TUTORIAL ON SAR POLARIMETRY
IEEE-GRSS Gujarat chapter (https://www.ieee-grss-gujaratsection.org/) is primarily involved in capacity building activities in advanced remote sensing technologies such as microwave and hyper-spectral remote sensing, satellite data analysis through machine learning and artificial intelligence in Geoscience applications. The society is engaged in bridging the gap between the Indian students/researchers andinternational experts in the fields through organization of various training programs, expert lectures, workshops and summer training programs. IEEE-GRSS Gujarat publishes chapter newsletter periodically showing technical articles and activities carried out by the chapter. Previous issues of the newsletter can be obtained from the chapter website.
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) polarimetry (PolSAR) and SAR polarimetric interferometry (PolInSAR) are among the most advanced techniques of microwave remote sensing and have shown great potential in geoscience applications in recent years. With the proliferation of air-borne and space-borne synthetic aperture radars capable of producing polarimetric SAR data, there has been growing interests among the remote sensing and geoscience research community to explore and learn the advanced techniques to utilize the data for various geoscience and planetary science applications. With this background, the tutorial on SAR polarimetry and SAR Interferometry has been arranged with the internationally renowned experts in the field for the larger interests of IEEE-GRSS members in India.
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- Start time: 03 Dec 2019 04:00 AM UTC
- End time: 05 Dec 2019 12:00 PM UTC
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Speakers
Dr Carlos Lopez-Martinez of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Biography:
Carlos Lopez-Martinez, Head of Remote Sensing and Natural Resources Modelling team, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology received the MSc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From October 2000 to March 2002, he was with the Frequency and Radar Systems Department, HR, German Aerospace Center, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. From June 2003 to December 2005, he has been with the Image and Remote Sensing Group – SAPHIR Team, in the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (I.E.T.R. – CNRS UMR 6164), Rennes, France. In January 2006, he joined the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya as a Ramón-y-Cajal researcher, Barcelona, Spain, where he has been associate professor in the area of remote sensing and microwave technology until April 2017. Since May 2017 he is responsible of the Remote Sensing and Natural Resources Modelling team in the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology in Luxembourg. His research interests include SAR and multidimensional SAR, radar polarimetry, physical parameter inversion, digital signal processing, estimation theory and harmonic analysis. He is associate editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing and he served as guest editor of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He has organised different invited sessions in international conferences on radar and SAR polarimetry. He has presented advanced courses and seminars on radar polarimetry to a wide range of organizations and events. Dr.López-Martínez has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings in the Radar Remote Sensing and image analysis literature. He received the Student Prize Paper Award at the EUSAR 2002 Conference and co-authored the paper awarded with the First Place Student Paper Award at the EUSAR 2012 Conference. He has also received the IEEE-GRSS 2013 GOLD Early Career Award.
Email:
Address:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , UPC Signal Theory and Communications Department – TSC Remote Sensing Laboratory - RSLab.,, Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou) of DLR
Biography:
Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou, Senior Research Scientist, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (M’02–SM’03–F’14) received the Dipl. Ing degree (Honors) in 1994 and the Dr. degree (Honors) in 1999 from the Technical University of Graz, Austria. From 1992 to 1994 he was with the Institute for Digital Image Processing (DIBAG) of Joanneum Research, in Graz, Austria. Between 1995 and 1999 he worked at the Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. From 1999 to 2000 he was an EU post-doctoral fellow with Applied Electromagnetics (AEL) in St. Andrews, Scotland. Since October 2000 he is again with the Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He is a senior scientist leading the Information Retrieval research group at DLR-HR. His main research interests are in polarimetric and interferometric processing and calibration techniques, polarimetric SAR interferometry, and the quantitative parameter estimation from SAR data, as well as in SAR mission design and SAR mission performance analysis. He is member of DLR’s TanDEM-X and Tandem-L science teams, JAXA’s ALOS-2 Cal-Val teams, ESA’s BIOMASS Mission Advisory Group, SAOCOM-SC Expert Team, and JAXA’s Carbon and Kyoto Initiative and NASA’s GEDI Mission Science Team. His main research interests include polarimetric and interferometric processing and calibration techniques, polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry, and the quantitative parameter estimation from SAR data, as well as SAR mission design and SAR mission performance analysis. He was awarded with the IEEE GRSS IGARSS Symposium Prize Paper Award in 1998, the Best Paper Award of the European SAR Conference (EUSAR) in 2002 and the DLR science award in 2002. In 2011 he was awarded with DLR’s Senior Scientist Award.
Email:
Address:DLR, , Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling, Germany
Agenda
Dec 3, 2019
10:30 to 11:30 Registration and Inauguration
Tea Break
12:00 to 13:30 Basics of PolSAR, image formation, errors and corrections, current sensors and imaging modes, polarimetric matrices, data types and availability (CLM)
13:30 to 14:30 Lunch
14:30 to 16:00 PolSAR Speckle Filtering and Matrix Estimation (CLM)
Break
16:30 – 17:30 PolSAR Decomposition Theory 1 (CLM)
Dec 4, 2019
10:00 to 11:30 PolSAR Decomposition Theory 2 (CLM)
Break
12:00 to 13:30 Review of Applications of POLSAR Decomposition (CLM)
13:30 to 14:30 Lunch
14:40 to 16:00 PolSAR Classification (CLM)
Break
16:30 to 17:30 PolSAR Applications (CLM)
Dec 5, 2019
10:00 to 11:30 Polarimetric SAR Interferometry Part1 (KP)
Break
12:00 to 13:30 Polarimetric SAR Interferometry Part2 (KP)
13:30 to 14:30 Lunch
14:40 to 16:00 Polarimetric SAR Tomography (KP)
Break
16:30 to 17:30 Conclusions
Faculty:
CLM= Dr Carlos Lopez-Martinez
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spain
KP= Dr Kostas Papathanassiou
DLR, Germany