News 2012 IGARSS 2012

One of the biggest conferences on geoscience and remote sensing will be held this summer in Europe. Jointly organised by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, the DLR German Aerospace Center and ESA, the 2012 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) is scheduled to be held 22–27 July in Munich, Germany. IGARSS provides a forum for scientists from more than 70 countries to obtain up-to-date information about the latest developments in remote sensing, exchange ideas, identify research trends and make contacts with the international remote sensing community.

With more than 2000 expected participants, this year’s conference is open to anyone interested in geoscience and remote sensing or involved in the development of Earth observation missions. This includes scientists covering multiple disciplines, ESA/DLR Principal Investigators, students, data users and representatives from national, European and international space agencies and value-adding industries. The event will also provide an opportunity to mark the 50th anniversary of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

Special sessions will be devoted to the presentation of the Sentinels missions that ESA is developing for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme. Additional sessions will be organised to present the latest scientific results and achievements from 10 years of ESA’s Envisat mission, the SMOS mission and DLR’s TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X missions. The symposium will also focus on the characterisation of dynamic Earth processes, assimilation, integrated Earth observing systems and current as well as upcoming satellite missions prepared in Europe and worldwide. Finally, the ESA Climate Change Initiative and associated Essential Climate Variables derived from the exploitation of 30 years of Earth observation data will be considered.

GAP contributes to the symposium by showing the results of his research activity in collaboration with Politecnico di Bari and other research partners involved in the ASI AO projects.

GAP authors and presentations

Poster Presentation - AO-COSMO Project ID-1462
Paper Code: WEP.P.11 Paper Number: 3292
Authors: D. O. NITTI, F. BOVENGA, R. NUTRICATO, F. INTINI, M. T. CHIARADIA, R.PACIONE, F. VESPE
Title: On the use of COSMO-SkyMed SAR data and Numerical Weather Models for interferometric DEM generation
Topic: Analysis Techniques: InSAR and High Resolution SAR
Session: WEP.P: DInSAR and Interferometry
Time: Wednesday, July 25, 18:00 - 20:00

Oral Presentation - AO-COSMO Project ID-2103
Paper Code: FR4.10.2 Paper Number: 3813
Authors: M. T. CHIARADIA, G. FORNARO, A. FRENI, G. FRANCESCHETTI, P. IMPERATORE, F. INTINI, A. IODICE, A. MORI, D. O. NITTI, R. NUTRICATO, D. REALE, D. RICCIO, P. TRIVERO
Title: COSMO/SkyMed AO Projects – Advanced 2D and 3D focusing of COSMO/SkyMed SAR data
Topic: Land: Land Use and Land Cover Change
Session: FR4.10: Land Cover Mapping with Radar
Time: Friday, July 27, 15:20 - 17:00

Poster Presentation - AO-COSMO Project ID-1820
Paper Code: WEP.P.9 Paper Number: 3350
Authors: F. BOVENGA, F. RANA, A. REFICE, D. O. NITTI, N. VENEZIANI
Title: Interferometric multi-chromatic analysis of COSMO-SkyMed data for height retrieval
Topic: Analysis Techniques: InSAR and High Resolution SAR
Session: WEP.P: High Resolution SAR Poster
Time: Wednesday, July 25, 18:00 - 20:00

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