Verification/Comparison/Comparative examination
(Comparative evaluation/Image evaluation)

The following are 7 case studies

(Case Study No.   7) Widespread Land Subsidence in Northern Chiba Prefecture
(Case Study No. 13) LANDSAT/MSS Analysis of Sugar Beet Drought Damage in the Shari-Abashiri Region in 1984
(Case Study No. 17) Agriculture Fields Damage by the 1977 Mt. Usu Eruption
(Case Study No. 20) A Forest Fire in the Vicinity of Mt. Kyougoya in the town of Ono, Hiroshima Prefecture on May 2-4, 1999
(Case Study No. 21) 1998 Iwate-ken Seihokubu Earthquake
(Case Study No. 22) Ground subsidence in the northern area of the Kanto Plain
(Case Study No. 25) Mt. Usu Eruption in 2000
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