Fringe 2007

Following Fringe 2005, the European Space Agency organised its third International Workshop on Envisat ASAR interferometry and its fifth International Workshop on ERS SAR Interferometry: Advances in SAR Interferometry from ENVISAT and ERS missions, which was held at ESA ESRIN in Frascati, Italy from the 26th-30th November 2007.

Objectives

The main objectives of the workshop were to:

• Provide a forum for scientific exchange and to initiate and encourage close collaboration between individual research groups.
• Present new results from the latest studies in the field and asses the state of the art.
• Provide a forum for ESA Principal Investigators to present results and status of AO and Cat-1 projects.
• Present the first interferometric results from Third Party Missions
  like ALOS-PALSAR, TerraSAR-X and Radarsat-2.
• Discuss the use of InSAR data for scientific research and applications development.
• Assess the available data ordering and analysis tools.
• Formulate recommendations for algorithm development, new products, future missions and applications.
• Review and assess the maturity and operational readiness of InSAR applications.
• Report on progress/status of recommendations of FRINGE 2005.

Participation

The workshop was open to ESA Principal Investigators and co-investigators, scientists and students working in the field of SAR interferometry and its applications, and to representatives from national, European and international space agencies and Value Adding Industry.

Themes

• Methodology and Techniques
• General
• ScanSAR Interferometry and Applications
• Polarimetric Interferometry
• PSI (Persistent Scatterer Interferometry)

• Interferometry and new SAR missions
• ALOS-PALSAR, TerraSAR-X, Radarsat-2, Cosmo Skymed
• Future missions

• Airborne campaigns

• Applications
• Earthquakes and tectonics
• Ice and snow
• Terrain subsidence and landslides
• Volcanoes
• Thematic mapping and DEMs

Organisation

The workshop was organised around:

• Papers and posters selected by the Scientific Committee
• Invited papers on ESA studies
• Round-table discussions with seed questions prepared by the Scientific Committee and ESA
• Demonstration of software tools
• Workshops proceedings to be published by ESA