11th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium

The 11^th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium
September 20-24, 2010
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Program

Oral Presentations | Posters | Abstracts (3.4 MB PDF)

Monday, September 20
10:00	Early Career Workshop Registration and Tea
11:00	Workshop Welcome and Introductions
11:30	Workshop Talks
12:30	Workshop Lunch Break
14:00	Workshop Talks and Discussions
15:30	Workshop Tea Break
16:00	Workshop Talks
16:00	Conference Reception Desk Open
17:00	Career Discussion Panel
18:00	Icebreaker Reception (Open to Workshop Participants)
20:00	*End of First Day*
Tuesday, September 21
08:30	Registration desk opens
09:00	Welcome and Introductions
09:15	Session 1: Cross-Platform Observations (Session Chair: Helmut Epp) A multi-satellite concept in support of high latitude permafrost modeling and monitoring—The ESA DUE Permafrost project (2.5 MB PDF) A. Bartsch, F. M. Seifert and the ESA DUE Permafrost Team Recent Eruptions of Arctic Volcanoes and their Impact (6.69 MB PDF) Ken Dean, Peter Webley, Jon Dehn, Scott Macfarlane and Torge Steensen Evaluation of AIS Reception in Arctic Regions From Space by using a Stratospheric Balloon Flight (2.12 MB PDF) Jesper A. Larsen, Jens Dalsgaard Nielsen, Hans Peter Mortensen, Ulrik Wilken Rasmussen, Troels Laursen, Jeppe Ledet-Pedersen
*10:30*	*Coffee Break*
11:00	Session 2: Ice and Snow (Session Chair: Allen Pope) Ten years of SeaWinds QuikScat for circumpolar snow monitoring (1.89 MB PDF) A. Bartsch Evaluating the Austre Lovénbreen (Svalbard) glacier ice volume, area and its bedrock topography using Ground Penetrating Radar and differential GPS measurements Jean-Michel Friedt, Dominique Laffly, Albane Saintenoy, Eric Bernard, Madeleine Griselin, Christelle Marlin Snow cover monitoring using combined FORMOSAT satellite imaging, oblique view ground-based pictures and snow drills (East Loven glacier, Spitsbergen, Svalbard) (2.26 MB PDF) Dominique Laffly, Éric Bernard, Jean-Michel Friedt, Gilles Martin, Christelle Marlin, Madeleine Griselin
*12:30*	*Lunch*
14:00	Session 2: Ice and Snow (Continued Session Chair: Nora Schneevoigt) Characterisation of glacier facies with the Airborne Thematic Mapper (89.4 MB PDF) Allen Pope and W. Gareth Rees NASA Airborne Science Program—IPY missions demonstrating remote sensing technologies for unmanned aircraft in the Arctic (5.21 MB PDF) Susan Schoenung and Randal Albertson New Methods of Mapping Sea Ice Thickness Using Waves (2.73 MB PDF) P. Wadhams and F. Parmiggiani
*16:00*	*Tea Break*
17:30	Walking tour of Cambridge
*19:00*	*End of Second Day*
Wednesday, September 22
8:30	Registration Desk Opens
9:00	Welcome and Introductions
9:15	Session 3: Topography (Session Chair: Ken Dean) Topographic Data Acquisition In Canada's Arctic With RADARSAT-2 Imagery (5.35 MB PDF) Daniel Clavet Ice-shelf surface undulations tracked using ICESat altimetry (2.2 MB PDF) Oliver John Marsh and Wolfgang Rack
10:30	*Coffee Break*
11:00	Session 3: Topography (continued) Assessment of ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model data for Arctic research (8.9 MB PDF) W. Gareth Rees
*12:30*	*Lunch*
14:00	Excursion
*18:00*	*Return from Excursion and End of Third Day*
Thursday, September 23
8:30	Registration Desk Opens
9:00	Welcome and Introductions
9:15	Session 4: Vegetation (Session Chair: Nancy French) Reindeer pasture changes in northern Finland 1995–2005 (4.71 MB PDF) Alfred Colpaert and Jouko Kumpula Detecting Vegetation Changes in Tundra using 25-year Landsat Image Stacks (8.41 MB PDF) Robert Fraser, Ian Olthof, Mélanie Carrière, and Alice Deschamps Vegetation mapping of Svalbard, Arctic Norway, utilizing Landsat TM/ETM+ data (12.55 MB PDF) Bernt Johansen, Hans Tømmervik, Stein Rune Karlsen, and Arve Elvebakk
*10:30*	*Coffee Break*
11:00	Session 4: Vegetation (continued Session Chair: Katya Shipigina) MODIS based mapping of the growing season on Svalbard (5.87 MB PDF) Stein Rune Karlsen, Kjell-Arild Høgda, and Bernt Johansen Evaluation of oil and gas industry disturbance on tundra vegetation detected from satellite imagery time series T. Kumpula and B.C. Forbes Application of different VHR satellite images for detailed mapping of forest spatial structure properties in the forest-tundra ecotone (4.85 MB PDF) Anton Novichikhin and Olga Tutubalina
*12:30*	*Lunch*
14:00	Session 4: Vegetation (Continued Session Chair: Anna Mikheeva) Automated spaceborne detection of degraded vegetation around Monchegorsk, Kola Peninsula, Russia (31.62 MB PDF) W. Gareth Rees Advanced approach to mapping human impact on vegetation of the European North (14.18 MB PDF) E. Shipigina and W. Gareth Rees Surface based microwave radiometer measurements in sub-arctic tundra and boreal forest environments: November 2009 to April 2010 (6.93 MB PDF) Peter Toose, Chris Derksen, Arvids Silis, Alain Royer, Alexandre Langlois, Nick Rutter, Joshua King, Richard Kelly, and Claude Duguay Assessment and prediction of reindeer habitat in northern Europe (3.91 MB PDF) Fiona Danks and Gareth Rees
*16:00*	*Tea Break and Poster Session* Poster Presentations Remote Sensing of Permafrost-related aspects of the Alaska North Slope region Poul Christoffersen, Julian Dowdeswell, Toby Benham and Ruth Mugford A first vegetation map of the Antarctic Peninsula as a baseline for measuring future change Peter Fretwell , Adrian Fox, and Christian Hasselwimmer Impacts and Implications of Increased Fire in Tundra Regions of North America Nancy H.F. French and Tatiana Loboda Lithological mapping on the Antarctic Peninsula using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data C.E. Haselwimmer, T.R. Riley, and J.G. Liu Landslide activity and tundra regeneration on Yamal Peninsula, Russia, observed from satellite image time series T. Kumpula, A. Tanskanen, and B.C. Forbes Linear spectral mixture modelling of arctic vegetation using ground spectroradiometer A. Mikheeva, A. Novichikhin, and O. Tutubalina Spatial structure map for tundra-taiga ecosystems in Tuliok river valley based on classification of QuickBird satellite imagery and GIS analysis Anton Novichikhin and Anna Mikheeva Recent Changes to Langjökull, Iceland: Integrating airborne LiDAR and Landsat imagery Allen Pope, W.G. Rees, I.C. Willis, N.S. Arnold, F. Pálsson, and R. Hodgkins Glacier displacement of Comfortlessbreen, Svalbard, estimated by differential SAR interferometry (DInSAR) with digital elevation model (DEM) Nora Jennifer Schneevoigt, Wiley Bogren, Monica Sund, Dan Johan Weydahl, Andreas Kääb
*17:30*	*End of Poster Session*
*19:00*	*Conference Banquet*
Friday, September 24
8:30	Registration Desk Opens
9:00	Welcome and Introductions
09:15	Session 5: Animal Observations (Session Chair: Gareth Rees) Estimating emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) distribution and population from satellite imagery P.T. Fretwell, P. Morin, M.A. LaRue, G.L. Kooyman, B. Wienecke, C. Porter, A.J. Fox, P.J. Ponganis, A. Fleming, H. Brolsma, P.N. Trathan PINRO Airborne Research on Study of the White Sea Harp Seal Population Pup Production Abundance (3.53 MB PDF) Vladimir B. Zabavnikov and Ilias N. Shafikov
*10:30*	*Coffee Break*
11:00	Session 5: Animal Observations (continued) Research of Feeding Mackerel in the Norwegian Sea and Her Environmental Conditions with Using of Airborne Remote Sensing Methods (2.63 MB PDF) Vladimir B. Zabavnikov and Sergey A. Egorov
*11:30*	*Winding-up Discussion*
*12:30*	*Lunch*
*14:00*	*End of Symposium*
For changes to the program, email Gareth Rees .

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