IGARSS 2010

Session Index

Monday

MO3.L01: Applications: Coastal and Wetlands I

MO3.L02: High Resolution Interferometry and Tomographic SAR Imaging I

MO3.L03: Ionospheric Effects in SAR, PolSAR, and InSAR I

MO3.L04: Data Mining and Machine Learning for Remote Sensing I

MO3.L05: Forest Biomass I

MO3.L06: Hyperspectral Data Classification

MO3.L07: Education and Remote Sensing

MO3.L08: TRMM and GPM Precipitation Missions I

MO3.L09: New Concepts in SAR

MO3.L10: Next Generation US Operational Environmental Satellite Systems I

MO4.L01: Applications: Coastal and Wetlands II

MO4.L02: High Resolution Interferometry and Tomographic SAR Imaging II

MO4.L03: Ionospheric Effects in SAR, PolSAR, and InSAR II

MO4.L04: Data Mining and Machine Learning for Remote Sensing II

MO4.L05: Forest Biomass II

MO4.L06: Hyperspectral Data Analysis

MO4.L07: Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

MO4.L08: CloudSat, MODIS, AIRS

MO4.L09: Technical Innovation in SAR

MO4.L10: Next Generation US Operational Environmental Satellite Systems II

Tuesday

TU1.L01: Geology and Solid Earth

TU1.L02: Spatiotemporal Pattern Discovery and Data Mining

TU1.L03: Advanced SAR Concepts and Missions I

TU1.L04: Geophysical Information Retrieval

TU1.L05: Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture: Algorithms and Validation I

TU1.L06: SAR Image Analysis I

TU1.L07: Next Generation Data Systems for Climate Record Continuity I

TU1.L08: NWP and Data Assimilation

TU1.L09: SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications I

TU1.L10: From Science to Applications: Exploitation of EO Missions

TUP1.PA: Land Cover Change Detection Techniques

TUP1.PB: Land Cover Change: Vegetation

TUP1.PC: Wetlands and Inland Waters Poster I

TUP1.PD: Applications: Coastal and Wetlands Poster I

TUP1.PE: Roads, Buildings and Urban Areas

TUP1.PF: Data Fusion: Pansharpening and Decision Fusion

TUP1.PG: Monitoring of the Environment and Natural Hazards

TUP1.PH: Microwave Radiometer Technology and Instrumentation Poster

TUP1.PI: Microwave Radiometer Calibration and Advanced Instrument Design

TUP1.PJ: Remote Sensing Data and Policy Decisions Poster

TUP1.PK: Remote Sensing from UAV and Airborne Platforms

TUP1.PL: Biology and Altimetry

TUP1.PM: Lidar Technology

TU2.L01: Volcano and Volcanic Hazard Monitoring

TU2.L02: Ocean Surface Salinity and Temperature

TU2.L03: Advanced SAR Concepts and Missions II

TU2.L04: Inversion of Underground or Wireless Sensor Data

TU2.L05: Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture: Algorithms and Validation II

TU2.L06: SAR Image Analysis II

TU2.L07: Next Generation Data Systems for Climate Record Continuity II

TU2.L08: Atmospheric Profiling

TU2.L09: SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications II

TU2.L10: Applications Bridging the Period Between EOS and the Decadal Survey Eras

TU3.L01: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Remote Sensing

TU3.L02: Satellite Altimetry Past, Present and Future I

TU3.L03: LAI, Reflectance, and Fluroessence

TU3.L04: KOMPSAT-5 SAR Mission I

TU3.L05: Combined Active and Passive Soil Moisture Retrieval

TU3.L06: Kernel methods and Manifold Learning

TU3.L07: EOS Terra Contributions to Earth Science – The First 10 Years I

TU3.L08: TRMM and GPM Precipitation Missions II

TU3.L09: Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction I

TU3.L10: Microwave Scatterometry, Radiometry and Ocean Applications (Honoring Dr. W. Linwood Jones) I

TUP2.PA: Land Cover Change, Ecosystems and Climate

TUP2.PB: Land Cover Change and Urban Regions

TUP2.PC: Wetlands and Inland Waters Poster II

TUP2.PD: Applications: Coastal and Wetlands Poster II

TUP2.PE: Hyperspectral Data: Unmixing & visualization

TUP2.PF: Registration

TUP2.PG: Data Assimilation and Inversion I

TUP2.PH: IR Atmospheric Sounding and Calibration

TUP2.PI: Active Microwave

TUP2.PJ: Education and Remote Sensing Posters

TUP2.PK: Aerosols and Atmospheric Chemistry I

TUP2.PL: Ocean Surface Temperature

TUP2.PM: Lidar Processing and Analysis

TU4.L01: Earthquakes and Remote Sensing

TU4.L02: Satellite Altimetry Past, Present and Future II

TU4.L03: Microwave Sensing of Forests

TU4.L04: KOMPSAT-5 SAR Mission II

TU4.L05: Radar Signature of Soil Moisture and Freeze/Thaw

TU4.L06: Hyperspectral Unmixing

TU4.L07: EOS Terra Contributions to Earth Science – The First 10 Years II

TU4.L08: TRMM and GPM Precipitation Missions III

TU4.L09: Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction II

TU4.L10: Microwave Scatterometry, Radiometry and Ocean Applications (Honoring Dr. W. Linwood Jones) II

Wednesday

WE1.L01: Remote Sensing of Human Settlements I

WE1.L02: The Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) I

WE1.L03: Wetlands and Inland Waters

WE1.L04: Student Contest I

WE1.L05: Remote Sensing for Tropical Deforestation and Degradation: A Global Challenge with Local Impact I

WE1.L06: Classification Techniques

WE1.L07: Data Management and Systems

WE1.L08: Aerosols

WE1.L09: The Destiny of DESDynI – Science and Applications Fusing L-band SAR and Lidar in the Next Decade I

WE1.L10: Realizing the Applications Benefits from NASA’s Pathfinding EOS Missions – the 1st Generation I

WEP1.PA: Radar Remote Sensing of Vegetation

WEP1.PB: Vegetation Mapping I

WEP1.PC: Agroecosystems I

WEP1.PD: Volcano and Earthquake Applications

WEP1.PE: SAR

WEP1.PF: Target Detection - Object Recognition

WEP1.PG: Data Assimilation and Inversion II

WEP1.PH: Hyperspectral and Calibration

WEP1.PI: Hyperspectral Sensors, Calibration an Applications

WEP1.PJ: Data Management and Systems I

WEP1.PK: Aerosols and Atmospheric Chemistry II

WEP1.PL: Snow and Land Ice Poster I

WEP1.PM: Snow and Land Ice Poster II

WE2.L01: Remote Sensing of Human Settlements II

WE2.L02: The Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) II

WE2.L03: Agroecosystems

WE2.L04: Student Contest II

WE2.L05: Remote Sensing for Tropical Deforestation and Degradation: A Global Challenge with Local Impact II

WE2.L06: Classification and Clustering

WE2.L07: Remote Sensing Data and Policy Decisions

WE2.L08: Clouds and Precipitation

WE2.L09: The Destiny of DESDynI – Science and Applications Fusing L-band SAR and Lidar in the Next Decade II

WE2.L10: Realizing the Applications Benefits from NASA’s Pathfinding EOS Missions – the 1st Generation II

WE3.L01: Urban Remote Sensing I

WE3.L02: Ocean Surface Features from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) I

WE3.L03: Land Cover Change Techniques

WE3.L04: Data System Technologies for Improving Data Access and Usability - Challenges and Solutions I

WE3.L05: Synergy of EO Products to Map the Essential Climate Variable Biomass I

WE3.L06: Segmentation and Image Processing

WE3.L07: Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and RFI Mitigation for Microwave Radiometry

WE3.L08: Snow and Lance Ice I

WE3.L09: Polarimetry and Applications

WE3.L10: Special Session Honoring the Achievements of Kiyo Tomiyasu

WEP2.PA: Vegetation mapping III

WEP2.PB: Vegetation Mapping II

WEP2.PC: Agroecosystems II

WEP2.PD: Landslides and Earth's Surface Changes

WEP2.PE: Compression and Efficient Implementations

WEP2.PF: Optical Image Filtering and Segmentation

WEP2.PG: Applications in Remote Sensing

WEP2.PH: Spectral Characterization and Applications

WEP2.PI: Optical Missions - Past and Future

WEP2.PJ: Data Management and Systems II

WEP2.PK: TRMM and GPM

WEP2.PL: Snow and Land Ice Poster III

WEP2.PM: Sea Ice Poster

WE4.L01: Urban Remote Sensing II

WE4.L02: Ocean Surface Features from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) II

WE4.L03: Optical and Infrared Modeling

WE4.L04: Data System Technologies for Improving Data Access and Usability - Challenges and Solutions II

WE4.L05: Synergy of EO Products to Map the Essential Climate Variable Biomass II

WE4.L06: Image Analysis

WE4.L07: Airborne and Spaceborne Measurements of Radio-Frequency Interference

WE4.L08: Snow and Lance Ice II

WE4.L09: Polarimetric image processing

WE4.L10: IGARSS at 30: Perspectives on Remote Sensing Science and Sensors

Thursday

TH1.L01: Remote Sensing of Tsunamis and Other Natural Hazards Using GNSS and Radar Measurements I

TH1.L02: Ocean Surface Winds

TH1.L03: Electromagnetic Forward and Inverse Scattering Models I

TH1.L04: Change Detection and Multitemporal Image Analysis I

TH1.L05: Applications for NASA's Decadal Survey Missions and Opportunities to take Research to Operations

TH1.L06: Lidar Sensing of the Atmosphere

TH1.L07: Innovative Options for Developing Future Earth Science Capabilities

TH1.L08: Application of Remote Sensing and CI to Monitoring Snow and Management of Water Resources

TH1.L09: Interferometric SAR Processing

TH1.L10: TanDEM-X Mission

THP1.PA: Optical Reflectance

THP1.PB: Optical Vegetation Mapping

THP1.PC: Vegetation General

THP1.PD: Urban Remote Sensing Poster I

THP1.PE: Pollution and Contamination Poster

THP1.PF: Hyperspectral Data: Classification

THP1.PG: Land Cover, Land Use, Classification

THP1.PH: Higher Resolution SAR

THP1.PI: Geophysical Parameter Extraction by Radar

THP1.PJ: Interferometric Techniques

THP1.PK: Atmospheric Sensing

THP1.PL: Microwave Scattering I

THP1.PM: Microwave Scattering II

TH2.L01: Remote Sensing of Tsunamis and Other Natural Hazards Using GNSS and Radar Measurements II

TH2.L02: Ocean Waves and Current

TH2.L03: Electromagnetic Forward and Inverse Scattering Models II

TH2.L04: Change Detection and Multitemporal Image Analysis II

TH2.L05: Radar Estimation of Vegetation Information

TH2.L06: Laser Technology: Recent Developments and Lessons Learned

TH2.L07: Microwave Radiometer Technology and Instrumentation

TH2.L08: Sea Ice

TH2.L09: Polarimetric RADARSAT2

TH2.L10: ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission - Instrument Performance and First Results

TH3.L01: Advanced Methods in Satellite Photo-/Radargrammetry I

TH3.L02: SMOS and Ocean Surface Salinity

TH3.L03: International Open Standards for Geosciences - Standards Development

TH3.L04: Optical Imagery for Surface Change Detection: Techniques and Applications I

TH3.L05: Regional Land Cover Change I

TH3.L06: Change Detection

TH3.L07: AMSR-E I

TH3.L08: Arctic Sea Ice Change and Impacts I

TH3.L09: RADARSAT I

TH3.L10: The NASA Soil Moisture Active and Passive Mission (SMAP): Data Products, Science and Applications I

THP2.PA: Radar Mapping

THP2.PB: Modeling

THP2.PC: Next Generation US Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

THP2.PD: Urban Remote Sensing Poster II

THP2.PE: Applications: GPR, Geology & Health

THP2.PF: Algorithms for sensors and platforms

THP2.PG: Vegetation

THP2.PH: Mission Oriented Survey

THP2.PI: Innovative Radar Sensors

THP2.PJ: Interferometry and Differential SAR Interferometry Poster

THP2.PK: NWP and Data Assimilation

THP2.PL: Microwave Scattering III

THP2.PM: Optical and Infrared Modeling Poster

TH4.L01: Advanced Methods in Satellite Photo-/Radargrammetry II

TH4.L02: SAR and Altimetry

TH4.L03: International Open Standards for Geosciences - Standards Applications

TH4.L04: Optical Imagery for Surface Change Detection: Techniques and Applications II

TH4.L05: Regional Land Cover Change II

TH4.L06: Data Fusion

TH4.L07: AMSR-E II

TH4.L08: Arctic Sea Ice Change and Impacts II

TH4.L09: RADARSAT II

TH4.L10: The NASA Soil Moisture Active and Passive Mission (SMAP): Data Products, Science and Applications II

Friday

FR1.L01: Pollution and Contamination

FR1.L02: Ocean Biology I

FR1.L03: Ship Detection with Radar and SAR

FR1.L04: New Machine Learning Methods for Remote Sensing Data Analysis I

FR1.L05: Satellite Observations of Vegetation and Temperature

FR1.L06: Hyperspectral Missions and Techniques

FR1.L07: Microwave Radiometer Calibration I

FR1.L08: Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow

FR1.L09: Radar Processing

FR1.L10: SMOS: The Beginning of a L-band Generation of Global Remote Sensed Soil Moisture Observations I

FRP1.PA: GNSS Reflectometry and Occultations: Theory and Applications

FRP1.PB: Remote Sensing of Soil and Vegetation: Applications I

FRP1.PC: Remote Sensing of Soil and Vegetation: Applications II

FRP1.PD: Urban Remote Sensing Poster III

FRP1.PE: Geophysics and Seismic Applications

FRP1.PF: GIS Techniques and Standards I

FRP1.PG: GIS Techniques and Standards II

FRP1.PH: Polarimetric Methods and Applications

FRP1.PI: Radar Processing Poster

FRP1.PJ: Bistatic / GMTI SAR

FRP1.PK: Clouds and Precipitation

FRP1.PL: Ocean Surface Winds and Currents I

FRP1.PM: Ocean Surface Winds and Currents III

FR2.L01: UXO and Landmine Remediation

FR2.L02: Ocean Biology II

FR2.L03: GIS Applications

FR2.L04: New Machine Learning Methods for Remote Sensing Data Analysis II

FR2.L05: Optical Monitoring of Forests

FR2.L06: Hyperspectral Missions

FR2.L07: Microwave Radiometer Calibration II

FR2.L08: Calibration and Performance Evaluation of Advanced Passive Microwave Instruments

FR2.L09: Active Microwave Sensors and Applications

FR2.L10: SMOS: The Beginning of a L-band Generation of Global Remote Sensed Soil Moisture Observations II

FR3.L01: Ground Penetrating Radar Detection of Subsurface Contaminants and Hazards I

FR3.L02: Ocean Radar Remote Sensing at Grazing Incidence I

FR3.L03: Geographic Information Science: Techniques

FR3.L04: Hyperspectral Methods for Difficult Target Detection I

FR3.L05: Lidar in Forestry

FR3.L06: Hyperspectral Methods

FR3.L07: COSMO/Skymed I

FR3.L08: Millimeter-wave Technology and Sensors for Earth Science Radar Remote Sensing I

FR3.L09: Interferometry and Differential SAR Interferometry

FR3.L10: SMOS Soil Moisture Science and Products

FRP2.PA: Soil Moisture and Vegetation Characterization Using Microwave I

FRP2.PB: Soil Moisture and Vegetation Properties in Remote Sensing

FRP2.PC: Soil Moisture and Vegetation Characterization Using Microwave II

FRP2.PD: Earth Observation Applications

FRP2.PE: Hydrocarbon and Mineral Applications

FRP2.PF: Geographic Information Science: Applications

FRP2.PG: DEM

FRP2.PH: SAR Techniques and Applications

FRP2.PI: SAR Processing Techniques

FRP2.PJ: SAR Applications and Processing

FRP2.PK: Clouds and Precipitation Applications

FRP2.PL: Ocean Surface Winds and Currents II

FR4.L01: Ground Penetrating Radar Detection of Subsurface Contaminants and Hazards II

FR4.L02: Ocean Radar Remote Sensing at Grazing Incidence II

FR4.L03: GIS Techniques and Standards

FR4.L04: Hyperspectral Methods for Difficult Target Detection II

FR4.L05: Forest Monitoring with Radar

FR4.L06: Spectral Methods

FR4.L07: COSMO/Skymed II

FR4.L08: Millimeter-wave Technology and Sensors for Earth Science Radar Remote Sensing II

FR4.L09: Interferometric SAR and Applications

FR4.L10: Surface Roughness and Vegetation Effects on Soil Moisture Estimation

Applications: Coastal and Wetlands I

MO3.L01.1: MAPPING SEAGRASS EXTENT & COMPOSITION IN INTER- & SUB-TIDAL ENVIRONMENTS USING FIELD & REMOTE SENSING
Stuart Phinn, Chris Roelfsema, University of Queensland, Australia

MO3.L01.2: MAPPING DETAILED SEAGRASS HABITATS USING SATELLITE IMAGERY
Ruiliang Pu, Susan Bell, University of South Florida, United States; Kelli Levy, Pinellas County Department of Environment Management, United States; Cynthia Meyer, University of South Florida, United States

MO3.L01.3: LONG TERM MONITORING OF SEAGRASS DISTRIBUTION IN MORETON BAY, AUSTRALIA, FROM 1972-2010 USING LANDSAT MSS, TM, ETM+
Mitchell Lyons, Stuart Phinn, Chris Roelfsema, University of Queensland, Australia

MO3.L01.4: IMPROVED HYPOXIA MODELING FOR NUTRIENT CONTROL DECISIONS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO
Shahid Habib, Kenneth Pickering, Maria Tzortziou, Antonio Mannino, Frirz Policelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States Virgin Islands

MO3.L01.5: EFFECT OF SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL RESOLUTION OF IMAGES ON INTERPRETING INTERTIDAL ESTUARINE SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS
Haijun Huang, Yanxia Liu, Bo Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

High Resolution Interferometry and Tomographic SAR Imaging I

MO3.L02.1: EXPLOITATION OF COHERENCE MATRIXES IN MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR DATASETS: THE SQUEESAR APPROACH
Alessandro Ferretti, Alfio Fumagalli, Fabrizio Novali, Tele-Rilevamento Europa – T.R.E. s.r.l., Italy; Claudio Prati, Fabio Rocca, Alessio Rucci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

MO3.L02.2: COMPRESSIVE SENSING FOR HIGH RESOLUTION DIFFERENTIAL SAR TOMOGRAPHY
Zhu Xiao Xiang, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany; Richard Bamler, Technical university of Munich (TUM) & German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

MO3.L02.3: FIRST EXPERIMENTS OF SECTOR INTERPOLATED SAR TOMOGRAPHY
Fabrizio Lombardini, Matteo Pardini, University of Pisa, Italy

MO3.L02.4: NEW TRENDS IN SAR TOMOGRAPHY
Fabio Baselice, Alessandra Budillon, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Annarita Evangelista, Università di Cassino, Italy; Giampaolo Ferraioli, Vito Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

MO3.L02.5: PERSISTENT SCATTERER PAIRS (PSP) APPROACH IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Mario Costantini, Salvatore Falco, Fabio Malvarosa, Federico Minati, Francesco Trillo, Francesco Vecchioli, E-GEOS - an ASI/Telespazio Company, Italy

Ionospheric Effects in SAR, PolSAR, and InSAR I

MO3.L03.1: A REVIEW OF IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN LOW-FREQUENCY SAR – SIGNALS, CORRECTION METHODS, AND PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS
Franz Meyer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States

MO3.L03.3: IONOSPHERIC STREAKS APPEARED IN THE PALSAR IMAGES
Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Yasushi Muraki, Yuichi Otsuka, Nagoya University, Japan

MO3.L03.4: IMPACT & MITIGATION STRATEGY OF IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN THE CONTEXT OF LOW FREQUENCY (L-/P-BAND) SAR MISSION SCENARIOS
Jun Su Kim, Andreas Dankelmeyer, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

MO3.L03.5: ASSESSMENT OF NEW CORRECTION TECHNIQUES FOR FARADAY ROTATION AND IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION: A BIOMASS PERSPECTIVE
Shaun Quegan, Oliver French, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; Jie Chen, Beihang University, China

Data Mining and Machine Learning for Remote Sensing I

MO3.L04.1: IMAGE INFORMATION MINING METHODS FOR EXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES
Mihai Datcu, Gottfried Schwarz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

MO3.L04.2: PROGRESSIVE SPATIAL CLUSTERING OF CONTENT-BASED SATELLITE IMAGERY RETRIEVAL RESULTS
Matt Klaric, Chi-Ren Shyu, University of Missouri-Columbia, United States

MO3.L04.3: COMPARISON OF CBF, ANN AND SVM CLASSIFIERS FOR OF OBJECT BASED CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES
Krishna Mohan Buddhiraju, Imdad Ali Rizvi, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

MO3.L04.4: AUTOMATED DETECTION OF FOREST COVER CHANGES
Shyam Boriah, Varun Mithal, Ashish Garg, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, United States; Chris Potter, Steve Klooster, NASA, United States; Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Planetary Skin Institute/Cisco, United Kingdom

MO3.L04.5: GEOSPATIAL IMAGE MINING FOR NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION DETECTION: CHALLENGES AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Raju Vatsavai, Budhendra Bhaduri, Anil Cheriyadat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; Lloyd Arrowood, Y-12 National Security Complex, United States; Eddie Bright, Shaun Gleason, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; Carl Diegert, Sandia National Laboratories, United States; Aggelos Katsaggelos, Thrasos Pappas, Argonne National Laboratory, United States; Reid Porter, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States; Jim Bollinger, Savannah River National Laboratory, United States; Barry Chen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States; Ryan Hohimer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States

Forest Biomass I

MO3.L05.1: THE BIOMASS MISSION – AN ESA EARTH EXPLORER CANDIDATE TO MEASURE THE BIOMASS OF THE EARTH’S FORESTS
Marco Arcioni, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Jerome Chave, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Jorgen Dall, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Thuy Le Toan, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Chung-Chi Lin, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Kostas Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Shaun Quegan, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Klaus Scipal, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Hank Shugart, University of Virginia, United States; Lars M. H. Ulander, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden; Mathew Williams, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

MO3.L05.2: SEASONALITY OF ALOS PALSAR INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE AND INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE IN CENTRAL SIBERIA AND ITS IMPLICATION ON FOREST PARAMETER RETRIEVAL
Christian Thiel, Christiane Schmullius, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

MO3.L05.3: CANOPY HEIGHT, CROWN COVER, AND ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS MAPS FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES FROM MISR, 2000 AND 2009
Mark Chopping, Sawahiko Shimada, Montclair State University, United States; Michael Bull, John Martonchik, NASA, United States

MO3.L05.4: TOPOGRAPHY EFFECTS ON FOREST RADAR SCATTERING, CONSEQUENCES ON BIOMASS RETRIEVAL
Ludovic Villard, ONERA-CESBIO, France; Pierre Borderies, ONERA, France; Thuy Le Toan, Thierry Koleck, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Clément Albinet, ONERA, France

MO3.L05.5: FOREST MAPPING USING 3D DSM DATA FROM SPOT HRS AND Z/I DMC CALIBRATED USING ALS DATA
Jörgen Wallerman, Johan E. S. Fransson, Jonas Bohlin, Håkan Olsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Hyperspectral Data Classification

MO3.L06.1: DATA DEPENDANT ADAPTATION FOR IMPROVED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Hemanth Kalluri, Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce, Mississippi State University, United States

MO3.L06.2: TRANSDUCTIVE KERNEL MATRIX LEARNING WITH HIERARCHIC BAYESIAN MODEL, APPLICATION TO HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES
André Ferrari, Cédric Richard, Isabelle Smith, Céline Theys, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France

MO3.L06.3: FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SELECTION HYBRID ALGORITHM FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY CLASSIFICATION
Sen Jia, Shenzhen University, China; Yuntao Qian, Jiming Li, Zhejiang University, China; Weixiang Liu, Zhen Ji, Shenzhen University, China

MO3.L06.4: CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES WITH EXTENDED ATTRIBUTE PROFILES AND FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES
Mauro Dalla Mura, University of Trento, Italy; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland; Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

MO3.L06.5: NEW HYPERSPECTRAL DATA REPRESENTATION USING BINARY PARTITION TREE
Silvia Valero, Philippe Salembier, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain; Jocelyn Chanussot, GIPSA-Lab, Département des Images et des Signaux, France

Education and Remote Sensing

MO3.L07.1: THE CLOUDSAT EDUCATION NETWORK: SCIENTIFICALLY SIGNIFICANT COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH BETWEEN STUDENTS AND SCIENTISTS
Matt Rogers, Colorado State University, United States; Deborah Vane, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

MO3.L07.2: LIDAR EDUCATION AT GEORGIA TECH
Gary Gimmestad, Leanne West, Georgia Tech Research Institute, United States

MO3.L07.3: ESA EARTH OBSERVATION EDUCATIONAL TOOLS CONTRIBUTION TO THE CREATION OF AWARENESS FOR WORLD HERITAGE SITE CONSERVATION
Francesco Sarti, European Space Agency, Italy; Mario Hernandez, UNESCO, France; Jean-Charles Bigot, Steffen Dransfeld, Ana B. Ruescas, European Space Agency, France

MO3.L07.4: IMPROVING K-12 CLIMATE SCIENCE EDUCATION THROUGH COLLABORATIONS WITH SCIENTISTS
Dana Atwood-Blaine, Ryan Bowman, University of Kansas, United States

MO3.L07.5: ENHANCING REMOTE SENSING EDUCATION WITH GEOBRAIN CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
Liping Di, Meixia Deng, George Mason University, United States

TRMM and GPM Precipitation Missions I

MO3.L08.1: A STUDY ON EFFECTIVE DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS OF NON-SPHERICAL SNOWFLAKE AND MELTING HYDROMETEORS
Liang Liao, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States; Robert Meneghini, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Kwo-Sen Kuo, Caelum Research Corp., United States

MO3.L08.2: SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT USING LIDAR CEILOMETERS, RADARS AND SNOW GAUGES
Mamoru Kubo, Ken-ichiro Muramoto, Kanazawa University, Japan; Toru Shiina, Toyama National College of Technology, Japan; Tadayasu Ohigashi, Taro Shinoda, Nagoya University, Japan; Yasushi Fujiyoshi, Hokkaido University, Japan

MO3.L08.3: A RADAR PROFILING ALGORITHM DESIGNED FOR USE WITH MULTIRESOLUTION RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS
Joe Munchak, Christian Kummerow, Colorado State University, United States

MO3.L08.4: APPLICABILITY OF THE ITERATIVE BACKWARD RETRIEVAL METHOD FOR THE GPM DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADAR
Shinta Seto, University of Tokyo, Japan; Toshio Iguchi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

MO3.L08.5: SIMULATION OF THE EXTINCTION PROPERTIES OF REALISTICALLY SHAPED PRECIPITATION PARTICLES
Benjamin Johnson, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States

New Concepts in SAR

MO3.L09.1: POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC APPLICATIONS IN A BISTATIC HYBRID SAR MODE USING TERRASAR-X
Holger Nies, Florian Behner, Simon Reuter, Otmar Löfgren, Robert Wang, Center for Sensorsystems (ZESS), Germany

MO3.L09.2: BISTATIC SAR BASED ON TERRASAR-X AND GROUND BASED RECEIVERS
Antoni Broquetas, Mario Fortes, Juan Carlos Merlano, Sergi Duque, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Paco López-Dekker, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Jordi J. Mallorqui, Albert Aguasca, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

MO3.L09.3: DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTS OF A PASSIVE SAR RECEIVER SYSTEM IN A BISTATIC SPACEBORNE/STATIONARY CONFIGURATION
Holger Nies, Florian Behner, Simon Reuter, Otmar Löfgren, Center for Sensorsystems (ZESS), Germany; Dietmar Matthes, Joachim Schiller, Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), Germany

MO3.L09.4: DATA ACQUISITION OF VESSEL ISAR DATA WITH ASSISTANCE OF AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
Patrick Berens, Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), Germany

MO3.L09.5: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR A SMALL, MULTI-BAND SAR: THE SLIMSAR
Evan Zaugg, Matthew Edwards, Alex Margulis, ARTEMIS, Inc., United States

Next Generation US Operational Environmental Satellite Systems I

MO3.L10.1: NPOESS: OBSERVING AND COMMUNICATING WEATHER, CLIMATE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA FROM SPACE
Dan Stockton, John M. Haas, Craig S. Nelson, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, United States

MO3.L10.2: GOES-R SERIES: THE NEXT GENERATION OF GOES
Gregory Mandt, NOAA/ NESDIS/ GOES-R Program, United States

MO3.L10.3: STATUS OF PRE-LAUNCH ACTIVITIES FOR THE NPOESS COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE CALIBRATION/VALIDATION PROGRAM FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT
Heather Kilcoyne, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

MO3.L10.4: NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM INTERFACE DATA PROCESSING SEGMENT
Joseph Mulligan, Marge Ripley, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, United States

MO3.L10.5: HDF5 FOR NPOESS SENSOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS
Richard Ullman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Ronald Andrews, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Corp, United States

Applications: Coastal and Wetlands II

MO4.L01.1: REMOTE SENSING FOR TSUNAMI RESEARCH AND EARLY DETECTION
Y. Tony Song, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

MO4.L01.2: THE GNSS-BASED COMPONENT OF THE GERMAN-INDONESIAN TSUNAMI EARLY WARNING SYSTEM (GITEWS): OVERVIEW, FIRST OPERATION RESULTS AND CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS
Carsten Falck, Markus Ramatschi, Mitja Bartsch, Alexander Merx, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany

MO4.L01.3: COASTAL CHARACTERIZATION FROM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY: AN INTERCOMPARISON OF RETRIEVAL PROPERTIES FROM THREE COAST TYPES
Charles Bachmann, US Naval Research Lab, United States; Reid Nichols, Marine Information Resources Corp, United States; Marcos Montes, Robert Fusina, Rong-Rong Li, Carl Gross, US Naval Research Lab, United States; John Fry, Marine Information Resources Corp, United States; Christopher Parrish, Jon Sellars, Stephen White, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Christopher Jones, Krista Lee, US Naval Postgraduate School, United States

MO4.L01.4: MONITORING FLOODED AREA FRACTION IN FLOODPLAINS OF PARANÁ BASIN USING PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MICROWAVE SYSTEMS
Mercedes Salvia, Francisco Grings, Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, Argentina; Paolo Ferrazzoli, Rashid Rahmoune, Tor Vergata University, Ingegneria, Italy; Matias Barber, Vanesa Douna, Haydee Karszenbaum, Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, Argentina

MO4.L01.5: MAPPING MAJOR FLOODS WITH OPTICAL AND SAR SATELLITE IMAGES
Ejaz Hussain, Jie Shan, Purdue University, United States

High Resolution Interferometry and Tomographic SAR Imaging II

MO4.L02.1: POLARIMETRIC SAR TOMOGRAPHY OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS USING HYBRID SPECTRAL ESTIMATORS
Yue Huang, Laurent Ferro-Famil, University of Rennes, France; Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

MO4.L02.2: ANALYZING TOMOGRAPHIC SAR DATA OF A FOREST WITH RESPECT TO FREQUENCY, POLARIZATION AND FOCUSING TECHNIQUE
Othmar Frey, Erich Meier, University of Zurich, Switzerland

MO4.L02.3: BISTATIC SAR TOMOGRAPHY: PROCESSING AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
Sergi Duque, Paco López-Dekker, Juan Carlos Merlano, Jordi J. Mallorqui, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

MO4.L02.4: 3D SAR IMAGE FORMATION FOR A COLLECTION OF POINT TARGETS BURIED UNDER A ROUGH INTERFACE
Mahta Moghaddam, Majid Albahkali, University of Michigan, United States

MO4.L02.5: FOREST STRUCTURE FROM LONGER WAVELENGTH SARS
Stefano Tebaldini, Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Ionospheric Effects in SAR, PolSAR, and InSAR II

MO4.L03.1: A PHASE SCREEN SIMULATOR FOR PREDICTING THE IMPACT OF SMALL-SCALE IONOSPHERIC STRUCTURE ON SAR IMAGE FORMATION AND INTERFEROMETRY
Charles Carrano, Boston College, United States; Ronald Caton, Keith Groves, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States

MO4.L03.2: MEASUREMENTS AND CORRECTIONS OF IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN INSAR IMAGERY
Xiaoqing Pi, Bruce Chapman, Anthony Freeman, Paul Rosen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

MO4.L03.3: ASSESSEMENT AND COMPENSATION OF IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON LOW-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Tom Ainsworth, Yanting Wang, Jong-Sen Lee, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

MO4.L03.4: FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN IONOSPHERIC MITIGATION OF REPEAT-PASS INSAR DATA
Paul Rosen, Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Franz Meyer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States; Tom Ainsworth, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

MO4.L03.5: FARADAY ROTATION DETECTION AND CORRECTION FOR DUAL-POLARIZATION (HH-HV) L-BAND DATA
Jeremy Nicoll, Franz Meyer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States

Data Mining and Machine Learning for Remote Sensing II

MO4.L04.1: SEMANTIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM MULTISPECTRAL GEOSPATIAL IMAGERY VIA A FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK
Shaun Gleason, Regina Ferrell, Anil Cheriyadat, Raju Vatsavai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; Soumya De, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States

MO4.L04.2: AN ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT METHOD FOR EARTH OBSERVATIONS DATA INTEROPERABILITY
Surya Durbha, Roger L. King, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States

MO4.L04.3: GEOSPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA MINING IN AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR FOREST THREATS IN THE UNITED STATES
Forrest Hoffman, Richard Mills, Srinivasa Vulli, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; William Hargrove, USDA Forest Service, United States

MO4.L04.4: ON THE VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF GEOSPATIAL IMAGE ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS
Randy Roberts, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States; Timothy Trucano, Sandia National Laboratory, United States; Paul Pope, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States; Cecilia Aragon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States; Ming Jiang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States; Thomas Wei, Argonne National Laboratory, United States; Lawrence Chilton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States; Alan Bakel, Argonne National Laboratory, United States

MO4.L04.5: MONITORING AIR AND LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURES FROM REMOTELY SENSED DATA FOR CLIMATE-HUMAN HEALTH APPLICATIONS
Pietro Ceccato, Christelle Vancutsem, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, United States; Marouane Temimi, NOAA-CREST/ City College of New York, United States

Forest Biomass II

MO4.L05.1: THE 20090-2010 UAVSAR CAMPAIGN TO MAP VEGETATION 3D STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS
Marc Simard, Naiara Pinto, Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Ralph Dubayah, University of Maryland, United States

MO4.L05.2: USING POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC ALOS/PALSAR DATA TO ESTIMATE STEM VOLUME IN THE AMAZON REGION
Fabio Gonçalves, Robert Treuhaft, Bruce Chapman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Beverly Law, Oregon State University, United States; João Roberto dos Santos, Luciano Dutra, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil

MO4.L05.3: A BIOMASS MAP OF AFRICA’S WOODLANDS AND SAVANNAS
Edward Mitchard, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom; Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Patrick Meir, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom; Frank De Grandi, Alexandre Bouvet, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy; Iain Woodhouse, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom; France Gerard, Center for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom

MO4.L05.4: MAPPING FOREST STRUCTURE USING POLARIMETRIC RADARSAT-2 DATA IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
Joni Bugden-Storie, Western Carolina University, United States; Staci Mellon, Independent,

MO4.L05.5: ESTIMATION OF TROPICAL FOREST HEIGHT AND ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS FROM DUAL-BAND INSAR MEASUREMENTS IN PERUVIAN AMAZON
Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Mark Williams, Fugro-EarthData, United States; Miles Silman, Wake Forest University, United States; Scott Hensely, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

Hyperspectral Data Analysis

MO4.L06.1: A GROUP AND REGION BASED COMPRESSION METHOD FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Lena Chang, Ching Min Cheng, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan; Yang-Lang Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

MO4.L06.2: UNSUPERVISED LINEAR UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE FOR CROP YIELD ESTIMATION
Bin Luo, GIPSA-Lab, France; Chenghai Yang, USDA, United States; Jocelyn Chanussot, GIPSA-Lab, France

MO4.L06.3: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING THERMAL BANDS: A METHODOLOGY TO REMOVE BUILDING SHADOWS
Michele Lazzarini, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Jian Guo Liu, Imperial College London, United Kingdom; Fabio Del Frate, Tor Vergata University, Italy

MO4.L06.4: MINIMUM VOLUME SIMPLICIAL ENCLOSURE FOR SPECTRAL UNMIXING OF REMOTELY SENSED HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Eligius Hendrix, Inmaculada Garcia, University of Malaga, Spain; Javier Plaza, Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain

MO4.L06.5: A GRAPH-BASED METHOD FOR NON-LINEAR UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY.
Rob Heylen, Dzevdet Burazerovic, Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

MO4.L07.1: CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES IN CREATING MULTI-INSTRUMENT/MULTI-PLATFORM SPACE-BASED EARTH SYSTEM DATA RECORDS
Jack A. Kaye, NASA Earth Science Division, United States

MO4.L07.2: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE STUDIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR AND BEYOND
Ellsworth LeDrew, University of Waterloo, Canada; David G. Barber, University of Manitoba, Canada

MO4.L07.3: HOW OCEANS SHAPE RAINFALL PATTERNS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
Shang-Ping Xie, University of Hawaii, United States

MO4.L07.4: LAND USE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND BENEFITS OF IMPROVED LAND COVER DATA FOR CLIMATE POLICIES
Steffen Fritz, Petr Havlik, Ian MacCallum, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria

MO4.L07.5: THE GEO FOREST CARBON TRACKING TASK: GOALS AND PROGRESS TO-DATE
Alex A. Held, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia; Gary Richards, Department of Climate Change, Australia

CloudSat, MODIS, AIRS

MO4.L08.1: THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF LIGHT PRECIPITATION FROM SPACEBORNE CLOUD RADAR
Tristan L'Ecuyer, Colorado State University, United States

MO4.L08.2: TEN YEARS OF CLOUD PRODUCTS FROM MODIS TERRA: TREND ANALYSIS
Steven Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Michael King, University of Colorado, United States; Paul Hubanks, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Steven Ackerman, W. Paul Menzel, University of Wisconsin, United States

MO4.L08.3: ENHANCED CLOUD ALGORITHM FROM COLLOCATED CALIPSO, CLOUDSAT AND MODIS
Sunny Sun-Mack, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Patrick Minnis, Seiji Kato, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States; Yan Chen, Yuhong Yi, Sharon Gibson, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Pat Heck, CIMSS, United States; Dave Winer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States; Kirk Ayers, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States

MO4.L08.4: CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND THE FREQUENCY OF SEVERE STORMS IN THE TROPICAL OCEANS USING SEVEN YEARS OF AIRS DATA
Hartmut Aumann, Alexander Ruzmakin, California Institute of Technology, United States

MO4.L08.5: REGIONAL CLOUD AMOUNTS FROM 10-YEARS OF MODIS OBSERVATIONS
Steven Ackerman, Brent Maddux, Richard Frey, W. Paul Menzel, University of Wisconsin, United States; Steven Platnick, NASA, United States

Technical Innovation in SAR

MO4.L09.1: THE GMES SENTINEL-1 C-SAR INSTRUMENT
Friedhelm Rostan, Markus Huchler, Sebastian Riegger, EADS Astrium GmbH, Germany; Renato Croci, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy; Ramon Torres, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands

MO4.L09.2: CODE SEQUENCE SELECTION FOR SAR RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION
Yiding Wang, North China University of Technology, China; Yuanshu Li, Zhulei Wang, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MO4.L09.3: A NEW SAR SENSOR DESIGNED FOR MICRO-SATELLITES
Hans Martin Braun, Institute for Navigation, University of Stuttgart, Germany

MO4.L09.4: POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS OF FORWARD-LOOKING BISTATIC SAR
Ingo Walterscheid, Thomas Espeter, Jens Klare, Andreas R. Brenner, Joachim H. G. Ender, Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), Germany

MO4.L09.5: DIGITAL BEAMFORMING SAR (DBSAR) FOR BIOMASS ESTIMATION
Rafael Rincon, K. Jon Ranson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Guoqing Sun, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / University of Maryland, United States

Next Generation US Operational Environmental Satellite Systems II

MO4.L10.1: OCEAN COLOR IMPACT OF VIIRS POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY AND UNCERTAINTY
Vijay Kulkarny, Bruce Hauss, John M. Jackson, Justin Ip, Patty Pratt, Clark Snodgrass, Roy Tsugawa, Bernard Bendow, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, United States; Gary Mineart, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

MO4.L10.2: VALIDATION FOR GOES-R AND NPOESS LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE PRODUCTS: ANALYZING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SATELLITE AND IN SITU MEASUREMENTS
Yunyue Yu, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Ming Chen, I.M. Systems Group, United States; Dan Tarpley, Short & Associates, United States; Jeffrey Privette, NOAA/NESDIS, United States

MO4.L10.3: EVALUATION OF CRIS/ATMS PROXY RADIANCES/RETRIEVALS WITH IASI RETRIEVALS, ECMWF ANALYSIS AND RAOB MEASUREMENTS
Murty Divakarla, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Chris Barnet, Mitch Goldberg, Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), United States; Xu Liu, NASA Langley Research Center, United States; William Blackwell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, United States; Eric Maddy, Guang Guo, PSGS, United States; Susan Kizer, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Tom King, PSGS, United States; Walter Wolf, Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), United States; Antonia Gambacorta, Kexin Zhang, PSGS, United States

MO4.L10.4: AUTOMATED MONITORING OF VOLCANIC ASH MICRO- AND MACRO-PHYSICAL PROPERTIES: A COMPARISON OF CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE INSTRUMENT CAPABILITIES
Michael Pavolonis, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

MO4.L10.5: GLOBAL BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS PRODUCT FROM A CONSTELLATION OF GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES
Shobha Kondragunta, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Xiaoyang Zhang, Earth Resources Technology at NOAA, United States; Chris Schmidt, University of Wisconsin, United States; Brad Pierce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

Geology and Solid Earth

TU1.L01.1: THE RECOGNITION OF ALTERED ROCK BASED ON SPECTRAL MODELING AND MATCHING USING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Qingting Li, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jingjing Dai, Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, China; Bing Zhang, Qizhong Lin, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TU1.L01.2: DIELECTRIC PARAMETERS MEASUREMENT OF ROCK AND ORE SAMPLES
Sixin Liu, Junjun Wu, Jilin University, China

TU1.L01.3: SPECTROSCOPY OF SULFATES, CLAYS, AND IRON OXIDES IN THE JURASSIC NAVAJO SANDSTONE
Julianne Bell, Brenda Beitler Bowen, Purdue University, United States; Brigette Martini, Ormat Technologies, United States

TU1.L01.4: EFFECTS OF MINERAL COMPOSITION, ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT AND TRACE ELEMENT ABUNDANCE ON REFLECTANCE PROPERTIES OF POLY-PHASE MATERIAL OF WASTE ROCK DUMPS
Veronika Kopacková, Czech Geological Survey, Czech Republic; Jan Hanuš, Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic; Stephane Chevrel, Anna Burginon, BRGM, France; Magdaléna Koubová, Petr Rojík, Czech Geological Survey, Czech Republic

TU1.L01.5: MONITORING SLOW MOVING LANDSLIDES IN THE BERKELEY HILLS WITH TERRASAR-X DATA
Ling Lei, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China / University of California, Berkeley, United States; Yinqing Zhou, Jingwen Li, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China; Roland Burgmann, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Spatiotemporal Pattern Discovery and Data Mining

TU1.L02.1: LONG TIME SERIES OF LANDSAT IMAGES TO RECONSTRUCT RIVER SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND TURBIDITY REGIMES OF GUADALQUIVIR ESTUARY
Ricardo Diaz-Delgado, Iban Ameztoy, Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory of Doñana Biological Station-CSIC. Seville, Spain; Jordi Cristóbal, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; Javier Bustamante, Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory of Doñana Biological Station-CSIC. Seville, Spain

TU1.L02.2: SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA CLUSTERING BASED ON TYPE-2 FUZZY SETS AND CLOUD MODELS
Kun Qin, Mengran Wu, Lingqiao Kong, Yao Liu, Wuhan University, China

TU1.L02.3: FRACTIONAL VEGETATION COVER RETRIEVAL USING MULTI-SPATIAL RESOLUTION DATA AND PLANT GROWTH MODEL
Xihan Mu, Yaokai Liu, Guangjian Yan, Beijing Normal University, China

TU1.L02.4: AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION OF BUILDING CLUSTER PATTERNS FOR SPATIAL SCALE TRANSFER
Tinghua Ai, Xiang Zhang, Wuhan University, China; Wentao Zhang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China

TU1.L02.5: BASED ON TIME SERIAL IMAGES TO DETECT ABNORMITY
Fenzhen Su, Li Wang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Advanced SAR Concepts and Missions I

TU1.L03.1: ADVANCED DIGITAL BEAMFORMING CONCEPTS FOR FUTURE SAR SYSTEMS
Gerhard Krieger, Marwan Younis, Nicolas Gebert, Sigurd Huber, Federica Bordoni, Anton Patyuchenko, Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU1.L03.2: WIDE SWATH SAR INSTRUMENT FOR GLOBAL MONITORING BASED ON DIGITAL BEAM FORMING
Martin Suess, Michael Ludwig, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Christoph Schaefer, Astrium GmbH, Germany; Marwan Younis, Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU1.L03.3: A CONCEPT FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE REFLECTOR-BASED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Marwan Younis, Anton Patyuchenko, Sigurd Huber, Gerhard Krieger, Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU1.L03.4: TANDEM-L: AN INNOVATIVE INTERFEROMETRIC AND POLARIMETRIC SAR MISSION TO MONITOR EARTH SYSTEM DYNAMICS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION
Gerhard Krieger, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Michael Eineder, Marwan Younis, Francesco De Zan, Sigurd Huber, Paco López-Dekker, Pau Prats, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Bernhard Grafmueller, EADS Astrium GmbH, Germany; Marian Werner, Rolf Werninghaus, Richard Bamler, Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU1.L03.5: AN INNOVATIVE SPACEBORNE RADAR CONCEPT FOR GLOBAL MARITIME SURVEILLANCE: DESCRIPTION AND PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATION
Jacques Richard, Vivien Enjolras, Cathya Schoeser, Thales Alenia Space, France; Sébastien Angelliaume, ONERA, France; Philippe Durand, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

Geophysical Information Retrieval

TU1.L04.1: APPLICATION OF THE MULTIPLICATIVE-REGULARIZED GAUSS-NEWTON INVERSION FOR INVERTING 3D MARINE CSEM DATA
Aria Abubakar, Jianguo Liu, Guangdong Pan, Tarek Habashy, Mikhail Zaslavsky, Vladimir Druskin, Schlumberger-Doll Research, United States; Graeme Cairns, Christopher Nalepa, Schlumberger, United States

TU1.L04.2: LEAF AREA INDEX ESTIMATION FROM MODIS DATA USING THE ENSEMBLE KALMAN SMOOTHER METHOD
Huaan Jin, Jindi Wang, Zhiqiang Xiao, Zhuo Fu, Beijing Normal University, China

TU1.L04.3: VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION FOR MISSING DATA INTERPOLATION IN SST IMAGES
Silèye Ba, Université Européenne de Bretagne, France; Thomas Corpetti, CNRS-LIAMA, China; Bertrand Chapron, IFREMER, France; Ronan Fablet, Université Européenne de Bretagne, France

TU1.L04.4: MULTIOBJECTIVE MODEL SELECTION FOR NON-LINEAR REGRESSION TECHNIQUES
Luca Pasolli, University of Trento / EURAC Research, Italy; Claudia Notarnicola, EURAC Research, Italy; Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

TU1.L04.5: RETRIEVAL OF HIGHER ORDER OCEAN WAVE SPECTRA FROM SUNGLINT
Geoff Cureton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture: Algorithms and Validation I

TU1.L05.1: SMOS FIRST IN FLIGHT RESULTS
Yann Kerr, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Philippe Waldteufel, IPSL-SA, France; François Cabot, Philippe Richaume, Arnaud Mialon, Silvia Juglea, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Achim Hahne, Susanne Mecklenburg, European Space Agency, Netherlands

TU1.L05.2: IMPLEMENTATION OF L-BAND ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ALGORITHMS FOR SMAP FREEZE-THAW AND SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS
Eni Njoku, Steven Chan, Scott Dunbar, California Institute of Technology, United States

TU1.L05.3: STATUS OF THE METOP ASCAT SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT
Zoltan Bartalis, Wolfgang Wagner, Vahid Naeimi, Sang-Eun Park, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Julia Figa-Saldaña, Hans Bonekamp, EUMETSAT, Germany

TU1.L05.4: EVALUATION AND APPLICATION OF REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCTS
John Bolten, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Wade Crow, United States Department of Agriculture, United States; Xiwu Zhan, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Curt Reynolds, United States Department of Agriculture, United States; Matthew Rodell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TU1.L05.5: DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL LAND SURFACE EMISSIVITY MAP AT AMSR-E PASSIVE MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES
Hamidreza Norouzi, Marouane Temimi, Reza Khanbilvardi, NOAA-CREST/ City College of New York, United States

SAR Image Analysis I

TU1.L06.1: COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVE IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF SAR CHANGE DETECTION
Andreas Schmitt, Anna Wendleder, Birgit Wessel, Achim Roth, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU1.L06.2: MULTIRESOLUTION DESPECKLING OF VHR SAR IMAGE BASED ON MRF SEGMENTATION.
Maurizio Abbate, University of Cassino, Italy; Luciano Alparone, F. Argenti, T. Bianchi, University of Florence, Italy; Ciro D'Elia, Paola Mariano, University of Cassino, Italy; Adriano Meta, Metasensing, Netherlands

TU1.L06.3: BUILDING DETECTION AND FOOTPRINT RECONSTRUCTION FROM SINGLE VHR SAR IMAGES
Adamo Ferro, Dominik Brunner, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

TU1.L06.4: MODELING HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES OF URBAN AREAS USING MIXTURE MODELS AND HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL
Wenju He, Olaf Hellwich, Berlin University of Technology, Germany

TU1.L06.5: SIMULATION AND VISUALIZATION OF INSAR TIME SERIES ANALYSIS DATA
David Cohen, Richard Carande, Lynne Newberry, Michael Sapper, Neva Ridge Technologies, United States

Next Generation Data Systems for Climate Record Continuity I

TU1.L07.1: NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT (NPP)
James F. Gleason, James J. Butler, N. Christina Hsu, NASA, United States

TU1.L07.3: AN OVERVIEW OF NASA NPP SDS-NICSE ACTIVITIES ON VIIRS SDR ASSESSMENT
Richard Sikorski, INNOVIM, United States; Kwo-Fu Chiang, Masahiro Nishihama, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Robert Wolfe, Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, Mathew Schwaller, NASA, United States

TU1.L07.4: VIIRS PRODUCT EVALUATION AT THE OCEAN PEATE
Frederick Patt, Science Applications International Corporation, United States; Gene Feldman, National Aeronautics and Space Admininstration, United States

TU1.L07.5: EVALUATION OF THE VIIRS LAND ALGORITHMS AT LAND PEATE
Robert Wolfe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Sadashiva Devadiga, Gang Ye, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Edward Masuoka, Robert Schweiss, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

NWP and Data Assimilation

TU1.L08.1: 4-D CLOUD WATER CONTENT FIELDS DERIVED FROM OPERATIONAL SATELLITE DATA
William Smith Jr., Patrick Minnis, NASA Langley Research Center, United States; Stanley Benjamin, Stephen Weygandt, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, United States

TU1.L08.2: USE OF SATELLITE DATA FOR SOIL MOISTURE ANALYSIS AT ECMWF
Patricia de Rosnay, Joaquin Muñoz Sabater, Gianpaolo Balsamo, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom; Matthias Drusch, Klaus Scipal, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Anton Beljaars, Lars Isaksen, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom

TU1.L08.3: IMPACTS OF INTEGRATING HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTE-SENSING SURFACE AND VEGETATION DATA ON THE WEATHER RESEARCH FORECASTING (WRF) MODEL FORECAST
Fei Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States

TU1.L08.4: COMPARING THE FORECAST IMPACTS FROM ASSIMILATING SSMIS AND AMSU DATA IN NCEP GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM (GFS)
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Banghua Yan, University of Maryland, United States

TU1.L08.5: AN OBJECTIVE NEAR-CASTING TOOL THAT USES THE GOES SOUNDER TO PREDICT SEVERE CONVECTION
Robert Aune, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Services, United States; Ralph Petersen, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, United States

SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications I

TU1.L09.1: APPLICATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR TO EARTH REMOTE SENSING
Jakob J. van Zyl, Yunjin Kim, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TU1.L09.3: FULLY POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X DATA: DATA QUALITY AND SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS
Irena Hajnsek, ETH Zürich / DLR, Germany; Kostas Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU1.L09.4: EXPLOITATION OF THE ADDITIVE COMPONENT OF THE POLARIMETRIC NOISE MODEL FOR SPECKLE FILTERING
Samuel Foucher, Computer Research Institute of Montreal, Canada; Grégory Farage, University of Sherbrooke, Canada; Carlos L?pez-Martínez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Canada

TU1.L09.5: RECENT ADVANCES IN FULLY POLARIMETRIC SPACE-SAR SENSOR DESIGN AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

From Science to Applications: Exploitation of EO Missions

TU1.L10.1: GLOBWAVE AND APPLICATIONS OF GLOBAL SATELLITE WAVE OBSERVATIONS
Fabrice Collard, CLS, France; Bertrand Chapron, Jean-François Piolle, Ifremer, France; Ellis Ash, SATOC, United Kingdom; David Poulter, NOCS, United Kingdom; Geoff Busswell, LOGICA, United Kingdom

TU1.L10.2: ESTIMATION OF ICE THICKNESS OF TUNDRA LAKES USING ERS–ENVISAT CROSS-INTERFEROMETRY
Urs Wegmüller, Charles Werner, Maurizio Santoro, Andreas Wiesmann, Tazio Strozzi, GAMMA Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland

TU1.L10.3: ERS-ENVISAT TANDEM CROSS-INTERFEROMETRY FOR MONITORING OF SEA ICE
Paolo Pasquali, Alessio Cantone, Massimo Barbieri, sarmap s.a., Switzerland; Marcus Engdahl, European Space Agency - ESRIN, Italy

TU1.L10.4: ARCTIC SEA ICE DYNAMICS FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS: RESULTS FROM THE GLOBICE PROJECT.
Steven Baker, Seymour Laxon, Alan Muir, Andrew Ridout, University College London, United Kingdom; Ron Kwok, California Institute of Technology, United States

TU1.L10.5: POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY (POL-INSAR) FOR GLOBAL FOREST BIOMASS MONITORING
Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Shane Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom; Gerhard Krieger, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Irena Hajnsek, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Land Cover Change Detection Techniques

TUP1.PA.1: AN UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION USING AGGLOMERATIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING, WISHART TEST STATISTIC AND THE C-P DECOMPOSITION FOR FULLY POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Fang Cao, Wen Hong, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Eric Pottier, IETR UMR CNRS 6164, University of Rennes 1, France

TUP1.PA.2: SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS FOR MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION AND MAPPING USING PRISM, AN ENVI/IDL BASED SOFTWARE PACKAGE
Raymond Kokaly, U.S. Geological Survey, United States

TUP1.PA.3: MULTISPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL LAND USE ANALYSIS: PROSPECTIVE STUDY
Ivan Villalon, University of Guadalajara, Mexico; Maria Llovera, Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico

TUP1.PA.4: OPTIMAL WAVELENGTHS FOR AN EARLY IDENTIFICATION OF CERCOSPORA BETICOLA WITH SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES BASED ON HYPERSPECTRAL REFLECTION DATA
Till Rumpf, Anne-Katrin Mahlein, Christoph Römer, Lutz Plümer, Bonn University, Germany

TUP1.PA.5: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERN OF FIRES IN CHINA USING MODIS DATA
Xianlin Qin, Zengyuan Li, Research Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, China; Zihui Zhang, Information Center of Forest Fire Prediction and Monitoring, China

TUP1.PA.6: CHANGE DETECTION USING ITERATIVELY REWEIGHTED REGRESSION WITH NEURAL NETWORKS
Prashanth R Marpu, Paolo Gamba, University of Pavia, Italy; Morton J. Canty, Juelich Research Center, Germany

TUP1.PA.7: AUTOMATED SUPERVISED LAND USE CLASSIFICATION AND CHANGE DETECTION: AN IMAGE FUSION BASED APPROACH
Francis Padula, Julia MacDonough, Dan Bondy, Monica Cook, Integrity Applications Incorporated, United States

TUP1.PA.8: A NEW SUB-PIXEL MAPPING METHOD BASED ON SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION AND LANDSCAPE INDEXES
Jian Zhang, College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University,

TUP1.PA.9: OBJECT-ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION FOR LAND COVER MAPPING BASED ON ASTER DATA FOR BEIJING
Ting He, Key Laboratory of Land Use, Ministry of Land and Resources, China; Lela Prashad, Arizona State University, United States; Jing Wang, Key Laboratory of Land Use, Ministry of Land and Resources, China; Jonathan Fink, Arizona State University, United States

Land Cover Change: Vegetation

TUP1.PB.1: COMPARISON OF NEEDLELEAF EVERGREEN FOREST AND NEEDLELEAF DECIDUOUS FOREST IN THE GLCNMO WITH IGBP DISCOVER AND GLC2000
Gegen Tana, Husi Letu, Erdenee Batzorig, Ryutaro Tateishi, Chiba University, Japan

TUP1.PB.2: WOODED HEDGEROWS CHARACTERIZATION IN RURAL LANDSCAPE USING VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES
Clémence Vannier, Laurence Hubert-Moy, Laboratoire COSTEL, France

TUP1.PB.3: ESTIMATING PASTURE PRODUCTIVITY IN THE BRAZILIAN SAVANNA BIOME BASED ON MODERATE RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA
Laerte Guimarães Ferreira, Federal University of Goias, Brazil; Edson Sano, Brazilian Agriculture Research Organization, Brazil; Fernando Moreira Araujo, Federal University of Goias, Brazil

TUP1.PB.4: MAPPING SOYBEAN AREAS WITH REMOTE SENSING DATA IMAGES USING A SIMPLIFIED BAYESIAN NETWORK
Marcio Mello, Marcos Adami, Anibal Gusso, Gustavo Silva, Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, Brazil; Rodrigo Rizzi, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil; Bernardo Rudorff, Leila Fonseca, Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, Brazil

TUP1.PB.5: NEW DTW-BASED METHOD TO SIMILARITY SEARCH IN SUGAR CANE REGIONS REPRESENTED BY CLIMATE AND REMOTE SENSING TIME SERIES
L. A. S. Romani, USP - Sao Carlos, Brazil; R. R. V. Goncalves, J. Zullo Jr., Unicamp, Brazil; C. Traina Jr., A. J. M. Traina, USP - Sao Carlos, Brazil

TUP1.PB.6: COMPARISON OF CROP CLASSIFICATION CAPABILITY OF SPACEBORNE MULTI-PARAMETERS SAR DATA
Xin Tian, Erxue Chen, Zengyuan Li, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China; Z.Bob Su, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Netherlands; Feilong Ling, Fuzhou University, China; Lina Bai, Fengyu Wang, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China

TUP1.PB.7: THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LAND COVER AND MACROSCOPICAL ECOLOGY CHANGES IN THE SOURCE REGION OF THREE RIVERS IN QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU DURING LAST 30 YEARS
Quanqin Shao, Zhiping Zhao, Jiyuan Liu, Jiangwen Fan, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PB.8: CHARACTERISTICS OF SPATIAL-TEMPORAL CHANGES OF MODIS NDVI IN CHINESE XILINGOL GRASSLAND FROM 2000 TO 2008
Hongbin Zhang, Qing Huang, Guixia Yang, Gang Li, Baorui Chen, Xiaoping Xin, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

TUP1.PB.9: AN ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF NDVI IN VARIOUS VEGETATION-CLIMATE REGIONS IN INNER MONGOLIA, CHINA
Cui Yaoping, Liu Jiyuan, Hu Yunfeng, Dong Jinwei, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PB.10: ANALYSIS OF DEFORESTATION IN MATO GROSSO USING MULTI-TEMPORAL LANDSAT TM IMAGERIES
Megumi Maruyama, Yasushi Yamaguchi, Nagoya University, Japan

Wetlands and Inland Waters Poster I

TUP1.PC.1: RETRIEVAL OF WATER QUALITY FROM CHINA’S FIRST SATELLITE-BASED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER (HJ-1A HSI) DATA
Qiao Wang, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection, China; Junsheng Li, Qian Shen, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chuanqing Wu, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection, China; Jianlin Yu, China Urban Technology Trust (Beijing) Co.,Ltd., China

TUP1.PC.2: RESEARCH ON THE LAKES CHANGE IN EJIN ALLUVIAL FAN FROM LONG TIME-SERIES LANDSAT IMAGES
Lu Zhang, Huadong Guo, Xinyuan Wang, Xinwu Li, Linlin Lu, Laboratory of Digital Earth Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PC.3: EVALUATING SOCIAL SERVICE VALUE OF WETLANDS IN BEIJING BASED ON REMOTE SENSING AND GIS
Lin Zhu, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Capital Normal University, China; Weiguo Jiang, Beijing Normal University, China; Yun Chen, CSIRO, Australia; Yun Pan, Capital Normal University, China; Peng Hou, Beijing Normal University, China

TUP1.PC.4: WATER SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL FOR A SMALL LAKE USING ASTER THERMAL INFRARED DATA
Hideyuki Tonooka, Masayuki Hirayama, Ibaraki University, Japan

TUP1.PC.5: SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND THE POSSIBLE SOURCE CDOM FOR INLAND WATER IN SUMMER IN THE NORTHEAST CHINA
Guangjia Jiang, Dianwei Liu, Kaishan Song, Bai Zhang, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PC.6: MONITORING LONG TIME TRENDS IN LAKE CDOM USING LANDSAT IMAGE ARCHIVE
Tiit Kutser, Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Estonia

TUP1.PC.7: STUDY IN BIEBRZA WETLANDS USING OPTICAL AND MICROWAVE SATELLITE DATA
Katarzyna Dabrowska-Zielinska, Maria Budzynska, Wanda Kowalik, Iwona Malek, Konrad Turlej, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Poland

TUP1.PC.8: SOIL CONCENTRATION REVERSE METHOD BASED ON SPECIAL SPECTRAL POSITION
Chuanqing Wu, Qiao Wang, Li Zhu, Yanjuan Yao, Yongjun Zhang, Satellite Environment Center, China; Ying Wang, Renmin University of China, China; Jing Chen, China University of Geosciences, China

TUP1.PC.9: ESTIMATING CHLOROPHYLL A CONCENTRATION IN LAKE WATER USING SPACE-BORNE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Li Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiu Yin, Shanghai Center for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, China; Hua Xu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Cailan Gong, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zheng hua Chen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PC.10: RETRIVAL OF TOTAL SUSPENDED MATTER (TSM) USING REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES IN SHITOUKOUMEN RESERVIOR, NORTHEAST CHINA
Kaishan Song, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Dong mei Lu, Computer Science and Engineering College, JLIAE, China; Zongm ming Wang, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lin Li, IUPUI, Indianapolis, United States; Bai Zhang, Yuan dong Wang, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Applications: Coastal and Wetlands Poster I

TUP1.PD.1: ASSESSMENT OF POST-STORM RECOVERY OF BEACH PROFILES USING VIDEO IMAGING TECHNIQUES
Kristen Splinter, Rodger Tomlinson, Griffith University, Australia

TUP1.PD.2: MONITORING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS IN MUUGA HARBOUR USING ENVISAT MERIS AND ASAR DATA
Liis Sipelgas, Rivo Uiboupin, Urmas Raudsepp, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

TUP1.PD.3: INVESTIGATIONS ON THE FULL POLARIMETRIC PALSAR DATA TO DISCRIMINATE MACROPHYTES SPECIES IN THE AMAZON FLOODPLAIN WETLAND
Lauriana Rúbio Sartori, Nilton Nobuhiro Imai, Sao Paulo State University – UNESP, Brazil; José Claudio Mura, Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil; Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, University of Victoria, Canada

TUP1.PD.4: USING LANDSAT DATA TO DETECT LONG-TERM MORPHODYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF ESTUARIES: A CASE STUDY IN THE XIAOQINGHE RIVER ESTUARY, CHINA
Yanxia Liu, Haijun Huang, Jun Yan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PD.5: THE APPLICABILITY OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AND REMOTE SENSING IN IDENTIFYING POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS (PBDES) SOURCES USING NOAA NATIONAL STATUS & TRENDS MUSSEL WATCH PROGRAM DATA
Patrina Bly, Elizabeth City State University, United States; Michael Edwards, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TUP1.PD.6: SERVICE-BASED DISTRIBUTED DATA MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATION IN CHINA DIGITAL OCEAN
Wen Dong, Xin Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Bing Jiang, China National Marine Data and Information Service, China

TUP1.PD.7: A STUDY ON SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATIONS OF COASTAL WETLAND IN PEARL RIVER ESTUARY
Yi Gao, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research & Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Fenzhen Su, Xiaoyu Sun, Zhenshan Xue, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yawen He, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research & Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PD.8: A NEW APPROACH TO MICROPHYTOBENTHOS BIOMASS MAPPING BY INVERSION OF THE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL : APPLICATION TO HYSPEX IMAGES OF BOURGNEUF BAY
Farzaneh Kazemipour, Patrick Launeau, Laboratory of Planetology and Geodynamics of Nantes, France; Vona Méléder, Equipe Mer, Molécule et Santé, France

TUP1.PD.9: MANGROVE DETECTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL DATA
Emmanuel Christophe, Choong Min Wong, Soo Chin Liew, National University of Singapore, Singapore

TUP1.PD.10: COASTAL FOREST 3-D STRUCTURE, HEIGHT CLASS DISTRIBUTION AND PRODUCTIVITY MODELING USING RADAR AND LIDAR
Temilola Fatoyinbo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Marc Simard, NASA Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

Roads, Buildings and Urban Areas

TUP1.PE.1: AUTOMATIC ROAD EXTRACTION BASED ON LOCAL HISTOGRAM AND SUPPORT VECTOR DATA DESCRIPTION CLASSIFIER FROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL AERIAL IMAGERY
Rui Zhang, George Mason University, United States; Xiangguo Lin, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, China

TUP1.PE.2: EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON URBAN ROAD EXTRACTION FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION RS IMAGES USING PROBABILISTIC TOPIC MODELS
Wenbin Yi, Yunhao Chen, Hong Tang, Beijing Normal University, China; Lei Deng, Capital Normal University, China

TUP1.PE.3: GEOMETRIC REFINEMENT OF ROAD NETWORKS USING NETWORK SNAKES AND SAR IMAGES
Matthias Butenuth, Technische Universität München, Germany

TUP1.PE.4: ROAD EXTRACTION FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTELY SENSED PANCHROMATIC IMAGE IN DIFFERENT RESEARCH SCALES
Zhanfeng Shen, Jiancheng Luo, Lijing Gao, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PE.5: LINE-SEGMENT VECTORIZATION ON HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES
Bo Yuan, Soo Chin Liew, Leong Keong Kwoh, National University of Singapore, Singapore

TUP1.PE.6: IMAGE DIFFERENCE HISTOGRAM: A NEW TOOL FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS APPLIED TO CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN SETTLEMENTS
Guillaume Noel, Barend Van Wyk, French South African Institute of Technology, South Africa; Anton Van Wyk, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

TUP1.PE.7: RANDOM FORESTS FOR BUILDING DETECTION IN POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Ronny Hänsch, Olaf Hellwich, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

TUP1.PE.8: DETECTION OF ALIGNED OBJECTS FOR HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE UNDERSTANDING
Maria Carolina Vanegas, Isabelle Bloch, Telecom ParisTech, France; Jordi Inglada, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

TUP1.PE.9: APPLICATION OF 3D-ZERNIKE DESCRIPTORS IN REMOTE SENSING TARGET RECOGNITION
Ye Zhang, Yiming Yan, Hao Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

TUP1.PE.10: CLUSTERING OF DETECTED CHANGES IN SATELLITE IMAGERY USING FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHM
Ozy Sjahputera, Grant Scott, Klaric Matthew, Brian Claywell, James Keller, Nicolas Hudson, Curt Davis, University of Missouri-Columbia, United States

TUP1.PE.11: EXTRACTION OF DIFFERENT URBAN AREA CATEGORIES FROM SATELLITE IMAGES USING WINDOW INDEPENDENT CONTEXT SEGMENTATION
Michael Nielsen, Stockholm University, Sweden

Data Fusion: Pansharpening and Decision Fusion

TUP1.PF.1: MULTIRESOLUTION FUSION OF PAN AND MS IMAGES BASED ON THE CURVELET TRANSFORM
ShuQin Ren, Jian Cheng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Min Li, Guilin Airforce Academy, China

TUP1.PF.2: A SIMPLIFIED IMAGE FUSION TECHNIQUE WITH SENSOR SPECTRAL RESPONSE
Qiang Zhou, Peng Gong, Ziqi Guo, Caixia Liu, Wei Fu, Baogang Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Science and Beijing Normal University, China

TUP1.PF.3: MULTIRESOLUTION FUSION IN REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES: USE OF GIBBS PRIOR AND PSO OPTIMIZATION
Manjunath Joshi, Prakash Gajjar, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India; S. Ravishankar, K. V. V. Murthy, Amrita School of Engineering, India

TUP1.PF.4: PANSHARPENING FOR CORRECTION OF SPECTRAL AND BLOCK DISTORTIONS
Sang-Hoon Lee, Kyungwon University, Republic of Korea

TUP1.PF.5: MAP-MRF ESTIMATION FOR MULTIRESOLUTION FUSION OF REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES
Manjunath Joshi, Abhishek Shripat, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India; Pradipta Nanda, Institute of Technical Education & Research, Bhubaneswar, India; S. Ravishankar, K. V. V. Murthy, Amrita School of Engineering, India

TUP1.PF.6: EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION BASED DECISION FUSION FOR HIGHER HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY
Begum Demir, Sarp Erturk, University of Kocaeli, Turkey

TUP1.PF.7: IMAGE FUSION FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES BASED ON MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY
Frosti Palsson, Johannes R. Sveinsson, Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland; Henrik Aanæs, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

TUP1.PF.8: HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHM (GA)-BASED NEURAL NETWORK FOR MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE FUSION
Xia Peng, Anrong Dang, Tsinghua University, China

TUP1.PF.9: STEREO MATCHING BETWEEN IMAGES OF LARGE SLOPE BASED ON MULTI-SCALE DIRECTIONAL WAVELET TRANSFORM
Xi-an Zhao, Zhi-xue Chen, Guang Zhu, Jing-guo Lv, Chang-feng Jing, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China

TUP1.PF.10: SUPER-RESOLUTION ANALYSIS FOR ACCURATE MAPPING OF LAND COVER AND LAND COVER PATTERN
Anuar Muad, Giles Foody, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Monitoring of the Environment and Natural Hazards

TUP1.PG.1: OPTIMUM SYSTEMS FOR SATELLITE FIRE DETECTION
Tiziana Beltramonte, Maurizio di Bisceglie, Carmela Galdi, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy

TUP1.PG.2: MAXIMIZING THE DETECTION AND MAPPING OF MINIMAL AREA BURN SCARS WITH A MULTI-PAYLOAD MULTI-METHOD AUTOMATED APPROACH: APPLICATION TO SUMMER FIRE SEASONS IN ITALY
Giovanni Laneve, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy; Barbara Hirn, IES Consulting, Italy; Concettina Di Bartola, Università della Calabria, Italy; Fabrizio Ferrucci, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

TUP1.PG.3: REGULARIZATION OF DISPLACEMENT FIELDS FOR GLACIER MONITORING
Renaud Fallourd, Emmanuel Trouvé, Université de Savoie - Polytech'Savoie, France; Charles-Alban Deledalle, Jean-Marie Nicolas, Florence Tupin, Telecom ParisTech, France

TUP1.PG.4: AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF MOVING WILD ANIMALS IN AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Yu Oishi, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Tsuneo Matsunaga, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan

TUP1.PG.5: APPROACH FOR VOLCANIC SURVEILLANCE USING SATELLITE-BORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA
Takashi Maeda, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Tadashi Takano, Nihon University, Japan

TUP1.PG.6: COMPARISON OF IMAGE RESTORATION METHODS APLIED TO INLAND AQUATIC SYSTEMS IMAGES AQUIRED BY HR CBERS 2B SENSOR
Lino Augusto Sander de Carvalho, Leila Maria Garcia Fonseca, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil

TUP1.PG.7: AUTOMATIC IMAGE CLASSIFICATION OF LANDSLIDES IMPROVED WITH TERRAIN ROUGHNESS INDICES IN VARIOUS KERNEL SIZES
Mon-Shieh Yang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; Ming-Chang Lin, Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan; Jin-King Liu, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan; Ming-Chee Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

TUP1.PG.8: IDENTIFY EARTHQUAKE HOT SPOTS WITH 3-DIMENSIONAL DENSITY-BASED CLUSTERING ANALYSIS
Lei Lei, Claremont Graduate University, United States

Microwave Radiometer Technology and Instrumentation Poster

TUP1.PH.1: F-13 SSM/I INSTRUMENT FAILURE AVERTED BY REPOSITIONING SPACECRAFT SOLAR PANEL AND MITIGATING SENSOR OVERHEATING
Steve Swadley, Jeffrey Hawkins, Gene Poe, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Dex Landreth, DMSS/USAF, United States; Eun-Sung Park, Donald Boucher, The Aerospace Corporation, United States; Troy vonRentzell, Enzo Uliana, Beverly Gardiner, Interferometrics Corporation, United States

TUP1.PH.2: IMAGING ALGORITHM AND EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF ROTATING SCANNING INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETER
Cheng Zhang, Hao Liu, Jingye Yan, Weiying Sun, Shengwei Zhang, Heguang Liu, Ji Wu, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PH.3: GLOBAL CHANGE OBSERVATION MISSION (GCOM) DATA RECOVERY BY THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA) - AN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP TO CAPTURE CRITICAL OPERATIONAL AND CLIMATE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS FROM SPACE
Peter Wilczynski, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TUP1.PH.4: COMPARING DATA OF TWO AIRBORNE L-BAND RADIOMETERS WITH DIFFERENT SPATIAL RESOLUTION OVER A HETEROGENEOUS LAND SURFACE
Johanna Dall’Amico, University of Munich, Germany; Juha Kainulainen, Aalto University, Finland; Alexander Loew, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Germany; Wolfram Mauser, University of Munich, Germany

TUP1.PH.5: SYSTEM DESIGN OF W-BAND FULLY POLARIMETRIC RADIOMETER FOR TARGET IDENTIFICATION
Yong-Hoon Kim, Nam-Won Moon, Sung-Hyun Kim, School of Information and Mechatronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

TUP1.PH.6: GPM MICROWAVE IMAGER DESIGN, PREDICTED PERFORMANCE AND STATUS
Sergey Krimchansky, David Newell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TUP1.PH.7: ANALYSIS OF ANECHOIC CHAMBER TESTING OF THE HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER
David Fenigstein, Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States; Mark James, David Simmons, Timothy Miller, Courtney Buckley, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States

TUP1.PH.8: OPTIMAL ANTENNA COATINGS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS: DMSP SSMIS CASE STUDY
Donald Boucher, Josh Park, Michael Meshishnek, John Wessel, The Aerospace Corporation, United States; Gene Poe, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Aluizio Prata, University of Southern California, United States; Ezra Long, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TUP1.PH.9: DEVELOPMENT OF A THREE-ELEMENT INTERFEROMETER AT 50~56 GHZ FOR GEOSTATIONARY INTERFEROMETRIC MICROWAVE SOUNDER (GIMS)
Hao Liu, Ji Wu, Shengwei Zhang, Jingye Yan, Lijie Niu, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PH.10: GPM MICROWAVE IMAGER ENGINEERING MODEL RESULTS
David Newell, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., United States; Sergey Krimchansky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

Microwave Radiometer Calibration and Advanced Instrument Design

TUP1.PI.1: ОN-ORBIT CALIBRATION OF THE “METEOR-M” MICROWAVE IMAGER/SOUNDER
Igor' Cherny, Scientific-Technological Center “Kosmonit”, JSC “Russian Space Systems, Russian Federation; Leonid Mitnik, Maia Mitnik, V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation; Alexandr Uspensky, State Research Center for Space Hydrometeorology “Planeta”, Russian Federation; Alexandr Streltsov, Scientific-Technological Center “Kosmonit”, JSC “Russian Space Systems, Russian Federation

TUP1.PI.2: ANALYSIS AND VERIFICATION OF CALIBRATION METHODS FOR FULLY POLARIMATRIC W-BAND RADIOMETER
Yong-Hoon Kim, Sung-Hyun Kim, Nam-won Moon, School of Information and Mechatronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

TUP1.PI.3: DEVELOPMENT OF A MICROWAVE RADIOMETER INTER-CALIBRATION TRANSFER FUNCTION FOR THE GPM CONSTELLATION
Darren McKague, Rachael Kroodsma, John Puckett, Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States

TUP1.PI.4: OPTIMAL CALIBRATION OF RADIOMETERS USING SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES
Miao Tian, Albin Gasiewski, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States

TUP1.PI.5: STABILITY OF THE VICARIOUS COLD CALIBRATION STATISTIC FOR THE GPM CONSTELLATION
Rachael Kroodsma, Darren McKague, John Puckett, Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States

TUP1.PI.6: ICE-PHASE PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS OVER LAND USING COMBINED RADAR / RADIOMETER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS
Benjamin Johnson, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States; Gail Skofronick-Jackson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TUP1.PI.7: REFLECTIVITY STUDIES OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE CALIBRATION TARGETS AND ABSORPTIVE MATERIALS
Dazhen Gu, Amanda E. Cox, Derek Houtz, David K. Walker, James Randa, Robert L. Billinger, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States

TUP1.PI.8: IN-ORBIT PERFORMANCE OF MICROWAVE HUMIDITY SOUNDER (MWHS) OF THE CHINESE FY-3 METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE
Jing Li, Shengwei Zhang, Jingshan Jiang, Xiaolong Dong, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PI.9: ON THE DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE ARRAY ELEMENTS IN THE GEO ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDER INSTRUMENT: A NEW DESIGN PROCEDURE
Isernia Tommaso, Antonia Rita Lagana', Andrea Francesco Morabito, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy; Anders Carlstrom, RUAG Aerospace Sweden, Sweden; Giovanni Toso, European Space Agency, Netherlands

TUP1.PI.10: PITFALLS IN THE RETRIEVAL OF FINE AND COARSE MODE AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH: HOW WELL DO WE UNDERSTAND COARSE MODE EFFECTS INDUCED BY THIN CLOUDS?
Santo V. Salinas, Boon N. Chew, Soo C. Liew, National University of Singapore, Singapore

TUP1.PI.11: APPLICATION OF ENSEMBLE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS TO MODELING UNCERTAINTY IN NON STATIONARY PROCESSES
Paul Racette, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TUP1.PI.12: EVALUATION OF STATISTICAL RETRIEVAL ERRORS FOR GROUND BASED MICROWAVE RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS
Zlatko Vukovic, Stewart Cober, Environment Canada, Canada

Remote Sensing Data and Policy Decisions Poster

TUP1.PJ.1: MODIS-NDVI-BASED CROP GROWTH MONITORING IN CHINA AGRICULTURE REMOTE SENSING MONITORING SYSTEM
Qing Huang, Huajun Tang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Xianlin Qin, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China; Guixia Yang, Jianqiang Ren, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

TUP1.PJ.2: DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPERATIONAL SAR SYSTEM FOR GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS: WIND FIELDS AS A FIRST CASE
Frank Monaldo, Donald Thompson, Johns Hopkins University, United States; William Pichel, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TUP1.PJ.3: SOLAR RESOUCE ASSESSMENT WITH MSG DATA
Attilio Gambardella, Thomas Huld, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy

TUP1.PJ.4: A REAL TIME SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING FLOODED ROADS IN RURAL AREAS DURING SEVERE PRECIPITATION EVENTS
Tom Whitney, Stephen Katzberg, Maria Hubbard, South Carolina State University, United States

TUP1.PJ.5: OMI NEAR REAL TIME DATA PROCESSING
Phillip Durbin, ADNET Systems, United States; Curt Tilmes, NASA, United States; Brian Duggan, Bigyani Das, ADNET Systems, United States

TUP1.PJ.6: A SEGMENTER OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES FOR DATABASE SPACE POSTGRE-SQL/POSTGIS.
Alcina Maria Nepomuceno, Antônio Nuno de Castro Santa Rosa, University Brasília, Brazil

Remote Sensing from UAV and Airborne Platforms

TUP1.PK.1: ON THE ACCURACY OF 3D LANDSCAPES FROM UAV IMAGE DATA
Koen Douterloigne, Sidharta Gautama, Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Belgium

TUP1.PK.2: CALIBRATION SYSTEM STABILITY PLANS FOR A LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING PROJECT
Michele Kuester, Brian Johnson, Thomas Kampe, Joel McCorkel, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), United States

TUP1.PK.3: IN-SITU UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) SENSOR CALIBRATION TO IMPROVE AUTOMATIC IMAGE ORTHORECTIFICATION
Austin Jensen, Norman Wildmann, YangQuan Chen, Utah State University, United States; Holger Voos, Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany

TUP1.PK.4: DEVELOPING A LOW COST VERTICAL TAKE OFF AND LANDING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM FOR CENTIMETRIC MONITORING OF BIODIVERSITY - THE FONTAINEBLEAU FOREST CASE
Laurent Beaudoin, Antoine Gademer, Ecole Superieure Informatique Electronique Automatique (ESIEA), France; Benoit Petitpas, Michel Roux, Telecom Paristech, France; Bernard Riera, MNHN, France; Jean-Paul Rudant, Université de Marne la Vallée, France

TUP1.PK.5: MOVING OBJECT TRACKING FROM AIRBORNE VIDEO USING RELAXATION LABELING ALGORITHM ON ACTIVE SIFT POINTS
Kyung min Han, Guillherme DeSouza, University of Missouri, United States

TUP1.PK.6: AUTOMATIC GENERATION AND ERROR ANALYSIS OF HIGH-PRECISION DEM DERIVED FROM AIRBORNE DUAL-ANTENNA INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA
Zhongchang Sun, Huadong Guo, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Mengmei Jiao, Beijing Explo-Tech Engineering Corp, China; Qingni Huang, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PK.7: ADVANCED MOTION COMPENSATION FOR AIRBORNE PLATFORMS: APPLICATION TO UAVSAR
Cathleen Jones, Scott Hensley, Thierry Michel, Ron Muellershoen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TUP1.PK.8: UAVSAR: FLIGHT PLANNING IN THE CLOUD
Sarah Flores, Bruce Chapman, Wayne Tung, Yang Zheng, Yunling Lou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TUP1.PK.9: GEOCODING OF UAVSAR DATA PRODUCTS
Yang Zheng, Ronald Muellerschoen, Thierry Michel, Bruce Chapman, Scott Hensley, Yunling Lou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TUP1.PK.10: BIOMASS RETRIEVAL BASED ON UAVSAR POLARIMETRIC DATA
Zhiyu Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, College Park, United States; Lixin Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China; Zhifeng Guo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Wenli Huang, University of Maryland, College Park, China

TUP1.PK.11: RANGELAND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT, MONITORING, AND MANAGEMENT USING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE-BASED REMOTE SENSING
Albert Rango, USDA ARS, United States; Andrea Laliberte, New Mexico State University, United States; Kris Havstad, USDA ARS, United States; Craig Winters, Caiti Steele, New Mexico State University, United States; Dawn Browning, USDA ARS, United States

Biology and Altimetry

TUP1.PL.1: USING MEDIUM AND HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES IN MONITORING WATER QUALITY SURROUNDING THE DISCHARGES OF DESALINATION PLANTS IN THE UAE
Ammar Al Muhairi, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology, United Arab Emirates; Hosni Ghedira, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Hussain Al-Ahmad, Ali Dawood, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR), United Arab Emirates

TUP1.PL.2: IMPROVED MODELS FOR CHLA ESTIMATION BY CONSIDERING THE EFFECT OF PHYTOPLANKTON SPECIFIC ABSORPTION
Jingping Xu, Xingfa Gu, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China; Bai Zhang, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Tao Yu, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China; Fang Li, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, China; Juan Li, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China

TUP1.PL.3: WATER QUALITY REMOTE SENSING MONITORING RESEARCH IN CHINA BASED ON THE HJ-1 SATELLITE DATA
Yanjuan Yao, Li Zhu, Chuanqing Wu, Yongjun Zhang, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection, China; Ying Wang, School of the Environment & Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, China; Jing Chen, School of the Earth Sciences and Resources, China university of Geosciences, China

TUP1.PL.4: ENTEROMORPHA PROLIFRA AERIAL REMOTE SENSING MONITORING USING ARRAY CAMERA
Xingfeng Chen, Xingfa Gu, Jiping Chen, Jun Liu, Hua Xu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Guoti Yuan, Henan Polytechnic University, China; Yuan Sun, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP1.PL.5: MONITORING SEA SURFACE SALINITY SEASON VARIATION FROM MODIS SATELLITE DATA
Saleh Daqamseh, Shattri Mansor, Saied Perasteh, Ahmad Rodzi, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

TUP1.PL.6: RETRACKING STRATEGY BASED ON WAVEFORM CLASSIFICATION AND SUB-WAVEFORM EXTRACTION FOR COASTAL ALTIMETRY ALONG CHINA COASTAL SEAS
Le Yang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Mingsen Lin, National Satellite Ocean Application Service, State Oceanic Administration, China; Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Delu Pan, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China

TUP1.PL.7: ENVISAT RA-2 SEA LEVEL DATA VALIDATION USING DAILY MEAN SEA LEVEL DATA FROM A TIDE GAUGE, IN THE GULF OF CADIZ (SPAIN).
Patricia López-León, Jesús Gómez-Enri, Begoña Tejedor, Alazne Aboitiz, University of Cadiz, Spain; Stefano Vignudelli, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Pilar Villares, University of Cadiz, Spain

TUP1.PL.8: VARIABILITY OF THE KUROSHIO CURRENT DYNAMIC HEIGHT ON DECADAL TIME SCALES
Chuntao Chen, Jiajia Liu, Ocean University of China, China

TUP1.PL.9: OPTIMAL ALGORITHMS FOR SPACEBORNE ALTIMETER
Boris Grishechkin, Alexander Baskakov, Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University), Russian Federation

Lidar Technology

TUP1.PM.1: SENSITIVITY STUDIES FOR SPACE-BASED LASER MEASUREMENTS OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATION TOWARDS FUTURE NASA MISSION ASCENDS
Jianping Mao, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, United States; S. Randolph Kawa, James B. Abshire, Haris Riris, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TUP1.PM.2: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO NEW APPROACHES FOR LIDAR SYSTEM CALIBRATION
Ayman Habib, Ki In Bang, Ana Kersting, University of Calgary, Canada

TUP1.PM.3: GLOBAL LASER PULSE REFLECTANCE AT 1064 NM OF SNOW AND LAND SURFACES FROM THE GEOSCIENCES LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEM SATELLITE LIDAR
James Spinhirne, University of Arizona, United States; Stephen Palm, SSAI, United States

TUP1.PM.4: A BROAD BAND LIDAR FOR PRECISE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 COLUMN ABSORPTION MEASUREMENT FROM SPACE
Elena Georgieva, Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center at University of Maryland Baltimore County / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; William Heaps, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Wen Huang, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States

TUP1.PM.5: THE SLOPE IMAGING MULTI-POLARIZATION PHOTON-COUNTING LIDAR: DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE RESULTS
Philip Dabney, David J. Harding, James B. Abshire, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Tim Huss, Gabriel Jodor, Roman Machan, Joe Marzouk, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Kurt Rush, Antonios Seas, Christopher Shuman, Xiaoli Sun, Susan Valett, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Aleksey Vasilyev, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Anthony Yu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Yunhui Zheng, Sigma Space Corporation, United States

TUP1.PM.6: ALTM PEGASUS SENSOR DESIGN: A NEW PARADIGM IN LIDAR TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
Michael Sitar, Brent Smith, Optech Incorporated, Canada

TUP1.PM.7: OPTIMAL ESTIMATION OF CALIBRATION PARAMETERS FOR LIDAR DATA
Pravesh Kumari, Bill Carter, Ramesh Shrestha, University of Florida, United States

Volcano and Volcanic Hazard Monitoring

TU2.L01.1: DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER FOR VOLCANO OBSERVATIONS
Tetsuya Jitsufuchi, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Japan

TU2.L01.2: TOPOGRAPHIC AND THERMAL MAPPING OF VOLCANIC TERRAIN USING THE AVTIS GROUND BASED 94GHZ DUAL-MODE RADAR/RADIOMETRIC IMAGER
David Macfarlane, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom; Henry Odbert, Montserrat Volcano Observatory, Montserrat; Duncan Robertson, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom; Mike James, Harry Pinkerton, Lancaster University, United Kingdom; Geoff Wadge, University of Reading, United Kingdom

TU2.L01.3: MONITORING VOLCANIC AREAS USING INTERFEROMETRIC METHODS WITH GROUND TRUTH
Xiaoying Cong, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany; Michael Eineder, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Stefan Gernhardt, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany; Christian Minet, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU2.L01.4: GLOBVOLCANO PRE-OPERATIONAL SERVICES
Maria Lucia Tampellini, Raffaella Ratti, Carlo Gavazzi Space SpA, Italy; Frank Martin Seifert, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Italy; Sven Borgstrom, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Osservatorio Vesuviano, Italy; Aline Peltier, Edouard Kaminsky, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France; Marco Bianchi, Tele-rilevamento Europa, Italy; Wendy Branson, MDA, Canada; Fabrizio Ferrucci, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France; Barbara Hirn, IES Consulting, Italy; Paul van der Voet, Terrasphere, Netherlands

TU2.L01.5: MONITORING TIME-DEPENDENT VOLCANIC DYNAMICS AT LONG VALLEY CALDERA USING INSAR AND GPS MEASUREMENTS
Zhen Liu, Danan Dong, Paul Lundgren, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

Ocean Surface Salinity and Temperature

TU2.L02.1: SALINITY RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR AQUARIUS
Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, United States; David LeVine, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TU2.L02.2: AQUARIUS SCATTEROEMTER CALIBRATION AND ROUGHNESS CORRECTION ALGORITHM
Simon Yueh, Adam Freedman, Alexander Fore, Mario Chaubell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

TU2.L02.3: AQUARIUS RADIOMETER: PRE-LAUNCH PERFORMANCE AND CALIBRATION
Jeffrey Piepmeier, Liang Hong, Lakesha Bates, Fernando Pellerano, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TU2.L02.4: AIRCRAFT AND IN SITU SALINITY AND OCEAN COLOR MEASUREMENTS: BRIDGING THE SATELLITE SALINITY COASTAL GAP
Joel Wesson, Derek Burrage, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Virgilio Maisonet, Stephan Howden, University of Southern Mississippi, United States

TU2.L02.5: DESCRIPTORS FOR SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FRONT REGULARITY CHARACTERIZATION
Ba Silèye, Ronan Fablet, Dominique Pastor, Université Européenne de Bretagne, France; Bertrand Chapron, IFREMER, France

Advanced SAR Concepts and Missions II

TU2.L03.1: BIOMASS, COREH2O, PREMIER: ESA’S CANDIDATE 7TH EARTH EXPLORER MISSIONS
Marco Arcioni, Michael Kern, Joerg Langen, Klaus Scipal, Malcolm Davidson, Roger Haagmans, Paul Ingmann, Mark Drinkwater, Bernardo Cornicero, Antonio Gabriele, Arnaud Lecuyot, Paolo Bensi, Pierluigi Silvestrin, Yannig Durand, Franco Fois, Florence Heliere, Ville Kangas, Stefan Kraft, Jean-Loup Bezy, Chung-Chi Lin, Roland Meynart, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands

TU2.L03.2: STATUS OF TECHNOLOGY PREPARATION FOR NEXT GENERATION DIGITAL BEAMFORMING SAR
Christian Fischer, Christoph Heer, Christoph Schaefer, EADS Astrium GmbH, Germany

TU2.L03.3: MODULAR RADAR CORE FOR AIRBORNE AND SPACE APPLICATIONS
Rudolf Zahn, Martin Kirscht, Kosmas Weidmann, EADS Deutschland GmbH, Germany

TU2.L03.4: IMPLEMENTATION OF A LOW COST, LIGHTWEIGHT X-BAND ANTENNA WITH INTEGRATED SIGE RF ELECTRONICS
Chad Patterson, Tushar Thrivikraman, Ana Yepes, Swapan Bhattacharya, John Cressler, John Papapolymerou, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

TU2.L03.5: ULTRA-RAPID OPTRONIC PROCESSOR FOR INSTANTANEOUS ENVISAT/ASAR SCENE OBSERVATION
Linda Marchese, Michel Doucet, INO, Canada; Bernd Harnisch, Martin Suess, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Pascal Bourqui, Mathieu Legros, Nichola Desnoyers, Ludovic Guillot, Luc Mercier, Maxime Savard, Anne Martel, François Châteauneuf, Alain Bergeron, INO, Canada

Inversion of Underground or Wireless Sensor Data

TU2.L04.1: INVERSE PROBLEM OF SEISMIC WAVEFORM DATA
Mrinal Sen, University of Texas at Austin, United States

TU2.L04.2: A NEW DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION ALGORITHM WITH COOPERATIVE COEVOLUTIONARY SELECTION OPERATOR FOR WAVEFORM INVERSION
Chao Wang, Jinghuai Gao, Xi'an Jiaotong university, China

TU2.L04.3: PHENOMENOLGICAL MODEL INVERSION WITH FISHER INFORMATION METRICS FOR UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE DETECTION
Jeremiah Remus, Clarkson University, United States; Leslie Collins, Duke University, United States

TU2.L04.4: DISTRIBUTED LEARNING WITH KERNELS IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR PHYSICAL PHENOMENA MODELING AND TRACKING
Cedric Richard, Laboratoire Fizeau (UMR CNRS 6525, OCA), France; Paul Honeine, Hichem Snoussi, Institut Charles Delaunay (FRE CNRS 2848), France; André Ferrari, Céline Theys, Laboratoire Fizeau (UMR CNRS 6525, OCA), France

TU2.L04.5: COLLABORATIVE PROCESSING OF ACOUSTIC AND MAGNETIC DATA VIA HETEROGENEOUS SENSOR NETWORKS
Lei Liu, Yongqiang Chen, National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jin Zhan, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Minhui Zhu, National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture: Algorithms and Validation II

TU2.L05.1: THE SMAP IN SITU SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR TESTBED: COMPARING IN SITU SENSORS FOR SATELLITE VALIDATION
Michael Cosh, USDA-ARS-HRSL, United States; Tyson Ochsner, Oklahoma State University, United States; Jeff Basara, University of Oklahoma, United States; Thomas Jackson, USDA-ARS-HRSL, United States

TU2.L05.2: A CALIBRATION SITE IN THE AUSTRALIAN DESERT FOR SMOS
Jeffrey Walker, Christoph Rüdiger, University of Melbourne, Australia; Yann Kerr, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Ed Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Robert Gurney, University of Reading, United Kingdom; Damian Barrett, University of Queensland, Australia; John Le Marshall, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

TU2.L05.3: SMOS CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION ACTIVITIES WITH AIRBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETER HUT-2D DURING SPRING 2010
Juha Kainulainen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Pauli Sievinen, Jaakko Seppänen, Erkka Rouhe, Martti Hallikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Johanna Dall’Amico, University of Munich, Germany; Florian Schlenz, Alexander Loew, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Germany; Simone Bircher, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Carsten Montzka, Research Centre Juelich, Germany

TU2.L05.4: L-BAND MEASUREMENTS OF BOREAL SOIL
Anna Kontu, Juha Lemmetyinen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

TU2.L05.5: USING ENHANCED GRACE WATER STORAGE DATA TO IMPROVE DROUGHT DETECTION BY THE U.S. AND NORTH AMERICAN DROUGHT MONITORS
Rasmus Houborg, Matthew Rodell, NASA, United States; Jay Lawrimore, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Bailing Li, Rolf Reichle, NASA, United States; Richard Heim, Matthew Rosencrans, Rich Tinker, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; James Famiglietti, University of California, United States; Mark Svoboda, Brian Wardlow, National Drought Mitigation Center, United States; Benjamin Zaitchik, John Hopkins University, United States

SAR Image Analysis II

TU2.L06.1: POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING AFFINITY FUNCTION FROM PROBABILISTIC BOUNDARIES AND PATCH FEATURES
Wenju He, Olaf Hellwich, Berlin University of Technology, Germany

TU2.L06.2: A NON-LOCAL APPROACH FOR SAR AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DENOISING
Charles-Alban Deledalle, Florence Tupin, Telecom ParisTech, France; Loïc Denis, Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon, France

TU2.L06.3: HIGH-RESOLUTION 3-D RADAR IMAGING USING PSEUDO-RANDOM NOISE CODED WAVEFORM
Victor Chen, POC Tech, United States

TU2.L06.4: ESTIMATION OF THE DEGREE OF POLARIZATION IN COMPACT POLARIMETRY
Reza Shirvany, Marie Chabert, Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France

TU2.L06.5: A NONLOCAL APPROACH FOR SAR IMAGE DENOISING
Sara Parrilli, Mariana Poderico, Cesario Vincenzo Angelino, Giuseppe Scarpa, Luisa Verdoliva, University Federico II of Naples, Italy

Next Generation Data Systems for Climate Record Continuity II

TU2.L07.1: THE NEXT GENERATION OF DATA SYSTEMS FOR CONTINUING THE CLIMATE RECORD OF CLOUD AND ATMOSPHERE OBSERVATIONS
Liam Gumley, Robert Holz, Henry Revercomb, Steve Dutcher, Scott Mindock, Greg Quinn, Min Oo, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

TU2.L07.2: NEXT GENERATION OZONE SCIENCE DATA PROCESSING: TOMS TO OMPS
Curt Tilmes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TU2.L07.3: SCIENCE DATA PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION OF CLOUDS AND THE EARTH’S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) DATA FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT (NPP)
James W. Closs, John L. Robbins, Walter F. Miller, NASA Langley Research Center / SSAI, United States; Jonathan L. Gleason, NASA Langley Research Center, United States

TU2.L07.4: THE NASA NPP SOUNDER PEATE PRODUCTS SUPPORTING EDR ASSESSMENTS FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH
Evan Fishbein, Steven Friedman, Sung-Yung Lee, Ruth Monarrez, Nikita Pougatchev, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TU2.L07.5: INVESTIGATING THE FEASIBILITY OF THE GLOBSNOW SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT DATA FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH PURPOSES
Kari Luojus, Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Chris Derksen, Environment Canada, Canada; Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria; Rune Solberg, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway; Andreas Wiesmann, GAMMA Remote Sensing Research and Consulting AG, Switzerland; Sari Metsämäki, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; Eirik Malnes, Northern Research Institute, Norway; Bojan Bojkov, European Space Agency, Italy

Atmospheric Profiling

TU2.L08.1: VERTICAL MOIST THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURE OF THE MJO IN AIRS OBSERVATIONS AND ECMWF INTERIM REANALYSIS
Baijun Tian, Duane Waliser, Eric Fetzer, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Yuk Yung, California Institute of Technology, United States

TU2.L08.2: A COMPARISON OF ESTIMATED MIXING HEIGHT BY MULTIPLE REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON AIR QUALITY IN URBAN REGIONS
Chuen Meei Gan, CUNY Graduate Center, United States; YongHua Wu, Barry Gross, Mark Arend, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed, City College of New York, United States

TU2.L08.3: DERIVING CONVECTIVE STRUCTURE FROM MICROWAVE SOUNDER OBSERVATIONS
Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

TU2.L08.4: IMPROVED ALL-WEATHER ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING USING HYPERSPECTRAL MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS
William Blackwell, R. Vincent Leslie, Michael Pieper, Jenna Samra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, United States

TU2.L08.5: AEROSOL REMOTE SENSING FROM MOVING PLATFORMS WITH THE FUBISS RADIOMETERS
Jonas von Bismarck, Thomas Ruhtz, Jürgen Fischer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications II

TU2.L09.1: COMPACT POLARIMETRY AT THE MOON: THE MINI-RF RADARS
R. Keith Raney, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States; Paul Spudis, Lunar and Planetary Institute, United States; Ben Bussey, J. Robert Jensen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States; Bill Marinelli, NASA Headquarters, United States; Priscilla McKerracher, Ron Schulze, Herman Sequeira, Helene Winters, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States

TU2.L09.2: THE COMPACT POLARIMETRY ALTERNATIVE FOR SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION USING SMAP
Anthony Freeman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, My-Linh Truong-Loi, ONERA, France; Seungbum Kim, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

TU2.L09.3: POTENTIALS OF A COMPACT POLARIMETRIC SAR SYSTEM
My-Linh Truong-Loï, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, ONERA, France; Eric Pottier, IETR UMR CNRS 6164, France; Anthony Freeman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TU2.L09.4: POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING ANALYSIS FOR ACCURATE OBSERVATION OF STRICKEN MAN-MADE TARGETS USING A ROTATED COHERENCY MATRIX
Ryoichi Sato, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Niigata University, Japan

TU2.L09.5: POLARIMETRIC L-BAND PALSAR FOR PEATLAND CHARACTERIZATION
Ridha Touzi, G. Gosselin, A.M. Demers, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada; R. Brooks, University of Calgary, Canada

Applications Bridging the Period Between EOS and the Decadal Survey Eras

TU2.L10.1: THE THERMAL INFRARED SENSOR ON THE LANDSAT DATA CONTINUITY MISSION
Dennis Reuter, Cathleen Richardson, James Irons, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Richard Allen, University of Idaho, United States; Martha Anderson, US Department of Agriculture/ARS, United States; Jason Budinoff, Gordon Casto, Craig Coltharp, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Paul Finneran, Jackson and Tull Inc., United States; Betsy Forsbacka, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Taylor Hale, Tom Jennings, SGT, Inc., United States; Murzy Jhabvala, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Allen Lunsford, Catholic University of America, United States; Greg Magnuson, Orbital Sciences Corp, United States; Rick Mills, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Tony Morse, Idaho Department of Water Resources, United States; Veronica Otero, Scott Rohrbach, Ramsey Smith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Terry Sullivan, Muniz Engineering, United States; Zelalem Tesfaye, Millenium Engineering and Integration Company, United States; Kurtis Thome, Glenn Unger, Paul Whitehouse, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TU2.L10.2: ACCURATE MONITORING OF TERRESTRIAL AEROSOLS AND TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE: THE NASA GLORY MISSION
Michael Mishchenko, Brian Cairns, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, United States; Greg Kopp, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, United States; Hal B. Maring, NASA Headquarters, United States; Bryan Fafaul, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Kirk Knobelspiesse, Jacek Chowdhary, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, United States

TU2.L10.3: NEXT-GENERATION GLOBAL PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
Arthur Hou, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TU2.L10.4: THE AQUARIUS/SAC-D MISSION OVERVIEW
Gary Lagerloef, Earth and Space Research, United States; Sandra Torrusio, Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), Argentina; David Le Vine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Monica Rabolli, Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), Argentina

Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Remote Sensing

TU3.L01.1: A MULTI-SENSORS ANALYSIS OF RST-BASED THERMAL ANOMALIES IN THE CASE OF THE ABRUZZO EARTHQUAKE
Nicola Genzano, Rosita Corrado, University of Basilicata, Italy; Irina Coviello, Carolina Filizzola, Caterina Sara Livia Grimaldi, Teodosio Lacava, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Mariano Lisi, University of Basilicata, Italy; Francesco Marchese, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Giuseppe Mazzeo, University of Basilicata, Italy; Rossana Paciello, Nicola Pergola, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Valerio Tramutoli, University of Basilicata, Italy

TU3.L01.2: A KNOWLEDGE-BASED METHOD FOR RAPID POST-EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT USING HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL AND SAR SATELLITE IMAGERY
Y. Sh Dong, W.H Fang, Lu Jin, D.Y Yu, Beijing Normal University, China

TU3.L01.3: THREE-DIMENSIONAL DEFORMATION FIELD CAUSED BY THE GAIZE EARTHQUAKE BY MULTI-LOS DINSAR MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY
Hong Shunying, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, China; Shen Xuhui, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China; Song Xiaogang, Shan Xinjian, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, China; Liu Zhirong, Institute of Disaster Prevention Science And Technology, China; Dai Yaqiong, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China; Kang Chunli, China Earthquake Networks Center, China; Jing Feng, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China

TU3.L01.4: DEFORMATION IN HAWAII’S VOLCANOES OBTAINED FROM A SCANSAR-TO-STRIPMAP SMALL BASELINE SUBSET TECHNIQUE
Antonio Pepe, IREA - CNR, Italy; Ana Bertran Ortiz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Riccardo Lanari, IREA - CNR, Italy; Paul Lundgren, Paul Rosen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Manuela Bonano, Università 'La Sapienza', Italy

TU3.L01.5: ROBUST SATELLITE TECHNIQUES (RST) FOR ACTIVE VOLCANOES MONITORING
Francesco Marchese, Carolina Filizzola, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Giuseppe Mazzeo, University of Basilicata, Italy; Rossana Paciello, Nicola Pergola, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Valerio Tramutli, University of Basilicata, Italy

Satellite Altimetry Past, Present and Future I

TU3.L02.1: 17 YEARS AND COUNTING: SATELLITE ALTIMETRY FROM RESEARCH TO OPERATIONS
Josh Willis, Lee-Lueng Fu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Eric Lindstrom, NASA, United States; Margaret Srinivasan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TU3.L02.2: PROGRESS IN COASTAL ALTIMETRY: OUTCOMES OF THE COASTALT PROJECT
Paolo Cipollini, Peter Challenor, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; Henrique Coelho, Hidromod Modelação em Engenharia Lda, Portugal; Joana Fernandes, Universidade do Porto, Portugal; Scott Gleason, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; Jesus Gómez-Enri, University of Cadiz, Spain; Christine Gommenginger, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; Cristina Martin-Puig, Starlab, Spain; Graham Quartly, Helen Snaith, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; Stefano Vignudelli, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Italy; Phil Woodworth, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, United Kingdom; Salvatore Dinardo, SERCO/ESRIN, Italy; Jérôme Benveniste, European Space Agency - ESRIN, Italy

TU3.L02.3: NEW METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING SEA LEVEL FROM TIDE GAUGES USING SATELLITE ALTIMETRY
Benjamin Hamlington, Robert Leben, Steven Nerem, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States; Kwang-Yul Kim, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

TU3.L02.4: ERROR STRUCTURES IN ALTIMETRY DATA FROM THE WET TROPOSPHERIC CORRECTION
Shannon Brown, Shailen Desai, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TU3.L02.5: A LONG-LIVED HURRICANE-INTENSIFIED CYCLONIC OCEAN EDDY
Robert Leben, David A. Joy, University of Colorado, United States; Jessica Hausman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

LAI, Reflectance, and Fluroessence

TU3.L03.1: GLOBAL LEAF AREA INDEX MAPPING AND ITS REMAINING CHALLENGES
Jing Chen, Jan Pisek, Feng Deng, University of Toronto, Canada; Stephen Plummer, European Space Agency - ESRIN, Italy

TU3.L03.2: PHYSICALLY-BASED CANOPY REFLECTANCE MODEL INVERSION OF FOREST STRUCTURE FROM MODIS IMAGERY IN BOREAL AND MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN USING THE BIOPHYS-MFM ALGORITHM
Derek Peddle, University of Lethbridge, Canada; Forrest Hall, NASA GSFC / UMBC, United States

TU3.L03.3: THE EFFECTIVE NATURE OF LAI AS MEASURED FROM REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS
Sivasathivel Kandasamy, Raul Lopez-Lozano, Frederic Baret, INRA-EMMAH, France; Nadia Rochdi, Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Center, Canada

TU3.L03.4: OBSERVING FLUORESCENCE FROM SPACE: ESA’S MISSION CONCEPTS
Matthias Drusch, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Jose Moreno, Luis Guanter, University of Valencia, Spain; Bernardo Carnicero, Stefan Kraft, European Space Agency, Netherlands

TU3.L03.5: INTRODUCTION TO FRACTION OF ABSORBED PAR BY CANOPY CHLOROPHYLL (FAPARCHL) AND CANOPY LEAF WATER CONTENT DERIVED FROM HYPERION, SIMULATED HYSPIRI AND MODIS IMAGES
Qingyuan Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States; Elizabeth Middleton, NASA, United States

KOMPSAT-5 SAR Mission I

TU3.L04.1: OVERVIEW OF KOMPSAT-5 PROGRAM, MISSION, AND SYSTEM
Sang-Ryool Lee, Director of KOMPSAT-5 Program, Republic of Korea

TU3.L04.2: K5 PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS USING ANTENNA MODEL
Seunghyun Min, Taehwa Kim, Satrec Initiative Co, Republic of Korea; Jung-Hoon Keum, Jin-Hee Kim, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Republic of Korea

TU3.L04.3: KOMPSAT-5 SPOTLIGHT SAR PROCESSING USING FSA WITH CALCULATION OF EFFECTIVE VELOCITY
DongHyun Kim, Satrec Initiative Co, Republic of Korea; JaeCheol Yoon, JaeMin Shin, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Republic of Korea; MoonGyu Kim, Satrec Initiative Co, Republic of Korea

TU3.L04.4: FIELD TEST OF KOMPSAT-5 CALIBRATION EQUIPMENT
Jaemin Shin, Kwangjae Lee, Jinhee Kim, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Republic of Korea

TU3.L04.5: DIRECTIONAL-ADAPTIVE DESPECKLING FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR IMAGERY
Sang-Hoon Lee, Kyungwon University, Republic of Korea

Combined Active and Passive Soil Moisture Retrieval

TU3.L05.1: COMBINED ACTIVE AND PASSIVE OBSERVATIONS AT L-BAND DURING THE EIGHTH MICROWAVE, WATER AND ENERGY BALANCE EXPERIMENT
Jasmeet Judge, University of Florida, United States; Roger De Roo, Mahta Moghaddam, Anthony England, Xueyang Duan, University of Michigan, United States; Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero, Heather Enos, Tara Bongiovanni, University of Florida, United States; Yuriy Goykhman, University of Michigan, United States; Daniel Preston, Blaire Colvin, Karthik Nagarajan, University of Florida, United States

TU3.L05.2: AN ACTIVE-PASSIVE COMBINED ALGORITHM FOR HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION RETRIEVAL OF SOIL MOISTURE FROM SATELLITE SENSORS
Venkat Lakshmi, University of South Carolina, United States

TU3.L05.3: DERIVING SOIL MOISTURE WITH THE COMBINED L-BAND RADAR AND RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS
Jiancheng Shi, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan; Leung Tsang, Washington Universiy, Taiwan; Thomas Jackson, USDA/ARS, United States; Eni Njoku, Jakob J. van Zyl, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Peggy O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Joel Johnson, Ohio State University, United States; Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States

TU3.L05.4: TOWARDS AN OPERATIONAL DAILY SOIL MOISUTRE INDEX DERIVED FROM COMBINATION OF MODIS, ASAR AND AMSR-E DATA
Claudia Notarnicola, EURAC, Italy; Batolomeo Ventura, Universitá di Bari, Italy; Luca Pasolli, Universitá di Trento-EURAC, Italy; Francesca Di Giuseppe, ARPA-SrvizioIdroMeteoClima, Italy; Marc Zebisch, EURAC, Italy

TU3.L05.5: MONITORING THE SEASONAL GROUND FREEZING IN THE NORTHERN QUEBEC TUNDRA USING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE.
Parvin Kalantari, Monique Bernier, Jimmy Poulin, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada

Kernel methods and Manifold Learning

TU3.L06.1: MODEL-BASED ACTIVE LEARNING FOR SVM CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Edoardo Pasolli, Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy

TU3.L06.2: ANOMALY DETECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING LOCAL TANGENT SPACE ALIGNMENT
Li Ma, Melba Crawford, Purdue University, United States; Jinwen Tian, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

TU3.L06.3: ESTIMATING BIOPHYSICAL VARIABLE DEPENDENCES WITH KERNELS
Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de València, Spain; Devis Tuia, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Valero Laparra, Jesús Malo, Universitat de València, Spain

TU3.L06.4: SPATIAL INFORMATION BASED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Bor-Chen Kuo, Chih-Sheng Huang, National Taichung University, Taiwan; Chih-Cheng Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University, United States; Yu-Lung Liu, Asia University, Taiwan; I-Ling Chen, National Taichung University, Taiwan

TU3.L06.5: AN AUTOMATIC METHOD FOR SELECTING THE PARAMETER OF THE RBF KERNEL FUNCTION TO SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES
Cheng-Hsuan Li, Chin-Teng Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan; Bor-Chen Kuo, Hui-Shan Chu, National Taichung University, Taiwan

EOS Terra Contributions to Earth Science – The First 10 Years I

TU3.L07.1: EMERGING IMPLICATIONS OF A TEN-YEAR TERRA DATA RECORD FOR EARTH SCIENCE
Marc L. Imhoff, Norman Loeb, David Diner, NASA, United States; Michael King, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States; James Drummond, Dalhousie University, Canada; John Gille, UCAR, United States; Michael Abrams, Robert Wolfe, Si-Chee Tsay, NASA, United States

TU3.L07.3: 10 YEARS OF ASTER OPERATION: ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Michael Abrams, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Yasushi Yamaguchi, Nagoya University, Japan; Hiroji Tsu, ERSDAC, Japan

TU3.L07.4: ADVANCES IN EARTH RADIATION BUDGET OBSERVATIONS FROM CERES TERRA
Norman Loeb, Kory Priestley, Patrick Minnis, Takmeng Wong, Seiji Kato, Kuan-Man Xu, David Doelling, NASA Langley Research Center, United States

TU3.L07.5: THE IMPACT OF MOPITT DATA ON TROPOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
John Gille, National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States; James Drummond, Dalhousie University, Canada; David Edwards, Merritt Deeter, Dallas Masters, Louisa Emmons, Gabriele Pfister, National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States

TRMM and GPM Precipitation Missions II

TU3.L08.1: GPM MISSION OVERVIEW AND U.S. SCIENCE STATUS
Arthur Hou, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TU3.L08.2: GPM FIELD CAMPAIGNS FOR ALGORITHM PHYSICS
Walter Petersen, Mathew Schwaller, Arthur Hou, NASA, United States

TU3.L08.3: LAND SURFACE EMISSION MODELING TO SUPPORT PHYSICAL PRECIPITATION RETREIVALS
Christa Peters-Lidard, NASA, United States; Kenneth Harrison, ESSIC/NASA, United States; Sujay Kumar, SAIC/NASA, United States; Ralph Ferraro, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Gail Skofronick-Jackson, NASA, United States

TU3.L08.4: A GENERALIZED LOGICAL FORMAT FOR INTER-CALIBRATED BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES FOR THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MISSION
Erich Stocker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; John Stout, George Mason University, United States; Christian Kummerow, Wesley Berg, Colorado State University, United States

TU3.L08.5: DATA VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS TOOLS FOR THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT (GPM) VALIDATION NETWORK
Kenneth Robert Morris, SAIC, United States; Mathew Schwaller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction I

TU3.L09.1: AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT ADVANCES IN POLARIMETRIC SAR INFORMATION EXTRACTION: ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS
Jong-Sen Lee, Tom Ainsworth, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

TU3.L09.3: OPTIMAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN HETEROGENEOUS CLUTTER FOR HIGH RESOLUTION POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Gabriel Vasile, National Council for Scientific Research, France; Frédéric Pascal, Supelec, France; Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, ONERA, France; Steeve Zozor, Michel Gay, National Council for Scientific Research, France

TU3.L09.4: SPACEBORNE FULLY POLARIMETRIC TIME-SERIES DATASETS FOR LAND COVER ANALYSIS
Eric Pottier, IETR - UMR CNRS 6164, France; Cécile Marechal, COSTEL - UMR CNRS 6554, France

TU3.L09.5: CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF DIVERSE POLARIMETRIC SAR SYSTEMS – PROS AND CONS
Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, UIC-ECE Communications, Sensing & Navigation Laboratory, United States; Tom Ainsworth, NRL-RSD/ISS, United States; Eric Pottier, University of Rennes 1, France; Ya-Qiu Jin, Fudan University, China; Shane Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom; Yoshio Yamaguchi, NU-IE, Japan; J.J. VanZyl, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Carlos López-Martínez, UPC-TSC/ARS-Group, Spain; Ridha Touzi, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada

Microwave Scatterometry, Radiometry and Ocean Applications (Honoring Dr. W. Linwood Jones) I

TU3.L10.1: DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED SATELLITE MICROWAVE SCATTEROMETER OCEAN VECTOR WIND RETRIEVALS IN EXTREME WIND EVENTS
Suleiman Alsweiss, Peth Laupattarakasem, W. Linwood Jones, Ruba A. Amarin, University of Central Florida, United States

TU3.L10.2: ENHANCING OCEANIC RETRIEVALS USING MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY
Ruba A. Amarin, Salem El-Nimri, Sayak Biswas, Spencer Farrar, W. Linwood Jones, James Johnson, University of Central Florida, United States

TU3.L10.3: INTER-CALIBRATION OF SATELLITE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH
Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, United States

TU3.L10.4: INTERSATELLITE CALIBRATION OF MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS FOR THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASURING MISSION
Thomas Wilheit, Texas A&M University, United States

TU3.L10.5: FROM ALLEN TO JANGMI: 30 YEARS OF AIRBORNE TROPICAL CYCLONE PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS
Peter Black, Science Applications International Corporation, United States

Land Cover Change, Ecosystems and Climate

TUP2.PA.1: DETECTION OF METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS' UNDERLYING SURFACE CHANGE BASED ON RS AND ANALYSIS OF ITS INFLUENCE ON AIR TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN CHINA
Chaoyang Sun, Quanqin Shao, Jiyuan Liu, Wenhui Kuang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PA.2: LAND COVER CHANGE IN NATURAL RESERVE OF THE YELLOW RIVER DELTA, CHINA, 1999-2008
Qingsheng Liu, Gaohuan Liu, Chong Huang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PA.3: SPATIAL PATTERN DYNAMICS OF LAND USE IN YONGDING RIVER BASIN IN CHINA
Xiaobing Li, Hong Wang, Yongqin Gai, Lingmei Huang, Jingjing Yu, Beijing Normal University, China

TUP2.PA.4: LAND USE AND LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION AND CHANGE DETECTION OF THE CASPIAN SEA FOREST BELT
Qiang Fu, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Sassan Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Ali Nouri, Institute of Environment, United States; Soleiman Mohamadi, Gilan University, Iran

TUP2.PA.5: REGIONAL CLIMATE RESPONSES TO THE LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE IN HEIHE RIVER BASIN, CHINA
Liang Chen, Chuanyan Zhao, Zhaodong Feng, Lanzhou University, China

TUP2.PA.6: SPATIAL MAPPING OF ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND WATER DEFICIT WITH MODIS PRODUCTS IN THE SONGNEN PLAIN, NORTHEAST CHINA
Lihong Zeng, Kaishan Song, Bai Zhang, Zongming Wang, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PA.7: REMOTELY SENSED CHANGES IN CROP PRODUCTION OVER INDIA
Cristina Milesi, Hirofumi Hashimoto, California State University, Monterey Bay, United States; Arindam Samanta, Boston University, United States; Sangram Ganguly, BAERI, United States; Weile Wang, Forrest Melton, Andrew Michaelis, Petr Votava, California State University, Monterey Bay, United States; Ramakrishna R. Nemani, NASA Ames Research Center, United States; Ranga B. Myneni, Boston University, United States

TUP2.PA.8: MODELLING THE FUTURE VARIATIONS OF LAND USE AND LAND COVER IN THE MIDDLE REACHES OF HEIHE RIVER, NORTHWESTERN CHINA
Hua Zhang, Northwest Normal University; Lanzhou University, China; Bo Zhang, Northwest Normal University, China; Chuanyan Zhao, Lanzhou University, China

TUP2.PA.9: DEFORESTATION DETECTION IN CERRADO BIOME OF MATO GROSSO STATE, BRAZIL, USING MULTISENSOR IMAGES
Gustavo Silva, Antonio Formaggio, Yosio Shimabukuro, Edson Sano, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil

TUP2.PA.10: LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE IN 1988 ~ 2007 IN THE YAMAL PENINSULA, RUSSIA
Qin Yu, Howard Epstein, University of Virginia, United States

TUP2.PA.11: DEVELOPMENT OF A LAND COVER CHANGE PRODUCT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN LAND CHANGE MONITORING SYSTEM- THE UNITED STATES PERSPECTIVE.
Sheikh Hossain, SGT, Inc. , U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, United States; Collin Homer, USGS, United States; Chandra Giri, ASRC, United States

Land Cover Change and Urban Regions

TUP2.PB.1: CHANGE ASSESSMENT OF ALEBEDO FOR THE DIFFERENT HUMANISTIC REGIONS
Bing Zhang, Xiaoxue Zhou, Liping Lei, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PB.2: SPECTRAL DATA ANALYSIS OF GROUND OBJECTS IN CHAO LAKE BASIN
Jia Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiu Yin, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Shanghai Center for Satellite Remote-sensing and Application, China; Hua Xu, Li Li, Zhenghua Chen, Yuhuan Ren, Weizhen Hou, Pengfei Yin, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PB.3: STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION CHANGES OF TAMARIX IN EJINA OASIS
Shouzhang Peng, Chuanyan Zhao, Xianglin Zheng, Lanzhou University, China

TUP2.PB.4: EFFECTS OF LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGES ON SOIL EROSION-A CASE STUDY A CATCHMENT IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CHINA
Xiuqin Wu, Beijing Forestry University, China; Yunlong Cai, Peking University, China; Yuqing Zhang, Beijing Forestry University, China

TUP2.PB.5: URBAN BUILDING DAMAGE DETECTION FROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY BY ONE-CLASS SVM AND SHADOW CHANGES
Peijun Li, Benqing Song, Haiqing Xu, Peking University, China

TUP2.PB.6: ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF BIOFUEL ON LAND COVER CHANGE USING MULTI-YEAR MODIS LAND COVER DATA.
Nagendra Singh, Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

TUP2.PB.7: THE PRELIMINARY TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF GROUND DEFORMATIONS IN THE AREA OF DABROWSKI COAL BASIN (SOUTH POLAND)
Stanislawa Porzycka, Andrzej Lesniak, AGH University of Science and Technology Krakow, Poland

TUP2.PB.8: SEGMENTATION OF LAKES FROM THE LOCAL BACKGROUND ON THE SURFACE OF TITAN USING CASSINI SAR IMAGES
Emmanuel Bratsolis, University of Athens, Greece

TUP2.PB.9: IMPACT OF THE SPATIAL RESOLUTION ON SAR CHANGE DETECTION
Xavier Dupuis, Helene Oriot, ONERA, France

TUP2.PB.10: LAND USE CHANGE IN THE UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE LAVRAS CAMPUS, MINAS GERAIS STATE, BRAZIL
Elizabeth Ferreira, Antonio Augusto Aguilar Dantas, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil

Wetlands and Inland Waters Poster II

TUP2.PC.1: ON THE POTENTIAL OF ROBUST SATELLITE TECHNIQUES (RST) APPROACH FOR FLOODED AREAS DETECTION AND MONITORING USING THERMAL INFRARED DATA
Mariapia Faruolo, University of Basilicata, Italy; Irina Coviello, Teodosio Lacava, Nicola Pergola, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Valerio Tramutoli, University of Basilicata, Italy

TUP2.PC.2: NASA'S WATER RESOURCES ELEMENT WITHIN THE APPLIED SCIENCES PROGRAM
David Toll, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Bradley Doorn, NASA Headquarters, United States; Edwin Engman, Science Applications International Corporation, United States

TUP2.PC.3: DYNAMICS OF OASIS LANDSCAPE IN INLAND SHULE RIVER BASIN IN ARID NORTHWEST CHINA
Guojing Yang, Xia Xie, Baisheng Ye, Lihua Zhou, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PC.4: LAKE SHRINKAGE ANALYSIS USING SPECTRAL-SPATIAL COUPLED REMOTE SENSING ON TIBETAN PLATEAU
Cheng Qiao, Jiancheng Luo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yongwei Sheng, University of California, United States; Zhanfeng Shen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Junli Li, University of California, China

TUP2.PC.5: MAPPING COASTAL WETLANDS USING POLARIMETRIC ALOS PALSAR DATA IN NORTH CAROLINA
Andrew Lawson, Joni Bugden-Storie, Western Carolina University, United States

TUP2.PC.6: ASSESSMENT OF AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA FOR INSTREAM FLOW TYPE CLASSIFICATION
Yu-Li Lin, Chi-Kuei Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

TUP2.PC.7: BIRD MIGRATION UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE -- A MECHANISTIC APPROACH USING REMOTE SENSING
James Smith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Tim Blattner, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States; Peter Messmer, Tech-X Corporation, United States

TUP2.PC.8: ADVANCES IN MAPPING AND MODELING SALMON HABITAT USING PRISM, PALSAR, AND TERRASAR-X DATA
Rick Guritz, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States; Dan Miller, Earth Systems Institute, United States; Kelly Burnett, U.S. Forest Service, United States

Applications: Coastal and Wetlands Poster II

TUP2.PD.1: A STUDY OF TIDAL CHANNEL INFLUENCE UPON SURFICIAL SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION IN THE GANGHWA-DO SOUTHERN TIDAL FLAT
Jin Ah Eom, Jong-Kuk Choi, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Republic of Korea; Joong-Sun Won, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

TUP2.PD.2: THE CHANGE OF TIDAL SURFACE SEDIMENT FACIES USING HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING BY GIS ANALYSIS
Jong-Kuk Choi, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Jin Ah Eom, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Republic of Korea

TUP2.PD.3: APPLICATION OF AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING TO THE SURFACE SEDIMENT CLASSIFICATION IN A TIDAL FLAT
Joo-Hyung Ryu, Jin Ah Eom, Jong-Kuk Choi, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Republic of Korea

TUP2.PD.4: MAPPING CORAL REEF BOTTOM-TYPES AND BATHYMETRY USING COMPACT AIRBORNE SPECTROGRAPHIC IMAGER (CASI) DATA
Ian Leiper, Stuart Phinn, University of Queensland, Australia

TUP2.PD.5: MODIFICATION OF SEADAS SWIR ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION SCHEME FOR ACCURATE RETRIEVAL OF NIR REMOTE SENSING REFLECTANCE IN THE RIVER DELTA REGIONS OF THE WORLD
James Davies, Colleen Mouw, Chris Moeller, UW-Madison, United States

TUP2.PD.6: RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF WAVE FIELD IN LITTORAL ZONE
Stylianos Flampouris, Joerg Seemann, Friedwart Ziemer, GKSS Research Center, Germany

TUP2.PD.7: REMOTE SENSING OF PRODUCTIVITY AND CALCIFICATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS REEF TRACT
Eric Hochberg, National Coral Reef Institute, United States

TUP2.PD.8: A GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL APPROACH FOR BEACH CHARACTERIZATION WITH MULTI-TEMPORAL LIDAR DATA
Michael J. Starek, National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate of the Army Research Office, United States; K. Clint Slatton, University of Florida, United States

TUP2.PD.9: SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGE ANALYSIS AS A TOOL FOR VALIDATION OF BAROCLINIC INTERNAL WAVE 3D MODELING IN ALGECIRAS BAY (STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR)
Carlos José González, Laura López, Jesús Gómez-Enri, Juan Jesús Gomiz, Óscar Álvarez, Miguel Bruno, Rafael Mañanes, María del Pilar Villares, University of Cadiz, Spain

Hyperspectral Data: Unmixing & visualization

TUP2.PE.1: PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE N-FINDR ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION ALGORITHM ON COMMODITY GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS
Sergio Sanchez, Gabriel Martin, Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain

TUP2.PE.2: SPATIAL PREPROCESSING FOR ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION USING UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING AND ORTHOGONAL SUBSPACE PROJECTION CONCEPTS
Gabriel Martin, Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain

TUP2.PE.3: SPATIAL-SPECTRAL ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION FROM REMOTELY SENSED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING THE WATERSHED TRANSFORM
Maciel Zortea, University of Tromso, Norway; Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain

TUP2.PE.4: PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF UNMIXNG ALGORITHM FOR VARIABLE-ENDMEMBER LINEAR MIXTURE MODEL
Naoki Takahashi, SGI Japan, Japan; Kenta Obata, Hiroki Yoshioka, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan

TUP2.PE.5: ROBUST ENDMEMBER DETECTION USING L1 NORM FACTORIZATION
Alina Zare, Paul Gader, University of Florida, United States

TUP2.PE.6: VISION-OPTIMIZED IMAGE-ADAPTED PROJECTIONS FOR VISUALIZATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Maya Gupta, University of Washington, United States; Nasiha Hrustemovic, Avocent, United States

TUP2.PE.7: AUTOMATIC BLIND SPECTRAL UNMIXING USING LINEAR UNMIXING UNDER SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION CONSTRAINTS
Xianfeng Song, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaoguang Jiang, Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaoping Rui, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PE.8: ESTIMATION OF VIRTUAL DIMENSIONALITY IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY BY LINEAR SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS
Wei Xiong, Chein-I Chang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States; Ching-Tsorng Tsai, Tunghai University, Taiwan

TUP2.PE.9: NOISE-ROBUST SUBBAND DECOMPOSITION BLIND SIGNAL SEPARATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING
Yuntao Qian, Qi Wang, Zhejiang University, China

TUP2.PE.10: CONSIDERATIONS ON UNSUPERVISED SPECTRAL DATA UNMIXING AND COMPLEXITY PURSUIT
Stefan Robila, Montclair State University, United States

TUP2.PE.11: ENHANCED VISUALIZATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES
Zahid Mahmood, Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Registration

TUP2.PF.1: REGISTRATION STUDY OF GREAT RESOLUTION DIFFERENCE REMOTE SENSING IMAGE BASED ON INVARIANT FEATURE
Tao Jiang, Xi Liang Ni, Lei Fang, Guo Lin Liu, Min Ji, Lin Sun, Geomatics College, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

TUP2.PF.2: THE NORMALIZED SIFT BASED ON VISUAL MATCHING WINDOW AND STRUCTURAL INFORMATION FOR MULTI-OPTICAL IMAGERY REGISTRATION
Ruirui Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jianwen Ma, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xue Chen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PF.3: DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL MISREGISTRATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Naoto Yokoya, Norihide Miyamura, Akira Iwasaki, University of Tokyo, Japan

TUP2.PF.4: MULTISENSOR IMAGE REGISTRATION ALGORITHM COMBINING SIFT AND PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION FOR APPLICATION IN MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY
Yanfeng Gu, Baoxue Liu, Chen Wang, Xiangrong Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

TUP2.PF.5: A NEW CONTROL POINTS CONSTRAINED PIECEWISE GEOMETRIC CORRECTION METHOD FOR SERIOUSLY OBLIQUE REMOTE SENSING IMAGE
Wang Chunyuan, Zhang Ye, Chen Yushi, Gu Yanfeng, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

TUP2.PF.6: SAR AND OPTICAL IMAGES REGISTRATION USING SHAPE CONTEXT
Lei Huang, Zhen Li, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Rui Zhang, George Mason University, United States

TUP2.PF.7: MULTI-SPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE REGISTRATION VIA SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP ANALYSIS ON SIFT KEYPOINTS
Mahmudul Hasan, Xiuping Jia, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia; Antonio Robles-Kelly, Jun Zhou, National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia; Mark Richard Pickering, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia

TUP2.PF.8: TIE POINTS BASED PIXEL-LEVEL COMPENSATION OF MISREGISTRATION FOR CHANGE DETECTION
Lining Liu, Beihang University, China; Yiding Wang, North China University of Technology, China; Yunhong Wang, Beihang University, China

TUP2.PF.9: AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF SAR AND OPTICAL IMAGE BASED ON MULTI-FEATURES AND MULTI-CONSTRAINTS
Zhenhua Wang, Junping Zhang, Ye Zhang, Bin Zou, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

TUP2.PF.10: A REGISTRATION-NOISE DRIVEN TECHNIQUE FOR THE ALIGNMENT OF VHR REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Silvia Marchesi, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

TUP2.PF.11: A GEOMETRICAL MODEL FOR A PRECISE REGISTRATION OF SAR AND OPTICAL IMAGERY BY MEANS OF ADJUSTMENT TECHNIQUE
David Bornemann, Olaf Hellwich, Ronny Haensch, Berlin University of Technology, Germany

Data Assimilation and Inversion I

TUP2.PG.1: USING MULTIRESOLUTION TREE TO INTEGRATE MODIS AND MISR-L3 LAI PRODUCTS
Dongdong Wang, Shunlin Liang, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

TUP2.PG.2: ADAPTIVE CROSS APPROXIMATION FOR COMPRESSING THE JACOBIAN MATRIX IN THE GAUSS-NEWTON INVERSION
Maokun Li, Aria Abubakar, Tarek Habashy, Schlumberger-Doll Research, United States

TUP2.PG.3: VEGETATION ISOLINE EQUATIONS FOR ANALYSIS OF HYPER-SPECTRAL DATA WITH HIGHER ORDER INTERACTION TERMS
Munenori Miura, Kenta Obata, Hiroki Yoshioka, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan

TUP2.PG.4: PARALLEL UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING COMPLEXITY PURSUIT
Stefan Robila, Martin Butler, Montclair State University, United States

TUP2.PG.5: ESTIMATING THE GREATEST DUST STORM IN EASTERN AUTRALIA WITH MODIS SATELLITE IMAGES
Xiaojing Li, Linlin Ge, University of New South Wales, Australia; Yusen Dong, China University of Geosciences, China; Hsing-Chung Chang, University of New South Wales, Australia

TUP2.PG.6: SCALING IN THE VALIDATION OF QUANTITATIVE REMOTE SENSING PRODUCTS
Renhua Zhang, Hongbo Su, Jing Tian, Shaohui Chen, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PG.7: VALIDATION OF MODIS FAPAR PRODUCTS IN HULUNBER GRASSLAND OF CHINA
Gang Li, Daolong Wang, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Shimin Liu, School of Animal Biology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Western Australia, Australia; Wenjie Fan, Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University, China; Hua Zhang, Xiaoping Xin, Hongbin Zhang, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

TUP2.PG.8: FUSION OF GEOMETRIC MODELS FROM VLS OVERLAPPING PROFILES
Yi Lin, Juha Hyyppä, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland

IR Atmospheric Sounding and Calibration

TUP2.PH.1: A GENERALIZED NEURAL NETWORK FOR SIMULTANEOUS RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES AND SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM HYPERSPECTRAL THERMAL INFRARED DATA
Ning Wang, Bo-Hui Tang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chuanrong Li, Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhao-Liang Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PH.2: HUMAN CELLULAR RESPONSE TO TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS IDENTIFIED BY THE ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS)
Julie Wallace, McMaster University, Canada; Parameswaran Nair, Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, Canada; Pavlos Kanaroglou, McMaster University, Canada

TUP2.PH.3: A METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS BROADBAND SOLAR RADIATION CALIBRATION AND AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVAL
Jinhuan Qiu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China

TUP2.PH.4: PORTING AND TESTING NPOESS CRIMSS EDR ALGORITHMS
Susan Kizer, Xu Liu, Allen Larar, NASA Langley Research Center, United States; William Smith, Hampton University, United States; Daniel Zhou, NASA Langley Research Center, United States; Chris Barnet, Murty Divakarla, Guang Guo, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; William Blackwell, Vincent Leslie, Laura Jairam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, United States; Karen St. Germain, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TUP2.PH.5: PRE-LAUNCH PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION OF THE CRIMSS ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE AND MOISTURE EDR RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM
Degui Gu, Xialin Ma, Derrick Day, Rick Ohlemacher, Clark Snodgrass, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, United States

TUP2.PH.6: ESTIMATION OF SATELLITE PITCH ATTITUDE FROM ASTER IMAGE DATA
Tetsuya Okuda, Akira Iwasaki, University of Tokyo, Japan

TUP2.PH.7: SYNERGETIC USE OF MODIS AND AIRS: USE OF SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL RESPONSE IN COMBINATION WITH LEVEL-2 DATA
Mathias Schreier, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Brian Kahn, Annmarie Eldering, Denis Elliott, Evan Fishbein, Frederick Irion, Thomas Pagano, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TUP2.PH.8: SIMULATION AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF FREQUENCY CONVERTER OF DEVICE FOR 3D MEASUREMENTS OF TURBULENT AIR MOVEMENT
Igor Shirokov, Ivan Skorik, Ivan Kamynin, Sevastopol National Technical University, Ukraine

TUP2.PH.9: INTEGRATED POLAR-GEOSTATIONARY PHYSICAL COLLOCATION SYSTEM FOR GOES-R
Haibing Sun, Dell Perot Systems, United States; Walter Wolf, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States; Zhaohui Cheng, Dell Perot Systems, United States; Mitchell Goldberg, Christopher Barnet, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States; Thomas King, Dell Perot Systems, United States

Active Microwave

TUP2.PI.1: DEVELOPMENT OF AN OFF-THE-GRID X-BAND RADAR FOR WEATHER APPLICATIONS
Gianni Alexis Pablos-Vega, Josè G. Colom-Ustáriz, Sandra Cruz-Pol, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; Jorge M. Trabal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States; V. Chandrasekar, Jim George, Francesc Junyent, Colorado State University, United States

TUP2.PI.2: A KU-BAND ROTATING FAN-BEAM SCATTEROMETER: DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS
Xiaolong Dong, Di Zhu, Wenming Lin, Heguang Liu, Jingshan Jiang, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PI.3: COHERENT MIMO RADAR FOR GMTI
Delphine Cerutti-Maori, Jens Klare, Joachim H. G. Ender, Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), Germany

TUP2.PI.4: DOPPLER EFFECT AND COMPENSATION IN A ROTATING FANBEAM SPACEBORNE SCATTEROMETER
Di Zhu, Xiaolong Dong, Wenming Lin, Risheng Yun, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PI.5: RADIOMETRIC PERFORMANCE OF THE ADVANCED WIND SCATTEROMETER RADAR ASCAT
Julian Wilson, C. Anderson, Julia Figa-Saldaña, Hans Bonekamp, EUMETSAT, Germany

TUP2.PI.6: ACCURACY OF THE ENGINEERING CALIBRATION OF WEATHER RADARS
Frank Gekat, Dennis Vollbracht, Selex Sistemi Integrati GmbH, Germany

TUP2.PI.7: EVIDENCE OF REFRACTIVE INDEX VARIATION WITH ROUGHNESS IN CLOUDSAT W-BAND RADAR AND DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OF LIDAR/RADAR OCEAN SURFACE ECHO
Damien Josset, NASA Postdoctoral Program, United States; Jacques Pelon, IPSL/LATMOS, France; Yongxiang Hu, NASA Langley Research Center, United States; Simone Tanelli, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Chip Trepte, NASA Langley Research Center, United States; Pengwang Zhai, SSAI, United States

TUP2.PI.8: CALIBRATION ACCURRACY ENHANCEMENT IN THE FIELD EXPERIMENT WITH A GROUND-BASED SCATTEROMETER
Ji-hwan Hwang, Seong-Min Park, Yisok Oh, HongIk university, Republic of Korea

Education and Remote Sensing Posters

TUP2.PJ.1: EMERGENT SCIENCE – A NEW WAY FORWARD?
Rahul Ramachandran, University of Alabama, Huntsville, United States; Brian Wilson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Chris Lynnes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Helen Conover, Sunil Movva, University of Alabama, Huntsville, United States

TUP2.PJ.2: INTRODUCTION OF PODCASTS IN REMOTE SENSING EDUCATION
Raffaella Guida, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

TUP2.PJ.3: ANTICIPATING THE VIIRS AND MIS SENSORS ABOARD NPOESS
Thomas Lee, Jeffrey Hawkins, Arunas Kuciauskas, Kim Richardson, Michael H. Bettenhausen, Ian S. Adams, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Steven D. Miller, CIRA, United States

TUP2.PJ.4: REAL TIME DETECTION OF FOREST FIRES AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS FROM METEOSAT SECONDE GENERATION IMAGES USING A NEURAL NETWORK
Laurent Beaudoin, Loica Avanthey, Vincent Germain, Antoine Gademer, Ecole Superieure Informatique Electronique Automatique (ESIEA), France; Jean-Paul Rudant, Université de Marne la Vallée, France

TUP2.PJ.5: THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WCS SERER FOR SERVING MODIS DATA
Huazhong He, Guizhou University for Nationalities, China; Yingyue Gao, Zhejiang Univ. of Media and Communication, China; Zhengdong Gao, Liming Song, Yan Hu, Wuhan University, China

TUP2.PJ.6: REMOTE SENSING RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: AN INTERNATIONAL FIELDWORK PERSPECTIVE
Christopher Storie, The University of Winnipeg, Canada; Joni Bugden-Storie, Western Carolina University, United States

TUP2.PJ.7: HANDS-ON GPS AND REMOTE SENSING TRAINING FOR HIGH SCHOOL LEARNERS DURING IGARSS 2009 IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
Linda Hayden, ECSU Cerser, United States; Ambrose Jearld, Jr., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ; Kuchumbi Hayden, Je'aime Powell, ECSU Cerser, United States; Nina Jackson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TUP2.PJ.8: SUBMERGED AQUATIC VEGETATION HABITAT PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY GIS EXPERIENCE
Jinchun Yuan, Benjamin Branch, Patrina Bly, Chelsea Vick, Michael Jefferson, Elizabeth Brinker, Elizabeth City State University, United States

TUP2.PJ.9: LRN, ERN:, & BERN @ WIRELESS INTEGRATING THE SCIENCES (WITS) THEATRE
Lawrence Hilliard, Brian Campbell, NASA, United States; Michael Foody, Global Imagination, United States; Dan Klitsner, Kid-Group LLC, United States

Aerosols and Atmospheric Chemistry I

TUP2.PK.1: AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVAL OVER LAND USING MODIS DATA AND ITS APPLICATION IN DETECTION OF DUST EVENT
Linlu Mei, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Yingjie Li, Ying Wang, Hui Xu, Jianwen Ai, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PK.2: MONITORING THE HEAVY FOG USING AOD DERIVED FROM MODIS DATA
Yingjie Li, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Ying Wang, Linlu Mei, Hui Xu, Jianwen Ai, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PK.3: CONVOLUTION CALCULATION OF DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS OF RING EFFECT
Dong Han, Liangfu Chen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Weimin Wu, Qingdao University, China; Shenshen Li, Chao Yu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PK.4: TIME SERIES ALGORITHM FOR AEROSOL RETRIEVALS FROM MODIS
Alexei Lyapustin, Yujie Wang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States

TUP2.PK.5: A PRELIMINARY INVSTIGATION OF CO2 AND CH4 CONCENTRATION VARIATIONS WITH THE LANDUSE IN NORTHERN CHINA BY GOSAT
Liping Lei, Qing Liu, Li Zhang, Liangyun Liu, Bing Zhang, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PK.6: RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS AND SIZE DISTRIBUTION FROM PARASOL IN PEARL RIVER DELTA AREA
Zhe Jiang, Liangfu Chen, Minghui Tao, Lin Su, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PK.7: BLUE REFLECTANCES CONTRAST OF MODIS IMAGERY: IMPLICATION FOR DUST AND BIOMASS BURNED SMOKE DETECTION
Ronggao Liu, Yang Liu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PK.8: SATELLITE INFRARED MEASUREMENTS OF SMOKE AEROSOLS FROM FOREST FIRES: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL WARMING
Yongseung Kim, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Republic of Korea

TUP2.PK.9: AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVAL BASED ON LAND SURFACE SPECTRA MODELING
Bo Zhong, Qinhuo Liu, Qiang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PK.10: A NEW METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AEROSOL PROPERTIES AND SURFACE REFLECTANCE FROM POLDER DATA OVER LAND
Takashi Kusaka, Ryuichi Taniguchi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan

TUP2.PK.11: ANALYSIS OF JING-JIN-TANG DISTRICT SEVEN-YEAR AEROSOL CHANGE USING MODIS DATA
Meng Fan, Liangfu Chen, Shenshen Li, Jinhua Tao, Dong Han, Baohua He, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Ocean Surface Temperature

TUP2.PL.1: NOAA'S GLOBAL HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE BLENDED ANALYSIS
Eileen Maturi, John Sapper, William Pichel, NOAA/NESDIS, United States

TUP2.PL.2: EVALUATION OF FY AND HY DATA FOR SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS
Lei Guan, Hongyan Wang, Liqin Qu, Ocean University of China, China

TUP2.PL.3: RESEARCH ON DYNAMICAL VISUALIZATION OF THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL PROCESS OF SEAWATER TEMPERATURE AND SALINITY
Jian Liu, Xin Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaoyi Jiang, Bing Jiang, National Marine Data & Information Service, Tianjin, China; Tianhe Chi, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PL.4: COMBINED DIRECT AND REMOTE SENSING MEASUREMENTS OF AIR-SEA INTERACTION PARAMETERS DURING THE TEMPERATURE FRONT PASSAGE
Natalia Y. Komarova, Space Research Institute, Russian Federation; Irina A. Repina, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Federation

TUP2.PL.5: THE VALIDATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA SETS
Jorge Vazquez, Toshio Chin, Edward Armstrong, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Gary Jedlovec, Frank LaFontaine, Jaclyn Shafer, Short Term Prediction Research and Transition Center, United States

TUP2.PL.6: ASSESSMENT OF TMI RETRIEVED SUB SKIN TEMPERATURE OVER THE NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
Anant Parekh, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India; Abhijit Sarkar, Space Applications Centre, India

TUP2.PL.7: FILTERING OF FLUID IN MOTION IMAGES USING OPTIMAL MESH SMOOTHING
Guillaume Noel, Yskandar Hamam, Karim Djouani, French South African Institute of Electronics, South Africa

TUP2.PL.8: EVALUATION OF SST PRODUCTS FROM MULTI-SENSORS IN EAST CHINA SEA
Yumei Wu, East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, China; Yijun He, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Lidar Processing and Analysis

TUP2.PM.1: A COMPARISON OF FOREST BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS ASSESSED WITH LIDAR DATA ON THREE PLATFORMS: GROUND, AIRBORNE, AND SATELLITE
Sorin Popescu, Kaiguang Zhao, Texas A&M University, United States; Demetrios Gatziolis, USDA Forest Service, United States; Ryan Sheridan, Muge Mutlu, Texas A&M University, United States

TUP2.PM.2: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POLARIMETRIC AND NON-POLARIMETRIC LIDAR IN DECIDUOUS-CONIFEROUS TREE CLASSIFICATION
Songxin Tan, Ali Haider, South Dakota State University, United States

TUP2.PM.3: FLOOR AREA RATIO EXTRACTION BASED ON AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING DATA OVER URBAN AREAS
Chengyi Wang, Jianglin Ma, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Fuyuan Liang, Western Illinois University, United States

TUP2.PM.4: QEM-BASED SIMPLIFICATION OF BUILDING FOOTPRINTS FROM AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA
Zhi Wang, Northeastern University, China; Hui-Ying Li, Jilin University, China; Li-Xin Wu, Beijing Normal University, China

TUP2.PM.5: THE INVERSION OF CROP HEIGHT BASED ON SMALL-FOOTPRINT WAVEFORM AIRBORNE LIDAR
Mengwei Zhou, Qinhuo Liu, Qiang Liu, Qing Xiao, Bo Zhong, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP2.PM.6: FUSION OF LIDAR DATA AND ORTHOIMAGE FOR AUTOMATIC BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION
Huiying Li, Shengbo Chen, Jilin University, China; Zhi Wang, Northeastern University, China; Wenhui Li, Jilin University, China

TUP2.PM.7: PRECISION OF LVIS AND MISR CANOPY HEIGHT ESTIMATES FOR DESERT GRASSLAND SHRUB CANOPIES ASSESSED WITH FIELD AND UAV ESTIMATES IN A MULTISCALE APPROACH
Mark Chopping, Aslan Aslan, Montclair State University, United States; Michelle Hofton, University of Maryland, United States; James Blair, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Andrea Laliberté, Albert Rango, USDA/ARS, United States

TUP2.PM.8: EXTRACTION OF BUILDING'S GEOMETRIC AXIS LINE FROM LIDAR DATA FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Yonglin Shen, Beijing Normal University, China; Zhi Wang, Northeastern University, China; Lixin Wu, Beijing Normal University, China

Earthquakes and Remote Sensing

TU4.L01.1: 2009 EARTHQUAKES IN SUMATRA: THE USE OF L-BAND INTERFEROMETRY IN A SAR-HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT
Emmanuel Christophe, Aik Song Chia, Tiangang Yin, Leong Keong Kwoh, National University of Singapore, Singapore

TU4.L01.2: FULL EXPLOITATION OF THE SBAS-DINSAR ALGORITHM IN ACTIVE SEISMOGENETIC SCENARIOS
Mariarosaria Manzo, Paolo Berardino, Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente, Italy; Manuela Bonano, Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente, Università La Sapienza, Italy; Francesco Casu, Riccardo Lanari, Andrea Manconi, Michele Manunta, Antonio Pepe, Susi Pepe, Eugenio Sansosti, Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente, Italy; Giuseppe Solaro, Pietro Tizzani, Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Italy; Giovanni Zeni, Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente, Italy

TU4.L01.3: THE CHARACTERISTICS OF POST-SEISMIC SURFACE DEFORMATION OF THE WENCHUAN MS8.0 EARTHQUAKE FROM INSAR
Xiaogang Song, Xinjian Shan, Chunyan Qu, Yufei Han, Guifang Zhang, Guohong Zhang, Limin Guo, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, China

TU4.L01.4: RAPID ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED SECONDARY MOUNTAIN DISASTER CHAINS BASED ON MULTI-PLATFORM REMOTE SENSING
Bingwei Tian, Katsuaki Koike, Kumamoto University, Japan; Jianrong Fan, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TU4.L01.5: LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSESSMENT IN ACTIVE SEISMIC ZONE — WITH A CASE STUDY OF WENCHUAN
Shu Tao, Wenji Zhao, Deyong Hu, Capital Normal University, China

Satellite Altimetry Past, Present and Future II

TU4.L02.1: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF JASON-1 SEA SURFACE HEIGHT AND BACKSCATTERING DURING SUMATRA-ADAMAN TSUNAMI
Vladimir Irisov, ZelTech/NOAA, United States; Oleg Godin, University of Colorado/CIRES, United States; Benjamin Hamlington, Robert Leben, University of Colorado/CCAR, United States; Gary Wick, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TU4.L02.2: SHAPE CLASSIFICATION OF ALTIMETRIC SIGNALS USING ANOMALY DETECTION AND BAYES DECISION RULE
Jean-Yves Tourneret, Corinne Mailhes, Jérome Severini, University of Toulouse, France; Pierre Thibaut, Collecte Localisation Satellite, France

TU4.L02.3: ATTRIBUTING REGIONAL PATTERNS OF LONG-TERM OCEAN VARIABILITY IN SATELLITE-DERIVED OBSERVATIONS
Pedro DiNezio, University of Miami, United States; Gustavo Goni, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TU4.L02.4: OCEAN STRIATIONS
Nikolai Maximenko, Oleg Melnichenko, University of Hawaii, United States; Peter Niiler, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States; Niklas Schneider, University of Hawaii, United States; Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States; Jan Hafner, University of Hawaii, United States; Hideharu Sasaki, Earth Simulator Center, Japan

Microwave Sensing of Forests

TU4.L03.1: FOREST CHANGE DETECTION FROM L-BAND SATELLITE SAR IMAGES USING ITERATIVE HISTOGRAM MATCHING AND THRESHOLDING TOGETHER WITH DATA FUSION
Andreas Pantze, Johan E. S. Fransson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; Maurizio Santoro, GAMMA Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland

TU4.L03.2: WALL-TO-WALL MAPPING OF FOREST EXTENT AND CHANGE IN TASMANIA USING ALOS PALSAR DATA
Anthea Mitchell, Tony Milne, Ian Tapley, Kim Lowell, CRC for Spatial Information, Australia; Peter Caccetta, Eric Lehmann, Zheng-Shu Zhou, CSIRO, Australia

TU4.L03.3: MAPPING TROPICAL FOREST USING ALOS PALSAR 50M RESOLUTION DATA WITH MULTISCALE GLCM ANALYSIS
Preesan Rakwatin, Nicolas Longépé, Osamu Isoguchi, Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Yumiko Uryu, WWF Indonesia, Indonesia

TU4.L03.4: FOREST PARAMETER RETRIEVAL FROM SAR DATA USING AN ESTIMATION ALGORITHM APPLIED TO REGROWING FOREST STANDS IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
Daniel Clewley, Richard Lucas, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom; Mahta Moghaddam, The University of Michigan, United Kingdom; Pete Bunting, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom; John Dwyer, University of Queensland, United Kingdom; Joao Carreiras, Tropical Research Institute (IICT), United Kingdom

TU4.L03.5: MAPPING OF WIND-THROWN FORESTS USING SATELLITE SAR IMAGES
Johan E. S. Fransson, Andreas Pantze, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; Leif E. B. Eriksson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Maurizio Santoro, GAMMA Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland

KOMPSAT-5 SAR Mission II

TU4.L04.1: RADARGRAMMETRY OF HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR ONBOARD KOMPSAT-5
Hoonyol Lee, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea

TU4.L04.2: SOIL MOISTURE DETECTION USING KOMPSAT-5 SAR DATA
Yisok Oh, Soon-Gu Kwon, Ji-Hwan Hwang, Hongik University, Republic of Korea

TU4.L04.3: AN EFFICIENT METHOD OF DOPPLER PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN TIME-FREQUENCY DOMAIN FOR A MOVING OBJECT FROM SPACEBORNE HIGH-RESOLUTION X-BAND SAR DATA
Joong-Sun Won, Jeong-Won Park, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

TU4.L04.4: APPLICATION OF KOMPSAT-5 DATA FOR EMERGENT OIL SPILL MONITORING
Duk-Jin Kim, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea; Wooil M. Moon, University of Manitoba, Canada; Youn-soo Kim, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Republic of Korea

TU4.L04.5: ESTIMATING RICE GROWTH PARAMETERS USING X-BAND SCATTEROMETER DATA
YiHyun Kim, SukYoung Hong, Eunyoung Choe, National Academy of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea; Hoonyol Lee, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea

Radar Signature of Soil Moisture and Freeze/Thaw

TU4.L05.1: RETRIEVAL OF SURFACE AND DEEP SOIL MOISTURE FROM RADAR OBSERVATIONS USING SIMULATED ANNEALING
Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States

TU4.L05.2: INFERRING THE IMPACT OF RADAR INCIDENCE ANGLE ON SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL SKILL USING DATA ASSIMILATION
Wade Crow, USDA ARS, United States; Wolfgang Wagner, Vahid Naeimi, Technische Universität Wien, Austria

TU4.L05.3: A POLARIMETRIC TWO-SCALE MODEL FOR SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL
Antonio Iodice, Antonio Natale, Daniele Riccio, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy

TU4.L05.4: QUIKSCAT BACKSCATTER SENSITIVITY ON LANDSCAPE FREEZE/THAW STATE OVER ALECTRA SITES IN ALASKA FROM 2000 TO 2008: APPLICATION TO SMAP VALIDATION PLANNING
Andreas Colliander, Kyle McDonald, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Reiner Zimmermann, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany; Thomas Linke, Ronny Schroeder, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; John Kimball, University of Montana, United States; Eni Njoku, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

TU4.L05.5: DECOMPOSITION METHODS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF BARE SOIL MOISTURE USING FULLY POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Weilin Yuan, Qiming Qin, Shihong Du, Xinyi Shen, Hongbo Jiang, Yan Ma, Institution of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University, China

Hyperspectral Unmixing

TU4.L06.1: ON THE PERFORMANCE OF RANDOM-PROJECTION-BASED DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FOR ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION
Qian Du, James Fowler, Mississippi State University, United States

TU4.L06.2: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SPARSE HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING
Marian Daniel Iordache, University of Extremadura, Spain; Jose Bioucas-Dias, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal; Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain

TU4.L06.3: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE UNMIXING VIA QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING
Zhuocheng Yang, James Farison, Baylor University, United States

TU4.L06.4: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING BASED ON NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION
Xuesong Liu, Bin Wang, Liming Zhang, Fudan University, China

TU4.L06.5: CONSTRAINED INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING
Wei Xia, Bin Wang, Liming Zhang, Fudan University, China

EOS Terra Contributions to Earth Science – The First 10 Years II

TU4.L07.1: TEN YEARS OF MISR OBSERVATIONS FROM TERRA: LOOKING BACK, AHEAD, AND IN BETWEEN
David Diner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Thomas Ackerman, University of Washington, United States; Amy Braverman, Carol Bruegge, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Mark Chopping, Montclair State University, United States; Eugene Clothiaux, Pennsylvania State University, United States; Roger Davies, University of Auckland, New Zealand; Larry Di Girolamo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States; Ralph Kahn, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Yuri Knyazikhin, Boston University, United States; Yang Liu, Emory University, United States; Roger Marchand, University of Washington, United States; John Martonchik, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Jan-Peter Muller, University College London, United Kingdom; Anne Nolin, Oregon State University, United States; Bernard Pinty, Michel Verstraete, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy; Dong Wu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Michael Garay, Raytheon Company, United States; Olga Kalashnikova, Anthony Davis, Edgar Davis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Russell Chipman, University of Arizona, United States

TU4.L07.2: TEN YEARS OF EARTH OBSERVATIONS FROM MODIS: WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED?
Michael King, University of Colorado, United States; Steven Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Christopher Justice, University of Maryland, United States; Chuck McClain, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TU4.L07.3: MEASUREMENTS OF CARBON| MONOXIDE WITH THE MOPITT IINSTRUMENT 1999-2009
James Drummond, Dalhousie University, Canada

TU4.L07.4: SCALING THE PIPE: NASA EOS TERRA DATA SYSTEMS AT 10
Robert Wolfe, Rama Ramapriyan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TU4.L07.5: GROUND-BASED NETWORK AND SUPERSITE OBSERVATIONS TO COMPLEMENT AND ENRICH EOS/TERRA RESEARCH: THE PAST 10 YEARS AND BEYOND
Si-Chee Tsay, Brent N. Holben, E. Judd Welton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TRMM and GPM Precipitation Missions III

TU4.L08.1: FALLING SNOW RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT WORK FOR GPM
Gail Skofronick-Jackson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Benjamin Johnson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States; James R. Wang, SSAI, United States

TU4.L08.2: DEVELOPMENT OF SPACEBORNE RADAR SIMULATOR BY NICT AND JAXA USING JMA CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL
Takuji Kubota, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Hisaki Eito, Kazumasa Aonashi, Akihiro Hashimoto, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan; Toshio Iguchi, Hiroshi Hanado, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; Shuji Shimizu, Naofumi Yoshida, Riko Oki, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

TU4.L08.3: SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING OVERVIEW OF THE NASA DUAL-FREQUENCY DUAL-POLARIZED DOPPLER RADAR (D3R) SYSTEM FOR GPM GROUND VALIDATION
V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States; Mathew Schwaller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Manuel Vega, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Colorado State University, United States; James R. Carswell, Remote Sensing Solutions, United States; Kumar Vijay Mishra, Colorado State University, United States; Robert Meneghini, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Cuong Nguyen, Colorado State University, United States

TU4.L08.4: CORRECTING MICROWAVE PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS FOR NEAR-SURFACE EVAPORATION
Chinnawat Surussavadee, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus, Thailand; David Staelin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

TU4.L08.5: SURFACE REFERENCE NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION OVER LAND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE TRMM PR ALGORITHM
Ken'ichi Okamoto, Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Japan; Jun Komukai, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan; Shoichi Shige, Kyoto University, Japan; Takeshi Manabe, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction II

TU4.L09.1: TROPISAR, A SAR DATA ACQUISITION CAMPAIGN IN FRENCH GUIANA
Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Olivier Ruault du Plessis, Helene Oriot, ONERA, France; Thuy Le Toan, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Jerome Chave, EDB, France; Lilian Blanc, CIRAD, France; Malcolm Davidson, European Space Agency, Netherlands

TU4.L09.2: MITIGATING TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON POLARIMETRIC SAR CLASSIFICATION
Tom Ainsworth, Yanting Wang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Franz Meyer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States; Jong-Sen Lee, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

TU4.L09.3: RETRIEVAL OF SOIL MOISTURE UNDER VEGETATION USING POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING CUBES
Motofumi Arii, Mitsubishi Space Software Co., ltd., Japan; Jakob J. van Zyl, Yunjin Kim, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TU4.L09.4: FOUR-COMPONENT SCATTERING POWER DECOMPOSITION WITH ROTATION OF COHERENCY MATRIX
Yoshio Yamaguchi, Ryoichi Sato, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Niigata University, Japan; Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

TU4.L09.5: INTERPRETATION OF THE TOUZI DECOMPOSITION FOR OPTIMUM WETLAND CHARACTERIZATION
Ridha Touzi, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada

Microwave Scatterometry, Radiometry and Ocean Applications (Honoring Dr. W. Linwood Jones) II

TU4.L10.1: FROM A REAL PENCIL TO A SYNTHETIC BROOM: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF HIRAD
Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States

TU4.L10.2: WINDSAT: PASSIVELY MEASURING OCEAN VECTOR WINDS
Ian S. Adams, Peter W. Gaiser, Michael H. Bettenhausen, Li Li, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

TU4.L10.3: TOWARDS BAYESIAN ESTIMATOR SELECTION FOR QUIKSCAT WIND AND RAIN ESTIMATION
Michael Owen, David G. Long, Brigham Young University, United States

TU4.L10.4: A REVISED GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION FOR THE ADVANCED SCATTEROMETER (ASCAT) AT NOAA/NESDIS
Seubson Soisuvarn, Zorana Jelenak, NOAA/UCAR, United States; Paul S. Chang, Qi Zhu, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TU4.L10.5: ASSESSMENT OF ASCAT HIGH WIND RETRIEVALS WITHIN EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES AT NOAA OCEAN PREDICTION CENTER
Khalil Ahmad, Zorana Jelenak, Joseph Sienkiewicz, Paul S. Chang, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR, United States

Remote Sensing of Human Settlements I

WE1.L01.1: GLOBAL TRENDS IN REMOTE SENSING OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
Bruce Forster, University of New South Wales, Australia

WE1.L01.3: RECENT PROGRESS IN THERMAL REMOTE SENSING OF URBAN AREAS
Qihao Weng, Indiana State University, United States

WE1.L01.4: AUTOMATION OF OBJECT EXTRACTION FROM LIDAR IN URBAN AREAS
Franz Rottensteiner, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

WE1.L01.5: MAPPING EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE IN VHR RADAR IMAGES OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON THE 6TH APRIL 2009, ITALY CASE
Fabio Dell'Acqua, EUCENTRE, Italy; Paolo Gamba, Diego Aldo Polli, University of Pavia, Italy

The Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) I

WE1.L02.1: OVERVIEW OF GCOM
Haruhisa Shimoda, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

WE1.L02.3: GCOM-W AND GCOM-C PROJECT STATUS
Keizo Nakagawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

WE1.L02.4: OVERVIEW OF GCOM – C1 / SGLI SCIENCE
Yoshiaki Honda, Chiba University, Japan

WE1.L02.5: AMSR INSTRUMENTS ON GCOM-W1/2: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS
Taikan Oki, Keiji Imaoka, Misako Kachi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

Wetlands and Inland Waters

WE1.L03.1: MAPPING WETLAND DYNAMICS WITH MULTI-TEMPORAL ALOS PALSAR SCANSAR IMAGERY
Bruce Chapman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Laura Hess, University of California, United States; Laurent Durieux, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France; Eduardo Arraut, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil; Bruce Marshall, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil; Kyle McDonald, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WE1.L03.2: A CASE STUDY FOR THE OKAVANGO DELTA WETLAND: USING MODIS TIME SERIES OBSERVATIONS TO ASCERTAIN FLOODING REGIME DYNAMICS FOR IMPROVED METHANE EMISSION MODELING INPUTS
Kelebogile Mfundisi, University of Botswana, Botswana; Tobias Landmann, University of Wuerzburg, Germany; Andreas Dietz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Stefan Dech, University of Wurezburg, Germany

WE1.L03.3: OPTIMIZING CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY OF ESTUARINE MACROPHYTES: COMBINING SPATIAL AND PHYSICS-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS
Janet Anstee, Elizabeth Botha, CSIRO, Australia; Robert Williams, Industry & Investment NSW, Australia; Arnold Dekker, CSIRO, Australia

WE1.L03.4: A COMPARISON OF INUNDATED WETLAND AND OPEN WATER DISTRIBUTION FOR ALASKA BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW RESOLUTION MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING DATA
Erika Podest, Kyle McDonald, Ronny Schroeder, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Jane Whitcomb, Mahta Moghaddam, The University of Michigan, United States

WE1.L03.5: MAPPING AND CHANGE DETECTION FOR BOREAL WETLANDS OF NORTH AMERICA BASED ON JERS AND PALSAR DATA
Jane Whitcomb, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States; Kyle McDonald, Erika Podest, Bruce Chapman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

Student Contest I

WE1.L04.1: MULTI-VIEW ADAPTIVE DISAGREEMENT BASED ACTIVE LEARNING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Wei Di, Melba Crawford, Purdue University, United States

WE1.L04.2: CRATER DETECTION BASED ON MARKED POINT PROCESSES
Giulia Troglio, University of Genoa, Italy; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland; Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy

WE1.L04.3: TREE AND CROWN HEIGHT ASSESSEMENTS OF A MARITIME PINE FOREST AT PLOT LEVEL USING A FULLWAVEFORM ULTRAVIOLET LIDAR PROTOTYPE
Tristan Allouis, Cemagref / AgroParisTech, France; Sylvie Durrieu, Cemagref, France; Juan Cuesta, Patrick Chazette, Pierre H. Flamant, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France; Pierre Couteron, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

WE1.L04.4: ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM ARBITRARY RANDOM ROUGH SURFACES USING STABILIZED EXTENDED BOUNDARY CONDITION METHOD (SEBCM) FOR REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE
Xueyang Duan, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States

WE1.L04.5: BISTATIC SCATTERING, BACKSCATTERING AND EMISSIVITIES OF RANDOMLY ROUGH SOIL SURFACES AT L BAND BASED ON NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS OF MAXWELL EQUATIONS OF 3 DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS
Shaowu Huang, Leung Tsang, University of Washington, United States

Remote Sensing for Tropical Deforestation and Degradation: A Global Challenge with Local Impact I

WE1.L05.1: FOREST MAPPING, INVENTORY AND BIOMASS ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES FROM REMOTE SENSING: AN OVERVIEW
Tony Milne, Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, Australia; Mark Williams, Fugro-EarthData, United States

WE1.L05.3: TROPICAL-FOREST STRUCTURE AND ITS RELATION TO BIOMASS ESTIMATION FROM L-BAND REPEAT-TRACK INTERFEROMETRIC SAR AND LIDAR
Robert Treuhaft, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Fabio Gonçalves, Oregon State University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Bruce Chapman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Jason Drake, USDA Forest Service, United States; João Roberto dos Santos, Luciano Dutra, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil; Paulo M. L. A. Graca, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Brazil; George Purcell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

WE1.L05.4: SAR DATA COLLECTION OVER RAIN FORESTS AT VHF- AND UHF-BAND
Björn Flood, Per-Olov Frölind, Anders Gustavsson, Tommy Jonsson, Björn Larsson, Mikael Lundberg, Daniel Murdin, Gunnar Stenström, Lars M. H. Ulander, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden

WE1.L05.5: ANALYSIS OF GEOSAR, DUAL-BAND, INSAR DATA FOR PERUVIAN FOREST
Mark Williams, Fugro-EarthData, United States; Miles Silman, Wake Forest University, United States; Sassan Saatchi, Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Mark Sanford, Alina Yohannan, Boris Kofman, James Reis, Bert Kampes, Fugro-EarthData, United States

Classification Techniques

WE1.L06.1: MARKOV RANDOM FIELD BASED SUPER-RESOLUTION MAPPING FOR IDENTIFICATION OF URBAN TREES IN VHR IMAGES
Juan Ardila, Wietske Bijker, Valentyn Tolpekin, Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Netherlands

WE1.L06.2: COMBINING CLASSIFIERS FOR ROBUST HYPERSPECTRAL MAPPING USING HIERARCHICAL TREES AND CLASS MEMBERSHIPS
Karoly Livius Bakos, Paolo Gamba, Università di Pavia, Italy; Bogdan Zagajewski, University of Warsaw, Poland

WE1.L06.3: A MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER APPROACH FOR SPECTRAL-SPATIAL CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Yuliya Tarabalka, GIPSA-Lab - Grenoble Institute of Technology, France; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University Of Iceland, Iceland; Jocelyn Chanussot, GIPSA-Lab - Grenoble Institute of Technology, France; James Tilton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WE1.L06.4: ADVANCED ACTIVE SAMPLING FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Michele Volpi, Devis Tuia, Mikhail Kanevski, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

WE1.L06.5: CLASSIFYING PATTERNS OF LAND COVER USING MUTUAL INFORMATION AND CLUSTERING
Tomasz Stepinski, Lunar and Planetary Institute, United States

Data Management and Systems

WE1.L07.1: NASA’S STANDARDS PROCESS FOR EARTH SCIENCE DATA SYSTEMS
Richard Ullman, NASA, United States; Yonsook Enloe, SGT, Inc., United States

WE1.L07.2: ASTER DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL AND ORTHORECTIFIED IMAGES GENERATED ON THE GEO GRID
Shinsuke Kodama, Hirokazu Yamamoto, Naotaka Yamamoto, Akihide Kamei, Ryosuke Nakamura, Koki Iwao, Satoshi Tsuchida, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

WE1.L07.3: WHAT VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION IS (GOOD FOR) - DESIGNING A METHODOLOGY FOR COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EXISTING APPLICATIONS TO CLASSIFY VGI AND ITS USES
Nicole Ostlaender, Robin S. Smith, Bertrand de Longueville, Paul Smits, European Commission, Joint Research Center, Italy

WE1.L07.4: THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR ADVANCING AMERICA'S ENERGY POLICY
Azita Valinia, Bernard Seery, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WE1.L07.5: CROWD-SOURCING SATELLITE IMAGE ANALYSIS
Emmanuel Christophe, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Jordi Inglada, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Jerome Maudlin, Graphical Hedonist, France

Aerosols

WE1.L08.1: MARITIME AEROSOL NETWORK AS A COMPONENT OF AERONET - FIRST STEPS
Alexander Smirnov, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Brent N. Holben, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Andreas Macke, Peter Croot, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University, Germany; Sergey Sakerin, Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russian Federation; Yann Courcoux, Universite de la Reunion, France; Tim Smyth, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom; Tymon Zielinski, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Poland; Giuseppe Zibordi, European Commission, Joint Research Center, Italy; Mike Harvey, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand; Remi Losno, Universite de Paris 7 et Universite de Paris 12, France; Jean Sciare, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France; Vladimir Radionov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russian Federation; Patricia Quinn, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, United States; Norm Nelson, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Joaquim Goes, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, United States; K Krishna Moorthy, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, India; Carlos Duarte, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Spain; Kenneth Voss, University of Miami, United States; David Covert, University of Washington, United States; Nicholas Nalli, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Services, United States; Sergey Gulev, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation; Ilya Slutsker, David Giles, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Norman O'Neill, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada; Thomas Eck, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States

WE1.L08.2: MULTI-ANGLER POLARIZED REMOTE SENSING OF NON-SPHERICAL AEROSOL PARTICLES
Tianhai Cheng, Xingfa Gu, Tao Yu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WE1.L08.3: AEROSOL REMOTE SENSING OVER OCEAN IN GLINT CONTAMINATED REGIONS USING AATSR AND MERIS
Rene Preusker, Juergen Fischer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

WE1.L08.4: DEVELOPING A SATELLITE-BASED TOOL TO MONITOR DUST AND SAND STORMS IN THE UAE
Ali Al Suwaidi, Adnan Al Rais, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology, United Arab Emirates; Hosni Ghedira, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

WE1.L08.5: APPLICATION OF GROUND TRANSPORTABLE LIDAR FOR THE CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF THE NASA’S GLORY AEROSOL POLARIMETY SENSOR MEASUREMENT
Yahya Golestani, Steven Beck, The Aerospace Corporation, United States

The Destiny of DESDynI – Science and Applications Fusing L-band SAR and Lidar in the Next Decade I

WE1.L09.1: AN OVERVIEW OF THE DESDYNI MISSION
K. Jon Ranson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Paul Rosen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Ralph Dubayah, University of Maryland College Park, United States; Bradford Hager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Ian Joughin, University of Washington, United States; Scott Luthcke, Bryan Blair, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Scott Hensley, Yuhsyen Shen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Gerrry Daelemans, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WE1.L09.2: GLOBAL BIOMASS ESTIMATES FROM DESDYNI
Ralph Dubayah, University of Maryland, United States

WE1.L09.3: VERTICAL FOREST SRUCTURE ESTIMATION BY MEANS OF MULTI-BASELINE POL-INSAR AT L-BAND FOR GLOBAL BIOMASS MAPPING POTENTIAL & LIDAR SYNERGIES
Florian Kugler, Seung-Kuk Lee, Stefan Sauer, Astor Torano Caicoya, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE1.L09.4: DESDYNI BIODIVERSITY AND HABITAT KEY VARIABLES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LIDAR-RADAR FUSION
Kathleen Bergen, University of Michigan, United States; Ralph Dubayah, University of Maryland, United States; Scott Goetz, Woods Hole Research Center, United States

WE1.L09.5: ESTIMATION OF FOREST BIOMASS CHANGE FROM FUSION OF RADAR AND LIDAR MEASUREMENTS
Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

Realizing the Applications Benefits from NASA’s Pathfinding EOS Missions – the 1st Generation I

WE1.L10.1: INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY IN CLIMATE PRODUCTS FROM THE ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER
Thomas Pagano, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Eric Fetzer, Moustafa Chahine, Edward Olsen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WE1.L10.2: TERRA, AQUA, AND AURA DIRECT BROADCAST – PROVIDING EARTH SCIENCE DATA FOR REALTIME APPLICATIONS
Angelita Kelly, Patrick Coronado, NASA, United States; Warren Case, SGT, Inc., United States; Amelia Franklin, NASA, United States

WE1.L10.3: USE OF NASA DATA IN THE JOINT CENTER FOR SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION
Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, United States

WE1.L10.4: GRACE APPLICATIONS TO REGIONAL HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES
Byron Tapley, University of Texas at Austin, United States

WE1.L10.5: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LAND, ATMOSPHERE NEAR-REAL-TIME CAPABILITY FOR EOS (LANCE)
Karen Michael, Kevin Murphy, Dawn Lowe, Edward Masuoka, Bruce Vollmer, Curt Tilmes, Michael Teague, Gang Ye, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Martha Maiden, Michael Goodman, NASA Headquarters, United States; Christopher Justice, University of Maryland, United States

Radar Remote Sensing of Vegetation

WEP1.PA.1: SUPPORTING PRECISION AGRICULTURE WITH DUAL-POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X – YIELD PREDICTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF IN-FIELD VARIATIONS TO GENERATE FERTILIZER PRESCRIPTION MAPS
Tishampati Dhar, University of Adelaide, Australia; Carl Menges, Apogee Imaging International, Australia; Doug Gray, University of Adelaide, Australia; John Douglas, Apogee Imaging International, Australia; Leighton Wilksch, Landmark, Australia

WEP1.PA.2: ESTIMATION OF PASTURE BIOMASS AND SOIL-MOISTURE USING DUAL-POLARIMETRIC X AND L BAND SAR – ACCURACY ASSESMENT WITH FIELD DATA
Tishampati Dhar, Carl Menges, John Douglas, Apogee Imaging International, Australia; Michael Schmidt, John Armston, Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Australia

WEP1.PA.3: USE OF THE MERGED DUAL-FREQUENCY RADAR ALTIMETER BACKSCATTER DATA OVER CHINA LAND SURFACE
Le Yang, Hejuan Du, Hongzhang Ma, Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP1.PA.4: THE USE OF ALOS PALSAR IMAGERY FOR CERRADO’S LAND USE AND LAND COVER MAPPING
Edson Sano, Embrapa Cerrados, Brazil; Elaine Santos, Paulo Meneses, University of Brasília, Brazil

WEP1.PA.5: RICE AREAS MAPPING USING ALOS PALSAR FBD DATA CONSIDERING THE BRAGG SCATTERING IN L-BAND SAR IMAGES OF RICE FIELDS
Feilong Ling, Fuzhou University, China; Zengyuan Li, Erxue Chen, Xin Tian, Lina Bai, Fengyu Wang, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China

WEP1.PA.6: SYNERGISTIC USE OF MULTI-TEMPORAL ALOS/PALSAR WITH SPOT MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR LAND COVER MAPPING IN THE HOCHIMINH CITY AREA, VIETNAM
Hai Tung Chu, Linlin Ge, University of New South Wales, Australia

WEP1.PA.7: A COMBINED APPROACH TO DETECT URBAN FEATURES FROM MULTI-SPECTRAL AND RADAR DATA
Nathalie Long, Unité Mixte de Recherche Littoral, Environnement et Sociétés, France; Elisabeth Simonetto, Laboratoire de Géodésie et Géomatique, France; Erwan Bocher, Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques de laInstitut de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques de la Ville, France

WEP1.PA.8: AUTOMATIC CHANGE DETECTION IN A MULTITEMPORAL SERIES OF RADAR IMAGES
Sami Benzid, Ferdaous Chaabane, Riadh Abdelfattah, URISA/SUPCOM, Tunisia; Florence Tupin, TSI/TELECOM ParisTech, France

WEP1.PA.9: TROPICAL LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION WITH POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Emerson Luiz Servello, Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis – IBAMA, Brazil; Tatiana Mora Kuplich, Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, INPE, Brazil

WEP1.PA.10: A SHADOW PERCENTAGE ESTIMATION METHOD FOR RADAR LOOK ANGLE SELECTION IN SPACEBORNE INSAR APPLICATION
Yu Wang, Xing-dong Liang, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Vegetation Mapping I

WEP1.PB.1: APPLICATION OF PCA AND CANOPY NEAR,SHORTWAVE-INFRARED BANDS FOR SOYBEAN AND CORN FPAR ESTIMATION IN THE SONGNEN PLAIN,CHINA
Xuguang Tang, Kaishan Song, Dianwei Liu, Zongming Wang, Bai Zhang, Fei Yang, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP1.PB.2: RESEARCH OF FOREST REGULATING TEMPERATURE BASED ON TIME-SERIES OF SHANDONG PROVINCE
Haixia Feng, Peking University, China; Bi He, Hanhai Liu, Shandong Jiaotong University, China

WEP1.PB.3: RESEARCH ON PAR AND FPAR OF CROP CANOPIES BASED ON RGM
Xie Donghui, Beijing Normal University, China; Wang Peijuan, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China; Liu Rongyuan, Zhu Qijiang, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP1.PB.4: FOREST BIOMASS ESTIMATION IN NORTHEASTERN CHINA USING ALOS PALSAR DATA COMBINED RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL
Zhifeng Guo, Wenjian Ni, State key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States

WEP1.PB.5: UTILIZING PUBLIC INTERNET-CONNECTED CAMERAS FOR A CROSS- CONTINENTAL PLANT PHENOLOGY MONITORING SYSTEM
Erin Riordan, Eric Graham, Eric Yuen, Deborah Estrin, Philip Rundel, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

WEP1.PB.6: PROVIDING PROCESSING LINES AND TEST DATA FOR THE GMES LAND MONITORING CORE SERVICE
Philippe Pacholczyk, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

WEP1.PB.7: PROTOCOLS FOR FIELD SAMPLING OF FOREST CARBON POOLS FOR MONITORING, REPORTING AND VERIFICATION OF REDD
Julian Fox, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Mark Williams, Fugro-EarthData, United States; Tony Milne, Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, Australia; Rodney Keenan, The University of Melbourne, Australia

WEP1.PB.8: TIME LAG ANALYSIS BETWEEN VEGETATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN INNER MONGOLIA
Huiling Long, Xiaobing Li, Yun Bao, Lingmei Huang, Zhongfei Li, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP1.PB.9: MAPPING EVERGREEN FORESTS IN THE PAN-TROPICAL ZONE USING MULTI-TEMPORAL MODIS IMAGES IN 2005
Xiangming Xiao, Chandrashekhar Biradar, Huiyong Sang, Jingjing Wang, Sage Sheldon, University of Oklahoma, United States

Agroecosystems I

WEP1.PC.1: AN OPTIMIZED BROAD-BAND LEAF CHLOROPHYLL ESTIMATOR
Massimo Vincini, Ermes Frazzi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

WEP1.PC.2: COMPARISON OF TWO REGRESSION MODELS FOR PREDICTING CROP YIELD
Li Zhang, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lei Ji, ASRC Research and Technology Solutions, United States; Liping Lei, Dongmei Yan, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP1.PC.3: EVALUATING MODIS VEGETATION INDICES USING GROUND BASED MEASUREMENTS IN A MOUNTAINS SEMI-NATURAL MEADOWS OF NORTHEAST PORTUGAL
Mario Cunha, Isabel Poças, Andre Marçal, Arlete Rodrigues, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade do Porto, Portugal; Luis Pereira, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal

WEP1.PC.4: COMPARISON OF MODIS DERIVED EVAPOTRANSPIRATION WITH LAS MEASUREMENTS AT CHANGWU AGRO-ECOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTAL STATION
Ronglin Tang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhao-Liang Li, TRIO/LSIIT, France

WEP1.PC.5: HYPERSPECTRAL ASSESSMENT OF CANOPY NITROGEN CONTENT IN RICE - COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS USING MULTIPLE DATASETS -
Yoshio Inoue, NIAES, Japan; Yan Zhu, NAU, China; Eiji Sakaiya, Aomori-ITC, Japan; Wataru Takahashi, Toyama Prefc., Japan

WEP1.PC.6: ESTIMATION OF CROP LEAF AREA INDEX USING MODIS DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCES DATA
Yang Liu, Ronggao Liu, Siliang Liu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP1.PC.7: ESTIMATE CROP EVAPOTRANSPIRATION OF SPRING WHEAT IN THE MIDDLE REACHES OF HEIHE RIVER BASIN, NORTHWESTERN CHINA
Yao Wang, Chuanyan Zhao, Zhonglin Xu, Huanhua Peng, Lanzhou University, China

WEP1.PC.8: NDVI MODIS SENSOR RESPONSE TO SOYBEAN PHENOLOGY IN THE STATE OF PARANA, BRAZIL
Angélica Giarolla, Yosio E. Shimabukuro, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil

Volcano and Earthquake Applications

WEP1.PD.1: ASSUMPTIONS IN THE EVALUATION OF LAVA EFFUSION RATES FROM HEAT RADIATION
Michele Dragoni, University of Bologna, Italy; Andrea Tallarico, University of Bari, Italy

WEP1.PD.2: HIGH RESOLUTION D-INSAR MEASUREMENT FOR LAND SUBSIDENCE
Ye Xia, Hermann Kaufmann, German Research Center for Geosciences GFZ, Germany

WEP1.PD.3: TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF THE MAGMA SUPPLY SYSTEM BENEATH THE OKMOK CALDERA BY INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR AND STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY
William N. Junek, W. Linwood Jones, University of Central Florida, United States; Mark T. Woods, United States Air Force Technical Applications Center, United States

WEP1.PD.4: SYNERGETIC EXPLOITATION OF METEOROLOGICAL GEOSTATIONARY PAYLOADS «SEVIRI» AND «JAMI» FOR QUANTITATIVE, REAL-TIME, GLOBAL VOLCANO MONITORING
Barbara Hirn, Concettina Di Bartola, IES Consulting, Italy; Fabrizio Ferrucci, University of Calabria, Italy

WEP1.PD.5: DETECTION OF LAND SUBSIDENCE IN BEIJING, CHINA, USING INTERFEROMETRIC POINT TARGET ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE
Hongli Zhao, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China; Jinghui Fan, Xiaofang Guo, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Jianping Chen, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China; Ye Xia, German Research Center GFZ, Germany; Daqing Ge, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Lu Zhang, Yubao Qiu, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chang Zhong, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China

WEP1.PD.6: THE SPATIAL EXTENT OF THERMAL ANOMALIES AT LASCAR VOLCANO
Sam Murphy, Carlos Roberto de Souza Filho, University of Campinas, Brazil; Clive Oppenheimer, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

WEP1.PD.7: EXTRACTING SEISMIC ANOMALIES BASED ON STD THRESHOLD METHOD USING OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION DATA
Feng Jing, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xuhui Shen, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China; Chunli Kang, China Earthquake Networks Center, China; Qingyan Meng, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yang Chen, Shunying Hong, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China

WEP1.PD.8: DETECTION OF THERMAL CHNAGES POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED WITH VOLCANIC ACTIVITY WITH LESS FAINT CHANGES FROM MODIS
Katsumi Hattori, Takafumi Noguchi, Nozomi Ohno, Chiba University, Japan

SAR

WEP1.PE.1: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR REDUNDANT INTEGRATION OF FINITE DIFFERENCES AND PHASE UNWRAPPING ON A SPARSE MULTIDIMENSIONAL DOMAIN
Mario Costantini, Fabio Malvarosa, Federico Minati, E-GEOS - an ASI/Telespazio Company, Italy

WEP1.PE.2: A CHMT MODEL BASED DE-SPECKLING METHOD FOR SAR IMAGE
Deng Lei, Zhao Wenji, Hu Deyong, Hu Zhuowei, Cao Gaoming, Capital Normal University, China

WEP1.PE.3: POLSAR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING BP NEURAL NETWORK BASED ON QUANTUM CLONAL EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM
Bin Zou, Huijun Li, Lamei Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

WEP1.PE.4: AN IMPROVED CSA FOR ONE-STATIONARY BISAR SQUINT MODE
Dazhi Zeng, Rui Wang, Teng Long, Tao Zeng, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

WEP1.PE.5: MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING OF SAR INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGES
Safa Réjichi, Ferdaous Chaabane, Ecole Superieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia; Florence Tupin, Isabelle Bloch, Telecom ParisTech, France

WEP1.PE.6: SAR COMPLEX IMAGE ANALYSIS: A GAUSS MARKOV VERSUS A MULTIPLE SUB-APERTURE BASED TARGET CHARACTERIZATION
Jagmal Singh, Matteo Soccorsi, Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WEP1.PE.7: FOCUSING GENERAL BISTATIC SAR DATA USING FREQUENCY SCALING
Feng Li, Tao Zeng, Teng Long, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

WEP1.PE.8: OBJECT BASED DETECTION OF MULTISCALE CHANGES IN BRAZILIAN SAVANNAH USING SAR IMAGERY
Luis Carvalho, Federal University of Lavras, Brazil; Geoffrey J. Hay, University of Calgary, Canada; Mike Wulder, Canadian Forest Service, Canada; Fionn Murtagh, University of London, United Kingdom

WEP1.PE.9: SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGERY USING CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS
Wen Yang, Xun Zhang, Lijun Chen, Hong Sun, Wuhan University, China

WEP1.PE.10: CHARACTERIZATION OF ENVISAT MULTIPOLARIZATION SAR DATA WITH BIDIMENSIONAL STATISTICS
Christophe Gouinaud, LIMOS-ISIMA, France; Pascale Gouinaud, LIMOS, France

Target Detection - Object Recognition

WEP1.PF.1: A STUDY ON ANOMALOUS SIGNAL DETECTION USING HMM FOR ELF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE
Yoshinao Ito, Akitoshi Itai, Hiroshi Yasukawa, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan; Ichi Takumi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan; Masayasu Hata, Chubu University, Japan

WEP1.PF.2: MVM BASED SAR IMAGE PROCESSING FOR SHIP POSE ESTIMATION
Chong-wen Duan, Wei-dong Hu, Xiao-yong Du, National University of Defense Technology, China

WEP1.PF.3: A FEATURE-CLUSTERING-BASED SUBSPACE ENSEMBLE METHOD FOR ANOMALY DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Zhenlin Liu, Yanfeng Gu, Jinglong Han, Chen Wang, Ye Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

WEP1.PF.4: LOG-POLAR AND POLAR IMAGE FOR RECOGNITION TARGETS
Abdelmalek Toumi, Ali Khenchaf, Ecole nationale supérieure des ingénieurs des études et techniques d’armement, France

WEP1.PF.5: REFINED TARGET RECOGNITION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY BASED ON SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE AND DERIVATIVE INFORMATION
Ye Zhang, Tao Shao, Xiao Fan, Yushi Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

WEP1.PF.6: EFFECT OF THE POLARIZATION ON SISAR IMAGING AND FEATURE RECOGNITION IN FORWARD SCATTERING RADAR
Dazhi Zeng, Xiaoliang Li, Cheng Hu, Teng Long, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

WEP1.PF.7: INCORPORATION OF CLOUD RADIANCE EFFECTS INTO HYPERSPECTRAL TARGET DETECTION
Caitlin Hart, Michael Gartley, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States

WEP1.PF.8: AUTOMATIC MULTISENSOR IMAGE REGISTRATION BASED ON GLOBAL AND LOCAL GEOMETRIC CONSISTENT EDGE SEGMENTS
Zhiwen Zhu, Jiancheng Luo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP1.PF.9: ISAR IMAGING OF MANEUVERING TARGETS VIA MATCHING PURSUIT
Gang Li, Hao Zhang, Xiqin Wang, Tsinghua University, China; Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Delaware, United States

WEP1.PF.10: GENERIC OBJECT RECOGNITION IN HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES
Anca Popescu, University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania; Mihai Costache, Telecom ParisTech, France; Jagmal Singh, Mihai Datcu, Gottfried Schwarz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Data Assimilation and Inversion II

WEP1.PG.1: EXTRAPOLATION OF LIDAR FOR FOREST STRUCTURE ESTIMATION USING SAR, IFSAR, AND OPTICAL DATA
Leland Pierce, Michael Benson, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, United States

WEP1.PG.2: THE EDGELIST ALGORITHM FOR CONSTRAINING PHASE UNWRAPPED SOLUTIONS WITH ADDITIONAL GEODETIC INFORMATION
Piyush Shanker, Howard Zebker, Stanford University, United States

WEP1.PG.3: A SPECIFIC METHODOLOGY FOR ATMOSPHERIC EFFECT REDUCTION ON SAR INTERFEROGRAMS
Riadh Abdelfattah, URISA/SupCom and ITI/Telecom Bretagne, Tunisia; Karem Chokmani, Nabil Chaabane, ETE/INRS Québec, Canada

WEP1.PG.4: FROM LIDAR SIGNALS TO AEROSOL MICROPHYSICS BY REGULARIZATION
Christine Böckmann, Pornsarp Pornsawad, Lukas Osterloh, University of Potsdam, Germany; Alexandros Papayannis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Aldo Amodeo, Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale, Italy

WEP1.PG.5: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF REGISTRATION BETWEEN IMAGES AND LIDAR USING DIFFERENT PRIMITIVES
Eunju Kwak, Sendo Wang, Ayman Habib, University of Calgary, Canada

WEP1.PG.6: VECTOR TIME-SERIES FROM MULTIPLE INSAR GEOMETRIES APPLIED TO POST-RIFTING DEFORMATION AT KILAUEA
Cody Wortham, Piyush Agram, Howard Zebker, Stanford University, United States

WEP1.PG.7: INTERCONNECTION OF A CROP GROWTH MODEL WITH REMOTE SENSING DATA TO ESTIMATE THE TOTAL AVAILABLE WATER CONTENT OF SOILS
Pierre Todoroff, Flavie De Robillard, Jean-Baptiste Laurent, Centre de Coopération Internationale pour le Développement, France

WEP1.PG.8: RETRIEVAL OF TIME SERIES LAI BY COUPLING AN EMPIRICAL CROP GROWTH MODEL WITH A RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL
Guangjian Yan, Xiaoyan Yang, Jing Li, Xihan Mu, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP1.PG.9: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO DETERMINE PARAMETERS OF A 3D VOLCANO MODEL BY USING INSAR DATA WITH METAMODEL TECHNIQUE
Hao Zhang, Xiaoying Cong, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany; Michael Eineder, Remote Sensing Technology Institute, Germany; Kai-Uwe Bletzinger, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

Hyperspectral and Calibration

WEP1.PH.1: USING HYPERSPECTRAL INFRARED RADIANCE GLOBAL DATA SETS TO VALIDATE CLIMATE ANALYSES
Mitchell Goldberg, Lihang Zhou, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Xingpin Liu, Dell Perot Systems, United States; Likun Wang, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States

WEP1.PH.2: RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA FOR OCEAN AND LITTORAL APPLICATIONS
Edwin Winter, Michael Winter, Technical Research Associates, Inc., United States; Scott Beaven, Space Computer Corporation, United States

WEP1.PH.3: CHARACTERIZATION OF SURFACE DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE PROPERTIES OVER THE US SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS FROM AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS
Miguel O. Román, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Charles K. Gatebe, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States; Crystal B. Schaaf, Boston University, United States; Michael King, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States

WEP1.PH.4: THE EFFECT OF INCIDENT LIGHT POLARIZATION ON VEGETATION BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE FACTOR
Georgi Georgiev, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Kurtis Thome, K. Jon Ranson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Michael King, University of Colorado, United States; James J. Butler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WEP1.PH.5: AN IMPROVED MULTIANGULAR OBSERVING PLATFORM FOR BRDF MEASUREMENTS
Zhen Zhu, Wuming Zhang, Huazhong Ren, Guangjian Yan, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP1.PH.6: 2009 VICARIOUS CALIBRATION RESULTS FOR THE GREENHOUSE GASES OBSERVING SATELLITE (GOSAT)
Randy Pollock, Carol Bruegge, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Kataoka Fumie, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan; Akihiko Kuze, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Denis O’Brien, Thomas Taylor, Colorado State University, United States

WEP1.PH.7: GLOBAL SPACE-BASED INTER-CALIBRATION SYSTEM (GSICS) SENSOR INTERCOMPARISONS AND CORRECTIONS
Mitchell Goldberg, Xiangqian Wu, NOAA/NESDIS, United States

WEP1.PH.8: THE USE OF THE SONORAN DESERT AS A PSEUDO-INVARIANT SITE FOR OPTICAL SENSOR CROSS-CALIBRATION AND LONG-TERM STABILITY MONITORING
Amit Angal, Science and Systems Applications Inc./ NASA GSFC, United States; Gyanesh Chander, SGT, Inc. , U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, United States; Taeyoung (Jason) Choi, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, Code 614.4, NASA/GSFC, United States

WEP1.PH.9: SPECTRAL COMPATIBILITY ANALYSIS OF THE ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX FOR LONG-TERM CONTINUITY ACROSS AVHRR, MODIS, AND VIIRS
Tomoaki Miura, Javzandulm Tsend-Ayush, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States; Kamel Didan, University of Arizona, United States

WEP1.PH.10: ANALYSIS OF CRIS FM1 TVAC TEST DATA IN PREPARATION FOR ON-ORBIT RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION
Chunming Wang, Giovanni De Amici, Scott Farrow, Denise Hagan, Denis Tremblay, Northrop Grumman Corporation, United States

WEP1.PH.11: CALIBRATION OF THE THERMAL INFRARED SENSOR ON THE LANDSAT DATA CONTINUITY MISSION
Kurtis Thome, Dennis Reuter, Cathleen Richardson, Ramsey Smith, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WEP1.PH.12: VICARIOUS CALIBRATION OF GOES VISIBLE CHANNEL
Xiangqian Wu, NOAA / NESDIS / STAR, United States; Fangfang Yu, ERT, United States; Michael Weinreb, Riverside Technology, United States; Charlie Dean, I-Lok Chang, QSS, United States; Thomas Stone, US Geological Survey, United States; Sung-Rae Chung, KMA, United States; Gordana Rancic, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States

Hyperspectral Sensors, Calibration an Applications

WEP1.PI.1: DEVELOPMENT OF THE SECOND GENERATION HYPERSPECTRAL AIRBORNE TACTICAL INSTRUMENT (HATI): HATI--II
Stephanie Sandor-Leahy, Sveinn Thordarson, Brian Baldauf, Miguel Figueroa, Mark Helmlinger, Harold Miller, Taryn Reynolds, John Shepanski, Northrop Grumman, United States

WEP1.PI.2: DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION BASED FAST VECTOR QUANTIZATION ALGORITHM FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE COMPRESSION
Yushi Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Zhixin Zhou, Beijing Remote Sensing Institute, China; Ye Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

WEP1.PI.3: EVALUATION OF VIIRS CLOUD AND AEROSOL PRODUCTS FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT
Geoff Cureton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

WEP1.PI.4: OBSERVATIONS OF THE 2008 SUMMER WILDFIRES BY GASP, MODIS, AND CALIPSO
Jasper Lewis, Hampton University, United States

WEP1.PI.5: UPDATED RESULTS OF CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF PRISM ONBOARD ALOS
Takeo Tadono, Takanori Iwata, Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Junichi Takaku, Sachi Kawamoto, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan

WEP1.PI.6: USE OF EO-1 HYPERION DATA TO CALCULATE SPECTRAL BAND ADJUSTMENT FACTOR (SBAF) BETWEEN THE L7 ETM+ AND TERRA MODIS SENSORS
Gyanesh Chander, SGT, Inc. , U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, United States; Nischal Mishra, Dennis Helder, David Aaron, South Dakota State University, United States; Taeyoung (Jason) Choi, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Amit Angal, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WEP1.PI.7: FUSION: A FULLY ULTRAPORTABLE SYSTEM FOR IMAGING OBJECTS IN NATURE
Lawrence Corp, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Bruce Cook, Elizabeth Middleton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Yen-Ben Cheng, ERT, United States; Fred Huemmrich, Petya Campbell, UMBC JCET, United States

WEP1.PI.8: PLEIADES-HR IMAGE QUALITY COMMISSIONING FORESEEN METHODS
Laurent Lebegue, Daniel Greslou, Françoise Delussy, Sébastien Fourest, Christophe Latry, Philippe Kubik, Jean-Marc Delvit, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

WEP1.PI.9: AN OVERVIEW OF THE WEB-BASED GOOGLE EARTH COINCIDENT IMAGING TOOL
Gyanesh Chander, SGT, Inc. , U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, United States; Brian Killough, NASA Langley Research Center, United States; Sanjay Gowda, Min Qu, Angela Bowes, David Cornelius, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. (AMA), United States; Shelley Stover, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States

WEP1.PI.10: ALL-SKY IMAGING OF VISIBLE-WAVELENGTH ATMOSPHERIC POLARIZATION AT MAUNA LOA, HAWAII
Andrew Dahlberg, Nathan Pust, Joseph Shaw, Montana State University, United States

WEP1.PI.11: CALIBRATION OF THE AFGHANISTAN HYMAP DATASET
Todd Hoefen, Raymond Kokaly, Trude King, USGS, United States

Data Management and Systems I

WEP1.PJ.1: REUSE OF SOFTWARE ASSETS FOR THE NASA EARTH SCIENCE DECADAL SURVEY MISSIONS
Chris Mattmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Robert Downs, Columbia University, United States; James Marshall, Neal Most, Shahin Samadi, INNOVIM / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WEP1.PJ.2: PRODUCTION OF CEOP SATELLITE DATASETS - JAXA’S CONTRIBUTION TO GEWEX/CEOP
Kazuo Umezawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

WEP1.PJ.3: A GIS-BASED SPATIAL MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR RURAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATISTIC DATA
Jian Lian, Xiaojuan Li, Huili Gong, Dan Meng, Zhiheng Wang, Capital Normal University, China; Ronghua Wang, Hiroshima University, Japan

WEP1.PJ.4: ON THE METHOD OF OBTAINING INDOOR POSITIONING INFORMATION FOR REALIZATION ADVANCED GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
Sayaka Takeuchi, Masaaki Shikada, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan

WEP1.PJ.5: EXPERIENCES WITH NASA EARTH SCIENCE DATA INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS FROM A SCIENTIST USER PERSPECTIVE
Kwo-Sen Kuo, Caelum Research Corporation, United States

WEP1.PJ.6: MODELING GEOSS – A DOMAIN MODEL FOR GLOBAL SYSTEMS OF SYSTEMS
Michael Burnett, NASA / SGT, United States

WEP1.PJ.7: LIGHTWEIGHT ADVERTISING AND SCALABLE DISCOVERY OF SERVICES, DATASETS, AND EVENTS USING FEEDCASTS AND SOCIAL TAGGING
Brian Wilson, Gerald Manipon, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Rahul Ramachandran, University of Alabama, Huntsville, United States

WEP1.PJ.8: THE CEOS WGISS INTEGRATED CATALOG FOR GEO
Kenneth McDonald, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Yonsook Enloe, Michael Burnett, SGT, Inc., United States; Martin Yapur, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

WEP1.PJ.9: PERSISTENT WCS AND CSW SERVICES OF GOES DATA FOR GEOSS
Liping Di, Genong Yu, Yuanzheng Shao, Yuqi Bai, Meixia Deng, George Mason University, United States; Kenneth McDonald, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

WEP1.PJ.10: SCIENCE WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE TERRESTRIAL OBSERVATION AND PREDICTION SYSTEM (TOPS)
Petr Votava, University Corporation at Monetrey Bay, United States; Robert Morris, Jennifer L. Dungan, NASA, United States; Lina Khatib, SGT, Inc., United States

Aerosols and Atmospheric Chemistry II

WEP1.PK.1: HIGH RESOLUTION AOT RETRIEVAL BASED ON MODIS SURFACE REFLECTANCE PRODUCT
Dabin Ji, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lin Sun, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China; Jiancheng Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Tao Jiang, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

WEP1.PK.2: A ROBUST SATELLITE TECHNIQUE (RST) FOR DUST STORM DETECTION AND MONITORING: THE CASE OF 2009 AUSTRALIAN EVENT
Valerio Tramutoli, University of Basilicata, Italy; Carolina Filizzola, Francesco Marchese, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Giuseppe Mazzeo, University of Basilicata, Italy; Rossana Paciello, Nicola Pergola, Carla Pietrapertosa, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Filomena Sannazzaro, University of Basilicata, Italy

WEP1.PK.3: REGIONAL QUANTITATIVE RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH BY EXPLOITING THE SYNERGY OF VISSR AND MODIS DATA
Linyan Bai, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jianzhong Feng, Key Lab of Resources Remote Sensing & Digital Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

WEP1.PK.4: PROGRESS IN THE VALIDATION OF DUAL-WAVELENGTH AEROSOL RETRIEVAL MODELS VIA AIRBORNE HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION LIDAR DATA
Christopher McPherson, John Reagan, University of Arizona, United States; Chris Hostetler, John Hair, Rich Ferrare, NASA Langley Research Center, United States

WEP1.PK.5: AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS RETRIEVAL BASED ON HJ-CCD SUPPORTED BY MODIS SURFACE REFLECTANCE PRODUCTION
Changkui Sun, Lin Sun, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

WEP1.PK.6: A NEW CONTEXT-BASED PROCEDURE FOR THE DETECTION AND REMOVAL OF CLOUD SHADOW FROM MODERATE-AND-HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA OVER LAND
Jianzhong Feng, Key Lab of Resources Remote Sensing & Digital Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Linyan Bai, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP1.PK.7: LONG-TERM AEROSOL CLIMATE DATA RECORDS FROM MODIS AND SEAWIFS OVER LAND AND OCEAN
N. Christina Hsu, NASA Goddard, United States; Myeong-Jae Jeong, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States; Clare Salustro, Corey Bettenhausen, SSAI, United States

WEP1.PK.8: ST RADAR SYSTEM FOR WIND PROFILING OVER HIMALAYAS
Viswanathan G, Samaresh Bhattacharjee, Narendra Singh, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, India; Ramarao V, Sudhir C, Venkateshrao I, Spanwave Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd, India; Swamy N, Balakrishnan S, Vikas Communications, India; Harender P, Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, India

WEP1.PK.9: ESTIMATION OF PIXEL-BASED VISIBLE/NIR BAND RATIO FOR HIGH RESOLUTION AEROSOL RETRIEVAL FROM MODIS IMAGERY
Ronggao Liu, Yang Liu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP1.PK.10: AOT RETRIEVAL BASED ON CR ALGORITHM INTEGRATED WITH BRDF MODEL IN URBAN AREA
Lin Sun, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China; Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Tao Jiang, Guolin Liu, Min Ji, Feifei Xu, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

Snow and Land Ice Poster I

WEP1.PL.1: APPROACHES TO USING END-MEMBERS FOR SUB-PIXEL SNOW MAPPING WITH MODIS DATA IN QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU
Ji Zhu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiancheng Shi, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Hanfang Chu, Shijiazhuang University of Economics, China; Yaunhui Wang, China University of Mining and Technology, China

WEP1.PL.2: MULTICHANNEL COHERENT RADAR DEPTH SOUNDER FOR NASA OPERATION ICE BRIDGE
Lei Shi, Christopher Allen, John Ledford, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, William Blake, Ben Panzer, Stephen Prokopiack, University of Kansas, United States

WEP1.PL.3: MULTI-FREQUENCY AND POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW MICROWAVE REFLECTION AND EMISSION BY C- AND KU-BAND, COMBINED SCATTEROMETER-RADIOMETER SYSTEMS
Astghik Hambaryan, Artashes Arakelyan, Vardan Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Mushegh Manukyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Sargis Darbinyan, ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Company, Armenia

WEP1.PL.4: OUTFLOW ESTIMATION FOR SHIRASE GLACIERUSING ASTER AND PALSAR DATA
Kazuki Nakamura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan; Koichiro Doi, Kazuo Shibuya, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan

WEP1.PL.5: IMPROVEMENT OF MODIS SNOW COVER ALGORITHM FOR THE HINDU KUSH-HIMALAYAN REGION
Bohui Tang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Basanta Shrestha, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal; Zhao-Liang Li, Gaohuan Liu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Hua Ouyang, Deo Raj Gurung, Giriraj Amarnath, Aung Khun San, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal

WEP1.PL.6: ANALYSIS ON THE SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE RESPONSE TO SNOW CONTAMINANTS IN NORTHEAST CHINA
Xiaochun Lei, Kaishan Song, Zongming Wang, Jia Du, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP1.PL.7: MULTI-FREQUENCY INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (INSAR) DATA FOR CHARACTERISING THE TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER IN AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY
Anthea Mitchell, Hsing-Chung Chang, Hay-Man Ng, Linlin Ge, Shawn Laffan, University of New South Wales, Australia

WEP1.PL.8: SURFACE ALBEDO OF THE INNER ARCTIC: VALIDATION OF THE CLIMATE-SAF SATELLITE ALBEDO PRODUCT WITH IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS
Aku Riihelä, Vesa Laine, Terhikki Manninen, Timo Vihma, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Timo Palo, Tartu University, Estonia

WEP1.PL.9: IMPROVING HYDROLOGICAL FORECASTING USING MULTI-SOURCE REMOTE SENSING DATA TOGETHER WITH IN SITU MEASUREMENTS
Juha-Petri Kärnä, Markus Huttunen, Sari Metsämäki, Bertel Vehviläinen, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; Jouni Pulliainen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Yrjö Rauste, Robin Berglund, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland

WEP1.PL.10: QUANTIFYING INTER-COMPARISON OF THE MICROWAVE EMISSION MODEL OF LAYERED SNOWPACKS (MEMLS) AND THE MULTILAYER DENSE MEDIA RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY (DMRT) IN MODELING SNOW MICROWAVE RADIANCE
Bangsen Tian, Zhen Li, Yanan Zhu, Quan Chen, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yongqian Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Snow and Land Ice Poster II

WEP1.PM.1: IMPACT OF TERRAIN TOPOGRAPHY ON RETRIEVAL OF SNOW WATER EQUIVALENCE USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING
Pei Wang, Lingmei Jang, Lixin Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP1.PM.2: NEW APPROACH FOR THE GLOBAL MAPPING OF FRACTIONAL SNOW COVERAGE IN BOREAL FOREST AND TUNDRA BELT APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS SENSORS
Sari Metsämäki, Olli-Pekka Mattila, Juha-Petri Kärnä, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; Jouni Pulliainen, Kari Luojus, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

WEP1.PM.3: VALIDATION OF DM-PACT MODELED SNOW BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT FOR ARBITRARY SHAPED PARTICLES IN KU-BAND
Annakaisa von Lerber, Aalto University, Finland; Marko Mäkynen, Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Helmut Rott, ENVEO-Environmental Earth Observation Information Technology GmbH, Austria; Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Andreas Wiesmann, GAMMA Remote Sensing Research and Consulting AG, Switzerland; Jaan Praks, Martti Hallikainen, Aalto University, Finland

WEP1.PM.4: COMBINED HEMISPHERICAL SCALE SWE AND SNOW CLEARANCE MONITORING
Matias Takala, Jouni Pulliainen, Kari Luojus, Mwaba Kangwa, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Sari Metsämäki, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Finland; Jarkko Koskinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

WEP1.PM.5: MONITORING THICKNESS CHANGE OF THE DONGKEMADI GLACIER ON QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU USING SRTM DEM AND MAP-BASED TOPOGRAPHIC DATA
Qiang Xing, Zhen Li, Jianmin Zhou, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP1.PM.6: USE OF REMOTELY SENSED SNOW COVER AND SOIL STATE INFORMATION FOR CARBON BALANCE MAPPING: CASE STUDIES AT THE SODANKYLÄ-PALLAS SATELLITE CAL-VAL SITE, NORTHERN FINLAND
Jouni Pulliainen, Tuomas Laurila, Anna Kontu, Ali Nadir Arslan, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Olli-Pekka Mattila, Finnish environment Institute, Finland; Matias Takala, Tuula Aalto, Juha Lemmetyinen, Tiina Markkanen, Jarkko Koskinen, Kari Luojus, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

WEP1.PM.7: EVALUATION OF VEGETATION EFFECT ON THE RETRIEVAL OF SNOW PARAMETERS FROM BACKSCATTERING MEASUREMENTS: A CONTRIBUTION TO COREH2O MISSION
Giovanni Macelloni, Marco Brogioni, Francesco Montomoli, IFAC - CNR, Italy; Michael Kern, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Helmut Rott, University of Innsbruck, Austria

WEP1.PM.8: FULLY POLARIMETRIC ALOS PALSAR DATA APPLICATIONS FOR SNOW AND ICE STUDIES
G. Venkataraman, G. Singh, IIT Bombay, India; Yoshio Yamaguchi, Niigata University, Japan

WEP1.PM.9: A NEW GLOBAL SNOW EXTENT PRODUCT BASED ON ATSR-2 AND AATSR
Rune Solberg, Jostein Amlien, Bjørn Wangensteen, Hans Koren, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway; Sari Metsämäki, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; Thomas Nagler, ENVEO, Austria; Kari Luojus, Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

WEP1.PM.10: TEMPORAL SNOWPACK DENSITY MAPPING USING C-BAND MULTI-POLARIZATION ASAR DATA
G. Venkataraman, G. Singh, IIT Bombay, India

WEP1.PM.11: ASSIMILATION OF MODIS SNOW COVER AND REAL TIME SNOW DEPTH POINT DATA IN A SNOW DYNAMIC MODEL
Simone Gabellani, Roberto Rudari, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; Fabio Castelli, University of Florence, Italy; Giorgia Macchiavello, Giorgio Boni, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy

Remote Sensing of Human Settlements II

WE2.L01.1: AUTOMATIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FROM METER AND SUB-METER RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGE DATA IN SUPPORT TO CRISIS MANAGEMENT
Martino Pesaresi, Thomas Kemper, Guido Lemoine, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy

WE2.L01.2: VERY HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING DATA: PROCESSING CAPABILITIES AND LIMITATIONS IN URBAN AREA
Jie Shan, Ejaz Hussain, Purdue University, United States

WE2.L01.3: URBAN STRUCTURE TYPES - A MEANS FOR CHARACTERIZING AND PARTITIONING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS WITH A MULTITUDE OF APPLICATIONS
Mathias Bochow, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany; Hannes Taubenböck, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Susan Niebergall, University of Munich, Germany; Karl Segl, Hermann Kaufmann, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany

WE2.L01.4: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES AND NEW HIGH RESOLUTION SAR SENSORS FOR MONITORING URBAN AREAS
Gianfranco Fornaro, Diego Reale, IREA - CNR, Italy; Xiaxiang Zhu, Technical University of München, Germany; Nico Adam, Richard Bamler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE2.L01.5: MULTI ASPECT VHR SAR IMAGING OF URBAN AREAS
Uwe Stilla, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

The Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) II

WE2.L02.1: GCOM DATA UTILIZATION AT NOAA
Paul S. Chang, Zorana Jelenak, Peter Wilczynski, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

WE2.L02.2: THE DUAL FREQUENCY SCATTEROMETER INSTRUMENT CONCEPT
Robert Gaston, Stephen Durden, Chialin Wu, Richard Hughes, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Larry Epp, John Burt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

WE2.L02.3: DUAL-FREQUENCY SCATTEROMETER PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Ernesto Rodriguez, Bryan Stiles, Alexandra Chau, Jan Martin, Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

WE2.L02.4: IMPACT OF THE DUAL FREQUENCY SCATTEROMETER ON NOAA OPERATIONS
Zorana Jelenak, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR-UCAR, United States; Paul S. Chang, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR, United States

WE2.L02.5: AMSR AND DFS SYNERGY
Naoto Ebuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan; W. Timothy Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

Agroecosystems

WE2.L03.1: MONITORING CROP YIELD IN USA USING A SATELLITE-BASED CLIMATE-VARIABILITY IMPACT INDEX
Ping Zhang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Earth Resource Technology, Inc., United States; Bruce Anderson, Boston University, United States; Bin Tan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Earth Resource Technology, Inc., United States; Mathew Barlow, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, United States; Ranga B. Myneni, Boston University, United States

WE2.L03.2: FORECASTING CORN YIELD WITH IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY
Lawrence Corp, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Elizabeth Middleton, NASA / GSFC, United States; Craig Daughtry, Andrew Russ, USDA HRSL, United States; Petya Campbell, Fred Huemmrich, UMBC JCET, United States; Yen-Ben Cheng, ERT, United States

WE2.L03.3: IRRIGATION REQUIREMENT ESTIMATION USING VEGETATION INDICES AND INVERSE BIOPHYSICAL MODELING
Lahouari Bounoua, Marc L. Imhoff, National Aeronautics and Space Admininstration, United States; Shannon Franks, University of Maryland College Park, United States

WE2.L03.4: ASSESSMENT OF SPECTRAL INDICES FOR CROP RESIDUE COVER ESTIMATION
Guy Serbin, ASRC Management Services, United States; E. Raymond Hunt Jr., Craig Daughtry, USDA Agricultural Research Service, United States; David Brown, Washington State University, United States; Gregory McCarty, Paul Doraiswamy, USDA Agricultural Research Service, United States

WE2.L03.5: NASA DATA PRODUCTS FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY FORECASTS
Ashutosh Limaye, USRA, United States; Richard McNider, Donald Moss, University of Alabama, Huntsville, United States; Mohammad Al-Hamdan, USRA, United States

Student Contest II

WE2.L04.1: WINDSAT RETRIEVAL OF OCEAN SURFACE WIND SPEEDS IN TROPICAL CYCLONES
Amanda Mims, Rachael Kroodsma, Christopher Ruf, Darren McKague, University of Michigan, United States

WE2.L04.2: SCATTEROMETER IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM APERTURE-FILTERED SAMPLES
Brent Williams, David G. Long, Brigham Young University, United States

WE2.L04.3: SOIL DIELECTRIC AND SENISITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR SUBSURFACE IMAGING APPLICATIONS BASED ON DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS
Fikadu Dagefu, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States

WE2.L04.4: REAL-TIME ROAD TRAFFIC MONITORING USING A FAST A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE BASED SAR-GMTI ALGORITHM
Stefan V. Baumgartner, Gerhard Krieger, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE2.L04.5: DETECTING DEPOLARIZING TARGETS WITH SATELLITE DATA: A NEW GEOMETRICAL PERTURBATION FILTER
Armando Marino, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Shane Cloude, AEL consultants, United Kingdom; Iain Woodhouse, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Remote Sensing for Tropical Deforestation and Degradation: A Global Challenge with Local Impact II

WE2.L05.1: MULTIFREQUENCY SAR ANALYSIS FOR FOREST MONITORING IN TROPICAL FOREST ENVIRONMENTS
Ralf Knuth, Nicole Richter, Robert Eckardt, Jussi Baade, Christiane Schmullius, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Germany

WE2.L05.2: ADVANCES IN THE INTEGRATION OF ALOS PALSAR AND LANDAT SENOR DATA FOR FOREST CHARACTERISATION, MAPPING AND MONITORING
Richard Lucas, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom; John Armston, Natural Resource Sciences, Australia; Nunung Nugroho, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australia; Joao Carreiras, Geoinformation for Development Unit, Australia

WE2.L05.3: ADVANCED SAR / OPTICAL MONITORING OF TROPICAL FORESTS – GEO FOREST CARBON TRACKING TASK SUPPORTING THE UNFCCC REDD PROCESS
Frank Martin Seifert, Stephen Briggs, European Space Agency, Italy; Josef Kellndorfer, Woods Hole Research Center, United States; Dirk Hoekman, Wageningen University, Netherlands

WE2.L05.4: USE OF PALSAR POLARIMETRIC DATA FOR TROPICAL FOREST STRATIFICATION
Cedric Lardeux, University of Rennes 1, France; David Niamen, University of Marne la Vallée, France; Jean-Baptiste Routier, Adeline Giraud, Office National des Forets International, France; Pierre-Louis Frison, University of Marne la Vallée, France; Eric Pottier, University of Rennes 1, France; Jean-Paul Rudant, University of Marne la Vallée, France

WE2.L05.5: THE GEO FOREST CARBON TRACKING TASK: GOALS AND PROGRESS TO-DATE
Alex A. Held, CSIRO, Australia; Gary Richards, Department of Climate Change, Australia

Classification and Clustering

WE2.L06.1: UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES USING GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS AND PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION
Caglar Ari, Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Turkey

WE2.L06.2: LAZY YET EFFICIENT LAND-COVER MAP GENERATION FOR HR OPTICAL IMAGES
Jordi Inglada, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Julien Michel, CS, France

WE2.L06.3: UNSUPERVISED NONPARAMETRIC CLASSIFICATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA USING THE K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR GRAPH
Ashlin Richardson, University of Victoria, Canada; David Goodenough, Hao Chen, Geordie Hobart, Natural Resources Canada, Canada; Belaid Moa, Wendy Myrvold, University of Victoria, Canada

WE2.L06.4: A TEST STATISTIC FOR HIGH RESOLUTION POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA CLASSIFICATION
Pierre Formont, Supelec Onera NUS DSTA Research Alliance, France; Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, ONERA, France; Frédéric Pascal, Supelec Onera NUS DSTA Research Alliance, France; Gabriel Vasile, Grenoble Image Speech Signal Automatics Lab, France; Laurent Ferro-Famil, Institut d’Electronique et de T´el´ecommunications de Rennes, France

WE2.L06.5: LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION BASED ON SINGLE-POLARIZED VHR SAR IMAGES USING TEXTURE INFORMATION DERIVED VIA SPECKLE ANALYSIS
Thomas Esch, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Andreas Schenk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; Michael Thiel, Tobias Ullmann, University of Würzburg, Germany; Achim Roth, Stefan Dech, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Remote Sensing Data and Policy Decisions

WE2.L07.1: MANAGEMENT OF NASA'S EARTH VENTURE-1 (EV-1) AIRBORNE SCIENCE SELECTIONS
B. Danette Allen, Todd C. Denkins, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States; Jon H. Kilgore, Booz | Allen | Hamilton, United States; James E. Wells, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States

WE2.L07.2: RESULTS OF THE U.S. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL STUDY OF THE SCIENTIFIC USES OF THE RADIO SPECTRUM
David Lang, U.S. National Research Council, United States; Albin Gasiewski, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States; Marshall Cohen, California Institute of Technology, United States

WE2.L07.3: OIL SPILL STATISTICS FROM SAR IMAGES IN THE NORTH EASTERN BALTIC SEA SHIP ROUTE IN 2007-2009
Sven Anderson, Urmas Raudsepp, Rivo Uiboupin, University of Technology, Estonia

WE2.L07.4: METHODOLOGY TO GENERATE YIELD MAPS OF MAIZE CROPS
Jesus Soria-Ruiz, INIFAP, Mexico; Yolanda Fernandez-Ordonez, COLPOS, Mexico

WE2.L07.5: CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COMMUNITY REMOTE SENSING
Arcot Rajasekar, Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States; Mike Wan, Wayne Schroeder, University of California, San Diego, United States

Clouds and Precipitation

WE2.L08.1: THE EXTERNAL CALIBRATION STUDY FOR EARTHCARE/CPR
Hiroaki Horie, Yuichi Ohno, Nobuhiro Takahashi, NICT, Japan

WE2.L08.2: A KALMAN FIELTER APPROACH TO INTEGRATE PRECIPITATION INFORMATION FROM SATELLITE AND GAUGE OBSERVATIONS OVER THE GLOBE
Pingping Xie, Robert Joyce, Soo-Hyun Yoo, Yelena Yarosh, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

WE2.L08.3: WHAT IS THE INFORMATION CONTENT OF TRMM PRECIPITATION RADAR FOR DETERMINING RADIOMETER OBSERVATIONS AND VICE VERSA?
Balaji Chakravarthy, Mmanu Chathurvedi, Srinivasa Ramanujam K, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India; Chandrasekar V, Cuong Nguyen, Matt Martinez, Colorado State University, United States

WE2.L08.4: REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUD AND PRECIPITATION OF WARM CLOUDS BY PASSIVE AND ACTIVE SENSORS ABOARD A-TRAIN SATELLITE
Zhanqing Li, Ruiyue Chen, University of Maryland, United States

WE2.L08.5: FORWARD MODELING AND PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION FOR NOTIONAL NEXT-GENERATION SPACEBORNE CLOUD PROFILING RADARS
Simone Tanelli, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Alessandro Battaglia, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Pavlos Kollias, McGill Univeristy, Canada; Gianfranco Sacco, Ziad Haddad, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Lin Tian, GEST/ Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Stephen Durden, Eastwood Im, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

The Destiny of DESDynI – Science and Applications Fusing L-band SAR and Lidar in the Next Decade II

WE2.L09.1: INTEGRATED SAR AND LIDAR OBSERVATIONS OF THE SEA ICE COVER: RESOLVING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THERMODYNAMICS AND DYNAMICS TO THE ICE THICKNESS DISTRIBUTION
Ron Kwok, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WE2.L09.2: LARGE SCALE MODELING OF ANTARCTICA AND GREENLAND CONSTRAINED USING LIDAR AND SAR DATA FROM DESDYNI.
Eric Larour, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WE2.L09.3: DESDYNI LIDAR FOR SOLID EARTH APPLICATIONS
Jeanne Sauber, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Michelle Hofton, University of Maryland, United States; Ronald Bruhn, University of Utah, United States; Scott Luthcke, Bryan Blair, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WE2.L09.4: ICESAT LIDAR AND GLOBAL DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS: APPLICATIONS TO DESDYNI/TANDEM-L
Claudia C. Carabajal, Sigma Space Corporation at NASA/GSFC, United States; David J. Harding, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WE2.L09.5: COUPLING POLARIMETRIC L-BAND INSAR AND AIRPORTED LIDAR TO CHARACTERIZE THE GEOMORPHOLOGICAL DEFORMATIONS IN THE FOURNAISE VOLCANO
Essam Heggy, Paul Rosen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Kozin Wada, Geographical Survey Institute, Japan; Melanie Sedeze, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France; Frederic Bretar, Institut Geographique Nationale, France; Stephane Jacquemoud, Thomas Staudhacher, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France; Simone Tanelli, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

Realizing the Applications Benefits from NASA’s Pathfinding EOS Missions – the 1st Generation II

WE2.L10.1: LANDSAT DATA PRODUCTS, FREE AND CLEAR
James Irons, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Thomas Loveland, John Dwyer, U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, United States

WE2.L10.2: UAVSAR PATHFINDER FOR DESDYNI POTENTIAL FOR INSAR MONITORING OF GULF COAST SUBSIDENCE THROUGH INTEGRATION WITH GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICAL MODELS
Ronald Blom, Bruce Chapman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Roy Dokka, Louisiana State University, United States; Eric Fielding, Scott Hensley, Erik Ivins, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Rowena Lohman, Cornell University, United States

WE2.L10.3: PROSPECTS OF NEW REAL-TIME RADAR APPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REMOTE SENSING
Amelia Franklin, Patrick Coronado, NASA, United States

WE2.L10.4: OPERATION ICEBRIDGE: USING INSTRUMENTED AIRCRAFT TO BRIDGE THE OBSERVATIONAL GAP BETWEEN ICESAT AND ICESAT-2
Michael Studinger, Goddard Earth Science and Technology / University of Maryland at Baltimore County, United States; Lora Koenig, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Seelye Martin, University of Washington, United States; John Sonntag, NASA Wallops Flight Facility, United States

WE2.L10.5: NASA'S EVOLVING APPROACHES TO MAXIMIZING APPLICATIONS RETURN FROM OUR EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITES
Stephen Volz, NASA, United States

Urban Remote Sensing I

WE3.L01.1: REMOTE SENSING OF THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT ACROSS BIOMES IN THE CONTINENTAL USA
Ping Zhang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Earth Resource Technology, Inc., United States; Marc L. Imhoff, Robert Wolfe, Lahouari Bounoua, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WE3.L01.2: INSAR TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS FOR MANAGEMENT AND MITIGATION OF GEOLOGICAL RISK IN URBAN AREA
Francesca Cigna, Chiara Del Ventisette, University of Firenze, Italy; Vincenzo Liguori, University of Palermo, Italy; Nicola Casagli, University of Firenze, Italy

WE3.L01.3: BUILDING DETECTION AND HEIGHT ESTIMATION FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION INSAR AND OPTICAL DATA
Jan Dirk Wegner, Uwe Soergel, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

WE3.L01.4: BUILDING DETECTION USING DIRECTIONAL SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS
Gokhan Akcay, Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Turkey

WE3.L01.5: ESTIMATION OF BUILDING DENSITY USING TERRA-SAR-X-DATA
Martin Schmidt, University of Wuerzburg, Germany; Thomas Esch, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Doris Klein, Michael Thiel, University of Wuerzburg, Germany; Stefan Dech, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Ocean Surface Features from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) I

WE3.L02.1: OBSERVATION OF A BOAT AND ITS WAKE WITH A DUAL-BEAM ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRIC SAR
Jakov Toporkov, Paul Hwang, Mark Sletten, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Stephen J. Frasier, University of Massachusetts, United States; Gordon Farquharson, University of Washington, United States; Dragana Perkovic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

WE3.L02.2: FINE STRUCTURE OF THE UPPER OCEAN FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR IMAGERY AND IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS
Alexander Soloviev, Chris Maingot, Atsushi Fujimura, Jenny Fenton, Mikhail Gilman, Silvia Matt, Nova Southeastern University, United States; Susanne Lehner, Domenico Velotto, Stephan Brusch, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE3.L02.3: A NEW POLARIZATION RATIO MODEL FROM C-BAND RADARSAT-2 FINE QUAD-POL IMAGERY
Biao Zhang, Will Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada; Paul Hwang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Yijun He, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WE3.L02.4: BREAKING WAVE MEASUREMENTS WITH SAR DEPOLARIZED RETURNS
Paul Hwang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Biao Zhang, William Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada

WE3.L02.5: SPACEBORNE SAR IMAGING OF COASTAL OCEAN PHENOMENA
Xiaofeng Li, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; William Pichel, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States; Xiaofeng Yang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Land Cover Change Techniques

WE3.L03.1: ASPECTS OF MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL THEORY WITH THE APPLICATION TO CHANGE DETECTION
Esra Erten, Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Olaf Hellwich, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

WE3.L03.2: AN ILLUMINATION CORRECTION ALGORITHM ON LANDSAT-TM DATA
Bin Tan, Earth Resource Technology, United States; Robert Wolfe, Jeffrey Masek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Feng Gao, Earth Resource Technology, United States; Eric Vermote, University of Maryland, United States

WE3.L03.3: AUTOMATED LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION: THE QUEST FOR MEANINGFUL HIGH TEMPORAL TIME SERIES EXTRACTION
Brian Salmon, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Jan Olivier, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Waldo Kleynhans, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Konrad Wessels, Frans van den Bergh, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

WE3.L03.4: A SPATIO-TEMPORAL APPROACH TO DETECTING LAND COVER CHANGE USING AN EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER ON MODIS TIME SERIES DATA
Waldo Kleynhans, Corne Olivier, Brian Salmon, University of Pretoria, CSIR, South Africa; Konrad Wessels, Frans van den Bergh, CSIR, South Africa

WE3.L03.5: EXTRACTING STRUCTURAL LAND COVER COMPONENTS USING SMALL-FOOTPRINT WAVEFORM LIDAR DATA
Joseph McGlinchy, Jan van Aardt, Harvey Rhody, John Kerekes, Emmett Ientilucci, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States; Greg Asner, David Knapp, Carnegie Institution for Science, United States; Renaud Mathieu, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, United States; Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, Carnegie Institution for Science, United States; Barend Erasmus, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Science, University of the Witwatersrand, United States; Izak Smit, Kruger National Park Scientific Services, United States; Wu Jiaying, Diane Sarrazin, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States

Data System Technologies for Improving Data Access and Usability - Challenges and Solutions I

WE3.L04.1: ADVANCES IN SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE, ACQUISITION, ANALYSIS, ARCHIVING & DISSEMINATION
Gilbert L. Rochon, Purdue University-Purdue Terrestrial Observatory, United States; Hampapuram Ramapriyan, Eric Franz Stocker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Ruth Duerr, University of Colorado-National Snow & Ice Data Center, United States; Robert Rank, NOAA NESDIS, United States; Stefano Nativi, University of Florence, Italy

WE3.L04.3: MINING AS A SERVICE
Rahul Ramachandran, Sunil Movva, U. S. Nair, University of Alabama, Huntsville, United States; Christopher Lynnes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Peter Fox, RPI, United States

WE3.L04.4: IRODS: DATA SHARING TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
Reagan Moore, Arcot Rajasekar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

WE3.L04.5: MULTI-SATELLITE EARTH SCIENCE DATA RECORD FOR STUDYING GLOBAL VEGETATION TRENDS AND CHANGES
Kamel Didan, University of Arizona, United States

Synergy of EO Products to Map the Essential Climate Variable Biomass I

WE3.L05.1: STATE-OF-THE-ART AND REQUIREMENTS FOR GLOBAL BIOMASS MONITORING
Thuy Letoan, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

WE3.L05.3: ACTIVE REMOTE SENSING OF BIOMASS IN SAVANNA REGIONS
Richard Lucas, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom; Karin Viergever, Ecometrica, United Kingdom; Iain Woodhouse, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; John Armston, Department of Natural Environment and Resource Management, Australia

WE3.L05.4: MODIS VCF AND CHANGE: GLOBAL DISTURBANCE MONITORING
Matthew Hansen, Peter Potapov, South Dakota State University, United States; Stephen Stehman, SUNY-ESF, United States; Mark Broich, South Dakota State University, United States

WE3.L05.5: APPROACHES FOR FOREST BIOMASS ESTIMATION AND MAPPING IN CANADA
Ronald Hall, Eric Arsenault, Andre Beaudoin, Pierre Bernier, Paul Boudewyn, Mark Gillis, Luc Guindon, Joan Luther, Rob Skakun, Mike Wulder, Natural Resources Canada, Canada

Segmentation and Image Processing

WE3.L06.1: SEGMENTATION OF MULTISOURCE IMAGE BY MULTIVIEW LEARNING
Keming Chen, Jian Cheng, Hanqing Lu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhixin Zhou, Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing, China

WE3.L06.2: DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION FOR IMAGE INFORMATION MINING
Giuseppe Masi, Raffaele Gaetano, Giuseppe Scarpa, Giovanni Poggi, University Federico II of Naples, Italy

WE3.L06.3: AUTOMATIC DAMAGE DETECTION USING PULSECOUPLED NEURAL NETWORK FOR THE 2009 ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE
Fabio Pacifici, DigitalGlobe, Inc., United States; Marco Chini, Christian Bignami, Salvatore Stramondo, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; William J. Emery, CCAR, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States

WE3.L06.4: COLLAPSED BUILDINGS EXTRACTION USING MORPHOLOGICAL PROFILES AND TEXTURE STATISTICS -A CASE STUDY IN THE 5.12 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE
Liwei Li, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zuchuan Li, Rui Zhang, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Liping Lei, Jianwen Ma, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WE3.L06.5: SUPER-RESOLUTION: AN EFFICIENT METHOD TO IMPROVE SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES
Alberto Villa, Grenoble Institut of Technology / University of Iceland, France; Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institut of Technology, France; Jon Atli Benediktsson, Magnus Ulfarsson, University of Iceland, Iceland; Christian Jutten, Grenoble Institut of Technology, France

Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and RFI Mitigation for Microwave Radiometry

WE3.L07.1: RFI ANALYSIS IN SMOS IMAGERY
Antonio Gutierrez, Jose Barbosa, Rita Castro, Deimos Engenharia, Portugal; Adriano Camps, Jose Miguel Tarongi, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

WE3.L07.2: SURVEYS AND ANALYSIS OF RFI IN THE SMOS CONTEXT
Niels Skou, Jan Balling, Sten S. Søbjærg, Steen S. Kristensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

WE3.L07.3: RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI) MITIGATION FOR THE SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE/PASSIVE (SMAP) RADIOMETER
Damon Bradley, Cliff Brambora, Englin Wong, Lynn Miles, Dave Durachka, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Brian Farmer, Muniz Engineering Incorporated, United States; Priscilla Mohammed, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States; Jeff Piepmier, Jim Medeiros, Neil Martin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WE3.L07.4: IMPACT OF RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE MITIGATION ON ERRORS IN SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL
Sidharth Misra, University of Michigan, United States; Rajat Bindlish, USDA, United States; Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States; Thomas Jackson, USDA, United States

WE3.L07.5: TIME EVOLUTION AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF OCEAN-REFLECTED RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE DURING THE WINDSAT ERA
Ian S. Adams, Michael H. Bettenhausen, Peter W. Gaiser, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; William Johnston, Computational Physics, Inc., United States

Snow and Lance Ice I

WE3.L08.1: VALIDATION OF THE CANADIAN REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL (CRCM) SNOW COVER SIMULATIONS USING REMOTE SENSING DATA
Karem Chokmani, Monique Bernier, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada

WE3.L08.2: COMBINING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA FOR SNOW PARAMETERS RETRIEVAL WITH MULTI-SENSOR SNOW PROPERTIES MEASUREMENTS: THE GAPS09 AND GAPS10 EXPERIMENTS
Marco Tedesco, CUNY, United States; Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, United States, United States; Nick Steiner, CUNY, United States; Edward Josberger, USGS, United States; Xiaolan Xu, University of Washington, United States

WE3.L08.3: FIRST RESULTS OF A LOW-FREQUENCY 3D-SAR APPROACH FOR MAPPING GLACIERS
Daniel Henke, Erich Meier, RSL, University of Zurich, Switzerland

WE3.L08.4: MONITORING OF THAWING PROCESS USING ENVISAT ASAR GLOBAL MODE DATA
Sang-Eun Park, Annett Bartsch, Daniel Sabel, Wolfgang Wagner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

WE3.L08.5: ESA’S CANDIDATE CORE EXPLORER MISSION COREH2O: A SATELLITE MISSION DEDICATED TO SNOW AND ICE RESEARCH
Helmut Rott, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Don Cline, National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, United States; Claude Duguay, University of Waterloo, Canada; Richard Essery, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Pierre Etchevers, Meteo France, France; Irena Hajnsek, DLR-HR, ETH Zurich, Germany; Florence Heliere, Michael Kern, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Giovanni Macelloni, IFAC - CNR, Italy; Eirik Malnes, Norut IT, Norway; Arnaud Lecuyot, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Jouni Pulliainen, FMI, Finland; Simon Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

Polarimetry and Applications

WE3.L09.1: DIRECT ESTIMATION OF FARADAY ROTATION AND OTHER SYSTEM DISTORTION PARAMETERS FROM POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Mariko Burgin, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States; Anthony Freeman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

WE3.L09.2: POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGE VISUALIZATION AND INTERPRETATION WITH COVARIANCE MATRIX INVARIANTS
Jaan Praks, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Elise Koeniguer, ONERA, France; Martti Hallikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

WE3.L09.3: EVALUATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION PROCESS ON THE H/A/ALPHA DECOMPOSITION
Antonio Henrique Correia, Diretoria de Serviço Geográfico, Brazil; Corina da Costa Freitas, José Claudio Mura, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil

WE3.L09.4: EVALUATION OF SYSTEM POLARIZATION QUALITY FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGERY AND TARGET DECOMPOSITION
Yanting Wang, Computational Physics, Inc., United States; Tom Ainsworth, Jong-Sen Lee, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

WE3.L09.5: RAIN EFFECT ON POLARIMETRIC SAR OBSERVATION
Hiroaki Yasuma, Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Special Session Honoring the Achievements of Kiyo Tomiyasu

WE3.L10.1: MANY HAPPY RETURNS: REFLECTIONS INSPIRED BY KIYO TOMIYASU
Keith Raney, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States

WE3.L10.2: COMMUNICATION CODING OF PULSED RADAR SYSTEMS
Werner Wiesbeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

WE3.L10.3: THE FUTURE OF SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Gerhard Krieger, Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE3.L10.4: UNCLE KIYO – GRSS MENTOR AND CORPORATE MEMORY
Martti Hallikainen, TKK, Finland

Vegetation mapping III

WEP2.PA.1: CHARACTERIZATION OF FOREST OPACITY USING MULTI-ANGULAR EMISSION AND BACKSCATTER DATA
Mehmet Kurum, Peggy O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Roger Lang, George Washington University, United States; Alicia Joseph, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Mike Cosh, Thomas Jackson, USDA ARS, United States

WEP2.PA.2: ESTIMATING LEAF AREA INDEX OF QINGHAI SPRUCE FOREST IN QILIAN MOUNTAIN USING QUICKBIRD SATELLITE DATA
Zhongren Nan, Zhuanjun Zhao, Chuanyan Zhao, Lanzhou University, China; Weihua Shen, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP2.PA.3: ANALYSIS OF TIME-SERIES MODIS 250M VEGETATION INDEX DATA FOR VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION IN THE WENQUAN AREA OVER THE QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU
Xiumin Zhang, Zhuotong Nan, Yu Sheng, Lin Zhao, Guoying Zhou, Guangyang Yue, Jichun Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP2.PA.4: ESTIMATION OF THE CO2 EMISSION FROM THE PEATLAND OF CENTRAL KALIMANTAN USING THE PALSAR INTERFEROMETRY
Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Takashi Inoue, Ryusuke Hatano, Hokkaido University, Japan; Yoshio Awaya, Gifu University, Japan; Yoshiyuki Kiyno, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan

WEP2.PA.5: ASSESSING THE DROUGHT MONITORING CHARACTERISTIC OF TIME-SERIES NDVI INDICES IN CROP GROWING SEASON
Lei Zhou, Jian-Jun Wu, Jie Zhang, Fei-Fei Zhao, Ming Liu, Lin Zhao, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP2.PA.6: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SPECTRAL INDICES TO ESTIMATE EQUIVALENT WATER THICKNESS
Jian-Jun Wu, Jie Zhang, Lei Zhou, Jian-Liang Nie, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP2.PA.7: DIFFERENTIAL EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT DETERMINED BY PLANT MORPHOLOGY USING POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS
Chufeng Hu, Jiadong Xu, Nanjing Li, Linxi Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

WEP2.PA.8: RETRIEVAL OF GRASS CANOPY WATER CONTENT, LEAF AREA INDEX, AND DRY WEIGHT USING TM/ETM+ DATA, A CASE STUDY IN A TYPICAL SEMI-ARID STEPPE IN NORTHERN CHINA
Yuanyuan Wang, Guicai Li, Meng Wang, Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites, China Meteorological Administration, China

WEP2.PA.9: CROP AREA ESTIMATION BASED ON MODIS-VI TIME SERIES BY PAN-CPI MODEL
Yaozhong Pan, Le Li, Jinshui Zhang, Dong Hou, College of Resources Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Earth Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP2.PA.10: DEVELOPING A NOVEL TOPOGRAPHY - ADJUSTED VEGETATION INDEX (TAVI) FOR RUGGED AREA
Hong Jiang, Bo Wu, Xiao-Qin Wang, Fuzhou University, China

Vegetation Mapping II

WEP2.PB.1: CARBON STOCK ESTIMATION IN THE MANGROVE PLANTATION AREA BY USING MULTI-TEMPORAL SATELLITE DATA AND THE SELF-THINNING MODEL
Takashi Ishii, Yutaka Tateda, Masahiro Imamura, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan

WEP2.PB.2: NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK (NEON) AIRBORNE REMOTE MEASUREMENTS OF VEGETATION CANOPY BIOCHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURE
Brian Johnson, Michele Kuester, Thomas Kampe, NEON, Inc., United States

WEP2.PB.3: ESTIMATION OF VEGETATION PARAMETERS FROM MODIS FPAR TIME SERIES AND LANDSAT TM AND ETM+ PRODUCTS FOR SOIL EROSION MODELLING
Birte Schoettker, University of Queensland, Australia; Peter Scarth, Department of Environment and Resource Management, Australia; Stuart Phinn, University of Queensland, Australia; Michael Schmidt, Robert Denham, Department of Environment and Resource Management, Australia

WEP2.PB.4: ESTIMATION OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION OVER NORTHEAST ASIA USING MODIS PRODUCTS AND MM5 FDDA DATA
Keunchang Jang, Seungtaek Jung, Sinkyu Kang, Jaechul Kim, Chong Bum Lee, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea; Joon Kim, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

WEP2.PB.5: ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION INDEX NDVI ANISOTROPY TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF THE GOES-R GREEN VEGETATION FRACTION PRODUCT
Yuhong Tian, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA-NESDIS-STAR, United States; Peter Romanov, University of Maryland, United States; Yunyue Yu, NOAA-NESDIS-STAR, United States; Hui Xu, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA-NESDIS-STAR, United States; Dan Tarpley, Short and Associates at NOAA-NESDIS-STAR, United States

WEP2.PB.6: DEVELOPMENT OF A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR MONITORING, REPORTING AND FORECASTING ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL
Yeqiao Wang, University of Rhode Island, United States; Ramakrishna R. Nemani, NASA Ames Research Center, United States; Fred Dieffenbach, National Park Service, United States; Kenneth Stolte, USDA Forest Service, United States; Glenn Holcomb, USGS, United States; Matt Robinson, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, United States; C. Casey Reese, National Park Service, United States; Marcia McNiff, USGS, United States; Roland Duhaime, University of Rhode Island, United States; Brian Mitchell, National Park Service, United States; Geri Tierney, State University of New York, United States; Peter August, Peter Paton, Charles LaBash, University of Rhode Island, United States

WEP2.PB.7: INDIVIDUAL TREE SPECIES CLASSIFICATION USING STRUCTURAL FEATURES FROM HIGH DENSITY AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA
Jili Li, Baoxin Hu, Gunho Sohn, Linhai Jing, York University, Canada

WEP2.PB.8: DEVELOPMENT OF A CARTOGRAPHIC INDEX OF FOREST STAND VITALITY USING AN IKONOS SATELLITE IMAGE
Francine N'Zang Essono, Lacina Coulibaly, Hector Guy Adégbidi, Université de Moncton, Canada; Richard Fournier, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

WEP2.PB.9: USING AIRBORNE LIDAR TO RETRIEVE STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS OF THE CROPLAND
Yaokui Cui, Wenjie Fan, Xiru Xu, Peking University, China

WEP2.PB.10: INVESTIGATION OF FOREST HEIGHT RETRIEVAL USING SRTM-DEM AND ASTER-GDEM
Wenjian Ni, Zhifeng Guo, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States; Hong Chi, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China

WEP2.PB.11: ESTIMATION OF VEGETATION WATER CONTENT THROUGH GA-PLS MODELING OF MODIS REFLECTANCE DATA
Lin Li, Indiana University-Purdue University, United States; Susan L. Ustin, David Riano, University of California, United States; Yen-Ben Cheng, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

Agroecosystems II

WEP2.PC.1: VALIDATION OF REMOTELY SENSED EVAPOTRANSPIRATION: A CASE STUDY
Zhenzhen Jia, Shaomin Liu, Ziwei Xu, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP2.PC.2: MODIS TIME SERIES TO ASSESS PASTURE LAND
Daniel Alves de Aguiar, Marcos Adami, Wagner Fernando da Silva, Bernardo Friedrich Theodor Rudorff, National Institute of Space Research, Brazil; João dos Santos Vila da Silva, EMBRAPA CNPTIA, Brazil

WEP2.PC.3: ANALYSIS ON DRIVING FACTORS OF DESERTIFICATION IN NORTHERN CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF YANCHI COUNTY
Lihua Zhou, Guojing Yang, Tao Wang, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP2.PC.4: STUDY ON ESTIMATING THE PLANTING AREA OF WINTER WHEAT BASED ON MIXED FIELD DECOMPOSITION OF REMOTE SENSING
Xiaohe Gu, Jingcheng Zhang, National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, China; Yaozhong Pan, Tangao Hu, Le Li, Chao Li, State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, China

WEP2.PC.5: WINTER WHEAT YIELDS ASSESSMENT USING DATA ASSIMILATION METHOD COMBINED MODIS-LAI AND SWAP MODEL
Hao Jiang, Wenbo Xu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Jianxi Huang, China Agricultural University, China; Xiaoliang Sun, Chengdu University of Technology, China; Weiqi Zhou, University of California, Davis, United States

WEP2.PC.6: APPLICATION OF WAVELET TRANSFORM ON HYPERSPECTRAL REFLECTANCE FOR SOYBEAN LAI ESTIMATION IN THE SONGNEN PLAIN, CHINA
Dong mei Lv, Computer Science and Engineering College, JLIAE, China; Kaishan Song, Zong ming Wang, Jia Du, Li hong Zeng, Xiao chun Lei, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP2.PC.7: EXTRACTING SPATIAL INFORMATION OF HARVEST INDEX FOR WINTER WHEAT BASED ON MODIS NDVI IN NORTH CHINA
Jianqiang Ren, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Xingren Liu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhongxin Chen, Huajun Tang, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

WEP2.PC.8: INTEGRATING REMOTELY SENSED LAI WITH EPIC MODEL BASED ON GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR REGIONAL CROP YIELD ASSESSMENT
Jianqiang Ren, Fushui Yu, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Jun Qin, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhongxin Chen, Huajun Tang, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

WEP2.PC.9: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NDVI- MODIS/TERRA AND WATER BALANCE COMPONENTS FOR SOYBEAN CROP, BRAZIL
Angélica Giarolla, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil; Walter E. Baethgen, Pietro Ceccato, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, United States

Landslides and Earth's Surface Changes

WEP2.PD.1: PREDICTION OF GROUND SUBSIDENCE USING GIS AND THE WEIGHT-OF-EVIDENCE MODEL
Saro Lee, Hyun-Joo Oh, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Republic of Korea

WEP2.PD.2: VALIDATION OF LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL FOR LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING AT GANEOUNG AREAS, KOREA
Hyun-Joo Oh, Saro Lee, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Republic of Korea

WEP2.PD.3: EVIDENTIAL REASONING APPLIED TO GIS-BASED LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING WITH GEOSPATIAL DATA
No-Wook Park, Inha University, Republic of Korea

WEP2.PD.4: THE SURFACE COSEISMIC DEFORMATION AND SOURCE PARAMETERS RESEARCH OF THE XIZANG GAIZE EARTHQUAKE BASED ON THE INSAR TECHNOLOGY
Guifang Zhang, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, China

WEP2.PD.5: STRONG TECTONIC AND WEAK CLIMATIC CONTROL OF THE GEOMORPHOLOGIC AND GEOLOGICAL FEATURES IN WEST KUNLUN
Bin WANG, 1 State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2 Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Hong Chang, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP2.PD.6: HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING OF FLUVIAL LANDFORM CHANGE IN ARID ENVIRONMENTS USING TERRASAR-X IMAGES
Jussi Baade, Christiane Schmullius, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Germany

WEP2.PD.7: SOLID EARTH DEFORMATION MONITORING USING SATELLITE ALTIMETRY IN SOUTHWESTERN COASTS IN TAIWAN
Kai-chien Cheng, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan; Cheinway Hwang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan; Yu-Hsiang Chung, Ching-Yao Huang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan; Shiang-Hung Wei, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan; Hyongki Lee, C. K. Shum, Ohio State University, United States; Chung-Yen Kuo, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

WEP2.PD.8: DISASTER MAPPING FROM MEDIUM SPATIAL RESOLUTION ALOS PALSAR IMAGES
Yanfang Dong, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China; Qi Li, Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; Aixia Dou, Xiaoqing Wang, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China

WEP2.PD.9: CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SHALLOW STRUCTURES OF THE DEREN FAULT BY GROUND PENETRATING RADAR
Qi Lu, Jilin University, China; Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan; Cai Liu, Jilin University, China

Compression and Efficient Implementations

WEP2.PE.1: AN APPROACH TO REDUCE BOUNDARY DISTORTION IN COMPRESSING GRID DEM WITH WAVELET TRANSFORM
Zhanqiang Chang, Huili Gong, Xiaomeng Liu, Capital Normal University, China

WEP2.PE.2: FAST ALGORITHM FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE PROGRESSIVE COMPRESSION
Jing-Jing Zheng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jian-Qun Xu, Alcatel-Lucent Qingdao Co., China

WEP2.PE.3: A FLEXIBLE ABSTRACT GRAPHICAL GRID WORKFLOW DATA STRUCTURE FOR REMOTE SENSING QUANTITATIVE RETRIEVAL
Jianwen Ai, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Yingjie Li, Ying Wang, Linlu Mei, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP2.PE.4: DECOMPOSITION OF OPTICAL IMAGES MIXED PIXELS BASED ON LAGRANGIAN CONSTRAINED ALGORITHM
Xianchuan Yu, Xiaofeng Chu, Zhongjun Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP2.PE.5: NEARLY OPTIMAL WAVELET PAIRS FOR REMOTELY SENSED IMAGE COMPRESSION
Hong Sung Jin, Dong Yeob Han, Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea; Hyo Seong Lee, Sunchon National University, Republic of Korea

WEP2.PE.6: A FRAMEWORK FOR EFFICIENTLY PARALLELIZING NONLINEAR HYPERSPECTRAL NOISE REDUCTION
David Goodenough, Natural Resources Canada, Canada; Tian Han, Belaid Moa, Amanpreet Dhaliwal, University of Victoria, Canada; Hao Chen, Ashlin Richardson, Natural Resources Canada, Canada

WEP2.PE.7: MODELING LIDAR SCENE SPARSITY USING COMPRESSIVE SENSING
Juan Castorena, Charles Creusere, David Voelz, New Mexico State University, United States

WEP2.PE.8: USING APPROXIMATION AND RANDOMNESS TO SPEED-UP INTENSIVE LINEAR FILTERING
Julien Michel, CS, France; Jordi Inglada, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

Optical Image Filtering and Segmentation

WEP2.PF.1: A VARIATIONAL APPROACH FOR THE DESTRIPING OF MODIS DATA
Marouan Bouali, INRIA, France; Saïd Ladjal, Télécom ParisTech, France

WEP2.PF.2: JOINT SPATIO-SPECTRAL BASED EDGE DETECTION FOR MULTISPECTRAL INFRARED IMAGERY
Biliana Paskaleva, Majeed Hayat, Woo-Yong Jang, Yagya Sharma, University of New Mexico, United States; Steven Bender, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States; Sanjay Krishna, University of New Mexico, United States

WEP2.PF.3: APPLYING CELLULAR AUTOMATA TO HYPERSPECTRAL EDGE DETECTION
Matthew Lee, Lori Bruce, Mississippi State University, United States

WEP2.PF.4: SHADOW EXTRACTION AND CORRECTION FROM QUICKBIRD IMAGES
Wen Liu, Fumio Yamazaki, Chiba University, Japan

WEP2.PF.5: EFFICIENT REGION MERGING METHOD BASED ON CLASSIFIED MERGING COST
Ning Wu, Qiuxiao Chen, Zhejiang University, China; Jiancheng Luo, Zhanfeng Shen, Xiaodong Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP2.PF.6: EVALUATION OF SATELLITE IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING SYNTHETIC IMAGES
Andre Marçal, Arlete Rodrigues, Mario Cunha, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

WEP2.PF.7: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON SPATIAL-SPECTRAL CONSTRAINED REGION ACTIVE CONTOUR
Junping Zhang, Jiawei Chen, Ye Zhang, Bin Zou, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

WEP2.PF.8: IMAGE RESTORATION AND ITS IMPACT ON RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS
Giovanni Boggione, Lino Carvalho, Leila Fonseca, Flávio Ponzoni, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil

WEP2.PF.9: A NEW APPLICATION OF PIXEL PURITY INDEX TO UNSUPERVISED MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Shih-Yu Chen, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Chinsu Lin, National Chiayi University, Taiwan; Yen-Chieh Ouyang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Chein-I Chang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States

WEP2.PF.10: MULTI SCALE REPRESENTATION FOR REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES USING FAST ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERING
Iris Vanhamel, Musa Alrefaya, Hichem Sahli, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

WEP2.PF.11: INTEGRATING SPATIAL PROXIMITY WITH MANIFOLD LEARNING
Wonkook Kim, Melba Crawford, Purdue University, United States

Applications in Remote Sensing

WEP2.PG.1: THE USE OF SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS IN THE DERIVATION OF MESOSCALE SEA SURFACE CURRENT FIELDS FROM MULTI-SENSOR SATELLITE DATA
Benjamin Seppke, Martin Gade, Leonie Dreschler-Fischer, University of Hamburg, Germany

WEP2.PG.2: SUB-GRID PHYSICAL OPTICAL FLOW FOR REMOTE SENSING OF SANDSTORM
Cyril Cassisa, Serge Simoens, Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence, France; Veronique Prinet, Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, China; Liang Shao, Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence, France

WEP2.PG.3: A NEW SYSTEM FOR BREAKZONE LOCATION AND THE MEASUREMENT OF BREAKING WAVE HEIGHTS AND PERIODS.
Christopher Lane, Yaniv Gal, Matthew Browne, Andrew Short, CoastalCOMS Pty Ltd, Australia; Darrell Strauss, Katherine Jackson, Clarence Tan, Griffith University, Australia

WEP2.PG.4: COMBINING TEXTUAL AND VISUAL THESAURUS FOR A MULTI-MODAL SEARCH IN A SATELLITE IMAGE DATABASE
Sahbi Bahroun, Sup'Com, Ecole supérieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia; Nozha Boujemaa, IMEDIA, INRIA Rocquencourt, France; Zied Belhadj, Sup'Com, Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia

WEP2.PG.5: AN ONTOLOGY-BASED MODELING OF AN OCEAN SATELLITE IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM.
Jesus Almendros-Jimenez, Jose Piedra-Fernandez, Manuel Canton-Garbin, University of Almeria, Spain

WEP2.PG.6: LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURES FROM METEOSAT-9 SATELLITE IN MINAS GERAIS STATE, BRAZIL
Antonio Augusto Aguilar Dantas, Elizabeth Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil

WEP2.PG.7: DYNAMICAL PROCESSING OF GEOPHYSICAL SIGNATURES BASED ON REMOTE SENSING DATA FROM SPOT 5 SATELLITE
Ivan Villalon, University of Guadalajara, Mexico

WEP2.PG.8: APPLICATIONS USING EO-1 HYPERION AT-SENSOR AND SURFACE REFLECTANCE: COMPARISONS AND CASE STUDIES
Yen-Ben Cheng, Earth Resources Technology, Inc., United States; Elizabeth Middleton, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States; Qingyuan Zhang, Stephen Ungar, Petya Campbell, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States

WEP2.PG.9: LOCALIZED LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL FROM THE MODIS LEVEL-1B DATA USING WATER VAPOR AND IN SITU DATA
Kai Wang, Qiang Liu, Qinhuo Liu, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China

WEP2.PG.10: A KNOWLEDGE BASED FRAMEWORK FOR THE DETECTION OF MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTIES IN DERIVED SEA SURFACE CURRENT FIELDS
Benjamin Seppke, Leonie Dreschler-Fischer, University of Hamburg, Germany; Michael Wessel, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany; Martin Gade, University of Hamburg, Germany

Spectral Characterization and Applications

WEP2.PH.1: AN ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ALGORITHM FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY OF LAKE WATER BY CHINESE SATELLITE HJ-1A
Hua Xu, Xingfa Gu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiu Yin, Shanghai Center for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, China; Li Li, Zhenhua Chen, Yuhuan Ren, Weizhen Hou, Jia Liu, Pengfei Yin, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP2.PH.2: HIGH ALTITUDE THERMAL SOUNDING USING DOPPLER MODULATED GAS CORRELATION
Larry Gordley, Benjamin Marshall, Martin McHugh, GATS, Inc., United States; Dave Fritts, CoRA/NWRA, United States; Chad Fish, Space Dynamics Laboratory, United States

WEP2.PH.3: GLOBAL, REGIONAL AND LOCALIZED INVERSION METHODS FOR MAPPING BATHYMETRY BASED ON MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY
Hongxing Liu, Haibin Su, Lei Wang, Anthony Filippi, Will Heyman, University of Cincinnati, United States

WEP2.PH.4: SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF ASTER AND HYPERION DATA FOR GEOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF VOLCANO TEIDE
Alessandro Piscini, Stefania Amici, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

WEP2.PH.5: A NEW METHOD FOR ESTIMATING SNR FROM OPTICAL IMAGERY
Xinhong Wang, Lingling Ma, Lingli Tang, Chuanrong Li, Bo Zhu, Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP2.PH.6: ON-ORBIT SPECTRAL PERFORMANCE VALUATION OF HJ-1A/HSI DATA USING ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION LINES
Lingling Ma, Xinhong Wang, Lingli Tang, Chuanrong Li, Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP2.PH.7: SURFICIAL MATERIAL MAPPING OF AFGHANISTAN: A TOOL FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY
Trude King, Raymond Kokaly, Todd Hoefen, U.S. Geological Survey, United States

WEP2.PH.8: A SIMPLE SCHEME FOR UNMIXING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA BASED ON THE GEOMETRY OF THE N-DIMENSIONAL SIMPLEX
Paul Honeine, institut Charles Delaunay (FRE CNRS 2848), France; Cédric Richard, Laboratoire Fizeau (UMR CNRS 6525, OCA), France

WEP2.PH.9: CALIBRATION OF THE REFLECTED SOLAR INSTRUMENT FOR THE CLIMATE ABSOLUTE RADIANCE AND REFRACTIVITY OBSERVATORY
Kurtis Thome, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Robert Barnes, Science Applications International Corporation, United States; Rosemary Baize, Joseph O'Connell, Langley Research Center, United States; Jason Hair, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WEP2.PH.10: RECOVERING HIGH SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION TOPOGRAPHY OF CAPILLARY-GRAVITY WAVES IN AN OPEN OCEAN ENVIRONMENT
Christopher J. Zappa, Columbia University, United States; Howard Schultz, University of Massachusetts, United States; Michael Banner, Russel Morison, University of New South Wales, Australia; Larry Pezzaniti, Polaris Sensor Technologies, United States

WEP2.PH.11: SPECTRAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PERENNIAL GRASS (BRACHIARIA BRIZANTHA) GROWN OVER SOIL CONTAMINED BY HYDROCARBONS: A POTENTIAL TOOL FOR DETECTING PIPELINE LEAKAGE
Carlos Roberto Souza Filho, Giuliana Quiterio, University of Campinas, Brazil; Teodoro Almeida, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Marcos Noppler Alves, University of Campinas, Brazil; Wilson Oliveira, Lis Rabaco, Petrobras, Brazil; Luciola Magalhaes, University of Campinas, Brazil

Optical Missions - Past and Future

WEP2.PI.1: ASSESSMENT OF A TECHNIQUE FOR ESTIMATION OF OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION FROM THE ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER RADIANCE OBSERVATIONS
Fengying Sun, Dell Perot Systems, United States; Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States

WEP2.PI.2: RELATIVE MTF CHARACTERIZATION AND CORRECTION OF LANDSAT 4
Dennis Helder, Cody Anderson, Dinesh Shilpakar, South Dakota State University, United States

WEP2.PI.3: THE LANDSAT DATA CONTINUITY MISSION OPERATIONAL LAND IMAGER (OLI) RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION
Brian Markham, Philip Dabney, Jeanine Murphy-Morris, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Ed Knight, Geir Kvaran, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., United States; Julia Barsi, SSAI, United States

WEP2.PI.4: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF LANDSAT THERMAL BAND CALIBRATION
Julia Barsi, SSAI, United States; Brian Markham, NASA, United States; John Schott, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States; Simon Hook, NASA, United States; Nina Raqueno, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States

WEP2.PI.5: DERIVATION OF LANDSAT 5 TM DETECTOR RELATIVE GAIN MODELS USING THE USGS IMAGE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (IAS)
Jim Dewald, Dennis Helder, South Dakota State University, United States

WEP2.PI.6: OPERATIONAL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF LANDSAT DATA CONTINUITY MISSION (LDCM) SENSORS USING THE IMAGE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (IAS)
Esad Micijevic, Ron Morfitt, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., United States

WEP2.PI.7: AUTOMATIC IMAGE ORIENTATION AND DSM EXTRACTION FROM ALOS-PRISM TRIPLET IMAGES
José Alberto Gonçalves, University of Porto, Portugal

WEP2.PI.8: STATUS OF TERRA AND AQUA MODIS INSTRUMENTS
Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Brian Wenny, Tiejun Chang, Junqiang Sun, Hongda Chen, Aisheng Wu, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; William Barnes, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States; Vincent Salomonson, University of Utah, United States

WEP2.PI.9: CORRECTION OF SECOND ORDER LIGHT FOR THE HICO SENSOR ONBOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE SATATION
Rong-Rong Li, Rober Lucke, Mike Corson, Daniel Korwan, Bo-Cai Gao, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

WEP2.PI.10: CROSS-TRACK INFRARED SOUNDER (CRIS) PRE-LAUNCH PERFORMANCE
Farhang Sabet-Peyman, Denise Hagen, Scott Farrow, Northrop Grumman, United States; Ronald Glumb, Joe Predina, ITT Corporation, United States; Marc Wigdor, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, United States

Data Management and Systems II

WEP2.PJ.1: DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN SPECTRAL DATABASES
Andreas Hueni, Mathias Kneubuehler, Michael Schaepman, University of Zurich, Switzerland

WEP2.PJ.2: ENHANCED DIGITAL UP/ DOWN FREQUENCY CONVERTERS
Ahmed Amein, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Military Technical College, Egypt; Hasan Alarsh, Egyptian Armed Forces, Egypt

WEP2.PJ.3: STANDARDISED SPECTRA (0.4-2.5µM)AND ASSOCIATED METADATA:AN EXAMPLE FROM NORTHERN TROPICAL AUSTRALIA.
Kirrilly Pfitzner, Andreas Bollhöfer, Andrew Esparon, Renee Bartolo, Grant Staben, Department of the Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts (DEWHA), Australia

WEP2.PJ.4: DEVELOPMENT OF ALOS/PALSAR DATA ON-DEMAND PROCESSING AND PROVIDING SYSTEM ON GEO GRID
Yuko Takeyama, Sinsuke Kodama, Kazuki Nakamura, Masashi Matsuoka, Naotaka Yamamoto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

WEP2.PJ.5: RESEARCH ON MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA MANAGEMENT IN CHINA DIGITAL OCEAN PROTOTYPE SYSTEM
Jian Liu, Xin Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaoyi Jiang, Bing Jiang, National Marine Data & Information Service, Tianjin, China; Tianhe Chi, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP2.PJ.6: DATA ACCEPTANCE PROCEDURES AND LEVELS OF SERVICE AT THE NATIONAL SNOW AND ICE DATA CENTER
Ruth Duerr, Ron Weaver, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States

WEP2.PJ.7: SETTLEMENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF BEIJING-SHANGHAI HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY BASED ON GOOGLE MAP SERVICE
Yanbin Wang, Southwest Jiaotong University, China; Wensheng Zhou, Tsinghua University, China

WEP2.PJ.8: NOAA ENTERPRISE ARCHIVE ACCESS TOOL (NEAAT): ACCELERATED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT (XAD)
Robert Rank, NOAA/NESDIS, United States

WEP2.PJ.9: A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Tullio Joseph Tanzi, Telecom ParisTech, France; Jean-Paul Rudant, Université de Marne la Vallée, France

WEP2.PJ.10: PRE-LAUNCH VIIRS, CRIS, AND ATMS PROXY DATASETS FOR NPP VALIDATION
Joseph Zajic, General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., United States; Richard Ullman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TRMM and GPM

WEP2.PK.1: TRANSFERRING ERROR CHARACTERISTICS OF SATELLITE RAINFALL DATA FROM GROUND VALIDATION (GAUGED) INTO NON-GROUND VALIDATION (UNGAUGED) REGIONS
Faisal Hossain, Ling Tang, Tennessee Technological University, United States

WEP2.PK.2: AN ATTENUATION CORRECTION TECHNIQUE BASED ON THE NETWORK OF RADARS
Sanghun Lim, V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States; Yanting Wang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

WEP2.PK.3: INVESTIGATIONS INTO HIGH RESOLUTION MAPPING OF PRECIPITATION FEATURES UTILIZING THE TRMM PRECIPITATION RADAR
Chris Kidd, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; John Kwiatkowski, George Mason University, United States; Steve Nesbitt, University of Illinois, United States

WEP2.PK.4: GLOBAL PRECIPITATION RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM TRAINED FOR SSMIS USING A NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODEL: DESIGN AND EVALUATION
Chinnawat Surussavadee, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus, Thailand; David Staelin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

WEP2.PK.5: INFRARED SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATE USING WAVELET-BASED CLOUD CLASSIFICATION AND RADAR CALIBRATION
Majid Mahrooghy, Valentine Anantharaj, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States; Walter Petersen, Joseph Turk, NASA, United States; James Aanstoos, Mississippi State University, United States

WEP2.PK.6: RETRIEVING SNOWFALL RATE USING SATELLITE PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA
Huan Meng, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Banghua Yan, University of Maryland, United States; Ralph Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; David Price, University of Maryland, United States

WEP2.PK.7: MICROPHYSICAL RETRIEVALS OF DUAL POLARIZATION AND DUAL FREQUENCY GROUND RADAR FOR GPM GROUND VALIDATION
Minda Le, V. Chandrasekar, S. Lim, Colorado State University, United States

WEP2.PK.8: A MICROWAVE-BASED HYDROMETEOR PROFILE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM USING A VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUE
Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS & JCSDA, United States; Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, Kevin Garrett, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Wanchun Chen, Perot Systems Inc., United States; Christopher Grassotti, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States

WEP2.PK.9: A NEW APPROACH TO MODELING ICE CRYSTAL AGGREGATES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR RADAR REMOTE SENSING
Giovanni Botta, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Kultegin Aydin, Johannes Verlinde, Pennsylvania State University, United States

WEP2.PK.10: MODELING ATTENUATION OF MELTING HYDROMETEORS WITH A METHOD BASED ON VOLUME INTEGRAL EQUATIONS
Annakaisa von Lerber, Timo Piepponen, Aalto University, Finland; Jarkko Koskinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Antti Kestilä, Aalto University, Finland; Jani Tyynelä, Timo Nousiainen, University of Helsinki, Finland; Jarmo Koistinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Ari Sihvola, Pasi Ylä-Oijala, Jaan Praks, Martti Hallikainen, Aalto University, Finland; Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

Snow and Land Ice Poster III

WEP2.PL.1: VALIDATION OF SNOW COVERED AREA BASED ON SNOW PRODUCT DERIVED FROM MODIS AND AMSR-E IN THE HEILONGJIANG BASIN
Jin fan Xie, Climate Centre of Jilin Meteorological Bureau, China; Kaishan Song, Xiao chun Lei, Zong ming Wang, Jia Du, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Gui xin Zhong, College of Urban and environmental Science, NENU, China

WEP2.PL.2: THE SNOWSCAT GROUND-BASED POLARIMETRIC SCATTEROMETER: CALIBRATION AND INITIAL MEASUREMENTS FROM DAVOS SWITZERLAND
Charles Werner, Andreas Wiesmann, Tazio Strozzi, GAMMA Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland; Christian Mätzler, University of Bern, Switzerland; Martin Schneebeli, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Switzerland

WEP2.PL.3: THE PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF SNOW MONITORING USING AMSR-E AND WINTER SNOW CAMPAIGN OVER TIBET PLATEAN, CHINA
Yubao Qiu, Huadong Guo, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiancheng Shi, Institute for Computational Earth System Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Shichang Kang, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; James R. Wang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Juha Lemmetyinen, Arctic Research Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland; Lingmei Jiang, School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP2.PL.4: CREATION OF ERSATZ GROUND REFERENCE DATA FOR VALIDATING IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODIS SNOW AND ICE PRODUCT SUITE
James Tilton, Dorothy Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; George Riggs, SSAI, United States

WEP2.PL.5: SNOW RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING USING DENSE MEDIA RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY
Xiaolan Xu, Leung Tsang, Zhiqian Gui, University of Washington, United States; Edward Josberger, U.S. Geological Survey, United States; Li Li, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

WEP2.PL.6: OBSERVING SEASONAL SNOW CHANGES IN THE BOREAL FOREST AREA USING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS
Jouni Pulliainen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Anna Kontu, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Andreas Wiesmann, GAMMA Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland; Thomas Nagler, Helmut Rott, ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria; Malcolm Davidson, Dirk Schuettemeyer, Michael Kern, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands

WEP2.PL.7: AIRBORNE HIGH-ALTITUDE, 25M FOOTPRINT, WAVEFORM LIDAR MAPPING OF GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA
Michelle Hofton, University of Maryland, United States; Scott Luthcke, Bryan Blair, David Rabine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WEP2.PL.8: CRYOSAT-2: POST LAUNCH PERFORMANCE OF SIRAL-2 AND ITS CALIBRATION/VALIDATION
Robert Cullen, Richard Francis, Malcolm Davidson, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Duncan Wingham, UCL, United Kingdom; Mònica Roca, IsardSAT, Spain; Laurent Rey, Laurent Rey, Thales Alenia Space, France; Friedhelm Rostan, Astrium GmbH, Germany

WEP2.PL.9: SAGE: A TOOL FOR EXPLORATION OF REMOTE SENSING DATA RELATING GREENLAND’S ICE SHEET AND GLACIERS
David Gallaher, Siri Jodha Khalsa, Ruth Duerr, University of Colorado, United States

WEP2.PL.10: SENSITIVITY OF THE SNOWMELT RUNOFF MODEL TO UNDERESTIMATES OF REMOTELY SENSED SNOW COVERED AREA
Caiti Steele, New Mexico State University, United States; Albert Rango, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, United States; Dorothy Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Max Bleiweiss, New Mexico State University, United States

WEP2.PL.11: SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF SNOW PARAMETERS INVERSION PROCEDURE TO THE PASSIVE MICROWAVE MIXED-PIXEL PATTERNS
Tianjie Zhao, Yongpan Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Lixin Zhang, School of Geography and Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, China

Sea Ice Poster

WEP2.PM.1: DIURNAL CHANGE FROM SURFACE TO VOLUME SCATTERING INDUCED BY THAW AND REFREEZE OF THE THE SNOW COVER: A THERMODYNAMIC APPROACH.
Eric Hudier, University of Quebec, Canada

WEP2.PM.2: USING HJ 1-A/B SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR NEAR-SHORE SEA ICE MONITORING IN THE NANPU-CAOFEIDIAN AREA, BOHAI BAY, CHINA
Hongying Zhou, Wuyi Yu, Yimin Zhang, Youyan Zhang, Xiaoping Qi, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, China

WEP2.PM.3: ICEBERG SIZE AND ORIENTATION ESTIMATION USING SEAWINDS
Keith M. Stuart, David G. Long, Brigham Young University, United States

WEP2.PM.4: ESTIMATION OF SEA ICE CONCENTRATION IN THE SEA OF OKHOTSK USING PALSAR POLARIMETRIC DATA
Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Shoji Sakai, Nihon University, Japan

WEP2.PM.5: COMBINING AMSR-E AND 1UIKSCAT TO RETRIEVE SEA ICE TYPES AND CONCENTRATIONS IN THE ARCTIC
Mohammed Shokr, Tom Agnew, Environment Canada, Canada

WEP2.PM.6: DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADVANCED TECHNIQUE FOR MAPPING AND MONITORING SEA AND LAKE ICE FOR THE FUTURE GOES-R ADVANCED BASELINE IMAGER (ABI)
Rouzbeh Nazari, Marouane Tememi, Reza Khanbilvardi, City University of New York, United States

WEP2.PM.7: INVESTIGATION OF ARCTIC SEA ICE THICKNESS USING SPACE-BORNE POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Jin-Woo Kim, Duk-Jin Kim, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea; Byong Jun Hwang, Scottish Marine Institute, United Kingdom

WEP2.PM.8: AUTOMATED POLAR ICE THICKNESS ESTIMATION FROM RADAR IMAGERY
MyAsia Reid, Michael Jeffersom, Eric Akers, Elizabeth City State University, United States; Gladys Finyom, University of Arizona, United States; Christopher Gifford, Arvin Agah, University of Kansas, United States

WEP2.PM.9: SEA ICE MONITORING IN THE BALTIC SEA USING DUAL-POL C AND L BAND SAR DATA
Rivo Uiboupin, Liis Sipelgas, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Urban Remote Sensing II

WE4.L01.1: PSI ANALYSES OF LAND SUBSIDENCE DUE TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEAR THE CITY OF HANGZHOU, CHINA
Dapeng Yan, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China; Daqing Ge, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Jin Yang, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China; Ling Zhang, Yan Wang, Xiaofang Guo, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China

WE4.L01.2: OPERATIONAL EVALUATION OF DAMAGES IN FLOODED AREAS COMBINING COSMO-SKYMED AND MULTISPECTRAL OPTICAL IMAGES
Elena Angiati, University of Genoa, Italy; Giorgio Boni, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; Laura Cadela, Italian Space Agency, Italy; Fabio Castelli, University of Florence, Italy; Silvana Dellepiane, University of Genoa, Italy; Fabio Delogu, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; Fabio Pintus, ACROTEC S.r.L., Italy; Roberto Rudari, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy; Stefania Traverso, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; Cosimo Versace, CONSORZIO COS (OT), Italy

WE4.L01.3: COMBINING GIS AND INSAR DATA FOR 3D BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION
Antje Thiele, Stefan Hinz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; Erich Cadario, Fraunhofer FOM, Research Institute for Optronics and Pattern Recognition, Germany

WE4.L01.4: URBAN STORAGE HEAT FLUX ESTIMATION USING ASTER REMOTE SENSING DATA
Deyong Hu, Lei Deng, Dan Meng, Capital Normal University, China

WE4.L01.5: MONITORING OF COLLAPSED BUILT-UP AREAS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES
Raffaella Guida, Surrey Space Centre, United Kingdom; Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy

Ocean Surface Features from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) II

WE4.L02.1: GULF STREAM THERMAL FRONTS DETECTED BY SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Will Perrie, Tao Xie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada

WE4.L02.2: SURF ZONE SURFACE DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENTS USING INTERFEROMETRIC MICROWAVE RADAR
Gordon Farquharson, University of Washington, United States; Stephen J. Frasier, University of Massachusetts, United States; Britt Raubenheimer, Steve Elgar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States

WE4.L02.3: TIDAL CURRENT MEASUREMENT WITH TERRASAR-X ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRY
Steffen Suchandt, Hartmut Runge, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Roland Romeiser, University of Miami, United States; Nuria Tous-Ramon, Ulrich Steinbrecher, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE4.L02.4: GLOBAL COMPARISON OF SEA SURFACE CURRENTS DERIVED FROM DRIFTER AND ALTIMETRY OBSERVATIONS
Rick Lumpkin, Gustavo Goni, NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, United States; Pedro DiNezio, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami, United States; Nikolai Maximenko, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, United States

WE4.L02.5: STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF OCEAN SURFACE HEIGHTS USING REMOTE SENSORS WITH VARIABLE LINE OF SIGHT ANGLE.
Josue Alvarez-Borrego, Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Mexico; Beatriz Martin-Atienza, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico

Optical and Infrared Modeling

WE4.L03.1: A TWO-LEVEL ALGORITHM FOR GLOBAL RADIATION TRANSFER OF LARGE 3D VEGETATION CANOPIES AT PIXEL SCALE
Huaguo Huang, Beijing Forestry University, China; Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Wenhan Qin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WE4.L03.2: A MODIFIED VEGETATION INDEX BASED ALGORITHM FOR THERMAL IMAGERY SHARPENING
Ling Chen, Guangjian Yan, Beijing Normal University, China

WE4.L03.3: EVALUATION OF SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS OF FIRE RADIATIVE POWER (FRP) USING AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS
Charles Ichoku, Luke Ellison, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Vincent Ambrosia, NASA Ames Research Center, United States

WE4.L03.4: A SINGLE-CHANNEL ALGORITHM FOR LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE 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, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, China; Qiao Wang, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection, China

WE4.L03.5: SURFACE SOLAR IRRADIATION MAPS FROM SEVIRI MSG DATA
Attilio Gambardella, Thomas Huld, Jean Verdebout, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy

Data System Technologies for Improving Data Access and Usability - Challenges and Solutions II

WE4.L04.1: DATA SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION FOR QUERY AND ANALYSIS OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA SETS IN SUPPORT OF GLOBAL SCALE MAPPING OF INUNDATED WETLANDS
Kyle McDonald, Bruce Chapman, Sarah Flores, Jeffrey Hall, Erika Podest, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; John Kimball, Flathead Lake Biological Station, United States; Mahta Moghaddam, Jane Whitcomb, The University of Michigan, United States; Laura Hess, University of California, United States

WE4.L04.2: A MULTI-SENSOR WATER VAPOR CLIMATE DATA RECORD USING CLOUD CLASSIFICATION
Eric Fetzer, Brian Wilson, Evan Fishbein, Brian Kahn, William Read, Joao Teixeira, Qing Yue, Van Dang, Alexandre Guillaume, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WE4.L04.3: WEB SERVICES FOR CUSTOM LEVEL 2 AND LEVEL 3 DATA SUMMARIZATION OF NEWS MERGED A-TRAIN DATA
Hook Hua, Eric Fetzer, Steven Lewis, Mathew Henderson, Alexandre Guillaume, Seungwon Lee, Manuel de la Torre-Juárez, Van Dang, Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

WE4.L04.4: CLASS PLANS PROVIDING ARCHIVE, ACCESS, AND DISTRIBUTION SERVICES FOR GOES-R DATA
Robert Rank, NOAA/NESDIS, United States

WE4.L04.5: FUSION STANDARDS STUDY
George Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium, United States

Synergy of EO Products to Map the Essential Climate Variable Biomass II

WE4.L05.1: PANTROPICAL ALOS/PALSAR DATABASE IN SUPPORT OF FOREST CARBON TRACKING
Josef Kellndorfer, Wayne Walker, Jesse Bishop, Tina Cormier, Katie Kirsch, Woods Hole Research Center, United States; Francesco Holecz, SARMAP, Switzerland; Greg Fiske, Alessandro Baccini, Scott Goetz, Skee Houghton, Nadine Laporte, Woods Hole Research Center, United States

WE4.L05.2: USING AIRBORNE & SPACE LIDARS FOR LARGE-AREA INVENTORY
Ross Nelson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Göran Ståhl, Sören Holm, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; Timothy Gregoire, Yale University, United States; Erik Næsset, Terje Gobakken, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

WE4.L05.3: DISTRIBUTION OF CARBON STORED IN PAN-TROPICAL FORESTS FROM FUSION OF FIELD INVENTORY AND REMOTE SENSING DATA
Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Nancy Harris, Sandra Brown, Winrock International, United States; Stephen Hagen, William Salas, Applied GeoSolutions, LLC, United States; Michael Lefsky, Colorado State University, United States

WE4.L05.4: ABOVEGROUND FOREST BIOMASS TRENDS FOR THE CONTERMINOUS U.S. INFERRED FROM LANDSAT TIME-SERIES AND FIELD INVENTORY DATA
Scott Powell, Montana State University, United States; Warren Cohen, USDA Forest Service, United States; Robert Kennedy, Oregon State University, United States

WE4.L05.5: OPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS OF OPERATIONAL ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS MAPPING – A SUMMARY OF 12 YEARS OF FOREST BIOMASS MAPPING WITH RADAR REMOTE SENSING IN SIBERIA, CHINA AND CANADA
Christiane Schmullius, Oliver Cartus, Christian Thiel, Carolin Thiel, Maurizio Santoro, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

Image Analysis

WE4.L06.1: REMOTE SENSING IMAGE SYNTHESIS
Ying Liu, Alexander Wong, Paul Fieguth, University of Waterloo, Canada

WE4.L06.2: TRANSFORMATION-INVARIANT EXTRACTION OF MULTI-LOCATION IMAGE FEATURES FROM REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY
Roman Palenichka, Ahmed Lakhssassi, Marek Zaremba, University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada

WE4.L06.3: DETECTING AIRCRAFT WITH A LOW RESOLUTION INFRARED SENSOR
Jeremie Jakubowicz, TelecomParisTech, France; Sidonie Lefebvre, ONERA, France; Eric Moulines, TelecomParisTech, France

WE4.L06.4: LEAST DEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR TRACE GASES RETRIEVAL FROM SATELLITE DATA
Pia Addabbo, Maurizio di Bisceglie, Carmela Galdi, University of Sannio, Italy

WE4.L06.5: ROBUST REAL TIME VEHICLE CONTOUR TRACKING ON LOW QUALITY AERIAL INFRA RED IMAGERY
Salman Aslam, Aaron Bobick, Christopher Barnes, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

Airborne and Spaceborne Measurements of Radio-Frequency Interference

WE4.L07.1: K-BAND RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE SURVEY OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
Shannon Curry, University of Michigan, United States; Michael Ahlers, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Harvey Elliot, Steve Gross, Darren McKague, Sidharth Misra, John Puckett, Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States

WE4.L07.2: STUDIES OF RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE AT L-BAND USING AN AIRBORNE 2-D INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETER
Martti Hallikainen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Juha Kainulainen, Jaakko Seppänen, Anssi Hakkarainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

WE4.L07.3: CHARACTERIZATION OF K-BAND RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE FROM AMSR-E, WINDSAT AND SSM/I
Darren McKague, John Puckett, Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States

WE4.L07.4: A RST-BASED STUDY OF AMSRE C-BAND RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCES
Teodosio Lacava, Irina Coviello, Nicola Pergola, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis - National Research Council, Italy; Valerio Tramutoli, University of Basilicata, Italy

WE4.L07.5: RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE DETECTION ALGORITHM BASED ON SPECTROGRAM ANALYSIS
Jose Miguel Tarongi, Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Snow and Lance Ice II

WE4.L08.1: LAKE ICE THICKNESS ESTIMATION USING GPS
Mark Jacobson, Montana State University Billings, United States

WE4.L08.2: AIRBORNE 3D BASAL DEM AND ICE THICKNESS MAP OF PINE ISLAND GLACIER
William Blake, Lei Shi, Christopher Allen, Prasad Gogineni, CReSIS, United States

WE4.L08.3: ICE SHEET ANISOTROPY MEASURED WITH POLARIMETRIC ICE SOUNDING RADAR
Jorgen Dall, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

WE4.L08.4: COMBINING MODIS AND QUIKSCAT DATA TO DELINEATE SURFACE AND NEAR-SURFACE MELT ON THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET
Dorothy Hall, NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Son Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Nicolo DiGirolamo, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Gregory Neumann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WE4.L08.5: CRYOSAT-2: MEASURING FLUCTUATIONS OF LAND AND MARINE ICE FIELDS FROM SPACE
Richard Francis, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Duncan Wingham, University College London, United Kingdom; Robert Cullen, European Space Agency, Netherlands

Polarimetric image processing

WE4.L09.1: ROLL INVARIANT TARGET DETECTION BASED ON POLSAR CLUTTER MODELS
Lionel Bombrun, Gabriel Vasile, Michel Gay, GIPSA-lab / Grenoble INP, France; Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, ONERA, France; Frédéric Pascal, SONDRA Research Alliance, France

WE4.L09.2: POLARIMETRIC SAR ESTIMATION BASED ON NON-LOCAL MEANS
Charles-Alban Deledalle, Florence Tupin, Telecom ParisTech, France; Loïc Denis, Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon, France

WE4.L09.3: MEAN-SHIFT AND HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING FOR TEXTURED POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGE SEGMENTATION/CLASSIFICATION
Jean-Marie Beaulieu, Laval University, Canada; Ridha Touzi, Natural Resources Canada, Canada

WE4.L09.4: ORTHOGONAL POLARIMETRIC SAR PROCESSOR BASED ON SIGNAL AND INTERFERENCE SUBSPACE MODELS
Frédéric 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 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

IGARSS at 30: Perspectives on Remote Sensing Science and Sensors

WE4.L10.1: OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL DATA IN 2010: CONNECTING GLOBAL AND LOCAL OBSERVATIONS
Karen St. Germain, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

WE4.L10.2: THE EVOLUTION OF THE US SATELLITE IR SOUNDING PROGRAM – FROM THE NIMBUS SIRS AND IRIS TO THE NPOESS CRIS
W. L. Smith, Sr., Henry Revercomb, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

WE4.L10.3: ADVANCES IN NIGHTTIME SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING CAPABILITIES VIA THE NPOESS/VIIRS DAY/NIGHT BAND LOW-LIGHT VISIBLE SENSOR AND TRACING EVOLUTION OF THESE CAPABILITIES OVER LIFETIME OF IGARSS
Steven D. Miller, T. F. Lee, R. Turner, C. Combs, S. Kidder, C. Elvidge, Colorado State University, United States

Remote Sensing of Tsunamis and Other Natural Hazards Using GNSS and Radar Measurements I

TH1.L01.1: SEISMIC AND TSUNAMI SIGNATURES IN THE IONOSPHERE: WHAT WE LEARN FROM SUMATRA 2004 TO SAMOA 2009
Giovanni Occhipinti, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

TH1.L01.3: TSUNAMI FORECASTING: A FRAMEWORK FOR ADVANCES IN TSUNAMI RESEARCH
Eddie Bernard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TH1.L01.4: COMBINING MEASUREMENTS AND MODELS FOR REAL-TIME TSUNAMI FORECAST
Yong Wei, Vasily Titov, NOAA Center for Tsunami Research, United States

TH1.L01.5: EFFECTS OF TSUNAMIS ON THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE
Michael Hickey, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States; Richard Walterscheid, The Aerospace Corporation, United States; Gerald Schubert, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Attila Komjathy, David Galvan, Anthony Mannucci, NASA, United States

Ocean Surface Winds

TH1.L02.1: EXPERIMENTS ON THE EFFECT OF SWELL ON SCATTEROMETER RESPONSE
Brian Haus, Mark Donelan, University of Miami, United States; William Plant, University of Washington, United States; Olivier Troianowski, Saunier & Associes, France

TH1.L02.2: TOWARDS AN IMPROVED WIND AND RAIN BACKSCATTER MODEL FOR ASCAT
Michael Owen, David G. Long, Brigham Young University, United States

TH1.L02.3: IMPROVED HURRICANE ACTIVE/PASSIVE SIMULATED WIND VECTOR RETRIEVALS
Suleiman Alsweiss, Peth Laupattarakasem, Salem El-Nimri, W. Linwood Jones, University of Central Florida, United States; Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH1.L02.4: PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF SPLASH EFFECT ON HIGH WIND C-BAND HH-POL MODEL FUNCTION
James R. Carswell, Remote Sensing Solutions Inc, United States; Dragana Perkovic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Tao Chu, University of Massachusetts / Stanford university, United States; Stephen J. Frasier, University of Massachusetts, United States; Paul S. Chang, Zorana Jelenak, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR-UCAR, United States

TH1.L02.5: ALTIMETER SURFACE OBSERVATIONS IN TROPICAL CYCLONES
Yves Quilfen, Bertrand Chapron, Jean Tournadre, IFREMER, France

Electromagnetic Forward and Inverse Scattering Models I

TH1.L03.1: BISTATIC RADAR CROSS SECTION OF AN COMPLEX TARGET ON SEA SURFACE
Yacine Bennani, Ali Khenchaf, Fabrice Comblet, Ania Ali-Yahia, ENSIETA, France

TH1.L03.2: FULL WAVE ANALYSIS OF VHF-UHF FOREST BISTATIC SCATTERING MECHANISMS AN INVESTIGATION ON THE INFLUENCE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING
Sami Bellez, Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes (L2S), France; Hélène Roussel, Cyril Dahon, UPMC Univ Paris6-L2E, France

TH1.L03.3: COMPARISONS OF ROUGH SURFACE BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS FOR 2 DIMENSIONAL SCATTERING PROBLEMS USING NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL MODELS
Zhiqian Gui, University of Washington, United States; Joel Johnson, Ohio State University, United States; Xueyang Duan, University of Michigan, United States; Leung Tsang, University of Washington, United States; Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States; Jiancheng Shi, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Eni Njoku, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Peng Xu, Wuhan University, China; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan

TH1.L03.4: 3D VECTOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM MULTILAYER RANDOM ROUGH SURFACES USING STABILIZED EBCM FOR REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE
Xueyang Duan, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States

TH1.L03.5: 3D MARKOV RANDOM FIELD IN REALISTIC INVERSE SCATTERING
Roberta Autieri, Università 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, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Tommaso Isernia, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy

Change Detection and Multitemporal Image Analysis I

TH1.L04.1: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Lorenzo Bruzzone, Francesca Bovolo, University of Trento, Italy

TH1.L04.3: MULTITEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF MULTISENSOR DATA: INFORMATION THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Lionel Gueguen, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy; Shiyong Cui, Gottfried Schwarz, Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1.L04.5: PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR AUTOMATIC CHANGE DETECTION AT VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION
Fabio Pacifici, Chris Padwick, Giovanni Marchisio, DigitalGlobe, Inc., United States

Applications for NASA's Decadal Survey Missions and Opportunities to take Research to Operations

TH1.L05.1: FOSTERING APPLICATIONS OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE NASA SOIL 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 of Technology, United States; Eni Njoku, Kent Kellogg, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH1.L05.2: COMPARING SCIENTIFIC AND SCIENCE HAZARD APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR DESDYNI
Gerald Bawden, US Geological Survey, United States

TH1.L05.3: CLARREO MISSION DESIGN: ENGAGING USERS TO MAXIMIZE SOCIETAL BENEFIT AND SCIENCE VALUE
David Young, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States

TH1.L05.4: HYSPIRI SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS
Simon Hook, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Elizabeth Middleton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Robert Green, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH1.L05.5: PROPOSED SCIENCE FROM NASA'S EARTH VENTURE-1 (EV-1) AIRBORNE SCIENCE SELECTIONS
B. Danette Allen, Todd C. Denkins, Hal B. Maring, NASA, United States

Lidar Sensing of the Atmosphere

TH1.L06.1: STATISTICS OF DEPOLARIZATION RATIO FROM AN AIRBORNE BACKSCATTER LIDAR
John Yorks, Science Systems and Applications 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 THE LOWER 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 OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS TO 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 TYPHOON GENESIS AND EVOLUTION
George Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, United States

TH1.L06.5: REMOTE SENSING ATMOSPHERIC CO2 COLUMN ABUNDANCE USING AN 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, United States; Arlyn Andrews, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

Innovative Options for Developing Future Earth Science Capabilities

TH1.L07.1: THE NEED FOR AN INSTRUMENT FIRST, SPACECRAFT SECOND MISSION DEVELOPMENT APPROACH
Claude Freaner, NASA, United States; Robert Bitten, The Aerospace Corporation, United States

TH1.L07.2: INSTRUMENT FIRST, SPACECRAFT SECOND: A NEW PARADIGM IN SPACE MISSION DEVELOPMENT
Robert Bitten, Eric Mahr, The Aerospace Corporation, United States

TH1.L07.3: AUTONOMOUS SATELLITE OPERATIONS VIA SECURE VIRTUAL MISSION OPERATIONS CENTER
Eric Miller, General Dynamics, United States; Phillip Paulsen, Michael Pasciuto, NASA, United States

TH1.L07.4: DARPA’S SYSTEM F6 PROGRAM FOR DEMONSTRATING SPACECRAFT FRACTIONATION
Paul Eremenko, DARPA, United States

Application of Remote Sensing and CI to Monitoring Snow and Management of Water Resources

TH1.L08.1: OPERATION ICE BRIDGE OVERVIEW AND RESULTS FROM AIRCRAFT LASER ALTIMETRY OVER GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA.
William Krabill, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; John Sonntag, Serdar Manizade, Earl Fredrick, James Yungel, EG&G Services, Inc., United States

TH1.L08.2: 3D IMAGING OF ICE SHEETS
John Paden, Vexcel Corporation, United States; Christopher Allen, Prasad Gogineni, CReSIS, United States

TH1.L08.3: ASSESSING AND UNDERSTANDING GREENLAND AND ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE
Waleed Abdalati, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States

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

TH1.L08.5: MONITORING SNOW COVER WITH MULTISENSOR AUTOMATED SNOW MAPPING SYSTEM AT NOAA/NESDIS
Peter Romanov, University of Maryland, United States; Hui Xu, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States

Interferometric SAR Processing

TH1.L09.1: GEODETICALLY ACCURATE INSAR DATA PROCESSOR FOR TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
Howard Zebker, Stanford University, United States; Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Piyush Shanker, Cody Wortham, Stanford University, United States

TH1.L09.2: ADVANCES IN THE GENERATION OF DEFORMATION TIME SERIES FROM SAR DATA SEQUENCES IN AREAS AFFECTED BY LARGE DYNAMICS
Francesco Casu, Andrea Manconi, Antonio Pepe, Mariarosaria Manzo, Riccardo Lanari, IREA - CNR, Italy

TH1.L09.3: ALGAE: A FAST ALGEBRAIC ESTIMATION OF INTERFEROGRAM PHASE OFFSETS IN SPACE VARYING GEOMETRIES
Stefano Tebaldini, Guido Gatti, Mauro Mariotti d'Alessandro, Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

TH1.L09.4: ACCURATE FOCUSING OF SINGLE-PASS AIRBORNE INSAR DATA AT L-BAND
Marcus Schwaebisch, Intermap Technologies GmbH, Germany; Bryan Mercer, Qiaoping Zhang, Wei Huang, Intermap Technologies Corporation, Canada

TH1.L09.5: INVESTIGATIONS ON TOPS INTERFEROMETRY WITH TERRASAR-X
Pau Prats, Luca Marotti, Rolf Scheiber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TanDEM-X Mission

TH1.L10.1: TANDEM-X: SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Irena Hajnsek, ETH Zürich / DLR, Germany; Gerhard Krieger, Kostas Papathanassiou, Stefan V. Baumgartner, Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Pau Prats, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1.L10.2: TANDEM-X COMMISSIONING PHASE STATUS
Jaime Hueso Gonzalez, Markus Bachmann, Harald Hofmann, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1.L10.3: MONOSTATIC CALIBRATION OF BOTH TANDEM-X SATELLITES
Marco Schwerdt, Markus Bachmann, Dirk Schrank, Jaime Hueso Gonzalez, Clemens Schulz, Björn Döring, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1.L10.4: PROCESSING OF BISTATIC TANDEM-X DATA
Helko Breit, Thomas Fritz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Ulrich Balss, Technical University of Munich, Germany; 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 APPROACH OF TANDEM-X
Martin Huber, Astrid Gruber, Birgit Wessel, Markus Breunig, Anna Wendleder, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Optical Reflectance

THP1.PA.1: ASSESSMENT OF BIASES IN MODIS SURFACE REFLECTANCE DUE TO LAMBERTIAN APPROXIMATION
Yujie Wang, Alexei Lyapustin, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States

THP1.PA.2: A NEW APPROACH FOR MEASURING PHOTOSYNTHETIC LIGHT-USE EFFICIENCY FROM SPACE USING MULTI-ANGULAR SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS
Thomas Hilker, Nicholas Coops, University of British Columbia, Canada; Forrest Hall, Alexei Lyapustin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County / NASA GSFC, United States; Andrew Black, University of British Columbia, Canada; Yujie Wang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County / NASA GSFC, United States

THP1.PA.3: DAILY LAND SURFACE ALBEDO AND REFLECTANCE ANISOTROPY FROM MODIS
Crystal B. Schaaf, Yanmin Shuai, Zhuosen Wang, Alan Strahler, Boston University, United States; Xiaoyang Zhang, Earth Resources Technology, Inc., United States; David Roy, South Dakota State University, United States; Andrew Richardson, Harvard University, United States

THP1.PA.4: COMBINING OBSERVATIONS IN THE REFLECTIVE SOLAR AND THERMAL 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: BOREAL FOREST LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI) ESTIMATION USING WIDE OPTICS AIRBORNE WINTER PHOTOS
Terhikki Manninen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Lauri Korhonen, University of Joensuu, Finland; Pekka Voipio, Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla), Finland; Panu Lahtinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Pauline Stenberg, University of Helsinki, Finland

THP1.PA.6: AUTOMATED BLENDING OF LANDSAT AND MODIS SURFACE REFLECTANCES AT GLOBAL SCALES
Weile Wang, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Cristina Milesi, Sangram Ganguly, Petr Votava, Andrew Michaelis, CSU-Monterey Bay & NASA ARC, United States; Ramakrishna R. Nemani, NASA Ames Research Center, United States; Feng Gao, ERT & NASA GSFC, United States

THP1.PA.7: AUSCOVER CALVAL: COORDINATING AUSTRALIAN ACTIVITIES IN CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION
Simon Jones, RMIT University, Australia; Tim Malthus, CSIRO Land and Water, Australia; Alex A. Held, CSIRO Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia; Karin Reinke, Elizabeth Farmer, Rakhesh Devedas, RMIT University, Australia

THP1.PA.8: SYNCHRONOUS RETRIEVAL OF FOREST CANOPY COVER BY AIRBORN LIDAR AND OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING
Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yunfei Bao, Beijing Institute Of Space Mechanics and Electricity, China; Hao Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP1.PA.9: SPATIAL-TEMPORAL VARIATIONS OF PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION BASED ON SATELLITE DATA IN HEIHE RIVER BASIN FROM 2000 TO 2008
Jiangtao Xiao, Shihua Li, Hao Jiang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

THP1.PA.10: LEAF AREA INDEX RETRIEVAL FROM REMOTELY SENSED DATA: SCALING EFFECT AND PROPAGATION MECHANISMS
Hua Wu, Bo-Hui Tang, Zhao-Liang Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Optical Vegetation Mapping

THP1.PB.1: ESTIMATING REGIONAL ABOVEGROUND FOREST BIOMASS USING HJ-1 SATELLITE DATA AND ICESAT
Hong Chi, Zhifeng Guo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States

THP1.PB.2: RETRIEVAL OF FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT FROM HYPERSPECTRAL DATA VIA PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE
Jie Zhang, Jian-Jun Wu, Lei Zhou, Beijing Normal University, China

THP1.PB.3: SPECTROSCOPIC DETERMINATION OF LEAF WATER CONTENT USING CONTINUOUS WAVELET ANALYSIS
Tao Cheng, Benoit Rivard, Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa, University of Alberta, Canada

THP1.PB.4: APPLICATION OF INTEGRATED HYPERSPECTRAL AND LIDAR IMAGERY FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
Aaron Swanson, Lynn Abelson, John Craig, James Barter, Mark Helmlinger, Northrop Grumman, United States

THP1.PB.5: POST-FIRE VEGETATION MONITORING USING HYPERSPECTRAL AHS-INTA IMAGES IN GUADALAJARA (SPAIN)
Federico González-Alonso, CIFOR - INIA, Spain; Margarita Huesca, Silvia Merino-de-Miguel, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; Sergio Martinez, Junta de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; José Miguel Cuevas, CIFOR - INIA, Spain

THP1.PB.6: EARLY CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ACTIVE FIRE DETECTION PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM THE NEXT GENERATION NPOESS/VIIRS AND GOES-R/ABI INSTRUMENTS
Wilfrid Schroeder, University of Maryland, United States; Ivan Csiszar, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Louis Giglio, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Christopher Schmidt, Jay Hoffmann, Scott Lindstrom, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, United States

THP1.PB.7: FUTURE FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES AND CALIBRATION PROTOCOLS FOR CERES : CONTINUATION OF THE EARTH RADIATION BUDGET CLIMATE DATA RECORD
Kory Priestley, Norman Loeb, NASA, United States; Louis Smith, National Institute of Aerospace, United States; Susan Thomas, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States

THP1.PB.8: ASTER THERMAL TEMPERATURE AND EMISSIVITY VALIDATION ON VOLCANO TEIDE
Stefania Amici, Alessandro Piscini, Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

THP1.PB.9: EUROSDR ICC BANYOLES 2008 CAMPAIGN DATASET AND RESULTS
Lucas Martinez, Roman Arbiol, Anna Tarda, Fernando Perez, Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Spain; Eva Maria Rubio Caballero, Magali Odi, Daniel Moya, María Llanos López González, Jose Gonzalez Piqueras, Francisco Ramón Lopez Serrano, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain; Gerard More, Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Forestal de Catalunya, Spain; Cristina Cea, Xavier Pons, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Yolanda Sola, Jeronimo Lorente, Elies Campmany, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; Adolfo Comeron, Carlos Muñoz, Mohd Nadzri Md Reba, Francesc Rocadenbosch, Sergio Tomas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Jordi Cunillera, Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya, Spain; Eija Honkavaara, Lauri Markelin, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland

THP1.PB.10: A METHODOLOGY TO ASSESS IMPACT OF OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL CROSSTALK IN NEW GENERATION SENSORS USING HERITAGE DATA
Hassan Oudrari, Thomas Schwarting, Vincent Chiang, Jeff McIntire, Sigma Space Corporation, United States; Chunhui Pan, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, James J. Butler, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States

THP1.PB.11: MULTI-IMAGE SPACE RESECTION BASED GEOMETRIC CALIBRATION FOR FOUR BANDS CCD CAMERA
Xingfeng Chen, Xingfa Gu, State key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Huibin Ge, Jinjin Zhang, Henan Polytechnic University, China; Jiping Chen, State key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Fengjie Zheng, Guoti Yuan, Henan Polytechnic University, China; Jun Liu, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, China, China

Vegetation General

THP1.PC.1: COMPARING TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION PHENOLOGY FROM MODIS AND MERIS SENSOR DATA
C Jeganathan, University of Southampton, United Kingdom; Sangram Ganguly, NASA Ames Research Center, United States; Jadu Dash, University of Southampton, United Kingdom; Mark Friedl, Boston University, United States; Peter Atkinson, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

THP1.PC.2: ESTIMATING GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION OF FORESTS USING MODIS PRODUCTS
Hirofumi Hashimoto, Weile Wang, Cristina Milesi, California State University, Monterey Bay, United States; Sangram Ganguly, NASA Ames Research Center, United States; Ranga B. Myneni, Boston University, United States; Ramakrishna R. Nemani, NASA Ames Research Center, United States

THP1.PC.3: EXTRACTING TREES AND STRUCTURE PARAMETERS VIA INTEGRATION OF LIDAR DATA AND GROUND IMAGERY
Daiyong Wei, Beijing Normal University, China; Guoqing Zhou, Old Dominion University, United States; Xuemei Gong Xuemei Gong, Beijing Normal University, China

THP1.PC.4: TEN-DAILY GLOBAL COMPOSITES OF METOP-AVHRR
Herman Eerens, Bart Ooms, Erwin Goor, Else Swinnen, Walter Heyns, Tim Jacobs, Adri Timmermans, Johan Vereecken, Bart Deronde, VITO, Belgium

THP1.PC.5: ESTIMATING ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION USING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING
Abdullah Rahman, Indiana University, United States

THP1.PC.6: HABITAT MAPPING AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF HEATHLANDS USING A MODIFIED KERNEL-BASED RECLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE
Guy Thoonen, University of Antwerp, 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 of Antwerp, Belgium

THP1.PC.7: SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES REGRESSION FOR ESTIMATION OF FOREST PARAMETERS FROM AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING DATA
Jean-Matthieu Monnet, Frédéric Berger, Cemagref, France; Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France

THP1.PC.8: GROUND TRUTH METHOD ASSESSMENT FOR SVM BASED LANDSCAPE CLASSIFICATION
Robin Pouteau, Benoit Stoll, Sébastien Chabrier, South Pacific Geosciences Laboratory - University of French Polynesia, French Polynesia

THP1.PC.9: MULTI-SOURCE SVM FUSION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING IN THE MARQUESAS ARCHIPELAGO
Robin Pouteau, Benoit Stoll, Sébastien Chabrier, University of French Polynesia, French Polynesia

Urban Remote Sensing Poster I

THP1.PD.1: ON THE RELATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF THE NEW SPECTRAL BANDS IN THE WORLDVIEW-2 SENSOR
Giovanni Marchisio, Fabio Pacifici, Kumar Navulur, Christopher Padwick, DigitalGlobe, Inc., United States

THP1.PD.2: INTERPRETATION OF BUILDINGS IN HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES BASED ON ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD
Fengli Zhang, Yun Shao, Zi Wan, Xiao Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP1.PD.3: IMPERVIOUS SURFACE COVERAGE AND THEIR IMPACT ON OTHER 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 URBAN BUILDING DETECTION
Lu Zhang, Huadong Guo, Xinwu Li, Wenxue Fu, Laboratory of Digital Earth Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP1.PD.5: AUTOMATIC BUILDING IDENTIFICATION USING GPS AND MACHINE LEARNING
Robert Woodley, Warren Noll, Joseph Barker, 21st Century Systems, Inc, United States; Donald Wunsch, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States

THP1.PD.6: STUDY ON QUANTITATIVE EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE OF DUJIANGYAN CITY, CAUSED BY 2008 MS=8.0 WENCHUAN, CHINA EARTHQUAKE BASED ON AERIAL IMAGERY
Xiaoqing Wang, Aixia Dou, Xiang Ding, Institute of Earthquake Science, China

THP1.PD.7: HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL AND SAR IMAGE FUSION FOR ROAD DATABASE UPDATING
Vincent Poulain, Jordi Inglada, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Marc Spigai, Thales Alenia Space, France; Jean-Yves Tourneret, Philippe Marthon, University of Toulouse, France

THP1.PD.8: PREDICTION OF AIR TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN URBANIZED AREA OF TOKYO, JAPAN USING AIRBORNE THEMAL IMAGES
Akinobu Murakami, University of Tsukuba, Japan

THP1.PD.9: PREDICTION OF URBAN LAND-USE EVOLUTION USING TEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING DATA ANALYSIS AND SPATIAL LOGISTIC MODEL
Hongga Li, Xiaoxia Huang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Bo Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; Ping Luo, Shenzhen Real Estate Research Center, Shenzhen Municipality Bureau of Land and Resources, China

THP1.PD.10: BUILDING EXTRACTION FROM VHR MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGES USING RULE-BASED OBJECT-ORIENTED METHOD: A CASE STUDY
Qulin Tan, Beijiing Jiaotong University, China; Qingchao Wei, Fei Liang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Pollution and Contamination Poster

THP1.PE.1: APPLY SEMI-SUPERVISED SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION FOR REMOTE SENSING WATER QUALITY RETRIEVING
Xili Wang, Lei Ma, Shaanxi Normal University, China; Xilin Wang, Beijing Forestry University, China

THP1.PE.2: OIL SPILL DETECTION AND TRACKING USING SAR IMAGERY IN THE GULF OF MEXICO
William Pichel, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service, United States; Yongcun Cheng, Danish National Space Center, Denmark; Xiaofeng Li, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Oscar Garcia-Pineda, Florida State University, United States; Qing Xu, Danish National Space Center, China; Sonia Gallegos, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Christopher Jackson, Global Ocean Associates, United States

THP1.PE.3: AN EXPERIMENT FOR OIL SPILL RECOGNITION USING RADARSAT-2 IMAGE
Wei Tian, Yun Shao, Junna Yuan, Shiang Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yang Liu, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, China

THP1.PE.4: METALLIC OBJECTS AND OIL SPILL DETECTION WITH MULTI-POLARIZATION SAR
Ferdinando Nunziata, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Xiaofeng Lee, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Maurizio Migliaccio, Antonio Montuori, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; William Pichel, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States

THP1.PE.5: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION VARIATION AND METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS ANALYZING OF ALGAL BLOOMS BASED ON HJ-1 SATELLITES IN LAKE DIANCHI, CHINA, 2009
Li Zhu, Chuanqing Wu, Yanjuan Yao, Yongjun Zhang, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection, China

THP1.PE.6: FORECASTING AIR QUALITY BY INTEGRATION OF SATELLITE DATA AND HYSPLIT TRAJECTORY MODEL
Jie Guang, Yong Xue, Linlu Mei, Yingjie Li, Ying Wang, Hui Xu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jianping Guo, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China

THP1.PE.7: RESEARCH OF AIR POLLUTION IMPACT OF STRAW BURNING BASED ON MODIS
Qing Li, Qiao Wang, Satellite Environmental Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, China; Jinglei Ding, Renmin University of China, China; Xiang Zhao, Beijing Normal University, China; Lijuan Zhang, Zhongting Wang, Chunyan Zhou, Satellite Environmental Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, China; Xing Yang, China University of Geosciences, China

THP1.PE.8: SPECTRAL RESPONSE OF WHEAT (TRITIZNM AESTIVUM L.) LEAVES TO COPPER STRESS
Ying Qu, Suhong Liu, Jiangzhou Xia, Beijing Normal University, China

THP1.PE.9: MODELLING OF TAILING SPECTRUM OF THE TUNISIAN SEMI-ARID CONTEXT
Nouha Mezned, Sâadi Abdeljaouad, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisia; Mohamed Rached Boussema, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs, Tunisia

THP1.PE.10: CUMULATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND SOCIAL VULNERABILITY IN SAN JOANQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
Ganlin Huang, Jonathan London, University of California, Davis, United States

THP1.PE.11: AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS FROM MODIS DATA AT 500M RESOLUTION FOR TWO EXTREME AEROSOL EVENTS ANALYSIS
Ying Wang, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Yingjie Li, Linlu Mei, Hui Xu, Jianwen Ai, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiang Li, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

Hyperspectral Data: Classification

THP1.PF.1: SPARSITY-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
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 ROCK TYPES
Sildomar Monteiro, Richard Murphy, University of Sydney, Australia

THP1.PF.3: A FULL DIAGONAL BANDWIDTH GAUSSIAN KERNEL SVM BASED ENSEMBLE LEARNING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL CHEMICAL PLUME DETECTION
Prudhvi Gurram, Heesung Kwon, Army Research Laboratory, United States

THP1.PF.4: APPLYING OPTIMAL ALGORITHM TO DATA-DEPENDENT KERNEL FOR 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 KERNEL BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL KERNEL-BASED ANOMALY DETECTION
Heesung Kwon, Prudhvi Gurram, Army Research Laboratory, United States

THP1.PF.6: THE IMPACT OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION ON INFORMATION CLASS SEPARABILITY IN HYPERSPATIAL IMAGERY
Vern C. Vanderbilt, NASA, United States; Jonathan Greenberg, University of Californaia, Davis, United States

THP1.PF.7: A NOVEL CLASSIFICATION PROCESSING BASED ON THE SPATIAL 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 TARGET DETECTION WITH HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE-SENSING IMAGERY
Sylvain Jay, Mireille Guillaume, Fresnel Institute, France

THP1.PF.9: RELEVANCE VECTOR MACHINE FOR EFFICIENT CLASSIFICATION OF SCATTERED PATTERNS IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY
Fereidoun A. Mianji, Yuhang Zhang, Ye Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Land Cover, Land Use, Classification

THP1.PG.1: CLUSTER-BASED ACTIVE LEARNING FOR COMPACT IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Devis Tuia, Mikhail Kanevski, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Jordi Muñoz Marí, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de València, Spain

THP1.PG.2: A HYBRID PSO/ACO ALGORITHM FOR LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
Qin Dai, Jianbo Liu, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP1.PG.3: HYBRID SVM AND SVSA METHOD FOR CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE 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 REMOTELY SENSED DATA FOR LAND COVER MAPPING
Bolanle Abe, Anthony Gidudu, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Tshilidzi Marwala, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

THP1.PG.5: AN UNSUPERVISED PARALLELEPIPED MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFIER USING DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION
Chih-Cheng Hung, Scott Letkeman, Southern Polytechnic State University, United States; Bor-Chen Kuo, National Taichung University, Taiwan

THP1.PG.6: LCLU INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR OBJECT-ORIENTED NOMENCLATURE
Eva Savina Malinverni, Anna Nora Tassetti, Primo Zingaretti, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy

THP1.PG.7: HIGH-PRECISE WATER EXTRACTION BASED ON COUPLED SPECTRAL-SPATIAL INFORMATION
Jiancheng Luo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yongwei Sheng, University of California, United States; Zhanfeng Shen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Junli Li, University of California, United States

THP1.PG.8: TEXTURE ESTIMATION IN SAR IMAGES: THE IMPACT OF SCALE AND MODEL PARAMETERS
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 FIELD FOR MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Wei Fu, Ziqi Guo, Qiang Zhou, Caixia Liu, Baogang Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP1.PG.10: VINEYARD IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION BASED ON TEXTURE ANALYSIS IN THE HELDERBERG BASIN (SOUTH AFRICA)
Antoine Lefebvre, Thomas Corpetti, Valérie Bonnardot, Hervé Quénol, Laurence Hubert-Moy, Université Rennes 2, France

THP1.PG.11: DETECTION OF NORTH-WALL AND EDDIES IN THE GULF STREAM IN AVHRR SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE USING CLUSTERING
Dheeraj Duggiraju, Ramprasad Balasubramanian, Gangopadhyay Avijit, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, United States

THP1.PG.12: METHODOLOGY FOR EDDIES RECOGNITION FROM SATELLITE IMAGES
Rosa Cristhyna Paes, Gutemberg França, Victor Daher, UFRJ, Brazil; Angelo Sartori, Petrobras/CENPES, Brazil; Nelson Ebecken, UFRJ, Brazil

Higher Resolution SAR

THP1.PH.1: THEORY AND DESIGN OF TIME-SERIES SAR (TSAR) SYSTEMS
Howard Zebker, Piyush Shanker, Stanford University, United States

THP1.PH.2: RESULTS OF FLIGHT TESTING OF A DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION MICROWAVE SENSOR FOR THE REMOTE SENSING OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
Roland Lawrence, Shivam Shah, Old Dominion University, United States; Bing Lin, Steve Harrah, Langley Research Center, United States; Patrica Hunt, Lockhead Martin, United States; Carl Lipp, ATK, United States

THP1.PH.3: PERFORMANCE OF PI-SAR2: X-BAND AIRBORNE POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR WITH SUB-METER SPATIAL RESOLUTION
Akitsugu Nadai, Seiho Uratsuka, Toshihiko Umehara, Takeshi Matsuoka, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Makoto Satake, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

THP1.PH.4: SHIP DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT USING THE TERRASAR-X DUAL-RECEIVE ANTENNA MODE
Steffen Suchandt, Hartmut Runge, Ulrich Steinbrecher, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

THP1.PH.5: QUASAR SBK ACCURATE INTERNAL CALIBRATION
Javier del Castillo, Juan Manuel Cuerda, Juan Ramon Larrañaga, Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA), Spain

THP1.PH.6: AIRBORNE DINSAR TIME SERIES AT X-BAND
Stefano Perna, Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Christian Wimmer, João Moreira, Orbisat Remote Sensing, Brazil; Mariarosaria Manzo, IREA - CNR, Italy; Gianfranco Fornaro, National Research Council (CNR), Italy

THP1.PH.7: THE DIGITAL WIDE BAND CHIRP PULSE GENERATOR AND PROCESSOR FOR PI-SAR2
Takashi Fujimura, Shingo Matsuo, Isamu Oihara, Hideharu Totsuka, Tsunekazu Kimura, NEC, Japan

THP1.PH.8: VALIDATION FOR THE ABSOLUTE RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION OF THE HJ-1B CCD SENSORS OF CHINA
Hongbo Jiang, Qiming Qin, Jun Li, Shaohua Zhao, Heng Dong, Weilin Yuan, Rongbo Cui, Peking University, China

Geophysical Parameter Extraction by Radar

THP1.PI.1: SPACEBORNE P-BAND SAR FOR BIOMASS MISSION
Sophie Ramongassie, Shadi Khureim-Castiglioni, Jérôme Lorenzo, Eric Labiole, Yannick Baudasse, Carlo Svara, Thales Alenia Space, France; Florence Heliere, Cyril Mangenot, Kees Van’t Klooster, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands

THP1.PI.2: SPACE MULTI-POSITIONAL VHF-BAND RADAR SYSTEM FOR EARTH OBSERVATION ON THE BASIS OF MICROSATELLITES
Ravil Akhmetov, Rocket Space Center, Russian Federation; Oleg Goriachkin, Volga State University of Telecommunications and Informatics, Russian Federation; Alexander Kovalenko, Viktor Riemann, SRIPI, Russian Federation; Nikolay Stratilatov, Sergey Tkachenko, Rocket Space Center, Russian Federation

THP1.PI.3: SIGNAL: SAR FOR ICE, GLACIER AND OCEAN GLOBAL DYNAMICS
Thomas Börner, Gerhard Krieger, Paco López-Dekker, Irena Hajnsek, Kostas Papathanassiou, Michelangelo Villano, Marwan Younis, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Wolfgang Dierking, Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany; Thomas Nagler, Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH (ENVEO), Austria; Susanne Lehner, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Thomas Fügen, EADS Astrium GmbH, Germany; Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

THP1.PI.4: COMPARSION OF POLARIMETRIC CALBRATION TECHNIQUES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
Wuping Lu, Hong Zhang, Chao Wang, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP1.PI.5: INVESTIGATION OF RADAR SUBSURFACE SOUNDING THROUGH SEASONAL CYCLES COLLECTED BY MARS SHALLOW RADAR (SHARAD) IN THE SOUTH POLAR AREA
Kwan Yee Cheng, Carl Leuschen, George Tsoflias, University of Kansas, United States

THP1.PI.6: ESTIMATING THE PHASE SIGNATURE OF THE EARTH’S IONOSPHERE USING GPS CARRIER PHASE MEASUREMENT
Jingyi Chen, Howard Zebker, Stanford University, United States

THP1.PI.7: SIMULATION OF KU/KA BAND RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF ICE PRECIPITATION BY COMBINING C-BAND WEATHER RADAR AND CLOUDSAT CPR MEASUREMENTS
Jussi Leinonen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Dmitri Moisseev, University Of Helsinki, Finland; V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States; Jarkko Koskinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

THP1.PI.8: SIMULATING AND MITIGATING IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
A. Philip Roth, Barton D. Huxtable, Kancham Chotoo, Susan D. Chotoo, User Systems, Incorporated, United States

THP1.PI.9: DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR A DUAL-FREQUENCY RADAR FOR SEA SPRAY MEASUREMENT IN HURRICANES
Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Stephen Durden, Julian Chaubell, Kenneth Cooper, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

THP1.PI.10: INTERFEROMETRIC ALIGNMENT OF SPACEBORNE DUAL-ANTENNA SAR SYSTEM
Zheng Xiang, Zhenlin Wang, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Guozhong Chen, Junli Chen, Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering, China

THP1.PI.11: DISTRIBUTED TARGET SITES FOR RADIOMETRIC MONITORING WITHIN THE RADARSAT PROGRAM: EXPLOITATION AND DEVELOPMENTS AT THE CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY
Stephane Côté, Satish Srivastava, Stephanie Muir, Canadian Space Agency, Canada; Tom Lukowski, Defence R&D Canada, Canada

Interferometric Techniques

THP1.PJ.1: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION IN INSAR DATA BASED ON THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL (WRF)
Wenyu Gong, Franz Meyer, Peter Webley, Don Morton, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States

THP1.PJ.2: THE MATHEMATIC MODEL OF MULTIPATH ERROR IN AIRBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC SAR SYSTEM
Yongfei Mao, Maosheng Xiang, Lideng Wei, Songtao Han, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP1.PJ.3: ESTIMATION AND COMPENSATION OF IONOSPHERIC DELAY FOR SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Ramon Brcic, Alessandro Parizzi, Michael Eineder, Richard Bamler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Franz Meyer, University of Alaska, United States

THP1.PJ.4: PHASE RETRIEVAL IN SAR INTERFEROGRAMS USING DIFFUSION AND INPAINTING
Alfio Borzì, Maurizio di Bisceglie, Carmela Galdi, Luca Pallotta, Silvia Liberata Ullo, University of Sannio, Italy

THP1.PJ.5: AUTOMATIC EXCLUSION OF SURFACE DEFORMATION IN INSAR DEM GENERATION USING DIFFERENTIAL RADAR INTERFEROMETRY
Jung Hum Yu, Linlin Ge, SSIS University of NSW, Australia

THP1.PJ.6: DEVELOPING HIGH RESOLUTION ATMOSPHERIC PHASE SCREENS FOR INSAR TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
Sean Buckley, Dochul Yang, University of Texas at Austin, United States

THP1.PJ.7: BUILDING HEIGHT EXTRACTION VIA A DETERMINISTIC APPROACH USING 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 GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION
Alessandra Budillon, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy; Annarita Evangelista, University of Cassino, Italy; Vito Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy

THP1.PJ.9: ATMOSPHERIC PHASE SCREEN-ESTIMATION FOR PSINSAR APPLIED TO TERRASAR-X HIGH RESOLUTION SPOTLIGHT-DATA
Markus Even, Fraunhofer Research Institute for Optronics and Pattern Recognition, Germany; Alexander Schunert, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; Karsten Schulz, Fraunhofer Research Institute for Optronics and Pattern Recognition, Germany; Uwe Soergel, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

THP1.PJ.10: ACCELERATING INSAR RAW DATA SIMULATION ON GPU USING CUDA
Fan Zhang, Bing-nan Wang, Mao-sheng Xiang, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Atmospheric Sensing

THP1.PK.1: ASSESSMENT OF REANALYSIS DATASETS USING AIRS AND IASI HYPERSPECTRAL RADIANCES
Likun Wang, Dell Perot Systems, United States; Mitch Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States

THP1.PK.2: A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IONOSPHERIC CORRECTION AND DATA CONTROL FOR GPS RADIO OCCULTATION IN AUSTRALIA
Kefei Zhang, RMIT University, Australia; John Le Marshall, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia; Robert Norman, Chuan-Sheng Wang, Erjiang Fu, RMIT University, Australia

THP1.PK.3: OBSERVATION OF LONG TERM TRENDS IN THE AMOUNT OF ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR BY SPACE GEODESY AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES
Rüdiger Haas, Tong Ning, Elgered Gunnar, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

THP1.PK.4: IMPROVED DETERMINATION OF SURFACE AND ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES USING ONLY SHORTWAVE AIRS CHANNELS: THE AIRS VERSION 6 RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM
Joel Susskind, NASA, United States; John Blaisdell, Lena Iredell, SAIC, United States

THP1.PK.5: THE ACTIVE TEMPERATURE, OZONE AND MOISTURE MICROWAVE SPECTROMETER, A NEW GLOBAL CLIMATE SENSOR
Emil Kursinski, Dale Ward, Angel Otarola, University of Arizona, United States; Christopher Groppi, Arizona State University, United States; Rod Frehlich, National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States; Sarmad Albanna, Katherine Sammler, Michael Schein, Michael Stovern, Brian Wheelright, University of Arizona, United States; Willy Bertiger, Herb Pickett, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; David Rind, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, United States; Martin Ross, The Aerospace Corporation, United States

THP1.PK.6: HIGH RESOLUTION SOUNDING OF UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE OZONE, WATER VAPOR AND TEMPERATURE
John Gille, University of Colorado and NCAR, United States; John Barnett, Oxford University, United Kingdom; Craig Hartsough, Chris Halvorson, Bruno Nardi, Charles Cavanaugh, Lesley Smith, National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States

THP1.PK.7: WAVELET FILTERING OF GNSS NETWORK DATA FOR THE DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES CAUSED BY TSUNAMIS
Yu-Ming Yang, James Garrison, See-Chen Lee, Purdue University, United States

THP1.PK.8: THE USE OF NOAA PRODUCTS VALIDATION SYSTEM IN SUPPORT OF SATELLITE DERIVED PRODUCT SYSTEMS
Anthony Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, United States

THP1.PK.9: USE OF A NETWORK OF COMPACT MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS TO RETRIEVE 3-D WATER VAPOR TO ESTIMATE WET TROPOSPHERIC PATH DELAY VARIATIONS IN SPACEBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC SAR IMAGERY
Swaroop Sahoo, Steven C. Reising, Colorado State University, United States; Sharmila Padmanabhan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Domenico Cimini, University of L’Aquila, Italy; Jothiram Vivekanandan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States; Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Nazzareno Pierdicca, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

THP1.PK.10: NEURAL NETWORKS FOR THE SATELLITE RETRIEVAL OF PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR OVER LAND
Patrizia Basili, Stefania Bonafoni, Vinia Mattioli, University of Perugia, Italy; Piero Ciotti, University of L'Aquila, Italy; Luca Pulvirenti, Nazzareno Pierdicca, University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy

THP1.PK.11: SPATIAL FILTERING AND RESAMPLING OF MULTI-RESOLUTION MICROWAVE SOUNDER OBSERVATIONS
Jenna Samra, William Blackwell, R. Vincent Leslie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, United States

THP1.PK.12: MULTI-BAND NDSA MEASUREMENTS BETWEEN TWO COUNTER-ROTATING LEO SATELLITES FOR ESTIMATING THE TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR PROFILE
Fabrizio Cuccoli, Luca Facheris, CNIT, Italy

Microwave Scattering I

THP1.PL.1: MODELING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING THROUGH A WALL WITH ROUGH INTERFACES
Pasquale Imperatore, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy

THP1.PL.2: MODELING OF MICROWAVE BACKSCATTERING FROM A ROUGH SEA SURFACE WITH STEEP WAVES
Alexander Voronovich, Valery Zavorotny, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, United States

THP1.PL.3: PHYSICAL OPTICS-BASED METHOD FOR RADAR SIGNATURE OF COMPLEX OBJECTS OVER A SEA SURFACE
Majid Rochdi, Alexandre Baussard, Ali Khenchaf, e3i2 laboratory, France

THP1.PL.4: FOREST POLARIMETRIC ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING VERSUS BIOMASS: INFLUENCE OF BIO-PHYSICAL PARAMETERS
Pierre Borderies, ONERA, France; Ludovic Villard, ONERA-CESBIO, France

THP1.PL.5: PHYSICAL-BASED MODELS OF SPECKLE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES
Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy

THP1.PL.6: FRACTAL BASED FILTERING OF SAR IMAGES
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 TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNER AND PROFILOMETER TECHNIQUE FOR SOIL ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT
Carlos Pérez-Gutiérrez, University of Salamanca, Spain; Jesús Álvarez-Mozos, Public University of Navarra, Spain; José Martínez-Fernández, Nilda Sánchez, University of Salamanca, Spain

THP1.PL.8: ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS OF BOREHOLE RADAR FOR METAL ORE DETECTION
Sixin Liu, Junfeng Zhou, Junjun Wu, Zhaofa Zeng, Jilin University, China

THP1.PL.9: TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON SPACEBORNE RADIOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS AND POSSIBLE CORRECTION STRATEGIES
Luca Pulvirenti, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Frank Marzano, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

THP1.PL.10: CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SCATTERED FIELD BY AN URBAN AREA IN THE X-FREQUENCY BAND FOR BISTATIC AND MONOSTATIC RADAR CONFIGURATIONS
Ngoc Truong Minh Nguyen, David Lautru, Hélène Roussel, UPMC Univ Paris 6, UR2, L2E, France

THP1.PL.11: MICROWAVE SCATTERING MODEL FOR A CORN CANOPY
Yang Du, Wenzhe Yan, Zhejiang University, China; Zengyuan Li, Erxue Chen, Bingxiang Tan, Zhihai Gao, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China

Microwave Scattering II

THP1.PM.1: AN IMPROVED NUMERICAL METHOD FOR SCATTERING FROM DIELECTRIC ROUGH SURFACES
Yang Du, Bin Liu, Zhejiang University, China

THP1.PM.2: A PHYSICALLY-BASED APPROACH TO OBSERVE SHIPS IN DUAL-POLARIZED SAR DATA
Ferdinando Nunziata, Maurizio Migliaccio, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Carl Emil Brown, Environment Canada, Canada

THP1.PM.3: DETERMINATION OF LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM AMSR-E DATA FOR BARE SURFACES
Zeng-Lin Liu, Hua Wu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yuan-Yuan Jia, Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhao-Liang Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP1.PM.4: MODELING MICROWAVE EMISSION AT HIGH FREQUENCY FROM STRATIFIED SNOW USING DENSE MEDIA RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY BASED ON THE QUASICRYSTALLINE APPROXIMATION (QCA/DMRT)
Ding Liang, I.M. Systems Group, United States; Fuzhong Weng, NOAA Satellite Research Laboratory, United States; Banghua Yan, University of Maryland, United States; Leung Tsang, University of Washington, United States

THP1.PM.5: FRACTAL MODELS OF FOAM COVERAGE FOR OCEAN MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING
Victor Raizer, Zel Technologies, LLC, United States

THP1.PM.6: SIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT OF RELIEF EFFECTS ON PASSIVE 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 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 PARAMETERIZED MICROWAVE MODEL FOR SHORT VEGETATION 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.9: VEGETATION EFFECTS ON MICROWAVE SIGNALS OBSERVED DURING THE CORN GROWTH CYCLE
Alicia Joseph, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Rogier van der Velde, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Netherlands; Peggy O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Roger Lang, George Washington University, United States; Timothy Gish, United States Department of Agriculture / Agricultural Research Service, United States

THP1.PM.10: SCATTERING FROM A CLUSTER OF PLANT OR TREE COMPONENTS: ANALYSIS OF THE INTERACTION EFFECT
Qianyi Zhao, Roger Lang, George Washington University, United States

THP1.PM.11: ELECTROMAGNETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SIMPLE TARGETS EMBEDDED IN CHIRAL MULTILAYER STRUCTURES
Sidnei J. S. Sant’Anna, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil; J. C. da S. Lacava, David Fernandes, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil

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 SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENTS
Benjamin Hamlington, Robert Leben, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States; Oleg Godin, Vladimir Irisov, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TH2.L01.2: TOWARDS OBSERVING TSUNAMIS IN THE IONOSPHERE USING GPS TEC MEASUREMENTS
David Galvan, Attila Komjathy, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Michael Hickey, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States; Anthony Mannucci, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

TH2.L01.3: RAPID GPS-BASED DETERMINATION OF EARTHQUAKE DISPLACEMENT FIELD AND MAGNITUDE FOR TSUNAMI PROPAGATION MODELING AND WARNING
Hans-Peter Plag, Geoff Blewitt, William Hammond, Corne Kreemer, University of Nevada, Reno, United States; Yoaz Bar-Sever, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH2.L01.4: TSUNAMI MONITORING SYSTEM USING GPS BUOY – PRESENT STATUS AND OUTLOOK –
Teruyuki Kato, University of Tokyo, Japan; Yukihiro Terada, Kochi National College of Technology, Japan; Toshihiko Nagai, Port and Airport Research Institute, Japan; Shunichi Koshimura, Tohoku University, Japan

TH2.L01.5: TSUNAMI DETECTION FROM SPACE USING GNSS REFLECTIONS: RESULTS AND ACTIVITIES FROM GFZ
Ralf Stosius, Georg Beyerle, Maximilian Semmling, Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Germany; Achim Helm, EADS Astrium GmbH, Germany; Andreas Hoechner, Jens Wickert, Jörn Lauterjung, Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Germany

Ocean Waves and Current

TH2.L02.1: PROPAGATION OF SUBINERTIAL VARIATIONS IN THE SOYA WARM CURRENT REVEALED BY HF OCEAN RADARS
Naoto Ebuchi, Yasushi Fukamachi, Kay Ohshima, Hokkaido University, Japan

TH2.L02.2: MULTI-SENSOR REMOTE SENSING OF UPWELLING NORTHEAST OF TAIWAN
Qing Xu, Hohai University, China; Hui Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China; Zengrui Rong, Ocean University of China, China; Liming Jiang, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of science, China; Meixiang Chen, Hohai University, China; Yongcun Cheng, Danish National Space Center, Denmark

TH2.L02.3: SURFACE CURRENT RETRIEVAL FROM TERRASAR-X DATA USING DOPPLER MEASUREMENTS
Cristian Rossi, Hartmut Runge, Helko Breit, Thomas Fritz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH2.L02.4: CURRENTS IN RIVERS, COASTAL AREAS, AND THE OPEN OCEAN FROM TERRASAR-X ALONG-TRACK INSAR
Roland Romeiser, University of Miami, United States; Steffen Suchandt, Hartmut Runge, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Hans Graber, University of Miami, United States

TH2.L02.5: INFRARED REMOTE SENSING OF RIVER FLOW
Andrew T. Jessup, Chris Chickadel, Ruth Branch, University of Washington, United States

Electromagnetic Forward and Inverse Scattering Models II

TH2.L03.1: MODELING, SIMULATION, INVERSION AND CHANG-E 1 DATA VALIDATION FOR PASSIVE/ACTIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF LUNAR SURFACE MEDIA
Ya-Qiu Jin, Wenzhe Fa, Fudan University, China

TH2.L03.2: A NUMERICAL STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF OCEAN SURFACE WAVES ON GPS-REFLECTED SIGNALS
Maria Paola Clarizia, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; Maurizio di Bisceglie, Carmela Galdi, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy; Christine Gommenginger, Meric Srokosz, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom

TH2.L03.3: FAST SUBSURFACE SAR SIMULATOR BASED ON GEOMETRICAL OPTICS
Adel Elsherbini, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, United States

TH2.L03.4: CHARACTERIZATION OF VOLUME SCATTERING OF DRY SAND AT MILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCIES
Adib Nashashibi, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, United States; Fahad Al-Zaid, Sami Alhumaidi, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

TH2.L03.5: EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF RADAR FORWARD AND INVERSE SCATTERING MODELS FOR LAYERED NONSMOOTH MEDIA
Yuriy Goykhman, Xueyang Duan, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States

Change Detection and Multitemporal Image Analysis II

TH2.L04.1: LAND-COVER MAPS FROM PARTIALLY CLOUDY MULTI-TEMPORAL IMAGE SERIES: OPTIMAL TEMPORAL SAMPLING AND CLOUD REMOVAL
Jordi Inglada, Sébastien Garrigues, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

TH2.L04.2: A NEARLY LOSSLESS 2D REPRESENTATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CHANGE INFORMATION IN MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES
Francesca Bovolo, Silvia Marchesi, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

TH2.L04.3: AUTOMATIC CHANGE DETECTION IN RAPIDEYE DATA USING THE COMBINED MAD AND KERNEL MAF METHODS
Allan Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Antje Hecheltjen, Frank Thonfeld, University of Bonn, Germany; Morton J. Canty, Research Center Jülich, Germany

TH2.L04.4: UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION WITH VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES BY MULTISCALE ANALYSIS AND MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS
Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy

TH2.L04.5: PROGRESSIVE CHANGE DETECTION IN TIME SERIES OF SAR IMAGES
Gregoire Mercier, Institut Telecom; Telecom Bretagne, France

Radar Estimation of Vegetation Information

TH2.L05.1: MONITORING GRASSLANDS WITH RADARSAT 2 QUAD-POL IMAGERY
Joseph Buckley, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada; Anne Smith, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada

TH2.L05.2: ROBUST ESTIMATION OF PASTURE BIOMASS USING DUAL-POLARISATION TERRASAR-X IMAGERY
Stephen McNeill, David Pairman, Stella Belliss, Dawn Dalley, Landcare Research New Zealand, New Zealand; Robyn Dynes, AgResearch, New Zealand

TH2.L05.3: LARGE AREA MAPPING OF FOREST AND LAND COVER IN THE AMAZON BASIN: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ALOS/PALSAR AND LANDSAT TM DATA SOURCES.
Wayne Walker, Claudia Stickler, Josef Kellndorfer, Katie Kirsch, Daniel Nepstad, Woods Hole Research Center, United States

TH2.L05.4: INTEGRATING OBJECT-ORIENTED IMAGE ANALYSIS AND DECISION TREE ALGORITHM FOR LAND USE AND LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION USING RADARSAT-2 POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGERY
Zhixin Qi, Anthony Yeh, University of Hong Kong, China; Xia Li, Zheng Lin, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

TH2.L05.5: TOWARDS FULLY AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF LAND COVER MAPS FROM POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA
Marco Del Greco, Fabio Del Frate, Giovanni Schiavon, Domenico Solimini, Tor Vergata University, Italy

Laser Technology: Recent Developments and Lessons Learned

TH2.L06.1: NASA’S LASER RISK REDUCTION PROGRAM: A RISK REDUCTION APPROACH 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
William Heaps, NASA Goddard, United States

TH2.L06.3: TWO MICRON LASER TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS AT NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER
Upendra Singh, NASA Langley Research Center, United States

TH2.L06.4: EFFICIENT SWATH MAPPING LASER ALTIMETRY DEMONSTRATION INSTRUMENT INCUBATOR PROGRAM
Anthony Yu, Michael Krainak, David J. Harding, James B. Abshire, Xiaoli Sun, John Cavanaugh, Susan Valett, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TH2.L06.5: HIGH SPECTRAL BRIGHTNESS, ACTIVELY-TRIGGERED,NS-PULSE,MW-PEAK-POWER FIBER-BASED LASER TRANSMITTER FOR SPACE-BASED TERRAIN MAPPING
Fabio Di Teodoro, Michael Hemmat, Joseph Morais, Eric Cheung, Northrop Grumman, United States

Microwave Radiometer Technology and Instrumentation

TH2.L07.1: HIGH-ALTITUDE MMIC SOUNDING RADIOMETER (HAMSR) FOR THE GENESIS AND RAPID INTENSIFICATION PROCESSES (GRIP) FIELD EXPERIMENT
Boon Lim, Shannon Brown, Richard Denning, Pekka Kangaslahti, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Jordan Tanabe, Alan Tanner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH2.L07.2: ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT TO ENABLE LOW-MASS, LOW-POWER HIGH-FREQUENCY MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS FOR COASTAL WET-TROPOSPHERIC CORRECTION ON SWOT
Steven C. Reising, Colorado State University, United States; Shannon Brown, Pekka Kangaslahti, Douglas Dawson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Alexander Lee, Darrin Albers, Colorado State University, United States; Todd Gaier, Oliver Montes, Daniel Hoppe, Beyrouz Khayatian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

TH2.L07.3: MAPIR: AN AIRBORNE POLARIMETRIC IMAGING RADIOMETER IN SUPPORT OF HYDROLOGIC SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS
Charles Laymon, Mohammad Al-Hamdan, William Crosson, Ashutosh Limaye, Jeff McCracken, Paul Meyer, James Richeson, William Sims, Karthik Srinivasan, Kosta Varnavas, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States

TH2.L07.4: ON-GROUND TEST AND MEASUREMENTS OF THE PASSIVE ADVANCED UNIT SYNTHETIC APERTURE (PAU-SA)
Isaac Ramos-Perez, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Enric Valencia, Juan Fernando Marchan Hernandez, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

TH2.L07.5: FOCAL PLANE APPROXIMATION FOR NEAR FIELD INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETER IMAGING
Cheng Zhang, Ji Wu, Hao Liu, Jingye Yan, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Sea Ice

TH2.L08.1: THE POTENTIAL FOR DETERMINING HISTORIC SEA-ICE EXTENT FROM 1960’S NIMBUS HRIR SATELLITE DATA
David Gallaher, University of Colorado, United States; Dennis Wingo, NASA Ames Research Center / Skycorp Incorporated,, United States

TH2.L08.2: DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIS SEA ICE ALBEDO PRODUCT
Julienne Stroeve, NSIDC/CIRES/University of Colorado, United States; Mark Tschudi, CCAR, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States; Tom Painter, University of Utah, United States

TH2.L08.3: EFFECTS OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON SEA ICE FREEBOARD RETRIEVAL WITH AN AIRBORNE KU-BAND SAR RADAR ALTIMETER
Stefan Hendricks, Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany; Lars Stenseng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Veit Helm, Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany; Christian Haas, University of Alberta, Canada

TH2.L08.4: ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADAR MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW THICKNESS OVER SEA ICE
Ben Panzer, Carl Leuschen, Aqsa Patel, University of Kansas, United States; Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Prasad Gogineni, University of Kansas, United States

TH2.L08.5: ICE PRODUCTION AND SALT REJECTION OF LAPTEV SEA POLYNYAS,USING MODEL AND REMOTE SENSING DATA
Thomas Krumpen, Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany; Thomas Busche, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Igor. A. Dmitrenko, IFM-GEOMAR, Germany; Rüdiger Gerdes, Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany; Christian Haas, University of Alberta, Canada; Stefan Hendricks, Jens A. Hölemann, Lasse Rabenstein, Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany; David Schröder, Sascha Willmes, University Trier, Germany

Polarimetric RADARSAT2

TH2.L09.1: MONITORING TREE FARMS AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS USING RADARSAT-2 POLSAR DATA
Jong-Sen Lee, Tom Ainsworth, Yanting Wang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Kun-Shan Chen, Chih-Tien Wang, National Central University, Taiwan

TH2.L09.2: AGRICULTURAL LAND COVER FROM SHORT REVISIT SAR DATA – SENTINEL-1 OPERATION SIMULATED BY AIRCRAFT AND SATELLITE SAR DATA
Henning Skriver, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

TH2.L09.3: ROTATED DIHEDRAL AND VOLUME SCATTERING BEHAVIOR IN CROSS-POLARIMETRIC SAR
Sang-Hoon Hong, Shimon Wdowinski, University of Miami, United States

TH2.L09.4: CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS OF VEHICLE TARGET IN QUAD-POL RADARSAT-2 SAR IMAGES
Bo Zhang, Hong Zhang, Chao Wang, Fan Wu, Yixian Tang, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TH2.L09.5: ASSESSMENT OF POLARIMETRIC RADARSAT-2 DATA QUALITY
Ridha Touzi, Robert Hawkins, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada; Stephane Côté, Canadian Space Agency, Canada

ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission - Instrument Performance and First Results

TH2.L10.1: SMOS FIRST RESULTS OF THE LEVEL 2 SOIL MOISTURE ALGORITHMS
Yann Kerr, Arnaud Mialon, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Philippe Waldteufel, IPSL-SA, France; François Cabot, Philippe Richaume, Ahmad Al bitar, Elsa Jacquette, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Ali Mahmoodi, ARRAY, Canada; Steven Delwart, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Paolo Ferrazzoli, TVU, Italy; Jean Pierre Wigneron, INRA, France

TH2.L10.2: OVERVIEW OF SMOS LEVEL 2 OCEAN SALINITY PROCESSING AND FIRST RESULTS
Jordi Font, Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC, Spain; Jacqueline Boutin, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat—Expérimentation et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), France; Nicolas Reul, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), France; Paul Spurgeon, Andrei Chuprin, ARGANS Limited, United Kingdom; Carolina Gabarró, Jérôme Gourrion, Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC, Spain; Samantha Lavender, ARGANS Limited, United Kingdom; Nicolas Martin, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat—Expérimentation et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), France; Michael McCulloch, ARGANS Limited, United Kingdom; Ingo Meirold-Mautner, François Petitcolin, ACRI-ST, France; Marcos Portabella, 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; Xiaobin Yin, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat—Expérimentation et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), France; Sonia Zine, Université Joseph Fourier, France

TH2.L10.3: SMOS PAYLOAD PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
Manuel Martin-Neira, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Ignassi Corbella, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; François Cabot, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) and Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Josep Closa, CASA Espacio, Spain; Juha Kainulainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Fernando Martín-Porqueras, CEC, ESA/ESAC, Spain; Jose Barbosa, Deimos Engenharia, Portugal; Roger Oliva, Michael Brown, Kevin McMullan, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands

TH2.L10.4: SMOS L1 ALGORITHMS
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

TH2.L10.5: OVERVIEW ON CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION ACTIVITIES FOR ESA’S SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSION
Susanne Mecklenburg, Catherine Bouzinac, Steven Delwart, European Space Agency, Italy

Advanced Methods in Satellite Photo-/Radargrammetry I

TH3.L01.1: PHOTOGRAMMETRIC PERSPECTIVES ON CHALLENGES/DEVELOPMENTS IN MAPPING FROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING SATELLITES
Ayman Habib, Ki In Bang, Chang Jae Kim, University of Calgary, Canada

TH3.L01.3: AUTOMATIC AND GENERIC MOSAICING OF SATELLITE IMAGES
François 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 IMAGING SENSORS
Xiaoliang Wu, Simon Collings, Peter Caccetta, CSIRO, Australia

TH3.L01.5: PRODUCTION AND VALIDATION OF THE NEW ASTER GLOBAL DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL
Michael Abrams, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

SMOS and Ocean Surface Salinity

TH3.L02.1: SMOS MEASUREMENTS PRELIMINARY VALIDATION AGAINST MODELED BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES AND EXTERNAL-SOURCE SALINITY DATA
Roberto Sabia, Jérôme Gourrion, Carolina Gabarró, Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Marco Talone, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Marcos Portabella, Unitat de Tecnologia Marina CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Joaquim Ballabrera, Alfredo Lopez de Aretxabaleta, Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Adriano Camps, Alessandra Monerris, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Jordi Font, Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain

TH3.L02.2: PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF SMOS PRODUCTS (LEVELS 3 AND 4)
Jérôme Gourrion, Joaquim Ballabrera, Alfredo L. Aretxabaleta, Antonio Turiel, Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Baptiste Mourre, NATO Undersea Research Centre, Italy; Sofia Kalaroni, Nina Hoareau, Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain

TH3.L02.3: IMPROVEMENT OF THE EMPIRICAL ROUGHNESS-INDUCED EMISSIVITY MODEL FOR THE SMOS MISSION
Carolina Gabarró, Institut de Ciencies del Mar, Spain; Marcos Portabella, Unitat de Tecnologia Marina CSIC, Spain; Jordi Font, Institut de Ciencies del Mar, Spain; Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Justino Martinez, Jérôme Gourrion, Institut de Ciencies del Mar, Spain; Marco Talone, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Roberto Sabia, Institut de Ciencies del Mar, Spain

TH3.L02.4: SIMULATIONS OF ROUGHNESS-SALINITY-TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES AT S-L-BANDS
Victor Raizer, Zel Technologies, LLC, United States

TH3.L02.5: AN IMPROVED WIDE BAND OCEAN EMISSIVITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL
Salem El-Nimri, W. Linwood Jones, Sonya Crofton, University of Central Florida, United States

International Open Standards for Geosciences - Standards Development

TH3.L03.1: THE IEEE COMMITTEE ON EARTH OBSERVATIONS STANDARDS WORKING GROUP
Siri Jodha Khalsa, University of Colorado, United States; Steven Browdy, OMS Tech, Inc., United States

TH3.L03.3: OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM (OGC) STANDARDS FOR THE GEOSCIENCES
George Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium, United States

TH3.L03.4: INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS FOR GEOGRAPHIC IMAGERY - ISO TC 211
Meixia Deng, Liping Di, George Mason University, United States

TH3.L03.5: AIR QUALITY COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES AND PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL INTEROPERABILITY STANDARDS
Stefan Falke, Northrop Grumman, United States; Erin Robinson, Washington University in St. Louis, United States

Optical Imagery for Surface Change Detection: Techniques and Applications I

TH3.L04.1: REVISITING PAST EARTHQUAKES AND SEISMO-VOLCANIC CRISES USING DECLASSIFIED OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGERY
James Hollingsworth, Sébastien Leprince, François Ayoub, Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology, United States

TH3.L04.2: RIGOROUS ADAPTIVE RESAMPLING FOR HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE WARPING
Sébastien Leprince, François Ayoub, Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology, United States

TH3.L04.3: SUB-PIXEL STEREO MATCHING
Neus Sabater, Jean-Michel Morel, ENS Cachan, CNRS, UniverSud, France; Andrés Almansa, CNRS & TELECOM ParisTech, France

TH3.L04.4: PROBABILISTIC SURFACE CHANGE DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT FROM DIGITAL AERIAL STEREO IMAGES
André Jalobeanu, Cristina Gama, CGE - University of Evora, Portugal; José Alberto Gonçalves, University of Porto, Portugal

TH3.L04.5: CHANGE DETECTION OF LANDSLIDES AND DEBRIS IN SOUTH TAIWAN AFTER “MORAKOT” TYPHOON BASED ON HJ-1-B SATELLITE IMAGES
Lili Tang, Deyong Hu, Capital Normal University, China; Xiaojuan Li, Key Laboratory of Integrated Disaster Assessment and Risk Governance of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, China

Regional Land Cover Change I

TH3.L05.1: FIELD VALIDATION OF BIOMASS RETRIEVED FROM LANDSAT FOR RANGELAND ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING
Dawn Browning, Debra Peters, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, United States; Caiti Steele, New Mexico State University, United States; Albert Rango, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, United States

TH3.L05.2: MONITORING LAND USE CHANGES AROUND THE INDIGENOUS LANDS OF THE XINGU BASIN IN MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL
Damien Arvor, Université Rennes 2 - NEVANTROPIC, France; Margareth Simões Penello Meirelles, Embrapa Solos, Brazil; Rafaela Vargas, IHEAL, France; Ladislau Araújo Skorupa, Embrapa Meio Ambiente, Brazil; Elaine Cristina Cardoso Fidalgo, Embrapa Solos, Brazil; Vincent Dubreuil, Université Rennes 2, France; Isabelle Herlin, Jean-Paul Berroir, INRIA, France

TH3.L05.3: REMOTE SENSING FOR ANALYZING LANDUSE CHANGE, LAND RE-DISTRIBUTION AND COMMUNAL CONFLICTS IN A PART OF CENTRAL NIGERIA
Fanan Ujoh, Denen Bernard Hom, University of Abuja, Nigeria; Olarewaju Oluseyi Ifatimehin, Kogi State University, Nigeria; Isa Dlama Kwabe, University of Abuja, Nigeria; John van Genderen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TH3.L05.4: SPOT 5 HRG TIME SERIES ANALYSIS FOR IDENTIFYING ILLEGAL CANNABIS CULTIVATION
Alessandra Lisita, Edson Eyji Sano, University of Brasília, Brazil; Laurent Durieux, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Brazil

TH3.L05.5: PARTICULAR AGRICULTURAL LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION CASE STUDY OF TSAGAANNUUR, MONGOLIA
Erdenee Batzorig, Tana Gegen, Tateishi Ruytaro, Chiba University, Japan

Change Detection

TH3.L06.1: LOGISTIC REGRESSION FOR DETECTING CHANGES BETWEEN DATABASES AND REMOTE SENSING IMAGES
Marie Chabert, Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France; Vincent Poulain, Jordi Inglada, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

TH3.L06.2: BLOCK-DIAGONAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR COVARIANCE-BASED ANOMALOUS CHANGE DETECTORS
Anna Matsekh, James Theiler, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States

TH3.L06.3: INTEGRATING LANDSAT, ASTER AND MODIS DATA 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 / ERT Inc., United States

TH3.L06.4: CHANGE DETECTION FOR EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT IN BUILT-UP AREAS USING VERY HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL AND SAR IMAGERY
Dominik Brunner, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy; Guido Lemoine, European Commission, Italy

TH3.L06.5: EFFICIENT BUILDING CHANGE DETECTION IN SPARSELY POPULATED AREAS USING COUPLED MARKED POINT PROCESSES
Csaba Benedek, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungary

AMSR-E I

TH3.L07.1: INTERCALIBRATION OF AMSR-E AND WINDSAT BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS OVER LAND SCENES
Thomas Meissner, Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, United States

TH3.L07.2: GLOBAL MONITORING OF SOIL MOISTURE, SNOW COVER AND VEGETATION BIOMASS BY USING MULTI-FREQUENCY AMSR-E DATA
Simonetta Paloscia, E Santi, Simone Pettinato, IFAC - CNR, Italy

TH3.L07.3: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RAIN AND CLOUD WATER AS OBSERVED FROM THE A-TRAIN
Matthew Lebsock, Christian Kummerow, Colorado State University, United States

TH3.L07.4: RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR FROM AMSR-E AND THE APPLICATION FOR NWP AT JMA
Masahiro Kazumori, Takumu Egawa, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan

TH3.L07.5: AMSR-E ADVANCED WIND SPEED RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM AND ITS APPLICATION TO MARINE WEATHER SYSTEMS
Leonid Mitnik, Maia Mitnik, V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation

Arctic Sea Ice Change and Impacts I

TH3.L08.1: PROGRESS IN ARCTIC SEA ICE REMOTE SENSING
Charles Luther, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, United States; Son Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Donald Perovich, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, United States; David G. Barber, University of Manitoba, Canada

TH3.L08.3: THE STATE OF ARCTIC SEA ICE FROM REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS
Son Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Ignatius Rigor, University of Washington, United States; Pablo Clemente-Colón, National Ice Center, United States; Donald Perovich, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, United States; Hajo Eicken, University of Alaska, United States; James Overland, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, United States; Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; David G. Barber, University of Manitoba, Canada; Gregory Neumann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

TH3.L08.4: CHANGES IN SEA ICE MELT AND FREEZE-ONSET DERIVED FROM SATELLITE PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH SEA ICE CONCENTRATION, AND OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERE TEMPERATURES
Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Linette Boisvert, University of Maryland, United States; Jeffrey Miller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Julienne Stroeve, National Snow and Ice Data Center, United States; Claire Parkinson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TH3.L08.5: RETREAT OF ARCTIC SEA ICE FROM SATELLITES, IN SITU OBSERVATIONS, AND A DRIFT-AGE MODEL
Ignatius Rigor, Mark Wensnahan, Melinda Webster, University of Washington, United States; Ron Kwok, Son Nghiem, California Institute of Technology, United States; Jay Zwally, Donghui Yi, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States; Mark Ortmeyer, University of Washington, United States; Gregory Neumann, California Institute of Technology, United States; Christian Haas, University of Alberta, Canada; Stefan Hendricks, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany; Seymour Laxon, University College London, United Kingdom; Donald Perovich, Jackie Richter-Menge, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, United States; Pablo Clemente-Colón, National Ice Center, United States

RADARSAT I

TH3.L09.1: RADARSAT
Surendra Parashar, Satish Srivastava, Ahmed Mahmood, Guy Séguin, Canadian Space Agency, Canada

TH3.L09.3: RADARSAT-2 CONTINUING SYSTEM OPERATIONS AND PERFORMANCE
Anthony Hillman, Philippe Rolland, Rene Periard, Tony Luscombe, Marielle Chabot, Charlie Chen, Nick Martens, MDA, Canada

TH3.L09.4: RADARSAT CONSTELLATION, MOVING TOWARD IMPLEMENTATION
Guy Séguin, Michel Gamache, Canadian Space Agency, Canada

TH3.L09.5: RADARSAT-2 DATA UTILIZATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
Stéphane Chalifoux, Canadian Space Agency, Canada

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
Peggy O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Eni Njoku, Kent Kellogg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH3.L10.2: THE SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION L-BAND RADAR/RADIOMETER INSTRUMENT
Michael Spencer, Kevin Wheeler, Richard West, Christopher White, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Jeffrey Piepmeier, Derek Hudson, James Medeiros, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TH3.L10.3: RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE AND THE SMAP RADIOMETER: RISK ASSESSMENT AND REDUCTION
Joel Johnson, Ohio State University, United States; Jeffrey Piepmeier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TH3.L10.4: SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION PLAN AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Thomas Jackson, M. Cosh, Rajat Bindlish, Wade Crow, USDA, United States; Andreas Colliander, Eni Njoku, Kenneth McDonald, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; John Kimball, University of Montana, United States; Stéphane Belair, Environment Canada, Canada; Jeffrey Walker`, Rocco Panciera, University of Melbourne, Australia; Peggy O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TH3.L10.5: THE SMAP SCIENCE DATA SYSTEM ALGORITHM AND APPLICATION SIMULATION TESTBED
Wade Crow, USDA ARS, United States; Eni Njoku, Steven Chan, Scott Dunbar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

Radar Mapping

THP2.PA.1: RECENT ADVANCES IN THEORETICAL STUDIES OF L-BAND ACTIVE AND PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING OF FORESTS
Paolo Ferrazzoli, Leila Guerriero, Rachid Rahmoune, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

THP2.PA.2: COHERENT SCATTERER IN FOREST ENVIRONMENT: DETECTION, PROPERTIES AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Koichi Iribe, Tohoku University, Japan; Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Irena Hajnsek, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

THP2.PA.3: POLARIMETRIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF FOREST SCENARIOS AS IMAGED BY LONGER WAVELENGTH SARS
Stefano Tebaldini, Mauro Mariotti d'Alessandro, Andrea Monti Guarnieri, Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

THP2.PA.4: ESPRIT-BASED SCATTERING POWER DECOMPOSITION BY USING MODIFIED VOLUME SCATTERING MODEL
Hiroyoshi Yamada, Ryutaro Komaya, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Ryoichi Sato, Niigata University, Japan

THP2.PA.5: TREE HEIGHT RETRIEVAL METHODS USING POLINSAR COHERENCE OPTIMIZATION
Huanmin Luo, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Erxue Chen, Institute of Forest Resources Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China; Jian Cheng, Xiaowen Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

THP2.PA.6: ON THE USE OF PALSAR DATA AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR LAND COVER ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION
Nicolas Longépé, Preesan Rakwatin, Osamu Isoguchi, Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Yumiko Uryu, World Wildlife Fund, Indonesia

THP2.PA.7: INVESTIGAGTIONS ON SPACE-BORNE SAR TOMOGRAPHY FOR STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF FORESTED AREAS
Boris Jutzi, Antje Thiele, Stefan Hinz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; Franz Meyer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States

THP2.PA.8: EXTRACTION OF TYPHOON-DAMAGED FORESTS FROM MULTI-TEMPORAL HIGH-RESOLUTION POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES
Haipeng Wang, Fudan University, China; Kazuo Ouchi, National Defense Academy, Japan; Ya-Qiu Jin, Fudan University, China

THP2.PA.9: VEGETATION STRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR MB–POLINSAR DATA IN RAT
Maxim Neumann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

THP2.PA.10: QUANTIFYING THE RESULTS OF WIND AND RAIN ON IFSAR TREE HEIGHT ESTIMATION
Michael Benson, Leland Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, United States

THP2.PA.11: ASSESSMENT OF COMPACT POLARIMETRY IN CASE OF DIFFERENT DATASET AND STUDY SITE FOR LAND USE MONITORING OVER TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT
Cedric Lardeux, University of Rennes 1, France; David Niamen, University of Marne la Vallée, France; Jean-Baptiste Routier, Adeline Giraud, Office National des Forets International, France; Pierre-Louis Frison, University of Marne la Vallée, France; Eric Pottier, University of Rennes 1, France; Jean-Paul Rudant, University of Marne la Vallée, France

Modeling

THP2.PB.1: MODELS FOR ESTIMATING DIFFERENT CROPS LEAF AREA INDEX USING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Heng Dong, Qiming Qin, Lin You, Xinxin Sui, Jun Li, Hongbo Jiang, Jinliang Wang, Haixia Feng, Peking University, China; Hongmei Sun, Beijing Forestry University, China

THP2.PB.2: MEASUREMENTS OF CANOPY NONRANDOMNESS AT JARVSELJA RAMI (RADIATION TRANSFER MODEL INTERCOMPARISON) TEST SITES
Jan Pisek, Tartu Observatory, Estonia; Mait Lang, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia; Tiit Nilson, Tartu Observatory, Estonia

THP2.PB.3: MULTILAYERED MULTIPLE-SPECIES FOREST SCATTERING MODEL BASED ON A WAVE THEORY APPROACH
Mariko Burgin, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States; Richard Lucas, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom

THP2.PB.4: SIMULATION STUDIES ON DATA FUSION ALGORITHMS FOR FOREST STRUCTURE FROM LIDAR AND SAR DATA
Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States; Wenjian Ni, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; K. Jon Ranson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

THP2.PB.5: USING A LAND SURFACE MODEL TO SIMULATE NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN CHINA COMPARING WITH THE PROCESS MODEL DERIVED BY REMOTE SENSING
Liang Zhang, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China

THP2.PB.6: A "MATCHSTICK MODEL" OF MICROWAVE BACKSCATTER FROM A FOREST: A CHANGE OF REGIME.
Matthew Brolly, Iain Woodhouse, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

THP2.PB.7: REMOTE SENSING OF INSECT PESTS IN LARCH FOREST BASED ON PHYSICAL MODEL
Lei Wang, Huaguo Huang, Youqing Luo, Beijing Forestry University, China

THP2.PB.8: STUDY OF REMOTE SENSING BASED PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY IN PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY MODELS
Rui Liu, Jiu-lin Sun, Juan-le Wang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiao-lei Li, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, China; Fei Yang, Peng-fei Chen, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP2.PB.9: DEVELOPMENT OF VEGETATION STRUCTURE INPUTS FROM ICESAT, SRTM AND MODIS SATELLITE DATA FOR A MIXED CANOPY DYNAMIC GLOBAL TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM MODEL
Wenge Ni-Meister, Shihyan Lee, Wenze Yang, Hunter College of The City University of New York, United States; Nancy Kiang, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Science, United States

THP2.PB.10: SIMULATION FOR NPP OF GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEM IN QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU BASED ON THE PROCESS MODEL
Peijuan Wang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China; Donghui Xie, Jinling Song, Beijing Normal University, China; Jiahua Zhang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China; Qijiang Zhu, Beijing Normal University, China

THP2.PB.11: EVALUATION OF VEGETATION INDICES BASED ON MICROWAVE DATA BY SIMULATION AND MEASUREMENTS
Yunqing Li, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Tianjie Zhao, Zhongjun Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China

Next Generation US Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

THP2.PC.1: NPOESS SATELLITES ARE DESIGNED TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATION MISSIONS
Derrick Day, MaryAnn ChoryAnn, Northrop Grumman, United States; Stan Schneider, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Jim Nelson, Northrop Grumman, United States

THP2.PC.2: ARCHITECTURES FOR INDEPENDENT TEST DATA REVIEW ON NPOESS VIIRS
Carl Fischer, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., United States; Michael Denning, Integrity Applications Incorporated, United States; Kristin Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, United States; Bruce Guenther, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, United States

THP2.PC.3: DERIVATION OF UNPOLARIZED EFFECTIVE RELATIVE SPECTRAL RESPONSE FOR OPTICAL CROSSTALK MITIGATION IN VIIRS
Clark Snodgrass, Roy Tsugawa, Mau-Song Chou, John C. Donovan, Rushabh Patel, Sid Jackson, James McCarthy, Northrop Grumman Aerospace System, United States

THP2.PC.4: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT CROSS-TRACK INFRARED AND MICROWAVE SOUNDER SUITE (CRIMSS) ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS (EDRS)
Lihang Zhou, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

THP2.PC.5: ASSESSING THE SIDELOBE CONTRIBUTION TO THE W-BAND ATMS RADIATIVE MEASUREMENTS
Giovanni De Amici, Chunming Wang, Phil Moffa, Bruce Hauss, Northrop Grumman, United States

THP2.PC.6: INTERNATIONAL POLAR ORBITER PROCESSING PACKAGE (IPOPP)
John Overton, NPOESS Integrated Program Office / The Aerospace Corporation, United States; Patrick Coronado, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Liam Gumley, University of Wisconsin / SSEC, United States

THP2.PC.7: FEATURES OF THE DEPLOYED NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM (NPOESS) GROUND SYSTEM
Gary Heckmann, Gary Route, Kerry Grant, Raytheon Co., United States; Joseph Mulligan, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

THP2.PC.8: NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM (NPOESS) COMMAND, CONTROL AND COMMUNICATIONS SEGMENT (C3S) MCMURDO MULITMISSION COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
Joseph Paciaroni, Colleen Higgins, Michael Jamilkowski, Raytheon Co., United States

THP2.PC.9: NPOESS ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORD (EDR) PRODUCTION, QUALITY AND LATENCY
Kerry Grant, Raytheon Co., United States; Robert Hughes, NGAS, United States

THP2.PC.10: NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM (NPOESS) TOOLS FOR RAPID ALGORITHM UPDATES
Kerry Grant, Raytheon Co., United States; Robert Hughes, NGAS, United States; Bonnie Reed, General Dynamics - AIS, United States; Gary Route, Raytheon Co., United States

THP2.PC.11: MONITORING TOOL FOR GOES-R L2 PRODUCTS
Zhaohui Cheng, Dell Perot Systems, United States; Walter Wolf, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States; Xingpin Liu, Shuang Qiu, Dell Perot Systems, United States; Shanna Sampson, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Peter Keehn, Dell Perot Systems, United States; Qingzhao Guo, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Mitch Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, United States

THP2.PC.12: SATELLITE METEOROLOGY EDUCATION RESOURCES: MULTIMEDIA MODULES AND INITIATIVES
Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, United States; Patrick Dills, Bryan Guarente, UCAR/COMET, United States

Urban Remote Sensing Poster II

THP2.PD.1: A TARGET TRACKING METHOD WITH A SINGLE ANTENNA USING TIME-REVERSAL UWB RADAR IMAGING IN A MULTI-PATH ENVIRONMENT
Takuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato, Kyoto University, Japan

THP2.PD.2: MAPPING URBAN SUBSIDENCE WITH TERRASAR-X DATA BY PSI ANALYSIS
Daqing Ge, Yan Wang, Ling Zhang, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Ye Xia, Xiaofang Guo, GeoForschungsZentrumPotsdam, Germany

THP2.PD.3: ANALYSIS OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND (UHI) IN THE BEIJING METROPOLITAN AREA BY TIME-SERIES MODIS DATA
Ji Zhou, Jing Li, Jianwei Yue, Beijing Normal University, China

THP2.PD.4: LONGTIME MONITORING OF MINE SUBSIDENCE IN NORTHERN MORAVIA, CZECH REPUBLIC USING DIFFERENT INSAR TECHNIQUES
Milan Lazecky, Eva Jirankova, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic

THP2.PD.5: RESOLVING SHADOWS IN HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES FOR ESTIMATING CARBON UPTAKE IN URBAN-SUBURBAN AREAS
Jindong Wu, California State University, Fullerton, United States; Marvin Bauer, University of Minnesota, United States

THP2.PD.6: LAND SUBSIDENCE ANALYSIS AND INUNDATION PREDICTION BASED ON MULTI-TEMPORAL DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL DATA
Pai-Hui Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Wen-Ray Su, National Science & Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Taiwan; Chung-Hung Tsai, Taiwan Hospitality and Tourism College, Taiwan

THP2.PD.7: URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT IN PRESERVED ZONES OF HISTORY AND CULTURE IN OLD CITY OF BEIJING, CHINA
Mingyi Du, Yanyan Kang, Liang Huo, Guoyin Cai, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China

THP2.PD.8: ESTIMATING IMPERVIOUSNESS USING NDVI AT MULTIPLE RESOLUTIONS FOR URBAN CATCHMENTS IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Carol Jacobson, Macquarie University, Australia

THP2.PD.9: ESTIMATION OF BUILDING DAMAGE RATIO DUE TO EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS USING SATELLITE SAR IMAGERY
Masashi Matsuoka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; Shunichi Koshimura, Tohoku University, Japan; Nobuoto Nojima, Gifu University, Japan

THP2.PD.10: ALGORITHM RESEARCH OF BUILDING MATERIALS EMISSIVITY EXTRACTING
Yang Hang, Zhang Lifu, Zhang Xia, Fang Junyong, Tong Qingxi, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Applications: GPR, Geology & Health

THP2.PE.1: SPATIAL LATENCY REDUCTION IN GPR PROCESSING USING STOCHASTIC SAMPLING
Peter Torrione, Leslie Collins, Duke University, United States

THP2.PE.2: MULTI-CHANNEL RADAR DEPTH SOUNDER (MCRDS) SIGNAL PROCESSING: A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING APPROACH
Je'aime Powell, Linda Hayden, Elizabeth City State University, United States

THP2.PE.3: GROUND PENETRATING RADAR MEASUREMENTS: APPLICATIONS TO SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION AND TARGET CHARACTERIZATION
Naomi Schwartz, Amir Zaghloul, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States

THP2.PE.4: ROTATION AND SCALE INVARIANT TEMPLATE MATCHING APPLIED TO BURIED OBJECT DISCRIMINATION IN GPR DATA
Ahmet Burak Yoldemir, Mehmet Sezgin, TUBITAK UEKAE, Turkey

THP2.PE.5: WIDE AREA ASSESSMENT – DEVELOPMENT AND CASE STUDY
John Foley, Sky Research, Inc., United States; Jerry Hodgson, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States

THP2.PE.6: ADVANCED CLASSIFICATION OF UXO USING FULLY POLARIMETRIC GPR AND FREQUENCY-POLARIZATION FEATURES
Hyoung-sun Youn, University of Hawaii, United States; Minh Evans, Raytheon Company, United States; Jill Kobashigawa, Magdy F. Iskander, University of Hawaii, United States

THP2.PE.7: MODEL LEVEL FUSION OF EDGE HISTOGRAM DESCRIPTORS AND GABOR WAVELETS FOR LANDMINE DETECTION WITH GROUND PENETRATING RADAR
Oualid Missaoui, Hichem Frigui, University of Louisville, United States; Paul Gader, University of Florida, United States

THP2.PE.8: MULTIPLE SUBSURFACE TARGETS LOCALIZATION FROM NEXT-GENERATION EMI SENSOR DATA USING MUSIC ALGORITHM
Fridon Shubitidze, Dartmouth College, United States; Ben Barrowes, USA ERDC, United States; Irma Shamatava, Sky Research, Inc, United States; Kevin O'Neil, USA ERDC, United States

THP2.PE.9: THERMAL ANOMALY BEFORE BALIN M5.9 EARTHQUAKE OF CHINA
Guo Guangmeng, Yang Jie, Nanyang Normal University, China

THP2.PE.10: STUDY ON THE ELECTRONIC DENSITY PERTURBATION DETECTED BY DEMETER SATELLITE BEFORE WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE
Jing Liu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science / Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China; Xuemin Zhang, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China; Weixing Wan, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xuhui Shen, Xinyan Ouyang, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China; Xinjian Shan, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, China

THP2.PE.11: AN ATTEMPT TO PREDICT EARTHQUAKE WITH SATELLITE DATA
Guo Guangmeng, Yang Jie, Nanyang Normal University, China

THP2.PE.12: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING PHENOMENOLOGY OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLANT SENTINELS
Danielle Simmons, John Kerekes, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States; Daniel Rahn, Arnab Shaw, Gitam Technologies, Inc., United States; June Medford, Colorado State University, United States

Algorithms for sensors and platforms

THP2.PF.1: NEW DATA TRANSFORMATION METHOD FOR CBERS-02B MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGES
Chengwen Zhang, Jiakui Tang, Sujuan Mi, Lijun Zhao, Chunlei Wang, Houmao Wang, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP2.PF.2: MTF CHARACTERIZATION AND DECONVOLUTION OF RAPIDEYE IMAGERY
Keith Beckett, Brian Robertson, Joe Steyn, MDA, Canada

THP2.PF.3: FY-2 AUTOMATIC LANDMARK POSITIONING FOR IMAGE NAVIGATION AND ITS APPLICATION IN FY-2D VISSR IMAGERY
Lei Yang, Qiang Guo, Xiaohu Zhang, Feng Lu, Zhiqing Zhang, Jianmin Xu, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China

THP2.PF.4: IMAGE-BASED SATELLITE ATTITUDE ESTIMATION
Régis Perrier, INRIA Rhône Alpes, France; Elise Arnaud, Université Joseph Fourier, France; Peter Sturm, INRIA Rhône Alpes, France; Mathias Ortner, EADS Astrium, France

THP2.PF.5: VISUAL INFORMATION MINING AND RANKING USING GRADED RELEVANCE ASSESSMENTS IN SATELLITE IMAGE DATABASES
Adrian Barb, Pennsylvania State University, United States; Chi-Ren Shyu, University of Missouri, United States

THP2.PF.6: ADAPTING THE SIR ALGORITHM TO ASCAT
Richard Lindsley, David G. Long, Brigham Young University, United States

THP2.PF.7: GEO-LOCATION ERROR CORRECTION FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGE
Sun H. Song, Soo H. Rho, Chul H. Jung, Young K. Kwag, Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea

THP2.PF.8: COMPUTATION OF EARTH SCIENCE PRODUCTS ON SPACEBORNE PLATFORMS
Kevin Fisher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; J. Anthony Gualtieri, LuxAnalytica LLC, United States; Jacqueline LeMoigne, James Tilton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

THP2.PF.9: UTILIZATION OF NASA’S GLORY AEROSOL POLARIMETRIC SENSOR PRODUCTS IN VISUAL AIR QUALITY IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM
Yahya Golestani, The Aerospace Corporation, United States

THP2.PF.10: A SYSTEM TRADE MODEL FOR THE MONITORING OF COASTAL VESSELS USING HF SURFACE WAVE RADAR AND SHIP AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS (AIS)
John Vesecky, Kenneth Laws, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States; Jeff Paduan, Naval Postgraduate School, United States

Vegetation

THP2.PG.1: EMPERICAL COMPARISON OF MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR OBJECT-BASED VEGETATION SPECIES CLASSIFICATION
Zhengrong Li, Ross Hayward, Yuee Liu, Rodney Walker, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

THP2.PG.2: A GENETIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH FOR COFFEE CROP RECOGNITION
Jefersson Alex dos Santos, Fabio Augusto Faria, Rodrigo Tripodi Calumby, Rubens Lamparelli, Ricardo da Silva Torres, University of Campinas, Brazil

THP2.PG.3: LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI) ESTIMATION BASED ON VEHICLE-BASED LASER SCANNING
Yi Lin, Juha Hyyppä, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland

THP2.PG.4: EVALUATION OF TWO REGION BASED CLASSIFICATIONS IN TAPAJÓS NATIONAL FOREST USING THE ALOS/PALSAR POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCES
Graziela Scofield, Dutra Luciano, Freitas Corina, Sidnei J. S. Sant’Anna, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil; Daniel Silva, Quartel General do Exército, Brazil

THP2.PG.5: AN IMPROVED ENSEMBLE APPROACH FOR REDUCTION OF FALSE ALARM RATE IN HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM DETECTION
Balakrishna Gokaraju, Surya Durbha, Roger L. King, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States

THP2.PG.6: EXTRACTION OF FREQUENT GROUPED SEQUENTIAL PATTERNS FROM SATELLITE IMAGE TIME SERIES
Andreea Julea, Nicolas Méger, Université de Savoie, France; Christophe Rigotti, Université de Lyon, CNRS, France; Marie-Pierre Doin, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, France; Cécile Lasserre, Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS, France; Emmanuel Trouvé, Philippe Bolon, Université de Savoie, France; Vasile Lazarescu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

THP2.PG.7: COMBINING LIDAR DATA AND GEOREFERENCED MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE FOR VEGTATION CLASSIFICATION IN POWER LINE CORRIDORS
Zhengrong Li, Yuee Liu, Rodney Walker, Ross Hayward, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

THP2.PG.8: ESTIMATING MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA BY DIGITAL HEMISPHERICAL IMAGE IN THE LOWER REACHES OF HEIHE RIVER, NORTHWEST CHINA
Huanhua Peng, Chuanyan Zhao, Zhaodong Feng, Zhonglin Xu, Lanzhou University, China

THP2.PG.9: AN APPLICATION OF NOVEL ZERO-ONE INFLATED DISTRIBUTIONS WITH SPATIAL DEPENDENCE FOR THE DEFORESTATION MODELING
Ryuei Nishii, Kyushu University, Japan; Shojiro Tanaka, Shimane University, Japan

THP2.PG.10: TREE IDENTIFICATION USING A DISTRIBUTED K-MEAN CLUSTERING ALGORITHM
K. T. Fan, Y. C. Tzeng, Y. J. Su, Y. F. Lin, M. H. Hsu, National United University, Taiwan; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan

Mission Oriented Survey

THP2.PH.1: X-BAND BACKSCATTER MAP GENERATION USING TERRASAR-X DATA
Paola Rizzoli, Benjamin Bräutigam, Steffen Wollstadt, Josef Mittermayer, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

THP2.PH.2: WAVEMILL: A NOVEL INSTRUMENT FOR OCEAN CIRCULATION MONITORING
José Márquez, Giulio Ruffini, Starlab Barcelona SL, Spain; Dave Lancashire, Byron Richards, EADS Astrium Ltd., United Kingdom; Christopher Buck, European Space Agency, Netherlands

THP2.PH.3: L-BAND RFI GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION MEASURED BY ALOS/PALSAR
Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Daisuke Sango, RESTEC, Japan; Paul Rosen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

THP2.PH.4: SAR PERFORMANCE MONITORING FOR TERRASAR-X MISSION
Benjamin Bräutigam, Paola Rizzoli, Carolina González, Mathias Weigt, Dirk Schrank, Daniel Schulze, Marco Schwerdt, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

THP2.PH.5: TERRASAR X-BAND INSAR OBSERVATIONS IN URBAN AREAS
Sang-Wan Kim, Sejong University, Republic of Korea; Shimon Wdowinski, Timothy Dixon, University of Miami, United States

THP2.PH.6: THE RADARSAT-1 IMAGING PERFORMANCE, 15 YEARS AFTER LAUNCH, AND INDEPENDENT REPORT ON RADARSAT-2 IMAGE QUALITY
Satish Srivastava, Stephane Côté, Stephanie Muir, Canadian Space Agency, Canada; Robert Hawkins, Natural Resources Canada, Canada

THP2.PH.7: PRELIMINARY MODEL FOR WIND ESTIMATION FROM COSMO/SKYMED X BAND SAR DATA
Francesco Nirchio, Italian Space Agency, Italy; Sara Venafra, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

THP2.PH.8: THE MICROASAR EXPERIMENT ON CASIE-09
David G. Long, Evan Zaugg, Brigham Young University, United States; Matthew Edwards, Artemis, Inc., United States; James Maslanik, University of Colorado, United States

THP2.PH.9: THE COSMO-SKYMED BACKGROUND MISSION
Giovanni Valentini, Alessandro Coletta, Fabrizio Battazza, Fabio Covello, Gemma Manoni, ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy; Luca Pietranera, Simone Paoloni, Giorgio Apponi, e-GEOS, Italy

Innovative Radar Sensors

THP2.PI.1: DISMOUNT MICRO-DOPPLER FOR ISAR
Dave Tahmoush, Jerry Silvious, US Army Research Laboratory, United States

THP2.PI.2: DUAL-POLARIZATION PERFORMANCE OF THE PHASE-TILT ANTENNA ARRAY IN A CASA DENSE NETWORK RADAR
Jorge L. Salazar, Eric J. Knapp, David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States

THP2.PI.3: K-SPACE MOSAICKING BY COHERENTLY COMBINING SINGLE-PASS MONOSTATIC AND BISTATIC SAR IMAGES
Ingo Walterscheid, Andreas R. Brenner, Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), Germany

THP2.PI.4: POLARIMETRIC-INTERFEROMETRIC SEA SCATTER RESEARCH USING THE NRL FOPAIR RADAR
Mark Sletten, Jakov Toporkov, Paul Hwang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

THP2.PI.5: SPACEBORNE-AIRBORNE BISTATIC RADAR FOR UAS NAVIGATION PURPOSES: PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS AND STRAWMAN SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION
Alfredo Renga, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy; Maria Daniela Graziano, Marco D'Errico, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Second University of Naples, Italy; Antonio Moccia, Flavio Menichino, Sergio Vetrella, Domenico Accardo, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy; Federico Corraro, Giuseppe Cuciniello, Francesco Nebula, Italian Aerospace Research Center, Italy; Luca Del Monte, European Space Agency, France

THP2.PI.6: NEXT GENERATION OF MULTI BEAM ROTATING ANTENNA ON SWIM SCATTEROMETER
Jérôme Lorenzo, Franck Demeestere, Jerome Brossier, Stephane Pouyez, Vivien Enjolras, Laurent Rey, Thales Alenia Space, France; Thierry Amiot, Celine Tison, Patrick Castillan, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

THP2.PI.7: MICROPHYSICAL RETRIEVAL FROM DUAL FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADAR ON BOARD GPM
Minda Le, V. Chandrasekar, S. Lim, Colorado State University, United States

THP2.PI.8: WAVEFORM DESIGN FOR CASA DUAL-POLARIZED X-BAND SOLID STATE WEATHER RADARS
Cuong Nguyen, V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States

THP2.PI.9: DEPLOYMENT OF THE ASCAT CALIBRATION TRANSPONDERS
Alan Fromberg, Eric Pritchard, Nigel Wright, Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd., United Kingdom; Julian Wilson, Gokhan Kayal, EUMETSAT, Germany

THP2.PI.10: A GROUND-BASED ARC-SCANNING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (ARCSAR): SYSTEM AND APPLICATION
Hoonyol Lee, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea; Seong-Jun Cho, Kwang-Eun Kim, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Republic of Korea

Interferometry and Differential SAR Interferometry Poster

THP2.PJ.1: A FILTERING APPROACH TO IMPROVE DEFORMATION ACCURACY USING LARGE BASELINE, LOW COHERENCE DINSAR PHASE IMAGES
Abduwasit Ghulam, Reda Amer, Robert Ripperdan, Saint Louis University, United States; Alimujiang Kasimu, Chiba University, Japan

THP2.PJ.2: TARGET DETECTION ABOVE ROUGH SURFACES IN MICROWAVE IMAGING USING COMPRESSIVE SAMPLING
Suman K. Gunnala, Luis M. Camacho, Saibun Tjuatja, University of Texas at Arlington, United States

THP2.PJ.3: DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELING USING TERRASAR-X STEREO PAIRS
Simon D. Hennig, Wolfgang Koppe, Nadine Kiefl, Jürgen Janoth, Infoterra GmbH, Germany

THP2.PJ.4: RESEARCH ON INTERFEROMETRIC DEFORMATION DETECTION FOR GEOSYNCHRONOUS SAR
Leilei Kou, Xiaoqing Wang, Jinsong Chong, Maosheng Xiang, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP2.PJ.5: APPLICATION OF TERRASAR-X DATA TO THE MONITORING OF URBAN SUBSIDENCE IN THE CITY OF MURCIA
Daniel Monells, Giuseppe Centolanza, Jordi J. Mallorqui, Sergi Duque, Paco López-Dekker, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Roberto Tomas, Universitat de Alicante, Spain; Gerardo Herrera, Instituto Geologico y Minero de España (IGME), Spain; Juan Manuel Lopez-Sanchez, Fernando Vicente, Victor D. Navarro-Sanchez, Universitat de Alicante, Spain; Joaquin Mulas, Instituto Geologico y Minero de España (IGME), Spain

THP2.PJ.6: DETECTION OF RAPID LAND SUBSIDENCE OF CIVIL CONSTRUCTIONS WITH TERRASAR-X INTERFEROMETRY
Liming Jiang, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of science, China; Hui Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

THP2.PJ.7: INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE CHARACTERISTICS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE SYNTHERIC APERTURE RADAR
Sang-Hoon Hong, Shimon Wdowinski, University of Miami, United States

THP2.PJ.8: COMPARSION OF BEIJING-TIANJIN INTERCITY RAILWAY DEFORMATION MONITORING RESULTS BETWEEN ASAR AND PALSAR DATA
Li Tao, Hong Zhang, Chao Wang, Yixian Tang, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP2.PJ.9: INTERFEROMETRIC PROCESSING ALGORITHMS OF TANDEM-X DATA
Nestor Yague-Martinez, Cristian Rossi, Marie Lachaise, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Fernando Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany; Thomas Fritz, Helko Breit, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

THP2.PJ.10: SAR CLINOMETRY- AND INTERFEROMETRY-DERIVED DEM RECONSTRUCTION
Zheng Xiang, Zhenlin Wang, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Guozhong Chen, Junli Chen, Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering, China

THP2.PJ.11: MERGING MULTI-TRACK PSI RESULT FOR LAND SUBSIDENCE MAPPING OVER VERY EXTENDED AREA
Daqing Ge, Yan Wang, Ling Zhang, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Ye Xia, GeoForschungsZentrumPotsdam, Germany; Xiaofang Guo, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China

NWP and Data Assimilation

THP2.PK.1: ASSIMILATION STUDY OF MICROWAVE SENSOR WATER VAPOR SOUNDING CHANNELS IN NCEP GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM
Banghua Yan, University of Maryland / Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), United States; Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; John Derber, NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction, United States

THP2.PK.2: EVALUATION OF DATA ASSIMILATION ON NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION FOR EGYPT
Hamada Sultan Soliman Badr, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Egypt; B. M. El Hadidi, A. O. Sherif, Faculty of Engineering - Cairo University, Egypt

THP2.PK.3: THE HELSINKI TESTBED: A MESOSCALE MEASUREMENT, RESEARCH, AND SERVICE PLATFORM
Jarkko Koskinen, Jani Poutiainen, David Schultz, Jarmo Koistinen, Elena Saltikoff, Erik Gregow, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Dmitri Moisseev, University of Helsinki, Finland; Heikki Pohjola, Heikki Turtiainen, Vaisala Inc, Finland

THP2.PK.4: IMPACT OF A HYDROMETEOR BACKGROUND COVARIANCE MATRIX STRATIFIED BY PRECIPITATION TYPE ON A 1D-VAR PHYSICAL-BASED RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Kevin Garrett, Christopher Grassotti, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Wanchun Chen, P.S.G.S. at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States

THP2.PK.5: COMBING MSG THERMAL CHANNELS WITH METEOROLOGICAL DATA FOR FOG FORECASTING AND MAPPING OVER DESERT AREAS IN THE UAE
Abdulla Hamad Bushahab, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology, United Arab Emirates; Hosni Ghedira, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Khalid Mubarik, Hussain Al Ahmad, Ali Dawood, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR), United Arab Emirates

THP2.PK.6: IMPROVING FORECAST SKILL BY ASSIMILATION OF AIRS TEMPERATURE SOUNDINGS
Joel Susskind, Oreste Reale, NASA, United States

THP2.PK.7: APPLICATION OF REMOTELY SENSED WIND MEASUREMENTS TO OCEAN SURFACE WIND ANALYSIS
Robert Atlas, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

THP2.PK.8: IMPACT OF HIGH RESOLUTION SST DATA ON REGIONAL WEATHER FORECASTS
Gary Jedlovec, NASA, United States; Jonathon Case, ENSCO, United States; Frank LaFontaine, Raytheon, United States; Jorge Vazquez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Craig Mattocks, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

THP2.PK.9: GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC AND IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES CAUSED BY THE SUMATRA TSUNAMI
Min-Chang Lee, Boston University / MIT, United States; Rezy Pradipta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Willaim Burke, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States; Anthea Coster, Anna Labno, Laura Burton, Joel Cohen, Seth Dorfman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Michael Sulzer, Craig Tepley, Sixto Gonzalez, Nestor Aponte, Arecibo Observatory, United States; Spencer Kuo, Polytechnic University, United States

THP2.PK.10: COMMUNITY REMOTE SENSING SCHEME FOR SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS USING DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DATA ON MOBILE PLATFORM
Viswanathan G, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, India; Pradeep Kumar C, RDA ISTRAC ISRO, India; Uday Bhaskar M, Venkateshrao I, Spanwave Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd, India

THP2.PK.11: MULTI-INSTRUMENT IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE DETECTION OVER THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION
Haris Haralambous, Frederick University, Cyprus; Ayman Mahrous, Helwan University, Egypt; Photis Vrionides, Frederick University, Cyprus; Amira Shimeis, Helwan University, Egypt

Microwave Scattering III

THP2.PL.1: COMPOSITE SCATTERING FROM ELECTRIC-LARGE TARGET OVER RANDOMLY ROUGH SURFACE USING FAST COMPUTATION OF BART
Ya-Qiu Jin, Feng Xu, Fudan University, China

THP2.PL.2: THE BISTATIC ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNATURE OF HETEROGENEOUS SEA SURFACE: STUDY OF THE HYDRODYNAMIC PHENOMENA
Slahedine Ben Khadra, Ali Khenchaf, ENSIETA, France

THP2.PL.3: TARGET DETECTION PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FOR AIRBORNE PASSIVE BISTATIC RADAR
Danny Kai Pin Tan, Marc Lesturgie, SONDRA, TL@NTU, France; Hongbo Sun, Yilong Lu, TL@NTU, Singapore

THP2.PL.4: LAND SURFACE EMISSIVITY ESTIMATION AT 89 AND 150 GHZ FROM AMSU-B MEASUREMENTS
James R. Wang, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Gail Skofronick-Jackson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Benjamin Johnson, Goddard Earth Science and Technology / University of Maryland at Baltimore County, United States

THP2.PL.5: CONTRIBUTION OF SMALL-SCALE CORRELATED FLUCTUATIONS OF MICROSTRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF A SPATIALLY EXTENDED GEOPHYSICAL TARGET UNDER THE ASSESSMENT OF RADAR BACKSCATTER
Boris Yurchak, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States

THP2.PL.6: SIGNAL ANALYSIS AND MODELING OF WIND TURBINE CLUTTER IN WEATHER RADARS
Kumar Vijay Mishra, V Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States

THP2.PL.7: UWB ELECTROMAGNETIC BOREHOLE LOGGING TOOL
Mikhail Epov, Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Russian Federation; Valery Mironov, Konstantin Muzalevskiy, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Russian Federation; Igor Yeltsov, Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Russian Federation

THP2.PL.8: IMPROVED DETECTION OF A TARGET ON A RANDOM ROUGH SURFACE USING ANGULAR CORRELATION FUNCTION
Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Sumit Roy, Yasuo Kuga, University of Washington, United States

THP2.PL.9: SEPARATION OF BUILT-UP AREAS USING POLARIZATION ORIENTATION FROM POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES
Hiroshi Kimura, Gifu University, Japan

Optical and Infrared Modeling Poster

THP2.PM.1: SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL FROM IRAS/FY-3A DATA
Geng-Ming Jiang, Fudan University, China; Su-Hong Liu, Beijing Normal University, China

THP2.PM.2: AN ALGORITHM FOR RETRIEVING LAND-SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM MODIS DATA ——A CASE STUDY OF NORTHERN HEBEI, CHINA
Dandan Wei, Xiaobing Li, Hanwei Liang, Yun Bao, Jingjing Yu, Beijing Normal University, China

THP2.PM.3: RETRIEVING AND EVALUATING WATER VAPOR CONTENT FROM MODIS DATA BY NEURAL NETWORK
Kebiao Mao, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Deyong Hu, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, China; Lipeng Jiang, National Meteorological Information Center, China; Shuwen Zhang, Wu Zhang, Yuzhi Liu, Lanzhou University, China

THP2.PM.4: SIMULATION OF URBAN OPTICAL IMAGES FROM SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION MULTI-ANGULAR AIRBORNE ACQUISITIONS
Stéphanie Doz, Xavier Briottet, ONERA, France; Florence Porez-Nadal, Sophie Lachérade, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

THP2.PM.5: DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF EXPLOSIVES AND ILLICIT DRUGS BY TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY TECHNOLOGY
Wen-Tao Liu, Jing-wen Li, Beihang University, China; Chun-yan Du, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Zhi-hui Sun, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

THP2.PM.6: A COMPARISON OF TWO STREAM APPROXIMATION FOR THE DISCRETE ORDINATE METHOD AND THE SOS METHOD
Weizhen Hou, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiu Yin, Shanghai Center for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, China; Hua Xu, Li Li, Zhenghua Chen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

THP2.PM.7: RESEARCH ON 3D CANOPY’S REFLECTANCE MODEL OF SEMI-ARID GRASSLAND
Yuan Sun, Xingfa Gu, Tao Yu, Feng Zhao, Xing-feng Chen, Hai-liang Gao, Juan Li, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China

THP2.PM.8: MEASURING THE ERROR BETWEEN ACTUAL AND ESTIMATED ATMOSPHERICS AND THE EFFECT ON ESTIMATING REFLECTANCE PROFILES
Allan Yarbrough, Michael Mendenhall, Steven Fiorino, Air Force Institute of Technology, United States

THP2.PM.9: LIDAR MODELING WITH THE DART 3D MODEL
Jeremy Rubio, University of Maryland / CESBIO, United States; Eloi Grau, Jean Philippe Gastellu Etchegorry, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States; Kenneth John Ranson, NASA / GSFC, United States

THP2.PM.10: SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER (SPM) CONCENTRATIONS INVERSION FROM REMOTE SENSING DATA BASED ON ANALYTIC MODEL
Yuxia Li, Ling Tong, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Yuanzhi Zhang, Bo Pang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Advanced Methods in Satellite Photo-/Radargrammetry II

TH4.L01.1: DSM GENERATION FROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL AND RADAR SENSORS: PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALITIES ALONG THE ROAD FROM THE 3D GEOMETRIC MODELING TO THE SURFACE MODEL
Mattia Crespi, Paola Capaldo, Francesca Fratarcangeli, Andrea Nascetti, Francesca Pieralice, Università di Roma, Italy

TH4.L01.2: RPC MODELING FOR SPACEBORNE SAR AND ITS APLICATION IN RADARGRAMMETRY
Xueyan He, Xiaohong Wei, Lu Zhang, Timo Balz, Mingsheng Liao, Wuhan University, China

TH4.L01.3: RADARGRAMMETRIC IMPROVEMENTS: A MULTI-WINDOW APPROACH
Franck Fayard, Stephane Meric, Eric Pottier, European University of Brittany, France

TH4.L01.4: SAR MAPPING TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATION IN DIFFICULT TERRAIN AREA
Jixian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, China; Shucheng Yang, Wuhan University,, China; Zheng Zhao, Guoman Huang, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, China

TH4.L01.5: GROUND TOPOGRAPHY ESTIMATION OVER FORESTS COSIDERING POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Carlos López-Martínez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Kostantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Xavier Fabregas, Alberto Alonso-González, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

SAR and Altimetry

TH4.L02.1: A GNSS-BASED TIDE GAUGE FOR LOCAL SEA LEVEL MONITORING
Johan Löfgren, Rüdiger Haas, Jan Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

TH4.L02.2: THE LOW-FREQUENCY VARIABILITY OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE CIRCULATION
Emanuel Giarolla, Ricardo Matano, Oregon State University, United States

TH4.L02.3: THE PROOF OF CONCEPT FOR 3-CM ALTIMETRY USING THE PARIS INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUE
Oleguer Nogués-Correig, Serni Ribó, Juan Carlos Arco, Estel Cardellach, Antonio Rius, Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC/IEEC), Spain; Enric Valencia, Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Hans van der Marel, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Manuel Martín-Neira, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands

TH4.L02.4: ANALYTICAL MODEL OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC BIAS USING THE PHYSICAL OPTICS SCATTERING THEORY
Praphun Naenna, Joel Johnson, Gregory Baker, C. K. Shum, Ohio State University, United States

TH4.L02.5: HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING OF THE OCEAN SURFACE BACKSCATTER BY INVERSION OF ALTIMETER WAVEFORMS
Jean Tournadre, Bertrand Chapron, Nicolas Reul, Yves Quilfen, IFREMER, France

International Open Standards for Geosciences - Standards Applications

TH4.L03.1: ONEGEOLOGY: A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
Ian Jackson, British Geological Survey, United Kingdom

TH4.L03.2: OPEN STANDARDS IN THE INTEGRATED OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM (IOOS)
Jeff de La Beaujardière, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

TH4.L03.3: UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) USE OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS FOR UAVS
Donald Sullivan, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States

TH4.L03.4: A DISTRIBUTED DATA SHARING SYSTEM FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MODELING
Min Feng, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chengquan Huang, University of Maryland, United States; Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, United States

TH4.L03.5: A DISTRIBUTED LIDAR PROCESSING MODEL BASED ON OWS AND BPEL
Lingjun Kang, Qunyong Wu, Fuzhou University, China; Ying Yuan, Xiamen University of Technology, China

Optical Imagery for Surface Change Detection: Techniques and Applications II

TH4.L04.1: GEOMETRIC IMPROVEMENT FOR EARTH OBSERVATION APPLICATIONS
Jean-Marc Delvit, Daniel Greslou, Christophe Latry, Laurent Lebegue, Vincent Martin, Sylvia Sylvander, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

TH4.L04.2: TOWARD A CONCEPT OF SPACE-BASED OPTICAL SEISMOMETER
Rémi Michel, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France; Sébastien Leprince, California Institute of Technology, United States; Serge Primet, Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliqué, France; Renaud Binet, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France; Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology, United States

TH4.L04.3: PERFORMANCE AND APPLICATION OF DIFFERENT IMAGE MATCHING ALGORITHMS FOR INVESTIGATING GLACIER AND ICE-SHELF FLOW, PERMAFROST CREEP AND LANDSLIDES
Torborg Haug, Misganu Debella-Gilo, Jonas Karstensen, Andreas Kääb, University of Oslo, Norway

TH4.L04.4: USING REMOTELY-SENSED PRECIPITATION AND GLACIAL VELOCITIES AS CLIMATIC INDICATORS IN THE HIMALAYA
Bodo Bookhagen, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Dirk Scherler, Universität Potsdam, Germany

TH4.L04.5: SAR AND OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGES FOR CO-SEISMIC HORIZONTAL OFFSETS ESTIMATE AND FAULT TRACE MAPPING USING PHASE-CORR TECHNIQUE
Marco Chini, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Pablo Gonzalez, Instituto de Astronomia y Geodesia, Spain; Salvatore Stramondo, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Jose Fernandez, Instituto de Astronomia y Geodesia, Spain

Regional Land Cover Change II

TH4.L05.1: COMBINATION OF HARD AND SOFT CLASSIFICATION METHOD BASED ON ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD
Tangao Hu, Yaozhong Pan, J.S. Zhang, W.F. Ma, G.N. Sun, L. Li, Beijing Normal University, China

TH4.L05.2: CASE STUDIES OF AUTOMATIC CHANGE DETECTION USING AVNIR-2 ONBOARD ALOS
Shutaro Hashimoto, Masahiko Onosato, Hokkaido University, Japan; Takeo Tadono, Masahiro Hori, Takashi Moriyama, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

TH4.L05.3: PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGES IN CASPIAN SEA BASIN USING MODIS DATA
Ali Nouri, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Sassan Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Qiang Fu, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

TH4.L05.4: USING GRADIENT PATTERN ANALYSIS FOR LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION
Ramon Morais de Freitas, Reinaldo Roberto Rosa, Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil

TH4.L05.5: VALIDATION OF THE MODIS BURNED-AREA PRODUCTS ACROSS DIFFERENT BIOMES IN SOUTH AFRICA
Philemon Tsela, Paul vanHelden, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Philip Frost, Konrad Wessels, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

Data Fusion

TH4.L06.1: WEIGHTED DECISION FUSION FOR SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
He Yang, Qian Du, Ben Ma, Mississippi State University, United States

TH4.L06.2: BUILDING HEIGHT RETRIEVAL IN URBAN AREAS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL AND SAR DATA FUSION
Helene Sportouche, Florence Tupin, Institut Telecom; Telecom ParisTech, France; Leonard Denise, Thales Communications; Land and Joint, France

TH4.L06.3: ASSIMILATION OF D-INSAR AND SUB-PIXEL IMAGE CORRELATION DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENTS FOR COSEISMIC FAULT PARAMETER ESTIMATION
Yajing Yan, Emmanuel Trouvé, Virginie Pinel, Université de Savoie, France; Erwan Pathier, Université Joseph Fourier, France; Amory Bisserier, Gilles Mauris, Sylvie Galichet, Université de Savoie, France

TH4.L06.4: ASSIMILATION OF SVM-BASED ESTIMATES OF LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE COMPONENTS
Giorgio Boni, Federica Martina, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy

TH4.L06.5: MULTI-RESOLUTION SPATIAL UNMIXING FOR MERIS AND LANDSAT IMAGE FUSION
Julia Amoros, Luis Gómez-Chova, Luis Guanter, Luis Alonso, Jose Moreno, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de València, Spain

AMSR-E II

TH4.L07.1: SEA ICE SCIENCE USING AQUA AMSR-E DATA: RETRIEVAL OF SEA ICE PARAMETERS AND SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Thorsten Markus, Joey Comiso, Donald Cavalieri, NASA, United States

TH4.L07.2: TOWARD AN IMPROVED NASA AMSR-E SWE PRODUCT: VALIDATION AND REFINEMENT
Marco Tedesco, CUNY, United States; Parag Narvekar, City College of New York, United States; James Foster, NASA, United States; Richard Kelly, University of Waterloo, Canada; Bhaskar Choudhury, NASA, United States

TH4.L07.3: RADIATIVE FEEDBACK SIGNATURES IN AMSR-E SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES VERSUS TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES
William D. Braswell, Roy W. Spencer, University of Alabama, Huntsville, United States

TH4.L07.4: CORRECTION ON AMSR-E AND WINDSAT SST FOR LONG TERM TREND
Akira Shibata, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

TH4.L07.5: INTER-SATELLITE CALIBRATION OF MICROWAVE SOUNDERS FOR CLIMATE TREND MONITORING
Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA/NESDIS, United States

Arctic Sea Ice Change and Impacts II

TH4.L08.1: IMPACTS OF ARCTIC SEA ICE CHANGE ON ICE-ALBEDO FEEDBACK AND SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE
Donald Perovich, ERDC - CRREL, United States

TH4.L08.2: CHANGES IN CIRCULATION OF THE UPPER ARCTIC OCEAN FROM REMOTE SENSING AND TRADITIONAL OBSERVATIONS
James Morison, Cecilia Peralta-Ferriz, University of Washington, United States; Ron Kwok, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Ignatius Rigor, University of Washington, United States

TH4.L08.3: IMPACTS OF AN ICE-DIMINISHING ARCTIC ON NAVAL AND MARITIME OPERATIONS
Pablo Clemente-Colón, U.S. National Ice Center, United States

TH4.L08.4: REMOTE SENSING OF BROMINE MONOXIDE IN RELATION TO BOUNDARY-LAYER HALOGEN CHEMISTRY
William Simpson, Deanna Donohoue, Daniel Carlson, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States; Ross Salawitch, Tim Canty, University of Maryland, United States; Thomas Kurosu, Kelly Chance, Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics, United States

TH4.L08.5: SENSING HABITAT USE BY ICE-ASSOCIATED SEALS; FROM DOG NOSES TO SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS
Brendan Kelly, Peter Boveng, Michael Cameron, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

RADARSAT II

TH4.L09.1: GEOLOGICAL AND GEOHAZARD APPLICATIONS OF RADARSAT-2
Vern Singhroy, Francois Charboneau, Goran Pavlic, Kevin Murnaghan, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada

TH4.L09.2: ADVANTAGES OF RADARSAT-2 FOR OPERATIONAL ICE MONITORING
Roger De Abreu, Matthew Arkett, Tom Zagon, Gaëtan Langlois, Canadian Ice Service, Canada

TH4.L09.3: INTEGRATION OF RADARSAT-2, TERRASAR-X AND ALOS PALSAR DATA FOR IN-SEASON CROP ACREAGE ESTIMATES: A CANADIAN EXAMPLE
Jiali Shang, Heather McNairn, Xianfeng Jiao, Catherine Champagne, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada

TH4.L09.4: RADARSAT-2 SUPPORT TO CANADIAN FORCES OPERATIONS: TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP BY PROJECT POLAR EPSILON
Robert Quinn, Canadian Armed Forces, Canada

TH4.L09.5: POLARISATION AND MODE COMBINATIONS FOR SHIP DETECTION USING RADARSAT-2
Hannevik Tonje Nanette Arnesen, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway

The NASA Soil Moisture Active and Passive Mission (SMAP): Data Products, Science and Applications II

TH4.L10.1: SMOS SMAP SYNERGISMS FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF SOIL MOISTURE
Yann Kerr, François Cabot, Philippe Richaume, Ahmad Al bitar, Elsa Jacquette, Arnaud Mialon, Claire Gruhier, Silvia Juglea, Delphine Leroux, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Ali Mahmoodi, ARRAY, Canada; Jean Pierre Wigneron, INRA, France

TH4.L10.2: SMAPEX: SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING EXPERIMENT FOR SMAP ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT
Jeffrey Walker, Rocco Panciera, Dongryeol Ryu, University of Melbourne, Australia; Doug Gray, University of Adelaide, Australia; Thomas Jackson, United States Department of Agriculture, United States

TH4.L10.3: COMBINED PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS OF SOIL MOISTURE DURING SMAPVEX08
Rajat Bindlish, SSAI, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, United States; Thomas Jackson, Michael Cosh, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, United States; Simon Yueh, Steve Dinardo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH4.L10.4: ASSIMILATION OF BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES FROM THE SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION: IMPACT STUDIES ON SHORT-RANGE NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION.
Stéphane Bélair, Marco Carrera, Bernard Bilodeau, Lily Ioannidou, Sheena Solomon, Martin Charron, Environment Canada, Canada; Christophe Lavaysse, McGill University, Canada

TH4.L10.5: THE SMAP LEVEL 4 SURFACE AND ROOT-ZONE SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT
Rolf Reichle, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Wade Crow, USDA/ARS, United States; Randal Koster, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; John Kimball, University of Montana, United States

Pollution and Contamination

FR1.L01.1: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING FOR LARGE-AREA MONITORING OF CARBON DIOXIDE GEOLOGIC SEQUESTRATION SITES
Gabriel Bellante, Scott Powell, Rick Lawrence, Kevin Repasky, Tracy Dougher, Montana State University, United States

FR1.L01.2: MONITORING OF VEGETATION GROWING ENVIRONMENT IN THE MINING AREA OF THE MOUNT LYELL USING HYMAP IMAGES
Bing Zhang, Di Wu, Quanjun Jiao, Qingting Li, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FR1.L01.3: INVERSION OF SOIL CU CONCENTRATION BASED ON BAND SELECTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Xia Zhang, Changping Huang, Bo Liu, Qingxi Tong, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FR1.L01.4: MERGED APPLICATION OF MULTI-FREQUENCY SAR IMAGES AND SIMULATION SAR IMAGES FOR OIL SPILL MONITORING
Chan-Su Yang, Seong-Min Park, KORDI, Republic of Korea; Kazuo Ouchi, National Defense Academy, Japan; Yisok Oh, Hongik University, Republic of Korea

FR1.L01.5: OIL-SLICK OBSERVATION USING SINGLE LOOK COMPLEX TERRASAR-X DUAL-POLARIZED DATA
Domenico Velotto, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Maurizio Migliaccio, Ferdinando Nunziata, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Susanne Lehner, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Ocean Biology I

FR1.L02.1: CORRECTIONS TO THE CALIBRATION OF MODIS AQUA OCEAN COLOR BANDS DERIVED FROM SEAWIFS DATA
Gerhard Meister, Futuretech Corporation, United States; Bryan Franz, NASA, United States; Ewa Kwiatkowska, SAIC, United States; Charles McClain, NASA, United States

FR1.L02.2: COMBINING SATELLITE-DERIVED CHLOROPHYLL-A DATA AND HIGH-RESOLUTION DUBAISAT-1 DATA TO DETECT AND MONITOR RED TIDE OUTBREAKS IN THE ARABIAN GULF
Ammar Al Muhairi, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology, United Arab Emirates; Hosni Ghedira, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Ali Shaheen, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology, United Arab Emirates

FR1.L02.3: INLAND WATER CONSTITUENT RETRIEVAL WITH THE APEX IMAGING SPECTROMETER
Daniel Odermatt, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Els Knaeps, Dries Raymaekers, TAP-VITO, Belgium; Thomas Heege, EOMAP, Germany; Sindy Sterckx, TAP-VITO, Belgium; Mathias Kneubühler, Michael Schaepman, University of Zurich, Switzerland

FR1.L02.4: DOES AVHRR-SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FRONTS IN THE BEAUFORT SEA, REVEALS BIOLOGICAL HOTSPOTS ?
Selima Ben Mustapha, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; Pierre Larouche, Fisheries and oceans canada, Canada

FR1.L02.5: PRELEMINARY ANALYSIS OF DATA PROCESSING FOR GEOSTATIONARY OCEAN COLOR REMOTE SENSING DATA FROM GOCI/COMS
Hee-Jeong Han, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Chan-Su Yang, Seongick Cho, Yu-Hwan Ahn, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Republic of Korea

Ship Detection with Radar and SAR

FR1.L03.1: SHIP DETECTION WITH SAR DATA USING A NOTCH FILTER BASED ON PERTURBATION ANALYSIS
Armando Marino, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Nick Walker, eOsphere Ltd, United Kingdom; Iain Woodhouse, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

FR1.L03.2: MORPHOLOGICAL-BASED SOURCE EXTRACTION METHOD FOR HFSW RADAR SHIP DETECTION
Samuel Grosdidier, Alexandre Baussard, Ali Khenchaf, e3i2 Laboratory, France

FR1.L03.3: AUTOMATIC SHIP DETECTION IN SAR IMAGES USING AEGIR
Tonje Nanette Arnesen Hannevik, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway

FR1.L03.4: EVALUATION OF HF-RADAR SHIP DETECTION ALGORITHM BY COMPARISON TO AIS AND SAR DATA
Jochen Horstmann, Raffaele Grasso, Matthew Coffin, NATO Undersea Research Center, Italy; Klaus-Werner Gurgel, Thomas Schlick, University of Hamburg, Germany

FR1.L03.5: IMPROVEMENT OF SHIP DETECTION ACCURACY BY SAR MULTI-LOOK CROSS-CORRELATION TECHNIQUE USING ADAPTIVE CFAR
Kazuo Ouchi, Seong-In Hwang, National Defense Academy, Japan

New Machine Learning Methods for Remote Sensing Data Analysis I

FR1.L04.1: RECENT TRENDS IN CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING DATA: ACTIVE AND SEMISUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING PARADIGMS
Lorenzo Bruzzone, Claudio Persello, University of Trento, Italy

FR1.L04.3: MAHALANOBIS KERNEL FOR THE CLASSIfiCATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES
Mathieu Fauvel, INRIA, MISTIS Team-Project, France; Alberto Villa, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble INP & University oc Iceland, France; Jocelyn Chanussot, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble INP, France; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University Of Iceland, Iceland

FR1.L04.4: CONTEXTUAL REMOTE-SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BY SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES AND MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS
Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy

FR1.L04.5: USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR ANOMALOUS CHANGE DETECTION
Ingo Steinwart, James Theiler, Daniel Llamocca, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States

Satellite Observations of Vegetation and Temperature

FR1.L05.1: VENµS (VEGETATION AND ENVIRONMENT MONITORING ON A NEW MICRO SATELLITE)
Pierric Ferrier, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

FR1.L05.2: SENTINEL-2 OPTICAL HIGH RESOLUTION MISSION FOR GMES LAND OPERATIONAL SERVICES
Claudia Isola, Ferran Gascon, Matthias Drusch, Philippe Martimort, Umberto del Bello, Francois Spoto, Omar Sy, European Space Agency, Netherlands

FR1.L05.3: COMPARISON OF GLOBAL LAND COVER PRODUCTS: THE USE OF COMMUNITY REMOTE SENSING TO VALIDATE AREAS OF HIGH DISAGREEMENT
Steffen Fritz, Ian McCallum, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; Linda See, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; Florian Kraxner, Michael Obersteiner, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria

FR1.L05.4: NASA’S UPCOMING HYSPIRI MISSION – PRECISION VEGETATION MAPPING WITH LIMITED GROUND TRUTH
Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Mississippi State University, United States

FR1.L05.5: DEVELOPING LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE PRODUCT FROM GOES IMAGER DATA
Yunyue Yu, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Donglian Sun, George Mason University, United States

Hyperspectral Missions and Techniques

FR1.L06.1: ONBOARD INSTRUMENT PROCESSING CONCEPTS FOR THE HYSPIRI MISSION
Steve Chien, Dorothy Silverman, Ashley Davies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Daniel Mandl, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

FR1.L06.2: THE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER FOR THE COASTAL OCEAN (HICO) ENVIRONMENTAL LITTORAL IMAGING FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Michael Corson, Robert Lucke, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Curtiss Davis, Oregon State University, United States; Daniel Korwan, William Snyder, Jeffrey Bowles, Davidson Chen, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Steven Butcher, Norman McGlothlin, Daniel Wood, Praxis, Inc., United States

FR1.L06.3: JAPANESE HYPER-MULTI SPECTRAL MISSION
Nagamitsu Ohgi, JAROS, Japan; Akira Iwasaki, University of Tokyo, Japan; Takahiro Kawashima, Hitomi Inada, NEC Corporation, Japan

FR1.L06.4: NOISE ADJUSTED HYBRID SUBPIXEL DETECTION ALGORITHM
Mary Soules, Joshua Broadwater, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States; Reuven Meth, James Ahn, SET Corporation, United States

FR1.L06.5: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS ON FOREST CHEMISTRY: EVALUATING AND REFINING FOLIAR CHEMISTRY FROM IMAGE SPECTROSCOPY
David Goodenough, Natural Resources Canada, Canada; Olaf Niemann, University of Victoria, Canada; Geoff Quinn, Ashley Gross, Natural Resources Canada, Canada

Microwave Radiometer Calibration I

FR1.L07.1: CALIBRATION OF MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS: AN OVERVIEW
Andreas Colliander, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Darren McKague, University of Michigan, United States

FR1.L07.2: SOME RESULTS ON SMOS-MIRAS CALIBRATION AND IMAGING
Ignasi Corbella, Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Veronica Gonzalez-Gambau, Israel Duran, Miriam Pablos, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Manuel Martin-Neira, European Space Agency, Netherlands

FR1.L07.3: ON-BOARD CALIBRATION NOISE SOURCES FOR THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT (GPM) MICROWAVE IMAGER (GMI)
Jeffrey Piepmeier, Jeffrey Jaso, Joseph Knuble, Jared Lucey, Michael Triesky, Sergey Krimchansky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

FR1.L07.4: SPURIOUS SIGNAL IN MEASUREMENT OF THE THIRD STOKES PARAMETER FROM SPACE AT L-BAND
David Le Vine, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Emmanuel Dinnat, S. Daniel Jacob, UMBC/GEST, United States; Saji Abraham, RS Information System, United States; Paolo de Matthaeis, UMBC/GEST, United States

FR1.L07.5: NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR THE GEOSTATIONARY SYNTHETIC THINNED ARRAY RADIOMETER (GEOSTAR)
Alan Tanner, Pekka Kangaslahti, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Boon Lim, Todd Gaier, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow

FR1.L08.1: DENSE MEDIA RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY FOR ACTIVE REMOTE SENSING AND APPLICATIONS TO SWE RETRIEVAL
Xiaolan Xu, Leung Tsang, University of Washington, United States; Simon Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

FR1.L08.2: DUAL-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC REMOTE SENSING RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF DEEP SNOWPACK IN GRAND MESA, COLORADO
Smon Yueh, Steve Dinardo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Kelly Elder, United State Forest Service, United States; Irena Hajnsek, German Space Center, Germany

FR1.L08.3: A METHOD TO ESTIMATE SNOW WATER EQUIVELANT USING MULTI-ANGLE X-BAND RADAR OBSERVATIONS
Jinyang Du, Jiancheng Shi, Chuan Xiong, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FR1.L08.4: A PRE-OPERATIONAL ALGORITHM FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT AND SOIL MOISTURE FROM AMSR-E DATA
Emanuele Santi, Simone Pettinato, Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Francesco Montomoli, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Institute of Applied Physics - National Research Council, Italy

FR1.L08.5: A MICROWAVE RADIANCE ASSIMILATION STUDY FOR A TUNDRA SNOWPACK
Edward Kim, NASA, United States; Michael Durand, Ohio State University, United States; Steve Margulis, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Anthony England, University of Michigan, United States

Radar Processing

FR1.L09.1: ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING WITH THE IMAGING MIMO RADARS MIRA-CLE AND MIRA-CLE X
Jens Klare, Olaf Saalmann, Helmut Wilden, Andreas R. Brenner, Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), Germany

FR1.L09.2: ONBOARD RADAR PROCESSING CONCEPTS FOR THE DESDYNI MISSION
Yunling Lou, Steve Chien, Duane Clark, Joshua Doubleday, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

FR1.L09.3: SAR TOMOGRAPHIC FOCUSING BY COMPRESSIVE SAMPLING: EXPERIMENTS ON REAL DATA
Alessandra Budillon, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Annarita Evangelista, Università di Cassino, Italy; Gilda Schirinzi, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

FR1.L09.4: PREDICTIVE QUANTIZATION OF DECHIRPED SPOTLIGHT-MODE SAR RAW DATA IN TRANSFORM DOMAIN
Takeshi Ikuma, Mort Naraghi-Pour, Louisiana State University, United States; Thomas Lewis, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States

FR1.L09.5: RADAR AND AIS SENSORS CONSTELLATION FOR GLOBAL MARITIME SURVEILLANCE
Sophie Ramongassie, Nicolas Taveneau, Thibaud Calmettes, Jacques Richard, Remi Challamel, Olivier Autran, Thales Alenia Space, France; Valerie Foix, Philippe Durand, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

SMOS: The Beginning of a L-band Generation of Global Remote Sensed Soil Moisture Observations I

FR1.L10.1: OVERVIEW OF SMOS RETRIEVALS OVER LAND
Yann Kerr, François Cabot, Philippe Richaume, Ahmad Albitar, Elsa Jacquette, Arnaud Mialon, Claire Gruhier, Silvia Juglea, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Paolo Ferrazzoli, TVU, Italy; Ali Mahmoodi, ARRAY, Canada; Steven Delwart, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Jean Pierre Wigneron, INRA, France

FR1.L10.2: CALIBRATION OF LOCALIZATION BIASES FOR SMOS
François Cabot, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) and Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Yann Kerr, Philippe Richaume, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Philippe Waldteufel, IPSL/SA, France

FR1.L10.3: FIRST RESULTS FROM TAKELIMGAN DESERT CAMPAIGN FOR SMOS CAL/VAL
Weiguo Zhang, Ji Wu, Heguang Liu, Hao Liu, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FR1.L10.4: GROUND-BASED L-BAND EMISSION MEASUREMENTS AT DOME-C ANTARCTICA : DOMEX-2 A CONTRIBUTION TO SMOS CALIBRATION
Giovanni Macelloni, Marco Brogioni, Simone Pettinato, IFAC - CNR, Italy; Renato Zasso, Andrea Crepaz, CVA-ARPAV, Italy; Jonathan Zaccaria, PNRA, Italy; Mark Drinkwater, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands

FR1.L10.5: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE VALIDATION: STATUS AT THE UPPER DANUBE CAL/VAL SITE EIGHT MONTHS AFTER LAUNCH
Johanna Dall’Amico, University of Munich, Germany; Alexander Loew, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Germany; Florian Schlenz, Wolfram Mauser, University of Munich, Germany

GNSS Reflectometry and Occultations: Theory and Applications

FRP1.PA.1: GNSS-R DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS OVER LAND: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE GRAJO FIELD EXPERIMENT
Enric Valencia, Adriano Camps, Merce Vall-llossera, Alessandra Monerris, Xavier Bosch-lluis, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; José Martínez-Fernández, Nilda Sánchez-Martín, Carlos Pérez-Gutiérrez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

FRP1.PA.2: A SIMULATOR PROTOTYPE OF DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS FOR GNSS REFLECTIONS FROM BARE AND VEGETATED SOILS
Marco Brogioni, IFAC - CNR, Italy; Alejandro Egido, STARLAB, Spain; Nicolas Floury, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Roberto Giusto, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Leila Guerriero, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy; Nazzareno Pierdicca, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

FRP1.PA.3: STUDY OF MAIZE PLANTS EFFECTS IN THE RETRIEVAL OF SOIL MOISTURE USING THE INTERFERENCE PATTERN GNSS-R TECHNIQUE
Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Adriano Camps, Merce Vall-llossera, Albert Aguasca, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Rene Acevo-Herrera, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Enric Valencia, Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez, Politechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain

FRP1.PA.4: IMPACT OF RECEIVER’S FREQUENCY RESPONSE IN GNSS REFLECTOMETERS
Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Hyuk Park, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

FRP1.PA.5: A TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR GNSS REFLECTED SIGNALS ON SEA SURFACE
Sarab Tay, TELECOM Bretagne, France; Arnaud Coatanhay, ENSIETA, France; Frederic Maussang, Rene Garello, TELECOM Bretagne, France

FRP1.PA.6: COSMIC-2: THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM – REMOTE OBSERVATION (GNSS-RO) SENSING
Kendra Cook, C2 International, United States; Peter Wilczynski, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

FRP1.PA.7: OCEAN SURFACE WINDS MEASUREMENT USING REFLECTED GNSS SIGNALS
Pengfei Yin, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiu Yin, Shanghai Center for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, China; Ziwei Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yiqiang Zhang, Beihang University, China; Hua Xu, Xingfeng Chen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Shangguo Ning, Beijing BDStar Navigation Co., Ltd, China

FRP1.PA.8: ALTIMETRY STUDY PERFORMED USING AN AIRBORNE GNSS-REFLECTOMETER
Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Rene Acevo-Herrera, Albert Aguasca, Adriano Camps, Merce Vall-llossera, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Enric Valencia, Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez, Politechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain

FRP1.PA.9: MONITORING SEA ICE AND DRY SNOW WITH GNSS REFLECTIONS
Fran Fabra, Estel Cardellach, Oleguer Nogués-Correig, Santi Oliveras, Serni Ribó, Antonio Rius, Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE-IEEC/CSIC), Spain; Maria Belmonte-Rivas, Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI), Netherlands; Maximilian Semmling, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Germany; Giovanni Macelloni, Simone Pettinato, Istituto di Fisica Applicata “Nello Carrara” (IFAC-CNR), Italy; Renato Zasso, CVA-ARPAV, Italy; Salvatore D'Addio, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands

FRP1.PA.10: POLARIMETRIC GNSS RADIO-OCCULTATIONS FOR HEAVY RAIN DETECTION
Estel Cardellach, Antonio Rius, Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC/IEEC), Spain; Fernando Cerezo, Miguel Angel García-Primo, HISDESAT, Spain; Manuel de la Torre-Juárez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Lidia Cucurull, Dave Ector, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

Remote Sensing of Soil and Vegetation: Applications I

FRP1.PB.1: REMOTE SENSING FOR SOIL DEGRADATION USING HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY
Eyal Ben Dor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel; Naftaly Goldshleger, Ministry of Agriculture, Israel; Ido Livne, Rachel Lugassi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel; Gil Eshel, Ministry of Agriculture, Israel

FRP1.PB.2: QUANTITATIVE MODELING OF SOIL EROSION BY WATER IN LARGE-SCALE RIVER BASIN USING REMOTELY SENSED DATA
Qiang Zhu, China Three Gorges Project Corporation;Peking University, China; Xiuwan Chen, Peking University, China; Qixiang Fan, Heping Jin, China Three Gorges Project Corporation, China

FRP1.PB.3: SOIL ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT RETRIEVAL FROM HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IN WESTERN JILIN, CHINA
Yanqing Wu, Kaishan Song, Dianwei Liu, Zongming Wang, Jia Du, Xiaochun Lei, Xuguang Tang, Yuandong Wang, Lihong Zeng, Bai Zhang, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP1.PB.4: THE COMPONENT-BASED DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM FOR DROUGHT MONITORING
Lin You, Qiming Qin, Heng Dong, Jun Li, Jinliang Wang, Xuebin Yang, Peking University, China

FRP1.PB.5: DROUGHT MONITORING USING THERMAL INERTIA MODEL FROM MODIS DATA IN THE HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA
Guoyin Cai, Mingyi Du, Guang Zhu, Yang Liu, Yanyan Kang, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China

FRP1.PB.6: IMPACT OF SATELLITE-BASED SOIL MOISTURE INDEX ON HYDROLOGICAL SIMULATION FOR FLOODS PREDICTION
Giorgio Boni, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; Lorenzo Campo, University of Florence, Italy; Laura Candela, Italian Space Agency, Italy; Francesca Caparrini, Eumechanos, Italy; Fabio Castelli, University of Florence, Italy; Davide Delogu, Simone Gabellani, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy; Davide Persi, Intecno-DHI, Italy; Roberto Rudari, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy

FRP1.PB.7: ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT OF BARE SOILS FROM THEIR SPECTRAL OPTICAL PROPERTIES IN THE 0.4 - 12 µM SPECTRAL DOMAIN
Audrey Lesaignoux, Sophie Fabre, Xavier Briottet, ONERA, France; Albert Olioso, INRA, France

FRP1.PB.8: GLOBAL LAND SURFACE EVAPORATION FROM SATELLITE-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Diego Miralles, Richard De Jeu, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; Thomas Holmes, USDA Agricultural Research Service, United States; John Gash, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom; Han Dolman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

FRP1.PB.9: DATA ASSIMILATION APPROACH FOR MERGING OF SOIL TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS FROM MULTIPLE SATELLITES
Thomas Holmes, Thomas Jackson, Wade Crow, USDA-ARS, United States

FRP1.PB.10: A TEMPORAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION METHOD SUITABLE FOR DEEP SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA
Andrew Jones, Colorado State University, United States; James Cogan, Army Research Laboratory, United States; George Mason, Engineer Research and Development Center, United States; Gary McWilliams, Army Research Laboratory, United States

FRP1.PB.11: ASSIMILATION OF MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS AT L-BAND TO ESTIMATE ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURE IN A GROWING SEASON OF CORN
Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico; Jasmeet Judge, Karthik Nagarajan, University of Florida, United States

Remote Sensing of Soil and Vegetation: Applications II

FRP1.PC.1: SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION FROM SEVIRI DATA ONBOARD MSG SATELLITE
Wei Zhao, Zhao-Liang Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, France

FRP1.PC.2: AN IMPROVED TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPECTRAL SPACE BASED MODEL FOR DROUGHT MONITORING AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Qiming Qin, Chuan Jin, Ning Zhang, Peking University, China

FRP1.PC.3: DOWN-SCALING OF SATELLITE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES FOR MONITORING CROPLANDS
Eunoung Choe, SukYoung Hong, YiHyun Kim, National Academy of Agricultural Science, Republic of Korea

FRP1.PC.4: MAPPING VARIATION IN SOIL VOLUMETRIC SHRINKAGE USING ASTER IMAGERY
Fekerte Arega Yitagesu, Freek Van der Meer, Harald Van der Werff, International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, ITC, Netherlands

FRP1.PC.5: RETRIEVE SOIL MOISTURE FROM VEGETATION-SOIL MIXED PIXELS BASED ON SCALE TRANSFORMATION RULE
Daihui Wu, Wenjie Fan, Binyan Yan, Yaokui Cui, Xiru Xu, Institute of Remote Sense and Geographic Information System, Peking University, China

FRP1.PC.6: VALIDATION OF WATERSHED SCALE SOIL MOISTURE DERIVED FROM MODIS REMOTE SENSING DATA: A CASE STUDY IN THE YIHE BASIN OF CHINA
Wanchang Zhang, Jiongfeng Chen, Nanjing University, China; Kexin Zhang, Xuemei Lv, Linyi Meteorological Bureau, China

FRP1.PC.7: COMPARISON OF VEGETATION WATER CONTENT ESTIMATES FROM WINDSAT AND MODIS
E. Raymond Hunt Jr., USDA-ARS, United States; Li Li, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; M. Tugrul Yilmaz, George Mason University, United States; Thomas Jackson, USDA-ARS, United States

FRP1.PC.8: USING MODIS LAND PRODUCTS TO ESTIMATE REGIONAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
Yujiu Xiong, Sun Yat-Sen University, China; Guoyu Qiu, Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University, China

FRP1.PC.9: EFFECTS OF SPATIAL HETEROGENTITY OF SOIL AND VEGETATION PARAMETERS ON SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING
Tao Zhang, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Tianjie Zhao, Beijing Normal University, China

FRP1.PC.10: RESEARCH ON DYNAMIC CHANGE AND TREND OF GUYUAN SOIL EROSION BASED ON RS AND GIS
Jianming Liu, Wenji Zhao, Capital Normal University, China; Nakagoshi Nobukazu, Hiroshima University, Japan

FRP1.PC.11: USING AMSR-E LAND PRODUCT TO MONITOR THE DROUGHT PROCESS IN CHINA
Shengli Wu, Xiaoxiang Zhu, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China

Urban Remote Sensing Poster III

FRP1.PD.1: RECOGNITION AND EXTRACTION OF THE ANCIENT SITES COVERED BY THICK VEGETATION IN HAINAN PROVINCE OF CHINA
Peng Jia, Yueping Nie, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lin Yang, National Museum of China, China

FRP1.PD.2: DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIDAR DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR THE RAPID GENERATION OF THE TERRESTRIAL INFORMATION
SeungJoon Kwon, SungWoong Shin, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Republic of Korea

FRP1.PD.3: SEARCHING TSUNAMI AFFECTED AREA BY INTEGRATING NUMERICAL MODELING AND REMOTE SENSING
Shunich Koshimura, Tohoku University, Japan; Masashi Matsuoka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; Hideomi Gokon, Tohoku University, Japan; Yuichi Namegaya, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

FRP1.PD.4: APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES TO TIME SERIES ANALYSES OF SURFACE TEMPERATURES IN DAEGU CITY
Jin A. Lee, University of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea; Sung Soon Lee, Geoscience Information Department, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Republic of Korea; Kwang Hoon Chi, Korea-Japan Cooperation Foundation for Industry and Technology, Republic of Korea

FRP1.PD.5: IDENTIFICATION OF TREES IN THE SHADE OF HOUSES IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS USING AIRBORNE MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGES
Haruki Oshio, Jiang He, Akira Hoyano, Tokyo Insutitute of Technology, Japan

FRP1.PD.6: DVB-T PASSIVE RADAR FOR VEHICLES DETECTION IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Amerigo Capria, CNIT-RaSS Center, Italy; Dario Petri, Marco Martorella, Michele Conti, Enzo Dalle Mese, Fabrizio Berizzi, University of Pisa, Italy

FRP1.PD.7: EVALUATING THE ECLOGICAL CONDITION IN SHENZHEN CITY, CHINA, USING A QUANTITATIVE MODEL
Shiqiang Du, Deyong Yu, Peijun Shi, Bin Xun, Beijing Normal University, China

FRP1.PD.8: HEAT - HOME ENERGY ASSESSMENT TECHNOLOGIES: RESIDENTIAL WASTE HEAT MONITORING WITH HIGH-RESOLUTION AIRBORNE THERMAL IMAGERY
Geoffrey J. Hay, Bharanidharan Hemachandran, Gang Chen, Christopher Kyle, University of Calgary, Canada

FRP1.PD.9: A STUDY ON DIFFERENT PS-LIKE METHODS FOR SUBSIDENCE IN TIANJIN, CHINA
Hongli Zhao, Huanhuan Liu, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China; Jinghui Fan, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Guang Liu, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaofang Guo, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Jianping Chen, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China; Peidong Jin, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Lu Zhang, Yubao Qiu, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP1.PD.10: A FULLY POLARIMETRIC BOREHOLE RADAR BASED NUMERICAL MODELING: FULLY POLARIMETRIC RESPONSE TO SYNTHETIC NATURAL FRACTURES AND “FLUID SUBSTITUTION”
Jian-guo Zhao, China University of Petroleum / State Key Lab of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting / Key Lab of Geophysical Prospecting, CNPC, China; Motoyuki Sato, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Japan

FRP1.PD.11: UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URBAN LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Ganlin Huang, Weiqi Zhou, M. L. Cadenasso, University of California, Davis, United States

FRP1.PD.12: UTILIZATION OF AIRBORNE MULTI-ASPECT INSAR DATA FOR THE GENERATION OF URBAN ORTHO-IMAGES
Michael Schmitt, Uwe Stilla, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

Geophysics and Seismic Applications

FRP1.PE.1: SEISMIC QUALITY FACTOR ESTIMATION USING CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM
Yanhui Zhou, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China; Wei Zhao, CNOOC, China; Yan Ge, Jinghuai Gao, Xiaokai Wang, Chenyang Ge, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

FRP1.PE.2: ON THE METHOD OF DETECTING THE DISCONTINUITY OF SEISMIC DATA VIA 3D WAVELET TRANSFORM
Xiaokai Wang, Jinghuai Gao, Wenchao Chen, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China; Erhua Zhang, Exploration and Development Research Institute of Daqing Oilfield Company Ltd, China

FRP1.PE.3: METHOD FOR RECOGNITION OF MAGNETIC ANOMALIES BASED ON HYDROCARBON SEEPAGE THEORY
Tianyao Hao, Lili Zhang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Baimin Zhao, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Chuanchuan Lv, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP1.PE.4: CORRECTION OF SPECTRAL CURVATURE EFFECT(SMILE)IN HYPERION DATASETS BY USE OF DERIVATIVE CALCULATIONS AND MINIMUM NOISE FRACTION(MNF) TRANSFORMATION
Alon Dadon, Arnon Karnieli, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Eyal Ben-Dor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

FRP1.PE.5: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FIELD DATA COLLECTING SYNCHRONOUSLY SYSTEM OF MINING AREA
Min Ji, Yong Sun, Fengxiang Jin, Tao Jiang, Jian Wang, Xiaojing Yao, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

FRP1.PE.6: DESIGNING AN ILLEGAL MINING DETECTION SYSTEM BASED ON DINSAR
Zhe Hu, Linlin Ge, Xiaojing Li, Chris Rizos, Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information & School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, University of New South Wales, Australia

FRP1.PE.7: REMOTE SENSING OF THE HYDROLOGIC HISTORY OF SOUTHERN EGYPT
Thomas Farr, Ronald Blom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Philippe Paillou, Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers, France

FRP1.PE.8: CRINSAR FOR LANDSLIDE DEFORMATION MONITORING: A CASE IN THREEGORGE AREA
Jinghui Fan, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Pengfei Tu, China Three Gorge University, China; Yi Wang, Xiaofang Guo, Daqing Ge, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Hongli Zhao, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China; Guang Liu, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP1.PE.9: LANDSLIDE DETECTION BY INDICES OF LIDAR POINT-CLOUD DENSITY
Jin-King Liu, Wei-Chen Hsu, National Chiao-Tung University and Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan; Mon-Shieh Yang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; Yu-Chung Shieh, Central Geological Survey, Taiwan; Tian-Yuan Shih, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

FRP1.PE.10: LIDAR DETECTION OF BELOW-CANOPY CAVE OPENINGS IN THE ANCIENT MAYA KARSTIC LANDSCAPE AROUND CARACOL, BELIZE
John Weishampel, Ryan Patrick, Jessica Hightower, Arlen Chase, Diane Chase, University of Central Florida, United States

GIS Techniques and Standards I

FRP1.PF.1: NON-RIGID CONFLATION FOR VECTOR DATA-SETS USING EM ALGORITHM AND MIXTURE OF GAUSSIAN APPROACH
Ganesh Krishnamurthy, Venkat Devarajan, Irinel Dragan, University of Texas, United States

FRP1.PF.2: DEM-BASED SLOPE ANALYSIS METHOD USING COMPUTING GRID
Weifeng Ma, Xiaorui Wang, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China

FRP1.PF.3: AN INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK OF ECOLOGICAL MODELS
Zemeng Fan, Tian-Xiang Yue, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qin Dai, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP1.PF.4: ESTIMATION OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL COMPONENTS FOR POSITIONING STANDARD DEVIATION IN ABSOLUTE GPS POSITIONING
Zhanqiang Chang, Huili Gong, Capital Normal University, China

FRP1.PF.5: THE RESEARCH ON SEMANTIC SEARCH OF URBAN FEATURES BASED ON ORACLE SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY
Jian Li, Hong Fan, Wu Du, Wuhan University, China

FRP1.PF.6: IMPROVEMENT OF SPATIAL PRECIPITATION INTERPOLATION METHOD BY CONSIDERING GEOGRAPHIC AND TOPOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES
Wenxia Gan, Xiaoling Chen, Xiaobin Cai, Wuhan University, China; Jian Zhang, Huazhong Agricultural University, China

FRP1.PF.7: AN AUTOMATIC SERVICE COMPOSITION ALGORITHM FOR CONSTRUCTING THE GLOBAL OPTIMAL SERVICE TREE BASED ON QOS
Wu Du, Hong Fan, Wuhan University, China

FRP1.PF.8: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR GEOSPATIAL COMPUTATIONAL TASK PROCESSING IN GRID ENVIRONMENT
Zhou Huang, Yu Fang, Peking University, China

FRP1.PF.9: THE KEY TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPLEMENT GEOGRAPHICAL MARKER ON 3D GEOGLOBE PLATFORM
Hao Feng, Hong Fan, Wuhan University, China

GIS Techniques and Standards II

FRP1.PG.1: THE DESIGN OF A UNIFIED ADDRESSING SCHEMA AND THE MATCHING MODE OF CHINA
Li Fang, Beijing Normal University, China; Zhuo Yuan Yu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiang Zhao, Beijing Normal University, China

FRP1.PG.2: DESIGN AND REALIZATION OF MULTI-SOURCE T-LEVEL IMAGES DATABASE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
Liang Huo, Guihong Liu, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China

FRP1.PG.3: ORACLE SEMANTIC TECHNBOLOGY ENABLE SMART DISCOVERY OF SPATIAL SERVICES
Hong Fan, Wu Du, Yao Zhang, Wuhan University, China

FRP1.PG.4: EMBEDDED MOBILE GIS NATURAL RESOURCE INFORMATION SERVICE SYSTEM
Yuanyao Lu, North China University of Technology, China; Xinzhe Yuan, National Satellite Oean Application Service Center, China; Fanfeng Zeng, Jingzhong Wang, North China University of Technology, China

FRP1.PG.5: THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF GIS APPLICATIONS BASED ON SOA
Xiaolin Wang, Xiao Pang, Yingwei Luo, Peking University, China

FRP1.PG.6: AN IMPLICIT AND GPU BASED APPROACH FOR SOLVING CRACKS IN TERRAIN VISUALIZATION
Wei Cao, Fuzhou Duan, Huili Gong, Wenji Zhao, Capital Normal University, China

FRP1.PG.7: AN ISOLINE RENDERING METHOD UNDER MULTIPLE CONSTRAINTS
Xiaoping Rui, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xianfeng Song, College of Resources and Environment, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP1.PG.8: ONE RASTERIZATION APPROACH TO SPATIAL PREDICATE
Hui Dong, Zhenlin Cheng, Yanwei Zhao, Jinyun Fang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP1.PG.9: REGULAR HEXAHEDRON TESSELLATION ALGORITHM FOR 3D COMPLEX ENTITY MODELS WITH INSIDE CAVITIES
Jiateng Guo, Northeastern University, China; Lixin Wu, Beijing Normal University, China; Hongbin Ma, Yizhou Yang, Northeastern University, China

Polarimetric Methods and Applications

FRP1.PH.1: PRELIMINARY RESULT OF POLARIZATION PROPERTY ANALYSIS USING FULLY POLARIMETRIC GB-SAR IMAGES
Moon-Kyung Kang, Kwang-Eun Kim, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Republic of Korea; Hoonyol Lee, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea; Seong-Jun Cho, Jae-Hee Lee, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Republic of Korea

FRP1.PH.2: BURST MODE TO STRIP-MAP MODE SAR INTERFEROMETRY OF ALOS PALSAR
Cunren Liang, Qiming Zeng, Xiai Cui, Jian Jiao, Peking University, China

FRP1.PH.3: OBLIQUE POLARIMETRIC SAR PROCESSOR BASED ON SIGNAL AND INTERFERENCE SUBSPACE MODELS
Frédéric Brigui, Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre, SONDRA/Supelec, France; Guillaume Ginolhac, Philippe Forster, SATIE / UniverSud, France

FRP1.PH.4: MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD TEXTURE TRACKING IN HIGHLY HETEROGENEOUS POLSAR CLUTTER
Olivier Harant, Lionel Bombrun, Gabriel Vasile, GIPSA-Lab, France; Laurent Ferro-Famil, Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, France; Michel Gay, GIPSA-Lab, France

FRP1.PH.5: A NEW BAYESIAN SOURCE SEPARATION APPROACH TO BLIND DECORRELATION OF SAR DATA
Alex Wong, Paul Fieguth, University of Waterloo, Canada

FRP1.PH.6: POLSAR IMAGES CHARACTERIZATION THROUGH BLIND SOURCES SEPARATION TECHNIQUES
Felix Totir, Gabriel Vasile, Lionel Bombrun, Michel Gay, GIPSA-lab, France

FRP1.PH.7: FILTERING AND SEGMENTATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES WITH BINARY PARTITION TREES
Alberto Alonso-González, Carlos López-Martínez, Philippe Salembier, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

FRP1.PH.8: EXTENSION OF THE TARGET SCATTERING VECTOR MODEL TO THE BISTATIC CASE
Lionel Bombrun, GIPSA-lab / Grenoble INP, France

FRP1.PH.9: EXTRACTION OF AREA-AVERAGED ORIENTATION ANGLE FROM POLSAR MEASUREMENT
Yusuke Komatsu, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan; Yuichiro Aso, Japan Airlines Corporation, Japan; Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Radar Processing Poster

FRP1.PI.1: SHADOW REGION IMAGING ALGORITHM USING ARRAY ANTENNA BASED ON APERTURE SYNTHESIS OF MULTIPLE SCATTERED WAVES FOR UWB RADARS
Shouhei Kidera, University of Electro-Communication, Japan

FRP1.PI.2: TAXI: A VERSATILE PROCESSING CHAIN FOR EXPERIMENTAL TANDEM-X PRODUCT EVALUATION
Pau Prats, Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Luca Marotti, Matteo Naninni, Gerhard Krieger, Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

FRP1.PI.3: SCANSAR IMAGE QUALITY ENHANCEMENT USING FITTED-GEOMETRY DOPPLER SURFACE
Wookyung Lee, Jung-Hwan Song, Sung-Uk Hwang, Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea

FRP1.PI.4: 2D UESPRIT SUPERRESOLUTION SAR IMAGING ALGORITHM
Ping Zhang, Zhen Li, Quan Chen, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP1.PI.5: SAR FOCUSING OF P-BAND ICE SOUNDING DATA USING BACK-PROJECTION
Anders Kusk, Jørgen Dall, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

FRP1.PI.6: ANALYSIS AND COMPENSATION FOR MOTION ERRORS IN FMCW SAR DATA
Robert Wang, Otmar Löfgren, Holger Nies, University of Siegen, Germany; Manfred Hägelen, Helmut Essen, Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), Germany

FRP1.PI.7: A NEW SCALLOPING FILTER ALGORITHM FOR SCANSAR IMAGES
Roland Romeiser, University of Miami, United States; Jochen Horstmann, NATO Undersea Research Center, Italy; Hans Graber, University of Miami, United States

FRP1.PI.8: POSSIBLE REAL-TIME FAST BACK PROJECTION ALGORITHM USING GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNITS
Aaron Rogan, Richard Carande, David Cohen, Neva Ridge Technologies, United States

FRP1.PI.9: PROGRESSIVE SAR IMAGING TECHNIQUE
Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Junli Chen, Guozhong Chen, Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering, China

FRP1.PI.10: A NOVEL THREE-STEP FOCUSING ALGORITHM FOR TOPSAR IMAGE FORMATION
Wei Yang, Chunsheng Li, Jie Chen, Pengbo Wang, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Bistatic / GMTI SAR

FRP1.PJ.1: SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADAR TESTBED FOR MIMO SAR APPLICATIONS
Mark Frankford, Joel Johnson, Ohio State University, United States

FRP1.PJ.2: ANALYSIS AND FOCUSING FOR BISTATIC FORWARD-LOOKING SAR IN SPACEBORNE/STATIONARY CONFIGURATION
Robert Wang, Otmar Löfgren, Holger Nies, University of Siegen, Germany

FRP1.PJ.3: SPATIAL SPECTRUM OF BISTATIC SAR WITH ONE FIXED STATION
Junjie Wu, Jianyu Yang, Yulin Huang, Haiguang Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

FRP1.PJ.4: BISTATIC SAR ALONG TRACK INTERFEROMETRY WITH MULTIPLE FIXED RECEIVERS
Sergi Duque, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Paco López-Dekker, Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany; Juan Carlos Merlano, Jordi J. Mallorquí, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

FRP1.PJ.5: ISAR IMAGING OF AN AIRCRAFT TARGET USING ISDB-T DIGITAL TV BASED PASSIVE BISTATIC RADAR
Kei Suwa, Shohei Nakamura, Shinichi Morita, Toshio Wakayama, Hisakazu Maniwa, Tadashi Oshima, Ryoji Maekawa, Shoji Matsuda, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan; Takanori Tachihara, Mitsubishi Electric Micro-Computer Application Software Co, Ltd, Japan

FRP1.PJ.6: INTEGRATING SPACE-TIME PROCESSING INTO TIME-DOMAIN BACKPROJECTION PROCESS TO DETECT AND IMAGE MOVING OBJECTS
Viet Thuy Vu, Thomas Sjögren, Mats Pettersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

FRP1.PJ.7: MOVING TARGET REFOCUSING ALGORITHM FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES
Thomas Sjögren, Viet Thuy Vu, Mats Pettersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

FRP1.PJ.8: METHOD FOR MEASURING TWO-DIMENSIONAL VELOCITIES OF MOVING-TARGETS USING ATI AND MAI INTERFEROMETRIES
Hyung-Sup Jung, University of Seoul, Republic of Korea; Zhong Lu, U.S. Geological Survey, United States

FRP1.PJ.9: KNOWLEDGE-AIDED IMAGING OF MOVING TARGETS WITH SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Richard Naething, Sean Buckley, University of Texas at Austin, United States

FRP1.PJ.10: ANALYSIS OF THE CORRELATION PROPERTIES OF DIGITAL SATELLITE SIGNALS AND THEIR APPLICABILITY IN BISTATIC REMOTE SENSING
Rashmi Shah, James Garrison, Purdue University, United States; Michael Grant, NASA Langley Research Center, United States; Stephen Katzberg, South Carolina State University, United States; Geng Tian, Purdue University, United States

FRP1.PJ.11: APPLICATION OF THE MOVING TARGET DETECTION BY FOCUSING TECHNIQUE IN CIVIL TRAFFIC MONITORING
Viet Thuy Vu, Thomas Sjögren, Mats Pettersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden; Paulo Marques, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal

Clouds and Precipitation

FRP1.PK.1: FAST JACOBIAN MIE LIBRARY FOR TERRESTRIAL HYDROMETEORS
Srikumar Sandeep, Albin Gasiewski, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States

FRP1.PK.2: Z-R RELATION FOR SNOWFALL USING TWO SMALL DOPPLER RADARS AND SNOW PARTICLE IMAGES
Toru Shiina, Toyama National College of Technology, Japan; Mamoru Kubo, Ken-ichiro Muramoto, Kanazawa University, Japan

FRP1.PK.3: EVALUATION OF THE SELF-CONSISTENCY PRINCIPLE FOR CALIBRATION OF THE CASA RADAR NETWORK USING PROPERTIES OF THE OBSERVED MEDIUM
Jorge M. Trabal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States; V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States; Eugenio Gorgucci, Istituto di Scienze dell’ Atmosfera e del Clima, Italy; David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States

FRP1.PK.4: A COMPARISON BETWEEN SATELLITE AND AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS FOR WINTERTIME NON-PRECIPITATING MIXED-PHASE CLOUDS
Yoo-Jeong Noh, Curtis Seaman, Thomas H. Vonder Haar, Colorado State University, United States

FRP1.PK.5: RETRIEVAL OF RAINDROP SHAPE-SIZE RELATION USING DUAL POLARIZATION RADAR MEASUREMENTS
Eugenio Gorgucci, Luca Baldini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States

FRP1.PK.6: CASA DUAL-DOPPLER SYSTEM
V. Chandrasekar, Matthew Martinez, Sean Zhang, Colorado State University, United States

FRP1.PK.7: INTERCOMPARISON OF OSTM/AMR AND AMSR-E CLOUD LIQUID RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS
Sharmila Padmanabhan, Shannon Brown, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

FRP1.PK.8: INVESTIGATION OF CIRRUS CLOUDS USING THE CALIPSO LIDAR DATA
Sydney Paul, Hampton University, United States

FRP1.PK.9: HYDROMETEOR IDENTIFICATION FROM W-BAND POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS
Mengistu Wolde, Natural Resources Canada, Canada; Samuel Haimov, University of Wyoming, United States; Dave Marcotte, Natural Resources Canada, Canada; George Isaac, Environment Canada, Canada; Jothiram Vivekanandan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States; Alexi Korolev, Environment Canada, Canada

FRP1.PK.10: DYNAMIC THRESHOLD CLOUD DETECTION ALGORITHM IMPROVEMENT FOR AVHRR AND SEVIRI IMAGES
Gabriele Poli, Giulia Adembri, Monica Gherardelli, Maurizio Tommasini, University of Florence, Italy

FRP1.PK.11: A NEW BISTATIC DOPPLER MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH REDUCED CONTAMINATION BY SIDELOBE ECHOES
Seiji Kawamura, Hiroshi Hanado, Shigeo Sugitani, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

Ocean Surface Winds and Currents I

FRP1.PL.1: WIND MAPPING BY OCEAN ACOUSTIC INTERFEROMETRY
Alexander Voronovich, Cecile Penland, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, United States

FRP1.PL.2: STUDIES OFTHE INFLUENCE OF RAINFALL UPON SCATTEROMETER ESTIMATES FOR SEA SURFACE STRESS: APPLICATIONS TO BOUNDARY LAYER PARAMETERIZATION AND DRAG COEFFICIENT MODELS WITHIN TROPICAL CYCLONE ENVIRONMENTS
David Weissman, Hofstra University, United States; Henry Winterbottom, Mark Bourassa, Florida State University, United States

FRP1.PL.3: OCEAN WIND MEASUREMENTS WITH GPS MULTISTATIC RADAR FROM HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRCRAFT
Valery Zavorotny, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, United States; Dennis Akos, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States; Edward Walsh, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, United States

FRP1.PL.4: ON SURFACE WIND SPEED RETRIEVAL FROM SAR IMAGERY IN WEST PACIFIC OCEAN
Hui Shen, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; William Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada; Yijun He, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP1.PL.5: AUTOMATED TYPHOON IDENTIFICATION FROM QUIKSCAT WIND DATA
Juhong Zou, National Satellite Ocean Application Service, China; Mingsen Lin, xuetong Xie, NSOAS, China; Shuyan Lang, Songxue Cui, National Satellite Ocean Application Service, China

FRP1.PL.6: DEPENDENCY OF BACKSCATTERING FROM OCEAN SURFACE ON WIND DIRECTION BY USING AIRBORNE SAR -- LOW WIND SPEED CASE --
Akitsugu Nadai, Toshihiko Umehara, Takeshi Matsuoka, Makoto Satake, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Seiho Uratsuka, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

FRP1.PL.7: CHANGES IN THE CLIMATE RECORD DUE TO CHANGES IN THE OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM
Mark Bourassa, Florida State University, United States

FRP1.PL.8: FUSION OF QUIKSCAT SCATTEROMETER AND RADARSAT-1 SAR DATA FOR WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATION USING A BAYESIAN APPROACH.
Audrey Lessard-Fontaine, Monique Bernier, Karem Chokmani, Gaëtan Lafrance, INRS, Canada; Salaheddine El Adlouni, INSEA, Morocco

FRP1.PL.9: A NEW ALGORITHM FOR WIND SPEED AT LOW INCIDENCE ANGLES USING TRMM PRECIPITATION RADAR DATA
Xiaoqing Chu, Yijun He, Gengxin Chen, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Ocean Surface Winds and Currents III

FRP1.PM.1: DEVELOPMENT OF A SIGNAL PROCESSING SUBSYSTEM FOR A SPACEBORNE ROTATING, FAN-BEAM SCATTEROMETER
Wenming Lin, Xiaolong Dong, Di Zhu, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP1.PM.2: ACCURACY AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION ANALYSIS OF HY-2 SCATTEROMETERS
Shuyan Lang, Bin Zou, Yarong Zou, Bo Mu, National Satellite Ocean Application Service, China; Jingye Yan, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Youguang Zhang, Jianqiang Liu, National Satellite Ocean Application Service, China

FRP1.PM.3: PERFORMANCE STATUS OF THE WAVE SCATTEROMETER SWIM
Céline Tison, Thierry Amiot, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Vivien Enjolras, Thalès Alenia Space, France; Danièle Hauser, UVSQ, CNRS, LATMOS-IPSL, France; Rey Laurent, Thalès Alenia Space, France; Souyris Jean-Claude, Patrick Castillan, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

FRP1.PM.4: DIRECT AND REMOTE SENSING MEASUREMENTS DURING A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS CAPMOS'05-07-09 ON AN OFFSHORE PLATFORM
Michael N. Pospelov, Natalia Y. Komarova, Space Research Institute, Russian Federation; Alexander S. Kuznetsov, Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Ukraine

FRP1.PM.5: FETCH LIMITED SEA SCATTERING SPECTRAL MODEL FOR HF-OTH SKYWAVE RADAR
Riccardo Paladini, Enzo Dalle Mese, Fabrizio Berizzi, University of Pisa, Italy; Andrea Garzelli, University of Siena, Italy; Marco Martorella, Amerigo Capria, University of Pisa, Italy

FRP1.PM.6: OCEAN SURFACE BACKSCATTERING AT EXTREMELY LOW GRAZING ANGLES OBSERVED BY C-BAND POLARIMETRIC DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR: DOPPLER SPECTRUM ANALYSIS
Makoto Satake, Seiji Kawamura, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; Yukari Shusse, Nagoya University, Japan; Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Toshio Iguchi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

FRP1.PM.7: ESTIMATE OF SHORT WAVE CURVATURE FROM ANGULAR RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS
Michael N. Pospelov, Alexey V. Kuzmin, Ilya N. Sadovsky, Space Research Institute, Russian Federation

FRP1.PM.8: A C-BAND MULTI-POLARIMETRIC SAR FLIGHT EXPERIMENT ON OCEAN APPLICATION
Xinzhe Yuan, Chunhua Xie, National Satellite Ocean Application Service, China; Yunkai Deng, Yuanyao Lu, Institute of Electronic of Chinese Academy of Science, China

FRP1.PM.9: NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF WAVE BREAKING
Vladimir Irisov, ZelTech/NOAA, United States; Alexander Voronovich, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States

FRP1.PM.10: A MODIFIED WIND VECTOR RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR POLARIMETRIC SCATTEROMETER
Xuetong Xie, Mingsen Lin, Zhou Huang, Juhong Zou, Dongxuan Tian, Lixia Liu, Xiaoning Wang, Shiwei Dong, National Satellite Ocean Application Service, China

UXO and Landmine Remediation

FR2.L01.1: MODELING THE MEASURED EM INDUCTION RESPONSE OF TARGETS AS A SUM OF DIPOLE TERMS EACH WITH A DISCRETE RELAXATION FREQUENCY
Waymond Scott, Gregg Larson, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

FR2.L01.2: CONTEXT-DEPENDENT LANDMINE DETECTION WITH GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR USING A HIDDEN MARKOV CONTEXT MODEL
Christopher Ratto, Peter Torrione, Kenneth Morton, Leslie Collins, Duke University, United States

FR2.L01.3: AN SVM CLASSIFIER WITH HMM-BASED KERNEL FOR LANDMINE DETECTION USING GROUND PENETRATING RADAR
Anis Hamdi, Oualid Missaoui, Hichem Frigui, University of Louisville, United States

FR2.L01.4: A MULTIMODAL MATCHING PURSUITS DISSIMILARITY MEASURE APPLIED TO LANDMINE/CLUTTER DISCRIMINATION
Taylor Glenn, Joseph Wilson, K.C. Ho, University of Florida, United States

FR2.L01.5: 3D VELOCITY MODEL AND RAY TRACING OF ANTENNA ARRAY GPR
Xuan Feng, Wenjin Liang, Qi Lu, Cai Liu, Lili Li, Lilong Zou, Jilin University, China; Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

Ocean Biology II

FR2.L02.1: THE SENTINEL-3 MISSION OVERVIEW
Bernd Seitz, Constantin Mavrocordatos, Helge Rebhan, Jens Nieke, Ulf Klein, Frank Borde, Bruno Berruti, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands

FR2.L02.2: STUDY OF SNOWMELT IMPACT ON SST AND TSM FIELDS IN THE COASTAL ZONE OF BARENTS SEA
Rivo Uiboupin, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia; Olivier Arino, European Space Agency, Italy

FR2.L02.3: DETECTION OF “RED-TIDE” BY USING SATELLITE DATA
Obaid Al Shaer, Khalid Mubarak, Ali Dawood, Raed M Shubair, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR), United Arab Emirates

FR2.L02.4: INITIAL IN-ORBIT RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION RESULT OF GEOSTATIONARY OCEAN COLOR IMAGER
Seongick Cho, Yu-Hwan Ahn, Hee-Jeong Han, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Republic of Korea

FR2.L02.5: THE POSSIBILITY ON ESTIMATION OF CONCENTRATION OF HEAVY METALS IN COASTAL WATERS FROM REMOTE SENSING DATA
Chuqun Chen, Fenfen Liu, Quanjun He, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

GIS Applications

FR2.L03.1: LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING IN A HIMALAYAN ROAD CORRIDOR USING BAYESIAN LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS
Iswar Das, Alfred Stein, Norman Kerle, ITC, Netherlands; Vinay K. Dadhwal, IIRS, India

FR2.L03.2: PILOT RESEARCH ON CENSUS MAPPING BASED ON SATELLITE IMAGERY AND WEB-GIS
Li Hongsheng, Wang Yingjie, Yu Zhuoyuan, Luo Bin, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FR2.L03.3: RESEARCH ON EVALUATION OF LOCATION PLANNING FOR URBAN PUBLIC SERVICE FACILITIES BASED ON GIS SPATIAL ANALYSIS
Xianjuan Kong, Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute, China; Anrong Dang, Tsinghua University, China; Gongli Li, Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute, China

FR2.L03.4: GEODATABASE DEVELOPMENT TO SUPPORT HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY EXPLOITATION
Robert Fusina, US Naval Research Lab, United States; John Fry, Reid Nichols, Marine Information Resources Corp, United States; Charles Bachmann, Rong-Rong Li, US Naval Research Lab, United States; Jon Sellars, Christopher Parrish, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Marcos Montes, Carl Gross, US Naval Research Lab, United States; Stephen White, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States; Krista Lee, Christopher Jones, US Naval Postgraduate School, United States

FR2.L03.5: HIGH RESOLUTION DSM GENERATION FROM ALOS PRISM - PROCESSING STATUS AND INFLUENCE OF ATTITUDE FLUCTUATION -
Junichi Takaku, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan; Takeo Tadono, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

New Machine Learning Methods for Remote Sensing Data Analysis II

FR2.L04.1: MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS
Jeremy Bolton, Paul Gader, University of Florida, United States

FR2.L04.2: SPARSE BAND SELECTION FOR SUPPORT VECTOR DATA DESCRIPTION APPLICATIONS
Amit Banerjee, Joshua Broadwater, Philippe Burlina, Johns Hopkins University, United States

FR2.L04.3: KERNEL PARAMETER DEPENDENCE IN SPATIAL FACTOR ANALYSIS
Allan Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

FR2.L04.4: MANIFOLD COORDINATE REPRESENTATIONS OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY: IMPROVEMENTS IN ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE AND COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY
Charles Bachmann, Tom Ainsworth, Robert Fusina, US Naval Research Lab, United States; Rusty Topping, Tell Gates, Celestech, United States

FR2.L04.5: SEMISUPERVISED GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION FOR BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION
Yakoub Bazi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia; Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy

Optical Monitoring of Forests

FR2.L05.1: DISCRIMINATING C3 AND C4 PLANTS FROM HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Liangyun Liu, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FR2.L05.2: VEGEATION HEIGHT, BIOMASS AND CARBON MAPPED IN THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES FROM OPTICAL AND INSAR SATELLITE AND FOREST INVENTORY DATA
Josef Kellndorfer, Wayne Walker, Katie Kirsch, Jesse Bishop, Greg Fiske, Woods Hole Research Center, United States; Elizabeth LaPointe, USDA Forest Service, United States

FR2.L05.3: A PHYSICALLY BASED APPROACH IN RETRIEVING VEGETATION LEAF AREA INDEX FROM LANDSAT SURFACE REFLECTANCE DATA
Sangram Ganguly, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Weile Wang, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Peter Votava, Andrew Michaelis, Cristina Milesi, Jennifer L. Dungan, Forrest Melton, NASA Ames Research Center, United States; Ranga B. Myneni, Boston University, United States

FR2.L05.4: MAPPING VEGETATION LEAF AREA INDEX USING LANDSAT/GLOBAL LAND SURVEY DATA
Ramakrishna R. Nemani, NASA Ames Research Center, United States; Sangram Ganguly, BAERI/NASA Ames Research Center, United States; Weile Wang, CSUMB/NASA Ames Research Center, United States; Feng Gao, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Petr Votava, Andrew Michaelis, Jennifer L. Dungan, Forrest Melton, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Cristina Milesi, CSUMB/NASA Ames Research Center, United States; Ranga B. Myneni, Boston University, United States

FR2.L05.5: INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN DELINEATION USING MULTI-SCALE SEGMENTATION OF AERIAL IMAGERY
Linhai Jing, Baoxin Hu, Jili Li, York University, Canada

Hyperspectral Missions

FR2.L06.1: USING EO-1 HYPERION IMAGES TO PROTOTYPE ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTS FOR HYSPIRI
Elizabeth Middleton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Petya Campbell, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, United States; Qingyuan Zhang, Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, United States; Yen-Ben Cheng, Earth Resources Technology, Inc., United States; Karl Huemmrich, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, United States; Lawrence Ong, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Stephen Ungar, Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, United States

FR2.L06.2: SPECTRAL CALIBRATIONS OF HICO DATA USING ATMOSPHERIC BANDS AND RADIANCE ADJUSTMENT BASED ON HICO AND MODIS DATA COMPARISONS
Bo-Cai Gao, Rong-Rong Li, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

FR2.L06.3: HJ-1A/B MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERS RADIOMETRIC STABILITY IN THE FIRST YEAR
Zhengchao Chen, Bing Zhang, Wenjuan Zhang, Hao Zhang, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FR2.L06.4: THE USER INTERFACE OF THE ENMAP SATELLITE MISSION
Uta Heiden, Nicole Pinnel, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Joerg Gredel, EOS-Consulting, Germany; Isabelle Pengler, Helmut Mühle, Isabelle Pengler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Katja Reissig, IB Reissig, Germany; Daniele Dietrich, Torsten Heinen, Tobias Storch, Sabrina Eberle, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Hermann Kaufmann, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany

FR2.L06.5: OVERVIEW OF THE FOURIER TRANSFORM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER (HSI) BOARDED ON HJ-1A SATELLITE
Xiang Zhao, Beijing Normal University, China; Q. Kang, China Center for Resource Satellite Data and Applications, China; Q. Li, Satellite Environmental Application Centre of the Ministry of Environmental Protecton of China, China; L. Fang, Y.H. Chen, Beijing Normal University, China

Microwave Radiometer Calibration II

FR2.L07.1: PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION AND CALIBRATION OF SUPERCONDUCTING SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE LIMB-EMISSION SOUNDER (SMILES)
Satoshi Ochiai, Yoshihisa Irimajiri, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; Kenichi Kikuchi, Toshiyuki Nishibori, Takuki Sano, Ryota Sato, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Takeshi Manabe, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan; Hiroyuki Ozeki, Toho University, Japan; Masato Shiotani, Kyoto University, Japan

FR2.L07.2: PHASED ARRAY RADIOMETER CALIBRATION USING A RADIATED NOISE SOURCE
Karthik Srinivasan, Ashutosh Limaye, Universities Space Research Association, United States; Charles Laymon, Paul Meyer, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States

FR2.L07.3: ERROR BUDGETING FOR RADIOMETER THERMAL VACUUM TEST
Justin Bobak, Peter W. Gaiser, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

FR2.L07.4: COMPARISON OF MICROWAVE BLACK-BODY TARGET RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS
David K. Walker, Dazhen Gu, Katherine MacReynolds, Randy Direen, James Randa, Amanda E. Cox, Derek Houtz, Robert L. Billinger, NIST, United States

FR2.L07.5: CHINA LUNAR PROBE CHANG’E-1 MICROWAVE SOUNDER --- DESIGN AND SOME RESULTS
Jingshan Jiang, Zhenzhan Wang, Xiaohui Zhang, Yun Li, Xue Fei Wang, Tao Wang, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Calibration and Performance Evaluation of Advanced Passive Microwave Instruments

FR2.L08.1: EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF THE CORBELLA'S VISIBILITY FUNCTION USING HUT-2D AND MIRAS
Fernando Martin-Porqueras, European Space Agency, Spain; Juha Kainulainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Manuel Martin-Neira, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Ignasi Corbella, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain; Roger Oliva, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Rita Castro, Jose Barbosa, Antonio Gutierrez, Deimos Engenharia, Portugal

FR2.L08.2: THE HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER WIDE SWATH SIMULATION AND WIND SPEED RETRIEVALS
Ruba A. Amarin, W. Linwood Jones, James Johnson, University of Central Florida, United States; Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States; Timothy Miller, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States; Eric Uhlhorn, NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division, United States

FR2.L08.3: CAPABILITIES AND IMPACT ON WIND ANALYSES OF THE HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER (HIRAD)
Timothy Miller, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States; Ruba A. Amarin, University of Central Florida, United States; Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML, United States; M.C. Bailey, Self employed, United States; Peter Black, SAIC/Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Courtney Buckley, Universities Space Research Association, United States; Mark James, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States; James Johnson, W. Linwood Jones, University of Central Florida, United States; Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States; David Simmons, University of Alabama, Huntsville, United States; Eric Uhlhorn, NOAA/AOML, United States

FR2.L08.4: END-TO-END SIMULATOR FOR GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM REFLECTOMETRY SPACE MISSION
Hyuk Park, Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Enric Valencia, Issac Ramos-Perez, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Remote Sensing Laboratory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain

FR2.L08.5: FPIR DEMONSTRATOR
Jingye Yan, Ji Wu, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Manuel Martin-Neira, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Hao Liu, Heguang Liu, Jingshan Jiang, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Netherlands

Active Microwave Sensors and Applications

FR2.L09.1: SWIM, A NEW KU-BAND SCATTEROMETER DEDICATED TO WAVES OBSERVATION
Vivien Enjolras, Laurent Rey, Jérôme Lorenzo, Thales Alenia Space, France; Thierry Amiot, Céline Tison, Patrick Castillan, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

FR2.L09.2: PROCESSING OF MEMPHIS MILLIMETER WAVE MULTI-BASELINE INSAR DATA
Christophe Magnard, Erich Meier, David Small, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Helmut Essen, Thorsten Brehm, Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), Germany

FR2.L09.3: APPLYING PSI AND TOMOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES TO RADARSAT-2 SPOTLIGHT DATA; A CASE STUDY FOR EDMONTON AREA
Valentin Poncos, University of Calgary, Canada; John Dehls, Alberta Geological Survey, Canada; Gianfranco Fornaro, Diego Reale, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, Italy

FR2.L09.4: PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS OF AIRBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY ACQUIRED OVER MAYA SETTLEMENTS IN CENTRAL AMERICA
Bruce Chapman, Ronald Blom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Thomas Garrison, Brown University, United States; Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Stephen Houston, Brown University, United States; Charles Golden, Brandeis University, United States; Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

FR2.L09.5: BIOMASS ESTIMATION FROM SAR POLARIMETRY AND INTERFEROMETRY SEPARATING GROUND AND VOLUME CONTRIBUTIONS
Maxim Neumann, Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

SMOS: The Beginning of a L-band Generation of Global Remote Sensed Soil Moisture Observations II

FR2.L10.1: MONITORING SMOS BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES AT GLOBAL SCALE. A PRELIMINARY OVERALL QUALITY ASSESSMENT.
Joaquin Muñoz Sabater, Patricia de Rosnay, Mohamed Dahoui, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom; Matthias Drusch, Steven Delwart, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Norrie Wright, European Space Agency - ESRIN, Italy

FR2.L10.2: VALIDATION OF SMOS: SOME FIRST RESULTS
Jeffrey Walker, Sandy Peischl, Mahdi Allahmoradi, Christoph Rüdiger, Dongryeol Ryu, Nan Ye, University of Melbourne, Australia; Damian Barett, University of Queensland, Australia; Robert Gurney, University of Reading, United Kingdom; Yann Kerr, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Ed Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; John Le Marshall, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Australia

FR2.L10.3: TOWARDS VALIDATION OF SMOS LAND PRODUCTS USING THE SYNERGY BETWEEN MODELS, AIRBORNE AND GROUND-BASED DATA OVER THE VALENCIA ANCHOR STATION. DEFINITION OF MATCHING-UP POINTS TO SMOS OBSERVATIONS
Ernesto Lopez-Baeza, University of Valencia, Spain; Ahmad Albitar, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; M. Carmen Antolin, Center for Desertification Research (CIDE), Spain; Jan Balling, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Fernando Belda, Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia, Spain; Catherine Bouzinac, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Alejandro Buil, University of Valencia, Spain; Fernando Camacho, Aurelio Cano, EOLAB-Spain, Spain; Ester Carbo, Center for Desertification Research (CIDE), Spain; J. Cernicharo, EOLAB-Spain, Spain; M. Amparo Coll, University of Valencia, Spain; Malcolm Davidson, Steven Delwart, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Arancha Fidalgo, Jucar River Basin Authority, Spain; Achim Hahne, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Silvia Juglea, Yann Kerr, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Beatriz Martinez, University of Valencia, Spain; Christian Mätzler, University of Bern, Switzerland; Susanne Mecklenburg, European Space Agency - ESRIN, Italy; Arnaud Mialon, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Cristina Millan, Center for Desertification Research (CIDE), Spain; Cecilia Narbon, University of Valencia, Spain; Mickael Parde, CETP-CNRS, France; Fernando Requena, Center for Desertification Research (CIDE), Spain; Kauzar Saleh, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Mike Schwank, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland; Niels Skou, Sten S. Søbjærg, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Jorge Tamayo, Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia, Spain; I Torralba, EOLAB-Spain, Spain; Elena Torre, Center for Desertification Research (CIDE), Spain; Ingo Voelksch, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, INRA, France; Patrick Wursteisen, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Mehrez Zribi, CETP-CNRS, France

FR2.L10.4: DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER FOR LAND SURFACE DATA ASSIMILATION OF SOIL MOISTURE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES
Marco Carrera, Stéphane Belair, Bernard Bilodeau, Sheena Solomon, Environment Canada, Canada

FR2.L10.5: SMOS BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES VALIDATION: FIRST RESULTS AFTER THE COMMISSIONING PHASE.
Marco Talone, Remote Sensing Laboratory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Jérôme Gourrion, Roberto Sabia, Carolina Gabarró, Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Veronica Gonzalez, Adriano Camps, Ignasi Corbella, Alessandra Monerris, Remote Sensing Laboratory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain; Jordi Font, Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, Spain

Ground Penetrating Radar Detection of Subsurface Contaminants and Hazards I

FR3.L01.1: IMPACT OF THE WAVE NUMBER ESTIMATION IN UNDERGROUND FOCUSING SAR IMAGES
Fernando Quivira, Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo, Carey M. Rappaport, Northeastern University, United States

FR3.L01.3: GROUND PENETRATING RADAR FOR TUNNEL DETECTION
Mustafa Kuloglu, Chi-Chih Chen, Ohio State University, United States

FR3.L01.4: ROAD SURFACE QUALITY MEASUREMENT USING INEXPENSIVE RADAR
Carey M. Rappaport, Northeastern University, United States; David Holbrook, Chris Adams, Walleye Technologies, Inc., United States; Daniel Busuioc, Jeffrey Doughty, Northeastern University, United States

FR3.L01.5: GPR EVALUATION TEST FOR HUMANITARIAN DEMINING IN CAMBODIA
Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

Ocean Radar Remote Sensing at Grazing Incidence I

FR3.L02.1: EXTRACTION OF COASTAL WAVEFIELD PROPERTIES FROM X-BAND RADAR
Katrin Gisela Hessner, OceanWaveS GmbH, Germany; Jeffrey L. Hanson, US Army Corps of Engineers, United States

FR3.L02.2: SHALLOW WATER BATHYMETRY WITH AN INCOHERENT X-BAND RADAR USING SMALL (SMALLER) SPACE-TIME IMAGE CUBES
Ron Abileah, jOmegak, United States; Dennis Trizna, Imaging Science Research, Inc., United States

FR3.L02.3: SUBMERGED DUNES AND BREAKWATER EMBAYMENTS MAPPED USING WAVE INVERSIONS OF SHORE-MOUNTED MARINE X-BAND RADAR DATA
Paul Bell, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, United Kingdom

FR3.L02.4: A MARINE RADAR BASED OCEAN SURFACE FEATURE MONITORING SYSTEM
Jochen Horstmann, Mathew Coffin, NATO Undersea Research Center, Italy

FR3.L02.5: APPLICATION OF CONVENTIONAL MARINE RADARS FOR MEASURING OCEAN WAVE FIELDS IN SHALLOW WATER CONDITIONS
Jose Carlos Nieto-Borge, David Mata-Moya, Pilar Jarabo-Amores, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain; Konstanze Reichert, OceanWaveS Pacific Ltd, New Zealand; Katrin Gisela Hessner, OceanWaveS GmbH, Germany

Geographic Information Science: Techniques

FR3.L03.1: A PARALLEL-PROCESSING PLATFORM FOR HJ-SATELLITE DATA
Fengbin Zheng, Shenshen Li, Computer and Information Engineering College, Henan University, China; Dong Han, Baohu He, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jibao Lai, Computer and Information Engineering College, Henan University, China

FR3.L03.2: INTEGRATION FLOOD FORECASTING WITH WEB-BASED SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SERVICES IN THE OAK RIDGES MORAINE AREA
Lei Wang, Qiuming Cheng, York University, Canada

FR3.L03.3: GENERATION OF DEM BY RADARGRAMMETRIC TECHNIQUES
Franck Fayard, Stephane Meric, Eric Pottier, European University of Brittany, France

FR3.L03.4: OBJECT BASED ANALYSIS OF HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGERY FOR MAPPING LARGE CORAL REEF SYSTEMS IN THE WEST PACIFIC AT GEOMORPHIC AND BENTHIC COMMUNITY SPATIAL SCALES
Chris Roelfsema, Stuart Phinn, University of Queensland, Australia; Stacy Jupiter, Wildlife Conservation Society, Fiji; James Comley, University of South Pacific, Fiji; Maria Berger, University of Queensland, Australia; Eric Paterson, Victoria University, Australia

FR3.L03.5: A METHOD OF INTELLIGENT 3D AIDED PLANNING FOR LAND CONSOLIDATION
Ruoming Shi, Can Chen, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China; Ling Zhu, Xihan Mu, Beijing Normal University, China

Hyperspectral Methods for Difficult Target Detection I

FR3.L04.1: AUTOMATED HYPERSPECTRAL TARGET DETECTION AND CHANGE DETECTION FROM AN AIRBORNE PLATFORM: PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES
Michael Eismann, Joseph Meola, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States; Alan Stocker, Space Computer Corporation, United States

FR3.L04.3: ROBUST HYPERSPECTRAL DETECTION WITH ALGORITHM FUSION
Steven Adler-Golden, Patrick Conforti, Spectral Sciences Incorporated, United States

FR3.L04.4: SPARSE MATRIX TRANSFORM FOR IMPROVED DETECTION OF SIGNALS, ANOMALIES, AND CHANGES
Charles A. Bouman, Guangzhi Cao, Purdue University, United States; James Theiler, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States

FR3.L04.5: HYPERSPECTRAL APPLICATIONS OF CONTINUUM FUSION
Alan Schaum, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

Lidar in Forestry

FR3.L05.1: RETRIEVING VEGETATION HEIGHT OF FORESTS AND WOODLANDS OVER MOUNTAINOUS AREAS IN THE PACIFIC COAST REGION USING SATELLITE LASER ALTIMETRY
Qi Chen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States

FR3.L05.2: BIOMASS ESTIMATION FOR BOREAL FORESTS USING FIELD, LIDAR AND L-BAND SAR DATA
D. K. Atwood, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States; Hans-Erik Andersen, USDA Forest Service, United States

FR3.L05.3: 3D SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION OF TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNER DATA FOR FORESTRY
Hongjoo Park, Samsung Lim, John Trinder, University of New South Wales, Australia; Russell Turner, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Australia

FR3.L05.4: INTEGRATION OF WAVEFORM LIDAR AND HYPERSPECTRAL DATA TO ESTIMATE STRUCTURAL ATTRIBUTES OF TROPICAL FORESTS
Jinha Jung, Melba Crawford, Purdue University, United States

FR3.L05.5: EFFECTS OF FOREST DISTURBANCES ON FOREST STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS RETRIEVAL FROM LIDAR WAVEFORM DATA
K. Jon Ranson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland College Park, United States

Hyperspectral Methods

FR3.L06.1: DETECTION OF LEAFY SPURGE USING HYPER-SPECTRAL-SPATIAL-TEMPORAL IMAGERY
Steven Jay, Rick Lawrence, Kevin Repasky, Lisa Rew, Montana State University, United States

FR3.L06.2: DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF AUTOASSOCIATIVE NEURAL NETWORKS
Giorgio Licciardi, Fabio Del Frate, Giovanni Schiavon, Domenico Solimini, Tor Vergata University, Italy

FR3.L06.3: ONBOARD PROCESSING OF MULTISPECTRAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL DATA OF VOLCANIC ACTIVITY FOR FUTURE EARTH-ORBITING MISSIONS
Ashley Davies, Steve Chien, Daniel Tran, Joshua Doubleday, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

FR3.L06.4: LIDAR INTEGRATED AIRBORNE IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY FOR ROOT DISEASE DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT OF FOLIAR CHEMISTRY
Geoff Quinn, Olaf Niemann, University of Victoria, Canada; David Goodenough, Natural Resources Canada, Canada

FR3.L06.5: MODELING AND MEASUREMENT OF OPTICAL POLARIMETRIC IMAGE PHENOMENOLOGY IN A COMPLEX URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Michael Presnar, John Kerekes, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States

COSMO/Skymed I

FR3.L07.1: ASI DATA EXPLOITATION OF THE COSMO-SKYMED MISSION
Fabrizio Battazza, Giuseppe Bianco, Alessandro Coletta, Fabio Covello, Ettore Lopinto, Gemma Manoni, Giovanni Valentini, ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy

FR3.L07.2: CONTRIBUTION OF ASI COSMO-SKYMED MISSION TO THE SPACE TASK GROUP FOR THE INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR
Fabrizio Battazza, Giuseppe Bianco, ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy; Achille Ciappa, e-GEOS, Italy; Alessandro Coletta, ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy; Luca Pietranera, e-GEOS, Italy

FR3.L07.3: STATUS, RESULTS, POTENTIALITY AND EVOLUTION OF COSMO–SKYMED, THE ITALIAN EARTH OBSERVATION CONSTELLATION FOR RISK MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY
Francesco Caltagirone, Giuseppe De Luca, Fabio Covello, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy; Graziano Marano, Italian Ministry of Defense, Italy; Giuseppe Angino, Matteo Piemontese, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy

FR3.L07.4: ONE-DAY INTERFEROMETRY RESULTS WITH THE COSMO-SKYMED CONSTELLATION
Fabio Covello, Fabrizio Battazza, Alessandro Coletta, Gemma Manoni, Giovanni Valentini, ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy

FR3.L07.5: COSMO-SKYMED DATA FOR OPERATIONAL CRISIS MANAGEMENT DURING EARTHQUAKES: DEMONSTRATION THROUGH THE ASI-SIGRIS PILOT PROJECT
Marco Chini, Stefano Salvi, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Stefano Vignoli, Advanced Computer Systems, Italy; Marco Serra, Simona Zoffoli, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy; Vittorio Bosi, Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, Italy

Millimeter-wave Technology and Sensors for Earth Science Radar Remote Sensing I

>FR3.L08.1: FROM SRTM TO SWOT AND BEYOND: THE LIMITS OF RADAR INTERFEROMETRY
Ernesto Rodriguez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

FR3.L08.3: KA-BAND SAR INTERFEROMETRY STUDIES FOR THE SWOT MISSION
Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Lee-Lueng Fu, Ernesto Rodriguez, Shannon Brown, Richard Hodges, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

FR3.L08.4: THE KA-BAND SWOT PHENOMENOLOGY AIRBORNE RADAR
Delwyn Moller, James R. Carswell, Remote Sensing Solutions, United States

FR3.L08.5: THE GLACIER AND ICE SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY INTERFEROMETER: FIRST RESULTS FROM GREENLAND
Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Delwyn Moller, Remote Sensing Solutions, United States; Thierry Michel, Greg Sadowy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

Interferometry and Differential SAR Interferometry

FR3.L09.1: MULTI BEAM JOINED ESTIMATION FOR PERSISTENT SACTTERER INTERFEROMETRY
Nico Adam, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Stefan Gernhardt, Technische Universität München, Germany; Michael Eineder, Richard Bamler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

FR3.L09.2: REDUCING IONOSPHERIC DECORRELATION EFFECTS IN INSAR DATA USING ACCURATE COREGISTRATION
Albert Chen, Howard Zebker, Stanford University, United States

FR3.L09.3: ITERATIVE APPROACH FOR HIGH RESOLUTION INSAR SUBSURFACE FOCUSING AND COREGISTRATION IN ARID REGIONS
Adel Elsherbini, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, United States

FR3.L09.4: ITERATIVE CALIBRATION OF RELATIVE PLATFORM POSITION: A NEW METHOD FOR SAR BASELINE ESTIMATION
Tiangang Yin, Emmanuel Christophe, Soo Chin Liew, Sim Heng Ong, National University of Singapore, Singapore

FR3.L09.5: MULTIBASELINE GRADIENT AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT MINIMUM COST FLOW PHASE UNWRAPPING
Marie Lachaise, Richard Bamler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Fernando Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany

SMOS Soil Moisture Science and Products

FR3.L10.1: SCIENTIFIC AND OPERATIONAL EXPLOITATION OF GLOBAL SMOS OBSERVATIONS: ESA’S SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES
Matthias Drusch, Achim Hahne, Catherine Bouzinac, Steven Delwart, Susanne Mecklenburg, Norrie Wright, European Space Agency, Netherlands

FR3.L10.2: MULTI-ORBIT INVERSION OF SMOS SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE
Ahmad Albitar, Elsa Jacquette, Olivier Merlin, Yann Kerr, Arnaud Mialon, François Cabot, Philippe Richaume, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Arnaud Quesney, Capgemini Sud, France; Jean-Luc Vergely, ACRI-ST, France

FR3.L10.3: USING MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDICES FOR SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY
Liang Chen, Kerr Yann, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Jiancheng Shi, Institute for Computational Earth System Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, EPHYSE - INRA, France

FR3.L10.4: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE VALUES EVALUATION OVER SAHELIAN AREA
Claire Gruhier, Yann Kerr, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Thierry Pellarin, LTHE, France; Patricia de Rosnay, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom; Manuela Grippa, LMTG, France

FR3.L10.5: BOREAL FOREST SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENTS USING HUT-2D SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER
Jaakko Seppänen, Juha Kainulainen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Martti Hallikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Juha Lemmetyinen, Marko Mäkynen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

Soil Moisture and Vegetation Characterization Using Microwave I

FRP2.PA.1: ON THE POTENTIAL OF THE AMSR-E BASED POLARIZATION RATIO VARIATION INDEX (PRVI) FOR SOIL WETNESS VARIATIONS MONITORING
Teodosio Lacava, Irina Coviello, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis - National Research Council, Italy; Giuseppe Mazzeo, University of Basilicata, Italy; Nicola Pergola, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis - National Research Council, Italy; Valerio Tramutoli, University of Basilicata, Italy

FRP2.PA.2: POTENTIAL OF MAPPING SOIL MOISTURE BY COMBINING POLSAR DECOMPOSITION AND RADAR BACKSCATTER MODEL
Amine Merzouki, Heather McNairn, Anna Pacheco, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada

FRP2.PA.3: THE PROCESS OF UNFROZEN WATER FREEZING WITH DECREASING TEMPERATURE STUDIED BY DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENT IN THE CASE OF AN ARCTIC SOIL
Valery Mironov, Institute of Physics SB RAS, Russian Federation; Roger De Roo, University of Michigan, United States; Igor Savin, Institute of Physics SB RAS, Russian Federation

FRP2.PA.4: SOIL MOISTURE PERFORMANCE PREDICTION FOR THE NPOESS MICROWAVE IMAGER/SOUNDER(MIS)
Li Li, Andy Jones, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Gary McWilliams, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, United States

FRP2.PA.5: FURTHER VALIDATION OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCTS IN THE YIHE BASIN OF CHINA
Jiongfeng Chen, Wanchang Zhang, Nanjing University, China; Kexin Zhang, Xuemei Lv, Linyi Meteorological Bureau, China

FRP2.PA.6: TOWARDS MULTI-INCIDENCE ANGLE PASSIVE MICROWAVE RETRIEVAL OF SOIL MOISTURE
Sandy Peischl, Jeffrey Walker, Dongryeol Ryu, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Yann Kerr, Biospheric Processes, CESBIO, France; Christoph Rüdiger, University of Melbourne, Australia

FRP2.PA.7: OVERVIEW OF SMOS CATDS LEVEL 3 SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCTS
Elsa Jacquette, Ahmad Albitar, Yann Kerr, Arnaud Mialon, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Arnaud Quesney, Capgemini Sud, France; François Cabot, Philippe Richaume, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France

FRP2.PA.8: WINDSAT SOIL MOISTURE AND VEGETATION WATER CONTENT OBSERVATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE 2003 EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE
Li Li, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Sonia Seneviratne, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH, Switzerland; Peter W. Gaiser, Gerald Nedoluha, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, United States

FRP2.PA.9: TRIPLE COLLOCATION – A NEW TOOL TO DETERMINE THE ERROR STRUCTURE OF GLOBAL SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCTS
Klaus Scipal, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Wouter Dorigo, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Richard de Jeu, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Soil Moisture and Vegetation Properties in Remote Sensing

FRP2.PB.1: SALINITY EFFECTS ON L-BAND MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE
Kaighin McColl, Dongryeol Ryu, Vjekoslav Matic, Jeffrey Walker, The University of Melbourne, Australia

FRP2.PB.2: STATISTICAL ERROR FOR THE MOISTURES RETRIEVED WITH THE SMOS RADIOBRIGHTNESS DATA, AS INDUCED BY IMPERFECTNESS OF A DIELECTRIC MODEL USED
Valery Mironov, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian State Aerospace University, Russian Federation; Yann Kerr, Center for the Study of the BIOsphère from Space, France; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, EPHYSE INRA, France; Liudmila Kosolapova, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Russian Federation; François Demontoux, Clément Duffour, Bordeaux University, France

FRP2.PB.3: THE EFFECT OF CLAY AND ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT ON THE DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY OF SOILS AND GROUNDS AT THE FREQUENCY RANGE FROM 10 MHZ TO 1 GHZ
Pavel Bobrov, Omsk State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation; Valery Mironov, Kirensky Institute of Physics, SB RAS, Russian Federation; Olga Kondratyeva, Andrey Repin, Omsk State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation

FRP2.PB.4: CHARACTERISTICS OF ROUGH SURFACE PARAMETERS ESTIMATED FROM MEASURED SURFACE PROFILE OF FINITE LENGTH
Masahiko Nishimoto, Kumamoto University, Japan

FRP2.PB.5: MERGING THERMAL AND MICROWAVE SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS FOR A HIGH-RESOLUTION SOIL MOISTURE DATA PRODUCT
Xiwu Zhan, NOAA-NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Martha Anderson, USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, United States; Jicheng Liu, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States

FRP2.PB.6: CHARACTERIZATION OF FULL SURFACE ROUGHNESS IN AGRICULTURAL SOILS USING GROUNDBASED LIDAR
Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, Jasmeet Judge, K. Clint Slatton, Ramesh Shrestha, William Carter, David Bloomquist, University of Florida, United States

FRP2.PB.7: STUDY OF THE SPECTRAL GRADIENT OF FROZEN SOIL
Shaojie Zhao, Lixin Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China; Weipo Xing, Tianjin Maritime Safety Administration, China; Zhiyu Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China

FRP2.PB.8: INTERPOLATION OF GEOPHYSICAL DATA USING SPATIO-TEMPORAL (3D) BLOCK SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION
Anish Turlapaty, Nicolas Younan, Valentine Anantharaj, Mississippi State University, United States

FRP2.PB.9: SOIL MOISTURE FROM POINT TO FOOTPRINT SCALE: SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIABILITY, TIME STABILITY, AND PHYSICAL CONTROLS
Binayak Mohanty, Champa Joshi, Texas A&M University, United States

FRP2.PB.10: ANALYZING THE “EAR” FEATURE OF A DRIED UP LAKE BASED ON VOLUME SCATTERING MODELLING
Zhihong Gao, Yun Shao, Huaze Gong, Zi Wan, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PB.11: RADAR RETREIVAL OF SUBSURFACE PARAMETERS FOR LAYERED MEDIA WITH NONSMOOTH INTERFACES
Yuriy Goykhman, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States

Soil Moisture and Vegetation Characterization Using Microwave II

FRP2.PC.1: MICROWAVE CHRACTERISTICS OF CORN AT HIGHER FREQUENCIES BY MODELING AND EXPERIMENTS VALIDATION
Zhongjun Zhang, Lixin Zhang, Xianchuan Yu, Beijing Normal University, China; Jiancheng Shi, University of California, Santa Babara, United States

FRP2.PC.2: COMBINED ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW, BARE AND VEGETATED SOILS MICROWAVE REFLECTIVE AND EMISSIVE CHARACTERISTICS BY KA-BAND, COMBINED SCATTEROMETER-RADIOMETER SYSTEM
Artashes Arakelyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Astghik Hambaryan, Arsen Arakelyan, ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Company, Armenia

FRP2.PC.3: MULTI-FREQUENCY AND POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF BARE AND VEGETATED SOILS MICROWAVE REFLECTION AND EMISSION BY C- AND KU-BAND, COMBINED SCATTEROMETER-RADIOMETER SYSTEMS
Astghik Hambaryan, Artashes Arakelyan, Vardan Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Mushegh Manukyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Gagik Hovhannisyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Sargis Darbinyan, ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Company, Armenia

FRP2.PC.4: C- AND KU-BAND (AT 5.6GHZ AND 13.6GHZ), DUAL-FREQUENCY, MULTI-POLARIZATION, SHORT PULSE, COMBINED SCATTEROMETER-RADIOMETER SYSTEM FOR LOW ALTITUDE PLATFORM, VESSEL AND AIRCRAFT APPLICATIONS
Artashes Arakelyan, Astghik Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Arsen Arakelyan, Marine Simonyan, ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Company, Armenia; Tigran Poghosyan, Nubar Poghosyan, Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics of ANAS, Armenia

FRP2.PC.5: VEGETATION EFFECTS AT FROZEN ENVIRONMENT BY SIMULATION AND TRUCK-MOUNTED MICROWAVE RADIOMETER
Zhongjun Zhang, Lixin Zhang, Shaojie Zhao, Xin Liu, Beijing Normal University, China; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States

FRP2.PC.6: THE MAXIMUM BOUND WATER CONTENT MEASUREMENT BY DIELECTRIC AND NMR TECHNIQUE
Valery Mironov, Andrey Andreevich Suhovskiy, Yuri Ivanovich Lukin, Inga Petrovna Aleksandrova, L.V. Kirensky Institut of Physics SB RAS, Russian Federation

FRP2.PC.7: TERRESTRIAL FREEZE-THAW MONITORING ON THE TIBET PLATEAU USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING
Liying Li, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiancheng Shi, Jinyang Du, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PC.8: THE RADIOBRIGHTNESS AND DEPTH OF FROZEN SOIL DURING CYCLES OF FREEZING AND THAWING
Pavel Bobrov, Omsk State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation; Valery Mironov, Kirensky Institute of Physics, SB RAS, Russian Federation; Alexander Yashchenko, Omsk State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation

FRP2.PC.9: THE USE OF GNSS SIGNALS FOR ESTIMATING SOIL MOISTURE: THE LEIMON EXPERIMENT
Marco Brogioni, Institute of Applied Physics - National Research Council, Italy; Marco Caparrini, Alejandro Egidio, Esteban Farres, STARLAB, Spain; Nicolas Floury, European Space Agency - ESTEC, Netherlands; Leila Guerriero, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; Erwan Motte, STARLAB, Spain; Enrico Palchetti, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Institute of Applied Physics - National Research Council, Italy; Nazzareno Pierdicca, University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy; Emanuele Santi, Institute of Applied Physics - National Research Council, Italy

FRP2.PC.10: SOIL WETNESS VARIATIONS MONITORING BY MULTI-TEMPORAL PASSIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITE DATA ANALYSIS
Wei Zheng, National Satellite Meteorological Center of China Meteorological Administration, China; Haixia Feng, Peking University, China; Xin Wang, National Satellite Meteorological Center of China Meteorological Administration, China

FRP2.PC.11: IN-SITU BROADBAND SOIL MEASUREMENTS: DIELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
Hyoung-sun Youn, Loon Yip Lee, Magdy F. Iskander, University of Hawaii, United States

Earth Observation Applications

FRP2.PD.1: A MERGED GLOBAL DIGITAL TOPOGRAPHIC DATA SET
Michael Kobrick, Thomas Farr, Robert Crippen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

FRP2.PD.2: SATELLITE OIL SPILL DETECTION AND MONITORING IN THE OPTICAL RANGE
Caterina Sara Livia Grimaldi, University of Basilicata, Italy; Daniele Casciello, ARPA Lombardia, Italy; Irina Coviello, Teodosio Lacava, Nicola Pergola, National Research Council (CNR), Italy; Valerio Tramutoli, University of Basilicata, Italy

FRP2.PD.3: EAST-CHINA GEOCHEMISTRY DATABASE (ECGD): A NEW NETWORKING DATABASE
Xiaorui Wang, Weifeng Ma, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China

FRP2.PD.4: UN-MIXING OF REFLECTANCE SPECTRA: NATURAL SURFACES SCENARIOS.
Ekaterina Carmina, Véronique Carrère, Nantes University, France

FRP2.PD.5: IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES ASSOCIATED WITH TONGA MW7.9 EARTHQUAKE—RESULTS FROM LANGMUIR PROBE INSTRUMENT ONBOARD DEMETER SATELLITE
Ze Ren Zhi Ma, Xue Min Zhang, Xu Hui Shen, Liu Jing, Xiong Pan, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China; Chun Li Kang, China Earthquake Networks Center, China

FRP2.PD.6: APPLICATIONS OF POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION TECHNOLOGY IN A DRIED UP LAKE EVOLUTION
Yun Shao, Huaze Gong, Guojun Wang, Aimin Cai, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PD.7: TROPOSPHERIC CORRECTION FOR INSAR USING INTERPOLATED ECMWF DATA AND GPS ZENITH TOTAL DELAY FROM THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTEGRATED GPS NETWORK
Johan Löfgren, Fredrik Björndahl, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Angelyn Moore, Frank Webb, Eric Fielding, Evan Fishbein, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

FRP2.PD.8: LINEAR DUNES ON TITAN AND REMOTE SENSING COMPARISONS WITH EARTH
Jani Radebaugh, Brigham Young University, United States; R.D. Lorenz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States; C. J. Savage, Brigham Young University, United States; N. Lancaster, Desert Research Institute, United States; Thomas Farr, S. D. Wall, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; E. R. Stofan, Proxemy Research, United States; P. Paillou, University of Bordeaux, France; J.I. Lunine, University of Arizona, United States; R. L. Kirk, USGS, United States; R.M.C. Lopes, Cassini Radar Team, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

FRP2.PD.9: MINING METALLOGENIC ASSOCIATION RULES COMBINING CLOUD MODEL WITH APRIORI ALGORITHM
Ying Cui, Binbin He, Jianhua Chen, Zhonghai He, Yue Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Hydrocarbon and Mineral Applications

FRP2.PE.1: WEIGHTS-OF-EVIDENCE MODELLING OF SEDMENTARY PHOSPHORITE DEPOSITS IN BRAZIL
Washington Franca-Rocha, UEFS, Brazil; Aroldo Misi, UFBA, Brazil; Ardemirio Silva, UEFS, Brazil

FRP2.PE.2: HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING OF SERPENTINE ROCKS AND ASBESTOS BEARING ROOFING SLATE
Chang-Uk Hyun, Hyeong-Dong Park, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

FRP2.PE.3: OFFSHORE HYDROCARBON SEEPAGE CHARACTERIZATION THROUGH SPECTROSCOPY, MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS AND OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING
Talita Lammoglia, Carlos Roberto Souza Filho, University of Campinas, Brazil

FRP2.PE.4: REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS IN PETROLEUM RESOURCES EXPLORATION FOR OFFSHORE BASINS IN CHINA
Xiaoxia Huang, Zhenhai Zhu, Hongga Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PE.5: HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION MAPPING USING ASTER DATA IN EAST KUNLUN MOUNTAINS, CHINA
Zhonghai He, Binbin He, Ying Cui, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

FRP2.PE.6: EXTRACTION OF MINERAL ALTERATION ANOMALY ZONE FROM ASTER DATA IN MANZHOULI, CHINA
Zhaoqiang Huang, Institute of Mineral Resources, China Metallurgic Geology Bureau, China

FRP2.PE.7: PRIMARY ANALYSIS ON DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF PERMAFROST IN THE UPPER AREA OF THE SHULE RIVER WATERSHED, ON THE NORTHEASTERN EDGE OF THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU
Yu Sheng, Jing Li, Huijun Jin, Jichun Wu, Baisheng Ye, Jie Wang, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PE.8: ON RADAR SOUNDING APPLICATIONS FOR ENCELADEAN ICE
Catherine C. Walker, Christopher D. Parkinson, Michael W. Liemohn, University of Michigan, United States

FRP2.PE.9: ECOSYSTEM HEALTH ASSESSMENT BY USING REMOTE SENSING DERIVED DATA: A CASE STUDY OF TERRESTRIAL REGION ALONG THE COAST IN ZHEJIANG PROVINCE
Zhenghua Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiu Yin, Shanghai Center for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, China; Li Li, Hua Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PE.10: MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING FOR MARINE MONITORING:AN EXAMPLE OF ENTEROMORPHA PROLIFERA BLOOM MONITORING
Shiang Wang, Fengli Zhang, Yun Shao, Wei Tian, Huaze Gong, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Geographic Information Science: Applications

FRP2.PF.1: STUDY ON ROAD DAMAGE ASSESSMENT BASED ON RS AND GIS
Jun Li, Qiming Qin, Peking University, China; Haijian Ma, China Earthquake Administration, China; Weilin Yuan, Peking University, China

FRP2.PF.2: MODIS-NDVI-BASED FAST EXTRACTION OF MULTI-CROP PLANTING AREAS IN CHINA AGRICULTURE REMOTE SENSING MONITORING SYSTEM
Qing Huang, Huajun Tang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Xianlin Qin, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China; Guixia Yang, Jianqiang Ren, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

FRP2.PF.3: THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESERVOIR-INDUCED SEISMICITY AND RISK ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
Xiang Ding, Xiaoqing Wang, Youhua Zheng, Feiyu Zhang, Long Wang, Institute of Earthquake Science, China

FRP2.PF.4: STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VARIATION OF LAKES IN QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Guozhuang Shen, Huadong Guo, Jingjuan Liao, Li Zhang, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PF.5: USING LIDAR TO ESTIMATE THE CAPACITY FOR STORM WATER RECYCLING AND SOLAR ENERGY COLLECTION
David Conway, Samsung Lim, University of New South Wales, Australia

FRP2.PF.6: IDENTIFICATION OF AREAS PRONE TO SHALLOW LANDSLIDE IN PARQUE NACIONAL DA SERRA DOS ÓRGÃOS (BRAZIL) CONSIDERING SEASONAL RAINFALL
Roberto Gomes, Renato Guimarães, Osmar Abílio Carvalho Júnior, Aline Menke, Univerisdade de Brasília, Brazil; Éder Martins, Embrapa Cerrados, Brazil; Sandro Oliveira, Univerisdade de Brasília, Brazil; Nelson Fernandes, Univerisdade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

FRP2.PF.7: SELF-SERVICE FOLK TOURISM GUIDING TECHNOLOGY ON MOBILE TERMINAL WITH MULTI-MODE: APPLICATION OF GPS AND ELECTRONIC MAP
Zhuowei Hu, Zhiheng Wang, Hongqi Liu, Hongxia Bie, Capital Normal University, China

DEM

FRP2.PG.1: ELEVATION EXTRACTION AND OBJECT RECOGNITION FROM AERIAL STEREO IMAGES
Hongwei Zhu, Frank Scarpace, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

FRP2.PG.2: DEM QUALITY IMPACT ON PIXEL LOCATION ACCURACY OF TERRASAR-X ORTHORECTIFIED IMAGERY – AN ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT GLOBAL DEMS AND TERRASAR-X STEREO DEMS
Wolfgang Koppe, Nadine Kiefl, Simon D. Hennig, Juergen Janoth, Infoterra GmbH, Germany

FRP2.PG.3: MODEL-BASED ESTIMATION OF SURFACE GEOMETRY USING PASSIVE POLARIMETRIC IMAGING
Charles Creusere, Ketan Mehta, David Voelz, New Mexico State University, United States

FRP2.PG.4: THE ANALYSIS OF SURFACE DEFORMATION BASED ON TWO-PASS AND THREE-PASS D-INSAR
Ning-ning Qu, Guang Zhu, Xi-an Zhao, Chang-feng Jing, Jing-guo Lv, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China

FRP2.PG.5: 3D VISUALIZATION COMPUTING IN FAST DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
Xiaoping Du, Xiangtao Fan, Bing Zhang, Rendong Nan, Junjie Zhu, Jian Tan, Shuo Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PG.6: 3D GEOLOGICAL MODELLING USING LASER AND HYPERSPECTRAL DATA
Juan Nieto, University of Sydney, Australia; Diego Viejo, University of Alicante, Spain; Sildomar Monteiro, University of Sydney, Australia

FRP2.PG.7: EARTHQUAKE RISK EVALUATION USING LANDFORMS PROCESSED BY UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION METHOD
Masafumi Hosokawa, National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, Japan; Byeong-pyo Jeong, Osamu Takizawa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

FRP2.PG.8: ROBUST SUB-PIXEL DISPARITY ESTIMATION AND ITS REFINEMENT AROUND DEPTH DISCONTINUITY AND FEATURELESS AREAS
Hongshi Yan, Jian-Guo Liu, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

FRP2.PG.9: CHALLENGE OF ASTER DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL
Akira Iwasaki, Masaru Koga, Hiroto Kanno, Naoto Yokoya, Tetsuya Okuda, Kojiro Saito, University of Tokyo, Japan

SAR Techniques and Applications

FRP2.PH.1: TROPICAL CYCLONE WIND ESTIMATION USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
Silvia Falchetti, Jochen Horstmann, NATO Undersea Research Center, Italy

FRP2.PH.2: QUANTIFICATION OF THE TOPOGRAPHIC SLOPE FROM RADAR SATELLITE IMAGERY
Damien Dhont, Emmanuel Pajot, University of Pau, France; Jean-Paul Rudant, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France

FRP2.PH.3: INTEGRATION OF INSAR AND GIS FOR AN ESTIMATION OF GROUND SUBSIDENCE SUCCEPTIBILITY
Jong-Kuk Choi, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Republic of Korea; Joong-Sun Won, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea; Sang-Wan Kim, Sejong University, Republic of Korea; Ki-Dong Kim, National Institute of Environmental Research, Republic of Korea; Joo-Hyung Ryu, Hong-Rhyong Yoo, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Republic of Korea

FRP2.PH.4: 3D SUBSURFACE VISUALIZATION BY SUPPRESSING GROUND REFLECTION AND DIRECT WAVE WITH BISTATIC GPR
Naoki Hayashi, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

FRP2.PH.5: OPTIMAL SAR PROCESSING BEAMWIDTH FOR HIGH ALTITUDE AIRBORNE RADAR DEPTH SOUNDER DATA
Logan Smith, Carl Leuschen, Prasad Gogineni, Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, United States

FRP2.PH.6: CHANGE DETECTION FOR URBAN AREAS IN HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IAMGES USING SECOND KIND STATISTICS BASED G0 DISTRIBUTION
Zili Shan, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PH.7: PS-INSAR TIME SERIES ANALYSIS FOR MEASURING SURFACE DEFORMATION BEFORE THE L'AQUILA EARTHQUAKE
Bin Liu, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, China; Yi Luo, Jingfa Zhang, Lixia Gong, Wenliang Jiang, Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration, China; Liyan Ren, China University of Mining and Technology, China

FRP2.PH.8: GNSS ILLUMINATOR BASED HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING ALGORITHM IN SPACE-SURFACE BISTATIC SAR
Jie Zhen, Xidian University, China; Zhenhua Zhang, Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., China

FRP2.PH.9: INVESTIGATING CO-SEISMIC DEFORMATION OF THE 2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE WITH ALOS SCANSAR INTERFEROMETRIC OBSERVATIONS
Xiai Cui, Qiming Zeng, Cunren Liang, Jian Jiao, Peking University, China

FRP2.PH.10: USING SAR TO ESTIMATE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF OIL OUTPUT FROM NATURAL HYDROCARBON SEEP FORMATIONS
Oscar Garcia-Pineda, Ian MacDonald, Florida State University, United States; William Pichel, NOAA/NESDIS, United States; Xiaofeng Li, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Beate Zimmer, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, United States; Laura Lapham, Florida State University, United States

SAR Processing Techniques

FRP2.PI.1: THE EXTENDED SBAS TECHNIQUE FOR GENERATING FULL RESOLUTION ERS/ENVISAT DEFORMATION TIME-SERIES
Manuela Bonano, Università 'La Sapienza', Italy; Michele Manunta, IREA - CNR, Italy; Maria Marsella, Università 'La Sapienza', Italy; Riccardo Lanari, IREA - CNR, Italy

FRP2.PI.2: POSE ESTIMATION FOR ISAR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Mohamed Nabil Saidi, Abdelmalek Toumi, Brigitte Hoeltzener, Ali Khenchaf, ENSIETA, France; Driss Aboutajdine, Mohamed V University, Morocco

FRP2.PI.3: RANDOM NOISE SAR BASED ON COMPRESSED SENSING
Hai Jiang, Bingchen Zhang, Yueguan Lin, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Jin Zhan, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PI.4: ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE ON INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE
Bin Ding, Mao Sheng Xiang, Xing Dong Liang, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PI.5: GROUND MOVING TARGET DETECTABILITY IN THE STAP BASED SPACEBORNE ARRAY RADAR
Jung S. Jung, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Republic of Korea; Young K. Kwag, Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea

FRP2.PI.6: INVESTIGATION ON MOVING TARGET DETECTION AND VELOCITY ESTIMATION WITH TRIPLE-CHANNEL MIMO-SAR
Han Gao, Jingwen Li, BeiHang University, China

FRP2.PI.7: AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELING OF DECHIRPED SPOTLIGHT-MODE SAR RAW DATA IN TRANSFORM DOMAIN
Takeshi Ikuma, Mort Naraghi-Pour, Louisiana State University, United States; Thomas Lewis, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States

FRP2.PI.8: SIMULATION OF $(M_1,M_2)$-DEPENDENT RANDOM FIELDS WITH K-DISTRIBUTED MARGINALS
Anika Maresch, Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), Germany

FRP2.PI.9: EFFECT OF SQUINT IMAGING ON BEAM POSITION DESIGN OF SPACE BORNE SAR
Zhiqian Wang, Chunsheng Li, Ze Yu, BeiHang University, China; Yongqiang Zhang, Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunication Technology, China

FRP2.PI.10: MIMO SAR PROCESSING WITH AZIMUTH NONUNIFORM SAMPLING
Yueguan Lin, Bingchen Zhang, Hong Wen, Yirong Wu, Yang Li, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

SAR Applications and Processing

FRP2.PJ.1: A NOVEL RANGE MIGRATION ALGORITHM OF GEO SAR ECHO DATA
Feifeng Liu, Cheng Hu, Tao Zeng, Teng Long, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

FRP2.PJ.2: CHARACTERIZATION OF AFFECTED AREAS OF THE 2008 IWATE-MIYAGI, JAPAN, EARTHQUAKE USING SAR INTENSITY IMAGES
Fumio Yamazaki, Hisamitsu Inoue, Chiba University, Japan

FRP2.PJ.3: SNOW WETNESS RETRIEVAL INVERSION MODEL DEVELOPMENT FOR C-BAND AND X-BAND MULTI-POLARIZATION SAR DATA
G. Singh, G. Venkataraman, IIT Bombay, India

FRP2.PJ.4: PROCESSING FOR AIRBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA WITH HIGH SQUINT
Lideng Wei, Songtao Han, Maosheng Xiang, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PJ.5: A DUAL-FREQUENCY SAR MOSAIC OF THE AMAZON
Leland Pierce, University of Michigan, United States; Oton Barros, INPE, Brazil

FRP2.PJ.6: A HIGH ACCURACY METHOD FOR INTERFERENCE FRINGES SUPPRESSION IN SAR DISTRIBUTED TARGETS’ RAW DATA SIMULATION
Dazhi Zeng, Hanwei Sun, Tao Zeng, Teng Long, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

FRP2.PJ.7: MODIFICATION OF SLANT RANGE MODEL AND IMAGING PROCESSING IN GEO SAR
Cheng Hu, Feifeng Liu, Wenfu Yang, Tao Zeng, Teng Long, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

FRP2.PJ.8: RECIPROCAL SPECTRUM ALGORITHM FOR RADAR IMAGING WITH FREQUENCY SAMPLING WAVEFORM
Gaohuan Lv, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Guozhong Chen, Junli Chen, Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering, China

Clouds and Precipitation Applications

FRP2.PK.1: DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS OF PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE CHANGE OVER ARID CENTRAL ASIA IN RECENT 50 YEARS
Jinsong Wang, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China

FRP2.PK.2: REMOTE SENSING OF SURFACE AND CLOUD-TOP PRESSURE FROM MERIS MEASUREMENTS IN THE OXYGEN A BAND
Rasmus Lindstrot, Juergen Fischer, Rene Preusker, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

FRP2.PK.3: A NEW APPROACH TO FORECAST THE TYPHOON’S ACCUMULATED RAINFALL IN TAIWAN BY USING SATELLITE DATA
Chung-Chih Liu, Sung-Ching Chi, Hsin-Chia Yang, Minghsin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

FRP2.PK.4: SATCAM: AN IPHONE APPLICATION FOR COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN SATELLITE CLOUD PRODUCT VALIDATION
Liam Gumley, Robert Holz, David Parker, Bruce Flynn, Bill Bellon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

FRP2.PK.5: Q2: A NATIONAL MULTI-SENSOR QPE SYSTEM
Jian Zhang, Kenneth Howard, Steven Vasiloff, Carrie Langston, Brian Kaney, National Severe Storms Lab, United States

FRP2.PK.6: NOWCASTING FOR RAINFALL ACCUMULATION PREDICTION
Evan Ruzanski, V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States

FRP2.PK.7: VALIDATION OF SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ADJUSTMENT METHODOLOGY
Kenneth Tobin, Marvin Bennett, Texas A&M International University, United States

FRP2.PK.8: VALIDATION OF RADAR BASED IDENTIFICATION OF HIGH-IMPACT WEATHER PHENOMENA BY SOCIAL MEDIA REPORTS
Dmitri Moisseev, University Of Helsinki, Finland; Otto Hyvärinen, Elena Saltikoff, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States

FRP2.PK.9: COMPARISONS OF RAIN RATE AND REFLECTIVITY BETWEEN TRMM PRECIPITATION RADAR AND GOSAN S-BAND RADAR
Jun-Dong Park, Mi-Lim Ou, Korea Meteorological Administration, Republic of Korea; Kenneth Robert Morris, Mathew Schwaller, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States

FRP2.PK.10: THE INFLUENCE OF ARCTIC SEA ICE EXTENT ON POLAR CLOUD FRACTION AND VERTICAL STRUCTURE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL CLIMATE
Stephen Palm, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; James Spinhirne, University of Arizona, United States; Thorsten Markus, NASA, United States

FRP2.PK.11: SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF PRECIPITATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA ANALYZED USING THE EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF) TECHNIQUE
Soo Chin Liew, Aik Song Chia, Leong Keong Kwoh, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ocean Surface Winds and Currents II

FRP2.PL.1: SEMIDIURNAL TIDAL CURRENTS MEASURED WITH OCEAN SURFACE RADAR AROUND ISAHAYA BAY MOUTH IN ARIAKE SOUND, JAPAN
Takaki Tsubono, Takumi Yoshii, Masafumi Matsuyama, Shin'Ichi Sakai, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan; Akihide Tada, Nagasaki University, Japan

FRP2.PL.2: TRACKING FRESHWATER PLUME USING OCEAN RADAR IN ARIAKE BAY, JAPAN
Takumi Yoshii, Takaki Tsubono, Shin'ichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuyama, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan; Akihide Tada, Takehiro Nakamura, Nagasaki University, Japan

FRP2.PL.3: THE PROPAGATING SPEED OF INTERNAL SOLITARY WAVES INVESTIGATED BY X-BAND RADAR NEAR DONGSHA ISLAND
Haibin Lv, Yijun He, Hui Shen, Limin Cui, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chang-e Dou, Huai Hai Institute of Technology, China

FRP2.PL.4: ON SAR REMOTE SENSING OF OCEANIC INTERNAL WAVES IN SOUTH CHINA SEA WITH COMPARISON OF LONG TIME IN-SITU ADCP MEASUREMENTS
Hui Shen, Yijun He, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FRP2.PL.5: OBSERVATIONS OF SEA SURFACE WAVES IN WIDE WAVELENGTH RANGE WITH OPTICAL SYSTEM
Victor Titov, Aleksandr Luchinin, Emma Zuikova, Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Federation

FRP2.PL.6: NESTED-SCALE VELOCIMETRY IN A RIVER USING INFRARED
Chris Chickadel, Andrew T. Jessup, University of Washington, United States

Ground Penetrating Radar Detection of Subsurface Contaminants and Hazards II

FR4.L01.1: AN APPLICATION OF RECIPROCITY TO THE NUMERICAL MODELING OF A GPR SYSTEM
Michael McFadden, Waymond Scott, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

FR4.L01.2: THE SEMI-ANALYTIC MODE MATCHING ALGORITHM FOR GPR WAVE SCATTERING FROM MULTIPLE COMPLEX OBJECTS BURIED IN A DIELECTRIC SOIL HALF SPACE
Ann Morgenthaler, Carey M. Rappaport, Northeastern University, United States

FR4.L01.3: SUBSURFACE DAMAGE DETECTION OF A MULTI-LAYER LOSSY MEDIUM USING SIMULATED MONOSTATIC GPR RESPONSES
Tzu-Yang Yu, Sebahattin Eker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, United States

FR4.L01.4: ELECTROMAGNETIC INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING: THE EXPLOITATION OF GPR DATA AND NEURAL NETWORKS FOR MULTI-LAYERED GEOMETRIES
Salvatore Caorsi, Mattia Stasolla, University of Pavia, Italy

FR4.L01.5: USE OF 2D FDTD SIMULATION AND THE DETERMINATION OF THE GPR TRAVEL PATH ANGLE FOR OBLIQUE B-SCANS OF 2D GEOMETRIES
Kimberly Belli, Carey M. Rappaport, Christopher Udall, Margery Hines, Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Northeastern University, United States

Ocean Radar Remote Sensing at Grazing Incidence II

FR4.L02.1: OCEAN WAVE FIELD MEASUREMENTS USING COHERENT AND NONCOHERENT RADARS AT LOW GRAZING ANGLES
David Lyzenga, Okey Nwogu, University of Michigan, United States; Dennis Trizna, Imaging Science Research, Inc., United States

FR4.L02.2: DUAL-POLARIZED, COHERENT MICROWAVE BACKSCATTER FROM ROUGH WATER SURFACES AT LOW GRAZING ANGLES
William Plant, University of Washington, United States

FR4.L02.3: DOPPLER PROCESSING OF COHERENT RADAR BACKSCATTER FOR OCEAN SURFACE WAVE MEASUREMENTS
Paul Hwang, Mark Sletten, Jakov Toporkov, Dennis Trizna, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

FR4.L02.4: A COHERENT MARINE RADAR FOR MEASUREMENT OF PROPERTIES OF OCEAN WAVES AND CURRENTS
Dennis Trizna, Imaging Science Research, Inc., United States

FR4.L02.5: DETECTION OF SALIENT FEATURES IN SURFACE CURRENT MAPS FROM DOPPLERIZED X-BAND RADAR
Joerg Seemann, Marius Cysewski, Friedwart Ziemer, Martina Heineke, Rolf Riethmueller, GKSS Research Center, Germany

GIS Techniques and Standards

FR4.L03.1: VISUAL ASSISTANCE TOOLS FOR INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION OF REMOTE SENSING DATA
Martin Lambers, Andreas Kolb, University of Siegen, Germany

FR4.L03.2: SEMANTIC REGISTRATION OF GEOSCIENTIFIC DATA THROUGH ESIP SEMANTIC WEB TESTBED
Wenwen Li, Chaowei Yang, George Mason University, United States; Rob Raskin, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

FR4.L03.3: OWL-BASED SEMANTIC MODEL FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL GEOGRAPHIC ONTOLOGY
Zhaoqiang Huang, Institute of Mineral Resources, China Metallurgic Geology Bureau, China

FR4.L03.4: EARTH SCIENCE DATA RECORDS SHARING SUPPORTED BY THE SPATIAL WEB PORTAL
Lizhi Miao, Paul Houser, Chaowei Yang, Huayi Wu, George Mason University, United States

FR4.L03.5: WEB SERVICE ENCAPSULATION OF FORTRAN-BASED GEOGRAPHICAL MODEL
Xiaolin Wang, Haibo Wang, Hao Deng, Yingwei Luo, Peking University, China

Hyperspectral Methods for Difficult Target Detection II

FR4.L04.1: HYPERSPECTRAL MATCHED FILTERS WITH FALSE ALARM MITIGATION
Robert DiPietro, Dimitris Manolakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, United States; Thomas Cooley, Ronald Lockwood, John Jacobson, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States

FR4.L04.2: IMPROVING HYPERSPECTRAL CHANGE DETECTION PERFORMANCE
Alan Stocker, Space Computer Corporation, United States

FR4.L04.3: DETECTION OF SMALL CHANGES IN COMPLEX URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL SCENES USING IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY
Michal Shimoni, Roel Heremans, Christiaan Perneel, SIC-RMA, Belgium

FR4.L04.4: THE IMPACT OF BAND SELECTION ON HYPERSPECTRAL POINT TARGET DETECTION ALGORITHMS
Stanley Rotman, Moti Vortman, Cobi Biton, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

FR4.L04.5: STATISTICS FOR CHARACTERIZING DATA ON THE PERIPHERY
James Theiler, Don Hush, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States

Forest Monitoring with Radar

FR4.L05.1: A BIOMASS ESTIMATE OVER THE HARVARD FOREST USING FIELD MEASUREMENTS WITH RADAR AND LIDAR DATA
Razi Ahmed, Paul Siqueira, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States; Kathleen Bergen, University of Michinga, Ann Arbor, United States; Bruce Chapman, Scott Hensley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

FR4.L05.2: POLINSAR FORESTRY APPLICATIONS IMPROVED BY MODELING HEIGHT-DEPENDENT TEMPORAL DECORRELATION
Marco Lavalle, Eric Pottier, University of Rennes 1, Italy; Domenico Solimini, Tor Vergata University, Italy

FR4.L05.3: TOPOGRAPHIC CORRECTION FOR BIOMASS RETRIEVAL FROM P-BAND SAR DATA IN BOREAL FORESTS
Gustaf Sandberg, Maciej Soja, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Lars M. H. Ulander, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden

FR4.L05.4: 3D FOREST STRUCTURE DERIVED FROM POLARIMETRIC MULTIBASELINE INSAR DATA AND ITS RELATION TO BIOMASS
Stefan Sauer, Florian Kugler, Seung-Kuk Lee, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

FR4.L05.5: EIGEN DECOMPOSITION PARAMETER BASED FOREST MAPPING USING RADARSAT-2 POLSAR DATA
Yang Li, Wen Hong, Fang Cao, National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, China; Erxue Chen, Institute of Forest Resources Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China; David Goodenough, Hao Chen, Ashlin Richardson, Pacific Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Canada

Spectral Methods

FR4.L06.1: SURFACE BRDF-BASED ALBEDO FROM MULTIPLE VIEW ANGLE AIRBORNE IMAGERY SPECTROMETRY
Hassan Khavarian Nehzak, Ted Milton, Peter Atkinson, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

FR4.L06.2: SPECTRAL SIGNATURE OF LEAVES OF AMAZON RAINFOREST TREE SPECIES
Egidio Arai, Gabriel Pereira, Samuel Coura, Francielle Cardozo, Yosio Shimabukuro, Elisabete Moraes, Ramon Freitas, Fernando Espirito-Santo, INPE, Brazil

FR4.L06.3: ESTIMATING TERRESTRIAL GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY WITH THE ENVISAT MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER (MERIS) TERRESTRIAL CHLOROPHYLL INDEX (MTCI)
Samuel Almond, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom; Doreen Boyd, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; Jadunandan Dash, University of Southampton, United Kingdom; Paul Curran, Ross Hill, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom; Giles Foody, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

FR4.L06.4: USING IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY TO ESTIMATE INTEGRATED MEASURES OF FORAGE QUALITY FOR BROWSING HERBIVORES
Kara Youngentob, Australian National University, Australia; Luigi Renzullo, Alex A. Held, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia; Xiuping Jia, Australian Defense Force Academy, Australia; David Lindenmayer, William Foley, Australian National University, Australia

FR4.L06.5: SPECTRAL SAMPLING TOOLS FOR VEGETATION BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS (BP) AND FLUX MEASUREMENTS IN EUROPE: THE NEW EUROPEAN ES0903 COST ACTION
Loris Vescovo, Damiano Gianelle, Matteo Sottocornola, Fondazione Mach, Italy

COSMO/Skymed II

FR4.L07.1: A FUZZY-LOGIC-BASED APPROACH FOR FLOOD DETECTION FROM COSMO-SKYMED DATA
Nazzareno Pierdicca, Luca Pulvirenti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Marco Chini, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Leila Guerriero, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy

FR4.L07.2: CONTRIBUTION OF COSMO/SKYMED DATA INTO PRIMI: A PILOT PROJECT ON MARINE OIL POLLUTION. RESULTS AFTER ONE YEAR OF OPERATIONS
Francesco Nirchio, Italian Space Agency, Italy; Gianfranco Pandiscia, Giovanni Ruggieri, Telespazio, Italy; Rosalia Santoleri, CNR-ISAC, Italy; Francesco Tataranni, Innova, Italy; Paolo Trivero, Università Piemonte Orientale, Italy; Nadia Pinardi, INGV, Italy; Andrea Masini, Chiara Castellani, flyby, Italy

FR4.L07.3: THE COSMO SKYMED CONSTELLATION TURN ON THE L’AQUILA EARTHQUAKE: DINSAR RESULTS OF THE MORFEO PROJECT
Fabio Bovenga, ISSIA-CNR, Italy; Laura Candela, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy; Francesco Casu, Gianfranco Fornaro, IREA - CNR, Italy; Fausto Guzzetti, IRPI - CNR, Italy; Riccardo Lanari, IREA - CNR, Italy; Davide Oscar Nitti, Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Raffaele Nutricato, Geiphysical Applications Processing s.r.l, Italy; Diego Reale, IREA - CNR, Italy

FR4.L07.4: THE SIASGE SYSTEM: JOINT X-L SAR BANDS FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Paolo Castracane, Gaetano Pace, Advanced Computer Systems, Italy; Ettore Lopinto, ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy; Simonetta Paloscia, Emanuele Santi, IFAC - CNR, Italy; Davide D'Aria, ARESYS, Italy; Chaira Giannico, TRE EUROPA, Italy; Paolo Gamba, Fabio Dell'Acqua, Massimiliano Aldrighi, UNIPV, Italy; Nazzareno Pierdicca, Fabrizio Pelliccia, UNIRM, Italy; Stefano Tebaldini, Politecnico Milano, Italy

FR4.L07.5: PROCESSING AND SEGMENTATION OF COSMO-SKYMED IMAGES FOR FLOOD MONITORING
Silvana Dellepiane, Elena Angiati, Gianni Vernazza, Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE) - Università di Genoa, Italy

Millimeter-wave Technology and Sensors for Earth Science Radar Remote Sensing II

FR4.L08.1: A PORTABLE 35 GHZ CROSS-TRACK INTERFEROMETER FOR TOPOGRAPHIC AND SURFACE CHANGE MEASUREMENTS
Paul Siqueira, Harish Vedantham, Tony Swochak, University of Massachusetts, United States

FR4.L08.2: REALIZATION OF THE NASA DUAL-FREQUENCY DUAL-POLARIZED DOPPLER RADAR (D3R)
Manuel Vega, NASA, United States; James R. Carswell, Remote Sensing Solutions, United States; V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States; Mathew Schwaller, NASA, United States

FR4.L08.3: A CLOUD AND PRECIPITATION RADAR SYSTEM CONCEPT FOR THE ACE MISSION
Stephen Durden, Simone Tanelli, Larry Epp, Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Houfei Fang, Vahraz Jamnejad, Raul Perez, Aluizio Prata, Lorene Samoska, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

FR4.L08.4: QUANTIFYING THE UNCERTAINTY IN 35GHZ+94GHZ SPACE-BORNE RADAR RETRIEVALS OF RAIN
Ziad Haddad, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Kyung-Won Park, Joint Institute For Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, UCLA, United States; Simone Tanelli, Steve Durden, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States

FR4.L08.5: NEW APPLICATIONS IN COMMERCIAL REMOTE SENSING ENABLED BY RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN MILLIMETER-WAVE TECHNOLOGY AND SENSORS
James R. Carswell, Remote Sensing Solutions, United States

Interferometric SAR and Applications

FR4.L09.1: OPTIMAL SENSOR POSITIONING FOR ISAR IMAGING
Marco Martorella, University of Pisa, Italy

FR4.L09.2: KARIN – THE KA-BAND RADAR INTERFEROMETER ON SWOT: MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE, PROCESSING AND DATA SPECIFICITIES
Roger Fjørtoft, Jean-Marc Gaudin, Nadine Pourthie, Christine Lion, Alain Mallet, Jean-Claude Souyris, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Christian Ruiz, CapGemini, France; Fifamé Koudogbo, Javier Duro, Patrick Ordoqui, Alain Arnaud, Altamira Information, Spain

FR4.L09.3: QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT ON THE REQUIREMENTS OF DESDYNI MISSION FOR CRUSTAL DEFORMATION STUDY
Sang-Ho Yun, Frank Webb, Paul Lundgren, Eric Fielding, NASA - JPL, United States; Shizhuo Liu, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Zhen Liu, Scott Hensley, Paul Rosen, Jay Parker, NASA - JPL, United States

FR4.L09.4: IMAGING GEODESY WITH TERRASAR-X
Michael Eineder, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Cong Xiaoying, Technische Universität München, Germany; Minet Christian, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Peter Steigenberger, Technische Universität München, Germany; Thomas Fritz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

FR4.L09.5: THREE DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF URBAN AREAS USING JOINTLY PHASE AND AMPLITUDE MULTICHANNEL IMAGES
Aymen Shabou, Florence Tupin, TELECOM ParisTech, France; Giampaolo Ferraioli, Vito Pascazio, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

Surface Roughness and Vegetation Effects on Soil Moisture Estimation

FR4.L10.1: L-BAND EMISSION OF A BARE SOIL ROUGH SURFACE AND A ROUGH SOIL SURFACE COVERED WITH A GRASS LITTER LAYER: COMPARISON BETWEEN EXPERIMENTAL DATA AND A NUMERICAL MODELING APPROACH
Heather Lawrence, University of Bordeaux 1 and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France; François Demontoux, University of Bordeaux 1, France; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France; Arnaud Mialon, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Clément Duffour, University of Bordeaux 1 and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France; Alain Kruszewski, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France; Valery Mironov, Lyudmila Kosolapova, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Russian Federation; Yann Kerr, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France

FR4.L10.2: A MICROWAVE SCATTERING MODEL OF VEGETATED SURFACES BASED ON BOR/DDA AND NMM3D FOR SMAP MISSION
Xiaolan Xu, Leung Tsang, Shaowu Huang, University of Washington, United States; Eni Njoku, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

FR4.L10.3: HOW DOES DEW AFFECT L-BAND BACKSCATTER? ANALYSIS OF PALS DATA AT THE IOWA VALIDATION SITE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SMAP
Brian Hornbuckle, Tracy Rowlandson, Eric Russell, Amy Kaleita, Iowa State University, United States; Sally Logsdon, USDA Agricultural Research Service, United States; Anton Kruger, University of Iowa, United States; Simon Yueh, NASA, United States; Roger De Roo, The University of Michigan, United States

FR4.L10.4: FORWARD SIMULATIONS OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS FOR THE SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE/PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION
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