European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories
32nd EARSeL Symposium Proceedings

Advances in Geosciences

Mykonos Island, Greece, 21 May - 24 May 2012

ISBN: 978-960-88490-3-7

Editors:

Konstantinos G. Perakis

Athanasios K. Moysiadis

Department of Planning and Regional Development

University of Thessaly, Greece

Preface
1. 3D Remote Sensing	Pages	Link
Airborne or Spaceborne Images for Topographic Mapping? Karsten Jacobsen	1-8
DSM Extraction from PRISM Stereopairs and Triplet Baiocchi Valerio, Milone Maria Vittoria, Mormile Martina and Francesco Palazzo	9-17
2. Change Detection	Pages	Link
Change Detection in Wadden Sea Areas Using Rapideye Data Sascha Klonus, Manfred Ehlers, Alena Schmidt, Uwe Soergel, Winny Adolph and Hubert Farke	18-25
Monitoring and Prediction of Land Cover Changes in the Island of Corfu in Greece Athanasios K. Moysiadis, Antonios Ntentes and Konstantinos G. Perakis	26-32
3. Coastal Zones	Pages	Link
Coastline Detection from Remotely Sensed Imagery: Development of a Methodology Based on Advanced Smoothing Techniques and the Canny Edge Detector Eirini Teloni, Konstantinos Karantzalos and Demetre Argialas	33-42
Low Altitude Coastal Aerial Photogrammetry for High-Resolution Seabed Imaging and Habitat Mapping of the Shallow Areas Evangelos D. Alevizos	43-57
Shoreline Detection from Very High Resolution Satellite Images Valerio Baiocchi, Raffaella Brigante, Donatella Dominici and Fabio Radicioni	58-68
Observing Coastlines with Satellite Data: a Case-Study in Abruzzo (Italy) Francesco Palazzo, Valerio Baiocchi, Keti Lelo, Maria Vittoria Milone, Martina Mormile, Andrea Minchella, Fabio Del Frate, Daniele Latini, Sylvie Remondiere and Donatella Dominici	69-80
4. Cultural and Natural Heritage	Pages	Link
Test Case on the Quality Analysis of Structure from Motion in Airborne Applications Cornelis Stal, Jean Bourgeois, Philippe De Maeyer, Guy De Mulder, Alain De Wulf, Rudi Goossens, Marijn Hendrickx, Timothy Nuttens and Birger Stichelbaut	81-91
Application of Terrestrial 3D Laser Scanning in Cultural Heritage Documentation: Example of "Armenian Bath" Resul Comert, Merve Ersoy, Ugur Avdan, Tugrul Hocaoglu, Gurkan Balaban and Serhan Tuncer	92-99
Fundamental Tools for Photo-Interpretation in Mountainous Rocky Areas: Photogrammetry and Ground-Truthing Gianluca Cantoro and Apostolos Sarris	100-112
Semi-Automatic Detection of Burial Mounds in Forested Areas Øivind Due Trier, Maciel Zortea and Siri Øyen Larsen	113-124
Linear Spectral Unmixing for the Detection of Neolithic Settlements in the Thessalian Plain, Central Greece Athos Agapiou, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, Apostolos Sarris, Andreas Georgopoulos and Dimitrios D. Alexakis	125-140
A GIS Based Application for the Management of Monuments and Antiquities of Cyprus Aris Kydonakis, Angelos Chliaoutakis and Apostolos Sarris	141-151
Remote Sensing as a Non-Invasive Method for the Study of the Past Permafrost Features; the Case Study of Wielkopolska, Poland Andrzej Kijowski, Marek Ewertowski and Marcin Słowik	152-164
Using Remote Sensing, Laser Scanning and GPS for Documentation of the Historical Byzantine Aydos Castle Cengiz Erdoğan and Derya Maktav	165-174
Remote Sensing of the Archaeological Remains of Roman Maritime Villas on the Eastern Adriatic Coast Vlasta Begović and Ivančica Schrunk Erratum: The authors acknowledge that aerial images credits should be given to the State Geodetic Office of Croatia (Državna Geodetska Uprava)	175-186
5. Disaster Monitoring and Response	Pages	Link
Assessing Soil Erosion Rate in a Catchment Area in Cyprus Using Remote Sensing and GIS Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, Athos Agapiou, Kyriakos Themistokleous and Christiana Papoutsa	187-194
Geospatial Tools for Olive Oil Mills’ Wastes (OOMW) Disposal Areas Management Angelos Chliaoutakis, Aris Kydonakis, Maria K. Doula, Victor A. Kavvadias, Apostolos Sarris and Nikos Papadopoulos	195-207
LANDSAT and Ground Data Analyses to Define Flood Risk Zafer Aslan, Derya Maktav, Deniz Okçu, A. Serap Söğüt and İrfan Akar	208-217
6. Education and Training	Pages	Link
Incorporating Free/Open Source Software in Remote Sensing Education. Pros and Cons from Teaching Applications in Remote Sensing Konstantinos Papatheodorou, Konstantinos Ntouros, Elias Grinias and Dimitris Kotzinos	218-224
7. Forest Fires	Pages	Link
Spectral Signatures of Pinus Brutia Post Fire Regeneration in Paphos Forest, Using Ground Spectroradiometers Kostas Papageorgiou, Diofandos. G. Hadjimitsis, Athos Agapiou, Kyriakos Themistokleous, Christiana Papoutsa, Nikos Koutsias and Nektarios Chrysoulakis	225-230
Assessing Forest Fire Risk and Fire Propagation in the Area of Valia Calda, National Park of North Pindos, Greece Eleni A. Tzanou, Georgios S. Vergos and Stergios G. Vergos	231-243
8. Forestry and Natural Environment	Pages	Link
Forest Biomass Modeling by Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Data: the Brazilian Scientific Missions João R. Santos, Fábio F. Gama, Igor S. Narvaes and José C. Mura	244-250
Comparing Height of Individual Spruce Trees Determined on LiDAR Data with Reference Field Measurements Marius Petrila, Vladimir Gancz, Bogdan Apostol and Adrian Lorenţ	251-262
Temporal Land Cover Analysis of a NATURA 2000 Wetland. The Case Study of Megalo Livari (GR 2420004) in Northern Evia, Greece Athanasios K. Moysiadis and Georgios S. Efthimiou	263-269
9. Hydrology	Pages	Link
The Impact of Recent High-Resolution Global Digital Elevation Models to the Determination of Basin Hydrological Properties. An Application to Northern Greece Eleni A. Tzanou and Georgios S. Vergos	270-283
Remote Sensing of Coastal Areas in Cyprus Using In-Situ Spectroradiometric Data and Water Quality Data: The "SAT-COAST" Project Christiana Papoutsa, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, Leonidas Toulios, Adrianos Retalis and Michael Scoullos	284-289
Methodological Chain for Hydrological Management with Web-GIS Applications Alexandros Konstantinidis, Eleni Tzanou, Konstantinos Evangelidis, Eustathios Makridis and Konstantinos Perakis	290-297
10. Imaging Spectroscopy	Pages	Link
Use of Land Cover Fractions Obtained from Multiple Endmember Unmixing of CHRIS/Proba Imagery for Distributed Runoff Estimation Luca Demarchi, Eva Ampe, Frank Canters, Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Juliette Dujardin, Imtiaz Bashir and Okke Batelaan	298-307
Material Reflectance Retrieval in Shadow Due to Urban Vegetation from 3D Lidar Data and Hyperspectral Airborne Imagery Karine R.M. Adeline, Xavier Briottet and Nicolas Paparoditis	308-317
Variability of Field Spectroradiometric Measurements Using Nearly Lambertian Surfaces Athos Agapiou, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, Argyro Nisantzi, Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Kyriacos Themistocleous, Giorgos Papadavid and Christiana Papoutsa	318-324
11. Instruments and Methods	Pages	Link
Application of MODIS LST Data for Calculation of Evapotranspiration in the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil Aurélio Azevedo Barreto-Neto and Anthony Fabriz Marchesi	325-332
Developing Hyperspectral LiDAR for Structural and Biochemical Analysis of Forest Data Daniel Martinez-Ramirez, Gerald S. Buller, Aongus McCarthy, Ximing Ren, Andrew Wallace, Simone Morak, Caroline Nichol and Iain Woodhouse	333-343
Geoprocessing Services Over the Web Konstantinos Evangelidis, Konstantinos Ntouros and Stathis Makridis	344-349
12. Land Use / Land Cover	Pages	Link
Documenting Typical Land Cover Changes in Europe György Büttner and Barbara Kosztra	350-369
Evaluation of Change Detection Methods in Remote Sensing, and Development of Relevant Open Source Algorithms in the Orfeo Toolbox Maria Vakalopoulou and Demetre Argialas	370-381
Development of Methodology for the Optimization of Classification Accuracy of Landsat TM/ETM+ Imagery in a Catchment Area in Cyprus Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, Athos Agapiou, Adrianos Retalis and Christiana Papoutsa	382-387
Land Cover Maps for Regional Climate Modelling in West Africa – A Comparison of Datasets Ursula Gessner, Jan Bliefernicht, Maren Rahmann and Stefan Dech	388-397
13. Ocean and Climate Change	Pages	Link
Ocean Remote Sensing in Support of Sea Level Anomalies and Mean Sea Surface Modeling Georgios S. Vergos and Dimitrios A. Natsiopoulos	398-423
14. Proba-V	Pages	Link
Proba-V, a SPOT-VGT Successor Mission, Product Definition and Specifications Tanja Van Achteren, Wouter Dierckx, Sindy Sterckx, Iskander Benhadj, Stefan Livens and Gilbert Saint	424-429
Comparative Analysis of Land-Use/Land-Cover Maps for Chosen Test Areas on the Territory of Bulgaria and Romania Using Simulated Proba-V and SPOT Vegetation Data Eugenia Roumenina, Lachezar Filchev, Vassil Vassilev, Petar Dimitrov, Georgi Jelev, Gheorghe Stancalie, Elena Savin and Denis Mihailescu	430-435
Evaluating the Potential of the PROBA-V Sensor in Estimating Forest Cover Change Over a Range of European Biogeographical Regions: The FM@PROBA-V Project Ioannis Manakos, Ioannis Gitas, Mathias Schardt, Chariton Kalaitzidis, Eleni Dragozi and Heinz Gallaun	436-444
Extracting Urban Areas on Simulated Proba-V Data Using ANFIS Demetris Stathakis, Konstantinos Perakis and Ioannis Faraslis	445-448
Forest Mapping and Forest Cover Change Detection in a Mediterranean Area Using Coarse Resolution Data and Advanced Image Analysis Techniques Eleni Dragozi, Maria Tompoulidou and Ioannis Gitas	449-458
Burned Area Mapping and Post-Fire Monitoring Using Time Series of Proba-V Simulated and SPOT VEGETATION Data and by Employing the BFAST Trend Analysis Method Thomas Katagis, Ioannis Z. Gitas, Pericles Toukiloglou and Rudi Goossens	459-465
Monitoring Evapotranspiration at Sub-Kilometer Scale: Downscaling MSG/SEVIRI Images Using Moderate Resolution Remote Sensing Derived Data Nicolas Ghilain, Alirio Arboleda and Françoise Gellens-Meulenberghs	466-474
Fusion of Sentinel-2 and Proba-V/Sentinel-3 Images for Multi-Temporal Land-Cover Map Jordi Inglada, Julien Osman and Tiangang Yin	475-483
Burned Area Mapping in a Mediterranean Environment Using Time-Series VEGETATION and Simulated PROBA-V Imagery by Employing an Object-Based Change Detection Approach Pericles Toukiloglou, Ioannis Z. Gitas, Giorgos Mallinis and Thomas Katagis	484-494
15. Radar Remote Sensing	Pages	Link
Potential of Airborne Laser Scanning Data for Classification of Wadden Sea Areas Alena Schmidt, Winny Adolph, Sascha Klonus, Manfred Ehlers, Hubert Farke and Uwe Soergel	495-502
Combining Valley Following and Rule Based Segmentation for an Automatic Object Extraction from LiDAR Height Data Melanie Kolditz, Cristina Petre and Jürgen Roßmann	503-514
Using a Production System for the Detection of Regular Patterns in Urban High Resolution SAR Datasets Alexander Schunert and Uwe Soergel	515-522
Agricultural Field Border Line Retrieval Using Optical and SAR Imagery Roland Perko, Hannes Raggam, Karlheinz Gutjahr and Mathias Schardt	523-532
Interferometric Determination of Subsidences in Prague City Kvetoslava Svobodova, Ivana Hlavacova and Lena Halounová	533-539
Monitoring the Change in Volume of Waste in Landfill Using SAR Interferometry Vassilia Karathanassi, Chris Choussiafis and Zoi Grammatikou	540-551
Mosaic Methods for Improving the Accuracy of Interferometric Based Digital Elevation Models Chris Choussiafis, Vassilia Karathanassi and Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos	552-560
16. Thermal Remote Sensing	Pages	Link
Study of Uncertainties from Evapotranspiration Models Applied to Landsat Data Over a Mediterranean Agricultural Region Maria Mira, Dominique Courault, Albert Olioso, Olivier Hagolle, Olivier Marloie, Sergio Castillo-Reyes and Belén Gallego-Elvira	561-574
17. Urban Remote Sensing	Pages	Link
Predicting the Spatial Distribution of Population Based on Impervious Surface Maps and Modelled Land Use Change Yves Cornet, Marc Binard, Martin Ledant, Johannes van der Kwast, Tim Van de Voorde and Frank Canters	575-586
Integrated Use of Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS for the Development of a Sophisticated Sustainability Index for Urban Areas: A Case Study of Paphos City (Cyprus) Chrysostomos Italos, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Kyriacos Themistocleous, Athos Agapiou, Argyro Nisantzi, Christiana Papoutsa and Giorgos Papadavid	587-593
Semi-Automatic Object-Based Building Change Detection in Suburban Areas from Quickbird Imagery Using the Erdas Imagine Objective Software Georgios Karagiannis and Demetre Argialas	594-607
Operational Traffic Monitoring Using Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery Siri Øyen Larsen, Arnt-Børre Salberg, Line Eikvil and Øivind Due Trier	608-617
Satellite Observation of Urban Heat Island Effect Maria Zoran, Roxana Savastru, Dan Savastru, Marina Nicoleta Tautan and Mariana Rodica Dida	618-630