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Remote Sensing Contest 2005

Official Rules

2005 Winners


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Ala Archa National Park ASTER

Contest category: Thematic Imagery

Application areas:  Cartography

Description: Image used for land cover and Glacier Mapping for forthcoming American Alpine Club map of Ala Alrcha National Park, Kyrgyzstan. Image Combines a NDVI, Decorellation Strech 3 and band 2 + band 1 as RGB. Allows for distinguishing ice from snow and different land cover types.

Geographic location:  Ala Archa National park, Kyrgyzstan

Image resolution:  15m

Source of imagery:  MODIS ASTER VNIR

Commercial image processing software used:  PCI Geomatica Focus

Image processing technique employed:  Decorellation Stretch, NDVI, Band math

Name: Martin Gamache
Country: USA

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Ayers Rock (Uluru)

Contest category: Unique Geomorphologic Images

Description: This IKONOS satellite image of Ayers Rock was collected Jan. 17, 2004. Ayers Rock is located in Kata Tjuta National Park, 280 miles (450 km) southwest of Alice Springs, Australia. It is the world's largest monolith, an Aboriginal sacred site and Australia's most famous natural landmark. Also called Uluru, the giant monolith is 1,142 feet (348 meters) high and 5.8 miles (9.4 km) around. Even though the colors in this image are stunning, the image is a true-color image.

Geographic location:  Australia

Image resolution:  one-meter resolution

Source of imagery:  IKONOS

Commercial image processing software used:  ERDAS IMAGINE 8.7 and Sensor Systems RemoteView 2.4.1

Name: Val Webb
Country: USA

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Eagle of the sea

Contest category: Image Maps

Application areas:  Public Safety, Exploration / Mining, Urban and Regional Planning

Description: Image Landsat-7 August 1999 colored composite 5-8-3 (RGB).

You can see on upper left the eagle head. At the bottom left, you can see the attack position of the eagle ready to catch the prey.

Geographic location:  In the middle of the St-Lawrence Gulf

Image resolution:  12.5 meters

Source of imagery:  Landsat-7 ETM sensor

Commercial image processing software used:  PCI

Image processing technique employed:  Colored composite multiresolution. Orthorectified image with DEM. UTM Zone 20 NAD83 projected. Panchromatic band has received a high pass filter home made.

Name: Alain Coulombe
Country: Canada

Sergio Menichetti and Mark Patterson were randomly selected from among the voters to receive the prizes.

2004 Winners

  • Thematic Imagery: Blue Marble by Reto Stockli at NASA
    This 3D rendering of the earth features data from the MODIS sensor onboard NASA’s TERRA spacecraft. The image was created using the Blue Marble dataset (Stockli et al., 2002) found on http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov and shows our planet as an integral and seamless composite of three ecosystem layers, the land, ocean and the atmosphere: The land surface in true color with its vegetation covered and deserted areas together with snow areas in high latitudes and in elevated terrain. The ocean as a false color SST visualization, red colors are warm water areas and blueish colors show cold water areas. The atmosphere is visualized by rendering a single day snapshot of the earth’s clouds in 3D space, with the height derived from the cloud’s top temperature and the transparency derived from the cloud’s reflectance in the visible spectrum The image as well as the used datasets at global 1km resolution... More...

  • Image Maps: Around the World in 180 Million Years by Harold McMahon at ER Mapper
    The theme of this map is tectonic activity of our planet. It shows fault lines and continental plates over a colour coded image of the age of the sea floor. Other data is integrated to make the map "pretty", such as GTOPO30 (30 arc second/1km) height data from USGS, and "The Living Earth" produced by The Living Earth, Inc... More...

  • Geomorphologic Images: Around the World in 30 Seconds by Harold McMahon at ER Mapper
    "Around the World in 30 Seconds" is a map using GTOPO30 (30 arc-second/1km) height data and The Living Earth to present various views. It is the first in a series of global themed maps used to demonstrate ER Mapper. See text on the map for more details... More...

  • Monica L. Gerberding, Michael Wilton, and Bernard Cornelis were randomly selected from among the voters to receive the Jump drive, cordless mouse and keyboard, or MP3 player.

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