Earth Observation Summit 2017

General information

The Earth observation (EO) Summit brings together in one exceptional event the 38th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing (CSRS), the 17th Conference of the Association Québécoise de Télédétection (AQT) and the 11th ASAR workshop. This international event gathers communities interested in EO technologies, applications and social benefits.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is a key collaborator in the organization of the event. In addition to leading the 11th ASAR workshop, the CSA will be among the exhibitors on site and will support various sessions and workshops, including:

• Commercialization of Earth observation workshop on June 20, 2017
• One Earth – One health workshop on June 21, 2017
• Wildfire remote sensing workshop from June 20 to 22, 2017

ASAR workshop

About the ASAR workshop

The Advanced SAR (ASAR) workshop is organized biennially by the CSA to review progress on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology. Canada is very active in the field of SAR through its RADARSAT program and its participation in the European Space Agency (ESA) EO program.

If you would like to be included in the ASAR workshop mailing list, please send an email to the following address: asc.asar2017.csa@canada.ca.

For 2017, the ASAR workshop is fully integrated into the EO Summit.

Objectives of the workshop

The workshop will review the advancement in the field of SAR technology. The topics presented at the workshop include:

• SAR missions
• Calibration/validation
• Maritime security and applications
• Disaster management
• Ecosystem monitoring
• System technologies (antennas, transmit/receiver modules, etc.)
• Polarimetry
• Compact polarimetry
• SAR techniques: interferometry  / coherent change detection / ground moving target indicator
• Emerging applications
• Any other SAR-related topics

Organizing committee

President

• Guennadi Kroupnik, Director, Space Utilization Projects (CSA)

Members

• Daniel De Lisle (CSA)
• Guy Séguin (INSARSAT)
• Josée Gagnon (CSA)
• Matt Arkett (ECCC)
• Paris W. Vachon (DRDC)
• Patrick Plourde (CSA)
• Ridha Touzi (NRCan-CCMEO)
• Satish Srivastava (CSA)

Special sessions

The organizing committee will be holding special sessions on specific issues.

To organize a special session on a topic of interest to you, please contact Patrick Plourde at the address below.

Abstract and presentation submission

Information may be found on the EO Summit website.

Hotels and accommodations

Information may be found on the EO Summit website.

Social activities

Information may be found on the EO Summit website.

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