2022 NISAR Science Community Workshop
Date
August 30, 2022 - September 1, 2022
Location
Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA
About the Meeting
The NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Science Workshop was an in-person event organized by NASA and UNAVCO to bring together the science community in solid earth, ecosystems, cryosphere, hydro-geodesy and other areas of science that will benefit from the NISAR mission. The 2.5 day workshop informed the community about the upcoming mission, its planned science data products and upcoming funding opportunities to work on NISAR related science. Breakout sessions, poster sessions and plenary science talks provided a forum for building collaborations and discuss future directions for SAR data analysis, science and applications. The program also provided information on available data analysis tools, computing resources and training opportunities.
Agenda
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
8:30 am Welcome/Introduction: Susan Owen, JPL, Paul Rosen, JPL, Raj Kumar, ISRO, Jim Graf, JPL, Gerald Bawden, NASA
9:00 am NISAR - Trailblazer for Earth System Observatory: Julie Robinson, Deputy Division Director, NASA Earth Science (link to recorded talk)
9:15 am Earth Science in the age of NISAR: Brent Minchew, MIT (link to recorded talk)
9:30 am The NISAR Mission Overview: Paul Rosen, JPL (link to recorded talk)
10:30 am Break
10:45 am NISAR Science and Science Data Products Overview
10:45 am Ecosystems: Paul Siqueira, U Mass (link to recorded talk)
11:00 am Cryosphere: Ian Joughin, U Washington (link to recorded talk)
11:15 am Solid Earth: Mark Simons, Caltech (link to recorded talk)
11:30 am Urgent Response: Cathleen Jones, JPL (link to recorded talk)
11:45 am Soil Moisture: Seung-bum Kim, JPL
12:00 pm Lunch break
1:00 pm Poster Session
3:15 pm Calibration and Validation Overview: Bruce Chapman, JPL (link to recorded talk)
3:30 pm Innovative SAR Science Products
3:30 pm Introduction to OPERA and its NISAR derived higher level products: David Bekaert, JPL (link to recorded talk)
3:50 pm Global Seasonal Sentinel-1 Interferometric Coherence and Backscatter Data Set: Josef Kellndorfer, Earth Big Data, LLC (link to recorded talk)
4:10 pm Building a Clear Picture of the Cryosphere with SAR: Joanna Millstein, MIT (link to recorded talk)
4:30 pm How to Access SAR Data: Franz Meyer, U Alaska (link to recorded talk)
5:00 pm Poster Session
6:30 pm Adjourn
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
8:30 am NISAR Science - Funding Opportunities from NASA: Gerald Bawden, NASA (link to recorded talk)
9:00 am Science Focus Area Breakout Sessions
Solid Earth – Plenary Hall: Mark Simons
Ecosystems & Soil Moisture – Breakout Room A: Paul Siqueira
Cryosphere – Breakout Room B: Ian Joughin
11:00 am Group Photo in front of Convention Center
11:15 am Poster Session
12:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm Beyond NISAR Core Science: Interdisciplinary Science
1:30 pm Using NISAR to Monitor Arctic Permafrost: Kevin Schaefer, National Snow and Ice Data Center
1:45 pm Dynamics of coastal hydrology and ecology: the NISAR revolution: Marc Simard, JPL
2:00 pm Application of L-band SAR for wetlands and wildfire: Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Michigan Technological Univ
2:15 pm From InSAR Data to Groundwater Science and Management: Rosemary Knight, Stanford
2:30 pm Science Needs from NISAR Applications Workshops
2:30 pm Critical Infrastructure, Land subsidence: Cathleen Jones, JPL
2:45 pm Wetlands, Forests, Agriculture & Soil Moisture: Paul Siqueira, U Mass
3:00 pm NISAR Needs from the Earthquake and Volcano Communities: Estelle Chaussard, FM Global
3:15 pm Sea Ice Community: Andy Mahoney, U Alaska
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm NISAR Data Products: Heresh Fattahi, JPL
4:30 pm How to Get Trained to Use SAR Data: Franz Meyer, U Alaska, Erika Podest, JPL, Paul Rosen, JPL
5:00 pm Poster Session
6:30 pm Adjourn
Thursday, September 1, 2022
8:30 am Cross Disciplinary Data Analysis: is it Signal or Noise?
8:30 am Closure phase bias – signal or noise: Yujie Zheng, Caltech (link to recorded talk)
8:50 am Finding the signal in snow: 2017-2021 NASA SnowEx UAVSAR Experiment: HP Marshall, Boise State Univ (link to recorded talk)
9:10 am Accurate Persistent Scatterer Selection in Densely Vegetated Terrain: Ann Chen, U Texas, Austin (link to recorded talk)
9:30 am Future SAR Missions
9:30 am SAR landscape overview: Earth System Observatory, NISAR, Surface Deformation and Change, and Commercial: Gerald Bawden, NASA (link to recorded talk)
9:45 am International SAR Coordination Workshop: Paul Rosen, JPL (link to recorded talk)
10:00 am Surface Deformation and Change (SDC) Overview : Shadi Oveisgharan, JPL (link to recorded talk)
10:15 am SDC Near Term Science Activities (Jordan Bell, MSFC): Jordan Bell, MSFC (link to recorded talk)
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Countdown to NISAR
10:45 am What’s next for the NISAR mission: Paul Rosen, JPL (link to recorded talk)
11:00 am Calibration and Validation Activities: Bruce Chapman, JPL (link to recorded talk)
11:15 am Applications Activities: Cathleen Jones, JPL (link to recorded talk)
11:30 am Science Community Engagement, Menti: Susan Owen, JPL (link to recorded talk)
12:00 pm Workshop adjourns
