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 …

LIDAR-BASED SPECIES CLASSIFICATION USING MULTIVARIATE CLUSTER ANALYSIS, University of Washington Featured Paper by Sooyoung Kim Understanding that various tree species have characteristics similar to each other, it follows that some type of …

A GRID-BASE LINE ANALYSIS FOR STREET OCCLUSION REMOVAL AND BUILDING FAÇADE TEXTURING, Wuhan University Featured Paper by Yawen Liu and Zhen Guan The building façade model is the most prominent streetscape feature for rendering virtual street models. This paper …

COMPARISON OF TWO DIFFERENT SURFACES FOR 3D MODEL ABSTRACTION IN SUPPORT OF REMOTE SENSING SIMULATIONS, Los Alamos National Laboratory Featured Paper by Paul Pope and Doug Ranken A method for abstracting a 3D model by shrinking a triangular mesh, defined upon a best fitting ellipsoid …

TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING IN ENGINEERING SURVEY: ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION EXAMPLES, Department of Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics Featured Paper by Attila Berényi, Tamas Lovas and Arpad Barsi Terrestrial laser scanning broadens its application areas in civil engineering, and …

STABILITY AND SCALABILITY ASSESSMENT OF COMPLEXITY ESTIMATION BASED WORK LOAD BALANCING APPROACH FOR A PARALLEL LIDAR WAVEFORM DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM, Kyungwon University Featured Paper by Jinha Jung, Melba M. Crawford and Sanghoon Lee LIDAR is an active remote sensing technology which performs range measurements …