Programme
21-Jan - 25-Jan 2013
Frascati, Italy
Day 1 - Monday 21 January 2013
| Time | Details |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Course intro. & Organisation Yves-Louis Desnos & Andrea Minchella [ESA] |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | PolSAR Basic Concepts Prof. Eric Pottier Dr. Laurent Ferro-Famil [University of Rennes 1, France] Watch the Video |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:50 | PolSAR Basic Concepts (cont.) Prof. Eric Pottier Dr. Laurent Ferro-Famil [University of Rennes 1, France] Watch the video |
| 13:50 - 15:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | PolSARpro Overview Prof. Eric Pottier Dr. Laurent Ferro-Famil |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | PolSARpro General Practical Prof. Eric Pottier, Dr. Laurent Ferro-Famil |
Day 2 - Monday 22 January 2013
| Time | Details |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | ESA EO Programs Yves-Louis Desnos [ESA] |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | PolSAR Advanced Concepts Prof. Eric Pottier Dr. Laurent Ferro-Famil [University of Rennes 1, France] Watch the Video [Part 1] Watch the Video [Part 2] |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:50 | NEST 4C Overview - The link between PolSARpro & NEST Andrea Minchella (RSAC c/o ESA) |
| 13:50 - 15:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | PolSAR Practical: PolSARpro & Land Cover Prof. Eric Pottier Dr. Laurent Ferro-Famil |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | PolSAR Practical: PolSARpro & Time-series analysis Prof. Eric Pottier, Dr. Laurent Ferro-Famil |
Day 3 - Monday 23 January 2013
| Time | Details |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | ESA Sentinel-1 Mission Pierre Potin [ESA] |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Pol-InSAR Intro & Basics Prof. Shane R Cloude [AEL, UK] |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:50 | Pol-InSAR Advanced Concepts Prof. Shane R Cloude |
| 13:50 - 15:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Pol-InSAR Practical - Biomass Estimation Prof. Shane R Cloude |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Pol-InSAR Practical - Biomass Estimation (cont.) Prof. Shane R Cloude |
Day 4 - Tuesday 24 January 2013
| Time | Details |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | TerraSAR-X & TanDEM-X Prof. I.Hajnsek [DLR, Germany] |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | PolSAR - Surface Parameters Estimation - Basic & Advanced Concepts Prof. Irena Hajnsek |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 13:50 | PolSAR - Surface Parameters Estimation - Basic & Advanced Concepts (cont.) Prof. Shane R Cloude |
| 13:50 - 15:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | PolSAR Practical - Surface Parameters Estimation Prof. Irena Hajnsek |
Day 5 - Tuesday 25 January 2013
| Time | Details |
| Recent Advances in Theory and Applications of Radar Polarimetry | 08:30 - 09:20 - Speckle Modelling Dr. Carlos Lopez-Martinez [UPC - Spain] 09:20 - 10:10 - Urban: Classification and 3D rendering 10:10 - 10:50 - Tackling temporal decorrelation in repeat-pass polarimetric interferometry |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee Break |
| Recent Advances in Theory and Applications of Radar Polarimetry | 11:20 - 12:10 - Multi Baseline - PolInSAR Dr. Stefano Tebaldini [POLIMI - Italy] watch the video 12:10 - 13:00 - PolInSAR Modelling 13:00 - 13:50 - Agriculture: Phenology monitoring and Soil moisture retrieval |
| 13:50 - 15:00 | Lunch |
| Future Mission | 15:00 - 15:30 Sentinel 1 System and Data Nuno Miranda [ESA] |
| Future perspective on Radar Polarimetry and its Applications | 15:30 - 16:30 Keynote address Dr. Wolfgang-Martin Boerner Professor Emeritus and Director UIC-ECE Communications, Sensing & Navigation Labs |