Preface

The 7th Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PRRS 2012) was successfully held on

November 11, 2012 in Tsukuba Science City, Japan, in conjunction with the 2012 International

Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012). It is organized by the Technical Committee 7 (Remote

Sensing and Mapping) of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and co-sponsored

by IAPR and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). This proceedings includes the 15

papers presented at the PRRS 2012.

The PRRS Workshop series has established itself as an important event for researchers and practitioners

involved in the use of pattern recognition methods in the analysis of data collected from spaceborne

and airborne sensors used for Earth observations. As we know, pattern recognition has many important

applications in remote sensing. With large volumes of remote sensing data being acquired from last

generation sensors and image resolutions (e.g., spatial, spectral, temporal) being improved dramatically,

it requires further advances of pattern recognition algorithms and techniques. The PRRS Workshop

provides an ideal setting to spread and exchange experiences from both communities so that better

understanding from theoretical and application aspects can be gained for mutual benefits.

The PRRS 2012 followed the tradition and format of the previous PRRS Workshops held in conjunction

with ICPR. The 15 papers selected out of 21 submitted and reviewed with a double-blind review process

covered a wide range of topics, including SAR image processing, hyperspectral image processing,

segmentation and interpretation, applications of classification and detection. A keynote presentation

was provided by Professor Lorenzo Bruzzone on IINovel paradigms for automatic classification of remote

sensing images".

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the PRRS 2012 Program Committee members for their

support in paper review. We also thank all the authors and invited speaker for their contributions, IAPR

and IEEE GRSS for their sponsorship, and the local organizers of ICPR 2012 for helping with program

details. Without these, the success of this workshop is impossible.

Qian Du

Eckart Michaelsen

Peijun Du

Workshop Chairs: Jenny Q. Du, Mississippi State University, USA

Eckart Michaelsen, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany

Peijun Du, Nanjing University, China

Program Committee: Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Turkey

John E. Ball, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, USA

Jon A. Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland

Dirk Borghys, Royal Military Academy, Belgium

Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento,ltaly

Jocely Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France

David Clausi, University of Waterloo,Canada

Fabio Dell'Acqua, University of Pavia, Italy

Surya S. Durbha, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Paolo Gamba, University of Pavia, Italy

Jordi Inglada, French Space Agency,France

Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy

Gabriele Moser, University of Genoa, Italy

Yasunori Nakayama, Nihon University, Japan

Maria Petrou, Imperial College London, UK

Antonio J. Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain

Paul Rosin, Cardiff University, UK

Vijay P. Shah, SAIC-Frederick, Inc.,USA

Jie Shan, Purdue University, USA

Uwe Soergel, University of Hannover, Germany

Uwe Stilla, Technical University Munich, Germany

Kenji Takasaki, Keio Research Institute at SFC, Japan

Florence Tupin, TELECOM ParisTech, France

Cern Unsalan, Yeditepe University, Turkey

Bjorn Waske, University of Bonn, Germany

Xuezhi Yang, Hefei University of Technology, China

Nicolas H. Younan, Mississippi State University, USA