Kyoto & Carbon Initiative

Date: October 22 and 23, 2025

1-00	Welcome	Takeo Tadono, JAXA EORC
1-01	Kyoto & Carbon Initiative - 2025 update	Ake Rosenqvist, soloEO
1-02	ALOS-4 Basic Observation Scenario - relevance to K & C	Fumi Ohgushi, RESTEC
1-03	CEOS-ARD Compliant PALSAR-2 Products for K & C	Kazufumi Kobayashi, RESTEC
1-04	Global Mangrove Watch	Pete Bunting, Aberystwyth U.
1-05	Developing a Comprehensive Peatland Degradation Mitigation and Monitoring Based on ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 and ALOS-4/PALSAR-3 Time Series Imagery to Support Sustainable Peatland Management	Dandy Novresiandi, BRIN
1-06	Multi-sensor fusion for accurate aboveground carbon estimation in Southeast Asia’s tropical peatlands.	Akash Verma, Forest Carbon
1-07	Mapping Tropical Wetlands Extent and Dynamics over 10 Years by ALOS-2 PALSAR-2	Ake Rosenqvist, JAXA/soloEO
1-08	Use of ALOS-2 and ALOS-4 for generating ice sheet geophysical data products	Bernd Scheuchl, UC Irvine
1-09	NISAR overview	Paul Siqueira, Umass
	Open floor discussions	All

2-10	ALOS-2/4 Operational Deforestation Detection and Early Warning-Japan's L-band SAR Contribution To Global Forest Sustainability	Christian Koyama, JAXA EORC
2-11	Combined use of ALOS-3 and ALOS-4 data sets for monitoring agricultural expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado and Amazon	Edson Sano, EMBRAPA
2-12	Monitoring deforestation and degradation in the Brazilian Amazon using the ALOS-4 stripmap data sets	Nara Pantoja, IBAMA
2-13	Assessing multi-sensor PALSAR and LiDAR data for mapping and estimating aboveground carbon in forests in Southeast Asia	Roanna Pang/Carl Santos, NUS
2-14	Imaging Radar for woodland monitoring and mapping	Jason Dail, Univ Queensland
2-15	Time-series Signatures and Classification of Repeat-Pass ALOS-2 and ALOS-4 POLINSAR Observations for Forest and Wetland monitoring	Josef Kellndorfer, EBD (by Paul Siqueira, Umass)
2-16	Retrieval of forest above-ground biomass and above-ground biomass change using time-series of ALOS, ALOS-2 and ALOS-4 L-band SAR data	Johan Fransson, LNU
2-17	BC Wildfire Service: Fuel Type Layer Project	Ashlin Richardson, BC Wildfire Service
2-18	Multi-decadal forest biomass change with ALOS PALSAR time series	Maurizio Santoro, Gamma RS
2-19	(1) L-band Sensitivity to Biomass and Landcover Structure in the ABoVE domain (2) Sensitivity of Vegetation and Agriculture Physical Characterization to Repeat-Pass ALOS-2, ALOS-4 and NISAR PolInSAR Observations	Paul Siqueira, Umass
2-20	K & C polarimetric requests	Ake Rosenqvist, JAXA/soloEO
	Open floor discussions & wrap up	All

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