23th Science Team meeting - Announcement (Final)

Date:   January 18 - 20, 2016 (Wed. - Fri.)
Venue:    Tokyo Denki Univ. Saitama Hatoyama Campus (Saitama)
                    Participant list


Agenda January 18 (Wed.), 19 (Thu.), 20 (Fri.), 2017
   Meeting Program (pdf, 299KB) download    
January 18 (Wed.), 2017
TDU Hatoyama Campus, Building 3, Room 3330
 Introduction pdf file
10:30-10:40 Welcome (Masanobu Shimada, Tokyo Denki Univ./JAXA)
10:40-11:00 K&C update (Ake Rosenqvist, K&C) download
(4.4MB)
11:00-11:30 PALSAR-2 Cal/Val and operational status (Masanobu Shimada) download
(12.5MB)
11:30-11:45 PALSAR-2 processing and data provision to K&C Science Teams (Keiko Ishii and Takuya Itoh, RESTEC)
 - Path image data products
- 25m FBD mosaic (2016)
- ScanSAR mosaics
download
(470KB)
11:45-12:00 ALOS-2 BOS update (Ake Rosenqvist/soloEO, Fumi Ohgushi/RESTEC) download
(2.7MB)
12:00-12:30 Open floor discussions
  12:30-13:30    LUNCH
Wetlands - Intermediate results (20+5 minutes)
13:40-14:05 Toshio Okumura (RESTEC)
 W7: Asia-RiCE download
(12.1MB)
14:05-14:40 Carlos Pedraza (TNC/Colombia)
 W6: Forest Monitoring in Colombia download
(6.8MB)
14:40-15:10 Thiago Silva (UNESP/Brazil)
 W4: Mapping habitat distribution, vegetation structure and flooding dynamics in the Amazon basin wetlands download
(12.1MB)
15:10-15:55 Kyle McDonald (CUNY/USA)
 W3: Mapping Wetlands, Surface Structural Attributes, and Boreal Freeze/Thaw at Regional Scales with JAXA SAR Datasets download
(14.4MB)
  15:55-16:15    Coffee
16:15-16:40 Pete Bunting (U. Aberystwyth/U.K.)
 W2: The Global Mangrove Watch download
(6.2MB)
16:40-17:20 Lisa Rebelo (IWMI/Lao PDR.)
 W1: Nile and Zambezi Basins download
(10.8MB)
17:20-17:45 Josef Kellndorfer (for Bruce Chapman Caltech-JPL/USA)
 Near simultaneous observations of inundation by ALOS-2 and Sentinel and utilization of the SRTM-30 DEM to improve the radiomeric correction of ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 data and derived products download
(10.6MB)
~17:45 Adjourn
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January 19 (Thu.), 2017
TDU Hatoyama Campus, Building 12, Room 12-229
 Forestry - Intermediate results pdf file
10:10-10:30 Christian Thiel (FSU-Jena/Germany)
 F24: PALSAR-1/2 Data for Vegetation Cover and Biomass Mapping in Various Climates download
(13.5MB)
10:30-11:00 Maurizio Santoro (Gamma RS/Switzerland)
 F21: Coupling radar-based estimates of forest information with biosphere models for improved carbon flux estimation download
(6.1MB)
11:00-11:25 Nathan Torbick (AGS/USA)
 F19: Operational rice mapping and forest structure assessment to support the 3Cs download
(8.0MB)
  11:25-11:40    Coffee
11:40-12:05 João Carreiras (U. Sheffield/U.K.)
 F17: Measuring above-ground biomass and its changes over Brazilian tropical secondary forests and savanna woodlands (Cerrado) using L-band SAR data download
(9.7MB)
12:05-12:30 Hamdan Omar (FRIM/Malaysia)
 F15: Updating forest cover and assessing aboveground biomass in various tropical forest ecosystems from PALSAR-2 polarization data download
(14.6MB)
  12:30-13:50    LUNCH
13:50-14:15 Joaquim Macuácua (Nat. Dir. on Forestry/Mozambique)
 F11: National Forest Monitoring System For REDD+ in Mozambique download
(8.4MB)
14:15-14:45 Masato Hayashi (JAXA EORC)
 JJ-FAST: JAXA-JICA Near-Real Time Deforestation Warning proj. download
(3.9MB)
14:45-15:00 Manabu Watanabe (Tokyo Denki Univ)
 JJ-FAST: technical details download
(5.0MB)
  15:00-15:15    Coffee
15:00-15:30 Open floor discussions - Forests and Wetlands
15:30- Update of K&C Wiki project info pages (All)
~17:00 Adjourn and joint travel to Kawagoe
 18:30-20:30 Reception dinner
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January 20 (Fri.), 2017
TDU Hatoyama Campus, Building 3, Room 3130
 Forestry - Intermediate results pdf file
10:00-10:35 Thuy Le Toan (CESBIO/France)
 F10: Forest Cover Change and Biomass Mapping using ALOS PALSAR and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 data download
(13.1MB)
10:35-11:10 Johan Fransson (SLU/Sweden)
 F6: Retrieval of forest biomass and biomass change with spaceborne SAR download
(4.0MB)
11:10-11:45 Josef Kellndorfer (Earth Big Data/USA)
 F9: Land Cover Change and Forest Carbon Tracking with L-Band SAR and Optical Time Series Data download
(2.1MB)
  11:45-12:00    Coffee
12:00-12:15 Mari Trix Estomata (GIZ/The Philippines)
 F4: Utilising L-Band SAR Data for Natural Resource Management in the Philippines download
(3.0MB)
12:15-12:30 Patricia Sanchez (GIZ/The Philippines)
 F4: Forest Cover Change in Selected Illegal Logging Hotspots download
(5.2MB)
  12:30-13:40    LUNCH
13:40-14:15 Humberto de Mesquita (IBAMA/Brazil)
 F3: Forest Structure to Map of Forest Types with ALOS-PALSAR download
(2.4MB)
14:15-14:40 Arief Rahmat (LAPAN/Indonesia)
 Inindation Mapping during flood events in Bima City, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia download
(6.0MB)
Related projects
14:40-15:15 Josef Kellndorfer
 NISAR status update download
(2.1MB)
15:15-15:30 João Carreiras (for Shaun Quegan, U. Sheffield/U.K.)
 ALOS-2, the Ionosphere & BIOMASS calibration download
(4.4MB)
  15:30-15:40    Coffee
15:40-16:00 Takeshi Motohka (JAXA EORC) - ALOS Next Generation Mission download
(1.1MB)
16:00- K&C issues (All)
~17:00 Closing of KC#23 meeting
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