2008 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium
July 6-11, 2008 | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Tutorials

A set of tutorials on Geoscience and Remote Sensing have been organized for IGARSS 2008. These full- and half-day course offerings will be taught on the Sunday (July 6) prior to the start of the conference.

Schedule

Sunday July 6, 2008
Morning: 08:30h to 12:30h
Afternoon: 13:30h to 17:30h

Costs

RegularStudent
Half-day: $175 for one, $350 for two$100 for one, $200 for two
Full-day: $250$175

Tutorials not meeting the minimum number of registrants (5 half-day; 7 full-day) by the early registration deadline (May 16) will be cancelled.

Full-day Tutorials

Sunday, July 6, 08:30 - 17:30

FD-1: SAR Polarimetry: Basics, Processing Techniques and Applications
Presenters: Eric Pottier and Laurent Ferro-Famil, IETR UMR CNRS 6164, University of Rennes 1
Location: Room 104

Note: Tutorial FD-2 has been cancelled.

FD-3: Semantic content extraction from high resolution EO images
Presenters: Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen and Klaus Seidel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich
Location: Room 105

Half-day Tutorials

Sunday Morning, July 6, 08:30 - 12:30

HD-1: Modeling the Spectral Responses of Natural Materials under Varying Environmental Parameters: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
Presenter: Gladimir V. G. Baranoski, University of Waterloo, Canada
Location: Room 107

HD-3: Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing
Presenter: C. H. Chen, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Location: Room 108

HD-5: An Introduction to AGI (Advanced Geospatial Intelligence)
Presenter: Shawn A. Kalis, Riverside Research Institute
Location: Room 109

HD-8: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Methods and Applications
Presenter: Howard Zebker, Stanford University
Location: Room 110

Note: Tutorial HD-9 has been cancelled.

HD-11: Introduction to Microwave Radiometry
Presenters: R. Vincent Leslie, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Michael J. Schwartz, Microwave Atmospheric Science Group, NASA JPL
Location: Room 111

Sunday Afternoon, July 6, 13:30 - 17:30

HD-2: Feedforward Neural Networks: Theory & Applications in Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Presenter: Frederick W. Chen
Location: Room 107

HD-4: Data Models and Information Estimation in Multichannel Radar Remote Sensing Imagery
Presenter: Carlos López-Martínez, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
Location: Room 108

HD-6: SAR oil spill observation
Presenter: Maurizio Migliaccio, Università di Napoli Parthenope
Location: Room 109

HD-7: Fractal Models in Electromagnetic Scattering
Presenter: Daniele Riccio, University of Napoli Federico II
Location: Room 110

Note: Tutorial HD-10 has been cancelled.

HD-12: Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow
Presenter: Edward J. Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Location: Room 111