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2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2010) Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 25 - 30 July 2010 Pages 1 - 804 IEEE Catalog Number: CFP10IGA-PRT ISBN: 978-1-4244-9565-8 1 / 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS MO3-L01: APPLICATIONS: COASTAL AND WETLANDS I MO3-L01.2: MAPPING DETAILED SEAGRASS HABITATS USING SATELLITE IMAGERY ........................................ 1 Ruiliang Pu, Susan Bell, University of South Florida, United States; Kelli Levy, Pinellas County Department of Environment Management, United States; Cynthia Meyer, University of South Florida, United States MO3-L01.3: LONG TERM MONITORING OF SEAGRASS DISTRIBUTION IN MORETON .......................................... 5 BAY, AUSTRALIA, FROM 1972-2010 USING LANDSAT MSS, TM, ETM+ Mitchell Lyons, Stuart Phinn, Chris Roelfsema, University of Queensland, Australia MO3-L01.4: IMPROVED HYPOXIA MODELING FOR NUTRIENT CONTROL DECISIONS ......................................... 9 IN THE GULF OF MEXICO Shahid Habib, Kenneth Pickering, Maria Tzortziou, Antonio Mannino, Frirz Policelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States Virgin Islands; Jeff Stehr, University of Maryland, United States MO3-L01.5: EFFECT OF SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL RESOLUTION OF IMAGES ON ................................................. 13 INTERPRETING INTERTIDAL ESTUARINE SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS Haijun Huang, Yanxia Liu, Bo Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China MO3-L02: HIGH RESOLUTION INTERFEROMETRY AND TOMOGRAPHIC SAR IMAGING I MO3-L02.2: COMPRESSIVE SENSING FOR HIGH RESOLUTION DIFFERENTIAL SAR ........................................... 17 TOMOGRAPHY - THE SL1MMER ALGORITHM Zhu Xiao Xiang, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany; Richard Bamler, Technical university of Munich (TUM) & German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany MO3-L02.3: FIRST EXPERIMENTS OF SECTOR INTERPOLATED SAR TOMOGRAPHY .......................................... 21 Fabrizio Lombardini, Matteo Pardini, University of Pisa, Italy MO3-L02.4: NEW TRENDS IN SAR TOMOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................. 25 Fabio Baselice, Alessandra Budillon, Giampaolo Ferraioli, Vito Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Annarita Evangelista, Università di Cassino, Italy MO3-L03: IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN SAR, POLSAR, AND INSAR I MO3-L03.1: A REVIEW OF IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN LOW-FREQUENCY SAR – .................................................. 29 SIGNALS, CORRECTION METHODS, AND PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS Franz Meyer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States MO3-L04: DATA MINING AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR REMOTE SENSING I MO3-L04.1: IMAGE INFORMATION MINING METHODS FOR EXPLORING AND ..................................................... 33 UNDERSTANDING HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES Mihai Datcu, Gottfried Schwarz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany MO3-L04.2: PROGRESSIVE SPATIAL CLUSTERING OF CONTENT-BASED SATELLITE ........................................ 36 IMAGERY RETRIEVAL RESULTS Matt Klaric, Grant Scott, Chi-Ren Shyu, University of Missouri-Columbia, United States MO3-L04.3: COMPARISON OF CBF, ANN AND SVM CLASSIFIERS FOR OBJECT BASED ....................................... 40 CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES Krishna Mohan Buddhiraju, Imdad Ali Rizvi, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India xv MO3-L04.4: AUTOMATED DETECTION OF FOREST COVER CHANGES ...................................................................... 44 Shyam Boriah, Varun Mithal, Ashish Garg, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, United States; Chris Potter, Steve Klooster, NASA, United States; Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Planetary Skin Institute/Cisco, United Kingdom MO3-L04.5: GEOSPATIAL IMAGE MINING FOR NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION DETECTION: ............................... 48 CHALLENGES AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES Raju Vatsavai, Budhendra Bhaduri, Anil Cheriyadat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; Lloyd Arrowood, Y-12 National Security Complex, United States; Eddie Bright, Shaun Gleason, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; Carl Diegert, Sandia National Laboratories, United States; Aggelos Katsaggelos, Thrasos Pappas, Argonne National Laboratory, United States; Reid Porter, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States; Jim Bollinger, Savannah River National Laboratory, United States; Barry Chen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States; Ryan Hohimer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States MO3-L05: FOREST BIOMASS I MO3-L05.1: THE BIOMASS MISSION – AN ESA EARTH EXPLORER CANDIDATE TO ............................................. 52 MEASURE THE BIOMASS OF THE EARTH’S FORESTS Klaus Scipal, Marco Arcioni, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Jerome Chave, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Jørgen Dall, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Franco Fois, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Thuy Le Toan, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Chung-Chi Lin, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Shaun Quegan, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Hank Shugart, University of Virginia, United States; Lars M. H. Ulander, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden; Mathew Williams, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom MO3-L05.3: CANOPY HEIGHT, CROWN COVER, AND ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS MAPS ..................................... 56 FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES FROM MISR, 2000 AND 2009 Mark Chopping, Sawahiko Shimada, Montclair State University, United States; Michael Bull, John Martonchik, NASA, United States MO3-L05.4: TOPOGRAPHY EFFECTS ON FOREST RADAR SCATTERING, ................................................................. 60 CONSEQUENCES ON BIOMASS RETRIEVAL Ludovic Villard, CESBIO, France; Pierre Borderies, ONERA, France; Thuy Le Toan, Thierry Koleck, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Clément Albinet, ONERA, France MO3-L05.5: FOREST MAPPING USING 3D DATA FROM SPOT-5 HRS AND Z/I DMC.................................................. 64 Jörgen Wallerman, Johan E. S. Fransson, Jonas Bohlin, Heather Reese, Håkan Olsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden MO3-L06: HYPERSPECTRAL DATA CLASSIFICATION MO3-L06.1: DATA DEPENDANT ADAPTATION FOR IMPROVED CLASSIFICATION OF ......................................... 68 HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Saurabh Prasad, Hemanth Kalluri, Lori Bruce, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Mississippi State University, United States MO3-L06.3: FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SELECTION HYBRID ALGORITHM FOR .............................................. 72 HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY CLASSIFICATION Sen Jia, Shenzhen University, China; Yuntao Qian, Jiming Li, Zhejiang University, China; Weixiang Liu, Zhen Ji, Shenzhen University, China MO3-L06.4: CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES WITH EXTENDED .................................................. 76 ATTRIBUTE PROFILES AND FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES Mauro Dalla Mura, University of Trento, Italy; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland; Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy xvi MO3-L06.5: NEW HYPERSPECTRAL DATA REPRESENTATION USING BINARY PARTITION .............................. 80 TREE Silvia Valero, Philippe Salembier, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain; Jocelyn Chanussot, GIPSA-Lab, Département des Images et des Signaux, France MO3-L07: EDUCATION AND REMOTE SENSING MO3-L07.1: THE CLOUDSAT EDUCATION NETWORK: SCIENTIFICALLY SIGNIFICANT .................................... 84 COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH BETWEEN STUDENTS AND SCIENTISTS Matt Rogers, Colorado State University, United States; Deborah Vane, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States MO3-L07.2: LIDAR EDUCATION AT GEORGIA TECH ........................................................................................................ 87 Gary Gimmestad, Leanne West, Georgia Tech Research Institute, United States MO3-L07.3: ESA EARTH OBSERVATION EDUCATIONAL TOOLS CONTRIBUTION TO THE ................................ 90 CREATION OF AWARENESS FOR WORLD HERITAGE SITE CONSERVATION Francesco Sarti, European Space Agency, Italy; Mario Hernandez, UNESCO, France; Jean-Charles Bigot, Steffen Dransfeld, Ana B. Ruescas, European Space Agency, France MO3-L07.4: IMPROVING K-12 CLIMATE SCIENCE EDUCATION THROUGH ............................................................ 94 COLLABORATIONS WITH SCIENTISTS Dana Atwood-Blaine, Ryan Bowman, University of Kansas, United States MO3-L07.5: ENHANCING REMOTE SENSING EDUCATION WITH GEOBRAIN .......................................................... 98 CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE Liping Di, Meixia Deng, George Mason University, United States MO3-L08: TRMM AND GPM PRECIPITATION MISSIONS I MO3-L08.3: A RADAR PROFILING ALGORITHM DESIGNED FOR USE WITH ......................................................... 102 MULTIRESOLUTION RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS Joe Munchak, Christian Kummerow, Colorado State University, United States MO3-L08.4: APPLICABILITY OF THE ITERATIVE BACKWARD RETRIEVAL METHOD FOR ............................ 106 THE GPM DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADAR Shinta Seto, University of Tokyo, Japan; Toshio Iguchi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan MO3-L09: NEW CONCEPTS IN SAR MO3-L09.1: POLARIMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC APPLICATIONS IN A BISTATIC ................................... 110 HYBRID SAR MODE USING TERRASAR-X Holger Nies, Florian Behner,
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