For abstracts of EARSeL 2004, click here

1A. Agriculture Forestry and Vegetation

D. Haboudane, N. Tremblay, P. Vigneault, J. R. Miller
Retrieval of biophysical crop variables using radiative transfer models and ground-based empirical relationships

Y. Hirata, S. Kuramoto, K. Sato, R. Tabuchi
Estimation of forest biomass using high-resolution satellite data and GIS data

Julia Yagüe, Pilar Garcia, Ma Eugenia Perez
A Remote Sensing survey of vegetation communities adjacent to Myall Lakes, NSW, Australia

B. Café, R. Tavares, L. Pessanha
The summer water stress of the Portuguese forest

2. Geological Hazards

O. D. Mavrantza, D. P. Argialas
Object-oriented image analysis for the identification of geologic lineaments

Ivana Čapková, Ján Kianička
SAR Interferometry: Detecting Small Landslides in the Area of Northern Bohemia

3. Atmosphere

Nuno César dos Santos Grosso
Retrieving aerosol optical thickness from a MODIS dataset for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area using a contrast reduction method

Gergely Rigo, Eberhard Parlow, David Oesch
Validation of satellite longwave emission with in-situ measurements and modelling of net radiation during BUBBLE

1B. Agriculture Forestry and Vegetation

João M. N. Silva, José M. C. Pereira
Burned area mapping in Africa with SPOT-VEGETATION imagery: accuracy assessment with Landsat ETM+ data, influence of spatial pattern and vegetation type

Marcin Sobczak, Magdalena Wrzesien, Bogdan Zagajewski
Discrimination of high-mountain vegetation species by spectral features analysis.

S. Horion, F. de Longueville, P. Ozer, B. Tychon, H. Eerens
Relative Soil Moisture Index derived from the Belgian Crop Growth Monitoring System and SPOT-VGT NDWI for the crop water stress monitoring in Belgium

G. Macelloni, S. Paloscia, S. Pettinato, E. Santi, P. Pampaloni
Retrieval of crop biomass from multifrequency polarimetric SAR data

Jean-Claude Berges, Bernard Lacaze, M. Faouzi Smiej
A comparison of NOAA-AVHRR, SPOT-VEGETATION, and MSG-SEVIRI for continental scale vegetation monitoring

4A. Image Processing Techniques

Radja Khedam, Abdenour Bouakache, Aichouche Belhadj-Aissa
Evidential theory for multispectral classfication of remotely sensed imagery

André R. S. Marçal, Janete S. Borges
Unsupervised Hierarchical Classification of Multispectral Satellite Images

Qiaoping Zhang, Isabelle Couloigner
Cluster Analysis for Road Network Extraction from Multispectral Imagery

L. Bouchemakh, Y. Smara, M. Benali, Z. Ben Cheikh
Implementation of new methods of speckle noise reduction in SAR images

5. World Heritage

Rudi Goossens, Alain De Wulf, Jean Bourgeois, Wouter Gheyle
Estimation of the permafrost area in the Altai Mountains (Russia) in the frame of the preservation of the

Jos Bakker
Using Remote Sensing to Support the Protection of World Natural Heritage Sites

Henri Paul Eloma Ikoleki
Field use of the Remote Sensing products for the World Heritage Sites management in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.)

Walter Debruyn , Sindy Sterckx, Tony Vanderstraete, Rudi Goossens, Paul van der Heijden
Hyperspectral monitoring of coral reefs

A. Gruen, F. Remondino
3D Visualization of the Bamiyan Valley from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery

6. Land Use Land Cover

António Araújo, Mário Caetano
Comparing land cover products CLC2000 and MOD12Q1 for Portugal

F. Bektas Balcik, E. Saroglu, C. Goksel, N. Musaoglu
High Resolution Land Use Mapping of the Elmali Water Basin

Jerzy Chmiel, Krystyna Lady-Druzycka, Joanna Pluto-Kossakowska, Katarzyna Osinska-Skotak, Wieslaw Wolniewicz, Anna Fijalkowska, Przemyslaw Kupidura
The evaluation of usability of VHR satellite images for land cover /land use identification in agricultural landscape

Mário Caetano, Fernando Mata
Accuracy assessment of CLC2000 for Portugal

Gergely Maucha, George Büttner
Validation of the European Corine Land Cover 2000 Database

4B. Image Processing Techniques

A. Fdez-Sarría, L.A. Ruiz, J.A. Reci
Study of methods based on wavelets for texture classification of high resolution images

Gonçalo Valadão (1), José M. Bioucas-Dias (2)
Phase Unwrapping via Graph Cuts

M. Durrieu, L.A. Ruiz, A. Balaguer
Analysis of geostatistical parameters for texture classification of satellite images

José M. P. Nascimento, José M. B. Dias
Mixture of Dirichlet Sources Applied to Hyperspectral Unmixing

Poster Session A

Lopes, D., Neil Lucas, J. Aranha
Carbon sequestration studies for the evergreen needleleaf vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula using MODIS products

Müfit Çetin, Nebiye Musaoğlu, Nejat Çelik, Doğan Kantarcı
Hyperspectral-Based Characterization of Different Vegetation Species in Sundiken Mountain, Turkey

N. Musaoglu, E. Saroglu, F. Bektas, C. Goksel, S. Kaya
Assesment of forest degradation by means of remotely sensed data

M. Trombetti (1,2) , G. Amatulli (1,3), R.Lasaponara (1),
The use of multi-temporal MODIS data for burnt area detection in the Italian Peninsula through a classification tree approach

Sinan Bacha
Forest resources inventory using Remote Sensing in Tunisia

Agata Hoscilo
Evaluation of plant regeneration after fire at wetlands area using remote sensing data

Magdalena Wrzesień, Bogdan Zagajewski, Marcin Sobczak, Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica
Estimation of leaf area index in dwarf mountaine pine (Pinus mugo Turra) using hyperspectral data

Carvalhais, N ., Seixas, J. , Myneni, R.
Scale Impacts in Net Ecosystem Productivity Estimations

Iain D. Cameron, Edward D. Wallington, Neil Stuart, Iain H. Woodhouse, Duncan Moss
Synthetic Aperture Radar for inventory and height retrieval of neo-tropical savanna vegetation

R.Kancheva, D. Borisova
Agricultural ground-level spectral modelling in support of remotely sensed data interpretation

C. R. Farquhar, C. R. I. Clayton, A. Retalis
Use of earth observation for sustainable development for Skiathos Island, Greece

H.Gonca Coskun, Ahmet Öztopal, Semih Ekercin
Water assessment from satellite data by use of genetic algorithms

Oluić, Marinko, Romandić, Sreten, Schaller, Antun
Remote Sensing and geophysical survey in site investigations for special waste disposal

Benoît Gschwind, Lionel Ménard, Michel Albuisson, Lucien Wald
SoDa: a web service delivering solar radiation information

Mohamad Rukieh
The Role of Remote Sensing Techniques in Water Studies

Oliveira, P.A.; Perdigão, A.M.M., Rocha, J.; Morgado, P.
Remote Sensing and GIS for water district management: the Caia network case study

Halounová, L. Junek, P., Petruchová, J.
Vegetation Indeces – tools for development evaluation in reclaimed areas

García-Gigorro, S. , González-Alonso, F., Merino-de-Miguel, S., Roldán-Zamarrón, A., Cuevas, J.M.
Land use classification in Spain using MERIS images

Filiz Bektas Balcik, Cigdem Goksel
Analysing and Mapping of Bozcaada Island Land Cover by Means of Remote Sensing and GIS Integration

Jorge Rocha, José António Tenedório, Sara Encarnação
Land use/cover maps by Remote Sensing and ancillary data integration in a GIS environment

Stanislaw Lewinski
Land use classification of ASTER image – Legionowo test site

Borisova D., R. Kancheva
Spectral mixture analysis of land cover

L. Bugalho, J. Sanches, B. Café, R. Tavares, L. Pessanha
Analysis of NDVI during summer period over Portugal

Corine Davids
Quantification of changes in landcover following the Chernobyl accident, using multi-temporal Landsat imagery

Poster Session B

Mario Lillo Saavedra, Consuelo Gonzalo Martin
Objective determination of the degradation level of the multispectral and panchromatic images for fusion by means of the à trous algorithm

Kaya, S., Saroglu, E., Musaoglu, N.
Vegetation -Impervious -Soil (VIS) Model: Defining Earthquake Damage in Urban Area by means of Remotely Sensed Data

Jasmi Ab. Talib
An Integrated Approach Of Remote Sensing And GIS Techniques For Landslide Hazard Zone Mapping; Malaysia Case Studies

Saroglu, E., Kaya, S., Ormeci, C.
Analysis of geometric accuracy of Landsat 5 TM and IRS 1D data by means of DGPS and Map data

Ana Fonseca , João Casaca, Miguel Baio
Assessment of positional quality of digital orthorectified images

K. Shahid Khurshid, Abdou Bannari, Karl Staenz, Robert Neville, H. Peter White, Lixin Sun, Catherine M. Champagne, Robert Hitchcock
Retrieval of At-Surface Reflectance from EO-1 Hyperion Hyperspectral Data

Zsofia Kugler, Arpad Barsi
Segmentation approach of aerial images to support flood risk analysis in Hungary

Wen-Ya Chiu, Isabelle Couloigner
Fuzzy segmentation for wetland mapping

Marco Giardino, Luigi Perotti, Enrico Borgogno Mondino
Multitemporal terrain analysis through DEMs comparison: a geological case study

Doyno Iv. Petkov D, George St. Georgiev, Hristo St. Nikolov
A Data Acquisition Field Network for Land State Monitoring

Manuel Arias Ballesteros, Pilar Villares Durán, Nuria Castro Ramírez, José J. Alonso del Rosario, Manuel Catalán Pérez-Urquiola
Analysis of the mean sea level and its trend in the Iberian Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea from altimeter data and the PSMSL database

Couto, A.B., A. Martins, I. Bashmachnikov, M. Figueiredo, M. Rodrigues
Spatial Variability of Sea Surface Temperature and Chlorophyll a concentration at Sedlo and Seine seamounts, using AVHRR and SeaWiFS Imagery

Litovchenko Konstantin Ts., Kostianoy A.G., Lavrova O.Yu.
Operational monitoring of oil spills in Baltic sea using ENVISAT ASAR

Andrey G. Kostianoy
Satellite monitoring of the Caspian and Black Seas environment

A.M. Pérez Burgos , A. Calle Montes, J.L. Casanova Roque
Estimation of Sea Surface Temperatures from MODIS Data

Boularbah Souissi, Mounira Ouarzeddine, Aichouche Belhadj-Aissa
Polarimetric response for target characterization

Mounira Ouarzeddine, Aichouche Belhadj-Aissa, Mutapha Rebihi, Farid Tabarout,
Noise filtering in the interferometric phase

Ana Prieto Blanco, Peter R. J. North, Michael J. Barnsley, Nigel Fox
Satellite estimation of surface/atmosphere parameters: a sensitivity study

Sylvain Bidaut, Thierry Ranchin, Lucien Wald
Mapping the aerodynamic roughness length using SAR data

Jose Ant6nio Tenedorio, Sara Encarnaçao, Rossana Estanqueiro, Jorge Rocha
Great Lisbon metropolitan area land use/cover characterization through multi- temporal and multi-resolution VIS components analysis

Parmegiani N., Poscolieri M.
Study of the relations of the ancient communities with landscape in the South and West sides of the Sevan Lake area (Armenia)

R. Guillande
Monitoring of Human activity pressure on natural and cultural sites in Libya and Madagascar

G. Csaki
Introduction of digital technologies to the documentation and study of environmental effects to World Heritage Monuments in the last two decades. on the basis of case studies (Graveyard of Thebes, Egypt and Angkor, Cambodia)

Katarzyna Osińska-Skotak
Influence of atmospheric correction on determination of lake water quality parameters based on CHRIS/PROBA images

Katarzyna Osińska-Skotak, Marek Kruk, Marek Mróz, Małgorzata Ciołkowska
Possibilities of lake water quality monitoring based on CHRIS/PROBA superspectral data

7. Data Fusion

A. Bouakache, R. Khedam, Y. Smara, H. Bouheroum, R. Chebbah
Characterisation of urban region of Algiers (Algeria) by multi-source satellite images fusion using Dempster Shafer evidence theory

F.W. Acerbi-Junior, R. Zurita Milla, J.G.P.W.Clevers, M.E. Schaepman, M. Wachowicz
MODIS and Landsat TM image fusion using the SIFuLAP method for mapping the Brazilian savannas (Cerrado)

Meenakshisundaram. V, Couloigner. I
Quality Assessment of Fusion Methods for High Resolution Images

Bruno Aiazzi, Stefano Baronti, Massimo Selva, Luciano Alparone, Andrea Garzelli, Filippo Nencini
MTF-tailored multi-resolution analysis for fusion multispectral and panchromatic images

Luciano Alparone, Stefano Baronti, Andrea Garzelli, Filippo Nencini
The curvelet transform for fusion of very-high resolution multispectral and panchromatic images

Lucien Wald
Image quality: the conclusions of the “Data Fusion” workshop of 2004

8. Environmantal Applications

B. Lounis, A. Belhadj Aïssa
Pollution signature of water quality using Remote Sensing data

Alexander Siegmund, Simone Naumann
Modelling of settlements-dynamics by object-oriented image and change detection analysis on Tenerife

Pedro Lopes, Pedro Lourenço, Júlia Seixas, Paulo Almeida, João Rodrigues
Monitoring mosquito-borne diseases through Landsat images in Portugal

Stefan Lang, Elisabeth Schöpfer, Peter Zeil
Using object-based image analysis in the context of environmental reporting

Ferdinand Bonn, André Lavoie, Mélanie Désautels, Chandra Madramootoo, Peter Enright, André Roy, Claude Bernard, Aubert Michaud, Julie Deslandes, Marc Laverdière, Daniel Cluis
Spaceborne observation and modelling of erosion and non-point source pollution in agricultural catchments draining into lakes

Andrea Patrono, Asunción Saldaña López
A proposal for a landscape integrated classification

9. Hydrology

Carsten Montzka
Combining agricultural economic and hydrological models with the aid of remote sensing data

Anne M. Jochum, Alfonso Calera Belmonte, Andrés Cuesta García
Space-assisted irrigation management: An operational perspective

B. Café, J. Sanches, R. Tavares, L. Bugalho, L. Pessanha
Potential use of MERIS to calculate irrigation necessities

Anatoly Shutko, Roland Haarbrink, Doyno Petkov, Rumiana Kancheva, Jordanka Semkova
Passive Microwave Radiometry for Levee Monitoring

Dr. Aboudagga Nader, Dr. Gregory Farage, Prof. G. Bénié, Prof. M.F. Courel
Simulations by cellular automata of the floods in littoral lagoon areas

10. High Resolution Data

R. Lasaponara, N. Masini
Quickbird-based analysis for archaeological investigations

Fabio Volpe, Livio Rossi
Use of QuickBird satellite data for natural, semi-natural and urban environments

G. Csomai, I. Laszló, B. Csonka, Gy. Zelei, G. Nádor, L. Tikász, dr. L. Martinovich, A. Kocsis, E. Bognár, Zs. Suba
Evaluation of high and very high resolution images for remote sensing control of area-based subsidies and land parcel identification system in Hungary

11A. Oceanography

Gomez-Enri, J., Gommenginger C., Villares P.
The retracking of ocean parameters in the Mediterranean Sea and the surrounding area of the Iberic Atlantic using RA-2 Envisat data

C. Lázaro, M. J. Fernandes, A. M. P. Santos, P. Oliveira
Geostrophic currents in the Northeast Atlantic derived from operational altimetry missions

S. M. Barbosa, M. J. Fernandes, M. E. Silva
Comparison of sea level observations in the North Atlantic from satellite altimetry and tide gauges

M. J. Fernandes, C. Lázaro, S. Barbosa
Available satellite altimetry data sets - Implications on oceanographic studies

12. Physical Processes

S. Pallotta , X. Briottet, C.Miesch, Y. Kerr
Aggregation of the thermo-optical properties for a rugged heterogeneous surface in the infrared domain: a multi-scale model

Vanessa Heinzel, Matthias Braun, Gunter Menz
The influence of illumination geometry on the classification accuracy in urban areas

Alexandra L. Nunes (1,2) , André R.S. Marçal (1)
Atmospheric Correction of ASTER VNIR data over turbid coastal waters

Corinne Frey, Gergely Rigo, Eberhard Parlow
Investigation of the daily urban cooling island (UCI) in two coastal cities in an arid environment: Dubai and Abu Dhabi (U.A.E)

13. Land Degradation and Desertification

A. Bannari, K. Staenz, C. Champagne, H. McNairn
Fraction Crop Residue Cover Mapping Using Hyperspectral Hyperion Imagery and Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis

Weber C., Lobry J., Evelpidou N., Puissant A.
Assessing large-scale erosion susceptibility by combining remote sensing data and fuzzy logic modelling. Application to the Syros Island, Cyclades archipelagos, Greece

11B. Oceanography

Quaresma dos Santos, José da Silva
Non-linear ocean internal waves observed near Nazaré submarine canyon head

Couto, A.B., V. Lafon, A. Martins, M. Rodrigues, M. Figueiredo
Variability of Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Color on Two Seamounts of the NE Atlantic, Using A VHRR and SeaWiFS imagery

14. Urban

Marc Binard, Yves Cornet, Jean-Paul Donnay
The usefulness of VHR images for public administrations in an urban hilly region

Koen C. Mertens, Lieven P.C. Verbeke, Robert R. De Wulf
Sub-Pixel Mapping: a Comparison of Techniques

Tim Van de Voorde, William De Genst, Frank Canters
Sub-pixel mapping of impervious surfaces from Landsat ETM+ data using reference proportions derived from VHR data

Evelyne Frauman, Eléonore Wolff
Change detection in urban areas using Very High Spatial Resolution satellite images

15A. 3D Remote Sensing

Karsten Jacobsen
Comparative Analysis of Space Image Orientation

Simon Kay, Peter Spruyt, Rafał Zielinski, Peter Winkler, Szabolcs Mihály, Gyula Ivan
Quality checking of DEM derived from satellite data (SPOT and SRTM)

Kervyn de Meerendré M (1), Goossens R. (2), Ernst G.G.J (1)
Comparative Analysis of ASTER-derived DEM and SRTM DEM for Morphological Study of Volcanic Terrains

Nicolaos Sifakis, Christos Iossifidis, Dimosthenis Sarigiannis
3D mapping of air pollution cloud using high spatial resolution EO data

16. Temporal Analysis

Leonid Vasiliev
Perturbation in global precipitation from multi-temporal Remote Sensing observation

Rob Dekker
SAR change detection techniques and applications

Simonetto Elisabeth, Raucoules Daniel, Carnec Claudie, Thierry Pierre, King Christine
Urban subsidence seen by DiffInSAR: temporal deformation series derived from a least-squared technique

Pedro Oliveira, Mário Caetano
Land cover characterisation using spectral mixture analysis of intra-annual time series of MODIS 500 images

15B. 3D Remote Sensing

Büyüksalih, G., Akcin, H., Marangoz, A., Jacobsen,K.
Potential of KOMPSAT-1 for Mapping Purposes

Christodoulou Konstantinos, Tsakiri – Strati Maria, Georgoula Olga
Accuracy evaluation of DEM and orthoimages derived from aerial stereo photos and Quick Bird images

R. Tapia, R. Goossens
DEM and orthoimage generation from ASTER L1B images for remote areas

17. New Sensors and Instruments

N. Lewyckyj, J. Everaerts
The Pegasus project: using Statellites for Environmental Earth Observation

Cavalli R. M., Fusilli L., Pascucci S., Pignatti S., Poscolieri M.
Comparative evaluation of MIVIS and Hyperion hyperspectral data (0.4-2.4 µm) on the Pollino National Park (Italy)