Research & Meetings
22th Science Team meeting - Announcement (Final)
Date: February 16 - 18, 2016 (Tue. - Thu.)
Venue: RESTEC (Remote Sensing Technology Center of JAPAN) HQ (Kamiya-cho, Tokyo)
Agenda
| February 16 (Tue.), 2016 | |||
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| Introduction | pdf file | ||
| 9:20-9:30 | Welcome (Masanobu Shimada / Takeshi Motohka, JAXA EORC) | ||
| 9:30-9:40 | Introduction and Agenda (Ake Rosenqvist, K&C Science Coordinator) | ||
| 9:40-10:10 | K&C issues (Ake Rosenqvist) | ||
| 10:10-10:30 | PALSAR-2 product provision status to K&C team (Keiko Ishii, RESTEC) | ||
| 10:30-11:15 | ALOS-2 Basic Observation Strategy, BOS (Takeshi Motohka, JAXA) | ||
| 11:15-11:30 | Coffee | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | PALSAR-2 Cal/Val, Mosaic generation and Path products (Masanobu Shimada, JAXA) | ||
| 12:00-12:15 | Product levels (Ake Rosenqvist, soloEO) | ||
| 12:15-13:30 | LUNCH | ||
| K&C Phase 3 final results & Phase 4 plans and first results | |||
| Wetland Theme (Phase 3: 15 mins, Phase 4: 15 mins) | |||
| 13:30-14:00 | Lisa Rebelo (IWMI/Lao D.P.R.) | ||
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KC3: Wetlands of Ethiopia KC4/W1: Nile and Zambezi Basins |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Kyle McDonald (CUNY/USA) | ||
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KC3: Mapping Global Wetlands and Boreal Freeze/Thaw KC4/W3: Mapping Wetlands, Surface Structural Attributes, and Boreal Freeze/Thaw at Regional Scales with JAXA SAR Datasets |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Maycira Costa (U. Victoria/Canada) | ||
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KC3: Understanding spatial wildlife habitat characteristics of the Pantanal using ALOS/PALSAR, RADARSAT-2, and ENVISAT/ASAR imagery: Lakes diversity and spatial analysis. KC4/W5: Defining spatial-temporal flooding dynamics and habitat connectivity in the Brazilian Pantanal wetland |
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| 15:00-15:20 | Coffee | ||
| K&C Phase 4 - Plans and first result | |||
| Wetlands Themes | |||
| 15:20-16:45 |
K&C issues - Science Team open floor discussions · Wetlands theme issues (GMW, Ramsar, Peats...) | ||
| 16:45-17:10 | Carlos Pedraza (TNC/Colombia) | ||
| W6: Great River Partnership | |||
| 17:10-17:35 | Toshio Okumura (RESTEC) | ||
| W7: Asia-RiCE: Rice Crop Estimation and Monitoring (the role of PALSAR-2) | |||
| 17:35- | Richard Lucas (UNSW/Australia) | ||
| W2: The Global Mangrove Watch | |||
| ~18:00 | Adjourn | ||
| February 17 (Wed.), 2016 | ||
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| K&C Phase 4 - Plans and first result (cont'd) | pdf file | |
| Glaciers & Forest Themes | ||
| 9:20-9:45 | Bernd Scheuchl (UCI/USA) | |
| G1: Ice Sheet Monitoring using ALOS-2 | ||
| 9:45-10:15 | Masanobu Shimada (JAXA EORC) | |
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- ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 (2014+) global forest/non-forest maps - JAXA-JICA collaboration |
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| 10:15-10:40 | John Armston (AusCover-TERN/Australia) | |
| F1: Detection of Biomass and Structural Change using Japanese L-band SAR, Australia | ||
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00-11:25 | Mari Trix Estomata & Patricia Sanchez (GIZ/Forest Management Bureau, The Philippines) | |
| F4: Utilising L-Band SAR Data for Natural Resource Management in the Philippines | ||
| 11:25-11:50 | Wolf Forstreuter (SEPAC, Fiji) | |
| F5: Improving Forest and Carbon Monitoring in the Pacific Island Region | ||
| 11:50-12:15 | Dirk Hoekman (Wageningen Univ./The Netherlands) | |
| F7: Wide area forest monitoring and biomass stratification in Insular SE Asia and the Guiana Shield | ||
| 12:15-13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 13:30-15:40 |
K&C issues - Science Team open floor discussions
- Discussion and feed-back to JAXA |
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| 15:40-16:00 | Coffee | |
| Forest Themes | ||
| 16:00-16:25 | Francesco Holecz (sarmap/Switzerland) | |
| F8: TransparentForests | ||
| 16:25-16:50 | Thuy Le Toan (CESBIO/France) | |
| F10: Forest Cover Change and Biomass Mapping using ALOS PALSAR and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 data | ||
| 16:50-17:15 | Joaquim Macuacua (Nat. Dir. on Forestry/Mozambique) | |
| F11: National Forest Monitoring System For REDD+ in Mozambique | ||
| 17:15-17:40 | Anthea Mitchell (UNSW/Australia) | |
| F14: Sustainable national forest monitoring using SAR and optical data | ||
| 17:40-18:00 | Tony Milne & Marc Williams (by Anthea Mitchell) | |
| F13: Land Cover and Change in Papua New Guinea | ||
| 18:00- | NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) - Paul Siqueira (Umass/USA) | |
| 18:30-20:30 | Reception dinner | |
| February 18 (Thu.), 2016 | |||
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| K&C Phase 4 - Plans and first result (cont'd) | pdf file | ||
| Forest Theme | |||
| 9:20-9:45 | Manabu Watanabe (JAXA EORC) | ||
| L-band ground based radar data analysis from trees | |||
| 9:45-10:10 | Hamdan Omar (FRIM/Malaysia) | ||
| F15: Updating forest cover and assessing aboveground biomass in various tropical forest ecosystems from PALSAR-2 polarizations | |||
| 10:10-10:35 | 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 | |||
| 10:35-11:00 | Coffee | ||
| 11:00-11:25 | Bill Salas (AGS/USA) | ||
| F19: Operational rice mapping and forest structure assessment to support the 3Cs | |||
| 11:25-11:50 | Edson Sano (IBAMA/Brazil) | ||
| F20: Detecting new deforested areas in the Brazilian Amazon using ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 imagery | |||
| 11:50-12:15 | Maurizio Santoro (Gamma RS/Switzerland) | ||
| F21: Coupling radar-based estimates of forest information with biosphere models for improved carbon flux estimation | |||
| 12:15-13:30 | LUNCH | ||
| 13:30-13:55 | Paul Siqueira (Univ. Mass/USA) | ||
| F22: Use of short-period ALOS-2 observations for vegetation characterization and classification | |||
| 13:55-14:20 | Christian Thiel (FSU-Jena/Germany) | ||
| F24: PALSAR-1/2 Data for Vegetation Cover and Biomass Mapping in Various Climates | |||
| 14:20-14:45 | Marcela Quiñones (SarVision/The Netherlands) | ||
| EXT: Effects of the ecosystem dynamics into the processing of PALSAR-1 for Vegetation types and flooding time series wide area mapping. Examples in Colombia | |||
| 14:45-15:10 | Takeshi Motohka (JAXA EORC) - ALOS-2 Follow-on mission | ||
| 15:10-15:30 | K&C issues - Science Team open floor discussions | ||
| 15:30 | Workshop wrap-up and closure | ||