PE&RS August 2006

Leica Geosystems provided this month’s cover image which demonstrates the capabilities of the Leica ADS40 Airborne Digital Sensor, ALS50 Airborne Laser Scanner and the company’s software solutions, including Leica Virtual Explorer. This image of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Southern Bavaria, Germany shows one of the best ski runs surrounding the town and was processed by GEOSYSTEMS GmbH.

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Highlight Article

854 11 Steps to Help You Find the Right Web-based Tools — Ushering in the 3D Business- Decision Model – the Future is Here (Adobe PDF 153Kb)
Ian Anderson

Feature Articles
857 The PAMAP Program: Contributing to National Security, the National Map and even the National Pastime (Adobe PDF 429Kb)
Mark Safran
862 Use of Geographic Information in Response to the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004 (Adobe PDF 3.75Mb)
John A. Kelmelis, Lee Schwartz, Carol Christian, Melba Crawford, and Dennis King
878 Future of Moderate Resolution Land Imaging (Adobe PDF 103Kb)
Edwin Freeborn, Kass Green, and Don Lauer

Columns & Updates
883 Grids and Datums— Republic of Namibia (Adobe PDF138Kb)
885 Headquarters News — Dangermond Fully Endows ESRI Award Through the ASPRS Foundation; Remote Sensing
of the Marine Environment Recently Published by ASPRS (Adobe PDF 82Kb)
887 Industry News

Announcements
861 Call for Papers — Remote Sensing Data Fusion
877 ASPRS/MAPPS Specialty Conference
886 Call for Papers — Web and Wireless GIS

Departments
884 New Member List
885 Region of the Month
888 Certification List
890 ASPRS Member Champions (Adobe PDF 55Kb)
892 Who’s Who in ASPRS
893 Sustaining Member List
895 Instructions to Authors
922 Forthcoming Articles
948 Calendar
968 Classifieds
970 Professional Directory
971 Advertiser Index
972 Membership Application

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

897 Land-cover Mapping in the Brazilian Amazon Using SPOT-4 Vegetation Data and Machine Learning Classification Methods
João M. B. Carreiras, José M. C. Pereira, and Yosio E. Shimabukuro

Land-cover mapping in the Brazilian Amazon using a multitemporal dataset of fraction images derived from 1 km SPOT-4 VEGETATION data and machine learning classification methods.

911 Socioeconomic-Vegetation Relationships in Urban, Residential Land: The Case of Denver, Colorado
Jeremy Mennis

Analysis of remotely sensed imagery and socioeconomic data reveals that high vegetation intensity is associated with socioeconomic advantage in older, urban neighborhoods.

923 Isolating Individual Trees in a Savanna Woodland Using Small Footprint Lidar Data
Qi Chen, Dennis Baldocchi, Peng Gong, and Maggi Kelly

A new method for detecting treetops from lidar data and applying marked-controlled watershed segmentation to the isolation of individual trees.

933 Error Assessment in Two Lidar-derived TIN Datasets
Miao-Hsiang Peng and Tian-Yuan Shih

An evaluation of elevations derived from lidar data in seven land-cover classes with GPS and total station measurements.

949 Automated Forest Area Estimation Using Iterative Guided Spectral Class Rejection
Rebecca Musy, Randolph Wynne, Christine Blinn, John Scrivani, and Ronald McRoberts

USDA Forest Service Inventory and Analysis (FIA) forest area estimates were successfully derived from Landsat EMT+ images classified using an automated hybrid classifier.

961 Accuracy Assessment of Lidar Saltmarsh Topographic Data Using RTK GPS
Juana M. Montané and Raymond Torres

Applying RTK GPS to evaluate the utility and accuracy of lidar topographic data in a low-gradient saltmarsh.