An assessment of the efficiency of LANDS AT, NIGERIAS AT-1 and SPOT images for landuse/landcover analyses 
in Ekiti west area of Nigeria 
Adebayo Gbenga Ojo, and Francis Abiodun Adesina 430 
Studying Bio-Environmental Potentials of Kusalan Area, Based on IUCN criterions, using RS and GIS technologies 
DJafar Oladi, and Nabi Ahsani 436 
PROVIDING processing lines and test data for the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service 
Philippe Pacholczyk, Roselyne Lacaze, and Hassan Makhmara 441 
A comparison of total shortwave surface albedo retrievals from MODIS and TM data 
Marlon Pape, and Michael Vohland 447 
The capabilities of TerraSAR-X imagery for retrieval of forest parameters 
Roland Perko, Hannes Raggam, Karlheinz Gutjahr, and Mathias Schardt 452 
Road extraction from ALOS images using mathematical morphology 
Fabiana Silva Pires de Castro, and Jorge Antonio Silva Centeno 457 
Inferring fluctuations of the aquifer by monitoring the area of small lakes in a brazilian savanna region using a 
temporal sequence of 50 landsat images 
Carlos Henrique Pires-Luiz, and Philippe Maillard 463 
Real-Time Image Processing for Road Traffic Data Extraction from Aerial Images 
Dominik Rosenbaum, Jens Leitloff, Franz Kurz, Oliver Meynberg, and Tanja Reize 469 
Change detection of building footprints from airborne laser scanning acquired in short time intervals 
Martin Rutzinger, Benno Riif, Michael Vetter, and Bernhard Hofle 475 
Land Cover and Land Use classification assessment for a creation of a National Mapping Agency framework 
Carolina Sanchez Hernandez, and Glen Hart 481 
Object-oriented methods for landslides detection using high resolution imagery, morphometric properties and me 
teorological data 
I omit Sandric, Bogdan Mihai, Zenaida Chitu, Andreea Gutu, and Ionut Savulescu 486 
Assessment of very high resolution satellite data fusion techniques for landslide recognition 
Leonardo Santurri, Roberto Cariò, Federica Fiorucci, Bruno Aiazzi, Stefano Baronti, Alessandro Mondini, and 
Mauro Cardinali 492 
Simulation assisted high-resolution PS-InSAR analysis 
Alexander Schunert, Timo Balz, Kang Liu, Mingsheng Liao, Uwe Sorgel, and Jan Dirk Wegner 498 
Topographic estimation by TERRASAR-X 
Umut Gunes Sefercik, and Uwe Sorgel 504 
Characterisation of long-term Vegetation Dynamics for a semi-arid wetland using NDVI time series from NOAA- 
AVHRR 
Ralf Seiler 511 
Semi-automatic assessment of Norway spruce (Picea abies) in modem digital aerial photographs 
Rudolf Seitz, Armin Troycke, Peter Rebhan, and Bernd Grubert 517 
Using remote sensing products for environmental analysis in South America 
Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, G. Pereira, G.B.S. Silva, F.B. Silva, F.S. Cardozo, and E.C. Moraes 523