PE&RS July 2005
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.
Highlight Article
771 Filling in the Gaps with
Complementary Technologies (Adobe PDF 594Kb)
Ron Roth
Feature Article
777 The LAS 1.1 Standard (Adobe PDF 198Kb)
Lewis Graham
Columns & Updates
783 Direct Georeferencing — Airborne
GPS Augmentation Alternatives — Part II Satellite-based Correction Services (Adobe
PDF 114Kb)
785 Grids and Datums — Republic
of El Salvador (Adobe PDF 80Kb)
787 ASPRS Certification — What’s in it for Me?
Part II (Adobe PDF 1.43Mb)
791 In Memoriam — William R. Alder and Robert
N. Colwell
793 Headquarters News — ASPRS Releases
Update to LAS Lidar Data Exchange Format
Standard (Adobe PDF 174Kb)
795 Industry News
Peer-Reviewed Articles (Click the linked titles to see the
full abstract)
805 Effects of Terrain Morphology, Sampling
Density, and Interpolation Methods on Grid
DEM Accuracy
Fernando J. Aguilar, Francisco Agüera, Manuel A.
Aguilar, and Fernando Carvajal
Effects of terrain morphology, sampling density, and
scattered data interpolation methods on the accuracy
of interpolated Grid Elevation Models.
817 An Evaluation of Lidar-derived Elevation and
Terrain Slope in Leaf-off Conditions
Michael E. Hodgson, John Jensen, George Raber,
Jason Tullis, Bruce A. Davis, Gary Thompson, and
Karen Schuckman
Surface elevations and slope derived from lidar data
in seven land-cover classes were validated using survey
grade elevations.
825 Structural Damage Assessments from Ikonos
Data Using Change Detection, Object-Oriented Segmentation, and Classification
Techniques
D.H.A. Al-Khudhairy, I. Caravaggi, and S. Giada
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.
839 Sub-pixel Target Mapping from Soft-classified,
Remotely Sensed Imagery
Peter M. Atkinson
A simple and efficient pixel-swapping algorithm for
increasing the spatial resolution of land-cover classification
from remotely sensed imagery.
847 DTM Generation and Building Detection
from Lidar Data
Ruijin Ma and Will Meyer
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.
855 A Split-and-Merge Technique for Automated
Reconstruction of Roof Planes
Kourosh Khoshelham and Zhilin Li
A new technique for automated reconstruction of planar
building roofs by fusion of image and height data.
863 Theoretical Analysis of the Iterative Photogrammetric
Method to Determining Ground
Coordinates from Photo Coordinates and a
DEM
Yongwei Sheng
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.
Announcements
782 PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers —“Cloud-prone
and Rainy areas Remote Sensing (CARRS)”
784 PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers — “Web
and Wireless GIS”
786 PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers —“Mapping
from High Resolution Satellite Imagery”
Departments
794 New Member List
800 Calendar
801 Who’s Who in ASPRS
802 Sustaining Member
804 Advertiser Index
824 Instructions
to Authors
838 Forthcoming Articles
872 Classifieds
873 Bookstore
877 Professional Directory
880 Membership Application
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