Project News

The PSIC4 FINAL REPORTS are available.
August 2007

PSIC4 paper to 2007 ESA ENVISAT Symposium is available.
May 2007

The PSIC4 Final Presentation and PSI Validation Workshop Report is available.

The document contains the outcomes of the round table and the collected contributions. In addition, in the Appendix of this document are addressed two specific issues of the PSIC4 results, which were particularly questioned during the round table.

PSIC4 Final Presentation and PSI Validation Workshop
18 - 19 September 2006
The validation phase of PSIC4 is nearing completion and a Final Presentation has been arranged, to be held at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, on Monday 18 September, beginning at 1:00pm. The Final Presentation will be followed on Tuesday 19 September by a one-day PSI Validation Workshop, also at ESRIN, devoted to invited presentations of other PSI validation experiments, a short summary of the PSIC4 results and a round table discussion on the lessons learned from PSI validation experiments.

Advances in SAR Interferometry from ENVISAT and ERS missions
28 November - 2 December 2005
The fourth International Workshop on ERS SAR interferometry - the second on Envisat ASAR Interferometry - Advances in SAR Interferometry from ENVISAT and ERS missions was organised by the European Space Agency and held in ESA ESRIN in Frascati, Italy between 28th of November and 2nd of December 2005. The workshop was attended by ESA Principal Investigators and co-investigators, scientists and students working in the field of SAR interferometry and its applications, and representatives from national, European and international space agencies and Value Adding Industry.

A dedicated session showcased preliminary results from the PSIC4 project.

First results delivered to validation consortium
31 July 2005
As the processing deadline for Phase I contractors passed, ESA delivered the first batch of results to the Phase II validation consortium.

Phase II kicked off
10 June 2005
Today the validation phase of PSIC4 formally started. The consortium of geological survey organisations and universities will begin work on the validation and cross-comparison activites as soon as deliverables from the Phase I contractors are received.

First results received
2 June 2005
Today ESA received the first set of final results from a Phase I contractor.

Data stack complete
7 May 2005
The last image in the PSIC4 data stack has been acquired by the ASAR instrument onboard Envisat. The complete dataset contains 117 images spanning 13 years.

All contracts kicked off
25 January 2005
Today the last Phase I contractor formally began work to process the PSIC4 data stack.

Keywords: ESA European Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne, observation de la terre, earth observation, satellite remote sensing, teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar, chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar, atmospheric chemistry