JACIE 2006 Presentations

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Registration, Presentation Abstracts Handout

Welcome - Greg Stensaas, USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)

Government Session  9:20–9:25am

• Samuel N. Goward, Department of Geography, University of Maryland — Future of Land Remote Sensing: What is Needed (presentation unavailable)
• Edwin Sheffner, Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters — NASA Overview
• Douglas P. McGovern, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — NGA Commercial Imagery Overview
• Ray Byrnes, USGS Liaison for Satellite Missions, Land Remote Sensing Program — Land Remote Sensing Overview
• Erik Hund, NOAA Coastal Services Center — NOAA’s Use of High-Resolution Imagery
• Glenn Bethel, USDA Remote Sensing Advisor — Operational Use of Remote Sensing within USDA (presentation unavailable)

Industry Overview Session  1:10 - 4:00 pm  Chair: Thomas Stanley

• Dennis Jones, GeoEye — GeoEye™ Corporate Overview - 
• Brett P. Thomassie and Byron Smiley, DigitalGlobe — DigitalGlobe™ Incorporated Corporate and System Update 
• Charles Mondello and Jim Plasker, ASPRS — The ASPRS Remote Sensing Industry Forecast: Phase II & III – Digital Sensor Compilation (presentation unavailable)
• Gregory L. Stensaas, USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) — Medium Spatial Resolution Satellite Characterization
• J. Paul Stephens, DMC International Imaging Ltd. — Small Satellite Constellations: The Future for Operational Earth Observation 

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

High Resolution Satellite Imagery Session 9:15 am - 12:00 pm  Chair: Terry Lehman

• Dennis Helder, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, South Dakota State University — NASA/SDSU Geopositional Characterization
• Paul C. Bresnahan, Observera, Inc., for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — Geolocation Accuracy Evaluations of OrbView-3, EROS‑A, and SPOT-5 Imagery
• James Lutes, GeoEye — First Impressions of CARTOSAT-1
• Gene Dial, Aaron Cole, James Lutes, John McKune, Mike Martinez, Dr. R. S. Rao, Martin Taylor, GeoEye — The GeoEye Satellite Constellation
• David Aaron, Dept. of Physics, South Dakota State University — Radiometric Calibration Assessment of Commercial High Spatial Resolution Multispectral Image Products
• Kurtis Thome, Nathan Leisso, John Buchanan, Remote Sensing Group, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona —High Spatial Resolution Multispectral Image Products
• Kara Holekamp, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Stennis Space Center —Radiometric Characterization of the IKONOS, QuickBird, and OrbView-3 Sensors

   Afternoon Session 1:00 - 3:30 pm 

• Howard S. Bowen and Douglas M. Cunningham, ITT Industries — Correction to Method of Establishing the Absolute Radiometric Accuracy of Remote Sensing Systems While On-orbit Using Characterized Stellar Sources
• Ellis Freedman, Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions — Spectral Dark Subtraction: A MODTRAN-Based Algorithm for Estimating Ground Reflectance without Atmospheric Information
• Dennis Helder, Jason Choi, Cody Anderson, Image Processing Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, South Dakota State University — On-orbit Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) Measurements for IKONOS and QuickBird
• Armin Gruen, Li Zhang, and Sultan Kocaman, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Zurich, Switzerland — High Accuracy 3D Processing of Satellite Imagery
• Dmitry Varlyguin, GDA Corp. — Operational, Automated Cloud Detection from High-Resolution Visible-NIR Imagery
• A.K.M. Azad Hossain and Greg Easson, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, The University of Mississippi —Application of High Resolution Multispectral Imagery for Levee Slide Detection and Monitoring
• Joseph P. Spruce, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Stennis Space Center — Assessing Hurricane Katrina Damage to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Using IKONOS Imagery
• Peter G. Chirico, USGS Earth Surface Processes Team — Natural Resource Assessments in Afghanistan Through High Resolution Digital Elevation Modeling and Multi-spectral Image Analysis

Poster Session 3:45–4:45 pm

• Larry Leigh, Sara Landau, Dept. of Physics, South Dakota State University — Radiometric Calibration of the AWiFS Sensor and a Cross-calibration Enhanced Vicarious Calibration Technique
• Mike Duncan, Brian Fiehler, Michael Starbuck, U.S. Geological Survey, Mid-Continent Geographic Science Center —Evaluating the Horizontal Accuracy of GeoEye OrbView-3 Orthorectified Products Over the Kaintuck Hollow, Missouri, Test Site
• Aaron Cole, GeoEye — OrbView-3 Technical Performance Evaluation 2005: OV-3 Specifications
• Kara Holekamp, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Stennis Space Center — Radiometric Characterization Results for the IKONOS Sensor
• David Aaron, South Dakota State University Satellite Calibration Group & Image Processing Laboratory — Radiometric Characterization Results for the OrbView-3 Sensor
• Kurtis Thome, University of Arizona Remote Sensing Group — Radiometric Characterization Results for the QuickBird Sensor
• Robert E. Ryan, Gary Harrington, Kara Holekamp, Mary Pagnutti, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Stennis Space Center — Emerging Techniques for Vicarious Calibration of Visible Through Short Wave Infrared Remote Sensing Systems
• Cody A. Benkelman, Heidi Hughes, Spatial Technologies, LLC — Software for Automated Image-to-Image Co-registration
• J. Paul Stephens, DMC International Imaging Ltd. — High Quality – High Resolution, Rapid Revisit Wide Area Coverage EO Data Service
• William L. Hamilton, Salem State University — Can Geography Meet the Demand for Geo-Spatial Analysts: A Case Study (poster unavailable)
• Wayne Myers, Eric Warner, Richard Tutwiler, Penn State University — Segmentation of ASTER Data for GIS
• Dave Johnson, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service — Cropland Classifications of Coincident TM & AWiFS Imagery 

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery Session 9:15 am 12:15 pm  Chair: Mary Pagnutti

• Kenton Ross, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Stennis Space Center — SSC Geopositional Assessment of the Advanced Wide Field Sensor
• Kurtis Thome, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona — AWiFS Radiometric Assessment 
• Dave Aaron, Larry Leigh, Sara Landau, Dept of Physics, Satellite Calibration Research Group, South Dakota State University — AWiFS Radiometric Assessment
• Mary Pagnutti, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Stennis Space Center — Initial Radiometric Calibration of the AWiFS using Vicarious Calibration Techniques
• Thomas Stanley, NASA; Slawomir Blonski, Robert E. Ryan, Mary Pagnutti, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Stennis Space Center — Spatial Resolution Characterization for AWiFS Multispectral Images
• Michael Coan, SAIC — Viability of NLCD Products From IRS-P6, And From Landsat 7 Scan-gap Data
• Robert Tetrault, USDA Satellite Imagery Archive — Access and Availability of Resourcesat-1 AWiFS Data for Agriculture
• Claire Boryan, Dave Johnson, Mike Craig, Bob Seffrin, Rick Mueller, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service — Crop Acreage Estimation: Landsat TM and Resourcesat-1 AWiFS Sensor Assessment of the Mississippi River Delta, 2005
• Gyanesh Chander, SAIC — An Overview of the CBERS-2 Satellite and Comparison of the CBERS-2 CCD Data with the L5 TM Data 

Aerial Digital Imagery Session 1:40 - 4:50 pm  Chair: Jon Christopherson 

• Jon Christopherson, SAIC — Monitoring & Assuring the Quality of Digital Aerial Data
• Thomas Stanley, NASA; Slawomir Blonski, Kenton Ross, Mary Pagnutti, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Stennis Space Center — Spatial Resolution Characterization for Aerial Digital Imagery
• Ricardo M. Passini, BAE SYSTEMS ADR — Accuracy Analysis on Large Blocks of High Resolution Images
• John C. Craig, 3001: The Geospatial Company — Leica ADS40 Sensor for Coastal Multispectral Imaging (presentation unavailable)
• Ayman Habib, Chang Jae Kim, and Ki In Bang, Digital Photogrammetry Research Group, Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary — Multi-Sensor Triangulation of Multi-Source Spatial Data
• Stephen White, NOAA National Ocean Service, National Geodetic Survey, Remote Sensing Division — NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey Utilization of Aerial Sensors for Emergency Response Efforts
• Steven Person, ITT — On-Orbit MTF Measurement and Product Quality Monitoring for Commercial Remote Sensing Systems

Closing Comments - Greg Stensaas, USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)