ESA FRINGE 2011

The European Space Agency is organising Fringe 2011, its 8th International Workshop on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry”, which will be hosted in ESA-ESRIN in Frascati, Italy between 19th and 23rd of September 2011. The Fringe series of workshops started in 1992 and they are currently organised by ESA every two years. The workshop is open to ESA Principal Investigators and co-investigators, scientists and students working in the field of SAR Interferometry and its applications, and to representatives from national, European and international space agencies and value adding industry.

Objectives

The main objectives of the workshop are to:

Provide a forum for scientific exchange and to initiate and encourage close collaboration between individual research groups
Present new results from the latest studies in the field and to assess the state-of-the-art
Provide a forum for ESA Principal Investigators to present results and status of AO and Cat-1 projects
Present the interferometric results from the new spaceborne sensors
Discuss the use of InSAR data for scientific research and applications development
Assess the available data ordering and analysis tools
To review and assess the maturity and operational readiness of InSAR applications
Formulate recommendations for algorithm and new products development

Organisation

The workshop is organised around:

Papers and posters selected by the Scientific Committee
Invited papers on ESA-funded studies
Round-table discussions with seed questions prepared by the Scientific Committee and ESA
Demonstration of software tools
Workshop Proceedings to be published by ESA

Proposed Themes

InSAR Methodology and techniques
- General
- DInSAR & PSI
- Atmosphere
- Polarimetric Interferometry, Tomography and other Advanced Topics
- Ground-based InSAR
- Cross Interferometry
InSAR Applications
- Earthquakes and tectonics
- Ice and snow
- PSI & DInSAR validation
- Terrain subsidence and landslides
- Thematic mapping and DEMs
- Volcanoes
Future InSAR Missions
- ESA Sentinel-1 constellation
- 3rd party missions

GAP contributes to the symposium by showing the results of his research activity in collaboration with the ISSIA and IRPI institutes of the National Research Council of Bari and Polytechnic of Bari.

GAP authors and presentations

Project: GEO Geohazards Supersite
Authors: F. BOVENGA, D. O. NITTI, A. GANAS, K. CHOUSIANITIS
Title: Co-seismic deformation due to the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake measured by Envisat-ASAR data and GPS
Session Title: Earthquakes and tectonics
Session Type: Poster
Date: 20-Sept-2011
Start Time: 16:40
End Time: 19:10
Location: Bld 14 - Big Hall

Project: ESA CAT-1 project #7444
Authors: J. WASOWSKI, F. BOVENGA, D. O. NITTI, R. NUTRICATO, T. DIJKSTRA AND X. MENG
Title: PSI helps to map relative susceptibility to ground and slope instabilities in the Lanzhou loess area of Gansu Province, China
Session Title: Terrain subsidence and landslides
Session Type: Poster
Date: 20-Sept-2011
Start Time: 16:40
End Time: 19:10
Location: Bld 14 - Big Hall

Project: AO-COSMO Project ID-1820
Authors: F. BOVENGA, V. M. GIACOVAZZO, A. REFICE, D.O. NITTI, N. VENEZIANI
Title: Interferometric multi-chromatic analysis of high resolution X-band data
Session Title: InSAR Methods
Session Type: Oral
Date: 19-Sept-2011
Start Time: 17:50
End Time: 18:10
Location: Bld 14 - Big Hall

Visit the official website http://earth.eo.esa.int/workshops/fringe2011/