Monday Nov 8 - Pre Workshop. Special Session

9:30- Badges Distribution
Informal Meetings (on demand)
Data Sets and Demo Set up

12:00- Lunch.

Talks on Radar Image Processing.

14:00- Pre Workshop Special Session
Introduction, L.V. Dutra

14:10- A System for Supervised Classification of Polarimetric Data.-- A. Correia, C.C. Freitas, A. Frery, INPE and UFPE, Brazil.

14:50- The AeroSensing InSAR System for DEM Mapping and P-Band System.-- Markus Rombach, AeS, Germany

15:30- Break.

15:50- The Brazilian Experience on Using Airborne System for DEM Acquisition.-- J.C. Mura, Markus Rombach, A. Gurgel., INPE, AeS and Funcate

16:30 Classification of JERS-1 Data over Tropical Forests: Scales and Methods.-- S. Saatchi, M. Simard, F. deGrandi, P. Mayaux, JPL and JRC

17:10 Communications

17:15 End of Session -
To the Hotels

Tuesday Nov 9 - GRFM Applications

9:30- Greetings and Introduction - L. Dutra and V. Taylor.

9:45- Welcome from Remote Sensing Area Director (Thelma Krug)

10:00- NASDA Introductory Remarks

10:10- Video Tour of INPE
10:25- Break

Morning Oral Presentations (25'+5')

10:45- NASDA's Global Forest Mapping Program-- Victor Taylor, NASDA EORC

11:15- Use Of Multitemporal Jers-1/Sar Data for Mapping Areas Degraded by Gold Mining Activities, Roraima State, Brazilian Amazonas.-- Raimundo A. Filho, Y. Shimabukuro, INPE

11:45- Using JERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Data for Tropical Savanna Mapping -- Edson Sano, Embrapa

12:15 Lunch

Afternoon - Oral Presentations

14:30- Analyses of Physiognomies of Neotropical Savannas Using JERS-1 and Landsat-TM in a Reserve of Sao Paulo State, Brazil. -- Humberto N. Mesquita Jr., USP

15:00- Monitoring Biomass Using Multi-Frequency SAR.-- Tony Milne, University of New South Wales

15:30- Mapping of Physiographic Landscape Types in The Colombian Llanos Using the JERS-1 SAR Image Mosaic, in Support to Land Use Planning Efforts-- Nathalie Beaulieu, Yolanda Rubiano and Luis Marino Santana , CIAT

16:00- Break

16:20- Savanna and Tropical Rainforest Biomass at Brazilian Amazon Sections: Aerial Representation using JERS-1 data.-- Joao Roberto dos Santos, M.S.P. Lacruz, L.S. Araujo, (INPE) M. Keil (DLR)

16:50- Seasonal Delineation of Flooded Areas for Pipeline Management in Amazonia using Spaceborne Radar Data.-- Fernando Pellon, Carlos Henrique Beisl, Petrobras

17:20- Discussion - Summary of the day

17:50 Communications
18:00 Reception
20:30 To the Hotel

Wednesday Nov 10 - GRFM Applications

9:20- Opening Remarks _ Day Schedule

Morning Oral Presentations

9:30- Validation Overflights Amazon Mosaics - VOAM - Initial assessment.-- Laura Hess (UCSB) and INPE team

10:00- The Tropical Rain Forest Information Center (TRFIC) -- Bruce Chapman, JPL

10:30- Break

10:50- Statistical Analysis of JERS-1 Tropical Rainforest Data--Paul Siqueira, JPL.

11:20- Mapping and Monitoring Tropical Forests. Results from GRFM project in Central Africa and the Amazon -- S. Saatchi, M. Simard, F. deGrandi, P. Mayaux

11:50- Validation of Deforestation Quantitative Assessment in Amazonia Using The GRFM Radar Data: Comparison with "Hot Spot" Sampling Techniques Using High Resolution Optical Remote Sensing and Other Statistical Sampling Techniques and Laying the Foundations for Continental Scale Estimates using the Continous Coverage GRFM data sets-- Matteo Sgrenzaroli, JRC

12:20- Lunch

14:20- Communications of O.C.

Afternoon - Oral Presentations

14:30- Deforestation Assessment Using Multi Date JERS-1 - Tapajos National Forest and Surroundings.-- L V. Dutra, P. Hernandez- F. ; M. E. Mazzocato., INPE

15:00- Relationship Between Macrophyte Stand Variables and Radar Backscatter.-- E.M. Novo, M.P.F. Costa.. , Ivan B. T. de Lima, INPE

15:30- Using Satellite Altimetry and Historical Gauge Data for Validation of the Hydrological Significance of the JERS-1 SAR (GRFM) Mosaics inCentral Africa-- Ake Rosenquist., Birkett, Bartholome and F. de Grandi, JRC

16:00- Break

16:20- Mapping of Open Water and Inundated Forest Area of The Amazon Basin at High And Low-Water Stages With JERS-1 Mosaics.-- Laura Hess, (UCSB) D. Alsdorf, R. Ashker, C. Barbosa,B. Chapman, M. Costa, M. Gastil, J. Holt, G. McGarragh, J. Melack, L. Mertes, E. Novo, R. Powell, P.Siqueira

16:50- The Use of Spaceborne Radar Data for Inundation Modelling and Subsequent Estimations of Trace Gas Emissions in Tropical Wetland Areas-- Ake Rosenquist., JRC, Forsberg, Pimentel, INPA, Rauste and Richey , JRC.

17:20- Round Table - Discussion and Summary of the GRFM

17:50- Communications

18:00- Departure to Hotels

Thursday Nov 11 - GRFM Overview, Calibration, Applications

9:20- Opening Remarks - Day Schedule

Morning Oral Presentations

9:30 JERS-1 Calibration Refinement for Multi Date Analysis. -- F. de Angelis, F , C.C. Freitas, L.V.Dutra

10:00- SAR Path Processor and its Application to the Large Scale Mosaic of South East Asia -- Masanobu Shimada, NASDA EORC

10:30- Break

10:50- Generation of South East Asia Mosaic.-- Osamu Isoguchi, RESTEC

11:20- GRFM Africa: an Overview of the Main Results and Research Avenues in the Context of the JRC/JPL Collaboration-- Sasan Saatachi , JPL, Matteo Sgrenzaroli, Ake Rosenqvist, JRC.

11:50- TBD.--Marc Simard, JPL

12:20 Lunch

Afternoon- 14:00 Tour at INPE

16:15- Break

16:35- Overview of Image Processing and GIS Research at INPE SPRING - A G.I.S. made in Brazil-- A.M. Monteiro, I.P. Division, Head.

17:00- An Integrated System using JERS1 and Landsat Mosaics for Showing The Deforestation Evolution In Amazonia., R. Cartaxo-MS, INPE

18:30- Barbecue at INPE

21:00- Departure to Hotels

Friday Nov 12 - InSAR & GBFM

9:20 Day Schedule

Morning Oral Presentations

9:30- Progress on the North American Component of the Global Boreal Forest Mapping Project.-- Bruce Chapman, JPL

10:00- The 2nd JERS-1 Research Invitation (RI) and Others-- Osamu Tanaka, RESTEC

10:30- Progress on Land-Cover and Biomass from Orbital SAR.-- Craig Dobson, Michigan.

11:00- Break

11:15- Round Table II InSAR & GBFM

11:45- Announcements by NASDA

12:20- Final Remarks

12:30- Lunch - The End

Monday Nov 15 - Tuesday Nov 16

Manaus Field Trip