Section index

• Preface
• Agriculture
• Data Fusion
• Environmental Applications
• Image Processing Techniques
• Imaging Spectroscopy
• Land Degradation
• Land Use Land Cover
• Oceans and Coastal Zones
• Radar Remote Sensing
• UNESCO World Heritage
• Water and Atmosphere
• 3D Remote Sensing
• Geohazards Workshop

Agriculture

• Proximal and remote sensing observations for precision farming application, the Citimap project: experimental design and preliminary data analysis
• The integrated utilization of satellite images in Hungary: operational applications from crop monitoring to ragweed control
• Application of microwave and optical data for monitoring soil moisture and crop parameters in Poland
• Chlorophyll fluorescence as a quantitative measure of plant stress
• Remote sensing of the effect of the herbicide glyphosate on the leaf spectral reflectance of pea plants (pisum sativum l.)
• Influence of the excitation light angle on the vegetation fluorescence emission
• Monitoring crop evapotranspiration with time series of MODIS satellite data in Northern Italy
• Spectrally-dependent attenuation of microwaves by vegetation canopies

Data Fusion

• Analysis of the quality of fused products with corresponding referent original images
• A genetic approach to Pan-sharpening of multispectral images
• Comparing distances for quality assessment of fused images
• MS + Pan image fusion by an enhanced Gram-Schmidt spectral sharpening

Environmental Applications

• Qualitative distinction between terrain deformations and processing errors, and quantitative description of deformations for the 3-pass interferometry
• Fire detection and monitoring by means of MSG: capabilities and restrictions
• Investigation of thermal infrared emissivity spectra of mineral and rock samples
• Fire severity estimation using remotely-sensed data
• The reconstruction of the Attila-line
• The influence of past human activity gradients on present variation of NDVI and texture indices in Zabory Landscape Park
• Techniques of forest visualisation with the use of IKONOS image – Kozienice Forest case
• Leaf Area Index estimates from medium resolution satellite imagery and ground data

Image Processing Techniques

• Image processing techniques for hybrid remote sensing using honeybees as multitude of acquisition sensors
• Application of mathematical morphology operations for the improvement of identification of linear objects preliminarily extracted from classification of VHR satellite images
• Morphological processing of satellite images for improvement of classification of orchards
• Applying fused multispectral and panchromatic data of Landsat ETM+ to object oriented classification
• Land use/cover classification using orbital and ancillary data, neural networks and multiresolution segmentation
• Comparing pixel versus object based classifiers for land cover mapping with Envisat-MERIS data

Imaging Spectroscopy

• Evaluation of feature extraction and reduction methods for hyperspectral images
• Spatial-spectral contextual image analysis of hyperspectral data to aid in the characterisation of hydrothermal alteration in epithermal gold deposits

Land Degradation

• Detecting land deformation in the area of the Northern Bohemia using InSAR stacks (preliminary results)
• Monitoring inter-annual land cover dynamics at the rainforest margin in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
• A semi-operational approach for land cover mapping in the Mediterranean
• Evaluation of EO data for rainfall-runoff processes in the Bela River catchment
• Spatial assessment of erosion and its impact on soil fertility in the Tajik foothills

Land Use Land Cover

• The use of texture for image classification of black & white air-photographs
• Use of intra-annual satellite imagery time-series for land cover characterization purposes
• Parametric model for intra-annual reflectance time series
• Developing MODIS time series for monitoring vegetation conditions: preliminary results
• Analysis of the temporal signature of vineyards in Portugal using VEGETATION
• A toolbox for multi-temporal analysis of satellite imagery
• Regional monitoring of the Earth's surface

Oceans and Coastal Zones

• Classification with Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines: application to oil fluorescence spectra
• Measuring ocean wave-skewness in the Austral Ocean from Radar Altimetry
• Image-based correction of the aerosol effect over coastal waters with ASTER VNIR data

Radar Remote Sensing

• Supervised classification of multi-channel high-resolution SAR data
• Satellite SAR and urban remote sensing: status and perspectives
• A fusion concept for road extraction from multi-aspect SAR data
• Control of land-cover during winter using radar data
• Empirical model of soil roughness from SAR data in mountain humid area (Asturias, north of Spain)
• ERS and ENVISAT SAR coherence properties of boreal forests
• Sensitivity of ENVISAT ASAR image classification accuracy to spatial variability of selected environmental parameters in rural areas
• Environmental monitoring using ENVISAT ASAR data in agricultural areas

UNESCO World Heritage

• The potential of Lidar in assessing elements of cultural heritage hidden under forests

Water and Atmosphere

• The analysis of sensibility to the change of the input parameters in the 6S model
• Estimation of daily mean air temperature from MODIS LST in Alpine areas
• Towards operational use of MERIS and SeaWiFS data for water quality monitoring: challenges for the end-user
• The spatial diversification of lake water quality parameters in Mazurian Lakes in summertime
• Investigation of water quality parameters by using multiple regression and fuzzy logic in the Istanbul Strait, Turkey

3D Remote Sensing

• Effect of digital terrain model resolution on topographic parameters calculation and spatial distribution of errors
• Comparison of DEM generation by very high resolution optical satellites
• DSM extraction from Quickbird Basic Stereo and Standard Orthoready imagery: quality assessment and comparison
• Accuracy assessment of an IKONOS derived DSM over urban and suburban area
• Registration of a Ikonos image to a Digital Surface Model and true orthorectification
• Comparison of image orientation by IKONOS, QuickBird and OrbView-3
• Accuracy assessment of DSM extracted from IKONOS stereo images
• Vertical accuracy assessment of SRTM C-band DEM data for different terrain characteristics

Geohazards Workshop

• Improving models of river flood inundation using remote sensing
• Use of hyperspectral remote sensing to detect hazardous gas leakage from pipelines
• Detecting site instability hazards with SAR interferometry