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Tuesday, 14 September 2010

UAV Session

Calvin Hung - A Novel Vision-based Tree Crown and Shadow Detection Algorithm using imagery from an Unmanned Airborne Vehicle

Arko Lucieer - Using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for ultra-high resolution mapping of Antarctic moss beds

Mitch Bryson - An Unmanned Airborne System for Vision-based Mapping and Classification in Ecological Monitoring Applications

Tariq Abuhashim - Vision-based Terrain Modelling and Ecology Change Detection using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

ALOS PALSAR Session 1

Session Keynote: Richard Lucas

An overview of the ALOS PALSAR for terrestrial applications

John Armston - ALOS PALSAR backscatter mosaics for Queensland, Australia: The impact of surface moisture and incidence angle

Arnon Accad - Mapping the extent and growth stage of woody regrowth following clearing through integration of ALOS PALSAR and Landsat-derived Foliage Projected Cover (FPC)

Vegetation (Mapping)

Session Keynote: Richard Thackway

Innovations and trends in mapping and monitoring Australia's vegetation - abstract

Adam Roff - Object-based native vegetation mapping of the Murray catchment

Nicholas Cuff - Vegetation Survey and Mapping of the McArthur River Catchment, Northern Territory

Photogrammetry 1

Clive Fraser - Georeferencing Performance of 50cm-Resolution Satellite Imagery

Simon Collings - Radiometric Calibration of Very Large Digital Aerial Mosaics

Karim Hammoudi - Generating Raw Polygons of Street Facades from a 2D Urban Map and Terrestrial Laser Range Data

Noor Raziq - SPAN-CPT - A Low Cost Alternative IMU For Airborne Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

RADAR 1

Carl Menges - Evaluation of IFSAR Data for Hydrological and Ecological Applications in the Murray-Darling Basin

Anthea Mitchell - Mapping Inundation Patterns in Semi-Arid Wetland Environments Using Multiband Radar: Macquarie Marshes, NSW

Tishampati Dhar - Estimation of Pature Biomass and Soil-Moisture using Dual-Polarimetric X and L Band SAR – Accuracy Assesment with Field Data

Jung Yu - Radargrammetry and Interferometry SAR for DEM generation

ALOS PALSAR 2

Richard Lucas - On the estimation of above ground biomass from ALOS PALSAR backscatter data for forests and woodlands in Queensland, Australia

Daniel Clewley - Retrieval of forest structure and biomass from ALOS PALSAR and Landsat derived FPC using backscatter inversion

Anthea Mitchell - Forest type and degradation mapping in Tasmania using ALOS PALSAR data

Osamu Isoguchi - Generation of Decadal global high resolution L-band SAR dataset for Forest Carbon Tracking

Richard Lucas - Retrieval of forest biomass and detection of degradation from logging in Indonesia using ALOS PALSAR data

VEGETATION 2 (Land Use)

Umair Rabbani - Spatial Quantification of Crop Water Stresses using Remote Sensing

Marcelo Stabile - Development and comparison of two models of land-use change

Simone Grounds - Mapping in a dynamic state: Operational land use mapping for a rather large area

Matthew Pringle - Using Landsat imagery to identify consistently small-yielding sub-regions of wheat fields

Owen Maguire - Interpretation Of High Resolution Digital Aerial Photography In A Digital 3D Environment To Map Vegetation Communities from a Pre-existing Classification

PHOTOGRAMMETRY 2

Linlin Ge - Assessment of SRTM, ACE2 and ASTER-GDEM using RTK-GPS

Rob Clout - From Imagery to Point Clouds – A new technique for DEM generation

Seyed Miri - 3D mapping from ALOS-PRISM imagery in the Darwin Glacier, Antarctica

Leanne Mills - Fly Once, Use Many: Creating Multipurpose Imagery

RADAR 2

Mahdi Motagh - TerraSAR-X analysis of landslide and glacier kinematics in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia

Scot Hensley - UAVSAR’s Multi-Squint Mode for Deformation and Vegetation Studies

Rattanasuda Cholathat - Monitoring Geologic Carbon Sequestration (GCS) with satellite radar remote sensing

Jack Scott - Synthetic Aperture Radar an essential remote sensing tool

Linlin Ge - Integrated SAR Interferometry and Ground Survey for Illegal Mining Monitoring

ALOS PALSAR 3

Osamu Isoguchi - Development of semi-automated system based on PALSAR data for forest mapping at regional scale

Richard Lucas - Characterisation and Monitoring of Mangroves using ALOS PALSAR data

Liam Gumley - Aqua and Terra Direct Broadcast Product Applications

VEGETATION 3

Kathryn Sheffield - Vegetation health and water use characteristics of riparian vegetation derived from remotely sensed data

Gabriele Caccamo - Assessing drought based on vegetation water status using remote sensing in the Sydney Basin bioregion, Australia

Sushana Karki - Vegetation and channel changes in the Daly River Catchment

EMERGENCY

Linlin Ge - The 2009 Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea as observed by earth observation satellites

Linlin Ge - Intergrated remote sensing for monitoring the 2010 Toorale - Louth Flood in New South Wales, Australia

Phil Woodbury - Land and Property Management Authority: Rapid Response Imagery

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

FIRE 1

Andrew Mellor - Retrospective fuel hazard mapping of the Victorian Central Highlands using lidar data

Brendon McAtee - Incorporating Real Time Simulation of Bushfires into the FireWatch Operational Environment

Kaighin McColl - Mapping Bushfire Risk Using Multi-Satellite Obversations

Linlin Ge - Monitoring the 2009 Victorian bushfires with multi-temporal and coherence ALOS PALSAR images

VEGETATION COVER

Peter Scarth - Tracking grazing pressure and climate interaction - the role of Landsat fractional cover in time series analysis

Michael Schmidt - Fractional ground cover monitoring in Queensland for improved pastures and agricultural areas

Adam Kilpatrick - Premise testing of a methodology using models: rangeland monitoring using remotely sensed cross-fence comparisons

Daniel Tindall - Legislation, policies and research: Queensland Remote Sensing Centre supporting Great Barrier Reef conservation and management initiatives

METEOROLOGY 1

Session Keynote - John Le Marshall

50 Years of Satellite Meteorology: 1960 - 2010

Ian Grant - Investigating archival Geostationary meteorological data for tropical cyclone re-analysis

FORESTRY 1

Session Keynote - Alfredo Huete

Remote Sensing of Tropical Forest Phenology: Issues and Controversies

Kazimierz Becek - A Model of Tropical Rain Forest Depletion in Brunei Darussalam

FIRE 2

Maria Tattaris - Multi-instrument remote sensing of smoke and heat emissions from Northern Territory savanna bushfires

Nicholas Goodwin - Classifying burnt area extent and timing using a dense twenty year time series of Landsat imagery

Raymond Bell - Utility of a remote sensing satellite constellation for worldwide wild fire monitoring

Todd Hoefen - Surficial Material Mapping of Post-Burn Areas using AVIRIS and HyMap Data

GEOLOGY - ISPRS Workshop 1 Towards Global Geoscience Maps Forum

Matilda Thomas - ASTER geoscience tools for Australia: applications for regional mapping

Trude King - Resource Mapping in Afghanistan Using HyMap Data

VEGETATION COVER / LAND USE

Leo Lymburner - Australia’s first national dynamic land cover map

Achim Roeder - Mapping syndromes of land use change based on hypertemporal remote sensing data and socio-economic information

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION MEASUREMENT

Yann Chemin - SAM-ET model development at 10cm spatial resolution from a UAV

Yann Chemin - Daily high-resolution ET from remote sensing using evolutionary algorithms

Mohsin Hafeez - An Australian Algorithm for ET: SAM-ET

Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla - Estimation of Long-Term Evapotranspiration using AVHRR in the Krishna River Basin, India

FORESTRY 2

Peter Scarth - If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree. But how high was it?

Peeter Worsley - Application of eCognition® for softwood plantation resource assessment at the stand and tree scale using lidar and digital camera data in NSW

Andrew Mellor - Remote sensing Victoria’s State forest – a two-tiered synoptic approach

SPECIAL SESSION: CRC-SI FORUM

Session Keynote - Clive Fraser

Lan-Wei Wang - Evaluation of Digital Surface Models (DSMs) generated from ALOS PRISM data

Clive Fraser - Georeferencing from ALOS PRISM Imagery via Long-Strip Adjustment

GEOSCIENCE & SPECTROMETRY

Todd Hoefen - Calibration of HyMap Data Covering the Country of Afghanistan

Raymond Kokaly - Spectroscopic Remote Sensing for Material Identification and Mapping

Mal Jones - Hyperspectral mineral maps and mineralisation at Mount Dore, Cloncurry district, Queensland

Thomas Cudahy - Publicly available 3D mineral mapping of the upper <1 km of the Australian landmass using drill core and remote sensing technologies

VEGETATION COVER

Andrew Clark - Operational use of annual Landsat-5 TM and Landsat-7 ETM+ image time-series for mapping wooded extent and foliage projective cover in north-eastern Australia

Achim Roeder - Characterizing landscape properties in Southeastern Spain by combining classification and multi-date spectral mixture analysis

Jasmine Muir - Using Remote Sensing to Map the Invasive Weed Prickly Acacia (Acacia Nilotica SSP. Indica) in the Mitchell Grass Downs Bioregion

Ian Grant - Assessment of grassland curing across Australia with MODIS for operational bushfire managementdrill core and remote sensing technologies

FAUNA DETECTION

Paul Rampant - Thermal aerial survey of feral animals in Western Australia’s southwest forests

Annmarie Mabarrack - Using Airborne Thermal Infrared Sensors to Survey Feral Camels

Antonius Schut - Characterizing ecosystem habitats on granite outcrops

ACTIVE SENSING

David Moore - Sampling Channel Form and Riparian Vegetation across the Murray Darling Basin using full waveform LiDAR

Mostafa Esmaeili - The comparison between the Persistent Scatterer (PS) and Small Baseline (SBAS) Interferometry for long-term subsidence monitoring in plain aquifers of Iran

Yingxin Zuo - Using Passive and Active Remote Sensing in Combination with GIS for Bushfire Detection

John Trinder - Voxel-Based Volume Modelling of Individual Trees Using Terrestrial Laser

Thursday, 16 September 2010

WATER

Renee Bartolo - Flood inundation mapping of tropical river catchments in northern Australia using optical and ALOS-PALSAR data

Jason Barnetson - Wetland Mapping in Mountainous Terraine - A Hard Nut to Crack

Kaleem Ullah - Dynamics of Water Use through Multi-scale Water Accounting

Mahmood Khan - Geo-informatics based Intelligent Decision Support System for Efficient Irrigation Water Management

Yuot Alaak - Remotely sensed characterisation of diffuse discharge zones and evaporite minerals associated with the Great Artesian Basin

IMAGE PROCESSING

Gabriel Scarmana - Improving Image Quality: A technique for long distance earth-based objects

Mehdi Ravanbakhsh - Extraction of Traffic Islands via Active Contours without Edges

John Trinder - Combining Statistical and Neural classifiers using Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence for improved building detection

Mehdi Ravanbakhsh - Extraction of Complex Road Junctions from Aerial Imagery

CARBON - BIOMASS ESTIMATION

Brendon McAtee - Utilising Remote Sensing in Biophysical Modelling for Biomass Estimation

Andries Potgieter - Characterising EVI time series by fitting parametric curves

Richard MacNeill - Bush Heritage Australia and the Planet Action program, generating and using remotely sensed information within a not-for-profit

OBIA

Geoffrey Horn - Segementaion of multi temporal radar for wetland inventory

Kasper Johansen - Object-based image analysis of bank condition using airborne LiDAR and high spatial resolution image data in Victoria, Australia

Laurie Chisholm - Assessing heterogeneity of lantana camara along a density gradient using ecological ordination with an object-based approach

Norman Mueller - Extracting Landscape Features in Emergency Response Situations: Combining Fuzzy Logic and Gaussian Statistics in Object-Oriented Analysis

Tim Whiteside - Area-based validity assessment of single- and multi-class object-based image analysis

DATA MANAGEMENT

Chris Tweedie - Enterprise enabling your remote sensing archive

Rohan Coghlan - A comprehensive satellite archive to support the International Forest Carbon Initiative (IFCI)

Mat Wyatt - Metadata and Remote Sensing: National Developments and Opportunities

Adam Lewis - National Ground Control Point database: a new national data set for Australia

WATER 2

George Paltoglou - Advanced Methods for Sea Surface Temperatures and Cloud Identification from AVHRR HRPT Data

Mitchell Lyons - Mapping Bathymetry in Sub-tropical Shallow Coastal Waters using Quickbird Multispectral Satellite Data: Moreton Bay, Australia

Cate Simpson - Operational remote sensing for improved aquatic health assessments and reporting

Stephen Sagar - Examining the application of a physics-based shallow water bathymetry mapping methodology to ALOS AVNIR-2 multi-spectral data in the Great Barrier Reef

Medhavy Thankappan - Utilising remote sensing for offshore petroleum exploration: a developing capability at Geoscience Australia

IMAGE PROCESSING 2

Chris Bellman - Support Vector Machines in Remote Sensing: Lost in N-dimensional space?

Fuqin Li - A processing system for generating standard Nadir BRDF adjusted surface reflectance (NBAR) products for Landsat

Liam Gumley - Virtual Appliance for EOS Terra and Aqua Direct Broadcast Data Processing

Ghouse Mohamed - Evaluation of Perth city data of Indian Remote sensing Satellites to built Green Australia to meet the environmental and ecological challenges of 21st Century

Ali Alomran - Assessment of adequacy of DEM level-1 as a substitute for DEM level-2 for radiometric correction of satellite imagery for national land cover mapping of Saudi Arabia

VEGETATION CONDITION

Santosh Bhandari - Monitoring temporal trajectories and trend of foliage projective cover (FPC) in forest communities using Landsat image time series in Queensland

Jason Barnetson - Monitoring land condition using ArcGIS web based tools

Tim Danaher - High Resolution Monitoring of Woody Vegetation Change over New South Wales

Tony Gill - Obtaining standardised reflectance from medium spatial resolution satellite imagery for operational monitoring of land cover in QLD, NSW and NZ

AGRICULTURE & ATMOSPHERE

Clare Paton-Walsh - Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Composition in Australia

Bertram Ostendorf - Economic viability and environmental sustainability in the Australian cropping zone

Rakhesh Devadas - Wireless sensor networks for in-situ image validation for water and nutrient management in broad acre wheat

SPECTROMETRY 1

Davina White - Mapping the spectral and spatial characteristics of mound spring wetland vegetation: A novel integrated hyperspectral approach

Enjie Jing - Evaluation of Airborne Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data for Shallow Water Bathymetry

Laurie Chisholm - Confounding effect of coal dust deposits on reflectance properties of oil-contaminated Rhizophora stylosa

Cameron Bowles - Results from Passive Stand-off Chemical Vapour Detection and Plume Monitoring using thermal Hyperspectral Technology

Kirrilly Pfitzner - The spectral reflectance of common artifical pseudoinvariant materials

SENSORS

Damian Carroll - The Accuracy of SPOTMaps on a Continental Scale

Rob Lees - Future continuity of the SPOT earth observation programme

Murthy Remilla - Resourcesat-2, the new mission in the IRS Constellation - Expanding Spaceborne Remote Sensing services for Natural Resources Management

VEGETATION

Ken Clarke - Toward broadscale monitoring of soil erosion risk in southern Australia through relative spectral mixture analysis of MODIS imagery

Erika Lawley - Environmental zonation across the Australian arid region based on long term vegetation dynamics

Richard Lucas - The Injune Landscape Collaborative Project: An update on research activities

Li Guo - Land cover change detection using Landsat TM imagery of the 2009 Victorian bushfires

SOFTWARE

Rebecca Trevithick - The use of open source geospatial software within the Remote Sensing Centre, QLD

Liam Gumley - SatCam: An iPhone application for User-Driven Coordinated Satellite and Ground Observations

Kristen Thrum - Managing layer-upon-layer – an open-source approach to remote sensing data management

Mitchell Lyons - A Web Based Toolkit for Using Remote Sensing to Map and Monitor Terrestrial, Marine and Atmospheric Environments