26th Science Team meeting - Announcement (Final)
			
			 
			
				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) 
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				January 21 (Tue.),2020
				K&C Session 1: JAXA updates
				
					
						
							                                                             
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								 10:00-10:10
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								 Welcome (Takeo Tadono, JAXA EORC)
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								 10:10-10:30
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								 K&C update (Ake Rosenqvist, soloEO)
								   
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								 10:30-10:50
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								 New methodology for EORC Forest/Non-Forest map generation (Takuya Itoh,  RESTEC)
								   
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								 10:50-11:10
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								 EORC global mosaic processing/re-processing and data distribution (Kazufumi Kobayashi,  RESTEC)
								   
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								 11:10-11:30
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								 EORC research results (Masato Hayashi, JAXA EORC)
								   
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								 11:30-11:50
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								 Updates to the Sigma-SAR processor (Masanobu Shimada, Tokyo Denki Univ)
								   
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								 11:50-12:10
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								 Cloud-based solution for ScanSAR mosaic processing (Josef Kellndorfer, Earth Big Data)
								   
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								 12:10-12:30
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								 Q&A
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								12:30-14:00
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								LUNCH
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			  K&C Session 2: Glaciers & Wetlands
			  
				  
					  
							
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								 14:00-14:20
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								Manabu Watanabe, TDU
								 JJ-FAST update
								   
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								 14:25-14:45
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								Bruce Chapman, JPL
								 ALOS-2 ecosystem product validation with UAVSAR and field measurements
								   
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								 14:50-15:10
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								Bernd Scheuchl, UC Irvine
								 InSAR based Ice Velocity and Grounding Line Measurements in Antarctica
								 
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								 15:15-15:35
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								Rahmat Arief, LAPAN
								 Development of Digital Services for Peatland Monitoring
								   
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								 15:40-16:00
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								Dirk Hoekman, WUR
								 Tropical Peat Watch demonstrator Indonesia
								   
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								 16:05-16:25
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								Mikhail Urbazaev, FSU Jena
								 Characterization of Amazon floodplain forest habitats and inundation dynamics using PALSAR-2 time series
								   
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								 16:30-16:50
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								Ake Rosenqvist (Pete Bunting & Richard Lucas)
								 The Global Mangrove Watch: Moving to Finer Resolutions
								   
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								 17:00-17:20
							            
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								Thiago Silva, Stirling Univ (via Skype)
								 Integrating multisensor information as analysis-ready data for semi-automated monitoring of South American wetlands
								   
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								 17:25-17:45
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								 Open floor discussions
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								 ~17:45
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								 Adjourn
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				January 22 (Wed.),2020
				K&C Session 3: Forest 1
				
					
						
							
								| 9:30-9:50 | 
								
									Osamu Ochiai, JAXA SAOC
									CEOS Biomass activity update
									
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								| 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
									
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								| 10:10-10:30 | 
								
									Joaquim Macuacua, Nat. Dir. Forestry
									Deforestation and Forest Degradation Analysis in Mozambique
									
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								| 10:30-10:50 | 
								
									Alex Bouvet, CESBIO
									Above-ground biomass change in the woodlands and savannas of Southern Africa
									
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								| 10:50-11:10 | 
								
									Stéphane Mermoz, Globeo
									Forest loss detection in South-East Asia using ALOS-1 and ALOS-2 SAR data
									
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								| 11:10-11:30 | 
								
									Christian Koyama, TDU
									Assessing the impact of precipitation on ALOS-2 forest observation in the tropics
									
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								| 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)
									
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									 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
									
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								| 14:55-15:15 | 
								
									Paul Siqueira, UMass
									L-band Sensitivity to Biomass and Landcover Structure in the ABoVE domain
									
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								| 15:15-15:35 | 
								
									Johan Fransson, SLU
									Retrieval of forest biomass and biomass change using PALSAR, PALSAR-2 and PALSAR-3 data
									
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								| 15:40-16:00 | 
								
									 Maurizio Santoro, Gamma RS
									Decadal forest biomass change with ALOS-1 and ALOS-2 L-band SAR observations
									
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								| 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
									
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					K&C Session 5: Related Missions and activities
					
						
							
								| 16:25-16:45 | 
								
									Paul Siqueira, UMass
									NISAR mission update
									
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								| 16:50-17:10 | 
								
									John Armston, UMD
									GEDI mission update
									
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								| 17:15-17:35 | 
								
									Matias Palomeque, CONAE
									SAOCOM mission update
									
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				K&C Session 6: Meeting Summary
				
					
						
							
								| 17:35-17:45 | 
								
									All
									KC Meeting Summary and wrap-up
									
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								| ~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)
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