3rd Institute of Space Sciences Summer School and <br> 1st IEEE GRSS Instrumentation and Future Technologies Remote Sensing Summer School (IFT-R3S)

Name: 3rd Institute of Space Sciences Summer School and 1st IEEE GRSS Instrumentation and Future Technologies Remote Sensing Summer School (IFT-R3S)
Start: 2019-07-01T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2019-07-05T16:30:00+02:00
Location: No location set

1 Jul 2019, 09:00 → 5 Jul 2019, 16:30 Europe/Madrid

Estel (general chair) Cardellach (Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC)), Georgios (technical and educational contents -- Lidar) Tzeremes (European Space Agency), Mariko (GRSS communications POC) Burgin (IEEE GRSS), Marwan (technical and educational contents -- SAR) Younis (DLR), Noemí (Logistics and Finance) Cortés (ICE), Rashmi (technical and educational contents -- GNSS/SoOP) Shah (NASA/JPL), Upendra N. (link to GRSS) Singh (NASA/LARC)

Description

Presentation

The Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) is an institution at the forefront of scientific and technological research with the mission of contributing to the general advance of studies of the Cosmos.

The Instrumentation and Future Technologies Technical Committee (IFT) is one of the six technical committees of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). Its mission is to foster international cooperation in advancing the state-of-the-art in geoscience remote sensing instrumentation and technologies that improve knowledge for the betterment of society and the global environment.

The 3rd Institute of Space Sciences Summer School is linked to the 1st IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing society (GRSS) Instrumentation and Future Technologies (IFT) Remote Sensing Summer School (IFT-R3S).

Objective

The objective of the first Summer School on Instrumentation and Future Technologies for Remote Sensing (IFT-R3S) is to promote future research in remote sensing, to connect future PhD students to research topics under the IEEE GRSS IFT Technical Committee, and to highlight the educational activities of the GRSS society. This IFT-R3S is meant to be the first of an itinerant series (annual or biannual) of IFT-R3S editions, moving to different towns and continents and hosted by other Instrumentation and Future Technologies Technical Committee (IFT-TC) groups.

Topics

The topics of this edition are:

SAR principles, modes of operation, spaceborne instrument, processing, interferometric SAR, bi-static SAR, reflectometry using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and other Sources of OPportunity (SoOP) and Lidar.

Addressed to

The school is open to any interested scientist and engineer, but it focuses on Master students, junior Ph.D. students and young professionals, as a way to promote research careers in remote sensing technologies in general and instrumental and future technologies in particular.

The visit to the UPC remote sensing and nanosat laboratories is kindly offered by the Unitat María de Maeztu CommSensLab - UPC

summer2019@ice.csic.es

Monday, 1 July
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Registration
  
  Convener: Mrs Noemi Cortes (ICE)
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Welcome
  
  Institutional welcome by the ICE, the IEEE GRSS IFT-TC. Logistics and other relevant information.
  
  Conveners: Prof. Diego F. Torres (ICREA & Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC)), Dr Estel Cardellach (Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC) Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC)), Mr Marwan Younis
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society: an Early Career Perspective
  
  This lecture presents the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professional organization, and one of its 39 technical societies, the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). Information on the opportunities offered to students and young professionals in their early career stages will be highlighted.
  
  Convener: Prof. Adriano Camps (UPC, IEEE-GRSS Past President)
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  Relevance and Impact of Remote Sensing into NOAA products
  
  Lecture on the scientific and civilian motivations of remote sensing in general and Earth remote sensing in particular.
  
  Convener: Dr Lidia Cucurull (NOAA)
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch break 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  
  Overview of Radar Remote Sensing Techniques
  
  Since in inception in the early 20th century the number of applications for radar remote sensing has grown dramatically. This lecture will introduce type of things radars can measure and how, the types of remote sensing radars including scatterometers, sounders, altimeters, and synthetic aperture radars and some of the remote sensing applications that are being addressed by radar remote sensing.
  
  Convener: Dr Scott Hensley (NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- 16:15 → 17:00
  
  Coach to UPC labs
  
  transportation to the UPC campus
- 17:00 → 19:00
  
  Visit to the UPC labs
  
  Visit to the UPC remote sensing labs, including the nanosat lab. Thanks to "María de Maeztu CommSensLab" - UPC
- 19:00 → 20:00
  
  icebreaker reception at UPC: (and introduction to GRSS IDEA and WMW, by Shawn C. Kefauver, Univ. Barcelona)
Tuesday, 2 July
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  SAR principles
  
  Starting from the functionality of a conventional Radar (Radio Detection and Ranging) the principle of Side Looking Radar (SLAR) is explained. But SLAR require a very long antenna to yield a reasonable resolution; which leads to the idea of forming a synthetic aperture using a moving platform and a succession of pulses. The lecture explains the principle of SAR operation together with a derivation of its basic properties. The emphesize is to establish a good basic understanding, while avoiding many equations and details.
  
  Convener: Dr Marwan Younis (DLR)
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  SAR processing
  
  This lecture will show how SAR processing may simply be understood as a matched filtering, adapted to the particularities of the SAR signal acquisition and geometry. The matched filter can be applied in range and azimuth focusing. Conventional processing algorithms (time domain, chirp scaling, range Doppler) are further explained. Topics such as unfocused SAR and range cell migration correction, and speckle filtering are detailed.
  
  Convener: Dr Pau Prats (DLR)
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  lunch break 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 15:00
  
  SAR modes and operation
  
  After covering the stripmap operation mode (locture on SAR principles and processing), this lecture introduces new well established operation modes, which are the ScanSAR and Spotlight. These modes are used to increase the coverage, i.e. swath width, or the azimuth resolution of SAR as explained in the lecture. Further, the basic priciple behind the processing (focusing) of the various modes is explained.
  
  Convener: Dr Pau Prats (DLR)
- 15:00 → 16:00
  
  SAR performance
  
  The limitations of SAR in terms of timing, range/azimuth ambiguities, and signal-to-noise ratio are explained. These lead to the minimum antenna area constrain as a figure representing the basic performance constraing of SAR, which linkes the effect of antenna pattern to the performance as will be explained.The talk further covers typical SAR instrument requirements and their impact on the system design.
  
  Convener: Dr Marwan Younis (DLR)
- 16:00 → 16:15
  
  coffee break 15m
- 16:15 → 17:00
  
  Introduction to Python SAR Workshop
  
  Introduction to python for SAR data processing and applications
  
  Convener: Dr Pau Prats (DLR)
- 18:00 → 20:00
  
  Sports event (optional)
  
  Informal competition of 'beach volley' at the nearby sports facility. No need to have played before!
  
  The entrance gives access to the swimming pool, saunas and jacuzzi. Please bring your own towel and comfortable clothing (and swimming suit if interested in the pools). Entrance fee: 9 euro to be payed at the entrance using credit or debit card.
Wednesday, 3 July
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  SAR instruments and missions
  
  Synthetic aperture radars have been employed for both Earth and planetary application and on spaceborne and airborne platforms. These systems have overcome a number of interesting technical challenges to accomplish their intended missions. This talk will present some of the history of SAR systems and examples of airborne and spaceborne radars used for Earth and planetary applications.
  
  Convener: Dr Scott Hensley (NASA/JPL)
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  SAR interferometry
  
  Radar interferometry is one of the most powerful techniques in radar remote sensing which use the phase measurements, which are converted into highly precise differential range measurements, to quantitatively measure a wide variety of physical phenomena. This lecture will introduce the measurement concept, explain how interferometry can be use to measure topography, surface deformation and vegetation height or ice thickness. Basic sensitivities and limitations of the technique will also be presented.
  
  Convener: Dr Scott Hensley (NASA/JPL)
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  lunch break 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 16:00
  
  SAR hands-on: Practical exercises (I)
  
  Practical exercises to process and analyze SAR data
  
  Convener: Dr Marwan Younis (DLR)
- 16:00 → 16:15
  
  coffee break 15m
- 16:15 → 17:00
  
  SAR hands-on: Practical exercises (II)
  
  Practical exercises to process and analyze SAR data
  
  Convener: Dr Marwan Younis (DLR)
- 19:00 → 22:00
  
  Social Dinner
  
  Social Dinner in Barcelona downtown with students and lecturers
Thursday, 4 July
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  GNSS and SoOP: Part I
  
  Remote sensing techniques using opportunisitc signals transmitted by the Global Navigation Satellite System, such as the GPS constellation. The first part will include a general overview of the GNSS, the GNSS radio occultation technique for atmospheric sounding, general principles of GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R) and the ocean winds and waves application of GNSS-R.
  
  Convener: Dr Estel Cardellach (Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC) Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC))
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  GNSS and SoOP: Part II
  
  The second Part of the GNSS & SoOP session will expand the GNSS reflecometry applications (land applications, cryosphere and altimetry) and it will also explain the principles of remote sensing techniques using other Sources of Opportunity (SoOP), such as communications or TV broadcast signals.
  
  Convener: Dr Rashmi Shah (NASA/JPL)
- 12:30 → 14:00
  
  Lunch break 1h 30m
- 14:00 → 15:30
  
  GNSS/SoOP hands-on: practical exercises
  
  Hands-on exercise that will include a small experiment to collect SoOP signals through direct and reflected radio-links, using ICE-CSIC/IEEC in-house developed equipment. The activity will conclude with the processing of these signals using python tools.
  
  Convener: Dr Serni Ribó (ICE, CSIC/IEEC)
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  coffee break 30m
- 16:00 → 17:00
  
  GNSS/SoOP hands-on
  
  Hands-on exercise that will include a small experiment to collect SoOP signals through direct and reflected radio-links, using ICE-CSIC/IEEC in-house developed equipment. The activity will conclude with the processing of these signals using python tools.
  
  Convener: Dr Serni Ribó (ICE, CSIC/IEEC)
Friday, 5 July
- 09:00 → 10:30
  
  Lidar: Lidar Principles
  
  Fundamentals of lidar for atmospheric probing. The lidar equation. Basic optical design constraints. Physical phenomena used by lidars: elastic backscatter, Doppler effect, absorption, fluorescence, Raman shift.
  
  Convener: Prof. Adolfo Comerón (UPC)
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:30
  
  Lidar: Lidar Instruments and Data Processing Techniques
  
  Review the basic principles of current lidar instruments for probing various atmospheric parameters from ground to the top of the atmosphere and related data processing techniques.
  
  Conveners: Prof. Alex PAPAYANNIS (Universite PARIS Diderot 7, National Technical University of Athens), Dr Upendra N. Singh (NASA/LARC)
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  PIZZA lunch!: closing session at the patio
  
  Lunch break at the patio with free pizza, while hosting the closing session, farewell speech and handing participants' diplomas.