Workshop 2025

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  • CEOS-WGCV - SAR Subgroup
  • The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
  • Working Group on Calibration and Validation
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar Subgroup
Workshop Announcement - October 27-30, 2025

The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) SAR Calibration and Validation Workshop 2025 (CEOS SAR Cal & Val 2025) hosted by the Synthetic Aperture Radar Laboratory (SARlab) of the Simon Fraser University (SFU), in collaboration with MDA Space, Your Trusted Space Mission Partner | MDA Space.

The Workshop will be held at SFU’s Harbour Centre (Harbour Centre - Vancouver Campus - Simon Fraser University), downtown Vancouver, Canada, from 27 to 30 October, 2025.

The workshop’s objective is to provide an open forum for the presentations and discussions related to the following topics:  

  • Calibration of Running Missions
  • Calibration of Future Missions
  • Calibration of Airborne/UAV SAR Systems
  • Calibration Methodology and Techniques
  • Calibration/Validation Targets and Sites
  • Calibration Requirements and Definitions
  • Innovative SAR Instrument Concepts
  • Processing Algorithms (SAR, InSAR, Polarimetry, Tomography)
  • InSAR Calibration and Verification
  • InSAR Altimetry Calibration and Validation
  • Polarimetry/Compact Polarimetry Calibration
  • Calibration of Multi-channel and DBF Systems
  • Cross-Calibration and Verification
  • Analysis Ready Data Products
  • Space-based and Ground-based RFIs
  • Use of AI for Cal/Val and SAR System Monitoring
  • SARCalNet
  • AIS-based Validation of SAR-based Vessel Detection and Velocity Estimation
  • Calibration of SAR System Parameters for Geophysical Applications (e.g. sea surface height, radial ocean current velocity, terrain surface deformation, biomass/forest structure, soil moisture etc)

The workshop is planned to be conducted in-person.

Additional information on the abstract submission guidelines and meeting registration (links), as well as the venue, accommodation options, and visa support letters will be coming soon (via email), and will also be posted on our website: https://calvalportal.ceos.org/ws2025.

Looking forward to welcoming you to Vancouver this fall!

Kind Regards,

The CEOS SAR Cal & Val Workshop Organizing Committee

  • Bernhard Rabus
  • Dan Williams
  • Stephane Cote
  • Dirk Geudtner
Our mission. The mission of the Synthetic Aperture Radar subgroup is to foster high-quality synthetic aperture radar data from airborne and spaceborne systems through precision calibration in radiometry, phase and geometry, and validation of higher level products. (More...)