PE&RS November 2005

Cover Image

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging provided this month’s cover image, demonstrating the capabilities of the Leica ADS40 Airborne Digital Sensor. Captured by North West Group on July 28, 2003 with a ground sampling distance of 25cm, the image depicts Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The Leica ADS40 delivers all digital, 12-bit data with the swath width and coverage area of a traditional film camera. The spatial resolution of the ADS40 enables users to achieve higher accuracy in large-scale mapping applications, extract more detailed information, and digitally equal black & white film resolution. The sensor’s innovative construction allows for the simultaneous acquisition of seven bands of information, including three panchromatic CCD lines that capture information in views forward, nadir and backward from the aircraft.

For more information, contact Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging, LLC. Phone: +1 770.776.3400, e-mail: info@gi.leica-geosystems.com, Web: gi.leica-geosystems.com.

Highlight Article
1241 Forward Motion Compensation (FMC) - Is It the Same in The Digital Imaging World? (Adobe PDF 164Kb)
Roger Pacey and Peter Fricker
1243 The Benefits of an Airborne Digital Sensor - An Advanced System for High-resolution Web-based Multi-spectral Imagery (Adobe PDF 293Kb)
Peter Fricker

Columns & Updates
1245 Direct Georeferencing — How Much Accuracy Improvement can the Cascade Denoising Algorithm Provide for a GPS/INS Integrated System? (Adobe PDF 163Kb)
1248 Grids and Datums — Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Adobe PDF 79Kb)
1251 Headquarters News — Full Text of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS) Journal Available Online, George E. Brown, Jr. Congressional Honor Award, Feature/Highlight Articles Requested for PE&RS, The Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship Award (Adobe PDF 377Kb)
1257 Industry News

Peer-Reviewed Articles (Click the linked titles to see the full abstract)

1265 Unsupervised Spectral Characterization of Shallow Lagoon Waters by the Use of Landsat TM and EMT+ Data
Fabio Maselli, Luca Massi, Chiara Melillo, and Mario Immamorati

The development and testing of an unsupervised procedure for spectrally decomposing TM or EMT+ data of shallow water areas based on the simulation of dif ferent water/bottom multispectral configurations.

1275 Urban Classification Using Full Spectral Information of Landsat EMT+ Imagery in Marion County, Indiana
Dengsheng Lu and Qihao Weng

A comparison of different image processing routines to identify suitable remote sensing variables for urban classification using Landsat EMT+ data which found that a combination of data fusion image and texture provided the best result.

1285 Assessment of Very High Spatial Resolution Satellite Image Segmentations
A.P. Carleer, O. Debeir, and E. Wolff

An evaluation of several segmentation algorithms carried out with empirical discrepancy methods.

1295 Geometric Accuracy Evaluation of the DEM Generated by the Russian TK-350 Stereo Scenes Using the SRTM X- and C- band Interferometric DEMs
Gurcan Buyuksalih, Guven Kocak, and Murat Orue

A detailed account regarding the geometric accuracy analysis of the DEMs extracted from TK-350 inagery based on the interferometric DEMs derived from the SRTM x- and C-band data.

1303 Agreement Assessment of Spatially Explicit Regression-derived Forest Cover and Traditional Forest Industry Stand Type Maps
Jacob W. Metzler and Steven A. Sader

Comparisons between spatially explicit, regressionderived forest cover type maps and forest industry vector datasets using modified error matrices.

1311 Classifying and Mapping Wildfire Severity: A Comparison of Methods
C. Kenneth Brewer, J. Chris Winne, Roland L. Redmond, David W. Opitz, and Mark V. Mangrich

A comparison of six remote sensing methods for classifying and mapping wildfire severity on forests and rangelands: artificial networks, principal component analysis, and normalized temporal image differencing.

1321 Adaptive Patch Projection for the Generation of Orthophotos from Satellite Images
Liang-Chien Chen, Tee-Ann Teo, and Jiann-Yeou Rau

A fast orthophoto rectification procedure for satellite imagery using an Adaptive Patch Projection method.

Announcements
1249 PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers —“ Cloud-prone and Rainy areas Remote Sensing (CARRS)”
1250 Manual of Remote Sensing Volume 5— Human Settlements
1260 ASPRS 2006 Annual Conference— Prospecting for Geospatial Information Integration
1338 Member Champions

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