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SAR Image Analysis, Modeling,
and Techniques XIV
Claudia Notarnicola
Simonetta Paloscia
Nazzareno Pierdicca
Editors
24–25 September 2014
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Contents
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Authors
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Conference Committee
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Remote sensing at the NASA Kennedy Space Center and the Eastern Range: a
perspective from the ground up (Plenary Paper) [9241-100]
SAR PROCESSING
9243 02
Suitability of COSMO-SkyMed constellation for radargrammetric DEM generation [9243-1]
9243 03
Advanced SAR simulator with multi-beam interferometric capabilities [9243-2]
9243 04
Modeling atmospheric precipitation impact on synthetic aperture radar imagery at X and
Ka bands [9243-3]
9243 05
Intermittent Small Baseline Subset (ISBAS) monitoring of land covers unfavourable for
conventional C-band InSAR: proof-of-concept for peatland environments in North Wales,
UK [9243-4]
SAR APPLICATION I
9243 06
Preparing a new data set for earthquake damage detection in SAR imagery: the
Christchurch example II [9243-5]
9243 07
Detecting sparse earthquake damages in high density urban settlements by VHR SAR data
[9243-6]
9243 08
Improved characterization of slow-moving landslides by means of adaptive NL-InSAR
filtering [9243-7]
SAR DATA ANALYSIS I: JOINT SESSION
9243 0A
Target modelling for SAR image simulation [9243-10]
9243 0B
Non-destructive wavelet-based despeckling in SAR images [9243-11]
SAR DATA ANALYSIS II: JOINT SESSION
9243 0C
Exploitation of a large COSMO-SkyMed interferometric dataset [9243-12]
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9243 0D
Benefits of blind speckle decorrelation for InSAR processing (Best Student Paper Award)
[9243-13]
SAR APPLICATION IN HYDROLOGY
9243 0E
Multitemporal soil moisture retrieval from radar data: preparation of SMAP data processing
over Italy [9243-14]
9243 0F
An overview of neural network applications for soil moisture retrieval from radar satellite
sensors [9243-15]
9243 0G
Estimation of surface soil moisture in alpine areas based on medium spatial resolution SAR
time-series and upscaled in-situ measurements [9243-16]
INTERFEROMETRY AND SAR PROCESSING
9243 0I
Corner reflectors and multi-temporal SAR inteferometry for landslide monitoring [9243-18]
9243 0J
Utilisation of the COSMO-SkyMed Constellation for coherent and incoherent monitoring
[9243-19]
9243 0K
The PSIG chain: an approach to Persistent Scatterer Interferometry [9243-36]
9243 0L
Impact of focusing of Ground Based SAR data on the quality of interferometric SAR
applications [9243-21]
9243 0M
An assessment of TanDEM-X GlobalDEM over rural and urban areas [9243-22]
SAR APPLICATION FOR VEGETATION MONITORING
9243 0N
Use of airborne polarimetric SAR, optical and elevation data for mapping and monitoring
of salt marsh vegetation habitats [9243-23]
9243 0P
COSMO-SkyMed potentiality to identify crop-specific behavior and monitor phenological
parameters [9243-26]
SAR APPLICATION II
9243 0R
Soil moisture estimation using synergy of optical, SAR and topographic data with Gaussian
Process Regression [9243-28]
9243 0S
Oil spill analysis by means of full polarimetric UAVSAR (L-band) and Radarsat-2 (C-band)
products acquired during Deepwater Horizon Disaster [9243-29]
9243 0T
Wake-based ship route estimation in high-resolution SAR images [9243-30]
9243 0U
A comparative study of RADAR Ka-band backscatter [9243-31]
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POSTER SESSION
9243 0W
Repeat-pass interferometric performance analysis for geosynchronous circular SAR
[9243-32]
9243 0X
Preparing a new data set for earthquake damage detection in SAR imagery: the
Christchurch example I [9243-33]
9243 0Y
Polarimetric SAR tomography in the X-band by continuous wave multi-baseline SAR tracks
in a convex optimization approach [9243-34]
9243 0Z
Experimental 3-D SAR human target signature analysis [9243-35]
9243 10
Feature of the displacement in applying the sub-pixel matching methodology to highresolution TerraSAR-X images in the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 [9243-37]
9243 11
Monitoring of surface deformation in open pit mine using DInSAR time-series: a case study
in the N5W iron mine (Carajás, Brazil) using TerraSAR-X data [9243-38]
9243 12
Imaging of downward-looking linear array SAR using three-dimensional spatial smoothing
MUSIC algorithm [9243-39]
9243 13
Ambiguities analysis in SAR tomography [9243-40]
9243 14
Ship surveillance with Radarsat-2 ScanSAR [9243-41]
9243 15
Deformation monitoring in the metro Manila using ALOS/PALSAR [9243-42]
9243 16
High resolution image formation method based on the realistic spaceborne SAR modeling
and simulation [9243-43]
9243 17
The COSMO-SkyMed support to earthquake events [9243-44]
9243 18
MetaSensing's FastGBSAR: ground based radar for deformation monitoring [9243-45]
9243 19
Prediction of water quality parameters from SAR images by using multivariate and texture
analysis models [9243-46]
9243 1A
Focusing of bistatic SAR data [9243-47]
9243 1B
Intermittent SBAS (ISBAS) InSAR with COSMO-SkyMed X-band high resolution SAR data for
landslide inventory mapping in Piana degli Albanesi (Italy) [9243-48]
9243 1C
Combined use of COSMO-SkyMed derived products and hydrodynamic models to
produce physically-based maps of flood extent [9243-49]
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Authors
Numbers in the index correspond to the last two digits of the six-digit citation identifier (CID) article
numbering system used in Proceedings of SPIE. The first four digits reflect the volume number. Base 36
numbering is employed for the last two digits and indicates the order of articles within the volume.
Numbers start with 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 0A, 0B...0Z, followed by 10-1Z, 20-2Z, etc.
Albiol, David, 08
Alparone, L., 0D
Anniballe, R., 07
Argenti, F., 0D
Barbré, Robert E., Jr., xi
Battagliere, M. L., 17
Bekhtin, Yuri S., 0B
Bertoldi, G., 0G, 0R
Bia, Pietro, 1A
Bignami, C., 07
Biondi, Filippo, 0Y
Boni, G., 1C
Borgeaud, M., 0R
Bovenga, Fabio, 02, 0C, 0I
Bryantsev, Andrey A., 0B
Calcaterra, Domenico, 1B
Calleja, E., 0U
Camargo, Paulo O., 11
Catalao, Joao, 1A
Cazcarra, Victor, 03
Chan, Brigitte, 0Z
Chiaradia, Maria Teresa, 02, 0C
Chini, M., 07
Ciappa, Achille, 0J
Cigna, Francesca, 05, 1B
Coletta, A., 17
Comber, Alexis, 0N
Conte, Domenico, 02
Crippa, Bruno, 0K
Crosetto, Michele, 0K
Cuevas-González, María, 0K
Cuozzo, G., 0G, 0R
D’Addario, Larry, xi
Daraio, M. G., 17
Decker, Ryan K.,xi
Deguchi, Tomonori, 15
Del Frate, Fabio, 0S
Dell’Omodarme, Kevin, 0Y
Della Chiesa, S., 0G, 0R
D'Errico, Marco, 0T
Devanthéry, Núria, 0K
Di Pasquale, Andrea, 0L
DiFilippo, David D. J., 0Z
Dini, Luigi, 0P
Duro, Javier, 08, 0M
Eddy, Andrew, 0M
Fascetti, Fabio, 0E
Ferraris, L., 1C
Ferrazzoli, P., 0U
Fiori, Luca, 0Y
Fiorni, M., 1C
Fornaro, G., 0D
Galo, Mauricio, 11
Gama, Fabio F., 11
Geldzahler, Barry, xi
Giudici, D., 0U
Graziano, M. Daniela, 0T
Greifeneder, F., 0G, 0R
Guarini, Rocchina, 0P
Guccione, Pietro, 0L
Guerriero, L., 0U
Hammer, H., 06, 0X
Hiramatsu, T., 10
Huber, Martin, 0M
Huddleston, Lisa L., xi
Iglesias, Rubén, 08
Jones, Cathleen E., 0S
Jordan, Colm J., 05, 1B
Khenchaf, Ali, 19
Kim, Seyoung, 16
Kou, Leilei, 0W
Koudogbo, Fifamè N., 0M
Kuang, Gangyao, 12
Kuny, S., 06, 0X
Lamb, Alistair, 0N
Lapini, A., 0D
Latini, Daniele, 0S
Lucas, Richard M., 0M
Lupachev, Alexey A., 0B
Malebo, Damião P., 0B
Mapelli, D., 0U
Márquez, José, 03
Marzano, Frank S., 04
Mascolo, Luigi, 0L
Mastronardi, Giovanni, 0P
Meta, Adriano, 18
Miller, Michael J., xi
Monserrat, Oriol, 0K
Monti Guarnieri, A., 0U
Montopoli, Mario, 04
Morabito, David D., xi
Morgan, Jennifer G., xi
Mori, Saverio, 04
Mura, José C., 11
Nico, Giovanni, 0L, 1A
Niedrist, G., 0G, 0R
Nitti, Davide O., 02, 0C, 0I
Nonaka, T., 10
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Notarnicola, Claudia, 0G, 0P, 0R
Novellino, Alessandro, 1B
Nutricato, Raffaele, 02, 0C, 0I
Paloscia, S., 0F
Paradella, Waldir R., 11
Pasquariello, Guido, 0I
Pettinato, S., 0F
Pierdicca, Nazzareno, 04, 07, 0E, 0U, 1C
Pietranera, Luca, 0J
Polverari, Federica, 04
Pulvirenti, Luca, 04, 0E, 1C
Ramondini, Massimo, 1B
Rawlins, Barry G., 05
Reale, D., 0D
Refice, Alberto, 02, 0C, 0I
Reppucci, Antonio, 03
Ricci, Nicola, 1A
Ro, Yong Man, 16
Rödelsperger, Sabine, 18
Roeder, William P., xi
Rommen, B., 0U
Rudari, Roberto, 0M, 1C
Ruffini, Giulio, 03
Rufino, Giancarlo, 0T
Sacco, P., 17
Sánchez, Francisco, 08
Santi, E., 0F
Santos, Athos R., 11
Sarri, Antonio, 0Y
Schaertel, Anna, 0J
Schulz, K., 06, 0X
Segalini, Federica, 0P
Seibert, Marc A., xi
Sévigny, Pascale, 0Z
Shareef, Muntadher A., 19
Shim, Sangheun, 16
Sica, F., 0D
Siegmund, Robert, 0J
Silva, Arnaldo Q., 11
Silva, Guilherme G., 11
Sowter, Andrew, 05, 1B
Spindler, N., 0R
Stamenkovic, J., 0G, 0R
Stramondo, S., 07
Tang, Yixian, 13
Tesauro, Manlio, 1A
Thiran, J.-Ph., 0R
Toumi, Abdelmalek, 19
Tuia, D., 0R
van Beijma, Sybrand, 0N
Vuolo, Francesco, 0P
Wagner, W., 0G
Wang, Chao, 13, 14
Wang, Ziwei, 13, 14
Willis, Chris J., 0A
Wu, Fan, 14
Zhang, Bo, 13
Zhang, Hong, 13, 14
Zhang, Siqian, 12
Zonno, Mariantonietta, 0L, 1A
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Conference Committee
Symposium Chairs
Charles R. Bostater, Florida Institute of Technology (United States)
Symposium Co-chairs
Ulrich Michel, University of Education Heidelberg (Germany)
Bart Snijders, TNO (Netherlands)
Conference Chairs
Claudia Notarnicola, EURAC Research (Italy)
Simonetta Paloscia, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (Italy)
Nazzareno Pierdicca, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
(Italy)
Conference Programme Committee
Richard Bamler, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
(Germany)
Fabio Bovenga, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
Fabio Covello, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italy)
Mihai P. Datcu, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
(Germany)
Fabio Del Frate, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (Italy)
Linda Marchese, INO (Canada)
Antonio Moccia, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
Francesco Nirchio, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italy)
Luca Pasolli, EURAC Research (Italy)
Luca Pulvirenti, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
Emanuele Santi, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (Italy)
Stefan Schneiderbauer, EURAC Research (Italy)
David Small, Universität Zürich (Switzerland)
Session Chairs
SAR Processing
Fabio Bovenga, CNR ISSIA (Italy)
SAR Application I
Nazzareno Pierdicca, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
(Italy)
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SAR Data Analysis I: Joint Session
Francesca Bovolo, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)
SAR Data Analysis II: Joint Session
Claudia Notarnicola, EURAC Research (Italy)
SAR Application in Hydrology
Claudia Notarnicola, EURAC Research (Italy)
Interferometry and SAR Processing
Fabio Bovenga, CNR ISSIA (Italy)
SAR Application for Vegetation Monitoring
Emanuele Santi, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (Italy)
SAR Application II
Simonetta Paloscia, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (Italy)
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