Programme

19-Sep - 23-Sep 2011

Frascati, Italy

Day 1 - Monday 19 September 2011

Opening Session Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair: M. Engdahl & Y-L. Desnos
09:00 - 09:10	ESA Welcome Address		Maurice Borgeaud (ESA)
09:10 - 09:30	Workshop Objectives		Marcus Engdahl (ESA)
09:30 - 10:00	ESA SAR missions status		Henri Laur (ESA)
10:00 - 10:20	ESA Supersites Initiative		Wolfgang Lengert (ESA)
10:20 - 10:40	InSAR-capabilities of the ESA SAR Toolbox NEST		Andrea Minchella (R-SAC)/ Petar Marinkovic (PPO.labs)
10:40 - 11:10	Coffee Break
Session: Sentinel-1 Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair:P. Potin & B. Rosich
11:10 - 11:40	Sentinel-1 System Overview		Dirk Geudtner (ESA)
11:40 - 12:10	Sentinel-1 Mission Operations Concept		Pierre Potin (ESA)
12:10 - 12:30	Sentinel-1 Payload Data Ground Segment operations concept		Betlem Rosich (ESA)
12:30 - 12:50	Sentinel-1 core Ground Segment user products and operational quality control		Nuno Miranda (ESA)
12:50 - 13:10	GMES services overview		Maria Milagro (Randstad)
13:10 - 13:50	Round Table ESA & Sentinel-1
13:50 - 15:00	Lunch
Session: InSAR Methods Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair: M. Eineder & F. Rocca
15:00 - 15:20	Bi-directional Interferometric SAR Acquisition with TanDEM-X		Josef Mittermayer
15:20 - 15:40	The impact of second generation SAR sensors on the deformation time series analysis via DInSAR techniques: The COSMO-SkyMed study case		Eugenio Sansosti
15:40 - 16:00	Generation and calibration of high resolution DEMs from single baseline spaceborne interferometry: the ‘split-swath’ approach	Full Paper.pdf	Davide Giudici
16:00 - 16:20	Design of a geosynchronous SAR system for water-vapour maps and deformation estimation	Full Paper.pdf	Andrea Monti Guarnieri
16:20 - 16:40	How accurately can current and future InSAR missions map tectonic strain?		Tim Wright
16:40 - 17:10	Coffee Break
17:10 - 17:30	ERS-Envisat Tandem Cross-Interferometry Campaigns: systematic CInSAR processing and studies over extended areas		Paolo Pasquali
17:30 - 17:50	Multi-pass ERS-ENVISAT Cross-Interferometry methods and results	Full Paper.pdf	Urs Wegmüller
17:50 - 18:10	Interferometric Multi-Chromatic Analysis of High Resolution X-Band Data	Full Paper.pdf	Fabio Bovenga
18:10 - 18:30	Round Table InSAR Methods

Day 2 - Tuesday 20 September 2011

Session: Earthquakes & Tectonics I Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair: E. Fielding & S. Jonsson
08:40-09:00	Interseismic strain accumulation across strike-slip faults in the Middle East		Richard Walters
09:00-09:20	Monitoring of interseismic creep of the Longitudinal Valley Fault (Eastern Taiwan) using Persistent Scatterer InSAR with ALOS PALSAR data		Champenois Johann
09:20-09:40	Shallow creep along the Haiyuan fault (Gansu, China) revealed by InSAR time series analysis		Romain Jolivet
09:40-10:00	Mapping fault creep on the faults of northern California using persistent scatterer InSAR		Gareth Funning
10:00-10:20	Interseismic strain accumulation across an active thrust system: an InSAR case study in the Himalayas		Raphael Grandin
10:20-10:40	Constraints on fault and lithosphere rheology from the coseismic slip and postseismic afterslip of the 2006 Mw7.0 Mozambique earthquake		Alex Copley
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break
Parallel Session: Pol-InSAR & Tomography Bld 1 - Magellan			Chair:S. Tebaldini & C. Lopez-Martinez
08:40-09:00	Diff-Tomo Opening of the Urban SAR Pixel: Single-look 4D and Non-uniform Motion “5D” Extensions		Fabrizio Lombardini
09:00-09:20	Polarimetric SAR Tomography with TerraSAR-X by means of Distributed Compressed Sensing	Full Paper.pdf	Matteo Nannini
09:20-09:40	3D SAR Tomography of the Paracou Forest: Methods and Results	Full Paper.pdf	Mauro Mariotti Dalessandro
09:40-10:00	Underlying Topography Estimation and Separation of Scattering Contributions over Forests Based on PolInSAR Data	Full Paper.pdf	Carlos López-Martínez
10:00-10:20	Sub-Canopy Topography Estimation With Multibaseline Pol-InSAR Data: A RELAX-Based Solution		Matteo Pardini
10:20-10:40	Pol-InSAR & Tomo Round Table
10:40 - 11:10	Coffee Break
Session: Earthquakes & Tectonics I - Continued Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair:E. Fielding & S. Jonsson
11:10-11:30	Inter-Seismic Deformation, Volcanic Uplift and Post-Rifting Relaxation in North Iceland, derived from GPS and InSAR Time-Series		Sabrina Metzger
11:30-11:50	Three-dimensional time-varying crustal velocity and strains in the Afar triangle		Carolina Pagli
11:50-12:10	Fault activity in the Manda Hararo rift in Afar (Ethiopia) using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar.		Stéphanie Dumont
12:10-12:30	Multi-track InSAR Time Series of Plate Boundaries: The Zagros Mountains and Makran Subduction Zone, Southern Iran		William Barnhart
12:30-12:50	Determining large scale crustal velocity field from GPS and InSAR: With application to Tibet		Hua Wang
12:50-13:10	Two Contrasting InSAR Studies of Recent Earthquakes in Tibet		Barry Parsons
13:10-13:30	Magmatically driven normal faulting: A comparism of cumulative vs. incremental fault growth derived from high-resolution LiDAR and InSAR data		Barbara Hofmann
13:30-13:50	DLR’s Activities to Support the GEO Supersite Initiative with TerraSAR-X Data		Michel Eineder
13:50 - 15:00	Lunch
Parallel Session: Ice and snow Bld 1 - Magellan			Chair:J. Mouginot & N. Gourmelen
11:10-11:30	Increased ocean melting and retreat of the Pine Island Glacier		Noel Gourmelen
11:30-11:50	Antarctic Ice Motion Unveiled with InSAR		Jeremie Mouginot/ Eric Rignot
11:50-12:10	Mapping Ice Shelf Flow with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Stacking		Malcolm McMillan
12:10-12:30	Grounding line mapping in Antarctica using 15 years of DInSAR data		Jeremie Mouginot
12:30-12:50	Detecting Ice Motion in Grove Mountain, East Antarctica with ALOS/PALSAR Interferometry	Full Paper.pdf	Xin Tian
12:50-13:10	Short-term glacier velocity changes at West Kunlun Mountains, NW Tibet		Masato Furuya
13:10-13:30	Airborne and satellite-based InSAR observations of Icelandic Ice Caps		Mark Simons
13:30-13:50	Monitoring ice flow surface velocities of the Inylchek Glacier (Kyrgyzstan) using TerraSAR-X Data		Julia Neelmeijer
13:50 - 15:00	Lunch
Session: Earthquakes & Tectonics I - Continued Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair: E. Fielding & S. Jonsson
15:00-15:20	Tensile Strength of Rock from InSAR Observations		Sigurjon Jonsson
15:20 - 15:40	Earthquake slip distribution estimation from InSAR data, using a random field approach		Andrew Hooper
15:40 - 16:00	Imaging recent complex earthquake ruptures with combined InSAR and seismic analysis		Eric Fielding
16:00 - 16:20	Geodetic Imaging, Seismic Hazard and Mountain Building Across the Sierra Nevada/Great Basin Transition Using InSAR and GPS		William Hammond
16:20 - 16:40	Earthquakes & Tectonics I - Round Table
Parallel Session: Ice and snow - Continued Bld 1 - Magellan			Chair: J. Mouginot & N. Gourmelen
15:00 - 15:20	ERS-Envisat Tandem Cross-Interferometry results from the EET northern hemisphere and Antarctic campaigns		Paolo Pasquali
15:20 - 15:40	A review of the 2011 ERS-2 3-day mission		Noel Gourmelen
15:40 - 16:00	Ice velocity fluctuations of Greenland’s Jacobshavn Isbrae from ERS-2 3-day SAR imagery		Davide Giudici
16:00 - 16:20	Displacement of periglacial landforms on Svalbard observed with high-resolution RADARSAT-2 and TerraSAR-X InSAR time series		Tom R. Lauknes
16:20 - 16:40	Ice and Snow - Round Table
16:40-19:10	Poster Session I Bld 14 - Big Hall See the complete list of posters for this session

Day 3 - Wednesday 21 September 2011

Session: Atmosphere I Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair: R. Hanssen & F. Rocca
08:40-09:00	OSCAR: Online Services for Correcting Atmosphere in Radar		Paul Von Allmen
09:00-09:20	InSAR integrated water vapour variational assimilation in mesoscale model MM5: a step for improving model initial conditions at high resolution		Nazzareno Pierdicca
09:20-09:40	Validation of Centimeter-Level SAR Geolocation Accuracy after Correction for Atmospheric Delay using ECMWF Weather Data	Full Paper	Xiaoying Cong
09:40-10:00	InSAR Time Series with Atmospheric Estimation Model for Regional Deformation Mapping		Zhenhong Li
10:00-10:20	Numerical Weather Model Assisted Time Series InSAR Processing for Geophysical Application		Wenyu Gong
10:20-10:40	IP-STATS – A System for Deriving Statistical Models of Ionospheric Signals in Low-Frequency SAR		Franz Meyer
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break
Session: Supersite Splinter Meeting Bld 1 - James Cook Mtg room A			Falk Amelung (University of Miami - GEO task leader):
08:40-09:20	Outline of Supersite White Paper & endorsement		Craig Dobson (NASA - CEOS Supersite leader)
09:20-10:10	Outline of Supersite Strategic Plan (Space & In-situ) & endorcement		Massimo Cocco (INGV - EPOS leader)
10:10-10:40	Way forward, milestones & GEO plenary preparation
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break
Parallel Session: Earthquakes & Tectonics II Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair: Y. Fukushima & M. Furuya
11:10-11:30	Satellite Constraints & Field Observations of slip in the Canterbury Earthquakes, New Zealand: Implications for future seismic hazard in Christchurch		John Elliott
11:30-11:50	The whole 2010-2011 New Zealand seismic sequence revealed by DInSAR and time-series data		Cristiano Tolomei
11:50-12:10	Coseismic and postseismic deformation analysis of the 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield and 2011 Mw 6.3 Christchurch earthquakes in New Zealand from combined GPS and InSAR observations		John Beavan
12:10-12:30	Damage Proxy Map of the 2011 M6.3 Christchurch Earthquake using InSAR Coherence		Sang-Ho Yun
12:30-12:50	How sharp is our source image of the 2010 Haiti earthquake?		Henriette Sudhaus
12:50-13:10	Postseismic deformation following the 2010 Haiti earthquake: Time-dependent surface subsidence induced by groundwater flow in response to a sudden uplift	Full Paper	Shimon Wdowinski
13:10-13:30	An new approach for modeling fault dislocation from wrapped interferometric SAR data		Gianfranco Fornaro/Diego Reale
13:30-13:50	Transient slip on the Hayward fault from SBAS-InSAR and GPS		Ingrid Johanson
13:50-15:00	Lunch
Parallel Session: Earthquakes & Tectonics II - Continued Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair: Y. Fukushima & M. Furuya
15:00-15:20	Coseismic Deformations of the 2011 Tohoku, Japan, Earthquake and triggered events derived from ALOS/PALSAR	Full Paper	Manabu Hashimoto
15:20-15:40	Wide area Deformation map generation with TerraSAR-X Data. the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake 2011 case.	Full Paper	Nestor Yague-Martinez
15:40-16:00	The March 11, 2011, Tohoku-oki earthquake (Japan): surface displacement and source modeling		Salvatore Stramondo
16:00-16:20	The Tohoku-oki (Japan) Earthquake imaged through 3-days repeat cycle ERS-2 SAR data		Michele Manunta
16:20-16:40	Earthquakes & Tectonics II - Round Table
16:40-17:10	Coffee Break
Parallel Session: Terrain Subs. & Landslides Bld 1 - Magellan			Chair: M. Crosetto & P. Pasquali
11:10-11:30	Surface deformation of the whole Netherlands after PSI analysis	Full Paper	Miguel Caro Cuenca
11:30-11:50	Subsidence mapping in Jakarta - PSI processing of L-band ALOS PALSAR data	Full Paper	Rachel Holley
11:50-12:10	Satellite SAR interferometry for the measurement of surface subsidence above deep tunnels in metamorphic basement rocks of the Alps		Tazio Strozzi
12:10-12:30	DORIS FP7-EU project: exploitation of 20 years DInSAR data archive for landslide monitoring	Full Paper	Michele Manunta
12:30-12:50	TSX InSAR assessment for slope instabilities monitoring in Alpine periglacial environment (Western Swiss Alps, Switzerland)	Full Paper	Chloé Barboux
12:50-13:10	Long Term Analysis of Strong non-linear deformations induced by Coal Mining using the SBAS Technique	Full Paper	Kanika Goel
13:10-13:30	Quantification of subsidence rates associated with groundwater flow using SAR interferometry	Full Paper	Joao Catalao
13:30-13:50	Terrain Subs. & Landslides Round Table
13:50-15:00	Lunch
Parallel Session: Methods - Unwrapping Bld 1 - Magellan			Chair: M. Crosetto & M. Costantini
15:00-15:20	New Improvements of the EMCF Phase Unwrapping algorithm for surfaca deformation analysis at full spatial resolution scale	Full Paper	Antonio Pepe
15:40-16:00	Redundant Phase Unwrapping and Integration of Finite Differences on a Sparse Multidimensional Domain: Theory and Validation		Mario Costantini
16:00-16:20	Quality-guided segmentation for phase unwrapping of sparse differential interferograms		Tom Grydeland
16:20-16:40	Methods - Unwrapping Round Table
16:40-17:10	Coffee Break
Session: Atmosphere II Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair: D. Perissin & D. Small
17:10-17:30	Spatio-temporal variability of Water Vapor as seen by InSAR, GPS, Meris and MM5		Daniele Perissin
17:30-17:50	Systematic InSAR tropospheric phase delay corrections from global meteorological reanalysis data		Romain Jolivet
17:50-18:10	Correcting DInSAR ALOS data using atmospheric delay estimated by GPS signals to constrain the surface deformation in the Longitudinal Valley (Taiwan Island).		Rana Charara
18:10-18:30	Pushing the accuracy limit for CO2 sequestration monitoring: Statistically optimal spatio-temporal removal of the atmospheric component from InSAR Networks		Bernhard Rabus
18:30-18:50	Atmosphere Round Table

Day 4 - Thursday 22 September 2011

Session: Methods - DInSAR/PSI Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair: J. Mallorqui & R. Hanssen
08:40-09:00	Wide Area Persistent Scatterer Interferometry: Algorithms and Examples	Full Paper
09:00-09:20	Virtual reconstruction and validation of Sentinel-1 Interferometric WideSwath mode: InSAR/PSI algorithms perspective		Petar Marinkovic
09:20-09:40	TOPS Differential SAR Interferometry with TerraSAR-X	Full Paper	Luca Marotti
09:40-10:00	Mapping 3D Surface Deformation by Combining Multiple Aperture InSAR and Conventional InSAR		Zhong Lu
10:00-10:20	Combination of X-band high resolution SAR data from different sensors to produce ground deformation maps	Full Paper	Javier Duro
10:20-10:40	Bridge Health Monitoring using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI)		Adrian McCardle
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break
Session: Methods - DInSAR/PSI - Continued Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair: J. Mallorqui & R. Hanssen
11:10-11:30	Deformation estimation in non Urban areas Exploitin High Resolution SAR Data	Full Paper	Kanika Goel
11:30-11:50	InSAR partially coherent targets: multiplicity of approaches		Daniele Perissin
11:50-12:10	Deformation rate estimation on changing landscapes using Temporarily Coherent Point InSAR	Full Paper	Lei Zhang
12:10-12:30	Exploitation of Temporary Coherent Scatterers in SqueeSAR Analyses
12:30-12:50	Noise covariance model for time series InSAR analysis		Piyush Agram
12:50-13:10	Detecting regular patterns in urban PS sets	Full Paper	Alexander Schunert
13:10-13:30	A comparative study of corner reflectors, compact active transponders and I2GPS for monitoring deformation in areas with low spatial density of persistent scatterers: the Delft field experiment		Pooja Mahapatra
13:30-13:50	Methods - DInSAR/PSI Round Table
13:50-15:00	Lunch
Parallel Session: Volcanoes Bld 1 - Magellan			Chair: Y. Fukushima & G. Puglisi
08:40-09:00	InSAR and thermal monitoring of lava fountain episodes at Mt. Etna: the case study of the ASI-SRV Pilot project during the January 2001 episode		Giuseppe Puglisi
09:00-09:20	3D temporal evolution of displacements recorded on Mt. Etna from the 2007 to 2010 through the SISTEM method		Francesco Guglielmino
09:20-09:40	Long-term experience gathered on Etna for volcano monitoring using radar and optical remote sensing, in preparation for Sentinel Missions		Giuseppe Puglisi
09:40-10:00	Source models for the March 5-9, 2011 Kamoamoa fissure eruption, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, constrained by InSAR and in-situ observations		Paul Lundgren
10:00-10:20	Subsidence of the collapsed caldera of Miyakajima, Japan, 2006-2009	Full Paper	Yosuke Aoki
10:20-10:40	Anatomy of an unstable volcano from InSAR: multiple processes affecting flank instability at Mt. Etna, 1994-2008		Valerio Acocella
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break
Parallel Session: Volcanoes - Continued Bld 1 - Magellan			Chair: Y. Fukushima & G. Puglisi
11:10-11:30	Pulses of Deformation Reveal Frequently Recurring 1 Shallow Magmatic Activity Beneath the Main Ethiopian Rift		Juliet Biggs
11:30-11:50	Long-term uplift due to deep magma bodies: Insights from ERS and ENVISAT observations		Yuri Fialko
11:50-12:10	Eighteen years of InSAR observations at Fernandina volcano, Galápagos: dynamics of magma storage and eruption		Marco Bagnardi
12:10-12:30	Tectonic control of magma ascent in volcanic arcs: Space-geodetic evidence from the West-Sunda arc, Indonesia		Estelle Chaussard
12:30-12:50	InSAR measurements of volcanoes in the tropics: examples from a survey of the Central American Volcanic Arc		Susanna K. Ebmeier
12:50-13:10	High resolution monitoring of Campi Flegrei (Naples, Italy) by exploiting TerraSAR-X data: an application to Solfatara crater	Full Paper	Christian Minet
13:10-13:30	Analysis of the Eyjafjallajökull 2010 eruption through InSAR time series		Joana Martins
13:30-13:50	Volcanoes Round Table
13:50 - 15:00	Lunch
Session: Methods- General Bld 14 - Big Hall			Chair: U. Wegmüller & A. Monti-Guarnieri
15:00-15:20	Effect of Unmodelled Reference Frame Motion on InSAR Deformation Estimates	Full Paper	Hermann Bähr
15:20-15:40	Revising vegetation scattering theories: Adding a rotated dihedral double bounce scattering to explain cross-polarimetric SAR observations over wetlands	Full Paper	Sang-Hoon Hong
15:40-16:00	Recent advances on InSAR temporal decorrelation: theory and observations using UAVSAR	Full Paper	Marco Lavalle
16:00-16:20	Mining Very High Resolution InSAR Data based on Complex-GMRF Cues and Relevance Feedback	Full Paper	Jagmal Singh
16:20-16:40	Methods- General Round Table
16:40-19:10	Poster Session II Bld 14 - Big Hall See the complete list of posters for this session

Day 5 - Friday 23 September 2011

Session Summaries Bld 14 - Big Hall
09:40-09:50	Summary Sentinel-1
09:50-10:00	Summary InSAR Methods - Missions
10:00-10:10	Summary Earthquakes & Tectonics
10:10-10:20	Summary Pol-InSAR & Tomography
10:20-10:30	Summary Ice and snow
10:30-10:40	Summary Atmosphere
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break
11:10-11:20	Summary Supersite Splinter Meeting
11:20-11:30	Summary Terrain Subs. & Landslides
11:30-11:40	Summary Methods - Unwrapping
11:40-11:50	Summary Methods - DInSAR & PSI
11:50-12:00	Summary Volcanoes
12:00-12:10	Summary Methods - General
12:10-12:20	Closing Address

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