The following topics are dealt with: microwave scattering and emission models; polarimetric SAR information extraction; SMOS soil moisture validation; US joint polar satellite system; land use and land cover change; subsurface environmental sensing; superresolution and subpixel classification; remote sensing data processing; change detection and multitemporal image analysis; ocean biology; surface scattering and radiative transfer; microwave time series; electromagnetic modeling and data analysis; high resolution optical sensing; image processing and analysis; image registration; image segmentation; tropical forests; vegetation phenology, and; wetlands and inland waters.