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Solid Earth Sciences(S) Session Sub Category Technology & Techniques(TT) Session ID S-TT59 Title Synthetic Aperture Radar Short title SAR Convener Name Tsutomu Yamanokuchi Affiliation Remote Sensing Technology Center of JAPAN Co-convener 1. Name Tomokazu Kobayashi Affiliation Geospatial Information Authority of Japan Co-convener 2. Name Yosuke Miyagi Affiliation National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention International Symposium No request Language Japanese Scope Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is one of important observation tools for solid-earth science. ALOS follow-on satellite "ALOS-2" is scheduled to be launched in the end of of FY 2013, which will open next era of SAR observation. In this session, SAR-based studies (analysis,theory and application) are widely welcomed, and the advanced researches/techniques and the problems SAR users face are discussed. Type of presentation Oral and Poster presentation Invited papers HIROSE, Akira (THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO)