PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
October 2014
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PHOTOGRAMME TR I C ENG I NE ER I NG & REMOT E SENS I NG
The official journal for imaging and geospatial information science and technology
October 2014 Volume 80 Number 10
H I GHL I GHT ART I C L E
René R Colditz, Darren Pouliot, Ricardo M. Llamas, Collin Homer, Rasim Latifovic, Rainer
A. Ressl, Carmen Meneses Tovar, Arturo Victoria Hernández,
and
Karen Richardson
PROF ESS I ONAL I NS I GHT
PE ER - REV I EWED ART I C L ES
Shridhar D. Jawak
and
Alvarinho J. Luis
The design and implementation of a novel semiautomatic method to extract lake
features in cryospheric environments from remotely-sensed images.
Oumer S. Ahmed, Steven E. Franklin,
and
Michael A. Wulder
The potential of Landsat imagery to accurately estimate forest canopy cover measured
from small-footprint airborne lidar data was examined in order to expand the lidar
measurements to a larger area.
Davood Akbari, Abdolreza Safari,
and
Saeid Homayouni
A novel framework based on marker-based hierarchical segmentation for object-based
classification of hyperspectral imagery using both spectral and spatial information.
Xiaolian Li, Jing Wang, Weiguo Song, Jian Ma, Luciano Telesca,
and
Yongming Zhang
An automatic smoke detection algorithm by integrating K-means Clustering and Fisher
Linear Discrimination in MODIS data.
Soe W. Myint, Janet Franklin, Michaela Buenemann,
and
Won K. Kim
Using Landsat imagery acquired over select sites in three tropical
countries (Bangladesh, Burma, and Thailand), this study employed different change
detection approaches and composite bands to determine the most effective approach to
monitor changes in mangrove forests.
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This month’s cover
image shows the land
cover change of North
America between the
years 2005 and 2010 as
mapped with 19 classes
by the North American
Land Change Monitoring
System (NALCMS). The
background shows the
land cover map of 2010
draped over the globe,
centered at 10°N and
100°W, and complemented with imagery of different
sources for areas not mapped by NALCMS. The
close-ups indicate changes between the years 2005
and 2010 for Lake Manicouagan in Quebec, Canada
(top) with different stages of vegetation succession,
forest loss due to a large fire in the Big Sur area in
California, USA (middle), and different mean annual
water levels of the Vicente Guerrero reservoir in
Tamaulipas, Mexico (bottom).
For more information on the NALCMS project
including the legend, see the highlight article in this
issue. All land cover maps and change products can be
downloaded for the entire continent from
.
cec.org and for individual countries from institutional
websites, e.g. United States:
usgs.gov and Mexico
informacion/gis/. Data assimilation: René R. Colditz
(
), design: Bernardo
Terroba (
. We
kindly acknowledge the Commission for Environmental
Cooperation (CEC) for covering all costs.
