IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

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Enhanced Estimation of Rainfall From Opportunistic Microwave Satellite Signals

Authors: Sabina Angeloni, Elisa Adirosi, Fabiola Sapienza, Filippo Giannetti, Franco Francini, Lucio Magherini, Alessio Valgimigli, Attilio Vaccaro, Samantha Melani, Andrea Antonini, Luca Baldini

Inversion Technique for PolSAR Parameters Enabling Quantitative Comparison in Space and Time

Author: Motofumi Arii

Quantitative Long-Term Change Monitoring by Maximizing Polarimetric Sensitivity

Author: Motofumi Arii

Ultralow-Frequency Geomagnetic Signal Estimation: An Interstation Transfer Function Method Based on Multivariate Wavelet Coherence

Authors: Hongyan Chen, Peng Han, Katsumi Hattori

ObjFormer: Learning Land-Cover Changes From Paired OSM Data and Optical High-Resolution Imagery via Object-Guided Transformer

Authors: Hongruixuan Chen, Cuiling Lan, Jian Song, Clifford Broni-Bediako, Junshi Xia, Naoto Yokoya

ChangeMamba: Remote Sensing Change Detection With Spatiotemporal State Space Model

Authors: Hongruixuan Chen, Jian Song, Chengxi Han, Junshi Xia, Naoto Yokoya

The Relationship Between Microwave Brightness Temperature, Salinity, and Thickness of Sea Ice Acquired With a Tank Experiment

Authors: Kohei Cho, Kazuhiro Naoki, Masashige Nakayama, Tomonori Tanikawa

Influence of a Horizontally Polarized Wave Incidence on DOA Estimation by a Dipole Array Antenna in a Borehole

Authors: Satoshi Ebihara, Kai Toyozawa, Tokuya Hasegawa, Yuki Tsujikawa, Koki Koyama

Statistical Analysis of Global and Regional Ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC) Using Extreme Value Distributions

Authors: Suneetha Emmela, Devanaboyina Venkata Ratnam, Yuichi Otsuka, Atsuki Shinbori, Takuya Sori, Michi Nishioka, Septi Perwitasari

Distributed Scatterer Interferometry for Fast Decorrelation Scenarios Based on Sparsity Regularization

Authors: Zhuang Gao, Xiufeng He, Zhang-Feng Ma, Sheng-Ji Wei, Jiacheng Xiong, Yosuke Aoki

Frequency-Based Optimal Style Mix for Domain Generalization in Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images

Authors: Reo Iizuka, Junshi Xia, Naoto Yokoya

Robust Spatiotemporal Fusion of Satellite Images: A Constrained Convex Optimization Approach

Authors: Ryosuke Isono, Kazuki Naganuma, Shunsuke Ono

Long-Term Statistical Properties of Extreme Rainfall Data in Japan

Author: Yoshio Karasawa

U-Net++ Based Subshallow Gas-Scattered Image Conditioning: Small-Scale Case Study of Seismic Data Acquired in the Korean East Sea

Authors: Juan Lee, Min Je Lee, Hanjoon Park, Hyunggu Jun, Yongchae Cho

Leveraging Multisource Label Learning for Underground Object Recognition

Authors: Derui Lyu, Lyuzhou Chen, Taiyu Ban, Xiangyu Wang, Qinrui Zhu, Xiren Zhou, Huanhuan Chen

First Cross- and Inter-Band Calibrations of the Hyperspectral Imager Suite Using Off-Nadir Quasi-Simultaneous Overpass Counterparts

Authors: Hiroki Mizuochi, Satoshi Tsuchida, Satoru Yamamoto, Minoru Urai, Moe Matsuoka, Ayame Ikeda, Koki Iwao

Polarization Analysis in Time-Frequency Domain by Complex Spectral Matrix: Application to Various Phases of Seismogram

Authors: Takayuki Nagata, Yusuke Mukuhira, Jingyi Sun, Hirokazu Moriya, Takahiro Shiina, Taku Nonomura

Biquaternion Fourier Domain Filter for InSAR Noise Suppression by Enhancing Polarimetric-Interferometric Fringe Patterns

Authors: Yuta Otsuka, Ryo Natsuaki, Akira Hirose

Cloud Top Temperature and Cloud Optical Thickness Can Effectively Identify Convective Clouds Over the Tibetan Plateau

Authors: Xu Ri, Husi Letu, Chong Shi, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Huazhe Shang, Fangling Bao, Bilige Sude, Atsushi Higuchi, Wei Yang, Kazuhito Ichii, Yonghui Lei, Jun Zhao, Jiancheng Shi

Feasibility of Liquid Water Path Estimation of Over Land Using Satellite-Based Ka-Band Passive Microwave Data

Authors: Rie Seto, Toshio Koike, Misako Kachi

GCOM-C/SGLI In-Orbit Geometric Analysis and Calibration

Authors: Junichi Takaku and Hiroshi Murakami

Phase and Amplitude Correction for Adaptive Beamforming of Phased Array Weather Radar

Authors: Yuuki Wada, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Daichi Kitahara, Tomoo Ushio

Mitigation of Ground-Clutter Effects by Digital Beamforming With Precomputed Weighting Matrix for Phased Array Weather Radar

Authors: Yuuki Wada, Yutaka Takata, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Daichi Kitahara, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Shigeharu Shimamura, Tomoo Ushio

Quantify Wheat Canopy Leaf Angle Distribution Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data

Authors: Yongqing Wang, Yangyang Gu, Jinxin Tang, Binbin Guo, Timothy A. Warner, Caili Guo, Hengbiao Zheng, Fumiki Hosoi, Tao Cheng, Yan Zhu, Weixing Cao, Xia Yao

A Coupled Tensor Double-Factor Method for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion

Authors: Ting Xu, Ting-Zhu Huang, Liang-Jian Deng, Jin-Liang Xiao, Clifford Broni-Bediako, Junshi Xia, Naoto Yokoya

Local-to-Global Cross-Modal Attention-Aware Fusion for HSI-X Semantic Segmentation

Authors: Xuming Zhang, Naoto Yokoya, Xingfa Gu, Qingjiu Tian, Lorenzo Bruzzone

Coordinate-Transformed Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Short-Term Rainfall Forecasting

Authors: Shitao Zheng, Takashi Miyamoto, Shingo Shimizu, Ryohei Kato, Koyuru Iwanami

Segmented Recurrent Transformer With Cubed 3-D-Multiscanning Strategy for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Authors: Weilian Zhou, Sei-Ichiro Kamata, Haipeng Wang, Pengfeng Lu, Mengyunqiu Zhang

Bayesian Seismic Tomography Based on Velocity-Space Stein Variational Gradient Descent for Physics-Informed Neural Network

Authors: Ryoichiro Agata, Kazuya Shiraishi, Gou Fujie

A New Spectral Harmonization Algorithm for Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Remote Sensing Reflectance Products Using Machine Learning: A Case Study for the Barents Sea (European Arctic)

Authors: Muhammad Asim, Atsushi Matsuoka, Pl Gunnar Ellingsen, Camilla Brekke, Torbjrn Eltoft, Katalin Blix

LaMIE: Large-Dimensional Multipass InSAR Phase Estimation for Distributed Scatterers

Authors: Yusong Bai, Jian Kang, Xiang Ding, Anping Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Naoto Yokoya

Decoupled-and-Coupled Networks: Self-Supervised Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution With Subpixel Fusion

Authors: Danfeng Hong, Jing Yao, Chenyu Li, Deyu Meng, Naoto Yokoya, Jocelyn Chanussot

Reflectivity-Consistent Sparse Blind Deconvolution for Denoising and Calibration of Multichannel GPR Volume Images

Authors: Takanori Imai and Tsukasa Mizutani

Performance Simulation Theory of Low-Level Wind Shear Detections Using an Airborne Coherent Doppler Lidar Based on RTCA DO-220

Authors: Shumpei Kameyama, Masashi Furuta, Eiichi Yoshikawa

Theoretical Performance of Airborne Coherent Doppler Lidar for Turbulence Detection Using Spectral Width Estimation of Heterodyne-Detected Signal

Authors: Shumpei Kameyama, Masashi Furuta, Eiichi Yoshikawa

On the Scattering-Angle Dependence of the Spectral Consistency of Ice Cloud Optical Thickness Retrievals Based on Geostationary Satellite Observations

Authors: Dongchen Li, Masanori Saito, Ping Yang, Norman G. Loeb, William L. Smith, Patrick Minnis

A Semiempirical Approach for Decomposition of Remotely Sensed Leaf Area Index Into Overstory and Understory Components Over Russian Forests

Authors: Nikolay V. Shabanov, Sergey Bartalev, Hideki Kobayashi, Nagai Shin, Tatyana S. Khovratovich, Vasily Zharko, Andrey Medvedev, Natalia Telnova

Riemannian Quaternion Self-Organizing Map to Overcome Degree-of-Polarization Error in Polarimetric Ground-Penetrating Radar

Authors: Yicheng Song, Ryo Natsuaki, Akira Hirose

A New Method to Estimate the Leaf Chlorophyll Content From Multiangular Measurements: Anisotropy Index

Authors: Zhongqiu Sun, Shan Lu, Kenji Omasa

A New Sea Ice Concentration Retrieval Algorithm Based on Relationship Between AMSR2 89-GHz Polarization and Landsat 8 Observations

Authors: Yasuhiro Tanaka and Junshen Lu

Accurate Label Refinement From Multiannotator of Remote Sensing Data

Authors: Xiangyu Wang, Lyuzhou Chen, Taiyu Ban, Derui Lyu, Yifeng Guan, Xingyu Wu, Xiren Zhou, Huanhuan Chen

Characterizing Microearthquakes Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing With Hybrid Borehole DAS and Three-Component Geophone Data

Authors: Zhendong Zhang, Malcolm C. A. White, Tong Bai, Hongrui Qiu, Nori Nakata

Multiscanning-Based RNN-Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Authors: Weilian Zhou, Sei-Ichiro Kamata, Haipeng Wang, Xi Xue

Sensitivity Study of X-Band Multiparametric SAR Data From Cabbage Fields

Authors: Motofumi Arii, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Shoichiro Kojima

Synthesizing Optical and SAR Imagery From Land Cover Maps and Auxiliary Raster Data

Authors: Gerald Baier, Antonin Deschemps, Michael Schmitt, Naoto Yokoya

Searching for CNN Architectures for Remote Sensing Scene Classification

Authors: Clifford Broni-Bediako, Yuki Murata, Luiz Henrique Mormille, Masayasu Atsumi

Unsupervised Multimodal Change Detection Based on Structural Relationship Graph Representation Learning

Authors: Hongruixuan Chen, Naoto Yokoya, Chen Wu, Bo Du

Coherence-Guided Complex Convolutional Sparse Coding for Interferometric Phase Restoration

Authors: Xiang Ding, Jian Kang, Zhe Zhang, Yan Huang, Jialin Liu, Naoto Yokoya

Loop Array Antenna in a Borehole for Directivity to a Horizontally Polarized Wave

Authors: Satoshi Ebihara and Masayuki Matsumoto

Assessments of Doppler Velocity Errors of EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar Using Global Cloud System Resolving Simulations: Effects of Doppler Broadening and Folding

Authors: Yuichiro Hagihara, Yuichi Ohno, Hiroaki Horie, Woosub Roh, Masaki Satoh, Takuji Kubota, Riko Oki

Cloud-Free Sea-Surface-Temperature Image Reconstruction From Anomaly Inpainting Network

Authors: Nobuyuki Hirahara, Motoharu Sonogashira, Masaaki Iiyama

Masked Auto-Encoding Spectral-Spatial Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Authors: Damian Ibaez, Rubn Fernndez-Beltran, Filiberto Pla, Naoto Yokoya

Stability of the Dual-Frequency Radar Equations and a New Method Applied to the GPM's Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) Data

Authors: Toshio Iguchi and Robert Meneghini

Model-Based Homogeneity to Extend Compressed Sensing for Ground Penetrating Radar

Authors: Ryuta Imai, Yicheng Song, Ryo Natsuaki, Akira Hirose

Evidence of Decreased Heterodyne-Detection Efficiency Caused by Fast Beam Scanning in Wind Sensing Coherent Doppler Lidar, and Demonstration on Recovery of the Efficiency With Lag-Angle Compensation

Authors: Yusuke Ito, Masaharu Imaki, Takeshi Sakimura, Takayuki Yanagisawa, Shumpei Kameyama

Time-Series Clustering Methodology for Estimating Atmospheric Phase Screen in Ground-Based InSAR Data

Authors: Yuta Izumi, Giovanni Nico, Motoyuki Sato

Corrections to "Iterative Atmospheric Phase Screen Compensation for Near-Real-Time Ground-Based InSAR Measurements Over a Mountainous Slope"

Authors: Yuta Izumi, Lilong Zou, Kazutaka Kikuta, Motoyuki Sato

Compressive Sensing to Reduce the Number of Elements in a Linear Antenna Array With a Phased Array Weather Radar

Authors: Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yasuhide Hobara, Tomoo Ushio

Development of InSAR Neutral Atmospheric Delay Correction Model by Use of GNSS ZTD and Its Horizontal Gradient

Author: Yohei Kinoshita

Nonlinear Beamforming Based on Group-Sparsities of Periodograms for Phased Array Weather Radar

Authors: Daichi Kitahara, Hiroki Kuroda, Akira Hirabayashi, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Tomoo Ushio

Data-Driven Cloud Clustering via a Rotationally Invariant Autoencoder

Authors: Takuya Kurihana, Elisabeth Moyer, Rebecca Willett, Davis Gilton, Ian T. Foster

Evaluation of Ocean Color Atmospheric Correction Methods for Sentinel-3 OLCI Using Global Automatic In Situ Observations

Authors: Huizeng Liu, Xianqiang He, Qingquan Li, Xianjun Hu, Joji Ishizaka, Susanne Kratzer, Chao Yang, Tiezhu Shi, Shuibo Hu, Qiming Zhou, Guofeng Wu

Combining Multiangular, Polarimetric, and Hyperspectral Measurements to Estimate Leaf Nitrogen Concentration From Different Plant Species

Authors: Ming Liu, Zhongqiu Sun, Shan Lu, Kenji Omasa

Calibration of the Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar Onboard the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory

Authors: Takeshi Masaki, Toshio Iguchi, Kaya Kanemaru, Kinji Furukawa, Naofumi Yoshida, Takuji Kubota, Riko Oki

A New Spatiotemporal InSAR Tropospheric Noise Filtering: An Interseismic Case Study Over Central San Andreas Fault

Authors: Zhang-Feng Ma, Sheng-Ji Wei, Yosuke Aoki, Ji-Hong Liu, Teng Huang

Challenges and Prospects to Time Series Burst Overlap Interferometry (BOI): Some Insights From a New BOI Algorithm Test Over the Chaman Fault

Authors: Zhang-Feng Ma, Sheng-Ji Wei, Xing Li, Yosuke Aoki, Ji-Hong Liu, Xiaojie Liu, Wenfei Mao, Shun Yang, Nanxin Wang, Qihuan Huang, Teng Huang, Sang-Ho Yun

A General Destriping Framework for Remote Sensing Images Using Flatness Constraint

Authors: Kazuki Naganuma and Shunsuke Ono

Improving Detection of a Portable NQR System for Humanitarian Demining Using Machine Learning

Authors: Yui Otagaki, Jamie Barras, Panagiotis Kosmas

Unsupervised and Unregistered Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution With Mutual Dirichlet-Net

Authors: Ying Qu, Hairong Qi, Chiman Kwan, Naoto Yokoya, Jocelyn Chanussot

Cloud, Atmospheric Radiation and Renewal Energy Application (CARE) Version 1.0 Cloud Top Property Product From Himawari-8/AHI: Algorithm Development and Preliminary Validation

Authors: Xu Ri, Gegen Tana, Chong Shi, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Jiancheng Shi, Jun Zhao, Jian Xu, Husi Letu

Phasor-Quaternion Self-Organizing-Map-Based Ground Penetrating Radar Systems

Authors: Yicheng Song and Akira Hirose

A General Algorithm of Leaf Chlorophyll Content Estimation for a Wide Range of Plant Species

Authors: Zhongqiu Sun, Zhaojun Bu, Shan Lu, Kenji Omasa

Robust Hyperspectral Image Fusion With Simultaneous Guide Image Denoising via Constrained Convex Optimization

Authors: Saori Takeyama and Shunsuke Ono

DML: Differ-Modality Learning for Building Semantic Segmentation

Authors: Junshi Xia, Naoto Yokoya, Gerald Baier

LSTM-Autoencoder Network for the Detection of Seismic Electric Signals

Authors: Jiyan Xue, Qinghua Huang, Sihong Wu, Toshiyasu Nagao

An Iterative Regularization Method Based on Tensor Subspace Representation for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution

Authors: Ting Xu, Ting-Zhu Huang, Liang-Jian Deng, Naoto Yokoya

Observation Capability of a Ground-Based Terahertz Radiometer for Vertical Profiles of Oxygen and Water Abundances in Martian Atmosphere

Authors: Takayoshi Yamada, Philippe Baron, Lori Neary, Toshiyuki Nishibori, Richard Larsson, Takeshi Kuroda, Frank Daerden, Yasuko Kasai

Aerial Clutter Suppression in a Wind Profiler Radar With Antenna Subarrays

Authors: Masayuki K. Yamamoto, Seiji Kawamura, Katsuyuki Imai, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Koji Saito, Koji Nishimura

Analysis Based on Onboard Lamp and Lunar Vicarious Calibrations for Sensitivity Degradation of a Hyperspectral Sensor

Authors: Satoru Yamamoto, Hiroki Mizuochi, Moe Matsuoka, Koki Iwao, Satoshi Tsuchida

Initial Analysis of Spectral Smile Calibration of Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) Using Atmospheric Absorption Bands

Authors: Satoru Yamamoto, Satoshi Tsuchida, Minoru Urai, Hiroki Mizuochi, Koki Iwao, Akira Iwasaki

Mitigation of Ionospheric Noise in Azimuth Offset Based on the Split-Spectrum Method

Authors: Tatsuya Yamashita, Yu Morishita, Tomokazu Kobayashi

Breaking Limits of Remote Sensing by Deep Learning From Simulated Data for Flood and Debris-Flow Mapping

Authors: Naoto Yokoya, Kazuki Yamanoi, Wei He, Gerald Baier, Bruno Adriano, Hiroyuki Miura, Satoru Oishi

An Estimator for Weather Radar Doppler Power Spectrum via Minimum Mean Square Error

Authors: Eiichi Yoshikawa, Naoya Takizawa, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Tomoaki Mega, Tomoo Ushio

A Semiempirical Modeling of Soil Moisture, Vegetation, and Surface Roughness Impact on CYGNSS Reflectometry Data

Authors: Simon H. Yueh, Rashmi Shah, Mario Julian Chaubell, Akiko Hayashi, Xiaolan Xu, Andreas Colliander

Range Geolocation Accuracy of C-/L-Band SAR and its Implications for Operational Stack Coregistration

Authors: Zhang Yunjun, Heresh Fattahi, Xiaoqing Pi, Paul A. Rosen, Mark Simons, Piyush S. Agram, Yosuke Aoki

Endmember-Assisted Camera Response Function Learning, Toward Improving Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution Performance

Authors: Jiangsan Zhao, Ying Qu, Seishi Ninomiya, Wei Guo

Vehicle Counting in Very Low-Resolution Aerial Images via Cross-Resolution Spatial Consistency and Intraresolution Time Continuity

Authors: Quan Zhao, Jing Xiao, Zheng Wang, Xujie Ma, Mi Wang, Shin'ichi Satoh

Multiscanning Strategy-Based Recurrent Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Authors: Weilian Zhou, Sei-ichiro Kamata, Zhengbo Luo, Haipeng Wang

Development of an Algorithm to Retrieve Aerosol Optical Properties Over Water Using an Artificial Neural Network Radiative Transfer Scheme: First Result From GOSAT-2/CAI-2

Authors: Chong Shi, Makiko Hashimoto, Kei Shiomi, Teruyuki Nakajima

Effects of Induced Field Rotation From Rough Surface on H-Alpha Decomposition of Full-Polarimetric GPR

Authors: Zejun Dong, Xuan Feng, Haoqiu Zhou, Cai Liu, Motoyuki Sato

DeepFuseNet of Omnidirectional Far-Infrared and Visual Stream for Vegetation Detection

Authors: David L. Stone, Sumved Ravi, Emrah Benli, Yuichi Motai

Measuring Deformed Sea Ice in Seasonal Ice Zones Using L-Band SAR Images

Authors: Takenobu Toyota, Junno Ishiyama, Noriaki Kimura

Disaster Intensity-Based Selection of Training Samples for Remote Sensing Building Damage Classification

Authors: Luis Moya, Christian Gei, Masakazu Hashimoto, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura, Gnter Strunz

Nadir Detection of Lunar Lava Tube by Kaguya Lunar Radar Sounder

Authors: Takao Kobayashi, Jung-Ho Kim, Seung Ryeol Lee, Kyo-Yeong Song

Coniferous and Broad-Leaved Forest Distinguishing Using L-Band Polarimetric SAR Data

Authors: Fang Shang, Taiga Saito, Saya Ohi, Naoto Kishi

k-Space Decomposition-Based 3-D Imaging With Range Points Migration for Millimeter-Wave Radar

Authors: Yoshiki Akiyama, Tomoki Ohmori, Shouhei Kidera

Characteristics of Medium-Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances and Ionospheric Irregularities at Mid-Latitudes Revealed by the Total Electron Content Associated With the Beidou Geostationary Satellite

Authors: Fuqing Huang, Jiuhou Lei, Yuichi Otsuka, Xiaoli Luan, Yu Liu, Jiahao Zhong, Xiankang Dou

Mapping Subsurface Utility Pipes by 3-D Convolutional Neural Network and Kirchhoff Migration Using GPR Images

Authors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Tsukasa Mizutani, Tomonori Nagayama

A Study of Comb Beam Transmission on Phased Array Weather Radars

Authors: Eiichi Yoshikawa, Tomoo Ushio, Hiroshi Kikuchi

More Diverse Means Better: Multimodal Deep Learning Meets Remote-Sensing Imagery Classification

Authors: Danfeng Hong, Lianru Gao, Naoto Yokoya, Jing Yao, Jocelyn Chanussot, Qian Du, Bing Zhang

Graph-Induced Aligned Learning on Subspaces for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Data

Authors: Danfeng Hong, Jian Kang, Naoto Yokoya, Jocelyn Chanussot

An Iterative-Mode Scan Design of Terrestrial Laser Scanning in Forests for Minimizing Occlusion Effects

Authors: Linyuan Li, Xihan Mu, Maxime Soma, Peng Wan, Jianbo Qi, Ronghai Hu, Wuming Zhang, Yiyi Tong, Guangjian Yan

Radiative Characteristics at 89 and 36 GHz for Satellite-Based Cloud Water Estimation Over Land

Authors: Rie Seto, Kentaro Aida, Toshio Koike, Shinjiro Kanae

Robust Nonlocal Low-Rank SAR Time Series Despeckling Considering Speckle Correlation by Total Variation Regularization

Authors: Gerald Baier, Wei He, Naoto Yokoya

Spectral Observation Theory and Beam Debroadening Algorithm for Atmospheric Radar

Authors: Koji Nishimura, Masashi Kohma, Kaoru Sato, Toru Sato

Assessment of PALSAR-2 Compact Non-Circularity Using Amazonian Rainforests

Authors: Ridha Touzi, Masanobu Shimada, Takeshi Motohka, Stefan Nedelcu

Iterative Atmospheric Phase Screen Compensation for Near-Real-Time Ground-Based InSAR Measurements Over a Mountainous Slope

Authors: Yuta Izumi, Lilong Zou, Kazutaka Kikuta, Motoyuki Sato

Estimates of Spaceborne Precipitation Radar Pulsewidth and Beamwidth Using Sea Surface Echo Data

Authors: Kaya Kanemaru, Toshio Iguchi, Takeshi Masaki, Takuji Kubota

Analysis of Surface Cross-Sectional Data Taken During the 90° Yaw Experiment of the TRMM Precipitation Radar

Author: Nobuhiro Takahashi

Improved SMAP Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture

Authors: Mario Julian Chaubell, Simon H. Yueh, Roy Scott Dunbar, Andreas Colliander, Fan Chen, Steven Tsz K. Chan, Dara Entekhabi, Rajat Bindlish, Peggy E. O'Neill, Jun Asanuma, Aaron A. Berg, David D. Bosch, Todd Caldwell, Michael H. Cosh, Chandra D. Holifield Collins, Jos Martnez-Fernndez, Mark S. Seyfried, Patrick J. Starks, Zhongbo Su, Marc Thibeault, Jeffrey P. Walker

Invariant Attribute Profiles: A Spatial-Frequency Joint Feature Extractor for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Authors: Danfeng Hong, Xin Wu, Pedram Ghamisi, Jocelyn Chanussot, Naoto Yokoya, Xiao Xiang Zhu

Efficient Seismic Source Localization Using Simplified Gaussian Beam Time Reversal Imaging

Authors: Fangyu Li, Tong Bai, Nori Nakata, Bin Lyu, Wenzhan Song

Radio Frequency Tomography for Nondestructive Testing of Pillars

Authors: Tadahiro Negishi, Gianluca Gennarelli, Francesco Soldovieri, Yangqing Liu, Danilo Erricolo

On the Use of Lateral Wave for the Interlayer Debonding Detecting in an Asphalt Airport Pavement Using a Multistatic GPR System

Authors: Lilong Zou, Li Yi, Motoyuki Sato

Arrival Times of Plane Waves Obliquely Incident on a Dipole Array Antenna in a Borehole

Authors: Satoshi Ebihara, Shyuhei Kotani, Kengo Fujiwara

Initial Observations for Precipitation Cores With X-Band Dual Polarized Phased Array Weather Radar

Authors: Hiroshi Kikuchi, Taku Suezawa, Tomoo Ushio, Nobuhiro Takahashi, Hiroshi Hanado, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Masahiko Osada, Tsuyoshi Maesaka, Koyuru Iwanami, Kazuhiro Yoshimi, Fumihiko Mizutani, Masakazu Wada, Yasuhide Hobara

Omnidirectional Motion Classification With Monostatic Radar System Using Micro-Doppler Signatures

Authors: Yang Yang, Chunping Hou, Yue Lang, Takuya Sakamoto, Yuan He, Wei Xiang

A Coherent Method for Simulating Active and Passive Radar Sounding of the Jovian Icy Moons

Authors: Christopher Gerekos, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Masafumi Imai

Spatial Resolution Enhancement Algorithm Based on the Backus-Gilbert Method and Its Application to GCOM-W AMSR2 Data

Author: Takashi Maeda

Super-Resolution Doppler Velocity Estimation by Kernel-Based Range- $\tau$ Point Conversions for UWB Short-Range Radars

Authors: Masafumi Setsu, Takumi Hayashi, Jianghaomiao He, Shouhei Kidera

Physical Scattering Interpretation of POLSAR Coherency Matrix by Using Compound Scattering Phenomenon

Authors: Gulab Singh, Shradha Mohanty, Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Yoshio Yamaguchi

Nonlocal Tensor-Ring Decomposition for Hyperspectral Image Denoising

Authors: Yong Chen, Wei He, Naoto Yokoya, Ting-Zhu Huang, Xi-Le Zhao

Multi-Instrument Observations of the Atmospheric and Ionospheric Response to the 2013 Sudden Stratospheric Warming Over Eastern Asia Region

Authors: Gang Chen, Yaxian Li, Shao-Dong Zhang, Baiqi Ning, Wanlin Gong, Akimasa Yoshikawa, Kornyanat Hozumi, Takuya Tsugawa, Zhihua Wang

Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Droughts for a Water-Limited Subcontinental Region by Integrating a Land Surface Model and Microwave Remote Sensing

Authors: Yohei Sawada, Toshio Koike, Eiji Ikoma, Masaru Kitsuregawa

Sea Ice Observation With Oceanographic HF Radar

Authors: Wei Zhang, Naoto Ebuchi, Yasushi Fukamachi, Feng Cheng, Kay I. Ohshima, Brian M. Emery, Takenobu Toyota, Hiroto Abe, Kunio Shirasawa

Remote Sensing Image Reconstruction Using Tensor Ring Completion and Total Variation

Authors: Wei He, Naoto Yokoya, Longhao Yuan, Qibin Zhao

Seven-Component Scattering Power Decomposition of POLSAR Coherency Matrix

Authors: Gulab Singh, Rashmi Malik, Shradha Mohanty, Virendra Singh Rathore, Kanta Yamada, Maito Umemura, Yoshio Yamaguchi

An Efficient and Accurate GB-SAR Imaging Algorithm Based on the Fractional Fourier Transform

Authors: Lilong Zou and Motoyuki Sato

Land Form Classification and Similar Land-Shape Discovery by Using Complex-Valued Convolutional Neural Networks

Authors: Yuki Sunaga, Ryo Natsuaki, Akira Hirose

Improvements in the Beam-Mismatch Correction of Precipitation Radar Data After the TRMM Orbit Boost

Authors: Kaya Kanemaru, Takuji Kubota, Toshio Iguchi

Vicarious Calibration of Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2

Authors: Carol J. Bruegge, David Crisp, Mark Helmlinger, Fumie Kataoka, Akihiko Kuze, Richard A. Lee, James McDuffie, Robert Rosenberg, Florian M. Schwandner, Kei Shiomi, Shanshan Yu

CoSpace: Common Subspace Learning From Hyperspectral-Multispectral Correspondences

Authors: Danfeng Hong, Naoto Yokoya, Jocelyn Chanussot, Xiao Xiang Zhu

New Temporal and Spectral Unfiltering Technique for ERBE/ERBS WFOV Nonscanner Instrument Observations

Authors: Alok K. Shrestha, Seiji Kato, Takmeng Wong, Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., Robert P. Loughman

Detecting Infrared Maritime Targets Overwhelmed in Sun Glitters by Antijitter Spatiotemporal Saliency

Authors: Bin Wang, Yuichi Motai, Lili Dong, Wenhai Xu

Sensitivity Analysis of Multifrequency MIMP SAR Data From Rice Paddies

Authors: Motofumi Arii, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Shoichiro Kojima, Masato Ohki

Calibration, Level 1 Processing, and Radiometric Validation for TANSO-FTS TIR on GOSAT

Authors: Fumie Kataoka, Robert O. Knuteson, Akihiko Kuze, Kei Shiomi, Hiroshi Suto, Jun Yoshida, Shinpei Kondoh, Naoko Saitoh

Ice Cloud Properties From Himawari-8/AHI Next-Generation Geostationary Satellite: Capability of the AHI to Monitor the DC Cloud Generation Process

Authors: Husi Letu, Takashi M. Nagao, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Jrme C. Riedi, Hiroshi Ishimoto, Anthony J. Baran, Huazhe Shang, Miho Sekiguchi, Maki Kikuchi

Degree of Polarization-Based Data Filter for Fully Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar

Authors: Fang Shang, Naoto Kishi, Akira Hirose

Hyperspectral Unmixing With Spectral Variability Using Adaptive Bundles and Double Sparsity

Authors: Tatsumi Uezato, Mathieu Fauvel, Nicolas Dobigeon

Phasor Quaternion Neural Networks for Singular Point Compensation in Polarimetric-Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

Authors: Kohei Oyama and Akira Hirose

Retrieval of Polarimetric Azimuthal Angular Characteristics via the Application of Target Decomposition to Spectral Domain Circular SAR Images

Authors: Takuma Watanabe, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Yuto Tokutake, Ryoichi Sato, Yoshio Yamaguchi

Unsupervised Hierarchical Land Classification Using Self-Organizing Feature Codebook for Decimeter-Resolution PolSAR

Authors: Hyunsoo Kim and Akira Hirose

Gauge-Adjusted Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation

Authors: Tomoaki Mega, Tomoo Ushio, Takahiro Matsuda, Takuji Kubota, Misako Kachi, Riko Oki

Sensitive Damage Detection of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Slab by "Time-Variant Deconvolution" of SHF-Band Radar Signal

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Authors: Takao Kobayashi, Jung-Ho Kim, Seung Ryeol Lee

Hyperspectral Image Unmixing With LiDAR Data-Aided Spatial Regularization

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Authors: Teng-Yu Ji, Naoto Yokoya, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Ting-Zhu Huang

Improved Hourly Estimates of Aerosol Optical Thickness Using Spatiotemporal Variability Derived From Himawari-8 Geostationary Satellite

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Measurement Method for Specific Attenuation in the Melting Layer Using a Dual Ka-Band Radar System

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Pixel-by-Pixel Scattering Mechanism Vector Optimization in High-Resolution PolInSAR

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Random Forest Ensembles and Extended Multiextinction Profiles for Hyperspectral Image Classification

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Snowpack Density Retrieval Using Fully Polarimetric TerraSAR-X Data in the Himalayas

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Authors: Tetsuya Fukuhara, Toru Kouyama, Soushi Kato, Ryosuke Nakamura, Yukihiro Takahashi, Hiroaki Akiyama

An Automated Method for Crater Counting Using Rotational Pixel Swapping Method

Authors: Satoru Yamamoto, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Ryosuke Nakamura, Yasuhito Sekine, Naru Hirata, Yasushi Yamaguchi

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Authors: Muhammad Haris, Takuya Watanabe, Liu Fan, Muhammad Rahmat Widyanto, Hajime Nobuhara

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Authors: Hiroshi Kikuchi, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Tomoo Ushio, Fumihiko Mizutani, Masakazu Wada

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Authors: Yuki Itoh, Siwei Feng, Marco F. Duarte, Mario Parente

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Authors: Motofumi Arii, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Shoichiro Kojima, Toshihiko Umehara, Tomomi Komatsu, Takeshi Nishimura

SimRadar: A Polarimetric Radar Time-Series Simulator for Tornadic Debris Studies

Authors: Boon Leng Cheong, David J. Bodine, Caleb J. Fulton, Sebastin M. Torres, Takashi Maruyama, Robert D. Palmer

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Authors: Hiroshi Kikuchi, Ting Wu, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Tomoo Ushio, Hideto Goto, Fumihiko Mizutani, Masakazu Wada, V. Chandrasekar

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Authors: Naoto Yokoya, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Antonio Plaza

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Authors: Siwei Feng, Yuki Itoh, Mario Parente, Marco F. Duarte

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Author: Nobuhiro Takahashi

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Authors: Kei Suwa, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Masayoshi Tsuchida, Shohei Nakamura, Toshio Wakayama, Teruyuki Hara

Persistent Scatterer Selection Incorporating Polarimetric SAR Interferograms Based on Maximum Likelihood Theory

Authors: Kazuya Ishitsuka, Toshifumi Matsuoka, Masayuki Tamura

Hyperspectral Image Classification With Canonical Correlation Forests

Authors: Junshi Xia, Naoto Yokoya, Akira Iwasaki

Urban Damage Level Mapping Based on Scattering Mechanism Investigation Using Fully Polarimetric SAR Data for the 3.11 East Japan Earthquake

Authors: Si-Wei Chen, Xuesong Wang, Motoyuki Sato

Combined Active/Passive Retrievals of Ocean Vector Wind and Sea Surface Salinity With SMAP

Authors: Alexander G. Fore, Simon H. Yueh, Wenqing Tang, Bryan W. Stiles, Akiko K. Hayashi

Probabilistic Attenuation Correction in a Networked Radar Environment

Authors: Shigeharu Shimamura, V. Chandrasekar, Tomoo Ushio, Gwan Kim, Eiichi Yoshikawa, Haonan Chen

SMAP L-Band Passive Microwave Observations of Ocean Surface Wind During Severe Storms

Authors: Simon H. Yueh, Alexander G. Fore, Wenqing Tang, Akiko Hayashi, Bryan W. Stiles, Nicolas Reul, Yonghui Weng, Fuqing Zhang

Ocean Color Remote Sensing of Atypical Marine Optical Cases

Authors: Davide D'Alimonte, Tamito Kajiyama, Ari Saptawijaya

Improved Discrimination of Subsurface Targets Using a Polarization-Sensitive Directional Borehole Radar

Authors: Satoshi Ebihara, Tsukasa Kuroda, Yuuta Koresawa, Kodai Inada, Akihiro Uemura, Kentaro Kawata

A Novel Endmember Bundle Extraction and Clustering Approach for Capturing Spectral Variability Within Endmember Classes

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Estimating the Solar Transmittance of Urban Trees Using Airborne LiDAR and Radiative Transfer Simulation

Authors: Haruki Oshio and Takashi Asawa

A Neural-Network-Based Beamformer for Phased Array Weather Radar

Authors: Tarek Sallam, Adel B. Abd El-Rahman, Masoud Alghoniemy, Zen Kawasaki, Tomoo Ushio

Two-Year Comparison of Airborne Measurements of CO2 and CH4 With GOSAT at Railroad Valley, Nevada

Authors: Tomoaki Tanaka, Emma L. Yates, Laura T. Iraci, Matthew S. Johnson, Warren Gore, Jovan M. Tadic, Max Loewenstein, Akihiko Kuze, Christian Frankenberg, Andr Butz, Yukio Yoshida

Range Imaging of E-Region Field-Aligned Irregularities by Using a Multifrequency Technique: Validation and Initial Results

Authors: Jenn-Shyong Chen, Yen-Hsyang Chu, Ching-Lun Su, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi, Ying Li

Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of VHF Signals Recorded on the International Space Station and Simultaneous Observations of Optical Lightning

Authors: Hiroshi Kikuchi, Takeshi Morimoto, Mitsuteru Sato, Tomoo Ushio, Masayuki Kikuchi, Atsushi Yamazaki, Makoto Suzuki, Ryohei Ishida, Yuji Sakamoto, Zen Kawasaki

Overview of the End-of-Mission Observation Experiments of Precipitation Radar Onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Satellite

Authors: Nobuhiro Takahashi, Hiroshi Hanado, Kenji Nakamura, Kaya Kanemaru, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Toshio Iguchi, Tomomi Nio, Takuji Kubota, Riko Oki, Naofumi Yoshida

Coupled Model Simulation of Wind Stress Effect on Far Wakes of Ships in SAR Images

Authors: Atsushi Fujimura, Alexander V. Soloviev, Shin H. Rhee, Roland Romeiser

A Novel Spectral Unmixing Method Incorporating Spectral Variability Within Endmember Classes

Authors: Tatsumi Uezato, Richard J. Murphy, Arman Melkumyan, Anna Chlingaryan

A Field Verification of an Algorithm for Retrieving Vegetation Water Content From Passive Microwave Observations

Authors: Yohei Sawada, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Toshio Koike, Mohamed Rasmy, Rie Seto, Hideyuki Fuji

GCOM-W1 AMSR2 Level 1R Product: Dataset of Brightness Temperature Modified Using the Antenna Pattern Matching Technique

Authors: Takashi Maeda, Yuji Taniguchi, Keiji Imaoka

Radar Attenuation and Reflectivity Measurements of Snow With Dual Ka-Band Radar

Authors: Masanori Nishikawa, Kenji Nakamura, Yasushi Fujiyoshi, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Hiroshi Hanado, Haruya Minda, Sento Nakai, Toshiro Kumakura, Riko Oki

Asymmetric Features of Oceanic Microwave Brightness Temperature in HighSurface Wind Speed Condition

Authors: Masahiro Kazumori, Akira Shibata, Stephen J. English

Multitemporal Fluctuations in L-Band Backscatter From a Japanese Forest

Authors: Manabu Watanabe, Takeshi Motohka, Tomohiro Shiraishi, Rajesh Bahadur Thapa, Chinatsu Yonezawa, Kazuki Nakamura, Masanobu Shimada

Intercalibration of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-2 (AMSR2) Brightness Temperature

Authors: Arata Okuyama and Keiji Imaoka

Averaged Stokes Vector Based Polarimetric SAR Data Interpretation

Authors: Fang Shang and Akira Hirose

Anisotropic Phase Unwrapping for Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry

Authors: Donny Danudirdjo and Akira Hirose

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Authors: Satoshi Ebihara, Yuta Kimura, Takaaki Shimomura, Ryota Uchimura, Hiroyuki Choshi

Mapping Aboveground Biomass in Northern Japanese Forests Using the ALOS PRISM Digital Surface Model

Authors: Takeshi Motohka, Toshiya Yoshida, Hideaki Shibata, Takeo Tadono, Masanobu Shimada

InSAR Image Regularization and DEM Error Correction With Fractal Surface Scattering Model

Authors: Donny Danudirdjo and Akira Hirose

MTSAT-1R Visible Imager Point Spread Correction Function, Part I: The Need for, Validation of, and Calibration With

Authors: David R. Doelling, Konstantin V. Khlopenkov, Arata Okuyama, Conor O. Haney, Arun Gopalan, Benjamin R. Scarino, Michele Nordeen, Rajendra Bhatt, Lance Avey

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Authors: Konstantin V. Khlopenkov, David R. Doelling, Arata Okuyama

PolInSAR Coherence Region Modeling and Inversion: The Best Normal Matrix Approximation Solution

Authors: Yi Cui, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Sang-Eun Park

Rotational Pixel Swapping Method for Detection of Circular Features in Binary Images

Authors: Satoru Yamamoto, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Ryosuke Nakamura, Yasuhito Sekine, Naru Hirata, Yasushi Yamaguchi

Texture-Based Automatic Separation of Echoes from Distributed Moving Targets in UWB Radar Signals

Authors: Takuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato, Pascal Aubry, Alexander G. Yarovoy

Attitude and Spin Period of Space Debris Envisat Measured by Satellite Laser Ranging

Authors: Daniel Kucharski, Georg Kirchner, Franz Koidl, Cunbo Fan, Randall Carman, Christopher Moore, Andriy Dmytrotsa, Martin Ploner, Giuseppe Bianco, Mikhailo Medvedskij, Andriy Makeyev, Graham Appleby, Michihiro Suzuki, Jean-Marie Torre, Zhongping Zhang, Ludwig Grunwaldt, Qu Feng

A Comparison of In Situ Aircraft Measurements of Carbon Dioxide and Methane to GOSAT Data Measured Over Railroad Valley Playa, Nevada, USA

Authors: Jovan M. Tadic, Max Loewenstein, Christian Frankenberg, Andr Butz, Matthew Roby, Laura T. Iraci, Emma L. Yates, Warren Gore, Akihiko Kuze

Application of Matched Statistical Filters for EarthCARE Cloud Doppler Products

Authors: Ousmane O. Sy, Simone Tanelli, Pavlos Kollias, Yuichi Ohno

Calibration of NIR 2 of Spectral Profiler Onboard Kaguya/SELENE

Authors: Satoru Yamamoto, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Yoshiko Ogawa, Ryosuke Nakamura, Yasuhiro Yokota, Makiko Ohtake, Jun'ichi Haruyama, Tomokatsu Morota, Chikatoshi Honda, Takahiro Hiroi, Shinsuke Kodama

Quaternion Neural-Network-Based PolSAR Land Classification in Poincare-Sphere-Parameter Space

Authors: Fang Shang and Akira Hirose

Uniform Polarimetric Matrix Rotation Theory and Its Applications

Authors: Si-Wei Chen, Xuesong Wang, Motoyuki Sato

Long-Term Vicarious Calibration of GOSAT Short-Wave Sensors: Techniques for Error Reduction and New Estimates of Radiometric Degradation Factors

Authors: Akihiko Kuze, Thomas E. Taylor, Fumie Kataoka, Carol J. Bruegge, David Crisp, Masatomo Harada, Mark Helmlinger, Makoto Inoue, Shuji Kawakami, Nobuhiro Kikuchi, Yasushi Mitomi, Jumpei Murooka, Masataka Naitoh, Denis M. O'Brien, Christopher W. O'Dell, Hirofumi Ohyama, Harold Pollock, Florian M. Schwandner, Kei Shiomi, Hiroshi Suto, Toru Takeda, Tomoaki Tanaka, Tomoyuki Urabe, Tatsuya Yokota, Yukio Yoshida

Influence of Heterogeneous Soils and Clutter on the Performance of Ground-Penetrating Radar for Landmine Detection

Authors: Kazunori Takahashi, Jan Igel, Holger Preetz, Motoyuki Sato

Aquarius Wind Speed Products: Algorithms and Validation

Authors: Alexander G. Fore, Simon H. Yueh, Wenqing Tang, Akiko Hayashi, Gary S. E. Lagerloef

On Complete Model-Based Decomposition of Polarimetric SAR Coherency Matrix Data

Authors: Yi Cui, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Jian Yang, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Sang-Eun Park, Gulab Singh

Adaptive Model-Based Polarimetric Decomposition Using PolInSAR Coherence

Authors: Si-Wei Chen, Xuesong Wang, Yongzhen Li, Motoyuki Sato

General Polarimetric Model-Based Decomposition for Coherency Matrix

Authors: Si-Wei Chen, Xuesong Wang, Shunping Xiao, Motoyuki Sato

Efficient Motion Compensation of a Moving Object on SAR Imagery Based on Velocity Correlation Function

Author: Motofumi Arii

Capability Assessment of Fully Polarimetric ALOS-PALSAR Data for Discriminating Wet Snow From Other Scattering Types in Mountainous Regions

Authors: Gulab Singh, Gopalan Venkataraman, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Sang-Eun Park

Simulation of EarthCARE Spaceborne Doppler Radar Products Using Ground-Based and Airborne Data: Effects of Aliasing and Nonuniform Beam-Filling

Authors: Ousmane O. Sy, Simone Tanelli, Nobuhiro Takahashi, Yuichi Ohno, Hiroaki Horie, Pavlos Kollias

Quantifying Uncertainties in Land-Surface Microwave Emissivity Retrievals

Authors: Yudong Tian, Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Kenneth W. Harrison, Catherine Prigent, Hamidreza Norouzi, Filipe Aires, Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, Fumie A. Furuzawa, Hirohiko Masunaga

Nonlinear Unmixing of Hyperspectral Data Using Semi-Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Authors: Naoto Yokoya, Jocelyn Chanussot, Akira Iwasaki

Automatic GCP Extraction of Fully Polarimetric SAR Images

Authors: Kamolratn Chureesampant and Junichi Susaki

TIR Spectral Radiance Calibration of the GOSAT Satellite Borne TANSO-FTS With the Aircraft-Based S-HIS and the Ground-Based S-AERI at the Railroad Valley Desert Playa

Authors: Fumie Kataoka, Robert O. Knuteson, Akihiko Kuze, Hiroshi Suto, Kei Shiomi, Masatomo Harada, Elise M. Garms, Jacola A. Roman, David C. Tobin, Joe K. Taylor, Henry E. Revercomb, Nami Sekio, Riko Higuchi, Yasushi Mitomi

Polarimetric SAR Response of Snow-Covered Area Observed by Multi-Temporal ALOS PALSAR Fully Polarimetric Mode

Authors: Sang-Eun Park, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Gulab Singh, Satoru Yamaguchi, Andrew C. Whitaker

Testing the Polarization Model for TANSO-FTS on GOSAT Against Clear-Sky Observations of Sun Glint Over the Ocean

Authors: Denis M. O'Brien, Igor Polonsky, Christopher W. O'Dell, Akihiko Kuze, Nobuhiro Kikuchi, Yukio Yoshida, Vijay Natraj

The Basic Performance of a Precipitation Retrieval Algorithm for the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission's Single/Dual-Frequency Radar Measurements

Authors: Shinta Seto, Toshio Iguchi, Taikan Oki

L-Band Passive and Active Microwave Geophysical Model Functions of Ocean Surface Winds and Applications to Aquarius Retrieval

Authors: Simon H. Yueh, Wenqing Tang, Alexander G. Fore, Gregory Neumann, Akiko Hayashi, Adam P. Freedman, Julian Chaubell, Gary S. E. Lagerloef

Local Subpixel Coregistration of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Based on Fractal Models

Authors: Donny Danudirdjo and Akira Hirose

Receiver Performance of the Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) on the International Space Station

Authors: Satoshi Ochiai, Kenichi Kikuchi, Toshiyuki Nishibori, Takeshi Manabe, Hiroyuki Ozeki, Satoko Mizobuchi, Yoshihisa Irimajiri

Denoising Atmospheric Radar Signals Using Spectral-Based Subspace Method Applicable for PBS Wind Estimation

Authors: V. N. Sureshbabu, V. K. Anandan, Toshitaka Tsuda, Jun-ichi Furumoto, Sarangam Vijaya Bhaskar Rao

Analysis on the Resolution of Polarimetric Radar and Performance Evaluation of the Polarimetric Bandwidth Extrapolation Method

Authors: Kei Suwa, Masafumi Iwamoto, Toshio Wakayama

Retrieval of Inherent Optical Properties for Turbid Inland Waters From Remote-Sensing Reflectance

Authors: Wei Yang, Bunkei Matsushita, Jin Chen, Kazuya Yoshimura, Takehiko Fukushima

On Semiparametric Clutter Estimation for Ship Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images

Authors: Yi Cui, Jian Yang, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Gulab Singh, Sang-Eun Park, Hirokazu Kobayashi

Improved Performance in Horizontal Wind Estimation Using a Spaced Antenna Drift Technique and Signal Processing Approaches

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Spatio-Temporal Image Pattern Prediction Method Based on a Physical Model With Time-Varying Optical Flow

Author: Hidetomo Sakaino

General Four-Component Scattering Power Decomposition With Unitary Transformation of Coherency Matrix

Authors: Gulab Singh, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Sang-Eun Park

Soil Moisture and Thermal Behavior in the Vicinity of Buried Objects Affecting Remote Sensing Detection: Experimental and Modeling Investigation

Authors: Kathleen M. Smits, Abdullah Cihan, Toshihiro Sakaki, Stacy E. Howington, John F. Peters, Tissa H. Illangasekare

MMSE Beam Forming on Fast-Scanning Phased Array Weather Radar

Authors: Eiichi Yoshikawa, Tomoo Ushio, Zen Kawasaki, Satoru Yoshida, Takeshi Morimoto, Fumihiko Mizutani, Masakazu Wada

Tsunami Damage Investigation of Built-Up Areas Using Multitemporal Spaceborne Full Polarimetric SAR Images

Authors: Si-Wei Chen and Motoyuki Sato

The Variation of Land Surface Phenology From 1982 to 2006 Along the Appalachian Trail

Authors: Jianjun Zhao, Yeqiao Wang, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Forrest S. Melton, Samuel H. Hiatt, Hongyan Zhang, Ramakrishna R. Nemani

GSICS Inter-Calibration of Infrared Channels of Geostationary Imagers Using Metop/IASI

Authors: Tim J. Hewison, Xiangqian Wu, Fangfang Yu, Yoshihiko Tahara, Xiuqing Hu, Dohyeong Kim, Marianne Koenig

Spectral Compatibility of the NDVI Across VIIRS, MODIS, and AVHRR: An Analysis of Atmospheric Effects Using EO-1 Hyperion

Authors: Tomoaki Miura, Joshua P. Turner, Alfredo R. Huete

Retrieval of Cirrus Cloud Properties From the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder: The k-Coefficient Approach Using Cloud-Cleared Radiances as Input

Authors: Steve S. C. Ou, Brian H. Kahn, Kuo-Nan Liou, Yoshihide Takano, Mathias M. Schreier, Qing Yue

Spectral Correction for the Effect of Crown Shape at the Single-Tree Level: An Approach Using a Lidar-Derived Digital Surface Model for Broad-Leaved Canopy

Authors: Youngkeun Song, Junichi Imanishi, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Atsuo Morimura, Yukihiro Morimoto, Katsunori Kitada

An Evaluation of Microwave Land Surface Emissivities Over the Continental United States to Benefit GPM-Era Precipitation Algorithms

Authors: Ralph Ferraro, Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Cecilia Hernndez, F. Joseph Turk, Filipe Aires, Catherine Prigent, Xin Lin, Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, Fumie A. Furuzawa, Kaushik Gopalan, Kenneth W. Harrison, Fatima Karbou, Li Li, Chuntao Liu, Hirohiko Masunaga, Leslie Moy, Sarah E. Ringerud, Gail M. Skofronick-Jackson, Yudong Tian, Nai-Yu Wang

Performance Analysis of Optimum Tilt Angle and Beam Configuration to Derive Horizontal Wind Velocities by Postset Beam Steering Technique

Authors: V. N. Sureshbabu, V. K. Anandan, Toshitaka Tsuda, Jun-ichi Furumoto, S. Vijayabhaskara Rao

PolInSAR Complex Coherence Estimation Based on Covariance Matrix Similarity Test

Authors: Si-Wei Chen, Xue-Song Wang, Motoyuki Sato

A Wavelet Spectral Analysis Technique for Automatic Detection of Geomagnetic Sudden Commencements

Authors: Ali Gamal Hafez, Essam Ghamry, Hideki Yayama, Kiyohumi Yumoto

Cross Calibration of Formosat-2 Remote Sensing Instrument (RSI) Using Terra Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)

Authors: Akihide Kamei, Kazuki Nakamura, Hirokazu Yamamoto, Ryosuke Nakamura, Satoshi Tsuchida, Naotaka Yamamoto, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Soushi Kato, Cheng-Chien Liu, Kuo-Hsien Hsu, An-Ming Wu

Development of the Coupled Atmosphere and Land Data Assimilation System (CALDAS) and Its Application Over the Tibetan Plateau

Authors: Mohamed Rasmy, Toshio Koike, David N. Kuria, Cyrus Raza Mirza, Xin Li, Kun Yang

Technical Methodology for ASTER Global DEM

Authors: Hiroyuki Fujisada, Minoru Urai, Akira Iwasaki

Interference Criterion for Coaxial-Fed Circular Dipole Array Antenna in a Borehole

Authors: Satoshi Ebihara, Hideharu Hanaoka, Takashi Okumura, Yoshito Wada

Estimation of the Repeat-Pass ALOS PALSAR Interferometric Baseline Through Direct Least-Square Ellipse Fitting

Authors: Boli Xiong, Jing M. Chen, Gangyao Kuang, Nobuhiko Kadowaki

Self-Consistency of Marine Surface Wind Vectors Observed by ASCAT

Author: Naoto Ebuchi

Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing of Kaguya Lunar Radar Sounder Data for Lunar Subsurface Imaging

Authors: Takao Kobayashi, Jung-Ho Kim, Seung Ryeol Lee, Atsushi Kumamoto, Hiromu Nakagawa, Shoko Oshigami, Hiroshi Oya, Yasushi Yamaguchi, Atsushi Yamaji, Takayuki Ono

Retrievals of Total and Tropospheric Ozone From GOSAT Thermal Infrared Spectral Radiances

Authors: Hirofumi Ohyama, Shuji Kawakami, Kei Shiomi, Koji Miyagawa

Combination of AVNIR-2, PALSAR, and Polarimetric Parameters for Land Cover Classification

Authors: Hasi Bagan, Tsuguki Kinoshita, Yoshiki Yamagata

Predictive Quantization of Range-Focused SAR Raw Data

Authors: Takeshi Ikuma, Mort Naraghi-Pour, Thomas Lewis

A Saturated Light Correction Method for DMSP/OLS Nighttime Satellite Imagery

Authors: Husi Letu, Masanao Hara, Gegen Tana, Fumihiko Nishio

Comparison of Ray-Tracing Packages for Troposphere Delays

Authors: Vahab Nafisi, Landon Urquhart, Marcelo C. Santos, Felipe G. Nievinski, Johannes Bhm, Dudy D. Wijaya, Harald Schuh, Alireza Azmoudeh Ardalan, Thomas Hobiger, Ryuichi Ichikawa, Florian Zus, Jens Wickert, Pascal Gegout

Coupled Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Unmixing for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Data Fusion

Authors: Naoto Yokoya, Takehisa Yairi, Akira Iwasaki

Long-Term Consecutive DInSAR for Volume Change Estimation of Land Deformation

Authors: Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Masanobu Shimada, Pierre-Philippe Mathieu, Hasanuddin Zainal Abidin

Comparison of Cloud-Screening Methods Applied to GOSAT Near-Infrared Spectra

Authors: Thomas E. Taylor, Christopher W. O'Dell, Denis M. O'Brien, Nobuyuki Kikuchi, Tatsuya Yokota, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Haruma Ishida, David Crisp, Teruyuki Nakajima

Analysis of the Sources of Variation in L-band Backscatter From Terrains With Permafrost

Authors: Manabu Watanabe, Gaku Kadosaki, Yongwon Kim, Mamoru Ishikawa, Keiji Kushida, Yuki Sawada, Takeo Tadono, Masami Fukuda, Motoyuki Sato

Advanced Methodology for ASTER DEM Generation

Authors: Hiroyuki Fujisada, Minoru Urai, Akira Iwasaki

Extended Imaging Algorithm Based on Aperture Synthesis With Double-Scattered Waves for UWB Radars

Authors: Shouhei Kidera, Takuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato

CERES Edition-2 Cloud Property Retrievals Using TRMM VIRS and Terra and Aqua MODIS Data - Part I: Algorithms

Authors: Patrick Minnis, Szedung Sun-Mack, David F. Young, Patrick W. Heck, Donald P. Garber, Yan Chen, Douglas A. Spangenberg, Robert F. Arduini, Qing Z. Trepte, William L. Smith, Kirk Ayers, Sharon Gibson, Walter F. Miller, Gang Hong, Venkatesan Chakrapani, Yoshihide Takano, Kuo-Nan Liou, Yu Xie, Ping Yang

Two-Dimensional Ultrawideband Radar Imaging of a Target With Arbitrary Translation and Rotation

Authors: Takuya Sakamoto and Toru Sato

Preflight and In-Flight Calibration of the Spectral Profiler on Board SELENE (Kaguya)

Authors: Satoru Yamamoto, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Yoshiko Ogawa, Ryosuke Nakamura, Yasuhiro Yokota, Makiko Ohtake, Jun'ichi Haruyama, Tomokatsu Morota, Chikatoshi Honda, Takahiro Hiroi, Shinsuke Kodama

The KC PALSAR Mosaic of the African Continent: Processing Issues and First Thematic Results

Authors: Gianfranco De Grandi, Alexandre Bouvet, Richard M. Lucas, Masanobu Shimada, Stefano Monaco, Ake Rosenqvist

SVD Inversion of Zero-Offset Profiling Data Obtained in the Vadose Zone Using Cross-Borehole Radar

Authors: Hannuree Jang, Seiichiro Kuroda, Hee Joon Kim

A Relaxed Matrix Inversion Method for Retrieving Water Constituent Concentrations in Case II Waters: The Case of Lake Kasumigaura, Japan

Authors: Wei Yang, Bunkei Matsushita, Jin Chen, Takehiko Fukushima

Model-Based Decomposition of Polarimetric SAR Covariance Matrices Constrained for Nonnegative Eigenvalues

Authors: Jakob J. van Zyl, Motofumi Arii, Yunjin Kim

A Novel Approach to Mitigation of Radar Beam Weighting Effect on Coherent Radar Imaging Using VHF Atmospheric Radar

Authors: Jenn-Shyong Chen and Jun-ichi Furumoto

Improving the Measurement Accuracy of Three-Dimensional Topography Changes Using Optical Satellite Stereo Image Data

Authors: Masaru Koga and Akira Iwasaki

Development of a Satellite Land Data Assimilation System Coupled With a Mesoscale Model in the Tibetan Plateau

Authors: Mohamed Rasmy, Toshio Koike, Souhail Boussetta, Hui Lu, Xin Li

Validation of Frame-Transfer Correction of SELENE/LISM/MI

Authors: Taichi Takayama, Akira Iwasaki, Yasuhiro Yokota, Tomokatsu Morota, Jun'ichi Haruyama, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Makiko Ohtake

Assessment of ALOS PALSAR 50 m Orthorectified FBD Data for Regional Land Cover Classification by Support Vector Machines

Authors: Nicolas Longp, Preesan Rakwatin, Osamu Isoguchi, Masanobu Shimada, Yumiko Uryu, Kokok Yulianto

Detecting Spatiotemporal Changes of Corn Developmental Stages in the U.S. Corn Belt Using MODIS WDRVI Data

Authors: Toshihiro Sakamoto, Brian D. Wardlow, Anatoly A. Gitelson

Applicability of the Iterative Backward Retrieval Method for the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar

Authors: Shinta Seto and Toshio Iguchi

Three-Dimensional Target Geometry and Target Motion Estimation Method Using Multistatic ISAR Movies and Its Performance

Authors: Kei Suwa, Toshio Wakayama, Masafumi Iwamoto

Four-Component Scattering Power Decomposition With Rotation of Coherency Matrix

Authors: Yoshio Yamaguchi, Akinobu Sato, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Ryoichi Sato, Hiroyoshi Yamada

Vicarious Calibration of the GOSAT Sensors Using the Railroad Valley Desert Playa

Authors: Akihiko Kuze, Denis M. O'Brien, Thomas E. Taylor, Jason O. Day, Christopher W. O'Dell, Fumie Kataoka, Mayumi Yoshida, Yasushi Mitomi, Carol J. Bruegge, Harold Pollock, Ralph Basilio, Mark Helmlinger, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Shuji Kawakami, Kei Shiomi, Tomoyuki Urabe, Hiroshi Suto

Model-Based Polarimetric SAR Calibration Method Using Forest and Surface-Scattering Targets

Author: Masanobu Shimada

Linear Feature Detection in Polarimetric SAR Images

Authors: Guangyi Zhou, Yi Cui, Yilun Chen, Jian Yang, Habib Rashvand, Yoshio Yamaguchi

Adaptive Model-Based Decomposition of Polarimetric SAR Covariance Matrices

Authors: Motofumi Arii, Jakob J. van Zyl, Yunjin Kim

hboxHE11 Mode Effect on Direct Wave in Single-Hole Borehole Radar

Authors: Satoshi Ebihara, Akihito Sasakura, Taro Takemoto

GRS-S Awards Presented at IGARSS 2009

Authors: Martti Hallikainen, Werner Wiesbeck, R. Keith Raney, Kiyo Tomiyasu, Paolo Pampaloni, Roger H. Lang, Klaus Seidel, Charles Elachi, Akiro Ishimaru, Wolfgang Keydel, John Reagan

SPEC Method - A Fine Coregistration Method for SAR Interferometry

Authors: Ryo Natsuaki and Akira Hirose

A General Characterization for Polarimetric Scattering From Vegetation Canopies

Authors: Motofumi Arii, Jakob J. van Zyl, Yunjin Kim

Raindrop Size Distribution Parameters of Distrometer Data With Different Bin Sizes

Authors: M. Marzuki, Walter L. Randeu, Michael Schnhuber, Viswanathan N. Bringi, Toshiaki Kozu, Toyoshi Shimomai

Development and Initial Observation of High-Resolution Volume-Scanning Radar for Meteorological Application

Authors: Eiichi Yoshikawa, Tomoo Ushio, Zen Kawasaki, Tomoaki Mega, Satoru Yoshida, Takeshi Morimoto, Katsuyuki Imai, Shin'ichiro Nagayama

Estimation and Error Analysis of Woody Canopy Leaf Area Density Profiles Using 3-D Airborne and Ground-Based Scanning Lidar Remote-Sensing Techniques

Authors: Fumiki Hosoi, Yahei Nakai, Kenji Omasa

Accurate UWB Radar Three-Dimensional Imaging Algorithm for a Complex Boundary Without Range Point Connections

Authors: Shouhei Kidera, Takuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato

Vicarious Calibration of the Formosat-2 Remote Sensing Instrument

Authors: Cheng-Chien Liu, Akihide Kamei, Kuo-Hsien Hsu, Satoshi Tsuchida, H.-M. Huang, Soushi Kato, Ryosuke Nakamura, An-Ming Wu

Detection Algorithm of Earthquake-Related Rock Failures From Satellite-Borne Microwave Radiometer Data

Authors: Takashi Maeda and Tadashi Takano

F-k Filter Designs to Suppress Direct Waves for Bistatic Ground Penetrating Radar

Authors: Naoki Hayashi and Motoyuki Sato

The Impact of Solar Irradiance on AJISAI's Spin Period Measured by the Graz 2-kHz SLR System

Authors: Daniel Kucharski, Georg Kirchner, Toshimichi Otsubo, Franz Koidl

OCO/GOSAT Preflight Cross-Calibration Experiment

Authors: Fumihiro Sakuma, Carol J. Bruegge, David M. Rider, David Brown, Sven Geier, Shuji Kawakami, Akihiko Kuze

Calibration of Polarimetric PALSAR Imagery Affected by Faraday Rotation Using Polarization Orientation

Author: Hiroshi Kimura

The PALSAR Polarimetric Mode for Sea Oil Slick Observation

Authors: Maurizio Migliaccio, Attilio Gambardella, Ferdinando Nunziata, Masanobu Shimada, Osamu Isoguchi

Improvement of AVNIR-2 Radiometric Calibration by Comparison of Cross-Calibration and Onboard Lamp Calibration

Authors: Hiroshi Murakami, Takeo Tadono, Hiroko Imai, Jens Nieke, Masanobu Shimada

A New Method for Correcting ScanSAR Scalloping Using Forests and Inter-SCAN Banding Employing Dynamic Filtering

Author: Masanobu Shimada

PALSAR Radiometric and Geometric Calibration

Authors: Masanobu Shimada, Osamu Isoguchi, Takeo Tadono, Kazuo Isono

Foreword to the Special Issue on Calibration and Validation of ALOS Sensors (PALSAR, AVNIR-2, and PRISM) and Their Use for Bio- and Geophysical Parameter Retrievals

Authors: Masanobu Shimada, Ridha Touzi, Takeo Tadono, James Smith

Calibration of PRISM and AVNIR-2 Onboard ALOS "Daichi"

Authors: Takeo Tadono, Masanobu Shimada, Hiroshi Murakami, Junichi Takaku

PRISM On-Orbit Geometric Calibration and DSM Performance

Authors: Junichi Takaku and Takeo Tadono

Verification of Polarimetric Calibration Method Including Faraday Rotation Compensation Using PALSAR Data

Authors: Akihito Takeshiro, Tomohiro Furuya, Hajime Fukuchi

Polarimetric PALSAR Calibration

Authors: Ridha Touzi and Masanobu Shimada

GRS-S Awards Presented at IGARSS 2008

Authors: Martti Hallikainen, Werner Wiesbeck, R. Keith Raney, Kiyo Tomiyasu, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Roger H. Lang, Klaus Seidel

Computation of Troposphere Slant Delays on a GPU

Authors: Thomas Hobiger, Ryuichi Ichikawa, Yasuhiro Koyama, Tetsuro Kondo

Performance of Discrete-Fourier-Transform-Based Velocity Estimators for a Wind-Sensing Coherent Doppler Lidar System in the Kolmogorov Turbulence Regime

Authors: Shumpei Kameyama, Toshiyuki Ando, Kimio Asaka, Yoshihito Hirano, Shusou Wadaka

Integration of DEM, ETM+, Geologic, and Magnetic Data for Geological Investigations in the Jifara Plain, Libya

Authors: Nureddin M. Saadi, Essam Aboud, Koichiro Watanabe

Improved Correction of Beam Mismatch of the Precipitation Radar After Orbit Boost of the TRMM Satellite

Authors: Tetsuya Tagawa, Hiroshi Hanado, Shuji Shimizu, Riko Oki

The GSMaP Precipitation Retrieval Algorithm for Microwave Sounders - Part I: Over-Ocean Algorithm

Authors: Shoichi Shige, Tomoya Yamamoto, Takeaki Tsukiyama, Satoshi Kida, Hiroki Ashiwake, Takuji Kubota, Shinta Seto, Kazumasa Aonashi, Ken'ichi Okamoto

Nonlinear Regression Models to Identify Functional Forms of Deforestation in East Asia

Authors: Shojiro Tanaka and Ryuei Nishii

Generalization of Subpixel Analysis for Hyperspectral Data With Flexibility in Spectral Similarity Measures

Authors: Jin Chen, Xiuping Jia, Wei Yang, Bunkei Matsushita

An L-Band Ocean Geophysical Model Function Derived From PALSAR

Authors: Osamu Isoguchi and Masanobu Shimada

Effects of Birefringence Within Ice Sheets on Obliquely Propagating Radio Waves

Authors: Kenichi Matsuoka, Larry Wilen, Shawn P. Hurley, Charles F. Raymond

Analysis of Eccentered Dipole Antenna for Borehole Radar

Authors: Satoshi Ebihara and Yoshihiro Inoue

Measurements of Dielectric Constant of Volcanic Ash Erupted From Five Volcanoes in Japan

Authors: Tomohiro Oguchi, Munehiro Udagawa, Noriyuki Nanba, Masayuki Maki, Yasuhiro Ishimine

Code-Division Multiple Transmission for High-Speed UWB Radar Imaging With an Antenna Array

Authors: Takuya Sakamoto and Toru Sato

UAV-Borne 3-D Mapping System by Multisensor Integration

Authors: Masahiko Nagai, Tianen Chen, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Hideo Kumagai, Afzal Ahmed

Restoration of Aqua MODIS Band 6 Using Histogram Matching and Local Least Squares Fitting

Authors: Preesan Rakwatin, Wataru Takeuchi, Yoshifumi Yasuoka

Algorithm to Retrieve Aerosol Optical Properties From High-Spectral-Resolution Lidar and Polarization Mie-Scattering Lidar Measurements

Authors: Tomoaki Nishizawa, Nobuo Sugimoto, Ichiro Matsui, Atsushi Shimizu, Boyan Tatarov, Hajime Okamoto

High-Resolution and Real-Time Three-Dimensional Imaging Algorithm With Envelopes of Spheres for UWB Radars

Authors: Shouhei Kidera, Takuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato

Accuracy and Resolution of ALOS Interferometry: Vector Deformation Maps of the Father's Day Intrusion at Kilauea

Authors: David T. Sandwell, David Myer, Robert Mellors, Masanobu Shimada, Benjamin A. Brooks, James H. Foster

Turbidity in the Amazon Floodplain Assessed Through a Spatial Regression Model Applied to Fraction Images Derived From MODIS/Terra

Authors: Enner H. Alcntara, Jos Stech, Evlyn M. L. M. Novo, Yosio Shimabukuro, Cludio C. F. Barbosa

Leaf-Shedding Phenology in Lowland Tropical Seasonal Forests of Cambodia as Estimated From NOAA Satellite Images

Authors: Eriko Ito, Makoto Araki, Bora Tith, Pol Sopheavuth, Craig Trotter, Mamoru Kanzaki, Seiichi Ohta

Vicarious Calibration of ASTER via the Reflectance-Based Approach

Authors: Kurtis J. Thome, Kohei Arai, Satoshi Tsuchida, Stuart F. Biggar

Discrimination of Local and Faint Changes From Satellite-Borne Microwave-Radiometer Data

Authors: Takashi Maeda and Tadashi Takano

Analysis of Ground-Based SAR Data With Diverse Temporal Baselines

Authors: Linhsia Noferini, Takuya Takayama, Massimiliano Pieraccini, Daniele Mecatti, Giovanni Macaluso, Guido Luzi, Carlo Atzeni

Characteristics of TRMM/PR System Noise and Their Application to the Rain Detection Algorithm

Authors: Nobuhiro Takahashi and Toshio Iguchi

POLSAR Image Analysis of Wetlands Using a Modified Four-Component Scattering Power Decomposition

Authors: Yuki Yajima, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Ryoichi Sato, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner

The Assimilation of SSMIS Radiances in Numerical Weather Prediction Models

Authors: William Bell, Brett Candy, Nigel Atkinson, Fiona Hilton, Nancy C. Baker, Niels Bormann, Graeme Kelly, Masahiro Kazumori, William F. Campbell, Steven D. Swadley

Accuracy of the K-Distribution Regression Model for Forest Biomass Estimation by High-Resolution Polarimetric SAR: Comparison of Model Estimation and Field Data

Authors: Haipeng Wang and Kazuo Ouchi

Estimating Broadband Emissivity of Arid Regions and Its Seasonal Variations Using Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing

Authors: Kenta Ogawa, Thomas J. Schmugge, Shuichi Rokugawa

Retrieval of Atmospheric Integrated Water Vapor and Cloud Liquid Water Content Over the Ocean From Satellite Data Using the 1-D-Var Ice Cloud Microphysics Data Assimilation System (IMDAS)

Authors: Cyrus Raza Mirza, Toshio Koike, Kun Yang, Tobias Graf

Correction of Attitude Fluctuation of Terra Spacecraft Using ASTER/SWIR Imagery With Parallax Observation

Authors: Yu Teshima and Akira Iwasaki

Efficient Reduction of Landsat TM Memory Effect Using Differential State Equation

Author: Yoshikazu Iikura

Analysis of Polarization Orientation Angle Shifts by Artificial Structures

Authors: Koichi Iribe and Motoyuki Sato

Hyperspectral Image Classification by Bootstrap AdaBoost With Random Decision Stumps

Authors: Kawaguchi Kawaguchi and Ryuei Nishii

ALOS PALSAR: A Pathfinder Mission for Global-Scale Monitoring of the Environment

Authors: Ake Rosenqvist, Masanobu Shimada, Norimasa Ito, Manabu Watanabe

SEABED Algorithm and Comments on "Modeling and Migration of 2-D Georadar Data: A Stationary Phase Approach"

Authors: Takuya Sakamoto, Shouhei Kidera, Toru Sato

GRS-S Awards Presented at IGARSS 2006

Authors: Werner Wiesbeck, R. Keith Raney, Kamal Sarabandi, Kiyo Tomiyasu, Yoshio Yamaguchi

Singularity-Spreading Phase Unwrapping

Authors: Ryo Yamaki and Akira Hirose

Evaluation of MODIS Land Cover and LAI Products in Cropland of North China Plain Using In Situ Measurements and Landsat TM Images

Authors: Peng Yang, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Wenbin Wu, Qingbo Zhou, Zhongxin Chen, Yan Zha, Yun Shi, Huajun Tang

Rain Retrieval Performance of a Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar Technique With Differential-Attenuation Constraint

Authors: Nanda B. Adhikari, Toshio Iguchi, Shinta Seto, Nobuhiro Takahashi

Foreword to the Special Issue on Subsurface Sensing Using Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR)

Authors: Chi-Chih Chen, Joel T. Johnson, Motoyuki Sato, Alexander G. Yarovoy

MoM Analysis of Dipole Antennas in Crosshole Borehole Radar and Field Experiments

Authors: Satoshi Ebihara and Yuuki Hashimoto

Walled LTSA Array for Rapid, High Spatial Resolution, and Phase-Sensitive Imaging to Visualize Plastic Landmines

Authors: Soichi Masuyama and Akira Hirose

A Novel Directional Borehole Radar System Using Optical Electric Field Sensors

Authors: Motoyuki Sato and Takuya Takayama

A Novel Direction-Finding Algorithm for Directional Borehole Radar

Authors: Takuya Takayama and Motoyuki Sato

Physical Validation of Microwave Properties of Winter Precipitation Over the Sea of Japan

Authors: Kazumasa Aonashi, Toshio Koike, Ken-ichiro Muramoto, Keiji Imaoka, Nobuhiro Takahashi, Guosheng Liu, Yoo-Jeong Noh

Global Precipitation Map Using Satellite-Borne Microwave Radiometers by the GSMaP Project: Production and Validation

Authors: Takuji Kubota, Shoichi Shige, Hiroshi Hashizume, Kazumasa Aonashi, Nobuhiro Takahashi, Shinta Seto, Yukari N. Takayabu, Tomoo Ushio, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Koyuru Iwanami, Misako Kachi, Ken'ichi Okamoto

Absolute Radiometric In-Flight Validation of Mid Infrared and Thermal Infrared Data From ASTER and MODIS on the Terra Spacecraft Using the Lake Tahoe, CA/NV, USA, Automated Validation Site

Authors: Simon J. Hook, R. Greg Vaughan, Hideyuki Tonooka, S. Geoffrey Schladow

Characteristics of Tsunami-Affected Areas in Moderate-Resolution Satellite Images

Authors: Ken'ichi Kouchi and Fumio Yamazaki

Stripe Noise Reduction in MODIS Data by Combining Histogram Matching With Facet Filter

Authors: Preesan Rakwatin, Wataru Takeuchi, Yoshifumi Yasuoka

Detection and Volume Estimation of Large-Scale Landslides Based on Elevation-Change Analysis Using DEMs Extracted From High-Resolution Satellite Stereo Imagery

Authors: Ken Tsutsui, Shuichi Rokugawa, Hideaki Nakagawa, Sanae Miyazaki, Chin-Tung Cheng, Takashi Shiraishi, Shiun-Der Yang

Field-Supported Verification and Improvement of a Passive Microwave Surface Emission Model for Rough, Bare, and Wet Soil Surfaces by Incorporating Shadowing Effects

Authors: David N. Kuria, Toshio Koike, Hui Lu, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Tobias Graf

Suppression of Surface Clutter Interference With Precipitation Measurements by Spaceborne Precipitation Radar

Authors: Tetsuya Tagawa, Hiroshi Hanado, Ken'ichi Okamoto, Toshiaki Kozu

Reconstruction From Antenna-Transformed Radar Data Using a Time-Domain Reconstruction Method

Authors: Hui Zhou, Motoyuki Sato, Takashi Takenaka, Guofa Li

Investigation of Time-Frequency Features for GPR Landmine Discrimination

Authors: Timofey Grigorievich Savelyev, Luc Van Kempen, Hichem Sahli, Jrgen Sachs, Motoyuki Sato

Validation of MODIS Albedo Products of Paddy Fields in Japan

Authors: Junichi Susaki, Yoshifumi Yasuoka, Koji Kajiwara, Yoshiaki Honda, Keitarou Hara

A Two-Dimensional Bandwidth Extrapolation Technique for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Images

Authors: Kei Suwa and Masafumi Iwamoto

Voxel-Based 3-D Modeling of Individual Trees for Estimating Leaf Area Density Using High-Resolution Portable Scanning Lidar

Authors: Fumiki Hosoi and Kenji Omasa

Radar Polarimetry Analysis Applied to Single-Hole Fully Polarimetric Borehole Radar

Authors: Jian-Guo Zhao and Motoyuki Sato

Spatiotemporal Fusion of Rice Actual Evapotranspiration With Genetic Algorithms and an Agrohydrological Model

Authors: Yann H. Chemin and Kiyoshi Honda

Estimation of Path-Integrated Attenuation and Its Nonuniformity From TRMM/PR Range Profile Data

Authors: Nobuhiro Takahashi, Hiroshi Hanado, Toshio Iguchi

Parametric Inversion Technique for Location of Cylindrical Structures by Cross-Hole Measurements

Authors: Kazunori Takahashi and Motoyuki Sato

Forest Structure Dependency of the Relation Between L-Band Sigma 0 and Biophysical Parameters

Authors: Manabu Watanabe, Masanobu Shimada, Ake Rosenqvist, Takeo Tadono, Masayuki Matsuoka, Shakil Ahmad Romshoo, Kazuo Ohta, Ryoichi Furuta, Kazuki Nakamura, Toshifumi Moriyama

Prediction of Continental-Scale Evapotranspiration by Combining MODIS and AmeriFlux Data Through Support Vector Machine

Authors: Feihua Yang, Michael A. White, Andrew R. Michaelis, Kazuhito Ichii, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Petr Votava, A-Xing Zhu, Ramakrishna R. Nemani

Polarimetric Features of Oyster Farm Observed by AIRSAR and JERS-1

Authors: Seung-Kuk Lee, Sang-Hoon Hong, Sang-Wan Kim, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Joong-Sun Won

GRS-S Awards Presented at IGARSS 2005

Authors: Werner Wiesbeck, R. Keith Raney, Kamal Sarabandi, Kiyo Tomiyasu, Yoshio Yamaguchi

Fast numerical modeling of multitransmitter electromagnetic data using multigrid quasi-linear approximation

Authors: Takumi Ueda and Michael S. Zhdanov

Stratospheric ozone isotope enrichment studied by submillimeter wave heterodyne radiometry: the observation capabilities of SMILES

Authors: Yasuko J. Kasai, Joachim Urban, Chikako Takahashi, So Hoshino, Kenshi Takahashi, Junji Inatani, Masato Shiotani, Harunobu Masuko

Monolithic folded pendulum accelerometers for seismic monitoring and active isolation systems

Authors: Alessandro Bertolini, Riccardo DeSalvo, Francesco Fidecaro, Akiteru Takamori

Resonance analysis of a circular dipole array antenna in cylindrically layered media for directional borehole radar

Authors: Satoshi Ebihara and Takashi Yamamoto

Radiometric performance evaluation of ASTER VNIR, SWIR, and TIR

Authors: Kohei Arai and Hideyuki Tonooka

ASTER DEM performance

Authors: Hiroyuki Fujisada, G. Bryan Bailey, Glenn G. Kelly, Seiichi Hara, Michael J. Abrams

ASTER geometric performance

Authors: Akira Iwasaki and Hiroyuki Fujisada

Correction of stray light and filter scratch blurring for ASTER imagery

Authors: Akira Iwasaki and Eimei Oyama

Validation of a crosstalk correction algorithm for ASTER/SWIR

Authors: Akira Iwasaki and Hideyuki Tonooka

Onboard calibration of the ASTER instrument

Authors: Fumihiro Sakuma, Akira Ono, Satoshi Tsuchida, Nagamitsu Ohgi, Hitomi Inada, Shigeki Akagi, Hidehiko Ono

Inflight straylight analysis for ASTER thermal infrared bands

Author: Hideyuki Tonooka

Accurate atmospheric correction of ASTER thermal infrared imagery using the WVS method

Author: Hideyuki Tonooka

Validation of ASTER/TIR standard atmospheric correction using water surfaces

Authors: Hideyuki Tonooka and Frank D. Palluconi

Vicarious calibration of ASTER thermal infrared bands

Authors: Hideyuki Tonooka, Frank D. Palluconi, Simon J. Hook, Tsuneo Matsunaga

Observation of sea-ice thickness in the sea of Okhotsk by using dual-frequency and fully polarimetric airborne SAR (pi-SAR) data

Authors: Kazuki Nakamura, Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Kazuhiro Naoki, Fumihiko Nishio, Teruo Moriyama, Seiho Uratsuka

Supervised image classification by contextual AdaBoost based on posteriors in neighborhoods

Authors: Ryuei Nishii and Shinto Eguchi

GRS-S Awards Presented at IGARSS 2004

Authors: Werner Wiesbeck, R. Keith Raney, Kamal Sarabandi, Kiyo Tomiyasu, James A. Smith

Vicarious calibration of GLI by ground observation data

Authors: Mayumi Yoshida, Hiroshi Murakami, Yasushi Mitomi, Masahiro Hori, Kurt J. Thome, Dennis K. Clark, Hajime Fukushima

Four-component scattering model for polarimetric SAR image decomposition

Authors: Yoshio Yamaguchi, Toshifumi Moriyama, Motoi Ishido, Hiroyoshi Yamada

Reflective properties of natural snow: approximate asymptotic theory versus in situ measurements

Authors: Alexander A. Kokhanovsky, Teruo Aoki, Akihiro Hachikubo, Masahiro Hori, Eleonora P. Zege

Vicarious calibration of ADEOS-2 GLI visible to shortwave infrared bands using global datasets

Authors: Hiroshi Murakami, Mayumi Yoshida, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hajime Fukushima, Mitsuhiro Toratani, Akihiko Tanaka, Yasuhiro Senga

Stratospheric ozone and ClO measurement using Balloon-Borne submillimeter limb sounder

Authors: Satoshi Ochiai, Sho Tsujimaru, Yoshihisa Irimajiri, Takeshi Manabe, Isao Murata

Interlook cross-correlation function of speckle in SAR images of sea surface processed with partially overlapped subapertures

Authors: Kazuo Ouchi and Haipeng Wang

Two-dimensional scattering of a Gaussian beam by a periodic array of circular cylinders

Authors: Juan Yang, Le Wei Li, Kiyotoshi Yasumoto, Chang-Hong Liang

Migration velocity analysis and prestack migration of common-transmitter GPR data

Authors: Hui Zhou, Motoyuki Sato, Hongjun Liu

Estimation and correction of beam mismatch of the precipitation Radar after an orbit boost of the tropical rainfall measuring mission Satellite

Authors: Nobuhiro Takahashi and Toshio Iguchi

Polarimetric Characteristics of sea ice in the sea of Okhotsk observed by airborne L-band SAR

Authors: Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Takeshi Matsuoka, Kazuki Nakamura, Fumihiko Nishio

Simulation study of stochastic dark line features in correlated K-distributed images

Authors: Seisuke Fukuda, Yuhei Nakaichi, Haruto Hirosawa

A dual-frequency rain profiling method without the use of a surface reference technique

Authors: Redy Mardiana, Toshio Iguchi, Nobuhiro Takahashi

GRS-S awards presented at IGARSS'03

Authors: Werner Wiesbeck, R. Keith Raney, Kamal Sarabandi, Kiyo Tomiyasu, James A. Smith

Development of a ground-based polarimetric broadband SAR system for noninvasive ground-truth validation in vegetation monitoring

Authors: Zheng-Shu Zhou, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Motoyuki Sato

Diurnal change of Amazon rain forest σ0 observed by Ku-band spaceborne radar

Authors: Makoto Satake and Hiroshi Hanado

Validation of temporal BRDFs of paddy fields estimated from MODIS reflectance data

Authors: Junichi Susaki, Keitarou Hara, Jonggeol Park, Yoshizumi Yasuda, Koji Kajiwara, Yoshiaki Honda

Evaluation of JERS-1 SAR images from a coastal wind retrieval point of view

Authors: Teruhisa Shimada, Hiroshi Kawamura, Masanobu Shimada, Isao Watabe, Sin-Iti Iwasaki

Subsurface cavity imaging by crosshole borehole radar measurements

Authors: Hui Zhou and Motoyuki Sato

Directional borehole radar with dipole antenna array using optical modulators

Author: Satoshi Ebihara

Spin motion and orientation of LAGEOS-2 from photometric observation

Authors: Toshimichi Otsubo, Robert A. Sherwood, Philip Gibbs, Roger Wood

Vegetation isoline equations for an atmosphere-canopy-soil system

Author: Hiroki Yoshioka

Target decomposition analysis of SIR-C imagery for characterization of scattering mechanisms and their dependence on observation parameters

Authors: Masaharu Fujita and Sota Nakamura

Software wave receiver for the SS-520-2 rocket experiment

Authors: Kozo Hashimoto, Hironori Iwai, Yoshikatsu Ueda, Hirotsugu Kojima, Hiroshi Matsumoto

Global mapping of attenuation at Ku- and Ka-band

Authors: V. Chandrasekar, Hiroki Fukatsu, Khalid Mubarak

Development of a retrodirective PARC for ALOS/PALSAR calibration

Author: Masaharu Fujita

A Markov random field-based approach to decision-level fusion for remote sensing image classification

Author: Ryuei Nishii

GRS-S Awards Presented at IGARSS'02

Authors: Kamal Sarabandi, Werner Wiesbeck, R. Keith Raney, Kiyo Tomiyasu, James A. Smith

Four-year result of external calibration for Precipitation Radar (PR) of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite

Authors: Nobuhiro Takahashi, Hiroshi Kuroiwa, Toneo Kawanishi

Optical imaging through clouds and fog

Authors: Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, Akira Ishimaru, Yasuo Kuga

Variable pulse repetition frequency for the Global Precipitation Measurement Project (GPM)

Authors: Satoru Kobayashi and Toshio Iguchi

Data continuity of Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) Advanced Land I satellite imager (ALI) and Landsat TM and ETM+

Authors: Ross Bryant, M. Susan Moran, Stephen A. McElroy, Chandra D. Holifield, Kurtis J. Thome, Tomoaki Miura, Stuart F. Biggar

Land cover conversion and degradation analyses through coupled soil-plant biophysical parameters derived from hyperspectral EO-1 Hyperion

Authors: Alfredo R. Huete, Tomoaki Miura, Xiang Gao

A technique for mapping thermal infrared radiation variation within land cover

Authors: Kazuo Oki and Kenji Omasa

An isoline-based translation technique of spectral vegetation index using EO-1 Hyperion data

Authors: Hiroki Yoshioka, Tomoaki Miura, Alfredo R. Huete

Ionospheric effects on SAR imaging: a numerical study

Authors: Jun Liu, Yasuo Kuga, Akira Ishimaru, Xiaoqing Pi, Anthony Freeman

An L-band geophysical model function for SAR wind retrieval using JERS-1 SAR

Authors: Teruhisa Shimada, Hiroshi Kawamura, Masanobu Shimada

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E), NASDA's contribution to the EOS for global energy and water cycle studies

Authors: Toneo Kawanishi, Toshihiro Sezai, Yasuyuki Ito, Keiji Imaoka, Toshiaki Takeshima, Yoshio Ishido, Akira Shibata, Masaharu Miura, Hiroyuki Inahata, Roy W. Spencer

Development of an evapotranspiration index from Aqua/MODIS for monitoring surface moisture status

Authors: Kenlo Nishida, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Joseph Glassy, Steven W. Running

AMSR/AMSR-E level 2 and 3 algorithm developments and data validation plans of NASDA

Authors: Akira Shibata, Keiji Imaoka, Toshio Koike

Mapping and pseudoinverse algorithms for ocean data assimilation

Authors: Paul W. Fieguth, Dimitris Menemenlis, Ichiro Fukumori

Subcomplementary code pairs: new codes for ST/MST radar observations

Authors: Ogubazghi Ghebrebrhan, Hubert Luce, Mamoru Yamamoto, Shoichiro Fukao

Urban object reconstruction using airborne laser elevation image and aerial image

Authors: Kensaku Fujii and Tomohiko Arikawa

Nonuniform azimuth image shift observed in the Radarsat images of ships in motion

Authors: Kazuo Ouchi, Masato Iehara, Koichi Morimura, Shintaro Kumano, Isao Takami

GRS-S awards presented at IGARSS'01

Authors: Kamal Sarabandi, Werner Wiesbeck, R. Keith Raney, Haruhisa Shimoda, Kiyo Tomiyasu, James A. Smith

Electromagnetic logging technique based on borehole radar

Authors: Sixin Liu and Motoyuki Sato

Time-domain inverse scattering method for cross-borehole radar imaging

Authors: Hongting Jia, Takashi Takenaka, Toshiyuki Tanaka

The effect of small topographic variations on reflectance

Authors: Bruno Combal and Harumi Isaka

Adaptive noise reduction of InSAR images based on a complex-valued MRF model and its application t o phase unwrapping problem

Authors: Andriyan Bayu Suksmono and Akira Hirose

Multiple scattering simulations for the Japanese space lidar project ELISE

Authors: Peter Vlger, Zhaoyan Liu, Nobuo Sugimoto

The characteristic polarization states and the equi-power curves

Authors: Jian Yang, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Zbigniew H. Czyz, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Harold Mott, Ernst Lneburg, Yingning Peng

GRS-S awards presented at IGARSS '00

Authors: Kamal Sarabandi, Werner Wiesbeck, R. Keith Raney, Haruhisa Shimoda, Kiyo Tomiyasu, James A. Smith

A multifrequency algorithm for the retrieval of soil moisture on a large scale using microwave data from SMMR and SSM/I satellites

Authors: Simonetta Paloscia, Giovanni Macelloni, Emanuele Santi, Toshio Koike

A digital-analog hybrid technique for low range sidelobe pulse compression

Authors: Kenji Sato, Hiroaki Horie, Hiroshi Hanado, Hiroshi Kumagai

Passive active L- and S-band (PALS) microwave sensor for ocean salinity and soil moisture measurements

Authors: William J. Wilson, Simon H. Yueh, Steve J. Dinardo, Seth L. Chazanoff, Ami Kitiyakara, Fuk K. Li, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

A change detection method for remotely sensed multispectral and multitemporal images using 3-D segmentation

Authors: Takahiro Yamamoto, Hiroshi Hanaizumi, Shinji Chino

Region-based image coding with multiple algorithms

Authors: Maria Petrou, Peixin Hou, Sei-ichiro Kamata, Craig Ian Underwood

An atmospheric correction algorithm for thermal infrared multispectral data over land-a water-vapor scaling method

Author: Hideyuki Tonooka

Development of target null theory

Authors: Jian Yang, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Harold Mott, Yingning Peng

Development of precipitation radar onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite

Authors: Toshiaki Kozu, Toneo Kawanishi, Hiroshi Kuroiwa, Masahiro Kojima, Koki Oikawa, Hiroshi Kumagai, Ken'ichi Okamoto, Minoru Okumura, Hirotaka Nakatsuka, Katsuhiko Nishikawa

An evaluation of the JPL TOPSAR for extracting tree heights

Authors: Yutaka Kobayashi, Kamal Sarabandi, Leland E. Pierce, M. Craig Dobson

Spatial resolution improvement of remotely sensed images by a fully interconnected neural network approach

Authors: Maria Del Carmen Valdes and Minoru Inamura

Super-resolution of coherent targets by a directional borehole radar

Authors: Satoshi Ebihara, Motoyuki Sato, Hiroaki Niitsuma

Real-time VLBI system using ATM network

Authors: Hitoshi Kiuchi, Michito Imae, Tetsuro Kondo, Mamoru Sekido, Shin-ichi Hama, Takashi Hoshino, Hisao Uose, Takashi Yamamoto

Evaluation of sensor calibration uncertainties on vegetation indices for MODIS

Authors: Tomoaki Miura, Alfredo R. Huete, Hiroki Yoshioka

Spin motion of the AJISAI satellite derived from spectral analysis of laser ranging data

Authors: Toshimichi Otsubo, Jun Amagai, Hiroo Kunimori, Mark Elphick

Slope corrections to normalized RCS using SAR interferometry

Authors: Masanobu Shimada and Haruto Hirosawa

Extending a turbid medium BRDF model to allow sloping terrain with a vertical plant stand

Authors: Bruno Combal, Harumi Isaka, Craig Trotter

A theory on the distribution function of backscatter radar cross section from ocean waves of individual wavelength

Author: Kazuo Ouchi

Numerical methods for solving the optimal problem of contrast enhancement

Authors: Jian Yang, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Shiming Lin

Derivation of vegetation isoline equations in red-NIR reflectance space

Authors: Hiroki Yoshioka, Alfredo R. Huete, Tomoaki Miura

Dispersion analysis of crack-waves in an artificial subsurface fracture using two crack models

Authors: Koji Nagano and Hiroaki Niitsuma

An imaging algorithm of objects embedded in a lossy-dispersive medium for subsurface radar-data processing

Authors: Toru Sato, Toshio Wakayama, Kazuhisa Takemura

Experimental studies on circular SAR imaging in clutter using angular correlation function technique

Authors: Tsz-King Chan, Yasuo Kuga, Akira Ishimaru

Correlation of hydrodynamic features with LGA radar backscatter from breaking waves

Authors: Jrn Fuchs, Dominic Regas, Takuji Waseda, Samuel Welch, Marshall P. Tulin

A wavelet-based texture feature set applied to classification of multifrequency polarimetric SAR images

Authors: Seisuke Fukuda and Haruto Hirosawa

The center-of-mass correction of the geodetic satellite AJISAI for single-photon laser ranging

Authors: Toshimichi Otsubo, Jun Amagai, Hiroo Kunimori

Inverting for geophysical parameters from IMG radiances

Authors: Umberto Amato, Vincenzo Cuomo, Italia De Feis, Filomena Romano, Carmine Serio, Hirokazu Kobayashi

A method for estimating sea surface nitrate concentrations from remotely sensed SST and chlorophyll a-a case study for the north Pacific Ocean using OCTS/ADEOS data

Authors: Joaquim I. Goes, Toshiro Saino, Hiromi Oaku, Ding Long Jiang

Satellite-borne high-resolution FTIR for lower atmosphere sounding and its evaluation

Authors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Akiro Shimota, Chisato Yoshigahara, Ikuya Yoshida, Yasushi Uehara, Kayoko Kondo

Early phase analysis of OCTS radiance data for aerosol remote sensing

Authors: Teruyuki Nakajima, Akiko Higurashi, Kazuma Aoki, Tatsuo Endoh, Hajime Fukushima, Mitsuhiro Toratani, Yasushi Mitomi, B. Greg Mitchell, Robert Frouin

ILAS for stratospheric ozone layer monitoring: outline of data processing (Version 3.00 and 3.10) and validation experiments

Authors: Yasuhiro Sasano, Makoto Suzuki, Tatsuya Yokota, Hiroshi Kanzawa

Calibration of the ocean color and temperature scanner

Authors: Masanobu Shimada, Hiromi Oaku, Yasushi Mitomi, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Kawamura

Calibration of advanced visible and near infrared radiometer

Authors: Masanobu Shimada, Hiromi Oaku, Hiroyuki Oguma, Robert O. Green, Yuji Miyachi, Haruhisa Shimoda

Adeos overview

Author: Haruhisa Shimoda

Smoothing effect of wavelet-based speckle filtering: the Haar basis case

Authors: Seisuke Fukuda and Haruto Hirosawa

Simulations of mirror image returns of air/space-borne radars in rain and their applications in estimating path attenuation

Authors: Liang Liao, Robert Meneghini, Toshio Iguchi

Subsurface fracture measurement with polarimetric borehole radar

Authors: Takashi Miwa, Motoyuki Sato, Hiroaki Niitsuma

Determination of ocean wave propagation direction by split-look processing using JERS-1 SAR data

Authors: Kazuo Ouchi, Shoji Maedoi, Hisashi Mitsuyasu

Shape estimation of space debris using single-range Doppler interferometry

Author: Toru Sato

Simulation of unpolarized scattering in synthetic aperture radar images

Author: Kiyo Tomiyasu

Unsupervised multispectral image classification using MRF models and VQ method

Authors: Tatsuya Yamazaki and Denis Gingras

Extended LVQ Neural Network Approach to Land Cover Mapping

Authors: Yosuke Ito and Sigeru Omatu

Texture statistics for classification of land use with multitemporal JERS-1 SAR single-look imagery

Authors: Takashi Kurosu, Seiho Uratsuka, Hideo Maeno, Toshiaki Kozu

Accuracy and inaccuracy assessments in land-cover classification

Authors: Ryuei Nishii and Shojiro Tanaka

Radiometric correction of saturated SAR data

Author: Masanobu Shimada

SAR calibration using frequency-tunable active radar calibrators

Authors: Masanobu Shimada, Hiromi Oaku, Masao Nakai

Polarimetric calibration of the SIR-C C-band channel using active radar calibrators and polarization selective dihedrals

Authors: Masaharu Fujita, Toshihiro Masuda, Yoshiyuki Fujino, Makoto Satake

An imaging technique using confocal circular synthetic aperture radar

Authors: Akira Ishimaru, Tsz-King Chan, Yasuo Kuga

GRS-S Awards Presented At IGARRS'97

Authors: Werner Wiesbeck, Keith R. Carver, Haruhisa Shimoda, Kiyo Tomiyasu

ASTER Level-1 data processing algorithm

Author: Hiroyuki Fujisada

Design and preflight performance of ASTER instrument protoflight model

Authors: Hiroyuki Fujisada, Fumihiro Sakuma, Akira Ono, Masahiko Kudoh

A temperature and emissivity separation algorithm for Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) images

Authors: Alan R. Gillespie, Shuichi Rokugawa, Tsuneo Matsunaga, J. Steven Cothern, Simon J. Hook, Anne B. Kahle

ASTER preflight and inflight calibration and the validation of Level 2 products

Authors: Kurtis J. Thome, Kohei Arai, Simon J. Hook, H. Kieffer, Harold Lang, Tsuneo Matsunaga, A. Ono, Frank D. Palluconi, H. Sakuma, Philip Slater, Tsutomu Takashima, Hideyuki Tonooka, Satoshi Tsuchida, R. M. Welch, Edward Zalewski

Atmospheric correction of ASTER

Authors: Kurtis J. Thome, Frank D. Palluconi, Tsutomu Takashima, Kazuhiko Masuda

ASTER as a source for topographic data in the late 1990s

Authors: Roy Welch, Thomas Jordan, Harold Lang, Hiroshi Murakami

Overview of Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)

Authors: Yasushi Yamaguchi, Anne B. Kahle, Hiroji Tsu, Toru Kawakami, Moshe Pniel

Advanced polarimetric subsurface FM-CW radar

Authors: Toshifumi Moriyama, Hajime Kasahara, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Yamada

Laboratory measurements of radar depolarization signatures in microwave pulse transmission through randomly distributed spherical scatterers

Authors: Tomohiro Oguchi, Satoshi Ishii, Shigeo Ito, Takeshi Manabe

Multiple scattering analysis of airborne POLDER image data over the sea

Authors: Yoshiyuki Kawata and Akihiro Yamazaki

Angular memory and frequency interferometry for mean height profiling of a rough surface

Authors: Charles T. C. Le, Akira Ishimaru, Yasuo Kuga, Ji-Hae Yea

Ku- and C-band SAR for discriminating agricultural crop and soil conditions

Authors: M. Susan Moran, Alain Vidal, Denis Troufleau, Yoshio Inoue, Thomas A. Mitchell

On averages of radar rain echoes in nonstationary conditions

Authors: Jun Awaka and Toshio Iguchi

A probabilistic explanation of dark line features observed in images with speckle

Author: Haruto Hirosawa

Microphysical retrievals over stratiform rain using measurements from an airborne dual-wavelength radar-radiometer

Authors: Robert Meneghini, Hiroshi Kumagai, James R. Wang, Toshio Iguchi, Toshiaki Kozu

EXOS-D (AKEBONO) very low frequency plasma wave instruments (VLF)

Authors: Kozo Hashimoto, Isamu Nagano, Masayuki Yamamoto, Toshimi Okada, Iwane Kimura, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Hidetaka Oki

Degree of polarization of radar backscatters from a mixed target

Author: Haruto Hirosawa

Automatic signal processing of front monitor radar for tunneling machines

Authors: Toru Sato, Ken-ya Takeda, Takashi Nagamatsu, Toshio Wakayama, Iwane Kimura, Tetsuya Shinbo

Studies of the angular correlation function of scattering by random rough surfaces with and without a buried object

Authors: Guifu Zhang, Leung Tsang, Yasuo Kuga

Rice crop mapping and monitoring using ERS-1 data based on experiment and modeling results

Authors: Thuy Le Toan, Florence Ribbes, Li-Fang Wang, Nicolas Floury, Kung-Hau Ding, Jin Au Kong, Masaharu Fujita, Takashi Kurosu

Analytical, experimental, and numerical studies of angular memory signatures of waves scattered from one-dimensional rough surfaces

Authors: Yasuo Kuga, Charles T. C. Le, Akira Ishimaru, L. Ailes-Sengers

Enhancement of low spatial resolution image based on high resolution-bands

Authors: Ryuei Nishii, Saeko Kusanobu, Shojiro Tanaka

GRSS Awards Presented at IGARSS'95

Authors: Werner Wiesbeck, Keith R. Carver, Mikio Takagi, Kiyo Tomiyasu

Experimental studies of bistatic scattering from two-dimensional conducting random rough surfaces

Authors: Tsz-King Chan, Yasuo Kuga, Akira Ishimaru, Charles T. C. Le

Experimental studies on the phase distribution of two copolarized signals scattered from two-dimensional rough surfaces

Authors: Yasuo Kuga and Hui Zhao

Inflight wavelength correction of Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner (TIMS) data acquired from the ER-2

Authors: Simon J. Hook and Kinya Okada

Polarimetric detection of objects buried in snowpack by a synthetic aperture FM-CW radar

Authors: Yoshio Yamaguchi and Toshifumi Moriyama

Development of an active radar calibrator for the TRMM precipitation radar

Authors: Hiroshi Kumagai, Toshiaki Kozu, Makoto Satake, Hiroshi Hanado, Ken'ichi Okamoto

Depolarization of radar signals due to multiple scattering in rain

Authors: Shigeo Ito, Tomohiro Oguchi, Toshio Iguchi, Hiroshi Kumagai, Robert Meneghini

Monitoring of rice crop growth from space using the ERS-1 C-band SAR

Authors: Takashi Kurosu, Masaharu Fujita, Kazuo Chiba

Application of neural networks for sea ice classification in polarimetric SAR images

Authors: Yoshihisa Hara, Robert G. Atkins, Robert T. Shin, Jin Au Kong, Simon H. Yueh, Ronald Kwok

Quantitative estimation of SiO2 content in igneous rocks using thermal infrared spectra with a neural network approach

Author: Yoshiki Ninomiya

K-vector determination of whistler mode signals by using amplitude data obtained by a spacecraft borne instrument

Authors: Ken-ichi Sakamoto, Yoshiya Kasahara, Iwane Kimura

Two-dimensional and full polarimetric imaging by a synthetic aperture FM-CW radar

Authors: Yoshio Yamaguchi, Toru Nishikawa, Masakazu Sengoku, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner

A technique for measurement of spaceborne SAR antenna patterns using distributed targets

Authors: Masanobu Shimada and Anthony Freeman

Adaptive neural nets for generation of artificial earthquake precursors

Authors: Fred Aminzadeh, Simon Katz, Keiti Aki

Retrieval algorithms for stratospheric aerosols based on ADEOS/ILAS measurements

Authors: Sonoyo Mukai, Itaru Sano, Yasuhiro Sasano, Makoto Suzuki, Tatsuya Yokota

Modulation of waveheight spectrum and radar cross section by varying surface currents

Author: Kazuo Ouchi

Resolution of a controversy surrounding the focusing mechanisms of synthetic aperture radar images of ocean waves

Authors: Kazuo Ouchi and Donald A. Burridge

Image processing of synthetic aperture radar range ambiguous signals

Author: Kiyo Tomiyasu

Neural network approach to land cover mapping

Authors: Tomoji Yoshida and Sigeru Omatu

Multidimensional analysis method for NOAA AVHRR images

Authors: Jun-ichi Kudoh, Goutam Chakraborty, Yoshiaki Nemoto, Norio Shiratori, Hiroshi Kawamura, Seiziro Obata, Shoichi Noguchi

Effect of multiple scattering on the estimation of rainfall rates using dual-wavelength radar techniques

Authors: Tomohiro Oguchi, Nobuyuki Ishida, Toshio Ihara

Dual dihedral angles for bidirectionally scattered electromagnetic waves

Author: Kiyo Tomiyasu

Solving the inverse problem for soil moisture and temperature profiles by sequential assimilation of multifrequency remotely sensed observations

Authors: Dara Entekhabi, Hajime Nakamura, Eni G. Njoku

Airborne active and passive microwave observations of Super Typhoon Flo

Authors: James R. Wang, Robert Meneghini, Hiroshi Kumagai, Thomas Wilheit, Wayne C. Boncyk, Paul Racette, Jeffrey R. Tesmer, B. Maves

Application of neural networks to radar image classification

Authors: Yoshihisa Hara, Robert G. Atkins, Simon H. Yueh, Robert T. Shin, Jin Au Kong

Synthetic aperture FM-CW radar applied to the detection of objects buried in snowpack

Authors: Yoshio Yamaguchi, Masashi Mitsumoto, Masakazu Sengoku, Takeo Abe

A study on the scattering of radio waves from buried spherical targets using the step frequency radar

Authors: Alois P. Freundorfer and Keigo Iizuka

Antenna pattern and penetration measurement using spectrum analyzers

Authors: Hiroshi Kimura and Nobuhiko Kodaira

On characteristic polarization states in the cross-polarized radar channel

Authors: Yoshio Yamaguchi, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Hyo Joon Eom, Masakazu Sengoku, Seiichi Motooka, Takeo Abe

Measurement on the dielectric properties of acid-doped ice at 9.7 GHz

Authors: Shuji Fujita, Manabu Shiraishi, Shinji Mae

A new simplified water vapor measurement using a multifrequency microwave radiometer with two-different-beamwidth antennas

Author: Shinobu Hashimoto

Dual polarization radar observations of anomalous wintertime thunderclouds in Japan

Authors: Yasuyuki Maekawa, Shoichiro Fukao, Yasuo Sonoi, Fumio Yoshino

Atmospheric correction for ocean color remote sensing: optical properties of aerosols derived from CZCS imagery

Authors: Sonoyo Mukai, Itaru Sano, Kazuhiko Masuda, Tsutomu Takashima

Measurement of soil backscattering with a 60-GHz scatterometer

Authors: Hiromichi Yamasaki, Jun Awaka, Akira Takahashi, Ken'ichi Okamoto, Toshio Ihara

Evaluation of surface clutter for the design of the TRMM spaceborne radar

Authors: Hiroshi Hanado and Toshio Ihara

Dependence of SAR azimuth image displacement of range moving scatterers on processor focal setting

Authors: Donald A. Burridge and Kazuo Ouchi

Human body detection in wet snowpack by an FM-CW radar

Authors: Yoshio Yamaguchi, Masashi Mitsumoto, Masakazu Sengoku, Takeo Abe

One-minute rain rate distributions in Japan derived from AMeDAS one-hour rain rate data

Authors: Yoshio Karasawa and Takashi Matsudo

Analysis of a borehole radar in cross-hole mode

Authors: Motoyuki Sato and Rudolf Thierbach

Dual-parameter radar rainfall measurement from space: a test result from an aircraft experiment

Authors: Toshiaki Kozu, Kenji Nakamura, Robert Meneghini, Wayne C. Boncyk

Effects of signal decorrelation on pulse-compressed waveforms for nadir-looking spaceborne radar

Author: Toshiaki Kozu

Identification of fog with NOAA AVHRR images

Authors: Jun-ichi Kudoh and Shoichi Noguchi

A study of a three-dimensional histogram using the NOAA AVHRR images

Authors: Jun-ichi Kudoh and Shoichi Noguchi

Statistical analysis of azimuth streaks observed in digitally processed CASSIE imagery of the sea surface

Authors: Kazuo Ouchi and R. A. Cordey

Geometric correction algorithms for satellite imagery using a bi-directional scanning sensor

Authors: Yoichi Seto, Koichi Homma, Fuminobu Komura

Detection of objects buried in wet snowpack by an FM-CW radar

Authors: Yoshio Yamaguchi, Yasuichi Maruyama, Atsushi Kawakami, Masakazu Sengoku, Takeo Abe