9:00 AM	Ballroom B: Welcome to IGARSS 2011 (4 speakers) Authors: Dr. Motoyuki Sato, General Chair; Dr. Jón Atli Benediktsson, President; Dr. Moshe Kam, President; Dr. Monique Bernier, National Chair

9:40 AM	Ballroom B: Major Awards and Recognitions Authors: Dr. Martti Hallikainen, GRSS Awards Co-Chair

10:30 AM	Ballroom B: ALOS, Earth Monitoring, and “Sayonara” Authors: Dr. Masanobu Shimada, JAXA Principal Researcher, Science program Leader of ALOS and ALOS-2

11:05 AM	Ballroom B: Advances in science and techniques for ground-based radar remote-sensing of the Earth’s atmosphere Authors: Dr. Shoichiro Fukao, Fukui University of Technology/Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University

11:40 AM	Ballroom B: The Evolution of Earth Observation in Canada – A perspective Authors: Mr. Luc Brûlé, Director General, Space Utilization, CSA

12:15 PM	Ballroom B: IGARSS 2011 Technical Program Authors: Dr. Yoshio Yamaguchi, Technical Program Co-Chair; Dr. Ya-Qiu Jin, Technical Program Co-Chair

1:20 PM	Ballroom A: INVENTORY REGION VALLES, JALISCO. MEXICO Authors: Juan Jorge Rodriguez Bautista; Universidad de Guadalajara Francisco Esteban Reyes Sanchez; Universidad de Guadalajara
	Ballroom B: A SHORT NOTE IN SELECTING A MICROWAVE SCATTERING OR EMISSION MODEL Authors: Adrian K. Fung
	Ballroom B: A SHORT NOTE IN SELECTING A MICROWAVE SCATTERING OR EMISSION MODEL Authors: Adrian K. Fung; The University of Texas at Arlington
	Ballroom C: AN AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS APPROACH TO DETECTING LAND COVER CHANGE USING HYPER-TEMPORAL TIME-SERIES DATA Authors: Waldo Kleynhans; University of Pretoria, Brian Salmon; University of Pretoria, Jan C. Olivier; University of Pretoria, Konrad Wessels; Council for Scientific and Industrial Resea, Frans van den Bergh; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
	Room 01: RECENT ADVANCES IN SCATTERING MODEL-BASED DECOMPOSITIONS: AN OVERVIEW Authors: Jong-Sen Lee; Thomas Ainsworth; Yanting Wang; Naval Research Laboratory
	Room 02/03: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT EVALUATION OVER VARIOUS VALIDATION/CALIBRATION SITES Authors: Yann H. Kerr; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Claire Gruhier; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Arnaud Mialon; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Silvia Juglea; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Ahmad Albitar; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Simone Bircher; DTIU Space Thierry Pellarin; LTHE
	Room 02/03: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT EVALUATION OVER VARIOUS VALIDATION/CALIBRATION SITES Authors: Yann H. Kerr; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Claire Gruhier; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Arnaud Mialon; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Silvia Juglea; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Ahmad Albitar; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Simone Bircher; DTIU Space, Thierry Pellarin; LTHE
	Room 08/15: SPATIAL CLASSIFICATION OF WORLDVIEW-2 MULTI-ANGLE SEQUENCE Authors: Nathan Longbotham; University of Colorado, William J. Emery; University of Colorado Boulder, Chad Bleiler; DigitalGlobe Inc., Chuck Chaapel; DigitalGlobe Inc., Chris Padwick; DigitalGlobe Inc., Fabio Pacifici; DigitalGlobe Inc.
	Room 11: NOAA’S JOINT POLAR SATELLITE SYSTEM AND THE NPP SATELLITE: DELIVERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH OBSERVATIONS Authors: Karen St Germain; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration James Gleason; NASA Robert Murphy; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Carl Hoffman; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration John Furgerson; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
	Room 11: NOAA’S JOINT POLAR SATELLITE SYSTEM AND THE NPP SATELLITE: DELIVERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH OBSERVATIONS Authors: Karen St Germain from NOAA;James Gleason from NASA;Robert Murphy from NOAA;Carl Hoffman from NOAA;John Furgerson from NOAA
	Room 12: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE FREQUENCY-DOMAIN DORT IMAGING METHOD WITH UWB RADAR FOR A FINITE-SIZED TARGET Authors: Lu Qi, Jilin University and Liu Sixin, Jilin University
	Room 13: UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION AND SPECTRAL UNMIXING FOR SUB-PIXEL LABELLING Authors: Alberto Villa; Grenoble Institute of Technology, Jocelyn Chanussot; Grenoble Institute of Technology, Jon Atli Benediktsson; University of Iceland, Christian Jutten; Grenoble Institute of Technology
	Room 19: ESTIMATION OF THE DIFFUSE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT KD(LAMBDA) WITH A NEURAL NETWORK INVERSION Authors: Cedric Jamet from Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences; Hubert Loisel from Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences; David Dessailly from Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences

1:40 PM	Ballroom A: ARCHAEOLOGICAL LAND USE CHARACTERIZATION USING MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA Authors: Ivan E. Villalon-Turrubiates; Universidad de Guadalajara Maria J. Llovera-Torres; Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi
	Ballroom B: APPLICATIONS OF THE INTEGRAL EQUATION MODEL IN MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF LAND SURFACE PARAMETERS Authors: Jiancheng Shi; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of California Santa Barbara, Kun-Shan Chen; National Central University
	Ballroom C: HYPERSPECTRAL CHANGE DETECTION USING IR-MAD AND FEATURE REDUCTION Authors: Prashanth Reddy Marpu; University of Iceland, Paolo Gamba; University of Pavia, Jon Atli Benediktsson; University of Iceland
	Room 02/03: SMOS SOIL MOISTURE VALIDATION WITH U.S. IN SITU NETWORKS Authors: Thomas Jackson; USDA ARS Rajat Bindlish; SSAI Michael Cosh; USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory Tianjie Zhao; USDA ARS
	Room 08/15: SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION OF WORLDVIEW-2 MULTI-ANGLE SEQUENCE Authors: Nathan Longbotham; University of Colorado, William J. Emery; University of Colorado Boulder, Chad Bleiler; DigitalGlobe Inc., Chuck Chaapel; DigitalGlobe Inc., Chris Padwick; DigitalGlobe Inc., Fabio Pacifici; DigitalGlobe Inc.
	Room 11: EXPERIMENTS OF SATELLITE DATA SIMULATION BASED ON THE COMMUNITY LAND MODEL AND SCE-UA ALGORITHM Authors: Shenglei Zhang,     Jiancheng Shi,     Youjun Dou,     Xiaojun Yin,     Liying Li,     Chenzhou Liu of the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 11: EXPERIMENTS OF SATELLITE DATA SIMULATION BASED ON THE COMMUNITY LAND MODEL AND SCE-UA ALGORITHM Authors: Shenglei Zhang,Jiancheng Shi,Youjun Dou,Xiaojun Yin,Liying Li,Chenzhou Liu from Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 12: WIDE BAND STEPPED-FREQUENCY GROUND PENETRATING RADAR Authors: Takashi Kido; Tohoku University Yuya Yokota; Tohoku University Fumika Kawahara; Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. Motoyuki Sato; Tohoku University
	Room 13: SUBPIXEL CLASSIFICATION FOR FLOOD MAPPING Authors: Chandrama Dey; Australian Defence Force Academy; UNSW, Dr. Xiuping Jia; Australian Defence Force Academy; UNSW
	Room 19: Ecological Weather Authors:
	Room 19: CHLOROPHYLL ENHANCEMENT BY EDDIES IN THE AGULHAS CURRENT SYSTEM Authors: Graham Quartly from National Oceanography Centre, UK

2:00 PM	Ballroom A: MONITORING HYDROLOGICAL VARIATIONS USING MULTISPECTRAL SPOT-5 DATA: REGIONAL CASE OF JALISCO IN MEXICO Authors: Ivan E. Villalon-Turrubiates; Universidad de Guadalajara
	Ballroom B: A STUDY OF DENSE MEDIUM SCATTERING AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN SEA ICE RESEARCH IN ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTICA Authors: Yu Jen Lee; Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Wee Keong Lim; Multimedia University Hong Tat Ewe; Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Hean Teik Chuah; Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
	Ballroom B: A STUDY OF DENSE MEDIUM SCATTERING AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN SEA ICE RESEARCH IN ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTICA Authors: Yu Jen Lee; Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Wee Keong Lim; Multimedia University , Hong Tat Ewe; Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Hean Teik Chuah; Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
	Ballroom C: MULTITEMPORAL REGION-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES BY MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS AND MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION Authors: Gabriele Moser; University of Genoa, Sebastiano B. Serpico; University of Genoa
	Room 01: CHARACTERIZATION OF SINGULAR STRUCTURES IN POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES BY WAVELET FRAMES Authors: Gianfranco De Grandi; Commission of European Communities Pete Bunting; Aberystwyth University Alexandre Bouvet; Commission of European Communities Thomas Ainsworth; Naval Research Laboratory
	Room 02/03: VALIDATION OF SMOS L1C AND L2 PRODUCTS WITH AIRBORNE AND IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS ACROSS SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA Authors: Christoph Rüdiger & Jeffrey P. Walker of Monash University; Yann H. Kerr, Olivier Merlin, Arnaud Mialon of Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO); Edward J. Kim; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 08/15: A FRAMEWORK FOR THE SIMULATION OF HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION IMAGE SERIES Authors: Jordi Inglada; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/ Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Olivier Hagolle; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/ Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Gérard Dedieu; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/ Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)
	Room 11: NPP ATMS PRELAUNCH PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT AND SENSOR DATA RECORD VALIDATION Authors: William J. Blackwell; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory | Lynn Chidester; Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University Research Foundation | Edward J. Kim; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center R. Vincent Leslie; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory | Joseph Lyu; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Tsan Mo; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Satellite Applications and Research
	Room 11: NPP ATMS PRELAUNCH PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT AND SENSOR DATA RECORD VALIDATION Authors: William J. Blackwell from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory; Lynn Chidester from Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University Research Foundation; Edward J. Kim from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; R. Vincent Leslie from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory; Joseph Lyu from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Tsan Mo from NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Satellite Applications and Research
	Room 12: CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE FOR BROADBAND ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION SENSORS Authors: Waymond Scott; Georgia Institute of Technology
	Room 13: L1 NETWORK INVERSION FOR ROBUST OUTLIER REJECTION IN PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY Authors: Fernando Rodriguez-Gonzalez; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Akanksha Bhutani; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Nico Adam; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 19: INTERANNUAL CHANGES IN ARCTIC ICE-EDGE BLOOMS Authors: Graham Quartly from National Oceanography Centre, UK; Mahé Perrette from Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK)

2:20 PM	Ballroom B: Some Extensions to the Integral Equation Method for Electromagnetic Scattering from Rough Surfaces Authors: Yang Du; Zhejiang University
	Ballroom B: Some Extensions to the Integral Equation Method for Electromagnetic Scattering from Rough Surfaces Authors: Yang Du; Zhejiang University
	Ballroom C: UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN THE FEATURE SPACE USING KERNELS Authors: Michele Volpi from University of Lausanne, Devis Tuia from University of Valencia, Gustavo Camps-Valls from University of Valencia, Mikhail Kanevski from University of Lausanne
	Ballroom C: UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN THE FEATURE SPACE USING KERNELS Authors: Michele Volpi; University of Lausanne Devis Tuia; University of Valencia Gustavo Camps-Valls; University of Valencia Mikhail Kanevski; University of Lausanne
	Room 01: NEW METHOD FOR SHIP DETECTION Authors: Jian Yang; Tsinghua University, Hongji Zhang; Tsinghua University, Yoshio Yamaguchi; Niigata University
	Room 02/03: ESTIMATING SMOS ERROR STRUCTURE USING TRIPLE COLLOCATION Authors: Delphine Leroux; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Yann H. Kerr; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Philippe Richaume; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Béatrice Berthelot; VEGA Technologies
	Room 08/15: SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE BASED DECISION TREE FOR VERY HIGH RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL FOREST MAPPING Authors: Petra Krahwinkler; RWTH Aachen University, Juergen Rossmann; RWTH Aachen University, Bjoern Sondermann; RWTH Aachen University
	Room 11: SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS OF FREEZING SOIL Authors: Jaakko Seppänen; Aalto University Juha Kainulainen; Aalto University Martti Hallikainen; Aalto University Juha Lemmetyinen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Kimmo Rautiainen; Finnish Meteorological Institute
	Room 11: Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Environmental Data Record Validation Program for the NPP Cross-Track Infrared Microwave Sounding Suite (CRIMSS) Authors: Nicholas Nalli from Dell Services Federal Government; Christopher Barnet from Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division; Lihang Zhou from Data Products and Algorithms Group, JPSS; Murty Divakarla from I.M. Systems Group Inc.; Degui Gu from Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
	Room 11: Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Environmental Data Record Validation Program for the NPP Cross-Track Infrared Microwave Sounding Suite (CRIMSS) Authors: Nicholas Nalli; Dell Services Federal Government Christopher Barnet; Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division Lihang Zhou; Data Products and Algorithms Group, JPSS Murty Divakarla; I.M. Systems Group Inc. Degui Gu; Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
	Room 12: LANDMINE DETECTION USING AN ENSEMBLE OF CONTINUOUS HMMS WITH MULTIPLE FEATURES Authors: Anis Hamdi; University of Louisville Hichem Frigui; University of Louisville
	Room 13: LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE BASED SUPER-RESOLUTION MAPPING FROM REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY Authors: Haobo Lin; Hebei University, Yanchen Bo; Beijing Normal University, Jindi Wang; Beijing Normal University, Xiuping Jia; University College; the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy
	Room 19: IN-ORBIT SENSOR MEASURED RADIANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF GEOSTATIONARY OCEAN COLOR IMAGER Authors: Seongick Cho from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI); Hee-Jeong Han from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI); Yu-Hwan Ahn from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI) Joo-Hyung Ryu from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI)

2:40 PM	Ballroom B: BACKSCATTERING FROM SEA SURFACE WITH PRECIPITATION: MODEL ANALYSES AT C- AND Ku-BAND Authors: Saibun Tjuatja; The University of Texas at Arlington Jiamei Li; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiaolong Dong; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Ballroom B: BACKSCATTERING FROM SEA SURFACE WITH PRECIPITATION: MODEL ANALYSES AT C- AND Ku-BAND Authors: Saibun Tjuatja; The University of Texas at Arlington, Jiamei Li; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiaolong Dong; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Ballroom C: RECENT ADVANCES IN OBJECT-BASED CHANGE DETECTION Authors: Clemens Listner; Forschungszentrum Jülich Irmgard Niemeyer; Forschungszentrum Jülich
	Room 01: ON THE USE OF POLARIMETRIC ORIENTATION FOR POLSAR CLASSIFICATION AND DECOMPOSITION Authors: Hiroshi Kimura; Gifu University
	Room 02/03: CONSTRUCTING A LONG TIME SERIES OF SOIL MOISTURE USING SMOS DATA WITH STATISTICS Authors: Delphine Leroux, Yann H. Kerr of Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO); Eric Wood of Princeton University
	Room 08/15: MULTI-SPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING GLOWWORM SWARM OPTIMIZATION Authors: Senthilnath J; Indian Institute of Science, Omkar S.N.; Indian Institute of Science, Mani V; Indian Institute of Science, Tejovanth N; National Institute of Technology, Diwakar P. G.; ISRO, Archana Shenoy B; National Institute of Technology
	Room 11: PRE-LAUNCH CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CLOUDS AND THE EARTH’S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) FLIGHT MODEL 5 (FM5) INSTRUMENT ON NPP Authors: Susan Thomas; SSAI Kory Priestley; NASA Mohan Shankar; SSAI Nathaniel Smith; SSAI Mark Timcoe; SSAI
	Room 11: MULTI-FREQUENCY, MULTI-POLARIZATION AND ANGULAR MEASUREMENTS OF BARE SOIL, SNOW AND WATER ICE MICROWAVE REFLECTION AND EMISSION BY C-, KU-, AND KA-BAND, COMBINED SCATTEROMETER-RADIOMETER SYSTEMS Authors: Artashes Arakelyan; ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd. Astghik Hambaryan; ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd. Vardan Hambaryan; ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd. Vanik Karyan; ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd. Mushegh Manukyan; ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd. Melanya Grigoryan; ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd. Gagik Hovhannisyan; ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd. Arsen Arakelyan; ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd. Marine Simonyan; ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd. Mariam Krdyan; ECOSERV Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd.
	Room 11: PRE-LAUNCH CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CLOUDS AND THE EARTH’S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES) FLIGHT MODEL 5 (FM5) INSTRUMENT ON NPP Authors: Susan Thomas from SSAI; Kory Priestley from NASA; Mohan Shankar from SSAI; Nathaniel Smith from SSAI; Mark Timcoe from SSAI
	Room 12: A RECONFIGURABLE STEPPED FREQUENCY GPR (GPR-R) Authors: Filippo Parrini; University of Firenze Raffaele Persico; Istituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali (IBAM-CNR) Massimiliano Pieraccini; University of Firenze Alessandro Spinetti; University of Firenze Giovanni Macaluso; University of Firenze Matteo Fratini; University of Firenze Devis Dei; University of Firenze Guido Manacorda; IDS - Ingegneria dei Sistemi SpA
	Room 13: MAPPING IMPERVIOUS SURFACES USING MESMA FROM SUPERRESOLUTION ENHANCED CHRIS/PROBA IMAGERY IN THE BRUSSELS CAPITAL REGION Authors: Luca Demarchi; Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Jianglin Ma; Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan; Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Frank Canters; Vrije Universiteit Brussels
	Room 19: BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE FUNCTION IN COASTAL WATERS AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE VALIDATION OF THE OCEAN COLOR SATELLITES Authors: Alexander Gilerson from City College of the City University of New York; Soe Hlaing from City College of the City University of New York; Tristan Harmel from City College of the City University of New York; Alberto Tonizzo from City College of the City University of New York; Robert Arnone from Naval Research Laboratory / Stennis Space Center; Alan Weidemann from Naval Research Laboratory / Stennis Space Center; Samir Ahmed from City College of the City University of New York

3:20 PM	Ballroom B: The Bistatic Electromagnetic Signature of Heterogeneous Sea Surface: Study of the Hydrodynamic Phenomena (Experimental validation) Authors: Slahedine Ben Khadra from ENSTA bretagne, Ali Khenchaf from ENSTA bretagne
	Ballroom C: DETECTION OF LAND-COVER TRANSITIONS IN MULTITEMPORAL IMAGES WITH ACTIVE-LEARNING BASED COMPOUND CLASSIFICATION Authors: Begüm Demir; University of Trento Francesca Bovolo; University of Trento Lorenzo Bruzzone; University of Trento
	Room 01: ESTIMATING SOIL MOISTURE FROM A VARYING SUBSURFACE PROFILE Authors: Jakob van Zyl; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Yunjin Kim; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Uday Khankhoje; California Institute of Technology
	Room 02/03: ON THE USE OF MULTI-TEMPORAL SERIES OF COSMO-SKYMED DATA FOR LANDCOVER CLASSIFICATION AND SURFACE PARAMETER RETRIEVAL OVER AGRICULTURAL SITES Authors: Anna Balenzano; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l'Automazione (ISSIA), Giuseppe Satalino; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l'Automazione (ISSIA), Antonella Belmonte; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l'Automazione (ISSIA), Guido D'Urso; Dipartimento di Ingegneria Agraria e Agronomia del Territorio - Università Federico II (UniNa), Fulvio Capodici; Dipartimento di Ingegneria Agraria e Agronomia del Territorio - Università Federico II (UniNa), Vito Iacobellis; Politecnico di Bari (PoliBa) – Dipartimento di Ingegneria delle Acque e di Chimica, Andrea Gioia; Politecnico di Bari (PoliBa) – Dipartimento di Ingegneria delle Acque e di Chimica, Michele Rinaldi; Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Unità di Ricerca sui Sistemi Colturali per Ambienti caldo-aridi (CRA-SCA), Sergio Ruggieri; Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Unità di Ricerca sui Sistemi Colturali per Ambienti caldo-aridi (CRA-SCA), Francesco Mattia; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) - Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l'Automazione (ISSIA)
	Room 08/15: LAND COVER IDENTIFICATION FOR FINDING HAZELNUT FIELDS USING WORLDVIEW-2 IMAGERY Authors: Kadim Taşdemir; European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Selçuk Reis; Aksaray University
	Room 11: NPP VIIRS PRE-LAUNCH PERFORMANCE AND SDR VALIDATION Authors: Frank De Luccia; The Aerospace Corporation Bruce Guenther; National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chris Moeller; University of Wisconsin Xiaoxiong Xiong; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Robert Wolfe; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 12: ROBUST ESTIMATION OF DIELECTRIC CONSTANT BY GPR USING AN ANTENNA ARRAY Authors: Hai Liu; Tohoku University Motoyuki Sato; Tohoku University
	Room 13: A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON IMAGING TIME DIFFERENCE AMONG BANDS OF WORLDVIEW-2 AND ITS POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS Authors: Jianwei Tao; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Wenxian Yu; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
	Room 19: OBSERVATION OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FEATURES ON THE SEA SURFACE FROM SAR SATELLITE IMAGERY WITH IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS Authors: Chris Maingot, Alexander Soloviev, Mikhail Gilman, Silvia Matt, Jenny Fenton FROM Nova Southeastern University, United States Susanne Lehner, Domenico Velotto, Stephan Brusch FROM German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany William Perrie, Biao Zhang FROM Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada

3:40 PM	Ballroom A: AGGREGATION OF PARALLEL COMPUTING AND HARDWARE/SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS Authors: Alejandro Castillo Atoche; Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan Orlando Palma Marrufo; Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan Luis Ricalde Castellanos; Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan
	Ballroom B: Like polarization and Cross polarization of Radar remote sensing of soil moisture at L band: 3D numerical simulations of Maxwell equations, Analytical models, and Retrieval Performance in Soil Moisture Retrieval Authors: Shaowu Huang from University of Washington, Xueyang Duan from University of Michigan, Jeff Ouellette from The Ohio State University, Xiaolan Xu from University of Washington, Tien-Hao Liao from University of Washington ,Joel Johnson from The Ohio State University, Mahta Moghaddam from University of Michigan, Leung Tsang from University of Washington
	Ballroom C: ENHANCING CHANGE DETECTION RESULTS OF IR-MAD USING A SUBSET Authors: Prashanth Reddy Marpu; University of Iceland Jon Atli Benediktsson; University of Iceland
	Room 01: MAPPING DYNAMIC WETLAND PROCESSES WITH A ONE YEAR RADARSAT-2 QUAD POL TIME-SERIES Authors: Cecile Marechal; IETR CNRS 6164 - University of Rennes 1, Eric Pottier; IETR CNRS 6164 - University of Rennes 1, Sophie Allain; IETR CNRS 6164 - University of Rennes 1, Stephane Meric; IETR CNRS 6164 - University of Rennes 1, Laurence Hubert-Moy; COSTEL UMR 6554 - University of Haute Bretagne, Samuel Corgne; COSTEL UMR 6554 - University of Haute Bretagne
	Room 02/03: COMPARISON OF L AND C BANDS RADAR TIME SERIES FOR THE MONITORING OF SAHELIAN AREA Authors: Pierre-Louis Frison; Université Paris-Est, Grégoire Mercier; Télécom Bretagne, Eric Mougin; LMTG, Pierre Hiernaux; LMTG
	Room 08/15: USE OF MODIS DATA TO AUTOMATICALLY MAP THE AGRICULTURAL FRONTIER IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON AND ITS IMPACTS Authors: Damien Arvor; Université Rennes 2, Margareth Meirelles; Embrapa - UERJ - CIRAD, Vincent Dubreuil; Université Rennes 2, Rodrigo Ferraz; Embrapa - UERJ
	Room 11: PRELAUNCH ASSESSMENT OF THE NORTHROP GRUMMAN VIIRS CLOUD MASK Authors: Thomas Kopp; The Aerospace Corporation Keith Hutchison; Northrup Grumman Space Technology Andrew Heidinger; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Richard Frey; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
	Room 12: A NEW METHOD OF THROUGH WALL MOVING TARGET DETECTION AND IMAGING USING UWB-SP RADAR Authors: Shiyou Wu; Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Yanyun Xu; Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jie Chen; Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shengwei Meng; Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangyou Fang; Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hejun Yin; Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 13: UNSUPERVISED URBAN LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION USING WORLDVIEW-2 DATA AND SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS Authors: Jie Zhang; Rochester Institute of Technology, John Kerekes; Rochester Institute of Technology
	Room 19: SHIP DETECTION WITH QUAD POLARIMETRIC TERRASAR-X DATA: AN ADAPTIVE NOTCH FILTER Authors: Armando Marino FROM The University of Alicante, Spain Nick Walker FROM eOsphere Limited, UK

4:00 PM	Ballroom A: A MULTI-PROCESSOR SYSTEM ON CHIP ARCHITECTURE FOR REAL TIME REMOTE SENSING DATA PROCESSING Authors: Alejandro Castillo Atoche; Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan Jaime Ortegon Aguilar; Universidad de Quintana Roo Javier Vazquez Castillo; Universidad de Quintana Roo
	Ballroom B: QUANTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF WIND ON POLARIMETRIC SAR AND IFSAR TREE HEIGHT ESTIMATION Authors: Michael Benson; University of Michigan Leland Pierce; University of Michigan Kamal Sarabandi; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
	Ballroom C: A SEMANTIC-BASED MULTILEVEL APPROACH TO CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH GEOMETRICAL RESOLUTION MULTITEMPORAL IMAGES Authors: Lorenzo Bruzzone; University of Trento Francesca Bovolo; University of Trento
	Room 01: POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING FEATURE ESTIMATION FOR ACCURATE WETLAND BOUNDARY CLASSIFICATION Authors: Ryoichi Sato; Niigata University, Yoshio Yamaguchi; Niigata University, Hiroyoshi Yamada; Niigata University
	Room 02/03: UNDERSTANDING SOIL MOISTURE TRANSPORT IN SANDY SOILS FROM MUTI-FREQUENCY MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS Authors: Pang-Wei Liu; University of Florida, Roger De Roo; University of Michigan, Anthony England; University of Michigan, Jasmeet Judge; University of Florida
	Room 08/15: RETRAINING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS USING A LOW-RANK MODEL Authors: Arnt-Børre Salberg; Norwegian Computing Center
	Room 11: VALIDATION OF THE NPP VIIRS ACTIVE FIRE PRODUCT Authors: Ivan Csiszar; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Wilfrid Schroeder; University of Maryland Louis Giglio; University of Maryland Evan Ellicott; University of Maryland Christopher Justice; University of Maryland
	Room 12: ANTARCTIC ICE SHELF 3D CROSS SECTIONAL PROFILE IMAGING USING MIMO RADAR Authors: Arvind Hari Narayanan; University College London Paul Brennan; University College London Ralph Benjamin; University College London Fabien Gillet-Chaulet; Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement Keith Nicholls; British Antarctic Survey
	Room 19: MARITIME AWARENESS FOR COUNTER-PIRACY IN THE GULF OF ADEN Authors: Monica Pasada, Harm Greidanus, Marlene Alvarez, Michele Vespe, Tulay Cokacar, Silvia Falchetti FROM the European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy

4:20 PM	Ballroom A: GPU-BASED SPATIALLIY DIVIDED PREDICTIVE PARTITIONED VECTOR QUANTIZATION FOR GIFTS ULTRASPECTRAL DATA COMPRESSION Authors: Shih-Chieh Wei; Tamkang University Bormin Huang; University of Wisconsin-Madison
	Ballroom B: CONICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES DIFFRACTION FROM SASTRUGI TYPE SURFACES OF LAYERED SNOW DUNES ON GREENLAND ICE SHEETS IN PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING Authors: Wenmo Chang from University of Washington Seattle, Leung Tsang from University of Washington Seattle
	Ballroom C: AN ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING APPROACH TO MULTIPLE-CHANGE DETECTION IN MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES Authors: Francesca Bovolo; University of Trento Lorenzo Bruzzone; University of Trento
	Room 01: FOREST MAPPING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA IN SOUTHWEST CHINA Authors: Yun Shao; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fengli Zhang; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Maosong Xu; Academy of Forestry Inventory, Planning and Designing, State Forestry Administration (SFA), Zhongsheng Xia; Forest Resource Management and Conservation Station, Chou Xie; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kun Li; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zi Wan; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ridha Touzi; Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
	Room 02/03: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL OVER LOW-VEGETATION SURFACES USING TIME-SERIES RADAR OBSERVATIONS AND A LOOKUP TABLE REPRESENTATION OF FORWARD SCATTERING Authors: Seung-Bum Kim; California Institute of Technology /Jet Propulsion Lab, Shaowu Huang; University of Washington, Leung Tsang; University of Washington, Joel Johnson; The Ohio State University, Eni Njoku; California Institute of Technology /Jet Propulsion Lab
	Room 08/15: MAPPING SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION ERRORS Authors: Maria João Pereira; Instituto Superior Técnico, Amílcar Soares; Instituto Superior Técnico
	Room 11: PRE-LAUNCH EVALUATION OF THE NPP VIIRS LAND AND CRYOSPHERE EDRS TO MEET NASA’S SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS Authors: Miguel Román; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Christopher Justice; University of Maryland Ivan Csiszar; NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research Jeffrey R. Key; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Sadashiva Devadiga; Sigma Space Corp. / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Carol Davidson; Sigma Space Corp. / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Robert Wolfe; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Jeff Privette; NOAA National Climatic Data Center
	Room 12: ESTIMATION OF BIOMASS OF TREE ROOTS BY GPR WITH HIGH ACCURACY POSITIONING SYSTEM Authors: Yuya Yokota; Tohoku University Masayoshi Matsumoto; Tohoku University Ahmed Gaber; Tohoku University Mark Grasmueck; University of Miami Motoyuki Sato; Tohoku University
	Room 13: QUERY EXPANSION FOR VHR IMAGE DETECTION Authors: Huaxin Zheng; Beihang University, Huigang Zhang; Beihang University, Xiao Bai; Beihang University, Huijie Zhao; Beihang University
	Room 19: INTERNAL WAVES IN THE LOMBOK STRAIT REVEALED BY ALOS PALSAR IMAGES Authors: I Wayan Gede Astawa Karang, Fumihiko Nishio FROM Chiba University, Japan

4:40 PM	Ballroom B: A UNIFIED MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL WITH JACOBIAN FOR GENERAL PLANAR STRATIFIED MEDIA Authors: Miao Tian from University of Colorado Boulder, Albin J. Gasiewski from University of Colorado Boulder
	Ballroom C: LOCAL PATCHES FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Authors: Xing Gong; Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science Thomas Corpetti; CNRS-LIAMA
	Room 01: CONTRIBUTION OF THE POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION IN ORDER TO DISCRIMINATE TARGET FROM INTERFERENCE SUBSPACES. APPLICATION TO FOPEN DETECTION WITH SAR PROCESSING. Authors: Frédéric Brigui; University of Toulouse, Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre; SONDRA, Guillaume Ginolhac; SATIE, Philippe Forster; SATIE
	Room 02/03: MEASUREMENT OF A TEMPORAL SEQUENCE OF DINSAR PHASE CHANGES DUE TO SOIL MOISTURE VARIATIONS Authors: Keith Morrison; Cranfield University, John Bennett; Sheffield University, Matt Nolan; University of Alaska Fairbanks, Raghav Menon; Cranfield University
	Room 08/15: IMPROVING CHANGE VECTOR ANALYSIS IN MULTI-TEMPORAL SPACE TO DETECT LAND COVER CHANGES BY USING CROSS-CORRELOGRAM SPECTRAL MATCHING ALGORITHM Authors: Yuanyuan Zhao; Beijing Normal University, Chunyang He; Beijing Normal University
	Room 11: USE OF NPP DATA IN THE JOINT CENTER FOR SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION Authors: Lars Peter Riishojgaard; Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
	Room 12: INTERFEROMETRY BY MULTIDIMENSIONAL DECONVOLUTION FOR TIME-LAPSE CONTROLLED SOURCE ELECTROMAGNETICS Authors: Juerg Hunziker; Delft University of Technology Evert Slob; Delft University of Technology Kees Wapenaar; Delft University of Technology
	Room 13: MULTI-SCALE SEGMENTATION IN CHANGE DETECTION FOR URBAN HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES Authors: Junping Zhang; Harbin Institute of Technology, Chunfang Mu; Harbin Institute of Technology, Hao Chen; Harbin Institute of Technology, Ye Zhang; Harbin Institute of Technology
	Room 19: ON THE BOUND WAVE SCATTERING IN A WIND-WAVE TANK Authors: Lei Liu, Xiangzhen Yu, Xiaoqing Wang, Jinsong Chong, Wen Hong FROM Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

8:20 AM	Ballroom A: AN OVERVIEW ON HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING: GEOMETRICAL, STATISTICAL, AND SPARSE REGRESSION BASED APPROACHES Authors: Jose Bioucas-Dias; Instituto de Telecomunicacoes Antonio Plaza; Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory
	Ballroom B: EFFECTIVE TREE SCATTERING AT L-BAND Authors: Mehmet Kurum; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Peggy O'Neill; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Roger Lang; George Washington University Alicia Joseph; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Michael Cosh; USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory Thomas Jackson; USDA ARS
	Ballroom C: CONTEXTUAL HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BY MARKOVIAN DATA FUSION, ADAPTIVE TEXTURE EXTRACTION, AND MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION Authors: Gabriele Moser from University of Genoa, Sebastiano B. Serpico from University of Genoa
	Room 02/03: SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL UNDER VEGETATION USING DUAL POLARIZED PALSAR DATA Authors: Christian Koyama; University of Cologne Karl Schneider; University of Cologne
	Room 08/15: A Polarimetric Temporal Scene Parameter and Its Application to Change Detection Authors:
	Room 11: A NOVEL APPROACH TO THE AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF SUBSURFACE FEATURES IN PLANETARY RADAR SOUNDER SIGNALS Authors: Adamo Ferro from University of Trento; Lorenzo Bruzzone from University of Trento
	Room 12: A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO LOCALIZED MULTI-KERNEL LEARNING USING THE RELEVANCE VECTOR MACHINE Authors: Ryan Close; University of Florida, Joseph Wilson; University of Florida, Paul Gader; University of Florida
	Room 13: GNSS Remote sensing roles in the atmosphere, oceans, hydrology and cryosphere Authors: Shuanggen Jin; Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiping Feng; Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 19: TOWARDS AN OPTIMAL NOISE VERSUS RESOLUTION TRADE-OFF IN WIND SCATTEROMETRY Authors: Brent Williams; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

8:40 AM	Ballroom A: SPATIAL-SPECTRAL UNMIXING USING FUZZY LOCAL INFORMATION Authors: Alina Zare; University of Missouri
	Ballroom B: THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF RADAR CROSS SECTION OF A CYLINDRICAL OBJECT ADJACENT TO A SMOOTH ROUGH SURFACE USING REACTION THEOREM Authors: Hamid Nejati; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Kamal Sarabandi; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
	Room 02/03: WHY DIFFERENT PASSIVE MICROWAVE ALGORITHMS GIVE DIFFERENT SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS Authors: Xiwu Zhan; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Jicheng Liu; IMSG/NOAA-NESDIS Thomas Holmes; USDA ARS Wade Crow; USDA ARS Thomas Jackson; USDA ARS Steven Chan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 08/15: ACCURACY ASSESSMENT OF YELLOWSTONE LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION USING POLARIMETRIC UAVSAR Authors: Don Atwood; University of Alaska Fairbanks Scott Arko; University of Alaska Fairbanks Rudi Gens; University of Alaska Fairbanks
	Room 11: IMAGE DISTORTION EFFECTS IN SUBSURFACE SAR IMAGING OF DESERTS AND THEIR CORRECTION TECHNIQUE Authors: Adel Elsherbini from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Kamal Sarabandi from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
	Room 12: SUBSURFACE TARGETS DETECTION WITH SHANNON ENTROPY Authors: Xiaolin Bian; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yun Shao; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huaze Gong; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fengli Zhang; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chou Xie; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 13: GPS Ionospheric mapping and tomography: A case of study in a geomagnetic storm Authors: Shuanggen Jin; Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Rui Jin; Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 19: A NOVEL OCEAN VECTOR WINDS RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUE FOR TROPICAL CYCLONES Authors: Peth Laupattarakasem from University of Central Florida, Suleiman Alsweiss from University of Central Florida, W. Linwood Jones from University of Central Florida, Christopher Hennon from University of North Carolina Asheville

9:00 AM	Ballroom A: AN OPTIMIZATION PERSPECTIVE ON WINTER’S ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION BELIEF Authors: Tsung-Han Chan; National Tsing Hua University Wing-Kin Ma; The Chinese University of Hong Kong ArulMurugan Ambikapathi; National Tsing Hua University Chong-Yung Chi; National Tsing Hua University
	Ballroom B: SCATTERING FROM TREE BRANCHES USING THE FRESNEL DOUBLE SCATTERING APPROXIMATION Authors: Qianyi Zhao; The George Washington University Roger Lang; The George Washington University
	Ballroom C: A HIERARCHICAL MARKOV RANDOM FIELD FOR ROAD NETWORK EXTRACTION AND ITS APPLICATION WITH OPTICAL AND SAR DATA Authors: Talita Perciano from Télécom ParisTech, Florence Tupin from Télécom ParisTech, Roberto Hirata Jr. from Universidade de São Paulo, Roberto M. Cesar Jr. from Universidade de São Paulo
	Room 01: FOUR-COMPONENT SCATTERING POWER DECOMPOSITION USING COHERENCY MATRIX Authors: Yoshio Yamaguchi; Niigata University
	Room 02/03: EFFECT OF SOIL MOISTURE ON POLARIMETRIC-INTERFEROMETRIC REPEAT PASS OBSERVATIONS BY UAVSAR DURING 2010 CANADIAN SOIL MOISTURE CAMPAIGN Authors: Scott Hensley; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Thierry Michel; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jakob Van Zyl; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ronald Muellerschoen; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Bruce Chapman; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Shadi Oveisgharan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ziad Haddad; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Thomas Jackson; US Department of Agriculture Research Center Iliana Mladenova; US Department of Agriculture Research Center
	Room 08/15: THEMATIC MAPPING AT REGIONAL SCALE USING SIASGE RADAR DATA AT X AND L BAND AND OPTICAL IMAGES Authors: Nazzareno Pierdicca; Sapienza University of Rome Fabrizio Pelliccia; Sapienza University of Rome Marco Chini; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
	Room 11: POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION USING DISTRIBUTED ODD-BOUNCE TARGETS Authors: Jiong Chen from Tohoku University; Motoyuki Sato from Tohoku University; Jian Yang from Tsinghua University
	Room 12: GRADIENT BASED TECHNIQUE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC LAYERED EARTH MODEL DATA INVERSION Authors: Claudio Patriarca; Delft University of Technology, Andrea Di Matteo; Delft University of Technology, Evert Slob; Delft University of Technology
	Room 13: OBSERVING EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE WITH GNSS RADIO OCCULTATION Authors: Ulrich Foelsche; University of Graz, Barbara Scherllin-Pirscher; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Andrea K. Steiner; University of Graz, Florian Ladstädter; University of Graz, Gottfried Kirchengast; University of Graz
	Room 19: FIRST TROPICAL CYCLONE OVERFLIGHTS BY THE HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER Authors: Christopher Ruf from University of Michigan, Sayak Biswas from University of Central Florida, Mark James from NASA, W. Linwood Jones from University of Central Florida, Timothy Miller from NASA

9:20 AM	Ballroom A: SIMPLEX VOLUME ANALYSIS BASED ON TRIANGULAR FACTORIZATION: A FRAMEWORK FOR HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING Authors: Wei Xia; Fudan University Bin Wang; Fudan University Liming Zhang; Fudan University Qiyong Lu; Fudan University
	Ballroom B: A COHERENT BACKSCATTERING MODEL FOR GROWING CORN Authors: Alejandro Monsiváis-Huertero; Instituto Politecnico Nacional Jasmeet Judge; University of Florida
	Ballroom C: Combining space-borne SAR data and digital camera images to monitor glacier flow by remote and proximal sensing Authors: Flavien Vernier; Université de Savoie Renaud Fallourd; Université de Savoie Yajing Yan; Université de Savoie Diana Rosu; Université de Savoie Emmanuel Trouvé; Université de Savoie Jean-Marie Nicolas; Télécom ParisTech Jean-Michel Friedt; Télécom ParisTech Luc Moreau; Université de Savoie
	Room 01: INFLUENCE OF SPECKLE FILTERING OF POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA ON DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATION METHODS Authors: Fang Cao; Institut Telecom, Telecom Paristech, CNRS LTCI Charles-Alban Deledalle; Institut Telecom, Telecom Paristech, CNRS LTCI Jean-Marie Nicolas; Institut Telecom, Telecom Paristech, CNRS LTCI Florence Tupin; Institut Telecom, Telecom Paristech, CNRS LTCI Loïc Denis; Observatoire de Lyon, CNRS CRAL, UCBL, ENS de Lyon, Université de Lyon Laurent Ferro-Famil; Université de Rennes 1, Insitut d’Electronique et de Télécommunication de Rennes Eric Pottier; Université de Rennes 1, Insitut d’Electronique et de Télécommunication de Rennes Carlos López-Martínez; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
	Room 02/03: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MAPPING OF SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT WITH POLARIMETRIC RADARSAT2 SAR IMAGERY IN THE ALPINE AREA Authors: Luca Pasolli; University of Trento Claudia Notarnicola; Eurac Research Lorenzo Bruzzone; University of Trento Giacomo Bertoldi; Eurac Research Georg Niedrist; Eurac Research Ulrike Tappeiner; Eurac Research Marc Zebish; Eurac Research Fabio Del Frate; Tor Vergata University Gaia Vaglio Laurin; Tor Vergata University
	Room 08/15: SVM BINARY FEATURE SELECTION FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR CLASSIFICATION OVER TROPICAL FOREST ENVIRONMENT Authors: Cédric Lardeux; University of Rennes 1 David Niamien; University of Paris Est Marne la Vallée Pierre-Louis Frison; University of Paris Est Marne la Vallée Jean-Baptiste Routier; ONF-Internationnal Eric Pottier; University of Rennes 1 Jean-Paul Rudant; University of Paris Est Marne la Vallée
	Room 11: SUBSIDENCE MONITORING USING POLARIMETRIC PERSISTENT SCATTERERS INTERFEROMETRY Authors: Víctor Diego Navarro Sánchez from University of Alicante; Juan Manuel López Sánchez from University of Alicante
	Room 12: DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF BURIED RADIOACTIVE-METAL OBJECTS USING WIDEBAND EMI DATA Authors: Anish Turlapaty; Mississippi State University, Qian Du; Mississippi State University, Nicolas Younan; Mississippi State University
	Room 13: APPLICATION OF GNSS NETWORKS TO DETECT AND ANALYZE ATMOSPHERIC-INDUCED IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES COINCIDENT WITH EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS Authors: Yu-Ming Yang; Purdue University, James Garrison; Purdue University, See-Chen Lee; Purdue University
	Room 19: THE EFFECT OF RAIN ON ASCAT OBSERVATIONS OF THE SEA SURFACE RADAR CROSS SECTION USING SIMULTANEOUS 3-D NEXRAD RAIN MEASUREMENTS Authors: David Weissman from Hofstra University, Mark Bourassa from Florida State University

9:40 AM	Ballroom A: NONLINEAR UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS AND ORTHOGONAL LEAST SQUARES Authors: Yoann Altmann; University of Toulouse Nicolas Dobigeon; University of Toulouse Steve Mclaughlin; University of Edinburgh Jean-Yves Tourneret; University of Toulouse
	Ballroom B: IMPACT OF SAR RESOLUTION ON THE BACKSCATTERED INTENSITY BY FORESTS OVER HILLY TERRAINS Authors: Ludovic Villard; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Thuy Le Toan; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Pierre Borderies; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)
	Ballroom C: 2011 GRSS DATA FUSION CONTEST: EXPLOITING WORLDVIEW-2 MULTI-ANGULAR ACQUISITIONS Authors: Fabio Pacifici; DigitalGlobe Inc. Jocelyn Chanussot; Grenoble Institute of Technology Qian Du; Mississippi State University
	Room 01: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF ADVANCING MULTIMODAL POLSAR TECHNOLOGY, ITS RAPID WORLDWIDE EXPANSION, AND ITS PLETHORA OF DIVERSIFIED APPLICATIONS Authors: Wolfgang-Martin Boerner; University of Illinois at Chicago
	Room 02/03: CONTRIBUTION OF ALOS, RADARSAT-2 AND TERRASAR-X RADAR DATA FOR MONITORING AGRICULTURAL SURFACES Authors: Frederic Baup; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Rémy Fieuzal; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Benoît Mingam; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Armand Lopes; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Roger Fjørtoft; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Claire Marais-Sicre; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Jean-Francois Dejoux; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Mehrez Zribi; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Nicolas Baghdadi; Maison de la Télédétection Eric Ceschia; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)
	Room 08/15: EMPIRICAL MODEL FOR SOIL SALINITY MAPPING FROM SAR DATA Authors: Mohamed Grissa; URISA/Sup'Com Riadh Abdelfattah; URISA/Sup'Com Grégoire Mercier; ITI/Telcom Bretagne Mehrez Zribi; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) / IRD Aicha Chahbi; Lr-STE/INAT Zohra Lili-Chabaane; Lr-STE/INAT
	Room 11: MODEL-BASED POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION USING POLINSAR COHERENCE Authors: Si-Wei Chen from Tohoku University; Motoyuki Sato from Tohoku University
	Room 12: THE BGR-P30 AIRBORNE GPR SYSTEM: SYSTEM PARAMETERS, CALIBRATION, AND RESULTS FROM FIELD MEASUREMENTS Authors: Norbert Blindow; Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Christina Salat; Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Volker Gundelach; Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Ulrich Buschmann; Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR)
	Room 13: GROUND BASED GNSS TOMOGRAPHY: CHALLENGES IN MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS Authors: Alain Geiger; ETH Zurich, Donat Perler; ETH Zurich, Fabian Hurter; ETH Zurich, Markus Rothacher; ETH Zurich
	Room 19: CROSS-POLARIZED SAR: A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR HURRICANES Authors: William Perrie from Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Biao Zhang from Bedford Institute of Oceanography

10:20 AM	Ballroom A: NOISE-ROBUST SPATIAL PREPROCESSING PRIOR TO ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION FROM HYPERSPECTRAL DATA Authors: Gabriel Martin; Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory Antonio Plaza; Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory Maciel Zortea; Department of Mathematics and Statistics
	Ballroom B: LONG-TERM AIRBORNE DINSAR MEASUREMENTS: P- AND X-BAND CASES Authors: Karlus Alexander Camara de Macedo; OrbiSat Remote Sensing Christian Wimmer; OrbiSat Remote Sensing Thiago L. Morais Barreto; OrbiSat Remote Sensing Dieter Luebeck; OrbiSat Remote Sensing João Roberto Moreira; OrbiSat Remote Sensing Lis Maria L. Rabaco; Petrobras Wilson J. De Oliveira; Petrobras
	Ballroom C: MARGINALIZED PARTICLE FILTER BASED TRACK-BEFORE-DETECT ALGORITHM FOR SMALL INFRARED TARGET Authors: Xue Chen from Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Qi Wen from National Disaster Reduction Center of Ministry of Civil Affairs Sixian Qin from Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jianwen Ma from Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 01: PolSAR Radarsat-2 Satellite Image Time Series Mining over the Chamonix Mont-Blanc test site Authors: Andreea Julea; Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti Fernanda Ledo; Université de Savoie Nicolas Meger; Université de Savoie Emmanuel Trouvé; Université de Savoie Philippe Bolon; Université de Savoie Christophe Rigotti; INSA Lyon Renaud Fallourd; Université de Savoie Jean-Marie Nicolas; Télécom ParisTech Gabriel Vasile; INP Grenoble Michel Gay; INP Grenoble Olivier Harant; INP Grenoble Laurent Ferro-Famil; Université de Rennes Felicity Lodge; Université Joseph Fourier
	Room 02/03: IMPROVING LAND SURFACE ENERGY AND WATER FLUXES SIMULATION OVER THE TIBETAN PLATEAU WITH USING A LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM Authors: Hui Lu; Tsinghua University Toshio Koike; The University of Tokyo Kun Yang; Chinese Academy of Sciences Xin Li; Chinese Academy of Sciences Hiroyuki Tsutsui; The University of Tokyo Katsunori Tamagawa; The University of Tokyo Xiangde Xu; Chinese Meteorological Administration
	Room 08/15: MAPPING FOREST UNDERSTORY IN EUROPEAN HEMI-BOREAL STANDS USING MODIS BRDF PRODUCT Authors: Jan Pisek; Tartu Observatory Miina Rautiainen; Helsinki University Matti Mottus; Helsinki University Janne Heiskanen; Helsinki University
	Room 11: FIRST RESULT OF BISTATIC FORWARD-LOOKING SAR WITH STATIONARY TRANSMITTER Authors: Junjie Wu; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Yulin Huang; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Jianyu Yang; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Wenchao Li; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Haiguang Yang; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
	Room 12: URBAN AREA PRODUCT SIMULATION FOR THE ENMAP HYPERSPECTRAL SENSOR Authors: Paolo Gamba from Università degli Studi di Pavia, Alberto Villa from University of Extremadura, Antonio Plaza from University of Extremadura, Jocelyn Chanussot from Grenoble Institute of Technology, Jon Atli Benediktsson from University of Iceland
	Room 13: GPM MISSION OVERVIEW AND U.S. SCIENCE STATUS Authors: Arthur Hou; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,Gail Skofronick-Jackson; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 19: NOAA OPERATIONAL SAR SEA SURFACE WIND PRODUCTS Authors: William Pichel; NOAA / National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service / Center for Satellite Applications & Research Frank Monaldo; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Christopher Jackson; Global Ocean Associates Xiaofeng Li; IMSG at NOAA / NESDIS John Sapper; NOAA / National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service / OSPO Xiaofang Yang; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences

10:40 AM	Ballroom A: ROBUST UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES: APPLICATION TO MARS Authors: Mario Parente; Brown University John Mustard; Brown University Scott Murchie; Applied Physics Lab Johns Hopkins University Frank Seelos; Applied Physics Lab Johns Hopkins University
	Ballroom B: CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT OBSERVATION IN DECORELATE BELT ALONG SEISMIC FAULT OF 2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE Authors: Chunyan Qu; State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration Yunhua Liu; State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration Xinjian Shan; State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration Guohong Zhang; State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration Guifang Zhang; State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration Xiaogang Song; State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration
	Ballroom C: RADAR MICRO-DOPPLER ANALYSIS AND ROTATION PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR RIGID TARGETS WITH COMPLICATED MICRO-MOTIONS Authors: Peng Lei from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Jun Wang from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Jinping Sun from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
	Room 01: Measuring orientation and randomness of vegetation using polarimetric SAR data Authors: Motofumi Arii; Mitsubishi Space Software Co. Ltd. Jakob van Zyl; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Yunjin Kim; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 02/03: ENHANCING VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY FORECASTING USING REMOTELY-SENSED SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS Authors: Wade Crow; USDA HRSL John Bolten; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / HSB
	Room 08/15: FLOWER SPECIES IDENTIFICATION AND COVERAGE ESTIMATION BASED ON HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA Authors: Yingying Gai; Peking University Wenjie Fan; Peking University Xiru Xu; Peking University Yuanzhen Zhang; China Meteorological Administration
	Room 11: VECTOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM LAYERED ROUGH SURFACES WITH BURIED DISCRETE RANDOM MEDIA FOR SUBSURFACE AND ROOT-ZONE SOIL MOISTURE SENSING Authors: Xueyang Duan; University of Michigan Mahta Moghaddam; University of Michigan
	Room 12: LAND-USE MAPPING USING COARSE RESOLUTION SAR DATA AT THE OBJECT LEVEL EXPLOITING ANCILLARY OPTICAL DATA Authors: Paolo Gamba from Università Degli Studi di Pavia, Massimiliano Aldrighi from Università Degli Studi di Pavia
	Room 13: A PARAMETRIC RAINFALL RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM FOR GPM Authors: David Randel; Colorado State University, Christian Kummerow; Colorado State University, Wesley Berg; Colorado State University
	Room 19: THE IMPACT OF OCEAN SURFACE FEATURES ON THE HIGH RESOLUTION WIND RETRIEVAL FROM SAR Authors: Xiaofeng Yang; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiaofeng Li; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Ziwei Li; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences William Pichel; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

11:00 AM	Ballroom A: NON-LINEAR FULLY-CONSTRAINED SPECTRAL UNMIXING Authors: Rob Heylen; University of Antwerp Paul Scheunders; University of Antwerp
	Ballroom B: ADAPTIVE LOCAL KRIGING (ALK) TO RETRIEVE THE SLANT RANGE SURFACE MOTION MAPS OF WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE Authors: Meng-Che Wu; Imperial College London Jianguo Liu; Imperial College London
	Ballroom C: COMBINATIONAL MATCHING METHOD OF AMPLITUDE-SCALE AND TIME-SHIFT FOR RADAR HRRP RECOGNITION Authors: Feng Chen from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Wenxian Yu from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xingzhao Liu from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Kaizhi Wang; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
	Room 01: INVESTIGATION ON THE ORIENTATION AND STRUCTURE PARAMETERS OF CANOPY USING POLSAR OBSERVATIONS Authors: Yanting Wang; Naval Research Laboratory Thomas Ainsworth; Naval Research Laboratory Jong-Sen Lee; Naval Research Laboratory
	Room 02/03: RETRIEVAL OF SOIL MOISTURE AND VEGETATION CANOPY PARAMETERS WITH L-BAND RADAR FOR A RANGE OF BOREAL FORESTS Authors: Alireza Tabatabaeenejad; University of Michigan Mariko Burgin; University of Michigan Mahta Moghaddam; University of Michigan
	Room 08/15: CLASSIFICATION OF TYPHOON-DESTROYED FORESTS BASED ON TREE HEIGHT CHANGE DETECTION USING INSAR TECHNOLOGY Authors: Haipeng Wang; Fudan University Kazuo Ouchi; National Defense Academy Ya-Qiu Jin; Fudan University
	Room 11: A NOVEL HYBRID APPROACH TO THE ESTIMATION OF BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS FROM REMOTELY SENSED DATA Authors: Luca Pasolli; University of Trento Lorenzo Bruzzone; University of Trento Claudia Notarnicola; Eurac Research
	Room 12: SUBWAY TUNNELS IDENTIFICATION THROUGH COSMO-SKYMED PSINSAR ANALYSIS IN SHANGHAI Authors: Zhiying Wang from Harbin Institute of Technology, Daniele Perissin from Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hui Lin from Chinese University of Hong Kong
	Room 13: PRECIPITATION TYPE AND PROFILE CLASSIFICATION FOR GPM-DPR Authors: Minda Le; Colorado State University, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar; Colorado State University
	Room 19: OROGRAPHICALLY-FORCED COASTAL WIND FIELDS AROUND HOKKAIDO, JAPAN Authors: Osamu Isoguchi; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Masanobu Shimada; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

11:20 AM	Ballroom A: BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA IN PLANETARY REMOTE SENSING: ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION AND VALIDATION Authors: Xavier Ceamanos; Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble Sylvain Douté; Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble Bin Luo; GIPSA-Laboratory / Grenoble Institute of Technology Frédéric Schmidt; Laboratoire IDES Gwenaël Jouannic; Laboratoire IDES Jocelyn Chanussot; GIPSA-Laboratory / Grenoble Institute of Technology
	Ballroom B: EXTRACTION OF WIDE-RANGING CRUSTAL MOVEMENT USING ALOS/PALSAR SCANSAR INTERFEROMETRY Authors: Masanori Miyawaki; NEC Aerospace Systems Ltd Shino Yamaguchi; NEC Aerospace Systems Ltd Tsunekazu Kimura; NEC Corporation
	Ballroom C: TRUCK CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS FROM ALL ASPECT ANGLES WITH QUAD-POL RADARSAT-2 SAR IMAGES Authors: Bo Zhang from Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Zhang from Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chao Wang from Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fan Wu from Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yixian Tang from Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 01: COHERENT SCATTERERS DETECTION: APPLICATION OVER GLACIER TERRAIN USING TERRASAR-X TIME SERIES DATA Authors: Maria J. Sanjuan-Ferrer; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Irena Hajnsek; ETH Zurich Konstantinos Papathanassiou; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: A BAYESIAN METHODOLOGY FOR SOIL PARAMETERS RETRIEVAL FROM SAR IMAGES Authors: Matias Barber; Institute For Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE) Marcela Piscitelli; Cátedra de Conservación y Manejo de Suelos. Facultad de Agronomía (UNICEN) Pablo Perna; Institute For Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE) Cintia Bruscantinni; Institute For Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE) Francisco Grings; Institute For Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE) Julio Cesar Jacobo Berlles; Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN) Haydee Karszenbaum; Institute For Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE)
	Room 08/15: EXPLOITING FULLWAVEFORM LIDAR SIGNALS TO ESTIMATE TIMBER VOLUME AND ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS OF INDIVIDUAL TREES Authors: Tristan Allouis; Cemagref / AgroParisTech Sylvie Durrieu; Cemagref Cédric Véga; French Institute of Pondicherry Pierre Couteron; Institut de recherche pour le développement
	Room 11: SCALE EFFECT OF VEGETATION INDEX BASED THERMAL SHARPENING: A SIMULATION STUDY BASED ON ASTER DATA Authors: Xuehong Chen; Nagoya University Yasushi Yamaguchi; Nagoya University Jin Chen; Beijing Normal University Yusheng Shi; Nagoya University
	Room 12: DAMAGE MAPPING BY USING OBJECT TEXTURAL PARAMETERS OF VHR OPTICAL DATA Authors: Christian Bignami from Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Marco Chini from Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Salvatore Stramondo from Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, William J. Emery from University of Colorado Boulder, Nazzareno Pierdicca from Sapienza University of Rome
	Room 13: PROTO-FLIGHT TEST OF THE DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADAR FOR THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT Authors: Kinji Furukawa; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Masahiro Kojima; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Takeshi Miura; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Yasutoshi Hyakusoku; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Toshio Iguchi; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Hiroshi Hanado; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Katsuhiro Nakagawa; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Minoru Okumura; NEC Toshiba Space Systems
	Room 19: WIND RETRIEVAL WITH CROSS-POLARIZED SAR RETURNS Authors: Paul Hwang; Naval Research Laboratory William Perrie; Bedford Institute of Oceanography Biao Zhang; Bedford Institute of Oceanography

11:40 AM	Ballroom A: MINIMUM ENDMEMBER-WISE DISTANCE CONSTRAINED NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION FOR SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES Authors: Shaohui Mei; Northwestern Polytechnical University Mingyi He; Northwestern Polytechnical University
	Ballroom B: STUDYING VOLCANOS WITH INSAR: WHERE HAVE WE BEEN AND WHERE ARE WE GOING? Authors: Howard Zebker; Stanford University Cody Wortham; Stanford University
	Ballroom C: Large Along-Track Baseline SAR-GMTI: First Results With The TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X Satellite Constellation Authors: Stefan Baumgartner from German Aerospace Center (DLR) , Gerhard Krieger from German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom C: SAR IMAGE BASED GEOMETRICAL FEATURE EXTRACTION OF SHIPS Authors: Chongwen Duan; ATR Key Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology Weidong Hu; ATR Key Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology Xiaoyong Du; ATR Key Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology
	Room 02/03: CLOSED LOOP BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DATA INVERSION FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES Authors: Marin Dimitrov; Forschungszentrum Jülich Jan Vanderborght; Forschungszentrum Jülich Khan Zaib Jadoon; Forschungszentrum Jülich Mike Schwank; German Research Center for Geoscience Lutz Weihermüller; Forschungszentrum Jülich Harry Vereecken; Forschungszentrum Jülich
	Room 08/15: GLOBAL CLUMPING INDEX MAP DERIVED FROM MODIS BRDF PRODUCTS Authors: Liming He; University of Toronto Jing Chen; University of Toronto Jan Pisek; Tartu Observatory Crystal Schaaf; Boston University Alan Strahler; Boston University
	Room 11: A GENERAL APPROACH TO THE SPATIAL SIMPLIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL CONNECTED FILTERS Authors: Mauro Dalla Mura; University of Trento / University of Iceland Jon Atli Benediktsson; University of Iceland Lorenzo Bruzzone; University of Trento
	Room 12: ESTIMATION OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE FROM AERIAL IMAGES BY PROBABILISTIC METHOD Authors: Shota Izaka from Shizuoka University, Hitoshi Saji from Shizuoka University
	Room 13: RETRIEVAL OF RAINFALL FROM THE MADRAS MICROWAVE IMAGER OF MEGHA-TROPIQUES Authors: Chakravarthy Balaji; Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Srinivasa Ramanujam Kannan; Indian Institute of Technology Madras
	Room 19: SAR MEASUREMENT OF OCEAN SURFACE WIND AND WAVE FOR OPERATIONAL SHIP ROUTING Authors: Xiao-Ming Li; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Susanne Lehner; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Thomas Bruns; German Weather Service (DWD)

1:20 PM	Ballroom A: BRIDGE EXTRACTION BASED ON CONSTRAINED DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION FOR PANCHROMATIC IMAGE Authors: Feng Gao; Beihang University, Lei Hu; Beihang University, Zhaofeng He; Beihang University
	Ballroom B: COHERENT STACKING OF SAR IMAGES FOR EFFICIENT INTERFEROMETRIC PROCESSING Authors: Francesco De Zan from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Paco López-Dekker from German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom C: KNOWLEDGE BASED IMAGE INFORMATION FUNCTIONS FOR THE TERRASAR-X / TANDEM-X PAYLOAD GROUND SEGMENT: VALIDATION RESULTS Authors: Daniela Espinoza-Molina; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gottfried Schwarz; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Mihai Datcu; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 01: A K-Wishart Markov Random Field model for clustering of polarimetric SAR imagery Authors: Vahid Akbari from University of Tromsø Gabriele Moser from University of Genoa Anthony Paul Doulgeris from University of Tromsø Stian Normann Anfinsen from University of Tromsø Torbjørn Eltoft from University of Tromsø Sebastiano B. Serpico from University of Genoa
	Room 02/03: COMBINING SPACE-BASED ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS TO IMPROVE GLOBAL SNOWFALL ESTIMATES Authors: Tristan L'Ecuyer; Colorado State University, Norman Wood; Colorado State University
	Room 08/15: INTEROPERABILITY OF RADAR AND OPTICAL DATA FOR FOREST INFORMATION ASSESSMENT Authors: Anthea Mitchell; University of New South Wales Anthony Milne; University of New South Wales Ian Tapley; University of New South Wales Kim Lowell; University of Melbourne Peter Caccetta; CSIRO Eric Lehmann; CSIRO Zheng-Shu Zhou; CSIRO Alex Held; CSIRO
	Room 11: TANDEM-L: A MISSION PROPOSAL FOR MONITORING DYNAMIC EARTH PROCESSES Authors: Alberto Moreira; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gerhard Krieger; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Marwan Younis; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Irena Hajnsek; German Aerospace Center (DLR) / ETH Zurich Konstantinos Papathanassiou; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Michael Eineder; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Francesco de Zan; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 12: URBAN BUILDING DAMAGE DETECTION FROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY BY ONE-CLASS SVM AND SHADOW INFORMATION Authors: Peijun Li; Peking University, Benqin Song; Peking University, Haiqing Xu; Peking University
	Room 13: SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS OF RAIN 1972-1997 Authors: Thomas Wilheit; Texas A&M University, Alfred Chang; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (deceased)
	Room 19: A STUDY OF SEA SURFACE HEIGHT RETRIEVAL USING DOPPLER MEASUREMENTS FROM NUMERICALLY SIMULATED LOW GRAZING ANGLE BACKSCATTER DATA Authors: Chun-Sik Chae from The Ohio State University, Joel Johnson from The Ohio State University

1:40 PM	Ballroom A: FINE-GRAIN FEATURE ATTRIBUTION FOR IMAGE UNDERSTANDING USING RESIDUAL VECTOR QUANTIZATION Authors: Irteza Syed Ali Khan; Georgia Institute of Technology, Christopher F. Barnes; Georgia Institute of Technology
	Ballroom B: HIGH RESOLUTION DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRIC STACKING VIA ADAPTIVE SPATIAL PHASE FILTERING Authors: Kanika Goel from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Nico Adam from German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom C: RAPID DAMAGE ASSESSMENT USING HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES Authors: Ranga Raju Vatsavai; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mark Tuttle; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Budhendra Bhaduri; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Eddie Bright; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Anil Cheriyadat; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Varun Chandola; Oak Ridge National Laboratory J. Graesser; Oak Ridge National Laboratory
	Room 01: On the Extension of the Product Model in Polsar Processing for Unsupervised Classification Using Information Geometry of Covariance Matrices Authors: Pierre Formont from SONDRA / Supélec Jean-Philippe Ovarlez from Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) Frédéric Pascal from SONDRA / Supélec Gabriel Vasile from GIPSA-Laboratory / CNRS Laurent Ferro-Famil from ETR
	Room 02/03: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS TO IMPROVE SOIL MOISTURE PREDICTIONS UNDER DYNAMIC VEGETATION CONDITIONS Authors: Jasmeet Judge; University of Florida, Roger De Roo; University of Michigan, Mahta Moghaddam; University of Michigan, Alejandro Monsiváis-Huertero; Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Pang-Wei Liu; University of Florida, Anthony England; University of Michigan, Karthik Nagarajan; University of Florida
	Room 08/15: Multitemporal observations of sugarcane by TerraSAR-X sensor Authors: Nicolas Baghdadi; Cemagref Pierre Todoroff; cirad Mehrez Zribi; ird
	Room 11: IMPROVED PROCESSING OF THE CASIE SAR DATA Authors: Craig Stringham; Brigham Young University David G. Long; Brigham Young University
	Room 12: IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF URBAN STRUCTURES USING VHR SAR DATA Authors: Thomas Esch; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Martin Schmidt; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Markus Breunig; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Andreas Felbier; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Hannes Taubenböck; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wieke Heldens; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Christian Riegler; University of Wuerzburg, Achim Roth; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Stefan Dech; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 19: NORMAL MODES ANALYSIS OF RIVERSONDE DATA IN A TIDAL CHANNEL Authors: Calvin Teague from CODAR Ocean Sensors, Ltd., Donald Barrick from CODAR Ocean Sensors, Ltd., David Honegger from Oregon State University

2:00 PM	Ballroom A: A SELF-ADJUSTIVE GEOMETRIC CORRECTION METHOD FOR SERIOUSLY OBLIQUE AERO IMAGE Authors: Chunyuan Wang; Harbin Institute of Technology, Ye Zhang; Harbin Institute of Technology, Pigang Liu; Harbin Institute of Technology, Qi Xu; Harbin Institute of Technology, Yanfeng Gu; Harbin Institute of Technology
	Ballroom B: AUTOMATIC QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR INTERFEROGRAM SAR STACKS Authors: Pietro Guccione from Politecnico di Bari, Andrea Monti-Guarnieri from Politecnico di Milano, Stefano Tebaldini from Politecnico di Milano
	Ballroom C: GOPHER: GLOBAL OBSERVATION OF PLANETARY HEALTH AND ECOSYSTEM RESOURCES Authors: Ashish Garg; University of Minnesota Varun Mithal; University of Minnesota Yashu Chamber; University of Minnesota Ivan Brugere; University of Minnesota Vijay Chaudhari; University of Minnesota Marc Dunham; University of Minnesota Vikrant Krishna; University of Minnesota Sairam Krishnamurthy; University of Minnesota Sruthi Vangala; University of Minnesota Shyam Boriah; University of Minnesota Michael Steinbach; University of Minnesota Vipin Kumar; University of Minnesota Albert Cho; Planetary Skin Institute JD Stanley; Planetary Skin Institute Teji Abraham; Planetary Skin Institute Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio; Planetary Skin Institute Christopher Potter; NASA Ames Research Center Steven Klooster; NASA Ames Research Center
	Room 01: COHERENCE LINEARITY AND SKP-STRUCTURED MATRICES IN MULTI- BASELINE POLINSAR Authors: Stefano Tebaldini from Politecnico di Milano Fabio Rocca from Politecnico di Milano
	Room 02/03: A SYNERGETIC USE OF OBSERVATIONS FROM MODIS, SEVIRI MSG, ASAR AND AMSR-E TO INFER A DAILY SOIL MOISTURE INDEX Authors: Claudia Notarnicola; EURAC, Francesca Di Giuseppe; ARPA-ServizioIdroMeteoClima, Luca Pasolli; University of Trento- EURAC, Marouane Temimi; NOAA-CREST/City University of New York, Bartolomeo Ventura; EURAC, Marc Zebisch; EURAC
	Room 08/15: USE MULTIFREQUENCY SAR POLARIMETRY FOR TROPICAL FOREST STRATIFICATION Authors: Cédric Lardeux; University of Rennes 1 David Niamien; University of Paris Est Marne la Vallée Jean-Baptiste Routier; ONF-Internationnal Pierre-Louis Frison; University of Paris Est Marne la Vallée Eric Pottier; University of Rennes 1 Jean-Paul Rudant; University of Paris Est Marne la Vallée
	Room 11: FIRST BISTATIC SPACEBORNE SAR EXPERIMENTS WITH TANDEM-X Authors: Marc Rodriguez-Cassola; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Pau Prats; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Daniel Schulze; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Nuria Tous-Ramon; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Ulrich Steinbrecher; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Luca Marotti; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Matteo Nannini; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Marwan Younis; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Paco López-Dekker; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Manfred Zink; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Andreas Reigber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gerhard Krieger; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Alberto Moreira; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 12: ANALYSIS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING FROM A DIELECTRIC DIHEDRAL STRUCTURE BY POLARIMETRIC GB-SAR Authors: Masayoshi Matsumoto; Tohoku University, Motoyuki Sato; Tohoku University
	Room 13: THE EVOLUTION OF MICROWAVE RAINFALL ALGORITHMS – THE SENSITIVITY TO RADIOMETER CALIBRATION Authors: Christian Kummerow; Colorado State University
	Room 19: SEA SURFACE CURRENT MEASUREMENT WITH KU-BAND SAR ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRY Authors: Nobuo Kumagae from Japan Resources Observation System and Utilization Organization, Kazuo Kawamura from Japan Resources Observation System and Utilization Organization, Kenji Tatsumi from Japan Resources Observation System and Utilization Organization, Masatada Furuhata from Japan Resources Observation System and Utilization Organization, Masayoshi Tsuchida from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, from Masao Tsuji from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tomoya Yamaoka from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kei Suwa from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

2:20 PM	Ballroom A: SATELITE IMAGE ARTIFACTS DETECTION BASED ON COMPLEXITY DISTORTION THEORY Authors: Avid Roman-Gonzalez; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Mihai Datcu; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom B: NEW IMPROVEMENTS OF THE EXTENDED MINIMUM COST FLOW PHASE UNWRAPPING FOR PROCESSING MULTITEMPORAL FULL RESOLUTION INTERFEROGRAMS Authors: Antonio Pepe from Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente (IREA), CNR; Manuela Bonano from Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente (IREA), CNR; Yang Yang from National University of Defense Technology; Michele Manunta from Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente (IREA), CNR; Riccardo Lanari from Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente (IREA), CNR
	Ballroom C: DESIGN OF BENCHMARK IMAGERY FOR VALIDATING FACILITY ANNOTATION ALGORITHMS Authors: Randy Roberts; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Paul Pope; Los Alamos National Laboratory Ranga Raju Vatsavai; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ming Jiang; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lloyd Arrowood; Y-12 National Security Complex Timothy Trucano; Sandia National Laboratories Shaun Gleason; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Anil Cheriyadat; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Alexandre Sorokine; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Aggelos Katsaggelos; Northwestern University Thrasyvoulos Pappas; Northwestern University Lucinda Gaines; Los Alamos National Laboratory Lawrence Chilton; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
	Room 01: MULTI-SIGNAL COMPRESSED SENSING FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR TOMOGRAPHY Authors: Esteban Aguilera from German Aerospace Center (DLR) Matteo Nannini from German Aerospace Center (DLR) Andreas Reigber from German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: A STUDY OF POLARIZATION FEATURES IN BISTATIC SCATTERING FROM ROUGH SURFACES Authors: Joel Johnson; The Ohio State University
	Room 08/15: SEE THE FORESTS WITH DIFFERENT EYES Authors: Chue Poh Tan; University of Edinburgh Armando Marino; University of Edinburgh Iain Woodhouse; University of Edinburgh Shane R. Cloude; AEL Consultants Juan Suarez; Forestry Commission UK Colin Edwards; Forestry Commission UK
	Room 11: THE GMES SENTINEL-1 C-SAR INSTRUMENT: DEVELOPMENT STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW Authors: Friedhelm Rostan; Astrium GmbH Markus Huchler; Astrium GmbH Sebastian Riegger; Astrium GmbH Renato Croci; Thales Alenia Space Italia Ramon Torres; European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency
	Room 12: 2D CHANGE DETECTION FROM SATELLITE IMAGERY: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND IMPACT OF THE SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF INPUT IMAGES Authors: Nicolas Champion; IGN-F, Didier Boldo; EDF, Marc Pierrot-Deseilligny; IGN-F, Georges Stamon; Paris Descartes
	Room 13: CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF DMSP/SSMIS Authors: Ye Hong; The Aerospace Corporation, Don Boucher; The Aerospace Corporation
	Room 19: A NEW APPROACH TO SEA SURFACE WIND RETRIEVAL FROM GNSS-R MEASUREMENTS Authors: Hyuk Park from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Enric Valencia from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Xavier Bosch-Lluis from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Isaac Ramos-Perez from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Adriano Camps from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

2:40 PM	Ballroom A: DYNAMIC SUBSPACE ENSEMBLE FOR REMOTELY SENSED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Authors: Jinn-Min Yang; National Taichung University of Education
	Ballroom B: DEM CORRECTIONS BEFORE UNWRAPPING IN A SMALL BASELINE STRATEGY FOR INSAR TIME SERIES ANALYSIS Authors: Gabriel Ducret; Ecole Normale Supérieure, Marie Pierre Doin; Ecole Normale Supérieure, Raphaël Grandin; Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cécile Lasserre; LGIT, Stéphane Guillaso; University of Technology
	Ballroom C: EVALUATING TRANSFER LEARNING APPROACHES FOR IMAGE INFORMATION MINING APPLICATIONS Authors: Surya Durbha; Indian Institue of Technology, Bombay Roger King; Mississippi State University Nicolas Younan; Mississippi State University
	Room 01: POLARIMETRIC SAR TOMOGRAPHY OF TROPICAL FORESTS AT P-BAND Authors: Yue Huang from University of Rennes Laurent Ferro-Famil from University of Rennes Cédric Lardeux from University of Rennes
	Room 02/03: TROPICAL CYCLONE RAIN OBSERVATIONS WITH AIRCRAFT PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS Authors: Paul Chang; NOAA / National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service / Center for Satellite Applications & Research, James Carswell; Remote Sensing Solutions Inc, Zorana Jelenak; NOAA / National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service / Center for Satellite Applications & Research, Stephen Frasier; UMASS
	Room 08/15: Introducing Radar Forest Degradation Index (RFDI) from L-band Polarimetric SAR Authors: Sassan Saatchi; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 11: BIOMASS, COREH2O, PREMIER: ESA’S CANDIDATE 7TH EARTH EXPLORER MISSIONS Authors: Michael Kern; European Space Agency Marco Arcioni; European Space Agency Paolo Bensi; European Space Agency Jean-Loup Bezy; European Space Agency Bernardo Carnicero; European Space Agency Malcolm Davidson; European Space Agency Mark Drinkwater; European Space Agency Franco Fois; European Space Agency Antonio Gabriele; European Space Agency Nico Gebert; European Space Agency Roger Haagmans; European Space Agency Florence Heliere; European Space Agency Paul Ingmann; European Space Agency Ville Kangas; European Space Agency Stefan Kraft; European Space Agency Arnaud Lecuyot; European Space Agency Chung-Chi Lin; European Space Agency Joerg Langen; European Space Agency Roland Meynart; European Space Agency Andrea Perrera; European Space Agency Dirk Schuettemeyer; European Space Agency Klaus Scipal; European Space Agency Pierluigi Silvestrin; European Space Agency
	Room 12: THE EFFECTS OF VIEWING- AND ILLUMINATION GEOMETRY ON SETTLEMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION OF QUICKBIRD IMAGES Authors: Frans van den Bergh; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
	Room 13: Monthly Oceanic Rainfall from Microwave Emission brightness Temperature Histogram (METH) Technique: TRMM One Degree Product Authors: Long Chiu; George Mason University, Dong-Bin Shin; Yonsei University
	Room 19: ESTIMATION OF WAVE SPECTRA WITH SWIM ON CFOSAT – ILLUSTRATION ON A REAL CASE Authors: Céline Tison from Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Claire Manent from CNRS - LATMOS/OVSQ, Thierry Amiot from Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Vivien Enjolras from Thalès Alenia Space, Danièle Hauser from CNRS - LATMOS/OVSQ, Laurent Rey from Thalès Alenia Space, Patrick Castillan from Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

3:20 PM	Ballroom A: A METHODOLOGY OF FOREST MONITORING FROM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES WITH SPARSE REGULARIZATION Authors: Keigo Yoshida from Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc., Takashi Ohki from Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc., Masahiro Terabe from Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc., Hozuma Sekine from Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc., Tomomi Takeda from Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center.
	Ballroom B: Tianjin InSAR time series analysis with L and X-band Authors: Qingli Luo; The Chinese University of Hong Kong Daniele Perissin; The Chinese University of Hong Kong Qinghua Li; The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hui Lin; The Chinese University of Hong Kong Ralf Duering; Infoterra
	Ballroom C: FROM SHANNON COMMUNICATION THEORY TO SEMANTIC CODING: CONCEPTS FOR IMAGE INFORMATION MINING Authors: Mihai Datcu from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Gottfried Schwarz from German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 01: A STATISTICAL MODEL OF IONOSPHERIC SIGNALS IN LOW-FREQUENCY SAR DATA Authors: Franz Meyer; University of Alaska Fairbanks Brenton Watkins; University of Alaska Fairbanks
	Room 02/03: ALL-WEATHER WIND VECTOR MEASUREMENTS FROM INTERCALIBRATED ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITE SENSORS Authors: Thomas Meissner; Remote Sensing Systems, Lucrezia Ricciardulli from Remote Sensing Systems, Frank Wentz from Remote Sensing Systems.
	Room 08/15: ECOSAR: A P- BAND DIGITAL BEAMFORMING POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SAR INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS Authors: Temilola Fatoyinbo from NASA , Rafael Rincon from NASA , Guoqing Sun from University of Maryland, K. Jon Ranson from NASA
	Room 08/15: A GROUND BASED POLARIMETRIC SCATTEROMETER EXPERIMENT IN FRENCH GUIANA FORESTS Authors: Clément Albinet from Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), Pierre Borderies from ONERA, Thierry Koleck from Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Fabio Rocca from Politecnico di Milano, Stefano Tebaldini from Politecnico di Milano, Thuy Le Toan from Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Ludovic Villard from CESBIO
	Room 11: THE ECOSAR P-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR Authors: Rafael Rincon from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Temilola Fatoyinbo from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Guoqing Sun from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, K. Jon Ranson from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Martin Perrine from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Manohar Deshapnde from NASA, Quenton Bonds from NASA.
	Room 12: ESTIMATION OF RIVER DISCHARGE WITH MODIS IMAGES Authors: Kohei Hashimoto; The University of Tokyo, Kazuo Oki; The University of Tokyo
	Room 13: GLOBAL RETRIEVAL OF DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Authors: Venkatachalam Chandrasekar from Colorado State University, Minda Le from Colorado State University.
	Room 19: APPLICATION OF SAR-DERIVED SEA SURFACE WIND AND ERROR CHARACTERISTICS DUE TO AIR-SEA INTERACTION Authors: Kyung-Ae Park from Seoul National University, Tae-Sung Kim from Seoul National University.

3:40 PM	Ballroom A: INDIRECT DETECTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON LEAKAGES ON CONTAMINED SOIL-VEGETATION SYSTEMS THROUGH REFLECTANCE AND IMAGING (PROSPECTIR-VS) SPECTROSCOPY: A POTENTIAL TOOL FOR EXTENSIVE PIPELINE MONITORING Authors: Carlos Roberto Souza Filho from University of Campinas, Lucíola Magalhães from University of Campinas, Giuliana Quitério from University of Campinas, Marcos Nopper from University of Campinas, Teodoro Almeida from University of Sao Paulo, Wilson Olveira from Petrobras, Lis Rabaco from Petrobras, Renato Rocha from Petrobras
	Ballroom B: EXPLOITATION OF TEMPORARY COHERENT SCATTERERS IN SQUEESAR ANALYSES Authors: Alessandro Ferretti from TRE srl, Alfio Fumagalli from TRE srl, Fabrizio Novali from TRE srl, Claudio Prati from Politecnico di Milano, Fabio Rocca from Politecnico di Milano, Alessio Rucci from TRE srl.
	Ballroom C: VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF A SEMANTIC IMAGE TAGGING FRAMEWORK VIA GENERATION OF GEOSPATIAL IMAGERY GROUND TRUTH Authors: Shaun Gleason from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Mesfin Dema from Texas Tech University, Hamed Sari-Sarraf from Texas Tech University, Anil Cheriyadat from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Ranga Raju Vatsavai from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Regina Ferrell from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
	Room 01: IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN SAR INTERFEROMETRY: AN ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR THEIR ESTIMATION Authors: Ramon Brcic from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Alessandro Parizzi from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Michael Eineder from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Richard Bamler from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Franz Meyer from University of Alaska Fairbanks.
	Room 02/03: A COMBINED RADAR/RADIOMETER RETRIEVAL FOR PRECIPITATION Authors: Christian Kummerow; Colorado State University Stephen (Joe) Munchak; Colorado State University
	Room 08/15: DETECTION OF WIND-THROWN TREES IN VHF/UHF SAR IMAGES Authors: Anders Gustavsson from Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Johan Fransson from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Lars M. Ulander from FOI
	Room 11: IMPACT OF THE ANTENNA STABILITY ON THE DOPPLER CENTROID FREQUENCY Authors: Andrea Recchia from Aresys s.r.l., Andrea Monti-Guarnieri from Politecnico di Milano, Nuno Miranda from European Space Research Institute, European Space Agency, Fabrice Collard from CLS, Davide D'Aria from Aresys s.r.l., Davide Giudici from Aresys s.r.l.
	Room 12: MONITORING OF TOPOGRAPHIC CHANGE ON THE COASTAL AREA Authors: Jinah Eom; Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Jong-Kuk Choi; Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Joo-Hyung Ryu; Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Joong-Sun Won; Yonsei University
	Room 13: DEVELOPMENT OF SPACEBORNE RAIN RADAR IN CHINA: THE FIRST RESULTS FROM AIRBORNE DUAL-FREQUENCY RAIN RADAR FIELD CAMPAIGN Authors: Hu Yang; National Satellite Meteorological Center Jian Shang; National Satellite Meteorological Center Qiong Wu; National Satellite Meteorological Center Honggang Yin; National Satellite Meteorological Center Yang Guo; National Satellite Meteorological Center
	Room 19: INVESTIGATION OF OYASHIO-KUROSHIO FRONTAL ZONE USING ALOS PALSAR IMAGES AND ANCILLARY INFORMATION Authors: Leonid Mitnik from V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS, Vyacheslav Lobanov from V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS.

4:00 PM	Ballroom A: MAPPING THE DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS IN HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING THE USGS MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION ALGORITHM (MICA) Authors: Raymond Kokaly from USGS, Trude King from USGS, Todd Hoefen from USGS.
	Ballroom B: WIDE AREA PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY Authors: Nico Adam from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Fernando Rodriguez-Gonzalez from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Alessandro Parizzi from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Werner Liebhart from Technische Universität München.
	Ballroom C: AN INTERACTIVE IMAGE MINING TOOL HANDLING GIGAPIXEL IMAGES Authors: Lionel Gueguen from Joint Research Center - European Commission, Martino Pesaresi from Joint Research Center - European Commission, Pierre Soille from Joint Research Center - European Commission
	Room 01: TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS FOR ESTIMATING IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN INTERFEROMETRIC AND POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA Authors: Paul Rosen; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Marco Lavalle; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Xiaoqing Pi; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sean Buckley; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Walter Szeliga; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Howard Zebker; Stanford University Eric Gurrola; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 02/03: NEAR-REAL-TIME OCEAN SURFACE VECTOR WIND RETRIEVALS FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS: STATUS AND FUTURE PLANS Authors: Michael Bettenhausen; Naval Research Laboratory Ian Adams; Naval Research Laboratory Peter Gaiser; Naval Research Laboratory William Johnston; Computational Physics Inc.
	Room 08/15: BIOSAR 2010 – A SAR CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT TO THE BIOMASS MISSION Authors: Lars M. Ulander from Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Anders Gustavsson form FOI, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez from Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), Xavier Dupuis from ONERA Johan Fransson from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Johan Holmgren from SLU, Jörgen Wallerman from SLU, Leif E. B. Eriksson from Chalmers University of Technology, Gustaf Sandberg from Chalmers University of Technology, Maciej Soja from Chalmers University of Technology
	Room 11: SYSTEM STATUS AND CALIBRATION OF THE F-SAR AIRBORNE SAR INSTRUMENT Authors: Andreas Reigber from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Marc Jäger from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Jens Fischer from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Ralf Horn from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Rolf Scheiber from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Pau Prats from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Anton Nottensteiner from German Aerospace Center (DLR).
	Room 12: A SYNERGETIC USE OF ACTIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS, OPTICAL IMAGES AND TOPOGRAPHY DATA FOR IMPROVED FLOOD MAPPING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO Authors: Marouane Temimi; NOAA-CREST/City University of New York, Naira Chaouch; NOAA-CREST/City University of New York, Scott Hagen; University of Central Florida, John Weishampel; University of Central Florida, Stephen Medeiros; University of Central Florida, Jesse Feyen; NOAA Storm Surge Roadmap, Yuji Funakoshi; NOAA Storm Surge Roadmap, Reza Khanbilvardi; NOAA-CREST/City University of New York
	Room 13: DUAL KA-BAND RADAR EXPERIMENT FOR THE DPR ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT Authors: Kenji Nakamura; Nagoya University Shuji Shimizu; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Katsuhiro Nakagawa; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Hiroshi Hanado; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
	Room 19: SAR detection and model tracking of oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico Authors: Xiaofeng Li from NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

4:20 PM	Ballroom A: Linear unmixing of multidate hyperspectral imagery for crop yield estimation Authors: Bin Luo from LIESMARS, Wuhan University, Chenghai Yang from USDA ARS Kika de la Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center, Jocelyn Chanussot from Grenoble Institute of Technology.
	Ballroom B: GHOST PERSISTENT SCATTERERS RELATED TO SIGNAL REFLECTIONS BETWEEN ADJACENT BUILDINGS Authors: Stefan Auer from Technische Universität München, Stefan Gernhardt from Technische Universität München, Richard Bamler from German Aerospace Center (DLR).
	Ballroom C: SEMANTIC INFORMATION DISCOVERY IN SATELLITE IMAGES Authors: Dragos Bratasanu from Romanian Space Agency, Ion Nedelcu from Romanian Space Agency, Mihai Datcu from German Aerospace Center (DLR).
	Room 01: CORRECTION OF IONOSPHERIC DISTORTIONS IN LOW FREQUENCY INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA Authors: Jun Su Kim; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Andreas Danklmayer; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Konstantinos Papathanassiou; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: ICE-PHASE PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS OVER LAND USING COMBINED RADAR / RADIOMETER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS Authors: Benjamin Johnson; University of Maryland, Baltimore County Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology Gail Skofronick-Jackson; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 08/15: THE POTENTIAL OF MULTI-TEMPORAL COSMO-SKYMED SAR IMAGES IN MONITORING SOIL AND VEGETATION Authors: Emanuele Santi from Institute of Applied Physics - CNR, Simone Pettinato from Institute of Applied Physics - CNR, Simonetta Paloscia from Institute of Applied Physics - CNR, Marco Brogioni from Institute of Applied Physics - CNR , Giacomo Fontanelli from Institute of Applied Physics - CNR, Paolo Pampaloni from Institute of Applied Physics - CNR, Giovanni Macelloni from Institute of Applied Physics - CNR, Francesco Montomoli from Institute of Applied Physics - CNR
	Room 11: THE AIRBORNE GLACIER AND ICE SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY INTERFEROMETER (GLISTIN-A) Authors: Delwyn Moller from Remote Sensing Solutions Inc, Scott Hensley from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Thierry Michel from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 11: THE AIRBORNE GLACIER AND ICE SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY INTERFEROMETER (GLISTIN-A) Authors: Delwyn Moller from Remote Sensing Solutions Inc,Scott Hensley from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Thierry Michel from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
	Room 12: MODELLING COASTAL PROCESSES BY MEANS OF INNOVATIVE INTEGRATION OF REMOTE SENSING TIME SERIES ANALYSIS Authors: Andrea Taramelli; Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Emiliana Valentini; Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Mariangela Dejana; Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Francesco Zucca; Universiy of Pavia, Stefania Mandrone; Institute for Environmental Protection and Research
	Room 13: A SIMULATION STUDY OF ADAPTIVE SCAN FOR NEXT-GENERATION SPACEBORNE PRECIPITATION RADAR Authors: Toshiaki Kozu; Shimane University, Toyoshi Shimomai; Shimane University
	Room 19: Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications in marine meteorology Authors: Xiaofeng Li from NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Weizhong Zheng from IMSG at NOAA, Xiaofeng Yang from Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, William Pichel from NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Ziwei Li from Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

4:40 PM	Ballroom A: A PRINCIPAL COMPONENT-BASED RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION TO HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING Authors: Xu Liu from NASA Langley Research Center, Wan Wu from NASA / SAIC, Hui Li from NASA, Daniel Zhou from NASA, Allen Larar from NASA, Ping Yang from Texas A&M University.
	Ballroom B: AMPLITUDE BASED InSAR STACK MULTI-LOOKING: PERFORMANCE AND APPLICATIONS Authors: Alessandro Parizzi from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Ramon Brcic from German Aerospace Center (DLR).
	Ballroom C: Mining large satellite image repositories using semi-supervised methods Authors: Pierre Blanchart from Télécom ParisTech, Marin Ferecatu from CNAM, Mihai Datcu from German Aerospace Center (DLR).
	Room 01: GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF L-BAND IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION Authors: Xiaoqing Pi; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Anthony Mannucci; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Anthony Freeman; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 11: UAVSAR INSTRUMENT: CURRENT OPERATIONS AND PLANNED UPGRADES Authors: Yunling Lou from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Scott Hensley from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Roger Chao from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cathleen Jones from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Tim Miller from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ronald Muellerschoen from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Yang Zheng from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
	Room 12: OBSERVATIONS OF COASTAL CHANGES ON WESTERN TAIWAN USING A 10 YEARS TIME SERIES ERS SAR IMAGES Authors: Hsiu-Wen Wang; National Central University, Kun-Shan Chen; National Central University, Chih-Tien Wang; National Central University
	Room 13: EVOLUTION OF THE RAIN PROFILING ALGORITHM FOR THE TRMM PRECIPITATION RADAR Authors: Toshio Iguchi; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
	Room 19: POLARIMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER CONVECTION Authors: Haiyan Li from Bedford Institute of Oceanography, William Perrie from Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Lanli Guo from Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Biao Zhang from Bedford Institute of Oceanography.

8:20 AM	Ballroom A: PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-BASED DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Authors: He Yang; Mississippi State University Qian Du; Mississippi State University
	Ballroom B: DUAL-POLARIZED COSMO SKYMED SAR DATA TO OBSERVE METALLIC TARGETS AT SEA Authors: Ferdinando Nunziata; Università di Napoli Parthenope Antonio Montuori; Università di Napoli Parthenope Maurizio Migliaccio; Università di Napoli Parthenope
	Ballroom C: A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH TO BUILDING EXTRACTION COMBINING HIGH-RESOLUTION INSAR AND OPTICAL DATA Authors: Jan Dirk Wegner; Leibniz Universität Hannover Uwe Soergel; Leibniz Universität Hannover
	Room 01: TANDEM-X MISSION STATUS Authors: Manfred Zink; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Michael Bartusch; German Aerospace Center (DLR) David Miller; Astrium GmbH
	Room 02/03: NASA SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION FORMULATION Authors: Dara Entekhabi; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Eni Njoku; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Peggy O'Neill; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Kent Kellogg; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jared Entin; NASA Headquarters
	Room 08/15: SIMULATED SEASONAL SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF SOIL MOISTURE, TEMPERATURE, AND NET RADIATION IN A DECIDUOUS FOREST Authors: Jerrell R. Ballard, Jr; U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Stacy E. Howington; U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Pasquale Cinnella; Mississippi State University James A. Smith; NASA
	Room 11: OVERVIEW OF THE KOMPSAT-5 SAR SATELLITE Authors: Yong-Sik Chun; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Sang-Hoon Hong; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)
	Room 12: ESTUARY WETLAND DETECTION IN SAR IMAGES Authors: Yu-Chang Tzeng; National United University, Kuo-Tai Fan; National United University, C. Y. Lin; National United University, Y. F. Lin; National United University, Kun-Shan Chen; National Central University
	Room 13: SATELLITE SENSING OF INTENSE WINTER MESOCYCLONES OVER THE JAPAN SEA Authors: Leonid Mitnik from Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS, Irina Gurvich from Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS, Mikhail Pichugin from Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS

8:40 AM	Ballroom A: EMBEDDED FEATURE SELECTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL BANDS WITH BOOSTED DECISION TREES Authors: Sildomar Monteiro; University of Sydney Richard Murphy; University of Sydney
	Ballroom B: IMPROVED SHIP DETECTION USING DUAL-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA Authors: Ken Yoong Lee; EADS Innovation Works Singapore Timo Bretschneider; EADS Innovation Works Singapore
	Ballroom C: LOCAL FEATURE BASED SUPERVISED OBJECT DETECTION: SAMPLING, LEARNING AND DETECTION STRATEGIES Authors: Julien Michel; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Manuel Grizonnet; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Jordi Inglada; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) / Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Julien Malik; CS Aurélien Bricier; CS Otmane Lahlou; CS
	Room 01: TANDEM-X: SCIENCE STATUS AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS Authors: Irena Hajnsek; ETH Zürich / DLR Oberpfaffenhofen Gerhard Krieger; DLR Oberpfaffenhofen Konstantinos Papathanassiou; DLR Oberpfaffenhofen Stefan Baumgartner; DLR Oberpfaffenhofen Marc Rodriguez-Cassola; DLR Oberpfaffenhofen Pau Prats; DLR Oberpfaffenhofen Francesco Lopez Dekker; DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
	Room 02/03: THE SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) APPLICATIONS ACTIVITY Authors: Molly Brown; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Susan Moran; United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural, Research Service Southwest Watershed Research Center, Vanessa Escobar; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Dara Entekhabi; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Peggy O'Neill; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Eni Njoku; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 08/15: MONITORING FOREST MANAGEMENT ACTIVTIES USING AIRBORNE LIDAR AND ALOS PALSAR Authors: Akira Kato; Chiba University Manabu Watanabe; Tohoku University Tatsuaki Kobayashi; Chiba University Yoshio Yamaguchi; Niigata University Joji Iisaka; University of Victoria
	Room 12: ASSESSMENT OF TERRASAR-X FOR MAPPING SALT MARSH Authors: Yoon-Kyung Lee; Yonsei University, Wook Park; Yonsei University, Jong-Kuk Choi; Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Joo-Hyung Ryu; Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Joong-Sun Won; Yonsei University
	Room 13: TOWARDS NEXT-GENERATION CLOUD AND PRECIPITATION RADAR SYSTEMS Authors: Simone Tanelli from NASA Eastwood Im from NASA Stephen Durden from NASA Houfei Fang from NASA
	Room 19: REDUCING SYSTEMATIC ERRORS ON SMOS RETRIEVED SALINITY: CALIBRATION OF BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE IMAGES AND FORWARD MODEL IMPROVEMENT Authors: Jérôme Gourrion; CSIC Sébastien Guimbard; CSIC Roberto Sabia; European Space Agency Carolina Gabarró; CSIC Verónica González; CSIC Sergio Montero; CSIC Marco Talone; CSIC Marcos Portabella; CSIC Antonio Turiel; CSIC Fernando Pérez; CSIC Justino Martínez; CSIC

9:00 AM	Ballroom A: DYNAMIC BAND SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Authors: Keng-Hao Liu; UMBC Chein-I Chang; UMBC
	Ballroom B: POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS OF THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SLICK USING L-BAND UAVSAR DATA Authors: Cathleen Jones; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Brent Minchew; California Institute of Technology Benjamin Holt; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Ballroom C: DETECTION OF COMPOUND STRUCTURES USING HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING OF STATISTICAL AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES Authors: Gokhan Akcay; Bilkent University Selim Aksoy; Bilkent University
	Room 01: THE TANDEM-X SPACE SEGMENT Authors: Christoph Giese; Astrium GmbH Dieter Ulrich; Astrium GmbH
	Room 02/03: THE PLANNED SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION L-BAND RADAR/RADIOMETER INSTRUMENT Authors: Michael Spencer; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kevin Wheeler; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Samuel Chan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jeffrey Piepmeier; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Derek Hudson; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, James Medeiros; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 08/15: TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF FOREST COVER USING HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS Authors: Arnt-Børre Salberg; Norwegian Computing Center Øivind Due Trier; Norwegian Computing Center
	Room 11: THE KOMPSAT-5 IMAGE RECEPTION AND PROCESSING ELEMENT Authors: Myungjin Choi; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Taeyoung Kim; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Hee-Jin Bae; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Yunyook Jang; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Tae-Byeong Chae; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Yong-Sik Chun; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)
	Room 12: WATER LEVEL MONITORING USING THE INTERFERENCE PATTERN GNSS-R TECHNIQUE Authors: Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez; IEEC CRAE/UPC, Xavier Bosch-Lluis; IEEC CRAE/UPC, Adriano Camps; IEEC CRAE/UPC, Isaac Ramos-Perez; IEEC CRAE/UPC, Enric Valencia; IEEC CRAE/UPC, Hyuk Park; IEEC CRAE/UPC, Mercè Vall-llossera; IEEC CRAE/UPC
	Room 13: ANALYSIS OF PRECIPITATION IN REPEATED ACQUISITIONS COLLECTED BY THE COSMO SKYMED CONSTELLATION IN POLARIMETRIC MODE Authors: Luca Baldini; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Nicoletta Roberto; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Eugenio Gorgucci; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Jason Fritz; Colorado State University Venkatachalam Chandrasekar; Colorado State University
	Room 19: SEA SURFACE SALINITY AND L-BAND RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS IN THE GULF OF BISCAY: SMOS AND CAROLS Authors: Adrien Martin; LOCEAN / IPSL / CNRS / UPMC Jacqueline Boutin; LOCEAN / IPSL / CNRS / UPMC Danièle Hauser; LATMOS / IPSL Gilles Reverdin; LOCEAN / IPSL / CNRS / UPMC Mickael Pardé; LATMOS / IPSL Mehrez Zribi; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Pascal Fanise; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Monique Dechambre; LATMOS / IPSL Xaobin Yin; LOCEAN / IPSL Joseph Tenerelli; CLS Nicolas Reul; CLS

9:20 AM	Ballroom A: BAND SELECTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES BASED ON IMPURITY FUNCTION Authors: Yang-Lang Chang; National Taipei University of Technology Bin-Feng Shu; National Taipei University of Technology Tung-Ju Hsieh; National Taipei University of Technology Chih-Yuan Chu; National Central University Jyh-Perng Fang; National Taipei University of Technology
	Ballroom B: POLARIMETRIC OBSERVATION FOR RICE FIELD BY RADARSAT-2 AND ALOS/PALSAR Authors: Chinatsu Yonezawa; Tohoku University Takahiro Imai; Tohoku University Daisuke Kunii; Tohoku University Manabu Watanabe; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Genya Saito; Tokyo Institute of Technology
	Ballroom C: A NEW ROAD EXTRACTION APPROACH FOR LOW-FREQUENCY SAR IMAGES BASED ON ROAD APPURTENANCE DETECTION Authors: Qian Song; National University of Defense Technology Yu-Min Wang; National University of Defense Technology Yun-Fei Shi; National University of Defense Technology Tian Jin; National University of Defense Technology
	Room 01: THE JOINT TERRASAR-X / TANDEM-X GROUND SEGMENT Authors: Birgit Schättler; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Ralph Kahle; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Robert Metzig; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Ulrich Steinbrecher; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Manfred Zink; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: THE CANADIAN SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS PLAN FOR THE SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MISSION Authors: Stephane Belair; Environment Canada
	Room 08/15: GENERATING FINE RESOLUTION LEAF AREA INDEX MAPS FOR BOREAL FORESTS OF FINLAND Authors: Janne Heiskanen; University of Helsinki Miina Rautiainen; University of Helsinki Lauri Korhonen; University of Eastern Finland Matti Mõttus; University of Helsinki Pauline Stenberg; University of Helsinki
	Room 11: MEASUREMENT AND COMPARISON ANALYSIS OF CORNER REFLECTOR RADAR CROSS SECTION FOR KOMPSAT-5 CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION Authors: Horyung Jeong; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Donghan Lee; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Taebong Oh; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Chulho Jung; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Jaemin Shin; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Hyosuk Lim; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)
	Room 12: ESTIMATING WATER OPTICAL PROPERTIES, WATER DEPTH AND BOTTOM ALBEDO USING HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR COASTAL HABITAT MAPPING Authors: Soo Chin Liew; National University of Singapore, Ping Chen; National University of Singapore, Boredin Saengtuksin; National University of Singapore, Chew Wai Chang; National University of Singapore
	Room 13: IDENTIFICATION OF RAIN/ICE MIXTURE FROM DUAL POLARIZATION WEATHER RADAR Authors: S. Lim from Colorado State University Venkatachalam Chandrasekar from Colorado State University
	Room 19: STATUS OF AQUARIUS AND THE AQUARIUS/SAC-D MISSION Authors: David Le Vine; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Gary Lagerloef; Earth and Space Research Sandra Torrusio; Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales

9:40 AM	Ballroom A: GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS BASED DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FOR REMOTELY SENSED IMAGE ANALYSIS Authors: Minshan Cui; Mississippi State University Saurabh Prasad; Mississippi State University Majid Mahrooghy; Mississippi State University Lori Bruce; Mississippi State University James Aanstoos; Mississippi State University
	Ballroom B: POTENTIAL ASSESSMENT OF SAR IN COMPACT AND FULL POLARIMETRY MODE FOR SNOW DETECTION Authors: Gulab Singh; Niigata University Yoshio Yamaguchi; Niigata University Gopalan Venktaraman; Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Sang-Eun Park; Niigata University
	Ballroom C: BUILDING CHANGE DETECTION IN A COUPLE OF OPTICAL AND SAR HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES Authors: Edouard Barthelet; Institut Telecom, Telecom Bretagne Grégoire Mercier; Institut Telecom, Telecom Bretagne Léonard Denise; Thales Communications
	Room 01: IN-ORBIT PERFORMANCE OF TSX-1 & TDX-1 Authors: Daniel Schulze; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Paola Rizzoli; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Benjamin Bräutigam; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gerhard Krieger; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: CHARACTERIZATION OF LAND SURFACE FREEZE/THAW STATE, TEMPERATURE AND MOISTURE CONTROLS ON ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY: CARBON CYCLE SCIENCE ADDRESSED WITH NASA’S PROPOSED SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE/PASSIVE (SMAP) MISSION Authors: Kyle McDonald; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John Kimball; The University of Montana
	Room 08/15: GLOBAL EVALUATION OF FOUR AVHRR-NDVI DATA-SETS: INTERCOMPARISON AND ASSESSMENT AGAINST LANDSAT IMAGERY Authors: Hylke Beck; VU University Amsterdam Tim McVicar; CSIRO Albert van Dijk; CSIRO Richard De Jeu; VU University Amsterdam Jaap Schellekens; Deltares Sampurno Bruijnzeel; VU University Amsterdam
	Room 11: SCIENTIFIC APPLICATION WITH KOMPSAT-5 SAR Authors: Sang-Hoon Hong; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Kyung-Yup Lee; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) Youn-Soo Kim; Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)
	Room 12: ANISOTROPIC SURFACES DETECTION USING INTENSITY MAPS ACQUIRED BY AN AIRBORNE LIDAR EMITTING IN NEAR-IR OVER COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS Authors: Franck Garestier; Lab M2C, Patrice Bretel; Lab M2C, Olivier Monfort; Lab M2C, Franck Levoy; Lab M2C
	Room 13: WAVEFORM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE SOLID-STATE NASA DUAL-FREQUENCY DUAL-POLARIZED DOPPLER RADAR Authors: Kumar Vijay Mishra from Colorado State University Venkatachalam Chandrasekar from Colorado State University Cuong Nguyen from Colorado State University Manuel Vega from Colorado State University / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 19: SEA SURFACE SALINITY AND WIND RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM USING COMBINED PASSIVE-ACTIVE L-BAND MICROWAVE DATA Authors: Simon H. Yueh; California Institute of Technology Mario Chaubell; California Institute of Technology

10:20 AM	Ballroom A: IMPROVED BINARY PARTITION TREE CONSTRUCTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES: APPLICATION TO OBJECT DETECTION Authors: Silvia Valero; Technical University of Catalonia/Grenoble Institute of Technology Philippe Salembier; Technical University of Catalonia Jocelyn Chanussot; GIPSA-Laboratory / Grenoble Institute of Technology Carles M. Cuadras; University of Barcelona
	Ballroom B: WITHIN THE RESOLUTION CELL: SUPER-RESOLUTION IN TOMOGRAPHIC SAR IMAGING Authors: Xiao Xiang Zhu; Technische Universität München Richard Bamler; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
	Ballroom C: HIGH-ACCURACY TERRAIN MODELLING FOR SOIL MAPPING USING ALOS-PRISM IMAGERY Authors: Stephen McNeill; Landcare Research New Zealand Stella Belliss; Landcare Research New Zealand David Pairman; Landcare Research New Zealand
	Room 01: IN-ORBIT CALIBRATION OF THE TANDEM-X SYSTEM Authors: Marco Schwerdt; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Jaime Hueso-Gonzalez; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Markus Bachmann; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Dirk Schrank; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Björn Döring; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Nuria Tous-Ramon; German Aerospace Center (DLR) John Mohan Walter Antony; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: UTILIZATION OF ANCILLARY DATA SETS FOR SMAP ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCT GENERATION Authors: Peggy O'Neill; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Erika Podest; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Eni Njoku; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 08/15: A GLOBAL MULTITEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION INDEX QUALITY BASED ON MODIS QUALITY LAYERS Authors: Sergio Bernardes; University of Georgia Alfredo Huete; University of Arizona Ramon Moraes de Freitas; Brazilian National Institute for Space Research Yosio Shimabukuro; Brazilian National Institute for Space Research Marguerite Madden; University of Georgia
	Room 11: CHARACTERIZATION AND EXTENT OF RANDOMLY-CHANGING RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE IN ALOS PALSAR DATA Authors: Franz Meyer; University of Alaska Fairbanks Jeremy Nicoll; University of Alaska Fairbanks Anthony Paul Doulgeris; University of Tromsø
	Room 12: DISCRIMINATION OF P-WAVE INTERVAL IN TIME–QUEFRENCY ANALYSIS FOR PROXIMITY MICROSEISMIC DOUBLETS Authors: Koji Nagano from Muroran Institute of Technology
	Room 13: VERTICALLY POINTING RADAR REFLECTIVITY UNCERTAINTIES AND THIER IMPACT ON RETRIEVED RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS Authors: Christopher Williams; University of Colorado Boulder
	Room 19: SWOT: A HIGH-RESOLUTION WIDE-SWATH ALTIMETRY MISSION FOR OCEANOGRAPHY AND HYDROLOGY Authors: Lee-Lueng Fu; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ernesto Rodriguez; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Douglas Alsdorf; The Ohio State University Rosemary Morrow; LEGOS-Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees Nelly Mognard; LEGOS-Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees

10:40 AM	Ballroom A: TOWARDS STREAMING HYPERSPECTRAL ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION Authors: Dzevdet Burazerovic; University of Antwerp Rob Heylen; University of Antwerp Paul Scheunders; University of Antwerp
	Ballroom B: SINGLE-LOOK SUPERRESOLUTION URBAN 3-/4-D TOMOGRAPHY ADVANCES Authors: Fabrizio Lombardini; University of Pisa Francesco Cai; University of Pisa Davide Pasculli; University of Pisa
	Ballroom C: ADAPTIVE MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING FOR DEM GENERATION Authors: Kyohyouk Kim; Purdue University Jie Shan; Purdue University
	Room 01: BISTATIC SYNCHRONIZATION AND PROCESSING OF TANDEM-X DATA Authors: Helko Breit; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Marwan Younis; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Ulrich Balss; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Andreas Niedermeier; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Christo Grigorov; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Jaime Hueso-Gonzalez; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gerhard Krieger; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Michael Eineder; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Thomas Fritz; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: Evaluation of the Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission (SMAP)Combined Radar-Radiometer Soil Moisture Algorithm Authors: Narendra Das; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dara Entekhabi; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Steven Chan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Seungbum Kim; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Eni Njoku; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Roy Dunbar; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jiancheng Shi; University of California Santa Barbara
	Room 08/15: MONITORING VEGETATION WATER CONTENT BY USING OPTICAL VEGETATION INDEX AND MICROWAVE VEGETATION INDEX: FIELD EXPERIMENTS AND APPLICATIONS Authors: Hui Lu; Tsinghua University Toshio Koike; The University of Tokyo Hiroyuki Tsutsui; The University of Tokyo Hedeyuki Fujii; The University of Tokyo
	Room 11: CALIBRATION OF POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGES AFFECTED BY FARADAY ROTATION THROUGH THE PS TECHNIQUE Authors: Lorenzo Iannini; Politecnico di Milano Andrea Monti-Guarnieri; Politecnico di Milano Stefano Tebaldini; Politecnico di Milano
	Room 12: HAITI EARTHQUAKE (12.01.2010) SURFACE SHIFT ESTIMATION USING TERRASAR-X DATA Authors: Christian Minet from German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 13: MODELING MELTING LAYER RADAR OBSERVATIONS AT GPM FREQUENCIES; COMPARISON TO MEASUREMENTS Authors: Annakaisa von Lerber; Aalto University, Dmitri Moisseev; University of Helsinki, Jussi Leinonen; Finnish Meteorological Institute, Jani Tyynelä; University of Helsinki, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar; Colorado State University, Martti Hallikainen; Aalto University
	Room 19: HYDROLOGIC ESTIMATION FROM SWOT MEASUREMENTS: METHODS AND IMPLICATIONS Authors: Konstantinos Andreadis; The Ohio State University Ernesto Rodriguez; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Delwyn Moller; Remote Sensing Solutions Inc Douglas Alsdorf; The Ohio State University Michael Durand; The Ohio State University

11:00 AM	Ballroom A: BRANCH AND BOUND BASED FEATURE ELIMINATION FOR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE BASED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES Authors: Sathishkumar Samiappan; Mississippi State University Saurabh Prasad; Mississippi State University Lori Bruce; Mississippi State University Eric Hansen; Mississippi State University
	Ballroom B: MULTI-COMPONENT NONLINEAR MOTION ESTIMATION IN DIFFERENTIAL SAR TOMOGRAPHY – THE TIME-WARP METHOD Authors: Xiao Xiang Zhu; Technische Universität München Richard Bamler; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
	Room 01: INTERFEROMETRIC PROCESSING OF TANDEM-X DATA Authors: Thomas Fritz; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Cristian Rossi; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Nestor Yague-Martinez; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Fernando Rodriguez-Gonzalez; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Marie Lachaise; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Helko Breit; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE MITIGATION FOR THE PLANNED SMAP RADAR AND RADIOMETER Authors: Michael Spencer; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Samuel Chan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Eric Belz; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jeffrey Piepmeier; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Priscilla Mohammed; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Edward J. Kim; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Joel Johnson; The Ohio State University
	Room 08/15: THE ANNUAL BEHAVIOR OF BACKSCATTERING AND COHERENCE OF PALSAR DATA Authors: Wenjian Ni; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University Zhifeng Guo; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University Zhiyu Zhang; Remote Sensing and GIS Research Center, Beijing Normal University Guoqing Sun; University of Maryland
	Room 11: A KU-BAND GEOSYNCHRONOUS SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR MISSION ANALYSIS WITH MEDIUM TRANSMITTED POWER AND MEDIUM-SIZED ANTENNA Authors: Josep Ruiz; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Antoni Broquetas; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Andrea Monti-Guarnieri; Politecnico di Milano Fabio Rocca; Politecnico di Milano
	Room 12: INVESTIGATING THE SEISMIC CYCLE IN ITALY BY MULTITEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF ALOS AND ERS/ENVISAT DINSAR DATA SETS Authors: Cristiano Tolomei from Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
	Room 13: DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW BISTATIC DOPPLER MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND ITS FIELD TEST IN OKINAWA Authors: Seiji Kawamura; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Shigeo Sugitani; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Hiroshi Hanado; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Katsuhiro Nakagawa; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
	Room 19: SWOT MISSION GROUND SEGMENT: DATA PROCESSING FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND PROCESSING APPROACHES Authors: Hélène Vadon; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Philip S. Callahan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

11:20 AM	Ballroom A: HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING USING A NOVEL CONVERSION MODEL Authors: Fereidoun A. Mianji; Harbin Institute of Technology Shuang Zhou; Harbin Institute of Technology Ye Zhang; Harbin Institute of Technology
	Ballroom B: NEW DIFFERENTIAL SAR TOMOGRAPHY FUNCTIONALITIES FOR PROBING 3D FOREST STRUCTURE AND DYNAMIC PROCESSES Authors: Fabrizio Lombardini; University of Pisa Francesco Cai; University of Pisa
	Ballroom C: META-OPTIMIZATION OF THE EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER’S PARAMETERS FOR IMPROVED FEATURE EXTRACTION ON HYPER-TEMPORAL IMAGES Authors: Brian Salmon; University of Pretoria Waldo Kleynhans; CSIR Frans van den Bergh; CSIR Jan C. Olivier; University of Pretoria Willem Marais; Space Science and Engineering Center Konrad Wessels; CSIR
	Room 01: BASELINE CALIBRATION IN TANDEM-X Authors: Jaime Hueso-Gonzalez; German Aerospace Center (DLR) John Mohan Walter Antony; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gerhard Krieger; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Marco Schwerdt; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: EVALUATION OF SMAP LEVEL 2 SOIL MOISTURE ALGORITHMS USING SMOS DATA Authors: Rajat Bindlish; USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Thomas Jackson; USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Tianjie Zhao; USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Michael Cosh; USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Steven Chan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Peggy O'Neill; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Eni Njoku; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Andreas Colliander; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Yann H. Kerr; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Jiancheng Shi; University of California Santa Barbara
	Room 08/15: TEMPORAL TRENDS OF MICROWAVE EMISSION FROM FOREST AREAS OBSERVED FROM SATELLITE Authors: Simonetta Paloscia; CNR-IFAC Emanuele Santi; CNR-IFAC Simone Pettinato; CNR-IFAC Marco Brogioni; CNR-IFAC Paolo Ferrazzoli; Tor Vergata University Rachid Rahmoune; Tor Vergata University
	Room 11: ACCURATE OPTIMAL DOPPLER CENTROID ESTIMATION FOR SAR DATA Authors: Pietro Guccione; Politecnico di Bari Andrea Monti-Guarnieri; Politecnico di Milano
	Room 12: MULTI-PARAMETERS THERMAL ANOMALIES BEFORE NEW ZEALAND MS7.0 EARTHQUAKE Authors: Qin Kai from China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing)
	Room 13: Data Products and Services for GPM Authors: Erich Stocker; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 19: BENEFITS OF SATELLITE ALTIMETRY TO FORECAST DOWNSTREAM WATER ELEVATION IN CONTEXT OF TRANSBOUNDARY RIVERS Authors: Sylvain Biancamaria; University of Washington / LEGOS Faisal Hossain; Tennessee Technological University Dennis Lettenmaier; University of Washington

11:40 AM	Ballroom A: BAYESIAN FUSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES USING GAUSSIAN SCALE MIXTURE PRIOR Authors: Yifan Zhang; Northwestern Polytechnical University Shaohui Mei; Northwestern Polytechnical University Mingyi He; Northwestern Polytechnical University
	Ballroom B: TOMOGRAPHIC PROFILING (TP) – A SCHEME FOR VERTICAL BACKSCATTER PROFILING OF BIOGEOPHYSICAL TARGETS AT CONSTANT INCIDENCE ANGLES Authors: Keith Morrison; Cranfield University John Bennett; Sheffield University
	Room 01: PRODUCTION CHAIN TOWARDS FIRST CALIBRATED AND MOSAICKED TANDEM-X DEMS Authors: Birgit Wessel; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Astrid Gruber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Anna Wendleder; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Martin Huber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Markus Breunig; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Ursula Marschalk; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Detlev Kosmann; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Achim Roth; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 08/15: CHANGES IN VEGETATION AND RAINFALL PATTERNS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA OVER THE LAST DECADE OBSERVED BY SATELLITES – A NATIONAL AND SUB-NATIONAL SYNTHESIS Authors: Agata Hoscilo; University of Leicester Heiko Balzter; University of Leicester Etienne Bartholome; Joint Research Centre Mirco Boschetti; Institute of Electromagnetic Sensing of Environment Pietro Alessandro Brivio; Institute of Electromagnetic Sensing of Environment Andreas Brink; Joint Research Centre
	Room 11: TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH ACCURACY RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE LOCALIZATION OF TERRASAR-X / TANDEM-X DATA Authors: Ulrich Balss; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Michael Eineder; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Thomas Fritz; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Helko Breit; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Christian Minet; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 12: MICROWAVE RADIATION ANOMALY OF WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE AND ITS MECHANISM Authors: Shanjun Liu from Northeastern University
	Room 13: CIRRUS DIRECT OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVAL OVER OCEAN USING THE A-TRAIN Authors: Damien Josset; SSAI, Yongxiang Hu; NASA Langley Research Center, Jacques Pelon; IPSL/LATMOS, Peng-Wang Zhai; SSAI, Patricia Lucker; SSAI
	Room 19: INTERFEROMETRIC PROCESSING OF FRESH WATER BODIES FOR SWOT Authors: Ernesto Rodriguez; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Delwyn Moller; Remote Sensing Solutions Inc Xiaoqing Wu; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Konstantinos Andreadis; The Ohio State University

1:20 PM	Ballroom A: LARGE SCALE SEMI-SUPERVISED IMAGE SEGMENTATION WITH ACTIVE QUERIES Authors: Devis Tuia; University of Valencia Jordi Muñoz-Marí; Universitat de València Gustavo Camps-Valls; University of Valencia
	Ballroom B: Using worldwide available terrasar-X data to calibrate geo-location accuracy of optical sensors Authors: Roland Perko, Hannes Raggam, Karlheinz Gutjahr, Mathias Schardt, Joanneum Research, AUSTRIA
	Ballroom C: VALIDATING SATELLITE LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE PRODUCTS FOR GOES-R AND JPSS MISSIONS Authors: Yunyue Yu; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Mitchell Goldberg; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Ivan Csiszar; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
	Room 01: POLINSAR : FROM SIR-C TO TANDEM-X Authors: Shane R. Cloude; AEL Consultants
	Room 02/03: COMPARSION OF TRMM PR V6 AND V7 FOCUSING HEAVY RAINFALL Authors: Shinta Seto; The University of Tokyo Toshio Iguchi; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Robert Meneghini; NASA
	Room 08/15: FOREST STRUCTURE ESTIMATION USING SAR, LIDAR, AND OPTICAL DATA IN THE CANADIAN BOREAL FOREST Authors: Michael Benson from University of Michigan, Leland Pierce from University of Michigan, Kathleen Bergen from University of Michigan, Kamal Sarabandi from University of Michigan, Kailai Zhang from University of Michigan, and Caitlin Ryan from University of Michigan.
	Room 11: MONITORING SOIL FREEZE/THAW CONDITIONS OVER AN AGRICULTURAL AREA USING AMSR-E BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE Authors: Louis-Philippe Rousseau; Université de Sherbrooke Ramata Magagi; Université de Sherbrooke Robert Leconte; Université de Sherbrooke Brenda Toth; Environment Canada
	Room 12: INSAR MONITORING OF COASTAL LANDSLIDES Authors: Vernon Singhroy from Canada Centre for Remote Sensing; Francois Charboneau from Canada Centre for Remote Sensing; Goran Pavlic from Canada Centre for Remote Sensing; Rejean Couture from Geological Survey of Canada; Junhua Li from Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
	Room 13: EFFECTS OF UNCERTAINTY IN CLOUD MICROPHYSICS ON PASSIVE MICROWAVE RAINFALL MEASUREMENTS Authors: Ju-Hye Kim from Yonsei University, Dong-Bin Shin from Yonsei University
	Room 19: AIRSWOT- A CALIBRATION/VALIDATION PLATFORM FOR THE SWOT MISSION Authors: Delwyn Moller; Remote Sensing Solutions Inc, Ernesto Rodriguez; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, James Carswell; Remote Sensing Solutions Inc, Daniel Esteban-Fernandez; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

1:40 PM	Ballroom A: SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF MAN-MADE MARITIME OBJECTS IN TERRASAR-X IMAGES Authors: Michael Teutsch; Fraunhofer IOSB Günter Saur; Fraunhofer IOSB
	Ballroom B: A WEIGHTED CALIBRATION METHOD OF INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA Authors: Yongfei Mao,Maosheng Xiang,Lideng Wei,Daojing Li,Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 02/03: MONITORING THE METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT IN THE MIDDLE REACHES OF HEIHE RIVER BASIN BASED ON TRMM PRECIPITATION DATA Authors: Yao Wang; Lanzhou University Chuanyan Zhao; Lanzhou University Zhonglin Xu; Lanzhou University Chao Wang; Lanzhou University Zhongren Nan; Lanzhou University
	Room 08/15: A METHODOLOGY TO SELECT PHENOLOGICALLY SUITABLE LANDSAT SCENES FOR FOREST CHANGE DETECTION Authors: Do-Hyung Kim from University of Maryland , Raghuram Narashiman from University of Maryland, Joseph O. Sexton from University of Maryland, Chengquan Huang from University of Maryland, and John R. Townshend from University of Maryland.
	Room 11: MOISTURE & ROUGHNESS ESTIMATION ALGORITHM OVER PERMAFROST AREA Authors: Manabu Watanabe; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Keiji Kushida; Toyama University Koichiro Harada; Miyagi University Masami Fukuda; Fukuyama City University Motoyuki Sato; Tohoku University
	Room 12: ANALYSIS OF THE 1992-2010 DYNAMIC DEFORMATION AFFECTING THE YELLOWSTONE CALDERA Authors: Giovanni Zeni from IREA-CNR; Antonio Pepe from IREA-CNR; Pietro Tizzani from IREA-CNR; Francesco Casu from IREA-CNR; Michele Manunta from IREA-CNR; Riccardo Lanari from IREA-CNR
	Room 13: THRESHOLDS OF DETECTION FOR FALLING SNOW FROM SATELLITE-BORNE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SENSORS Authors: Gail Skofronick-Jackson from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Benjamin Johnson from University of Maryland, Baltimore County
	Room 19: KA-BAND SAR INTERFEROMETRY STUDIES FOR THE SWOT MISSION Authors: Daniel Esteban-Fernandez; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lee-Lueng Fu; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ernesto Rodriguez; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Eva Peral; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Shannon Brown; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Richard Hodges; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

2:00 PM	Ballroom A: WATER/LAND SEGMENTATION FOR SAR IMAGES BASED ON GEODESIC DISTANCE Authors: Hua Zhong; Xidian University Qing Xie; Xidian University L.C. Jiao; Xidian University Shuang Wang; Xidian University
	Ballroom B: Mitigation of atmospheric delay in InSAR: the ESA METAWAVE project Authors: aniele Perissin; Chinese University of Hong Kong Fabio Rocca; Politecnico di Milano Mauro Pierdicca; Università La Sapienza di Roma Emanuela Pichelli; Università de L'Aquila Domenico Cimini; Università de L'Aquila Giovanna Venuti; Politecnico di Milano Bjorn Rommen; European Space Agency
	Ballroom C: COMPARISON OF GREEN VEGETATION FRACTION RETRIEVALS FROM SPOT-VEGETATION AND MSG-SEVIRI SENSORS Authors: Bernard Lacaze; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Aydin Ertürk; Turkish State Meteorological Service
	Room 01: ANALYSIS OF VOLUMETRIC SCATTERS BASED ON TANDEM-X POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SAR DATA Authors: Carlos López-Martínez; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Konstantinos Papathanassiou; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Alberto Alonso; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Xavier Fàbregas; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
	Room 02/03: COMPARISON BETWEEN TRMM/PR AND AMEDAS GROUND RAIN GAUGE NETWORK IN TERMS OF ANNUAL RAINFALL Authors: Nozomi Kawamoto; Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan Riko Oki; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Shuji Shimizu; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
	Room 08/15: BAYESIAN MAXIMUM ENTROPY DATA FUSION OF THE FIELD OBSERVED LAI AND LANDSAT ETM+ DERIVED LAI Authors: Aihua Li from Beijing Normal University, Yanchen Bo from Beijing Normal University, and Ling Chen from Beijing Normal University
	Room 11: ANALYSIS OF SOIL FREEZING AND THAWING PROCESSES ON NORTHERN FINLAND USING L-BAND RADIOMETER DATA Authors: Kimmo Rautiainen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Jouni Pulliainen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Juha Lemmetyinen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Juho Vehviläinen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Anna Kontu; Finnish Meteorological Institute Matthias Drusch; European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency
	Room 12: SPECTRAL MAPPING CAPABILITIES OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS USING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA IN SICILY, ITALY Authors: Paolo Villan from CNR-IREA / Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment; Monica Pepe from CNR-IREA / Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment; Mirco Boschetti from CNR-IREA / Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment; Riccardo De Paulis from ENI Exploration & Production Division
	Room 13: A CONSENSUS CALIBRATION BASED ON TMI AND WINDSAT Authors: Thomas Wilheit from Texas A&M University, Wesley Berg from Colorado State University, W. Linwood Jones from University of Central Florida, Rachael Kroodsma from University of Michigan, Darren Mckague from University of Michigan, Christopher Ruf from University of Michigan, Matthew Sapiano from Colorado State University
	Room 19: NEAR NADIR KA-BAND SAR INTERFEROMETRY: SWOT AIRBORNE EXPERIMENT Authors: Xiaoqing Wu; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Scott Hensley; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ernesto Rodriguez; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Delwyn Moller; Remote Sensing Solutions Inc, Ronald Muellerschoen; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Thierry Michel; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

2:15 PM

Room 19: VALIDATION OF RADIOMETRIC MODELS AND SIMULATED KARIN/SWOT DATA BASED ON GROUND AND AIRBORNE ACQUISITIONS Authors: Roger Fjørtoft; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Jean-Claude Lalaurie; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Nadine Pourthié; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Christine Lion; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Jean-Marc Gaudin; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Alain Mallet; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Jean-François Nouvel; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), Pierre Borderies; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), Pascal Kosuth; Cemagref, Christian Ruiz; Capgemini Sud

2:20 PM	Ballroom A: A FAST SEGMENTATION APPROACH OF SAR IMAGE BY FUSING OPTICAL IMAGE Authors: Huaping Xu; Beihang University Wei Wang; Beihang University Xianghua Liu; Samsung Communication Technique Institute
	Ballroom B: THE ROLE OF WEATHER MODELS IN MITIGATION OF TROPOSPHERIC DELAY FOR SAR INTERFEROMETRY Authors: Shizhuo Liu; Delft University of Technology Agnes Mika; BMT ARGOSS Wenyu Gong; University of Alaska Fairbanks Ramon Hanssen; Delft University of Technology Franz Meyer; University of Alaska Fairbanks Don Morton; University of Alaska Fairbanks Peter Webley; University of Alaska Fairbanks
	Ballroom C: LAND SURFACE ALBEDO AND DOWNWELLING SHORTWAVE RADIATION FROM MSG GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE: METHOD FOR RETRIEVAL, VALIDATION, AND APPLICATION Authors: Dominique Carrer; Meteo France Jean-Louis Roujean; Meteo France Olivier Hautecoeur; Meteo France Jean-Christophe Calvet; Meteo France Jure Cedilnik; Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia Laurent Franchistéguy; Meteo France Bernhard Geiger; European Space Agency Sébastien Lafont; Meteo France Jean-François Mahfouf; Meteo France Catherine Meurey; Meteo France Isabel Trigo; Instituto de Meteorologia
	Room 01: FOREST CHARACTERISATION BY MEANS OF TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-X (POLARIMETRIC AND) INTERFEROMETRIC DATA Authors: Florian Kugler; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Irena Hajnsek; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
	Room 02/03: MODEL SIMULATIONS OF NON-UNIFORM BEAM FILLING CORRECTION FOR SPACEBORNE PRECIPITATION RADAR Authors: David Short; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Toshio Iguchi; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
	Room 08/15: REGIONAL TO GLOBAL SCALE MEDIUM RESOLUTION MAPPING OF FOREST HEIGHT, BIOMASS AND CARBON FROM MULTI-SOURCE SATELLITE AND FIELD DATA SETS Authors: Josef Kellndorfer from Woods Hole Research Center, Wayne S. Walker from Woods Hole Research Center, Tina Cormier from Woods Hole Research Center, Jesse Bishop from Woods Hole Research Center, Greg Fiske from Woods Hole Research Center, Elizabeth LaPoint from USDA Forest Service, Alessandro Baccini from Woods Hole Research Center, Oliver Cartus from Woods Hole Research Center, Scott Goetz from Woods Hole Research Center, Francesco Holecz from Sarmap, Nadine Laporte from Woods Hole Research Center, and Richard Houghton from Woods Hole Research Center.
	Room 12: ANALYSIS OF TREND CHANGES OF GROUND DEFORMATION IN THE SELECTED MINING AREAS IN DABROWSKI COAL BASIN (SOUTH POLAND) Authors: Stanislawa Porzycka from AGH University of Science and Technology; Andrzej Lesniak from AGH University of Science and Technology
	Room 13: HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATE USING CLUSTER ENSEMBLE CLOUD CLASSIFICATION Authors: Majid Mahrooghy from Mississippi State University, Nicholas Younan from Mississippi State University, Valentine Anantharaj from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, James Aanstoos from Mississippi State University

2:40 PM	Ballroom A: TEXTURE SEGMENTATION FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGE BASED ON TEXTURE-TOPIC MODEL Authors: Hao Feng; Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Zhiguo Jiang; Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Xingmin Han; Beijing University of Technology
	Ballroom B: SYNERGIC USE OF EO, NWP AND GROUND BASED MEASUREMENTS FOR THE MITIGATION OF VAPOUR ARTEFACTS IN SAR INTERFEROMETRY Authors: Nazzareno Pierdicca; Sapienza University of Rome Fabio Rocca; Politechnic of Milan Patrizia Basili; University of Perugia Stefania Bonafoni; University of Perugia Giovanni Carlesimo; University of L'Aquila Domenico Cimini; IMAA-CNR Piero Ciotti; University of L’Aquila Rossella Ferretti; University of L’Aquila Frank Silvio Marzano; Sapienza University of Rome Vinia Mattioli; University of Perugia Mario Montopoli; University of L’Aquila Riccardo Notarpietro; Politechnic of Turin Daniele Perissin; Chinese University of Hong Kong Emanuela Pichelli; University of L’Aquila Bjorn Rommen; European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency Giovanna Venuti; Politechnic of Milan
	Ballroom C: PRIOR INFORMATION SUPPORTED AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVAL USING FY2D DATA Authors: Linlu Mei; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Yong Xue; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ying Wang; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Tingting Hou; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jie Guang; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Yingjie Li; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hui Xu; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Chaolin Wu; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xingwei He; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jing Dong; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ziqiang Chen; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 02/03: EVALUATION OF TRMM PRECIPITATION RADAR FOR ESTIMATES OF SURFACE RAINFALL RATE Authors: Liang Liao; University of Maryland, Baltimore County Robert Meneghini; NASA
	Room 08/15: MAPPING OF LAND COVER AND ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS IN THE AMAZON BASIN FROM MULTI-SPECTRAL FUSION OF ALOS/PALSAR AND LANDSAT DATA SOURCES Authors: Wayne S. Walker from Woods Hole Research Center, Alessandro Baccini from Woods Hole Research Center Josef Kellndorfer from Woods Hole Research Center, Claudia Stickler from Woods Hole Research Center, Mindy Sun from Woods Hole Research Center, Nadine Laporte from Woods Hole Research Center, and Scott Goetz from Woods Hole Research Center.
	Room 12: OFFSHORE HYDROCARBON SEEPAGE MAPPING THROUGH HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL DATA: A POSSIBLE MEANS FOR REMOTELY ESTIMATING THE TIMING OF OIL EXPOSITION OVER WATER Authors: Talita Lammoglia from University of Campinas; Carlos Roberto Souza Filho from University of Campinas
	Room 13: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLOUD DROPLET EFFECTIVE RADIUS AND CLOUD TOP HEIGHT FOR DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS IN CLOUDSAT DATA PRODUCT Authors: Satoshi Suzuki from The University of Tokyo, Shinta Seto from The University of Tokyo, Taikan Oki from The University of Tokyo
	Room 19: OBSERVING MESOSCALE TO SUBMESOSCALE DYNAMICS TODAY, AND IN THE FUTURE WITH SWOT Authors: Rosemary Morrow; LEGOS / OMP, Lee-Lueng Fu; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

3:20 PM	Ballroom A: INTEGRATION OF COLORIZED SINGLE-POL SAR DATA INTO OPTICAL IMAGE MOSAICS Authors: Oliver Lang; Astrium GEO-Information Services Parivash Lumsdon; Astrium GEO-Information Services
	Ballroom B: DISPLACED PHASE CENTER ANTENNA SAR IMAGING BASED ON COMPRESSED SENSING Authors: Yueguan Lin, Bingchen Zhang, Wen Hong, Yirong Wu, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Ballroom C: ESTIMATION OF SUBPIXEL TEMPERATURE OVER A HETEROGENEOUS AREA USING AN ENDMEMBER INDEX BASED TECHNIQUE Authors: Guijun Yang; National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture Wenjiang Huang; National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture Jihua Wang; National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture Chunjiang Zhao; National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture
	Room 01: EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF POL-INSAR TECHNIQUES AT X-BAND FIRST RESULTS AND EXPERIMENTS FROM TANDEM-X Authors: Konstantinos Papathanassiou; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Florian Kugler; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Irena Hajnsek; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 01: ESTIMATING SOIL MOISTURE FROM A VARYING SUBSURFACE PROFILE Authors: Jakob van Zyl; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Yunjin Kim; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Uday Khankhoje; California Institute of Technology
	Room 02/03: A SPACEBORNE DOPPLER RADAR FOR 3D WINDS MAPPING INSIDE CLOUDS Authors: Nicolas Taveneau; Thalès Alenia Space Eric Caubet; Thalès Alenia Space Jacques Richard; Thalès Alenia Space Jerome Lorenzo; Thalès Alenia Space Vincent Albouys; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Jean-Claude Souyris; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Nicolas Viltard; CNRS-UVSQ Yvon Lemaitre; CNRS-UVSQ
	Room 08/15: MONITORING AND RETRIEVING RICE PHENOLOGY BY MEANS OF SATELLITE SAR POLARIMETRY AT X-BAND Authors: Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez; University of Alicante Shane R. Cloude; AEL Consultants J. David Ballester-Berman; University of Alicante
	Room 11: COREH2O, A DUAL FREQUENCY RADAR SATELLITE FOR COLD REGIONS HYDROLOGY Authors: Helmut Rott from University of Innsbruck, Donald W. Cline from NOAA National Weather Service, Claude Duguay from University of Waterloo, Richard Essery from University of Edinburgh, Pierre Etchevers from Meteo France, Irena Hajnsek from German Aerospace Center (DLR) / ETH Zuerich, Michael Kern form European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, Giovanni Macelloni from IFAC - CNR, Eirik Malnes from Norut, Jouni Pulliainen from Finnish Meteorological Institute, Simon H. Yueh from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 12: A MERGED GLOBAL DIGITAL TOPOGRAPHIC DATA SET – PROGRESS REPORT Authors: Michael Kobrick from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 13: Development of GPU-based RTTOV-7 IASI and AMSU-A Forward Models Authors: Jarno Mielikainen, Bormin Huang, Hung-Lung Allen Huang from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Roger Saunders from Met Office
	Room 19: ESTIMATION OF OCEAN WAVE HEIGHT USING POLARIZATION RATIO OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA Authors: Mitsunobu Sugimoto; National Defense Academy, Nobuaki Shiroto; National Defense Academy, Kazuo Ouchi; National Defense Academy

3:40 PM	Ballroom A: A NEW SAR SUPERRESOLUTION IMAGING ALGORITHM BASED ON ADAPTIVE SIDELOBE REDUCTION Authors: Ping Zhang; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhen Li; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jianmin Zhou; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Quan Chen; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Bangsen Tian; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Ballroom B: PARALLEL FREQUENCY RADAR VIA COMPRESSIVE SENSING Authors: Yanan You, Chunsheng Li, Ze Yu from Beihang University
	Ballroom C: UNCERTAINTIES OF GLOBAL MODERATE RESOLUTION LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI) PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM REMOTE SENSING DATA Authors: Hongliang Fang; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanshan Wei; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Chongya Jiang; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shunlin Liang; University of Maryland, College Park
	Room 01: POLARIMETRIC METHODS FOR TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING OF NATURAL VOLUMETRIC MEDIA Authors: Laurent Ferro-Famil; University of Rennes 1 Yue Huang; University of Rennes 1 Andreas Reigber; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 01: MAPPING DYNAMIC WETLAND PROCESSES WITH A ONE YEAR RADARSAT-2 QUAD POL TIME-SERIES Authors: Cecile Marechal; IETR CNRS 6164 - University of Rennes 1 Eric Pottier; IETR CNRS 6164 - University of Rennes 1 Sophie Allain; IETR CNRS 6164 - University of Rennes 1 Stephane Meric; IETR CNRS 6164 - University of Rennes 1 Laurence Hubert-Moy; COSTEL UMR 6554 - University of Haute Bretagne Samuel Corgne; COSTEL UMR 6554 - University of Haute Bretagne
	Room 02/03: ITERATIVE NONLINEAR TIKHONOV ALGORITHM WITH CONSTRAINTS FOR INVERSE SCATTERING TOMOGRAPHY Authors: Manohar Deshpande; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Feng Xu; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Intelligent Automation Inc
	Room 08/15: RESEARCH ON FPAR VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION IN DIFFERENT VARIETY MAIZE CANOPY Authors: Rongyuan Liu; Beijing Normal University Wenjiang Huang; Beijing Agriculture Information Technology Research Center Huazhong Ren; Beijing Normal University Guijun Yang; Beijing Agriculture Information Technology Research Center Jihua Wang; Beijing Agriculture Information Technology Research Center Xiaowen Li; Beijing Normal University
	Room 11: THE CANADIAN COREH2O SNOW AND ICE (CAN-CSI) EXPERIMENT 2009-2011 Authors: Richard Kelly from University of Waterloo, Claude Duguay from University of Waterloo, Josh King from University of Waterloo, Grant Gunn from University of Waterloo, Andrew Kasurak from University of Waterloo, Chris Derksen from Environment Canada, Peter Toose from Environment Canada , Arvids Silis from Environment Canada, Alexandre Langlois from Universite de Sherbrooke, Alain Royer from Universite de Sherbrooke, Nick Rutter from Northumbria University
	Room 12: ASSESSING THE POTENTIAL OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES WEST OF ASWAN, EGYPT, USING ALOS/PALSAR POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION Authors:
	Room 13: Evaluation of High-Resolution Weather Forecasts in Tropics using Satellite Passive Millimeter-Wave Observations Authors: Chinnawat Surussavadee from Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus
	Room 19: A NEW MODEL FOR PEAKY ALTIMETRIC WAVEFORMS Authors: Abderrahim Halimi; University of Toulouse, Corinne Mailhes; University of Toulouse, Jean-Yves Tourneret; University of Toulouse, Pierre Thibaut; Collecte Localisation Satellite (CLS)

4:00 PM	Ballroom A: COMPRESSIVE SENSING FOR IMAGE FUSION – WITH APPLICATION TO PAN-SHARPENING Authors: Xiao Xiang Zhu; Technische Universität München Xuan Wang; Technische Universität München Richard Bamler; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
	Ballroom B: ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN SAR COMPRESSIVE SAMPLING TOMOGRAPHY Authors: Alessandra Budillon, Gilda Schirinzi from Università di Napoli Parthenope
	Ballroom C: ESTIMATION OF IMPERVIOUS SURFACE BASED ON INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION BY USING SVM Authors: Xi Cheng; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jiancheng Luo; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhanfeng Shen; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Changming Zhu; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xin Zhang; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Liegang Xia; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 01: TEST OF EQUI-SCATTERING MECHANISMS FOR POLINSAR APPLICATIONS WITH TANDEM-X Authors: Armando Marino; The University of Alicante Shane R. Cloude; AEL Consultants Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez; The University of Alicante
	Room 01: POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING FEATURE ESTIMATION FOR ACCURATE WETLAND BOUNDARY CLASSIFICATION Authors: Ryoichi Sato; Niigata University Yoshio Yamaguchi; Niigata University Hiroyoshi Yamada; Niigata University
	Room 02/03: PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NASA DUAL-FREQUENCY DUAL-POLARIZED DOPPLER RADAR (D3R) Authors: Manuel Vega; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Kumar Vijay Mishra; Colorado State University Venkatachalam Chandrasekar; Colorado State University Mathew Schwaller; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center James Carswell; Remote Sensing Solutions Inc
	Room 08/15: MONITORING MODEL OF ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS IN GANNAN GRASSLAND BASED ON REMOTE SENSING Authors: Jing Wang; Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology Ni Guo; Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology Dihua Cai; Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology Hui Han; Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology Yun Liang; Northwest Regional Climate Center
	Room 11: THE POTENTIAL OF COSMO-SKYMED SAR IMAGES IN MAPPING SNOW COVER AND SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT Authors: Simone Pettinato from CNR-Institute of Applied Physics, Emanuele Santi from CNR-Institute of Applied Physics, Marco Brogioni from CNR-Institute of Applied Physics, Simonetta Paloscia from CNR-Institute of Applied Physics, Paolo Pampaloni from CNR-Institute of Applied Physics, Enrico Palchetti from CNR-IFAC, Jianchen Shi from University of Santa Barbara, Chuan Xiong from CNR-Institute of Applied Physics
	Room 12: MINERAL INDEX MAPS OF THE SOUTHERN NAMIBIA USING HYMAP AND ASTER DATA Authors: Shoko Oshigami from Nagoya University
	Room 13: SNOW ANALYSIS FOR NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION AT ECMWF Authors: Patricia de Rosnay, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Lars Isaksen from ECMWF
	Room 19: Using HF radar coastal currents to correct satellite altimetry Authors: William J. Emery; University of Colorado Boulder, Carolyn Roesler; University of Colorado, Waqas Qazi; University of Colorado

4:20 PM	Ballroom A: A TECHNIQUE FOR SPECTRAL PIXEL RECONSTRUCTION Authors: S K Patra; ADRIN J Saibaba; ADRIN Geeta Varadan; ADRIN S K Nayak; Berhampur University
	Ballroom B: SCENE CLASS RECOGNITION USING HIGH RESOLUTION SAR/INSAR SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION METHODS Authors: Anca Popescu, Inge Gavat from University Politehnica Bucharest, Mihai Datcu from German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom C: KERNEL-BASED RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES FROM IASI DATA Authors: Gustavo Camps-Valls; Universitat de València Valero Laparra; Universitat de València Jordi Muñoz-Marí; Universitat de València Luis Gómez-Chova; Universitat de València Xavier Calbet; EUMETSAT
	Room 01: FOREST MAPPING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA IN SOUTHWEST CHINA Authors: Yun Shao; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fengli Zhang; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Maosong Xu; Academy of Forestry Inventory, Planning and Designing, State Forestry Administration (SFA) Zhongsheng Xia; Forest Resource Management and Conservation Station Chou Xie; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Kun Li; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Zi Wan; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ridha Touzi; Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
	Room 01: ON THE POTENTIAL OF TANDEM-X FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF AGRICULTURAL CROP PARAMETERS BY SINGLE-PASS POLINSAR Authors: Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez; University of Alicante J. David Ballester-Berman; University of Alicante
	Room 02/03: MULTISTATIC NETWORKED RADAR FOR SEA CLUTTER MEASUREMENTS Authors: Michael Raymond Inggs; University of Cape Town Stephanus Sandenbergh; University of Cape Town Gordon Inggs; University of Cape Town Waddah Al-Ashwal; University College London Karl Woodbridge; University College London Hugh Griffiths; University College London
	Room 08/15: INTERACTION BETWEEN VEGETATION AND HYDROLOGY: ESTIMATES FROM MODIS-FAPAR Authors: Guido Ceccherini; University of Firenze Fabio Castelli; University of Firenze
	Room 11: ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS OF LIKE-POLARIZATION AND CROSS-POLARIZATION IN RADAR REMOTE SENSING OF TERRESTRIAL SNOW AT X- AND KU-BAND FOR APPLICATIONS IN COREH20 AND SCLP Authors: Xiaolan Xu from University of Washington, Leung Tsang from University of Washington, Wenmo Chang from University of Washington, Simon H. Yueh from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 12: ASSESSMENT OF ALBEDO CHANGES AND THEIR DRIVING FACTORS OVER THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU Authors: Bing Zhang, L. Lei, H., Zhang Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth
	Room 13: DISPLACED ENSEMBLE VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION METHOD TO INCORPORATE MICROWAVE IMAGER BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES INTO A CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL Authors: Kazumasa Aonashi from Meteorological Research Institute, Hisaki Eito from Japan Meteorological Agency
	Room 19: SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION APPLIED ON ALTIMETER WAVEFORMS Authors: Pierre Thibaut; Collecte Localisation Satellite (CLS), Jean Christophe Poisson; Collecte Localisation Satellite (CLS), Annabelle Ollivier; Collecte Localisation Satellite (CLS), François Boy; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Nicolas Picot; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

4:40 PM	Ballroom A: Artificial Intelligence for mixed pixel resolution Authors: Nitish Gupta; Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University V.K. Panchal; Defence Terrain Research Laboratory
	Ballroom B: PERCEPTUAL GROUPING FOR PERSISTENT SCATTERERS IN URBAN HIGH-RESOULTION SAR IMAGES Authors: Alexander Schunert from Leibniz Universität Hannover, Eckart Michaelsen from Fraunhofer IOSB, Uwe Sörgel from Leibniz Universität Hannover
	Ballroom C: A NEW ALGORITHM TO AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINE THE BOUNDARY OF THE SCATTER PLOT IN THE TRIANGLE METHOD FOR EVAPOTRANSPIRATION RETRIEVAL Authors: Hongbo Su; Texas A&M University at Kingsville Jing Tian; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shaohui Chen; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Renhua Zhang; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Rong Yuan; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Yongmin Yang; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xinzhai Tang; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Julio Garcia; Texas A&M University at Kingsville
	Room 01: CONTRIBUTION OF THE POLARIMETRIC INFORMATION IN ORDER TO DISCRIMINATE TARGET FROM INTERFERENCE SUBSPACES. APPLICATION TO FOPEN DETECTION WITH SAR PROCESSING. Authors: Frédéric Brigui; University of Toulouse Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre; SONDRA Guillaume Ginolhac; SATIE Philippe Forster; SATIE
	Room 01: TANDEM-X: POL-INSAR OVER AGRICULTURAL AREAS Authors: Irena Hajnsek; ETH Zürich / DLR Oberpfaffenhofen Konstantinos Papathanassiou; DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
	Room 02/03: RFI MITIGATION AND DETECTION FOR THE SMAP RADAR Authors: Samuel Chan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mark Fischman; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Michael Spencer; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 08/15: MAPPING NATURA 2000 HEATHLAND IN BELGIUM – AN EVALUATION OF ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS FOR SPACEBORNE ANGULAR CHRIS/PROBA IMAGERY Authors: Jonathan Chan; Vrije Universiteit Brussels Pieter Beckers; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Frank Canters; Vrije Universiteit Brussels Toon Spanhove; Research Institute for Nature and Forest Jeroen Vanden Borre; Research Institute for Nature and Forest Desire Paelinckx; Research Institute for Nature and Forest
	Room 11: ANALYSIS OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS FROM THE NOSREX CAMPAIGN Authors: Juha Lemmetyinen from Finnish Meteorological Institute, Jouni Pulliainen from Finnish Meteorological Institute, Ali Nadir Arslan from Finnish Meteorological Institute, Anna Kontu from Finnish Meteorological Institute, Kimmo Rautiainen from Finnish Meteorological Institute, Juho Vehviläinen from Finnish Meteorological Institute, Andreas Wiesmann from Gamma Remote Sensing AG, Thomas Nagler from Enveo IT GmbH ICT, Helmut Rott from Enveo IT GmbH ICT, Malcolm Davidson from European Space Agency, Dirk Schuettemeyer from European Space Agency, Michael Kern from European Space Agency
	Room 12: SOIL THICKNESS ZONATION APPROACH USING LANDSAT ETM+, GEOLOGICAL MAPS, DEM DATA, AND FIELD INVESTIGATION Authors: Runqing Ye from China University of Geosciences
	Room 13: TWO-YEAR ASSESSMENT OF NOWCASTING PERFORMANCE IN THE CASA SYSTEM Authors: Evan Ruzanski from Vaisala, Inc., Venkatachalam Chandrasekar from Colorado State University, Delbert Willie from Colorado State University
	Room 19: THE CFOSAT PROJECT : A COOPERATION TO ASSESS WAVE DIRECTIONAL SPECTRA AND SURFACE WINDS Authors: Patrick Castillan; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Nathalie Corcoral; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Thierry Amiot; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Céline Tison; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Eric Thouvenot; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Danièle Hauser; CNRS / LATMOS/UVSQ

3:20 AM	Room 12: SAR interferometry for sub millimeter land motion studies Authors: Fabio Rocca; Politecnico (retired)

8:20 AM	Ballroom A: COMPARISON OF SHIP DETECTION PERFORMANCE BASED ON THE DEGREE OF POLARIZATION IN HYBRID/COMPACT AND LINEAR DUAL-POL SAR IMAGERY Authors: Reza Shirvany; University of Toulouse Marie Chabert; University of Toulouse Jean-Yves Tourneret; University of Toulouse
	Ballroom B: OPTIMAL ESTIMATION OF DISTRIBUTED SCATTERER PHASE HISTORY PARAMETERS FROM METER-RESOLUTION SAR DATA Authors: Yuanyuan Wang; Technische Universität München Xiao Xiang Zhu; Technische Universität München Richard Bamler; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom C: EXPLICIT SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO IN REPRODUCING KERNEL HILBERT SPACES Authors: Luis Gómez-Chova from Universitat de València, Allan A. Nielsen from Technical University of Denmark, and Gustavo Camps-Valls from Technical University of Denmark.
	Room 01: RADARSAT Authors: Surendra Parashar from Canadian Space Agency, Satish Srivastava from Canadian Space Agency Ahmed Mahmood from Canadian Space Agency Denis Auger from Canadian Space Agency Guy Séguin from Canadian Space Agency Alain Carrier from Canadian Space Agency
	Room 02/03: INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS: AN OVERVIEW Authors: Andreas Colliander; from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Darren McKague; from University of Michigan
	Room 08/15: GENERATION OF 10m RESOLUTION PALSAR AND JERS-SAR MOSAIC AND FOREST/NON-FOREST MAPS FOR FOREST CARBON TRACKING Authors: Authors: Masanobu Shimada, Osamu Isoguchi, Takeshi Motooka, Tomohiro Shiraishi (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and; Akira Mukaida, Hayato Okumura, Takahiro Otaki, Takuma Itoh (RESTEC).
	Room 11: COMPARISON OF MEASURED AND MODELED SNOW BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE USING VARIOUS FIELD TECHNIQUES FOR GRAIN SIZE MEASUREMENT Authors: Edward J. Kim; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Michael Durand; The Ohio State University Noah Molotch; University of Colorado Daniel F Berisford; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Steven Margulis; University of California Los Angeles Zoe Courville; Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
	Room 12: SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF PERENNIAL ENERGY CROPS IN THE U.S. MIDWEST AGRICULTURAL LANDS Authors: Cuizhen 'Susan' Wang; University of Missouri, Gary Stacey; University of Missouri, Felix B. Fritschi; University of Missouri, Wyatt Thompson; University of Missouri, Timothy C. Matisziw; University of Missouri, Zhengwei Yang; United States Department of Agriculture
	Room 13: NINE YEARS OF ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING WITH SCIAMACHY – INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE Authors: Manfred Gottwald from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Eckhart Krieg from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Günter Lichtenberg from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Sander Slijkhuis from German Aerospace Center (DLR), Stefan Noël from IUP-IFE, University of Bremen, Klaus Bramstedt from IUP-IFE, University of Bremen, Heinrich Bovensmann from IUP-IFE, University of Bremen, Christian von Savigny from IUP-IFE, University of Bremen, Ralph Snel from SRON, Netherlands Intitute for Space Research, Matthijs Krijger from SRON, Netherlands Intitute for Space Research
	Room 19: REMOTE SENSING OF ARCTIC PERENNIAL SEA ICE REDUCTION AND ITS IMPACT ON TROPOPHERIC CHEMICAL PROCESSES Authors: Son Nghiem; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pablo Clemente-Colón; National/Naval Ice Center Ignatius Rigor; University of Washington Gregory Neumann; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

8:40 AM	Ballroom A: ROBUST RECOVERY OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA FROM UNIFORMLY UNDER-SAMPLED MEASUREMENTS Authors: Lam Nguyen; U.S. Army Research Laboratory Trac Tran; Johns Hopkins University
	Ballroom B: ACCURACY ASSESSMENT OF FIRST CALIBRATED TANDEM-X DEM Authors: Astrid Gruber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Martin Huber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Birgit Wessel; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Markus Breunig; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom C: GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION WITHIN AN ACTIVE LEARNING SCHEME Authors: Edoardo Pasolli from University of Trento, and Farid Melgani from University of Trento.
	Room 02/03: ESTAR TO SMOS: DEVELOPMENT OF INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETRY FOR REMOTE SENSING FROM SPACE Authors: David Le Vine; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 08/15: MAPPING INVASIVE PLANT SPECIES IN TROPICAL RAINFOREST USING POLARIMETRIC RADARSAT-2 AND PALSAR DATA Authors: Abduwasit Ghulam (Saint Louis University), Karen Freeman (Madagascar Fauna Group), An Bollen (Madagascar Fauna Group), Robert Ripperdan (Saint Louis University), Ingrid Porton (Saint Louis Zoo)
	Room 11: MULTI-FREQUENCY MICROWAVE EMISSION OF THE EAST ANTARCTIC PLATEAU Authors: Giovanni Macelloni; IFAC - CNR Marco Brogioni; IFAC - CNR Simone Pettinato; IFAC - CNR Renato Zasso; CVA-ARPAV Andrea Crepaz; CVA-ARPAV Jonathan Zaccaria; PNRA Boris Padovan; PNRA Mark Drinkwater; European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency
	Room 12: U.S. NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LAND COVER MONITORING Authors: Rick Mueller; USDA/NASS
	Room 13: CO2 AND CH4 CONCENTRATIONS IN THE MIDDLE AND UPPER TROPOSPHERE FROM GOSAT/TANSO-FTS TIR Authors: Naoko Saitoh from Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University, Ryoichi Imasu from Atmospheric and Ocean Research Institute (AORI), The University of Tokyo, Kei Shiomi from Earth Observation Research Center / Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Yuko Nasu from Nara Women’s University, Miwa Touno from Nara Women’s University, Sachiko Hayashida from Nara Women’s University
	Room 19: SEA ICE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE SOUTHERN REGION OF OKHOTSK SEA OBSERVED BY X- AND L- BAND SAR Authors: Hiroyuki Wakabayashi; Nihon University Shoji Sakai; Nihon University Kazuki Nakamura; National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Fumihiko Nishio; Chiba University

9:00 AM	Ballroom A: AUTOMATED REGISTRATION OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY TO LIDAR Authors: Mark Pritt; Lockheed Martin Kevin LaTourette; Lockheed Martin
	Ballroom B: DEMONSTRATION OF SAR INTERFEROMETRY UNDER CROSSING ORBITS USING TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-X Authors: Paco López-Dekker; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Pau Prats; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Francesco De Zan; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Steffen Wollstadt; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Daniel Schulze; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gerhard Krieger; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Alberto Moreira; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom C: TEMPORAL DOMAIN ADAPTATION UNDER TIME WARPING Authors: Francois Petitjean from LSIIT UMR 7005 (University of Strasbourg), Jordi Inglada from Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), and Pierre Gancarski from LSIIT UMR 7005 (University of Strasbourg).
	Room 01: RADARSAT-2 MISSION OPERATIONS STATUS Authors: Anthony Hillman from MDA , Philippe Rolland from MDA Marielle Chabot from MDA Rene Periard from MDA Pierre Ledantec from MDA Nick Martens fromTelesa
	Room 01: RADARSAT-2 MISSION OPERATIONS STATUS Authors: Anthony Hillman from MDA , Philippe Rolland from MDA Marielle Chabot from MDA Rene Periard from MDA Pierre Ledantec from MDA Nick Martens fromTelesa
	Room 02/03: INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETRY MEASUREMENT CONCEPT: THE VISIBILITY EQUATION Authors: Ignasi Corbella; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Francesc Torres; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Nuria Duffo; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Manuel Martín-Neira; European Space Agency
	Room 08/15: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PALSAR BACKSCATTERING DATA AND FOREST ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS IN JAPAN Authors: Takeshi Motohka, Masanobu Shimada, Osamu Isoguchi (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and; Masae Ishihara, Satoshi Suzuki (Japan Wildlife Research Center)
	Room 11: SPATIAL VARIATIONS OF L-BAND EMISSIVITY IN ANTARCTICA, FIRST RESULTS FROM THE SMOS MISSION Authors: Ghislain Picard; UJF / CNRS Yann H. Kerr; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) / (CNES,CNRS,IRD,UPS) Giovanni Macelloni; IFAC - CNR Nicolas Champollion; UJF / CNRS Michel Fily; UJF / CNRS François Cabot; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) / (CNES,CNRS,IRD,UPS) Philippe Richaume; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) / (CNES,CNRS,IRD,UPS) Marco Brogioni; IFAC - CNR
	Room 12: CHARMS – CHINA AGRICULTURAL REMOTE SENSING MONITORING SYSTEM Authors: Zhongxin Chen; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingbo Zhou; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jia Liu; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Limin Wang; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jianqiang Ren; Remote Sensing Application Center, MOA, Qing Huang; Remote Sensing Application Center, MOA, Hui Deng; Remote Sensing Application Center, MOA, Li Zhang; Remote Sensing Application Center, MOA, Dandan Li; Remote Sensing Application Center, MOA
	Room 13: SEASONAL VARIATIONS OF GREENHOUSE GAS COLUMN-AVERAGED DRY AIR MOLE FRACTIONS RETRIEVED FROM SWIR SPECTRA OF GOSAT TANSO-FTS Authors: Nawo Eguchi from Tohoku University, Yukio Yoshida from National Institute for Environmental Studies, Isamu Morino from National Institute for Environmental Studies, Nobuyuki Kikuchi from National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tazu Saeki from National Institute for Environmental Studies, Makoto Inoue from National Institute for Environmental Studies, Osamu Uchino from National Institute for Environmental Studies, Shamil Maksyutov from National Institute for Environmental Studies, Hiroshi Watanabe from National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tatsuya Yokota from National Institute for Environmental Studies
	Room 19: INTERFEROMETRIC SEA ICE MAPPING WITH TANDEM-X: FIRST EXPERIMENTS Authors: Rolf Scheiber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Francesco de Zan; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Pau Prats; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Laís Sant'Anna Araújo; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Maren Künemund; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Luca Marotti; German Aerospace Center (DLR)

9:20 AM	Ballroom A: EXTRACTION OF WATER SURFACES IN SIMULATED KA-BAND SAR IMAGES OF KARIN ON SWOT Authors: Fang Cao; Institut Téléecom, Téléecom ParisTech Florence Tupin; Institut Téléecom, Téléecom ParisTech Jean-Marie Nicolas; Institut Téléecom, Téléecom ParisTech Roger Fjørtoft; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Nadine Pourthié; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
	Ballroom B: PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION ON THE HIGH-RESOLUTION WIDE-SWATH SAR SYSTEM OPERATING IN STRIPMAP QUAD-POL AND ULTRA-WIDE SCANSAR MODE Authors: Federica Bordoni; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Marwan Younis; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gerhard Krieger; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom C: CONJUNCTIVE FORMULATION OF THE RANDOM SET FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNING: APPLICATION TO REMOTE SENSING Authors: Jeremy Bolton from University of Florida, and Paul Gader from University of Florida.
	Room 01: RADARSAT-2 GOVERNMENT OF CANADA DATA UTILIZATION Authors: Daniel De Lisle from Canadian Space Agency
	Room 01: RADARSAT-2 GOVERNMENT OF CANADA DATA UTILIZATION Authors: Daniel De Lisle from Canadian Space Agency
	Room 02/03: SMOS BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS AND END-TO-END CALIBRATION Authors: Francesc Torres; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Ignasi Corbella; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Nuria Duffo; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Manuel Martín-Neira; European Space Agency
	Room 08/15: IMPACT AND MODELING OF TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON P-BAND SAR BACKSCATTER FROM BOREAL FORESTS Authors: Gustaf Sandberg; Chalmers University of Technology Maciej Soja; Chalmers University of Technology Lars M. Ulander; Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
	Room 11: TEMPORAL MONITORING OF SUPRAGLACIAL LAKES ON TSHOJO GLACIER AT BHUTAN Authors: Tsutomu Yamanokuchi; Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan Takeo Tadono; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Jiro Komori; Nagoya University Toru Koike; Earth System Science Co. Sachi Kawamoto; RESTEC Nobuhiro Tomiyama; RESTEC
	Room 12: A REMOTE SENSING-BASED GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT MONITORING AND FORECASTING SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING GEOSS Authors: Liping Di; George Mason University Weiguo Han; George Mason University Meixia Deng; George Mason University
	Room 13: VOLCANIC ASH RETRIEVAL FROM IR MULTISPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS BY MEANS OF NEURAL NETWORKS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EYJAFJALLAJOKULL ERUPTION Authors: Matteo Picchiani from Tor Vergata University, Marco Chini from Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Stefano Corradini from Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Luca Merucci from Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Pasquale Sellitto from Universités Paris-Est et Paris Diderot, CNRS, Créteil, France, Fabio Del Frate from Tor Vergata University, Alessandro Piscini from Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Salvatore Stramondo from Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
	Room 19: AIRBORNE POLARIMETRIC, TWO-COLOR LASER ALTIMETER MEASUREMENTS OF LAKE ICE COVER: A PATHFINDER FOR NASA’S ICESAT-2 SPACEFLIGHT MISSION Authors: David Harding; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Philip Dabney; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Susan Valett; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Anthony Yu; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Aleksey Vasilyev; Sigma Space Corp. April Kelly; National Space Club

9:40 AM	Ballroom A: AN EFFICIENT AUTOMATIC GEO-REGISTRATION TECHNIQUE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION SPACEBORNE SAR IMAGE FUSION Authors: Wookyung Lee; Korea Aerospace University Ah-Leum Kim; Korea Aerospace University
	Ballroom B: BLIND AZIMUTH PHASE ELIMINATION FOR TERRASAR-X SCANSAR INTERFEROMETRY Authors: Zhe Hu; The University Of New South Wales Linlin Ge; The University Of New South Wales Xiaojing Li; The University Of New South Wales
	Ballroom C: HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING WITH SPARSE GROUP LASSO Authors: Marian-Daniel Iordache from Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Jose Bioucas-Dias from Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, and Antonio Plaza from Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory
	Room 01: SCIENCE AND OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS RESEARCH FOR RADARSAT-2 Authors: Stephane Chalifoux from Canadian Space Agency
	Room 01: SCIENCE AND OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS RESEARCH FOR RADARSAT-2 Authors: Stephane Chalifoux from Canadian Space Agency
	Room 02/03: LESSONS LEARNED FROM HUT-2D L-BAND AIRBORNE DEMONSTRATOR Authors: Juha Kainulainen; Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering Kimmo Rautiainen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Martti Hallikainen; Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering
	Room 08/15: A LAND COVER MAP OF AFRICA AT 100 METERS RESOLUTION USING A MOSAIC OF ALOS PALSAR DUAL-POLARIZATION DATA: PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENTS Authors: Alexandre Bouvet and Gianfranco De Grandi (Joint Research Center of the European Commission)
	Room 11: MICROWAVE EMISSION SIGNATURE OF SNOW-COVERED LAKE ICE Authors: Martti Hallikainen; Aalto University Pauli Sievinen; Aalto University Jaakko Seppänen; Aalto University Matti Vaaja; Aalto University Annakaisa von Lerber; Aalto University Erkka Rouhe; Aalto University Juha Lemmetyinen; Finnish Meteorological Institute
	Room 12: VEGETATION CONDITION INDICES FOR CROP VEGETATION CONDITION MONITORING Authors: Zhengwei Yang; USDA/NASS Liping Di; George Mason University Genong Yu; George Mason University Zeqiang Chen; George Mason University
	Room 13: AN ATMOSPHERIC ALGORITHM SUITE BASED ON NEURAL NETWORKS FOR MICROWAVE IMAGER/SOUNDERS Authors: William J. Blackwell from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Richard Czerwinski from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, R. Vincent Leslie from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Michael Pieper from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Philip Rosenkranz from Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, Jenna Samra from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, David Staelin from Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, Chinnawat Surussavadee from Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus, Kelly Wallenstein from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Denise Zhang from MIT Lincoln Laboratory
	Room 19: ARCTIC COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT: A NEW MULTI-NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ARCTIC SCIENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT Authors: Charles Laymon; Universities Space Research Association Martin Kress; Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation Jeff McCracken; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Stephen Spehn; U.S. Department of Defense Steve Tanner; University of Alabama Huntsville

10:20 AM	Ballroom A: PROCESSING OF CIRCULAR SAR TRAJECTORIES WITH FAST FACTORIZED BACK-PROJECTION Authors: Octavio Ponce; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Pau Prats; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Marc Rodriguez-Cassola; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Rolf Scheiber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Andreas Reigber; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom B: SAR CCD SIGNATURE BASED QUALITY EVALUATION Authors: Rhonda Phillips; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
	Ballroom C: GRAPH MATCHING FOR EFFICIENT CLASSIFIERS ADAPTATION Authors: Devis Tuia; University of Valencia Jordi Muñoz-Marí; Universitat de València Jesús Malo; Universitat de València
	Room 01: MONITORING SOIL MOISTURE TO SUPPORT RISK REDUCTION AGRICULTURE SECTOR USING RADARSAT-2 Authors: Healther McNairn, Amine Merzouki, Anna Pacheco, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
	Room 02/03: GEOSTATIONARY MICROWAVE SOUNDERS: SCIENCE, APPLICATIONS AND THE GEOSTAR INSTRUMENT CONCEPT Authors: Bjorn Lambrigtsen; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Todd Gaier; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pekka Kangaslahti; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Boon Lim; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Alan Tanner; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 08/15: ASTER OPERATION SCENARIO AND STATUS Authors: Yasushi Yamaguchi; Nagoya University Masaru Fuijta; Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center Tetsushi Tachikawa; Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center Masatane Kato; Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center Hiroji Tsu; Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center Michael Abrams; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Leon Maldonado; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 11: EFFECTS OF SNOWPACK PARAMETERS AND LAYERING PROCESSES AT X- AND KU-BAND BACKSCATTER Authors: Ali Nadir Arslan; Finnish Meteorological Institute Jouni Pulliainen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Juha Lemmetyinen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Thomas Nagler; Enveo IT GmbH ICT Helmut Rott; Enveo IT GmbH ICT Michael Kern; European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency
	Room 12: APPLYING SPECTRAL UNMIXING AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE TO AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY FOR DETECTING GIANT REED Authors: Chenghai Yang; USDA ARS John Goolsby; USDA ARS James Everitt; USDA ARS Qian Du; Mississippi State University
	Room 13: NINE YEARS OF ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING WITH SCIAMACHY – ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS AND DATA PRODUCTS Authors: Günter Lichtenberg; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Manfred Gottwald; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Adrian Doicu; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Franz Schreier; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Sergei Hrechanyy; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Klaus Kretschel; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Markus Meringer; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Michael Hess; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Sebastian Gimeno-Garcia; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Heinrich Bovensmann; IUP-IFE, University of Bremen Kai-Uwe Eichmann; IUP-IFE, University of Bremen Stefan Noël; IUP-IFE, University of Bremen Christian von Savigny; IUP-IFE, University of Bremen Andreas Richter; IUP-IFE, University of Bremen Michael Buchwitz; IUP-IFE, University of Bremen Alexei Rozanov; IUP-IFE, University of Bremen John P. Burrows; IUP-IFE, University of Bremen Ralph Snel; SRON, Netherlands Intitute for Space Research Christophe Lerot; IASB-BIRA / Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Michel Van Roozendael; IASB-BIRA / Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Gijs Tilstra; KNMI, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Thorsten Fehr; European Space Research Institute, European Space Agency
	Room 19: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ASCAT AND QUIKSCAT DERIVED VORTICITY Authors: Mark Bourassa from Florida State University, Heather Holbach from Florida State University

10:40 AM	Ballroom A: SAR DENOISING USING WAVELET-DOMAIN STATISTIC MODEL AND MAXIMUM-MODULUS CRITERION Authors: Qiuze Yu; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Wentao Lv; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Wenxian Yu; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Peilin Liu; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
	Ballroom B: A NEW ALGORITHM FOR NOISE REDUCTION AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN SAR INTERFEROGRAMS USING INPAINTING AND DIFFUSION Authors: Silvia Liberata Ullo; University of Sannio Maurizio Di Bisceglie; University of Sannio Carmela Galdi; University of Sannio
	Ballroom C: DOMAIN SEPARATION FOR EFFICIENT ADAPTIVE ACTIVE LEARNING Authors: Giona Matasci; University of Lausanne Devis Tuia; University of Valencia Mikhail Kanevski; University of Lausanne
	Room 01: RADARSAT APPLICATION IN OCEAN WIND MEASUREMENTS Authors: Vladimir Zabeline, Laurie Neil, William Perrie Paris Vachon, Chris Fogarty, Shahid Khurshid, Sergey Kmarov, Biao Zhang, Government of Canada, Canada
	Room 02/03: GEOSTAR-II: A PROTOTYPE WATER VAPOR IMAGER/SOUNDER FOR THE PATH MISSION Authors: Todd Gaier; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Bjorn Lambrigtsen; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pekka Kangaslahti; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Boon Lim; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Alan Tanner; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dennis Harding; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Heather Owen; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mary Soria; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ian O'Dwyer; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Christopher Ruf; University of Michigan, Ryan Miller; University of Michigan, Bruce Block; University of Michigan, Michael Flynn; University of Michigan, Sterling Whitaker; University of Idaho
	Room 08/15: ASTER/TIR VICARIOUS CALIBRATION ACTIVITIES IN THE LAST 11 YEARS Authors: Hideyuki Tonooka; Ibaraki University Simon Hook; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Tsuneo Matsunaga; National Institute for Environmental Studies Soushi Kato; National Institute for Environmental Studies Elsa Abbott; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Howard Tan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 11: EXPLOITATION OF COSMO-SKYMED IMAGE TIME SERIES FOR SNOW MONITORING IN ALPINE REGIONS Authors: Thomas Schellenberger; EURAC Bartolomeo Ventura; EURAC Claudia Notarnicola; EURAC Marc Zebisch; EURAC Thomas Nagler; Enveo IT GmbH ICT Helmut Rott; Enveo IT GmbH ICT
	Room 12: EXPLOITING MULTISENSOR SPECTRAL DATA TO IMPROVE CROP RESIDUE COVER ESTIMATES FOR MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL WATER QUALITY Authors: Magda S. Galloza; Laboratory for the Applications of Remote Sensing and School of Civil Engineering/Purdue University Melba M. Crawford; Laboratory for the Applications of Remote Sensing and School of Civil Engineering/Purdue University
	Room 13: WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL OVER CLOUD COVER AREA ON LAND Authors: Dabin Ji; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jiancheng Shi; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenglei Zhang; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 19: OBSERVING OCEAN SURFACE WIND AND STRESS BY SCATTEROMETER CONSTELLATION Authors: W. Timothy Liu from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Wenqing Tang from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Xiaosu Xie; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

11:00 AM	Ballroom A: INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM SINGLE LOOK COMPLEX SAR IMAGES Authors: Dušan Gleich; University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Žarko Čučej; University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
	Ballroom B: TERRAIN CATEGORIZATION BASED ON SCATTERING MECHANISMS FOR SINGLE-POL HIGH-RESOLUTION TERRASAR-X IMAGES Authors: Jong-Sen Lee; Naval Research Laboratory Thomas Ainsworth; Naval Research Laboratory Kun-Shan Chen; National Central University Irena Hajnsek; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom C: A NOVEL ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGY FOR DOMAIN ADAPTATION IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Authors: Claudio Persello; University of Trento Lorenzo Bruzzone; University of Trento
	Room 01: MARINE SURVEILANCE WITH RADARSAT-2: SHIP AND OIL SLICK DETECTION Authors: Gordon Staples, Jeff Hurley, MDA, Canada
	Room 02/03: THE GEOSTATIONARY INTERFEROMETRIC MICROWAVE SOUNDER (GIMS): INSTRUMENT OVERVIEW AND RECENT PROGRESS Authors: Hao Liu; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ji Wu; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shengwei Zhang; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jingye Yan; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Lijie Niu; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Cheng Zhang; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Weiying Sun; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Huiling Li; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Bin Li; Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 08/15: CHARACTERISTICS OF ASTER GDEM VERSION 2 Authors: Tetsushi Tachikawa; Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center Masami Hato; Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center Manabu Kaku; Mitsubishi Materials Techno Corp. Akira Iwasaki; The University of Tokyo
	Room 11: MASS DEFICIT OF GLACIERS AT THE NORTHERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA DERIVED FROM SATELLITE BORNE SAR AND ALTIMETER MEASUREMENTS Authors: Helmut Rott; University of Innsbruck Florian Mueller; ENVEO IT Thomas Nagler; Enveo IT GmbH ICT Dana Floricioiu; IMF, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Michael Eineder; IMF, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 12: MAPPING ASH TREE COLONIZATION IN AN AGRICULTURAL MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE: INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Authors: David Sheeren; University of Toulouse, INPT-ENSAT Mathieu Fauvel; University of Toulouse, INPT-ENSAT Sylvie Ladet; INRA Anne Jacquin; University of Toulouse, INPT-EI Purpan Georges Bertoni; University of Toulouse, INPT-ENSAT Annick Gibon; INRA
	Room 13: VERIFICATION OF POINTING AND ANTENNA PATTERN KNOWLEDGE OF SUPERCONDUCTING SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE LIMB-EMISSION SOUNDER (SMILES) Authors: Makoto Suzuki; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Satoshi Ochiai; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Chihiro Mitsuda; Fujitsu FIP Corporation Koji Imai; Tome R&D Inc. Takeshi Manabe; Osaka Prefecture University Kenichi Kikuchi; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Toshiyuki Nishibori; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Naohiro Manago; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Yoshitaka Iwata; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Takuki Sano; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Masato Shiotani; Kyoto University
	Room 19: EVALUATIONS OF WIND VECTORS OBSERVED BY ASCAT USING STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS Authors: Naoto Ebuchi from Hokkaido University

11:20 AM	Ballroom A: THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROWAVE IMAGING METHOD VIA SUBAPERTURE APPROXIMATION Authors: Liao Kefei; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Zhang Xiaoling; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Shi Jun; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Liu Zhe; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
	Ballroom B: ROAD EXTRACTION IN URBAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENTS EXPLOITING A DUAL-BAND SAR SYSTEM Authors: Gianni Lisini; IUSS Pavia Paolo Gamba; University of Pavia Dieter Luebeck; OrbiSat Remote Sensing
	Ballroom C: BEST MERGE REGION GROWING WITH INTEGRATED PROBABILISTIC CLASSIFICATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY Authors: Yuliya Tarabalka; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center James C. Tilton; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 01: THE RADARSAT CONSTELLATION MISSION: “THE MISSION” Authors: Steve Iris, Canadian Space Agency, Canada
	Room 02/03: DEMONSTRATOR TEST RESULTS FOR THE GEO ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDER (GAS) Authors: Jacob Christensen; RUAG SPACE AB, Anders Carlström; RUAG Space AB, Johan Embertsen; Omnisys Instruments AB, Andreas Coleander; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Peter de Maagt; European Space Agency
	Room 08/15: APPLICATION OF MULTI SPECTRAL DATA OF ASTER IN OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES Authors: Takatoshi Namikawa; Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center Masatane Kato; Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center Yoshimitsu Negishi; Mitsubishi Materials Techno Corp. Takumi Onuma; JGI, Inc.
	Room 11: MONITORING THICKNESS CHANGES OF MOUNTAIN GLACIER BY DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY OF ALOS PALSAR DATA Authors: Jianmin Zhou; Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhen Li; Chinese Academy of Sciences Qiang Xing; Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 12: COMPARING RADARSAT 2 AND TERRASAR-X QUAD-POL SAR IMAGERY OF GRASSLANDS Authors: Joseph Buckley; Royal Military College of Canada Anne Smith; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
	Room 19: NOAA ASSESSMENT OF THE OCEANSAT-2 SCATTEROMETER Authors: Zorana Jelenak from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Paul Chang from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seubson Soisuvarn from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Khalil Ahmad from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Joseph Sienkiewicz from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

11:40 AM	Ballroom A: REGISTRATION OF MULTI-FREQUENCY SAR IMAGERY USING PHASE CORRELATION METHODS Authors: Erica Peterson; University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies Georgia Fotopoulos; The University of Texas at Dallas Andreas Schmitt; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Robert Zee; University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies Achim Roth; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom B: AUTOMATIC FEATURES EXTRACTION IN SUB-URBAN LANDSCAPE USING VERY HIGH RESOLUTION COSMO-SKYMED SAR IMAGES Authors: Fabio Del Frate; Tor Vergata University Chiara Pratola; Tor Vergata University Giovanni Schiavon; Tor Vergata University Domenico Solimini; Tor Vergata University
	Ballroom C: KERNEL ENTROPY COMPONENT ANALYSIS IN REMOTE SENSING DATA CLUSTERING Authors: Luis Gómez-Chova; Universitat de València Robert Jenssen; University of Tromsø Gustavo Camps-Valls; Universitat de València
	Room 01: THE RADARSAT CONSTELLATION MISSION: “THE MAKING OF” Authors: Alain Carrier, Canadian Space Agency, Canada
	Room 02/03: FIRST RESULTS OF THE PAU-SA SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER Authors: Isaac Ramos-Perez; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Campus Nord, Giuseppe Forte; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Campus Nord, Xavier Bosch-Lluis; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Campus Nord, Adriano Camps; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Campus Nord, Enric Valencia; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Campus Nord, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Campus Nord, Hyuk Park; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Campus Nord, Mercè Vall-llossera; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Campus Nord
	Room 08/15: VOLCANO OBSERVATIONS WITH ASTER AND ASTER IMAGE DATABASE FOR VOLCANOES Authors: Minoru Urai; Geological Survey of Japan / AIST
	Room 11: ESTIMATING SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT FOR A SNOW-COVERED GROUND REFLECTOR USING GPS MULTIPATH SIGNALS Authors: Mark Jacobson; Montana State University Billings
	Room 12: ESTIMATING BIOPHYSICAL VARIABLES IN RICE CANOPIES BY HIGH-RESOLUTION X-SAR AND C-SAR SIGNATURES Authors: Yoshio Inoue; NIAES Eiji Sakaiya; Aomori Prefec. ITC Naoki Ishitsuka; NIAES
	Room 19: RETRIEVING OCEAN SURFACE WIND SPEEDS FROM THE NON-SPINNING QUIKSCAT SCATTEROMETER Authors: Bryan Stiles from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Scott Dunbar from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Alexandra Chau from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

1:20 PM	Ballroom A: ISAR IMAGE SEQUENCE BASED AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION BY USING A MULTI-FRAME MARKED POINT PROCESS MODEL Authors: Csaba Benedek; Computer and Automation Research Institute Marco Martorella; University of Pisa
	Ballroom B: MODEL-BASED POLARIMETRIC SAR CALIBRATION METHOD USING FOREST AND SURFACE SCATTERING TARGETS Authors: Masanobu Shimada; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
	Ballroom C: USE OF ISO 19115 AND ISO 19115-2 LINEAGE MODELS FOR GEOSPATIAL WEB SERVICE PROVENANCE Authors: Liping Di; George Mason University
	Room 01: MAKING THE MOST OF DESDYNI – AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROPOSED MISSION Authors: Paul Rosen from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Howard Eisen from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scott Hensley from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scott Shaffer from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Louise Veilleux from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory K. Jon Ranson from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Andre Dress from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Bryan Blair from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scott Luthcke from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Ralph Dubayah from University of Maryland Bradford Hager from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ian Joughin; University of Washington Howard Zebker; Stanford University
	Room 02/03: SMOS FIRST RESULTS AFTER 18 MONTHS IN ORBIT: SUCCESSES AND ISSUES Authors: Yann H. Kerr; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Philippe Waldteufel; LATMOS François Cabot; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Philippe Richaume; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Ali Mahmoodi; Array Steven Delwart; European Space Agency Jean Pierre Wigneron; INRA Susanne Mecklenburg; European Space Agency Nicolas Reul; IFREMER Jacqueline Boutin; LOCEAN
	Room 08/15: THE PRESENT STATUS OF GOCI Authors: Yu-Hwan Ahn from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Joo-Hyung Ryu from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Seongick Cho from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Hee-Jeong Han from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Jae-Hyun Ahn from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Sun-Ju Lee from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Joung-Mi Ryu from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI)
	Room 11: THE AMSR SNOW PRODUCT: DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS ON SNOW DEPTH RETRIEVALS Authors: Richard Kelly; University of Waterloo
	Room 12: OYSTER REEF SIGNATURE IN TIDAL FLATS DETECTED BY MULTI-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA Authors: Byung-Hun Choe; Seoul National University, Duk-Jin Kim; Seoul National University, Ji-Hwan Hwang; Hongik University, Yisok Oh; Hongik University, Wooil M Moon; University of Manitoba
	Room 13: A THERMAL INDEX FROM MODIS DATA FOR DUST DETECTION Authors: Yang Liu, Ronggao Liu from Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 19: Importance of International Collaborations in Data Systems Authors: Martha Maiden, NASA Headquarters, US; Dawn Lowe, Francis Lindsay, Andrew Mitchell, Jeanne Behnke, Karen Michael, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, US; Virendra Thanvi, Columbus Technologies and Services, US; Yonsook Enloe, Michael Burnett, SGT inc., US

1:40 PM	Ballroom A: SAR IMAGE DESPECKLING BASED ON IMPROVED DIRECTIONLET DOMAIN GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL Authors: B. Hou; Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding, Ministry of Education of China / Xidian University H. Guan; Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding, Ministry of Education of China / Xidian University J. G. Jiang; Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding, Ministry of Education of China / Xidian University K. Liu; Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding, Ministry of Education of China / Xidian University L.C. Jiao; Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding, Ministry of Education of China / Xidian University
	Ballroom B: DERIVATION OF SEPARABILITY MEASURES BASED ON CENTRAL COMPLEX GAUSSIAN AND WISHART DISTRIBUTIONS Authors: Ken Yoong Lee; EADS Innovation Works Singapore Timo Bretschneider; EADS Innovation Works Singapore
	Room 02/03: CORRECTION OF SPATIAL ERRORS IN SMOS BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE IMAGES Authors: Wu Lin; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Ignasi Corbella; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Francesc Torres; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Nuria Duffo; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Manuel Martín-Neira; European Space Agency
	Room 08/15: GOCI: EARLY IN-ORBIT PERFORMANCES Authors: Han-Dol Kim from Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) , Gm-Sil Kang from Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Joo-Hyung Ryu from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Pierre Coste from EADS Astrium, Philippe Meyer from EADS Astrium
	Room 11: SNOWPACK AND FRESHWATER ICE SENSING USING AUTOCORRELATION RADIOMETRY Authors: Anthony England; University of Michigan Hamid Nejati; University of Michigan Amanda Mims; University of Michigan
	Room 12: MODELING AND APPLICATIONS OF SWOT DATA Authors: Christine Lion; LEGOS/CNES, Konstantinos Andreadis; The Ohio State University, Roger Fjørtoft; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Florent Lyard; LEGOS/CNRS, Nadine Pourthié; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Jean-François Crétaux; LEGOS/CNES
	Room 13: MODELING DAILY NET SHORTWAVE RADIATION OVER RUGGED SURFACES USING MODIS ATMOSPHERIC PRODUCTS Authors: Hailong Zhang, Xiaozhou Xin, Qinhuo Liu from Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2:00 PM	Ballroom A: A NUMBER-OF-CLASSES-ADAPTIVE UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK FOR SAR IMAGES Authors: Bin Liu; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Hao Hu; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Kaizhi Wang; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Xingzhao Liu; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Wenxian Yu; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
	Ballroom B: HETEROGENEOUS CLUTTER MODEL FOR HIGH RESOLUTION POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA PROCESSING Authors: Gabriel Vasile; GIPSA-Laboratory / CNRS Frederic Pascal; SONDRA / Supélec Jean-Philippe Ovarlez; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) Pierre Formont; SONDRA / ONERA
	Ballroom C: A PROVENANCE FRAMEWORK FOR WEB GEOPROCESSING WORKFLOWS Authors: Peng Yue; Wuhan University Ziheng Sun; Wuhan University Jianya Gong; Wuhan University Liping Di; George Mason University Xianchang Lu; Wuhan University
	Room 01: DESDynI: ACHIEVING MULTI-DISPLINE SCIENCE OBJECTIVES THROUGH A COMBINATION OF SweepSAR TECHNOLOGY AND MISSION DESIGN Authors: Scott Hensley from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Paul Rosen from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scott Shaffer from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Bruce Chapman from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sang-Ho Yun from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Curtis Chen from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sean Buckley from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Shadi Oveisgharan from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ziad Haddad from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sassan Saatchi from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Marc Simard from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Eva Peral from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Dragana Perkovic from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Leif Harcke from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Rolando Jordan from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Chandini Veeramachaneni from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Julian Chaubell from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 02/03: PHASE ERROR ASSESSMENT OF MIRAS/SMOS BY MEANS OF THE REDUNDANT SPACE CALIBRATION Authors: Rubén Dávila; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Francesc Torres; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Nuria Duffo; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Ignasi Corbella; Universitat Politècnica de Miriam Pablos; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Manuel Martín-Neira; European Space Agency
	Room 08/15: ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION ALGORITHM FOR THE GOCI Authors: Jae-Hyun Ahn from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Joo-Hyung Ryu from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Yu-Hwan Ahn from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Im Sang Oh from Seoul National University
	Room 11: IMPLEMENTING HEMISPHERICAL SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT PRODUCT ASSIMILATING WEATHER STATION OBSERVATIONS AND SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE DATA Authors: Matias Takala; Finnish Meteorological Institute Kari Luojus; Finnish Meteorological Institute Jouni Pulliainen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Chris Derksen; Environment Canada Juha Lemmetyinen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Juha-Petri Kärnä; SYKE Jarkko Koskinen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Bojan Bojkov; European Space Agency
	Room 12: Water body detection from TanDEM-X data: Concept and first evaluation of an accurate water indication mask Authors: Anna Wendleder; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Markus Breunig; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Klaus Martin; Company for Remote Sensing and Environmental Research (SLU) Birgit Wessel; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Achim Roth; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 13: MONITORING LONG TERM VARIABILITY IN THE ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOUR CONTENT USING GROUND-BASED GPS RECEIVER NETWORKS Authors: Tong Ning, Gunnar Elgered from Chalmers University of Technology / Onsala Space Observatory
	Room 19: International Collaboration in ALOS/GOSAT/GCOM Data Systems Authors: Satoko Miura, Toshiaki Takeshima, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

2:20 PM	Ballroom A: QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF DESPECKLED SAR IMAGES Authors: Silvana Dellepiane; Università di Genova Elena Angiati; Università di Genova
	Ballroom B: A STABLE MODEL-BASED THREE-COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION APPROACH FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA Authors: Zhihao Jiao; Tsinghua University Jiong Chen; Tsinghua University Jian Yang; Tsinghua University
	Ballroom C: CAPTURING, HARMONIZING AND DELIVERING DATA AND QUALITY PROVENANCE Authors: Gregory Leptoukh; NASA Christopher Lynnes; NASA
	Room 01: POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE DESDYNI MISSION TO IONOSPHERIC RESEARCH Authors: Franz Meyer from University of Alaska Fairbanks Junsu Kim from German Aerospace Center (DLR) Ramon Brcic from German Aerospace Center (DLR) Xiaoqing Pi from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 02/03: RADIOBRIGHTNESS VALIDATION ON DIFFERENT SPATIAL SCALES DURING THE SMOS VALIDATION CAMPAIGN 2010 IN THE RUR CATCHMENT, GERMANY Authors: Carsten Montzka; Research Centre Jülich Heye Bogena; Research Centre Jülich Lutz Weihermueller; Research Centre Jülich François Jonard; Research Centre Jülich Marin Dimitrov; Research Centre Jülich Catherine Bouzinac; European Space Agency Juha Kainulainen; Aalto University Jan Balling; Technical University of Denmark Jan Vanderborght; Research Centre Jülich Harry Vereecken; Research Centre Jülich
	Room 08/15: PRELIMINARY AFTER-LAUNCH GOCI CHARACTERIZATION Authors: Young-Je Park, Hee-Jeong Han, Seongick Cho, Joo-Hyung Ryu, Jae-Hyun Ahn, and Yu-Whan Ahn from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI)
	Room 11: INVESTIGATING HEMISPHERICAL TRENDS IN SNOW ACCUMULATION USING GLOBSNOW SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT DATA Authors: Kari Luojus; Finnish Meteorological Institute Jouni Pulliainen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Matias Takala; Finnish Meteorological Institute Juha Lemmetyinen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Chris Derksen; Environment Canada Sari Metsämäki; Finnish Environment Institute Bojan Bojkov; European Space Agency
	Room 12: WETLANDS MAPPING IN NORTH AMERICA USING MODIS 500M IMAGERY Authors: Gegen Tana; Chiba University Tateishi Ryutaro; Chiba University
	Room 19: The TRMM International Partnership: A Case Study of Data System Success Authors: Robert Hamilton, Wyle Inc, US

2:40 PM	Ballroom A: SCENE INTERPRETATION FOR SAR IMAGES USING SUPERVISED TOPIC MODELS Authors: Bin Liu; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Huanyu Wang; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Kaizhi Wang; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Xingzhao Liu; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Wenxian Yu; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
	Ballroom B: POLARIMETRIC IMPLICATIONS OF INCIDENCE ANGLE VARIABILITY FOR UAVSAR Authors: Rick Guritz; University of Alaska Fairbanks Don Atwood; University of Alaska Fairbanks Jeremy Nicoll; University of Alaska Fairbanks
	Ballroom C: GEOSCIENCE DATA CURATION USING A DIGITAL OBJECT MODEL AND OPEN-SOURCE FRAMEWORKS: PROVENANCE APPLICATIONS Authors: Jerry Pan; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Christopher Lenhardt; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Bruce Wilson; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Giri Palanisamy; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Robert Cook; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Biva Shrestha; Oak Ridge National Laboratory
	Room 02/03: DEVELOPMENT OF A L-BAND ON-ORBIT CALIBRATION REFERENCE MODEL FOR THE MARIE-BYRD ANTARCTIC REGION: APPLICATION TO AQUARIUS, SMOS AND SMAP Authors: Shannon Brown; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sidharth Misra; University of Michigan
	Room 08/15: GOCI DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM : ALGORITHMS AND CAL/VAL Authors: Joo-Hyung Ryu from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Jeong-Eon Moon from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Young Baek Son from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Hee-Jeong Han from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI), Yu-Hwan Ahn from Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute(KORDI)
	Room 12: GLOBWETLAND II, A REGIONAL PILOT PROJECT OF THE RAMSAR CONVENTION ON WETLANDS Authors: Kathrin Weise; Jena-Optronik GmbH Marc Paganini; European Space Research Institute, European Space Agency Herbert Hansen; Keyobs Eleni Fitoka; Ekby Manfred Keil; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Christian Huettich; University of Wuerzburg Eric van Valkengoed; TerraSphere Inge Melotte; I-MAGE Consult
	Room 19: A CEOS Community Catalog for Earth Observation Data Authors: Kenneth McDonald, Martin Yapur, NOAA, US; Yonsook Enloe, NASA / SGT Inc., US; Lyndon Oleson, USGS, United States; Yuqi Bai, Liping Di, George Mason University, US

3:20 PM	Ballroom A: CRITICAL CLASS ORIENTED ACTIVE LEARNING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Authors: Wei Di; Purdue University Melba M. Crawford; Purdue University
	Ballroom B: THE EFFECT OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL FOREST VARIABILITY ON RADAR OBSERVABLES Authors: Maxim Neumann; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sassan Saatchi; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Laurent Ferro-Famil; University of Rennes 1 Andreas Reigber; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom C: CLASSIFICATION USING EXTENDED MORPHOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTE PROFILES BASED ON DIFFERENT FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES Authors: Stijn Peeters from University of Antwerp, Prashanth Reddy Marpu from University of Iceland, Jon Atli Benediktsson from University of Iceland, Mauro Dalla Mura from University of Trento
	Room 01: TIME-SERIES INSAR WITH DESDYNI: LESSONS FROM ALOS PALSAR Authors: Piyush Agram; California Institute of Technology Mark Simons; California Institute of Technology Howard Zebker; Stanford University
	Room 02/03: LONG-TERM STABILITY OF AN SIGE HBT-BASED ACTIVE COLD LOAD Authors: Emilie Leynia de la Jarrige; LAAS-CNRS Laurent Escotte; LAAS-CNRS Eric Gonneau; LERISM Jean-Marc Goutoule; EADS-Astrium
	Room 08/15: THE 2010 TUZ GOLU FIELD CAMPAIGN—AN OVERVIEW Authors: Hilal Özen; TUBITAK UZAY Space Technologies Research Institute, Nigel Fox; National Physical Laboratory, Uğur Murat Leloğlu; TUBITAK UZAY Space Technologies Research Institute, Irina Behnert; National Physical Laboratory, Andrew Deadman; National Physical Laboratory
	Room 11: TERRASAR-X OBSERVATIONS OF ANTARCTIC OUTLET GLACIERS IN THE ROSS SEA SECTOR Authors: Kenneth Jezek; The Ohio State University Wael Abdel Jaber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Dana Floricioiu; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 13: March 11th Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, Beyond the Frontiers: What we observed by radar polarimetry Authors: Motoyuki Sato; Tohoku University Si-Wei Chen; Tohoku University
	Room 19: Sensor Web Technology Challenges and Advancements for the Earth Science Decadal Survey Era Authors: Charles Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US; Karen Moe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, US

3:40 PM	Ballroom A: COMBINING ENSEMBLE TECHNIQUE OF SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES WITH THE OPTIMAL KERNEL METHOD FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Authors: I-Ling Chen; National Taichung University of Education Cheng-Hsuan Li; National Chiao Tung University Bor-Chen Kuo; National Taichung University of Education Chih-Cheng Hung; Southern Polytechnic State University
	Ballroom B: BINARY PARTITION TREE AS A POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA REPRESENTATION IN THE SPACE-TIME DOMAIN Authors: Alberto Alonso-González; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Carlos López-Martínez; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Philippe Salembier; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
	Ballroom C: A FRAMEWORK OF ONTOLOGY-BASED KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION PROCESSING FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN REMOTE SENSING DATA Authors: Shutaro Hashimoto from Hokkaido University, Takeo Tadono from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Masahiko Onosato from Hokkaido University, Masahiro Hori from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Takashi Moriyama from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
	Room 01: INTEGRATING GPS AND INSAR TO RESOLVE STRAIN RATES ALONG THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT SYSTEM: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ALOS-1/2 AND DESDYNI Authors: David Sandwell; University of California San Diego Meng Wei; University of California San Diego Xiaopeng Tong; University of California San Diego Bridget Smith-Konter; The University of Texas at El Paso
	Room 02/03: W-BAND RADIOMETER SYSTEM WITH SWITCHING FRONT-END FOR MULTI-LOAD CALIBRATION Authors: Ernst Weissbrodt; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics Ingmar Kallfass; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics Axel Hülsmann; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics Axel Tessmann; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics Arnulf Leuther; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics Hermann Massler; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics Oliver Ambacher; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics
	Room 08/15: TUZ Gölü SITE CHARACTERISTICS Authors: Larry Leigh; SDSU Image Processing Lab, Dennis Helder; SDSU Image Processing Lab, Irina Behnert; National Physical Laboratory, Andrew Deadman; National Physical Laboratory, Nigel Fox; National Physical Laboratory, Uğur Murat Leloğlu; TUBITAK UZAY Space Technologies Research Institute / Middle East Technical University, Hilal Özen; TUBITAK UZAY Space Technologies Research Institute / Middle East Technical University, Derek Griffith; South Africa Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
	Room 11: MULTITEMPORAL, MULTISENSOR FUSION FOR MONITORING ICE SHEET CHANGES FROM ALTIMETRY AND IMAGERY Authors: Beata Csatho; University at Buffalo Anton Schenk; University at Buffalo Sudhagar Nagarajan; University at Buffalo Gregory Babonis; University at Buffalo
	Room 13: ALOS urgent observation – Results from the Tohoku-Oki M9.0 Earthquake and the related disasters Authors: Masanobu Shimada; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency / EORC Manabu Watanabe; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency / EORC Takeshi Motooka; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency / EORC Masato Ohki; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency / EORC

4:00 PM	Ballroom A: MAHALANOBIS KERNEL BASED ON PROBABILISTIC PRINCIPAL COMPONENT Authors: Mathieu Fauvel; DYNAFOR / INRA & University of Toulouse Alberto Villa; GIPSA-Laboratory / Grenoble Institute of Technology Jocelyn Chanussot; GIPSA-Laboratory / Grenoble Institute of Technology Jon Atli Benediktsson; GIPSA-Laboratory / Grenoble Institute of Technology
	Ballroom B: COMPACT POLARIMETRY POTENTIALS Authors: My-Linh Truong-Loi; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pascale Dubois-Fernandez; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) Eric Pottier; University of Rennes 1
	Ballroom C: OPTIMIZING THE SELF-ORGANIZING MAP FOR PATTERN AND IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Authors: Chih-Cheng Hung from Southern Polytechnic State University, Hassan Ijaz from Southern Polytechnic State University, Edward Jung from Southern Polytechnic State University, Bor-Chen Kuo from National Taichung University
	Room 01: ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE MEASUREMENTS FROM DESDYNI: TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS AND DATA FUSION USING SMALL-FOOTPRINT LIDAR AND ALOS/PALSAR DATA OVER CENTRAL CHILE Authors: Josef Kellndorfer; Woods Hole Research Center Oliver Cartus; Woods Hole Research Center Scott Goetz; Woods Hole Research Center Wayne S. Walker; Woods Hole Research Center Ralph Dubayah; University of Maryland Markus Rombach; Digimapas Sergio Gonzales; Arauco
	Room 02/03: EXTRACTION OF REFLECTIVITY FROM MICROWAVE BLACKBODY TARGET WITH FREE-SPACE MEASUREMENTS Authors: Dazhen Gu; NIST Boulder Derek Houtz; NIST Boulder James Randa; NIST Boulder David K. Walker; NIST Boulder
	Room 08/15: SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGIES FOR TUZ GOLU FIELD CAMPAIGN Authors: Yannick Boucher; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) - The French Aerospace Lab, Françoise Viallefont; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) - The French Aerospace Lab, Andrew Deadman; National Physical Laboratory, Nigel Fox; National Physical Laboratory, Irina Behnert; National Physical Laboratory, Derek Griffith; South Africa Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Peter Harris; National Physical Laboratory, Dennis Helder; South Dakota State University, Els Knaeps; VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Larry Leigh; South Dakota State University, Yuan Li; China Meteorological Administration, Hilal Özen; TUBITAK UZAY Space Technologies Research Institute, Flavio Ponzoni; INPE - National Institute for Spatial Research, Sindy Sterckx; VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research
	Room 11: ESTIMATION OF AIR AND SURFACE TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION OF THE EAST ANTARCTIC SHEET BY MEANS OF PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING Authors: Marco Brogioni; IFAC - CNR Giovanni Macelloni; IFAC - CNR Simone Pettinato; IFAC - CNR Francesco Montomoli; IFAC - CNR
	Room 12: GROUND DEFORMATION STUDIES IN CEPHALLONIA ISLAND (WESTERN GREECE) BASED ON DGPS AND PS INTERFEROMETRY Authors: Evangelos Lagios; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Vassilios Sakkas; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Fabrizio Novali; Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E. srl. Alfio Fumagalli; Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E. srl. Sara Del Conte; Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E. srl.
	Room 13: Identifying the impact of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami disaster : Remote sensing and ground truth Authors: Shunichi Koshimura; Disaster Control Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Hideomi Gokon; Disaster Control Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Takumi Fukuoka; Disaster Control Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
	Room 19: Video Change Detection Using Dynamic Sensor Web Authors: Liping Di, Genong Yu, Zeqiang Chen, George Mason University, US

4:20 PM	Ballroom A: A NEW SUBSPACE DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS APPROACH FOR SUPERVISED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Authors: Jun Li; Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory Jose Bioucas-Dias; Instituto de Telecomunicacoes Antonio Plaza; Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory
	Ballroom B: SHIP DETECTION USING X-BAND DUAL-POL SAR DATA Authors: Sébastien Angelliaume; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) Philippe Durand; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Jean-Claude Souyris; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
	Ballroom C: CLASSIFICATION OF MULTI-SOURCE IMAGES USING COLOR MORPHOLOGICAL PROFILES Authors: Valérie De Witte from University of Antwerp, Guy Thoonen from University of Antwerp, Paul Scheunders from University of Antwerp, Aleksandra Pizurica from Ghent University, Wilfried Philips from Ghent University of Ghent
	Room 01: TANDEM-L: ESTIMATING VERTICAL FOREST SRUCTURE BY MEANS OF MULTI-BASELINE POL-INSAR AT L-BAND FOR GLOBAL BIOMASS MAPPING Authors: Pardini Matteo; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Astor Torano Caicoya; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Florian Kugler; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Konstantinos Papathanassiou; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH TEMPERATURE NOISE SOURCE (HTS) FOR ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER 2 (AMSR2) Authors: Takaaki Ishikawa; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Shinichi Yokobori; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Takeshi Ito; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Tatsuhiro Noguchi; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Norimasa Ito; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Marehito Kasahara; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
	Room 08/15: 2010 CEOS FIELD REFLECTANCE INTERCOMPARISONS LESSONS LEARNED Authors: Kurtis J. Thome; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Nigel Fox; National Physics Laboratory
	Room 11: RESULTS FROM THE RADIATION, SNOW CHARACTERISTICS AND ALBEDO AT SUMMIT (RASCALS) CAMPAIGN ON THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET DURING POLAR SUMMER 2010 Authors: Aku Riihelä; Finnish Meteorological Institute Panu Lahtinen; Finnish Meteorological Institute Teemu Hakala; Finnish Geodetic Institute
	Room 12: SBAS-DINSAR TIME SERIES IN THE LAST EIGHTEEN YEARS AT MT.ETNA VOLCANO(ITALY) Authors: Giuseppe Solaro; IREA-CNR Francesco Casu; IREA-CNR Luca Paglia; IREA-CNR Antonio Pepe; IREA-CNR Susi Pepe; IREA-CNR Eugenio Sansosti; IREA-CNR Pietro Tizzani; IREA-CNR Riccardo Lanari; IREA-CNR
	Room 13: OBSERVATIONS JUST AFTER THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE BY THE AIRBORNE SAR (PI-SAR2) OF NICT Authors: Tatsuharu Kobayashi; Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute / National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Toshihiko Umehara; Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute / National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Makoto Satake; Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute / National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Shoichiro Kojima; Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute / National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Jyunpei Uemoto; Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute / National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Takeshi Matsuoka; Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute / National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Akitsugu Nadai; Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute / National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Seiho Uratsuka; Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute / National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
	Room 19: Combining Space-Based and In-Situ Measurements to Track Flooding in Thailand Authors:

4:40 PM	Ballroom A: AUTOMATED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY ANALYSIS VIA SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES BASED MULTI-CLASSIFIER SYSTEM WITH NON-UNIFORM RANDOM FEATURE SELECTION Authors: Sathishkumar Samiappan; Mississippi State University Saurabh Prasad; Mississippi State University Lori Bruce; Mississippi State University
	Ballroom B: A STUDY ON THE RESOLUTION LIMIT OF POLARIMETRIC RADAR AND THE PERFORMANCE OF POLARIMETRIC BANDWIDTH EXTRAPOLATION TECHNIQUE Authors: Kei Suwa; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Toshio Wakayama; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Masafumi Iwamoto; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
	Ballroom C: IMPROVING ACTIVE LEARNING METHODS USING SPATIAL INFORMATION Authors: Edoardo Pasolli from University of Trento, Farid Melgani from University of Trento, Devis Tuia from Universitat de València, Fabio Pacifici from DigitalGlobe Inc., William J. Emery from University of Colorado Boulder
	Room 01: GLACIER FLOW AND TOPOGRAPHY MEASUREMENTS WITH TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-X Authors: Michael Eineder; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Wael Abdel Jaber; Technische Universität München Dana Floricioiu; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Helmut Rott; Universität Innsbruck Nestor Yague-Martinez; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: SMOS IN FLIGHT SYSTEM PERFORMANCES ASSESSMENT AFTER ONE YEAR ON ORBIT Authors: François Cabot; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Ahmad Albitar; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Philippe Richaume; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Yann H. Kerr; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)
	Room 08/15: LABORATORY PANEL AND RADIOMETER CALIBRATION Authors: Andrew Deadman; National Physical Laboratory Irina Behnert; National Physical Laboratory, Nigel Fox; National Physical Laboratory, Derek Griffith; CSIR
	Room 11: ANALYSIS OF THE PASSIVE MICROWAVE HIGH-FREQUENCY SIGNAL IN THE SHALLOW SNOW RETRIEVAL Authors: Yubao Qiu; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Huadong Guo; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jiancheng Shi; Institute for Computational Earth System Science / University of California Santa Barbara Shichang Kang; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Juha Lemmetyinen; Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) / Arctic Research Centre James R. Wang; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 12: CRUSTAL DEFORMATION STUDIES IN THE SEISMICALLY ACTIVE AREA OF PATRAS GULF (GREECE) Authors: Konstantina Vlachou; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Vassilios Sakkas; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Panagiotis Papadimitriou; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Evangelos Lagios; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
	Room 13: Disaster monitoring by multi-temporal images of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Authors: Susumu Takagishi; PASCO Corporation Kazuo Yoshikawa; PASCO Corporation Takashi Shibayama; PASCO Corporation
	Room 19: Multi-Disciplinary Interoperability for Earth Observation Sensor Web Authors: Paolo Mazzetti, Stefano Nativi, CNR - National Research Council of Italy, Italy

5:00 PM	Ballroom C: FEATURE SELECTION FOR TREE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES Authors: Matthieu Molinier; VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Heikki Astola; VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

3:20 AM	Room 13: SOME STUDIES IN REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AIR QUALITY MODELING, CLIMATE CHANGE AND RELATED HEALTH EFFECTS Authors: Robert Huchins, Allan Maina, Francis Tuluri, Suseela Reddy Remata, James Ejiwale from Jackson State University

3:40 AM	Room 13: PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE OCTOBER 2010 HAZE EVENT OVER SINGAPORE Authors: Santo Valentin Salinas Cortijo, Chew Boon Ning, Liew Soo Chin from National University of Singapore

4:20 AM	Room 13: INTEGRATING REMOTE SENSING, SPATIAL ANALYSIS AND CERTAINTY FACTOR MODEL FOR WASTE DUMPING RISK ASSESSMENT Authors: Yi-Shiang Shiu, Yi-Chieh Chen, Shien-Ta Fan, Chao-Hsiung Huang, Tzu-How Chu from National Taiwan University, Meng-Lung Lin from Aletheia University

4:40 AM	Room 13: TAILING MODELLED AND MEASURED SPECTRUM FOR MINE TAILING MAPPING IN TUNISIAN SEMI-ARID CONTEXT Authors: Nouha Mezned, Sâadi Abdeljaoued from Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Mohamed Rached Boussema from Ecole Nationale d'ingénieurs de Tunis

8:20 AM	Ballroom A: SMOS IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION WITH MISSING REAL DATA: IMPACT OF CORRELATORS AND RECEIVERS FAILURES Authors: Ali Khazaal; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)/ Université de Toulouse Eric Anterrieu; IRAP, Université de Toulouse François Cabot; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)/ Université de Toulouse
	Ballroom B: AN ANALYSIS OF COHERENCE OPTIMIZATION METHODS IN COMPACT POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY Authors: Meng Liu; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hong Zhang; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Chao Wang; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Bo Zhang; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Ballroom C: PREDICTION OF CHANGE OF WINTER WHEAT IN NORTH CHINA BY USING IPCC-AR4 MODEL DATA Authors: Mingwei Zhang; National Satellite Meteorological Center Hui Deng; Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Jianqiang Ren; Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Jinlong Fan; National Satellite Meteorological Center Guicai Li; National Satellite Meteorological Center Zhongxin Chen; Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
	Room 01: STEPS TOWARDS THE PREPARATION OF A WAVEMILL MISSION Authors: Christopher Buck; European Space Agency Miguel Aguirre; European Space Agency Craig Donlon; European Space Agency Daniele Petrolati; European Space Agency Salvatore D'Addio; European Space Agency
	Room 02/03: A STUDY OF THE NOAA NEAR-NADIR MICROWAVE HUMIDITY SOUNDER BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES OVER ANTARCTICA Authors: Tsan Mo; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Yong Han; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Fuzhong Weng; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
	Room 08/15: ANALYTICAL MODELING OF OPTICAL POLARIMETRIC IMAGING SYSTEMS Authors: Lingfei Meng from Rochester Institute of Technology John Kerekes from Rochester Institute of Technology
	Room 11: A NOVEL GROUND BASED MULTI BISTATIC RADAR FOR INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF DISPLACEMENT VECTOR Authors: Daniele Mecatti; University of Florence Devis Dei; University of Florence Matteo Fratini; University of Florence Filippo Parrini; University of Florence Massimiliano Pieraccini; University of Florence Francesco Coppi; IDS SpA
	Room 12: LARGE-SCALE DEFORMATION MAPPING OVER DANAKIL DEPRESSION (AFAR, ETHIOPIA) FROM WIDE-SWATH SAR INTERFEROMETRIC TIME SERIES Authors: Pablo J. Gonzalez; University of Western Ontario Nicolas d'Oreye; National Museum of Natural History Eugenio Sansosti; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Kristy F. Tiampo; University of Western Ontario Jose Fernandez; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
	Room 13: DAILY ESTIMATES OF THE TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS OVER LAND SURFACE FROM MSG GEOSTRATIONARY OBSERVATION Authors: Dominique Carrer, Jean-Louis Roujean, Olivier Hautecoeur from Meteo France
	Room 19: A PROPOSED EARTH SCIENCE COLLABORATORY FOR REMOTE SENSING DATA ANALYSIS Authors: K.-S. Kuo from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / GEST-Caelum Research Corp, Christopher Lynnes from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Rahul Ramachandran from Oak Ridge National Laboratory

8:40 AM	Ballroom A: BIVARIATE PEARSON DISTRIBUTIONS FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGES Authors: Marie Chabert; University of Toulouse Jean-Yves Tourneret; University of Toulouse
	Ballroom B: TEMPORAL DECORRELATION ANALYSIS AT P BAND OVER TROPICAL FOREST Authors: Sandrine Daniel; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) - CNES Pascale Dubois-Fernandez; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) Aurélien Arnaubec; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) - Institut Fresnel Sébastien Angelliaume; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA)
	Ballroom C: SIMULATION OF REGIONAL WINTER WHEAT YIELD BY COMBINING EPIC MODEL AND REMOTELY SENSED LAI BASED ON GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM Authors: Jianqiang Ren; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Zhongxin Chen; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Huajun Tang; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Fushui Yu; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Qing Huang; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
	Room 01: DISTRIBUTED IMAGING WITH TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-X Authors: Pau Prats; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Paco López-Dekker; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Francesco De Zan; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Steffen Wollstadt; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Markus Bachmann; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Ulrich Steinbrecher; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Rolf Scheiber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Andreas Reigber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gerhard Krieger; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: DETECTION OF CHANNEL FREQUENCY ERRORS IN POST-LAUNCH CALIBRATION OF AMSU-A OBSERVATIONS Authors: Cheng-Zhi Zou; NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Wenhui Wang; IMSG at NOAA / NESDIS
	Room 08/15: A METHOD FOR IMPROVING CALIBRATION OF LARGE SCALE HYPERSPECTRAL DATASETS: THE AFGHANISTAN HYMAP DATASET Authors: Todd Hoefen from U.S. Geological Survey Raymond Kokaly from U.S. Geological Survey Trude King from U.S. Geological Survey
	Room 11: EVALUATION OF CALIBRATION ACCURACY WITH HPS (HONGIK POLARIMETRIC SCATTEROMETER) SYSTEM FOR MULTI-BANDS AND MULTI-POLARIZATIONS Authors: Ji-Hwan Hwang; Hongik University Soon-Gu Kwon; Hongik University Yisok Oh; Hongik University
	Room 12: DEEP-SEATED GRAVITATIONAL SLOPE DEFORMATION (DGSD) MEASURED BY HIGH-RESOLUTION COSMO-SKYMED SAR Authors: Marco Moro; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Marco Chini; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Michele Saroli; University of Cassino Simone Atzori; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Salvatore Stramondo; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Stefano Salvi; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
	Room 13: MT. ETNA VOLCANIC PLUME FROM ASTER AND HYPERION DATA BY ASI-SRV MODULES Authors: Claudia Spinetti, Fabrizia Buongiorno, Malvina Silvestri from Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Simona Zoffoli from Italian Space Agency
	Room 19: PERFORMANCE OF ANOMALOUS SIGNAL DETECTION WITH HMM APPROACH IN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE OBSERVATION USING MOVING WINDOW Authors: Yoshinao Ito from Aichi Prefectural University, Akitoshi Itai from Aichi Prefectural University, Hiroshi Yasukawa from Aichi Prefectural University, Ichi Takumi from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Masayasu Hata from Chubu University

9:00 AM	Ballroom A: WEIGHTED LAPLACIAN DIFFERENCES BASED MULTISPECTRAL ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION Authors: Surya Prasath V.B.; University of Coimbra
	Ballroom B: DUAL POLARISED ENTROPY/ALPHA DECOMPOSITION AND COHERENCE OPTIMISATION FOR IMPROVED FOREST HEIGHT MAPPING Authors: Zheng-Shu Zhou; CSIRO Peter Caccetta; CSIRO Eric Lehmann; CSIRO Alex Held; CSIRO Stephen McNeill; Landcare Research Anthea Mitchell; CRC-SI / The University of New South Wales Anthony Milne; CRC-SI / The University of New South Wales Ian Tapley; CRC-SI / The University of New South Wales Kim Lowell; CRC-SI / The University of Melbourne
	Ballroom C: REMOTE SENSING INDICATORS FOR CROP GROWTH MONITORING AT DIFFERENT SCALES Authors: Zongnan Li; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Zhongxin Chen; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
	Room 01: TECHNOLOGY PREPARATION FOR TERRASAR-X FOLLOW-ON Authors: Christian Fischer; EADS Astrium Christoph Heer; EADS Astrium Rolf Werninghaus; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: CHARACTERISTICS AND PERFORMANCES OF THE ALTIKA RADIOMETER OF SARAL MISSION Authors: Nicolas Taveneau; Thalès Alenia Space France Frederic Robert; Thalès Alenia Space France Jacques Richard; Thalès Alenia Space France Nathalie Steunou; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Pierre Sengenes; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
	Room 08/15: MODIS AND VIIRS GEOLOCATION ERROR AND LONG-TERM TREND ANALYSIS WITH AUTOMATED CORRECTION TECHNIQUES USING KALMAN FILTERING Authors: Masahiro Nishihama from Sigma Space Corp. Robert Wolfe from NASA
	Room 11: INITIAL OBSERVATION RESULTS FOR PRECIPITATION ON THE KU-BAND BROADBAND RADAR NETWORK Authors: Eiichi Yoshikawa; Osaka University Satoru Yoshida; Osaka University Takeshi Morimoto; Osaka University Tomoo Ushio; Osaka University Zen Kawasaki; Osaka University Tomoaki Mega; Kyoto University
	Room 12: COSEISMIC DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT OF THE 2010 EL MAYOR, MEXICO EARTHQUAKE BY SUBPIXEL CORRELATION FROM OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGES Authors: Masashi Matsuoka; National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Shinsuke Kodama; National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
	Room 13: Retrieval of PM10 Concentration from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) derived AOD in Peninsular Malaysia Authors: Xen Quan Yap, Mazlan Hashim, Maged Marghany from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
	Room 19: COMPACT RECONNAISSANCE IMAGING SPECTROMETER FOR MARS CRISM (CRISM) Authors: Kaiem Frink from Elizabeth City State University, Dr. Linda Hayden from Elizabeth City State University, Dr. Malcom Lecompte from Elizabeth City State University

9:20 AM	Ballroom A: STABILIZATION AND GEOREGISTRATION OF AERIAL VIDEO OVER MOUNTAIN TERRAIN BY MEANS OF LIDAR Authors: Mark Pritt; Lockheed Martin Kevin LaTourette; Lockheed Martin
	Ballroom B: EVALUATION OF SUPERVISED LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION BY PALSAR POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY Authors: Masato Ohki; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Masanobu Shimada; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
	Ballroom C: FAST MAP PROJECTION ON CUDA Authors: Yanwei Zhao; Institute of Computing Technology Zhenlin Cheng; Institute of Computing Technology Hui Dong; Institute of Computing Technology Jinyun Fang; Institute of Computing Technology Liang Li; Institute of Computing Technology
	Room 01: DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION ASPECTS FOR REFLECTOR-BASED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR Authors: Marwan Younis; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Anton Patyuchenko; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Sigurd Huber; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gerhard Krieger; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: DEVELOPMENT, FABRICATION, AND TESTING OF 92 GHZ RADIOMETER FOR IMPROVED COASTAL WET-TROPOSPHERIC CORRECTION ON THE SWOT MISSION Authors: Darrin Albers; Colorado State University Alexander Lee; Colorado State University Steven C. Reising; Colorado State University Pekka Kangaslahti; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Shannon Brown; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Douglas Dawson; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Todd Gaier; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Oliver Montes; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Daniel Hoppe; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Behrouz Khayatian; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 08/15: ESA’S GMES SENTINEL-4 AND -5 Authors: J.-L. Bézy from ESA, G. Bazalgette Courrèges-Lacoste from ESA Paul Ingmann from ESA Agency J. Langen from ESA B. Sierk from ESA, H Stark from ESA B. Veihelmann from ESA
	Room 11: THE ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT (ARM) PROGRAM NETWORK OF MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS: INSTRUMENTATION, DATA, AND RETRIEVALS Authors: Maria P Cadeddu; Argonne National Laboratory David D Turner; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
	Room 12: SURFACE DISPLACEMENTS IN ACTIVE TECTONICS AREAS STUDIED BY PSI TECHNIQUES Authors: Salvatore Stramondo; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Can Zulfikar; Bogazici University / Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute Mine Demircioglu; Bogazici University / Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute Evangelos Lagios; University of Athens Vassilios Sakkas; University of Athens Athanassios Ganas; National Observatory of Athens Kostantinos Stamatopoulos; Stamatopoulos and Associates Co. Michael Foumelis; Harokopio University of Athens Issaak Parcharidis; Harokopio University of Athens Fabrizio Novali; Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E. srl. Christian Bignami; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Marco Chini; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
	Room 13: CHARACTERIZATION OF AEROSOLS BASED ON THE SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENTS Authors: Makiko Nakata, Takuma Yokomae, Toshiyuki Fujito, Itaru Sano, Sonoyo Mukai from Kinki University
	Room 19: LECTURING ON SATELLITE IMAGERY PROCESSING AND GIS BASED ON INTERNET AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Authors: Fatwa Ramdani from Institute of Geography / Tohoku University

9:40 AM	Ballroom A: HJ-1A/B CCD IMAGERY GEOMETRIC DISTORTIONS AND PRECISE GEOMETRIC CORRECTION ACCURACY ANALYSIS Authors: Chang-Miao Hu; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ping Tang; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Ballroom B: AN INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE OPTIMIZATION METHOD BASED ON GENETIC ALGORITHM IN POLINSAR Authors: Peifeng Ma; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hong Zhang; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Chao Wang; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jiehong Chen; Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Ballroom C: FEATURE ANALYSIS OF GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE POINTS IN COASTAL REGIONS AROUND MT. CHOKAISAN, JAPAN BY USING ALOS PALSAR DATA Authors: Yoichi Kageyama; Akita University Hikaru Shirai; Akita University Makoto Nishida; Akita University
	Room 01: THE JOINT TERRASAR-X / TANDEM-X MISSION PLANNING SYSTEM Authors: Falk Mrowka; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Michael P. Geyer; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Christoph Lenzen; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Andreas Spörl; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Tobias Göttfert; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Edith Maurer; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Martin Wickler; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Birgit Schättler; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 08/15: SUMMARY OF TERRA AND AQUA MODIS LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE Authors: Xiaoxiong Xiong; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Brian Wenny; Sigma Space Corp. Amit Angal; SSAI William Barnes; UMBC Vince Salomonson; University of Utah
	Room 11: DEVELOPING A DUAL-FREQUENCY FM-CW RADAR TO STUDY PRECIPITATION Authors: Christopher Williams; University of Colorado Boulder
	Room 12: THE APRIL 3, 2010 EARTHQUAKE ALONG THE PERNICANA FAULT (MT. ETNA – ITALY): ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE AND IN SITU GROUND DEFORMATION DATA INTEGRATED BY THE SISTEM APPROACH Authors: Christian Bignami; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Salvatore Stramondo; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Alessandro Bonforte; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Francesco Guglielmino; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Giuseppe Puglisi; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Francesco Obrizzo; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Urs Wegmüller; Gamma Remote Sensing AG Pierre Briole; Ecole Normale Supérieure
	Room 13: A METHOD FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS ON CBERS DATA FROM TOP-OF-ATMOSPHERE RADIANCE Authors: Xin Zhang from State key laboratory of Remote Sensing Science Beijing Normal University, Xiang Zhao from College of Global Change and Earth System Science Beijing Normal University, Bing Li from State key laboratory of Remote Sensing Science Beijing Normal University, Ni Hu from Patent Examination Cooperation Center of State Intellectual Property Office, Qing Li from Satellite Environmental Center Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, Suhong Liu from State key laboratory of Remote Sensing Science Beijing Normal University

10:20 AM	Ballroom A: ANALYSIS OF SST IMAGES BY WEIGHTED ENSEMBLE TRANSFORM KALMAN FILTER Authors: Sai Subrahmanyam Gorthi; INRIA Sebastien Beyou; INRIA Etienne Memin; INRIA
	Ballroom B: DEMONSTRATION OF TARGET VIBRATION ESTIMATION IN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY Authors: Qi Wang; University of New Mexico, Matthew Pepin; University of New Mexico, Ryan Beach; University of New Mexico, Ralf Dunkel; General Atomics Aeronautics Systems Inc., Tom Atwood; Sandia National Laboratories, Armin Doerry; Sandia National Laboratories, Balu Santhanam; University of New Mexico, Walter Gerstle; University of New Mexico, Majeed Hayat; University of New Mexico
	Ballroom C: TERRAHYDRO – A DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM USING GRAPH STRUCTURE FOR UNIFIED WATER FLOW REPRESENTATION Authors: Sergio Rosim; National Institute for Space Research - INPE Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro; National Institute for Space Research - INPE Camilo Daleles Rennó; National Institute for Space Research - INPE João Ricardo de Freitas Oliveira; National Institute for Space Research - INPE
	Room 01: USE OF RADIOMETRIC TERRAIN CORRECTION TO IMPROVE POLSAR LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION Authors: Don Atwood; University of Alaska Fairbanks David Small; University of Zurich
	Room 02/03: AEROSOL CLASSIFICATION RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS FOR EARTHCARE/ATLID, CALIPSO/CALIOP, AND GROUND-BASED LIDARS Authors: Nobuo Sugimoto; National Institute for Environmental Studies Tomoaki Nishizawa; National Institute for Environmental Studies Atsushi Shimizu; National Institute for Environmental Studies Hajime Okamoto; Kyushu University
	Room 11: PAU INSTRUMENT ABOARD INTA MICROSAT-1: A GNSS-R DEMONSTRATION MISSION FOR SEA STATE CORRECTION IN L-BAND RADIOMETRY Authors: Adriano Camps; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / IEEC/CRAE-UPC Juan Fernando Marchan; Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya Enric Valencia; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / IEEC/CRAE-UPC Isaac Ramos; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / IEEC/CRAE-UPC Xavier Bosch; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / IEEC/CRAE-UPC Nereida Rodriguez; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / IEEC/CRAE-UPC Hyuk Park; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / IEEC/CRAE-UPC Antonio Alcayde; ADTelecom Antonio Mollfulleda; ADTelecom Juan Jose Galindo; ADTelecom Pedro Martinez; ADTelecom Sergio Chavero; ADTelecom Manuel Angulo; INTA - Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial Antonio Rius; IEEC/ICE-CSIC
	Room 12: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FIRE VULNERABILITY INDEX FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION Authors: Laneve Giovanni; Università di Roma Munzer Jahjah; Università di Roma Ferrucci Fabrizio; Università della Calabria Batazza Fabrizio; Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
	Room 13: RETRIEVAL OF BIOMASS BURING AEROSOLS WITH COMBINATION OF NEAR-UV RADIANCE AND NEAR-IR POLARIZATION Authors: Itaru Sano, Sonoyo Mukai, Makiko Nakata from Kinki University, Brent Holben from NASA, Nobuyuki Kikuchi from National Institut for Environmental Studies
	Room 19: Protection of 6-7 GHz band spaceborne microwave radiometer from interferences to derive sea surface temperature and others Authors: Korehiro Maeda from University of Tokyo, Akira Shibata from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Keiji Imaoka from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

10:40 AM	Ballroom A: CONSTRAINED OPTICAL FLOW FOR AERIAL IMAGE CHANGE DETECTION Authors: Nicolas Bourdis; EADS France Denis Marraud; EADS France Hichem Sahbi; CNRS
	Ballroom B: AMBIGUITY SUPPRESSION BY AZIMUTH PHASE CODING IN MULTICHANNEL SPACEBORNE SAR SYSTEMS Authors: Federica Bordoni; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Marwan Younis; German Aerospace Center (DLR) , Gerhard Krieger; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Ballroom C: DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF FIELD SURVEY ASSISTING SYSTEM Authors: Yu Nakayama; Open Concierge Kazuhiko Nakamura; Open Concierge Hitoshi Saito; The University of Tokyo Rui Fukumoto; Open Concierge
	Room 01: TOPOGRAPHY EFFECTS ON POLARIMETRIC SAR REMOTE SENSING OF MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN Authors: Sang-Eun Park; Niigata University Yoshio Yamaguchi; Niigata University
	Room 02/03: RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHT BY CSIR-NLC MOBILE LIDAR, PRETORIA (25.5° S; 28.2° E), SOUTH AFRICA Authors: Sivakumar Venkataraman; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Ameeth Sharma; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Christoph Bollig; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
	Room 11: CROSS-COMPARISON BETWEEN CHINA HJ1A-CCD AND LANDSAT TM DATA Authors: Guoqing Li; State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University Xiaobing Li; State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University Hong Wang; State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University Lihong Chen; State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University Wanyu Wen; State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University
	Room 12: AN IMPROVED ALGORITHM OF WILDFIRE DETECTION AND A METHOD OF WILDFIRE OBSERVATION FOR VALIDATION Authors: Koji Nakau; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Masami Fukuda; Fukuyama City University Hiroki Eto; Japan Airlines International Co. Ltd.
	Room 13: NPOESS PREPARATORY PROJECT VALIDATION PLANS FOR THE OZONE MAPPING AND PROFILER SUITE Authors: Lawrence Flynn, Didier Rault, Irina Petropavlovskikh from NOAA, Glen Jaross from SSAI, Craig Long, John Hornstein, Eric Beach, Wei Yu, Jianguo Niu, Dustin Swales from IMSG
	Room 19: DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE DETECTION TECHNIQUES FOR SMOS Authors: Sidharth Misra from University of Michigan, Christopher Ruf from University of Michigan

11:00 AM	Ballroom A: PRINCIPAL POLYNOMIAL ANALYSIS FOR REMOTE SENSING DATA PROCESSING Authors: Valero Laparra; Universitat de València Devis Tuia; Universitat de València Sandra Jiménez; Universitat de València Gustavo Camps-Valls; Universitat de València Jesús Malo; Universitat de València
	Ballroom B: CHANNEL ERROR CORRECTION FOR WIDEBAND SAR: A JOINT MULTIPLE SUBPULSES PROCESSING METHOD Authors: Shuxuan Chen; National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology / Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Limin Jiang; National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology / Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Maosheng Xiang; National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology / Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Ballroom C: INTEGRATING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT AND GIS FOR 3D VIRTUAL CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN PLANNING Authors: Bin Chen; Peking University Fengru Huang; Peking University Yu Fang; Peking University
	Room 01: PRODUCING SCIENCE-READY RADAR DATASETS FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF FOREST STRUCTURE PARAMETERS FROM BACKSCATTER: CORRECTING FOR TERRAIN TOPOGRAPHY AND CHANGES IN VEGETATION REFLECTIVITY Authors: Marc Simard; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Bryan Riel; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scott Hensley; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Marco Lavalle; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 02/03: SIXTEEN CHANNEL, NON-SCANNING AIRBORNE LIDAR SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY (LIST) SIMULATOR Authors: Anthony Yu; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Michael Krainak; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center David Harding; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center James Abshire; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Xiaoli Sun; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center John Cavanaugh; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Susan Valett; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Luis Ramos-Izquierdo; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Tom Winkert; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Cynthia Kirchner; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Michael Plants; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Timonthy Filemyr; Bastion Technologies, Inc Brian Kamamia; Sigma Space Corp. / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center William Hasselbrack; Sigma Space Corp. / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 11: OVERVIEW OF GCOM Authors: Haruhisa Shimoda; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency / Tokai University
	Room 12: AN ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMPACT AND LIGHTWEIGHT AIRBORNE SAR FOR EXTRACTING INUNDATED AREA Authors: Takashi Shibayama; PASCO Corporation Kazuo Yoshikawa; PASCO Corporation Yoshio Yamaguchi; Niigata University
	Room 13: CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF NPP VIIRS AEROSOL EDR PERFORMANCE BASED UPON PRELAUNCH ANALYSIS Authors: N. Christina Hsu from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Istvan Laszlo from NOAA National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service, Jingfeng Huang from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Morgan State University
	Room 19: Studies of Radio Frequency Interference in SMOS Observations Authors: Joel Johnson from The Ohio State University, Mustafa Aksoy from The Ohio State University

11:20 AM	Ballroom A: REGISTRATION OF GEOPHYSICAL IMAGES Authors: Alexandra Karamitrou; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Maria Petrou; Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Gregory Tsokas; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
	Ballroom B: HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGING USING RANDOM PULSE TIMING Authors: Dehong Liu; Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Petros Boufounos; Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
	Ballroom C: A NOVEL METHOD FOR MODELING COMPLEX 3D GEOLOGICAL BODY WITH STRATAL PINCH-OUT Authors: Jiateng Guo; Northeastern University Yizhou Yang; Northeastern University Lixin Wu; Northeastern University Rongbing Zhang; Northeastern University
	Room 01: 4-COMPONENT SCATTERING POWER DECOMPOSITION WITH PHASE ROTATION OF COHERENCY MATRIX Authors: Gulab Singh; Niigata University Yoshio Yamaguchi; Niigata University Sang-Eun Park; Niigata University
	Room 02/03: QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR LIDAR POINT CLOUD REGISTRATION USING IN-SITU CONJUGATE FEATURES Authors: Jen-Yu Han; National Taiwan University Hui-Ping Tserng; National Taiwan University Chih-Ting Lin; National Taiwan University
	Room 11: CERES FLIGHT MODEL 5 ON NPP: PRE-LAUNCH PERFORMANCE AND SENSOR DATA RECORD VALIDATION Authors: Kory Priestley; NASA Langley Research Center G. Lou Smith; Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Susan Thomas; Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Herbert Bitting; Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
	Room 12: COMBINED USE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING MODELS, FUZZY LOGIC AND MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY FOR FLOOD MAPPING USING COSMO-SKYMED DATA Authors: Luca Pulvirenti; Sapienza University of Rome Marco Chini; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Nazzareno Pierdicca; Sapienza University of Rome Leila Guerriero; Tor Vergata University
	Room 13: DUAL-WAVELENGTH HIGH-SPECTRAL-RESOLUTION LIDAR FOR ADVANCED CLASSIFICATION AND RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOLS Authors: Tomoaki Nishizawa, Nobuo Sugimoto, Ichiro Matsui from National Institute for Environmental Studies
	Room 19: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE DETECTION ALGORITHMS IN MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY Authors: Jose Miguel Tarongi from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Giuseppe Forte from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Adriano Camps from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

11:40 AM	Ballroom A: ALTERNATING MINIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR SHIFTED SPECKLE REDUCTION VARIATIONAL MODEL Authors: Sangwoon Yun; Korea Institute for Advanced Study Hyenkyun Woo; Ewha Womans University
	Ballroom B: Phase Requirements, design and validation of phase preserving processors for a SAR system Authors: Michele Belotti; Politecnico di Milano, Davide D'Aria; Aresys s.r.l., Lorenzo Iannini; Politecnico di Milano , Andrea Monti-Guarnieri; Politecnico di Milano, Silvia Scirpoli; Politecnico di Milano
	Ballroom C: CALDERA RIMS OF NORTHEAST HONSHU EXTRACTED FROM GRAVITY ANOMALIES AND AEROMAGNETIC DATA Authors: Oky Dicky Ardiansyah Prima; Iwate Prefectural University Takeyoshi Yoshida; Tohoku University Takeshi Kudo; Chubu University
	Room 01: A SIMULATION STUDY OF TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON POLSAR CLASSIFICATION OF FORESTS AND CROPS Authors: Thomas Ainsworth; Naval Research Laboratory Mark Williams; Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Infomation
	Room 02/03: SOLID-STATE, HIGH REPETITION RATE TM: FIBER PUMPED HO:YLF 2-µM COHERENT LASER TRANSMITTER FOR AIR AND SPACE-BASED CO2 MEASUREMENTS Authors: Upendra Singh; NASA Langley Research Center Yingxin Bai; Science Systems and Applications, Inc Jirong Yu; NASA Langley Research Center Mulugeta Petros; NASA Langley Research Center Songsheng Chen; NASA Langley Research Center
	Room 11: A SYNERGY BETWEEN SMOS AND AQUARIUS: RESAMPLING SMOS MAPS AT THE RESOLUTION AND INCIDENCE ANGLES OF AQUARIUS Authors: Eric Anterrieu; IRAP, Université de Toulouse & CNRS Yann H. Kerr; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)/ Université de Toulouse / CNES / CNRS / IRD François Cabot; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO)/ Université de Toulouse / CNES / CNRS / IRD Gary Lagerloef; Earth and Space Research David Le Vine; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Room 12: ANTARCTIC ICE SHELF 3D CROSS SECTIONAL PROFILE IMAGING USING MIMO RADAR Authors: Arvind Hari Narayanan; University College London Paul Brennan; University College London Ralph Benjamin; University College London Fabien Gillet-Chaulet; Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement Keith Nicholls; British Antarctic Survey
	Room 12: ANTARCTIC ICE SHELF 3D CROSS SECTIONAL PROFILE IMAGING USING MIMO RADAR Authors: A. Hari Narayanan UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UK P. Brennan UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UK R. Benjamin UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UK F. Gillet-Chaulet Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environment, France K.W. Nicholls British Antarctic Survey, UK
	Room 13: ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION OF MULTI-ANGLE CRISM/MRO HYPERSPECTRAL DATA: RETRIEVAL OF AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS AND SURFACE REFLECTANCE Authors: Xavier Ceamanos, Sylvain Douté from Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, Alexei Lyapustin from University of Maryland Baltimore County NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

1:20 PM	Ballroom A: ROBUST DETECTION USING THE SIRV BACKGROUND MODELLING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING Authors: Jean-Philippe Ovarlez; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) Sze Kim Pang; DSO National Laboratories Frédéric Pascal; Supelec Véronique Achard; Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) Teck Khim Ng; DSO National Laboratories
	Ballroom B: THE BISTATIC SAR EXPERIMENT WITH ALOS / PALSAR AND PI-SAR-L Authors: Takashi Fujimura; NEC Corporation Hideharu Totsuka; NEC Corporation Norihiro Imai; NEC Corporation Shingo Matsuo; NEC Corporation Tsunekazu Kimura; NEC Corporation Tomoko Ishii; NEC Aerospace Systems Ltd Yoshitaka Oura; NEC Aerospace Systems Ltd Masanobu Shimada; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
	Ballroom C: HIGH RESOLUTION DSM GENERATION FROM ALOS PRISM – ARCHIVING AND MOSAICKING - Authors: Junichi Takaku; Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan Takeo Tadono; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
	Room 01: TropiSCAT : A MULTI-FREQUENCY POLINSAR DATA CAMPAIGN OF ACQUISITION FOR VEGETATION CHARACTERIZATION Authors: Clément ALBINET – Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) Pierre BORDERIES – Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) Thierry KOLECK – Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Fabio ROCCA – Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) Stefano TEBALDINI – Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) Thuy LE TOAN – Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Ludovic VILLARD – Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Stéphane MERMOZ – Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) Dinh HO TONG MINH – Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI)
	Room 02/03: First Results from the High Altitude MMIC Sounding Radiometer during the 2010 GRIP Hurricane Field Campaign Authors: Shannon Brown; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Richard Denning; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Bjorn Lambrigtsen; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Boon Lim; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jordan Tanabe; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Alan Tanner; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 08/15: PROTOTYPING GOES-R ALBEDO ALGORITHM BASED ON MODIS DATA Authors: Tao He; University of Maryland, College Park Shunlin Liang; University of Maryland, College Park Hongyi Wu; University of Maryland, College Park Dongdong Wang; University of Maryland, College Park
	Room 12: LOCALLY ADAPTIVE TEMPLATE SIZES FOR MATCHING REPEAT IMAGES OF MASS MOVEMENTS Authors: Misganu Debella-Gilo; University of Oslo Andreas Kääb; University of Oslo
	Room 13: MONITORING NATURAL ANALOG OF GEOLOGIC CARBON SEQUESTRATION USING MULTI-TEMPORAL LANDSAT TM IMAGES IN MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, LONG VALLEY CADERA, CALIFORNIA Authors: Rattanasuda Cholathat, Xiaojing Li, Linlin Ge from The University of New South Wales
	Room 19: REPRESENTATION OF TSUNAMIS IN GENERALIZED HYPERSPACE Authors: Frank C Lin; University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn; Ritsumeikan University

1:40 PM	Ballroom A: LINEAR AND NONLINEAR IMAGING SPECTROMETER DENOISING ALGORITHMS ASSESSED THROUGH CHEMISTRY ESTIMATION Authors: David Goodenough; Natural Resources Canada Geoffrey S. Quinn; University of Victoria Piper Gordon; University of Victoria K. Olaf Niemann; University of Victoria Hao Chen; Natural Resources Canada
	Ballroom B: IMPROVING SAR TOMOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE USING EFFICIENT SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS Authors: Laurent Ferro-Famil; University of Rennes 1 Diego Cristallini; INFOCOM, University of Rome Debora Pastina; INFOCOM, University of Rome Pierfrancesco Lombardo; INFOCOM, University of Rome
	Ballroom C: MANAGING AND INTEGRATING GEOGRAPHY MODELS IN DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT Authors: Xiaolin Wang; Peking University Hui Li; Peking University Hao Deng; Peking University Yingwei Luo; Peking University
	Room 01: POTENTIAL & CHALLENGES OF POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUES FOR FOREST PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE BIOMASS MISSION Authors: Seung-Kuk Lee; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Stefan Sauer; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Florian Kugler; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Irena Hajnsek; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Konstantinos Papathanassiou; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
	Room 02/03: CALIBRATION AND PERFORMANCE OF THE HAMSR INSTRUMENT DURING THE NASA GRIP CAMPAIGN Authors: Boon Lim; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Shannon Brown; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Richard Denning; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pekka Kangaslahti; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Bjorn Lambrigtsen; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jordan Tanabe; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Alan Tanner; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 08/15: CLEAR SKY NET SURFACE RADIATIVE FLUXES OVER RUGGED TERRAIN FROM SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS Authors: Tianxing Wang; Beijing Normal University Guangjian Yan; Beijing Normal University Xihan Mu; Beijing Normal University Ling Chen; Beijing Normal University
	Room 12: PERSISTENT SCATTERER SAR INTERFEROMETRY APPLICATION ON BERKELEY HILLS LANDSLIDES Authors: Ling Lei; Beihang University Yinqing Zhou; Beihang University Jingwen Li; Beihang University Roland Burgmann; Berkeley Seismological Lab
	Room 13: IS IT POSSIBLE TO MAKE PIXEL-BASED RADAR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USER-FRIENDLY? Authors: Rodrigo Pisani, Paulina Riedel, Alessandra Gomes, Rodrigo Mizobe, Joao Papa from UNESP - Univ Estadual Paulista
	Room 19: AN INTEGRATED HYDROLOGICAL AND WATER MANAGEMENT STUDY OF THE ENTIRE NILE RIVER SYSTEM – LAKE VICTORIA TO NILE DELTA Authors: Shahid Habib; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Benjamin Zaitchik; Johns Hopkins University Clement Alo; Johns Hopkins University Mutlu Ozdogan; University of Wisconsin Anderson Martha; USDA Fritz Policelli; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

2:00 PM	Ballroom A: ESTIMATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL COVARIANCE MATRICES Authors: Avishai Ben-David; Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Research, Development, and Engineering Command Charles Davidson; Science and Technology Corporation
	Ballroom B: ANISOTROPY IN OCEAN SCATTERING OF BISTATIC RADAR USING SIGNALS OF OPPORTUNITY Authors: Rashmi Shah; Purdue University James Garrison; Purdue University Michael Grant; NASA Langley Research Center
	Ballroom C: MULTI INFORMATION BASED GROUND CONTROL POINTS SELECTION METHOD Authors: Yanfeng Gu; Harbin Institute of Technology Zhimin Cao; Harbin Institute of Technology Ye Zhang; Harbin Institute of Technology Xiangrong Zhang; Harbin Institute of Technology
	Room 01: P BAND PENETRATION IN TROPICAL AND BOREAL FORESTS: TOMOGRAPHICAL RESULTS Authors: Stefano Tebaldini; Politecnico di Milano Mauro Mariotti d'Alessandro; Politecnico di Milano Dinh Ho Tong Minh; Politecnico di Milano Fabio Rocca; Politecnico di Milano
	Room 02/03: A RADIOMETER CONCEPT TO RETRIEVE 3-D RADIOMETRIC EMISSION FROM ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE AND WATER VAPOR DENSITY Authors: Xavier Bosch; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Hyuk Park; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Adriano Camps; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Steven C. Reising; Colorado State University Swaroop Sahoo; CSU Sharmila Padmanabhan; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Isaac Ramos-Perez; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Enric Valencia; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
	Room 08/15: SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX ESTIMATION USING SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE SYSTEM (SEBS), MODIS PRODUCTS, AND NCEP REANALYSIS DATA Authors: Yuanyuan Wang; National Satellite Meteorological Center Xiang Li; National Satellite Meteorological Center / Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
	Room 12: RELATION BETWEEN ROCK FAILURE MICROWAVE SIGNALS DETECTED BY AMSR-E AND A DISTRIBUTION OF RUPTURES GENERATED BY SEISMIC ACTIVITY Authors: Takashi Maeda; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Tadashi Takano; Nihon University
	Room 13: HOW THE RESOLUTION OF DEMS AND LAND USE EFFECT THE HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE UNITS CREATED IN SWAT MODEL? Authors: Chao Wang, Chuanyan Zhao, Zhaodong Feng, Shouzhang Peng, Zhonglin Xu from Lanzhou University
	Room 19: GEO-LOCATION ERROR CORRECTION FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGE USING THE GROUND CONTROL POINT Authors: Soo H. Rho; LIG Nex1 Jung Kim; Korea Aerospace University Young K. Kwag; Korea Aerospace University

2:20 PM	Ballroom A: A ROBUST SPECTRAL TARGET RECOGNITION METHOD FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA BASED ON COMBINED SPECTRAL SIGNATURES Authors: Xiao Fan; Harbin Institute of Technology Ye Zhang; Harbin Institute of Technology Feng Li; Harbin Institute of Technology Yushi Chen; Harbin Institute of Technology Tao Shao; Harbin Institute of Technology Shuang Zhou; Harbin Institute of Technology
	Ballroom B: NONLINEAR RCM COMPENSATION METHOD FOR SPACEBORNE/AIRBORNE FORWARD-LOOKING BISTATIC SAR Authors: Zhe Liu; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Jianyu Yang; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Xiaoling Zhang; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
	Ballroom C: ANALYSIS OF REMOTE SENSING QUANTITATIVE INVERSION IN CLOUD COMPUTING Authors: Jing Dong; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Yong Xue; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ziqiang Chen; Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hui Xu; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Yingjie Li; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 01: BIOMASS RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM BASED ON P-BAND BIOSAR EXPERIMENTS OF BOREAL FOREST Authors: Lars M. Ulander; Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) Gustaf Sandberg; Chalmers University of Technology Maciej Soja; Chalmers University of Technology
	Room 02/03: DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNALLY-CALIBRATED, MMIC-BASED MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETERS OPERATING AT 130 AND 166 GHZ IN SUPPORT OF THE SWOT MISSION Authors: Alexander Lee; Colorado State University Darrin Albers; Colorado State University Steven C. Reising; Colorado State University Pekka Kangaslahti; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Shannon Brown; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Douglas Dawson; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Todd Gaier; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Oliver Montes; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Daniel Hoppe; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Behrouz Khayatian; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
	Room 08/15: RETRIEVING BRDF OF DESERT USING TIME SERIES OF MODIS IMAGERY Authors: Haixia Huang; China University of Petroleum (Beijing) Bo Zhong; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Qinhuo Liu; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Lin Sun; Shandong University of Science and Technology
	Room 12: DETECTION METHOD OF SLOPE FAILURES DUE TO THE 2009 SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE BY USING TERRASAR-X IMAGES Authors: Makoto Kawamura; Toyohashi University of Technology Kazuhiko Tsujino; Fukui National College of Technology Yuji Tsujiko; Toyohashi University of Technology Jafril Tanjung; Andaras University
	Room 13: SEMI-AUTOMATED PENGUIN COUNTING FROM DIGITAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS Authors: Stephen McNeill, Kerry Barton, Phil Lyver, David Pairman from Landcare Research New Zealand
	Room 19: AALTO-1 – AN EXPERIMENTAL NANOSATELLITE FOR HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING Authors: Jaan Praks from Aalto University/School of Electrical Engineering, Antti Kestilä from Aalto University/School of Electrical Engineering, Martti Hallikainen from Aalto University/School of Electrical Engineering, Heikki Saari from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Jarkko Antila from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Pekka Janhunen from Finnish Meteorological Institute, Rami Vainio from University of Helsinki

2:40 PM	Ballroom A: MANIFOLD ALIGNMENT FOR MULTITEMPORAL HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Authors: Hsiuhan Lexie Yang; Purdue University Melba M. Crawford; Purdue University
	Ballroom B: FAST FACTORIZED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM FOR UWB BISTATIC SAR IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION Authors: Viet Thuy Vu; Blekinge Institute of Technology Thomas K. Sjögren; Blekinge Institute of Technology Mats I. Pettersson; Blekinge Institute of Technology
	Ballroom C: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CATASTROPHE EARTHQUAKE RISK ESTIMATION SYSTEM BASED ON GIS Authors: Xiang Ding; Institute of Earthquake Science Xiaoqing Wang; Institute of Earthquake Science Long Wang; Institute of Earthquake Science Youhua Zheng; Institute of Earthquake Science
	Room 01: BIOMASS END-TO-END MISSION PERFORMANCE SIMULATOR Authors: Paco López-Dekker; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Francesco De Zan; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Thomas Börner; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Marwan Younis; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Konstantinos Papathanassiou; German Aerospace Center (DLR) Tomas Guardabrazo; Deimos Space Valerie Bourlon; Thalès Alenia Space France Sophie Ramongassie; Thalès Alenia Space France Nicolas Taveneau; Thalès Alenia Space France Lars M. Ulander; Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) Daniel Murdin; Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) Neil Rogers; University of Sheffield Shaun Quegan; University of Sheffield Raffaella Franco; European Space Agency
	Room 02/03: Development and Performance Assessment of a Real Time High-Resolution RF Channel Sounder Authors: David Ferreira; Instituto de Telecomunicações (DL-IT) Rafael Caldeirinha; Instituto de Telecomunicações (DL-IT)
	Room 08/15: A TEMPORAL FILTERING ALGORITHM TO RECONSTRUCT DAILY ALBEDO SERIES BASED ON GLASS ALBEDO PRODUCT Authors: Nanfeng Liu; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Qiang Liu; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences Lizhao Wang; Beijing Normal University Jianguang Wen; Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Room 12: RECENT EXPERIENCES UTILIZING TERRASAR-X FOR THE MONITORING OF NATURAL DISASTERS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD Authors: Yuki Okajima; PASCO Corporation Kazuo Yoshikawa; PASCO Corporation Takashi Shibayama; PASCO Corporation
	Room 13: LOWER-TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE CLIMATE DATA RECORD USING NOAA/NESDIS/STAR RECALIBRATED MSU/AMSU-A OBSERVATIONS Authors: Wenhui Wang from I.M. Systems Group Inc., Cheng-Zhi Zou from NOAA National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service Center for Satellite Applications & Research

3:20 PM	Ballroom A: EXPLORING LIMITS IN HYPERSPECTRAL UNRESOLVED OBJECT DETECTION Authors: John Kerekes from Rochester Institute of Technology
	Ballroom C: SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION FOR SEA ICE ANALYSIS Authors: N. Gokhan Kasapoglu; Istanbul Technical University
	Room 08/15: GNSS REFLECTIONS FROM BARE AND VEGETATED SOILS: EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF AN END-TO-END SIMULATOR Authors: Nazzareno Pierdicca; Sapienza University of Rome Leila Guerriero; University of Tor Vergata Roberto Giusto; Sapienza University of Rome Marco Brogioni; CNR-IFAc Alejandro Egido; STARLAB Nicolas Floury; European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency
	Room 12: TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF LAND DEFORMATION ON ERUPTED MUD VOLCANO IN SIDOARJO, INDONESIA USING DINSAR TECHNIQUE Authors: Luhur Bayuaji; Chiba University Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo; Chiba University Hiroaki Kuze; Chiba University

3:40 PM	Ballroom A: SPECTRAL LWIR IMAGING FOR REMOTE FACE DETECTION Authors: Dalton Rosario from U.S. Army Research Laboratory
	Ballroom C: SURVIVOR-LOCATION-ENABLED RESCUE RADAR SYSTEM USING ARRAY ANTENNAS Authors: Taichi Murakami; Keio University Yoshimitsu Aoki; Keio University Hideo Saito; Keio University Iwaki Akiyama; Shonan Institute of Technology Shinji Gotoh; TAU GIKEN Co.,LTD
	Room 08/15: SNOW MONITORING USING GNSS-R TECHNIQUES Authors: Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez; IEEC CRAE/UPC Albert Aguasca; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Enric Valencia; IEEC CRAE/UPC Xavier Bosch-Lluis; IEEC CRAE/UPC Isaac Ramos-Perez; IEEC CRAE/UPC Hyuk Park; IEEC CRAE/UPC Adriano Camps; IEEC CRAE/UPC Mercè Vall-llossera; IEEC CRAE/UPC
	Room 12: NATION-WIDE FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT USING INUNDATION LEVEL MODEL AND MODIS TIME-SERIES IMAGERY Authors: Kwak Youngjoo; Public Works Research Institute (PWRI) Park Jonggeol; Tokyo university of Information Sciences Fukami Kazuhiko; Public Works Research Institute (PWRI)

4:00 PM	Ballroom A: A SHADOW DETECTION METHOD FOR REMOTE SENSING IMAGES USING VHR HYPERSPECTRAL AND LIDAR DATA Authors: Gustav Tolt from Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Michal Shimoni from Signal and Image Centre, Jörgen Ahlberg from Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
	Ballroom C: WELL LOG DATA INVERSION USING RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORK Authors: Kou-Yuan Huang; National Chiao Tung University Liang-Chi Shen; University of Houston Li-Sheng Weng; National Chiao Tung University
	Room 08/15: AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH TOWARDS CHARACTERIZATION OF DRY SNOW LAYERS USING GNSS-R Authors: Fran Fabra; Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE-IEEC/CSIC) Estel Cardellach; Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE-IEEC/CSIC) Oleguer Nogués-Correig; Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE-IEEC/CSIC) Santi Oliveras; Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE-IEEC/CSIC) Serni Ribó; Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE-IEEC/CSIC) Antonio Rius; Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE-IEEC/CSIC) Giovanni Macelloni; IFAC - CNR Simone Pettinato; IFAC - CNR Salvatore D'Addio; European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency
	Room 12: A CHANGE DETECTION APPROACH TO SAR-BASED FLOOD MAPPING AT A GLOBAL SCALE Authors: Patrick Matgen; Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann Renaud Hostache; Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann Laura Giustarini; Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann Guy Schumann; University of Bristol
	Room 13: OIL SPILL DETECTION USING COSMO-SKYMED OVER THE ADRIATIC SEA: THE OPERATIONAL POTENTIAL Authors: Michele Vespe, Guido Ferraro, Monica Posada, Harm Greidanus from European Commission Joint Research Centre, Marko Perkovic from University of Ljubljana

4:20 PM	Ballroom A: DETECTION OF VEHICLES IN SHADOW AREAS USING COMBINED HYPERSPECTRAL AND LIDAR DATA Authors: Michal Shimoni from Signal and Image Centre, Gustav Tolt from FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency, Christiaan Perneel from Royal Military Academy, Jorgen Ahlberg from FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency
	Ballroom C: COMPARISON OF GEOMETRY-BASED DOPPLER AMBIGUITY RESOLVER IN SQUINT SAR Authors: Wenchao Li; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Yulin Huang; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Jianyu Yang; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Junjie Wu; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
	Room 08/15: OIL SLICKS DETECTION USING GNSS-R Authors: Enric Valencia; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Adriano Camps; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Hyuk Park; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Xavier Bosch-Lluis; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Isaac Ramos-Perez; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
	Room 12: THE MERAPI VOLCANO 2010 ERUPTION: A CASE STUDY FOR MIA-VITA EUROPEAN PROJECT Authors: Christian Bignami; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

4:40 PM	Ballroom A: GENERALIZED OPTIMAL KERNEL-BASED ENSEMBLE LEARNING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS Authors: Prudhvi Gurram, Heesung Kwon from US Army Research Laboraotry
	Ballroom C: AN INDIRECT DOPPLER RATE ESTIMATION SCHEME OF SAR IN LOW-CONTRAST SCENE Authors: Wenchao Li; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Yulin Huang; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Jianyu Yang; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Junjie Wu; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
	Room 08/15: END-TO-END PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A PARIS IN-ORBIT DEMOSTRATOR OCEAN ALTIMETER Authors: Salvatore D'Addio; European Space Agency Manuel Martín-Neira; European Space Agency Christopher Buck; European Space Agency
	Room 12: PREDICTING AND MANAGING THE EFFECTS OF EXTREME FLOODS USING ORBITAL REMOTE SENSING Authors: Robert Brakenridge; University of Colorado Albert Kettner; University of Colorado James Syvitski; University of Colorado Fritz Policelli; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Tom De Groeve; Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Son Nghiem; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory