Foreword to the Special Issue on High Performance Computing in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

The 17 papers in this special issue present the current state-of-the-art and the most recent developments in the task of incorporating high performance computing techniques and practices to Earth observation and remote sensing problems.

[1]  Jon Atli Benediktsson,et al.  A Parallel Simulated Annealing Approach to Band Selection for High-Dimensional Remote Sensing Images , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[2]  Antonio J. Plaza,et al.  Special issue on architectures and techniques for real-time processing of remotely sensed images , 2009, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing.

[3]  Chein-I Chang,et al.  Progressive Band Dimensionality Expansion and Reduction Via Band Prioritization for Hyperspectral Imagery , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[4]  Qian Du,et al.  High Performance Computing for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[5]  Lorenzo Bruzzone,et al.  Distributed Geospatial Data Processing Functionality to Support Collaborative and Rapid Emergency Response , 2009, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[6]  Lena Chang,et al.  Group and Region Based Parallel Compression Method Using Signal Subspace Projection and Band Clustering for Hyperspectral Imagery , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[7]  Yishuo Huang,et al.  Segmenting SAR Satellite Images With the Multilayer Level Set Approach , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[8]  Liping Di,et al.  An Efficient Method for Near-Real-Time On-Demand Retrieval of Remote Sensing Observations , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[9]  Tristan Cossio,et al.  Predicting Small Target Detection Performance of Low-SNR Airborne Lidar , 2010, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[10]  Surya S. Durbha,et al.  Standards-Based Middleware and Tools for Coastal Sensor Web Applications , 2010, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[11]  Liping Di,et al.  Application of a Fast Linear Feature Detector to Road Extraction From Remotely Sensed Imagery , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[12]  Bormin Huang,et al.  Accelerating Regular LDPC Code Decoders on GPUs , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[13]  Antonio J. Plaza,et al.  Parallel Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing [Applications Corner] , 2011, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

[14]  Yunsong Li,et al.  A GPU-Accelerated Wavelet Decompression System With SPIHT and Reed-Solomon Decoding for Satellite Images , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[15]  Konstantinos Kalpakis,et al.  Fast Algorithms to Implement N-FINDR for Hyperspectral Endmember Extraction , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[16]  Franz Schreier,et al.  Line-by-Line Computation of Atmospheric Infrared Spectra With Field Programmable Gate Arrays , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[17]  Antonio J. Plaza,et al.  Recent Developments in High Performance Computing for Remote Sensing: A Review , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[18]  Qian Du,et al.  Unsupervised Hyperspectral Band Selection Using Graphics Processing Units , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[19]  Julien Michel,et al.  Remote Sensing Processing: From Multicore to GPU , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[20]  Bormin Huang,et al.  GPU-Accelerated Multi-Profile Radiative Transfer Model for the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[21]  Paolo Gamba,et al.  Spatial Indexes for the Extraction of Formal and Informal Human Settlements From High-Resolution SAR Images , 2008, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[22]  Bormin Huang,et al.  GPU Acceleration of Predictive Partitioned Vector Quantization for Ultraspectral Sounder Data Compression , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

[23]  Chein-I Chang,et al.  High Performance Computing in Remote Sensing , 2007, HiPC 2007.

[24]  David R. Kaeli,et al.  Accelerating an Imaging Spectroscopy Algorithm for Submerged Marine Environments Using Graphics Processing Units , 2011, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.