PE&RS August 2005
VOLUME 71, NUMBER 8
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE
SENSING
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY
AND REMOTE SENSING
Cover Image
Featured on the cover are color
composite images of an experiment
forest near Howland,
Maine from Jet Propulsion
Laboratory’s Airborne Multi-
Angle Imaging Spectrometer
(AirMISR) (top) and NASA
Goddard’s Laser Vegetation Imaging
Sensor (LVIS) (bottom).
AirMISR is a four channel digital
camera that flies on an ER-2 aircraft
at 20 km altitude. AirMISR’s
single camera is swiveled to successive
look angles to complete
a desired set of multi-angle images with 27.5m pixel resolution. The false
color image used near-infrared, red, and green channels from the 45.6o
forward looking camera displayed as red, green, and blue, respectively. LVIS
is an airborne laser altimeter system that acquires closely spaced 20 m
footprint waveform information. The heights of waveform energy deciles of
100%, 50% and 25% were displayed as red, green and blue, respectively.
The area shown has mature forest stands, different aged clear cuts and other
forest harvesting treatment. Dark green areas on the AirMISR image are
mature conifer forest, red areas are deciduous forest or grassy areas, light
green or blue areas are non vegetated areas. The LVIS image shows no or
short vegetation as black, taller mature forest stands as white and intermediate
tones indicate forest structure differences. On August 31, 2003, LVIS
obtained data at the same region. Images were acquired in August 2003.
For more information, contact Jon Ranson, NASA GSFC, +1 301-614-6650
Highlight Article
885 Nanosatellite Platforms for Innovative
Remote Sensing Architectures (Adobe PDF 399Kb)
Ben S. Bieber
Columns & Updates
889 Grids and Datums — The Italian Republic
891 ASPRS Certification — What’s
in it for Me? Part III (Adobe PDF 1.27Mb)
895 Book Review (Adobe PDF 106Kb)
897 In Memoriam — Lt. Col. Abraham Anson and
Maurice Keyes Kurtz, Jr.
899 Headquarters News — The
Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship Award (Adobe PDF 1.99Mb)
900 Industry News
Peer-Reviewed Articles (Click the linked titles to see the
full abstract)
909 Bias-compensated RPCs for Sensor Orientation of High-resolution Satellite
Imagery
Clive S. Fraser and Harry B. Hanley
A bias-compensated RCP bundle adjustment is shown
to produce sub-pixel accuracy geopositioning from
Ikonos and Quickbird stereo imagery.
917 A Dynamic Method
for Generating Multi-Resolution TIN Models
Bisheng Yang, Wenzhong Shi, and Qingquan Li
A new method is presented to dynamically generate multi-resolution TIN models
quickly with higher accuracy.
927
Examining Lacunarity Approaches in Comparison with Fractal and
Spatial Autocorrelation Techniques for Urban Mapping
Soe W. Myint and Nina Lam
An evaluation and comparison of two lacunarity
methods, fractal triangular prism and spatial
autocorrelation, and original spectral band approaches
in classifying urban images.
939 Fuzzy Reliability Assessment of Multi-Period
Land-cover Change Maps
Kim Lowell, Gary Richards, Peter Woodgate, Simon Jones, and Laurie
Buxton
A fuzzy methodology for evaluating the reliability of land-cover data derived
from satellite imagery.
947 Using Landsat ETM+ Imagery to Measure Population Density in Indianapolis,
Indiana, USA
Guiying Li and Qihao Weng
Exploring the potential of Landsat EMT+ data for estimating population density.
959 Characteristics of Seasonal Vegetation Cover in the Conterminous USA
Kevin Gallo, Brad Reed, Timothy Owen, and Jimmy Adegoke
A monthly data set of the fractional green vegetation
cover for the conterminous United States was evaluated
by land cover type for regional and seasonal
variation.
967 Satellite Estimation of Aboveground Biomass and Impacts of Forest Stand
Structure
Dengsheng Lu, Mateus Batistella, and Emilio Moran
Aboveground biomass estimation using Landsat TM
data and the impact of forest stand structure on estimation
performance.
975 Comparing Raster Map Comparison Algorithms for Spatial Modeling and Analysis
Matthias Kuhnert, Alexey Voinov, and Ralf Seppelt
A review of existing algorithms to compare spatial
patterns and development of a new approach based
on the expanding window approach.
Announcements
897 PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers— Forestry Lidar Applications
946 PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers —“
Cloud-prone and Rainy areas
Remote Sensing (CARRS)”
946 PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers — “Web
and Wireless GIS”
Departments
898 New Member List
898 Certification List
904 Region of the Month
905 Who’s Who in ASPRS
906 Sustaining Member
908 Advertiser Index
916 Instructions
to Authors
938 Forthcoming Articles
985 Calendar
986 Classifieds
987 Bookstore
992 Professional Directory
996 Membership Application
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