VOLUME 71, NUMBER 7
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE
SENSING
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY
AND REMOTE SENSING
Cover Image
The cover images, acquired by the
Indian Remote Sensing™ (IRS)
RESOURCESAT-1 satellite, feature
the South Carolina coastal plane in
the southeast region of the United
States. The Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO) launched the
satellite into an 817 km polar sunsynchronous
orbit on 17 October
2003. RESOURCESAT-1 imagery
(exclusive of India) and ground station
access are offered through
Space Imaging.
Three sensors provide broad spectral
resolution: the Advanced Wide-Field Sensor (AWiFs) with 56-meter
spatial resolution (740 km combined swath) operating three bands in the Visible
and Near Infrared (VNIR) and one band in Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR); Linear
Imaging Self-Scanner or LISS-III ( top inset) at 23.5-meter spatial resolution
(141 km swath), using the VNIR and SWIR bands; and LISS-IV with 5.8-meter
resolution (23.5 km swath) using three bands in VNIR ( bottom inset).
RESOURCESAT-1 imagery serves a number of markets, including mapping,
land and water resource management, and agriculture. The cover images show
lush vegetation as false-color red highlights, the predominant agricultural
use in
the Florence, South Carolina region known for high-yield tobacco crops.
For more information on RESOURCESAT-1 imagery and Space Imaging’s
other IRS products, please visit www.spaceimaging.com/products/irs.
Classical change detection methods, object-oriented
image segmentation, and classification techniques
are applied to investigate effectiveness for identifying post-disaster, structurally
damaged zones using very
high resolution satellite imagery.
Describing a method to perform DTM generation
and building detection from lidar range data through
a segmentation process, and a method to conduct
boundary regularization.
The convergence condition and the convergence
speed of the iterative Photogrammetric method to
the single-ray back-projection problem is analyzed,
and validates the theory using a synthetic surfacecontaining a variety
of slope conditions.