Eyal Ben-Dor

Ph.D. Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem

SPONSOR: Alexander Goetz

TITLE: Monitoring and Management of Soil Degradation Problems Derived from Soil Structural Crust Processes

VISITING FELLOWSHIP REPORT

It was a big pleasure and honor for me to be a CIRES fellow during the past seven months while I conducted a sabbatical at CSES.

The stimulating environment of the center in general and of CSES in particular in both scientifically and socially ways, enabled me to gain a scientific progress in fields related to the remote sensing of the environment using hyper spectral technology and reflectance information.

Six papers were written and submitted to conference proceedings (2) and referee journals (4, where 1 was already accepted and three are under review process). Also based on my progress at CSES, one proposal will be submitted on December 2002 to the Israel US binominal foundation to continue the scientific activity between CIRS/CSES and Tel-Aviv University in issues just initiated.

To sum my progress in CSES/CJRES enclosed herewith the relevant paper list:

Ben-Dor E., N. Levin A. Singer, A. Karnieli and 0. Braun 2002, Quantitative Mapping of the Soil Rubification Process on Sand Dunes, Using Field and Airborne sensors AVJRIS Workshop Pasadena CA April 2002

Ben-Dor E., Goldshalager N. Agassi M. A.F.H.Goetz, 0. Braun, B. Kindel , Y Binaymini and D. Bonfill 2002 Monitoring of Soil Degradation Potential in Semi Arid Soils Using Hyper spectroscopy Technology, 9TH International symposium on Remote Sensing 23-27 September Crete, Greece.

Ben-Dor E. Goldahlager N, Benyamini M. and D.G. Blumberg 2002 The Spectral Reflectance properties of Soil's structural crust in the SWIR spectral region (1 .2 -2 .5 ~tm) , Soil Science Society of American Journal (accepted)

Ben-Dor E., B. Kindel and A.F.H Goetz 2002 Quality Assessment of the Empirical Line Method to Recover Surface Reflectance Information using Synthetic AVIRIS Data Remote Sensing of Environment (submitted)

Ben-Dor E., N. Goldshalager, 0. Braun , B. Kindel , A.F.H.Goetz, D. Bonfil., M. Agassi, N. Margalit, Y. Binayminy and A. Karnieli Monitoring of Infiltration Rate in Semiarid Soils using Airborne Hyperspectral Technology International Journal of Environment (submitted).

E. Ben-Dor, B. Kindel and A.F.H Goetz 2002 A comparison between three model-based methods to retrieve surface reflectance and water vapor content from hyperspectral data: A case study using synthetic and authentic AVIRIS data JGR Atmosphere (submitted)

E. Ben-Dor and A.F.H Goetz, 2003-2005, Proposal to the BSF (Israel US Binominal Foundation) Spatial Mapping of Soil Water Infiltration and Soil Erosion Potential in Semi Arid Soils Using Image Spectroscopy

I would like to take this opportunity and thank CIRES headquarter for giving me the chance to work in the world wide leading center for studding of the Earth form space of CSES, to CSES head Prof Goetz and to all of the CSES and CIRES staff that helped me to make this wonderful period so productive.

September 7, 2002