Remote Sensing in the 21st Century : Economic and Environmental Applications/Proceedings of the 19th EARSeL Symposium, Valladolid, Spain, 31 May-2 June 1999 Book

	Preface
	The future ESA Earth-Observation Strategy and ESA's 'Living Planet' programme	3
	The Council of Europe's EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement	7
	Space-vegetation software: A remote sensing tool for environmental applications at regional level	13
	Unsupervised classification's optimization	19
	A methodological approach for agricultural statistics by remote sensing	23
	The role of TM thermal band in describing the state/stress of vegetation	31
	Drought monitoring of Spanish forests using Landsat TM satellite images	37
	Monitoring of forest change by using multi-temporal satellite data	41
	Integration of NOAA-AVHRR and meteorological data in a GIS - Application for vegetation monitoring in Castilla y Leon, Spain	47
	Crop spatial characterization in the 18th aquifer, Spain	55
	The use of satellite remote sensing imagery for detection of secondary forests on post-agricultural soils: A case study of Tuchola Forest, Northern Poland	61
	The application of aerial photographs for analysis of landscape diversity in Reserve Grzedy, Biebrza National Park, Poland	67
	Drought monitoring based on thermal and microwave satellite data	75
	Irrigated crop identification and surface estimation with Landsat TM imagery in La Mancha oriental region, Spain	79
	The integration of satellite images and GIS for Omerli Water Basin land use changes	87
	Geographical analysis using GIS of agrarian land use in the Province of Valladolid in 1997 with own classification on multiband satellite images	93
	Application of remote sensing to the study of oak decline in Aragon, Spain	99
	Modelisation of the NDVI temporal evolution in forestry of Castilla y Leon, Spain using climatic data	103
	Consequences of spatial resolution transformations for land-use classification	113
	Validation of cloud detection algorithms	119
	Measurements of CO[subscript 2] fluxes in Central Spain using the eddy correlation technique: Preliminary results	125
	Selecting a clear-sky model to accurately map solar radiation from satellite images	131
	Radiative Bowen ratio to estimate daily fluxes from satellite images	139
	Investigation of surface characteristics by the synergy of ground observations and NOAA/AVHRR satellite measurements	145
	Meteorological radar data processing software	149
	Evaluation and behavior of the aerosol [epsilon] Angstrom coefficient from spectral solar irradiance measurements in the Gulf of Cadiz (Huelva, Spain) to assess ocean color atmospheric correction	157
	Calculation and analysis of erythematic irradiance using experimental data and TOMS ozone data	165
	Wetland monitoring by the integration of remotely sensed data in a G.I.S. tool	175
	The use of Earth Observation for monitoring snowmelt runoff from non-alpine basins	183
	Three years of mapping irrigation water in the Flumen irrigation district, Spain	191
	Satellite monitoring in Amudarya river basin hydrology	195
	Application of mathematical functions for the monitoring of the small water bodies	199
	Generation and integration of thematic documents from satellite images and ground sensors for environmental analysis and management	203
	Accurate geodetic positioning of satellite laser ranging stations using a short arc geometric solution	209
	Remote sensed image rectification in an automatic way	215
	Architecture of a new generation of remote sensing ground segments	223
	'Supervised ART-II' neural network for Landsat TM image classification	229
	Mode of spectral angular distribution function extraction	237
	Correction of the sea wave height measuring results in airborne dual-frequency scatterometer measurement	239
	Shaping a field of acoustic parametric array in periodic structure with diffuse borders	241
	Quality and quantity of ground control points in the orthorectifying process	245
	Tool for integration and bi-directional conversion of remote sensing data	251
	Self-organized criticality in the environment and remotely sensed data	255
	ECEP-ECHO: Extraction and classification of edge pixels in an ECHO approach	261
	An adaptive soft thresholding method for Speckle noise reduction in Synthetic Aperture Radar images	267
	2-D phase unwrapping in Synthetic Aperture Radar interferometry	275
	Radiometric characterisation of the olive tree crops	283
	Adjustment of the satellite image to the three-dimensional relief model	289
	Textural classification using textural signatures	293
	The MPNA algorithm for atmospheric correction of satellite imagery	299
	An automatic method to calibrate Meteosat visible images	305
	Education and research in remote sensing in Algeria	311
	Forest and fire monitoring with NOAA AVHRR imagery in the Central African Republic	319
	Building-up a Burned Area Monitoring System based on Earth Observation data	325
	Remote sensing estimation of fuel moisture content	329
	Ground-based infrared characterization of fires in the 3-5 [mu]m spectral window	337
	Analysis of the environmental factors in forest wildfires in Aznalcollar and Sierra Bermeja	343
	Temperature maps obtained from satellite images for a forest wildfire temporal evolution analysis	349
	Automatic mapping of large scale forest fires in Spain using Landsat-TM images	357
	An operational system for the forest fire risk assessment by means of NOAA images	363
	Estimation of cereal yields combining crop growth models and remotely sensed vegetation indices	371
	Integration of satellite data and administrative information in crop yield monitoring	379
	Operational use of NOAA data for crop condition assessment in Poland	387
	Monitoring the distribution of shallow landslide-prone areas using remote sensing, DTM and GIS: A case study from the tropical Andes of Venezuela	395
	Towards an operational monitoring of drought conditions in Spain using satellite images	403
	Land degradation assessment in a semi-arid environment through the use of spectral indices and spectral unmixing	407
	A study on deposit and erosion phenomena along the southern coast of Sicily using satellite remote sensing	415
	A mean sea level variation in the Mediterranean using Topex-Poseidon, ERS-1 and ERS-2 altimeter observations	421
	Red tides GIS monitoring the Galician Coast	427
	Location of tuna-fish banks in the Mediterranean Sea using NOAA images	433
	Developing and testing of an atmospheric correction model for water leaving radiance retrieval in the area of the Gulf of Cadiz based on experimental measurements	441
	The use of Topex-Poseidon, ERS-1 and ERS-2 altimeters to detect meddies	449
	Environmental study in the estuary of river Mino	455
	Applications of SAR images in the western Mediterranean Sea	461
	Pressure ridges extraction using Radarsat fine beam mode	467
	A GIS for the Natural Resources Authority, Amman, Jordan	477
	Developing a technical computing facility at the Geological Commission in Guyana	483
	A remote sensing based approach for the restoration of an open-cast coal mine site in Spain	491
	Discrimination of active alluvial sedimentary surfaces in TM images based on laboratory reflectance spectroscopy	497
	Lithological and geomorphological large-scale mapping using remotely sensed data, GIS and terrain analysis	501
	Geomorphological-geological evaluation of the Gazikoy-Saros section of Northern Anatolian Fault zone using remotely sensed data	509
	Optical indices as bioindicators of forest condition from hyperspectral CASI data	517
	Metric relations in INSAR topographic modelling	523
	Advanced polarimetric SAR data classification for cartographic information extraction	533
	A model for atmospheric correction of DAIS hyperspectral imager sensor based on experimental optical measurements	541
	Refined adaptive speckle filtering for SAR images	549
	Textural classification using textural signatures	557
	SAR imagery in urban area	563
	Scale evolution due to hydrodynamic modulation of SAR imaging	569
	A unified approach to change analysis and despeckle of multitemporal ERS-1	573
	List of participants	583
	Author index	591
	Colour plates	593