From wickert at gfz-potsdam.de Tue Feb 28 01:06:10 2012 From: wickert at gfz-potsdam.de (wickert at gfz-potsdam.de) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:06:10 +0100 Subject: [IGSMAIL-6545] AOGS-AGU 2012 Session IWG04: GNSS/InSAR/Altimetry Remote Sensing for the Earth Sciences Message-ID: <512619251460e649b45dfb99a2a495e8@gfz-potsdam.de> Dear colleagues, We'd like to draw your attention to an interesting session at this year AOGS-AGU www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012/ during August 13-17, 2012 at Singapore. The session is a bit difficult to find in the conference programme, but nevertheless will be an interesting opportunity especially to present remote sensing related talks and posters with lots of interdisciplinary aspects and of course to meet some pioneering persons in that field and also talented newcomers from the entire world. http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012/public.asp?page=mars2/confSessionList.asp Interdisciplinary Working Groups We hope for a large attendance and look forward to see you at Singapore, preferably of course in our session IWG04. Please note the quite soon deadline for abstract submission: 12 Mar 2012. Look forward to see you in August! On behalf of the session conveners Jens Wickert AOGS-AGU IWG04: GNSS/InSAR/Altimetry Remote Sensing for the Earth Sciences Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are but one space geodetic technology playing an increasing role in monitoring the earth environment. Reflected and refracted signals from GNSS satellites, either by themselves or in combination with other geodetic earth observing satellite data (e.g. SAR, ICESat, LiDAR, GRACE and Radar Altimetry), enable remote sensing of myriad physical parameters of the atmosphere, ocean, land and cryosphere. Creatively combining different types of remote sensing data and in situ measurements will substantially increase the variety of applications of geodetic remote sensing. In addition, there are exciting new developments in radar and laser-based imaging systems from satellite and airborne platforms. Such geodetic imaging systems can measure changes to the land surface geometry with millimeter accuracy and sub-meter pixel resolution, complementing traditional remote sensing and photogrammetry techniques. Applications include monitoring land deformation due to tectonic, volcanic and other natural and anthropogenic processes. This session will address current geodetic remote sensing and imaging capabilities to measure and monitor topography, ground moisture, water cycle effects, ice/snow melting, ocean circulation, sea state, atmospheric (neutral and ionospheric) weather and climate, earthquakes and tsunamis, volcanic activity, and more, as well as providing early warning using a variety of GNSS and other geodetic techniques, such as GNSS-Reflectometry, GNSS Radio Occultation (e.g. CHAMP, SAC-C, GRACE, COSMIC, MetOp-A/B), InSAR, ICESat, Altimetry, and LiDAR. Papers on combining GNSS with in-situ observations and other satellite or airborne sensor data, as well as discussing new applications for such systems and future missions/challenges, are also welcome Convener: Mr. Thomas Yunck (GeoOptics Inc., United States) Co-Convener: Prof. Shuanggen Jin (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS, China) Dr. Jens Wickert (GFZ Potsdam, Germany) Prof. X.L. Ding (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) -------------- next part --------------