Workshop Overview:
The objective of this study is to imagine remote sensing systems and processing techniques that will produce observations (Optical, SAR, or Lidar) with optimal spatial and temporal coverage, ground resolution and registration accuracy to measure deformation and surface changes that are relevant to investigate the internal and external dynamics of Earth and potentially other planets. We will evaluate the technical challenges and explore possible solutions to achieve these goals both at the level of the sensor and of the data processing. Indeed, our experience using data from existing systems shows that simple modifications of currently used technologies could lead to major improvement of the registration quality, for example with appropriate distribution of the CCDs in the focal plane of an optical system. Exploitation of new spaceborne digital hardware capabilities is also driving innovation in radar designs, redefining what is possible for future missions in terms of coverage and accuracy.
As a result, there is a broad range of ways this study will impact future missions. We could come up with specifications for dedicated systems and better way of integrating and exploiting a wide range of data from future Earth Observing missions.
Team Leads
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California Institute of Technology
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Paul Rosen
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Jean-Paul Ampuero — Caltech
- Jean-Philippe Avouac — Caltech
- Sylvain Barbot — Scripps Oceanography
- Harsha Bhat — USC/Caltech
- Renaud Binet — Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique Laboratoire
- Bodo Bookhagen — UC Santa Barbara
- Nathan Bridges — Applied Physics Laboratory
- Rich Briggs — USGS
- Oscar P Bruno — Caltech
- Risheng Chu — Caltech
- William Cottingame — NGAS
- Bob Crippen — JPL
- William Dietrich — UC Berkeley
- Jennifer Dooley — JPL
- Tom G Farr — JPL
- Eric Fielding — JPL
- Vahe Gabuchian — Caltech
- Torborg Haug — University of Oslo
- Don Helmberger — Caltech
- James Hollingsworth — Caltech
- Ken Hudnut — U. S. Geological Survey
- Andreas Kaab — University of Oslo
- Lionel Keene — Caltech
- Mike Lamb — Caltech
- Nadia Lapusta — Caltech
- Sebastien Leprince — Caltech
- Nina Lin — Caltech
- Zhen Liu — JPL
- Paul Lundgren — JPL
- Ben Mackey — University of Oregon
- Michael Mello — Caltech
- Remi Michel — French Atomic Commission Headquarters
- Alina Moussessian — JPL
- Francisco Ortega Culaciati — Caltech
- Gilles Peltzer — UCLA
- Paul Rosen — JPL
- Joel Scheingross — Caltech
- Mark Simons — Caltech
- Mark Stalzer — Caltech
- Marion Thomas — Caltech
- Jessica Thompson — UC Santa Barbara
- Slawek Tulaczyk — UC Santa Cruz
- Frank Webb — JPL
- Sang-Ho Yun — JPL
- Howard A Zebker — Stanford University
Presentations
| Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation |
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| Jean-Philippe Avouac, | Paul Rose | Introduction to the workshop, presentation of the project's goals (.pdf) |
| Bodo Bookhagen | Towards a hydrologic budget for mountainous regions: relative influence of critical climatic parameters (.pdf) |
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| Andreas Kääb | Mountain Glaciers – indicators, resources, hazards (.pdf) |
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| Slawek Tulaczyk | Monitoring of Polar Ice Response to Climate Change (.pdf) |
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| Nathan Bridges | Monitoring Aeolian and Other Surface Changes on Mars and Other Planetary Bodies (.pdf) |
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| William Dietrich | Monitoring of Geomorphic processes: fluvial geomorphology, continental erosion (.pdf) |
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| Jean-Paul Ampuero | Challenges in earthquake physics and source imaging (.pdf) |
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| Nadia Lapusta | Challenges in earthquake physics and source imaging (.pdf) |
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| Paul Lundgren | Future directions in volcano remote sensing (.pdf) |
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| Paul Rosen | Radar Measurements for Earth Surface Change (.pdf) |
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| Howard Zebker | High-resolution temporal imaging of crustal deformation using InSAR (.pdf) |
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| Renaud Binet | Potential of very high resolution satellites for geometric change detection (.pdf) (video) |
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| Sebastien Leprince | Measuring ground deformation using optical imagery (.pdf) |
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| Remi Michel | Geostationary Observation of Surface Changes: Potential and limits of Optics (.pdf) |
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| Kenneth Hudnut | LiDAR sensor and system capabilities and issues (.pdf) |
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| Rodolphe Marion | presented by Remi Michel | Geophysical Signals in Hyperspectral Imagery (.pdf) |
| Mark Stalzer | Engineering the Data Processing Pipeline (.pdf) |
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| William Cottingame | Defining the Future (.pdf) |
