WORKSHOPS:: Keck Institute for Space Studies

Workshop Schedule

Monitoring Earth Surface Changes from Space

October 28-30, 2009
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

8:00 - 8:20	Registration and Breakfast
8:30 - 8:50	Meeting Logistics - Michele Judd (Keck Institute for Space Studies) Welcome and Introduction to KISS – Tom Prince (Keck Institute for Space Studies)
8:50 - 9:00	Introduction to the workshop, presentation of the project's goals - Jean-Philippe Avouac and Paul Rosen (pdf)
Cryosphere/Glaciology
9:00 - 9:15	Monitoring of Polar Ice Response to Climate Change Slawek Tulaczyk (pdf)
9:15 - 9:30	Mountain Glaciers - indicators, resources, hazards - Andreas Kääb (pdf)
9:30 - 9:45	Towards a hydrologic budget for mountainous regions: relative influence of critical climatic parameters - Bodo Bookhagen (pdf)
9:45 - 10:00	Discussion, Q&A
10:00 - 10:25	Coffee Break
Geomorphology
10:25 - 10:40	Monitoring of Geomorphic processes: fluvial geomorphology, continental erosion - William Dietrich (pdf)
10:40 – 10:55	Monitoring Aeolian and Other Surface Changes on Mars and Other Planetary Bodies - Nathan Bridges (pdf)
10:55 - 11:10	Discussion, Q&A
Tectonics & Seismology
11:10 – 11:25	Measuring deformation due to the earthquake cycle and subsurface fluid changes - Eric Fielding
11:25 – 11:40	Future directions in volcano remote sensing - Paul Lundgren (pdf)
11:40 – 12:00	Challenges in earthquake physics and source imaging - Jean-Paul Ampuero (pdf) and Nadia Lapusta (pdf)
12:00 – 12:30	Discussion, Q&A for Tectonics and Seismology
12:30 – 2:00	Lunch at the Athenaeum
2:00 – 3:00	Poster Session (with coffee + cookies served from 2:30 - 3:00)
3:00 – 6:00	Science Thematic discussions Solid Earth (chair: Mark Simons) Geomorphology (chair: Mike Lamb) Cryosphere (chair: Andreas Kääb)
6:00	Reception at the Athenaeum

Thursday, October 29, 2009

8:00 – 8:30	Registration and Breakfast
SAR/InSAR Techniques, Applications and Perspectives
8:30 – 8:45	Radar Measurements for Earth Surface Change - Paul Rosen (pdf)
8:45 – 9:00	High-resolution temporal imaging of crustal deformation using InSAR - Howard Zebker (pdf)
9:00 – 9:15	Discussion, Q&A
Optical Techniques, Applications and Perspectives
9:15 – 9:25	Measuring ground deformation using optical imagery - Sebastien Leprince (pdf)
9:25 – 9:35	Potential of very high resolution satellites for geometric change detection - Renaud Binet (pdf) and link to video
9:35 – 9:45	Geostationary Observation of Surface Changes: Potential and limits of Optics - Remi Michel (pdf)
9:45 – 10:00	Discussion, Q&A
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
GPS
10:30 – 10:45	The Global Positioning System: Applications and future directions - Frank Webb
Lidar Imaging
10:45 – 11:00	LiDAR sensor and system capabilities and issues - Kenneth Hudnut (pdf)
Hyperspectral
11:00 – 11:15	Geophysical Signals in Hyperspectral Imagery - Rodolphe Marion (presented by Remi Michel) (pdf)
High Performance Computing and handling of large dataset
11:15 – 11:30	Engineering the Data Processing Pipeline - Mark Stalzer (pdf)
11:30 – 12:00	Discussion, Q&A
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch at the Athenaeum
1:30 – 6:00	Technical Thematic discussions (Common coffee break for all sessions at 3:00) Processing techniques and Data Assimilation (chair: Sebastien Leprince) Instruments (chair: Paul Rosen)
6:00	Dinner at the Athenaeum

Friday October 30, 2009

8:00 – 8:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30 – 12:00	General Debriefing: Each session chair will briefly present the results of the thematic discussions. (Includes coffee break 10:00 – 10:30).
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch at the Athenaeum
1:30 – 5:00	General Discussion: Objectives for study period, identify study groups with leaders and time line. (Includes coffee break 2:30 – 3:00).

For questions contact: Jean-Philippe Avouac, Paul Rosen or Michele Judd.