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Monday, 16 November 2009
13:00 Registration
Advanced RF Sensors and Remote Sensing Instruments 2009
Programme
14:00 Welcome by Pierluigi Silvestrin, Head of Future Missions Division, Earth Observation Directorate, ESA
Session 1 ‐ Active Instruments (SAR & Related)
Chairmen: R. Torres, A. Mallet
14:20 Sentinel‐1 CSAR Instrument Design
Torres, R. 1 ; Navas‐Traver, I. 1 ; Bertoni, R. 1 ; Ostergaard, A. 1 ; Attema, E. 1 ; Levrini, G. 1 ; Croci, R. 2 ; L'Abbate, M. 2 ;
Pietropaolo, A. 2 ; Rostan, F. 3 ; Huchler, M. 3 ; Snoeij, P. 1
1 ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2 Thales Alenia Space (ITALY); 3 EADS Astrium (GERMANY)
14:40 Advanced Digital Beamforming Concepts for High Performance Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging
Krieger, Gerhard ; Younis, Marwan ; Gebert, Nicolas ; Bordoni, Federica ; Huber, Sigurd ;
Patyuchenko, Anton ; Moreira, Alberto
DLR (GERMANY)
15:00 Calibration Issue in Smart Synthetic Aperture Radar Based on Scan‐On‐Receive
Bordoni, F. ; Younis, M. ; Krieger, G.
German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY)
15:20 Advanced SAR Instrument Based on Digital Beam Forming
Schaefer, C. 1 ; Ludwig, M. 2
1 Astrium GmbH (GERMANY); 2 ESA (NETHERLANDS)
15:40 Future Spanish Earth Observation Satellite System in High Spatial Resolution
Borges, A. 1 ; Cabeza, I. 1 ; Ureña, J. 2
1 EADS Casa Espacio (SPAIN); 2 CDTI (SPAIN)
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Radiometric Budget Characterization of X‐Band SAR Instrument On‐Board PAZ
Saameno, P. 1 ; Lopez Dekker, F. 2 ; Garcia Mondejar, A. 2 ; Broquetas, A. 2 ; Labriola, M. 1 ; Sanchez Palma, J. 1 ; Solana, A.
1 ; Closa, J. 1
1 EADS‐Casa Espacio (SPAIN); 2 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (SPAIN)
16:50 MetaSensing Compact, High Resolution SAR Sensor for Commercial and Scientific Applications
Meta, A. ; Manso, P. ; Morales, M.
MetaSensing (NETHERLANDS)
17:10 The SnowScat Instrument: Initial Processing and Calibration of Polarimetric Backscatter Data acquired in
Davos in Support of the CoreH2O Mission
Werner, Charles 1 ; Wiesmann, Andreas 1 ; Strozzi, Tazio 1 ; Schneebeli, Martin 2 ; Mätzler, Christian 3
1 Gamma Remote Sensing AG (SWITZERLAND); 2 Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research Davos
(SWITZERLAND); 3 University of Bern, Institute of Applied Physics (SWITZERLAND)
17:30 Closure of day 1

Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Session 3 ‐ Passive Instruments II
Chairmen: C.C.Lin, TBD
09:00 A Small Size Radiometer for Altimetry Constellations
Barletta, F. ; Giove, P.V ; Battaglia, L.
Thales Alenia Space Italy (ITALY)
09:20 Digital Beamforming for a FPGA Based L‐Band Radiometer
Bosch‐Lluis, X. ; Ramos‐Perez, Isaac ; Camps, A. ; Rodriguez‐Alvarez, N. ; Marchan‐Hernandez, J.F.; Valencia, E.
UPC (SPAIN)
09:40 Integration and Test Results of Passive Advanced Unit Synthetic Aperture (PAU‐SA)
Ramos‐Perez, I. ; Bosch‐Lluis, X. ; Camps, A. ; Valencia, E. ; Marchan‐Hernandez, J.F. ; Rodriguez‐Alvarez, N. ; Canales‐
Contador, F.
UPC (SPAIN)
10:00 GPS Reflectometer Instrument for PAU (griPAU): Advanced Peformance Real Time Delay Doppler
Map Receiver
Valencia, E. ; Camps, A. ; Marchan‐Hernandez, J.F. ; Bosch‐Lluis, X. ; Rodriguez‐Alvarez, N. ; Ramos‐Perez, I.
UPC (SPAIN)
10:20 PARIS In‐Orbit Demonstrator
Martín‐Neira, M. ; D'Addio, S. ; Buck, C.
ESA (NETHERLANDS)
10:40 Coffee break
Session 4 ‐ Active Instruments Ocean/Ice
Chairmen: C. Buck, L. Phalippou
11:10 The SENTINEL‐3 Microwave Payload
Klein, U. ; Borde, F. ; Berruti, B. ; Mavrocordatos, C.
ESA/ESTEC (NETHERLANDS)
11:30 Implementation and Test of POLARIS, a P‐Band Polarimetric Airborne Radar Ice Sounder
Dall, J. ; Krozer, V. ; Hernández, C.C. ; Kristensen, S.S. ; Kusk, A. ; Vidkjaer, J. ; Balling, J. ; Skou, N. ;
Soebjaerg, S.S. ; Christensen, E.L.
Technical University of Denmark (DENMARK)
11:50 Post‐EPS Competing Scatterometer Designs: ASCAT Versus RFSCAT
Egger, G. 1 ; Belmonte Rivas, M. 2
1 Astrium GmbH (GERMANY); 2 Royal Netherlands Meteorology Institute (NETHERLANDS)
12:10 C‐band Bistatic InSAR Concept for Coastal Currents Estimation
Fois, F. ; Urdampilleta, I. ; Aguirre, M. ; Davidson, M. W. J. ; Donlon, C. J. ; Gabriele, A. ; Torres, R.
European Space Agency (NETHERLANDS)
12:30 Swim, a State‐of‐the‐Art Ku‐Band Radar Dedicated to Waves Observation
Enjolras, V. 1 ; Rey, L. 1 ; Amiot, T. 2 ; Tison, C. 2 ; Castillan, P. 2
1 Thales Alenia Space (FRANCE); 2 CNES (FRANCE)
13:00 Lunch

14:30 Wavemill: A Needed Instrument for Ocean Circulation Monitoring
Marquez, J. 1 ; Ruffini, G. 1 ; Lancashire, D. 2 ; Isern‐Fontanet, J. 3 ; Buck, C. 4
1 Starlab Barcelona SL (SPAIN); 2 Astrium Ltd. (UNITED KINGDOM); 3 Ifremer (FRANCE); 4 ESA/ESTEC (NETHERLANDS)
14:50 Wavemill Ocean Current Radar : Instrument Design
Richards, B.E. 1 ; Lancashire, D.C. 1 ; Marquez, J. 2 ; Buck, C. 3
1 Astrium Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 2 Starlab (SPAIN); 3 ESA/ESTEC (NETHERLANDS)
Session 5 ‐ Ka‐band
Chairmen: M. Ludwig, B. Richards
15:10 KaSOARI : Low Risk and Low Cost Swath Altimeter Concept for Open Ocean and Coastal Areas
Topography Measurement
Phalippou, L. ; Enjolras, V.
Thales Alenia Space (FRANCE)
15:30 Surface Water and Ocean Topography Measurement Principles
Mallet, A. 1 ; Lafon, T. 1 ; Rodriguez, E. 2 ; Vaze, P. 2
1 CNES (FRANCE); 2 JPL (UNITED STATES)
15:50 Coffee break
16:20 Ka‐Band SAR Interferometer for Spaceborne Applications Based on Scan‐on‐Receive Techniques
D'Addio, Salvatore; Ludwig, M
ESA/ESTEC (NETHERLANDS)
16:40 Precipitation Effects for Ka‐band SAR
Danklmayer, A. 1 ; Chandra, M. 2
1 German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY); 2 Chemnitz University of Technology (GERMANY)
17:00 A Ka‐Band Translator for Radio‐Science Applications
Barletta, F. ; Simone, L. ; Giordani, R. ; Micaloni, M. ; Battaglia, L. ; Nanni, V. ; Santoni, A. ; Pochesci, D. ; Ziarelli, M. ;
Colucci, P. ; Cocciolillo, O. ; Cocchi, S. ; Gelfusa, D. ; Suriani, A.
ThalesAleniaSpace (ITALY)
Poster Session
17:30 ‐ 18:30
Possible Enhancements to Capabilities of the Europa Low Resources Radar (ELRR)
Hall, C.D. 1 ; Wielders, A. 2
1 Astrium Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 2 ESA/ESTEC (NETHERLANDS)
Spaceborne‐based Bistatic Radar for UAV Autonomous Navigation and Surveillance System
Rodriguez‐Cassola, M. ; Younis, M. ; Krieger, G.
German Aerospace Center (GERMANY)
A Digital Wideband Spectrometer for a Spaceborne Sub‐mm Wave Heterodyne Radiometer for Studies of Planetary
Atmospheres
Wishart, A. 1 ; Latunde‐Dada, K. 1 ; McCoy, T. 1 ; Topping, C. 1 ; Ellison, B. 2 ; Parkes, S. 3 ; Irwin, P. 4 ; de Maagt, P. 5
1 EADS Astrium (UNITED KINGDOM); 2 STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM); 3 University of Dundee
(UNITED KINGDOM); 4 Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford (UNITED KINGDOM); 5 ESA TEC‐EE (NETHERLANDS)
A New Tracking Mode for Altimeters Using a Digital Elevation Model
Desjonqueres, J.D ; Picot, N.
CNES (FRANCE)

Ferrite Switches: Means of Average Power Handling Improvements in Space Instruments
Khairuddin, I. ; Mclaren, Colin
Com Dev Europe Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM)
L‐Band LNA with Dual Pass Band Response for PARIS Concept Airborne Demonstrator
Cuñado, O. ; Vilaseca, R.
Mier Comunicaciones (SPAIN)
Altika : A Ka‐Band Instrument for Space Altimetry with Improved Performences and Ocean Sampling,Instrument Final Test
Robert, F.. 1 ; Richard, J. 1 ; Steunou, N. 2 ; Durand, B. 1 ; Taveneau, N. 1 ; Sengenes, P. 2
1 THALES ALENIA SPACE, FRANCE; 2 Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, France
WARP: A Streaming Concurrent Processing Architecture for High Intensive Computation Spacecraft Instrumentation
Farrés, E. ; Banqué, X. ; Felip, D. ; Acedo, J. ; Caparrini , M. ; Ruffini, G.
Starlab Barcelona S.L. (SPAIN)
UWB Leaky Lens Antenna for SAR‐based Imaging System
Neto, A. ; Monni, S. ; Nennie, F. ; van Rossum, W.
TNO Defense, Security and Safety (NETHERLANDS)
18:30 Closure of day 2
19:00 Dinner Buffet at ESTEC
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Session 7 ‐ Antenna & Front‐end
Chairmen: C. Mangenot, R. Mizzoni
09:00 AMOR: an Antenna Modeler for the Spanish SAR Satellite (PAZ)
Labriola, M. 1 ; González Arbesú, J.M. 2 ; Romeu Robert, J. 2 ; Calafell Rueda, Irena 2 ; Sanchez Palma, J. 1 ;
Saameno, P. 1 ; Closa Soteras, J. 1 ; Solana, A. 1
1 EADS‐Casa Espacio (SPAIN); 2 U. Politècnica de Catalunya (SPAIN)
09:20 Performance Optimization of the Reflector Antenna for the Digital Beam‐Forming SAR System
Patyuchenko, A. ; Younis, M. ; Huber, S. ; Krieger, G.
German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY)
09:40 Microwave Technology Development Activities for the Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions
Lin, C.C. ; Hélière, F. ; Arcioni, M. ; Lecuyot, A. ; Mangenot, C. ; Van't Klooster, Kees ; Rinous, P. ; Aloisio, M. ; Le Gallou,
N.
ESTEC (NETHERLANDS)
10:00 SENTINEL 3 ‐ NIR Radiometer K/Ka‐Band Radio Frequency Front‐end (RFFE)
Barletta, F. ; Suriani, A. ; Battaglia, L. ; Colucci, P. ; Imparato, M. ; Massari, A. ; Giove, V.
ThalesAleniaSpace (ITALY)
10:20 A P‐Band Feed System for an Unfurlable Reflector SAR Antenna
Valle, P. 1 ; Mizzoni, R. 1 ; Orlando, G. 1 ; Hélière, F. 2 ; van't Klooster, K. 3
1 Thales Alenia Space Italia (ITALY); 2 ESA (FRANCE); 3 ESA (NETHERLANDS)
10:40 Coffee break

Session 8 ‐ Sub‐Systems
Chairmen: F. Coromina, V. Krozer
11:10 Sentinel‐1 SAR C‐Band Electronic Front‐End (EFE)
Del Marro, M. ; Giordani, R. ; Amici, M. ; Barigelli, A. ; Conti, F. ; Feudale, M. ; Imparato, M. ; Suriani, A.
Thales Alenia Space Italia (ITALY)
11:30 T/R Module Front‐End for Future Space Applications Based on GaN MMICs
Fleckenstein, A. ; Adolph, M. ; Oppermann, M. ; Rieger, R. ; Schuh, P.
EADS Deutschland GmbH (GERMANY)
11:50 An Active Scan‐on‐Receive Digital Beam Forming Unit for Synthetic Aperture Radar
Topping, C. L. 1 ; Ahmed, A. 1 ; Sullivan, W. 1 ; Schaefer, C. 2 ; Ludwig, M. 3
1 Astrium LTD (UNITED KINGDOM); 2 Astrium GmbH (GERMANY); 3 ESA‐ESTEC (NETHERLANDS)
12:10 Next Generation Radar Core for Space Applications
Zahn, R. ; Kirscht, M. ; Weidmann, K.
EADS Deutschland GmbH (GERMANY)
12:30 High Power High Efficiency Amplifiers for P‐Band in LDMOS, GaAs, and GaN Technology
Krozer, V. 1 ; Vidkjaer, J. 1 ; Hadziabdic, D. 1 ; Cilla Hernandez, C. 1 ; Le Galou, N. 2
1 Tech. Univ. of Denmark (DENMARK); 2 ESA/ESTEC (NETHERLANDS)
13:00 Lunch
14:20 L‐Band Interferometric Radiometer for SMOS Mission
Moreno, C. ; Vilaseca, R.
Mier Comunicaciones (SPAIN)
Session 9 – Processing
Chairmen: M. Suess, C. Schaefer
14:40 Synthetic Aperture Processing of Ice Sounding Radar Data: Results from POLARIS Test Campaign
over Greenland
Villano, M. 1 ; Hélière, F. 1 ; Lin, C.C. 1 ; Fabry, P. 1 ; Kusk, A. 2
1 German Aerospace Center, DLR (GERMANY); 2 DTU Space ‐ National Space Institute (DENMARK)
15:00 On‐Board Payload Data Processing Module
Algra, T. ; Vollmuller, G.J. ; Wiegmink, K.
NLR (NETHERLANDS)
15:20 Flexible, In‐orbit Reconfigurable Data Processing Technologies for Advanced Payloads
Massaro, F. ; Dalla Vedova, F. ; Akam Bita, P. ; Jurado, M.
LuxSpace Sarl (LUXEMBOURG)
15:40 Closure of workshop