26th Science Team meeting - Announcement (Final)

Date:   January 20 - 24, 2020 (Mon. - Fri.)
Venue:    TKP Shinbashi Conference Centre
                    Participant list


Agenda January  20 (Mon.),21 (Tue.), 22 (Wed.), 23 (Thu.) 24 (Fri.),2020
   Meeting Program (pdf,2.61MB) download    
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 pdf file
10:00-10:10 Welcome (Takeo Tadono, JAXA EORC)
10:10-10:30 K&C update (Ake Rosenqvist, soloEO) download
(2.67MB)
10:30-10:50 New methodology for EORC Forest/Non-Forest map generation (Takuya Itoh, RESTEC) download
(1.20MB)
10:50-11:10 EORC global mosaic processing/re-processing and data distribution (Kazufumi Kobayashi, RESTEC) download
(2.80MB)
11:10-11:30 EORC research results (Masato Hayashi, JAXA EORC) download
(5.67MB)
11:30-11:50 Updates to the Sigma-SAR processor (Masanobu Shimada, Tokyo Denki Univ) download
(2.69MB)
11:50-12:10 Cloud-based solution for ScanSAR mosaic processing (Josef Kellndorfer, Earth Big Data) download
(3.44MB)
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 download
(2.50MB)
14:25-14:45 Bruce Chapman, JPL
 ALOS-2 ecosystem product validation with UAVSAR and field measurements download
(70.8MB)
14:50-15:10 Bernd Scheuchl, UC Irvine
 InSAR based Ice Velocity and Grounding Line Measurements in Antarctica download
(3.63MB)
15:15-15:35 Rahmat Arief, LAPAN
 Development of Digital Services for Peatland Monitoring download
(3.96MB)
15:40-16:00 Dirk Hoekman, WUR
 Tropical Peat Watch demonstrator Indonesia download
(7.20MB)
16:05-16:25 Mikhail Urbazaev, FSU Jena
 Characterization of Amazon floodplain forest habitats and inundation dynamics using PALSAR-2 time series download
(4.81MB)
16:30-16:50 Ake Rosenqvist (Pete Bunting & Richard Lucas)
 The Global Mangrove Watch: Moving to Finer Resolutions download
(5.44MB)
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 download
(3.13MB)
17:25-17:45 Open floor discussions
~17:45 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 download
(1.87MB)
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 download
(10.5MB)
10:10-10:30 Joaquim Macuacua, Nat. Dir. Forestry
 Deforestation and Forest Degradation Analysis in Mozambique download
(3.13MB)
10:30-10:50 Alex Bouvet, CESBIO
 Above-ground biomass change in the woodlands and savannas of Southern Africa download
(4.91MB)
10:50-11:10 Stéphane Mermoz, Globeo
 Forest loss detection in South-East Asia using ALOS-1 and ALOS-2 SAR data download
(2.95MB)
11:10-11:30 Christian Koyama, TDU
 Assessing the impact of precipitation on ALOS-2 forest observation in the tropics download
(9.10MB)
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)
download
(2.81MB)
16:45 – 18:15 Poster Session
(Open to all. KC member participation voluntary)
18:30-20:30 Welcome Reception
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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 download
(6.28MB)
14:55-15:15 Paul Siqueira, UMass
 L-band Sensitivity to Biomass and Landcover Structure in the ABoVE domain download
(4.07MB)
15:15-15:35 Johan Fransson, SLU
 Retrieval of forest biomass and biomass change using PALSAR, PALSAR-2 and PALSAR-3 data download
(1.76MB)
15:40-16:00 Maurizio Santoro, Gamma RS
 Decadal forest biomass change with ALOS-1 and ALOS-2 L-band SAR observations download
(1.88MB)
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 download
(6.22MB)
K&C Session 5: Related Missions and activities
16:25-16:45 Paul Siqueira, UMass
 NISAR mission update download
(5.24MB)
16:50-17:10 John Armston, UMD
 GEDI mission update download
(21.2MB)
17:15-17:35 Matias Palomeque, CONAE
 SAOCOM mission update download
(6.63MB)
K&C Session 6: Meeting Summary
17:35-17:45 All
 KC Meeting Summary and wrap-up download
(0.79MB)
~18:00 Adjourn
18:00-20:00 Reception dinner
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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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ALOS K&C 26th Science Advisory Panel / Science Team Meeting Participants