PE&RS December 2000

Cover Image

This month’s cover image shows a view of the eastern U. S. and parts of Canada taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on March 6, 2000 from the NASA Terra (formerly known as the Earth Observing System-EOS AM-1) spacecraft. MODIS has 36 spectral bands sweeping a 2330 km swath at spatial resolutions ranging from 250 meters to 1000 meters. This capability permits observing nearly the entire Earth every day The image was developed by J. Descloitres of the Land Group led by Dr. Chris Justice (Univ. of Virginia) of the MODIS Science Team. The image is composed of the MODIS blue band (Band 3/459 – 479 nanometers), green band (Band 4/545 – 565 nanometers), and red band (Band 1/620 – 670 nanometers) so as to create a near natural color image. The inherent resolution of bands 3 and 4 is 500 meters and 250 meters for band 1. Information about MODIS is available at http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/MODIS.html. This image (ID#1000050), along with over 150 other MODIS images, can be seen at: http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/texis/MODIS/IMAGE_GALLERY/modimgview/allimages.html. Information concerning the ordering of MODIS data is available at http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/MODIS/overview.html. The data for this particular image are available at the EROS Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1417 Multi-Sensor System for Airborne Image Capture and Georeferencing
Mohamed M.R. Mostafa and Klaus-Peter Schwarz

The development and testing of an integrated system comprising a GPS/INS/digital camera for digital aerial image capture and georeferencing is described. 

1425 Accuracy Assessment for the U.S. Geological Survey Regional Land-Cover Mapping Program: New York and New Jersey Region
Zhiliang Zhu, Limin Yang, Stephen V. Stehman, and Raymond L. Czaplewski

Methods and results of an accuracy assessment are described for the region of New York and New Jersey with implications for the rest of the conterminous U.S. land-cover mapping program. 

1439 Digital Land-Use Classification Using Space-Shuttle-Acquired Orbital Photographs: A Quantitative Comparison with Landsat TM Imagery of a Coastal Environment, Chanthaburi, Thailand
Edward L. Webb, Ma. Arlene Evangelista, and  Julie A. Robinson

The utilization of astronaut-acquired photographs from orbit to monitor land-use practices and changes is described. 

1451 Land-Use Classification of Remotely Sensed Data Using Kohonen Self-Organizing Feature Map Neural Networks
C.Y. Ji

Land-use classification from a TM image by the Kohonen feature map neural networks is studied for both per-pixel and window classification; results are compared to those of the maximum-likelihood method and of the BP neural networks. 

1461 Water Body Detection and Delineation with Landsat TM Data
Paul Shane Frazier and Kenneth John Page

The objective of this project was to determine the accuracy of using simple digital image processing techniques to map riverine water bodies with Landsat 5 TM data.  

1469 Predicting the Urbanization of Pine and Mixed Forests in Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana
James T. Gunter, Donald G. Hodges, Christopher M. Swalm, and James L. Regens

A spatial model was developed using logistic regression to generate a probability surface that illustrates which forested lands would likely be lost to development based on the parish’s population density, transportation network, and area of contiguous forest land.  

1477 Semi-Automated Object Measurement Using Multiple-Image Matching from Mobile Mapping Image Sequences
C. Vincent Tao

The effective use of stereoscopic and sequential image information, known image georeferencing parameters, and multiple-baseline geometry is a key to the development of this semi-automated object measurement approach.
 

Announcements
1424 Call for Papers —  PE&RS Special Issue on Remote Sensing and Human Health
1435 Call for Papers — PE&RS Special Issue on Geospatial Information Technology in Korea
1436 ASPRS Annual Conference —  Gateway to the New Millennium
1438 Canadian Institute of Geomatics — Digital Earth 2001
1449 Call for Papers —  18th Biennial Workshop on Color Photography & Videography in Resource Assessment
1460 ASPRS Membership Reminder

Columns & Updates
1398 Headquarters News
1406 Grids & Datums — The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
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1403 New Members
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1468 Forthcoming Articles
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1523 Professional Directory
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2000 PE&RS Indices
1486 Subject Index
1508 Author Index

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