2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2012) Munich, Germany 22 – 27 July 2012 Pages 1-697 IEEE Catalog Number: CFP12IGA-PRT ISBN: 978-1-4673-1160-1 1/11 TABLE OF CONTENTS MO3-10: NASA SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE MISSION APPROACH TO PRE-FLIGHT TESTING OF RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS MO3-10.1: ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACTS OF RADIO FREQUENCY ............................................................................ 1 INTERFERENCE ON SMAP RADAR AND RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS Curtis Chen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Jeffrey Piepmeier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Joel T. Johnson, The Ohio State University, United States; Hirad Ghaemi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States MO3-10.3: AN AIRBORNE SIMULATION OF THE SMAP DATA STREAM ........................................................................ 5 Jeffrey P. Walker, Monash University, Australia; Peggy O’Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Xiaoling Wu, Ying Gao, Alessandra Monerris-Belda, Monash University, Australia; Rocco Panciera, University of Melbourne, Australia; Thomas Jackson, USDA, United States; Douglas Gray, University of Adelaide, Australia; Dongryeol Ryu, The University of Melbourne, Australia MO4-10: SOIL MOISTURE: AQUARIUS AND SMAP MO4-10.2: AN OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT (OSSE) FOR THE ................................................. 8 AQUARIUS/SAC-D SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT: AN INVESTIGATION OF FORWARD/ RETRIEVAL MODEL ASYMMETRIES Pablo Perna, Cintia Bruscantini, Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, Argentina; Paolo Ferrazzoli, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Ingegneria – DISP, Italy; Francisco Grings, Haydee Karszenbaum, Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, Argentina; Wade Crow, USDA, United States MO4-10.3: TOPOGRAPHIC SIGNATURES IN AQUARIUS .................................................................................................. 12 RADIOMETER/SCATTEROMETER RESPONSE: INITIAL RESULTS Cuneyt Utku, Universities Space Research Association / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; David Le Vine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States MO4-10.4: AN INTEGRATED ACTIVE-PASSIVE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL ........................................................ 16 ALGORITHM FOR SMAP FOR BARE SURFACES Ruzbeh Akbar, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Southern California, United States MO4-10.5: NUMERICAL COMPUTATION OF THE L-BAND EMISSION AND ............................................................... 20 SCATTERING OF SOIL LAYERS WITH CONSIDERATION OF MOISTURE AND TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS. François Demontoux, University Bordeaux 1 - IMS Laboratory, France; Heather Lawrence, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) - Unité EPHYSE, France; Valery Mironov, Liudmila Kosolapova, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation; Philippe Paillou, University of Bordeaux 1 – Laboratory LAB, France; Yann H. Kerr, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France MO3-6: EOS AQUA CONTRIBUTIONS TO EARTH SCIENCE: THE FIRST 10 YEARS I MO3-6.1: AQUA’S FIRST 10 YEARS: AN OVERVIEW........................................................................................................... 24 Claire Parkinson, NASA, United States MO4-6: EOS AQUA CONTRIBUTIONS TO EARTH SCIENCE: THE FIRST 10 YEARS II MO4-6.2: TRENDS IN TROPICAL CIRCULATION OVER PACIFIC IN THE LAST ....................................................... 28 DECADE. Alexander Ruzmaikin, Hartmut H. Aumann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States MO3-14: DYNAMICS OF EARTH PROCESSES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: BIOSPHERE I MO3-14.3: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF VEGETATION STATUS IN ............................................... 32 PARAÍBA, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL Anne Schucknecht, Jörg Matschullat, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany; Stefan Erasmi, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany MO3-14.4: IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS OF MULTISPECTRAL DATA FOR AN ............................................... 36 ASSESSMENT OF FLORISTIC VARIATION Hannes Feilhauer, University of Erlangen, Germany; Frank Thonfeld, Ulrike Faude, University of Bonn, Germany; Kate He, Murray State University, United States; Duccio Rocchini, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy; Sebastian Schmidtlein, University of Bonn, Germany MO3-14.5: THE VEGETATION PHENOLOGY DETECTION IN AMAZON TROPICAL ................................................ 40 EVERGREEN FORESTS USING SPOT-VEGETATION 11-Y TIME SERIES Inès Moreau, Pierre Defourny, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium MO4-14: DYNAMICS OF EARTH PROCESSES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: BIOSPHERE II MO4-14.3: NEW GLOBAL LAND COVER MAPPING EXERCISE IN THE FRAMEWORK .......................................... 44 OF THE ESA CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE Sophie Bontemps, Pierre Defourny, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; Carsten Brockmann, Brockmann Consult GmbH, Germany; Martin Herold, Wageningen University, Netherlands; Vasileios Kalogirou, Olivier Arino, European Space Agency, Italy MO3-4: INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY MO3-4.1: A FEATURE FUSION METHOD FOR ROAD LINE EXTRACTION FROM .................................................... 52 REMOTE SENSING IMAGE Zhijian Huang, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology; Institute of Software, CAS, China; Jinfang Zhang, Institute of Software, CAS, China; Luxiao Wang, Communication Equipment Repair Department of 92854 Troop, Chinese Navy, China; Fangjiang Xu, Institute of Software, CAS, China MO3-4.2: FEATURE PRESERVING METHOD FOR CREATING VISUAL APPEARANCE ........................................... 56 MODELS AND VIRTUAL VIEWS FROM COLLECTIVE IMAGES Michele Zanin, Claudio Andreatta, Paul Chippendale, Mauro Dalla Mura, Fabio Remondino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy MO3-4.3: A NOVEL SUPERVISED FEATURE SELECTION TECHNIQUE BASED ON ................................................. 60 GENETIC ALGORITHMS Mattia Pedergnana, University of Trento, University of Iceland, Italy; Prashanth Reddy Marpu, University of Iceland, Iceland; Mauro Dalla Mura, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland; Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy MO3-4.4: BUILDING EXTRACTION FROM LIDAR AND AERIAL IMAGES AND ITS ................................................. 64 ACCURACY EVALUATION Jinfei Wang, Chuiqing Zeng, Brad Lehrbass, University of Western Ontario, Canada MO3-4.5: SUPERVISED RE-SEGMENTATION FOR VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION ......................................................... 68 SATELLITE IMAGES Julien Michel, Manuel Grizonnet, Centre National d’Études Spatiales, France; Olivier Canévet, Télécom Bretagne, France MO4-4: ADVANCES IN HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL TECHNIQUES MO4-4.1: ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION OVER BI-REFLECTANCE TARGET FOR ......................................................... 72 AIRBORNE AND SPACEBORNE CAMERAS Françoise Viallefont-Robinet, Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiale, France; Colin Thomas, THALES, France; Stéphanie Doz, CEAT, France; Joël Duffaut, Yannick Boucher, Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiale, France MO4-4.2: PUTTING THE USER INTO THE ACTIVE LEARNING LOOP: TOWARDS ................................................... 75 REALISTIC BUT EFFICIENT PHOTOINTERPRETATION Devis Tuia, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland; Jordi Munoz-Mari, Universidad de Valencia, Spain MO4-4.3: IMPORTANCE-WEIGHTED MULTI-SCALE TEXTURE AND SHAPE ............................................................ 79 DESCRIPTOR FOR OBJECT RECOGNITION IN SATELLITE IMAGERY Grant Scott, University of Missouri, United States; Derek Anderson, Mississippi State University, United States MO4-4.4: URBAN AREA DETECTION USING MULTIPLE KERNEL LEARNING AND ............................................... 83 GRAPH CUT Chao Tao, Yihua Tan, Jin-gan Yu, Jin-Wen Tian, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China MO4-4.5: ADAPTIVE SPATIAL SAMPLING WITH ACTIVE RANDOM FOREST FOR ................................................ 87 OBJECT-ORIENTED LANDSLIDE MAPPING Andre Stumpf, Université de Strasbourg, University of Twente, France; Nicolas Lachiche, Université de Strasbourg, France; Norman Kerle, University of Twente, Netherlands; Jean-Philippe Malet, Anne Puissant, Université de Strasbourg, France MO3-2: RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN POLSAR IMAGING IN HONOR OF PROF. BOERNER’S 75TH BIRTHDAY I MO3-2.1: SCATTERING POWER DECOMPOSITION USING FULLY POLARIMETRIC ............................................. 91 INFORMATION Yoshio Yamaguchi, Gulab Singh, Sang-Eun Park, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Niigata University, Japan MO3-2.2: IMPROVEMENT OF ADAPTIVE-MODEL BASED DECOMPOSITION WITH .............................................. 95 POLARIZATION ORIENTATION COMPENSATION Motofumi Arii, Mitsubishi Space Software Co., Ltd., Japan; Jakob van Zyl, Yunjin Kim, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States MO3-2.3: GENERAL POLARIMETRIC MODEL-BASED DECOMPOSITION FOR ........................................................ 99 COHERENCY MATRIX Si-Wei Chen, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan MO4-2: RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN POLSAR IMAGING IN HONOR OF PROF. BOERNER’S 75TH BIRTHDAY II MO4-2.1: PROSPECTS FOR OPERATIONAL USE OF AIRBORNE POLARIMETRIC SAR ....................................... 103 FOR DISASTER RESPONSE AND MANAGEMENT Scott Hensley, Cathleen Jones, Yunling Lou, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States MO4-2.2: ON THE USE OF