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2020 NextGen Airborne SAR Workshop
Presented by the UAVSAR Project
20–21 May, 2020
8:30AM–12PM PDT
in coordination with the NASA Surface Deformation and Change (SDC) Study virtual meeting.
Complete the Next Generation SAR Configuration Survey
Day 1: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 (all times PDT)
8:30 AM (10 min) |
Introduction and Overview by UAVSAR Program Scientist (Gerald Bawden) |
8:40 AM (15 min) |
UAVSAR Facility Instrument Overview (Yunling Lou) |
Current and Future Contribution by Science Discipline |
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8:55 AM (35 min) |
Solid Earth |
| 8:55 AM (7 min) |
Earthquakes (L-band) (Andrea Donnellan) Post-seismic, creep, inter-seismic |
| 9:02 AM (7 min) | Landslides and debris flows (L&P-band) (Eric Fielding) |
| 9:09 AM (7 min) | Volcano dynamics: Kilauea lava volume (Ka-band) (Paul Lundgren) |
| 9:16 AM (14 min) | Future contributions (discussion) |
9:30 AM (40 min) |
Terrestrial Ecology |
| 9:30 AM (5 min) | ABoVE: vegetation structure, biomass, fire scar (L&P-band) (Chip Miller) |
| 9:35 AM (5 min) | ABoVE: TomoSAR for boreal forest structure (L&P-band) (Scott Hensley) |
| 9:40 AM (5 min) | AfriSAR: tropical vegetation structure, biomass (L-band) (Sassan Saatchi) |
| 9:45 AM (5 min) | Delta-X: wetlands and delta dynamics (L-band) (Marc Simard) |
| 9:50 AM (5 min) | NISAR-Ecosystem Cal/Val campaign and Agriculture (L-band) (Paul Siqueira) |
| 9:55 AM (5 min) | Permafrost (L&P-band) (Kevin Schaefer) |
| 10:00 AM (10 min) | Future contributions (discussion) |
10:10 AM (10 min) |
Break |
10:25 AM (20 min) |
Hydrology & Snow |
| 10:25 AM (5 min) | AirMOSS and SMAP: soil moisture (P&L-band) (Dara Entekhabi) |
| 10:30 AM (5 min) | SnowEx: change in snow accumulation and SWE (L&Ka-band) (HP Marshall) |
| 10:35 AM (10 min) | Future contributions (discussion) |
10:45 AM (25 min) |
Cryosphere |
| 10:45 AM (5 min) | OMG: glacier topography (Ka-band) (Ala Khazendar) |
| 10:50 AM (5 min) | Western US glaciers (Ka-band) (Andrew Fountain) |
| 10:55 AM (5 min) | Iceland glacier dynamics (L-band) (Brent Minchew) |
| 11:00 AM (5 min) | Sea ice (L-band) (Ben Holt) |
| 11:05 AM (10 min) | Future contributions (discussion) |
11:15 AM (10 min) |
Oceanography |
| 11:15 AM (5 min) | Eddies (L-band) (Ben Holt) |
| 11:20 AM (5 min) | Future contributions (discussion) |
11:25 AM (25 min) |
Applied Science |
| 11:25 AM (5 min) |
Infrastructure stability (L-band) (Cathleen Jones) Levee subsidence and cracks, aqueduct subsidence, and sink holes |
| 11:30 AM (5 min) | Oil spill (L-band) (Cathleen Jones) |
| 11:35 AM (5 min) |
Disasters (L-band) (Yunling Lou) Floods, earthquakes, wildfires, landslides, and rocket explosion |
| 11:40 AM (10 min) | Future contributions (discussion) |
11:50 AM (10 min) |
Discussion |
12:00 PM |
End of Day 1 |
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Day 2: Thursday, May 21, 2020 (all times PDT)
8:30 AM (10 min) |
Introduction to NextGen Concept Development (Gerald Bawden) |
8:40 AM (10 min) |
Synergies with Decadal Survey Targeted Observables - SDC (Paul Rosen) |
8:50 AM (10 min) |
Synergies with Decadal Survey Targeted Observables - STV (Andrea Donnellan) |
9:00 AM (10 min) |
Synergistic observation with other instruments (Scott Hensley)
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9:10 AM (25 min) |
Radar Imaging and Processing Techniques |
| 9:10 AM (15 min) | UAVSAR demonstrations (Scott Hensley) |
| 9:25 AM (10 min) | Future contributions (discussion) |
9:35 AM (15 min) |
Break |
9:50 AM (55 min) |
Conceptual Design Options for NextGen Airborne SAR |
| 9:50 AM (10 min) | Aircraft options (Tagg) |
| 10:00 AM (15 min) | Radar configurations on aircrafts (Lou) |
| 10:15 AM (30 min) | Capabilities versus science disciplines and applications (Lou) |
10:45 AM (45 min) |
Prioritization of NextGen Airborne SAR Capabilities (Discussion) |
11:30 AM (30 min) |
Next step and discussion (Bawden) |
12:00 PM |
End of Day 2 |
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