IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Table of Contents Boston Area Map...... 2 Sheraton Floor Plans...... 3 Hynes Floor Plans...... 4 Hynes Exhibit Hall A Poster Session Map and Exhibits Floor Plan...... 6 Sponsors...... 17 Greetings from GRSS President...... 18 General Chairs’ Welcome...... 18 Technical Program Overview...... 19 Local Organizing Committee...... 20 Senior Advisory Committee...... 21 Technical Program Committee...... 21 Reviewers...... 21 Welcome to Boston...... 28 Visitor Information...... 28 Tips...... 28 Airport Information...... 29 Currency...... 29 Taxation...... 29 Getting Around...... 29 Helpful Phone Numbers...... 30 Internet Access...... 30 Registration...... 30 Tutorials...... 30 GEOSS Workshop...... 31 Technical Meetings...... 31 Oral Presentation Instructions...... 33 Poster Presentation Instructions...... 33 Exhibition...... 33 K-12 Outreach Activities...... 34 Outreach Exhibit Area...... 35 Social Events...... 35 Technical Tour...... 36 Student Activities...... 37 Student Paper Prize Competition...... 38 Awards...... 39 IEEE GRSS Membership...... 39 IEEE GRSS Chapters...... 41 Future IGARSS Symposia...... 42 Opening and Plenary Agenda...... 43 Technical Program...... 45 Topical Session Index...... 238 Author Index...... 247

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7 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston Room 111 HD-11: Introduction to Microwave Radiometry Presenters: R. Vincent Leslie, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Michael J. Schwartz, Microwave Group, NASA JPL HD-12: Microwave Remote Sensing of Presenter: Edward J. Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Room 110 HD-8: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Methods and Applications Presenter: Howard Stanford Zebker, University HD-7: Fractal Models in Electromagnetic Scattering Presenter: Daniele Riccio, University of Napoli Federico II Room 109 HD-5: An Introduction to AGI (Advanced Geospatial Intelligence) Presenter: Brigette A. Martini, Riverside Institute Research HD-6: SAR oil spill observation Presenter: Maurizio Migliaccio, Università di Napoli Parthenope Room 108 HD-3: Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing Presenter: C. H. Chen, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth HD-4: Data Models and Information Estimation in Multichannel Radar Remote Sensing Imagery Presenter: Carlos López- Martínez, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Room 107 HD-1: Modeling the Spectral Responses of Natural Materials under Varying Environmental Parameters: Theoretical and Practical Challenges G. Presenter: Gladimir V. Baranoski, University of Canada Waterloo, HD-2: Feedforward Neural Networks: Theory & Applications in Atmospheric Remote Sensing Presenter: Frederick W. Chen Room 105 FD-3: Semantic content extraction from high resolution EO images Presenters: Mihai Datcu, German DLR Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen and Klaus Seidel, Swiss Federal Institute of ETH Zurich Technology, Room 104 FD-1: SAR Polarimetry: Basics, Processing and Techniques Applications Presenters: Eric Pottier and Laurent Ferro-Famil, IETR UMR CNRS 6164, University of Rennes 1 XXII: Air Quality and Coastal Ecosystems, Room 101 GEOSS Workshop Lunch Break Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) Mission Information Meeting, Gardner Room, Sheraton Boston Hotel Skywalk Reception, Prudential Tower Welcome Sunday, July 6 July Sunday, 08:30 - 17:30 08:30 - 17:00 08:30 - 12:30 12:30 - 13:30 13:30 - 17:30 16:00 - 18:00 17:30 - 20:30 8 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston Room 210 MO3.210: Implementa - tion of GEOSS: and Technical Application De - velopments MO4.210: Implementa - tion of GEOSS: Science and Modeling Poster Area G MOP.G: Coastal, MOP.G: and Health Wetland, Applications IV Room 203 MO3.203: Ad - Passive in vances Microwave and Infrared Imaging and Sounding (In Honor of the Ac - complishments of Prof. David H. Staelin) I MO4.203: Ad - Passive in vances Microwave and Infrared Imaging and Sounding (In Honor of the Ac - complishments of Prof. David H. Staelin) II - Poster Area F Room 111 MO3.111: Ocean Sur face Winds MO4.111: Ocean Wind and Weather Sensing MOP.F: Coastal, MOP.F: and Health Wetland, Applications III - Room 110 MO3.110: Coastal, and Wetland, Health Ap - plications I MO4.110: Coastal, and Wetland, Health Appli - cations II Poster Area E MOP.E: SAR Obser MOP.E: vations of Ocean Processes Room 109 MO3.109: NPOESS and SENTINEL Missions MO4.109: Reflective- Band Vicari - ous Calibra - tion for Intersensor Comparisons Room 108 MO3.108: Information Extraction from High Resolution SAR im - ages I MO4.108: Information Extraction from High Resolution SAR im - ages II Poster Area D - - MOP.D: Active and Pas - MOP.D: sive Ocean Observations Room 107 MO3.107: Frontiers for Classification of Hyper spectral Data I MO4.107: Frontiers for Classification of Hyper spectral Data II Room 105 MO3.105: Remote Sensing Ap - plications - to Archaeol ogy I MO4.105: Remote Sensing Ap - plications - to Archaeol ogy II Poster Area C MOP.C: Ocean Wind MOP.C: Measurements Room 104 MO3.104: Crop and Forest Moni - toring with Microwave Radiometric Sensors I MO4.104: Crop and Forest Moni - toring with Microwave Radiometric Sensors II Poster Area B Room 103 MO3.103: ALOS in 2008 II MO4.103: ALOS in 2008 I MOP.B: Applications MOP.B: of Agroecosystem Monitoring Room 102 MO3.102: RADARSAT MO4.102: Moving Targets Poster Area A Room 101 MO3.101: Mapping Subsurface Geology in Arid Regions using Radar Break MO4.101: Subsurface Object De - tection Poster Sessions, See below Career Forum, Commonwealth Room, Sheraton Boston Hotel Commitee Meeting, Room 111, Hynes Convention Center Frequency Allocations in Remote Sensing Technical Techniques MOP.A: for Agroecosystem Monitoring Opening and Plenary Sessions, Hynes Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium Opening and Plenary Sessions, Hynes Veteran’s Lunch Break 12:00 - 13:20 15:00 - 15:20 17:00 - 18:30 17:30 - 19:30 17:30 - 19:00 Monday, July 7 July Monday, Sessions Poster 7, July Monday, 08:30 - 12:00 13:20 - 15:00 15:20 - 17:00 17:00 - 18:30 9 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston Room 210 TU1.210: Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), Ra - diance Data Assimilation and Ocean Synoptics TU2.210: Assimilation of Satellite Radiances TU3.210: Radiance Assimilation and Retrieval Methods I TU4.210: Memorial Session for Professor Jin Au Kong Room 203 TU1.203: Synergism of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors I TU2.203: Synergism of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors II TU3.203: High Wind Speed Re - trievals from SAR and Scatterom - etry I TU4.203: High Wind Speed Re - trievals from SAR and Scatterom - etry II Room 111 TU1.111: Frequency Allocation for Sens - Remote ing and Radio Frequency Interference Effects in Microwave Radiometry I TU2.111: Frequency Allocation for Sens - Remote ing and Radio Frequency Interference Effects in Microwave Radiometry II TU3.111: Microwave Radiometer I Technology TU4.111: Microwave Radiometer - Technol ogy II - - Room 110 TU1.110: Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation I TU2.110: Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation II TU3.110: Forests and Vegetation: SAR Inter ferometry and Polarim - etry I TU4.110: Forests and Vegetation: SAR Inter ferometry and Polarim - etry II for Room 109 Hyperspectral Applications: Application Develop - ments Hyperspectral Imaging Systems Hyperspectral Applications: Hyperspectral Sensing of Forests TU3.109: Rare Target Detection in Hyperspec - tral Imag - ery I TU4.109: Rare Target Detection in Hyperspec - tral Imagery II TU2.109: Advances in TU1.109: Advances in - - Coher Coher Room 108 Multidimen - Multidimen - sional sional ent SAR Data Combination I Techniques ent SAR Data Combination I Techniques TU2.108: Spatial Data Fusion in PolSAR and Pol-InSAR Imaging TU3.108: Multichannel - TU4.108: Multichannel - TU1.108: New Challenges and Perspec - tives with High Resolu - tion Space - borne SAR Systems Room 107 TU2.107: Data Fu - sion II TU3.107: Urban Areas and Build - ings TU4.107: Multi- and Hyperspec - tral Image Processing I TU1.107: Data Fusion I Room 105 TU2.105: Li - dar Sensors and Applica - tions I TU3.105: EARLINET -- The Euro - pean Aerosol Research Lidar Net - work I TU4.105: EARLINET -- The Euro - pean Aerosol Research Lidar Net - work II TU1.105: Advanced - Lidar Tech nologies and Applica - tions to 3D Landcover Structure I Room 104 TU2.104: and Tower Soil Aircraft Moisture Remote Sensing TU3.104: Radar Re - mote Sens - ing of Soil Moisture TU4.104: Global Soils and Soil Moisture Products TU1.104: Passive Mi - crowave Soil Moisture Algorithms Room 103 TU2.103: Student Paper Competition II TU3.103: Ionospheric Effects in Polarimetric and Interfero - metric SAR Imagery I TU4.103: Ionospheric Effects in Polarimetric and Interfero - metric SAR Imagery II TU1.103: Student Paper Competition I Phase Room 102 Results Commission - ing TU3.102: TerraSAR-X satellite: Sta - tus and First Application Results I TU4.102: TerraSAR-X satellite: Sta - tus and First Application Results II TU2.102: TerraSAR-X TU1.102: Joint Time- Frequency Analysis of SAR Room 101 TU3.101: Re - Sensing mote for Landmine and Unex - ploded Ord - nance Iden - tification and Removal I TU4.101: Re - Sensing mote for Landmine and Unex - ploded Ord - nance Iden - tification and Removal II Break TU2.101: Subsurface Sensing II Lunch Break TU1.101: Subsurface Sensing I Break Tuesday, July 8 July Tuesday, 10:00 - 10:20 10:20 - 12:00 12:00 - 13:20 13:20 - 15:00 08:20 - 10:00 15:00 - 15:20 15:20 - 17:00 10 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston Poster Area K Poster Area V TUP.K: Target Target TUP.K: Detection and Pattern Recognition TUP.V: TUP.V: Microwave Real Aperture Radiometers: Technology and Calibra - tion I Poster Area J Poster Area U TUP.J: Image TUP.J: Analysis and Classifica - tion II TUP.U: TUP.U: Microwave Synthetic Aperture Radi - ometers I Poster Area I Poster Area T TUP.I: Image TUP.I: Analysis and Classification I TUP.T: Lidar TUP.T: Sensors and Applications III TUP.EE: TUP.EE: Geographic Informa - tion Science Outreach Poster Area EE Poster Area S Poster Area H TUP.H: Ap - TUP.H: plications in Data and Image Pro - cessing TUP.S: Lidar TUP.S: Sensors and Applications II TUP.DD: TUP.DD: Geographic Information Science Ap - plications II Poster Area DD Poster Area G Poster Area R TUP.G: TUP.G: Radiance Assimilation and Retrieval Methods II TUP.R: Spatial TUP.R: Resolution - Registration TUP.CC: TUP.CC: Geographic Information Science Ap - plications I Poster Area CC Poster Area F Poster Area Q TUP.F: Radar TUP.F: and Soil Moisture TUP.Q: Image TUP.Q: Processing: Calibration and Correc - tion TUP.BB: TUP.BB: Geographic Information Science Tools Poster Area BB Poster Area E Poster Area P - Vegeta TUP.E: tion Biophysi - cal Parameter Estimation III TUP.P: High TUP.P: Resolution Optical Data Processing TUP.AA: TUP.AA: Geological Applications and GIS Poster Area AA - Poster Area Z Poster Area D Poster Area O TUP.D: Surface TUP.D: Roughness and Soil Proper ties II TUP.O: Multi - TUP.O: spectral and Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Classifica - tion TUP.Z: Geologi - TUP.Z: cal Applications of Radar - Poster Area C Poster Area Y Poster Area N TUP.C: Sur TUP.C: face Rough - ness and Soil Properties I TUP.N: TUP.N: Hyperspectral: Compression and Imple - mentation TUP.Y: Land - TUP.Y: slides and Geological Hazards Poster Area B Poster Area X Poster Area M TUP.B: Soil TUP.B: Moisture Experimental Observations TUP.M: TUP.M: Multitemporal Processing TUP.X: Infrared TUP.X: and Passive Microwave Sat - ellite Missions Poster Area L Poster Area A Poster Sessions, See below Exhibitor Reception, IGARSS Exhibit Hall, Hynes Convention Center Committee Meeting, Room 107, Hynes Convention Center Data Fusion Technical TUP.A: TUP.A: Passive Microwave Sensing of Soil Moisture TUP.L: Feature TUP.L: Extraction and Reduction TUP.W: TUP.W: Microwave Real Aperture Radiometers: Technology and Calibra - tion II Poster Area W Tuesday, July 8, Poster Sessions Poster 8, July Tuesday, 17:00 - 18:30 17:30 - 19:30 18:00 - 19:00 17:00 - 18:30 11 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston Room 210 WE3.210: Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geosci - ence II WE4.210: Advanced - Lidar Tech nologies and Applica - tions to 3D Landcover Structure II WE1.210: Sci - Decadal ence Survey NASA Mis - sions WE2.210: Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geosci - ence I - Char Room 203 from Ground- based and Satellite Ob - servations acteristics WE4.203: Optical & Infrared Modeling for Remote Sensing I WE1.203: Atmospheric Profiling I WE2.203: Atmospheric Profiling II WE3.203: Retrieval of Aerosol Room 111 WE4.111: Image In - formation Mining II WE1.111: Change Detection WE2.111: Analysis - Tech niques: Land Use / Land Cover WE3.111: Image In - formation Mining I - Room 110 WE4.110: Remote Sensing on the African Continent WE1.110: Land Cover Classifica - tion WE2.110: Forest Struc - ture and Biomass WE3.110: Advances in Hyper spectral Applications: Hyperspec - tral Remote Sensing of Vegetation Room 109 WE4.109: Remote Sensing and Policy Deci - sions WE1.109: Atmospheric Compensa - - tion Tech niques for Imaging Spectrom - eter Data I WE2.109: Atmospheric Compensa - - tion Tech niques for Imaging Spectrom - eter Data II WE3.109: Remote Sensing Edu - cation and Outreach - Room 108 WE4.108: Bi - WE4.108: static SAR II WE1.108: TerraSAR-X & TanDEM- X: Features & Calibration WE2.108: Multi Aper ture Multi - static SAR WE3.108: Bi - WE3.108: static SAR I Room 107 WE4.107: Geospatial Based Analy - sis WE1.107: Multi- and Hyperspec - tral Image II Processing WE2.107: Multi- and Hyperspec - tral Image Processing III WE3.107: Data Fusion III Room 105 WE4.105: Coastal Al - timetry II WE1.105: Ocean Al - timetry WE2.105: Ocean and Ice Altim - etry WE3.105: Coastal Al - timetry I Estimation Room 104 Evapotranspira - tion at Field Scale WE4.104: WE1.104: Soils and Hydrologic Applications WE2.104: Scaling Issues in Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture WE3.104: Multiscale Pro - cessing Room 103 WE4.103: Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow II WE1.103: Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow I WE2.103: Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow II WE3.103: Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow I - - Room 102 WE4.102: PolSAR and Pol- InSAR for Agricultural Information Product De - velopment II WE1.102: SAR/PolSAR/ InSAR for Environmen - tal Monitor ing I WE2.102: SAR/PolSAR/ InSAR for Environmen - tal Monitor ing I WE3.102: PolSAR and Pol- InSAR for Agricultural Information Product De - velopment I Imaging: Imaging: Room 101 Break WE4.101: Geological Applications of Synthetic Ap - erture Radar Electromag - netic Electromag - netic Methods and Applications I Methods and Applications II WE1.101: Near Sub-Surface Break WE2.101: Near Sub-Surface Entrance Boylston Center, at the Hynes Convention / Dropoff Hole Oceanographic Organizations. Bus Pickup Woods Tour: Technical Lunch Break WE3.101: Geological Applications and of Hyper- Multi-spectral Imaging Wednesday, July 9 July Wednesday, 15:00 - 15:20 15:20 - 17:00 08:20 - 10:00 10:00 - 10:20 10:20 - 12:00 11:00 - 21:00 12:00 - 13:20 13:20 - 15:00 12 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston - Poster Area K Poster Area V WEP.K: WEP.K: Satellite Data-based Methods for Determining Aerosol Char acteristics WEP.V: Urban WEP.V: Remote Sens - ing I Poster Area J Poster Area U WEP.J: WEP.J: Atmospheric Profiling III WEP.U: WEP.U: Multistatic SAR and 3-D Imaging Poster Area I Poster Area T WEP.I: Ocean WEP.I: Altimetry WEP.T: WEP.T: Moving and Stationary Targets WEP.EE: WEP.EE: Education, Outreach and Policy Poster Area EE Evapotrans - Poster Area S Poster Area H Poster Area DD piration WEP.H: Drought WEP.H: and WEP.S: SAR WEP.S: Instruments, Missions and Atmospheric Effects WEP.DD: Data WEP.DD: Management and Systems I - Poster Area G Poster Area R WEP.G: WEP.G: Forests and Vegetation: Fire, Distrur bance, and Recovery WEP.R: WEP.R: SAR Image Methods - Wa WEP.CC: ter Pollution Monitoring Poster Area CC Poster Area F Poster Area Q WEP.F: WEP.F: Forests and Vegetation: Seasonal Processes WEP.Q: WEP.Q: Statistical and Physics- Based Inverse Methods WEP.BB: Soil WEP.BB: Pollution Air & Monitoring Poster Area BB Poster Area E Poster Area P WEP.E: WEP.E: Forests and Vegetation: Modeling, Al - gorithms and Simulations WEP.P: WEP.P: Inverse Meth - ods and Data Processing WEP.AA: Re - WEP.AA: mote Sensing of Urban Heat Islands Poster Area AA - Poster Area Z Poster Area D Poster Area O WEP.D: WEP.D: Forests and Vegetation: MODIS ing and Data Assimilation WEP.O: En - WEP.O: semble Filter WEP.Z: WEP.Z: Remote Sens - ing of Road Networks and Vehicles Poster Area C Poster Area Y Poster Area N WEP.C: Opti - WEP.C: cal & Infrared Modeling for Remote Sens - ing II WEP.N: Data WEP.N: Mining Tools & Applications Poster Area B Poster Area X WEP.B: WEP.B: Hyperspectral and Optical Remote Sensing of Vegetation WEP.M: Data WEP.M: Fusion IV WEP.X: Urban WEP.X: Remote Sens - ing III Poster Area M - Poster Area L Poster Area A Poster Area W Poster Sessions, See below USNC-URSI Commission F Meeting, Room 111, Hynes Convention Center Entrance Boylston Center, at the Hynes Convention / Dropoff Soccer Game, MIT Field. Bus Pickup Commonwealth Room, Sheraton Boston Hotel Committees and Chapter Chairs Dinner, Technical WEP.A: Land WEP.A: Cover Clas - sification and Characterization WEP.L: Aerosol WEP.L: and Trace Gas Monitor ing using a Combination of Ground-based and Satellite Observations WEP.W: Urban WEP.W: Remote Sens - ing II Wednesday, July 9, Poster Sessions Poster 9, July Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:30 18:00 - 19:00 18:00 - 20:30 19:30 - 22:00 17:00 - 18:30 13 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston Room 210 TH1.210: Human and Environmental Health TH2.210: Atmospheric Remote Sens - ing for and Human Health TH3.210: A of Change -- NASA's Ap - plied Sciences Program I TH4.210: A Climate of Change -- NASA's Ap - plied Sciences Program II Room 203 TH1.203: Tropical Mea - Rainfall surement Mission I TH2.203: Tropical Mea - Rainfall surement Mission II TH3.203: Global Pre - cipitation Mission I TH4.203: Global Pre - cipitation Mission II - Room 111 TH1.111: Improving Access to Earth Sci - ence Data: New Tools and Ser vices I TH2.111: Improving Access to Earth Sci - ence Data: New Tools and Services II TH3.111: Data Man - agement and Systems II TH4.111: Data Man - agement and Systems III Room 110 TH1.110: Remote Sensing of Agricultural Production and Sustain - ability I TH2.110: Remote Sensing of Agricultural Production and Sustain - ability II TH3.110: Applications in Wetlands and Inland I Waters TH4.110: Pollution Monitoring - Room 109 TH1.109: Space Hy - perspectral Sensors and Programs I TH2.109: Space Hy - perspectral Sensors and Programs II TH3.109: Future Space-based Optical In - struments TH4.109: Technologies for Hyper spectral Imaging Room 108 TH1.108: Interferom - etry I TH2.108: Interferom - etry II TH3.108: SAR Pro - cessing I TH4.108: SAR Pro - cessing II Room 107 TH1.107: Image Analysis for Classifica - tion and Detection TH2.107: Kernel Meth - ods for Im - age Analysis and Classifi - cation TH3.107: Image Clas - sification - Techniques and Applica - tions TH4.107: Image Analysis and Classifica - tion - Quality Issues Room 105 TH1.105: Sensing and Modeling Ocean Phys - ics TH2.105: High Resolution Microwave Sensing of Ocean Wind and Waves TH3.105: Optical Sensing in the Coastal Ocean TH4.105: Surface Temperature and Salinity I Room 104 TH1.104: Change Detection in Forested I Landscapes TH2.104: Recent Advances in Change Detection Techniques TH3.104: Change Detection in Land Use / Land Cover I TH4.104: Change Detection in Urban Land - scapes I Room 103 TH1.103: Remote Sensing of the Cryo - sphere I TH2.103: Remote Sensing of the Cryo - sphere II TH3.103: Ac - TH3.103: tive Remote Sensing of the Cryo - sphere I TH4.103: Ac - TH4.103: tive Remote Sensing of the Cryo - sphere II Room 102 TH1.102: Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction I TH2.102: Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction II TH3.102: SAR Po - larimetry: Theory and Applica - tions I TH4.102: SAR Po - larimetry: Theory and Applica - tions II - Room 101 TH1.101: Crustal Deformation and Subsur face Sensing Break TH2.101: 3D Urban Map - ping I Lunch Break TH3.101: 3D Urban Map - ping II Break TH4.101: Urban Road Networks Poster Sessions, See below Entrance Street Dalton Hotel, Boston at the Sheraton / Dropoff Banquet, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. Bus Pickup Awards 18:00 Thursday, July 10 July Thursday, 08:20 - 10:00 10:00 - 10:20 10:20 - 12:00 12:00 - 13:20 13:20 - 15:00 15:00 - 15:20 15:20 - 17:00 17:00 - 18:30 14 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston Poster Area K Poster Area V THP.K: Ap - THP.K: plications in and Wetlands Inland Waters III THP.V: THP.V: Microwave Scattering and Propaga - tion II Poster Area J Poster Area U THP.J: Ap - THP.J: plications in Wetlands and Inland II Waters THP.U: THP.U: and Volume Surface Scat - tering Poster Area I Poster Area T THP.I: THP.I: Retrieval of and En - Water ergy Balance Parameters I THP.T: THP.T: Microwave Scattering and Propagation I THP.EE: Active THP.EE: Microwave Remote Sens - ing I Poster Area EE Poster Area S Poster Area H Poster Area DD THP.H: Applica - THP.H: tions in Land Use / Land Cover Charac - terization II THP.S: Sea Ice THP.S: THP.DD: Optical THP.DD: Technologies Poster Area G Poster Area R Poster Area CC THP.G: Applica - THP.G: tions in Land Use / Land Cover Charac - terization I THP.R: Land Ice THP.R: and Snow III THP.CC: Optical THP.CC: Instrument Calibration Poster Area F Poster Area Q THP.F: Land THP.F: Use/Land Cover Clas - sification III THP.Q: Land THP.Q: Ice and Snow II THP.BB: THP.BB: Sensor UAV Systems Poster Area BB Poster Area E Poster Area P THP.E: Land THP.E: Use/Land Cover Clas - sification II THP.P: Land THP.P: Ice and Snow I THP.AA: SAR THP.AA: Processing V Poster Area AA Poster Area Z Poster Area D Poster Area O THP.D: Land THP.D: Use/Land Cover Clas - sification I THP.O: THP.O: and Precipita - tion II THP.Z: SAR THP.Z: Processing IV Poster Area C Poster Area Y Poster Area N THP.C: THP.C: Change Detec - tion in Urban Landscapes II THP.N: Clouds THP.N: and Precipita - tion I THP.Y: SAR THP.Y: Processing III - Poster Area B Poster Area X THP.B: THP.B: Change Detec - tion in Land Use / Land Cover II THP.M: THP.M: - Surface Tem perature and Salinity II THP.X: Inter THP.X: ferometry / Polarimetry Poster Area M - Poster Area L Poster Area A THP.A: Change THP.A: Detection in Forested Landscapes II THP.L: Ocean THP.L: Color THP.W: Inter THP.W: ferometry III Poster Area W Thursday, July 10, Poster Sessions Poster 10, July Thursday, 17:00 - 18:30 15 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston Room 210 FR3.210: AMSR-E II FR1.210: Baseline Climate Identification and Global Change FR2.210: AMSR-E I Room 203 FR3.203: Clouds and Precipita - tion III FR4.203: Clouds and Precipita - tion IV FR1.203: Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmo - sphere I FR2.203: Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmo - sphere II - - Room 111 FR3.111: Data Assimi - lation and Ensemble Filtering FR4.111: - Data-Validat ed Inverse Methods FR1.111: Earth Obser vation Sen - I sor Web FR2.111: Earth Obser vation Sen - II sor Web Room 110 FR3.110: Vegetation 3D Struc - ture: Com - bining Lidar and Radar I FR4.110: Vegetation 3D Struc - ture: Com - bining Lidar and Radar II FR1.110: Forest Pa - rameter Esti - mation from Space using SAR I FR2.110: Forest Pa - rameter Esti - mation from Space using SAR II Room 109 Electromagnetic Methods for Remote Sens - ing I Electromagnetic Methods for Remote Sens - ing II FR4.109: FR1.109: Rough Surface Scat - tering and Remote Sens - ing I FR2.109: Rough Surface Scat - tering and Remote Sens - ing II FR3.109: Room 108 FR4.108: Low-cost Aerial and Remote UAV Sensing FR1.108: Active Microwave Remote Sensing - Weather FR2.108: Active Microwave Remote Sensing II FR3.108: Microwave Synthetic Aperture Ra - diometers II Room 107 FR4.107: Optical Sen - - sor Technol ogy FR1.107: Geospatial Standards & Services I FR2.107: Geospatial Standards & Services II FR3.107: Hyperspec - tral Image Analysis for Detection and Classifi - cation Room 105 FR1.105: Pan - sharpening FR2.105: Im - age Process - ing: Registra - tion Room 104 FR4.104: Retrieval of and Water Energy Bal - ance Param - eters II FR1.104: Land Use/ Land Cover Classifica - tion IV FR2.104: Land Use/ Land Cover Classifica - tion V FR3.104: Mi - crowave Re - mote Sens - ing for Land Use and Land Cover Change Room 103 FR1.103: Passive Re - mote Sens - ing of the Cryosphere FR2.103: Sea Ice as an Indicator for Climate Change I FR3.103: Sea Ice as an Indicator for Climate Change II Room 102 FR1.102: Digital Beamform - ing for Fu - ture Remote Sensing Systems I FR2.102: Digital Beamform - ing for Fu - ture Remote Sensing Systems II FR3.102: Polarimetric SAR Image Segmenta - tion and Analysis - - - - Room 101 International Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Working Group Meeting, Room 105, Hynes Convention Center International Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Working Break FR4.101: Ur ban Remote Sensing VIII FR1.101: Mapping Ur ban Areas I Break FR2.101: Mapping Ur ban Areas II Lunch Break FR3.101: Ur ban Remote Sensing VII Friday, July 11 July Friday, 14:00 - 17:00 15:00 - 15:20 15:20 - 17:00 08:20 - 10:00 10:00 - 10:20 10:20 - 12:00 12:00 - 13:20 13:20 - 15:00 16 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Sponsors

The IGARSS 2008 Local Organizing Committee would like to thank all the organizations that have sponsored this event. Many of them are long-time supporters of IGARSS, and we are pleased to welcome our new supporters as well. Please take the time to visit in the exhibit area the many organizations that have helped make this symposium a success.

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Greetings from GRSS President

Welcome to IGARSS08. The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society’s annual IGARSS Symposia are now recognised as the #1 scientific and technical remote sensing event of the year. The growing importance of remotely sensed data in providing information for the sustainable development of our planetary resources and its contribution to understanding and monitoring the impact of climatic change provide a unique backdrop for the presentation of ideas, models, instruments and the application results of our research to be provided to the wider scientific community at this Symposium.

We look forward to a collegial, information-rich and stimulating time in Boston this coming July.

Sincerely, Tony Milne President, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

General Chairs’ Welcome

We are pleased to welcome you to Boston for IGARSS 2008, the 28th annual symposium for GRSS! IGARSS 2008 continues the excellent tradition of gathering world-class scientists, engineers and educators engaged in the fields of geoscience and remote sensing to meet and present their latest activities. Truly an international event, over fifteen hundred participants from all over the world will enjoy a week of technical sessions, tutorials, exhibits and social activities.

We are especially excited to be hosting IGARSS’08 in Boston, a city steeped in American tradition that also is defining the future with its world-class research universities, labs and diverse John Kerekes Eric Miller industry. IGARSS’08 is taking place in the Hynes Convention General Co-Chair General Co-Chair Center with the host hotel, the Sheraton Boston, located adjacent to the meeting space. In addition to the many fine restaurants and shopping in the immediate vicinity of the Sheraton, you will be only a short walk from many Boston attractions including Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Commons, and historic Fenway Park. An easy ride on America’s first subway system will deliver you to Cambridge, home to Harvard and MIT. Perhaps you were able to join in the Independence Day 4th of July celebrations which occurred just prior to IGARSS’08 and included a Boston Pops concert and fireworks exhibition on the Charles River Esplanade.

Our Technical Program Co-Chairs, Dara Entekhabi and Steve Reising, have led the coordination of a vibrant technical program encompassing traditional IGARSS topics as well as reflecting the timely theme of the 2008 symposium, “Geoscience and Remote Sensing: The Next Generation.” This theme was selected to emphasize the opportunities for the next generation of remote sensing researchers and innovators specifically in the context of our next-generation challenges and global responsibilities to map, measure and monitor the Earth’s environment. In this regard, we have arranged a number of special sessions and other unique opportunities for participation at IGARSS by students and educators. At IGARSS’08 we also turn our collective attention to the next generation of multi-disciplinary challenges highlighting the future of remote sensing as a discipline that is integral to fields as diverse as , geography, urban planning, oceanography, water resources and geophysics. We are especially excited to have our three plenary speakers, Drs. Susan Avery, Michael Frielich and Berrien Moore kick off IGARSS’08 with their insights and collective wisdom on these important issues. This discussion will continue throughout the week in a number of panel and special sessions led by prominent members of those communities to help build the cross-disciplinary relationships needed to address the many challenging problems facing our world in which remote sensing, geoscience and related disciplines play key roles.

As we look forward to an exciting week of activities, we would like to thank all the volunteers on our Local Organizing Committee, the members of our Technical Program Committee and the hundreds of reviewers who have helped shape IGARSS’08. Finally, we would especially like to thank Billene Mercer and her staff at Conference Management Services, Inc. for their outstanding dedication and skill in arranging the myriad details necessary for the successful management of IGARSS’08.

John Kerekes and Eric Miller

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Technical Program Overview

It is a pleasure to have been given the responsibility for organizing the IGARSS technical program. Now in its 28th year, IGARSS is the premier conference in the remote sensing field, providing a unique opportunity for world-renowned experts in geoscience and remote sensing to meet and have meaningful and enjoyable interactions.

Consistent with last year’s IGARSS in Barcelona, the submission rate this year has been very high, with almost 2400 abstracts submitted. In order to maintain a high-quality technical program, abstracts were assigned to 1607 reviewers by more than 30 dedicated experts on the Technical Program Committee. An average of 3.4 reviews for each contributed abstract was received from the wider scientific and technical community. The Technical Program Committee, which includes 45 theme coordinators/session organizers and 109 invited session organizers, met in Atlanta on February 29 to organize 1885 accepted presentations to form the technical program.

The presentations at IGARSS 2008 are organized into 211 half sessions of 5 oral papers each and 99 interactive sessions of up to 12 posters each. The technical program covers the theme areas of geoscience, including studies of the land, oceans, atmosphere, and cryosphere; as well as the full extent of remote sensing topics, from electromagnetic modeling, design of sensors and missions, and advanced image/signal analysis techniques, to applications, education and policy.

In an effort to place more importance on the interactive sessions, posters will be displayed all day, from at least 9:00 to 18:30, each day from Monday through Thursday. At the conclusion of the last oral session of the day at 17:00, a dedicated session for poster presentations will be held from 17:00 to 18:30. Refreshments will be served in the poster and exhibit area, and all presenting authors are requested to be available at their posters during this time. This is expected to provide a valuable opportunity for interactions and technical discussions between presenters and other IGARSS participants.

Co-chairs of oral sessions are requested to keep the time schedule listed in the program regardless of any no- shows. The technical program includes only those presentations for which a presenting author had registered for the symposium by press time. Therefore, we expect very few no-shows, but the large number of parallel sessions necessitates keeping the time schedule strictly. In addition, the co-chairs of both oral and interactive sessions have been requested to record which specific presentations were presented. Those that are not presented at IGARSS will not be published in the proceedings that will be available on DVD and on IEEE Xplore following the symposium.

Panel Sessions

At this IGARSS, we have introduced a new type of session that we hope will enhance the experience at the Symposium. Four panel sessions will occur at the beginning of each day from Tuesday through Friday. Each panel session consists of a small number of extended-duration oral presentations that are focused on an emerging science application of remote sensing. We invited leaders at the frontiers of these disciplines to present the talks. The response to the invitations has been overwhelming, and we are pleased to include the talks in the technical program. We encourage you to attend these morning panel sessions in Room 210 from 8:20 to 10:00 each day from Tuesday through Friday. The panel sessions titles are listed below. In the Technical Program listing you will find an abstract under each listing that motivates the choice of panel session topics.

Tuesday Morning: Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), Radiance Data Assimilation and Ocean Synoptics Wednesday Morning: Earth Science Decadal Survey NASA Missions Thursday Morning: Human and Environmental Health Friday Morning: Baseline Climate Identification and Global Change

Acknowledgments

We thank the IGARSS 2008 Technical Program Committee wholeheartedly for their extensive and persistent hard work to formulate the technical program. In addition, there was overwhelming response from the community in reviewing the abstracts. We would like to thank the 1607 reviewers for their generous support. Finally, Conference Management Services (CMS, Inc.) has contributed greatly to the implementation of the IGARSS 2008 technical program. We thank the professional staff and especially applaud Lance Cotton of CMS, Inc. for his outstanding support of our work.

We wish you a productive and enjoyable experience at IGARSS 2008. Enjoy the beautiful scenery and exciting culture in and around the city of Boston, the heart of New England!

Steven C. Reising, Colorado State University and Dara Entekhabi, MIT

IGARSS 2008 Technical Program Co-Chairs

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Local Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs Web Coordinator

John Kerekes Paul Siqueira Rochester Institute of Technology University of Massachusetts Amherst

Eric Miller Tufts University Media Liaison

David Sims Technical Program Co-Chairs University of New Hampshire

Dara Entekhabi Massachusetts Institute of Technology Outreach Co-Coordinators

Steven Reising Barry Rock Colorado State University University of New Hampshire

Linda Hayden Finance Chair Elizabeth City State University

Alan Strahler Boston University Student Activities Chair

Stefan Robila Sponsor/Exhibits Chair Montclair State University

Ron Isaacs Atmospheric and Environmental Research Publicity Chair

Mark Brennan Local Arrangements Chair BAE Systems Nashua

Carey Rappaport Northeastern University Technical Tour Chair

Vince Leslie Tutorial Chair MIT Lincoln Laboratory

William Blackwell MIT Lincoln Laboratory Conference Management

Billene Mercer Industry Liaison Conference Management Services, Inc.

William Gail Microsoft Virtual Earth Financial Services

Tammy Stein

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Senior Advisory Committee

Prof. David Staelin, MIT Dr. Berrien Moore, Climate Central Prof. Michael Silevitch, Northeastern University Dr. Roger Sudbury, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Prof. Arthur Winston, Tufts University

Technical Program Committee

Theme Coordinators and Session Organizers: Shabeer Ahmed Curt Davis Jasmeet Judge Jay Pearlman Harold Annegarn William Emery John Kerekes Steven C. Reising Jon Atli Benediktsson Dara Entekhabi Roger King David Roberts Andrew Blanchard Paul Gader David Le Vine Kamal Sarabandi Adriano Camps Paolo Gamba Ellsworth LeDrew Sebastiano Serpico Mike Cathcart Al Gasiewski Tom Lukowski Jiancheng Shi V. Chandrasekar David Goodenough Kyle McDonald Clint Slatton Jocelyn Chanussot Linda Hayden Eric Miller Karen St. Germain Kun-Shan Chen Michael Inggs Anthony Milne Ridha Touzi Thomas Cooley Tom Jackson Alberto Moreira Leung Tsang Wade Crow Ya-Qiu Jin Granville Paules David Weissman Mihai Datcu

Invited Session Organizers: Shabeer Ahmed Tony Freeman Charles A. Luther Alan Schaum Tom Ainsworth Teresa Fryberger Kyle McDonald Annemarie Schneider Mariann Albjerg Paul Gader Heather McNairn Waymond Scott Gail Anderson Paolo Gamba Josef Mittermayer Sebastiano Serpico Ghassem R. Asrar Al Gasiewski Karen Moe Jiancheng Shi Richard Bamler David Goodenough Mohamed Mohamed Akira Shibata William J. Blackwell Irena Hajnsek Wooil M. Moon Masanobu Shimada Ronald Blom Dorothy K. Hall Alberto Moreira Shuji Shimizu Adriano Camps Martti T. Hallikainen Peggy O’Neill Mohammed Shokr V. Chandrasekar David J. Harding Philippe Paillou Marc Simard Jocelyn Chanussot Yijun He Simonetta Paloscia Gail Skofronick-Jackson Kun-Shan Chen Raymond M. Hoff Paolo Pampaloni Clint Slatton Paolo Cipollini Stephen Howell Kostas Papathanassiou Jean-Claude Souyris Leslie Collins Tom Jackson Granville Paules Marco Tedesco Josefino Comiso Joel Johnson Jay Pearlman James Theiler Thomas Cooley Verne Kaupp Will Perrie Kurtis Thome Mario Costantini John Kerekes Eric Pottier Ridha Touzi Melba Crawford Paul Kersten Glenn Prescott Robert Treuhaft Lorenzo Crocco Roger King Hampapuram Leung Tsang Mihai Datcu David Kunkee Ramapriyan Juliet Wallace Curt Davis Jong-Sen Lee Steven C. Reising Charles Walthall Liping Di Francis Lindsay Francesc Rocadenbosch David Weissman Craig Dobson Amelie Litman Achim Roth Werner Wiesbeck William Emery W Timothy Liu Marc Saillard Joseph Wilson Dara Entekhabi Ron Lockwood Kamal Sarabandi Yoshio Yamaguchi Tom Farr Fabrizio Lombardini Motoyuki Sato Alessandro Ferretti Carlos López-Martínez Birgit Schättler Laurent Ferro-Famil Tom Lukowski

Reviewers

Henrik Aanæs Marc Acheroy Vijay K. Agarwal Ibrahim Akduman Bassam Mohammed Alin Marian Achim Piyush Shanker Agram Md. Jaleel Akhtar Abdel Latif Nicola Acito Anshul Agrawal Kemmouche Akila Hassini Abdelatif James G. Acker Anupam Agrawal Selim Aksoy Riadh Ben Mokhtar Ian Stuart Adams Fauzia Ahmad Pier Paolo Alberoni Abdelfattah Robert Adams Ziauddin Ahmad Peter Albert Canicious Abeynayake Donald Adjeroh Razi Ahmed Mariann Albjerg Michael Abrams Steven Adler-Golden Samir Ahmed Enner Alcantara Aria Abubakar Abhishek Agarwal Shabeer Ahmed Thomas K Alexandridis Mohammad Abuzar Neeraj Agarwal Bruno Aiazzi Mm Ali Frédéric Achard Rashi Agarwal Tom Ainsworth Alireza Aliamiri 21 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Sophie Allain Ian Barton Ruth Branch Claude Cariou Mostafa Allamehzadeh Riccardo Barzaghi Ola Brandt Roberto Carla Christopher Allen Patrizia Basili Alexander Braun Toby Carlson Mohand Saïd Allili Paul D Bates John Braun John Carranza Maria C. Alonso Stefan Baumgartner Ofer Braun Daniel Carrasco Carmelo Alonso- Alexandre Baussard Jason Brazile Miguel Carrasco Jimenez Yakoub Bazi Mathieu Bredif Laura Carrea Luciano Alparone Jean-Marie Beaulieu Jonathan Bredow Vicente Caselles Jesus Alvarez Agnes Begue James Bremer Ilaria Catapano Maria Flor Alvarez William Bell Andreas R. Brenner Yannick Caulier Josue Alvarez-Borrego Rik Bellens Francois-Marie Breon Ron Caves Jose-Luis Alvarez-Perez Kimberly Belli Timo Bretschneider Delphine Cerutti-Maori Ziad Aly Kais Ben Khadhra Fábio Marcelo Breunig Ferdaous Chaabane Nurgul Amanova Mohamed Bassam Xavier Briottet Jean-Pierre Chaboureau Vincent Ambrosia Ben Ticha Pietro Alessandro Brivio Moustafa Chahine Luis Ambrosio Flores Amel Benazza-Benyahia Joshua Broadwater Debasish Chakraborty Eyal Amitai Dalila Benboudjema Marco Brogioni Gyanesh Chander Adel Ammar Carmen Benítez Helene Brogniez Chein-I Chang Marios N Anagnostou Patrick Berens Antoni Broquetas Chien-Ping Chang Gail Anderson Michael Berger Shira Broschat Chunqi Chang Karen Anderson Giancarlo Bernasconi Shannon T Brown Hoon Chang Christian Andres Etienne Berthier Jerome Bruniquel Li-Der Chang Suryachandra Rao Michela Bertolotto Lorenzo Bruzzone Yang-Lang Chang Angaluri Michael H Bettenhausen Ted Bryant Zhu Changqing Magdalena Anguelova Kon Joon Bhang Christopher Buck Jocelyn Chanussot Puissant Anne Amit K Bhattacharya Krishna Mohan Andre Chanzy Eric Anterrieu Alauddin Bhuiyan Buddhiraju Bruce Chapman John Antoniades Mohammed I.H. Bhuiyan Maria Budzynska Francois Charbonneau Mohammad Hassan Tiziano Bianchi (Former Surajit Chattopadhyay Anvar Thomas Bicknell Gruszczynska) Debasis Chaudhuri Buhe Aosier Frank Bignone Jeffrey Buler Narinder Chauhan Egidio Arai Elisabetta Binaghi Vladimir Buntilov Kacem Chehdi Kohei Arai Rajat Bindlish Robert J Burkholder Yann H. Chemin Hossein Arefi Charon Birkett Derek Burrage Chi Hau Chen Vicente Arévalo Walter F Bischof Francois Cabot Chi-Chih Chen Fabrizio Argenti Jan Terje Bjørke Matteo Cacciola Dongmei Chen Costas Armenakis William J. Blackwell Jhon Caceres Ge Chen Jan Askne William Blake Karen Cady-Pereira Hua Chen Ian Atkinson Andrew J Blanchard Ciro Cafforio Jiayu Chen Peter M. Atkinson Constance Bland Anthony Cahill Jin Chen Evert Attema Thomas Blaschke Shangshu Cai Jing M Chen Don Atwood Ronald G. Blom Florin Caldararu Kun-Shan Chen Christoph Aubrecht Philippe Blondel Opn Calla Qi Chen Mohamad M Awad Dan G. Blumberg Abel Calle Shu-Ching Chen Kultegin Aydin Peder Klith Bøcher Joerg Callies Xiaoling Chen Charles M. Bachmann Elke Boerner Javier Calpe Xudong Chen Hasi Bagan Thomas Boerner Antonio Caetano Zhongxin Chen Ezekiel Bahar Jeremy Bolton Caltabiano Bin Cheng Yuqi Bai Nicolas Bon Francesco Caltagirone Jian Cheng Florence Baillarin Stefania Bonafoni Jaime Calvo-Gallego Li Cheng Ramprasad François Boone Fernando Camacho- Josef Cherniawsky Balasubramanian Brett Borden de Coca Mingmin Chi Luca Baldini Christoph Borel Iain Cameron Jie-Lun Chiang Lee K. Balick Maurice Borgeaud Norm Campbell Shao-Shan Chiang John E Ball Janete Borges Petya K. Entcheva Clément Chion Jerrell R. Ballard Dirk Borghys Campbell Salim Chitroub Paola Ballatore Xavier Bosch-Lluis Marine Campedel Shen Chiu Marco Balsi Ada Vittoria Bosisio Adriano Camps Jaewon Choi Vincent Baltazart Alexandre Boucher Gustavo Camps-Valls Myungjin Choi Lourenço P. C. Bandeira Sid-Ahmed Boukabara Manuel Cantón Garbín Iliana Chollett Francesco Bandiera Wadii Boulila Morton John Canty Jinsong Chong Abdou Bannari Mark A. Bourassa Changyong Cao Hsi-Tseng Chou Liu Baoquan Laura Bourgeau-Chavez Fang Cao Emmanuel Christophe Teresa Barata Christophe Bourlier Ying Cao Nektarios Chrysoulakis Adrian Barb Med Yacine Bouroubi Marco Caparrini Heng Chu Federic Baret Catherine Bouzinac Lorenzo Capineri Hean. Chuah Julia A. Barsi Francesca Bovolo Carlo Capsoni Varun S Chudiwale Zoltan Bartalis Laura Bowling Maria Francesca Carfora Yi-Ching Chung 22 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

James Churnside Ciro D’Elia William Emery Richard Frey Valérie Ciarletti Fabio Dell’Acqua Joachim Ender Helen Fricker Domenico Cimini Francesco Dell’Endice Vivien Enjolras Sergy V Fridman John Cipar Silvana Dellepiane Dara Entekhabi Jan Friesen Paolo Cipollini Oguz Demirci Jose Epiphanio Robert Frohn Mihai Ciuc Léonard Denise Hector Erives Wei Fu Phil Clare Laura Dente Guaraci José Erthal Hans-Hellmuth Fuchs William Clement Sébastien Derivaux Emre Ertin Iosif Fuks Josep Closa Soteras Chris Derksen Maria Jose Escorihuela Adrian K. Fung Michael J. Coan Jean-Paul Deroin Miia Eskelinen Robert Fusina Enrique Coiras Bart Deronde Daniel Esteban Carolina Gabarro Jeffrey Colby Stephane Derrode Fernandez Marco Gabella Carlo Colesanti Danielle DeSève Adrian N Evans Paul D. Gader Andreas Colliander Liping Di Diane L. Evans William B. Gail Leslie Collins Wei Di John Evans Peter Gaiser Fabiola Colone Carlos Di Bella Mark E Everett John Galantowicz Josefino Comiso Gerardo Di Martino Hong Tat Ewe Sylvie Galichet Robert F Contreras Jose Bioucas Dias Francisco J. Expósito Frederic Galland Thomas Cooley Gerald Dibarboure Xavier Fabregas Michele Galletti Pol Coppin Kamel Didan Jay Famiglietti Alessandro Galli Ignasi Corbella Kung-Hau Ding Fenglei Fan Kevin Gallo David Lopez Cornelio Emmanuel Philippe Sheng Fang Joan Miquel Galve Dan Cornford Dinnat Shi-Bo Fang Romero Lawrence A. Corp M I Disney Tom Farr Paolo Gamba Douglas Corr Marcel R. Dobber Michal Farys Attilio Gambardella Michael Corsello Xiaolong Dong Steven R Fassnacht Bo-Cai Gao Giovanni Corsini Yanfang Dong Mathieu Fauvel Feng Gao Mario Costantini Wen Dou Andrea Favretto Jay Gao Lacina Coulibaly Anthony Paul Doulgeris Hui Feng Lian-Ru Gao Robert Crane David Dowgiallo Seifeddine Fs Ferchichi Xiang Gao Melba Crawford Steffen Dransfeld Juan Fernandez Yongnian Gao Charles D. Creusere Pierre M.L. Drezet Jesús Fernández Gálvez Rauf Gardashov Lorenzo Crocco Sheldon Drobot Stefano Ferraris Rene Garello William Crosson Eurico J D’Sa Paolo Ferrazzoli Andrea Garzelli Fabrizio Cuccoli Jinyang Du Laerte Guimaraes Al Gasiewski Juan Cuenca Peijun Du Ferreira Nahum Gat Ming Cui Qian Du Alessandro Ferretti Rohit Singh Gautam Nedeljko Cvejic Yang Du Laurent Ferro-Famil Eric Gauthier Kristina Czuchlewski Pascale Dubois- Fabrizio Ferrucci Torsten Geldsetzer Jean-Pierre Da Costa Fernandez Paul Fieguth Sylvia Generoso Carlos C. DaCamara Bernard Duchene Daniel Filiberti Rudiger Gens Michele Dalponte Nuria Duffo Sagi Filin Christian Germain Andreas Danklmayer Mehmet Murat Dundar Michel Fily Dirk Geudtner Jadunandan Dash Jennifer Dungan Giovanna Finzi Abduwasit Ghulam Mihai Datcu Surya Durbha Carl H. Fischer Giorgio Giacinto Ritendra Datta Steve Durden Jens Fischer Marco Gianinetto Ian John Davenport Laurent Durieux Manfred Fischer M. Kashif Gill Corine Davids Luciano Vieira Dutra Roger Fjørtoft Ralph Girard James Evan Davies Subashisa Dutta Stylianos Flampouris Fanny Girard-Ardhuin Curt H. Davis John Dwyer Andrew H Fleming Chandra Prasad Giri Roger De Abreu Andrew Dyk Dana Floricioiu Alain Giros Giovanni De Amici Ali Dziri Nicolas Floury Richard Gloaguen Richard de Jeu Youhao E Jordi Font Chellappan Remko de Lange Amir E Azar (Eshraghi Giles Foody Gnanaseelan Michaela de Martino Azar) Florence Forbes Alberto Godio Evaldo Araujo de Elizabeth Ebert Gianluca Foresti Bhawani Singh Gohil Oliveira Naoto Ebuchi Peter Forkman Cecile Gomez Patricia de Rosnay Michael A. Edwards Gianfranco Fornaro Jose Luis Gomez-Dans Claudio De Stefano Amir Houshang Ehsani Wayne Forsythe Márcio Leandro Guy De Tré Michael Eineder Samuel Foucher Gonçalves Francesca De Vita Olaf Eisen Charles Fowler Maria Pat González Monique Dechambre Semih Ekercin Gabriele Franceschini Dugo Merritt Deeter Lars Eklundh Jonas Franke Diego Gonzalez- Hesam Dehghanian Hesham Mohamed Stephen Frasier Aguilera Mojtaba Dehmollaian El-Askary Tony Freeman Maria Gonzalez- Fabio Del Frate Knut Eldhuset Corina C. Freitas Audicana Christophe Delacourt Andrew J. Elmore Ramon M. Freitas Mark Goodberlet Jennifer S. Delamere Alaa El Din El-Nahry Andrew N. French David Goodenough 23 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Oswald Gordon Michael Dunning Michael R Inggs Stephen Katzberg Jaideva Goswami Henschel Jordi Inglada Verne Kaupp Christophe Gouinaud Scott Hensley Janet Intrieri Taskin Kavzoglu Martie Goulding Roel Heremans Antonio Iodice Ouchi Kazuo Bachir Gourine Martin Herold Alessandro Ipe Debbie Kedar Enguerran Grandchamp Soren Hese Vladimir Irisov Stephen Keihm Stephanie Granger David Hetherington Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez Tobias Kellenberger Jennifer Grant Rob Hewson Nickolay Ivchenko Martin Keller Michael S. Grant Kyle Hilburn Sitharama Iyengar Josef Kellndorfer Mark Graves Stefan Hinz Frederic Jacob Maggi Kelly Maria Greco Yasumasa Hirata Stephane Jacquemoud Richard Kelly Mircea Grecu Christine Hlavka Munzer Jahjah Pieter Kempeneers Paul Green Eric J Hochberg Mark E. Jakubauskas Steven Kempler Harm Greidanus Volker Hochschild Jérémie Jakubowicz Lado W Kenyi Gilbert Grenier Bianca Hoersch Florent Jangal Norman Kerle Alexander V. Gribenko Raymond M. Hoff Louisa J.M. Jansen Stefan Kern Francisco Matias Grings Forrest M. Hoffman Sermsak Abedalrazq Khalil Norman Grody James Hoffman Jaruwatanadilok Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa Pierre Grussenmeyer Ross Hoffman Ambrose Jearld Jr. Muhammad Murtaza Irene Y.H. Gu Francesco Holecz Robert Jenssen Khan Yanfeng Gu K. Todd Holland Byeungwoo Jeon Ali Khenchaf Guo Guangmeng Rainer Hollmann Sung Bae Jeon Edward J. Kim Luis Guanter Thomas R. H. Holmes Andrew Jessup Sung-Soo Kim Pietro Guccione Benjamin Holt Lei Ji John Kimball Renato F Guimaraes Liang Hong Shihao Ji Andrew King Baris Guner Suk Young Hong Sen Jia Matt King Baofeng Guo Wen Hong Xiuping Jia Roger King Dahai Guo Ye Hong Liming Jiang Joanna Kitchen Jianjun Guo Peter Hoogeboom Juan C Jiménez-Muñoz Jens Klare Jianping Guo Brian K. Hornbuckle Shuanggen Jin Thomas Kleespies Jinyun Guo Jochen Horstmann Xiaoying Jin Robert O. Knuteson Xulin Guo Fumiki Hosoi Ya-Qiu Jin Magaly Koch Zhifeng Guo Renaud Hostache Yufang Jin Benjamin Koetz Pawan Gupta Thomas Houet Mandeep Singh Jit Jacqueline Köhn Praveen Gupta Stephen Howell Singh Alexander A Barry N. Haack Svetla M. Hristova- Maminirina Joelson Kokhanovsky Trym Vegard Veleva Kurt H Johnsen Marc Alan Kolodner Haavardsholm Baoxin Hu Fasona Mayowa Alexander Kolovos Martin Habermeyer Chuanmin Hu Johnson Masanori Konda Tarek Habib Jing Hu Joel T. Johnson Ivica Kopriva Driss Haboudane Ying Hu Lee F. Johnson Jarkko T Koskinen Diofantos G Hadjimitsis Yu-Hen Hu Joanna Joiner Andrey Kostianoy Julie Haggerty Zhuowei Hu Inge G.C. Jonckheere Yukio Kosugi Samuel J Haimov Xin-Min Hua Linwood Jones Athanasios Kottas Guillaume Hajduch Dong Huang Alicia T. Joseph Kidiyo Kpalma Irena Hajnsek Jingfeng Huang Jasmeet Judge William Krabill Ronald J. Hall Mingxiang Huang Francesc Junyent Lopez Carolyn Krekeler Mryka Hall-Beyer Shengli Huang Min-Ho Ka Harald E Krogstad Merrick C. Haller Weimin Huang Arto Kaarna Arlin Krueger Martti T. Hallikainen Zhi Huang Yasir H Kaheil Masahisa Kubota Gordon Hamilton Bernard E. Hubbard Ralph A Kahn Claudia Kuenzer Svein-Erik Hamran Laurence Hubert-Moy Mona Fouad Kaiser Yasuo Kuga Tian Han Alexis Huck Margaret Kalacska Manoj Kumar Kukreja Rebecca Handcock Karl Huemmrich Lars Kaleschke Natarajan Venkat Kumar Wu Hao George Huffman Farzad Kamalabadi Beena Kumari Xianjun Hao Heinrich Huhnerfuss Marilyn Kaminski Christian Kummerow Ayyangar Harish Chih-Cheng Hung Kittipat Kampa David Kunkee Quazi K. Hassan E. Raymond Hunt Joseph Katongo Pravin D. Kunte Alain Hauchecorne Chunlei Huo Kanyanga Klaus Kunzi M. Hayakawa Byongjun Hwang Mostafa A Karam Bor-Chen Kuo Tadahiro Hayasaka Paul A Hwang Konstantinos Tatiana M. Kuplich Mingyi He Kazuhito Ichii Karantzalos Franz Kurz Xindong He Charles Ichoku Fatima Karbou William Kustas Robert Hecht Emmett Ientilucci Kirsi Karila Oh-ig Kwoun Jim Helbig Eastwood Im Arnon Karnieli Phaedon Kyriakidis Florence Hélière Nilton Nobuhiro Imai Juha Karvonen Jorma Laaksonen Martin Paddy Hellmann Farah Imed Riadh Dayalan Kasilingam Florent Lafarge Floyd Henderson Marc Imhoff Dimitris Kaskaoutis Jean-Pierre Lagouarde 24 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Laurent Laguerre Xinwu Li Ramata Magagi Tapan Misra Venkataraman Lakshmi Zhe Li Enrico Magli Helena Mitasova Martin Lambers Zhen Li Steen Magnussen Leonid Mitnik Rubens Augusto Bingqing Liang Pal Mahesh Josef Mittermayer Camargo Lamparelli Long-Shin Liang Stefan Walter Maier Tomoaki Miura Derrick Julius Lampkin Shunlin Liang Cyrille Maire Sanae Miyazaki George A. Lampropoulos Liang Liao Marko Makynen Tsan Mo Riccardo Lanari Veraldo Liesenberg Jordi J Mallorqui Miguel Moctezuma David A. Landgrebe Soo Chin Liew Jose A. Malpica Karen Moe Giovanni Laneve Ik Soo Lim Timothy Malthus Mahta Moghaddam Megan Lang S. Lim Terhikki Manninen Mohamed Mohamed Roger H. Lang Chambers Lin Javier Marcello Sameena Mohammed Svetlana Larionova Chao-Yuan Lin Juan-Fernando Binayak Mohanty David John Lary Chinsu Lin Marchan-Hernadez Matthieu Molinier Rasim Latifovic Chung-Chi Lin Steve Margulis Wooil M. Moon Carlo Lavalle Thomas Lindblad Rodolphe Marion Richard K Moore Samantha Lavender Francis Lindsay Brian Markham Susan Moran Olivier Lavialle Jorge Lira Prashanth Reddy Marpu Alberto Moreira Andrea Lawrence Paula Litkey Paulo Alexandre Gareth L. K. Morgan Charles Laymon Amelie Litman Marques John A. Morgan Cedric Le Bastard Chung-Chih Liu Leyden Martinez Keith Morrison Jean-Marc Le Caillec G. R. Liu Sara Martinez-Alonso Leslie Morrissey Sylvain Leblanc Guosheng Liu Jose Martinez-Llario Felix Morsdorf Thierry Leblanc Hua Liu Julio Martin-Herrero Gabriele Moser Malcolm LeCompte Jian Guo Liu Manuel Martin-Neira Sunil Movva Tristan L’Ecuyer Pang-Wei Liu Fernando Martin- Andreas Mueller Ellsworth LeDrew Qiang Liu Porqueras Dipti Prasad Mukherjee Chulhee Lee Ronggao Liu Marco Martorella Shyamalee Mukherji Heezin Lee W Timothy Liu Frank Silvio Marzano Jordi Munoz-Mari Hoonyol Lee Wei-min Liu Philippa Jane Mason Vittorio Murino Jaejoon Lee Xiong Liu Andrea Massa V.S.N. Murty Jay Kyoon Lee Yu Liu Didier Massonnet Nebiye Musaoglu Jong-Sen Lee Zhengjun Liu Dallas Masters Reginald R. Muskett Ken Yoong Lee Otmar Loffeld Edward J. Masuoka Petteri Muukkonen Kwangjae Lee Fabrizio Lombardini Renaud Mathieu Donald Myers Sanghoon Lee Pierfrancesco Lombardo Ajay Mathur Karthik Nagarajan Sébastien Lefèvre Nicolas Lomenie Aloke Kumar Mathur Katsuhiro Nakagawa Justin Legarsky David Long Kenichi Matsuoka Nicholas Nalli Justin Legarsky Hui Long Takeshi Matsuoka Sergey Naumov Didier Guy Leibovici Olga Lucia Lopera Karim Emile Mattar Gabriel Navarro Larry Leigh Alejandra Aurelia López- Francesco Mattia Patrice Navy Juha Lemmetyinen Caloca Vinia Mattioli Marius Necsoiu Guido Lemoine Paco Lopez-Dekker Doug May Sylvain Neelz Carl Lenngren Carlos López-Martínez Helmut Mayer Filippo Nencini Giovanni Leone Juan Manuel Lopez- John Elton McFee Giovanni Nico Sebastien Leprince Sanchez Stephen J. McNeill Jean-Marie Nicolas Gregory Leptoukh Tom Loveland James B Mead Congling Nie Dominique Lesselier Diego G. Loyola R. Walter N. Meier Irmgard Niemeyer Eric Leuliette Hui Lu Thomas Meissner Holger Nies David Leverington Ling Lu Farid Melgani Christophoros Nikou Vincenzo Levizzani Cozmin Lucau Joaquin Meliá Ryuei Nishii Stefaan Lhermitte Konstantin Lukin Lei Meng Eni G. Njoku Chengcai Li Tom Lukowski Qingmin Meng Michel Nolin Guangxin Li Magnus Lundberg Gregoire M Mercier Claudia Notarnicola Heng-Chao Li Nordenvaad Stephane Meric Jean-Francois Nouvel Jiang Li Bin Luo Mohammad Saadi Ferdinando Nunziata Li Li Kari Luojus Mesgari Sven Nussbaum Lihua Li Charles A. Luther David W Messinger Sam Nwaneri Lin Li Vladislav Lutsenko Adriano Meta Vincent de Paul Obade Long Li Guido Luzi Sari Metsämäki Estelle Obligis Na Li Parris Lyew-Ayee Roland Meynart Christoph Oelke Peijun Li Jianwen Ma Xin Miao Kenta Ogawa Qi Li Zhenkui Ma Eckart Michaelsen Yisok Oh Shengli Li Alasdair A. Mac Arthur Elizabeth M Middleton Keith Oleson Xiang-tang Li Giovanni Macelloni Maurizio Migliaccio Richard B. Olsen Xiaofeng Li Stephen Mackin Eric Miller Hakan Olsson Xiaowei Li Trevor Macklin Julià Minguillón Vincent de Paul Onana Xin Li Eric Maddy Valery Mironov 25 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Fernando Oñate- Pedro Pina Jessica Robin Lie-Chung Shen Valdivieso Béatrice Pinel- Francesc Rocadenbosch Yongwei Sheng Peggy E. O’Neill Puysségur Duccio Rocchini Jiancheng Shi Jelmer Oosthoek Ana Pinheiro Marc Rodriguez-Cassola Akira Shibata Helene Oriot Jorge Pinzon John Rogan Yosio Edemir Cankut Ormeci Jacek Piskozub David Rogers Shimabukuro Roberto Orosei William J. Plant Roland Romeiser Shuji Shimizu Catherine Ottlé Antonio J Plaza Yang Ronghao Wang Shitong Cinthya Ottonello Javier Plaza Dalton Souza Rosario Mohammed Shokr Steve Ou Erika Podest Daniel Rosenfeld Kris Shrestha Erol Ozan Gene Poe Philip W Rosenkranz Jamie D Shutler Buket Aysegul Ozbakir Gemma Pons Bernad Helmut Rott Jean-Robert Simard Sharmila Padmanabhan Sorin Pop Jean-Louis Roujean Elizabeth L. Simms Philippe Paillou Paul Pope Hélène Roux Steven Simske David Pairman Marcos Portabella Michel Roux Raghavendra Pratap Vicenç Palà Michael N. Pospelov Clare Rowland Singh K. Palaniappan David Thomas Potere Biswadev ‘Dev’ Roy Ramesh P. Singh Elisa Palazzi Eric Pottier Alain Royer Vern Singhroy Stephen Palm Kevin Powell Christoph Rüdiger Pascal Jean Sirguey Robert D Palmer Saurabh Prasad Christopher S Ruf Ramesh Sivanpillai Simonetta Paloscia Pau Prats Martin Rutzinger Gail Skofronick-Jackson Gintautas Palubinskas Mark Preiss Anna Rydberg Niels Skou Paolo Pampaloni Glenn Prescott Dongryeol Ryu Clint Slatton Guangdong Pan Laurent Prevot Tateishi Ryutaro Mark Sletten Yuchun Pan Catherine Prigent Roberto Sabia Zakaria Smahi Costas Panagiotakis Matthew Pritchard Firooz Sadjadi David Small Ovidiu Pancrati Jeffrey L Privette Behara Seshadri Daya Alexander Smirnov Suraj Pandey Araceli Noemi Proto Sagar Anne Smith Nicolas Papadakis Luca Pulvirenti Marc Saillard Deborah K. Smith Kostas Papathanassiou Graham Quartly William Salas James A Smith Matteo Pardini Pierre Queffeulou Kauzar Saleh Paul Snoeij Eulogio Pardo-Iguzquiza Yves Quilfen Santo Valentin Salinas Jose A Sobrino Marie-Pierre Parenteau Gilles Rabatel Cortijo Matteo Soccorsi Mi-Hyun Park Julien Radoux Mercedes Salvia Byung-Ju Sohn Namje Park Abdullah F. Rahman Riccardo Salvini Seubson Soisuvarn Dimitris Paronis Magfur Rahman Eugenio Sansosti Himmatsinh U Solanki Mark A. Parsons Victor Raizer Veronica Santalla Francesco Soldovieri Vito Pascazio Nareenart Raksuntorn del Rio Chiara Solimini Falguni Patadia Preesan Rakwatin Emanuele Santi Domenico Solimini Parul Patel Bhaskar Ramachandran Maurizio Santoro Conghe Song Granville Paules Bharath Ramakrishna João Roberto Santos Jiayu Song Vivienne Payne Hampapuram Anjan Sarkar Y. Tony Song Jay Pearlman Ramapriyan Dinesh Sathyamoorthy John Soraghan Markus Peichl Didier Ramon Motoyuki Sato Jean-Claude Souyris Thierry Pellarin Judith G Ramos Daniele Scaranari Rainer Speck Jouni I Peltoniemi Isaac Ramos-Perez Randall K. Scharien Claudia Spinetti Brian S. Penn James Randa Alan Schaum Gunnar Spreen Barbara Penna K. Jon Ranson Rolf Scheiber V N Sridhar Vega Pérez-Gracia Anthony Ratkowski Gilda Schirinzi Hari Shanker Srivastava Dragana Perkovic Jiann-Yeou Rau Thomas Fritz Schmid Mike Starek Will Perrie Fabrizio Ravegnani Thomas Schmugge Mattia Stasolla Raffaele Persico Alberto Refice Annemarie Schneider Demetris Stathakis Renaud Peteri Rolf Reichle Marko Scholze Jose Luiz Stech Simone Pettinato Alain Reineix Mathias Schreier Philippe Steeghs Grant Petty Steven C. Reising Karsten Schulz Susan Steele-Dunne Laurent Pfister Luigi J Renzullo Klaus Scipal Alfred Stein William Philpot Adrianos Retalis Waymond Scott David Stein Stuart Phinn Serni Ribó Imane Sebari Haroon Stephen Bruno Picard Philippe Ricaud Linda M See Michael D. Steven Herbert M Pickett Daniele Riccio Klaus Seidel William Stevens Wojciech Pieczynski John A Richards Rajasri Sen Jaiswal James Stiles Massimiliano Pieraccini Rafael F Rincon Guy Serbin Ad Stoffelen Leland E Pierce Alex J Rinehart Joan Serra-Sagrista Leonid Stoimenov Nazzareno Pierdicca Giancarlo Rivolta Karen Seto Fenzhen Su Stefano Pignatti Dar A. Roberts Michael Seymour Hongbo Su Roy Pike Gareth James Roberts Chintan Shah Lihong Su Andrew N Pilant Stefan A Robila Nimmi C. Parikh Sharma Hong Sun Maria Piles Amandine Robin Joseph A. Shaw Keli Sun 26 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Lixin Sun Florence Tupin Björn Waske Valery U Zavorotny Qiang Sun Silvia Liberata Ullo W Allan Webb Howard A Zebker Yonghua Sun Cem Unsalan Peter Weichman Stefano Zecchetto Robert Sundberg Avinash Uppuluri Uwe Weidner Xubin Zeng Chinnawat Joachim Urban Jeffrey Weiss Xianjie Zha Surussavadee Tomoo Ushio Matthias Weiss Yong Zha Joel Susskind Kuniaki Uto David Weissman Xiwu Zhan Johannes R. Sveinsson Paris W Vachon Jun Wen Aiwu Zhang Tal Svoray Athanasios T Vafeidis Charles Werner Bo Zhang John J Szymanski Rajesh Kumar Ed R Westwater Chunhua Zhang Alireza Tabatabaeenejad Vaidyanathan H. Peter White Guifang Zhang Walid Tabbara Nick van de Giesen Gary Wick Guifu Zhang Kaoru Tachiiri Adriaan A. Van de Lori Wickert Jianglong Zhang Takeo Tadono Griend Werner Wiesbeck Junping Zhang Nasreddine Taleb Jan van der Kruk Andreas Wiesmann Kongwen Frank Zhang Bingxiang Tan Sebastian van der Jean-Pierre Wigneron Lifu Zhang Yumin Tan Linden Thomas T Wilheit Peng Zhang Wenqing Tang Freek D. van der Meer Graeme G Wilkinson Qiaofeng Zhang Yixian Tang Rogier van der Velde Joseph Wilson Qun Zhang Majid Hashemi Benoît Vandame Edwin Xiangrong Zhang Tangestani Douglas Vandemark Michael Edwin Winter Xiaoguo Zhang Kevin Tansey Gabriel Vasile Wit T Wisniewski Xiaojuan Zhang Stacy L Tantum Robin Vaughan Robert E Wolfe Xiaoyang Zhang Ken Tape Miguel Velez-Reyes Kok Wai Wong Xin Zhang Yuliya Tarabalka Gopalan Venkataraman Margaret Wonsick Ying Zhang Adrian Tatnall Shilpa Venkataraman Eric Wood Zhaonan Zhang Hannes Josef Harry Vereecken Curtis Woodcock Dehua Zhao Taubenböck Niko E.C. Verhoest Caicong Wu Huijie Zhao Calvin Teague Nishchal Verma Chao-Cheng Wu Wencang Zhao Fernando Lisboa Eric F. Vermote Fan Wu Yindi Zhao Teixeira Ana Vidal-Pantaleoni Guangyu Wu Guoqing Zhou Marouane Temimi Paolo Villa Jindong Wu Jun Zhou Ana Claudia Teodoro Massimo Vincini Lixin Wu Qiang Zhou Praveen Kumar Thakur G. Viswanathan Wenbin Wu Yuyu Zhou Pradeep Kumar Anthony Vodacek Xingren Wu Zheng-Shu Zhou Thapliyal Peter Voelger Zhang Xiaojun Jing Zhu James Theiler Ronald L Vogel Hongjie Xie Jun Zhu Christian Thiel Declan Vogt Peng Xiu Wenquan Zhu Claire Thomas Axel von Engeln Hanqiu Xu Manfred Zink Robert Thomas Slobodan Vucetic Yong Xue Djemel Ziou Werner Peter Thomas Chris Wackerman Yoshio Yamaguchi Bin Zou Susanne Thulin Thomas Wagner Hiroya Yamano Mehrez Zribi Xiaolin Tian Wolfgang Wagner Banghua Yan Raul Zurita-Milla Tammam Tillo Jeffrey Walker Haowen Yan James C. Tilton Wayne Walker Cunjian Yang Celine Tison Juliet Wallace Kai Yang Daniela Arnold Tisot Ingo Walterscheid Peng Yang Saibun Tjuatja Charles Walthall Wen Yang Claudio Tomasi Changcheng Wang Wenze Yang Rodger Tomlinson Cheng Wang Yun Yang Charalampos A H. G. Wang Zhengwei Yang Topaloglou Hongqiang Wang Yanjuan Yao Markus Torma James R. Wang Lance D Yarbrough Francesc Torres Jing Wang Marta Yebra Omar Torres Kaicun Wang Ali Yilmaz Peter Torrione Le Wang Alper Yilmaz Ridha Touzi Teng Wang Chinatsu Yonezawa Nicolas Tremblay Weimin Wang Taehun Yoon Robert Treuhaft Wenhui Wang Nick H Younan Roger Trias-Sanz Yanfei Wang Guoxia Yu Alexander Trishchenko Yanting Wang Jun Yu Giulia Troglio Yeqiao Wang Zuojun Yu Emmanuel Trouve Yujie Wang Jinchun Yuan Fuan Tsai Yunpeng Wang Simon H Yueh Victor J. D. Tsai Zuyuan Wang Rafael Zandona- Jaan-Rong Tsay Brian Wardlow Schneider Din-Chang Tseng Wardoyo Wardoyo Ouan-Zan Zanife Yi-Hsing Tseng Timothy Warner Alina Zare 27 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Welcome to Boston

The Hynes Convention Center and the Sheraton Boston Hotel are centrally located facilities right in the heart of Boston - easily accessible from the airport, metro, and major highways and roads. No other city in America is easier to get to - or easier to get around - than Boston. Boston is within two hours of Toronto, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Montreal, New York and Detroit. Whether you are flying into Logan International Airport, driving via major interstate highways I-90, I-95 or I-93, which are just two minutes from the Hynes Convention Center, or taking the train or bus from and to South Station, getting to Boston is convenient and stress-free. Since the completion of the Big Dig, Boston’s major transportation and infrastructure project, the city features increased convenience and ease for getting anywhere you want to go.

For the historian in you, the Freedom Trail will lead you through Boston, stopping at Paul Revere’s House, Old North Church, Old South Meeting House and many other sites. The Aquarium, Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Science are also all nearby. Duck Tours can be arranged through the hotel concierge, and some of New England’s most scenic beaches are only a short drive away.

Welcoming and accessible, the Boston area is a wonderful destination for a quick getaway weekend or a several day stay. Summertime means seasonal favorites such as harbor cruises and island hopping, street festivals and window shopping, open air markets, star-studded concerts and music under the stars. Dining al fresco is another treat, whether you’re having a five-course dinner, a light repast after a day of sightseeing or simply enjoying a cup of clam chowder and a locally brewed beer. And of course, what summer would be complete without enjoying the world-champion Red Sox playing at venerable Fenway Park? There are walking trails for big feet and little feet and tours by land or by sea. For tired feet, trolley tours take you where you want to go. You can tour with period costumed guides or take a tour with your cell phone or MP3 player. In Boston, you can blaze your own trail with total summer freedom! Boston City Links

• http://www.bostonusa.com • http://www.boston-online.com/visitors

May we highly recommend

• Boston Duck Tours: http://www.bostonducktours.com Highly rated; this is a wonderful way to see Boston. • The Beantown Trolley: http://www.bostontours.us • Cityview Trolley Tours: http://www.cityviewtrolleys.com

Boston Area University Tours and Points of Interest

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): http://www.mit.edu • Harvard University: http://www.harvard.edu • Tufts University: http://www.tufts.edu • Boston University: http://www.bu.edu • Boston College: http://www.bc.edu • Northeastern University: http://www.neu.edu • MIT Museum: http://web.mit.edu/museum • Edgerton Center (MIT): http://web.mit.edu/Edgerton/

Visitor Information

The Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau will be staffing an information booth at the Hynes Convention Center Monday, July 7 through Wednesday, July 9 from 9:45 to 17:45 each day. They will have information on things to do in Boston as well as tour options for individual attendees.

Weather Tips

In Massachusetts the summer lasts from mid-June to the beginning of September. This is a tremendously popular time for both international and domestic travelers to visit Massachusetts. During the warm days of summer, travelers and natives alike flock to New England’s popular lakes, beaches, and coast. The Atlantic Ocean will be at its warmest late in the summer, around 75°F (24°C). Back in Boston the city undergoes a sea change. Boston empties as its large student population departs for summer vacation, and the city comes alive with innumerable outdoor concerts and festivals. Music lovers take advantage of the balmy 80°F to 90°F (27°C to 32°C) degree days to sit and be serenaded at these concerts in the city’s parks. In the hills and mountains of western and northern New England the temperature is a little cooler (70°F to 85°F, about 21°C to 30°C) and the entertainment options a little more unique. The Berkshires, Massachusetts’ westernmost region, play host to world renowned Summer theater and serve as the seasonal home of the Boston Symphony. To the north the White and Green Mountain National Forests offer exception hiking, biking, boating and camping opportunities. In the hills the temperature at night can dip into the 50s and 60s Farenheit (10°C to 20°C). 28 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Airport Information

Boston’s Logan International Airport is a 20 - 30 minute drive from from the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center. There are several shuttle bus companies that operate from the airport, taxis are easily available, and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) provides several public transportation options originating from the airport.

Currency

The U.S. monetary system includes denominations of $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 bills. There are also four common denominations of coins: 1¢ (1 cent or a penny), 5¢ (a nickel), 10¢ (a dime), 25¢ (a quarter). Two less- common types of coins are worth 50¢ and $1.

Currency exchange bureaus can be found in many banks throughout the Boston area. Hotels also offer currency exchange services, but the exchange rate is not as good as those offered at banks. It is also wise to check for currency exchange services through American Express (800) 525-7623 or http://www.americanexpress.com or visit http://travel.americanexpress.com; additionally, the Thomas Cook Currency Services are available and can be found at http://www.us.thomascook.com or by calling (800) 287-7362.

Traveler’s checks are widely accepted and used as well as credit cards and ATMs (automated teller machines). The most used credit cards include Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, Discover, and Carte Blanche. Some Boston venders may accept international cards like enRoute, Eurocard, and JCB. ATMs are available at virtually every hotel.

In Boston, 15 to 20 percent of the total bill is a good rule of thumb for tipping. Some additional guidelines follow:

• Hotel personnel: Generally tip $1 to $2 for each bag of luggage. For concierge services, a $5 tip is appropriate. • Taxi drivers and tour guides: Taxi drivers usually receive $1 to $2 for a direct route, or follow the 15 to 20 percent rule, whichever is greater. A $1 to $2 tip per person on a tour is appropriate for tour guides. • Valet parking and housekeeping: $2 is a good tip for a parking valet, while $2 a day is a good tip for housekeeping services.

Taxation

The United States has no value-added tax or other indirect tax at the national level. There is a 5% sales tax on purchases and a 12.45% tax on hotel rooms in Boston.

Getting Around

Public transportation around Boston is inexpensive and convenient. It is run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. http://www.mbta.com

Riders on the subway should take the Green Line, Train D “Riverside” (avoid Train E, as it does not stop at the Hynes) to the “Hynes Convention Center” station. Then walk down Massachusetts Avenue, over the Massachusetts Turnpike, turn left on Boylston St., and on to the Hynes. Signs are posted to guide you from the train stop to the convention center. Buses 1 and 55 also share this destination.

Alternately, you could take the Green Line to the “Copley” station, then walk down Boylston St., away from Copley Square, towards the Hynes Convention Center. Buses 9, 10, 39, and 55 also share this destination.

Click here for a map showing the relative positions of the Hynes Convention Center, the Sheraton Boston, and the Subway stations in the area.

Express buses from outside cities (e.g. 502 and 503) are also available. A complete map of the Boston subway can be found at http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway.

Each trip on the Subway cost $2 (or $1.70 when pre-purchased on a CharlieCard) and allows travel anywhere in the Subway system. A one-ride ticket includes one free transfer to Local Bus. Consider purchasing a day or week pass. Day passes cost $9 and allow unlimited travel on Subway, Local Bus, Commuter Rail Zone 1A, and the Inner-Harbor Ferry. Week passes cost $15, are good for 7 days, and provide the same services as a day pass.

Children 11 years old and younger can ride for free with a paid adult. Junior High and High-School students ride for $0.85 per ride.

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Helpful Phone Numbers

Emergencies: 911 John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center: 617-954-2000 The Sheraton Boston Hotel: 617-236-2000 The Westin Copley Place: 617-262-9600

Internet Access

Wireless Internet access will be available throughout the Hynes Convention Center free of charge. It should show up as “Hynes Wireless” and no login names or passwords are required.

The Internet Cafe will be located in Room 200 of the Hynes Convention Center. Computers will be available for attendees to use to access the Internet during the symposium.

The Speaker Ready Room and the Oral Presentation Upload station will also be located in room 200.

Room 200 Hours: Sunday, July 6 14:00 to 17:30 Monday, July 7 to Friday, July 11, from 8:00 to 17:30

Registration

The IGARSS Registration Desk will be on the Plaza Level of the Hynes Convention Center in the Hall A Prefunction Area.

Registration Desk Hours:

Sunday, July 6 7:30 - 17:30 Monday, July 7 7:00 - 17:30 Tuesday, July 8 7:30 - 17:30 Wednesday, July 9 8:00 - 17:30 Thursday, July 10 8:00 - 17:30 Friday, July 11 8:00 - 17:30

Tutorials

Full-day Tutorials Sunday, July 6, 08:30 - 17:30

FD-1: SAR Polarimetry: Basics, Processing Techniques and Applications - Hynes 104 Presenters: Eric Pottier and Laurent Ferro-Famil, IETR UMR CNRS 6164, University of Rennes 1

Note: Tutorial FD-2 has been cancelled.

FD-3: Semantic content extraction from high resolution EO images - Hynes 105 Presenters: Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen and Klaus Seidel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich

Half-day Tutorials Sunday Morning, July 6, 08:30 - 12:30

HD-1: Modeling the Spectral Responses of Natural Materials under Varying Environmental Parameters: Theoretical and Practical Challenges - Hynes 107 Presenter: Gladimir V. G. Baranoski, University of Waterloo, Canada

HD-3: Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing - Hynes 108 Presenter: C. H. Chen, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

HD-5: An Introduction to AGI (Advanced Geospatial Intelligence) - Hynes 109 Presenter: Shawn A. Kalis, Riverside Research Institute

HD-8: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Methods and Applications - Hynes 110 Presenter: Howard Zebker, Stanford University

Note: Tutorial HD-9 has been cancelled. 30 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

HD-11: Introduction to Microwave Radiometry - Hynes 111 Presenters: R. Vincent Leslie, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Michael J. Schwartz, Microwave Atmospheric Science Group, NASA JPL

Sunday Afternoon, July 6, 13:30 - 17:30

HD-2: Feedforward Neural Networks: Theory & Applications in Atmospheric Remote Sensing - Hynes 107 Presenter: Frederick W. Chen

HD-4: Data Models and Information Estimation in Multichannel Radar Remote Sensing Imagery - Hynes 108 Presenter: Carlos López-Martínez, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)

HD-6: SAR oil spill observation - Hynes 109 Presenter: Maurizio Migliaccio, University of Napoli Parthenope

HD-7: Fractal Models in Electromagnetic Scattering - Hynes 110 Presenter: Daniele Riccio, University of Napoli Federico II

Note: Tutorial HD-10 has been cancelled.

HD-12: Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow - Hynes 111 Presenter: Edward J. Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

GEOSS Workshop

GEOSS Workshop XXII: Air Quality and Coastal Ecosystems Hynes Convention Center, Room 101 IGARSS 2008 pre-symposium workshop, Boston USA 6 July 2008, 8:30 - 17:00 EDT

Co-organizers: Albin Gasiewski, David Arctur, Gary Foley, Francoise Pearlman

Background: The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) is a complex system of sensors, communication devices, storage systems, computational and other devices used to observe the Earth and to gather the data needed for a better understanding of the Earth’s processes. In addition, GEOSS includes models and processes to create information from the observational data. The 2003 Earth Observations Summit established the objective “to monitor continuously the state of the Earth, to increase understanding of dynamic Earth processes, to enhance prediction of the Earth system, and to further implement our international environmental treaty obligations.”

The GEOSS Implementation Plan states that GEOSS will provide the overall conceptual and organizational framework for integrated global Earth observations to meet user needs. GEOSS will be a “system of systems” consisting of existing and future Earth observation systems, supplementing but not supplanting their own mandates and governance arrangements. It will provide the institutional mechanisms for ensuring the necessary level of coordination, for strengthening and supplementing existing Earth observation systems, and for reinforcing and supporting component systems in carrying out their mandates.

Technical Meetings

Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) Mission Information Meeting Sunday, July 6, 16:00 - 18:00 Gardner Room, Sheraton Boston Hotel

An open information meeting to discuss the Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) mission will be held 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm on Sunday July 6 at the Gardner Room of Sheraton Hotel. The meeting will open with brief presentations on the mission science, measurement approach and project program. The SMAP mission is the first of the Earth Science Decadal Survey missions, with a target launch date in late 2012 or early 2013. SMAP has extensive heritage in the earlier Hydros ESSP mission design.

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Frequency Allocations in Remote Sensing Technical Committee Meeting Monday, July 7, 17:30 - 19:00 Room 111, Hynes Convention Center

The Frequency Allocations in Remote Sensing (FARS) Technical Committee of IEEE GRSS will hold its annual meeting at IGARSS 2008. The agenda of the meeting will include a discussion of the upcoming URSI General Assembly, the status of USNC Commission F elections, and relevant USNC meetings and new activities for the upcoming triennium. The FARS committee mission is to provide technical assessments, guidance and recommendations regarding matters of frequency sharing and interference between remote sensing and other uses of the radio wave spectrum. Both members and non- members are welcome to attend and participate in the discussion. The agenda includes an update on FARS activities, a discussion of interference concerns for new 60 GHz commercial devices, preparations for the upcoming SFCG meeting, and nominations for a committee co-chair.

Data Fusion Technical Committee Meeting Tuesday, July 8, 18:00 - 19:00 Room 107, Hynes Convention Center

The Data Fusion Technical Committee (DFTC) of IEEE GRSS will hold its annual meeting at IGARSS 2008. The DFTC serves as a global, multidisciplinary network for geospatial data fusion, connecting people and resources. Its purpose is to educate students and professionals and to promote best practice in data fusion applications. In particular, the DFTC has been organizing a yearly challenge since 2006. Ideas and contributions for the organization of the future issues of the contest are welcome. Both members and non-members are welcome to attend the meeting and participate in the discussion.

USNC-URSI Commission F Meeting Wednesday, July 9, 18:00 - 19:00 Room 111, Hynes Convention Center

Commission F of the U.S. National Committee (USNC) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) will hold a business meeting at IGARSS 2008. Both members and non-members are welcome to attend the business meeting and participate in the discussion.

International Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Working Group Meeting Friday, July 11, 14:00 - 17:00 Room 105, Hynes Convention Center

The International Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Working Group (ISIS WG) will meet to discuss a range of programmatic and technical issues associated with current and planned imaging spectroscopy satellite missions. Current members of the working group include representatives from all major space agencies, national research bodies and associated private industry partners.

The International Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Working Group (ISIS WG) will meet to discuss a range of programmatic and technical issues associated with current and planned imaging spectroscopy satellite missions. Current members of the working group include representatives from all major space agencies, national research bodies and associated private industry partners.

Goals of the ISIS WG are to share information on current and future spaceborne imaging spectroscopy (“hyperspectral”) missions, and to seek opportunities for new international partnerships to the benefit of the global user community. Specific discussions within the working group also focus on interoperability among missions, ‘best practice’ mission implementation, mass data management challenges and development of a forward work plan for improved coordination activities amongst member agencies.

Anticipated topics for this meeting are likely to include discussions about development of a series of global cal/val sites and best-practice ground measurements in support of these missions. In addition, a number of discussion papers on data standards, capacity building and spectrometer development are being drafted by members of the working group, and will be discussed in more detail during the meeting.

Observers and IGARSS 2008 participants are welcome to attend.

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Oral Presentation Instructions

• All oral presenters must check in and load their presentations in the Speaker Ready Room (Hynes Convention Center Room 200). • It is preferable to load all files to the IGARSS server on the day prior to the scheduled presentation. The cut- off for uploads is no less than one hour prior to the start of the session, i.e. the previous day for first morning session, 9:20 for second morning session, 12:20 for first afternoon session and 14:20 for second afternoon session. • Each oral presentations, including questions and answers, must be less than 20 minutes in length. Due to the large number of parallel sessions, session co-chairs will follow the printed schedule strictly. • Oral presenters are required to use the laptops provided in the presentation rooms. • Presentation files may be created in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) (recommended format) or Microsoft PowerPoint. Movies or animations need to be able to run using MPEG, Windows Media Player, Macromedia Flash Player, Apple QuickTime or RealPlayer (RealNetworks). • Please note that while there will be wireless Internet access available in the presentation rooms, we cannot guarantee either connection speed or availability for your particular presentation time, and we strongly encourage you not to rely on Internet access for your presentation.

Oral Presenter file upload hours: Sunday, July 6 14:00 to 17:30 Monday, July 7 to Friday, July 11, from 8:00 to 17:30

Poster Presentation Instructions

• Posters will be displayed from 9:00 to 18:30 on the day on which they are scheduled. • Presenting authors are requested to be available at their posters from at least 17:00 to 18:30. • Posters must be removed at the conclusion of the poster session, by 19:30 at the latest. • Poster boards will be available along with the necessary mounting hardware. • The poster should be not larger than 4 feet (122 cm) in height and 4 feet (122 cm) in width.

Exhibition

IGARSS 2008 would like to thank the following companies and organizations for exhibiting at this year’s event. Please stop by the exhibit hall and visit them during exhibit hours.

Booth 301: The Aerospace Corporation www.aero.org Booth 501: Alaska Satellite Facility www.asf.alaska.edu/asf/ Booth 307: ARTEMIS Inc. www.dustersuite.com Booth 604: Booz Allen Hamilton www.boozallen.com Booth 407: Canadian Space Agency www.space.gc.ca/asc/index.html Booth 509: Decagon Devices, Inc. www.decagon.com Booth 304: Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center (ERSDAC) www.ersdac.or.jp/eng/index.E.html Booth 310: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society www.grss-ieee.org Booth 403: HyVista Corporation www.hyvista.com Booth 308: IGARSS 2009 www.igarss09.org Booth 402/404: ITT - Visual Information Solutions www.ittvis.com Booth 605/606: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html Booth 409: Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) www.kari.re.kr Booth 302: MIT - Lincoln Laboratory www.ll.mit.edu Booth 408/410: NASA - Earth Science Division eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov Booth 309: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency www.nga.mil/portal/site/nga01/

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Booth NPOESS: NPOESS - National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System www.ipo.noaa.gov Booth 503: Orbital Systems, Ltd. www.orbitalsystems.com Booth 507: PCI Geomatics www.pcigeomatics.com Booth 607: PP Systems Inc. www.ppsystems.com Booth 303: Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems www.raytheon.com Booth 508: Rochester Institute of Technology Center for Imaging Science www.cis.rit.edu Booth 401: SpecTIR, LLC www.spectir.com Booth 510: USGS EROS - Landsat & the Landsat Data Continuity Mission landsat.usgs.gov Booth 603: Vexcel Corporation www.vexcel.com

Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, July 8 10:00 - 19:30 (Reception 17:30-19:30) Wednesday, July 9 10:00 - 16:00 Thursday, July 10 10:00 - 16:00

K-12 Outreach Activities

K-12 outreach activities are taking place in the IGARSS exhibit hall. Please see page 7 of this guide for the floor plan.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 ALL DAY Enjoy the education and outreach exhibits located in the conference center! MORNING 9:30–12:00 “Behind the Scenes” tour of the Boston Museum of Science • Welcome by Museum Staff • Overview of the Digital Earth Watch measuring vegetation health • Enjoy presentations and exhibits! AFTERNOON 13:30–15:00 “Mathematics of Remote Sensing” Team Competition for grades 3-5 and 6-8 13:30–17:00 IGARSS‘08 & You Photoshoots: Have your photo printed on the front of the IGARSS‘08 program. (open to everyone) 15:00–15:20 Refreshment Break (open to everyone) 17:00–18:30 Posters (open to everyone)

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 ALL DAY • Education and outreach exhibits located in the conference center! • IGARSS‘08 & You Photoshoots: Have your photo printed on the front of the IGARSS‘08 program. MORNING 8:20–12:00 Posters 10:00–10:20 Refreshment Break 9:00–12:00 Earthzine Interviews (open to everyone) 10:30–11:00 IGARSS‘08 Art Contest Students in grades 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. Awards are presented to the winners. AFTERNOON 13:20–15:00 WE3.109: Remote Sensing Education and Outreach Session, Room 109 (for teachers/adults) 13:30–17:00 Essay Contest for grades 6-8 and grades 9-12 15:00–15:20 Refreshment Break 17:00–18:30 Posters (open to everyone)

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Thursday, July 10, 2008 ALL DAY • Education and outreach exhibits located in the conference center! • IGARSS‘08 & You Photoshoots: Have your photo printed on the front of the IGARSS‘08 program. (open to everyone) • IGARSS‘08 Scavenger Hunt: Grades 3-12 meet the scientists and exhibitors through a “Find and Ask” scavenger hunt for grades 3-12 MORNING 9:00-12:00 Forest Watch and workshops (for teachers/adults) 10:00–10:20 Refreshment Break AFTERNOON 13:30–15:00 Grades 6-8 and 9-12 Essay Contest Winners Announced 15:00-15:20 Refreshment Break

Outreach Exhibit Area

Booth A: NOAA - Magic , Jeopardy & hands-on activities Booth B: DigiPen Institute of Technology - Eye on Earth Booth C: MIT Lincoln Laboratory - Guess the Land Mass Booth D: SUNY-Buffalo/RIT/CReSIS - Geowall System Booth E: Hofstra University / Cradle of Aviation Museum Booth F: CERSER - Thermal Infrared Temperature Measurement of Polar Ice Sheets Booth G: CERSER - IGARSS 2008 Education and Outreach Booth Headquarters for the IGARSS 2008 Scavenger Hunt & the IGARSS 2008 and You Photoshoots

Outreach Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, July 8 10:00 - 19:30 (Reception 17:30-19:30) Wednesday, July 9 10:00 - 16:00 Thursday, July 10 10:00 - 16:00

Social Events

Welcome Reception - Prudential Tower Skywalk Sunday, July 6, 17:30 - 20:30

The IGARSS Opening Reception will take place at the Prudential Skywalk – one of the most dramatic venues in New England. The Skywalk is atop the 52-story Prudential Tower right in the middle of Boston. The observatory gives visitors a birds-eye view, making it the perfect vantage point to view the bustling city below. With 360 degrees of floor-to-ceiling windows, the Skywalk affords spectacular sights of the entire Boston area, and, on a clear summer day, the mountains of New Hampshire and even Cape Cod. The Opening Reception will feature hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. Hot and cold passed appetizers and reception food displays -- with typical New England flavors -- will be available for your enjoyment.

The Prudential Center comprises the “Pru Tower”, which is the second tallest building in Boston, along with the City Under Glass Mall, which includes several restaurants and numerous shops. The Prudential Center is connected to the Hynes Convention Center IGARSS symposium site and the Sheraton Boston Hotel.

Exhibitor Reception - IGARSS Exhibit Hall Tuesday, July 8, 17:30 - 19:30

Enjoy light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments as you visit with our exhibitors.

Soccer Game - MIT Soccer Field Wednesday, July 9, 18:00 - 20:30

The traditional IGARSS soccer game will be held on MIT’s soccer field, Wednesday, July 9 at 18:00. There is no cost, but registration is required. Transportation to the field will be provided. Bus pickup / dropoff at the Boylston entrance of the Hynes Convention Center.

Technical Committee and Chapter Chairs Dinner - Commonwealth Room, Boston Sheraton Hotel Wednesday, July 9, 19:30 - 22:00

This event provides a venue for discussion of GRSS Technical Committee and Chapter activities accompanied by a fine meal. Members of GRSS Technical Committees and GRSS Chapter Chairs are especially invited, but all IGARSS delegates (and guests) are welcome to participate. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the technical committees and activities of our chapters. Tickets are limited so sign up early. 35 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Awards Banquet - Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Thursday, July 10, 18:00

This year’s IGARSS banquet will take place in the Peabody Essex Museum, 16 miles north of Boston in historic Salem, Massachusetts.

Buses will transport guests from the Sheraton Boston Hotel to the ferry dock on Boston Harbor, where we will board a dedicated ferry to Salem. The boat will sail through Boston Harbor, north past Logan Airport, Nahant, Marblehead, and into Salem Harbor. Often referred to America’s Bewitched Seaport, Salem has a long witch- related history, and is the site of the House of Seven Gables. The one-half mile walk from the ferry dock, through the center of the quaint city, to the Peabody Essex Museum gives one a good sense of colonial America. Buses will be available for those preferring not to stroll.

The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) is America’s oldest continuously operating museum, founded in 1799, a decade and a half after American independence. The PEM is 75 years older than Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collections come from America’s first traders, filled with the entrepreneurial spirit that made this country what it is. Many of the museum’s 2.4 million collected works of art and culture are the best of their kind. Several of the exhibit rooms will be available for viewing before and after dinner.

The scrumptious banquet will take place in the Atrium of the modern museum building. Light entertainment will be provided during dinner by a university a cappella singing group, and of course, awards will be presented.

Entertainment will be provided by The Nor*easters A Cappella Singing Group. The Nor*easters are the oldest a cappella group at Northeastern University. Although the student members love to show off and have fun, their voices together create some beautiful tunes. From hip hop to the oldies, there are no limits to what kind of music these friends take on. During each performance, the Nor*easters hope their audiences see not only how dedicated they are to the world of a cappella, but also how much fun and excitement music brings to their lives.

The return trip will be either by ferry or bus, back to the Sheraton Boston Hotel.

Summary of the evening’s schedule: 18:00 Bus depart from the Sheraton Boston Hotel, Dalton Street Entrance. 18:45 Ferry transport from Boston to Salem 19:30 Arrive Salem 22:30 Depart Salem 23:15 Arrive Boston

Technical Tour

Visit to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Related Organizations

This tour will visit some of the research organizations in Woods Hole, MA on Cape Cod.

The tour starts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Exhibit Center (WHOI), which has exhibits and videos on the institute’s ocean science research, vessels, and tools. James Yoder, WHOI VP for Academic Programs and Dean, will give a presentation on a National Research Council report entitled, “Earth Observations From Space: The First 50 Years of Scientific Achievements”.

Next, the tour will go to the Woods Hole Science Center (WHSC) which is the U.S. Geological Survey’s facility at Woods Hole. There will be a demonstration of the GeoWall system that will feature some of WHSC’s latest data, e.g., Puerto Rico trench. Also, there will be a brief tour of the WHSC facility (Quissett Campus).

The final technical aspect of the tour will be a visit to the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) at the Gilman Ordway Campus. There will be a brief tour of the WHRC’s cutting-edge building that was specially designed to have environmentally-friendly materials and to use energy and water efficiently. Demonstrations will include work using ALOS radar data (PALSAR) to map tropical forest change and biomass and satellite observations (AVHRR) to map forest productivity in the circumpolar region.

The tour will return to Woods Hole, MA for dinner before returning to Boston. Dinner will not be provided, but a bag lunch will be offered before boarding the bus. The tour will leave at 11:00 on Wednesday, July 9, and return around 21:00 that evening. The one-way trip from Boston to Woods Hole will take approximately an hour and a half. Bus pickup / dropoff at the Boylston entrance of the Hynes Convention Center.

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Student Activities

Career Forum - Commonwealth Room, Sheraton Boston Hotel Monday, July 7, 17:30 - 19:30

IGARSS 2008 offers students the unique opportunity to interact with a number of representatives of companies in geosciences and remote sensing. Registering and attending the Career Forum allows you to:

• attend short (5-10 minute) presentations on career opportunities from sponsors of the Career Forum • network with representatives of companies and learn more about their employment opportunities • submit your resume to company representatives • seek potential interviews • have your contact information shared with potential employers during the symposium

This event is available by registration only to students, and only a limited number of registrants will be accepted. If you are looking for employment, do not forget to register for this event! Come to the meeting armed with questions and resumes!

Participating Organizations:

BALL AEROSPACE

Ball Aerospace is a leader in design, development and manufacture of innovative aerospace systems. We produce spacecraft, instruments and sensors, RF and microwave technologies, data exploitation solutions and a variety of advanced aerospace technologies and products that enable exciting missions. We are known for our contributions in support of space and Earth science, exploration, national security and intelligence programs. We were also a pioneer in the development of the commercial remote sensing market, producing imaging systems and spacecraft that helped spawn a new market-driven demand for imagery. Our projects offer some of the most difficult and exciting challenges in aerospace. We employ approximately 3,000 talented engineers, scientists, technicians and support staff. And one of the keys to our success is our people. Our employees take great pride in their contributions to better understanding our planet and protecting the nation.

AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY

Mission AFRL’s mission is leading the discovery, development and integration of affordable warfighting technologies for America’s aerospace forces. It is a full-spectrum laboratory, responsible for planning and executing the Air Force’ science and technology program. AFRL leads a worldwide government, industry and academia partnership in the discovery, development and delivery of a wide range of revolutionary technology. The laboratory provides leading-edge warfighting capabilities keeping our air, space and cyberspace forces the world’s best.

Space Vehicles Directorate With headquarters at Kirtland AFB, N.M. and an additional research facility at Hanscom AFB, Mass., the directorate serves as the Air Force’s “Center of Excellence” for space research and development. It also leverages commercial, civil and other government resources that ensure America’s defense advantage. Primary focus areas include: radiation hardened electronics; space power; space structures and control; space based sensing; space environmental effects; autonomous maneuvering; and balloon and satellite flight experiments.

RAYTHEON COMPANY

Raytheon Company, with 2007 sales of $21.3 billion, is a technology leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning more than 85 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide.

Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) is Raytheon’s leader in Joint Battlespace Integration providing affordable, integrated solutions to a broad international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland Security. Headquartered in Tewksbury, MA, IDS employs more than 13,500 people worldwide and generated $4.7 billion in 2007 sales. We are looking for the best talent, please visit our jobs website at rayjobs.com and apply to a position that best suits your requirements.

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ITT

ITT Visual Information Solutions ITT Space Systems Division

The hallmarks of working at ITT Corporation are Real Jobs, Real Responsibilities and Real Challenges. We offer career opportunities that are demanding and rewarding in our Space Systems Division in Rochester, NY, as well as our Visual Information Solutions in Boulder, CO. ITT is a unique company, providing the ideal workplace environment in which to foster a rewarding career. We are looking for team players with the talent and drive for excellence.

Young Professionals’ Luncheon - Gardner Room, Sheraton Boston Hotel Tuesday, July 8, 12:00 - 14:00

As part of the student activities, IGARSS 2008 is organizing a “Young Professionals” luncheon. The event is open to IGARSS student registrants. Only a very limited number of tickets will be available. The luncheon will provide a forum for discussion between current students and Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) members on career paths, skill sets beneficial to secure employment in the geosciences and remote sensing industries, as well as professional development opportunities. Organized for the first time as part of IGARSS, the event will allow current and future GOLD IEEE members to network in an informal setting.

Student Paper Prize Competition

All IEEE student members were invited and encouraged to enter the IGARSS Student Paper Prize Competition. Ten finalists have been selected by a committee to present their papers during a special session atthe symposium in Boston. Three prizes will be presented: First Prize (Mikio Takagi Student Prize) US$500, Second Prize US$300, Third Prize US$200, plus certificates for each. Following the special session at IGARSS, a complimentary ticket to the GRSS Annual Awards Banquet will be given to all ten finalists. The ten finalists are listed below (the finalist’s name and affiliation are underlined on each paper):

TU1.103.1: MULTIPLE-WINDOW ANOMALY DETECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Wei-Min Liu; Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County Chein-I Chang; Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County

TU1.103.2: MULTIPLE KERNEL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS AND DECISION FUSION FOR ROBUST SUB- PIXEL HYPERSPECTRAL TARGET RECOGNITION Saurabh Prasad; Mississippi State University Lori Bruce; Mississippi State University

TU1.103.3: RETRIEVAL OF 3-D WATER VAPOR FIELD USING A NETWORK OF SCANNING COMPACT MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS Sharmila Padmanabhan; Colorado State University Steven Reising; Colorado State University Jothiram Vivekanandan; National Center for Atmospheric Research

TU1.103.4: LOW FREQUENCY SEA AND ICE SHEET IMPULSE RESPONSES ACQUIRED BY THE GLOBAL ICE SHEET MAPPING ORBITER (GISMO) DEMONSTRATOR Noppasin Niamsuwan; The Ohio State University Joel Johnson; The Ohio State University

TU1.103.5: TOWARD AN OPERATIONAL METHOD FOR REFINED SNOW CHARACTERIZATION USING DUAL-POLARIZATION C-BAND SAR DATA Nicolas Longepe; University of Rennes 1 Sophie Allain; University of Rennes 1 Eric Pottier; University of Rennes 1

TU2.103.1: A NOVEL STRATEGY FOR RADAR IMAGING BASED ON COMPRESSIVE SENSING Marivi Tello; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Paco López-Dekker; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Jordi J. Mallorqui; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

TU2.103.2: VOLUME COHERENCE ESTIMATION FOR RANDOM FOREST HEIGHT RETRIEVAL BASED ON POLINSAR DATA Tao Xiong; Tsinghua University Guangyi Zhou; Tsinghua University Jian Yang; Tsinghua University Weijie Zhang; Tsinghua University

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TU2.103.3: INVESTIGATION OF A NEW MULTIFUNCTIONAL HIGH PERFORMANCE SAR SYSTEM CONCEPT EXPLOITING MIMO TECHNOLOGY Junghyo Kim; University of Karlsruhe Werner Wiesbeck; University of Karlsruhe

TU2.103.4: ON THE USE OF DUAL-POLARIZED SAR DATA FOR OIL SPILL OBSERVATION WITH AND WITHOUT SURFACE SLICKS Ferdinando Nunziata; Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope Attilio Gambardella; Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope Maurizio Migliaccio; Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope

TU2.103.5: ENHANCEMENT OF ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRY FOR GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION Robert Kohlleppel; Forschungsgesellschaft für Angewandte Naturwissenschaften e.V. Christoph H. Gierull; Forschungsgesellschaft für Angewandte Naturwissenschaften e.V.

Awards

The IEEE GRS-S and IGARSS 2008 recognize the following individuals for their contributions to the field of remote sensing. Their awards will be presented during the opening session on Monday, July 7.

2008 IEEE Fellows: Curt H. Davis Joel Tidmore Johnson David G. Long Didier H. Massonnet Jay S Pearlman Waymond R. Scott

2008 IEEE GRS-S Distinguished Achievement Award: Leung Tsang

2008 2008 IEEE GRS-S Outstanding Service Award: Wooil M. Moon

2008 IEEE GRS-S Education Award: Yoshio Yamaguchi

2008 IEEE Electromagnetics Award: Werner Wiesbeck

IEEE GRSS Membership

Why should I become a GRSS Member: I would like to encourage you to join GRSS if you are not a member. In the following, I enumerate the advantages and benefits of being a member. Advantages and Benefits of Being a Member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society:

1. You can make a bigger impact on Remote Sensing through the Society. With the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites in orbit, the upcoming National Polar Orbiting Operational environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) etc., remote sensing will play increasingly important roles in solutions to environmental problems, the study of global climate change and the monitoring of natural disasters. We are a transnational society. Our Society is a member of the International Group on Earth Observations (GEO). In 2005, we held two IEEE GEOSS Workshops, in Seoul and in South Africa. . In view of 9/11 and the on-going war in Iraq, subsurface sensing and foliage penetration problems have emerged as important tools for de-mining and target detection. We see great strides in remote sensing instrumentation, data processing, and applications. The IEEE-GRS Society is one of IEEE’s fastest growing societies. The Society strives to address remote sensing policies and research directions. By being a member, you can be a part of this important voice. You can make a bigger impact on these issues. 2. You can readily access our two premier journals: the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. Our Society’s archival publications represent the forefront of remote sensing science, technology and applications. The Transactions are among the premier journals in IEEE as well as remote sensing journals in terms of citation index and impact factor. Members can access the latest issues either on-line or via hard copies in the mail. 3. You can participate in our five Technical Committees: They are Instrumentation and Future Technologies, Data Archives and Distribution, Data Fusion, Frequency Allocations in Remote Sensing and Remote Sensing Applications. The technical committees work together to review the state of art of technology in these research areas. The Technical Committees make important impacts on the future directions of remote sensing 39 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston technologies. You can be a member and participate in this process. 4. You can attend IGARSS at a reduced rate and also participate in the planning of IGARSS. Our annual international symposium IGARSS reports on the recent advances in remote sensing. The IGARSS attendance continues to increase. More than 1200 persons attended each of IGARSS 2005 in Seoul, IGARSS 2006 in Denver and IGARSS 2007 in Barcelona. Members are entitled to reduced registration fees. You can also help in the planning of IGARSS. If you are an expert in the technical topics of Applications of Remote Sensing, Mission and Programs, Geoscience Modeling and Processing, Data Processing and Algorithms, Electromagnetic Problems, Instrumentation and Techniques, Policy, you may be asked to serve on the Technical Program Committee. You can also volunteer to organize special sessions. 5. You can utilize the Resources provided by the Society, such as Education, Industrial Relations and current state-of-the-art information of the IEEE GRSS (http://www.grss-ieee.org/). The Society spends a lot of efforts in remote sensing education initiatives, development and collection of educational resources for K-12, college/ graduate education as well as continuing education for professionals. Members can access these resources. We are strengthening our industry relations program. As a member, you can connect to our industrial partners via this initiative. 6. Other benefits of IEEE Members include subscription to IEEE journals in fields related to remote sensing, career and employment resources, and favorable rates in IEEE insurance programs. They are listed in http:// www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp?pageID=corp_level1&path=membership&file=benefits.xml&xsl=generic.xsl

In the meantime, if you have suggestions concerning the Society, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Sincerely yours,

Anthony Milne President IEEE-GRSS Phone: 61-2-9385 8097; 61-2-9451-4628 [email protected]

Membership Options

Membership is open to professionals and students with varying levels of academic accomplishment and work experience.

Full Membership is available to those professionals that have demonstrated competence in an IEEE field. To apply, complete a Member Application Form and select GRSS as an additional Society Membership.

A Student Member must carry at least 50% of a normal, full-time academic program as a registered undergraduate or graduate student in a regular course of study in IEEE designated fields. Student Member fees are extremely low, and benefits are equal to those of Member grade. To apply, complete a Student Member Application Form and select GRSS as an additional Society Membership.

Affiliate Membership is available to those professionals who seek to affiliate themselves with GRSS but do not seek IEEE membership. Affiliates of GRSS enjoy full benefits of the Society, including monthly, on-line access to the Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (J-STARS), as well as the quarterly GRSS Newsletter and reduced symposium fees. To apply, complete an Affiliate Member Application Form.

Membership Fees

GRSS Memberships include on-line access through IEEE Xplore to the Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL) and Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (J-STARS), a new journal starting in 2008. Also new, on- line access through IEEE Xplore to all IGARSS Proceedings and selected GRSS-sponsored small symposia is available to Members for an additional fee of only $4. If you would like to receive printed copies of TGRS, GRSL or J-STARS, you must indicate so on your application form and pay the additional fee(s) of $50, $28, or $30, respectively. These options are available only for Full-Year memberships. The table below is a summary of IEEE and Society Dues.

• To calculate total dues, you may elect to add the optional printed TGRS, GRSL or J-STARS fee to appropriate IEEE member fee. (Affiliates select appropriate GRSS Affiliate fee only—no IEEE Member fees will be assessed.)

• Applications received between 16 August and 28 February will be processed as Full-Year memberships. Services begin immediately. • Applications received between 1 March and 15 August will be processed as Half-Year memberships expiring 31 December of that calendar year.

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Residence IEEE GRSS IEEE GRSS IEEE GRSS IEEE GRSS GRSS GRSS Member Member Student Student Affiliate Affiliate Full year Half year Full Year Half Year Full Year Half Year United States $185.00 $92.50 $40.00 $20.00 $83.00 $41.50 Canada (incl. GST) $172.56 $86.28 $41.80 $20.90 $83.00 $41.50 Canada (incl. HST) $182.64 $91.32 $44.20 $22.10 $83.00 $41.50 Africa, Europe, Middle East $157.00 $78.50 $35.00 $17.50 $83.00 $41.50 Latin America $150.00 $75.50 $35.00 $17.50 $83.00 $41.50 Asia, Pacific $151.00 $75.50 $35.00 $17.50 $83.00 $41.50

Residence GRSS Printed Printed Printed Printed Printed Printed Conference TGRS GRSL J-STARS TGRS GRSL J-STARS Digital (Members) (Members) (Members) (Students) (Students) (Students) Library Full Year Full Year Full Year Full Year Full Year Full Year only only only only only only United States $4.00 $50.00 $28.00 $30.00 $25.00 $14.00 $15.00 Canada (incl. GST) $4.00 $50.00 $28.00 $30.00 $25.00 $14.00 $15.00 Canada (incl. HST) $4.00 $50.00 $28.00 $30.00 $25.00 $14.00 $15.00 Africa, Europe, Middle East $4.00 $50.00 $28.00 $30.00 $25.00 $14.00 $15.00 Latin America $4.00 $50.00 $28.00 $30.00 $25.00 $14.00 $15.00 Asia, Pacific $4.00 $50.00 $28.00 $30.00 $25.00 $14.00 $15.00

IEEE GRSS Chapters

Chapter Location Societies Chapter Chair E-mail Address Joint with Region 1: Northeastern USA Boston Section, MA GRS William Blackwell [email protected] Springfield Section, MA AP, MTT, ED, Paul Siqueira [email protected] GRS, LEO Western New York GRS John Kerekes [email protected] Region 2: Eastern USA Washington DC/ GRS James Tilton [email protected] Northern VA area Region 3: Southeastern USA Atlanta Section, GA AES, GRS Greg Showman [email protected] Eastern North Carolina GRS Linda Hayden [email protected] Section Region 4: Central USA Southeastern Michigan GRS Mahta Moghaddam [email protected] Section Region 5: Southwestern USA Denver Section, CO AP, MTT, GRS Michael Janezic [email protected] Houston Section, TX AP, MTT, GRS, Christi Madsen [email protected] LEO

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Region 7: Canada Quebec Section, AES, OE, GRS Xavier Maldague [email protected] Quebec Toronto Section, Ontario SP, VT, AES, Sri Krishnan [email protected] UFF, OE, GRS Vancouver Section, BC AES, GRS Rob Leitch [email protected] Ottawa Section OE, GRS-S Hilmi Dajani [email protected] Region 8: Europe and Middle East Italy Section 1 GRS Nazzareno Pierdicca [email protected] Italy Section 2 GRS Maurizio Migliaccio [email protected] Student Branch, Spain GRS Pablo Benedicto [email protected] Section Islamabad Section GRS/AES M. Umar Khattak [email protected] France GRS M.Jocelyn Chanussot [email protected] Germany Section GRS Irena Hajnsek [email protected] Russia Section GRS Anatolij Shutko [email protected] [email protected] Spanish Chapter GRS Juan Manuel Lopez- [email protected] President Sanchez (U of Alicante) Ukraine Section AP, NPS, AES, Alexander I. Nosich [email protected] ED, MTT, GRS UKRI Section GRS, OE Yong Xue [email protected] Region 9: Latin America Student Branch, GRS Leyini Parra Espitia [email protected] Colombia Section Region 10: Asia and Pacific Beijing Section, GRS Chao Wang [email protected] Seoul Section, Korea GRS Yisok Oh [email protected] Japan Council GRS Motoyuki Sato [email protected] Taipei GRS Kun-Shan Chen [email protected]

Future IGARSS Symposia

IGARSS’09 Cape Town, South Africa - July 13-17 Chair: Harold Annegarn IGARSS’10 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Co-Chairs: Karen M. St. Germain, Paul Smits IGARSS’11 Sendai, Japan IGARSS’12 To Be Announced IGARSS’13 Melbourne, Australia

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Opening and Plenary Agenda

Opening Session Hynes Auditorium

08:45 - 09:00 Welcome to IGARSS’08 Dr. John Kerekes, General Co-Chair Dr. Eric Miller, General Co-Chair 09:00 - 09:10 Welcome to Boston Ian A. Bowles, Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts 09:10 - 09:25 Welcome from the IEEE GRS Society Dr. Anthony Milne, President 09:25 - 09:40 IEEE Address Dr. John Vig, 2009 IEEE President and CEO 09:40 - 10:10 Major Awards and Recognitions Prof. Werner Wiesbeck, GRS-S Awards Chair Dr. John Vig, 2009 IEEE President and CEO 2008 IEEE Fellows: Curt H. Davis Joel Tidmore Johnson David G. Long Didier H. Massonnet Jay S Pearlman Waymond R. Scott 2008 IEEE GRS-S Distinguished Achievement Award Leung Tsang 2008 IEEE GRS-S Oustanding Service Award Wooil M. Moon 2008 IEEE GRS-S Education Award Yoshio Yamaguchi 2008 IEEE Electromagnetics Award Werner Wiesbeck

10:10 - 10:30 Break

Plenary Session Hynes Auditorium

10:30 - 10:55 Penetrating Neptune’s Realm Dr. Susan Avery, President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 10:55 - 11:20 Earth Sciences at NASA: Accomplishments, Plans, and Challenges Dr. Michael Freilich, Director, Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration 11:20 - 11:45 Earth Science: Time Present is the Future Dr. Berrien Moore, Executive Director, Climate Central 11:45 - 12:00 IGARSS’08 Technical Program Dr. Dara Entekhabi, Technical Program Co-Chair Dr. Steven Reising, Technical Program Co-Chair

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Paper Identifiers

Example: TU 4 . 107 . 4 Time Meaning: Day Separator Room Separator Sequence Block

Day MO...... Monday, July 7 TU...... Tuesday, July 8 WE...... Wednesday, July 9 TH...... Thursday, July 10 FR...... Friday, July 11

Time Block 1...... First Morning Session...... 08:20 - 10:00 2...... Second Morning Session...... 10:20 - 12:00 3...... First Afternoon Session...... 13:20 - 15:00 4...... Second Afternoon Session...... 15:20 - 17:00 P...... Poster Session...... 17:00 - 18:30 ...... Note: Posters will be up all day; authors will be present 17:00 - 18:30.

Room Oral...... Hynes Convention Center Rooms 101-111, 203, and 210. Poster...... Poster Areas A-Z and AA-EE.

Sequence Oral...... Order of presentation. Poster...... Board number (Complete poster board identifier is the Room plus the Sequence.)

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MO3.101: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.101 Mapping Subsurface Geology in Arid Regions using Radar Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 101 Technical Program Co-Chairs: Philippe Paillou and Bruce Campbell 13:20 MO3.101.1 70-CM RADAR PROBING OF THE MOON: A NEW VIEW BELOW THE SURFACE Bruce Campbell, Donald Campbell, Lynn Carter, Rebecca Ghent 13:40 MO3.101.2 MAPPING BURIED AND EXPOSED LAVA FLOWS IN ARID VOLCANIC TERRAINS USING Monday POLARIMETRIC AND MULTIPLE FREQUENCIES SAR AND GPR Essam Heggy, Kozin Wada, Shuhab Khan, Thomas Staudacher, Edouard Kaminski, Taoufik Gabsi, Philippe Lognonné, Steve Tait, Alain Bonneville, Jean Christophe Komorowski, Satoshi Fujiwara, Josephine Boisson, Nicolas Villeneuve, Marius Necsoiu 14:00 MO3.101.3 PHASE DIFFERENCES IN LONGER WAVELENGTH POLARIMETRIC SAR - SURFACE OR SUBSURFACE EFFECTS? Anthony Freeman, Philippe Paillou, Yannick Lasne, Bruce Campbell, Kyle McDonald, Tom Farr 14:20 MO3.101.4 MAPPING WATER BASINS IN THE EASTERN SAHARA BY SRTM DATA Eman Ghoneim, Farouk El-Baz 14:40 MO3.101.5 A PALSAR MOSAIC OF SAHARA TO MAP SUBSURFACE GEOLOGY Philippe Paillou, Tom Farr, Ake Rosenqvist, Sylvia Lopez

MO3.102: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.102 RADARSAT Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Shabeer Ahmed and Tom Lukowski 13:20 MO3.102.1 TWELVE YEARS OF RADARSAT-1 CALIBRATION: OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE AND LESSONS LEARNED Stephane Cote, Satish Srivastava, Robert Hawkins 13:40 MO3.102.2 CAPABILITIES OF RADARSAT-2 AND USE BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT Luc Brûlé, Daniel De Lisle, Jill Smyth 14:00 MO3.102.3 INITIAL EVALUATION OF RADARSAT-2 FOR OPERATIONAL SEA ICE MONITORING Dean Flett, Roger De Abreu, Matt Arkett, Marie-France Gauthier 14:20 MO3.102.4 RADARSAT-2 MOVING OBJECT DETECTION EXPERIMENT (MODEX) Shen Chiu, Chuck Livingstone, Ishuwa Sikaneta, Christoph H. Gierull, Pete Beaulne 14:40 MO3.102.5 RADARSAT-2 APPLICATIONS POTENTIAL FOR CANADA AND APPLICATIONS DEVELPOMENT SUPPORT PROGRAMS Daniel De Lisle, Jill Smyth, Wendy Branson

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MO3.103: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.103 ALOS in 2008 II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: M. Shimada and Ridha Touzi 13:20 MO3.103.1 PALSAR CALVAL AND GENERATION OF THE CONTINENT SCALE MOSAIC PRODUCTS FOR KYOTO AND CARBON PROJECT Masanobu Shimada, Osamu Isoguchi, Ake Rosenqvist 13:40 MO3.103.2 POLARIMETRIC PALSAR SYSTEM MODEL ASSESSMENT AND CALIBRATION Ridha Touzi, Masanobu Shimada, Stefan Nedelcu 14:00 Monday MO3.103.3 CALIBRATION OF ALOS/PALSAR POLARIMETRIC DATA USING POLARIZATION ORIENTATION Hiroshi Kimura 14:20 MO3.103.4 POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE OF L-BAND MEASUREMENTS OVER THE OCEAN ON SURFACE WIND AT 23-25 INCIDENCE ANGLES Osamu Isoguchi, Masanobu Shimada 14:40 MO3.103.5 NEW EYES IN THE SKY: -FREE TROPICAL FOREST MONITORING FOR REDD WITH ALOS/PALSAR Josef Kellndorfer, Wayne Walker, Claudia Stickler, Katie Kirsch, Masanobu Shimada, Ake Rosenqvist, Daniel Nepstad, Paul Lefebvre

MO3.104: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.104 Crop and Forest Monitoring with Microwave Radiometric Sensors I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Simonetta Paloscia and Peggy O’Neill 13:20 MO3.104.1 MODELING THE MULTIFREQUENCY EMISSION OF FORESTS AND THEIR COMPONENTS Andrea Della Vecchia, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Leila Guerriero, Rachid Rahmoune, Simonetta Paoloscia, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi 13:40 MO3.104.2 FOREST CANOPY EFFECTS ON THE ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE AT L-BAND Mehmet Kurum, Roger Lang, Peggy O’Neill, Alicia Joseph, Michael Cosh, Thomas Jackson 14:00 MO3.104.3 MICROWAVE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL UNDER TREES Peggy O’Neill, Roger Lang, Mehmet Kurum, Alicia Joseph, Thomas Jackson, Michael Cosh 14:20 MO3.104.4 L-BAND MICROWAVE EMISSION OF SOIL, LITTER AND GRASS LAYERS UNDERNEATH A FOREST CANOPY Jennifer Grant, Mike Schwank, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Adriaan Van de Griend 14:40 MO3.104.5 MICROWAVE EMISSION FROM FORESTED AREAS BY USING MICROWAVE AMSR-E AND GROUND-BASED DATA Simonetta Paloscia, Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi

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MO3.105: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.105 Remote Sensing Applications to Archaeology I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Ronald G. Blom and Douglas Comer 13:20 MO3.105.1 WIDE-AREA, PLANNING LEVEL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS USING SAR AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES Douglas Comer

13:40 Monday MO3.105.2 SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL STRUCTURES AT NABTA PLAYA, EGYPT Paul Rosen, Thomas Brophy, Masanobu Shimada 14:00 MO3.105.3 THE APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SEGMENT OF GRAND CANAL IN SHANDONG PROVINCE Feng Mao, Qiang Li, Jianxi Huang, Zhihua Tang, Wensheng Zhou, Ze Liu 14:20 MO3.105.4 SENSING WHAT LIES BENEATH: CANOPY REFLECTANCE AS AN INDICATOR OF ANCIENT SETTLEMENT William Saturno 14:40 MO3.105.5 THE ANALYSIS OF AGRARIAN-BASED LOW-DENSITY URBANISM AND THE ROLE OF REMOTE SENSING Roland Fletcher

MO3.107: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.107 Frontiers for Classification of Hyperspectral Data I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Melba Crawford and Jocelyn Chanussot 13:20 MO3.107.1 AN EFFICIENT ACTIVE LEARNING ALGORITHM WITH KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER FOR HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA Goo Jun, Joydeep Ghosh 13:40 MO3.107.2 AUTOMATED ESTIMATION OF SPECTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD SIZE IN MANIFOLD COORDINATE REPRESENTATIONS OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY: IMPLICATIONS FOR ANOMALY FINDING, BATHYMETRY RETRIEVAL, AND LAND APPLICATIONS Charles Bachmann, Thomas Ainsworth, Robert Fusina 14:00 MO3.107.3 PARALLEL MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY USING EXTENDED OPENING AND CLOSING BY RECONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS Antonio Plaza, Javier Plaza 14:20 MO3.107.4 ENSEMBLE METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA Jón Atli Benediktsson, Xavier Ceamanos Garcia, Björn Waske, Mathieu Fauvel, Johannes R. Sveinsson 14:40 MO3.107.5 A NOVEL APPROACH TO THE SELECTION OF ROBUST AND INVARIANT FEATURES FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES Lorenzo Bruzzone, Claudio Persello

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MO3.108: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.108 Information Extraction from High Resolution SAR images I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Mihai Datcu and Luciano Alparone 13:20 MO3.108.1 PHYSICS AND EXPERIMENTAL ISSUES ON HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGING OF URBAN AREA Hubert Cantalloube, Hélène Oriot, Élise Colin-Koeniguer 13:40 MO3.108.2 NORMALIZED COHERENCY MATRIX ESTIMATION UNDER THE SIRV MODEL - ALPINE GLACIER POLSAR DATA ANALYSIS Gabriel Vasile, Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, Frédéric Pascal, Céline Tison, Lionel Bombrun, Michel Gay, Emmanuel Trouvé Monday 14:00 MO3.108.3 ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELLING FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES OF URBAN AREAS Giorgio Franceschetti, Raffaella Guida, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio 14:20 MO3.108.4 AUTOMATED INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM TERRASAR-X DATA Mihai Datcu, Daniele Cerra, Houda Chaabouni-Chouayakh, Amaia de Miguel, Daniela Espinoza Molina, Gottfried Schwarz, Matteo Soccorsi 14:40 MO3.108.5 OPTIMAL MULTILOOKING FOR ROBUST SAR IMAGE INDEXING Gottfried Schwarz, Daniela Espinoza Molina, Helko Breit, Mihai Datcu

MO3.109: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.109 NPOESS and SENTINEL Missions Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Karen StGermain and William Emery 13:20 MO3.109.1 THE NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM (NPOESS): IMPROVED CAPABILITIES FOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING Dan Stockton, Carl Hoffman, John (Mike) Haas, Craig Nelson 13:40 MO3.109.2 EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) SENSOR Bruce Guenther, Karen St. Germain, Heather Kilcoyne, Bonnie Reed, Carl Hoffman 14:00 MO3.109.3 WINDSAT SPACE BORNE POLARIMETRIC MICROWAVE RADIOMETER: SENSOR CALIBRATION AND SYSTEM PERFORMANCE Peter Gaiser, Michael H. Bettenhausen, Elizabeth Twarog, Ian Adams, William Johnston, Li Li 14:20 MO3.109.4 THE EUROPEAN GMES SENTINEL-1 RADAR MISSION Evert Attema, Malcolm Davidson, Nicolas Floury, Guido Levrini, Betlem Rosich, Björn Rommen, Paul Snoeij 14:40 MO3.109.5 THE SENTINEL-1 C-SAR INSTRUMENT : STATUS AND PERFORMANCE Friedhelm Rostan, Wolfgang Pitz, Sebastian Riegger, Renato Croci, Ramon Torres

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MO3.110: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.110 Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Jim Thomson and Pietro Ceccato 13:20 MO3.110.1 SENSIVITY ANALYSIS OF A HYPERSPECTRAL INVERSION MODEL FOR REMOTE SENSING OF SHALLOW COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS Carolina Gerardino-Neira, James Goodman, Miguel Velez-Reyes, Wilson Rivera-Gallego

13:40 Monday MO3.110.2 APPLICATION OF THERMAL IMAGING TO MEASURE ESTUARINE SURFACE VELOCITIES C. Chris Chickadel, Andrew Jessup 14:00 MO3.110.3 THERMAL INFRARED ESTIMATION OF TIDAL FLAT POROSITY Jim Thomson 14:20 MO3.110.4 MONITORING INUNDATION DYNAMICS IN PARANA RIVER, ARGENTINA, BY C AND L BAND SAR Mercedes Salvia, Grings Francisco, Haydee Karszenbaum, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Patricia Kandus, Leila Guerriero

MO3.111: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.111 Ocean Surface Winds Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Mark Bourassa and Deborah Smith 13:20 MO3.111.1 WINDSAT OCEAN RETRIEVALS AT MULTIPLE RESOLUTIONS Michael H. Bettenhausen, Ian Adams, Peter Gaiser, William Johnston 13:40 MO3.111.2 A NEW CROSS-CALIBRATED, MULTI-SATELLITE OCEAN SURFACE WIND PRODUCT Robert Atlas, Ross Hoffman, Joseph Ardizzone, Mark Leidner, Juan-Carlos Jusem 14:00 MO3.111.3 A KU-BAND ACTIVE/PASSIVE WIND VECTOR RETRIEVAL OVER THE OCEAN Suleiman Alsweiss, Pet Laupattarakasem, W. Linwood Jones, Robert Roeder 14:20 MO3.111.4 HIGH-RESOLUTION ASCAT SCATTEROMETER WINDS NEAR THE COAST Ad Stoffelen, Marcos Portabella, Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, Jur Vogelzang 14:40 MO3.111.5 VALIDATION OF NOAA’S NEAR REAL-TIME ASCAT OCEAN VECTOR WINDS Seubson Soisuvarn, Zorana Jelenak, Paul Chang, Qi Zhu, Gordana Sindic-Rancic

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MO3.203: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.203 Advances in Passive Microwave and Infrared Imaging and Sounding (In Honor of the Accomplishments of Prof. David H. Staelin) I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Albin J. Gasiewski and William J. Blackwell 13:20 MO3.203.1 NEURAL NETWORK ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES USING AIRS/IASI/ AMSU DATA IN THE PRESENCE OF CLOUDS William Blackwell, Michael Pieper, Frederick Chen 13:40 MO3.203.2 FALLING SNOW RETRIEVALS, HIGH FREQUENCIES, GPM, AND PROF. STAELIN Gail Skofronick-Jackson

Monday 14:00 MO3.203.3 GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS OF USING SATELLITE PASSIVE MILLIMETER-WAVE SENSORS Chinnawat Surussavadee 14:20 MO3.203.4 DEVELOPMENT OF AN OBSERVATIONAL SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT (OSSE) FOR A GEOSTATIONARY MICROWAVE IMAGER Albin Gasiewski, Bob Weber, Ambarish Jash 14:40 MO3.203.5 MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES: FROM STAELIN AND BARRETT TO THE NASA MISSION Paul Steffes

MO3.210: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00

MO3.210 Implementation of GEOSS: Technical and Application Developments Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Granville Paules and Jay Pearlman 13:20 MO3.210.1 GEOSS FROM ORBIT, A SENSOR WEB APPROACH Terence Lesley van Zyl 13:40 MO3.210.2 GEOSS ARCHITECTURE IMPLEMENTATION PILOT George Percivall, Joshua Lieberman 14:00 MO3.210.3 SERVER-BASED SUPPORT TO AUTOMATIC CO-REGISTRATION OF SATELLITE IMAGERY Nevin Bryant, Walter Bunch, Richard Fretz, Thomas Logan, Albert Zobrist 14:20 MO3.210.4 THE GLOBAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS INFORMATION CENTER (GOSIC) – A PORTAL FOR GEOSS RELATED DATA & INFORMATION. Christina Lief 14:40 MO3.210.5 SHARING EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATION TO SUPPORT THE GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS (GEOSS) Myra Bambacus, Chaowei Yang, John Evans, Zhenlong Li, Wenwen Li

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MO4.101: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.101 Subsurface Object Detection Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Olga Lopera and Paul Gader 15:20 MO4.101.1 TEXTURE FEATURE SELECTION FOR BURIED MINE DETECTION IN AIRBORNE MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY Spandan Tiwari, Sanjeev Agarwal, Anh Trang

15:40 Monday MO4.101.2 INCORPORATING UNCERTAINTY IN UXO DISCRIMINATION Laurens Beran, Doug Oldenburg 16:00 MO4.101.3 A PARAMETER-ESTIMATION-BASED CHANGE DETECTION METHODOLOGY FOR LANDMINE LOCALIZATION FROM GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR DATA Olga Lopera, Nada Milisavljevic, Benoit Macq, Sebastien Lambot 16:20 MO4.101.4 REJECTION OF SURFACE CLUTTER BASED ON AVERAGED WIGNER DISTRIBUTIONS FOR TARGET DETECTION Nicolas Morelle, Markus Testorf, Nadege Thirion-Moreau, Marc Saillard 16:40 MO4.101.5 STEPPED-FREQUENCY RADAR SYSTEM IN GATING MODE: AN EXPERIMENT AS A NEW HELICOPTER-BORNE GPR SYSTEM FOR GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS Dieter Eisenburger, Yvonne Krellmann, Harald Lentz, Gunnar Triltzsch

MO4.102: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.102 Moving Targets Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Paul Kersten and Shen Chiu 15:20 MO4.102.1 MOVING TARGET RELATIVE SPEED ESTIMATION IN THE PRESENCE OF STRONG STATIONARY SURROUNDING USING A SINGLE ANTENNA UWB SAR SYSTEM Thomas K. Sjögren, Viet Thuy Vu, Mats Pettersson 15:40 MO4.102.2 MOVING TARGET DETECTION BY FOCUSING FOR FREQUENCY DOMAIN ALGORITHMS IN UWB LOW FREQUENCY SAR Viet Thuy Vu, Thomas K. Sjögren, Mats Pettersson 16:00 MO4.102.3 EXTENDING AIRBORNE SAR-ATI ALGORITHMS TO RADARSAT-2 MOVING OBJECT DETECTION EXPERIMENT Marina Dragosevic, Shen Chiu 16:20 MO4.102.4 CHANGE DETECTION FOR TRAFFIC MONITORING IN TERRASAR-X IMAGERY Gintautas Palubinskas, Hartmut Runge 16:40 MO4.102.5 TARGET DETECTION IN MULTIPLE-VIEWING THROUGH-THE-WALL RADAR IMAGING Christian Debes, Moeness Amin, Abdelhak Zoubir

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MO4.103: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.103 ALOS in 2008 I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: M. Shimada and Ridha Touzi 15:20 MO4.103.1 PALSAR INSAR OBSERVATION OF CRUSTAL DEFORMATION DUE TO THE 2007 CHUETSU-OKI EARTHQUAKE (M6.8) Masato Furuya, Youichiro Takada, Yosuke Aoki 15:40 MO4.103.2 UPDATED RESULTS OF CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF ALOS OPTICAL SENSORS Takeo Tadono, Masanobu Shimada, Hiroshi Murakami, Junichi Takaku, Sachi Kawamoto 16:00 Monday MO4.103.3 HIGH RESOLUTION DSM GENERATION FROM ALOS PRISM - CALIBRATION UPDATES- Junichi Takaku, Takeo Tadono, Masanobu Shimada 16:20 MO4.103.4 ACCURATE DEM AND ORTHO-RECTIFIED IMAGE PRODUCTION FROM ALOS/PRISM Makoto Maruya, Hiroshi Ohyama 16:40 MO4.103.5 IMPROVEMENT OF AVNIR-2 RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION BY TOA DIRECTIONAL- REFLECTANCE CROSS-CALIBRATION AND ON-BOARD CALIBRATION DATA Hiroshi Murakami, Takeo Tadono, Hiroko Imai, Masanobu Shimada

MO4.104: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.104 Crop and Forest Monitoring with Microwave Radiometric Sensors II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Simonetta Paloscia and Peggy O’Neill 15:20 MO4.104.1 VALIDATION OF THE SMOS LEVEL 2 RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM OVER CROPS AND PRAIRIES FROM THE COSMOS-NAFE CAMPAIGN Kauzar Saleh, Gilles Boulet, Yann Kerr, Philippe Maisongrande, Philippe Richaume, Jean- Pierre Wigneron, Steven Delwart, Rocco Panciera, Jeffrey Walker 15:40 MO4.104.2 MONITORING OF MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS OF GROWING CROPS DURING THE MICROWAVE WATER ENERGY BALANCE EXPERIMENTS (MICROWEXS) Jasmeet Judge, Wendy Graham, Jennifer Jacobs, James Jones 16:00 MO4.104.3 EVALUATION OF A FIRST-ORDER TAU-OMEGA MODEL OF TERRESTRIAL MICROWAVE EMISSION Brian Hornbuckle, Tracy Rowlandson 16:20 MO4.104.4 MONITORING VEGETATION WATER CONTENT USING MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDICES Jing Tao, Jiancheng Shi, Thomas Jackson, Jinyang Du, Rajat Bindlish, Lixin Zhang 16:40 MO4.104.5 MONITORING WINTER WHEAT GROWTH WITH GRAND BASED MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS (GBMR) Hui Lu, Toshio Koike, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Tobias Graf, David Kuria

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MO4.105: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.105 Remote Sensing Applications to Archaeology II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Ronald G. Blom and Douglas Comer 15:20 MO4.105.1 HYDROLOGIC HISTORY OF THE EASTERN SAHARA FROM ORBITAL SAR: A SUPPORT TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION Philippe Paillou, Tom Farr, Ron Blom

15:40 Monday MO4.105.2 APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING TO ARCHAEOLOGY: REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESS AND EXAMPLES FROM DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS Ronald Blom 16:00 MO4.105.3 ANGKOR AND BEYOND: APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING TO EARLY SETTLEMENT SITES IN CAMBODIA Damian Evans, Roland Fletcher 16:20 MO4.105.4 3D MAPPING OF THE PERFORMANCE OF URBAN PLACES Aysegul Ozbakir

MO4.107: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.107 Frontiers for Classification of Hyperspectral Data II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Melba Crawford and Jocelyn Chanussot 15:20 MO4.107.1 FAST HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING BINARY QUATERNION- MOMENT-PRESERVING THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUE Lena Chang, Ching-Min Cheng, Yang-Lang Chang 15:40 MO4.107.2 CLUSTER-BASED ENSEMBLE CLASSIFICATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Mingmin Chi, Kun Qian, Jón Atli Benediktsson 16:00 MO4.107.3 SPATIALLY ADAPTED MANIFOLD LEARNING FOR CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY WITH INSUFFICIENT LABELED DATA Wonkook Kim, Melba Crawford, Joydeep Ghosh 16:20 MO4.107.4 A NOVEL RANDOM SUBSPACE METHOD USING SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL INFORMATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Bor-Chen Kuo, Chun-Hsiang Chuang, Chih-Cheng Hung, Szu-Wei Yang 16:40 MO4.107.5 EC-GLRT: DETECTING WEAK PLUMES IN NON-GAUSSIAN HYPERSPECTRAL CLUTTER USING AN ELLIPTICALLY-CONTOURED GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST James Theiler, Bernard Foy

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MO4.108: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.108 Information Extraction from High Resolution SAR images II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Ridha Touzi and Mihai Datcu 15:20 MO4.108.1 SAR IMAGE DESPECKLING IN THE UNDECIMATED CONTOURLET DOMAIN: A COMPARISON OF LMMSE AND MAP APPROACHES Fabrizio Argenti, Tiziano Bianchi, Giovanni Martucci di Scarfizzi, Luciano Alparone 15:40 MO4.108.2 SAR IMAGE FILTERING VIA LEARNED DICTIONARIES AND SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS Samuel Foucher

Monday 16:00 MO4.108.3 STATISTICAL SIMILARITY MEASURE FOR OIL SLICK DETECTION IN SAR IMAGE Bahia Lounis, Gregoire Mercier, Aichouche Belhadj Aissa 16:20 MO4.108.4 IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING DATA COMPRESSION BASED TECHNIQUES Daniele Cerra, Mihai Datcu 16:40 MO4.108.5 COMPARISON OF THREE UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS FOR SAR DATA IN URBAN AREAS Wenju He, Marc Jäger, Olaf Hellwich

MO4.109: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.109 Reflective-Band Vicarious Calibration for Intersensor Comparisons Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Kurt Thome and Ron Lockwood 15:20 MO4.109.1 REFINEMENT OF THE METHOD FOR USING PSEUDO-INVARIANT SITES FOR LONG TERM CALIBRATION TRENDING OF LANDSAT REFLECTIVE BANDS John R. Schott, Clifton R. Anderson, Julia A. Barsi 15:40 MO4.109.2 PRE-FLIGHT AND VICARIOUS CALIBRATION OF ARTEMIS Kurtis Thome, Ronald Lockwood, Stuart Biggar, Nikolaus Anderson, Jeffrey Czapla-Myers, Steven Miller, Thomas Chrien, Stephen Schiller, John Silny, Mary Ann Glennon, Thomas Cooley 16:00 MO4.109.3 USE OF SMALL PSEUDO-INVARIANT SITES FOR LONG-TERM SENSOR CALIBRATION Dennis Helder, Daniel Morstad 16:20 MO4.109.4 CLIMATE QUALITY BROADBAND AND NARROWBAND SOLAR REFLECTED RADIANCE CALIBRATION BETWEEN SENSORS IN ORBIT Bruce Wielicki, David Doelling, David Young, Donald Garber 16:40 MO4.109.5 REFLECTIVE BANDS VICARIOUS CALIBRATION OF THE MODIS AND AVHRR SENSORS USING OCEAN, CLOUDS AND DESERT OBSERVATIONS Eric Vermote

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MO4.110: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.110 Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Jim Thomson and Pietro Ceccato 15:20 MO4.110.1 RADAR MONITORING OF WETLAND HYDROLOGY: DYNAMIC INFORMATION FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Megan Lang, Gregory W. McCarty, Jerry Ritchie, Ali Sadeghi, Dean Hively

15:40 Monday MO4.110.2 SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION AT LEAF AND PATCH SCALE OF INVASIVE WETLAND WEEDS Laurie Chisholm, John Marthick 16:00 MO4.110.3 STUDYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS RETRIEVED FROM REMOTELY-SENSED IMAGES AND RIFT VALLEY FEVER IN SENEGAL Pietro Ceccato, Vincent Martin, Judy Omumbo, Ousmane Ndiaye, Michael Bell, Madeleine Thomson, Assaf Anyamba, Yaya Thiongane, Baba Sall 16:20 MO4.110.4 RISK MAPPING OF THE SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN MINAS GERAIS STATE, BRAZIL, USING MODIS AND SOCIOECONOMICS SPATIAL DATA Flávia Toledo Martins, Corina Costa Freitas, Luciano Vieira Dutra, Fernanda Rodrigues da Fonseca, Ricardo José de Paula Souza e Guimarães, Ronaldo Santos do Amaral, Ana Clara Mourão Moura, Omar dos Santos Carvalho 16:40 MO4.110.5 RECOGNITION OF URBAN PATTERNS RELATED TO LEPTOSPIROSIS CONTAMINATION RISKS USING OBJECT BASED CLASSIFICATION OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY. TEST AREAS: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS OF THE RAILROAD SUBURB OF SALVADOR, BRAZIL. Patricia Brito, Helbert Arenas, Nina Lam, José Alberto Quintanilha

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MO4.111: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.111 Ocean Wind and Weather Sensing Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: David Weissman and Frank Monaldo 15:20 MO4.111.1 GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM-REFLECTOMETRY (GNSS-R) FROM THE UK-DMC SATELLITE FOR REMOTE SENSING OF THE OCEAN SURFACE Maria Paola Clarizia, Christine Gommenginger, Scott Gleason, Carmela Galdi, Martin Unwin 15:40 MO4.111.2 PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF GNSS-R SPACE BASED SCATTEROMETRY BY MEANS OF DELAY-DOPPLER MAPS Salvatore D’Addio, Christopher Buck

Monday 16:00 MO4.111.3 HURRICANE WIND RETRIEVALS FROM THE QUIKSCAT SCATTEROMETER AND COMPARISON WITH H*WIND OCEAN VECTOR WINDS Pet Laupattarakasem, W. Linwood Jones, Christopher C. Hennon 16:20 MO4.111.4 HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER WIDE SWATH SIMULATION FOR WIND SPEED AND RATE Salem El-Nimri, Suleiman Alsweiss, W. Linwood Jones, Eric Uhlhorn, James Johnson 16:40 MO4.111.5 STATISTIAL ANALYSIS OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SCATTERED BY THE OCEAN SURFACE IN VARIOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS: A NUMERICAL STUDY IN L-BAND Arnaud Coatanhay

MO4.203: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.203 Advances in Passive Microwave and Infrared Imaging and Sounding (In Honor of the Accomplishments of Prof. David H. Staelin) II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: William J. Blackwell and Albin J. Gasiewski 15:20 MO4.203.1 NPOESS MICROWAVE IMAGER/SOUNDER (MIS): THE NEXT GENERATION OPERATIONAL MICROWAVE IMAGING AND SOUNDING RADIOMETER David Kunkee 15:40 MO4.203.2 RFI MITIGATION IN SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS Jeffrey Piepmeier 16:00 MO4.203.3 EMISSION AND SCATTERING EFFECTS IN PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS OF ANTARCTICA Philip Rosenkranz 16:20 MO4.203.4 MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY FOR REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE AND SNOW Edward Kim 16:40 MO4.203.5 DEVELOPMENT OF A LOBE-DIFFERENCING CORRELATION RADIOMETER (LDCR) FOR AIRBORNE UAV SSS MAPPING Eric McIntyre, Albin Gasiewski, Vladimir Leuski 17:00 MO4.203.6 IMPROVED SIMULATION METHODOLOGY FOR RETRIEVAL OF CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION FROM SPACEBORNE PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS R. Vincent Leslie, Laura Bickmeier, William Blackwell, Laura Jairam, Frederick Chen

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MO4.210: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00

MO4.210 Implementation of GEOSS: Science and Modeling Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Monday, July 7, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Jay Pearlman and Granville Paules 15:20 MO4.210.1 HOW GEOSS INFRASTRUCTURE ENABLES INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE Siri Jodha Khalsa, Stefano Nativi, Gary Geller, Reece Lumsden 15:40 MO4.210.2 THE CEOS CALVAL PORTAL: PATHWAY TO GEOSS DATA COMPARABILITY TOWARD Monday CONSISTENT CALIBRATION USING COMMON PRACTICES AND CALVAL SITES Changyong Cao, Stephen Ungar, Pascal Lecomte, Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, Xiwu Zahn, Petya Campbell 16:00 MO4.210.3 THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A VIRTUAL SENSOR WEB PLATFORM OF TARGET OBSERVING FOR BAD WEATHER MONITORING Hong Fan, Liping Di, Genong Yu 16:20 MO4.210.4 GPS RADIO OCCULTATION AS PART OF THE GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM Anthony J. Mannucci, Chi O. Ao, Byron A. Iijima, Attila Komjathy, Thomas Yunck, Marc K. Pestana, Brian D. Wilson 16:40 MO4.210.5 OCEAN/SEA-ICE CLIMATE MONITORING INC - ESTABLISHING A ROUTINE OCEAN/ SEA-ICE CLIMATE MONITORING AND MEASURING FACILITY Chris Hill, Patrick Heimbach

MOP.A: Monday, July 7, 17:00 - 18:30

MOP.A Techniques for Agroecosystem Monitoring Session Type: Poster Time: Monday, July 7, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area A Co-Chairs: Brian Hornbuckle and Jasmeet Judge MOP.A.1 RELATING SURFACE ALBEDO AND VEGETATION INDEX WITH SURFACE DRYNESS USING LANDSAT ETM+ IMAGERY Yunjun Yao, Qiming Qin, Abduwasit Ghulam, Lin Zhu, Nan Yang MOP.A.2 ESTIMATION OF THE REGIONAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION OVER RICE PADDY USING MULTI-SPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA Tzu-Yin Chang, Yuei-An Liou, Yi-Ying Chen, Han-Jie Ho MOP.A.3 THE INTEGRATION OF MAGNITUDE AND SHAPE RELATED FEATURES IN HYPERSPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS TO MONITOR WEEDS IN CITRUS ORCHARDS Ben Somers, Kenneth Cools, Stephanie Delalieux, Willem W. Verstraeten, Jan Verbesselt, Stefaan Lhermitte, Pol Coppin MOP.A.4 APPLICATION OF SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING FOR SPATIAL MODELLING OF MINIMUM TEMPERATURES IN FROST SITUATIONS IN THE CHAMPAGNE VINEYARD Malika Madelin, Hervé Quénol MOP.A.5 SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE OF DATE PALM TREES RELATIONSHIP TO YIELD AND N-FERTILIZATION Yousef Aldakheel, Faisal Zeinldin, Massoud Abdel Aati

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MOP.B: Monday, July 7, 17:00 - 18:30

MOP.B Applications of Agroecosystem Monitoring Session Type: Poster Time: Monday, July 7, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area B Co-Chairs: Brian Hornbuckle and Jasmeet Judge MOP.B.1 WINTER WHEAT YIELD ESTIMATION USING VGT-NDVI AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA Hao Yan, Yingbo Song, Yingyu Hou, Yonglan Qian, Jianlin Wang, Liuxi Mao MOP.B.2 THE TAKE-ALL OF WHEAT DISEASES FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD STUDY BY USING GROUND SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT DATA AND TM MULTISPECTRAL DATA Jianwen Ma, Xue Chen, Fangyan Yuan, Hongbo Qiao MOP.B.3 MONITORING WINTER WHEAT PHENOLOGY USING SPOT/VEGETATION DATA Linlin Lu, Huadong Guo, Jingjuan Liao

Monday MOP.B.4 FEASIBILITY OF USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES TO DETECT SPIDER MITE DAMAGE IN STONE FRUIT ORCHARDS Minghua Zhang, Adam Hale, Eike Luedeling MOP.B.5 STUDY ON PHENOPHASE OF WINTER WHEAT FROM MODIS DATA IN HEBEI, CHINA Feng Yan, Peijun Shi, Jianjun Wu, Yanjiao Wang MOP.B.6 APPLICATION OF SEBS TO DROUGHT MONITORING IN NORTH CHINA PLAIN Yanbo He, Houquan Lu, Jianlin Wang, Huanping Wu MOP.B.7 APPLYING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES INTO CROP EMERGENCE MONITORING Yanbo He, Jingwen Guo, Huanping Wu MOP.B.8 DROUGHT MONITORING IN NORTHERN CHINA PLAIN COMBINING RS AND GIS TECHNOLOGY Jian Wu, Guoyin Cai, Yong Xue, Mingyi Du MOP.B.9 STUDY ON THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICE VALUE IN THE NORTH SLOPE OF TIANSHAN MOUNTAINS Bo Li, Jie Chong, Rui Hong, Shu-Hui Zhang, Xin-Shi Zhang

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MOP.C: Monday, July 7, 17:00 - 18:30

MOP.C Ocean Wind Measurements Session Type: Poster Time: Monday, July 7, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area C Co-Chairs: Robert Contreras and Evert Attema MOP.C.1 VALIDATION OF QSCAT-1 GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION USING SEAWINDS LEVEL 2 AND BUOY DATA Xuetong Xie, Qiming Zeng, Weidong Hu, Wenxian Yu, Kehai Chen, Yu Fang MOP.C.2 OPERATIONAL TECHNIQUE IN WIND RADII USING SATELLITE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSOR DATA Monday Jun Park, Jae-Young Byon, Eunha Sohn, Yoonjae Kim MOP.C.3 A SPACEBORNE RADAR FOR DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRUM ESTIMATION: FIRST PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS Céline Tison, Danièle Hauser, Guy Carayon, Juliette Lambin, Patrick Castillan, Jean-Claude Souyris MOP.C.4 EFFECTIVENESS OF QUIKSCAT’S ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES IN DETERMINING TROPICAL EYE LOCATION Faozi Said, David G. Long MOP.C.5 SYSTEM DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE SIMULATION OF A SPACEBORNE KU-BAND ROTATION FAN-BEAM SCATTEROMETER Xiaolong Dong, Wenming Lin MOP.C.6 NEURAL NETWORK RETRIEVAL OF SEA SURFACE WIND SPEED FROM ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-E DATA Biao Zhang, Yijun He, Wang Lijing MOP.C.7 HIGH RESOLUTION WIND VECTOR RETRIEVALS IN TROPICAL USING WINDSAT Ian Adams, Michael H. Bettenhausen, Peter Gaiser MOP.C.8 PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS FOR A SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER MEASURING PEAK SURFACE WIND SPEED IN HURRICANES Ruba Amarin, Christopher Ruf, James Johnson, W. Linwood Jones MOP.C.9 DEPENDENCY OF NRCS OF OCEAN SURFACE ON USING AN AIRBORNE DUAL-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC SAR OBSERVATION Akitsugu Nadai, Toshihiko Umehara, Takeshi Matsuoka, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Seiho Uratsuka MOP.C.10 AN ANISOTROPIC OCEAN SURFACE EMISSIVITY MODEL BASED ON WINDSAT POLARIMETRIC BRIGHTNESS OBSERVATIONS Dean Smith, Bob Weber, Albin Gasiewski

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MOP.D: Monday, July 7, 17:00 - 18:30

MOP.D Active and Passive Ocean Observations Session Type: Poster Time: Monday, July 7, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area D Co-Chairs: Tim Liu and Martti Hallikainen MOP.D.1 PRELIMINARY POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF RUFFLED WATER SURFACE RADAR BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS AND BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES ANGULAR DEPENDENCES AT 15GHZ Arsen Arakelyan, Artashes Arakelyan, Sargis Darbinyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Izabela Hakobyan, Astghik Hambaryan, Vardan Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Mushegh Manukyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan MOP.D.2 MONITORING OF SURFACE OCEAN CIRCULATION IN THE GULF OF LIONS (NORTH- WEST MEDITERRANEAN SEA) USING WERA HF RADARS Philippe Forget, Barbin Yves, Gael André Monday MOP.D.3 POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING MECHANIZMS OF OCEAN SURFACE FROM WAVE BREAKING OR AT LARGE INCIDENT ANGLES Haiyan Li, Shufang Zhang, Hui Shen, Yijun He MOP.D.4 ESTIMATION OF SURFACE VELOCITY FROM INFRARED IMAGES USING THE GLOBAL OPTIMAL SOLUTION TO AN INVERSE MODEL Wei Chen, Richard Mied, Colin Shen MOP.D.5 AN IMPROVED TWO-SCALE MODEL FOR THE OCEAN SURFACE BISTATIC SCATTERING Naheed Sajjad, Ali Khenchaf, Arnaud Coatanhay, Ahmad Awada MOP.D.6 PROPERTIES OF MESOSCALE EDDIES AROUND THE PHILIPPINE SEA DERIVED FROM SATELLITE DATA AND A NUMERICAL MODEL Woei-Jen Sheu, Chau-Ron Wu MOP.D.7 OBSERVATIONS OF OCEAN-ATMOSPHERIC COUPLING IN THE TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES DURING LA NIÑA Wang Xin, Fang Xiang, Qiu Hong, Zhu Yuanjing MOP.D.8 A STUDY ON GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTION MODELING WITH WATER SURFACE TEMPERATURE AS ONE OF THE INPUT PARAMETERS Xuetong Xie, Kehai Chen, Wenxian Yu, Weidong Hu, Qiming Zeng, Yu Fang MOP.D.9 OCEAN SURFACE OBSERVATION BY C-BAND POLARIMETRIC WEATHER RADAR IN OKINAWA ISLAND Makoto Satake, Yukari Shusse, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Shoichiro Kojima, Shinsuke Sato

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MOP.E: Monday, July 7, 17:00 - 18:30

MOP.E SAR Observations of Ocean Processes Session Type: Poster Time: Monday, July 7, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area E Co-Chairs: Donald Thompson and Paul Hwang MOP.E.1 SIMULATION STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF WIND DIRECTION ON SAR IMAGING SHALLOW WATER BATHYMETRY Kaiguo Fan, Mingxia He, Weigen Huang, Bin Fu, Xilin Gan MOP.E.2 ESTIMATION OF OCEAN CURRENT VELOCITY IN COASTAL AREA USING RADARSAT-1 SAR IMAGES AND HF-RADAR DATA Monday Moon-Kyung Kang, Hoonyol Lee, Chan-Su Yang, Wang-Jung Yoon MOP.E.3 OCEANOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION OF IEODO AREA OF KOREAN PENINSULA USING SAR DATA Chan-Su Yang, Moon-Kyung Kang MOP.E.4 SAR MEASUREMENT OF OCEAN SURFACE WIND USING A PHYSICS MODEL Qing Xu, Hui Lin, Xiaobin Yin, Quanan Zheng, Yuguang Liu, Yongcun Cheng MOP.E.5 DRESSED AND UNDRESSED SEA SPECTRA IN OCEANIC REMOTE SENSING Frédéric Nouguier, Charles-Antoine Guérin, Bertrand Chapron MOP.E.6 A PARAMETRIC ALGORITHM TO RETRIEVE OCEAN WAVE SPECTRA FROM INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR Zhang Biao, He Yijun

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MOP.F: Monday, July 7, 17:00 - 18:30

MOP.F Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications III Session Type: Poster Time: Monday, July 7, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area F Co-Chairs: Jim Thomson and Pietro Ceccato MOP.F.1 REMOTELY MONITORING GREAT LAKES COASTAL WETLANDS WITH MULTI-SENSOR, MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR, AND MULTI-SPECTRAL DATA Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Mitch Nowels, Kevin Riordan, Nicole Miller, Richard Powell MOP.F.2 INTEGRATION OF SPATIAL CHAOTIC MODEL AND TYPE-2 FUZZY SETS TO COASTLINE DETECTION IN SAR IMAGES Yu-Chang Tzeng, Dana Chen, Kun-Shan Chen MOP.F.3 THE EFFECT OF HURRICANE KATRINA ON LOUISIANA’S GULF COAST Willis Hawkins Jr. Monday MOP.F.4 MONITORING WATER CONSTITUENTS AND SALINITY VARIATIONS OF SALTWATER USING EO-1 HYPERION SATELLITE IMAGERY IN THE PEARL RIVER ESTUARY, CHINA Li-Gang Fang, Shui-Sen Chen, Hong-Li Li, Cai-Dong Gu MOP.F.5 RESEARCH ON EVOLUTION PROCESS OF RIVERWAY IN QINGKOU REGION BASED ON MULTI-TEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES Qiang Hu, Feng Mao, Jianxi Huang, Weijun Sun, Qiang Li, Wensheng Zhou MOP.F.6 SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SUAEDA JAPONICA AND ITS DISTRIBUTINON ASSOCIATED WITH MORPHOLOGIC CHANGE OF THE GANGHWA-DO TIDAL FLAT, KOREA Yoon-Kyung Lee, Jin-Ah Eom, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Joong-Sun Won MOP.F.7 POYANG LAKE WETLAND PLANTS MICROWAVE SCATTERING CHARACTERISTICS RESEARCH AND BIOMASS INVERSION Guozhuang Shen, Lei Dong, Jingjuan Liao, Huadong Guo MOP.F.8 COMPARISON OF SHIP DETECTABILITY USING SAR POLARIZATION DATA: ENVISAT ASAR AP MODE Chan-Su Yang, Kazuo Ouchi MOP.F.9 SIMULATION STUDY ON OPTIMAL CONDITIONS FOR SHALLOW WATER BATHYMETRY OBSERVATION BY SAR Kaiguo Fan, Weigen Huang, Mingxia He, Bin Fu

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MOP.G: Monday, July 7, 17:00 - 18:30

MOP.G Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications IV Session Type: Poster Time: Monday, July 7, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area G Co-Chairs: Jim Thomson and Pietro Ceccato MOP.G.1 DYNAMIC CHANGES OF COASTAL WETLANDS IN XIAMEN WESTERN BAY IN THE RECENT 100 YEARS Weiguo Wang, Zhikun Lai, Jun Liu MOP.G.2 METHODOLOGY FOR RISK ANALYSIS Junhua Teng, Tianyu Zhang, Meixian Sun, Fujiang Yu, Miao Yu Monday MOP.G.3 RETRIVING WATER DEPTH, INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND BOTTOM REFLECTANCE BY SPECTRUM MATCHING IN TURBID COASTAL WATERS Narvada Dewkurun, Wang Cheng Alice Heng, Chew Wai Chang, Soo Chin Liew MOP.G.4 SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF COASTAL CHANGES IN ACEH AFTER THE 2004 TSUNAMI Soo Chin Liew, Avijit Gupta, Poh Poh Wong, Leong Keong Kwoh MOP.G.5 USE OF ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS) SURFACE AIR AND SKIN TEMPERATURE DATA OVER URBAN-INDUSTRIAL CENTERS IN CANADA AND USA Alex Wallace, Julie Wallace MOP.G.6 USING AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE IMAGERY TO DISTINGUISH AND MAP BLACK MANGROVE ALONG THE SOUTH TEXAS GULF COAST Tashieka James, Shobha Sriharan, James Everitt, Chenghai Yang MOP.G.7 MAPPING RIPARIAN AND WETLAND WEEDS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY Shobha Sriharan, James Everitt, Chenghai Yang, Reginald Fletcher MOP.G.8 QUALITY EVALUATION OF MODIS AND MERIS CHLOROPHYLL AND WATER LEAVING REFLECTANCE L2 PRODUCTS IN COASTAL AREA BY COMPARISON TO IN SITU DATASET Andrea Guerriero, Vito de Pasquale, Raffaella Matarrese, Ciriaco Pasquale MOP.G.9 A STUDY ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS BY USING SAR DATA IN THE GANGHWA TIDAL FLAT Kye Lim Kim, Sang-Wan Kim, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Sang-Hoon Hong

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TU1.210: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Panel Session TU1.210 Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), Radiance Data Assimilation and Ocean Synoptics Session Type: Panel Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 210 Chair: Al Gasiewski About: Weather forecast accuracy depends on the coverage and quality of observational data used to initialize numerical prediction models. This panel will explore how satellite measurements, improved modeling capabilities and advanced data assimilation systems may enable revolutionary advances in forecasting weather and natural hazards. Distinct from marine weather ocean weather is a new field that regards the oceans as dynamic and turbulent. The availability of ocean altimetry, ocean vector winds and ocean color satellite observations has led to this rethinking of ocean science that bring valuable new applications. 8:20 TU1.210.1 THE USE OF SATELLITE DATA IN OPERATIONAL NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PLANS Louis Uccellini 8:53 TU1.210.2 ALL DATA ARE USEFUL, BUT NOT ALL DATA ARE USED! WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? Ross Hoffman 9:26 TU1.210.3 USING SATELLITE-DERIVED SST FRONTS TO EVALUATE AN EDDY RESOLVING

Tuesday NUMERICAL CIRCULATION MODEL Peter Cornillon, Andrew Eichmann

TU1.101: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00

TU1.101 Subsurface Sensing I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Waymond Scott and Paul Gader 8:20 TU1.101.1 THE ORFEUS PROJECT(OPTIMISED RADAR FOR FINDING EVERY UTILITY IN THE STREET) Massimiliano Pieraccini 8:40 TU1.101.2 DISPERSION INVERSION OF GPR DATA FOR PROPERTIES OF A MULTILAYER WAVEGUIDE Jan van der Kruk, Robert Jacob 9:00 TU1.101.3 GPR IMAGING USING COMPRESSED MEASUREMENTS Ali Cafer Gurbuz, James H. McClellan, Waymond R. Scott 9:20 TU1.101.4 COMBINING NSMC AND HIGH QUALITY MPV-TD DATA FOR UXO DISCRIMINATION Fridon Shubitidze, Benjamin E. Barrowes, Irma Shamatava, Juan Pablo Fernández, Kevin O’Neill 9:40 TU1.101.5 MATCHING PURSUITS DECOMPOSITION FOR DISCRIMINATION OF UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE: ISOLATED AND OVERLAPPING SIGNATURES Jeremiah Remus, Leslie Collins

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TU1.102: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00

TU1.102 Joint Time-Frequency Analysis of SAR Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Paul Kersten and Laurent Ferro-Famil 8:20 TU1.102.1 SAR TRAFFIC MONITORING USING TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS FOR DETECTION AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION Stefan V. Baumgartner, Gerhard Krieger 8:40 TU1.102.2 S-METHOD BASED APPROACH FOR IMAGE FORMATION, MOTION COMPENSATION, AND IMAGE ENHANCEMENT OF MOVING TARGERTS IN ISAR AND SAR Thayananthan Thayaparan, Ljubisa Stankovic, Milos Dakovic 9:00 TU1.102.3 LOCALIZATION OF VIBRATING TARGETS USING DUAL-FREQUENCY SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR AND TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS Yimin Zhang, Moeness Amin, Fauzia Ahmad

9:20 Tuesday TU1.102.4 COMPARISON OF POLARIMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS FOR THE TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF URBAN AREAS AT L BAND Laurent Ferro-Famil, Andreas Reigber, Jean-Claude Souyris 9:40 TU1.102.5 ESTIMATING SURFACE WATER SPEEDS USING TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS Paul Kersten, Robert Jansen, Thomas Ainsworth, Jakov Toporkov, Mark Sletten

TU1.103: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00

TU1.103 Student Paper Prize Competition I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Martti Hallikainen and Leung Tsang 8:20 TU1.103.1 MULTIPLE-WINDOW ANOMALY DETECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Wei-Min Liu, Chein-I Chang 8:40 TU1.103.2 MULTIPLE KERNEL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS AND DECISION FUSION FOR ROBUST SUB-PIXEL HYPERSPECTRAL TARGET RECOGNITION Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce 9:00 TU1.103.3 RETRIEVAL OF 3-D WATER VAPOR FIELD USING A NETWORK OF SCANNING COMPACT MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven Reising, Jothiram Vivekanandan 9:20 TU1.103.4 LOW FREQUENCY SEA AND ICE SHEET IMPULSE RESPONSES ACQUIRED BY THE GLOBAL ICE SHEET MAPPING ORBITER (GISMO) DEMONSTRATOR Noppasin Niamsuwan, Joel Johnson 9:40 TU1.103.5 TOWARD AN OPERATIONAL METHOD FOR REFINED SNOW CHARACTERIZATION USING DUAL-POLARIZATION C-BAND SAR DATA Nicolas Longepe, Sophie Allain, Eric Pottier

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TU1.104: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00

TU1.104 Passive Microwave Soil Moisture Algorithms Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Paolo Pampaloni and Wade Crow 8:20 TU1.104.1 THE PROTOTYPE SMOS SOIL MOISTURE ALGORITHM Yann Kerr, Philippe Waldteufel, Philippe Richaume, Jean Pierre Wigneron, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Arnaud Mailon, Ali Mahmoodi, Steven Delwart 8:40 TU1.104.2 APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS TO SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS FROM L-BAND RADIOMETRIC DATA Emanuele Angiuli, Alessandra Monerris Belda, Fabio Del Frate 9:00 TU1.104.3 IMPROVING THE AMSR-E SOIL MOISTURE ALGORITHM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO THROUGH FIELD EXPERIMENTS AND PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION Hui Lu, Toshio Koike, Tetsu Ohta, Hydeyuki Fujii, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Katsunori Tamagawa 9:20 TU1.104.4 A FIVE-YEAR VALIDATION OF AMSR-E SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCTS Thomas Jackson, Michael Cosh, Rajat Bindlish 9:40

Tuesday TU1.104.5 ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE WITH DUAL-FREQUENCY RADIOMETER - PALS Jiancheng Shi, Eni Njoku, Thomas Jackson, Peggy O’Neill, Kun-Shan Chen

TU1.105: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00

TU1.105 Advanced Lidar Technologies and Applications to 3D Landcover Structure I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Clint Slatton and David J. Harding 8:20 TU1.105.1 SEAFLOOR AND LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION THROUGH AIRBORNE LIDAR AND HYPERSPECTRAL DATA FUSION Chris Macon, Jennifer Wozencraft 8:40 TU1.105.2 A MEDIUM-FOOTPRINT, WAVEFORM LIDAR SURVEY OF GREENLAND Michelle Hofton, J. Bryan Blair, David Rabine, Scott Luthcke 9:00 TU1.105.3 PERFORMANCE PREDICTION FOR LOW-SNR LIDAR SENSORS Tristan Cossio, Kris Shrestha, K. Clint Slatton, William E. Carter 9:20 TU1.105.4 ROBUST EXTRACTION OF EXTERIOR BUILDING BOUNDARIES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC LIDAR DATA Stephen Lach, John Kerekes 9:40 TU1.105.5 3D ORGANIZATION OF 2D URBAN IMAGERY Peter Cho

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TU1.107: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00

TU1.107 Data Fusion I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Jocelyn Chanussot and Paolo Gamba 8:20 TU1.107.1 AN ADAPTIVE SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATION APPROACH TO PAN-SHARPENING Vijay Shah, Nick Younan, Roger King 8:40 TU1.107.2 A REGULARIZATION APPROACH FOR INSAR AND OPTICAL DATA FUSION Loic Denis, Florence Tupin, Jerome Darbon, Marc Sigelle 9:00 TU1.107.3 HIGH-RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY BASED ON PANCHROMATIC IMAGERY Sang-Hoon Lee 9:20 TU1.107.4 SEMI-SUPERVISED CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES FOR CLASSIFYING REMOTE SENSING

DATA Tuesday Björn Waske, Jón Atli Benediktsson 9:40 TU1.107.5 UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY FROM FUSION OF SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL INFORMATION Yonghong Li, Curt H. Davis

TU1.108: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00

TU1.108 New Challenges and Perspectives with High Resolution Spaceborne SAR Systems Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Richard Bamler and Mario Costantini 8:20 TU1.108.1 HIGH BANDWIDTH SPOTLIGHT SAR INTERFEROMETRY WITH TERRASAR-X Michael Eineder, Nico Adam, Nestor Yague-Martinez, Thomas Fritz 8:40 TU1.108.2 HIGH RESOLUTION INTERFEROMETRIC STACKING WITH TERRASAR-X Nico Adam, Michael Eineder, Nestor Yague-Martinez 9:00 TU1.108.3 PRECISE ORBIT AND BASELINE DETERMINATION FOR TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-X Yongjin Moon, Rolf Koenig, Grzegorz Michalak, Markus Rothacher, Byron Tapley 9:20 TU1.108.4 AUTOMATIC SHIP DETECTION: EXPERIMENTS AND POTENTIALS WITH THE COSMO- SKYMED SATELLITES CONSTELLATION Luca Pietranera, Massimo Zavagli, Mario Costantini, Giovanni Valentini, Alessandro Coletta 9:40 TU1.108.5 SAR INTERFEROMETRY POTENTIALS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION X-BAND SYSTEMS: ANALYSES AND EXPERIMENTS WITH COSMO-SKYMED DATA Mario Costantini, Federico Minati, Fabio Malvarosa, Fabrizio Battazza, Alessandro Coletta

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TU1.109: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00

TU1.109 Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Application Developments for Hyperspectral Imaging Systems Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Jay Pearlman and David Goodenough 8:20 TU1.109.1 VERY SHALLOW WATER BATHYMETRY RETRIEVAL FROM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY AT THE VIRGINIA COAST RESERVE (VCR’07) MULTI-SENSOR CAMPAIGN Charles Bachmann, Marcos Montes, Robert Fusina, Christopher Parrish, Jon Sellars, Alan Weidemann, Wesley Goode, Victoria Hill, Richard Zimmerman, C. Reid Nichols, Patrick Woodward, Kevin McIlhany, Daniel Korwan, Melba Crawford, James Monty, Barry Truitt, Arthur Schwarzschild 8:40 TU1.109.2 COMPARISON OF AVIRIS AND AISA AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL SENSING FOR ABOVE-GROUND FOREST CARBON MAPPING David G. Goodenough, K. Olaf Niemann, Andrew Dyk, Geordie Hobart, Piper Gordon, Matthew Loisel, Hao Chen 9:00 TU1.109.3 MEASUREMENT OF SUB NANOMETER SPECTRAL SHIFTS WITH A 10 NM IMAGING SPECTROMETER FOR UNDERSTANDING OF CHEMISTRY/COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION IN VEGETATION, MINERALS AND SNOW PACKS Robert Green Tuesday 9:20 TU1.109.4 POTENTIAL UTILITY OF FUSED 3-D LADAR DATA AND HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Mark Folkman, John Shepanski, Christopher Folley 9:40 TU1.109.5 MULTI-ANGLE MEASUREMENTS WITH CHRIS FOR FOREST PARAMETERS Andrew Dyk, David G. Goodenough, K. Olaf Niemann, Anita Simic, Jing M. Chen, Geordie Hobart, Hao Chen

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TU1.110: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00

TU1.110 Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Achilleas Psomas and Leland Pierce 8:20 TU1.110.1 EXPLORING THE BIOPHYSICAL DRIVERS OF AMAZON PHENEOLOGY: PREPARING DATA SETS TO IMPROVE DYNAMIC GLOBAL VEGETATION MODELS. Andrew Bradley, France Gerard, Graham Weedon, Chris Huntingford, Przemyslaw Zelazowski, Liana Anderson, Nicolas Barbier, Luiz Eduardo O.C. de Aragão 8:40 TU1.110.2 VALIDATION OF FOREST STRUCTURE RETRIEVALS FROM A GROUND-BASED LIDAR INSTRUMENT (ECHIDNA®) Alan Strahler, Curtis E. Woodcock, Crystal Schaaf, Ranga Myneni, Jicheng Liu, Glenn J. Newnham, David L. B. Jupp, Darius S. Culvenor, Jenny L. Lovell, Wenge Ni-Meister, Shihyan Lee, Xiaowen Li, Feng Zhao, Xiaoyuan Yang, Tian Yao, Qingling Zhang, Mitchell Schull, Miguel O. Román III, Zhuosen Wang, Yanmin Shuai 9:00 TU1.110.3 COMPARING FIELD MEASUREMENTS AND VEGETATION INDICES IN SUPPORT OF Tuesday MODERATE RESOLUTION REMOTELY SENSED PHENOLOGY Manish Verma, Mark Friedl, Nathan Phillips, Andrew Richardson 9:20 TU1.110.4 UTILITY OF AN IMAGE-BASED CANOPY REFLECTANCE MODELING TOOL FOR REMOTE ESTIMATION OF LAI AND LEAF CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT IN CROP SYSTEMS Rasmus Houborg, Martha C. Anderson 9:40 TU1.110.5 SUBARCTIC BOREAL FOREST ALBEDO ESTIMATION USING ENVISAT ASAR FOR BRDF DETERMINATION Terhikki Manninen, Aku Riihelä

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TU1.111: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00

TU1.111 Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and Radio Frequency Interference Effects in Microwave Radiometry I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Joel Johnson and David Kunkee 8:20 TU1.111.1 RESULTS FROM THE 2007 WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE (WRC-07) FOR REMOTE SENSING AND A PREVIEW OF ISSUES FOR THE 2011 WRC John Zuzek 8:40 TU1.111.2 PULSE AND KURTOSIS DETECTION OF RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI): AN EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON Priscilla N. Mohammed, Joseph Knuble, Jeffrey Piepmeier 9:00 TU1.111.3 COMPARISON OF PULSED SINUSOID RFI DETECTION ALGORITHMS USING TIME AND FREQUENCY SUBSAMPLING Sidharth Misra, Christopher Ruf 9:20 TU1.111.4 ON THE SHAPIRO-WILK TEST FOR THE DETECTION OF PULSED SINUSOIDAL RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE Baris Guner, Mark Frankford, Joel Johnson Tuesday 9:40 TU1.111.5 A STUDY OF ALGORITHMS FOR DETECTING PULSED SINUSOIDAL INTERFERENCE IN MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY Joel Johnson, Lee Potter

TU1.203: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00

TU1.203 Synergism of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Tim Liu and David Weissman 8:20 TU1.203.1 THE EFFECT OF RAIN ON SATELLITE SENSOR ESTIMATES OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS CONDITIONS AND ON THE AIR-SEA MOMENTUM FLUX David Weissman, Mark Bourassa 8:40 TU1.203.2 THE AQUARIUS/SAC-D MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING OCEAN SALINITY, THE WATER CYCLE AND OTHER APPLICATIONS Gary Lagerloef, F. Raul Colomb, David Le Vine, Simon Yueh, Frank Wentz 9:00 TU1.203.3 COMPENSATION OF FARADAY ROTATION IN MULTI-POLARIZATION SCATTEROMETRY Mark Frankford, Joel Johnson 9:20 TU1.203.4 ACTIVE-PASSIVE OBSERVATIONS OF SOIL MOISTURE - IMPLEMENTATION CONCEPT FOR THE SMAP MISSION Eni Njoku, Dara Entekhabi, Peggy O’Neill 9:40 TU1.203.5 VALIDATION OF COARSE RESOLUTION MICROWAVE SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCTS Zoltan Bartalis, Wolfgang Wagner, Craig Anderson, Hans Bonekamp, Vahid Naeimi, Stefan Hasenauer

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TU2.101: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.101 Subsurface Sensing II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Waymond Scott and Paul Gader 10:20 TU2.101.1 HIERARCHICAL METHODS FOR LANDMINE DETECTION WITH WIDEBAND ELECTRO- MAGNETIC INDUCTION AND GROUND PENETRATING RADAR MULTI-SENSOR SYSTEMS. Paul Gader, Joseph Wilson, Dominic Ho, Seniha Yuksel, Ganesh Ramachandran, Gyeongyong Heo 10:40 TU2.101.2 DUAL SENSOR ALIS FOR HUMANITARIAN DEMINING AND ITS EVALUATION TEST IN MINE FIELDS IN CROATIA Motoyuki Sato 11:00 TU2.101.3 THERMAL NOISE ANALYSIS ON THE RESISTIVE VEE DIPOLE ANTENNA FOR GROUND- PENETRATING RADAR APPLICATIONS Kangwook Kim Tuesday 11:20 TU2.101.4 SUBSURFACE SENSING OF NEAR-SURFACE OBJECT USING CAVITY BACKED SLOT ANTENNA Suman Kumar Gunnala, Mingyu Lu, Jonathan Bredow, Saibun Tjuatja 11:40 TU2.101.5 GRAVIMETRIC DETECTION BY COMPRESSED SENSING Marina Meila, Caren Marzban, Ulvi Yurtsever

TU2.102: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.102 TerraSAR-X Commissioning Phase Results Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Josef Mittermayer and Thomas Fritz 10:20 TU2.102.1 TERRASAR-X COMMISSIONING PHASE EXECUTION AND RESULTS Josef Mittermayer, Schättler Birgit, Marwan Younis 10:40 TU2.102.2 TERRASAR-X INSTRUMENT, SAR SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND COMMAND GENERATION Josef Mittermayer, Robert Metzig, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Carolina Gonzalez, Donata Polimeni, Johannes Böer, Younis Marwan, José Márquez Martínez, Steffen Wollstadt, Daniel Schulze, Adriano Meta, Nuria Tous-Ramon, Carlos Ortega Miguez 11:00 TU2.102.3 TERRASAR-X CALIBRATION RESULTS Marco Schwerdt, Benjamin Bräuitigam, Markus Bachmann, Björn Döring, Dirk Schrank, Jaime Hueso Gonzalez 11:20 TU2.102.4 TERRASAR-X PAYLOAD DATA PROCESSING: RESULTS FROM COMMISSIONING AND EARLY OPERATIONAL PHASE Helko Breit, Birgit Schättler, Thomas Fritz, Ulrich Balss, Heiko Damerow, Egbert Schwarz 11:40 TU2.102.5 TERRASAR-X IMAGE PRODUCTS: CHARACTERIZATION AND VERIFICATION Thomas Fritz, Helko Breit, Birgit Schättler, Marie Lachaise, Ulrich Balss, Michael Eineder

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TU2.103: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.103 Student Paper Prize Competition II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Martti Hallikainen and Leung Tsang 10:20 TU2.103.1 A NOVEL STRATEGY FOR RADAR IMAGING BASED ON COMPRESSIVE SENSING Marivi Tello, Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorqui 10:40 TU2.103.2 VOLUME COHERENCE ESTIMATION FOR RANDOM FOREST HEIGHT RETRIEVAL BASED ON POLINSAR DATA Tao Xiong, Guangyi Zhou, Jian Yang, Weijie Zhang 11:00 TU2.103.3 INVESTIGATION OF A NEW MULTIFUNCTIONAL HIGH PERFORMANCE SAR SYSTEM CONCEPT EXPLOITING MIMO TECHNOLOGY Junghyo Kim, Werner Wiesbeck 11:20 TU2.103.4 ON THE USE OF DUAL-POLARIZED SAR DATA FOR OIL SPILL OBSERVATION WITH AND WITHOUT SURFACE SLICKS Ferdinando Nunziata, Attilio Gambardella, Maurizio Migliaccio 11:40

Tuesday TU2.103.5 ENHANCEMENT OF ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRY FOR GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION Robert Kohlleppel, Christoph H. Gierull

TU2.104: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.104 Tower and Aircraft Soil Moisture Remote Sensing Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Brian Hornbuckle and Jeff Walker 10:20 TU2.104.1 SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL USING AN L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER DURING THE SOIL MOISTURE EXPERIMENTS 2003 (SMEX03) AND 2004 (SMEX04) Dongryeol Ryu, Thomas Jackson, Rajat Bindlish, David Le Vine, Michael Haken 10:40 TU2.104.2 COMBINED PASSIVE AND ACTIVE SOIL MOISTURE OBSERVATIONS DURING CLASIC Rajat Bindlish, Thomas Jackson, Simon Yueh, Steve Dinardo 11:00 TU2.104.3 NEAR REAL-TIME PASSIVE C-BAND MICROWAVE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL DURING CLASIC 2007 Eric McIntyre, Albin Gasiewski, Damian Manda 11:20 TU2.104.4 PASSIVE AND ACTIVE L-BAND SYSTEM AND OBSERVATIONS DURING THE 2007 CLASIC CAMPAIGN Simon Yueh, Steve Dinardo, Steven Chan, Eni Njoku, Thomas Jackson, Rajat Bindlish 11:40 TU2.104.5 SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL USING GNSS-R TECHNIQUES: MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN IN A WHEAT FIELD Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Fernando Marchán-Hernandez, Adriano Camps, Enric Valencia, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Pérez, Juan Manuel Nieto

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TU2.105: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.105 Lidar Sensors and Applications I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Raymond Hoff and Michelle Hofton 10:20 TU2.105.1 QUANTIFYING SURFACE REFLECTIVITY FOR SPACEBORNE LIDAR MISSIONS Mathias Disney, Philip Lewis 10:40 TU2.105.2 A PREPROCESSING METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC BREAKLINES DETECTION Mohammed Yassine Belkhouche, Bill P. Buckles, Xiaohui Yuan, Laura Steinberg 11:00 TU2.105.3 FOURIER ERROR ANALYSIS OF RAY TRACING ON A GEOSPATIAL POLYGONAL MODEL Brandon Baker 11:20 TU2.105.4 ESTIMATING AND MONITORING LAI AND FOLIAGE PROFILES USING GROUND-BASED

LASER SCANNING Tuesday Glenn J. Newnham, David L. B. Jupp, Darius S. Culvenor, Jenny L. Lovell 11:40 TU2.105.5 RETRIEVAL OF CANOPY VERTICAL STRUCTURE USING MODIS DATA Zhuosen Wang, Crystal Schaaf, Yuri Knyazikhin, Tian Yao, Mitchell Schull, Alan Strahler

TU2.107: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.107 Data Fusion II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Jocelyn Chanussot and Paolo Gamba 10:20 TU2.107.1 A METHOD FOR MEASURING THE INCREMENTAL INFORMATION CONTRIBUTED FROM NON-STATIONARY SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA TO BE FUSED Carolyn Krekeler, Karthik Nagarajan, K. Clint Slatton 10:40 TU2.107.2 A NOVEL PROTOCOL FOR ACCURACY ASSESSMENT IN CLASSIFICATION OF VERY HIGH RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL AND SAR IMAGES Lorenzo Bruzzone, Claudio Persello 11:00 TU2.107.3 MULTIRESOLUTION FUSION IN REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES USING AN IGMRF PRIOR AND MAP ESTIMATION Manjunath Joshi, André Jalobeanu 11:20 TU2.107.4 A ROBUST MULTI-CLASSIFIER DECISION FUSION FRAMEWORK FOR HYPERSPECTRAL, MULTI-TEMPORAL CLASSIFICATION Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce, Hemanth Kalluri 11:40 TU2.107.5 CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES BASED ON MRF FUSION AND MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico

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TU2.108: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.108 Spatial Data Fusion in PolSAR and Pol-InSAR Imaging Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Wooil M. Moon and Yoshio Yamaguchi 10:20 TU2.108.1 DATA FUSION STUDY BETWEEN POLARIMETRIC SAR, HYPERSPECTRAL AND LIDAR DATA FOR FOREST INFORMATION David G. Goodenough, Hao Chen, Andrew Dyk, Geordie Hobart, Ashlin Richardson 10:40 TU2.108.2 IMAGING CRUSTAL DEFORMATION ALONG THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT SYSTEM WITH ALOS INSAR AND GPS David Sandwell, Bridget Smith-Konter, Matt Wei 11:00 TU2.108.3 SCATTERING TYPE PHASE FOR WETLAND CLASSIFICATION USING C-BAND POLARIMETRIC SAR Ridha Touzi, Alice Deschamps, Gershon Rother 11:20 TU2.108.4 SEASONAL CHANGE MONITORING OF WETLANDS BY USING AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE POLSAR SENSING Ryoichi Sato, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner

Tuesday 11:40 TU2.108.5 RECENT ADVANCES IN POL-SAR & POL-IN-SAR IMAGING OF NATURAL HABITATS AND WETLAND REMOTE SENSING Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Yoshio Yamaguchi

TU2.109: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.109 Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Hyperspectral Sensing of Forests Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Robert Green and Jay Pearlman 10:20 TU2.109.1 SOIL BACKGROUNDS ARTIFACTS ANALYSIS ON CHLOROPHYLL INDICES USING AIRBORNE (PROBE-1) AND SATELLITE (HYPERION EO-1) HYPERSPECTRAL DATA IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE Abdou Bannari, Karl Staenz, Driss Haboudane 10:40 TU2.109.2 HYPERSPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF JAPANESE OAK WILT TO DETERMINE NORMALIZED WILT INDEX Kuniaki Uto, Yuji Takabayashi, Yukio Kosugi, Toshinari Ogata 11:00 TU2.109.3 VEGETATION SPECIES IDENTIFICATION USING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY AND A PROGRESSIVE ANALYSIS Baoxin Hu, James Freemantle, Josee Levesque, Jean Pierre Ardouin 11:20 TU2.109.4 ASSESSING CROP RESIDUE COVER USING HYPERION DATA James Monty, Craig Daughtry, Melba Crawford 11:40 TU2.109.5 TOXIC INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL EFFECTS ON POPLAR, CANOLA, AND WHEAT DETECTABLE OVER THE 450 – 2500 NM SPECTRAL RANGE. Derek Rogge, Benoit Rivard, Mike Deyholos, Josee Levesque, Anthony Faust

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TU2.110: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.110 Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Andrew Bradley and Leland Pierce 10:20 TU2.110.1 RELATING A SPECTRAL INDEX FROM MODIS AND TOWER-BASED MEASUREMENTS TO ECOSYSTEM LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY FOR A FLUXNET-CANADA CONIFEROUS FOREST Elizabeth Middleton, Yen-Ben Cheng, Thomas Hilker, Karl Huemmrich, Andrew Black, Praveena Krishnan, Nicholas Coops 10:40 TU2.110.2 SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION OF SURFACE PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION AND ALBEDO FROM GOES Kaicun Wang, Shunlin Liang, Dongdong Wang, Tao Zheng 11:00 TU2.110.3 COUPLING IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY AND ECOSYSTEM PROCESS MODELLING - THE IMPORTANCE OF SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED FOLIAR BIOCHEMICAL CONCENTRATION ESTIMATES FOR MODELLING NPP OF GRASSLAND HABITATS Tuesday Achilleas Psomas, Mathias Kneubühler, Silvia Huber, Klaus Itten, Niklaus Zimmermann 11:20 TU2.110.4 LONG TERM GLOBAL LAI DATASET FROM AVHRR: EVALUATION AND VALIDATION Sangram Ganguly, Arindam Samanta, Mitchell Schull, Nikolay Shabanov, Yuri Knyazikhin, Ranga Myneni 11:40 TU2.110.5 VALIDATING PREDICTIVE ABILITY OF SPECTRAL INDICES FOR PHOTOSYNTHETIC EFFICIENCY AND CAPACITY - ANALYSIS OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND CO2 FLUX MEASUREMENTS IN RICE FIELD - Yoshio Inoue, Josep Penuelas, Akira Miyata, Masami Mano

TU2.111: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.111 Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and Radio Frequency Interference Effects in Microwave Radiometry II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Joel Johnson and David Kunkee 10:20 TU2.111.1 THE DETECTION AND MITIGATION OF RFI WITH THE AQUARIUS L-BAND SCATTEROMETER Adam Freedman, Jeffrey Piepmeier, Mark Fischman, Dalia McWatters, Michael Spencer 10:40 TU2.111.2 RFI MEASUREMENT DATABASE ASSEMBLED DURING THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY SITE QUALIFICATION CAMPAIGNS. Michael Inggs, Sydney Dunn, Justin Jonas 11:00 TU2.111.3 A SIMPLIFIED CALCULATION OF THE KURTOSIS FOR RFI DETECTION Roger De Roo 11:20 TU2.111.4 EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SIXTH MOMENT TO ELIMINATE A KURTOSIS BLIND SPOT IN THE DETECTION OF INTERFERENCE IN A RADIOMETER. Roger De Roo, Sidharth Misra 11:40 TU2.111.5 DETECTABILITY OF RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE DUE TO SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATION SIGNALS USING THE KURTOSIS ALGORITHM Sidharth Misra, Christopher Ruf, Rachael Kroodsma

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TU2.203: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.203 Synergism of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: David Weissman and W Timothy Liu 10:20 TU2.203.1 CROSS-VALIDATION OF WIND PRODUCTS FROM SEAWINDS AND AMSR ON ADEOS-II Naoto Ebuchi 10:40 TU2.203.2 THE INFLUENCE OF AIR DENSITY ON SCATTEROMETER RETRIEVALS OF SURFACE TURBULENT STRESS Mark Bourassa, David Weissman 11:00 TU2.203.3 OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE COUPLING OVER MID-LATITUDE OCEAN FRONTS W. Timothy Liu, Xiaosu Xie 11:20 TU2.203.4 DYNAMIC PHENOMENA IN THE COASTAL WATERS OF THE NORTH-EASTERN BLACK SEA RETRIEVED FROM SATELLITE DATA Marina Mityagina, Olga Lavrova 11:40 TU2.203.5 ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITE PALSAR OBSERVATIONS OF THE OCEANIC

Tuesday DYNAMIC PHENOMENA IN THE COASTAL ZONE Leonid Mitnik

TU2.210: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00

TU2.210 Assimilation of Satellite Radiances Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Albin Gasiewski and Klaus Scipal 10:20 TU2.210.1 MICROWAVE AND INFRARED RADIANCES ASSIMILATION FOR WEATHER FORECASTING Quanhua (Mark) Liu, Fuzong Weng, Yong Han, Yong Chen 10:40 TU2.210.2 STOCHASTIC GENERATION OF CONDITIONAL PRECIPITATION REPLICATES FOR ENSEMBLE FORECASTING AND DATA ASSIMILATION. Rafal Wojcik, Alexandra Konings, Dennis McLaughlin, Dara Entekhabi 11:00 TU2.210.3 ERROR MODELING RELATED TO MICROWAVE RADIANCE ASSIMILATION OF CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION Ralf Bennartz, Mark Kulie, Christopher O’Dell, Min-Jeong Kim 11:20 TU2.210.4 TOWARD ASSIMILATION OF MWR TBS INTO CRM: ENSEMBLE FORECAST ERROR DISTRIBUTION AND COVARIANCE OF CRM VARIABLES AND TBS Kazumasa Aonashi 11:40 TU2.210.5 DATA ASSIMILATION EXPERIMENTS USING QUALITY CONTROLLED AIRS VERSION 5 TEMPERATURE SOUNDINGS Joel Susskind

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TU3.101: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.101 Remote Sensing for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Identification and Removal I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Leslie Collins and Joseph Wilson 13:20 TU3.101.1 TECHNOLOGIES FOR AIRBORNE MINEFIELD DETECTION Miranda Schatten Silvious 13:40 TU3.101.2 THE BENEFITS OF CONTEXT ESTIMATION FOR TARGET SPECTRA DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Jeremy Bolton, Paul Gader 14:00 TU3.101.3 STATISTICAL MODELS FOR GROUND PENETRATING RADAR: APPLICATIONS TO SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION AND STATISTICAL PRE-SCREENING Peter Torrione, Leslie Collins 14:20

TU3.101.4 CONTEXT-DEPENDENT MULTI-SENSOR FUSION FOR LANDMINE DETECTION Tuesday Hichem Frigui, Lijun Zhang, Paul Gader 14:40 TU3.101.5 BROADBAND ARRAY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION SENSORS FOR DETECTING BURIED LANDMINES Waymond R. Scott

TU3.102: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.102 TerraSAR-X satellite: Status and First Application Results I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Achim Roth and Irena Hajnsek 13:20 TU3.102.1 STATUS REPORT ON THE TERRASAR-X MISSION Stefan Buckreuss, Roth Achim 13:40 TU3.102.2 RAPID LAND MAPPING BY TERRASAR-X VHR DATA Gianni Lisini, Fabio Dell’Acqua, Paolo Gamba 14:00 TU3.102.3 TERRASAR-X MULTI-SCALE TEXTURAL ANALYSIS FOR URBAN CLASSIFICATION Marco Chini, Fabio Pacifici, William J. Emery 14:20 TU3.102.4 EXPLORING THE POLIMETRIC MODES OF TERRASAR-X FOR QUANTIATIVE PARAMETER ESTIMATION Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos Papathanassiou 14:40 TU3.102.5 ASSESSMENT OF THE POTENTIAL OF TERRASAR-X WITH RESPECT TO MAPPING APPLICATIONS USING RADARGRAMMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES Hannes Raggam, Karlheinz Gutjahr, Mathias Schardt

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TU3.103: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.103 Ionospheric Effects in Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Imagery I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Tom Ainsworth and Tony Freeman 13:20 TU3.103.1 DISCOVERY OF ANOMALOUS STRIPES OVER THE AMAZON BY THE PALSAR ONBOARD ALOS SATELLITE Masanobu Shimada, Yasushi Muraki, Yuichi Otsuka 13:40 TU3.103.2 EVALUATION OF GPS VS. POLARIMETRY BASED APPROACHES FOR CORRECTION OF FARADAY ROTATION IN SAR DATA Anthony Freeman, Xiaoqing Pi, Elaine Chapin, Bruce Chapman 14:00 TU3.103.3 A POSTERIORI POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION: COMPENSATING FOR FARADAY ROTATIONS AND IONOSPHERE IRREGULARITIES Thomas Ainsworth, Tony Freeman, Jong-Sen Lee 14:20 TU3.103.4 THE IMPACT OF THE IONOSPHERE ON INTERFEROMETRIC SAR PROCESSING Franz Meyer, Jeremy Nicoll 14:40

Tuesday TU3.103.5 DETECTION OF IONOSPHERIC STRUCTURES WITH L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS Paul Bernhardt, Thomas Ainsworth, Keith Groves

TU3.104: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.104 Radar Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Jiancheng Shi and Franchesco Mattia 13:20 TU3.104.1 A VEGETATION CORRECTION METHODOLOGY FOR TIME SERIES BASED SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM C-BAND RADAR OBSERVATIONS Alicia Joseph, Peggy O’Neill, Rogier van der Velde, Roger Lang, Timothy Gish 13:40 TU3.104.2 C- AND L-BAND POLARIMETRIC DATA FOR SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION OVER AGRICULTURAL FIELDS Eric Gauthier, Heather McNairn, Jiali Shang, Anna Pacheco, Catherine Champagne, Ridha Touzi 14:00 TU3.104.3 INVERSION ALGORITHM FOR SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM POLARIMETRIC BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS OF VEGETATION CANOPIES Yisok Oh, Seung-Gun Jung 14:20 TU3.104.4 SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION AND ANALYSIS IN WESTERN AFRICA BASED ON ERS SCATTEROMETER Mehrez Zribi, Mickaël Pardé, Bertrand Decharme, Patricia De Rosnay 14:40 TU3.104.5 SURFACE PARAMETER ESTIMATION OVER PERIODIC SURFACES USING TIME- FREQUENCY APPROACH Sandrine Daniel, Sophie Allain, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Eric Pottier

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TU3.105: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.105 EARLINET -- The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Raymond M. Hoff and Arnoud Apituley 13:20 TU3.105.1 THE EUROPEAN AEROSOL RESEARCH LIDAR NETWORK (EARLINET): AN OVERVIEW Francesc Rocadenbosch, Ina Mattis, Christine Böckmann, Gelsomina Pappalardo, Jens Bösenberg, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Aldo Amodeo, Albert Ansmann, Arnoud Apituley, Dimitris Balis, Anatoly Chaikovsky, Adolfo Comerón, Volker Freudenthaler, Ove Gustafsson, Georg Hansen, Rodanthi-Elisabeth Mamouri, Valentin Mitev, Constantino Muñoz, Doina Nicolae, Alexandros Papayannis, Carlos Pérez, Maria Rita Perrone, Aleksander Pietruczuk, Manuel Pujadas, Jean-Philippe Putaud, Francois Ravetta, Vincenzo Rizi, Michaël Sicard, Valentin Simeonov, Nicola Spinelli, Dimitar Stoyanov, Thomas Trickl, Ulla Wandinger, Matthias Wiegner 13:40 TU3.105.2 EARLINET APPROACH TO OPTIMISATION OF INDIVIDUAL NETWORK INSTRUMENTS WITH THE AIM OF HOMOGENISATION OF AEROSOL DATA PRODUCTS AND INCREASED DATA COVERAGE

Arnoud Apituley, Volker Freudenthaler, Francesc Rocadenbosch Tuesday 14:00 TU3.105.3 BACKSCATTER LIDAR MEASUREMENT IN THE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER : DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION CAPABILITIES Valentin Mitev, Renaud Matthey, Giovanni Martucci 14:20 TU3.105.4 FROM EARLINET-ASOS RAMAN-LIDAR SIGNALS TO MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES VIA ADVANCED REGULARIZATION SOFTWARE Christine Böckmann, Detlef Müller, Lukas Osterloh, Pornsarp Pornsawad 14:40 TU3.105.5 THE GAW AEROSOL LIDAR OBSERVATION NETWORK (GALION) Raymond Hoff, Jens Boesenberg, Gelsomina Pappalardo

TU3.107: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.107 Urban Areas and Buildings Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Roger King and Gintautas Palubinskas 13:20 TU3.107.1 DETECTION OF TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY Gintautas Palubinskas, Franz Kurz, Peter Reinartz 13:40 TU3.107.2 CARTOGRAPHIC ELEMENTS EXTRACTION USING HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY AND XML MODELING Erick Lopez-Ornelas, Florence Sedes 14:00 TU3.107.3 AUTOMATED ROAD EXTRACTION USING BOTH GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND CLUSTERING ANALYSIS FROM PAN-SHARPENED IKONOS IMAGES Hesamodin Dehghanian, Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej, Hamid Ebadi, Mehdi Mokhtarzadeh 14:20 TU3.107.4 SEQUENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF MULTIPLE VISUAL CUES FOR 3-D BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION Dong Guo, Chye Hwang Yan, Soo Chin Liew, Leong Keong Kwoh 14:40 TU3.107.5 CONTEXTUAL MODELS FOR AUTOMATIC BUILDING EXTRACTION IN HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGE USING OBJECT-BASED BOOSTING METHOD Xian Sun, Kun Fu, Hui Long, Yanfeng Hu, Lun Cai, Hongqi Wang 79 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

TU3.108: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.108 Multichannel - Multidimensional Coherent SAR Data Combination Techniques I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Fabrizio Lombardini and Alessandro Ferretti 13:20 TU3.108.1 ON THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF TRACKS FOR SAR TOMOGRAPHY Matteo Nannini, Rolf Scheiber, Alberto Moreira 13:40 TU3.108.2 COMBINING TIME-DOMAIN BACK-PROJECTION AND ADVANCED SPECTRAL ESTIMATION METHODS FOR TOMOGRAPHIC SAR PROCESSING Othmar Frey, Erich Meier 14:00 TU3.108.3 A NEW METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF PERSISTENT SCATTERERS IN SERIES OF SAR IMAGES Mario Costantini, Salvatore Falco, Fabio Malvarosa, Federico Minati 14:20 TU3.108.4 DETECTION OF SINGLE AND MULTIPLE SCATTERERS IN MULTIBASELINE MULTITEMPORAL SAR DATA Gianfranco Fornaro, Fabrizio Lombardini, Matteo Pardini, Antonio Pauciullo 14:40

Tuesday TU3.108.5 3D TOMOGRAPHIC AND DIFFERENTIAL TOMOGRAPHIC RESPONSE TO PARTIALLY COHERENT SCENES Fabrizio Lombardini

TU3.109: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.109 Rare Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Alan Schaum and James Theiler 13:20 TU3.109.1 LEVERAGING CONVEXITY IN THE FACE OF HIGH DIMENSIONALITY TO DETECT, QUANTIFY AND IDENTIFY RARE AND SMALL TARGETS Joseph Boardman 13:40 TU3.109.2 IMAGE FACTORIZATION FOR SMALL OBJECT DETECTION Michael Winter 14:00 TU3.109.3 HYPERSPECTRAL DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION WITH CONSTRAINED TARGET SUBSPACES Steven Adler-Golden, John Gruninger, Robert Sundberg 14:20 TU3.109.4 CLUTTER REMOVAL VIA TOPOLOGY FOR IMPROVED TARGET DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Bill Basener, David Messinger 14:40 TU3.109.5 ANOMALOUS CHANGE DETECTION IN LONGWAVE INFRARED GROUND-BASED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING DATA Kevin Mitchell

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TU3.110: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.110 Forests and Vegetation: SAR Interferometry and Polarimetry I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Paul Siqueira and Robert Treuhaft 13:20 TU3.110.1 SAR COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR BOREAL FOREST WITH AID OF LASER MEASUREMENTS Jaan Praks, Florian Kugler, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Juha Hyyppä, Martti Hallikainen 13:40 TU3.110.2 ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL DECORRELATION IN DUAL-BASELINE POLINSAR VEGETATION PARAMETER ESTIMATION Yong-Sheng Zhou, Wen Hong, Fang Cao, Yan-Ping Wang, Yi-Rong Wu 14:00 TU3.110.3 MODELING AND INTERPRETATION OF THE MULTITEMPORAL AND MULTIBASELINE POLINSAR COHERENCE Maxim Neumann, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Andreas Reigber

14:20 Tuesday TU3.110.4 TEMPORAL DECORRELATION STUDIES FOR VEGETATION PARAMETER ESTIMATION WITH SPACEBORNE RADARS Razi Ahmed, Paul Siqueira, Scott Hensley, Bruce Chapman, Kathleen Bergen

TU3.111: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.111 Microwave Radiometer Technology I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Steven Reising and Adriano Camps 13:20 TU3.111.1 DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER (HIRAD) Christopher Ruf, M. C. Bailey, Roger De Roo, Steven Gross, Robbie Hood, Mark James, James Johnson, W. Linwood Jones, David Simmons, Karen Stephens 13:40 TU3.111.2 THE ROLE OF GRAPHICS SIMULATION IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE NPOESS MICROWAVE IMAGER SOUNDER (MIS) SENSOR CONCEPT David Kunkee 14:00 TU3.111.3 THE AQUARIUS MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS Fernando Pellerano, Jeffrey Piepmeier, James Caldwell, Terence Doiron, Joshua Forgione, Kevin Horgan, Michael Triesky, David Levine, Simon Yueh, Gary Lagerloef 14:20 TU3.111.4 RETRIEVAL OF 3-D WATER VAPOR FIELD USING A REMOTE SENSOR NETWORK OF SCANNING COMPACT MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS Sharmila Padmanabhan, Steven Reising, Jothiram Vivekanandan, Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, Willow Foster 14:40 TU3.111.5 INITIAL RESULTS OF A DIGITAL RADIOMETER WITH DIGITAL BEAMFORMING Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Pérez, Adriano Camps, Juan Fernando Marchán-Hernandez, Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Enric Valencia, Miguel Angel Guerreo, Juan Manuel Nieto

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TU3.203: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.203 High Wind Speed Retrievals from SAR and Scatterometry I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Will Perrie and Yijun He 13:20 TU3.203.1 SAR DERIVED WIND AND OCEAN WAVE FIELDS OF MESOSCALE CYCLONES Susanne Lehner, Stephan Brusch, Antonio Reppucci 13:40 TU3.203.2 RADARSAT SCANSAR WIND RETRIEVAL AND RAIN EFFECTS ON SCANSAR MEASUREMENTS UNDER HURRICANE CONDITIONS Congling Nie, David G. Long 14:00 TU3.203.3 EFFECTS OF TROPICAL CYCLONES ON KUROSHIO AND THE ADJACENT SHELF- SLOPE WATERS Chau-Ron Wu, Yu-Lin Chang 14:20 TU3.203.4 WIND RETRIEVAL OF TROPICAL CYCLONES USING C-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR Jochen Horstmann, Wolfgang Koch, Donald R. Thompson, Frank M. Monaldo 14:40

Tuesday TU3.203.5 IMPACTS OF SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA ON HURRICANE FORECASTING Hui Shen, Yijun He, William Perrie

TU3.210: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00

TU3.210 Radiance Assimilation and Retrieval Methods I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Al Gasiewski and Joel Susskind 13:20 TU3.210.1 1D-VAR RETRIEVAL USING SUPERCHANNELS Xu Liu, Dan Zhou, Allen Larar, Bill Smith, Peter Schluessel, Stephen Mango, Karen St. Germain 13:40 TU3.210.2 RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC INTEGRATED WATER VAPOR AND CLOUD LIQUID WATER CONTENT OVER THE OCEAN FROM SATELLITE DATA USING THE 1-D-VAR ICE CLOUD MICROPHYSICS DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM (IMDAS) Cyrus Raza Mirza, Toshio Koike, Yang Kun, Tobias Graf 14:00 TU3.210.3 VARIATIONAL PRESSURE IMAGE ASSIMILATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC MOTION ESTIMATION Thomas Corpetti, Patrick Heas, Etienne Mémin, Nicolas Papadakis 14:20 TU3.210.4 SOIL MOISTURE FROM METOP SCATTEROMETER DATA: ASSIMILATION RESULTS FROM A NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION EXPERIMENT Klaus Scipal, Matthias Drusch 14:40 TU3.210.5 GAUSSIAN MODEL ADAPTIVE TIME DOMAIN FILTER (GMAT) FOR WEATHER RADARS Cuong Nguyen, V. Chandrasekar, Dmitri Moisseev

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TU4.101: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.101 Remote Sensing for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Identification and Removal II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Leslie Collins and Joseph Wilson 15:20 TU4.101.1 UXO IDENTIFICATION USING BERKELEY UXO DISCRIMINATOR (BUD) Erika Gasperikova, Torquil Smith, Karl Kappler, Frank Morrison, Alex Becker 15:40 TU4.101.2 MAGNETIC DISCRIMINATION OF HELICOPTER DATA FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF UXO CONTAMINATED SITES Stephen Billings, David Wright, Jack Foley 16:00 TU4.101.3 MODELING HIGHLY PERMEABLE AND CONDUCTIVE ELLIPSOIDAL CLUTTE FOR THE DETECTION OF UXO IN THE ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION REGIME Tomasz M. Grzegorczyk, Benjamin E. Barrowes, Kevin O’Neill 16:20

TU4.101.4 ANALYSIS OF AN INFORMATION-BASED SENSOR MANAGER APPLICABLE TO Tuesday LANDMINE DETECTION Mark Kolba, Leslie Collins 16:40 TU4.101.5 AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF BURIED OBJECTS IN GPR IMAGES USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES Edoardo Pasolli, Farid Melgani, Massimo Donelli, Redha Attoui, Mariette De Vos

TU4.102: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.102 TerraSAR-X satellite: Status and First Application Results II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Irena Hajnsek and Achim Roth 15:20 TU4.102.1 INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICABILITY OF TERRASAR-X FOR REPEATTRACK INTERFEROMETRY Charles Werner, Urs Wegmüller, Andreas Wiesmann, Tazio Strozzi 15:40 TU4.102.2 ANALYSIS OF ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION EFFECTS IN TERRASAR-X IMAGES Andreas Danklmayer, Bjoern Doering, Marco Schwerdt, Madhukar Chandra 16:00 TU4.102.3 HIGH RESOLUTION WIND FIELDS FROM TERRASAR-X DATA Jochen Horstmann, Donald R. Thompson, Nathaniel S. Winstead, Frank M. Monaldo 16:20 TU4.102.4 FIRST RESULTS ON THE USE OF TERRASAR-X DATA FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS Susanne Lehner, Stephan Brusch 16:40 TU4.102.5 FIRST ASSESSMENT OF SIMULATED TANDEM-X SCIENCE PRODUCTS Irena Hajnsek, Thomas Busche, Alberto Moreira

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TU4.103: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.103 Ionospheric Effects in Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Imagery II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Tom Ainsworth and Tony Freeman 15:20 TU4.103.1 MAPPING THE IONOSPHERE USING L-BAND SAR DATA Jeremy Nicoll, Franz Meyer 15:40 TU4.103.2 QUANTIFYING AND CORRECTING IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON P-BAND SAR IMAGES Shaun Quegan, Jim Green, Konstantinos Papathanassiou 16:00 TU4.103.3 POLINSAR AT LOW FREQUENCY AND IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Sebastien Angelliaume, My-Linh Truong-Loi, Anthony Freeman, Eric Pottier 16:20 TU4.103.4 A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF ORBITAL AND ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS ON THE ESTIMATION OF REGIONAL TRENDS IN MULTI- INTERFEROGRAM DATA-STACKS Alessandro Ferretti, Alfio Fumagalli, Fabrizio Novali, Pietro Panzeri, Emanuele Passera 16:40

Tuesday TU4.103.5 IMAGE FORMATION ALGORITHM FOR TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE SOUNDING WITH SPACEBORNE HF-SAR SYSTEM Jie Chen, Zhuo Li, Wei Liu, Chunsheng Li, Yinqing Zhou

TU4.104: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.104 Global Soils and Soil Moisture Products Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Charles Laymon and Klaus Scipal 15:20 TU4.104.1 GLOBAL EVALUATION OF REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS Wade Crow 15:40 TU4.104.2 THE WINDSAT GLOBAL SOIL MOISTURE DATA SET Li Li, Peter Gaiser 16:00 TU4.104.3 IMPACT OF LAND MODEL PHYSICS ON SOIL MOISTURE ASSIMILATION Rolf Reichle, Sujay Kumar, Randal Koster, Christa Peters-Lidard, Wade Crow 16:20 TU4.104.4 INTEGRATION OF SATELLITE-RETRIEVED SOIL MOISTURE OBSERVATIONS WITH A GLOBAL TWO-LAYER SOIL MOISTURE MODEL John Bolten, Wade Crow, Xiwu Zhan, Thomas Jackson, Curt Reynolds 16:40 TU4.104.5 SOIL MOISTURE REMOTE SENSING FOR NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION: L-BAND AND C-BAND EMISSION MODELING OVER LAND SURFACES, THE COMMUNITY MICROWAVE EMISSION MODEL (CMEM) Patricia de Rosnay, Matthias Drusch, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Thomas Holmes, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Aaron Boone, Jean-Christophe Calvet, Yann Kerr

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TU4.105: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.105 EARLINET -- The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Raymond M. Hoff and Arnoud Apituley 15:20 TU4.105.1 PHOTON-COUNTING LIDAR FOR AEROSOL DETECTION AND 3-D IMAGING Richard Marino, Jonathan Richardson, Robert Garnier, David Ireland, Laura Bickmeier, Christina Siracusa, Patrick Quinn 15:40 TU4.105.2 USING 532 NM HSRL AND 1064 NM ELASTIC-SCATTER LIDAR OBSERVATIONS TO VERIFY AND UPDATE CRAM DUAL-WAVELENGTH AEROSOL RETRIEVAL MODELS John Reagan, Christopher McPherson, Rich Ferrare, Chris Hostetler, John Hair 16:00 TU4.105.3 ANALYSIS OF SAHARAN DUST OBSERVATIONS BY CALIPSO IN THE CONTEXT OF CRAM Christopher McPherson, John Reagan

16:20 Tuesday TU4.105.4 LIDAR NETWORK FOR MONITORING ASIAN DUST AND AIR POLLUTION AEROSOLS Nobuo Sugimoto, Ichiro Matsui, Atsushi Shimizu, Tomoaki Nishizawa

TU4.107: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.107 Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Jon Benediktsson and Dimitris Manolakis 15:20 TU4.107.1 SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA CLASSIFICATION Salman Siddiqui, Stefan Robila, Jing Peng, Dajin Wang 15:40 TU4.107.2 COMPARISON AMONG SPECTRA SIMILARITIES MEASURES BASED ON ENTROPY, EUCLIDIAN DISTANCE AND CORRELATION COEFFICIENT IN HYPERSPECTRAL DATA Marco Antonio Pizarro, David Fernandes 16:00 TU4.107.3 ON THE SPECTRAL CORRELATION STRUCTURE OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING DATA Dimitris Manolakis, Ronald Lockwood, Thomas Cooley 16:20 TU4.107.4 HYPERSPECTRAL DATA SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE: A MULTI-SCALE ANALYSIS Yannick Lanthier, Abdou Bannari, Driss Haboudane, John R. Miller, Nicolas Tremblay 16:40 TU4.107.5 PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF TARGET AND ANOMALY DETECTION ALGORITHMS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Abel Paz, Antonio Plaza, Soraya Blazquez

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TU4.108: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.108 Multichannel - Multidimensional Coherent SAR Data Combination Techniques I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Fabrizio Lombardini and Alessandro Ferretti 15:20 TU4.108.1 ANALYSIS OF COHERENCE MATRIX FOR THE CHARACTERISATION OF DECORRELATING TARGETS Alessandro Ferretti, Alfio Fumagalli, Fabrizio Novali, Claudio Prati, Fabio Rocca, Alessio Rucci 15:40 TU4.108.2 SAR TOMOGRAPHY OVER DECORRELATING TARGETS: A MODEL BASED APPROACH Andrea Monti Guarnieri, Fabio Rocca, Stefano Tebaldini 16:00 TU4.108.3 ESTIMATION OF GROUND TOPOGRAPHY IN FORTESTED TERRAIN BY MEANS OF POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY Florian Kugler, Carlos Lopez-Martinez, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Seung-Kuk Lee 16:20 TU4.108.4 MULTIBASELINE COHERENCE OPTIMISATION IN PARTIAL POLARIMETRIC MODES Andreas Reigber, Maxim Neumann, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Marc Jäger, Pau Prats 16:40 TU4.108.5 A PUBLIC DATABASE OF SIMULATED MULTIDIMENSIONAL SAR DATA FOR

Tuesday TECHNIQUES VALIDATION Gerard Margarit, Jordi J. Mallorqui, Carlos Lopez-Martinez

TU4.109: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.109 Rare Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Alan Schaum and James Theiler 15:20 TU4.109.1 HYPERSPECTRAL CHANGE DETECTION: METHODOLOGIES AND CHALLENGES Michael Eismann, Joseph Meola 15:40 TU4.109.2 GENERALIZED CHROMODYNAMIC DETECTION Alan Stocker, Pierre Villeneuve 16:00 TU4.109.3 EFFECTS OF ENDMEMBER DIMENSIONALITY ON SUBPIXEL DETECTION PERFORMANCE Joshua Broadwater 16:20 TU4.109.4 SPECTRAL IMAGE UTILITY SENSITIVITY TO IMAGE PREPROCESSING AND INFORMATION EXPLOITATION PARAMETERS Marcus Stefanou, John Kerekes 16:40 TU4.109.5 DETECTION OF HUMAN SKIN IN NEAR INFRARED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Abel Nunez, Michael Mendenhall

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TU4.110: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.110 Forests and Vegetation: SAR Interferometry and Polarimetry II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Paul Siqueira and Robert Treuhaft 15:20 TU4.110.1 EXTRACTION OF FOREST BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS USING POLARIMETRIC SAR Michael Wollersheim, Michael Collins 15:40 TU4.110.2 ANALYSIS AND CORRECTION OF SPECKLE NOISE EFFECTS ON POLINSAR DATA BASED ON COHERENT MODELING Carlos Lopez-Martinez, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Luca Pipia 16:00 TU4.110.3 ROBUST VEGETATION HEIGHT EXTRACTION USING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION FOR DUAL-BASEDLINE POLINSAR Shunjun Wei, Xiaoling Zhang, Di Han 16:20

TU4.110.4 FOREST SPATIAL STRUCTURE ENHANCING NON-GAUSSIAN TEXTURE IN AIRBORNE Tuesday L-BAND POLSAR IMAGES Seisuke Fukuda 16:40 TU4.110.5 TOWARDS COMPLEX-VALUED NEURAL ALGORITHMS FOR FOREST PARAMETERS ESTIMATION FROM POLINSAR DATA Emanuele Angiuli, Fabio Del Frate, Chiara Solimini, Domenico Solimini

TU4.111: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.111 Microwave Radiometer Technology II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Steven Reising and Adriano Camps 15:20 TU4.111.1 INTERNAL COLD LOADS FOR RADIOMETER CALIBRATION Niels Skou, Sten S. Soebjaerg, Jan Balling 15:40 TU4.111.2 CALIBRATION OF AN L-BAND SOIL MOISTURE RADIOMETER USING SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES Miao Tian, Albin Gasiewski 16:00 TU4.111.3 W-BAND 2-D SCANNING FULLY-POLARIMETRIC RADIOMETER SYSTEM FOR REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS Sung-Hyun Kim, Jin-Taek Seong, Hyuk Park, Ho-Jin Lee, Obolonsky Valeriy, Denisov Alexander, Yong-Hoon Kim 16:20 TU4.111.4 BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE RETRIEVALS FROM THE SMALL AIRBORNE MIRAS Ignasi Corbella, Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera 16:40 TU4.111.5 ELBARAII, L-BAND RADIOMETER SYSTEM Andreas Wiesmann, Charles Werner, Mike Schwank, Christian Mätzler, Beat Elsasser, Urs Wegmüller

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TU4.203: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.203 High Wind Speed Retrievals from SAR and Scatterometry II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Will Perrie and Yijun He 15:20 TU4.203.1 WIND SPEED RETRIEVALS FROM MULTI-SENSOR SATELLITE DATA FROM HURRICANES AND TROPICAL CYCLONES Yijun He, Biao Zhang, Hui Shen, William Perrie 15:40 TU4.203.2 HIGH-VELOCITY WIND MEASUREMENTS USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR William Pichel, Xiaofeng Li, Frank M. Monaldo, Todd Sikora, Christopher Jackson 16:00 TU4.203.3 RAIN AND WIND ESTIMATION FROM SEAWINDS IN HURRICANES AT ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION Brent Williams, David G. Long 16:20 TU4.203.4 SCATTEROMETER-DERIVED WIND FIELDS FOR MID-LATITUDE Mark Bourassa 16:40 TU4.203.5 WIND POWER DENSITY OVER GLOBAL OCEAN

Tuesday W. Timothy Liu, Wenqing Tang, Xiaosu Xie

TU4.210: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00

TU4.210 Memorial Session for Professor Jin Au Kong Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Tuesday, July 8, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Leung Tsang and Joel T. Johnson About: This session is dedicated to the memory of Professor Jin Au Kong for his extensive contributions to the fields of electromagnetic wave propagation, radiation, scattering and their application to microwave remote sensing. Following the presentations listed below, remarks on Professor Kong’s accomplishments will be made by his former colleagues and students. A reception for session participants and attendees will follow at 18:00. 15:20 TU4.210.1 PROFESSOR KONG’S RESEARCH IN REMOTE SENSING AND HIS INSPIRATIONAL SUPERVISION Leung Tsang, Simon Yueh, Joel Johnson, Maurice Borgeaud 15:40 TU4.210.2 J. A. KONG AND HIS INFLUENCE ON REMOTE SENSING DEVELOPMENT IN EAST ASIA Ya-Qiu Jin, Du Yang, Kun-Shan Chen 16:00 TU4.210.3 J A KONG: HIS OUTSTANDING SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION TO THEORY OF MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING, HIS TIRELESS ACTIVITY IN ORGANIZING SCIENTIFIC EVENTS Paolo Pampaloni 16:20 TU4.210.4 CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROFESSOR KONG AND HIS MIT GROUP TO ADVANCING RADAR AND SAR POLARIMETRY Jakob van Zyl 16:40 TU4.210.5 J. A. KONG AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REMOTE SENSING OF VEGETATION/ FORESTRY IN THE EARLY 1990 POLARIMETRIC ASPECTS OF J. A. KONG’S REMOTE SENSING RESEARCH Thuy Le Toan, Jean-Claude Souyris

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TUP.A: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.A Passive Microwave Sensing of Soil Moisture Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area A Co-Chairs: John Galantowitz and Dongryeol Ryu TUP.A.1 A WEB MAPPING SERVICE FOR LAND SURFACE PARAMETERS FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS Richard De Jeu, John Van De Vegte, Thomas Holmes, Manfred Owe, Nils De Reus TUP.A.2 STUDY OF ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVED BY AMSR-E BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE OVER TIBETAN PLATEAU Yongqian Wang, Jiancheng Shi, Lingmei Jiang, Bangsen Tian TUP.A.3 SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA: A SENSITIVITY STUDY USING A COUPLED SVAT-RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL AT THE UPPER DANUBE ANCHOR SITE Florian Schlenz, Alexander Loew, Wolfram Mauser TUP.A.4 EFFECTS OF OPTIMAL DECONVOLUTION ON SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL ACCURACY Ashutosh Limaye, William Crosson, Charles Laymon Tuesday TUP.A.5 A SIMULATION STUDY TO QUANTIFY THE RELIEF EFFECTS ON THE OBSERVATIONS PERFORMED BY AMSR-E AND SMAP MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS Nazzareno Pierdicca, Luca Pulvirenti, Frank Marzano TUP.A.6 ADAPTING SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR DATA ASSIMILATION INTO WEATHER FORECASTING MODELS Francesco Posa, Claudia Notarnicola TUP.A.7 EXPLICIT INVERSE OF SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING DATA: SUITABILITY FOR FUTURE USE Soo-See Chai, Bert Veenendaal, Geoff West, Jeffrey Walker, Graciela Metternicht TUP.A.8 INPUT PATTERN ACCORDING TO STANDARD DEVIATION OF BACKPROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORK: INFLUENCE ON THE ACCURACY FOR SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL Soo-See Chai, Bert Veenendaal, Geoff West, Jeffrey Walker, Graciela Metternicht TUP.A.9 VALIDATING AMSR-E LEVEL-3 LAND SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT WITH CEOP-3/4 DATA IN CHINA AND MONGOLIA Zhen Li, Lei Wang, Xinwu Li, Quan Chen, Wei Wu TUP.A.10 DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL WITH NEW SOIL WATER PARAMETERIZATION FOR INTEGRATING REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE AT WATERSHED SCALE Jiongfeng Chen, Wan-Chang Zhang

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TUP.B: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.B Soil Moisture Experimental Observations Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area B Co-Chairs: Li Li and Jennifer Grant TUP.B.1 L-BAND EMISSION FROM BARE SOIL: DIURNAL EFFECTS Cihan Erbas, Brian Hornbuckle TUP.B.2 HILLSLOPE-SCALE CONTROLS ON REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE WITH MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY Alejandro Flores, Valeriy Ivanov, Dara Entekhabi, Rafael Bras TUP.B.3 AN AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING EXPERIMENT FOR CATCHMENT-SCALE WATER CYCLE STUDY IN A TYPICAL INLAND RIVER BASIN OF CHINA Xin Li, Jian Wang, Mingguo Ma, Qiang Liu, Zeyong Hu, Qinhuo Liu, Tao Che, Peixi Su, Rui Jin, Weizhen Wang TUP.B.4 REMOTE SENSING OF CANOPY WATER CONTENT DURING SMEX’04 AND SMEX’05 USING SHORTWAVE-INFRARED REFLECTANCES E. Raymond Hunt Jr., M. Tugrul Yilmaz, Thomas Jackson TUP.B.5 L-BAND RADIOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS OF SUN-GLINT OVER LAND SURFACES Alessandra Monerris Belda, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Enric Santanach, Pablo Benedicto TUP.B.6 ROCK FRACTION EFFECTS ON THE SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATES FROM Tuesday L-BAND RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS Alessandra Monerris Belda, Mercè Vall-llossera, Adriano Camps, María Piles TUP.B.7 HIGH RESOLUTION AIRBORNE SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING Jeffrey Walker, Rocco Panciera, Edward Kim TUP.B.8 EFFECT OF PROPAGATION PATH CHARACTERISTICS ON LOW-FREQUENCY ON CLOUD-TO-GROUND SIGNAL PARAMETERS. Prakash Ramani, Kenneth Cummins, Nathan Goodman

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TUP.C: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.C Surface Roughness and Soil Properties I Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area C Co-Chairs: William Crosson and John Bolten TUP.C.1 TEMPERATURE DEPENDABLE MICROWAVE DIELECTRIC MODEL FOR MOIST SOILS Valery Mironov, Sergej Fomin TUP.C.2 ERROR ANALYSIS OF SOIL ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS ESTIMATED FROM MEASURED SURFACE PROFILE DATA Masahiko Nishimoto TUP.C.3 APPLICATION OF TIR IMAGERY AND SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE EXTRACTION OF SOIL TEXTURAL INFORMATION AT FOWLERS GAP, WESTERN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA. Rob Hewson, Geoff Taylor, Lew Whitbourn TUP.C.4 SURFACE ROUGHNESS CLASSIFICATION WITH MULTIPOLARIZED C-BAND SAR DATA AS A PRIORI INFORMATION FOR SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL Mélanie Trudel, François Charbonneau, Robert Leconte Tuesday TUP.C.5 A NOVEL METHOD FOR 2-D AGRICULTURAL SOIL ROUGHNESS CHARACTERIZATION BASED ON A LASER SCANNING TECHNIQUE Francisco Grings, Matias Barber, Carolina Pepe, Pablo Perna, Julio Cesar Alberto Jacobo- Berlles, Marc Thibeault, Haydee Karszenbaum TUP.C.6 POTENTIAL OF C-BAND MULTIPOLARIZED AND POLARIMETRIC SAR FOR SOIL DRAINAGE CLASSIFICATION AND MAPPING Mohamed Abou Niang, Michel C. Nolin, Monique Bernier, Isabelle Perron TUP.C.7 SAR REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR SUBSURFACE TARGETS DETECTION AND LOP NUR LAKE EVOLUTION AND EXTINCTION STUDY Yun Shao, Huazhe Gong, Qing Dong TUP.C.8 A DECISION TREE ALGORITHM FOR FREEZE/THAW CLASSIFICATION OF SURFACE SOIL USING SSM/I Rui Jin, Xin Li TUP.C.9 COMPARISON OF MODIS EMISSIVITY OBSERVATION WITH GROUND MEASUREMENTS Maria Mira, Thomas Schmugge, Vicente Caselles, Enric Valor TUP.C.10 THE AMSR-E INSTANTANEOUS EMISSIVITY ESTIMATION AND ITS CORRELATION, FREQUENCY DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS OVER DIFFERENT LAND COVER Yubao Qiu, Jiancheng Shi, Martti Hallikainen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Jouni Pulliainen, Jarkko Koskinen, Anna Kontu

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TUP.D: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.D Surface Roughness and Soil Properties II Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area D Co-Chairs: Marouane Temimi and Patricia de Rosnay TUP.D.1 CALIBRATION OF IEM MODEL FOR THE SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING OF NON- INUNDATED PADDY FIELDS USING ALOS/PALSAR DATA Junichi Susaki TUP.D.2 PRELIMINARY POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF BARE AND VEGETATED SOILS RADAR BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS AND BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES ANGULAR DEPENDENCES AT 15GHZ Artashes Arakelyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Izabela Hakobyan, Astghik Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Mushegh Manukyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan TUP.D.3 BISTATIC SAR AND GNSS REFLECTOMETRY FOR LAND GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETER RETRIEVAL Nazzareno Pierdicca, Leila Guerriero, Luca Pulvirenti, Francesca Ticconi TUP.D.4 ERROR ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE DERIVED FROM ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS AND MODEL DATA Klaus Scipal, Thomas Holmes, Richard De Jeu, Vahid Naeimi, Wolfgang Wagner TUP.D.5 RETRIEVAL OF SUBSURFACE SOIL MOISTURE USING SAR OBSERVATION AT UHF/ VHF BANDS

Tuesday Ya-Qiu Jin, Renyuan Qi TUP.D.6 INCORPORATING REMOTE SENSING DATA IN A SIMPLE DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL FOR RUNOFF AND SPATIAL SOIL MOISTURE SIMULATION Xianghu Li, Liliang Ren, Guizuo Wang TUP.D.7 SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT RETRIEVAL IN AN ARID TO SEMI-ARID REGION IN THE XINJIANG PROVINCE Qin Li, Xi Chen, Frank Veroustraete, Anming Bao TUP.D.8 ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS AS A NEW TOOL TO INVESTIGATE TIME SERIES OF SOIL MOISTURE INDICES OVER WINTER Sonia Heitz, Patrick Matgen, Guy Schumann, Laurent Pfister TUP.D.9 AN AUTOMATED MULTI-SATELLITE APPROACH FOR SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING USING VISIBLE/INFRARED, PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA AND TOPOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTES Marouane Temimi, Robert Leconte, Reza Khanbilvardi

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TUP.E: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.E Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation III Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area E Co-Chairs: Alan Strahler and Yoshio Inoue TUP.E.1 RETRIEVAL OF THE OVERSTORY AND UNDERSTORY LEAF AREA INDEX OF FOREST STANDS USING A MODEL OF FOREST CANOPY REFLECTANCE Jianxi Huang, Feng Mao, Weijun Sun, Wenbo Xu, Wensheng Zhou TUP.E.2 ESTIMATING WHEAT EQUIVALENT WATER THICKNESS USING LANDSAT TM/ETM+ DATA Abduwasit Ghulam, Tim Kusky, Qiming Qin, Zhao-Liang Li, Alim Kasim TUP.E.3 ESTIMATING BIOPHYSICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS AND YIELD OF WINTER WHEAT BASED ON LANDSAT TM IMAGES Yansong Bao, Liangyun Liu, Jihua Wang TUP.E.4 FOLIAR BIO-PHYSICAL AND SPECTRAL PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH LIGHT ENVIRONMENT IN A MATURE POPLAR STAND Petya Campbell, Elizabeth Middleton, Lawrence Corp, Geoffrey Parker, Yen-Ben Cheng, Debojit Nayak, Qing Yuan Tuesday TUP.E.5 TOWARD A GLOBAL TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO COCONUT TREES SENSING USING HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL DATA Raimana Teina, Dominique Béréziat, Benoît Stoll, Sébastien Chabrier TUP.E.6 IMPROVING LAND SURFACE PIXEL LEVEL ALBEDO CHARACTERIZATION USING SUB- PIXEL INFORMATION RETRIEVED FROM REMOTE SENSING Wenjun Liu, Baoxin Hu, Shusen Wang TUP.E.7 VALIDATION OF IMPROVED FOREST CANOPY MEASUREMENTS FROM A GROUND- BASED LIDAR INSTRUMENT (ECHIDNA™) Xiaoyuan Yang, Tian Yao, Alan Strahler, Curtis E. Woodcock, Crystal Schaaf, Ranga Myneni, Jicheng Liu, Glenn J. Newnham, David L. B. Jupp, Darius S. Culvenor, Jenny L. Lovell, Wenge Ni-Meister, Shihyan Lee, Xiaowen Li, Feng Zhao, Qingling Zhang, Mitchell Schull, Miguel O. Román III, Zhuosen Wang, Yanmin Shuai TUP.E.8 NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY AND BIOMASS ESTIMATION IN INNER MONGOLIA (CHINA) BASED ON SPOT NDVI AND A LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY MODEL Huiling Long, Xiaobing Li, Hong Wang, Dandan Wang, Lingmei Huang

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TUP.F: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.F Radar and Soil Moisture Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area F Co-Chairs: Yisok Oh and Mehrez Zribi TUP.F.1 KU-BAND SENSITIVITY TO SOIL MOISTURE. AN EVALUATION STUDY FOR MONITORING TEMPORAL SOIL MOISTURE CHANGE DETECTION OVER THE NAFE06 STUDY AREA. Iliana Mladenova, Venkat Lakshmi, Thomas Jackson, Jeffrey Walker TUP.F.2 SOIL MOISTURE CHANGE RETRIEVAL USING S-BAND RADAR DATA DURING SGP99 AND SMEX02 Quan Chen, Zhen Li, Lei Wang TUP.F.3 A NEW METHOD TO RETRIEVE SOIL MOISTURE AT BARE SOIL SURFACE USING ERS SCATTEROMETER DATA Ruijing Sun, Jiancheng Shi, Lingmei Jiang, Jinyang Du TUP.F.4 CHARACTERIZATION OF BACKSCATTER BY SURFACE FEATURES IN L-BAND ACTIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE Narendra Das, Binayak Mohanty, Eni Njoku TUP.F.5 VALIDATION OF SPACE-BORNE SAR DATA FOR PERIODIC OBSERVATION AND INVERSION OF SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE IN SARDINIA Monique Bernier, Imen Gherboudj, Rebecca Filion, Claudio Paniconi, Massimo Melis,

Tuesday Antonino Soddu, Ralf Ludwig TUP.F.6 ANALYSIS OF VALID RANGES IN SOIL INVERSION MODELS BASED ON THE CLOUDE- POTTIER DECOMPOSITION Qiang Yin, Fang Cao, Wen Hong TUP.F.7 ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE IN HEIHE RIVER BASIN OASIS USING ASAR DATA Shuguo Wang, Xin Li, Rui Jin TUP.F.8 APPLICATION OF MICROWAVE DATA FOR AGRICULTURAL AREA Katarzyna Dabrowska-Zielinska, Maria Gruszczynska, Wanda Kowalik, Yoshio Ynoue TUP.F.9 CAPABILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF SATELLITE ACTIVE MICROWAVE DATA IN SOIL MOISTURE AND DROUGHT MONITORING IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN ENVIRONMENT. Hosni Ghedira TUP.F.10 SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING IN TYPICAL SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF CHINA BY USING ENVISAT ASAR DATA Jiongfeng Chen, Wan-Chang Zhang TUP.F.11 SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE IN SEMI-ARID REGION OF NORTHERN CHINA Jiongfeng Chen, Wan-Chang Zhang

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TUP.G: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.G Radiance Assimilation and Retrieval Methods II Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area G Co-Chairs: Albin Gasiewski and Rafal Wojcik TUP.G.1 DEVELOPMENT OF A LAND-SURFACE HYDROLOGICAL MODEL TOPX AND ITS COUPLING STUDY WITH REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL RIEMS Bin Yong, Wan-Chang Zhang TUP.G.2 THE PREDICTION AND PROBABILITY ESTIMATION OF TEMPERATURES AND SNOWFALL OVER THE PLATEAU BY CONSIDERING ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT Wen Wang, Xiaojun Cai, Dongliang Li TUP.G.3 A MODEL-BASED DIAGNOSTIC STUDY OF “99.6” MEIYU FRONT RAINSTORM Wen Wang, Xiaojun Cai, Xiao Long TUP.G.4 VERTICAL PROMOTION OF CLOUDS CONTAMINATION BY BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE (A MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING APPROACH) Sam Nwaneri, Ugorji Faithful O. D. Tuesday

TUP.H: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.H Applications in Data and Image Processing Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area H Co-Chairs: Gregoire Mercier and Jocelyn Chanussot TUP.H.1 AN ADAPTIVE METHOD FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL FROM LIDAR DATA Xiaohui Yuan, Liangmei Hu, Bill P. Buckles, Laura Steinberg, Vaibhav Sarma TUP.H.2 LIDAR IMAGE DATA AUTHENTICATION USING PSEUDORANDOM POLYGONS Y. M. Y. Hasan, Ahmed F. Elaksher, Samir M. Al Shariff TUP.H.3 FOURIER ARRAY PROCESSING FOR BURIED VICTIMS DETECTION USING ULTRA WIDE BAND RADAR WITH UNCALIBRATED SENSORS Ludvik Lidicky TUP.H.4 AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF OCEANIC EDDIES IN SEAWIFS-DERIVED COLOR IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND SHAPE ANALYSIS Samarth Patel, Ramprasad Balasubramanian, Avijit Gangopadhyay TUP.H.5 SEISMIC FAULT DETECTION BASED ON A LINEAR SUPPORT Barna Keresztes, Olivier Lavialle, Monica Borda TUP.H.6 SELF ORGANIZING MAP: APPLICATION IN MORPHOMETRIC FEATURE IDENTIFICATION IN HUMID AND HYPER ARID ENVIRONMENTS Amir Houshang Ehsani, Friedrich Quiel TUP.H.7 TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BEIJING URBAN HEAT ISLAND BASED ON MODIS IMAGE DATA Shanshan Li, Huili Gong, Wenji Zhao, Zhiwei Ye, Lin Zhu TUP.H.8 IMPACT OF CORRELATORS AND RECEIVERS FAILURES ON THE MIRAS INSTRUMENT ONBOARD SMOS Eric Anterrieu, Ali Khazaal, Hervé Carfantan TUP.H.9 ASSIMILATION OF SST SATELLITE IMAGES FOR ESTIMATION OF OCEAN CIRCULATION VELOCITY Etienne Huot, Isabelle Herlin, Gennady Korotaev TUP.H.10 ESTIMATING BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS FROM REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY WITH GAUSSIAN PROCESSES Luca Pasolli, Farid Melgani, Enrico Blanzieri TUP.H.11 SUPEROVERLAY DEPLOYMENT IN GRID-ENABLED IMAGE PROCESSING Guido Lemoine, Dominik Brunner, Francois-Xavier Thoorens

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TUP.I: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.I Image Analysis and Classification I Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area I Co-Chairs: Jordi Inglada and Gustavo Camps-Valls TUP.I.1 RESEARCH ON URBAN SPATIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND LAND USE ANALYSIS Wen Liu, Qiuhai Zhong, Jiancheng Luo, Zhanfeng Shen TUP.I.2 A NEW ADAPTIVE FUZZY CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES Chih-Cheng Hung, Wenping Liu, Bor-Chen Kuo TUP.I.3 INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE PATTERN AND CLASSIFICATION TREE FOR LAND USE CLASSIFICATION IN INLAND RIVER BASIN OF CHINA ARID REGION Yuan Qi, Jianhua Wang, Zhen Xu, Changwei Lin TUP.I.4 CLASSIFICATION OF LIDAR DATA USING STANDARD DEVIATION OF ELEVATION AND CHARACTERISTIC POINT FEATURES Krista Amolins, Yun Zhang, Peter Dare TUP.I.5 FUZZY SUPER-RESOLUTION MAPPING BASED ON MARKOV RANDOM FIELD Valentyn Tolpekin, Nicholas Hamm TUP.I.6 REDUCING NEED FOR COLLOCATED GROUND AND SATELLITE BASED OBSERVATIONS IN STATISTICAL AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH ESTIMATION Tuesday Debasish Das, Vladan Radosavljevic, Slobodan Vucetic, Zoran Obradovic TUP.I.7 A FUZZY HOMOGENEITY TEST FOR THE ITERATIVE GUIDED SPECTRAL CLASS REJECTION ALGORITHM Rhonda Phillips, Layne Watson, Randolph Wynne

TUP.J: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.J Image Analysis and Classification II Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area J Co-Chairs: José Chilo and Mathieu Fauvel TUP.J.1 STUDY ON CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTELY SENSED IMAGE BASED ON SYNTHETICALLY UNDERSTANDING MODEL Siyuan Wang, Daliang Gong, Lun Cai, Tengbo Ma, Xingyu Fu TUP.J.2 COMPARISON OF CORRELATION FILTERS FOR VEHICLES DETECTION IN HIGH RESOLUTION AIRBORNE IMAGERY Daniel A. Lavigne, Walid Ben Tara, Henri H. Arsenault TUP.J.3 MAN-MADE OBJECTS ROBUST SEGMENTATION FROM 3D SURFACE DATA USING PSEUDO-COLOR IMAGES Ki In Bang, Ayman Habib TUP.J.4 NON-PARAMETER CORRELATION ANALYSIS IN POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURE AND ITS APPLICATION TO CHANGE DETECTION IN POLARIMETRIC SAR Bangsen Tian, Zhen Li, Yongqian Wang TUP.J.5 DISCRIMINATION OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS SITES BY SEISMIC SIGNALS USING INTRINSIC MODE FUNCTIONS AND MULTI-MODAL DATA SPACE Jose Chilo, Jason M. Kinser, Thomas Lindblad TUP.J.6 SYNCHRONOUS AND HIERARCHICAL SEISMIC PATTERN DETECTION USING SIMULATED ANNEALING Kou-Yuan Huang, Ying-Liang Chou TUP.J.7 A NEW METHOD OF OBTAINING SURFACE RUNOFF PARAMETERS OF SIMTOP FROM DEM Jingwen Xu, Wan-Chang Zhang

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TUP.K: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.K Target Detection and Pattern Recognition Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area K Co-Chairs: Lori Mann Bruce and Bjorn Waske TUP.K.1 AUTOMATIC POINT TARGET DETECTION FOR INTERACTIVE VISUAL ANALYSIS OF SAR IMAGES Martin Lambers, Andreas Kolb TUP.K.2 SAR TARGET RECOGNITION BASED ON MRF AND GABOR WAVELET FEATURE EXTRACTION Ruohong Huan, Ruliang Yang TUP.K.3 SUPER-RESOLUTION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES BASED ON TARGET DECOMPOSITION AND POLARIMETRIC SPATIAL CORRELATION Bin Zou, Huijun Hao, Xingjie Guo TUP.K.4 DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB-BASED APPLICATION TO EVALUATE TARGET FINDING ALGORITHMS David Snyder, John Kerekes, Ian Fairweather, Robert Crabtree, Jeremy Shive, Stacey Hager Tuesday

TUP.L: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.L Feature Extraction and Reduction Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area L Co-Chairs: Lori Bruce and Bor-Chen Kuo TUP.L.1 REDUCING THE COMPUTATIONAL LOAD OF HYPERSPECTRAL BAND SELECTION USING THE ONE-BIT TRANSFORM OF HYPERSPECTRAL BANDS Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk TUP.L.2 ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR FEATURE SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE Lintao Wen, Qian Yin, Ping Guo TUP.L.3 EXTENDED SUBSPACE METHOD FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Hasi Bagan, Wataru Takeuchi, Buhe Aosier, Masami Kaneko, Xiaohui Wang, Yoshifumi Yasuoka TUP.L.4 KERNEL-BASED NONLINEAR FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Po-Wen Chou, Pi-Fuei Hsieh TUP.L.5 TEXTURE ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION FOR SINGLE-BAND SAR THEMATIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION Deyong Hu, Wenji Zhao, Xiaojuan Li, Huili Gong TUP.L.6 EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION PRE-PROCESS FOR HIGHER ACCURACY HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk TUP.L.7 ADABOOST-NWFE CLASSIFICATION SCHEME FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE Hsiao-Yun Huang, Bor-Chen Kuo, Yu-Ling Lee TUP.L.8 WAVELET PACKET TREE PRUNING METRICS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL FEATURE EXTRACTION Terrance West, Lori Bruce, Saurabh Prasad

97 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

TUP.M: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.M Multitemporal Processing Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area M Co-Chairs: Emmanuel Trouve and Francesca Bovolo TUP.M.1 SPATIO-TEMPORAL SEGMENTATION BASED ON SUBSEQUENCES OF SATELLITE IMAGE TIME SERIES Stefaan Lhermitte, Willem W. Verstraeten, Pol Coppin, Jan Verbesselt TUP.M.2 ESTIMATING BIOPHYSICAL VARIABLES AT 250 M WITH RECONSTRUCTED EOS/MODIS TIME SERIES TO MONITOR FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPES Rémi Lecerf, Laurence Hubert-Moy, Frédéric Baret, Bassam Abdel Latif, Thomas Corpetti, Hervé Nicolas TUP.M.3 COMPARAISON OF MULTITEMPORAL MODIS-EVI SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO CROP MONITORING Damien Arvor, Milton Jonathan, Margareth Simões Penello Meirelles, Vincent Dubreuil, Rémi Lecerf TUP.M.4 A SEMI-PHYSICAL APPROACH FOR GENERATION OF TEMPORALLY COMPLETE DAILY NADIR BRDF-ADJUSTED MODIS REFLECTANCE TIME SERIES Junchang Ju, David Roy TUP.M.5 INFERRING DEFORMATION FIELDS FROM MULTIDATE SATELLITE IMAGES André Jalobeanu, Delphine Fitzenz Tuesday

TUP.N: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.N Hyperspectral: Compression and Implementation Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area N Co-Chairs: Antonio Plaza and Yuliya Tarabalka TUP.N.1 HYPERSPECTRAL-IMAGES COMPRESSION BASED ON THE PROTECTION OF INFORMATION OF INTEREST Junping Zhang, Weiming Peng, Yushi Chen, Ye Zhang TUP.N.2 AN EFFICIENT ON-BOARD LOSSLESS COMPRESSION DESIGN FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE DATA Guoxia Yu, Tanya Vladimirova, Martin Sweeting TUP.N.3 ANOMALY-BASED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE COMPRESSION Qian Du, Wei Zhu, James Fowler TUP.N.4 LOSSLESS COMPRESSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY VIA LOOKUP TABLES AND CLASSIFIED LINEAR SPECTRAL PREDICTION Bruno Aiazzi, Luciano Alparone, Stefano Baronti TUP.N.5 IMPROVEMENTS TO 3D TARP CODING FOR THE COMPRESSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Jing Zhang, James Fowler, Qian Du, Guizhong Liu TUP.N.6 PARALLEL DATA COMPRESSION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY He Yang, Qian Du, Wei Zhu, Ioana Banicescu, James Fowler TUP.N.7 PARALLEL PROCESSING FOR NORMAL MIXTURE MODELS OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING A GRAPHICS PROCESSOR Yuliya Tarabalka, Trym Vegard Haavardsholm, Ingebjørg Kåsen, Torbjørn Skauli TUP.N.8 A PARALLEL SIMULATED ANNEALING APPROACH TO BAND SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Yang-Lang Chang, Jyh-Perng Fang, Wen-Yew Liang, Hsuan Ren, Kun-Shan Chen TUP.N.9 TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF A FLEXIBLE HYPERSPECTRAL PROCESSING CHAIN: PRELIMINARY CASE STUDY USING HIGH-RESOLUTION URBAN DATA Jacopo Nairoukh, Giovanna Trianni, Antonio Plaza, Paolo Gamba, Fabio Dell’Acqua

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TUP.O: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.O Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Classification Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area O Co-Chairs: Hrishikesh Bhattacharya and Bor-Chen Kuo TUP.O.1 A NOVEL FUZZY C-MEANS METHOD FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Bor-Chen Kuo, Wen-Chun Huang, Hsiang-Chuan Liu, Shiau-Chian Tseng TUP.O.2 KERNEL-BASED K-NN AND GAUSSIAN CLASSIFIERS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Bor-Chen Kuo, Jinn-Min Yang, Tian-Wei Sheu, Szu-Wei Yang TUP.O.3 IMPACT OF SEARCH STRATEGIES TO IMPROVEMENT OF N-FINDR ALGORITHM IN HYPERSPECTRAL DATA Omid Ghaffari, Barat Mojaradi, Amir Moini Rad, Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej, Hamid Ebadi TUP.O.4 AUGMENTING A HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFIER FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA BY EXPLOITING SPATIAL CORRELATION Hrishikesh Bhattacharya, Aditya Saurabh

TUP.O.5 CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES USING GAUSSIAN Tuesday PROCESSES Yakoub Bazi, Farid Melgani TUP.O.6 AN IMPROVED HYPERSPECTRAL MAPPING USING MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER COMBINATION Xingping Wen, Guangdao Hu, Xiaofeng Yang TUP.O.7 A PARALLEL APPROACH FOR INITIALIZATION OF HIGH-ORDER STATISTICS ANOMALY DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Hsuan Ren, Yang-Lang Chang

99 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

TUP.P: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.P High Resolution Optical Data Processing Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area P Co-Chairs: Andrea Garzelli and Mathieu Fauvel TUP.P.1 SUPERVISED REGION-BASED SEGMENTATION OF QUICKBIRD MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY Ben Wuest TUP.P.2 HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGE ANALYSIS WITH EXOGENOUS DATA: A GENERIC FRAMEWORK Vincent Poulain, Jordi Inglada, Marc Spigai TUP.P.3 STEGONOGRAPHY FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION COLOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE Xianmin Wang, Ruiqing Niu TUP.P.4 QUICKBIRD PANCHROMATIC IMAGES FOR MAPPING DAMAGE AT BUILDING SCALE CAUSED BY THE 2003 BAM EARTHQUAKE Marco Chini, Christian Bignami, William J. Emery, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Salvatore Stramondo TUP.P.5 A COMBINED GLOBAL AND LOCAL APPROACH FOR AUTOMATED REGISTRATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES USING OPTIMUM EXTREMA POINTS Yonghong Li, Curt H. Davis TUP.P.6 SHADOW SEGMENTATION AND COMPENSATION IN HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES Tuesday Haijian Ma, Qiming Qin, Xinyi Shen TUP.P.7 THE RESEARCH ON IMAGE CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING BASED ON AN IMPROVED NEURAL NETWORK Mu Bai, Huiping Liu, Wenli Huang, Xiaoluo Zhou, Xiaodong Mu TUP.P.8 A STUDY FOR NEAR-SHORE CHARACTERIZATION USING HIGH-RESOLUTION HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES Giuliana Pennucci, Raffaele Grasso, Charles Trees

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TUP.Q: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.Q Image Processing: Calibration and Correction Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area Q Co-Chairs: WeeJuan Tan and Nick Younan TUP.Q.1 AN ALGORITHM TO CALIBRATE FIELD CAMERAS FOR STEREO CLOUDS Jiuxiang Hu, Anshuman Razdan, Joseph Zehnder TUP.Q.2 FAST COLOUR BALANCE ADJUSTMENT OF IKONOS IMAGERY USING CUDA Yong Kiat Allan Tan, Wee Juan Tan, Leong Keong Kwoh TUP.Q.3 GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION MODELS FOR REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS Nicholas Hamm, Jadunandan Dash TUP.Q.4 IMPROVED MSG-SEVIRI IMAGES CLOUD MASKING AND EVALUATION OF ITS IMPACT ON THE FIRE DETECTION METHODS Enrico Cadau, Giovanni Laneve TUP.Q.5 HIGHLY ACCURATE GEOMETRIC CORRECTION FOR NOAA AVHRR DATA

CONSIDERING THE VARIATION OF ELEVATION AND THE FEATURE OF COASTLINE Tuesday An Ngoc Van, Mitsuru Nakazawa, Yoshimitsu Aoki TUP.Q.6 POSITION ESTIMATION USING TEXTURE INFORMATION IN NOAA-AVHRR DATA FOR GEOMETRIC CORRECTION Yoichi Kageyama, Yoshiaki Shoji, Makoto Nishida TUP.Q.7 CONSTRUCTION OF AN IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR USE ON BOARD AN LEO SATELLITE Izak van Zyl Marais, Willem Herman Steyn, Johan Adam du Preez TUP.Q.8 INFLUENCE OF CAMERA DISTORTIONS IN SATELLITE IMAGE REGISTRATION AND CHANGE DETECTION APPLICATIONS Francois Ayoub, Sebastien Leprince, Renaud Binet, Kevin Lewis, Oded Aharonson, Jean- Philippe Avouac TUP.Q.9 SINGULAR UNIT RESTORATION BASED ON COMPLEX-VALUED MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL FOR INSAR INTERFEROGRAMS Ryo Yamaki, Akira Hirose

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TUP.R: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.R Spatial Resolution - Registration Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area R Co-Chairs: Paul Chippendale and Francesca Bovolo TUP.R.1 SPATIAL RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF SMOS DATA: A COMBINED FOURIER WIENER APPROACH Maria Piles, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Marco Talone TUP.R.2 USING SYNTHETIC VARIABLE RATIO METHOD TO FUSE MULTI-SOURCE REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES BASED ON SENSOR SPECTRAL RESPONSE Shen Chen, Jiancheng Luo, Zhanfeng Shen, Geping Luo, Changming Zhu TUP.R.3 RESEARCH ON IMPROVING SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF RS IMAGES BASED ON QUAD- TREE DECOMPOSITION Yonghua Sun, Xiaojuan Li, Huili Gong, Chunping Zhou TUP.R.4 A NOVEL STRATEGY FOR PRECISE GEOMETRIC REGISTRATION OF GIS AND SATELLITE IMAGES Qi Li, Isao Sato, Fumihiro Sakuma TUP.R.5 MULTI-SENSOR IMAGE FUSION BASED ON TRANSFERABLE PARAMETERS Junping Zhang, Chen Qi, Wenyan Tang TUP.R.6 A PROGRESSIVE REFINEMENT APPROACH TO AERIAL IMAGE REGISTRATION USING LOCAL TRANSFORM PERTURBATIONS Tuesday Stephen DelMarco, Helen Webb, Victor Tom, Todd Jenkins TUP.R.7 UAV-VIDEO REGISTRATION USING BLOCK-BASED FEATURES Adel Hafiane, Kannappan Palaniappan TUP.R.8 A NOVEL FEATURE ENHANCED MMI BASED REGISTRATION ALGORITHM FOR AUTOMATED MAPS AND IMAGES Xiaofeng Fan, Harvey Rhody, Eli Saber TUP.R.9 AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF OPTICAL IMAGES, A STAKE FOR FUTURE MISSIONS: APPLICATION TO ORTHO-RECTIFICATION, TIMES SERIES AND MOSAIC PRODUCTS Simon Baillarin, Patrick Gigord, Olivier Hagolle TUP.R.10 SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ATTRACTIVENESS ANALYSIS THROUGH GEO-REFERENCED PHOTO ALIGNMENT Paul Chippendale, Michele Zanin, Claudio Andreatta

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TUP.S: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.S Lidar Sensors and Applications II Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area S Co-Chairs: Clint Slatton and John Reagan TUP.S.1 OVERVIEW OF WIND LIDAR TECHNIQUES AND CURRENT RELATED DEVELOPMENTS AT THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA Sergio Tomás, Constantino Muñoz, Michaël Sicard, Francesc Rocadenbosch, Alejandro Rodríguez, Adolfo Comerón TUP.S.2 SIMULATIONS OF SPACE-BASED CO2 MEASUREMENTS: MEASUREMENT IMPACTS ON MESOSCALE TRANSPORT MODELING T. Scott Zaccheo, Thomas Connor, Janusz Eluszkiewicz, Michael Dobbs, Hilary Snell TUP.S.3 ASIAN DUST AND AIR POLLUTION AEROSOL MONITORING LIDAR NETWORK Nobuo Sugimoto, Ichiro Matsui, Atsushi Shimizu, Tomoaki Nishizawa TUP.S.4 SPACE BORNE LASER AND LIDAR AIRBORNE EXPERIENCES AT L’ESTARTIT (SPAIN) Juan Jose Martinez-Benjamin, Bob Schutz, Timothy Urban, Miquel Angel Ortiz Castellon

TUP.S.5 USING THE SCOTT AND LONGUET-HIGGINS ALGORITHM AND NEURAL NETWORKS TO Tuesday REGISTER IKONOS IMAGES AND LIDAR-BASED DEMS Ahmed F. Elaksher, Samir Shariff TUP.S.6 ACCURACY ANALYSIS OF GEO-REFERENCING BY VEHICLE-BORNE POSITION AND ORIENTATION SYSTEM IN LASER SCANNING Ruofei Zhong, Yongwei Kang, Weibing Feng, Jianxi Huang TUP.S.7 STUDY ON THE RESOLUTION OF LASER SCANNING POINT CLOUD Ling Zhu, Yuqing Mu, Ruoming Shi TUP.S.8 EXACT TOPOLOGICAL BOUNDARY TRACING FOR BUILDING MODEL RECONSTRUCTION FROM AIRBORNE LASER DATA Xianfeng Huang, Xiaoguang Cheng, Fan Zhang, Jianya Gong, Hui Li TUP.S.9 STUDY AND ANALYSIS ON THE SINGLE FACTORS OF LANDSLIDE BASED ON GIS Qiu Li, Hongyang Cao, Changao Shi TUP.S.10 LASER INTENSITY USED IN CLASSIFICATION OF LIDAR POINT CLOUD DATA Hui Li, Liping Di, Xianfeng Huang, Deren Li TUP.S.11 AUTOMATIC BUILDING DETECTION AND EXTRACTION FROM LIDAR POINT CLOUD DATA AND HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGERY Nima Ekhtari, Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej, Mahmod Reza Sahebi, Ali Mohammadzadeh

TUP.T: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.T Lidar Sensors and Applications III Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area T Co-Chairs: Clint Slatton and Melba Crawford TUP.T.1 THE USE OF THE SHOALS WAVEFORMS TO ASSESS HABITAT COMPLEXITY WITHIN THE BENTHOSCAPE Antoine Collin, Bernard Long, Philippe Archambault

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TUP.U: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.U Microwave Synthetic Aperture Radiometers I Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area U Co-Chairs: Ignasi Corbella and Francesc Torres TUP.U.1 INITIAL RESULTS OF THE PASSIVE ADVANCED UNIT SYNTHETIC APERTURE (PAU-SA) Isaac Ramos-Pérez, Enric Valencia, Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Juan Fernando Marchán-Hernandez, Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Francisco Canales-Contador, Marco Donadio TUP.U.2 FAST PROCESSING TOOL FOR SMOS DATA Ignasi Corbella, Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Veronica Gonzalez, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall- llossera TUP.U.3 A GENERAL PLATFORM FOR MILLIMETER WAVE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER Qingxia Li, Fei Hu, Wei Guo, Ke Chen, Liang Lang, Jing Zhang, Yaoting Zhu, Zuyin Zhang TUP.U.4 A RECTANGULAR ARRAY FOR MOTION INDUCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER Hyuk Park, Sung-Hyun Kim, Ho-Jin Lee, Nam-Won Moon, Yong-Hoon Kim TUP.U.5 ASSESSMENT ON LINEARITY ERRORS IN DETECTORS FOR INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Cristina González-Haro, Roger Vilaseca, Lluís Sagués, Manuel

Tuesday Martín-Neira TUP.U.6 THE SMOS MISSION PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE PLANS Yann Kerr, Philippe Waldteufel, Jordi Font, Achim Hahne, Susanne Mecklenburg TUP.U.7 SMOS SYSTEM PERFORMANCES BASED ON END-TO-END SIMULATIONS Francois Cabot, Philippe Richaume, Arnaud Mialon, Yann Kerr TUP.U.8 IMAGE RETRIEVAL SIMULATIONS FOR THE GEO ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDER (GAS) Anders Carlström, Jacob Christensen, Anders Emrich, Peter de Magt TUP.U.9 CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF THE GEOSTATIONARY INTERFEROMETRIC MICROWAVE SOUNDER (GIMS) Hao Liu, Ji Wu, Shengwei Zhang, Jingye Yan

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TUP.V: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.V Microwave Real Aperture Radiometers: Technology and Calibration I Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area V Co-Chairs: Albin Gasiewski and Francesc Torres TUP.V.1 DUAL-643GHZ AND 874GHZ AIRBORNE RADIOMETERS FOR ICE CLOUD MEASUREMENTS Zhaonan Zhang, Bryan Monosmith TUP.V.2 PAU ONE-RECEIVER AIRBORNE INSTRUMENT: INITIAL RESULTS Enric Valencia, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Albert Aguasca, Nereida Rodríguez- Álvarez, Isaac Ramos-Pérez, Juan Fernando Marchán-Hernandez, Mathilde Glenat, Francesc Bou TUP.V.3 COMPACT DUAL POLARIZATION FEEDING SYSTEM OF HY-2 CALIBRATION RADIOMETER Hongjian Wang, Bin Fan TUP.V.4 BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL WITH SCALE-MODEL ANTENNA PATTERNS OF THE AQUARIUS L-BAND RADIOMETER Seung-Bum Kim, Frank Wentz Tuesday TUP.V.5 POST-LAUNCH ASSESSMENT OF THE METOP-A AMSU-A PERFORMANCE Tsan Mo TUP.V.6 FY-3 MICROWAVE HUMIDITY SOUNDER T/V TEST AND CALIBRATION Zhenzhan Wang, Jing Li, Qiong Wu, Shengwei Zhang, Baoyu He, Zhenfan Zheng, Jing-Shan Jiang, Heguang Liu TUP.V.7 DESIGN AND TEST OF A NEW TRUCK-MOUNTED MICROWAVE RADIOMETER FOR REMOTE SENSING RESEARCH Shaojie Zhao, Lixin Zhang, Zhongjun Zhang TUP.V.8 RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION OF KOREAN SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DREAM Sung-Hyun Kim, Ho-Jin Lee, Nam-Won Moon, Jin-Taek Seong, Hoon Wi, Eun-Sup Sim, De-Hai Zhang, Jing-Shan Jiang, Yong-Hoon Kim TUP.V.9 PROCESSING TECHNIQUES TO MITIGATE EOS AMSU-A CALIBRATION ANOMALIES Kent Anderson TUP.V.10 SPURIOUS 3RD AND 4TH STOKES SIGNALS (“SHADOWING”) IN POLARIMETRIC MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY OVER THE OCEANS: ORIGIN, CHARACTERISTICS, AND MITIGATION Craig Smith, David Thompson

TUP.W: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.W Microwave Real Aperture Radiometers: Technology and Calibration II Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area W Co-Chairs: Albin Gasiewski and Francesc Torres TUP.W.1 COMBINED AIRBORNE RADIO-INSTRUMENTS FOR OCEAN AND LAND STUDIES (CAROLS) Mehrez Zribi, Mickaël Pardé, Danièle Hauser, Pascal Fanise, Paul Leroy, Monique Dechambre, Niels Skou, Sten Søbjærg, Jacqueline Boutin, Jean-Christophe Calvet, Gilles Reverdin, Nicolas Reul, Jean Pierre Wigneron TUP.W.2 CAROLS CAMPAIGN: SCIENTIFIC DATA ANALYSIS RESULTS Mickaël Pardé, Mehrez Zribi, Danièle Hauser, Paul Leroy, Pascal Fanise, Sonia Zine, Nicolas Reul, Jacqueline Boutin

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TUP.X: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.X Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Missions Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area X Co-Chairs: Karen StGermain and Evert Attema TUP.X.1 EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS OF LAND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) SENSOR Bonnie Reed, Bruce Guenther, Carl Hoffman, Heather Kilcoyne, Karen St. Germain TUP.X.2 EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS OF OCEAN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) SENSOR Bonnie Reed, Bruce Guenther, Carl Hoffman, Heather Kilcoyne, Karen St. Germain TUP.X.3 EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS OF THE CLOUD ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) SENSOR Heather Kilcoyne, Bruce Guenther, Karen St. Germain, Bonnie Reed, Carl Hoffman TUP.X.4 EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS OF THE AEROSOL ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS FOR THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VISIBLE/INFRARED IMAGER RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) SENSOR Heather Kilcoyne, Bruce Guenther, Karen St. Germain, Bonnie Reed, Carl Hoffman

Tuesday TUP.X.5 NPOESS: ITS POTENTIAL ROLE IN AN EMERGING CLIMATE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION AND THE ONE AFTER Stephen Mango TUP.X.6 RADIOMETRIC VALIDATION OF MICROWAVE SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS USING THE NPOESS AIRCRAFT SOUNDER TESTBED-MICROWAVE (NAST-M) SENSOR Laura Jairam, Laura Bickmeier, William Blackwell, R. Vincent Leslie, Fred Chen TUP.X.7 RADIOMETRIC PERFORMANCE OF CLOUDS AND THE EARTH’S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) INSTRUMENT SENSORS ABOARD EOS TERRA AND AQUA SPACECRAFT Susan Thomas, Kory Priestley, Denise Cooper, Phillip Hess, Z. Peter Szewczyk, Dale Walikainen, Robert Wilson TUP.X.8 INTER-SATELLITE VALIDATION OF DECADAL SCALE PASSIVE MICROWAVE CLIMATE DATA RECORDS Shannon Brown, Shailen Desai, Wenwen Lu TUP.X.9 INTER-SATELLITE RADIOMETER CALIBRATION OF WINDSAT, TMI AND SSMI Kaushik Gopalan, W. Linwood Jones, Takis Kasparis, Thomas Wilheit TUP.X.10 USE OF DISCOVER MICROWAVE OCEAN PRODUCTS IN CLIMATE STUDIES Deborah Smith, Kyle Hilburn, Frank Wentz, Chelle Gentemann TUP.X.11 PROSPECTED RADIO OCCULTATION MISSION FOR GLOBAL WEATHER MONITORING AND PREDICTION Chen-Joe Fong, Nick Yen, Vicky Chu, Yuei-An Liou, Sien Chi

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TUP.Y: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.Y Landslides and Geological Hazards Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area Y Co-Chairs: Richard Gloaguen and Xun Luo TUP.Y.1 THE GEOMORPHOMETRY OF RAINFALL-INDUCED LANDSLIDES IN ALISHAN AREA OBTAINED BY AIRBORNE LIDAR AND DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Jin-King Liu, Zu-Yi Liao, Chi-Chung Lau, Tian-Yuan Shih, Pai-Hui Hsu TUP.Y.2 MULTI-PARAMETER REMOTE SENSING ANOMALIES BEFORE MAJOR EARTHQUAKES IN CHINA Jinping Li, Lixin Wu, Huanping Wu, Zhiyong Wen, Shanjun Liu TUP.Y.3 PREDICTION ON CHANGES OF PERMAFROST IN NORTHEASTERN CHINA DURING THE 21ST CENTURY USING THE COMBINATION OF THE EQUIVALENT-LATITUDE AND FINITE ELEMENT MODELS Zhi Wei, Huijun Jin, Jianming Zhang TUP.Y.4 LOESS MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY IN CENTRAL ASIA AND ITS PALEOCLIMATIC SIGNIFICANCE Yougui Song, Hongmei Dong Tuesday TUP.Y.5 ASSESSING IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR MAPPING LANDSLIDES Karen Joyce, Grant Dellow, Phil Glassey TUP.Y.6 REGIONAL LANDSLIDE HAZARD ASSESSMENT BASED ON DISTANCE EVALUATION MODEL Jiacun Li, Jin Li TUP.Y.7 REGIONAL LANDSLIDE HAZARD ASSESSMENT BASED ON PROBABILITY INDEX MODEL Jiacun Li, Jing Li TUP.Y.8 LAND SUBSIDENCE INVESTIGATION ALONG RAILWAY USING PERMANENT SCATTERER SAR INTERFEROMETRY Daqing Ge, Yan Wang, Xiaofang Guo, Yi Wang TUP.Y.9 LANDSLIDE HAZARD ASSESSMENT IN THE THREE GORGES OF THE YANGTZE RIVER WITH TRMM DATA Lina Xu, Ruiqing Niu, Xianmin Wang, Ling Peng, Ting Wu, Shengli Wu TUP.Y.10 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRAIN FIELD AND THERMAL FIELD OF LOADING ROCK Shanjun Liu, Guoliang Li, Qunlong Chen, Lixin Wu TUP.Y.11 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEFORMATION FIELD AND TEMPERATURE FIELD BEFORE EARTHQUAKE Shanjun Liu, Lixin Wu, Guoliang Li, Qunlong Chen

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TUP.Z: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.Z Geological Applications of Radar Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area Z Co-Chairs: Saibun Tjuatja and Dieter Eisenburger TUP.Z.1 KEY TECHNIQUES OF PS INSAR IN MONITORING DANGXIONG FAULT MOVEMENT Jingfa Zhang TUP.Z.2 CR-BASED SAR-INTERFEROMETRY FOR LANDSLIDE MONITORING Ye Xia TUP.Z.3 THE APPLICATION OF INSAR TO CHINO BASIN HYDROGEOLOGIC ANALYSIS AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT David Cohen, Andrew Malone, Francis Riley TUP.Z.4 MAI (MULTIPLE APERTURE INTERFEROGRAM) GENERATION FROM INTERFEROMETRIC PAIR WITH LARGE SURFACE DISPLACEMENT Hyung-Sup Jung, Joong-Sun Won, Zong Lu, Min-Jeong Jo, Wook Park TUP.Z.5 A STUDY ON USING PASSIVE SUPER LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TO EXPLORE GOBS IN MINE Xia Ye, Qiming Qin, Baishou Li, Zexun Zhang TUP.Z.6 INSAR ANALYSIS OF LAND SUBSIDENCE CAUSED BY GROUNDWATER EXPLOITATION IN CHANGPING, BEIJING, CHINA Youquan Zhang, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Taiguang Liu, Wen Yang, Beibei Chen, Angsheng Li, Tuesday Yaoming Su TUP.Z.7 A MODEL OF IN-DEPTH DISPLACEMENT UNDER MS8.1 AT KUNLUN EARTHQUAKE WITH D-INSAR CO-SEISMIC DEFORMATION FIELD Ma Chao, Zhang Guifang, Ma Xuedong, Shan Xinjian

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TUP.AA: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.AA Geological Applications and GIS Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area AA Co-Chairs: Massimiliano Pieraccini and Eman Ghoneim TUP.AA.1 USING REMOTE SENSING FOR MAPPING THE EFFECTS OF NATURAL HAZARDS IN NEW ZEALAND Karen Joyce, Sergey Samsonov, Richard Jongens, Julie Lee, Phil Glassey TUP.AA.2 ASSESSING EXPANSIVE SOIL ENGINEERING PARAMETERS USING SPECTROSCOPY Fekerte Arega, Freek van der Meer, Harald van der Werff, Wolter Zigterman TUP.AA.3 GEOLOGICAL LINEAMENT EXTRACTION FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF UNDERGROUND CAVERN CONSTRUCTION SITE IN KOREA Chang-Uk Hyun, Hyeong-Dong Park TUP.AA.4 REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS OF NEOTECTONICS IN PAMIR USING DEM: RIVER PROFILE APPROACH Syed Amer Mahmood, Richard Gloaguen, Faisal Shahzad

TUP.AA.5 USE OF MULTISPECTRAL DATA EXTRACTING INFORMATION OF GOLD ORE BEARING Tuesday ROCKS BY MPH TECHNIQUE IN HATU GOLD OCCURRENCE AREA IN WESTERN CHINA Jianwen Ma, Fangyan Yuan, Yijin Chen, Xue Chen TUP.AA.6 INTEGRATION OF INTEGRATED MINERAL POTENTIAL MAPS OF GOLD-SILVER DEPOSITS USING GIS Hyun-Joo Oh, Saro Lee TUP.AA.7 DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED LANDSLIDE- SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPS USING GIS Saro Lee, Hyun-Joo Oh TUP.AA.8 REMOTE SENSING BASED OIL-GAS POTENTIALS EVALUATION IN THE WEST SLOPE OF SONGLIAO BASIN BASIN, NORTHEAST CHINA Shengbo Chen, Xuqing Zhang, Zhiguo Meng TUP.AA.9 DISCRIMINATION OF GEOLOGICAL END MEMBERS USING HYPERION IMAGERY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS, BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS David Leverington

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TUP.BB: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.BB Geographic Information Science Tools Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area BB Chair: Surya Durbha TUP.BB.1 SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION OF GEOGRAPHIC CONCEPT BASED ON ONTOLOGY PROPERTY Hong Wang, Lin Li, Ping-Chao Song TUP.BB.2 TRUST MANAGEMENT MODEL IN DISTRIBUTE GIS Kun Fang TUP.BB.3 A SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINE FOR SPATIAL WEB PORTALS Wenwen Li, Chaowei Yang TUP.BB.4 RESEARCH ON QUERYING FOR METADATA SERVICE BASED ON GEO-ONTOLOGY Yunpeng Yan, Wenchen Jia, Zhengmin He TUP.BB.5 ANALYSIS OF THE SATELLITE IMAGES MISREGISTRATION ERRORS. A CASE STUDY FOR ROMANIA Corina Alecu, Simona Oancea, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Gheorghe Stancalie TUP.BB.6 A TWO-PHASE LOAD-BALANCING FRAMEWORK OF PARALLEL GIS OPERATIONS Zhong Xie, Zi Ye, Liang Wu TUP.BB.7 UTILIZING GRID COMPUTING TO SUPPORT NEAR REAL-TIME GEOSPATIAL Tuesday APPLICATIONS Jibo Xie, Chaowei Yang, Ying Cao, Menas Kafatos TUP.BB.8 INFORMATION SEMANTIC TOOLS FOR KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN INTEGRATED OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM Surya Durbha, Roger King, Nicolas Younan, Shruthi Bheemireddy, Santosh Akamanchi TUP.BB.9 THE DESIGN OF DYNAMIC GRID WORKFLOW WEB PORTAL FOR REMOTE SENSING INFORMATION SERVICE Jianwen Ai, Yong Xue, Wei Wei, Jianping Guo, Guoping Lei, Shutao Hou, Yuqing Li, Fenghai Yang, Zhihua Wang TUP.BB.10 GLOSDC: A FRAMEWORK FOR A GLOBAL SPATIAL DATA CATALOG Pengfei Wu, Yu Fang, Bin Chen

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TUP.CC: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.CC Geographic Information Science Applications I Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area CC Co-Chairs: Chi-Ren Shyu and Surya Durbha TUP.CC.1 WATER TRANSFER SCHEMES SIMULATION BASED ON 3D GEOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTING Siyuan Liu, Gaojin Wen, Wenjing Cao, Shengzhong Feng, Jianping Fan TUP.CC.2 DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT SYSTEM OF FLOOD DISASTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE: TECHNICAL DEMANDS, STATUS AND TRENDS Zhuo-Wei Hu, Xiaojuan Li, Huili Gong, Yan-Bing Wang, Yan-Hui Wang TUP.CC.3 OPTIMIZATION OF URBAN DRAIN LAYOUT USING GIS Dongwei Qiu, Shanshan Wan, Shuqiang Lv, Dean Luo TUP.CC.4 STUDY ON DECISION MAKING METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE SYSTEM BASED ON GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM Wu Huanping, Luo Bing, Tang Wei, Zheng Weijiang, Liu Shanjun

TUP.CC.5 UTILIZATING GIS TO STUDY GROUNDWATER QUALITY EVALUATION AND ITS Tuesday DISTRIBUTION IN NORTHERN ORDOS CRETACEOUS ARTISAN BASIN, CHINA Yaoming Su, Lin Zhu, Huili Gong, Wenji Zhao TUP.CC.6 STUDY ON CHINA DIGITAL OCEAN PROTOTYPE SYSTEM Xiansan Liu, Hui Qu, Xin Zhang, Tianhe Chi TUP.CC.7 AN APPROACH TO REDUCE BOUNDARY DISTORTION IN COMPRESSING GRID DEM DATA WITH WAVELET TRANSFORM Zhanqiang Chang, Lixin Wu, Li Jiacun

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TUP.DD: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.DD Geographic Information Science Applications II Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area DD Co-Chairs: Nick Younan and Jim Tilton TUP.DD.1 MULTI-SCALE VISUALIZATION FOR GIS ROAD FEATURES IN MOBILE APPLICATIONS SYSTEM Yan-Hui Wang, Yan-Bing Wang, Zhuo-Wei Hu TUP.DD.2 ON THE GTP-BASED 3D MODELING METHOD FOR COMPLEX GEOLOGICAL BODY De-Fu Che, Li-Xin Wu, Zuo-Ru Yin TUP.DD.3 ESTIMATION OF TERRAIN SLOPE USING A COMPENSATION-LAMBERTIAN METHOD FROM SINGLE-PASS POLSAR DATA Yang Li, Wen Hong, Fang Cao, Yan-Ping Wang, Yi-Rong Wu TUP.DD.4 INTEGRATING 3D LASER SCANNING WITH DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY FOR INVESTIGATION ON DISEASES OF TIBET MURALS Aiwu Zhang, Feng Gao, Shaoxing Hu, Guangjie Cai, Xiao Zhou TUP.DD.5 ACCESSIBILITY ASSESSMENT OF URBAN GREEN SPACE:A QUANTITATIVE PERSPECTIVE Ze Liu, Feng Mao, Wensheng Zhou, Qiang Li, Jianxi Huang, Xianlong Zhu TUP.DD.6 K6N9-I MODEL: A HEXAHEDRON-BASED COMPUTABLE 3D TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP MODEL Tuesday Lixin Wu, Jiateng Guo TUP.DD.7 MATCHING RESEARCH OF OBJECT MODEL WITH TERRAIN IN MULTI-SCALE 3D SCENE Ruoming Shi, Shengtao Lu TUP.DD.8 MAPPING MINERAL POTENTIAL BY COMBINING MULTI-SCALE AND MULTI-SOURCE GEO-INFORMATION Wenlei Wang, Qiuming Cheng

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TUP.EE: Tuesday, July 8, 17:00 - 18:30

TUP.EE Geographic Information Science Outreach Session Type: Poster Time: Tuesday, July 8, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area EE Co-Chairs: Nel Ruffin and Marge Cole TUP.EE.1 GIS OUTREACH AND EDUCATION FOR RURAL MISSISSIPPI IN A POST-KATRINA WORLD Nel Ruffin TUP.EE.2 RESEARCH ON THE SHARING AND INTEROPERATION OF GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF GRDI AND OGC Yumei Sun, Yu Fang, Bin Chen, Jiayuan Lin, Lihong Bi TUP.EE.3 THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE VIDEO-DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM BASED ON THE TECHNOLOGY OF VEHICLE-BORNE MOBILE DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM Huilian Chen, Ruofei Zhong, Jianxi Huang TUP.EE.4 SERVING AURA HIRDLS LEVEL 2 DATA THROUGH OGC WCS Peichuan Li, Liping Di, Genong Yu Tuesday TUP.EE.5 AUGMENTING THE OGC WEB PROCESSING SERVICE WITH MESSAGE-BASED ASYNCHRONOUS NOTIFICATION Min Min, Liping Di, Genong Yu, Nengcheng Chen TUP.EE.6 THREE DIMENSIONAL TERRAIN VISUALIZATION ON THE INTERNET USING NURBS METHOD Xiao Wang, Xiuwan Chen TUP.EE.7 A HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATION PROGRAM FOR A GPS-BASED VEHICLE TRACING MOBILE PLATFORM Qifeng Zhao, Hong Fan, Qinhan Lian TUP.EE.8 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMON MAP SYMBOL SYSTEM IN GIS Miao Yu, Meixian Sun, Xiaojuan Li, Weiguang Zhang, JunHua Teng

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WE1.210: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Panel Session WE1.210 Earth Science Decadal Survey NASA Missions Session Type: Panel Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 210 Chair: Kamal Sarabandi About: The National Academy of Sciences recently released the “Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the next Decade and Beyond” report that is also known as the Earth Science Decadal Survey. Over one hundred mission concepts were submitted by the community and six science panels evaluated them. The Decadal Survey recommended seventeen high priority missions grouped into four tiers - each tier represents a time-frame. Four presentations in this session represent the missions in the first tier (2010-2013). These missions have now entered various stages of funding and development with NASA. 8:20 WE1.210.1 THE DECADAL SURVEY’S ICESAT-II MISSION: A FUNDAMENTAL TOOL FOR UNDERSTANDING THE EARTH’S RAPIDLY CHANGING ICE COVER Waleed Abdalati, Peter Zwally, John Loiacono 8:45 WE1.210.2 THE SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE/PASSIVE MISSION (SMAP) Dara Entekhabi, Eni Njoku, Peggy O’Neill, Thomas Jackson, Jared Entin, Eastwood Im 9:10 WE1.210.3 DEFORMATION, ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE, AND DYNAMICS OF ICE (DESDYNI) Andrea Donnellan, Paul Rosen, Howard Zebker, Jon Ranson 9:35 WE1.210.4 THE NRC DECADAL SURVEY CLIMATE ABSOLUTE RADIANCE AND REFRACTIVITY OBSERVATORY: NASA IMPLEMENTATION Donald Anderson, Kenneth Jucks, David Young

WE1.101: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00

WE1.101 Near Sub-Surface Electromagnetic Imaging: Methods and Applications I Wednesday Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Lorenzo Crocco and Amelie Litman 8:20 WE1.101.1 IMAGING SOIL INSIDE A CYLINDRICAL MICROWAVE SCANNER: FIRST RESULTS WITH PHANTOMS Raphael Lencrerot, Amelie Litman, Jean-Michel Geffrin, Herve Tortel, Jamal Zbitou 8:40 WE1.101.2 COMPRESSIVE SENSING AND SIGNAL SUBSPACE METHODS FOR INVERSE SCATTERING INCLUDING MULTIPLE SCATTERING Edwin Marengo 9:00 WE1.101.3 ACCURATE VECTOR-IMAGING OF GPR DATA BASED ON EXACT RADIATION PATTERNS Jan van der Kruk, Rita Streich, Mark Grasmueck 9:20 WE1.101.4 NONLINEAR INVERSION OF CROSS-WELL ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA IN METALLIC CASED WELLS Jianguo Liu, Aria Abubakar, Tarek Habashy 9:40 WE1.101.5 SPACE-FREQUENCY ULTRAWIDEBAND TIME-REVERSAL IMAGING METHOD AS APPLIED TO SUBSURFACE OBJECTS Mehmet E. Yavuz, Fernando L. Teixeira

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WE1.102: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00

WE1.102 SAR/PolSAR/InSAR for Environmental Monitoring I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Kun-Shan Chen and Jong-Sen Lee 8:20 WE1.102.1 RECENT ADVANCES IN RP-POL-IN-SAR HAZARD MONITORING OF TECTONIC STRESS AND LAND-SLIDES Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Kun-Shan Chen 8:40 WE1.102.2 A LAND-COVER MONITORING FOR VOLCANOES BY USING ALOS-PALSAR QUAD-POL. DATA Yutaka Wada, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Ohkura, Motoo Ukawa 9:00 WE1.102.3 RIVER ICE MAPPING FROM POLSAR IMAGES Stephane Mermoz, Sophie Allain, Monique Bernier, Eric Pottier, Imen Gherboudj 9:20 WE1.102.4 MAPPING SUBSIDENCE NEAR HAONI, VIETNAM FROM ENVISAT ASAR DATA Chin-Fu Chao, Chih-Tien Wang, Kun-Shan Chen, Jun-Yee Yen, Jong-Sen Lee 9:40 WE1.102.5 GB-SAR/PISAR SIMULTANEOUS EXPERIMENT FOR A TRIAL OF FLOOD AREA DETECTION Manabu Watanabe, Masayoshi Matsumoto, Masanobu Shimada, Motoyuki Sato Wednesday WE1.103: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00

WE1.103 Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Martti Hallikainen and Jiancheng Shi 8:20 WE1.103.1 SCIENTIFIC PREPARATIONS FOR COREH20, A DUAL FREQUENCY SAR MISSION FOR SNOW AND ICE OBSERVATIONS Helmut Rott, Donald Cline, Claude R. Duguay, Richard Essery, Christian Haas, Giovanni Macelloni, Eirik Malnes, Jouni Pulliainen, Helge Rebhan, Simon Yueh 8:40 WE1.103.2 POLSCAT KU-BAND RADAR REMOTE SENSING OF TERRESTRIAL SNOW COVER Simon Yueh, Donald Cline, Kelly Elder 9:00 WE1.103.3 STUDIES OF MULTI-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC BACKSCATTERING CHARACTERISTICS OF SNOW COVER AND GLACIERS MEASURED IN THE HELISNOW-2008 CAMPAIGN Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Stefan Kern, Detlef Stammer, Helge Rebhan, Jiancheng Shi 9:20 WE1.103.4 MODELING ACTIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF MULTILAYER DRY SNOW USING DENSE MEDIA RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY Ding Liang, Leung Tsang, Simon Yueh 9:40 WE1.103.5 DEVELOPMENT OF A PARAMETERIZED SNOW SCATTERING MODEL Jinyang Du, Jiancheng Shi

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WE1.104: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00

WE1.104 Soils and Hydrologic Applications Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Rajat Bindish and Al Gasiewski 8:20 WE1.104.1 AIRBORNE SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING IN SUPPORT OF RELIEF EFFORTS IN TEXAS DURING FLOODING EVENTS OF 2007 Albin Gasiewski, Eric McIntyre, Damian Manda, Marian Klein, Gordon Wells, Teresa Howard, Jackson Thomas 8:40 WE1.104.2 LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING USING REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE Ram Ray, Jennifer Jacobs 9:00 WE1.104.3 A NEW APPROACH TO LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL MAPPING USING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE ALGORITHM Thomas Oommen, Laurie Baise 9:20 WE1.104.4 REMOTE SENSING RETRIEVAL OF SUBSTRATE BEARING STRENGTH FROM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY AT THE VIRGINIA COAST RESERVE (VCR’07) MULTI- SENSOR CAMPAIGN Charles Bachmann, C. Reid Nichols, Marcos Montes, Rong-Rong Li, Patrick Woodward, Robert Fusina, Wei Chen, Melba Crawford, Vimal Mishra, Wonkook Kim, James Monty, Kevin McIlhany, Ken Kessler, Daniel Korwan, David Miller, Ellen Bennert, Geoff Smith, David Gillis, Jon Sellars, Christopher Parrish, Art Schwarzschild, Barry Truitt 9:40 WE1.104.5 RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF MAXIMUM BOUND WATER FRACTION IN SOIL Valery Mironov, Pavel Bobrov, Alexander Yaschenko

WE1.105: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Wednesday WE1.105 Ocean Altimetry Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Calvin Teague and Roland Romeiser 8:20 WE1.105.1 STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GLOBAL OCEAN SURFACE CIRCULATIONS FROM SATELLITE ALTIMETRY Peter C. Chu 8:40 WE1.105.2 PARIS ALTIMETRY PRECISION PREDICTION WITH SIGNALS-IN-SPACE Salvatore D’Addio, Christopher Buck, Manuel Martín-Neira 9:00 WE1.105.3 ALTIKA INSTRUMENT FOR SPACE ALTIMETRY WITH IMPROVED PERFORMANCES AND OCEAN SAMPLING : INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT STATUS AND FIRST TEST RESULTS Jacques Richard, Benoît Durand, Frédéric Robert, Nicolas Taveneau, Nathalie Steunou, Pierre Sengenes 9:20 WE1.105.4 SPACE ALTIMETRY FROM NANO-SATELLITES : PAYLOAD FEASIBILITY, MISSIONS AND SYSTEM PERFORMANCES Jacques Richard, Juliette Vallon, Philippe Escudier 9:40 WE1.105.5 CLASSIFICATION OF ALTIMETRIC SIGNALS USING LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS Jean-Yves Tourneret, Corinne Mailhes, Laiba Amarouche, Nathalie Steunou

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WE1.107: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00

WE1.107 Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Lorenzo Bruzzone and Jocelyn Chanussot 8:20 WE1.107.1 WAVELET-BASED MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE RESTORATION Arno Duijster, Steve De Backer, Paul Scheunders 8:40 WE1.107.2 NOISE REDUCTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY: A NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEM APPROACH Tian Han, David G. Goodenough 9:00 WE1.107.3 COMPARING SAMPLING METHODS IN FASTER COMPUTATION OF NON-NEGATIVE TENSOR FACTORIZATION OF SPECTRAL IMAGES Arto Kaarna, Alexey Andriyashin 9:20 WE1.107.4 PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS IN MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING OF SPECTRAL IMAGES Arto Kaarna, Andrey Norkin, Jaakko Astola 9:40 WE1.107.5 A NOVEL TECHNIQUE FOR HYPERSPECTRAL SIGNAL SUBSPACE ESTIMATION IN TARGET DETECTION APPLICATIONS Nicola Acito, Giovanni Corsini, Marco Diani, Stefania Matteoli, Salvatore Resta Wednesday

WE1.108: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00

WE1.108 TerraSAR-X & TanDEM-X: Features & Calibration Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Josef Mittermayer and Gerhard Krieger 8:20 WE1.108.1 TERRASAR-X A COMPLEX IMAGE APPROACH FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND MODELING Matteo Soccorsi, Mihai Datcu 8:40 WE1.108.2 AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF WATER BODIES FROM TERRASAR-X DATA Thomas Hahmann, Achim Roth, Martin Habermeyer 9:00 WE1.108.3 DETERMINING THE OPTIMUM COMPROMISE BETWEEN SAR DATA COMPRESSION AND RADIOMETRIC PERFORMANCE –AN APPROACH BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF TERRASAR-X DATA– Marwan Younis, Johannes Böer, Carlos Ortega, Daniel Schulze, Sigurd Huber, Josef Mittermayer 9:20 WE1.108.4 TANDEM-X: DEM CALIBRATION CONCEPT Birgit Wessel, Astrid Gruber, Markus Bachmann, Jaime Hueso, Martin Huber, Detlev Kosmann, Achim Roth 9:40 WE1.108.5 TANDEM-X DEM CALIBRATION AND PROCESSING EXPERIMENTS WITH E-SAR Jaime Hueso Gonzalez, Markus Bachmann, Christian Andres, Gerhard Krieger, Rolf Scheiber

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WE1.109: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00

WE1.109 Atmospheric Compensation Techniques for Imaging Spectrometer Data I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Thomas Cooley and Gail Anderson 8:20 WE1.109.1 GLOBAL DAILY ATMOSPHERIC STATE PROFILES FROM THE ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER Thomas Pagano, Hartmut Aumann, Eric Fetzer, Bill Irion, Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, Mous Chahine 8:40 WE1.109.2 ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE OSS RADIATIVE TRANSFER METHOD IN APPLICATION TO REAL-TIME ATMOSPHERE CHARACTERIZATION FROM STALLITE SOUNDING AND IMAGING DATA Jean-Luc Moncet, Gennady Uymin, Alan Lipton, Robert d’Entremont 9:00 WE1.109.3 IMPACT OF MODTRAN™5.1 ON ATMOSPHERIC COMPENSATION Alexander Berk, Gail P. Anderson 9:20 WE1.109.4 ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION IN THE SOLAR SPECTRUM: METHODS AND VALIDATION. Eric Vermote 9:40 WE1.109.5 IMPROVEMENTS IN AEROSOL RETRIEVAL FOR ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION Steven Adler-Golden, Michael Matthew, Alexander Berk, Marsha Fox, Jamine Lee, Anthony Ratkowski

WE1.110: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00

WE1.110 Land Cover Classification Session Type: Oral-Contributed

Wednesday Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Alan J. Stern and Marc Simard 8:20 WE1.110.1 SEGMENTATION OF ALOS PALSAR IMAGES FOR MAPPING OF CLEAR-CUTS Klas Folkesson, Leif E. B. Eriksson, Gustaf Sandberg, Lars M. H. Ulander 8:40 WE1.110.2 AUTOMATIC FOREST SPECIES CLASSIFICATION USING COMBINED LIDAR DATA AND OPTICAL IMAGERY Wen Zhang, Baoxin Hu, Linhai Jing, Murray Woods, Paul Courville 9:00 WE1.110.3 DETECTING URBAN VEGETATION USING A OBJECT-ORIENTED METHOD WITH QUICKBIRD IMAGERY Chang-Qing Ke, Guo-Dong Tang, Xue Cao 9:20 WE1.110.4 COMPARISON OF WINTER WHEAT CLASSIFICATION USING MULTI-TEMPORAL IRS-P6 IMAGES Yanfei Lei, Wenquan Zhu, Yaozhong Pan, Chao Xu 9:40 WE1.110.5 ESTIMATION OF DIRECTIONAL VEGETATION FRACTION COVER FROM TOA SPECTRAL DATA OF AATSR Yu-Li Shi, Guang-Jian Yan, Zhao-Liang Li

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WE1.111: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00

WE1.111 Change Detection Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Sebastiano Serpico and Gustavo Camps-Valls 8:20 WE1.111.1 A CONTEXT-SENSITIVE TECHNIQUE ROBUST TO REGISTRATION NOISE FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Silvia Marchesi 8:40 WE1.111.2 CHANGE DETECTION WITH MISS-REGISTRATION ERRORS Gregoire Mercier, Jordi Inglada 9:00 WE1.111.3 AN ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUE BASED ON SIMILARITY MEASURES FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone 9:20 WE1.111.4 A NEW ADDITIVE KERNEL FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY USING SVM Tarek Habib, Jordi Inglada, Gregoire Mercier, Jocelyn Chanussot 9:40 WE1.111.5 A DCT-BASED CHANGE DETECTION METHOD FOR MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR IMAGES Hongtao Yu, Zhiping Lin, Geok Ling Chai, Chye Hwang Yan, Nalliah Raman Wednesday WE1.203: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00

WE1.203 Atmospheric Profiling I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: David Kunkee and Chinnawat Surussavadee 8:20 WE1.203.1 NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHMS FOR TROPOSPHERIC OZONE RETRIEVAL FROM ESA-ENVISAT SCIAMACHY AND NASA-AURA OMI SATELLITE DATA Pasquale Sellitto, Fabio Del Frate, Domenico Solimini 8:40 WE1.203.2 JOINT TEMPERATURE AND NITROGEN DIOXIDE VERTICAL PROFILES FROM UV/VIS SATELLITE DATA FOR AIR POLLUTION MONITORING FROM SPACE Pasquale Sellitto, Fabio Del Frate, Domenico Solimini 9:00 WE1.203.3 COMBINING CALIPSO AND METEOSAT IMAGES TO STUDY THE DISTRIBUTION OF ATMOSPHERIC DUST Ben Wiltshire, Rajesh Govindan, Ivan Astin, Adrian Evans 9:20 WE1.203.4 MULTI-DOPPLER MEASUREMENTS OF ATMOSPHERIC ROTORS AND TURBULENT MOUNTAIN WAVES Samuel Haimov, Vanda Grubisic, Jeffrey French, Larry Oolman 9:40 WE1.203.5 THE TIME SERIES OF TERRA AND AQUA MODIS NEAR-IR WATER VAPOR PRODUCTS Bo-Cai Gao, Rong-Rong Li

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WE2.101: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

WE2.101 Near Sub-Surface Electromagnetic Imaging: Methods and Applications II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Lorenzo Crocco and Amelie Litman 10:20 WE2.101.1 NEAR SURFACE FEATURES BY TDEM IMAGING Alberto Godio, Gaetano Ranieri 10:40 WE2.101.2 LINEAR INVERSIONS OF PEC SCATTERERS Adriana Brancaccio, Colomba Di Dio, Giovanni Leone 11:00 WE2.101.3 MULTI-FREQUENCY INVERSION ALGORITHM FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF SUBSURFACE PROPERTIES OF LAYERED SOIL MEDIA FROM VHF/UHF RADAR MEASUREMENTS Chih Kuo, Mahta Moghaddam 11:20 WE2.101.4 MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY BASED CHARACTERIZATION OF BURIED PLASTIC PIPE FILLED WITH DIFFERENT FLUIDS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY Francesco Soldovieri, Lorenzo Crocco, Elena Pettinelli, David Redman, Peter Annan 11:40 WE2.101.5 UNDERSTANDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA OVER SOUTHWEST EGYPT Cordula Robinson

WE2.102: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

WE2.102 SAR/PolSAR/InSAR for Environmental Monitoring I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 102

Wednesday Co-Chairs: Jong-Sen Lee and Kun-Shan Chen 10:20 WE2.102.1 INSAR MONITORING OF LANDSLIDES IN CANADA. Vern Singhroy, Pierre-Jean Alasset, Valentin Poncos, Rejean Couture 10:40 WE2.102.2 A COMBINED SMALL BASELINE AND PERSISTENT SCATTERER INSAR METHOD FOR RESOLVING LAND DEFORMATION IN NATURAL TERRAIN Tom R. Lauknes, Piyush Shanker A., Howard Zebker, Yngvar Larsen 11:00 WE2.102.3 DUAL POLARIZATION DETECTION OF SHIPS AND ICEBERGS – RECENT RESULTS WITH ENVISAT ASAR AND DATA SIMULATIONS OF RADARSAT-2 Carl Howell, Desmond Power, Michael Lynch, Kelley Dodge, Pradeep Bobby, Charles Randell, Paris Vachon, Gordon Staples 11:20 WE2.102.4 A REAL-APERTURE RADAR FOR GROUND-BASED DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY Charles Werner, Tazio Strozzi, Andreas Wiesmann, Urs Wegmüller 11:40 WE2.102.5 DAILY OIL POLLUTION MONITORING WITH RADARSAT-2 SCANSAR – FIRST IMPRESSIONS Roger De Abreu, Laurie Weir, Dean Flett, Paris Vachon

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WE2.103: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

WE2.103 Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Jiancheng Shi and Martti Hallikainen 10:20 WE2.103.1 ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF SNOW AT LARGE SPATIAL SCALES Marco Tedesco 10:40 WE2.103.2 DEVELOPMENT OF SAR DATA-BASED SNOW-COVERED AREA ESTIMATION METHOD FOR BOREAL FOREST ZONE Kari Luojus, Jouni Pulliainen, Sari Metsämäki, Guifre Molera, Risto Nakari, Juha-Petri Kärnä, Martti Hallikainen 11:00 WE2.103.3 PRELIMINARY POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW MICROWAVE REFLECTIVE AND EMISSIVE CHARACTERISTICS ANGULAR DEPENDENCES AT 15GHZ Astghik Hambaryan, Artashes Arakelyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Sargis Darbinyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Izabela Hakobyan, Vardan Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Mushegh Manukyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan 11:20 WE2.103.4 IMPACT OF VEGETATION IN THE RETRIEVAL OF SNOW PARAMETERS FROM BACKSCATTERING MEASUREMENTS AT THE X- AND KU-BANDS Giovanni Macelloni, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi, Helmut Rott, Donald Cline, Helge Rebhan

11:40 Wednesday WE2.103.5 AIRBORNE MEASUREMENT OF SNOW THICKNESS OVER SEA ICE Unquiea Wade

WE2.104: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

WE2.104 Scaling Issues in Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Jasmeet Judge and Wade Crow 10:20 WE2.104.1 ON THE DISAGGREGATION OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE SOIL MOISTURE DATA USING A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE OF TEMPORALLY PERSISTENT SOIL MOISTURE FIELDS Alexander Loew, Wolfram Mauser 10:40 WE2.104.2 APPLICATION OF A BAYESIAN APPROACH FOR DOWNSCALING OF SMOS OBSERVATIONS Rocco Panciera, Jeffrey Walker, Edward Kim, Iliana Mladenova 11:00 WE2.104.3 DOWNSCALING OF GLOBAL SOIL MOISTURE USING AUXILIARY DATA Genong Yu, Liping Di, Wenli Yang 11:20 WE2.104.4 INFLUENCE OF FOREST COVER ON L-BAND SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM HETEROGENEOUS PIXELS Jennifer Grant, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Rocco Panciera, Kauzar Saleh, Jeffrey Walker, Adriaan Van de Griend 11:40 WE2.104.5 SURFACE HETEROGENEITY ISSUES IN REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE William Crosson, Ashutosh Limaye, Charles Laymon

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WE2.105: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

WE2.105 Ocean and Ice Altimetry Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Timothy Urban and Cristina Martin-Puig 10:20 WE2.105.1 ANALYSIS OF ICESAT LASER ALTIMETRY ELEVATIONS OVER OCEAN SURFACES: SEA STATE AND CLOUD EFFECTS Timothy Urban, Roberto Gutierrez, Bob Schutz 10:40 WE2.105.2 BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF ALTIMETER ECHO PARAMETERS Jerome Severini, Corinne Mailhes, Pierre Thibaut, Jean-Yves Tourneret 11:00 WE2.105.3 NEW THEORETICAL MODEL OF SAR ALTIMETER SIGNAL OVER WATER SURFACES Cristina Martin-Puig, Jose Marquez, Giulio Ruffini, David Cotton, Christine Gommenginger, Peter Challenor, R. Keith Raney, Jérôme Benveniste 11:20 WE2.105.4 INTERMITTENCY IN THE EAST MADAGASCAR FLOW Graham Quartly 11:40 WE2.105.5 LINKING SURFACE AND SUB-SURFACE VARIABILITY IN DRAKE PASSAGE Graham Quartly, Jesus Gómez-Enri, Gabriel Navarro

WE2.107: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

WE2.107 Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing III Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Antonio Plaza and Jose Bioucas

Wednesday 10:20 WE2.107.1 MINIMUM VOLUME SIMPLEX ANALYSIS: A FAST ALGORITHM TO UNMIX HYPERSPECTRAL DATA Jun Li, Jose Manuel Bioucas Dias 10:40 WE2.107.2 AUTOMATIC APPROACHES TO ON-LAND/ON-BOARD FILTERING AND LOSSY COMPRESSION OF AVIRIS IMAGES Nikolay Ponomarenko, Vladimir Lukin, Mikhail Zriakhov, Arto Kaarna, Jaakko Astola 11:00 WE2.107.3 A NEW LINEAR MIXTURE MODEL FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS Nareenart Raksuntorn, Qian Du 11:20 WE2.107.4 HYPERSPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION FUSION FOR CLASSIFYING DIFFERENT MILITARY TARGETS George Lampropoulos, Ting Liu, Shen-En Qian, Chuhong Fei 11:40 WE2.107.5 DESTRIPING MODIS DATA BASED ON SURFACE SPECTRAL CORRELATION Zifeng Wang, Liangfu Chen, Xingfa Gu, Tao Yu

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WE2.108: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

WE2.108 Multi Aperture Multistatic SAR Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Tom Lukowski and Martina Gabele 10:20 WE2.108.1 MULTISTATIC SCENARIOS FOR A GPS SAR SYSTEM Frédéric Maussang, Franck Daout, Guillaume Ginolhac, Françoise Schmitt 10:40 WE2.108.2 REFLECTIVITY AND DEM ESTIMATION FROM MULTI-BASELINE COMPLEX SAR SIGNALS Annarita Evangelista, Federica Meglio, Gilda Schirinzi 11:00 WE2.108.3 SMART MULTI-APERTURE RADAR TECHNIQUES FOR SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING Marwan Younis, Federica Bordoni, Nico Gebert, Gerhard Krieger 11:20 WE2.108.4 GMTI PERFORMANCE OF A HIGH RESOLUTION WIDE SWATH SAR OPERATION MODE Martina Gabele, Gerhard Krieger 11:40 WE2.108.5 GROUND MOVING TARGETS DETECTION AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR MULTI- CHANNEL SAR SYSTEM Shengqi Zhu, Guisheng Liao, Yi Qu, Zhengguang Zhou Wednesday WE2.109: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

WE2.109 Atmospheric Compensation Techniques for Imaging Spectrometer Data II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Thomas Cooley and Gail Anderson 10:20 WE2.109.1 ADVANCES IN QUANTIFYING THE SPECTRAL RADIATIVE PROPERTIES OF CLOUDS AND AEROSOLS FROM AIRBORNE FIELD STUDIES Peter Pilewskie, Sebastian Schmidt, Odele Coddington, Bruce Kindel, Patrick McBride 10:40 WE2.109.2 RADIATIVE IMPACT OF BOREAL SMOKE AND ASIAN DUST IN THE ARCTIC: OBSERVED VERSUS MODELED Robert S. Stone, Gail P. Anderson, Eric Shettle, Konstantin Loukachine, Elizabeth Andrews, Ellwsorth G. Dutton, Crystal Barker Schaaf, Miguel O. Román III, Alexander Berk 11:00 WE2.109.3 A NEW METHOD FOR TEMPERATURE/EMISSIVITY SEPARATION FROM HYPERSPECTRAL THERMAL INFRARED DATA Xinhong Wang, XiaoYing OuYang, Zhao-Liang Li, Renhuang Zhang 11:20 WE2.109.4 A GENERIC FLIGHT INTERFEROMETER FOR ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING FROM GEO ORBIT. Frederic Grandmont, Jacques Giroux, Marc-Andre Soucy, Henry Buijs 11:40 WE2.109.5 COMPARISON OF SPLIT-WINDOW AND SINGLE-CHANNEL METHODS FOR LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL FROM MODIS AND AATSR DATA Joan M. Galve, César Coll, Vicente Caselles, Enric Valor, María Mira

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WE2.110: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

WE2.110 Forest Structure and Biomass Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Wenge Ni-Meister and Konstantine Papathanassiou 10:20 WE2.110.1 MAPPING TROPICAL AFRICA ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS USING SATELLITE DATA Alessandro Baccini, Nadine T. Laporte, Scott Goetz, Mindy Sun 10:40 WE2.110.2 MAPPING ABOVEGROUND FOREST BIOMASS FROM IKONOS HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGE AND MULTI-SOURCE GEOSPATIAL DATA USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND KRIGING INTERPOLATION Lacina Coulibaly, Pierre Migolet, Hector Guy Adegbidi, Richard Fournier, Eric Hervet 11:00 WE2.110.3 POLINSAR FOR FOREST BIOMASS RETRIEVAL: PALSAR OBSERVATIONS AND MODEL ANALYSIS Marco Lavalle, Domenico Solimini, Eric Pottier 11:20 WE2.110.4 EXTRACTING SAVANNA TREE STRUCTURE PARAMETERS FROM MULTIANGULAR REMOTE SENSING Martin Beland, Richard Fournier 11:40 WE2.110.5 COMBINING ABOVE-CANOPY DOWNWARD-LOOKING AND BELOW-CANOPY UPWARD HEMISPHERICAL-SCANNING LIDAR FOR IMPROVED ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS RETRIEVAL Wenge Ni-Meister, Shihyan Lee, Alan Strahler, Curtis E. Woodcock, David L. B. Jupp, Guoqing Sun, Jon Ranson, J. Bryan Blair, Michelle Hofton

WE2.111: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

Wednesday WE2.111 Analysis Techniques: Land Use / Land Cover Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Lori Mann Bruce and James Tilton 10:20 WE2.111.1 TREE DENSITY DETECTION USING SPECTRAL UNMIXING WITHOUT KNOWN TARGET SPECTRA Matthias Schramm, Tobias Landmann 10:40 WE2.111.2 SATELLITE DATA FUSION TECHNIQUES FOR TERRAIN AND SURFICIAL GEOLOGICAL MAPPING Goran Pavlic, Vern Singhroy, Alejandra Duk-Rodkin 11:00 WE2.111.3 APPLYING SMOOTHING CURVES TO AVHRR AND MODIS SATELLITE IMAGERY TO DETECT THE ONSET OF SPRING IN THE MIDWEST AND NORTHEAST UNITED STATES Jonathan Hanes 11:20 WE2.111.4 AN EVALUATION OF ECOTOPE CLASSIFICATION USING SUPERRESOLUTION IMAGES DERIVED FROM CHRIS/PROBA DATA Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Jianglin Ma, Pieter Kempeneers, Frank Canters, Jeroen Vandenborre, Desiré Paelinckx 11:40 WE2.111.5 MORPHOLOGICAL SEGMENTATION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES FOR LAND COVER MAPPING Mohamed Sellami, Ferdaous Chaabane, Catalin Fetita

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WE2.203: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

WE2.203 Atmospheric Profiling II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: David Kunkee and Chinnawat Surussavadee 10:20 WE2.203.1 THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT CLIMATE RESEARCH FACILITIES ON THE NORTH SLOPE OF ALASKA Mark Ivey, Hans Verlinde, Bernard Zak, Jeffrey Zirzow 10:40 WE2.203.2 WATER VAPOR AND LIQUID WATER PATH RETRIEVALS FROM MICROWAVE, MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH, AND INFRARED RADIOMETERS DURING RHUBC Ed R. Westwater, Domenico Cimini, Vinia Mattioli, Dave Turner, Albin Gasiewski, Marian Klein, Vladimir Leuski 11:00 WE2.203.3 A SEMI-DECADAL MULTI-SENSOR GRIDDED DATA RECORD OF OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (OLR) FROM AQUA M. HALEM, D. CHAPMAN, P. NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY [email protected] Milton Halem, David Chapman, Phuong Nguyen 11:20 WE2.203.4 A BASELINE FOR THE DECADAL-SURVEY PATH MISSION Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, Alan Tanner, Todd Gaier, Pekka Kangaslahti 11:40 WE2.203.5 APPLICATION OF AMSR-E DATA TO STUDY INTEGRATED ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS OVER THE POLAR OCEAN USING NEURAL NETWORKS-BASED ALGORITHMS Wednesday Elizaveta Zabolotskikh, Leonid Mitnik, Leonid Bobylev

WE2.210: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00

WE2.210 Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geoscience I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Mariann Albjerg and Glenn Prescott 10:20 WE2.210.1 INVESTMENTS IN REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGIES Janice Buckner 10:40 WE2.210.2 PATHFINDER ADVANCED RADAR ICE SOUNDER: PARIS R. Keith Raney, Carl Leuschen, Marshall Jose 11:00 WE2.210.3 A MULTI-FUNCTIONAL FIBER LASER LIDAR FOR GEO-SCIENCE. Michael Dobbs, William Krabill, Mike Cisewski, Wallace Harrison, C. K. Shum, Doug McGregor, Mark Neal, Sheldon Stokes 11:20 WE2.210.4 HIGH-ALTITUDE IMAGING WIND AND RAIN AIRBORNE RADAR (HIWRAP) Lihua Li, Gerald Heymsfield, James Carswell, Dan Schaubert, Justin Creticos, Manuel Vega 11:40 WE2.210.5 PASSIVE A-BAND WIND SOUNDER(PAWS)FOR MEASURING TROPOSPHERIC WIND VELOCITY Robert Pierce, Shane Roark, Christian Grund, Philip Slyamaker, Pei Huang, Paul Kaptchen

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WE3.101: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00

WE3.101 Geological Applications of Hyper- and Multi-spectral Imaging Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: James Taranik and James Theiler 13:20 WE3.101.1 XRD AND INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC VALIDATION OF WEATHERING SURFACES FROM ULTRAMAFIC AND MAFIC LITHOLOGIES EXAMINED USING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY, CROSS LAKE AREA, CAPE SMITH BELT, NORTHERN QUEBEC, CANADA Lori Wickert, Jeanne Percival, William Morris, Jeff Harris 13:40 WE3.101.2 THE USE OF HIGH SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL RESOLUTION AIRBORNE IMAGERY FOR ALTERATION MAPPING AND WASTE CHARACTERIZATION AT THE COMSTOCK LODE, NEVADA David Coulter, Phoebe Hauff, William Peppin 14:00 WE3.101.3 MAPPING ROCK-FORMING MINERALS AT DAYLIGHT PASS, DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA USING SEBASS THERMAL-INFRARED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE DATA Zan Aslett, James Taranik, Dean Riley 14:20 WE3.101.4 MODIS BORNE ANALYSIS OF LONG SERIES OF RADIANT FLUXES AT ACTIVE LAVA LAKES Barbara R. Hirn, Concettina Di Bartola, Francesca Ferro, Fabrizio Ferrucci 14:40 WE3.101.5 SEVIRI ONBOARD METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION, AND THE QUANTITATIVE MONITORING OF EFFUSIVE VOLCANOES IN EUROPE AND AFRICA Barbara R. Hirn, Concettina Di Bartola, Giovanni Laneve, Enrico Cadau, Fabrizio Ferrucci

WE3.102: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Wednesday WE3.102 PolSAR and Pol-InSAR for Agricultural Information Product Development I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Irena Hajnsek and Eric Gauthier 13:20 WE3.102.1 CONTRIBUTION OF MULTI-FREQUENCY, MULTI-SENSOR, AND MULTI-TEMPORAL RADAR DATA TO OPERATIONAL ANNUAL CROP MAPPING Jiali Shang, Heather McNairn, Catherine Champagne, Xianfeng Jiao 13:40 WE3.102.2 A NEW APPROACH FOR MAPPING FROZEN SOIL OF AGRICULTURAL LAND UNDER SNOW COVER USING RADARSAT-1 Jalal Khaldoune, Eric van Bochove, Monique Bernier, Michel C. Nolin 14:00 WE3.102.3 SIMULTANEOUS FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH PALSAR OBSERVATIONS FOR SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION Manabu Watanabe, Gaku Kadosaki, Masami Fukuda, Motoyuki Sato 14:20 WE3.102.4 ANALYSIS AND SURFACE PARAMETER RETRIEVAL FROM MULTITEMPORAL AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE DATA DURING AGRISAR 2006 Alexander Loew, Sebastian Osenstetter 14:40 WE3.102.5 ANALYSIS OF POLARIMETRIC SURFACE SCATTERING IN HIGH RESOLUTION SAR Sang-Eun Park, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Sophie Allain, Eric Pottier

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WE3.103: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00

WE3.103 Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Leung Tsang and Paolo Pampaloni 13:20 WE3.103.1 ESTIMATING SNOW PARAMETERS WITH MULTIFREQUENCY MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Enrico Palchetti, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi, Anselmo Cagnati, Andrea Crepaz 13:40 WE3.103.2 RESULTS FROM MICROWAVE RADIOMETER CAMPAIGN OF SEASONAL SNOW AND COMPARISON WITH EMISSION MODELS Martti Hallikainen, Panu Lahtinen, Timo Piepponen, Lauri Honkavaara, Aleksis Schäfer 14:00 WE3.103.3 ESTIMATION OF WET SNOW AND SNOW MELT IN EURASIA FROM 1979 TO 2007 Matias Takala, Jouni Pulliainen, Jarkko Koskinen, Kari Luojus 14:20 WE3.103.4 MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA-DERIVED SNOW COVER OF NORTHERN EURASIA FOR CLIMATE MODEL VALIDATION Jouni Pulliainen, Jarkko Koskinen, Matias Takala, Panu Lahtinen, Anna Kontu, Heikki Järvinen, Juha-Petri Kärnä, Kirsti Jylhä, Anna Parvio, Kari Luojus 14:40 WE3.103.5 A RADIANCE BASED ASSIMILATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF SWE AND SNOW DEPTH FROM AMSR-E AND SSM/I DATA Marco Tedesco, Alexander Loew, Thorsten Markus, Rolf Reichle Wednesday

WE3.104: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00

WE3.104 Multiscale Processing Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Catherine Ottle and Tyler Erickson 13:20 WE3.104.1 SUBPIXEL TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION FROM LOW RESOLUTION THERMAL INFRARED REMOTE SENSING Catherine Ottlé, Abdelaziz Kallel, Guillaume Monteil, Sylvie Le Hégarat, Benoit Coudert 13:40 WE3.104.2 RESEARCH ON THE SCALE EFFECT OF THE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION RETRIEVED BY SATELLITE SENSORS Yani Liu, Xiaozhou Xin, Qinhuo Liu 14:00 WE3.104.3 IMPROVING THE SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER IMAGERY USING AUXILIARY INFORMATION: APPLICATION TO THE SMOS MISSION Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, Maria Piles, Francesc Torres, Ignasi Corbella, Nuria Duffo 14:20 WE3.104.4 A GEOSTATISTICAL INVERSE MODELING APPROACH FOR PRODUCING EARTH SURFACE ESTIMATES FROM MULTIPLE REMOTELY SENSED DATASETS Tyler Erickson, Brian Thelen 14:40 WE3.104.5 MONOTONICITY OF AREA AVERAGED NDVI AS A FUNCTION OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION BASED ON A VARIABLE ENDMEMBER LINEAR MIXTURE MODEL Hiroki Yoshioka, Takahiro Wada, Kenta Obata, Tomoaki Miura

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WE3.105: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00

WE3.105 Coastal Altimetry I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: William Emery and Paolo Cipollini 13:20 WE3.105.1 REPROCESSING ALTIMETER DATA RECORDS ALONG EUROPEAN COASTS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE ALTICORE PROJECT Stefano Vignudelli, Andrey Kostianoy, Anna Ginzburg, Nickolay Sheremet, Sergey Lebedev, Akexander Sirota, Helen M. Snaith, Jérôme Bouffard, Laurent Roblou, Paolo Cipollini 13:40 WE3.105.2 COASTAL SEA SURFACE HEIGHTS FROM IMPROVED ALTIMETER DATA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA Luciana Fenoglio-Marc, Maraike Fehlau, Lucilla Ferri, Yong Gao, Stefano Vignudelli, Matthias Becker 14:00 WE3.105.3 WET TROPOSPHERIC CORRECTION FOR COASTAL SATELLITE ALTIMETRY M. Joana Fernandes, David Fernandes, Nelson Pires, Virgilio Mendes, Alexandra Nunes 14:20 WE3.105.4 TIDE CORRECTIONS FOR COASTAL ALTIMETRY: STATUS AND PROSPECTS Richard Ray, Gary Egbert 14:40 WE3.105.5 FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION OF SATELLITE TEMPERATURE AND SEA LEVEL DATA IN THE COASTAL OCEAN AND ADJACENT DEEP SEA John Wilkin, Julia Levin, Javier Zavala-Garay, Weifeng Zhang

WE3.107: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00

WE3.107 Data Fusion III Session Type: Oral-Contributed

Wednesday Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Jocelyn Chanussot and Paolo Gamba 13:20 WE3.107.1 MULTI-SCALE SEGMENTATION AND OPTIMIZED COMPUTATION OF SPATIAL REASONING GRAPHS FOR OBJECT DETECTION IN REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Julien Michel, Jordi Inglada 13:40 WE3.107.2 A GENERIC FRAMEWORK FOR DISPARITY MAP ESTIMATION BETWEEN MULTI- SENSOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Jordi Inglada, Julien Michel, Thomas Feuvrier 14:00 WE3.107.3 A FUSION METHOD FOR MIXED PIXELS BASED ON CLASSIFICATION OF PANCHROMATIC IMAGE Linhai Jing, Qiuming Cheng, Wenlei Wang 14:20 WE3.107.4 MULTISOURCE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON PARALLEL MINIMUM CLASSIFICATION ERROR LEARNING Yang-Lang Chang, Lena Chang, Jyh-Perng Fang, Kun-Shan Chen 14:40 WE3.107.5 OBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGE FUSION BASED ON THE SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION Zhu Weigang, Zhou Yinqing, Chen Jie, Sun Bin, Hou Guojiang

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WE3.108: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00

WE3.108 Bistatic SAR I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Otmar Loffeld and Pascale Dubois-Fernandez 13:20 WE3.108.1 BISTATIC SPACEBORNE-AIRBORNE EXPERIMENT TERRASAR-X/F-SAR: DATA PROCESSING AND RESULTS Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Stefan V. Baumgartner, Gerhard Krieger, Anton Nottensteiner, Ralf Horn, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Robert Metzig, Markus Limbach, Rolf Scheiber, Marco Schwerdt, Alberto Moreira 13:40 WE3.108.2 BISTATIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY EXPERIMENTS WITH THE INGARA IMAGING RADAR Alvin Goh, Mark Preiss, Nick Stacy, Douglas Gray 14:00 WE3.108.3 OPTIMIZING THE INDIVIDUAL AZIMUTH CONTRIBUTION OF TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER PHASE TERMS IN LOFFELD’S BISTATIC FORMULA (LBF) FOR BISTATIC SAR PROCESSING Qurat Ul-Ann, Otmar Loffeld, Holger Nies, Robert Wang, Stefan Knedlik 14:20 WE3.108.4 GPS/INS INTEGRATION FOR FOOTPRINT CHASING IN BISTATIC SAR EXPERIMENTS Stefan Knedlik, Junchuan Zhou, Zhen Dai, Ezzaldeen Edwan, Pakorn Ubolkosold, Otmar Loffeld 14:40 WE3.108.5 A NEW BISTATIC-BASED SPARSE LINEAR ARRAY 3D IMAGING SAR MODEL Yinbo Wang, Xiaoling Zhang, Weihua Li, Jun Shi Wednesday

WE3.109: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00

WE3.109 Remote Sensing Education and Outreach Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Ambrose Jearld and Barry Rock 13:20 WE3.109.1 USING ICEBOX TO VIEW AND EXPLORE SATELLITE IMAGES OF THE GULF OF MAINE Annette Schloss, Denise Blaha, William Armstrong, Amy Cline 13:40 WE3.109.2 FOREST WATCH: A K-12 OUTREACH PROGRAM TO ENGAGE PRE-COLLEGE STUDENTS IN AUTHENTIC, HANDS-ON SCIENCE Barrett Rock, Michael Gagnon 14:00 WE3.109.3 ADVANCED PREVIEW OF NPOESS METEOROLOGICAL PRODUCTS Thomas Lee, Arunas Kuciauskas, F. Joseph Turk, Cristian Mitrescu, Jeffrey Hawkins, Kim Richardson, Steven Miller 14:20 WE3.109.4 POLSARPRO V3.3: THE EDUCATIONAL TOOLBOX FOR POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA PROCESSING Eric Pottier, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Sophie Allain, Shane Cloude, Irena Hajnsek, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Alberto Moreira, Mark Williams, Andrea Minchella, Yves-Louis Desnos 14:40 WE3.109.5 WINDOWS ON EARTH - MUSEUM & WEB VISITORS EXPLORE EARTH AS VIRTUAL ASTRONAUTS Daniel Barstow

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WE3.110: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00

WE3.110 Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Ting Liu and Anita Simic 13:20 WE3.110.1 LEAF AREA INDEX ESTIMATION USING LIDAR AND FOREST REFLECTANCE MODELLING OF AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA Holger Lange, Svein Solberg 13:40 WE3.110.2 EVALUATION OF HYPERION EO-1 HYPERSPECTRAL DATA TO ESTIMATE WHEAT CROP CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE CONTEXT Abdou Bannari, K. Shahid Khurshid, Karl Staenz, John Schwarz 14:00 WE3.110.3 REFINING A HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTI-ANGLE MEASUREMENT CONCEPT FOR VEGETATION STRUCTURE ASSESSMENT Anita Simic, Jing M. Chen 14:20 WE3.110.4 SPATIAL CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA OF DUNE VEGETATION ALONG THE BELGIAN COAST Guy Thoonen, Steve De Backer, Sam Provoost, Pieter Kempeneers, Paul Scheunders 14:40 WE3.110.5 STABILITY OF HYPERSPECTRALLY-DERIVED SYSTEM STATE INDICATORS ACROSS IN A MANAGED, EVEN-AGED EUCALYPTUS STAND Moses Cho, Jan van Aardt, Bongani Majeke, Russell Main

WE3.111: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00

WE3.111 Image Information Mining I Session Type: Oral-Invited

Wednesday Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Roger King and Mihai Datcu 13:20 WE3.111.1 IMAGE INFORMATION MINING FOR EARTH OBSERVATION: A NEW ERA OF TECHNOLOGY Mihai Datcu, Gottfried Schwarz, Klaus Seidel 13:40 WE3.111.2 THE INTEGRATION OF GRAPH BASED KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY WITH IMAGE SEGMENTATION HIERARCHIES FOR DATA ANALYSIS, DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY James C. Tilton, Diane J. Cook, Nikhil Ketkar 14:00 WE3.111.3 AN APPLICATION OF GRAPH COMMUTE TIMES TO IMAGE INDEXING Régis Behmo, Nikos Paragios, Véronique Prinet 14:20 WE3.111.4 RAPID DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FROM HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY Veeraraghavan Vijayaraj, Edward A. Bright, Budhendra L. Bhaduri 14:40 WE3.111.5 ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN CONTENT MINING AND SEMANTIC QUERIES IN SATELLITE IMAGE DATABASES Adrian Barb, Chi-Ren Shyu

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WE3.203: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00

WE3.203 Retrieval of Aerosol Characteristics from Ground-based and Satellite Observations Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Albin Gasiewski and Samuel Haimov 13:20 WE3.203.1 CONSTRUCTION OF SATELLITE DERIVED PM2.5 MAPS USING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AOD AND PM2.5 AT THE CABAUW EXPERIMENTAL SITE FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH (CESAR) – THE NETHERLANDS Arnoud Apituley, Martijn Schaap, Robert Koelemeijer, Renske Timmermans, Robin Schoemaker, Gerrit de Leeuw 13:40 WE3.203.2 ON THE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF AEROSOLS AND LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT INFERRED FROM CALIPSO SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS Charles Trepte, Dave Winker, Cheiko Kittka 14:00 WE3.203.3 AN EVALUATION OF THE GOES-R ABI AEROSOL RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM Hongqing Liu, Istvan Laszlo, Pubu Ciren, Mi Zhou, Shobha Kondragunta 14:20 WE3.203.4 NPOESS AEROSOL PRODUCT RETRIEVALS FROM THE VIIRS INSTRUMENT John Jackson, Eric Vermote, Eric Shettle 14:40 WE3.203.5 COMPARISON STUDY BETWEEN MODIS TERRA AND AQUA FOR AOT RETRIEVAL OVER OCEAN Sriharsha Madhavan, John Qu, Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong Wednesday

WE3.210: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00

WE3.210 Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geoscience II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Glenn Prescott and Mariann Albjerg 13:20 WE3.210.1 LASER SOUNDER FOR GLOBAL MEASUREMENT OF CO2 CONCENTRATIONS IN THE TROPOSPHERE FROM SPACE Haris Riris, James Abshire, Graham Allan, Xiaoli Sun, Jeffrey Chen, Randy Kawa, Jian-Ping Mao, Mark Stephen, John Burris, Mike Krainak 13:40 WE3.210.2 TROPOSPHERIC INFRARED MAPPING SPECTROMETERS (TIMS) TO PROVIDE MEASUREMENTS WITH MUCH IMPROVED VERTICAL, TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION IN THE LOWER TROPOSPHERE John B. (Jack) Kumer, Aidan E. Roche, Richard L. Rairden, John L. Mergenthaler, Jack Doolittle, Ronald Blatherwick, Toufic Hawat, Robert Chatfield 14:00 WE3.210.3 PROGRESS IN OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR AEROSOL AND CLOUD REMOTE SENSING WITH THE MULTIANGLE SPECTROPOLARIMETRIC IMAGER (MSPI) Anna-Britt Mahler, Russell Chipman, Steve McClain, David Diner, Ab Davis, Nasrat Raouf 14:20 WE3.210.4 DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONS FOR A SPACEBORNE DIGITAL RADIOMETER Christopher Ruf, Steven Rogacki, Steven Gross 14:40 WE3.210.5 UAVSAR - DEVELOPING A HIGHLY CAPABLE AIRBORNE INSTRUMENT TO SUPPORT EARTH SCIENCE Robert Smith, Scott Hensley, Dennis Flower, Frank Cutler, Thomas Mace, Kevin Wheeler

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WE4.101: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.101 Geological Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 101 Chair: Vernon Singhroy 15:20 WE4.101.1 SAR MONITORING OF PERMAFROST MELT IN THE LOWER MACKENZIE VALLEY, CANADA. Pierre-Jean Alasset, Valentin Poncos, Vern Singhroy, Rejean Couture 15:40 WE4.101.2 AUTOMATIC RETRIEVAL OF TECTONIC PARAMETERS WITH NEURAL NETWORKS AND SAR INTERFEROMETRY: AN ASSESSMENT WITH EXPERIMENTAL DATA Fabio Del Frate, Giovanni Schiavon, Salvatore Stramondo 16:00 WE4.101.3 AVALANCHE IMAGING RADAR Lei Wang, Paul Brennan 16:20 WE4.101.4 ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE FOR EXTRACTION OF LOCAL AND FAINT CHANGES FROM A SATELLITE-BORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA Takashi Maeda, Tadashi Takano 16:40 WE4.101.5 INSAR PHASE UNWRAPPING BASED ON A COMBINATION OF MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS AND HYPERGEOMETRIC PHASE PDF MODELS Amor Elmzoughi, Ahmed Maalij, Riadh Abdelfattah, Ziad Belhadj

WE4.102: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.102 PolSAR and Pol-InSAR for Agricultural Information Product Development II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

Wednesday Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Irena Hajnsek and Eric Gauthier 15:20 WE4.102.1 CLASSIFICATION OF WHEAT CROPS FROM ASAR AND PALSAR DATA Giuseppe Satalino, Francesco Mattia 15:40 WE4.102.2 SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION IN TIME WITH AIRBORNE D-INSAR Irena Hajnsek, Pau Prats 16:00 WE4.102.3 SMALL TEMPORAL BASELINE SUBSET (STBAS):A NEW INSAR TECHNIQUE FOR MULTI-TEMPODAL MONITORING WETLAND’S WATER LEVEL CHANGES Sang-Hoon Hong, Shimon Wdowinski, Sang-Wan Kim, Falk Amelung, Timothy H. Dixon 16:20 WE4.102.4 MICROWAVE SCATTERING PROFILES OF A RICE SAMPLE BY MEANS OF POLARIZATION COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY Maria-Jose Sanjuan, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, J. David Ballester-Berman 16:40 WE4.102.5 COMPARISON BETWEEN MULTITEMPORAL AND POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA FOR LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION Henning Skriver

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WE4.103: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.103 Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Paolo Pampaloni and Leung Tsang 15:20 WE4.103.1 SNOW RADIANCE ASSIMILATION REQUIREMENTS: A CASE STUDY USING CLPX-1 Edward Kim, Michael Durand, Steve Margulis 15:40 WE4.103.2 SNOW EMISSION AT AMSU FREQUENCIES: MEASUREMENT AND MODELLING RESULTS FROM THE ALASKA PHASE OF THE COLD LAND PROCESSES EXPERIMENT (CLPX-II) R. Chawn Harlow 16:00 WE4.103.3 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MEAN RADIUS OF SNOW GRAINS AND SNOW CORRELATION LENGTHS ASCERTAINED FROM MICROWAVE SCATTERING THEORY R. Chawn Harlow 16:20 WE4.103.4 CORRECTING BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS OVER SNOW FROM NASA’S ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER – EOS Richard E. J. Kelly, Marco Tedesco, James Foster 16:40 WE4.103.5 SEASONAL RETRIEVAL OF SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT (SWE) AND TEMPERATURE USING IN-SITU PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY IN SOUTHERN QUÉBEC Alexandre Langlois, Ludovic Brucker, Alain Royer, Patrick Harvey-Collard, Michel Fily, Ghislain Picard, Ken Asmus, Anne Walker, Kalifa Goïta, Jean-Marie Willement Wednesday

WE4.104: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.104 Evapotranspiration Estimation at Field Scale Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Jasmeet Judge and Brian Hornbuckle 15:20 WE4.104.1 CAN WE DERIVE NEAR DAILY EVAPOTRANSPIRATION MAPS AT FIELD SCALE RESOLUTION WITH THE AVAILABLE SPACEBORNE SYSTEMS? Nurit Agam, William P. Kustas, Martha C. Anderson, Fuqin Li, Paul D. Colaizzi 15:40 WE4.104.2 A METHOD TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE SPATIAL RESOLUTION REQUIRED FOR MONITORING CROP GROWTH IN A GIVEN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE Grégory Duveiller, Pierre Defourny, Bruno Gerard 16:00 WE4.104.3 SOLAR RADIANCE ESTIMATION BY MEANS OF METEOSAT 2ND GENERATION DATA AND NEURAL PROCESSING: A VINEYARD PRECISION FARMING CASE STUDY Alessandro Burini, Chiara Solimini, Roberto Cossu, Luigi Fusco, Domenico Solimini, Stefania Argentini 16:20 WE4.104.4 ESTIMATION OF PLANT CHLOROPHYLL USING HYPERSPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS: SPECTRAL INDICES SENSITIVITY AND CROP- TYPE EFFECTS Driss Haboudane, Nicolas Tremblay, John R. Miller, Philippe Vigneault 16:40 WE4.104.5 AN DIURNAL MODEL BASED ON GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE DATA FOR LAND SURFACE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION Changsen Zhao, Jun Xia, Xiaoyu Zhang, Renhua Zhang, Zhaoliang Li, Penelope Serrano-Ortiz, Sergio Contreras

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WE4.105: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.105 Coastal Altimetry II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: William Emery and Paolo Cipollini 15:20 WE4.105.1 INVESTIGATING OCEAN ALTIMETER DATA AND APPLICATIONS IN THE GULF OF MAINE Doug Vandemark, Hui Feng, Remko Scharroo 15:40 WE4.105.2 IMPROVED COASTAL ALTIMETRY APPLIED TO MONITOR SMALL SCALE DYNAMICS OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. Jérôme Bouffard, Laurent Roblou, Stefano Vignudelli, Patrick Marsaleix, Paolo Cipollini, Yves Ménard, Florence Birol 16:00 WE4.105.3 DEVELOPING RADAR ALTIMETRY IN THE OCEANIC COASTAL ZONE: THE COASTALT PROJECT Paolo Cipollini, Jesus Gómez-Enri, Christine Gommenginger, Cristina Martin-Puig, Stefano Vignudelli, Philip Woodworth, Jérôme Benveniste 16:20 WE4.105.4 MONITORING SEA LEVEL BY RADAR ALTIMETER AND CGPS IN THE NORTH-WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN Juan Jose Martinez-Benjamin, Jose Martin Davila, Jorge Garate Pasquin, Pascal Bonnefond, Marina Martinez-Garcia, Miquel Angel Ortiz Castellon, Julia Talaya Lopez, Gema Rodriguez Velasco, Begoña Perez Gomez 16:40 WE4.105.5 ON THE COHERENCE OF NADIR ALTIMETER SIGNALS OVER WATER WITH ENVISAT RA-2 INDIVIDUAL ECHOES Christine Gommenginger, Graham Quartly, Peter Challenor, Catherine Rogers, Jérôme Benveniste Wednesday WE4.107: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.107 Geospatial Based Analysis Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Selim Aksoy and Jordi Inglada 15:20 WE4.107.1 GIS CUSTOMIZATION FOR GLOBAL SEA ICE ANALYSES Brian Melchior 15:40 WE4.107.2 DELINIATION OF SLOPE UNITS BASED ON SCALE AND RESOLUTION INVARIANT 3D CURVATURE EXTRACTION Erdem Akagunduz, Arzu Erener, Ilkay Ulusoy, H. B. Sebnem Duzgun 16:00 WE4.107.3 FLOOD FORECASTING AND RISK MAPPING USING A WEB-BASED SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SERVICES APPROACH Lei Wang, Qiuming Cheng 16:20 WE4.107.4 MINING OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGE ARCHIVES USING SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP HISTOGRAMS Selim Aksoy, Firat Kalaycilar, Asli Kale, Daniya Zamalieva 16:40 WE4.107.5 VEGETATION PHENOLOGY METRICS DERIVED FROM TEMPORALLY SMOOTHED AND GAP-FILLED MODIS DATA Bin Tan, Jeffrey Morisette, Robert Wolfe, Feng Gao, Gregory Ederer, Joanne Nightingale, Jeffrey Pedelty 134 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

WE4.108: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.108 Bistatic SAR II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Otmar Loffeld and Pascale Dubois-Fernandez 15:20 WE4.108.1 ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING OF SPACEBORNE/AIRBORNE BISTATIC SAR DATA Yu (Robert) Wang, Otmar Loffeld, Qurat Ul-Ann, Holger Nies, Amaya Medrano Ortiz, Ashraf Samarah 15:40 WE4.108.2 FORWARD AND BACKWARD BISTATIC INTERFEROMETRY Sergi Duque, Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorqui, Juan Carlos Merlano 16:00 WE4.108.3 POLARIMETRIC BISAR IMAGE SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS Ya-Qiu Jin, Feng Xu 16:20 WE4.108.4 AIRBORNE BISTATIC SAR RECEIVER WITH THE CAPABILITY OF USE DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITY TRANSMITTERS. Juan Carlos Merlano, Paco López-Dekker, Jordi J. Mallorqui, Sergi Duque 16:40 WE4.108.5 SECOND-ORDER MOTION COMPENSATION IN BISTATIC AIRBORNE SAR BASED ON THE WINDOWED FOURIER-TRANSFORMATION Amaya Medrano Ortiz, Otmar Loffeld, Holger Nies, Robert Wang Wednesday WE4.109: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.109 Remote Sensing and Policy Decisions Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Barry Rock and David Llewellyn-Jones 15:20 WE4.109.1 STUDY ON LAND-USE MANAGEMENT MODE FOR BEIJING DONGCHENG DISTRICT BASED ON RS & GIS Xindong He, Cuilin Hu, Yingchang Song, Yuyan Meng, Benfan Liang 15:40 WE4.109.2 MAINTAINING DATA RECORDS: PRACTICAL DECISIONS REQUIRED FOR DATA SET PRIORITIZATION, PRESERVATION, AND ACCESS Ronald L. S. Weaver, Ruth M. Duerr, Walter N. Meier 16:00 WE4.109.3 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM REMOTE SENSING TO POLICY DEVELOPMENT RELATED TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS IN US AGRICULTURE Dr. John Glaser, Kenneth Copenhaver, Joe Casas, Karen Stephens, Glen Alexander 16:20 WE4.109.4 THE SIGRIS PROJECT: A REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM FOR SEISMIC RISK MANAGEMENT Christian Bignami

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WE4.110: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.110 Remote Sensing on the African Continent Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Mohamed Mohamed and Charles Luther 15:20 WE4.110.1 ASSESSING THE USE OF COARSE RESOLUTION IMAGERY FOR PRIORITIZING DROUGHT PRONE/SEVERELY DEGRADED AREAS FOR MITIGATION POLICY OPTIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA Brilliant Petja, Dawie van Zyl, Phila Sibandze, Mokhele Moeletsi, Sylvester Mpandeli, Matiga Motsepe, Thabo Mashego 15:40 WE4.110.2 FIELD SURVEYS FOR BIOMASS ASSESSMENT IN AFRICAN SAVANNA WOODLANDS Charles Paradzayi, Harold John Annegarn, Ruwadzano Matsika, Barend Erasmus 16:00 WE4.110.3 USING SATELLITE IMAGERY TO MAP THE VEGETATION OF MOLEMANE EYE NATURE RESERVE IN THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA Wilfred Seitlhamo, David Makgale 16:20 WE4.110.4 OVERCOMING BANDWIDTH AND SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITATIONS TO ACCELERATE APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING AND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EGYPT, NIGERIA AND SOUTH AFRICA Gilbert Rochon, M. Magdy Abdel Wahab, Gad El-Qady, Gamal El Afandi, Ado Dan-Isa, Happy Sithole, Khomotso Kganyago, Souleymane Fall, Joseph Emmanuel Quansah, Bereket Araya 16:40 WE4.110.5 A LAND COVER CHANGE SYNTHESIS STUDY FOR THE GLOWA VOLTA BASIN IN WEST AFRICA USING TIME TRAJECTORY SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS AND CELLULAR AUTOMATION MODELS Tobias Landmann, Miriam Machwitz, Quang Bao Le, Lulseged Desta, Paul Vlek, Stefan Dech, Michael Schmidt Wednesday

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WE4.111: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.111 Image Information Mining II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Mihai Datcu and Roger King 15:20 WE4.111.1 INTELLIGENT DATA THINNING ALGORITHMS FOR SATELLITE IMAGERY Rahul Ramachandran, Xiang Li, Sunil Movva, Sara Graves, Bradley Zavodsky, Michael Splitt, Steven Lazarus, Mike Lueken, William Lapenta William Lapenta 15:40 WE4.111.2 A PROPOSAL FOR THE STANDARDIZATION OF IMAGE INFORMATION MINING SYSTEMS VIA OGC WEB SERVICES FRAMEWORK Surya Durbha, Roger King, Nicolas Younan, Balakrishna Gokaraju 16:00 WE4.111.3 SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING WATERSHED Yuliya Tarabalka, Jocelyn Chanussot, Jón Atli Benediktsson, Jesus Angulo, Mathieu Fauvel 16:20 WE4.111.4 IMPROVING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON GRAPHS USING SPATIAL PREPROCESSING Santiago Velasco-Forero, Vidya Manian 16:40 WE4.111.5 TERRASAR-X IMAGING FOR UNSUPERVISED LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION AND FIRE MAPPING Cosimo Putignano, Domenico Solimini, Alessandro Burini, Fabio Del Frate, Giovanni Schiavon, Giorgio Licciardi, Lazzarini Michele, Paolo Manunta, Francesco De Biasi Wednesday

WE4.203: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.203 Optical & Infrared Modeling for Remote Sensing I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Vivienne Payne and Bradley Kimmel 15:20 WE4.203.1 ATMOSPHERIC COMPENSATION USING A GEOMETRICALLY-COMPENSATED EMPIRICAL LINE METHOD Stephen Lach, John Kerekes 15:40 WE4.203.2 A PRACTICAL ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR PREDICTING SAND SPECTRAL SIGNATURES Bradley Kimmel, Gladimir Baranoski 16:00 WE4.203.3 ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS OF LOW ALTITUDE THERMAL INFRARED AIRBORNE IMAGES ACQUIRED OVER A TROPICAL CROPPED AREA Lebourgeois Valentine, Labbe Sylvain, Jacob Frédéric, Begue Agnès 16:20 WE4.203.4 MODELING OF THICKNESS DEPENDENT THERMAL CONTRAST OF NATIVE AND CRUDE OIL COVERED WATER SURFACES Wei-Chuan Shih, A. Ballard Andrews 16:40 WE4.203.5 STATUS OF THE AER RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS Vivienne Payne, Mark Shephard, Karen Cady-Pereira, Jennifer Delamere, Eli Mlawer, Mike Iacono, Jean-Luc Moncet, Tony Clough

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WE4.210: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00

WE4.210 Advanced Lidar Technologies and Applications to 3D Landcover Structure II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Wednesday, July 9, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Clint Slatton and David J. Harding 15:20 WE4.210.1 SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION USING SMALL-FOOTPRINT FULL-WAVEFORM AIRBORNE LIDAR Amy Neuenschwander, Lori Magruder, Roberto Gutierrez 15:40 WE4.210.2 TWO-STAGE APPROACHES FOR DECOMPOSITION OF ICESAT WAVEFORMS Jinha Jung, Melba Crawford 16:00 WE4.210.3 EXPLORING THE MEASUREMENT OF FORESTS WITH FULL WAVEFORM LIDAR THROUGH MONTE-CARLO RAY TRACING Steven Hancock, Mathias Disney, Philip Lewis, Jan-Peter Muller 16:20 WE4.210.4 PREDICTING L-BAND MICROWAVE ATTENUATION THROUGH FOREST CANOPY USING DIRECTIONAL STRUCTUING ELEMENTS AND AIRBORNE LIDAR William Wright, Pang-Wei Liu, K. Clint Slatton, Ramesh Shrestha, William E. Carter 16:40 WE4.210.5 THE SWATH IMAGING MULTI-POLARIZATION PHOTON-COUNTING LIDAR (SIMPL): A SPACEFLIGHT PROTOTYPE David Harding, James Abshire, Philip Dabney, Antonios Seas, Christopher Shuman, Xiaoli Sun, Susan Valett, Aleksey Vasilyev, Tony Yu, Tim Huss, Joe Marzouk, Yunhui Zheng Wednesday

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WEP.A: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.A Land Cover Classification and Characterization Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area A Co-Chairs: Joseph Buckley and Marc Simard WEP.A.1 A COMPARISON OF PRESENT AND POTENTIAL SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF VEGETATION IN THE GROUNDWATER-FLUCTUATING BELT IN LOWER REACHES OF HEIHE RIVER, NORTHWESTERN CHINA Yanhong Jia, Chuanyan Zhao, Zhongren Nan WEP.A.2 APPLE ORCHARD CHARACTERIZATION USING REMOTE SENSING & GIS FOR KULLU DISTRICT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Alka Sharma WEP.A.3 THE CHARACTERIZATION OF A FOREST COVER THROUGH SHAPE AND TEXTURE PARAMETERS FROM QUICKBIRD IMAGERY Choen Kim, Sung-Hoo Hong WEP.A.4 COMPARISON STUDY ON NDII AND NDVI BASED ON RICE EXTRACTION FROM RICE AND GINKGO MIXED AREA Chao Xu, Xiufang Zhu, Yaozhong Pan, Wenquan Zhu WEP.A.5 A MULTI-SCALE APPROACH FOR RETREIVING PROPORTIONAL COVER OF LIFE FORMS Ursula Gessner, Christopher Conrad, Christian Hüttich, Manfred Keil, Michael Schmidt, Matthias Schramm, Stefan Dech WEP.A.6 POLARIMETRIC CLASSIFICATION OF VEGETATION IN PRAIRIE LANDSCAPES Joseph Buckley Wednesday WEP.A.7 AIRBORNE LASER MAPPING OF GAPS IN MANGROVE FORESTS IN EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, USA Keqi Zhang, Marc Simard, Michael Ross, Victor Rivera-Monroy WEP.A.8 PREDICTION OF PLANT NITROGEN: SPECTRAL WAVELENGTHS STABLE THROUGH VEGETATION STATES Nicky Knox, Andrew Skidmore WEP.A.9 MAPPING FOREST TYPES USING MULTI-SENSOR REMOTE SENSING METHODS Amber Smith, Barrett Rock

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WEP.B: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.B Hyperspectral and Optical Remote Sensing of Vegetation Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area B Co-Chairs: Andrew Dyk and Josée Lévesque WEP.B.1 EVALUATION OF SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDEX TRANSLATION EQUATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-TERM DATA RECORDS Tomoaki Miura, Hiroki Yoshioka, Tomoko Suzuki WEP.B.2 DEVELOPMENT OF RICE YIELD ESTIMATION METHOD BASED ON SPACEBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA: PRELIMINARY STUDY USING AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA Shinya Odagawa, Masatane Kato, Tomoyuki Suhama, Jiro Sasaki, Kuniaki Uto, Yukio Kosugi, Genya Saito WEP.B.3 MONITORING GROWTH STATUS OF SPRING WHEAT IN RAINFED AGRICULTURE AREA IN LOESS PLATEAU WITH HYPERSPECTRAL REFLECTANCE DATA AT CANOPY AND LEAF LEVEL Xiaoping Wang, Ni Guo, Jing Wang, Jie Zhang, Jingsong Wang WEP.B.4 AN ANALYSIS OF SEASONAL EFFECT ON TREE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION USING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA AND ADVANCED CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES Ramanathan Sugumaran, Matthew Voss WEP.B.5 SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE (DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS ZIMM.) HAZARD MODELING IN NORTH CAROLINA – INCORPORATION OF REMOTELY SENSED VARIABLES Jason Moan, Randolph Wynne, Scott Salom Wednesday

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WEP.C: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.C Optical & Infrared Modeling for Remote Sensing II Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area C Chair: Bradley Kimmel WEP.C.1 CORRELATED-K BASED FAST, ACCURATE BANDPASS RADIANCE AND TRANSMITTANCE CALCULATIONS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL SCENES Prabhat Acharya, Alexander Berk, Raphael Panfili, Steven Adler-Golden, Alan Wetmore, Richard Shirkey WEP.C.2 SIMULATON OF HYPERSPECTRAL SCENE WITH FULL ADJACENCY EFFECT Guorui Jia, Huijie Zhao, Na Li WEP.C.3 USING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA TO IMPROVE BACKGROUND MODELING OF AIRBORNE PANCHROMATIC IMAGERY Jerrold Baum WEP.C.4 DRIVING REALISTIC TEXTURE IN SIMULATED LONG-WAVE INFRARED IMAGERY Jason Ward, John R. Schott, Niek Sanders, Scott Brown WEP.C.5 ESTIMATION OF GLOBAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE AT THE COMPLICATE TERRAINS IN ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA Gaoli Su, Xiaozhou Xin, Qinhuo Liu WEP.C.6 LEAF AREA INDEX AND SURFACE ALBEDO ESTIMATION: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS FROM VEGETATION INDEXES TO RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS Katja Richter, Francesco Vuolo, Guido D’Urso WEP.C.7 LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIVAL FOR FRIGID ZONE WITH MICROWAVE Wednesday DATA Danqing Peng, Yunhao Chen, Jing Li, Ji Zhou WEP.C.8 THE LAI INVERSION BASED ON DIRECTIONAL SECOND DERIVATIVE OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA Xiaochen Liu, Wenjie Fan, Qingjiu Tian, Xiru Xu WEP.C.9 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DIRECTIONAL BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES AND HEMISPHERICAL THERMAL EMISSION OVER THREE SCENES Yu-Li Shi, You-Jun Dou WEP.C.10 NUMERICAL STUDIES OF POLARIZED LIGHT REFLECTION FROM WIND ROUGHED LIQUID SURFACE Santo V. Salinas Cortijo, Soo Chin Liew WEP.C.11 ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ERROR MODEL VALIDATION USING HYPERSPECTRAL MULTI-ALTITUDE DATA Shems-eddine Zidane, Norm O’Neill, Martin Bergeron

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WEP.D: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.D Forests and Vegetation: MODIS Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area D Co-Chairs: Miguel Román and Tomoaki Miura WEP.D.1 A SEVEN-YEAR ANALYSIS OF WATER RELATED INDICES FOR GEORGIA DROUGHT ASSESSMENT OVER THE 2007 WILDFIRE REGIONS Lingli Wang, John Qu, Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong WEP.D.2 DOWNSCALING THE MODIS NDVI PRODUCT FOR PINE ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY ESTIMATES Valquiria Quirino, Randolph Wynne, Xue Liu, Christine Blinn WEP.D.3 QUANTIFYING NDVI CROSS-SCALE RELATIONSHIP USING SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION Xiaoling Chen, Shoujing Yin WEP.D.4 GLOBAL STATISTICS RETRIEVED FROM THE MODIS BRDF PRODUCTS FOR EACH IGBP CLASS Qingling Zhang, Crystal Schaaf, Alan Strahler, Michael King, Eric Moody WEP.D.5 ESTIMATION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY IN SEMI-ARID ECOSYSTEMS WITH THE MODIS-DERIVED PHOTOCHEMICAL REFLECTANCE INDEX Anna Goerner, Markus Reichstein, Serge Rambal WEP.D.6 ASSESSMENT OF SURFACE ALBEDO DERIVED FROM MODIS OVER FORESTED LANDSCAPES Miguel O. Román III, Crystal Schaaf, Alan Strahler, Manish Verma, Nathan Phillips, Mark Friedl WEP.D.7 COMPARISION OF LANDSAT AND MODIS ESTIMATES OF HEAT FLUXES: EFFECT OF SURFACE HETEROGENIETY Xiaodong Zhang, Tedros Berhane, George Seielstad WEP.D.8 ASSESSING THE EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON HONEY BEES USING SCALE HIVE RECORDS AND SATELLITE VEGETATION PHENOLOGY PRODUCTS Joanne Nightingale, Wayne Esaias, Robert Wolfe, Nickeson Jaime, Jeffrey Pedelty

Wednesday WEP.D.9 A STUDY OF CHINESE GRASSLAND PRODUCTIVITY USING MODIS DATA Shirong Chen, Yida Fan, Feng Xu, Guicai Li WEP.D.10 AN ANGULAR INDEX TO INDICATE SURFACE HETEROGENEOUS BEHAVIORS FROM MODIS Ziti Jiao, Crystal Schaaf, Feng Gao, Alan Strahler, Xiaowen Li, Jindi Wang, Jicheng Liu WEP.D.11 APPLICATION OF VEGETATION CONDITION INDEX AND STANDARDIZED VEGETATION INDEX FOR ASSESMENT OF SPRING DROUGHT IN SOUTH KOREA Jung Sool Park, Kyung Tak Kim, Yun Seok Choi

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WEP.E: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.E Forests and Vegetation: Modeling, Algorithms and Simulations Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area E Co-Chairs: Karl Huemmrich and Yen-Ben Cheng WEP.E.1 THE SIMULATION OF A SIMPLIFIED BRANCH BASED ON RADIOSITY METHOD Xinyun Wang, Guoqing Sun, Wenhan Qin, Zhifeng Guo WEP.E.2 3D DIGITIZING OF PADDY RICE AND MODELING FOR THE SCATTERING SIMULATION Junichi Susaki, Atsushi Koura, Masayuki Tamura WEP.E.3 BUILDING GOOD SPECTRAL VEGETATION BACKGROUNDS IN THE VNIR James (Jim) Kester WEP.E.4 COMPARISONS BETWEEN IN SITU ANISOTROPIC REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS AND SIMULATIONS FOR VEGETATION CANOPIES: VALIDATION AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS Yen-Ben Cheng, Lawrence Corp, Elizabeth Middleton, Karl Huemmrich, Qingyuan Zhang, Petya Campbell, Geoffrey Parker WEP.E.5 INTRODUCTION OF THE SHADOWING KERNEL FOR BRDF ANALYSIS Yoshiyuki Kawata WEP.E.6 UNDERSTANDING THE VEGETATION EFFECTS AT FROZEN ENVIROMENT BY THEORY AND FIELD EXPERIMENT Yue Zheng, Zhongjun Zhang, Guoqing Sun, Lixin Zhang, Shengli Wu WEP.E.7 LANDSAT-BASED PROCESS MODELING FOR LOBLOLLY PINE CARBON MANAGEMENT Randolph Wynne, Christopher Potter, Xue Liu, Christine Blinn Wednesday WEP.E.8 ANISOTROPIC CHARACTERISTICS ANALYSIS OF RED EDGE PARAMETERS FOR WINTER WHEAT Xuehong Zhang, Yansong Bao

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WEP.F: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.F Forests and Vegetation: Seasonal Processes Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area F Co-Chairs: Christine Blinn and Karen Steenkamp WEP.F.1 COPMARISION OF INDIVIDUAL CROWNS AMONG SPECIES IN JAPANESE CONIFER PLANTATIONS USING AIRBORNE DATA FOR LEAF-ON AND LEAF-OFF CONDITIONS Masato Katoh WEP.F.2 STUDY OF IMPACT OF URBANIZATION ON PHENOLOGY USING MULTISOURCE SATELLITE DATA Hong Xu, Xi Yang, Qingxu Huang, Weihua Fang, Peijun Shi WEP.F.3 DISCRIMINATION OF THE RESPECTIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF UNDERSTORY AND TREE CANOPY TO THE SEASONAL DYNAMICS OF REFLECTANCE OF MARITIME PINE FOREST IN SOUTHWEST FRANCE Nathalie Yauschew-Raguenes, Dominique Guyon, Alain Kruszewski, Olivier Hagolle, Jean- Pierre Wigneron WEP.F.4 MEASUREMENTS OF SEASONAL CHANGES IN VEGETATION REFLECTANCE SPECTRA John Cipar, Thomas Cooley, Ronald Lockwood WEP.F.5 LONG-TERM PHENOLOGY AND VARIABILITY OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN VEGETATION. Karen Steenkamp, Konrad Wessels, Sally Archibald, Graham von Maltitz WEP.F.6 PASTURE MONITORING FROM POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X DATA David Pairman, Stephen McNeill, Dawn Dalley, Robyn Dynes WEP.F.7 STUDY ON THE VEGETATION DYNAMIC CHANGE USING LONG TIME SERIES OF REMOTE SENSING DATA Jinlong Fan, Xiaoyu Zhang WEP.F.8 TRACKING LOBLOLLY PINE GROWTH THROUGH TIME WITH LANDSAT IMAGERY Christine Blinn, Randolph Wynne, Ralph Amateis, Thomas Fox WEP.F.9 WEB CAMERAS IN AUTOMATIC COLOUR MONITORING

Wednesday Heikki Astola, Matthieu Molinier, Tapani Mikkola, Eero Kubin

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WEP.G: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.G Forests and Vegetation: Fire, Disturbance, and Recovery Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area G Co-Chairs: Martin Beland and Wenge Ni-Meister WEP.G.1 ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT METHODS FOR BURNT AREA ESTIMATION USING REMOTE SENSING AND GROUND TRUTH DATA Alfonso Alonso Benito, Pedro Hernández Leal, Alejandro González Calvo, Manuel Arbelo, África Barreto WEP.G.2 REMOTE SENSING ASSESSMENT OF FIRE AND BURN SEVERITY IN THE ALASKA BOREAL FOREST REGION Nancy French, Eric Kasischke WEP.G.3 EFFECT OF BURN SCAR PATTERN VARIABILITY ON MEDIUM RESOLUTION BURNT AREA MAPPING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Soo Chin Liew, Jukka Miettinen WEP.G.4 RETRIEVAL OF SUBPIXEL FIRE TEMPERATURE AND FIRE AREA USING SIMULATED HJ-1B DATA Yonggang Qian, Guang-Jian Yan, Zhao-Liang Li, Sibo Duan, Renhua Zhang, Xiangsheng Kong WEP.G.5 LINKING EL NIÑO TO WILDFIRES GLOBALLY FROM REMOTE SENSING (1981-2000) David Riaño, José A. Moreno-Ruíz, Daniel Isidoro, Julio Barón-Martinez, Manuel Arbelo, Susan L. Ustin WEP.G.6 EVALUATION OF ALGORITHMS AND REMOTE SENSING DATASETS FOR FIRE MAPPING IN CHINA Wu Jianjun, Lü Aifeng Wednesday WEP.G.7 MONITORING DEFORESTATION USING REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS AND CHANGE DETECTION METHODS: THE CASE OF CEDAR FOREST DECLINE IN MOROCCO Driss Haboudane, El Mustapha Bahri, Mohamed Qarro, Mohamed Sabir WEP.G.8 USE OF FORMOSAT-2 SATELLITE IMAGERY TO DETECT NEAR REAL TIME DEFORESTATION IN AMAZONIA Florence Baillarin, Ghislain Gonzales, Carlos Souza WEP.G.9 IDENTIFICATION OF HURRICANE IMPACTED FOREST AREAS AND SEVERITY USING MODIS MEASUREMENTS Wanting Wang, John Qu, Xianjun Hao, Yongqiang Liu WEP.G.10 EVIDENTIAL REASONING APPLIED TO MAPPING REGENERATION OF FOREST STAND USING MULTISOURCE GEOSPATIAL DATA Brice Mora, Richard Fournier, Samuel Foucher, Goze B. Bénié, Kim Lowell WEP.G.11 POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA FOR FOREST AND DEFORESTATION MAPPING IN GUIZHOU PROVINCE, SOUTHWEST OF CHINA Maosong Xu, Fengli Zhang, Zhongsheng Xia, Huaze Gong

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WEP.H: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.H Drought and Evapotranspiration Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area H Co-Chairs: Rolf Reichle and Valery Mironov WEP.H.1 NORMALIZATION OF MODIFIED PERPENDICULAR DROUGHT INDEX USING AVHRR AND MODIS DATA FOR DROUGHT ASSESSMENT IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN UNITED STATES Abduwasit Ghulam, Alimujiang Kasimu, Tim Kusky WEP.H.2 DROUGHT MONITORING IN NORTHERN CHINA BASED ON SATELLITE DATA AND LAND SURFACE MODELING Renhua Zhang, Hongbo Su, Paul Houser, Jing Tian, Zhaoliang Li, Shaohui Chen, Jinyan Zhan, Xiangzheng Deng, Xiaomin Sun, Jianjun Wu WEP.H.3 MONITORING FUEL MOISTURE AND IMPROVING THE PREDICTION OF WILDFIRE POTENTIAL IN BOREAL ALASKA WITH SATELLITE C-BAND IMAGING RADAR Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Kevin Riordan, Gorden Garwood WEP.H.4 ESTIMATING LATENT AND SENSIBLE HEAT FLUXES USING THE TEMPERATURE VEGETATION DRYNESS INDEX (TVDI) AND MODIS DATA Monica Garcia, Francisco Fernandez-Abad, Alicia Palacios-Orueta, Francisco Domingo, Luis Villagarcia, Juan Puigdefabregas WEP.H.5 THE PRELIMINARY APPLICATION OF THE NEW METHOD FOR MONITORING FARMLAND DROUGHT BASED ON N-DIMENSIONAL SPECTRAL FEATURE SPACE--- TAKING WHEAT DROUGHT MONITORING IN NING XIA AS AN EXAMPLE Nan Yang, Qiming Qin, Chuan Jin, Yunjun Yao WEP.H.6 SATELLITE DERIVED EVAPORATION Thomas Holmes, Richard de Jeu, John Gash, Han Dolman, Eleanor Blyth WEP.H.7 AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR ESTIMATING GLOBAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION BASED ON SATELLITE DETERMINATION OF SURFACE NET RADIATION, VEGETATION INDEX,TEMPERATURE AND SOIL MOISTURE Kaicun Wang, Shunlin Liang

Wednesday WEP.H.8 EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF VI-LST TRIANGLE MODEL FOR QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE USING OPTICAL IMAGERY A. K. M. Hossain, Greg Easson WEP.H.9 CROP DROUGHT MONITORING USING MODIS NDDI OVER MID-TERRITORY OF CHINA Chenglin Liu, Jianjun Wu WEP.H.10 COMBINING A TWO-SOURCE PATCH MODEL WITH SATELLITE DATA TO MONITOR DAILY EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AT A REGIONAL SCALE Juan Manuel Sánchez, Vicente Caselles, William P. Kustas, Giusy Scavone, Enric Valor, César Coll, María Mira WEP.H.11 CHARACTERIZING SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERNS AND DYNAMICS OF ECOLOGICAL WATER DEMAND FOR VEGETATIONS BY MEANS OF REMOTELY SENSED EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND SOIL MOISTURE CONDITIONS Chuansheng Liu, Wan-Chang Zhang, Jiongfeng Chen

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WEP.I: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.I Ocean Altimetry Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area I Co-Chairs: Peter Chu and Jérôme Benveniste WEP.I.1 VARIABILITY IN THE ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION AND HEAT TRANSPORT DETECTED REMOTELY FROM ARGO FLOATS Peter C. Chu, Charles Sun, Chenwu Fan WEP.I.2 SEA LEVEL FROM SPACE: APPLICATIONS OF OCEAN ALTIMETRY DATA Margaret Srinivasan, Robert Leben WEP.I.3 BASIC RADAR ALTIMETRY TOOLBOX Jérôme Benveniste, Vinca Rosmorduc, Sander Neimeijer, Nicolas Picot

WEP.J: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.J Atmospheric Profiling III Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area J Co-Chairs: Gail Skofronick and Vince Leslie WEP.J.1 STUDY OF ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION IN THE REMOTE SENSING BASED ON A MIE/ RAMAN/DIAL LIDAR SYSTEM AND SUNPHOTOMETER Jinye Zhang, Wei Gong, Jun Li, Feiyue Mao, Rongliang Zeng, Zhenluan Hu, Liangpei Zhang, Pingxiang Li Wednesday WEP.J.2 OBSERVATION OF PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR USING THE 18TH AND 19TH BAND OF MODIS Xiaoping Gu, Xingming Wang, Zhanping Wu, Pengju Tian WEP.J.3 OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH AND NETWORKING WITH GROUND BASED REMOTE SENSING FOR ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING AT THE CABAUW EXPERIMENTAL SITE FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH (CESAR) – THE NETHERLANDS Arnoud Apituley, Herman Russchenberg, Hans van der Marel, Fred Bosveld, Reinout Boers, Harry ten Brink, Gerrit de Leeuw, Remco Uijlenhoet, Bertram Arbresser-Rastburg, Thomas Röckmann WEP.J.4 VOLUMETRIC GAS MONITORING THROUGH AN IR LASER NETWORK FOR THE CONTROL OF THE GAS EMISSION FLUX BY SENSITIVE AREAS: METHODS AND SIMULATION RESULTS Fabrizio Cuccoli, Luca Facheris WEP.J.5 VERTICAL VELOCITY TURBULENCE OBSERVED WITH FMCW RADAR Stephen Frasier, Andreas Muschinski, Pei-Sang Tsai, Mario Behn WEP.J.6 CHANNEL FREQUENCY OPTIMIZATION OF A FUTURE AMSU-B-LIKE MILLIMETER- WAVE RADIOMETER FOR INTEGRATED WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL IN POLAR REGIONS Haibo Zhao, Jungang Miao WEP.J.7 PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHT AND WIND FIELD CHARACTERIZATION BY MEANS OF A LIDAR AT THE TEIDE OBSERVATORY IN THE CANARY ISLANDS Michaël Sicard, Sergio Tomás, Adolfo Comerón, Francesc Rocadenbosch WEP.J.8 A NOVEL GROUND-BASED MICROWAVE RADIOMETER FOR HIGH PRECISION ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS BETWEEN 10 AND 90 GHZ Dorle Nörenberg, Susanne Crewell, Ulrich Löhnert, Thomas Rose, Antonio Martellucci WEP.J.9 A HIGH RESOLUTION FULL EARTH DISK MODEL FOR MICROWAVE ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING FROM GEO Boon Lim, Christopher Ruf, Alan Tanner

147 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

WEP.K: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.K Satellite Data-based Methods for Determining Aerosol Characteristics Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area K Co-Chairs: John Jackson and Pasquale Sellitto WEP.K.1 FAST AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVAL FROM MODIS Jianping Guo, Huadong Xiao, Chunxiang Cao, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Jianwen Ai, Xiaozhou Xin WEP.K.2 GRID ENABLED SIMULTANEOUS RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL AND GROUND SURFACE REFLECTANCE FROM INTEGRATION OF AERONET AND SATELLITE DATA Wei Wan, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Linyan Bai, Ying Wang, Jianwen Ai, Yinjie Li WEP.K.3 AN ADVANCED QUANTITATIVE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH OVER LAND FROM TERRA AND AQUA MODIS DATA Yingjie Li, Yong Xue, Wei Wan, Linyan Bai, Jie Guang, Ying Wang WEP.K.4 REGIONAL QUANTITATIVE RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH USING TERRA AND AQUA MODIS DATA Linyan Bai, Yong Xue, Guang Jie, Ying Wang, Yingjie Li, Wei Wan WEP.K.5 A NEW STUDY OF DETECTING BIOMASS BURNING EMPLOYING MODIS DATA APPLYING BROADBAND AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS Ying Wang, Yong Xue, Linyan Bai, Wei Wan, Jie Guang, Yingjie Li WEP.K.6 RETREIVAL OF AEROSOL FROM SPACE-BORNE POLARIMETRIC DATA IN BEIJING Zhongting Wang, Liangfu Chen, Xingfa Gu WEP.K.7 RETRIEVAL OF SPECTRAL AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS OVER LAND SURFACE FROM MULTI-WAVELENGTH POLARIZATION SPACE-BORNE SENSORS Xinli Hu, Liangfu Chen, Xingfa Gu WEP.K.8 RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL FROM CBERS02 USING CONTRAST REDUCTION METHOD IN BEIJING Ying Zhang, Zhongting Wang, Liangfu Chen, Xingfa Gu WEP.K.9 AN APPROACH FOR AEROSOL RETRIEVALS OVER CANADA’S LANDMASS FROM HISTORICAL AVHRR 1-KM OBSERVATIONS

Wednesday Alexander Radkevich, Alexander Trishchenko WEP.K.10 ESTIMATION OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF ASIAN DUST OVER THE LAND SURFACE BY POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS Takashi Kusaka, Hiroto Kitaguchi WEP.K.11 COMPARISON OF AIRS, SBUV2 AND OMI OZONE MEASUREMENTS Xianjun Hao, John Qu

148 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

WEP.L: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.L Aerosol and Trace Gas Monitoring using a Combination of Ground-based and Satellite Observations Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area L Co-Chairs: Hongqing Liu and Eric Vermote WEP.L.1 WEEKDAY AND SEASONAL VARIATIONS IN NO2 IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO, CANADA USING DATA FROM THE OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENT (OMI) Julie Wallace, Pavlos Kanaroglou WEP.L.2 RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTIES BASED ON MEASUREMENTS OF LIDAR, SUN-PHOTOMETER, AND CALIPSO AT WUHAN, CHINA Jun Li, Wei Gong, Yingying Ma, Zhongmin Zhu, Pingxiang Li, Liangpei Zhang WEP.L.3 VALIDATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS) COLLECTION 005 AEROSOL PRODUCTS USING THE AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORK (AERONET) GROUND-BASED DATA IN CHINA Chunyan Zhou, Qinhuo Liu, Yong Tang, Lin Sun, Xiaozhou Xin WEP.L.4 AEROSOL RETRIEVAL AND IMPROVED SURFACE ALBEDO OVER URBAN SCENES USING COMBINED MODIS AND SUNPHOTOMETER MEASURMENTS Min Oo, Matthias Jerg, Eduardo Hernandez, Julia He, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed WEP.L.5 ANALYSIS OF CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTICS AND INFLUENCING FACTORS OF SAND- DUST EVENTS IN NORTHWEST CHINA Jianhong Tao, Jinsong Wang, Feng Wei WEP.L.6 IMPROVEMENT OF AEROSOL RETRIEVAL THROUGH CLOUD IDENTIFICATION

Yingying Ma, Wei Gong, Jun Li, Liangpei Zhang, Pingxiang Li Wednesday

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WEP.M: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.M Data Fusion IV Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area M Co-Chairs: Jocelyn Chanussot and Pieter Kempeneers WEP.M.1 DATA FUSION OF DIGITAL CAMERA AND LIDAR DATA FOR CLASSIFICATION OF DUNE VEGETATION Pieter Kempeneers, Bart Deronde, Sam Provoost WEP.M.2 SAR IMAGE FUSION IN MULTI SENSOR CONTEXT FOR SMALL URBAN AREA DETECTION Christophe Gouinaud WEP.M.3 OBJECT-ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION FOR CHANGE DETECTION WITH DIFFERENT SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES Yongdae Gweon, Yun Zhang WEP.M.4 MULTISCALE INTEGRATION FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL ECOCLIMATIC ECOREGIONING DELINEATION Didier Leibovici, Mike Jackson WEP.M.5 FUSION OF HIGH RESOLUTION POLARIMETRIC SAR AND MULTI-SPECTRAL OPTICAL DATA FOR PRECISION VITICULTURE Alessandro Burini, Domenico Solimini, Giovanni Schiavon WEP.M.6 BINARY CLASSIFICATION STRATEGIES FOR MAPPING URBAN LAND COVER WITH ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Luca Demarchi, Tim Van de Voorde, Frank Canters WEP.M.7 THE EFFECT OF LANDSCAPE PATTERNS ON THE ACCURACY OF LAND COVER MAP FROM MULTI-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING DATA CLASSIFICATION Yanchen Bo, Danxia Song WEP.M.8 LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERTEMPORAL DATA USING ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS Thomas Udelhoven, Björn Waske, Sebastian van der Linden, Sonia Heitz

Wednesday WEP.M.9 MULTISOURCE DATA CLASSIFICATION USING A HYBRID SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING SCHEME Ranga Vatsavai, Budhendra L. Bhaduri, Shashi Shekhar, Thomas Burk WEP.M.10 DATA FUSION OF VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SAR AND OPTICAL DATA FOR URBAN LAND-USE CLASSIFICATION Marco Chini, Fabio Pacifici, William J. Emery WEP.M.11 SPECTRAL MAGNITUDE AND SPECTRAL DERIVATIVE FEATURE FUSION FOR IMPROVED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk

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WEP.N: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.N Data Mining Tools & Applications Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area N Co-Chairs: Surya Durbha and James Tilton WEP.N.1 DETECTION OF ANOMALOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BY STATISTICAL PROPERTY IN MAGNETIC FIELD AZIMUTH Tokiyasu Sato, Ichi Takumi, Masayasu Hata, Hiroshi Yasukawa WEP.N.2 FLOW MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION IN 3DGIS Hua Xu, Qiang Wu, Peng Zhao, Chao Han, Wenyu Zhang WEP.N.3 STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF MOTION DATA FOR MOVING OBJECTS IN 3D GIS Huanzhuo Ye WEP.N.4 SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN SATELLITE DATA FOR GLOBAL MONITORING AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT SUPPORT Efim Kudashev WEP.N.5 THE OPTIMIZATION OF REMOTE SPATIAL JOIN QUERIES ON SPATIAL INFORMATION GRID Chuanjie Xie, Gaohuan Liu, Bingbo Gao, Wentao Sheng WEP.N.6 PARALLEL COORDINATE PLOT: AN APPLICATION TO VISUALIZE THE UNCERTAINTY IN THEMATIC CLASSIFICATIONS OF REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY Yong Ge, Sanping Li WEP.N.7 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM OF GRAND CANAL OF CHINA Wensheng Zhou, Feng Mao, Zhihua Tang, Weijun Sun Wednesday

151 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

WEP.O: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.O Ensemble Filtering and Data Assimilation Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area O Co-Chairs: Kazumasa Aonashi and Ralf Bennartz WEP.O.1 COMBINING REMOTE SENSING MEASUREMENTS AND MODEL ESTIMATES THROUGH HYBRID DATA ASSIMILATION SCHEME TO PREDICT HYDROLOGICAL FLUXES AT A WATERSHED SCALE Baburao Kamble, Ayse Irmak WEP.O.2 MODELING AND ASSIMILATION OF REGIONAL ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION USING THE ESSI DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL WITH ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER Dengzhong Zhao, Wan-Chang Zhang, Jiongfeng Chen WEP.O.3 GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS (GSA) MEASURES THE QUALITY OF PARAMETER ESTIMATION. CASE OF SOIL PARAMETER ESTIMATION WITH A CROP MODEL. Hubert-Vincent Varella, Martine Guérif, Samuel Buis WEP.O.4 ESTIMATING THE SPATIAL EXCHANGE OF CARBON THROUGH THE ASSIMILATION OF EARTH OBSERVATION (EO) DERIVED PRODUCTS USING AN ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER Martin De Kauwe, Tristan Quaife, Philip Lewis, Mathias Disney, Mathew Williams WEP.O.5 OPTIMAL SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION (OSD) FOR REMOTELY SENSED OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION Peter C. Chu WEP.O.6 ESTIMATION OF REGIONAL SOIL MOISTURE BY ASSIMILATING MULTI-SENSOR PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OBSERVATIONS BASED ON ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER Chunlin Huang, Xin Li, Juan Gu WEP.O.7 VEGETATION ISOLINE EQUATIONS WITH HIGHER ORDER INTERACTION TERMS TO IMPROVE ACCURACY IN RETRIEVAL OF VEGETATION BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS Munenori Miura, Hiroki Yoshioka

Wednesday WEP.O.8 A SIMPLIFIED DATA ASSIMILATION METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING TIME-SERIES MODIS NDVI DATA Juan Gu, Xin Li, Chunlin Huang WEP.O.9 LAI RETRIEVAL FROM CYCLOPES AND MODIS PRODUCTS USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Linna Chai, Yonghua Qu, Lixin Zhang, Jindi Wang WEP.O.10 SPATIAL CORRELATION PATTERNS OF L-BAND MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE Xujun Han, Xin Li, Rui Jin, Shuguo Wang WEP.O.11 STUDY ON ENVISAT ASAR DATA ASSIMILATION IN RICE GROWTH MODEL FOR YIELD ESTIMATION Shenbin Yang, Shuanghe Shen, Bingbai Li, Bingxiang Tan, Thuy Le Toan

152 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

WEP.P: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.P Inverse Methods and Data Processing Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area P Co-Chairs: Bob Weisenseel and Rolando Raqueno WEP.P.1 MULTIPLE PASS METRIC-BASED AUTOFOCUS FOR 3D SAR IMAGING Forest Lee-Elkin WEP.P.2 PHASE COMPONENTS ANALYSIS OF PERMANENT SCATTERERS INSAR TECHNIQUE Wenliang Jiang, Jingfa Zhang WEP.P.3 NAER FIELD IMAGING OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER Cheng Zhang, Ji Wu, Hao Liu, Weiying Sun, Jingye Yan WEP.P.4 CART-BASED RARE HABITAT INFORMATION EXTRACTION FOR LANDSAT ETM+ IMAGE Zili Zhang, Qiming Qin, Junping Gao, Yuzhi Dong, Yunjun Yao, ZhaoQiang Wang, FanWei Dai WEP.P.5 QUANTATIVE INVERSION BASED ON HYPERSPECTRAL DATA FOR SOIL SALINIZATION IN THE ECOLOGICAL CORRIDOR OF TARIM RIVER, XINJIANG, CHINA Cun Chang, Xi Chen, Anming Bao, Geping Luo WEP.P.6 CASE STUDIES IN HIGH THROUGHTPUT COMPUTING (HTC) USING CONDOR FOR PHYSICS-BASED REMOTE SENSING ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION Rolando Raqueno, Robert Krzaczek WEP.P.7 COMPARISON BETWEEN THE KALMAN AND THE NON-LINEAR LEAST-SQUARES ESTIMATORS IN LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO LIDAR INVERSION Francesc Rocadenbosch, Michaël Sicard, Adolfo Comerón, M. N. Md. Reba, Adriano Camps

WEP.P.8 COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVE MARKOV MODELS FOR SEA FLOOR GRAIN SIZE Wednesday INTERPOLATION AND ESTIMATION Robert Weisenseel, Ssu-Hsin Yu WEP.P.9 PRECISE EVALUATION OF TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS IN SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR ILLUMINATION CORRECTION Yoshikazu Iikura WEP.P.10 AN IMPROVED ALGORITHM TO PRODUCE SPATIO-TEMPORALLY CONTINUOUS MODIS ALBEDO PRODUCT IN CHINA Tao He, Zhiqiang Xiao, Jindi Wang WEP.P.11 THE BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE SIGNATURE OF TYPICAL LAND SURFACES AND COMPARISON OF MISR AND MODIS BRDF PRODUCTS Yongmei Chen, Jindi Wang, Shunlin Liang, Dongwei Wang, Bin Ma, Yanchen Bo

153 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

WEP.Q: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.Q Statistical and Physics-Based Inverse Methods Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area Q Co-Chairs: Edwin Marengo and Paul Siqueira WEP.Q.1 INVERSE SCATTERING OF EXTENDED TARGETS BY SIGNAL SUBSPACE APPROACHES AND THE LEVEL SET METHOD Fred Gruber, Edwin Marengo WEP.Q.2 AN INVERSE SCATTERING METHOD BASED ON LAMÉ CURVES FOR IMAGING BURIED CRACKS AND VOIDS Lorenzo Crocco, Michele D’Urso, Tommaso Isernia WEP.Q.3 VELOCITY UNFOLDING IN NETWORKED RADAR SYSTEM Edin Insanic, Paul Siqueira WEP.Q.4 WELL LOG DATA INVERSION USING HIGHER ORDER NEURAL NETWORKS Kou-Yuan Huang, Liang-Chi Shen, Chun-Yu Chen WEP.Q.5 PERFORMANCE OF 3D CANONICAL SHAPE FEATURE EXTRACTION FROM BISTATIC RADAR Julie Ann Jackson, Randolph Moses WEP.Q.6 AN IMAGING APPROACH FOR INTRAWALL INSPECTIONS Ilaria Catapano, Lorenzo Crocco WEP.Q.7 MODELLING THE ERROR STATISTICS IN SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION OF SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM INFRARED DATA Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico WEP.Q.8 SAHELIAN-GRASSLAND PARAMETER ESTIMATION FROM BACKSCATTERED RADAR RESPONSE Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero, Isabelle Chenerie, Kamal Sarabandi WEP.Q.9 USE OF VECTOR VELOCITY ESTIMATE ACCURACY FOR IMPROVED RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A NETWORK OF RADARS Edin Insanic, Paul Siqueira Wednesday WEP.Q.10 INVERSION OF BACKSCATTER IONOGRAMS OPTIMISATION BY USING SIMULATED ANNEALING AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS Eulàlia Benito, Alain Bourdillon, Stéphane Saillant, Jean-Philippe Molinié, Véronique Rannou WEP.Q.11 SEMI-SUPERVISED SUPPORT VECTOR BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION Gustavo Camps-Valls, Jordi Munoz-Mari, Luis Gomez-Chova, Javier Calpe-Maravilla WEP.Q.12 SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE SIMULATED ANNEALING METHOD TO MEASUREMENT NOISE FOR THE INVERSION OF SUBSURFACE PARAMETERS OF TWO LAYER ROUGH SURFACES Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Mahta Moghaddam

154 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

WEP.R: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.R SAR Image Methods Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area R Co-Chairs: Samuel Foucher and Florence Tupin WEP.R.1 APPLICATION OF SPATIAL SPECTRUM ESTIMATION TECHNIQUE IN MULTIBASELINE SAR FOR LAYOVER SOLUTION Bin Wang, Yan-Ping Wang, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu WEP.R.2 THE EFFECTS OF FINITE RESOLUTION ON RADAR IMAGES OF FRACTAL PROFILES Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello WEP.R.3 REGION FEATURE EXTRACTION BASED ON IMPROVED REGULARIZATION METHOD IN SAR IMAGE Feng Xu, Shirong Chen, Yida Fan, Chao Wang WEP.R.4 AUTOMATED DETECTING IMAGE CONTROL POINTS FROM SAR IMAGERY BASED ON DATABASE OF OPTICAL IMAGE PATCHES Hui Long, Kun Fu, Hongqi Wang, Chuanzhao Han, Wudi Wang WEP.R.5 ON THE MODEL OF OPTIMUM DATA VECTOR FOR MULTIBASELINE SAR INTERFEROMETRY PHASE UNWRAPPING Zhijie Mao, Guisheng Liao WEP.R.6 ANALYSIS OF SAR SPECKLE NOISE STATISTICS TO SUPPORT IMAGE FILTERING AND INTERPRETATION Andreas Schenk, Thomas Esch, Achim Roth, Stefan Dech WEP.R.7 COMBINED WAVELET AND CONTOURLET DENOISING OF SAR IMAGES Johannes R. Sveinsson, Jón Atli Benediktsson Wednesday WEP.R.8 MOTION COMPENSATION PROCESSING OF AIRBORNE SAR DATA Pietro Guccione, Ciro Cafforio WEP.R.9 SPECKLE REDUCTION OF SAR IMAGES IN THE BANDLET DOMAIN Johannes R. Sveinsson, Zohra Semar, Jón Atli Benediktsson WEP.R.10 UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN SAR IMAGE USING GRAPH CUTS Chen Keming, Huo Chunlei, Zhou Zhixin, Lu Hanqing

WEP.S: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.S SAR Instruments, Missions and Atmospheric Effects Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area S Co-Chairs: Jorgen Dall and Evert Attema WEP.S.1 TRANSPONDER WITH UNDERSAMPLING METHOD Wang Yiding WEP.S.2 A NEW STAR IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHM BASED ON MATCHING PROBABILITY Junfeng Xie, Wanshou Jiang, Jianya Gong WEP.S.3 EXTRACTION OF ATMOSPHERIC PATH DELAYS FROM SAR DATA Michael Jehle, David Small, Erich Meier WEP.S.4 COMPARISON OF ATMOSPHERIC PHASE DELAY ON ALOS PALSAR INTERFEROGRAM AND CLOUD DISTRIBUTION PATTERN ON SIMULTANEOUSLY OBSERVED AVNIR-2 IMAGES Chinatsu Yonezawa, Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, Nobuhiro Tomiyama, Yoshinari Oguro WEP.S.5 RAIN IMPACT ON SENSITIVITY OF KA-BAND SCAN-ON-RECEIVE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS Salvatore D’Addio, Michael Ludwig

155 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

WEP.T: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.T Moving and Stationary Targets Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area T Co-Chairs: Paul Kersten and Shen Chiu WEP.T.1 A NEW SAR-GMTI METHOD FOR FOUR PHASE CENTERS ON TWO SATELLITES FLYING IN CLOSE FORMATION Bin Cai, Diannong Liang, Zhen Dong, Anxi Yu WEP.T.2 ROBUST MOVING TARGET DETECTION AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION BASED ON THREE-CHANNEL SAR IMAGES Zhengguang Zhou, Guisheng Liao, Shengqi Zhu WEP.T.3 MOVING TARGET DETECTION IN ALONG TRACK SAR INTERFEROMETRY FROM IN- PHASE AND QUADRATURE COMPONENTS DATA Alessandra Budillon, Vito Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi WEP.T.4 DOPPLER PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR SINGLE-CHANNEL SAR MOVING TARGET BASED ON A NOVEL MODEL IN COMPLEX IMAGE DOMAIN Yu Zuo, Jia Xu, Yingning Peng WEP.T.5 COMPUTATION OF OPTIMUM AZIMUTH SAMPLING TIME FOR DUAL-CHANNEL DPCA SYSTEM BASED ON SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO Li Linlin, Li Jingwen WEP.T.6 MOVING TARGETS DETECTION AND ANALYSIS ON MULTI-LOOK POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USING PWF METHOD Bin Zou, Tao Wei, Lamei Zhang WEP.T.7 A NEW METHOD OF SAR IMAGE TARGET RECOGNITION BASED ON ADABOOST ALGORITHM Wei Guo, Qingwen Qi, Lili Jiang, Ping Zhang WEP.T.8 GMTI PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FOR CIRCULAR SCANNING SAR EQUIPPED ON SLOW PLATFORM Bing Sun, Yinqing Zhou, Jie Chen Wednesday

WEP.U: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.U Multistatic SAR and 3-D Imaging Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area U Chair: Gianfranco Fornaro WEP.U.1 COMPENSATION OF THE RANGE VARIANT BISTATIC DEFORMATION TERM FOR LBF Kefeng Yang, Feng He, Diannong Liang WEP.U.2 INFLUENCE AND DEPENDENT PARAMETERS OF TERRAIN UNDULATION TO BISTATIC SAR IMAGING Xiaolan Qiu, Donghui Hu, Chibiao Ding, Daojing Li WEP.U.3 RESOLUTION ANALYSIS FOR BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR Yuanyao Lu, Jingzhang Wang WEP.U.4 A SYNTHESIZED PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FOR DISTRIBUTED SPACEBORNE INSAR SYSTEM Jiying Liu, Haifeng Huang, Yongsheng Zhang, Jubo Zhu WEP.U.5 SYNCHRONIZATION OF GEO SPACEBORNE-AIRBORNE BISTATIC SAR Ling Lei, Yinqing Zhou, Jingwen Li, Jie Chen, Weigang Zhu WEP.U.6 3-D RANGE STACKING ALGORITHM FOR FORWARD-LOOKING SAR 3-D IMAGING Weixian Tan, Wen Hong, Yan-Ping Wang, Yi-Rong Wu WEP.U.7 IMAGING GEOMETRY ANALYSIS OF 3D SAR USING LINEAR ARRAY ANTENNAS Yan-Ping Wang, Bin Wang, Wen Hong, Lei Du, Yirong Wu

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WEP.V: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.V Urban Remote Sensing I Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area V Co-Chairs: Fumio Yamazaki and Anne Lise Chesnel WEP.V.1 REVEALING INTRA-URBAN FEATURES USING OPTICAL AND SAR IMAGES Yasuyo Makido, Yoshiki Yamagata, Shobhakar Dhakal WEP.V.2 URBAN LAND USE CHANGE OF NANJING, CHINA, USING MULTITEMPORAL SATELLITE DATA Chang-Qing Ke WEP.V.3 HOW DO PEOPLE PERCEIVE THE CITY’S GREEN SPACE? A VIEW FROM SATELLITE IMAGERY (IN HANOI, VIETNAM) Thi Thanh Hien Pham, Dong-Chen He WEP.V.4 RESEARCH ON THE URBAN FABRIC OF WUHAN BASED ON GIS AND MAS Xiang Huali, Ye Huanzhuo WEP.V.5 MEASUREMENT OF URBAN ECOLOGICAL COMPENSATION FROM IKONOS DATA Taiyang Zhong, Xiuying Zhang, Weiguo Wang, Xianjin Huang WEP.V.6 EVALUATING INFLUENCES OF ZONING TO URBAN ECOLOGICAL PARAMETERS WITH REMOTE SENSING Taiyang Zhong, Xiuying Zhang, Weiguo Wang, Xianjin Huang WEP.V.7 URBAN CHANGE DETECTION BASED ON LOCAL FEATURES AND MULTISCALE FUSION Chunlei Huo, Zhixin Zhou, Jian Cheng, Hanqing Lu, Keming Chen

WEP.V.8 RESEARCH ON CURRENT SITUATION INVESTIGATION BY REMOTE SENSING AND Wednesday DIVISION PROTECTION ZONE OF GREAT WALL OF MING DYNASTY IN BEIJING Ou Zhang, Xiaojuan Li, Huili Gong, Weiguang Zhang, Yonghua Sun WEP.V.9 A GLOBAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF URBAN SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS DURING THE LAST FOUR DECADES USING COURSE RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING DATA AND GIS Alimujiang Kasimu, Abduwasit Ghulam, Ryutaro Tateishi WEP.V.10 SENSITIVITY OF SPATIAL INDICATORS FOR URBAN TERRAIN CHARACTERIZATION Nathalie Long, Erwan Bocher, Thomas Leduc, Guillaume Moreau WEP.V.11 USING NODE TO IMPROVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PATH FINDING SOLUTION Lei Niu, Guobin Zhu WEP.V.12 DAMAGE ASSESSMENT ON BUILDINGS USING MULTISENSOR MULTIMODAL VERY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES AND ANCILLARY DATA Anne-Lise Chesnel, Renaud Binet, Lucien Wald

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WEP.W: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.W Urban Remote Sensing II Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area W Co-Chairs: Fumio Yamazaki and Anne Lise Chesnel WEP.W.1 DETECTION AND CHARACTERISATION OF URBAN OBJECTS FROM VHR OPTICAL IMAGE DATA Alan Steel, Dominik Brunner WEP.W.2 URBANIZATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON STREAM HEALTH: RESULTS FROM THE MID- ATLANTIC AND SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND USA Scott Goetz, Greg Fiske WEP.W.3 RESEARCH ON MONITORING,EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT MODELS ABOUT REGIONAL ECOLOGICAL SECURITY Xiuping Zou, Qingwen Qi WEP.W.4 STORM WATER RUNOFF: EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN IMPERVIOUS SURFACES Tahmina Shirmeen, Greg Easson WEP.W.5 COMPARISON OF EXTRACTING RURAL RESIDENTIAL AREA FROM SATELLITE IMAGES WITH MULTIRESOLUTION Cunjian Yang, Xiaoyan Wang, He Huang WEP.W.6 A FLOOD HAZARD RISK ASSESSMENT MAP IN GROWING URBAN AREAS BY INTEGRATING REMOTE SENSING AND DEM DATA Vincent De Paul Onana, Jean-Paul Rudant, Emmanuel Trouvé, Gilles Mauris, Nadine T. Laporte, Wayne Walker WEP.W.7 CNGI BASED RESOURCE & ENVIRONMENT DECISION SERVICE SYSTEM FOR LANCANG-MEKONG SUB-REGION SECURITY Qingwen Qi, Qiao Guo, Lili Jiang, An Zhang, Zhaiwei Chen, Li Xu, Zhangbao Ma WEP.W.8 ADVANCED DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION FOR PSI USING HIRES SAR DATA Stefan Gernhardt, Stefan Hinz, Richard Bamler WEP.W.9 EVALUATION OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY WITH HIGH RESOLUTION

Wednesday SATELLITE IMAGES Meichun Yan, Xiufeng He, Wengang Sang WEP.W.10 SUB-PIXEL STEREO-MATCHING FOR DEM GENERATION FROM NARROW BASELINE STEREO IMAGERY Gareth Morgan, Jian Guo Liu, Hongshi Yan WEP.W.11 CHARACTERIZING THE MESO-SCALE ENVIROMENTAL THERMAL EFFECTS DUE TO DIFFERENT LANDUSE TYPES USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES AND INDICES IN TAOYUAN, NORTH TAIWAN Chia-Kai Yang, Chih-Hung Tan, Chung-Hsin Juan, Meng-Lung Lin WEP.W.12 RESEARCH ON URBAN THERMAL FIELD OF LANZHOU CITY IN SUMMER BASED ON GIS Guodong Li, Junhua Zhang

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WEP.X: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.X Urban Remote Sensing III Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area X Chair: Frans van den Bergh WEP.X.1 DSM GENERATION OF BUILDINGS BASED ON CORRESPONDING OBJECT CONSTRAINT Xinyi Shen, Qiming Qin, Haijian Ma WEP.X.2 A FIELD-BASED DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR CITY AIR POLLUTANTS INFORMATION SYSTEM Fengru Huang, Xuesong Wang, Bin Chen, Yu Fang WEP.X.3 RESEARCH AND APPLICATION OF SPATIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON GRAND CANAL OF CHINA Feng Mao, Ze Liu, Wensheng Zhou, Jianxi Huang, Qiang Li WEP.X.4 TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN BEIJING UTILIZING REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY Chudong Huang, Yun Shao, Jinsong Chen, Jinghui Liu, Jing Li WEP.X.5 A COMPARISON OF TEXTURE FEATURE ALGORITHMS FOR URBAN SETTLEMENT CLASSIFICATION Leonce P. Abeigne Ella, Frans van den Bergh, Barend J. van Wyk, M. Antonie van Wyk WEP.X.6 VISUALIZATION AND PHOTO-REALISTIC RENDERING OF URBAN BUILDINGS WITH LIDAR DATA AND AREIAL PHOTOS Hongjoo Park, Samsung Lim WEP.X.7 APPLICATION OF GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE ENGINEERING Wednesday MANAGE OF ROLLER COMPACTION CONSTRUCTION Jian Zhang, Xiaoling Chen WEP.X.8 RAPID EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE DETECTION USING HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Fujun Zhao, Rui Yan, Zhihui Li, Jingfa Zhang WEP.X.9 SURFACE DEFORMATION RETRIEVAL OF YANCHENG CITY(CHINA) BASED ON SMALL BASELINE DINSAR TECHNIQUE Hong Zhang, Hong’an Wu, Chao Wang, Tao Wu, Yixian Tang WEP.X.10 SUBSIDENCE MONITORING USING ASCENDING AND DESCENDING SAR DATA BASED ON COHERENT PIXEL INTERFEROMETRY Yixian Tang, Hong Zhang, Chao Wang, Tao Wu, Hong’an Wu WEP.X.11 APPLICATION OF WAVELET TRANSFORM ON SEISMIC IMAGE PROCESSING Lei Zhang, Jingfa Zhang, Fujun Zhao, Shan Cai

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WEP.Z: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.Z Remote Sensing of Road Networks and Vehicles Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area Z Co-Chairs: Fumio Yamazaki and Anne Lise Chesnel WEP.Z.1 TRAFFIC SPATIAL MEASURES AND INTERPRETATION OF ROAD NETWORK USING AERIAL REMOTELY SENSED DATA Daiyong Wei, Guoqing Zhou WEP.Z.2 USE OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGE DATA IN AN ASPHALTED URBAN ROAD EXTRACTION Marcos Resende, Silvio Jorge, George Longhitano, José Alberto Quintanilha WEP.Z.3 OPTIMIZATION OF GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR) MIXTURE MODEL IN ROAD PAVEMENT DENSITY DATA ANALYSIS Helmi Zulhaidi Mohd Shafri, Raja Syamsul Azmir Raja Abdullah, Mardeni Roslee, Ratnasamy Muniandy WEP.Z.4 EFFECTIVENESS OF 2D FDTD GROUND PENETRATING RADAR MODELING FOR BRIDGE DECK DETERIORATION EVALUATED BY 3D FDTD He Zhan, Kim Belli, Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Carey Rappaport WEP.Z.5 AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF VEHICLES AND THEIR SPEEDS FROM DIGITAL AERIAL IMAGES Fumio Yamazaki, Wen Liu, T. Thuy Vu WEP.Z.6 A FRAMEWORK TO MONITOR VEHICLE VISUALIZED AND INTUITIVELY BASED ON X3D Jihua Hu, Hao Liu

WEP.AA: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.AA Remote Sensing of Urban Heat Islands Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area AA Wednesday Chair: Frans van den Bergh WEP.AA.1 QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND (UHI) BASED ON REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY: INTEGRATING UHI MAGNITUDE AND FOOTPRINT Ji Zhou, Yunhao Chen, Jing Li WEP.AA.2 VEGETATION COVERAGE AND LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RELATIONSHIP FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND Wei Ma, Yunhao Chen, Ji Zhou WEP.AA.3 EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION OF HEAT-ISLAND MAP WITH SATELLITE AND AIRBORNE THERMAL INFRARED DATA Naoki Takagi, Akira Hoyano, Akinobu Murakami, Tsuneo Matsunaga WEP.AA.4 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND AND ASSOCIATED LAND COVER CHANGE BASED IN SUZHOU CITY USING LANDSAT DATA Yongming Xu, Zhihao Qin, Yansong Bao WEP.AA.5 CALCULATION OF CORRIDOR STRUCTURE EFFECT ON URBAN HEAT ISLAND USING HIGHLY SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES IN BEIJING, CHINA Mingyi Du, Weixian Sun, Guoyin Cai WEP.AA.6 ANALYSIS OF AN URBAN HEAT SINK USING THERMAL INERTIA MODEL FROM ASTER DATA IN BEIJING, CHINA Guoyin Cai, Mingyi Du, Yong Xue, Shan Li WEP.AA.7 STUDY ON URBAN HEAT ISLAND OF BEIJING USING ASTER DATA ---- A QUANTITATIVE REMOTE SENSING PERSPECTIVE Binyan Yan, Wenjie Fan, Xin Tao, Xiru Xu WEP.AA.8 STUDY ON URBAN HEAT ISLAND PHENOMENON IN A LOCAL SMALL CITY OF JAPAN USING AIRBORNE THEMAL IMAGE Akinobu Murakami, Akira Hoyano 160 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

WEP.BB: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.BB Soil & Air Pollution Monitoring Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area BB Co-Chairs: Ferdinando Nunziata and John Bolten WEP.BB.1 ASSESSMENT OF ENVI FOREST HEALTH TOOL IN DETECTION DUST AND SEEPAGE CONTAMINATED FOREST AREAS Jyrki Tuominen WEP.BB.2 AN INVESTIGATION OF AIR POLLUTION IN HONG KONG WITH ASTER DATA Jie Guang, Yong Xue, Linyan Bai, Wei Wan, Jianping Guo, Xiaowen Li WEP.BB.3 A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF URBAN AIRBORNE INHALABLE PARTICLE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND THEIR MECHANISM IN BEIJING USING RS AND GIS Wenhui Zhao, Huili Gong, Zhaoning Gong WEP.BB.4 ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC HORIZONTAL VISIBILITY FROM SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA Xiaofeng Yang, Xingfa Gu, Liangfu Chen WEP.BB.5 AIR POLLUTION MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON GEOSENSOR NETWORK Young Jin Jung, Yang Koo Lee, Dong Gyu Lee, Keun Ho Ryu, Nittel Silvia WEP.BB.6 ESTIMATION OF THE LOAD OF TOTAL NITROGEN AND TOTAL PHOSPHORUS IN THE ENCLOSED BAY WATERSHED USING GIS Mikihiro Ioka, Masaaki Takahashi, Satoshi Chiba

WEP.CC: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30 Wednesday

WEP.CC Water Pollution Monitoring Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area CC Co-Chairs: A. Ballard Andrews and Tobias Landmann WEP.CC.1 OIL SPILL MONITORING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR AND MICROWAVE SCATTEROMETER DATA Yun Shao, Wei Tian, Shiang Wang, Fengli Zhang WEP.CC.2 ON THE MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION OF THE SAR OIL-SPILL OBSERVATION PROBLEM Attilio Gambardella, Giorgio Giacinto, Maurizio Migliaccio WEP.CC.3 MULTISENSOR APPROACH TO OPERATIONAL OIL POLLUTION MONITORING IN COASTAL ZONES Olga Lavrova, Marina Mityagina, Tatiana Bocharova, Andrey Kostianoy, Vladimir Krovotyntsev WEP.CC.4 DETECTION OF OIL SLICKS IN SAR IMAGES USING HIERARCHICAL MRF David Morales, Miguel Moctezuma, Flavio Parmiggiani WEP.CC.5 DYNAMIC MONITORING THE ALGAE BLOOM IN THE TAIHU LAKE USING MODIS IMAGES Di Wu, Bing Zhang, Junsheng Li, Qian Shen, Hao Zhang, Yuanfeng Wu WEP.CC.6 MONITORING ALGAE BLOOMS BY REMOTE SENSING IN LAKE TAIHU, CHINA Qian Shen, Bing Zhang, Junsheng Li, Hao Zhang, Yuanfeng Wu, Di Wu WEP.CC.7 A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF OIL SPILL IN ENVISAT ASAR IMAGES Wei Tian, Yun Shao, Shiang Wang WEP.CC.8 OBSERVATION OF CRUDE OIL SPILL OFF THE WEST COAST OF KOREA USING TERRASAR-X, ENVISAT ASAR AND ALOS PALSAR Duk-Jin Kim, Boyeol Yoon, Younsoo Kim, Yongseung Kim

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WEP.DD: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.DD Data Management and Systems I Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area DD Co-Chairs: Roger King and Gregory Leptoukh WEP.DD.1 APPLICATION OF REAL TIME GIS, REMOTE SENSING AND IC TAG FOR REALIZATION OF GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SOCIETY Sota Shimano, Mitoshi Moriya, Sayaka Takeuchi, Masaaki Shikada WEP.DD.2 ENERGY CONSUMPTION ESTIMATION IN HYBRID SENSOR NETWORKS RUNNING ASSISTED NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS Franco Frattolillo, Federica Landolfi, Silvia Liberata Ullo WEP.DD.3 A TOOL TO QUERY AND VISUALIZE THE COMPLETE SRTM DATA SET INDEXED BY THE Q-TREE IN AN OPEN GIS Félix Rodríguez Rodríguez, José Julián Hernández Piñero, Manuel Barrena García WEP.DD.4 DISTRIBUTING GLOBAL WILDFIRE INFORMATION THROUGH THE FIRE INFORMATION FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (FIRMS) Min Minnie Wong, Diane Davies, Shriram Ilavajhala WEP.DD.5 REUSE READINESS LEVELS AS A MEASURE OF SOFTWARE REUSABILITY James Marshall, Robert Downs WEP.DD.6 THE AIRBORNE ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT AND PROFILING SYSTEM - A REVOLUTIONARY DATA AND VISUALIZATION SYSTEM James Carswell, James Canniff, Daniel Robinson, John Hill, Paul Chang WEP.DD.7 DATABASE SYSTEM FOR ARCHIVING AND MANAGING REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Jianting Shi, Fujun Zhao WEP.DD.8 DATA ANALYIS SYSTEM DESIGN FOR LIDAR EXPERIMENTATION Nimmi Sharma, Jo Ann Parikh Wednesday

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WEP.EE: Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 - 18:30

WEP.EE Education, Outreach and Policy Session Type: Poster Time: Wednesday, July 9, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area EE Co-Chairs: Annette Schloss and Granville Paules WEP.EE.1 GILMANTON SCHOOL AND UNH FOREST WATCH - COMPARING CLASSROOM COLLECTED DATA TO SPECTRAL INDICES: BENEFITS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS Mary Fougere WEP.EE.2 INTRODUCING STUDENTS TO THE GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES, USING SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA FROM SPACE David Llewellyn-Jones, Gary Corlett WEP.EE.3 BENEFITS TO STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF PARTICIPATION IN THE FOREST WATCH PROGRAM Robert Schongalla WEP.EE.4 PROMOTING SCIENCE THROUGH GIS AND REMOTE SENSING Valentina David WEP.EE.5 CALIBRATING THE DMSP-OLS STABLE NIGHT LIGHTS DATA TO MAP URBAN AREA IN CHINA FROM 1992 TO 1993 BY USING GIS ANCILLARY DATA Yang Yang, Chunyang He, Qingxu Huang, Yuanyuan Zhao WEP.EE.6 YOU BE THE POLAR SCIENTIST: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF UNDERREPRESENTED K-12 STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ACTIVITIES RELATED TO REMOTE SENSING OF ICE SHEETS Linda Hayden, Darnell Johnson Wednesday WEP.EE.7 TRAINING MINORITY UNDERGRADUATES IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES BY USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES Shobha Sriharan, James Everitt, Reginald Fltecher

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TH1.210: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Panel Session TH1.210 Human and Environmental Health Session Type: Panel Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 210 Chair: Melba Crawford About: Landscape epidemiology is an emerging application area for the use of remote sensing data. This panel session will explore the ways in which measurements of specific environmental variables, which are important for the growth and dispersal of health risks, are used to predict and mitigate disease propagation and pandemics. 8:20 TH1.210.1 REMOTE SENSING TO MEET THE CHALLENGES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Gregory Glass 8:53 TH1.210.2 OCEANS, CLIMATE, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, AND HUMAN HEALTH: FROM GENE PROBES TO REMOTE SENSING Rita Colwell 9:26 TH1.210.3 FROM STEMS TO CONTINENTS, GENES TO ECOSYSTEMS: REMOTE SENSING TO PREDICT HUMAN DISEASE Maria A. Diuk-Wasser

TH1.101: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00

TH1.101 Crustal Deformation and Subsurface Sensing Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Richard Gloaguen and Xun Luo 8:20 TH1.101.1 REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS OF CRUSTAL DEFORMATION USING RIVER NETWORKS Richard Gloaguen 8:40 TH1.101.2 DEFORMATION MONITORING BY LONG TERM D-INSAR ANALYSIS IN THREE GORGES AREA, CHINA Teng Wang, Daniele Perissin, Mingsheng Liao, Fabio Rocca 9:00 TH1.101.3 MONITORING CRUSTAL DEFORMATION ALONG THE XIANSHUIHE FAULT IN THE

Thursday EASTERN TIBETAN MARGIN AREA WITH ENVISAT SCANSAR INTERFEROMETRY Liming Jiang, Hui Lin, Fang Liu 9:20 TH1.101.4 EXTRACTION OF FLUID MOVEMENT RELATED SPECTRAL FEATURES FROM SEISMIC TRACES Georgiy Bordakov, Sreechakra Goparaju, Jaideva Goswami 9:40 TH1.101.5 SENSING ROOF CONDITIONS AHEAD OF A LONGWALL MINING USING THE SHEARER AS A SEISMIC SOURCE Xun Luo, Andrew King, Matt Van de Werken

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TH1.102: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00

TH1.102 Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Ridha Touzi and Jean-Claude Souyris 8:20 TH1.102.1 SPECKLE FILTERING OF DUAL-POLARIZATION AND POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA BASED ON IMPROVED SIGMA FILTER Jong-Sen Lee, Thomas Ainsworth, Kun-Shan Chen 8:40 TH1.102.2 TURBO SPECKLE FILTERING APPLIED TO POLSAR DATA Gregory Farage, Samuel Foucher, Carlos Lopez-Martinez, Goze B. Bénié 9:00 TH1.102.3 POLARIMETRIC DATA DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERIZATION BY USING MUTIDIMENSIONNAL COPULAS Lynda Bouchemakh, Gregoire Mercier, Youcef Smara 9:20 TH1.102.4 CLASSIFICATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USING RADIOMETRIC AND TEXTURE INFORMATION Jean-Marie Beaulieu, Ridha Touzi 9:40 TH1.102.5 ANALYSIS OF NATURAL SCENES USING POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA STATISTICS IN PARTICULAR CONFIGURATIONS Laurent Ferro-Famil, Maxim Neumann

TH1.103: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00

TH1.103 Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Marco Tedesco and Dorothy K. Hall 8:20

TH1.103.1 CHARACTERISTICS OF RECENT TRENDS IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SNOW COVER Thursday EXTENT Ross Brown, Stephen Déry 8:40 TH1.103.2 RECENT ICE SHEET AND GLACIER ELEVATION CHANGES IN GREENLAND FROM AIRCRAFT LASER ALTIMETRY. William Krabill, Robert Thomas, John Sonntag, Serdar Manizade 9:00 TH1.103.3 ALASKAN GLACIOLOGY FROM SPACE Richard Forster, Jeff Van Looy, Dorothy K. Hall, Ryo Michishita 9:20 TH1.103.4 MULTITEMPORAL, MULTISENSOR FUSION FOR MONITORING CRYOSPHERIC CHANGES IN ANTARCTICA FROM ICESAT ALTIMETRY AND IMAGERY Beata Csatho, Toni Schenk, Taehun Yoon, Sudhagar Nagarajan 9:40 TH1.103.5 MODELING TIMESERIES OF MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE AT DOME-C, ANTARCTICA, USING NEW SNOW STRUCTURE MEASUREMENTS. Ludovic Brucker, Hélène Brunjail, Ghislain Picard, Laurent Arnaud, Jean-Marc Barnola, Paul Duval, Michel Fily

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TH1.104: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00

TH1.104 Change Detection in Forested Landscapes I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Curtis Woodcock and Bruce Chapman 8:20 TH1.104.1 CHANGE DETECTION IN IMAGE TIME-SERIES AFFECTED BY DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE AND PHENOLOGICAL VARIABILITY: APPLICATION TO FOREST DISTURBANCE MONITORING Eric Nielsen, Mark Finco, Everett Hinkley 8:40 TH1.104.2 EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF L BAND POLSAR DATA TO DISCRIMINATE DEFORESTATION INCREMENT AREAS IN AMAZON RAIN FOREST Júlio Bandeira Guerra, Corina da Costa Freitas, José Claudio Mura 9:00 TH1.104.3 NON-LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS TO IDENTIFY FUNCTIONAL FORMS OF DEFORESTATION Shojiro Tanaka, Ryuei Nishii 9:20 TH1.104.4 MAPPING FOREST CHANGE WITH LANDSAT 7 SLC-OFF DATA Mutlu Ozdogan, Curtis E. Woodcock 9:40 TH1.104.5 USE OF OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR ASSESSING LAND USE AND ECOSYSTEM CARBON STOCK IN SLASH-AND-BURN ECOSYSTEMS IN THE MOUNTAINOUS MAINLAND OF LAOS Yoshio Inoue, Jiaguo Qi, Albert Olioso

TH1.105: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00

TH1.105 Sensing and Modeling Ocean Physics Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Naoto Ebuchi and Roland Romeiser 8:20 TH1.105.1 SUBINERTIAL VARIATIONS IN THE SOYA WARM CURRENT REVEALED BY HF OCEAN RADARS, COASTAL TIDE GAUGES, AND BOTTOM-MOUNTED ADCP Naoto Ebuchi, Yasushi Fukamachi, Kay Ohshima, Masaaki Wakatsuchi

Thursday 8:40 TH1.105.2 INVESTIGATION OF ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES AND ROTORS IN THE MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER USING SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES Werner Alpers 9:00 TH1.105.3 THE IMPACT OF SURFACE SCATTERING ON OCEAN ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (ABL) WIND PROFILE ESTIMATES FROM AN AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR Tao Chu, Stephen Frasier, Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Paul Chang, James Carswell 9:20 TH1.105.4 MEASURING AND MODELING THE NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION OF THE SEA FOR BACKSCATTER Plant William, William Keller, Kenneth Hayes, Gene Chatham 9:40 TH1.105.5 SEDIMENT MODELING BASED ON RADAR OBSERVED SURFACE HYDRODYNAMICS Stephan Sedlacek, Friedwart Ziemer, Marius Cysewski

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TH1.107: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00

TH1.107 Image Analysis for Classification and Detection Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: William Emery and Sebastiano Serpico 8:20 TH1.107.1 ACTIVE LEARNING OF VERY-HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL IMAGERY WITH SVM: ENTROPY VS MARGIN SAMPLING Devis Tuia, Frédéric Ratle, Fabio Pacifici, Alexei Pozdnoukhov, Mikhail Kanevski, Fabio Del Frate, Domenico Solimini, William J. Emery 8:40 TH1.107.2 CONTEXTUAL UNMIXING OF GEOSPATIAL DATA BASED ON GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS AND MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS Ryuei Nishii, Shuji Kawaguchi, Akiko Nakamoto, Yoko Sawamura 9:00 TH1.107.3 REGION-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF MULTISENSOR OPTICAL-SAR IMAGES Raffaele Gaetano, Gabriele Moser, Giovanni Poggi, Giuseppe Scarpa, Sebastiano Serpico 9:20 TH1.107.4 ASSESSMENT OF FEATURE SELECTION TECHNIQUES FOR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFICATION OF SATELLITE IMAGERY Tarek Habib, Jordi Inglada, Gregoire Mercier, Jocelyn Chanussot 9:40 TH1.107.5 MODELING AND CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES FOR MULTI-BAND CHANGE DETECTION Karin Griffis, Maja Bystrom

TH1.108: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00

TH1.108 Interferometry I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Howard Zebker and Othmar Frey 8:20

TH1.108.1 PALSAR SCANSAR-SCANSAR INTERFEROMETRY Thursday Masanobu Shimada 8:40 TH1.108.2 ADVANCES IN TIME SERIES PERSISTENT SCATTERER INSAR Howard Zebker, Piyush Agram 9:00 TH1.108.3 TECTONIC PARAMETERS DERIVED FROM WRAPPED SAR INTERFEROGRAMS Béatrice Pinel-Puysségur, Rémi Michel, Jean-Philippe Avouac 9:20 TH1.108.4 BISTATIC POLINSAR SCENARIO AND EVALUATION BY FOREST SCATTERING SIMULATIONS Ludovic Villard, Irena Hajnsek, Pierre Borderies, Konstantinos Papathanassiou 9:40 TH1.108.5 POTENTIAL OF ERS-2/ENVISAT TANDEM EXPERIMENT FOR GENERATING LOW- TOPOGRAPHY DEMS Franz Meyer, Zhong Lu, Richard Guritz, Don Atwood

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TH1.109: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00

TH1.109 Space Hyperspectral Sensors and Programs I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Thomas Cooley and David Goodenough 8:20 TH1.109.1 THE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER FOR THE COASTAL OCEAN (HICO) ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION Michael Corson, Daniel Korwan, Robert Lucke, William Snyder, Curtiss Davis 8:40 TH1.109.2 THE PRISMA PROGRAM Claudio Galeazzi, Andrea Sacchetti, Andrea Cisbani, Gianni Babini 9:00 TH1.109.3 RESULTS OF THE DECADAL SURVEY HYSPIRI IMAGING SPECTROMETER CONCEPT STUDY: A HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO AND HIGH UNIFORMITY GLOBAL MISSION TO MEASURE PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND FUNCTIONAL TYPE Robert Green, Greg P. Asner, Stephen Ungar, Robert Knox 9:20 TH1.109.4 ENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING AND ANALYSIS PROGRAM (ENMAP) – RECENT ADVANCES AND STATUS Hermann Kaufmann, Luis Guanter, Karl Segl, Stefan Hofer, Klaus-Peter Förster, Timo Stuffler, Andreas Mueller, Rudolf Richter, Heike Bach, Patrick Hostert, Christian Chlebek 9:40 TH1.109.5 EARTH OBSERVING ONE (EO-1): LESSONS NOT LEARNED! Stephen Ungar

TH1.110: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00

TH1.110 Remote Sensing of Agricultural Production and Sustainability I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Paul Doraiswamy and Charles Walthall 8:20 TH1.110.1 SOME INFORMATION NEEDS FOR AGRICULTURE Dorsey Plunk, Sheryl Kunickis, Leonard Jolley 8:40 TH1.110.2 LOW-ALTITUDE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY TECHNIQUE TO ASSESS EPHEMERAL

Thursday GULLY EROSION James Frankenberger, Chi-Hua Huang, Kossi Nouwakpo 9:00 TH1.110.3 THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING AND COMPUTER MODELING AS AIDS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF INVASIVE PLANT SPECIES IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. Raymond Carruthers, Sarah Swope, David Bubenheim, Christopher Potter, Marc Kramer, Lee Johnson 9:20 TH1.110.4 REMOTE SENSING AND MODELING METHODS FOR CROP GRAIN YIELD ASSESSMENT Paul C. Doraiswamy, Bakhyt Akhmedov, Sushil Milak, Alan Stern 9:40 TH1.110.5 MAPPING EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND DROUGHT AT LOCAL TO CONTINENTAL SCALES USING THERMAL REMOTE SENSING Martha C. Anderson, William P. Kustas

168 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

TH1.111: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00

TH1.111 Improving Access to Earth Science Data: New Tools and Services I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Hampapuram Ramapriyan and Francis Lindsay 8:20 TH1.111.1 MODELING AND ON-THE-FLY SOLUTIONS FOR SOLID EARTH SCIENCES: WEB SERVICES AND DATA PORTAL FOR EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM Yehuda Bock, Brendan Crowell, Linette Prawirodirdjo, Paul Jamason, Ruey-Juin Chang, Peng Fang, Melinda Squibb, Marlon Pierce, Xiaoming Gao, Frank Webb, Sharon Kedar, Robert Granat, Jay Parker, Danan Dong 8:40 TH1.111.2 USING THE NASA NEESPI PORTAL DATA TO STUDY LAND, CLIMATE, AND SOCIO- ECONOMIC CHANGES IN NORTHERN EURASIA Gregory Leptoukh, Suhung Shen, Ivan Csiszar, Peter Romanov, Tatiana Loboda, Irina Gerasimov 9:00 TH1.111.3 PROVIDING GRIDDED ATMOSPHERIC RADIANCE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM MODIS AND AIRS INSTRUMENTS ON NASA’S AQUA SATELLITE Milton Halem, Curt Tilmes, Yelena Yesha, David Chapman, Phuong Nguyen 9:20 TH1.111.4 INTEGRATING AND MANAGING DATA FROM MULTIPLE A-TRAIN SENSORS Andrey Savtchenko, Steven Kempler, Peter Smith, Gregory Leptoukh, Graeme Stephens, David Winker 9:40 TH1.111.5 THE ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION PROCESSING SYSTEM (ACPS): EXTENDING OZONE PROCESSING TO THE COMMUNITY Curt Tilmes

TH1.203: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00

TH1.203 Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 203 Thursday Co-Chairs: Shuji Shimizu and Chandrasekar V. Chandra 8:20 TH1.203.1 EVALUATION OF THE EFFECT OF THE ORBIT BOOST OF THE TRMM SATELLITE ON THE PR RAIN ESTIMATES Shuji Shimizu, Toshio Iguchi, Riko Oki, Masafumi Hirose, Tetsuya Tagawa 8:40 TH1.203.2 EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF SURFACE REFERENCE TECHNIQUES FOR THE TRMM PR Shinta Seto, Taikan Oki, Toshio Iguchi 9:00 TH1.203.3 DERIVATION OF SUB-FOOTPRINT SCALE SIGMA^0 OBSERVED BY TRMM PRECIPITATION RADAR Tetsuya Tagawa, Shuji Shimizu, Riko Oki 9:20 TH1.203.4 BROADENING TRMM-PR REFLECTIVITY SPECTRUM BASED ON HIGHLY-SENSITIVE CLOUDSAT-CPR DATA FOR USE IN AUGMENTED DIURNAL PRECIPITATION STUDIES Eric A. Smith, Kwo-Sen Kuo, Hezekiah M. Carty 9:40 TH1.203.5 SOME APPROACHES TO VALIDATING TRMM AND GPM RADAR PRODUCTS AND ALGORITHMS Robert Meneghini, Liang Liao, John Kwiatkowski, Toshio Iguchi

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TH2.101: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.101 3D Urban Mapping I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Zhiqiang Chen and Karin Hedman 10:20 TH2.101.1 EXTRACTION OF BUILDING HEIGHTS FROM VHR SAR IMAGERY USING AN ITERATIVE SIMULATION AND MATCH PROCEDURE Dominik Brunner, Guido Lemoine, Lorenzo Bruzzone 10:40 TH2.101.2 3D URBAN REMOTE SENSING USING DUAL-BASELINE POL-INSAR IMAGES AT L-BAND Stefan Sauer, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Andreas Reigber, Eric Pottier 11:00 TH2.101.3 CLASSIFICATION OF BASIC ROOF TYPES BASED ON VHR OPTICAL DATA AND DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL Silvia Valero, Jocelyn Chanussot, Philippe Gueguen 11:20 TH2.101.4 BUILDING DETECTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION POLSAR DATA BY COMBINING REGION AND EDGE INFORMATION Yinghua Wang, Florence Tupin, Chongzhao Han, Jean-Marie Nicolas 11:40 TH2.101.5 OPTIMAL PROCESSING FOR GEOMETRIC AND TOPOLOGICAL FEATURES EXTRACTION FROM TERRASAR-X DATA Houda Chaabouni-Chouayakh, Mihai Datcu

TH2.102: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.102 Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Ridha Touzi and Jean-Claude Souyris 10:20 TH2.102.1 URBAN FEATURE CHARACTERIZATION USING POLARIMETRIC AND POL-IN SAR DATA Ridha Touzi, Karim Mattar, Laurence Gray 10:40 TH2.102.2 COHERENT DECOMPOSITION OF FULLY POLARIMETRIC RADAR DATA Yoshio Yamaguchi, Jun Nakamura, Kazuyasu Aoyama, Hiroyoshi Yamada Thursday 11:00 TH2.102.3 SETHI, THE NEW ONERA MULTISPECTRAL AIRBORNE SAR SYSTEM Philippe Dreuillet, Gregory Bonin, Olivier Ruault du Plessis, Sebastien Angelliaume, Hubert Cantalloube, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Xavier Dupuis 11:20 TH2.102.4 ASSESSMENT OF TERRASAR-X DUAL-POL MODES FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY: A STUDY CASE IN FERLO REGION, SENEGAL Jean-Claude Souyris, Nadine Pourthié, Céline Tison, Murielle Lafaye, Jean-Pierre Lacaux, Oscar Miranda, Alain Arnaud, Anne Urdiroz 11:40 TH2.102.5 PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE SUPER-RESOLUTION PROCESSING OF POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR TOMOGRAPHY Honglei Chen, Dayalan Kasilingam

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TH2.103: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.103 Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Marco Tedesco and Dorothy K. Hall 10:20 TH2.103.1 A WIDEBAND RADAR FOR ICE SHEET SURFACE ELEVATION MEASUREMENTS AND NEAR-SURFACE INTERNAL LAYER MAPPING Cameron Lewis, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Heather Owen, Aqsa Patel, Deebu Abi, Carl Leuschen, Sivaprasad Gogineni 10:40 TH2.103.2 MAPPING SNOW GRAIN SIZE OVER GREENLAND FROM MODIS Alexei Lyapustin, Yujie Wang, Marco Tedesco, Alexander Kokhanovsky 11:00 TH2.103.3 BALTIC SEA ICE THICKNESS CHARTS BASED ON THERMODYNAMIC SNOW/ICE MODEL, C-BAND SAR CLASSIFICATION AND ICE MOTION DETECTION Juha Karvonen, Bin Cheng, Markku Similä, Martti Hallikainen 11:20 TH2.103.4 COMPARISON OF AIRBORNE RADAR ALTIMETER AND GROUND-BASED KU-BAND RADAR MEASUREMENTS ON THE ICE CAP AUSTFONNA, SVALBARD Ola Brandt, Robert L. Hawley, Jack Kohler, Jon Ove Hagen, Elizabeth Morris, Julian B. T. Scott, Trond Eiken, Thorben Dunse, Geir Moholt 11:40 TH2.103.5 ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH ARCTIC GLACIERS WITH ASAR DATA Anthony Doulgeris, Kirsty Langley, Torbjørn Eltoft

TH2.104: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.104 Recent Advances in Change Detection Techniques Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Francesca Bovolo and Andrew French

10:20 Thursday TH2.104.1 A MULTILEVEL CONTEXTUAL APPROACH TO CHANGE DETECTION FOR VERY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES Chunlei Huo, Keming Chen, Zhixin Zhou, Hanqing Lu, Jian Cheng 10:40 TH2.104.2 DETECTION OF LAND COVER CHANGE USING AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK WITHIN A TEMPORAL SLIDING WINDOW ON MODIS TIME SERIES DATA Jan Olivier, Konrad Wessels, Seare Araya 11:00 TH2.104.3 DEVELOPMENT OF A SCALE INDEPENDENT APPROACH FOR LANDSCAPE PATTERN METRICS USING FOURIER VECTOR ANALYSIS OF SATELLLITE IMAGES Alvin Spivey, Anthony Vodacek 11:20 TH2.104.4 OBJECT-LEVEL SEMANTIC CHANGE INTERPRETATION FOR MULTI-BAND REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY Karin Griffis, Maja Bystrom 11:40 TH2.104.5 LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND ITS SIMULATION USING GIS, LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY AND THE MARKOV MODEL Jiayu Wu, Hongguang Cheng, Ayan Zeng, Fanghua Hao, Dan Wang, Li Gong

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TH2.105: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.105 High Resolution Microwave Sensing of Ocean Wind and Waves Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: William Plant and Werner Alpers 10:20 TH2.105.1 AN L-BAND WIND RETRIEVAL MODEL FUNCTION DERIVED FROM PALSAR Osamu Isoguchi, Masanobu Shimada 10:40 TH2.105.2 OBSERVATION OF BORA EVENTS USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR Jochen Horstmann, Werner Alpers, Richard P. Signell 11:00 TH2.105.3 CROSS COMPARISON OF ALOS PALSAR L-BAND WIND RETRIEVAL MODEL FUNCTIONS Frank M. Monaldo, Donald R. Thompson 11:20 TH2.105.4 COINCIDENT ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVE SIGNATURES FROM ENVISAT ASAR AND MERIS Jochen Horstmann, Todd Sikora, Iain Cameron, Nathaniel S. Winstead 11:40 TH2.105.5 VALIDATION AND EVALUATION OF QUIKSCAT ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION WIND RETRIEVAL IN THE GULF OF MAINE Amanda Plagge, Doug Vandemark, David G. Long

TH2.107: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.107 Kernel Methods for Image Analysis and Classification Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Gregoire Mercier and Gustavo Camps-Valls 10:20 TH2.107.1 MULTIVARIATE AR MODEL BASED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE FOR MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Pei-Gee Peter Ho, Chi-Hau Chen 10:40 TH2.107.2 A FLEXIBLE METRIC NEAREST-NEIGHBOR CLASSIFICATION BASED ON THE DECISION BOUNDARIES OF SVMS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE

Thursday Hsin-Hua Ho, Bor-Chen Kuo, Jin-Shiuh Taur, Cheng-Hsuan Li 11:00 TH2.107.3 SEMI-SUPERVISED KERNEL ORTHOGONAL SUBSPACE PROJECTION Luca Capobianco, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Andrea Garzelli 11:20 TH2.107.4 VERY-HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS AND SVM Devis Tuia, Fabio Pacifici, Alexei Pozdnoukhov, Christian Kaiser, Domenico Solimini, William J. Emery 11:40 TH2.107.5 GRADIENT OPTIMIZATION FOR MULTIPLE KERNEL’S PARAMETERS IN SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES CLASSIFICATION Alberto Villa, Mathieu Fauvel, Jocelyn Chanussot, Paolo Gamba, Jón Atli Benediktsson

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TH2.108: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.108 Interferometry II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Howard Zebker and Tom Lukowski 10:20 TH2.108.1 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENTS FROM MERIS AND SAR Franz Meyer, Richard Bamler, Ronny Leinweber, Juergen Fischer 10:40 TH2.108.2 BAYESIAN DEM RECONSTRUCTION FROM SAR AND OPTICAL DATA Giampaolo Ferraioli, Fabio Baselice, Vito Pascazio 11:00 TH2.108.3 TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF SCANSAR INTERFEROGRAMS USING THE SMALL BASELINE SUBSET (SBAS) TECHNIQUE Krishnavikas Gudipati, Sean M. Buckley 11:20 TH2.108.4 AN EXPERIMENT OF GB-SAR INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF TARGET DISPLACEMENT AND ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION Hoonyol Lee, Jae-Hee Lee, Seong-Jun Cho, Nak-Hoon Sung, Jung-Ho Kim 11:40 TH2.108.5 SCANSAR DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY AND WET DELAY CORRECTION: CASE STUDIES IN DANGXIONG, TIBET Jianying Jia, Qiming Zeng, Jian Jiao, Ying Li, Xiai Cui

TH2.109: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.109 Space Hyperspectral Sensors and Programs II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: David Goodenough and Thomas Cooley 10:20

TH2.109.1 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACEBORNE IMAGING SPECTRSOCOPY Thursday (ISIS) WORKING GROUP A. Alexander Held 10:40 TH2.109.2 THE WORLD’S FIRST COMMERCIAL HYPERSPECTRAL DATA SERVICE FROM EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE Duke Takahashi 11:00 TH2.109.3 ADVANCED RESPONSIVE TACTICALLY-EFFECTIVE MILITARY IMAGING SPECTROMETER (ARTEMIS) Thomas Cooley, Ronald Lockwood, Richard Nadile, James Gardner, Peter Armstrong, Abraham Payton, Thom Davis, Stan Straight 11:20 TH2.109.4 METHODOLOGY FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF VEGETATION CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE FROM SPACE IN THE FRAME OF THE FLEX MISSION PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES Luis Guanter, Karl Segl, Hermann Kaufmann, Wout Verhoef, Luis Alonso, Luis Gomez-Chova, Jose Moreno, Juergen Fischer, Rene Preusker, Ferran Gascon 11:40 TH2.109.5 SPACEBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE GENERATION BASED ON AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE Junping Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Haibin Jiao, Ye Zhang

173 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

TH2.110: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.110 Remote Sensing of Agricultural Production and Sustainability II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Charles Walthall and Ana Barros 10:20 TH2.110.1 LIDAR BASED PARTICULATE FLUX MEASUREMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL FIELD OPERATIONS Gail E. Bingham, Christian Marchant, Vladimir V. Zavyalov, Douglas J. Ahlstrom, Kori Moore, Thomas D. Wilkerson, Larry E. Hipps, Randal S. Martin, Jerry L. Hatfield, John Prueger 10:40 TH2.110.2 IMPROVED REMOTELY-SENSED ESTIMATES OF CROP RESIDUE COVER BY INCORPORATING SOILS INFORMATION Guy Serbin, C. S. T. Daughtry, E. Raymond Hunt Jr., Gregory W. McCarty, Paul C. Doraiswamy, David J. Brown 11:00 TH2.110.3 COMBINING HYPERSPECTRAL INDICES FOR NITROGEN PREDICTIONS IN CORN CANOPIES Pengfei Chen, Driss Haboudane, Nicolas Tremblay, Jihua Wang, Philippe Vigneault 11:20 TH2.110.4 WATER FOR FOOD PRODUCTION - OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND-WATER MANAGEMENT USING REMOTE SENSING Ana P. Barros 11:40 TH2.110.5 PHYSICALLY-BASED METHODS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF CROP WATER REQUIREMENTS FROM E.O. OPTICAL DATA Francesco Vuolo, Guido D’Urso, Katja Richter, John Prueger, William P. Kustas

TH2.111: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.111 Improving Access to Earth Science Data: New Tools and Services II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Francis Lindsay and Hampapuram Ramapriyan 10:20 TH2.111.1 BUILDING NEW TOOLS OUTSIDE THE BROWSER: A NEW LOOK AT CUSTOM STAND- ALONE APPLICATIONS FOR EARTH DATA ACCESS AND VISUALIZATION Bruce Caron Thursday 10:40 TH2.111.2 MINING SCIENTIFIC DATA USING INTERNET AS THE COMPUTER Sara Graves, Rahul Ramachandran, Manil Maskey, Ken Keiser, Christopher Lynnes, Long Pham 11:00 TH2.111.3 RECENT EXPERIENCE IN ASSEMBLING DATA SETS FOR PRECIPITATION RESEARCH AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DATA SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS Kwo-Sen Kuo, Hezekiah M. Carty, Eric A. Smith, Steve Bilanow, Michael A. Hensley, Deborah Vane, Graeme Stephens 11:20 TH2.111.4 DATA ACCESS TOOLS - FILLING THE USABILITY GAP IN CRYOSPHERE DATA David Gallaher, Julienne Stroeve, Ross Swick, Ronald L. S. Weaver 11:40 TH2.111.5 A WEB SERVICES APPROACH FOR IEOS Francis Lindsay, Lyndon Oleson

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TH2.203: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.203 Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Chandrasekar V. Chandra and Shuji Shimizu 10:20 TH2.203.1 HYBRID NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUE TO ESTIMATE RAINFALL FROM TRMM MEASUREMENTS V. Chandrasekar, Amin Alqudah, Yanting Wang 10:40 TH2.203.2 PRECIPITATION FEATURE CHARACTERISTICS DURING AN AFRICAN EASTERLY WAVE PASSAGE Robert Cifelli, Timothy Lang, Steven Rutledge 11:00 TH2.203.3 AN IMPROVED OCEANIC RAINFALL RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR THE SEAWINDS SCATTEROMETER Khalil Ahmad, W. Linwood Jones, Takis Kasparis 11:20 TH2.203.4 PROGRESS TOWARD VALIDATION OF QUIKSCAT ULTRA-HIGH-RESOLUTION RAIN RATES USING TRMM PR Michael P. Owen, David G. Long 11:40 TH2.203.5 A KALMAN FILTER APPROACH TO CMORPH PASSIVE MICROWAVE RAINFALL ESTIMATION Robert Joyce, Pingping Xie

TH2.210: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00

TH2.210 Atmospheric Remote Sensing for Air Pollution and Human Health Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Juliet Wallace and Verne Kaupp

10:20 Thursday TH2.210.1 DEVELOPING AEROSOL HEIGHT FROM MODIS FOR AIR QUALITY APPLICATION AND SYNERGY WITH CALIPSO MEASUREMENTS IN EVALUATING RETRIEVAL UNCERTAINTIES D. Allen Chu, James Szykman, Chieko Kittaka, Mian Chin, H.-C. Liu, Lorraine Remer, David Winker 10:40 TH2.210.2 APPLICATION OF SATELLITE AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH AND AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATING SPATIAL GRADIENT OF FINE PARTICULATE MATTER IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA James Szykman, Jassim Al-Saadi, Rebecca Rosen, Carol Bohnenkamp, D. Allen Chu, John Hair, Richard Ferrare, Chris Hostetler, Ajith Kaduwela, Gary Arcemont, Shobha Kondragunta, Chieko Kittaka, Jasper Lewis 11:00 TH2.210.3 STUDY OF GLOBAL AIR QUALITY AND BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE UV RADIATION FROM SATELLITES Pawan Bhartia, Nickolai Krotkov, Xiong Liu, Omar Torres, James Gleason 11:20 TH2.210.4 ANALYSIS OF THE INTERACTION OF AEROSOL TRANSPORT LAYERS ON LOCAL AIR QUALITY Chuen Gan, Leona Charles, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed 11:40 TH2.210.5 THE THREE DIMENSIONAL AIR QUALITY SYSTEM (3D-AQS) Raymond Hoff, Jill Engel-Cox

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TH3.101: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.101 3D Urban Mapping II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Dominik Brunner and Jocelyn Chanussot 13:20 TH3.101.1 LAND SUBSIDENCE MONITORING AND ANALYSIS USING MULTI-SOURCE MULTI- TEMPORAL DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS Pai-Hui Hsu 13:40 TH3.101.2 3D MEASUREMENT THROUGH PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHY Qiaozhen Huang, Shaoxing Hu 14:00 TH3.101.3 3D URBAN GEOLOGICAL MODELING AND ITS APPLICATION IN CHINA: TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENTS De-Fu Che, Li-Xin Wu, Zuo-Ru Yin 14:20 TH3.101.4 EXTRACTING HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION ABOUT HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS OF BEIJING USING SHADOW IN SPOT-5 DATA Zhiwei Ye, Lin Zhu, Huili Gong 14:40 TH3.101.5 PROBABILISTIC REPRESENTATION OF STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF URBAN BUILDINGS IN REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES Zhiqiang Chen, Tara Hutchinson

TH3.102: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.102 SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Carlos Lopez-Martinez and Eric Pottier 13:20 TH3.102.1 POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS OF DUAL-POL SAR IMAGERY John Kelly, Thomas Ainsworth, Jong-Sen Lee 13:40 TH3.102.2 REVIEW OF POLARIMETRIC INDICATORS FOR FOREST CHARACTERISATION OVER SEVERAL SITES

Thursday Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Sebastien Angelliaume, Isabelle Champion, Lars M. H. Ulander 14:00 TH3.102.3 AGRICUTLURAL VEGETATION PARAMETER ESTIMATION USING POL-INSAR Irena Hajnsek, Helmut Schön, Thomas Jagdhuber, Konstantinos Papathanassiou 14:20 TH3.102.4 DEFORMATION MAPS RETRIEVAL OF URBAN AREAS USING GROUND-BASED POLSAR ACQUISITIONS Luca Pipia, Xavier Fabregas, Albert Aguasca, Sergi Duque, Jordi J. Mallorqui, Carlos Lopez- Martinez 14:40 TH3.102.5 POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING MODEL DECOMPOSITION FOR POL-INSAR DATA Hiroyoshi Yamada, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Ryoichi Sato

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TH3.103: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.103 Active Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Simon Yueh and Helmut Rott 13:20 TH3.103.1 MONITORING CHANGES IN THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET FROM 1978 TO 2007 Benjamin Lambert, David G. Long 13:40 TH3.103.2 DECADAL MASS BALANCE OF THE GREENLAND AND ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS FROM HIGH RESOLUTION ELEVATION CHANGE ANALYSIS OF ERS-2 AND ENVISAT RADAR ALTIMETRY MEASUREMENTS Yonghong Li, Curt H. Davis 14:00 TH3.103.3 APPLICATION OF ALOS PALSAR AND LANDSAT ETM+ DATA FOR THE STUDY OF PERIGLACIAL FEATURES AND PERMAFROST WITHIN THE SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS, WESTERN ANTARCTICA Magaly Koch, Jerónimo López-Martínez, Thomas Schmid, Enrique Serrano, José Gumuzzio 14:20 TH3.103.4 VELOCITIES OF MAJOR OUTLET GLACIERS OF THE PATAGONIA ICEFIELD OBSERVED BY TERRASAR-X Dana Floricioiu, Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Michael Eineder 14:40 TH3.103.5 ESTIMATION OF ACCUMULATION AREA RATIO OF A GLACIER FROM MULTI- TEMPORAL SATELLITE IMAGES USING SPECTRAL UNMIXING Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Jeremy Van Ophem, Philippe Huybrechts

TH3.104: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.104 Change Detection in Land Use / Land Cover I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Ray Hunt and Marc Imhoff Thursday 13:20 TH3.104.1 ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF MODIS COLLECTION 5 ON CHANGE DETECTION IN THE BRAZILIAN SAVANNA Laerte Ferreira, Marlon Nemayer, Genival Fernandes, Manuel Ferreira, Nilson Ferreira 13:40 TH3.104.2 USING REMOTE SENSING DATA TO QUANTIFY CHANGES IN VEGETATION OVER PEATLAND AREAS Natasha MacBean, Mathias Disney, Philip Lewis, Phil Ineson 14:00 TH3.104.3 MAPPING THE HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF LAND-FALLING HURRICANES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES – A DEMONSTRATION FOR ISABEL Julien Brun, Ana P. Barros 14:20 TH3.104.4 FINE-RESOLUTION EROSION ESTIMATION ON LARGE SCALE BASED ON REMOTE SENSING DATA - AN APPROACH FOR TIBET AND CONNECTED REGIONS Mathias Leidig, Richard Gloaguen 14:40 TH3.104.5 RADAR POLAR DECOMPOSITION FOR THE CARTOGRAPHY OF NATURAL SURFACES Cedric Lardeux, Pierre-Louis Frison, Jean-Claude Souyris, Céline Tison, Benoît Stoll, Jean- Paul Rudant

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TH3.105: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.105 Optical Sensing in the Coastal Ocean Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Christoph Aubrecht and Giuliana Pennucci 13:20 TH3.105.1 EARTH OBSERVATION BASED ASSESSMENT OF ANTHROPOGENIC STRESS TO CORAL REEFS - A GLOBAL ANALYSIS Christoph Aubrecht, Christopher D. Elvidge, Mark Eakin 13:40 TH3.105.2 MULTI-ANGULAR MULTI-SPECTRAL POLARIZED REFLECTANCE FROM COASTAL WATERS FOR THE SEPARATION OF WATER ORGANIC AND INORGANIC PARTICULATE COMPONENTS Alberto Tonizzo, Rushane Dyer, Jing Zhou, Alex Gilerson, Jacek Chowdhary, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed 14:00 TH3.105.3 APPLICATION OF UV AND NIR BANDS FOR THE ADVANCED IOP RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS IN COASTAL WATERS Ioannis Ioannou, Nicholas Steiner, Jing Zhou, Alexander Gilerson, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed 14:20 TH3.105.4 AN INCREASED POTENTIAL FOR THE LANDSAT DATA CONTINUITY MISSION (LDCM) TO CONTRIBUTE TO WATER QUALITY STUDIES FOR INLAND, CASE 2 WATERS Aaron Gerace, John R. Schott 14:40 TH3.105.5 AIRCRAFT AND IN SITU SALINITY AND OCEAN COLOR MEASUREMENTS AND COMPARISONS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO Joel Wesson, Derek Burrage, Chris Osburn, Stephan Howden, Xiagong Chen

TH3.107: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.107 Image Classification - Techniques and Applications Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Lorenzo Bruzzone and Selim Aksoy 13:20 TH3.107.1 MULTIDIMENSIONAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON INFLUENCE CONTROLLERS OF THE CLASSES IN THE IMAGES Thursday Orlando Alves Maximo, David Fernandes 13:40 TH3.107.2 SEMI-SUPERVISED REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON CLUSTERING AND KERNEL MEANS Luis Gomez-Chova, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Javier Calpe-Maravilla 14:00 TH3.107.3 ON COMBINING UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION AND ONTOLOGY KNOWLEDGE Germain Forestier, Cédric Wemmert, Pierre Gançarski 14:20 TH3.107.4 HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION OF GRASS SPECIES IN NORTHEAST JAPAN Sildomar Monteiro, Kuniaki Uto, Yukio Kosugi, Kunio Oda, Yoshiyuki Iino, Genya Saito 14:40 TH3.107.5 AUTOMATIC MAPPING OF LINEAR WOODY VEGETATION FEATURES IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES Selim Aksoy, Gokhan Akcay, Gokberk Cinbis, Tom Wassenaar

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TH3.108: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.108 SAR Processing I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Charles Werner and Franz Meyer 13:20 TH3.108.1 A NEW SUPERRESOLUTION SAR IMAGING ALGORITHM BASED ON EXTRAPOLATION Ping Zhang, Ruliang Yang 13:40 TH3.108.2 IDENTIFICATION OF COHERENT SCATTERERS: SPECTRAL CORRELATION VS. MULTI- CHROMATIC PHASE ANALYSIS Vito Martino Giacovazzo, Alberto Refice, Fabio Bovenga, Nicola Veneziani 14:00 TH3.108.3 IMPROVEMENT OF RANGE AMBIGUITIES BY UP/DOWN-CHIRP CODING Josef Mittermayer, Steffen Wollstadt, Nuria Tous-Ramon, Adriano Meta 14:20 TH3.108.4 FOCUSING SAR DATA ACQUIRED FROM NON-LINEAR SENSOR TRAJECTORIES Othmar Frey, Christophe Magnard, Maurice Rueegg, Erich Meier 14:40 TH3.108.5 IMAGE REGISTRATION OF TERRASAR-X DATA USING DIFFERENT INFORMATION MEASURES Holger Nies, Otmar Loffeld, Baki Dönmez, Amina Ben Hammadi, Robert Wang

TH3.109: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.109 Future Space-based Optical Instruments Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Steve Ungar and Ronald Lockwood 13:20 TH3.109.1 DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPACT, LIGHTWEIGHT, PASSIVE FABRY-PEROT RADIOMETER FOR MEASUREMENTS OF TRACE GASES IN THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE

Elena Georgieva, William Heaps, Emily Wison Thursday 13:40 TH3.109.2 STATUS OF THE OPTICAL PAYLOAD AND PROCESSOR DEVELOPMENT OF ESA’S SENTINEL 3 MISSION Jens Nieke, Johannes Frerick, Juergen Stroede, Constantin Mavrocordatos, Bruno Berruti 14:00 TH3.109.3 STATUS OF ESA FUTURE EARTH OBSERVATION EXPLORER MISSIONS Gregory Bazalgette Courrèges-Lacoste, Paolo Bensi, Michael Berger, Jean-Loup Bézy, Bernardo Carnicero Dominguez, Malcolm Davidson, Mark Drinkwater, Yannig Durand, Florence Heliere, Paul Ingmann, Joerg Langen, Chung-Chi Lin, Roland Meynart, Helge Rebhan, Pierluigi Silvestrin, Alan Thompson 14:20 TH3.109.4 OPTICAL SENSING BY “SATURATION” WITH E-CORCE CONCEPT: ONE EARTH, ONE METER, ONE DAY Antikidis Jean-Pierre 14:40 TH3.109.5 OMPS - THE NEXT GENERATION SENSOR SUITE FOR GLOBAL OZONE MONITORING Kenneth Eastman, Scott Asbury, Lester Farwell, Quinn Remund, Juan Rodriguez

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TH3.110: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.110 Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Megan Weiner Lang and Bruce Chapman 13:20 TH3.110.1 APPLYING MULTI-ANGLE HYPERSPECTRAL DATA TO DETECT HUMAN-INDUCED CHANGES CAUSING WETLAND DEGRADATION IN SEMI-ARID AREAS (NATIONAL PARK LAS TABLAS DE DAIMIEL, SPAIN) Thomas Schmid, José Antonio Domínguez, Jesús Solana, José Gumuzzio, Magaly Koch 13:40 TH3.110.2 MAPPING WETLANDS COVER TYPES WITH DIRECTIONAL POLARIZATION SIGNATURES Vern C. Vanderbilt, Jonathan Greenberg, Gerald Livingston, Shruti Khanna, Leslie Morrissey, Susan L. Ustin, Ute Böttger 14:00 TH3.110.3 REMOTE MEASUREMENT AND MONITORING OF INLAND WATER HEIGHTS GLOBALLY USING MULTI-MISSION SATELLITE RADAR ALTIMETRY Jérôme Benveniste, Philippa Berry 14:20 TH3.110.4 MOSAICKING OF ALOS PALSAR DATA FOR GLOBAL WETLANDS MAPPING Bruce Chapman, Kyle McDonald, Laura Hess 14:40 TH3.110.5 A REMOTE SENSING MODEL ESTIMATING LAKE EVAPORATION Junming Wang, Ted Sammis, Vince Gutschick

TH3.111: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.111 Data Management and Systems II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 111 Chair: Hampapuram Ramapriyan 13:20 TH3.111.1 GEOBRAIN ONLINE RESOURCES FOR SUPPORTING COLLEGE-LEVEL DATA- INTENSIVE GEOSPATIAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION Meixia Deng, Liping Di 13:40

Thursday TH3.111.2 DATACASTING: INFORMED PULL OF EARTH SCIENCE DATA USING RSS Andrew Bingham, Timothy Stough 14:00 TH3.111.3 ESTABLISHMENT OF MAP UPDATE TECHNIQUE FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT BY USING GPS, GIS, AND REMOTE SENSING Mitoshi Moriya, Sota Shimano, Sayaka Takeuchi, Masaaki Shikada 14:20 TH3.111.4 TOWARDS A STANDARD ARCHIVAL FORMAT FOR SCIENCE DATA: STORING NASA ECS DATA USING HDF5 ARCHIVAL INFORMATION PACKAGES (AIP) Ruth M. Duerr, Kent (MuQun) Yang 14:40 TH3.111.5 AUTOMATING THE GENERATION AND COLLECTION OF PROVENANCE FOR LONG TERM GEOSCIENCE REMOTE SENSING DATA SETS Albert J. Fleig, Curt Tilmes, Mike Linda

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TH3.203: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.203 Global Precipitation Mission I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Chandrasekar V. Chandra and Gail Skofronick-Jackson 13:20 TH3.203.1 THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT (GPM) MISSION: OVERVIEW AND U.S. SCIENCE STATUS Arthur Hou 13:40 TH3.203.2 THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT (GPM) PROJECT Candace Carlisle, Ardeshir Azarbarzin 14:00 TH3.203.3 SIMULATION OF SPACE BORNE DUAL-WAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS BASED ON GROUND-BASED DUAL POLARIZED RADAR MEASUREMENTS: APPLICATION FOR GPM-DPR SYSTEM AND ALGORITHM EVALUATION Direk Khajonrat, V. Chandrasekar 14:20 TH3.203.4 CROSS CALIBRATION OF MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS IN THE GPM CONSTELLATION Thomas Wilheit, Keiji Imaoka, Misako Kachi, Akira Shibata, Christian Kummerow, Wesley Berg, Eric Stoner, W. Linwood Jones, Kaushik Gopalan, Christopher Ruf, Darren McKague, John J. Puckett, Fuzhong Weng, Banghua Yan, Song Yang, Arthur Hou, Gail Skofronick-Jackson 14:40 TH3.203.5 VICARIOUS CALIBRATION OF GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS Darren McKague, Christopher Ruf, John J. Puckett

TH3.210: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00

TH3.210 A Climate of Change -- NASA’s Applied Sciences Program I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Teresa Fryberger and Verne Kaupp Thursday 13:20 TH3.210.1 A CLIMATE OF CHANGE – NASA’S APPLIED SCIENCES PROGRAM Teresa Fryberger, Lawrence Friedl 13:40 TH3.210.2 APPLICATION OF NASA CLIMATE MODELS AND MISSIONS TO AGRICULTURE DSS: THE SOLUTIONS NETWORK APPROACH Cynthia Rosenzweig, Radley Horton 14:00 TH3.210.3 CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER RESOURCES Jared Entin, Paul Houser, C. Adam Schlosser, Charles Vorosmarty, Richard Lawford 14:20 TH3.210.4 MONITORING AND FORECASTING PROTECTED AREA ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS USING THE TERRESTRIAL OBSERVATION AND PREDICTION SYSTEM (TOPS) Ramakrishna Nemani, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Petr Votava, Forrest Melton, Weile Wang, Andrew Michaelis, Cristina Milesi, Samuel Hiatt 14:40 TH3.210.5 EXPANDED USE OF NASA SCIENCE FOR LAND RESOURCE DECISION MAKING: A PLAN FOR AGRICULTURE Bradley Doorn

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TH4.101: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.101 Urban Road Networks Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Rob J. Dekker and Gintautas Palubinskas 15:20 TH4.101.1 EVALUATION OF A STATISTICAL FUSION OF LINEAR FEATURES IN SAR DATA Karin Hedman, Stefan Hinz, Uwe Stilla 15:40 TH4.101.2 ROAD EXTRACTION AND NETWORK BUILDING FROM SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES USING A-PRIORI INFORMATION Rob Dekker 16:00 TH4.101.3 ROAD VEHICLE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION FROM VERY-HIGH-RESOLUTION COLOR DIGITAL ORTHOIMAGERY BASED ON OBJECT-ORIENTED METHOD Qulin Tan, Jinfei Wang, David Andrew Aldred 16:20 TH4.101.4 ROAD NETWORK DETECTION IN URBAN AREA FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES Xiaofang Li, Qulin Tan 16:40 TH4.101.5 SURVEY AND ANALYSIS OF LAND SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING APPLIED IN TRANSPORTATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE AND SYSTEM ENGINEERING Guoqing Zhou, Daiyong Wei

TH4.102: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.102 SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Carlos Lopez-Martinez and Eric Pottier 15:20 TH4.102.1 POLARIMETRIC AND POLARIMETRIC-INTERFEROMETRIC APPLICATIONS OF THE NASA/JPL UAVSAR Scott Hensley, Howard Zebker, Bruce Chapman, Charles Le, Cathleen Jones, Thierry Michel, Paul Rosen, Marc Simard 15:40

Thursday TH4.102.2 POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING ANALYSIS FOR SIMPLIFIED MAN-MADE STRUCTURE MODEL ON ROUGH AND/OR INCLINED GROUND PLANE Ryoichi Sato, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada 16:00 TH4.102.3 ESTIMATION OF THE EQUIVALENT NUMBER OF LOOKS IN POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGERY Stian Normann Anfinsen, Anthony Doulgeris, Torbjørn Eltoft 16:20 TH4.102.4 HYBRID-QUAD-POL SAR R. Keith Raney 16:40 TH4.102.5 IMPROVING RANGE AMBIGUITY PERFORMANCE IN QUAD-POL SAR Anthony Freeman, R. Keith Raney

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TH4.103: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.103 Active Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Helmut Rott and Simon Yueh 15:20 TH4.103.1 P-BAND POLARIMETRIC ICE SOUNDER: CONCEPT AND FIRST RESULTS Jorgen Dall, Carlos Cilla Hernández, Anders Kusk, Jan Balling, Steen Savstrup Kristensen 15:40 TH4.103.2 A VHF RADAR FOR DEPLOYMENT ON A UAV FOR BASAL IMAGING OF POLAR ICE William Blake, John Ledford, Chris Allen, Carl Leuschen, Sivaprasad Gogineni, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Lei Shi, Kevin Player 16:00 TH4.103.3 SAR IMAGE ANALYSIS TO ESTIMATE FREEZE-THAW DATES FOR A HIGH LATITUDE LAKE IN ALASKA Avinash Uppuluri, Randy Jost, Chris Luecke, Michael White 16:20 TH4.103.4 SIMULATION OF ASIRAS MULTILOOKED ECHOES FOR SNOW COVERED SEA ICE Marko Mäkynen, Martti Hallikainen 16:40 TH4.103.5 AN OVERVIEW OF THE GEOPHYSICAL VARIABLES CAUSING ICE ROUGHNESS STRUCTURES TO BE DETECTED ON SAR IMAGES. Eric Hudier

TH4.104: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.104 Change Detection in Urban Landscapes I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Paolo Gamba and Megan Lang 15:20 TH4.104.1 MONITORING AND MODELING URBAN LAND-USE CHANGE WITH MULTITEMPORAL

SATELLITE DATA Thursday Roland Goetzke, Matthias Braun, Hans-Peter Thamm, Gunter Menz 15:40 TH4.104.2 X-BAND INSAR OBSERVATIONS IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Sang-Wan Kim, Shimon Wdowinski, Falk Amelung, Timothy H. Dixon, Sang-Hoon Hong 16:00 TH4.104.3 A CRITICAL ANALYSIS TO GENERATE CHANGE DETECTION MAP USING SAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR LAND SUBSIDENCE MONITORING OF NEW ORLEANS CITY OF USA Vijaya Chamundeeswari, Dharmendra Singh, Kuldip Singh, Werner Weisbeck 16:20 TH4.104.4 PER PIXEL CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION FOR CLASSIFICATION OF VHR IMAGES OF URBAN AREAS Rik Bellens, Koen Douterloigne, Sidharta Gautama, Wilfried Philips 16:40 TH4.104.5 DEVELOPING AN APPROACH TO DETECT URBAN EXPANSION BY USING LANDSAT 7 ETM+ PANCHROMATIC DATA Qingxu Huang, Chunyang He, Peijun Shi, Yuanyuan Zhao, Yang Yang

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TH4.105: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.105 Surface Temperature and Salinity I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Adriano Camps and Sten Schmidl Søbjærg 15:20 TH4.105.1 PRECISE SST FOR CLIMATE APPLICATIONS FROM THE ADVANCED ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER (AATSR) ON ENVISAT. David Llewellyn-Jones, Gary Corlett 15:40 TH4.105.2 REGIONAL FUSED SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE SYSTEM FOR THE GULF OF MAINE Nadya Vinogradova, T. Scott Zaccheo, Christian Alcala, Doug Vandemark 16:00 TH4.105.3 GROUND-BASED GNSS-R MEASUREMENTS WITH THE PAU INSTRUMENT AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE SEA SURFACE SALINITY RETRIEVAL: FIRST RESULTS Juan Fernando Marchán-Hernandez, Nereida Rodríguez-Álvarez, Adriano Camps, Isaac Ramos-Pérez, Enric Valencia, Xavier Bosch-Lluis 16:20 TH4.105.4 EXTENDED OCEAN SALINITY ERROR BUDGET ANALYSIS WITHIN THE SMOS MISSION Roberto Sabia, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera 16:40 TH4.105.5 AIRBORNE L-BAND RADIOMETER OBSERVATIONS OF SEA SURFACE SALINITY GRADIENTS AND AZIMUTH SIGNATURES. Sten Schmidl Søbjærg, Niels Skou

TH4.107: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.107 Image Analysis and Classification - Quality Issues Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Chi Hau Chen and Luca Capobianco 15:20 TH4.107.1 A GENETIC AUTOMATIC GROUND-TRUTH VALIDATION METHOD FOR MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Noureddine Ghoggali, Farid Melgani 15:40 TH4.107.2 A METHOD FOR SELECTING TRAINING DATA AND ITS EFFECT ON AUTOMATED LAND

Thursday COVER MAPPING OF LARGE AREAS Rene R. Colditz, Michael Schmidt, Rainer Ressl, Matthew C. Hansen, Stefan Dech 16:00 TH4.107.3 GENERATING HIGH-QUALITY TRAINING DATA FOR AUTOMATED LAND-COVER MAPPING Umaa Rebbapragada, Rachel Lomasky, Carla Brodley, Mark Friedl 16:20 TH4.107.4 DEM ACCURACY REQUIREMENTS FOR RELIABLE ORTHORECTIFICATION OF SAR AND OPTICAL DATA Leland Pierce 16:40 TH4.107.5 MODEL FREE EARTH OBSERVATION IMAGE ARTIFACTS DETECTION Alexandre Mallet, Mihai Datcu

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TH4.108: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.108 SAR Processing II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Charles Werner and Beatrice Pinel-Puyssegur 15:20 TH4.108.1 RADAR BACKSCATTERING MEASUREMENTS OF PADDY RICE FIELD USING MULTIFREQUENCY(L, C AND X) AND FULL POLARIZATION Yi Hyun Kim, Sukyoung Hong, Jisung Park, Eunsun Lee, Hoonyol Lee 15:40 TH4.108.2 COMPARISON BETWEEN SAR ATMOSPHERIC PHASE SCREENS AT 30’ BY MEANS OF ERS AND ENVISAT DATA Daniele Perissin, Claudio Prati 16:00 TH4.108.3 THE IMPACT OF ADAPTIVE SPECKLE FILTERING ON MULTI-CHANNEL SAR CHANGE DETECTION Jason Fritz, V. Chandrasekar 16:20 TH4.108.4 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MULTIVARIATE INTERPOLATION METHODS FOR SCATTERED DATA IN GEOSCIENCE APPLICATIONS Matthew Foster, Adrian Evans 16:40 TH4.108.5 DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF UWB TEM HORN ANTENNA FOR GROUND PENETRATING RADAR APPLICATIONS Chine-Ping Kao, Jing Li, Richard Liu

TH4.109: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.109 Technologies for Hyperspectral Imaging Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Alex Held and John Cipar

15:20 Thursday TH4.109.1 LABORATORY-BASED BRDF OF SOIL SAMPLES FOR REMOTE SENSING Georgi Georgiev, Charles Gatebe, James Butler, Michael King 15:40 TH4.109.2 ON THE USE OF THIN PLASTIC FILMS AS GAS-PHASE ANALOG TARGETS Ronald Resmini, Herbert Mitchell 16:00 TH4.109.3 SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO FOR SPECTRAL SENSORS WITH OVERLAPPING BANDS Zhipeng Wang, J. Scott Tyo 16:20 TH4.109.4 AN ARTIFICIAL WOODLAND SCENE MODEL FOR SIMULATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEM Bin Zou, Guihua Gu, Donglai Chen, Huijun Li 16:40 TH4.109.5 HYDROCARBON DETCTION USING A PLURALITY OF SPECTRAL BANDS A. Ballard Andrews, Wei-Chuan Shih

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TH4.110: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.110 Pollution Monitoring Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Daniela Vladutescu and Ferdinand Nunziata 15:20 TH4.110.1 AEROSOL LAYER PROPERTIES AND THEIR EFFECT ON OPTICAL DEPTH RELATIONS TO PM2.5 CONCENTRATIONS Viviana Vladutescu, Julian Diaz, Leona Charles, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed 15:40 TH4.110.2 A BPM TWO-SCALE CONTRAST MODEL Ferdinando Nunziata, Piotr Sobieski, Maurizio Migliaccio 16:00 TH4.110.3 IDENTIFICATION OF ROADS FOR URBAN RUNOFF POLLUTION MANAGEMENT Mi-Hyun Park, Michael Stenstrom 16:20 TH4.110.4 SEASONAL EVALUATION OF TEMPERATURE INVERSION OVER CAIRO Mohamed Abd El-Kader, Basman El Hadidi, Atef Sherif 16:40 TH4.110.5 MONITORING OF OIL SPILLS IN THE NORTH CASPIAN SEA USING SAR IMAGERY AND MULTI-SENSOR SATELLITE DATA Konstantin Litovchenko, Andrei Ivanov

TH4.111: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.111 Data Management and Systems III Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Robert Rank and Andrew Bingham 15:20 TH4.111.1 THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT SCIENCE DATA SEGMENT: THE FINAL AS BUILT DESCRIPTION Robert J. Schweiss, Mary Hunter, Shahin Samadi 15:40 TH4.111.2 THE NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT (NPP) SCIENCE DATA SEGMENT (SDS) DATA DEPOSITORY AND DISTRIBUTION ELEMENT (SD3E) SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE Evelyn L. Ho, Robert J. Schweiss Thursday 16:00 TH4.111.3 EXPERIENCES DEVELOPING OAIS-RM RECOMMENDED SUBMISSION AGREEMENTS Robert Rank, Constantino Cremidis, Scott McCormick, Jeremy Throwe 16:20 TH4.111.4 NASA’S EARTH SCIENCE DATA SYSTEMS STANDARDS PROCESS Richard Ullman, Yonsook Enloe 16:40 TH4.111.5 CLIMATE DATA PROCESSING MADE EASY Scott Mindock

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TH4.203: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.203 Global Precipitation Mission II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Chandrasekar V. Chandra and Gail Skofronick-Jackson 15:20 TH4.203.1 THE NEXT GENERATION OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE RAIN RETRIEVALS IN THE GPM ERA Kyle Hilburn, Frank Wentz 15:40 TH4.203.2 GSMAP PASSIVE MICROWAVE PRECIPITATION RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM: ALGORITHM DESCRIPTION AND VALIDATION Kazumasa Aonashi 16:00 TH4.203.3 GPM PRE-LAUNCH ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT FOR PHYSICALLY-BASED FALLING SNOW RETRIEVALS Gail Skofronick-Jackson, Ali Tokay, Anne Kramer, David Hudak 16:20 TH4.203.4 MICROPHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF SNOWFALL EVENTS DURING C3VP Robert Cifelli, Timothy Lang, Steven Rutledge, V. Bringi, Walter Petersen, Roger Shi, Wei-Kuo Tao, Steve Lang, David Hudak 16:40 TH4.203.5 RAIN AND SNOWFALL RETRIEVALS AT HIGH LATITUDES USING MILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS Chinnawat Surussavadee, David Staelin

TH4.210: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00

TH4.210 A Climate of Change -- NASA’s Applied Sciences Program II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Thursday, July 10, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Teresa Fryberger and Verne Kaupp

15:20 Thursday TH4.210.1 NASA SCIENCE SERVING SOCIETY: IMPROVING CAPABILITIES FOR FIRE CHARACTERIZATION TO EFFECT REDUCTION IN DISASTER LOSSES Vincent Ambrosia, Everett Hinkley 15:40 TH4.210.2 MERGING MODELS WITH OBSERVATIONS FOR EARTH MONITORING DATA FOR EARLIER FAMINE EARLY WARNING Molly Brown, Christopher Funk, Richard Choularton, James Verdin 16:00 TH4.210.3 USING REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS TO DETERMINE LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY IN CORN Karl Huemmrich, Lawrence Corp, Andrew Russ, Elizabeth Middleton, William P. Kustas, John Prueger, Yen-Ben Cheng 16:20 TH4.210.4 VARIATION OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION IN THE NORTHWEST OF MEXICO AND ITS EFFECT ON THE CLIMATE CHANGE Judith Ramos, Ildiko Pelczer, Fernando González Villareal 16:40 TH4.210.5 MONITORING OF SUMMER HIGH TEMPERATURE BY USING MODIS DATA Hao Yan, Jiahua Zhang

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THP.A: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.A Change Detection in Forested Landscapes II Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area A Co-Chairs: Matthieu Molinier and Vern Vanderbilt THP.A.1 IMPACT OF LAND-USE CHANGES ON SOIL EROSION IN UPPER REACHES OF SHIYANG RIVER IN ARID NORTHWEST CHINA Guojing Yang, Yongjian Ding, Lihua Zhou THP.A.2 STUDY ON ECO-ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN MADOI COUNTY, SOURCE REGIONS, CHINA Wenrui Wang, Yu Cheng, Chunhui Zhang, Chunhua Li, Junsheng Nie THP.A.3 CLEARCUT MAPPING FOR SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT USING TERRASAR-X IMAGERY Matthieu Molinier, Yrjö Rauste, Tuomas Häme THP.A.4 ASSESSING LAND COVER PERFORMANCE IN THE GRAND CANAL OF CHINA USING SPOT DATA Jianxi Huang, Feng Mao, Wenbo Xu, Zhihua Tang

THP.B: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.B Change Detection in Land Use / Land Cover II Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area B Co-Chairs: Ray Hunt and Marc Imhoff THP.B.1 INTEGRATION OF SPATIAL CHAOTIC MODEL AND TYPE-2 FUZZY SETS FOR SAR IMAGES CHANGE DETECTION Yu-Chang Tzeng, Dana Chen, Kun-Shan Chen THP.B.2 LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION WITH MULTI-POLARIZATION SAR IMAGERY Fan Wu, Xi Chen, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Yixian Tang THP.B.3 THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR MODELING DIFFERING LEVELS OF GRASSLAND IMPROVEMENT WITHIN THE WELSH LANDSCAPE Johanna Breyer, Richard Lucas, Katie Medcalf, Peter Bunting THP.B.4 OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH AND TEXTURE ANALYSIS FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES Antoine Lefebvre, Thomas Corpetti, Laurence Hubert-Moy THP.B.5 COMPARISON OF TWO APPROACHES ON TERRAIN CHANGE DETECTION AND Thursday UPDATING Song Xia, Huanzhuo Ye, Laixing Liu THP.B.6 SPATIAL CHANGES OF MINQIN OASIS IN THE NORTHWEST CHINA OVER THE LAST 2000 YEARS Yaowen Xie, Fahu Chen, Yuan Qi THP.B.7 FRACTAL STUDIES ON CHANGES OF LAND USE STRUCTURE AND URBAN FORM IN TIANJIN CITY Xinping Bai THP.B.8 CHANGE DETECTION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGE BASED ON ORIENTED-OBJECT AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE Di Fengping, Zhu Chongguang, Liu Yani THP.B.9 INTEGRATION OF RADARSAT-2 DUAL AND QUAD POLARIZATION DATA INTO PIPELINE THIRD PARTY ENCROACHMENT MONITORING Carl Howell, Karen Russell, Sherry McHugh, Desmond Power, Thomas Puestow, Charles Randell

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THP.C: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.C Change Detection in Urban Landscapes II Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area C Co-Chairs: Weiqi Zhou and Florence Tupin THP.C.1 AGENT-BASED APPROACHES TO LAND USE CHANGE IN EASTERN CHINA Chang-Qing Ke THP.C.2 A COMPARISON OF OBJECT-ORIENTED WITH PIXEL-BASED LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION IN THE BALTIMORE METROPOLITAN AREA USING MULTITEMPORAL HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING DATA Weiqi Zhou, Austin Troy, Morgan Grove THP.C.3 A STUDY ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN REGION USING HYPER-SPECTRUM DATA AT AVIRIS Yuichiro Amano, Naoki Takagi THP.C.4 STUDY ON LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE WITH THE INTEGRATION OF RS, GIS AND GPS TECHNOLOGIES--THE CASE OF BAOTOU CITY IN THE ECOTONE OF AGRICULTURE-ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, CHINA Yu Cheng, Gang Li, Chunhui Zhang, Wenrui Wang, Junsheng Nie THP.C.5 MONITORING URBAN EXPANSION IN BEIJING, CHINA BY MULTI-TEMPORAL TM AND SPOT IMAGES Wenli Huang, Huiping Liu, Qingzu Luan, Mu Bai THP.C.6 BEIJING CITY LAND USE DYNAMIC MONITORING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL SPOT DATA FROM 1986 TO 2004 Xianlong Zhu, Feng Mao, Jianxi Huang THP.C.7 EXPLORING THE 3D SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF CULTURAL PRINTS USING REMOTE SENSING AND GISCIENCE: “ISTANBUL: THE CITY ON SEVEN HILLS” Yaprak Has THP.C.8 LAND USE DYNAMIC CHANGES AND ECOLOGICAL EFFECT IN THE JIAODONG REGION, CHINA Wenchen Jia, Juanle Wang, Chongliang Sun THP.C.9 DYNAMIC SIMULATION ON THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF LAND USE IN THE AREA OF CONTINUED HYDROPOWER STATION CONSTRUCTION IN THE UPPER

REACH OF YELLOW RIVER Thursday Dan Wang, Hongguang Cheng, Fanghua Hao, Ayan Zeng, Jiayu Wu, Li Gong THP.C.10 STUDIES ON THE CHANGES AND DRIVING FORCES OF LANDSCAPE PATTERN OF URBAN LAND USE IN TIANJIN CITY Xinping Bai THP.C.11 ANALYSIS OF LAND USE AND LANDSCAPE PATTERN IN BEIJING CITY BASED ON GIS Ronghua Wang, Xiaojuan Li, Yonghua Sun, Jian Lian

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THP.D: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.D Land Use/Land Cover Classification I Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area D Co-Chairs: Lorenzo Bruzzone and Laurence Hubert-Moy THP.D.1 ASSESSMENT OF SUITABILITY OF LAND USES USING A MULTI-SOURCE INFORMATION FUSION METHOD Lei Wang, Xiangzheng Deng, Jinyan Zhan, Yujiang Li, Hongbo Su THP.D.2 VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN ARID AND SEMI-ARID ECOTONE – A CASE STUDY IN YANCHI COUNTY Yuan Qi, Changzhen Yan, Jianhua Wang, Zhen Xu THP.D.3 TASSELED TAP TRANSFORMATION AND NEURAL NETWORKS FOR THE DESIGN OF AN OPTIMUM IMAGE CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM USING MULTISPECTRAL DATA Giorgio Licciardi, Cosimo Putignano, Fabio del Frate THP.D.4 AN OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH OF EXTRACTING SPECIAL LAND USE CLASSIFICATION BY USING QUICK BIRD IMAGE Wenbo Xu, Guoping Zhang, Jianxi Huang THP.D.5 DETECTION OF WOODED HEDGEROWS IN HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES USING AN OBJECT-ORIENTED METHOD Clémence Vannier, Laurence Hubert-Moy THP.D.6 NEURAL NETWORKS AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF SATELLITE IMAGERY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS FOR LAND COVER MAPS Fabio Del Frate, Fabio Pacifici, Roberto Basili, Matteo Luciani, Francesco Mesiano, Rossi Riccardo THP.D.7 HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING BASED QUANTIFICATION OF THE REMNANT VEGETATION COVER IN THE ARAGUAIA RIVER BASIN, CENTRAL BRAZIL Manuel Ferreira, Laerte Ferreira, Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse, Fausto Miziara THP.D.8 LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MULTITEMPORAL CHRIS/PROBA IMAGES AND MULTITEMPORAL TEXTURE Huiran Jin, Peijun Li, Wenjie Fan THP.D.9 SOUTHERN ITALY BURN SCAR MAPPING BY MYME2 PROCEDURE USING IRS P6 LISS3 Barbara R. Hirn, Fabrizio Ferrucci THP.D.10 ECO-ENVIRONMENTAL SYNTHETIC ANALYSIS BASED ON RS AND GIS TECHNOLOGIES IN YELLOW RIVER BASIN, CHINA Siyuan Wang, Kun Fu, Wudi Wang, Chuanzhao Han, Tengbo Ma, Xingyu Fu THP.D.11 RBF NEURAL NETWORK SUPPORTED CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING Thursday IMAGES BASED ON TM/ETM+ IN NANJING Kai Cao, Bo Huang, Heng Lu, Biao Liu

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THP.E: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.E Land Use/Land Cover Classification II Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area E Co-Chairs: Mahta Moghaddam and Brian Markham THP.E.1 EXPANSION SCENARIOS OF THE BIOFUEL AGRIBUSINESS OVER SAVANNA AREAS IN CENTRAL BRASIL Noely Ribeiro, Laerte Ferreira, Nilson Ferreira THP.E.2 REGIONAL LAND DEGRADATION MAPPING BY DECISION TREE (DT) AND MODIS DATA IN A TRANSITION ZONE BETWEEN GRASSLAND AND CROPLAND OF NORTHEAST CHINA Shengbo Chen, Ping Rao THP.E.3 IMPACT OF ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION PROJECT ON VEGETATION VARIATION: A CASE STUDY IN NINGXIA PROVINCE, CHINA Hao Yan THP.E.4 THE MONITORING AND EFFECT EVALUATION OF RESTORING GRAZING TO GRASSLAND PROJECT IN MAQU COUNTY OF CHINA BASED ON EOS/MODIS DATA Jing Wang, Ni Guo, Xiaoping Wang, Jinsong Wang, Jie Zhang THP.E.5 RESEARCH ON THE LAND DESERTIFICATION OF BEIJING PIEDMONT PLAIN AREA BASED ON REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY Wenji Zhao, Ke Liu, Songmei Zhang, Zhuo-Wei Hu, Zhaoning Gong, Feina Lin, Hua Zhang, Yi Zheng THP.E.6 EVALUATION OF MODIS LAND COVER PRODUCT OF EAST CHINA Haobo Lin, Jindi Wang, Xiuping Jia, Yanchen Bo, Dongwei Wang THP.E.7 LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION IN QINLING MOUNTAINS IN CHINA, USING TIME- SERIES MODIS NDVI DATA Quanfang Wang, Li Xiao, Jiayong Li, Xin Mei

THP.F: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.F Land Use/Land Cover Classification III Session Type: Poster

Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Thursday Place: Poster Area F Co-Chairs: Vassilia Karathanassi and William Crosson THP.F.1 FROM MULTI-SPECTRAL TO HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERY: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE IMPROVEMENTS IN TERMS OF LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION Riccardo Duca, Fabio Del Frate, Ferran Gascon Roca THP.F.2 A METHOD TO ESTIMATE LAND COVER CHANGES BY USING CBERS2-CCD DATA AND GIS DATA Wenbo Xu, Zou Jinqiu, Jianxi Huang THP.F.3 ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL LAND COVER CHANGE USING THE ESA ROLLING ARCHIVES Maurice Borgeaud, Matthias Tschudi THP.F.4 EXTRACTING LAND USE INFORMATION FROM BEIJING-1 MICRO-SATELLITE IMAGES Cunjian Yang, Rong He THP.F.5 STUDIES ON THE CHANGE OF LAND USE/COVER AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICE VALUES OF THREE-BELT OF MOUNTAIN_OASIS_DESERT IN THE NORTHWESTERN CHINA Bo Li, Jian-Zhai Wu, Jie Chong, Li-Xia Hao, Xiao-Yuan Song, Xin-Shi Zhang THP.F.6 LAND COVER SEGMENTATION OF ALOS POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA Mohammed Dabboor, Vassilia Karathanassi, Alexander Braun THP.F.7 INTERPOLATING THE INFORMATION OF SITE-BASED SOIL ORGANIC CARBON STOCKS INTO SURFACE: A CASE STUDY IN THE NORTH CHINA PLAIN Jinyan Zhan, Nana Shi, Xiangzheng Deng, Hongbo Su, Dongsheng Qiu

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THP.G: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.G Applications in Land Use / Land Cover Characterization I Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area G Chair: Lori Mann Bruce THP.G.1 INTERFEROMETRIC DATA FUSION FOR TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILE RECONSTRUCTION Ferdaous Chaabane THP.G.2 STUDY ON THE INTEGRATED INDICATORS OF THE ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT EVALUATION ON KARST ROCK DESERTIFICATION Xiaoping Gu, Fei Yu, Yuxiang Luo, Jianguo Mo THP.G.3 A MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL-BASED FUSION APPROACH TO SEGMENTATION OF SAR AND OPTICAL IMAGES Yi Yang, Chongzhao Han, Deqiang Han THP.G.4 APPROXIMATION ERROR IN DIFFERENTIAL SAR INTERFEROMETRY Xilong Sun, Anxi Yu, Bin Cai, Diannong Liang THP.G.5 REMOTE SENSING DETECTION FOR COAL MINING SUBSIDENCE-RESULTED WATER BODY BY MODIFIED NDWI INDEX Baodong Ma, Lixin Wu, Shanjun Liu THP.G.6 VERY HIGH RESOLUTION INTERFEROGRAM ACQUISITION CAMPAIGN AND ANALYSIS Xavier Dupuis, Hélène Oriot THP.G.7 RELATIVE RADIOMETRIC NORMALIZATION OF REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES BASED ON IMPROVED ASCR Xiaomin Yu, Yunhao Chen, Siyuan Liu Thursday

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THP.H: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.H Applications in Land Use / Land Cover Characterization II Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area H Co-Chairs: Zhuowei Hu and Andrew French THP.H.1 IMPACTS OF LAND USE AND COVER CHANGE ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES VALUE Cheng Zhang, Xiaobing Li, Li Zhang, Lingmei Huang, Yongqin Ge THP.H.2 THEMATIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM IKONOS IMAGERY BASED ON OBJECTS AND VARIOUS FEATURES Deyong Hu, Wenji Zhao, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Jiacun Li THP.H.3 LAND-USE/COVER MAPPING AND CHANGE DETECTION IN THE RUSTENBURG MINING REGION USING LANDSAT IMAGES Olusola Ololade, Harold Annegarn, Daniel Limpitlaw, Melanie Kneen THP.H.4 RESEARCH OF THE RESPONSE OF ECOSYSTEM TO LUCC IN BEIJING BASED ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES VALUATION Xu Xu, Xiaobing Li, Dandan Wang, Yongqin Ge, Chao Li THP.H.5 ECOCLIMAP-II ON EUROPE Stéphanie Faroux, Jean-Louis Roujean, Valéry Masson THP.H.6 LAND USE SUPERVISION AND MANAGEMENT BASED ON REMOTE SENSING IMAGE EVIDENCE Lijun Zhang, Qiu Li, Yuan Zhou, Changao Shi THP.H.7 PREDICTING SOIL ORGANIC CARBON DYNAMICS IN A REGIONAL LEVEL UNDER VARIOUS SCENARIOS USING DATA ASSIMILATION STRATEGY: A CASE STUDY IN THE NORTH CHINA PLAIN Xiangzheng Deng, Jinyan Zhan, Lei Wang, Hongbo Su, Huimin Yan THP.H.8 A MODULAR STANDARD FOR THE CHINESE CADASTRAL DOMAIN Weiwei Zhang, Qingyun Du, Zhongjun Zhao, Yan Guo, Hong Wang THP.H.9 ANALYSIS ON ALBEDO IN ARID REGION WITH ASYMMETRY SURFACE IN NORTHWEST CHINA FROM MODIS Jie Zhang, Jin Song Wang, Jing Wang, Xiao Ping Wang, Run Yuan Wang THP.H.10 HOUSING SPATIAL INFORMATION ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT BASED ON 3S Yan-Bing Wang, Huili Gong, Yan-Hui Wang, Zhuo-Wei Hu Thursday THP.H.11 HOUSEBREAKING COST EVALUATION SYSTEM BASED ON REMOTE SENSING IMAGE Lijun Zhang, Qiu Li, Yuan Zhou, Changao Shi

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THP.I: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.I Retrieval of Water and Energy Balance Parameters I Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area I Co-Chairs: John Galantowitz and Kaicun Wang THP.I.1 SPATI-TEMPORAL CHANGES OF NDVI AND THEIR RELATIONS WITH PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE IN YANGTZE RIVER BASIN FROM 1981 TO 2001 Li Zhang, Xiaoling Chen THP.I.2 ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF CULTIVATED LAND LOSS AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON CULTIVATED LAND POTENTIAL PRODUCTIVITY IN BEIJING, CHINA Yuanyuan Zhao, Chunyang He, Xiaobing Li, Qingxu Huang, Yang Yang THP.I.3 SIMULATING POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE DROUGHT TRANSITION ON LAND USE IN THE FARMING-PASTORAL ZONE OF NORTHERN CHINA Xiaobing Li, Hong Wang, Huiling Long, Xu Xu, Cheng Zhang THP.I.4 A GIS-BASED LOCAL SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION FOR DROUGHT RISK ASSESSMENT USING REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY IN ARID ENVIRONMENTS Meng-Lung Lin, Chien-Min Chu, Cheng-Wu Chen, Yu Cao, Jyh-Yi Shih, Yung-Tan Lee, Lih-Der Ho THP.I.5 MONITORING DROUGHT DYNAMICS IN THE EJIN OASIS USING DROUGHT INDICES FROM MODIS DATA Meng-Lung Lin, Yu Cao, Chung-Hsin Juan, Cheng-Wu Chen, I-Chen Hsueh, Qiu-Bing Wang, Yung-Tan Lee THP.I.6 UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND REMOTE SENSING INDICES USING MULTIVARIATE STEPWISE REGRESSION METHODS AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES Chung-Hsin Juan, Chia-Kai Yang, Chih-Hung Tan, Meng-Lung Lin THP.I.7 MONITORING OF GROUND SURFASE CONDITIONS OF OASES AROUND THE TARIM BASIN, CHINA Ayshamgul Wayit, Katsuaki Koike, Muhtar Qong Thursday

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THP.J: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.J Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters II Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area J Co-Chairs: Jerome Benveniste and James Smith THP.J.1 SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF WETLAND LOSS AND INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITY ON THE FITNESS OF MIGRATORY BIRD SPECIES James A. Smith, Jill L. Deppe THP.J.2 REMOTE SENSING RETRIEVAL OF DAILY EVAPOTRANSPIRATION OVER THE HEIHE RIVER BASIN BY INTEGRATING THE PENMAN METHOD Xingmin Li, Ling Lu, Xin Li, Wenfeng Yang, Chunlin Huang, Zhao Wang THP.J.3 SEMI-DISTRIBUTED DAILY RUNOFF PROCESS MODELING WITH THE AID OF GIS: A CASE STUDY OF YANQI CATCHMENT IN BEIJING, NORTHERN CHINA Mingfeng Lu, Qiang Zhao THP.J.4 ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS AND DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF PAHS IN YANGTZE RIVER SEDIMENTS Hongyuan Wang, Zhenyao Shen THP.J.5 WATER CONSTITUENT ESTIMATION IN PREALPINE LAKES WITH MERIS DATA AND A PHYSICALLY BASED PROCESSOR Daniel Odermatt, Thomas Heege, Jens Nieke, Mathias Kneubühler, Klaus Itten THP.J.6 EXTRACTING WATERBODY FROM BEIJING-1 MICRO-SATELLITE IMAGES BASED ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY Cunjian Yang, Rong He, Siyuan Wang THP.J.7 IDENTIFICATION OF EFFECTIVE WAVEBANDS OF AERIAL HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY FOR WETLAND VEGETATION MAPPING IN FORT. DRUM MARSH, FLORIDA Chung-Hsin Juan, Chih-Hung Tan, John Criag, Jonathan D. Jordan THP.J.8 A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE (GISCI) APPROACH TO EVALUATING AIRBOAT USE IN THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES James Trice, III, Rakesh Malhotra, Albert Barnett, Marguerite Madden THP.J.9 RETRIEVALS OF CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION IN TAIHU LAKE USING MODIS IMAGE DATA Shuo Yang, Shixin Wang, Yi Zhou, Fuli Yan

THP.J.10 ALOS PALSAR INVESTIGATIONS OF TONLE SAP, CAMBODIA Thursday Joong-Sun Won, Jung Hun Choi, Chang-Wook Lee THP.J.11 ESTIMATION OF GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY OF AN OMBROTROPHIC BOG IN SOUTHERN SWEDEN Per Schubert, Magnus Lund, Lars Eklundh

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THP.K: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.K Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters III Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area K Co-Chairs: Thomas Schmid and Aaron Gerace THP.K.1 ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT EFFECT ANALYSIS OF WETLAND CHANGE IN BEIJING REGION USING GIS AND RS Zhaoning Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Lin Zhu THP.K.2 EXTRACTING WETLAND INFORMATION FORM SPOT5 IMAGERY IN NANSIHU AREA OF SHANDONG PROVINCE Qiang Li, Feng Mao, Jianxi Huang, Qiang Hu, Wensheng Zhou, Ze Liu THP.K.3 ANALYSIS OF FLOOD INUNDATED AREA USING HYDROLOGICAL MODEL AND RADARSAT SAR IMAGERY Kyung Tak Kim, Jung Sool Park, Joo Hun Kim THP.K.4 THE CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION VARIABLE PROCESS AND CLIMATE VARIABLES IN ALPINE-COLD WETLAND IN ARID AREA Yan Dou, Xi Chen, Anming Bao, Geping Luo, Guli Jappar, Junli Li THP.K.5 MONITORING DE LA PLATA BASIN USING PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS Fernando Moccia, Mercedes Salvia, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Patricia Kandus, Haydee Karszenbaum, Francisco Grings, Gabriela Parmuchi, Albaro Soldano THP.K.6 A METHOD OF IDENTIFYING DEGRADATION OF RUOERGAI WETLAND IN Wenbo Xu, Antao Xie, Jianxi Huang THP.K.7 REMOTE SENSING AS A BASIC TOOLBOX FOR MONITORING WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS AND AS A SYSTEM OF SURVEILLANCE OF CYANOBACTERIAL HARMFUL ALGAE BLOOMS (SCYANOHABS) José Antonio Domínguez, Covadonga Alonso, Ana Alonso THP.K.8 TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW PATTERNS OBSERVED AT THREEMILE SLOUGH USING TWO RIVERSONDES Calvin Teague THP.K.9 COMPARISON OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS OF TIDAL FLAT ESTIMATED FROM AIRSAR AND ALOS OBSERVATIONS Junsu Kim, Wooil Moon Thursday

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THP.L: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.L Ocean Color Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area L Co-Chairs: Paul Bierman and Soe Hlaing THP.L.1 WATER COMPONENTS RETRIEVAL IN THE PEARL RIVER ESTUARY FROM MERIS DATA Hongyan Xi, Yuanzhi Zhang, Jinnian Chen THP.L.2 UNDERSTANDING PHYTOPLANKTON VARIABILITY THROUGHOUT SPENCER GULF, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, VIA SATELLITE DERIVED CHLOROPHYLL-A Paul Bierman, Megan Lewis, Jason Tanner, Bertram Ostendorf THP.L.3 APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES FOR MAPPING POSIDONIA OCEANICA MEADOWS Raffaella Matarrese, Maria Acquaro, Alberto Morea, Khalid Tijani, Maria Teresa Chiaradia THP.L.4 A SPECIALIZED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE FOR COASTAL WATER CHLOROPHYLL RETRIEVAL FROM WATER LEAVING REFLECTANCES Raffaella Matarrese, Vito De Pasquale, Maria Teresa Chiaradia, Guido Pasquariello THP.L.5 EVALUATION OF OCEAN COLOR ALGORITHM AND SPATIAL SCALES OF VARIABILITY USING MODIS AND SEAWIFS DATA IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC WATERS: THE BEAUFORT SEA Sélima Ben Mustapha, Pierre Larouche THP.L.6 CLIMATOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON THE BREEDING OF TERNS Graham Quartly, Sebastien Jaquemet, Matthieu Le Corre, David Monticelli, Jaime Ramos THP.L.7 PRE-LAUNCH PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF THE VIIRS OCEAN COLOR/ CHLOROPHYLL ALGORITHM Justin Ip, Bruce Hauss, Curtis Mobley THP.L.8 VALIDATION OF MODIS FLH ALGORITHM USING SATELLITE IMAGERY Soe Hlaing, Rushane Dyer, Jason Borrero, Jing Zhou, Alexander Gilerson, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed THP.L.9 VALIDATION OF CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION ALGORITHMS IN APULIAN COASTAL AREAS Vito De Pasquale, Raffaella Matarrese, Guido Pasquariello, Maria Teresa Chiaradia Thursday

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THP.M: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.M Surface Temperature and Salinity II Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area M Co-Chairs: Niels Skou and Rebecca Myers THP.M.1 SUMMERTIME SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FRONTS IN THE TAIWAN STRAIT Kuo-Wei Lan, Ming-An Lee, Yi Chang, Hsueh-Jung Lu, Chen-Hsin Liao THP.M.2 UPWELLING DETECTION IN AVHRR SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST) IMAGES USING NEURAL-NETWORK FRAMEWORK Swapnil Chaudhari, Ramprasad Balasubramanian, Avijit Gangopadhyay THP.M.3 MODELING OF L-BAND FOAM EMISSIVITY AND IMPACT ON SURFACE SALINITY RETRIEVAL Victor Raizer THP.M.4 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE SMOS LEVEL 2 RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM: OPTIMIZATION OF THE COST FUNCTION. Marco Talone, Adriano Camps, Carolina Gabarró, Roberto Sabia, Mercè Vall-llossera, Baptiste Mourre, Jordi Font THP.M.5 THE SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSION - AN OVERVIEW Susanne Mecklenburg, Yann Kerr, Jordi Font, Achim Hahne THP.M.6 VALITATION OF AVHRR/MODIS/AMSR-E SATELLITE SST PRODUCTS IN THE WEST TROPICAL PACIFIC Peng Guo, Yanchen Bo THP.M.7 SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS INFLUENCE ON SALINITIES OBSERVED WITH AN AIRBORNE L-BAND MICROWAVE RADIOMETER: MODEL INTER-COMPARISONS, VALIDATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SATELLITE SALINITY RETRIEVAL Derek Burrage, Joel Wesson, David Wang, Stephan Howden, Nicolas Reul THP.M.8 SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND CHLOROPHYLL-A FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH OCEANIC FRONTS IN THE EAST CHINA SEA Ming-An Lee, Yi Chang, Jui-Wen Chan, Qian-Wei Zhu, Ming-Zhi Hong, Kuo-Tien Lee THP.M.9 VARIABILITY OF SURFACE HEAT BUDGET IN CHINA COASTAL SEAS Hongna Wang, Jinnian Chen, Yijun He THP.M.10 RECENT RESULTS ON THE ACCURATE MEASURTEMENTS OF THE DIELECTRIC CONSTANT OF SEAWATER AT 1.413 GHZ Roger Lang, Yalcin Tarkocin, Cuneyt Utku, David Le Vine THP.M.11 MODELING THE SPECTRAL SHAPE OF ABSORPTION BY WATER CONSTITUENTS IN TAIHU LAKE Qinghua Fu, Shixin Wang, Yi Zhou, Fuli Yan, Yani Liu Thursday THP.M.12 A NEW TSUNAMI DETECTION CONCEPT USING SPACE BASED MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY Rebecca Myers, John Draim, Paul Cefola, Victor Raizer

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THP.N: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.N Clouds and Precipitation I Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area N Chair: Yanting Wang THP.N.1 A COMPARISON OF SHORT TERM CLOUD FORECASTS GENERATED USING A NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL INITIALIZED WITH SATELLITE LIQUID WATER PATH ASSIMILATION TO THOSE PRODUCED BY ADVECTING SATELLITE NEPHANALYSIS FIELDS James Drake THP.N.2 IDENTIFICATION OF ATMOSPHERIC BROWN CLOUDS (ABCS) USING CALIPSO MEASUREMENTS Jianping Huang, Patrick Minnis, Bin Chen THP.N.3 TENDENCY OF DRYNESS/WETNESS OVER NORTHWEST CHINA IN RECENT 50 YEARS Jinsong Wang, Jianhong Tao THP.N.4 THE STUDY ON EVAPOTRANSPIRATION’S PARAMETER RETRIEVAL FORM RS DATA AND IT’S VALIDATION-WITH ZHELIN BASIN AS AN EXAMPLE Chongliang Sun, Dong Jiang, Wenchen Jia THP.N.5 SATELLITE IMAGERY PERSPECTIVES ON TYPHOON INTENSITY AND ITS VARIATION Koung-Ying Liu, Tian-Yow Shyu, Chung-Chih Liu THP.N.6 MULTIANGULAR POLARIZED CHARACTERISTICS OF CIRRUS CLOUDS AT 1380 NM Tianhai Cheng, Xingfa Gu, Liangfu Chen, Tao Yu THP.N.7 INFLUENCE OF ICE SURFACE EMISSIVITY VARIATIONS ON THE ACCURACY OF WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL IN POLAR REGIONS USING AMSU-B CHANNELS Mu Qiao, Jungang Miao THP.N.8 MODELING ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS OF INSAR MEASUREMENTS BASED ON MERIS AND GPS OBSERVATIONS Huili Gong, Youquan Zhang, Xiaojuan Li, Angsheng Li, Beibei Chen, Huan Zhou, Yonghua Sun THP.N.9 TOTAL RAINFALL IN RELATION TO METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS OVER TRIVANDRUM Rajasri Sen Jaiswal, S. Uma Vijaysrinivasan THP.N.10 ANALYSIS OF QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION OF PRECIPITATION USING DIFFERENT ALGORITHMS WITH DOPPLER RADAR DATA Thursday Yuehong Shao, Wanchang Zhang

199 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

THP.O: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.O Clouds and Precipitation II Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area O Co-Chairs: Christopher Williams and K-S Kuo THP.O.1 INTEGRATED RETRIEVAL OF SURFACE AND ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS OVER THE ARCTIC FROM AMSR-E SATELLITE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA USING INVERSE METHODS Christian Melsheimer, Georg Heygster, Leif Toudal Pedersen THP.O.2 THE APPLICATION OF TROPICAL RAINFALL POTENTIAL TECHNIQUE IN TAIWAN AREAS Chung-Chih Liu, Sung-Ching Chi, Hsin-Chia Yang THP.O.3 DETERMINATION OF ICE WATER CONTENT IN CONVECTIVE CLOUD USING SATELLITIC MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT AND LIGHTING ACTIVITY Fang Xiang, Wang Xin, Qiu Hong, Zhu Yuanjing THP.O.4 THE APPLICATION OF AMSU DATA FOR THE ENVIROMENTAL WATER VAPOR TRANSPORTATION AROUND THE TROPICAL CYCLONES Wang Xin, Fang Xiang, Qiu Hong, Zhu Yuanjing THP.O.5 MIE VERSUS POINT MATCHING ALGORITHM FOR RADAR RAIN PROPERTIES RETRIEVAL Dirk Klugmann, Ondrej Fišer THP.O.6 POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUD MODELING AND SEASONAL FORECASTS WITH SATELLITE DATA Ryan Aschbrenner, James Griffin, Hilary Snell THP.O.7 RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION VARIABILITY ESTIMATED USING ENSEMBLE STATISTICS Christopher Williams THP.O.8 NETWORKED WAVEFORM SYSTEM FOR RANGE VELOCITY AMBIGUITY MITIGATION Nitin Bharadwaj, Chandrasekar V. Chandra THP.O.9 A NOVEL SOLID-STATE, DUAL-POLARIZED, DUAL WAVELENGTH PRECIPITATION DOPPLER RADAR / RADIOMETER James Carswell, Steven Bidwell, Robert Meneghini THP.O.10 SCALABLE MULTIFUNCTION DENSE RADAR NETWORK Anthony P. Hopf, Eric J. Knapp, David J. McLaughlin THP.O.11 WEATHER RADAR NETWORK DESIGN PRINCIPLES Francesc Junyent, V. Chandrasekar Thursday

200 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

THP.P: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.P Land Ice and Snow I Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area P Co-Chairs: Giovanni Macelloni and Marco Tedesco THP.P.1 SYNTHETIC RADIOMETRIC DATA ASSIMILATION SCHEME FOR ESTIMATION OF SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT USING THE ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER. Ally Mounirou Toure, Kalifa Goïta, Alain Royer THP.P.2 CAPABILITIES OF FULL-POLARIMETRIC PALSAR/ALOS FOR SNOW EXTENT MAPPING Nicolas Longepe, Masanobu Shimada, Sophie Allain, Eric Pottier THP.P.3 DETECTION OF PAN-ARCTIC TERRESTRIAL SNOWMELT FROM QUIKSCAT, 2000 – 2005 Libo Wang, Chris P. Derksen, Ross Brown THP.P.4 A COMPARISION OF SNOWPACK PROPERTIES DERIVED FROM SSM/I EMISSIVITY DATA WITH SNOWPACK PROPERTIES DERIVED FROM SSM/I BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DATA Narges Shahroudi, Amir E Azar, Alfred Powell, Reza Khanbilvardi THP.P.5 A RE-ANLYSIS OF COLD LAND PROCESSES FIELD EXPERIMENT (CLPX) DATA Amir E Azar, Alfred Powell, Dugwon Seo, Reza Khanbilvardi THP.P.6 THE RADIATION BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS OF THIN SNOW COVER BASED ON FIELD MEASUREMENTS BY A MULTI-FREQUENCY MICROWAVE RADIOMETER Sheng Chang, Lixin Zhang, Jiancheng Shi, Lingmei Jiang THP.P.7 COMPARISON OF DRY SNOW EMISSION MODEL AND THE PRIMARY STUDY ON SATELLITE DATA SIMULATION Tianjie Zhao, Lingmei Jiang, Lixin Zhang, Jinyang Du THP.P.8 DETERMINATION OF SNOW EMISSION ON LAKE ICE FROM AIRBORNE PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS Anna Kontu, Sami Kemppainen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Jouni Pulliainen THP.P.9 A PERMANENT SCATTERERS METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF DEFORMATION OVER PERMAFROST REGIONS OF -TIBETAN PLATEAU Chou Xie, Zhen Li, Xinwu Li THP.P.10 PULSE ELECTROMAGNETIC SOUNDING OF THE PERMAFROST LAYERED MEDIUM Valery Mironov, Konstantin Muzalevsky Thursday THP.P.11 MELTING SNOW IN GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA FROM SPACE-BORNE MICROWAVE DATA: UPDATED TRENDS, CLIMATE MODELS AND CLIMATE PATTERNS Marco Tedesco, Xavier Fettweis, Andrew Monaghan, David Bromwich

201 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

THP.Q: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.Q Land Ice and Snow II Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area Q Co-Chairs: Edward Kim and Richard Kelly THP.Q.1 THE GLACIER IDENTIFICATION USING SAR INTERFERMETRIC AND POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION IN QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU Zhen Li, Jianmin Zhou, Bangsen Tian, Chou Xi THP.Q.2 ESTIMATION THE MOVEMENT OF GLACIER IN QINHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU USING SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY Jianmin Zhou, Zhen Li THP.Q.3 DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS USING A GB-SAR INTERFEROMETER FOR MONITORING GLACIERS: THE CASE STUDY OF BELVEDERE GLACIER Massimiliano Pieraccini, Linhsia Noferini, Guido Luzi, Giovanni Macaluso, Daniele Mecatti, Carlo Atzeni THP.Q.4 ASTER-DERIVED DEMS FOR GLACIER STUDIES: COMPARISON OF FOUR SOFTWARE PACKAGES Adina Racoviteanu, Siri Jodha Khalsa THP.Q.5 VARIABILITY IN CENTRAL ASIA SEASONAL SNOW COVER DURING THE MODIS PERIOD OF RECORD Siri Jodha Khalsa, Vladimir Aizen THP.Q.6 REFLECTANCE PROPERTIES OF SNOW AND FOREST CANOPY: IMPACT ON SNOW RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS Miia Eskelinen, Jouni Pulliainen, Sari Metsämäki, Anna Kontu, Hanne Suokanerva THP.Q.7 LONG TERM ANALYSES ON SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL EVALUATION OF SNOW COVERS IN NORTHERN CHINA BY USING RS AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA Xue-Mei Bi, Wan-Chang Zhang THP.Q.8 ENHANCEMENT OF THE MODIS SNOW AND ICE PRODUCT SUITE UTILIZING IMAGE SEGMENTATION James C. Tilton, Dorothy K. Hall, George A. Riggs THP.Q.9 OBSERVATIONS OF SMALL DEVIATIONS IN GLACIER VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS Richard Norland THP.Q.10 EVALUATING THE UTILITY OF SEAWINDS/QUIKSCAT SCATTEROMETER OBSERVATIONS FOR MONITORING ICE PHENOLOGY ON GREAT BEAR AND GREAT SLAVE LAKES, CANADA Stephen Howell, Kyung-Kuk Kang, Laura Brown, Claude R. Duguay Thursday

202 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

THP.R: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.R Land Ice and Snow III Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area R Co-Chairs: Richard Forster and Ross Brown THP.R.1 INSAR COHERENCE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES FOR SNOW COVER MAPPING IN HIMALAYAN REGION Gulab Singh, Gopalan Venkataraman, V. Kumar, Y. S. Rao, Sneh Mani THP.R.2 THE H/A/ALPHA POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION THEOREM AND COMPLEX WISHART DISTRIBUTION FOR SNOW COVER MONITORING Gulab Singh, Gopalan Venkataraman, V. Kumar, Y. S. Rao, Sneh Mani THP.R.3 LONG-TERM CHANGES OF SNOW DEPTH IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE BASED ON THE SNOW RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Toshio Koike THP.R.4 SPACEBORNE INSAR TECHNIQUE FOR STUDY OF HIMALAYAN GLACIERS USING ENVISAT ASAR AND ERS DATA Vijay Kumar, Gopalan Venkataraman, Gulab Singh, Yalamanchali Subramanyam Rao, Sneh Mani

THP.S: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.S Sea Ice Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area S Co-Chairs: Thorsten Markus and Kari Luojus THP.S.1 A STUDY ON SEA ICE OBSERVATION IN THE SEA OF OKHOTSK BY POLARIMETRIC SAR Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Kazuki Nakamura, Fumihiko Nishio THP.S.2 SEA ICE SAR FEATURE EXTRACTION BY NON-NEGATVE MATRIX AND TENSOR FACTORIZATION Juha Karvonen, Arto Kaarna

THP.S.3 COMPARISON BETWEEN ENVISAT SAR AND 3-D LASER SCANNER STATISTICS FOR Thursday THE BALTIC SEA ICE Markku Similä, Marko Mäkynen, Istvan Heiler, Martti Hallikainen THP.S.4 AN AUTOMATED APPROACH FOR SEA ICE MAPPING AND ICE FRACTION DETERMINATION FOR THE FUTURE GOES-R ADVANCED BASELINE IMAGER (ABI) Marouane Temimi, Hosni Ghedira, Rouzbeh Nazari, Kim Smith, Reza Khanbilvardi, Peter Romanov THP.S.5 CONJUNCTIVE RADAR AND LASER ALTIMETRY DATA PROCESSING TO MEASURE SNOW THICKNESS Deepthi Puthalapat, Carl Leuschen, Thorsten Markus, Donald Cavalieri, William Krabill, John Sonntag, Mathew Sturm, James Maslanik THP.S.6 DEVELOPMENT OF GROUNDING LINE DATABASE AT ANTARCTICA BY INSAR TECHNIQUE Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, Koichiro Doi, Kazuo Shibuya

203 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

THP.T: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.T Microwave Scattering and Propagation I Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area T Co-Chairs: Carry Rappaport and Monique Bernier THP.T.1 INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN MECHANISMS APPEARING IN FORESTED AREA FOR MONOSTATIC AND BISTATIC CONFIGURATIONS. Sami Bellez, Cyril Dahon, Hélène Roussel THP.T.2 DECOMPOSITION OF POLARIMETIRC SCATTERING OF PADDY RICE Junichi Susaki, Yoshifumi Kawatani THP.T.3 SCATTERING FROM A DIELECTRIC CIRCULAR CYLINDER OF FINITE LENGTH Wenzhe Yan, Hao Wu, Du Yang, JinAu Kong THP.T.4 FORWARD PROPAGATION OVER OIL SPILLS ON SEA SURFACES FOR A COASTAL COHERENT RADAR Nicolas Pinel, Christophe Bourlier THP.T.5 FDTD INVESTIGATION FOR THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM THE TARGET ABOVE A RANDOMLY ROUGH SEA SURFACE Juan Li, Li-Xin Guo, Hao Zeng THP.T.6 MODELING OF HEIGHT SPECTRUM AND RADAR CROSS SECTION OF OIL SLICKS ON SEA SURFACES Nicolas Pinel, Christophe Bourlier THP.T.7 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR GROUND CLUTTER DATA Yanzhao Wu, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Xiaoyang Wen, Bo Zhang THP.T.8 APPLICATION OF GIS IN THE ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE USING DATA FROM AMSR Ruofei Zhong, Peipei Wang, Jianxi Huang Thursday

204 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

THP.U: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.U Volume and Surface Scattering Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area U Co-Chairs: Carey Rappaort and Paul Siqueira THP.U.1 MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT RADAR REAL-TIME IMAGING MODELING AND ALGORITHM Lei Wentai, Su Yi THP.U.2 CALCULATING FAR-FIELD PATTERNS OF ANTENNAS POSITIONED ON GLACIAL ICE Mike Hughes, Kenneth Demarest THP.U.3 BISTATIC SCATTERING FROM A SEA-LIKE ONE-DIMENSIONAL ROUGH SURFACE WITH THE PERTURBATION THEORY IN HF-VHF BAND Yohann Brelet, Christophe Bourlier THP.U.4 INTERPRETATION OF PERTURBATIVE SOLUTION FOR THE SCATTERING FROM LAYERED STRUCTURE WITH ROUGH INTERFACES Pasquale Imperatore, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio THP.U.5 POLARIMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION OF MAGNETIC FLAT DIPOLE EMBEDDED IN MULTILAYER STRUCTURES Sidnei J. S. Sant’Anna, José Carlos Lacava, David Fernandes THP.U.6 CORRELATION BETWEEN THE NRCS AND THE WIND SPEED OVER SEA IN BOTH MONOSTATIC AND BISTATIC CONFIGURATIONS Ahmad Awada, Ali Khenchaf, Arnaud Coatanhay THP.U.7 STUDY OF EMISSION FROM FINITE-SIZE OBJECTS USING FDTD Luis Camacho, Mingyu Lu, Saibun Tjuatja THP.U.8 MICROWAVE SUBSURFACE CROSSWELL IMAGING USING FINITE DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY DOMAIN MODELING Qiuzhao Dong, Carey Rappaport THP.U.9 LAYERED SUBSURFACE RADAR PROFILING WITH COMBINED ESPRIT AND SVA ALGORITHMS Yunhua Zhang, Xiang Gu, Wenshuai Zhai, Jing-Shan Jiang Thursday

205 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

THP.V: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.V Microwave Scattering and Propagation II Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area V Co-Chairs: Mahta Moghaddam and Jacob van Zyl THP.V.1 POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING FROM TWO-DIMENSIONAL DIELECTRIC ROUGH SURFACES WITH LARGE RMS SLOPE Li-Xin Guo, Yu-Chao Ren THP.V.2 RESEARCH ON BACKSCATTERING FROM ROUGH SOIL SURFACE OF LAYERED MEDIUM Xin-Cheng Ren, Li-Xin Guo THP.V.3 THE MEASUREMENT ON THE DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF FRESH-WATER ICE WITH RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE AT 2.6GHZ-3.9GHZ Yanli Zhao, Yan Chen, Ling Tong, Liang Zhong, Mingquan Jia THP.V.4 SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF MICROWAVE EMISSION FROM NON-GAUSSIAN CORRELATED SURFACE USING AIEM MODEL Hung-Wei Lee, Kun-Shan Chen, Jiancheng Shi THP.V.5 AN OCEAN WAVE SPECTRUM DERIVED FROM POLARIMETRIC MICROWAVE RADIOMETER DATA Xiaobin Yin, Zhenzhan Wang, Lei Han, Qing Xu THP.V.6 ANALYSIS OF SAR IMAGES IN THE FRAMEWORK OF SCALE MIXTURE OF GAUSSIAN MODELS Torbjørn Eltoft THP.V.7 THE HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR IMAGE SIMULATION OF TARGET ON ROUGH SURFACE Xiaoyang Wen, Chao Wang, Yanzhao Wu, Hong Zhang THP.V.8 THE IMAGING WIND AND RAIN AIRBORNE PROFILER (IWRAP) DATA ARCHIVE Robert Contreras, Stephen Frasier, Tao Chu, Dragana Perkovic, John McManus, Paul Chang, Zorana Jelenak, James Carswell, Daniel Esteban-Fernandez THP.V.9 BIOPHYSICAL ESTIMATION OF PADDY RICE WITH CANOPY SCATTERING MODEL AND ALOS/PALSAR IMAGERY IN SOUTHEAST CHINA Cuizhen Wang, Jiaping Wu, Yuan Zhang THP.V.10 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES PROPAGATION ABOVE ROUGH SAE SURFACE : APPLICATION TO EVAPORATION DUCT. Othmane Benhmammouch, Ali Khenchaf, Natacha Caouren THP.V.11 COMMUNITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL (CRTM) FOR MICROWAVE SCATTERING TRANSFER AND APPLICATIONS Thursday Quanhua (Mark) Liu, Fuzhong Weng

206 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

THP.W: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.W Interferometry II Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area W Co-Chairs: Howard Zebker and Irena Hajnsek THP.W.1 VERY LARGE BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY BASED ON SAR SATELLITES FOR HIGH RESOLUTION DEM Bin Cai, Jiying Liu, Zhen Dong, Haifeng Huang THP.W.2 USING SMALL BASELINE SAR INTERFEROMETRY TO INVESTIGATE LAND SUBSIDENCE INDUCED BY UNDERGROUND COAL MINING Daqing Ge, Yan Wang, Qiong Hu, Junhai Gao, Xiaofang Guo THP.W.3 SURFACE SUBSIDENCE MONITORING WITH COHERENT POINT TARGET SAR INTERFEROMETRY Daqing Ge, Yan Wang, Qiong Hu, Xiaofang Guo THP.W.4 MONITORING A LARGE AND COMPLEX LAND SUBSIDENCE IN COAL MINING AREAS WITH A SMALL-BASELINE INTERFEROGRAM STACKING TECHNIQUE Liming Jiang, Hui Lin, Qing Zhao, Yao Wang THP.W.5 A STUDY OF LAND SUBSIDENCE BY RADAR REMOTE SENSING AT DATONG JURASSIC & CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD COALFIELD Ma Chao, Jia Xiuming, Hao Bingyuan, Hu Haifeng, Zhang Guifang, Shan Xinjian THP.W.6 TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION OF SPASE LASAR 3-D SAR VIA LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER METHOD Zhang Xiaoling, Shi Jun, Yang Jianyu THP.W.7 DIRECTLY ORTHO-RECTIFYING SPACE-BORNE SAR BASED ON FINE REGISTERED SIMULATION IMAGE Hongjian You, Kun Fu, Hui Long, Daliang Gong THP.W.8 AN ESTIMATION METHOD FOR INSAR INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE BASED ON JOINT CORRELATION STEERING VECTOR Hai Li, Guisheng Liao THP.W.9 PHASE UNWRAPPING USING 2D-KALMAN FILTER - POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS Holger Nies, Otmar Loffeld, Robert Wang THP.W.10 INSAR PHASE UNWRAPPING BY MEANS OF A PARTICLE FILTER Juan J. Martinez-Espla, Tomas Martinez-Marin, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, J. David Ballester- Thursday Berman THP.W.11 EFFECT OF THE UNWRAPPING PROCESS ON THE CORRELATIONS AMONG INSAR DIFFERENCES FOR THE SAME AREA Paola Ballatore, Janusz Wasowski

207 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

THP.X: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.X Interferometry / Polarimetry Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area X Co-Chairs: Paul Siqueira and Razi Ahmed THP.X.1 THEMATIC APPLICATIONS OF ERS-ENVISAT CROSS-INTERFEROMETRY Maurizio Santoro, Urs Wegmüller, Tazio Strozzi, Charles Werner, Andreas Wiesmann, Wolfgang Lengert THP.X.2 A NOVEL METHOD OF INSAR PROCESSING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION BASED ON IDEAL INTERFEROMETRIC FACTORS Qingsong Wang, Haifeng Huang, Zhen Dong THP.X.3 EVALUATION OF TERRASAR-X OBSERVATIONS FOR WETLAND INSAR APPLICATION Shimon Wdowinski, Sang-Hoon Hong, Sang-Wan Kim THP.X.4 SEPARATION OF RESIDUAL MOTION ERRORS USING A STACK OF INTERFEROMETRIC AIRBORNE SAR IMAGES Christian Andres, Martin Keller, Pau Prats, Rolf Scheiber, Irena Hajnsek THP.X.5 APPLICATION OF INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS ON ERS SAR INTERFEROGRAMS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF SPURIOUS ARTIFACTS Paola Ballatore THP.X.6 EXTRACTION OF AREA AVERAGED URBAN PARAMETERS FROM POLSAR MEASUREMENT Hajime Fukuchi, Yuichiro Aso, Akihito Takeshiro, Yusuke Komatsu, Makoto Satake THP.X.7 ANALYSIS OF SIMULATED POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES FROM A MULTILAYER ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING MODEL Sidnei J. S. Sant’Anna, José Carlos Lacava, David Fernandes THP.X.8 AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION BY MEANS OF POLARIMETRIC ISAR IMAGES AND NEURAL NETWORKS Marco Martorella, Elisa Giusti, Amerigo Capria, Fabrizio Berizzi, Bevan Bates Thursday

208 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

THP.Y: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.Y SAR Processing III Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area Y Co-Chairs: Franz Meyer and Jordi Mallorqui THP.Y.1 HEAVY-TAILED RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION: A NEW TOOL FOR THE MODELING OF SAR AMPLITUDE IMAGES Zengguo Sun, Chongzhao Han THP.Y.2 AUTOMATIC RANGE-MIGRATION CORRECTION IN SAR IMAGING Junfeng Wang, Xingzhao Liu THP.Y.3 IMAGING EXPERIMENTS FROM PHASE-CORRUPTED AIRBORNE L-SAR DATA Qulin Tan THP.Y.4 SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGE PROCESSING USING THE SUPERVISED TEXTURAL-NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM. Oscar Garcia-Pineda, Ian MacDonald THP.Y.5 A NONLINEAR REFINED EXTENDED CHIRP SCALING ALGORITHM FOR SPACEBORNE SCANSAR Jie Wei, Houjin Chen, Xiaofeng Zhong THP.Y.6 ALONG-TRACK RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT FOR WIDE-BANDWIDTH, LOW- FREQUENCY SAR BY ACCOUNTING FOR THE WAVELENGTH CHANGE OVER THE BANDWIDTH Evan C. Zaugg, David G. Long THP.Y.7 SAR IMAGE COMPRESSION WITH VECTOR QUANTIZATION OF WAVELET TREES AT LOW BIT RATES Aili Wang, Ye Zhang, Yushi Chen, Yanfeng Gu THP.Y.8 LAND COVER CHARACTERIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION USING POLARIMETRIC ALOS PALSAR Xinwu Li, Ridha Touzi, Huadong Guo THP.Y.9 INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM TERRASAR-X DATA USING SECOND GENERATION WAVELETS Matej Kseneman, Dusan Gleich THP.Y.10 RECONSTRUCTION SPARSE APERTURE IMAGING USING CLEAN METHOD Long Zhuang, Xingzhao Liu, Junfeng Wang Thursday

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THP.Z: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.Z SAR Processing IV Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area Z Co-Chairs: Franz Meyer and Jordi Mallorqui THP.Z.1 3D IMAGING OF GROUND BASED SAR DATA Diego Reale, Vito Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi THP.Z.2 A COMPARISON BETWEEN FAST FACTORIZED BACKPROJECTION AND FREQUENCY- DOMAIN ALGORITHMS IN UWB LOW FREQUENCY SAR Viet Thuy Vu, Thomas K. Sjögren, Mats Pettersson THP.Z.3 REMOVAL OF AZIMUTH AMBIGUITIES IN SAR IMAGE WITH TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS Ping Yao, Zhensong Wang THP.Z.4 RADAR SIGNAL LEVEL FUSION IMAGING Fan Ye, Feng He, Zaoyu Sun THP.Z.5 ADAPTIVE SUBAPERTURE APPROACH FOR SPOTLIGH SAR AZIMUTH PROCESSING Lihua Jin, Xingzhao Liu, Junfeng Wang THP.Z.6 A NEW LASAR FAST 3-D IMAGING METHOD VIA WAVELET APPROXIMATION Shi Jun, Zhang Xiaoling, Yang Jianyu THP.Z.7 THROUGH-THE-WALL IMAGING: MEASUREMENT AND MODELING TECHNIQUES Mojtaba Dehmollaian, Kamal Sarabandi THP.Z.8 AIRBORNE SPOTLIGHT SAR IMAGING WITH SUPER HIGH RESOLUTION BASED ON BACK-PROJECTION AND AUTOFOCUS ALGORITHM Weixian Tan, Daojing Li, Wen Hong

THP.AA: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.AA SAR Processing V Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area AA Co-Chairs: Franz Meyer and Jordi Mallorqui THP.AA.1 PRECISE SIMULATION OF SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR AND ITS EVALUATION Li Ran, Li Jingwen THP.AA.2 OIL SPILL IDENTIFICATION BASED ON TEXTURAL INFORMATION OF SAR IMAGES Thursday Fengli Zhang, Yun Shao, Wei Tian, Shiang Wang THP.AA.3 STUDY ON THE GEOMETRIC DISTORTION CORRECTION ALGORITHM FOR CIRCULAR- SCANNING SAR IMAGING Yong Li, Daiyin Zhu, Ling Wang THP.AA.4 A NEW INTERFERENCE ELIMINATION METHOD FOR MULTI-SATELLITE SAR SYSTEM Bing-Zhang Sun, Jing-Wen Li THP.AA.5 ADAPTIVE SAR DESPECKLING USING A PROXIMITY MEASURE TO BOUNDARY Sang-Hoon Lee THP.AA.6 ANALYSIS OF 3D-SAR BASED ON ANGLE COMPRESSION PRINCIPLE Lei Du, Yan-Ping Wang, Wen Hong, Yi-Rong Wu THP.AA.7 CORNER REFLECTOR EXPERIMENTS WITH ASAR ACQUISITIONS Lixia Gong, Jingfa Zhang, Qiming Zeng, Yi Luo, Shiyong Yan THP.AA.8 TOWARDS THE VIRTUAL REMOTE SENSING LABORATORY: INTELLIGENT EXPERIMENT DESIGN PARADIGM Yuriy V. Shkvarko, Hector Perez Meana, Alejandro Castillo Atoche

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THP.BB: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.BB UAV Sensor Systems Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area BB Co-Chairs: John Antoniades and David Long THP.BB.1 THE UAVSAR FLIGHT PLANNING SYSTEM Bruce Chapman, Joanne Shimada, Scott Hensley, Anhua Chu, Elaine Chapin THP.BB.2 COURSE PROGRAM AND CONTROL OF VARIATIONAL BASELINE DIGITAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY BASED ON DEM Fuzhou Duan, Huili Gong, Lin Zhu, Deyong Hu THP.BB.3 A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON USING UAV-MOUNTED DIGITAL CAMERA AND OBEJECT- ORIENTED SEGMENTATION METHODOLOGY TO MONITOR NITROGEN STATUS Jinxia Zhu, Jinsong Deng, Fenfang Lin, Ke Wang, Xiaodong Ding THP.BB.4 PROCESSING CHALLENGES FOR AN ULTRA-SMALL LIGHTWEIGHT L-BAND UAV SAR SYSTEM Richard Carande, Aaron Rogan, Albert Burgstahler, Mike Casey, Dan Bindbeutel Thursday

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THP.CC: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.CC Optical Instrument Calibration Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area CC Co-Chairs: Kurt Thome and Ron Lockwood THP.CC.1 INTERCOMPARISON OF IMAGING SENSORS USING AUTOMATED GROUND MEASUREMENTS Kurtis Thome, Jeffrey Czapla-Myers, John Buchanan, Nathan Leisso, Joel McCorkel THP.CC.2 WHI IN-SITU CALIBRATION AND ATMOSPHERE CORRECTION IN CASE-II WATER AIDED BY SUN PHOTOMETER Hao Zhang, Bing Zhang, Junsheng Li, Qian Shen, Yuanfeng Wu, Di Wu THP.CC.3 ON-ORBIT NOISE CHARACTERIZATION FOR MODIS REFLECTIVE SOLAR BANDS Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, Xiaobo Xie, Amit Angal THP.CC.4 NEW METHODOLOGY FOR AN IMPROVED THERMAL CALIBRATION OF LANDSAT 5 THROUGH FUSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SOURCES Francis P. Padula, John R. Schott, Nina G. Raqueño THP.CC.5 RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION OF REFLECTIVE BANDS OF LANDSAT 4 THEMATIC MAPPER USING PSEUDO-INVARIANT SITE TECHNIQUE Rimy Malla, Dennis Helder THP.CC.6 COMPARISON OF TERRA AND AQUA MODIS VIS BANDS ON-ORBIT RESPONSE Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong, Junqiang Sun, Nianzeng Che, Taeyoung (Jason) Choi, Amit Angal THP.CC.7 A STUDY ON ASTER/MODIS RADIOMETRIC AND ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION Hirokazu Yamamoto, Satoshi Tsuchida, Hiroki Yoshioka THP.CC.8 DEVELOPMENT OF 2 UM INGAAS RADIOMETER FOR PREFLIGHT CROSS- CALIBRATION EXPERIMENT Fumihiro Sakuma, Shuji Kawakami, Akihiko Kuze THP.CC.9 MERIS: DIFFUSER BASED RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION AND VICARIOUS ADJUSTMENTS FOR OCEAN COLOUR Steven Delwart, Ludovic Bourg, Patrice Henry, Richard Santer, Marc Bouvet THP.CC.10 LANDSAT 5 THEMATIC MAPPER RECALIBRATION PROCEDURE FOR DATA PROCESSED USING THE NATIONAL LANDSAT ARCHIVE PRODUCTION SYSTEM (NLAPS) Gyanesh Chander, Md. Obaidul Haque, Esad Micijevic, Julia A. Barsi THP.CC.11 MONITORING ON-ORBIT STABILITY OF THE TERRA MODIS AND LANDSAT 7 ETM+ REFLECTIVE SOLAR BANDS USING THE RAILROAD VALLEY PLAYA, NEVADA (RVPN) TEST SITE Amit Angal, Taeyoung (Jason) Choi, Gyanesh Chander, Xiaoxiong (Jack) Xiong Thursday

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THP.DD: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.DD Optical Technologies Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area DD Co-Chairs: Ron Resmini and Mary Ann Glennon THP.DD.1 A PORTABLE AIRBORNE MULTI-SENSOR IMAGING SYSTEM Xiuhong Sun THP.DD.2 DATA DIMENSION REDUCTION AND BAND SELECTION USING CANOPY SPECTRAL INVARIANTS (CSI) CONCEPT Dianzhong Wang, Guoqing Sun, Shengli Wu, Yong Pang, Zhifeng Guo THP.DD.3 FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE FIELD GONIOSPECTROMETER (FIGIFIGO): A DEVICE FOR POLARIZED MULTIANGULAR REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS Juha Suomalainen, Jouni Peltoniemi, Teemu Hakala, Eetu Puttonen THP.DD.4 EVALUATION OF CANDIDATE LANDSAT DATA GAP SENSORS Gyanesh Chander, Gregory Stensaas THP.DD.5 PRECISION COMPARISON OF SEVERAL ALGORITHMS FOR APPROXIMATE GEOMETRIC CORRECTION OF CBERS-02B HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE Hongyou Liang, Liuzhao Wang, Xingfa Gu, Tao Yu THP.DD.6 DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTI-FILTER ROTATING SHADOWBAND RADIOMETER NETWORK FOR DISTRIBUTED MONITORING OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH AND FINE MODE FRACTION Miguel Bustamente, Barry Gross, Fred Moshary, Samir Ahmed THP.DD.7 IMPACT OF SPECTRAL RESOLUTION ON SOLAR INDUCED FLUORESCENCE AND REFLECTANCE INDICES FOR MONITORING VEGETATION Lawrence Corp, Elizabeth Middleton, Yen-Ben Cheng, Petya Campbell, Karl Huemmrich THP.DD.8 HUMIDITY EFFECTS ON THERMAL ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSIONS: STUDY OF POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF SMALL HYGROSCOPIC AEROSOL PARTICLES IN THE LONGWAVE INFRARED REGION Rolando Raqueno, Robert Kremens, Carl Salvaggio, Matt Montanaro, Robert Gelein Thursday

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THP.EE: Thursday, July 10, 17:00 - 18:30

THP.EE Active Microwave Remote Sensing I Session Type: Poster Time: Thursday, July 10, All Day (Authors Present: 17:00 - 18:30) Place: Poster Area EE Co-Chairs: Jeroen Verspeek and Antonio Iodice THP.EE.1 SAR IMAGE SIMULATION OF MAN-MADE SCENES BASED ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS Fan Zhang, Wen Hong, Daojing Li THP.EE.2 FRACTAL BASED MODELING OF ALTIMETER DATA Gabriella Bernardi, Giorgio Franceschetti, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio THP.EE.3 SIMULATION OF IMPROVED BANDWIDTH CONFORMAL BOW-TIE ANTENNAS FOR REMOTE SENSING PRINTED ON MULTI-SCALE TRIANGULAR-PATCH HIGH- IMPEDANCE GROUND PLANES Murat Dogrul, Peter Collins, Michael Saville, Kubilay Sertel, Andrew Terzuoli THP.EE.4 FABRICATION OF MULTI-SCALE TRIANGULAR PATCH HIGH IMPEDANCE GROUND PLANES TO IMPROVE THE BANDWIDTH OF CONFORMAL BOW-TIE ANTENNAS FOR REMOTE SENSING Bora Cakiroglu, Peter Collins, Michael Havrilla, Kubilay Sertel, Andrew Terzuoli THP.EE.5 COMPROMISE AND TRADE-OFF BETWEEN SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO AND NUMBER OF INDEPENDENT SAMPLES FOR RADAR SCATTEROMETERS WITH PULSE COMPRESSION Xiaolong Dong, Heguang Liu, Jing-Shan Jiang THP.EE.6 WAVE PARAMETERS ESTIMATED FROM SACTTEROMETER DATA Jie Guo, Yijun He, William Perrie THP.EE.7 IMPLEMENTATION OF PULSE COMPRESSION ON AN AIRBORNE SCATTEROMETER John McManus, Stephen Frasier THP.EE.8 COMBINED USE OF THE RADAR AND RADIOMETER DATA TO DERIVE SURFACE PARAMETERS RANGES: APPLICATION TO CASSINI DATA ACQUIRED ON TITAN SURFACE Bartolomeo Ventura, Casarano Domenico, Claudia Notarnicola, Janssen Michael A., Francesco Posa Thursday

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FR1.210: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Panel Session FR1.210 Baseline Climate Identification and Global Change Session Type: Panel Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 210 Chair: Dara Entekhabi About: Assessment of global change risks due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and land conversion requires the identification of a baseline climate state. This panel session will focus on the use of satellite observations to provide the global coverage needed to establish such a baseline, to monitor environmental changes and to assess their impacts. 8:20 FR1.210.1 THE CHALLENGE OF MONITORING GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE FROM SPACE George Ohring 8:53 FR1.210.2 A REMOTE-SENSING PERSPECTIVE OF CLOUD FEEDBACK IN THE CLIMATE SYSTEM Graeme Stephens 9:26 FR1.210.3 SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL INTER-RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ANOMALIES OF TEMPERATURE, MOISTURE, , AND OLR AS OBSERVED BY AIRS/AMSU ON AQUA Joel Susskind

FR1.101: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00

FR1.101 Mapping Urban Areas I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 101 Chair: Domenico Solimini 8:20 FR1.101.1 COMPARISON OF MULTI- AND HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR USE IN COMPREHENSIVE URBAN BIOTOPE MAPPING Mathias Bochow, Karl Segl, Hermann Kaufmann 8:40 FR1.101.2 CHARACTERIZING THE URBAN GROWTH OF HANOI, NAGOYA, AND SHANGHAI CITY USING REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL METRICS Pham Minh Hai, Yasushi Yamaguchi 9:00 FR1.101.3 CA-BASED SIMULATION OF ASIAN URBAN DYNAMICS: A CASE STUDY OF TAIPEI METROPOLITAN AREA, TAIWAN Bing Sheng Wu, Daniel Z. Sui 9:20 FR1.101.4 STUDY ON THE CHANGE OF SURFACE TEMPERATURES AND URBAN HEAT ISLAND Friday PHENOMENON USING MULTI-TEMPORAL THERMAL IMAGES Akira Hoyano, Akinobu Murakami 9:40 FR1.101.5 STUDY ON REMOTE SENSING RETRIEVAL OF THERMAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE TEMPORAL-SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION IN BEIJING-CAPITAL ZONE Dan Meng, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Zhaoning Gong, Zhuo-Wei Hu, Lin Zhu

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FR1.102: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00

FR1.102 Digital Beamforming for Future Remote Sensing Systems I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Alberto Moreira and Werner Wiesbeck 8:20 FR1.102.1 THE APPLICATION OF DIGITAL BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUES TO ENABLE SWATH MAPPING OF LAND ICE AND GLACIAL TOPOGRAPHY Delwyn Moller, Brandon Heavey, Richard Hodges, Sembiam Rengarajan, Eric Rignot, Marc Simard, Greg Sadowy, Mark Zawadzki 8:40 FR1.102.2 DIGITAL BEAMFORMING FOR A 3D MIMO SAR Jens Klare 9:00 FR1.102.3 ULTRA WIDE SWATH IMAGING WITH MULTI-CHANNEL SCANSAR Nicolas Gebert, Gerhard Krieger, Marwan Younis, Federica Bordoni, Alberto Moreira 9:20 FR1.102.4 INVESTIGATION OF A NEW MULTIFUNCTIONAL HIGH PERFORMANCE SAR SYSTEM CONCEPT EXPLOITING MIMO TECHNOLOGY Junghyo Kim, Werner Wiesbeck 9:40 FR1.102.5 THE THINNED ARRAY TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE PHASE CENTER APERTURE SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION Yingni Hou, Daojing Li, Wen Hong

FR1.103: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00

FR1.103 Passive Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Martti Hallikainen and Mohammed Shokr 8:20 FR1.103.1 SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MONITORING OF THE EAST-ANTARCTIC PLATEAU USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA Giovanni Macelloni, Marco Brogioni, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi 8:40 FR1.103.2 SPATIAL RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF AMSR TB IMAGES BASED ON MEASUREMENT LOCAL TIME OF DAY Brian Gunn, David G. Long 9:00 FR1.103.3 SIMULATION OF SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW COVER USING IN-SITU DATA AND EMISSION MODELS Anna Kontu, Jouni Pulliainen

Friday 9:20 FR1.103.4 ABSORPTION AT MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES IN A MOIST METAMORPHIC SNOW PACK DUE TO PENDULAR RING ACCUMULATIONS OF LIQUID WATER Roger De Roo, Anthony England, Yi-Ching Chung, Etai Weininger, Kelly Howell 9:40 FR1.103.5 OPERATIONAL SNOWCOVER MAPPING USING MSG/SEVIRI DATA Niilo Siljamo, Otto Hyvärinen, Jarkko Koskinen

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FR1.104: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00

FR1.104 Land Use/Land Cover Classification IV Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Leland Pierce and Darrel Williams 8:20 FR1.104.1 NEW BEST PRACTICES FOR DATA INTEGRATION ACROSS SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS AND GEOGRAPHIC REFERENCE FRAMEWORKS Zachary Christman 8:40 FR1.104.2 LAND COVER ANALYSIS ON SUB-CONTINENTAL SCALE: FAO LCCS STANDARD WITH 250 METER MODIS SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS IN WEST AFRICA Miriam Machwitz, Tobias Landmann, Anna Cord, Christopher Conrad, Stefan Dech 9:00 FR1.104.3 CHARACTERIZING CHANGES IN THE LAND USE AND LAND COVER IN THE FT. COBB RESERVOIR WATERSHED, OKLAHOMA Mahesh Rao, Siewe Siewe 9:20 FR1.104.4 STATUS UPDATE ON A NEW LANDSAT GLOBAL LAND SURVEY DATA SET Darrel Williams, Rachel Headley, Jeffrey Masek 9:40 FR1.104.5 SOFT CLASSIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF KALMAN FILTER NEURAL NETWORK FOR COMPLEX LANDCOVER OF TROPICAL RAINFORESTS Prashanth Reddy Marpu, Arief Wijaya, Richard Gloaguen

FR1.105: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00

FR1.105 Pansharpening Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Luciano Alparone and Nick Younan 8:20 FR1.105.1 PANSHARPENING QUALITY ASSESSMENT USING MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION FILTERS Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Luciano Alparone, Jocelyn Chanussot 8:40 FR1.105.2 WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES PAN-SHARPENING OF VERY HIGH RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES Filippo Nencini, Luca Capobianco, Andrea Garzelli 9:00 FR1.105.3 BAYESIAN FUSION OF MULTISPECTRAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE IN WAVELET

DOMAIN Friday Yifan Zhang, Steve De Backer, Paul Scheunders 9:20 FR1.105.4 PANSHARPENING BASED ON QNR OPTIMIZATION Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Luciano Alparone, Jocelyn Chanussot 9:40 FR1.105.5 FAST PANCHROMATIC SHARPENING FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGES Jonghwa Lee, Chulhee Lee

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FR1.107: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00

FR1.107 Geospatial Standards & Services I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 107 Chair: Yu Fang 8:20 FR1.107.1 A LOAD BALANCING ALGORITHM FOR SPATIAL DATA IN GRIDGIS Xiaohui Zhao, Yu Fang, Bin Chen 8:40 FR1.107.2 INTEGRATING MAP SERVICES AND LOCATION-BASED SERVICES FOR GEO- REFERENCED INDIVIDUAL DATA COLLECTION Xiujun Ma, Zhongya Wei, Yanwei Chai, Kunqing Xie 9:00 FR1.107.3 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF WSRF- BASED GIS SERVICE IN SPATIAL DATA GRID Xi Wu, Zhou Huang, Yu Fang, Bin Chen 9:20 FR1.107.4 A STANDARDS-COMPLIANT WEB-BASED DYNAMIC GEOSPATIAL DATA DRIVEN SYSTEM Genong Yu, Peichuan Li, Huilin Wang, Liping Di, John Moses 9:40 FR1.107.5 INTEROPERABILITY MIDDLEWARE BETWEEN GEOSCIENCE AND GEOSPATIAL CATALOG PROTOCOLS Chengfang Hu, Liping Di, Wenli Yang, Yaxin Wei, Yuqi Bai, Christopher Lynnes, Yonsook Enloe, Ben Domenico, Glenn Rutledge

FR1.108: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00

FR1.108 Active Microwave Remote Sensing - Weather Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: V. Chandrasekar and Steve Frasier 8:20 FR1.108.1 SYSTEM DESIGN OF CLOUD PROFILING RADAR FOR EARTHCARE Hirotaka Nakatsuka, Kazuyuki Okada, Hiroaki Horie, Toshiyoshi Kimura, Yukie Iida, Masahiro Kojima, Kenji Sato, Yuich Ohno, Nobuhiro Takahashi, Hiroshi Kumagai 8:40 FR1.108.2 A KA-BAND INTERFEROMETER FOR CRYOSPHERIC APPLICATIONS- INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION AND FIRSTS RESULTS Harish Vedantham, Paul Siqueira, Karthik Srinivasan, Edin Insanic 9:00 FR1.108.3 THE UMASS X-POL MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR: DESCRIPTION, RECENT OBSERVATIONS AND NEW SYSTEM DEVELOPMENTS Vijay Venkatesh, Sandeep Palreddy, Anthony P. Hopf, Kerry Hardwick, Pei-Tsang Tsai, Stephen Frasier, Howard Bluestein, Jana Hauser, Michael French, Jeffrey Snyder, Robin Tanamachi Friday 9:20 FR1.108.4 CALIBRATION OF THE UMASS ADVANCED MULTI-FREQUENCY RADAR (AMFR) Matthew McLinden, Ninoslav Majurec, Paul Siqueira 9:40 FR1.108.5 PULSE COMPRESSION WITH WEATHER RADARS Jim George, Nitin Bharadwaj, Chandrasekar V. Chandra

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FR1.109: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00

FR1.109 Rough Surface Scattering and Remote Sensing I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Marc Saillard and Joel Johnson 8:20 FR1.109.1 AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF BREAKING WAVE CONTRIBUTION TO RADAR BACKSCATTER FROM THE OCEAN SURFACE AT LOW GRAZING ANGLE Paul Hwang, Mark Sletten, Jakov Toporkov 8:40 FR1.109.2 SCATTERING FROM NONGAUSSIAN GRAVITY WAVES: THE CHOPPY WAVE MODEL Charles-Antoine Guérin, Frédéric Nouguier, Bertrand Chapron 9:00 FR1.109.3 SCATTERING FROM ROUGH SURFACES AT LOW GRAZING ANGLES: STUDY OF THE ACCURACY OF APPROXIMATE METHODS Philippe Spiga, Gabriel Soriano, Marc Saillard 9:20 FR1.109.4 NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF EMISSION AND BISTATIC SCATTERING FROM SOILS WITH ROUGH SURFACES OF EXPONENTIAL CORRELATION FUNCTIONS Peng Xu, Leung Tsang, Kun-Shan Chen 9:40 FR1.109.5 MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS OF ALTIMETER PULSE RETURNS AND THE ELECTROMAGNETIC BIAS Praphun Naenna, Joel Johnson

FR1.110: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00

FR1.110 Forest Parameter Estimation from Space using SAR I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Kostas Papathanassiou and Robert Treuhaft 8:20 FR1.110.1 FOREST PARAMETER RETRIEVAL FROM SAR INTENSITY DATA Richard Lucas, Joao Carreiras, Peter Bunting, John Armston, Daniel Clewley 8:40 FR1.110.2 TROPICAL-FOREST DENSITY PROFILES FROM MULTIBASELINE INSAR: CONSTRAINING DENSITY ESTIMATES AT C-BAND Robert Treuhaft, Bruce Chapman, Fábio Gonçalves, João Roberto Santos, Luciano Vieira Dutra, Paulo Alencastro Graça, Jason Drake 9:00 FR1.110.3 AUTOMATIC MODEL INVERSION OF MULTI-TEMPORAL C-BAND COHERENCE AND

BACKSCATTER MEASUREMENTS FOR FOREST STEM VOLUME RETRIEVAL Friday Maurizio Santoro, Jan Askne, Christian Beer, Oliver Cartus, Christiane Schmullius, Urs Wegmüller, Andreas Wiesmann 9:20 FR1.110.4 POL-INSAR APPROACHES AT L-BAND: ACTUAL STATUS AND THE IMPACT OF TEMPORAL DECORRELATION Florian Kugler, Seung-Kuk Lee, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Irena Hajnsek 9:40 FR1.110.5 BANDWIDTH EFFECTS IN POL-INSAR FOREST PARAMETER ESTIMATION PERFRORMANCE AT P-BAND Seung-Kuk Lee, Florian Kugler, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Irena Hajnsek

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FR1.111: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00

FR1.111 Earth Observation Sensor Web I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Liping Di and Karen Moe 8:20 FR1.111.1 NASA TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH OBSERVATION SENSOR WEB Karen Moe 8:40 FR1.111.2 GEOSPATIAL WORKFLOW IN A SENSOR WEB ENVIRONMENT: TRANSACTIONS, EVENTS, AND ASYNCHRONY Genong Yu, Liping Di, John Moses, Peichuan Li, Peisheng Zhao 9:00 FR1.111.3 USER REQUIREMENTS FOR SENSOR WEB BASED SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS IN THE CHOLERA RESEARCH DOMAIN Graeme McFerren, Terence Lesley van Zyl, Marna van der Merwe, Martella du Preez 9:20 FR1.111.4 A SOIL MOISTURE SMART SENSOR WEB USING DATA ASSIMILATION AND OPTIMAL CONTROL: FORMULATION AND FIRST LABORATORY DEMONSTRATION Mahta Moghaddam, Dara Entekhabi, Yuriy Goykhkman, Mingyan Liu, Aditya Mahajan, Ashutosh Nayyar, David Shuman, Demos Teneketzis 9:40 FR1.111.5 A LAND INFORMATION SENSOR WEB (LISW) STUDY IN SUPPORT OF LAND SURFACE STUDIES Hongbo Su, Paul Houser, Yudong Tian, James Geiger, Sujay Kumar, Deborah Belvedere

FR1.203: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00

FR1.203 Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 08:20 - 10:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Charles A. Luther and Steven Reising 8:20 FR1.203.1 CASA OVERVIEW David J. McLaughlin 8:40 FR1.203.2 EVALUATION OF DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE ADAPTIVE SENSING IN A FOUR- NODE RADAR NETWORK: INTEGRATED PROJECT 1 V. Chandrasekar, David J. McLaughlin, Jerry Brotzge, Michael Zink, Brenda Philips, Yanting Wang 9:00 FR1.203.3 METEOROLOGICAL COMMAND & CONTROL: ARCHITECTURE AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Michael Zink, Eric Lyons, David Westbrook, Dave Pepyne, Brenda Philips, Jim Kurose, V. Chandrasekar Friday 9:20 FR1.203.4 CASA TEST BED FOR URBAN FLOOD ALERT: SYSTEM DESIGN FOR INTEGRATED PROJECT 2 Yanting Wang, Sanghun Lim, V. Chandrasekar, Baxter Vieux, Phil Bedient, Michael Zink 9:40 FR1.203.5 USER EVALUATIONS OF ADAPTIVE SCANNING PATTERNS IN THE CASA SPRING EXPERIMENT 2007 Brenda Philips, David Westbrook, David Pepyne, Ellen Bass, Don Rude, Jerry Brotzge

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FR2.101: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.101 Mapping Urban Areas II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Domenico Solimini and Chiara Solimini 10:20 FR2.101.1 DETECTION OF URBAN ZONES IN SATELLITE IMAGES USING VISUAL WORDS Lior Weizman, Jacob Goldberger 10:40 FR2.101.2 IMPROVING THE NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE BUILD-UP INDEX TO MAP URBAN BUILD- UP AREAS BY USING A SEMIAUTOMATIC SEGEMENTATION APPROACH Chunyang He, Dingyong Xie 11:00 FR2.101.3 ANALYSIS OF THE DEGREE OF URBAN IMPERVIOUS SURFACE BASED ON OBJECT- ORIENTED METHOD Qulin Tan, Zhengjun Liu, Xiaofang Li 11:20 FR2.101.4 SEMI-AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF HUMAN SETTLEMENT EXTENT IN HR SAR IMAGES Mattia Stasolla, Paolo Gamba 11:40 FR2.101.5 WAVENUMBER SPECTRA FOR VHR URBAN CHARACTERIZATION Chiara Solimini, William J. Emery, Domenico Solimini

FR2.102: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.102 Digital Beamforming for Future Remote Sensing Systems II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Alberto Moreira and Werner Wiesbeck 10:20 FR2.102.1 FRONTEND TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL BEAMFORMING SAR Christoph Heer, Christian Fischer, Christoph Schaefer 10:40 FR2.102.2 SIMULTANEOUS SPOTLIGHT AND STRIPMAP IMAGING MODE FOR A SINGLE CHANNEL SAR USING AZIMUTH PHASE CODING Pierfrancesco Lombardo, Matteo Sedehi, Diego Cristallini 11:00 FR2.102.3 EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION OF DIGITAL BEAMFORMING ON SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR Junghyo Kim, Marwan Younis, Werner Wiesbeck

11:20 Friday FR2.102.4 HRWS IMAGING FOR SPACE-BORNE BISTATIC SAR WITH MULTIPLE PHASE CENTERS Tao Lai, Zhen Dong, Diannong Liang, Feng He 11:40 FR2.102.5 NASA’S DIGITAL BEAMFORMING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (DBSAR) Rafael Rincon

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FR2.103: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.103 Sea Ice as an Indicator for Climate Change I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Mohammed Shokr and Stephen Howell 10:20 FR2.103.1 AIRBORNE FMCW RADAR FOR SNOW DEPTH ESTIMATION OVER ANTARCTIC SEA ICE Natalia Galin, Anthony Worby, Robert Massom, Carl Leuschen, Graham Brooker, Sivaprasad Gogineni, Jan Lieser, Peter Jansen 10:40 FR2.103.2 ANALYSIS OF C-BAND POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURES OF ARCTIC LEAD ICE USING DATA FROM AIRSAR AND RADARSAT-1 Daniel Bäck, Ben Holt, Ron Kwok 11:00 FR2.103.3 EVALUATING ALOS-PALSAR FOR ICE MONITORING - WHAT CAN L-BAND DO FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN ICE SERVICE? Matt Arkett, Dean Flett, Roger De Abreu, Pablo Clemente-Colon, John Woods, Brian Melchior 11:20 FR2.103.4 MONITORING CHANGES IN THE TIME OF MELT ONSET AND FREEZE ONSET OVER THE CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO USING SEAWINDS/QUIKSCAT Stephen Howell, Adrienne Tivy, John Yackel, Brent Else, Claude R. Duguay 11:40 FR2.103.5 ANALYSIS OF ANTARCTIC ICEBERG AND SEA ICE MELTING PATTERNS USING QUIKSCAT Keith M. Stuart, David G. Long

FR2.104: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.104 Land Use/Land Cover Classification V Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Mahta Moghaddam and Brian Markham 10:20 FR2.104.1 THE USE OF MODIS NDVI DATA FOR CHARACTERIZING CROPLAND ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES BASIN Yang Shao, Ross Lunetta 10:40 FR2.104.2 CROP ROTATION CHANGES IN IOWA DUE TO ETHANOL PRODUCTION Alan Stern, Paul C. Doraiswamy, Bakhyt Akhmedov 11:00 FR2.104.3 THE EFFECTS OF LAND USE CHANGE ON THE TERRESTRIAL CARBON BUDGETS OF NEW ENGLAND Sung Bae Jeon, Curtis E. Woodcock 11:20

Friday FR2.104.4 INTEGRATING MONITORING OF FOREST HARVEST WITH A CARBON MODEL TO ESTIMATE THE EFFECTS OF LAND USE CHANGE ON TERRESTRIAL CARBON BUDGETS IN THE BLACK SEA REGION Alessandro Baccini, Curtis E. Woodcock, Richard A. Houghton, Mutlu Ozdogan, Pontus Olofsson, Vlad Gancz, Viorel Blujdea 11:40 FR2.104.5 APPLICATION OF MULTI-SENSOR OPTICAL DATA FOR MONITORING LAND USES WITHIN THE MERCURY MINING AREA OF ALMADÉN, SPAIN Celia Rico, Thomas Schmid, Rocío Millán, María José Sierra, Sandra Carrasco

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FR2.105: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.105 Image Processing: Registration Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 105 Co-Chairs: Chi-Hua Chen and Francesca Bovolo 10:20 FR2.105.1 AN AREA BASED TECHNIQUE FOR IMAGE-TO-IMAGE REGISTRATION OF MULTI- MODAL REMOTE SENSING DATA Peter Bunting, Frederic Labrosse, Richard Lucas 10:40 FR2.105.2 AUTONOMOUS REGISTRATION OF LIDAR DATA TO SINGLE AERIAL IMAGE Nicholas Shorter, Georgios Anagnostopoulos, Takis Kasparis 11:00 FR2.105.3 IMAGE REGISTRATION USING NON-LINEAR DIFFUSION Michele Ceccarelli, Maurizio di Bisceglie, Carmela Galdi, Generoso Giangregorio, Ullo Silvia Liberata 11:20 FR2.105.4 A SEMI-AUTOMATIC IMAGE REGISTRATION SCHEME BASED ON A NOVEL ASYMMETRICAL CORNER DETECTOR (ACD) Lisha Xie, Jian Guo Liu 11:40 FR2.105.5 A ROBUST REGISTRATION METHOD OF INSAR COMPLEX IMAGES WITH LARGE DISTORTION Zilong Liu, Zhen Dong, Bin Cai, Zaoyu Sun

FR2.107: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.107 Geospatial Standards & Services II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: JianWen Ma and Yan Li 10:20 FR2.107.1 AN ACCESS CONTROL MECHANISM FOR GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SERVICES Jiayuan Lin, Yu Fang, Bin Chen, Yu-Mei Sun 10:40 FR2.107.2 AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR RASTER-TO-VECTOR DATA CONVERSION JunHua Teng, Fahui Wang, Yu Liu, Meixian Sun, Miao Yu 11:00 FR2.107.3 ON EXTRACTING EVOLUTIONS FROM SATELLITE IMAGE TIME SERIES Andreea Juela, Nicolas Meger, Emmanuel Trouvé, Philippe Bolon 11:20 FR2.107.4 SCALABLE AND ERROR TOLERANT AUTOMATED GEOREFERENCING UNDER AFFINE Friday TRANSFORMATIONS Yan Li, Ronald Briggs 11:40 FR2.107.5 ACCESS CONTROL FOR DISTRIBUTED GEOSPATIAL DATABASE USING VIEWS Jiayuan Lin, Yu Fang, Xiujun Ma, Bin Chen

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FR2.108: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.108 Active Microwave Remote Sensing II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: V. Chandrasekar and Xiaolong Dong 10:20 FR2.108.1 SWIM, A MULTI-INCIDENCE BEAMS KU-BAND REAL APERTURE RADAR FOR THE OBSERVATION OF THE OCEAN WAVE FIELD SPECTRA Vivien Enjolras, Eric Caubet, Jacques Richard, Jérôme Lorenzo, Guy Carayon, Patrick Castillan 10:40 FR2.108.2 RETRIEVAL OF REFLECTED DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITE (DBS) SIGNALS FOR EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS Omar Torres, Roland Lawrence 11:00 FR2.108.3 MOBILE X- TO KU-BAND SCATTEROMETER IN SUPPORT OF THE CORE-H20 MISSION Andreas Wiesmann, Charles Werner, Tazio Strozzi, Urs Wegmüller 11:20 FR2.108.4 ASCAT SCATTEROMETER OCEAN CALIBRATION Jeroen Verspeek, Ad Stoffelen, Marcos Portabella, Anton Verhoef, Jur Vogelzang 11:40 FR2.108.5 PULSE COMPRESSION WITH VERY LOW SIDELOBES IN A SPACEBORNE WEATHER RADAR Di Zhu, Xiaolong Dong, Wenming Lin

FR2.109: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.109 Rough Surface Scattering and Remote Sensing II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Joel Johnson and Marc Saillard 10:20 FR2.109.1 SAR IMAGING SIMULATION FOR AN INHOMOGENEOUS UNDULATED LUNAR SURFACE BASED ON TRIANGULATED IRREGULAR NETWORK Ya-Qiu Jin, Wenzhe Fa, Feng Xu 10:40 FR2.109.2 SCATTERING FROM A SCATTERER NEAR A LARGE RANDOM ROUGH SURFACE WITH THE EXTENDED PILE METHOD Christophe Bourlier, Gildas Kubické 11:00 FR2.109.3 AMPLITUDE AND PHASE STATISTICS FOR BISTATIC SCATTERING FROM ROUGH SURFACES Kung-Hau Ding 11:20 FR2.109.4 ANALYZING EM SCATTERING FROM RANDOMLY ROUGH SURFACES BY COMBINING

Friday THE STOCHASTIC SECOND-DEGREE ITERATIVE METHOD, THE SPARSE MATRIX / CANONICAL GRID ALGORITHM AND CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION Yang Du, JinAu Kong 11:40 FR2.109.5 SMALL PERTURBATION METHOD FOR SCATTERING FROM ROUGH MULTILAYERES Pasquale Imperatore, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio

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FR2.110: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.110 Forest Parameter Estimation from Space using SAR II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Kostas Papathanassiou and Robert Treuhaft 10:20 FR2.110.1 FOREST VERTICAL STRUCTURE ESTIMATION USING COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY Shane Cloude, Konstantinos Papathanassiou 10:40 FR2.110.2 COMPACT POLARIMETRY MODE FOR A LOW FREQUENCY SAR IN SPACE Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Sebastien Angelliaume, My-Linh Truong-Loi, Jean-Claude Souyris 11:00 FR2.110.3 TEMPORAL DECORRELATION FOR FORESTED AREAS OBSERVED IN SPACEBORNE L-BAND SAR INTERFEROMETRY Leif E. B. Eriksson, Klas Folkesson, Gustaf Sandberg, Johan E. S. Fransson, Mattias Magnusson, Andreas Wiesmann 11:20 FR2.110.4 EARLY RESULTS USING SINGLE-PASS L-BAND POL-INSAR Marcus Schwaebisch, Bryan Mercer, Qiaoping Zhang, Sowmya Gopal, Ming Wei 11:40 FR2.110.5 SAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR ESTIMATING ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS OF SAVANNA WOODLANDS IN BELIZE Karin Viergever, Iain Woodhouse, Neil Stuart

FR2.111: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.111 Earth Observation Sensor Web II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Liping Di and Karen Moe 10:20 FR2.111.1 A FOREST FIRE SENSOR WEB CONCEPT WITH UAVSAR Yunling Lou, Steve Chien, Duane Clark, Joshua Doubleday, Ron Muellerschoen, Sassan Saatchi, Daniel Tran, Yang Zheng 10:40 FR2.111.2 A SPACE-BASED SENSOR WEB FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT Daniel Mandl, Rob Sohlberg, Chris Justice, Stephen Ungar, Troy Ames, Stuart Frye, Steve Chien, Daniel Tran, Pat Cappelaere, Don Sullivan, Vince Ambrosia 11:00 FR2.111.3 A SENSOR WEB SIMULATOR FOR DESIGN OF NEW EARTH SCIENCE OBSERVING SYSTEMS

Michael Seablom, Joseph Ardizzone, Joseph Terry, Stephen Talabac Friday 11:20 FR2.111.4 USING SENSOR WEB PROCESSES AND PROTOCOLS TO ASSIMILATE SATELLITE DATA INTO A FORECAST MODEL H. Michael Goodman, Helen Conover, Bradley Zavodsky, Manil Maskey, Gary Jedlovec, Kathryn Regner, Xiang Li, Jessica Yue Lu, Mike Botts, Gregoire Berthiau 11:40 FR2.111.5 A SERVICE-ORIENTED GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR FACILITATING THE INTERACTION AND DYNAMIC COUPLING BETWEEN SENSOR WEB AND EARTH SYSTEM MODELS Liping Di, Genong Yu, Nengcheng Chen

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FR2.203: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.203 Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Charles A. Luther and Steven Reising 10:20 FR2.203.1 REAL-TIME REFRACTIVITY RETRIEVAL USING THE MAGNETRON-BASED CASA X-BAND RADAR NETWORK DURING THE SPRING 2008 CAMPAIGN Boon Leng Cheong, Robert Palmer, V. Chandrasekar, Francesc Junyent 10:40 FR2.203.2 REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NETWORK-BASED REFLECTIVITY RETRIEVAL FOR CASA S. Lim, V. Chandrasekar, P. Lee, A. P. Jayasumana 11:00 FR2.203.3 WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS OFF-THE-GRID RADAR TECHNOLOGY TESTBED Brian C. Donovan, David J. McLaughlin, Michael Zink, Jim Kurose 11:20 FR2.203.4 PHASE-TILT ARRAY ANTENNA DESIGN FOR DENSE DISTRIBUTED RADAR NETWORK FOR WEATHER SENSING Jorge L. Salazar, Rafael Medina, Eric J. Knapp, David J. McLaughlin 11:40 FR2.203.5 DEVELOPMENT OF SCAN STRATEGY FOR DUAL DOPPLER RETRIEVAL IN A NETWORKED RADAR SYSTEM Yanting Wang, V. Chandrasekar, Brenda Dolan

FR2.210: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00

FR2.210 AMSR-E I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 10:20 - 12:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Akira Shibata and Josefino Comiso 10:20 FR2.210.1 IMPACTS OF IMPROVED QUALITY CONTROL AND OCEAN EMISSIVITY MODEL FOR AMSR-E RADIANCE ASSIMILATION IN JMA Masahiro Kazumori 10:40 FR2.210.2 IMPROVEMENTS IN THE LEVEL-3 OCEANIC RAINFALL ALGORITHM. Thomas Wilheit 11:00 FR2.210.3 STUDY IN MIDDLE AND HIGH OCEANIC LATITUDES USING AQUA AMSR-E Leonid Mitnik, Maia Mitnik, Irina Gurvich 11:20 FR2.210.4 GLOBAL MICROWAVE EMISSION DEPTH ANALYSES FROM AMSR-E, SSMI, AND MODIS

Friday John Galantowicz, Jean-Luc Moncet, Pan Liang, Alan Lipton 11:40 FR2.210.5 LAND-ATMOSPHERE COUPLED DATA ASSIMILATION BY AMSR-E Toshio Koike, David Kuria, Abdul Rasmy

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FR3.101: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00

FR3.101 Urban Remote Sensing VII Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Paolo Gamba and Annemarie Schneider 13:20 FR3.101.1 ANISOTROPIC ROTATION INVARIANT BUILT-UP PRESENCE INDEX: APPLICATIONS TO SAR DATA Paolo Gamba, Martino Pesaresi, Katrin Molch, Andrea Gerhardinger, Gianni Lisini 13:40 FR3.101.2 URBAN LAND-USE MULTI-SCALE TEXTURAL ANALYSIS Fabio Pacifici, Marco Chini, William J. Emery 14:00 FR3.101.3 UTILIZING SPACEBORNE IMAGERY FOR VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT: POTENTIALS AND PERSPECTIVES Achim Roth, Hannes Taubenböck, Thomas Esch, Harald Mehl 14:20 FR3.101.4 MONITORING THE EXTENT AND INTENSITY OF URBAN AREAS GLOBALLY USING THE FUSION OF MODIS 500M RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY AND ANCILLARY DATA SOURCES Annemarie Schneider, Mark Friedl, David Potere 14:40 FR3.101.5 A COMPARISON OF LANDSCAPE PATTERN INDICES ON TWO DIFFERENT LAND USE AND COVER MAPS OF DELHI INDIA Elizabeth Wentz

FR3.102: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00

FR3.102 Polarimetric SAR Image Segmentation and Analysis Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 102 Co-Chairs: Henning Skriver and Emmanuel Trouve 13:20 FR3.102.1 SEGMENTATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA BASED ON THE FISHER DISTRIBUTION FOR TEXTURE MODELING Lionel Bombrun, Jean-Marie Beaulieu 13:40 FR3.102.2 AN IMPROVEMENT FOR THE UNSUPERVISED WISHART FREEMAN CLASSIFICATION WITH FULLY POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA Fang Cao, Wen Hong, Eric Pottier 14:00

FR3.102.3 ENHANCED MILITARY TARGET DISCRIMINATION USING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE Friday POLARIMETRIC IMAGERY Daniel A. Lavigne, Mélanie Breton, Mario Pichette, Vincent Larochelle, Jean-Robert Simard 14:20 FR3.102.4 A MARKOV CHAIN CFAR DETECTOR FOR POLARIMETRIC DATA USING ADAPTIVE LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS Chuhong Fei, Ting Liu, George Lampropoulos, Ramin Sabry, Kevin Murnaghan 14:40 FR3.102.5 CLASSIFICATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USING THE DEGREE OF POLARIZATION AND THE CO-POLARIZED PHASE DIFFERENCE Yisok Oh, Geba Chang

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FR3.103: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00

FR3.103 Sea Ice as an Indicator for Climate Change II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 103 Co-Chairs: Stephen Howell and Mohammed Shokr 13:20 FR3.103.1 SEA ICE MICROWAVE EMISSION PROCESS SIMULATIONS Rasmus Tonboe, Leif Toudal Pedersen, Gorm Dybkjær 13:40 FR3.103.2 SEA ICE VOLUME FLUX THROUGH FRAM STRAIT FROM COMBINED SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR 2003 TO 2007 Gunnar Spreen, Stefan Kern, Detlef Stammer 14:00 FR3.103.3 ISSUES ON SEA ICE PARAMTER RETRIEVAL FROM SPACEBORNE OBSERVATIONS Mohammed Shokr 14:20 FR3.103.4 MONITORING THE ARCTIC SEA ICE MELT SEASON LENGTH USING SATELLITE PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA Thorsten Markus, Jeffrey Miller, Julienne Stroeve 14:40 FR3.103.5 ANALYSIS OF WINDSAT DATA OF ARCTIC SEA ICE Parag Narvekar, Georg Heygster, Rasmus Tonboe, Thomas Jackson

FR3.104: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00

FR3.104 Microwave Remote Sensing for Land Use and Land Cover Change Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Brian Hornbuckle and John Galantowicz 13:20 FR3.104.1 TERRASAR-X/SPOT-5 FUSED IMAGES FOR SUPERVISED LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION Alessandro Burini, Cosimo Putignano, Fabio Del Frate, Giorgio Licciardi, Giovanni Schiavon, Domenico Solimini 13:40 FR3.104.2 ASSESSMENT ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LAND USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION IN AMAZON USING ALOS PALSAR POLARIMETRIC DATA Luciano Vieira Dutra, Corina Costa Freitas, Graziela Balda Scofield, José Claudio Mura, Sumaia Resegue Aboud-Neta, Rogerio Galante Negri, João Roberto Santos, Marcos Timbo Elmiro, Sidnei J. S. Sant’Anna 14:00 FR3.104.3 LAND COVER MAPPING IN CENTRAL BENIN (WEST AFRICA) BY A COMBINED APPROACH OF MULTI-FREQUENT SAR AND MULTI-SPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY USING MODERN CLASSIFIERS Matthias Braun, Hans-Peter Thamm, Björn Waske Friday 14:20 FR3.104.4 MICROWAVE EMISSIVITY SIMILARITIES AND VARIATIONS RELATED TO LAND COVER TYPE IN THE TROPICS Alan Lipton, Jean-Luc Moncet, John Galantowicz, Pan Liang 14:40 FR3.104.5 COMPARISON OF POLARIMETRIC CHANGE DETECTION METHODS ON ALOS PALSAR IMAGES OVER FINLAND Matthieu Molinier, Yrjö Rauste

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FR3.107: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00

FR3.107 Hyperspectral Image Analysis for Detection and Classification Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: Lori Bruce and Arno Duijster 13:20 FR3.107.1 OVERCOMING THE SMALL SAMPLE SIZE PROBLEM IN HYPERSPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION AND DETECTION TASKS Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce 13:40 FR3.107.2 A NEW APPROACH FOR SPATIO-SPECTRAL FEATURE-SELECTION FOR SENSORS WITH NOISY AND OVERLAPPING SPECTRAL BANDS Biliana Paskaleva, Majeed Hayat, Woo-Yong Jang, Sanjay Krishna 14:00 FR3.107.3 HYPERSPECTRAL BAND SELECTION VIA CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS Barat Mojaradi, Hamid Abrishami Moghadam, Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej 14:20 FR3.107.4 DIMENSION REDUCTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION VIA SUPPORT VECTOR BASED FEATURE EXTRACTION Cheng-Hsuan Li, Bor-Chen Kuo, Chin-Teng Lin, Chih-Cheng Hung 14:40 FR3.107.5 DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION AND CLASSIFICATION BASED ON ANT COLONY ALGORITHM FOR HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE Shuang Zhou, Junping Zhang, Baoku Su

FR3.108: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00

FR3.108 Microwave Synthetic Aperture Radiometers II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: Niels Skou and Jeff Piepmeier 13:20 FR3.108.1 COMPARISON OF SENSITIVITIES GENERATED BY REAL APERTURE AND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETERS Jingye Yan, Ji Wu, Manuel Martín-Neira, Hao Liu, Shenwei Zhang, Heguang Liu, Jing-Shan Jiang 13:40 FR3.108.2 CALIBRATION CONSISTENCY TOOL FOR INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS Verónica González-Gambau, Francesc Torres, Manuel Martín-Neira 14:00 FR3.108.3 INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS: FRINGE-WASHING FUNCTION ESTIMATION

WRAP-UP Friday Nuria Duffo, Francesc Torres, Ignasi Corbella, Manuel Martín-Neira 14:20 FR3.108.4 SUCCESS CRITERIA TOOL IN EMC TESTS FOR INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS Verónica González-Gambau, Francesc Torres, Francisco-Javier Benito, Josep Closa, Manuel Martín-Neira 14:40 FR3.108.5 PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT OF AN 8MM BAND 2-DIMENSIONAL APERTURE SYNTHESIS RADIOMETER Yong Xue, Jungang Miao, Guolong Wan, Anyong Hu, Feng Zhao, Huaming Wu

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FR3.109: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00

FR3.109 Electromagnetic Methods for Remote Sensing I Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Stefan Auer and Kuan-Shan Chen 13:20 FR3.109.1 REQUIREMENTS FOR MODEL-BASED POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITIONS Jakob van Zyl, Motofumi Arii, Yunjin Kim 13:40 FR3.109.2 EFFECT OF FOREST STRUCTURE ON SCATTERING CENTER HEIGHT FROM MODEL AND SAR DATA Wenjian Ni, Guoqing Sun, Zhifeng Guo, Wenhan Qin 14:00 FR3.109.3 RADAR VOLUME BACKSCATTER FROM SPATIALLY EXTENDED GEOPHYSICAL TARGETS IN “SLICE” APPROACH Boris Yurchak 14:20 FR3.109.4 GROUND SCATTERING ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY TARGETS FOR REFRACTIVITY FIELD ESTIMATION Jason Fritz, V. Chandrasekar 14:40 FR3.109.5 FAST AND ACCURATE RADIATIVE TRANSFER IN THE MICROWAVE WITH OPTIMUM SPECTRAL SAMPLING Alan Lipton, Jean-Luc Moncet, Gennady Uymin, Katherine Quinn, Sid-Ahmed Boukabara

FR3.110: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00

FR3.110 Vegetation 3D Structure: Combining Lidar and Radar I Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Marc Simard and Kostas Papathanassiou 13:20 FR3.110.1 VEGETATION 3D STRUCTURE: COMBINING LIDAR AND INSAR Marc Simard 13:40 FR3.110.2 INSAR/LIDAR/OPTICAL DATA FUSION FOR VEGETATION HEIGHT AND BIOMASS ESTIMATION IN SUPPORT OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CARBON PROGRAM Josef Kellndorfer, Wayne Walker, Elizabeth LaPoint 14:00 FR3.110.3 SAR AND LIDAR FUSION FOR FOREST STRUCTURE ESTIMATION: SIMULATION STUDY Leland Pierce, Kamal Sarabandi 14:20 FR3.110.4 SYNERGISTIC USE OF VERY HIGH FREQUENCY RADAR AND PROFILING LIDAR FOR ESTIMATING BIOMASS IN HARDWOOD AND MIXED FORESTS

Friday Asim Banskota, Randolph Wynne, Patrick Johnson, Bomono Emessiene, Valerie Thomas 14:40 FR3.110.5 POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY FOR FOREST STRUCTURE PARAMETER ESTIMATION: POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Seung-Kuk Lee, Florian Kugler, Irena Hajnsek

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FR3.111: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00

FR3.111 Data Assimilation and Ensemble Filtering Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 111 Co-Chairs: Ross Hoffman and Peter Chu 13:20 FR3.111.1 DATA ASSIMILATION OF MODEL PREDICTIONS OF LONG-TIME EVOLUTION OF CS-137 DEPOSITION ON TERRAIN Radek Hofman, Petr Pecha 13:40 FR3.111.2 COMBINING CORRELATION METHOD AND FEATURE MODEL IN AN ASSIMILATION SCHEME TO IMPROVE OCEAN FORECASTING CAPABILITIES Manlio Mano, Audalio Torres, Alvaro Coutinho 14:00 FR3.111.3 ASSIMILATING REMOTE SENSING BASED SOIL MOISTURE IN THE BEPS MODEL FOR AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT ASSESSMENT Lin Zhu, Jing M. Chen, Qiming Qin, Mei Huang, Lianxi Wang, Jianping Li, Bao Cao 14:20 FR3.111.4 ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS FOR THE COASTAL OCEAN: IMPACT OF DIFFERENT OBSERVED VARIABLES Ross Hoffman, Rui Ponte, Eric Kostelich, Alan Blumberg, Istvan Szunyogh, Sergey Vinogradov 14:40 FR3.111.5 ASSIMILATING EARTH OBSERVATION DATA INTO LAND SURFACE MODELS. Tristan Quaife, Philip Lewis, Martin De Kauwe

FR3.203: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00

FR3.203 Clouds and Precipitation III Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Kultegin Aydin and Robert Meneghini 13:20 FR3.203.1 PHASED ARRAY RADAR POLARIMETRY FOR WEATHER SENSING: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Guifu Zhang, Richard Doviak, Dusan Zrnic, Jerry Crain 13:40 FR3.203.2 ICE WATER CONTENT ESTIMATION IN CLOUDS USING RADAR REFLECTIVITY AND DUAL-FREQUENCY RATIO AT 94 AND 220 GHZ Kultegin Aydin, Thomas M. Walsh 14:00 FR3.203.3 COMPARISION OF HYDROLOGIC MODEL RESULTS FROM RAIN GAUGE, NEXRAD

STAGE III, AND TRMM 3B42 PRECIPITATION DATA Friday Kenneth Tobin, Marvin Bennett 14:20 FR3.203.4 INTERACTIVE GENERATION OF REALISTIC PARTICLE DESIGNS FOR SCATTERING CALCULATIONS USING DDSCAT Kwo-Sen Kuo, Eric A. Smith 14:40 FR3.203.5 REFLECTIVITY AND DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY RAINFALL ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE AT X-BAND Eugenio Gorgucci, Luca Baldini, V. Chandrasekar, Minda Le

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FR3.210: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00

FR3.210 AMSR-E II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 13:20 - 15:00 Place: Room 210 Co-Chairs: Akira Shibata and Josefino Comiso 13:20 FR3.210.1 INTERCOMPARISON OF SST RETRIEVED FROM AMSR-E AND WINDSAT Akira Shibata 13:40 FR3.210.2 AMSR-E STANDARD AND HIGH RESOLUTION SEA ICE DATA Josefino Comiso 14:00 FR3.210.3 SENSITIVITY OF BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES FROM AMSR-E LOW FREQUENCY CHANNELS TO THE SEASONAL EVOLUTION OF LAKE ICE THICKNESS Kyung-Kuk Kang, Claude R. Duguay, Stephen Howell, Chris P. Derksen, Richard E. J. Kelly 14:20 FR3.210.4 A SIMPLE METHOD FOR LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL FROM AMSR-E Shengli Wu, Xiaoxiang Zhu, Hu Yang 14:40 FR3.210.5 ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT OF PHASE CHANGED WATER CONTENT OF BARE SOIL IN FREEZE/THAW PROCESSES BASED ON THE CONFIGURATION OF AMSR/E Lixin Zhang, Shaojie Zhao, Linna Chai, Bo Li

FR4.101: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00

FR4.101 Urban Remote Sensing VIII Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 101 Co-Chairs: Paolo Gamba and Annemarie Schneider 15:20 FR4.101.1 GEOCDX: AN AUTOMATED CHANGE DETECTION & EXPLOITATION SYSTEM FOR HIGH RESOLUTION SATELITE IMAGERY Ozy Sjahputera, Curt H. Davis, Brian Claywell, Nicholas Hudson, James Keller, Michael Vincent, Yonghong Li, Matthew Klaric, Chi-Ren Shyu 15:40 FR4.101.2 JOINT FILTERING OF SAR INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE AND AMPLITUDE DATA IN URBAN AREAS BY TV MINIMIZATION Loic Denis, Florence Tupin, Jerome Darbon, Marc Sigelle 16:00 FR4.101.3 4D SAR IMAGING OF URBAN AREAS Gianfranco Fornaro, Diego Reale, Francesco Serafino 16:20 FR4.101.4 MULTIPLE OBJECT RECOGNITION FROM MULTI SPECTRAL IMAGEY AND LASER SCANNING DATA USING MULTI AGENT MODEL

Friday Taehun Yoon, Toni Schenk, Beata Csatho 16:40 FR4.101.5 CHANGE DETECTION FOR BRIDGES OVER WATER IN AIRBORNE AND SPACEBORNE SAR DATA Erich Cadario, Hermann Gross, Horst Hammer, Karsten Schulz, Antje Thiele, Ulrich Thoennessen, Uwe Soergel, Dan-Johan Weydahl

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FR4.104: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00

FR4.104 Retrieval of Water and Energy Balance Parameters II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 104 Co-Chairs: Kaicun Wang and John Galantowicz 15:20 FR4.104.1 ESTIMATION OF SURFACE NET RADIATION FROM SOLAR SHORTWAVE RADIATION MEASUREMENTS. Kaicun Wang, Shunlin Liang 15:40 FR4.104.2 LAND SURFACE ALBEDO AND DOWN-WELLING SHORT-WAVE RADIATION RETRIEVALS USING HIGH FREQUENCY OBSERVATIONS FROM MSG GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE Dominique Carrer, Bernhard Geiger, Jean-Louis Roujean, Olivier Hautecoeur, Catherine Meurey, Laurent Franchistéguy 16:00 FR4.104.3 UNDERSTANDING HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE DYNAMICS DUE TO CHANGING LAND USE AND LAND COVER: CONGO BASIN CASE STUDY Namrata Batra, Yi-Chen E. Yang, Hyun Il Choi, Praveen Kumar, Ximing Cai, Charlotte De Fraiture 16:20 FR4.104.4 ALONG TRACK INTERFEROMETRY ON RHONE RIVER Jean-Francois Nouvel, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Pascal Kosuth 16:40 FR4.104.5 UNMIXING A VARIABLE ENDMEMBER LINEAR MIXTURE MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF HEAT ISLAND MITIGATION BY GREEN VEGETATION Kenta Obata, Hiroki Yoshioka, Hrokazu Yamamoto

FR4.107: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00

FR4.107 Optical Sensor Technology Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 107 Co-Chairs: John Kerekes and Jerrold Baum 15:20 FR4.107.1 APEX – AN INNOVATIVE AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL RESEARCH PLATFORM Klaus Itten, Jens Nieke, Koen Meuleman, Franscesco Dell’Endice, Andreas Hueni, Edoardo Alberti 15:40 FR4.107.2 SUPPORTING FACILITIES FOR THE AIRBORNE IMAGING SPECTROMETER APEX Jens Nieke, Klaus Itten, Koen Meuleman, Peter Gege, Andreas Hueni, Francesco Dell’Endice, Gerd Ulbrich, Roland Meynart Friday 16:00 FR4.107.3 SENTINEL-3 LAND SYNERGY PRODUCTS FOR SPOT VEGETATION CONTINUITY Pieter Kempeneers, Gilbert Saint, Else Swinnen, Eric Gontier 16:20 FR4.107.4 AN END-TO-END MODELING & SIMULATION CAPABILITY FOR ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF WEATHER DATA PRODUCTS PRODUCED BY ENVIRONMENTAL SENSORS & SATELLITE SYSTEMS Merit Shoucri, Bruce Hauss 16:40 FR4.107.5 METHODS FOR CROSSTALK CHARACTERIZATION, IMPACT ASSESSMENT, AND MITIGATION IN DUAL GAIN IMAGING SENSORS Carl Fischer, William Bicknell

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FR4.108: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00

FR4.108 Low-cost Aerial and UAV Remote Sensing Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 108 Co-Chairs: John Antoniades and John Cipar 15:20 FR4.108.1 MAPPING OF NATURAL DISASTERS USING A LOW-COST AERIAL DATA ACQUISITION PLATFORM Hannes Raggam, Roland Wack, Karlheinz Gutjahr, Mathias Schardt 15:40 FR4.108.2 LIGHTER-THAN-AIR IMAGING SYSTEM USING AN UNCOOLED INFRARED CAMERA Andrew Jessup, Daniel Clark 16:00 FR4.108.3 LOW-COST MULTISPECTRAL AERIAL IMAGING USING AUTONOMOUS RUNWAY-FREE SMALL FLYING WING VEHICLES Austin Jensen, Marc Baumann, Yangquan Chen 16:20 FR4.108.4 REAL-TIME UAV ORTHO-VIDEO GENERATION Daiyong Wei, Guoqing Zhou 16:40 FR4.108.5 MICROASAR: A SMALL, ROBUST LFM-CW SAR FOR OPERATION ON UAVS AND SMALL AIRCRAFT Matthew Edwards, David Madsen, Craig Stringham, Alex Margulis, Brandon Wicks, David G. Long

FR4.109: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00

FR4.109 Electromagnetic Methods for Remote Sensing II Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 109 Co-Chairs: Christophe Bourlier and Kuan-Shan Chen 15:20 FR4.109.1 RAY TRACING FOR SIMULATING REFLECTION PHENOMENA IN SAR IMAGES Stefan Auer, Stefan Hinz, Richard Bamler 15:40 FR4.109.2 RADAR SIGNATURE ANALYSIS OF URBAN STRUCTURES Markus Peichl, Timo Kempf, Stephan Dill 16:00 FR4.109.3 UNDERSTANDING THE RADAR INTERACTION WITH THE RIVER ICE COVER AT DIFFERENT POLARISATIONS (HH, VV, AND VH) AND FREQUENCIES (C, X, L). Imen Gherboudj, Monique Bernier, Robert Leconte 16:20 FR4.109.4 SIMULATIONS OF L-BAND BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE OF A QUASI-PERIODIC CORN CANOPY

Friday Cuneyt Utku, Roger Lang 16:40 FR4.109.5 EMISSIVITIES OF RANDOM ROUGH SURFACE OVER LAYERED MEDIA Peng Xu, Leung Tsang, Kun-Shan Chen

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FR4.110: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00

FR4.110 Vegetation 3D Structure: Combining Lidar and Radar II Session Type: Oral-Invited Time: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 110 Co-Chairs: Marc Simard and Kostas Papathanassiou 15:20 FR4.110.1 COMBINING LIDAR AND INSAR OBSERVATIONS OVER THE HARVARD AND DUKE FORESTS FOR MAKING WIDE AREA MAPS OF VEGETATION HEIGHT Paul Siqueira, Scott Hensley, Bruce Chapman, Razi Ahmed 15:40 FR4.110.2 PENETRATION INTO VEGETATION CANOPIES MEASURED BY MULTIWAVELENGTH AND POLARIMETRIC INSAR Howard Zebker 16:00 FR4.110.3 ACHIEVING FULL 3D CANOPY STRUCTURE FROM LIDAR AND MULTI-ANGULAR DATA Mitchell Schull, Sangram Ganguly, Arindam Samanta, Alan Strahler, Curtis E. Woodcock, Crystal Schaaf, Wenge Ni-Meister, Jicheng Liu, Glenn J. Newnham, Tian Yao, Feng Zhao, Xiaoyuan Yang, Qingling Zhang, Miguel O. Román III, Shihyan Lee, Zhousen Wang, Yanmin Shuai, Nikolay Shabanov, Ranga Myneni, Yuri Knyazikhin 16:20 FR4.110.4 THE POTENTIAL OF COMBINED LIDAR AND SAR DATA IN RETRIEVING FOREST PARAMETERS USING MODEL ANALYSIS Zhifeng Guo, Guoqing Sun, K. Jon Ranson, Wenjian Ni, Wenhan Qin 16:40 FR4.110.5 INVESTIGATION ON TREE HEIGHT RETRIEVAL WITH POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY Lulu Tan, Ruliang Yang

FR4.111: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00

FR4.111 Data-Validated Inverse Methods Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 111 Chair: Edwin Marengo 15:20 FR4.111.1 CROP LAI RETRIEVAL FROM MODIS BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE OBSERVATIONS USING PARTICLE FILTER ALGORITHM AND A CROP GROWTH MODEL Dongwei Wang, Jindi Wang, Yongmei Chen, Haobo Lin, Shunlin Liang, Zhiqiang Xiao 15:40 FR4.111.2 RETRIEVAL OF LEAF AREA INDEX BY COUPLING RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL AND PROCESS MODEL Zhiqiang Xiao, Shunlin Liang, Jindi Wang Friday 16:00 FR4.111.3 SINGULAR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS FOR FILLING GAPS AND REDUCING UNCERTAINTIES OF MODIS LAND PRODUCTS Dongdong Wang, Shunlin Liang 16:20 FR4.111.4 A METHODOLOGY FOR SELECTION OF OPTIMAL VIEWING ANGLES FOR AN ACCURATE ESTIMATION OF LEAF AREA INDEX BASED ON INFORMATION THEORY Yanjuan Yao, Qiang Liu, Qinhuo Liu, Wenjie Fan, Xiaowen Li 16:40 FR4.111.5 IMPROVEMENT OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION BY USING GLOBAL SIGNAL ELIMINATION FROM ENVIRONMENTAL ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS Motoaki Mouri, Arao Funase, Ichi Takumi, Andrzej Cichocki, Hiroshi Yasukawa, Masayasu Hata

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FR4.203: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00

FR4.203 Clouds and Precipitation IV Session Type: Oral-Contributed Time: Friday, July 11, 15:20 - 17:00 Place: Room 203 Co-Chairs: Kultegin Aydin and Kenneth Tobin 15:20 FR4.203.1 NPOESS PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS USING THE ATMS PASSIVE MICROWAVE SPECTROMETER Chinnawat Surussavadee, David Staelin 15:40 FR4.203.2 VALIDATION OF MULTILAYERED CLOUD PROPERTIES USING A-TRAIN SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS Yuhong Yi, Patrick Minnis, Jianping Huang, Sunny Sun-Mack, Bing Lin, Kirk Ayers 16:00 FR4.203.3 TOMOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL OF CLOUD WATER DISTRIBUTIONS USING AN AIR-BORNE SCANNING MICROWAVE RADIOMETER Dong Huang, Albin Gasiewski, Warren Wiscombe 16:20 FR4.203.4 DEVELOPMENT AND OBSERVATION OF THE KU-BAND BROAD-BAND RADAR FOR METEOROLOGICAL APPLICATION Eiichi Yoshikawa, Tomoaki Mega, Takeshi Morimoto, Tomoo Ushio, Zen Kawasaki 16:40 FR4.203.5 THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATIONS OF HIGH CLOUDS BASED ON THE MODIS 1.375-MICRON CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS Bo-Cai Gao, Rong-Rong Li Friday

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TopicalPaper Session Identifiers Index

Example: TU 4 . 107 . 4 Time Meaning: Day Separator Room Separator Sequence Block

Day MO...... Monday, July 7 TU...... Tuesday, July 8 WE...... Wednesday, July 9 TH...... Thursday, July 10 FR...... Friday, July 11

Time Block 1...... First Morning Session...... 08:20 - 10:00 2...... Second Morning Session...... 10:20 - 12:00 3...... First Afternoon Session...... 13:20 - 15:00 4...... Second Afternoon Session...... 15:20 - 17:00 P...... Poster Session...... 17:00 - 18:30 ...... Note: Posters will be up all day; authors will be present 17:00 - 18:30.

Room Oral...... Hynes Convention Center Rooms 101-111, 203, and 210. Poster...... Poster Areas A-Z and AA-EE.

Sequence Oral...... Order of presentation. Poster...... Board number (Complete poster board identifier is the Room plus the Sequence.)

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Topical Session Index Sessions are listed chronologically within topic, except Invited Sessions, which are listed alphabetically. Topical Session Index A2 -- Applications:Urban and Built Environment Urban Remote Sensing I...... WEP.V Urban Remote Sensing II...... WEP.W Urban Remote Sensing III...... WEP.X Remote Sensing of Road Networks and Vehicles...... WEP.Z Remote Sensing of Urban Heat Islands...... WEP.AA 3D Urban Mapping I...... TH2.101 3D Urban Mapping II...... TH3.101 Urban Road Networks...... TH4.101 Mapping Urban Areas I...... FR1.101 Mapping Urban Areas II...... FR2.101

A3 -- Applications:Coastal and Wetlands Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications I...... MO3.110 Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications II...... MO4.110 Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications III...... MOP.F Coastal, Wetland, and Health Applications IV...... MOP.G

A4 -- Applications:Geology and Solid Earth Landslides and Geological Hazards...... TUP.Y Geological Applications of Radar ...... TUP.Z Geological Applications and GIS...... TUP.AA Geological Applications of Hyper- and Multi-spectral Imaging...... WE3.101 Geological Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar...... WE4.101 Crustal Deformation and Subsurface Sensing...... TH1.101

A5 -- Applications:Pollution and Contamination Soil & Air Pollution Monitoring...... WEP.BB Water Pollution Monitoring...... WEP.CC Pollution Monitoring...... TH4.110

A6 -- Applications:Unexploded Ordnance and Landmine Remediation Subsurface Object Detection...... MO4.101

C1 -- Cryosphere:Land Ice and Snow Active Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere I...... TH3.103 Active Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere II...... TH4.103 Land Ice and Snow I...... THP.P Land Ice and Snow II...... THP.Q Land Ice and Snow III...... THP.R

C2 -- Cryosphere:Sea Ice Sea Ice...... THP.S Passive Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere...... FR1.103

E1 -- Electromagnetics and Radiative Transfer:Microwave Scattering and Propagation Memorial Session for Professor Jin Au Kong...... TU4.210 Microwave Scattering and Propagation I...... THP.T Volume and Surface Scattering...... THP.U Microwave Scattering and Propagation II...... THP.V

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Topical Session Index Electromagnetic Methods for Remote Sensing I...... FR3.109 Electromagnetic Methods for Remote Sensing II...... FR4.109

E2 -- Electromagnetics and Radiative Transfer:Optical and Infrared Modeling Optical & Infrared Modeling for Remote Sensing I...... WE4.203 Optical & Infrared Modeling for Remote Sensing II...... WEP.C

Invited Sessions A Climate of Change -- NASA’s Applied Sciences Program I...... TH3.210 A Climate of Change -- NASA’s Applied Sciences Program II...... TH4.210 Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow I...... WE1.103 Active Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow II...... WE2.103 Advanced Lidar Technologies and Applications to 3D Landcover Structure I...... TU1.105 Advanced Lidar Technologies and Applications to 3D Landcover Structure II...... WE4.210 Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction I...... TH1.102 Advanced Methods for Polarimetric Information Extraction II...... TH2.102 Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Application Developments for Hyperspectral Imaging Systems...... TU1.109 Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Hyperspectral Sensing of Forests...... TU2.109 Advances in Passive Microwave and Infrared Imaging and Sounding (In Honor of the Accomplishments of Prof. David H. Staelin) I...... MO3.203 Advances in Passive Microwave and Infrared Imaging and Sounding (In Honor of the Accomplishments of Prof. David H. Staelin) II...... MO4.203 ALOS in 2008 I...... MO4.103 ALOS in 2008 II...... MO3.103 AMSR-E I...... FR2.210 AMSR-E II...... FR3.210 Atmospheric Compensation Techniques for Imaging Spectrometer Data I...... WE1.109 Atmospheric Compensation Techniques for Imaging Spectrometer Data II...... WE2.109 Atmospheric Remote Sensing for Air Pollution and Human Health...... TH2.210 Coastal Altimetry I...... WE3.105 Coastal Altimetry II...... WE4.105 Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere I...... FR1.203 Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere II...... FR2.203 Crop and Forest Monitoring with Microwave Radiometric Sensors I...... MO3.104 Crop and Forest Monitoring with Microwave Radiometric Sensors II...... MO4.104 Data Fusion I...... TU1.107 Data Fusion II...... TU2.107 Digital Beamforming for Future Remote Sensing Systems I...... FR1.102 Digital Beamforming for Future Remote Sensing Systems II...... FR2.102 EARLINET -- The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network I...... TU3.105 EARLINET -- The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network II...... TU4.105 Earth Observation Sensor Web I...... FR1.111 Earth Observation Sensor Web II...... FR2.111 Forest Parameter Estimation from Space using SAR I...... FR1.110 Forest Parameter Estimation from Space using SAR II...... FR2.110 Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and Radio Frequency Interference Effects in Microwave Radiometry I...... TU1.111 Frequency Allocation for Remote Sensing and Radio Frequency Interference Effects in Microwave Radiometry II...... TU2.111 Frontiers for Classification of Hyperspectral Data I...... MO3.107 Frontiers for Classification of Hyperspectral Data II...... MO4.107 Global Precipitation Mission I...... TH3.203 Global Precipitation Mission II...... TH4.203

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Topical Session Index High Wind Speed Retrievals from SAR and Scatterometry I...... TU3.203 High Wind Speed Retrievals from SAR and Scatterometry II...... TU4.203 Image Information Mining I...... WE3.111 Image Information Mining II...... WE4.111 Implementation of GEOSS: Technical and Application Developments...... MO3.210 Implementation of GEOSS: Science and Modeling...... MO4.210 Improving Access to Earth Science Data: New Tools and Services I...... TH1.111 Improving Access to Earth Science Data: New Tools and Services II...... TH2.111 Information Extraction from High Resolution SAR images I...... MO3.108 Information Extraction from High Resolution SAR images II...... MO4.108 Ionospheric Effects in Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Imagery I...... TU3.103 Ionospheric Effects in Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Imagery II...... TU4.103 Interferometry II...... TH2.108 Joint Time-Frequency Analysis of SAR...... TU1.102 Mapping Subsurface Geology in Arid Regions using Radar...... MO3.101 Microwave Radiometer Technology I...... TU3.111 Microwave Radiometer Technology II...... TU4.111 Multichannel - Multidimensional Coherent SAR Data Combination Techniques I...... TU3.108 Multichannel - Multidimensional Coherent SAR Data Combination Techniques I...... TU4.108 Near Sub-Surface Electromagnetic Imaging: Methods and Applications I...... WE1.101 Near Sub-Surface Electromagnetic Imaging: Methods and Applications II...... WE2.101 New Challenges and Perspectives with High Resolution Spaceborne SAR Systems...... TU1.108 Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geoscience I...... WE2.210 Observation Technologies For The Next Generation In Geoscience II...... WE3.210 Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow I...... WE3.103 Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Snow II...... WE4.103 PolSAR and Pol-InSAR for Agricultural Information Product Development I...... WE3.102 PolSAR and Pol-InSAR for Agricultural Information Product Development II...... WE4.102 RADARSAT ...... MO3.102 Rare Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery I...... TU3.109 Rare Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery II...... TU4.109 Reflective-Band Vicarious Calibration for Intersensor Comparisons...... MO4.109 Remote Sensing Applications to Archaeology I...... MO3.105 Remote Sensing Applications to Archaeology II...... MO4.105 Remote Sensing for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Identification and Removal I....TU3.101 Remote Sensing for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Identification and Removal II...TU4.101 Remote Sensing of Agricultural Production and Sustainability I...... TH1.110 Remote Sensing of Agricultural Production and Sustainability II...... TH2.110 Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere I...... TH1.103 Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere II...... TH2.103 Remote Sensing on the African Continent...... WE4.110 Rough Surface Scattering and Remote Sensing I...... FR1.109 Rough Surface Scattering and Remote Sensing II...... FR2.109 SAR/PolSAR/InSAR for Environmental Monitoring I...... WE1.102 SAR/PolSAR/InSAR for Environmental Monitoring I...... WE2.102 SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications I...... TH3.102 SAR Polarimetry: Theory and Applications II...... TH4.102 Sea Ice as an Indicator for Climate Change I...... FR2.103 Sea Ice as an Indicator for Climate Change II...... FR3.103 Space Hyperspectral Sensors and Programs I...... TH1.109 Space Hyperspectral Sensors and Programs II...... TH2.109 Spatial Data Fusion in PolSAR and Pol-InSAR Imaging...... TU2.108 Subsurface Sensing I...... TU1.101 Subsurface Sensing II...... TU2.101 240 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Topical Session Index Synergism of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors I...... TU1.203 Synergism of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors II...... TU2.203 TerraSAR-X Commissioning Phase Results...... TU2.102 TerraSAR-X satellite: Status and First Application Results I...... TU3.102 TerraSAR-X satellite: Status and First Application Results II...... TU4.102 Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission I...... TH1.203 Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission II...... TH2.203 Urban Remote Sensing VII...... FR3.101 Urban Remote Sensing VIII...... FR4.101 Vegetation 3D Structure: Combining Lidar and Radar I...... FR3.110 Vegetation 3D Structure: Combining Lidar and Radar II...... FR4.110

L1 -- Land:Land Use and Land Cover Change Change Detection in Forested Landscapes I...... TH1.104 Recent Advances in Change Detection Techniques...... TH2.104 Change Detection in Land Use / Land Cover I...... TH3.104 Change Detection in Urban Landscapes I...... TH4.104 Change Detection in Forested Landscapes II...... THP.A Change Detection in Land Use / Land Cover II...... THP.B Change Detection in Urban Landscapes II...... THP.C Land Use/Land Cover Classification I...... THP.D Land Use/Land Cover Classification II...... THP.E Land Use/Land Cover Classification III...... THP.F Applications in Land Use / Land Cover Characterization I...... THP.G Applications in Land Use / Land Cover Characterization II...... THP.H Retrieval of Water and Energy Balance Parameters I...... THP.I Land Use/Land Cover Classification IV...... FR1.104 Land Use/Land Cover Classification V...... FR2.104 Microwave Remote Sensing for Land Use and Land Cover Change...... FR3.104 Retrieval of Water and Energy Balance Parameters II...... FR4.104

L2 -- Land:Soils and Soil Moisture Passive Microwave Soil Moisture Algorithms...... TU1.104 Tower and Aircraft Soil Moisture Remote Sensing...... TU2.104 Radar Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture...... TU3.104 Global Soils and Soil Moisture Products...... TU4.104 Passive Microwave Sensing of Soil Moisture...... TUP.A Soil Moisture Experimental Observations...... TUP.B Surface Roughness and Soil Properties I...... TUP.C Surface Roughness and Soil Properties II...... TUP.D Radar and Soil Moisture ...... TUP.F Soils and Hydrologic Applications...... WE1.104 Scaling Issues in Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture...... WE2.104 Drought and Evapotranspiration...... WEP.H

L3 -- Land:Forests and Vegetation Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation I...... TU1.110 Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation II...... TU2.110 Forests and Vegetation: SAR Interferometry and Polarimetry I...... TU3.110 Forests and Vegetation: SAR Interferometry and Polarimetry II...... TU4.110 Vegetation Biophysical Parameter Estimation III...... TUP.E Land Cover Classification...... WE1.110 Forest Structure and Biomass...... WE2.110 Advances in Hyperspectral Applications: Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation .... WE3.110 241 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Topical Session Index Land Cover Classification and Characterization...... WEP.A Hyperspectral and Optical Remote Sensing of Vegetation...... WEP.B Forests and Vegetation: MODIS...... WEP.D Forests and Vegetation: Modeling, Algorithms and Simulations...... WEP.E Forests and Vegetation: Seasonal Processes...... WEP.F Forests and Vegetation: Fire, Disturbance, and Recovery...... WEP.G

L4 -- Land:Wetlands and Inland Waters Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters I...... TH3.110 Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters II...... THP.J Applications in Wetlands and Inland Waters III...... THP.K

L5 -- Land:Agroecosystems Techniques for Agroecosystem Monitoring...... MOP.A Applications of Agroecosystem Monitoring...... MOP.B Evapotranspiration Estimation at Field Scale...... WE4.104

M1 -- Atmosphere:Precipitation and Clouds Clouds and Precipitation I...... THP.N Clouds and Precipitation II...... THP.O Clouds and Precipitation III...... FR3.203 Clouds and Precipitation IV...... FR4.203

M2 -- Atmosphere:Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation Assimilation of Satellite Radiances...... TU2.210 Radiance Assimilation and Retrieval Methods I...... TU3.210 Radiance Assimilation and Retrieval Methods II...... TUP.G

M3 -- Atmosphere:Atmospheric Sounding Atmospheric Profiling I...... WE1.203 Atmospheric Profiling II...... WE2.203 Atmospheric Profiling III...... WEP.J

M4 -- Atmosphere:Aerosols and Retrieval of Aerosol Characteristics from Ground-based and Satellite Observations...... WE3.203 Satellite Data-based Methods for Determining Aerosol Characteristics...... WEP.K Aerosol and Trace Gas Monitoring using a Combination of Ground-based and Satellite Observations...... WEP.L

O1 -- Oceans:Ocean Biology (Color) and Water Quality Optical Sensing in the Coastal Ocean...... TH3.105 Ocean Color...... THP.L

O2 -- Oceans:Ocean Surface Winds and Currents Ocean Surface Winds...... MO3.111 Ocean Wind and Weather Sensing...... MO4.111 Ocean Wind Measurements...... MOP.C Active and Passive Ocean Observations...... MOP.D SAR Observations of Ocean Processes...... MOP.E Sensing and Modeling Ocean Physics ...... TH1.105 High Resolution Microwave Sensing of Ocean Wind and Waves...... TH2.105

O3 -- Oceans:Ocean Temperature and Salinity Surface Temperature and Salinity I...... TH4.105 242 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Topical Session Index Surface Temperature and Salinity II...... THP.M

O4 -- Oceans:Ocean Altimetry Ocean Altimetry...... WE1.105 Ocean and Ice Altimetry...... WE2.105 Ocean Altimetry...... WEP.I

P1 -- Education and Policy:Data Management and Systems Data Management and Systems I...... WEP.DD Data Management and Systems II...... TH3.111 Data Management and Systems III...... TH4.111

P2 -- Education and Policy:Remote Sensing Data and Policy Decisions Remote Sensing and Policy Decisions...... WE4.109

P3 -- Education and Policy:Education and Remote Sensing Remote Sensing Education and Outreach...... WE3.109 Education, Outreach and Policy...... WEP.EE

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Topical Session Index S1 -- Sensors and Platforms:SAR Instruments, Missions and Calibration TerraSAR-X & TanDEM-X: Features & Calibration...... WE1.108 Multi Aperture Multistatic SAR...... WE2.108 SAR Instruments, Missions and Atmospheric Effects...... WEP.S

S2 -- Sensors and Platforms:SAR Processing Moving Targets...... MO4.102 Bistatic SAR I...... WE3.108 Bistatic SAR II...... WE4.108 Moving and Stationary Targets ...... WEP.T Multistatic SAR and 3-D Imaging...... WEP.U Interferometry I...... TH1.108 SAR Processing I...... TH3.108 SAR Processing II...... TH4.108 Interferometry II...... THP.W Interferometry / Polarimetry...... THP.X SAR Processing III...... THP.Y SAR Processing IV...... THP.Z SAR Processing V...... THP.AA

S3 -- Sensors and Platforms:Active Microwave Active Microwave Remote Sensing I...... THP.EE Active Microwave Remote Sensing - Weather ...... FR1.108 Active Microwave Remote Sensing II...... FR2.108

S4 -- Sensors and Platforms:Radiometer Instruments and Calibration NPOESS and SENTINEL Missions ...... MO3.109 Microwave Synthetic Aperture Radiometers I...... TUP.U Microwave Real Aperture Radiometers: Technology and Calibration I...... TUP.V Microwave Real Aperture Radiometers: Technology and Calibration II...... TUP.W Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Missions...... TUP.X Microwave Synthetic Aperture Radiometers II...... FR3.108

S5 -- Sensors and Platforms:Lidar Sensors Lidar Sensors and Applications I...... TU2.105 Lidar Sensors and Applications II...... TUP.S Lidar Sensors and Applications III...... TUP.T

S6 -- Sensors and Platforms:Passive Optical and Hyperspectral Sensors Future Space-based Optical Instruments...... TH3.109 Technologies for Hyperspectral Imaging...... TH4.109 Optical Instrument Calibration...... THP.CC Optical Technologies...... THP.DD Optical Sensor Technology...... FR4.107

S7 -- Sensors and Platforms:UAV and Airborne Platforms UAV Sensor Systems...... THP.BB Low-cost Aerial and UAV Remote Sensing...... FR4.108

T1 -- Analysis Techniques:Image Processing Techniques Urban Areas and Buildings...... TU3.107 Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing I...... TU4.107 Applications in Data and Image Processing...... TUP.H Target Detection and Pattern Recognition...... TUP.K 244 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

Topical Session Index Multitemporal Processing...... TUP.M Hyperspectral: Compression and Implementation...... TUP.N High Resolution Optical Data Processing...... TUP.P Image Processing: Calibration and Correction...... TUP.Q Spatial Resolution - Registration...... TUP.R Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing II...... WE1.107 Change Detection...... WE1.111 Multi- and Hyperspectral Image Processing III...... WE2.107 Analysis Techniques: Land Use / Land Cover...... WE2.111 Data Fusion III...... WE3.107 SAR Image Methods...... WEP.R Pansharpening...... FR1.105 Image Processing: Registration...... FR2.105

T2 -- Analysis Techniques:Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems Multiscale Processing...... WE3.104 Ensemble Filtering and Data Assimilation...... WEP.O Inverse Methods and Data Processing...... WEP.P Statistical and Physics-Based Inverse Methods...... WEP.Q Data Assimilation and Ensemble Filtering...... FR3.111 Data-Validated Inverse Methods...... FR4.111

T3 -- Analysis Techniques:Classification and Data Mining Techniques Image Analysis and Classification I...... TUP.I Image Analysis and Classification II...... TUP.J Feature Extraction and Reduction...... TUP.L Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Classification...... TUP.O Data Fusion IV...... WEP.M Image Analysis for Classification and Detection...... TH1.107 Kernel Methods for Image Analysis and Classification...... TH2.107 Image Analysis and Classification - Quality Issues...... TH4.107 Polarimetric SAR Image Segmentation and Analysis...... FR3.102 Hyperspectral Image Analysis for Detection and Classification...... FR3.107

T4 -- Analysis Techniques:Geographic Information Science Geographic Information Science Tools...... TUP.BB Geographic Information Science Applications I...... TUP.CC Geographic Information Science Applications II...... TUP.DD Geographic Information Science Outreach ...... TUP.EE Geospatial Based Analysis...... WE4.107 Data Mining Tools & Applications...... WEP.N Image Classification - Techniques and Applications...... TH3.107 Geospatial Standards & Services I...... FR1.107 Geospatial Standards & Services II...... FR2.107

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Topical Session Index X1 -- Other Student Paper Prize Competition I...... TU1.103 Student Paper Prize Competition II...... TU2.103

Z1 -- Panel Sessions:Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and Radiance Data Assimilation Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), Radiance Data Assimilation and Ocean Synoptics...... TU1.210

Z2 -- Panel Sessions:Earth Science Decadal Survey NASA Missions Earth Science Decadal Survey NASA Missions...... WE1.210

Z3 -- Panel Sessions:Human and Environmental Health Human and Environmental Health...... TH1.210

Z4 -- Panel Sessions:Baseline Climate Identification and Global Change Baseline Climate Identification and Global Change...... FR1.210

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Author Index A Author Index Allen, Chris ...... 183 Abdalati, Waleed ...... 114 Alonso, Ana ...... 196 Abdel Aati, Massoud ...... 57 Alonso Benito, Alfonso ...... 145 Abdelfattah, Riadh ...... 132 Alonso, Covadonga ...... 196 Abd El-Kader, Mohamed ...... 186 Alonso, Luis ...... 173 Abdel Latif, Bassam ...... 98 Alparone, Luciano ...... 54, 98, 217 Abeigne Ella, Leonce P...... 159 Alpers, Werner ...... 166, 172 Abi, Deebu ...... 171 Alqudah, Amin ...... 175 Aboud-Neta, Sumaia Resegue ...... 228 Al-Saadi, Jassim ...... 175 Abrishami Moghadam, Hamid ...... 229 Al Shariff, Samir M...... 95 Abshire, James ...... 131, 138 Alsweiss, Suleiman ...... 49, 56 Abubakar, Aria ...... 114 Alves Maximo, Orlando ...... 178 Acharya, Prabhat ...... 141 Amano, Yuichiro ...... 189 Achim, Roth ...... 77 Amarin, Ruba ...... 59 Acito, Nicola ...... 117 Amarouche, Laiba ...... 116 Acquaro, Maria ...... 197 Amateis, Ralph ...... 144 Adam, Nico ...... 67 Ambrosia, Vince ...... 225 Adams, Ian ...... 48, 49, 59 Ambrosia, Vincent ...... 187 Adegbidi, Hector Guy ...... 124 Amelung, Falk ...... 132, 183 Adler-Golden, Steven ...... 80, 118, 141 Ames, Troy ...... 225 Agam, Nurit ...... 133 Amin, Moeness ...... 51, 65 Agarwal, Sanjeev ...... 51 Amodeo, Aldo ...... 79 Agnès, Begue ...... 137 Amolins, Krista ...... 96 Agram, Piyush ...... 167 Anagnostopoulos, Georgios ...... 223 Aguasca, Albert ...... 105, 176 Anderson, Clifton R...... 54 Aharonson, Oded ...... 101 Anderson, Craig ...... 70 Ahlstrom, Douglas J...... 174 Anderson, Donald ...... 114 Ahmad, Fauzia ...... 65 Anderson, Gail P...... 118, 123 Ahmad, Khalil ...... 175 Anderson, Kent ...... 105 Ahmed, Razi ...... 81, 235 Anderson, Liana ...... 69 Ahmed, Samir ...... 149, 175, 178, 186, 197, 213 Anderson, Martha C...... 69, 133, 168 Aiazzi, Bruno ...... 98 Anderson, Nikolaus ...... 54 Aifeng, Lü ...... 145 Andreatta, Claudio ...... 102 Ai, Jianwen ...... 110, 148 André, Gael ...... 60 Ainsworth, Thomas ...... 47, 65, 78, 165, 176 Andres, Christian ...... 117, 208 Aizen, Vladimir ...... 202 Andrews, A. Ballard ...... 137, 185 Akagunduz, Erdem ...... 134 Andrews, Elizabeth ...... 123 Akamanchi, Santosh ...... 110 Andriyashin, Alexey ...... 117 Akcay, Gokhan ...... 178 Anfinsen, Stian Normann ...... 182 Akhmedov, Bakhyt ...... 168, 222 Angal, Amit ...... 212 Aksoy, Selim ...... 134, 178 Angelliaume, Sebastien ...... 84, 170, 176, 225 Alados-Arboledas, Lucas ...... 79 Angiuli, Emanuele ...... 66, 87 Alasset, Pierre-Jean ...... 120, 132 Angulo, Jesus ...... 137 Alberti, Edoardo ...... 233 Annan, Peter ...... 120 Alcala, Christian ...... 184 Annegarn, Harold ...... 193 Aldakheel, Yousef ...... 57 Annegarn, Harold John ...... 136 Aldred, David Andrew ...... 182 Ansmann, Albert ...... 79 Alecu, Corina ...... 110 Anterrieu, Eric ...... 95 Alexander, Denisov ...... 87 Anyamba, Assaf ...... 55 Alexander, Glen ...... 135 Ao, Chi O...... 57 Allain, Sophie ...... 65, 78, 115, 126, 129, 201 Aoki, Shigeru ...... 203 Allan, Graham ...... 131 Aoki, Yoshimitsu ...... 101 247 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Aoki, Yosuke ...... 52 Azarbarzin, Ardeshir ...... 181 Aonashi, Kazumasa ...... 76, 187 Aosier, Buhe ...... 97 B Aoyama, Kazuyasu ...... 170 Apituley, Arnoud ...... 79, 131, 147 Babini, Gianni ...... 168 Arakelyan, Arsen ...... 60, 92, 121 Baccini, Alessandro ...... 124, 222 Arakelyan, Artashes ...... 60, 92, 121 Bach, Heike ...... 168 Araya, Bereket ...... 136 Bachmann, Charles ...... 47, 68, 116 Araya, Seare ...... 171 Bachmann, Markus ...... 71, 117 Arbelo, Manuel ...... 145 Bäck, Daniel ...... 222 Arbresser-Rastburg, Bertram ...... 147 Bagan, Hasi ...... 97 Arcemont, Gary ...... 175 Bahri, El Mustapha ...... 145 Archambault, Philippe ...... 103 Bailey, M. C...... 81 Archibald, Sally ...... 144 Bai, Linyan ...... 148, 161 Ardizzone, Joseph ...... 49, 225 Baillarin, Florence ...... 145 Ardouin, Jean Pierre ...... 74 Baillarin, Simon ...... 102 Arega, Fekerte ...... 109 Bai, Mu ...... 100, 189 Arenas, Helbert ...... 55 Baise, Laurie ...... 116 Argenti, Fabrizio ...... 54 Bai, Xinping ...... 188, 189 Argentini, Stefania ...... 133 Bai, Yuqi ...... 218 Arii, Motofumi ...... 230 Baker, Brandon ...... 73 Arkett, Matt ...... 45, 222 Balasubramanian, Ramprasad ...... 95, 198 Armston, John ...... 219 Baldini, Luca ...... 231 Armstrong, Peter ...... 173 Balis, Dimitris ...... 79 Armstrong, William ...... 129 Ballatore, Paola ...... 207, 208 Arnaud, Alain ...... 170 Ballester-Berman, J. David ...... 132, 207 Arnaud, Laurent ...... 165 Balling, Jan ...... 87, 183 Arsenault, Henri H...... 96 Balsamo, Gianpaolo ...... 84 Arvor, Damien ...... 98 Balss, Ulrich ...... 71 Asbury, Scott ...... 179 Bambacus, Myra ...... 50 Aschbrenner, Ryan ...... 200 Bamler, Richard ...... 158, 173, 234 Askne, Jan ...... 219 Bandeira Guerra, Júlio ...... 166 Aslett, Zan ...... 126 Bang, Ki In ...... 96 Asmus, Ken ...... 133 Banicescu, Ioana ...... 98 Asner, Greg P...... 168 Bannari, Abdou ...... 74, 85, 130 Aso, Yuichiro ...... 208 Banskota, Asim ...... 230 Astin, Ivan ...... 119 Bao, Anming ...... 92, 153, 196 Astola, Heikki ...... 144 Bao, Yansong ...... 93, 143, 160 Astola, Jaakko ...... 117, 122 Baranoski, Gladimir ...... 137 Atlas, Robert ...... 49 Barb, Adrian ...... 130 Attema, Evert ...... 48 Barber, Matias ...... 91 Attoui, Redha ...... 83 Barbier, Nicolas ...... 69 Atwood, Don ...... 167 Baret, Frédéric ...... 98 Atzeni, Carlo ...... 202 Barker Schaaf, Crystal ...... 123 Aubrecht, Christoph ...... 178 Barnett, Albert ...... 195 Auer, Stefan ...... 234 Barnola, Jean-Marc ...... 165 Aumann, Hartmut ...... 118 Barón-Martinez, Julio ...... 145 Avouac, Jean-Philippe ...... 101, 167 Baronti, Stefano ...... 98 Awada, Ahmad ...... 60, 205 Barrena García, Manuel ...... 162 Aydin, Kultegin ...... 231 Barreto, África ...... 145 Ayers, Kirk ...... 236 Barros, Ana P...... 174, 177 Ayoub, Francois ...... 101 Barrowes, Benjamin E...... 64, 83 248 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Barsi, Julia A...... 54, 212 Berizzi, Fabrizio ...... 208 Barstow, Daniel ...... 129 Berk, Alexander ...... 118, 123, 141 Bartalis, Zoltan ...... 70 Bernardi, Gabriella ...... 214 Baselice, Fabio ...... 173 Bernhardt, Paul ...... 78 Basener, Bill ...... 80 Bernier, Monique ...... 91, 94, 115, 126, 234 Basili, Roberto ...... 190 Berruti, Bruno ...... 179 Bass, Ellen ...... 220 Berry, Philippa ...... 180 Bates, Bevan ...... 208 Berthiau, Gregoire ...... 225 Batra, Namrata ...... 233 Bettenhausen, Michael H...... 48, 49, 59 Battazza, Fabrizio ...... 67 Bézy, Jean-Loup ...... 179 Baumann, Marc ...... 234 Bhaduri, Budhendra L...... 130, 150 Baumgartner, Stefan V...... 65, 129 Bharadwaj, Nitin ...... 200, 218 Baum, Jerrold ...... 141 Bhartia, Pawan ...... 175 Bazalgette Courrèges-Lacoste, Gregory ....179 Bhattacharya, Hrishikesh ...... 99 Bazi, Yakoub ...... 99 Bheemireddy, Shruthi ...... 110 Beaulieu, Jean-Marie ...... 165, 227 Bianchi, Tiziano ...... 54 Beaulne, Pete ...... 45 Biao, Zhang ...... 61 Becker, Alex ...... 83 Bickmeier, Laura ...... 56, 85, 106 Becker, Matthias ...... 128 Bicknell, William ...... 233 Bedient, Phil ...... 220 Bidwell, Steven ...... 200 Beer, Christian ...... 219 Bierman, Paul ...... 197 Behmo, Régis ...... 130 Biggar, Stuart ...... 54 Behn, Mario ...... 147 Bignami, Christian ...... 100, 135 Beland, Martin ...... 124 Bilanow, Steve ...... 174 Belhadj Aissa, Aichouche ...... 54 Bi, Lihong ...... 113 Belhadj, Ziad ...... 132 Billings, Stephen ...... 83 Belkhouche, Mohammed Yassine ...... 73 Bindbeutel, Dan ...... 211 Bellens, Rik ...... 183 Bindlish, Rajat ...... 52, 66, 72 Bellez, Sami ...... 204 Binet, Renaud ...... 101, 157 Belli, Kim ...... 160 Bingham, Andrew ...... 180 Bell, Michael ...... 55 Bingham, Gail E...... 174 Belvedere, Deborah ...... 220 Bing, Luo ...... 111 Benedicto, Pablo ...... 90 Bingyuan, Hao ...... 207 Benediktsson, Jón Atli .47, 53, 67, 137, 155, 172 Bin, Sun ...... 128 Ben Hammadi, Amina ...... 179 Birgit, Schättler ...... 71 Benhmammouch, Othmane ...... 206 Birol, Florence ...... 134 Bénié, Goze B...... 145, 165 Bi, Xue-Mei ...... 202 Benito, Eulàlia ...... 154 Black, Andrew ...... 75 Benito, Francisco-Javier ...... 229 Blackwell, William ...... 50, 56, 106 Ben Mustapha, Sélima ...... 197 Blaha, Denise ...... 129 Bennartz, Ralf ...... 76 Blair, J. Bryan ...... 66, 124 Bennert, Ellen ...... 116 Blake, William ...... 183 Bennett, Marvin ...... 231 Blanzieri, Enrico ...... 95 Bensi, Paolo ...... 179 Blatherwick, Ronald ...... 131 Benveniste, Jérôme ...... 122, 134, 147, 180 Blazquez, Soraya ...... 85 Beran, Laurens ...... 51 Blinn, Christine ...... 142, 143, 144 Béréziat, Dominique ...... 93 Blom, Ron ...... 53 Bergen, Kathleen ...... 81 Blom, Ronald ...... 53 Berger, Michael ...... 179 Bluestein, Howard ...... 218 Bergeron, Martin ...... 141 Blujdea, Viorel ...... 222 Berg, Wesley ...... 181 Blumberg, Alan ...... 231 Berhane, Tedros ...... 142 Blyth, Eleanor ...... 146 249 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Boardman, Joseph ...... 80 Brandt, Ola ...... 171 Bobby, Pradeep ...... 120 Branson, Wendy ...... 45 Bobrov, Pavel ...... 116 Bras, Rafael ...... 90 Bobylev, Leonid ...... 125 Bräuitigam, Benjamin ...... 71 Bocharova, Tatiana ...... 161 Braun, Alexander ...... 191 Bocher, Erwan ...... 157 Braun, Matthias ...... 183, 228 Bochow, Mathias ...... 215 Bredow, Jonathan ...... 71 Böckmann, Christine ...... 79 Breit, Helko ...... 48, 71 Bock, Yehuda ...... 169 Brelet, Yohann ...... 205 Böer, Johannes ...... 71, 117 Brennan, Paul ...... 132 Boerner, Wolfgang-Martin ...... 74, 115 Breton, Mélanie ...... 227 Boers, Reinout ...... 147 Breyer, Johanna ...... 188 Boesenberg, Jens ...... 79 Briggs, Ronald ...... 223 Bohnenkamp, Carol ...... 175 Bright, Edward A...... 130 Boisson, Josephine ...... 45 Bringi, V...... 187 Bolon, Philippe ...... 223 Brito, Patricia ...... 55 Bolten, John ...... 84 Broadwater, Joshua ...... 86 Bolton, Jeremy ...... 77 Brodley, Carla ...... 184 Bombrun, Lionel ...... 48, 227 Brogioni, Marco ...... 46, 127, 216 Bonekamp, Hans ...... 70 Bromwich, David ...... 201 Bonin, Gregory ...... 170 Brooker, Graham ...... 222 Bonnefond, Pascal ...... 134 Brophy, Thomas ...... 47 Bonneville, Alain ...... 45 Brotzge, Jerry ...... 220 Boone, Aaron ...... 84 Brown, David J...... 174 Bordakov, Georgiy ...... 164 Brown, Laura ...... 202 Borda, Monica ...... 95 Brown, Molly ...... 187 Borderies, Pierre ...... 167 Brown, Ross ...... 165, 201 Bordoni, Federica ...... 123, 216 Brown, Scott ...... 141 Borgeaud, Maurice ...... 88, 191 Brown, Shannon ...... 106 Borrero, Jason ...... 197 Bruce, Lori ...... 65, 73, 97, 229 Bosch-Lluis, Xavier ...... 72, 81, 104, 105, 184 Brucker, Ludovic ...... 133, 165 Bösenberg, Jens ...... 79 Brûlé, Luc ...... 45 Bosveld, Fred ...... 147 Brunjail, Hélène ...... 165 Böttger, Ute ...... 180 Brun, Julien ...... 177 Botts, Mike ...... 225 Brunner, Dominik ...... 95, 158, 170 Bouchemakh, Lynda ...... 165 Brusch, Stephan ...... 82, 83 Bouffard, Jérôme ...... 128, 134 Bruzzone, Lorenzo ...... 47, 73, 119, 170, 178 Bou, Francesc ...... 105 Bryant, Nevin ...... 50 Boukabara, Sid-Ahmed ...... 230 Bubenheim, David ...... 168 Boulet, Gilles ...... 52 Buchanan, John ...... 212 Bourassa, Mark ...... 70, 76, 88 Buck, Christopher ...... 56, 116 Bourdillon, Alain ...... 154 Buckles, Bill P...... 73, 95 Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura ...... 62, 146 Buckley, Joseph ...... 139 Bourg, Ludovic ...... 212 Buckley, Sean M...... 173 Bourlier, Christophe ...... 204, 205, 224 Buckner, Janice ...... 125 Boutin, Jacqueline ...... 105 Buckreuss, Stefan ...... 77 Bouvet, Marc ...... 73, 212 Budillon, Alessandra ...... 156 Bovenga, Fabio ...... 179 Buijs, Henry ...... 123 Bovolo, Francesca ...... 119 Buis, Samuel ...... 152 Bo, Yanchen ...... 150, 153, 191, 198 Bunch, Walter ...... 50 Bradley, Andrew ...... 69 Bunting, Peter ...... 188, 219, 223 Brancaccio, Adriana ...... 120 Burgstahler, Albert ...... 211 250 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Burini, Alessandro ...... 133, 137, 150, 228 Capobianco, Luca ...... 172, 217 Burk, Thomas ...... 150 Cappelaere, Pat ...... 225 Burrage, Derek ...... 178, 198 Capria, Amerigo ...... 208 Burris, John ...... 131 Carande, Richard ...... 211 Busche, Thomas ...... 83 Carayon, Guy ...... 59, 224 Bustamente, Miguel ...... 213 Carfantan, Hervé ...... 95 Butler, James ...... 185 Carlisle, Candace ...... 181 Byon, Jae-Young ...... 59 Carlström, Anders ...... 104 Bystrom, Maja ...... 167, 171 Carnicero Dominguez, Bernardo ...... 179 Caron, Bruce ...... 174 C Carrasco, Sandra ...... 222 Carreiras, Joao ...... 219 Cabot, Francois ...... 104 Carrer, Dominique ...... 233 Cadario, Erich ...... 232 Carruthers, Raymond ...... 168 Cadau, Enrico ...... 101, 126 Carswell, James ...... 125, 162, 166, 200, 206 Cady-Pereira, Karen ...... 137 Carter, Lynn ...... 45 Cafforio, Ciro ...... 155 Carter, William E...... 66, 138 Cagnati, Anselmo ...... 127 Cartus, Oliver ...... 219 Cai, Bin ...... 156, 192, 207, 223 Carty, Hezekiah M...... 169, 174 Cai, Guangjie ...... 112 Casas, Joe ...... 135 Cai, Guoyin ...... 58, 160 Caselles, Vicente ...... 91, 123, 146 Cai, Lun ...... 79, 96 Casey, Mike ...... 211 Cai, Shan ...... 159 Castillan, Patrick ...... 59, 224 Cai, Xiaojun ...... 95 Castillo Atoche, Alejandro ...... 210 Cai, Ximing ...... 233 Catapano, Ilaria ...... 154 Cakiroglu, Bora ...... 214 Caubet, Eric ...... 224 Caldwell, James ...... 81 Cavalieri, Donald ...... 203 Calpe-Maravilla, Javier ...... 154, 178 Ceamanos Garcia, Xavier ...... 47 Calvet, Jean-Christophe ...... 84, 105 Ceccarelli, Michele ...... 223 Camacho, Luis ...... 205 Ceccato, Pietro ...... 55 Cameron, Iain ...... 172 Cefola, Paul ...... 198 Campbell, Bruce ...... 45 Cerra, Daniele ...... 48, 54 Campbell, Donald ...... 45 Chaabane, Ferdaous ...... 124, 192 Campbell, Petya ...... 57, 93, 143, 213 Chaabouni-Chouayakh, Houda ...... 48, 170 Camps, Adriano .. 72, 81, 87, 90, 102, 104, 105, Chabrier, Sébastien ...... 93 127, 184, 198 Chahine, Mous ...... 118 Camps-Valls, Gustavo ...... 154, 172, 178 Chai, Geok Ling ...... 119 Canales-Contador, Francisco ...... 104 Chaikovsky, Anatoly ...... 79 Canniff, James ...... 162 Chai, Linna ...... 152, 232 Cantalloube, Hubert ...... 48, 170 Chai, Soo-See ...... 89 Canters, Frank ...... 124, 150 Chai, Yanwei ...... 218 Cao, Bao ...... 231 Challenor, Peter ...... 122, 134 Cao, Changyong ...... 57 Champagne, Catherine ...... 78, 126 Cao, Chunxiang ...... 148 Champion, Isabelle ...... 176 Cao, Fang ...... 81, 94, 112, 227 Chamundeeswari, Vijaya ...... 183 Cao, Hongyang ...... 103 Chander, Gyanesh ...... 212, 213 Cao, Kai ...... 190 Chandra, Chandrasekar V...... 200, 218 Caouren, Natacha ...... 206 Chandra, Madhukar ...... 83 Cao, Wenjing ...... 111 Chandrasekar, V. . 82, 175, 181, 185, 200, 220, Cao, Xue ...... 118 226, 230, 231 Cao, Ying ...... 110 Chang, Chein-I ...... 65 Cao, Yu ...... 194 Chang, Chew Wai ...... 63 251 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Chang, Cun ...... 153 Chen, Houjin ...... 209 Chang, Geba ...... 227 Chen, Huilian ...... 113 Chang, Lena ...... 53, 128 Che, Nianzeng ...... 212 Chang, Paul ...... 49, 162, 166, 206 Chen, Jeffrey ...... 131 Chang, Ruey-Juin ...... 169 Chen, Jie ...... 84, 156 Chang, Sheng ...... 201 Chen, Jing M...... 68, 130, 231 Chang, Tzu-Yin ...... 57 Chen, Jinnian ...... 197, 198 Chang, Yang-Lang ...... 53, 98, 99, 128 Chen, Jinsong ...... 159 Chang, Yi ...... 198 Chen, Jiongfeng ...... 89, 94, 146, 152 Chang, Yu-Lin ...... 82 Chen, Ke ...... 104 Chang, Zhanqiang ...... 111 Chen, Kehai ...... 59, 60 Chan, Jonathan Cheung-Wai .....124, 150, 177 Chen, Keming ...... 157, 171 Chan, Jui-Wen ...... 198 Chen, Kun-Shan .62, 66, 88, 98, 115, 128, 165, Chan, Steven ...... 72 188, 206, 219, 234 Chanussot, Jocelyn .....119, 137, 167, 170, 172, Chen, Liangfu ...... 122, 148, 161, 199 217 Chen, Nengcheng ...... 113, 225 Chao, Chin-Fu ...... 115 Chen, Pengfei ...... 174 Chao, Ma ...... 108, 207 Chen, Quan ...... 89, 94 Chapin, Elaine ...... 78, 211 Chen, Qunlong ...... 107 Chapman, Bruce ... 78, 81, 180, 182, 211, 219, Chen, Shaohui ...... 146 235 Chen, Sheng ...... 102 Chapman, David ...... 125, 169 Chen, Shengbo ...... 109, 191 Chapron, Bertrand ...... 61, 219 Chen, Shirong ...... 142, 155 Charbonneau, François ...... 91 Chen, Shui-Sen ...... 62 Charles, Leona ...... 175, 186 Chen, Wei ...... 60, 116 Chatfield, Robert ...... 131 Chen, Xi ...... 92, 153, 188, 196 Chatham, Gene ...... 166 Chen, Xiagong ...... 178 Chaudhari, Swapnil ...... 198 Chen, Xiaoling ...... 142, 159, 194 Che, De-Fu ...... 112, 176 Chen, Xiuwan ...... 113 Chen, Beibei ...... 108, 199 Chen, Xue ...... 58, 109 Chen, Bin ...... 110, 113, 159, 199, 218, 223 Chen, Yan ...... 206 Chen, Cheng-Wu ...... 194 Chen, Yangquan ...... 234 Chen, Chi-Hau ...... 172 Chen, Yijin ...... 109 Chen, Chun-Yu ...... 154 Chen, Yi-Ying ...... 57 Chen, Dana ...... 62, 188 Chen, Yong ...... 76 Chen, Donglai ...... 185 Chen, Yongmei ...... 153, 235 Chenerie, Isabelle ...... 154 Chen, Yunhao ...... 141, 160, 192 Chen, Fahu ...... 188 Chen, Yushi ...... 98, 209 Chen, Fred ...... 106 Chen, Zhaiwei ...... 158 Chen, Frederick ...... 50, 56 Chen, Zhiqiang ...... 176 Cheng, Bin ...... 171 Cheong, Boon Leng ...... 226 Cheng, Ching-Min ...... 53 Chesnel, Anne-Lise ...... 157 Cheng, Hongguang ...... 171, 189 Che, Tao ...... 90 Cheng, Jian ...... 157, 171 Chiaradia, Maria Teresa ...... 197 Cheng, Qiuming ...... 112, 128, 134 Chiba, Satoshi ...... 161 Cheng, Tianhai ...... 199 Chickadel, C. Chris ...... 49 Cheng, Xiaoguang ...... 103 Chien, Steve ...... 225 Cheng, Yen-Ben ...... 75, 93, 143, 187, 213 Chilo, Jose ...... 96 Cheng, Yongcun ...... 61 Chi, Mingmin ...... 53 Cheng, Yu ...... 188, 189 Chini, Marco ...... 77, 100, 150, 227 Chen, Hao ...... 68, 74 Chin, Mian ...... 175 Chen, Honglei ...... 170 Chipman, Russell ...... 131 252 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Chippendale, Paul ...... 102 Cloude, Shane ...... 129, 225 Chisholm, Laurie ...... 55 Clough, Tony ...... 137 Chi, Sien ...... 106 Coatanhay, Arnaud ...... 56, 60, 205 Chi, Sung-Ching ...... 200 Coddington, Odele ...... 123 Chi, Tianhe ...... 111 Cohen, David ...... 108 Chiu, Shen ...... 45, 51 Colaizzi, Paul D...... 133 Chlebek, Christian ...... 168 Colditz, Rene R...... 184 Choi, Hyun Il ...... 233 Coletta, Alessandro ...... 67 Choi, Jung Hun ...... 195 Colin-Koeniguer, Élise ...... 48 Choi, Taeyoung (Jason) ...... 212 Coll, César ...... 123, 146 Choi, Yun Seok ...... 142 Collin, Antoine ...... 103 Cho, Moses ...... 130 Collins, Leslie ...... 64, 77, 83 Chongguang, Zhu ...... 188 Collins, Michael ...... 87 Chong, Jie ...... 58, 191 Collins, Peter ...... 214 Cho, Peter ...... 66 Colomb, F. Raul ...... 70 Cho, Seong-Jun ...... 173 Colwell, Rita ...... 164 Choularton, Richard ...... 187 Comer, Douglas ...... 47 Chou, Po-Wen ...... 97 Comerón, Adolfo ...... 79, 103, 147, 153 Chou, Ying-Liang ...... 96 Comiso, Josefino ...... 232 Chowdhary, Jacek ...... 178 Connor, Thomas ...... 103 Chrien, Thomas ...... 54 Conover, Helen ...... 225 Christensen, Jacob ...... 104 Conrad, Christopher ...... 139, 217 Christman, Zachary ...... 217 Contreras, Robert ...... 206 Chrysoulakis, Nektarios ...... 110 Contreras, Sergio ...... 133 Chuang, Chun-Hsiang ...... 53 Cook, Diane J...... 130 Chu, Anhua ...... 211 Cooley, Thomas ...... 54, 85, 144, 173 Chu, Chien-Min ...... 194 Cools, Kenneth ...... 57 Chu, D. Allen ...... 175 Cooper, Denise ...... 106 Chung, Yi-Ching ...... 216 Coops, Nicholas ...... 75 Chunlei, Huo ...... 155 Copenhaver, Kenneth ...... 135 Chu, Peter C...... 116, 147, 152 Coppin, Pol ...... 57, 98 Chu, Tao ...... 166, 206 Corbella, Ignasi ...... 87, 104, 127, 229 Chu, Vicky ...... 106 Cord, Anna ...... 217 Cichocki, Andrzej ...... 235 Corlett, Gary ...... 163, 184 Cifelli, Robert ...... 175, 187 Cornillon, Peter ...... 64 Cilla Hernández, Carlos ...... 183 Corpetti, Thomas ...... 82, 98, 188 Cimini, Domenico ...... 125 Corp, Lawrence ...... 93, 143, 187, 213 Cinbis, Gokberk ...... 178 Corsini, Giovanni ...... 117 Cipar, John ...... 144 Corson, Michael ...... 168 Cipollini, Paolo ...... 128, 134 Cosh, Michael ...... 46, 66 Ciren, Pubu ...... 131 Cossio, Tristan ...... 66 Cisbani, Andrea ...... 168 Cossu, Roberto ...... 133 Cisewski, Mike ...... 125 Costa Freitas, Corina ...... 55 Clarizia, Maria Paola ...... 56 Costantini, Mario ...... 67, 80 Clark, Daniel ...... 234 Cote, Stephane ...... 45 Clark, Duane ...... 225 Cotton, David ...... 122 Claywell, Brian ...... 232 Coudert, Benoit ...... 127 Clemente-Colon, Pablo ...... 222 Coulibaly, Lacina ...... 124 Clewley, Daniel ...... 219 Coulter, David ...... 126 Cline, Amy ...... 129 Courville, Paul ...... 118 Cline, Donald ...... 115, 121 Coutinho, Alvaro ...... 231 Closa, Josep ...... 229 Couture, Rejean ...... 120, 132 253 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Crabtree, Robert ...... 97 David, Valentina ...... 163 Crain, Jerry ...... 231 Davies, Diane ...... 162 Crawford, Melba ...... 53, 68, 74, 116, 138 Davis, Ab ...... 131 Cremidis, Constantino ...... 186 Davis, Curt H...... 67, 100, 177, 232 Crepaz, Andrea ...... 127 Davis, Curtiss ...... 168 Creticos, Justin ...... 125 Davis, Thom ...... 173 Crewell, Susanne ...... 147 De Abreu, Roger ...... 45, 120, 222 Criag, John ...... 195 De Backer, Steve ...... 117, 130, 217 Cristallini, Diego ...... 221 Debes, Christian ...... 51 Crocco, Lorenzo ...... 120, 154 De Biasi, Francesco ...... 137 Croci, Renato ...... 48 Dechambre, Monique ...... 105 Crosson, William ...... 89, 121 Decharme, Bertrand ...... 78 Crowell, Brendan ...... 169 Dech, Stefan ...... 136, 139, 155, 184, 217 Crow, Wade ...... 84 Defourny, Pierre ...... 133 Csatho, Beata ...... 165, 232 Dehghanian, Hesamodin ...... 79 Csiszar, Ivan ...... 169 Dehmollaian, Mojtaba ...... 210 Cuccoli, Fabrizio ...... 147 de Jeu, Richard ...... 146 Cui, Xiai ...... 173 De Jeu, Richard ...... 89, 92 Culvenor, Darius S...... 69, 73, 93 De Kauwe, Martin ...... 152, 231 Cummins, Kenneth ...... 90 Dekker, Rob ...... 182 Cutler, Frank ...... 131 Delalieux, Stephanie ...... 57 Cysewski, Marius ...... 166 Delamere, Jennifer ...... 137 Czapla-Myers, Jeffrey ...... 54, 212 de Leeuw, Gerrit ...... 131, 147 del Frate, Fabio ...... 190 D Del Frate, Fabio ...... 66, 87, 119, 132, 137, 167, 190, 191, 228 Dabboor, Mohammed ...... 191 De Lisle, Daniel ...... 45 Dabney, Philip ...... 138 Dell’Acqua, Fabio ...... 77, 98 Dabrowska-Zielinska, Katarzyna ...... 94 Della Vecchia, Andrea ...... 46 da Costa Freitas, Corina ...... 166 Dell’Endice, Francesco ...... 233 D’Addio, Salvatore ...... 56, 116, 155 Dell’Endice, Franscesco ...... 233 Dahon, Cyril ...... 204 Dellow, Grant ...... 107 Dai, FanWei ...... 153 DelMarco, Stephen ...... 102 Dai, Zhen ...... 129 Delwart, Steven ...... 52, 66, 212 Dakovic, Milos ...... 65 de Magt, Peter ...... 104 Dalley, Dawn ...... 144 Demarchi, Luca ...... 150 Dall, Jorgen ...... 183 Demarest, Kenneth ...... 205 Damerow, Heiko ...... 71 de Miguel, Amaia ...... 48 Daniel, Sandrine ...... 78 Demir, Begüm ...... 97, 150 Dan-Isa, Ado ...... 136 Deng, Jinsong ...... 211 Danklmayer, Andreas ...... 83 Deng, Meixia ...... 180 Daout, Franck ...... 123 Deng, Xiangzheng ...... 146, 190, 191, 193 Darbinyan, Sargis ...... 60, 121 Denis, Loic ...... 67, 232 Darbon, Jerome ...... 67, 232 d’Entremont, Robert ...... 118 Dare, Peter ...... 96 de Pasquale, Vito ...... 63 Das, Debasish ...... 96 De Pasquale, Vito ...... 197 Dash, Jadunandan ...... 101 Deppe, Jill L...... 195 Das, Narendra ...... 94 De Reus, Nils ...... 89 Datcu, Mihai ...... 48, 54, 117, 130, 170, 184 Derksen, Chris P...... 201, 232 Daughtry, Craig ...... 74 Deronde, Bart ...... 150 Daughtry, C. S. T...... 174 De Roo, Roger ...... 75, 81, 216 Davidson, Malcolm ...... 48, 179 de Rosnay, Patricia ...... 84 254 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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De Rosnay, Patricia ...... 78 Donnellan, Andrea ...... 114 Déry, Stephen ...... 165 Donovan, Brian C...... 226 Desai, Shailen ...... 106 Doolittle, Jack ...... 131 Deschamps, Alice ...... 74 Doorn, Bradley ...... 181 Desnos, Yves-Louis ...... 129 Doraiswamy, Paul C...... 168, 174, 222 Desta, Lulseged ...... 136 Döring, Björn ...... 71 De Vos, Mariette ...... 83 dos Santos Carvalho, Omar ...... 55 Dewkurun, Narvada ...... 63 Doubleday, Joshua ...... 225 Deyholos, Mike ...... 74 Doulgeris, Anthony ...... 171, 182 Dhakal, Shobhakar ...... 157 Douterloigne, Koen ...... 183 Diani, Marco ...... 117 Dou, Yan ...... 196 Diaz, Julian ...... 186 Dou, You-Jun ...... 141 Di Bartola, Concettina ...... 126 Doviak, Richard ...... 231 di Bisceglie, Maurizio ...... 223 Downs, Robert ...... 162 Di Dio, Colomba ...... 120 Dragosevic, Marina ...... 51 Di, Liping ...... 57, 103, 113, 121, 180, 218, 220, Draim, John ...... 198 225 Drake, James ...... 199 Dill, Stephan ...... 234 Drake, Jason ...... 219 Di Martino, Gerardo ...... 155 Dreuillet, Philippe ...... 170 Dinardo, Steve ...... 72 Drinkwater, Mark ...... 179 Diner, David ...... 131 Drusch, Matthias ...... 82, 84 Ding, Chibiao ...... 156 Duan, Fuzhou ...... 211 Ding, Kung-Hau ...... 224 Duan, Sibo ...... 145 Ding, Xiaodong ...... 211 Dubois-Fernandez, Pascale .84, 170, 176, 225, Ding, Yongjian ...... 188 233 Disney, Mathias ...... 73, 138, 152, 177 Dubreuil, Vincent ...... 98 Diuk-Wasser, Maria A...... 164 Duca, Riccardo ...... 191 Dixon, Timothy H...... 132, 183 Duerr, Ruth M...... 135, 180 Dobbs, Michael ...... 103, 125 Duffo, Nuria ...... 87, 104, 127, 229 Dodge, Kelley ...... 120 Duguay, Claude R...... 115, 202, 222, 232 Doelling, David ...... 54 Duijster, Arno ...... 117 Doering, Bjoern ...... 83 Du, Jinyang ...... 52, 94, 115, 201 Dogrul, Murat ...... 214 Duk-Rodkin, Alejandra ...... 124 Doi, Koichiro ...... 203 Du, Lei ...... 156, 210 Doiron, Terence ...... 81 Du, Mingyi ...... 58, 160 Dolan, Brenda ...... 226 Dunn, Sydney ...... 75 Dolman, Han ...... 146 Dunse, Thorben ...... 171 Domenico, Ben ...... 218 du Preez, Johan Adam ...... 101 Domenico, Casarano ...... 214 du Preez, Martella ...... 220 Domingo, Francisco ...... 146 Dupuis, Xavier ...... 170, 192 Domínguez, José Antonio ...... 180, 196 Du, Qian ...... 98, 122 Donadio, Marco ...... 104 Du, Qingyun ...... 193 Donelli, Massimo ...... 83 Duque, Sergi ...... 135, 176 Dong, Danan ...... 169 Durand, Benoît ...... 116 Dong, Hongmei ...... 107 Durand, Michael ...... 133 Dong, Lei ...... 62 Durand, Yannig ...... 179 Dong, Qing ...... 91 Durbha, Surya ...... 110, 137 Dong, Qiuzhao ...... 205 D’Urso, Guido ...... 141, 174 Dong, Xiaolong ...... 59, 214, 224 D’Urso, Michele ...... 154 Dong, Yuzhi ...... 153 Dutra, Luciano Vieira ...... 219, 228 Dong, Zhen ...... 156, 207, 208, 221, 223 Dutton, Ellwsorth G...... 123 Dönmez, Baki ...... 179 Duval, Paul ...... 165 255 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Duveiller, Grégory ...... 133 Entin, Jared ...... 114, 181 Du, Yang ...... 224 Eom, Jin-Ah ...... 62 Duzgun, H. B. Sebnem ...... 134 Erasmus, Barend ...... 136 Dybkjær, Gorm ...... 228 Erbas, Cihan ...... 90 Dyer, Rushane ...... 178, 197 Erener, Arzu ...... 134 Dyk, Andrew ...... 68, 74 Erickson, Tyler ...... 127 Dynes, Robyn ...... 144 Eriksson, Leif E. B...... 118, 225 Ertürk, Sarp ...... 97, 150 E Esaias, Wayne ...... 142 Esch, Thomas ...... 155, 227 Eakin, Mark ...... 178 Escudier, Philippe ...... 116 Easson, Greg ...... 146, 158 Eskelinen, Miia ...... 202 Eastman, Kenneth ...... 179 Espinoza Molina, Daniela ...... 48 E Azar, Amir ...... 201 Essery, Richard ...... 115 Ebadi, Hamid ...... 79, 99 Esteban-Fernandez, Daniel ...... 166, 206 Ebuchi, Naoto ...... 76, 166 Evangelista, Annarita ...... 123 Ederer, Gregory ...... 134 Evans, Adrian ...... 119, 185 Eduardo O.C. de Aragão, Luiz ...... 69 Evans, Damian ...... 53 Edwan, Ezzaldeen ...... 129 Evans, John ...... 50 Edwards, Matthew ...... 234 Everitt, James ...... 63, 163 Egbert, Gary ...... 128 Ehsani, Amir Houshang ...... 95 F Eichmann, Andrew ...... 64 Eiken, Trond ...... 171 Fabregas, Xavier ...... 176 Eineder, Michael ...... 67, 71, 177 Facheris, Luca ...... 147 Eisenburger, Dieter ...... 51 Fairweather, Ian ...... 97 Eismann, Michael ...... 86 Faithful O. D., Ugorji ...... 95 Ekhtari, Nima ...... 103 Falco, Salvatore ...... 80 Eklundh, Lars ...... 195 Fall, Souleymane ...... 136 El Afandi, Gamal ...... 136 Fan, Bin ...... 105 Elaksher, Ahmed F...... 95, 103 Fang, Jyh-Perng ...... 98, 128 El-Baz, Farouk ...... 45 Fang, Kun ...... 110 Elder, Kelly ...... 115 Fang, Li-Gang ...... 62 El Hadidi, Basman ...... 186 Fang, Peng ...... 169 Elmiro, Marcos Timbo ...... 228 Fang, Weihua ...... 144 Elmzoughi, Amor ...... 132 Fang, Yu ...... 59, 60, 110, 113, 159, 218, 223 El-Nimri, Salem ...... 56 Fan, Hong ...... 57, 113 El-Qady, Gad ...... 136 Fanise, Pascal ...... 105 Elsasser, Beat ...... 87 Fan, Jianping ...... 111 Else, Brent ...... 222 Fan, Jinlong ...... 144 Eltoft, Torbjørn ...... 171, 182, 206 Fan, Kaiguo ...... 61, 62 Eluszkiewicz, Janusz ...... 103 Fan, Wenjie ...... 141, 160, 190, 235 Elvidge, Christopher D...... 178 Fan, Xiaofeng ...... 102 Emery, William J. ... 77, 100, 150, 167, 172, 221, Fan, Yida ...... 142, 155 227 Farage, Gregory ...... 165 Emessiene, Bomono ...... 230 Faroux, Stéphanie ...... 193 Emrich, Anders ...... 104 Farr, Tom ...... 45, 53 Engel-Cox, Jill ...... 175 Farwell, Lester ...... 179 England, Anthony ...... 216 Faust, Anthony ...... 74 Enjolras, Vivien ...... 224 Fauvel, Mathieu ...... 47, 137, 172 Enloe, Yonsook ...... 186, 218 Fa, Wenzhe ...... 224 Entekhabi, Dara ...... 70, 76, 90, 114, 220 Fehlau, Maraike ...... 128 256 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Fei, Chuhong ...... 122, 227 Fong, Chen-Joe ...... 106 Feng, Hui ...... 134 Font, Jordi ...... 104, 198 Fengping, Di ...... 188 Forestier, Germain ...... 178 Feng, Shengzhong ...... 111 Forget, Philippe ...... 60 Feng, Weibing ...... 103 Forgione, Joshua ...... 81 Fenoglio-Marc, Luciana ...... 128 Fornaro, Gianfranco ...... 80, 232 Fernandes, David ...... 85, 128, 178, 205, 208 Förster, Klaus-Peter ...... 168 Fernandes, Genival ...... 177 Forster, Richard ...... 165 Fernandes, M. Joana ...... 128 Foster, James ...... 133 Fernandez-Abad, Francisco ...... 146 Foster, Matthew ...... 185 Fernández, Juan Pablo ...... 64 Foster, Willow ...... 81 Ferraioli, Giampaolo ...... 173 Foucher, Samuel ...... 54, 145, 165 Ferrare, Rich ...... 85 Fougere, Mary ...... 163 Ferrare, Richard ...... 175 Fournier, Richard ...... 124, 145 Ferrazzoli, Paolo ...... 46, 49, 66, 196 Fowler, James ...... 98 Ferreira, Laerte ...... 177, 190, 191 Fox, Marsha ...... 118 Ferreira, Manuel ...... 177, 190 Fox, Thomas ...... 144 Ferreira, Nilson ...... 177, 191 Foy, Bernard ...... 53 Ferretti, Alessandro ...... 84, 86 Fraiture, Charlotte De ...... 233 Ferri, Lucilla ...... 128 Franceschetti, Giorgio ...... 48, 214 Ferro-Famil, Laurent .. 65, 78, 81, 86, 126, 129, Franchistéguy, Laurent ...... 233 165, 170 Francisco, Grings ...... 49 Ferro, Francesca ...... 126 Frankenberger, James ...... 168 Ferrucci, Fabrizio ...... 126, 190 Frankford, Mark ...... 70 Fetita, Catalin ...... 124 Fransson, Johan E. S...... 225 Fettweis, Xavier ...... 201 Frasier, Stephen ...... 147, 166, 206, 214, 218 Fetzer, Eric ...... 118 Frattolillo, Franco ...... 162 Feuvrier, Thomas ...... 128 Frédéric, Jacob ...... 137 Filion, Rebecca ...... 94 Freedman, Adam ...... 75 Fily, Michel ...... 133, 165 Freeman, Anthony ...... 45, 78, 84, 182 Finco, Mark ...... 166 Freemantle, James ...... 74 Fischer, Carl ...... 233 Freeman, Tony ...... 78 Fischer, Christian ...... 221 Freitas, Corina Costa ...... 228 Fischer, Juergen ...... 173 French, Jeffrey ...... 119 Fischman, Mark ...... 75 French, Michael ...... 218 Fišer, Ondrej ...... 200 French, Nancy ...... 145 Fiske, Greg ...... 158 Frerick, Johannes ...... 179 Fitzenz, Delphine ...... 98 Fretz, Richard ...... 50 Fleig, Albert J...... 180 Freudenthaler, Volker ...... 79 Fletcher, Reginald ...... 63 Frey, Othmar ...... 80, 179 Fletcher, Roland ...... 47, 53 Friedl, Lawrence ...... 181 Flett, Dean ...... 45, 120, 222 Friedl, Mark ...... 69, 142, 184, 227 Flores, Alejandro ...... 90 Frigui, Hichem ...... 77 Floricioiu, Dana ...... 177 Frison, Pierre-Louis ...... 177 Floury, Nicolas ...... 48 Fritz, Jason ...... 185, 230 Flower, Dennis ...... 131 Fritz, Thomas ...... 67, 71 Fltecher, Reginald ...... 163 Fryberger, Teresa ...... 181 Foley, Jack ...... 83 Frye, Stuart ...... 225 Folkesson, Klas ...... 118, 225 Fu, Bin ...... 61, 62 Folkman, Mark ...... 68 Fujii, Hydeyuki ...... 66 Folley, Christopher ...... 68 Fujiwara, Satoshi ...... 45 Fomin, Sergej ...... 91 Fukamachi, Yasushi ...... 166 257 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Fukuchi, Hajime ...... 208 Gascon, Ferran ...... 173 Fukuda, Masami ...... 126 Gascon Roca, Ferran ...... 191 Fukuda, Seisuke ...... 87 Gash, John ...... 146 Fu, Kun ...... 79, 155, 190, 207 Gasiewski, Albin ...50, 56, 59, 72, 87, 116, 125, Fumagalli, Alfio ...... 84, 86 236 Funase, Arao ...... 235 Gasperikova, Erika ...... 83 Funk, Christopher ...... 187 Gatebe, Charles ...... 185 Fu, Qinghua ...... 198 Gautama, Sidharta ...... 183 Furuya, Masato ...... 52 Gauthier, Eric ...... 78 Fusco, Luigi ...... 133 Gauthier, Marie-France ...... 45 Fusina, Robert ...... 47, 68, 116 Gay, Michel ...... 48 Fu, Xingyu ...... 96, 190 Gebert, Nico ...... 123 Gebert, Nicolas ...... 216 G Ge, Daqing ...... 107, 207 Geffrin, Jean-Michel ...... 114 Gabarró, Carolina ...... 198 Gege, Peter ...... 233 Gabele, Martina ...... 123 Geiger, Bernhard ...... 233 Gabsi, Taoufik ...... 45 Geiger, James ...... 220 Gader, Paul ...... 71, 77 Gelein, Robert ...... 213 Gaetano, Raffaele ...... 167 Geller, Gary ...... 57 Gagnon, Michael ...... 129 Gentemann, Chelle ...... 106 Gaier, Todd ...... 125 George, Jim ...... 218 Gaiser, Peter ...... 48, 49, 59, 84 Georgieva, Elena ...... 179 Galantowicz, John ...... 226, 228 Georgiev, Georgi ...... 185 Galdi, Carmela ...... 56, 223 Gerace, Aaron ...... 178 Galeazzi, Claudio ...... 168 Gerard, Bruno ...... 133 Galin, Natalia ...... 222 Gerard, France ...... 69 Gallaher, David ...... 174 Gerardino-Neira, Carolina ...... 49 Galve, Joan M...... 123 Gerasimov, Irina ...... 169 Gamba, Paolo ...... 77, 98, 172, 221, 227 Gerhardinger, Andrea ...... 227 Gambardella, Attilio ...... 72, 161 Gernhardt, Stefan ...... 158 Gançarski, Pierre ...... 178 Gessner, Ursula ...... 139 Gan, Chuen ...... 175 Ge, Yong ...... 151 Gancz, Vlad ...... 222 Ge, Yongqin ...... 193 Gangopadhyay, Avijit ...... 95, 198 Ghaffari, Omid ...... 99 Ganguly, Sangram ...... 75, 235 Ghedira, Hosni ...... 94, 203 Gan, Xilin ...... 61 Ghent, Rebecca ...... 45 Gao, Bingbo ...... 151 Gherboudj, Imen ...... 94, 115, 234 Gao, Bo-Cai ...... 119, 236 Ghoggali, Noureddine ...... 184 Gao, Feng ...... 112, 134, 142 Ghoneim, Eman ...... 45 Gao, Junhai ...... 207 Ghosh, Joydeep ...... 47, 53 Gao, Junping ...... 153 Ghulam, Abduwasit ...... 57, 93, 146, 157 Gao, Xiaoming ...... 169 Giacinto, Giorgio ...... 161 Gao, Yong ...... 128 Giacovazzo, Vito Martino ...... 179 Garate Pasquin, Jorge ...... 134 Giangregorio, Generoso ...... 223 Garber, Donald ...... 54 Gierull, Christoph H...... 45, 72 Garcia, Monica ...... 146 Gigord, Patrick ...... 102 Garcia-Pineda, Oscar ...... 209 Gilerson, Alex ...... 178 Gardner, James ...... 173 Gilerson, Alexander ...... 178, 197 Garnier, Robert ...... 85 Gillis, David ...... 116 Garwood, Gorden ...... 146 Ginolhac, Guillaume ...... 123 Garzelli, Andrea ...... 172, 217 Ginzburg, Anna ...... 128 258 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Giroux, Jacques ...... 123 Gorgucci, Eugenio ...... 231 Gish, Timothy ...... 78 Goswami, Jaideva ...... 164 Giusti, Elisa ...... 208 Gouinaud, Christophe ...... 150 Glaser, Dr. John ...... 135 Govindan, Rajesh ...... 119 Glassey, Phil ...... 107, 109 Goykhkman, Yuriy ...... 220 Glass, Gregory ...... 164 Graça, Paulo Alencastro ...... 219 Gleason, James ...... 175 Graf, Tobias ...... 52, 82 Gleason, Scott ...... 56 Graham, Wendy ...... 52 Gleich, Dusan ...... 209 Granat, Robert ...... 169 Glenat, Mathilde ...... 105 Grandmont, Frederic ...... 123 Glennon, Mary Ann ...... 54 Grant, Jennifer ...... 46, 121 Gloaguen, Richard ...... 109, 164, 177, 217 Grasmueck, Mark ...... 114 Godio, Alberto ...... 120 Grasso, Raffaele ...... 100 Goerner, Anna ...... 142 Graves, Sara ...... 137, 174 Goetzke, Roland ...... 183 Gray, Douglas ...... 129 Goetz, Scott ...... 124, 158 Gray, Laurence ...... 170 Gogineni, Sivaprasad ...... 171, 183, 222 Greenberg, Jonathan ...... 180 Goh, Alvin ...... 129 Green, Jim ...... 84 Goïta, Kalifa ...... 133, 201 Green, Robert ...... 68, 168 Gokaraju, Balakrishna ...... 137 Griffin, James ...... 200 Goldberger, Jacob ...... 221 Griffis, Karin ...... 167, 171 Gomez-Chova, Luis ...... 154, 173, 178 Grigoryan, Melanya ...... 60, 92, 121 Gómez-Enri, Jesus ...... 122, 134 Grings, Francisco ...... 91, 196 Gommenginger, Christine ...... 56, 122, 134 Gross, Barry ...... 149, 175, 178, 186, 197, 213 Gonçalves, Fábio ...... 219 Gross, Hermann ...... 232 Gong, Daliang ...... 96, 207 Gross, Steven ...... 81, 131 Gong, Huaze ...... 145 Grove, Morgan ...... 189 Gong, Huazhe ...... 91 Groves, Keith ...... 78 Gong, Huili ...... 95, 97, 102, 108, 111, 157, 161, Gruber, Astrid ...... 117 176, 193, 199, 211, 215 Gruber, Fred ...... 154 Gong, Jianya ...... 103, 155 Grubisic, Vanda ...... 119 Gong, Li ...... 171, 189 Grund, Christian ...... 125 Gong, Lixia ...... 210 Gruninger, John ...... 80 Gong, Wei ...... 147, 149 Gruszczynska, Maria ...... 94 Gong, Zhaoning ...... 161, 191, 196, 215 Grzegorczyk, Tomasz M...... 83 Gontier, Eric ...... 233 Guang, Jie ...... 148, 161 Gonzales, Ghislain ...... 145 Guanter, Luis ...... 168, 173 González Calvo, Alejandro ...... 145 Gu, Cai-Dong ...... 62 Gonzalez, Carolina ...... 71 Guccione, Pietro ...... 155 González-Gambau, Verónica ...... 229 Gudipati, Krishnavikas ...... 173 González-Haro, Cristina ...... 104 Gueguen, Philippe ...... 170 Gonzalez, Veronica ...... 104 Guenther, Bruce ...... 48, 106 González Villareal, Fernando ...... 187 Guérif, Martine ...... 152 Goodenough, David G...... 68, 74, 117 Guérin, Charles-Antoine ...... 61, 219 Goode, Wesley ...... 68 Guerreo, Miguel Angel ...... 81 Goodman, H. Michael ...... 225 Guerriero, Andrea ...... 63 Goodman, James ...... 49 Guerriero, Leila ...... 46, 49, 92 Goodman, Nathan ...... 90 Gu, Guihua ...... 185 Gopalan, Kaushik ...... 106, 181 Guida, Raffaella ...... 48 Gopal, Sowmya ...... 225 Guifang, Zhang ...... 108, 207 Goparaju, Sreechakra ...... 164 Gu, Juan ...... 152 Gordon, Piper ...... 68 Gumuzzio, José ...... 177, 180 259 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Guner, Baris ...... 70 Haimov, Samuel ...... 119 Gunnala, Suman Kumar ...... 71 Hai, Pham Minh ...... 215 Gunn, Brian ...... 216 Hair, John ...... 85, 175 Guo, Dong ...... 79 Hajnsek, Irena .77, 83, 129, 132, 167, 176, 208, Guo, Huadong ...... 58, 62, 209 219, 230 Guojiang, Hou ...... 128 Hakala, Teemu ...... 213 Guo, Jianping ...... 148, 161 Haken, Michael ...... 72 Guo, Jiateng ...... 112 Hakobyan, Izabela ...... 60, 92, 121 Guo, Jie ...... 214 Hale, Adam ...... 58 Guo, Jingwen ...... 58 Halem, Milton ...... 125, 169 Guo, Li-Xin ...... 204, 206 Hall, Dorothy K...... 165, 202 Guo, Ni ...... 140, 191 Hallikainen, Martti ...81, 91, 121, 127, 171, 183, Guo, Peng ...... 198 203 Guo, Ping ...... 97 Hambaryan, Astghik ...... 60, 92, 121 Guo, Qiao ...... 158 Hambaryan, Vardan ...... 60, 121 Guo, Wei ...... 104, 156 Häme, Tuomas ...... 188 Guo, Xiaofang ...... 107, 207 Hammer, Horst ...... 232 Guo, Xingjie ...... 97 Hamm, Nicholas ...... 96, 101 Guo, Yan ...... 193 Han, Chao ...... 151 Guo, Zhifeng ...... 143, 213, 230, 235 Han, Chongzhao ...... 170, 192, 209 Gupta, Avijit ...... 63 Han, Chuanzhao ...... 155, 190 Gurbuz, Ali Cafer ...... 64 Hancock, Steven ...... 138 Guritz, Richard ...... 167 Han, Deqiang ...... 192 Gurvich, Irina ...... 226 Han, Di ...... 87 Gustafsson, Ove ...... 79 Hanes, Jonathan ...... 124 Gutierrez, Roberto ...... 122, 138 Han, Lei ...... 206 Gutjahr, Karlheinz ...... 77, 234 Hanqing, Lu ...... 155 Gutschick, Vince ...... 180 Hansen, Georg ...... 79 Gu, Xiang ...... 205 Hansen, Matthew C...... 184 Gu, Xiaoping ...... 147, 192 Han, Tian ...... 117 Gu, Xingfa ...... 122, 148, 161, 199, 213 Han, Xujun ...... 152 Gu, Yanfeng ...... 209 Han, Yong ...... 76, 206 Guyon, Dominique ...... 144 Hao, Fanghua ...... 171, 189 Gweon, Yongdae ...... 150 Hao, Huijun ...... 97 Hao, Li-Xia ...... 191 H Hao, Xianjun ...... 145, 148 Haque, Md. Obaidul ...... 212 Haas, Christian ...... 115 Harding, David ...... 138 Haas, John (Mike) ...... 48 Hardwick, Kerry ...... 218 Haavardsholm, Trym Vegard ...... 98 Harlow, R. Chawn ...... 133 Habashy, Tarek ...... 114 Harris, Jeff ...... 126 Habermeyer, Martin ...... 117 Harrison, Wallace ...... 125 Habib, Ayman ...... 96 Harvey-Collard, Patrick ...... 133 Habib, Tarek ...... 119, 167 Hasan, Y. M. Y...... 95 Haboudane, Driss ...... 74, 85, 133, 145, 174 Hasenauer, Stefan ...... 70 Hafiane, Adel ...... 102 Hashimoto, Hirofumi ...... 181 Hagen, Jon Ove ...... 171 Has, Yaprak ...... 189 Hager, Stacey ...... 97 Hata, Masayasu ...... 151, 235 Hagolle, Olivier ...... 102, 144 Hatfield, Jerry L...... 174 Hahmann, Thomas ...... 117 Hauff, Phoebe ...... 126 Hahne, Achim ...... 104, 198 Hauser, Danièle ...... 59, 105 Haifeng, Hu ...... 207 Hauser, Jana ...... 218 260 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Hauss, Bruce ...... 197, 233 Heygster, Georg ...... 200, 228 Hautecoeur, Olivier ...... 233 He, Yijun ...... 59, 60, 82, 88, 198, 214 Havrilla, Michael ...... 214 Heymsfield, Gerald ...... 125 Hawat, Toufic ...... 131 He, Zhengmin ...... 110 Hawkins, Jeffrey ...... 129 Hiatt, Samuel ...... 181 Hawkins Jr., Willis ...... 62 Hilburn, Kyle ...... 106, 187 Hawkins, Robert ...... 45 Hilker, Thomas ...... 75 Hawley, Robert L...... 171 Hill, Chris ...... 57 Hayat, Majeed ...... 229 Hill, John ...... 162 Hayden, Linda ...... 163 Hill, Victoria ...... 68 Hayes, Kenneth ...... 166 Hinkley, Everett ...... 166, 187 Headley, Rachel ...... 217 Hinz, Stefan ...... 158, 182, 234 Heaps, William ...... 179 Hipps, Larry E...... 174 Heas, Patrick ...... 82 Hirn, Barbara R...... 126, 190 Heavey, Brandon ...... 216 Hirose, Akira ...... 101 He, Baoyu ...... 105 Hirose, Masafumi ...... 169 He, Chunyang ...... 163, 183, 194, 221 Hively, Dean ...... 55 Hedman, Karin ...... 182 Hlaing, Soe ...... 197 He, Dong-Chen ...... 157 Hobart, Geordie ...... 68, 74 Heege, Thomas ...... 195 Hodges, Richard ...... 216 Heer, Christoph ...... 221 Ho, Dominic ...... 71 He, Feng ...... 156, 210, 221 Ho, Evelyn L...... 186 Heggy, Essam ...... 45 Hofer, Stefan ...... 168 Heiler, Istvan ...... 203 Hoffman, Carl ...... 48, 106 Heimbach, Patrick ...... 57 Hoffman, Ross ...... 49, 64, 231 Heitz, Sonia ...... 92, 150 Hoff, Raymond ...... 79, 175 He, Julia ...... 149 Hofman, Radek ...... 231 Held, A. Alexander ...... 173 Hofton, Michelle ...... 66, 124 Helder, Dennis ...... 54, 212 Ho, Han-Jie ...... 57 Heliere, Florence ...... 179 Ho, Hsin-Hua ...... 172 Hellwich, Olaf ...... 54 Ho, Lih-Der ...... 194 He, Mingxia ...... 61, 62 Holmes, Thomas ...... 84, 89, 92, 146 Heng, Wang Cheng Alice ...... 63 Holt, Ben ...... 222 Hennon, Christopher C...... 56 Hong, Ming-Zhi ...... 198 Henry, Patrice ...... 212 Hong, Qiu ...... 60, 200 Hensley, Michael A...... 174 Hong, Rui ...... 58 Hensley, Scott ...... 81, 131, 182, 211, 235 Hong, Sang-Hoon ...... 63, 132, 183, 208 Heo, Gyeongyong ...... 71 Hong, Sukyoung ...... 185 Herlin, Isabelle ...... 95 Hong, Sung-Hoo ...... 139 Hernandez, Eduardo ...... 149 Hong, Wen ...... 81, 94, 112, 155, 156, 210, 214, Hernández Leal, Pedro ...... 145 216, 227 Hernández Piñero, José Julián ...... 162 Honkavaara, Lauri ...... 127 He, Rong ...... 191, 195 Hood, Robbie ...... 81 Hervet, Eric ...... 124 Ho, Pei-Gee Peter ...... 172 Hess, Laura ...... 180 Hopf, Anthony P...... 200, 218 Hess, Phillip ...... 106 Horgan, Kevin ...... 81 He, Tao ...... 153 Horie, Hiroaki ...... 218 He, Wenju ...... 54 Hornbuckle, Brian ...... 52, 90 Hewson, Rob ...... 91 Horn, Ralf ...... 129 He, Xindong ...... 135 Horstmann, Jochen ...... 82, 83, 172 He, Xiufeng ...... 158 Horton, Radley ...... 181 He, Yanbo ...... 58 Hossain, A. K. M...... 146 261 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Hostert, Patrick ...... 168 Hubert-Moy, Laurence ...... 98, 188, 190 Hostetler, Chris ...... 85, 175 Hu, Chengfang ...... 218 Hou, Arthur ...... 181 Hu, Cuilin ...... 135 Houborg, Rasmus ...... 69 Hudak, David ...... 187 Houghton, Richard A...... 222 Hu, Deyong ...... 97, 193, 211 Houser, Paul ...... 146, 181, 220 Hudier, Eric ...... 183 Hou, Shutao ...... 110 Hu, Donghui ...... 156 Hou, Yingni ...... 216 Hudson, Nicholas ...... 232 Hou, Yingyu ...... 58 Huemmrich, Karl ...... 75, 143, 187, 213 Hovhannisyan, Gagik ...... 60, 92, 121 Hueni, Andreas ...... 233 Howard, Teresa ...... 116 Hueso Gonzalez, Jaime ...... 71, 117 Howden, Stephan ...... 178, 198 Hueso, Jaime ...... 117 Howell, Carl ...... 120, 188 Hu, Fei ...... 104 Howell, Kelly ...... 216 Hughes, Mike ...... 205 Howell, Stephen ...... 202, 222, 232 Hu, Guangdao ...... 99 Hoyano, Akira ...... 160, 215 Hu, Jihua ...... 160 Hsieh, Pi-Fuei ...... 97 Hu, Jiuxiang ...... 101 Hsueh, I-Chen ...... 194 Hu, Liangmei ...... 95 Hsu, Pai-Hui ...... 107, 176 Hung, Chih-Cheng ...... 53, 96, 229 Huali, Xiang ...... 157 Hunter, Mary ...... 186 Huang, Bo ...... 190 Huntingford, Chris ...... 69 Huang, Chi-Hua ...... 168 Hunt Jr., E. Raymond ...... 90, 174 Huang, Chudong ...... 159 Huo, Chunlei ...... 157, 171 Huang, Chunlin ...... 152, 195 Huot, Etienne ...... 95 Huang, Dong ...... 236 Hu, Qiang ...... 62, 196 Huang, Fengru ...... 159 Hu, Qiong ...... 207 Huang, Haifeng ...... 156, 207, 208 Hu, Shaoxing ...... 112, 176 Huang, He ...... 158 Huss, Tim ...... 138 Huang, Hsiao-Yun ...... 97 Hutchinson, Tara ...... 176 Huang, Jianping ...... 199, 236 Hüttich, Christian ...... 139 Huang, Jianxi .....47, 62, 93, 103, 112, 113, 159, Hu, Weidong ...... 59, 60 188, 189, 190, 191, 196, 204 Hu, Xinli ...... 148 Huang, Kou-Yuan ...... 96, 154 Hu, Yanfeng ...... 79 Huang, Lingmei ...... 93, 193 Huybrechts, Philippe ...... 177 Huang, Mei ...... 231 Hu, Zeyong ...... 90 Huang, Pei ...... 125 Hu, Zhenluan ...... 147 Huang, Qiaozhen ...... 176 Hu, Zhuo-Wei ...... 111, 112, 191, 193, 215 Huang, Qingxu ...... 144, 163, 183, 194 Hwang, Paul ...... 219 Huang, Weigen ...... 61, 62 Hyun, Chang-Uk ...... 109 Huang, Wen-Chun ...... 99 Hyvärinen, Otto ...... 216 Huang, Wenli ...... 100, 189 Hyyppä, Juha ...... 81 Huang, Xianfeng ...... 103 Huang, Xianjin ...... 157 I Huang, Zhou ...... 218 Huanping, Wu ...... 111 Iacono, Mike ...... 137 Huan, Ruohong ...... 97 Iguchi, Toshio ...... 169 Hu, Anyong ...... 229 Iida, Yukie ...... 218 Huanzhuo, Ye ...... 157 Iijima, Byron A...... 57 Hu, Baoxin ...... 74, 93, 118 Iikura, Yoshikazu ...... 153 Huber, Martin ...... 117 Iino, Yoshiyuki ...... 178 Huber, Sigurd ...... 117 Ilavajhala, Shriram ...... 162 Huber, Silvia ...... 75 Imai, Hiroko ...... 52 262 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Imaoka, Keiji ...... 181 Jean-Pierre, Antikidis ...... 179 Im, Eastwood ...... 114 Jedlovec, Gary ...... 225 Imperatore, Pasquale ...... 205, 224 Jehle, Michael ...... 155 Ineson, Phil ...... 177 Jelenak, Zorana ...... 49, 206 Inggs, Michael ...... 75 Jenkins, Todd ...... 102 Inglada, Jordi ...... 100, 119, 128, 167 Jensen, Austin ...... 234 Ingmann, Paul ...... 179 Jeon, Sung Bae ...... 222 Inoue, Yoshio ...... 75, 166 Jerg, Matthias ...... 149 Insanic, Edin ...... 154, 218 Jessup, Andrew ...... 49, 234 Ioannou, Ioannis ...... 178 Jiacun, Li ...... 111 Iodice, Antonio ...... 48, 155, 205, 214, 224 Jia, Guorui ...... 141 Ioka, Mikihiro ...... 161 Jia, Jianying ...... 173 Ip, Justin ...... 197 Jia, Mingquan ...... 206 Ireland, David ...... 85 Jiang, Dong ...... 199 Irion, Bill ...... 118 Jiang, Jing-Shan ...... 105, 205, 214, 229 Irmak, Ayse ...... 152 Jiang, Lili ...... 156, 158 Isernia, Tommaso ...... 154 Jiang, Liming ...... 164, 207 Isidoro, Daniel ...... 145 Jiang, Lingmei ...... 89, 94, 201 Isoguchi, Osamu ...... 46, 172 Jiang, Wanshou ...... 155 Itten, Klaus ...... 75, 195, 233 Jiang, Wenliang ...... 153 Iturbide-Sanchez, Flavio ...... 81 Jianjun, Wu ...... 145 Ivanov, Andrei ...... 186 Jianyu, Yang ...... 207, 210 Ivanov, Valeriy ...... 90 Jiao, Haibin ...... 173 Ivey, Mark ...... 125 Jiao, Jian ...... 173 Jiao, Xianfeng ...... 126 J Jiao, Ziti ...... 142 Jia, Wenchen ...... 110, 189, 199 Jackson, Christopher ...... 88 Jia, Xiuping ...... 191 Jackson, John ...... 131 Jia, Yanhong ...... 139 Jackson, Julie Ann ...... 154 Jie, Chen ...... 128 Jackson, Mike ...... 150 Jie, Guang ...... 148 Jackson, Thomas .... 46, 52, 66, 72, 84, 90, 94, Jin, Chuan ...... 146 114, 228 Jing, Linhai ...... 118, 128 Jacobo-Berlles, Julio Cesar Alberto ...... 91 Jingwen, Li ...... 156, 210 Jacob, Robert ...... 64 Jin, Huijun ...... 107 Jacobs, Jennifer ...... 52, 116 Jin, Huiran ...... 190 Jagdhuber, Thomas ...... 176 Jin, Lihua ...... 210 Jäger, Marc ...... 54, 86 Jinqiu, Zou ...... 191 Jaime, Nickeson ...... 142 Jin, Rui ...... 90, 91, 94, 152 Jairam, Laura ...... 56, 106 Jin, Ya-Qiu ...... 88, 92, 135, 224 Jalobeanu, André ...... 73, 98 Johnson, Darnell ...... 163 Jamason, Paul ...... 169 Johnson, James ...... 56, 59, 81 James, Mark ...... 81 Johnson, Joel ...... 65, 70, 88, 219 James, Tashieka ...... 63 Johnson, Lee ...... 168 Jang, Woo-Yong ...... 229 Johnson, Patrick ...... 230 Jansen, Peter ...... 222 Johnston, William ...... 48, 49 Jansen, Robert ...... 65 Jolley, Leonard ...... 168 Jappar, Guli ...... 196 Jo, Min-Jeong ...... 108 Jaquemet, Sebastien ...... 197 Jonas, Justin ...... 75 Järvinen, Heikki ...... 127 Jonathan, Milton ...... 98 Jash, Ambarish ...... 50 Jones, Cathleen ...... 182 Jayasumana, A. P...... 226 Jones, James ...... 52 263 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Jones, W. Linwood .....49, 56, 59, 81, 106, 175, Kang, Moon-Kyung ...... 61 181 Kang, Yongwei ...... 103 Jongens, Richard ...... 109 Kao, Chine-Ping ...... 185 Jordan, Jonathan D...... 195 Kappler, Karl ...... 83 Jorge, Silvio ...... 160 Kaptchen, Paul ...... 125 José de Paula Souza e Guimarães, Ricardo ... Karathanassi, Vassilia ...... 191 55 Kärnä, Juha-Petri ...... 121, 127 Jose, Marshall ...... 125 Karszenbaum, Haydee ...... 49, 91, 196 Joseph, Alicia ...... 46, 78 Karvonen, Juha ...... 171, 203 Joshi, Manjunath ...... 73 Karyan, Vanik ...... 60, 92, 121 Jost, Randy ...... 183 Kåsen, Ingebjørg ...... 98 Joyce, Karen ...... 107, 109 Kasilingam, Dayalan ...... 170 Joyce, Robert ...... 175 Kasim, Alim ...... 93 Juan, Chung-Hsin ...... 158, 194, 195 Kasimu, Alimujiang ...... 146, 157 Jucks, Kenneth ...... 114 Kasischke, Eric ...... 145 Judge, Jasmeet ...... 52 Kasparis, Takis ...... 106, 175, 223 Juela, Andreea ...... 223 Katoh, Masato ...... 144 Ju, Junchang ...... 98 Kato, Masatane ...... 140 Jung, Chang Won ...... 71 Kaufmann, Hermann ...... 168, 173, 215 Jung, Hyung-Sup ...... 108 Kawaguchi, Shuji ...... 167 Jung, Jinha ...... 138 Kawakami, Shuji ...... 212 Jun, Goo ...... 47 Kawamoto, Sachi ...... 52 Jung, Seung-Gun ...... 78 Kawa, Randy ...... 131 Jung, Young Jin ...... 161 Kawasaki, Zen ...... 236 Jun, Shi ...... 207, 210 Kawatani, Yoshifumi ...... 204 Junyent, Francesc ...... 200, 226 Kawata, Yoshiyuki ...... 143 Jupp, David L. B...... 69, 73, 93, 124 Kazumori, Masahiro ...... 226 Jusem, Juan-Carlos ...... 49 Ke, Chang-Qing ...... 118, 157, 189 Justice, Chris ...... 225 Kedar, Sharon ...... 169 Jylhä, Kirsti ...... 127 Keil, Manfred ...... 139 Keiser, Ken ...... 174 K Keller, James ...... 232 Keller, Martin ...... 208 Kaarna, Arto ...... 117, 122, 203 Keller, William ...... 166 Kachi, Misako ...... 181 Kellndorfer, Josef ...... 46, 230 Kadosaki, Gaku ...... 126 Kelly, John ...... 176 Kaduwela, Ajith ...... 175 Kelly, Richard E. J...... 133, 232 Kafatos, Menas ...... 110 Keming, Chen ...... 155 Kageyama, Yoichi ...... 101 Kempeneers, Pieter ...... 124, 130, 150, 233 Kaiser, Christian ...... 172 Kempf, Timo ...... 234 Kalaycilar, Firat ...... 134 Kempler, Steven ...... 169 Kale, Asli ...... 134 Kemppainen, Sami ...... 201 Kallel, Abdelaziz ...... 127 Kerekes, John ...... 66, 86, 97, 137 Kalluri, Hemanth ...... 73 Keresztes, Barna ...... 95 Kamble, Baburao ...... 152 Kern, Stefan ...... 115, 228 Kaminski, Edouard ...... 45 Kerr, Yann ...... 52, 66, 84, 104, 198 Kanaroglou, Pavlos ...... 149 Kersten, Paul ...... 65 Kandus, Patricia ...... 49, 196 Kessler, Ken ...... 116 Kaneko, Masami ...... 97 Kester, James (Jim) ...... 143 Kanevski, Mikhail ...... 167 Ketkar, Nikhil ...... 130 Kangaslahti, Pekka ...... 125 Kganyago, Khomotso ...... 136 Kang, Kyung-Kuk ...... 202, 232 Khajonrat, Direk ...... 181 264 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Khaldoune, Jalal ...... 126 Knox, Robert ...... 168 Khalsa, Siri Jodha ...... 57, 202 Knuble, Joseph ...... 70 Khanbilvardi, Reza ...... 92, 201, 203 Knyazikhin, Yuri ...... 73, 75, 235 Khan, Muhammad Murtaza ...... 217 Kobayashi, Tatsuharu ...... 59 Khanna, Shruti ...... 180 Koch, Magaly ...... 177, 180 Khan, Shuhab ...... 45 Koch, Wolfgang ...... 82 Khazaal, Ali ...... 95 Koelemeijer, Robert ...... 131 Khenchaf, Ali ...... 60, 205, 206 Koenig, Rolf ...... 67 Khurshid, K. Shahid ...... 130 Kohler, Jack ...... 171 Kilcoyne, Heather ...... 48, 106 Kohlleppel, Robert ...... 72 Kim, Choen ...... 139 Koike, Katsuaki ...... 194 Kim, Duk-Jin ...... 161 Koike, Toshio ...... 52, 66, 82, 203, 226 Kim, Edward ...... 56, 90, 121, 133 Kojima, Masahiro ...... 218 Kim, Joo Hun ...... 196 Kojima, Shoichiro ...... 60 Kim, Jung-Ho ...... 173 Kokhanovsky, Alexander ...... 171 Kim, Junghyo ...... 72, 216, 221 Kolba, Mark ...... 83 Kim, Junsu ...... 196 Kolb, Andreas ...... 97 Kim, Kangwook ...... 71 Komatsu, Yusuke ...... 208 Kim, Kye Lim ...... 63 Komjathy, Attila ...... 57 Kim, Kyung Tak ...... 142, 196 Komorowski, Jean Christophe ...... 45 Kimmel, Bradley ...... 137 Kondragunta, Shobha ...... 131, 175 Kim, Min-Jeong ...... 76 Kong, JinAu ...... 204, 224 Kim, Sang-Wan ...... 63, 132, 183, 208 Kong, Xiangsheng ...... 145 Kim, Seung-Bum ...... 105 Konings, Alexandra ...... 76 Kim, Sung-Hyun ...... 87, 104, 105 Kontu, Anna ...... 91, 127, 201, 202, 216 Kimura, Hiroshi ...... 46 Korotaev, Gennady ...... 95 Kimura, Toshiyoshi ...... 218 Korwan, Daniel ...... 68, 116, 168 Kim, Wonkook ...... 53, 116 Koskinen, Jarkko ...... 91, 127, 216 Kim, Yi Hyun ...... 185 Kosmann, Detlev ...... 117 Kim, Yong-Hoon ...... 87, 104, 105 Kostelich, Eric ...... 231 Kim, Yongseung ...... 161 Koster, Randal ...... 84 Kim, Yoonjae ...... 59 Kostianoy, Andrey ...... 128, 161 Kim, Younsoo ...... 161 Kosugi, Yukio ...... 74, 140, 178 Kim, Yunjin ...... 230 Kosuth, Pascal ...... 233 Kindel, Bruce ...... 123 Koura, Atsushi ...... 143 King, Andrew ...... 164 Kowalik, Wanda ...... 94 King, Michael ...... 142, 185 Krabill, William ...... 125, 165, 203 King, Roger ...... 67, 110, 137 Krainak, Mike ...... 131 Kinser, Jason M...... 96 Kramer, Anne ...... 187 Kirsch, Katie ...... 46 Kramer, Marc ...... 168 Kitaguchi, Hiroto ...... 148 Krekeler, Carolyn ...... 73 Kittaka, Chieko ...... 175 Krellmann, Yvonne ...... 51 Kittka, Cheiko ...... 131 Kremens, Robert ...... 213 Klare, Jens ...... 216 Krieger, Gerhard ...... 65, 117, 123, 129, 216 Klaric, Matthew ...... 232 Krishnan, Praveena ...... 75 Klein, Marian ...... 116, 125 Krishna, Sanjay ...... 229 Klugmann, Dirk ...... 200 Kroodsma, Rachael ...... 75 Knapp, Eric J...... 200, 226 Krotkov, Nickolai ...... 175 Knedlik, Stefan ...... 129 Krovotyntsev, Vladimir ...... 161 Kneen, Melanie ...... 193 Kruszewski, Alain ...... 144 Kneubühler, Mathias ...... 75, 195 Krzaczek, Robert ...... 153 Knox, Nicky ...... 139 Kseneman, Matej ...... 209 265 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Kubické, Gildas ...... 224 Landmann, Tobias ...... 124, 136, 217 Kubin, Eero ...... 144 Landolfi, Federica ...... 162 Kuciauskas, Arunas ...... 129 Laneve, Giovanni ...... 101, 126 Kudashev, Efim ...... 151 Lange, Holger ...... 130 Kugler, Florian ...... 81, 86, 219, 230 Langen, Joerg ...... 179 Kulie, Mark ...... 76 Langley, Kirsty ...... 171 Kumagai, Hiroshi ...... 218 Lang, Liang ...... 104 Kumar, Praveen ...... 233 Langlois, Alexandre ...... 133 Kumar, Sujay ...... 84, 220 Lang, Megan ...... 55 Kumar, V...... 203 Lang, Roger ...... 46, 78, 198, 234 Kumar, Vijay ...... 203 Lang, Steve ...... 187 Kumer, John B. (Jack) ...... 131 Lang, Timothy ...... 175, 187 Kummerow, Christian ...... 181 Lan, Kuo-Wei ...... 198 Kunickis, Sheryl ...... 168 Lanthier, Yannick ...... 85 Kunkee, David ...... 56, 81 LaPoint, Elizabeth ...... 230 Kun, Yang ...... 82 Laporte, Nadine T...... 124, 158 Kuo, Bor-Chen ...... 53, 96, 97, 99, 172, 229 Larar, Allen ...... 82 Kuo, Chih ...... 120 Lardeux, Cedric ...... 177 Kuo, Kwo-Sen ...... 169, 174, 231 Larochelle, Vincent ...... 227 Kuria, David ...... 52, 226 Larouche, Pierre ...... 197 Kurose, Jim ...... 220, 226 Larsen, Yngvar ...... 120 Kurum, Mehmet ...... 46 Lasne, Yannick ...... 45 Kurz, Franz ...... 79 Laszlo, Istvan ...... 131 Kusaka, Takashi ...... 148 Latrubesse, Edgardo Manuel ...... 190 Kusk, Anders ...... 183 Lau, Chi-Chung ...... 107 Kusky, Tim ...... 93, 146 Lauknes, Tom R...... 120 Kustas, William P...... 133, 146, 168, 174, 187 Laupattarakasem, Pet ...... 49, 56 Kuze, Akihiko ...... 212 Lavalle, Marco ...... 124 Kwiatkowski, John ...... 169 Lavialle, Olivier ...... 95 Kwoh, Leong Keong ...... 63, 79, 101 Lavigne, Daniel A...... 96, 227 Kwok, Ron ...... 222 Lavrova, Olga ...... 76, 161 Lawford, Richard ...... 181 L Lawrence, Roland ...... 224 Laymon, Charles ...... 89, 121 Labrosse, Frederic ...... 223 Lazarus, Steven ...... 137 Lacaux, Jean-Pierre ...... 170 Lebedev, Sergey ...... 128 Lacava, José Carlos ...... 205, 208 Leben, Robert ...... 147 Lachaise, Marie ...... 71 Lecerf, Rémi ...... 98 Lach, Stephen ...... 66, 137 Le, Charles ...... 182 Lafaye, Murielle ...... 170 Lecomte, Pascal ...... 57 Lagerloef, Gary ...... 70, 81 Leconte, Robert ...... 91, 92, 234 Lahtinen, Panu ...... 127 Le Corre, Matthieu ...... 197 Lai, Tao ...... 221 Ledford, John ...... 183 Lai, Zhikun ...... 63 Leduc, Thomas ...... 157 Lakshmi, Venkat ...... 94 Lee, Chang-Wook ...... 195 Lambers, Martin ...... 97 Lee, Chulhee ...... 217 Lambert, Benjamin ...... 177 Lee, Dong Gyu ...... 161 Lambin, Juliette ...... 59 Lee-Elkin, Forest ...... 153 Lambot, Sebastien ...... 51 Lee, Eunsun ...... 185 Lambrigtsen, Bjorn H...... 118, 125 Lee, Ho-Jin ...... 87, 104, 105 Lam, Nina ...... 55 Lee, Hoonyol ...... 61, 173, 185 Lampropoulos, George ...... 122, 227 Lee, Hung-Wei ...... 206 266 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Lee, Jae-Hee ...... 173 Lewis, Kevin ...... 101 Lee, Jamine ...... 118 Lewis, Megan ...... 197 Lee, Jonghwa ...... 217 Lewis, Philip ...... 73, 138, 152, 177, 231 Lee, Jong-Sen ...... 78, 115, 165, 176 Lhermitte, Stefaan ...... 57, 98 Lee, Julie ...... 109 Liang, Benfan ...... 135 Lee, Kuo-Tien ...... 198 Liang, Diannong ...... 156, 192, 221 Lee, Ming-An ...... 198 Liang, Ding ...... 115 Lee, P...... 226 Liang, Hongyou ...... 213 Lee, Sang-Hoon ...... 67, 210 Liang, Pan ...... 226, 228 Lee, Saro ...... 109 Li, Angsheng ...... 108, 199 Lee, Seung-Kuk ...... 86, 219, 230 Liang, Shunlin ...... 75, 146, 153, 233, 235 Lee, Shihyan ...... 69, 93, 124, 235 Liang, Wen-Yew ...... 98 Lee, Thomas ...... 129 Lian, Jian ...... 189 Lee, Yang Koo ...... 161 Lian, Qinhan ...... 113 Lee, Yoon-Kyung ...... 62 Liao, Chen-Hsin ...... 198 Lee, Yu-Ling ...... 97 Liao, Guisheng ...... 123, 155, 156, 207 Lee, Yung-Tan ...... 194 Liao, Jingjuan ...... 58, 62 Lefebvre, Antoine ...... 188 Liao, Liang ...... 169 Lefebvre, Paul ...... 46 Liao, Mingsheng ...... 164 Le Hégarat, Sylvie ...... 127 Liao, Zu-Yi ...... 107 Lehner, Susanne ...... 82, 83 Li, Baishou ...... 108 Leibovici, Didier ...... 150 Li, Bingbai ...... 152 Leidig, Mathias ...... 177 Li, Bo ...... 58, 191, 232 Leidner, Mark ...... 49 Licciardi, Giorgio ...... 137, 190, 228 Lei, Guoping ...... 110 Li, Chao ...... 193 Lei, Ling ...... 156 Li, Cheng-Hsuan ...... 172, 229 Leinweber, Ronny ...... 173 Li, Chunhua ...... 188 Leisso, Nathan ...... 212 Li, Chunsheng ...... 84 Lei, Yanfei ...... 118 Li, Daojing ...... 156, 210, 214, 216 Le, Minda ...... 231 Li, Deren ...... 103 Lemmetyinen, Juha ...... 91, 201 Lidicky, Ludvik ...... 95 Lemoine, Guido ...... 95, 170 Li, Dongliang ...... 95 Lencrerot, Raphael ...... 114 Lieberman, Joshua ...... 50 Lengert, Wolfgang ...... 208 Lief, Christina ...... 50 Lentz, Harald ...... 51 Lieser, Jan ...... 222 Leone, Giovanni ...... 120 Liew, Soo Chin ...... 63, 79, 141, 145 Leprince, Sebastien ...... 101 Li, Fuqin ...... 133 Leptoukh, Gregory ...... 169 Li, Gang ...... 189 Le, Quang Bao ...... 136 Li, Guicai ...... 142 Leroy, Paul ...... 105 Li, Guodong ...... 158 Leslie, R. Vincent ...... 56, 106 Li, Guoliang ...... 107 Le Toan, Thuy ...... 152 Li, Hai ...... 207 Leuschen, Carl ...... 125, 171, 183, 203, 222 Li, Haiyan ...... 60 Leuski, Vladimir ...... 56, 125 Li, Hong-Li ...... 62 Leverington, David ...... 109 Li, Hui ...... 103 Levesque, Josee ...... 74 Li, Huijun ...... 185 Levine, David ...... 81 Li, Jiacun ...... 107, 193 Le Vine, David ...... 70, 72, 198 Li, Jianping ...... 231 Levin, Julia ...... 128 Li, Jiayong ...... 191 Levrini, Guido ...... 48 Li, Jin ...... 107 Lewis, Cameron ...... 171 Li, Jing ...... 105, 107, 141, 159, 160, 185 Lewis, Jasper ...... 175 Lijing, Wang ...... 59 267 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Li, Jingwen ...... 156 Liu, Chenglin ...... 146 Li, Jing-Wen ...... 210 Liu, Chuansheng ...... 146 Li, Jinping ...... 107 Liu, Chung-Chih ...... 199, 200 Li, Juan ...... 204 Liu, Fang ...... 164 Li, Jun ...... 122, 147, 149 Liu, Gaohuan ...... 151 Li, Junli ...... 196 Liu, Guizhong ...... 98 Li, Junsheng ...... 161, 212 Liu, Hao ...... 104, 153, 160, 229 Li, Li ...... 48, 84 Liu, H.-C...... 175 Li, Lihua ...... 125 Liu, Heguang ...... 105, 214, 229 Li, Lin ...... 110 Liu, Hongqing ...... 131 Limaye, Ashutosh ...... 89, 121 Liu, Hsiang-Chuan ...... 99 Limbach, Markus ...... 129 Liu, Huiping ...... 100, 189 Lim, Boon ...... 147 Liu, Jianguo ...... 114 Limpitlaw, Daniel ...... 193 Liu, Jian Guo ...... 158, 223 Lim, S...... 226 Liu, Jicheng ...... 69, 93, 142, 235 Lim, Samsung ...... 159 Liu, Jinghui ...... 159 Lim, Sanghun ...... 220 Liu, Jin-King ...... 107 Li, Na ...... 141 Liu, Jiying ...... 156, 207 Lin, Bing ...... 236 Liu, Jun ...... 63 Lin, Changwei ...... 96 Liu, Ke ...... 191 Lin, Chin-Teng ...... 229 Liu, Koung-Ying ...... 199 Lin, Chung-Chi ...... 179 Liu, Laixing ...... 188 Linda, Mike ...... 180 Liu, Liangyun ...... 93 Lindblad, Thomas ...... 96 Liu, Mingyan ...... 220 Lindsay, Francis ...... 174 Liu, Pang-Wei ...... 138 Lin, Feina ...... 191 Liu, Qiang ...... 90, 235 Lin, Fenfang ...... 211 Liu, Qinhuo ...... 90, 127, 141, 149, 235 Lin, Haobo ...... 191, 235 Liu, Quanhua (Mark) ...... 76, 206 Lin, Hui ...... 61, 164, 207 Liu, Richard ...... 185 Lin, Jiayuan ...... 113, 223 Liu, Shanjun ...... 107, 192 Linlin, Li ...... 156 Liu, Siyuan ...... 111, 192 Lin, Meng-Lung ...... 158, 194 Liu, Taiguang ...... 108 Lin, Wenming ...... 59, 224 Liu, Ting ...... 122, 227 Lin, Zhiping ...... 119 Liu, Wei ...... 84 Liou, Yuei-An ...... 57, 106 Liu, Wei-Min ...... 65 Li, Peichuan ...... 113, 218, 220 Liu, Wen ...... 96, 160 Li, Peijun ...... 190 Liu, Wenjun ...... 93 Li, Pingxiang ...... 147, 149 Liu, Wenping ...... 96 Lipton, Alan ...... 118, 226, 228, 230 Liu, W. Timothy ...... 76, 88 Li, Qi ...... 102 Liu, Xiansan ...... 111 Li, Qiang ...... 47, 62, 112, 159, 196 Liu, Xiaochen ...... 141 Li, Qin ...... 92 Liu, Xingzhao ...... 209, 210 Li, Qingxia ...... 104 Liu, Xiong ...... 175 Li, Qiu ...... 103, 193 Liu, Xu ...... 82 Li, Rong-Rong ...... 116, 119, 236 Liu, Xue ...... 142, 143 Li, Sanping ...... 151 Liu, Yani ...... 127, 198 Li, Shan ...... 160 Liu, Yongqiang ...... 145 Li, Shanshan ...... 95 Liu, Yu ...... 223 Lisini, Gianni ...... 77, 227 Liu, Yuguang ...... 61 Litman, Amelie ...... 114 Liu, Ze ...... 47, 112, 159, 196 Litovchenko, Konstantin ...... 186 Liu, Zhengjun ...... 221 Liu, Biao ...... 190 Liu, Zilong ...... 223 268 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Livingstone, Chuck ...... 45 Lopera, Olga ...... 51 Livingston, Gerald ...... 180 López-Dekker, Paco ...... 72, 135 Li, Weihua ...... 129 Lopez-Martinez, Carlos ...... 86, 87, 165, 176 Li, Wenwen ...... 50, 110 López-Martínez, Jerónimo ...... 177 Li, Xiang ...... 137, 225 Lopez-Ornelas, Erick ...... 79 Li, Xianghu ...... 92 Lopez-Sanchez, Juan M...... 132, 207 Li, Xiaobing ...... 93, 193, 194 Lopez, Sylvia ...... 45 Li, Xiaofang ...... 182, 221 Lorenzo, Jérôme ...... 224 Li, Xiaofeng ...... 88 Loukachine, Konstantin ...... 123 Li, Xiaojuan .....97, 102, 108, 111, 113, 157, 189, Lounis, Bahia ...... 54 193, 196, 199, 215 Lou, Yunling ...... 225 Li, Xiaowen ...... 69, 93, 142, 161, 235 Lovell, Jenny L...... 69, 73, 93 Li, Xin ...... 90, 91, 94, 107, 152, 195 Lowell, Kim ...... 145 Li, Xingmin ...... 195 Luan, Qingzu ...... 189 Li, Xinwu ...... 89, 201, 209 Lucas, Richard ...... 188, 219, 223 Li, Yan ...... 223 Luciani, Matteo ...... 190 Li, Yang ...... 112 Lucke, Robert ...... 168 Li, Ying ...... 173 Ludwig, Michael ...... 155 Li, Yingjie ...... 148 Ludwig, Ralf ...... 94 Li, Yinjie ...... 148 Luecke, Chris ...... 183 Li, Yong ...... 210 Luedeling, Eike ...... 58 Li, Yonghong ...... 67, 100, 177, 232 Lueken, Mike ...... 137 Li, Yujiang ...... 190 Lu, Hanqing ...... 157, 171 Li, Yuqing ...... 110 Lu, Heng ...... 190 Li, Zhaoliang ...... 133, 146 Lu, Houquan ...... 58 Li, Zhao-Liang ...... 93, 118, 123, 145 Lu, Hsueh-Jung ...... 198 Li, Zhen ...... 89, 94, 96, 201, 202 Lu, Hui ...... 52, 66 Li, Zhenlong ...... 50 Lu, Jessica Yue ...... 225 Li, Zhihui ...... 159 Lukin, Vladimir ...... 122 Li, Zhuo ...... 84 Lu, Ling ...... 195 Llewellyn-Jones, David ...... 163, 184 Lu, Linlin ...... 58 Loboda, Tatiana ...... 169 Lu, Mingfeng ...... 195 Lockwood, Ronald ...... 54, 85, 144, 173 Lu, Mingyu ...... 71, 205 Loew, Alexander ...... 89, 121, 126, 127 Lumsden, Reece ...... 57 Loffeld, Otmar ...... 129, 135, 179, 207 Lund, Magnus ...... 195 Logan, Thomas ...... 50 Lunetta, Ross ...... 222 Lognonné, Philippe ...... 45 Luo, Dean ...... 111 Löhnert, Ulrich ...... 147 Luo, Geping ...... 102, 153, 196 Loiacono, John ...... 114 Luo, Jiancheng ...... 96, 102 Loisel, Matthew ...... 68 Luojus, Kari ...... 121, 127 Lomasky, Rachel ...... 184 Luo, Xun ...... 164 Lombardini, Fabrizio ...... 80 Luo, Yi ...... 210 Lombardo, Pierfrancesco ...... 221 Luo, Yuxiang ...... 192 Long, Bernard ...... 103 Lu, Shengtao ...... 112 Long, David G. .. 59, 82, 88, 172, 175, 177, 209, Luthcke, Scott ...... 66 216, 222, 234 Lu, Wenwen ...... 106 Longepe, Nicolas ...... 65, 201 Lu, Yuanyao ...... 156 Longhitano, George ...... 160 Lu, Zhong ...... 167 Long, Hui ...... 79, 155, 207 Luzi, Guido ...... 202 Long, Huiling ...... 93, 194 Lu, Zong ...... 108 Long, Nathalie ...... 157 Lv, Shuqiang ...... 111 Long, Xiao ...... 95 Lyapustin, Alexei ...... 171 269 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Lynch, Michael ...... 120 Mango, Stephen ...... 82, 106 Lynnes, Christopher ...... 174, 218 Manian, Vidya ...... 137 Lyons, Eric ...... 220 Mani, Sneh ...... 203 Manizade, Serdar ...... 165 M Manninen, Terhikki ...... 69 Mannucci, Anthony J...... 57 Maalij, Ahmed ...... 132 Manolakis, Dimitris ...... 85 Ma, Baodong ...... 192 Mano, Manlio ...... 231 Ma, Bin ...... 153 Mano, Masami ...... 75 Macaluso, Giovanni ...... 202 Manuel Bioucas Dias, Jose ...... 122 MacBean, Natasha ...... 177 Manukyan, Mushegh ...... 60, 92, 121 MacDonald, Ian ...... 209 Manunta, Paolo ...... 137 Macelloni, Giovanni ...... 46, 115, 121, 127, 216 Mao, Feiyue ...... 147 Mace, Thomas ...... 131 Mao, Feng .47, 62, 93, 112, 151, 159, 188, 189, Machwitz, Miriam ...... 136, 217 196 Macon, Chris ...... 66 Mao, Jian-Ping ...... 131 Macq, Benoit ...... 51 Mao, Liuxi ...... 58 Madden, Marguerite ...... 195 Mao, Zhijie ...... 155 Madelin, Malika ...... 57 Marais, Izak van Zyl ...... 101 Madhavan, Sriharsha ...... 131 Marchán-Hernandez, Juan Fernando ... 72, 81, Madsen, David ...... 234 104, 105, 184 Maeda, Takashi ...... 132 Marchant, Christian ...... 174 Magnard, Christophe ...... 179 Marchesi, Silvia ...... 119 Magnusson, Mattias ...... 225 Marengo, Edwin ...... 114, 154 Magruder, Lori ...... 138 Margarit, Gerard ...... 86 Ma, Haijian ...... 100, 159 Margulis, Alex ...... 234 Mahajan, Aditya ...... 220 Margulis, Steve ...... 133 Mahler, Anna-Britt ...... 131 Marino, Richard ...... 85 Mahmoodi, Ali ...... 66 Markus, Thorsten ...... 127, 203, 228 Mahmood, Syed Amer ...... 109 Marpu, Prashanth Reddy ...... 217 Mailhes, Corinne ...... 116, 122 Marquez, Jose ...... 122 Mailon, Arnaud ...... 66 Márquez Martínez, José ...... 71 Main, Russell ...... 130 Marsaleix, Patrick ...... 134 Maisongrande, Philippe ...... 52 Marshall, James ...... 162 Majeke, Bongani ...... 130 Martellucci, Antonio ...... 147 Ma, Jianglin ...... 124 Marthick, John ...... 55 Ma, Jianwen ...... 58, 109 Martin Davila, Jose ...... 134 Majurec, Ninoslav ...... 218 Martinez-Benjamin, Juan Jose ...... 103, 134 Makgale, David ...... 136 Martinez-Espla, Juan J...... 207 Makido, Yasuyo ...... 157 Martinez-Garcia, Marina ...... 134 Mäkynen, Marko ...... 183, 203 Martinez-Marin, Tomas ...... 207 Malhotra, Rakesh ...... 195 Martín-Neira, Manuel ...... 104, 116, 229 Malla, Rimy ...... 212 Martin-Puig, Cristina ...... 122, 134 Mallet, Alexandre ...... 184 Martin, Randal S...... 174 Mallorqui, Jordi J...... 72, 86, 135, 176 Martin, Vincent ...... 55 Malnes, Eirik ...... 115 Martorella, Marco ...... 208 Malone, Andrew ...... 108 Martucci di Scarfizzi, Giovanni ...... 54 Malvarosa, Fabio ...... 67, 80 Martucci, Giovanni ...... 79 Ma, Mingguo ...... 90 Maruya, Makoto ...... 52 Mamouri, Rodanthi-Elisabeth ...... 79 Marwan, Younis ...... 71 Manda, Damian ...... 72, 116 Marzano, Frank ...... 89 Mandl, Daniel ...... 225 Marzban, Caren ...... 71 270 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Marzouk, Joe ...... 138 Mecatti, Daniele ...... 202 Masek, Jeffrey ...... 217 Mecklenburg, Susanne ...... 104, 198 Mashego, Thabo ...... 136 Medcalf, Katie ...... 188 Maskey, Manil ...... 174, 225 Medina, Rafael ...... 226 Maslanik, James ...... 203 Medrano Ortiz, Amaya ...... 135 Massom, Robert ...... 222 Mega, Tomoaki ...... 236 Masson, Valéry ...... 193 Meger, Nicolas ...... 223 Matarrese, Raffaella ...... 63, 197 Meglio, Federica ...... 123 Ma, Tengbo ...... 96, 190 Mehl, Harald ...... 227 Matgen, Patrick ...... 92 Meier, Erich ...... 80, 155, 179 Matsika, Ruwadzano ...... 136 Meier, Walter N...... 135 Matsui, Ichiro ...... 85, 103 Meila, Marina ...... 71 Matsumoto, Masayoshi ...... 115 Mei, Xin ...... 191 Matsunaga, Tsuneo ...... 160 Melchior, Brian ...... 134, 222 Matsuoka, Takeshi ...... 59 Melgani, Farid ...... 83, 95, 99, 184 Mattar, Karim ...... 170 Melis, Massimo ...... 94 Matteoli, Stefania ...... 117 Melnichenko, Oleg ...... 147 Matthew, Michael ...... 118 Melsheimer, Christian ...... 200 Matthey, Renaud ...... 79 Melton, Forrest ...... 181 Mattia, Francesco ...... 132 Mémin, Etienne ...... 82 Mattioli, Vinia ...... 125 Ménard, Yves ...... 134 Mattis, Ina ...... 79 Mendenhall, Michael ...... 86 Mätzler, Christian ...... 87 Mendes, Virgilio ...... 128 Mauris, Gilles ...... 158 Meneghini, Robert ...... 169, 200 Mauser, Wolfram ...... 89, 121 Meng, Dan ...... 215 Maussang, Frédéric ...... 123 Meng, Yuyan ...... 135 Mavrocordatos, Constantin ...... 179 Meng, Zhiguo ...... 109 Ma, Wei ...... 160 Menz, Gunter ...... 183 Ma, Xiujun ...... 218, 223 Meola, Joseph ...... 86 Ma, Yingying ...... 149 Mercer, Bryan ...... 225 Ma, Zhangbao ...... 158 Mercier, Gregoire ...... 54, 119, 165, 167 McBride, Patrick ...... 123 Mergenthaler, John L...... 131 McCarty, Gregory W...... 55, 174 Merlano, Juan Carlos ...... 135 McClain, Steve ...... 131 Mermoz, Stephane ...... 115 McClellan, James H...... 64 Mesiano, Francesco ...... 190 McCorkel, Joel ...... 212 Messinger, David ...... 80 McCormick, Scott ...... 186 Meta, Adriano ...... 71, 179 McDonald, Kyle ...... 45, 180 Metsämäki, Sari ...... 121, 202 McFerren, Graeme ...... 220 Metternicht, Graciela ...... 89 McGregor, Doug ...... 125 Metzig, Robert ...... 71, 129 McHugh, Sherry ...... 188 Meuleman, Koen ...... 233 McIlhany, Kevin ...... 68, 116 Meurey, Catherine ...... 233 McIntyre, Eric ...... 56, 72, 116 Meyer, Franz ...... 78, 84, 167, 173 McKague, Darren ...... 181 Meynart, Roland ...... 179, 233 McLaughlin, David J...... 200, 220, 226 Mialon, Arnaud ...... 104 McLaughlin, Dennis ...... 76 Miao, Jungang ...... 147, 199, 229 McLinden, Matthew ...... 218 Michael A., Janssen ...... 214 McManus, John ...... 206, 214 Michaelis, Andrew ...... 181 McNairn, Heather ...... 78, 126 Michalak, Grzegorz ...... 67 McNeill, Stephen ...... 144 Michele, Lazzarini ...... 137 McPherson, Christopher ...... 85 Michel, Julien ...... 128 McWatters, Dalia ...... 75 Michel, Rémi ...... 167 271 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Michel, Thierry ...... 182 Mohammed, Priscilla N...... 70 Michishita, Ryo ...... 165 Mohanty, Binayak ...... 94 Micijevic, Esad ...... 212 Mohd Shafri, Helmi Zulhaidi ...... 160 Middleton, Elizabeth ...... 75, 93, 143, 187, 213 Moholt, Geir ...... 171 Mied, Richard ...... 60 Moini Rad, Amir ...... 99 Miettinen, Jukka ...... 145 Moisseev, Dmitri ...... 82 Migliaccio, Maurizio ...... 72, 161, 186 Mojaradi, Barat ...... 99, 229 Migolet, Pierre ...... 124 Mo, Jianguo ...... 192 Mikkola, Tapani ...... 144 Mokhtarzadeh, Mehdi ...... 79 Milak, Sushil ...... 168 Molch, Katrin ...... 227 Milesi, Cristina ...... 181 Molera, Guifre ...... 121 Milisavljevic, Nada ...... 51 Molinié, Jean-Philippe ...... 154 Millán, Rocío ...... 222 Molinier, Matthieu ...... 144, 188, 228 Miller, David ...... 116 Moller, Delwyn ...... 216 Miller, Jeffrey ...... 228 Monaghan, Andrew ...... 201 Miller, John R...... 85, 133 Monaldo, Frank M...... 82, 83, 88, 172 Miller, Nicole ...... 62 Moncet, Jean-Luc ...... 118, 137, 226, 228, 230 Miller, Steven ...... 54, 129 Monerris Belda, Alessandra ...... 66, 90 Minati, Federico ...... 67, 80 Monosmith, Bryan ...... 105 Minchella, Andrea ...... 129 Monsivais-Huertero, Alejandro ...... 154 Mindock, Scott ...... 186 Montanaro, Matt ...... 213 Min, Min ...... 113 Monteil, Guillaume ...... 127 Minnis, Patrick ...... 199, 236 Monteiro, Sildomar ...... 178 Mira, Maria ...... 91 Montes, Marcos ...... 68, 116 Mira, María ...... 123, 146 Monticelli, David ...... 197 Miranda, Oscar ...... 170 Monti Guarnieri, Andrea ...... 86 Mironov, Valery ...... 91, 116, 201 Monty, James ...... 68, 74, 116 Mirza, Cyrus Raza ...... 82 Moody, Eric ...... 142 Mishra, Vimal ...... 116 Moon, Nam-Won ...... 104, 105 Misra, Sidharth ...... 70, 75 Moon, Wooil ...... 196 Mitchell, Herbert ...... 185 Moon, Yongjin ...... 67 Mitchell, Kevin ...... 80 Moore, Kori ...... 174 Mitev, Valentin ...... 79 Mora, Brice ...... 145 Mitnik, Leonid ...... 76, 125, 226 Morales, David ...... 161 Mitnik, Maia ...... 226 Morea, Alberto ...... 197 Mitrescu, Cristian ...... 129 Moreau, Guillaume ...... 157 Mittermayer, Josef ...... 71, 117, 179 Moreira, Alberto ...... 80, 83, 129, 216 Mityagina, Marina ...... 76, 161 Morelle, Nicolas ...... 51 Miura, Munenori ...... 152 Moreno, Jose ...... 173 Miura, Tomoaki ...... 127, 140 Moreno-Ruíz, José A...... 145 Miyata, Akira ...... 75 Morgan, Gareth ...... 158 Miziara, Fausto ...... 190 Morimoto, Takeshi ...... 236 Mladenova, Iliana ...... 94, 121 Morisette, Jeffrey ...... 134 Mlawer, Eli ...... 137 Moriya, Mitoshi ...... 162, 180 Moan, Jason ...... 140 Morris, Elizabeth ...... 171 Mobley, Curtis ...... 197 Morrison, Frank ...... 83 Moccia, Fernando ...... 196 Morrissey, Leslie ...... 180 Moctezuma, Miguel ...... 161 Morris, William ...... 126 Moe, Karen ...... 220 Morstad, Daniel ...... 54 Moeletsi, Mokhele ...... 136 Moser, Gabriele ...... 73, 154, 167 Moghaddam, Mahta ...... 120, 154, 220 Moses, John ...... 218, 220 Mohammadzadeh, Ali ...... 103 Moses, Randolph ...... 154 272 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Moshary, Fred ...... 149, 175, 178, 186, 197, 213 Nazari, Rouzbeh ...... 203 Mo, Tsan ...... 105 Ndiaye, Ousmane ...... 55 Motsepe, Matiga ...... 136 Neal, Mark ...... 125 Mounirou Toure, Ally ...... 201 Necsoiu, Marius ...... 45 Mourão Moura, Ana Clara ...... 55 Nedelcu, Stefan ...... 46 Mouri, Motoaki ...... 235 Negri, Rogerio Galante ...... 228 Mourre, Baptiste ...... 198 Neimeijer, Sander ...... 147 Movva, Sunil ...... 137 Nelson, Craig ...... 48 Mpandeli, Sylvester ...... 136 Nemani, Ramakrishna ...... 181 Mueller, Andreas ...... 168 Nemayer, Marlon ...... 177 Muellerschoen, Ron ...... 225 Nencini, Filippo ...... 217 Müller, Detlef ...... 79 Nepstad, Daniel ...... 46 Muller, Jan-Peter ...... 138 Neuenschwander, Amy ...... 138 Muniandy, Ratnasamy ...... 160 Neumann, Maxim ...... 81, 86, 165 Muñoz, Constantino ...... 79, 103 Newnham, Glenn J...... 69, 73, 93, 235 Munoz-Mari, Jordi ...... 154 Nguyen, Cuong ...... 82 Mura, José Claudio ...... 166, 228 Nguyen, Phuong ...... 125, 169 Murakami, Akinobu ...... 160, 215 Niamsuwan, Noppasin ...... 65 Murakami, Hiroshi ...... 52 Niang, Mohamed Abou ...... 91 Muraki, Yasushi ...... 78 Nichols, C. Reid ...... 68, 116 Murnaghan, Kevin ...... 227 Nicolae, Doina ...... 79 Muschinski, Andreas ...... 147 Nicolas, Hervé ...... 98 Mu, Xiaodong ...... 100 Nicolas, Jean-Marie ...... 170 Mu, Yuqing ...... 103 Nicoll, Jeremy ...... 78, 84 Muzalevsky, Konstantin ...... 201 Nie, Congling ...... 82 Myers, Rebecca ...... 198 Nie, Junsheng ...... 107, 188, 189 Myneni, Ranga ...... 69, 75, 93, 235 Nieke, Jens ...... 179, 195, 233 Nielsen, Eric ...... 166 N Niemann, K. Olaf ...... 68 Nies, Holger ...... 129, 135, 179, 207 Nadai, Akitsugu ...... 59 Nieto, Juan Manuel ...... 72, 81 Nadile, Richard ...... 173 Nightingale, Joanne ...... 134, 142 Naeimi, Vahid ...... 70, 92 Ni-Meister, Wenge ...... 69, 93, 124, 235 Naenna, Praphun ...... 219 Nishida, Makoto ...... 101 Nagarajan, Karthik ...... 73 Nishii, Ryuei ...... 166, 167 Nagarajan, Sudhagar ...... 165 Nishimoto, Masahiko ...... 91 Nagler, Thomas ...... 115, 177 Nishio, Fumihiko ...... 203 Nairoukh, Jacopo ...... 98 Nishizawa, Tomoaki ...... 85, 103 Nakagawa, Katsuhiro ...... 60 Niu, Lei ...... 157 Nakamoto, Akiko ...... 167 Niu, Ruiqing ...... 100, 107 Nakamura, Jun ...... 170 Ni, Wenjian ...... 230, 235 Nakamura, Kazuki ...... 203 Njoku, Eni ...... 66, 70, 72, 94, 114 Nakari, Risto ...... 121 Noferini, Linhsia ...... 202 Nakatsuka, Hirotaka ...... 218 Nolin, Michel C...... 91, 126 Nakazawa, Mitsuru ...... 101 Nörenberg, Dorle ...... 147 Nannini, Matteo ...... 80 Norkin, Andrey ...... 117 Nan, Zhongren ...... 139 Norland, Richard ...... 202 Narvekar, Parag ...... 228 Notarnicola, Claudia ...... 89, 214 Nativi, Stefano ...... 57 Nottensteiner, Anton ...... 129 Navarro, Gabriel ...... 122 Nouguier, Frédéric ...... 61, 219 Nayak, Debojit ...... 93 Nouvel, Jean-Francois ...... 233 Nayyar, Ashutosh ...... 220 Nouwakpo, Kossi ...... 168 273 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Novali, Fabrizio ...... 84, 86 Ottlé, Catherine ...... 127 Nowels, Mitch ...... 62 Ouchi, Kazuo ...... 62 Nunes, Alexandra ...... 128 OuYang, XiaoYing ...... 123 Nunez, Abel ...... 86 Ovarlez, Jean-Philippe ...... 48 Nunziata, Ferdinando ...... 72, 186 Owe, Manfred ...... 89 Nwaneri, Sam ...... 95 Owen, Heather ...... 171 Owen, Michael P...... 175 O Ozbakir, Aysegul ...... 53 Ozdogan, Mutlu ...... 166, 222 Oancea, Simona ...... 110 Obata, Kenta ...... 127, 233 P Obradovic, Zoran ...... 96 Odagawa, Shinya ...... 140 Pacheco, Anna ...... 78 Oda, Kunio ...... 178 Pacifici, Fabio ...... 77, 150, 167, 172, 190, 227 O’Dell, Christopher ...... 76 Padmanabhan, Sharmila ...... 65, 81 Odermatt, Daniel ...... 195 Padula, Francis P...... 212 Ogata, Toshinari ...... 74 Paelinckx, Desiré ...... 124 Oguro, Yoshinari ...... 155 Pagano, Thomas ...... 118 Oh, Hyun-Joo ...... 109 Paillou, Philippe ...... 45, 53 Ohkura, Hiroshi ...... 115 Pairman, David ...... 144 Ohno, Yuich ...... 218 Palacios-Orueta, Alicia ...... 146 Ohring, George ...... 215 Palaniappan, Kannappan ...... 102 Ohshima, Kay ...... 166 Palchetti, Enrico ...... 127 Ohta, Tetsu ...... 66 Palmer, Robert ...... 226 Ohyama, Hiroshi ...... 52 Paloscia, Simonetta ...... 46, 127, 216 Oh, Yisok ...... 78, 227 Palreddy, Sandeep ...... 218 Okada, Kazuyuki ...... 218 Palubinskas, Gintautas ...... 51, 79 Oki, Riko ...... 169 Pampaloni, Paolo ...... 46, 88, 127, 216 Oki, Taikan ...... 169 Panciera, Rocco ...... 52, 90, 121 Oldenburg, Doug ...... 51 Panfili, Raphael ...... 141 Oleson, Lyndon ...... 174 Pang, Yong ...... 213 Olioso, Albert ...... 166 Paniconi, Claudio ...... 94 Olivier, Jan ...... 171 Pan, Yaozhong ...... 118, 139 Olofsson, Pontus ...... 222 Panzeri, Pietro ...... 84 Ololade, Olusola ...... 193 Paoloscia, Simonetta ...... 46 Omumbo, Judy ...... 55 Papadakis, Nicolas ...... 82 Onana, Vincent De Paul ...... 158 Papathanassiou, Konstantinos .. 77, 81, 84, 86, O’Neill, Kevin ...... 64, 83 87, 129, 167, 176, 219, 225, 230 O’Neill, Norm ...... 141 Papayannis, Alexandros ...... 79 O’Neill, Peggy ...... 46, 66, 70, 78, 114 Pappalardo, Gelsomina ...... 79 Oolman, Larry ...... 119 Paradzayi, Charles ...... 136 Oo, Min ...... 149 Paragios, Nikos ...... 130 Oommen, Thomas ...... 116 Pardé, Mickaël ...... 78, 105 Oriot, Hélène ...... 48, 192 Pardini, Matteo ...... 80 Ortega, Carlos ...... 117 Parikh, Jo Ann ...... 162 Ortega Miguez, Carlos ...... 71 Parker, Geoffrey ...... 93, 143 Ortiz Castellon, Miquel Angel ...... 103, 134 Parker, Jay ...... 169 Osburn, Chris ...... 178 Park, Hongjoo ...... 159 Osenstetter, Sebastian ...... 126 Park, Hyeong-Dong ...... 109 Ostendorf, Bertram ...... 197 Park, Hyuk ...... 87, 104 Osterloh, Lukas ...... 79 Park, Jisung ...... 185 Otsuka, Yuichi ...... 78 Park, Jun ...... 59 274 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Park, Jung Sool ...... 142, 196 Pesaresi, Martino ...... 227 Park, Mi-Hyun ...... 186 Pestana, Marc K...... 57 Park, Sang-Eun ...... 126 Petersen, Walter ...... 187 Park, Wook ...... 108 Peters-Lidard, Christa ...... 84 Parmiggiani, Flavio ...... 161 Petja, Brilliant ...... 136 Parmuchi, Gabriela ...... 196 Pettersson, Mats ...... 51, 210 Parrish, Christopher ...... 68, 116 Pettinato, Simone ...... 46, 121, 127, 216 Parvio, Anna ...... 127 Pettinelli, Elena ...... 120 Pascal, Frédéric ...... 48 Pfister, Laurent ...... 92 Pascazio, Vito ...... 156, 173, 210 Pham, Long ...... 174 Paskaleva, Biliana ...... 229 Pham, Thi Thanh Hien ...... 157 Pasolli, Edoardo ...... 83 Philips, Brenda ...... 220 Pasolli, Luca ...... 95 Philips, Wilfried ...... 183 Pasquale, Ciriaco ...... 63 Phillips, Nathan ...... 69, 142 Pasquariello, Guido ...... 197 Phillips, Rhonda ...... 96 Passera, Emanuele ...... 84 Picard, Ghislain ...... 133, 165 Patel, Aqsa ...... 171 Pichel, William ...... 88 Patel, Samarth ...... 95 Pichette, Mario ...... 227 Pauciullo, Antonio ...... 80 Picot, Nicolas ...... 147 Pavlic, Goran ...... 124 Pieper, Michael ...... 50 Payne, Vivienne ...... 137 Piepmeier, Jeffrey ...... 56, 70, 75, 81 Payton, Abraham ...... 173 Piepponen, Timo ...... 127 Paz, Abel ...... 85 Pieraccini, Massimiliano ...... 64, 202 Pecha, Petr ...... 231 Pierce, Leland ...... 184, 230 Pedelty, Jeffrey ...... 134, 142 Pierce, Marlon ...... 169 Peichl, Markus ...... 234 Pierce, Robert ...... 125 Pelczer, Ildiko ...... 187 Pierdicca, Nazzareno ...... 89, 92, 100 Pellerano, Fernando ...... 81 Pietranera, Luca ...... 67 Peltoniemi, Jouni ...... 213 Pietruczuk, Aleksander ...... 79 Peng, Danqing ...... 141 Piles, Maria ...... 102, 127 Peng, Jing ...... 85 Piles, María ...... 90 Peng, Ling ...... 107 Pilewskie, Peter ...... 123 Peng, Weiming ...... 98 Pinel, Nicolas ...... 204 Peng, Yingning ...... 156 Pinel-Puysségur, Béatrice ...... 167 Pennucci, Giuliana ...... 100 Pipia, Luca ...... 87, 176 Penuelas, Josep ...... 75 Pires, Nelson ...... 128 Pepe, Carolina ...... 91 Pitz, Wolfgang ...... 48 Peppin, William ...... 126 Pi, Xiaoqing ...... 78 Pepyne, Dave ...... 220 Pizarro, Marco Antonio ...... 85 Pepyne, David ...... 220 Plagge, Amanda ...... 172 Percival, Jeanne ...... 126 Player, Kevin ...... 183 Percivall, George ...... 50 Plaza, Antonio ...... 47, 85, 98 Pérez, Carlos ...... 79 Plaza, Javier ...... 47 Perez Gomez, Begoña ...... 134 Plunk, Dorsey ...... 168 Perez Meana, Hector ...... 210 Poggi, Giovanni ...... 167 Perissin, Daniele ...... 164, 185 Polimeni, Donata ...... 71 Perkovic, Dragana ...... 206 Poncos, Valentin ...... 120, 132 Perna, Pablo ...... 91 Ponomarenko, Nikolay ...... 122 Perrie, William ...... 82, 88, 214 Ponte, Rui ...... 231 Perrone, Maria Rita ...... 79 Pornsawad, Pornsarp ...... 79 Perron, Isabelle ...... 91 Portabella, Marcos ...... 49, 224 Persello, Claudio ...... 47, 73 Posa, Francesco ...... 89, 214 275 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Potere, David ...... 227 Qi, Renyuan ...... 92 Potter, Christopher ...... 143, 168 Qiu, Dongsheng ...... 191 Potter, Lee ...... 70 Qiu, Dongwei ...... 111 Pottier, Eric ...... 65, 78, 84, 115, 124, 126, 129, Qiu, Xiaolan ...... 156 170, 201, 227 Qiu, Yubao ...... 91 Poulain, Vincent ...... 100 Qi, Yuan ...... 96, 188, 190 Pourthié, Nadine ...... 170 Qong, Muhtar ...... 194 Powell, Alfred ...... 201 Quaife, Tristan ...... 152, 231 Powell, Richard ...... 62 Quansah, Joseph Emmanuel ...... 136 Power, Desmond ...... 120, 188 Quartly, Graham ...... 122, 134, 197 Pozdnoukhov, Alexei ...... 167, 172 Quegan, Shaun ...... 84 Praks, Jaan ...... 81 Quénol, Hervé ...... 57 Prasad, Saurabh ...... 65, 73, 97, 229 Qu, Hui ...... 111 Prati, Claudio ...... 86, 185 Quiel, Friedrich ...... 95 Prats, Pau ...... 86, 132, 208 Quinn, Katherine ...... 230 Prawirodirdjo, Linette ...... 169 Quinn, Patrick ...... 85 Preiss, Mark ...... 129 Quintanilha, José Alberto ...... 55, 160 Preusker, Rene ...... 173 Quirino, Valquiria ...... 142 Priestley, Kory ...... 106 Qu, John ...... 131, 142, 145, 148 Prinet, Véronique ...... 130 Qu, Yi ...... 123 Provoost, Sam ...... 130, 150 Qu, Yonghua ...... 152 Prueger, John ...... 174, 187 Psomas, Achilleas ...... 75 R Puckett, John J...... 181 Puestow, Thomas ...... 188 Rabine, David ...... 66 Puigdefabregas, Juan ...... 146 Racoviteanu, Adina ...... 202 Pujadas, Manuel ...... 79 Radkevich, Alexander ...... 148 Pulliainen, Jouni ... 91, 115, 121, 127, 201, 202, Radosavljevic, Vladan ...... 96 216 Raggam, Hannes ...... 77, 234 Pulvirenti, Luca ...... 89, 92 Rahmoune, Rachid ...... 46 Putaud, Jean-Philippe ...... 79 Rairden, Richard L...... 131 Puthalapat, Deepthi ...... 203 Raizer, Victor ...... 198 Putignano, Cosimo ...... 137, 190, 228 Raja Abdullah, Raja Syamsul Azmir ...... 160 Puttonen, Eetu ...... 213 Raksuntorn, Nareenart ...... 122 Ramachandran, Ganesh ...... 71 Q Ramachandran, Rahul ...... 137, 174 Ramani, Prakash ...... 90 Qarro, Mohamed ...... 145 Raman, Nalliah ...... 119 Qiang, Xiaoke ...... 107 Rambal, Serge ...... 142 Qian, Kun ...... 53 Ramos, Jaime ...... 197 Qian, Shen-En ...... 122 Ramos, Judith ...... 187 Qian, Yonggang ...... 145 Ramos-Pérez, Isaac ...... 72, 81, 104, 105, 184 Qian, Yonglan ...... 58 Randell, Charles ...... 120, 188 Qiao, Hongbo ...... 58 Raney, R. Keith ...... 122, 125, 182 Qiao, Mu ...... 199 Ranieri, Gaetano ...... 120 Qi, Chen ...... 102 Rank, Robert ...... 186 Qi, Jiaguo ...... 166 Ran, Li ...... 210 Qin, Qiming .....57, 93, 100, 108, 146, 153, 159, Rannou, Véronique ...... 154 231 Ranson, Jon ...... 114, 124 Qin, Wenhan ...... 143, 230, 235 Ranson, K. Jon ...... 235 Qin, Zhihao ...... 160 Rao, Mahesh ...... 217 Qi, Qingwen ...... 156, 158 Rao, Ping ...... 191 276 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Raouf, Nasrat ...... 131 Richardson, Kim ...... 129 Rao, Y. S...... 203 Richaume, Philippe ...... 52, 66, 104 Rappaport, Carey ...... 160, 205 Richter, Katja ...... 141, 174 Raqueño, Nina G...... 212 Richter, Rudolf ...... 168 Raqueno, Rolando ...... 153, 213 Rico, Celia ...... 222 Rasmy, Abdul ...... 226 Riegger, Sebastian ...... 48 Ratkowski, Anthony ...... 118 Riggs, George A...... 202 Ratle, Frédéric ...... 167 Rignot, Eric ...... 216 Rauste, Yrjö ...... 188, 228 Riihelä, Aku ...... 69 Ravetta, Francois ...... 79 Riley, Dean ...... 126 Ray, Ram ...... 116 Riley, Francis ...... 108 Ray, Richard ...... 128 Rincon, Rafael ...... 221 Razdan, Anshuman ...... 101 Riordan, Kevin ...... 62, 146 Reagan, John ...... 85 Riris, Haris ...... 131 Reale, Diego ...... 210, 232 Ritchie, Jerry ...... 55 Reba, M. N. Md...... 153 Rivard, Benoit ...... 74 Rebbapragada, Umaa ...... 184 Rivera-Gallego, Wilson ...... 49 Rebhan, Helge ...... 115, 121, 179 Rivera-Monroy, Victor ...... 139 Redman, David ...... 120 Rizi, Vincenzo ...... 79 Reed, Bonnie ...... 48, 106 Roark, Shane ...... 125 Refice, Alberto ...... 179 Robert, Frédéric ...... 116 Regner, Kathryn ...... 225 Robila, Stefan ...... 85 Reichle, Rolf ...... 84, 127 Robinson, Cordula ...... 120 Reichstein, Markus ...... 142 Robinson, Daniel ...... 162 Reigber, Andreas ...... 65, 81, 86, 170 Roblou, Laurent ...... 128, 134 Reinartz, Peter ...... 79 Rocadenbosch, Francesc ...... 79, 103, 147, 153 Reising, Steven ...... 65, 81 Rocca, Fabio ...... 86, 164 Remer, Lorraine ...... 175 Roche, Aidan E...... 131 Remund, Quinn ...... 179 Rochon, Gilbert ...... 136 Remus, Jeremiah ...... 64 Rock, Barrett ...... 129, 139 Rengarajan, Sembiam ...... 216 Röckmann, Thomas ...... 147 Ren, Hsuan ...... 98, 99 Rodrigues da Fonseca, Fernanda ...... 55 Ren, Liliang ...... 92 Rodríguez, Alejandro ...... 103 Ren, Xin-Cheng ...... 206 Rodríguez-Álvarez, Nereida ..72, 81, 104, 105, Ren, Yu-Chao ...... 206 184 Reppucci, Antonio ...... 82 Rodriguez-Cassola, Marc ...... 129 Resende, Marcos ...... 160 Rodriguez, Juan ...... 179 Resmini, Ronald ...... 185 Rodriguez-Morales, Fernando ...... 171, 183 Ressl, Rainer ...... 184 Rodríguez Rodríguez, Félix ...... 162 Resta, Salvatore ...... 117 Rodriguez Velasco, Gema ...... 134 Reul, Nicolas ...... 105, 198 Roeder, Robert ...... 49 Reverdin, Gilles ...... 105 Rogacki, Steven ...... 131 Reynolds, Curt ...... 84 Rogan, Aaron ...... 211 Rhody, Harvey ...... 102 Rogers, Catherine ...... 134 Riaño, David ...... 145 Rogge, Derek ...... 74 Ribeiro, Noely ...... 191 Román III, Miguel O...... 69, 93, 123, 142, 235 Riccardo, Rossi ...... 190 Romanov, Peter ...... 169, 203 Riccio, Daniele ...... 48, 155, 205, 214, 224 Rommen, Björn ...... 48 Richard, Jacques ...... 116, 224 Rosenkranz, Philip ...... 56 Richardson, Andrew ...... 69 Rosen, Paul ...... 47, 114, 182 Richardson, Ashlin ...... 74 Rosenqvist, Ake ...... 45, 46 Richardson, Jonathan ...... 85 Rosen, Rebecca ...... 175 277 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Rosenzweig, Cynthia ...... 181 Saito, Genya ...... 140, 178 Rose, Thomas ...... 147 Sajjad, Naheed ...... 60 Rosich, Betlem ...... 48 Sakuma, Fumihiro ...... 102, 212 Roslee, Mardeni ...... 160 Salazar, Jorge L...... 226 Rosmorduc, Vinca ...... 147 Saleh, Kauzar ...... 52, 121 Ross, Michael ...... 139 Salinas Cortijo, Santo V...... 141 Rostan, Friedhelm ...... 48 Sall, Baba ...... 55 Rothacher, Markus ...... 67 Salom, Scott ...... 140 Roth, Achim ...... 117, 155, 227 Salvaggio, Carl ...... 213 Rother, Gershon ...... 74 Salvia, Mercedes ...... 49, 196 Rott, Helmut ...... 115, 121, 177 Samadi, Shahin ...... 186 Roujean, Jean-Louis ...... 193, 233 Samanta, Arindam ...... 75, 235 Roussel, Hélène ...... 204 Samarah, Ashraf ...... 135 Rowlandson, Tracy ...... 52 Sammis, Ted ...... 180 Roy, David ...... 98 Samsonov, Sergey ...... 109 Royer, Alain ...... 133, 201 Sánchez, Juan Manuel ...... 146 Ruault du Plessis, Olivier ...... 170 Sandberg, Gustaf ...... 118, 225 Rucci, Alessio ...... 86 Sanders, Niek ...... 141 Rudant, Jean-Paul ...... 158, 177 Sandwell, David ...... 74 Rude, Don ...... 220 Sang, Wengang ...... 158 Rüdiger, Christopher ...... 84 Sanjuan, Maria-Jose ...... 132 Rueegg, Maurice ...... 179 Santanach, Enric ...... 90 Ruello, Giuseppe ...... 155 Sant’Anna, Sidnei J. S...... 205, 208, 228 Ruf, Christopher ..59, 70, 75, 81, 131, 147, 181 Santer, Richard ...... 212 Ruffini, Giulio ...... 122 Santi, Emanuele ...... 46, 121, 127, 216 Ruffin, Nel ...... 113 Santoro, Maurizio ...... 208, 219 Runge, Hartmut ...... 51 Santos do Amaral, Ronaldo ...... 55 Russ, Andrew ...... 187 Santos, João Roberto ...... 219, 228 Russchenberg, Herman ...... 147 Sarabandi, Kamal ...... 154, 210, 230 Russell, Karen ...... 188 Sarma, Vaibhav ...... 95 Rutledge, Glenn ...... 218 Sasaki, Jiro ...... 140 Rutledge, Steven ...... 175, 187 Satake, Makoto ...... 60, 208 Ryu, Dongryeol ...... 72 Satalino, Giuseppe ...... 132 Ryu, Joo-Hyung ...... 62, 63 Sato, Isao ...... 102 Ryu, Keun Ho ...... 161 Sato, Kenji ...... 218 Sato, Motoyuki ...... 71, 115, 126 S Sato, Ryoichi ...... 74, 176, 182 Sato, Shinsuke ...... 60 Saatchi, Sassan ...... 225 Sato, Tokiyasu ...... 151 Saber, Eli ...... 102 Saturno, William ...... 47 Sabia, Roberto ...... 184, 198 Sauer, Stefan ...... 170 Sabir, Mohamed ...... 145 Saurabh, Aditya ...... 99 Sabry, Ramin ...... 227 Saville, Michael ...... 214 Sacchetti, Andrea ...... 168 Savstrup Kristensen, Steen ...... 183 Sadeghi, Ali ...... 55 Savtchenko, Andrey ...... 169 Sadowy, Greg ...... 216 Sawamura, Yoko ...... 167 Sagués, Lluís ...... 104 Scarpa, Giuseppe ...... 167 Sahebi, Mahmod Reza ...... 103 Scavone, Giusy ...... 146 Said, Faozi ...... 59 Schaaf, Crystal ...... 69, 73, 93, 142, 235 Saillant, Stéphane ...... 154 Schaap, Martijn ...... 131 Saillard, Marc ...... 51, 219 Schaefer, Christoph ...... 221 Saint, Gilbert ...... 233 Schäfer, Aleksis ...... 127 278 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Schardt, Mathias ...... 77, 234 Sedlacek, Stephan ...... 166 Scharroo, Remko ...... 134 Segl, Karl ...... 168, 173, 215 Schatten Silvious, Miranda ...... 77 Seidel, Klaus ...... 130 Schättler, Birgit ...... 71 Seielstad, George ...... 142 Schaubert, Dan ...... 125 Seitlhamo, Wilfred ...... 136 Scheiber, Rolf ...... 80, 117, 129, 208 Sellami, Mohamed ...... 124 Schenk, Andreas ...... 155 Sellars, Jon ...... 68, 116 Schenk, Toni ...... 165, 232 Sellitto, Pasquale ...... 119 Scheunders, Paul ...... 117, 130, 217 Semar, Zohra ...... 155 Schiavon, Giovanni ...... 132, 137, 150, 228 Sengenes, Pierre ...... 116 Schiller, Stephen ...... 54 Sen Jaiswal, Rajasri ...... 199 Schirinzi, Gilda ...... 123, 156, 210 Seo, Dugwon ...... 201 Schlenz, Florian ...... 89 Seong, Jin-Taek ...... 87, 105 Schloss, Annette ...... 129 Serafino, Francesco ...... 232 Schlosser, C. Adam ...... 181 Serbin, Guy ...... 174 Schluessel, Peter ...... 82 Serpico, Sebastiano ...... 73, 154, 167 Schmid, Thomas ...... 177, 180, 222 Serrano, Enrique ...... 177 Schmidt, Michael ...... 136, 139, 184 Serrano-Ortiz, Penelope ...... 133 Schmidt, Sebastian ...... 123 Sertel, Kubilay ...... 214 Schmitt, Françoise ...... 123 Seto, Shinta ...... 169 Schmugge, Thomas ...... 91 Severini, Jerome ...... 122 Schmullius, Christiane ...... 219 Shabanov, Nikolay ...... 75, 235 Schneider, Annemarie ...... 227 Shahroudi, Narges ...... 201 Schoemaker, Robin ...... 131 Shah, Vijay ...... 67 Schongalla, Robert ...... 163 Shahzad, Faisal ...... 109 Schön, Helmut ...... 176 Shamatava, Irma ...... 64 Schott, John R...... 54, 141, 178, 212 Shang, Jiali ...... 78, 126 Schramm, Matthias ...... 124, 139 Shanjun, Liu ...... 111 Schrank, Dirk ...... 71 Shanker A., Piyush ...... 120 Schubert, Per ...... 195 Shao, Yang ...... 222 Schull, Mitchell ...... 69, 73, 75, 93, 235 Shao, Yuehong ...... 199 Schulze, Daniel ...... 71, 117 Shao, Yun ...... 91, 159, 161, 210 Schulz, Karsten ...... 232 Shariff, Samir ...... 103 Schumann, Guy ...... 92 Sharma, Alka ...... 139 Schutz, Bob ...... 103, 122 Sharma, Nimmi ...... 162 Schwaebisch, Marcus ...... 225 Shekhar, Shashi ...... 150 Schwank, Mike ...... 46, 87 Shen, Colin ...... 60 Schwarz, Egbert ...... 71 Shen, Guozhuang ...... 62 Schwarz, Gottfried ...... 48, 130 Sheng, Wentao ...... 151 Schwarz, John ...... 130 Shen, Hui ...... 60, 82, 88 Schwarzschild, Art ...... 116 Shen, Liang-Chi ...... 154 Schwarzschild, Arthur ...... 68 Shen, Qian ...... 161, 212 Schweiss, Robert J...... 186 Shen, Shuanghe ...... 152 Schwerdt, Marco ...... 71, 83, 129 Shen, Suhung ...... 169 Scipal, Klaus ...... 82, 92 Shen, Xinyi ...... 100, 159 Scofield, Graziela Balda ...... 228 Shen, Zhanfeng ...... 96, 102 Scott, Julian B. T...... 171 Shen, Zhenyao ...... 195 Scott, Waymond R...... 64, 77 Shepanski, John ...... 68 Seablom, Michael ...... 225 Shephard, Mark ...... 137 Seas, Antonios ...... 138 Sheremet, Nickolay ...... 128 Sedehi, Matteo ...... 221 Sherif, Atef ...... 186 Sedes, Florence ...... 79 Shettle, Eric ...... 123, 131 279 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Sheu, Tian-Wei ...... 99 Sikora, Todd ...... 88, 172 Sheu, Woei-Jen ...... 60 Siljamo, Niilo ...... 216 Shibata, Akira ...... 181, 232 Silny, John ...... 54 Shibuya, Kazuo ...... 203 Silvestrin, Pierluigi ...... 179 Shi, Changao ...... 103, 193 Silvia Liberata, Ullo ...... 223 Shih, Jyh-Yi ...... 194 Silvia, Nittel ...... 161 Shih, Tian-Yuan ...... 107 Simard, Jean-Robert ...... 227 Shih, Wei-Chuan ...... 137, 185 Simard, Marc ...... 139, 182, 216, 230 Shi, Jiancheng ..... 52, 66, 89, 91, 94, 115, 201, Simeonov, Valentin ...... 79 206 Sim, Eun-Sup ...... 105 Shi, Jianting ...... 162 Simic, Anita ...... 68, 130 Shi, Jun ...... 129 Similä, Markku ...... 171, 203 Shikada, Masaaki ...... 162, 180 Simmons, David ...... 81 Shi, Lei ...... 183 Simões Penello Meirelles, Margareth ...... 98 Shimada, Joanne ...... 211 Sindic-Rancic, Gordana ...... 49 Shimada, Masanobu ....46, 47, 52, 78, 115, 167, Singh, Dharmendra ...... 183 172, 201 Singh, Gulab ...... 203 Shimano, Sota ...... 162, 180 Singh, Kuldip ...... 183 Shimizu, Atsushi ...... 85, 103 Singhroy, Vern ...... 120, 124, 132 Shimizu, Shuji ...... 169 Siqueira, Paul ...... 81, 154, 218, 235 Shi, Nana ...... 191 Siracusa, Christina ...... 85 Shi, Peijun ...... 58, 144, 183 Sirota, Akexander ...... 128 Shirkey, Richard ...... 141 Sithole, Happy ...... 136 Shirmeen, Tahmina ...... 158 Sjahputera, Ozy ...... 232 Shi, Roger ...... 187 Sjögren, Thomas K...... 51, 210 Shi, Ruoming ...... 103, 112 Skauli, Torbjørn ...... 98 Shive, Jeremy ...... 97 Skidmore, Andrew ...... 139 Shi, Yu-Li ...... 118, 141 Skofronick-Jackson, Gail ...... 50, 181, 187 Shi, Zhengtao ...... 107 Skou, Niels ...... 87, 105, 184 Shkvarko, Yuriy V...... 210 Skriver, Henning ...... 132 Shoji, Yoshiaki ...... 101 Slatton, K. Clint ...... 66, 73, 138 Shokr, Mohammed ...... 228 Slaymaker, Philip ...... 125 Shorter, Nicholas ...... 223 Sletten, Mark ...... 65, 219 Shoucri, Merit ...... 233 Small, David ...... 155 Shrestha, Kris ...... 66 Smara, Youcef ...... 165 Shrestha, Ramesh ...... 138 Smith, Amber ...... 139 Shuai, Yanmin ...... 69, 93, 235 Smith, Bill ...... 82 Shubitidze, Fridon ...... 64 Smith, Craig ...... 105 Shuman, Christopher ...... 138 Smith, Dean ...... 59 Shuman, David ...... 220 Smith, Deborah ...... 106 Shum, C. K...... 125 Smith, Eric A...... 169, 174, 231 Shusse, Yukari ...... 60 Smith, Geoff ...... 116 Shyu, Chi-Ren ...... 130, 232 Smith, James A...... 195 Shyu, Tian-Yow ...... 199 Smith, Kim ...... 203 Sibandze, Phila ...... 136 Smith-Konter, Bridget ...... 74 Sicard, Michaël ...... 79, 103, 147, 153 Smith, Peter ...... 169 Siddiqui, Salman ...... 85 Smith, Robert ...... 131 Sierra, María José ...... 222 Smith, Torquil ...... 83 Siewe, Siewe ...... 217 Smyth, Jill ...... 45 Sigelle, Marc ...... 67, 232 Snaith, Helen M...... 128 Signell, Richard P...... 172 Snell, Hilary ...... 103, 200 Sikaneta, Ishuwa ...... 45 Snoeij, Paul ...... 48 280 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Snyder, David ...... 97 Stasolla, Mattia ...... 221 Snyder, Jeffrey ...... 218 Staudacher, Thomas ...... 45 Snyder, William ...... 168 Steel, Alan ...... 158 Sobieski, Piotr ...... 186 Steenkamp, Karen ...... 144 Søbjærg, Sten ...... 105 Stefanou, Marcus ...... 86 Søbjærg, Sten Schmidl ...... 184 Steffes, Paul ...... 50 Soccorsi, Matteo ...... 48, 117 Steinberg, Laura ...... 73, 95 Soddu, Antonino ...... 94 Steinbrecher, Ulrich ...... 71, 129 Soebjaerg, Sten S...... 87 Steiner, Nicholas ...... 178 Soergel, Uwe ...... 232 Stensaas, Gregory ...... 213 Sohlberg, Rob ...... 225 Stenstrom, Michael ...... 186 Sohn, Eunha ...... 59 Stephen, Mark ...... 131 Soisuvarn, Seubson ...... 49 Stephens, Graeme ...... 169, 174, 215 Solana, Jesús ...... 180 Stephens, Karen ...... 81, 135 Solberg, Svein ...... 130 Stern, Alan ...... 168, 222 Soldano, Albaro ...... 196 Steunou, Nathalie ...... 116 Soldovieri, Francesco ...... 120 Steyn, Willem Herman ...... 101 Solimini, Chiara ...... 87, 133, 221 St. Germain, Karen ...... 48, 82, 106 Solimini, Domenico ...... 87, 119, 124, 133, 137, Stickler, Claudia ...... 46 150, 167, 172, 221, 228 Stilla, Uwe ...... 182 Somers, Ben ...... 57 Stocker, Alan ...... 86 Song, Danxia ...... 150 Stockton, Dan ...... 48 Song, Ping-Chao ...... 110 Stoffelen, Ad ...... 49, 224 Song, Xiao-Yuan ...... 191 Stokes, Sheldon ...... 125 Song, Yingbo ...... 58 Stoll, Benoît ...... 93, 177 Song, Yingchang ...... 135 Stoner, Eric ...... 181 Song, Yougui ...... 107 Stone, Robert S...... 123 Sonntag, John ...... 165, 203 Stough, Timothy ...... 180 Soriano, Gabriel ...... 219 Stoyanov, Dimitar ...... 79 Soucy, Marc-Andre ...... 123 Strahler, Alan ...... 69, 73, 93, 124, 142, 235 Souyris, Jean-Claude ...... 59, 65, 88, 170, 177, Straight, Stan ...... 173 225 Stramondo, Salvatore ...... 100, 132 Souza, Carlos ...... 145 Streich, Rita ...... 114 Spencer, Michael ...... 75 Stringham, Craig ...... 234 Spigai, Marc ...... 100 Stroede, Juergen ...... 179 Spiga, Philippe ...... 219 Stroeve, Julienne ...... 174, 228 Spinelli, Nicola ...... 79 Strozzi, Tazio ...... 83, 120, 208, 224 Spivey, Alvin ...... 171 Stuart, Keith M...... 222 Splitt, Michael ...... 137 Stuart, Neil ...... 225 Spreen, Gunnar ...... 228 Stuffler, Timo ...... 168 Squibb, Melinda ...... 169 Sturm, Mathew ...... 203 Sriharan, Shobha ...... 63, 163 Su, Baoku ...... 229 Srinivasan, Karthik ...... 218 Subramanyam Rao, Yalamanchali ...... 203 Srinivasan, Margaret ...... 147 Su, Gaoli ...... 141 Srivastava, Satish ...... 45 Sugimoto, Nobuo ...... 85, 103 Stacy, Nick ...... 129 Sugumaran, Ramanathan ...... 140 Staelin, David ...... 187, 236 Suhama, Tomoyuki ...... 140 Staenz, Karl ...... 74, 130 Su, Hongbo ...... 146, 190, 191, 193, 220 Stammer, Detlef ...... 115, 228 Sui, Daniel Z...... 215 Stancalie, Gheorghe ...... 110 Sullivan, Don ...... 225 Stankovic, Ljubisa ...... 65 Sun, Bing ...... 156 Staples, Gordon ...... 120 Sun, Bing-Zhang ...... 210 281 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Sun, Charles ...... 147 Takahashi, Masaaki ...... 161 Sun, Chongliang ...... 189, 199 Takahashi, Nobuhiro ...... 218 Sundberg, Robert ...... 80 Takaku, Junichi ...... 52 Sung, Nak-Hoon ...... 173 Takala, Matias ...... 127 Sun, Guoqing ...... 124, 143, 213, 230, 235 Takano, Tadashi ...... 132 Sun, Junqiang ...... 212 Takeshiro, Akihito ...... 208 Sun, Lin ...... 149 Takeuchi, Sayaka ...... 162, 180 Sun-Mack, Sunny ...... 236 Takeuchi, Wataru ...... 97 Sun, Meixian ...... 63, 113, 223 Takumi, Ichi ...... 151, 235 Sun, Mindy ...... 124 Talabac, Stephen ...... 225 Sun, Ruijing ...... 94 Talaya Lopez, Julia ...... 134 Sun, Weijun ...... 62, 93, 151 Talone, Marco ...... 102, 198 Sun, Weixian ...... 160 Tamagawa, Katsunori ...... 66 Sun, Weiying ...... 153 Tamura, Masayuki ...... 143 Sun, Xian ...... 79 Tanaka, Shojiro ...... 166 Sun, Xiaoli ...... 131, 138 Tanamachi, Robin ...... 218 Sun, Xiaomin ...... 146 Tan, Bin ...... 134 Sun, Xilong ...... 192 Tan, Bingxiang ...... 152 Sun, Xiuhong ...... 213 Tan, Chih-Hung ...... 158, 194, 195 Sun, Yonghua ...... 102, 157, 189, 199 Tang, Guo-Dong ...... 118 Sun, Yumei ...... 113 Tang, Wenqing ...... 88 Sun, Yu-Mei ...... 223 Tang, Wenyan ...... 102 Sun, Zaoyu ...... 210, 223 Tang, Yixian ...... 159, 188 Sun, Zengguo ...... 209 Tang, Yong ...... 149 Suokanerva, Hanne ...... 202 Tang, Zhihua ...... 47, 151, 188 Suomalainen, Juha ...... 213 Tan, Lulu ...... 235 Su, Peixi ...... 90 Tanner, Alan ...... 125, 147 Surussavadee, Chinnawat ...... 50, 187, 236 Tanner, Jason ...... 197 Susaki, Junichi ...... 92, 143, 204 Tan, Qulin ...... 182, 209, 221 Susskind, Joel ...... 76, 215 Tan, Wee Juan ...... 101 Su, Yaoming ...... 108, 111 Tan, Weixian ...... 156, 210 Suzuki, Tomoko ...... 140 Tan, Yong Kiat Allan ...... 101 Sveinsson, Johannes R...... 47, 155 Tao, Jianhong ...... 149, 199 Sweeting, Martin ...... 98 Tao, Jing ...... 52 Swick, Ross ...... 174 Tao, Wei-Kuo ...... 187 Swinnen, Else ...... 233 Tao, Xin ...... 160 Swope, Sarah ...... 168 Tapley, Byron ...... 67 Sylvain, Labbe ...... 137 Tarabalka, Yuliya ...... 98, 137 Szewczyk, Z. Peter ...... 106 Taranik, James ...... 126 Szunyogh, Istvan ...... 231 Tara, Walid Ben ...... 96 Szykman, James ...... 175 Tarkocin, Yalcin ...... 198 Tateishi, Ryutaro ...... 157 T Taubenböck, Hannes ...... 227 Taur, Jin-Shiuh ...... 172 Tabatabaeenejad, Alireza ...... 154 Taveneau, Nicolas ...... 116 Tadono, Takeo ...... 52 Taylor, Geoff ...... 91 Tagawa, Tetsuya ...... 169 Teague, Calvin ...... 196 Tait, Steve ...... 45 Tebaldini, Stefano ...... 86 Takabayashi, Yuji ...... 74 Tedesco, Marco ...... 121, 127, 133, 171, 201 Takada, Youichiro ...... 52 Teina, Raimana ...... 93 Takagi, Naoki ...... 160, 189 Teixeira, Fernando L...... 114 Takahashi, Duke ...... 173 Tello, Marivi ...... 72 282 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Temimi, Marouane ...... 92, 203 Tomás, Sergio ...... 103, 147 ten Brink, Harry ...... 147 Tomiyama, Nobuhiro ...... 155 Teneketzis, Demos ...... 220 Tom, Victor ...... 102 Teng, Junhua ...... 63 Tonboe, Rasmus ...... 228 Teng, JunHua ...... 113, 223 Tong, Ling ...... 206 Terry, Joseph ...... 225 Tonizzo, Alberto ...... 178 Terzuoli, Andrew ...... 214 Toporkov, Jakov ...... 65, 219 Testorf, Markus ...... 51 Torres, Audalio ...... 231 Thamm, Hans-Peter ...... 183, 228 Torres, Francesc ...... 87, 104, 127, 229 Thayaparan, Thayananthan ...... 65 Torres, Omar ...... 175, 224 Theiler, James ...... 53 Torres, Ramon ...... 48 Thelen, Brian ...... 127 Torrione, Peter ...... 77 Thibaut, Pierre ...... 122 Tortel, Herve ...... 114 Thibeault, Marc ...... 91 Toudal Pedersen, Leif ...... 200, 228 Thiele, Antje ...... 232 Tourneret, Jean-Yves ...... 116, 122 Thiongane, Yaya ...... 55 Tous-Ramon, Nuria ...... 71, 179 Thirion-Moreau, Nadege ...... 51 Touzi, Ridha ...... 46, 74, 78, 165, 170, 209 Thoennessen, Ulrich ...... 232 Tran, Daniel ...... 225 Thomas, Jackson ...... 116 Trang, Anh ...... 51 Thomas, Robert ...... 165 Trees, Charles ...... 100 Thomas, Susan ...... 106 Tremblay, Nicolas ...... 85, 133, 174 Thomas, Valerie ...... 230 Trepte, Charles ...... 131 Thome, Kurtis ...... 54, 212 Treuhaft, Robert ...... 219 Thompson, Alan ...... 179 Trianni, Giovanna ...... 98 Thompson, David ...... 105 Trice, III, James ...... 195 Thompson, Donald R...... 82, 83, 172 Trickl, Thomas ...... 79 Thomson, Jim ...... 49 Triesky, Michael ...... 81 Thomson, Madeleine ...... 55 Triltzsch, Gunnar ...... 51 Thoonen, Guy ...... 130 Trishchenko, Alexander ...... 148 Thoorens, Francois-Xavier ...... 95 Trouvé, Emmanuel ...... 48, 158, 223 Throwe, Jeremy ...... 186 Troy, Austin ...... 189 Tian, Bangsen ...... 89, 96, 202 Trudel, Mélanie ...... 91 Tian, Jing ...... 146 Truitt, Barry ...... 68, 116 Tian, Miao ...... 87 Truong-Loi, My-Linh ...... 84, 225 Tian, Pengju ...... 147 Tsai, Pei-Sang ...... 147 Tian, Qingjiu ...... 141 Tsai, Pei-Tsang ...... 218 Tian, Wei ...... 161, 210 Tsang, Leung ...... 88, 115, 219, 234 Tian, Yudong ...... 220 Tschudi, Matthias ...... 191 Ticconi, Francesca ...... 92 Tseng, Shiau-Chian ...... 99 Tijani, Khalid ...... 197 Tsuchida, Satoshi ...... 212 Tilmes, Curt ...... 169, 180 Tsutsui, Hiroyuki ...... 52, 66, 203 Tilton, James C...... 130, 202 Tuia, Devis ...... 167, 172 Timmermans, Renske ...... 131 Tuominen, Jyrki ...... 161 Tison, Céline ...... 48, 59, 170, 177 Tupin, Florence ...... 67, 170, 232 Tivy, Adrienne ...... 222 Turk, F. Joseph ...... 129 Tiwari, Spandan ...... 51 Turner, Dave ...... 125 Tjuatja, Saibun ...... 71, 205 Twarog, Elizabeth ...... 48 Toan, Thuy Le ...... 88 Tyo, J. Scott ...... 185 Tobin, Kenneth ...... 231 Tzeng, Yu-Chang ...... 62, 188 Tokay, Ali ...... 187 Toledo Martins, Flávia ...... 55 U Tolpekin, Valentyn ...... 96 283 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Ubolkosold, Pakorn ...... 129 van der Meer, Freek ...... 109 Uccellini, Louis ...... 64 van der Merwe, Marna ...... 220 Udelhoven, Thomas ...... 150 van der Velde, Rogier ...... 78 Uhlhorn, Eric ...... 56 van der Werff, Harald ...... 109 Uijlenhoet, Remco ...... 147 Van De Vegte, John ...... 89 Ukawa, Motoo ...... 115 Van de Voorde, Tim ...... 150 Ulander, Lars M. H...... 118, 176 Van de Werken, Matt ...... 164 Ul-Ann, Qurat ...... 129, 135 Vane, Deborah ...... 174 Ulbrich, Gerd ...... 233 Van Looy, Jeff ...... 165 Ullman, Richard ...... 186 Vannier, Clémence ...... 190 Ullo, Silvia Liberata ...... 162 Van Ophem, Jeremy ...... 177 Ulusoy, Ilkay ...... 134 van Wyk, Barend J...... 159 Umehara, Toshihiko ...... 59 van Wyk, M. Antonie ...... 159 Ungar, Stephen ...... 57, 168, 225 van Zyl, Dawie ...... 136 Unwin, Martin ...... 56 van Zyl, Jakob ...... 88, 230 Uppuluri, Avinash ...... 183 van Zyl, Terence Lesley ...... 50, 220 Uratsuka, Seiho ...... 59 Varella, Hubert-Vincent ...... 152 Urban, Timothy ...... 103, 122 Vasile, Gabriel ...... 48 Urdiroz, Anne ...... 170 Vasilyev, Aleksey ...... 138 Ushio, Tomoo ...... 236 Vatsavai, Ranga ...... 150 Ustin, Susan L...... 145, 180 Vedantham, Harish ...... 218 Utku, Cuneyt ...... 198, 234 Veenendaal, Bert ...... 89 Uto, Kuniaki ...... 74, 140, 178 Vega, Manuel ...... 125 Uymin, Gennady ...... 118, 230 Velasco-Forero, Santiago ...... 137 Velez-Reyes, Miguel ...... 49 V Veneziani, Nicola ...... 179 Venkataraman, Gopalan ...... 203 Vachon, Paris ...... 120 Venkatesh, Vijay ...... 218 Valadan Zoej, Mohammad Javad ..79, 99, 103, Ventura, Bartolomeo ...... 214 229 Verbesselt, Jan ...... 57, 98 Valencia, Enric ...... 72, 81, 104, 105, 184 Verdin, James ...... 187 Valentine, Lebourgeois ...... 137 Verhoef, Anton ...... 49, 224 Valentini, Giovanni ...... 67 Verhoef, Wout ...... 173 Valeriy, Obolonsky ...... 87 Verlinde, Hans ...... 125 Valero, Silvia ...... 170 Verma, Manish ...... 69, 142 Valett, Susan ...... 138 Vermote, Eric ...... 54, 118, 131 Vall-llossera, Mercè .87, 90, 102, 104, 127, 184, Veroustraete, Frank ...... 92 198 Verspeek, Jeroen ...... 49, 224 Vallon, Juliette ...... 116 Verstraeten, Willem W...... 57, 98 Valor, Enric ...... 91, 123, 146 Vieira Dutra, Luciano ...... 55 van Aardt, Jan ...... 130 Viergever, Karin ...... 225 Van, An Ngoc ...... 101 Vieux, Baxter ...... 220 van Bochove, Eric ...... 126 Vigneault, Philippe ...... 133, 174 Van de Griend, Adriaan ...... 46, 121 Vignudelli, Stefano ...... 128, 134 van Delst, Paul ...... 206 Vijayaraj, Veeraraghavan ...... 130 Vandemark, Doug ...... 134, 172, 184 Vijaysrinivasan, S. Uma ...... 199 van den Bergh, Frans ...... 159 Vilaseca, Roger ...... 104 Vandenborre, Jeroen ...... 124 Villa, Alberto ...... 172 Vanderbilt, Vern C...... 180 Villagarcia, Luis ...... 146 van der Kruk, Jan ...... 64, 114 Villard, Ludovic ...... 167 van der Linden, Sebastian ...... 150 Villeneuve, Nicolas ...... 45 van der Marel, Hans ...... 147 Villeneuve, Pierre ...... 86 284 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Vincent, Michael ...... 232 Wang, Fahui ...... 223 Vinogradova, Nadya ...... 184 Wang, Guizuo ...... 92 Vinogradov, Sergey ...... 231 Wang, Hong ...... 93, 110, 193, 194 Vivekanandan, Jothiram ...... 65, 81 Wang, Hongjian ...... 105 Vladimirova, Tanya ...... 98 Wang, Hongna ...... 198 Vladutescu, Viviana ...... 186 Wang, Hongqi ...... 79, 155 Vlek, Paul ...... 136 Wang, Hongyuan ...... 195 Vodacek, Anthony ...... 171 Wang, Huilin ...... 218 Vogelzang, Jur ...... 49, 224 Wang, Jian ...... 90 von Maltitz, Graham ...... 144 Wang, Jianhua ...... 96, 190 Vorosmarty, Charles ...... 181 Wang, Jianlin ...... 58 Voss, Matthew ...... 140 Wang, Jihua ...... 93, 174 Votava, Petr ...... 181 Wang, Jindi ...... 142, 152, 153, 191, 235 Vucetic, Slobodan ...... 96 Wang, Jinfei ...... 182 Vuolo, Francesco ...... 141, 174 Wang, Jing ...... 140, 191, 193 Vu, T. Thuy ...... 160 Wang, Jingsong ...... 140 Vu, Viet Thuy ...... 51, 210 Wang, Jingzhang ...... 156 Wang, Jinsong ...... 149, 191, 199 W Wang, Jin Song ...... 193 Wang, Juanle ...... 189 Wack, Roland ...... 234 Wang, Junfeng ...... 209, 210 Wada, Kozin ...... 45 Wang, Junming ...... 180 Wada, Takahiro ...... 127 Wang, Kaicun ...... 75, 146, 233 Wada, Yutaka ...... 115 Wang, Ke ...... 211 Wade, Unquiea ...... 121 Wang, Lei ...... 89, 94, 132, 134, 190, 193 Wadia-Fascetti, Sara ...... 160 Wang, Lianxi ...... 231 Wagner, Wolfgang ...... 70, 92 Wang, Libo ...... 201 Wahab, M. Magdy Abdel ...... 136 Wang, Ling ...... 210 Wakabayashi, Hiroyuki ...... 203 Wang, Lingli ...... 142 Wakatsuchi, Masaaki ...... 166 Wang, Liuzhao ...... 213 Wald, Lucien ...... 157 Wang, Peipei ...... 204 Waldteufel, Philippe ...... 66, 104 Wang, Qingsong ...... 208 Walikainen, Dale ...... 106 Wang, Qiu-Bing ...... 194 Walker, Anne ...... 133 Wang, Quanfang ...... 191 Walker, Jeffrey ...... 52, 89, 90, 94, 121 Wang, Robert ...... 129, 135, 179, 207 Walker, Wayne ...... 46, 158, 230 Wang, Ronghua ...... 189 Wallace, Alex ...... 63 Wang, Run Yuan ...... 193 Wallace, Julie ...... 63, 149 Wang, Shiang ...... 161, 210 Walsh, Thomas M...... 231 Wang, Shixin ...... 195, 198 Wandinger, Ulla ...... 79 Wang, Shuguo ...... 94, 152 Wang, Aili ...... 209 Wang, Shusen ...... 93 Wang, Bin ...... 155, 156 Wang, Siyuan ...... 96, 190, 195 Wang, Chao ...... 155, 159, 188, 204, 206 Wang, Teng ...... 164 Wang, Chih-Tien ...... 115 Wan, Guolong ...... 229 Wang, Cuizhen ...... 206 Wang, Wanting ...... 145 Wang, Dajin ...... 85 Wang, Weiguo ...... 63, 157 Wang, Dan ...... 171, 189 Wang, Weile ...... 181 Wang, Dandan ...... 93, 193 Wang, Weizhen ...... 90 Wang, David ...... 198 Wang, Wen ...... 95 Wang, Dianzhong ...... 213 Wang, Wenlei ...... 112, 128 Wang, Dongdong ...... 75, 235 Wang, Wenrui ...... 188, 189 Wang, Dongwei ...... 153, 191, 235 Wang, Wudi ...... 155, 190 285 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Wang, Xianmin ...... 100, 107 Wei, Feng ...... 149 Wang, Xiao ...... 113 Weigang, Zhu ...... 128 Wang, Xiaohui ...... 97 Weijiang, Zheng ...... 111 Wang, Xiaoping ...... 140, 191 Wei, Jie ...... 209 Wang, Xiao Ping ...... 193 Wei, Matt ...... 74 Wang, Xiaoyan ...... 158 Wei, Ming ...... 225 Wang, Xingming ...... 147 Weininger, Etai ...... 216 Wang, Xinhong ...... 123 Weir, Laurie ...... 120 Wang, Xinyun ...... 143 Weisbeck, Werner ...... 183 Wang, Xuesong ...... 159 Weisenseel, Robert ...... 153 Wang, Yan ...... 107, 207 Wei, Shunjun ...... 87 Wang, Yan-Bing ...... 111, 112, 193 Weissman, David ...... 70, 76 Wang, Yan-Hui ...... 111, 112, 193 Wei, Tang ...... 111 Wang, Yanjiao ...... 58 Wei, Tao ...... 156 Wang, Yan-Ping ...... 81, 112, 155, 156, 210 Wei, Yaxin ...... 218 Wang, Yanting ...... 175, 220, 226 Wei, Zhi ...... 107 Wang, Yao ...... 207 Wei, Zhongya ...... 218 Wang, Yi ...... 107 Weizman, Lior ...... 221 Wang, Yinbo ...... 129 Wells, Gordon ...... 116 Wang, Ying ...... 148 Wemmert, Cédric ...... 178 Wang, Yinghua ...... 170 Wen, Gaojin ...... 111 Wang, Yongqian ...... 89, 96 Weng, Fuzhong ...... 181, 206 Wang, Yujie ...... 171 Weng, Fuzong ...... 76 Wang, Yu (Robert) ...... 135 Wen, Lintao ...... 97 Wang, Zhao ...... 195 Wentai, Lei ...... 205 Wang, ZhaoQiang ...... 153 Wentz, Elizabeth ...... 227 Wang, Zhensong ...... 210 Wentz, Frank ...... 70, 105, 106, 187 Wang, Zhenzhan ...... 105, 206 Wen, Xiaoyang ...... 204, 206 Wang, Zhihua ...... 110 Wen, Xingping ...... 99 Wang, Zhipeng ...... 185 Wen, Zhiyong ...... 107 Wang, Zhongting ...... 148 Werner, Charles ...... 83, 87, 120, 208, 224 Wang, Zhousen ...... 235 Wessel, Birgit ...... 117 Wang, Zhuosen ...... 69, 73, 93 Wessels, Konrad ...... 144, 171 Wang, Zifeng ...... 122 Wesson, Joel ...... 178, 198 Wan, Shanshan ...... 111 Westbrook, David ...... 220 Wan, Wei ...... 110, 148, 161 West, Geoff ...... 89 Ward, Jason ...... 141 West, Terrance ...... 97 Waske, Björn ...... 47, 67, 150, 228 Westwater, Ed R...... 125 Wasowski, Janusz ...... 207 Wetmore, Alan ...... 141 Wassenaar, Tom ...... 178 Weydahl, Dan-Johan ...... 232 Watanabe, Manabu ...... 115, 126 Wheeler, Kevin ...... 131 Watson, Layne ...... 96 Whitbourn, Lew ...... 91 Wayit, Ayshamgul ...... 194 White, Michael ...... 183 Wdowinski, Shimon ...... 132, 183, 208 Wickert, Lori ...... 126 Weaver, Ronald L. S...... 135, 174 Wicks, Brandon ...... 234 Webb, Frank ...... 169 Wiegner, Matthias ...... 79 Webb, Helen ...... 102 Wielicki, Bruce ...... 54 Weber, Bob ...... 50, 59 Wiesbeck, Werner ...... 72, 216, 221 Weedon, Graham ...... 69 Wiesmann, Andreas ...... 83, 87, 120, 208, 219, Wegmüller, Urs ...... 83, 87, 120, 208, 219, 224 224, 225 Wei, Daiyong ...... 160, 182, 234 Wigneron, Jean Pierre ...... 66, 105 Weidemann, Alan ...... 68 Wigneron, Jean-Pierre ...... 46, 52, 84, 121, 144 286 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Wi, Hoon ...... 105 Wu, Jianjun ...... 58, 146 Wijaya, Arief ...... 217 Wu, Jian-Zhai ...... 191 Wilheit, Thomas ...... 106, 181, 226 Wu, Jiaping ...... 206 Wilkerson, Thomas D...... 174 Wu, Jiayu ...... 171, 189 Wilkin, John ...... 128 Wu, Liang ...... 110 Willement, Jean-Marie ...... 133 Wu, Lixin ...... 107, 111, 112, 192 William Lapenta, William Lapenta ...... 137 Wu, Li-Xin ...... 112, 176 William, Plant ...... 166 Wu, Pengfei ...... 110 Williams, Brent ...... 88 Wu, Qiang ...... 151 Williams, Christopher ...... 200 Wu, Qiong ...... 105 Williams, Darrel ...... 217 Wu, Shengli ...... 107, 143, 213, 232 Williams, Mark ...... 129 Wu, Tao ...... 159 Williams, Mathew ...... 152 Wu, Ting ...... 107 Wilson, Brian D...... 57 Wu, Wei ...... 89 Wilson, Joseph ...... 71 Wu, Xi ...... 218 Wilson, Robert ...... 106 Wu, Yanzhao ...... 204, 206 Wiltshire, Ben ...... 119 Wu, Yirong ...... 155, 156 Winker, Dave ...... 131 Wu, Yi-Rong ...... 81, 112, 156, 210 Winker, David ...... 169, 175 Wu, Yuanfeng ...... 161, 212 Winstead, Nathaniel S...... 83, 172 Wu, Zhanping ...... 147 Winter, Michael ...... 80 Wynne, Randolph .96, 140, 142, 143, 144, 230 Wiscombe, Warren ...... 236 Wison, Emily ...... 179 X Wojcik, Rafal ...... 76 Wolfe, Robert ...... 134, 142 Xia, Jun ...... 133 Wollersheim, Michael ...... 87 Xiang, Fang ...... 60, 200 Wollstadt, Steffen ...... 71, 179 Xiao, Huadong ...... 148 Wong, Min Minnie ...... 162 Xiao, Li ...... 191 Wong, Poh Poh ...... 63 Xiaoling, Zhang ...... 207, 210 Won, Joong-Sun ...... 62, 108, 195 Xiao, Zhiqiang ...... 153, 235 Woodcock, Curtis E...... 69, 93, 124, 166, 222, Xia, Song ...... 188 235 Xia, Ye ...... 108 Woodhouse, Iain ...... 225 Xia, Zhongsheng ...... 145 Woods, John ...... 222 Xi, Chou ...... 202 Woods, Murray ...... 118 Xie, Antao ...... 196 Woodward, Patrick ...... 68, 116 Xie, Chou ...... 201 Woodworth, Philip ...... 134 Xie, Chuanjie ...... 151 Worby, Anthony ...... 222 Xie, Dingyong ...... 221 Wozencraft, Jennifer ...... 66 Xie, Jibo ...... 110 Wright, David ...... 83 Xie, Junfeng ...... 155 Wright, William ...... 138 Xie, Kunqing ...... 218 Wu, Bing Sheng ...... 215 Xie, Lisha ...... 223 Wu, Chau-Ron ...... 60, 82 Xie, Pingping ...... 175 Wu, Di ...... 161, 212 Xie, Xiaobo ...... 212 Wuest, Ben ...... 100 Xie, Xiaosu ...... 76, 88 Wu, Fan ...... 188 Xie, Xuetong ...... 59, 60 Wu, Hao ...... 204 Xie, Yaowen ...... 188 Wu, Hong’an ...... 159 Xie, Zhong ...... 110 Wu, Huaming ...... 229 Xi, Hongyan ...... 197 Wu, Huanping ...... 58, 107 Xinjian, Shan ...... 108, 207 Wu, Ji ...... 104, 153, 229 Xin, Wang ...... 60, 200 Wu, Jian ...... 58 Xin, Xiaozhou ...... 127, 141, 148, 149 287 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Xiong, Tao ...... 72 Yang, Jian ...... 72 Xiong, Xiaoxiong (Jack) ...... 57, 131, 142, 212 Yang, Jinn-Min ...... 99 Xiuming, Jia ...... 207 Yang, Kefeng ...... 156 Xu, Chao ...... 118, 139 Yang, Kent (MuQun) ...... 180 Xuedong, Ma ...... 108 Yang, Nan ...... 57, 146 Xue, Yong ...... 58, 110, 148, 160, 161, 229 Yang, Ruliang ...... 97, 179, 235 Xu, Feng ...... 135, 142, 155, 224 Yang, Shenbin ...... 152 Xu, Hong ...... 144 Yang, Shuo ...... 195 Xu, Hua ...... 151 Yang, Song ...... 181 Xu, Jia ...... 156 Yang, Szu-Wei ...... 53, 99 Xu, Jingwen ...... 96 Yan, Guang-Jian ...... 118, 145 Xu, Li ...... 158 Yang, Wen ...... 108 Xu, Lina ...... 107 Yang, Wenfeng ...... 195 Xu, Maosong ...... 145 Yang, Wenli ...... 121, 218 Xu, Peng ...... 219, 234 Yang, Xi ...... 144 Xu, Qing ...... 61, 206 Yang, Xiaofeng ...... 99, 161 Xu, Wenbo ...... 93, 188, 190, 191, 196 Yang, Xiaoyuan ...... 69, 93, 235 Xu, Xiru ...... 141, 160 Yang, Yang ...... 163, 183, 194 Xu, Xu ...... 193, 194 Yang, Yi ...... 192 Xu, Yongming ...... 160 Yang, Yi-Chen E...... 233 Xu, Zhen ...... 96, 190 Yan, Hao ...... 58, 187, 191 Yan, Hongshi ...... 158 Y Yan, Huimin ...... 193 Yani, Liu ...... 188 Yackel, John ...... 222 Yan, Jingye ...... 104, 153, 229 Yague-Martinez, Nestor ...... 67 Yan, Meichun ...... 158 Yamada, Hiroyoshi ...... 74, 170, 176, 182 Yan, Rui ...... 159 Yamagata, Yoshiki ...... 157 Yan, Shiyong ...... 210 Yamaguchi, Yasushi ...... 215 Yan, Wenzhe ...... 204 Yamaguchi, Yoshio ...... 74, 115, 170, 176, 182 Yan, Yunpeng ...... 110 Yamaki, Ryo ...... 101 Yao, Ping ...... 210 Yamamoto, Hirokazu ...... 212 Yao, Tian ...... 69, 73, 93, 235 Yamamoto, Hrokazu ...... 233 Yao, Yanjuan ...... 235 Yamanokuchi, Tsutomu ...... 155, 203 Yao, Yunjun ...... 57, 146, 153 Yamazaki, Fumio ...... 160 Yaschenko, Alexander ...... 116 Yan, Banghua ...... 181 Yasukawa, Hiroshi ...... 151, 235 Yan, Binyan ...... 160 Yasuoka, Yoshifumi ...... 97 Yan, Changzhen ...... 190 Yauschew-Raguenes, Nathalie ...... 144 Yan, Chye Hwang ...... 79, 119 Yavuz, Mehmet E...... 114 Yan, Feng ...... 58 Ye, Fan ...... 210 Yan, Fuli ...... 195, 198 Ye, Huanzhuo ...... 151, 188 Yang, Chan-Su ...... 61, 62 Yen, Jun-Yee ...... 115 Yang, Chaowei ...... 50, 110 Yen, Nick ...... 106 Yang, Chenghai ...... 63 Yesha, Yelena ...... 169 Yang, Chia-Kai ...... 158, 194 Ye, Xia ...... 108 Yang, Cunjian ...... 158, 191, 195 Ye, Zhiwei ...... 95, 176 Yang, Du ...... 88, 204 Ye, Zi ...... 110 Yang, Fenghai ...... 110 Yiding, Wang ...... 155 Yang, Guojing ...... 188 Yijun, He ...... 61 Yang, He ...... 98 Yilmaz, M. Tugrul ...... 90 Yang, Hsin-Chia ...... 200 Yin, Qian ...... 97 Yang, Hu ...... 232 Yin, Qiang ...... 94 288 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Yinqing, Zhou ...... 128 Zavala-Garay, Javier ...... 128 Yin, Shoujing ...... 142 Zavodsky, Bradley ...... 137, 225 Yin, Xiaobin ...... 61, 206 Zavyalov, Vladimir V...... 174 Yin, Zuo-Ru ...... 112, 176 Zawadzki, Mark ...... 216 Yi, Su ...... 205 Zbitou, Jamal ...... 114 Yi, Yuhong ...... 236 Zebker, Howard ...... 114, 120, 167, 182, 235 Ynoue, Yoshio ...... 94 Zehnder, Joseph ...... 101 Yonezawa, Chinatsu ...... 155 Zeinldin, Faisal ...... 57 Yong, Bin ...... 95 Zelazowski, Przemyslaw ...... 69 Yoon, Boyeol ...... 161 Zeng, Ayan ...... 171, 189 Yoon, Taehun ...... 165, 232 Zeng, Hao ...... 204 Yoon, Wang-Jung ...... 61 Zeng, Qiming ...... 59, 60, 173, 210 Yoshikawa, Eiichi ...... 236 Zeng, Rongliang ...... 147 Yoshioka, Hiroki ...... 127, 140, 152, 212, 233 Zhai, Wenshuai ...... 205 You, Hongjian ...... 207 Zhang, Aiwu ...... 112, 176 Younan, Nick ...... 67 Zhang, An ...... 158 Younan, Nicolas ...... 110, 137 Zhang, Biao ...... 59, 88 Young, David ...... 54, 114 Zhang, Bing ...... 161, 212 Younis, Marwan ...... 71, 117, 123, 216, 221 Zhang, Bo ...... 188, 204 Yuan, Fangyan ...... 58, 109 Zhang, Cheng ...... 153, 193, 194 Yuanjing, Zhu ...... 60, 200 Zhang, Chunhui ...... 188, 189 Yuan, Qing ...... 93 Zhang, De-Hai ...... 105 Yu, Anxi ...... 156, 192 Zhang, Fan ...... 103, 214 Yuan, Xiaohui ...... 73, 95 Zhang, Fengli ...... 145, 161, 210 Yueh, Simon ...... 70, 72, 81, 88, 115 Zhang, Guifu ...... 231 Yu, Fei ...... 192 Zhang, Guoping ...... 190 Yu, Fujiang ...... 63 Zhang, Hao ...... 161, 212 Yu, Genong ...... 57, 113, 121, 218, 220, 225 Zhang, Hong ...... 159, 188, 204, 206 Yu, Guoxia ...... 98 Zhang, Hua ...... 191 Yu, Hongtao ...... 119 Zhang, Jiahua ...... 187 Yuksel, Seniha ...... 71 Zhang, Jian ...... 159 Yu, Miao ...... 63, 113, 223 Zhang, Jianming ...... 107 Yunck, Thomas ...... 57 Zhang, Jie ...... 140, 191, 193 Yurchak, Boris ...... 230 Zhang, Jing ...... 98, 104 Yurtsever, Ulvi ...... 71 Zhang, Jingfa ...... 108, 153, 159, 210 Yu, Ssu-Hsin ...... 153 Zhang, Jinye ...... 147 Yu, Tao ...... 122, 199, 213 Zhang, Junhua ...... 158 Yu, Tony ...... 138 Zhang, Junping ...... 98, 102, 173, 229 Yu, Wenxian ...... 59, 60 Zhang, Keqi ...... 139 Yu, Xiaomin ...... 192 Zhang, Lamei ...... 156 Yves, Barbin ...... 60 Zhang, Lei ...... 159 Zhang, Li ...... 193, 194 Z Zhang, Liangpei ...... 147, 149 Zhang, Lijun ...... 77, 193 Zabolotskikh, Elizaveta ...... 125 Zhang, Lixin ...... 52, 105, 143, 152, 201, 232 Zaccheo, T. Scott ...... 103, 184 Zhang, Minghua ...... 58 Zahn, Xiwu ...... 57 Zhang, Ou ...... 157 Zak, Bernard ...... 125 Zhang, Ping ...... 156, 179 Zamalieva, Daniya ...... 134 Zhang, Qiaoping ...... 225 Zanin, Michele ...... 102 Zhang, Qingling ...... 69, 93, 142, 235 Zaugg, Evan C...... 209 Zhang, Qingyuan ...... 143 Zavagli, Massimo ...... 67 Zhang, Renhua ...... 133, 145, 146 289 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Zhang, Renhuang ...... 123 Zhao, Qiang ...... 195 Zhang, Shengwei ...... 104, 105 Zhao, Qifeng ...... 113 Zhang, Shenwei ...... 229 Zhao, Qing ...... 207 Zhang, Shufang ...... 60 Zhao, Shaojie ...... 105, 232 Zhang, Shu-Hui ...... 58 Zhao, Tianjie ...... 201 Zhang, Songmei ...... 191 Zhao, Wenhui ...... 161 Zhang, Tianyu ...... 63 Zhao, Wenji ...... 95, 97, 111, 191, 193 Zhang, Wanchang ...... 199 Zhao, Xiaohui ...... 218 Zhang, Wan-Chang ...89, 94, 95, 96, 146, 152, Zhao, Yanli ...... 206 202 Zhao, Yuanyuan ...... 163, 183, 194 Zhang, Weifeng ...... 128 Zhao, Zhongjun ...... 193 Zhang, Weiguang ...... 113, 157 Zheng, Quanan ...... 61 Zhang, Weijie ...... 72 Zheng, Tao ...... 75 Zhang, Weiwei ...... 193 Zheng, Yang ...... 225 Zhang, Wen ...... 118 Zheng, Yi ...... 191 Zhang, Wenjie ...... 173 Zheng, Yue ...... 143 Zhang, Wenyu ...... 151 Zheng, Yunhui ...... 138 Zhang, Xiaodong ...... 142 Zheng, Zhenfan ...... 105 Zhang, Xiaoling ...... 87, 129 Zhixin, Zhou ...... 155 Zhang, Xiaoyu ...... 133, 144 Zhong, Liang ...... 206 Zhang, Xin ...... 111 Zhong, Qiuhai ...... 96 Zhang, Xin-Shi ...... 58, 191 Zhong, Ruofei ...... 103, 113, 204 Zhang, Xiuying ...... 157 Zhong, Taiyang ...... 157 Zhang, Xuehong ...... 143 Zhong, Xiaofeng ...... 209 Zhang, Xuqing ...... 109 Zhou, Chunping ...... 102 Zhang, Ye ...... 98, 173, 209 Zhou, Chunyan ...... 149 Zhang, Yifan ...... 217 Zhou, Dan ...... 82 Zhang, Yimin ...... 65 Zhou, Guangyi ...... 72 Zhang, Ying ...... 148 Zhou, Guoqing ...... 160, 182, 234 Zhang, Yongsheng ...... 156 Zhou, Huan ...... 199 Zhang, Youquan ...... 108, 199 Zhou, Ji ...... 141, 160 Zhang, Yuan ...... 206 Zhou, Jianmin ...... 202 Zhang, Yuanzhi ...... 197 Zhou, Jing ...... 178, 197 Zhang, Yun ...... 96, 150 Zhou, Junchuan ...... 129 Zhang, Yunhua ...... 205 Zhou, Lihua ...... 188 Zhang, Zexun ...... 108 Zhou, Mi ...... 131 Zhang, Zhaonan ...... 105 Zhou, Shuang ...... 229 Zhang, Zhongjun ...... 105, 143 Zhou, Weiqi ...... 189 Zhang, Zili ...... 153 Zhou, Wensheng ...... 47, 62, 93, 112, 151, 159, Zhang, Zuyin ...... 104 196 Zhan, He ...... 160 Zhou, Xiao ...... 112 Zhan, Jinyan ...... 146, 190, 191, 193 Zhou, Xiaoluo ...... 100 Zhan, Xiwu ...... 84 Zhou, Yi ...... 195, 198 Zhao, Changsen ...... 133 Zhou, Yinqing ...... 84, 156 Zhao, Chuanyan ...... 139 Zhou, Yong-Sheng ...... 81 Zhao, Dengzhong ...... 152 Zhou, Yuan ...... 193 Zhao, Feng ...... 69, 93, 229, 235 Zhou, Zhengguang ...... 123, 156 Zhao, Fujun ...... 159, 162 Zhou, Zhixin ...... 157, 171 Zhao, Haibo ...... 147 Zhuang, Long ...... 209 Zhao, Huijie ...... 141 Zhu, Changming ...... 102 Zhao, Peisheng ...... 220 Zhu, Daiyin ...... 210 Zhao, Peng ...... 151 Zhu, Di ...... 224 290 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium — IGARSS 2008 in Boston

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Zhu, Guobin ...... 157 Ziemer, Friedwart ...... 166 Zhu, Jinxia ...... 211 Zigterman, Wolter ...... 109 Zhu, Jubo ...... 156 Zimmermann, Niklaus ...... 75 Zhu, Lin .....57, 95, 111, 176, 196, 211, 215, 231 Zimmerman, Richard ...... 68 Zhu, Ling ...... 103 Zine, Sonia ...... 105 Zhu, Qi ...... 49 Zink, Michael ...... 220, 226 Zhu, Qian-Wei ...... 198 Zirzow, Jeffrey ...... 125 Zhu, Shengqi ...... 123, 156 Zobrist, Albert ...... 50 Zhu, Wei ...... 98 Zou, Bin ...... 97, 156, 185 Zhu, Weigang ...... 156 Zoubir, Abdelhak ...... 51 Zhu, Wenquan ...... 118, 139 Zou, Xiuping ...... 158 Zhu, Xianlong ...... 112, 189 Zriakhov, Mikhail ...... 122 Zhu, Xiaoxiang ...... 232 Zribi, Mehrez ...... 78, 105 Zhu, Xiufang ...... 139 Zrnic, Dusan ...... 231 Zhu, Yaoting ...... 104 Zuo, Yu ...... 156 Zhu, Zhongmin ...... 149 Zuzek, John ...... 70 Zidane, Shems-eddine ...... 141 Zwally, Peter ...... 114

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