PE&RS April 2009

The GeoEye-1 satellite collected this .50-meter resolution image of Khalifa Sports City in Doha, Qatar on January 10, 2009, and serves as an example of the resolution, clarity, and color quality being produced by GeoEye-1. The image was taken from 423 miles in space as GeoEye-1 moved from north to south over the Middle East at 17,000 mph. It shows the blue-domed Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar’s capital and largest city. GeoEye-1 is the world’s most advanced commercial imaging system with the highest-resolution imaging capabilities and geolocation technologies. It simultaneously acquires 0.41-meter panchromatic and 1.65-meter multispectral images, which are merged to create .50-meter color (pansharpened) imagery products. (Due to U.S. Government licensing, commercial customers receive .50-meter color imagery). GeoEye’s products and services enable timely, accurate, and accessible location intelligence. Headquarted in Dulles, Virginia, GeoEye is recognized as one of the geospatial industry’s most trusted imagery experts, delivering reliable service and exceptional quality imagery products and solutions to customers around the world. GeoEye’s products serve applications including defense and intelligence, precision mapping, online mapping, infrastructure development, planning and monitoring, and environmental assessment. For more information about the capabilities of the GeoEye-1 satellite or GeoEye, visit www.geoeye.com.

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345 Grids and Datums — Malaysia (Adobe PDF600Kb)
348 Reflection of the Past (Adobe PDF 590Kb)
351 Book Review — A Primer of GIS: Fundamental Geographic and Cartographic Concepts (Adobe PDF 532Kb)
353 Headquarters News —
   353 Gary Florence Elected as ASPRS Vice President; Michael Finn and Robert Ryan Elected as Assistant
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   355 2009 ASPRS Fellow Award Winners (Adobe PDF 591Kb)
356 Industry News

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350 ASPRS Member Champions (Adobe PDF 573Kb)ASPRS
352 New Members
353 Region of the Month
358 Who’s Who in ASPRS
359 Instructions for Authors
412 Forthcoming Articles
436 Calendar
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444 Introduction
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447 Corporate Descriptions
496 ASPRS Code of Ethics

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

361 Canopy Reflectance Model Inversion in Multiple Forward Mode: Forest Structural Information Retrieval from Solution Set Distributions
S. A. Soenen, D. R. Peddle, C. A. Coburn, R. J. Hall, and F.G. Hall

New capabilities in model inversion as demonstrated at a Rocky Mountain forest test site.

375 Hemispheric Image Modeling and Analysis Techniques for Solar Radiation Determination in Forest Ecosystems
Ellen Schwalbe, Hans-Gerd Maas, Manuela Kenter, and Sven Wagner

Improvement of the methodology for solar radiation determination from ground-based fisheye images for the purpose of silvicultural analysis in forest ecosystems by refined calibration of fisheye lens cameras and an optimized automatic image segmentation technique.

385 Application of Association Rule Mining for Exploring the Relationship between Urban Land Surface Temperature and Biophysical/Social Parameters
Umamaheshwaran Rajasekar and Qihao Weng

A model to find patterns and rules from both remote sensing and GIS data using the technique of association rule mining.

397 An Assessment of Geometric Activity Features for Per-pixel Classification of Urban Man-made Objects using Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery
Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Rik Bellens, Frank Canters, and Sidharta Gautama

The results of using geometric activity features based on ridge-based modeling and morphological profi les for the classification of urban man-made objects from an Ikonos image.

413 Agro-ecological Interpretation of Rice Cropping Systems in Flood-prone Areas using MODIS Imagery
Toshihiro Sakamoto, Cao Van Phung, Nhan Van, Akihiko Kotera, and Masayuki Yokozawa

Monitoring the macro-scale ecosystem function related to annual flood inundation and intensive agricultural system in the Vietnamese Mekong delta by using MODIS time-series imagery.

425 Evaluating AISA+ Hyperspectral Imagery for Mapping Black Mangrove along the South Texas Gulf Coast
Chenghai Yang, James H. Everitt, Reginald S. Fletcher, R yan R. Jensen, and Paul W. Mausel

Airborne hyperspectral imagery combined with image transformation and classification techniques can be a useful tool for monitoring and mapping black mangrove distributions in coastal environments.

437 Morphology-based Building Detection from Airborne Lidar Data
Xuelian Meng, Le Wang, and Nate Currit

A morphological building detecting method to extract buildings by gradually removing non-building pixels based on ground filtering, size, shape, height, element structure, and the elevation difference between the fi rst and last returns from interpolated lidar data.