It is a pleasure to inform you that the Special issue of the European Journal of Remote Sensing (ItJRS), dedicated to URSI-F Meeting, has been finally published in volume 45 issued on March 27, 2012. To read the papers please go to www.aitjournal.com.
The authors of the papers will receive a free copy of the journal.

The list of the papers is the following:

EDITORIAL - Introduction to the special issue

Simonetta Paloscia and Giovanni Macelloni
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 39 - 39    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124504
Published online: 27/03/2012

RESEARCH PAPERS

Identification of rainy periods from ground based microwave radiometry
Ada Vittoria Bosisio, Ermanno Fionda, Patrizia Basili, Giovanni Carlesimo
and Antonio Martellucci
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 41 - 50    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124505
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: Microwave radiometry, rain monitoring, tropospheric propagation.

Development of a 22 GHz ground-based spectrometer for middle atmospheric
water vapour monitoring
Pietro Paolo Bertagnolio, Giovanni Muscari and James Baskaradas
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 51 - 61    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124506
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: Microwave remote sensing, water vapour, stratosphere, Antarctica,
antenna measurements.

A retrieval algorithm of atmospheric water vapor and cloud liquid water for
AMSR-E
Masahiro Kazumori, Takumu Egawa and Kouichi Yoshimoto
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 63 - 74    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124507
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: Total precipitable water, cloud liquid water, microwave
radiometer.

Microwave radar signatures of precipitation from S band to Ka band:
application to GPM mission
Luca Baldini, V. Chandrasekar and Dmitri Moisseev
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 75 - 88    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124508
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: Weather radar, precipitation, dual polarization, specific
attenuation.

Soil moisture variability estimation through AMSU radiometer
Teodosio Lacava, Luca Brocca, Irina Coviello, Mariapia Faruolo, Florisa
Melone, Tommaso Moramarco, Nicola Pergola and Valerio Tramutoli
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 89 - 97    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124509
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: Soil moisture, AMSU, remote sensing, microwave.

Combining L and X band SAR data for estimating biomass and soil moisture of
agricultural fields
Simonetta Paloscia, Simone Pettinato and Emanuele Santi
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 99 - 109    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124510
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: L and X-band SAR data, SIASGE project, vegetation biomass, soil
moisture, Artificial Neural Networks.

Analysis of coincident L-band radiometer and radar measurements with respect
to soil moisture and vegetation conditions
Andreas Colliander
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 111 - 120    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124511
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: Backscatter, brightness temperature.

Effect of forests on the retrieval of snow parameters from backscatter
measurements
Giovanni Macelloni, Marco Brogioni, Francesco Montomoli and Giacomo
Fontanelli
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 121 - 132    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124512
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: SAR, snow, vegetation, CoReH2O.

Ocean Wind Speed Retrieval Algorithm using the frequency 36GHz
Vertical/Horizontal and 6GHz Horizontal Data of the Advanced Microwave
Scanning Radiometer (AMSR)
Akira Shibata
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 133 - 140    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124513
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: AMSR, SeaWinds, ADEOS-II, wind speed.

Towards the wind direction determination in RADARSAT-2 polarimetric images
Francesco De Biasio and Stefano Zecchetto
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 141 - 151    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124514
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: SAR, polarimetry, sea wind, RADARSAT-2.

Multi-Reaction and Scattering from Rough Multilayers
Pasquale Imperatore, Antonio Iodice and Daniele Riccio
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 153 - 165    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124515
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: Electromagnetic scattering, remote sensing, layered media, rough
surface, perturbation methods, multi-reaction.

An SPM/PO-based Polarimetric Two-Scale Model
Antonio Iodice, Antonio Natale and Daniele Riccio
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 167 - 176    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124516
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: Polarimetry, retrieval of natural parameters, SAR.

On the fractal nature of volcano morphology detected via SAR image analysis:
the case of Somma-Vesuvius Volcanic Complex
Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello and
Ivana Zinno
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 177 - 187    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124517
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: Fractals, Synthetic Aperture Radar.

A novel extension of the anisotropic rotation-invariant built-up presence
index to SAR data
Gianni Lisini, Paolo Gamba and Fabio Dell'Acqua
Volume: 45    Year: 2012    Pages: 189 - 199    DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20124518
Published online: 27/03/2012   
Keywords: SAR, built-up area extraction, urban remote sensing.