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Fall AGU Session: Exploring geoscience applications of SAR imagery from
Alaska
Satellite Facility
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From: Zhong Lu <lu@xxxxxxxx>
Dear Colleagues:
Please consider submitting abstracts to the following session at Fall AGU.
Abstracts are due September 7, 2006.
H60: Exploring geoscience applications of SAR imagery from Alaska
Satellite Facility
Since the launch of the ERS-1 satellite in 1991, the Alaska Satellite
Facility (ASF), with funding from NASA, has offered more than 300
TerraBytes of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data to the U.S. science
community over the last 15 years. Starting with ERS-1, the spaceborne
SARs include the European ERS-2 and Envisat, Japanese JERS-1, Canadian
RADARSAT-1, and soon Japanese ALOS. The all-weather, day-and-night
operational capability of SAR has played an important role in many
disciplines of Earth sciences. It is routinely used to characterize ice
sheets and glaciers, sea ice, volcanic deformation, earthquake
displacement, ground subsidence. In addition, SAR provides data to
characterize and monitor high-resolution topography, coastal winds,
oceanic processes, flooding, oil spills, wetland and water-level changes,
vegetation and agriculture, soil moisture, and more. Moreover, the range
of techniques available for analyzing SAR data continue to grow, with new
techniques related to spatial texture, multi-temporal data signature
analysis, feature tracking and filtering, interferometric SAR (InSAR),
multi-temporal InSAR, permanent scatterer InSAR, and polarimetric InSAR,
etc. The intent of this session is to provide a historical perspective on
the important role that SAR has played in our current understanding of the
Earth and its processes. Papers from all Earth Science disciplines,
outlining the advances and accomplishments of SAR data and analysis, are
welcome.
Conveners: Zhong Lu, SAIC, USGS/EROS, email: lu@xxxxxxxx; Ben Holt, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, email: ben.holt@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Don Atwood, Alaska
Satellite Facility, University of Alaska Fairbanks, email:
datwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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