INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING An official journal of the Remote Sensing Society VOLUME 26 2005 Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group CONTENTS OF VOLUME 26 NUMBER | Cover. Satellite and ground-based observations of the typhoon which passed through south-east Korea on 12 September 2003 Y. S. Chung, H. S. Kim and K. H. Park. Editorial Moving on to the next 25 years A. P. Cracknell AVHRR automated detection of volcanic clouds A. Bonfiglio, M. Macchiato, N. Pergola, C. Pietrapertosa and V. Tramutoli.. Experimental study of polarization characteristics of lidar signal in case of occlusion front I. N. Kolev, B. I. Tatarov, P. B. Savov, T. T. Trifonov and B. K. Kaprielov. Estimating surtace solar radiation over complex terrain using moderate-resolution satellite sensor data K. Wang, X. Zhou, J. Liu and M. Sparrow Determination of palaeotectonic and neotectonic features around the Menderes Massif and the Gediz Graben (western Turkey) using Landsat TM image K. S. Kavak Urban surface model generation from remotely sensed airborne image sequence data G. Zhou, P. Song and P. Cheng.... Land-cover binary change detection methods for use in the moist tropical region of the Amazon: a comparative study D. Lu, P. Mausel, M. Batistella and E. Moran Repeatability of hyperspectral imaging systems—dquantitication and improvement K. Peleg, G. L. Anderson and C. Yang Merging ot airborne elevation data and Radarsat data to develop a Digital Elevation Model N. Baghdadi, S. Cavelier, ].-P. Chiles, B. Bourgine, Th. Toutin, C. King, P. Daniels, J. Perrin and C. Truffert Lidar observation of a strongly nonlinear internal wave train in the Gulf of Alaska J. H. Churnside and L. A. Ostrovsky Be) IOK| TeEVICws Remote Sensing Letters Iterative self-consistent approach tor Earth surface temperature determination Y. Xue, G. Cai, Y. N. Guan, A. P. Cracknell and J. Tang Mapping insect-induced tree detoliation and mortality using coarse spatial resolution satellite imagery R. H. Fraser and R. Latifovic Detection of mining related ground instabilities using the Permanent Scatterers technique—a case study in the east of France C. Colesanti, S. Le Mouelic, M. Bennani, D. Raucoules, C. Carnec and A. Ferretti sing PCA transformation to remove the tenuous cloudiness effect in multispectral satellite sensor images S. Garcia-Lépez, J}. Delgado, J. Cardenal and J. Caracuel Random torest classifier for remote sensing classification M. Pal You know what land cover is but does anyone else?...an investigation into semantic ontological contusion A. Comber, P. Fisher and R. Wadsworth .. NUMBER 2 Baltic Sea Remote Sensing and Bio-optical Modelling C ove! Guest Editors’ Pretace B. Hakansson and D. G. Bowers 231 Aerosol optical depth over the Baltic Sea derived trom AERONET and SeaWiFS measurements T. Carlund, B. Hakansson and P. Land SeaWiFS ocean colour chlorophyll algorithms for the southern Baltic Sea M. Darecki, S. Kaczmarek and J. Olszewski The combined use of optical remote sensing data and unattended flow-through tluorometer measurements in the Baltic Sea J. Vepsalainen, T. Pyhalahti, E. Rantajarvi, K. Kallio, S. Pertola, T. Stipa, M. Kiirikki, J. Pulliainen and J. Seppala Der ition of dissolved organic carbon concentrations trom S« iW iFS data J. N. Schwarz -_ | ' industrial plume detection in hypersp ‘Cctral remote sensing data P. Philipson née Ammenberg, M. Liljeberg and T. Lindell , | ' ocean colour remote sensing relevant water constituents and optic il properties of the Baltic Sea H. Siegel, M. Gerth, T. Ohde and T. Heene backscattering coefficient in coastal waters }. He kedal and K. Se@rensen relationships between coloured dissolved organic matter (CIDOM) absorption and ypparent optical properties in Baltic Sea waters P. Kowalezuk, }. Olszewski, M. Darecki and S. Kaczmarek tra | optical | and j bio-optical , rel1 ationsh: ips in th, e Osl, o Fjord 1 compared ' with, simila' r results from he Baltic Se }. Hokedal, E. Aas and K. Sorensen Spectral adsorption ind fluorescence characteristics of phytoplankton in different size fractions cross a Salinity gradient in the Baltic Sea J. Seppala, P. Yléstalo and H. Kuosa P)o int or pointie| ss juality Of ground | d|a ta A. Lindfors, K. Rasmus and N. Strémbeck NUMBER over. Mapping torest degradation in the Amazon region with Ikonos im C. M. Souza Jr and D. Roberts Mapping individual tree location, height and species in broadleaved deciduous forest using iirborne LIDAR and multi-spectral remotely sensed data S. Koukoulas and G. A. Blackburn EQO-1 Hyperion, ALI and Landsat 7 ETM+ data comparison for estimating forest crown closure and leat area index R. Pu, Q. Yu, P. Gong and G. S. Biging Estimating and mapping pteridophyte and Melastomataceae species richness in western Amazonian rainforests S. Rajaniemi, E. Tomppo, K. Ruokolainen and H. Tuomisto Technical Note. Evaluating high spatial resolution imagery for detecting citrus orchards affected by sooty mould R. S. Fletcher .. \ practical approach for estimating the red edge position of plant leaf retlectance G. V. G. Baranoski and J. G. Rokne Capabilities of multispectral thermal data for identification of Anopheles gambiae mosquito larval habitats in African urban environments B. G. Jacob, J. L. Regens, C. M. Mbogo, A. K. Githeko, C. M. Swalm, J. I. Githure and J. C. Beier Technical Note. Use of ordinal conversion for radiometric normalization and change detection T. Nelson, H. G. Wilson, B. Boots and M. A. Wulder ( ymparison of function and structure-based schemes for classification of remotely sensed data B. Prenzel and P. Treitz Using logit models to classify land cover and land-cover change from Landsat Thematic Mapper K. C. Seto and R. K. Kaufmann Satellite image classification using genetically guided fuzzy cl ustering with spatial information S. Bandyopadhyay Comparison between Mallat's and the ‘a trous’ discrete wavelet transform based algorithms for ; the tusion of multispectral and panchromatic images M. Gonzalez-Audicana, X. Otazu, O. Fors and A. Seco Multifractal characterization of the spatial distribution of ulexite in a Bolivian salt flat A. N. D. Posadas, R. Quiroz, P. E. Zorogastia and C. Leén-Velarde Remote Sensing Letters Monitoring East Asian migratory locust plagues using remote sensing data and field nvestigations }. Ma, X. Han, Hasibagan, C. Wang, Y. Zhang, J. Tang, Z. Xie and T. Deveson Mapping forest successional stages following deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia using m 1iti-te mporal Landsat images F. D. B. Espirito-Santo, Y. E. Shimabukuro and T. M. Kuplich Changes in ocean properties associated with Hurricane Isabel R. Gautam, R. P. Singh and M. Kafatos NUMBER 4 Pre face D. Maktav and C. Jiirgens Remote sensing of urban areas D. Maktav, F. S. Erbek and C. Jiirgens \ global analysis of urban retlectance C. Small generating 31D city models from high resolution and multi-sensor remote sensing }. Schiewe and M. Ehlers —_ ng temporal compesitions of urban morphology through spectral mixture analysis ‘ rd sor approacn to change analysis in crowded cities T. Rashed, J. R. Weeks, D. Stow and D. Fugate 4 SESS n th1 e rectit cation accuracy of IKONOS imagery base A. She aker, W. Shi and H. Barakat | re ilvsi A. Puissant, }. Hirsch and C. Weber ( ; { ilar tion techn| iques f r|b an C. Ozkan and F. S. Erbek CIS dt te ser I s tor ' tor th1 e sin rhan ind-use ch1 anve C. M. de Almeida, A. M. Vieira Monteiro, G. Camara B. Silveira Soares-Filho, G. Coutinho Cerqueira, C. Lopes Pennachin and M. Batty mar s fey rhani ) F. S. Erbek, A. Ulubay, D. Maktav and E. Yagiz re re s and GilS Weber, C. Petropoulou and J. Hirsch D. Maktav and F. S. Erbek F. Salem, M. Katatos, T. El-Ghazawi, R. Gomez and R. Yang Ke-damagyeda D mnys us M. Turker and B. Cetinkaya NUMBER 5 ( | Ss ( Ma ast R. Almeida-Filho, R. S. Moreira and C. H. Beisl ( K. Nackaerts, K. Vaesen, B Muys and P. Coppin AVHRR sed hre susce R. Lasaponara T. M. Uenishi, K. Oki, K. Omasa and M. Tamura X. Hu and C. V. Tao }. Nichol and C. M. Lee \ E. Svab, A. N. Tyler IT. Preston, M. Présing and K. V. Balogh Channel avulsions of the Sarda River system, Ganga Plain D. Mitra, A. K. Tangri, and I. B. Singh Low grazing angle radar imaging experiments over the South Falls sandbank I. Lamont-Smith, A. M. Jackson, P. W. Shepherd and R. D. Hill Minimum cross-entropy reconstruction for Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery M. Grippa and I. H. Woodhouse Remote sensing of chemical vapours by differential FTIR radiometry J.-M. Thériault and E. Puckrin liminary comparison of TRMM and ground-based precipitation radars for a European test site Gabella, S. Michaelides and G. Perona Remote Sensing Letters Suppot rt vector machines tor cl1 assification in remote sensing M. Pal and P. M. Mather \\ | IRR multitemporal compositing techniques for burned land mapping E. Chuvieco, G. Ventura and and M. P. Martin VIIRS narrowb i1n d | to broadband land surtace aIl} bedo| conversion: formula and validation S. Liang, Y. Yu and T. P. Defelice The 6 December 2003, Bam, Iran «€ irthquake surlace displace ment trom Envisat AS AR iterferometry S. Stramondo, M. Moro, F. Doumaz and F. R. Cinti | Lse »t Normalized Ditterence W ater Index tor m« nitoring live fuel morsture P. | Dennison, D. A. Roberts, S. H. Peterson and J. Rechel Y OC channels by neural network inpu retlectance perturbation S. Dransteld A. R. Tatnall, |. S. Robinson and C D. Mobley \ near-real time automatic MODIS data processing system J. D. Shutler, T. J. Smyth, P. E. Land and S. B. Groom Remote detection of invasive Melaleuca trees (Mel uinguenerv in South Florida with tispectral IK¢ INOS mayery D. O. Fuller NUMBER 6 NOAA-AVHRR detects thermal anoma uke, Gujarat, India A. K. Sarat and S. Choudhury ) , e} hold | ee m we scnsinyg mare tnresno wndsiide activit P. L. Rosin and J}. Hervas Estimating tr il pasture analysis with continuum 1y) } n > tth he scsailb le cdl ey } aiy QO. Mutanga, A. K. Skidmore, L. Kumar and J. Ferwerda 4 nnection betwee sensing case study R Sumatt Miettinen and S. C. Liew 1109 composite dat nad their relavionships with Climatic water Ivct lor im Ure ntra Teal Plains S. Park, }. J. Feddema and S Egbert evel set method tor oil slick segment B. Huang, H. Li and X. Huang Automatic detection of oil spills from SAR images F. Nirchio, M. Sorgente, A. Giancaspro, W. Biamino, E. Parisato, R. Ravera and P. Trivero Development and application of a neural network based ocean colour algorithm in coastal waters B. Dzwonkowski and X.-H. Yan Hyperspherical direction cosine change vector analysis T. Warner il characterization of thematic classification accuracy through spatially constrained confusion matrices G. M. Foody \ per-fe Id classification method based on mixture distribution models and an application to indsat Thematic Mapper data H. Erol and F. Akdeniz Detection of Maya's archaeological sites using high resolution radar images J. Lira, P. Lépez and A. Rodriguez Book review Remote Sensing Letters 7 | T iul" tispectral and ! panchromatic satellite sensor imagery based on tailored -filte ring in rier domain M. Lillo-Saavedra, C. Gonzalo, A. Arquero and E. Martinez , | Spatia ind temporal patterns of surtace soil moisture over India estimated using surface wetness index trom SSM/I microwave radiometer R. P. Singh, S. R. Oza, K. N. Chaudhari and V. K. Dadhwal Assessment of the MODIS Leaf Area Index Product (MOD15) in Alaska D. L. Verbyla NUMBER 7 change analysis in part of Ethiopia using Landsat Thematic Mapper Dwivedi, K. Sreenivas and K. V. Ramana , Liald | odei and co nicx aris n Dullding extraction in adense urban acTial may }. Peng and Y. C. Liu Upd ating land cover classification using a rule-based decision system D. Raclot, F. Colin and C. Puech SPC )] + VEC if TA | ION multi-te inporal compositing for land cover change studies over ca evions J. M. B. Carreiras and J. M. C. Pereira ]L and 1 ¢ ) ( itpr d itI e by sup| ervised classification of segmented ASTER images A.R S Marcal, J. S. Borges, J. A. Gomes and J. F. Pinto Da Costa \pplication of L-band differential SAR interferometry to subsidence rate estimation in reclaimed coast il land S.-W. Kim, C.-W. Lee, K.-Y. Song, K. D. Min and J.-S. Won Radar spatial considerations for land cover extraction N. D. Herold, B. N. Haack aad E. Solomon Usefulness and limits of MODIS GPP for estimating wheat yield M. C. Reeves, M. Zhao and S. W. Running Monitoring of forage conditions with MODIS imagery in the Xilingol steppe, Inner Mongolia K. Kawamura, T. Akiyama, H. Yokota, M. Tsutsumi, T. Yasuda, O. Watanabe, G. Wang and S. Wang MS Measuring forest structure with terrestrial laser scanning P. J. Watt and D. N. M. Donoghue . Technical Note. Inter-annual analysis of deforestation hotspots in Madagascar from high temporal resolution satellite observations J. C. Ingram and T. P. Dawson Significance of lineament patterns in rock unit classification and designation: a pilot study on the Gharib-Dara area, northern Eastern Desert, Egypt M. E. Mostafa and A. Z. Bishta . Application of logistic regression model and its validation for landslide susceptibility mapping using GIS and remote sensing data S. Lee Remote Sensing Letters \ spectral unmixing approach for mapping burned areas in Mediterranean countries C. Quintano, Y. E. Shimabukuro, A. Fernandez and J. A. Delgado Pattern recognition of marine provinces K.-H. Szekielda Classification of soil- and bedrock-dominated landslides in British Columbia using segmentation of satellite imagery and DEM data Y. E. Martin and S. E. Franklin \n efficient regression strategy for extracting forest biomass information trom satellite sensor data M. M. Rahman, E. Csaplovics and B. Koch NUMBER 8 Cover. Development of a new image correction technique to remove false topographic perception phenomena A. K. Saraf, P. Ghosh, B. Sarma and S. Choudhury \ shadow detection and extraction algorithm using digital elevation models and x-band weather radar measurements S. D. Young, S. Kakarlapudi and M. Uijt de Haag \ statistical framework for the analysis of long image time series M. de Beurs and G. M. Henebry comparison of |l ocal ! variance, fractal dimension, and Moran's |j as aids to multispectral image lassihcation W. Emerson, N. Siu-Ngan Lam and D. A. Quattrochi whole image approach using tield measurements for transforming EO1 Hyperion hyperspectral data into canopy retlectance spectra E. Ramsey Ill and G. Nelson Generation and validation of characteristic spectra from EO1 Hyperion image data for detecting the occurrence ol the invasive species C hinese tallow E. Ramsey Ill, A. Rangoonwala, G. Nelson, R. Ehrlich and K. Martella. Mapping the invasive species, Chinese tallow, with EO1 satellite Hyperion hyperspectral image data and relating tallow occurrences to a classified Landsat Thematic Mapper land cover map E. Ramsey Ill, A. Rangoonwala, G. Nelson and R. Ehrlich Improving continuity of MODIS terrestrial photosynthesis products using an interpolation scheme tor cloudy pixels S. Kang, S. W. Running, M. Zhao, J. S. Kimball and J. Glassy Application of an automated cloud-tracking algorithm on satellite imagery for tracking and monitoring small mesoscale convective cloud systems H. Feidas and C. Cartalis Rapid response for cloud monitoring through Meteosat VIS-IR and NOAA-A/TOVS image fusion: civil aviation application. A first approach to MSG-SEVIRI C. Casanova, A. Romo, E. Hernandez, J. L. Casanova and J. Sanz 1699 On some aspects of precipitation over the tropical Indian Ocean using satellite data M. R. Ramesh Kumar and O. P. Sreejith \ combined passive—active microwave retrieval of quantitative raintall from Topex/ Poseidon lar altimeter and Topex microwave radiometer R. M. Gairola, S. Pokhrel, A. K. Varma and V. K. Agarwal Remote Sensing Letters Estimation of daily evapotranspiration using a two-layer remote sensing model Chen Yunhao, Li Xiaobing, Li Jing, Shi Peijun and Dou Wen wce band ratios to estimate suspende d and dissolved matter concentrations in estuarine vaters D. Doxaran, R. C. N. Cherukuru and S. J Lavender Relationship between AVHRR surface temperature and NDVI in Arctic tundra ecosystems A. Hope, R. Engstrom and D. Stow NUMBER 9 Cover. Rem (ujarat, India using IRS-P4 OCM R. K. Sarangi, P. Chauhan, S. R. Nayak and U. Shreedhar MERIS P. J. Curran and C. M. Steele i‘ imospne=l correction a| igoristhanh m f tor +t}h e T eur CeVal | of sea surt{a ce tu ym ve Canary Islands—Azore Gibraltar area using NOAA/AVHRR data Eugenio, }. Marcello, A. Hernandez-Guerra and E. Rovaris lapy } t ind visua I f ul eat Sal1t Lake landscape| ¢ dynam| ics ¢ 7 199¢ M.-C. Hung and Y.-H. Wu Es 1oOofn s urta chiorophyil udflat using field spectrometry: accuracy ol s a derivat based ipproaches R. J. Murphy Tolhurst, M. G. Chapman and A. J. Underwood Rad Dasis funct n neural networks classification using very high spatial re solution satellite naven il ) applic ation to the habitat area of Lake Kerkini (Greece 1. Keramitsoglou, H. Sarimveis, C. T. Kiranoudis and N. Sifakis dsat ice maps of predicted bird densities atal E. Prins, B. S. Petersen, A. Aunins and J. Priednieks Spatial racy of orthorectified IKONOS imagery and historic nok raphs ICTOSS H. Wang and E. C. Ellis , ; Satellite remote sensing for detailed landslide change detection and image husior J Nichol and M. § Wong