PE&RS April 2006

Leica Geosystems provided this month’s cover image which demonstrates the capabilities of the Leica ADS40 Airborne Digital Sensor and the company’s software solutions, including ERDAS IMAGINE and Leica Photogrammetry Suite. This image of Walensee, Switzerland was captured and processed by Leica Geosystems.

For more information, contact Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging, LLC. Phone +1 770 776 3400, email: info@gi.leica-geosystems.com or online at gi.leica-geosystems.com.

Featured Articles

337 Automated Georeferencing for Rapid Data Production (Adobe PDF 720Kb)
Wendy Watson

341 Creation of Digital City Model using Single High Resolution Satellite Image (Adobe PDF 556Kb)
Rajesh Paul, Siva Subramanian, and Shalabh Bharadwaj

Columns & Updates
343 Grids and Datums— Republic of Cyprus (Adobe PDF 123Kb)
347 Book Review —The GIS Guide for Local Government Officials (Adobe PDF 143Kb)
351 Industry News

Announcements
350 PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers — Web and Wireless GIS
353 PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers — Remote Sensing Data Fusion

Departments
348 New Member List
352 Certification List
353 Region of the Month
354 Who’s Who in ASPRS
355 Instructions to Authors
364 Forthcoming Articles
404 Calendar
475 Classifieds
476 Bookstore
477 Professional Directory
478 Advertiser Index
479 ASPRS Member Champions (Adobe PDF 98Kb)
480 Membership Application

Resource 2006
418 Introduction
419 Sustaining Members
421 Corporate Descriptions
474 ASPRS Code of Ethics

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

357 Detection of Individual Tree Crowns in Airborne Lidar Data
Barbara Koch, Ursula Heyder, and Holger Weinacker

An approach to delineate tree crowns in mixed and deciduous temperate forests.

365 Principals and Evaluation of Autostereoscopic Photogrammetric Measurement
Jie Shan, Chiung-Shiuan Fu, Bin Li, James Bethel, Jeffrey Kretsch, and Edward Mikhail

Photogrammetric measurement can be conducted with goggle-free autostereoscopic technology at a precision of 16 percent to 25 percent lower than the conventional stereo workstation.

373 Three New Implementations of the Triangular Prism Method for Computing the Fractal Dimension of Remote Sensing Images
Wanxiao Sun

Three new computational methods based on the triangular prism concept are proposed to compute the fractal dimension of remote sensing images.

383 Object-based Analysis of Ikonos-2 Imagery for Extraction of Forest Inventory Parameters
Michael S. Chubey, Steven E. Franklin, and Michael A. Wulder

A new approach for extracting forest inventory parameters from high spatial resolution satellite imagery based on analysis of image objects.

395 Automatic Building Detection Using the Dempster-Shafer Algorithm
Yi Hui Lu, John C. Trinder, and Kurt Kubik

A strategy for the automatic detection of buildings from aerial images using combined image analysis and data fusion.

405 Predicting Sphaeropsis sapinea Damage in Pinus radiata Canopies Using Spectral Indices and Spectral Mixture Analysis
Nicholas C. Coops, Nicholas Goodwin, and Christine Stone

The development of relationships between a range of individual crown health attributes representing symptoms of infection and high spatial and spectral resolution imagery characteristics.