Special Issue on Satellite Remote Sensing
=========================================
 . FOREWORD ....................................................... 1559
        Sadao FUJIMURA

INVITED PAPER
=============
 . ILAS, the Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer, on the Advanced
   Earth Observing Satellite ...................................... 1560
        Makoto SUZUKI, Akiyoshi MATSUZAKI, Takeo ISHIGAKI, Norio
        KIMURA, Nobuhiro ARAKI, Tatsuya YOKOTA, and Yasuhiro SASANO

PAPERS
======
 . Polarimetric Enhancement in Radar Channel Imagery .............. 1571
        Yoshio YAMAGUCHI, Yuji TAKAYANAGI, Wolfgang-M.BOERNER, Hyo Joon
        EOM,and Masakazu SENGOKU

 . Footprints of Storms on the Sea in the JERS-1 SAR Image ........ 1580
        Toshio IGUCHI, David ATLAS, Ken'ichi OKAMOTO, and Akimasa SUMI

 . Data Reduction Method for the Laser Long-Path Absorption Measurement
   of Atmospheric Trace Species Using the Retroreflector in Space . 1585
        Nobuo SUGIMOTO and Atsushi MINATO

 . Estimation of Land Surface Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution
   Function by Using Airborne POLDER Image Data ................... 1591
        Kazuya TAKEMATA and Yoshiyuki KAWATA

 . Physical and Optical Parameter Retrieval from Air-borne POLDER Data
            ....................................................... 1598
        Akihiro YAMAZAKI and Yoshiyuki KAWATA

 . Principal Component Analysis for Remotely Sensed Data Classified by
   Kohonen's Feature Mapping Preprocessor and Multi-Layered Neural
   Network Classifier ............................................. 1604
        Hiroshi MURAI, Sigeru OMATU, and Shunichiro OE

 . A Method for Detection and Analysis of Change between Multitemporal
   Images ......................................................... 1611
        Hiroshi HANAIZUMI, Shinji CHINO, and Sadao FUJIMURA

LETTER
======
 . JERS-1 SAR Image Analysis by Wavelet Transform ................. 1617
        Yoshio YAMAGUCHI, Takeshi NAGAI, and Hiroyoshi YAMADA

Regular Section
===============
PAPERS
======
[Communication Networks and Services]

 . Reliable IP Multicast Communication over ATM Networks Using Forward
   Error Correction Policy ........................................ 1622
        Hiroshi ESAKI and Takeo FUKUDA

 . Distributed Operation System Platform for Optical Cable Network
   Using Object-Oriented Software Design .......................... 1638
        Norio KASHIMA and Takashi INOUE

[Optical Communication]

 . Simulation Study of Delay Problems on Star-Coupled WDM Photonic
   Network ........................................................ 1646
        Jae-Soo KIM

[Satellite Communication]

 . Throughput Analysis of Spread-Slotted ALOHA in LEO Satellite
   Communication Systems with Nonuniform Traffic Distribution ..... 1657
        Abbas JAMALIPOUR, Masaaki KATAYAMA, Takaya YAMAZATO, and Akira
        OGAWA

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-B-I, J78-B-II, No.12 in Japanese)
            ....................................................... 1666
 . 1995 INDEX ..................................................... 1673