INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
INTERNATIONALE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR PHOTOGRAMMETRIE UND FERNERKUNDUNG
SOCIETE INTERNATIONALE DE PHOTOGRAMMETRIE ET DE TELEDETECTION




Proceedings of the ISPRS Workshop

MAPPING SURFACE STRUCTURE AND TOPOGRAPHY
BY AIRBORNE AND SPACEBORNE LASERS


9-11 NOVEMBER 1999
La Jolla USA


ORGANIZED BY
ISPRS WG III/5: Remote Sensing and Vision Theories for Automatic Scene Interpretation
ISPRS WG III/2: Algorithms for Surface Reconstruction

INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
VOLUME XXXII-3/W14

Editor
Beata M. Csatho


Opening Session
Photogrammetry and laser altimetry 
Schenk, T. 
Commercial development of airborne laser altimetry - A review of the commercial instrument market and its projected growth
Flood, M. 

Session 1: FOREST TOPOGRAPHY AND CANOPY MAPPING I
Progress in LIDAR altimeter remote sensing of stand structure in deciduous and coniferous forests using SLICER data
Lefsky, M., D.J. Harding, G. Parker, W.B. Cohen and S.A. Acker 
Interpolation of high quality ground models from laser scanner data in forested areas
Pfeifer, N., T. Reiter, C. Briese and W. Rieger

Session 2: GEOLOCATION OF LASER FOOTPRINT
Analysis of satellite laser altimetry range measurements over land topography using generalized attitude parameter extraction
Ridgway, J. R. and J. B. Minster 
A novel approach for calibrating satellite laser altimeter systems
Filin, S. and B. Csatho 
A new approach for matching surfaces from laser scanners and optical sensors
Habib, A. and T. Schenk

Session 3: SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION BY USING RETURN WAVEFORMS
Processing of shuttle laser altimeter range and return pulse data in support of SLA-02
Carabajal, C.C., D.J. Harding, S.B. Luthcke, W. Fong, S.C. Rowton and J.J. Frawley 
Segmentation of laser surfaces
Csatho, B., K.L. Boyer and S. Filin 
Application of the Shuttle Laser Altimeter in an accuracy assessment of GTOPO30, a global 1-kilometer Digital Elevation Model
Harding, D.J., D.B. Gesch, C.C. Carabajal and S.B. Luthcke 

Session 4: COMBINED APPLICATION OF LASER SCANNING & PHOTOGRAMMETRY
Utilizing airborne laser altimetry for the improvement of automatically generated DEMs over urban areas
McIntosh, K., A. Krupnik and T. Schenk 
Registration of airborne laser data to surfaces generated by photogrammetric means
Postolov, Y., A. Krupnik and K. McIntosh 
Quality control issues of airborne laser ranging data and accuracy study in an urban area
Schenk, T., B. Csatho and D.C. Lee 

Session 5: INTEGRATION OF LIDAR WITH OTHER SENSORS
Integration of high resolution multispectral imagery with LIDAR and IFSAR data for urban analysis applications
Gamba, P. and B. Houshmand 
Integration of LIDAR, Landsat ETM+ and forest inventory data for regional forest mapping
Lefsky, M.A., W.B. Cohen, A. Hudak, S.A. Acker and J.L. Ohmann
Comparison of DEMs from STAR-3i interferometeric SAR and scanning laser
Mercer, J. and S. Schnick 

Session 6: RECOGNITION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF MAN-MADE OBJECTS
The use of laser scanner data for the extraction of building roof detail using standard elevation derived parameters
Chilton, T., J. Jaafar and G. Priestnall 
Laser data for virtual landscape generation
Haala, N. and C. Brenner 
The effects of LIDAR DSM grid resolution on categorising residential and industrial buildings
Jaafar, J., G. Priestnall and P.M. Mather

Session 7: MAPPING OF ICE SHEETS AND GLACIERS
Application of aircraft laser altimetry to glacier and ice cap mass balance studies
Abdalati, W. and W.B. Krabill 
Airborne laser altimetry over the central West Antarctic ice sheet
Blankenship, D.D., S.D. Kempf, D.L. Morse, M.E. Peters, R.E. Bell and R.B. Arko 
Airborne laser profiling of Antarctic ice stream for change detection
Spikes, B., B. Csatho and I. Whillans

Session 8: FOREST TOPOGRAPHY AND CANOPY MAPPING II
Estimating individual tree heights of the boreal forest using airborne laser altimetry and digital videography
St-Onge, B.A. 
Roads and buildings from laser scanner data within a forest enterprise
Rieger, W., M. Kerschner, T. Reiter and F. Rottensteiner
Laser-scanning for the derivation of forest stand parameters
Rieger, W., O. Eckmullner, H. Mullner and T. Reiter