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Preliminary Programme

Day 1, Monday 19 September 2011
08:00-09:00 Registration and Poster mounting  
Opening Session Chair:
M. Engdahl & Y-L. Desnos
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
09:00-09:10 ESA Welcome Address Maurice Borgeaud (ESA)
09.10-09:30 Workshop Objectives Marcus Engdahl (ESA)
09:30-10:00 ESA SAR missions status Henri Laur (ESA)
10:00-10:20 ESA Supersites Initiative Wolfgang Lengert (ESA)
10:20-10:40 InSAR-capabilities of the ESA SAR Toolbox NEST Andrea Minchella (R-SAC)/
Petar Marinkovic (PPO.labs)
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break  
Session:  Sentinel-1

Chair:
P. Potin & B. Rosich

Bld 14 - Big Hall  
11:10-11:40 Sentinel-1 System Overview Dirk Geudtner (ESA)
11:40-12:10 Sentinel-1 Mission Operations Concept Pierre Potin (ESA)
12:10-12:30 Sentinel-1 Payload Data Ground Segment operations concept Betlem Rosich (ESA)
12:30-12:50 Sentinel-1 core Ground Segment user products and operational quality control Nuno Miranda (ESA)
12:50-13:10 GMES services overview Maria Milagro (Randstad)
13:10-13:50 Round Table ESA & Sentinel-1  
13:50-15:00 Lunch  
Session: InSAR Methods Chair:
M. Eineder & F. Rocca
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
15:00-15:20 Bi-directional Interferometric SAR Acquisition with TanDEM-X Josef Mittermayer
15:20-15:40 The impact of second generation SAR sensors on the deformation time series analysis via DInSAR techniques: The COSMO-SkyMed study case Eugenio Sansosti
15:40-16:00 Generation and calibration of high resolution DEMs from single baseline spaceborne interferometry: the ‘split-swath’ approach Davide Giudici
16:00-16:20 Design of a geosynchronous SAR system for water-vapour maps and deformation estimation Andrea Monti Guarnieri
16:20-16:40 How accurately can current and future InSAR missions map tectonic strain? Tim Wright
16:40-17:10 Coffee Break  
17:10-17:30 ERS-Envisat Tandem Cross-Interferometry Campaigns: systematic CInSAR processing and studies over extended areas Paolo Pasquali
17:30-17:50 Multi-pass ERS-ENVISAT Cross-Interferometry methods and results Urs Wegmüller
17:50-18:10 Interferometric Multi-Chromatic Analysis of High Resolution X-Band Data Fabio Bovenga
18:10-18:30 Round Table InSAR Methods  
WELCOME DRINK  
 
Day 2, Tuesday 20 September 2011
Session: Earthquakes & Tectonics I Chair:
E. Fielding & S. Jonsson
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
08:40-09:00 Interseismic strain accumulation across strike-slip faults in the Middle East Richard Walters
09:00-09:20 Monitoring of interseismic creep of the Longitudinal Valley Fault (Eastern Taiwan) using Persistent Scatterer InSAR with ALOS PALSAR data Champenois Johann
09:20-09:40 Shallow creep along the Haiyuan fault (Gansu, China) revealed by InSAR time series analysis Romain Jolivet
09:40-10:00 Mapping fault creep on the faults of northern California using persistent scatterer InSAR Gareth Funning
10:00-10:20 Interseismic strain accumulation across an active thrust system: an InSAR case study in the Himalayas Raphael Grandin
10:20-10:40 Constraints on fault and lithosphere rheology from the coseismic slip and postseismic afterslip of the 2006 Mw7.0 Mozambique earthquake Alex Copley
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break  
Parallel Session: Pol-InSAR & Tomography Chair:
S. Tebaldini & C. Lopez-Martinez
Bld 1 - Magellan  
08:40-09:00 Diff-Tomo Opening of the Urban SAR Pixel: Single-look 4D and Non-uniform Motion “5D” Extensions Fabrizio Lombardini
09:00-09:20 Polarimetric SAR Tomography with TerraSAR-X by means of Distributed Compressed Sensing Matteo Nannini
09:20-09:40 3D SAR Tomography of the Paracou Forest: Methods and Results Mauro Mariotti Dalessandro
09:40-10:00 Underlying Topography Estimation and Separation of Scattering Contributions over Forests Based on PolInSAR Data Carlos López-Martínez
10:00-10:20 Sub-Canopy Topography Estimation With Multibaseline Pol-InSAR Data: A RELAX-Based Solution Matteo Pardini
10:20-10:40 Pol-InSAR & Tomo Round Table  
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break  
Session: Earthquakes & Tectonics I - Continued Chair:
E. Fielding & S. Jonsson
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
11:10-11:30 Inter-Seismic Deformation, Volcanic Uplift and Post-Rifting Relaxation in North Iceland, derived from GPS and InSAR Time-Series Sabrina Metzger
11:30-11:50 Three-dimensional time-varying crustal velocity and strains in the Afar triangle Carolina Pagli
11:50-12:10 Fault activity in the Manda Hararo rift in Afar (Ethiopia) using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar. Stéphanie Dumont
12:10-12:30 Multi-track InSAR Time Series of Plate Boundaries: The Zagros Mountains and Makran Subduction Zone, Southern Iran William Barnhart
12:30-12:50 Determining large scale crustal velocity field from GPS and InSAR: With application to Tibet Hua Wang
12:50-13:10 Two Contrasting InSAR Studies of Recent Earthquakes in Tibet Barry Parsons
13:10-13:30 Magmatically driven normal faulting: A comparism of cumulative vs. incremental fault growth derived from high-resolution LiDAR and InSAR data Barbara Hofmann
13:30-13:50 DLR’s Activities to Support the GEO Supersite Initiative with TerraSAR-X Data Michel Eineder
13:50-15:00 Lunch  
Parallel Session: Ice and snow Chair:
J. Mouginot & N. Gourmelen
Bld 1 - Magellan  
11:10-11:30 Increased ocean melting and retreat of the Pine Island Glacier Noel Gourmelen
11:30-11:50 Antarctic Ice Motion Unveiled with InSAR Jeremie Mouginot/ Eric Rignot
11:50-12:10 Mapping Ice Shelf Flow with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Stacking Malcolm McMillan
12:10-12:30 Grounding line mapping in Antarctica using 15 years of DInSAR data Jeremie Mouginot
12:30-12:50 Detecting Ice Motion in Grove Mountain, East Antarctica with ALOS/PALSAR Interferometry Xin Tian
12:50-13:10 Short-term glacier velocity changes at West Kunlun Mountains, NW Tibet Masato Furuya
13:10-13:30 Airborne and satellite-based InSAR observations of Icelandic Ice Caps Mark Simons
13:30-13:50 Monitoring ice flow surface velocities of the Inylchek Glacier (Kyrgyzstan) using TerraSAR-X Data Julia Neelmeijer
13:50-15:00 Lunch  
Session: Earthquakes & Tectonics I - Continued Chair:
E. Fielding & S. Jonsson
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
15:00-15:20 Tensile Strength of Rock from InSAR Observations Sigurjon Jonsson
15:20-15:40 Earthquake slip distribution estimation from InSAR data, using a random field approach Andrew Hooper
15:40-16:00 Imaging recent complex earthquake ruptures with combined InSAR and seismic analysis Eric Fielding
16:00-16:20 Geodetic Imaging, Seismic Hazard and Mountain Building Across the Sierra Nevada/Great Basin Transition Using InSAR and GPS William Hammond
16:20-16:40 Earthquakes & Tectonics I - Round Table  
Parallel Session: Ice and snow - Continued Chair:
J. Mouginot & N. Gourmelen
Bld 1 - Magellan  
15:00-15:20 ERS-EnvisatTandem Cross-Interferometry results from the EET northern hemisphere and Antarctic campaigns Paolo Pasquali
15:20-15:40 A review of the 2011 ERS-2 3-day mission Noel Gourmelen
15:40-16:00 Ice velocity fluctuations of Greenland’s Jacobshavn Isbrae from ERS-2 3-day SAR imagery Aud Sundal
16:00-16:20 Displacement of periglacial landforms on Svalbard observed with high-resolution RADARSAT-2 and TerraSAR-X InSAR time series Tom R. Lauknes
16:20-16:40 Ice and Snow - Round Table  
16:40-19:10

Poster Session I

Bld 14 - Big Hall

 
Day 3, Wednesday 21 September 2011
Session: Atmosphere I Chair:
R. Hanssen & F. Rocca
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
08:40-09:00 OSCAR: Online Services for Correcting Atmosphere in Radar Paul Von Allmen
09:00-09:20 InSAR integrated water vapour variational assimilation in mesoscale model MM5: a step for improving model initial conditions at high resolution Nazzareno Pierdicca
09:20-09:40 Validation of Centimeter-Level SAR Geolocation Accuracy after Correction for Atmospheric Delay using ECMWF Weather Data Xiaoying Cong
09:40-10:00 InSAR Time Series with Atmospheric Estimation Model for Regional Deformation Mapping Zhenhong Li
10:00-10:20 Numerical Weather Model Assisted Time Series InSAR Processing for Geophysical Application Wenyu Gong
10:20-10:40 IP-STATS – A System for Deriving Statistical Models of Ionospheric Signals in Low-Frequency SAR Franz Meyer
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break  
Session: Supersite Splinter Meeting  
Bld 1 - James Cook Mtg room A Chairs:
  Agenda Falk Amelung
(University Miami -
GEO task leader)
08:40-09:20 Outline of Supersite White Paper & endorsement Craig Dobson
(NASA - CEOS Supersite leader)
09:20-10:10 Outline of Supersite Strategic Plan (Space & In-situ) & endorcement Massimo Cocco
(INGV - EPOS leader)
10:10-10:40 Way forward, milestones & GEO plenary preparation  
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break  
Parallel Session: Earthquakes & Tectonics II Chair:
Y. Fukushima & M. Furuya
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
11:10-11:30 Satellite Constraints & Field Observations of slip in the Canterbury Earthquakes, New Zealand: Implications for future seismic hazard in Christchurch John Elliott
11:30-11:50 The whole 2010-2011 New Zealand seismic sequence revealed by DInSAR and time-series data Cristiano Tolomei
11:50-12:10 Coseismic and postseismic deformation analysis of the 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield and 2011 Mw 6.3 Christchurch earthquakes in New Zealand from combined GPS and InSAR observations John Beavan
12:10-12:30 Damage Proxy Map of the 2011 M6.3 Christchurch Earthquake using InSAR Coherence Sang-Ho Yun
12:30-12:50 How sharp is our source image of the 2010 Haiti earthquake? Henriette Sudhaus
12:50-13:10 Postseismic deformation following the 2010 Haiti earthquake: Time-dependent surface subsidence induced by groundwater flow in response to a sudden uplift Shimon Wdowinski
13:10-13:30 An new approach for modeling fault dislocation from wrapped interferometric SAR data Gianfranco Fornaro/Diego Reale
13:30-13:50 Transient slip on the Hayward fault from SBAS-InSAR and GPS Ingrid Johanson
13:50-15:00 Lunch  
Parallel Session: Earthquakes & Tectonics II - Continued Chair:
Y. Fukushima & M. Furuya
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
15:00-15:20 Coseismic Deformations of the 2011 Tohoku, Japan, Earthquake and triggered events derived from ALOS/PALSAR Manabu Hashimoto
15:20-15:40 Wide area Deformation map generation with TerraSAR-X Data. the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake 2011 case. Nestor Yague-Martinez
15:40-16:00 The March 11, 2011, Tohoku-oki earthquake (Japan): surface displacement and source modeling Salvatore Stramondo
16:00-16:20 The Tohoku-oki (Japan) Earthquake imaged through 3-days repeat cycle ERS-2 SAR data Michele Manunta
16:20-16:40 Earthquakes & Tectonics II - Round Table  
16:40-17:10 Coffee Break  
Parallel Session: Terrain Subs. & Landslides Chair:
M. Crosetto & P. Pasquali
Bld 1 - Magellan  
11:10-11:30 Surface deformation of the whole Netherlands after PSI analysis Miguel Caro Cuenca
11:30-11:50 Subsidence mapping in Jakarta - PSI processing of L-band ALOS PALSAR data Rachel Holley
11:50-12:10 Satellite SAR interferometry for the measurement of surface subsidence above deep tunnels in metamorphic basement rocks of the Alps Tazio Strozzi
12:10-12:30 DORIS FP7-EU project: exploitation of 20 years DInSAR data archive for landslide monitoring Michele Manunta
12:30-12:50 TSX InSAR assessment for slope instabilities monitoring in Alpine periglacial environment (Western Swiss Alps, Switzerland) Chloé Barboux
12:50-13:10 Long Term Analysis of Strong non-linear deformations induced by Coal Mining using the SBAS Technique Kanika Goel
13:10-13:30 Quantification of subsidence rates associated with groundwater flow using SAR interferometry Joao Catalao
13:30-13:50 Terrain Subs. & Landslides Round Table  
13:50-15:00 Lunch  
Parallel Session: Methods - Unwrapping Chair:
M. Crosetto & M. Costantini
Bld 1 - Magellan  
15:00-15:20 New Improvements of the EMCF Phase Unwrapping algorithm for surfaca deformation analysis at full spatial resolution scale Antonio Pepe
15:40-16:00 Redundant Phase Unwrapping and Integration of Finite Differences on a Sparse Multidimensional Domain: Theory and Validation Mario Costantini
16:00-16:20 Quality-guided segmentation for phase unwrapping of sparse differential interferograms Tom Grydeland
16:20-16:40 Methods - Unwrapping Round Table  
16:40-17:10 Coffee Break  
Session: Atmosphere II Chair:
D. Perissin & D. Small
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
17:10-17:30 Spatio-temporal variability of Water Vapor as seen by InSAR, GPS, Meris and MM5 Daniele Perissin
17:30-17:50 Systematic InSAR tropospheric phase delay corrections from global meteorological reanalysis data Romain Jolivet
17:50-18:10 Correcting DInSAR ALOS data using atmospheric delay estimated by GPS signals to constrain the surface deformation in the Longitudinal Valley (Taiwan Island). Rana Charara
18:10-18:30 Pushing the accuracy limit for CO2 sequestration monitoring: Statistically optimal spatio-temporal removal of the atmospheric component from InSAR Networks Bernhard Rabus
18:30-18:50 Atmosphere Round Table  
 
Day 4, Thursday 22 September 2011
Session: Methods - DInSAR/PSI Chair:
J. Mallorqui & R. Hanssen
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
08:40-09:00 Wide Area Persistent Scatterer Interferometry: Algorithms and Examples Nico Adam
09:00-09:20 Virtual reconstruction and validation of Sentinel-1 Interferometric WideSwath mode: InSAR/PSI algorithms perspective Petar Marinkovic
09:20-09:40 TOPS Differential SAR Interferometry with TerraSAR-X Luca Marotti
09:40-10:00 Mapping 3D Surface Deformation by Combining Multiple Aperture InSAR and Conventional InSAR Zhong Lu
10:00-10:20 Combination of X-band high resolution SAR data from different sensors to produce ground deformation maps Javier Duro
10:20-10:40 Bridge Health Monitoring using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) Adrian McCardle
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break  
Session: Methods - DInSAR/PSI - Continued Chair:
J. Mallorqui & R. Hanssen
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
11:10-11:30 Deformation estimation in non Urban areas Exploitin High Resolution SAR Data Kanika Goel
11:30-11:50 InSAR partially coherent targets: multiplicity of approaches Daniele Perissin
11:50-12:10 Deformation rate estimation on changing landscapes using Temporarily Coherent Point InSAR Lei Zhang
12:10-12:30 Exploitation of Temporary Coherent Scatterers in SqueeSAR Analyses Fabrizio Novali
12:30-12:50 Noise covariance model for time series InSAR analysis Piyush Agram
12:50-13:10 Detecting regular patterns in urban PS sets Alexander Schunert
13:10-13:30 A comparative study of corner reflectors, compact active transponders and I2GPS for monitoring deformation in areas with low spatial density of persistent scatterers: the Delft field experiment Pooja Mahapatra
13:30-13:50 Methods - DInSAR/PSI Round Table  
13:50-15:00 Lunch  
Parallel Session: Volcanoes Chair:
Y. Fukushima & G. Puglisi
Bld 1 - Magellan  
08:40-09:00 InSAR and thermal monitoring of lava fountain episodes at Mt. Etna: the case study of the ASI-SRV Pilot project during the January 2001 episode Giuseppe Puglisi
09:00-09:20 3D temporal evolution of displacements recorded on Mt. Etna from the 2007 to 2010 through the SISTEM method Francesco Guglielmino
09:20-09:40 Long-term experience gathered on Etna for volcano monitoring using radar and optical remote sensing, in preparation for Sentinel Missions Giuseppe Puglisi
09:40-10:00 Source models for the March 5-9, 2011 Kamoamoa fissure eruption, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, constrained by InSAR and in-situ observations Paul Lundgren
10:00-10:20 Subsidence of the collapsed caldera of Miyakajima, Japan, 2006-2009 Yosuke Aoki
10:20-10:40 Anatomy of an unstable volcano from InSAR: multiple processes affecting flank instability at Mt. Etna, 1994-2008 Valerio Acocella
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break  
Parallel Session: Volcanoes - Continued Chair:
Y. Fukushima & G. Puglisi
Bld 1 - Magellan  
11:10-11:30 Pulses of Deformation Reveal Frequently Recurring 1 Shallow Magmatic Activity Beneath the Main Ethiopian Rift Juliet Biggs
11:30-11:50 Long-term uplift due to deep magma bodies: Insights from ERS and ENVISAT observations Yuri Fialko
11:50-12:10 Eighteen years of InSAR observations at Fernandina volcano, Galápagos: dynamics of magma storage and eruption Marco Bagnardi
12:10-12:30 Tectonic control of magma ascent in volcanic arcs: Space-geodetic evidence from the West-Sunda arc, Indonesia Estelle Chaussard
12:30-12:50 InSAR measurements of volcanoes in the tropics: examples from a survey of the Central American Volcanic Arc Susanna K. Ebmeier
12:50-13:10 High resolution monitoring of Campi Flegrei (Naples, Italy) by exploiting TerraSAR-X data: an application to Solfatara crater Christian Minet
13:10-13:30 Analysis of the Eyjafjallajökull 2010 eruption through InSAR time series Joana Martins
13:30-13:50 Volcanoes Round Table  
13:50-15:00 Lunch  
Session: Methods- General Chair:
U. Wegmüller & A. Monti-Guarnieri
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
15:00-15:20 Effect of Unmodelled Reference Frame Motion on InSAR Deformation Estimates Hermann Bähr
15:20-15:40 Revising vegetation scattering theories: Adding a rotated dihedral double bounce scattering to explain cross-polarimetric SAR observations over wetlands Sang-Hoon Hong
15:40-16:00 Recent advances on InSAR temporal decorrelation: theory and observations using UAVSAR Marco Lavalle
16:00-16:20 Mining Very High Resolution InSAR Data based on Complex-GMRF Cues and Relevance Feedback Jagmal Singh
16:20-16:40 Methods- General Round Table  
16:40-19:10

Poster Session II

Bld 14 - Big Hall

 
Day 5, Friday 23 September 2011
Session Summaries
Bld 14 - Big Hall  
09:40-09:50 Summary Sentinel-1
09:50-10:00 Summary InSAR Methods - Missions
10:00-10:10 Summary Earthquakes & Tectonics
10:10-10:20 Summary Pol-InSAR & Tomography
10:20-10:30 Summary Ice and snow
10:30-10:40 Summary Atmosphere
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-11:20 Summary Supersite Splinter Meeting
11:20-11:30 Summary Terrain Subs. & Landslides
11:30-11:40 Summary Methods - Unwrapping
11:40-11:50 Summary Methods - DInSAR & PSI
11:50-12:00 Summary Volcanoes
12:00-12:10 Summary Methods - General
12:10-12:20 Closing Address