OPENING SESSION & Plenary:

 

The IEEE and GRSS societies

Alejandro Frery
Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand)

GEO and REACT Pacific Region

Prof Tony Milne
Past President IEEE-GRSS, University of New South Wales, Australia

New Zealand Space Agency

Andrew Johnson
Deputy Head New Zealand Space Agency, Space and Regulatory Systems

 

RADAR

 

Overview of Radar Remote Sensing Techniques

Mahta Moghaddam
University of Southern California, USA

Sounder Principles and Design

Wolfgang Rack
IEEE GRSS IFT UAV Working Group, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Altimeters and Planetary Landers

Brian Pollard
Formerly NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA, ReSTORe lab

 

SAR

 

SAR principles, operation modes, spaceborne SAR instruments

Marwan Younis
DLR, Germany

SAR processing

Scott Hensley
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

SAR Interferometry

Scott Hensley
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

 

REMOTE SENSING WITH GNSS & SoOP

 

GNS Reflectometry

Andrew O’Brien
Ohio State University, USA

GNSS-R Science Instrument design

Chris Ruf
NASA CYGNSS PI, Space Physics Research Lab, University of Michigan, USA

GNSS-R Constellation Design

Scott Gleason