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Oral Technical Session

TS WG I/2(1): Geometric and Image Quality Advances in SAR

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2A

Chair: Jan-Peter Muller, University College London, UNITED KINGDOM

Co-Chair: Gottfried Konecny, Leibniz University of Hannover, GERMANY

 

Surface Deformation Investigated with SBAS-DInSAR Approach Based on Prior Knowledge; HUANG Qihuan, HE Xiufeng, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Investigation of Elevation Bias of the SRTM C-and X-band Digital Elevation Models; Kazimierz Becek, BRUNEI DARUSSALAM.

DEM Registration, Alignment and Evaluation for SAR Interferometry; Zhengxiao Li, James Bethel, UNITED STATES

Wavelet Speckle Reduction for SAR Imagery Based on Edge Detection; Yingdan Wu, Yiuxiao Yuan, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Coregistration Based on Sift Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry; Fangting Li, Guo Zhang, jun Yan, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

 

TS SS-4: Modern Navigation and Earth Observation

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2B

Chair: Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, The University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

 

3D GIS and mapping of Historical Peninsula, Istanbul: the Challenge of Modern Earth Observation Technology; Krzysztof Gajdamowicz, SWEDEN(Invited Paper)

Accurate DSM Production from Unmanned Helicopter Systems; R. B. Haarbrink, NETHERLANDS; H. Eisenbeiss, SWITZERLAND

The Future Spaceborne Hyperspectral Imager EnMAP: Its Calibration, Validation, and Processing Chain; T. Storch, A. de Miguel, R. Müller, A. Müller, A. Neumann, T. Walzel, M. Bachmann,G. Palubinskas, M. Lehner, R. Richter, E. Borg, B. Fichtelmann, T. Heege M. Schroeder, and P. Reinartz , GERMANY

On Development of Handheld Topographic Identifier using GPS, Photogrammetry and GIS; Fahmi Amhar, INDONESIA.

 

 

TS WG V/1(1): Industrial Vision Metrology - Calibration & Verification

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2C

Chair: Thomas Luhmann, University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg, GERMANY

 

Minimising Systematic Errors in DEMs Caused by an Iaccurate Lens Model; R. Wackrow and J.H. Chandler UNITED KINGDOM; T. Gardner, CANADA

Performance Evaluation of Several High-Quality Digital Cameras; D. H. Rieke-Zapp and H. Hastedt, SWITZERLAND; W. Tecklenburg, J. Peipe and T. Luhmann, GERMANY

Verification of the Accuracy of a Real-time Optical 3D-Measuring System on Production Line; Valtteri Tuominen and Ilkka Niini, FINLAND

Fully Automatic Camera Calibration Using Regular Planar Patterns; Valsamis Douskos, V. Douskos, I. Kalisperakis, G. Karras and E. Petsa, GREECE

Calibraton of Digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) Camera Using Artificial Neural Networks; T. Kavzoglu and F. Karsli, TURKEY

 

 

TS SS-1: Operation and International Coordination for Earth Observing Systems

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: 201A Conference Room

Chair: Jose Achache, Director, GEO Secretariat, SWITZERLAND

 

CEOS Coordination of  the GEOSS Space Component: The Constellation Concept and the Response on the GCOS Requirements; Einar-Arne Herland, ESA, ESRIN, ITALY

A UNESCO Partnership With Space Institutions To Improve Conservation of Cultural And Natural Heritage; Mario Hernandez, UNESCO, FRANCE

The Importance of Long Term Altimeter Observation  Capabilities for the GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas and the Need for  International Cooperation, ESA, ESRIN, ITALY

International achievements in generating and validating global DEMs; Jan-Peter Muller, University College London, UNITED KINGDOM 

 

TS WG VII/2(1): Information Extraction from SAR Data 

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: 201B Conference Room

Chair: Rudi Gens, Alaska Satellite Facility, UNITED STATES               

Co- Chair: Fusun Balik Sanli, Yildiz Technical University, TURKEY

 

Radar Interferometry for Ground Subsidence Monitoring Using Alos Palsar Data; A.H. Ng, H. Chang, L. Ge, C. Rizos, AUSTRALIA; M. Omura, JAPAN

Soil Moisture Estimation from RADARSAT -1, ASAR and PALSAR Data in Agricultural Fields of Menemen Plane of Western Turkey; Fusun Balik Sanli, Yusuf Kurucu, Mustafa Tolga Esetlili, Saygın Abdikan, TURKEY

Study on GPS Station’ s Zenith Delay to Mitigate the InSAR Atmosphere Effect; LI Tao, ZAHNG Shiyu, Zhang Shuangcheng, LIU Jingnan, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; XIA Ye, GERMANY

Reduction of Atmospheric Water Vapour Effects on ENVISAT ASAR Interferograms using MERIS Near IR Measurements; Zhenhong Li, UNITED KINGDOM.

Building an Experiential Learning Pathway for Information Extraction from SAR Data; Rudi Gens, UNITED STATES.

 

TS WG II/1(1): Spatio-temporal Modeling

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: 305C Conference Room

Chair: TANG Xinming; Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA               

Co- Chair: LIU Yaolin; Wuhan University, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

 

Spatiotemporal Event Detection and Modeling in Geosensor Networks using Support Vector Methods; Jon Devine, Anthony Stefanidis , UNITED STATES

Using Aerial Photographs to Reconstruct over 40 Years of Lantana Camara Invasion in the Kyle Recreational Park, Southeastern Zimbabwe; Mhosisi Masocha, Andrew Skidmore, NETHERLANDS

Dynamic Cartographic Representation of Spatio-Temporal Data; Yang ping, Tang Xinming, Wang Shengxiao, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Deriving Spatio-Temporal Relations from Simple Data Structure; Ale Raza, UNITED STATES.

Partial Least Squares Regression based Cellular Automata Model for Simulating Complex Urban Systems; Y.J. Feng, X.H. Tong, M.L. Liu, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

 

TS ThS-5: Component-Based GIS

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: 305B Conference Room

Chair: AI Tinghua; Wuhan University, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Co- Chair: Hande Demirel; Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY.

 

Geo-service Design and Composition Framework: A Novel Approach to Building SDI Components; Javier Morales, Rolf A. de By, NETHERLANDS

The Use of GIS to Support Atmospheric and Oceanographic Data Management and Mapping; Qifeng Zhao, Hong Fan, Jianfei Lai, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA(Abstract_ID: 2007110502532290)

Implementation of a Customized GIS-based Tool for Tunnel Construction Sites Management; Nazereh Nejatbakhsh, GERMANY

Digital Terrain Modeling in a GIS Environment; Eric Kwabena Forkuo, GHANA

Accuracy Aspects & Quality Measures within the Domain of Building Spatoi - Temporal Dynamic Thematic Simulated System; Hussein M. Abdulmuttalib, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

 

 

TS WG VI/1: Educational Frameworks and Methodologies

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: 307 Conference Room

Chair: John Trinder, University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

Co- Chair: Mitsu Yoshimura, Remote Sensing technology Center of Japan, JAPAN

Remote Sensing Education in China and the UK: Synergy and Opportunities; Peijun Du, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.; Paul Aplin, Mike Jackson, UNITED KINGKOM

Geo-spatial Information Technology Education in China, Present and Future; TANG Guoan, DONG Youfu, JIA Yini, GAO Yiping, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

Photogrammetric Terminology for the International Community. Paul R. T. Newby, UNITED KINGDOM.

Raising Spatial and Visualization Awareness in A Teaching Environment; M. J. Smith, A. Burton, N. Kokkas, G. Priestnall, G. Polmear, UNITED KINGDOM.

Development of Educational SAR Processor Using Ajax Technology; Y.Ito, Y.Teramoto, K.Abe, JAPAN.

Siberian State Academy of Geodesy(SSGA) as a Modern Scientific and Educational Comples; Alexander P. Guk, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

 

 

TS WG III/1: Automatic Orientation Methods

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: Convention Hall No.2A

Chair: Camillo Ressl, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, AUSTRIA;

Co-Chair: Ilkka Niini, Oy Mapvision Ltd, FINLAND

      

A Simplified Ortho-Rectification Approach for Satellite Imagery; Xiaoliang Wu, AUSTRALIA. 

Benchmarking Automatic Bundle Adjustment Results; Timo Dickscheid, Thomas Labe and Wolfgang Forstner GERMANY)

Linear Constraints in Two-View Multiple Homography Estimation for Uncalibrated Scenes; Michael Kirchhof, GERMANY.

Issues for Image Matching in Structure from Motion; Helmut Mayer, GERMANY.

 

TS ThS-1: Sensor Networks and Homeland Security

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: Convention Hall No.2B

Chair: Steve Liang, University of Calgary, CANADA

Co-Chair: GunhoSohn, York University, CANADA

 

Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Positioning in Hazardous Areas; R. Mautz, SWITZERLAND; W. Y. Ochieng, UNITED KINGDOM; H. Ingensand, SWITZERLAND

A New Peer-to-Peer-based Interoperable Spatial Sensor Web Architecture; S.H.L. Liang, CANADA.

Performance Evaluation of Data Disseminations for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in Highway Scenarios; XIONG Wei, LI Qing-Quan, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Near-Space Passive Remote Sensing for Homeland Security: Potential and Challenges; Wenqin Wang, CHINA, HE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF.

Ecosystem Health Assessment in Inner Mongolia Region based on Remote Sensing and GIS; Yan Ding, Wen Wang, Xiaoqian Cheng, Shuping Zhao, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

 

TS SS-14: Digital Olympics

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: Convention Hall No.2C

Chair: Jing Guifei, National Remote Sensing Center of China, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

 

Design and Implementation of a Portal Site for the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing using Google Maps; Ying Yuan, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Franz-Josef Behr  and Hui Li, GERMANY

Challenging Olympic Medals – An Innovative Gnss-Based Multi-Sensor System for Athlete Training And Coaching; K.Zhang, F.Wu, C.Mackintosh, T.Rice, C.Gore, A.Hahn and S.Holthous, AUSTRALIA

The Application of Beijing-1 Small Satellite Data in the Green Olympic Construction; Zhiyong Wang, First Century Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. 

The Application of Geographic Information System in Olympic Games Security and Defense System; Xiang Zhou, Haitao Bao, Ziming Zhang, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

 

 

TS WG VII/6(1): Remote Sensing Data Fusion

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: 201A Conference Room

Chair: Zhang Jixian, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Co-Chair: Shan Jie, Purdue University, UNITED STATES

 

Generalized Model for Remotely Sensed Data Pixel-Level Fusion; Jixian Zhang, Yang Jinghui, Li Haitao, Yan Qin, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Gradient Cross Correlation for Sub-Pixel Matching; N.A. Campbell, X. Wu, AUSTRALIA

Bridge Hight Estimation from Combined High-resolution Optical and SAR Imagery; J. D. Wegner, U. Soergel, GERMANY.

Extraction of Plant Functional Types Using Multisource Data Fusion; Wanxiao Sun, Shunlin Liang, UNITED STATES

Change Detection Approach To Sar And Optical Image Integration; Yu ZENG, Jixian ZHANG, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; J.L.van GENDEREN,  NETHERLANDS,

TS WG VII/1: Fundamental Physics and Modelling

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: 201B Conference Room

Chair: Michael Schaepman, Wageningen University, NETHERLANDS

Co-Chair: Bob SU; NOAA, USA

 

GOES-R Land Applications Working Group Team: Activities and Accomplishments; Yunyue Yu, UNITED STATES.  

Mapping Land Surface Radiation Budget from MODIS Data; Shunlin Liang, UNITED STATES.

Comparing Spectral-Angular Signatures of Radiative Transfer Models and CHRIS/PROBA Images; Martin Schlerf; Wout Verhoef, NETHERLANDS; Joachim Hill, Henning Buddenbaum, GERMANY; Clement Atzberger, ITALY; Andrew Skidmore, NETHERALANDS

Change Detection of Forest Crown Closure Using an Inverted Geometric-Optical Model and Scaling; Yuan Zeng, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Michael E. Schaepman, NETHERLANDS; Bingfang Wu, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Sytze de Bruin, Jan G.P.W. Clevers, NETHERLANDS

Atmospheric Correction, Reflectance Calibration and BRDF Correction for ADS40 Image Data; U. Beisl, SWITZERLAND; J. Telaar, M. V. Schönermark, GERMANY

 

TS WG IV/1(1): Spatial Data Infrastructure

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: 305C Conference Room

Chair: JIANG Jie; National Geomatics Center of THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA CHINA

Co-Chair: P. S. Roy, National Remote Sensing Agency, INDIA

 

Reference3D Alpha: A Milestone toward Reference3D Products Worldwide Coverage; Eric Breton, FRANCE.

Role of Interdisciplinary Networking in SDI Supported Actions towards Sustainable Development; Gabor Remetey-Fülöpp, HUNGARY.

Building Croatian Spatial Data Infrastructure in Line with the European Standards; Ljerka Rasic, Lj. Rasic, I. Landek and N. Malna; CROATIA

SDI in ChinaProgress and Issues; Pengde Li, Lan Wu and Xuenian Xiao, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Establishment of a Data Creation Methodology under the Geographic Information Standards; Kohei ISOBE, JAPAN.

 

TS SS-11: CARTOSAT-SAP

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: 305B Conference Room

Chair: Pradeep Srivastava; Indian Space Research Organisation, INDIA

 

Synthesis of Investigations under ISPRS-ISRO Cartosat-1 Scientific Assessment Programme primarily for DEM Generation; R. Nandakumar, Amitabh, MPT Chamy, Satya Soma Sekhar Kopparthi, Gurudev Paswan, Shilpa Prakash & Sanjay Singh, INDIA.

Precise Georeferencing of Cartosat Imagery via Different Orientation Models; J. Willneff, T. Weser, F. Rottensteiner, C. S. Fraser, AUSTRALIA

Stereo Evaluation of CARTOSAT-1 Data Summary of DLR Results during CARTOSAT-1 Scientific Assessment Program; Manfred Lehner, Pablo d’Angelo, Rupert Müller, Peter Reinartz, GERMANY

Exterior Orientation Improved by the Coplanarity Equation and Dem Generation for Cartosat-1; Pantelis Michalis and Ian Dowman, UNITED KINGDOM

Cartosat-1: Orientation, DEM and Orthorectification Quality Assesment; R. Dabrowski, W. Fedorowicz-Jackowski, M. Kedzierski, P. Walczykowski, J. Zych, POLAND

 

TS WG IV/7: Extraterrestrial Mapping 

Date: 4 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: 307 Conference Room

Chair: Jurgen Oberst; German Aerospace Centre, GERMANY

Co- Chair: Paul Schenk; Lunar Planetary Institute, UNITED STATES

 

Cartographic and Topographic Mapping of the Icy Satellites of the Outer Solar System; Paul Schenk, UNITED STATES.

Radargrammetry on Three Planets; R.L. Kirk and E. Howington-Kraus, UNITED STATES

Studies of Phobos’ Orbit, Rotation, and Shape Using Spacecraft Image Data; K. Willner, J. Oberst, B. Giese, M. Wählisch, K-D. Matz, T. Roatsch and H. Hoffmann, GERMANY

Rigorous Photogrammetric Processing of HiRISE Stereo Images for Mars Topographic Mapping; Ron Li, Ju Won Hwangbo, Yunhang Chen, and Kaichang Di, UNITED STATES

Very High Resolution Stereo DTM Extraction and It’ s Application to Surace Roughness Estimation over Martian Surface; J.R. Kim and J-P. Muller, UNITED KINGDOM

 

TS WG IV/6 & ThS-8: Location Based Services 

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 08:30-10:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2A

Chair: Franz-Josef Behr; GERMANY

Co- Chair: Hannes Eugster; SWITZERLAND

 

Supporting Mobile GIS Applications by Geospatial Web Services; Thomas Brinkhoff, GERMANY.

Building a Context-aware Mobile Tourist Guide System Base on a Service Oriented Architecture; R.A. Abbaspour and F. Samadzadegan, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Rendezvous-Problem in Local Shared-Ride Trip Planning; Radoslaw Rudnicki, Karl-Heinrich Anders and Monika Sester, GERMANY

Symbol-Based Simplification with Fuzzy Logic Approach on Mobile Devices; O. Akcay and O. Altan, TURKEY

Photo Based Interaction and Query for End-User Applications; Volker Paelke, GERMANY.

 

TS SS-15: Future of Geographic Information Science

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 08:30-10:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2B

Chair: Gregory Elmes, West Virginia Universtity, UNITED STATES

 

ISO/OGC Standards impact on Next Generation Enterprise Spatial Platform; Belay Teka Beshah, Max Martinez, Mladen Stojic, UNITED STATES

A Study Of Geographic Models Integration in Distributed Collaborative Design; Hui. Yang, Guonian Lu , Yongning Wen , Yi Yang, Ying Hu, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Research on the Distributed Parallel Spatial Indexing Schema based on R-tree; Yuan-chun Zhao, Cheng-ming Li, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

Test Results of RTK and Real-Time DGPS Corrected Observations Based on NTRIP Protocol; T. L. Dammalage, L. Samarakoon, THAILAND

Universal Error Propagation Law; Xiaoyong CHEN, THAILAND; Shunji MURAI, JAPAN

 

 

TS WG VIII/2(1): Public Health

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 08:30-10:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2C

Chair: Amelia M. Budge; University of New Mexico, UNITED STATES.

Co-Chair: Dr. Stanley A. Morain; University of New Mexico, UNITED STATES.

 

Modelling Urban Traffic Air Pollution Dispersion; G. Wang, F. H. M. van den Bosch, M. Kuffer, NETHERLANDS.

Satellite-Based Modelling of Anopheles Mosquito Densities on Heterogeneous Land Cover in Western Thailand; A. Charoenpanyanet, X. Chen, THAILAND

Application of GIS Modelling for Dengue Fever Prone Area Based on Socio-Cultural and Environmental Factors –A Case Study of Delhi City Zone; Krishna Prasad Bhandari, NEPAL; PLN Raju,B. S. Sokhi, INDIA

A New Method to Precise Determination of High Risk Malaria Outbreak Regions; Abolfazl Ahmadian Marj, Mohammad Reza Mobasheri, Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej, Yousef Rezei, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in Spatial Information Monitoring of Coal Refuse Disposal Piles; Tang Shilu, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

 

 

TS ICWG I/V: Autonomous Vehicle Navigation

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 08:30-10:00

Room: 201A Conference Room

Chair: Ron Li, The Ohio State University, UNITED STATES

Co-Chair: Larry Matthies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UNITED STATES

 

Visual Slip Prediction for Planetary Rovers; Larry Matthies, UNITED STATES.

Towards Autonomous Mars Rover Localization: Operations in 2003 MER Mission and New Developments for Future Missions; K. Di, J. Wang, S. He, B. Wu, W. Chen, R. Li, L. H. Matthies, A. B. Howard, UNITED STATES

Integration of GPS/INS/Vision Sensors to Navigate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Jinling Wang, Matthew Garratt, Andrew Lambert, Jack Jianguo Wang, Songlai Han, David Sinclair, AUSTRALIA

Indoor Navigation by Using Segmentation of Range Images Obtained by Laser Scanners; B. Gorte, K. Khoshelham, E. Verbree, NETHERLANDS

 

TS WG II/2: Spatial Reasoning, Analysis, and Data Mining

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 08:30-10:00

Room: 201B Conference Room

Chair: LIU Yaolin, Wuhan University, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Co-Chair: Abdulvahit Torun; General Command of Mapping Cartography Department, TURKEY.

 

Use of Real-time Remote Sensing Data for Evaluating Soil Moisture and Salinity Effects on Light Penetration Depth; Cankut Ormeci, Ekercin, TURKEY

Automatic Interpretation of Vector Databases with a Raster-based Algorithm; Volker Walter, GERMANY.

The Evaluation of Spatial Distribution Density in Map Generalization; Zhang Xiang, Ai Tinghua, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Jantien Stoter , NETHERLANDS

Modelling Multi-temporal Land Use Changes; Jianquan Cheng, UNITED KINGDOM

A Hybrid Approach to Model Nonstationary Space-Time Series; Tao Cheng, UNITED KINGDOM; J.Q. Wang, X. Li, W. Zhang, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC  OF CHINA

 

 

TS WG I/2(2): SAR Applications

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 08:30-10:00

Room: 307 Conference Room

Chair: Bryan Mercer, Intermap Technologies Corp., CANADA

Co-Chair: Charles Toth, The Ohio State University, UNITED STATES

 

A Joint Test Statistic Considering Complex Wishart Distribution Characterization of Temporal Polarimetric Data; Esra Erten, Andreas Reigber, Rafael Zandon´a Schneider and Olaf Hellwich, GERMANY

Measurement of Dam Deformations by Terrestrial Interferometric Techniques; Mario Alba, Alberto Giussani, Fabio Roncoroni, Marco Scaioni, Giulia Bernardini, Pier Paolo Ricci, Paolo Valgoi, ITALY; Katherine Zhang,  THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC  OF CHINA

Recent Advances in Airborne InSAR for 3D Applications; Bryan Mercer, Qiaoping Zhang, CANADA

Monitoring of Recent Land Subsidence and Ground Fissures in Xian With SAR Interferometry; Chaoying Zhao, Xiaoli Ding, HONG KONG, CHINA; Qin Zhang, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC  OF CHINA; Zhong Lu, UNITED STATES; Zhiwei Li, HONG KONG, CHINA

Atmospheric Effects Removal of Asar-derived Insar products Using Meris Data and GPS; S. Adham Khiabani M. J. Valadan Zoej M. R. Mobasheri M. Dehghani, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

 

TS WG VIII/8: Polar and Alpine Research

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2A

Chair: Hongxing Liu, Texas A&M University, UNITED sTATES

Co-chair, Toni Schenk, The Ohio State University, UNITED STATES

 

A Global Snowmelt Product Using Visible, Passive Microwave and Scatterometer Satellite Data; James Foster, Son Nghiem, Marco Tedesco, George Riggs, Dorothy Hall, John Eylander, UNITED STATES

Application of Terrestrial Photogrammetry for Glacier Monitoring in Alpine Environments; V. Kaufmann, R. Ladstädter, AUSTRIA

A Synopsis of Tropical Glacier Changes from the 1970s to Present as Measured from Satellite; Andrew Klein, Joni Kincaid, UNITED STATES

Analysis of Velocity Field, Mass Balance and Basal Melt of the Lambert Glacier–Amery Ice Shelf System by Incorporating Radarsat SAR Interferometry and ICE Sat Laser Altimetry Data; Hongxing Liu, Jaehyung Yu, Ken Jazek, UNITED STATES

Remote Sensing Application in Antarctic Inland Areas; ZHOU Chunxia, E Dongchen, WANG Zemin, SUN Jiabing, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

 

 

TS WG I/5(1): Sensor Orientation of optical spaceborne sensors

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2B

Chair: Peter Reinartz, Germany Aerospace Centre, GERMANY

Co-Chair: Daniela Poli, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, SWITZERLAND

 

Satellite Image Orientation; Karsten Jacobsen, GERMANY

Improvement of The Stability solving Rational Polynomial Coefficients; Xianyong Lin a, Xiuxiao Yuan, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Long Strip Modeling For Cartosat-1 with Minimum Control; Amit Gupta a, Jagjeet Singh Nain, Sanjay K Singh, T P Srinivasan, B Gopala Krishna, P K Srivastava, INDIA

An Improved Pushbroom Scanner Model for Precise Georeferencing of ALOS PRISM Imagery; T. Weser, F. Rottensteiner, J. Willneff, C. S. Fraser AUSTRALIA

Geometric Modeling and Validation of ALOS/PRISM Imagery and Products; S. Kocaman, A. Gruen, SWITZERLAND

 

TS ThS-9: Realtime and Incremental Updating of Core Databases

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2C

Chair: Peter Woodsford, Laser-Scan Cavendish House, UNITED KINGDOM

Co- Chair: Christian Heipke, Leibniz University of Hannover, GERMANY

 

Spatial Database Challenges for Framework Data and Location-Based Services; Mike Jackson, Peter Woodsford, UNITED KINGDOM

Classification and Identification of Cadastral Structure Change; Xiaoguang Zhou, Jun Chen, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

"Farm-map on Internet" Geospatial Infrastructure and Web Map Services – A State of the Art for the Agricultural Sector; Hildegunn Norheim, NORWAY.

Research on Parallel Bulk-Loading R-Trees Based on Partition Technology of Database; Zhou Qin, Zhong Ershun and Huang Yaohuan, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; etc.

 

TS WG VI/6: Special Interests Group "Technology Transfer Caravan"

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: 201A Conference Room

Chair: Armin Gruen, ETH, SWITZERLAND

Co- Chair: Shunji Murai, University of Tokyo, JAPAN

 

Report on the Work of ISPRS WG VI SIG “Technology Transfer Caravan”; Armin Gruen, SWITZERLAND; Shunji Murai, JAPAN; Lal Samarakoon, THAILAND.

JICA NET Distance Education on Remote Sensing and GIS for Developing Countries; Shunji Murai, University of Tokyo, JAPAN.

High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Spatial Information Generation in Bhutan; Clive Fraser, AUSTRALIA.

Effective Approach of Capacity Building in GIS and Remote Sensing Technologies in Developing Countries; Lal SAMARAKOON, Manzul K. Hazarika, THAILAND; Yoko Inomata, JAPAN

Economic Considerations for Photogrammetric Mapping; Gottfried Konecny, GERMANY.

 

 

TS WG IV/5(1): Web-based Geo-information Services and Applications

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: 201B Conference Room

Chair: Songnian Li; Ryerson University, CANADA

Co- Chair: Bert Veenendaal; Curtin University of Technology, AUSTRALIA

 

Mashup: A New Way of Providing Web Mapping and GIS Services; S.Li and J.Gong, CANADA

SUAS MapServer – An Open Source Framework for Extended Web Map Services; Franz-Josef Behr and Hui Li, GERMANY

The Effect of Google Earth on the Development of a SDI at a Governmental Agency; T.J. Commandeur and P.C.M. van Asperen, NETHERLANDS

Geospatial Web Service Integration and Mashups for Water Resource Applications; C.Granell, L.Diaz and M.Gould, SPAIN

 

TS WG II/7(2): Quality of Spatio-temporal Data and Models

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: 307 Conference Room

Chair: Robert Jeansoulin; Laboratoire des Sciences de l’ Information et des Systemes, FRANCE.

Co-Chair: Wenzhong Shi; The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, CHINA.

 

Quality Evaluation of Generalization Algorithms; Yevgeniya Filippovska, Volker Walter, Dieter Fritsch, GERMANY

Spatial Prediction of Transport Related Urban Air Quality; E. Sertel, H. Demirel, S. Kaya, I.Demir, TURKEY

A Framework for the Fusion of Digital Elevation Models; H. Papasaika, D. Poli, E. Baltsavias, SWITZERLAND

The Quality Assessment and Sampling Model for the Geological Spatial Data in China. Huan XIE, Xiao-hua TONG, Zuo-qin JIANG, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Error Propagation Modeling in GIS Overlay; Jinda Sae-Jung, Xiao Yong Chen, Do Minh Phuong, THAILAND, THAILAND.

 

 

TS WG ICWG V/I: Integrated Systems for Mobile Mapping

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: Convention Hall No.2A

Chair: Naser El-Sheimy, University of Calgary, CANADA

 

Tight Integration of GNSS Post-processed Virtual Reference Station with Inertial Data for Increased Accuracy and Productivity of Airborne Mapping; J. Hutton, Alan Ip, T. Bourke, B. Scherzinger, N. Gopaul and P. Canter,CANADA; I. Oveland and L. Blankenberg, Norway

Common Adjustment of Land-Based and Airborne Mobile Mapping System Data; Taher Hassan and Naser El-Sheimy, CANADA

Integration of Dynamic LiDAR and Image Sensor Data for Route Corridor Mapping; Timothy McCarthy, IRELAND; Jianghua Zheng, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC  OF CHIINA  

Accuracy Enhancement of Unmanned Helicopter Positioning with Low Cost System; U. Coppa, A. Guarnieri, F. Pirotti and A. Vettore, ITALY

Towards In-flight Quality Assessment of Airborne Laser Scanning; P. Schaer, J. Skaloud and P. Tomé, SWITZERLAND

 

TS WG VIII/11(1): Sustainable Forest and Landscape Management 

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: Convention Hall No.2B

Chair: Barbara Koch, University of Freiburg, GERMANY

Co-Chair: Håkan Olsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SWEDEN

 

Satellite Data Time Series for Forecasting, Habiat Modelling and Visualisation of the Managed Boreal Forest Landscape; H. Olsson, O. Sallnäs, M. Nilsson, M. Egberth, P. Sandström, J. Bohlin, SWEDEN

A Fully Automated Procedure for Delineation and Classification of Forest and Non-Forest Vegetation Based on Full Waveform Laser Scanner Data; C. Straub, H. Weinacker, B. Koch, GERMANY

An Accuracy Assessment of DSMS and Orthoimages Derived from ALOS/Prism and Their Availability in Forestry; Y. Imai, Y. Akamatsu, M. Mori, N. Shirai, M. Maruya, H. Ohyama, JAPAN

Change Detection in the Mixed Ombrophilous Forest Using Multispectral Radiometric Rotation Approach; J. R. Santos; F. D. Maldonado; A.L.B.Lopes; A.A. Disperati; E.L.Servello; G.S.Lisboa, BRAZIL

Neighborhood Correlation Image Analysis Technique for Change Detection in Forest Landscape; R.R.Okhandiar, P.L.N. Raju, INDIA; W. Bijker, NETHERLANDS.

 

TS WG VIII/12(1): Geological Mapping, Geomorphology and Geomorphometry

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: Convention Hall No.2C

Chair: Thomas Cudahy, CSIRO, AUSTRALIA.

Co-chair: Eyal Ben-Dor, Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL.

 

Multisensor Ffusion for Mapping Soils and Geomorphology in Antarctica; Bea Csatho, Toni Schenk, UNITED STATES

Stream Processes and Dynamics in the Morphology of the Densu River Channel in Ghana; J.M. Kusimi, GHANA

Multi-frequency InSAR/PolInSAR for Geological Mapping; M. Lorraine Tighe, UNITED STATES.

Non-homogeneity of the Crust from Ms7.9 Manyi (Tibet) Earthquake with InSAR; Caijun Xu, Yangmao Wen, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Passive Ultra-Low Frequency Electromagnetic Detection Technology for Coal Bed Methane and its Application; Qin Qiming, Li Baishou, Li Peijun, Zhang Zexun, Ye Xia, Cui Rongbo, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

 

TS WG VII/4(1): Advanced Classification Techniques

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: 201A Conference Room

Chair: Roman Arbiol, Institut Cartografie de Catalunya, SPAIN

Co-Chair: Zhang Yun, University of New Brunswick, CANADA

 

Intra-Urban Land Cover Classification of High-Resolution Images Using A Knowledge-Based System; Carolina Moutinho Duque de Pinho, Leila Maria Garcia, Emiliano Ferreira Castejon, Gilson Alexandre Ostwald Pedro da Costa, Cloudia Maria de Almeida, Hermann Johann Heinrich Kux, Raul Queiroz Feitosa, BRAZIL

Contribution to the Assessment of Segmentation Quality for Remote Sensing Applications; Uwe Weidner, GERMANY.

An Artificial Immune Algorithm for Mixture Spectrum Recognition of Hyperspectral Data; Yanfei Zhong, Liangpei Zhang, Pingxiang Li, Xin Huang, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; etc.

Region-Based Segmentation of Quickbird Imagery through Fuzzy Integration; Ben Wuest, Y. Zhang, CANADA.

Texture Classification of Aerial Image Based on Bayesian Network Augmented Naive Bayes; YU Xin, ZHENG Zhaobao, ZHANG Haitao, YE Zhiwei, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

 

 

TS ThS-18 Change Detection

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: 201B Conference Room

Chair: GONG Jianya, Wuhan University, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Co-chair: John van Genderen, ITC, NETHERLANDS

 

Monitoring Iraqi Mapshlands Restoration Using Remote Sensing and GIS; Mamdooh Mahdi, NETHERLANDS.  

Detection of changes in land salinization in Northeast China from Landsat TM and ASTER data; Jay Gao, NEW ZEALAND.

Variations in Crop Phenology in China During 1983 To 2002; Wenbin Wu, Ryosuke Shibasaki , JAPAN; Peng Yang, Qingbo Zhou, Huajun Tang, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Change Detection of Wetland in Hongze Lake Using a Time Series of Remote Sensing Imagery; R. RUAN, Y. ZHANG, Y. ZHOU, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

Urban Land-Cover Mapping And Change Detection With Radarsat SAR Data Using Neural Network And Rule-Based Classifiers; Hongtao Hu,Yifang Ban, SWEDEN

 

TS SS-7 Geomatics and Emergency Response

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: 201C Conference Room

Chair: Piero Boccardo, Politecnico di Torino, ITALY

Co-Chair: Li Suju, National Disaster Reduction Center of China, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

 

Remote sensing applications for humanitarian operations; Carlos Veloso, UN WFP

The International Charter for Space and Major Disaster: Wenchuan Earthquake Activiation, Li Suju, THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Early impact mapping: recent activations for Myanmar and China Emergencies, Fabio Giulio Tonolo, ITALY

USe of Digital Photogrammetric Grid in the Emergency Responses of Wenchuan Earthquake, Zhang Zuxun, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

 

TS WG V/3(1): Terrestrial Laser Scanning - Orientation

Date: 5 July 2008

Time: 16:00-17:30

Room: 307 Conference Room

Chair: Norbert Pfeifer, Vienna University of Technology, AUSTRIA

 

Analysis of Score Functions for the Automatic Registration of Terrestrial Laser Scans; Christoph Dold and Claus Brenner, GERMANY

Combined Knowledge Propagation for Facade Reconstruction; Susanne Becker, Norbert Haala and Dieter Fritsch, GERMANY

Automatic Registration of Terrestrial Point Cloud using Panoramic Reflectance Images; Zhizhong Kang, NETHERLANDS

Line-based Referencing between Images and Laser Scanner Data for Image-based Point Cloud Interpretation in a CAD-Environment; N. Meierhold, A. Bienert and A. Schmich, GERMANY

Terrestrial Laser Scanner Data Denoising by Range Image Processing for Small-Sized Objects; E. Smigiel, E. Alby and P. Grussenmeyer , FRANCE

 

TS SS-3: Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and Spatial Information Grid (SIG)

Date: 7 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2A

Chair: Pakron Apaphant; WGISS/CEOS, THAILAND

Co-Chair: LIU Dinsheng; CEODE/CAS, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC  OF CHINA

 

Mapping Spatial Data Infrastructures To A Grid Environment For Optimized Processing Of Large Amounts Of Spatial Data; Andreas Krüger, Thomas H. Kolbe, GERMANY

Semantic Web Enabled Intelligent Geospatial Web Services; Ling Jiang, Jianya Gong, Bin Li, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Evaluation of Large-Scale Storage Systems For Satellite Data in Geo Grid; Y.Tanimura, N.Yamamoto, Y.Tanaka, K.Iwao, I.Kojima, R.Nakamura, S.Tsuchida and S.Sekiguchi, JAPAN

Construction of Grid-based Monitoring Mechanism for Slopeland; Ying-Chin Chen, Mei-Ling Yeh, Tien-Yin Chou and Lang-Kun Chung, TAIWAN, CHINA

Institutional Networking for a Regional SDI in the Hindu-Kush Himalayas; B.Bajracharya, B.Shrestha and S.Siddiqui, NEPAL

 

TS WG III/2 & ICWG III/V: Image Sequences and Surfaces 

Date: 7 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2B

Chair: Fabio Remondino, ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND

Co-Chair: Volker Rodehorst, Technische Universität Berlin, GERMANY

 

Robust Spatio-Temporal Feature Tracking; Matthias Heinrichs, Olaf Hellwich and Volker Rodehorst GERMANY  

On Visual Real Time Mapping for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Richard Steffen and Wolfgang Förstner, GERMANY

Evaluation of Different Methods for Using Colour Information in Global Stereo Matching Approaches; Michael Bleyer, AUSTRIA; Sylvie Chambon,  FRANCE;  Uta Poppe and Margrit Gelautz, AUSTRIA

An Implicit Geometric Regularization of 3D Building Shape Using Airborne Lidar Data; Y. Jwa, G. Sohn , V. Tao, CANADA; W. Cho, SOUTH KOREA

 

TS WG VIII/1(1): Human Settlements and Impact

Date: 7 July 2008

Time: 10:30-12:00

Room: Convention Hall No.2C

Chair: Derya Maktav, Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY

Co-Chair: Min SUN, Peking University, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

 

Impact of Corridor Struture on Urban Heat Island in Beijing, China; Mingyi DU, Weixian SUN, Yurong CHEN, THE PEOPLE’ S REPUBLIC OF CHINA