|  |  |  | Monday 11 March 2013 - Pre-workshop Programme |  |  |  | 
  | 15:00 | 17:30 |  | Open Forum for Technical Questions and Answers Location: Lecture room "WIL A317" Building:"Willers-Bau"
 Address: Zellescher Weg 12-14, 01069 Dresden
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  | 17:30 | 18:30 |  | Pre-Registration and Welcome Drink, Building "Trefftz-Bau", Zellescher Weg 16 |  |  |  | 
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  |  |  |  | CryoSat 2013 Workshop - Preliminary Programme 
 |  | 22/01/2013 |  | 
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  | 08:15 | 08:15 |  | Day 1, Tuesday 12 March 2013 |  |  |  | 
  | 08:15 | 08:45 |  | Registration |  |  |  | 
  | 08:45 | 08:45 |  | Opening Session |  |  | Chairs: J. Benveniste & T. Parrinello
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  | 08:45 | 08:55 |  | Dresden Welcome |  |  | TU Dresden | 
  | 08:55 | 09:05 |  | ESA Welcome |  |  | ESA | 
  | 09:05 | 09:45 |  | Seymour Laxon Memorial |  | R. Cullen / A. Shepherd | ESA / University of Leeds | 
  | 09:45 | 09:55 |  | Workshop Objectives |  | J Benveniste | ESA | 
  | 09:55 | 10:35 |  | CryoSat Mission Status - Esa's Ice Explorer Mission:two Years in Operations. Status and Achievements |  | T. Parrinello | ESA | 
  | 10:35 | 11:10 |  | Coffee Break |  |  |  | 
  | 11:10 | 11:10 |  | Mission, Instrument and Data Processing |  |  | Chairs: R. Cullen & M. Roca | 
  | 11:10 | 11:30 |  | Cryosat-2: Three Years of Operations (almost) |  | K. Adamson | ESA ESOC | 
  | 11:30 | 11:50 |  | Cryosat-2 Precision Orbit Determination including Altimeter Calibration and Validation |  | E. Schrama | TU Delft | 
  | 11:50 | 12:10 |  | CryoSat SIRAL FBR, Stack & L1b Calibration with TRP |  | M. Roca | isardSAT | 
  | 12:10 | 13:10 |  | Lunch |  |  |  | 
  | 13:10 | 13:30 |  | Measuring  the Effective Along-Track Resolution of CryoSat |  | M. Scagliola | Aresys | 
  | 13:30 | 13:50 |  | Pending Anomalies and Problems in CryoSat Data Products |  | C. Bouzinac | ESRIN | 
  | 13:50 | 14:10 |  | Cal/Val Campaign Status |  | M. Davidson | ESA | 
  | 14:10 | 14:30 |  | An improved Water Vapour Path Delay Correction for the CryoSat Mission Over the Ocean |  | J. Stum | CLS | 
  | 14:30 | 14:50 |  | Discussion |  |  |  | 
  |  |  |  | Cryosphere |  |  | Chairs: R. Dietrich & C. Haas | 
  | 14:50 | 15:10 |  | Cross-Validating ICESat-1 and CryoSat-2 using Tide Gauge Measurements |  | N. Pie | Center for Space Research | 
  | 15:10 | 15:30 |  | A Comparative Analysis of the Sea Ice Freeboard from CryoSat, CryoVEx and IceBridge |  | S. K. Rose | DTU Space | 
  | 15:30 | 16:00 |  | Coffee Break |  |  |  | 
  | 16:00 | 16:00 |  | Cryosphere Cont. |  |  | Chairs: R. Dietrich & C. Haas | 
  | 16:00 | 16:20 |  | Sea Ice Thickness and Volume Changes from CryoSat-2 |  | K. Giles | University College London | 
  | 16:20 | 16:40 |  | Using CryoSat-2 SARIn mode data over sea ice to correct for off-nadir ranging to leads |  | T. Armitage | University College London | 
  | 16:40 | 17:00 |  | In-situ Calibration and Validation of CryoSat-2 Observations over Arctic Sea Ice North of Svalbard and in Fram Strait |  | S. Gerland | Norwegian Polar Institute | 
  | 17:00 | 17:20 |  | Mass Balance of Sea Ice in both Hemispheres: Airborne Validation of CryoSat-2 and ICESat Freeboard and Thickness |  | S. Hendricks | Alfred Wegener Institut | 
  | 17:20 | 17:40 |  | Discussion |  |  |  | 
  | 17:40 | 19:00 |  | Welcome Drink in Poster Area |  |  |  | 
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  | 09:00 | 09:00 |  | Day 2, Wednesday 13 March 2013 |  |  |  | 
  | 09:00 | 09:00 |  | Cryosphere Cont. |  |  | Chairs: K. Giles & R. Forsberg | 
  | 09:00 | 09:20 |  | First Results of Cryosat-2 Performance over Multiyear and Seasonal Sea Ice |  | J. Beckers | University of Alberta | 
  | 09:20 | 09:40 |  | Snow Radar Derived Surface Elevations and Snow Depths over Sea-Ice off Greenland During Three Icebridge Campaigns |  | B. Holt | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 
  | 09:40 | 10:00 |  | First Results from a Cryosat-2 Calibration Experiment in the East Antarctic Sea Ice Zone, SIPEX-2 |  | J. Lieser | University of Tasmania | 
  | 10:00 | 10:20 |  | CryoSat Cal/Val – Accuracy of the CryoSat Products |  | V. Helm | Alfred-Wegener-Institute | 
  | 10:20 | 10:50 |  | Coffee Break |  |  |  | 
  | 10:50 | 10:50 |  | Cryosphere Cont. |  |  | Chairs: K. Giles & R. Forsberg | 
  | 10:50 | 11:10 |  | Ground Validation of CryoSat-2 on Austfonna, Svalbard |  | K. Langley | University of Oslo | 
  | 11:10 | 11:30 |  | Greenland Ice Sheet Changes from CryoSat, IceSat and GRACE |  | R. Forsberg | Technical University of Denmark | 
  | 11:30 | 11:50 |  | Discussion |  |  |  | 
  | 11:50 | 12:50 |  | Poster Session |  |  |  | 
  | 12:50 | 13:50 |  | Lunch |  |  |  | 
  | 13:50 | 13:50 |  | Cryosphere Cont. |  |  | Chairs: A. Shepherd & E. Schrama | 
  | 13:50 | 14:10 |  | Validation of CryoSat-2 Products over the Continental East Antarctic Ice Sheet |  | L. Schröder | TU Dresden | 
  | 14:10 | 14:30 |  | Constraining Ice Sheet Mass Balance Trends using Cryosat-2 and Laser Altimetry |  | J. Griggs | University of Bristol | 
  | 14:30 | 14:50 |  | Analysis of recent Mass Balance of Amery Ice Shelf derived from CryoSat-2 Radar Altimetry |  | J. Liu | Tongji University | 
  | 14:50 | 15:10 |  | Mass Depletion of Glaciers on the Northern Antarctic Peninsula observed by Altimeter and SAR Measurements |  | J. Wuite | ENVEO IT | 
  | 15:10 | 15:30 |  | Discussion |  |  |  | 
  | 15:30 | 16:00 |  | Coffee Break |  |  |  | 
  | 16:00 | 16:00 |  | Cryosphere Cont. 
 |  |  | Chairs: J. Bamber & V. Helm | 
  | 16:00 | 16:20 |  | The Evolution of an Antarctic sub-Glacial Lake from CryoSat Interferometric Mode Observations |  | M. McMillan | University of Leeds | 
  | 16:20 | 16:40 |  | The Study of DEM and Height Change from CryoSat Data at Dome A and Grove Mountains, East Antarctica |  | C. Zhou | Wuhan University | 
  | 16:40 | 17:00 |  | Alpine Snow, Glaciers and Inland Water Bodies Study in Part of Indian Region using Cryosat-2 Radar Altimeter Data |  | P. Thakur | Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) | 
  | 17:00 | 17:20 |  | Outcome of the Antarctic CryoVEx Campaigns and first CryoSat-2 Validation Results |  | C. Knöfel | TU Dresden | 
  | 17:20 | 17:40 |  | Discussion |  |  |  | 
  | 08:40 | 08:40 |  | Day 3, Thursday 14 March 2013 |  |  |  | 
  | 08:40 | 08:40 |  | Ocean, Land & Inland Waters |  |  | Chairs: W. Smith & C. Gommenginger | 
  | 08:40 | 09:00 |  | Cryosat Plus for Oceans: Ocean user Requirements, and Assessment of Cryosat-2 Data |  | P. D. Cotton | Satellite Oceanographic Consultants Ltd | 
  | 09:00 | 09:20 |  | Cryosat-2 Ocean Wind and Wave Products: Global Validation and Assimilation |  | S. Abdalla | ECMWF | 
  | 09:20 | 09:40 |  | Observing the Ocean using CryoSat-2's Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Mode |  | K. Giles | UCL | 
  | 09:40 | 10:00 |  | A Validation Exercise for CRYOSAT-2  in SAR Mode in the German Bight Area |  | L. Fenoglio-Marc | Technical University Darmstadt | 
  | 10:00 | 10:20 |  | Quality Assessment of Cryosat-2 Data Over Ocean in LRM&SAR Modes |  | S. Labroue | CLS | 
  | 10:20 | 10:40 |  | Discussion |  |  |  | 
  | 10:40 | 11:10 |  | Coffee Break |  |  |  | 
  | 11:10 | 11:10 |  | Ocean, Land & Inland Waters |  |  | Chairs: R. Scharroo & N. Picot | 
  | 11:10 | 11:30 |  | The Performance of CryoSat-2 as an Ocean Altimeter |  | R. Scharroo | Altimetrics LLC | 
  | 11:30 | 11:50 |  | Sensitivity of SAR Mode Altimeter to Swell Effect |  | T. Moreau | CLS | 
  | 11:50 | 12:10 |  | Contributions of CryoSat, Envisat, and Jason-1 to Improvements in Global Marine Gravity Accuracy |  | E.S. Garcia | University of California, San Diego | 
  | 12:10 | 12:30 |  | Experiments with CryoSat2 FBR SAR Data over Ocean Surfaces |  | W. Smith | NOAA | 
  | 12:30 | 12:50 |  | Discussion |  |  |  | 
  | 12:50 | 13:50 |  | Lunch |  |  |  | 
  | 13:50 | 13:50 |  | Ocean, Land & Inland Waters |  |  | Chairs: P. Cipollini & L. Fenoglio-Marc | 
  | 13:50 | 14:10 |  | Cryosat Ocean Processor :  Presentation and Preliminary Validation Results |  | S. Urien | CLS | 
  | 14:10 | 14:30 |  | Coastal SAR Altimetry Data from the eSurge Processor |  | P. Cipollini | National Oceanography Centre | 
  | 14:30 | 14:50 |  | Analysis and Inter-Calibration of Wet Path Delay Datasets to compute the Wet Tropospheric Correction for CS-2 over Ocean |  | M. J. Fernandes | University of Porto | 
  | 14:50 | 15:10 |  | Applications of CryoSat-2 SAR & SARin Modes for the Monitoring of River Water Levels |  | N. Bercher | LEGOS/CNRS | 
  | 15:10 | 15:40 |  | Coffee Break |  |  |  | 
  | 15:40 | 15:40 |  | Ocean, Land & Inland Waters |  |  | Chairs: P. Cipollini & L. Fenoglio-Marc | 
  | 15:40 | 16:00 |  | Performance of CryoSat-2 in SARIN Mode over Great Rivers |  | S. Calmant | LEGOS/IRD | 
  | 16:00 | 16:20 |  | Inland Water SAR Altimetry: New Techniques and Methods for the hydrological Exploitation of CryoSat Data |  | S. Dinardo | SERCO/ESRIN | 
  | 16:20 | 16:40 |  | Discussion |  |  |  | 
  | 16:40 | 16:40 |  | Closing Session |  |  | Chairs: J. Benveniste & T. Parrinello | 
  | 16:40 | 17:10 |  | Open Forum |  |  |  | 
  | 17:10 | 17:40 |  | Conclusion and General Discussion |  |  |  | 
  | 17:40 | 17:50 |  | Workshop Closure |  |  |  | 
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  |  |  |  | Poster Session - Scheduled on Wednesday, 11:50-12:50 |  |  |  | 
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  |  |  |  | Mission, Instrument and data processing |  |  |  | 
  |  |  |  | The CryoSat Payload Data Ground Segment and Data Processing |  | B. Frommknecht | ESA/ESRIN | 
  |  |  |  | Operational and Reprocessed CryoSat Product Quality Assessment |  | R. Mannan | Telespazio VEGA | 
  |  |  |  | CryoSat-2 SIRAL Calibration: Strategy, Application and Results |  | M. Fornari | ESA | 
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  |  |  |  | Cryosphere |  |  |  | 
  |  |  |  | Long-term Antarctic Surface Elevation Trends from Satellite Radar and Laser Altimetry |  | B. C. Gunter | Delft University of Technology | 
  |  |  |  | Evaluation of CryoSAT-2 for Height Retrieval over the Himalayan Range |  | A. Dehecq | Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg (IPGS) | 
  |  |  |  | CryoSat-2's SARIn Mode in the Coastal Regions of Greenland |  | A. Horvath | TU Munich | 
  |  |  |  | Cryosphere: Recognizing the Culture of Space-Based EO Applications in Canada's Northern Regions Management |  | G. Aubè | Canadian Space Agency | 
  |  |  |  | Potential Synergy of RADARSAT-2 and Cryosat-2 for Sea Ice Volume Flux Estimates in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago |  | S.E.L. Howell | Environment Canada | 
  |  |  |  | Application of CryoSat-2 GDR data from DEM generation of Antarctica |  | F. Wang | Beijing Normal University | 
  |  |  |  | Sea Ice Measurements in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica for the Validation of Remotely Sensed Sea Ice Properties. |  | D. Price (presented by Justin Becker) | University of Canterbury | 
  |  |  |  | Comparison of Sea Ice Freeboard and Thickness Distributions from Aircraft Data & CryoSat-2 |  | R. Ricker | Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research | 
  |  |  |  | CryoSat Radar Altimetry over Antarctic Sea Ice |  | R. Tilling | Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling | 
  |  |  |  | Waveform Analysis of CryoSat's Radar Altimeter System over Arctic Sea Ice |  | M. Zygmuntowska | Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center | 
  |  |  |  | CryoSat-2 Waveform Shape and Signal Penetration along the 2011 Greenland Inland Traverse |  | T. Overly | Dartmouth College | 
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  |  |  |  | Ocean - Mission, Instrument and data processing |  |  |  | 
  |  |  |  | Performance of ESA Cryosat-2 GDR Data over Open Ocean |  | D. Dettmering | Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI) | 
  |  |  |  | Quality Assessment of Cryosat-2 ESA Level 2 Products Over Ocean |  | S. Labroue | CLS | 
  |  |  |  | Preliminary Analysis between CPP Retracker and SAMOSA Retracker over open Ocean in SAR Mode |  | S. Dinardo | SERCO/ESRIN | 
  |  |  |  | An improved Water Vapour Path Delay Correction for the Cryosat Mission over the Ocean |  | J. Stum | CLS | 
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  |  |  |  | Coastal Ocean |  |  |  | 
  |  |  |  | Coastal SAR Altimetry: An Experiment in the Northern Caspian Sea |  | S. Dinardo | SERCO/ESRIN | 
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  |  |  |  | Ocean Circulation |  |  |  | 
  |  |  |  | A preliminary Arctic Ocean mean dynamic Topography using CryoSat & GOCE |  | S.F. Thomas | Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling | 
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  |  |  |  | Land & Inland Waters |  |  |  | 
  |  |  |  | CRUCIAL - CryoSat+ Inland Water and Land |  | R.G. Smith | EAPRS Lab | 
  |  |  |  | Applications of Cryosat-2 SARin and LRM Modes for Lakes Monitoring |  | J.-F. Cretaux | LEGOS/CNES | 
  |  |  |  | Cryosat-2 SAR Mode over the Eastern Amazon Basin |  | S. Calmant | LEGOS/IRD | 
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  |  |  |  | Outreach and User Tools |  |  |  | 
  |  |  |  | A Toolkit for CryoSat Investigations by the ESRIN EOP-SER Altimetry Team |  | S. Dinardo | SERCO/ESRIN | 
  |  |  |  | BRAT: The Basic Radar Altimetry User Toolbox for CryoSat Products |  | B. Lucas | DEIMOS-ESRIN |