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

 
Home Page: www.commission7.isprs.org/wg1/
 

 Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Mitsunori Yoshimura Dennis G. Dye Junichi Susaki
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
 
Southwest Geographic Center
U.S. Geological Survey
2255 N Gemini Dr.
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
USA
 
+1-928-556-7029
+1-928-556-7169
 
C1-1-206, Kyotodaigaku Katsura
Nishikyo-ku
Kyoto, 615-8540
Japan
 
+81-75-383-3300
+81-75-383-3300
 
www.restec.or.jp/top_e.html usgs.gov www.ce.t.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en

 

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 and inversion
  • Study spectrodirectional ('the combination of multiple view angles with imaginary spectrometers') data acquisition potential and subsequent retrieval methods

WG VII/2 - DEM Generation and Surface Deformation Monitoring from SAR Data

 
Home Page: www.commission7.isprs.org/wg2/
 

 Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair
Uwe Soergel Mattia Crespi Michele Crosetto
Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation
Leibniz Universitaet Hannover
Nienburger Str.1
D-30167 Hannover
Germany
 
+49 511 762 2981
+49 511 762 2483
 
Area Geodesia e Geomatica
Palazzina Costruzioni Idrauliche e Geodesia - 3°p - St. 8
Dipartimento di Idraulica Trasporti e Strade
Facoltà di Ingegneria, Sapienza Università di Roma
via Eudossiana, 18
00184 Roma
Italy
 
+39-0644585097
+39-0644585515
 
Active Remote Sensing Unit
Institute of Geomatics Avinguda Gauss 11
E-08860 – Castelldefels,
Barcelona
Spain
 
+34-93-556-9294
+34-93-556-9292
 
www.ipi.uni-hannover.de w3.uniroma1.it/mattia.crespi/ www.ideg.es/eng

 

WG VII/2 - Terms of Reference:

  • Generation and accuracy assessment of DEM from 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

 
Home Page: www.commission7.isprs.org/wg3/
 

 Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Eyal Ben-Dor Xavier Briottet Sabine Chabrillat Cindy Ong
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
 

ONERA, BP 74025
2 avenue Edouard BELIN
BP74025 Toulouse
Cedex 31055
France
 
+33 5 62 25 26 05
+33 5 62 25 25 88
 
Helmholtz Center Potsdam
GFZ German Research Center in Geosciences
Section 1.4: Remote Sensing
Telegrafenberg
D-14473 Potsdam
Germany
 
+49 331 288 2208
+49 331 288 1192
 
CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
26 Dick Perry Avenue
Kensington, Western Australia 6151
Australia
 
+61 08 64368677
+61 08 64368586
 
www.tau.ac.il/~rslweb/ www.onera.fr www.gfz-potsdam.de/sec14 www.csiro.au

 

WG VII/3 - Terms of Reference:

  • Optical, NIR, SWIR and thermal imaging spectroscopy for the retrieval of geo- and bio-physical parameters
  • Ground based validation and radiometric calibration of hyperspectral data
  • Atmospheric parameter retrieval and atmospheric corrections
  • Operationalisation and standardization of (pre-)processing and methodological approaches
  • Preparation for upcoming satellite missions: Simulation tools, multiscale analyses, predicted accuracies of thematic products
  • Data and sensor fusion for improved parameter retrieval: combination with other remote sensing data (lidar, SAR, multi-angular, thermal) and a priori information

WG VII/4 - Methods for Image Classification

 
Home Page: www.commission7.isprs.org/wg4/
 

 Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair
Julian Smit Peijun Li Ahmed Shaker Abdelrahman
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
 
Department of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture, and Science
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3
Canada
 
+1 416 979-5000 (ext. 6458)
+1 416 979-5122
 
www.geomatics.uct.ac.za www.pku.edu.cn www.ryerson.ca/~ashaker

 

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

 
Home Page: www.commission7.isprs.org/wg5/
 

 Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Georg Bareth Haigang Sui Süha Berberoglu Sebastian Brocks
Institute of Geography
University of Cologne
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
Germany
 
+49 221 4706552  
+49 221 4704917
 
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
 
University of Cukurova
Intitute of Basic and Applied Sciences
Head of Remote Sensing and GIS Division
Balcali 01330 Adana
Turkey
 
+90 322 3386545 (121)
+90 322 3386189
 
Institute of Geography
University of Cologne
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
Germany
 
+49 221 4706234
+49 221 4704917
 
www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/ www.liesmars.wtusm.edu.cn   webpage

 

WG VII/5 - Terms of Reference:

  • Analysis of the 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, Modeling 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

 
Home Page: www.commission7.isprs.org/wg6/
 

 Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Jixian Zhang Zhong Lu Yu Zheng
Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping
28 Lianhuachixi Road
Haidian District
Beijing 100830
China
 
+86 10 63880888  
+86 10 63880804
 
U.S. Geological Survey
1300 SE Cardinal Court
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 88628818 
+86 10 88217813 
 
casm.ac.cn volcanoes.usgs.gov/activity/methods/insar/zhong.php casm.ac.cn

 

WG VII/6 - Terms of Reference:

  • Automatic registration, error assessment, or other geometric aspects of fusion with images from different spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions, or acquisition modes
  • Pixel-, feature- and decision-level fusion algorithms and methodologies
  • Integration of images and products from satellite, airborne, and terrestrial sensor systems, as well as in-situ measurements
  • Data fusion applications in the fields of mapping and monitoring natural resources, natural hazards, and environmental security 
  • High performance computing techniques in remote sensing data fusion

WG VII/7 - Synergy in Radar and LiDAR

 
Home Page: www.commission7.isprs.org/wg7/
 

 Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Sanna Kaasalainen Batuha Osmanoğlu Guoxiang Liu Füsun Balık Şanlı
Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Department
Finnish Geodetic Institute
Geodeetinrinne 2
P.O. Box 15
02431 Masala
Finland
 
+358 9 29555213
+358 9 29555200
 
University Space Research Association
NASA Biospheric Sciences Laboratory
Greenbelt , MD 20771
USA
 
+1 301 614 6691
 
Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering
Southwest Jiaotong University
Chengdu, Sichuan, 610031
China
 
+86-28-87601858
+86-28-87601545
 
Yıldız Technical University
Civil Engineering Faculty
Department of Geomatic Engineering
34220 Istanbul
Turkey
 
+90 212 383 52 72
+90 212 383 52 74  
 
www.fgi.fi/ www.osmanoglu.org/ webpage www.hrm.yildiz.edu.tr/en

 

WG VII/7 - Terms of Reference:

  • Synergetic use of lidar and radar for retrieval of geophysical parameters
  • Experiments using both radar and lidar
  • Multi-temporal radar and lidar remote sensing
  • Terrestrial measurements for validation and calibration
  • Upscaling and error processing in lidar and radar measurements
  • Scaling in radar and lidar remote sensing
  • Physical radar and lidar backscatter models

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