PE&RS February 2008
VOLUME 74, NUMBER 2
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE
SENSING
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY
AND REMOTE SENSING
This cover image incorporates high resolution stereo pairs acquired
from the DigitalGlobe® QuickBird sensor. It shows a
digital elevation model of Meteor Crater, Arizona at
approximately 1.3 meter point-spacing. Image analysts
used the Leica Photogrammetry Suite to produce the
DEM. The outside portion was computed from two
QuickBird panchromatic scenes acquired October 2006,
while an Optech laser scan dataset was used for the
crater’s interior elevations. The crater’s terrain model
and image drape were created in a NASA Constellation
Program project focused on simulating lunar surface
environments for prototyping and testing lunar surface
mission analysis and planning tools.
This work exemplifies NASA’s Scientific Data Purchase
legacy and commercial high resolution imagery applications,
as scientists use commercial high resolution data
to examine lunar analog Earth landscapes for advanced
planning and trade studies for future lunar surface activities.
Other applications include landscape dynamics
related to volcanism, hydrologic events, climate change,
and ice movement.
Optech scanner data was provided by Darling Environmental & Surveying, Ltd. Meteor Crater Enterprises,
Inc. graciously permitted NASA to perform the field
campaign. Thanks to Rodney McKellip, Stennis Space
Center, for providing the derived 3-D image products
from the lunar analog project; for information contact
Troy Frisbie at troy.e.frisbie@nasa.gov.
Foreword
168 Remote Sensing Data Fusion
Jie Shan and Uwe Stilla
Highlight Article
138 NASA’s Earth Science Use of
Commercially Available
Remote Sensing Datasets (Adobe PDF 5570Kb)
S. Goward, L. Underwood,
M. Fearon, R. Fletcher, J. Garvin,
G. Hurtt, J. Jensen, M. Nolan,
K. Holekamp, M. Pagnutti, R. Ryan,
T. Stanley, T. Frisbie, and W. Swearingen
Columns & Updates
149 Grids and Datums— United Republic of Tanzania (Adobe PDF 151Kb)
151 Letter to the Editor (Adobe PDF 89Kb)
153 Book Review — Mastering
ArcGIS, 3rd Edition (Adobe PDF 873Kb)
160 Industry News
162 Headquarters News -
New PE&RS Editor in Chief (Adobe PDF 105Kb)
Departments
152 New Member List
155 Certification List
161 Regions of the Month
163 Who’s Who in ASPRS
164 Sustaining Members
166 Instructions for Authors
182 Forthcoming Articles
214 Calendar
265 Advertiser Index
265 ASPRS Member Champions (Adobe PDF 57Kb)
266 Classifieds
267 Professional Directory
268 Membership Application
Peer-Reviewed Articles (Click the linked titles to see the
full abstract)
169 Automatic Registration and Mosaicking for Airborne
Multispectral Image Sequences
Qian Du, Nareenart Raksuntorn, Adnan Orduyilmaz,
and Lori M. Bruce
An automatic image registration algorithm to co-register
different bands with a single frame and an image mosaicking
algorithm.
183 Pixel Level Fusion of Panchromatic and Multispectral
Images Based on Correspondence Analysis
Halil I. Cakir and Siamak Khorram
A pixel level data fusion approach based on correspondence
analysis for high spatial and spectral resolution satellite data.
193
Multispectral and Panchromatic Data Fusion
Assessment Without ReferenceLuciano Alparone, Bruno Aiazzi, Stefano Baronti, Andrea
Garzelli, Filippo Nencini, and Massimo Selva
A global index capable of measuring the qualit of
pansharpened multispectral images and working at the full
scale withiut oreforming any preliminary degradation of the
data.
201 Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery by Fuzzy
Integral Fusion of Band-subsets
Wei Di, Quan Pan, Lin He, and Yongmei Cheng
An anomaly target detection algorithm in hyperspectral
imagery through merging detection results of band-subsets by
a fuzzy integral fusion method.
215 Fusion of Lidar and Imagery for Reliable Building
Extraction
Dong Hyuk Lee, Kyoung Mu Lee, and Sang Uk Lee
The fusion of lidar and photogrammetric imagery for precise
and automatic building extraction using line segments
matching and perceptual grouping.
227 Extracting Urban Road Networks from High-resolution
True Orthoimage and Lidar
Junhee Youn, James S. Bethel, Edward M. Mikhail, and
Changno Lee
To extract urban area road networks, road candidates are
extracted with newly developed acupuncture method
and refined by a blocking mask from high-resolution true
orthoimage and lidar.
239 Multisource Classification Using Support Vector
Machines: An Empirical Comparison with Decision Tree
and Neural Network Classifiers
Pakorn Watanachaturaporn, Manoj K. Arora,
and Pramod K. Varshney
An SVM based multi-source classification shows a significant
increase in the classification accuracy with incorporation of
ancillary data over the classification performed solely on the
basis of spectral data from remote sensing sensors.
247 Mapping Vegetation Communities Using Statistical
Data Fusion in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways,
Missouri, USA
Robert A. Chastain Jr., Matthew A. Struckhoff, Hong He,
and David R. Larsen
A vegetation community map was produced for the Ozark
National Scenic Riverways using a discriminant analysis
statistical approach combined with photointerpretation to
exploit a large set of input variables obtained from remote sensing and topographic data.
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