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 . ......................................... 1 REMOTE SENSING OF LAND SURFACE PARAMETERS Jiancheng 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 ............................................. 5 SEA ICE RESEARCH IN ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTICA Yu 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 . .............................................................................. 9 DECOMPOSITIONS: AN OVERVIEW Jong-Sen Lee, Thomas Ainsworth, Yanting Wang, Naval Research Laboratory, United States MO3-T02.3: CHARACTERIZATION OF SINGULAR STRUCTURES IN POLARIMETRIC ........................................... 13 SAR IMAGES BY WAVELET FRAMES Gianfranco 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 ............................................................. 17 CLASSIFICATION AND DECOMPOSITION Hiroshi Kimura, Gifu University, Japan

MO3-T03: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE VALIDATION MO3-T03.2: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE VALIDATION WITH U.S. IN SITU NETWORKS.................................................. 21 Thomas 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 ........................................................................ 24 COLLOCATION Delphine 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 ................................................... 28 COMMUNITY LAND MODEL AND SCE-UA ALGORITHM Shenglei 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 ................................................ 32 DATA RECORD VALIDATION William 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 ....................................... 35 RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) FLIGHT MODEL 5 (FM5) INSTRUMENT ON NPP Susan 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 ............................................................. 39 RESOLUTION IMAGE SERIES Jordi 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 ....................................................... 43 HIGH RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL FOREST MAPPING Petra Krahwinkler, Juergen Rossmann, Bjoern Sondermann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany MO3-T05.5: MULTI-SPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING ......................................................... 47 GLOWWORM SWARM OPTIMIZATION Senthilnath 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 ................................................ 51 IMAGING METHOD WITH UWB RADAR FOR A FINITE-SIZED TARGET Takuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato, Kyoto University, Japan MO3-T06.2: WIDE BAND STEPPED-FREQUENCY GROUND PENETRATING RADAR................................................. 55 Takashi 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 ................................................ 59 INDUCTION SENSORS Waymond Scott, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States MO3-T06.4: LANDMINE DETECTION USING AN ENSEMBLE OF CONTINUOUS . ...................................................... 63 HMMS WITH MULTIPLE FEATURES Anis Hamdi, Hichem Frigui, University of Louisville, United States MO3-T06.5: A RECONFIGURABLE STEPPED FREQUENCY GPR (GPR-R)..................................................................... 67 Filippo 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 . ................................................. 71 SUB-PIXEL LABELLING Alberto 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 ...................................................... 75 PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY Fernando Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Akanksha Bhutani, Nico Adam, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany MO3-T07.4: LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE BASED SUPER-RESOLUTION MAPPING FROM ......................................... 79 REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY Haobo 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 ............................................................... 86 MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA Ivan 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 . ......................................... 90 SPOT-5 DATA: REGIONAL CASE OF JALISCO IN MEXICO Ivan 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 . .......................................... 94 COVER CHANGE USING HYPER-TEMPORAL TIME-SERIES DATA Waldo 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 .......................................... 98 REDUCTION Prashanth 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 . ................................................................... 102 HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES BY MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS AND MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy MO3-T09.4: UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN THE FEATURE SPACE USING . ........................................ 106 KERNELS Michele 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............................................................ 110 Clemens 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 ........................................................... 114 KD(LAMBDA) WITH A NEURAL NETWORK INVERSION Cedric 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 . .................................... 122 TYPE SURFACES OF LAYERED SNOW DUNES ON GREENLAND ICE SHEETS IN PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING Wenmo 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 ....................................................... 126 RADARSAT-2 QUAD POL TIME-SERIES Cecile 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 ....................................... 130 WETLAND BOUNDARY CLASSIFICATION Ryoichi Sato, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Niigata University, Japan MO4-T02.4: FOREST MAPPING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA .................................... 134 IN SOUTHWEST CHINA Yun 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 . ............................................. 138 TO 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 . ................................................... 142 DATA FOR LANDCOVER CLASSIFICATION AND SURFACE PARAMETER RETRIEVAL OVER AGRICULTURAL SITES Anna 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 ................................................ 146 USING TIME-SERIES RADAR OBSERVATIONS AND A LOOKUP TABLE REPRESENTATION OF FORWARD SCATTERING Seung-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 .................................................... 150 CHANGES DUE TO SOIL MOISTURE VARIATIONS Keith 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 ................................................................. 154 CRYOSPHERE EDRS TO MEET NASA’S SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS Miguel 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 .................................................. 158 USING WORLDVIEW-2 IMAGERY Kadim Tasdemir, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy; Selçuk Reis, Aksaray University, Turkey MO4-T05.3: RETRAINING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS USING A .......................................................... 166 LOW-RANK MODEL Arnt-Børre Salberg, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway MO4-T05.4: MAPPING SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION ......................................... 170 ERRORS Maria João Pereira, Amílcar Soares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal MO4-T05.5: IMPROVING CHANGE VECTOR ANALYSIS IN MULTI-TEMPORAL SPACE ...................................... 174 TO DETECT LAND COVER CHANGES BY USING CROSS-CORRELOGRAM SPECTRAL MATCHING ALGORITHM Yuanyuan 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 ........................................... 178 ANTENNA ARRAY Hai Liu, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan MO4-T06.2: A NEW METHOD OF THROUGH WALL MOVING TARGET DETECTION . .......................................... 182 AND IMAGING USING UWB-SP RADAR Shiyou 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 ................................................. 186 USING MIMO RADAR Arvind 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 ..................................................... 190 ACCURACY POSITIONING SYSTEM Yuya 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 . .......................................... 194 TIME-LAPSE CONTROLLED SOURCE ELECTROMAGNETICS Juerg 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 ................................................. 198 BANDS OF WORLDVIEW-2 AND ITS POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS Jianwei Tao, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China MO4-T07.2: UNSUPERVISED URBAN LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING . ...................................................... 201 WORLDVIEW-2 DATA AND SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS Jie Zhang, John Kerekes, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States MO4-T07.4: QUERY EXPANSION FOR VHR IMAGE DETECTION.................................................................................. 205 Huaxin Zheng, Huigang Zhang, Xiao Bai, Huijie Zhao, Beihang University, China MO4-T07.5: MULTI-SCALE SEGMENTATION IN CHANGE DETECTION FOR URBAN ........................................... 209 HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES Junping 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 . ................................ 217 CO-DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS Alejandro Castillo Atoche, Orlando Palma Marrufo, Luis Ricalde Castellanos, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico MO4-T08.4: GPU-BASED SPATIALLIY DIVIDED PREDICTIVE PARTITIONED VECTOR ....................................... 221 QUANTIZATION FOR GIFTS ULTRASPECTRAL DATA COMPRESSION Shih-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 ................................................. 225 IMAGES WITH ACTIVE-LEARNING BASED COMPOUND CLASSIFICATION Begüm Demir, Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy MO4-T09.3: A SEMANTIC-BASED MULTILEVEL APPROACH TO CHANGE DETECTION ..................................... 229 IN VERY HIGH GEOMETRICAL RESOLUTION MULTITEMPORAL IMAGES Lorenzo Bruzzone, Francesca Bovolo, University of Trento, Italy MO4-T09.4: AN ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING APPROACH TO MULTIPLE-CHANGE .............................................. 233 DETECTION IN MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy MO4-T09.5: LOCAL PATCHES FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH .............................................................. 237 RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Xing 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 ........................................ 241 SURFACE FROM SAR SATELLITE IMAGERY WITH IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS Chris 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 ....................................... 245 ADAPTIVE NOTCH FILTER Armando 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....................................... 249 Monica 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 .................................................. 253 PALSAR IMAGES I Wayan Gede Astawa Karang, Fumihiko Nishio, Chiba University, Japan MO4-T10.5: ON THE BOUND WAVE SCATTERING IN A WIND-WAVE TANK............................................................ 257 Lei 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......................................... 261 Huaguo Huang, Beijing Forestry University, China MOP-A.3: INVESTIGATING SPATIAL AGGREGATION TECHNIQUES USING A ...................................................... 265 HETEROGENEOUS RADAR LANDSCAPE SIMULATOR FOR REDUCING UNCERTAINTIES OF SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM SMAP Mariko Burgin, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States MOP-A.6: ESTIMATION OF CLEAR-SKY DOWNWARD LONGWAVE RADIATION ................................................. 269 FROM SATELLITE DATA IN HEIHE RIVER BASIN OF NORTHWEST CHINA Shanshan 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 ........................................................ 273 RADIATIVE FLUX CALCULATIONS Weizhen 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 ........................................ 277 AND EARTH SURFACE SOUNDING Fabrizio 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 ............................................................. 281 APPLICATIONS TO LUNAR EXPLORATION AND LANDSLIDES MONITORING Ya-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: ........................................... 285 RESULTS FROM TERRASAR-X AND COSMO-SKYMED AND TERRESTRIAL WEATHER RADARS Jason Fritz, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States MOP-B.3: TWO – DIMENSIONAL MULTI - RESOLUTION TIME - DOMAIN ............................................................... 289 FORWARD MODELING OF ELECTROMAGENTIC SCATTERING Shuai 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 . .......................................... 293 HJ-1B/IRS DATA WITH GROUND MEASUREMENTS Hua 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 .............................................. 297 LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE Si-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 ........................................ 301 USING A COMBINED METHOD Hua 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 .......................................................... 305 ESTIMATION FROM FY-3A/VIRR DATA Jinxiong 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 ........................................................ 309 ALGORITHMS Jeffrey 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 ......................................................... 313 INTERFEROMETRIC VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGE PAIRS Karsten Schulz, Dominik Brunner, Markus Boldt, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Germany MOP-C.2: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGERY SHIP DETECTION BASED ON ......................................................... 316 EXS-C-CFAR IN ALPHA-STABLE CLUTTERS Xiangwei 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.............................................. 320 Huifang 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...................................................................... 328 Fabio Baselice, Giampaolo Ferraioli, Alessandro Grassia, Vito Pascazio, Universita’ di Napoli Parthenope, Italy MOP-C.7: NONUNIFORM SAMPLING PFA FOR SQUINT SPOTLIGHT SAR IMAGING............................................. 332 Huaping Xu, Deming Guo, Jingwen Li, Beihang University, China MOP-C.8: BACK PROJECTION ALGORITHM FOR HIGH RESOLUTION GEO-SAR . ............................................... 336 IMAGE FORMATION Zhuo 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.................................................................... 340 Junfeng 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 .......................................... 348 AREA MAPPING: A CASE OF THE BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK-UGANDA John 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 ............................................. 352 TERRASAR-X DATA Alessandra 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 . .......................................... 356 FUSION R Chandrakanth, J Saibaba, Geeta Varadan, ADRIN, India; P Ananth Raj, Osmania University, India MOP-D.6: SUPPER RESOLUTION RADAR IMAGING: A VIRTUAL ARRAY CONCEPT ........................................... 360 APPROACH Gaohuan Lv, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China MOP-D.7: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION: THE ...................................................................... 363 GENERALIZED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM Angel Ribalta, Fraunhofer FHR, Germany MOP-D.8: SAR SUPER RESOLUTION VIA MULTI-DICTIONARY................................................................................... 366 Chu 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 .................................................... 370 CONSERVATION INITIATIVE Alina 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............................................................................................. 374 Guangyi 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 ........................................... 378 MULTIPLE POLSAR SIMILARITY PARAMETER Lamei Zhang, Bin Zou, Wenyan Tang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China MOP-E.4: BUILDING PARAMETERS EXTRACTION FROM POLINSAR IMAGE USING .......................................... 382 HYBRID METHOD Hongjun Cai, Peng He, Bin Zou, Maoliu Lin, Harbin Institute of Technology, China MOP-E.5: A FURTHER INVESTIGATION ON RECONSTRUCTION OF VERTICAL . ................................................. 386 PROFILES USING POLARIZATION COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY Junhua 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 ...................................................... 389 WINTER DATA TAKES Ludmila 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 ............................................................. 393 PRELIMINARY RESEARCH Wenxue 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............................................................ 397 Bin 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 ..................................................................... 401 DUAL-POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X IMAGERY Tishampati Dhar, Doug Gray, Carl Menges, University of Adelaide, Australia MOP-E.10: BIOMASS RELATED PARAMETER RETRIEVING FROM QUAD-POL ..................................................... 405 IMAGES BASED ON FREEMAN-DURDEN DECOMPOSITION Xing-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 . ........................................................... 409 POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES Kyung-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 . ..................................... 413 SCHEME BASED ON SCATTERING TYPE ALPHA Chunle Wang, Weidong Yu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China MOP-F.3: VALIDATION OF FOUR-COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION WITH ROTATED ......................................... 416 COHERENCY MATRIX OF TERRASAR-X Toshifumi Hiramatsu, Takashi Nonaka, Takashi Shibayama, PASCO Corporation, Japan MOP-F.4: PARAMETRIC AND NON-PARAMETRIC FOREST BIOMASS ESTIMATION ........................................... 420 FROM POLINSAR DATA Maxim 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 ................................................. 424 POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION AND THE CO-POLARIZATION RATIO Shuang Wang, Jingjing Pei, Kun Liu, Shuang Zhang, Bo Chen, Xidian University, China MOP-F.6: POLARIMETRIC OPTIMIZATION FOR BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETER ...................................................... 428 ESTIMATION Maxim Neumann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States MOP-F.7: A HIGH PRECISION FPGA-BASED ACTIVE RADAR CALIBRATOR........................................................... 432 Chih-Yuan Chu, Kun-Shan Chen, National Central University, Taiwan MOP-F.8: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EIGENVALUES METHOD FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR ....................................... 436 IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Shuiping 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 . ................................................... 440 POLARIMETRIC AND DUAL-POLARIZATION SAR IMAGES Varsha 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 ............................................................ 448 POLARIMETRIC WHITENING FILTER Shaoping 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............................................ 452 Chu 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 . ............................................ 456 DECOMPOSITIONS WITH TERRASAR-X, SUITABILITY FOR USE IN CLASSIFICATION Tishampati Dhar, Doug Gray, Carl Menges, University of Adelaide, Australia MOP-G.7: WISHART SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION RESULTS OF C-BAND ........................................................... 459 POLARIMETRIC GB-SAR IMAGE DATA Moon-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 ........................................... 463 POLARIMETRIC SAR CALIBRATION Shiqi 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 . ................................. 467 RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON INFORMATION-THEORETIC ANALYSIS Jie 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 ........................................................... 471 CLOSE-RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY WITH MULTI-SCALE IMAGES Jui-Teng Tsung, Chi-Kuei Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan MOP-H.2: OBJECT ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH SPATIAL IMAGERY ................................................... 475 USING GABOR TEXTURES AND COMPOSITE KERNELS Lian-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 ......................................................... 479 SPOTLIGHT AND TOPS DATA IMAGE FORMATION Wei 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 ......................................................... 483 IMPROVED 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 .................................................... 487 SENSING IMAGES BASED ON FLIGHT ATTITUDE PARAMETERS Yuxia 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 ............................................ 491 IMAGE Feng 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 ........................................................... 495 SATELLITE IMAGE TIME SERIES Camille 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 .............................................. 499 SEISMIC APPLICATIONS Kou-Yuan Huang, Yueh-Hsun Hsieh, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan MOP-I.2: EXTRACTION OF CRATERS AS CONCENTRIC CIRCLE PATTERNS OF .................................................. 503 CONTOURS ON THE LUNAR DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL Shin Sato, Noriaki Asada, Hirohide Demura, Naru Hirata, University of Aizu, Japan MOP-I.3: AN IMPROVED ROAD AND BUILDING DETECTOR ON VHR IMAGES....................................................... 507 Christophe Simler, Technische Universität München, Germany MOP-I.4: ROTATION INVARIANT TEXTURE FEATURE ALGORITHMS FOR URBAN ............................................ 511 SETTLEMENT CLASSIFICATION Phumzile 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 .................................................. 515 DETECTION ON QUICKBIRD SATELLITE IMAGERY Riccardo 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 . ............................................. 519 DATA Norimasa Mayumi, Akira Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan MOP-I.8: MULTIRESOLUTION FUSION USING CONTOURLET TRANSFORM . ........................................................ 523 BASED EDGE LEARNING Kishor Upla, Prakash Gajjar, Manjunath Joshi, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India MOP-I.10: KERNEL IMAGE SIMILARITY CRITERION..................................................................................................... 527 Vicent 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 ............................................ 531 DATA IN VHR IMAGES Luca Lorenzi, Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy; Grégoire Mercier, Télécom Bretagne, France MOP-J.2: EFFECTS OF RECEIVER SATURATION ON IMAGE FORMATION.............................................................. 535 Zhou 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...................................................................................... 539 Junichi Takaku, Remote Sensing Technology Center, Japan; Takeo Tadono, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan MOP-J.4: MAPPING AND RECOVERING CLOUD-CONTAMINATED AREA IN . ........................................................ 543 MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY WITH VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED BANDS Yi-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 . ................................................................... 547 ESTIMATING LEAVES STOMATAL DENSITY OF POPULUS EUPHRATICA Shengqi 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 ..................................... 551 SENSING IMAGE ANALYSIS Yongke Ding, Kaizhi Wang, Wenxian Yu, Xingzhao Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China MOP-J.8: ADAPTIVE FILTERING APPROACH TO MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE . ........................................................ 555 PROCESSING Andrzej Lesniak, Mateusz Twardowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland MOP-J.9: HIGH PERFORMANCE IMAGE PROCESSING OF SATELLITE IMAGES .................................................. 559 USING GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS Michal Rumanek, Tomasz Danek, Andrzej Lesniak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland MOP-J.10: DISPARITY COMPUTATION OF CORNER POINTS BY ENHANCING ...................................................... 562 FEATURE EXTRACTORS FOR SPARSE NARROW-BASELINE STEREO MATCHING Raghavendra 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 ....................................... 566 IMAGES Tee-Ann Teo, Shin-Yu Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan MOP-K.2: REGISTRATION OF VECTOR DATA AND AERIAL THERMAL IMAGES USING ................................... 570 MODIFIED MUTUAL INFORMATION Koen Douterloigne, Sidharta Gautama, Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Belgium MOP-K.3: AUTO-REGISTRATION OF SATELLITE IMAGE WITH THE EXISTING . ................................................. 574 VECTOR MAP Luping Lu, Yong Zhang, Wuhan University, China MOP-K.4: FAST AND ACCURATE GCPS SELECTION SCHEME FOR SAR IMAGE ................................................... 578 REGISTRATION BASED ON AN IMPROVED TRAJKOVIC CORNER DETECTOR Quang Huy Nguyen, Ian Mcloughlin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Timo Bretschneider, EADS Innovation Works Singapore, Singapore MOP-K.5: ESTIMATING GEOMETRICAL TRANSFORM PARAMETERS FOR ........................................................... 582 AFFINE-TRANSFORM-BASE GEOMETRICAL CORRECTIONS Hiroyuki Saito, Hirosaki University, Japan MOP-K.6: A NEW MULTI-SENSOR APPROACH TO MEASUREMENT OF ................................................................... 586 TOPOGRAPHIC CHANGES RESULTING FROM ACTIVE VOLCANISM David 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 ....................................... 590 PURE OBJECT DATABASE AS A SOLUTION David Gallaher, Glenn Grant, University of Colorado, United States MOP-K.8: SUB-PIXEL MAPPING BASED ON SUB-PIXEL TO SUB-PIXEL SPATIAL . ................................................ 593 ATTRACTION MODEL Liguo 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 ............................................ 597 IMAGE AND VISIBLE IMAGE Dongxu 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 ............................................................ 605 SEGMENTATION USING LAPLACIAN GRAPH ENERGY Meng Zhao, Xiao Bai, Beihang University, China MOP-L.3: GROUND-TRUTH ASSISTED DESIGN FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE ................................................... 609 CLASSIFICATION Edoardo Pasolli, Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy MOP-L.4: VHR IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING OVER SEGMENTED REGIONS IN A ........................................... 613 MRF MODEL Orsan Aytekin, Yousef Rezaeitabar, Ilkay Ulusoy, Middle East Technical University, Turkey MOP-L.5: SHAPE CONTEXT BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION AND TRACKING IN ................................................. 617 STRUCTURED UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT Kyung Min Han, Hyun Taek Choi, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Republic of Korea MOP-L.6: OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATION USING REGION GROWING ................................................................ 621 SEGMENTATION Sang-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 .............................................. 625 REGULARIZATION Jinshan 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............................................................. 629 Yesheng Gao, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China MOP-M.3: IMPROVEMENT OF SHIP-SEA CLUTTER RATIO OF SAR IMAGERY ..................................................... 632 USING STANDARD DEVIATION FILTER Motofumi Arii, Mitsubishi Space Software Co. Ltd., Japan MOP-M.5: BLOCK ADAPTIVE COMPRESSED SENSING OF SAR IMAGES BASED ON ............................................ 640 STATISTICAL CHARACTER Nana Wang, Jingwen Li, Beihang University, China MOP-M.6: CONCURRENT SAR IMAGES DENOISING AND SEGMENTATION BASED . ........................................... 644 ON A NOVEL MODEL OF WAVELET COEFFICIENTS Wentao 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.................................................. 648 Xin 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 . ................................... 652 RADAR DATA Shunichi Kusano, Motoyuki Sato, Yuya Yokota, Tohoku University, Japan

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MOP-M.9: EFFECTS OF NOISE, SAMPLING RATE AND SIGNAL SPARSITY FOR . .................................................. 656 COMPRESSED SENSING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR PULSE COMPRESSION Peng 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 .................................................... 660 ADENOPHORUM SPRENG) IN SOUTHWEST OF CHINA USING TIME SERIES REMOTE SENSING DATA Ying 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 .......................................... 664 SHULE RIVER IN ARID NORTHWEST CHINA Guojing 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 ................................................... 672 TYPICAL STEPPE REGION OF CHINA Suying 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 ................................................................ 676 DESERTIFICATION PROCESS IN NORTHERN CHINA Lihua 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 ............................................ 680 1988-2007 Zhihui 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 .............................................. 684 STUDY IN SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA Ting-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 ...................................................... 688 SPATIO-TEMPORAL LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION FRAMEWORK Waldo 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 ............................................... 692 SURFACE REFLECTANCE PRODUCTS Haruhisa Shimoda, Kiyonari Fukue, Tokai University, Japan MOP-N.10: DETECTION AND MAPPING OF IRRIGATED FARMLAND IN .................................................................. 696 CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND David 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 . ........................................ 700 BASED ON RS AND GIS FOR 20 YEARS IN YANQING COUNTY, BEIJING Linrui 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 . ............................................ 704 CONVERSION INFORMATION IN SAVANNA ENVIRONMENTS Manuel 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 . ................................................. 708 WEATHER OBSERVATION POINT IN JAPAN Hikaru 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 ........................................... 712 IN SAR IMAGES Xiangrong Zhang, Zemin Li, Biao Hou, Licheng Jiao, Xidian University, China MOP-O.5: ADAPTIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF NDVI TIME SERIES WITH ................................................................. 716 MULTI-PERIODIC HARMONIC MODEL Sang-Hoon Lee, Kyungwon University, Republic of Korea MOP-O.7: INFLUENCE OF CHANGES OF UNDERLYING SURFACE ON THE ............................................................ 720 OUTPUT OF SAND-DUST MODEL Dihua 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 . .............................................. 724 METHOD Buho 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 . ........................................ 732 RESERVE, MEXICO. Ernesto Soto Galera, Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Mexico

MOP-P: TROPICAL FORESTS MOP-P.1: IMPROVING TROPICAL FOREST MAPPING USING COMBINATION OF ................................................ 736 OPTICAL AND MICROWAVE DATA OF ALOS Nguyen 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 . .............................................. 740 TROPICAL RAINFORESTS CLASSIFICATION Robin Pouteau, Benoit Stoll, GePaSUD Laboratory, French Polynesia MOP-P.4: RESEARCH ON TROPICAL FOREST ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS .............................................................. 744 ESTIMATING USING ICESAT/GLAS DATA IN XISHUANGBANNA, SOUTHWEST CHINA Hong 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 . ................................................. 748 BRAZILIAN SAVANNA BASED ON MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGERY Nilson 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 ............................................ 752 HIGHER-RESOLUTION REFERENCE DATA SETS Xiao-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 ............................................................. 756 TROPICAL OIL PALM IN SOUTHERN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA Kian 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 ..................................................................... 760 QINGHAI-TEBET PLATEAU WITH MODIS VEGETATION INDEX Li 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 . ............................................. 763 AREA MAPPING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL MODIS DATA Shiyang 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 ............................................... 767 USING MODIS IMAGES TO DETECT DROUGHT AFFECTED AREAS Meng-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 . .................................................. 771 SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS, 2002-2007 Le 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 .................................................. 775 ANALYSIS Qingmiao 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 . ............................................................... 779 MICROWAVE EMISSICITY USING FIELD EXPERIMENT DATA Yunqing 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 ......................................... 783 AVHRR AND MODIS DATA Yang Liu, Ronggao Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China MOP-Q.11: CHANGES OF VEGETATION BIOMASS, SPECIES DIVERSITY AND NDVI . .......................................... 787 ACROSS THE GROUND TEMPERATURE OF PERMAFROST IN THE DATONG RIVER SOURCE REGION ON THE NORTHEASTERN EDGE OF THE QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU Xiumin 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 .............................................. 791 SEASON OF COTTON Tianjie 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 ................................................ 795 TRANSIENT INLAND WATER BODIES Seung-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 ................................................. 803 WITH AN AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE TO QUANTIFY THE SPREAD OF AN INVASIVE WETLANDS SPECIES Bushra Zaman, Austin Jensen, Mac McKee, Utah State University, United States MOP-R.6: FLOOD MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OVER THE MIDDLE REACHES OF .......................................... 807 YANGTZE RIVER BASIN USING MODIS TIME-SERIES IMAGERY Bin 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 . ....................................................... 811 REACHES OF YELLOW RIVER FROM 1990 TO 2004 Jianying 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 ............................................................ 815 APPALACHIAN TRAIL Yeqiao 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 . ............................................... 818 SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSESSMENT Silvia 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...................................................... 822 Tao Zhang, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Yunqing Li, Beijing Normal University, China MOP-S.7: LAND USE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION THROUGH OPTIMUM-PATH FOREST ........................................ 826 CLUSTERING Rodrigo 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 . .................................................. 830 ESTIMATED PULSE Hui Zhou, Wanjin Liu, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China MOP-T.2: LANDMINE DETECTION USING THE DISCRETE SPECTRUM OF ............................................................. 834 RELAXATION FREQUENCIES Mu-Hsin Wei, Waymond Scott, James McClellan, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States MOP-T.3: POLARIZATION AND PROPAGATION PROPERTY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ...................................... 838 PULSES IN THE EARTH Minoru Tsutsui, Taka Nakatani, Munetoshi Kamitani, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan; Toshiyasu Nagao, Tokai University, Japan MOP-T.4: DETECTION OF LNAPL CONTAMINATED SOILS BY GPR........................................................................... 842 Qi 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 . .............................................. 846 DOMAIN INVERSE SCATTERING METHOD FOR CROSS-BOREHOLE IMAGING Toshifumi 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 . ..................................................... 850 WELL RADAR TO DEVELOP TESTBEDS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES ESTIMATION Jonathan Toro-Vazquez, Rafael A. Rodriguez-Solis, Ingrid Padilla, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus, Puerto Rico MOP-T.7: REDUCING ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING FOR BISTATIC .................................................................. 854 SUBSURFACE PULSE RADAR USING EBG STRUCTURES Tomoyuki 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..................................................... 858 Xuan 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 ............................................................ 862 MOTIONS Zhaofa 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 ...................................................... 866 HETERODYNED SFGPR Giovanni 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 .......................................................... 870 IRREGULAR GROUND SURFACE Andrey Klokov, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan MOP-U.5: A HIDDEN MARKOV CONTEXT MODEL FOR GPR-BASED LANDMINE ................................................. 874 DETECTION INCORPORATING STICK-BREAKING PRIORS Christopher Ratto, Kenneth Morton, Leslie Collins, Peter Torrione, Duke University, United States MOP-U.6: A MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNING APPROACH FOR LANDMINE . ....................................................... 878 DETECTION USING GROUND PENETRATING RADAR Andrew Karem, Hichem Frigui, University of Louisville, United States MOP-U.8: A 3D SUBSURFACE IMAGING TECHNIQUE BASED ON DISTRIBUTED ................................................... 882 NEAR-GROUND SENSORS: INVESTIGATION USING SCALE MODEL MEASUREMENTS Fikadu 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 ...................................... 886 SPACEBORNE DISTRIBUTED SAR Zhihua 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......................................... 894 Yu 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 ......................................... 898 APERTURE RADARS WITH ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS Eduardo 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............................................................................................ 902 Robert 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................................................................ 906 Jyunpei 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 . ............................................................ 910 CALIBRATION TARGETS Alexander 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 . ................................................................ 914 SPACEBORNE SAR Yong-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.................................................... 917 Jun 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 .............................................. 921 DIVERSITY Yu 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 .............................................. 925 FINDING WITH PARTLY CALIBRATED OR NONCOHERENT SPARSE ARRAY Wensheng Chen, Xiaojian Xu, Beihang University, China MOP-W.4: DEVELOPMENT OF CIRCULARLY POLARIZED SYNTHETIC APERTURE ........................................... 929 RADAR ONBOARD MICROSATELLITE FOR EARTH DIAGNOSIS Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Chiba University, Japan MOP-W.5: CALIBRATION EXPERIMENTS OF ADVANCED X-BAND AIRBORNE SAR ............................................ 933 SYSTEM, PI-SAR2 Makoto 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 .......................................... 937 RANGE DERIVATIVES OF DOUBLY SCATTERED SIGNALS FOR UWB RADARS Shouhei Kidera, Tetsuo Kirimoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan MOP-X.2: PERFORMANCE SIMULATION OF A SPACEBORNE DUAL-FREQUENCY .............................................. 941 ROTATING FANBEAM SCATTEROMETER Wenming 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 ............................................... 945 5.6GHZ, AND 13.6GHZ), MULTI-POLARIZATION, COMBINED SCATTEROMETERRADIOMETER SYSTEM IN FIELD CONDITIONS Artashes 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 ............................................................. 949 EXPERIMENT OF CHINESE SPACEBORNE PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT RADAR Honggang 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 . ..................................... 953 ALTIMETER / SCATTEROMETER Xi-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 . ..................................................... 957 SHAPE FEATURE EXTRACTION Abhay 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 ......................................................... 961 SCATTEROMETER OF CFOSAT Xiaolong 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 . ................................................... 965 SPACEBORNE ROTATING FAN BEAM RADAR SCATTEROMETER Xiaolong 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 ................................................................ 969 POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES WITH TEXTURE RELATIONSHIP Kamolratn Chureesampant, Junichi Susaki, Kyoto University, Japan MOP-X.10: COMPARISON OF ENVISAT RA2 BACKSCATTER RESULTS OVER GLOBAL ..................................... 973 LAND SURFACE Le 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 .......................................................................... 977 COMPRESSIVE SENSING Mahboob Iqbal, Jie Chen, Zhuo Li, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China MOP-Y.3: A GIS-READY PORTABLE AIRBORNE MULTISENSOR IMAGING SYSTEM............................................ 981 Xiuhong 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 ........................................ 985 DATA CONTINUITY MISSION Kurtis 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 ................................................. 989 INTER-CALIBRATIONS AT NOAA/NESDIS Fangfang 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 ................................... 993 CALIBRATION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGER ON-BOARD SUMBANDILA SATELLITE Derek 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 . .............................................. 997 OF TRACE GASES INCLUDING CARBON DIOXIDE AND METHANE Elena Georgieva, JCET/UMBC, United States; William Heaps, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States MOP-Y.8: RETRIEVING WATER-LEAVING REFLECTANCE FROM HJ1 CCD ........................................................ 1001 IMAGERY AIDED BY MODIS PRODUCT Hua 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 .......................................... 1005 IN MONITORING FRACTIONAL GREEN VEGETATION COVER Shuai Liu, Qi Li, Xi Mao, Junkui Zhang, Peking University, China MOP-Y.10: A SUMMARY OF THE PERFORMANCE AND LONG-TERM STABILITY OF . ...................................... 1009 THE PRE-LAUNCH RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION FACILITY FOR THE CLOUDS AND THE EARTH’S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) INSTRUMENTS James 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 ............................................... 1013 HYPER-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 ......................................... 1017 THE BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE OF NATURAL SAMPLES Georgi 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....................................................... 1021 Satoshi 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 . ............................................. 1025 SPECTRAL RADIOMETERAkira 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........................................................... 1029 Tong 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.......................................... 1033 Xiangqian 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.............................................................................................. 1036 Mehmet Kurum, Peggy O’Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Roger Lang, George Washington University, United States; Alicia Joseph, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; 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 ........................................... 1040 SCATTERING APPROXIMATION Qianyi 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 .............................................. 1044 COHERENCY MATRIX Yoshio Yamaguchi, Niigata University, Japan TU1-T02.3: A MULTITEXTURE MODEL FOR MULTILOOK POLARIMETERIC RADAR ...................................... 1048 DATA Torbjørn Eltoft, Stian Normann Anfinsen, Anthony Paul Doulgeris, University of Tromsø, Norway TU1-T02.4: INFLUENCE OF SPECKLE FILTERING OF POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA ON ..................................... 1052 DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATION METHODS Fang 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 FerroFamil, Eric Pottier, Université de Rennes 1, Insitut d’Electronique et de Télécommunication de Rennes, France; Carlos LópezMartínez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, France TU1-T02.5: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF ADVANCING MULTIMODAL POLSAR ................................................... 1056 TECHNOLOGY, ITS RAPID WORLDWIDE EXPANSION, AND ITS PLETHORA OF DIVERSIFIED APPLICATIONS Wolfgang-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 .................................................... 1059 POLARIZED PALSAR DATA Christian Koyama, Karl Schneider, University of Cologne, Germany TU1-T03.3: EFFECT OF SOIL MOISTURE ON POLARIMETRIC-INTERFEROMETRIC ......................................... 1063 REPEAT PASS OBSERVATIONS BY UAVSAR DURING 2010 CANADIAN SOIL MOISTURE CAMPAIGN Scott 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 . ............................................. 1067 WITH POLARIMETRIC RADARSAT2 SAR IMAGERY IN THE ALPINE AREA Luca 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 ................................... 1071 FEATURES IN PLANETARY RADAR SOUNDER SIGNALS Adamo Ferro, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy

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TU1-T04.2: IMAGE DISTORTION EFFECTS IN SUBSURFACE SAR IMAGING OF .................................................. 1075 DESERTS AND THEIR CORRECTION TECHNIQUE Adel Elsherbini, Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States TU1-T04.3: POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION USING DISTRIBUTED ODD-BOUNCE .............................................. 1079 TARGETS Jiong Chen, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan; Jian Yang, Tsinghua University, China TU1-T04.4: SUBSIDENCE MONITORING USING POLARIMETRIC PERSISTENT .................................................... 1083 SCATTERERS INTERFEROMETRY Víctor Diego Navarro Sánchez, Juan Manuel López Sánchez, University of Alicante, Spain TU1-T04.5: MODEL-BASED POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION USING POLINSAR ............................................ 1087 COHERENCE Si-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 ............................... 1091 TO CHANGE DETECTION Esra 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 ............................. 1095 X AND L BAND AND OPTICAL IMAGES Nazzareno 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............................................. 1099 Mohamed 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 ........................................... 1103 USING THE RELEVANCE VECTOR MACHINE Ryan Close, Joseph Wilson, Paul Gader, University of Florida, United States TU1-T06.2: SUBSURFACE TARGETS DETECTION WITH SHANNON ENTROPY...................................................... 1107 Xiaolin 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 ............................................ 1111 EARTH MODEL DATA INVERSION Claudio Patriarca, Andrea Di Matteo, Evert Slob, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands TU1-T06.4: DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF BURIED RADIOACTIVE-METAL ........................................ 1115 OBJECTS USING WIDEBAND EMI DATA Anish 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 .......................................... 1127 IN A GEOMAGNETIC STORM Shuanggen 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 ..................................................... 1131 ATMOSPHERIC-INDUCED IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES COINCIDENT WITH EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS Yu-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, ................................................. 1135 STATISTICAL, AND SPARSE REGRESSION BASED APPROACHES Jose Bioucas-Dias, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal; Antonio Plaza, Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Spain TU1-T08.2: SPATIAL-SPECTRAL UNMIXING USING FUZZY LOCAL INFORMATION........................................... 1139 Alina Zare, University of Missouri, United States TU1-T08.3: AN OPTIMIZATION PERSPECTIVE ON WINTER’S ENDMEMBER . ...................................................... 1143 EXTRACTION BELIEF Tsung-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: .................................. 1147 A FRAMEWORK FOR HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING Wei Xia, Bin Wang, Liming Zhang, Qiyong Lu, Fudan University, China TU1-T08.5: NONLINEAR UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING RADIAL ......................................... 1151 BASIS FUNCTIONS AND ORTHOGONAL LEAST SQUARES Yoann 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 ..................................................... 1155 MARKOVIAN DATA FUSION, ADAPTIVE TEXTURE EXTRACTION, AND MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano B. Serpico, University of Genoa, Italy TU1-T09.3: A HIERARCHICAL MARKOV RANDOM FIELD FOR ROAD NETWORK . ............................................ 1159 EXTRACTION AND ITS APPLICATION WITH OPTICAL AND SAR DATA Talita 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 . .................................................. 1163 MULTI-ANGULAR ACQUISITIONS Fabio 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 .................................... 1171 RADAR CROSS SECTION USING SIMULTANEOUS 3-D NEXRAD RAIN MEASUREMENTS David 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 ............................................... 1175 CASES Karlus 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 ............................................ 1179 ALONG SEISMIC FAULT OF 2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE Chunyan 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 ........................................... 1183 SURFACE MOTION MAPS OF WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE Meng-Che Wu, Jianguo Liu, Imperial College London, United Kingdom TU2-T01.4: EXTRACTION OF WIDE-RANGING CRUSTAL MOVEMENT USING ..................................................... 1187 ALOS/PALSAR SCANSAR INTERFEROMETRY Masanori 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 ......................................... 1191 THE CHAMONIX MONT-BLANC TEST SITE Andreea 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 .................................................. 1195 USING POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA Motofumi 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 ................................................................ 1199 PARAMETERS OF CANOPY USING POLSAR OBSERVATIONS Yanting Wang, Thomas Ainsworth, Jong-Sen Lee, Naval Research Laboratory, United States TU2-T02.4: COHERENT SCATTERERS DETECTION: APPLICATION OVER GLACIER ........................................ 1203 TERRAIN USING TERRASAR-X TIME SERIES DATA Maria 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 ............................................................. 1207 SIMULATION OVER THE TIBETAN PLATEAU WITH USING A LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM Hui 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 ........................................................... 1211 PARAMETERS WITH L-BAND RADAR FOR A RANGE OF BOREAL FORESTS Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Mariko Burgin, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States

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TU2-T03.4: A BAYESIAN METHODOLOGY FOR SOIL PARAMETERS RETRIEVAL .............................................. 1215 FROM SAR IMAGES Matias 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 ............................................. 1219 THE RETRIEVAL OF SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES Marin 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 . ......................................................... 1223 STATIONARY TRANSMITTER Junjie 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 ......................................... 1227 SURFACES WITH BURIED DISCRETE RANDOM MEDIA FOR SUBSURFACE AND ROOT-ZONE SOIL MOISTURE SENSING Xueyang Duan, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Michigan, United States TU2-T04.3: A NOVEL HYBRID APPROACH TO THE ESTIMATION OF BIOPHYSICAL ......................................... 1231 PARAMETERS FROM REMOTELY SENSED DATA Luca Pasolli, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy; Claudia Notarnicola, Eurac Research, Italy TU2-T04.4: SCALE EFFECT OF VEGETATION INDEX BASED THERMAL ................................................................ 1235 SHARPENING: A SIMULATION STUDY BASED ON ASTER DATA Xuehong 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 .................................... 1239 SENSING IMAGES BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL CONNECTED FILTERS Mauro 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 ............................................... 1243 BASED ON HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA Yingying Gai, Wenjie Fan, Xiru Xu, Peking University, China; Yuanzhen Zhang, China Meteorological Administration, China TU2-T05.3: CLASSIFICATION OF TYPHOON-DESTROYED FORESTS BASED ON ................................................. 1247 TREE HEIGHT CHANGE DETECTION USING INSAR TECHNOLOGY Haipeng 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 ...................................... 1251 VOLUME 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 ....................................................... 1255 PRODUCTS Liming 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 ..................................................................... 1259 HYPERSPECTRAL SENSOR Paolo 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 . ........................................ 1263 OBJECT LEVEL EXPLOITING ANCILLARY OPTICAL DATA Paolo Gamba, Massimiliano Aldrighi, Università Degli Studi di Pavia, Italy TU2-T06.3: SUBWAY TUNNELS IDENTIFICATION THROUGH COSMO-SKYMED ................................................. 1267 PSINSAR ANALYSIS IN SHANGHAI Zhiying 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 ........................................... 1271 PROBABILISTIC METHOD Shota Izaka, Hitoshi Saji, Shizuoka University, Japan

TU2-T07: GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MISSION TU2-T07.3: PRECIPITATION TYPE AND PROFILE CLASSIFICATION FOR GPM-DPR.......................................... 1275 Minda Le, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, United States TU2-T07.4: PROTO-FLIGHT TEST OF THE DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION ................................................ 1279 RADAR FOR THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT Kinji 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 ................................. 1283 MEGHA-TROPIQUES Chakravarthy 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 .............................................. 1287 EXTRACTION FROM HYPERSPECTRAL DATA Gabriel 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 .......................................... 1291 MARS Mario 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............................................................... 1295 Rob Heylen, Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium TU2-T08.5: MINIMUM ENDMEMBER-WISE DISTANCE CONSTRAINED .................................................................. 1299 NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION FOR SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES Shaohui 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 ................................................ 1307 ESTIMATION FOR RIGID TARGETS WITH COMPLICATED MICRO-MOTIONS Peng Lei, Jun Wang, Jinping Sun, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China TU2-T09.3: COMBINATIONAL MATCHING METHOD OF AMPLITUDE-SCALE AND ........................................... 1311 TIME-SHIFT FOR RADAR HRRP RECOGNITION Feng Chen, Wenxian Yu, Xingzhao Liu, Kaizhi Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China TU2-T09.4: TRUCK CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS FROM ALL ASPECT ANGLES WITH .................................... 1315 QUAD-POL RADARSAT-2 SAR IMAGES Bo 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 ............................................ 1319 THE TERRASAR-X/TANDEM-X SATELLITE CONSTELLATION Stefan 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................................................................ 1323 William 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 ............................................................ 1327 RESOLUTION WIND RETRIEVAL FROM SAR Xiaofeng 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............................................................... 1330 Paul 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 . ................................................. 1334 OPERATIONAL SHIP ROUTING Xiao-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 .................................................................... 1338 INTERFEROMETRIC PROCESSING Francesco De Zan, Paco López-Dekker, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany TU3-T01.2: HIGH RESOLUTION DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRIC STACKING VIA ..................................... 1341 ADAPTIVE SPATIAL PHASE FILTERING Kanika Goel, Nico Adam, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany TU3-T01.3: AUTOMATIC QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR INTERFEROGRAM SAR STACKS.................................. 1345 Pietro 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 ................................................. 1349 PHASE UNWRAPPING FOR PROCESSING MULTITEMPORAL FULL RESOLUTION INTERFEROGRAMS Antonio 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 .............................................. 1353 STRATEGY FOR INSAR TIME SERIES ANALYSIS Gabriel 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 ....................................... 1357 POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGERY Vahid 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 ............................................................... 1361 PROCESSING FOR UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION USING INFORMATION GEOMETRY OF COVARIANCE MATRICES Pierre 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 . .................................................... 1365 MULTI- BASELINE POLINSAR Stefano Tebaldini, Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy TU3-T02.4: MULTI-SIGNAL COMPRESSED SENSING FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR ................................................. 1369 TOMOGRAPHY Esteban Aguilera, Matteo Nannini, Andreas Reigber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany TU3-T02.5: POLARIMETRIC SAR TOMOGRAPHY OF TROPICAL FORESTS AT P-BAND..................................... 1373 Yue 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 ..................................................... 1377 OBSERVATIONS TO IMPROVE GLOBAL SNOWFALL ESTIMATES Tristan L’Ecuyer, Norman Wood, Colorado State University, United States TU3-T03.3: A SYNERGETIC USE OF OBSERVATIONS FROM MODIS, SEVIRI MSG, ............................................. 1381 ASAR AND AMSR-E TO INFER A DAILY SOIL MOISTURE INDEX Claudia 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 .................................... 1385 PROCESSES Alberto 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................................................................................ 1389 Craig Stringham, David G. Long, Brigham Young University, United States TU3-T04.3: FIRST BISTATIC SPACEBORNE SAR EXPERIMENTS WITH TANDEM-X............................................. 1393 Marc 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 ................................................ 1397 INFORMATION 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 .......................................... 1401 SENSOR Nicolas Baghdadi, Cemagref, France; Pierre Todoroff, cirad, France; Mehrez Zribi, ird, France TU3-T05.4: SEE THE FORESTS WITH DIFFERENT EYES............................................................................................... 1405 Chue 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 ............................................................. 1409 RESOLUTION IMAGERY BY ONE-CLASS SVM AND SHADOW INFORMATION Peijun Li, Benqin Song, Haiqing Xu, Peking University, China TU3-T06.2: IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF URBAN STRUCTURES ......................................... 1413 USING VHR SAR DATA Thomas 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 . ................................................. 1417 DIELECTRIC DIHEDRAL STRUCTURE BY POLARIMETRIC GB-SAR Masayoshi Matsumoto, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan TU3-T06.4: 2D CHANGE DETECTION FROM SATELLITE IMAGERY: PERFORMANCE ...................................... 1421 ANALYSIS AND IMPACT OF THE SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF INPUT IMAGES Nicolas 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 .................................................. 1425 SETTLEMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION OF QUICKBIRD IMAGES Frans 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 ........................................................... 1429 TRIANGULATION FOR PANCHROMATIC IMAGE Feng Gao, Lei Hu, Zhaofeng He, Beihang University, China TU3-T08.3: A SELF-ADJUSTIVE GEOMETRIC CORRECTION METHOD FOR ......................................................... 1433 SERIOUSLY OBLIQUE AERO IMAGE Chunyuan Wang, Ye Zhang, Pigang Liu, Qi Xu, Yanfeng Gu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China TU3-T08.4: SATELLITE IMAGE ARTIFACTS DETECTION BASED ON COMPLEXITY .......................................... 1437 DISTORTION THEORY Avid 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 ............................................... 1445 SENSING IMAGERY: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES Ranga 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 ................................................... 1449 ECOSYSTEM RESOURCES Ashish 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 ................................................... 1453 ANNOTATION ALGORITHMS Randy 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 ..................................................... 1457 INFORMATION MINING APPLICATIONS Surya 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 .................................................. 1461 MEASUREMENTS FROM NUMERICALLY SIMULATED LOW GRAZING ANGLE BACKSCATTER DATA Chun-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 ........................................................ 1465 ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRY Nobuo 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 ........................................ 1469 MEASUREMENTS Hyuk 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 – . ........................................................... 1473 ILLUSTRATION ON A REAL CASE Céline 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........................................................... 1477 Qingli 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................................................................. 1481 Nico 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 ................................................................... 1485 REFLECTIONS BETWEEN ADJACENT BUILDINGS Stefan Auer, Stefan Gernhardt, Technische Universität München, Germany; Richard Bamler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany TU4-T01.5: AMPLITUDE BASED INSAR STACK MULTI-LOOKING: PERFORMANCE .......................................... 1489 AND APPLICATIONS Alessandro 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 . ...................................................................... 1493 LOW-FREQUENCY SAR DATA Franz Meyer, Brenton Watkins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States TU4-T02.2: IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN SAR INTERFEROMETRY: AN ANALYSIS AND ...................................... 1497 COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR THEIR ESTIMATION Ramon 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 .......................................... 1501 IN INTERFEROMETRIC AND POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA Paul 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 . .......................................... 1505 INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA Jun 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 ..................................................................... 1509 INTERCALIBRATED ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITE SENSORS Thomas Meissner, Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, United States

TU4-T04: AIRBORNE SAR TU4-T04.1: THE ECOSAR P-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR.......................................................................... 1512 Rafael 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 . .......................................... 1516 FREQUENCY Andrea 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 .............................................. 1520 INSTRUMENT Andreas 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 ....................................................... 1524 INTERFEROMETRIC SAR INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS Temilola 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..................................... 1528 Lars 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 . ..................................... 1532 IN MONITORING SOIL AND VEGETATION Emanuele 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 ...................................... 1536 FRENCH GUIANA FORESTS Clément 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............................................... 1540 Jinah 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, ....................................................... 1544 OPTICAL IMAGES AND TOPOGRAPHY DATA FOR IMPROVED FLOOD MAPPING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO Marouane 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 ..................................................... 1547 INTEGRATION OF REMOTE SENSING TIME SERIES ANALYSIS Andrea 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 .......................................... 1551 RESULTS FROM AIRBORNE DUAL-FREQUENCY RAIN RADAR FIELD CAMPAIGN Hu 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 ................................................. 1554 DEVELOPMENT Kenji 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 ........................................... 1558 SPACEBORNE PRECIPITATION RADAR Toshiaki Kozu, Toyoshi Shimomai, Shimane University, Japan TU4-T07.5: EVOLUTION OF THE RAIN PROFILING ALGORITHM FOR THE TRMM ........................................... 1562 PRECIPITATION RADAR Toshio 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 ........................................ 1565 IMAGES WITH SPARSE REGULARIZATION Keigo 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 .............................................. 1569 DATA 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 . ........................................ 1573 CROP YIELD ESTIMATION Bin 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 ................................................. 1577 FRAMEWORK VIA GENERATION OF GEOSPATIAL IMAGERY GROUND TRUTH Shaun 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.................................... 1581 Lionel Gueguen, Martino Pesaresi, Pierre Soille, Joint Research Center - European Commission, Italy TU4-T09.5: MINING LARGE SATELLITE IMAGE REPOSITORIES USING ................................................................ 1585 SEMI-SUPERVISED METHODS Pierre 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 . .................................... 1589 PALSAR IMAGES AND ANCILLARY INFORMATION Leonid 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 ..................................... 1593 BOUNDARY LAYER PHENOMENA Xiaofeng 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 . ...................................... 1596 WITH MINING ACTIVITIES IN THE WITBANK COALFIELDS, SOUTH AFRICA, USING DIFFERENTIAL RADAR INTERFEROMETRY Jeanine 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 ......................................... 1600 SAR INTERFEROMETRY: A CASE STUDY IN DEZHOU CITY Ling 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................................................ 1604 Aiguo 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 TECHNIQUE Zhang 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....................................................................... 1612 Li 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 .............................................. 1615 USING DINSAR TECHNIQUE OF ALOS PALSAR IMAGES Ilham 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 .............................................. 1619 MONITOR REGIONAL LAND SUBSIDENCE Daqing 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 ............................................ 1623 PALSAR FBD DATA Yixian 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 .......................................... 1627 INTERFEROMETRIC DATABASE Béatrice 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............................................................ 1630 Qinghua 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 DATA Asep 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 ......................................... 1638 THE SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA USING UAVSAR RADAR IMAGERY Cathleen 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 .................................................... 1642 INTERFEROGRAM 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........................................................................ 1650 Shilai 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 . ................................................... 1654 ACTIVITY MONITORING Wenyu 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 ............................................... 1658 SPATIAL RELATION BETWEEN TARGET AND SHADOW Zebing Zhang, Weidong Hu, Xiaoyong Du, National University of Defense Technology, China TUP-C.2: GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION BY MIMO SAR WITH ............................................................. 1662 MULTI-ANTENNA IN AZIMUTH Wen-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............................................................................ 1666 Valentin Poncos, University of Calgary / Kepler Space Inc., Canada; Michael Collins, University of Calgary, Canada TUP-C.5: SAR IMAGING BASED ON COMPRESSED SENSING...................................................................................... 1674 Yifeng 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 ........................................ 1682 MATCHING PURSUIT Wei 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.................................................................... 1689 Thomas K. Sjögren, Viet Thuy Vu, Mats I. Pettersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden TUP-C.11: APPLICATION OF RPC MODEL FOR INSAR PHASE EVALUATION........................................................ 1693 Wen-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 ........................................... 1696 FUSION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Qingyan Wang, Junping Zhang, Jiawei Chen, Ye Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China TUP-D.2: SCALABLE SEMI-SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL ............................................ 1700 REMOTE SENSING DATA WITH SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL INFORMATION Mingmin 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 ............................................ 1704 COMPOSITE KERNEL FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Kai-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 .......................................... 1708 USING SVMS AND GABOR TEXTURES Lian-Zhi Huo, Ping Tang, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China TUP-D.5: ITERATIVE SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ........................................ 1712 CLASSIFICATION Shih-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 .................................................. 1716 SPATIAL INFORMATION BASED LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS Cheng-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 .......................................................... 1720 INFORMATION MEASURE FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Md. 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 ....................................... 1724 EVOLUTION FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY Yanfei Zhong, Liangpei Zhang, Wuhan University, China TUP-D.9: FEATURE SELECTION UNSING KERNEL BASED LOCAL FISHER .......................................................... 1728 DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Guangyun 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 .......................................... 1732 HJ1A HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Hao 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 .................................................. 1736 THREE GORGES BASED ON CHRIS/PROBA REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Qian 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 . ................................................... 1740 SPECTROSCOPY IN VISIBLE-SHORTWAVE INFRARED REGION Xuewen 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 . ...................................................... 1744 DETECTING APHID (HEMIPTERA: APHIDIDAE) DAMAGE LEVELS IN WINTER WHEAT Juhua 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 ................................................ 1748 RADIO-CONTROLLED HELICOPTER Yukio 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 .............................................. 1752 WITH SPECTRAL ANGLE MAPPING AND NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFICATION METHOD: STUDY CASE IN WARMBAD DISTRICT, SOUTH OF NAMIBIA Dr. 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 ............................................... 1755 PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION FOR N-FINDR ALGORITHMS IN HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGE Wenfei Luo, South China Normal University, China; Hao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China TUP-F.2: IMPLEMENTATION OF A COVARIANCE-BASED PRINCIPAL COMPONENT . ...................................... 1759 ANALYSIS ALGORITHM WITH A CUDA-ENABLED GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT Jian Zhang, Kim Hwa Lim, National University of Singapore, Singapore TUP-F.3: A FAST-ADAPTIVE SUPPORT VECTOR METHOD FOR FULL-PIXEL ...................................................... 1763 ANOMALY DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES Safa 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 ........................................ 1767 ON COMMODITY GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS Sergio Sanchez, Abel Paz, Antonio Plaza, Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Spain TUP-F.5: STRUCTURED SPARSE MODEL BASED FEATURE SELECTION AND ...................................................... 1771 CLASSIFICATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Yuntao 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 ........................................ 1775 FIRST LUNAR ORBITER CHANG’E-I Junping Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Bin Zou, Wenyan Tang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China TUP-F.8: COUPLED NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION (CNMF) FOR .................................................... 1779 HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL DATA FUSION: APPLICATION TO PASTURE CLASSIFICATION Naoto Yokoya, Takehisa Yairi, Akira Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan TUP-F.9: FUSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND PANCHROMATIC IMAGES USING . ............................................... 1783 MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS AND NONLINEAR PCA BAND REDUCTION Giorgio 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 ............................................. 1787 IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES David Blanco, Manuel Sanchez-Castillo, María C. Carrión, Isabel M. Tienda, University of Granada, Spain TUP-F.11: RANDOM-PROJECTION-BASED DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION AND ............................................... 1790 DECISION FUSION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL TARGET DETECTION Qian 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 ......................................................................... 1798 COSMO-SKYMED SAR IMAGERY Fan 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 ............................................... 1802 IMAGES BASED ON SURF FEATURES Xiaonjuan 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 ................................................ 1806 PRIMING Yongfeng Cao, Guizhou Normal University, China; Huang Tang, Wuhan University, China TUP-G.7: SUBSPACE SEPARATION METHOD FOR ISAR IMAGING USING THE ................................................... 1810 MUSIC ALGORITHM Jon 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 ......................................................... 1814 DOWNSCALING Yuan 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+ ..................................... 1818 AND ASTER GDEM DATA Yuhuan 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 ........................................... 1822 SIGNAL FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADAR Yanyun 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 . ......................................... 1826 LAND WATER INTERFACE AND THEIR SPATIAL-TEMPORAL VARIATION USING HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY Xin 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 ............................................ 1830 BASED ON MULTI-TEMPORAL LANDSAT TM Wenjiang 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 ................................................................ 1834 INTEGRATED WAVELET Liming 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.............................................. 1838 Jing 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 . ............................................... 1842 MODIS PRODUCT Dailiang 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 ............................................ 1846 NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION MINIMIZING QUASI-L1 NORM Motoaki 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 .................................... 1850 ON WAVEBANDS SELECTION Hang 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 ........................................... 1858 FOR DMSP/OLS NIGHTTIME LIGHTS TIME SERIES IN CHINA FROM 1992 TO 2008 Zhifeng Liu, Chunyang He, Yang Yang, Beijing Normal University, China TUP-I.4: A BUILDING EXTRACTION METHOD USING SHADOW IN HIGH ............................................................. 1862 RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES Lei Hu, Jin Zheng, Feng Gao, Beihang University, China TUP-I.5: BUILDING FOOTPRINT EXTRACTION BY FUSING DUAL-ASPECT SAR ................................................. 1866 IMAGES Lu 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 .................................................... 1870 POST-EVENT VHR IN EARTHQUAKE-AFFECTED AREAS Liwei 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 . .................................................. 1874 USING DIRECTIONAL PRIOR Hua Zhong, Dan Zhu, L.C. Jiao, Kun Liu, Xidian University, China TUP-I.8: A NEW METHOD OF ROAD NETWORK UPDATING BASED ON FLOATING ........................................... 1878 CAR DATA Yue 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 ............................................... 1882 UNMIXING Yoann Altmann, Abderrahim Halimi, Nicolas Dobigeon, Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France TUP-J.2: UNMIXING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING THE GENERALIZED ...................................................... 1886 BILINEAR MODEL Abderrahim Halimi, Yoann Altmann, Nicolas Dobigeon, Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France TUP-J.6: DUAL-ASPECT GEOMETRIC AND RADIOMETRIC TERRAIN CORRECTION ....................................... 1894 METHOD FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR DATA Guojun 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 ......................................................... 1898 SATELLITE IMAGERY IN HAZARDOUS AREAS USING MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS Chandana Dinesh Parape, Masayuki Tamura, Kyoto University, Japan TUP-J.8: WEB-BASED FLOOD MONITORING SYSTEM USING GOOGLE EARTH .................................................. 1902 AND 3D GIS Yili 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.......................................... 1906 Steve 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 ............................................................. 1910 MESQUITE TREE (PROSOPIS JULIFLORA) ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION TO SEMI-ARID AFRICA Buho 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 . ....................................... 1914 THE 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 ............................................................. 1918 BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENT OF CORN CANOPY SCENE Hejuan 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 ........................................................................... 1922 GEOMETRIC-OPTICAL MODEL USING HJ-1 DATA Wei 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 .......................................... 1926 BASED ON VARIOUS VEGETATION INDICES, NDSI AND PLS USING AN AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL SENSOR AISA IN SHONAI PLAIN, YAMAGATA, JAPAN Shinya 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 ........................................ 1930 OF WINTER WHEAT UNDER DIFFERENT IRRIGATIONS IN HEBEI PROVINCE Peijuan 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 ................................................... 1934 KRUGER NATIONAL PARK Herman 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.................................................... 1938 Naoki Ishitsuka, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan TUP-L.3: BIOMASS RETRIEVAL BASED ON POLARIMETRIC TARGET . ................................................................. 1942 DECOMPOSITION Zhiyu 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 . ............................................................... 1946 RADIOMETER SMOS DATA Ning 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 . ................................................. 1954 QINGHAI SPRUCE FOREST CANOPY IN QILIAN MOUNTAINS USING HEMISPHERICAL IMAGES AND AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA Huanhua 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 ..................................................................... 1958 MEASUREMENTS OVER PADDY RICE FIELD AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH GROUND PARAMETERS Changwen 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 ........................................... 1961 2006 TO 2010 Charlotte 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 ......................................... 1965 ALOS SATELLITE IMAGE Hideki 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 ................................................. 1969 EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE OF YUSHU QINGHAI IN CHINA Long 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 . ............................................. 1973 SAKURAJIMA VOLCANO USING RADARSAT-2 DATA Masayuki 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 . ................................................ 1977 COLOR COMPOSITE IMAGE OF SRTM AND ALOS/PALSAR INSAR DEM: A CASE STUDY OF THE IWATE-MIYAGI NAIRIKU EARTHQUAKE IN 2008 Tomohito 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 ........................................................... 1981 APPLICATION TO THE EXTRACTION OF SEISMIC DAMAGE OF 2010 YUSHU, CHINA MS=7.1 EARTHQUAKE Xiaoqing Wang, Dingjian Jin, Aixia Dou, Institute of Earthquake Science, China TUP-M.7: COMPARISON OF A LAND SURFACE MODEL AND PALMER DROUGHT . ........................................... 1985 SEVERITY INDEX IN MONITORING DROUGHT IN CHINA Liang 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 ...................................................... 1989 NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM (ANFIS) Jaewon Choi, National Institute for Disaster Prevention / National Emergency Management Agency, Republic of Korea; YoonKyung 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 ............................................................................ 1993 HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES FOR MAPPING THE IMPACT OF TSUNAMI DISASTER Shunichi 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 ............................................ 1997 SENSING TECHNIQUES: APPLICATION TO MADEIRA ISLAND Cristina 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: ........................................................ 2005 VALIDATION OF SATELLITE SST PRODUCTS Lei Guan, Kailin Zhang, Weicheng Teng, Ocean University of China, China TUP-N.5: RETRIEVAL OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM FY-3A VIRR DATA.......................................... 2009 Hongyan Wang, Lei Guan, Fan Wu, Ocean University of China, China TUP-N.7: RETRIEVING SEASONAL SEA SURFACE SALINITY FROM MODIS . ....................................................... 2017 SATELLITE DATA USING A BOX–JENKINS ALGORITHM Maged Marghany, Mazlan Hashim, Institute of Geospatial Science and Technology (INSTEG), Malaysia TUP-N.8: VALIDATION OF SMOS MEASUREMENTS OVER OCEAN AND ................................................................ 2021 IMPROVEMENT OF SEA SURFACE EMISSIVITY MODEL AT L BAND Xiaobin 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 ........................................ 2025 RELATIONSHIPS WITH ZONAL DISPLACEMENT ANOMALY OF WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL Cunjin 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 .................................................... 2029 BRACKISH LAKE SHINJI AND LAKE NAKAUMI Yuji 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 ...................................... 2033 SEA SURFACE: MODELING WITH SMALL-SLOPE APPROXIMATION Alexander Voronovich, Valery Zavorotny, NOAA / Earth System Research Laboratory, United States TUP-O.2: THE IMPACT OF THERMAL STRATIFICATION AND WIND STRESS ON SEA ...................................... 2037 SURFACE FEATURES IN SAR IMAGERY Atsushi 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 ............................................ 2041 VECTORS WITH SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR Gisela Carvajal, Leif E. B. Eriksson, Lars M. Ulander, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden TUP-O.7: MULTIFACTOR MODELS AND SIMULATIONS FOR OCEAN MICROWAVE ......................................... 2045 RADIOMETRY Victor Raizer, Zel Technologies, LLC, United States TUP-O.8: A COMPARISON OF VARIOUS EQUATORIAL PACIFIC SURFACE WIND . ............................................ 2049 PRODUCTS Ge Peng, STG, INC, United States; Huai-Min Zhang, NCDC/NOAA, United States; Helmut Frank, DWD, Germany; JeanRaymond 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 ........................................ 2053 DIRECTION BY USING AIRBORNE SAR -- LOW WIND SPEED CASE -Akitsugu Nadai, Toshihiko Umehara, Takeshi Matsuoka, Makoto Satake, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Seiho Uratsuka, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan TUP-O.10: SIMULATION STUDY ON SHALLOW SEA TOPOGRAPHY IMAGING BY ............................................. 2057 ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRIC SAR Xiangzhen 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 . .............................................. 2061 FROM RADARSAT-1 SCANSAR RAW DATA Ki-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 .......................................... 2065 ALTIMETER DATA Vladimir Karaev, Mikhail Kanevsky, Eugeny Meshkov, Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Russian Federation TUP-P.2: ONE-BIT DIGITAL CROSS-CORRELATION IN THE PARIS-IOD................................................................. 2069 Serni 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......................................................... 2073 Songhua 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.................................................. 2077 Shuang-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 ......................................................................... 2081 IDENTIFICATION Edward 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 . ................................................ 2085 TURBULENT FLUXES DATASET AND ITS DEPENDENCE ON THE SSM/I BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE Chung-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................................................................. 2089 Titus Oyedokun, Michael Raymond Inggs, University of Cape Town, South Africa TUP-R.5: REMOTE SENSING RETRIEVED OF AIE-SEA HEAT FLUXES IN THE ASIAN ....................................... 2093 AND INDIAN-PACIFIC OCEAN AREA AND ITS ANALYSIS Jinnian Chen, Tao Zuo, Hongna Wang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China TUP-R.6: A NOVEL METHOD TO ESTIMATE UNDERWATER MARINE CULTIVATION ...................................... 2097 AREA BY USING SAR POLARIMETRIC ENTROPY Eun-Sung Won, Kazuo Ouchi, National Defense Academy, Japan TUP-R.8: DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF GLACIAL ICE IN THE PR-GR . ................................................... 2101 SCATTER PLOTS OF AMSR-E NASA TEAM2 SEA ICE ALGORITHM Hyangsun Han, Hoonyol Lee, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea

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TUP-R.9: CHARACTERIZATION OF ARCTIC SEA ICE THICKNESS USING ............................................................ 2105 SPACE-BORNE POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA Jin-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 ....................................... 2109 AND ITS DIURNAL CYCLE INTEGRATING MULTI-SOURCE REMOTE SENSING DATA UNDER CLEAR SKY Wenyu 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 ................................................ 2113 FROM DMSP/OLS NIGHTTIME SATELLITE IMAGERY Husi 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, ............................................... 2117 INDONESIA Alex 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 .................................................. 2121 BODY Chunhua Xiu, Defu Che, Jiayu Che, School of Resources and Civil Engineering, China TUP-S.5: DETECTING SUBSIDENCE-INDUCED FAULTING IN MEXICAN URBAN . ............................................... 2125 AREAS BY MEANS OF PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY AND SUBSIDENCE HORIZONTAL GRADIENT MAPPING Francesca 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 .............................................. 2129 BASED ON 3D LASER SCANNING Tomohiro 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 ........................................... 2133 USING HIGH-RESOLUTION X-BAND SAR IMAGES Wen Liu, Fumio Yamazaki, Chiba University, Japan TUP-S.8: POLSAR SCENE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON FAST APPROXIMATE . ................................................... 2137 NEAREAST NEIGHBOURS SEARCH Lijun Chen, Wen Yang, Ying Liu, Hong Sun, Wuhan University, China TUP-S.10: IMPROVING THE SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE-BASED METHOD TO . .............................................. 2141 MAP URBAN LAND OF CHINA USING DMSP/OLS AND SPOT VGT DATA Yang Yang, Chunyang He, Shiqiang Du, Beijing Normal University, China TUP-S.11: ESTIMATION OF TREE CROWN STRUCTURE IN URBAN AREAS USING . ........................................... 2145 HIGH RESOLUTION AIRBORNE LIDAR Haruki 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 ......................................................... 2149 MONITORING IN NEGOMBO ESTUARY, SRI LANKA Ddgl 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 . ............................................ 2153 DATA MINING APPROACH ON MULTI-TEMPORAL COASTAL REMOTE SENSING DATASETS Balakrishna Gokaraju, Surya Durbha, Roger King, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, TUP-T.6: DETERMINATION THE NITROGEN STATUS OF WETLANDS USING ...................................................... 2161 EMERGENT MACROPHYTES LEAF SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE Ke 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 ................................................. 2165 REMOTE SENSING OF TROPICAL COASTSCAPE? QUICKBIRD-2 VS WORLDVIEW-2 Antoine Collin, Serge Planes, CNRS France, French Polynesia

TUP-U: POLLUTION AND CONTAMINATION I TUP-U.1: HEAVY METAL POLLUTION AND THE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT ......................................... 2169 OF URBAN STREET DUST IN KUNMING,CHINA Zhengtao 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 ........................................ 2173 USING MULTIMODE RADARSAT-1 SAR DATA Maged Marghany, Mazlan Hashim, Institute of Geospatial Science and Technology (INSTEG), Malaysia TUP-U.3: RESEARCH ON MONITORING OF THE FIRE POINTS OF STRAW ........................................................... 2177 BURNING BASED ON HJ-1/IRS AND ITS EFFECTS ON AIR QUALITY Qing 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 ........................................................ 2181 MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA IN BAIYIN CITY, NORTHWESTERN CHINA Yao Wang, Chuanyan Zhao, Zhongren Nan, Lanzhou University, China TUP-U.6: THE DISTRIBUTION OF AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVED BY TM ........................................... 2185 IMAGERY OVER BEIJING URBAN AREA，CHINA Wenhui 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 . ............................................................. 2189 MOLECULAR DECOMPOSITION Lingling 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 . ...................................................... 2193 GEOMECHANICAL AND HYDROGEOLOGICAL RESPONSES IN SEDIMENTARY FORMATIONS Qi 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 ....................................... 2197 ZHONGBA EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA Guo 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 ........................................... 2200 AND VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES IN JAVA, INDONESIA Yanmei 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 ................................................................... 2208 PHENOMENON OF EARTHQUAKE FROM REMOTE SENSING INFORMATION Yuntao Ma, Shanjun Liu, Lixin Wu, Baodong Ma, Northeastern University, China TUP-V.8: COMPARISON OF THE DG FINITE ELEMENT METHOD WITH FINITE ................................................. 2212 DIFFERENCE METHOD FOR ELASTIC-ELASTIC INTERFACE Yangyang 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............................................... 2216 Atsushi 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 . ........................................... 2218 DATA IN NORTH EAST BOTSWANA Taro 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 ........................................ 2221 OF SHELL BAR SECTION AT QARHAN IN THE QAIDAM BASIN, CHINA Wenxiang 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 .................................................................. 2225 SENSING-DERIVED VEGETATION DATA IN THE SOURCE REGION OF THE DATONG RIVER IN THE NORTHWESTERN CHINA Jing 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 .............................................................. 2229 POLARIMETRIC RADIOMETER BUILT WITH WIDEBAND MICROSTRIP CORRELATOR Xinbiao 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 ......................................... 2233 THE DOUBLE DIFFERENCE METHOD FOR GPM INTER-CALIBRATION Rachael 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 ............................................. 2237 AND THERMAL VACUUM DATA R. 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 ......................................................... 2241 FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE MITIGATION ALGORITHM FOR MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS Giuseppe 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 .................................................... 2245 SIGNALS PROVIDED BY SMOS REFERENCE RADIOMETERS Eric 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 ................................................. 2249 MISSION Carine 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 . ........................................... 2252 ACCURACY Hu 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 ......................................... 2258 IMAGING RADIOMETER FOR CONCEALED WEAPON DETECTION Won-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 ............................................... 2262 SUPERCONDUCTING 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 ........................................ 2266 TELESCOPE (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 ................................... 2270 TARGETS AT SEA Ferdinando Nunziata, Antonio Montuori, Maurizio Migliaccio, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy WE1-T01.2: IMPROVED SHIP DETECTION USING DUAL-FREQUENCY ................................................................... 2274 POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA Ken Yoong Lee, Timo Bretschneider, EADS Innovation Works Singapore, Singapore WE1-T01.3: POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS OF THE DEEPWATER ............................................. 2278 HORIZON OIL SLICK USING L-BAND UAVSAR DATA Cathleen 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 ...................................... 2282 ALOS/PALSAR Chinatsu 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 .............................................................. 2286 POLARIMETRY MODE FOR SNOW DETECTION Gulab 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.......................................................................................................................... 2290 Manfred Zink, Michael Bartusch, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; David Miller, Astrium GmbH, Germany WE1-T02.3: THE TANDEM-X SPACE SEGMENT................................................................................................................ 2294 Christoph Giese, Dieter Ulrich, Astrium GmbH, Germany WE1-T02.4: THE JOINT TERRASAR-X / TANDEM-X GROUND SEGMENT................................................................. 2298 Birgit 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 ................................................................. 2302 FORMULATION Dara 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................................... 2306 Molly 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 ............................................... 2310 L-BAND RADAR/RADIOMETER INSTRUMENT Michael 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................................................ 2314 Myungjin 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 .......................................... 2318 LIDAR AND ALOS PALSAR Akira 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 . .......................................... 2322 MODELS Arnt-Børre Salberg, Øivind Due Trier, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway WE1-T05.4: GENERATING FINE RESOLUTION LEAF AREA INDEX MAPS FOR BOREAL .................................. 2326 FORESTS OF FINLAND Janne 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............................................................. 2330 Yoon-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 ........................................... 2334 GNSS-R TECHNIQUE Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Adriano Camps, Isaac Ramos-Perez, Enric Valencia, Hyuk Park, Mercè Vallllossera, IEEC CRAE/UPC, Spain WE1-T06.4: ESTIMATING WATER OPTICAL PROPERTIES, WATER DEPTH AND ................................................ 2338 BOTTOM ALBEDO USING HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR COASTAL HABITAT MAPPING Soo Chin Liew, Ping Chen, Boredin Saengtuksin, Chew Wai Chang, National University of Singapore, Singapore WE1-T06.5: ANISOTROPIC SURFACES DETECTION USING INTENSITY MAPS ..................................................... 2341 ACQUIRED BY AN AIRBORNE LIDAR EMITTING IN NEAR-IR OVER COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS Franck 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 .............................................. 2345 THE JAPAN SEA Leonid 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 . ......................................................... 2349 COLLECTED BY THE COSMO SKYMED CONSTELLATION IN POLARIMETRIC MODE Luca 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 ....................................... 2353 WEATHER RADAR S. 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 ........................................................ 2357 REDUCTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION He Yang, Qian Du, Mississippi State University, United States WE1-T08.2: EMBEDDED FEATURE SELECTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL BANDS WITH ........................................ 2361 BOOSTED DECISION TREES Sildomar Monteiro, Richard Murphy, University of Sydney, Australia

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WE1-T08.3: DYNAMIC BAND SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY....................................................... 2365 Keng-Hao Liu, Chein-I Chang, UMBC, United States WE1-T08.4: BAND SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES BASED ON ......................................................... 2369 IMPURITY FUNCTION Yang-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 .................................... 2373 DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FOR REMOTELY SENSED IMAGE ANALYSIS Minshan 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 ........................................ 2377 HIGH-RESOLUTION INSAR AND OPTICAL DATA Jan Dirk Wegner, Uwe Soergel, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany WE1-T09.2: LOCAL FEATURE BASED SUPERVISED OBJECT DETECTION: ........................................................... 2381 SAMPLING, LEARNING AND DETECTION STRATEGIES Julien 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 ............................................... 2385 CLUSTERING OF STATISTICAL AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES Gokhan Akcay, Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Turkey WE1-T09.4: A NEW ROAD EXTRACTION APPROACH FOR LOW-FREQUENCY SAR ........................................... 2389 IMAGES BASED ON ROAD APPURTENANCE DETECTION Qian 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 .......................................... 2393 HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES Edouard 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: . ........................................... 2397 CALIBRATION OF BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE IMAGES AND FORWARD MODEL IMPROVEMENT Jérôme 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 . .............................................................. 2401 TOMOGRAPHIC SAR IMAGING Xiao 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 .................................................. 2405 ADVANCES Fabrizio Lombardini, Francesco Cai, Davide Pasculli, University of Pisa, Italy

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WE2-T01.3: MULTI-COMPONENT NONLINEAR MOTION ESTIMATION IN ............................................................ 2409 DIFFERENTIAL SAR TOMOGRAPHY – THE TIME-WARP METHOD Xiao 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 . ............................................... 2413 PROBING 3D FOREST STRUCTURE AND DYNAMIC PROCESSES Fabrizio Lombardini, Francesco Cai, University of Pisa, Italy WE2-T01.5: TOMOGRAPHIC PROFILING (TP) - A SCHEME FOR VERTICAL ......................................................... 2416 BACKSCATTER PROFILING OF BIOGEOPHYSICAL TARGETS AT CONSTANT INCIDENCE ANGLES Keith 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.......................................................................... 2420 Marco 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........................................ 2424 Helko 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..................................................................... 2428 Thomas 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 ...................................... 2432 TANDEM-X DEMS Birgit 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 ............................................... 2436 DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCT GENERATION Peggy 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 ....................................... 2440 SMAP RADAR AND RADIOMETER Michael 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 ...................................... 2444 SMOS DATA Rajat 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 ..................................... 2448 FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE IN ALOS PALSAR DATA Franz 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 ................................. 2452 ROTATION THROUGH THE PS TECHNIQUE Lorenzo Iannini, Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Stefano Tebaldini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy WE2-T04.3: A KU-BAND GEOSYNCHRONOUS SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR ................................................... 2456 MISSION ANALYSIS WITH MEDIUM TRANSMITTED POWER AND MEDIUM-SIZED ANTENNA Josep 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................................... 2460 Pietro Guccione, Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy WE2-T04.5: TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH ACCURACY RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE ................................................... 2464 LOCALIZATION OF TERRASAR-X / TANDEM-X DATA Ulrich 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 ............................................. 2468 VEGETATION INDEX AND MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDEX: FIELD EXPERIMENTS AND APPLICATIONS Hui 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 ....................................... 2472 PALSAR DATA Wenjian Ni, Zhifeng Guo, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, China; 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 ..................................... 2476 OBSERVED FROM SATELLITE Simonetta 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 ................................... 2480 AFRICA OVER THE LAST DECADE OBSERVED BY SATELLITES - A NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL SYNTHESIS Agata 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 ................................................... 2484 ANALYSIS FOR PROXIMITY MICROSEISMIC DOUBLETS Koji Nagano, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan WE2-T06.2: HAITI EARTHQUAKE (12.01.2010) SURFACE SHIFT ESTIMATION USING ........................................ 2488 TERRASAR-X DATA Christian 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 ....................................... 2492 ANALYSIS OF ALOS AND ERS/ENVISAT DINSAR DATA SETS Cristiano 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 . ..................................... 2496 MS7.0 EARTHQUAKE Qin 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 ................................. 2500 ITS MECHANISM Shanjun 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 . ..................................... 2504 THIER IMPACT ON RETRIEVED RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS Christopher Williams, University of Colorado Boulder, United States WE2-T07.2: MODELING MELTING LAYER RADAR OBSERVATIONS AT GPM ...................................................... 2507 FREQUENCIES; COMPARISON TO MEASUREMENTS Annakaisa 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 ............................................. 2511 THE A-TRAIN Damien 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 . .......................................................... 2515 HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES: APPLICATION TO OBJECT DETECTION Silvia 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........................................ 2519 Dzevdet Burazerovic, Rob Heylen, Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium WE2-T08.3: BRANCH AND BOUND BASED FEATURE ELIMINATION FOR SUPPORT .......................................... 2523 VECTOR MACHINE BASED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES Sathishkumar Samiappan, Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce, Eric Hansen, Mississippi State University, United States WE2-T08.4: HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING USING A NOVEL CONVERSION MODEL............................................ 2527 Fereidoun A. Mianji, Shuang Zhou, Ye Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China WE2-T08.5: BAYESIAN FUSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES ................................... 2531 USING GAUSSIAN SCALE MIXTURE PRIOR Yifan 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 .......................................... 2535 ALOS-PRISM IMAGERY Stephen McNeill, Stella Belliss, David Pairman, Landcare Research New Zealand, New Zealand WE2-T09.2: ADAPTIVE MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING FOR DEM GENERATION................................................ 2539 Kyohyouk Kim, Jie Shan, Purdue University, United States WE2-T09.4: META-OPTIMIZATION OF THE EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER’S ....................................................... 2543 PARAMETERS FOR IMPROVED FEATURE EXTRACTION ON HYPER-TEMPORAL IMAGES Brian 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.......................................... 2547 Chongwen 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 . .............................. 2551 GEO-LOCATION ACCURACY OF OPTICAL SENSORS Roland Perko, Hannes Raggam, Karlheinz Gutjahr, Mathias Schardt, Joanneum Research, Austria WE3-T01.2: A WEIGHTED CALIBRATION METHOD OF INTERFEROMETRIC SAR ............................................. 2555 DATA Yongfei 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 ................................... 2558 PROJECT Daniele 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 ....................................................................... 2562 TROPOSPHERIC DELAY FOR SAR INTERFEROMETRY Shizhuo 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 ............................................. 2566 FOR THE MITIGATION OF VAPOUR ARTEFACTS IN SAR INTERFEROMETRY Nazzareno 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..................................................................................................... 2570 Shane R. Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom

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WE3-T02.3: ANALYSIS OF VOLUMETRIC SCATTERS BASED ON TANDEM-X ....................................................... 2574 POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA Carlos 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 .................................................... 2578 TANDEM-X (POLARIMETRIC AND) INTERFEROMETRIC DATA Florian 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........................................... 2582 Shinta 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 .................................................. 2590 GAUGE NETWORK IN TERMS OF ANNUAL RAINFALL Nozomi 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 . ............................................................... 2594 CORRECTION FOR SPACEBORNE PRECIPITATION RADAR David 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 ........................................................... 2598 PERMAFROST AREA Manabu 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 ...................................... 2602 SOIL Jaakko 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 .......................................................... 2605 MEASUREMENTS OF BARE SOIL, SNOW AND WATER ICE MICROWAVE REFLECTION AND EMISSION BY C-, KU-, AND KA-BAND, COMBINED SCATTEROMETER-RADIOMETER SYSTEMS Artashes 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 ......................................... 2609 DATA IN THE CANADIAN BOREAL FOREST Michael 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 .................................... 2613 SCENES FOR FOREST CHANGE DETECTION Do-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 ........................................................ 2617 OBSERVED LAI AND LANDSAT ETM+ DERIVED LAI Aihua 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 .................................... 2621 YELLOWSTONE CALDERA Giovanni Zeni, Antonio Pepe, Pietro Tizzani, Francesco Casu, Michele Manunta, Riccardo Lanari, IREA-CNR, Italy WE3-T06.3: SPECTRAL MAPPING CAPABILITIES OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS USING ........................................ 2625 HYPERSPECTRAL DATA IN SICILY, ITALY Paolo 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 . ......................................... 2629 SELECTED 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 . .......................................... 2633 MICROWAVE RAINFALL MEASUREMENTS Ju-Hye Kim, Dong-Bin Shin, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea WE3-T07.2: THRESHOLDS OF DETECTION FOR FALLING SNOW FROM ............................................................... 2637 SATELLITE-BORNE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SENSORS Gail 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............................................................. 2641 Thomas 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 .............................................. 2645 CLUSTER ENSEMBLE CLOUD CLASSIFICATION Majid 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 ........................................ 2649 CLOUD TOP HEIGHT FOR DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS IN CLOUDSAT DATA PRODUCT Satoshi Suzuki, Shinta Seto, Taikan Oki, The University of Tokyo, Japan

WE3-T08: IMAGE SEGMENTATION WE3-T08.1: LARGE SCALE SEMI-SUPERVISED IMAGE SEGMENTATION WITH ................................................. 2653 ACTIVE QUERIES Devis 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 . ............................................ 2657 OBJECTS IN TERRASAR-X IMAGES Michael Teutsch, Günter Saur, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany

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WE3-T08.3: WATER/LAND SEGMENTATION FOR SAR IMAGES BASED ON GEODESIC . ................................... 2661 DISTANCE Hua Zhong, Qing Xie, L.C. Jiao, Shuang Wang, Xidian University, China WE3-T08.4: A FAST SEGMENTATION APPROACH OF SAR IMAGE BY FUSING OPTICAL ................................. 2665 IMAGE Huaping Xu, Wei Wang, Beihang University, China; Xianghua Liu, Samsung Communication Technique Institute, China WE3-T08.5: TEXTURE SEGMENTATION FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE BASED ON ......................................... 2669 TEXTURE-TOPIC MODEL Hao 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 ................................. 2673 FROM MSG GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE: METHOD FOR RETRIEVAL, VALIDATION, AND APPLICATION Dominique 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 ...................................................... 2677 RETRIEVAL USING FY2D DATA Linlu 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 . ............................................. 2681 EXPERIMENT Xiaoqing 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 ............................................................. 2685 KARIN/SWOT DATA BASED ON GROUND AND AIRBORNE ACQUISITIONS Roger 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 ..................................... 2689 IN THE FUTURE WITH SWOT Rosemary 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 ................................................... 2692 COMPRESSED SENSING Yueguan Lin, Bingchen Zhang, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China WE4-T01.2: PARALLEL FREQUENCY RADAR VIA COMPRESSIVE SENSING.......................................................... 2696 Yanan You, Chunsheng Li, Ze Yu, Beihang University, China

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WE4-T01.3: ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN SAR COMPRESSIVE SAMPLING . .............................................................. 2700 TOMOGRAPHY Alessandra Budillon, Gilda Schirinzi, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy WE4-T01.4: SCENE CLASS RECOGNITION USING HIGH RESOLUTION SAR/INSAR ............................................ 2704 SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION METHODS Anca Popescu, Inge Gavat, University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania; Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany WE4-T01.5: PERCEPTUAL GROUPING FOR PERSISTENT SCATTERERS IN URBAN . .......................................... 2708 HIGH-RESOULTION SAR IMAGES Alexander 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 . ................................. 2712 VOLUMETRIC MEDIA Laurent 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 ............................................................. 2715 APPLICATIONS WITH TANDEM-X Armando Marino, The University of Alicante, Spain; Shane R. Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom; Juan M. LopezSanchez, The University of Alicante, Spain WE4-T02.4: ON THE POTENTIAL OF TANDEM-X FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF . ........................................................ 2719 AGRICULTURAL CROP PARAMETERS BY SINGLE-PASS POLINSAR Juan 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 .............................................. 2721 CLOUDS Nicolas 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 ................................................................... 4449 MEASUREMENTS Michael 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............................................................... 2725 Samuel 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 ..................................................... 2729 REGIONS HYDROLOGY Helmut 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 ...................................... 2733 COVER AND SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT Simone 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 .............................................. 2737 FROM THE NOSREX CAMPAIGN Juha 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 ............................................... 2741 SATELLITE SAR POLARIMETRY AT X-BAND Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, University of Alicante, Spain; Shane R. Cloude, AEL Consultants, United Kingdom; J. David BallesterBerman, University of Alicante, Spain WE4-T05.2: RESEARCH ON FPAR VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION IN DIFFERENT ...................................................... 2745 VARIETY MAIZE CANOPY Rongyuan 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 . ................................................. 2749 GRASSLAND BASED ON REMOTE SENSING Jing 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 .................................. 2757 ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS FOR SPACEBORNE ANGULAR CHRIS/PROBA IMAGERY Jonathan 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 ........................................... 2761 OF ASWAN, EGYPT, USING ALOS/PALSAR POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION Ahmed 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 ........................................... 2765 OVER THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU Bing 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+, .................................................. 2769 GEOLOGICAL MAPS, DEM DATA, AND FIELD INVESTIGATION Runqing 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 ....................................... 2773 MODELS Jarno 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 ................................................... 2777 TROPICS USING SATELLITE PASSIVE MILLIMETER-WAVE OBSERVATIONS Chinnawat Surussavadee, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus, Thailand WE4-T07.5: TWO-YEAR ASSESSMENT OF NOWCASTING PERFORMANCE IN THE ............................................ 2781 CASA SYSTEM Evan 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 ....................................... 2785 IMAGE MOSAICS Oliver Lang, Parivash Lumsdon, Astrium GEO-Information Services, Germany WE4-T08.2: A NEW SAR SUPERRESOLUTION IMAGING ALGORITHM BASED ON .............................................. 2789 ADAPTIVE SIDELOBE REDUCTION Ping 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 ...................................... 2793 PAN-SHARPENING Xiao 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.................................................................. 2797 S K Patra, J Saibaba, Geeta Varadan, ADRIN, India; S K Nayak, Berhampur University, India WE4-T08.5: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR MIXED PIXEL RESOLUTION......................................................... 2801 Nitish 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 ........................................................................... 2805 HETEROGENEOUS AREA USING AN ENDMEMBER INDEX BASED TECHNIQUE Guijun 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 . ............................................... 2809 ANALYSIS 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 ........................................ 2813 DATA Gustavo 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 .......................................................... 2817 BOUNDARY OF THE SCATTER PLOT IN THE TRIANGLE METHOD FOR EVAPOTRANSPIRATION RETRIEVAL Hongbo 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 . ..................................... 2821 OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA Mitsunobu Sugimoto, Nobuaki Shiroto, Kazuo Ouchi, National Defense Academy, Japan WE4-T10.2: A NEW MODEL FOR PEAKY ALTIMETRIC WAVEFORMS..................................................................... 2825 Abderrahim 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 ............................................................. 2829 DETECTION AND IMAGING IN BISTATIC SAR Viet Thuy Vu, Thomas K. Sjögren, Mats I. Pettersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden WEP-A.2: TARGET IDENTIFICATION BY A PASSIVE BISTATIC MONOCHROMATIC ........................................ 2833 WAVE RADAR Mojtaba Amiri-Sazi, Franck Daout, Francoise Schmitt, SATI, ENS Cachan, CNRS, UniverSud, France WEP-A.3: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON ENHANCEMENT OF THE CROSS-RANGE . ....................................... 2837 RESOLUTION OF ISAR IMAGING USING ISDB-T DIGITAL TV BASED PASSIVE BISTATIC RADAR Shohei 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 ................................................. 2841 TRANSLATIONAL VARIANT BISAR IMAGING Xin 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.............................................................................. 2853 Ryuta Kato, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Hirobumi Saito, Seisuke Fukuda, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan WEP-A.8: NONPARAMETRIC FEATURE SELECTION AND SUPPORT VECTOR .................................................... 2857 MACHINE FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA CLASSIFICATION Yasser 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 ................................................ 2861 POLARIMETRIC SAR Riafeni Karlina, Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan WEP-B.3: COSMO-SKYMED SAR DATA TO OBSERVE SMALL METALLIC OBJECTS ......................................... 2869 FROM OCEAN CRASHED AIRCRAFT Rafael 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.............................................................. 2873 Roberta 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 . ................................. 2877 ISLANDS 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 ........................................................ 2881 PUSHBROOM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES Ching-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 . ................................... 2884 REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Kadim Tasdemir, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy WEP-C.2: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR SATELLITE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING . ........................................ 2888 LOCAL SELF-SIMILARITY Huaxin Zheng, Huijie Zhao, Xiao Bai, Beihang University, China WEP-C.3: SNOW PARTICLE AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION WITH TEXTURE .................................................... 2892 OPERATORS Karolina Nurzynska, Mamoru Kubo, Ken-Ichiro Muramoto, Kanazawa University, Japan WEP-C.4: A CLUSTER ENSEMBLE METHOD FOR ROBUST UNSUPERVISED ........................................................ 2896 CLASSIFICATION OF VHR REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Naif Alajlan, Nassim Ammour, Yakoub Bazi, Haikel Hichri, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia WEP-C.5: LAND COVER DISCRIMINATION AT BRAZILIAN AMAZON USING REGION ..................................... 2900 BASED CLASSIFIER AND STOCHASTIC DISTANCE Wagner 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 ............................................... 2904 SETS THEORY Alex 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 ............................................... 2912 SURFACE ALBEDO WITH FY-2 GEOSTATIONARY DATA Ying 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 ...................................... 2915 KNOWLEDGE BY USING HJ1-A SATELLITE IMAGES Hu Zhang, Ziti Jiao, Xiaowen Li, Xingying Huang, Beijing Normal University, China WEP-D.3: INFLUENCE OF ENDMEMBER SPECTRA ON SCALING EFFECT OF ..................................................... 2919 VEGETATION COVER ESTIMATION WITH NDVI Kenta Obata, Hiroki Yoshioka, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan

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WEP-D.4: SUPPORT SYSTEM TO EXTRACT TIE POINTS IN AIRBORNE IMAGES OF . ........................................ 2923 SNOW COVERED AREA USING ROOTS OF SINGLE TREES Yu Oishi, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Tsuneo Matsunaga, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan WEP-D.5: DIMENSION REDUCTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES WITH SPARSE ........................................... 2927 LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS Jiming Li, Yuntao Qian, Zhejiang University, China WEP-D.6: IMPORT VECTOR MACHINES BASED CLASSIFICATION OF ................................................................... 2931 MULTISENSOR REMOTE SENSING DATA Björn Waske, Ribana Roscher, Sascha Klemenjak, University of Bonn, Germany WEP-D.8: SATELLITE IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING............................................. 2935 Mohamed 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 ........................................................ 2939 METHODS ASSESSMENT Rogério 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 ..................................................... 2943 HETEROGENEOUS SPATIAL DATA Jianzhi 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 ........................................................ 2947 SENSING IMAGE TO CONSTRUCTION CROP ACREAGE SURVEY SAMPLING FRAME Hui 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 ............................................ 2949 GPS TRACES Jing 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............................................ 2953 Xiaolin Wang, Yingwei Luo, Peking University, China WEP-E.6: SHARING AND REUSING GEOGRAPHY MODELS VIA MODEL ............................................................... 2957 EXECUTION ENGINE Xiaolin Wang, Hui Li, Hao Deng, Hongqiang Mao, Yingwei Luo, Peking University, China WEP-E.7: CHINA CROP GROWTH MONITORING SYSTEM-METHODOLOGY AND ............................................. 2961 OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES OVERVIEW Qing 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 .............................................................. 2965 GEOLOGICAL SECTION WITH STRATAL PINCH-OUT Jiateng 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 ................................... 2969 RENDERING Hao 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 ....................................... 2973 EARTH Takashi 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 ............................................ 2977 ANT ALGORITHM AND GEOGRAPHY INFORMATION SYSTEM TRANSPORTATION IN HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA Hongga 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 ....................................... 2980 IMAGE AND REPROCESSED IMAGE Jung Hum Yu, Xiaojing Li, Linlin Ge, School of Surveying and SIS, Australia WEP-F.7: RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF ASTER DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL.......................................... 2984 Dai Okano, Akira Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan WEP-F.8: A NEW METHOD OF TUNNEL 3D MODELING AND ITS APPLICATIONS............................................... 2988 Defu Che, Chunhua Xiu, Jiayu Che, School of Resources and Civil Engineering, China WEP-F.9: EQUATIONAL BUFFER AND ITS POTENTIAL APPLICATION................................................................... 2992 Jun 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 .......................................................... 2996 TRANSFER FUNCTION ANALYSIS FOR REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENT Yu-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 ....................................................... 2999 CLASSIFICATION OF MODIS TIME SERIES DATA Etienne 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 . ..................................... 3011 ALGORITHM Gao 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 ........................................ 3015 BASED ON RPC MODEL Hongbo Pan, Guo Zhang, Tan Chen, Wuhan University, China WEP-G.7: GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES PRESERVED LINE SIMPLIFICATION ......................................................... 3019 ALGORITHM BASED ON FRACTAL Yingchao 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 . ....................................... 3023 BY USING EOS/MODIS DATA Li 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 ................................................ 3027 APPLICATION Ryosuke 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: .......................................................... 3031 REQUIREMENTS FOR GLOBAL HYDRODYNAMICS MODELS Dai 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 ........................................... 3035 APPROACH Juan Ardila, Wietske Bijker, Valentyn Tolpekin, Alfred Stein, University of Twente, Netherlands WEP-H.4: A GENETIC APPROACH TO ESTIMATING RIVER BED TOPOGRAPHY ................................................ 3039 FROM SWOT SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS Matthew 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 ......................................................... 3042 MULTISPECTRAL DIGITAL IMAGES FROM MULTISPECTRAL CANOPY IMAGER Yaokai Liu, Ronghai Hu, Xihan Mu, Guangjian Yan, Beijing Normal University, China WEP-H.6: SHRUB BIOMASS ESTIMATION IN MU US SANDLAND USING SIMPLE ................................................ 3046 GO MODEL AND MULTI-ANGLE OBSERVATIONS Jian 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 ...................................... 3050 AREA FROM ADS-40 IMAGE BY STRATIFIED CLASSIFICATION Yi-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 . ............................................. 3054 OVER RADAR NETWORK COVERAGE Kibrewossen 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 ....................................... 3058 OF SATELLITE IMAGES AND SRTM DEM Loan 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 ............................................ 3062 MULTIFREQUENCY MICROWAVE SIGNATURES Cristina 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 ........................................ 3066 FLOODING 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 .......................................... 3070 IN DESERT AND ARID ENVIRONMENT Sagar 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 ................................................................... 3074 NEAR-INFRARED AND SHORTWAVE PLANE Fang 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 . .................................................... 3082 CROSS CALIBRATION OF NDVI BETWEEN SENSORS Hiroki Yoshioka, Kenta Obata, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan WEP-I.9: THE METHOD FOR SOIL MOISTURE INVERSION BASED ON . ................................................................. 3086 GROUND-BASED SCATTERING MEASUREMENT Chengqiang 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 .......................................... 3089 REGION USING A REMOTE SENSING ALGORITHM Liliana Marrufo, Fernado González Villarreal, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; Alejandro MonsiváisHuertero, 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 ........................................................ 3093 GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR François 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 ............................................. 3097 AND FIELD OBSERVATION Zhenguo Hao, Shaojie Zhao, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Lijiao Xiao, Beijing Normal University, China WEP-J.4: ESTIMATION OF RADIATIVE TRANSFER PARAMETERS FOR SOIL . .................................................... 3101 MOISTURE RETRIEVAL FROM SMOS BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES – A SYNTHETIC 1D EXPERIMENT WITH THE PARTICLE FILTER Carsten 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 ............................................ 3105 CORN GROWTH CYCLE Alicia 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 . ........................................... 3109 APPROACH AT REGIONAL LEVEL Francisco 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 .......................................... 3113 EFFECTS OVER UNCOVERED LAND SURFACE IN REMOTE SENSING Xinxin Li, Lixin Zhang, Lingmei Jiang, Tao Zhang, Zhenguo Hao, Beijing Normal University, China WEP-J.8: AN IMPROVED APPROACH FOR RETRIEVING SOIL MOISTURE AND . ................................................ 3117 SURFACE ROUGHNESS FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATION Qiang 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 ................................................. 3121 DATA OVER SPAIN Maria 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 ............................................................... 3125 TEMPERATURE 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 . ............................................ 3129 USING SAR: RESULTS OF A SEVEN-YEAR-EXPERIMENT OVER AN AGRICULTURAL AREA Nazzareno 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 ................................................. 3132 DATA FROM ACTIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITES AT HIGH LATITUDES Annett 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 .................................................. 3136 C-BAND SAR DATA OVER AGRICULTURAL SITES Anna 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 ............................................................................ 3140 SCATTEROMETER DATA OF VEGETATION FIELDS Soon-Gu Kwon, Ji-Hwan Hwang, Yisok Oh, Hongik University, Republic of Korea WEP-K.6: LAND SURFACE EMISSIVITY RETRIEVAL FROM THE MEASUREMENTS . ........................................ 3144 OF FENGYUN-2 SATELLITES Geng-Ming Jiang, Fudan University, China WEP-K.7: ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURE ESTIMATION BY TERRA/MODIS ............................................................ 3148 IMAGERY OVER THE TROPICAL CATCHMENT IN NORTHERN THAILAND Tzu-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 ................................................. 3152 HEIGHT PROFILE Masahiko Nishimoto, Kumamoto University, Japan

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WEP-K.9: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MULTI-SCALE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING ........................................... 3156 OF THE ALASKA ECOLOGICAL TRANSECT: APPLICATION TO SMAP FREEZE/THAW STATE VALIDATION PLANNING Andreas 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 ................................................................ 3160 TEMPERATURE, AND HUMIDITY VARIATIONS ON MODIS-DERIVED NDVI VALUES Maryam 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 .......................................... 3164 HIMALAYAS FROM 1977 TO 2009 Lizong 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............................................ 3168 Torsten Geldsetzer, Joost van der Sanden, Hugo Drouin, Natural Resources Canada, Canada WEP-L.3: COMPARISON OF ASTER GDEM AND SRTM DEM IN DERIVING THE .................................................. 3171 THICKNESS CHANGE OF SMALL DONGKEMADI GLACIER ON QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU Qiang 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 .............................................. 3175 GLACIER MOVEMENT ESTIMATION IN THE HIMALAYA Vijay Kumar, Gopalan Venkataraman, IIT Bombay, India; Yngvar Larsen, Kjell Høgda, Norut, Norway WEP-L.6: KEKESAYI GLACIER VELOCITY EXTRACTION BASED ON THE OFFSETS ........................................ 3179 DERIVED FROM SAR IMAGES Shiyong 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 .................................................................. 3183 QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU USING DIFFERENTIAL SAR INTERFEROMETRY WITH CORNER REFLECTORS Jianmin Zhou, Zhen Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China WEP-L.8: SNOW BRDF CHARACTERISTICS FROM MODIS AND MISR DATA......................................................... 3187 Hongyi 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 .................................................... 3191 HEMISPHERE BIG LAKES USING PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING DATA Tao 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 . ..................................... 3194 REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUE Pratima 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 ................................................ 3198 STATUS OF A MELTING THIN SNOWPACK Jinmei 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 . ....................................... 3206 RELATED PHENOMENA IN FINLAND AND NORTHERN EURASIA Ali 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 .................................................... 3210 TEMPERATURE OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE BY SATELLITE DATA Pei 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 ....................................................... 3214 CLIMATE WARMING BASED ON MODIS DATA IN THE NIANQINGTANGLHA OF TIBET PLATEAU Liping 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 . ................................................. 3217 TIBETAN PLATEAU FROM 2001 TO 2009 Qinghua 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.................................................................... 3221 Paolo Addesso, Roberto Conte, Maurizio Longo, Rocco Restaino, Gemine Vivone, University of Salerno, Italy WEP-N.3: DEVELOPMENT OF THE ICE CRYSTAL SCATTERING DATABASE FOR ............................................. 3225 GCOM-C/SGLI Husi Letu, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Takashi Y. Matsui, Tokai University, Japan

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WEP-N.4: INTERPRETATION OF MULTI-WAVELENGTH-RETRIEVED CLOUD . .................................................. 3229 DROPLET EFFECTIVE RADII IN TERMS OF CLOUD VERTICAL INHOMOGENEITY USING A SPECTRAL-BIN MICROPHYSICS CLOUD MODEL AND THE RADIATIVE TRANSFER COMPUTATION Takashi 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 . ..................................... 3233 RADAR: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM AIRBORNE RADAR FIELD CAMPAIGN Jian 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 . ............................................................. 3237 DEVELOPMENT: FIRST RESULTS FROM AIRBORNE RAIN RADAR FIELD CAMPAIGN IN CHINA Qiong Wu, Hu Yang, Jian Shang, Yang Guo, Honggang Yin, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China WEP-N.8: ESTIMATION OF PRECIPITABLE WATER FROM THE THERMAL . ....................................................... 3241 INFRARED HYPERSPECTRAL DATA Xiao-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 .................................................. 3245 TARGETS BASED ON DOUBLE SLDR AND MORPHOLOGY Mi 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 ..................................... 3249 WARMING PERIODS IN THE 20TH CENTURY OVER THE ARID CENTRAL ASIA Jinsong 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.............................................. 3253 Hui 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 ....................................................... 3257 MODELS FOR AREAS WITH COMPLEX LAND-USE CHARACTERISTICS H. 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 . ..................................... 3261 FOR SANDSTORM FORECASTING OVER NORTHWEST CHINA Hui Han, Ni Guo, Dihua Cai, Jing Wang, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, China WEP-O.4: CHANNEL SIMULATION FOR FY-4 AGRI........................................................................................................ 3265 Feng Lu, Yixuan Shou, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China WEP-O.6: NEURAL NETWORK ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES USING .......................................... 3269 AIRS/AMSU OBSERVATIONS: IMPROVED UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENTS William J. Blackwell, Michael Pieper, Zuoyu Tao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, United States WEP-O.8: ESTIMATION OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION BASED ON REMOTE SENSING . ....................................... 3273 IN HEIHE RIVER BASIN Yongmin 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 .................................................. 3277 USING DISORT RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL Jianguo 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 ...................................................... 3281 PROFILES FROM LIMB INFRARED EMISSION BY ENVISAT MIPAS Sheng-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 .......................................... 3284 CHINA SITES Mingwei 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 ........................................ 3288 ASSIMILATION Jia 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 ............................................. 3292 AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH OVER LAND Jie 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 ................................................ 3296 DEPTH RETRIEVAL FROM HJ-1A HSI AND TERRA MODIS DATA BASED ON MUTUAL INFORMATION Yingjie 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 .............................................. 3300 DATA AND ITS APPLICATION ON HAZE MONITORING Xingwei 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 ..................................... 3304 TM/ETM+ IMAGERY OVER LAND Bo Zhong, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China WEP-P.6: CORRELATION BETWEEN PM CONCENTRATIONS AND AEROSOL ..................................................... 3308 OPTICAL DEPTH IN EASTERN CHINA BASED ON BP NEURAL NETWORKS Yerong 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 . ................................. 3312 SHENZHEN, 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; 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 . .................................. 3319 DUST 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 ........................................ 3323 TM REMOTE SENSING IMAGE Dandan 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 .................................................. 3327 BASED ON BIOME-BGC MODEL Lichao 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.............................................................. 3330 Heng 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 .................................................................... 3334 MONITORING YIELDS AND CARBON SEQUESTRATION USING MULTI-SATELLITE DATA Daijiro 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 .............................................. 3338 ON HYPERSPECTRAL DATA IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA Yasuteru 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 ....................................................... 3342 USING GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS AND TIME-SERIES MODIS IMAGES Meng-Lung Lin, Cheng-Hwang Perng, Aletheia University, Taiwan WEP-Q.8: DETERMINATION OF PADDY FILELD IN THE WORLD USING ............................................................... 3346 TERRA/ASTER DATA Genya 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 ....................................... 3350 SEBAL MODEL FOR ESTIMATING WINTER WHEAT EVAPOTRANSPIRATION Xiaochun Zhang, Huayi Wu, Wuhan University, China

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WEP-R: ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS I WEP-R.1: MODELLING SHORELINE CHANGE USING POINTWISE ALGORITHM ............................................... 3354 FROM DIFFERENT TOPSAR POLARISED BANDS Maged Marghany, Mazlan Hashim, Institute of Geospatial Science and Technology (INSTEG), Malaysia WEP-R.2: METHOD OF REGISTERING A TIME SEQUENCE OF　AERIAL IMAGES AND ...................................... 3358 A DIGITAL MAP USING A SATELLITE IMAGE Taku Nakagawasai, Hitoshi Saji, Shizuoka University, Japan WEP-R.3: SIMULATION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAND USE/LAND . .................................................. 3362 COVER AND THE SURFACE RUNOFF IN SONGHUABA WATER SOURCE REGION Ming Dong, Zhengtao Shi, Huai Su, Yong Liu, Wenxiang Zhang, Yunnan Normal University, China WEP-R.5: MAPPING OF CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION OF RESERVOIR .................................................. 3366 DAJINGSHAN, ZHUHAI, CHINA, FROM LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER Yujiu 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 ....................................... 3370 FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD WITH AIRBORNE LIDAR PRODUCTS Xiaokun 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 . ........................................ 3374 IMAGE FOR FUTURE DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS Hui-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....................................... 3378 Anthony 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 ................................................. 3380 CALIBRATION FACTOR Monique 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 ....................................... 3384 SPACECRAFT Xiaoxiong 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 .................................................. 3388 CROSSTRACK 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........................................................ 3391 Michael 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 ........................................... 3394 ON NPP Glen 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............................................................... 3397 Sixin 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 . .............................................. 3401 MAGNETISM UAV PLATFORM Baogang 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 . ............................................ 3405 INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA Zhongchang 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 . .................................... 3413 SENSING PLATFORM (AGGIEAIR) FOR RIPARIAN AND WETLANDS APPLICATIONS Austin 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 . ......................................................................... 3417 SCINTILLOMETER MEASURING LARGE SCALE FLUX Weizhen 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 ............................................................ 3421 SAMPLING EXPERIMENT OF THE TRMM/PR Takuji 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 ............................................... 3425 AND VISUALIZATION BASED ON SENSORML Chuli Hu, Nengcheng Chen, Chao Wang, Wuhan University, China WEP-W.2: DESIGN OF GPU-BASED PLATFORM FOR LDPC DECODER.................................................................... 3429 Cheng-Chun Chang, Min-Yu Huang, Yang-Lang Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan WEP-W.3: RECONFIGURABLE REAL-TIME OPTRONIC PROCESSOR FOR ............................................................ 3433 ALTITUDE AND LOOK ANGLE ADAPTABILITY FOR ENVISAT/ASAR SCENE OBSERVATION Alain 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 ....................................................................... 3436 ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATION Chao Wang, Nengcheng Chen, Chuli Hu, Songhua Yan, Wei Wang, Wuhan University, China WEP-W.5: PULSE COMPRESSION FOR RADAR USING ZERO-CORRELATION ZONE ......................................... 3440 SEQUENCE SETS Takao Maeda, Shigeru Kanemoto, Takafumi Hayashi, the University of Aizu, Japan WEP-W.7: PRELIMINARY ERROR BUDGET OF A GNSS-R SPACEBORNE MISSION............................................. 3444 Adriano 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.......................................................... 3448 Xiangzhen 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 ....................................................................... 3460 VISUALIZATION NAMED V_AMBRALS Xingying Huang, Ziti Jiao, Yadong Dong, Hu Zhang, Xiaowen Li, Beijing Normal University, China WEP-X.8: AUTOMATED BATCH PROCESSING OF MASS REMOTE SENSING AND .............................................. 3464 GEOSPATIAL DATA TO MEET THE NEEDS OF END USERS Jianjun 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 ...................................... 3468 PARAMETERS FROM METER-RESOLUTION SAR DATA Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Technische Universität München, Germany; Richard Bamler, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany TH1-T01.3: DEMONSTRATION OF SAR INTERFEROMETRY UNDER CROSSING . ................................................ 3472 ORBITS USING TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-X Paco 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 ............................................. 3476 INTERFEROMETRY Zhe Hu, Linlin Ge, Xiaojing Li, The University Of New South Wales, Australia

TH1-T02: RADARSAT I TH1-T02.3: RADARSAT-2 MISSION OPERATIONS STATUS........................................................................................... 3480 Anthony 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............................... 3484 Stephane 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 ................................................................ 3488 RADIOMETRY FOR REMOTE SENSING FROM SPACE David Le Vine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States TH1-T03.3: INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETRY MEASUREMENT CONCEPT: THE ............................................ 3491 VISIBILITY EQUATION Ignasi 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 ............................................................... 3495 END-TO-END CALIBRATION Francesc 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 . ...................................................................... 3499 DEMONSTRATOR Juha 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 . ................................... 3503 PLATEAU Giovanni 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............................................. 3507 Martti 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 .................................. 3510 FOREST/NON-FOREST MAPS FOR FOREST CARBON TRACKING Masanobu 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 ...................................... 3514 POLARIMETRIC RADARSAT-2 AND PALSAR DATA Abduwasit 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 .............................................. 3518 FOREST ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS IN JAPAN Takeshi 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 ........................................ 3522 BACKSCATTER FROM BOREAL FORESTS Gustaf 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 . .................................... 3526 MOSAIC OF ALOS PALSAR DUAL-POLARIZATION DATA: PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENTS Alexandre 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 ............................................ 3530 SYSTEM Zhongxin 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 ........................................................... 3534 CONDITION MONITORING Zhengwei 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 - ...................................... 3538 INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE Manfred 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 . ........................................ 3542 DRY AIR MOLE FRACTIONS RETRIEVED FROM SWIR SPECTRA OF GOSAT TANSO-FTS Nawo 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 .................................................................... 3546 MEASUREMENTS BY MEANS OF NEURAL NETWORKS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EYJAFJALLAJOKULL ERUPTION Matteo 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 ............................................. 3550 DEGREE OF POLARIZATION IN HYBRID/COMPACT AND LINEAR DUAL-POL SAR IMAGERY Reza Shirvany, Marie Chabert, Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France TH1-T08.2: ROBUST RECOVERY OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA FROM ........................................... 3554 UNIFORMLY UNDER-SAMPLED MEASUREMENTS Lam Nguyen, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, United States; Trac Tran, Johns Hopkins University, United States TH1-T08.3: AUTOMATED REGISTRATION OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR .................................................. 3558 IMAGERY TO LIDAR Mark Pritt, Kevin LaTourette, Lockheed Martin, United States TH1-T08.4: EXTRACTION OF WATER SURFACES IN SIMULATED KA-BAND SAR ............................................... 3562 IMAGES OF KARIN ON SWOT Fang 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 .............................................. 3566 HIGH RESOLUTION SPACEBORNE SAR IMAGE FUSION Wookyung 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 . .................................................... 3570 HILBERT SPACES Luis 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 ................................................ 3574 SCHEME Edoardo Pasolli, Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy TH1-T09.3: TEMPORAL DOMAIN ADAPTATION UNDER TIME WARPING............................................................... 3578 Francois 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 ............................................ 3582 FOR MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNING: APPLICATION TO REMOTE SENSING Jeremy Bolton, Paul Gader, University of Florida, United States TH1-T09.5: HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING WITH SPARSE GROUP LASSO............................................................... 3586 Marian-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 ....................................... 3590 SEA OBSERVED BY X- AND L- BAND SAR Hiroyuki 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 . .................................................. 3594 EXPERIMENTS Rolf 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 ........................................................ 3598 MEASUREMENTS OF LAKE ICE COVER: A PATHFINDER FOR NASA’S ICESAT-2 SPACEFLIGHT MISSION David 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 ............................................................ 3602 IMPROVEMENT IN SAR INTERFEROGRAMS USING INPAINTING AND DIFFUSION Silvia Liberata Ullo, Maurizio Di Bisceglie, Carmela Galdi, University of Sannio, Italy TH2-T01.3: TERRAIN CATEGORIZATION BASED ON SCATTERING MECHANISMS FOR .................................. 3606 SINGLE-POL HIGH-RESOLUTION TERRASAR-X IMAGES Jong-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 . ......................................................... 3610 EXPLOITING A DUAL-BAND SAR SYSTEM Gianni 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 . ................................ 3614 VERY HIGH RESOLUTION COSMO-SKYMED SAR IMAGES Fabio 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 ............................................. 3618 THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR USING RADARSAT-2 Heather McNairn, Amine Merzouki, Anna Pacheco, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada TH2-T02.2: RADARSAT APPLICATION IN OCEAN WIND MEASUREMENTS............................................................ 3622 Vladimir 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 ............................................ 3626 THE PATH MISSION Todd 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 PROGRESS Hao 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........................................ 3633 Isaac 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 ..................................... 3637 X- AND KU-BAND BACKSCATTER Ali 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 ......................................... 3641 MONITORING IN ALPINE REGIONS Thomas 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 . ...................................................... 3645 PENINSULA DERIVED FROM SATELLITE BORNE SAR AND ALTIMETER MEASUREMENTS Helmut 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 ................................................. 3649 DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY OF ALOS PALSAR DATA Jianmin 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.................................. 3653 Hideyuki 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.................................................................................... 3657 Tetsushi 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 . ................................... 3661 FOR VOLCANOES Minoru Urai, Geological Survey of Japan / AIST, Japan

TH2-T06: AGROECOSYSTEMS II TH2-T06.1: APPLYING SPECTRAL UNMIXING AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE TO ..................................... 3664 AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY FOR DETECTING GIANT REED Chenghai 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 ................................................ 3668 RESIDUE COVER ESTIMATES FOR MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL WATER QUALITY Magda 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 ................................... 3672 LANDSCAPE: INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY David 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 ............................... 3676 GRASSLANDS Joseph 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 - ...................................... 3680 ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS AND DATA PRODUCTS Günter 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................................................. 3684 Dabin 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 .......................................... 3688 OF 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 .......................................................... 3692 FACTORIZED BACK-PROJECTION Octavio 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 . .............................................. 3700 IMAGES Dušan Gleich, Žarko Cucej, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Slovenia TH2-T08.4: THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROWAVE IMAGING METHOD VIA . ......................................................... 3704 SUBAPERTURE APPROXIMATION Liao 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 . ........................................ 3708 CORRELATION METHODS Erica 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...................................................... 3712 Devis Tuia, University of Valencia, Spain; Jordi Muñoz-Marí, Jesús Malo, Universitat de València, Spain TH2-T09.2: DOMAIN SEPARATION FOR EFFICIENT ADAPTIVE ACTIVE LEARNING.......................................... 3716 Giona 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 ..................................... 3720 THE CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Claudio Persello, Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy TH2-T09.4: BEST MERGE REGION GROWING WITH INTEGRATED PROBABILISTIC ........................................ 3724 CLASSIFICATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Yuliya Tarabalka, James C. Tilton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States TH2-T09.5: KERNEL ENTROPY COMPONENT ANALYSIS IN REMOTE SENSING ................................................. 3728 DATA CLUSTERING Luis 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 .................................................... 3732 STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS Naoto Ebuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan

TH3-T01: POLARIMETRIC SAR II TH3-T01.1: MODEL-BASED POLARIMETRIC SAR CALIBRATION METHOD USING ............................................ 3736 FOREST AND SURFACE SCATTERING TARGETS Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

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TH3-T01.2: DERIVATION OF SEPARABILITY MEASURES BASED ON CENTRAL . ................................................ 3740 COMPLEX GAUSSIAN AND WISHART DISTRIBUTIONS Ken Yoong Lee, Timo Bretschneider, EADS Innovation Works Singapore, Singapore TH3-T01.3: HETEROGENEOUS CLUTTER MODEL FOR HIGH RESOLUTION ........................................................ 3744 POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA PROCESSING Gabriel 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 ................................................. 3748 APPROACH FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA Zhihao 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 ............................................................... 3752 TEMPERATURE IMAGES Wu 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 . ................................................. 3756 REDUNDANT SPACE CALIBRATION Rubén 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 .............................................. 3760 DURING THE SMOS VALIDATION CAMPAIGN 2010 IN THE RUR CATCHMENT, GERMANY Carsten 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 ........................................................................... 3764 AUTOCORRELATION RADIOMETRY Anthony England, Hamid Nejati, Amanda Mims, University of Michigan, United States TH3-T04.3: IMPLEMENTING HEMISPHERICAL SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT ..................................................... 3768 PRODUCT ASSIMILATING WEATHER STATION OBSERVATIONS AND SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE DATA Matias 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 ....................................... 3772 USING GLOBSNOW SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT DATA Kari 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 ............................................................... 3775 MULTI-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA Byung-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 ............................................. 3779 FIRST EVALUATION OF AN ACCURATE WATER INDICATION MASK Anna 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....................................................... 3783 Yang Liu, Ronggao Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China TH3-T07.2: MODELING DAILY NET SHORTWAVE RADIATION OVER RUGGED . ................................................ 3787 SURFACES USING MODIS ATMOSPHERIC PRODUCTS Hailong 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 ................................... 3791 USING A MULTI-FRAME MARKED POINT PROCESS MODEL Csaba Benedek, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungary; Marco Martorella, University of Pisa, Italy TH3-T08.2: SAR IMAGE DESPECKLING BASED ON IMPROVED DIRECTIONLET ................................................ 3795 DOMAIN GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL B. 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 ......................................... 3799 FRAMEWORK FOR SAR IMAGES Bin Liu, Hao Hu, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu, Wenxian Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China TH3-T08.4: QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF DESPECKLED SAR IMAGES........................................................................ 3803 Silvana Dellepiane, Elena Angiati, Università di Genova, Italy TH3-T08.5: SCENE INTERPRETATION FOR SAR IMAGES USING SUPERVISED .................................................... 3807 TOPIC MODELS Bin 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 . ............................................................ 3811 WORKFLOWS Peng 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 ...................................... 3815 OPEN-SOURCE FRAMEWORKS: PROVENANCE APPLICATIONS Jerry 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 . ............................................................. 3819 REPRESENTATION IN THE SPACE-TIME DOMAIN Alberto Alonso-González, Carlos López-Martínez, Philippe Salembier, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain TH4-T01.3: COMPACT POLARIMETRY POTENTIALS.................................................................................................... 3823 My-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........................................................................ 3827 Sébastien Angelliaume, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France; Philippe Durand, JeanClaude Souyris, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France TH4-T01.5: A STUDY ON THE RESOLUTION LIMIT OF POLARIMETRIC RADAR AND ....................................... 3831 THE PERFORMANCE OF POLARIMETRIC BANDWIDTH EXTRAPOLATION TECHNIQUE Kei 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 ........................................................... 3835 TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-X Michael 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 YagueMartinez, 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.......................................... 3839 Emilie 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 . .......................................... 3843 MULTI-LOAD CALIBRATION Ernst 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 ............................................. 3847 TARGET WITH FREE-SPACE MEASUREMENTS Dazhen Gu, Derek Houtz, James Randa, David K. Walker, NIST Boulder, United States TH4-T03.4: DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH TEMPERATURE NOISE SOURCE (HTS) FOR ............................................ 3851 ADVANCED 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 .......................................... 3855 THE ROSS SEA SECTOR Kenneth 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 . .......................................... 3859 THE EAST ANTARCTIC SHEET BY MEANS OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING Marco Brogioni, Giovanni Macelloni, Simone Pettinato, Francesco Montomoli, IFAC - CNR, Italy TH4-T04.5: ANALYSIS OF THE PASSIVE MICROWAVE HIGH-FREQUENCY SIGNAL . ........................................ 3863 IN THE SHALLOW SNOW RETRIEVAL Yubao 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...................................................................... 3867 Hilal 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............................................................................................................ 3871 Larry 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 . ............................................ 3875 TUZ GOLU FIELD CAMPAIGN Yannick 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 ................................................... 3879 LEARNED Kurtis J. Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Nigel Fox, National Physics Laboratory, United Kingdom TH4-T05.5: LABORATORY PANEL AND RADIOMETER CALIBRATION.................................................................... 3883 Andrew 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 INTERFEROMETRY Evangelos 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 ....................................................... 3891 MT.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 .................................... 3895 OF 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 ..................................... 3899 IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Wei Di, Melba M. Crawford, Purdue University, United States TH4-T08.2: COMBINING ENSEMBLE TECHNIQUE OF SUPPORT VECTOR ............................................................. 3903 MACHINES WITH THE OPTIMAL KERNEL METHOD FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION I-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 .................................................... 3907 COMPONENT Mathieu 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 ......................................................... 3911 SUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Jun 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 ............................................. 3915 VECTOR MACHINES BASED MULTI-CLASSIFIER SYSTEM WITH NON-UNIFORM RANDOM FEATURE SELECTION Sathishkumar Samiappan, Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce, Mississippi State University, United States

TH4-T09: CLASSIFICATION AND CHANGE DETECTION TH4-T09.1: CLASSIFICATION USING EXTENDED MORPHOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTE ............................................ 4453 PROFILES BASED ON DIFFERENT FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES Stijn 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 .......................................................... 3919 MORPHOLOGICAL PROFILES Valérie 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 ............................................................. 3923 INFORMATION Edoardo 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 .......................................... 3927 PROCESSING FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN REMOTE SENSING DATA Shutaro 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 . ..................................... 3931 THE EARTH SCIENCE DECADAL SURVEY ERA Charles 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 .......................................... 3935 FLOODING IN THAILAND Steve 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 BoonyaAroonnet, 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 ..................................... 3939 SENSOR WEB Paolo Mazzetti, Stefano Nativi, CNR - National Research Council of Italy, Italy

FR1-T01: POLINSAR FR1-T01.1: AN ANALYSIS OF COHERENCE OPTIMIZATION METHODS IN COMPACT ...................................... 3943 POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY Meng 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 . ....................................... 3947 FOREST Sandrine Daniel, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) - CNES, France; Pascale DuboisFernandez, 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 .............................................................. 3951 COHERENCE OPTIMISATION FOR IMPROVED FOREST HEIGHT MAPPING Zheng-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 ....................................... 3955 ON GENETIC ALGORITHM IN POLINSAR Peifeng 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..................................................... 3959 Christopher 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............................................................ 3963 Pau 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 ..................................................... 3967 SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR Marwan Younis, Anton Patyuchenko, Sigurd Huber, Gerhard Krieger, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany FR1-T02.5: THE JOINT TERRASAR-X / TANDEM-X MISSION PLANNING SYSTEM................................................ 3971 Falk 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 . ...................................................... 3975 SOUNDER BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES OVER ANTARCTICA Tsan 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 . ................................ 3979 OF SARAL MISSION Nicolas 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 .................................................................... 3983 INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF DISPLACEMENT VECTOR Daniele 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 ................................................... 3987 POLARIMETRIC SCATTEROMETER) SYSTEM FOR MULTI-BANDS AND MULTIPOLARIZATIONS Ji-Hwan Hwang, Soon-Gu Kwon, Yisok Oh, Hongik University, Republic of Korea FR1-T04.3: INITIAL OBSERVATION RESULTS FOR PRECIPITATION ON THE ...................................................... 3991 KU-BAND BROADBAND RADAR NETWORK Eiichi 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 . ....................................................... 3995 PRECIPITATION Christopher Williams, University of Colorado Boulder, United States

FR1-T05: PASSIVE OPTICAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS III FR1-T05.1: ANALYTICAL MODELING OF OPTICAL POLARIMETRIC IMAGING ................................................. 3998 SYSTEMS Lingfei Meng, John Kerekes, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States FR1-T05.3: MODIS AND VIIRS GEOLOCATION ERROR AND LONG-TERM TREND ............................................. 4002 ANALYSIS WITH AUTOMATED CORRECTION TECHNIQUES USING KALMAN FILTERING Masahiro 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......................................... 4006 Xiaoxiong 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, . ....................................... 4010 MEXICO EARTHQUAKE BY SUBPIXEL CORRELATION FROM OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGES Masashi 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 . ................................................... 4014 THICKNESS OVER LAND SURFACE FROM MSG GEOSTRATIONARY OBSERVATION Dominique Carrer, Jean-Louis Roujean, Olivier Hautecoeur, Meteo France, France FR1-T07.2: MT. ETNA VOLCANIC PLUME FROM ASTER AND HYPERION DATA BY .......................................... 4018 ASI-SRV MODULES Claudia 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 .............................................................. 4022 RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS) DERIVED AOD IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA Xen Quan Yap, Mazlan Hashim, Maged Marghany, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia FR1-T07.4: CHARACTERIZATION OF AEROSOLS BASED ON THE SIMULTANEOUS .......................................... 4026 MEASUREMENTS Makiko Nakata, Takuma Yokomae, Toshiyuki Fujito, Itaru Sano, Sonoyo Mukai, Kinki University, Japan FR1-T07.5: A METHOD FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS .......................................... 4030 ON CBERS DATA FROM TOP-OF-ATMOSPHERE RADIANCE Xin 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 ....................................... 4034 OF CORRELATORS AND RECEIVERS FAILURES Ali 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........................................ 4038 Marie Chabert, Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France FR1-T08.3: WEIGHTED LAPLACIAN DIFFERENCES BASED MULTISPECTRAL .................................................... 4042 ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION Surya Prasath V.B., University of Coimbra, Portugal FR1-T08.4: STABILIZATION AND GEOREGISTRATION OF AERIAL VIDEO OVER .............................................. 4046 MOUNTAIN TERRAIN BY MEANS OF LIDAR Mark Pritt, Kevin LaTourette, Lockheed Martin, United States FR1-T08.5: HJ-1A/B CCD IMAGERY GEOMETRIC DISTORTIONS AND PRECISE .................................................. 4050 GEOMETRIC CORRECTION ACCURACY ANALYSIS Chang-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 ............................................. 4054 USING IPCC-AR4 MODEL DATA Mingwei 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 ........................................... 4058 EPIC MODEL AND REMOTELY SENSED LAI BASED ON GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM Jianqiang 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 . ............................................ 4062 AT DIFFERENT SCALES Zongnan Li, Zhongxin Chen, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China FR1-T09.4: FAST MAP PROJECTION ON CUDA................................................................................................................. 4066 Yanwei Zhao, Zhenlin Cheng, Hui Dong, Jinyun Fang, Liang Li, Institute of Computing Technology, China FR1-T09.5: FEATURE ANALYSIS OF GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE POINTS IN ................................................... 4070 COASTAL REGIONS AROUND MT. CHOKAISAN, JAPAN BY USING ALOS PALSAR DATA Yoichi Kageyama, Hikaru Shirai, Makoto Nishida, Akita University, Japan

FR1-T10: DATA MANAGEMENT AND SYSTEMS FR1-T10.2: PERFORMANCE OF ANOMALOUS SIGNAL DETECTION WITH HMM ................................................ 4074 APPROACH IN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE OBSERVATION USING MOVING WINDOW Yoshinao 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 ........................................... 4078 CRISM (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 ............................................ 4080 ON INTERNET AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Fatwa Ramdani, Institute of Geography / Tohoku University, Japan

FR2-T01: SAR PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FR2-T01.1: DEMONSTRATION OF TARGET VIBRATION ESTIMATION IN SYNTHETIC ..................................... 4083 APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY Qi 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 .............................................................. 4457 MULTICHANNEL SPACEBORNE SAR SYSTEMS Federica Bordoni, Marwan Younis, Gerhard Krieger, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany FR2-T01.4: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGING USING RANDOM PULSE TIMING................................................. 4091 Dehong Liu, Petros Boufounos, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, United States

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FR2-T01.5: PHASE REQUIREMENTS, DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF PHASE . ....................................................... 4095 PRESERVING PROCESSORS FOR A SAR SYSTEM Michele 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 ...................................... 4099 MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN Sang-Eun Park, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Niigata University, Japan FR2-T02.4: 4-COMPONENT SCATTERING POWER DECOMPOSITION WITH PHASE ........................................... 4103 ROTATION OF COHERENCY MATRIX Gulab Singh, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Sang-Eun Park, Niigata University, Japan FR2-T02.5: A SIMULATION STUDY OF TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON POLSAR ..................................................... 4107 CLASSIFICATION OF FORESTS AND CROPS Thomas 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 ............................................................ 4111 EARTHCARE/ATLID, CALIPSO/CALIOP, AND GROUND-BASED LIDARS Nobuo 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 ...................................................... 4115 CSIR-NLC MOBILE LIDAR, PRETORIA (25.5° S; 28.2° E), SOUTH AFRICA Sivakumar Venkataraman, Ameeth Sharma, Christoph Bollig, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa FR2-T03.3: SIXTEEN CHANNEL, NON-SCANNING AIRBORNE LIDAR SURFACE .................................................. 4119 TOPOGRAPHY (LIST) SIMULATOR Anthony 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 ................................................ 4122 USING IN-SITU CONJUGATE FEATURES Jen-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 .................................................................. 4126 DEMONSTRATION 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 .......................................... 4130 DATA Guoqing 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......................................................................................................................................... 4134 Haruhisa Shimoda, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency / Tokai University, Japan FR2-T04.4: CERES FLIGHT MODEL 5 ON NPP: PRE-LAUNCH PERFORMANCE AND . ......................................... 4138 SENSOR DATA RECORD VALIDATION Kory 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 .................................. 4142 THE RESOLUTION AND INCIDENCE ANGLES OF AQUARIUS Eric 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 ................................................. 4146 MEDITERRANEAN REGION Laneve 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 ........................................ 4150 LIGHTWEIGHT AIRBORNE SAR FOR EXTRACTING INUNDATED AREA Takashi Shibayama, Kazuo Yoshikawa, PASCO Corporation, Japan; Yoshio Yamaguchi, Niigata University, Japan FR2-T06.4: COMBINED USE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING MODELS, ................................................... 4154 FUZZY LOGIC AND MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY FOR FLOOD MAPPING USING COSMOSKYMED DATA Luca 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 . ................................................. 4157 ADVANCED CLASSIFICATION AND RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOLS Tomoaki Nishizawa, Nobuo Sugimoto, Ichiro Matsui, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan FR2-T07.2: NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VALIDATION PLANS FOR THE OZONE .................................... 4161 MAPPING AND PROFILER SUITE Lawrence 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 ....................................... 4164 NEAR-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 .......................................................... 4168 HYPERSPECTRAL DATA: RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS AND SURFACE REFLECTANCE Xavier 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 .............................................. 4172 KALMAN FILTER Sai Subrahmanyam Gorthi, Sebastien Beyou, Etienne Memin, INRIA, France FR2-T08.2: CONSTRAINED OPTICAL FLOW FOR AERIAL IMAGE CHANGE ......................................................... 4176 DETECTION Nicolas Bourdis, Denis Marraud, EADS France, France; Hichem Sahbi, CNRS, France FR2-T08.3: PRINCIPAL POLYNOMIAL ANALYSIS FOR REMOTE SENSING DATA ............................................... 4180 PROCESSING Valero Laparra, Devis Tuia, Sandra Jiménez, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Jesús Malo, Universitat de València, Spain FR2-T08.4: REGISTRATION OF GEOPHYSICAL IMAGES.............................................................................................. 4184 Alexandra 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 . ......................................... 4188 REDUCTION VARIATIONAL MODEL Sangwoon 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 ................................................. 4192 GRAPH STRUCTURE FOR UNIFIED WATER FLOW REPRESENTATION Sergio 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 .............................................. 4200 CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN PLANNING Bin Chen, Fengru Huang, Yu Fang, Peking University, China FR2-T09.4: A NOVEL METHOD FOR MODELING COMPLEX 3D GEOLOGICAL .................................................... 4204 BODY WITH STRATAL PINCH-OUT Jiateng 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 ................................................................ 4210 OBSERVATIONS Joel Johnson, Mustafa Aksoy, The Ohio State University, United States FR2-T10.4: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE ................................................... 4213 DETECTION ALGORITHMS IN MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY Jose Miguel Tarongi, Giuseppe Forte, Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain FR2-T10.5: PROTECTION OF 6-7 GHZ BAND SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE . ........................................................... 4217 RADIOMETER FROM INTERFERENCES TO DERIVE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND OTHERS Korehiro 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........................................... 4221 Takashi 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 ............................................. 4225 SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS Laurent 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 ................................................ 4229 SIGNALS OF OPPORTUNITY Rashmi Shah, James Garrison, Purdue University, United States; Michael Grant, NASA Langley Research Center, United States FR3-T01.4: NONLINEAR RCM COMPENSATION METHOD FOR ................................................................................. 4233 SPACEBORNE/AIRBORNE FORWARD-LOOKING BISTATIC SAR Zhe Liu, Jianyu Yang, Xiaoling Zhang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China FR3-T01.5: FAST FACTORIZED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM FOR UWB BISTATIC ................................... 4237 SAR IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION Viet 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: .......................................................... 4241 TOMOGRAPHICAL RESULTS Stefano 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 ....................................................... 4245 EXPERIMENTS OF BOREAL FOREST Lars 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.......................................................... 4249 Paco 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 . ..................................... 4253 FROM ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE AND WATER VAPOR DENSITY Xavier 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 ........................................... 4257 HIGH-RESOLUTION RF CHANNEL SOUNDER David 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......................................... 4261 Tao 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 . ..................................................... 4265 TERRAIN FROM SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS Tianxing Wang, Guangjian Yan, Xihan Mu, Ling Chen, Beijing Normal University, China FR3-T05.3: SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX ESTIMATION USING SURFACE ENERGY ........................................................ 4269 BALANCE SYSTEM (SEBS), MODIS PRODUCTS, AND NCEP REANALYSIS DATA Yuanyuan 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 ........................................................ 4273 IMAGERY Haixia 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 ................................................. 4277 ALBEDO SERIES BASED ON GLASS ALBEDO PRODUCT Nanfeng 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 ................................. 4281 OF MASS MOVEMENTS Misganu Debella-Gilo, Andreas Kääb, University of Oslo, Norway FR3-T06.2: PERSISTENT SCATTERER SAR INTERFEROMETRY APPLICATION ON . .......................................... 4285 BERKELEY HILLS LANDSLIDES Ling Lei, Yinqing Zhou, Jingwen Li, Beihang University, China; Roland Burgmann, Berkeley Seismological Lab, United States FR3-T06.3: RELATION BETWEEN ROCK FAILURE MICROWAVE SIGNALS .......................................................... 4288 DETECTED BY AMSR-E AND A DISTRIBUTION OF RUPTURES GENERATED BY SEISMIC ACTIVITY Takashi Maeda, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Tadashi Takano, Nihon University, Japan FR3-T06.4: DETECTION METHOD OF SLOPE FAILURES DUE TO THE 2009 SUMATRA . .................................... 4292 EARTHQUAKE BY USING TERRASAR-X IMAGES Makoto 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 ................................................................ 4296 MONITORING OF NATURAL DISASTERS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD Yuki Okajima, Kazuo Yoshikawa, Takashi Shibayama, PASCO Corporation, Japan

FR3-T07: ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS II FR3-T07.1: MONITORING NATURAL ANALOG OF GEOLOGIC CARBON . .............................................................. 4300 SEQUESTRATION USING MULTI-TEMPORAL LANDSAT TM IMAGES IN MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, LONG VALLEY CADERA, CALIFORNIA Rattanasuda 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 ................................... 4304 USER-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 .................................................. 4312 PHOTOGRAPHS Stephen 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 ............................................... 4316 FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING Jean-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 . ................................................ 4320 ALGORITHMS ASSESSED THROUGH CHEMISTRY ESTIMATION David 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............................................................ 4324 Avishai 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 ........................................................... 4328 HYPERSPECTRAL DATA BASED ON COMBINED SPECTRAL SIGNATURES Xiao Fan, Ye Zhang, Feng Li, Yushi Chen, Tao Shao, Shuang Zhou, Harbin Institute of Technology, China FR3-T08.5: MANIFOLD ALIGNMENT FOR MULTITEMPORAL HYPERSPECTRAL ............................................... 4332 IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Hsiuhan Lexie Yang, Melba M. Crawford, Purdue University, United States

FR3-T09: GIS TECHNIQUES IV FR3-T09.1: HIGH RESOLUTION DSM GENERATION FROM ALOS PRISM - . ........................................................... 4336 ARCHIVING 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 .................................... 4340 ENVIRONMENT Xiaolin Wang, Hui Li, Hao Deng, Yingwei Luo, Peking University, China FR3-T09.3: MULTI INFORMATION BASED GROUND CONTROL POINTS SELECTION ........................................ 4344 METHOD Yanfeng Gu, Zhimin Cao, Ye Zhang, Xiangrong Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China FR3-T09.4: ANALYSIS OF REMOTE SENSING QUANTITATIVE INVERSION IN ..................................................... 4348 CLOUD COMPUTING Jing 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 ........................................................... 4352 ESTIMATION SYSTEM BASED ON GIS Xiang 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.................................................. 4355 Frank 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 . ..................................... 4359 OF THE ENTIRE NILE RIVER SYSTEM - LAKE VICTORIA TO NILE DELTA Shahid 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 . ............................................ 4363 RADAR IMAGE USING THE GROUND CONTROL POINT Soo 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 ..................................... 4367 REMOTE SENSING Jaan 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: ............................................................... 4371 EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF AN END-TO-END SIMULATOR Nazzareno 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.................................................................................. 4375 Nereida 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 ........................................... 4379 SNOW LAYERS USING GNSS-R Fran 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...................................................................................................... 4383 Enric 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 ........................................................ 4387 DEMOSTRATOR OCEAN ALTIMETER Salvatore 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 .............................................. 4391 VOLCANO IN SIDOARJO, INDONESIA USING DINSAR TECHNIQUE Luhur Bayuaji, Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Hiroaki Kuze, Chiba University, Japan FR4-T06.2: NATION-WIDE FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT USING INUNDATION LEVEL ......................................... 4395 MODEL AND MODIS TIME-SERIES IMAGERY Kwak 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 .......................................... 4403 SEA: THE OPERATIONAL POTENTIAL Michele 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 ..................................... 4407 FACTOR MODEL FOR WASTE DUMPING RISK ASSESSMENT Yi-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 ........................................ 4411 MAPPING IN TUNISIAN SEMI-ARID CONTEXT Nouha 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 ................................................... 4415 DETECTION John Kerekes, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States FR4-T08.2: SPECTRAL LWIR IMAGING FOR REMOTE FACE DETECTION............................................................. 4419 Dalton Rosario, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, United States FR4-T08.3: A SHADOW DETECTION METHOD FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGES ................................................ 4423 USING VHR HYPERSPECTRAL AND LIDAR DATA Gustav 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 .................................................. 4427 HYPERSPECTRAL AND LIDAR DATA Michal 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 ......................................... 4431 HYPERSPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS Prudhvi 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 ............................................... 4435 ANALYSIS N. Gokhan Kasapoglu, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey FR4-T09.3: WELL LOG DATA INVERSION USING RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION ....................................................... 4439 NETWORK Kou-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 ............................................................ 4443 RESOLVER IN SQUINT SAR Wenchao 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 ..................................................... 4446 LOW-CONTRAST SCENE Wenchao Li, Yulin Huang, Jianyu Yang, Junjie Wu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

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