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Program 2012
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Thursday, 25 October
09:00 Plenary session. Chair: Matti Mõttus
09:00 Welcome
09:05 Jouni Pulliainen.
Sodankylä Satellite Data Centre: An Initiative to Establish Real-Time Satellite Data-Aided Services in Finland
09:30 Tuomas Häme. The Sentinels will make a difference in remote sensing services
09:55 Erkki Kyrölä.
Studying atmospheric composition by satellite measurements
10:20 Pauli Stigell.
Finnish Earth Observation in European programmes
10:45 Coffee break by 
11:00 Remote sensing of snow and ice. Chair: Kari Luojus
11:00 Kari Luojus.
Overview of snow remote sensing R&D at FMI & SYKE – work towards NRT & long term snow cover data records
11:20 Marko Mäkynen.
Sea ice remote sensing R&D at Finnish Meteorological Institute
11:40 Juha Karvonen.
Sea Ice ConcentrationRetrieval Based on Dual-Polarized C-Band SAR
12:00 Robin Berglund.
ICEMAR – a System for Sea Ice Information Delivery
12:20 Tuomo Smolander.
Detection of Soil Moisture and Soil Freeze Using Microwave Radars
12:40 Lunch
13:30 Remote sensing of forests: general. Chair: Mika Karjalainen
13:30 Timo Vesala. Invited presentation: From flux and concentrationobservations to greenhouse gas sinks and sources
14:00 Heikki Astola.
EUFODOS - European Forest Downstream Services Improved Information on Forest Structure and Damage – Project presentation
14:20 Paras Pant.
Spectral Characteristics of Hypespectral and Multispectral Sensors for Area Based Tree Species Classification
14:40 Poster Bazaar. Chair: Miia Salminen
15:30 Coffee by 
. Posters on display
16:15 Remote sensing of forests and land cover change. Chair: Mika Karjalainen
16:15 Urmas Peterson.
Cross-Border Comparison of Forest Area Changes Caused by Clear-Cutting and Afforestation of Abandoned Agricultural Land Using Snow Covered Satellite Imagery in northeastern Europe
16:35 Timo Pitkänen.
Tracing variations of deciduous component over grassland–forest continuum by subpixel classification
16:55 Niina Käyhkö.
Consequences of land cover transitions on the sustainability of coral rag forests in Zanzibar, Tanzania
17:15 Laura Sirro.
Forest crown cover estimation in northern boreal and temperate European forest
17:35 Timo Kumpula.
Detecting landuse and landcover changes in reindeer pastures using multi-source remote sensing and GIS data
18:00 Sauna in 
Refreshments offered by 
Friday, 26 October
09:45 New technologies in remote sensing. Chair: Heikki Saari
09:45 Antti Näsilä.
Aalto-1 Spectral Imager: Design and Mission
10:05 Maria Gritsevich.
A Pioneer European Airborne-Based Observation Campaign of a Meteor Shower
10:25 Lingli Zhu.
Using mobile laser scanning and UAV for 3D city models
10:45 Eija Honkavaara.
3D hyperspectral reflectance signatures by light-weight UAVs for the monitoring and measuring the environment
11:05 Heikki Saari.
UASI Summer 2012 UAV flight campaign results for forest and agriculture
11:25 Coffee by 
11:50 Remote sensing of forests: new methods and algorithms. Chair: Ilkka Korpela
11:50 Matthieu Molinier.
Social Forest Planning project : summary of results 2010–2012
12:10 Paula Litkey.
Automatic detection of storm damages in forests using airborne stereoscopic images
12:50 Lunch
13:40 Remote sensing of forests: forest structure and composition.Chair: Eija Honkavaara
13:40 Caner Demirpolat
Assessment of Boreal Forest Cover Properties from Interferometric TanDEM-X Data
14:00 Joel Kuusk.
BRF of forests
14:20 Ilkka Korpela.
Directional reflectance signatures in aerial images - an aid to tree species classification?
14:40 Wrap-up
Poster presentations
Posters will be on display during the whole day on Thursday, 25
October. Poster presenters are asked to give a short talk (maximum 2
minutes) during the Poster Bazaar at 14:40.
Krista Alikas.
A robust Kd(490) algorithm for remote sensing of optically complex waters
Lea Hallik.
Vegetation indices detecting the effect of climate change on vegetation
Henna-Reetta Hannula.
Automatization of a Spectroradiometer Measurement System for Satellite Image Validation
Pekka Hurskainen.
Application of Open-Source GIS and live GPS tracking for land use / land cover field data collection in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Iolanda Ialongo.
Characterization of OMItropospheric NO2 over the Baltic sea area
Jere Kaivosoja.
UASI Potato Monitoring flight campaign preliminary results
Rigel Kivi.
Atmospheric composition measurements in northern Finland and comparison with space borne observations
Lauri Korhonen.
Modeling lidar-derived boreal forest crown cover with SPOT 4 HRVIR data
Andres Kuusk.
Reference panel for remote sensing studies at Järvselja, Estonia
Petr Lukeš.
Biomass and Species Composition Are Tightly Related to Forest Albedo in the Boreal Zone
Rami Piiroinen.
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing in Taita Hills Kenya
Eetu Puttonen.
Ground point labeling in a terrestrial laser scanning configuration with utilization of scanner-centered coordinate system
Svetlana Saarela.
Model-assisted estimation of growing stock in a two-phase sampling survey utilizing ALS sample and wall-to-wall satellite optical data.
Tuure Takala.
Canopy shadow fraction estimation from AISA Eagle using spectral unmixing
Tuomas Tikka.
Aalto-2 – An Atmospheric Nanosatellite
Harold Weepener.
Forecasting Outbreaks of the Brown Locust Using Rainfall Estimates, NOAA Images and SPOT Vegetation Images
Xiaochen Zou.
Using digital camera for measuring leaf inclination angle in crops
Commercial presenters
Specim OY (www.specim.fi)
