PE&RS January 2008

This month’s cover image was provided by Shannon Franks from the University of Maryland. The Landsat images are courtesy of the U.S Geological Survey and show land cover and land use changes through time using the four epochs of data from the Global Land Surveys. The Global Land Survey 2005 continues this legacy with a mid-decadal edition capturing minimally clouded and temporally consistent global satellite imagery and being delivered with orthorectifi ed precision. The land cover sequence is from WRS2 path 40, row 21 in Boreal Saskatchewan, Canada showing the scars from the frequent fi res that occur in that region. For this sequence, the images from top to bottom, respectively are: MSS acquired May 24th, 1977; TM acquired June 13th, 1989; ETM+ acquired July 13th, 2000; and TM acquired September 24th, 2006. The background is a Landsat 7 GeocoverTM mosaic with images acquired from 1999 to 2003. For information, contact Dr. Garik Gutman, Manager, the NASA Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program at ggutman@nasa.gov.

Highlight Article

6 Towards Monitoring Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes at a Global Scale: The Global Land Survey 2005 (Adobe PDF 158Kb)
G. Gutman, R. Byrnes, J. Masek, S. Covington, C. Justice, S. Franks, and R. Headley

Columns & Updates
11 Grids and Datums— State of Qatar (Adobe PDF 115Kb)
13 Mapping Matters
15 Book Review — GIS for the Urban Environment (Adobe PDF 76Kb)
16 In Memoriam — Ernest “Lyn” Henry
17 Industry News

Announcements
17 New Sustaining Members — Dudley Thompson Mapping Corp. Valtus Imagery Services (Adobe PDF 70Kb)
88 Call for Papers — The 21st Biennial Workshop on Aerial Photography, Videography, and High Resolution Digital Imagery for Resource Assessment (Adobe PDF 101Kb)
88 Call for Papers — Artificial Intelligence in Remote Sensing

Departments
12 Certification List
14 Region of Month
14 ASPRS Member Champions (Adobe PDF 106Kb)
19 New Member List
20 Who’s Who in ASPRS
21 Sustaining Members
23 Instructions for Authors
54 Forthcoming Articles
64 Calendar
129 Classifieds
130 Professional Directory
131 Advertiser Index
132 Membership Application

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

25 Map Registration of Image Sequences Using Linear Features
Caixia Wang, Anthony Stefanidis, Arie Croitoru, and Peggy Agouris

An automated approach for image sequence georegistration utilizing linear features.

39 Cadastral Mapping of Forestlands in Greece: Current and Future Challenges
Moschos Vogiatzis

Methods and procedures for cadastral mapping of forestland based on photogrammetry and GIS techniques.

47 The Influence of DEM Accuracy on Topographic Correction of Ikonos Satellite Images
Janet Nichol and Law Kin Hang

A comparison of DEMs from different interpolation techniques using well-known topographic correction algorithms.

55 Global Elevation Ancillary Data for Land-use Classification Using Granular Neural Networks
Demetris Stathakis and Ioannis Kanellopoulos

Initial guidelines for the construction of granular neural networks in the remote sensing context.

65 Using CASI Hyperspectral Imagery to Detect Mortality and Vegetation Stress Associated with a New Hardwood Forest Disease
Ruiliang Pu, Maggi Kelly, Gerald. L. Anderson, and Peng Gong

A multilevel classification scheme to increase the accuracy of final classes for mapping mortality and detecting oak tree stress associated with a new disease (sudden oak death) with preprocessed CASI hyperspectral data.

77 Origins of Aerial Photographic Interpretation, U.S. Army, 1916 to 1918
James B. Campbell

U.S. Army Air Services operations during World War I established the foundations for a surprising range of techniques and procedures for aerial reconnaissance and photointerpretation.

95 A Permanent Test Field for Digital Photogrammetric Systems
Eija Honkavaara, Jouni Peltoniemi, Eero Ahokas, Risto Kuittinen, Juha Hyyppä, Juha Jaakkola, Harri Kaartinen, Lauri Markelin, Kimmo Nurminen, and Juha Suomalainen

A permanent test field and a methodology for fi eld calibration and testing of the spatial resolution, radiometry, and geometry of digital photogrammetric systems are presented.

107 Automated Geometric Correction of High-resolution Pushbroom Satellite Data
Marco Gianinetto and Marco Scaioni

A new automatic ground control point extraction technique for increasing the automation for geometric correction of satellite imagery.

117 Agricultural Monitoring Using Envisat Alternating Polarization SAR Images
Mika Karjalainen, Harri Kaartinen, and Juha Hyyppä

Satellite images will improve yield estimation in the future because they can provide objective information about crop growth over large areas; in this context SAR images are extremely useful due to their high revisit imaging capability.