PE&RS May 2005
VOLUME 71, NUMBER 5
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE
SENSING
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY
AND REMOTE SENSING
Cover Image
Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping
provided this month’s cover image,
demonstrating the capabilities
of the Leica ADS40 Airborne
Digital Sensor. Captured by
EarthData on behalf of the Southwest
Florida Water Management
District and the U.S. Geological
Survey, this infrared image depicts
the west coast of Florida near Port
Richey. This imagery is utilized by
Southwest Florida Water Management
District in its efforts to manage
water-related resources. Meeting
water needs while protecting
the natural systems that provide its water supply, the agency oversees flood
control, regulatory programs, water conservation, education, and supportive
data collection and analysis efforts.
The Leica ADS40 delivers all digital, 12-bit data with the swath width and
coverage area of a traditional film camera. The spatial resolution of the
ADS40 enables users to achieve higher accuracy in large-scale mapping
applications, extract more detailed information, and digitally equal black& white film resolution. The sensor’s innovative construction allows
for the
simultaneous acquisition of seven bands of information: three panchromatic
CCD lines capture information in views forward, nadir and backward from the
aircraft, while four multispectral lines capture data in the near-infrared
band.
For more information, contact Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping, LLC.
Phone: +1 404.248.9000, e-mail: info@gis.leica-geosystems.com, Web:
gis.leica-geosystems.com.
Columns & Updates
545 Direct Georeferencing — Airborne
GPS Augmentation Alternatives (Adobe PDF 306Kb)
547 Grids and Datums — New
Zealand (Adobe PDF 125Kb)
550 In Memoriam — Jon Stanton Beazley
553 Headquarters News — ASPRS Proposed Bylaws
Revision, ASPRS Membership Marketing
Survey, ASPRS Holds Very Successful 2005
Annual Conference, ASPRS 2005 Awards (Adobe PDF 356Kb)
561 Industry News
Peer-Reviewed Articles (Click the linked titles to see the
full abstract)
585 A Robust Technique for Precise Registration
of Radar and Optical Satellite Images
Tai D. Hong and Robert A. Schowengerdt
A new method for automatically registering two dissimilar
images, such as, a radar image and a optical
image with high accuracy.
595 Agricultural Applications of High-Resolution
Digital Multispectral Imagery:Evaluating
Within-Field Spatial Variability of Canola
(Brassica napus) in Western Australia
Georgina Warren and Graciela Metternicht
By exploring the relationship of DMSI and derived
image transformation techniques with canola attributes,
such as, crop density and LAI, it is possible
to assess whether this is an appropriate remote sensing
technology to incorporate into the infrastructure
of image-based remote sensing for site-specific crop
management.
603 Field Determination of Optimal Dates for the
Discrimination of Invasive Wetland Plant
Species Using Derivative Spectral Analysis
Magdeline Laba, Fuan Tsai, Danielle Ogurcak,
Stephen Smith, and Milo E. Richmond
Optimum dates for spectral discrimination between
two invasive wetland plant species, purple looseleaf
and reed, and one indigenous plant species, cattail,
were determined by using derivative spectral analysis.
613 Remote Sensing of Urban Heat Islands by
Day and Night
Janet Nichol
A comparison of daytime and night time thermal images
for urban heat island analysis at micro- and
meso-scales.
623 Implementation of an Equal-area Gridding
Method for Global-scale Image Archiving
Jeong Chang Seong
A method of constructing global scale image databases
using equal area facets and an extended header
structure for ef fective referencing of facets using latitude
and longitude.
629 Influence of System Calibration on Direct
Sensor Orientation
Naci Yastikli and Karsten Jacobsen
The influence of the system calibration with GPS and
IMU is presented as it affects direct sensor orientation.
Announcements
551 PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers —“Mapping
from High Resolution Satellite Imagery”
562 PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers — “The
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission– Data Validation and Applications”
564 Pecora 16 — Global Priorities
in Land Remote Sensing
628 Call for Papers — The
20th Biennial Workshop on Aerial Photography, Videography,and High Resolution
Digital Imagery for Resource Assessment
Departments
553 Region of the Month
554 New Member List
565 Who’s Who in ASPRS
566 Sustaining Members
568 New Sustaining Member
568 Advertiser Index
569 Bookstore
594 Instructions
to Authors
612 Forthcoming Articles
622 Calendar
634 Classifieds
636 Professional Directory
640 Membership Application
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