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| Day 1, Monday 3 November 2008 - Plenary Session |
| 10:50-12:30 |
Opening Session |
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| 12:30-14:10 |
Lunch and Posters display |
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| Day 1, Monday 3 November 2008 - Room One |
| AVNIR-2 and PRISM: Cal/Val and Processing | |
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| 14:10-14:30 | Updated results of calibration and validation of PRISM and AVNIR-2 | Takeo Tadono (JAXA) |
| 14:30-14:50 | ALOS AVNIR-2 Prototype Processor for Atmospheric Correction | Rudolf Richter (DLR - German Aerospace Center) |
| 14:50-15:10 | Georeferencing and Orthoimage Generation from Long Strips of ALOS Imagery | Clive Fraser (Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Inform.)
presented by Franz Rottensteiner |
| 15:10-15:30 | AVNIR2 real-time raw data processing for images and product generation | Luca Mellano (CHELYS srl) |
| 15:30-15:50 | Evaluation of Deconvolution Methods for PRISM Images | Peter Schwind (German Aerospace Center) |
| 15:50-16:10 | Geometric Investigations on ALOS/PRISM Imagery over Adana and Wellington Testfields | Sultan Aksakal (ETH Zurich) |
| 16:10-16:30 | The quality control of the ALOS PRISM / AVNIR-2 data at ESA | Sebastien Saunier (Earth Observation Quality Control) |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Round table |
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| Day 1, Monday 3 November 2008 - Room Two |
| PALSAR: Cal/Val and Processing | |
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| 14:10-14:30 | ADEN ALOS PALSAR Product Verification | Peter Meadows (BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre) |
| 14:30-14:50 | Polarimetric Palsar System Model Assessment and Calibration | Ridha Touzi (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) |
| 14:50-15:10 | Coherent Scatterers on ALOS/PalSAR data: Detection, analysis and potentials | Rafael Zandona-Schneider (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) |
| 15:10-15:30 | Compensating PALSAR Imagery for Ionosphere Effects | Jong-Sen Lee (National Central University) |
| 15:30-15:50 | Accurate Geometric Correction for Normalisation of PALSAR Radiometry | David Small (University of Zurich) |
| 15:50-16:10 | PALSAR calibration with passive antenna reflectors | Alexander Zakharov (FIRE RAS) |
| 16:10-16:30 | ALOS-Indonesia POLinSAR Experiment (AIPEX): First Result | Mahmud Raimadoya (Bogor Agricultural University) |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Round table |
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| 17:00-18:30 |
Welcome cocktail |
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| Day 2, Tuesday 4 November 2008 - Room One |
| PRISM: Cal/Val and Photogrammetry | |
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| 09:05-09:25 | The in-flight estimate of the modulation transfer function of PRISM optical sensor | Sebastien Saunier (Earth Observation Quality Control) |
| 09:25-09:45 | PRISM geometric Cal/Val and DSM performance | Junichi Takaku (Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan) |
| 09:45-10:05 | Stereo Evaluation of ALOS/PRISM Data on ESA-AO Test Sites – First DLR Results | Mathias Schneider (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) |
| 10:05-10:25 | DSM Generation Using ALSO/PRISM Image Data and the software package SAT-PP | Kirsten Wolff (IGP, ETH Zurich) |
| 10:25-10:55 |
Round table |
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| 10:55-11:25 |
Coffee Break and Posters display |
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| Oceanography | |
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| 11:25-11:45 | Utilization of ALOS data for mapping coastal habitats: examples of seagrass beds from boreal to tropical waters | Teruhisa Komatsu (The University of Tokyo) |
| 11:45-12:05 | Coastal Zone Mapping Using PALSAR and AVNIR-2 Data | Soo Chin Liew (National University of Singapore) |
| 12:05-12:25 | Observing Dry-Fallen Intertidal Flats in the German Bight Using ALOS PALSAR Together With Other Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing Sensors | Martin Gade (Universität Hamburg) |
| 12:25-12:45 | Development and Demonstration of Coastal and Hydrologic Applications of ALOS PALSAR Imagery for NOAA CoastWatch | William Pichel (NOAA/NESDIS)
presented by Xiaofeng Li |
| 12:45-13:05 | Estuaries of European Rivers observed by ALOS PALSAR | Susanne Lehner (DLR) |
| 13:05-13:25 | Wind Field Retrieval from ALOS PALSAR - Comparison to Weather Model and ENVISAT ASAR results | Jochen Horstmann (NATO) |
| 13:25-14:55 |
Lunch and Posters display |
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| Oceanography - continuation | |
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| 14:55-15:15 | Oceanographic Applications of ALOS PALSAR Imagery to the Coast of Korea Peninsula | Duk-jin Kim (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) |
| 15:15-15:35 | Oceanic dynamic phenomena and sea ice in the Southern Okhotsk Sea: study with ALOS PALSAR and ancillary data | Leonid Mitnik (Pacific Oceanological Institute, FEB RAS) |
| 15:35-16:05 |
Round table |
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| Sea ice and Ice | |
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| 16:05-16:25 | Airborne Sea Ice Campaigns in Support of the ALOS Mission | Wolfgang Dierking (Alfred Wegener Institute) |
| 16:25-17:05 |
Coffee Break and Posters display |
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| Sea ice and Ice - continuation | |
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| 17:05-17:25 | Improved sea ice monitoring for the Baltic Sea - Summary of first two years | Leif E.B. Eriksson (Chalmers University of Technology) |
| 17:25-17:45 | Evaluation of ALOS-PALSAR for Sea Ice Monitoring at the North American Ice Service | Dean Flett (Canadian Ice Service)
presented by Xiaofeng Li (NOAA/NESDIS) |
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| Day 2, Tuesday 4 November 2008 - Room Two |
| Polarimetric Interferometry | |
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| 08:45-09:05 | ALOS-PalSAR Pol-InSAR Results | Konstantinos Papathanassiou (German Aerospace Center) |
| 09:05-09:25 | Theory and PALSAR Observations of the PolInSAR pi/4 mode | Marco Lavalle (University Tor Vergata) |
| 09:25-09:45 | Digital Elevation Estimation of Seminatural Forests Using Polarimetric Interferometric SAR Data | Parivash Lumsdon (Intermap Technologies Corp.)
presented by Bryan Mercer |
| 09:45-10:05 | Dragon 2 POLINSAR Project id 5344: Progress Results | Erxue Chen (Chinese Academy of Forestry)
presented by Eric Pottier on behalf of all project partners |
| 10:05-10:25 | Relationships between tropical, temperate and boreal forest variables and PALSAR data | Kevin Tansey (University of Leicester) |
| 10:25-10:55 |
Round table |
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| 10:55-11:25 |
Coffee Break and Posters display |
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| Forestry | |
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| 11:25-11:45 | Assessment of ALOS PALSAR Polarimetric Measurements of Tropical Forest Structure and Biomass | Sassan Saatchi (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
| 11:45-12:05 | Analysis of ALOS/PALSAR polarimetric signatures and scattering mechanisms of forest types in Tapajós region, Brazil. | João Roberto dos Santos (National Institute for Space Research - INPE) |
| 12:05-12:25 | Scaling of Forest Biomass and Structural Attributes through Integration of ALOS PALSAR data: Case Studies from Australia | Richard Lucas (Aberystwyth University) |
| 12:25-12:45 | Pan-Tropical Forest Mapping and Monitoring with ALOS/PALSAR | Josef Kellndorfer (The Woods Hole Research Center) |
| 12:45-13:05 | Estimating the Carbon Storage Capacity of Hong Kong’s Vegetation using PALSAR | Latifur Sarker (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
| 13:05-13:25 | Analysis of Spatial Statistics in PALSAR Data by Wavelet Frames for Forest Structural Characterization | Gianfranco De Grandi (European Commission - DG Joint Research Centre)
presented by Richard Lucas (University of Wales) |
| 13:25-13:55 |
Round table |
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| 13:55-14:55 |
Lunch and Posters display |
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| Polarimetry | |
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| 14:55-15:15 | Polarimetric Time Series Analysis of ALOS-PalSAR Data | Irena Hajnsek (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
presented by Kostas Papathanassiou |
| 15:15-15:35 | Mapping Scotland with PALSAR:An Assessment of the Importance of L-Band Polarimetry | Shane Cloude (AEL Consultants) |
| 15:35-15:55 | Evaluation of ALOS PALSAR Data for Forest Classification | David Goodenough (Natural Resources Canada) |
| 15:55-16:15 | Contribution of ALOS PALSAR fully polarimetric data for tropical vegetation cartography | Cedric Lardeux (Universitee de Marne La Vallee) |
| 16:15-16:35 | Polarimetric ALOS Potential for Sub-arctic Peatland Wetland Characterization in Wapusk National Park | R. Touzi (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) |
| 16:35-17:05 |
Coffee Break and Posters display |
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| Polarimetry - continuation | |
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| 17:05-17:25 | PolSARpro v3.3 Software and ALOS/PALSAR PolSAR Data Processing | Eric POTTIER (IETR UMR CNRS 6164) |
| 17:25-17:45 | Polarimetric mosaicking of ortho-rectified ALOS/Palsar data | Yrjo Rauste (VTT) |
| 17:45-18:15 |
Round table |
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| Day 3, Wednesday 5 November 2008 - Room One |
| Sea ice and Ice - continuation | |
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| 08:45-09:05 | Studies on sea ice and polynya off the Cape Darnley in East Antarctica, using the ALOS PALSAR and passive microwave data | Kay I. Ohshima (Hokkaido University) |
| 09:05-09:25 | Recent break-up events on Wilkins Ice Shelf (Antarctic Peninsula) | Matthias Braun (University of Bonn) |
| 09:25-09:45 | Detection of Glacier Surface Conditions and Recent Glacier Variations in Patagonia Using ALOS Data | Masamu Aniya (University of Tsukuba) |
| 09:45-10:05 | Seasonal and multi-year surface velocity oscillations in North West Svalbard glaciers | Damien Mansell (Swansea University) |
| 10:05-10:25 | Observations of glacier dynamics with PALSAR DATA | Tazio Strozzi (Gamma Remote Sensing) |
| 10:25-10:55 |
Round table |
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| 10:55-11:25 |
Coffee Break and Posters display |
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| Geomorphology and Geology | |
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| 11:25-11:45 | Investigation on the Ancient Site Location in the Mesopotamian Region Based on ALOS Data | Ken Matsumoto (Kokushikan Univ.)
presented by Tomoya Goto |
| 11:45-12:05 | Evaluating the use of ALOS data (microwave and optical) for mapping geomorphological features of selected areas in Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands (West Antarctica) | Magaly Koch (Boston University) |
| 12:05-12:25 | Multiscale geological mapping using multispectral data. The Jabali (Yemen) case study | Jean Paul DEROIN (Université Paris-Est) |
| 12:25-12:45 | Spatial resolution enhancement of ALOS data for geological mapping | Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos (Institute of Geology & Mineral Exploration (IGME)) |
| 12:45-13:05 | Using Palsar imagery for characterizing natural properties of volcanic conduits in the Ethiopian volcanic province | Daniel Mège (University of Nantes) |
| 13:05-13:35 |
Round table |
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| 13:35-14:45 |
Lunch and Posters display |
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| Landslide studies | |
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| 14:45-15:05 | Platforms and Image Processing Techniques for Descriminating Mass Movements in Lebanon | Chadi Abdallah (National Council for Scientific Research) |
| 15:05-15:25 | Establishment of monitoring and hazard level assessment system for landslide disasters by ALOS, and its application | Ryoichi Furuta (Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan) |
| 15:25-15:45 | Survey of landslide activity in the Swiss Alps with ALOS PALSAR | Tazio Strozzi (Gamma Remote Sensing) |
| 15:45-16:05 | AlOS-PalSAR data for Geological Mapping and Landslide Monitoring | Vernon Singhroy (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) |
| 16:05-16:35 |
Round table |
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| 16:35-17:25 |
Coffee Break and Posters display |
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| InSAR Research and Applications 1 | |
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| 17:25-17:45 | Reduction of ionospheric effects on L-band InSAR measurements using GPS data | Zhenhong Li (University of Glasgow) |
| 17:45-18:05 | Evaluation of ALOS observations for Wetland InSAR applications | Shimon Wdowinski (University of Miami)
presented by Falk Amelung |
| 18:05-18:25 | Studies of Antarctic Ice Shelf Ocean Tides and Wetland Hydrology Using ALOS/PALSAR Interferometry | C.K. Shum (School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State Univ.) |
| 18:25-18:45 | ALOS INSAR for Permafrost Monitoring Applications | Brian Brisco (CCRS)
presented by Naomi Short |
| 18:45-19:05 | Ice motion in Antarctica using ALOS PALSAR observations from 2006 and 2007 | Eric Rignot (University of California Irvine) |
| 19:05-19:25 | MapReady: An Open Source Tool for the Utilization of SAR in Geospatial Applications | Don Atwood (Alaska Satellite Facility) |
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| Day 3, Wednesday 5 November 2008 - Room Two |
| Land Cover and Land Cover Change 1 | |
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| 08:45-09:05 | Study of the Ecological Impact of Sewage Irrigated Vegetable Farming of Calcutta Metropolis using Remote Sensing & GIS | Nitai Kundu (Institute of Environmental Studies and Wetland Ma) |
| 09:05-09:25 | Monitoring of Landscape Changes Due to Petroleum Fields Exploitation, Construction of Oil Pipelines and Oil Terminal in the Northern Part of the Timan-Pechorian Petroleum Province Using Multitemporal ALOS and LANDSAT Data | Irina Smirnova (VNIIKAM) |
| 09:25-09:45 | Development of urban forest monitoring method and land cover monitoring in Takamatsu | Atsuko Nonomura (Kagawa University) |
| 09:45-10:05 | Emergency Geohazard Mapping for Wenchuan Earthquake Disaster in China | Jian Guo Liu (Imperial College London) |
| 10:05-10:25 | Building database as background of Wildland Fire with spatio-temporal GIS | Toshihisa Honma (Hokkaido University) |
| 10:25-10:55 |
Round table |
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| 10:55-11:25 |
Coffee Break |
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| Land Cover and Land Cover Change 2 | |
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| 11:25-11:45 | Monitoring Change in Vegetation and Hydrology with ALOS PALSAR | Don Atwood (Alaska Satellite Facility) |
| 11:45-12:05 | Land Use/Land Cover Classification In Amazon Using Alos Palsar Polarimetric Data | Luciano Vieira Dutra (National Institute for Space Research of Brazil) |
| 12:05-12:25 | Integrated use of multi-mode and multi-angle SAR data for land cover identification in tropics | Andreas Langner (The University of Tokyo) |
| 12:25-12:45 | Study on the land cover/use features by using ALOS-PALSAR data | Hwee San Lim (Universiti Sains Malaysia) |
| 12:45-13:05 | Comparison of ALOS-PALSAR and TerraSAR-X Data in Terms of Detecting Settlements – First Results | Thomas Esch (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) |
| 13:05-13:35 |
Round table |
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| 13:35-14:45 |
Lunch and Posters display |
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| Kyoto and Carbon | |
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| 14:45-15:05 | Mapping of seasonal inundation in the Congo River basin using PALSAR ScanSAR | Ake Rosenqvist (European Commission JRC) |
| 15:05-15:25 | Regional Characterisation and Mapping of Australian Forest Structural Types from ALOS PALSAR data | Richard Lucas (Aberystwyth University) |
| 15:25-15:45 | Preliminary results on forest monitoring in Sumatra using ALOS-PALSAR | Shaun Quegan (CTCD - University of Sheffield) |
| 15:45-16:05 | An Estimation of Forest Biomass Loss in Central Siberia Using PALSAR Data | Mihai Tanase (University of Zaragoza) |
| 16:05-16:25 | Investigations on forestry applications in Sweden using ALOS PALSAR | Maurizio Santoro (Gamma Remote Sensing)
presented by Leif Eriksson (Chalmers University of Technology) |
| 16:25-16:45 | ALOS Palsar Winter Coherence and Summer Intensities for Large Scale Forest Monitoring in Siberia | Christian Thiel (Friedrich-Schiller University) |
| 16:45-17:15 |
Coffee Break and Posters display |
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| Kyoto and Carbon - continuation | |
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| 17:15-17:35 | Global Wetlands Mapping Using ALOS PALSAR data | Bruce Chapman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
| 17:35-17:55 | Regional Mapping and Monitoring Rice Production and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Asia with PALSAR | William Salas (Applied Geosolutions, LLC) |
| 17:55-18:15 | Evaluation of PALSAR data for wetland mapping in the Mekong River Basin and in the Murray-Darling Basin. | Anthony Milne (University of New South Wales) |
| 18:15-18:35 | Contributions of ALOS PALSAR to Global Mangrove Mapping and Monitoring | Richard Lucas (Aberystwyth University) |
| 18:35-18:55 | A Detailed Analysis of Repeat-pass Interferometric and Polarimetric ALOS/PALSAR data over the Harvard Forest | Paul Siqueira (Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory) |
| 18:55-19:25 |
Round table |
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| 19:30-23:00 |
Social event |
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| Day 4, Thursday 6 November 2008 - Room One |
| InSAR Research and Applications 1 - continuation | |
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| 09:05-09:25 | Experimental PALSAR Interferometry in Shanghai for ground subsidence monitoring | Jicang Wu (Tongji University) |
| 09:25-09:45 | L- and C-band SAR Interferometry analysis of the Wieliczka Salt Mine area (UNESCO Heritage Site, Poland) | Davide Oscar Nitti (Dipartimento di Fisica - Politecnico di Bari)
presented by Fabio Bovenga |
| 09:45-10:05 | Application and evaluation of ALOS PALSAR data for monitoring of mining induced surface deformations using interferometric techniques | Diana Walter (TU Clausthal) |
| 10:05-10:25 | Study of 6 August 2007 Crandall Canyon mine (Utah, USA) collapse from ALOS PALSAR InSAR | Zhong Lu (U.S. Geological Survey) |
| 10:25-10:55 |
Round table |
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| 10:55-11:25 |
Coffee Break and Posters display |
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| InSAR: research and applications 2 | |
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| 11:25-11:45 | PALSAR SCANSAR-SCANSAR Interferometry | Masanobu Shimada (Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency, (JAXA)) |
| 11:45-12:05 | Imaging Crustal Deformation Along the San Andreas Fault System with ALOS InSAR and GPS | David Sandwell (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
presented by Masanobu Shimada (JAXA) |
| 12:05-12:25 | Two-dimensional Co-Seismic Surface Displacement Associated with Wenchuan Earthquake Measured Using PALSAR and ASAR Data | Xiaoli Ding (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
presented by Lei Zhang |
| 12:25-12:45 | Fault Slip Model for the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan-Beichuan Mw 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan, China from ALOS, Envisat and other satellite data | Eric Fielding (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech) |
| 12:45-13:05 | Comparisons between L-band and C-band InSAR for large 2007-2008 earthquakes in Asia: Implications for future SAR missions and earthquake studies | Zhenhong Li (COMET, University of Glasgow) |
| 13:05-13:25 | ALOS Study of the 2007 Pisco, Peru Earthquake | Juliet Biggs (University of Miami)
presented by Falk Amelung |
| 13:25-14:45 |
Lunch and Posters display |
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| InSAR: research and applications 2 - continuation | |
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| 14:45-15:05 | Evolution of the 2007 magma-driven earthquake swarm in the northern Tanzania sector of the East African Rift: Envisat and ALOS interferometry, ground observations and elastic modeling | Gidon Baer (Geological Survey of Israel) |
| 15:05-15:25 | A continental rifting event in Tanzania revealed by Envisat and ALOS InSAR observations | A.M. Oyen (Delft University of Technology) |
| 15:25-15:45 | Ongoing Deep-Seated Activity in the Northern Volcanic Zone, Iceland - Insights From InSAR | Andrew Hooper (Delft University of Technology) |
| 15:45-16:05 | ALOS PALSAR interferometry of Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand | Sergey Samsonov (GNS Science) |
| 16:05-16:25 | Ground deformation at Etna (Italy) and MiyakeJima (Japan) from interferometric PALSAR ALOS data | Pierre Briole (Ecole Normale Supérieure) |
| 16:25-16:55 |
Round table |
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| 16:55-17:25 |
Coffee Break |
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| Day 4, Thursday 6 November 2008 - Room Two |
| Floods and Wetlands | |
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| 08:45-09:05 | Application of PALSAR, PRISM & TRMM Data for Flood Monitoring in Pakistan’s Mardan District | Rahmatullah Jilani (SUPARCO) |
| 09:05-09:25 | Αn object-oriented approach for wetland habitats inventory and assessment using ALOS AVNIR-2 and Uunmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) data | Moschos Vogiatzis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
presented by George Zalidis |
| 09:25-09:45 | Detection of Decadal Change in Alaskan Wetlands Using ALOS/PALSAR and JERS SAR Data | Mahta Moghaddam (The University of Michigan) |
| 09:45-10:05 | Application of ALOS PALSAR data to classify vegetation in an anthropogenically affected wetland area in Central Spain (Las Tablas de Daimiel) | Thomas Schmid (CIEMAT) |
| 10:05-10:25 | Monitoring indicators for Mediterranean wetland and agricultural area using ALOS data | Thomas Alexandridis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) |
| 10:25-10:55 |
Round table |
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| 10:55-11:25 |
Coffee Break and Posters display |
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| Hydrology | |
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| 11:25-11:45 | Soil Moisture Retrieval Using ALOS PALSAR: CLASIC Results | Thomas Jackson (USDA ARS) |
| 11:45-12:05 | Improving spatial resolution of agricultural water use estimation using ALOS AVNIR-2 imagery | Thomas K. Alexandridis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) |
| 12:05-12:25 | Soil moisture retrieval from co-polarized ALOS PALSAR backscattering in the Zwalm and Alzette catchments | Hans Lievens (Ghent University) |
| 12:25-12:45 | Process Study for Developing Algorithms to Quantitatively Estimate Hydrological Parameters Based on ALOS Data | Takeo Tadono (JAXA) |
| 12:45-13:05 | Feasibility of snow water equivalent retrieval by means of interferometric ALOS PALSAR data | Thomas Nagler (ENVEO) |
| 13:05-13:35 |
Round table |
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| 13:35-14:45 |
Lunch and Posters display |
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| Agriculture and vegetation | |
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| 14:45-15:05 | A synergistic use of multi-temporal ASAR and PALSAR data for wheat mapping and monitoring the underlying soil moisture content | G. Satalino (CNR-ISSIA) |
| 15:05-15:25 | Application of Multi-Frequency and Multi-Temporal Polarimetric SAR for Operational Crop Inventories in Canada | Heather McNairn (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
presented by Jiali Shang |
| 15:25-15:45 | The entropy as a measure of the performance of a vegetation index. A pilot study using ALOS digital images | George Skianis (University of Athens)
presented by Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos, IGME |
| 15:45-16:05 | Grassland Degradation and Recovery Based on Remote Sensing and GIS in Inner-Monggulia | Zhang Wei (China Agricultural University) |
| 16:05-16:35 |
Round table |
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| 16:35-17:05 |
Coffee Break |
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| Day 4, Thursday 6 November 2008 - Poster area |
| 16:35-19:00 |
Poster session |
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| A simple method for CAL/VAL of multi-aspect polarimetric PI-SAR images | Ya-Qiu Jin (Fudan University) |
| Oil spills on ALOS PALSAR and Envisat ASAR images | Leonid Mitnik (Pacific Oceanological Institute, FEB RAS) |
| ALOS PALSAR for offshore wind mapping | Charlotte Hasager (Risoe DTU) |
| Opportunities and Requirements for ALOS Data Application to Arctic Coastline Change Detection | Pier Overduin (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research) |
| Study of Glacial Variations in Pakistan using Landsat and ALOS data | Rahmatullah Jilani (Pakistan Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Divisio) |
| Soil moisture and surface roughness retrieval from multiparametric SAR to support water resources management in Mediterranean areas | Ralf Ludwig (University of Munich) |
| Derivation of near-surface soil moisture from ALOS PALSAR Fine mode (Dual polarization) data in agricultural areas | Christian Koyama (University of Cologne) |
| Intercomparison between ALOS PALSAR and ENVISAT ASAR AP for soil moisture estimation capabilities in the REMEDHUS Area (SPAIN) | Carlos Perez-Gutierrez (University of Salamanca) |
| Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval in Southern Ireland using ENVISAT ASAR and ALOS PALSAR data. | Brian Barrett (University College Cork (UCC)) |
| Soil Moisture Mapping using ALOS PALSAR Quad-Pol Data | Y S Rao (CSRE, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) |
| PALSAR sensitivity to surface soil moisture in the Volta basin | Daniel Sabel (Vienna University of Technology) |
| Multi-Sensor based Service for Crop Monitoring at National Scale in Africa | Francesco Holecz (sarmap) |
| Monitoring of western corn rootworm damage in maize fields by using integrated radar (ALOS PALSAR) and optical (IRS LISS, AWiFS) satellite data | Gizella Nádor (Inst. of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing) |
| Monitoring vineyards in the Frascati wine production area by L-band SAR: first results | Domenico Solimini (Tor Vergata University) |
| Analysis of land covers over Northern Peninsular Malaysia by using ALOS-PALSAR data based on frequency-based contextual and neural network classification technique | Hwee San Lim (Universiti Sains Malaysia) |
| ALOS PALSAR data’s potential in land cover description to support risk management | Emilie Abribat (SERTIT) |
| Evaluation of ALOS-PALSAR Polarimetric Modes Capabilities for Landcover Monitoring and Mapping. | Iñigo Molina (ETSITGC - Polytechnic University of Madrid) |
| An Autocorrelation-based Technique for Built-up Area Detection in ALOS PALSAR Imagery | Mattia Stasolla (University of Pavia) |
| PALSAR change detection in urban areas of European part of Russia | Alexander Zakharov (FIRE RAS) |
| Histogram-based Segmentation of ALOS Polarimetric SAR Data | Mohammed Dabboor (University of Calgary) |
| Application of Polarimetric SAR Remote Sensing to the Coastal Wetland Monitoring in South and West Coast of Korea | Sang-Eun PARK (University of Rennes 1) |
| A comparative investigation of ALOS PALSAR data for tropical coastal wetland monitoring | John Kovacs (Nipissing University) |
| Forest Biomass Estimation Using ALOS PALSAR Images in Challenging Natural Forest Area in Finland | Mika Karjalainen (Finnish Geodetic Institute) |
| Use of ALOS PALSAR and other satellite data for mapping tree cover and biomass classes in South African savannas and African forests | Manfred Keil (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
presented by Michael Bock |
| K&C Africa Palsar Mosaic: Geocoding and Calibration Issues in Prototype Development | Gianfranco De Grandi (DG Joint Research Center) |
| Multi sensor systems and floods risk management in the Danube Delta | Niculescu Simona (Géomer, UMR 6554, LETG) |
| Advantages of recent high resolution multi-polarimetric data in flood management | Henri GIRAUD (SERTIT) |
| Construction of an Earth System Data Record of Inundated Wetlands Using ALOS PALSAR | Kyle McDonald (Jet Propulsion Lab) |
| Combined use of ALOS AVNIR-2, PALSAR and SPOT 5 data for mapping and monitoring of wetland vegetation in two different ecosystem types | Michael Bock (German Aerospace Data Center) |
| Geometrical Accuracy Assessment of ALOS PRISM Products | Carlos Perez-Gutierrez (University of Salamanca) |
| DEM from ALOS data and comparison to DEM from other sources. The case of Antiparos Island, Greece. | Panagiotis Tsombos (Institute of Geology & Mineral Exploration (IGME)) |
| Orientation and DEM extraction from ALOS-PRISM images using the SRTM DEM as ground control | José A. Gonçalves (University of Porto) |
| Investigations toward the extraction of angular signatures from ALOS/Prism data sets | Thomas Schneider (Technische Universität München) |
| Construction of database of land cover mapping in Kii peninsula, Japan | Kanako Muramatsu (Nara Women's Univ.) |
| Recent evolution of the Mont Saint-Michel Bay as seen by ALOS-AVNIR-2 data | Jean-Paul DEROIN (Université Paris-Est) |
| Preliminary results monitoring mass movement along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site | Andrew Ford (Bournemouth University) |
| ERS SAR and ALOS PALSAR observations of Appennini mountains in South Italy | Paola Ballatore (MARSec) |
| ALOS-PALSAR performances on a multiple sensor DInSAR scenario for deformation monitoring applications | Roman Arbiol (Intitut Cartografic de Catalunya) |
| Registration of dynamics of surface changes in the Southeren Part of the Upper Silesia (SW Poland) using DinSAR and PSI interferometry | Magdalena Czarnogorska (Polish Geological Institute) |
| Monitoring ground subsidence induced by over – extraction of groundwater using Interferometric SAR (InSAR): Golpayegan plain case study | Kobra Jannat (Isfahan University) |
| PALSAR Interferometry for Geohazards Monitoring. A comparison with C-band and X-band | Alessandro Parizzi (DLR) |
| PALSAR/ALOS interferometry in the Gulf of Corinth and Patras (Greece). Comparison with ERS and ASAR/ENVISAT results and GPS measurements | Panagiotis Elias (National Observatory of Athens) |
| Pre-seismic displacements of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake from temporarily stable points in PALSAR interferograms | Lei Zhang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
| First Comparisons of ALOS PALSAR Data for Central and Northern California with Data from Other Satellites | Isabelle Ryder (UC Berkeley)
presented by Eric Fielding (JPL, USA) |
| Probing Crustal Rheology using Postseismic Motion associated with Major Earthquakes in Tibet | Isabelle Ryder (UC Berkeley) |
| Crustal deformation of Long Valley Caldera, eastern California, inferred from L-band InSAR | Akiko Tanaka (Geological Survey of Japan, AIST) |
| InSAR analysis of PALSAR ALOS data of Nisyros volcano (Aegean Sea, Greece) | Panagiotis Elias (National Observatory of Athens) |
| Surface deformation at Nyamuragira Volcano, DRC measured by L- and C-band InSAR | Geoff Wadge (University of Reading) |
| Observation of surface deformation on Mt. Baekdu stratovolcano using SBAS DInSAR technique | Sang-Wan Kim (Sejong University, Dept Geoinformation Engineering) |
| Crustal deformation associated with M8.1 earthquake in Solomon Islands | Yousuke Miyagi (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) |
| Combining ALOS data and field investigations for the reconstruction of thermokarst evolution in the North Siberian Lena Delta | Anne Morgenstern (Alfred Wegener Inst. of Polar and Marine Research) |
| IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION ON PRISM AND AVNIR-2 | Akira Mukaida (ALOS Data Analysis and Research Prj. Grp.) |
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| Day 5, Friday 7 November 2008 - Plenary Session |
| 09:00-14:15 |
Session reports and Closing Session |
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