IGARSS ´98. Sensing and Managing the Environment. 1998 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Symposium Proceedings. (Cat. No.98CH36174)

The following topics are dealt with: speckle; random media; phase unwrapping; microwave remote sensing; vegetation; radar remote sensing; rainfall; data fusion; active and passive sensing; coastal environment; ground penetrating radar; subsurface detection; education; satellite missions; airborne missions; remote sensing algorithms; data standards; data distribution; SAR image analysis; passive microwave radiometry; intelligent information systems; clouds; precipitation; next-generation low-frequency SARs; infrared remote sensing; sea surface; air-sea interaction; subsurface discrimination; object detection; thermal infrared imaging spectroscopy; advanced sensors; calibration; water vapor; turbulence; ocean and sea ice dynamics; Earth radiation budget; OCTS; atmospheric processes; wideband synthetic aperture sonar processing techniques and applications to multisensor sub-aquatic sensing and imaging; SAR processing; sensor platforms and systems; troposphere; coastal environments; complex media; crops; forests; classification; ships; ocean pollution; disaster damage assessment; ecosystems; geophysical and environmental applications; landcover methods; soil; ocean surface and subsurface properties; ocean waves and wind; satellite climatology; snow and ice sheets; matched filtering; digital elevation models; GIS; image processing techniques; interferometric data processing; microwave processsing; multisensor fusion; neural networks; SAR processing; signal processing; visualization; new approaches in rough surface scattering; optical remote sensing; biophysical properties; geology and geomorphology/deserts/geological processes; applications of spaceborne interferometry; coastal applications of spaceborne SAR; lower atmosphere profiling and radiative transfer; Alaska SAR facility; remote sensing from the Earth observing system AM platform; scattering from rough dielectric surfaces with application in GPR; advances in 3D remote sensing models for terrain features; microwave remote sensing of snowpacks; data processing and classification; disaster damage assessment and land classification; SAR interferometry; intercomparison and improvements of SAR ocean imaging models; remote sensing of clouds and precipitation; instrumentation and future technologies for geoscience and remote sensing; crop and forest monitoring and classification; data compression/wavelets; image segmentation and classification; use of ERS 1/2 SAR data for agricultural and forestry applications; soil moisture and land-surface process models; snow and glaciers; Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission; spatial variability of microwave backscatter from the ocean scatterometer imaging applications; advanced active sensors; image processing techniques; information extraction; ecosystems; aerosols; WISIP; fluid dynamics and atmospheric forced oceanic surface features; low grazing angle EM backscattering; ocean winds; image registration and information extraction; EM models; lidar techniques; RADARSAT; land cover change; ADEOS; water wave processes and scattering; urban planning; soil moisture; trace species and atmospheric chemistry; signal processing, SAR and SAR processing; INSAR systems and processing; hyperspectral data analysis; advanced optical and microwave sensors;