MONDAY 16 OCTOBER 2000

Congress Hall

12.00 – 13.50		Opening to Participants' Registrations (Registration and Reception desk - first floor)
		Opening Plenary Session	Presenter
14.00 – 14.05		Session Opening by the Session Chairman: Jan Askne
14.05 – 14-20		Welcome to the ESA ERS/Envisat Symposium	Claudio Mastracci
14.20 – 14.40		Welcome to Gothenburg	Lord Mayor Jörgen Linder Per Tégner, Head of Swedish National Space Board
14.40 – 15.20		The ESA Earth Observation Programme	Stephen Briggs
15.20 – 16.00		From the ERS achievements towards Envisat perspectives	Werner Alpers
16.00 – 16.25		Preparing for Envisat launch (incl. movie)	Jacques Louet
16.25 – 16.35		Welcome by Chalmers Technical University Closing	Jan Askne
16.35 - 17.00		Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.20		Opening of and walk through the Exhibition Hall	All participants
18.30 – 20.00		Cocktail offered by Swedish authorities	All participants

ROOM H1 (300 seats)

TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Methods 1 Session Chairperson: Sylvie Pouliquen Session Co-Chairperson: Pascal Gilles
9.00 – 9.20	60	A new collocation system for satellite data	Sylvie Pouliquen
9.20 – 9.40	61	CERSAT Value Added Products	Valerie Harscoat
9.40 – 10.00	63	Value Added Geocoded SAR Products from the German ENVISAT PAC	Detlev Kosmann
10.00 – 10.20	174	Developments in AATSR and ATSR Product Algorithms and Data Products	Andrew Birks
10.20 – 10.40		Coffee Break
		Methods 2 Session Chairperson: Shaun Quegan Session Co-Chairperson: Josep Closa
10.40 – 11.00	260	SCANSAR data processing and radiometric calibration.	Andy Smith
11.00 – 11.20	18	INSAR Activities in Central Asia	Xia Ye
11.20 – 11.40	218	Speckle Filtering and Classification of ERS SAR Images using GAMMA Distribution	Youcef Smara
11.40 – 12.00	1357	Isolation of atmospheric artifacts in differential interferometry for ground displacement detection: different methods comparison	Francesco Sarti
12.00 – 12.20	1358	An efficient low-memory implementation of 2-D phase unwrapping based on minimum cost flow algorithm	Luca Galli
12.20 – 12.40	94	Multitemporal InSAR coherence from urban type objects.	Dan Johan Weydahl
12.40 – 13.00	1408	Iterated multitemporal filtering and its use in land applications	Shaun Quegan
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		Landslides Session Chairperson: Claudie Carnec Session Co-Chairperson: Francesco Palazzo
14.00 – 14.20	395	Regional scale thematic maps for landslide hazard assessment using neural networks techniques.	Palma Blonda
14.20 – 14.40	207	Monitoring landslide activity in a peri-urban area by SAR Interferometry	Alberto Refice
14.40 – 15.00	234	The application of ERS SAR interferometry for the assessment of hazards related to slope motion and subglacial volcanism	Helmut Rott
15.00 – 15.20	181	Detection and Quantification of Rock Glacier Movements using ERS D-InSAR Data	Lado-Wani Kenyi
15.20 – 15.40	147	Civil Protection use of ERS1-2 SAR Data - the TS-SAR Project	Roberto Vidmar
15.40 – 16.00		Coffee Break
		Earthquakes Session Chairperson: Gilles Peltzer Session Co-Chairperson: Yves-Louis Desnos
16.00 – 16.20	43	Merging seismotectonic displacement maps measured from SAR interferometry and optical satellite images.	Rémi Michel
16.20 – 16.40	265	Eight years of crustal deformation in Southern California observed with ERS SAR interferometry	Gilles Peltzer
16.40 – 17.00	84	The Coseismic Deformation Field of M=7.5 Mani Earthquake in Tibet Mapped by ERS Interferometric SAR Data	Guo Huadong
17.00 – 17.20	499	Applications of SAR Interferometry to Surface Deformation in Central and Southwest Asia	Eric Fielding
17.20 – 17.40	485	Triggered slip on a shallow low-angle thrust imaged by SAR interferometry: the Shahdad thrust, SE Iran	Barry Parsons
17.40 – 18.00	484	Crustal deformation of the North Anatolian Fault Zone measured with radar interferometry	Tim Wright
18.00 – 18.20	535	Coherence tracking measurements of the Agust 1999 Izmit earthquake	Dominique Derauw
18.20 – 18.40	54	Study of the September 7, 1999 Athens earthquake using ERS-2 SAR interferometry	Charalabos Kontoes
18.40 – 19.00	462	The coseismic displacement field of the Baotou earthquake mapped by differential radar interferometry	Zhang Hong

ROOM H2 (400 seats)

TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Ocean Dynamics Session Chairperson: John Lillibridge Session Co-Chairperson: Jerome Benveniste
9.00 – 9.20	58	Small scale processes in the South Atlantic observed in synergy of ATSR and SAR data during the Tandem Mission.	Ian Robinson
9.20 – 9.40	105	Feasibility of ERS altimeter data to study subsurface processes in the North Atlantic	Jacob Hoeyer
9.40 – 10.00	206	ERS-2 Altimetry in Operational NOAA Forecast Models	John Lillibridge
10.00 – 10.20	252	Analysis of the Atlantic Ocean response to Pressure Variations using the Altimeters of ERS-1 and ERS-2 Satellites during his Tandem Mission	Jesus Gomez-Enri
10.20 – 10.40	1411	Satellite observation of sharp frontal shear instabilities and surface jets in the Mediterranean sea	Ettore Sallustio
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20	287	Indian Ocean Circulation: an Integrated Model and Remote Sensing Study	Vibeke E. J. Haugen
11.20 – 11.40	348	Thermal plumes and internal solitary waves generated in the Lombok Strait studied by ERS SAR	Leonid Mitnik
11.40 – 12.00	496	Determination and Characterization of Global Mean Sea Level Change	C. K. Shum
12.00 – 12.20	534	Use of SAR derived Doppler data for obtaining quantitative current velocity information in the Gulf of Mexico	Marco van der Kooij
12.20 – 12.40	189	Internal solitary waves in the Sulu Sea studied by ERS SAR imagery	Werner Alpers
12.40 – 13.00	232	Local mean sea level slope from multi-satellite altimeter data: data analysis and unification in the Western Mediterranean Sea	Luciana Fenoglio-Marc
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		Coastal Zones 1 Session Chairperson: Hans Wensink Session Co-Chairperson: Gordon Campbell
14.00 – 14.20	336	Coastal Current Observation using Imaging SAR	Johnny Johannessen
14.20 – 14.40	406	Coastal Map reactualization by Radar SAR ERS Images, examples in the area of Nouakchott city in Mauritania and Douala, Cameroon	Herve Trebossen
14.40 – 15.00	1105	Mapping of Indonesian coastal waters by Synthetic Aperture Radar: an Indonesian-Netherlands initiative for starting new business	Han Wensink
15.00 – 15.20	209	The Alaska SAR Demonstration: RADARSAT-1 Experience and ENVISAT Plans	William Pichel
15.20 – 15.40	318	The ERS contribution to Oil Spill Monitoring- From R&D towards an operational service -	Jan Petter Pedersen
15.40 – 16.00		Coffee Break
16.00 – 16.20	355	Multisensor studies of Oceanic Phaenomena in European Marginal Waters: Algae Blooms in the Baltic Sea and a River Plume in the Mediterranean	Martin Gade
16.20 – 16.40	306	Satellite Observations and Model Predictions of Harmful Algae Blooms in Coastal Waters	Lasse H. Pettersson
		Coastal Zones 2 Session Chairperson: Johnny Johannessen Session Co-Chairperson: Gordon Campbell
16.40 – 17.00	186	Cold season features of the Japan Sea coastal zone revealed by ERS SAR	Leonid Mitnik
17.00 – 17.20	277	Monitoring of water quality in lake and coastal regions using ENVISAT MERIS observations	Jouni Pulliainen
17.20 – 17.40	438	Coastal and Estuarine Water Monitoring by Sea Truth, Satellite Ocean Colour, and SPOT Data	I-I Lin
17.40 – 18.00	378	Coastal processes and features from ERS-2 data: two case studies at NE Brazilian continental shelf	Alexandre Cabral
18.00 – 18.20	517	Satellite Observations of the Southern California Bight: Surface Circulation, Oil Seepage, Storm Water Runoff and Biological Implications	Benjamin Holt
18.20 – 18.40	363	Fisheries monitoring in the CaboVerde Region using ERS data	Joana Fernandes
18.40 – 19.00	402	Coastal Engineering Construction Monitoring, Control and Prediction System	Marghany Maged

ROOM J1 (200 seats)

TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Forestry (SIBERIA) Session Chairperson: Christiane Schmullius Session Co-Chairperson: Henri Laur
9.00 – 9.20	473	ERS Interferometric Processing for Boreal Forest Applications	Achim Roth
9.20 – 9.40	410	JERS-1 INSAR coherence over Siberian boreal forest	Andreas Wiesmann
9.40 – 10.00	429	Assessing ERS and JERS SAR information content for large scale forestmapping in Siberia	Thuy Le Toan
10.00 – 10.20	70	The classification procedure in SIBERIA: rationale and methodology	Shaun Quegan
10.20 – 10.40	334	Global forest classification using JERS and tandem ERS data	Adrian Luckman
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20	328	Accuracy assessment issues in the SIBERIA project	Shaun Quegan
11.20 – 11.40	461	Russian Forest Inventory Requirements and Remote Sensing Parameters-Operational Aspects evolving from the SIBERIA Project	Christiane Schmullius
		Forestry Session Chairperson: Martti Hallikainen Session Co-Chairperson: Henri Laur
11.40 – 12.00	235	ERS and JERS-1 SAR data application for Russian boreal forests mapping and monitoring	Leonid Bobylev
12.00 – 12.20	81	Boreal Forest Monitoring with ERS Coherence	Maurizio Santoro
12.20 – 12.40	196	An Analysis of InSAR Coherence of Boreal Forests Based on Electromagnetic Scattering Modeling	Xianyun Luo
12.40 – 13.00	251	Mapping Siberian Landscapes: natural and Anthropogenic Factors affecting Carbon Balance	Jon Ranson
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		Forestry (Cont.)
14.00 – 14.20	469	Characterizing transpiration and biomass in a Siberian landscape by combining JERS / ERS-1/2 InSAR image classification, InSAR DEM analysis and field measurements	Reiner Zimmermann
14.20 – 14.40	308	Calculation of Microwave Backscatter from a Scots Pine Forest	Terhikki Manninen
14.40 – 15.00	492	Combined use of soil and vegetation data, a digital elevation model and SAR classification for C and N Pool Assessment in a Central Alaskan landscape	Jan Dempewolf
15.00 – 15.20	369	An Operational Forest Mapping Tool using Spaceborne SAR Data	Eduard Dwyer
15.20 – 15.40	1053	Global burned Area mapping using the ERS-ATSR2	Jose Miguel Pereira
15.40 – 16.00		Coffee break
		Rice Session Chairperson: Thuy Le Toan Session Co-Chairperson: Sylvie Remondiere
16.00 – 16.20	430	Towards operational use of ERS SAR data for rice monitoring	Thuy Le Toan
16.20 – 16.40	116	Analysis of multi-temporal and multi-incidence angle data for rice crop using C band RADARSAT and ERS SAR data.	Manab Chakraborty
16.40 – 17.00	365	Rice Mapping using ERS SAR Data in Guangdong Province, China	Mike Wooding
17.00 – 17.20	372	An Operational Rice Field Mapping Tool using Spaceborne SAR Data	Ned Dwyer
17.20 – 17.40	231	Rice Yield Estimation Using SAR Images, Meteorological Data and GIS	Mika Karjalainen

ROOM J2 (125 seats)

TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		ATM Ozone: Total Column, Profiles Session Chairperson: Piet Stammes Session Co-Chairperson: Rob Koopman
9.00 – 9.20	146	Review of Five Years GOME/ERS-2 Operational Trace Gas Retrieval	Werner Thomas
9.20 – 9.40	376	Improved GOME ozone column retrieval	Pieter Valks
9.40 – 10.00	457	Temperature Independent Differential Absorption Spectroscopy (TIDAS) and Simplified Atmospheric air Mass Factor (SAMF) techniques for the measurement of total ozone using GOME data	Claus Zehner
10.00 – 10.20	185	Ozone from GOME data using neural network technique	Martin Mueller
10.20 – 10.40	366	Observation and theoretical analysis of the record ozone mini-hole of 30 November 1999	Henk Eskes
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20	1058	Derivation of an extensive height-resolved ozone data-set spanning the troposphere and stratosphere from GOME	Richard Siddans
11.20 – 11.40	373	Near-real time delivery of GOME ozone profiles.	Ronald van der A
11.40 – 12.00	400	Ozone profiles estimates by using GOME measurements and a neural network algorithm	Stefano Casadio
		ATM Clouds/Aerosols Session Chairperson: Kelly Chance Session Co-Chairperson: Jorg Callies
12.00 – 12.20	111	Radiation and cloud studies with GOME in preparation for future spectrometer missions	Piet Stammes
12.20 – 12.40	481	CRAG - Cloud Retrieval Algorithm for GOME	Albrecht von Bargen
12.40 – 13.00	282	Cloud Retrieval for SCIAMACHY	Diego Loyola
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		ATM Clouds/Aerosols (Cont.)
14.00 – 14.20	367	Automated cloud-top height, amount and winds from ATSR2 in EU-CLOUDMAP project	Jan-Peter Muller
14.20 – 14.40	468	Remote Sensing of Aerosol over oceans using visible and infrared measurements from ATSR-2 and AATSR	Philip Watts
14.40 – 15.00	131	Tropospheric aerosol characterisation: from GOME towards an Envisat perspective	Maria João Costa
15.00 – 15.20	100	Synergetic retrieval of aerosol properties: from ERS to ENVISAT	Marion Schroedter
15.20 – 15.40	437	Aerosol retrieval over land and over sea	Gerrit De Leeuw
15.40 – 16.00	162	Validation of Aerosol Properties Retrieved from GOME Measurements	Marco Cervino
16.00 – 16.20		Coffee Break
		ATM Calibration, Radiative Transfer, Assimilation Session Chairperson: Albert Goede Session Co-Chairperson: Herbert Nett
16.20 – 16.40	149	Degradation of GOME observations in the UV : summary of the GDAQI project	Ilse Aben
16.40 – 17.00	358	GOME degradation correction at solar activity maximum	Ernst Hegels
17.00 – 17.20	421	Improving the polarisation correction of GOME	N.A.J. Schutgens
17.20 – 17.40	120	Comparisons between GOME and modelled backscattered radiances using in-situ measured aerosol data from the ACE-2 campaign	Johan Jansson
17.40 – 18.00	98	The LIDORT package - a generic forward-model radiative transfer tool for the simultaneous generation of intensities and weighting functions for atmospheric retrieval	Robert Spurr
18.00 – 18.20	297	Analysis of global synoptic chemical constituent maps by 4D variational assimilation of satellite data	Hendrik Elbern
18.20 – 18.40	1403	Assimilation of 3D ozone field in global chemistry-transport models	G. El Serafy
18.40 – 19.00	99	Temperature dependent absorption cross section of O3, NO2, and other atmospheric trace gases measured with the SCIAMACHY spectrometer	Konstanze Bogumil
19.00 – 19.20	316	In-orbit optical path degradation: GOME experience and SCIAMACHY prediction	Ralph Snel

ROOM H1 (300 seats)

WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Land Cover / Land Use Session Chairperson: Mike Wooding Session Co-Chairperson: Olivier Arino
9.00 – 9.20	357	Monitoring Rapid Urbanisation with Imaging Radars	David Archer
9.20 – 9.40	229	Synergy Study of Multisource Data for Characterisation and Monitoring of Soil Surfaces. Application to Algiers and Laghouat Regions (Algeria).	Youcef Smara
9.40 – 10.00	495	Application of ERS-SAR and scatterometer to the study of backscatter anisotropy in urban areas	Benedicte Dousset
10.00 – 10.20	445	Understanding ERS Coherence over Urban Areas	Attilio Fanelli
10.20 – 10.40	57	Urban Remote Sensing through Multispectral and Radar Data	Paolo Gamba
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20	1405	Application of EO data for urban planning in Mega Cities	Christopher Boehm
11.20 – 11.40	309	Inferring building height from SAR interferometric phase coherence images	William Grey
11.40 – 12.00	288	Evaluation of Multisensor Spaceborne SAR for CORINE Land Cover Mapping in Sweden	Yifang Ban
12.00 – 12.20	39	SAR interferometric DEM construction for landscape process analyses in north-eastern Iceland	Jukka Käyhkö
12.20 – 12.40	332	Optimal use of multi-temporal SAR data for land use information extraction	Hugues Sassier
12.40 – 13.00	293	Use of ERS SAR Imagery in Refugee Relief	Øyvind Dalen
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		Land Cover / Land Use (Cont.)
14.00 – 14.20	401	Examples of SAR ERS images for development studies and up-dating existing mapping in amazonian area Projects ERS AO3-160 French Guyana and ENVISAT AO 539	Jean Paul Rudant
14.20 – 14.40	219	Evolution of the Hydrographical Network of the Karakum Desert and Environmental Implications for the Aral Sea	Nikos Lyberis
		Vegetation / Agriculture Session Chairperson: Henning Skriver Session Co-Chairperson: Juerg Lichtenegger
14.40 – 15.00	107	Global scale monitoring of soil and vegetation with ERS Wind scatterometer and SSM/I	Paolo Pampaloni
15.00 – 15.20	183	Interpretation of ERS WSC time series over Sahel during the period 1991-1999	Lionel Jarlan
15.20 – 15.40	393	Relating ERS Scatterometer Data to Global Vegetation Models	Maged Abdel-Messeh
15.40 – 16.00	304	Tree shape description for backscattering modelling of LAI	Terhikki Manninen
16.00 – 16.20		Coffee Break
		Vegetation / Agriculture (cont.)
16.20 – 16.40	79	ERS Data use for wide-area sampling of agricultural areas: Image Logic for Cereal Monitoring.	Guido Lemoine
16.40 – 17.00	176	Crops classification in southern Sweden with multitemporal ERS-2 SAR data	Xuetang Xie
17.00 – 17.20	323	Land-use mapping using airborne polarimetric SAR	Henning Skriver
17.20 – 17.40	408	Amazonia Bio-diversity Estimation using remote sensing and indigenous taxonomy	Luigi Fabbro

ROOM H2 (400 SEATS)

WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		ENVISAT - RA-2 Session Chairperson: Jerome Benveniste Session Co-Chairperson: Monica Roca
9.00 – 9.20	34	An ENVISAT S-Band altimeter CAL / VAL experiment in the framework of the OSCAR project	Monique Dechambre
9.20 – 9.40	171	Radar Altimeter Calibration using Ground Based Transponders	Andrew Birks
9.40 – 10.00	276	The ENVISAT RA-2 Value-Added Ocean/Ice Processor at GFZ Potsdam	Alexander Braun
10.00 – 10.20	257	The ENVISAT Altimetry Mission Data Products	Jerome Benveniste
10.20 – 10.40	106	CLS contribution to Envisat CALVAL	Joël Dorandeu
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20	135	Absolute and Relative Calibration of ERS-2 RA with Applications to ENVISAT	Philip Moore
11.20 – 11.40	142	Land Calibration and Monitoring of ENVISAT RA-2 Sigma0	Philippa Berry
11.40 – 12.00	337	Measurements and modeling of ocean surface slopes and calibration of the radar altimeter	Bertrand Chapron
12.00 – 12.20	427	The CATALA campaigns: Indirect calibration technique for ENVISAT altimeter calibration	J. J. Martínez-Benjamin
		ENVISAT - AATSR Session Chairperson: Christopher Mutlow Session Co-Chairperson: Peter Regner
12.20 – 12.40	514	The proposed Global Land Surface Temperature Products for ENVISAT's AATSR: Scientific basis, algorithm description and validation protocol	Fred Prata
12.40 – 13.00	170	Laboratory Calibration of AATSR	David Smith
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		ENVISAT - AATSR (Cont.)
14.00 – 14.20	503	Near-surface ocean temperature variability - consequences for the validation of AATSR on Envisat.	Peter Minnett
		ENVISAT - ASAR Session Chairperson: Manfred Zink Session Co-Chairperson: Christopher Buck
14.20 – 14.40	386	ScanSAR interferometric monitoring using the PS technique	Andrea Monti Guarnieri
14.40 – 15.00	150	Alternative Large-Scale Distributed Targets for SAR Elevation Beam Pattern Characterization	Christopher Buck
15.00 – 15.20	45	PHARUS ASAR Demonstrator: simulation and application of ASAR data	Arthur Smith
15.20 – 15.40	423	ERS - ENVISAT combination for interferometry and super-resolution	Andrea Monti Guarnieri
15.40 – 16.00	494	External radiometric calibration activity on Italian test-sites for the ENVISAT mission	Francesco Posa
16.00 – 16.20		Coffee Break
		ENVISAT - Atmospheric Instruments Session Chairperson: Herbert Fischer Session Co-Chairperson: Frerick Johannes
16.20 – 16.40	392	Acquisitions of the COSE project in the perspective of ENVISAT.	Martine De Maziere
16.40 – 17.00	38	German SCIAMACHY Validation Activities	Thomas Wagner
17.00 – 17.20	344	SCIAMACHY polarisation sensitivity and impact on trace gas retrieval	Sander Slijkhuis
17.20 – 17.40	439	SCIAMACHY Nominal Operations and Special Features	Stefan Noel
17.40 – 18.00	472	Validation of trace gas measurements of the ENVISAT instruments MIPAS, GOMOS and SCIAMACHY using in-situ and remote sensing balloon borne techniques	Hermann Oelhaf
18.00 – 18.20	497	Geophysical validation of level-2 products of MIPAS, GOMOS, and SCIAMACHY by dedicated campaigns of the high-altitude aircraft M-55 Geophysica	Cornelis Blom
18.20 – 18.40	446	An optimized forward model and retrieval scheme for MIPAS near real time data processing	Marco Ridolfi

ROOM J1 (200 seats)

WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Wind/Waves 1 Session Chairperson: Susanne Lehner Session Co-Chairperson: Andrea Bellini
9.00 – 9.20	113	Wind Speed and SWH Calibration for Radar Altimetry in the North Sea	Tilo Schoene
9.20 – 9.40	342	Use of ERS-2 Altimeter Wind/Wave Data for the Validation of Sea State Models	Jean Michel Lefevre
9.40 – 10.00	157	Mesoscale Wind Fields Retrieved from RADARSAT-1 ScanSAR in View of ENVISAT ASAR	Jochen Horstmann
10.00 – 10.20	301	ERS SAR wind retrieval in the marginal ice zone	Birgitte Furevik
10.20 – 10.40	315	Near Real-time Sea-surface Winds from ERS Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data	Tony Bauna
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20	163	High Resolution Wind Fields and their Variation Extracted from ERS SAR	Jochen Horstmann
11.20 – 11.40	480	The Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility Wind Product	Tilly Driesenaar
11.40 – 12.00	102	A Physically-based Model of Ocean Backscatter for Wind Speed retrieval from SAR, Scatterometer and Altimeter.	Graham Quartly
12.00 – 12.20	275	Tracking of Tropical Cyclones with the ERS Scatterometer: Algorithm Performances and post-processed data examples.	Raffaele Crapolicchio
12.20 – 12.40	359	Use of scatterometer wind data in ECMWF's assimilation system	Lars Isaksen
12.40 – 13.00
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		Wind/Waves 2 Session Chairperson: Werner Alpers Session Co-Chairperson: Andrea Bellini
14.00 – 14.20	166	Global Observations of Wind Speed and Sea Surface Features using SAR Wave Mode	Susanne Lehner
14.20 – 14.40	169	SAR Ocean Wave Inversion - A Hierarchic Approach	J. Schulz-Stellenfleth
14.40 – 15.00	16	A new composite model, including non-Bragg scattering effects for the estimate of radar cross-section and Modulation Transfer Function, in wind-scatterometer and SAR conditions	Daniele Hauser
15.00 – 15.20	440	Improvement of the high resolution mesoscale atmospheric model RAMS with ERS-SAR, for detailed sea surface wind reconstruction of small scalephenomena	Alberto Ortolani
15.20 – 15.40	279	ENVISAR ASAR wave mode data simulated by ERS SAR	Birgit Schaetller
15.40 – 16.00	6	Airborne polarimetric radar measurements in the context of the geophysical validation of the ENVISAT ASAR products over the ocean	Daniele Hauser
16.00 – 16.20		Coffee Break
16.20 – 16.40	508	Validation of Envisat ASAR Wave Mode Level 1 and Level 2 Product Using ERS SAR Data	Harald Johnsen
16.40 – 17.00	23	Validation of ENVISAT SAR Wind Fields: Lessons from ERS and RADARSAT	Frank Monaldo
17.00 – 17.20	394	Comparisons of observed and modelled wave energy spectra using ERS-2 SAR observations and the Met.Office wave model.	James Gunson
17.20 – 17.40	333	Waves and mixing in the coastal zone	F. Ocampo-Torres

ROOM J2 (125 seats)

WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		ATM UV Radiation, trace Gases other then Ozone Session Chairperson: John Burrows Session Co-Chairperson: Stefano Casadio
9.00 – 9.20	47	Water vapour retrieval from GOME data including cloudy scenes	Stefan Noel
9.20 – 9.40	399	Empirical Retrieval of the Atmospheric air mass factor (ERA) for the measurement of water vapour vertical content using GOME data. Comparison with independent measurements.	Stefano Casadio
9.40 – 10.00	419	ATSR Total Atmospheric Water Vapor Content Retrieval and Comparison with GOME and Radar Altimeter Data	Paola Colagrande
10.00 – 10.20	124	GODIVAERS - GOME Data Interpretation, Validation and Application - ERS AO3-132	Albert Goede
10.20 – 10.40	22	The Pollution Tracing Technique and application within the Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW) network	Dominique Jeker
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20	511	Evidences for a background of BrO in the free troposphere: status and implications for the global observing system	M. Van Roozendael
11.20 – 11.40	33	Remote-sensed Formaldehyde Observations from the ESA GOME Instrument	Kelly Chance
11.40 – 12.00	244	A multi wavelength approach to the retrieval of tropospheric NO2 from GOME	Andreas Richter
12.00 – 12.20
12.20 – 12.40
12.40 – 13.00
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		Methods 3 Session Chairperson: Laurence Gray Session Co-Chairperson: Evert Attema
14.00 – 14.20	108	Modeling backscattering from leafy vegetation: the incoherent and coherent approaches	Paolo Pampaloni
14.20 – 14.40	182	The application of wavelet-based filtering techniques for retrieving bio-physical parameters from multi-temporal ERS-images	Niko Verhoest
14.40 – 15.00	145	Classification of Multi-temporal SAR Images and INSAR Coherence Images using adaptive neighborhood model and simulated annealing approach	Mingquan Bao
15.00 – 15.20	387	Influence of Auroral Zone Ionospheric Disturbances on Synthetic Aperture Radar and Interferometric SAR Data.	Laurence Gray
15.20 – 15.40	197	Cloud detection from satellite imagery by wavelets	Carmine Serio
15.40 – 16.00	268	Advances in Operational Cloud Clearing for ATSR-1,ATSR-2, and AATSR	Christopher Mutlow
16.00 – 16.20		Coffee Break
		Methods 4 Session Chairperson: Laurence Gray Session Co-Chairperson: Evert Attema
16.20 – 16.40	281	Classification of Oceanic and Atmospheric Signatures in ASAR Dual Polarization Mode Imagery	Roland Romeiser
16.40 – 17.00	140	A Multi-Sensor Approach to Monitor Oceanography in the Gulf of Oman	Neil Stapleton
17.00 – 17.20	415	Phasemap, a simple software intended to give an efficient access to interferometry	Didier Massonnet
17.20 – 17.40	383	ASAR ScanSAR modes: quality enhancemnt	A. Monti Guarnieri

ROOM H1 (300 seats)

THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Geology / Volcano monitoring Session Chairperson: Geoff Wadge Session Co-Chairperson: Maurizio Fea
9.00 – 9.20	32	Comparing spaceborne ERS-SAR and airborne geophysical data : Application to geology in the French Guiana rainforest landscapes	Jean-Paul Deroin
9.20 – 9.40	224	ERS SAR Data and DEM Analysis to complement the Geological Interpretation of the Kalecýk-Hasayaz basin, Ankara, Türkýye	Tamer Özalp
9.40 – 10.00	30	Studies of volcanoes of Alaska by satellite radar interferometry	Zhong Lu
10.00 – 10.20	1055	First results from operational volcano monitoring in the Canary Islands	Daniel Carrasco
10.20 – 10.40	441	Operational use of InSAR for volcano observatories: experience in local reception at Montserrat	Geoff Wadge
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20
		Floods / Storms Session Chairperson: Guy Duchossois Session Co-Chairperson: Marc Paganini
11.20 – 11.40	104	China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station and its Flood Monitoring with ERS in China.	An Li
11.40 – 12.00	453	Flood monitoring in Bangladesh. An application of SAR imagery for impact assessments of flood extent, flood depth and duration.	Joris de Vente
12.00 – 12.20	327	Evaluation of multitemporal radar data for the mapping of inundation dynamics in the Save-flood plain (Croatia)	Roland de Kook
12.20 – 12.40	122	Contribution of ERS SAR images and ERS coherence data to a flood information system on the Meuse basin -France	Hervé Yesou
12.40 – 13.00	123	Application of SAR-data for flood modelling in Southern Germany	Heike Bach
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		Floods / Storms (Cont.)
14.00 – 14.20	203	Validating soil moisture estimation with ERS PRI data: operational use in DeciDe, a decision support system for floods	Alberto Ortolani
14.20 – 14.40	118	Mapping Storm Forest Damage using SAR Coherence Data. The case of the Haguenau Forset - France	Hervé Yesou
14.40 – 15.00	165	Forest storm damage assessment with ERS tandem data	Andreas Wiesmann
15.00 – 15.20	210	The Devastation of Venezuela by Heavy Rains in December 1999: Assessment of the Situation using ERS InSAR Tandem Data and SPOT Images	Edmond Nezry
		Earth Motion Session Chairperson: Claudio Prati Session Co-Chairperson: Frank Martin Seifert
15.20 – 15.40	294	Climate Change - Himalayan Peri-Glacial Lake, Moraine Dam Burst Surveillance.	Richard Stow
15.40 – 16.00	532	Assessment of SAR interferometry within operational applications: mapping and modelling of peri-urban subsidence	Claudie Carnec
16.00 – 16.20		Coffee Break
16.20 – 16.40	426	ERS-1/2 SAR Interferometry for Urban Subsidence Detection in China	Chao Wang
16.40 – 17.00	50	ERS and ENVISAT Differential SAR Interferometry for Subsidence Monitoring	Urs Wegmuller
17.00 – 17.20	143	Validation of the Permanent Scatterers technique in urban areas	Claudio Prati
17.20 – 17.40	362	Temporal Analysis of Terrain Movements by Means of SAR Differential Interferometric Measurements on Sparse Coherent Areas	Mario Costantini
17.40 – 18.00	381	InSAR imaging of London surface movement for structural damage management and water resource conservation.	Julie Boyle

ROOM H2 (400 seats)

THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Services and Market Session Chairperson: Steve Coulson Session Co-Chairperson: Philippe Bally
9.00 – 9.20		ESA E.O. Data User Programme	Olivier Arino
9.20 – 9.40	158	The ERS oil-spill research project in New Zealand: demonstrations to the commercial market	Stella Belliss
9.40 – 10.00	1106	Waveclimate.com the online offshore-climate assessment tool	Han Wensink
10.00 – 10.20	370	National-scale DEM Generation using ERS Tandem Data in Alpine Regions	Carla Poidomani
10.20 – 10.40	28	SAGA - Satellite data and Geoinformation for Agrologistics	Bernd Schieche
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20	382	Support to the evaluation of the short-term exploitation opportunities for ERS data within the agribusiness market	Judith Johnston
11.20 – 11.40	428	Fast damages assessment from EO data for assistance to relief operations after major natural disasters	Richard Guillande
11.40 – 12.00	412	Advanced SAR/Optical Remote Sensing Techniques for Forestry Applications: A Case Study in Sarawak (Malaysia)	Edmond Nezry
12.00 – 12.20	482	ESA Mission Marketing Activities. The E.M.M.A. offer for the development of the ERS and ENVISAT market.	Andrea Celentano
12.20 – 12.40	486	Commercial distribution of ERS and ENVISAT products and services	Alain Hirschfeld
12.40 – 13.00		ESA E.O. Market Development	Steve Coulson
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		ENVISAT ESA 1 Session Chairperson: Yves-Louis Desnos Session Co-Chairperson: Guido Levrini
14.00 – 14.10	449	The ENVISAT Mission	Guido Levrini
14.10 – 14.20	1414	Earth Observation in the Fifth Framework Programme	Michel Schouppe
14.20 – 14.40	450	The ENVISAT Calibration and Validation Programme	Guido Levrini
14.40 – 15.00	477	ASAR Instrument Calibration	Christopher Buck
15.00 – 15.20	504	ASAR ground Processor verification and Wave validation	Yves-Louis Desnos
15.20 – 15.40	447	MERIS instrument calibration	Steven Delwart
15.40 – 16.00	444	MERIS validation Plan	Jean-Paul Huot
16.00 – 16.20		Coffee Break
		ENVISAT ESA 2 Session Chairperson: Guido Levrini Session Co-Chairperson: Yves-Louis Desnos
16.20 – 16.40	475	MIPAS Calibration and Processor Verification	Herbert Nett
16.40 – 17.00	466	GOMOS Calibration and Processor Verification	Torgeir Paulsen
17.00 – 17.20	488	The validation of the products derived from the Atmospheric Chemistry Instruments	E. Attema
17.20 – 17.40	411	The SCIAMACHY Validation program	H. Kelder
17.40 – 18.00	454	RA-2 absolute range and Sigma-O calibration and in-flight verification	Mònica Roca
18.00 – 18.20	256	The RA-2 and MWR Validation and Cross-Calibration	Jerome Benveniste
18.20 – 18.40	502	The validation of the ENVISAT orbits	Patrick Vincent
18.40 – 19.00	29	The AATSR Cal/Val plan	Marianne Edwards

ROOM J1 (200 seats)

THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Hydrology 1 Session Chairperson: Helmut Rott Session Co-Chairperson: Maurice Borgeaud
9.00 – 9.20	53	Comparison ERS SAR Data derived Soil Moisture Distributions with SVAT-Model Results	Wolfram Mauser
9.20 – 9.40	338	Comparisons of detailed in-situ soil moisture and rain measurements with ERS radar backscattering data	Maurice Borgeaud
9.40 – 10.00	455	Applying surface roughness discriminator based on partially polarised SAR data to soil moisture inversion	Francesco Mattia
10.00 – 10.20	458	Generalised inversion algorithm for bare soil moisture mapping using ERS SAR data	Malcolm Davidson
10.20 – 10.40	417	Inferring the Effect of Plant and Soil Variables of C and L Backscatter over Agriculture Fields Based on Modeling Analysis	Katarzyna Dabrowska-Zielinska
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
		Hydrology 2 Session Chairperson: Helmut Rott Session Co-Chairperson: Maurice Borgeaud
11.00 – 11.20	62	An approach for radar backscatter and pedologic soil characteristic investigation	Piero Boccardo
11.20 – 11.40	205	Soil moisture mapping from ASAR imagery for the Flumendosa (Italy) and Meuse (Belgium-Netherlands) river basins	Claudio Paniconi
11.40 – 12.00	96	Combining the microwave model CLOUD and the growth model PROMET-V for soil moisture retrieval	Roswitha Stolz
12.00 – 12.20	193	Mapping and Monitoring of Wetlands in the Lake Chad-basin using ATSR-2 Data (Project AO3-151)	Jan Verhoeye
12.20 – 12.40	112	SAR-based monitoring of flood-induced landcover and landuse change in the region of the inland delta of the river Niger (Mali)	Elmar Csaplovics
12.40 – 13.00	67	On Estimating Snow Wetness Using ASAR Measurements	Jiancheng Shi
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		Hydrology 2 (Cont.)
14.00 – 14.20	247	Real Time Snowmelt Runoff Forecasting using ERS SAR PRI data	Thomas Nagler
		Sea Ice 1 Session Chairperson: Benjamin Holt Session Co-Chairperson: Ola Grabak
14.20 – 14.40	40	Arctic Ice Thickness from ERS1/2 Radar Altimetry	Seymour Laxon
14.40 – 15.00	19	SAR, SSMI and numerical model characterisation of Arctic Ocean coastal polynyas	Sverre Thune Dokken
15.00 – 15.20	239	Sea and lake ice studies in the Northwestern Russia using ERS SAR and other satellite data	Vitali Alexandrov
15.20 – 15.40	243	ERS SAR Data Application Use for Studying Sea Ice Parameters and Retrieving of Greenland Seals Migration	Vladimir Melentyev
15.40 – 16.00	317	Mapping Sea Ice Thickness with RADARSAT and a Helicopter-borne Electromagnetic-Induction System	Ingrid Peterson
16.00 – 16.20		Coffee Break
		Sea Ice 2 Session Chairperson: Preben Gudmandsen Session Co-Chairperson: Ola Grabak
16.20 – 16.40	409	Lincoln Sea and Nares Strait - a remote sensing study	Preben Gudmandsen
16.40 – 17.00	303	Satellite Ice Monitoring for Navigation of an ice-going tanker in the Kara Sea	Stein Sandven
17.00 – 17.20	506	Operational Use of Satellite SAR for Sea Ice Monitoring in Canada - Past Experience and Future Possibilities	Dean Flett
17.20 – 17.40	516	Sea Ice Thickness from SAR-derived Kinematics	Benjamin Holt
17.40 – 18.00	160	Extraction of Sea Ice Parameters from Imagette Data	Thomas Koenig
18.00 – 18.20	74	SImA - A Software System for Motion Analysis in Satellite Image Sequences	Roland Neumann Rene Bartholomae
18.20 – 18.40	436	SAR Sea Ice Concentration in Baltic Sea Verified by Albedo Measurements	Maria Lundin
18.40 – 19.00	302	Satellite studies of ocean fronts and eddies for deepwater development in the Norwegian Sea	Stein Sandven

ROOM J2 (125 seats)

THURSDAY 19 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Ice 1 Session Chairperson: Christopher Doake Session Co-Chairperson: Espen Volden
9.00 – 9.20	86	Processing interferometric ERS-1/2 Tandem data coast to coast in Greenland	Johan Jacob Mohr
9.20 – 9.40	3	Unsteady flow in the Antarctic ice sheet revealed by SAR interferometry and radar altimetry	Andrew Shepherd
9.40 – 10.00	36	ERS Altimetry in Antarctica	Frederique Remy
10.00 – 10.20	37	Interferometry and altimetry above Dome C, Antarctica	Benoit Legresy
10.20 – 10.40	134	SAR Interferometric Analysis of David Drygalski Glacial System and Nansen Ice Sheet (Antarctica)	Franco Coren
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20	154	The evolution of a glacier surge observed with the ERS satellites	Tazio Strozzi
11.20 – 11.40	253	Investigation of Correlations Between Temporal Variations of Radar Backscatter and Altimeter-derived Ice Sheet Elevation Changes	Anita Brenner
11.40 – 12.00	284	Glaciological information derived from combining interferometric SAR with other remote sensing measurements	Niels Reeh
12.00 – 12.20	396	Eight years of ERS1/2 observations of the evolution of West AntarcticGlaciers: What have we learned ?	Eric Rignot
12.20 – 12.40	471	Surface motion and grounding line detection, measured by differential ERS-SAR Interferometry, Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica	Bernhard Rabus
12.40 – 13.00
13.00 – 13.20		Lunch Time
13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00
		Ice 2 Session Chairperson: Johan Jacob Mohr Session Co-Chairperson: Espen Volden
14.00 – 14.20	500	Glaciological Investigation of Mertz Glacier, East Antarctica, usingSAR Interferometry and field observations	Anja Poetzsch
14.20 – 14.40	65	Equilibrium and firn line detection with multipolarisation SAR	Max Koenig
14.40 – 15.00	324	Features of Topography and Dynamics of Glaciers of the Western Antarctic Peninsular by the ERS SAR Interferometry	Rudolf Greku
15.00 – 15.20	320	Shrinking of the Arctic ice Coveer over the last two decades	Ola M. Johannessen
		Geodesy Session Chairperson: Remko Scharroo Session Co-Chairperson: Pierre Femenias
15.20 – 15.40	92	The KMS99 Global Marine Gravity Field from ERS and GEOSAT Altimetry	Ole Andersen
15.40 – 16.00	350	Improved Modelling of Earth Gravity and Impact on ERS POD	Christoph Reigber
16.00 – 16.20		Coffee Break
		Geodesy (Cont.)
16.20 – 16.40	248	Black Sea Geoid and Sea Surface Topography with the ERS-1 Altimeter Data	Rudolf Greku
16.40 – 17.00	226	The time tag bias of ERS altimeter data	Remko Scharroo
17.00 – 17.20	198	Identification and Correction of Clock Asymmetry in the ERS-1 and ERS-2 Radar Altimeters	Richard Francis
17.20 – 17.40	227	Analysis of geophysical corrections applied to ERS altimeter data	Remko Scharroo

 ROOM H1 (300 seats)

FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Sea Features Session Chairperson: Richard Olsen Session Co-Chairperson: Andrea Petrocchi
9.00 – 9.20	221	Multisensor Observations of Internal Waves and their effects in the Bay of Biscay.	Jose da Silva
9.20 – 9.40	270	Identification and classification of mesoscale ocean features on ERS SAR imagery	Konstantin Litovchenko
9.40 – 10.00	245	Manifestations of Sea Currents and Eddies in ERS-SAR Images of the Bering Strait	Olga Lavrova
10.00 – 10.20	246	Internal waves in the Andaman Sea, new results from ERS SAR and other sensors	robert Potter
10.20 – 10.40	364	Multi-year ERS observations of ocean circulation features along the coast of Northern Norway	Richard Olsen
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
		Sea Features (Cont.)
11.00 – 11.20	1412	Nonlinear internal waves in the South China Sea	Ming-Kuang Hsu
11.20 – 11.40
11.40 – 12.00
12.00 – 12.20
12.20 – 12.40
12.40 – 13.00

ROOM H2 (400 seats)

FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Topography Session Chairperson: Philippa Berry Session Co-Chairperson: Steve Coulson
9.00 – 9.20	173	ENVISAT RA-2: Potential For Land Topographic Mapping	Philippa Berry
9.20 – 9.40	341	The LANDMAP project for the Automated Creation and Validation of multi-resolution orthorectified satellite image products and a 1" DEM of the British Isles from ERS tandem SAR interferometry.	Jan-Peter Muller
9.40 – 10.00	91	Evaluation of Methods used in Assessing the Accuracy of InSAR derived DEMs	Premalatha Balan
10.00 – 10.20	343	Using the LANDMAP British Isles 1" IfSAR DEM for Hydrological Network Derivation.	Alec Walker
10.20 – 10.40	380	DTM production by fusion of mixed sar and optical image data	Thierry Laurencot
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
		Topography (Cont.)
11.00 – 11.20	507	Geomorphological and Geological Validation of Digital Terrain Models processed from spatial imagery. Applications in the Pyrennees (S France) and E Sénégal (W Africa)	Benoit Deffontaines
11.20 – 11.40	130	Automated tiepoint retrieval through heteromorphic image simulation for spaceborne SAR sensors	David Small
11.40 – 12.00	258	ERS Georeferencing Precision	Andy Smith
12.00 – 12.20		ESA E.O. FUTURE PROGRAMMES: Earth Explorers Closing Session	Alberto Tobias
12.20 – 12.40
12.40 – 13.00

ROOM J1 (200 seats)

FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Performance Session Chairperson: Pascal Lecomte Session Co-Chairperson: Betlem Rosich
9.00 – 9.20	459	Five Years of ERS-2 Low Bit Rate Mission: routine Cal/Val and Long Loop Sensor Performance Monitoring.	Pascal Lecomte
9.20 – 9.40	313	ERS and Envisat orbit determination and prediction at ESOC	Rene Zandbergen
9.40 – 10.00	208	Assessment of the new ERS-2 mono-gyro piloting mode on the quality of ERS SAR data and ERS SAR applications performance	Betlem Rosich
10.00 – 10.20	178	The performance of the ERS-2 Synthetic Aperture Radar	Peter Meadows
10.20 – 10.40	42	Orbit Control of ERS-1, ERS-2 and ENVISAT to support SAR interferometry	Mats Rosengren
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20	128	Spatial and Temporal Errors in ERS-2 Radial Positioning	Philip Moore
11.20 – 11.40	1410	Implementation of a Single GyroscopeAttitude and Orbit Control System on ERS-2	Miguel Canela Marques
11.40 – 12.00
12.00 – 12.20
12.20 – 12.40
12.40 – 13.00

ROOM J2 (125 seats)

FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER 2000

	ID No.	Title	Presenter
		Land Surface Temperature Session Chairperson: Marianne Edwards Session Co-Chairperson: Alessandra Buongiorno
9.00 – 9.20	314	Synergistic use of ATSR-2 multispectral and dual-angle data for land surface studies	Zhao-Liang Li
9.20 – 9.40	204	Component temperature retrieval from ATSR-2	Claire Jacobs
9.40 – 10.00	101	Surface Temperature from ATSR-2 Data: Algorithms and Validation	José A. Sobrino
10.00 – 10.20	274	A Model-based Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Algorithm	Guangjian Yan
10.20 – 10.40
10.40 – 11.00		Coffee Break
		Sea Surface Temperature Session Chairperson: Ian Barton Session Co-Chairperson: Philippe Goryl
11.00 – 11.20	129	The relationship between in situ and Satellite Sea Surface Temperatures in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean.	Ronald Souza
11.20 – 11.40	115	ATRS maps coral bleaching on Australia's Great Barrier Reef	Ian Barton
11.40 – 12.00	127	Changes in Sea level, sea surface temperature and sea surface pressure from Satellites - The impact of ERS and ENVISAT	Ole Andersen
12.00 – 12.20
12.20 – 12.40
12.40 – 13.00