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UTILIZING NASA SATELLITE MISSIONS TO IDENTIFY BARK BEETLE INFESTATION IN SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, NASA Ames Research Center Featured Paper by Michelle Newcomer, Janine E. Bird, Shaina M. Sabatine, Gabriel C. Sady, Ashley M. Stalzer, Tim A. Wheeler, Cindy Schmidt and J. W. Skiles …

DETECTING THE TOPOGRAPHIC CHANGES OF SPATIAL FEATURES FROM SAR SATELLITE IMAGES BASED ON THE MULTILAYER LEVEL SET APPROACH, Chaoyang University of Technology Featured Paper by Yishuo Huang and Shang-Yuh Lin The areas covered by a river play an important role in analyzing the causes of debris flows. The damage caused by …

Estimating Typical Four-Season Thermal Distribution and Self-Adaptive Gradient Based Thresholding Parameters over Coal Fire Areas in China Using Aster and Ldcm Tirs-A Case Study in the Wuda Coal Field, China, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing Authors: Xiaomin Du, Daiyong Cao, Guang Yang, Sergio Bernardes, Zhipeng Li, and Feng Li Coal fire results in significant environmental impacts and coal losses in …

DEVELOPMENT OF A LUNAR ASTRONAUT SPATIAL ORIENTATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM (LASOIS), The Ohio State University Featured Paper by Rongxing Li, Shaojun He, Boris Skopljak, Jinwei Jiang, Pingbo Tang, Alper Yilmaz, Martin Banks and Charles Oman In future lunar exploration, …

A CORRESPONDENCE-BASED STRATEGY FOR AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING DATA, Purdue University Featured Paper by Darion Grant, James Bethel and Melba M. Crawford The absence of explicit point correspondences among overlapping terrestrial laser …