Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner
Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (I.P.F.), Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Gusshausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel. +43 (0) 1 58801 12225; Fax: +43 (0) 1 58801 12299
Website: http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/ww/
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Interests: remote sensing; geophysical parameter retrieval; airborne laser scanning; full-waveform lidar; radar remote sensing; soil moisture
Contribution:
Special Issue: Microwave Remote Sensing
Assistant Editor
Dr. Ophelia Han
MDPI Beijing Office, Liyuanbeijie Road 186, Suite 307, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 59011068; Fax: +86 10 59011089
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Assistant Editor
Mr. Dietrich Rordorf
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 35; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
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Editorial Board
Dr. Devrim Akca
Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zurich, HIL D42.2, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 633 3063; Fax: +41 44 633 1101
Website: http://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/general/persons/devrim.html
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Interests: sensor calibration; 3D city modeling; laserscanning; photogrammetry; machine vision; cultural and natural heritage applications; high accuracy object measurement and 3D modeling
Prof. Dr. Heiko Balzter
Professor of Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Centre for Environmental Research (CERES), Bennett Building, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Tel. +44 (0)116 252 3820; Fax: +44 (0)116 252 3854
Website: http://www.le.ac.uk/geography/staff/academic_balzter.html
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Interests: synthetic aperture radar (SAR); SAR interferometry; SAR polarimetry; ground-based; airborne and spaceborne light detection and ranging (LIDAR); digital elevation model generation; full carbon accounting; forest structure and biomass mapping; vegetation phenology; fire and burned area mapping from optical and SAR sensors
Dr. Luc Bergé
CEA, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, CEA-DAM/ Ile de France, Boîte Postale 12, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France
Tel. +33 1 69 26 73 76; Fax: +33 1 69 26 71 06
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Interests: nonlinear optics; long-distance propagation of light; LIDAR; filamentation
Prof. Dr. Toby N. Carlson
Professor Emeritus of Meteorology, Penn State University, 619 Walker Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Tel. +1 814 863 1582; Fax: +1 814 863 7943
Website: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/faculty/Carlson.htm
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Interests: satellite remote sensing applications to regional planning; modeling of evapotranspiration over plant canopies; land surface processes
Dr. Marcia Castro
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Building I Room 1113, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Tel. +1 617 432 6731
Website: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/marcia-castro/
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Interests: health applications of remote sensing; integration of remote sensing, GIS and spatial analysis; remote sensing of urban areas
Dr. James H. Churnside
Ocean Remote Sensing Working Group, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, CSD3, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305-3328, USA
Tel. +1 303 497 6744
Website: http://esrl.noaa.gov/csd/instruments/floe/
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Interests: oceanography; climate; remote sensing; sonar; radar; lidar; radiometry; ocean color
Contribution:
Special Issue: Ocean Remote Sensing
Special Issue: Ocean Remote Sensing
Prof. Dr. Ralph Dubayah
Department of Geography, 2181 LeFrak Hall, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742, USA
Tel. +1 301 405 4069; Fax: +1 301 314 9299
Website: http://www.geog.umd.edu/people/Dubayah/
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Interests: land surface energy and water balances; remote sensing; climatology; landcover characterization
Prof. Dr. Farouk El-Baz
Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215-1401, USA
Tel. +1 617 353 9709; Fax: +1 617 353 3200
Website: http://www.bu.edu/remotesensing/faculty/el-baz/index.html
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Prof. Dr. Niki Evelpidou
Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, Zografou, 157 84 Athens, Greece
Tel. +30 210 7274927; Fax: +30 210 7274927
Website: http://www.icsroscher.de/CAEM/UoA.htm
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Interests: remote sensing in geomorphologic processes and natural hazards
Contribution:
Special Issue: Geomorphological Processes and Natural Hazards
Prof. Dr. Bernard H. Foing
ESA/ESTEC-SRE, Postbus 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
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Interests: space; earth; planetary and life sciences, space and ground instrumentation; spectroscopy; sensors; robotics; innovation
Prof. Dr. Giles M. Foody
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
Tel. +44 115 9515430; Fax: +44 1159515249
Website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/points/teaching.phtml?name=foody
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Interests: land cover; image classification; ecology; GIS
Dr. Mekonnen Gebremichael
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, 261 Glenbrook Rd., UNIT-2037, Storrs, CT 06269-2037, USA
Tel. +1 860 486 2771; Fax: +1 860 486 2298
Website: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/cee/page.php?id=cf&pid=mek
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Interests: distributed watershed hydrologic modeling; water-energy-carbon fluxes coupling; land-atmosphere interaction; remote sensing applications in hydrology; hydrometeorology; hydroclimatology and ecohydrology; stochastic methods (spatial and temporal analyses); uncertainty analysis; non-linear dynamics (scaling issues)
Contribution:
Special Issue: Land Surface Fluxes
Prof. Dr. Douglas G. Goodin
Remote Sensing Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Tel. +1 785 532 3411; Fax: +1 785 532 7310
Website: http://www.k-state.edu/rssg/doug.htm
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Interests: environmental health and infectious disease; biophysical and thematic remote sensing; geospatial modeling
Prof. Dr. Alfredo R. Huete
Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science & Institute for Environment and Society, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Tel. +1 520 621 3228; Fax: +1 520 621 1647
Website: http://tbrs.arizona.edu/index.php
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Interests: biophysical remote sensing; phenology; earth science data records; carbon and water fluxes; land use science; LIDAR
Prof. Dr. John R. Jensen
Carolina Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Tel. +1 803 777 5790; Fax: +1 803 777 4972
Website: http://www.cas.sc.edu/GEOG/FacStaff/jensen.html
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Interests: remote sensing; digital image processing
Dr. Benjamin Koetz
Spectroscopy Laboratory, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich - Irchel, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 1 635 51 52; Fax: +41 1 635 68 46
Website: http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~bkoetz/
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Interests: remote sensing of ecosystem structure and processes; radiative transfer modeling; imaging spectroscopy and large footprint LIDAR for vegetation remote sensing; fusion of multi-source data
Dr. Jason K. Levy
Homeland Security, National Homeland Security Project, L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, 923 W. Franklin St., Box 842028, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
Tel. +1 804 828 8040
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jlevy/mug.html
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Interests: emergency management; risk assessment; natural hazards; geomatics engineering; chemical sensors
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sensors for Disaster and Emergency Management Decision Making
Dr. Henrique Lorenzo
Close-range Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Group, University of Vigo, EUET Forestal, Campus A Xunqueira s/n, 36005 Pontevedra, Spain
Tel. +34 986 801 935; Fax: +34 986 801 907
Website: http://webs.uvigo.es/grupotf1/
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Interests: ground-penetrating radar; close-range photogrammetry; terrestrial laser scanner; cultural heritage applications
Dr. Andrew McGonigle
School of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Tel. +44 114 222 7961; Fax: +44 114 222 7961
Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/staff/mcgonigle_andrew/
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Interests: volcano remote sensing; ground based remote sensing
Dr. Assefa M. Melesse
Department of Environmental Studies, ECS 339, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
Tel. +1 305 348 6518; Fax: +1 305 348 6137
Website: http://www.fiu.edu/~melessea/
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Interests: spatial energy flux; land-cover scaling; spatially distributed modeling; neural networks application; hydrological modeling; ecohydrology
Contribution:
Section: Remote Sensors
Special Issue: Remote Sensing of Natural Resources and the Environment
Special Issue: Land Surface Fluxes
Dr. Richard Müller
German Meteorological Service CM-SAF, Frankfurter Straße 135, 63067 Offenbach, Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 69 8062 4922; Fax: +49 (0) 69 8062 4955
Website: http://www.cmsaf.dwd.de/
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Interests: remote sensing of surface radiation; clouds and aerosols; sensor calibration; methods for "merging" in-situ data with remote sensing data
Prof. Dr. Janet Nichol
Remote Sensing Research Group, Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel. +852 2766 5952
Website: http://www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/RSRG/
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Interests: remote sensing of urban areas (including urban heat islands, aerosol retrieval and urban enviromental quality); ecological and habitat mapping, biomass and carbon storage estimation of forests; land cover monitoring, satellite sensors (small satellites, visible and thermal infrared sensors); integration of remote sensing and GIS; data visualisation
Prof. Dr. Claude Nicollier
EPFL STI, c/o Space Center, ELD015 - Station 11, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 693 6659; Fax: +41 21 693 6940
Website: http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESA06VZUMOC_astronauts_0.html
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Interests: spaceflight; astronaut; European space technology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Aerospace Sensor Systems
Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Pajares Martinsanz
Departamento Ingeniería del Software e Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Website: http://www.dacya.ucm.es/Gonzalo/
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Interests: pattern recognition land cover; spatio temporal image change detection; sensor image fusion; registering; superresolution
Contribution:
Section: State-of-the-Art Sensors Technologies
Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Plaza
Department of Technology of Computers and Communications, University of Extremadura, Avda. de la Universidad s/n, 10.071 Caceres, Spain
Tel. +34 927 257 195; Fax: +34 927 257 202
Website: http://www.umbc.edu/rssipl/people/aplaza
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Interests: remotely sensed hyperspectral image analysis; signal processing and efficient implementations of large-scale scientific problems on high performance computing architectures
Dr. Radislav A. Potyrailo
Chemical and Biological Sensing Laboratory, Materials Analysis and Chemical Sciences, General Electric Global Research Center, One Research Circle, Niskayuna, NY 12309, USA
Tel. +1 518 387 7370; Fax: +1 518 387 6972
Website: http://www.ge.com/research/
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Interests: wireless radiofrequency sensors; LIDAR; remote laser spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy; eye-safe remote sensing; sensing materials; biosensors; functional nanomaterials; microfluidics; combinatorial materials; chemometrics; spectral imaging
Dr. François Poulet
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Bâtiment 121, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Tel. +33 1 69 85 85 82
Website: http://www.ias.u-psud.fr/cse34/index.php
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Interests: space exploration; planetary science; hyperspectral imaging; IR spectroscopy; sensors
Dr. Dale A. Quattrochi
NASA, Earth Science Department, SD60, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
Tel. +1 256 961 7887; Fax: +1 256 961 7788
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Interests: thermal remote sensing; urban heat island analysis; geospatial techniques and remote sensing; land use/land cover change
Contribution:
Special Issue: Remote Sensing of Land Surface Properties, Patterns and Processes
Prof. Dr. Daniele Riccio
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy
Tel. +39 817683114; Fax: +39 815934448
Website: http://www.docenti.unina.it/Daniele.Riccio
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Interests: remote sensing; electromagnetic scattering; synthetic aperture radar; radar; microwave imaging
Contribution:
Special Issue: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Dr. Duccio Rocchini
Edmund Mach Foundation, IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Environment and Natural Resources Area, GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Via Mach 1, 38010 San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy
Tel. +39 0577235415; Fax: +39 3491425786
Website: http://www.rocchini.net/
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Interests: ecological heterogeneity and biodiversity estimate by satellite imagery; change detection of spatial patterns and generating ecological processes; plant community ecology; relational database generation for remote sensing and field survey data management and statistical analysis; fuzzy set theory and land use mapping
Contribution:
Special Issue: Ecological Status and Change by Remote Sensing
Dr. (Eng.) Raad A. Saleh
1) University of Wisconsin-Madison, 716 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706-1481, USA; 2) Global Sensing Group, LLC, Madison, WI, 53711-1021, USA
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Interests: imaging and non-imaging sensing systems; sensor networks; high-resolution earth observing satellites; remote sensing; multi- and hyper-spectral imaging techniques; multi-dimensional image analysis algorithms; geo-referencing; on-board pre-processing; digi
Dr. Gabriel Senay
1) Research Physical Scientist: USGS, Center for Earth Resource Observation & Science (EROS), Mundt Federal Building, 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001, USA; 2) South Dakota State University, GISc Center of Excellence (GIScCE), USA
Tel. +1 605 594 2758
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Interests: regional water balance assessment and monitoring
Contribution:
Special Issue: Land Surface Fluxes
Dr. Alistair M. S. Smith
College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA
Tel. +1 208 885 1009; Fax: +1 208 885 6226
Website: http://www.RemoteEarth.net
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Interests: vegetation structure from LiDAR; disturbance and natural hazards monitoring; object-orientated remote sensing; wavelet analysis
Contribution:
Special Issue: LiDAR
Prof. Dr. C. Neal Stewart, Jr.
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, 2431 Joe Johnson Dr., Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Tel. +1 865 974 6487; Fax: +1 865 946 1989
Website: http://plantsciences.utk.edu/stewart.htm
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Interests: biosensors; biotechnology; environmental stress; GFP; phytosensors; plants; promoters; remote sensing; whole organisms
Contribution:
Special Issue: Phytosensors: Environmental Sensing with Plants and Plant Cells
Dr. Salvatore Stramondo
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, National Earthquake Center, Remote Sensing Laboratory, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy
Tel. +39 06 51860521; Fax: +39 06 51860507
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Interests: remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar interferometry; multitemporal SAR interferometry; remote sensing for natural disaster mitigation and monitoring
Contribution:
Special Issue: Remote Sensing in Seismology
Prof. Dr. Freek van der Meer
Professor of Geologic Remote Sensing, Departmental Chairman, Department of Earth Systems Analysis, International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Hengelosestraat 99, 7500 AA, Enschede, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 (0) 53 4874353; Fax: +31 (0) 53 4874336
Website: http://www.itc.nl/research/themes/earthsyssci/default.asp
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Interests: spectroscopy, hyperspectral remote sensing, object-based contextual classification, geophysics, geologic mapping, hydrothermal systems, soil engineering, soil erosion.
Dr. Vern C. Vanderbilt
MS 242-4, Earth Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Tel. +1 650 604 4254; Fax: +1 650 604 4680
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Interests: biophysical remote sensing; spatial remote sensing; wetlands and water fluxes; LIDAR
Prof. Dr. Andreas Vassilopoulos
Remote Sensing Group, Geo-environmental Institute, Floias 13, Maroussi, 15125 Athens, Greece
Tel. +30 10 7274297; Fax: +30 10 7274297
Website: http://www.aristhot.eu/index.php?em_cat=69
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Interests: geomorphology; geomorphological processes; natural hazards; remote sensing; GIS; mapping geomorphological processes, hazard risk mapping; hazard risk modeling, geomorphological evolution of different geormorphic environments; natural hazards evolution
Contribution:
Special Issue: Geomorphological Processes and Natural Hazards
Dr. Anton Vrieling
International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Natural Resources Department, P.O. Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 53 4874452
Website: http://www.itc.nl/departments/nrs/
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Interests: remote sensing; time series analysis; agriculture; food security; soil erosion
Prof. Dr. Qihao Weng
Center for Urban and Environmental Change, Department of Geography, Geology, and Anthropology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA
Tel. +1 812 237 2255; Fax: +1 812 237 8029
Website: http://isu.indstate.edu/qweng/
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Interests: urban remote sensing; thermal remote sensing; digital image processing; remote sensing and GIS integration
Contribution:
Special Issue: Remote Sensing of Land Surface Properties, Patterns and Processes
Dr. Iain H. Woodhouse
Edinburgh Earth Observatory, School of GeoSciences, Geography Building, Drummond, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 131 650 2527; Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 2524
Website: http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/people/person.html?indv=186
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Interests: radar remote sensing; polar decomposition methods for visualising SAR data; novel visualisation techniques for the analysis of multichannel remote sensing data; DEM generation and regional scale geomorphology; synergistic remote sensing of vegetation; macroecology and telemacroscopics
Contribution:
Special Issue: Microwave Remote Sensing
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