REMOTE SENSING – ADVANCED TECHNIQUES AND PLATFORMS

REMOTE SENSING ADVANCED TECHNIQUES AND PLATFORMS Edited by Boris Escalante-Ramírez REMOTE SENSING – ADVANCED TECHNIQUES AND PLATFORMS Edited by Boris Escalante-Ramírez Remote Sensing – Advanced Techniques and Platforms Edited by Boris Escalante-Ramírez Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. As for readers, this license allows users to download, copy and build upon published chapters even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Dragana Manestar Technical Editor Miroslav Tadic Cover Designer InTech Design Team First published June, 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com Remote Sensing – Advanced Techniques and Platforms, Edited by Boris Escalante-Ramírez p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0652-4 Contents Preface IX Section 1 Analysis Techniques 1 Chapter 1 Characterizing Forest Structure by Means of Remote Sensing: A Review 3 Hooman Latifi Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Fusion of Optical and Thermal Imagery and LiDAR Data for Application to 3-D Urban Environment and Structure Monitoring 29 Anna Brook, Marijke Vandewal and Eyal Ben-Dor Statistical Properties of Surface Slopes via Remote Sensing 51 Josué Álvarez-Borrego and Beatriz Martín-Atienza Classification of Pre-Filtered Multichannel Remote Sensing Images 75 Vladimir Lukin, Nikolay Ponomarenko, Dmitriy Fevralev, Benoit Vozel, Kacem Chehdi and Andriy Kurekin Chapter 5 Estimation of the Separable MGMRF Parameters for Thematic Classification 99 Rolando D. Navarro, Jr., Joselito C. Magadia and Enrico C. Paringit Chapter 6 Low Rate High Frequency Data Transmission from Very Remote Sensors 123 Pau Bergada, RosaMa Alsina-Pages, Carles Vilella and Joan Ramon Regué Chapter 7 A Contribution to the Reduction of Radiometric Miscalibration of Pushbroom Sensors 151 Christian Rogaß, Daniel Spengler, Mathias Bochow, Karl Segl, Angela Lausch, Daniel Doktor, Sigrid Roessner, Robert Behling, Hans-Ulrich Wetzel, Katia Urata, Andreas Hueni and Hermann Kaufmann ... - tailieumienphi.vn