Image Analysis and Data Fusion

The Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee (IADF TC) of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society serves as a global, multi-disciplinary, network for geospatial image analysis (e.g., machine learning, deep learning, image and signal processing, and big data) and data fusion (e.g., multi-sensor, multi-scale, and multi-temporal data integration). It aims at connecting people and resources, educating students and professionals, and promoting theoretical advances and best practices in image analysis and data fusion.

Join this Technical Committee

The committee maintains this site as a platform to share ideas and inform the community regarding the recent advances of image analysis and data fusion and distributes an e-mail newsletter to all committee members on a regular basis regarding recent advancements, datasets, and opportunities. The IADF TC activities include:

• organization of a special session held annually during the IGARSS meeting, gathering cutting edge contributions covering various issues related to analysis and fusion of multi-modal and multi-temporal earth observation data via artificial intelligence, machine/deep learning, computer vision, and image/signal processing.
• organization of the Data Fusion Contest, a scientific challenge held annually since 2006. The Contest is open not only to IEEE members but to everyone, with the goal of promoting innovation and benchmarking in analyzing multi-source big earth observation data.
• organization of EarthVision, a workshop on large scale computer vision for remote sensing imagery held in conjunction with one of the major computer vision conferences (e.g., CVPR). The workshop aims to foster collaboration between the computer vision and earth observation communities and to advance automated interpretation of remotely sensed data.
• operation of the GRSS Data and Algorithm Standard Evaluation (DASE) website. The website provides data sets and algorithm evaluation standards to support research, development, and testing of algorithms for remote sensing data analysis (e.g., machine/deep learning, image/signal processing).

Dr. Naoto Yokoya
Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee Chair
Geoinformatics Unit
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
Tokyo, Japan
Email: naoto.yokoya@riken.jp

Dr. Ronny Hänsch
Department SAR Technology
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Wessling, Germany
Email: rww.haensch@gmail.com

Dr. Pedram Ghamisi
Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee Co-Chair
Machine Learning Group
Exploration Department
Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
Freiberg, Germany
Email: p.ghamisi@gmail.com

 

You can contact the Committee Chairs by email at: iadf_chairs@grss-ieee.org

Join the LinkedIn IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Discussion Forum:
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3678437

There is exciting news regarding the development of the IADF-TC: We decided to create Working Groups (WGs) under the common umbrella of IADF. Each WG will address a specific topic, will provide input and feedback to the TC chairs, organize topic-related events (such as workshops, contests, tutorials, invited sessions, etc.). Please find the corresponding WG and their thematic scope below.

To this aim, we are looking for well qualified and highly motivated members of our TC to lead one of these WGs as WG-chair or co-chair. WG leaders will be recognized on the IADF webpage and will be included in TC-related communications within GRSS. Taking such a lead is a great opportunity to emphasize your specific research field within IADF, GRSS, and the scientific community. Furthermore, it can be a perfect entry point to lead other GRSS activities (e.g. chairing a TC). Note, however, that it is expected that the WGs are kept active and are filled with high-quality activities. This will require a certain amount of work and dedication from the prospective WG lead.

If you are interested, please send a short statement of interest and a brief CV to iadf_chairs@grss-ieee.org until March 06, 2020. Do not hesitate to contact us in case of any questions!

WG on Machine/Deep Learning for Image Analysis
– Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation
– Semantic analysis of Big (Remote Sensing) Data
– Deep Learning
– Large-scale learning
– Incremental learning
– Domain adaptation and transfer learning
– Object detection and Automatic Target Recognition
– Image classification
– Semantic segmentation
– Segmentation and clustering
– Feature Extraction and Selection
– Target Detection
– Physical Parameter Estimation (e.g. height, biomass, soil moisture)
– Anomaly Detection

WG on Image and Signal Processing
– Pansharpening
– Superresolution
– Segmentation/Clustering
– Denoising
– Despeckling
– Image enhancement
– Image restoration
– Inpainting
– Quantization
– Compression
– Data Fusion
– 3D Reconstruction, Multi-View Stereo, Photogrammetry

WG on Benchmarking
– Evaluation methods and metrics
– Data sets, benchmarks, and contests/challenges/competitions
– Tools for the creation of reference data
– Evaluation sites (such as CodaLab)
– Code bases (such as RCL)
– DASE

Current membership (as of February 2020):

Last Name	First Name	Affiliation	Country
	Sunita	Amity university, noida	Inida
Abadpour	Sepideh	University of Tehran	Iran
Abbasi	Bahareh	University of Tehran	Iran
Abdelkebir	Layachi	KGC Algeria	Algeria
Abdellatif	Bassam	Narss – National Authority For Remote Sensing & Space Sciences	Egypt
Abdi	Ghasem	University of Tehran	Iran
Abreu	Pedro Henriques	University of Coimbra	Portugal
Achim	Alin	Univ of Bristol	UK
Adriano	Bruno	RIKEN	Japan
Aggarwal	Hemant Kumar	Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi	India
Aghaee	Reza	K. N. Toosi University of Technology	Iran
Ahmad	Touseef	Space Applications Centre Ahmedabad	India
Ahmadi	S. Ali	KN Toosi University of Technology	Iran
Ahmed	Shaimaa	American University in Cairo	Egypy
Ahmed	Shaimaa	American University in Cairo	Egypt
Ahn	Yushin	Michigan Technological University	USA
Ahrari	Amirhossein	University of Tehran	Iran
Akbari	Davood	Univ of Tehran	Iran
Akbari	Vahid	Department of Physics and Technology, University of Tromsø	Norway
Aksoy	Selim	Bilkent University	Turkey
Aksoy	Selim	Bilkent University	Turkey
Al Ali	Zahara	Arabian Gulf University	Bahrain
Al-Wassai	FirouzAbdullah	Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded	India
Alampatta	Shibumon	Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Ministry of Defence	India
Alazawi	Fadia W	Dijlah University College	Iraq
Alboody	Ahed	University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse	France
Ali	Iftikhar	Department of Geoinformation for Environmental Planning, Technical University of Berlin	Germany
Ali	Syed Saad	Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, SUPARCO, The National Space Agency of Pakistan	Pakistan
Alidoost	Fatemeh	University of Tehran	Iran
Aljumaily	Harith	Charles III University of Madrid	Spain
Allanddin	Saif	GRIET	India
Almendra	Laura
Alsayel	M.	The Quality Geospatial Engineering Com	Saudi Arabia
Alsubaie	Naif	Univ of Calgary	Canada
Amel	Gacem	LARESI	Algeria
Amidi	Ali	Univ of Twente	Netherlands
Amini	Omran	University of Tehran	Iran
Amiri	Khitem
Ana-Ioana	Breaban	Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași	Romania
Anfinsen	Stian Normann	UiT The Arctic University of Norway	Norway
Arastoo	Behrooz	Semnan Agriculture and Natural Resources Research Center	Iran
Aref	Mohammad Mohseni	Islamic Azad University	Iran
Arefi	Hossein	University of Tehran	Iran
Ashapure	Akash	Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi	USA
Ashokkumar	Lavanya	Swansea University	UK
Ashraf	Salman	GNS Science	New Zealand
Asl	Mohsen Ghamary	Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Tehran	Iran
Audebert	Nicolas	Onera	France
Avi	Ram	Hokudai University	Japan
Awad	Mohamad	Remote Sensing Centre, CNRS	Lebanon
Awuviri	Alexander	RFMICROTEK	Ghana
Ayazi	S.M.	Univ of Tehran	Iran
Ayoub	Francois	Caltech, Pasadena, CA	USA
BS	Daya Sagar	Indian Statistical Institute – Bangalore Centre	India
Bagga	Pankaj	TCP Research Solution and E2Matrix	India
Bagheri	Hossein	Technische Universität München, Signal Processing in Earth Observation	Germany
Bai	Yanbing	Tohoku University	Japan
Bai	Yu
Bakhti	Khadidja	Algerian Space Agency	Algeria
Banerjee	Biplab	Instituto Italiano Di Tecnologia	Italy
Baronti	Stefano	Nello Carrara Institute of Applied Physics (IFAC), National Research Council (CNR)	Italy
Barut	Onur	Middle East Technical University	Turkey
Basuni	Agus	Corporate	Indonesia
Becek	Kazimierz	Wroclaw Unive of Technology	Poland
Bechtel	Benjamin	Universität Hamburg	Germany
Becker	Burger	Stellenbosch University	South Africa
Bejiga	Mesay Belete	University of Trento
Benediktsson	Jon Atli	Univ of Iceland	Iceland
Berger	Christian	Department for Earth Observation, Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena	Germany
Bernabe	Sergio	University of Madrid	Spain
Bernabe	Sergio	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain
Bhattacharjee	Indraneel Trupti	Sapphire Geoconsultants	Mongolia
Bielski	Conrad	JRC, Ispra	Italy
Biswas	Asim	McGill University	Canada
Biswas	Biswajit	Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ of Calcutta	India
Bisyu	Said Adam Hak	Department of Energy and Mineral Resources of South Sulawesi Province	Indonesia
Blonda	Palma	Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l’Automazione CNR-ISSIA	Italy
Bodaghi	Marzie	Naghsh Click Data Processing International Company	Iran
Bodescu	Florian	Multidimension SRL, Bucharest	Romania
Boerner	Wolfgang-Martin	Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ of Illinois at Chicago	USA
Bomin	Sun
Borel	Chris	Riverside Research, OH	USA
Borgogno	Enrico
Borne	Frédéric	CIRAD-Agricultural Research for Development,Montpellier	France
Boulch	Alexandre	ONERA	France
Bovolo	Francesca	Remote Sensing for Digital Earth – Fondazione Bruno Kessler	Italy
Brema	J.	Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences	India
Bretschneider	Timo R	EADS Innovation Works Singapore	Singapore
Brkljac	Branko	University of Novi Sad	Serbia
Brodić	Nenad	Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade	Serbia
Brown	Myron	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	USA
Bruce	Lori Mann	Mississippi State Univ	USA
Bruckart	Robert	Corporate	USA
Bruzzone	Lorenzo	University of Trento	Italy
Buddhiraju	Krishna Mohan	IIT Bombay	India
Budhiraja	Sumit	UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh	INDIA
Campos-Taberer	Manuel	University of Valencia	Spain
Camps-Valls	Gustau	Univ of Valencia	Spain
Cao	Zhimin	Harbin Inst of Technology	China
Carlier	Simon	Aalto University	Finland
Carmen	Cima Rodriguez	University of Cordoba	Spain
Celik	Turgay	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa
Chaib	Souleyman	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
Chakraborty	Srija	Arizona State University	USA
Chamberland	Martin	Telops, Quebec	Canada
Chanussot	Jocelyn	GIPSA Lab, INP Grenoble	France
Chao	Liu	XiDian University	China
Charou	Eleni	Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’	Greece
Chaudhary	Sumit Kumar	IIT (ISM) DHANBAD	India
Chen	Chen	University of Texas at Dallas	USA
Chen	Frederick W.	MIT Lincoln Labs	USA
Chen	Haonan	NOAA/Earth System Research Lab	USA
Chen	Kaiqiang	Institude of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Chen	Rubia	Lotus (H&R) Inc.	Taiwan ROC
Chen	Yushi	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
Chen	Peng XXX	Chinese Academic of Science	China
Chen	Rubia	Lotus Inc	Republic of China
Cheng	Kuanhong
Chetty	Girija	University of Canberra	Australia
Chini	Marco	Luxembourg Inst of Science and Technology	Luxembourg
Choi	Hyunho	Hanyang University	South Korea
Choi	Jaewan	Chungbuk National University	Korea
Choi	Myungjin	Korea Aerospace Research Institute	Korea
Choukade	Yogesh	SAI Consulting Engineers Pvt. Ltd.	India
Clausi	David	Univ of Waterloo	Canada
Clemente-Colón	Pablo	US National Ice Center	USA
Conte	Roberto	Univ of Salerno	Italy
Cossu	Roberto	European Space Agency	UK
Courty	Nicolas	IRISA/UBS	France
Crawford	Melba	Purdue University	USA
Csatho	Beata M.	Dept of Geology, Univ of Buffalo	USA
DOKKALI	YASSIR	abdelmalek essaadi university	Morocco
Da	He
Dabiri	Zahra	University of Salzburg	Austria
Dalponte	Michele
Daneshtalab	Somaye	Tehran University	Iran
Daniel	Sandrine	Capgemini S.A.	France
Das	Kakali	Department of Science and Technology, Government of West Bengal	India
Das	Nanendra	Jet Prop. Lab	USA
Daudt	Rodrigo	ONERA	France
Davis	Curt	Univ of Missouri	USA
De	Shaunak
De La Rubio Navare	Javier
DeBoissieu	Florian	IRSTEA/INRAE	France
Del Frate	Fabio	Univ of Rome, Tor Vergata	Italy
Delassus	Rémi	Qucit	France
Dell’Acqua	Fabio	Dept of Electrical Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Univ of Pavia	Italy
Demirkesen	Can	Inst of Science and Engineering, Galatasaray Univ, Ortakoy, Istanbul	Turkey
Demuzere	Matthias	UGent	Belgium
Dey	Sulehadip	IIT Bombay	India
Dhumal	Rajesh	Dr. B. A. M. University, Aurangabad	India
Di Martini	David	UFMS	Brazil
Djerrir	Khelifa
Djiknavorian	Pascal	Laval University	Canada
Dlamini	Wisdom M.	Swaziland National Trust Commission	Swaziland
Doan	Huong T. X.	ESRI Vietnam Company Ltd.	Vietnam
Dobigeon	Nicolas	University of Toulouse, IRIT/INP-ENSEEIHT	France
Doctor	Katharina	NRESEARCH LAB	Unknown
Doi	Kento	The University of Tokyo	Japan
Domingues	Inês Campos Monteiro Sabino	IPO Porto + Universidade de Coimbra	Portugal
Dong	Yanfang	Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration	China
Donmez	Saziye Ozge	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey
Donnellan	Andrea	JPL	USA
Drouyer	Sébastien	CMLA	France
Du	Bo	LIESMARS, Wuhan Univ	China
Du	Jenny Q.	Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State Univ	USA
Duzgun	Sebnem	Middle East Technical University, Ankara	Turkey
Ediriwickrema	Jayantha	US Environmental Protection Agency	USA
El Abidi
El Mezouar	Miloud Chikr	RCAM Laboratory, College of Engineering, Djillali Liabes University, Sidi-Bel-Abbes	Algeria
ElGharbawi	Tamer	Suez Canal University	Egypt
Elshamli	Ahmed	University of Guelph	Canada
Erturk	Alp	Kocaeli University	Turkey
Esfahlan	Amin Ghasemi	Basir, Inc	Iran
Eslami	Mehrdad	K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran	Iran
Fabrizi	Roberto	Deimos Imaging	Spain
Falco	Nicola	University of Iceland	Iceland
Fang	Leyuan	Hunan University	China
Fanh	Leyuan	Hunan University	China
Faria	Fabio Augusto	Federal University of Sao Paulo	Brazil
Farnaz	Aneela	National University of Science and Technology	Pakistan
Fauvel	Mathieu	University of Toulouse – INP ENSAT	France
Femiani	John C.	Arizona State University	USA
Ferraioli	Giampaolo	Universita Parthenope	Italy
Ferrentino	Manuele
Figueroa-Villanueva	Miguel A.	Univ of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Puerto Rico
Flusser	Jan	Institute of Information Theory and Automation	Czech Republic
Foody	Giles	Univ Nottingham	UK
Foumelis	Michael	BRGM	France
Freedman	Ellis	Serious Science LLC	USA
Furuya	Takashi	Tohoku University	Japan
Gader	Paul	Univ of Florida	USA
Gaikwad	Bhanupriya Shivaji	M.G.M Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College	India
Gaikwad	Sandeep Vasan	Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University	India
Gamba	Paolo	Univ of Pavia	Italy
Gang	Zhanging	Capital Normal University	China
Gangodagamage	Chandana	Los Alamos National Lab, NM	USA
Gao	Lang	China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)	China
Gao	Lianru	Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Gao	Feng	Ocean University of China	China
Gaona	Elvis	Universidad Distrital	Colombia
García	Isis Galván	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Mexico
Gargiulo	Massimiliano
Garzelli	Andrea	Univ of Siena	Italy
Garzelli	Andrea	UNIV. SIENA-ITALY	Italy
Gasiewski	Albin	Univ of Colorado, Boulder	USA
Gemine	Vivone	University of Salerno	Italy
Gercek	Deniz	Kocaeli University	Turkey
Ghahremani	Morteza	Tarbiat Modares University	Iran
Ghamchili	Mehdi	Unkown	Iran
Ghamisi	Pedram	DLR	Germany
Ghasrodashti	Elham Kordi	Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University	Iran
Ghassemian	Hassan	Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran	Iran
Ghosh	Suddhasheel	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	India
Gibson	Carey	Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources	Canada
Gin	Rojin	The Ohio State University	USA
Giordano	Sébastien	French National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN)	France
Gittins	Christopher	United Technologies Aerospace Systems, Boston, MA	USA
Gokaraju	Balakrishna	Univ of West Alabama	USA
Gomez	Arantxa Maria Triana	University of Bremen	Germany
Goodenough	David	Univ of Victoria	Canada
Gopalakrishnan	Tharani	GIS Solutions (Pvt) Ltd	Sri Lanka
Grant	Scott
Gray	Andrew
Guangyi	Wang	nwpu	China
Guangyi	Wang	nwpu	China
Guo	Qing	Associate Professor at Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Guo	Jiayi	Behang University	China
Gupta	Sharad	Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal	India
Gupta	Sharad Kumar	Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India	India
GÖRMÜŞ	ESRA TUNÇ	Department of Geomatics Engineering, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon	Turkey
Hüt	Christoph	Institute of Geography, University of Cologne	Germany
Hadavand	Ahmad	University of Tehran	Iran
Hallabia	Hind	Centre de Recherche en Numérique de Sfax	Tunisia
Han	Xiaobing	Wuhan University	China
Hanaizumi	Hiroshi	Hosei University	Japan
Hang	Chen	LIESMARS Shen Zhen Research and Development Center	China
Hang	Renlong	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	China
Hardy	Caroline	University of Johannesburg	South Africa
Hasanlou	Mahdi	College of Engineering, University of Tehran	Iran
Hasanlou	Mahdi
Hasanpoor	Erfan	University of Tehran	Iran
Hashmi	Syed Ghulam Mohayud Din	Kinnaird College For Women University, Lahore	Pakistan
Hassani	Hadiseh	University of Tehran	Iran
He	Chu	Wuhan Univ	China
He	Mingyi	Northwestern Polytechnical University	China
He	Wei	RIKEN	Japan
He	Zhi	Sun Yat-Sen University	China
Hellwich	Olaf	Technical Univ of Berlin	Germany
Heylen	Rob	University of Antwerp	Belgium
Hichri	Haikel Salem	Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University	Saudi Arabia
Hikichi	KEIta	Kosuai Kogto	Japan
Homayouni	Saeid	University of Ottawa, Dept of Geography	Canada
Hong	Danfeng	German Aerospace Center (DLR)	Germany
Hossein	Aghabarbaee	Universita Parthenope	Italy
Hou	Qiang	Chian University of Geosciences	China
Hoxha	Genc	University of Trento	Italy
Huang	Bormin	Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison	USA
Huang	HuaGuo	Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education	China
Huang	Rui	Shanghai University	China
Huang	Xin	Wuhan University	China
Huang	Miaofen	Guangdon University	China
Hung	Chi-Cheng	Kennesaw State University	USA
Huo	Lian-Zhi	Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Hänsch	Ronny	Technische Universität Berlin	Germany
Iler	Amber	Integrity Applications Incorporated	USA
Ilias	Theodorakopoulos	Univ of Patras	Greece
Irisa	Lina	IRISA	France
Itoh	Yuki	University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA
Iwasaki	Akira	Space Application Lab, Univ of Tokyo	Japan
Jacobs	Nathan	University of Kentucky	USA
Jaganjac	Indir	Self Employed	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jahanishakib	Fatemeh	University of Birjand	Iran
Janez	Fabrice	Onera	France
Javan	Farzaneh Dadaras	University of Tehran	Iran
Jawak	Shridhar	National Centre For Antarctic & Ocean Research	India
Jayapalan	Vivekan	PSNA College of Engineering and Technology	India
Jeune	Bjorn	Consulting Geologist	Guyana
Jha	Vikram Chandra	Deep Learning Research Private Limited	India
Ji	Wenjun	McGill University	Canada
Jia	Peiyuan
Jiahui	Qu	Xidian University	China
Jiang	Menghui	Wuhan University	China
Jin	Yuwei	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	China
Jiny	Bao	Technichal University of China	China
Jordi Cortes	Andrei
Jun	Liu	Wuhan Univ	China
Junaidi	Ahmad	NCKU-Taiwan	Republic of China
Junli	Yang	Beijing University of Posts and telecomunications	China
Kääb	Andreas	Univ of Oslo	Norway
Kahraman	Sevcan	Kocaeli University	Turkey
Kakimoto	Tomoko	JJEOSS	Japan
Kalogirou	Vasileios	EU SatCen	Spain
Kanan	Christopher	Rochester Institute of Technology	USA
Kandasamy	Sivasathivel	Canada Center for Remote Sensing	Canada
Kang	Xudong	Hunan University	China
Kang	Jian	Technical University of Munich	Germany
Karaca	Ali Can	Kocaeli University	Türkiye
Karami	Azam	University of Antwerp	Belgium
Karim	Shahid	Government College University, Lahore	Pakistan
Karimi	Saeed	University of Guilan	Iran
Kasabalis	Dimitris	Yloriki Ltd	Greece
Kasampalas	Dimitrios	unknown	unknown
Kasapoglu	Necip Gokhan	Universtiy of Tromsø	Norway
Kawulok	Michael	Silesian University of Techn.	Poland
Kaya	Gulsen Taskin	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey
Kellenberger	Benjamin	University of Zurich	Switzerland
Kerekes	John	Rochester Institute of Technology	USA
Keshavarz	Ahmad	Persian Gulf University	Iran
Khan	Haris Ahmad	Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad	Pakistan
Khan	J Abdullah	Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa	India
Khan	Jollozy Abdullah	Yogi Vemna University	India
Khan	Muhammad Murtaza	National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad	Pakistan
Khobragade	Anand N	Maharashtra Remote Application Centre (MRSAC)	India
Khodadadzadeh	Mahdi	University of Trento	Italy
Khodadadzadeh	Mahdi
Khopkar	Parag	Dept of Geogrpahy, University of Pune, Ganeshkhind	India
Kianejad	Seyed Abdollah	Univ of Tafresh	Iran
Kiani	Kamel	Kerman Graduate University of Technology	Iran
Kim	Yongmin	Seoul National Univ	South Korea
Kim	Young Cheal	Seoul National University	South Korea
King	Roger	Mississippi State Univ	USA
Kiyasu	Senya	Nagasaki Univ	Japan
Kleynhans	Waldo	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research	South Africa
Koeniguer	Elise	Onera	France
Koirala	bixram	University of Antwerp	Belgium
Kouchi	Hamze Salimi	Khaje Nasir Toosi Univ of Technology, Tehran	Iran
Kovalevskaya	Nelley	Institute for Water and Environmental Problems	Russia
Kulkarni	Rushikesh	Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune	India
Kumar	Anil	Indian Institute of Remote Sensing/ISRO	India
Kumar	Deepak	Central University of Karnataka	India
Kumar	Harish	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee	India
Kumar	Mallenahalli Naresh	National Remote Sensing Centre (ISRO)	India
Kumar	S.S.	Noorul Islam University	India
Kumar	Uttam	NASA Ames Research Center	USA
Kumar	Vinay	Indian Institute of Remote Sesning Dehradun	India
Kumar	Manohar	C V S S IIST	India
Kumar	Harish	King Khalid University	Saudi Arabia
Kumar	Anil	IIRS/ISRO	India
Kurte	Kuldeep R.	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay	India
Kutluk	Sezer	Istanbul University	Turkey
Kwon	Heesung	US Army Research Laboratory	USA
LI	Mingyang	Chinese academy of sciences	China
Lakshmi	Venkat	Univ of South Carolina	USA
Lamghari	Soufiane	ENSTA Bretagne Lab-STICC UMR CNRS	France
Lampropoulos	George	A.U.G. Signals Ltd., Toronto	Canada
Lan	Shenling	Xiamen University	China
Lanaras	Charis	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
Landgrebe	David	Purdue Univ	USA
Lang	Oliver	Astrium GEO-Information Services	Germany
Latourette	Kevin	Lockheed Martin, CO	USA
Lavreniuk	Mykola	Space Research Institute	Ukraine
Lavreniuk	Mykola
Le	Gan	Nanjing University	China
Le Bris	Arnaud	French National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN)	France
Le Moigne	Jacqueline	NASA	USA
Le Saux	Bertrand	Onera	France
Lee	Lily	MIT Lincoln Labs	USA
Lee	Matthew A.	Mississippi State Univ.	USA
Lee	Juhyun	Ulsan University of Technology	South Korea
Lefevre	Sébastien	Univ. Bretagne-Sud	France
Lemoigne	Jacqueline	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	USA
Lessio	Andrea	University of Torino	Italy
Leyuan	Fang	Hunan University	China
Leyuan	Fang	Hunan University	China
Li	Dongyang	Vhinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing	China
Li	Jonathan	University of Waterloo	Canada
Li	Peijun	Peking University	China
Li	Shutao	Hunan University	China
Li	Wenbo	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei	China
Li	Xiaodong	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan	China
Li	Xinghua	Wuhan University	China
Li	Xiang	Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Li	Hongbo
Li	Weike
Li	Nan	Beijing Normal University	中国
Li	Nan	Beijing Normal University	中国
Li	Shuwen	Wuhan University	China
Li	Aija	Beijing University of mining and technology	China
Li	Qing	Beijing Normal University	China
Li	Lele	Ocean University of China	China
Li	Jilu	CRES	USA
Li	XiaoJuan	Capital Normal University	China
Li	Qiang	Institute of Crustal Dynamics	China
Li	Yuxuan	Xidian University	China
Liang	Wenkai	China	中国
Liao	Wenzhi	Ghent University	Belgium
Licciardi	Giorgio Antonino	GIPSA Lab, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Université Joseph Fourier and Université Stendhal	France
Lin	Yangguanhua
Lin	Liupeng	Wuhan University	China
Lindner	Claudia
Liu	Bin	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
Liu	Dehong	Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA	USA
Liu	Jie	Peking University	China
Liu	Rong	Wuhan University	China
Liu	Sicong	Tongji University	China
Liu	Yansong	Rochester Institute of Technology	USA
Liu	Yishu	South China Normal University	China
Liu	Peng	Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, CAS	China
Liu	Yi	University of Extremadura	Spain
Liu	Yi	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway
Liu	Jianhong
Liu	Jin-King
Liu	Xiaoqiang	Nanjing University	China
Lobzenev	Vyacheslav	Innovative Center, Moscow	Russia
Lombardo	Pierfrancesco	Sapienza, University of Rome	Italy
Long	David	Brigham Young University, UT	USA
Longbotham	Nathan	Digital Globe, Longmont, CO	USA
Lopez	Sebastian	University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Spain
Lovergine	Francesco Paolo	ISSIA CNR – Bari	Italy
Lu	Ting	Hunan University	China
Lugari	Alessandro	Institute of Informatics and Telematics of CNR, IIT-CNR	Italy
Lunga	Dalton	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Meraka Institute	South Africa
Luo	Renbo	Ghent University	Belgium
Luther	Charles	Office of Naval Research (retired)	USA
Lv	Ning	Xidian University	China
Lwin	Aung	Beihang University	China
Lévesque	Josée	Valcartier Research Center	Canada
Maboudi	Mehdi	Islamic Azad University	Iran
Madhusoodanan	Dhanusham	Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST)	India
Maggiori	Emmanuel	INRIA	France
Mahgoub	Ahmed	Agrisource Data	USA
Mahmoudi	Fatemeh Tabib	Univ of Tehran	Iran
Makrogiannis	Sokratis	Delaware State University	USA
Mallet	Clément	The French National Geographic Institute, IGN	France
Mallorqui	Jordi J.
Mangalraj	P.	Indian Institute of Information Technology	India
Mani	V.R.S	National Engineering College	India
Marcato	JR	UFMS	Brazil
Marcello	Javier	University Las Palmas of Gran Canaria	Spain
Marinoni	Andrea	University of Pavia	Italy
Marpu	Prashanth Reddy	Masdar Institute of Science and Technology	UAE
Marques JR	Ademir	Unisinos University	Brazil
Marwaha	Richa	Indian Institute of Remote Sensing	India
Massamba	Bienvenu	Lousiana State University	United States
Massetti	Andrea
Masson	Eric	University of Lille Sciences and Technologies	France
Matasci	Giona	Integrated Remote Sensing Studio – UBC, Vancouver	Canada
Matteoli	Stefania	National Research Council of Italy	Italy
Matteoli	Stefania	CNR-Italy	Italy
Mazza	Antonio
Med Amin	Larabi	Asal Algeria	Algeria
Medasani	Sivasubramanyam	Sri Venkateswara University, College of Engineering	India
Medina	Reynaldo	USAA	USA
Melgani	Farid	Univ of Trento	Italy
Melillos	George	Cyprus University of Technology	Cyprus
Menan	Vineithe	University of Alabama	USA
Meng	Lingfei	Academic	USA
Merentitis	Andreas	AGT International, Darmstadt	Germany
Miao	Yuanjing	National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Miao	Hongli	Ocean University of China	China
Michael	Nkenfack	Hydrogeocartech	Cameroon
Migliazzi	Mauro	GLOBI Hi-Tech Srl	Italy
Minaei	Masoud	University of Vienna	Austria
Ming	Zhou	China University of Geosciences	China
Minottu	Felipe	University of Puerto Rico	Puerto Rico
Mirnazari	Javad	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia	Malaysia
Mishra	Roshni	Nirma University	India
Mitkari	Kavita	Mitkari Punjab Engineering College	India
Mofokeng	Olga	University of Free State, RSA	South Africa
Moghaddam	Negin Fouladi	Monash University	Australia
Mohammadi	Hosin	University of Tehran	Afghanistan
Mohammadzadeh	Ali	K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Faculty of Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering	Iran
Mohammadzadeh	Ali	K. N. Toosi Unibversity of Technology	Iran
Monteiro	Sildomar	Rochester Institute of Technology	USA
Moon	Wooil	Unive of Manitoba	Canada
Moraru	Simion	Cooperative Trade University of Moldova	Romania
Moser	Gabriele	Univ of Genoa	Italy
Mou	Lichao	German Aerospace Center (DLR)	Germany
Msellmi	Bouthayna
Muhebwa	Aggrey	University Of Massachusetts – Amherst	USA
Munishi	Subira Eva	University of Dar Es Salaam	Tanzania
Mura	Mauro Dalla	GIPSA Lab, Grenoble Institute of Technology	France
Murugan	Deepak
Nagne	Ajay	Dr. B. A. M. University,	India
Nalepa	Jakub	Silesian University of Techn.	Poland
Nali	Peng	WAA	Unknown
Navarro	Javiera Castillo	Onera	France
Neagoe	Victor-Emil	Polytechnic University of Bucharest	Romania
Nera	Bala Raju	IFT Bombay	India
Nguyen	Thanh Huy	Université Laval	Canada
Nisa	Zaib	Government College University Faisalabad	Pakistan
Nishii	Ryuei	Kyushu University	Japan
Nokay	Hasan	Piksel Teknoloji Inc	Turkey
Odindi	John
Oliveira	Julianne	Unicamp	Brazil
Onyia	Nkeiruka Nneti	University of Leicester	UK
Osadciw	Lisa Ann	Syracuse Univ	USA
Ostrowski	Juliusz	PCI Geomatics, Inc	Canada
Pacifici	Fabio	Maxar	USA
Palsson	Frosti	University of Iceland	Iceland
Palubinskas	Gintautas	German Aerospace Center (DLR)	Germany
Pan	Han	School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
Pan	Erting	Wuhan University	China
Pandey	Prem C.	University of Leicester	UK
Panditrao	Satej	Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services, INCOIS	India
Panditrao	Satej	National Remote Sensing Centre	India
Pandiy	Varsha	Banaras Hindu University	India
Parente	Mario	Univ of Massachusetts	USA
Paris	Claudia	University of Trento	Italy
Park	Joong Yong	Optech Inc, Ontario	Canada
Park	Taejin	Boston University	USA
Park	No-Wook	Inha University	Korea
Parvez	Shahid	University of the Punjab	Pakistan
Pascazio	Vito	Parthenope University of Naples	Italy
Passaro	Vito	Universita Parthenope	Italy
Pathak	Diganta Kumar	Gauhati University	India
Patil	Ganesh	Unknown	unknown
Patil	Sudhir	GIS Dept- Reliance Jio Infocom Ltd.	India
Pei	Congyuan	Wuhan University	China
Peijun	Du	Nanjing Univ	China
Pejman	Amirhossein	University Of Tehran	Iran
Pelich	Ramona	Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology	Luxembourg
Pelich	Ramona	LIST	Luxembourg
Pepe	Giorgio	High School Rummo	Unknown
Persello	Claudio	University of Twente	The Netherlands
Persello	Claudio	University of Twente	Netherlands
Persson	Henrik	Geoanalysis Sweden AB	Sweden
Pervez	Wasim	National University of Science & Technology, Islamabad	Pakistan
Peterson	Erica	University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies	Canada
Petrou	Zisis	Information Technologies Institute (CERTH-ITI)	Greece
Pichel	William G.	NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research	USA
Picone	Daniele	GIPSA-LAB CNRS	France
Pierce	Leland	University of Michigan	USA
Piles	Maria
Pinz	Axel	Graz University of Technology	Austria
Plaza	Antonio	Department of Technology of Computers and Communications, Escuela Politecnica de Caceres, University of Extremadura	Spain
Plaza	Javier	University of Extremadura	Spain
Polewski	Przemyslaw	Munich University of Applied Sciences	Germany
Polli	Diego	European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering	Italy
Prasad	Anup Krishna	Department of Applied Geology, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad	India
Prasad	Saurabh	Univ of Houston	USA
Pu	Shengliang	Wuhan University	China
Pugh	Mark L.	Air Force Research Lab	USA
Pyne	Budhaditya	Synspective	India
Qazi	Waqas Ahmed	Institute of Space Technology	Pakistan
Qi	Hairong	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	USA
Qi	Wenping	Capital Normal University	China
Qiao	Xiaojun	National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture	China
Qiming	Zhang	VESTC	China
Qin	Rongjun	The Ohio State University	United States
Qin	Feng	Nanjing Agriculture University	China
Qu	Wie	Chinese Inst. Of Water Resources	China
Qu	Ying	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	United States
Rafiei	Akbar	Tehran University	Iran
Rahmaty	Alireza	Academic	Iran
Rahmawati	Novi	Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia
Rahnemonfar	Maryam	Texas University	USA
Rahnemoonfar	Maryam	Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi	USA
Rajabhushanam	C.	Bharath Institute Of Higher Education and Research	India
Rajabi	Roozbeh	Tarbiat Modares University	Iran
Ramdani	Fatwa	Tohoku Univ	Japan
Ramesh Nityanand	Adep	National Institute of Technology Karnataka	India
Ramiya	Anandakumar M.	Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology	India
Ramnath	Vinod	Teledyne Optech	USA
Ramuhalli	Pradeep	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	USA
Rana	Fabio Michele	Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, National Research Council of Italy	Italy
Rana	Fabio Michele
Ranchin	Thierry	Mines ParisTech	France
Randrianarivo	Hicham	Onera	France
Rasti	Behnood	University of Iceland	Iceland
Ratha	Debanshu	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	India
Raymie	Susan	USSOCOM	USA
Reiche	Martin	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
Reising	Steven	Colorado State University	USA
Ren	Hsuan	National Central University	Taiwan
Riadh	Abdelfattah	University of Carthage	Tunisia
Richards	John	Australian National University	Australia
Rodriguez Suquet	Roguel	CMES	France
Romeo	Saverio	University of Perugia	Italy
Rong	Junjie	China University of XXX	China
Roos	Daniel Rodrigues	Institute of Advanced Studies (IEAV)	Brazil
Rostami	Reza	Islamic Azad University of Qazvin	Iran
Roy	Subhankar	University of Trento	Italy
SNOUSSI	Mohamed	Ibn Zoher University	Morocco
Sadeghi	Yaser	University of Tehran	Iran
Sakamuto	Hiroshi	Mitsubishi Space	Japan
Salehi	Abbas	Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Iran	Iran
Salehi	Bahram	LookNorth, Inc, Newfoundland	Canada
Samanta	Arindam	AER, Inc	USA
Samat	Alim	Nanjing Univ	China
Santana	Tiago Moreira Hübner Cançado	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil
Santara	Anirban	IIT Kharagpur	India
Sanyang	Sankung	Gambian Dept of Forestry	The Gambia
Sanyogita	Chandrakar	Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur	India
Sarma	Hitendra	Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute of Technology	India
Sarma	T. Hitendra	Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute of Technology	India
Sathyamoorthy	Dinesh	Science & Technology Research Institute for Defence (STRIDE), Ministry of Defence	Malaysia
Satir	Onur	Yuzuncu Yil University	Turkey
Saxena	Nidhi	Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur	India
Scheunders	Paul	University of Antwerp	Belgium
Schmitt	Michael	Technical University of Munich (TUM)	Germany
Schmitt	Michael	Technical University of Munich	Germany
Schwegmann	Colin Peter	Council For Scientific and Industrial Research	South Africa
Searle	Les	True 3D, Inc, Queensland	Australia
Sebari	Imane
Sedighi	Amir	Univ of Tabriz	Iran
Serpico	Sebastiano	DITEN-Univ. Of Genoa	Italy
Sghaier	Khouloud	University of Sousse, ISITCOM	Tunisia
Shah	Vijay P.	Mississippi State University	USA
Shang	Fanghong	University of Electro-Communications	Japan
Sharma	Vivek	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
Sharma	Shreya	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	India
Sharma	Shrey	NEC Corporation	India
Shaunak	De	Indian Institute of Technology	India
Sherrah	Jamie	DSTO Edinburgh	Australia
Shi	Aiye	College of Computer and Information Engineering, Hohai University	China
Shinde	Rajat	IIT Bombay	India
Shinde	Rajat	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India	India
Shinde	Rajat	IIT Bombay	India
Shkvarko	Yuriy	Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, CINVESTAV-IPN	Mexico
Shokr	Mohammed	Environment Canada	Canada
Shukla	Shashwat	Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC)	The Netherlands
Shumilo	Leonid
Sidda	Geethesh Kumar	CA State Univ Fullerton	USA
Siddique	Muhammad Adnan	Earth Observation & Remote Sensing, ETH Zurich	Switzerland
Singh	Alok	Indian Space Research Organization	India
Singh	Sarvesh	UNSH	Australia
Singh	K.P.	IIT-BHO	India
Sinica-Sinavskis	Juris	Institute of Electronics and Computer Science	Latvia
Sirmacek	Beril	Create 4D	Netherlands
Slamani	M. Adel	MHA Technologies, Inc, Washington, DC	USA
Small	David	Univ of Zurich	Switzerland
Smits	Paul	European Commission DG Joint Research Centre (JRC)	Italy
Smolander	Tuomo
Solanky	Vijay	MANIT Bhopal	India
Solberg	Anne H Schistad	Dept of Informatics, Univ of Oslo	Norway
Soleimanzadeh	Mohamad Reza	Shahid Bahonar Kerman University	Iran
Soni	Ashish	Indian Institute of Technology	India
Souissi
Soumi	Chaki
Speckert	Glen	SpeckTech Inc	USA
Sridharan	Harini	Oak Ridge National Lab	USA
Srinivas	Umamahesh	Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA	USA
Srinivasa Perumal	Padma	Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai	India
Srivastava	Shivangi	University of Zurich	Switzerland
Stamenova	Vanya	Space Research and Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences	Bulgaria
Stelmaszczuk-Gorska	Martyna	Friedrich-Schiller-University	Germany
Stiefel	Avi	ISI	Israel
Stiefel	Avi	ISI	Israel
Storie	Christiopher
Streltsov	Simon	LongShortWay Inc., Boston,MA	USA
Su	Yuan-Fong	National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR)	Taiwan ROC
Subramanian	P.	Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology	India
Sui	YinLing	National University of Defense Technology	China
Sullivan	William	HySpecIQ	USA
Sun	Xu	Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Sze-To	Ho Yin	University of Waterloo	Canada
Tadoyu	Takeo	JAXA	Japan
Tahrat	Omar	StereoPhot,S.a.r.l	Algeria
Talebi Nahr	Siamak	Department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering, Tafresh University	Iran
Talukdar	Gautam	Wildlife Institute of India	India
Tami	Xu	XiDian University	China
Tanaka	Shojiro	Shimane University	Japan
Tang	Hong	State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University	China
Tang	Xue	Wuhan University	China
Tao	Jianwei	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
Tarabalka	Yuliya	INRIA Sophia Antipolis	France
Tasar	Onur	Inria	France
Taud	Hind	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Mexico
Taud	Hind	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Mexico
Tiam	Tiam	Institute of Crustal Dynamics	China
Tian	Bingwei	Kyoto Univ	Japan
Tian	Huimin	University of Miningard Technology	Unknown
Tilton	James	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	USA
Tomi	Atsushi	Baruch College	USA
Tompkinson	William	Ordinance Survey	UK
Toriya	Hisatoshi	Univ. of Tsukuba	Japan
Torres	Tannia Mayorga	Universidad Central del Ecuador	Ecuador
Trinh	XuanTuang	University of Tokyo	Japan
Troia	Sebastiano	Politecnico de Bari	Italy
Trouvé	Emmanuel	Univ Savoie Mont Blanc	France
Truong-Hong	Linh	Urban Modelling Group, University College Dublin	Ireland
Tsagkatakis	Grigorios	Foundataion for Research and Technology Hellas	Greece
Tsatsoulis	Costas	Univ of North Texas	USA
Tsukamoto	Naoko	Tohoku University	Japan
Tuia	Devis	Wageningen University and Research	The Netherlands
Tuna	Caglayan	Universite Bretagne	France
Tupin	Florence	TelecomParisTech	France
Tusa	Laura	Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf	Germany
Twarakali	Navin
Uddin Ahammad Shuzan	Nazim	Institute of Water Modeling	Bangladesh
Uezato	Tatsumi	RIKEN	Japan
Ullo	Silvia L	University of Sannio	Italy
Unknown	Abbas	K. N. Toosi University of Technology	Iran
Upadhyay	Ashish	Indian Institute of Public Health – Gandhinagar	India
Ustuner	Mustafa	Yildiz Technical University	Turkey
Uto	Kuniaki	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
Vahidi	Hossein	Khavaran Institute of Higher Education	Iran
Vajedian	Sanaz
Vakalopoulou	Maria	National Technical University of Athens	Greece
Velez-Reyes	Miguel	University of Texas, El Paso	USA
Verma	Nidhi
Villalon-Turrubiates	Ivan	Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara	Mexico
Villalon-Turrubiates	Ivan	ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara	Mexico
Vitale	Sergio
Vohra	Rubeena	Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering	India
Voimov	Sergey	DLR	Germany
Volpi	Michele	University of Zurich	Switzerland
Volpi	Riccardo	University College Cork	Ireland
Wanczura	Angela	Simon Frasier University	Canada
Wang	Ting	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Wang	Yuebin	Beijing Normal University	China
Wang	Qingyang	Guilin University of Technology	China
Wang	Panshi	University of Maryland	USA
Wang	Xiao
Wang	Jiwen	Wuhan University	China
Wang	Younnuan	Technical University Munich	Germany
Wang	Woke	CAS	China
Wang	Shanshan	Ocean University of China	China
Wang	Tao	Wuhan University	China
Wang	Xiaojian	ITC University Of Twente	Netherlands
Wang	Xiaoya	Beijing Normal University	China
Waske	Bjorn	Univ of Bonn	Germany
Weaver	Jeanette	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	USA
Weaver	Jeanette””,””null	null	null
Weaver	Jeanette	Oak Ridge National Lab	USA
Wei	Li	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	China
Wei	Qi	School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University	China
Wen	ZaoDao	Northwestern Polytechnical University	China
Wenqian	Dong	Xidian University	China
Wu	Zebin	Nanjing University of Technology	China
Wu	Xyui	Shanghai,Astronomy	China
Xia	Gui-Song	State Key Lab. LIESMARS, Wuhan University	China
Xia	Junshi	University of Tokyo	Japan
Xiao	Jiangtao	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu	China
Xiao	Fanghong	UESTC	China
Xu	Kele	Langevin Institute	France
Xu	Yongyang	China University of Geosciences	China
Xu	Guang	Monash University	Australia
Xu	Xingou	National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Xuan	Hu	Wuhan University	China

2021 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest

Geospatial AI for Social Good

 

The Contest: Goals and Organization

 

The 2021 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest, organized by the Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee, aims to promote research on geospatial AI for social good. The global objective is to build models for understanding the state and changes of artificial and natural environments from multimodal and multitemporal remote sensing data towards sustainable developments. The 2021 Data Fusion Contest will consist of two challenge tracks:

 

Scientific papers describing the best entries will be included in the Technical Program of IGARSS 2021, presented in an invited session “IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest” and published in the IGARSS 2021 Proceedings.

 

Results, Awards, and Prizes:

 

The following eight teams will be declared as winners:

• The first, second, third, and fourth-ranked teams in Track DSE
• The first, second, third, and fourth-ranked teams in Track MSD

The authors of the eight winning submissions will:

• Present their manuscripts in an invited session dedicated to the Contest at IGARSS 2021
• Publish their manuscripts in the Proceedings of IGARSS 2021
• Be awarded IEEE Certificates of Recognition

The authors of the first and second-ranked teams in both tracks will:

• Receive a special prize (see more details in each track page)
• Co-author journal papers (in a limit of 3 co-authors per submission), which will summarize the outcome of the Contest and will be submitted with open access to IEEE JSTARS.

Top-ranked teams will be awarded during IGARSS 2021, Brussels, Belgium in July 2021. The costs for open-access publication will be supported by the GRSS.

2020:
The 2020 Data Fusion Contest aimed to promote research in large-scale land cover mapping from globally available multimodal satellite data. The task was to train a machine learning model for global land cover mapping based on weakly annotated samples. The Contest consisted of two challenge tracks: Track 1: Land cover classification with low-resolution labels, and Track 2: Land cover classification with low- and high-resolution labels.
Data
Contest Rules
Contest Results

2019:
The 2019 Data Fusion Contest aimed to promote research in semantic 3D reconstruction and stereo using machine intelligence and deep learning applied to satellite images. The global objective was to reconstruct both a 3D geometric model and a segmentation of semantic classes for an urban scene. Incidental satellite images, airborne lidar data, and semantic labels were provided to the community.
Data
Contest Rules
Contest Results

2018:
The 2018 Data Fusion Contest aimed to promote progress on fusion and analysis methodologies for multi-source remote sensing data. It consisted of a classification benchmark, the task to be performed being urban land use and land cover classification. The following advanced multi-source optical remote sensing data are provided to the community: multispectral LiDAR point cloud data (intensity rasters and digital surface models), hyperspectral data, and very high-resolution RGB imagery.
Data
Contest Rules
Contest Results

2017:
The 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest focused on global land use mapping using open data. Participants were provided with remote sensing (Landsat and Sentinel2) data and vector layers (Open Street Map), as well as a 17 classes ground reference at 100 x 100m resolution over five cities worldwide (Local climate zones, see Stewart and Oke, 2012): Berlin, Hong Kong, Paris, Rome, Sao Paulo. The task was to provide land use maps over four other cities: Amsterdam, Chicago, Madrid and Xi’an. The maps were to be uploaded on an evaluation server. Please refer to the links below to know more about the challenge, download the data and submit your results (even now that the contest is over).
Data
Contest Rules
Contest Results

2016:
The 2016 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest, organized by the IADF TC, was opened on January 3, 2016. The submission deadline was April 29, 2016. Participants submitted open topic manuscripts using the VHR and video-from-space data released for the competition. 25 teams worldwide participated to the Contest. Evaluation and ranking were conducted by the Award Committee.
Data
Contest Rules
Contest Results
Paper: Mou, L.; Zhu, X.; Vakalopoulou, M.; Karantzalos, K.; Paragios, N.; Le Saux, B.; Moser, G. & Tuia, D., Multi-temporal very high resolution from space: Outcome of the 2016 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest, IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens., in press.

2015: The 2015 Contest was focused on multiresolution and multisensor fusion at extremely high spatial resolution. A 5-cm resolution color RGB orthophoto and a LiDAR dataset, for which both the raw 3D point cloud with a density of 65 pts/m² and a digital surface model with a point spacing of 10 cm, were distributed to the community. These data were collected using an airborne platform over the harbor and urban area of Zeebruges, Belgium. The department of Communication, Information, Systems and Sensors of the Belgian Royal Military Academy acquired and provided the dataset. Participants were supposed to submit original IGARSS-style full papers using these data for the generation of either 2D or 3D thematic mapping products at extremely high spatial resolution.
Data
Contest Rules
Contest Results
Paper: M. Campos-Taberner, A. Romero-Soriano, C. Gatta, G. Camps-Valls, A. Lagrange, B. Le Saux, A. Beaupère, A. Boulch, A. Chan-Hon-Tong, S. Herbin, H. Randrianarivo, M. Ferecatu, M. Shi- moni, G. Moser, and D. Tuia. Processing of extremely high resolution LiDAR and RGB data: Outcome of the 2015 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest. Part A: 2D contest. IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens., 9(12):5547–5559, 2016.

Paper: A.-V. Vo, L. Truong-Hong, D.F. Laefer, D. Tiede, S. d’Oleire Oltmanns, A. Baraldi, M. Shimoni, G. Moser, and D. Tuia. Processing of extremely high resolution LiDAR and RGB data: Outcome of the 2015 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest. Part B: 3D contest. IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens., 9(12):5560–5575, 2016.

2014: The 2014 Contest involved two datasets acquired at different spectral ranges and spatial resolutions: a coarser-resolution long-wave infrared (LWIR, thermal infrared) hyperspectral data set and fine-resolution data acquired in the visible (VIS) wavelength range. The former was acquired by an 84-channel imager covering the wavelengths between 7.8 to 11.5 μm with approximately 1-meter spatial resolution. The latter is a series of color images acquired during separate flight-lines with approximately 20-cm spatial resolution. The two data sources cover an urban area near Thetford Mines in Québec, Canada, and were acquired and were provided for the Contest by Telops Inc. (Canada). A ground truth with 7 landcover classes is provided and the mapping is performed at the higher of the two data resolutions.
Data
Contest Rules
Classification Contest Results
Paper Contest Results
Paper: W. Liao, X. Huang, F. Van Coillie, S. Gautama, A. Pizurica, W. Philips, H. Liu, T. Zhu, M. Shimoni, G. Moser, D. Tuia. Processing of Multiresolution Thermal Hyperspectral and Digital Color Data: Outcome of the 2014 IEEE GRSS DataFusion Contest. IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. and Remote Sensing, 8(6): 2984-2996, 2015.

2013: The 2013 Contest involved two datasets – a hyperspectral image and a LiDAR derived Digital SurfaceModel (DSM), both at the same spatial resolution (2.5m). The hyperspectral imagery has 144 spectral bands in the 380 nm to 1050 nm region. The dataset was acquired over the University of Houston campus and the neighboring urban area. A ground reference with 15 land use classes is available.
Data
Contest Rules
Classification Contest Results
Paper Contest Results
Paper: Debes, C. ; Merentitis, A. ; Heremans, R. ; Hahn, J. ; Frangiadakis, N. ; van Kasteren, T. ; Liao, W. ; Bellens, R. ; Pizurica, A. ; Gautama, S. ; Philips, W. ; Prasad, S. ; Du, Q. ; Pacifici, F. : Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data Fusion: Outcome of the 2013 GRSS Data Fusion Contest. IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. and Remote Sensing, 7 (6) pp. 2405-2418.

2012: The 2012 Contest was designed to investigate the potential of multi-modal/multi-temporal fusion of very high spatial resolution imagery in various remote sensing applications [6]. Three different types of data sets (optical, SAR, and LiDAR) over downtown San Francisco were made available by DigitalGlobe, Astrium Services, and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), including QuickBird, WorldView-2, TerraSAR-X, and LiDAR imagery. The image scenes covered a number of large buildings, skyscrapers, commercial and industrial structures, a mixture of community parks and private housing, and highways and bridges. Following the success of the multi-angular Data Fusion Contest in 2011, each participant was again required to submit a paper describing in detail the problem addressed, method used, and final results generated for review.
Paper: Berger, C.; Voltersen, M.; Eckardt, R.; Eberle, J.; Heyer, T.; Salepci, N.; Hese, S.; Schmullius, C.; Tao, J.; Auer, S.; Bamler, R.; Ewald, K.; Gartley, M.; Jacobson, J.; Buswell, A.; Du, Q.; Pacifici, F., “Multi-Modal and Multi-Temporal Data Fusion: Outcome of the 2012 GRSS Data Fusion Contest”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol.6, no.3, pp.1324-1340, June 2013.

2011: A set of WorldView-2 multi-angular images was provided by DigitalGlobe for the 2011 Contest. This unique set was composed of five Ortho Ready Standard multi-angular acquisitions, including both 16 bit panchromatic and multispectral 8-band images. The data were collected over Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in January 2010 within a three minute time frame with satellite elevation angles of 44.7°, 56.0°, and 81.4° in the forward direction, and 59.8° and 44.6° in the backward direction. Since there were a large variety of possible applications, each participant was allowed to decide a research topic to work on, exploring the most creative use of optical multi-angular information. At the end of the Contest, each participant was required to submit a paper describing in detail the problem addressed, the method used, and the final result generated. The papers submitted were automatically formatted to hide names and affiliations of the authors to ensure neutrality and impartiality of the reviewing process.
Paper: F. Pacifici, Q. Du, “Foreword to the Special Issue on Optical Multiangular Data Exploitation and Outcome of the 2011 GRSS Data Fusion Contest”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 5, no. 1, pp.3-7, February 2012.

2009-2010: In 2009-2010, the aim of Contest was to perform change detection using multi-temporal and multi-modal data. Two pairs of data sets were available over Gloucester, UK, before and after a flood event. The data set contained SPOT and ERS images (before and after the disaster). The optical and SAR images were provided by CNES. Similar to previous years’ Contests, the ground truth used to assess the results was not provided to the participants. Each set of results was tested and ranked a first time using the Kappa coefficient. The best five results were used to perform decision fusion with majority voting. Then, re-ranking was carried out after evaluating the level of improvement with respect to the fusion results.
Paper: N. Longbotham, F. Pacifici, T. Glenn, A. Zare, M. Volpi, D. Tuia, E. Christophe, J. Michel, J. Inglada, J. Chanussot, Q. Du “Multi-modal Change Detection, Application to the Detection of Flooded Areas: Outcome of the 2009-2010 Data Fusion Contest”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 331-342, February 2012.

2008: The 2008 Contest was dedicated to the classification of very high spatial resolution (1.3 m) hyper-spectral imagery. The task was again to obtain a classification map as accurate as possible with respect to the unknown (to the participants) ground reference. The data set was collected by the Reflective Optics System Imaging Spectrometer (ROSIS-03) optical sensor with 115 bands covering the 0.43-0.86 μm spectral range.
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Paper: G. Licciardi, F. Pacifici, D. Tuia, S. Prasad, T. West, F. Giacco, J. Inglada, E. Christophe, J. Chanussot, P. Gamba, “Decision fusion for the classification of hyperspectral data: outcome of the 2008 GRS-S data fusion contest”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 3857-3865, November 2009.

2007: In 2007, the Contest theme was urban mapping using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical data, and 9 ERS amplitude data sets and 2 Landsat multi-spectral images were made available. The task was to obtain a classification map as accurate as possible with respect to the unknown (to the participants) ground reference, depicting land cover and land use patterns for the urban area under study.
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Paper: F. Pacifici, F. Del Frate, W. J. Emery, P. Gamba, J. Chanussot, “Urban mapping using coarse SAR and optical data: outcome of the 2007 GRS-S data fusion contest”, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 331-335, July 2008.

2006: The focus of the 2006 Contest was on the fusion of multispectral and panchromatic images [1]. Six simulated Pleiades images were provided by the French National Space Agency (CNES). Each data set included a very high spatial resolution panchromatic image (0.80 m resolution) and its corresponding multi-spectral image (3.2 m resolution). A high spatial resolution multi-spectral image was available as ground reference, which was used by the organizing committee for evaluation but not distributed to the participants.
Paper: L. Alparone, L. Wald, J. Chanussot, C. Thomas, P. Gamba, L. M. Bruce, “Comparison of pansharpening algorithms: Outcome of the 2006 GRS-S data fusion contest”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 3012–3021, Oct. 2007.

For any information about past Data Fusion Contests, released data, and the related terms and conditions, please write to iadf_chairs@grss-ieee.org.