| Day 1, Monday 26 January 2009 |
| Opening Session | Chair: Y.-L. Desnos/M. Engdahl |
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| 09:00-09:10 |
Welcome |
Mark Doherty (ESA) |
| 09:10-09:30 |
POLinSAR Achievements and Plans |
Yves-Louis Desnos (ESA) |
| 09:30-09:40 |
Workshop Organisation |
Marcus Engdahl (ESA) |
| Missions | Chair: A. Moreira/E. Attema |
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| 09:40-10:00 | GMES Sentinel-1 Mission and Products | Evert Attema (ESA) |
| 10:00-10:20 | Tandem-L: Monitoring the Earth's Dynamics with InSAR and Pol-InSAR | Alberto Moreira (German Aerospace Center) |
| 10:20-10:40 | Estimation of Forest Sructure by means of Multi-BAseline Pol-InSAR | Konstantinos Papathanassiou (German Aerospace Centre (DLR)) |
| 10:40-11:00 | DESDynI – A NASA Mission for Ecosystems, Solid Earth, and Cryosphere Science | Anthony Freeman (JPL/Caltech) |
| 11:00-11:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| Missions | Chair: D. De Lisle/A. Coletta |
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| 11:30-11:50 | Mission Status and Data Availability: TANDEM-X | Irena Hajnsek (German Aerospace Center) |
| 11:50-12:10 | RADARSAT-2: Capabilities and Benefits for the Canadian Government | Daniel De Lisle (Canadian Space Agency) |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Cosmo - Skymed |
Alessandro Coletta (Italian Space Agency) |
| Missions | Chair: D. De Lisle/A. Coletta |
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| 12:30-12:50 | ALOS/PALSAR and ALOS-2 program – JAXA’s spaceborne L-band SAR programs | Masanobu Shimada (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) |
| 12:50-13:10 | Polarization Capabilities and Status of TERRASAR-X | Irena Hajnsek (German Aerospace Center) |
| 13:10-13:50 |
ROUND TABLE MISSIONS |
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| 13:50-15:00 |
LUNCH |
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| Calibration/Validation | Chair: M. Shimada/A. Freeman |
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| 15:00-15:20 | Calibration of PalSAR polarimetric data | Anthony Freeman (JPL/Caltech) |
| 15:20-15:40 | Faraday Rotation Estimation from Unfocussed Raw data: Analysis using ALOS PALSAR Data | Marco Lavalle (University Tor Vergata) |
| 15:40-16:00 | PALSAR Polarimetric accuracy and stability evaluated for three years Amazon data | Masanobu Shimada (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) |
| 16:00-16:20 | Polarimetric PALSAR System Model Assessment and Calibration | Ridha Touzi (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) |
| 16:20-16:50 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| Calibration/Validation | Chair: M. Shimada/A. Freeman |
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| 16:50-17:10 | Data Quality Assessment of Polarimetric RADARSAT2 | Ridha Touzi (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) |
| 17:10-17:30 | Calibration of Dual Polarimetric C-BAND SAR data: a possible approach for SENTINEL-1 | Marco Lavalle (University Tor Vergata) |
| 17:30-18:00 |
ROUND TABLE Calibration/Validation |
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| 18:00-19:30 |
WELCOME DRINK |
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| Day 2, Tuesday 27 January 2009 |
| Forests | Chair: K. Papathanassiou/T. Ainsworth |
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| 09:00-09:20 | Boreal Forest Classification Employing Dual-pol PALSAR Imagery | Tom Ainsworth (Naval Research Lab) |
| 09:20-09:40 | Forest volume density estimation from ALOS PALSAR data in rugged region | Erxue Chen (Chinese Academy of Forestry)
presented by Feilong Ling |
| 09:40-10:00 | PALSAR tropical forest cover mapping, mosaicing and validation, Case study Borneo | Dirk Hoekman (Wageningen University) |
| 10:00-10:20 | The Impact of Temporal Decorrelation Over Forest Terrain in Polarimetric SAR Interferometry | Seung-Kuk Lee (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) |
| 10:20-10:40 | ENVISAT/ASAR VV/HH backscattering and the radiation characteristics of subarctic boreal forest | Terhikki Manninen (Finnish Meteorological Institute) |
| 10:40-11:10 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| Forests | Chair: K. Papathanassiou/T. Ainsworth |
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| 11:10-11:30 | Progress on the first POLinSAR analysis of ALOS/PALSAR in the tropical forest of Indonesia. | Mahmud Raimadoya (Bogor Agricultural University (IPB)) |
| 11:30-11:50 | Forest Height Estimation with X-band InSAR: Phase Centre Location versus RVoG | Kugler Florian (German Aerospace Centre (DLR)) |
| 11:50-12:30 |
ROUND TABLE Forests |
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| Pol-InSAR | Chair: S. Cloude/P. Dubois-Fernandez |
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| 12:30-12:50 | A New Approach to Estimate Forest Parameters Using Dual-Baseline Pol-InSAR Data | Lu Bai (Institute of Electronics, CAS)
presented by Fang Cao |
| 12:50-13:10 | Estimation of Ground Topography in Forested Terrain by Means of POLARIMETRIC SAR Interferometry | Koichi Iribe (DLR) |
| 13:10-13:30 | A New Approach for PolInSAR Forest Parameters Inversion: Results Using the ESA ALOS-PALSAR Prototype Processor | Marco Lavalle (University Tor Vergata) |
| 13:30-13:50 | Bandwidth Effects in POL-INSAR Forest Parameter Estimation Performance at P-Band | Seung-Kuk Lee (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) |
| 13:50-15:00 |
LUNCH |
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| Pol-InSAR | Chair: S. Cloude/P. Dubois-Fernandez |
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| 15:00-15:20 | DTM Extraction Beneath Forest Canopy at L-Band from an Experimental Single-Pass Airborne Pol-InSAR System | Bryan Mercer (Intermap Technologies Corp.) |
| 15:20-15:40 | POLINSAR at Low Frequency and Ionospheric Effects | Pascale Dubois-Fernandez (ONERA) |
| 15:40-16:00 | Overview of the PolSARpro v4.0 Software | Eric Pottier (IETR UMR CNRS 6164) |
| 16:00-16:40 |
ROUND TABLE Pol-InSAR |
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| 16:40-17:10 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| Urban Applications | Chair: P. Lombardo/G. Trianni |
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| 17:10-17:30 | Performance Evaluation of Polarimetric SAR Interferometry in Urban Scenarios: Analysis of Simulated Images and Cross-correlation with Real Data. | Gerard Margarit (GMV A&D) |
| 17:30-17:50 | Urban Land-cover Mapping Using Multitemporal RADARSAT-2 Polarimetric SAR Data | Liang Gao (Royal Institute of Technology) |
| 17:50-18:10 | Building height estimation using multibaseline L-band SAR data and polarimetric subspace fitting methods | Yue Huang (IETR University Rennes 1) |
| 18:10-18:30 | 3D Radargrammetric Modeling of Radarsat-2 Ultra-Fine and Polarimetric Modes | Thierry Toutin (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) |
| 18:30-19:00 |
ROUND TABLE Urban Applications |
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| Day 3, Wednesday 28 January 2009 |
| Compact/Hybrid Polarimetry | Chair: K. Raney/A. Minchella |
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| 09:00-09:20 | Hybrid-Polarity SAR Architecture | R Keith Raney (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 09:20-09:40 | Compact versus full POLARIMETRIC SAR | Ridha Touzi (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS)) |
| 09:40-10:00 | Impact of Polarimetric Dimensionality on Forest Parameter Estimation by Means of Polarimetric SAR Interferometry | Jun Su Kim (German Aerospace Center) |
| 10:00-10:20 | Compact Polarimetric SAR Interferometry: PALSAR Observations and Associated Reconstruction Algorithms | Marco Lavalle (University Tor Vergata) |
| 10:20-10:40 | Compact Polarimetry: Multi-Thematic Evaluation | Francois Charbonneau (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) |
| 10:40-11:00 | Comparison between the conformity coefficient and previous classification techniques for bare surface discrimination and application to compact polarimetry mode | My-Linh Truong-Loï (ONERA) |
| 11:00-11:40 |
ROUND TABLE Compact/Hybrid Polarimetry |
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| 11:40-12:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| Soil Moisture | Chair: L. Ferro-Famil/F. Charbonneau |
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| 12:00-12:20 | Using Polarimetric and Dual-Pol RADARSAT-2 data for Soil Moisture Estimation | Francois Charbonneau (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) |
| 12:20-12:40 | Soil moisture retrieval over periodic surfaces using PolSAR data | Sandrine Daniel (IETR Laboratory, UMR CNRS) |
| 12:40-13:00 | Soil Moisture Estimation under Vegetation applying Polarimetric Decomposition Techniques | Thomas Jagdhuber (German Aerospace Centre (DLR)) |
| 13:00-13:20 | Using fully polarimetric SAR data for the retrieval of soil surface roughness: potentials and limitations for an operational use | P. Marzahn (Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich) |
| 13:20-13:50 |
ROUND TABLE Soil Moisture |
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| 13:50-15:00 |
LUNCH |
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| Parallel Session: Cryosphere/Oceans | Chair: D. Floricioiu/S. Lehner |
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| 15:00-15:20 | Evaluation of polarimetric configurations for glacier classification | Anthony P. Doulgeris (University of Tromsø)
presented by Torbjørn Eltoft |
| 15:20-15:40 | Characteristics of snow and ice morphological features derived from multi-polarization TerraSAR-X data | Dana Floricioiu (DLR-IMF) |
| 15:40-16:00 | River Ice Mapping from TERRASAR-X Images | Stéphane Mermoz (IETR) |
| 16:00-16:20 | Characterisation of oriented volumes in glacier ice and extinction inversion with Pol-InSAR | Jayanti Sharma (DLR (German Aerospace Center)) |
| 16:20-16:50 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| Parallel Session: Cryosphere/Oceans | Chair: D. Floricioiu/S. Lehner |
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| 16:50-17:10 | Improved ocean wave measurement using dual-polarization SAR data !! | Susanne Lehner (German Aerospace Center, DLR) |
| 17:10-17:30 | Investigating Coastal Polynya Thin Sea Ice State in the Laptev Sea Using TerraSAR-X Dual-Pol Stripmap Data | Thomas Busche (German Aerospace Center (DLR) e.V.) |
| 17:30-18:30 |
ROUND TABLE Cryosphere/Oceans |
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| Parallel Session: Agriculture/Wetlands | Chair: R. Touzi /I. Hajnsek |
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| 15:00-15:20 | Crop Characterisation at Short Wavelength POLINSAR | Irena Hajnsek (German Aerospace Center) |
| 15:20-15:40 | Wetland InSAR over the Everglades from space observed polarimetric data | Sang-Hoon Hong (University of Miami) |
| 15:40-16:00 | Rice Monitoring in Spain by means of Time Series of TerraSAR-X Dual-pol Images | Juan M Lopez-Sanchez (University of Alicante)
presented by J. David Ballester-Berman |
| 16:00-16:20 | Improvement of Vegetation Parameter Retrieval from Polarimetric SAR Interferometry using a Simple Polarimetric Scattering Model | Maxim Neumann (University of Rennes 1) |
| 16:20-16:50 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| Parallel Session: Agriculture/Wetlands | Chair: R. Touzi /I. Hajnsek |
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| 16:50-17:10 | Use of Multi-temporal Polarimetric SAR Data for Crop Characterisation | Jai Singh Parihar (Indian Space Research Organisation) |
| 17:10-17:30 | Coastal wetland monitoring using multi-frequency polarimetric SAR | Sang-Eun Park (University of Rennes 1) |
| 17:30-17:50 | Coherent and Incoherent Scattering Decomposition in Terms of Roll Invariant Target Parameters : Applications to Wetland Classification Using C-Band SAR | Ridha Touzi (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) |
| 17:50-18:30 |
ROUND TABLE Agriculture/Wetlands |
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| Day 4, Thursday 29 January 2009 |
| POLSAR | Chair: E. Pottier/W. Boerner |
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| 09:00-09:20 | Dual versus Quadpol: A New Test Statistic for Radar Polarimetry | Shane Cloude (AEL Consultants) |
| 09:20-09:40 | Polarimetric study of an anisotropic cloud of cylinders in a bistatic configuration | Elise Colin Koeniguer (ONERA) |
| 09:40-10:00 | Texture Analysis of Polarimetric SAR data | Gianfranco De Grandi (European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre)
presented by Attilio Gambardella |
| 10:00-10:20 | A Joint Density of Temporal Scattering Elements: Application to Change Detection | Esra Erten (German Aerospace Center) |
| 10:20-10:40 | Evaluation and Bias Removal of Multi-Look Effect on Entropy/Alpha /Anisotropy | Jong-Sen Lee (Naval Research Laboratory) |
| 10:40-11:00 | Polarimetric Target Detector by the use of the Polarisation Fork | Armando Marino (The University of Edinburgh) |
| 11:00-11:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| POLSAR | Chair: E. Pottier/W. Boerner |
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| 11:30-11:50 | A General Model-based Polarimetric Decomposition Scheme for Vegetated Areas | Maxim Neumann (University of Rennes 1) |
| 11:50-12:10 | Equivalence of Different Format Radar Polarimetric Data for Coherency Matrix Estimation | Riccardo Paladini (University of Pisa) |
| 12:10-12:30 | Dependence of Polarimetric Surface Scattering on Spatial Resolution | Sang-Eun Park (University of Rennes 1) |
| 12:30-12:50 | A Relaxed Wishart Model for Polarimetric SAR Data | Anfinsen Stian Normann (University of Tromsø) |
| 12:50-13:10 | Estimation of normalized coherency matrix through the SIRV model. Application to high resolution POLSAR data | Gabriel Vasile (GIPSA-lab, CNRS) |
| 13:10-13:50 |
ROUND TABLE POLSAR |
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| 13:50-15:00 |
LUNCH |
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| Tomography | Chair: F. Rocca/K. Papathanassiou |
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| 15:00-15:20 | Experiments of 3D SAR Tomography Techniques with P-Band Polarimetric Data | Fabrizio Lombardini (University of Pisa) |
| 15:20-15:40 | Polarimetric Options for P-Band SAR Tomography of Forested Areas | Stefano Tebaldini (Politecnico di Milano) |
| 15:40-16:00 | Tandem-L Forest Parameter Performance Analysis | Francesco De Zan (DLR - German Aerospace Center) |
| 16:00-16:20 | P-Band SAR Tomography of the Remningstorp Forest Site | Stefano Tebaldini (Politecnico di Milano) |
| 16:20-16:50 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| 16:50-17:30 |
ROUND TABLE Tomography |
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| 17:30-19:30 |
FREE POSTER SESSION |
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| Poster Session - Agriculture/Wetlands | |
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| Vegetation Parameter Extraction Using Dual Baseline PolinSAR Data | Hong Zhang (Center for Earth Observation & Digital Earth, CAS) |
| Agricultural performance monitoring with Polarimetric SAR and Optical Imagery | Tishampati Dhar (University of Adelaide) |
| Monitoring of maize damage caused by western corn rootworm by remote sensing | Gizella Nádor (Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensi) |
| SarVeillance, une approche multidate à l'aide de R2 | Hardy Stephane (Viasat-Geotechnologies) |
| Crop classification in central Navarre (Spain) using polarimetric radar images | Arantzazu Larrañaga Urien (Trabajos Catastrales, S.A.) |
| Complementarity of 4 polarizations in C-band SAR imagery to estimate biophysical variables for crop monitoring | Emilie Bériaux (Université Catholique de Louvain) |
| Discrimination of different water layers with TerraSar X images in “La Albufera de Valencia, Spain”. | Pedro Miguelsanz (Tragsatec) |
| Near Real-Time Polarimetric C-Band SAR Observations of Vineyards: RADARSAT-2 watching the Italian Frascati wine area | Alessandro Burini (Geo-K) |
| Vegetation Identification and Change Detection with Radarsat-2 Polarimetric Imagery | Joseph Buckley (Royal Military College of Canada) |
| A space-based hydrological monitoring of wetlands using ALOS dual-pol SAR interferometry | Sang-Wan Kim (Sejong University) |
| Poster Session - Cal/Val | |
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| An Approach to Determine the Maximum Acceptable Distortion Level in Polarimetric Calibration for Pol-InSAR Applications | Yongsheng Zhou (Inst of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
presented by Fang Cao |
| Poster Session - Cryosphere/Ocean | |
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| Wind Field Retrieval over the Ocean Using X-Band polarization SAR Data | Yongzheng Ren (Ocean University of China) |
| Polarimetric Backscattering Behavior of River Ice Cover | Stéphane Mermoz (IETR) |
| Evaluation of TerraSAR-X for natural oil seep studies | Medhavy Thankappan (Geoscience Australia) |
| Fully Polarimetric SAR data for Oil Slick Observation | Ferdinando Nunziata (Università di Napoli Parthenope) |
| Fully Polarimetric Slick-free and Slick-covered Sea Surface Scattering | Attilio Gambardella (Università di Napoli Parthenope) |
| Results of the search for the multiyear sea ice objects for deployment of the North Pole drifting station 36 during the field campaign 2008 using ENVISAT WSM and GMM imagery | Vasily Smolyanitsky (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute) |
| SAR Interferometry and Polarimetry for Mapping and Monitoring Permafrost in Canada | Brian Brisco (CCRS) |
| Investigation of Small Scale Polynya and Sea Ice Dynamics using TerraSAR-X Dual Polarisation Strip Map Mode Data | Thomas Krumpen (Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)) |
| Sea oil slick observation by means of fully-polarimetric ALOS PalSAR data | Mauricio Migliaccio (Università degli Studi di Napoli) |
| Poster Session - Forests | |
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| Subarctic boreal forest albedo estimation using ENVISAT/ASAR and SPOT | Terhikki Manninen (Finnish Meteorological Institute) |
| The Dependence of the PolInSAR Degree of Coherence on Forest Parameters | Marco Lavalle (University Tor Vergata) |
| Complex-valued Neural Network Algorithms for Forest Parameters Retrieval and Classification from Polarimetric SAR Data | Emanuele Angiuli (University of Rome Tor Vergata) |
| Forest characterization and mapping using fully polarimetric SAR data | Mounira Ouarzeddine (USTHB) |
| X/C-HH InSAR and L-PolInSAR over Lodgepine Forest | M. Lorraine Tighe (Intermap Technologies) |
| Studies of phase center and extinction coefficient for boreal forest using X- and L-band polarimetric interferometry combined with LIDAR measurements | Jaan Praks (Helsinki University of Technology) |
| Tropical forest structure and its relationship with C band polarimetric Radarsat 2 data | Tatiana Kuplich (INPE) |
| Poster Session - Pol-InSAR | |
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| Pol-In-SAR for GB-SAR and GPR | Motoyuki Sato (Tohoku University) |
| Poster Session - POLSAR | |
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| Supervised classification using neural networks based on polarimetric time-frequency signature | Mickaël Duquenoy (ONERA) |
| Fully Automatic Land Cover Maps Generation Using Polarimetric SAR Data | Fabio Del Frate (Tor Vergata University) |
| Statistical Characterisation of the Maximum Eigenvalue of a Wishart Distribution with Application to Multi-Channel SAR System | Esra Erten (German Aerospace Center) |
| Multiscale analysis of SAR Polarimetric Correlations in the Eastern Pyrenees | Jose M. Redondo (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya) |
| Identification of landcover using the modified four-component scattering power decomposition | Boularbah Souissi (USTHB) |
| Segmentation and Classification of Polarimetric SAR Data based on the KummerU Distribution | Olivier Harant (GIPSA-Lab) |
| Monitoring ecosystems in the Amazonian basin with ERS, ENVISAT and ALOS SAR data: Case studies in French Guyana and the Brazilian Jau basin | Pierre-Louis Frison (Université Paris-Est) |
| Quazi-scattering matrix registration in repeat pass mode | Ludmila Zakharova (IRE RAS) |
| Polarimetric Change Detection with RADARSAT-2 | Ron Caves (MDA) |
| Phase Difference Application in Fully PolSAR Images | Natalia Rodionova (Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics) |
| Monitoring land use along ORBEL pipeline – Brazil | Paulina Setti Riedel (Sao Paulo State University- UNESP) |
| Saltpan Surface Variations Analysis With RADARSAT-2 Data | Daniela Marchionni (Instituto de Recursos Minerales (UNLP-CIC)) |
| On the Influence of Surface Roughness on RADARSAT-2 Polarimetric Observations | Jesus Alvarez-Mozos (Public University of Navarre) |
| ALOS/PALSAR Unsupervised Polarimetric Classification using Complex Wishart Classifier | Masato Ohki (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agancy) |
| Advantages of ICA application on RADARSAT-2 data processing | Paola Ballatore (MARSec) |
| Poster Session - Tomography | |
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| Minimal Slant Range Resolution for SAR Tomography of Forested Areas | Stefano Tebaldini (Politecnico di Milano) |
| Poster Session - Urban Applications | |
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| Potential of ALOS PALSAR Imaging for Investigation of Archaeological Underground Marks | Nicole Dore (University of Rome) |
| Detect Urban Poverty Pockets with Ultra Fine Beam Images | Carlos Gustavo Cotlier (Universidad Nacional de Rosario) |
| Occlusion Boundaries Estimation From A High-Resolution SAR Image | Wenju He (Technische Universität Berlin) |
| Quad-pol Radarsat-2 images over man-made features | Dan Johan Weydahl (FFI) |
| Poster Session - Other | |
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| A new online course on radar polarimetry and POLSAR image processing | Brigitte Leblon (Forestry, U. New Brunswick) |
| Precise Monitoring of Active Volcanoes using Space-borne L- and C-band Polarimetric SAR Systems | Wooil M. Moon (The University of Manitoba) |
| Land Deformation Assessment using Interferometric Techniques and Geophysic Methods in the Mount Cameroon. | Ngouanet Chrétien (National Institute of Cartography) |
| Poster Session - Missions | |
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| ESA's Candidate Earth Explorer SAR Mission Concepts | Klaus Scipal (European Space Agency) |
| Day 5, Friday 30 January 2009 |
| 09:00-09:20 |
Invited Keynote Address : "Where do we go from here, and why should fully polarimetric RP-POLinSAR be further advanced towards reaching the limits of physical realizability" |
Wolfgang-Martin Boerner (UIC-ECE Communications) |
| 09:20-09:30 |
SESSION SUMMARY: MISSIONS |
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| 09:30-09:40 |
SESSION SUMMARY: Calibration/Validation |
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| 09:40-09:50 |
SESSION SUMMARY: FORESTS |
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| 09:50-10:00 |
SESSION SUMMARY: Pol-InSAR |
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| 10:00-10:10 |
SESSION SUMMARY: Urban Applications |
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| 10:10-10:20 |
SESSION SUMMARY: Compact/Hybrid Polarimetry |
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| 10:20-10:30 |
SESSION SUMMARY: Soil Moisture |
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| 10:30-10:40 |
SESSION SUMMARY: Cryosphere |
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| 10:40-10:50 |
SESSION SUMMARY: Agriculture/Wetlands |
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| 10:50-11:00 |
SESSION SUMMARY: POLSAR |
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| 11:00-11:10 |
SESSION SUMMARY: Tomography |
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| 11:10-11:20 |
GENERAL DISCUSSION |
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| 11:20-11:50 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| 11:50-13:50 |
POLSARPRO TRAINING |
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| 13:50-15:00 |
LUNCH |
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| 15:00-17:00 |
POLSARPRO TRAINING |
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