Satellite Technology to Support Disaster Relief Management

Development of Airborne and Spaceborne Circularly

Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar (CP‐SAR)

Microsatellite CP-SAR

X Band SAR onboard Boeing 737-200

C Band CP-SAR onboard CN235MPA

JMRSL JX-1

Prof. Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Ph.D

Josaphat Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (JMRSL)
Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University
1-33 Yayoi, Inage, Chiba 263-8522 Japan Tel. +81 (0)43 290 3840 / Fax 3857
Email jtetukoss@faculty.chiba-u.jp Website http://www2.cr.chiba-u.jp/jmrsl/

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Biography Prof. Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Ph.D
2013 – Present Full Professor – Center for Environmental Remote
Sensing, Chiba University
2005 – 2013 Associate Professor – Center for Environmental
Remote Sensing, Chiba University
2002 – 2005 Lecturer – Venture Business Laboratory, Chiba
University
1999 – 2002 Graduate School of Science and Technology,
Chiba University, Japan (Ph.D)
1995 – 1997 Graduate School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Kanazawa University, Japan (M.Eng)
1991 – 1995 Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Kanazawa University, Japan (B.Eng)
1986 – 1989 SMA Negeri 1 Surakarta (Solo), central Java,
Indonesia

Expertise
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
Mobile Satellite Communications
Antennas development for various applications
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Microsatellite
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Publications : Magazines & Books (partly)

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 (2003.10.02 Nikkei Newspaper)
Community Contributions （2009.02号 新潮社フォーサイト雑誌）

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Roadmap of Synthetic Aperture Radar Development
2026～
Ground Test

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Institute of Global Prominent Research Microsatellite SAR
SAR System FY 2015-2022 Constellation
Global Environment
& Land
2025 Deformation
Microsatellite Ground Car SAR
LAPAN-CHIBASat Monitoring

2024
Satellite
Microsatellite SAR mm accuracy of InSAR
Constellation Technology using
Microsatellite SAR
Microsatellite SAR

2023 Applications
Development

UAV SAR Flight Test 2020-2022

Microsatellite SAR
Validation and LAPAN-CHIBASat
Calibration
Boeing 737 fight test
2018-2019
Microsatellite SAR KARI
Mission System：
Launching

2016-2017 Bus System：

Lapan
~2015 Microsatellite SAR
Mission System : LAPAN
NSPO
UAV Bus System：
Calibration and
SAR System Lapan validation using Microsatellite SAR Constellation
Ground Station Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Koo Voon Chet, Lim Tien Sze, Boeing 737-200
and UAV
Ground Test Takafumi Kawai, Takuji Ebinuma, Yuta Izumi, Mohd Zafri Baharuddin,
Steven Gao and Koichi Ito, “Development of circularly polarized

Flight Test synthetic aperture radar onboard UAV JX-1,” International Journal of
Remote Sensing, Special Issue Papers on Drones, UAVs, RPASs for

etc Environmental Research, online 8 December 2016, printed July 2017 – CHIBA
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 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Other names
- Side looking radar
Optic Sensor Cloud/haze/fog - Microwave radar
- Imaging radar

Eruption of volcano of Indonesia Merapi

2006/Apr/26th
(Up)Optical ©AVNIR-2/JAXA
(Right)SAR ©PALSAR/JAXA, METI

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Characteristics of SAR Sensor X
Optic Sensor Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) C

Crown
L
Trunk

P
Cloud effect No Cloud effect
Roots

Surface scattering Underground penetration

Potential of Frequency Band
Optic sensor
P : Penetration to underground
L : Detection of under leaf tropical forest
C & S : Scattered by tree trunk to detect tree density
SAR sensor
X : Scattered by leaf. Estimation of tree density by X
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SAR Technology
1. Technology :
Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture
Radar (CP-SAR) as improvement of Linear
L Band SAR System Microsatellite
Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar (LP
SAR)

2. Development of SAR System

• SAR system developing since 2005 L Band SAR System Aircraft / UAV
• L, C, X band SAR system
• UAV, Aircraft and Microsatellite onboard

C Band SAR System Aircraft / UAV

X Band SAR System Aircraft / UAV

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Needs Illegal fishing

1. Disaster Monitoring
Optic sensor
Peatland, land deformation
Fire spot monitoring
Volcanic and earthquake monitoring
Landslide precursor SAR sensor
2. Natural resources (Including Fishery and Maritime)
Natural resources, illegal fishing and armed
fishing ship, oil spill monitoring etc
3. Search and Rescue (SAR)
• Heavy rain and cloud/haze environment
• Forest
4. Home Security and Anti Terrorist Mission Merapi eruption
• Border and home security
• Illegal border
• Maritime surveillance
• Anti terrorist mission
5. Infrastructure Monitoring
Maintenance of highway, railway, electricity
Malaysian highway and electricity infrastructure monitoring
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 Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar （CP-SAR） Low ←Frequency→ High
L C X
P
CP-SAR onboard CN235MPA : Full Polarimetric CP-SAR Terms
Microsatellite SAR for global Canopy
land deformation monitoring
using L Band →
Land
Comparison of Linear Surface

Polarized SAR and Under

Land Deformation
Circular Polarized SAR ↓ ground

Incident Wave：Circular Circularly Polarized SAR (CP-SAR)

Polarization (CP) Application : Monitoring of volcanic activity,
active fault, landslide, land deformation,
earthquake etc.

Optic Sensor VS SAR Sensor

Scattering
Optic Sensor Various scattering information → Various application development

Incident Wave : LP SAR (conventional system)

Vertical Polarization (LP)

Sahara desert
Lack of scattering
information
SAR Sensor Incident Wave : Horizontal Polarization Scattering

Scattering Lack of scattering

Ground water distribution information
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Scattering Polarizations

N219 Aircraft

HH [dB] HV [dB] LL [dB] LR [dB]

VH [dB] VV [dB] RL [dB] RR [dB]

Linear Polarization (LP) Circular Polarization (CP)

Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Koo Voon Chet, Lim Tien Sze, Takafumi Kawai, Takuji Ebinuma, Yuta Izumi, Mohd Zafri Baharuddin,
Steven Gao and Koichi Ito, “Development of circularly polarized synthetic aperture radar onboard UAV JX-1,” International Journal of
Remote Sensing, Special Issue Papers on Drones, UAVs, RPASs for Environmental Research, Vol. 38, No. 8-10, pp.2745-2756, online 8
December 2016, printed July 2017 (DOI : 10.1080/01431161.2016.1275057)
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Concept of Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar (CP-SAR)

ER 0  EL 0
y Rw  ;
N ER 0  EL 0
M
w   w  cot1 (Rw ),  45    45,
w
x L-RHCP d
O w  , 0   w  180;
2

L-LHCP

L-RHCP

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Concept of Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar (CP-SAR)

(EP-SAR & CP-SAR : Patent Pending : 2014-214905)

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Measurement System of SAR for Microsatellite

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JMRSL Satellite Ground Station (S and X Bands)
S Band : Command TX & Telemetry RX
X Band : Mission Data RX 9F Faculty of Engineering Building
(Roof)
9F Faculty of Engineering Building

８F 8F Faculty of Engineering Building

Antenna & Controller

２F
研究棟

2F Center For Environmental Remote Sub Ground Control Room Main Ground
Sensing Building (Josaphat Laboratory) Control Room

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Hinotori-X1 Mission : X Band onboard Boeing 737-200
Wave guide

Oscillator
RX

TX and Power supply

Oscilloscope

AWG
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Urban and sea port area : Makassar City

2017/08/09 11:08

アジマス圧縮処理まで
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Hinotori-C2 Mission : C Band CP-SAR onboard CN235 MPA
2-18 March 2018

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C Band CP-SAR for CN235 MPA in Hinotori-C2 :
First image of CP-SAR in the World
Land Surface Detection

Ship Detection

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Josaphat Laboratory Experimental Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (JX-1)

Preparation of flight test at Fujikawa Airfield, 29 August 2013

Youtube : Josaphat UAV (Insert keywords)

After successful First Flight of Josaphat Laboratory Unmanned

Aerial Vehicle (JX-1) at Fujikawa Airport on 7 June 2012 First Flight, Fujikawa Airfield, 7 June 2012

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Josaphat Laboratory Experimental Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (JX-1)

JX-1
Chirp Pulse Generator

RF-System

Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Chapter

12. Circularly Polarized Synthetic
Aperture Radar onboard Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle (CP-SAR UAV), Kenzo
Nonami et al. edn., Autonomous Control
Hyperspectral camera
Systems and Vehicles, Springer,
December 2012.
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Josaphat Laboratory Experimental Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (JX-2)

Kompas Newspaper, 15 August 2015

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Spaceborne SAR for Disaster Monitoring : Monitoring of Sedimentation
at Jakarta Coastal line
Coastal Line 1915 – 1999 of Jakarta Strait

Sedimentation at river outlet at northern

Jakarta 22 March 2015

Picture source : http://www.kuiper.nl

18m/year

-16m/year Deep Seaport &

Urban Settlement Zone Economic Zone 40m/year

35m/year

1915
1999

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Spaceborne SAR for Disaster Monitoring : Monitoring of Sedimentation
at Jakarta Coastal line
Analysis Result : Jakarta strait
Volume Loss (m3/year)
Volume loss in each watershed using
ALOS PALSAR images

W06
Volume loss in watersheds of W03, W04, W04
W02 W07
W05, W10, and W11
W05 W08
W01 W09
Volume loss of sedimentation material
does not occurred in W07-W09, therefore
the land deformation in these watersheds W03
does not influence to Jakarta Giant Sea
Wall.
Converting paddy field for settlement at
Jatiluhur dam eastern Bandung (31 September 2015)
0
W10
800000 50
708833
Jangari dam
Volume Loss (m3 / year)

700000 kilometers
600000 m3/year
500000
+191 Saguling dam
400000
300000
W11
210034
200000 97856
100000 35806 36228
7 120 10 0 77 115
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Converting hill for settlement at western
Bandung (31 September 2015)
Watershed Codes -170
Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Bambang Setiadi, Daniele Perissin,
Masanobu Shimada, Pierre-Phillipe Mathieu, Minoru Urai, and
Hasanuddin Zainal Abidin, “Analysis of Coastal Sedimentation Impact to
Jakarta Giant Sea Wall using PSI ALOS PALSAR,” IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL), Vol. 13, Issue 10, pp. 1472 – 1476,
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Spaceborne SAR for Disaster Monitoring : Monitoring of Landslide
at Malay Peninsula JICA JST - SATREPS Project FY2010－FY2015

Cameroon Highland ground campaign with Malaysian Government

JGR, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and JICA on 20 September 2014

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Study Site SATREPS 2010 :
Landslide at Simpang Pulai – Cameron Highland Road
Deformation
Velocity mm/year
Sedimentation 32.76
Reference : 11 February 2011
Landslide (The Star, 26 August
0 2011)

ALOS PALSAR :
Landslide/
Subsidence
-46.35 10 February 2007 to
21 February 2011

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Spaceborne SAR for Disaster Monitoring : Monitoring of Mount
Merapi Eruption
Terra ASTER images of Mount Merapi eruption (November 15, 2010)
and before (July 7, 2009)
(a) July 7, 2009 (b) November 15, 2010

Boyolali Volcanic ash (black) Boyolali

Mt. Merapi Volcanic plume Mt. Merapi

Muntilan Muntilan

Pyroclastic flow (sand, rock, ash)

Yogyakarta Yogyakarta

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Spaceborne SAR for Disaster Monitoring : Thickness distribution of volcanic ash of
Mount Merapi derived by DInSAR technique
Legend
(a) Slave 16 September 2010 – Master 1 November 2010 (FBD) (b) Slave 16 March 2010 – Master 17 December 2010 (FBS) Deformation (cm)
Mt. Merbabu Mt. Merbabu
-15
-14
Selo Selo -13
-12
-11
Cepogo Cepogo -10
Dukun Dukun -9
-8
Mt. Merapi Mt. Merapi -7
-6
Musuk Musuk -5
-4
-3
15.6 km -2
Srumbung Srumbung
-1
0
1
2
Kemalang Kemalang 3
Turi Turi 4
Cangkringan Cangkringan 5
Pakem Pakem 6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
District
15 boundary
Village boundary

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Summary
Our laboratory (JMRSL)
develops circularly polarized
synthetic aperture radar (CP-
SAR) for UAV, Aircraft and
Microsatellite for Global
Environment and Global
Disaster Monitoring. Flight test
of SAR onboard aircraft has
CP-SAR onboard Microsatellite Constellation
been done to investigate our
SAR system. Some applications
of SAR also have been
developed in our laboratory for
disaster monitoring.
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 Thank you very much for your attention !

JMRSL Satellite Ground station

JMRSL JX-1

JMRSL JX-2
JMRSL Hinotori-X1

Contact Person :
Prof. Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Ph.D
Josaphat Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (JMRSL)
Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University
1-33, Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi 263-8522 Japan
JMRSL Hinotori-C1 Telp. +81(0)43-290-3840 Fax +81(0)43-290-3857 JMRSL Hinotori-C2
Email jtetukoss@faculty.chiba-u.jp
Website http://www2.cr.chiba-u.jp/jmrsl/

Fujikawa Airfield, 29 August 2013 UTC 06:09:54.521

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