The
International Workshop on Synthetic Aperture Radar 2009 (IWSAR2009) has been
held on February 16, 2009 at
University Convention Hall (Keyaki Kaikan), Chiba
University, Japan under the
supporting of Venture Business Laboratory (VBL), Center for Environmental
Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University and IEEE GRS
members. The main goal of the workshop is to promote the novel innovation on synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) for small satellite and to exchange information on recent
research directions in this area. The conference covers many current topics as
aircraft and small satellite onboard SAR system, radar application, signal
processing, antenna design, interferometry, polarimetry, mapping etc. An important
role of the workshop will be to provide a forum for technical interactions
among industry practitioners, research scientists from subject matter area.
This workshop was composed by
invited speaks and poster sessions that focused on SAR and small satellite
topics. This workshop is very efficient where the researches, industries,
academic institutions, government etc were gathered one day to discuss on SAR
and small satellite only. The summary of this workshop is employed for the SAR
and small satellite researches that is being held in CEReS, Chiba University, Japan. The CEReS already has held some studies to launch
circularly polarized synthetic aperture radar (CP-SAR) onboard small satellite
in the near future. The objective of this small satellite project is to promote
the scientific study on CP-SAR mission to monitor the north and south poles, CP
scattering mechanism, disaster monitoring etc.
In
this Workshop, nine experts in synthetic aperture radar and small satellite as
below were invited to give invited speaks.
| (1) |
“Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Analysis by Four-Component
Scattering Power Decomposition” by Prof. Yoshio Yamaguchi, Niigata University, Japan |
| (2) |
“A Robust Second Intensity Moment Model for Tree
Biomass Estimation by High-Resolution Polarimetric SAR” by Prof. Kazuo Ouchi, National Defense Academy of Japan, Japan. |
| (3) |
“PALSAR - A New Tool for Monitoring the Earth and Its Changes” by Dr. Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan |
| (4) |
“Application of PALSAR imagery for exploration
and development of oil, gas and mineral resources” by Dr. Masatane Kato, Earth
Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center (ERSDAC), Japan |
| (5) |
Towards operational SAR applications for agriculture monitoring : achievements and pending issues from modeling and experimental analysis” by Prof. Pierre Defourny, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
| (6) |
“Early in-orbit performance of the nano-remote
sensing satellite PRISM” by Prof. Nakasuka Shinichi, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| (7) |
“The design and development of SAR system in Multimedia
University (MMU)” by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Koo Voon Chet, Faculty of Engineering and
Technology, Multimedia University, Malaysia |
| (8) |
“Development of Circularly Polarized Synthetic
Aperture Radar onboard Small Satellite” by Assoc. Prof. Josaphat Tetuko Sri
Sumantyo, Chiba University, Japan |
| (9) |
“Nano-Satellite Challenges in Remote Sensing” by Dr. Takashi Eishima, AXELSPACE Corporation, Japan. |
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