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CFP11IGA-PRT 978-1-4577-1003-2

2011 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2011)

Vancouver, BC, Canada 24-29 July 2011

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

MO3-T01: MICROWAVE SCATTERING AND EMISSION MODELS AND APPLICATIONS, IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR ADRIAN K. FUNG

MO3-T01.2: APPLICATIONS OF THE INTEGRAL EQUATION MODEL IN MICROWAVE .......................................... 1REMOTE SENSING OF LAND SURFACE PARAMETERSJiancheng Shi, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of California Santa Barbara, United States; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan

MO3-T01.3: A STUDY OF DENSE MEDIUM SCATTERING AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN ............................................ 5SEA ICE RESEARCH IN ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTICAYu Jen Lee, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia; Wee Keong Lim, Multimedia University, Malaysia; Hong Tat Ewe, Hean Teik Chuah, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia

MO3-T02: ADVANCED METHODS FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR INFORMATION EXTRACTION I

MO3-T02.1: RECENT ADVANCES IN SCATTERING MODEL-BASED ............................................................................... 9DECOMPOSITIONS: AN OVERVIEWJong-Sen Lee, Thomas Ainsworth, Yanting Wang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

MO3-T02.3: CHARACTERIZATION OF SINGULAR STRUCTURES IN POLARIMETRIC .......................................... 13SAR IMAGES BY WAVELET FRAMESGianfranco De Grandi, Commission of European Communities, Italy; Pete Bunting, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom; Alexandre Bouvet, Commission of European Communities, Italy; Thomas Ainsworth, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

MO3-T02.5: ON THE USE OF POLARIMETRIC ORIENTATION FOR POLSAR ............................................................ 17CLASSIFICATION AND DECOMPOSITIONHiroshi Kimura, Gifu University, Japan

MO3-T03: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE VALIDATION

MO3-T03.2: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE VALIDATION WITH U.S. IN SITU NETWORKS ................................................. 21Thomas Jackson, USDA ARS, United States; Rajat Bindlish, SSAI, United States; Michael Cosh, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, United States; Tianjie Zhao, USDA ARS, United States

MO3-T03.4: ESTIMATING SMOS ERROR STRUCTURE USING TRIPLE ....................................................................... 24COLLOCATIONDelphine Leroux, Yann H. Kerr, Philippe Richaume, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Béatrice Berthelot, VEGA Technologies, France

MO3-T04: US JOINT POLAR SATELLITE SYSTEM I

MO3-T04.2: EXPERIMENTS OF SATELLITE DATA SIMULATION BASED ON THE .................................................. 28COMMUNITY LAND MODEL AND SCE-UA ALGORITHMShenglei Zhang, Jiancheng Shi, Youjun Dou, Xiaojun Yin, Liying Li, Chenzhou Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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MO3-T04.3: NPP ATMS PRELAUNCH PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT AND SENSOR ............................................... 32DATA RECORD VALIDATIONWilliam J. Blackwell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, United States; Lynn Chidester, Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University Research Foundation, United States; Edward J. Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; R. Vincent Leslie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, United States; Joseph Lyu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Tsan Mo, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Satellite Applications and Research, United States

MO3-T04.5: PRE-LAUNCH CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CLOUDS AND THE EARTH’S ...................................... 35RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) FLIGHT MODEL 5 (FM5) INSTRUMENT ON NPPSusan Thomas, SSAI, United States; Kory Priestley, NASA, United States; Mohan Shankar, Nathaniel Smith, Mark Timcoe, SSAI, United States

MO3-T05: LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE I

MO3-T05.3: A FRAMEWORK FOR THE SIMULATION OF HIGH TEMPORAL ............................................................ 39RESOLUTION IMAGE SERIESJordi Inglada, Olivier Hagolle, Gérard Dedieu, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/ Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France

MO3-T05.4: SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE BASED DECISION TREE FOR VERY ...................................................... 43HIGH RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL FOREST MAPPINGPetra Krahwinkler, Juergen Rossmann, Bjoern Sondermann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

MO3-T05.5: MULTI-SPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING ........................................................ 47GLOWWORM SWARM OPTIMIZATIONSenthilnath J, Omkar S.N., Mani V, Indian Institute of Science, India; Tejovanth N, National Institute of Technology, India; Diwakar P. G., ISRO, India; Archana Shenoy B, National Institute of Technology, India

MO3-T06: SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING: SYSTEMS

MO3-T06.1: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE FREQUENCY-DOMAIN DORT ............................................... 51IMAGING METHOD WITH UWB RADAR FOR A FINITE-SIZED TARGETTakuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato, Kyoto University, Japan

MO3-T06.2: WIDE BAND STEPPED-FREQUENCY GROUND PENETRATING RADAR ................................................ 55Takashi Kido, Yuya Yokota, Tohoku University, Japan; Fumika Kawahara, Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Japan; Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

MO3-T06.3: CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE FOR BROADBAND ELECTROMAGNETIC ............................................... 59INDUCTION SENSORSWaymond Scott, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

MO3-T06.4: LANDMINE DETECTION USING AN ENSEMBLE OF CONTINUOUS ....................................................... 63HMMS WITH MULTIPLE FEATURESAnis Hamdi, Hichem Frigui, University of Louisville, United States

MO3-T06.5: A RECONFIGURABLE STEPPED FREQUENCY GPR (GPR-R) .................................................................... 67Filippo Parrini, University of Firenze, Italy; Raffaele Persico, Istituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali (IBAM-CNR), Italy; Massimiliano Pieraccini, Alessandro Spinetti, Giovanni Macaluso, Matteo Fratini, Devis Dei, University of Firenze, Italy; Guido Manacorda, IDS - Ingegneria dei Sistemi SpA, Italy

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MO3-T07: SUPERRESOLUTION AND SUB-PIXEL CLASSIFICATION

MO3-T07.1: UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION AND SPECTRAL UNMIXING FOR .................................................. 71SUB-PIXEL LABELLINGAlberto Villa, Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland; Christian Jutten, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France

MO3-T07.3: L1 NETWORK INVERSION FOR ROBUST OUTLIER REJECTION IN ...................................................... 75PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRYFernando Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Akanksha Bhutani, Nico Adam, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

MO3-T07.4: LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE BASED SUPER-RESOLUTION MAPPING FROM ........................................ 79REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERYHaobo Lin, Hebei University, China; Yanchen Bo, Jindi Wang, Beijing Normal University, China; Xiuping Jia, University College, the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia

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

MO3-T08.2: ARCHAEOLOGICAL LAND USE CHARACTERIZATION USING .............................................................. 86MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATAIvan E. Villalon-Turrubiates, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico; Maria J. Llovera-Torres, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico

MO3-T08.3: MONITORING HYDROLOGICAL VARIATIONS USING MULTISPECTRAL .......................................... 90SPOT-5 DATA: REGIONAL CASE OF JALISCO IN MEXICOIvan E. Villalon-Turrubiates, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico

MO3-T09: CHANGE DETECTION AND MULTITEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS I

MO3-T09.1: AN AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS APPROACH TO DETECTING LAND ........................................... 94COVER CHANGE USING HYPER-TEMPORAL TIME-SERIES DATAWaldo Kleynhans, Brian Salmon, Jan C. Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Konrad Wessels, Frans van den Bergh, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

MO3-T09.2: HYPERSPECTRAL CHANGE DETECTION USING IR-MAD AND FEATURE .......................................... 98REDUCTIONPrashanth Reddy Marpu, University of Iceland, Iceland; Paolo Gamba, University of Pavia, Italy; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland

MO3-T09.3: MULTITEMPORAL REGION-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF .................................................................... 102HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES BY MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS AND MULTISCALE SEGMENTATIONGabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy

MO3-T09.4: UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN THE FEATURE SPACE USING ......................................... 106KERNELSMichele Volpi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Devis Tuia, Gustavo Camps-Valls, University of Valencia, Spain; Mikhail Kanevski, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

MO3-T09.5: RECENT ADVANCES IN OBJECT-BASED CHANGE DETECTION ........................................................... 110Clemens Listner, Irmgard Niemeyer, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

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

MO3-T10.1: ESTIMATION OF THE DIFFUSE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT ........................................................... 114KD(LAMBDA) WITH A NEURAL NETWORK INVERSIONCedric Jamet, Hubert Loisel, David Dessailly, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, France

MO4-T01: SURFACE SCATTERING AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER

MO4-T01.4: CONICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES DIFFRACTION FROM SASTRUGI ..................................... 122TYPE SURFACES OF LAYERED SNOW DUNES ON GREENLAND ICE SHEETS IN PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSINGWenmo Chang, Leung Tsang, University of Washington Seattle, United States

MO4-T02: ADVANCED METHODS FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR INFORMATION EXTRACTION II

MO4-T02.2: MAPPING DYNAMIC WETLAND PROCESSES WITH A ONE YEAR ...................................................... 126RADARSAT-2 QUAD POL TIME-SERIESCecile Marechal, Eric Pottier, Sophie Allain, Stephane Meric, IETR CNRS 6164 - University of Rennes 1, France; Laurence Hubert-Moy, Samuel Corgne, COSTEL UMR 6554 - University of Haute Bretagne, France

MO4-T02.3: POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING FEATURE ESTIMATION FOR ACCURATE ....................................... 130WETLAND BOUNDARY CLASSIFICATIONRyoichi Sato, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Niigata University, Japan

MO4-T02.4: FOREST MAPPING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA ................................... 134IN SOUTHWEST CHINAYun Shao, Fengli Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Maosong Xu, Academy of Forestry Inventory, Planning and Designing, State Forestry Administration (SFA), China; Zhongsheng Xia, Forest Resource Management and Conservation Station, China; Chou Xie, Kun Li, Zi Wan, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Ridha Touzi, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada

MO4-T02.5: CONTRIBUTION OF THE POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION IN ORDER .............................................. 138TO DISCRIMINATE TARGET FROM INTERFERENCE SUBSPACES. APPLICATION TO FOPEN DETECTION WITH SAR PROCESSING.Frédéric Brigui, University of Toulouse, France; Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre, SONDRA, France; Guillaume Ginolhac, Philippe Forster, SATIE, France

MO4-T03: SOIL MOISTURE FROM MICROWAVE TIME SERIES

MO4-T03.1: ON THE USE OF MULTI-TEMPORAL SERIES OF COSMO-SKYMED .................................................... 142DATA FOR LANDCOVER CLASSIFICATION AND SURFACE PARAMETER RETRIEVAL OVER AGRICULTURAL SITESAnna Balenzano, Giuseppe Satalino, Antonella Belmonte, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l’Automazione (ISSIA), Italy; Guido D’Urso, Fulvio Capodici, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Agraria e Agronomia del Territorio - Università Federico II (UniNa), Italy; Vito Iacobellis, Andrea Gioia, Politecnico di Bari (PoliBa) – Dipartimento di Ingegneria delle Acque e di Chimica, Italy; Michele Rinaldi, Sergio Ruggieri, Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Unità di Ricerca sui Sistemi Colturali per Ambienti caldo-aridi (CRA-SCA), Italy; Francesco Mattia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l’Automazione (ISSIA), Italy

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MO4-T03.4: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL OVER LOW-VEGETATION SURFACES ............................................... 146USING TIME-SERIES RADAR OBSERVATIONS AND A LOOKUP TABLE REPRESENTATION OF FORWARD SCATTERINGSeung-Bum Kim, California Institute of Technology /Jet Propulsion Lab, United States; Shaowu Huang, Leung Tsang, University of Washington, United States; Joel Johnson, The Ohio State University, United States; Eni Njoku, California Institute of Technology /Jet Propulsion Lab, United States

MO4-T03.5: MEASUREMENT OF A TEMPORAL SEQUENCE OF DINSAR PHASE .................................................... 150CHANGES DUE TO SOIL MOISTURE VARIATIONSKeith Morrison, Cranfield University, United Kingdom; John Bennett, Sheffield University, United Kingdom; Matt Nolan, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States; Raghav Menon, Cranfield University, United Kingdom

MO4-T04: US JOINT POLAR SATELLITE SYSTEM II

MO4-T04.4: PRE-LAUNCH EVALUATION OF THE NPP VIIRS LAND AND ................................................................. 154CRYOSPHERE EDRS TO MEET NASA’S SCIENCE REQUIREMENTSMiguel Román, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Christopher Justice, University of Maryland, United States; Ivan Csiszar, NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States; Jeffrey R. Key, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, United States; Sadashiva Devadiga, Carol Davidson, Sigma Space Corp. / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Robert Wolfe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Jeff Privette, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, United States

MO4-T05: LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE II

MO4-T05.1: LAND COVER IDENTIFICATION FOR FINDING HAZELNUT FIELDS .................................................. 158USING WORLDVIEW-2 IMAGERYKadim Tasdemir, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy; Selçuk Reis, Aksaray University, Turkey

MO4-T05.3: RETRAINING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS USING A .......................................................... 166LOW-RANK MODELArnt-Børre Salberg, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

MO4-T05.4: MAPPING SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION ......................................... 170ERRORSMaria João Pereira, Amílcar Soares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

MO4-T05.5: IMPROVING CHANGE VECTOR ANALYSIS IN MULTI-TEMPORAL SPACE ...................................... 174TO DETECT LAND COVER CHANGES BY USING CROSS-CORRELOGRAM SPECTRAL MATCHING ALGORITHMYuanyuan Zhao, Chunyang He, Beijing Normal University, China

MO4-T06: SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING: APPLICATIONS

MO4-T06.1: ROBUST ESTIMATION OF DIELECTRIC CONSTANT BY GPR USING AN .......................................... 178ANTENNA ARRAYHai Liu, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

MO4-T06.2: A NEW METHOD OF THROUGH WALL MOVING TARGET DETECTION ........................................... 182AND IMAGING USING UWB-SP RADARShiyou Wu, Yanyun Xu, Jie Chen, Shengwei Meng, Guangyou Fang, Hejun Yin, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MO4-T06.3: ANTARCTIC ICE SHELF 3D CROSS SECTIONAL PROFILE IMAGING ................................................ 186USING MIMO RADARArvind Hari Narayanan, Paul Brennan, Ralph Benjamin, University College London, United Kingdom; Fabien Gillet-Chaulet, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, France; Keith Nicholls, British Antarctic Survey, United Kingdom

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MO4-T06.4: ESTIMATION OF BIOMASS OF TREE ROOTS BY GPR WITH HIGH ..................................................... 190ACCURACY POSITIONING SYSTEMYuya Yokota, Masayoshi Matsumoto, Ahmed Gaber, Tohoku University, Japan; Mark Grasmueck, University of Miami, United States; Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

MO4-T06.5: INTERFEROMETRY BY MULTIDIMENSIONAL DECONVOLUTION FOR ........................................... 194TIME-LAPSE CONTROLLED SOURCE ELECTROMAGNETICSJuerg Hunziker, Evert Slob, Kees Wapenaar, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

MO4-T07: HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL SENSING I

MO4-T07.1: A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON IMAGING TIME DIFFERENCE AMONG ................................................ 198BANDS OF WORLDVIEW-2 AND ITS POTENTIAL APPLICATIONSJianwei Tao, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MO4-T07.2: UNSUPERVISED URBAN LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING ....................................................... 201WORLDVIEW-2 DATA AND SELF-ORGANIZING MAPSJie Zhang, John Kerekes, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States

MO4-T07.4: QUERY EXPANSION FOR VHR IMAGE DETECTION ................................................................................. 205Huaxin Zheng, Huigang Zhang, Xiao Bai, Huijie Zhao, Beihang University, China

MO4-T07.5: MULTI-SCALE SEGMENTATION IN CHANGE DETECTION FOR URBAN .......................................... 209HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGESJunping Zhang, Chunfang Mu, Hao Chen, Ye Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

MO4-T08: EMERGING TRENDS AND CHALLENGES IN REMOTE SENSING DATA PROCESSING II

MO4-T08.2: AGGREGATION OF PARALLEL COMPUTING AND HARDWARE/SOFTWARE ................................. 217CO-DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONSAlejandro Castillo Atoche, Orlando Palma Marrufo, Luis Ricalde Castellanos, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico

MO4-T08.4: GPU-BASED SPATIALLIY DIVIDED PREDICTIVE PARTITIONED VECTOR ...................................... 221QUANTIZATION FOR GIFTS ULTRASPECTRAL DATA COMPRESSIONShih-Chieh Wei, Tamkang University, Taiwan; Bormin Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

MO4-T09: CHANGE DETECTION AND MULTITEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS II

MO4-T09.1: DETECTION OF LAND-COVER TRANSITIONS IN MULTITEMPORAL ................................................ 225IMAGES WITH ACTIVE-LEARNING BASED COMPOUND CLASSIFICATIONBegüm Demir, Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

MO4-T09.3: A SEMANTIC-BASED MULTILEVEL APPROACH TO CHANGE DETECTION .................................... 229IN VERY HIGH GEOMETRICAL RESOLUTION MULTITEMPORAL IMAGESLorenzo Bruzzone, Francesca Bovolo, University of Trento, Italy

MO4-T09.4: AN ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING APPROACH TO MULTIPLE-CHANGE ............................................. 233DETECTION IN MULTISPECTRAL IMAGESFrancesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

MO4-T09.5: LOCAL PATCHES FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH .............................................................. 237RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGESXing Gong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science, China; Thomas Corpetti, CNRS-LIAMA, France

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MO4-T10: OCEANS II

MO4-T10.1: OBSERVATION OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FEATURES ON THE SEA ....................................... 241SURFACE FROM SAR SATELLITE IMAGERY WITH IN-SITU MEASUREMENTSChris Maingot, Alexander Soloviev, Mikhail Gilman, Silvia Matt, Jenny Fenton, Nova Southeastern University, United States; Susanne Lehner, Domenico Velotto, Stephan Brusch, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; William Perrie, Biao Zhang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada

MO4-T10.2: SHIP DETECTION WITH QUAD POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X DATA: AN ...................................... 245ADAPTIVE NOTCH FILTERArmando Marino, The University of Alicante, Spain; Nick Walker, eOsphere Limited, United Kingdom

MO4-T10.3: MARITIME AWARENESS FOR COUNTER-PIRACY IN THE GULF OF ADEN ...................................... 249Monica Posada, Harm Greidanus, Marlene Alvarez, Michele Vespe, Tulay Cokacar, Silvia Falchetti, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy

MO4-T10.4: INTERNAL WAVES IN THE LOMBOK STRAIT REVEALED BY ALOS .................................................. 253PALSAR IMAGESI Wayan Gede Astawa Karang, Fumihiko Nishio, Chiba University, Japan

MO4-T10.5: ON THE BOUND WAVE SCATTERING IN A WIND-WAVE TANK............................................................ 257Lei Liu, Xiangzhen Yu, Xiaoqing Wang, Jinsong Chong, Wen Hong, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-A: ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING AND DATA ANALYSIS

MOP-A.2: A MULTI-LEVEL RADIATION TRANSFER SOLUTION FOR 3D LANDSCAPE......................................... 261Huaguo Huang, Beijing Forestry University, China

MOP-A.3: INVESTIGATING SPATIAL AGGREGATION TECHNIQUES USING A ...................................................... 265HETEROGENEOUS RADAR LANDSCAPE SIMULATOR FOR REDUCING UNCERTAINTIES OF SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM SMAPMariko Burgin, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States

MOP-A.6: ESTIMATION OF CLEAR-SKY DOWNWARD LONGWAVE RADIATION ................................................ 269FROM SATELLITE DATA IN HEIHE RIVER BASIN OF NORTHWEST CHINAShanshan Yu, Xiaozhou Xin, Qinhuo Liu, Hailong Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-A.7: A COMPARISON OF FOUR-STREAM APPROXIMATIONS FOR THE ....................................................... 273RADIATIVE FLUX CALCULATIONSWeizhen Hou, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences /Shanghai Center for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications / Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiu Yin, Shanghai Center for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, China

MOP-A.9: OVER THE HORIZON SKY WAVE RADAR SIMULATOR FOR IONOSPHERE ....................................... 277AND EARTH SURFACE SOUNDINGFabrizio Cuccoli, CNIT, Italy; Luca Facheris, Francesco Sermi, Dipartimento Ing. Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Italy

MOP-B: ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING OF RANDOM ROUGH SURFACES AND VOLUMES

MOP-B.1: VHF RADAR ECHOES FROM LAYERING SCATTER MEDIA AND ............................................................ 281APPLICATIONS TO LUNAR EXPLORATION AND LANDSLIDES MONITORINGYa-Qiu Jin, Fudan University, China; Feng Xu, Intelligent Automation, Inc, United States

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MOP-B.2: THE INFLUENCE OF PRECIPITATION ON X-BAND POLARIMETRIC SAR: .......................................... 285RESULTS FROM TERRASAR-X AND COSMO-SKYMED AND TERRESTRIAL WEATHER RADARSJason Fritz, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States

MOP-B.3: TWO – DIMENSIONAL MULTI - RESOLUTION TIME - DOMAIN .............................................................. 289FORWARD MODELING OF ELECTROMAGENTIC SCATTERINGShuai Cui, Yu Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xiaojuan Zhang, Guangyou Fang, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-B.4: VALIDATION OF THE LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE DERIVED FROM ........................................... 293HJ-1B/IRS DATA WITH GROUND MEASUREMENTSHua Li, Qinhuo Liu, Jinxiong Jiang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Heshun Wang, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, China; Lin Sun, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

MOP-B.5: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF TEMPORAL NORMALIZATION OF MODIS ............................................. 297LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURESi-Bo Duan, Hua Wu, Ning Wang, Xiao-Ming Zhou, Bo-Hui Tang, Zhao-Liang Li, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-B.7: LAND SURFACE EMISSIVITY RETRIEVAL FROM HJ-1B SATELLITE DATA ........................................ 301USING A COMBINED METHODHua Li, Qinhuo Liu, Jinxiong Jiang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Heshun Wang, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, China; Qing Li, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, China; Lin Sun, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

MOP-B.8: SPLIT-WINDOW METHOD FOR LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE .......................................................... 305ESTIMATION FROM FY-3A/VIRR DATAJinxiong Jiang, Qinhuo Liu, Hua Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Huaguo Huang, Beijing Forestry University, China

MOP-B.9: ANALYSIS OF ISAR IMAGING USING COMBINED MUSIC AND ICA ....................................................... 309ALGORITHMSJeffrey Hall, Saibun Tjuatja, The University of Texas at Arlington, United States

MOP-C: HIGH RESOLUTION AND MULTI-CHANNEL SAR

MOP-C.1: COMPARISON OF COVAMCOH AND ILU IMAGE PRODUCTS FOR ........................................................ 313INTERFEROMETRIC VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGE PAIRSKarsten Schulz, Dominik Brunner, Markus Boldt, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Germany

MOP-C.2: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGERY SHIP DETECTION BASED ON ......................................................... 316EXS-C-CFAR IN ALPHA-STABLE CLUTTERSXiangwei Xing, Kefeng Ji, Huanxin Zou, Jixiang Sun, Shilin Zhou, National University of Defense Technology, China

MOP-C.4: CONCURRENT SUBBANDS MODE FOR MULTICHANNEL SAR IMAGING ............................................. 320Huifang Zheng, Yunkai Deng, Robert Wang, Qian Chen, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-C.6: BUILDING EDGE DETECTION FROM SAR COMPLEX DATA ..................................................................... 328Fabio Baselice, Giampaolo Ferraioli, Alessandro Grassia, Vito Pascazio, Universita’ di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

MOP-C.7: NONUNIFORM SAMPLING PFA FOR SQUINT SPOTLIGHT SAR IMAGING ............................................ 332Huaping Xu, Deming Guo, Jingwen Li, Beihang University, China

MOP-C.8: BACK PROJECTION ALGORITHM FOR HIGH RESOLUTION GEO-SAR ................................................ 336IMAGE FORMATIONZhuo Li, Chunsheng Li, Ze Yu, Jian Zhou, Jie Chen, Beihang University, China

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MOP-C.9: VELOCITY ESTIMATION OF MOVING TARGETS USING SAR ................................................................... 340Junfeng Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-D: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR

MOP-D.2: ANALYSIS OF ALOS PALSAR AND TERRASAR-X DATA FOR PROTECTED ......................................... 348AREA MAPPING: A CASE OF THE BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK-UGANDAJohn Richard Otukei, Thomas Blaschke, University of Salzburg, Austria; Michael Collins, Yasser Maghsoudi, University of Calgary, Canada

MOP-D.3: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF GLRT MOVING TARGETS DETECTION ON ............................................ 352TERRASAR-X DATAAlessandra Budillon, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Annarita Evangelista, Università di Cassino, Italy; Vito Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

MOP-D.5: FEASIBILITY OF HIGH RESOLUTION SAR AND MULTISPECTRAL DATA ........................................... 356FUSIONR Chandrakanth, J Saibaba, Geeta Varadan, ADRIN, India; P Ananth Raj, Osmania University, India

MOP-D.6: SUPPER RESOLUTION RADAR IMAGING: A VIRTUAL ARRAY CONCEPT .......................................... 360APPROACHGaohuan Lv, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-D.7: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION: THE ..................................................................... 363GENERALIZED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMAngel Ribalta, Fraunhofer FHR, Germany

MOP-D.8: SAR SUPER RESOLUTION VIA MULTI-DICTIONARY .................................................................................. 366Chu He, Longzhu Liu, Ming Liu, Qian Feng, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, China; Mingsheng Liao, The State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China

MOP-E: POLARIMETRIC SAR APPLICATIONS

MOP-E.1: A REMOTE SENSING STUDY IN SUPPORT OF THE KOKODA TRACK ................................................... 370CONSERVATION INITIATIVEAlina Yohannan, Mark Williams, Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, United States; Ian Tapley, Horizon Geoscience Consulting, Australia; Julian Fox, University of Melbourne, Australia; Anthony Milne, Horizon Geoscience Consulting, Australia; Andrew Taplin, James Sabi, Government of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea

MOP-E.2: A VISUALIZATION METHOD FOR SAR IMAGES ............................................................................................ 374Guangyi Zhou, Tsinghua University, China; Wentao An, National Satellite Ocean Application Service, China; Jian Yang, Hua Zhong, Tsinghua University, China

MOP-E.3: SIMILARITY-ENHANCED TARGET DETECTION ALGORITHM BASED ON .......................................... 378MULTIPLE POLSAR SIMILARITY PARAMETERLamei Zhang, Bin Zou, Wenyan Tang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

MOP-E.4: BUILDING PARAMETERS EXTRACTION FROM POLINSAR IMAGE USING ......................................... 382HYBRID METHODHongjun Cai, Peng He, Bin Zou, Maoliu Lin, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

MOP-E.5: A FURTHER INVESTIGATION ON RECONSTRUCTION OF VERTICAL .................................................. 386PROFILES USING POLARIZATION COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHYJunhua Wang, Zhenhai Xu, Xuesong Wang, Guoyu Wang, Siwei Chen, The School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, China

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MOP-E.6: SOME PECULIARITIES OF POLARIMETRIC CLASSIFICATION FOR ..................................................... 389WINTER DATA TAKESLudmila Zakharova, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation

MOP-E.7: ESTIMATION OF LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI) USING POLINSAR: A ............................................................ 393PRELIMINARY RESEARCHWenxue Fu, Huadong Guo, Xinwu Li, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-E.8: TARGET DETECTION BASED ON L- AND C-BAND POLSAR DATA ........................................................... 397Bin Zou, Hongjun Cai, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Wooil M Moon, University of Manitoba, Canada; Maoliu Lin, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

MOP-E.9: CHARACTERIZING MULTI-LAYERED VEGETATION WITH .................................................................... 401DUAL-POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X IMAGERYTishampati Dhar, Doug Gray, Carl Menges, University of Adelaide, Australia

MOP-E.10: BIOMASS RELATED PARAMETER RETRIEVING FROM QUAD-POL .................................................... 405IMAGES BASED ON FREEMAN-DURDEN DECOMPOSITIONXing-Ou Xu, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Armando Marino, The University of Alicante, Spain; Lei Li, Wuhan University, China

MOP-F: POLARIMETRIC SAR I

MOP-F.1: PHASE-DIFFERENCE CHARACTERISTICS OF URBAN AREAS IN ............................................................ 409POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGESKyung-Yup Lee, Youn-Soo Kim, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Republic of Korea; Yisok Oh, Hongik University, Republic of Korea

MOP-F.2: POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR A CLASSIFICATION ...................................... 413SCHEME BASED ON SCATTERING TYPE ALPHAChunle Wang, Weidong Yu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-F.3: VALIDATION OF FOUR-COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION WITH ROTATED ........................................ 416COHERENCY MATRIX OF TERRASAR-XToshifumi Hiramatsu, Takashi Nonaka, Takashi Shibayama, PASCO Corporation, Japan

MOP-F.4: PARAMETRIC AND NON-PARAMETRIC FOREST BIOMASS ESTIMATION ........................................... 420FROM POLINSAR DATAMaxim Neumann, Sassan Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Lars M. Ulander, Chalmers University, Sweden; Johan Fransson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden

MOP-F.5: UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF POLSAR DATA BASED ON THE ................................................. 424POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION AND THE CO-POLARIZATION RATIOShuang Wang, Jingjing Pei, Kun Liu, Shuang Zhang, Bo Chen, Xidian University, China

MOP-F.6: POLARIMETRIC OPTIMIZATION FOR BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETER ..................................................... 428ESTIMATIONMaxim Neumann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

MOP-F.7: A HIGH PRECISION FPGA-BASED ACTIVE RADAR CALIBRATOR .......................................................... 432Chih-Yuan Chu, Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan

MOP-F.8: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EIGENVALUES METHOD FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR ...................................... 436IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONShuiping Gou, Xin Qiao, L.C. Jiao, Xidian University, China

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MOP-G: POLARIMETRIC SAR TECHNIQUES

MOP-G.1: COMPARISON OF CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY BETWEEN FULLY .................................................... 440POLARIMETRIC AND DUAL-POLARIZATION SAR IMAGESVarsha Turkar, Rinki Deo, IIT Bombay, India; Siddharth Hariharan, TERNA Engineering College, India; S Rao Y, IIT Bombay, India

MOP-G.4: EDGE DETECTION FROM POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES USING ........................................................... 448POLARIMETRIC WHITENING FILTERShaoping Deng, Wuhan University, China; Jixian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, China; Pingxiang Li, Wuhan University, China; Guoman Huang, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, China

MOP-G.5: LEARNING BASED DECOMPOSITION FOR POLARMETRIC SAR IMAGES............................................ 452Chu He, Qian Feng, Ming Liu, Xiaonian Liu, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, China; Mingsheng Liao, The State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China

MOP-G.6: COMPARISON OF DUAL AND FULL POLARIMETRIC ENTROPY/ALPHA ............................................. 456DECOMPOSITIONS WITH TERRASAR-X, SUITABILITY FOR USE IN CLASSIFICATIONTishampati Dhar, Doug Gray, Carl Menges, University of Adelaide, Australia

MOP-G.7: WISHART SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION RESULTS OF C-BAND .......................................................... 459POLARIMETRIC GB-SAR IMAGE DATAMoon-Kyung Kang, Kwang-Eun Kim, Seong-Jun Cho, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Republic of Korea; Hoonyol Lee, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea; Jae-Hee Lee, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Republic of Korea

MOP-G.8: A MODEL INCORPORATING ORIENTATION ANGLE SHIFT EFFECT FOR .......................................... 463POLARIMETRIC SAR CALIBRATIONShiqi Xing, Canbin Hu, Zhenhai Xu, Dejun Feng, Dahai Dai, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, China

MOP-G.9: QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION FOR COMPACT POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGE .................................. 467RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON INFORMATION-THEORETIC ANALYSISJie Chen, Yu Li, Xianzhong Wen, Chunsheng Li, Beihang University, China

MOP-H: HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL SENSING II

MOP-H.1: DSM MEASUREMENT FOR EXPOSED GRAVEL SURFACE USING ........................................................... 471CLOSE-RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY WITH MULTI-SCALE IMAGESJui-Teng Tsung, Chi-Kuei Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

MOP-H.2: OBJECT ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH SPATIAL IMAGERY .................................................. 475USING GABOR TEXTURES AND COMPOSITE KERNELSLian-Zhi Huo, Ping Tang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Hong-Gan Wu, Research Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques,Chinese Academy of Forestry, China

MOP-H.3: EXTENDED THREE-STEP FOCUSING ALGORITHM FOR SLIDING ......................................................... 479SPOTLIGHT AND TOPS DATA IMAGE FORMATIONWei Yang, Chunsheng Li, Jie Chen, Pengbo Wang, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

MOP-H.4: SPECTRAL QUALITY EVALUATION OF PIXEL-FUSED DATA FOR ........................................................ 483IMPROVED CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Yuhendra, Ilham Alimuddin, Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Hiroaki Kuze, Chiba University, Japan

MOP-H.6: A GEOMETRICAL RECTIFICATION ALGORITHM OF UAV REMOTE ................................................... 487SENSING IMAGES BASED ON FLIGHT ATTITUDE PARAMETERSYuxia Li, Zheng Li, Ling Tong, YangTian Yan, Dong Guo, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

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MOP-H.7: GRAPH-BASED SHIP EXTRACTION SCHEME FOR OPTICAL SATELLITE ........................................... 491IMAGEFeng Chen, Wenxian Yu, Xingzhao Liu, Kaizhi Wang, Lin Gong, Wentao Lv, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-H.8: A CONTEXT-BASED APPROACH FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF ........................................................... 495SATELLITE IMAGE TIME SERIESCamille Kurtz, Francois Petitjean, Pierre Gancarski, LSIIT - University of Strasbourg, France

MOP-I: IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS I

MOP-I.1: VERY FAST SIMULATED ANNEALING FOR PATTERN DETECTION AND .............................................. 499SEISMIC APPLICATIONSKou-Yuan Huang, Yueh-Hsun Hsieh, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

MOP-I.2: EXTRACTION OF CRATERS AS CONCENTRIC CIRCLE PATTERNS OF ................................................. 503CONTOURS ON THE LUNAR DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELShin Sato, Noriaki Asada, Hirohide Demura, Naru Hirata, University of Aizu, Japan

MOP-I.3: AN IMPROVED ROAD AND BUILDING DETECTOR ON VHR IMAGES ...................................................... 507Christophe Simler, Technische Universität München, Germany

MOP-I.4: ROTATION INVARIANT TEXTURE FEATURE ALGORITHMS FOR URBAN ........................................... 511SETTLEMENT CLASSIFICATIONPhumzile Khumalo, UKZN - CSIR, South Africa; Frans Van Den Bergh, CSIR, South Africa; Jules Tapamo, UKZN, South Africa

MOP-I.5: TECHNIQUES BASED ON SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR CLOUD ................................................. 515DETECTION ON QUICKBIRD SATELLITE IMAGERYRiccardo Rossi, Roberto Basili, Fabio Del Frate, Matteo Luciani, Francesco Mesiano, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

MOP-I.6: IMAGE SHARPENING USING HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL .............................................. 519DATANorimasa Mayumi, Akira Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan

MOP-I.8: MULTIRESOLUTION FUSION USING CONTOURLET TRANSFORM ......................................................... 523BASED EDGE LEARNINGKishor Upla, Prakash Gajjar, Manjunath Joshi, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India

MOP-I.10: KERNEL IMAGE SIMILARITY CRITERION .................................................................................................... 527Vicent Talens, Jose Moreno, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de València, Spain

MOP-J: IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS II

MOP-J.1: MULTIRESOLUTION INPAINTING FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF MISSING ........................................... 531DATA IN VHR IMAGESLuca Lorenzi, Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy; Grégoire Mercier, Télécom Bretagne, France

MOP-J.2: EFFECTS OF RECEIVER SATURATION ON IMAGE FORMATION ............................................................. 535Zhou Li, Chunsheng Li, Ze Yu, Beihang University, China; Yongqiang Zhang, Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunication Technology, China

MOP-J.3: RPC GENERATIONS ON ALOS PRISM AND AVNIR-2 ..................................................................................... 539Junichi Takaku, Remote Sensing Technology Center, Japan; Takeo Tadono, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

MOP-J.4: MAPPING AND RECOVERING CLOUD-CONTAMINATED AREA IN ......................................................... 543MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY WITH VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED BANDSYi-Shiang Shiu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Meng-Lung Lin, Aletheia University, Taiwan; Tzu-How Chu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

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MOP-J.5: BASED ON REMOTE SENSING PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY .................................................................... 547ESTIMATING LEAVES STOMATAL DENSITY OF POPULUS EUPHRATICAShengqi Jian, Chuanyan Zhao, Yang Zhao, Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Ecology with the Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, China

MOP-J.7: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK OF ALGORITHM MANAGEMENT FOR REMOTE .................................... 551SENSING IMAGE ANALYSISYongke Ding, Kaizhi Wang, Wenxian Yu, Xingzhao Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-J.8: ADAPTIVE FILTERING APPROACH TO MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE ......................................................... 555PROCESSINGAndrzej Lesniak, Mateusz Twardowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

MOP-J.9: HIGH PERFORMANCE IMAGE PROCESSING OF SATELLITE IMAGES .................................................. 559USING GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITSMichal Rumanek, Tomasz Danek, Andrzej Lesniak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

MOP-J.10: DISPARITY COMPUTATION OF CORNER POINTS BY ENHANCING ..................................................... 562FEATURE EXTRACTORS FOR SPARSE NARROW-BASELINE STEREO MATCHINGRaghavendra Bhalerao, Shirish Gedam, IIT Bombay, India

MOP-K: IMAGE REGISTRATION AND CHANGE DETECTION

MOP-K.1: FEATURE-BASED IMAGE REGISTRATION OF ALOS PALSAR AND AVNIR-2 ...................................... 566IMAGESTee-Ann Teo, Shin-Yu Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

MOP-K.2: REGISTRATION OF VECTOR DATA AND AERIAL THERMAL IMAGES USING ................................... 570MODIFIED MUTUAL INFORMATIONKoen Douterloigne, Sidharta Gautama, Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Belgium

MOP-K.3: AUTO-REGISTRATION OF SATELLITE IMAGE WITH THE EXISTING .................................................. 574VECTOR MAPLuping Lu, Yong Zhang, Wuhan University, China

MOP-K.4: FAST AND ACCURATE GCPS SELECTION SCHEME FOR SAR IMAGE .................................................. 578REGISTRATION BASED ON AN IMPROVED TRAJKOVIC CORNER DETECTORQuang Huy Nguyen, Ian Mcloughlin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Timo Bretschneider, EADS Innovation Works Singapore, Singapore

MOP-K.5: ESTIMATING GEOMETRICAL TRANSFORM PARAMETERS FOR .......................................................... 582AFFINE-TRANSFORM-BASE GEOMETRICAL CORRECTIONSHiroyuki Saito, Hirosaki University, Japan

MOP-K.6: A NEW MULTI-SENSOR APPROACH TO MEASUREMENT OF .................................................................. 586TOPOGRAPHIC CHANGES RESULTING FROM ACTIVE VOLCANISMDavid McAlpin, Franz Meyer, Peter Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, United States

MOP-K.7: MANAGING MASSIVE REMOTE SENSING DATA IN A DATABASE: USING A ...................................... 590PURE OBJECT DATABASE AS A SOLUTIONDavid Gallaher, Glenn Grant, University of Colorado, United States

MOP-K.8: SUB-PIXEL MAPPING BASED ON SUB-PIXEL TO SUB-PIXEL SPATIAL ................................................. 593ATTRACTION MODELLiguo Wang, Qunming Wang, Danfeng Liu, College of Information and Communications Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, China

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MOP-K.9: CONTRAST PYRAMID BASED IMAGE FUSION SCHEME FOR INFRARED ............................................ 597IMAGE AND VISIBLE IMAGEDongxu He, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yu Meng, Chengyi Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-L: IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND OBJECT DETECTION

MOP-L.2: HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND ........................................................... 605SEGMENTATION USING LAPLACIAN GRAPH ENERGYMeng Zhao, Xiao Bai, Beihang University, China

MOP-L.3: GROUND-TRUTH ASSISTED DESIGN FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE .................................................. 609CLASSIFICATIONEdoardo Pasolli, Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy

MOP-L.4: VHR IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING OVER SEGMENTED REGIONS IN A .......................................... 613MRF MODELOrsan Aytekin, Yousef Rezaeitabar, Ilkay Ulusoy, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

MOP-L.5: SHAPE CONTEXT BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION AND TRACKING IN ................................................ 617STRUCTURED UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTKyung Min Han, Hyun Taek Choi, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Republic of Korea

MOP-L.6: OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATION USING REGION GROWING ............................................................... 621SEGMENTATIONSang-Hoon Lee, Kyungwon University, Republic of Korea

MOP-M: SAR DATA ANALYSIS I

MOP-M.1: SAR IMAGING FROM COMPRESSED MEASUREMENTS BASED ON L1/2 .............................................. 625REGULARIZATIONJinshan Zeng, Zongben Xu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China; Hai Jiang, Bingchen Zhang, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-M.2: ATOMIC DECOMPOSITION-BASED SAR IMAGING TECHNIQUE ............................................................ 629Yesheng Gao, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-M.3: IMPROVEMENT OF SHIP-SEA CLUTTER RATIO OF SAR IMAGERY ..................................................... 632USING STANDARD DEVIATION FILTERMotofumi Arii, Mitsubishi Space Software Co. Ltd., Japan

MOP-M.5: BLOCK ADAPTIVE COMPRESSED SENSING OF SAR IMAGES BASED ON ........................................... 640STATISTICAL CHARACTERNana Wang, Jingwen Li, Beihang University, China

MOP-M.6: CONCURRENT SAR IMAGES DENOISING AND SEGMENTATION BASED ............................................ 644ON A NOVEL MODEL OF WAVELET COEFFICIENTSWentao Lv, Feng Chen, Wenxian Yu, Qiuze Yu, Kaizhi Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

MOP-M.7: RE-IMAGING OF SAR IMAGE VIA THE UNDERLYING INFORMATION ................................................. 648Xin Lu, Mengling Liu, Yongmin Shuai, Rong Chen, Hui Yin, Hong Sun, Signal Processing Laboratory, Department of Communication Engineering, school of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, China

MOP-M.8: DATA INTERPOLATION AND RESAMPLING FOR A SYNTHETIC APERTURE .................................... 652RADAR DATAShunichi Kusano, Motoyuki Sato, Yuya Yokota, Tohoku University, Japan

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MOP-M.9: EFFECTS OF NOISE, SAMPLING RATE AND SIGNAL SPARSITY FOR ................................................... 656COMPRESSED SENSING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR PULSE COMPRESSIONPeng Xiao, Chunsheng Li, Ze Yu, Beihang University, China

MOP-N: LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE III

MOP-N.1: MAPPING THE DISTRIBUTION OF CROFTON WEED (EUPATORIUM .................................................... 660ADENOPHORUM SPRENG) IN SOUTHWEST OF CHINA USING TIME SERIES REMOTE SENSING DATAYing Qu, Zhengqing Xiao, Gongqi Zhou, Xiaojia Liang, Xijia Li, Beijing Normal University, China

MOP-N.2: LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND THE DRIVING FORCES IN SOURCE AREA OF .......................................... 664SHULE RIVER IN ARID NORTHWEST CHINAGuojing Yang, Baisheng Ye, Xia Xie, Lihua Zhou, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-N.4: LINEAR OBJECTS IMPACT ON GRASSLAND DEGRADATION IN THE ................................................... 672TYPICAL STEPPE REGION OF CHINASuying Li, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, China; Peter Verburg, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands; Shihai Lv, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, China; Shangyu Gao, Beijing Normal University, China; Jingle Wu, Arizona State University, United States

MOP-N.5: LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND HUMAN ACTIVITY ANALYSIS ON ............................................................... 676DESERTIFICATION PROCESS IN NORTHERN CHINALihua Zhou, Guojing Yang, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-N.6: LAND USE AND LANDSCAPE PATTERN CHANGES IN NANJING DURING ............................................ 6801988-2007Zhihui Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiu Yin, Shanghai Center for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, China

MOP-N.7: SPATIO-TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF HILLY CULTIVATED ——A CASE ............................................. 684STUDY IN SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINATing-Xu Dong, Mianyang Normal University, China; Qi-Ming Qin, Hong-Bo Jiang, Peking University, China; Hua-Ming Ke, Mianyang Normal University, China

MOP-N.8: A COMPARISON OF FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS WITHIN A ..................................................... 688SPATIO-TEMPORAL LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION FRAMEWORKWaldo Kleynhans, Brian Salmon, Jan C. Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Konrad Wessels, Frans van den Bergh, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

MOP-N.9: CONTINENTAL SCALE LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION USING MODIS .............................................. 692SURFACE REFLECTANCE PRODUCTSHaruhisa Shimoda, Kiyonari Fukue, Tokai University, Japan

MOP-N.10: DETECTION AND MAPPING OF IRRIGATED FARMLAND IN ................................................................. 696CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALANDDavid Pairman, Stella Belliss, Landcare Research, New Zealand; Jeromy Cuff, Environment Canterbury, New Zealand; Stephen McNeill, Landcare Research, New Zealand

MOP-N.11: LAND COVER CHANGE AND EFFECT ON AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION ......................................... 700BASED ON RS AND GIS FOR 20 YEARS IN YANQING COUNTY, BEIJINGLinrui Song, Jing Zhang, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Jingyu Zhang, Capital Normal University, China

MOP-N.12: A PROTOCOL FOR EXPEDITE AND EFFECTIVE RETRIEVAL OF LAND ............................................. 704CONVERSION INFORMATION IN SAVANNA ENVIRONMENTSManuel Ferreira, Laerte Ferreira Jr., Nilson Ferreira, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil; Mercedes Bustamante, University of Brasília, Brazil; Jean Ometto, INPE, Brazil

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MOP-O: LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE IV

MOP-O.1: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAND COVER AND MICRO-CLIMATE AT .................................................. 708WEATHER OBSERVATION POINT IN JAPANHikaru Ishiguro, PASCO Corporation, Japan; Nanako Yoshinari, Graduate School of Shinshu University, Japan; Naoki Takagi, Shinshu University, Japan

MOP-O.4: SPECTRAL CLUSTERING BASED UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION ........................................... 712IN SAR IMAGESXiangrong Zhang, Zemin Li, Biao Hou, Licheng Jiao, Xidian University, China

MOP-O.5: ADAPTIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF NDVI TIME SERIES WITH ................................................................ 716MULTI-PERIODIC HARMONIC MODELSang-Hoon Lee, Kyungwon University, Republic of Korea

MOP-O.7: INFLUENCE OF CHANGES OF UNDERLYING SURFACE ON THE ........................................................... 720OUTPUT OF SAND-DUST MODELDihua Cai, Jianhua Zhao, Yaohui Li, Ni Guo, Haixia Duan, Hui Han, Jing Wang, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China

MOP-O.9: CLASSIFICATION OF CASI-3 HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE BY SUBSPACE ............................................... 724METHODBuho Hoshino, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan; Hasi Bagan, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan; Akihiro Nakazawa, Image Sensing Section Asia Air Survey Co. Ltd., Japan; Masami Kaneko, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan; Masaki Kawai, Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center, Japan; Tetuo Yabuki, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan

MOP-O.11: FRAGMENTATION OF TROPICAL FOREST IN THE TERMINOS LAGOON ......................................... 732RESERVE, MEXICO.Ernesto Soto Galera, Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Mexico

MOP-P: TROPICAL FORESTS

MOP-P.1: IMPROVING TROPICAL FOREST MAPPING USING COMBINATION OF ............................................... 736OPTICAL AND MICROWAVE DATA OF ALOSNguyen Thanh Hoan, Ryutaro Tateishi, Alsaaideh Bayan, Chiba University, Japan; Ngigi Thomas Gathungu, Kenya, Kenya; Mi Lan, Chiba University, Japan

MOP-P.2: “FUSION FOR CLASSES IN DIFFICULTY” FOR ACCURATE AND SPEED ............................................... 740TROPICAL RAINFORESTS CLASSIFICATIONRobin Pouteau, Benoit Stoll, GePaSUD Laboratory, French Polynesia

MOP-P.4: RESEARCH ON TROPICAL FOREST ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS ............................................................. 744ESTIMATING USING ICESAT/GLAS DATA IN XISHUANGBANNA, SOUTHWEST CHINAHong Chi, Zhifeng Guo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States

MOP-P.5: ASSESSING DEFORESTATION RELATED CARBON EMISSION IN THE .................................................. 748BRAZILIAN SAVANNA BASED ON MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGERYNilson Ferreira, Laerte Ferreira Jr., Manuel Ferreira, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil; Mercedes Bustamante, University of Brasília, Brazil; Jean Ometto, Brazilian Space Research Institute, Brazil

MOP-P.6: AN ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL FOREST COVER MAPS USING REGIONAL ........................................... 752HIGHER-RESOLUTION REFERENCE DATA SETSXiao-Peng Song, Chengquan Huang, Joseph Sexton, University of Maryland, College Park, United States; Min Feng, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Raghuram Narasimhan, Saurabh Channan, John R. Townshend, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

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MOP-P.7: EVALUATION OF MODIS GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY OF ............................................................ 756TROPICAL OIL PALM IN SOUTHERN PENINSULAR MALAYSIAKian Pang Tan, Kasturi Devi Kanniah, Ibrahim Bin Busu, Universtiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia; Arthur Philip Cracknell, University of Dundee, United Kingdom

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

MOP-Q.1: MONITORING VEGETATION GREENNESS VARIATIONS IN ..................................................................... 760QINGHAI-TEBET PLATEAU WITH MODIS VEGETATION INDEXLi Zhang, Huadong Guo, Liping Lei, Dongmei Yan, Key Laboratory of Digital Earth, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-Q.2: ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF PHENOPHASES ON FOREST BURNT .............................................. 763AREA MAPPING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL MODIS DATAShiyang Liu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Ronggao Liu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-Q.4: SPATIAL FILTERING ANALYSIS FOR QUICK DROUGHT ASSESSMENT .............................................. 767USING MODIS IMAGES TO DETECT DROUGHT AFFECTED AREASMeng-Lung Lin, Aletheia University, Taiwan; Fujun Sun, Qiubing Wang, Shenyang Agricultural University, China; Cheng-Wu Chen, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan; Yi-Shiang Shiu, Tzu-How Chu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

MOP-Q.5: GLOBAL VEGETATION DYNAMIC MONITORING USING MULTIPLE ................................................... 771SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS, 2002-2007Le Yang, Hejuan Du, Jing Zhao, Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-Q.6: CALCULATION OF CLUMPING INDEX OF MIXED PIXEL AND SCALE ................................................. 775ANALYSISQingmiao Ma, Jing Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiang Liu, Beijing Normal University, China; Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-Q.7: A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF WHEAT ROW-STRUCTURE ON ................................................................ 779MICROWAVE EMISSICITY USING FIELD EXPERIMENT DATAYunqing Li, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Linna Chai, Tao Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China

MOP-Q.10: A LONG-TERM GLOBAL LEAF AREA INDEX DATASET (1981-2009) FROM ........................................ 783AVHRR AND MODIS DATAYang Liu, Ronggao Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-Q.11: CHANGES OF VEGETATION BIOMASS, SPECIES DIVERSITY AND NDVI ........................................... 787ACROSS THE GROUND TEMPERATURE OF PERMAFROST IN THE DATONG RIVER SOURCE REGION ON THE NORTHEASTERN EDGE OF THE QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAUXiumin Zhang, Yu Sheng, Jichun Wu, Jing Li, Ji Chen, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-Q.12: ESTIMATING VEGETATION WATER CONTENT DURING A GROWING .............................................. 791SEASON OF COTTONTianjie Zhao, Lixin Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China; Rajat Bindlish, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, United States; Jiancheng Shi, University of California, United States; Lingmei Jiang, Yunqing Li, Shaojie Zhao, Tao Zhang, Xinxin Li, Beijing Normal University, China

MOP-R: WETLANDS AND INLAND WATERS I

MOP-R.3: EFFECT OF RADAR MEASUREMENT ERROR ON THE DETECTION OF ............................................... 795TRANSIENT INLAND WATER BODIESSeung-Bum Kim, Richard West, Eni Njoku, California Institute of Technology /Jet Propulsion Lab, United States

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MOP-R.5: USE OF HIGH-RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY ACQUIRED ................................................ 803WITH AN AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE TO QUANTIFY THE SPREAD OF AN INVASIVE WETLANDS SPECIESBushra Zaman, Austin Jensen, Mac McKee, Utah State University, United States

MOP-R.6: FLOOD MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OVER THE MIDDLE REACHES OF .......................................... 807YANGTZE RIVER BASIN USING MODIS TIME-SERIES IMAGERYBin Li, Shandong Agricultural University, China; Qin Yan, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, China; Li Zhang, Key Laboratory of Digital Earth, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-R.7: THE CAUSE ANALYSIS ON THE LOWEST RUNOFF IN THE UPPER ........................................................ 811REACHES OF YELLOW RIVER FROM 1990 TO 2004Jianying Feng, Yaohui Li, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China; Chunmei Liao, Northwest China Grid Company Limited, China; Jingsong Wang, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China

MOP-S: LAND APPLICATIONS I

MOP-S.2: REMOTE SENSING OF LAND SURFACE DYNAMICS ALONG THE ........................................................... 815APPALACHIAN TRAILYeqiao Wang, University of Rhode Island, United States; Jianjun Zhao, Hongyan Zhang, Northeast Normal University, China

MOP-S.3: INTEGRATING X-SAR IMAGES AND ANTHROPIC FACTORS FOR FIRE ................................................ 818SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSESSMENTSilvia Canale, Alberto De Santis, Daniela Iacoviello, Fiora Pirri, Simone Sagratella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

MOP-S.5: STUDY OF MICROWAVE EMISSIVITY CHARACTERISTICS OF CITY ..................................................... 822Tao Zhang, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Yunqing Li, Beijing Normal University, China

MOP-S.7: LAND USE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION THROUGH OPTIMUM-PATH FOREST ....................................... 826CLUSTERINGRodrigo Pisani, Paulina Riedel, Mateus Ferreira, Mara Marques, Rodrigo Mizobe, Joao Papa, UNESP - Univ Estadual Paulista, Brazil

MOP-T: SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING: SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS I

MOP-T.1: TIME-DOMAIN RECONSTRUCTION OF BURIED OBJECTS USING AN ................................................... 830ESTIMATED PULSEHui Zhou, Wanjin Liu, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China

MOP-T.2: LANDMINE DETECTION USING THE DISCRETE SPECTRUM OF ............................................................ 834RELAXATION FREQUENCIESMu-Hsin Wei, Waymond Scott, James McClellan, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

MOP-T.3: POLARIZATION AND PROPAGATION PROPERTY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ..................................... 838PULSES IN THE EARTHMinoru Tsutsui, Taka Nakatani, Munetoshi Kamitani, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan; Toshiyasu Nagao, Tokai University, Japan

MOP-T.4: DETECTION OF LNAPL CONTAMINATED SOILS BY GPR .......................................................................... 842Qi Lu, Xuan Feng, Cai Liu, Hong-Li Li, Jilin University, China; Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

MOP-T.5: ITERATIVE MULTISCALING STRATEGY INCORPORATED INTO TIME ............................................... 846DOMAIN INVERSE SCATTERING METHOD FOR CROSS-BOREHOLE IMAGINGToshifumi Moriyama, Nagasaki University, Japan; Giacomo Oliveri, Andrea Massa, University of Trento, Italy; Takashi Takenaka, Nagasaki University, Japan

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MOP-T.6: FREQUENCY AND TIME DOMAIN MEASUREMENTS USING CROSS ...................................................... 850WELL RADAR TO DEVELOP TESTBEDS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES ESTIMATIONJonathan Toro-Vazquez, Rafael A. Rodriguez-Solis, Ingrid Padilla, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus, Puerto Rico

MOP-T.7: REDUCING ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING FOR BISTATIC ................................................................. 854SUBSURFACE PULSE RADAR USING EBG STRUCTURESTomoyuki Muto, Takuji Arima, Toru Uno, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

MOP-U: SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING: SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS II

MOP-U.1: DEVELOPING A NOVEL FULL-POLARIMETRIC GPR TECHNOLOGY .................................................... 858Xuan Feng, Wenjing Liang, Cai Liu, Qi Lu, Jilin University, China; Zheng-Shu Zhou, CSIRO Mathematics, Australia; Yan Zhang, LiLong Zou, Hong-Li Li, Jilin University, China

MOP-U.2: THE ANALYSIS OF TWI DATA FOR HUMAN BEING’S PERIODIC ........................................................... 862MOTIONSZhaofa Zeng, Jilin University, China; Jiguang Sun, Delaware State University, United States; Jing Li, Jilin University, China; Fengshan Liu, Delaware State University, United States; Qi Lu, Xiong Chen, Jilin University, China

MOP-U.3: ANALYSIS OF A WIDE BANDWIDTH UNDERSAMPLED DIGITALLY ...................................................... 866HETERODYNED SFGPRGiovanni Galiero, Consortium for Research on Advanced Remote Sensing Systems, Italy; Doroteo Adirosi, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy; Giovanni Alberti, Consortium for Research on Advanced Remote Sensing Systems, Italy

MOP-U.4: APPLICATION OF 3-D MIGRATION ALGORITHM TO GPR ON AN .......................................................... 870IRREGULAR GROUND SURFACEAndrey Klokov, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

MOP-U.5: A HIDDEN MARKOV CONTEXT MODEL FOR GPR-BASED LANDMINE ................................................ 874DETECTION INCORPORATING STICK-BREAKING PRIORSChristopher Ratto, Kenneth Morton, Leslie Collins, Peter Torrione, Duke University, United States

MOP-U.6: A MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNING APPROACH FOR LANDMINE ........................................................ 878DETECTION USING GROUND PENETRATING RADARAndrew Karem, Hichem Frigui, University of Louisville, United States

MOP-U.8: A 3D SUBSURFACE IMAGING TECHNIQUE BASED ON DISTRIBUTED .................................................. 882NEAR-GROUND SENSORS: INVESTIGATION USING SCALE MODEL MEASUREMENTSFikadu Dagefu, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States

MOP-V: SAR MISSIONS AND INSTRUMENTS I

MOP-V.1: A HARDWARE-IN-LOOP SIMULATION AND EVALUATION APPROACH FOR ..................................... 886SPACEBORNE DISTRIBUTED SARZhihua He, Feng He, Haifeng Huang, Diannong Liang, National University of Defense Technology, China

MOP-V.3: HARDWARE PERFORMANCE OF L-BAND SAR SYSTEM ONBOARD ALOS-2 ........................................ 894Yu Okada, Tadashi Hamasaki, Masao Tsuji, Masafumi Iwamoto, Kenichi Hariu, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan; Yukihiro Kankaku, Shinichi Suzuki, Yuji Osawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

MOP-V.4: INTERNAL CALIBRATION STRATEGIES FOR SPACE-BORNE SYNTHETIC ......................................... 898APERTURE RADARS WITH ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNASEduardo Makhoul, Antoni Broquetas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Josep Closa, Paula Saameno, EADS CASA Espacio, Spain

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MOP-V.5: THE TANDEM-X GROUND STATION NETWORK ........................................................................................... 902Robert Metzig, Erhard Diedrich, Ralf Reissig, Maximilian Schwinger, Frank Riffel, Hennes Henniger, Birgit Schättler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

MOP-V.6: DEVELOPMENT OF THE ONBOARD PROCESSOR FOR PI-SAR2 ............................................................... 906Jyunpei Uemoto, Seiho Uratsuka, Toshihiko Umehara, Shin-Ichi Yamamoto, Shinichi Taira, Makoto Satake, Shoichiro Kojima, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Masaki Satoh, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Takeshi Matsuoka, Akitsugu Nadai, Ryutaro Suzuki, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

MOP-V.7: STUDY OF PALSAR RADIOMETRIC STABILITY WITH PASSIVE ............................................................. 910CALIBRATION TARGETSAlexander Zakharov, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation; Masanobu Shimada, Earth Observation Research Center / Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Mark Sorochinsky, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation; Peter Zherdev, Alexey Sokolov, Special Design Bureau of Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Russian Federation

MOP-V.8: RESEARCH ON THE METHODS OF INNER CALIBRATION OF ................................................................. 914SPACEBORNE SARYong-Hua Jiang, Guo Zhang, Wuhan University, China

MOP-W: SAR MISSIONS AND INSTRUMENTS II

MOP-W.1: CONCEPT ON AIRSHIP-BORNED LINEAR ARRAY 3-D IMAGING SAR ................................................... 917Jun Shi, Xiaoling Zhang, Jianyu Yang, Gao Xiang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

MOP-W.2: MULTICHANNEL SAR ECCM BASED ON FAST-TIME STAP AND PULSE ............................................. 921DIVERSITYYu Chunrui, Ma Xile, Zhang Yongsheng, Dong Zhen, Liang Diannong, National University of Defense Technology, China

MOP-W.3: AN ESPRIT BASED APPROACH FOR SUPER-RESOLUTION DIRECTION .............................................. 925FINDING WITH PARTLY CALIBRATED OR NONCOHERENT SPARSE ARRAYWensheng Chen, Xiaojian Xu, Beihang University, China

MOP-W.4: DEVELOPMENT OF CIRCULARLY POLARIZED SYNTHETIC APERTURE .......................................... 929RADAR ONBOARD MICROSATELLITE FOR EARTH DIAGNOSISJosaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Chiba University, Japan

MOP-W.5: CALIBRATION EXPERIMENTS OF ADVANCED X-BAND AIRBORNE SAR ........................................... 933SYSTEM, PI-SAR2Makoto Satake, Takeshi Matsuoka, Toshihiko Umehara, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Akitsugu Nadai, Jyunpei Uemoto, Shoichiro Kojima, Seiho Uratsuka, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

MOP-X: ACTIVE MICROWAVE TECHNIQUES

MOP-X.1: FAST AND ACCURATE SHADOW REGION IMAGING ALGORITHM USING ......................................... 937RANGE DERIVATIVES OF DOUBLY SCATTERED SIGNALS FOR UWB RADARSShouhei Kidera, Tetsuo Kirimoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

MOP-X.2: PERFORMANCE SIMULATION OF A SPACEBORNE DUAL-FREQUENCY ............................................. 941ROTATING FANBEAM SCATTEROMETERWenming Lin, Xiaolong Dong, Di Zhu, The CAS Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-X.3: THE RESULTS OF PRELIMINARY TESTING OF TWO-FREQUENCY (AT ............................................... 9455.6GHZ, AND 13.6GHZ), MULTI-POLARIZATION, COMBINED SCATTEROMETER-RADIOMETER SYSTEM IN FIELD CONDITIONSArtashes Arakelyan, Astghik Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Gagik Hovhannisyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Marine Simonyan, Mariam Krdyan, ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd., Armenia

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MOP-X.4: CALIBRATION AND DATA PREPROCESSING FOR THE FLIGHT ............................................................. 949EXPERIMENT OF CHINESE SPACEBORNE PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT RADARHonggang Yin, Hu Yang, Jian Shang, Qiong Wu, Yang Guo, National Satellite Meteorological Center CMA, China

MOP-X.5: DESIGN OF THE INTERFACE OF A CALIBRATION TRANSPONDER AND AN ...................................... 953ALTIMETER / SCATTEROMETERXi-Yu Xu, Wei Guo, He-Guang Liu, Ling-Wei Shi, Wen-Ming Lin, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Yue-Heng Du, Tsinghua University, China

MOP-X.6: RECOGNITION OF TARGET IN THROUGH WALL IMAGING USING ...................................................... 957SHAPE FEATURE EXTRACTIONAbhay N Gaikwad, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India; Dharmendra Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkeee, India, India; Madhav J Nigam, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

MOP-X.7: STATUS AND RECENT PROGRESSES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE ........................................................ 961SCATTEROMETER OF CFOSATXiaolong Dong, Di Zhu, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Acadmey of Sciences, China; Wenming Lin, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; He-Guang Liu, Jingshan Jiang, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Acadmey of Sciences, China

MOP-X.8: SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE IN-ORBIT CALIBRATION OF .................................................... 965SPACEBORNE ROTATING FAN BEAM RADAR SCATTEROMETERXiaolong Dong, Daozhi Liu, Jintai Zhu, Di Zhu, Wenming Lin, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-X.9: AUTOMATIC CO-REGISTRATION PERFORMANCE OF FULLY ............................................................... 969POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES WITH TEXTURE RELATIONSHIPKamolratn Chureesampant, Junichi Susaki, Kyoto University, Japan

MOP-X.10: COMPARISON OF ENVISAT RA2 BACKSCATTER RESULTS OVER GLOBAL .................................... 973LAND SURFACELe Yang, Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-Y: PASSIVE OPTICAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS I

MOP-Y.1: SCENE-BASED NON-UNIFORMITY CORRECTION USING .......................................................................... 977COMPRESSIVE SENSINGMahboob Iqbal, Jie Chen, Zhuo Li, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

MOP-Y.3: A GIS-READY PORTABLE AIRBORNE MULTISENSOR IMAGING SYSTEM ........................................... 981Xiuhong Sun, William Chen, Flight Landata Inc., United States; James Eichholz, US Army Topographic Engineering Center, United States; Jacob Osterberg, Flight Landata Inc., United States

MOP-Y.4: CALIBRATION OF THE THERMAL INFRARED SENSOR ON THE LANDSAT ........................................ 985DATA CONTINUITY MISSIONKurtis J. Thome, Dennis Reuter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Allen Lunsford, Catholic University, United States; Matthew Montanaro, Sigma Space Corp., United States; Ramsey Smith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Zelalem Tesfaye, Bastion Technologies, Inc., United States; Brian Wenny, Sigma Space Corp., United States

MOP-Y.5: RECENT OPERATIONAL STATUS OF GSICS GEO-LEO AND GEO-GEO ................................................. 989INTER-CALIBRATIONS AT NOAA/NESDISFangfang Yu, ERT @ NOAA / NESDIS, United States; Xiangqian Wu, Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, United States

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MOP-Y.6: VICARIOUS CALIBRATION CAMPAIGN IN ARGENTINA FOR RADIOMETRIC ................................... 993CALIBRATION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGER ON-BOARD SUMBANDILA SATELLITEDerek Griffith, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; M Horlent, Guillermo Ibañez, Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales, Argentina; Meena Lysko, CSIR, South Africa; Minette Lubbe, Azwitamisi Mudau, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Sandra Torrusio, Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales, Argentina; Venkataraman Sivakumar, Lufuno Vhengani, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

MOP-Y.7: ROBUST IR REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUE OF THE TOTAL COLUMN ............................................... 997OF TRACE GASES INCLUDING CARBON DIOXIDE AND METHANEElena Georgieva, JCET/UMBC, United States; William Heaps, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

MOP-Y.8: RETRIEVING WATER-LEAVING REFLECTANCE FROM HJ1 CCD ........................................................ 1001IMAGERY AIDED BY MODIS PRODUCTHua Xu, Xingfa Gu, Zhengqiang Li, Li Li, Zhihui Wang, Wanchun Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-Y.9: EVALUATION ON CONSISTENCY BETWEEN HJ-1 CCD AND TM IMAGES ......................................... 1005IN MONITORING FRACTIONAL GREEN VEGETATION COVERShuai Liu, Qi Li, Xi Mao, Junkui Zhang, Peking University, China

MOP-Y.10: A SUMMARY OF THE PERFORMANCE AND LONG-TERM STABILITY OF ....................................... 1009THE PRE-LAUNCH RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION FACILITY FOR THE CLOUDS AND THE EARTH’S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) INSTRUMENTSJames McCarthy, Herbert Bitting, Thomas Evert, Mark Frink, Theodore Hedman, Paul Sakaguchi, Mark Folkman, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, United States

MOP-Z: PASSIVE OPTICAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS II

MOP-Z.1: THE LONG-TERM VICARIOUS AND CROSS CALIBRATION PLAN FOR .............................................. 1013HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGER SUITE (HISUI)Akihide Kamei, Kazuki Nakamura, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan; Tetsushi Tachikawa, ERSDAC, Japan; Hirokazu Yamamoto, Ryosuke Nakamura, Satoshi Tsuchida, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

MOP-Z.4: ASSESSMENT OF MULTIANGULAR POLARIZATION CONTRIBUTION TO ........................................ 1017THE BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE OF NATURAL SAMPLESGeorgi T. Georgiev, Sigma Space Corp., United States; James J. Butler, Kurtis J. Thome, K. Jon Ranson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Michael D. King, University of Colorado, United States

MOP-Z.5: GAIN NONLINEARITY CALIBRATION OF THE SMILES RECEIVER ...................................................... 1021Satoshi Ochiai, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; Kenichi Kikuchi, Toshiyuki Nishibori, Satoko Mizobuchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Takeshi Manabe, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan; Chihiro Mitsuda, Fujitsu FIP Corporation, Japan; Philippe Baron, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

MOP-Z.6: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER SUITE (HISUI) -JAPANESE HYPER-MULTI .............................................. 1025SPECTRAL RADIOMETER-Akira Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Nagamitsu Ohgi, Jun Tanii, Japan Resources Observation System and Space Utilization Organization, Japan; Takahiro Kawashima, Hitomi Inada, NEC Corporation, Japan

MOP-Z.8: THE SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO ASSESSMENT OF CE-1 IIM DATA .......................................................... 1029Tong Shuai, Xia Zhang, Dong Zhao, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MOP-Z.9: VICARIOUS CALIBRATION OF GOES VISIBLE CHANNEL USING GOME-2 ......................................... 1033Xiangqian Wu, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, United States; Haifeng Qian, IMSG at NOAA / NESDIS, United States; Fangfang Yu, ERT @ NOAA / NESDIS, United States; Trevor Beck, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, United States

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TU1-T01: VOLUME SCATTERING

TU1-T01.1: EFFECTIVE TREE SCATTERING AT L-BAND.............................................................................................. 1036Mehmet Kurum, Peggy O’Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Roger Lang, George Washington University, United States; Alicia Joseph, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Michael Cosh, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, United States; Thomas Jackson, USDA ARS, United States

TU1-T01.3: SCATTERING FROM TREE BRANCHES USING THE FRESNEL DOUBLE .......................................... 1040SCATTERING APPROXIMATIONQianyi Zhao, Roger Lang, The George Washington University, United States

TU1-T02: SAR POLARIMETRY: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS I

TU1-T02.1: FOUR-COMPONENT SCATTERING POWER DECOMPOSITION USING ............................................. 1044COHERENCY MATRIXYoshio Yamaguchi, Niigata University, Japan

TU1-T02.3: A MULTITEXTURE MODEL FOR MULTILOOK POLARIMETERIC RADAR ...................................... 1048DATATorbjørn Eltoft, Stian Normann Anfinsen, Anthony Paul Doulgeris, University of Tromsø, Norway

TU1-T02.4: INFLUENCE OF SPECKLE FILTERING OF POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA ON ..................................... 1052DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATION METHODSFang Cao, Charles-Alban Deledalle, Jean-Marie Nicolas, Florence Tupin, Institut Telecom, Telecom Paristech, CNRS LTCI, France; Loïc Denis, Observatoire de Lyon, CNRS CRAL, UCBL, ENS de Lyon, Université de Lyon, France; Laurent Ferro-Famil, Eric Pottier, Université de Rennes 1, Insitut d’Electronique et de Télécommunication de Rennes, France; Carlos López-Martínez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, France

TU1-T02.5: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF ADVANCING MULTIMODAL POLSAR .................................................. 1056TECHNOLOGY, ITS RAPID WORLDWIDE EXPANSION, AND ITS PLETHORA OF DIVERSIFIED APPLICATIONSWolfgang-Martin Boerner, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

TU1-T03: SOIL MOISTURE REMOTE SENSING I

TU1-T03.1: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL UNDER VEGETATION USING DUAL ................................................... 1059POLARIZED PALSAR DATAChristian Koyama, Karl Schneider, University of Cologne, Germany

TU1-T03.3: EFFECT OF SOIL MOISTURE ON POLARIMETRIC-INTERFEROMETRIC ........................................ 1063REPEAT PASS OBSERVATIONS BY UAVSAR DURING 2010 CANADIAN SOIL MOISTURE CAMPAIGNScott Hensley, Thierry Michel, Jakob Van Zyl, Ronald Muellerschoen, Bruce Chapman, Shadi Oveisgharan, Ziad Haddad, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Thomas Jackson, Iliana Mladenova, US Department of Agriculture Research Center, United States

TU1-T03.4: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MAPPING OF SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT .............................................. 1067WITH POLARIMETRIC RADARSAT2 SAR IMAGERY IN THE ALPINE AREALuca Pasolli, University of Trento, Italy; Claudia Notarnicola, Eurac Research, Italy; Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy; Giacomo Bertoldi, Georg Niedrist, Ulrike Tappeiner, Marc Zebish, Eurac Research, Italy; Fabio Del Frate, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Tor Vergata University, Italy

TU1-T04: STUDENT PAPER CONTEST I

TU1-T04.1: A NOVEL APPROACH TO THE AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF SUBSURFACE .................................. 1071FEATURES IN PLANETARY RADAR SOUNDER SIGNALSAdamo Ferro, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

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TU1-T04.2: IMAGE DISTORTION EFFECTS IN SUBSURFACE SAR IMAGING OF .................................................. 1075DESERTS AND THEIR CORRECTION TECHNIQUEAdel Elsherbini, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States

TU1-T04.3: POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION USING DISTRIBUTED ODD-BOUNCE ............................................. 1079TARGETSJiong Chen, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan; Jian Yang, Tsinghua University, China

TU1-T04.4: SUBSIDENCE MONITORING USING POLARIMETRIC PERSISTENT ................................................... 1083SCATTERERS INTERFEROMETRYVíctor Diego Navarro Sánchez, Juan Manuel López Sánchez, University of Alicante, Spain

TU1-T04.5: MODEL-BASED POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION USING POLINSAR ............................................ 1087COHERENCESi-Wei Chen, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

TU1-T05: LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE V

TU1-T05.1: A POLARIMETRIC TEMPORAL SCENE PARAMETER AND ITS APPLICATION .............................. 1091TO CHANGE DETECTIONEsra Erten, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Cristian Rossi, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Irena Hajnsek, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland

TU1-T05.3: THEMATIC MAPPING AT REGIONAL SCALE USING SIASGE RADAR DATA AT ............................ 1095X AND L BAND AND OPTICAL IMAGESNazzareno Pierdicca, Fabrizio Pelliccia, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Marco Chini, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

TU1-T05.5: EMPIRICAL MODEL FOR SOIL SALINITY MAPPING FROM SAR DATA ............................................ 1099Mohamed Grissa, Riadh Abdelfattah, URISA/Sup’Com, Tunisia; Grégoire Mercier, ITI/Telcom Bretagne, France; Mehrez Zribi, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) / IRD, France; Aicha Chahbi, Zohra Lili-Chabaane, Lr-STE/INAT, Tunisia

TU1-T06: SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING: METHODS

TU1-T06.1: A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO LOCALIZED MULTI-KERNEL LEARNING .......................................... 1103USING THE RELEVANCE VECTOR MACHINERyan Close, Joseph Wilson, Paul Gader, University of Florida, United States

TU1-T06.2: SUBSURFACE TARGETS DETECTION WITH SHANNON ENTROPY ..................................................... 1107Xiaolin Bian, Yun Shao, Huaze Gong, Fengli Zhang, Chou Xie, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TU1-T06.3: GRADIENT BASED TECHNIQUE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC LAYERED ........................................... 1111EARTH MODEL DATA INVERSIONClaudio Patriarca, Andrea Di Matteo, Evert Slob, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

TU1-T06.4: DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF BURIED RADIOACTIVE-METAL ........................................ 1115OBJECTS USING WIDEBAND EMI DATAAnish Turlapaty, Qian Du, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States

TU1-T07: GNSS REMOTE SENSING IN ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN AND HYDROLOGY I

TU1-T07.2: GPS IONOSPHERIC MAPPING AND TOMOGRAPHY: A CASE OF STUDY .......................................... 1127IN A GEOMAGNETIC STORMShuanggen Jin, Rui Jin, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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TU1-T07.4: APPLICATION OF GNSS NETWORKS TO DETECT AND ANALYZE ..................................................... 1131ATMOSPHERIC-INDUCED IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES COINCIDENT WITH EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMISYu-Ming Yang, James Garrison, See-Chen Lee, Purdue University, United States

TU1-T08: SPECTRAL UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA I

TU1-T08.1: AN OVERVIEW ON HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING: GEOMETRICAL, ................................................ 1135STATISTICAL, AND SPARSE REGRESSION BASED APPROACHESJose Bioucas-Dias, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal; Antonio Plaza, Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Spain

TU1-T08.2: SPATIAL-SPECTRAL UNMIXING USING FUZZY LOCAL INFORMATION .......................................... 1139Alina Zare, University of Missouri, United States

TU1-T08.3: AN OPTIMIZATION PERSPECTIVE ON WINTER’S ENDMEMBER ....................................................... 1143EXTRACTION BELIEFTsung-Han Chan, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Wing-Kin Ma, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China; ArulMurugan Ambikapathi, Chong-Yung Chi, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

TU1-T08.4: SIMPLEX VOLUME ANALYSIS BASED ON TRIANGULAR FACTORIZATION: ................................. 1147A FRAMEWORK FOR HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXINGWei Xia, Bin Wang, Liming Zhang, Qiyong Lu, Fudan University, China

TU1-T08.5: NONLINEAR UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING RADIAL ........................................ 1151BASIS FUNCTIONS AND ORTHOGONAL LEAST SQUARESYoann Altmann, Nicolas Dobigeon, University of Toulouse, France; Steve Mclaughlin, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France

TU1-T09: DATA FUSION

TU1-T09.1: CONTEXTUAL HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BY ..................................................... 1155MARKOVIAN DATA FUSION, ADAPTIVE TEXTURE EXTRACTION, AND MULTISCALE SEGMENTATIONGabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy

TU1-T09.3: A HIERARCHICAL MARKOV RANDOM FIELD FOR ROAD NETWORK ............................................. 1159EXTRACTION AND ITS APPLICATION WITH OPTICAL AND SAR DATATalita Perciano, Florence Tupin, Télécom ParisTech, France; Roberto Hirata Jr., Roberto M. Cesar Jr., Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

TU1-T09.5: 2011 GRSS DATA FUSION CONTEST: EXPLOITING WORLDVIEW-2 ................................................... 1163MULTI-ANGULAR ACQUISITIONSFabio Pacifici, DigitalGlobe Inc., United States; Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France; Qian Du, Mississippi State University, United States

TU1-T10: OCEAN SURFACE WINDS AND CURRENTS I

TU1-T10.4: THE EFFECT OF RAIN ON ASCAT OBSERVATIONS OF THE SEA SURFACE .................................... 1171RADAR CROSS SECTION USING SIMULTANEOUS 3-D NEXRAD RAIN MEASUREMENTSDavid Weissman, Hofstra University, United States; Mark Bourassa, Florida State University, United States

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TU2-T01: DEFORMATION INTERFEROMETRY

TU2-T01.1: LONG-TERM AIRBORNE DINSAR MEASUREMENTS: P- AND X-BAND .............................................. 1175CASESKarlus Alexander Camara de Macedo, Christian Wimmer, Thiago L. Morais Barreto, Dieter Luebeck, João Roberto Moreira, OrbiSat Remote Sensing, Brazil; Lis Maria L. Rabaco, Wilson J. De Oliveira, Petrobras, Brazil

TU2-T01.2: CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT OBSERVATION IN DECORELATE BELT ............................................ 1179ALONG SEISMIC FAULT OF 2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKEChunyan Qu, Yunhua Liu, Xinjian Shan, Guohong Zhang, Guifang Zhang, Xiaogang Song, State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, China

TU2-T01.3: ADAPTIVE LOCAL KRIGING (ALK) TO RETRIEVE THE SLANT RANGE .......................................... 1183SURFACE MOTION MAPS OF WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKEMeng-Che Wu, Jianguo Liu, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

TU2-T01.4: EXTRACTION OF WIDE-RANGING CRUSTAL MOVEMENT USING .................................................... 1187ALOS/PALSAR SCANSAR INTERFEROMETRYMasanori Miyawaki, Shino Yamaguchi, NEC Aerospace Systems Ltd, Japan; Tsunekazu Kimura, NEC Corporation, Japan

TU2-T02: SAR POLARIMETRY: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS II

TU2-T02.1: POLSAR RADARSAT-2 SATELLITE IMAGE TIME SERIES MINING OVER ........................................ 1191THE CHAMONIX MONT-BLANC TEST SITEAndreea Julea, Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti, Romania; Fernanda Ledo, Nicolas Meger, Emmanuel Trouvé, Philippe Bolon, Université de Savoie, France; Christophe Rigotti, INSA Lyon, France; Renaud Fallourd, Université de Savoie, France; Jean-Marie Nicolas, Télécom ParisTech, France; Gabriel Vasile, Michel Gay, Olivier Harant, INP Grenoble, France; Laurent Ferro-Famil, Université de Rennes, France; Felicity Lodge, Université Joseph Fourier, France

TU2-T02.2: MEASURING ORIENTATION AND RANDOMNESS OF VEGETATION ................................................. 1195USING POLARIMETRIC SAR DATAMotofumi Arii, Mitsubishi Space Software Co. Ltd., Japan; Jakob van Zyl, Yunjin Kim, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TU2-T02.3: INVESTIGATION ON THE ORIENTATION AND STRUCTURE ............................................................... 1199PARAMETERS OF CANOPY USING POLSAR OBSERVATIONSYanting Wang, Thomas Ainsworth, Jong-Sen Lee, Naval Research Laboratory, United States

TU2-T02.4: COHERENT SCATTERERS DETECTION: APPLICATION OVER GLACIER ........................................ 1203TERRAIN USING TERRASAR-X TIME SERIES DATAMaria J. Sanjuan-Ferrer, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Irena Hajnsek, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU2-T03: SOIL MOISTURE REMOTE SENSING II

TU2-T03.1: IMPROVING LAND SURFACE ENERGY AND WATER FLUXES ............................................................. 1207SIMULATION OVER THE TIBETAN PLATEAU WITH USING A LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMHui Lu, Tsinghua University, China; Toshio Koike, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Kun Yang, Xin Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Katsunori Tamagawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Xiangde Xu, Chinese Meteorological Administration, China

TU2-T03.3: RETRIEVAL OF SOIL MOISTURE AND VEGETATION CANOPY .......................................................... 1211PARAMETERS WITH L-BAND RADAR FOR A RANGE OF BOREAL FORESTSAlireza Tabatabaeenejad, Mariko Burgin, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States

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TU2-T03.4: A BAYESIAN METHODOLOGY FOR SOIL PARAMETERS RETRIEVAL ............................................. 1215FROM SAR IMAGESMatias Barber, Institute For Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE), Argentina; Marcela Piscitelli, Cátedra de Conservación y Manejo de Suelos. Facultad de Agronomía (UNICEN), Argentina; Pablo Perna, Cintia Bruscantinni, Francisco Grings, Institute For Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE), Argentina; Julio Cesar Jacobo Berlles, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN), Argentina; Haydee Karszenbaum, Institute For Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE), Argentina

TU2-T03.5: CLOSED LOOP BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DATA INVERSION FOR ............................................ 1219THE RETRIEVAL OF SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIESMarin Dimitrov, Jan Vanderborght, Khan Zaib Jadoon, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; Mike Schwank, German Research Center for Geoscience, Germany; Lutz Weihermüller, Harry Vereecken, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

TU2-T04: STUDENT PAPER CONTEST II

TU2-T04.1: FIRST RESULT OF BISTATIC FORWARD-LOOKING SAR WITH .......................................................... 1223STATIONARY TRANSMITTERJunjie Wu, Yulin Huang, Jianyu Yang, Wenchao Li, Haiguang Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

TU2-T04.2: VECTOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM LAYERED ROUGH ........................................ 1227SURFACES WITH BURIED DISCRETE RANDOM MEDIA FOR SUBSURFACE AND ROOT-ZONE SOIL MOISTURE SENSINGXueyang Duan, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States

TU2-T04.3: A NOVEL HYBRID APPROACH TO THE ESTIMATION OF BIOPHYSICAL ........................................ 1231PARAMETERS FROM REMOTELY SENSED DATALuca Pasolli, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy; Claudia Notarnicola, Eurac Research, Italy

TU2-T04.4: SCALE EFFECT OF VEGETATION INDEX BASED THERMAL ............................................................... 1235SHARPENING: A SIMULATION STUDY BASED ON ASTER DATAXuehong Chen, Yasushi Yamaguchi, Nagoya University, Japan; Jin Chen, Beijing Normal University, China; Yusheng Shi, Nagoya University, Japan

TU2-T04.5: A GENERAL APPROACH TO THE SPATIAL SIMPLIFICATION OF REMOTE ................................... 1239SENSING IMAGES BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL CONNECTED FILTERSMauro Dalla Mura, University of Trento / University of Iceland, Italy; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland; Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

TU2-T05: VEGETATION STRUCTURE AND INVENTORY I

TU2-T05.2: FLOWER SPECIES IDENTIFICATION AND COVERAGE ESTIMATION .............................................. 1243BASED ON HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATAYingying Gai, Wenjie Fan, Xiru Xu, Peking University, China; Yuanzhen Zhang, China Meteorological Administration, China

TU2-T05.3: CLASSIFICATION OF TYPHOON-DESTROYED FORESTS BASED ON ................................................. 1247TREE HEIGHT CHANGE DETECTION USING INSAR TECHNOLOGYHaipeng Wang, Fudan University, China; Kazuo Ouchi, National Defense Academy, Japan; Ya-Qiu Jin, Fudan University, China

TU2-T05.4: EXPLOITING FULLWAVEFORM LIDAR SIGNALS TO ESTIMATE TIMBER ..................................... 1251VOLUME AND ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS OF INDIVIDUAL TREES Tristan Allouis, Cemagref / AgroParisTech, France; Sylvie Durrieu, Cemagref, France; Cédric Véga, French Institute of Pondicherry, India; Pierre Couteron, Institut de recherche pour le développement, France

TU2-T05.5: GLOBAL CLUMPING INDEX MAP DERIVED FROM MODIS BRDF ...................................................... 1255PRODUCTSLiming He, Jing Chen, University of Toronto, Canada; Jan Pisek, Tartu Observatory, Estonia; Crystal Schaaf, Alan Strahler, Boston University, United States

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TU2-T06: URBAN AREA MONITORING

TU2-T06.1: URBAN AREA PRODUCT SIMULATION FOR THE ENMAP ..................................................................... 1259HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORPaolo Gamba, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy; Alberto Villa, Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain; Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland

TU2-T06.2: LAND-USE MAPPING USING COARSE RESOLUTION SAR DATA AT THE ......................................... 1263OBJECT LEVEL EXPLOITING ANCILLARY OPTICAL DATAPaolo Gamba, Massimiliano Aldrighi, Università Degli Studi di Pavia, Italy

TU2-T06.3: SUBWAY TUNNELS IDENTIFICATION THROUGH COSMO-SKYMED ................................................ 1267PSINSAR ANALYSIS IN SHANGHAIZhiying Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Daniele Perissin, Hui Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China

TU2-T06.5: ESTIMATION OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE FROM AERIAL IMAGES BY .......................................... 1271PROBABILISTIC METHODShota Izaka, Hitoshi Saji, Shizuoka University, Japan

TU2-T07: GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MISSION

TU2-T07.3: PRECIPITATION TYPE AND PROFILE CLASSIFICATION FOR GPM-DPR.......................................... 1275Minda Le, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States

TU2-T07.4: PROTO-FLIGHT TEST OF THE DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION ............................................... 1279RADAR FOR THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTKinji Furukawa, Masahiro Kojima, Takeshi Miura, Yasutoshi Hyakusoku, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Toshio Iguchi, Hiroshi Hanado, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; Minoru Okumura, NEC Toshiba Space Systems, Japan

TU2-T07.5: RETRIEVAL OF RAINFALL FROM THE MADRAS MICROWAVE IMAGER OF ................................ 1283MEGHA-TROPIQUESChakravarthy Balaji, Srinivasa Ramanujam Kannan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

TU2-T08: SPECTRAL UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA II

TU2-T08.1: NOISE-ROBUST SPATIAL PREPROCESSING PRIOR TO ENDMEMBER .............................................. 1287EXTRACTION FROM HYPERSPECTRAL DATAGabriel Martin, Antonio Plaza, Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Spain; Maciel Zortea, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Norway

TU2-T08.2: ROBUST UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES: APPLICATION TO ......................................... 1291MARSMario Parente, John Mustard, Brown University, United States; Scott Murchie, Frank Seelos, Applied Physics Lab Johns Hopkins University, United States

TU2-T08.3: NON-LINEAR FULLY-CONSTRAINED SPECTRAL UNMIXING............................................................... 1295Rob Heylen, Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium

TU2-T08.5: MINIMUM ENDMEMBER-WISE DISTANCE CONSTRAINED .................................................................. 1299NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION FOR SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGESShaohui Mei, Mingyi He, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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TU2-T09: TARGET DETECTION

TU2-T09.2: RADAR MICRO-DOPPLER ANALYSIS AND ROTATION PARAMETER ............................................... 1307ESTIMATION FOR RIGID TARGETS WITH COMPLICATED MICRO-MOTIONSPeng Lei, Jun Wang, Jinping Sun, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

TU2-T09.3: COMBINATIONAL MATCHING METHOD OF AMPLITUDE-SCALE AND ........................................... 1311TIME-SHIFT FOR RADAR HRRP RECOGNITIONFeng Chen, Wenxian Yu, Xingzhao Liu, Kaizhi Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

TU2-T09.4: TRUCK CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS FROM ALL ASPECT ANGLES WITH ................................... 1315QUAD-POL RADARSAT-2 SAR IMAGESBo Zhang, Hong Zhang, Chao Wang, Fan Wu, Yixian Tang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TU2-T09.5: LARGE ALONG-TRACK BASELINE SAR-GMTI: FIRST RESULTS WITH ............................................ 1319THE TERRASAR-X/TANDEM-X SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONStefan Baumgartner, Gerhard Krieger, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU2-T10: SAR APPLICATIONS IN OCEANOGRAPHY: FROM RESEARCH TO OPERATION I

TU2-T10.1: NOAA OPERATIONAL SAR SEA SURFACE WIND PRODUCTS ............................................................... 1323William Pichel, NOAA / National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service / Center for Satellite Applications & Research, United States; Frank Monaldo, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States; Christopher Jackson, Global Ocean Associates, United States; Xiaofeng Li, IMSG at NOAA / NESDIS, United States; John Sapper, NOAA / National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service / OSPO, United States; Xiaofang Yang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TU2-T10.2: THE IMPACT OF OCEAN SURFACE FEATURES ON THE HIGH ........................................................... 1327RESOLUTION WIND RETRIEVAL FROM SARXiaofeng Yang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaofeng Li, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, United States; Ziwei Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; William Pichel, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, United States

TU2-T10.4: WIND RETRIEVAL WITH CROSS-POLARIZED SAR RETURNS .............................................................. 1330Paul Hwang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; William Perrie, Biao Zhang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada

TU2-T10.5: SAR MEASUREMENT OF OCEAN SURFACE WIND AND WAVE FOR .................................................. 1334OPERATIONAL SHIP ROUTINGXiao-Ming Li, Susanne Lehner, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Thomas Bruns, German Weather Service (DWD), Germany

TU3-T01: TIME-SERIES AND STACKING INTERFEROMETRY I

TU3-T01.1: COHERENT STACKING OF SAR IMAGES FOR EFFICIENT ................................................................... 1338INTERFEROMETRIC PROCESSINGFrancesco De Zan, Paco López-Dekker, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU3-T01.2: HIGH RESOLUTION DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRIC STACKING VIA .................................... 1341ADAPTIVE SPATIAL PHASE FILTERINGKanika Goel, Nico Adam, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU3-T01.3: AUTOMATIC QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR INTERFEROGRAM SAR STACKS ................................. 1345Pietro Guccione, Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Stefano Tebaldini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

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TU3-T01.4: NEW IMPROVEMENTS OF THE EXTENDED MINIMUM COST FLOW ................................................ 1349PHASE UNWRAPPING FOR PROCESSING MULTITEMPORAL FULL RESOLUTION INTERFEROGRAMSAntonio Pepe, Manuela Bonano, Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente (IREA), CNR, Italy; Yang Yang, National University of Defense Technology, China; Michele Manunta, Riccardo Lanari, Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente (IREA), CNR, Italy

TU3-T01.5: DEM CORRECTIONS BEFORE UNWRAPPING IN A SMALL BASELINE ............................................. 1353STRATEGY FOR INSAR TIME SERIES ANALYSISGabriel Ducret, Marie Pierre Doin, Raphaël Grandin, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France; Cécile Lasserre, LGIT, France; Stéphane Guillaso, University of Technology, Germany

TU3-T02: SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR POLSAR AND POLINSAR APPLICATIONS

TU3-T02.1: A K-WISHART MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL FOR CLUSTERING OF ...................................... 1357POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGERYVahid Akbari, University of Tromsø, Norway; Gabriele Moser, University of Genoa, Italy; Anthony Paul Doulgeris, Stian Normann Anfinsen, Torbjørn Eltoft, University of Tromsø, Italy; Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy

TU3-T02.2: ON THE EXTENSION OF THE PRODUCT MODEL IN POLSAR .............................................................. 1361PROCESSING FOR UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION USING INFORMATION GEOMETRY OF COVARIANCE MATRICESPierre Formont, SONDRA / Supélec, France; Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France; Frédéric Pascal, SONDRA / Supélec, France; Gabriel Vasile, GIPSA-Laboratory / CNRS, France; Laurent Ferro-Famil, IETR, France

TU3-T02.3: COHERENCE LINEARITY AND SKP-STRUCTURED MATRICES IN ..................................................... 1365MULTI- BASELINE POLINSARStefano Tebaldini, Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

TU3-T02.4: MULTI-SIGNAL COMPRESSED SENSING FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR ................................................. 1369TOMOGRAPHYEsteban Aguilera, Matteo Nannini, Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU3-T02.5: POLARIMETRIC SAR TOMOGRAPHY OF TROPICAL FORESTS AT P-BAND .................................... 1373Yue Huang, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Cédric Lardeux, University of Rennes, France

TU3-T03: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING: COMPARISONS, CONTRASTS, AND SYNERGY I

TU3-T03.1: COMBINING SPACE-BASED ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE ..................................................... 1377OBSERVATIONS TO IMPROVE GLOBAL SNOWFALL ESTIMATESTristan L’Ecuyer, Norman Wood, Colorado State University, United States

TU3-T03.3: A SYNERGETIC USE OF OBSERVATIONS FROM MODIS, SEVIRI MSG, ............................................. 1381ASAR AND AMSR-E TO INFER A DAILY SOIL MOISTURE INDEXClaudia Notarnicola, EURAC, Italy; Francesca Di Giuseppe, ARPA-ServizioIdroMeteoClima, Italy; Luca Pasolli, University of Trento- EURAC, Italy; Marouane Temimi, NOAA-CREST/City University of New York, United States; Bartolomeo Ventura, Marc Zebisch, EURAC, Italy

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TU3-T04: SAR MISSIONS AND INSTRUMENTS III

TU3-T04.1: TANDEM-L: A MISSION PROPOSAL FOR MONITORING DYNAMIC EARTH .................................... 1385PROCESSESAlberto Moreira, Gerhard Krieger, Marwan Younis, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Irena Hajnsek, German Aerospace Center (DLR) / ETH Zurich, Germany; Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Michael Eineder, Francesco de Zan, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU3-T04.2: IMPROVED PROCESSING OF THE CASIE SAR DATA ............................................................................... 1389Craig Stringham, David G. Long, Brigham Young University, United States

TU3-T04.3: FIRST BISTATIC SPACEBORNE SAR EXPERIMENTS WITH TANDEM-X ............................................ 1393Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Pau Prats, Daniel Schulze, Nuria Tous-Ramon, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Luca Marotti, Matteo Nannini, Marwan Younis, Paco López-Dekker, Manfred Zink, Andreas Reigber, Gerhard Krieger, Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU3-T05: SAR/LIDAR SENSING II

TU3-T05.1: INTEROPERABILITY OF RADAR AND OPTICAL DATA FOR FOREST ............................................... 1397INFORMATION ASSESSMENT.Anthea Mitchell, Anthony Milne, Ian Tapley, University of New South Wales, Australia; Kim Lowell, University of Melbourne, Australia; Peter Caccetta, Eric Lehmann, Zheng-Shu Zhou, Alex Held, CSIRO, Australia

TU3-T05.2: MULTITEMPORAL OBSERVATIONS OF SUGARCANE BY TERRASAR-X .......................................... 1401SENSORNicolas Baghdadi, Cemagref, France; Pierre Todoroff, cirad, France; Mehrez Zribi, ird, France

TU3-T05.4: SEE THE FORESTS WITH DIFFERENT EYES............................................................................................... 1405Chue Poh Tan, Armando Marino, Iain Woodhouse, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Shane R. Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom; Juan Suarez, Colin Edwards, Forestry Commission UK, United Kingdom

TU3-T06: VHR URBAN REMOTE SENSING

TU3-T06.1: URBAN BUILDING DAMAGE DETECTION FROM VERY HIGH ............................................................. 1409RESOLUTION IMAGERY BY ONE-CLASS SVM AND SHADOW INFORMATIONPeijun Li, Benqin Song, Haiqing Xu, Peking University, China

TU3-T06.2: IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF URBAN STRUCTURES ........................................ 1413USING VHR SAR DATAThomas Esch, Martin Schmidt, Markus Breunig, Andreas Felbier, Hannes Taubenböck, Wieke Heldens, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Christian Riegler, University of Wuerzburg, Germany; Achim Roth, Stefan Dech, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU3-T06.3: ANALYSIS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING FROM A .................................................. 1417DIELECTRIC DIHEDRAL STRUCTURE BY POLARIMETRIC GB-SARMasayoshi Matsumoto, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

TU3-T06.4: 2D CHANGE DETECTION FROM SATELLITE IMAGERY: PERFORMANCE ...................................... 1421ANALYSIS AND IMPACT OF THE SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF INPUT IMAGESNicolas Champion, IGN-F, France; Didier Boldo, EDF, France; Marc Pierrot-Deseilligny, IGN-F, France; Georges Stamon, Paris Descartes, France

TU3-T06.5: THE EFFECTS OF VIEWING- AND ILLUMINATION GEOMETRY ON ................................................. 1425SETTLEMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION OF QUICKBIRD IMAGESFrans van den Bergh, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

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TU3-T07: REMOTE SENSING OF PRECIPITATION FROM SPACE - THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE I

TU3-T08: OPTICAL IMAGE PROCESSING

TU3-T08.1: BRIDGE EXTRACTION BASED ON CONSTRAINED DELAUNAY .......................................................... 1429TRIANGULATION FOR PANCHROMATIC IMAGEFeng Gao, Lei Hu, Zhaofeng He, Beihang University, China

TU3-T08.3: A SELF-ADJUSTIVE GEOMETRIC CORRECTION METHOD FOR ........................................................ 1433SERIOUSLY OBLIQUE AERO IMAGEChunyuan Wang, Ye Zhang, Pigang Liu, Qi Xu, Yanfeng Gu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

TU3-T08.4: SATELLITE IMAGE ARTIFACTS DETECTION BASED ON COMPLEXITY ......................................... 1437DISTORTION THEORYAvid Roman-Gonzalez, Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU3-T09: DATA MINING AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR REMOTE SENSING I

TU3-T09.2: RAPID DAMAGE ASSESSMENT USING HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTE .............................................. 1445SENSING IMAGERY: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUESRanga Raju Vatsavai, Mark Tuttle, Budhendra Bhaduri, Eddie Bright, Anil Cheriyadat, Varun Chandola, J. Graesser, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

TU3-T09.3: GOPHER: GLOBAL OBSERVATION OF PLANETARY HEALTH AND .................................................. 1449ECOSYSTEM RESOURCESAshish Garg, Varun Mithal, Yashu Chamber, Ivan Brugere, Vijay Chaudhari, Marc Dunham, Vikrant Krishna, Sairam Krishnamurthy, Sruthi Vangala, Shyam Boriah, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, United States; Albert Cho, JD Stanley, Teji Abraham, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Planetary Skin Institute, United States; Christopher Potter, Steven Klooster, NASA Ames Research Center, United States

TU3-T09.4: DESIGN OF BENCHMARK IMAGERY FOR VALIDATING FACILITY .................................................. 1453ANNOTATION ALGORITHMSRandy Roberts, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States; Paul Pope, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States; Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; Ming Jiang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States; Lloyd Arrowood, Y-12 National Security Complex, United States; Timothy Trucano, Sandia National Laboratories, United States; Shaun Gleason, Anil Cheriyadat, Alexandre Sorokine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; Aggelos Katsaggelos, Thrasyvoulos Pappas, Northwestern University, United States; Lucinda Gaines, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States; Lawrence Chilton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States

TU3-T09.5: EVALUATING TRANSFER LEARNING APPROACHES FOR IMAGE .................................................... 1457INFORMATION MINING APPLICATIONSSurya Durbha, Indian Institue of Technology, Bombay, India; Roger King, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States

TU3-T10: OCEAN SURFACE WINDS AND CURRENTS II

TU3-T10.1: A STUDY OF SEA SURFACE HEIGHT RETRIEVAL USING DOPPLER ................................................. 1461MEASUREMENTS FROM NUMERICALLY SIMULATED LOW GRAZING ANGLE BACKSCATTER DATAChun-Sik Chae, Joel Johnson, The Ohio State University, United States

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TU3-T10.3: SEA SURFACE CURRENT MEASUREMENT WITH KU-BAND SAR ....................................................... 1465ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRYNobuo Kumagae, Kazuo Kawamura, 1Japan Resources Observation System and Utilization Organization, Japan; Kenji Tatsumi, Japan Resources Observation System and Utilization Organization, Japan; Masatada Furuhata, 1Japan Resources Observation System and Utilization Organization, Japan; Masayoshi Tsuchida, Masao Tsuji, Tomoya Yamaoka, Kei Suwa, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan

TU3-T10.4: A NEW APPROACH TO SEA SURFACE WIND RETRIEVAL FROM GNSS-R ....................................... 1469MEASUREMENTSHyuk Park, Enric Valencia, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

TU3-T10.5: ESTIMATION OF WAVE SPECTRA WITH SWIM ON CFOSAT – ............................................................ 1473ILLUSTRATION ON A REAL CASECéline Tison, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Claire Manent, CNRS - LATMOS/OVSQ, France; Thierry Amiot, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Vivien Enjolras, Thalès Alenia Space, France; Danièle Hauser, CNRS - LATMOS/OVSQ, France; Laurent Rey, Thalès Alenia Space, France; Patrick Castillan, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

TU4-T01: TIME-SERIES AND STACKING INTERFEROMETRY II

TU4-T01.1: TIANJIN INSAR TIME SERIES ANALYSIS WITH L AND X-BAND .......................................................... 1477Qingli Luo, Daniele Perissin, Qinghua Li, Hui Lin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China; Ralf Duering, Infoterra, Germany

TU4-T01.3: WIDE AREA PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY ................................................................ 1481Nico Adam, Fernando Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Alessandro Parizzi, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Werner Liebhart, Technische Universität München, Germany

TU4-T01.4: GHOST PERSISTENT SCATTERERS RELATED TO SIGNAL .................................................................. 1485REFLECTIONS BETWEEN ADJACENT BUILDINGSStefan Auer, Stefan Gernhardt, Technische Universität München, Germany; Richard Bamler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU4-T01.5: AMPLITUDE BASED INSAR STACK MULTI-LOOKING: PERFORMANCE ......................................... 1489AND APPLICATIONSAlessandro Parizzi, Ramon Brcic, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU4-T02: IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON SAR, POLSAR AND INSAR

TU4-T02.1: A STATISTICAL MODEL OF IONOSPHERIC SIGNALS IN ....................................................................... 1493LOW-FREQUENCY SAR DATAFranz Meyer, Brenton Watkins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States

TU4-T02.2: IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN SAR INTERFEROMETRY: AN ANALYSIS AND ..................................... 1497COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR THEIR ESTIMATIONRamon Brcic, Alessandro Parizzi, Michael Eineder, Richard Bamler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Franz Meyer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States

TU4-T02.3: TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS FOR ESTIMATING IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS .......................................... 1501IN INTERFEROMETRIC AND POLARIMETRIC SAR DATAPaul Rosen, Marco Lavalle, Xiaoqing Pi, Sean Buckley, Walter Szeliga, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Howard Zebker, Stanford University, United States; Eric Gurrola, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TU4-T02.4: CORRECTION OF IONOSPHERIC DISTORTIONS IN LOW FREQUENCY ........................................... 1505INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATAJun Su Kim, Andreas Danklmayer, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

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TU4-T03: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING: COMPARISONS, CONTRASTS, AND SYNERGY II

TU4-T03.1: ALL-WEATHER WIND VECTOR MEASUREMENTS FROM .................................................................... 1509INTERCALIBRATED ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITE SENSORSThomas Meissner, Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, United States

TU4-T04: AIRBORNE SAR

TU4-T04.1: THE ECOSAR P-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR ......................................................................... 1512Rafael Rincon, Temilola Fatoyinbo, Guoqing Sun, K. Jon Ranson, Martin Perrine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Manohar Deshapnde, Quenton Bonds, NASA, United States

TU4-T04.2: IMPACT OF THE ANTENNA STABILITY ON THE DOPPLER CENTROID ........................................... 1516FREQUENCYAndrea Recchia, Aresys s.r.l., Italy; Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Nuno Miranda, European Space Research Institute, European Space Agency, Italy; Fabrice Collard, CLS, France; Davide D’Aria, Davide Giudici, Aresys s.r.l., Italy

TU4-T04.3: SYSTEM STATUS AND CALIBRATION OF THE F-SAR AIRBORNE SAR ............................................. 1520INSTRUMENTAndreas Reigber, Marc Jäger, Jens Fischer, Ralf Horn, Rolf Scheiber, Pau Prats, Anton Nottensteiner, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU4-T05: SAR/LIDAR SENSING I

TU4-T05.1: ECOSAR: A P- BAND DIGITAL BEAMFORMING POLARIMETRIC ....................................................... 1524INTERFEROMETRIC SAR INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND BIOMASSTemilola Fatoyinbo, Rafael Rincon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States; K. Jon Ranson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TU4-T05.3: BIOSAR 2010 – A SAR CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT TO THE BIOMASS MISSION .................................... 1528Lars M. Ulander, Anders Gustavsson, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden; Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Xavier Dupuis, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France; Johan Fransson, Johan Holmgren, Jörgen Wallerman, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden; Leif E. B. Eriksson, Gustaf Sandberg, Maciej Soja, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

TU4-T05.4: THE POTENTIAL OF MULTI-TEMPORAL COSMO-SKYMED SAR IMAGES ...................................... 1532IN MONITORING SOIL AND VEGETATIONEmanuele Santi, Simone Pettinato, Simonetta Paloscia, Marco Brogioni, Giacomo Fontanelli, Paolo Pampaloni, Giovanni Macelloni, Francesco Montomoli, Institute of Applied Physics - CNR, Italy

TU4-T05.5: A GROUND BASED POLARIMETRIC SCATTEROMETER EXPERIMENT IN ..................................... 1536FRENCH GUIANA FORESTSClément Albinet, Pierre Borderies, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France; Thierry Koleck, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Fabio Rocca, Stefano Tebaldini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Thuy Le Toan, Ludovic Villard, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France

TU4-T06: COASTAL AND WETLANDS I

TU4-T06.2: MONITORING OF TOPOGRAPHIC CHANGE ON THE COASTAL AREA .............................................. 1540Jinah Eom, Jong-Kuk Choi, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Republic of Korea; Joong-Sun Won, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

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TU4-T06.3: A SYNERGETIC USE OF ACTIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS, ...................................................... 1544OPTICAL IMAGES AND TOPOGRAPHY DATA FOR IMPROVED FLOOD MAPPING IN THE GULF OF MEXICOMarouane Temimi, Naira Chaouch, NOAA-CREST/City University of New York, United States; Scott Hagen, John Weishampel, Stephen Medeiros, University of Central Florida, United States; Jesse Feyen, Yuji Funakoshi, NOAA Storm Surge Roadmap, United States; Reza Khanbilvardi, NOAA-CREST/City University of New York, United States

TU4-T06.4: MODELLING COASTAL PROCESSES BY MEANS OF INNOVATIVE .................................................... 1547INTEGRATION OF REMOTE SENSING TIME SERIES ANALYSISAndrea Taramelli, Emiliana Valentini, Mariangela Dejana, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy; Francesco Zucca, Universiy of Pavia, Italy; Stefania Mandrone, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy

TU4-T07: REMOTE SENSING OF PRECIPITATION FROM SPACE - THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE II

TU4-T07.2: DEVELOPMENT OF SPACEBORNE RAIN RADAR IN CHINA: THE FIRST ......................................... 1551RESULTS FROM AIRBORNE DUAL-FREQUENCY RAIN RADAR FIELD CAMPAIGNHu Yang, Jian Shang, Qiong Wu, Honggang Yin, Yang Guo, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China

TU4-T07.3: DUAL KA-BAND RADAR EXPERIMENT FOR THE DPR ALGORITHM ................................................ 1554DEVELOPMENTKenji Nakamura, Nagoya University, Japan; Shuji Shimizu, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Hiroshi Hanado, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

TU4-T07.4: A SIMULATION STUDY OF ADAPTIVE SCAN FOR NEXT-GENERATION .......................................... 1558SPACEBORNE PRECIPITATION RADARToshiaki Kozu, Toyoshi Shimomai, Shimane University, Japan

TU4-T07.5: EVOLUTION OF THE RAIN PROFILING ALGORITHM FOR THE TRMM ........................................... 1562PRECIPITATION RADARToshio Iguchi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

TU4-T08: HYPERSPECTRAL MONITORING OF THE ENVIRONMENT I

TU4-T08.1: A METHODOLOGY OF FOREST MONITORING FROM HYPERSPECTRAL ....................................... 1565IMAGES WITH SPARSE REGULARIZATIONKeigo Yoshida, Takashi Ohki, Masahiro Terabe, Hozuma Sekine, Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc., Japan; Tomomi Takeda, Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center, Japan

TU4-T08.3: MAPPING THE DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS IN HYPERSPECTRAL ............................................. 1569DATA USING THE USGS MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION ALGORITHM (MICA)Raymond Kokaly, Trude King, Todd Hoefen, USGS, United States

TU4-T08.4: LINEAR UNMIXING OF MULTIDATE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY FOR ......................................... 1573CROP YIELD ESTIMATIONBin Luo, LIESMARS, Wuhan University, China; Chenghai Yang, USDA ARS Kika de la Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center, United States; Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France

TU4-T09: DATA MINING AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR REMOTE SENSING II

TU4-T09.2: VERIFICATION & VALIDATION OF A SEMANTIC IMAGE TAGGING ................................................ 1577FRAMEWORK VIA GENERATION OF GEOSPATIAL IMAGERY GROUND TRUTHShaun Gleason, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; Mesfin Dema, Hamed Sari-Sarraf, Texas Tech University, United States; Anil Cheriyadat, Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Regina Ferrell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

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TU4-T09.3: AN INTERACTIVE IMAGE MINING TOOL HANDLING GIGAPIXEL IMAGES ................................... 1581Lionel Gueguen, Martino Pesaresi, Pierre Soille, Joint Research Center - European Commission, Italy

TU4-T09.5: MINING LARGE SATELLITE IMAGE REPOSITORIES USING ............................................................... 1585SEMI-SUPERVISED METHODSPierre Blanchart, Télécom ParisTech, France; Marin Ferecatu, CNAM, France; Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TU4-T10: SAR APPLICATIONS IN OCEANOGRAPHY: FROM RESEARCH TO OPERATION II

TU4-T10.2: INVESTIGATION OF OYASHIO-KUROSHIO FRONTAL ZONE USING ALOS ..................................... 1589PALSAR IMAGES AND ANCILLARY INFORMATIONLeonid Mitnik, Vyacheslav Lobanov, V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS, Russian Federation

TU4-T10.4: SAR OBSERVATION AND WRF SIMULATION OF MARINE ATMOSPHERIC .................................... 1593BOUNDARY LAYER PHENOMENAXiaofeng Li, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, United States; Weizhong Zheng, IMSG at NOAA, United States; Xiaofeng Yang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; William Pichel, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, United States; Ziwei Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-A: INSAR I

TUP-A.1: DETECTION AND MONITORING OF SURFACE SUBSIDENCE ASSOCIATED ....................................... 1596WITH MINING ACTIVITIES IN THE WITBANK COALFIELDS, SOUTH AFRICA, USING DIFFERENTIAL RADAR INTERFEROMETRYJeanine Engelbrecht, Council for Geoscience, South Africa; Michael Raymond Inggs, University of Cape Town, South Africa

TUP-A.2: SEASONAL SUBSIDENCE RETRIEVAL WITH COHERENT POINT TARGET ........................................ 1600SAR INTERFEROMETRY: A CASE STUDY IN DEZHOU CITYLing Zhang, Daqing Ge, Xiaofang Guo, Yan Wang, Man Li, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Xuedong Zhang, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) (CUMTB), China

TUP-A.3: SUBSIDENCE AND DSM ESTIMATION USING GEOWATCH SOFTWARE ............................................... 1604Aiguo Zhao, GeoWatch Technology Inc., Canada; Hui Lin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China; Huadong Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jinsong Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China; Li-Ming Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-A.4: STUDY THE LAND SUBSIDENCE ALONG JINGHU HIGHWAY ................................................................. 1608(BEIJING-HEBEI) USING PS-INSAR TECHNIQUEZhang Xuedong, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) (CUMTB), China; Ge Daqing, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Ma Weiyu, Zhejiang Normal University, China; Zhang Ling, Wang Yan, Guo Xiaofang, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China

TUP-A.5: DYNAMIC DEFORMATION RETRIEVAL FOR INSAR DATA ...................................................................... 1612Li Tao, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Yixian Tang, Fan Wu, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-A.6: SURFACE DEFORMATION MONITORING OF MIYAKEJIMA VOLCANO .............................................. 1615USING DINSAR TECHNIQUE OF ALOS PALSAR IMAGESIlham Alimuddin, Luhur Bayuaji, Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Hiroaki Kuze, Chiba University, Japan

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TUP-A.7: INTERGRATING CORNER REFLECTOR AND PSINSAR TECHNIQUE TO ............................................. 1619MONITOR REGIONAL LAND SUBSIDENCEDaqing Ge, China Unversity of Geosicences(Beijing)(CUGB), China; Yan Wang, Ling Zhang, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China; Xuedong Zhang, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), China; Dapeng Yan, China University of Geosicences (Beijing)(CUGB), China; Man Li, China Aero Geophysical Survey & Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS), China

TUP-A.8: SUBSIDENCE ANALYSIS IN TIANJIN BASED ON PSI TECHNIQUE USING ............................................ 1623PALSAR FBD DATAYixian Tang, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Li Tao, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-A.9: MULTI-LINK SAR INTERFEROGRAMS: ENHANCEMENT OF A WRAPPED ......................................... 1627INTERFEROMETRIC DATABASEBéatrice Pinel-Puysségur, Rémi Michel, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, France; Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology, United States

TUP-B: INSAR II

TUP-B.1: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR CHANGE DETECTION IN HONG KONG ........................................................... 1630Qinghua Li, Daniele Perissin, Qingli Luo, Hui Lin, Matthew Pang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China

TUP-B.2: OBSERVING 2006-2010 GROUND DEFORMATIONS OF MERAPI VOLCANO ......................................... 1634(INDONESIA) USING ALOS/PALSAR AND ASTER TIR DATAAsep Saepuloh, Minoru Urai, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan; Christina Widiwijayanti, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore; Nurnaning Aisyah, Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (CVGHM), Indonesia

TUP-B.3: CHARACTERIZING LAND SURFACE CHANGE AND LEVEE STABILITY IN ........................................ 1638THE SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA USING UAVSAR RADAR IMAGERYCathleen Jones, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Gerald Bawden, Steven Deverel, US Geological Survey, United States; Joel Dudas, California Department of Water Resources, United States; Scott Hensley, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TUP-B.4: LOCAL CO-REGISTRATION FOR DISTORTION REDUCTION IN SAR .................................................... 1642INTERFEROGRAM USING AMPLITUDE INFORMATION – COMBINATION OF SPEC METHOD AND SHAPE-FROM-SHADING –Ryo Natsuaki, Akira Hirose, The University of Tokyo, Japan

TUP-B.6: ATMOSPHERIC DELAY ANALYSIS FROM GPS AND INSAR ....................................................................... 1650Shilai Cheng, Daniele Perissin, Fulong Chen, Hui Lin, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, Hong Kong SAR of China

TUP-B.8: METHODS OF INSAR ATMOSPHERE CORRECTION FOR VOLCANO .................................................... 1654ACTIVITY MONITORINGWenyu Gong, Franz Meyer, Peter Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States; Zhong Lu, USGS, United States

TUP-C: NEW TECHNIQUES IN INSAR / HIGH RESOLUTION SAR

TUP-C.1: A NEW SAR CHIP IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHOD BY EXPLOITING .............................................. 1658SPATIAL RELATION BETWEEN TARGET AND SHADOWZebing Zhang, Weidong Hu, Xiaoyong Du, National University of Defense Technology, China

TUP-C.2: GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION BY MIMO SAR WITH ............................................................ 1662MULTI-ANTENNA IN AZIMUTHWen-Qin Wang, Jingye Cai, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

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TUP-C.3: SAR TOMOGRAPHY DEVELOPMENT FOR RADARSAT-2 ........................................................................... 1666Valentin Poncos, University of Calgary / Kepler Space Inc., Canada; Michael Collins, University of Calgary, Canada

TUP-C.5: SAR IMAGING BASED ON COMPRESSED SENSING ..................................................................................... 1674Yifeng Huan, Junfeng Wang, Zhen Tan, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

TUP-C.7: ISAR IMAGING OF UNIFORMLY ROTATING TARGETS VIA PARAMETRIC ....................................... 1682MATCHING PURSUITWei Rao, Gang Li, Xiqin Wang, Tsinghua University, China; Xiang-Gen Xia, University of Delaware, United States

TUP-C.10: 2D APODIZATION IN UWB SAR USING LINEAR FILTERING ................................................................... 1689Thomas K. Sjögren, Viet Thuy Vu, Mats I. Pettersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

TUP-C.11: APPLICATION OF RPC MODEL FOR INSAR PHASE EVALUATION ....................................................... 1693Wen-Bo Fei, Guo Zhang, Zhen Li, Wuhan University, China

TUP-D: CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA

TUP-D.1: AN IMPROVED SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE AND DERIVATIVE FEATURE .......................................... 1696FUSION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONQingyan Wang, Junping Zhang, Jiawei Chen, Ye Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

TUP-D.2: SCALABLE SEMI-SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL ........................................... 1700REMOTE SENSING DATA WITH SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL INFORMATIONMingmin Chi, Jun Li, Jiangfeng Bao, Fudan University, China; Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland

TUP-D.3: AN AUTOMATIC METHOD TO DETERMINE THE COEFFICIENT OF THE ........................................... 1704COMPOSITE KERNEL FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONKai-Chih Pai, I-Ling Chen, Jinn-Min Yang, Bor-Chen Kuo, National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan

TUP-D.4: SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA ......................................... 1708USING SVMS AND GABOR TEXTURESLian-Zhi Huo, Ping Tang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-D.5: ITERATIVE SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ....................................... 1712CLASSIFICATIONShih-Yu Chen, Yen-Chieh Ouyang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Chinsu Lin, National Chiayi University, Taiwan; Chein-I Chang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

TUP-D.6: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING SPECTRAL AND .................................................. 1716SPATIAL INFORMATION BASED LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSISCheng-Hsuan Li, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Hui-Shan Chu, Bor-Chen Kuo, National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan; Chin-Teng Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

TUP-D.7: UNSUPERVISED FEATURE EXTRACTION BASED ON A MUTUAL .......................................................... 1720INFORMATION MEASURE FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONMd. Ali Hossain, Mark Pickering, Dr. Xiuping Jia, The University of New South Wales / Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia

TUP-D.8: SUB-PIXEL MAPPING ALGORITHM BASED ON ADAPTIVE DIFFERENTIAL ...................................... 1724EVOLUTION FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGERYYanfei Zhong, Liangpei Zhang, Wuhan University, China

TUP-D.9: FEATURE SELECTION UNSING KERNEL BASED LOCAL FISHER .......................................................... 1728DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONGuangyun Zhang, Xiuping Jia, University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, Australia

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TUP-E: HYPERSPECTRAL MONITORING OF THE ENVIRONMENT II

TUP-E.1: COMPARISON OF TWO WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS FOR .......................................... 1732HJ1A HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERYHao Zhang, Zhengchao Chen, Bing Zhang, Dailiang Peng, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-E.2: RETRIEVAL TOTAL SUSPENDED SUBSTANCE CONCENTRATION OF ................................................. 1736THREE GORGES BASED ON CHRIS/PROBA REMOTE SENSING IMAGESQian Shen, Bing Zhang, Junsheng Li, Yuanfeng Wu, Yanhong Wu, Hao Zhang, Dailiang Peng, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-E.3: ESTIMATION OF GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID CONTENT USING CANOPY .................................................... 1740SPECTROSCOPY IN VISIBLE-SHORTWAVE INFRARED REGIONXuewen Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lifu Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Peking University, China; Caixiang Xie, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China

TUP-E.4: DEVELOPING AN APHID DAMAGE HYPERSPECTRAL INDEX FOR ....................................................... 1744DETECTING APHID (HEMIPTERA: APHIDIDAE) DAMAGE LEVELS IN WINTER WHEATJuhua Luo, Beijing Normal University, China; Dacheng Wang, Peking University, China; Yingying Dong, Wenjiang Huang, Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, China; Jindi Wang, Beijing Normal University, China

TUP-E.6: LOW-ALTITUDE HYPERSPECTRAL OBSERVATION OF PADDY USING ............................................... 1748RADIO-CONTROLLED HELICOPTERYukio Kosugi, Shinji Mukoyama, Yuji Takabayashi, Kuniaki Uto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Kunio Oda, Sakata Agricultural Popularization Division, Shonai Area General Administration Office, Japan; Genya Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

TUP-E.7: HYPERSPECTRAL MAPPING FOR ROCK AND ALTERATION MINERAL ............................................. 1752WITH SPECTRAL ANGLE MAPPING AND NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFICATION METHOD: STUDY CASE IN WARMBAD DISTRICT, SOUTH OF NAMIBIADr. Yessy Arvelyna, Shuichi Miyatake, Atsushi Momose, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Japan; Anna Nguno, Kombadayedu Mhopjeni, Aphary Muyongo, Minsozi Sibeso, Ewereth Muvangua, Geological Survey of Namibia, Namibia

TUP-F: METHODS AND EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATIONS IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY

TUP-F.1: SYNCHRONOUS, ASYNCHRONOUS AND GROUPING ASYNCHRONOUS ............................................... 1755PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION FOR N-FINDR ALGORITHMS IN HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGEWenfei Luo, South China Normal University, China; Hao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-F.2: IMPLEMENTATION OF A COVARIANCE-BASED PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ....................................... 1759ANALYSIS ALGORITHM WITH A CUDA-ENABLED GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITJian Zhang, Kim Hwa Lim, National University of Singapore, Singapore

TUP-F.3: A FAST-ADAPTIVE SUPPORT VECTOR METHOD FOR FULL-PIXEL ..................................................... 1763ANOMALY DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGESSafa Khazai, Abdolreza Safari, University of Tehran, Iran; Barat Mojaradi, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran; Saeid Homayouni, University of Tehran, Iran

TUP-F.4: REAL-TIME SPECTRAL UNMIXING USING ITERATIVE ERROR ANALYSIS ........................................ 1767ON COMMODITY GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITSSergio Sanchez, Abel Paz, Antonio Plaza, Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Spain

TUP-F.5: STRUCTURED SPARSE MODEL BASED FEATURE SELECTION AND ..................................................... 1771CLASSIFICATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERYYuntao Qian, Zhejiang University, China; Jun Zhou, National ICT Australia, Australia; Minchao Ye, Qi Wang, Zhejiang University, China

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TUP-F.7: RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA OF CHINA’S ....................................... 1775FIRST LUNAR ORBITER CHANG’E-IJunping Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Bin Zou, Wenyan Tang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

TUP-F.8: COUPLED NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION (CNMF) FOR ................................................... 1779HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL DATA FUSION: APPLICATION TO PASTURE CLASSIFICATIONNaoto Yokoya, Takehisa Yairi, Akira Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan

TUP-F.9: FUSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND PANCHROMATIC IMAGES USING ................................................ 1783MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS AND NONLINEAR PCA BAND REDUCTIONGiorgio Antonino Licciardi, INPG - Grenoble Institute of Technology, France; Muhammad Murtaza Khan, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan; Jocelyn Chanussot, Annick Montanvert, INPG - Grenoble Institute of Technology, France; Laurent Condat, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France; Christian Jutten, INPG - Grenoble Institute of Technology, France

TUP-F.10: RELATION BETWEEN PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS AND ENDMEMBERS ............................................ 1787IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGESDavid Blanco, Manuel Sanchez-Castillo, María C. Carrión, Isabel M. Tienda, University of Granada, Spain

TUP-F.11: RANDOM-PROJECTION-BASED DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION AND .............................................. 1790DECISION FUSION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL TARGET DETECTIONQian Du, James Fowler, Ben Ma, Mississippi State University, United States

TUP-G: INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM RADAR AND SAR DATA

TUP-G.2: VESSEL DETECTION METHOD FOR HIGH RESOLUTION ........................................................................ 1798COSMO-SKYMED SAR IMAGERYFan Wu, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-G.4: EXTRACTION OF OBJECT FEATURES FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SAR .............................................. 1802IMAGES BASED ON SURF FEATURESXiaonjuan Tian, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-G.6: SAR IMAGE ROAD NETWORK EXTRACTION WITH SCENE CONTEXT ............................................... 1806PRIMINGYongfeng Cao, Guizhou Normal University, China; Huang Tang, Wuhan University, China

TUP-G.7: SUBSPACE SEPARATION METHOD FOR ISAR IMAGING USING THE .................................................. 1810MUSIC ALGORITHMJon Mitchell, Saibun Tjuatja, The University of Texas at Arlington, United States

TUP-H: MONITORING OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND RETRIEVAL OF PHYSICAL PARAMETERS

TUP-H.1: A NEW PHYSICALLY BASED METHOD FOR AIR TEMPERATURE ......................................................... 1814DOWNSCALINGYuan Rong, Hongbo Su, Renhua Zhang, Jing Tian, Shaohui Chen, Yongmin Yang, Bin Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-H.2: BRDF OF BADAIN JARAN DESERT RETRIEVAL USING LANDSAT TM/ETM+ .................................... 1818AND ASTER GDEM DATAYuhuan Zhang, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China; Bo Zhong, Qinhuo Liu, Hua Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lin Sun, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

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TUP-H.3: NOVEL DETECTION METHOD AND PARAMETERS ANALYSIS OF VITAL .......................................... 1822SIGNAL FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADARYanyun Xu, Shun Dai, Shiyou Wu, Yawen Dang, Jie Chen, Guangyou Fang, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-H.4: IDENTIFICATION OF ONSHORE FEATURES FOR DELINEATION OF THE .......................................... 1826LAND WATER INTERFACE AND THEIR SPATIAL-TEMPORAL VARIATION USING HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERYXin Liu, Jianhong(Cecilia) Xia, Graeme Wright, Curtin University, Australia; Lesley Arnold, Landgate, Australia; Ric Mahoney, Department of Transport, Australia

TUP-H.5: PREDICTING WHEAT APHID USING 2-DIMENSIONAL FEATURE SPACE ............................................ 1830BASED ON MULTI-TEMPORAL LANDSAT TMWenjiang Huang, Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, China; Juhua Luo, Beijing Normal University, China; Jinling Zhao, Jingcheng Zhang, Zhihong Ma, Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, China

TUP-H.6: SEISMO-IONOSPHERIC ANOMALIES DETECTION BASED ON ............................................................... 1834INTEGRATED WAVELETLiming He, Northeastern University, China; Lixin Wu, Northeastern University / Beijing Normal University, China; Shanjun Liu, Baodong Ma, Northeastern University, China

TUP-H.7: ESTIMATION OF SOIL HEAT FLUX BY APPARENT THERMAL INERTIA ............................................. 1838Jing Tian, Hongbo Su, Shaohui Chen, Renhua Zhang, Yongmin Yang, Yuan Rong, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-H.8: COMPARISONS OF FPAR DERIVED FROM GIMMS AVHRR NDVI AND ................................................ 1842MODIS PRODUCTDailiang Peng, Liangyun Liu, Bing Zhang, Qian Shen, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-H.9: ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNAL USING ............................................ 1846NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION MINIMIZING QUASI-L1 NORMMotoaki Mouri, Aichi University, Japan; Arao Funase, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan; Andrzej Cichocki, RIKEN, Japan; Ichi Takumi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan; Hiroshi Yasukawa, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan

TUP-H.10: TEMPERATURE AND EMISSIVITY SEPARATION FROM TASI DATA BASED .................................... 1850ON WAVEBANDS SELECTIONHang Yang, Lifu Zhang, Li Liu, Qingxi Tong, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-I: URBAN AREAS, BUILDINGS AND ROADS

TUP-I.2: MAPPING URBAN AREAS BY PERFORMING SYSTEMATIC CORRECTION .......................................... 1858FOR DMSP/OLS NIGHTTIME LIGHTS TIME SERIES IN CHINA FROM 1992 TO 2008Zhifeng Liu, Chunyang He, Yang Yang, Beijing Normal University, China

TUP-I.4: A BUILDING EXTRACTION METHOD USING SHADOW IN HIGH ............................................................. 1862RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL IMAGESLei Hu, Jin Zheng, Feng Gao, Beihang University, China

TUP-I.5: BUILDING FOOTPRINT EXTRACTION BY FUSING DUAL-ASPECT SAR ................................................ 1866IMAGESLu Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Fengli Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qinghe Wu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Guojun Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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TUP-I.6: RAPID DETECTION OF COLLAPSED BUILT-UP STRUCTURES USING ................................................... 1870POST-EVENT VHR IN EARTHQUAKE-AFFECTED AREASLiwei Li, Bing Zhang, Liping Lei, Lianru Gao, Dailiang Peng, Yanhong Wu, Jianwen Ma, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-I.7: NSCT BASED ROAD EXTRACTION FROM REMOTE SENSING IMAGE ................................................... 1874USING DIRECTIONAL PRIORHua Zhong, Dan Zhu, L.C. Jiao, Kun Liu, Xidian University, China

TUP-I.8: A NEW METHOD OF ROAD NETWORK UPDATING BASED ON FLOATING .......................................... 1878CAR DATAYue Zhao, Peking University, China; Jian Liu, China Transport Telecommunication & Information Centre, China; Runqiang Chen, Jun Li, Chao Xie, Peking University, China; Wenjiang Niu, Danyang Geng, China Transport Telecommunication & Information Centre, China; Qiming Qin, Peking University, China

TUP-J: ADVANCES IN EARTH SENSING AND APPLICATIONS I

TUP-J.1: A POST NONLINEAR MIXING MODEL FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES .............................................. 1882UNMIXINGYoann Altmann, Abderrahim Halimi, Nicolas Dobigeon, Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France

TUP-J.2: UNMIXING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING THE GENERALIZED ..................................................... 1886BILINEAR MODELAbderrahim Halimi, Yoann Altmann, Nicolas Dobigeon, Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France

TUP-J.6: DUAL-ASPECT GEOMETRIC AND RADIOMETRIC TERRAIN CORRECTION ....................................... 1894METHOD FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR DATAGuojun Wang, Wan Zi, Chou Xie, Fengli Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-J.7: IDENTIFYING DAMAGED BUILDINGS FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION ........................................................ 1898SATELLITE IMAGERY IN HAZARDOUS AREAS USING MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORSChandana Dinesh Parape, Masayuki Tamura, Kyoto University, Japan

TUP-J.8: WEB-BASED FLOOD MONITORING SYSTEM USING GOOGLE EARTH ................................................. 1902AND 3D GISYili Chan, Masatoshi Mori, Kinki University, Japan

TUP-K: ANALYSIS METHODS, CLASSIFICATION, AND SENSOR FUSION I

TUP-K.1: SPACE-BASED SENSORWEB MONITORING OF WILDFIRES IN THAILAND ......................................... 1906Steve Chien, Joshua Doubleday, David Mclaren, Ashley Davies, Daniel Tran, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Veerachai Tanpipat, Siri Akaakara, Anuchit Ratanasuwan, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Thailand, Thailand; Daniel Mandl, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TUP-K.2: REMOTE SENSING METHODS FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE ............................................................ 1910MESQUITE TREE (PROSOPIS JULIFLORA) ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION TO SEMI-ARID AFRICABuho Hoshino, Maino Yonemori, Karina Manayeva, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan; Abdelaziz Karamalla, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Sudan; Kiyotsugu Yoda, Ishinomaki Senshu University, Japan; Mahgoub Suliman, Mohamed Elgamri, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Sudan; Hiroshi Nawata, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan; Yusuke Mori, Shunsuke Yabuki, Shigeto Aida, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan

TUP-K.3: THE INTEGRATION OF SPECTRAL ANALYSES OF LANDSAT ETM+ WITH ........................................ 1914THE DEM DATA FOR MAPPING MANGROVE FORESTS.Bayan Alsaaideh, Ahmad Al-Hanbali, Ryutaro Tateishi, Hoan Nguyen Thanh, Chiba University, Japan

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TUP-K.4: JOINT SIMULATION OF BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE AND ............................................................ 1918BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENT OF CORN CANOPY SCENEHejuan Du, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China; Le Yang, Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-K.5: ESTIMATION OF SHRUB CANOPY COVER BASED ON A ........................................................................... 1922GEOMETRIC-OPTICAL MODEL USING HJ-1 DATAWei Chen, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chunxiang Cao, Hao Zhang, Huicong Jia, Wei Ji, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Min Xu, Mengxu Gao, Xiliang Ni, Jian Zhao, Sheng Zheng, Rong Tian, Cheng Liu, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-K.6: EVALUATION OF PADDY YIELD AND PROTEIN ESTIMATION METHODS ......................................... 1926BASED ON VARIOUS VEGETATION INDICES, NDSI AND PLS USING AN AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL SENSOR AISA IN SHONAI PLAIN, YAMAGATA, JAPANShinya Odagawa, Asia Air Survey Co. Ltd., Japan; Kuniaki Uto, Yukio Kosugi, Genya Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Yuka Sasaki, Yamagata University, Japan; Kunio Oda, Yamagata Prefectural Government, Japan; Masatane Kato, Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center, Japan

TUP-K.7: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CANOPY PARAMETERS AND SPECTRUM ....................................... 1930OF WINTER WHEAT UNDER DIFFERENT IRRIGATIONS IN HEBEI PROVINCEPeijuan Wang, Jiahua Zhang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China; Donghui Xie, Beijing Normal University, China; Yanyan Xu, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China; Yun Xu, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences / Shanxi Climate Center, China

TUP-L: SAR/LIDAR SENSING II

TUP-L.1: SAR-TO-LIDAR MAPPING FOR TREE VOLUME PREDICTION IN THE .................................................. 1934KRUGER NATIONAL PARKHerman Myburgh, Jan C. Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa; R. Mathieu, Natural Resources Environment, South Africa; Konrad Wessels, Meraka Remote Sensing Research Unit, South Africa; B. Lebnon, University of New Brunswick, Canada; G. Asner, Carnegie Melon University, United States; Joseph Buckley, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada

TUP-L.2: OBSERVATION OF JAPANESE PADDY FIELDS USING PALSAR DATA ................................................... 1938Naoki Ishitsuka, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan

TUP-L.3: BIOMASS RETRIEVAL BASED ON POLARIMETRIC TARGET .................................................................. 1942DECOMPOSITIONZhiyu Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China; Yong Wang, East Carolina University, United States; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States; Wenjian Ni, CAS-IRSA, China; Wenli Huang, University of Maryland, United States; Lixin Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China

TUP-L.4: ASSESSMENT OF BOREAL FOREST BIOMASS USING L-BAND ................................................................ 1946RADIOMETER SMOS DATANing Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiancheng Shi, Guoqing Sun, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications and Beijing Normal University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, United States; Zhifeng Guo, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Linna Chai, School of Geography and Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, China

TUP-L.6: ESTIMATING SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF RADIATION BELOW THE .................................................. 1954QINGHAI SPRUCE FOREST CANOPY IN QILIAN MOUNTAINS USING HEMISPHERICAL IMAGES AND AIRBORNE LIDAR DATAHuanhua Peng, Chuanyan Zhao, Zhaodong Feng, Fengxia Tian, Zhonglin Xu, Lanzhou University, China

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TUP-L.7: MULTI-FREQUENCY AND MULTI-POLARIZATION RADAR ..................................................................... 1958MEASUREMENTS OVER PADDY RICE FIELD AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH GROUND PARAMETERSChangwen Zhao, Yan Chen, Ling Tong, Mingquan Jia, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

TUP-M: REMOTE SENSING OF LAND DEFORMATION AND FLOODS

TUP-M.1: INSAR MONITORING OF THE LUSI MUD VOLCANO, EAST JAVA, FROM .......................................... 19612006 TO 2010Charlotte Gauchet, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Emmanuel Christophe, Google, United States; Aik Song Chia, Tiangang Yin, Soo Chin Liew, National University of Singapore, Singapore

TUP-M.2: RESEARCH OF HAITI EARTHQUAKE DISASTER BY USING TIME SERIES ......................................... 1965ALOS SATELLITE IMAGEHideki Hashiba, Nihon University, Japan; Toshiro Sugimura, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan

TUP-M.3: QUICK ASSESSMENT OF A REMOTE SENSING-BASED METHOD FOR ................................................ 1969EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE OF YUSHU QINGHAI IN CHINALong Wang, Aixia Dou, Xiaoqing Wang, Xiang Ding, Yanfang Dong, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China

TUP-M.4: CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF THE GROUND SURFACE CHANGE IN .............................................. 1973SAKURAJIMA VOLCANO USING RADARSAT-2 DATAMasayuki Sakagami, Hisashi Sasaki, Takumi Sato, Kokusai Kogyo Co. Ltd., Japan; Akiko Kasuga, Hirokazu Muraki, Koichi Iribe, ImageONE Co. Ltd., Japan

TUP-M.5: CHANGE DETECTION METHOD FOR LANDSLIDE AREA USING RGB ................................................. 1977COLOR COMPOSITE IMAGE OF SRTM AND ALOS/PALSAR INSAR DEM: A CASE STUDY OF THE IWATE-MIYAGI NAIRIKU EARTHQUAKE IN 2008Tomohito Asaka, Keishi Iwashita, Katsuteru Kudou, Sadayoshi Aoyama, Nihon University, Japan; Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan

TUP-M.6: STUDY ON THE FRACTAL ANALYSIS OF SAR IMAGES AND ITS ........................................................... 1981APPLICATION TO THE EXTRACTION OF SEISMIC DAMAGE OF 2010 YUSHU, CHINA MS=7.1 EARTHQUAKEXiaoqing Wang, Dingjian Jin, Aixia Dou, Institute of Earthquake Science, China

TUP-M.7: COMPARISON OF A LAND SURFACE MODEL AND PALMER DROUGHT ............................................ 1985SEVERITY INDEX IN MONITORING DROUGHT IN CHINALiang Zhang, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China; Huqiang Zhang, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Australia; Qiang Zhang, Gansu Provincial Meteorological Bureau, China; Jing Wang, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China

TUP-M.8: LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING BY USING AN ADAPTIVE ..................................................... 1989NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM (ANFIS)Jaewon Choi, National Institute for Disaster Prevention / National Emergency Management Agency, Republic of Korea; Yoon-Kyung Lee, DeYonsei University, Republic of Korea; Moung-Jin Lee, National Institute for Disaster Prevention / National Emergency Management Agency, Republic of Korea; Kidong Kim, Ecosystem Survey Team, Nature Conservation Research Division, Environmental Resources Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research, Republic of Korea; Youngjin Park, Seongsam Kim, Shinhoi Goo, Myeongheum Cho, National Institute for Disaster Prevention / National Emergency Management Agency, Republic of Korea; Jaehyeon Sim, 1GIS & Spatial Information Analysis Team, National Institute for Disaster Prevention, National Emergency Management Agency, Republic of Korea; Joong-Sun Won, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

TUP-M.9: OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS OF POST-TSUNAMI ........................................................................... 1993HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES FOR MAPPING THE IMPACT OF TSUNAMI DISASTERShunichi Koshimura, Tohoku University, Japan; Shintaro Kayaba, Miyagi TV Broadcast Corporation, Japan; Hideomi Gokon, Tohoku University, Japan

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TUP-M.11: AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF LANDSLIDE FEATURES WITH REMOTE ........................................... 1997SENSING TECHNIQUES: APPLICATION TO MADEIRA ISLANDCristina Lira, Maura Lousada, Ana Paula Falcão, Alexandre Gonçalves, Sandra Heleno, Magda Matias, António Jorge Sousa, Maria João Pereira, Pedro Pina, Rodrigo Oliveira, António Betâmio De Almeida, IST, Portugal

TUP-N: OCEAN BIOLOGY (COLOR) AND WATER QUALITY II

TUP-N.4: SHIPBOARD MEASUREMENTS OF SKIN SST IN THE CHINA SEAS: ....................................................... 2005VALIDATION OF SATELLITE SST PRODUCTSLei Guan, Kailin Zhang, Weicheng Teng, Ocean University of China, China

TUP-N.5: RETRIEVAL OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM FY-3A VIRR DATA.......................................... 2009Hongyan Wang, Lei Guan, Fan Wu, Ocean University of China, China

TUP-N.7: RETRIEVING SEASONAL SEA SURFACE SALINITY FROM MODIS ........................................................ 2017SATELLITE DATA USING A BOX–JENKINS ALGORITHMMaged Marghany, Mazlan Hashim, Institute of Geospatial Science and Technology (INSTEG), Malaysia

TUP-N.8: VALIDATION OF SMOS MEASUREMENTS OVER OCEAN AND ............................................................... 2021IMPROVEMENT OF SEA SURFACE EMISSIVITY MODEL AT L BANDXiaobin Yin, Jacqueline Boutin, Nicolas Martin, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France; Paul Spurgeon, ARGAN Limited, United Kingdom

TUP-N.10: SPATIO-TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF SST IN EL NIÑO REGIONS AND ITS ........................................ 2025RELATIONSHIPS WITH ZONAL DISPLACEMENT ANOMALY OF WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOLCunjin Xue, Qing Dong, CEODE, China; FengTai Si, Heze Meteorological Administration Shandong Province, China; Jiong Xie, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-N.11: CYANOBACTERIA BLOOM MAPPING USING SATELLITE DATA IN .................................................... 2029BRACKISH LAKE SHINJI AND LAKE NAKAUMIYuji Sakuno, Hiroshima University, Japan; Hidenobu Kunii, Shimane University, Japan

TUP-O: OCEAN SURFACE WINDS AND CURRENTS III

TUP-O.1: DEPOLARIZATION OF MICROWAVE BACKSCATTERING FROM A ROUGH ..................................... 2033SEA SURFACE: MODELING WITH SMALL-SLOPE APPROXIMATIONAlexander Voronovich, Valery Zavorotny, NOAA / Earth System Research Laboratory, United States

TUP-O.2: THE IMPACT OF THERMAL STRATIFICATION AND WIND STRESS ON SEA ..................................... 2037SURFACE FEATURES IN SAR IMAGERYAtsushi Fujimura, University of Miami, United States; Silvia Matt, Alexander Soloviev, Chris Maingot, Nova Southeastern University, United States; Shin Rhee, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

TUP-O.6: RETRIEVAL AND ASSESSMENT OF SUB-MESOSCALE WIND VELOCITY ........................................... 2041VECTORS WITH SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARGisela Carvajal, Leif E. B. Eriksson, Lars M. Ulander, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

TUP-O.7: MULTIFACTOR MODELS AND SIMULATIONS FOR OCEAN MICROWAVE ........................................ 2045RADIOMETRYVictor Raizer, Zel Technologies, LLC, United States

TUP-O.8: A COMPARISON OF VARIOUS EQUATORIAL PACIFIC SURFACE WIND ............................................. 2049PRODUCTSGe Peng, STG, INC, United States; Huai-Min Zhang, NCDC/NOAA, United States; Helmut Frank, DWD, Germany; Jean-Raymond Bidlot, ECMWF, United Kingdom; Masakazu Higaki, JMA, Japan; William Hankins, STG, INC, United States

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TUP-O.9: DEPENDENCY OF BACKSCATTERING FROM OCEAN SURFACE ON WIND ........................................ 2053DIRECTION BY USING AIRBORNE SAR -- LOW WIND SPEED CASE --Akitsugu Nadai, Toshihiko Umehara, Takeshi Matsuoka, Makoto Satake, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Seiho Uratsuka, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

TUP-O.10: SIMULATION STUDY ON SHALLOW SEA TOPOGRAPHY IMAGING BY ............................................ 2057ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRIC SARXiangzhen Yu, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jinsong Chong, Wen Hong, Minhui Zhu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-O.11: OCEAN SURFACE CURRENT IN TROPICAL CYCLONES EXTRACTED ............................................... 2061FROM RADARSAT-1 SCANSAR RAW DATAKi-Mook Kang, Duk-Jin Kim, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

TUP-P: OCEAN ALTIMETRY I

TUP-P.1: CALCULATION OF THE EFFECTIVE REFLECTION COEFFICIENT USING .......................................... 2065ALTIMETER DATAVladimir Karaev, Mikhail Kanevsky, Eugeny Meshkov, Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Russian Federation

TUP-P.2: ONE-BIT DIGITAL CROSS-CORRELATION IN THE PARIS-IOD................................................................. 2069Serni Ribó, Oleguer Nogués-Correig, Antonio Rius, Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE-IEEC/CSIC), Spain

TUP-P.3: SEA STATE SENSING WITH SINGLE FREQUENCY GPS RECEIVER ........................................................ 2073Songhua Y, Nengcheng C, Jianya G, Wuhan University, China; Xunxie Z, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (WIPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-P.4: THE MEAN ECHO MODEL AND DATA PROCESS OF SAR ALTIMETER ................................................. 2077Shuang-Bao Yang, He-Guang Liu, Ke Xu, Xi-Yu Xu, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-R: OCEANS I

TUP-R.1: AN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR SHIP DETECTION AND ......................................................................... 2081IDENTIFICATIONEdward Ross, Gemini Innovations, Canada; Bustanul Arifin, Indonesian Space and Aeronautics Institute, Indonesia; Yuval Brodsky, Gemini Innovations, Canada

TUP-R.2: A NEWLY REVIVED SATELLITE-BASED GLOBAL AIR-SEA SURFACE ................................................. 2085TURBULENT FLUXES DATASET AND ITS DEPENDENCE ON THE SSM/I BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATUREChung-Lin Shie, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States; Kyle Hilburn, Remote Sensing Systems, United States

TUP-R.3: DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF A SEA CLUTTER SIMULATOR ................................................................ 2089Titus Oyedokun, Michael Raymond Inggs, University of Cape Town, South Africa

TUP-R.5: REMOTE SENSING RETRIEVED OF AIE-SEA HEAT FLUXES IN THE ASIAN ....................................... 2093AND INDIAN-PACIFIC OCEAN AREA AND ITS ANALYSISJinnian Chen, Tao Zuo, Hongna Wang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-R.6: A NOVEL METHOD TO ESTIMATE UNDERWATER MARINE CULTIVATION ..................................... 2097AREA BY USING SAR POLARIMETRIC ENTROPYEun-Sung Won, Kazuo Ouchi, National Defense Academy, Japan

TUP-R.8: DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF GLACIAL ICE IN THE PR-GR .................................................... 2101SCATTER PLOTS OF AMSR-E NASA TEAM2 SEA ICE ALGORITHMHyangsun Han, Hoonyol Lee, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea

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TUP-R.9: CHARACTERIZATION OF ARCTIC SEA ICE THICKNESS USING ............................................................ 2105SPACE-BORNE POLARIMETRIC SAR DATAJin-Woo Kim, Duk-Jin Kim, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea; Byong Jun Hwang, Scottish Association for Marine Science, United Kingdom

TUP-S: URBAN REMOTE SENSING

TUP-S.1: ESTIMATION OF THE LAND SURFACE INSTANTANEOUS NET RADIATION ...................................... 2109AND ITS DIURNAL CYCLE INTEGRATING MULTI-SOURCE REMOTE SENSING DATA UNDER CLEAR SKYWenyu Liu, Adu Gong, Beijing Normal University, China; Ji Zhou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Wenfeng Zhan, Beijing Normal University, China

TUP-S.2: MONITORING THE ELECTRIC POWER CONSUMPTION BY LIGHTING ............................................... 2113FROM DMSP/OLS NIGHTTIME SATELLITE IMAGERYHusi Letu, Tokai University, Japan; Gegen Tana, Chiba University, Japan; Hara Masanao, VisionTech Inc., Japan; Fumihiko Nishio, Chiba University, Japan

TUP-S.3: SUBSIDENCE REVEALED BY PSI TECHNIQUE IN THE JAKARTA CITY, .............................................. 2117INDONESIAAlex Hay-Man Ng, Linlin Ge, Kui Zhang, Xiaojing Li, The University of New South Wales, Australia

TUP-S.4: RESEARCH ON THE METHOD OF 3D MODELING FOR GEOLOGICAL ................................................. 2121BODYChunhua Xiu, Defu Che, Jiayu Che, School of Resources and Civil Engineering, China

TUP-S.5: DETECTING SUBSIDENCE-INDUCED FAULTING IN MEXICAN URBAN ................................................ 2125AREAS BY MEANS OF PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY AND SUBSIDENCE HORIZONTAL GRADIENT MAPPINGFrancesca Cigna, University of Florence, Italy; Enrique Cabral-Cano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; Batuhan Osmanoglu, Timothy Dixon, Shimon Wdowinski, University of Miami, United States

TUP-S.6: QUANTITATIVE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES .............................................. 2129BASED ON 3D LASER SCANNINGTomohiro Mizoguchi, Yasuhiro Koda, Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Ichiro Iwaki, Yasuhiko Hara, Kenji Shirai, Nihon University, Japan; Hwa-Soo Lee, College of Science and Technology, Nihon University, Japan; Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Nihon University, Japan

TUP-S.7: URBAN MONITORING AND CHANGE DETECTION OF CENTRAL TOKYO ........................................... 2133USING HIGH-RESOLUTION X-BAND SAR IMAGESWen Liu, Fumio Yamazaki, Chiba University, Japan

TUP-S.8: POLSAR SCENE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON FAST APPROXIMATE .................................................... 2137NEAREAST NEIGHBOURS SEARCHLijun Chen, Wen Yang, Ying Liu, Hong Sun, Wuhan University, China

TUP-S.10: IMPROVING THE SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE-BASED METHOD TO ............................................... 2141MAP URBAN LAND OF CHINA USING DMSP/OLS AND SPOT VGT DATAYang Yang, Chunyang He, Shiqiang Du, Beijing Normal University, China

TUP-S.11: ESTIMATION OF TREE CROWN STRUCTURE IN URBAN AREAS USING ............................................ 2145HIGH RESOLUTION AIRBORNE LIDARHaruki Oshio, Takashi Asawa, Akira Hoyano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Satoshi Miyasaka, Nakanihon Air Service Co. Ltd, Japan

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TUP-T: COASTAL AND WETLANDS II

TUP-T.1: INTEGRATION OF MULTISOURCE DATA FOR CHLOROPHYLL-A ........................................................ 2149MONITORING IN NEGOMBO ESTUARY, SRI LANKADdgl Dahanayaka, H Tonooka, Ibaraki University, Japan; Mjs Wijeyaratne, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka; A Minato, S Ozawa, Ibaraki University, Japan

TUP-T.3: COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL ............................................. 2153DATA MINING APPROACH ON MULTI-TEMPORAL COASTAL REMOTE SENSING DATASETSBalakrishna Gokaraju, Surya Durbha, Roger King, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University,

TUP-T.6: DETERMINATION THE NITROGEN STATUS OF WETLANDS USING ..................................................... 2161EMERGENT MACROPHYTES LEAF SPECTRAL REFLECTANCEKe Liu, Wenji Zhao, Xiaoyu Guo, Capital Normal University, China; Yihong Wang, Beijing Institute of Geology, China; Qian Miao, Capital Normal University, China

TUP-T.7: WHAT IS THE VALUE ADDED OF 4 BANDS WITHIN THE SUBMETRIC ................................................. 2165REMOTE SENSING OF TROPICAL COASTSCAPE? QUICKBIRD-2 VS WORLDVIEW-2Antoine Collin, Serge Planes, CNRS France, French Polynesia

TUP-U: POLLUTION AND CONTAMINATION I

TUP-U.1: HEAVY METAL POLLUTION AND THE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT ........................................ 2169OF URBAN STREET DUST IN KUNMING,CHINAZhengtao Shi, Wenxiang Zhang, Yong Liu, Yunnan Normal University, China; Feng Wu, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Ming Dong, Huai Su, Qingzhong Ming, Yunnan Normal University, China

TUP-U.2: COMPARATIVE ALGORITHMS FOR OIL SPILL AUTOMATIC DETECTION ........................................ 2173USING MULTIMODE RADARSAT-1 SAR DATAMaged Marghany, Mazlan Hashim, Institute of Geospatial Science and Technology (INSTEG), Malaysia

TUP-U.3: RESEARCH ON MONITORING OF THE FIRE POINTS OF STRAW ........................................................... 2177BURNING BASED ON HJ-1/IRS AND ITS EFFECTS ON AIR QUALITYQing Li, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, China; Qiao Wang, Satellite Environmental Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, China; Zhongting Wang, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, China; Xiang Zhao, Beijing Normal University, China; Chunyan Zhou, Satellite Environmental Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, China; Lijuan Zhang, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, China; Hui Chen, China University of Geosciences, China

TUP-U.4: METHODS FOR EXTRACTION OF CONTAMINATED AREA USING ........................................................ 2181MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA IN BAIYIN CITY, NORTHWESTERN CHINAYao Wang, Chuanyan Zhao, Zhongren Nan, Lanzhou University, China

TUP-U.6: THE DISTRIBUTION OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVED BY TM .......................................... 2185IMAGERY OVER BEIJING URBAN AREA，CHINAWenhui Zhao, Huili Gong, Wenji Zhao, Xiaojuan Li, Capital Normal University, China

TUP-V: GEOLOGY AND SOLID EARTH I

TUP-V.2: NONSTATIONARY SEISMIC DECONVOLUTION BY ADAPTIVE .............................................................. 2189MOLECULAR DECOMPOSITIONLingling Wang, Jinghuai Gao, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China; Wei Zhao, Xiudi Jiang, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, China

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TUP-V.3: PS-INSAR MONITORING AND FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF ....................................................... 2193GEOMECHANICAL AND HYDROGEOLOGICAL RESPONSES IN SEDIMENTARY FORMATIONSQi Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Kazumasa Ito, Geological Survey of Japan, Japan; Yanfang Dong, China Earthquake Administration, China; Isao Sato, Yoji Seki, Yasuo Tomishima, Geological Survey of Japan, Japan; Satoshi Okuyama, Hokkaido University, Japan

TUP-V.4: ANOMALOUS ATMOSPHERIC SIGNALS BEFORE THE 25 SEPTEMBER 2008 ...................................... 2197ZHONGBA EARTHQUAKE IN CHINAGuo Guangmeng, Nanyang Normal University, China; Qin Kai, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), China

TUP-V.5: DETECTION OF CRUSTAL DEFORMATION INDUCED BY EARTHQUAKE .......................................... 2200AND VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES IN JAVA, INDONESIAYanmei Zhang, Zaisen Jiang, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, China; Xiao Cheng, Beijing Normal University, China

TUP-V.7: A NEW METHOD TO EXTRACT AND ANALYZE ABNORMAL .................................................................. 2208PHENOMENON OF EARTHQUAKE FROM REMOTE SENSING INFORMATIONYuntao Ma, Shanjun Liu, Lixin Wu, Baodong Ma, Northeastern University, China

TUP-V.8: COMPARISON OF THE DG FINITE ELEMENT METHOD WITH FINITE ................................................ 2212DIFFERENCE METHOD FOR ELASTIC-ELASTIC INTERFACEYangyang He, Jinghuai Gao, Institute of Wave and Information, China; Yichen Ma, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China; Xiaokai Wang, Wei Wang, Baoli Wang, Institute of Wave and Information, China

TUP-W: GEOLOGY AND SOLID EARTH II

TUP-W.3: MAPPING PEGMATITE USING HYMAP DATA IN SOUTHERN NAMIBIA .............................................. 2216Atsushi Momose, Shuichi Miyatake, Dr. Yessy Arvelyna, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Japan; Anna Nguno, Kombada Mhopjeni, Minsozi Sibeso, Aphary Muyongo, Ewereth Muvangua, Geological Survey of Namibia, Namibia

TUP-W.4: MAPPING MAFIC AND ULTRAMAFIC UNITS USING REMOTE SENSING ............................................ 2218DATA IN NORTH EAST BOTSWANATaro Yajima, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Japan; Kewame Gwandu, Department of Geological Survey Botswana, Botswana; Martin Sigweni, Hana Mining Ltd., Botswana

TUP-W.6: ELEMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND PALEOENVIRONMENT EVOLUTION ....................................... 2221OF SHELL BAR SECTION AT QARHAN IN THE QAIDAM BASIN, CHINAWenxiang Zhang, Zhengtao Shi, Yunnan Normal University, China; Hucai Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qingzhong Ming, Yunnan Normal University, China; Fengqin Chang, Guoliang Lei, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Guangjie Chen, Ming Dong, Yunnan Normal University, China

TUP-W.7: MODELING PERMAFROST DISTRIBUTION USING REMOTE ................................................................. 2225SENSING-DERIVED VEGETATION DATA IN THE SOURCE REGION OF THE DATONG RIVER IN THE NORTHWESTERN CHINAJing Li, Yu Sheng, Ji Chen, Xiumin Zhang, Bo Zhang, Jichun Wu, Yuanbing Cao, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TUP-X: MICROWAVE RADIOMETER CALIBRATION AND RFI MITIGATION

TUP-X.1: CALIBRATION AND ERROR ANALYSIS OF A KA-BAND FULLY ............................................................. 2229POLARIMETRIC RADIOMETER BUILT WITH WIDEBAND MICROSTRIP CORRELATORXinbiao Wang, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences / The Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing / Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jing Li, Jingshan Jiang, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences / The Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, China

TUP-X.3: ROBUSTNESS OF THE VICARIOUS COLD CALIBRATION ALGORITHM IN ........................................ 2233THE DOUBLE DIFFERENCE METHOD FOR GPM INTER-CALIBRATIONRachael Kroodsma, Darren McKague, Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States

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TUP-X.4: NPP ATMS SENSOR MODEL USING FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION ............................................ 2237AND THERMAL VACUUM DATAR. Vincent Leslie, William J. Blackwell, Michael DiLiberto, Mark Tolman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, United States

TUP-X.7: HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF A WAVELET-BASED RADIO ......................................................... 2241FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE MITIGATION ALGORITHM FOR MICROWAVE RADIOMETERSGiuseppe Forte, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Campus Nord and IEEC/CRAE-UPC, Spain; Jose Miguel Tarongi, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Spain; Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Campus Nord and IEEC/CRAE-UPC, Spain

TUP-X.10: ONE YEAR OF RFI DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION WITH L1A ................................................... 2245SIGNALS PROVIDED BY SMOS REFERENCE RADIOMETERSEric Anterrieu, IRAP, Université de Toulouse & CNRS, France; Ali Khazaal, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)/ Université de Toulouse / CNES / CNRS / IRD, France

TUP-Y: MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY MISSIONS AND INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE I

TUP-Y.1: AN ADVANCED MULTI-FREQUENCY RADIOMETER FOR GPM BR FR ................................................ 2249MISSIONCarine Bredin, Jean-Claude Orlhac, Jean-Marc Goutoule, ASTRIUM, France; Vincent Albouys, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

TUP-Y.2: EVALUATION OF FY3B-MWRI INSTRUMENT ON-ORBIT CALIBRATION ............................................ 2252ACCURACYHu Yang, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China; Liqing Lv, Hongxin Xu, Jiakai He, Shanghai Institute of Space Communication Technology, China; Shengli Wu, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China

TUP-Y.6: SYSTEM DESIGN OF FOCAL PLANE ARRAY BASED MILLIMETER-WAVE ......................................... 2258IMAGING RADIOMETER FOR CONCEALED WEAPON DETECTIONWon-Gyum Kim, Nam-Won Moon, GIST, Republic of Korea; Yu-Shin Chang, Mun-Kyo Lee, Sang-Won Jung, Samsung Thales, Republic of Korea; Jun-Ho Choi, Agency for Defense Development, Republic of Korea; Jin-Mi Jung, Millisys Inc., Republic of Korea; Yong-Hoon Kim, GIST, Republic of Korea

TUP-Y.7: RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS OF RADIO SPECTROMETERS OF THE .............................................. 2262SUPERCONDUCTING SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE LIMB-EMISSION SOUNDER (JEM/SMILES)Hiroyuki Ozeki, Kenta Tamaki, Toho University, Japan; Satoko Mizobuchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Chihiro Mitsuda, Fujitsu FIP Corporation, Japan; Takuki Sano, Makoto Suzuki, Ken-Ichi Kikuchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Masato Shiotani, Kyoto University, Japan

TUP-Y.9: SCAN SCHEME AND IMAGING ALGORITHM OF SOLAR POLAR ORBITER ........................................ 2266TELESCOPE (SPORT)Cheng Zhang, Ji Wu, Hao Liu, Jingye Yan, Weiying Sun, Shengwei Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WE1-T01: POLSAR APPLICATIONS

WE1-T01.1: DUAL-POLARIZED COSMO SKYMED SAR DATA TO OBSERVE METALLIC .................................. 2270TARGETS AT SEAFerdinando Nunziata, Antonio Montuori, Maurizio Migliaccio, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

WE1-T01.2: IMPROVED SHIP DETECTION USING DUAL-FREQUENCY .................................................................. 2274POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATAKen Yoong Lee, Timo Bretschneider, EADS Innovation Works Singapore, Singapore

WE1-T01.3: POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS OF THE DEEPWATER ............................................. 2278HORIZON OIL SLICK USING L-BAND UAVSAR DATACathleen Jones, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Brent Minchew, California Institute of Technology, United States; Benjamin Holt, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

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WE1-T01.4: POLARIMETRIC OBSERVATION FOR RICE FIELD BY RADARSAT-2 AND ...................................... 2282ALOS/PALSARChinatsu Yonezawa, Takahiro Imai, Daisuke Kunii, Tohoku University, Japan; Manabu Watanabe, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Genya Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

WE1-T01.5: POTENTIAL ASSESSMENT OF SAR IN COMPACT AND FULL .............................................................. 2286POLARIMETRY MODE FOR SNOW DETECTIONGulab Singh, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Niigata University, Japan; Gopalan Venktaraman, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India; Sang-Eun Park, Niigata University, Japan

WE1-T02: TANDEM-X COMMISSIONING PHASE RESULTS I

WE1-T02.1: TANDEM-X MISSION STATUS ......................................................................................................................... 2290Manfred Zink, Michael Bartusch, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; David Miller, Astrium GmbH, Germany

WE1-T02.3: THE TANDEM-X SPACE SEGMENT ............................................................................................................... 2294Christoph Giese, Dieter Ulrich, Astrium GmbH, Germany

WE1-T02.4: THE JOINT TERRASAR-X / TANDEM-X GROUND SEGMENT ................................................................ 2298Birgit Schättler, Ralph Kahle, Robert Metzig, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Manfred Zink, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE1-T03: NASA SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MISSION (SMAP) SCIENCE DATA PRODUCTS AND USER APPLICATIONS I

WE1-T03.1: NASA SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION ................................................................. 2302FORMULATIONDara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Eni Njoku, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Peggy O’Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Kent Kellogg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Jared Entin, NASA Headquarters, United States

WE1-T03.2: THE SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) APPLICATIONS ACTIVITY .................................. 2306Molly Brown, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Susan Moran, United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Southwest Watershed Research Center, United States; Vanessa Escobar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Peggy O’Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Eni Njoku, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WE1-T03.3: THE PLANNED SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION ............................................... 2310L-BAND RADAR/RADIOMETER INSTRUMENTMichael Spencer, Kevin Wheeler, Samuel Chan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Jeffrey Piepmeier, Derek Hudson, James Medeiros, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WE1-T04: KOMPSAT-5 SAR

WE1-T04.3: THE KOMPSAT-5 IMAGE RECEPTION AND PROCESSING ELEMENT ............................................... 2314Myungjin Choi, Taeyoung Kim, Hee-Jin Bae, Yunyook Jang, Tae-Byeong Chae, Yong-Sik Chun, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Republic of Korea

WE1-T05: MODELING APPROACHES

WE1-T05.2: MONITORING FOREST MANAGEMENT ACTIVTIES USING AIRBORNE .......................................... 2318LIDAR AND ALOS PALSARAkira Kato, Chiba University, Japan; Manabu Watanabe, Tohoku University, Japan; Tatsuaki Kobayashi, Chiba University, Japan; Yoshio Yamaguchi, Niigata University, Japan; Joji Iisaka, University of Victoria, Canada

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WE1-T05.3: TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF FOREST COVER USING HIDDEN MARKOV ........................................... 2322MODELSArnt-Børre Salberg, Øivind Due Trier, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

WE1-T05.4: GENERATING FINE RESOLUTION LEAF AREA INDEX MAPS FOR BOREAL ................................. 2326FORESTS OF FINLANDJanne Heiskanen, Miina Rautiainen, University of Helsinki, Finland; Lauri Korhonen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; Matti Mõttus, Pauline Stenberg, University of Helsinki, Finland

WE1-T06: COASTAL AND WETLANDS III

WE1-T06.2: ASSESSMENT OF TERRASAR-X FOR MAPPING SALT MARSH ............................................................ 2330Yoon-Kyung Lee, Wook Park, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea; Jong-Kuk Choi, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Republic of Korea; Joong-Sun Won, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

WE1-T06.3: WATER LEVEL MONITORING USING THE INTERFERENCE PATTERN .......................................... 2334GNSS-R TECHNIQUENereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Enric Valencia, Hyuk Park, Mercè Vall-llossera, IEEC CRAE/UPC, Spain

WE1-T06.4: ESTIMATING WATER OPTICAL PROPERTIES, WATER DEPTH AND ............................................... 2338BOTTOM ALBEDO USING HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR COASTAL HABITAT MAPPINGSoo Chin Liew, Ping Chen, Boredin Saengtuksin, Chew Wai Chang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

WE1-T06.5: ANISOTROPIC SURFACES DETECTION USING INTENSITY MAPS .................................................... 2341ACQUIRED BY AN AIRBORNE LIDAR EMITTING IN NEAR-IR OVER COASTAL ENVIRONMENTSFranck Garestier, Patrice Bretel, Olivier Monfort, Franck Levoy, Lab M2C, France

WE1-T07: PRECIPITATION AND CLOUDS I

WE1-T07.1: SATELLITE SENSING OF INTENSE WINTER MESOCYCLONES OVER ............................................. 2345THE JAPAN SEALeonid Mitnik, Irina Gurvich, Mikhail Pichugin, V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS, Russian Federation

WE1-T07.3: ANALYSIS OF PRECIPITATION IN REPEATED ACQUISITIONS .......................................................... 2349COLLECTED BY THE COSMO SKYMED CONSTELLATION IN POLARIMETRIC MODELuca Baldini, Nicoletta Roberto, Eugenio Gorgucci, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; Jason Fritz, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States

WE1-T07.4: IDENTIFICATION OF RAIN/ICE MIXTURE FROM DUAL POLARIZATION ...................................... 2353WEATHER RADARS. Lim, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States

WE1-T08: FEATURE EXTRACTION AND BAND SELECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY

WE1-T08.1: PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-BASED DIMENSIONALITY ....................................................... 2357REDUCTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONHe Yang, Qian Du, Mississippi State University, United States

WE1-T08.2: EMBEDDED FEATURE SELECTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL BANDS WITH ....................................... 2361BOOSTED DECISION TREESSildomar Monteiro, Richard Murphy, University of Sydney, Australia

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WE1-T08.3: DYNAMIC BAND SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY....................................................... 2365Keng-Hao Liu, Chein-I Chang, UMBC, United States

WE1-T08.4: BAND SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES BASED ON ......................................................... 2369IMPURITY FUNCTIONYang-Lang Chang, Bin-Feng Shu, Tung-Ju Hsieh, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan; Chih-Yuan Chu, National Central University, Taiwan; Jyh-Perng Fang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

WE1-T08.5: GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS BASED .................................... 2373DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FOR REMOTELY SENSED IMAGE ANALYSISMinshan Cui, Saurabh Prasad, Majid Mahrooghy, Lori Bruce, James Aanstoos, Mississippi State University, United States

WE1-T09: BUILDING DETECTION AND OBJECT RECOGNITION

WE1-T09.1: A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH TO BUILDING EXTRACTION COMBINING ....................................... 2377HIGH-RESOLUTION INSAR AND OPTICAL DATAJan Dirk Wegner, Uwe Soergel, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

WE1-T09.2: LOCAL FEATURE BASED SUPERVISED OBJECT DETECTION: .......................................................... 2381SAMPLING, LEARNING AND DETECTION STRATEGIESJulien Michel, Manuel Grizonnet, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Jordi Inglada, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) / Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Julien Malik, Aurélien Bricier, Otmane Lahlou, CS, France

WE1-T09.3: DETECTION OF COMPOUND STRUCTURES USING HIERARCHICAL .............................................. 2385CLUSTERING OF STATISTICAL AND STRUCTURAL FEATURESGokhan Akcay, Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Turkey

WE1-T09.4: A NEW ROAD EXTRACTION APPROACH FOR LOW-FREQUENCY SAR ........................................... 2389IMAGES BASED ON ROAD APPURTENANCE DETECTIONQian Song, Yu-Min Wang, Yun-Fei Shi, Tian Jin, National University of Defense Technology, China

WE1-T09.5: BUILDING CHANGE DETECTION IN A COUPLE OF OPTICAL AND SAR ......................................... 2393HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGESEdouard Barthelet, Grégoire Mercier, Institut Telecom, Telecom Bretagne, France; Léonard Denise, Thales Communications, France

WE1-T10: OCEAN SALINITY

WE1-T10.2: REDUCING SYSTEMATIC ERRORS ON SMOS RETRIEVED SALINITY: ............................................ 2397CALIBRATION OF BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE IMAGES AND FORWARD MODEL IMPROVEMENTJérôme Gourrion, Sébastien Guimbard, CSIC, Spain; Roberto Sabia, European Space Agency, Italy; Carolina Gabarró, Verónica González, Sergio Montero, Marco Talone, Marcos Portabella, Antonio Turiel, Fernando Pérez, Justino Martínez, CSIC, Spain

WE2-T01: TOMOGRAPHY

WE2-T01.1: WITHIN THE RESOLUTION CELL: SUPER-RESOLUTION IN ............................................................... 2401TOMOGRAPHIC SAR IMAGINGXiao Xiang Zhu, Technische Universität München, Germany; Richard Bamler, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany

WE2-T01.2: SINGLE-LOOK SUPERRESOLUTION URBAN 3-/4-D TOMOGRAPHY ................................................. 2405ADVANCESFabrizio Lombardini, Francesco Cai, Davide Pasculli, University of Pisa, Italy

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WE2-T01.3: MULTI-COMPONENT NONLINEAR MOTION ESTIMATION IN ........................................................... 2409DIFFERENTIAL SAR TOMOGRAPHY – THE TIME-WARP METHODXiao Xiang Zhu, Technische Universität München, Germany; Richard Bamler, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany

WE2-T01.4: NEW DIFFERENTIAL SAR TOMOGRAPHY FUNCTIONALITIES FOR ................................................ 2413PROBING 3D FOREST STRUCTURE AND DYNAMIC PROCESSESFabrizio Lombardini, Francesco Cai, University of Pisa, Italy

WE2-T01.5: TOMOGRAPHIC PROFILING (TP) - A SCHEME FOR VERTICAL ........................................................ 2416BACKSCATTER PROFILING OF BIOGEOPHYSICAL TARGETS AT CONSTANT INCIDENCE ANGLESKeith Morrison, Cranfield University, United Kingdom; John Bennett, Sheffield University, United Kingdom

WE2-T02: TANDEM-X COMMISSIONING PHASE RESULTS II

WE2-T02.1: IN-ORBIT CALIBRATION OF THE TANDEM-X SYSTEM ......................................................................... 2420Marco Schwerdt, Jaime Hueso-Gonzalez, Markus Bachmann, Dirk Schrank, Björn Döring, Nuria Tous-Ramon, John Mohan Walter Antony, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE2-T02.2: BISTATIC SYNCHRONIZATION AND PROCESSING OF TANDEM-X DATA ....................................... 2424Helko Breit, Marwan Younis, Ulrich Balss, Andreas Niedermeier, Christo Grigorov, Jaime Hueso-Gonzalez, Gerhard Krieger, Michael Eineder, Thomas Fritz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE2-T02.3: INTERFEROMETRIC PROCESSING OF TANDEM-X DATA .................................................................... 2428Thomas Fritz, Cristian Rossi, Nestor Yague-Martinez, Fernando Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Marie Lachaise, Helko Breit, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE2-T02.5: PRODUCTION CHAIN TOWARDS FIRST CALIBRATED AND MOSAICKED ..................................... 2432TANDEM-X DEMSBirgit Wessel, Astrid Gruber, Anna Wendleder, Martin Huber, Markus Breunig, Ursula Marschalk, Detlev Kosmann, Achim Roth, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE2-T03: NASA SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MISSION (SMAP) SCIENCE DATA PRODUCTS AND USER APPLICATIONS II

WE2-T03.1: UTILIZATION OF ANCILLARY DATA SETS FOR SMAP ALGORITHM .............................................. 2436DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCT GENERATIONPeggy O’Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Erika Podest, Eni Njoku, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WE2-T03.3: RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE MITIGATION FOR THE PLANNED ...................................... 2440SMAP RADAR AND RADIOMETERMichael Spencer, Samuel Chan, Eric Belz, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Jeffrey Piepmeier, Priscilla Mohammed, Edward J. Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Joel Johnson, The Ohio State University, United States

WE2-T03.4: EVALUATION OF SMAP LEVEL 2 SOIL MOISTURE ALGORITHMS USING ..................................... 2444SMOS DATARajat Bindlish, Thomas Jackson, Tianjie Zhao, Michael Cosh, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, United States; Steven Chan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Peggy O’Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Eni Njoku, Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Yann H. Kerr, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), France; Jiancheng Shi, University of California Santa Barbara, United States

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WE2-T04: SAR CALIBRATION

WE2-T04.1: CHARACTERIZATION AND EXTENT OF RANDOMLY-CHANGING RADIO ..................................... 2448FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE IN ALOS PALSAR DATAFranz Meyer, Jeremy Nicoll, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States; Anthony Paul Doulgeris, University of Tromsø, Norway

WE2-T04.2: CALIBRATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES AFFECTED BY FARADAY ................................ 2452ROTATION THROUGH THE PS TECHNIQUELorenzo Iannini, Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Stefano Tebaldini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

WE2-T04.3: A KU-BAND GEOSYNCHRONOUS SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR .................................................. 2456MISSION ANALYSIS WITH MEDIUM TRANSMITTED POWER AND MEDIUM-SIZED ANTENNAJosep Ruiz, Antoni Broquetas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

WE2-T04.4: ACCURATE OPTIMAL DOPPLER CENTROID ESTIMATION FOR SAR DATA .................................. 2460Pietro Guccione, Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

WE2-T04.5: TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH ACCURACY RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE .................................................. 2464LOCALIZATION OF TERRASAR-X / TANDEM-X DATAUlrich Balss, Michael Eineder, Thomas Fritz, Helko Breit, Christian Minet, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE2-T05: VEGETATION PHENOLOGY AND TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS II

WE2-T05.2: MONITORING VEGETATION WATER CONTENT BY USING OPTICAL ............................................. 2468VEGETATION INDEX AND MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDEX: FIELD EXPERIMENTS AND APPLICATIONSHui Lu, Tsinghua University, China; Toshio Koike, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Hedeyuki Fujii, The University of Tokyo, Japan

WE2-T05.3: THE ANNUAL BEHAVIOR OF BACKSCATTERING AND COHERENCE OF ....................................... 2472PALSAR DATAWenjian Ni, Zhifeng Guo, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China; Zhiyu Zhang, Remote Sensing and GIS Research Center, Beijing Normal University, China; Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, United States

WE2-T05.4: TEMPORAL TRENDS OF MICROWAVE EMISSION FROM FOREST AREAS .................................... 2476OBSERVED FROM SATELLITESimonetta Paloscia, Emanuele Santi, Simone Pettinato, Marco Brogioni, CNR-IFAC, Italy; Paolo Ferrazzoli, Rachid Rahmoune, Tor Vergata University, Italy

WE2-T05.5: CHANGES IN VEGETATION AND RAINFALL PATTERNS IN SUB-SAHARAN .................................. 2480AFRICA OVER THE LAST DECADE OBSERVED BY SATELLITES - A NATIONAL AND SUB-NATIONAL SYNTHESISAgata Hoscilo, Heiko Balzter, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Etienne Bartholome, Joint Research Centre, Italy; Mirco Boschetti, Pietro Alessandro Brivio, Institute of Electromagnetic Sensing of Environment, Italy; Andreas Brink, Joint Research Centre, Italy

WE2-T06: GEOLOGY AND SOLID EARTH III

WE2-T06.1: DISCRIMINATION OF P-WAVE INTERVAL IN TIME--QUEFRENCY .................................................. 2484ANALYSIS FOR PROXIMITY MICROSEISMIC DOUBLETSKoji Nagano, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

WE2-T06.2: HAITI EARTHQUAKE (12.01.2010) SURFACE SHIFT ESTIMATION USING ........................................ 2488TERRASAR-X DATAChristian Minet, Eineder Michael, Nestor Yague-Martinez, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

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WE2-T06.3: INVESTIGATING THE SEISMIC CYCLE IN ITALY BY MULTITEMPORAL ...................................... 2492ANALYSIS OF ALOS AND ERS/ENVISAT DINSAR DATA SETSCristiano Tolomei, Simone Atzori, John Peter Merryman, Giuseppe Pezzo, Salvi Stefano, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

WE2-T06.4: MULTI-PARAMETERS THERMAL ANOMALIES BEFORE NEW ZEALAND ...................................... 2496MS7.0 EARTHQUAKEQin Kai, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), China; Wu Lixin, Beijing Normal University, China; Guo Guangmeng, Nanyang Normal University, China

WE2-T06.5: MICROWAVE RADIATION ANOMALY OF WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE AND ................................ 2500ITS MECHANISMShanjun Liu, Yuntao Ma, Northeastern University, China; Lixin Wu, Northeastern University / Beijing Normal University, China

WE2-T07: PRECIPITATION AND CLOUDS II

WE2-T07.1: VERTICALLY POINTING RADAR REFLECTIVITY UNCERTAINTIES AND ...................................... 2504THIER IMPACT ON RETRIEVED RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERSChristopher Williams, University of Colorado Boulder, United States

WE2-T07.2: MODELING MELTING LAYER RADAR OBSERVATIONS AT GPM ..................................................... 2507FREQUENCIES; COMPARISON TO MEASUREMENTSAnnakaisa von Lerber, Aalto University, Finland; Dmitri Moisseev, University of Helsinki, Finland; Jussi Leinonen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Jani Tyynelä, University of Helsinki, Finland; Venkatachalam Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States; Martti Hallikainen, Aalto University, Finland

WE2-T07.5: CIRRUS DIRECT OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVAL OVER OCEAN USING ............................................ 2511THE A-TRAINDamien Josset, SSAI, United States; Yongxiang Hu, NASA Langley Research Center, United States; Jacques Pelon, IPSL/LATMOS, France; Peng-Wang Zhai, Patricia Lucker, SSAI, United States

WE2-T08: HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYIS

WE2-T08.1: IMPROVED BINARY PARTITION TREE CONSTRUCTION FOR ........................................................... 2515HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES: APPLICATION TO OBJECT DETECTIONSilvia Valero, Technical University of Catalonia/Grenoble Institute of Technology, Spain; Philippe Salembier, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain; Jocelyn Chanussot, GIPSA-Laboratory / Grenoble Institute of Technology, France; Carles M. Cuadras, University of Barcelona, Spain

WE2-T08.2: TOWARDS STREAMING HYPERSPECTRAL ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION ....................................... 2519Dzevdet Burazerovic, Rob Heylen, Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium

WE2-T08.3: BRANCH AND BOUND BASED FEATURE ELIMINATION FOR SUPPORT ......................................... 2523VECTOR MACHINE BASED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGESSathishkumar Samiappan, Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce, Eric Hansen, Mississippi State University, United States

WE2-T08.4: HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING USING A NOVEL CONVERSION MODEL ........................................... 2527Fereidoun A. Mianji, Shuang Zhou, Ye Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

WE2-T08.5: BAYESIAN FUSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES .................................. 2531USING GAUSSIAN SCALE MIXTURE PRIORYifan Zhang, Shaohui Mei, Mingyi He, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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WE2-T09: DEM AND FEATURE EXTRACTION

WE2-T09.1: HIGH-ACCURACY TERRAIN MODELLING FOR SOIL MAPPING USING .......................................... 2535ALOS-PRISM IMAGERYStephen McNeill, Stella Belliss, David Pairman, Landcare Research New Zealand, New Zealand

WE2-T09.2: ADAPTIVE MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING FOR DEM GENERATION ............................................... 2539Kyohyouk Kim, Jie Shan, Purdue University, United States

WE2-T09.4: META-OPTIMIZATION OF THE EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER’S ...................................................... 2543PARAMETERS FOR IMPROVED FEATURE EXTRACTION ON HYPER-TEMPORAL IMAGESBrian Salmon, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Waldo Kleynhans, Frans van den Bergh, CSIR, South Africa; Jan C. Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Willem Marais, Space Science and Engineering Center, United States; Konrad Wessels, CSIR, South Africa

WE2-T09.5: SAR IMAGE BASED GEOMETRICAL FEATURE EXTRACTION OF SHIPS ......................................... 2547Chongwen Duan, Weidong Hu, Xiaoyong Du, ATR Key Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, China

WE2-T10: THE SURFACE WATER AND OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY (SWOT) MISSION I

WE3-T01: CALIBRATION AND ERROR MITIGATION

WE3-T01.1: USING WORLDWIDE AVAILABLE TERRASAR-X DATA TO CALIBRATE THE ............................... 2551GEO-LOCATION ACCURACY OF OPTICAL SENSORSRoland Perko, Hannes Raggam, Karlheinz Gutjahr, Mathias Schardt, Joanneum Research, Austria

WE3-T01.2: A WEIGHTED CALIBRATION METHOD OF INTERFEROMETRIC SAR ............................................ 2555DATAYongfei Mao, Maosheng Xiang, Lideng Wei, Daojing Li, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WE3-T01.3: MITIGATION OF ATMOSPHERIC DELAY IN INSAR: THE ESA METAWAVE .................................. 2558PROJECTDaniele Perissin, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China; Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Mauro Pierdicca, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy; Emanuela Pichelli, Domenico Cimini, Università de L’Aquila, Italy; Giovanna Venuti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Bjorn Rommen, European Space Agency, Netherlands

WE3-T01.4: THE ROLE OF WEATHER MODELS IN MITIGATION OF ...................................................................... 2562TROPOSPHERIC DELAY FOR SAR INTERFEROMETRYShizhuo Liu, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Agnes Mika, BMT ARGOSS, Netherlands; Wenyu Gong, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States; Ramon Hanssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Franz Meyer, Don Morton, Peter Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States

WE3-T01.5: SYNERGIC USE OF EO, NWP AND GROUND BASED MEASUREMENTS ............................................ 2566FOR THE MITIGATION OF VAPOUR ARTEFACTS IN SAR INTERFEROMETRYNazzareno Pierdicca, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Fabio Rocca, Politechnic of Milan, Italy; Patrizia Basili, Stefania Bonafoni, University of Perugia, Italy; Giovanni Carlesimo, University of L’Aquila, Italy; Domenico Cimini, IMAA-CNR, Italy; Piero Ciotti, Rossella Ferretti, University of L’Aquila, Italy; Frank Silvio Marzano, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Vinia Mattioli, University of Perugia, Italy; Mario Montopoli, University of L’Aquila, Italy; Riccardo Notarpietro, Politechnic of Turin, Italy; Daniele Perissin, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; Emanuela Pichelli, University of L’Aquila, Italy; Bjorn Rommen, European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Giovanna Venuti, Politechnic of Milan, Italy

WE3-T02: POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY: APPLICATIONS WITH TANDEM-X I

WE3-T02.1: POLINSAR : FROM SIR-C TO TANDEM-X .................................................................................................... 2570Shane R. Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom

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WE3-T02.3: ANALYSIS OF VOLUMETRIC SCATTERS BASED ON TANDEM-X ...................................................... 2574POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATACarlos López-Martínez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Alberto Alonso, Xavier Fàbregas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

WE3-T02.4: FOREST CHARACTERISATION BY MEANS OF TERRASAR-X AND ................................................... 2578TANDEM-X (POLARIMETRIC AND) INTERFEROMETRIC DATAFlorian Kugler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Irena Hajnsek, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland

WE3-T03: TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION

WE3-T03.1: COMPARSION OF TRMM PR V6 AND V7 FOCUSING HEAVY RAINFALL .......................................... 2582Shinta Seto, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Toshio Iguchi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; Robert Meneghini, NASA, United States

WE3-T03.3: COMPARISON BETWEEN TRMM/PR AND AMEDAS GROUND RAIN ................................................. 2590GAUGE NETWORK IN TERMS OF ANNUAL RAINFALLNozomi Kawamoto, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan; Riko Oki, Shuji Shimizu, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

WE3-T03.4: MODEL SIMULATIONS OF NON-UNIFORM BEAM FILLING ................................................................ 2594CORRECTION FOR SPACEBORNE PRECIPITATION RADARDavid Short, Toshio Iguchi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

WE3-T04: FREEZE-THAW AND SOIL MOISTURE

WE3-T04.2: MOISTURE & ROUGHNESS ESTIMATION ALGORITHM OVER .......................................................... 2598PERMAFROST AREAManabu Watanabe, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Keiji Kushida, Toyama University, Japan; Koichiro Harada, Miyagi University, Japan; Masami Fukuda, Fukuyama City University, Japan; Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

WE3-T04.4: SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS OF FREEZING ..................................... 2602SOILJaakko Seppänen, Juha Kainulainen, Martti Hallikainen, Aalto University, Finland; Juha Lemmetyinen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

WE3-T04.5: MULTI-FREQUENCY, MULTI-POLARIZATION AND ANGULAR ......................................................... 2605MEASUREMENTS OF BARE SOIL, SNOW AND WATER ICE MICROWAVE REFLECTION AND EMISSION BY C-, KU-, AND KA-BAND, COMBINED SCATTEROMETER-RADIOMETER SYSTEMSArtashes Arakelyan, Astghik Hambaryan, Vardan Hambaryan, Vanik Karyan, Mushegh Manukyan, Melanya Grigoryan, Gagik Hovhannisyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Marine Simonyan, Mariam Krdyan, ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd., Armenia

WE3-T05: ANALYSIS METHODS, CLASSIFICATION, AND SENSOR FUSION II

WE3-T05.1: FOREST STRUCTURE ESTIMATION USING SAR, LIDAR, AND OPTICAL ........................................ 2609DATA IN THE CANADIAN BOREAL FORESTMichael Benson, Leland Pierce, Kathleen Bergen, University of Michigan, United States; Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States; Kailai Zhang, Caitlin Ryan, University of Michigan, United States

WE3-T05.2: A METHODOLOGY TO SELECT PHENOLOGICALLY SUITABLE LANDSAT ................................... 2613SCENES FOR FOREST CHANGE DETECTIONDo-Hyung Kim, Raghuram Narashiman, Joseph O. Sexton, Chengquan Huang, University of Maryland, United States; John R. Townshend, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

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WE3-T05.3: BAYESIAN MAXIMUM ENTROPY DATA FUSION OF THE FIELD ....................................................... 2617OBSERVED LAI AND LANDSAT ETM+ DERIVED LAIAihua Li, Yanchen Bo, Ling Chen, Beijing Normal University, China

WE3-T06: GEOLOGY AND SOLID EARTH IV

WE3-T06.2: ANALYSIS OF THE 1992-2010 DYNAMIC DEFORMATION AFFECTING THE ................................... 2621YELLOWSTONE CALDERAGiovanni Zeni, Antonio Pepe, Pietro Tizzani, Francesco Casu, Michele Manunta, Riccardo Lanari, IREA-CNR, Italy

WE3-T06.3: SPECTRAL MAPPING CAPABILITIES OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS USING ....................................... 2625HYPERSPECTRAL DATA IN SICILY, ITALYPaolo Villa, Monica Pepe, Mirco Boschetti, CNR-IREA / Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, Italy; Riccardo De Paulis, ENI Exploration & Production Division, Italy

WE3-T06.4: ANALYSIS OF TREND CHANGES OF GROUND DEFORMATION IN THE .......................................... 2629SELECTED MINING AREAS IN DABROWSKI COAL BASIN (SOUTH POLAND)Stanislawa Porzycka, Andrzej Lesniak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

WE3-T07: PRECIPITATION AND CLOUDS III

WE3-T07.1: EFFECTS OF UNCERTAINTY IN CLOUD MICROPHYSICS ON PASSIVE ........................................... 2633MICROWAVE RAINFALL MEASUREMENTSJu-Hye Kim, Dong-Bin Shin, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

WE3-T07.2: THRESHOLDS OF DETECTION FOR FALLING SNOW FROM .............................................................. 2637SATELLITE-BORNE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SENSORSGail Skofronick-Jackson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Benjamin Johnson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States

WE3-T07.3: A CONSENSUS CALIBRATION BASED ON TMI AND WINDSAT ............................................................ 2641Thomas Wilheit, Texas A&M University, United States; Wesley Berg, Colorado State University, United States; W. Linwood Jones, University of Central Florida, United States; Rachael Kroodsma, Darren Mckague, Christopher Ruf, University of Michigan, United States; Matthew Sapiano, Colorado State University, United States

WE3-T07.4: HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATE USING ............................................. 2645CLUSTER ENSEMBLE CLOUD CLASSIFICATIONMajid Mahrooghy, Nicholas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States; Valentine Anantharaj, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; James Aanstoos, Mississippi State University, United States

WE3-T07.5: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLOUD DROPLET EFFECTIVE RADIUS AND ....................................... 2649CLOUD TOP HEIGHT FOR DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS IN CLOUDSAT DATA PRODUCTSatoshi Suzuki, Shinta Seto, Taikan Oki, The University of Tokyo, Japan

WE3-T08: IMAGE SEGMENTATION

WE3-T08.1: LARGE SCALE SEMI-SUPERVISED IMAGE SEGMENTATION WITH ................................................. 2653ACTIVE QUERIESDevis Tuia, University of Valencia, Spain; Jordi Muñoz-Marí, Universitat de València, Spain; Gustavo Camps-Valls, University of Valencia, Spain

WE3-T08.2: SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF MAN-MADE MARITIME ............................................. 2657OBJECTS IN TERRASAR-X IMAGESMichael Teutsch, Günter Saur, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany

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WE3-T08.3: WATER/LAND SEGMENTATION FOR SAR IMAGES BASED ON GEODESIC .................................... 2661DISTANCEHua Zhong, Qing Xie, L.C. Jiao, Shuang Wang, Xidian University, China

WE3-T08.4: A FAST SEGMENTATION APPROACH OF SAR IMAGE BY FUSING OPTICAL ................................ 2665IMAGEHuaping Xu, Wei Wang, Beihang University, China; Xianghua Liu, Samsung Communication Technique Institute, China

WE3-T08.5: TEXTURE SEGMENTATION FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE BASED ON ........................................ 2669TEXTURE-TOPIC MODELHao Feng, Zhiguo Jiang, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China; Xingmin Han, Beijing University of Technology, China

WE3-T09: GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS RETRIEVAL FROM GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES DATA: ALGORITHMS AND PRODUCTS

WE3-T09.4: LAND SURFACE ALBEDO AND DOWNWELLING SHORTWAVE RADIATION ................................. 2673FROM MSG GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE: METHOD FOR RETRIEVAL, VALIDATION, AND APPLICATIONDominique Carrer, Jean-Louis Roujean, Olivier Hautecoeur, Jean-Christophe Calvet, Meteo France, France; Jure Cedilnik, Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia; Laurent Franchistéguy, Meteo France, France; Bernhard Geiger, European Space Agency, Spain; Sébastien Lafont, Jean-François Mahfouf, Catherine Meurey, Meteo France, France; Isabel Trigo, Instituto de Meteorologia, Portugal

WE3-T09.5: PRIOR INFORMATION SUPPORTED AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH ..................................................... 2677RETRIEVAL USING FY2D DATALinlu Mei, Yong Xue, Ying Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Tingting Hou, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jie Guang, Yingjie Li, Hui Xu, Chaolin Wu, Xingwei He, Jing Dong, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Ziqiang Chen, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WE3-T10: THE SURFACE WATER AND OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY (SWOT) MISSION II

WE3-T10.3: NEAR NADIR KA-BAND SAR INTERFEROMETRY: SWOT AIRBORNE .............................................. 2681EXPERIMENTXiaoqing Wu, Scott Hensley, Ernesto Rodriguez, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Delwyn Moller, Remote Sensing Solutions Inc, United States; Ronald Muellerschoen, Thierry Michel, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WE3-T10.4: VALIDATION OF RADIOMETRIC MODELS AND SIMULATED ............................................................ 2685KARIN/SWOT DATA BASED ON GROUND AND AIRBORNE ACQUISITIONSRoger Fjørtoft, Jean-Claude Lalaurie, Nadine Pourthié, Christine Lion, Jean-Marc Gaudin, Alain Mallet, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Jean-François Nouvel, Pierre Borderies, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France; Pascal Kosuth, Cemagref, France; Christian Ruiz, Capgemini Sud, France

WE3-T10.5: OBSERVING MESOSCALE TO SUBMESOSCALE DYNAMICS TODAY, AND ..................................... 2689IN THE FUTURE WITH SWOTRosemary Morrow, LEGOS / OMP, France; Lee-Lueng Fu, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WE4-T01: COMPRESSIVE SENSING AND DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION

WE4-T01.1: DISPLACED PHASE CENTER ANTENNA SAR IMAGING BASED ON .................................................. 2692COMPRESSED SENSINGYueguan Lin, Bingchen Zhang, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WE4-T01.2: PARALLEL FREQUENCY RADAR VIA COMPRESSIVE SENSING ......................................................... 2696Yanan You, Chunsheng Li, Ze Yu, Beihang University, China

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WE4-T01.3: ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN SAR COMPRESSIVE SAMPLING ............................................................... 2700TOMOGRAPHYAlessandra Budillon, Gilda Schirinzi, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

WE4-T01.4: SCENE CLASS RECOGNITION USING HIGH RESOLUTION SAR/INSAR ........................................... 2704SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION METHODSAnca Popescu, Inge Gavat, University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania; Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE4-T01.5: PERCEPTUAL GROUPING FOR PERSISTENT SCATTERERS IN URBAN ........................................... 2708HIGH-RESOULTION SAR IMAGESAlexander Schunert, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; Eckart Michaelsen, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany; Uwe Sörgel, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

WE4-T02: POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY: APPLICATIONS WITH TANDEM-X II

WE4-T02.2: POLARIMETRIC METHODS FOR TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING OF NATURAL .................................. 2712VOLUMETRIC MEDIALaurent Ferro-Famil, Yue Huang, University of Rennes 1, France; Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

WE4-T02.3: TEST OF EQUI-SCATTERING MECHANISMS FOR POLINSAR ............................................................. 2715APPLICATIONS WITH TANDEM-XArmando Marino, The University of Alicante, Spain; Shane R. Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom; Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, The University of Alicante, Spain

WE4-T02.4: ON THE POTENTIAL OF TANDEM-X FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF ......................................................... 2719AGRICULTURAL CROP PARAMETERS BY SINGLE-PASS POLINSARJuan M. Lopez-Sanchez, J. David Ballester-Berman, University of Alicante, Spain

WE4-T03: NEW ACTIVE MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS

WE4-T03.1: A SPACEBORNE DOPPLER RADAR FOR 3D WINDS MAPPING INSIDE ............................................. 2721CLOUDSNicolas Taveneau, Eric Caubet, Jacques Richard, Jerome Lorenzo, Thalès Alenia Space, France; Vincent Albouys, Jean-Claude Souyris, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Nicolas Viltard, Yvon Lemaitre, CNRS-UVSQ, France

WE4-T03.4: MULTISTATIC NETWORKED RADAR FOR SEA CLUTTER .................................................................. 4449MEASUREMENTSMichael Raymond Inggs, Stephanus Sandenbergh, Gordon Inggs, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Waddah Al-Ashwal, Karl Woodbridge, Hugh Griffiths, University College London, United Kingdom

WE4-T03.5: RFI MITIGATION AND DETECTION FOR THE SMAP RADAR............................................................... 2725Samuel Chan, Mark Fischman, Michael Spencer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WE4-T04: ACTIVE/PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF TERRESTRIAL SNOW I

WE4-T04.1: COREH2O, A DUAL FREQUENCY RADAR SATELLITE FOR COLD .................................................... 2729REGIONS HYDROLOGYHelmut Rott, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Donald W. Cline, NOAA National Weather Service, United States; Claude Duguay, University of Waterloo, Canada; Richard Essery, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Pierre Etchevers, Meteo France, France; Irena Hajnsek, German Aerospace Center (DLR) / ETH Zuerich, Germany; Michael Kern, European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Giovanni Macelloni, IFAC - CNR, Italy; Eirik Malnes, Norut, Norway; Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Simon H. Yueh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

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WE4-T04.3: THE POTENTIAL OF COSMO-SKYMED SAR IMAGES IN MAPPING SNOW ..................................... 2733COVER AND SNOW WATER EQUIVALENTSimone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi, Marco Brogioni, Simonetta Paloscia, Paolo Pampaloni, CNR-Institute of Applied Physics, Italy; Enrico Palchetti, CNR-IFAC, Italy; Jianchen Shi, University of Santa Barbara, United States; Chuan Xiong, CNR-Institute of Applied Physics, Italy

WE4-T04.5: ANALYSIS OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS ............................................. 2737FROM THE NOSREX CAMPAIGNJuha Lemmetyinen, Jouni Pulliainen, Ali Nadir Arslan, Anna Kontu, Kimmo Rautiainen, Juho Vehviläinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Andreas Wiesmann, Gamma Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland; Thomas Nagler, Helmut Rott, Enveo IT GmbH ICT, Austria; Malcolm Davidson, Dirk Schuettemeyer, Michael Kern, European Space Agency, Netherlands

WE4-T05: AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS

WE4-T05.1: MONITORING AND RETRIEVING RICE PHENOLOGY BY MEANS OF .............................................. 2741SATELLITE SAR POLARIMETRY AT X-BANDJuan M. Lopez-Sanchez, University of Alicante, Spain; Shane R. Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom; J. David Ballester-Berman, University of Alicante, Spain

WE4-T05.2: RESEARCH ON FPAR VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION IN DIFFERENT ..................................................... 2745VARIETY MAIZE CANOPYRongyuan Liu, Beijing Normal University, China; Wenjiang Huang, Beijing Agriculture Information Technology Research Center, China; Huazhong Ren, Beijing Normal University, China; Guijun Yang, Jihua Wang, Beijing Agriculture Information Technology Research Center, China; Xiaowen Li, Beijing Normal University, China

WE4-T05.3: MONITORING MODEL OF ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS IN GANNAN .................................................. 2749GRASSLAND BASED ON REMOTE SENSINGJing Wang, Ni Guo, Dihua Cai, Hui Han, Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology, China; Yun Liang, Northwest Regional Climate Center, China

WE4-T05.5: MAPPING NATURA 2000 HEATHLAND IN BELGIUM – AN EVALUATION OF ................................. 2757ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS FOR SPACEBORNE ANGULAR CHRIS/PROBA IMAGERYJonathan Chan, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium; Pieter Beckers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Frank Canters, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium; Toon Spanhove, Jeroen Vanden Borre, Desire Paelinckx, Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Belgium

WE4-T06: GEOLOGY AND SOLID EARTH V

WE4-T06.2: ASSESSING THE POTENTIAL OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES WEST .......................................... 2761OF ASWAN, EGYPT, USING ALOS/PALSAR POLARIMETRIC INFORMATIONAhmed Gaber, Tohoku University, Japan; Magaly Koch, Boston University, United States; Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

WE4-T06.4: ASSESSMENT OF ALBEDO CHANGES AND THEIR DRIVING FACTORS .......................................... 2765OVER THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAUBing Zhang, Liping Lei, Li Zhang, Zhaocheng Zen, Key Laboratory of Digital Earth, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WE4-T06.5: SOIL THICKNESS ZONATION APPROACH USING LANDSAT ETM+, ................................................. 2769GEOLOGICAL MAPS, DEM DATA, AND FIELD INVESTIGATIONRunqing Ye, Ruiqing Niu, China University of Geosciences, China; Sahli Hichem, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium; Qiying Jiang, China University of Geosciences, China

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WE4-T07: WEATHER PREDICTION AND DATA ASSIMILATION I

WE4-T07.1: DEVELOPMENT OF GPU-BASED RTTOV-7 IASI AND AMSU-A FORWARD ...................................... 2773MODELSJarno Mielikainen, Bormin Huang, Hung-Lung Allen Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States; Roger Saunders, Met Office, United Kingdom

WE4-T07.2: EVALUATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION WEATHER FORECASTS IN ................................................... 2777TROPICS USING SATELLITE PASSIVE MILLIMETER-WAVE OBSERVATIONSChinnawat Surussavadee, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus, Thailand

WE4-T07.5: TWO-YEAR ASSESSMENT OF NOWCASTING PERFORMANCE IN THE ........................................... 2781CASA SYSTEMEvan Ruzanski, Vaisala, Inc., United States; Venkatachalam Chandrasekar, Delbert Willie, Colorado State University, United States

WE4-T08: IMAGE FUSION AND SUPER-RESOLUTION

WE4-T08.1: INTEGRATION OF COLORIZED SINGLE-POL SAR DATA INTO OPTICAL ...................................... 2785IMAGE MOSAICSOliver Lang, Parivash Lumsdon, Astrium GEO-Information Services, Germany

WE4-T08.2: A NEW SAR SUPERRESOLUTION IMAGING ALGORITHM BASED ON ............................................. 2789ADAPTIVE SIDELOBE REDUCTIONPing Zhang, Zhen Li, Jianmin Zhou, Quan Chen, Bangsen Tian, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WE4-T08.3: COMPRESSIVE SENSING FOR IMAGE FUSION – WITH APPLICATION TO ..................................... 2793PAN-SHARPENINGXiao Xiang Zhu, Xuan Wang, Technische Universität München, Germany; Richard Bamler, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany

WE4-T08.4: A TECHNIQUE FOR SPECTRAL PIXEL RECONSTRUCTION ................................................................. 2797S K Patra, J Saibaba, Geeta Varadan, ADRIN, India; S K Nayak, Berhampur University, India

WE4-T08.5: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR MIXED PIXEL RESOLUTION......................................................... 2801Nitish Gupta, Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India; V.K. Panchal, Defence Terrain Research Laboratory, India

WE4-T09: PARAMETER ESTIMATION

WE4-T09.1: ESTIMATION OF SUBPIXEL TEMPERATURE OVER A .......................................................................... 2805HETEROGENEOUS AREA USING AN ENDMEMBER INDEX BASED TECHNIQUEGuijun Yang, Wenjiang Huang, Jihua Wang, Chunjiang Zhao, National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, China

WE4-T09.3: ESTIMATION OF IMPERVIOUS SURFACE BASED ON INTEGRATED ................................................ 2809ANALYSIS OF CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION BY USING SVM.Xi Cheng, Jiancheng Luo, Zhanfeng Shen, Changming Zhu, Xin Zhang, Liegang Xia, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WE4-T09.4: KERNEL-BASED RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES FROM IASI ....................................... 2813DATAGustavo Camps-Valls, Valero Laparra, Jordi Muñoz-Marí, Luis Gómez-Chova, Universitat de València, Spain; Xavier Calbet, EUMETSAT, Germany

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WE4-T09.5: A NEW ALGORITHM TO AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINE THE ......................................................... 2817BOUNDARY OF THE SCATTER PLOT IN THE TRIANGLE METHOD FOR EVAPOTRANSPIRATION RETRIEVALHongbo Su, Texas A&M University at Kingsville, United States; Jing Tian, Shaohui Chen, Renhua Zhang, Rong Yuan, Yongmin Yang, Xinzhai Tang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Julio Garcia, Texas A&M University at Kingsville, United States

WE4-T10: OCEAN ALTIMETRY I

WE4-T10.1: ESTIMATION OF OCEAN WAVE HEIGHT USING POLARIZATION RATIO ...................................... 2821OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATAMitsunobu Sugimoto, Nobuaki Shiroto, Kazuo Ouchi, National Defense Academy, Japan

WE4-T10.2: A NEW MODEL FOR PEAKY ALTIMETRIC WAVEFORMS .................................................................... 2825Abderrahim Halimi, Corinne Mailhes, Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France; Pierre Thibaut, Collecte Localisation Satellite (CLS), France

WEP-A: BISTATIC SAR I

WEP-A.1: SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING FOR MOVING TARGET ............................................................. 2829DETECTION AND IMAGING IN BISTATIC SARViet Thuy Vu, Thomas K. Sjögren, Mats I. Pettersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

WEP-A.2: TARGET IDENTIFICATION BY A PASSIVE BISTATIC MONOCHROMATIC ........................................ 2833WAVE RADARMojtaba Amiri-Sazi, Franck Daout, Francoise Schmitt, SATI, ENS Cachan, CNRS, UniverSud, France

WEP-A.3: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON ENHANCEMENT OF THE CROSS-RANGE ........................................ 2837RESOLUTION OF ISAR IMAGING USING ISDB-T DIGITAL TV BASED PASSIVE BISTATIC RADARShohei Nakamura, Kei Suwa, Shinichi Morita, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Toshio Wakayama, Tadashi Oshima, Ryoji Maekawa, Shoji Matsuda, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan

WEP-A.4: GPU-BASED PARALLEL BACK PROJECTION ALGORITHM FOR THE ................................................. 2841TRANSLATIONAL VARIANT BISAR IMAGINGXin Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Jun Shi, Zhe Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

WEP-A.7: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY FOR GNSS-R POLARIMETRY ............................................................................. 2853Ryuta Kato, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Hirobumi Saito, Seisuke Fukuda, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

WEP-A.8: NONPARAMETRIC FEATURE SELECTION AND SUPPORT VECTOR .................................................... 2857MACHINE FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA CLASSIFICATIONYasser Maghsoudi, Michael Collins, University of Calgary, Canada; Donald Leckie, Pacific Forestry Centre, Canada

WEP-B: SAR DATA ANALYSIS II

WEP-B.1: COMPRESSIVE SENSING APPLIED TO IMAGING BY GROUND-BASED ............................................... 2861POLARIMETRIC SARRiafeni Karlina, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan

WEP-B.3: COSMO-SKYMED SAR DATA TO OBSERVE SMALL METALLIC OBJECTS ......................................... 2869FROM OCEAN CRASHED AIRCRAFTRafael Lemos Paes, Institute for Advanced Studies, Brazil; Ferdinando Nunziata, University of Naples, Italy; Elcio Hideiti Shiguemori, Institute for Advanced Studies, Brazil; Maurizio Migliaccio, Antonio Montuori, University of Naples, Italy

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WEP-B.4: COMPRESSIVE SAMPLING FOR MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY ............................................................. 2873Roberta Autieri, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Michele D’Urso, SELEX Sistemi Integrati S.p.A., Italy; Stefano Malanga, Vito Pascazio, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

WEP-B.5: TERRAIN CHARACTERISATION OF HEARD, MCDONALD AND MACQUARIE .................................. 2877ISLANDS USING MULTI-FREQUENCY INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (INSAR) DATA.Anthea Mitchell, Alex Hay-Man Ng, Jung Hum Yu, Linlin Ge, University of New South Wales, Australia

WEP-B.7: SELF-CALIBRATED DIRECT GEO-REFERENCING OF AIRBORNE ........................................................ 2881PUSHBROOM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGESChing-Kuo Yeh, Victor J. D. Tsai, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

WEP-C: CLASSIFICATION I

WEP-C.1: NEURAL NETWORK BASED APPROXIMATE SPECTRAL CLUSTERING FOR .................................... 2884REMOTE SENSING IMAGESKadim Tasdemir, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy

WEP-C.2: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR SATELLITE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING ......................................... 2888LOCAL SELF-SIMILARITYHuaxin Zheng, Huijie Zhao, Xiao Bai, Beihang University, China

WEP-C.3: SNOW PARTICLE AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION WITH TEXTURE .................................................... 2892OPERATORSKarolina Nurzynska, Mamoru Kubo, Ken-Ichiro Muramoto, Kanazawa University, Japan

WEP-C.4: A CLUSTER ENSEMBLE METHOD FOR ROBUST UNSUPERVISED ........................................................ 2896CLASSIFICATION OF VHR REMOTE SENSING IMAGESNaif Alajlan, Nassim Ammour, Yakoub Bazi, Haikel Hichri, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

WEP-C.5: LAND COVER DISCRIMINATION AT BRAZILIAN AMAZON USING REGION .................................... 2900BASED CLASSIFIER AND STOCHASTIC DISTANCEWagner Silva, Luciana Pereira, Sidnei Sant’Anna, Corina Freitas, Ricardo Guimarães, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil; Alejandro Frery, Alagoas Federal University, Brazil

WEP-C.7: FEATURE SELECTION AND IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING ROUGH ............................................... 2904SETS THEORYAlex Sandro Aguiar Pessoa, Stephan Stephany, Leila Maria Garcia Fonseca, Brazilian Institute for Space Research, Brazil

WEP-D: INFORMATION EXTRACTION - FEATURE EXTRACTION, PARAMETER ESTIMATION, OBJECT RECOGNITION, AND CLASSIFICATION

WEP-D.1: SIMULTANEOUSLY RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH AND .............................................. 2912SURFACE ALBEDO WITH FY-2 GEOSTATIONARY DATAYing Wang, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Linlu Mei, Tingting Hou, Yingjie Li, Hui Xu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-D.2: ESTIMATION OF HEIHE REGION SURFACE ALBEDO BASED ON A PRIORI ...................................... 2915KNOWLEDGE BY USING HJ1-A SATELLITE IMAGESHu Zhang, Ziti Jiao, Xiaowen Li, Xingying Huang, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP-D.3: INFLUENCE OF ENDMEMBER SPECTRA ON SCALING EFFECT OF ..................................................... 2919VEGETATION COVER ESTIMATION WITH NDVIKenta Obata, Hiroki Yoshioka, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan

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WEP-D.4: SUPPORT SYSTEM TO EXTRACT TIE POINTS IN AIRBORNE IMAGES OF ......................................... 2923SNOW COVERED AREA USING ROOTS OF SINGLE TREESYu Oishi, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Tsuneo Matsunaga, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan

WEP-D.5: DIMENSION REDUCTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES WITH SPARSE .......................................... 2927LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSISJiming Li, Yuntao Qian, Zhejiang University, China

WEP-D.6: IMPORT VECTOR MACHINES BASED CLASSIFICATION OF .................................................................. 2931MULTISENSOR REMOTE SENSING DATABjörn Waske, Ribana Roscher, Sascha Klemenjak, University of Bonn, Germany

WEP-D.8: SATELLITE IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING ............................................ 2935Mohamed Gebril, Abdollah Homaifar, Ruben Buaba, NC A&T State university, United States; Eric Kihn, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, United States

WEP-D.9: SEMI-SUPERVISED REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION ....................................................... 2939METHODS ASSESSMENTRogério Negri, INPE - National Institute for Spatial Research, Brazil; Sidnei Sant’Anna, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil; Luciano Dutra, INPE - National Institute for Spatial Research, Brazil

WEP-E: GIS TECHNIQUES I

WEP-E.1: A WEBGIS FOR SHARING AND INTEGRATION OF MULTI-SOURCE .................................................... 2943HETEROGENEOUS SPATIAL DATAJianzhi Tang, Yingchao Ren, Chongjun Yang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lei Shen, Oracle Software R&D Center (Beijing) Co., Ltd, China; Jun Jiang, Satellite Environment Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, China

WEP-E.2: EXTRACTION OF LINEAR SURFACE FEATURES FROM REMOTE ........................................................ 2947SENSING IMAGE TO CONSTRUCTION CROP ACREAGE SURVEY SAMPLING FRAMEHui Deng, Di Wang, Jia Liu, Limin Wang, Zhongxin Chen, Qingbo Zhou, Key Laboratory of Resources Remote Sensing & Digital Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, China

WEP-E.4: A WEIGHTED CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR CLARIFYING VEHICLE ............................................ 2949GPS TRACESJing Wang, Xiaoping Rui, Xianfeng Song, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chaoliang Wang, Lingli Tang, Chuanrong Li, Academy of Opto-Electronics / Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Venkatesh Raghvan, Graduate School for Creative Cities, Osaka City University, Japan

WEP-E.5: MODEL SEMANTIC NETWORK FOR MASSIVE SPATIAL INFORMATION ........................................... 2953Xiaolin Wang, Yingwei Luo, Peking University, China

WEP-E.6: SHARING AND REUSING GEOGRAPHY MODELS VIA MODEL ............................................................... 2957EXECUTION ENGINEXiaolin Wang, Hui Li, Hao Deng, Hongqiang Mao, Yingwei Luo, Peking University, China

WEP-E.7: CHINA CROP GROWTH MONITORING SYSTEM-METHODOLOGY AND ............................................ 2961OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES OVERVIEWQing Huang, Zhongxin Chen, Wenbin Wu, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Allard AJW de Wit, Alterra, Netherlands; Fei Teng, Dandan Li, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

WEP-F: GIS TECHNIQUES II

WEP-F.1: AN AUTOMATIC METHOD FOR GENERATING CURVILINEAR .............................................................. 2965GEOLOGICAL SECTION WITH STRATAL PINCH-OUTJiateng Guo, Rongbing Zhang, Lixin Wu, Yizhou Yang, Northeastern University, China

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WEP-F.2: GRAPHICS HARDWARE-BASED ALGORITHM FOR LARGE SCALE TERRAIN .................................. 2969RENDERINGHao Liu, Fuzhou Duan, Wenji Zhao, Capital Normal University, China; Liliang Pan, Beijing Heegle Co. Ltd, China; Wei Cao, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Huili Gong, Capital Normal University, China

WEP-F.3: THE TRANSPORT ANIMATION OF ASIAN DUST CLOUDS IN THE GOOGLE ...................................... 2973EARTHTakashi Kusaka, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan; Takafumi Kono, NDS Information System, Japan; Wataru Okuda, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan

WEP-F.4: OPTIMIZING EXPRESSWAY MAINTENANCE PLANNING BY COUPLING ........................................... 2977ANT ALGORITHM AND GEOGRAPHY INFORMATION SYSTEM TRANSPORTATION IN HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINAHongga Li, Xiaoxia Huang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Quan Feng, China Transport Information & Telecommunications Center, China

WEP-F.5: RADARGRAMMETRIC DEM GENERATION USING ENVISAT SIMULATION ...................................... 2980IMAGE AND REPROCESSED IMAGEJung Hum Yu, Xiaojing Li, Linlin Ge, School of Surveying and SIS, Australia

WEP-F.7: RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF ASTER DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL ......................................... 2984Dai Okano, Akira Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan

WEP-F.8: A NEW METHOD OF TUNNEL 3D MODELING AND ITS APPLICATIONS............................................... 2988Defu Che, Chunhua Xiu, Jiayu Che, School of Resources and Civil Engineering, China

WEP-F.9: EQUATIONAL BUFFER AND ITS POTENTIAL APPLICATION .................................................................. 2992Jun Li, Yue Zhao, Chao Xie, Peking University, China; Hongyu Wang, Fanglin He, China Ministry of Transport, China; Hongbo Jiang, Qiming Qin, Peking University, China

WEP-G: ADVANCES IN ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES I

WEP-G.1: OPTO-MECHANICAL STRUCTURE DESIGN AND MODULATION .......................................................... 2996TRANSFER FUNCTION ANALYSIS FOR REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTYu-Chuan Lin, Long-Jeng Lee, Shenq-Tsong Chang, Yu-Cheng Cheng, Ting-Ming Huang, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taiwan

WEP-G.2: MINIMUM ERROR LAND COVER SEPARABILITY ANALYSIS AND ...................................................... 2999CLASSIFICATION OF MODIS TIME SERIES DATAEtienne Ackermann, Trienko Grobler, Gusti van Zyl, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Karen Steenkamp, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Jan C. Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa

WEP-G.5: AIRBORNE 3-D FORWARD LOOKING SAR IMAGING VIA CHIRP SCALING ...................................... 3011ALGORITHMGao Xiang, Xiaoling Zhang, Jun Shi, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

WEP-G.6: A GENERAL METHOD OF GENERATING SATELLITE EPIPOLAR IMAGES ....................................... 3015BASED ON RPC MODELHongbo Pan, Guo Zhang, Tan Chen, Wuhan University, China

WEP-G.7: GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES PRESERVED LINE SIMPLIFICATION ......................................................... 3019ALGORITHM BASED ON FRACTALYingchao Ren, Janzhi Tang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Sheng Wu, Southwest University, China

WEP-G.8: EXTRACTING PLANNING AREAS OF PADDY RICE IN SOUTHERN CHINA ........................................ 3023BY USING EOS/MODIS DATALi Zhang, Wenbin Wu, Qingbo Zhou, Zhongxin Chen, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

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WEP-G.9: REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIMODAL IMAGES AND ITS ............................................... 3027APPLICATIONRyosuke Mashiko, Akira Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan

WEP-H: ADVANCES IN EARTH SENSING AND APPLICATIONS II

WEP-H.2: TOWARD GLOBAL-SCALE DATA ASSIMILATION USING SWOT: ......................................................... 3031REQUIREMENTS FOR GLOBAL HYDRODYNAMICS MODELSDai Yamazaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Douglas Alsdorf, The Ohio State University, United States; Hyungjun Kim, University of California, United States; Shinjiro Kanae, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Taikan Oki, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Konstantinos Andreadis, The Ohio State university, United States

WEP-H.3: TREE CROWN CHANGE DETECTION USING AN OBJECT FUZZY BASED .......................................... 3035APPROACHJuan Ardila, Wietske Bijker, Valentyn Tolpekin, Alfred Stein, University of Twente, Netherlands

WEP-H.4: A GENETIC APPROACH TO ESTIMATING RIVER BED TOPOGRAPHY ............................................... 3039FROM SWOT SATELLITE OBSERVATIONSMatthew McCann, Konstantinos Andreadis, Douglas Alsdorf, The Ohio State University, United States; Ernesto Rodriquez, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Delwyn Moller, Remote Sensing Solutions Inc, United States

WEP-H.5: A METHOD FOR LEAF GAP FRACTION ESTIMATION BASED ON ........................................................ 3042MULTISPECTRAL DIGITAL IMAGES FROM MULTISPECTRAL CANOPY IMAGERYaokai Liu, Ronghai Hu, Xihan Mu, Guangjian Yan, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP-H.6: SHRUB BIOMASS ESTIMATION IN MU US SANDLAND USING SIMPLE ............................................... 3046GO MODEL AND MULTI-ANGLE OBSERVATIONSJian Zhao, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University / Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chunxiang Cao, Hao Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University / Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Sheng Zheng, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University / Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Huicong Jia, Wei Ji, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University / Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Mengxu Gao, Min Xu, Xiliang Ni, Wei Chen, Rong Tian, Cheng Liu, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University / Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaowen Li, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University / Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-H.7: AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SHADOW AND NON-SHADOW LANDSLIDE ..................................... 3050AREA FROM ADS-40 IMAGE BY STRATIFIED CLASSIFICATIONYi-Ta Hsieh, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Shou-Tsung Wu, Shih Chien University, Taiwan; Chen-Sung Liao, Yau-Guang Yui, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Jan-Chang Chen, Shih Chien University, Taiwan; Yuh-Lurng Chung, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

WEP-H.8: MULTI-SOURCES PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION: MITIGATING GAPS .............................................. 3054OVER RADAR NETWORK COVERAGEKibrewossen Tesfagiorgis, Shayesteh E. Mahani, Reza Khanbilvardi, City College of the City University of New York, United States

WEP-H.10: AUTOMATED MICRO-LANDFORM CLASSIFICATION BY COMBINATION ...................................... 3058OF SATELLITE IMAGES AND SRTM DEMLoan Ho, Yasushi Yamaguchi, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan; Masatomo Umitsu, Nara University, Japan

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WEP-I: SOIL MOISTURE ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS

WEP-I.2: MONITORING FLOODS IN THE LOWER BERMEJO RIVER BASIN USING ........................................... 3062MULTIFREQUENCY MICROWAVE SIGNATURESCristina Vittucci, Paolo Ferrazzoli, Leila Guerriero, Rachid Rahmoune, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Veronica Daniela Barraza Bernadas, Francisco Grings, Haydee Karszenbaum, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina

WEP-I.4: USE OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE SIGNATURES TO DETECT AND MONITOR ....................................... 3066FLOODING EVENTS IN SUNDARBAN DELTA.Raja Chakraborty, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy; Rachid Rahmoune, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Paolo Ferrazzoli, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy

WEP-I.5: EFFECT OF SOIL MOISTURE AND LAND COVER ON DUST GENERATION ......................................... 3070IN DESERT AND ARID ENVIRONMENTSagar Prasad Parajuli, Hosni Ghedira, Imen Gherboudj, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates

WEP-I.6: DESIGNING AN IMPROVED SOIL MOISTURE INDEX IN THE .................................................................. 3074NEAR-INFRARED AND SHORTWAVE PLANEFang Liu, Qiming Qin, Chao Chen, Haixia Feng, Ning Zhang, Leilei Chai, Peking University, China

WEP-I.8: SOIL ISOLINE EQUATION IN RED-NIR REFLECTANCE SPACE FOR ..................................................... 3082CROSS CALIBRATION OF NDVI BETWEEN SENSORSHiroki Yoshioka, Kenta Obata, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan

WEP-I.9: THE METHOD FOR SOIL MOISTURE INVERSION BASED ON .................................................................. 3086GROUND-BASED SCATTERING MEASUREMENTChengqiang Qiu, Yan Chen, Ling Tong, Mingquan Jia, Shaofeng Pang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

WEP-I.10: SPATIO-TEMPORAL ESTIMATION OF SOIL MOISTURE IN A TROPICAL .......................................... 3089REGION USING A REMOTE SENSING ALGORITHMLiliana Marrufo, Fernado González Villarreal, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; Alejandro Monsiváis-Huertero, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico; Judith Ramos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

WEP-J: SOIL MOISTURE PASSIVE MICROWAVE

WEP-J.1: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL USING L-BAND RADIOMETER AND ....................................................... 3093GROUND-PENETRATING RADARFrançois Jonard, Lutz Weihermüller, Research Centre Jülich, Germany; Mike Schwank, German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Germany; Harry Vereecken, Research Centre Jülich, Germany; Sébastien Lambot, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

WEP-J.3: COMPARISON OF MICROWAVE EMISSION MODEL FOR FROZEN SOIL ............................................ 3097AND FIELD OBSERVATIONZhenguo Hao, Shaojie Zhao, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Lijiao Xiao, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP-J.4: ESTIMATION OF RADIATIVE TRANSFER PARAMETERS FOR SOIL ..................................................... 3101MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM SMOS BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES – A SYNTHETIC 1D EXPERIMENT WITH THE PARTICLE FILTERCarsten Montzka, Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen, Research Centre Jülich, Germany; Matthias Drusch, European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University, United States; Lutz Weihermüller, Research Centre Jülich, Germany; Diego Fernandez Prieto, European Space Research Institute, European Space Agency, Italy; Heye Bogena, Jan Vanderborght, Harry Vereecken, Research Centre Jülich, Germany

WEP-J.5: PASSIVE L-BAND H POLARIZED MICROWAVE EMISSION DURING THE ........................................... 3105CORN GROWTH CYCLEAlicia Joseph, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Rogier van der Velde, ITC, Netherlands; Peggy O’Neill, Bhaskar Choudhury, Edward J. Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Roger Lang, George Washington University, United States; Timothy Gish, USDA ARS, United States

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WEP-J.6: AIRBORNE SOIL MOISTURE DETERMINATION USING A DATA FUSION ............................................ 3109APPROACH AT REGIONAL LEVELFrancisco Martín, Juan Fernando Marchan, Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Spain; Albert Aguasca, Mercè Vall-llossera, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Jordi Corbera, Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Spain; Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Maria Piles, SMOS Barcelona Expert Center, Spain; Luca Pipia, Anna Tardà, Alberto G Villafranca, Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Spain

WEP-J.7: MEASURING AND SIMULATING PASSIVE C-BAND MICROWAVE RELIEF ......................................... 3113EFFECTS OVER UNCOVERED LAND SURFACE IN REMOTE SENSINGXinxin Li, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Tao Zhang, Zhenguo Hao, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP-J.8: AN IMPROVED APPROACH FOR RETRIEVING SOIL MOISTURE AND ................................................. 3117SURFACE ROUGHNESS FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONQiang Liu, Jiancheng Shi, Shenglei Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-J.9: ENHANCING THE SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF SMOS SOIL MOISTURE ................................................ 3121DATA OVER SPAINMaria Piles, RSLab-UPC/SMOS-BEC, Spain; Alessandra Monerris, ICM/SMOS-BEC, Spain; Mercè Vall-llossera, Adriano Camps, RSLab-UPC/SMOS-BEC, Spain

WEP-J.10: HOW IS THE ANGULAR SIGNATURE OF SMOS BRIGHTNESS .............................................................. 3125TEMPERATURE DIFFERENT IN THE MORNING AND EVENING?Brian Hornbuckle, Tracy Rowlandson, Jason Patton, Lisa Bramer, Iowa State University, United States

WEP-K: SOIL MOISTURE TECHNIQUES

WEP-K.1: TOWARDS AN OPERATIONAL PROCEDURE TO MAP SOIL MOISTURE ............................................. 3129USING SAR: RESULTS OF A SEVEN-YEAR-EXPERIMENT OVER AN AGRICULTURAL AREANazzareno Pierdicca, Luca Pulvirenti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Christian Bignami, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Francesca Ticconi, University of Trento, Italy

WEP-K.2: CONSIDERATIONS FOR DERIVATION AND USE OF SOIL MOISTURE ................................................ 3132DATA FROM ACTIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITES AT HIGH LATITUDESAnnett Bartsch, Daniel Sabel, Wolfgang Wagner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Sang-Eun Park, Niigata University, Japan

WEP-K.4: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM DENSE TEMPORAL SERIES OF ................................................. 3136C-BAND SAR DATA OVER AGRICULTURAL SITESAnna Balenzano, Giuseppe Satalino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l’Automazione (ISSIA), Italy; Valentijn Pauwels, Ghent University – Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management (LHWM), Belgium; Francesco Mattia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l’Automazione (ISSIA), Italy

WEP-K.5: SOIL MOISTURE INVERSION FROM X-BAND SAR AND ........................................................................... 3140SCATTEROMETER DATA OF VEGETATION FIELDSSoon-Gu Kwon, Ji-Hwan Hwang, Yisok Oh, Hongik University, Republic of Korea

WEP-K.6: LAND SURFACE EMISSIVITY RETRIEVAL FROM THE MEASUREMENTS ......................................... 3144OF FENGYUN-2 SATELLITESGeng-Ming Jiang, Fudan University, China

WEP-K.7: ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION BY TERRA/MODIS ........................................................... 3148IMAGERY OVER THE TROPICAL CATCHMENT IN NORTHERN THAILANDTzu-Yin Chang, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Yuei-An Liou, National Central University, Taiwan; Yi-Chen Wang, Alan Ziegler, National University of Singapore, Singapore

WEP-K.8: ESTIMATION OF SOIL ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS FROM SURFACE ................................................ 3152HEIGHT PROFILEMasahiko Nishimoto, Kumamoto University, Japan

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WEP-K.9: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MULTI-SCALE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING .......................................... 3156OF THE ALASKA ECOLOGICAL TRANSECT: APPLICATION TO SMAP FREEZE/THAW STATE VALIDATION PLANNINGAndreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Kyle McDonald, The City College of New York, City University of New York, United States; Reiner Zimmerman, University of Hohenheim, Germany; Erika Podest, Ronny Schroeder, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; John Kimball, University of Montana, United States; Eni Njoku, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

WEP-K.11: EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF SOIL MOISTURE, SURFACE ................................................................ 3160TEMPERATURE, AND HUMIDITY VARIATIONS ON MODIS-DERIVED NDVI VALUESMaryam Al-Shehhi, Rasha Saffarini, Ali Farhat, Nada Al-Meqbali, Hosni Ghedira, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates

WEP-L: ACTIVE MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING OF SNOW AND ICE

WEP-L.1: EXPANSION OF MORAINE-DAMMED GLACIAL LAKE IN THE CENTRAL .......................................... 3164HIMALAYAS FROM 1977 TO 2009Lizong Wu, Xin Li, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; P K Mool, Sharad Joshi, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal; Shiyin Liu, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-L.2: ADVANCED SAR APPLICATIONS FOR CANADA’S RIVER AND LAKE ICE ........................................... 3168Torsten Geldsetzer, Joost van der Sanden, Hugo Drouin, Natural Resources Canada, Canada

WEP-L.3: COMPARISON OF ASTER GDEM AND SRTM DEM IN DERIVING THE ................................................. 3171THICKNESS CHANGE OF SMALL DONGKEMADI GLACIER ON QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAUQiang Xing, Zhen Li, Jianmin Zhou, Ping Zhang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-L.5: SAR INTERFEROMETRY AND OFFSET TRACKING APPROACHES FOR ............................................. 3175GLACIER MOVEMENT ESTIMATION IN THE HIMALAYAVijay Kumar, Gopalan Venkataraman, IIT Bombay, India; Yngvar Larsen, Kjell Høgda, Norut, Norway

WEP-L.6: KEKESAYI GLACIER VELOCITY EXTRACTION BASED ON THE OFFSETS ....................................... 3179DERIVED FROM SAR IMAGESShiyong Yan, Huadong Guo, Wenxue Fu, Guang Liu, Zhixing Ruan, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-L.7: ESTIMATION THE MOTION OF DONGKEMADI GLACIER IN ................................................................. 3183QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU USING DIFFERENTIAL SAR INTERFEROMETRY WITH CORNER REFLECTORSJianmin Zhou, Zhen Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-L.8: SNOW BRDF CHARACTERISTICS FROM MODIS AND MISR DATA ........................................................ 3187Hongyi Wu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Shunlin Liang, University of Maryland, College Park, United States; Ling Tong, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Tao He, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

WEP-M: RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING SNOW AND ICE

WEP-M.1: MONITORING FREEZE-UP AND BREAK-UP DATES OF NORTHERN ................................................... 3191HEMISPHERE BIG LAKES USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING DATATao Che, Xin Li, Liyun Dai, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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WEP-M.3: STUDY OF RETREAT OF HAMTAH GLACIER, INDIAN HIMALAYA, USING ...................................... 3194REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUEPratima Pandey, Gopalan Venkataraman, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India; Satya Prakash Shukla, Geological Survey of India, India

WEP-M.5: SIMULATION OF EMISSION PROPERTIES AND SNOW-SOIL SYSTEM ............................................... 3198STATUS OF A MELTING THIN SNOWPACKJinmei Pan, Lingmei Jiang, Lixin Zhang, Shaojie Zhao, Pei Wang, Zhenguo Hao, Lijiao Xiao, Tianjie Zhao, Fengmin Wu, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP-M.6: DEVELOPMENT OF GLACIAL LAKE INVENTORY IN BHUTAN USING .............................................. 3202“DAICHI” (ALOS)Takeo Tadono, Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, RESTEC, Japan; Jinro Ukita, Niigata University, Japan; Chiyuki Narama, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan; Nobuhiro Tomiyama, Sachi Kawamoto, RESTEC, Japan; Koji Fujita, Kouichi Nishimura, Nagoya University, Japan

WEP-M.7: SNOWCARBO: MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF CARBON BALANCE ........................................ 3206RELATED PHENOMENA IN FINLAND AND NORTHERN EURASIAAli Nadir Arslan, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Olli-Pekka Mattila, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; Tiina Markkanen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Kristin Böttcher, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; Jouni Susiluoto, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Markus Törmä, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Sari Metsämäki, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; Mika Aurela, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Mikko Kervinen, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; Matias Takala, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Pekkä Härmä, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; Tuula Aalto, Tuomas Laurila, Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

WEP-M.8: ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF NAM CO LAKE ON BRIGHTNESS ................................................... 3210TEMPERATURE OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE BY SATELLITE DATAPei Wang, Lingmei Jiang, Lixin Zhang, Jinmei Pan, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by Beijing Normal University and the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-M.9: DETECTING AND ASSESSMENT OF SNOW LINES CHANGE WITH ...................................................... 3214CLIMATE WARMING BASED ON MODIS DATA IN THE NIANQINGTANGLHA OF TIBET PLATEAULiping Lei, Zhaocheng Zeng, Yanhong Wu, Bing Zhang, Key Laboratory of Digital Earth, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-M.10: INTEGRATED OBSERVATIONS OF LAKE ICE AT NAM CO ON THE .................................................. 3217TIBETAN PLATEAU FROM 2001 TO 2009Qinghua Ye, Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences / State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiufang Wei, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Volker Hochschild, Physische Geographie und GIS, Geographisches Institute, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany; Claude R. Duguay, University of Waterloo, Canada

WEP-N: PRECIPITATION AND CLOUDS IV

WEP-N.1: MAP-MRF CLOUD DETECTION BASED ON PHD FILTERING ................................................................... 3221Paolo Addesso, Roberto Conte, Maurizio Longo, Rocco Restaino, Gemine Vivone, University of Salerno, Italy

WEP-N.3: DEVELOPMENT OF THE ICE CRYSTAL SCATTERING DATABASE FOR ............................................. 3225GCOM-C/SGLIHusi Letu, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Takashi Y. Matsui, Tokai University, Japan

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WEP-N.4: INTERPRETATION OF MULTI-WAVELENGTH-RETRIEVED CLOUD ................................................... 3229DROPLET EFFECTIVE RADII IN TERMS OF CLOUD VERTICAL INHOMOGENEITY USING A SPECTRAL-BIN MICROPHYSICS CLOUD MODEL AND THE RADIATIVE TRANSFER COMPUTATIONTakashi N. Matsui, Tokai University, Japan; Kentaroh Suzuki, Colorado State University, United States; Takashi Y. Nakajima, Husi Letu, Tokai University, Japan

WEP-N.5: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF CHINA SPACEBORNE PRECIPITATION ...................................... 3233RADAR: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM AIRBORNE RADAR FIELD CAMPAIGNJian Shang, Hu Yang, Yang Guo, Qiong Wu, Honggang Yin, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China

WEP-N.6: ON THE STUDY OF RAIN PROFILE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM .............................................................. 3237DEVELOPMENT: FIRST RESULTS FROM AIRBORNE RAIN RADAR FIELD CAMPAIGN IN CHINAQiong Wu, Hu Yang, Jian Shang, Yang Guo, Honggang Yin, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China

WEP-N.8: ESTIMATION OF PRECIPITABLE WATER FROM THE THERMAL ........................................................ 3241INFRARED HYPERSPECTRAL DATAXiao-Ming Zhou, Ning Wang, Hua Wu, Bo-Hui Tang, Zhao-Liang Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-N.10: POLARIMETRIC EXTRATACTION TECHNIQUE OF ATMOSPHERIC ................................................. 3245TARGETS BASED ON DOUBLE SLDR AND MORPHOLOGYMi He, Yongjian Nian, Xuesong Wang, Yongzhen Li, Shunping Xiao, National University of Defense Technology, China

WEP-N.11: IMPACT OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALY ON TWO GLOBAL .................................... 3249WARMING PERIODS IN THE 20TH CENTURY OVER THE ARID CENTRAL ASIAJinsong Wang, Feng Wei, Jianying Feng, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China

WEP-O: WEATHER PREDICTION AND DATA ASSIMILATION II

WEP-O.1: MULTI-SENSOR DATA ASSIMILATION OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH ............................................. 3253Hui Xu, Yong Xue, Jie Guang, Yingjie Li, Ying Wang, Linlu Mei, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-O.2: EVALUATING THE PHYSICS OPTIONS OF REGIONAL WEATHER ....................................................... 3257MODELS FOR AREAS WITH COMPLEX LAND-USE CHARACTERISTICSH. S. Badr, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt, Egypt; H. A. Kandil, German University in Cairo, Egypt; B. M. Elhadidi, A. O. Sherif, Cairo University, Egypt

WEP-O.3: FY-2D RETRIEVED SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGE AS A PREDICTOR ...................................... 3261FOR SANDSTORM FORECASTING OVER NORTHWEST CHINAHui Han, Ni Guo, Dihua Cai, Jing Wang, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China

WEP-O.4: CHANNEL SIMULATION FOR FY-4 AGRI ....................................................................................................... 3265Feng Lu, Yixuan Shou, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China

WEP-O.6: NEURAL NETWORK ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES USING ......................................... 3269AIRS/AMSU OBSERVATIONS: IMPROVED UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENTSWilliam J. Blackwell, Michael Pieper, Zuoyu Tao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, United States

WEP-O.8: ESTIMATION OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION BASED ON REMOTE SENSING ........................................ 3273IN HEIHE RIVER BASINYongmin Yang, Hongbo Su, Renhua Zhang, Yuan Rong, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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WEP-O.9: COMPUTING DIFFERENTIAL AIR MASS FACTOR LOOKUP TABLES .................................................. 3277USING DISORT RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELJianguo Niu, IMSG at NOAA, United States; Trevor Back, Kondragunta Shobha, Lawrence Flynn, NOAA, United States; Eric Beach, IMSG at NOAA, United States

WEP-O.10: TOMOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERE TEMPERATURE ..................................................... 3281PROFILES FROM LIMB INFRARED EMISSION BY ENVISAT MIPASSheng-Bo Chen, G. Z. Zhang, Z. J. Wang, H.Y Li, Jilin University, China

WEP-O.11: SOLAR IRRADIANCE ESTIMATED FROM FY-2 DATA AT SOME NORTH .......................................... 3284CHINA SITESMingwei Zhang, Jian Liu, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China; Guicai Li, Jinlong Fan, China Meteorological Administration, China; Hui Deng, Jianqiang Ren, Zhongxin Chen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

WEP-O.12: A REGIONAL FY3A-VIRR RADIANCE-BIAS CORRECTION SCHEME FOR ........................................ 3288ASSIMILATIONJia Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Qiu Yin, Shanghai Center for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, China; Baode Chen, Shanghai Typhoon Institute of China Meteorological Adiministration, China

WEP-P: AEROSOLS AND ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY I

WEP-P.2: INTERCOMPARISON AND COMBINATION OF SATELLITE RETRIEVED ............................................ 3292AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH OVER LANDJie Guang, Yong Xue, Linlu Mei, Yingjie Li, Hui Xu, Xingwei He, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Tingting Hou, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-P.3: AN ADVANCED SYNERGETIC ALGORITHM FOR AEROSOL OPTICAL ............................................... 3296DEPTH RETRIEVAL FROM HJ-1A HSI AND TERRA MODIS DATA BASED ON MUTUAL INFORMATIONYingjie Li, Yong Xue, Xingwei He, Jie Guang, Ying Wang, Linlu Mei, Hui Xu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-P.4: MULTI-SCALE AEROSOL RETRIEVAL OVER LAND FROM SATELLITE ............................................. 3300DATA AND ITS APPLICATION ON HAZE MONITORINGXingwei He, Yong Xue, Yingjie Li, Jie Guang, Ying Wang, Linlu Mei, Hui Xu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-P.5: IMPROVED ESTIMATION OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH FROM LANDSAT ..................................... 3304TM/ETM+ IMAGERY OVER LANDBo Zhong, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-P.6: CORRELATION BETWEEN PM CONCENTRATIONS AND AEROSOL .................................................... 3308OPTICAL DEPTH IN EASTERN CHINA BASED ON BP NEURAL NETWORKSYerong Wu, Beijing Normal University, China; Jianping Guo, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China; Xin Zhang, Xiaowen Li, Beijing Normal University, China

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WEP-P.7: APPLICATION OF CCD DATA OF HJ-1 SATELLITE IN PM10 EVALUATION IN .................................. 3312SHENZHEN, CHINASheng Zheng, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University / Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Chunxiang Cao, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China; Jinquan Cheng, Yongsheng Wu, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China; Hao Zhang, Huicong Jia, Wei Ji, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China; Min Xu, Mengxu Gao, Jian Zhao, Xiliang Ni, Wei Chen, Rong Tian, Cheng Liu, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University / Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiaowen Li, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China

WEP-P.10: MORPHOLOGY AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF AIRBORNE SAHARAN ................................... 3319DUST DURING THE AEROSOL AND OCEAN SCIENCE EXPEDITIONS (AEROSE)Esther Effiong, Vernon Morris, Howard University, United States; Nicholas Nalli, NOAA / National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service / Center for Satellite Applications & Research, United States

WEP-Q: AGROECOSYSTEMS I

WEP-Q.1: STUDY ON INFORMATION EXTRACTION OF RAPE ACREAGE BASED ON ....................................... 3323TM REMOTE SENSING IMAGEDandan Li, Jia Liu, Qingbo Zhou, Limin Wang, Qing Huang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

WEP-Q.2: SIMULATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE FLUXES IN AGROECOSYSTEM .................................................. 3327BASED ON BIOME-BGC MODELLichao Feng, Rui Sun, Tinglong Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China; Bo Hu, Ningbo Meteorological Bureau, China; Yao Tang, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP-Q.3: STUDY ON QUANTITATIVE RETRIEVAL OF SOIL NUTRIENTS.............................................................. 3330Heng Dong, Chao Chen, Jinliang Wang, Qiming Qin, Hongbo Jiang, Ning Zhang, Mingchao Liu, Peking University, China

WEP-Q.5: DEVELOPMENT OF RICE PHOTOSYNTHESIS MODEL FOR ................................................................... 3334MONITORING YIELDS AND CARBON SEQUESTRATION USING MULTI-SATELLITE DATADaijiro Kaneko, Remote Sensing Environmental Monitor, Japan; Peng Yang, Ministry of Agriculture, China; Toshiro Kumakura, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan

WEP-Q.6: EVALUATION OF WHEAT GROWTH MONITORING METHODS BASED ............................................. 3338ON HYPERSPECTRAL DATA IN WESTERN AUSTRALIAYasuteru Imai, Taichi Morita, Yukio Akamatsu, Kokusai Kogyo Co. Ltd., Japan; Shinya Odagawa, Asia Air Survey Co. Ltd., Japan; Tomomi Takeda, Osamu Kashimura, Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center, Japan

WEP-Q.7: THE IMPACT OF TERRAIN ON NDVI DYNAMICS OF CORN FIELD ...................................................... 3342USING GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS AND TIME-SERIES MODIS IMAGESMeng-Lung Lin, Cheng-Hwang Perng, Aletheia University, Taiwan

WEP-Q.8: DETERMINATION OF PADDY FILELD IN THE WORLD USING .............................................................. 3346TERRA/ASTER DATAGenya Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Chinatsu Yonezawa, Aya Kitamura, Tohoku University, Japan; Shigeo Ogawa, National Institute for Rural Engineering, Japan; Yukio Kosugi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Masatane Kato, Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center, Japan

WEP-Q.9: SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE SUNSHINE DURATION PARAMETERS IN ...................................... 3350SEBAL MODEL FOR ESTIMATING WINTER WHEAT EVAPOTRANSPIRATIONXiaochun Zhang, Huayi Wu, Wuhan University, China

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WEP-R: ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS I

WEP-R.1: MODELLING SHORELINE CHANGE USING POINTWISE ALGORITHM ............................................... 3354FROM DIFFERENT TOPSAR POLARISED BANDSMaged Marghany, Mazlan Hashim, Institute of Geospatial Science and Technology (INSTEG), Malaysia

WEP-R.2: METHOD OF REGISTERING A TIME SEQUENCE OF，AERIAL IMAGES AND ..................................... 3358A DIGITAL MAP USING A SATELLITE IMAGETaku Nakagawasai, Hitoshi Saji, Shizuoka University, Japan

WEP-R.3: SIMULATION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAND USE/LAND ................................................... 3362COVER AND THE SURFACE RUNOFF IN SONGHUABA WATER SOURCE REGIONMing Dong, Zhengtao Shi, Huai Su, Yong Liu, Wenxiang Zhang, Yunnan Normal University, China

WEP-R.5: MAPPING OF CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION OF RESERVOIR ................................................. 3366DAJINGSHAN, ZHUHAI, CHINA, FROM LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPERYujiu Xiong, Xiaohong Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, China; Guoyu Qiu, Peking University, China; Shenglin Tan, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

WEP-S: LIDAR SENSORS II

WEP-S.1: A MULTI-WINDOW TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION AND OBJECT-ORIENTED ...................................... 3370FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD WITH AIRBORNE LIDAR PRODUCTSXiaokun Zhu, Beijing Institute of Surveying and Mapping, China; Thierry Toutin, Canada Center for Remote Sensing, Canada

WEP-S.2: POSE DETERMINATION FROM AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA AND ONBOARD ......................................... 3374IMAGE FOR FUTURE DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMSHui-Ying Li, Jilin University, China; Zhi Wang, Northeastern University, China; Gang Su, Sheng-Bo Chen, Jilin University, China

WEP-S.3: THE LUNAR ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER (LOLA) LASER TRANSMITTER....................................... 3378Anthony Yu, George Shaw, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Anne Marie Novo-Gradac, NASA, United States; Steven Li, Luis Ramos-Izquierdo, Jeffrey Guzek, Alberto Rosanova, John Cavanaugh, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Alan Lukemire, Space Power Electronics Inc, United States; Glenn Unger, Danny Krebs, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WEP-S.4: INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENTS OF RAMAN LIDAR WATER VAPOR ................................................ 3380CALIBRATION FACTORMonique Calhoun, Demetrius Venable, Howard University, United States; David Whiteman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WEP-T: US JOINT POLAR SATELLITE SYSTEM III

WEP-T.1: POST-LAUNCH CALIBRATION SUPPORT FOR VIIRS ONBOARD NASA NPP ...................................... 3384SPACECRAFTXiaoxiong Xiong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Vincent Chiang, Jeffrey McIntire, Sigma Space Corp., United States; Mathew Schwaller, James J. Butler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

WEP-T.7: CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION ON-ORBIT PLAN OF THE NPOESS ................................................. 3388CROSSTRACK INFRARED SOUNDER (CRIS)Deron Scott, Gail Bingham, Chad Fish, Harri Latvakowski, Mark Greenman, Mark Esplin, Vladimir Zavyalov, Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University Research Foundation, United States; Yong Han, NOAA, United States

WEP-T.8: HDF5 FOR NPP SENSOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS ....................................................... 3391Michael Denning, Integrity Applications Incorporated, United States; Richard Ullman, NASA, United States

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WEP-T.9: POST-LAUNCH PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE OMPS SENSORS ........................................... 3394ON NPPGlen Jaross, Thomas Kelly, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., United States; David Flittner, NASA, United States; Colin Seftor, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., United States; Richard Buss, Raytheon Mission Operations Solutions, United States; Lawrence Flynn, NOAA, United States

WEP-U: REMOTE SENSING USING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES

WEP-U.1: AIRBORNE GPR: ADVANCES AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION .............................................................. 3397Sixin Liu, Jilin University, China; Yanqian Feng, The Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Corporation, China

WEP-U.2: A SIMPLIFIED AEROMAGNETIC COMPENSATION MODEL FOR LOW ............................................... 3401MAGNETISM UAV PLATFORMBaogang Zhang, Ziqi Guo, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, China; Yanchao Qiao, College of Earth Science, China

WEP-U.3: ERROR ANALYSIS OF DEM DERIVED FROM AIRBORNE SINGLE-PASS ............................................. 3405INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATAZhongchang Sun, Huadong Guo, Xinwu Li, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Mengmei Jiao, Beijing Explo-Tech Engineering Corp, China

WEP-U.6: USING A MULTISPECTRAL AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED AERIAL REMOTE ..................................... 3413SENSING PLATFORM (AGGIEAIR) FOR RIPARIAN AND WETLANDS APPLICATIONSAustin Jensen, Utah State University, United States; Thomas Hardy, Texas State University, United States; Mac Mckee, Yangquan Chen, Utah State University, United States

WEP-V: GROUND BASED SYSTEM - APPLICATIONS

WEP-V.1: THE STUDY ON APPLICATIONS OF LARGE APERTURE .......................................................................... 3417SCINTILLOMETER MEASURING LARGE SCALE FLUXWeizhen Wang, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Ziwei Xu, State key laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, China; Xin Li, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiemin Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences / State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science / Beijing Normal University, China; Zhihui Zhang, Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-V.5: DEVELOPMENT OF SYNTHETIC GPM/DPR DATA USING KAPR ........................................................... 3421SAMPLING EXPERIMENT OF THE TRMM/PRTakuji Kubota, Naofumi Yoshida, Shuji Shimizu, Riko Oki, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Hiroshi Hanado, Toshio Iguchi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

WEP-W: MISSIONS AND INSTRUMENTS I

WEP-W.1: REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE SENSOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL .............................................. 3425AND VISUALIZATION BASED ON SENSORMLChuli Hu, Nengcheng Chen, Chao Wang, Wuhan University, China

WEP-W.2: DESIGN OF GPU-BASED PLATFORM FOR LDPC DECODER.................................................................... 3429Cheng-Chun Chang, Min-Yu Huang, Yang-Lang Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

WEP-W.3: RECONFIGURABLE REAL-TIME OPTRONIC PROCESSOR FOR ........................................................... 3433ALTITUDE AND LOOK ANGLE ADAPTABILITY FOR ENVISAT/ASAR SCENE OBSERVATIONAlain Bergeron, Linda Marchese, INO, Canada; Bernd Harnisch, Martin Suess, European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Michel Doucet, Pascal Bourqui, Mathieu Legros, Nichola Desnoyers, Ludovic Guillot, Luc Mercier, Maxime Savard, Anne Martel, François Châteauneuf, INO, Canada

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WEP-W.4: A GENERAL SENSOR WEB RESOURCE ONTOLOGY FOR ....................................................................... 3436ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONChao Wang, Nengcheng Chen, Chuli Hu, Songhua Yan, Wei Wang, Wuhan University, China

WEP-W.5: PULSE COMPRESSION FOR RADAR USING ZERO-CORRELATION ZONE ........................................ 3440SEQUENCE SETSTakao Maeda, Shigeru Kanemoto, Takafumi Hayashi, the University of Aizu, Japan

WEP-W.7: PRELIMINARY ERROR BUDGET OF A GNSS-R SPACEBORNE MISSION............................................. 3444Adriano Camps, Hyuk Park, Enric Valencia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / IEEC/CRAE-UPC, Spain; Antonio Rius, IEEC/ICE-CSIC, Spain

WEP-X: DATA MANAGEMENT, DISSEMINATION, EDUCATION AND POLICY

WEP-X.1: A FAST TRACKING ALGORITHM IN GPS SOFTWARE RECEIVER ......................................................... 3448Xiangzhen Yao, Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, China; Xinxian Qin, GuangXi University, China; Shaolong Cui, Jinyun Fang, Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, China; Yu Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

WEP-X.7: INTRODUCTION OF A TOOL FOR BRDF MODELING AND ...................................................................... 3460VISUALIZATION NAMED V_AMBRALSXingying Huang, Ziti Jiao, Yadong Dong, Hu Zhang, Xiaowen Li, Beijing Normal University, China

WEP-X.8: AUTOMATED BATCH PROCESSING OF MASS REMOTE SENSING AND .............................................. 3464GEOSPATIAL DATA TO MEET THE NEEDS OF END USERSJianjun Zhao, Northeast Normal University, China; Yeqiao Wang, University of Rhode Island, United States; Hongyan Zhang, Northeast Normal University, China

TH1-T01: HIGH AND LOW RESOLUTION SAR / INSAR

TH1-T01.1: OPTIMAL ESTIMATION OF DISTRIBUTED SCATTERER PHASE HISTORY ..................................... 3468PARAMETERS FROM METER-RESOLUTION SAR DATAYuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Technische Universität München, Germany; Richard Bamler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1-T01.3: DEMONSTRATION OF SAR INTERFEROMETRY UNDER CROSSING ................................................. 3472ORBITS USING TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-XPaco López-Dekker, Pau Prats, Francesco De Zan, Steffen Wollstadt, Daniel Schulze, Gerhard Krieger, Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1-T01.5: BLIND AZIMUTH PHASE ELIMINATION FOR TERRASAR-X SCANSAR ............................................ 3476INTERFEROMETRYZhe Hu, Linlin Ge, Xiaojing Li, The University Of New South Wales, Australia

TH1-T02: RADARSAT I

TH1-T02.3: RADARSAT-2 MISSION OPERATIONS STATUS........................................................................................... 3480Anthony Hillman, Philippe Rolland, Marielle Chabot, Rene Periard, Pierre Ledantec, MDA GSI, Canada; Nick Martens, Telesat, Canada

TH1-T02.5: SCIENCE AND OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS RESEARCH FOR RADARSAT-2 .............................. 3484Stephane Chalifoux, Canadian Space Agency, Canada

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TH1-T03: INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS I

TH1-T03.2: ESTAR TO SMOS: DEVELOPMENT OF INTERFEROMETRIC ................................................................ 3488RADIOMETRY FOR REMOTE SENSING FROM SPACEDavid Le Vine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TH1-T03.3: INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETRY MEASUREMENT CONCEPT: THE ............................................ 3491VISIBILITY EQUATIONIgnasi Corbella, Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Manuel Martín-Neira, European Space Agency, Netherlands

TH1-T03.4: SMOS BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS AND .............................................................. 3495END-TO-END CALIBRATIONFrancesc Torres, Ignasi Corbella, Nuria Duffo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Manuel Martín-Neira, European Space Agency, Netherlands

TH1-T03.5: LESSONS LEARNED FROM HUT-2D L-BAND AIRBORNE ....................................................................... 3499DEMONSTRATORJuha Kainulainen, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland; Kimmo Rautiainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Martti Hallikainen, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland

TH1-T04: ACTIVE/PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF TERRESTRIAL SNOW II

TH1-T04.2: MULTI-FREQUENCY MICROWAVE EMISSION OF THE EAST ANTARCTIC .................................... 3503PLATEAUGiovanni Macelloni, Marco Brogioni, Simone Pettinato, IFAC - CNR, Italy; Renato Zasso, Andrea Crepaz, CVA-ARPAV, Italy; Jonathan Zaccaria, Boris Padovan, PNRA, Italy; Mark Drinkwater, European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, Netherlands

TH1-T04.5: MICROWAVE EMISSION SIGNATURE OF SNOW-COVERED LAKE ICE ............................................ 3507Martti Hallikainen, Pauli Sievinen, Jaakko Seppänen, Matti Vaaja, Annakaisa von Lerber, Erkka Rouhe, Aalto University, Finland; Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

TH1-T05: SAR/LIDAR SENSING III

TH1-T05.1: GENERATION OF 10M RESOLUTION PALSAR AND JERS-SAR MOSAIC AND ................................. 3510FOREST/NON-FOREST MAPS FOR FOREST CARBON TRACKINGMasanobu Shimada, Osamu Isoguchi, Takeshi Motooka, Tomohiro Shiraishi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Akira Mukaida, Hayato Okumura, Takahiro Otaki, Takuma Itoh, RESTEC, Japan

TH1-T05.2: MAPPING INVASIVE PLANT SPECIES IN TROPICAL RAINFOREST USING ..................................... 3514POLARIMETRIC RADARSAT-2 AND PALSAR DATAAbduwasit Ghulam, Saint Louis University, United States; Karen Freeman, An Bollen, Madagascar Fauna Group, Madagascar; Robert Ripperdan, Saint Louis University, United States; Ingrid Porton, Saint Louis Zoo, United States

TH1-T05.3: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PALSAR BACKSCATTERING DATA AND ............................................. 3518FOREST ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS IN JAPANTakeshi Motohka, Masanobu Shimada, Osamu Isoguchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Masae Ishihara, Satoshi Suzuki, Japan Wildlife Research Center, Japan

TH1-T05.4: IMPACT AND MODELING OF TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON P-BAND SAR ....................................... 3522BACKSCATTER FROM BOREAL FORESTSGustaf Sandberg, Maciej Soja, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Lars M. Ulander, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden

TH1-T05.5: A LAND COVER MAP OF AFRICA AT 100 METERS RESOLUTION USING A ..................................... 3526MOSAIC OF ALOS PALSAR DUAL-POLARIZATION DATA: PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENTSAlexandre Bouvet, Gianfranco De Grandi, Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy

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TH1-T06: REMOTE SENSING AND GEO-INFORMATICS FOR AGRICULTURAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

TH1-T06.3: CHARMS - CHINA AGRICULTURAL REMOTE SENSING MONITORING ........................................... 3530SYSTEMZhongxin Chen, Qingbo Zhou, Jia Liu, Limin Wang, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Jianqiang Ren, Qing Huang, Hui Deng, Li Zhang, Dandan Li, Remote Sensing Application Center, MOA, China

TH1-T06.5: VEGETATION CONDITION INDICES FOR CROP VEGETATION .......................................................... 3534CONDITION MONITORINGZhengwei Yang, USDA/NASS, United States; Liping Di, Genong Yu, Zeqiang Chen, George Mason University, United States

TH1-T07: SATELLITE-BASED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING AND IMAGING

TH1-T07.1: NINE YEARS OF ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING WITH SCIAMACHY - ..................................... 3538INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCEManfred Gottwald, Eckhart Krieg, Günter Lichtenberg, Sander Slijkhuis, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Stefan Noël, Klaus Bramstedt, Heinrich Bovensmann, Christian von Savigny, IUP-IFE, University of Bremen, Germany; Ralph Snel, Matthijs Krijger, SRON, Netherlands Intitute for Space Research, Netherlands

TH1-T07.3: SEASONAL VARIATIONS OF GREENHOUSE GAS COLUMN-AVERAGED ......................................... 3542DRY AIR MOLE FRACTIONS RETRIEVED FROM SWIR SPECTRA OF GOSAT TANSO-FTSNawo Eguchi, Tohoku University, Japan; Yukio Yoshida, Isamu Morino, Nobuyuki Kikuchi, Tazu Saeki, Makoto Inoue, Osamu Uchino, Shamil Maksyutov, Hiroshi Watanabe, Tatsuya Yokota, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan

TH1-T07.4: VOLCANIC ASH RETRIEVAL FROM IR MULTISPECTRAL ................................................................... 3546MEASUREMENTS BY MEANS OF NEURAL NETWORKS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EYJAFJALLAJOKULL ERUPTIONMatteo Picchiani, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Marco Chini, Stefano Corradini, Luca Merucci, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Pasquale Sellitto, Universités Paris-Est et Paris Diderot, CNRS, Créteil, France, France; Fabio Del Frate, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Alessandro Piscini, Salvatore Stramondo, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

TH1-T08: SAR IMAGE PROCESSING I

TH1-T08.1: COMPARISON OF SHIP DETECTION PERFORMANCE BASED ON THE ............................................ 3550DEGREE OF POLARIZATION IN HYBRID/COMPACT AND LINEAR DUAL-POL SAR IMAGERYReza Shirvany, Marie Chabert, Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France

TH1-T08.2: ROBUST RECOVERY OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA FROM .......................................... 3554UNIFORMLY UNDER-SAMPLED MEASUREMENTSLam Nguyen, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, United States; Trac Tran, Johns Hopkins University, United States

TH1-T08.3: AUTOMATED REGISTRATION OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR ................................................. 3558IMAGERY TO LIDARMark Pritt, Kevin LaTourette, Lockheed Martin, United States

TH1-T08.4: EXTRACTION OF WATER SURFACES IN SIMULATED KA-BAND SAR .............................................. 3562IMAGES OF KARIN ON SWOTFang Cao, Florence Tupin, Jean-Marie Nicolas, Institut Téléecom, Téléecom ParisTech, France; Roger Fjørtoft, Nadine Pourthié, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

TH1-T08.5: AN EFFICIENT AUTOMATIC GEO-REGISTRATION TECHNIQUE FOR ............................................. 3566HIGH RESOLUTION SPACEBORNE SAR IMAGE FUSIONWookyung Lee, Ah-Leum Kim, Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea

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TH1-T09: NEW TRENDS IN MACHINE LEARNING FOR REMOTE SENSING

TH1-T09.1: EXPLICIT SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO IN REPRODUCING KERNEL ..................................................... 3570HILBERT SPACESLuis Gómez-Chova, Universitat de València, Spain; Allan A. Nielsen, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

TH1-T09.2: GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION WITHIN AN ACTIVE LEARNING ............................................... 3574SCHEMEEdoardo Pasolli, Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy

TH1-T09.3: TEMPORAL DOMAIN ADAPTATION UNDER TIME WARPING .............................................................. 3578Francois Petitjean, LSIIT, UMR 7005, France; Jordi Inglada, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France; Pierre Gancarski, LSIIT, UMR 7005 - University of Strasbourg, France

TH1-T09.4: CONJUNCTIVE FORMULATION OF THE RANDOM SET FRAMEWORK ........................................... 3582FOR MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNING: APPLICATION TO REMOTE SENSINGJeremy Bolton, Paul Gader, University of Florida, United States

TH1-T09.5: HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING WITH SPARSE GROUP LASSO .............................................................. 3586Marian-Daniel Iordache, Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Spain; Jose Bioucas-Dias, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal; Antonio Plaza, Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Spain

TH1-T10: SEA ICE II

TH1-T10.2: SEA ICE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE SOUTHERN REGION OF OKHOTSK ...................................... 3590SEA OBSERVED BY X- AND L- BAND SARHiroyuki Wakabayashi, Shoji Sakai, Nihon University, Japan; Kazuki Nakamura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; Fumihiko Nishio, Chiba University, Japan

TH1-T10.3: INTERFEROMETRIC SEA ICE MAPPING WITH TANDEM-X: FIRST ................................................... 3594EXPERIMENTSRolf Scheiber, Francesco de Zan, Pau Prats, Laís Sant’Anna Araújo, Maren Künemund, Luca Marotti, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH1-T10.4: AIRBORNE POLARIMETRIC, TWO-COLOR LASER ALTIMETER ....................................................... 3598MEASUREMENTS OF LAKE ICE COVER: A PATHFINDER FOR NASA’S ICESAT-2 SPACEFLIGHT MISSIONDavid Harding, Philip Dabney, Susan Valett, Anthony Yu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Aleksey Vasilyev, Sigma Space Corp., United States; April Kelly, National Space Club, United States

TH2-T01: SAR/INSAR IMAGE EXTRACTION AND IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES

TH2-T01.2: A NEW ALGORITHM FOR NOISE REDUCTION AND QUALITY ............................................................ 3602IMPROVEMENT IN SAR INTERFEROGRAMS USING INPAINTING AND DIFFUSIONSilvia Liberata Ullo, Maurizio Di Bisceglie, Carmela Galdi, University of Sannio, Italy

TH2-T01.3: TERRAIN CATEGORIZATION BASED ON SCATTERING MECHANISMS FOR ................................. 3606SINGLE-POL HIGH-RESOLUTION TERRASAR-X IMAGESJong-Sen Lee, Thomas Ainsworth, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan; Irena Hajnsek, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH2-T01.4: ROAD EXTRACTION IN URBAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENTS .......................................................... 3610EXPLOITING A DUAL-BAND SAR SYSTEMGianni Lisini, IUSS Pavia, Italy; Paolo Gamba, University of Pavia, Italy; Dieter Luebeck, OrbiSat Remote Sensing, Brazil

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TH2-T01.5: AUTOMATIC FEATURES EXTRACTION IN SUB-URBAN LANDSCAPE USING ................................. 3614VERY HIGH RESOLUTION COSMO-SKYMED SAR IMAGESFabio Del Frate, Chiara Pratola, Giovanni Schiavon, Domenico Solimini, Tor Vergata University, Italy

TH2-T02: RADARSAT II

TH2-T02.1: MONITORING SOIL MOISTURE TO SUPPORT RISK REDUCTION FOR ............................................ 3618THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR USING RADARSAT-2Heather McNairn, Amine Merzouki, Anna Pacheco, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada

TH2-T02.2: RADARSAT APPLICATION IN OCEAN WIND MEASUREMENTS ........................................................... 3622Vladimir Zabeline, Laurie Neil, William Perrie, Paris Vachon, Chris Fogarty, Shahid Khurshid, Sergey Komarov, Biao Zhang, Government of Canada, Canada

TH2-T03: INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS II

TH2-T03.2: GEOSTAR-II: A PROTOTYPE WATER VAPOR IMAGER/SOUNDER FOR ........................................... 3626THE PATH MISSIONTodd Gaier, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Pekka Kangaslahti, Boon Lim, Alan Tanner, Dennis Harding, Heather Owen, Mary Soria, Ian O’Dwyer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Christopher Ruf, Ryan Miller, Bruce Block, Michael Flynn, University of Michigan, United States; Sterling Whitaker, University of Idaho, United States

TH2-T03.3: THE GEOSTATIONARY INTERFEROMETRIC MICROWAVE SOUNDER ........................................... 3629(GIMS): INSTRUMENT OVERVIEW AND RECENT PROGRESSHao Liu, Ji Wu, Shengwei Zhang, Jingye Yan, Lijie Niu, Cheng Zhang, Weiying Sun, Huiling Li, Bin Li, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TH2-T03.5: FIRST RESULTS OF THE PAU-SA SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER ....................................... 3633Isaac Ramos-Perez, Giuseppe Forte, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Enric Valencia, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Hyuk Park, Mercè Vall-llossera, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Campus Nord, Spain

TH2-T04: ACTIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF SNOW AND ICE

TH2-T04.1: EFFECTS OF SNOWPACK PARAMETERS AND LAYERING PROCESSES AT .................................... 3637X- AND KU-BAND BACKSCATTERAli Nadir Arslan, Jouni Pulliainen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Thomas Nagler, Helmut Rott, Enveo IT GmbH ICT, Austria; Michael Kern, European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, Netherlands

TH2-T04.2: EXPLOITATION OF COSMO-SKYMED IMAGE TIME SERIES FOR SNOW ........................................ 3641MONITORING IN ALPINE REGIONSThomas Schellenberger, Bartolomeo Ventura, Claudia Notarnicola, Marc Zebisch, EURAC, Italy; Thomas Nagler, Helmut Rott, Enveo IT GmbH ICT, Austria

TH2-T04.3: MASS DEFICIT OF GLACIERS AT THE NORTHERN ANTARCTIC ....................................................... 3645PENINSULA DERIVED FROM SATELLITE BORNE SAR AND ALTIMETER MEASUREMENTSHelmut Rott, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Florian Mueller, ENVEO IT, Austria; Thomas Nagler, Enveo IT GmbH ICT, Austria; Dana Floricioiu, IMF, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Michael Eineder, IMF, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH2-T04.4: MONITORING THICKNESS CHANGES OF MOUNTAIN GLACIER BY ................................................ 3649DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY OF ALOS PALSAR DATAJianmin Zhou, Zhen Li, Qiang Xing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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TH2-T05: ASTER

TH2-T05.2: ASTER/TIR VICARIOUS CALIBRATION ACTIVITIES IN THE LAST 11 YEARS ................................. 3653Hideyuki Tonooka, Ibaraki University, Japan; Simon Hook, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Tsuneo Matsunaga, Soushi Kato, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan; Elsa Abbott, Howard Tan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States

TH2-T05.3: CHARACTERISTICS OF ASTER GDEM VERSION 2 ................................................................................... 3657Tetsushi Tachikawa, Masami Hato, Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center, Japan; Manabu Kaku, Mitsubishi Materials Techno Corp., Japan; Akira Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan

TH2-T05.5: VOLCANO OBSERVATIONS WITH ASTER AND ASTER IMAGE DATABASE .................................... 3661FOR VOLCANOESMinoru Urai, Geological Survey of Japan / AIST, Japan

TH2-T06: AGROECOSYSTEMS II

TH2-T06.1: APPLYING SPECTRAL UNMIXING AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE TO ..................................... 3664AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY FOR DETECTING GIANT REEDChenghai Yang, John Goolsby, James Everitt, USDA ARS, United States; Qian Du, Mississippi State University, United States

TH2-T06.2: EXPLOITING MULTISENSOR SPECTRAL DATA TO IMPROVE CROP ............................................... 3668RESIDUE COVER ESTIMATES FOR MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL WATER QUALITYMagda S. Galloza, Melba M. Crawford, Laboratory for the Applications of Remote Sensing and School of Civil Engineering/Purdue University, United States

TH2-T06.3: MAPPING ASH TREE COLONIZATION IN AN AGRICULTURAL MOUNTAIN .................................. 3672LANDSCAPE: INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERYDavid Sheeren, Mathieu Fauvel, University of Toulouse, INPT-ENSAT, France; Sylvie Ladet, INRA, France; Anne Jacquin, University of Toulouse, INPT-EI Purpan, France; Georges Bertoni, University of Toulouse, INPT-ENSAT, France; Annick Gibon, INRA, France

TH2-T06.4: COMPARING RADARSAT 2 AND TERRASAR-X QUAD-POL SAR IMAGERY OF .............................. 3676GRASSLANDSJoseph Buckley, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada; Anne Smith, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada

TH2-T07: ATMOSPHERIC SENSING TECHNIQUES I

TH2-T07.1: NINE YEARS OF ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING WITH SCIAMACHY - ..................................... 3680ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS AND DATA PRODUCTSGünter Lichtenberg, Manfred Gottwald, Adrian Doicu, Franz Schreier, Sergei Hrechanyy, Klaus Kretschel, Markus Meringer, Michael Hess, Sebastian Gimeno-Garcia, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Heinrich Bovensmann, Kai-Uwe Eichmann, Stefan Noël, Christian von Savigny, Andreas Richter, Michael Buchwitz, Alexei Rozanov, John P. Burrows, IUP-IFE, University of Bremen, Germany; Ralph Snel, SRON, Netherlands Intitute for Space Research, Netherlands; Christophe Lerot, Michel Van Roozendael, IASB-BIRA / Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Belgium; Gijs Tilstra, KNMI, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Netherlands; Thorsten Fehr, European Space Research Institute, European Space Agency, Italy

TH2-T07.1: WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL OVER CLOUD COVER AREA ON LAND ................................................ 3684Dabin Ji, Jiancheng Shi, Shenglei Zhang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TH2-T07.2: VERIFICATION OF POINTING AND ANTENNA PATTERN KNOWLEDGE ......................................... 3688OF SUPERCONDUCTING SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE LIMB-EMISSION SOUNDER (SMILES)Makoto Suzuki, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Satoshi Ochiai, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; Chihiro Mitsuda, Fujitsu FIP Corporation, Japan; Koji Imai, Tome R&D Inc., Japan; Takeshi Manabe, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan; Kenichi Kikuchi, Toshiyuki Nishibori, Naohiro Manago, Yoshitaka Iwata, Takuki Sano, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Masato Shiotani, Kyoto University, Japan

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TH2-T08: SAR IMAGE PROCESSING II

TH2-T08.1: PROCESSING OF CIRCULAR SAR TRAJECTORIES WITH FAST .......................................................... 3692FACTORIZED BACK-PROJECTIONOctavio Ponce, Pau Prats, Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Rolf Scheiber, Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH2-T08.3: INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM SINGLE LOOK COMPLEX SAR ............................................... 3700IMAGESDušan Gleich, Žarko Cucej, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Slovenia

TH2-T08.4: THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROWAVE IMAGING METHOD VIA .......................................................... 3704SUBAPERTURE APPROXIMATIONLiao Kefei, Zhang Xiaoling, Shi Jun, Liu Zhe, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

TH2-T08.5: REGISTRATION OF MULTI-FREQUENCY SAR IMAGERY USING PHASE ......................................... 3708CORRELATION METHODSErica Peterson, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Canada; Georgia Fotopoulos, The University of Texas at Dallas, United States; Andreas Schmitt, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Robert Zee, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Canada; Achim Roth, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH2-T09: CLASSIFICATION II

TH2-T09.1: GRAPH MATCHING FOR EFFICIENT CLASSIFIERS ADAPTATION ..................................................... 3712Devis Tuia, University of Valencia, Spain; Jordi Muñoz-Marí, Jesús Malo, Universitat de València, Spain

TH2-T09.2: DOMAIN SEPARATION FOR EFFICIENT ADAPTIVE ACTIVE LEARNING ......................................... 3716Giona Matasci, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Devis Tuia, University of Valencia, Spain; Mikhail Kanevski, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

TH2-T09.3: A NOVEL ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGY FOR DOMAIN ADAPTATION IN .................................... 3720THE CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGESClaudio Persello, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

TH2-T09.4: BEST MERGE REGION GROWING WITH INTEGRATED PROBABILISTIC ....................................... 3724CLASSIFICATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERYYuliya Tarabalka, James C. Tilton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TH2-T09.5: KERNEL ENTROPY COMPONENT ANALYSIS IN REMOTE SENSING ................................................. 3728DATA CLUSTERINGLuis Gómez-Chova, Universitat de València, Spain; Robert Jenssen, University of Tromsø, Norway; Gustavo Camps-Valls, Universitat de València, Spain

TH2-T10: SPACEBASED OBSERVATION OF OCEAN SURFACE WIND AND STRESS

TH2-T10.3: EVALUATIONS OF WIND VECTORS OBSERVED BY ASCAT USING ................................................... 3732STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONSNaoto Ebuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan

TH3-T01: POLARIMETRIC SAR II

TH3-T01.1: MODEL-BASED POLARIMETRIC SAR CALIBRATION METHOD USING ........................................... 3736FOREST AND SURFACE SCATTERING TARGETSMasanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

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TH3-T01.2: DERIVATION OF SEPARABILITY MEASURES BASED ON CENTRAL ................................................. 3740COMPLEX GAUSSIAN AND WISHART DISTRIBUTIONSKen Yoong Lee, Timo Bretschneider, EADS Innovation Works Singapore, Singapore

TH3-T01.3: HETEROGENEOUS CLUTTER MODEL FOR HIGH RESOLUTION ....................................................... 3744POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA PROCESSINGGabriel Vasile, GIPSA-Laboratory / CNRS, France; Frederic Pascal, SONDRA / Supélec, France; Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France; Pierre Formont, SONDRA / ONERA, France

TH3-T01.4: A STABLE MODEL-BASED THREE-COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION ................................................ 3748APPROACH FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR DATAZhihao Jiao, Jiong Chen, Jian Yang, Tsinghua University, China

TH3-T02: MAKING THE MOST OF THE PROPOSED DESDYNI MISSION: NEW TECHNIQUES, SCIENCE, AND APPLICATIONS I

TH3-T03: SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS) MISSION

TH3-T03.2: CORRECTION OF SPATIAL ERRORS IN SMOS BRIGHTNESS ............................................................... 3752TEMPERATURE IMAGESWu Lin, Ignasi Corbella, Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Manuel Martín-Neira, European Space Agency, Netherlands

TH3-T03.3: PHASE ERROR ASSESSMENT OF MIRAS/SMOS BY MEANS OF THE .................................................. 3756REDUNDANT SPACE CALIBRATIONRubén Dávila, Francesc Torres, Nuria Duffo, Ignasi Corbella, Miriam Pablos, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Manuel Martín-Neira, European Space Agency, Netherlands

TH3-T03.4: RADIOBRIGHTNESS VALIDATION ON DIFFERENT SPATIAL SCALES ............................................. 3760DURING THE SMOS VALIDATION CAMPAIGN 2010 IN THE RUR CATCHMENT, GERMANYCarsten Montzka, Heye Bogena, Lutz Weihermueller, François Jonard, Marin Dimitrov, Research Centre Jülich, Germany; Catherine Bouzinac, European Space Agency, Netherlands; Juha Kainulainen, Aalto University, Finland; Jan Balling, Technical University of Denmark, Finland; Jan Vanderborght, Harry Vereecken, Research Centre Jülich, Germany

TH3-T04: PASSIVE MICROWAVE OF SNOW AND ITS APPLICATION

TH3-T04.2: SNOWPACK AND FRESHWATER ICE SENSING USING .......................................................................... 3764AUTOCORRELATION RADIOMETRYAnthony England, Hamid Nejati, Amanda Mims, University of Michigan, United States

TH3-T04.3: IMPLEMENTING HEMISPHERICAL SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT .................................................... 3768PRODUCT ASSIMILATING WEATHER STATION OBSERVATIONS AND SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE DATAMatias Takala, Kari Luojus, Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Chris Derksen, Environment Canada, Canada; Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Juha-Petri Kärnä, SYKE, Finland; Jarkko Koskinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Bojan Bojkov, European Space Agency, Italy

TH3-T04.4: INVESTIGATING HEMISPHERICAL TRENDS IN SNOW ACCUMULATION ...................................... 3772USING GLOBSNOW SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT DATAKari Luojus, Jouni Pulliainen, Matias Takala, Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Chris Derksen, Environment Canada, Canada; Sari Metsämäki, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; Bojan Bojkov, European Space Agency, Italy

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TH3-T05: GOCI (GEOSTATIONARY OCEAN COLOR IMAGER) MISSION AND APPLICATIONS

TH3-T06: WETLANDS AND INLAND WATERS II

TH3-T06.1: OYSTER REEF SIGNATURE IN TIDAL FLATS DETECTED BY .............................................................. 3775MULTI-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC SAR DATAByung-Hun Choe, Duk-Jin Kim, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea; Ji-Hwan Hwang, Yisok Oh, Hongik University, Republic of Korea; Wooil M Moon, University of Manitoba, Canada

TH3-T06.3: WATER BODY DETECTION FROM TANDEM-X DATA: CONCEPT AND ............................................. 3779FIRST EVALUATION OF AN ACCURATE WATER INDICATION MASKAnna Wendleder, Markus Breunig, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Klaus Martin, Company for Remote Sensing and Environmental Research (SLU), Germany; Birgit Wessel, Achim Roth, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH3-T07: ATMOSPHERIC SENSING TECHNIQUES II

TH3-T07.1: A THERMAL INDEX FROM MODIS DATA FOR DUST DETECTION ...................................................... 3783Yang Liu, Ronggao Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TH3-T07.2: MODELING DAILY NET SHORTWAVE RADIATION OVER RUGGED ................................................. 3787SURFACES USING MODIS ATMOSPHERIC PRODUCTSHailong Zhang, Xiaozhou Xin, Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

TH3-T08: SAR IMAGE PROCESSING III

TH3-T08.1: ISAR IMAGE SEQUENCE BASED AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION BY .................................. 3791USING A MULTI-FRAME MARKED POINT PROCESS MODELCsaba Benedek, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungary; Marco Martorella, University of Pisa, Italy

TH3-T08.2: SAR IMAGE DESPECKLING BASED ON IMPROVED DIRECTIONLET ................................................ 3795DOMAIN GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELB. Hou, H. Guan, J. G. Jiang, K. Liu, L.C. Jiao, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding, Ministry of Education of China / Xidian University, China

TH3-T08.3: A NUMBER-OF-CLASSES-ADAPTIVE UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION ........................................ 3799FRAMEWORK FOR SAR IMAGESBin Liu, Hao Hu, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

TH3-T08.4: QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF DESPECKLED SAR IMAGES ....................................................................... 3803Silvana Dellepiane, Elena Angiati, Università di Genova, Italy

TH3-T08.5: SCENE INTERPRETATION FOR SAR IMAGES USING SUPERVISED ................................................... 3807TOPIC MODELSBin Liu, Huanyu Wang, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

TH3-T09: PROVENANCE IN GEOSCIENCE DATA

TH3-T09.3: A PROVENANCE FRAMEWORK FOR WEB GEOPROCESSING ............................................................. 3811WORKFLOWSPeng Yue, Ziheng Sun, Jianya Gong, Wuhan University, China; Liping Di, George Mason University, United States; Xianchang Lu, Wuhan University, China

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TH3-T09.5: GEOSCIENCE DATA CURATION USING A DIGITAL OBJECT MODEL AND ..................................... 3815OPEN-SOURCE FRAMEWORKS: PROVENANCE APPLICATIONSJerry Pan, Christopher Lenhardt, Bruce Wilson, Giri Palanisamy, Robert Cook, Biva Shrestha, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

TH3-T10: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS AND COLLABORATIONS IN EARTH OBSERVATION DATA SYSTEMS

TH4-T01: POLARIMETRIC SAR III

TH4-T01.2: BINARY PARTITION TREE AS A POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA .............................................................. 3819REPRESENTATION IN THE SPACE-TIME DOMAINAlberto Alonso-González, Carlos López-Martínez, Philippe Salembier, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

TH4-T01.3: COMPACT POLARIMETRY POTENTIALS.................................................................................................... 3823My-Linh Truong-Loi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France; Eric Pottier, University of Rennes 1, France

TH4-T01.4: SHIP DETECTION USING X-BAND DUAL-POL SAR DATA ....................................................................... 3827Sébastien Angelliaume, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France; Philippe Durand, Jean-Claude Souyris, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

TH4-T01.5: A STUDY ON THE RESOLUTION LIMIT OF POLARIMETRIC RADAR AND ...................................... 3831THE PERFORMANCE OF POLARIMETRIC BANDWIDTH EXTRAPOLATION TECHNIQUEKei Suwa, Toshio Wakayama, Masafumi Iwamoto, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan

TH4-T02: MAKING THE MOST OF THE PROPOSED DESDYNI MISSION: NEW TECHNIQUES, SCIENCE, AND APPLICATIONS II

TH4-T02.5: GLACIER FLOW AND TOPOGRAPHY MEASUREMENTS WITH ........................................................... 3835TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-XMichael Eineder, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Wael Abdel Jaber, Technische Universität München, Germany; Dana Floricioiu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Helmut Rott, Universität Innsbruck, Austria; Nestor Yague-Martinez, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH4-T03: CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES IN MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY

TH4-T03.1: LONG-TERM STABILITY OF AN SIGE HBT-BASED ACTIVE COLD LOAD ......................................... 3839Emilie Leynia de la Jarrige, Laurent Escotte, LAAS-CNRS, France; Eric Gonneau, LERISM, France; Jean-Marc Goutoule, EADS-Astrium, France

TH4-T03.2: W-BAND RADIOMETER SYSTEM WITH SWITCHING FRONT-END FOR ........................................... 3843MULTI-LOAD CALIBRATIONErnst Weissbrodt, Ingmar Kallfass, Axel Hülsmann, Axel Tessmann, Arnulf Leuther, Hermann Massler, Oliver Ambacher, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics, Germany

TH4-T03.3: EXTRACTION OF REFLECTIVITY FROM MICROWAVE BLACKBODY ............................................. 3847TARGET WITH FREE-SPACE MEASUREMENTSDazhen Gu, Derek Houtz, James Randa, David K. Walker, NIST Boulder, United States

TH4-T03.4: DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH TEMPERATURE NOISE SOURCE (HTS) FOR ........................................... 3851ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER 2 (AMSR2)Takaaki Ishikawa, Shinichi Yokobori, Takeshi Ito, Tatsuhiro Noguchi, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan; Norimasa Ito, Marehito Kasahara, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

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TH4-T04: REMOTE SENSING OF POLAR REGIONS

TH4-T04.1: TERRASAR-X OBSERVATIONS OF ANTARCTIC OUTLET GLACIERS IN .......................................... 3855THE ROSS SEA SECTORKenneth Jezek, The Ohio State University, United States; Wael Abdel Jaber, Dana Floricioiu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

TH4-T04.3: ESTIMATION OF AIR AND SURFACE TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION OF ........................................... 3859THE EAST ANTARCTIC SHEET BY MEANS OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSINGMarco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Simone Pettinato, Francesco Montomoli, IFAC - CNR, Italy

TH4-T04.5: ANALYSIS OF THE PASSIVE MICROWAVE HIGH-FREQUENCY SIGNAL ......................................... 3863IN THE SHALLOW SNOW RETRIEVALYubao Qiu, Huadong Guo, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiancheng Shi, Institute for Computational Earth System Science / University of California Santa Barbara, United States; Shichang Kang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Juha Lemmetyinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) / Arctic Research Centre, Finland; James R. Wang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TH4-T05: RECENT ADVANCES IN MULTISPECTRAL SENSOR IN-FLIGHT CALIBRATION: THE 2010 TUZ GOLU FIELD CAMPAIGN

TH4-T05.1: THE 2010 TUZ GOLU FIELD CAMPAIGN—AN OVERVIEW ..................................................................... 3867Hilal Özen, TUBITAK UZAY Space Technologies Research Institute, Turkey; Nigel Fox, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom; Ugur Murat Leloglu, TUBITAK UZAY Space Technologies Research Institute, Turkey; Irina Behnert, Andrew Deadman, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom

TH4-T05.2: TUZ GÖLÜ SITE CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................................................................... 3871Larry Leigh, Dennis Helder, SDSU Image Processing Lab, United Kingdom; Irina Behnert, Andrew Deadman, Nigel Fox, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom; Ugur Murat Leloglu, Hilal Özen, TUBITAK UZAY Space Technologies Research Institute / Middle East Technical University, Turkey; Derek Griffith, South Africa Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

TH4-T05.3: SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGIES FOR ............................................. 3875TUZ GOLU FIELD CAMPAIGNYannick Boucher, Françoise Viallefont, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) - The French Aerospace Lab, France; Andrew Deadman, Nigel Fox, Irina Behnert, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom; Derek Griffith, South Africa Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Peter Harris, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom; Dennis Helder, South Dakota State University, United States; Els Knaeps, VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Belgium; Larry Leigh, South Dakota State University, United States; Yuan Li, China Meteorological Administration, China; Hilal Özen, TUBITAK UZAY Space Technologies Research Institute, Turkey; Flavio Ponzoni, INPE - National Institute for Spatial Research, Brazil; Sindy Sterckx, VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Belgium

TH4-T05.4: 2010 CEOS FIELD REFLECTANCE INTERCOMPARISONS LESSONS .................................................. 3879LEARNEDKurtis J. Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Nigel Fox, National Physics Laboratory, United Kingdom

TH4-T05.5: LABORATORY PANEL AND RADIOMETER CALIBRATION ................................................................... 3883Andrew Deadman, Irina Behnert, Nigel Fox, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom; Derek Griffith, CSIR, South Africa

TH4-T06: USE OF REMOTE SENSING FOR SURFACE DEFORMATION MONITORING IN VOLCANIC AND SEISMOGENIC AREAS I

TH4-T06.3: GROUND DEFORMATION STUDIES IN CEPHALLONIA ISLAND ......................................................... 3887(WESTERN GREECE) BASED ON DGPS AND PS INTERFEROMETRYEvangelos Lagios, Vassilios Sakkas, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Fabrizio Novali, Alfio Fumagalli, Sara Del Conte, Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E. srl., Italy

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TH4-T06.4: SBAS-DINSAR TIME SERIES IN THE LAST EIGHTEEN YEARS AT ...................................................... 3891MT.ETNA VOLCANO(ITALY)Giuseppe Solaro, Francesco Casu, Luca Paglia, Antonio Pepe, Susi Pepe, Eugenio Sansosti, Pietro Tizzani, Riccardo Lanari, IREA-CNR, Italy

TH4-T06.5: CRUSTAL DEFORMATION STUDIES IN THE SEISMICALLY ACTIVE AREA .................................... 3895OF PATRAS GULF (GREECE)Konstantina Vlachou, Vassilios Sakkas, Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Evangelos Lagios, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

TH4-T08: MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA

TH4-T08.1: CRITICAL CLASS ORIENTED ACTIVE LEARNING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL .................................... 3899IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONWei Di, Melba M. Crawford, Purdue University, United States

TH4-T08.2: COMBINING ENSEMBLE TECHNIQUE OF SUPPORT VECTOR ............................................................ 3903MACHINES WITH THE OPTIMAL KERNEL METHOD FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONI-Ling Chen, National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan; Cheng-Hsuan Li, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Bor-Chen Kuo, National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan; Chih-Cheng Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University, United States

TH4-T08.3: MAHALANOBIS KERNEL BASED ON PROBABILISTIC PRINCIPAL .................................................... 3907COMPONENTMathieu Fauvel, DYNAFOR / INRA & University of Toulouse, France; Alberto Villa, Jocelyn Chanussot, Jon Atli Benediktsson, GIPSA-Laboratory / Grenoble Institute of Technology, France

TH4-T08.4: A NEW SUBSPACE DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS APPROACH FOR ........................................................ 3911SUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONJun Li, Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Spain; Jose Bioucas-Dias, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal; Antonio Plaza, Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Spain

TH4-T08.5: AUTOMATED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY ANALYSIS VIA SUPPORT ............................................. 3915VECTOR MACHINES BASED MULTI-CLASSIFIER SYSTEM WITH NON-UNIFORM RANDOM FEATURE SELECTIONSathishkumar Samiappan, Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce, Mississippi State University, United States

TH4-T09: CLASSIFICATION AND CHANGE DETECTION

TH4-T09.1: CLASSIFICATION USING EXTENDED MORPHOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTE ........................................... 4453PROFILES BASED ON DIFFERENT FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUESStijn Peeters, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Prashanth Reddy Marpu, Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland; Mauro Dalla Mura, University of Trento, Italy

TH4-T09.4: CLASSIFICATION OF MULTI-SOURCE IMAGES USING COLOR ......................................................... 3919MORPHOLOGICAL PROFILESValérie De Witte, Guy Thoonen, Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Aleksandra Pizurica, Ghent University, Belgium; Wilfried Philips, Ghent University of Ghent, Belgium

TH4-T09.5: IMPROVING ACTIVE LEARNING METHODS USING SPATIAL ............................................................. 3923INFORMATIONEdoardo Pasolli, Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy; Devis Tuia, Universitat de València, Spain; Fabio Pacifici, DigitalGlobe Inc., United States; William J. Emery, University of Colorado Boulder, United States

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TH4-T09.6: A FRAMEWORK OF ONTOLOGY-BASED KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION ......................................... 3927PROCESSING FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN REMOTE SENSING DATAShutaro Hashimoto, Hokkaido University, Japan; Takeo Tadono, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Masahiko Onosato, Hokkaido University, Japan; Masahiro Hori, Takashi Moriyama, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

TH4-T10: EARTH OBSERVATION SENSOR WEB

TH4-T10.1: SENSOR WEB TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES AND ADVANCEMENTS FOR ...................................... 3931THE EARTH SCIENCE DECADAL SURVEY ERACharles Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Karen Moe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TH4-T10.4: COMBINING SPACE-BASED AND IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS TO TRACK ......................................... 3935FLOODING IN THAILANDSteve Chien, Joshua Doubleday, David Mclaren, Daniel Tran, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Veerachai Tanpipat, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Thailand, Thailand; Royal Chitradon, Surajate Boonya-Aroonnet, Porranee Thanapakpawin, Hydro Agro Informatics Institute Thailand, Thailand; Chatchai Khunboa, Watis Leelapatra, Vichian Plermkamon, Khon Kaen University, Thailand; Cauligi Raghavendra, University of Southern California, United States; Daniel Mandl, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

TH4-T10.5: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY INTEROPERABILITY FOR EARTH OBSERVATION .................................... 3939SENSOR WEBPaolo Mazzetti, Stefano Nativi, CNR - National Research Council of Italy, Italy

FR1-T01: POLINSAR

FR1-T01.1: AN ANALYSIS OF COHERENCE OPTIMIZATION METHODS IN COMPACT ..................................... 3943POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRYMeng Liu, Hong Zhang, Chao Wang, Bo Zhang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FR1-T01.2: TEMPORAL DECORRELATION ANALYSIS AT P BAND OVER TROPICAL ........................................ 3947FORESTSandrine Daniel, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) - CNES, France; Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France; Aurélien Arnaubec, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) - Institut Fresnel, France; Sébastien Angelliaume, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France

FR1-T01.3: DUAL POLARISED ENTROPY/ALPHA DECOMPOSITION AND ............................................................. 3951COHERENCE OPTIMISATION FOR IMPROVED FOREST HEIGHT MAPPINGZheng-Shu Zhou, Peter Caccetta, Eric Lehmann, Alex Held, CSIRO, Australia; Stephen McNeill, Landcare Research, New Zealand; Anthea Mitchell, Anthony Milne, Ian Tapley, CRC-SI / The University of New South Wales, Australia; Kim Lowell, CRC-SI / The University of Melbourne, Australia

FR1-T01.5: AN INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE OPTIMIZATION METHOD BASED ....................................... 3955ON GENETIC ALGORITHM IN POLINSARPeifeng Ma, Hong Zhang, Chao Wang, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jiehong Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FR1-T02: ADVANCED SAR CONCEPTS AND MISSION

FR1-T02.1: STEPS TOWARDS THE PREPARATION OF A WAVEMILL MISSION .................................................... 3959Christopher Buck, Miguel Aguirre, Craig Donlon, Daniele Petrolati, Salvatore D’Addio, European Space Agency, Netherlands

FR1-T02.2: DISTRIBUTED IMAGING WITH TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-X ........................................................... 3963Pau Prats, Paco López-Dekker, Francesco De Zan, Steffen Wollstadt, Markus Bachmann, Ulrich Steinbrecher, Rolf Scheiber, Andreas Reigber, Gerhard Krieger, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

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FR1-T02.4: DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION ASPECTS FOR REFLECTOR-BASED .................................................... 3967SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARMarwan Younis, Anton Patyuchenko, Sigurd Huber, Gerhard Krieger, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

FR1-T02.5: THE JOINT TERRASAR-X / TANDEM-X MISSION PLANNING SYSTEM ............................................... 3971Falk Mrowka, Michael P. Geyer, Christoph Lenzen, Andreas Spörl, Tobias Göttfert, Edith Maurer, Martin Wickler, Birgit Schättler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

FR1-T03: MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY MISSIONS AND INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE II

FR1-T03.1: A STUDY OF THE NOAA NEAR-NADIR MICROWAVE HUMIDITY ....................................................... 3975SOUNDER BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES OVER ANTARCTICATsan Mo, Yong Han, Fuzhong Weng, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, United States

FR1-T03.3: CHARACTERISTICS AND PERFORMANCES OF THE ALTIKA RADIOMETER ................................. 3979OF SARAL MISSIONNicolas Taveneau, Frederic Robert, Jacques Richard, Thalès Alenia Space France, France; Nathalie Steunou, Pierre Sengenes, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

FR1-T04: GROUND BASED SYSTEM II

FR1-T04.1: A NOVEL GROUND BASED MULTI BISTATIC RADAR FOR ................................................................... 3983INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF DISPLACEMENT VECTORDaniele Mecatti, Devis Dei, Matteo Fratini, Filippo Parrini, Massimiliano Pieraccini, University of Florence, Italy; Francesco Coppi, IDS SpA, Italy

FR1-T04.2: EVALUATION OF CALIBRATION ACCURACY WITH HPS (HONGIK .................................................. 3987POLARIMETRIC SCATTEROMETER) SYSTEM FOR MULTI-BANDS AND MULTI-POLARIZATIONSJi-Hwan Hwang, Soon-Gu Kwon, Yisok Oh, Hongik University, Republic of Korea

FR1-T04.3: INITIAL OBSERVATION RESULTS FOR PRECIPITATION ON THE ..................................................... 3991KU-BAND BROADBAND RADAR NETWORKEiichi Yoshikawa, Satoru Yoshida, Takeshi Morimoto, Tomoo Ushio, Zen Kawasaki, Osaka University, Japan; Tomoaki Mega, Kyoto University, Japan

FR1-T04.5: DEVELOPING A DUAL-FREQUENCY FM-CW RADAR TO STUDY ........................................................ 3995PRECIPITATIONChristopher Williams, University of Colorado Boulder, United States

FR1-T05: PASSIVE OPTICAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS III

FR1-T05.1: ANALYTICAL MODELING OF OPTICAL POLARIMETRIC IMAGING ................................................. 3998SYSTEMSLingfei Meng, John Kerekes, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States

FR1-T05.3: MODIS AND VIIRS GEOLOCATION ERROR AND LONG-TERM TREND ............................................. 4002ANALYSIS WITH AUTOMATED CORRECTION TECHNIQUES USING KALMAN FILTERINGMasahiro Nishihama, Sigma Space Corp., United States; Robert Wolfe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

FR1-T05.5: SUMMARY OF TERRA AND AQUA MODIS LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE ........................................ 4006Xiaoxiong Xiong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Brian Wenny, Sigma Space Corp., United States; Amit Angal, SSAI, United States; William Barnes, UMBC, United States; Vince Salomonson, University of Utah, United States

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FR1-T06: USE OF REMOTE SENSING FOR SURFACE DEFORMATION MONITORING IN VOLCANIC AND SEISMOGENIC AREAS II

FR1-T06.3: COSEISMIC DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT OF THE 2010 EL MAYOR, ........................................ 4010MEXICO EARTHQUAKE BY SUBPIXEL CORRELATION FROM OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGESMasashi Matsuoka, Shinsuke Kodama, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

FR1-T07: AEROSOLS AND ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY II

FR1-T07.1: DAILY ESTIMATES OF THE TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOL OPTICAL .................................................... 4014THICKNESS OVER LAND SURFACE FROM MSG GEOSTRATIONARY OBSERVATIONDominique Carrer, Jean-Louis Roujean, Olivier Hautecoeur, Meteo France, France

FR1-T07.2: MT. ETNA VOLCANIC PLUME FROM ASTER AND HYPERION DATA BY ......................................... 4018ASI-SRV MODULESClaudia Spinetti, Fabrizia Buongiorno, Malvina Silvestri, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Simona Zoffoli, Italian Space Agency, Italy

FR1-T07.3: RETRIEVAL OF PM10 CONCENTRATION FROM MODERATE .............................................................. 4022RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS) DERIVED AOD IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIAXen Quan Yap, Mazlan Hashim, Maged Marghany, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

FR1-T07.4: CHARACTERIZATION OF AEROSOLS BASED ON THE SIMULTANEOUS ......................................... 4026MEASUREMENTSMakiko Nakata, Takuma Yokomae, Toshiyuki Fujito, Itaru Sano, Sonoyo Mukai, Kinki University, Japan

FR1-T07.5: A METHOD FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS ......................................... 4030ON CBERS DATA FROM TOP-OF-ATMOSPHERE RADIANCEXin Zhang, State key laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, China; Xiang Zhao, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, China; Bing Li, State key laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, China; Ni Hu, Patent Examination Cooperation Center of State Intellectual Property Office, China; Qing Li, Satellite Environmental Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, China; Suhong Liu, State key laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, China

FR1-T08: IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS III

FR1-T08.1: SMOS IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION WITH MISSING REAL DATA: IMPACT ....................................... 4034OF CORRELATORS AND RECEIVERS FAILURESAli Khazaal, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)/ Université de Toulouse, France; Eric Anterrieu, IRAP, Université de Toulouse, France; François Cabot, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)/ Université de Toulouse, France

FR1-T08.2: BIVARIATE PEARSON DISTRIBUTIONS FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGES ....................................... 4038Marie Chabert, Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France

FR1-T08.3: WEIGHTED LAPLACIAN DIFFERENCES BASED MULTISPECTRAL ................................................... 4042ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSIONSurya Prasath V.B., University of Coimbra, Portugal

FR1-T08.4: STABILIZATION AND GEOREGISTRATION OF AERIAL VIDEO OVER ............................................. 4046MOUNTAIN TERRAIN BY MEANS OF LIDARMark Pritt, Kevin LaTourette, Lockheed Martin, United States

FR1-T08.5: HJ-1A/B CCD IMAGERY GEOMETRIC DISTORTIONS AND PRECISE ................................................. 4050GEOMETRIC CORRECTION ACCURACY ANALYSISChang-Miao Hu, Ping Tang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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FR1-T09: GIS AND AGRO-GEOINFORMATICS APPLICATIONS

FR1-T09.1: PREDICTION OF CHANGE OF WINTER WHEAT IN NORTH CHINA BY ............................................. 4054USING IPCC-AR4 MODEL DATAMingwei Zhang, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China; Hui Deng, Jianqiang Ren, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China; Jinlong Fan, Guicai Li, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China; Zhongxin Chen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

FR1-T09.2: SIMULATION OF REGIONAL WINTER WHEAT YIELD BY COMBINING ........................................... 4058EPIC MODEL AND REMOTELY SENSED LAI BASED ON GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMJianqiang Ren, Zhongxin Chen, Huajun Tang, Fushui Yu, Qing Huang, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

FR1-T09.3: REMOTE SENSING INDICATORS FOR CROP GROWTH MONITORING ............................................. 4062AT DIFFERENT SCALESZongnan Li, Zhongxin Chen, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

FR1-T09.4: FAST MAP PROJECTION ON CUDA ................................................................................................................ 4066Yanwei Zhao, Zhenlin Cheng, Hui Dong, Jinyun Fang, Liang Li, Institute of Computing Technology, China

FR1-T09.5: FEATURE ANALYSIS OF GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE POINTS IN ................................................... 4070COASTAL REGIONS AROUND MT. CHOKAISAN, JAPAN BY USING ALOS PALSAR DATAYoichi Kageyama, Hikaru Shirai, Makoto Nishida, Akita University, Japan

FR1-T10: DATA MANAGEMENT AND SYSTEMS

FR1-T10.2: PERFORMANCE OF ANOMALOUS SIGNAL DETECTION WITH HMM ............................................... 4074APPROACH IN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE OBSERVATION USING MOVING WINDOWYoshinao Ito, Akitoshi Itai, Hiroshi Yasukawa, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan; Ichi Takumi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan; Masayasu Hata, Chubu University, Japan

FR1-T10.3: COMPACT RECONNAISSANCE IMAGING SPECTROMETER FOR MARS .......................................... 4078CRISM (CRISM)Kaiem Frink, Dr. Linda Hayden, Dr. Malcom Lecompte, Elizabeth City State University, United States

FR1-T10.4: LECTURING ON SATELLITE IMAGERY PROCESSING AND GIS BASED ........................................... 4080ON INTERNET AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWAREFatwa Ramdani, Institute of Geography / Tohoku University, Japan

FR2-T01: SAR PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

FR2-T01.1: DEMONSTRATION OF TARGET VIBRATION ESTIMATION IN SYNTHETIC .................................... 4083APERTURE RADAR IMAGERYQi Wang, Matthew Pepin, Ryan Beach, University of New Mexico, United States; Ralf Dunkel, General Atomics Aeronautics Systems Inc., United States; Tom Atwood, Armin Doerry, Sandia National Laboratories, United States; Balu Santhanam, Walter Gerstle, Majeed Hayat, University of New Mexico, United States

FR2-T01.2: AMBIGUITY SUPPRESSION BY AZIMUTH PHASE CODING IN ............................................................. 4457MULTICHANNEL SPACEBORNE SAR SYSTEMSFederica Bordoni, Marwan Younis, Gerhard Krieger, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

FR2-T01.4: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGING USING RANDOM PULSE TIMING ................................................ 4091Dehong Liu, Petros Boufounos, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, United States

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FR2-T01.5: PHASE REQUIREMENTS, DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF PHASE ........................................................ 4095PRESERVING PROCESSORS FOR A SAR SYSTEMMichele Belotti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Davide D’Aria, Aresys s.r.l., Italy; Lorenzo Iannini, Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Silvia Scirpoli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

FR2-T02: MITIGATING TERRAIN EFFECTS ON POLSAR CLASSIFICATION

FR2-T02.2: TOPOGRAPHY EFFECTS ON POLARIMETRIC SAR REMOTE SENSING OF ..................................... 4099MOUNTAINOUS TERRAINSang-Eun Park, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Niigata University, Japan

FR2-T02.4: 4-COMPONENT SCATTERING POWER DECOMPOSITION WITH PHASE .......................................... 4103ROTATION OF COHERENCY MATRIXGulab Singh, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Sang-Eun Park, Niigata University, Japan

FR2-T02.5: A SIMULATION STUDY OF TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON POLSAR .................................................... 4107CLASSIFICATION OF FORESTS AND CROPSThomas Ainsworth, Naval Research Laboratory, United States; Mark Williams, Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Infomation, Australia

FR2-T03: LIDAR SENSORS III

FR2-T03.1: AEROSOL CLASSIFICATION RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS FOR ............................................................ 4111EARTHCARE/ATLID, CALIPSO/CALIOP, AND GROUND-BASED LIDARSNobuo Sugimoto, Tomoaki Nishizawa, Atsushi Shimizu, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan; Hajime Okamoto, Kyushu University, Japan

FR2-T03.2: RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHT BY ..................................................... 4115CSIR-NLC MOBILE LIDAR, PRETORIA (25.5° S; 28.2° E), SOUTH AFRICASivakumar Venkataraman, Ameeth Sharma, Christoph Bollig, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

FR2-T03.3: SIXTEEN CHANNEL, NON-SCANNING AIRBORNE LIDAR SURFACE ................................................. 4119TOPOGRAPHY (LIST) SIMULATORAnthony Yu, Michael Krainak, David Harding, James Abshire, Xiaoli Sun, John Cavanaugh, Susan Valett, Luis Ramos-Izquierdo, Tom Winkert, Cynthia Kirchner, Michael Plants, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Timonthy Filemyr, Bastion Technologies, Inc, United States; Brian Kamamia, William Hasselbrack, Sigma Space Corp. / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

FR2-T03.4: QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR LIDAR POINT CLOUD REGISTRATION ............................................... 4122USING IN-SITU CONJUGATE FEATURESJen-Yu Han, Hui-Ping Tserng, Chih-Ting Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

FR2-T04: MISSIONS AND INSTRUMENTS II

FR2-T04.1: PAU INSTRUMENT ABOARD INTA MICROSAT-1: A GNSS-R ................................................................. 4126DEMONSTRATION MISSION FOR SEA STATE CORRECTION IN L-BAND RADIOMETRY Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / IEEC/CRAE-UPC, Spain; Juan Fernando Marchan, Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Spain; Enric Valencia, Isaac Ramos, Xavier Bosch, Nereida Rodriguez, Hyuk Park, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / IEEC/CRAE-UPC, Spain; Antonio Alcayde, Antonio Mollfulleda, Juan Jose Galindo, Pedro Martinez, Sergio Chavero, ADTelecom, Spain; Manuel Angulo, INTA - Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Spain; Antonio Rius, IEEC/ICE-CSIC, Spain

FR2-T04.2: CROSS-COMPARISON BETWEEN CHINA HJ1A-CCD AND LANDSAT TM .......................................... 4130DATAGuoqing Li, Xiaobing Li, Hong Wang, Lihong Chen, Wanyu Wen, State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, China

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FR2-T04.3: OVERVIEW OF GCOM ........................................................................................................................................ 4134Haruhisa Shimoda, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency / Tokai University, Japan

FR2-T04.4: CERES FLIGHT MODEL 5 ON NPP: PRE-LAUNCH PERFORMANCE AND .......................................... 4138SENSOR DATA RECORD VALIDATIONKory Priestley, NASA Langley Research Center, United States; G. Lou Smith, Susan Thomas, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., United States; Herbert Bitting, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, United States

FR2-T04.5: A SYNERGY BETWEEN SMOS & AQUARIUS: RESAMPLING SMOS MAPS AT .................................. 4142THE RESOLUTION AND INCIDENCE ANGLES OF AQUARIUSEric Anterrieu, IRAP, Université de Toulouse & CNRS, France; Yann H. Kerr, François Cabot, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)/ Université de Toulouse / CNES / CNRS / IRD, France; Gary Lagerloef, Earth and Space Research, United States; David Le Vine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

FR2-T06: REMOTE SENSING FOR NATURAL DISASTERS MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT

FR2-T06.1: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FIRE VULNERABILITY INDEX FOR THE ................................................. 4146MEDITERRANEAN REGIONLaneve Giovanni, Munzer Jahjah, Università di Roma, Italy; Ferrucci Fabrizio, Università della Calabria, Italy; Batazza Fabrizio, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy

FR2-T06.3: AN ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMPACT AND ....................................... 4150LIGHTWEIGHT AIRBORNE SAR FOR EXTRACTING INUNDATED AREATakashi Shibayama, Kazuo Yoshikawa, PASCO Corporation, Japan; Yoshio Yamaguchi, Niigata University, Japan

FR2-T06.4: COMBINED USE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING MODELS, .................................................. 4154FUZZY LOGIC AND MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY FOR FLOOD MAPPING USING COSMO-SKYMED DATALuca Pulvirenti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Marco Chini, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy; Nazzareno Pierdicca, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Leila Guerriero, Tor Vergata University, Italy

FR2-T07: AEROSOLS AND ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY III

FR2-T07.1: DUAL-WAVELENGTH HIGH-SPECTRAL-RESOLUTION LIDAR FOR .................................................. 4157ADVANCED CLASSIFICATION AND RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOLSTomoaki Nishizawa, Nobuo Sugimoto, Ichiro Matsui, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan

FR2-T07.2: NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VALIDATION PLANS FOR THE OZONE .................................... 4161MAPPING AND PROFILER SUITELawrence Flynn, NOAA, United States; Didier Rault, NASA, United States; Glen Jaross, SSAI, United States; Irina Petropavlovskikh, Craig Long, NOAA, United States; John Hornstein, National Physical Laboratory, United States; Eric Beach, IMSG, United States; Wei Yu, Dell Services Federal Government, United States; Jianguo Niu, Dustin Swales, IMSG, United States

FR2-T07.4: RETRIEVAL OF BIOMASS BURING AEROSOLS WITH COMBINATION OF ...................................... 4164NEAR-UV RADIANCE AND NEAR-IR POLARIZATION Itaru Sano, Sonoyo Mukai, Makiko Nakata, Kinki University, Japan; Brent Holben, NASA, United States; Nobuyuki Kikuchi, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan

FR2-T07.5: ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION OF MULTI-ANGLE CRISM/MRO ......................................................... 4168HYPERSPECTRAL DATA: RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS AND SURFACE REFLECTANCEXavier Ceamanos, Sylvain Douté, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, France; Alexei Lyapustin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

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FR2-T08: IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS IV

FR2-T08.1: ANALYSIS OF SST IMAGES BY WEIGHTED ENSEMBLE TRANSFORM .............................................. 4172KALMAN FILTERSai Subrahmanyam Gorthi, Sebastien Beyou, Etienne Memin, INRIA, France

FR2-T08.2: CONSTRAINED OPTICAL FLOW FOR AERIAL IMAGE CHANGE ........................................................ 4176DETECTIONNicolas Bourdis, Denis Marraud, EADS France, France; Hichem Sahbi, CNRS, France

FR2-T08.3: PRINCIPAL POLYNOMIAL ANALYSIS FOR REMOTE SENSING DATA .............................................. 4180PROCESSINGValero Laparra, Devis Tuia, Sandra Jiménez, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Jesús Malo, Universitat de València, Spain

FR2-T08.4: REGISTRATION OF GEOPHYSICAL IMAGES ............................................................................................. 4184Alexandra Karamitrou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Maria Petrou, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece; Gregory Tsokas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

FR2-T08.5: ALTERNATING MINIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR SHIFTED SPECKLE .......................................... 4188REDUCTION VARIATIONAL MODELSangwoon Yun, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Republic of Korea; Hyenkyun Woo, Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea

FR2-T09: GIS TECHNIQUES III

FR2-T09.1: TERRAHYDRO - A DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM USING ................................................ 4192GRAPH STRUCTURE FOR UNIFIED WATER FLOW REPRESENTATIONSergio Rosim, Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro, Camilo Daleles Rennó, João Ricardo de Freitas Oliveira, National Institute for Space Research - INPE, Brazil

FR2-T09.3: INTEGRATING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT AND GIS FOR 3D VIRTUAL ............................................. 4200CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN PLANNINGBin Chen, Fengru Huang, Yu Fang, Peking University, China

FR2-T09.4: A NOVEL METHOD FOR MODELING COMPLEX 3D GEOLOGICAL ................................................... 4204BODY WITH STRATAL PINCH-OUTJiateng Guo, Yizhou Yang, Lixin Wu, Rongbing Zhang, Northeastern University, China

FR2-T10: FREQUENCY ALLOCATION FOR REMOTE SENSING AND RFI MITIGATION FOR MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY

FR2-T10.3: STUDIES OF RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE IN SMOS ............................................................... 4210OBSERVATIONSJoel Johnson, Mustafa Aksoy, The Ohio State University, United States

FR2-T10.4: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE .................................................. 4213DETECTION ALGORITHMS IN MICROWAVE RADIOMETRYJose Miguel Tarongi, Giuseppe Forte, Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

FR2-T10.5: PROTECTION OF 6-7 GHZ BAND SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE ............................................................ 4217RADIOMETER FROM INTERFERENCES TO DERIVE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND OTHERSKorehiro Maeda, Akira Shibata, Keiji Imaoka, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

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FR3-T01: BISTATIC SAR II

FR3-T01.1: THE BISTATIC SAR EXPERIMENT WITH ALOS / PALSAR AND PI-SAR-L .......................................... 4221Takashi Fujimura, Hideharu Totsuka, Norihiro Imai, Shingo Matsuo, Tsunekazu Kimura, NEC Corporation, Japan; Tomoko Ishii, Yoshitaka Oura, NEC Aerospace Systems Ltd, Japan; Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

FR3-T01.2: IMPROVING SAR TOMOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE USING EFFICIENT ............................................. 4225SENSOR CONFIGURATIONSLaurent Ferro-Famil, University of Rennes 1, France; Diego Cristallini, Debora Pastina, Pierfrancesco Lombardo, INFOCOM, University of Rome, Italy

FR3-T01.3: ANISOTROPY IN OCEAN SCATTERING OF BISTATIC RADAR USING ............................................... 4229SIGNALS OF OPPORTUNITYRashmi Shah, James Garrison, Purdue University, United States; Michael Grant, NASA Langley Research Center, United States

FR3-T01.4: NONLINEAR RCM COMPENSATION METHOD FOR ................................................................................ 4233SPACEBORNE/AIRBORNE FORWARD-LOOKING BISTATIC SARZhe Liu, Jianyu Yang, Xiaoling Zhang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

FR3-T01.5: FAST FACTORIZED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM FOR UWB BISTATIC .................................. 4237SAR IMAGE RECONSTRUCTIONViet Thuy Vu, Thomas K. Sjögren, Mats I. Pettersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

FR3-T02: ADVANCES IN THE RETRIEVAL OF FOREST BIOMASS FROM P-BAND SAR DATA: THE BIOMASS MISSION

FR3-T02.3: P BAND PENETRATION IN TROPICAL AND BOREAL FORESTS: ......................................................... 4241TOMOGRAPHICAL RESULTSStefano Tebaldini, Mauro Mariotti d’Alessandro, Dinh Ho Tong Minh, Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

FR3-T02.4: BIOMASS RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM BASED ON P-BAND BIOSAR ...................................................... 4245EXPERIMENTS OF BOREAL FORESTLars M. Ulander, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden; Gustaf Sandberg, Maciej Soja, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

FR3-T02.5: BIOMASS END-TO-END MISSION PERFORMANCE SIMULATOR.......................................................... 4249Paco López-Dekker, Francesco De Zan, Thomas Börner, Marwan Younis, Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Tomas Guardabrazo, Deimos Space, Spain; Valerie Bourlon, Sophie Ramongassie, Nicolas Taveneau, Thalès Alenia Space France, France; Lars M. Ulander, Daniel Murdin, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden; Neil Rogers, Shaun Quegan, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; Raffaella Franco, European Space Agency, Netherlands

FR3-T03: MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY MISSIONS AND INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE III

FR3-T03.3: A RADIOMETER CONCEPT TO RETRIEVE 3-D RADIOMETRIC EMISSION ...................................... 4253FROM ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE AND WATER VAPOR DENSITYXavier Bosch, Hyuk Park, Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Steven C. Reising, Colorado State University, United States; Swaroop Sahoo, CSU, United States; Sharmila Padmanabhan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Enric Valencia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

FR3-T03.5: DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF A REAL TIME ........................................... 4257HIGH-RESOLUTION RF CHANNEL SOUNDERDavid Ferreira, Rafael Caldeirinha, Instituto de Telecomunicações (DL-IT), Portugal

FR3-T05: LAND APPLICATIONS II

FR3-T05.1: PROTOTYPING GOES-R ALBEDO ALGORITHM BASED ON MODIS DATA ........................................ 4261Tao He, Shunlin Liang, Hongyi Wu, Dongdong Wang, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

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FR3-T05.2: CLEAR SKY NET SURFACE RADIATIVE FLUXES OVER RUGGED ...................................................... 4265TERRAIN FROM SATELLITE MEASUREMENTSTianxing Wang, Guangjian Yan, Xihan Mu, Ling Chen, Beijing Normal University, China

FR3-T05.3: SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX ESTIMATION USING SURFACE ENERGY ....................................................... 4269BALANCE SYSTEM (SEBS), MODIS PRODUCTS, AND NCEP REANALYSIS DATAYuanyuan Wang, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China; Xiang Li, National Satellite Meteorological Center / Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China

FR3-T05.4: RETRIEVING BRDF OF DESERT USING TIME SERIES OF MODIS ....................................................... 4273IMAGERYHaixia Huang, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China; Bo Zhong, Qinhuo Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lin Sun, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

FR3-T05.5: A TEMPORAL FILTERING ALGORITHM TO RECONSTRUCT DAILY ................................................ 4277ALBEDO SERIES BASED ON GLASS ALBEDO PRODUCTNanfeng Liu, Qiang Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Lizhao Wang, Beijing Normal University, China; Jianguang Wen, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FR3-T06: REMOTE SENSING OF NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS I

FR3-T06.1: LOCALLY ADAPTIVE TEMPLATE SIZES FOR MATCHING REPEAT IMAGES ................................. 4281OF MASS MOVEMENTSMisganu Debella-Gilo, Andreas Kääb, University of Oslo, Norway

FR3-T06.2: PERSISTENT SCATTERER SAR INTERFEROMETRY APPLICATION ON ........................................... 4285BERKELEY HILLS LANDSLIDESLing Lei, Yinqing Zhou, Jingwen Li, Beihang University, China; Roland Burgmann, Berkeley Seismological Lab, United States

FR3-T06.3: RELATION BETWEEN ROCK FAILURE MICROWAVE SIGNALS ......................................................... 4288DETECTED BY AMSR-E AND A DISTRIBUTION OF RUPTURES GENERATED BY SEISMIC ACTIVITYTakashi Maeda, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Tadashi Takano, Nihon University, Japan

FR3-T06.4: DETECTION METHOD OF SLOPE FAILURES DUE TO THE 2009 SUMATRA ..................................... 4292EARTHQUAKE BY USING TERRASAR-X IMAGESMakoto Kawamura, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan; Kazuhiko Tsujino, Fukui National College of Technology, Japan; Yuji Tsujiko, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan; Jafril Tanjung, Andaras University, Indonesia

FR3-T06.5: RECENT EXPERIENCES UTILIZING TERRASAR-X FOR THE ............................................................... 4296MONITORING OF NATURAL DISASTERS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLDYuki Okajima, Kazuo Yoshikawa, Takashi Shibayama, PASCO Corporation, Japan

FR3-T07: ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS II

FR3-T07.1: MONITORING NATURAL ANALOG OF GEOLOGIC CARBON ............................................................... 4300SEQUESTRATION USING MULTI-TEMPORAL LANDSAT TM IMAGES IN MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, LONG VALLEY CADERA, CALIFORNIARattanasuda Cholathat, Xiaojing Li, Linlin Ge, The University of New South Wales, Australia

FR3-T07.2: IS IT POSSIBLE TO MAKE PIXEL-BASED RADAR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION .................................. 4304USER-FRIENDLY?Rodrigo Pisani, Paulina Riedel, Alessandra Gomes, Rodrigo Mizobe, Joao Papa, UNESP - Univ Estadual Paulista, Brazil

FR3-T07.4: SEMI-AUTOMATED PENGUIN COUNTING FROM DIGITAL AERIAL ................................................. 4312PHOTOGRAPHSStephen McNeill, Kerry Barton, Phil Lyver, David Pairman, Landcare Research New Zealand, New Zealand

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FR3-T08: ADVANCES IN THE ANALYSIS OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA

FR3-T08.1: ROBUST DETECTION USING THE SIRV BACKGROUND MODELLING .............................................. 4316FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGINGJean-Philippe Ovarlez, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France; Sze Kim Pang, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore; Frédéric Pascal, Supelec, France; Véronique Achard, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France; Teck Khim Ng, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore

FR3-T08.2: LINEAR AND NONLINEAR IMAGING SPECTROMETER DENOISING ................................................. 4320ALGORITHMS ASSESSED THROUGH CHEMISTRY ESTIMATIONDavid Goodenough, Natural Resources Canada, Canada; Geoffrey S. Quinn, Piper Gordon, K. Olaf Niemann, University of Victoria, Canada; Hao Chen, Natural Resources Canada, Canada

FR3-T08.3: ESTIMATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL COVARIANCE MATRICES ........................................................... 4324Avishai Ben-David, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Research, Development, and Engineering Command, United States; Charles Davidson, Science and Technology Corporation, United States

FR3-T08.4: A ROBUST SPECTRAL TARGET RECOGNITION METHOD FOR .......................................................... 4328HYPERSPECTRAL DATA BASED ON COMBINED SPECTRAL SIGNATURESXiao Fan, Ye Zhang, Feng Li, Yushi Chen, Tao Shao, Shuang Zhou, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

FR3-T08.5: MANIFOLD ALIGNMENT FOR MULTITEMPORAL HYPERSPECTRAL .............................................. 4332IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONHsiuhan Lexie Yang, Melba M. Crawford, Purdue University, United States

FR3-T09: GIS TECHNIQUES IV

FR3-T09.1: HIGH RESOLUTION DSM GENERATION FROM ALOS PRISM - ............................................................ 4336ARCHIVING AND MOSAICKING -Junichi Takaku, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Japan; Takeo Tadono, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

FR3-T09.2: MANAGING AND INTEGRATING GEOGRAPHY MODELS IN DISTRIBUTED .................................... 4340ENVIRONMENTXiaolin Wang, Hui Li, Hao Deng, Yingwei Luo, Peking University, China

FR3-T09.3: MULTI INFORMATION BASED GROUND CONTROL POINTS SELECTION ....................................... 4344METHODYanfeng Gu, Zhimin Cao, Ye Zhang, Xiangrong Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

FR3-T09.4: ANALYSIS OF REMOTE SENSING QUANTITATIVE INVERSION IN .................................................... 4348CLOUD COMPUTINGJing Dong, Yong Xue, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Ziqiang Chen, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Hui Xu, Yingjie Li, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

FR3-T09.5: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CATASTROPHE EARTHQUAKE RISK .......................................................... 4352ESTIMATION SYSTEM BASED ON GISXiang Ding, Xiaoqing Wang, Long Wang, Youhua Zheng, Institute of Earthquake Science, China

FR3-T10: REMOTE SENSING DATA AND POLICY DECISIONS

FR3-T10.1: REPRESENTATION OF TSUNAMIS IN GENERALIZED HYPERSPACE ................................................. 4355Frank C Lin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, United States; Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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FR3-T10.2: AN INTEGRATED HYDROLOGICAL AND WATER MANAGEMENT STUDY ...................................... 4359OF THE ENTIRE NILE RIVER SYSTEM - LAKE VICTORIA TO NILE DELTAShahid Habib, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Benjamin Zaitchik, Clement Alo, Johns Hopkins University, United States; Mutlu Ozdogan, University of Wisconsin, United States; Anderson Martha, USDA, United States; Fritz Policelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

FR3-T10.3: GEO-LOCATION ERROR CORRECTION FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE ............................................. 4363RADAR IMAGE USING THE GROUND CONTROL POINTSoo H. Rho, LIG Nex1, Republic of Korea; Jung Kim, Young K. Kwag, Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea

FR3-T10.4: AALTO-1 - AN EXPERIMENTAL NANOSATELLITE FOR HYPERSPECTRAL .................................... 4367REMOTE SENSINGJaan Praks, Antti Kestilä, Martti Hallikainen, Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Finland; Heikki Saari, Jarkko Antila, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland; Pekka Janhunen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; Rami Vainio, University of Helsinki, Finland

FR4-T05: GNSS REMOTE SENSING IN ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN AND HYDROLOGY II

FR4-T05.1: GNSS REFLECTIONS FROM BARE AND VEGETATED SOILS: ............................................................... 4371EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF AN END-TO-END SIMULATORNazzareno Pierdicca, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Leila Guerriero, University of Tor Vergata, Italy; Roberto Giusto, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Marco Brogioni, CNR-IFAc, Italy; Alejandro Egido, STARLAB, Spain; Nicolas Floury, European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, Netherlands

FR4-T05.2: SNOW MONITORING USING GNSS-R TECHNIQUES ................................................................................. 4375Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, IEEC CRAE/UPC, Spain; Albert Aguasca, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Enric Valencia, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Hyuk Park, Adriano Camps, Mercè Vall-llossera, IEEC CRAE/UPC, Spain

FR4-T05.3: AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH TOWARDS CHARACTERIZATION OF DRY .......................................... 4379SNOW LAYERS USING GNSS-RFran Fabra, Estel Cardellach, Oleguer Nogués-Correig, Santi Oliveras, Serni Ribó, Antonio Rius, Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE-IEEC/CSIC), Spain; Giovanni Macelloni, Simone Pettinato, IFAC - CNR, Italy; Salvatore D’Addio, European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, Netherlands

FR4-T05.4: OIL SLICKS DETECTION USING GNSS-R...................................................................................................... 4383Enric Valencia, Adriano Camps, Hyuk Park, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

FR4-T05.5: END-TO-END PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A PARIS IN-ORBIT ........................................................ 4387DEMOSTRATOR OCEAN ALTIMETERSalvatore D’Addio, Manuel Martín-Neira, Christopher Buck, European Space Agency, Netherlands

FR4-T06: REMOTE SENSING OF NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS II

FR4-T06.1: TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF LAND DEFORMATION ON ERUPTED MUD ............................................. 4391VOLCANO IN SIDOARJO, INDONESIA USING DINSAR TECHNIQUELuhur Bayuaji, Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Hiroaki Kuze, Chiba University, Japan

FR4-T06.2: NATION-WIDE FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT USING INUNDATION LEVEL ......................................... 4395MODEL AND MODIS TIME-SERIES IMAGERYKwak Youngjoo, Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), Japan; Park Jonggeol, Tokyo university of Information Sciences, Japan; Fukami Kazuhiko, Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), Japan

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FR4-T07: POLLUTION AND CONTAMINATION II

FR4-T07.3: OIL SPILL DETECTION USING COSMO-SKYMED OVER THE ADRIATIC ......................................... 4403SEA: THE OPERATIONAL POTENTIALMichele Vespe, Guido Ferraro, Monica Posada, Harm Greidanus, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy; Marko Perkovic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

FR4-T07.4: INTEGRATING REMOTE SENSING, SPATIAL ANALYSIS AND CERTAINTY .................................... 4407FACTOR MODEL FOR WASTE DUMPING RISK ASSESSMENTYi-Shiang Shiu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Meng-Lung Lin, Aletheia University, Taiwan; Yi-Chieh Chen, Shien-Ta Fan, Chao-Hsiung Huang, Tzu-How Chu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

FR4-T07.5: TAILING MODELLED AND MEASURED SPECTRUM FOR MINE TAILING ........................................ 4411MAPPING IN TUNISIAN SEMI-ARID CONTEXTNouha Mezned, Sâadi Abdeljaoued, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisia; Mohamed Rached Boussema, Ecole Nationale d’ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia

FR4-T08: HYPERSPECTRAL DETECTION OF DIFFICULT TARGETS

FR4-T08.1: EXPLORING LIMITS IN HYPERSPECTRAL UNRESOLVED OBJECT ................................................... 4415DETECTIONJohn Kerekes, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States

FR4-T08.2: SPECTRAL LWIR IMAGING FOR REMOTE FACE DETECTION ............................................................ 4419Dalton Rosario, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, United States

FR4-T08.3: A SHADOW DETECTION METHOD FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGES ................................................ 4423USING VHR HYPERSPECTRAL AND LIDAR DATAGustav Tolt, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden; Michal Shimoni, Signal and Image Centre, Belgium; Jörgen Ahlberg, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden

FR4-T08.4: DETECTION OF VEHICLES IN SHADOW AREAS USING COMBINED ................................................. 4427HYPERSPECTRAL AND LIDAR DATAMichal Shimoni, Signal and Image Centre, Belgium; Gustav Tolt, FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden; Christiaan Perneel, Royal Military Academy, Belgium; Jorgen Ahlberg, FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden

FR4-T08.5: GENERALIZED OPTIMAL KERNEL-BASED ENSEMBLE LEARNING FOR ........................................ 4431HYPERSPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMSPrudhvi Gurram, Heesung Kwon, US Army Research Laboraotry, United States

FR4-T09: ADVANCES IN ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES II

FR4-T09.1: SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION FOR SEA ICE .............................................. 4435ANALYSISN. Gokhan Kasapoglu, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

FR4-T09.3: WELL LOG DATA INVERSION USING RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION ....................................................... 4439NETWORKKou-Yuan Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Liang-Chi Shen, University of Houston, United States; Li-Sheng Weng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

FR4-T09.4: COMPARISON OF GEOMETRY-BASED DOPPLER AMBIGUITY ........................................................... 4443RESOLVER IN SQUINT SARWenchao Li, Yulin Huang, Jianyu Yang, Junjie Wu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

FR4-T09.5: AN INDIRECT DOPPLER RATE ESTIMATION SCHEME OF SAR IN ..................................................... 4446LOW-CONTRAST SCENEWenchao Li, Yulin Huang, Jianyu Yang, Junjie Wu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China