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November 17, 2013
Activity Report of URSI-F
Reported by Y. Maekawa (Chair)

1. Commission meetings in the period of July – November 2013(For more detail, please see http://ursi-f.nict.go.jp/)(1)

No. 576 Meeting
Date: July 23-25, 2013

Place: Sunrefre Hakodate (Hokkaido)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committee on AP, and IEEE AP-S Japan
Chapter. Three papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented:
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A study on Effects of Site Diversity Techniques on the Rain Attenuation in Ku-band Satellite Communications Links according to the Kind of Rain Fronts
Evaluation on Block Diagonalization using Beam Selection in MU-MIMO Transmission with User
Scheduling
Fundamental Study on Stable Marrige Type Node Pair Selection Scheme for MIMO Multiuser System

For more details, please see: http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/(2)

No. 577 Meeting
Date: November 1, 2013

Place: Doshisha University (Kyoto)

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Effect of Building Configuration of Intersection on Propagation Loss Characteristics of V2V Communications
A Study of Correction Method to Predict Path Loss for Sloping Area Based on Measurement of Scale
Model and Actual Environment
Relationship between the Rain Area Motion Inferred from Ku-band Satellite Signal Rain Attenuation
Measurements at Three Locations and the Ground and Upper Atmospheric Wind Velocities
UHF Ground Penetrating Radar for Subsurface Sounding of Solid Bodies in the Solar System --Preliminary
Design and BBM Evaluation Tests

No. 578 Meeting
Date: November 15, 2013

Place: Niigata University (Niigata)This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of Niigata University.
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Ten papers relevant to the field of URSI-F

Polarimetric Decomposition Theory
Complex-Valued Neural Networks in SAR Imaging
Polarimetric calibration of Pi-SAR2: Results of Niigata experiments in August 2013
Snow wetness estimation using SAR polarimetry technique
A Study on improving sea ice monitoring with SAR data at Lake Saroma
Performance Improvement of InSAR Local Co-registration Method with Multiresolution Interferogram
PolSAR Land Classification by Using Quaternion-Valued Neural Networks
A New Complete Scattering Power Decomposition Method
Full-Pol-SAR Decomposition Scheme Over Wet Snow AreasPolarimetric SAR Remote Sensing of Mountainous Terrain

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2. Others
The 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR) 2013 was held in Tsukuba, Japan. Date:
Sept. 23-27, 2013. The URSI-F Japan was one of its technical co-sponsors. Eighty four papers relevant to thefield of URSI-F were presented from Japan:
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New Earth Observation Scenario using the ALOS-2 with the L-band high-resolution and full-polarimetric
SAR (Plenary talk)
Theoretical Study of Backscatter from Rice Paddy Using Discrete Scatterer Model
Generalized Hybrid Model-Based/ Eigenvalue Decomposition
Soil Moisture and Biomass Retrieval using ALOS/PALSAR Data
A Study on Sea Ice Monitoring with SAR Data at Lake Saroma
Glacier Surge in West Kunlun Shan, NW Tibet Detected by Synthetic Aperture RadarLong Range Detection of UWB Radar Using Interpulse Cyclic Phase CodeAccurate Permittivity Estimation Method for 3-dimensional Dielectric Object with Iterative Correction ofWaveform Deformation
Extended Imaging Method Using Range-Points-Based Ellipse Extrapolation with Double-Scattered Waves
for UWB Radar
Polarimetric Calibration of Pi-SAR2
Newly Developed X-band SAR System onboard Japanese Small Satellite “ASNARO-2”
Synthetic Aperture Radar Compatible with 100kg Class Piggy-Back Satellite
Comparison of Model-Based Four-Component Scattering Power Decompositions
L-band SAR Data and Spatially Explicit Model to Analyse Forest Loss between 2007 and 2030 in Central
SumatraUse of L-band PALSAR Backscattering Intensity for Estimating the Growing Stages of the Forest
Evaluation of Multi-sensor SAR and Optical Data to Monitor Growth Stages of Oilpalm Plants
Field Tree Measurement using Terrestrial Laser for Radar Remote Sensing
Non-destructive Inspection of Buildings Using Radar Polarimetry
Correction Formulae for Soil Roughness Parameters Estimated from a Surface Profile
Denoising and Detection of Reflected Waves from Buried Pipes with Ground-penetrating Radar Data
Design of a GPR Antenna Array for Asphalt Pavement Inspection
System Characteristics for Wide Swath L-band SAR onboard ALOS-2/PALSAR-2
Characteristic of L-band SAR Ocean Measurements
Autonomous Precision Orbit Control of ALOS-2 for Repeat-Pass SAR Interferometry
Efficient Motion Compensation of SAR Imagery by Refocusing Approach
Trial Biomass Map Production in Riau Province, Indonesia Using L-band SAR Data
An Experiment of Ku-band Airborne Bistatic SAR with a Stationary Receiver
Quasi-Monostatic Algorithm for GNSS-SAR
Subsidence Monitoring Using SAR Interferometry Time Series Analysis along the Chao Phraya River
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InSAR Observation and Numerical Modeling of the Water Vapor Signal during 2008 Seino Heavy Rain
Event, Central Japan
Results from ALOS and Expectations to ALOS-2 in Earthquake/volcano Research
Ionospheric Effects Correction of ALOS PALSAR Interferometry in Antarctica
Monitoring Changes in Tropical Forests Using L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
Calibration and Validation of the Pi-SAR-L2
Monitoring of the Changes of Glacier and Ice Sheet on Polar Region by L-band SAR data
Performance Improvement of InSAR Local Co-registration Method with Multiresolution Interferogram
3D Terrain Information Reconstruction Application for Airborne InSAR
Azimuth Ambiguity Suppression with Triple Channel Receivers – An Experiment Result using Airborne
Ku-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar –Present and Future of L band SAR for Small Satellites
Automatic Detection of Landslides from SAR Images: Application to the 2011 Kii Landslides
Deformation Parameter Estimation in Low-coherence Areas Using a Multisatellite InSAR Approach
Development of Spotlight Mode SAR “Live SAR” for Flood Area Surveillance
Proposal of Nonhollow Singularity-Spreading Phase Unwrapping
SAR Interferometric Phase and Skew Fractional Brownian Motion Model
Multi-band Spaceborne SAR Observations of Tsunami Damaged Agricultural Fields

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46. Changes of Polarimetric Scattering Characteristics of ALOS PALSAR Caused by Volcanic Ash FallAnalyzed by the Unsupervised Wishart Classifier
47. Detection of Water-logging in a Large Number of Paddy Fields
48. Automated Method for Tracing Shorelines in L-band SAR Images
49. An Advanced InSAR Algorithm for Surface Deformation Monitoring: SqueeSARTM
50. Method to Obtain Phase Continuous ScanSAR Interferogram
51. Comparison of Model-Based Polarimetric Decomposition Algorithms
52. Comparison of Speckle Filtering Methods for POLSAR Analysis of Earthquake Damaged Areas
53. Experimental Evaluations of Polarimetric Observation for Bistatic Radar Using GPS Reflected Signals
54. The Development and Performance of Chirp Pulse Generator and Processor for Pi-SAR-L2
55. Spaceborne SAR Data Analysis for Marine Debris after the Great East Japan Earthquake
56. Mapping Displacement around Tokyo International Airport after The Great East Japan Earthquake 2011
Derived from TerraSAR-X Imageries
57. Damage Detection after Earthquake by an X-band High Resolution Airborne SAR
58. Mathematical Morphology Approach to the Detection of the off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Japan Tsunami
Reached Farmland from PALSAR Data
59. Detection of Damaged Area by Polarimetric SAR
60. Evaluation of Wave Height Retrieval Algorithm for Ocean SAR Image by Using Numerical Simulation
61. Nonstationary Image Noise Removal (NINR)
62. Building Damage Estimation by Integration Between Seismic Intensity Information and ALOS/PALSAR
Images of the 2007 Peru Earthquake
63. Ground Deformation Related to Active Faults Detected by Persistent Scatterer InSAR
64. Case Study of Landslides Recognition Using Dual/Quad Polarization Data of ALOS/PALSAR
65. Trial of Volcanic Ash Detection Using Pi-SAR-L2
66. Volcanic Monitoring by Polarimetric and Interferometric Airborne SAR (Pi-SAR2)
67. A Case Study of Land Cover Classification Using Combined PolSAR and Optical
68. Evalutaion of PollnSAR Classification by ALOS/PALSAR
69. Experiment on Human and Vehicle Detection Using Pi-SAR2
70. ALOS PALSAR Tomography: An Experiment in Suburban Environment
71. Long-term Landslide Monitoring by GB-SAR Interferometry in Kurihara, Japan
72. The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and the Related Disasters Observed by InSAR Using ALOS/PALSAR:
Mainshock, Induced Inland Earthquakes, and Liquefaction
73. Detection of Crustal Movements Due to the 11 April 2011 Fukushima Earthquake from SAR Images
74. Detection of Soil Liquefaction Areas in the Kantou Region Using Multitemporal InSAR Coherence
75. Monitoring of Displacement on a Landslide Slope by GB-SAR Interferometry
76. Simplified Algorithm for Detecting Oriented Man-made Objects Using Correlation Coefficients in CircularPolarization Basis
77. Unique Decomposition of a POLSAR Coherency Matrix Using a Generalized Scattering Model
78. Experimental Study on Radar Backscatterer from a Simplified Forest Model
79. Fast Calculation of Adaptive-Non-Negative-Eigenvalue-Decomposition Employing Particle SwarmOptimization
80. An Experimental Study on Image Based Multi-Channel SAR-GMTI Algorithm
81. Slightly Moved Vehicle Detection with Coherent Change Detection on X-band High Resolution SARImagery
82. Evaluation of the Ship Detection by Dual Polarimetric Along-Track Interferometry
83. PolSAR Land Classification by Using Quaternion-Valued Neural Networks
84. Efficient Automatic Target Recognition Method for Aircraft SAR Image Using Supervised SOM Clustering
For more details, please see: http://www.apsar2013.org/359/384