Spectral analysis/Classifications
(Pattern sample/Maximum likelihood method)

The following are 8 case studies

(Case Study No.   1) Japanese Red Pine Wilt Disease Damage in Shibata and Toyoura-cho, Niigata Prefecture
Japanese Black Pine Wilt Disease Damage in Niigata and Maki-cho
(Case Study No.   4) Flood of Kashimadai-machi Region in Miyagi Prefecture Following Torrential Rains, Typhoon No. 10, 1986
(Case Study No.   5) Wind Toppled Forest Tree Damage from a Typhoon in Northern Kyushu
(Case Study No. 10) Volcanic Eruption of a Submarine Volcano near Minami- iwojima
(Case Study No. 12) Volcanic Eruption of Miyakejima Island in 1983
(Case Study No. 13) LANDSAT/MSS Analysis of Sugar Beet Drought Damage in the Shari-Abashiri Region in 1984
(Case Study No. 15) The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster (Optical Sensor Image)
(Case Study No. 27) Windfall Damage in forests of Northern Kyushu Caused by Typhoon No. 19 in 1991

Geometric
correction
Brightness
correction
Image
processing
Spectral
analysis
Statistical
analysis
Verification/
Comparison

SAR
analysis

Topographic
maps, etc.
Brightness
correction
Time series
analysis
Spectral
characteristics
Statistics
processing
Resulting
images
Backscatter
characteristics
Geometric
correction
Brightness-temperature
conversion
Image
composition
Classifications Models Terrestrial
observation data
Complex
images

Ortho
correction

  Contrast
imaging
Vegetation
indices
  Aerial
photographs
Interference
processing
Bird's-eye
view
  Threshold value
processing
Lineament   Visual
interpretation
 
      Distribution
maps
  Comparative
examination
 
          Verification