Program: International Coordination for Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Acquisition, Processing and Analysis for Earth Science and Applications

Workshop Map

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium \| 400 S. Wilson Ave., Pasadena
Time	Event	Speaker
8:00 - 8:30	Coffee
8:30 - 9:00	Welcome and introduction Purpose of workshop	Charles Elachi
9:00 - 12:00	Description of present and planned spaceborne SAR systems (20 min + 10 min Q&A): Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR) at ESA - Status and Future Plans. Maurice Borgeaud (4.2 MB .pdf)	ASI - Maria Battagliere CONAE - Laura Frulla CSA - Guennadi Kroupnik DLR - Manfred Zink ESA - Maurice Borgeaud ISRO - Tapan Misra
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch (on your own)
1:30 - 2:30	Continuation of descriptions	JAXA - Kazuo Tachi NASA - Paul Rosen
2:30 - 4:30	Presentations by scientist users (15 min each):
	Natural hazards	Tomokazu Kobayashi
	Tectonics	Howard Zebker
	Polar ice and ice sheets	Ian Joughin
	Forestry	Paul Siqueira
	Applications	Cathleen Jones
	Agriculture and vegetation	Heather McNairn
	Surface deformation with COSMO SkyMed and Sentinel	TBD
4:30 - 5:30	Divide attendees into three working groups to focus on specific topics from the workshop purpose list
6:00	Hosted Dinner at Atheneaum (Faculty Club)

Thursday, May 31, 2018
Time	Event	Speaker
8:00 - 8:30	Coffee outside Beckman Institute Auditorium
8:30 - 12:30	Working groups meetings: Group A: Present and Future Data - Visibility and Access (L0-L2) (Objectives 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8): Location: Tolman/Bacher House, Black Hole Conference Room Co-Chairs: Sobue, Kumar, Sandwell Facilitating search and requests for data Best practices from WMO Polar Space Task Acquiring spatially and temporally dense data sets Area of coordination to achieve improved science Standards or common development for data processing Computational efficiencies and challenges Group B: Future Imaging Systems - Goals, Plans, Challenges and Opportunities (Objectives 1, 6, 7, 11 and 12): Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium Co-Chairs: Borgeaud, Zink, Rosen New trends in spaceborne SAR Challenges and opportunities in leveraging defense, civilian and commercial systems Organizational challenges Desirability of coordinating future missions Road map for future activities Group C: Data Exploitation - Cal/Val, Fusion and Assimilation (L3-L4) (Objectives 9 and 10): Location: Keck Center Room 155 - The Think Tank Co-Chairs: McNairn, Frulla, Gardner Common test sites Maximizing data exploitation, airborne campaign, cross validation
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch (on your own)
2:00 - 5:00	Working groups presentations (60 min each)
5:00	Adjourn
	Dinner on your own this evening

Friday, June 1, 2018 Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Time	Event	Speaker
8:00 - 8:30	Coffee
8:30 - 10:30	Discuss and integrate the recommendations from working groups into one integrated set
10:30 - 11:30	Way forward and closing remarks	Charles Elachi
11:30	End of Workshop