Working Groups of ISPRS Commission VII

Thematic Processing, Modeling and Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data


 

WORKING GROUPS of ISPRS COMMISSION VII


INTERCOMMISSION WG of ISPRS COMMISSION VII



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

 Chair  Co-Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Michael Schaepman Shunlin Liang Mitsunori Yoshimura Mathias Kneubühler
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
 
Department of Geography
University of Maryland
2181 LeFrak Hall
College Park, MD 20742
USA
 
+1 301 405 4556
+1 301 314 9299
 
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
 
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
 
http://www.dow.wur.nl/ www.glue.umd.edu/~sliang www.restec.or.jp/top_e.html http://www.geo.unizh.ch/

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  Co-Chair  Co-Chair
Uwe Sörgel Rudiger Gens Michele Crosetto
Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Nienburger Str.1
D-30167 Hannover
Germany
 
+49 511 762 2981
+49 511 762 2483
 
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
 
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
 
http://www.ipi.uni-hannover.de/ http://www.asf.alaska.edu/ http://www.ideg.es/eng

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  Co-Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Eyal Ben-Dor Arnold Dekker Megan Lewis Sabine Chabrillat
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
 
Inland and Coastal Water Remote Sensing
CSIRO Land and Water
GPO Box 1666
Canberra, ACT 2601
Australia
 
+61-2-6246 5821
+61-2-6246 5800
 
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Adelaide
Adelaide, SA 5005
Australia
 
+61 8 8303 6522
+61 8 8303 6717
 
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Sektion 1.4, Fernerkundung
Telegrafenberg, A17 20.25
D-14473 Potsdam
+49 331 288-1108
+49 331 288-1192
 
http://www.tau.ac.il/~rslweb/ http://www.clw.csiro.au/ http://www.ees.adelaide.edu.au/  

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  Co-Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Yun Zhang Julian Smit Peijun Li Roman Arbiol
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
 
Division of Geomatics
University of Cape Town
Private Bag Rondebosch
Cape Town 7701
South Africa
 
+27-21-6503573
+27-21-6503572
 
Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS
Peking University
Beijing 100871
China
+86-10-62757364
+86-10-62757364
 
Institut Cartografie de Catalunya (ICC)
Parc de Montjuic
E-08038 Barcelona
Spain
 
+34-9356-71500
+34-9356-71567
 
www.unb.ca/CRC-AGIP/ http://www.geomatics.uct.ac.za/ http://www.pku.edu.cn/ http://www.icc.es/

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  Co-Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Qiming Zhou Jean-Francois Crétaux Georg Bareth Haigang Sui
Department of Geography
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
Hong Kong
China
 
+852-34115048
+852-34115990
 
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
 
Department of Geography
University of Cologne
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
Germany
 
+49 221 470 6552
+49 221 470 4917
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
 
geog.hkbu.edu.hk http://www.legos.obs-mip.fr http://www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/ http://www.liesmars.wtusm.edu.cn

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  Co-Chair  Secretary
Jixian Zhang Zhong Lu Yu Zeng
Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping
28 Lianhuachixi Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100830
China
 
+86-10-63880888
+86-10-63880804
 
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
 
Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping
28 Lianhuachixi Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100830
China
 
+86-10-63880533
+86-10-63880535
 
casm.ac.cn volcanoes.usgs.gov/ insar/zhong.html casm.ac.cn

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  Co-Chair  Co-Chair
Sanna Kaasalainen Niko Verhoest W. Gareth Rees
Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Department
Finnish Geodetic Institute
Geodeetinrinne 2, P.O. Box 15
02431 Masala
Finland
 
+358-9-29555213
+358-9-29555200
 
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
 
Scott Polar Research Institute
University of Cambridge
Lensfield Road
Cambridge CB2 1ER
United Kingdom
 
+44 1223 336540
+44 1223 336549
 
http://www.fgi.fi/ lhwm.ugent.be http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/

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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