Agenda

Monday, August 29, 2022 - EARLY CHECK-IN

  • Registration will be open to pick up your badge from 2:00pm to 5:00pm

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Registration will open at 7:00 am. Posters should be setup before 8:30am in Poster Hall.


8:30am Welcome/Introduction (Susan Owen, JPL, NISAR Deputy Project Scientist; Paul

Rosen, JPL, NISAR Project Scientist; Jim Graf, JPL, Director for Earth Science and Technology Directorate; Gerald Bawden, NASA, NISAR Program Scientist)

9:00am NISAR - Trailblazer for Earth System Observatory (Julie Robinson, Deputy

Division Director, NASA Earth Science)

9:15am NISAR Science Horizon Talk: "Earth Science in the age of NISAR", Brent Minchew,

MIT

9:30am The NISAR Mission Overview (Paul Rosen, JPL, NISAR Project Scientist)

10:30am Break

10:45am NISAR Science and Science Data Products Overview

  • Ecosystems (Paul Siqueira, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, NISAR Science Team Ecosystems Co-lead)

  • Soil Moisture (Seungbum Kim, JPL, NISAR Science Team Soil Moisture team)

  • Cryosphere (Ian Joughin, University of Washington, NISAR Science Team Cryosphere Co-lead)

  • Solid Earth (Mark Simons, Caltech, NISAR Science Team Solid Earth Co-lead)

  • Urgent Response (Cathleen Jones, JPL, NISAR Science Team Applications Co-lead)

12:00pm Lunch break

1:00pm Poster Session

3:15pm Calibration and Validation Overview and Opportunities (Bruce Chapman, JPL, NISAR Cal/Val lead)

3:30pm Innovative SAR Science Products

  • "Introduction to OPERA and its NISAR derived higher level products", David Bekaert, JPL, OPERA Project Manager and NISAR Science Team

  • “Global Seasonal Sentinel-1 Interferometric Coherence and Backscatter Data Set”, Josef Kellndorfer, Earth Big Data, LLC, NISAR Science Team

  • "Building a Clear Picture of the Cryosphere with SAR", Joanna Millstein, MIT

4:30pm How to Access SAR Data (Franz Meyer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska

Satellite Facility, NISAR Science Team)

5:00pm Poster Session

6:30pm Adjourn


Tuesday poster presenters should take their posters down after 6:30 pm Tuesday or Wednesday morning at 7:30 am.

Wednesday, August 31, 2022


Registration will open at 7:30 am. Posters should be setup before 8:30am in Poster Hall.


8:30am NISAR Science - Funding Opportunities from NASA (Gerald Bawden, NASA,

NISAR Program Scientist)

9:00am Science Focus Area Breakout Sessions

  • Solid Earth - Breakout Room A (chaired by Mark Simons, Caltech, NISAR Science Team Solid Earth Co-lead)

  • Cryosphere - Breakout Room B (chaired by Ian Joughin, University of Washington, NISAR Science Team Cryosphere Co-lead)

  • Ecosystems & Soil Moisture - Breakout Room C (chaired by Paul Siqueira, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, NISAR Science Team Ecosystems Co-lead)

11:00am Poster Session
12:30pm Lunch break
1:30pm Beyond NISAR Core Science: Interdisciplinary Science and More

        • "Using NISAR to Monitor Arctic Permafrost", Kevin Schaefer, National Snow and Ice Data Center

        • "Dynamics of coastal hydrology and ecology: the NISAR revolution", Marc Simard, JPL

        • "Application of L-band SAR for wetlands and wildfire", Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Michigan Technological University

        • "From InSAR Data to Groundwater Science and Management", Rosemary Knight, Stanford University

2:30pm Science Needs from NISAR Applications Workshops

  • Cathleen Jones, JPL, NISAR Science Team Applications Co-lead

  • Paul Siqueira, UMass Amherst, NISAR Science Team Ecosystems Co-lead

  • "NISAR Needs from the Earthquake and Volcano Communities", Estelle Chaussard, FM Global

  • Andy Mahoney, University of Alaska Fairbanks

3:30pm Break
4:00pm NISAR Data Products (Heresh Fattahi, JPL, NISAR Algorithm Development

Team Lead)

4:30pm How to Get Trained to use SAR Data (Paul Rosen, JPL, NISAR Project Scientist;

Erika Podest, JPL, NISAR Science Team; Franz Meyer, University of Alaska

Fairbanks, Alaska Satellite Facility, NISAR Science Team)

5:00pm Poster Session
6:30pm Adjourn. Optional early career network event. Signup upon the badge pickup on Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning.

Thursday, September 1, 2022


Registration will open at 7:30 am.

8:30am Cross Disciplinary Data Analysis: is it Signal or Noise?

  • "Closure phase bias – signal or noise?", Yujie Zheng, Caltech

  • "Finding the signal in snow: 2017-2021 NASA SnowEx UAVSAR Experiment", HP Marshall, Boise State University

  • "Accurate Persistent Scatterer Selection in Densely Vegetated Terrain", Ann Chen, University of Texas, Austin

9:30am Future SAR Missions

        • SAR landscape overview: Earth System Observatory, NISAR, Surface Deformation and Change, and Commercial (Gerald Bawden, NASA, NISAR Program Scientist)

        • International SAR Coordination Workshop (Paul Rosen, JPL)

        • Surface Deformation and Change Study Overview (Shadi Oveisgharan, JPL)

        • Surface Deformation and Change Near Term Science Activities (Jordan Bell, MSFC)

10:30am Break
10:45am Countdown to NISAR (Paul Rosen, JPL, NISAR Project Scientist; Susan Owen, JPL, NISAR Deputy Project Scientist; Cathleen Jones, JPL, Applications Co-Lead, Bruce Chapman, JPL, NISAR Cal/Val Lead)
12:00pm Workshop concludes

Wednesday poster presenters should take their posters down by 12:30 pm Thursday