PE & RS Annual Index by Subject - 1998

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Accuracy assessment - GPS

Bias and Precision of Different Sampling Methods for GPS Positions. Michel Arnaud and Albert Flori. June: 597-600.

Accuracy assessment – Image Classification

See also Classification accuracy

A Modified Contextual Classification Technique for Remote Sensing Data. K. M. S. Sharma and A. Sarkar. April: 273-280.

Accuracy assessment – Maps

Accuracy Assessment of a Land-Cover Map of the Kuparuk River Basin, A1aska: Considerations for Remote Regions. S. V. Muller, D. A. Walker, F. E. Nelson, N. A. Auerbach, J. G. Bockheim, S. Guyer, and D. Sherba. June: 619-628.

An Efficient and Accurate Method for Mapping Forest Clearcuts in the Pacific Northwest Using Landsat Imagery. Warren B. Cohen, Maria Fiorella, John Gray, Eileen Helmer, and Karen Anderson. April: 293-300.

The Influence of Geographic Sampling Methods on Vegetation Map Accuracy Evaluation in a Swampy Environment. C. P. Lo and Lee J. Watson. December: 1189-1200.

Mapping and monitoring agricultural crops and other land cover in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Russell G. Congalton, Mary Balough, Cindy Bell, Kass Green, Jeff A. Milliken, and Robert Ottman. November: 1107-1113.

Accuracy assessment – Remote sensing

Exact Binomial Confidence Interval for Proportions. Jeffrey T. Morisette and Siamak Khorram. April: 281-283.

Acid mine drainage

Spectral Reflectance and Detection of Iron Oxide Precipitates Associated with Acidic Mine Drainage. John E. Anderson and Eleanora I. Robbins. December: 1201-1208.

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

See AVHRR

Aerial Gamma Spectrometer – Applications

Identification of Potential Hazardous Waste Units Using Aerial Radiological Measurements. Patrick J. Bresnahan. October: 995-1001.

Aerial images

A New Algorithm for Surface Determination Based on Wavelets and its Practical Application. Jaan-Rong Tsay. December: 1179-1188.

Aerial photographs

Mosaicking of Orthorectified Aerial Images. Yehuda Afek and Ariel Brand. February: 115-125.

Aerial photography

Co-Registered Aerial Stereopairs from Low- Flying Aircraft for the Analysis of Long-Term Tropical Rainforest Canopy Dynamics. Stanley R. Herwitz, Robert E. Slye, and Stephen M. Turton. May: 397-405.

Aerial photography – Digital

Remote Sensing Column: Disaster Response and Recovery Support from Airborne Remote Sensing. Charles Mondello and Franz Schneider. October: 958-960.

Aerotriangulation

GPS-Controlled Strip Triangulation Using Geometric Constraints of Man-Made Structures. Hamid Ebadi and Chapman A. April: 329-333.

Africa

Grids & Datums Column: The Republic of Gabon. Clifford J. Mugnier. September: 877-878.

Agriculture

Modeling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Sediment Yield in Imperial Valley, California. Mark V. Finco and George F. Hepner. November: 1097-1105.

Air pollution

Using a GIS to Overcome Data Adversity: Industrial Air Pollution Risk Modeling in Tijuana, Mexico. Anne J. Obee, Ernst C. Griffin, and Richard D. Wright. November: 1089-1096.

Airborne scanning lasers

See a1so Scanner imagery

The Use of Innovative Data Collection Techniques in Support of Enterprise Wide GIS Development. Arthur J. Lembo, Christopher Powers, and Evan S. Gorin. September: 861-865.

Airborne Terrain Mapper (ATM)

Engineering Applications of Airborne Scanning Lasers: Reports from the Field. William E. Carter, Eugene Medvedev, Roberto Gutierrez, and James C. Gibeaut. April: 246-253.

Alaska

Accuracy Assessment of a Land-Cover Map of the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska; Considerations for Remote Regions. S. V. Muller, D. A. Walker, F. E. Nelson, N. A. Auerbach, J. G. Bockheim, S. Guyer, and D. Sherba. June: 619-628.

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

See ASPRS

Area estimation

Forest Area Estimation Using Sample Surveys and Landsat MSS and TM Data. F. Deppe. April; 285-292.

ARGON satellite imagery

Digitizing Satellite Imagery: Quality and Cost Considerations. Jon Leachtenauer, Kenneth Daniel, and Thomas Vogi. January: 29-34.

ASPRS

1998 ASPRS Board of Directors [photo- graph]. July: 667.

1998 Directory of the Mapping Sciences. May: 451-546.

1998 Publications Catalog. February: Insert.

Alan M. Mikuni Elected ASPRS Vice Presi- dent. May: 361.

The American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing. July: 669.

ASPRS Launches Remote Sensing Core Curriculum. April: 255.

ASPRS Names James R. Plasker New Executive Director. May: 359.

ASPRS Regions and Chapters [map]. July: 668.

ASPRS Yearbook. July: 667-703.

Award Recipients. July: 681-686.

Inaugural Address: Maximizing the Societal and Commercial Opportunities of the Coming Era of Geospatial Imaging and Information. Thomas M. Lillesand. July; 671-679.

Installation of Officers [Photographs]. July: 670.

NCEES: ASPRS Membership, the Model Law, and More. James Plasker. October: 947, 955.

PE&RS Readership Survey Final Report. Stan Morain. May: 364-376.

Report to the ASPRS Board of Directors Task Force on Administration. Michael Renslow. May: 380-383.

Who’s Who in ASPRS. July: 696-703, October: 970.

ASPRS – Meeting reports

Land Satellite Information in the Next Decade II; Sources and Applications. April: 259-263.

A Short Something a Little Bit Different, From the Bottom of the Pecking Order. Murray Felsher. April: 261, 263, 336, 338.

ASPRS – Sustaining members

See Corporate descriptions

Australia

Co-Registered Aerial Stereopairs from Low- Flying Aircraft for the Analysis of Long-Term Tropical Rainforest Canopy Dynamics. Stanley R. Herwitz, Robert E. Slye, and Stephen M. Turton. May: 397-405.

Nonparametric Classifier for GIS Data Applied to Kangaroo Distribution Mapping. Andrew K. Skidmore. March: 217-226.

AVHRR – Applications

Effectiveness of the MCC Method in Detecting Oceanic Circulation Patterns at a Local Scale from Sequential AVHRR Images. Jay Gao and Matthew B. Lythe. April: 301-308.

Extension of Climate Parameters Over the Land Surface by the Use of NOAA- AVHRR and Anci11ary Data. Fablo Maselli, Ljiljana Petkov, and Giampiero Maracchi. March: 199-206.

Map-Guided Classification of Regional Land Cover with Multi-Temporal AVHRR Data. David M. Stoms, Michael J. Bueno, Frank W. Davis, Kelly M. Cassidy, Kenneth L. Driese, and James S. Kagan. August: 831-838.

Resource Management of Forested Wet- lands: Hurricane Impact and recovery Mapped by Combining Landsat TM and NOAA AVHRR Data. Elijah W. Ramsey, III, Dal K. Chappell, Dennis M. Jacobs, Sijan K. Sapkota, and Dan G. Baldwin. July: 733-738.

AVHRR – Imagery

Challenging the Cloud-Contamination Prob- lem in Flood Monitoring with NOAA/ AVHRR Imagery. Yongwel Sheng, Yafang Su, and Qianguang Xiao. March: 191-198.

Estimating the Accuracy of Coarse Scale Classification Using High Scale Information. Christiane Kloditz, Angellien van Boxtel, Elisabetta Carfagna, and Willem van. Deursen. February: 127-133.

AVIRIS – Applications

Investigation of the Integration of AVIRIS and ISFAR for Urban Analysis. George F. Hepner, Bijan Houshmand, Igor Kulikov, and Nevin Bryant. August: 813-820.

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Belgium

Grids and Datums Column: The Kingdom of Belgium. Clifford J. Mugnier. October: 956-9.57.

Biodiversity

Transnational Gap Analysis of the Rio Bravo/ Rio Grande Region. Carlos Gonzalez- Rebeles, Vincent J. Burke, Michael D. Jennings, Geraldo Ceballos, and Nick C. Parker. November: 1115-1118.

Biographies

See a1so Obituaries

Alan M. Mikuni Elected ASPRS Vice President. May: 361.

ASPRS Names James R. Plasker New Executive Director. May: 359.

Memorial Address: Charles H. Andregg. William A. Radlinski. July: 687-695.

Biomass change

Resource Management of Forested Wetlands: Hurricane Impact and recovery Mapped by Combining Landsat TM and NOAA AVHRR Data. Elijah W. Ramsey, III, Dal K. Chappell, Dennis M. Jacobs, Sijan K. Sapkota, and Dan G. Baldwin. July: 733-738.

Block adjustment

GPS-Controlled Strip Triangulation Using Geometric Constraints of Man-Made Structures. Hamid Ebadi and Chapman A. April: 329-333.

Book reviews

Automatic Extraction of Man-Made Objects from Aerial and Space Images (II) by Armin Gruen, Emmanuel Baltsavias, and Olaf Henricsson, editors. Reviewed by Michael T. DeLaFleur. June: 581.

Exploring Geographic Information Systems by Nicholas R. Chrisman. Reviewed by Michelle T. Bevan. November: 1063.

Iron Bails to A1askan Copper: The Epic Triumph of Erastus Corning Hawkins by Alfred O. Quinn. Reviewed by Morris M. Thompson. March: 177.

The Remote Sensing Tutoria1 – An On1ine Handbook by Nicholas M. Short Sr. Reviewed by R. Michael Hord. August: 784-785.

Brazil

Forest Area Estimation Using Sample Surveys and Landsat MSS and TM Data. F. Deppe. April: 285-292.

British Columbia

Mapping Altered Rocks Using Landsat TM and Lithogeochemical Data: Sulphurets-Brucejack Lake District, British Columbia, Canada. J. R. Harris, A. N. Rencz, B. Ballantyne, and C. Sheridon. April: 309-322.

SPOT and Landsat Stereo Fusion for Data Extraction Over Mountainous Areas. Thierry Toutin. February: 109-113.

Buildings

Height Determination of Extended Objects Using Shadows in SPOT Images. V. K. Shettigara and G. M. Sumerling. January: 35-44.

A Technique for 3D Building Reconstruction. Taejung Kim and Jan-Peter Muller. September: 923-930.

Bundle adjustment

The Assessment of Sediment Transport Rates by Automated Digital Photogrammetry. M. Stojic, J. Chandler, P. Ashmore, and J. Luce. May: 387-395.

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California

The Accuracy of Vegetation Stand Boundaries Derived from Image Segmentation in a Desert Environment. Andres M. Abeyta and Janet Franklin. January: 59-66.

An Integration of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Information Distribution for Wildfire Detection and Management. Vincent G. Ambrosia, Sally W. Buechel, James A. Brass, James R. Peterson, Richard H. Davies, Ronald J. Kane, and Steve Spain. October: 977-985.

Investigation of the Integration of AVIRIS and ISFAR for Urban Analysis. George F. Hepner, Bijan Houshmand, Igor Kulikov, and Nevin Bryant. August: 813-820.

Modeling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Sediment Yield in Imperial Valley, California. Mark V. Finco and George F. Hepner. November: 1097-1105.

Cameras – Digital

Talking Digital. Robert P. Comer, Gerry Kinn, Don Light, and Charles Mondello. December; 1139, 1141.

Carbon inventory

North American Landscape Characteriza- tion Dataset Development and Data Fu- sion Issues. Ross S. Lunetta, John G. Lyon, Bert Guindon, and Christopher Elvidge. August: 821-829.

Cascade Range

An Efficient and Accurate Method for Mapping Forest Clearcuts in the Pacific Northwest Using Landsat Imagery. Warren B. Cohen, Maria Fiorella, John Gray, Eileen Helmer, and Karen Anderson. April: 293-300.

Cayman Islands

Grids & Datums Column: The Cayman Is- lands. Clifford J. Mugnier. November: 1065, 1072.

Census data

The Use of Census Data in Urban Image Classification. Victor Mesev. May: 431-438.

Change detection

A Change Detection Experiment Using Vegetation Indices. John G. Lyon, Ding Yuan, Ross S. Lunetta, and Chris D. Elvidge. February: 143-150.

GIS and Image Understanding for Near-Real-Time Earthquake Damage Assessment. Paolo Gamba and Fabio Casciati. October: 987-994.

Map-Guided Approach for the Automatic Detection on Landsat TM Images of Forest Stands Damaged by the Spruce Budworm. Stephanie Chalifoux, Francois Cavayas, and James T. Gray. June: 629-635.

A Quantitative Comparison of Change-Detection Algorithms for Monitoring Eelgrass from Remotely Sensed Data. Robb D. Macleod and Russell G. Congalton. March: 207-216.

Repeat-Pass Dual Antenna Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometric Change-Detection Post-Processing. David A. Yocky and Benjamin F. Johnson. May: 425-429.

China

Challenging the Cloud-Contamination Problem in Flood Monitoring with NOAA/ AVHRR Imagery. Yongwel Sheng, Yafang Su, and Qianguang Xiao. March: 191-198.

Classification accuracy

See also Accuracy assessment

Estimating the Accuracy of Coarse Scale Classification Using High Scale Information. Christiane Kloditz, Angellien van Boxtel, Elisabetta Carfagna, and Willem van Deursen. February: 127-133.

The Influence of Geographic Sampling Methods on Vegetation Map Accuracy Evaluation in a Swampy Environment. C. P. Lo and Lee J. Watson. December: 1189-1200.

What Size Window for Image Classification? A Cognitive Perspective. Michael E. Hodgson. August: 797-807.

Classification techniques

A Modified Contextual Classification Technique for Remote Sensing Data. K. M. S. Sharma and A. Sarkar. April: 273-280.

The Use of Census Data in Urban Image Classification. Victor Mesev. May: 431-438.

Climatic classifications

Extension of Climate Parameters Over the Land Surface by the Use of NOAA-AVHRR and Ancillary Data. Fablo Maselli, Ljiljana Petkov, and Giampiero Maracchi. March: 199-206.

Climatic indicators

Satellite Monitoring of Lake Ice Breakup on the Laurential Shield (1980-1994). Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas M. Lillesand, Murray K. Clayton, and John J. Magnuson. June: 607-617.

Cloud contamination

Challenging the Cloud-Contamination Problem in Flood Monitoring with NOAA/ AVHRR Imagery. Yongwel Sheng, Yafang Su, and Qianguang Xiao. March: 191-198.

Clustering

Spectral Shape Classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery. Mark J. Carlotto. September: 905-913.

Coastal areas

Application of C-CAP Protocol Land-Cover Data to Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Potential Spatial Models in a Coastal Environment. Floyd M. Henderson, Thomas F. Hart Jr., Laura Orlando, Brian Heaton, James Portolese, and Robert Chasm. October: 1015-1020.

Engineering Applications of Airborne Scanning Lasers: Reports from the Field. William E. Carter, Eugene Medvedev, Roberto Gutierrez, and James C. Gibeaut. April: 246-253.

Colorado River basin

Mapping and monitoring agricultural crops and other land cover in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Russell G. Congalton, Mary Balough, Cindy Bell, Kass Green, Jeff A. Milliken, and Robert Ottman. November: 1107-1113.

Computers – Parallel processing

Experiments in the Identification of Terrain Features Using a PC-Based Parallel Computer. Demetrius-Kleanthis D. Rokos and Marc P. Armstrong. February: ’135-142.

Confidence intervals

Exact Binomial Confidence Interval for Proportions. Jeffrey T. Morisette and Siamak Khorram. April: 281-283.

Connecticut

Delineating Forest Canopy Species in the Northeastern United States Using Multi-Temporal TM Imagery. John G. Mickelson Jr., Daniel L. Civco, and John A. Silandor. September: 891-904.

Consortium for International Earth System Information Network (CIESIN]

Active Response GIS: For Resources Management Spatial Decision Support Systems. Brenda G. Faber, William W. Wallace, and Gary E. Johnson. January: 7-11.

Contextual classification

A Modified Contextual Classification Technique for Remote Sensing Data. K. M. S. Sharma and A. Sarkar. April: 273- 280.

CORONA satellite imagery

Digitizing Satellite Imagery: Quality and Cost Considerations. Jon Leachtenauer, Kenneth Daniel, and Thomas Vogi. January: 29-’34.

Corporate descriptions

1998 Directory of the Mapping Sciences. May: 451-546.

3D Imaging, LLC. February: 101. Analytical Spectral Devices, Inc. April: 266.

Basic Engineering Company Ltd. July: 707.

The Federal Geographic Data Committee, USGS. March: 183.

GITC: bv. August: 790.

IDRISI Project. February: 101.

Intergraph Corporation. August: 790-791. Intermap Technologies. August: 791.

LeFave, White k McGivern. July: 707.

North West Group. August: 791.

Pine Design Engineering Services Company. February: 101.

Softcopy Column: Autometric, Inc. and Vision International . Jerry Moore. June: 569-570.

Spectra Precision Software, Inc. April; 266.

Storage Tek. July: 707.

Vexcel Corporation. March: 183.

Crops

Mapping and monitoring agricultural crops and other land cover in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Russell G. Congalton, Mary Balough, Cindy Bell, Kass Green, Jeff A. Milliken, and Robert Ottman. November: 1107-1113.

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Data acquisition

GIS Column: Geospatial Data Development and Initiatives in the U.S./Mexico Border Region. Amelia M. Budge. November: 1061.

The Use of Innovative Data Collection Techniques in Support of Enterprise Wide GIS Development. Arthur J. Lembo, Christopher Powers, and Evan S. Gorin. September: 861-865.

Data collection

See Data acquisition

Data conversion

GPS Column: A Perspective on GPS Use with Imagery. Keith W. Cunningham. July: 661-662.

Data extraction

Experiments in the Identification of Terrain Features Using a PC-Based Parallel Computer. Demetrius-Kleanthis D. Rokos and Marc P. Armstrong. February: 135-142.

SPOT and Landsat Stereo Fusion for Data Extraction Over Mountainous Areas. Thierry Toutin. February: 109-113.

Data integration

GIS and Image Understanding for Near-Real-Time Earthquake Damage Assessment. Paolo Gamba and Fabio Casciati. October: 987-994.

Identifying the Effects of the Gulf War on the Geomorphic Features of Kuwait by Remote Sensing and GIS. Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz. July; 739-747.

An Integration of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Information Distribution for Wildfire Detection and Management. Vincent G. Ambrosia, Sally W. Buechel, James A. Brass, James R. Peterson, Richard H. Davies, Ronald J. Kane, and Steve Spain. October: 977-985.

Investigation of the Integration of AVIRIS and ISFAR for Urban Analysis. George F. Hepner, Bijan Houshmand, Igor Kulikov, and Nevin Bryant. August: 813-820.

Data management

Softcopy Column: Information Retrieval as the Next Challenge? Anthony Stefanidis. March: 167.

Data quality

GPS Column: A Perspective on GPS Use with Imagery. Keith W. Cunningham. July: 661-662.

GPS Column: Resolution – A Shared Concept Between GPS and Digital Imagery. Keith Cunningham. September: 873, 878.

North American Landscape Characterization Dataset Development and Data Fusion Issues. Ross S. Lunetta, John G. Lyon, Bert Guindon, and Christopher Elvidge. August: 821-829.

Databases

North American Landscape Characterization Dataset Development and Data Fusion Issues. Ross S. Lunetta, John G. Lyon, Bert Guindon, and Christopher Elvidge. August; 821-829.

Decision support systems

Active Response GIS; For Resources Management Spatial Decision Support Systems. Brenda G. Faber, William W. Wallace, and Gary E. Johnson. January: 7-11.

Delaware

Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources of Data. J. E. Vogelman, T. Sohl, and S. M. Howard. January: 45-57.

Demographics

The United States-Mexico Border Region: An Overview. Paul Ganster. November: 1077-1083.

Using a GIS to Overcome Data Adversity: Industrial Air Pollution Risk Modeling in Tijuana, Mexico. Anne J. Obee, Ernst C. Griffin, and Richard D. Wright. November: 1089-1096.

Dense elevation models

The Assessment of Sediment Transport Rates by Automated Digital Photogrammetry. M. Stojic, J. Chandler, P. Ashmore, and J. Luce. May; 387-395.

Deserts

The Accuracy of Vegetation Stand Boundaries Derived from Image Segmentation in a Desert Environment. Andres M. Abeyta and Janet Franklin. January: 59- 66.

Identifying the Effects of the Gulf War on the Geomorphic Features of Kuwait by Remote Sensing and GIS. Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz. July: 739-747.

Digital elevation models (DEM)

Experiments in the Identification of Terrain Features Using a PC-Based Parallel Computer. Demetrius-Kleanthis D. Rokos and Marc P. Armstrong. February; 135-142.

Digital terrain models

A New Algorithm for Surface Determination Based on Wavelets and its Practical Application. Jaan-Rong Tsay. December: 1179-1108.

Direct expansion method

Forest Area Estimation Using Sample Surveys and Landsat MSS and TM Data. F. Deppe. April: 285-292.

Disaster response

See Emergency response

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Earth observation satellites

Potential of High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for National Mapping Products. Rongxing Li. December: 1165-1170.

Earthquakes

GIS and Image Understanding for Near-Real-Time Earthquake Damage Assessment. Paolo Gamba and Fabio Casciati. October; 987-994.

Economics

The United States-Mexico Border Region: An Overview. Paul Ganster. November: 1077-1083.

Ecosystems

A Quantitative Comparison of Change-Detection Algorithms for Monitoring Eel-grass from Remotely Sensed Data. Robb D. Macleod and Russell G. Congalton. March: 207-216.

Edge detection

Scale-Space Methods for Image Feature Modeling in Vision Metrology. C. S. Fraser and J. Shao. April: 323-328.

Education

ASPRS Launches Remote Sensing Core Curriculum. April: 255.

Education – Teaching aids

Teaching the Physical Principles of Vegetation Canopy Reflectance Using the SAIL Model. F. M. Danson. August: 809-102.

Eelgrass

A Quantitative Comparison of Change-Detection Algorithms for Monitoring Eelgrass from Remotely Sensed Data. Robb D. Macleod and Russell G. Congalton. March: 207-216.

Emergency response

An Integration of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Information Distribution for Wildfire Detection and Management. Vincent G. Ambrosia, Sally W. Buechel, James A. Brass, James R. Peterson, Richard H. Davies, Ronald J. Kane, and Steve Spain. October: 977-985.

Remote Sensing Column; Disaster Response and Recovery Support from Airborne Re- mote Sensing. Charles Mondello and Franz Schneider. October: 958-960.

Use of Image Data to Facilitate Navigation of an Airport Emergency Response System. Nancy E. Podger, James D. Gage, Ronald Teeter, and Thomas W. Lillesand. October: 963-968.

Environmental issues

The United States-Mexico Border Region: An Overview. Paul Ganster. November: 1077-1083.

Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI)

A Systems Approach to Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) mapping for Oil Spill Contingency Planning and Response. John R. Jensen, Joanne N. Halls, and Jacqueline Michel. October: 1003-1014.

Error matrices

Accuracy Assessment of a Land-Cover Map of the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska: Considerations for Remote Regions. S. V. Muller, D. A. Walker, F. E. Nelson, N. A. Auerbach, J. G. Bockheim, S. Guyer, and D. Sherba. June: 619-628.

Nonparametric Classifier for GIS Data Applied to Kangaroo Distribution Mapping. Andrew K. Skidmore. March: 217-226.

Estuaries

A Quantitative Comparison of Change-Detection Algorithms for Monitoring Eelgrass from Remotely Sensed Data. Robb D. Macleod and Russell G. Congalton. March: 207-216.

Ethics

Emerging Legal and Ethical Issues in Advanced Remote Sensing Technology. E. Terrence Slonecker, Denice M. Shaw, and Thomas M. Lillesand. June: 589-595.

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Feature modeling

Scale-Space Methods for Image Feature Modeling in Vision Metrology. C. S. Fraser and J. Shao. April: 323-328.

Filtering

Bias and Precision of Different Sampling Methods for GPS Positions. Michel Arnaud and Albert Flori. June: 597-600.

Fires

An Integration of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Information Distribution for Wildfire Detection and Management. Vincent G. Ambrosia, Sally W. Buechel, James A. Brass, James R. Peterson, Richard H. Davies, Ronald J. Kane, and Steve Spain. October: 977-985.

Floods

Challenging the Cloud-Contamination Problem in Flood Monitoring with NOAA/ AVHRR Imagery. Yongwel Sheng, Yafang Su, and Qianguang Xiao. March; 191-198.

Florida

Engineering Applications of Airborne Scanning Lasers: Reports from the Field. William E. Carter, Eugene Medvedev, Roberto Gutierrez, and James C. Gibeaut. April: 246-253.

The Influence of Geographic Sampling Methods on Vegetation Map Accuracy Evaluation in a Swampy Environment. C. P. Lo and Lee J. Watson. December: 1189-1200.

Forest fires

See Fires

Forest management

Forest Area Estimation Using Sample Surveys and Landsat MSS and TM Data. F. Deppe. April: 285-292.

Forestry

Delineating Forest Canopy Species in the Northeastern United States Using Multi-Temporal TM Imagery. John G. Mickelson Jr., Daniel L. Civco, and John A. Silander. September: 891-904.

Map-Guided Approach for the Automatic Detection on Landsat TM Images of Forest Stands Damaged by the Spruce Budworm. Stephanie Chalifoux, Francois Cavayas, and James T. Gray. June: 629-635.

Forestry – Harvests

An Efficient and Accurate Method for Mapping Forest Clearcuts in the Pacific Northwest Using Landsat Imagery. Warren B. Cohen, Maria Fiorella, John Gray, Eileen Helmer, and Karen Anderson. April: 293-300.

Forests

Resource Management of Forested Wetlands; Hurricane Impact and recovery Mapped by Combining Landsat TM and NOAA AVHRR Data. Elijah W, Ramsey, III, Dal K. Chappell, Dennis M. Jacobs, Sijan K. Sapkota, and Dan G. Baldwin. July: 733-738.

Fuzzy classification

Extension of Climate Parameters Over the Land Surface by the Use of NOAA-AVHRR and Ancillary Data. Fablo Maselli, Ljiljana Petkov, and Giampiero Maracchi. March: 199-206.

Fuzzy sets

Accuracy Assessment of a Land-Cover Map of the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska: Considerations for Remote Regions. S. V. Muller, D. A. Walker, F. E. Nelson, N. A. Auerbach, J. G. Bockheim, S. Guyer, and D. Sherba. June: 619-628.

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Gabon, Republic of

Grids & Datums Column: The Republic of Gabon. Clifford J. Mugnier. September: 877-878.

Gap analysis

Transnational Gap Analysis of the Rio Bravo/ Rio Grande Region. Carlos Gonzalez- Rebeles, Vincent J. Burke, Michael D. Jennings, Geraldo Ceballos, and Nick C. Parker. November; 1115-1118.

Gaussian filter

Scale-Space Methods for Image Feature Modeling in Vision Metrology. C. S. Fraser and J. Shao. April: 323-328.

Geochemical data

Mapping Altered Rocks Using Landsat TM and Lithogeochemical Data: Sulphurets-Brucejack Lake District, British Columbia, Canada. J. R. Harris, A. N. Rencz, B. Ballantyne, and C. Sheridon. April: 309-322.

Geographic information systems (GIS)

Active Response GIS: For Resources Management Spatial Decision Support Systems. Brenda G. Faber, William W. Wallace, and Gary E. Johnson. January: 7-11.

GIS Column: Understanding UCGIS. George F. Hepner. September: 869-871.

GPS Column: A Perspective on GPS Use with Imagery. Keith W. Cunningham. July: 661-662.

Nonparametric Classifier for GIS Data Applied to Kangaroo Distribution Mapping. Andrew K. Skidmore. March: 217-226.

The Use of Innovative Data Collection Techniques in Support of Enterprise Wide

GIS Development. Arthur J. Lembo, Christopher Powers, and Evan S. Gorin. September: 8fi1-865.

Geographic information systems (GIS) – Applications

GIS and Image Understanding for Near-Real-Time Earthquake Damage Assessment. Paolo Gamba and Fabio Casciati. October; 987-994.

GPS Column: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, But... Keith W. Cunningham. December: 1143-1144.

Identifying the Effects of the Gulf War on the Geomorphic Features of Kuwait by Remote Sensing and GIS. Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz. July: 739-747.

An Integration of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Information Distribution for Wildfire Detection and Management. Vincent G. Ambrosia, Sally W. Buechel, James A. Brass, James R. Peterson, Richard H. Davies, Ronald J. Kano, and Steve Spain. October: 977-985.

Remote Sensing and GIS for Hazards: Foreword [PE&RS Special Issue]. Michael E. Hodgson and Bruce A. Davis. October: 976.

Remote Sensing Column: Disaster Response and Recovery Support from Airborne Remote Sensing. Charles Mondello and Franz Schneider. Octobor; 958-960.

Using a GIS to Overcome Data Adversity: Industrial Air Pollution Risk Modeling in Tijuana, Mexico. Anne J. Obee, Ernst C. Griffin, and Richard D. Wright. November: 1089-1096.

Geographic information systems (GIS) – Design

A Systems Approach to Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) mapping for Oil Spill Contingency Planning and Response. John R. Jensen, Joanne N. Halls, and Jacqueline Michel. October: 1003-1014.

Geographic information systems (GIS) – Imagery

Transnational Gap Analysis of the Rio Bravo/ Rio Grande Region. Carlos Gonzalez- Rebeles, Vincent J. Burke, Michael D. Jennings, Geraldo Ceballos, and Nick C. Parker. November: 1115-1118.

Geomorphology

The Assessment of Sediment Transport Rates by Automated Digital Photogrammetry. M. Stojic, J. Chandler, P. Ashmore, and J. Luce. May: 387-395.

Engineering Applications of Airborne Scanning Lasers: Reports from the Field. William E. Carter, Eugene Medvedev, Roberto Gutierrez, and James C. Gibeaut. April: 246-253.

Identifying the Effects of the Gulf War on the Geomorphic Features of Kuwait by Remote Sensing and GIS. Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz. July: 739-747.

Georgia

The Influence of Geographic Sampling Methods on Vegetation Map Accuracy Evaluation in a Swampy Environment. C. P. Lo and Lee J. Watson. December: 1109-1200.

Geospatial imaging

Inaugural Address: Maximizing the Societal and Commercial Opportunities of the Coming Era of Geospatial Imaging and Information. Thomas M. Lillesand. July: 671-679.

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer

See GOES-VISSR

Germany

A New Algorithm for Surface Determination Based on Wavelets and its Practical Application. Jaan-Rong Tsay. December: 1179-1188.

Global Positioning System – Applications

The Accuracy of Vegetation Stand Boundaries Derived from Image Segmentation in a Desert Environment. Andres M. Aheyta and Janet Franklin. January: 59-66.

The Use of Innovative Data Collection Techniques in Support of Enterprise Wide GIS Development. Arthur J. Lembo, Christopher Powers, and Evan S. Gorin. September: 861-805.

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Bias and Precision of Different Sampling Methods for GPS Positions. Michel Arnaud and Albert Flori. June: 597-600.

GPS Column: Resolution – A Shared Concept Between GPS and Digital Imagery. Keith Cunningham. September: 873, 878.

GPS-Controlled Strip Triangulation Using Geometric Constraints of Man-Made Structures. Hamid Ebadi and Chapman A. April: 329-333.

Global Positioning System(GPS) – Applications

GPS Column: A Perspective on GPS Use with Imagery. Keith W. Cunningham. July: 661-662.

GPS Column: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, But... Keith W. Cunningham. December: 1143-1144.

GOES-VISSR – Applications

Satellite Monitoring of Lake Ice Breakup on the Laurential Shield (1980-1994). Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas M. Lillesand, Murray K. Clayton, and John J. Magnuson. June: 607-617.

Grasses

Effects of Emergent Grass on Mid-Infrared Laser Reflectance of Soil. Ram M. Narayanan and Brian D. Guenther. May: 407-413.

Ground control points

GPS-Controlled Strip Triangulation Using Geometric Constraints of Man-Made Structures. Hamid Ebadi and Chapman A. April: 329-333.

Ground sample distance (GSD)

Talking Digital. Robert P. Comer, Gerry Kinn, Don Light, and Charles Mondello. December: 1139, 1141.

Gulf War

Identifying the Effects of the Gulf War on the Geomorphic Features of Kuwait by Remote Sensing and GIS. Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz. July: 739-747.

H

Hazardous Waste

Identification of Potential Hazardous Waste Units Using Aerial Radiological Measurements. Patrick J. Bresnahan. October: 995-1001.

Height determination

Height Determination of Extended Objects Using Shadows in SPOT Images. V. K. Shettigara and G. M. Sumerling. January: 35-44.

A Technique for 3D Building Reconstruction. Taejung Kim and Jan-Peter Muller. September: 923-930.

History

The United States-Mexico Border Region: An Overview. Paul Ganster. November: 1077-1083.

Housing

Using a GIS to Overcome Data Adversity: Industrial Air Pollution Risk Modeling in Tijuana, Mexico. Anne J. Obee, Ernst C. Griffin, and Richard D. Wright. November: 1089-1096.

Hurricanes

Engineering Applications of Airborne Scanning Lasers: Reports from the Field. William E. Carter, Eugene Medvedev, Roberto Gutierrez, and James C. Gibeaut. April: 246-253.

Resource Management of Forested Wetlands: Hurricane Impact and recovery Mapped by Combining Landsat TM and NOAA AVHRR Data. Elijah W. Ramsey, III, Dal K. Chappell, Dennis M. Jacobs, Sijan K. Sapkota, and Dan G. Baldwin. July: 733-738.

I

Ice breakup

Satellite Monitoring of Lake Ice Breakup on the Laurential Shield (1980-1994). Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas M, Lillesand, Murray K. Clayton, and John J. Magnuson. June: 607-617.

Image analysis

See Image interpretation

Image classification

Spectral Shape Classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery. Mark J. Carlotto. September: 905-913.

The Use of Census Data in Urban Image Classification. Victor Mesev. May: 431-438.

What Size Window for Image Classification! A Cognitive Perspective. Michael E. Hodgson. August: 797-807.

Image differencing

An Efficient and Accurate Method for Mapping Forest Clearcuts in the Pacific Northwest Using Landsat Imagery. Warren B. Cohen, Maria Fiorella, John Gray, Eiloen Helmer, and Karen Ander- son. April: 293-300.

Image enhancement

Repeat-Pass Dual Antenna Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometric Change-Detection Post-Processing. David A. Yocky and Benjamin F. Johnson. May: 425-429.

Wavelets for SAR Image Smoothing. Graham Horgan. December: 1171-1177.

Image interpretation

Height Determination of Extended Objects Using Shadows in SPOT Images. V. K. Shettigara and G. M. Sumerling. January: 35-44.

Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources of Data. J. E. Vogelman, T. Sohl, and S. M. Howard. January: 45-57.

What Size Window for Image Classification? A Cognitive Perspective. Michael E. Hodgson. August: 797-807.

Image mosaics

Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources of Data. J. E. Vogelman, T. Sohl, and S. M. Howard. January: 45-57.

Image Processing – Digitization

Digitizing Satellite Imagery: Quality and Cost Considerations. Jon Leachtenauer, Kenneth Daniel, and Thomas Vogi. January: 29-34.

Image processing – Photogrammetric

Potential of High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for National Mapping Products. Rongxing Li. December: 1165-1170.

Image quality

Talking Digital. Robert P. Comer, Gerry Kinn, Don Light, and Charles Mondello. December: 1139-1141.

Image rectification

Mosaicking Airborne Scanner Data with the Multiquadric Rectification Technique. Kenneth C. McGwire. June: 601-606.

Mosaicking of Orthorectified Aerial Images. Yehuda Afek and Ariel Brand. February: 115-125.

Image segmentation

The Accuracy of Vegetation Stand Boundaries Derived from Image Segmentation in a Desert Environment. Andres M. Abeyta and Janet Franklin. January: 59-66.

India

A Modified Contextual Classification Technique for Remote Sensing Data. K. M. S. Sharma and A. Sarkar. April: 273-280.

Indian Remote Sensing Satellite – Imagery

A Modified Contextual Classification Technique for Remote Sensing Data. K. M. S. Sharma and A. Sarkar. April: 273-280.

Information resources

Digitizing Satellite Imagery: Quality and Cost Considerations. Jon Leachtenauer, Kenneth Daniel, and Thomas Vogi. January: 29-34.

Information sources

1998 Publications Catalog. February: Insert.

GIS Column: Geospatial Data Development and Initiatives in the U.S./Mexico Border Region. Amelia M. Budge. November: 1061.

Information storage and retrieval

See Data management

Insects

Map-Guided Approach for the Automatic Detection on Landsat TM Images of Forest Stands Damaged by the Spruce Budworm. Stephanie Chalifoux, Francois Cavayas, and James T. Gray. June: 629-635.

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IF SAR)

Repeat-Pass Dual Antenna Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometric Change-Detection Post-Processing. David A. Yocky and Benjamin F. Johnson. May: 425-429.

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) – Applications

Investigation of the Integration of AVIRIS and ISFAR for Urban Analysis. George F. Hepner, Bijan Houshmand, Igor Kulikov, and Nevin Bryant. August: 813-820.

Irrigation

Modeling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Sediment Yield in Imperial Valley, California. Mark V. Finco and George F. Hepner. November: 1097-1105.

ISPRS – Meeting reports

Softcopy Column: Some First Impressions from the ISPRS Commission III Symposium. Anthony Stefanidis. September: 875, 878.

Italy

Extension of Climate Parameters Over the Land Surface by the Use of NOAA- AVHRR and Ancillary Data. Fablo Maselli, Ljiljana Petkov, and Giampiero Maracchi. March: 199-206.

K

Kangaroo

Nonparametric Classifier for GIS Data Applied to Kangaroo Distribution Mapping. Andrew K. Skidmore. March: Z17-226.

Kuwait

Identifying the Effects of the Gulf War on the Geomorphic Features of Kuwait by Remote Sensing and GIS. Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz. July: 739-747.

L

Lakes

Satellite Monitoring of Lake Ice Breakup on the Laurential Shield (1980-1994). Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas M. Lillesand, Murray K, Clayton, and John J. Magnuson. June: 607-617.

Land cover

Forest Area Estimation Using Sample Surveys and Landsat MSS and TM Data. F. Deppe. April: 285-292.

Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources of Data. J. E. Vogelman, T. Sohl, and S. M. Howard. January: 45-57.

Responses of Spectral Indices to Variations in Vegetation Cover and Soil Background. Stella W. Todd and Roger M. Hoffer. September: 915-921.

Transnational Gap Analysis of the Rio Bravo/ Rio Grande Region. Carlos Gonzalez-Rebeles, Vincent J. Burke, Michael D. Jennings, Geraldo Ceballos, and Nick C. Parker. November: 1115-1118.

Land-cover change

North American Landscape Characterization Dataset Development and Data Fusion Issues. Ross S. Lunetta, John G. Lyon, Bert Guindon, and Christopher Elvidge. August: 821-829.

Land-cover classification

Application of C-CAP Protocol Land-Cover Data to Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Potential Spatial Models in a Coastal Environment. Floyd M. Henderson, Thomas F. Hart, Jr., Laura Orlando, Brian Heaton, James Portolese, and Robert Chasm. October: 1015-1020.

Delineating Forest Canopy Species in the Northeastern United States Using Multi-Temporal TM Imagery. John G. Mickelson Jr., Daniel L. Civco, and John A. Silander. September: 891-904.

Map-Guided Classification of Regional Land Cover with Multi-Temporal AVHRR Data. David M. Stoms, Michael J. Bueno, Frank W. Davis, Kelly M. Cassidy, Kenneth L. Driese, and James S. Kagan. August: 831-838.

A Modified Contextual Classification Technique for Remote Sensing Data. K. M. S. Sharma and A. Sarkar. April: 273-280.

Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources of Data. J. E. Vogelman, T. Sohl, and S. M. Howard. January: 45-57.

Land management

See Natural resources management

Landforms

See also Terrain features

Identifying the Effects of the Gulf War on the Geomorphic Features of Kuwait by Remote Sensing and GIS. Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz. July: 739-747.

Landsat 7

Improving Landsat Scene Selection Systems. Kenneth McGwire. July: 717-722.

Landsat – Imagery

Improving Landsat Scene Selection Systems. Kenneth McGwire. July: 717-722.

Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) – Applications

Accuracy Assessment of a Land-Cover Map of the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska: Considerations for Remote Regions. S. V. Muller, D. A. Walker, F. E. Nelson, N. A. Auerbach, J. G. Bockheim, S. Guyer, and D. Sherba. June: 619-628.

A Change Detection Experiment Using Vegetation Indices. John G. Lyon, Ding Yuan, Ross S. Lunetta, and Chris D. Elvidge. February; 143-150.

An Efficient and Accurate Method for Mapping Forest Clearcuts in the Pacific Northwest Using Landsat Imagery. Warren B. Cohen, Maria Fiorella, John Gray, Eileen Helmer, and Karen Anderson. April; 293-300.

Forest Area Estimation Using Sample Surveys and Landsat MSS and TM Data. F. Deppe. April: 285-292.

North American Landscape Characterization Dataset Development and Data Fusion Issues. Ross S. Lunetta, John G. Lyon, Bert Guindon, and Christopher Elvidge. August; 821-829.

Landsat Pathfinder projects

North American Landscape Characterization Dataset Development and Data Fusion Issues. Ross S. Lunetta, John G. Lyon, Bert Guindon, and Christopher Elvidge. August: 821-829.

Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) – Applications

Delineating Forest Canopy Species in the Northeastern United States Using Multi-Temporal TM Imagery. John G. Mickelson Jr., Daniel L. Civco, and John A. Silander. September: 891-904.

An Efficient and Accurate Method for Mapping Forest Clearcuts in the Pacific Northwest Using Landsat Imagery. Warren B. Cohen, Maria Fiorella, ]ohn Gray, Eileen Helmer, and Karen Anderson. April: 293-300.

Forest Area Estimation Using Sample Surveys and Landsat MSS and TM Data. F. Deppe. April: 285-292.

Identifying the Effects of the Gulf War on the Geomorphic Features of Kuwait by Remote Sensing and GIS. Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz. July: 739-747.

The Influence of Geographic Sampling Methods on Vegetation Map Accuracy Evaluation in a Swampy Environment. C. P. Lo and Lee J. Watson. December: 1189-1200.

Map-Guided Approach for the Automatic Detection on Landsat TM Images of Forest Stands Damaged by the Spruce Budworm. Stephanie Chalifoux, Francois Cavayas, and James T. Gray. June: 629-635.

Mapping Altered Rocks Using Landsat TM and Lithogeochemical Data: Sulphurets-Brucejack Lake District, British Columbia, Canada. J. R. Harris, A. N. Rencz, B. Ballantyne, and C. Sheridon. April: 309-322.

Mapping and monitoring agricultural crops and other land cover in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Russell G. Congalton, Mary Balough, Cindy Bell, Kass Green, Jeff A. Milliken, and Robert Ottman. November: 1107-1113.

A Quantitative Comparison of Change-Detection Algorithms for Monitoring Eelgrass from Remotely Sensed Data. Robb D. Macleod and Russell G. Congalton. March: 207-216.

Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources of Data. J. E. Vogelman, T. Sohl, and S. M. Howard. January: 45-57.

Resource Management of Forested Wetlands: Hurricane Impact and recovery Mapped by Combining Landsat TM and NOAA AVHRR Data. Elijah W. Ramsey, III, Dal K. Chappell, Dennis M. Jacobs, Sijan K. Sapkota, and Dan G. Baldwin. July: 733-738.

Transnational Gap Analysis of the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande Region. Carlos Gonzalez-Rebeles, Vincent J. Burke, Michael D. Jennings, Geraldo Ceballos, and Nick C. Parker. November: 1115-1118.

Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) – Imagery

Estimating the Accuracy of Coarse Scale Classification Using High Scale Information. Christiane Kloditz, Angellien van Boxtel, Elisabetta Carfagna, and Willem van Deursen. February: 127-133.

A Modified Contextual Classification Technique for Remote Sensing Data. K. M. S. Sharma and A. Sarkar. April: 273-280.

Spectral Shape Classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery. Mark J. Carlotto. September: 905-913.

SPOT and Landsat Stereo Fusion for Data Extraction Over Mountainous Areas. Thierry Toutin. February: 109-113.

LANYARD imagery

Digitizing Satellite Imagery: Quality and Cost Considerations. Jon Leachtenauer, Kenneth Daniel, and Thomas Vogi. January: 29-34.

Laser mapping systems

The Use of Innovative Data Collection Techniques in Support of Enterprise Wide GIS Development. Arthur J. Lembo, Christopher Powers, and Evan S. Gorin. September: 861-865.

Laser scanning

Engineering Applications of Airborne Scanning Lasers: Reports from the Field. William E. Carter, Eugene Medvedev, Roberto Gutierrez, and James C. Gibeaut. April: 246-253.

Laser spectrometers – Applications

See also Spectroradiometry–Applications

Effects of Emergent Grass on Mid-Infrared Laser Reflectance of Soil. Ram M. Narayanan and Brian D. Guenther. May: 407-413.

Line-intercept sampling

The Accuracy of Vegetation Stand Boundaries Derived from Image Segmentation in a Desert Environment. Andres M. Abeyta and Janet Franklin. January: 59-66.

Linear mixing model

Algorithms for the Detection of Sub-Pixel Targets in Multispectral Imagery. Edward A. Ashton and Alan Schaum. July: 723-731.

Lithology

Mapping Altered Rocks Using Landsat TM and Lithogeochemical Data: Sulphurets-Brucejack Lake District, British Columbia, Canada. J. R. Harris, A. N. Rencz, B. Ballantyne, and C. Sheridon. April: 309-322.

Logging (forestry)

See Forestry – Harvests

Long Island Rail Road

The Use of Innovative Data Collection Techniques in Support of Enterprise Wide GIS Development. Arthur J. Lembo, Christopher Powers, and Evan S. Gorin. September: 861-865.

Louisiana

Grids & Datums Column: Coordinate Systems and Surveying Customs in Louisiana. Clifford J. Mugnier. June: 579-580.

Resource Management of Forested Wetlands: Hurricane Impact and recovery Mapped by Combining Landsat TM and NOAA AVHRR Data. Elijah W. Ramsey, III, Dal K. Chappell, Dennis M. Jacobs, Sijan K. Sapkota, and Dan G. Baldwin. July: 733-738.

M

Manitoba

Satellite Monitoring of Lake Ice Breakup on the Laurential Shield (1980-1994). Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas M. Lillesand, Murray K. Clayton, and John J. Magnuson. June: 607-617.

Mapping

See also Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system

Grids & Datums Column: "QRA" Session. Clifford J. Mugnier. March: 169.

Grids & Datums Column: Coordinate Systems and Surveying Customs in Louisiana. Clifford J. Mugnier. June: 579-580.

Mapping and monitoring agricultural crops and other land cover in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Russell G. Congalton, Mary Balough, Cindy Bell, Kass Green, Jeff A. Milliken, and Robert Ottman. November: 1107-1113.

Potential of High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for National Mapping Products. Rongxing Li. December: 1165-1170.

The Use of Innovative Data Collection Techniques in Support of Enterprise Wide GIS Development. Arthur J. Lembo, Christopher Powers, and Evan S. Gorin. September: 861-865.

Mapping – Airborne laser terrain

Engineering Applications of Airborne Scanning Lasers: Reports from the Field. William E. Carter, Eugene Medvedev, Roberto Gutierrez, and James C. Gibeaut. April: 246-253.

Mapping – Forests

An Efficient and Accurate Method for Mapping Forest Clearcuts in the Pacific Northwest Using Landsat Imagery. Warren B. Cohen, Maria Fiorella, John Gray, Eileen Helmer, and Karen Anderson. April: 293-300.

Mapping – Geology

Mapping Altered Rocks Using Landsat TM and Lithogeochemical Data: Sulphurets-Brucejack Lake District, British Columbia, Canada. J. R. Harris, A. N. Rencz, B. Ballantyne, and C. Sheridon. April: 309-322.

Mapping – History

Grids & Datums Column: Republic of Uzbekistan. Clifford J. Mugnier. December: 1151, 1153.

Grids & Datums Column: The Kingdom of Belgium. Clifford J. Mugnier. October: 956-957.

Grids & Datums Column: The Cayman Is- lands. Clifford J. Mugnier. November: 1065,1072.

Grids & Datums Column: The Republic of Gabon. Clifford J. Mugnier. September: 877-878.

Mapping – Land cover

Map-Guided Classification of Regional Land Cover with Multi-Temporal AVHRR Data. David M. Stoms, Michael J. Bueno, Frank W. Davis, Kelly M. Cassidy, Kenneth L. Driese, and James S. Kagan. August: 831-838.

Mapping – Mobile image sequences

Automatic Reconstruction of Road Centerlines from Mobile Mapping Image Sequences. Chuang Tao, Rongxing Li, and Michael Chapman. July: 709-716.

Mapping – Special purposes

A Systems Approach to Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) mapping for Oil Spill Contingency Planning and Response. John R. Jensen, Joanne N. Halls, and Jacqueline Michel. October: 1003-1014.

Mapping – Topographic

Softcopy Column: Digital Photogrammetric Activities at CTI, Geomatics Canada: Geoinformation from Images. Costas Armenakis. December: 1145, 1147, 1149.

Mapping – Vegetation

Delineating Forest Canopy Species in the Northeastern United States Using Multi-Temporal TM Imagery. John G. Mickelson Jr., Daniel L. Civco, and John A. Silander. September: 891-904.

Mapping – Wildlife

Nonparametric Classifier for GIS Data Applied to Kangaroo Distribution Mapping. Andrew K. Skidmore. March: 217-226.

Maps – Land cover

Accuracy Assessment of a Land-Cover Map of the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska: Considerations for Remote Regions. S. V. Muller, D. A. Walker, F. E. Nelson, N. A. Auerbach, J. G. Bockheim, S. Guyer, and D. Sherba. June: 619-628.

Maps – Special purpose

Use of Image Data to Facilitate Navigation of an Airport Emergency Response System. Nancy E. Podger, James D. Gage, Ronald Teeter, and Thomas W. Lillesand. October: 963-968.

Maps – Vegetation

Resource Management of Forested Wetlands: Hurricane Impact and recovery Mapped by Combining Landsat TM and NOAA AVHRR Data. Elijah W. Ramsey, III, Dal K. Chappell, Dennis M. Jacobs, Sijan K. Sapkota, and Dan G. Baldwin. July: 733-738.

Maryland

Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources of Data. J. E. Vogelman, T. Sohl, and S. M. Howard. January: 45-57.

Maximum cross-correlation coefficient method

Effectiveness of the MCC Method in Detecting Oceanic Circulation Patterns at a Local Scale from Sequential AVHRR Images. Jay Gao and Matthew B. Lythe. April: 301-308.

Maximum likelihood classification

A Modified Contextual Classification Technique for Remote Sensing Data. K. M. S, Sharma and A. Sarkar. April: 273-280.

Spectral Shape Classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery. Mark J. Carlotto. September: 905-913.

Measurement – Vision-based

Scale-Space Methods for Image Feature Modeling in Vision Metrology. C. S. Fraser and J. Shao. April: 323-328.

Mexico

A Change Detection Experiment Using Vegetation Indices. John G. Lyon, Ding Yuan, Ross S. Lunetta, and Chris D. Elvidge. February: 143-150.

Modeling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Sediment Yield in Imperial Valley, California. Mark V. Finco and George F. Hepner. November: 1097-1105.

Using a GIS to Overcome Data Adversity: Industrial Air Pollution Risk Modeling in Tijuana, Mexico. Anne J. Obee, Ernst C. Griffin, and Richard D. Wright. November: 1089-1096.

Mexico-United States border region

See United States-Mexico border region

Microwave radiometry – Applications

Towards Development of a Snow Water Equivalence (SWE) Algorithm Using Microwave Radiometry over Snow Covered First-Year Sea Ice. Sheldon D. Drobot and David G. Barber. May: 415-423.

Mineral exploration

Mapping Altered Rocks Using Landsat TM and Lithogeochemical Data: Sulphurets-Brucejack Lake District, British Columbia, Canada. J. R. Harris, A. N. Rencz, B. Ballantyne, and C. Sheridon. April: 309-322.

Minnesota

Satellite Monitoring of Lake Ice Breakup on the Laurential Shield (1980-1994). Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas M. Lillesand, Murray K. Clayton, and John J. Magnuson. June: 607-617.

Monitoring

Mapping and monitoring agricultural crops and other land cover in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Russell G. Congalton, Mary Balough, Cindy Bell, Kass Green, Jeff A. Milliken, and Robert Ottman. November: 1107-1113.

Monitoring – Floods

Challenging the Cloud-Contamination Problem in Flood Monitoring with NOAA/ AVHRR Imagery. Yongwel Sheng, Yafang Su, and Qianguang Xiao. March: 191-198.

Mosaicking

See also Image mosaics

Mosaicking Airborne Scanner Data with the Multiquadric Rectification Technique. Kenneth C. McGwire. June: 601-606. Mosaicking of Orthorectified Aerial Images. Yehuda Afek and Ariel Brand. February: 115-125.

Mountainous terrain

SPOT and Landsat Stereo Fusion for Data Extraction Over Mountainous Areas. Thierry Toutin. February: 109-113.

Multispectral imagery

Algorithms for the Detection of Sub-Pixel Targets in Multispectral Imagery. Edward A. Ashton and Alan Schaum. July: 723-731.

N

National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying

See NCEES

Natural hazards

Challenging the Cloud-Contamination Problem in Flood Monitoring with NOAA/ AVHRR Imagery. Yongwel Sheng, Yafang Su, and Qianguang Xiao. March: 191-198.

GIS and Image Understanding for Near-Real-Time Earthquake Damage Assessment. Paolo Gamba and Fabio Casciati. October: 987-994.

An Integration of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Information Distribution for Wildfire Detection and Management. Vincent G. Ambrosia, Sally W. Buechel, James A. Brass, James R. Peterson, Richard H. Davies, Ronald J. Kane, and Steve Spain. October; 977-985.

Remote Sensing and GIS for Hazards: Foreword [PE&RS Special Issue]. Michael E. Hodgson and Bruce A. Davis. October: 976.

Remote Sensing Column: Disaster Response and Recovery Support from Airborne Remote Sensing. Charles Mondello and Franz Schneider. October: 958-960.

Natural resources management

Active Response GIS: For Resources Management Spatial Decision Support Systems. Brenda G. Faber, William W. Wallace, and Gary E. Johnson. January: 7-11.

Forest Area Estimation Using Sample Surveys and Landsat MSS and TM Data. F. Deppe. April: 285-292.

NCEES – Meeting reports

NCEES: ASPRS Membership, the Model Law, and More. James Plasker. October: 947, 955.

Netherlands, The

Estimating the Accuracy of Coarse Scale Classification Using High Scale Information. Christiane Kloditz, Angellien van Boxtel, Elisabetta Carfagna, and Willem van Deursen. February: 127-133.

New Hampshire

A Quantitative Comparison of Change-Detection Algorithms for Monitoring Eelgrass from Remotely Sensed Data. Robb D. Macleod and Russell G. Congalton. March: 207-216.

New Mexico

GPS Column: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, But... Keith W. Cunningham. December: 1143-1144.

Repeat-Pass Dual Antenna Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometric Change-Detection Post-Processing. David A. Yocky and Benjamin F, Johnson. May: 425-429.

New York

Application of C-CAP Protocol Land-Cover Data to Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Potential Spatial Models in a Coastal Environment. Floyd M. Henderson, Thomas F. Hart, Jr., Laura Orlando, Brian Heaton, James Portolese, and Robert Chasm. October: 1015-1020.

Remote Sensing Column: Disaster Response and Recovery Support from Airborne Remote Sensing. Charles Mondello and Franz Schneider. October: 958-960.

New Zealand

Effectiveness of the MCC Method in Detecting Oceanic Circulation Patterns at a Local Scale from Sequential AVHRR Images. Jay Gao and Matthew B. Lythe. April: 301-308.

NOAA AVHRR

See AVHRR

Nonparametric classifier

Nonparametric Classifier for GIS Data Applied to Kangaroo Distribution Mapping. Andrew K. Skidmore. March: 217-226.

Nonpoint source pollution

Application of C-CAP Protocol Land-Cover Data to Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Potential Spatial Models in a Coastal Environment. Floyd M. Henderson, Thomas F. Hart, Jr., Laura Orlando, Brian Heaton, James Portolese, and Robert Chasm. October: 1015-1020.

Modeling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Sediment Yield in Imperial Valley, California. Mark V. Finco and George F. Hepner. November: 1097-1105.

Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)

A Change Detection Experiment Using Vegetation Indices. John G. Lyon, Ding Yuan, Ross S. Lunetta, and Chris D. Elvidge. February: 143-150.

Extension of Climate Parameters Over the Land Surface by the Use of NOAA-AVHRR and Ancillary Data. Fablo Maselli, Ljiljana Petkov, and Giampiero Maracchi. March: 199-206.

Responses of Spectral Indices to Variations in Vegetation Cover and Soil Background. Stella W. Todd and Roger M. Hoffer. September: 915-921.

North American Landscape Characterization project

North American Landscape Characterization Dataset Development and Data Fusion Issues. Ross S. Lunetta, John G. Lyon, Bert Guindon, and Christopher Elvidge. August: 821-829.

North American Remote Sensing Industries Association (NARSIA)

Land Satellite Information in the Next Decade II: Sources and Applications. April: 259-263.

A Short Something a Little Bit Different, From the Bottom of the Pecking Order. Murray Felsher. April: 261, 263, 336, 338.

North Dakota

Satellite Monitoring of Lake Ice Breakup on the Laurential Shield (1980-1994). Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas M. Lillesand, Murray K. Clayton, and John J. Magnuson. June: 607-617.

Northwest Territories

Towards Development of a Snow Water Equivalence (SWE) Algorithm Using Microwave Radiometry over Snow Covered First-Year Sea Ice. Sheldon D. Drobot and David G. Barber. May: 415-423.

O

Obituaries

See also Bibliographies

In Memoriam: Arthur (Art) R. Schikore. December: 1144.

In Memoriam: Bruce John Blanchard. February: 95.

In Memoriam: Garland Clement Bounds. Morris Thompson. January; 23.

In Memoriam: Henry F. Soehngen. October: 955.

In Memoriam: Michael A. Spanner. Lee Johnson. September: 859.

In Memoriam; Michael Kerwin Linck. Michael Kerwin Link Jr. April: 265.

In Memoriam: Reynold Everett Ask. Morris Thompson. January: 23

Oceans

Effectiveness of the MCC Method in Detecting Oceanic Circulation Patterns at a Local Scale from Sequential AVHRR Images. Jay Gao and Matthew B. Lythe. April: 301-308.

Ohio

Potential of High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for National Mapping Products. Rongxing Li. December: 1165-1170.

Oil fields

Identifying the Effects of the Gulf War on the Geomorphic Features of Kuwait by Remote Sensing and GIS. Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz. July: 739-747.

Oil Spills

A Systems Approach to Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) mapping for Oil Spill Contingency Planning and Response. John R. Jensen, Joanne N. Halls, and Jacqueline Michel. October: 1003-1014.

Okefenokee Swamp

The Influence of Geographic Sampling Methods on Vegetation Map Accuracy Evaluation in a Swampy Environment. C. P. Lo and Lee J. Watson. December: 1189-1200.

Ontario

Satellite Monitoring of Lake Ice Breakup on the Laurential Shield (1980-1994). Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas M. Lillesand, Murray K. Clayton, and John J. Magnuson. June: 607-617.

Oregon

An Efficient and Accurate Method for Mapping Forest Clearcuts in the Pacific Northwest Using Landsat Imagery. Warren B. Cohen, Maria Fiorella, John Gray, Eileen Helmer, and Karen Anderson. April: 293-300.

Ortho images

A New Algorithm for Surface Determination Based on Wavelets and its Practical Application. Jaan-Rong Tsay. December: 1179-1188.

P

Pennsylvania

Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources of Data. J. E. Vogelman, T. Sohl, and S. M. Howard. January: 45-57.

Photogrammetry

GPS Column: A Perspective on GPS Use with Imagery. Keith W. Cunningham. July: 661-662.

Softcopy Column: Autometric, Inc. and Vision International. Jerry Moore. June: 569-570.

Softcopy Column: Some First Impressions from the ISPRS Commission III Symposium. Anthony Stefanidis. September: 875, 878.

Photogrammetry – Digital

The Assessment of Sediment Transport Rates by Automated Digital Photogrammetry. M. Stojic, J. Chandler, P. Ashmore, and J. Luce. May: 387-395.

Softcopy Column: Digital Photogrammetric Activities at CTI, Geomatics Canada: Geoinformation from Images. Costas Armenakis. December: 1145, 1147, 1149.

Photogrammetry – Industrial applications

Scale-Space Methods for Image Feature Modeling in Vision Metrology. C. S. Fraser and J. Shao. April: 323-328.

Photogrammetry – Softcopy

Softcopy Column: Information Retrieval as the Next Challenge? Anthony Stefanidis. March: 167.

Photogrammetry – Stereo digital

SPOT and Landsat Stereo Fusion for Data Extraction Over Mountainous Areas. Thierry Toutin. February: 109-113.

Photointerpretation

Forest Area Estimation Using Sample Surveys and Landsat MSS and TM Data. F. Deppe. April: 285-292.

A Technique for 3D Building Reconstruction. Taejung Kim and Jan-Peter Muller. September: 923-930.

Politics

The United States-Mexico Border Region: An Overview. Paul Ganster. November; 1077-1083.

Powerlines

Engineering Applications of Airborne Scanning Lasers: Reports from the Field. William E. Carter, Eugene Medvedev, Roberto Gutierrez, and James C. Gibeaut. April: 246-253.

Q

Quality control – Manufacturing

Scale-Space Methods for Image Feature Modeling in Vision Metrology. C. S. Fraser and J. Shao. April; 323-328.

Quebec

Map-Guided Approach for the Automatic Detection on Landsat TM Images of Forest Stands Damaged by the Spruce Budworm. Stephanie Chalifoux, Francois Cavayas, and James T. Gray. June: 629-635.

R

Radiological hazards

Identification of Potential Hazardous Waste Units Using Aerial Radiological Measurements. Patrick J. Bresnahan. October: 995-1001.

Reflectance spectra

Spectral Reflectance and Detection of Iron Oxide Precipitates Associated with Acidic Mine Drainage. John E. Anderson and Eleanora I. Robbins. December: 1201-1208.

Regional analysis

Forest Area Estimation Using Sample Surveys and Landsat MSS and TM Data. F. Deppe. April: 285-292.

Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources of Data. J. E. Vogelman, T. Sohl, and S. M. Howard. January: 45-57.

Regression estimator

Forest Area Estimation Using Sample Surveys and Landsat MSS and TM Data. F. Deppe. April: 285-292.

Remote sensing – Applications

Remote Sensing and GIS for Hazards: Foreword [PE&RS Special Issue]. Michael E. Hodgson and Bruce A. Davis. October: 976.

Remote sensing – History

Digitizing Satellite Imagery: Quality and Cost Considerations. Jon Leachtenauer, Kenneth Daniel, and Thomas Vogi. January: 29-34.

Remote sensing – Legal aspects

Emerging Legal and Ethical Issues in Advanced Remote Sensing Technology. E. Terrence Slonecker, Denice M. Shaw, and Thomas M. Lillesand. June: 589-595.

Rio Grande basin

Transnational Gap Analysis of the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande Region. Carlos Gonzalez-Rebeles, Vincent J. Burke, Michael D. Jennings, Geraldo Ceballos, and Nick C. Parker. November: 1115-1118.

Risk assessment

Using a GIS to Overcome Data Adversity: Industrial Air Pollution Risk Modeling in Tijuana, Mexico. Anne J. Obee, Ernst C. Griffin, and Richard D. Wright. November: 1089-1096.

Rivers

The Assessment of Sediment Transport Rates by Automated Digital Photogrammetry. M. Stojic, J. Chandler, P. Ashmore, and J. Luce. May: 387-395.

Roads

Automatic Reconstruction of Road Centerlines from Mobile Mapping Image Sequences. Chuang Tao, Rongxing Li, and Michael Chapman. July: 709-716.

Engineering Applications of Airborne Scanning Lasers: Reports from the Field. William E. Carter, Eugene Medvedev, Roherto Gutierrez, and James C. Gibeaut. April: 246-253.

Rugged terrain

See Mountainous terrain

S

Sampling methods

The Accuracy of Vegetation Stand Boundaries Derived from Image Segmentation in a Desert Environment. Andres M. Abeyta and Janet Franklin. January: 59-66.

The Influence of Geographic Sampling Methods on Vegetation Map Accuracy Evaluation in a Swampy Environment. C. P. Lo and Lee J. Watson, December: 1189-1200.

Sand dunes

Identifying the Effects of the Gulf War on the Geomorphic Features of Kuwait by Remote Sensing and GIS. Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz. July: 739-747.

Saskatchewan

Satellite Monitoring of Lake Ice Breakup on the Laurential Shield (1980-1994). Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas M. Lillesand, Murray K. Clayton, and John J. Magnuson. June: 607-617.

Scale-space methods

Scale-Space Methods for Image Feature Modeling in Vision Metrology. C. S. Fraser and J. Shao. April: 323-3Z8.

Scanner imagery

Mosaicking Airborne Scanner Data with the Multiquadric Rectification Technique. Kenneth C. McGwire. June: 601-606.

Scene selection methods

Improving Landsat Scene Selection Systems. Kenneth McGwire. July: 717-722.

Sea ice

Towards Development of a Snow Water Equivalence (SWE) Algorithm Using Microwave Radiometry over Snow Covered First-Year Sea Ice. Sheldon D. Drobot and David G. Barber. May: 415-423.

Sediment Transport

The Assessment of Sediment Transport Rates by Automated Digital Photogrammetry. M. Stojic, J. Chandler, P. Ashmore, and J. Luce. May: 387-395.

Sediment yield

Modeling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Sediment Yield in Imperial Valley, California. Mark V. Finco and George F. Hepner. November: 1097-1105.

Sequential images

Automatic Reconstruction of Road Centerlines from Mobile Mapping Image Sequences. Chuang Tao, Rongxing Li, and Michael Chapman. July: 709-716.

Effectiveness of the MCC Method in Detecting Oceanic Circulation Patterns at a Local Scale from Sequential AVHRR Images. Jay Gao and Matthew B. Lythe. April: 301-308.

Shadow delineation

Height Determination of Extended Objects Using Shadows in SPOT Images. V. K. Shettigara and G. M. Sumerling. January: 35-44.

Siberia

Engineering Applications of Airborne Scanning Lasers; Reports from the Field. William E. Carter, Eugene Medvedev, Roberto Gutierrez, and James C. Gibeaut. April: 246-253.

Snow cover

Towards Development of a Snow Water Equivalence (SWE) Algorithm Using Microwave Radiometry over Snow Covered First-Year Sea Ice. Sheldon D. Drobot and David G. Barber. May: 415-423.

Software reviews

Autodesk AutoCAD Map Release 2.0. James D. Hipple. February: 97-99, 106.

Earthscope (W2.0). Ray Lougeay. September: 879-883.

Microimages TNTlite. Ray L. Harris Jr. November: 1049-1053.

The Geographic Transformer (TGT). Sandy Prisloe. August: 777-783.

Soil erosion

Modeling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Sediment Yield in Imperial Valley, California. Mark V. Finco and George F. Hepner. November: 1097-1105.

Soil reflectance

Effects of Emergent Grass on Mid-Infrared Laser Reflectance of Soil. Ram M. Narayanan and Brian D. Guenther. May: 407-413.

Soils

Application of C-CAP Protocol Land-Cover Data to Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Potential Spatial Models in a Coastal Environment. Floyd M. Henderson, Thomas F. Hart, Jr., Laura Orlando, Brian Heaton, James Portolese, and Robert Chasm. October: 1015-1020.

Responses of Spectral Indices to Variations in Vegetation Cover and Soil Background. Stella W. Todd and Roger M. Hoffer. September: 915-921.

South Carolina

Identification of Potential Hazardous Waste Units Using Aerial Radiological Measurements. Patrick J. Bresnahan. October: 995-1001.

South Dakota

Satellite Monitoring of Lake Ice Breakup on the Laurential Shield (1980-1994). Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas M. Lillesand, Murray K. Clayton, and John J. Magnuson. June: 607-617.

Spatial resolution

Estimating the Accuracy of Coarse Scale Classification Using High Scale Information. Christiane Kloditz, Angellien van Boxtol, Elisabetta Carfagna, and Willem van Deursen. February: 127-133.

Spectral shape classification

Spectral Shape Classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery. Mark J. Carlotto. September: 905-913.

Spectroradiometry – Applications

See also Laser spectrometers – Applications

Spectral Reflectance and Detection of Iron Oxide Precipitates Associated with Acidic Mine Drainage. John E. Anderson and Eleanora I. Robbins. December: 1201-1208.

SPOT – Applications

Identifying the Effects of the Gulf War on the Geomorphic Features of Kuwait by Remote Sensing and GIS. Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz. July: 739-747.

SPOT – Imagery

Height Determination of Extended Objects Using Shadows in SPOT Images. V. K. Shettigara and G. M. Sumerling. January; 35-44.

SPOT-P – Imagery

SPOT and Landsat Stereo Fusion for Data Extraction Over Mountainous Areas. Thierry Toutin. February: 109-113.

Steel plating

Scale-Space Methods for Image Feature Modeling in Vision Metrology. C. S. Fraser and J. Shao. April; 323-328.

Stereo matching

Automatic Reconstruction of Road Centerlines from Mobile Mapping Image Sequences. Chuang Tao, Rongxing Li, and Michael Chapman. July: 709-716.

Stereomapping

Automatic Reconstruction of Road Centerlines from Mobile Mapping Image Sequences. Chuang Tao, Rongxing Li, and Michael Chapman. July: 709-716.

Stereopairs

Co-Registered Aerial Stereopairs from Low- Flying Aircraft for the Analysis of Long-Term Tropical Rainforest Canopy Dynamics. Stanley R. Herwitz, Robert E. Slye, and Stephen M. Turton. May: 397-405.

SPOT and Landsat Stereo Fusion for Data Extraction Over Mountainous Areas. Thierry Toutin. February; 109-113.

A Technique for 3D Building Reconstruction. Taejung Kim and Jan-Peter Muller. September: 923-930.

Strip triangulation

GPS-Controlled Strip Triangulation I.Jsing Geometric Constraints of Man-Made Structures. Hamid Ebadi and Chapman A. April: 329-333.

Surface determination

A New Algorithm for Surface Determination Based on Wavelets and its Practical Application. Jaan-Rong Tsay. December: 1179-1188.

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

See also Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR)

Wavelets for SAR Image Smoothing. Graham Horgan. December: 1171-1177.

T

Target detection

Algorithms for the Detection of Sub-Pixel Targets in Multispectral Imagery. Edward A. Ashton and Alan Schaum. July: 723-731.

Terrain features

See also Landforms

Experiments in the Identification of Terrain Features Using a PC-Based Parallel Computer. Demetrius-Kleanthis D. Rokos and Marc P. Armstrong. February; 135-142.

Texas

Engineering Applications of Airborne Scanning Lasers: Reports from the Field. William E. Carter, Eugene Modvedev, Rohorto Gutierrez, and James C. Gibeaut. April: 246-253.

Transnational Gap Analysis of the Rio Bravo/ Rio Grande Region. Carlos Gonzalez-Rebeles, Vincent J. Burke, Michael D. Jennings, Geraldo Ceballos, and Nick C. Parker. November: 1115-1118.

Tornadoes

Remote Sensing Column: Disaster Response and Recovery Support from Airborne Remote Sensing. Charles Mondello and Franz Schneider. October: 958-960.

Transboundary Resource Inventory Program (TRIP)

GIS Column: Geospatial Data Development and Initiatives in the U.S./Mexico Border Region. Amelia M. Budge. November: 1061. Triangulation Grids & Datums Column: The Kingdom of Belgium. Clifford J. Mugnier. October: 954-957.

Trinidad and Tobago

Grids & Datums Column: "QRA" Session. Clifford J. Mugnier. March; 169.

Tropical forests

Co-Registered Aerial Stereopairs from Low- Flying Aircraft for the Analysis of Long-Term Tropical Rainforest Canopy Dynamics. Stanley R. Herwitz, Robert E. Slye, and Stephen M. Turton. May: 397-405.

U

United Kingdom

The Use of Census Data in Urban Image Classification. Victor Mesev. May; 431-438.

United States-Mexico border region

GIS Column: Geospatial Data Development and Initiatives in the U.S./Mexico Border Region. Amelia M. Budge. November: 1061.

Modeling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Sediment Yield in Imperial Valley, California. Mark V. Finco and Georgo F. Hepner. November: 1097-1105.

Transnational Gap Analysis of the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande Region. Carlos Gonzalez-Rebeles, Vincent J. Burke, Michael D. Jennings, Geraldo Ceballos, and Nick C. Parker. November: 1115- 1118.

The United States-Mexico Border Region: An Overview. Paul Ganster. November: 1077-1083.

United-States Mexico Transboundary Aerial Photography and Mapping Initiative. Kenneth J. Osborn. November: 1085-1088.

Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system

See also Mapping

Grids & Datums Column: "URA" Session. Clifford J. Mugnier. March: 169.

Letter to the Editor: A Challenge. Frederick J. Doyle. June: 505, 507.

Letter to the Editor: Dislikes Derogatory Remarks About the UTM. Alden P. Colvocoresses. June: 567.

Letter to the Editor: Gentle Comments on a March 1998 Column. Skip Maselli. June; 587.

Letter to the Editor: Response [to letters]. Clifford J. Mugnier. June: 587-588.

Letter to the Editor: So Much Trash. David G. Clark. June: 567.

Letter to the Editor: Why is it "Wrong" to Use UTM for Non-Military Applications! N. G. Terry Jr. June: 567, 580, 587.

University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)

GIS Column: Understanding UCGIS. George F. Hepner. September: 869-871.

Urban areas

Investigation of the Integration of AVIRIS and ISFAR for Urban Analysis. George F. Hepner, Bijan Houshmand, Igor Kulikov, and Novin Bryant. August: 813-820.

A Technique for 3D Building Reconstruction. Taejung Kim and Jan-Peter Muller. September: 923-930.

The Use of Census Data in Urban Image Classification. Victor Mesev. May: 431-438.

Using a GIS to Overcome Data Adversity: Industrial Air Pollution Risk Modeling in Tijuana, Mexico. Anne J. Obeo, Ernst C. Griffin, and Richard D. Wright. November: 1009-1096.

Uzbekistan, Republic of

Grids & Datums Column: Republic of Uzbekistan. Clifford J. Mugnier. December: 1151, 1153.

V

Vegetation

The Accuracy of Vegetation Stand Boundaries Derived from Image Segmentation in a Desert Environment. Andres M. Abeyta and Janet Franklin. January: 59- 60.

Vegetation – Aquatic

A Quantitative Comparison of Change-Detection Algorithms for Monitoring Eelgrass from Remotely Sensed Data. Rohb D. Macleod and Russell G. Congalton. March: 207-210.

Vegetation indices

A Change Detection Experiment Using Vegetation Indices. John G. Lyon, Ding Yuan, Ross S. Lunetta, and Chris D. Elvidge. February: 143-150.

Responses of Spectral Indices to Variations in Vegetation Cover and Soil Background. Stella W. Todd and Roger M. Hoffer. September: 915-921.

Vegetation reflectance

Teaching the Physical Principles of Vegetation Canopy Reflectance Using the SAIL Model. F. M. Danson. August: 809-102.

Virginia

Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources of Data. J. E. Vogelman, T. Sohl, and S. M. Howard. January; 45-57.

Spectral Reflectance and Detection of Iron Oxide Precipitates Associated with Acidic Mine Drainage. John E. Anderson and Eleanora I. Robbins. December: 1201-1208.

Spectral Shape Classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery. Mark J. Carlotto. Soptember: 905-913.

Visual analysis

See Image interpretation: Photointerpretation

Visual perception

GPS Column: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, But... Keith W. Cunningham. December: 1143-1144.

What Size Window for Image Classification? A Cognitive Perspective. Michael E. Hodgson. August: 797-807.

W

Washington

An Efficient and Accurate Method for Mapping Forrest Clearcuts in the Pacific Northwest Using Landsat Imagery. Warren B. Cohen, Maria Fiorella, John Gray, Eileen Helmer, and Karen Anderson. April: 293-300.

Water allocation

Mapping and monitoring agricultural crops and other land cover in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Russell G. Congalton, Mary Balough, Cindy Bell, Kass Green, Jeff A. Milliken, and Robert Ottman. November: 1107-1113.

Water contamination

Modeling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Sediment Yield in Imperial Valley, California. Mark V. Finco and Georgo F. Heprier. November: 1097-1105.

Water identification

Challenging the Cloud-Contamination Problem in Flood Monitoring with NOAA/ AVHRR Imagery. Yongwel Sheng, Yafang Su, and Qianguang Xiao. March: 191-198.

Water quality

Application of C-CAP Protocol Land-Cover Data to Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Potential Spatial Models in a Coastal Environment. Floyd M. Henderson, Thomas F. Hart Jr., Laura Orlando, Brian Heaton, James Portolese, and Robert Chasm. October: 1015-1020.

Spectral Reflectance and Detection of Iron Oxide Precipitates Associated with Acidic Mine Drainage. John E. Anderson and Eleanora I. Robhins. December: 1201-1208.

Water reflectance

Spectral Reflectance and Detection of Iron Oxide Precipitates Associated with Acidic Mine Drainage. John E. Anderson and Eleanora I. Robbins. December: 1201-1208.

Wavelets

A New Algorithm for Surface Determination Based on Wave1ets and its Practical Application. Jaan-Rong Tsay. December: 1179-1188.

Wavelets for SAR Image Smoothing. Graham Horgan. December: 1171-1177.

West Virginia

Regional Characterization of Land Cover Using Multiple Sources of Data. J. E. Vogelman, T. Sohl, and S. M. Howard. January: 45-57.

Wetlands

The Influence of Geographic Sampling Methods on Vegetation Map Accuracy Evaluation in a Swampy Environment. C. P. Lo and Lee J. Watson. December: 1189-1200.

Resource Management of Forested Wetlands: Hurricane Impact and recovery Mapped by Combining Landsat TM and NOAA AVHRR Data. Elijah W. Ramsey, III, Dal K. Chappell, Dennis M. Jacobs, Sijan K. Sapkota, and Dan G. Baldwin. July: 733-738.

Wheels

Scale-Space Methods for Image Feature Modeling in Vision Metrology. C. S. Fraser and J. Shao. April: 323-328.

Wildfires

See Fires

Wildlife habitats

Transnational Gap Analysis of the Rio Bravo/ Rio Grande Region. Carlos Gonzalez-Rebeles, Vincent J. Burke, Michael D. Jennings, Geraldo Cehallos, and Nick C. Parker. November: 1115-1118.

Wisconsin

Satellite Monitoring of Lake Ice Breakup on the Laurential Shield (1980-1994). Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas M. Lillesand, Murray K. Clayton, and John J. Magnuson. June: 607-617.

Workstations

SPOT and Landsat Stereo Fusion for Data Extraction Over Mountainous Areas. Thierry Toutin. February: 109-113.