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ACKNOWLEGEMENTS 
This paper is supported by project of Open Research Fund of 
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, 
Mapping and Remote Sensing: No.WKL (06) 0301, and 
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.40701156).