Challenges in Synthetic Aperture Radar

February 6 - 10, 2012

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, February 6, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
Edmund Zelnio (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)

Wide Angle, Staring Synthetic Aperture Radar
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:50
Brett Borden (Naval Postgraduate School)

SAR Imaging of Dynamic Scenes
PDF Presentation
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Charles (Jack) Jakowatz (Sandia National Laboratories)

Mode-Independent SAR Image Formation Using A Beamforming Framework

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
5:00 - 7:00 Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)
5:05 - 7:00
Zhijun Qiao (University of Texas Pan American)

Poster: Filtered back projection of turntable ISAR image


Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Michael Minardi (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)

Challenges in Detecting and Tracking Moving Objects in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Ronald Lipps (United States Naval Research Laboratory)

 

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Mark Stuff (Michigan Technological University)

Mathematical Challenges for SAR Signal Analysis

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Nick Marechal (The Aerospace Corporation)

Moving Targets in SAR Imagery
PDF Presentation
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Jen King Jao (Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Multichannel SAR-GMTI Clutter Cancellation Performance
PDF Presentation

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Oscar Bruno (California Institute of Technology)

Electromagnetic Modeling: Large Antennas, Structures, and Beyond

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Mujdat Cetin (Sabanci University)

Sparsity-Driven SAR Imaging
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Albert Fannjiang (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))

Compressed sensing SAR
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Joachim Ender (Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics & Radar Techniques)

Sparse Representation and Autofocus for ISAR and Spotlight SAR imaging
PDF Presentation
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Justin Romberg (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Ideas from Compressive Sampling for Radar
PDF Presentation

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Richard Albanese (Brooks Air Force Base)

Using SAR to Identify Materials

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
George Papanicolaou (Stanford University)

 
PDF Presentation

Friday, February 10, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Eric Keydel (Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC))

From Physics to the Physical: a Systems Perspective
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The butterfly algorithm for synthetic aperture radar imaging
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Fredrik Andersson (Lund Institute of Technology)

Fast algorithms for the non-equally-spaced FFT

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
Margaret Cheney (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Discussion and Wrap-Up