OceanSAR 2006
    Home > Program
Program

Printable version of program available here.

Welcome Address
Welcome Addresses, Desmond Power, C-CORE, St. John's, NL Canada
Conference program format and outcomes, Yves Crevier, Canadian Space Agency,St. Hubert, QC, Canada
Johnny Johanessen, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen - From Svalbard to St. John’s
Neil Cater, Canadian Centre for Marine Communications,St. John's, NL Canada - Creating a Smart Bay


Session 1
Stewardship of Coastal and Marine Environments
Chair: Desmond Power
  Needs and Requirements: Stewardship of Coastal Waters - the Information Systems Perspective - Jerzy Graff
Gordon Staples (presented by Jeff Hurley), SAR State of the Art: SAR for Stewardship of the Coastal and Marine Environment
Jochen Horstmann, WiSAR - A Tool for Operational Wind Retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
Roger De Abreu, SAR-Based Oil Pollution Surveillance in Canada: Operational Challenges
Jeff Hurley, Reducing Subjectivity in Oil Detection using SAR: The Detection Triangle
Christopher Wackerman, Ship Monitoring from SAR: An Automated Detection System for Ships and Oil Spills
Paul Budkewitsch, RADARSAT-1 observations from Davis Strait to Baffin Bay for off-shore oil seep detection.:


Interactive Session Day 1
Sonia Pelizzari, Oil Spill Segmentation of SAR Images via Graph Cuts
Vladimir V. Malinovsky (presented by Stein Sandven), SAR observations of oil spills and natural surface slicks in the Black Sea
George Leshkevich, Algorithm Development for Operational Satellite SAR Classification and Mapping of Great Lakes Ice Cover
Gonçalo Valadão (presented by Sonia Pelizzari), Maritime Traffic Monitoring Using a Single Spaceborne SAR Sensor? Algorithms and Applicability
Sonya Banal, Canadian Space Agency's Hurricane Watch program, supporting research on wind field retrieval from RADARSAT-1 images
Jeff Secker, Assisted Acquisition Planning for Maritime Surveillance with Commercial Satellite Imagery


Session 2
Monitoring and Surveillance for Security and Domain Awareness
Chair: Jeff Hurley
Needs and Requirements: Monitoring and surveillance for security and domain awareness - Brian Whitehouse
SAR State of the Art: Monitoring and Surveillance for Security and Domain Awareness - Paris Vachon
Laura Hoy, The Interdepartmental Marine Security Working Group
Andrew Samoluk, Project Polar Epsilon: Joint Space-Based Wide Area Surveillance and Support Capability
Tonje Nanette Arnesen, Requirements for polarisation combination for ship detection in the Barents Sea
Michael Henschel, Observation of Vessel Heave with Airborne SAR


Session 3
Operational Ocean Management
Chair: Dean Flett
Needs and Requirements: Status of the Development and Implementation of a NOAA SAR Products System for Coastal and Marine Operational Applications - William Pichel
SAR State of the Art - Johnny Johanessen
Ben Holt, Satellite and Modeling Components of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System
Robin Berglund, IBPlott - a system for operational use of space borne SAR information in the Baltic Sea
Hui Shen, The Capability of Hurricane Wind Monitoring by SAR
Laurie Neil, Operational Utilization of SAR-Derived Winds for Forecast Operations at the Pacific Storm Prediction Centre
Jim Helbig, Fine Scale Wind Patterns in Coastal Embayments Using RADARSAT-1
Johnny Johannessen, High resolution wind field retrievals off the Norwegian coast: Comparing ASAR observations and MM5 simulations
Julien Choisnard, Evaluation of Earth Observation wind data for marine search and rescue drift forecasting


Interactive Session Day 2
Jochen Horstmann, Measurement of Hurricane Winds using Synthetic Aperture Radars
Flavio Parmiggiani, The near-real time high-resolution ice map service for the ships of the Italian Antarctic Program.
Stein Sandven, Ice drift and area flux in the Fram Strait from ENVISAT ASAR data
Christopher Wackerman, Toward an Automated and Standardized SAR Coastal Environmental Toolkit
Guy Aube, Monitoring environmental & socio-economic indicators in the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence River Basin: towards a St. Lawrence Observing System (SLOS)


Session 4
National and International Collaborations and Programs
Chair: Yves Crevier
Keynote address - Mike Manore - Ocean SAR Observational Requirements in GEOSS
Keynote address - Charles Randell - Creating a successful international consortium - lessons learned from 30 years of collaboration
Guro Dahle Strom, The Norwegian SatOcean Programme –A multi-use concept for operational marine services
Celestino Gomez Cid, Ocean monitoring services for the Spanish coast
Yves Crevier, Coordination for Earth Observation Marine Suveillance and Monitoring in Canada
Malcolm Davidson, ESA Sentinel-1 SAR mission
Guy Seguin (presented by Andrew Eddy), RADARSAT Constellation - Changing the Paradigm of Maritime Surveillance
Thomas Puestow, Polar View - A Euro-Canadian Consortium Serving Polar Regions with SAR-Based Services
Don Atwood, Support for Science and Operations in Alaskan Waters


Session 5
Advances in SAR Information Extraction
Chair: Chris Wackerman
Frank Monaldo, Applicability of Conventional Scatterometer Model Functions to High-Resolution SAR Wind Retrievals: The Effect of Spatial Averaging
Philippe Beaucage, High Resolution Surface Winds in the Coastal Transitional Zone from SAR Satellite Imagery and MC2 Weather Prediction Model
Will Perrie, Impact of satellite winds on marine wind estimates
Vincent Kerbaol, Improved bayesian wind vector retrieval scheme
David Walker, Variational Assimilation of SAR Imagery for Near-Shore Regional Wave Estimation
José da Silva, Role of Synthetic Aperture Radar for observing "Local Generation" of internal solitary waves in the Bay of Biscay
Johnny Johannessen, Synthetic Aperture Radar for ocean current feature retrievals and surface velocity estimates
Roland Romeiser, TerraSAR-X and Beyond: High-Resolution Mapping of Surface Current Fields by Spaceborne Along-Track InSARs
Donald Thompson, Extracting Geophysical Parameters from Multi-Polarization SAR Imagery
Fabrice Collard, Doppler centroid anomaly extraction and interpretation
Carl Howell, Improved Iceberg Detection with Envisat Dual Co-polarization SAR
Susanne Lehner, Extreme wind and wave conditions observed by synthetic aperture radar on a global and regional scale


Interactive Session Day 3
Todd Sikora, Wind Direction Editors for Use in the Generation of Synthetic Aperture Radar Wind Speed Imagery
Xiaoqing Wang, A Three-Scale Ocean Bistatic Microwave Scattering Simulation Model
Alexis Mouche, A simplified asymptotic theory for ocean surface electromagnetic wave scattering
Xiaofeng Li, SAR imaging of shallow water sand ridges aligned with tidal current
Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Radar Imaging of Current Features: A synergy of backscatter power and doppler shift
Fabrice Collard, Ocean Waves Retrieval in coastal zone
Richard Danielson, Marine Wind Analysis with the Benefit of Radarsat-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Data


Closing Session
Summary Presentation
- Moderator: Desmond Power
Presentor: Ron Brown, EOMSCC - Integrated EO Solutions

Discussion - From St. John's to OceanSAR 2008

Acknowledgement and Final Thanks


 
home | program
location | organization
  Top