ISPRS - Technical Commission VII 2008-2012
 

Thematic Processing, Modeling and Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data

President

Wolfgang Wagner, PresidentWolfgang Wagner
 
Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (I.P.F.)
Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
Gusshausstrasse 27-29
1040 Vienna
AUSTRIA
+43-(0)1-58801-12225
+43-(0)1-58801-12299

 

Vice-President

Juha Hyyppä, Vice-PresidentJuha Hyyppä
 
Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry
Finnish Geodetic Institute
Geodeetinrinne 2, P.O. Box 15
FI-02431 Masala
FINLAND
+358-9-29555306

 

Secretary

Wouter Dorigo, SecretaryWouter Dorigo
 
nstitute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (I.P.F.)
Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
Gusshausstrasse 27-29
1040 Vienna
AUSTRIA
+43-(0)1-58801-12243
+43-(0)1-58801-12299

 

Terms of Reference
  • Relationship between spectral, radiometric and temporal properties of objects and surfaces, their physical and chemical properties and their variations;
  • Image classification and analysis methodologies;
  • Analysis of characteristics of multi-spectral, hyperspectral, multi-sensor, microwave and multitemporal image data for extraction of attribute information;
  • Methodologies of computer-assisted interpretation and analysis of remotely sensed data;
  • Validation of data and information using laboratory and in-situ methodologies
  • Improving atmospheric modelling for radiometric correction;
  • Multi-source data fusion and integration techniques;
  • Modelling of satellite data derived parameters
  • Global databases and determination of indicators of change for global modelling, monitoring and sustainable development
  • Integration of remote sensing and GIS techniques;
  • Aerosol and particulate detection and identification.

 

WG VII/1 - Physical Modelling and Signatures in Remote Sensing

Chair
Michael Schaepman

Environmental Sciences Department
Centre for Geo-Information
PO Box 47
6700 AA Wageningen
The Netherlands
+ 31 317 47 46 45
+ 31 317 41 90 00

Co-Chair
Shunlin Liang

Department of Geography
University of Maryland
2181 LeFrak Hall
College Park, MD 20742
USA
+1 301 405 4556
+1 301 314 9299

Co-Chair
Mitsunori Yoshimura

Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan
Roppongi First Bldg.12F,1-9-9, Roppongi
Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
Japan
+81-3-5561-4538
+81-3-5574-8515

Secretary
Mathias Kneubühler

University of Zurich
Department of Geography
Remote Sensing Laboratories (RSL)
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zurich
Switzerland
+41 44 635 52 46
+41 44 635 68 46
WG VII/1  Terms of Reference
  • Study the relationship of spectral, directional, temporal and polarimetric properties of objects, as well as their physical and chemical properties and variations
  • Research on advanced quantitative, physical based retrieval of biophysical and biochemical parameters
  • Research of methods based on full spectral signatures using assimilation, inversion and neural networks
  • Study spectrodirectional ('the combination of multiple view angles with imaginary spectrometers') data acquisition potential and subsequent retrieval methods

 

WG VII/2 - SAR Interferometry

Chair
Uwe Sörgel

Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Nienburger Str.1
D-30167 Hannover
Germany
+49 511 762 2981
+49 511 762 2483

Co-Chair
Rudiger Gens

Alaska Satellite Facility, Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska
Fairbanks, Koyukuk Dr.
P.O. Box 757320
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320
USA
+ 1-907-4747621
+ 1-907-4746441

Co-Chair
Michele Crosetto

Institute of Geomatics
Park Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Av. del Canal Olímpic s/n,
E-08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona
Spain
+34 93 556 9294
+34 93 556 9292
WG VII/2  Terms of Reference
  • Generation and evaluation of DEMs derived by interferometric processing of airborne and spaceborne SAR imagery
  • Object extraction from InSAR data
  • Differential SAR Interferometry and Persistent Scatterer Interferometry
  • Ground based SAR Interferometry

 

WG VII/3 - Information Extraction from Hyperspectral Data

Chair
Eyal Ben-Dor

Remote Sensing Laboratory
The Geography and Human Environment Department
Tel Aviv University
P.O.Box 39040, Ramat Aviv 69978 Tel Aviv
Israel
+972-3-6407049
+972-3-6406243

Co-Chair
Arnold Dekker

Inland and Coastal Water Remote Sensing
CSIRO Land and Water
GPO Box 1666
Canberra, ACT 2601
Austria
+61-2-6246 5821
+61-2-6246 5800

Co-Chair
Megan Lewis

School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Adelaide
Adelaide, SA 5005
Australia
+61 8 8303 6522
+61 8 8303 6717

Secretary
Sabine Chabrillat

Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Sektion 1.4, Fernerkundung
Telegrafenberg, A17 20.25
D-14473 Potsdam
Germany
+49 331 288-1108
+49 331 288-1192
WG VII/3  Terms of Reference
  • Ground based validation and radiometric calibration of hyperspectral data
  • Optical, NIR, SWIR and thermal imaging spectroscopy
  • Operationalising and standardising (pre-)processing and methodological approaches
  • Atmospheric parameter retrieval and atmospheric corrections
  • Data and sensor fusion for improved parameter retrieval (combination with other remote sensing data (lidar, SAR, multi-angular) and a priori information)
  • Mixture models for data analysis
  • Data compression and band selection algorithms

 

WG VII/4 - Methods for Land Cover Classification

Chair
Yun Zhang

Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering
University of New Brunswick
P.O.Box 4400
Fredericton NB, E3B 5A3
Canada
+1-506-453-5140
+1-506-453-4943

Co-Chair
Julian Smit

Division of Geomatics
University of Cape Town
Private Bag Rondebosch
Cape Town 7701
South Africa
+27-21-6503573
+27-21-6503572

Co-Chair
Peijun Li

Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS
Peking University
Beijing 100871
Germany
+86-10-62757364
+86-10-62757364

Secretary
Roman Arbiol

Institut Cartografie de Catalunya (ICC)
Parc de Montjuic
E-08038 Barcelona
Spain
+34-9356-71500
+34-9356-71567
WG VII/4  Terms of Reference
  • Image classification techniques and new algorithms for the extraction of thematic information including pixel-based classification, object-based classification, and artificial intelligent based classification, and synergism between classification approaches
  • Image analysis methodologies for thematic information extraction including context analysis, texture analysis, image segmentation, and other analysis
  • Advanced and practical methodologies of Computer Assisted Interpretation (CAI) and analysis of remotely sensed data, including expert systems and knowledge based tools to help the human interpretation of images
  • Enhanced methodologies for thematic data extraction using emerging sensor data sources, multiple view sensors and thermal sensors
  • New methodologies for classification quality assessment

 

WG VII/5 - Methods for Change Detection and Process Modelling

Chair
Qiming Zhou

Department of Geography
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
Hong Kong
China
+852-34115048
+852-34115990

Co-Chair
Jean-Francois Crétaux

Laboratoire d´Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS)
18 avenue Edouard Belin
31400 Toulouse
France
+33 5 61 33 29 89
+33 5 61 25 32 05

Co-Chair
Georg Bareth

Department of Geography
University of Cologne
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
Germany
+49 221 470 6552
+49 221 470 4917

Secretary
Haigang Sui

State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS)
Wuhan University
129 Luoyu Road
Wuhan, Hubei, 430079
China
+86-27-68778061
+86-27-68778229
WG VII/5  Terms of Reference
  • Analysis of characteristics of multitemporal data for extraction of attribute information
  • Methodologies of computer assisted interpretation and analysis of multitemporal data
  • Temporal pattern recognition and time series analysis and Modelling
  • Methodologies for global monitoring, Modelling and prediction
  • Methodologies for extracting essential climate variables from long-term satellite observations
  • Algorithms and methods for monitoring and tracking changing objects
  • Data integration and change detection for updating

 

WG VII/6 - Remote Sensing Data Fusion

Chair
Jixian Zhang

Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping
28 Lianhuachixi Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100830
China
+86-10-63880888
+86-10-63880804

Co-Chair
Zhong Lu

U.S. Geological Survey
EROS Center & Cascades Volcano Observatory
1300 SE Cardinal Court, Building 10, Suite 100
Vancouver, WA 98683-9589
USA
+1-360-993-8911
+1-360-993-8981

Secretary
Yu Zeng

Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping
28 Lianhuachixi Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100830
China
+86-10-63880533
+86-10-63880535
WG VII/6  Terms of Reference
  • Automatic registration of images with different sensor, different resolution and different acquisition mode.
  • Concept study and methodology development of data fusion at different processing levels, especially at feature and decision level.
  • Multi-source/multi-sensor data fusion and integration methodologies, such as fusing laser scanning data with images, fusing high-resolution satellite optical imagery with high-resolution SAR imagery, etc.
  • Applications of data fusion to feature extraction, object recognition, classification, mapping, disaster monitoring, change detection, etc.
  • Information mining from multi-platform, multi-source, multi-scale, spatial-temperal data, e.g, geometric information, topological information, statistical information, etc.

 

WG VII/7 - Theory and Experiments in Radar and Lidar

Chair
Sanna Kaasalainen

Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Department
Finnish Geodetic Institute
Geodeetinrinne 2, P.O. Box 15
02431 Masala
Finland
+358-9-29555213
+358-9-29555200

Co-Chair
Niko Verhoest

Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management
Ghent University
Coupure links 653
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium
+32 9 264 61 38
+32 9 264 62 36

Co-Chair
W. Gareth Rees

Scott Polar Research Institute
University of Cambridge
Lensfield Road
Cambridge CB2 1ER
United Kingdom
+44 1223 336540
+44 1223 336549
WG VII/7  Terms of Reference
  • Polarimetric radar remote sensing for the retrieval of geophysical parameters
  • Full-waveform laser scanning
  • Radiometric calibration in radar and lidar remote sensing
  • Scaling in radar and lidar remote sensing
  • Physical radar and lidar backscatter models
  • Experiments using both radar and lidar
  • Synergetic use of lidar and radar for retrieval of geophysical parameters
  • Multitemporal radar and lidar remote sensing
  • Terrestrial measurements for validation and calibration

 

 
 
 
 
 
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