Conference Agenda

Welcome Speech

Rune Floberghagen

European Space Agency

Spaceborne SAR Micro-Doppler: advances, challenges and applications

Carmine Clemente¹, Aleksanteri Vattulainen¹, Finlay Rollo¹, Laura Parra Garcia¹, Maria Michela Corvino²

1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: European Space Agency, ESRIN, Italy

Integration of ISAR Techniques in Spaceborne VHR SAR for Enhanced Ship Imaging and Characterization

Ilaria Nasso, Fabrizio Santi, Debora Pastina

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Joint Estimation of Target Kinematics and 3D Shapes via Object-Based Doppler Phase Coherence from Single VHR SAR Satellite Acquisitions

Francesco Vecchioli, Carmine Frascella, Federico Minati, Francesco Trillo, Massimo Zavagli, Mario Costantini

B-Open, Rome, Italy

Measuring Infrastructure Vibrations from Space Using SAR Micro-Doppler: Current Status and Perspectives

Giovanni Nico¹, Andrei Anghel², Adrian Focsa², Leticia Pérez³, iolanda Maggio³, Mihai Datcu², Michela Corvino⁴

1: DIAN S.R.L., Matera, Italy; 2: POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania; 3: Starion Italia S.p.A., Frascati, Italy; 4: ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

Airborne platforms at ONERA for security and defense applications

Jean Francois Nouvel¹, Nicolas Castet¹, Hubert Cantalloube², Olivier Leveque²

1: ONERA DEMR, 13661 Salon de Provence; 2: ONERA DEMR, 91123 Palaiseau

Cutting-Edge Spaceborne SAR Technologies for the Challenges of Next Decades

Michelangelo Villano, Nertjana Ustalli, Maxwell Nogueira Peixoto, Victor Mustieles-Perez, Olena Sarabakha, Yuta Otsuka, Riccardo Longari, Gerhard Krieger, Alberto Moreira

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Microwaves and Radar Institute, Germany

Challenges and multi-channel solutions for low-altitude drone-based millimeter wave SAR imaging

Max Manning, Jeff Stacey

aiRadar Inc, Canada

Multi-frequency SAR for change detection analysis in high resolution images

Frédéric Brigui^1,3, Xavier Dupuis^2,3, Régis Guivarc'h³, Laetitia Thirion³

1: ONERA - DEMR, University Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France; 2: ONERA - DEMR, Salon de Provence, France; 3: CentraleSupelec - SONDRA, University Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Future EO Resilience and Competitiveness Activities

Gordon Campbell

European Space Agency

Cross-Frequency SAR Analysis for Tropical Ecosystem Discrimination under Sparse and Noisy Reference Conditions

Yu Dong¹, Elizaveta Avoiani², Zahra Dabiri¹

1: Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria; 2: Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Forest Management and Applied Geoinformatics, Brno, Czechia

High Resolution Observations for Global Water Monitoring

Nick Everard

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom

Landslide detection, mapping, and damage assessment utilizing InSAR and machine learning techniques: A case study of Wayanad District, Kerala, India

Trambak Bhattacharya^1,2, Asapatna Guha², Jhulan Ghosh Bhattacharya³

1: Faculty of ITC, University of Twente, The Netherlands; 2: Amity University Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India; 3: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) School of Sciences (IGNOU), Uttar Pradesh, India

Concealed Object Detection in Forested Areas: High-Resolution PolTomoSAR, Ground and Canopy-Notched InSAR Approaches

Youssra El Bennioui¹, Laurent Ferro-famil^1,2, Thibault Taillade³

1: ISAE-SUPAERO, France; 2: CESBIO, University of Toulouse, France; 3: European Space Agency ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

Maritime domain awareness from SAR complex imagery based on high-order features

Laura Parra, Malcolm Macdonald, Carmine Clemente

University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

A Unified Containerized Framework for Multi-Sensor InSAR: Automated Processing of Sentinel-1 and COSMO-SkyMed Data

Ravi Kumar^1,3, Donato Amitrano², Giovanni Giacco³, Sharmistha Sonowal^1,3

1: University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy; 2: Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Italy; 3: Latitudo 40, Italy

Distributed spaceborne SAR for enhanced micro-motion frequency resolution

Finlay Rollo, Greta Zefi, Aleksanteri Vattulainen, Carmine Clemente

University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

Parametric Sparse Representation of Target Vibrations in SAR Using Orthogonal Matching Pursuit

Finlay Rollo, Carmine Clemente

University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

Experimental validation of spaceborne SAR for measurement of structural vibrations

Aleksanteri Vattulainen¹, Alessandro Lotti², Chiara Suppi², Enrico Tubaldi³, Daniele Zonta², Pietro Milillo^4,5, Carmine Clemente¹

1: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Strathclyde, G1 1XW, Glasgow, UK; 2: Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy; 3: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, G1 1XJ, Glasgow, UK; 4: Cullen College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA; 5: Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany

Lossy Compression of Multilook SAR Images Employing Variance-Stabilizing Transform and BPG-Coder

Andrii Pavliuk¹, Vladimir Lukin², Andrii Shelestov¹, Kussul Nataliia¹

1: National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Ukraine; 2: National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute" Kharkiv, Ukraine

Multi-modal SAR and underwater sensing for advanced awareness and environmental applications

Aleksanteri Vattulainen¹, Finlay Rollo¹, Thomas Lloyd², Fernanda dos Santos², Johan Bosschers², Petrika Gjanci³, Kristian Nordlie³, Carmine Clemente¹, Samy Djavidnia⁴, Maria Michela Corvino⁵

1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN), Netherlands; 3: W-sense s.r.l, Italy; 4: European Maritime Safety Agency, Portugal; 5: European Space Agency, ESRIN, Italy

Automated detection and classification of concealed targets using L-band PolSAR simulation and deep learning

Ines Meraoumia, Alexandre Boissier

Rubicon, France

Assessing the Potential of Detecting Harmful Algal Blooms for Environmental Monitoring through SAR Backscatter Anomaly Analysis

Cristiano Ciccarelli¹, Massimiliano Gargiulo², Mohammed Ajaoud¹, Muhammad Zaid Qamar¹, Massimiliano Lega¹

1: Department of Engineering, University of Napoli ‘Parthenope’, Centro Direzionale, Isola C4, 80143 Napoli, NA, Italy; 2: Earth Observation Directorate, Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA), 81043 Capua, CE, Italy

Boosting Ship Recognition and Characterization in Spaceborne VHR SAR by Exploiting Multipath Signatures

Ilaria Nasso, Fabrizio Santi, Lorenzo Piazzo, Debora Pastina

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

A multi-sensor approach to observe floating plastic

Anna Verlanti¹, Ferdinando Nunziata², Nicola Angelo Famiglietti³, Antonino Memmolo³, Robert Migliazza³, Andrea Buono¹, Maurizio Migliaccio¹, Annamaria Vicari³

1: Parthenope University of Naples, Naples, Italy; 2: Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; 3: National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Irpinia branch, Grottaminarda, Italy

Mismatch-Based Relocation of Moving Ships in Spaceborne Single-Channel SAR Images

Elena Morando, Debora Pastina

La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

Lower-band drone-embedded SAR imaging for buried objects and change detection

Xavier de Milly, Joana Frontera-Pons, Joseph Martinot-Lagarde, Hubert Cantalloube, Frederic Brigui

DEMR, ONERA, Université Paris-Saclay, France

Contribution of space hydrology to the monitoring and management of water resources in the Niger River

Cheffou Mairounkoundoum Rachid

Université Abdou Moumouni, Niger

Key Note

Nuno Miranda

ESA

Next Generation Processing Methods for Security Applications: Distributed Sensing

Nida Sakar¹, Carmine Frascella², Federico Minati², Andre Barros Cardoso da Silva¹, Marc Rodriguez-Cassola¹, Gustavo Daniel Martin-del-Campo-Becerra¹, Stefan V. Baumgartner¹, Mario Costantini², Maria Michela Corvino³, Pau Prats¹

1: DLR, Germany; 2: B-Open srl, Italy; 3: ESA-ESRIN, Italy

RUMORE: Extracting Signal Intelligence from SAR Radio Frequency Interferences

Tomas Zajc¹, Giulia Tessari¹, Lia Bernabò¹, Emlyn Hagen², Paolo Pasquali¹, Nil Angli³

1: sarmap SA, Switzerland; 2: NV5 Geospatial Solutions GmbH, Germany; 3: ESA, UK

Polarimetric REACTIV for Security Monitoring: Multivariate Coefficient-of-Variation Bounds to Reveal Ultra-Weak RFI and Operational Anomalies in Sentinel-1 Time Series

Elise COLIN

ONERA Palaiseau, DTIS, Université Paris Saclay, France

Detection and Mitigation of Radio Frequency Interference in Airbus Radar Constellation Data

Elif Özcakir, Parivash Lumsdon, Wolfgang Koppe

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Immenstaad am Bodensee, Germany

Modeling and Simulation of ECM Active Deception technique in SAR Imaging

Federico Ulivieri, Adriano Persico, Mattia Penati, Davide Giudici

Aresys s.r.l, Italy

Distributed Synthetic Aperture with CubeSats: Processing Solutions for RODiO Mission

Antonio Gigantino, Alfredo Renga, Gianluca Coppa, Maria Salvato, Francesca Pelliccia, Maria Daniela Graziano

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Clock synchronisation and radiometric calibration issues for bistatic SAR imaging.

Hubert M.J. Cantalloube¹, Frédéric Brigui¹, Olivier Boisot²

1: ONERA, Université Paris Saclay, F-91123 Palaiseau - France; 2: ONERA, F-13661 Salon CEDEX AIR - France

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EDA

ASSURE‑SAR: Application‑Specific Super‑Resolution for SAR

Amit Kumar Mishra¹, Lidia Moryc², Michał Lupa²

1: RC Fornax, Bristol, UK; 2: AGH University, Faculty of Space Technologies, Kraków, Poland

AI-Driven Detection and Classification of Objects in SAR Imagery using the OREC Software

Nicole Rusnak, Radosław Murdzek, Jakub Szczepaniak, Marzena Dutka

SATIM Monitoring Satelitarny Sp z o.o., Poland

ADVANCED AI BASED FEATURE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION ON HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR IMAGERY

Michal Reinstein, Jakub Simanek, Petr Horky, Patrik Vacek, Jiri Novotny, Jakub Kozisek

SpaceKnow, Czech Republic (Czechia)

An Integrated Framework for AI-Based SAR Automatic Target Recognition Using Real and Simulated Data

Marco Defilippi, Achille Peternier, Andrey Giardino, Paolo Pasquali

sarmap SA, Switzerland

From Temporal Stacking to Single-Pass Inference: A Deep Learning Framework for SAR Denoising with Real Sentinel-1 References

Salvatore Prochilo, Andrea Cavallini, Vito Moliterni

Starion Group Italia S.p.A., Italy

A Modular Motion-Aware Framework for AI Target Recognition in VHR SAR Imagery exploiting ISAR and Micro-Doppler Features

Federico Marmoreo¹, Massimo Zavagli¹, Francesco Vecchioli¹, Carmine Clemente², Michela Corvino³, Mario Costantini¹

1: B-Open, Rome, Italy; 2: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK; 3: European Space Agency (ESA) Esrin, Frascati, Italy

Towards SAR–Optical Correspondence Without 3D Models: Learning from LIDAR Projections in Very High Resolution Urban Images

Elise COLIN, Aurélien PLYER

ONERA Palaiseau, DTIS, Université Paris Saclay, France

Beyond Static Imagery toward Burst Video Mode in Very High Resolution imaging.

Pierre-Olivier Vanberg, Adrien Descamps, Nicolas Dourt

aerospacelab, Belgium

Learning from Raw SAR Data: AI-Based Vessel and RFI Detection with the OpenSAR Insight Dataset

MARIA-CORTES BENITO-ORTIZ¹, DAVID MATA-MOYA¹, Juan Manuel Cuerda Muñoz², Cristina Hiedra Priego², Marcos García Rodríguez², Anya Forestell³, Abdulhameed Yunusa³, Hamideh Kerdegari³, Giorgia Gobbi³, Daniel Dutra³, Natacha Fairburn³, Rohaan Ahmed³, Andrei-Lucian Alexe⁴, Bogdan-Gabriel Prisecariu⁴, Rares-Alexandru Ilie⁴, Roberto Del Prete⁵, Nicolas Longépé⁵

1: UNIVERSITY OF ALCALA, Spain; 2: Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Madrid, Spain; 3: Indra Deimos UK LTD, Oxford, United Kingdom; 4: Indra Deimos SRL, Bucharest, Romania; 5: ESA ϕ-lab, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

AI-Based SAR Image Formation from Sentinel-1 Level-0 Data

Vito Moliterni, Andrea Cavallini, Estela Fernandez Valenzuela

Starion Group Italia S.p.A., Italy

TOWER-CHECK: Toward On-Board SAR Damage Screening of Power Transmission Towers with a Chip-Based Processing Chain

Enrico Sain¹, Vito Fortunato¹, Cristoforo Abbattista¹, Leonardo Amoruso¹, Daniela Drimaco¹, Stefano Oliva¹, Robert Incze¹, Gennaro Mele¹, Raffaele Nutricato², Alessandro Parisi², Alberto Morea², Davide Oscar Nitti², Khalid Tijani², Mirko Di Noia², Filomena Ciola², Tommaso Di Noia³, Giuseppe Fasano³, Cataldo Guaragnella³, Francesco Giordano⁴, Alessandra Costantino⁴, Salvatore Cassano⁴, Alberto Bigazzi⁵, Maria Virelli⁵, Gianluca Pari⁵, Gabriele Mascetti⁵

1: Planetek Italia s.r.l., Italy; 2: Geophysical Applications Processing (GAP) s.r.l., Italy; 3: Politenico di Bari, Bari, Italy; 4: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy; 5: Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome, Italy

AI-Enabled Detection of Transmission Tower Damage from Raw COSMO-SkyMed SAR Data

Alessandra Costantino¹, Francesco Giordano¹, Giuseppe Fasano², Tommaso Di Noia², Cataldo Guaragnella², Salvatore Cassano², Raffaele Nutricato³, Alessandro Parisi³, Alberto Morea³, Davide Oscar Nitti³, Mirko Di Noia³, Mimma Ciola³, Khalid Tijani³, Enrico Sain⁴, Vito Fortunato⁴, Stefano Oliva⁴, Leonardo Amoruso⁴, Cristoforo Abbattista⁴, Daniela Drimaco⁴, Robert Incze⁴, Gennaro Mele⁴, Alberto Bigazzi⁵, Gabriele Mascetti⁵, Gianluca Pari⁵, Maria Virelli⁵

1: University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy; 2: Politenico di Bari, Bari, Italy; 3: Geophysical Applications Processing (GAP) srl, Bari, Italy; 4: Planetek Italia, Bari, Italy; 5: Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome, Italy

AI-Driven Feature Classification in Level-0 SAR Data

Joe Callaghan¹, Sidra Aleem¹, Iain Keaney¹, Aubrey Dunne¹, Thibault Taillade²

1: Ubotica Ltd., Ireland; 2: ESA-ESRIN, Italy

SAR-GONAUT: Optimizing AI-BAQ for Large-Scale Mission Scenarios

Nicola Gollin¹, Michele Martone¹, Luca Dell'Amore¹, Jose-Luis Bueso-Bello¹, Carolina Gonzalez¹, Bojarski Allan¹, Max Ghiglione², Paola Rizzoli¹

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: Radio Frequency Payloads and Technology Division, European Space Agency (ESA)

Physics-Informed Deep Learning for SAR image focusing in view of onboard SAR applications

Paola Rizzoli, Federico Marangi, Luca Dell'Amore, Nicola Gollin, Michele Martone, Daniel Carcereri

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Key Note

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NASA

First Insights into an Equatorial Rapid-Repeat Full-Polarimetric X-Band SAR Dataset from a New Commercial Mission for Geospatial Intelligence

Nathan PAILLOU¹, Régis GUINVARC’H¹, Laetitia THIRION¹, Chun Jian HO²

1: SONDRA, CentraleSupélec, France; 2: ST Engineering Geo-Insights, Singapore

Multi-Frequency SAR Integration of PS-InSAR and Soil Moisture Retrieval for Critical Infrastructure Monitoring: Advancing Geospatial Intelligence Capabilities

Divyeshkumar Rana, Paolo Mazzanti, Francesca Bozzano

Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

Land subsidence mapping at a country scale: a study of Egypt’s Nile Valley using InSAR and deep learning methods

Amira Zaki^1,2, Islam Fadel¹, Mark van der Meijde¹, Abdullah Mohammad³, Hakan Tanyas¹, Gomaa M. Dawod⁴, Suhyb Salama¹, Ling Chang¹, Irene Manzella¹

1: University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands; 2: Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt; 3: Geological and Environmental Sciences Department, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA; 4: Survey Research Institute, National Water Research Center, Egypt

Integrating Multi-SAR Deformation Monitoring with BIM-Based Infrastructure Analytics: The GIGASAR Platform

Chia-Hsiang Yang¹, Carsten Stemmler¹, Frederick Bruch¹, Nils Wolf¹, Peter Goerke-Mallet², Sebastian Teuwsen¹, Tobias Rudolph², Andreas Müterthies¹

1: EFTAS Remote Sensing Transfer of Technology, Germany; 2: Research Centre of Post-Mining, Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola, Germany

*Multi-Sensor Deep Learning Framework for Crop Type Mapping Using Sentinel-1 Time Series and Sparse Sentinel-2 Optical data

Sakthivel R, Geethakarthi A

Kumaraguru College of Technology,, India

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Sentinel-1 Capabilities in Crisis Mapping Using Various Methods

Levente Ronczyk, István Kovács, Márton Horváth, Ádám Keszthelyi

DATelite Ltd, Hungary

Romanian Ground Motion Pilot Service for Sustainable Infrastructure

Valentin Poncos¹, Delia Teleaga¹, Dan Birtas¹, Altan Abdulamit², Tiberiu Rus², Valentin Danciu²

1: Terrasigna, Romania; 2: Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania

SAR MONITORING OF MAN-MADE TARGETS AT SEA: A CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF AI AND PHYSICALLY BASED APPROACHES

Maurizio Migliaccio¹, Andrea Buono¹, Valeria Pezone¹, Mozhgan Zahriban Hesari²

1: Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; 2: Centre Eau Terre Environnement Research, National Scientific Research Institute (INRS), Quebec, G1K 9A9, Canada

PLL-Adaptive Temporal Phase Unwrapping for Persistent-Scatterer MT-InSAR Time Series

Giuseppe Buono¹, Saverio Pascazio¹, Cosmo Lupo², Raffaele Nutricato³, Alberto Morea³

1: University of Bari, Italy; 2: Polytechnic University of Bari; 3: GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATION PROCESSING (GAP) SRL

Monitoring refugee camps in arid areas using ESA Sentinel-1 time-series

Régis Guinvarc'h¹, Laetitia Thirion¹, Pierre Vernier²

1: CentraleSupelec, France; 2: UNHCR, Copenhagen, Denmark

Self-supervised Learning for Long-wavelength SAR Foliage Penetration (FOPEN) SAR Change Detection

Shuo Li¹, Mehrdad Yaghoobi¹, Thibault Taillade²

1: University of Edinburgh; 2: European Space Agency (ESA)