CONTENT:

OPENING SPEECH
KEYNOTE TALKS
PANEL
PARALLEL SECTIONS
AWARDS
SOCIAL EVENT

OPENING SPEECH

• GEOBIA 2012 welcome speech by Raul Queiroz Feitosa

KEYNOTE TALKS

• Thomas Blaschke, GE/OBIA – crossing boundaries by creating borders
• Christian Heipke, Image Analysis for Topographic Mapping
• Marguerite Madden, GEOBIA's Role in a Changing World: Can we respond to the spatio-temporal continuum of local disasters to global climate change?
• Gilberto Camara, Describing change using geographical objects.

PANEL

• S. Lang, G. Camara, G. Hay, E. Addink, F. van Coille, T. Blaschke,
  GEOBIA: Achievements, Trends and Challenges

PARALLEL SECTIONS

FOREST ANALYSIS

• René Beuchle, Updating an object-based pan-tropical forest cover change assessment by automatic change detection and classification
• Flore Devriendt, Classification of unmanaged forest reserves in Flanders (Belgium) at the tree crown level using airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR data
• Frieke Van Coillie, Directional local filtering assisting individual tree analysis in closed forest canopies using VHR optical and LiDAR data
• Sidnei Sant´Anna, A comparison of maximum likelihood classifier and object-based method based on multiple sensor datasets for land-use/cover classification in the Brazilian Amazon

AQUATIC & COASTAL ECOS

• Javier Leon, Data fusion for mapping coral reef geomorphic zones - Possibilities and Limitations
• Stefen Lang, Object-based class modeling for assessing habitat quality in riparian Forests
• Allan Arnesen, Flood extent monitoring of the Amazon River floodplain using ScanSAR/ALOS data
• Hermann Kux, Identification of mangrove fragments at a northern section of São Luis (MA), Brazil using WorldView-II images and the OBIA approach
• Leonhard Süchenwirth, Combining object-based image analysis and data mining for carbon assessment in floodplains

CHANGE DETECTION

• Andrew Gardiner, A semi-automatic method for detecting changes to Ordnance Survey topographic data in rural environments
• Marcel Ziems, Semi-automatic update and quality control of road databases
• Aleksandra Mazur, Baltic Sea ice extent and concentration changes during Winter 2010
• Stéphane Dupuy, Land-cover dynamics in Southeast Asia: Contribution of object-oriented techniques for change detection
• Arie Seijmonsbergen, Geomorphological change detection using object-based feature extraction from multi-temporal LiDAR data

SEGMENTATION 1

• Abdul Syed, Encoding of topological information in multi-scale remotely sensed data: Applications to segmentation and object-based image analysis
• Patrick Happ, Assessment of optimization methods for automatic tunning of segmentation parameters
• Christoffel Fourie, Combining the heuristic and spectral domains in semi-automated segment generation
• Anne Puissant, Automated mapping of coastline from high resolution satellite images using supervised segmentation
• Carlos Volotão, Image segmentation with image and shape phase analysis

FEATURE EXTRACTION 1

• Ersin Karaman, A new algorithm for automatic road network extraction in multispectral satellite images
• Irene Walde, Graph-based mapping of urban structure types from high resolution satellite image objects
• Dirk Tiede, Implementation of an interactive WebGIS-based OBIA geoprocessing service
• Hendrik Herold, Towards adaptive image processing - Automated extraction of railroad tracks from extremely high resolution aerial imagery

LANDSCAPE & ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

• José Peña, Object-based approach for crop row characterization in UAV images for site-specific weed management
• Sebastian d'Oleire, Object-based landform mapping at multiple scales from digital elevation models (DEMs) and aerial photographs
• Marcos Freitas, Landscape hierarchical zoning using object-oriented image analysis
• Hadi Fadaei, Estimation tree density as object-based in arid and semi-arid regions using ALOS
• Elisabeth Addink, Classification using objects from high and low resolution images. An example of burrow system and rodent habitat mapping in Kazakhstan

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT

• Timothy Whiteside, Site-specific area-based validation of classified objects
• Guillermo Castilla, An integrated framework for assessing the accuracy of GEOBIA land cover products
• Eduardo Marinho, Spatial assessment of categorical maps: A proposed framework
• Christian Becker, Automatic quality assessment of GIS data based on object coherence

GEOMORPHOLOGICAL HAZARDS

• Norman Kerle, Extracting gully features and its dynamics from high spatial resolution imagery using object-based image analysis
• Andre Stumpf, Adaptive sampling and object-feature selection for landslide mapping using Random Forests
• Norman Kerle, Creation of event-based landslide inventory from panchromatic images by object-oriented analysis
• Andre Stumpf, Mapping landslide surface fissures with matched filtering and object-oriented image analysis

URBAN APPLICATIONS 1

• Ursa Kanjir, Using VHR satellite imagery to estimate populations in informal settlements
• Paolo Gamba, Urban climate zone detection and discrimination using object-based analysis of VHR scenes
• Geoffrey Hay, Geospatial object-based mosaicing of high-resolution thermal airborne imagery (TABI 1800) to improve roof shape and thermal statistics
• Barbara Ribeiro, Evaluation of WorldView-2 imagery for urban land cover mapping using the InterIMAGE system
• Adel Moussa, Shape oriented object-based classification of aerial/satellite images of urban areas

LIDAR & SAR APPLICATIONS

• Kasper Johansen, Object-based monitoring of gully extent and volume in North Australia using LiDAR data
• Norman Kerle, Identification of vegetated landslides using only a LiDAR-based terrain model and derivatives in an object-oriented environment
• Thierry Tormos, OBIA for combining LiDAR and multispectral data to characterize forested areas and land cover in a tropical region
• Cristina Bentz, Classification of oil spills and meteo-oceanographic events detected in SAR images
• Cláudia Almeida, A knowledge-based approach applied to airborne SAR images for classifying land cover in the Brazilian Amazon

MULTITEMPORAL ANALYSIS

• Peter Hoffman, Object-based change detection using temporal linkages
• Guilherme Mota, Estimation of transition possibilities for fuzzy Markov chains applied to the analysis of multitemporal image sequences
• Kurtulus Gormus, Verification of temporal analysis of coastline using object-based image classification derived from Landsat-5 images of Karasu, Turkey
• Alzir Antunes, Characterization of the growth of urban areas by means of QuickBird images through object-oriented segmentation
• Dirk Tiede, Object-based change detection and classification improvement of time series analysis

URBAN APPLICATIONS 2

• Aycan Marangoz, Detection of urban features and map updating from satellite images using object-based image classification methods and integration to GIS
• Hendrik Herold, A GEOBIA approach to map interpretation – Multitemporal building footprint retrieval for high resolution monitoring of spatial urban dynamics
• Kourosh Khoshelham, Role of dimensionality reduction in segment-based classification of damaged building roofs in airborne laser scanning data
• Geoffrey Hay, Geospatial object-based heat metrics to support urban energy efficiency programs
• Norman Kerle, Local ontologies for object-based slum identification and classification

SEGMENTATION 2

• Torsten  Büschenfeld, Edge preserving land cover classification refinement using mean shift segmentation
• Patrick Happ, A parallel image segmentation algorithm on GPUs
• Elisabeth Addink, Reducing the random seed effect on segmentation by applying an Edge-preserving filter
• Gilson Costa, A multiscalar, multicriteria approach for image segmentation
• Roeland de Kok, Contrast analysis in high-resolution imagery for near and far neighborhoods

CLASSIFICATION

• Jie Yang, An experimental comparison of graph based semi-supervised learning for multispectral image classification
• Cristiane Francisco, Data mining techniques and GEOBIA applied to land cover mapping
• Marcos Freitas, Land use/land cover in the Uruguay river basin considering the GEOBIA paradigm

FEATURE EXTRACTION 2

• Mauricio Acuña, Texture-based fuzzy system for rotation-invariant classification of aerial orthoimage regions
• Stefan Lang, Identifying and evaluating hotspots of climate-related indicators in the Sahel making use of object-based regionalization techniques
• Ekin Gedik, A new robust method for bridge detection from high resolution electro-optic satellite images
• Luis Ignacio Jiménez, A new tool for evaluating spectral unmixing applications for remotely sensed hyperspectral image analysis

 

AWARDS

• Abdul Haleem Syed receiving the "best student paper award" for his work under the title Encoding of topological information in multi-scale remotely sensed data: Applications to segmentation and object-based image analysis.
• Frieke Van Coillie, receiving the "best paper award" for her work under the title Directional local filtering assisting individual tree analysis in closed forest canopies using VHR optical and LiDAR data.

 

SOCIAL EVENT

• Performance of Latin America dance styles.