PI-SAR WS 2004

The Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Workshop 2004 (PI-SAR WS 2004)

- with invited talks by world-outstanding experts -

  • Date :  August 23 (Mon.) - 24 (Tue.), 2004
  • Time :  10:00-
  • Place :  Earth Observation Research and Application Center (EORC), JAXA

DAY 1: August 23(Mon.), 2004
10:00 - 10:05 Welcome address:

Dr. Toshihiro Ogawa (Technical advisor to JAXA president)

10:05 - 10:10 On Pi-SAR workshop 2004:

Dr. Masanobu Shimada (JAXA EORC, IGRS Japan Chapter Chairman)

Morning Session: Session chair Prof. Yoshio Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.)
10:10 - 11:00 1. The Need of Developing Drones for Terrestrial Remote Sensing

Prof. Wolfgang-Martin Boerner (UIC-ECE Communications, USA)

11:10 - 12:00 2. Polarimetric Interferometry with INGARA: a High Resolution, Quad-Pol, X-Band SAR

Prof. Shane Cloude (Univ. of Adelaide,Australia)

12:10 - 14:00 Lunch break
Afternoon Session: Session chair Dr. Takeo Tadono (IGRS-JC Secretary)
14:00 - 14:50 3. Feasibility of Global Soil Moisture Mapping Using Polarimetric SAR: Retrieval Algorithms (I)

Dr. Yunjin Kim and Dr. Jakob van Zyl (JPL, USA)

15:00 - 15:50 4. Feasibility of Global Soil Moisture Mapping Using Polarimetric SAR: Retrieval Algorithms (II)

Dr. Yunjin Kim and Dr. Jakob van Zyl (JPL, USA)

Evening Session: Session chair Dr. Masanobu Shimada (IGRS-JC Chairman)
16:00 - 17:30 Hot Topics · Discussion

- Pi-SAR Loop Flight over Sendai (tentative) Prof. Motoyuki Satoh
- ...
- Discussion

18:00 - 20:00 Summer Night Reception (Meeting room)
DAY 2: August 24(Tue.), 2004
Morning Session: Session chair Prof. Hiroyoshi Yamada (IGRS-JC Treasurer)
10:00 - 10:50 5. Overview of the Optimization of Polarimetric Contrast Enhancement

Prof. Jian Yang (Tsinghua Univ., China)

11:00 - 11:50 6. Terrain and Land-Use Classification Using Polarimetric SAR: An Overview

Dr. Jong-Sen Lee (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
Afternoon Session: Session chair Prof. Motoyuki Satoh (IGRS-JC Vice-Chair)
14:00 - 14:50 7. Observation of Ocean Surface Current, Waves and Wind Field with polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar

Prof. Wooil Moon (Seoul National Univ., Korea)

15:00 - 15:50 8. Recent Airborne SAR Activities at DLR

Dr. Irena Hajnsek (DLR, Germany)

16:00 Closing Remarks: Mr. Yukio Haruyama (Director, JAXA EORC)
  • Sponsorship:IEEE-GRSS Japan Chapter
  • Co-sponsorship:URSI-F
    • JAXA-EORC, Japan
    • NICT, Japan
    • IEICE AP
    • IEICE SANE

For more information,
http://www.wave.ie.niigata-u.ac.jp/IEEE_GRSS/PISAR2004_e.html