Conference Agenda

ESA Welcome & Objectives

Francesco Sarti

ESA, Netherlands, The

Welcome Message from State Secretary, Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport

Matevž Frangeš

Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport, Slovenia

Welcome Message from Vice-rector for research and development of the University of Ljubljana

Gregor Dolinar

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Workshop Agenda & Logistics

Klaus Scipal

European Space Agency-ESA, Germany

PolInSAR achievements since PolInSAR 2023

Magdalena Fitrzyk

RSAC c/o European Space Agency ESA-ESRIN, Italy

ESA SAR Missions Status

Clement Albinet

European Space Agency (ESA), Italy

The NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission: Overview and Status

Marco Lavalle, Paul Rosen

NASA JPL, United States of America

ALOS-4 PALSAR-3 – An L-band SAR Mission with Operational Polarimetric Capacity

Ake Rosenqvist^1,2, Takeo Tadono¹, Takeshi Motohka¹

1: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; 2: solo Earth Observation (soloEO), Japan

Modernizing PolSARpro: A Python-Based Re-Implementation for Research and Education

Olivier D’Hondt¹, Armando Marino², Eric Pottier³, Lena Woźniak⁴, Magdalena Fitrzyk⁵, Francesco Sarti⁶

1: SAREO, Poland; 2: University of Stirling, UK; 3: IETR, France; 4: SATIM, Poland; 5: RSAC c/o ESA, Italy; 6: European Space Agency, ESA, Italy

Introducing the LSI-VC PolSAR Activity – A CEOS Effort to Support the Advancement of Polarimetric SAR R&D for Experts and New Users

Ake Rosenqvist^1,4, Magdalena Fitrzyk^2,3, Francesco Sarti³, Takeo Tadono⁴

1: solo Earth Observation (soloEO), Japan; 2: RSAC c/o ESA, Italy; 3: European Space Agency, Italy; 4: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

Modeling Multi-Static and Multi-Polarization Radar Scattering Off Anisotropic Soil

Konstantinos Karachristos, Ferdinando Nunziata, Nazzareno Pierdicca, Davide Comite

sapienza university of rome, Italy

Testing different methodologies to decompose PolSAR data into an Focus partial target plus a Residual one (1F+R)

Armando Marino

The University of Stirling, United Kingdom

Quad-pol Data Reconstruction from Compact-pol Data Using Deep Learning Methods

Sahar Ebrahimi^1,2, Vahid Akbari¹, Armando Marino¹, Mina Moradizadeh², Iman Khosravi²

1: University of Stirling, United Kingdom; 2: University of Isfahan, Iran

Decomposition of PolSAR heterogeneous targets using tensor fields

Armando Marino

The University of Stirling, United Kingdom

Comprehensive Analysis of Helical Scattering Component using ISRO’s EOS-04 Full Polarimetric SAR Data (💻online)

Jayasri Poludasu V¹, T. Gopi Krishna², K. Niharika¹, H.S.V. Usha Sundari Ryali¹

1: National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India; 2: Samskruti College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India

Full-Polarimetric Calibration of Ground-Based Radar using Corner Reflectors

Je-Yun Lee, Sang-Hoon Hong

Pusan National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Shedding New Light on the Lunar South Pole Through Quad-Polarimetric Chandrayaan-2 L-band Data

Poppy McVann¹, Armando Marino², Richard Ghail¹, Gerard Gallardo i Peres³, Philippa Mason³, Connor Knight¹

1: Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: University of Stirling; 3: Imperial College London

Multiscale Analysis of InSAR Phase Measurements for Forest Structure Characterization

Lea Albrecht, Konstantinos Papathanassiou

DLR, Germany

Exploiting Sentinel-1 Polarimetric Diversity for Near Real-Time Forest Loss Monitoring using a Bayesian Detector

Marta Bottani¹, Laurent Ferro-Famil^1,2

1: CESBIO, Toulouse, France; 2: ISAE Supaero, Toulouse, France

Polarization Coherence Tomography for Reconstructing Forest 3D Reflectivity from Multi-Frequency SAR and Lidar Measurements

Desirée Murgia^1,2,3, Roman Guliaev¹, Matteo Pardini¹, Fabrizio Lombardini³, Konstantinos Papathanassiou¹

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: University of Pisa, Department of Earth Science; 3: University of Pisa, Department of Information Engineering