Date 2007/11/19  
Place Annex Hall Chamber C  
Session Name Vegetation, Forest & Wetland (1)  
Chair Rikie Suzuki JAMSTEC, Japan
Co-Chair Guoqing Sun Univ. of Maryland, USA


Time Title Person to present
14:00
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14:20		 VFW01) Assessment of PALSAR ScanSAR data for inundation monitoring. Ake Rosenqvist
Joint Research Centre, Italy
14:20
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14:40
VFW02) Forest Structure Estimation using POLInSAR
Shane R Cloude
AEL Consultants, UK
14:40
-
15:00
VFW03) Forest structure information extraction from ALOS PALSAR data: Preliminary Results
Erxue Chen
Chinese Academy of Forestry, P.R. China
15:00
-
15:20
VFW04) Forest Characterization and Biomass Estimation Using ALOS Data
Guoqing Sun
Univ. of Maryland, USA
15:20
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15:40		 Coffee / Tea break  
15:40
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16:00
VFW05) ALOS Palsar Data in Boreal Forest Monitoring and Biomass Mapping
Tuomas Häme
VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland
16:00
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16:20
VFW07) Biomass mapping by ALOS/PALSAR over boreal forest in Alaska accompanied with ground-based forest survey
Rikie Suzuki
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
16:20
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16:40		 VFW08) Monitoring Pan-Tropical Deforestation and Aboveground Biomass using ALOS/PALSAR Josef Kellndorfer
The Woods Hole Research Center, USA
16:40
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17:00
VFW09) Assessing forest change associated sediment modifications for large tropical estuaries using ALOS PALSAR data
John M. Kovacs
Nipissing Univ., Canada
17:00
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17:20
VFW10) Making basemaps for simulations of Wildland Fire
with ALOS-AVNIR2
Toshihisa Honma
Hokkaido Univ., Japan


Date 2007/11/20  
Place Annex Hall Chamber C  
Session Name Vegetation, Forest & Wetland (2)  
Chair Laura L. Hess Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Co-Chair Richard Lucas The Univ. of Wales Aberystwyth, UK


Time Title Person to present
09:00
-
09:20
VFW12) ALOS PALSAR for Characterizing Wooded Savannas in
Northern Australia
Richard Lucas
The Univ. of Wales Aberystwyth, UK
09:20
-
09:40
VFW13) Spatial Properties of Forest Clutter Measured by Wavelet
Frames in Polarimetric PALSAR Imagery
Jan Kropacek
DG Joint Research Centre, Italy
09:40
-
10:00
VFW14) Extraction of Mangrove Forests using satellite Imagery
Masayuki Tamura
Kyoto Univ., Japan
10:00
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10:20
VFW15) Monitoring of Mangroves in Trang Province, South of Thailand by Using Multi-temporal LANDSAT-5 TM, SPOT-5 and ALOS Data
Chittima Raksa
GISTDA, Thailand
10:20
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10:40		 Coffee / Tea break  
10:40
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11:00		 VFW17) ALOS-based mapping of Amazonian wetland habitats: biodiversity and conservation planning applications Laura L. Hess
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA
11:00
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11:20
VFW19) Penetration property of the L-band SAR and its coherence
Masanobu Shimada
JAXA, Japan
11:20
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11:40
VFW20) Estimation and Monitoring of Tropical Forest Biomass Using
Polarimetric Interferometric SAR Data.
Bryan Mercer
Intermap Technologies Corp., Canada
11:40
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12:10		 Discussion All participants

Other Proceedings
Title Person to present
VFW11) Extraction of some preserved subtropical forest communities in Tokunoshima Island with satellite images for sustainable land-management of an island ecosystem
ISHIGURO Etsuji
Kagoshima University, Japan