1 KEYNOTE LECTURE IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY FOR GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY: INDIAN EXPERIENCES P.S. Roy, ISSA, National Remote Sensing Agency, India 2 SESSION IN HONOUR OF KLAUS ITTEN TERRESTRIAL IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY – SOME FUTURE PERSPECTIVES K. Staenz, Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Centre, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada   REVIEW OF ENMAP SCIENTIFIC POTENTIAL AND PREPARATION PHASE H. Kaufmann, K. Segl, L. Guanter, S. Chabrillat, S. Hofer, H. Bach, P. Hostert, A. Müller, C. Chlebek, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany   THE EMERGENCE OF IMAGING SPECTROMETRY IN EUROPE K.I. Itten, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland 3 RESULTS FROM NEW AND LARGE SCALE HSR MISSIONS FIRST TEST RESULTS OF THE AIRBORNE DISPERSIVE PUSHBROOM IMAGING SPECTROMETER APEX K.I. Itten, K. Meuleman, M. Schaepman, E.A. Alberti, B. Bomans, F. Dell'Endice, P. D'Odorico, A. Hueni, J. Nieke, D. Schläpfer, G.J.Ulbrich Remote Sensing Laboratories, Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland   EO-1 HYPERION ONBOARD PERFORMANCE OVER EIGHT YEARS: HYPERION CALIBRATION E.M. Middleton, L. Ong, S.G. Ungar, P.K.E. Campbell, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA   FORWARD SIMULATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES IN THE FRAME OF THE ENMAP MISSION K. Segl, L. Guanter, H. Kaufmann, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany   THE PRISMA MISSION C. Galeazzi, C. Ananasso, R. Loizzo, System Engineering and Technical Management ASI, Rome, Italy 4 ASPECTS IN THE ATMOSPHERE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN OPERATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC AND RADIOMETRIC CORRECTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY D. Schläpfer, R. Richter, A. Hueni, ReSe Applications, Wil, Switzerland ADJOINT RADIOSITY BASED ALGORITHMS FOR RETRIEVING TARGET REFLECTANCES IN URBAN AREA SHADOWS C.C. Borel, K. Ewald, M. Manzardo, C. Wamsley, J. Jacobson, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Fairborn, OH, USA EFFICIENT RADIATION TRANSFER CALCULATION AND SENSOR PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AEROSOL RETRIEVAL BY AIRBORNE IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY F. Seidel, D. Schläpfer, K.I. Itten, Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich, Switzerland   MONITORING OF SO2 EMISSIONS FROM STACKS USING MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING IN THE UV AND VISIBLE SPECTRAL BANDS E. Agassi, E. Hirsch, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Nes Ziona, Israel 5 GEOLOGY APPLICATIONS SPECTRAL IDENTIFICATION OF PYRITE MUD WEATHERING PRODUCTS: A FIELD AND LABORATORY EVALUATION A. Riaza, E. Garcia-Melendez, A. Müller, German Space Agency (DLR), Germany A NEW LIBRARY OF THERMAL INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTRA OF ROCK-FORMING MINERALS AND ROCKS M.C. Schodlok, A. Green, J. Huntington, L. Whitbourn, CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia 6 FLUORESCENCE EXPLORER (FLEX) DIURNAL AND SEASONAL DYNAMICS OF CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE AND SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE INDICES IN A CORNFIELD DURING THE 2008 GROWING SEASON E.M. Middleton, Y-B. Cheng, L.A. Corp, K.F. Huemmrich, P.K.E. Campbell, Q.Y. Zhang, W.P. Kustas, A.L. Russ, NASA, USA 7 COMPACT HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER- PROJECT FOR ON-BOARD AUTONOMY (CHRIS PROBA) APPLICATION OF PROBA-1/CHRIS DATA TO DETERMINE DEGRADATION INDICATORS WITHIN THE SEMI-ARID WETLAND AREA (NATIONAL PARK LAS TABLAS DE DAIMIEL, SPAIN) T.F. Schmid, J.A. Domínguez, J. Solana, J. Gumuzzio, M. Koch, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Spain USE OF SUPERRESOLUTION ENHANCED CHRIS/PROBA IMAGES FOR LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION AND SPECTRAL UNMIXING J.C. Chan, J. Ma, L. Demarchi, T. Van de Voorde, F. Canters, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium COASTAL ZONE MONITORING BY CHRIS/PROBA: FROM CAL/VAL ACTIVITIES TO BIOGEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS ASSESSMENT A. Barducci, D. Guzzi, P. Marcoionni, I. Pippi 8 NEW SENSORS AND ECONOMY PERSPECTIVE PERFORMANCE AND EXAMPLES OF MEASUREMENTS OF A MID INFRARED INTERFEROMETRIC HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER D. Cabib, CI Systems, Israel DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A HYPERSPECTRAL CAMERA FOR LOW LIGHT IMAGING WITH EXAMPLE RESULTS FROM FIELD AND LABORATORY APPLICATIONS J. Hernandez-Palacios, I. Baarstad, T. Løke, L.L. Randeberg, T. Skauli Norsk Elektro Optikk, Lørenskog, Norway EXPLORING THE DEMANDS ON HYPERSPECTRAL DATA PRODUCTS FOR URBAN PLANNING: A CASE STUDY IN THE MUNICH REGION W. Heldens, T. Esch, U. Heiden, A. Müller, S. Dech, Department of Remote Sensing at the Institute for Geography, University of Wuerzburg, Germany 9 BRDF APPLICATIONS SPECTRODIRECTIONAL MINNAERT-K RETRIEVAL USING CHRIS/PROBA J. Verrelst, M.E. Schaepman, J.G.P.W. Clevers, Centre for Geo-Information, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands TOWARDS AN AUTOMATED DETECTION OF AVALANCHES USING THEIR DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE PROPERTIES Y. Buehler, A. Hueni, T.W. Kellenberger, K.I. Itten, Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich, Switzerland BREFCOR – TOWARDS OPERATIONAL BRDF CORRECTION FOR IMAGING SPECTROMETRY DATA T. Feingersh, D. Schlapfer, E. Ben-Dor Remote Sensing Laboratory - Tel-Aviv University, Israel 10 DATA FUSION PREDICTING QUERCUS GARRYANA DISTRIBUTION IN THE SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS, CANADA, USING ASD FIELDSPEC3, AISA AND MARK II DATA FUSION T.G. Jones, N.C. Coops, T. Sharma, University of British Columbia, Canada 11 SENSOR PROBLEMS + CAL/VAL EFFECTS OF SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL STRAY LIGHT ON RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION OF A HYPERSPECTRAL PUSHBROOM SENSOR K. Lenhard, DLR IMF-EV, Germany A NEW LABORATORY FOR THE CHARACTERISATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL AIRBORNE SENSORS P. Gege, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany AUTOMATIC IMAGE REGISTRATION OF MULTI-ANGLE IMAGERY FOR CHRIS/PROBA J. Ma, J. Cheung-Wai Chan, F. Canters, Cartography and GIS Research Group, Geography Department, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium 12 CLASSIFICATION AND MAPPING METHODS CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES AND ADAPTIVE NEIGHBORHOODS Y. Tarabalka, J.A. Benediktsson, J. Chanussot, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Domaine Universitaire –Saint-Martin-d’Hères, France CHANGE DETECTION IN COMPLEX INDUSTRIAL AND URBAN SCENES USING VNIR AND TIR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY M. Shimoni, R. Heremans, D. Borghys, C. Perneel, Royal Military Academy, Belgium PROCESSING EXTENSION FOR THE SPECTRAL DATABASE SPECCHIO A. Hueni, J. Nieke, J. Schopfer, M. Kneubühler, K.I. Itten, University of Zurich, Dept. of Geography, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Zurich, Switzerland 13 SPECTRAL INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF SPECTRAL BAND CONFIGURATION ON AUTOMATED RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL INVERSION FOR TEMPERATE GRASSLAND CHARACTERIZATION W. Dorigo, R. Richter, T. Schneider, M. Schaepman, A. Muller, W. Wagner, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria ON THE SPECTRAL RESOLUTION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DERIVATION OF LEAF AREA INDEX FROM HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA T. Peisker, D. Spengler, K. Segl, H. Kaufmann, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany INCREASING AND EVALUATING THE RELIABILITY OF MULTIPLE ENDMEMBER SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS M. Bachmann, A. Müller, S. Dech, DLR-DFD German Aerospace Center, German Remote Sensing Data Center, Wessling, Germany   SPARSE HYPERSPECTRAL UNMIXING M-D. Iordache, J. Bioucas-Dias, A. Plaza, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal   QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF MINERAL COMPONENTS OF SELECTED MINERAL POWDER MIXTURE SETS USING VSWIR SISUROCK IMAGING SPECTROMETER AND FIEDSPEC PORTABLE SPECTROMETER V.V. Kuosmanen, J.L. Laitinen, R. Bars, Geological Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finland 14 SOIL APPLICATIONS MAPPING OF DESERT BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUST USING HYPERSPECTRAL WATER BANDS M.L. Whiting, S.L. Ustin, Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS), University of California, Davis, CA, USA SOIL MOISTURE IMPACT ON LAB MEASURED REFLECTANCE OF BARE SOILS IN THE OPTICAL DOMAIN [0.35 - 15 µm] A. Lesaignoux, S. Fabre, X. Briottet, A. Olioso, ONERA, Toulouse, France STUDYING SOIL THREATS USING VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED SPECTRAL ANALYSIS S. Moretti, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Earth Science Department, Italy   SPATIAL ASSESSMENT OF SOIL DEPTH FROM LABORATORY REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS T. Jarmer, M. Vohland, Transportation & GeoInformation Engineering Unit, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel   REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY AS A RAPID TOOL FOR QUALITATIVE MAPPING AND CLASSIFICATION OF HYDROCARBONS SOIL CONTAMINATION G. Schwartz, E. Ben-Dor, G. Eshel, Tel Aviv University, Israel 15 PRECISION AGRICULTURE DETERMINATION OF CEREAL TYPE AND GROWTH STAGE FROM HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA D. Spengler, T. Peisker, H. Kaufmann, Hemholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany EVALUATING IMAGE-BASED ESTIMATES OF BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS IN MEDITERRANEAN CONIFER FOREST IN DECLINE USING AIRBORNE IMAGERY R. Hernández-Clemente, R. Navarro-Cerrill, J.E. Frieyro de Lara, P.J. Zarco-Tejada, L. Suárez, A. Hayas-Lopez, G. Sepulcre-Cantó, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain DETECTING WATER STRESS IN ORCHARD CROPS USING PRI FROM AIRBORNE IMAGERY L. Suárez, P.J. Zarco-Tejada, V. González-Dugo, J.A.J. Berni, E. Fereres Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain 16 VEGETATION, ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT MAPPING HIGH RESOLUTION FOREST CHEMISTRY WITH AISA D.G. Goodenough, K.O. Niemann, A. Dyk, P. Gordon, G. Quinn, Natural Resources Canada, Canada MAPPING OF PIONEER VEGETATION IN POST MINING AREAS BY MEANS OF HYPERSPECTRAL FIELD MEASUREMENTS A. Jung, C. Götze, C. Gläßer, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany   REMOTE SENSING OF BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUST UNDER SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE S.L. Ustin, M.J. Santos, S.C. Kefauver, M.L. Whiting, Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing University of California, Davis, CA, USA   USING THE RIGHT SLOPE OF THE 970 NM ABSORPTION FEATURE FOR ESTIMATING CANOPY WATER CONTENT J.G.P.W. Clevers, L. Kooistra, M.E. Schaepman, Wageningen University, The Netherlands 17 ENMAP AND PRISMA PROGRAMMES PROCESSING CHAIN FOR THE FUTURE HYPERSPECTRAL MISSION EnMAP T. Storch, A. de Miguel, G. Palubinskas, R. Müller, R. Richter, A. Müller, L. Guanter, K. Segl, H. Kaufmann, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany   OVERVIEW OF THE PRISMA SYSTEM C. Galeazzi, G. Varacalli, F. Longo, E. Lopinto, L. Garramone, R. Capentiero ASI, Italy 18 ENMAP ROUND TABLE SUMMARY OF THE ENMAP ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION H. Kaufmann, GFZ, Germany, G. Rossner, GSA, Germany, K. Staenz, ATIC/ University of Lethbridge, Canada, A. Held, CSIRO, Australia, R. Green, JPL, USA, M. Berger, ESA, Italy 19 ECOLOGY USE OF SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS FOR CHARACTERISATION OF FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE OF HEATHLAND HABITAT TYPES L. Kooistra, S. Mucher, J.C.-W. Chan, J. Van den Borre, B. Haest Wageningen University, The Netherlands   SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE PROPERTIES OF MOSS SPECIES IN FINNISH MIRES H. Arkimaa, J. Laitinen, R. Korhonen, M. Moisanen, T. Hirvasniemi, V.V. Kuosmanen, Geological Survey Of Finland, Espoo, Finland   CLASSIFICATION OF MIRE SURFACE PROPERTIES WITH HYPERSPECTRAL AIRBORNE HYMAP IN NORTHERN FINLAND M. Middleton, H. Arkimaa, E. Hyvonen, P. Narhi, V. Kuosmanen, R. Sutinen Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), Finland   CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA OF SEMINATURAL ECOSYSTEMS B. Zagajewski, D. Olesiuk, University of Warsaw, Poland 20 SOIL GEOLOGY AND GEOMORPHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT OF A FIELD GUIDE FOR MINERAL DETECTION USING A PORTABLE SPECTROMETER IN THE TIR DOMAIN W. Heldens, C. Fischer, Institute for Geography, University of Wuerzburg, Germany   INFLUENCE OF SIMULATED SIGNAL DISTURBANCES ON PREDICTION ACCURACY OF CHEMICAL SOIL PROPERTIES T. Jarmer, T. Udelhoven, J. Hill, Technion – Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel   HEAT INDUCED SOIL MINERALOGICAL CHANGES AND ITS CORRESPONDING SPECTRAL PROPERTIES CHANGES R. Lugassi, E. Ben-Dor, G. Eshel, Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel   THE INFLUENCE OF SLOPE IN THE QUANTIFICATION OF SOIL IRON CONTENT WITH SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE BASED IRON INDICES V.L. Mulder, H.M. Bartholomeus, Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, The Netherlands   GROUND SPECTROSCOPY AS A TOOL TO ASSESS SOIL FERTILITY IN THE SUBTROPICAL THICKET BIOME OF EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA M. Nocita, M. Bachmann, A. Müller, L. Kooistra, S. De Bruin, DLR-DFD German Aerospace Center, Germany 21 FOREST MANAGEMENT A DATABASE FOR THE VALIDATION OF FOREST REFLECTANCE MODELS A. Kuusk, J. Kuusk, M. Lang, Tartu Observatory, Estonia   SIMULATION OF FOREST RADIANCE AT TOP-OF-ATMOSPHERE LEVEL USING COUPLED RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS V. Laurent, J. Clevers, M. Schaepman, W. Verhoef, Centre for Geo-Information, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 22 VEGETATION AND PRECISE AGRICULTURE DETECTION OF CANNABIS FIELDS BY HYPER-SPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING MEANS I. Azaria, N. Goldshleger, E. Ben-Dor, Ministry of Agriculture, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel   POTENTIAL OF HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING FOR VEGETATION MAPPING OF HIGH MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS K. Bakos, P. Gamba   SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSES IN COMPARISON TO THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION OF HEAVY METAL STRESSED FLOODPLAIN VEGETATION IN A STANDARDISED EXPERIMENT C. Götze, A. Jung, V. Henrich, C. Sandow, C. Gläßer, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany   REMOTE SENSING TOOLS FOR ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION CONDITION IN EXTENSIVELY USED AGRICULTURAL AREAS A. Jarocinska, B. Zagajewski, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Department of Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, University of Warsaw, Poland   ANALYSIS OF ALONG TRACK PROFILES OF CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE DERIVED FROM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING DATA A. Okujeni, A. Damm, S. van der Linden, P. Hostert, U. Rascher, Geomatics Lab, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany 23 ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND DISASTER MONITORING ASSESSMENT OF SEDIMENT ERODIBILITY OF INTERTIDAL MUDFLATS USING HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING S. Adam, E. Ibrahim, R.M. Forster, J. Monbaliu, K. Sabbe, E.A. Toorman, D. van der Wal, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department Civil Engineering, Belgium   NIGHT-TIME REMOTE SENSING OF FINE PARTICULATE MATTER IN THE NEAR GROUND ATMOSPHERE BY GROUND-BASED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING Y. Etzion, D.M. Broday, T. Kolatt, T. Jarmer, M. Shoshany Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Technion- Institute of Technology, Israel   SPECTRAL DISCRIMINATION OF AVALANCHE DEPOSITS D.S. Treichler, Y. Büehler, A. Hüeni, M. Kneubühler, K.I. Itten, Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich, Switzerland   THE EFFECT OF WILDFIRES ON VEGETATION COVER AND DUNE ACTIVITY IN AUSTRALIA’S DESERT DUNES: A MULTI-SENSOR ANALYSIS N. Levin, S. Levental, H. Morag, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 24 REHABILITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE INDICES-DATABASE: MOTIVATION, CONCEPT AND IMPLEMENTATION V. Henrich, A. Jung, C. Götze, C. Sandow, C. Gläßer, B. Heim, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany   MONITORING REHABILITATION PROGRESS ACCORDING TO THREE PARAMETERS DERIVED FROM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING. CASE STUDY IN THE SOTIEL-MIGOLLAS MINE COMPLEX, SOUTHERN SPAIN L. Paniagua, M. Bachmann, C. Fischer, L. Kooistra, A. Müller, German Aerospace Center, (DLR), Germany   THE USE OF AIRBORNE HYPER-SPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RELATED TOPICS IN THE VICINITY OF THE GREATER CAPE TOWN AREA, SOUTH AFRICA R. Stark, G. Pillay, C. Haskins, O. Braun, N. Margalit, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics ELOP Ltd., Israel 25 SENSORS TRACKING THE STABILITY OF A HYPERSPECTRAL SENSOR BY MEANS OF AN IN-FLIGHT CALIBRATION FACILITY (IFC) P. D'Odorico, E. Alberti, F. Dell’Endice, J. Nieke, K.I. Itten, Remote Sensing Laboratories (RSL), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland   A COMPARISON OF FOUR SPECTROMETERS AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE SIMILARITY OF SPECTRAL LIBRARIES A. Jung, C. Götze, C. Gläßer, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 26 DATA ANALYSIS SCALING ISSUES IN VALIDATION OF ABUNDANCE MAPS DERIVED FROM HYMAP DATA OF AN URBAN AREA W. Heldens, U. Heiden, M. Bachmann, T. Esch, A. Müller, S. Dech, Department of Remote Sensing at the Institute for Geography, University of Wuerzburg, Germany   COMPARISON OF A HYPERSPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION METHOD IMPLEMENTED IN TWO REMOTE SENSING SOFTWARE PACKAGES B. Odden, M. Kneubuehler, K.I. Itten, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Switzerland   A SPECTRAL FEATURE BASED CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM FOR CHARACTERISATION OF URBAN STRUCTURES IN MUNICH E. Stein, M. Bachmann, W. Heldens, A. Müller, C. Schmullius, Department for Geoinformatics and Earth Observation, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany   SEDIMENT CHARACTERIZATION IN INTERTIDAL ZONE OF THE BOURGNEUF BAY USING THE AUTOMATIC MODIFIED GAUSSIAN MODEL (AMGM) C.V. Verpoorter, V. Carrere, J-P. Combe, Nantes University, UMR-CNRS 6112, France   LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION CONCEPT FOR ANISOTROPY CORRECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY J. Weyermann, D. Schläpfer, A. Hueni, M. Kneubühler, K.I. Itten, Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich, Switzerland 27 MISSIONS HYPER-SWISS-NET: FOSTERING THE SWISS RESEARCH COMMUNITY IN THE FIELD OF IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY B. Koetz, K.I. Itten, M. Brogeaud, D. Brunner, B. Buchmann, C. Feigenwinter, F. Husler, M. Kneubuhler, E. Parlow, A. Psomas, S. Wunderle, N.E. Zimmermann, Remote Sensing Laboratories, EPFL, Empa, University of Basel, University of Bern, WSL, Switzerland 28 ATMOSPHERE REMOTE SENSING OF AEROSOLS IN URBAN AREAS: SUN/SHADOW RETRIEVAL PROCEDURE FROM AIRBORNE VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES. FIRST RESULTS C. Thomas, S. Doz, X. Briottet, R. Santer, S. Lachérade, D. Boldo, S. Mathieu Département d’Optique Théorique et Appliquée, Onera, Centre de Toulouse, France 29 CLASSIFICATION AND MAPPING METHODS HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON A FAST BREGMAN SPARSE MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION ALGORITHM J. Li, J.M. Bioucas Dias, A.J. Plaza, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal 30 MAKHTESH RAMON CALIBRATION MAKHTESH RAMON, A SUPER SITE FOR CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF IS SENSORS 31 MAKHTESH RAMON FIELD TRIP MAKHTESH RAMON GEOLOGICAL WINDOW, HYPER-SPECTRAL CALIBRATION SITE