ASF Event - 2011 CEOS SAR Calibration and Validation WorkshopSchedule

Day 1 – Monday, November 7, 2011

8:00 Workshop Registration Desk Open
8:30 Welcome Note B. McCoy, Director of GI, (UAF)
8:45 Opening Remarks F.J. Meyer, W. Albright (UAF), M. Zink (DLR)
9:00 Introduction and Overview of the Alaska Satellite Facility N. La Belle-Hamer (UAF)
9:30 – 12:20 SESSION I: STATUS REPORTS ON ONGOING AND FUTURE MISSIONS
Chairs: Masanobu Shimada (JAXA) & Paul Snoeij (ESA)
9:30 Canadian Government Calibration Operations for RADARSAT-1: SAR Performance Update in the Sixteenth Year of Successful Service S. Srivastava, S. Côté, S. Muir (CSA), R. Hawkins (CCRS)
9:50 TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X Mission Status M. Zink (DLR)
10:10 Current Status of the ALOS-2 / PALSAR-2 and the CALVAL Program M. Shimada, Y. Kankaku, M. Watanabe, T. Motooka(JAXA)
10:30 – 11:00: Break
11:00 Sentinel-1 In-Orbit Calibration and Verification P. Snoeij, D. Geudtner, I. Navas Traver, M. Brown (ESA)
11:20 SAOCOM Mission Overview J.P. Cuesta Gonzáles, M. Thibeault, T. Zajc (CONAE)
11:40 Tandem-L: An Innovative SAR Satellite Formation to Monitor Dynamic Processes in the Earth System G. Krieger, M. Zink (DLR)
12:00 – 13:30: No-Host Lunch Break
13:30 – 16:40 SESSION II: SAR SENSOR CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION ACTIVITIES
Chairs: Stéphane Côté (CSA) & Marc Thibeault (CONAE)
13:30 TanDEM-X SAR System Verification M. Weigt (DLR)
13:50 In-Orbit Calibration of Both TanDEM-X Satellites D. Schrank, M. Schwerdt, J. Hueso Gonzalez, M. Bachmann, B. Döring, N. Tous Ramos, J. M. W. Antony (DLR)
14:10 TanDEM-X DEM Performance and Calibration M. Bachmann, B. Bräutigam, J. Hueso Gonzalez, G. Krieger, M. Martone, P. Rizzoli, D. Schulze, M. Schwerdt, J. Walter Antony, M. Zink (DLR)
14:30 Interferometric TanDEM-X Data Processing – First Operational Experiences T. Fritz, H. Breit, B. Schättler, U. Balss, C. Rossi, A. Niedermeier, M. Schwinger (DLR)
14:50 – 15:20: Break
15:20 SAOCOM Calibration Strategy M. Azcueta, J. Giardini, J.P. Cuesta Gonzáles, M. Thibeault, T. Zajc (CONAE)
15:40 Canadian Government Calibration Activities: Assessment of Distributed Target Sites Within the RADARSAT Program S. Côté, S. Muir, S. Srivastava, (all CSA), T. Lukowski (DR&DC)
16:00 Assessment and Calibration of Polarimetric Radarsat-2 Using Transponder Measurements R. Touzi, R.K. Hawkins (CCRS), S. Côté (CSA)
16:20 AirMOSS P-Band SAR Calibration A. Chau, E. Chapin, B. Heavey, S. Hensley, Y. Lou, R. Machuzak, R. Muellerschoen, K.C. Wang, R. van Schilfgaarde (JPL), A. Ceniceros (JPL & MIT), M. Moghaddam (University of Michigan)

Day 2 – Tuesday, November 8, 2011

9:00 – 12:10 SESSION III: ADVANCED CALIBRATION METHODS
Chairs: Manfred Zink (DLR) & Franz Meyer (UAF)
9:00 Why Full-PolSAR Imaging Has Become of Paramount Relevance, Including Precision Calibration and Optimal Noise Floor Suppression W.M. Boerner (UIC-ECE)
9:40 Recent Activities on Data Quality Analysis and Calibration Control at the Alaska Satellite Facility F.J. Meyer, J. Nicoll (UAF)
10:00 The Laurentides Reserve: an Active Sensor Calibration Site M. Simard (JPL)
10:20 – 10:50: Break
10:50 Investigations on Radio Frequency Interference Signatures in ALOS PALSAR Data J. Nicoll, F.J. Meyer (UAF)
11:10 Corner Reflectors for the Australian Geophysical Observing System and Support for Calibration of Satellite-Borne Synthetic Aperture Radars M. Thankappan (Geoscience Australia)
11:30 Geometric Calibration of GMTSAR Processing Software Using Corner Reflectors at Pinon Flat D. Sandwell (SIO/UCSD)
11:50 – 13:30: No-Host Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:10 SESSION IV: EMERGING SAR TECHNIQUES
Chairs: Don Atwood (UAF) & Birgit Schättler (DLR)
13:30 Model-Based Polarimetric Calibration Method Using the Forest and the Surface Scattering Targets – Application to ALOS/PALSAR M. Shimada (JAXA)
13:50 Recent Advances in Pixel Localization Accuracy U. Balss, X. Cong, M. Eineder, H. Breit, T. Fritz, B. Schättler (DLR)
14:10 Modeling Atmospheric Signals In Spaceborne Interferometric SAR Data F.J. Meyer, W. Gong, P. Webley, D. Morton (UAF)
14:30 Robust Automated Residual Motion Correction for Repeat-Pass SAR B. Hawkins (JPL)
14:50 Radar Sounding from Low-Earth Orbit at 45 MHz A. Freeman, E. Heggy, X. Pi, B. Huneycutt, R. Jordan, Y. Gim (JPL)
15:40 – 17:00 SESSION V: EMERGING SAR APPLICATIONS
Chairs: Wolfgang Boerner (University of Illinois Chicago) & Medhavy Thankappan (Geoscience Australia)
15:40 Value-Added Products for UAVSAR D. Atwood (UAF)
16:00 Results of Airborne SAR Repeat-Pass Multi-Aperture Interferometry B. Riel, R. Muellerschoen (JPL)
16:20 The Alaska Satellite Facility's InSAR Initiative J. Nicoll, G. Bryson (UAF)
16:40 Ground-Based Radars Applied to Glacier Observation M. Fahnestock, M. Truffer (UAF)
19:00 - Host Dinner at Silver Gulch Brewery and Restaurant
~21:00 - Aurora viewing at Poker Flat Research Range - weather permitting Range

Day 3 – Wednesday, November 9, 2011

9:00 – 9:40 SESSION V: EMERGING SAR APPLICATIONS – CONTINUED
Chairs: Wolfgang Boerner (University of Illinois Chicago) & Medhavy Thankappan (Geoscience Australia)
9:00 UAV-Based Remote Sensing Efforts at UAF G. Walker (UAF)
9:20 Sub-Mesoscale Imaging of the Ionosphere with SMAP A. Freeman, X. Pi, X. Zhou (JPL)
9:40 – 12:30 SESSION VI: DISCUSSIONS, SUMMARY, AND CONCLUSIONS
Chairs: Franz Meyer (UAF) & Manfred Zink (DLR)
9:40 Panel Discussion: New Activities of CEOS SAR Cal./Val. Group: (Potential Topics: New Calibration and Annotation Requirements for Absolute Ranging; Calibration and Validation of Community Software M. Zink, B. Schaettler, P. Snoeij, F. Meyer
10:30 – 11:00: Break
11:00 Session Summaries Session Chairs
11:20 SAR Subgroup Recommendations to the Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV) M. Zink (DLR)
11:55 Discussion of Future Venues M. Zink (DLR)
12:10 Closing Remarks F. Meyer (UAF)
12:20 – 13:30: No-Host Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30: Guided tour of the Geophysical Institute, including ASF and the Alaska Volcano Observatory
15:30 – 16:30: Museum of the North

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