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Programme

18-Jun - 22-Jun 2012

Frascati, Italy

Day 1: Monday 18 June 2012

TimeSession
08:45 - 09:30Registration and Poster mounting
09:30 - 09:50Official Welcome - Workshop Background, Objectives and Organisation
Yves-Louis Desnos (ESA) & P.E. Skrovseth (NSC)
 Session: Future SAR missions (Sentinel-1, Radarsat Constellation Mission etc.) Chairs: P.E. Skrovseth & P.Potin
09:50 - 10:10Sentinel-1 Mission Operations Concept - Pierre Potin (ESA)
10:10 - 10:30Sentinel-1 Instrument Overview - Paul Snoeij (ESA)
10:30 - 10:50The Sentinel-1 core products and ground processor - Nuno Miranda (ESA)
10:50 - 11:20Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:40A Marine Collaborative Ground Segment for the Sentinel1 missions
Vincent Kerbaol(CLS, France)
11:40 - 12:00From RADARSAT-2 to RADARSAT Constellation Mission data continuity
Paris Vachon (Defence R&D Canada) on behalf of Daniel De Lisle (CSA, Canada)
12:00 - 12:20International Cooperation For Space-Based Global Maritime Awareness – The Next Step
Harm Greidanus (JRC
12:20 - 12:50Round Table
12:50 - 14:00Lunch
12:50 - 14:00Session: Methodology and techiques
Chairs: F. Collard & L. Aouf
14:00 - 14:20Towards consistent inversion of wind, waves and surface current from SAR
Bertrand Chapron (IFREMER, France)
14:20 - 14:40NEREIDS: New concepts in maritime surveillance for consolidating operational developments
Gerard Margarit (GMV Idem, Spain)
14:40 - 15:00Toward automated classification of brightness fronts in RADARSAT-2 images of the ocean surface
Christopher Jones (Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada)
15:00 - 15:20From 2D to 3D upper layer dynamics: The way forward
Johnny Johannessen (NERSC, Norway)
15:20 - 15:40Estimation of Underwater Topography using Satellite High Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
Andrey Pleskachevsky (DLR, Germany)
15:40 - 16:10Round Table
16:10 - 16:40Coffee Break
 Session: Wave mode processing algorithms, product validation and assimilation
Chairs: F. Collard & R. Romeiser
16:40 - 17:00On the impact of ASAR wave spectra in the operational wave model MFWAM
Lotfi Aouf (Meteo France, France)
17:00 - 17:20Application of SAR wave mode and wide swath mode for swell tracking across ocean
Fabrice Collard (CLS, France)
17:20 - 17:40Global numerical wave model validation using ENVISAT ASAR wave mode and Radar Altimeter data
Xiaoming Li (DLR, Germany)
17:40 - 18:10Round Table

Day 2: Tuesday 19 June 2012

TimeSession: Wave retrievals and applications
Chairs: H. Johnsen & F. Ocampo-Torres
08:30 - 08:50The GLOBWAVE project
Fabrice Collard (CLS, France)
08:50 - 09:10SAR Wave Mode processing – improvements towards Sentinel-1 mission
Harald Johnsen (Norut, Norway)
09:10 - 09:30Wave retrievals from ScanSAR images under tropical cyclone conditions
Roland Romeiser (University of Miami, US)
09:30 - 09:50Wind Speed and Sea State by TerraSAR-X
Miguel Bruck (DLR, Germany)
09:50 - 10:10Ocean waves inferred from X-band synthetic aperture radar images of the sea surface
Francisco OCAMPO-TORRES (CICESE, Mexico)
10:10 - 10:30Swell emulation in coastal zone
Fabrice Collard (CLS, France)
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20Evaluation of high resolution wave simulations with SAR-observations and estimation of the wave power potential spatiotemporal distribution
George Kallos (University of Athens, Greece)
 Session: Internal Waves
Chairs: W. Alpers & J. da Silva
11:20 - 11:40A look at oceanic internal waves with TerraSAR-X along-track InSAR
Roland Romeiser (University of Miami, US)
11:40 - 12:00On the origin of short internal waves trailing strong internal solitary waves observed on spaceborne SAR images acquired over the northern South China Sea
Werner Alpers (University of Hamburg, Germany)
12:00 - 12:20Airborne and SAR Sinergy reveals the 3D structure of air bubble entrainment in internal waves and fronts
Jose Da Silva (University of PORTO, Portugal)
12:20 - 12:50Round Table
12:50 - 14:00Lunch
 Session: Ocean current retrievals and applications
Chairs: J. A. Johannessen & B. Holt
14:00 - 14:20SAR observations of spiral eddies in the inner seas
Svetlana Karimova (Space Research Institute, Russia)
14:20 - 14:40Monitoring the surface inflow of Atlantic Water to the Nordic Seas using Envisat ASAR
Morten Wergeland Hansen (NERSC, Norway)
14:40 - 15:00Surface current monitoring over gulf Stream, Agulhas and North Brazilian current
Fabrice Collard (CLS, France)
15:00 - 15:20High precision Doppler frequency estimation for ocean applications
Harald Johnsen (Norut, Norway)
15:20 - 15:40Results from the Submesoscale Experiment April 2011: In situ, aircraft, and satellite measurements of small eddies, fronts, and filaments in the Southern California Bight
Harald Johnsen (Norut, Norway)
15:40 - 16:00Observations conditions and principle for ocean current front backscatter modulation
Fabrice Collard (CLS, France)
16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break
16:50 - 17:20High resolution Surface Velocity Monitoring with Wide Swath SAR: A User´s Guide to the Range Doppler Method
Johnny Johannessen (NERSC, Norway)
17:40 - 18:10Round Table

Day 3: Wednesday 20 June 2012

TimeSession: Ship detection
Chairs: G. Campbell & P. W. Vachon>
08:30 - 08:50Ship detection and sea clutter characterisation using X&L band Full polarimetric airborne data
Sebastien Angelliaume (ONERA, France)
08:50 - 09:10Validating a ship detector based on the notch filter with RADARSAT-2 Fine quad-pol data
Armando Marino (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
09:10 - 09:30Operational Ship Detection in Canada using RADARSAT: Present and Future
Paris Vachon (Defence R&D, Canada)
09:30 - 09:50Ocean Clutter Modeling for Ship Detection
Ding Tao (University of Tromso, Norway)
09:50 - 10:10Ship detection and motion parameter estimation with TanDEM-X in large along-track baseline configuration
Stefan Baumgartner (DLR, Germany)
10:10 - 10:30Advanced ship detection and classification - Guillaume Hajduch (CLS, France)
16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20MARISS - Near Real Time Ship Detection with TerraSAR-X
Stephan Brusch (DLR, Germany)
11:20 - 11:40Ship Detection using High Resolution Satellite Imagery and Space-Based AIS
 Session: Oil spill detection
Chairs: C. Brekke & V. Kudryavtsev
11:40 - 12:00Analysis of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using polarimetric L-band UAVSAR data AR data
Benjamin Holt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US)
12:00 - 12:20Italian Coast Guard integrated maritime surveillance in the framework of security, anti-pollution and fisheries control activities
Luigia Caiazzo(Italian Coast Guard, Italy)
12:20 - 12:40Oil spill detection and modelling: preliminary results for the Cercal Accident
Jose Da Silva (University of Porto, Portugal)
12:40 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 14:20Field experiments on SAR detection of film slicks
Stanislav Ermakov(Institute of Applied Physics, Russia)
14:20 - 14:40Oil spill detection in dual and compact polarimetry SAR images
Arnt-Borre Salberg (Norwegian Computing Center, Norway)
14:40 - 15:00A comprehensive analysis of polarimetric features for oil spill characterisation
Stine Skrunes (University of Tromso, Norway)
15:00- 15:20The "New Generation" of CleanSeaNet: the EU Remote Sensing Based Monitoring System for Oil Spill and Vessel Detection
Sonia Pellizzari (European Maritime Safety Agency)
15:20 - 16:00Round Table

Day 4: Monday 21 June 2012

TimeSession: Ocean wind retrievals and applications
Chairs: J. Horstmann & K.-F. Dagestad
09:00 - 09:20SAR-Derived High-Resolution Operational Wind Products within NOAA CoastWatch
William Pichel (NOAA/NESDIS, US)
09:20 - 09:40Estimating Winds From Synthetic Aperture Radar In Typhoon Conditions
Chris Wackerman (General Dynamics, US)
09:40 - 10:00Validation of SAR Wind Retrieval at X-BAND using TERRASAR-X and COSMO-SKYMED data
Jochen Horstmann (NATO Undersea Research Center, Italy)
10:00 - 10:20On Ocean Surface Wind Retrieval from VH dual-pol Radarsat-2 SAR Imagery
Hui Shen (Academy of Sciences of Qingdao, China)
10:20 - 10:40Doppler centroid, normalized radar cross sections and sea surface wind
Alexis Mouche (CLS, France)
10:40 - 11:10Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:30Organized Multi-Km Surface Stress Convergence Lines in Tropical Cyclone Surface Wind Retrievals
Ralph Foster (University of Washington, US)
11:30 - 11:50Use of SAR in observing Polar lows
Birgitte Furevik (Norwegian Meteorological Inst., Norway)
11:50 - 12:10High resolution wind fields over the Black Sea derived from Envisat ASAR data using an advanced wind retrieval algorithm
Werner Alpers (University of Hamburg, Germany)
12:10 - 12:30Dual-polarized SAR imaging of meso-scale currents
Vladimir Kudryavtsev (RSHU/NIERSC, Russia)
12:30 - 13:00Round Table
13:00 - 14:20Lunch
 Session: Sea ice retrievals and applications
Chairs: T. Eltoft & W. Dierking
14:20 - 14:40A Multi-Polarization Study of Arctic Sea Ice in C-Band and X-Band
Torbjorn Eltoft (University of Tromso, Norway)
14:40 - 15:00Sea ice classification using Radarsat-2 dual-polarisation data
Stein Sandven (NERSC, Norway)
15:00 - 15:20Radar polarimetry - useful for detection of icebergs in sea ice
Wolfgang Dierking(Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany)
15:20 - 15:40Iceberg monitoring service by joint use of drift model, SAR and altimeter data
Nicolas Longepe (Collecte Localisation Satellites, France)
15:40 - 16:00SAR measurements of sea ice drift in the Fram Strait and Bay of Bothnia
Anders Berg(Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 - 16:50Sea Ice Concentration Retrievals by using Composite ScanSAR Features in a SAR Data Assimilation Process
N. Gokhan Kasapoglu(University of Tromso, Norway)
16:50 - 17:30Round Table

Day 5: Monday 22 June 2012

TimeSession: Session Summary
Chairs: P.E. Skrovseth & Y.-L. Desnos
09:00 - 09:20Future SAR missions (Sentinel-1, Radarsat Constellation Mission etc.)
09:20 - 09:40Methodology and techniques
09:40 - 10:00Wave mode processing algorithms, product validation and assimilation
10:00 - 10:20Wave retrievals and applications
10:20 - 10:40Internal Waves
10:40 - 11:10Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:30Ocean current retrievals and applications
11:30 - 11:50Ship detection
11:50 - 12:10Oil spill detection
12:10 - 12:30Ocean wind retrievals and applications
12:30 - 12:50Sea ice retrievals and applications
 Closing
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