VOLUME 68, NUMBER 5
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
Cover Image
Intermap Technologies Corporation (www.intermaptechnologies.com)
provided this month's cover image. The Alaskan Coast Mountains tower over
the city of Juneau in this digitally rendered perspective. It was created in
ERDAS Imagine VirtualGIS 8.5 using an Intermap 2.5-meter orthorectified radar
image colored by elevation draped over Intermap's DEM data. The image
illustrates the approach over Stephens Passage and Fritz Cove to the Juneau
International Airport (center). These data represent a small portion of what
is available at Intermap's GLOBAL Terrain online data store (www.globalterrain.com).
Intermap exemplifies the convergence of remote sensing and mapping
technologies. Utilizing STAR-3i® IFSAR, an InterFerometric Synthetic
Aperture Radar (IFSAR) system, the company specializes in the production
of highly accurate, richly posted digital elevation models, orthorectified
radar imagery products, and
a wide array of value-added products.
Peer-Reviewed Articles (Click the linked
titles to see the full abstract)
The system provides the attitude of each camera in the network, taking
into account the imaging geometry, as well as several major constraints
such as visibility, convergence angle, and workspace constraint.
The method developed to select GCPs with the feature class "water
body" and the vector-based matching approach, as well as some
applications, are presented.
Procedures adopted to ensure sufficient speed and reliability in automated
off-line digital photogrammetric measurements employing these developments,
which have been found in practice to reduce data processing time by
as much as 93 percent, are discussed and experimental results are reported.
The value of integrating GPS with remote sensing and GIS is the greatest
in such applications as mobile mapping, disaster mitigation, and emergency
response that require comprehensive, geo-referenced, real-time or almost
real-time data.
Photointerpretation of 1970s aerial photographs and digital image
classification of Landsat TM 5 imagery from the 1990s were used to
produce land-cover maps to be used for change detection analysis.
Announcements
410 Call for Papers - ASPRS 2003 Annual Conference
454 Call for Papers - Linear Feature
Extraction From Remote Sensing Data For Road Centerline Delineation And Revision
461 Call for Papers - Applications
of Remote Sensing and GIS for Urban Analyses