Research & Meetings
21th Science Team meeting - Announcement (Final)
| December 3 (wed.), 2014 | ||
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KRP Western Zone - Building 4, Room 2 (2nd floor) |
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| K&C Phase 3 Result presentations | pdf file | |
| 9:00-9:05 | Welcome (Masanobu Shimada, JAXA EORC) | |
| 9:05-9:30 | Introduction and Background for new Science Team members (Ake Rosenqvist, K&C Science Coordinator) | |
| Science Team Phase 3 reports - Forestry (25+5 minutes) | ||
| 9:30-9:55 |
·Thuy Le Toan (CESBIO/France) - Forest Cover Change and Biomass mapping in Vietnam and Cameroon using ALOS/PALSAR |
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| 9:55-10:20 |
·Dirk Hoekman (Wageningen Univ./The Netherlands) - Wide area forest monitoring in Insular SE-Asia and Guiana Shield |
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| 10:20-10:45 |
·Francesco Holecz (sarmap/Switzerland) - Synergetic use of multi-annual and seasonal multi-frequency spaceborne SAR data for land cover mapping at national scale and preliminary assessment of dual-frequency InSAR based forest height estimation |
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| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee | |
| Science Team Phase 3 reports - Forestry | ||
| 11:00-11:25 |
·Masanobu Shimada (JAXA EORC) - New global forest/non-forest maps from ALOS PALSAR data (2007-2010) |
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| 11:25-11:50 |
·Mari Trix Estomata & Jose Don De Alban (GIZ & FFI/The Philippines) - Forest Cover Classification and Change Detection Analysis Using ALOS PALSAR Mosaic Data to Support the Establishment of a Pilot MRV System for REDD-Plus on Leyte Island |
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| 11:50-12:15 |
·Hamdan Omar (FRIM/Malaysia) - Aboveground Biomass Mapping and Changes Monitoring in the Forests of Peninsular Malaysia Using L-Band ALOS PALSAR and JERS-1 |
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| 12:15-13:30 | LUNCH | |
| Science Team Phase 3 reports - Forestry | ||
| 13:30-13:55 |
·Renaud Mathieu (CSIR/South Africa) - Woody Structural Modelling in Southern African Savannahs using Multi-frequency SAR and Optical Integrated Data Approaches: One step to regional mapping |
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| 13:55-14:20 |
·John Armston (AusCover-TERN/Australia) - Forest and Woodland Structure and Biomass Assessment, Australia |
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| 14:20-14:45 |
·Masaki Kawai (on behalf of J. Macuacua, Mozambique) - Establishment of Sustainable Forest Resource Information Platform for Monitoring REDD+ |
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| 14:45-15:10 |
·Johan Fransson (SLU/Sweden) - Advances in forestry applications in Sweden using ALOS PALSAR |
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| 15:10-15:30 | Coffee | |
| Science Team Phase 3 reports - Forestry | ||
| 15:30-15:55 |
·Maurizio Santoro (Gamma RS/Switzerland) - Coupling radar-based estimates of forest information with biosphere models for improved carbon flux estimation |
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| 15:55-16:20 |
·Christian Thiel (FSU-Jena/Germany) - PALSAR Intensities, Coherence and Polarimetric Parameters for the Delineation of Forest Cover and Forest Cover Change and Growing Stock Volume over Central Siberia |
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| 16:20-16:45 |
·Paul Siqueira (Univ. Mass/USA) - Combined Use of SAR, InSAR and Lidar for Measuring Forest Biomass and Structure in the Northeastern US |
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| 16:45-17:10 |
·Rajesh Thapa (JAXA EORC) - Deforestation trend and future outlook of forest carbon stocks in tropical forests using ALOS-PALSAR mosaic data |
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| ~17:10 | Adjourn | |
| December 4 (Thu.), 2014 | ||
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KRP Western Zone - Building 4, Room 1 (B1 floor) |
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| K&C Phase 3 Result presentations | pdf file | |
| Science Team Phase 3 reports - Forestry | ||
| 9:00-9:25 |
·Takeshi Motohka (JAXA EORC) - Using time-series PALSAR data for detection of deforestation in Riau, Indonesia |
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| 9:25-9:50 |
·Edson Sano (IBAMA/Brazil) - INDICAR: a Radar-based System for Indication of New Deforested Areas |
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| 9:50-10:15 |
·Nathan Torbick (AGS/USA) - Mapping agricultural and forested landscapes to support food security and carbon cycle science |
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| 10:15-10:40 |
·Manabu Watanabe (JAXA EORC) - Measurement for L-band SAR signal extinction in a forest canopy |
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| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00-11:25 | ALOS World 3D (Takeo Tadono, JAXA/Japan) | |
| Science Team reports - Wetlands (25+5 minutes) | ||
| 11:25-11:50 |
·Tony Milne (Horizon/Australia) - Using multi-temporal ALOS PALSAR to investigate flood dynamics in semi-arid wetlands: Murray Darling Basin, Australia |
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| 11:50-12:15 |
·Carlos Pedraza (TNC/Colombia) - Magdalena Basin, Colombia Flood Frequency and Vegetation Types Analysis |
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| 12:15-13:30 | LUNCH | |
| Science Team reports - Wetlands | ||
| 13:30-13:55 |
·Bruce Chapman (Caltech-JPL/USA) - Mapping inundation in the Amazon by ScanSAR mosaic data |
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| 13:55-14:20 |
·Richard Lucas (UNSW/Australia) & Ake Rosenqvist (soloEO/Japan) - The Global Mangrove Watch - Phase 3 results with JERS-1 and ALOS & plans for Phase 4 |
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| External reports | ||
| 14:20-14:45 |
·Marcela Quiñonez & Carlos Florez (SarVision/NL & Humboldt Inst.
Colombia) - Wetlands mapping and biodiversity studies in Colombia |
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| 14:45-15:05 |
·James Wheeler (U. Leicester, U.K.) - Deriving forest maps and products from the K&C Initiative mosaics |
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| 15:05-15:45 | Coffee | |
| New Science Team members - Plans for Phase 4 | ||
| 15:45-16:05 |
·Yumiko Uryu (WWF/Indonesia) - Identifying industrial go and no-go zones and monitor industrial practices through PALSAR-based land cover and carbon stock mapping in Sumatra and Borneo |
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| 16:05-16:25 |
·João Carreiras (U. Sheffield/U.K.) - Measuring above-ground biomass and its changes over Brazilian tropical secondary forests and savanna woodlands (Cerrado) using L-band SAR data |
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| 16:25-17:00 |
·Bernd Scheuchl (UCI/USA) - Ice Sheet Monitoring using ALOS-2 |
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| 17:00-17:20 |
·Thuy Le Toan (for Shin-ichi Sobue, RESTEC) - Asia-RiCE: Rice Crop Estimation and Monitoring |
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| 17:30 | Reception dinner logistics information | |
| ~17:40 | Adjourn | |
| 19:00-21:00 | Reception dinner | |
| December 5 (Fri.), 2014 | ||
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KRP Western Zone - Building 4, Room 1 (B1 floor) |
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| K&C Phase 4 Kick-off | pdf file | |
| Introduction | ||
| 9:30-9:45 | K&C Phase introduction (Ake Rosenqvist) | |
| 9:45-10:15 | ALOS-2 characteristics, Cal/Val results and operational status (Masanobu Shimada, JAXA EORC) | |
| 10:15-10:25 | ALOS-2 Systematic Observation Strategy (Ake Rosenqvist) | |
| 10:25-10:30 | JAXA 25m global mosaics (Ake Rosenqvist) | |
| EORC data processing and ground data collection | ||
| 10:30-10:45 | PALSAR-2 processing & capacity issues (Masanobu Shimada) | |
| 10:45-11:00 | JAXA collection of ground data from K&C Science Teams (Takeshi Motohka, JAXA EORC) | |
| 11:00-11:15 | JAXA ground data collection system (Takeo Tadono, JAXA EORC) | |
| 11:15-11:30 | Coffee | |
| PALSAR-2 data distribution procedures | ||
| 11:30-11:45 | PALSAR-2 mosaics and path image request procedures and EORC product transfer procedures (Keiko Ishii, RESTEC) | |
| 11:45-12:00 | Full resolution data through AUIG2 (Takuya Itoh, RESTEC) | |
| 12:00 | Open floor discussions, Q&A | |
| ~13:00 | Closing of the KC#21 Science Team meeting | |
