Faculty at UCR! Earthquakes! Fault creep! InSAR! GNSS! Seismology! He/him! Executive Editor at @weareseismica.bsky.social! Yes!
Gareth Funning
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Cristian Rossi (ESA): Hydroterra+ is a geostationary SAR concept proposed to the ESA Earth Explorer 12 opportunity. The goal is to track land water (and water vapor) changes on sub-daily timescales in Europe and Africe. Sounds like it would be capable of measuring precursory deformation too!
Julia Kubanek (ESA) again: Sentinel-1 NG (next generation) will have an enhanced swath (400 km). Pixel size will be 25 m^2 and it will have along-track interferometry capability. With Sentinel-1 and ROSE-L it will make a complementary 'system of systems'. Launching in 2034 or so. Sounds awesome!
Julia Kubanek (ESA): The ROSE-L mission will be Copernicus' L-band mission, and follows a similar philosophy to Sentinel-1 (2 satellites, 12 day orbits, 6 day repeats). Resolution will be 50 m^2. The first satellite will launch in 2030 or so.
Paco Lopez Dekker (TU Delft): The Harmony mission will involve two co-flying passive receivers that will fly ahead of and behind Sentinel-1, allowing bistatic InSAR, and to resolve the along-track component of displacements (and 3D displacements!) Planned for launch in 2029!
FRINGE 2026, day 2: Still zombified by jetlag, shotgunning coffee to stay conscious. Also, through some kind of black magic, someone has cut the auditorium in half, which is not doing wonders for my grasp on reality!
We're starting with ESA future mission concepts this morning...
