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PE&RS March 2007
VOLUME 73, NUMBER 3PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) involves the use of two
or more SAR images of the same area to extract landscape
topography and its subtle deformation patterns as well as
land cover characteristics. InSAR provides a great tool for
natural hazard monitoring and natural resource management
such as imaging earthquake displacement, mapping ground
surface deformation at volcanoes, documenting land surface
deformation associated with fluid withdrawal, recording
movement of glaciers, mapping water-level changes over
wetlands, constructing digital elevation models, characterizing
land covers and their changes, etc. The cover figure
illustrates one of diverse applications of InSAR technique– imaging water-level changes over wetlands. An InSAR
image from the C-band (wavelength of 5.7 cm) Canadian
Radarsat-1 satellite captured the dynamic changes in waterlevel
over a portion of the swamp forest near southeastern
Louisiana between May 22 and June 15, 2003. Each fringe
(full color cycle) represents a 3.1-cm change in water-level.
The total water-level change was more than 30 cm over
the imaged water basin. A future InSAR system with short
revisit times will allow characterizing the temporal evolution
of water-level changes in an unprecedented spatial resolution,
which will improve hydrological modeling predictions
and enhance the assessment of future flood events over
wetlands. Image courtesy of USGS.
Foreword243 Cloud-Prone And Rainy Area Remote Sensing (CARRS)
Hui Lin, Limin Yang and Yun Shao
Highlight Articles
217 Interferometric Synthetic
Aperture Radar (InSAR): Its Past,
Present and Future (Adobe PDF 853Kb)
Zhong Lu, Ohig Kwoun and
Russell Rykhus
223 WyomingView: Promoting
Remote Sensing Research and
Applications with No-cost
Satellite Data (Adobe PDF 1.28Mb)
Ramesh Sivanpillai and
Kenneth L. Dreise
Columns & Updates
229 Grids and Datums— Sultanate of Oman (Adobe PDF 113Kb)
231 Book Review — GIS Tutorial:
Workbook for ArcView 9 (Adobe PDF 290Kb)
233 Book Review — Making Maps:
A Visual Guide to Map Design
for GIS (Adobe PDF 168Kb)
234 Industry News
237 Headquarters News
(Adobe PDF 69Kb)
Announcements
237 New Sustaining Member —
Geographic Resource Solutions (Adobe PDF 69Kb)
Departments
230 New Member List
232 Region of the Month
235 Certification List
238 Who’s Who in ASPRS
239 Sustaining Member List
241 Instructions to Authors
258 Forthcoming Articles
310 Calendar
328 ASPRS Member Champions (Adobe PDF 129Kb)
329 Classifieds
330 Professional Directory
331 Advertiser Index
332 Membership Application
Peer-Reviewed Articles (Click the linked titles to see the full abstract)
245 InSAR Imaging of Volcanic Deformation over
Cloud-prone Areas - Aleutian Islands
Zhong Lu
Mapping ground surface deformation of volcanoes over the Aleutian Islands using satellite interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR).
259 Mine Subsidence Monitoring Using Multi-source
Satellite SAR Images
Linlin Ge, Hsing-Chung Chang, and Chris Rizos
ERS-1/2, JERS-1, Radarsat-1, and Envisat satellite imagery were analysed using differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar to monitor mine subsidence in Australia with sub-centimeter accuracy when compared against ground survey profiles.
267 Study of Rain Events over the South China Sea by
Synergistic Use of Multi-sensor Satellite and Groundbased
Meteorological Data
Werner Alpers, Cho Ming Cheng, Yun Shao, and Limin Yang
A study of fine-scale structures of convective rain events based on data from multiple satellites, weather radar, and synoptic meteorological data.
279 Quantitative Evaluation of Polarimetric Classification
for Agricultural Crop Mapping
Erxue Chen, Zengyuan Li, Yong Pang, and Xin Tian
Agricultural crop classification capability of single band full polarization SAR data was quantitatively evaluated with AIRSAR L-band polarimetric SAR data using different classification methods.
285 Efficient Water Area Classification Using Radarsat-1 SAR
Imagery in a High Relief Mountainous Environment
Yeong-Sun Song, Hong-Gyoo Sohn, and Choung-Hwan Park
Several methods to identify the water area during a flash flood are compared, and an efficient and economical method for water area classification in high relief mountainous area is described.
297 Comparisons of Compositing Period Length for
Vegetation Index Data from Polar-orbiting and
Geostationary Satellites for the Cloud-prone Region
of West Africa
Rasmus Fensholt, Assaf Anyamba, Simon Stisen,
Inge Sandholt, Ed Pak, and Jennifer Small
Assessment of the potential improvement within the domain of temporal resolution using geostationary MSG data for vegetation monitoring as compared to Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite data.
311 Remote Sensing Change Detection Based on Canonical
Correlation Analysis and Contextual Bayes Decision
Lu Zhang, Mingsheng Liao, Limin Yang, and Hui Lin
A multi-step statistical analysis approach combining Canonical Correlation Analysis and Contextual Bayes Decision for change detection using bi-temporal multispectral remotely sensed images.
319 LUCC Impact on Sediment Loads in Sub-tropical
Rainy Areas
Xiaoling Chen, Shuming Bao, Hui Li, Xiaobin Cai, Peng Guo,
Zhongyi Wu, Weijuan Fu, and Hongmei Zhao
Integration of RS/GIS with statistical analysis was employed to study the land-use/cover-changes (LUCC) and sediment loads and their driving forces in an intensively farmed watershed characterized by a mountainous and hilly topography and rainy climate.
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