTS

Manuel Ferreira, Laerte Ferreira Jr., Nilson Ferreira, Federal University of Golds, Brazil; Mercedes Bustamante, University of

Brasilia, Brazil; Jean Ometto, INPE, Brazil

MOP-O: LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE IV

MOP-O.l: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAND COVER AND MICRO-CLIMATE AT 708

WEATHER OBSERVATION POINT IN JAPAN

Hikaru Ishiguro, PASCO Corporation, Japan; Nanako Yoshinari, Graduate School ofShinshu University, Japan; Naoki Takagi,Shinshu University, Japan

MOP-O.4: SPECTRAL CLUSTERING BASED UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION 712

IN SAR IMAGES

Xiangrong Zhang, Zemin Li, Biao Hou, Licheng Jiao, Xidian University, China

MOP-O.5: ADAPTIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF NDVI TIME SERIES WITH 716

MULTI-PERIODIC HARMONIC MODEL

Sang-Hoon Lee, Kyungwon University, Republic of Korea

MOP-O.7: INFLUENCE OF CHANGES OF UNDERLYING SURFACE ON THE 720

OUTPUT OF SAND-DUST MODEL

Dihua Cai, Jianhua Zhao, Yaohui Li, Ni Guo, Haixia Duan, Hui Han, Jing Wang, Institute ofArid Meteorology, China

Meteorological Administration, China

MOP-O.9: CLASSIFICATION OF CASI-3 HYPERSPECTRALIMAGE BY SUBSPACE 724

METHOD

Buho Hoshino, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan; Nasi Bagan, National Institutefor Environmental Studies, Japan; Akihiro

Nakazawa, Image Sensing Section Asia Air Swvey Co. Ltd., Japan; Masami Kaneko, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan; Masaki

Kawai, Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center, Japan; Tetuo Yabuki, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan

MOP-O.ll: FRAGMENTATION OF TROPICAL FOREST IN THE TERMINOS LAGOON 732

RESERVE, MEXICO.

Ernesto Soto Galera, Institute) Mexicano del Petrdleo, Mexico

MOP-P: TROPICAL FORESTS

MOP-P.l: IMPROVING TROPICAL FOREST MAPPING USING COMBINATION OF 736

OPTICAL AND MICROWAVEDATA OF ALOS

Nguyen Thanh Hoan, Ryutaro Tateishi, Alsaaideh Bayan, Chiba University, Japan; Ngigi Tltomas Gathungu, Kenya, Kenya; Mi

Lan, Chiba University, Japan

MOP-P.2: "FUSION FOR CLASSES IN DIFFICULTY" FOR ACCURATE AND SPEED 740

TROPICAL RAINFORESTS CLASSIFICATION

Robin Pouteau, Benoit Stall, GePaSUD Laboratory, French Polynesia

MOP-P.4: RESEARCH ON TROPICAL FOREST ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS 744

ESTIMATING USING ICESAT/GLAS DATA IN XISHUANGBANNA, SOUTHWEST CHINA

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

ofMaryland, United States

MOP-P.5: ASSESSING DEFORESTATION RELATED CARBON EMISSION IN THE 748

BRAZILIAN SAVANNA BASED ON MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGERY

Nilson Ferreira, Laerte Ferreira Jr., Manuel Ferreira, Federal University of Golds, Brazil; Mercedes Bustamante, University ofBrasilia, Brazil; Jean Ometto, Brazilian Space Research Institute, Brazil

MOP-P.6: AN ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL FOREST COVER MAPS USING REGIONAL 752

HIGHER-RESOLUTION REFERENCE DATA SETS

Xiao-Peng Song, Chengquan Huang, Joseph Sexton, University ofMaryland, College Park, United States; Min Feng, Institute ofGeographic Sciences andNatural Resources Research, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Raghuram Narasimhan, Saurabh

Channan, John R. Townshend, University ofMaiyland, College Park, UnitedStates

MOP-P.7: EVALUATION OF MODIS GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY OF 756

TROPICAL OIL PALM IN SOUTHERN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA

Kian Pang Tan, Kasturi Devi Kanniah, Ibrahim Bin Busu, Universtiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia; Arthur Philip Cracknell,

University ofDundee, United Kingdom

MOP-Q: VEGETATION PHENOLOGY AND TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS I

MOP-Q.l: MONITORING VEGETATION GREENNESS VARIATIONS IN 760

QINGHAI-TEBET PLATEAU WITH MODIS VEGETATION INDEX

Li Zhang, Huadong Guo, Liping Lei, Dongmei Yan, Key Laboratory ofDigital Earth, CenterforEarth Observation and DigitalEarth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-Q.2: ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF PHENOPHASES ON FOREST BURNT 763

AREA MAPPING USING MULTI-TEMPORALMODIS DATA

Shiyang Liu, Institute ofGeographic Sciences andNatural Resources Research, Chinese Academy ofSciences/ Graduate

University ofthe Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Ronggao Liu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources

Research, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-Q.4: SPATIAL FILTERING ANALYSIS FOR QUICK DROUGHT ASSESSMENT 767

USING MODIS IMAGES TO DETECT DROUGHT AFFECTED AREAS

Meng-Lung Lin, Aletheia University, Taiwan; Fujun Sun, Qiubing Wang, Shenyang Agricultural University, China; Cheng-WuChen, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan; Yi-Shiang Shiu, Tzu-How Chu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

MOP-Q.5: GLOBAL VEGETATION DYNAMIC MONITORING USING MULTIPLE 771

SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS, 2002-2007

Le Yang, Hejuan Du, Jing Zhao, Qinhuo Liu, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-Q.6: CALCULATION OF CLUMPING INDEX OF MIXED PDfEL AND SCALE 775

ANALYSIS

Qingmiao Ma, Jing Li, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China; Qiang Liu, BeijingNormal University, China; Qinhuo Liu, Institute ofRemote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-Q.7: A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF WHEAT ROW-STRUCTURE ON 779

MICROWAVE EMISSICITY USING FIELD EXPERIMENT DATA

Yunqing Li, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Linna Chai, Tao Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China

MOP-Q.10: A LONG-TERM GLOBAL LEAF AREA INDEX DATASET (1981-2009) FROM 783

AVHRR AND MODIS DATA

Yang Liu, Ronggao Liu, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-Q.ll: CHANGES OF VEGETATION BIOMASS, SPECIES DIVERSITY AND NDVI 787

ACROSS THE GROUND TEMPERATURE OF PERMAFROST IN THE DATONG RIVER SOURCE

REGION ON THE NORTHEASTERN EDGE OF THE QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU

Xiumin Zhang, Yu Sheng, Jichun Wu, Jing Li, Ji Chen, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute,

Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-Q.12: ESTIMATING VEGETATION WATER CONTENT DURING A GROWING 791

SEASON OF COTTON

Tianjie Zhao, Lixin Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China; Rajat Bindlish, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote SensingLaboratory, United States; Jiancheng Shi, University ofCalifornia, United States; Lingmei Jiang, Yunqing Li, Shaojie Zhao, Tao

Zhang, Xinxin Li, Beijing Nonnal University, China

MOP-R: WETLANDS AND INLAND WATERS I

MOP-R.3: EFFECT OF RADAR MEASUREMENT ERROR ON THE DETECTION OF 795

TRANSIENT INLAND WATER BODIES

Seung-Bum Kim, Richard West, Eni Njoku, California Institute ofTechnology /Jet Propulsion Lab, United States

M0P-R.5: USE OF HIGH-RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY ACQUIRED 803

WITH AN AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE TO QUANTIFY THE SPREAD OF AN

INVASIVE WETLANDS SPECIES

Bushra Zaman, Austin Jensen, Mac McKee, Utah State University, United Stales

MOP-R.6: FLOOD MONITORINGAND ANALYSIS OVER THE MIDDLE REACHES OF 807

YANGTZE RIVER BASIN USING MODIS TIME-SERIES IMAGERY

Bin Li, Shandong Agricultural University, China; Qin Yan, Chinese Academy ofSurveying and Mapping, China; Li Zhang, Key

Laboratory ofDigital Earth, Centerfor Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China

MOP-R.7: THE CAUSE ANALYSIS ON THELOWEST RUNOFF IN THE UPPER 811

REACHES OF YELLOW RIVER FROM 1990 TO 2004

Jianying Feng, Yaohui Li, Institute ofArid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China; Chunmei Liao, Northwest

China Grid Company Limited, China; Jingsong Wang, Institute ofArid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration,China

MOP-S: LAND APPLICATIONS I

MOP-S.2: REMOTE SENSING OF LAND SURFACE DYNAMICS ALONG THE 815

APPALACHIAN TRAIL

Yeqiao Wang, University ofRhode Island, United States; Jianjun Zhao, Hongyan Zhang, Northeast Normal University, China

MOP-S.3: INTEGRATING X-SAR IMAGES AND ANTHROPIC FACTORS FORFIRE 818

SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSESSMENT

Silvia Canale, Alberto De Santis, Daniela Iacoviello, Flora Pirri, Simone Sagratella, Sapienza University ofRome, Italy

MOP-S.5: STUDY OF MICROWAVE EMISSIVITY CHARACTERISTICS OF CITY 822

Tao Zhang, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Yunqing Li, Beijing Normal University, China

MOP-S.7: LAND USE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION THROUGH OPTIMUM-PATH FOREST 826

CLUSTERING

Rodrigo Pisani, Paulina Riedel, Mateus Ferreira, Mara Marques, Rodrigo Mizobe, Joao Papa, UNESP - Univ Estadual Paulista,

Brazil

MOP-T: SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING: SYSTEMS, METHODS ANDAPPLICATIONS I

MOP-T.l: TIME-DOMAIN RECONSTRUCTION OF BURIED OBJECTS USING AN 830

ESTIMATED PULSE

HuiZhou, Wanjin Liu, China University ofPetroleum (Beijing), China

MOP-T.2: LANDMINE DETECTION USING THE DISCRETE SPECTRUM OF 834

RELAXATION FREQUENCIES

Mu-Hsin Wei, Waymond Scott, James McClellan, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

MOP-T.3: POLARIZATION AND PROPAGATION PROPERTY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC 838

PULSES IN THE EARTH

Minoru Tsutsui, Taka Nakatani, Munetoshi Kamitani, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan; Toshiyasu Nagao, Tokai University,Japan

MOP-T.4: DETECTION OF LNAPL CONTAMINATED SOILS BY GPR 842

Qi Lu, Xuan Feng, Cai Liu, Hong-Li Li, Jilin University, China; Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

MOP-T.5: ITERATIVE MULTISCALING STRATEGY INCORPORATED INTO TIME 846DOMAIN INVERSE SCATTERING METHOD FOR CROSS-BOREHOLEIMAGING

Toshifumi Moriyama, Nagasaki University, Japan; Giacomo Oliveri, Andrea Massa, University ofTrento, Italy; Takashi

Takenaka, Nagasaki University, Japan

M0P-T.6: FREQUENCY AND TIME DOMAIN MEASUREMENTS USING CROSS

WELL RADAR TO DEVELOP TESTBEDS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES

ESTIMATION

Jonathan Tow-Vazquez, Rafael A, Rodriguez-Solis, Ingrid Padilla, University ofPuerto Rico Mayaguez Campus, Puerto Rico