資料8-F
October 31, 2012
Activity Report of URSI-F
Reported by Y. Maekawa (Chair)
1. Commission meetings in the period of October 2011 – October 2012
(For more detail, please see http://www2.nict.go.jp/pub/ursi-f/)(1)

No. 558 Meeting
Date: October 3-4, 2011

Place: Niigata University (Niigata)This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of Niigata University, IEEE GRS Japan Chapter and in technicalcooperation with IEICE Technical Committee on SANE. This workshop was also corresponding to 2011 GRS Japan
Chapter Technical Meeting entitled “2nd International Polarimetric SAR Workshop in Niigata 2011”. 18 papers
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Polarization orientation angle estimation and applications
Microwave scattering from rough surface with layered media: An AIEM approach
Polarimetric SAR Interferometry for Information Product Generation
Forest canopy and foliage structure parameters from POLSAR data
Interoperability of radar and optical data for forest information assessment and outcomes forcarbon monitoring
Estimating above ground biomass using PALSAR and LiDARUnderstanding of polarimetric SAR data from vegetated surfaces: backward model, forward
model, and experiment
The progress research on circularly polarized synthetic aperture radar onboard microsatelliteand UAVSAR remote sensing in mountainous area
Remote sensing of ocean surface wind, current, wave, and internal wave using synthetic aperturerRadarOptimazation of polarimetric contrast enhancement and its application
Potential assessement of SAR in compact and full polarimetry mode for snow/ice detection
An adaptive approach for polarimetric data to classify the land cover
Basics of scatterometer and its application
New airborne X-band SAR system (Pi-SAR2) and its application
Polarimetric calibration using evolutionary algorithm
Target detection using synthetic aperture radar
Polarimetric SAR target decompotion based on unitary transformation

No. 559 Meeting
Date: November 16-18, 2011

Place: Nagoya Congress Center (Aichi)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committees on AP and CS, and IEEE AP-S
Nagoya Chapter. Eight papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented:
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High accurate method for estimation of the number of signals with QR decomposition in low SNR
Spatial correlation of receive antennas of indoor static mobile terminals
Multipath emulator over the air transmitting several signals with different Doppler frequencies from eachprobe antenna
Hybrid model for indoor radio propagation considering the effect of open-space between floors
Examination based on numerical technique of propagation loss properties in case human bodies exist
between transmitter and receiver
Performance evaluation of intrusion detection method for various channel matrix models
Correlation between matrix elements and eigenvalue property in MIMO channel matrix
Method of MIMO channel sounding between parasitic antenna arrays

For more details, please see:

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/1(3)No. 560 Meeting
Date: December 16, 2011
(Tokyo)Place: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

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DSD estimation using VHF/L-band dual-frequency radar at Kototabang, Sumatra: accuracy evaluation anda case study during the passage of an SCC
The results of satellite signal measurements conducted for the past 25 years at Neyagawa city in Osaka
prefecture
Asymptotic calculation of the intensity of millimeter wave propagation over an undulating surface using thediffraction integral with a high degree phase function
Pi-SAR2 observation of disaster area due to the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake
No. 561 Meeting
Date: January 18-20, 2012

Place: Kyushu Institute of Technology (Fukuoka)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committee on AP, and IEEE AP-S Fukuoka
Chapter. 14 papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented in the special sessions organized for recent
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700MHz Band propagation loss model for roadside-to-vehicle communications in urban area
Validation of path loss model with low antenna height in residential area at different environment
Time-varying model of interference power between mobile terminals in residential area
Experimental study on spatio-temporal channel in indoor environments
FDTD analysis of propagation characteristics of wireless communications in crowded train cars
Data Analysis and Modeling Method for Indoor Human-Body Shadowing MIMO channels
Propagation loss characteristics in urban area using scale model method
Carrier frequency characteristic of time-spatial profile in outdoor LOS environments
Proposal on performance evaluation method of propagation loss prediction Model based on wavelet analysis
Ray-tracing propagation prediction system applying machine learning algorithms
Performance evaluation on interference temperature using measured outdoor, indoor and outdoor- indoor
propagation data in heterogeneous networks
12. Proposal of performance improvement method in denoise and forward relay scheme using parasiticantennas
13. Improvement of dynamic range of 2.4GHz channel sounder using PN code sliding correlation
14. A study on the relationship between time scale of rain attenuation and velocity of rain area motion in Kaand Ku-band satellite communications links
For more details, please see:(5)

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/

No. 562 Meeting
Date: March 9, 2012 Place: NTT Yokosuka R&D Center (Kanagawa)

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Measurement of the transmission coefficient of a glass plate and inference of its refractive index at 60GHz
bandA path loss model of interference between mobile terminals in residential area
Study on spatio-temporal channel model in indoor environments
Experimental analysis for angular spread characteristics of radio propagation channel through foliage

No. 563 Meeting
Date: April 20, 2012

Place: Kanto Gakuin University (Kanagawa)Three papers were presented:
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Laboratory experiment of millimeter-wave multi-path propagation over an undulating surface (II)Advantage of using scattering coefficients based on physical optics and curve reflection coefficients in ray
tracing simulations for the analysis of propagation inside an arched tunnel

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Estimation method of the outage intensity for multi-path fading condition

No. 564 Meeting
Date: May 24-25, 2012

Place: ACROS Fukuoka (Fukuoka)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committee on AP, and IEEE AP-S Fukuoka
Chapter. Two papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented:
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Utilization of coordinated multi-point scheme for disaster recovery in MIMO multi-cellular system using
multistream transmission
Statistical modeling of ultra-wideband channels between on-body antennas depending on room volume

For more details, please see:(8)

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/No. 565 Meeting
Date: June 15, 2012 Place: The University of Electro-Communications (Tokyo)

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Electromagnetic phenomena precursory to the 2011 Japan earthquake
Total recording of radio environment and its applications
Experiments of receiving TV white space and another frequency band by trying to apply Cisco clean airtechnology implementing cognitive radio technology for wireless LAN frequency bands: consideringIEEE802.11af draft
Empirical time-spatial propagation model for outdoor LOS environments - Standardization activities for
ITU Recommendation P.1816-1 No. 566 Meeting
Date: July 25-27, 2012

Place: Hokkaido University (Hokkaido)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committees on AP and SAT, and IEEE AP-S
Japan Chapter. 12 papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented in the special sessions organized for recent
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Propagation characteristic estimations of wireless links in high-speed train cars based upon FDTD analysis
Comparison of propagation characteristics using ray tracing method and FDTD for wireless services insidetunnels
3. A study on path shadowing model for inter-vehicle communications in urban NLOS streets
4. Study on improvement of received level by reflector which is located near base station antenna
5. Evaluation of the service area in radio beacon system
6. Evaluation of ring-omni cells for next generation cellular system
7. MIMO propagation channel model for applying interlink correlation between multi-links
8. Human-body shadowing modeling for indoor quasi-static MIMO channels
9. Experiment on MIMO channel estimation between array antennas having parasitic antenna
10. Proposal of propagation model for indoor open-space between floors considering the effect of carrier
frequency and cross-section size
11. Angle of arrival characteristics with low antenna height in residential area
12. Performance evaluation on interference reduction by terminal array antenna using an actual propagation
data in heterogeneous networks
For more details, please see:(10) No. 567 Meeting
Date: August 23-25, 2012

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/

Place: Niigata University (Niigata)This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of Niigata University, IEEE GRS Japan Chapter and in technicalcooperation with IEICE Technical Committee on SANE. This workshop was also corresponding to 2012 GRS Japan
Chapter Technical Meeting entitled “3rd International Polarimetric SAR Workshop in Niigata 2012”. 28 papers
relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented such as:

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Historical development of Radar Polarization technology towards Radar Polarimetry culminating in fullypolarimetric POL-IN-SAR: Assessment of fully polarimetric POLSAR Remote Sensing & GeophysicalStress-change monitoring with implementation to agriculture, forestry & aqua-culture plus natural disaster
assessment & monitoring within the Pacific Ring of Fire
Polarimetric geometric calibration and validation of the newly developed JAXA Pi-SAR-L2 and theInterferometric and polarimetric performances
Calibration of polarimetric Radarsat2 using high precision transponder measurements
Polarimetric SAR Interferometry Activities at DLR
Polarimetric and polarimetric interferometric research at JPLA polarimetric segmentation approach for soil moisture active/passive (SMAP) mission: Algorithm
description and results
A Polarimetric segmentation approach for soil moisture active/passive (SMAP) mission: Application totime series algorithm
Polarimetric surface scattering from layered media
Polarimetric analysis of coastal environments based on four-component scattering decomposition
SAR polarimetry applications for terrestrial and lunar surfaces
Problems and vhallenges to study lunar surface using mini-SAR data of Chandrayaan-1
Classification of Mmltifrequency and multipolarization SAR data for various land features
Polarimetric SAR remote sensing of earthquake/tsunami disaster
Generalized model-based scattering decomposition based on incoherent scattering models
Polarimetric classification based on underlying scatterer shape and orientation distributions
compact POLSAR and POlInSAR: Good or bad?
On the use of fully polarimetric ALOS-PALSAR and Radarsat-2 datasets for monitoring the wetland
dynamics and for detecting archaeological sites
Speckle noise characterization and filtering in PolSAR and PolInSAR data
Near range polarimetric SAR
Adaptive signal processing based on complex-valued neural networks in radar imaging
Asymmetric decomposition method for polarimetric SAR data using a modified four-component scatteringmodelReconstruction of a 3D complex target using step-frequency tadar
Development of synthetic aperture radar onboard unmanned aerial vehicle
New NICT airborne X-band SAR system, Pi-SAR2: current status and future plan
Ground truth of PALSAR data using airborne and terrestrial LIDAR data
Multi-temporal PALSAR data to detect conversion of peatland forests to oilpalm plantation in Sarawak,Malaysia
On complete three-component decomposition of POLSAR coherency matrix data
Full-pol-SAR decomposition scheme over wet snow areas(11) No. 568 Meeting
Date: September 19, 2012

Place: Kyushu Institute of Technology (Fukuoka)

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Scale model method for mobile propagation in urban area and residential area
A study for time-spatial propagation characteristics in case of the low antenna height base station
A study on long-term statistics of fade slope and duration time distribution of rain attenuation in satellite
communications links

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IGARSS 2012 was held in Munich, Germany. Date: July 22-27, 2012
International Symposium on Antennas and propagation (ISAP) 2012 will be held in Nagoya. Date: Oct.29-Nov.2
2012.
URSI-F Triennial Open Symposium will be held in Ottawa, Canada. Date: Apr.30-May 3, 2013.

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