Research & Meetings

26th Science Team meeting - Announcement (Final)

Date: January 20 - 24, 2020 (Mon. - Fri.)

Venue:TKP Shinbashi Conference Centre

January 20 (Mon.),2020

Joint PI Meeting for JAXA EO Missions

13:00 – 14:20 ALOS-2 Mission Update
14:40 – 17:40

ALOS-2 PI meeting (Vegetation, Forest & Wetlands Session)

(Open to all. KC member participation voluntary)

January 21 (Tue.),2020

K&C Session 1: JAXA updates

10:00-10:10 Welcome (Takeo Tadono, JAXA EORC)
10:10-10:30 K&C update (Ake Rosenqvist, soloEO)
10:30-10:50 New methodology for EORC Forest/Non-Forest map generation (Takuya Itoh, RESTEC)
10:50-11:10 EORC global mosaic processing/re-processing and data distribution (Kazufumi Kobayashi, RESTEC)
11:10-11:30 EORC research results (Masato Hayashi, JAXA EORC)
11:30-11:50 Updates to the Sigma-SAR processor (Masanobu Shimada, Tokyo Denki Univ)
11:50-12:10 Cloud-based solution for ScanSAR mosaic processing (Josef Kellndorfer, Earth Big Data)
12:10-12:30 Q&A
12:30-14:00 LUNCH

K&C Session 2: Glaciers & Wetlands

14:00-14:20
Manabu Watanabe, TDU
JJ-FAST update
14:25-14:45
Bruce Chapman, JPL
ALOS-2 ecosystem product validation with UAVSAR and field measurements
14:50-15:10
Bernd Scheuchl, UC Irvine
InSAR based Ice Velocity and Grounding Line Measurements in Antarctica
15:15-15:35
Rahmat Arief, LAPAN
Development of Digital Services for Peatland Monitoring
15:40-16:00
Dirk Hoekman, WUR
Tropical Peat Watch demonstrator Indonesia
16:05-16:25
Mikhail Urbazaev, FSU Jena
Characterization of Amazon floodplain forest habitats and inundation dynamics using PALSAR-2 time series
16:30-16:50
Ake Rosenqvist (Pete Bunting & Richard Lucas)
The Global Mangrove Watch: Moving to Finer Resolutions
17:00-17:20
Thiago Silva, Stirling Univ (via Skype)
Integrating multisensor information as analysis-ready data for semi-automated monitoring of South American wetlands
17:25-17:45 Open floor discussions
~17:45 Adjourn

January 22 (Wed.),2020

K&C Session 3: Forest 1

9:30-9:50
Osamu Ochiai, JAXA SAOC
CEOS Biomass activity update
9:50-10:10
John Armston, UMD
Fusion of ALOS-2 and Spaceborne Lidar Observations for High Resolution Mapping of Degraded and Regenerating Forest Structure and Biomass in Australia
10:10-10:30
Joaquim Macuacua, Nat. Dir. Forestry
Deforestation and Forest Degradation Analysis in Mozambique
10:30-10:50
Alex Bouvet, CESBIO
Above-ground biomass change in the woodlands and savannas of Southern Africa
10:50-11:10
Stéphane Mermoz, Globeo
Forest loss detection in South-East Asia using ALOS-1 and ALOS-2 SAR data
11:10-11:30
Christian Koyama, TDU
Assessing the impact of precipitation on ALOS-2 forest observation in the tropics
11:30-12:00 Open floor discussions
12:00-13:00 LUNCH

Joint PI Meeting for JAXA EO Missions

13:30 – 16:30 Plenary Session

14:35-14:50
Maurizio Santoro, Gamma RS
The relevance of JAXA's SAR observations to quantify the world's forest biomass pools(spoke at Plenary Session)

16:45 – 18:15 Poster Session

(Open to all. KC member participation voluntary)
18:30-20:30 Welcome Reception

January 23 (Thu.),2020

Joint PI Meeting for JAXA EO Missions

10:00 – 13:00 ALOS-2 PI meeting (Cal/val, Pol & InSAR Session) (Open to all. KC member participation voluntary)
13:00-14:00 LUNCH

K&C Session 4: Forest 2

14:25-14:45
Humberto de Mesquita, BFS
Brazilian Forest Map: Qualification of Tropical Forest Remnants to Sustainable Development Goals
14:55-15:15
Paul Siqueira, UMass
L-band Sensitivity to Biomass and Landcover Structure in the ABoVE domain
15:15-15:35
Johan Fransson, SLU
Retrieval of forest biomass and biomass change using PALSAR, PALSAR-2 and PALSAR-3 data
15:40-16:00
Maurizio Santoro, Gamma RS
Decadal forest biomass change with ALOS-1 and ALOS-2 L-band SAR observations
16:00-16:20
Josef Kellndorfer, Earth Big Data
Multi-frequency SAR Time Series Analysis for Ecosystem Monitoring: Fusing ALOS-2, ALOS-4, NISAR and Sentinel-1 Data Sets

K&C Session 5: Related Missions and activities

16:25-16:45
Paul Siqueira, UMass
NISAR mission update
16:50-17:10
John Armston, UMD
GEDI mission update
17:15-17:35
Matias Palomeque, CONAE
SAOCOM mission update

K&C Session 6: Meeting Summary

17:35-17:45
All
KC Meeting Summary and wrap-up
~18:00 Adjourn
18:00-20:00 Reception dinner

January 24 (Fri.),2020

Joint PI Meeting for JAXA EO Missions

10:00 – 11:40 ALOS-2 Closing Plenary (Open to all)
9:00 – 11:30 ALOS-4 Cal/Val Team meeting (Open to all)
LUNCH

Joint PI Meeting for JAXA EO Missions

13:00 – 15:30

ALOS-4 Cal/Val Team meeting (Open to all)

MOLI PI meeting (Only MOLI science team members)