PE&RS March 2008

The Landsat 5 cover images demonstrate extensive coverage provided by the Landsat series of earth observing satellites and, especially, the record coverage provided by Landsat 5. Launched in 1984 and designed to last 3 years, Landsat 5 begins its 25th year of operation on March 1, 2008 and the 600,000 scenes acquired to date allow scientists, resource managers, urban planners, and educators to monitor changes to the Earth’s land surface. The cover examples illustrate urban growth, depicting the region near Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia. In 1984 the area near the airport was marked by development close to the Dulles toll road.Land north of the airport was in agricultural use, with some development along Highway 7, running generally parallel to the Potomac River.

By 2007, the region is dominated by commercial development around the airport and along Highway 28, which runs north to south east of the airport. The Dulles toll road has expanded north and west and residential and commercial development has expanded into the agricultural region. Shopping Centers, golf courses, and commercial and residential developments are also evident along the Highway 7 corridor.

Cover images courtesy of the USGS’ Land Remote Sensing Program.

Columns & Updates
273 Grids and Datums — People’s Republic of Bangladesh (Adobe PDF 87Kb)
275 Mapping Matters
277 Book Review — Introduction to Remote Sensing, 4th Edition (Adobe PDF 61Kb)
278 In Memoriam — Chor-Pang (C.P.) Lo
279 Headquarters News— Roger M. Hoffer Selected as ASPRS Honorary Member
280 Industry News

Announcements
270 ASPRS 2008 Annual Conference — Bridging the Horizons: New Frontiers in Geospatial Collaboration
278 Call for Papers — Spatial Change Analysis
283 Pecora 17 — The Future of Land Imaging...Going Operational
375 2008 Spring Book Sale (Adobe PDF 72Kb)

Departments
279 Region of the Month
281 New Member List
282 Certification List
284 Who’s Who in ASPRS
285 Sustaining Members
287 Instructions for Authors
302 Forthcoming Articles
310 Calendar
377 Classifieds
378 Professional Directory
379 ASPRS Member Champions (Adobe PDF 37Kb)
379 Advertiser Index
380 Membership Application

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

289 Validation of the ASTER Instrument Level 1A Scene Geometry
Hugh H. Kieffer, Kevin F. Mullins, and David J. MacKinnon

An independent assessment of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Refl ection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument geometry.

303 A Generic Model for Along Track Stereo Sensors Using Rigorous Orbit Mechanics
Pantelis Michalis and Ian Dowman

A generic, rigorous sensor model for high-resolution optical satellite sensors with along track stereoscopic capabilities.

311 A Comparative Study of Landsat TM and SPOT HRG Images for Vegetation Classification in the Brazilian Amazon
Dengsheng Lu, Mateus Batistella, Emilio Moran, and Evaristo E. de Miranda

Vegetation classification in the Brazilian Amazon through combinative use of Landsat TM and SPOT HRG data.

323 Texture Feature Fusion with Neighborhood-Oscillating Tabu Search for High Resolution Image Classification
Liangpei Zhang, Yindi Zhao, Bo Huang, and Pingxiang Li

Neighborhood-Oscillating tabu search integrates different types of texture features to improve classifi cation performance of high-resolution imagery.

333 Land-cover Classification Using ASTER Multi-band Combinations Based on Wavelet Fusion and SOM Neural Network
Hasi Bagan, Qinxue Wang, Masataka Watanabe, Satoshi Kameyama, and Yuhai Bao

A land-cover classification methodology using ASTER VNIR, SWIR, and TIR band combinations based on wavelet fusion and SOM neural network methods, and classification accuracy of different band combinations.

343 Parametric Investigation of the Performance of Lidar Filters Using Different Surface Contexts
Suyoung Seo and Charles G. O’Hara

Comparison of the performance of surface models for filtering lidar data which are derived from morphological operations, triangulation, and linear prediction to filter lidar data.

363 Analysis of Turbid Water Quality Using Airborne Spectrometer Data with a Numerical Weather Prediction Model-aided Atmospheric Correction
Jenni Attila , Timo Pyhälahti , Tuula Hannonen, Kari Kallio, Jouni Pulliainen, Sampsa Koponen, Pekka Härmä, and Karri Eloheimo

Numerical weather prediction model calculations used as input parameters for atmospheric correction of turbid waters and analysis of its effect on water quality estimation.