The ISPRS SC Webinar Series
ISPRS WG III/3 (Active Microwave Remote Sensing) Webinar Series
This webinar is the part of the webinar series organised by the ISPRS WG III/3 (Active Microwave Remote Sensing) with the technical support of the ISPRS Student Consortium (ISPRS SC). It is organised on the second Wednesday of every months.
Program Details:
Date: 10 December, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00 (GMT+0)
Title: StriX Small SAR Satellite Constellation
Speaker: Yu Morishita, Synspective, Japan
Moderator: Füsun Balik Sanli
Abstract:
Synspective has been developing small X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, StriX. The company has launched six satellites (as of March 2025) and plans to build a constellation of 30 satellites in the 2020s to achieve our mission: to create a new infrastructure that will enable the next generation to understand our Earth and achieve a resilient future. This presentation will present the current status and future plan of the StriX constellation and data analysis solutions, including InSAR applications.
Speaker's Bio:
Yu Morishita received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 2008 and 2016, respectively. From 2008 to 2022, he was with the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) and was in charge of deformation monitoring mainly using ALOS and ALOS-2 InSAR. In 2012, he was a guest researcher with the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. From 2018 to 2020, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Leeds, UK, supported by the JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship, and he developed the open-source InSAR time series analysis package LiCSBAS. Since 2022, he has been with Synspective as a SAR application engineer and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) as a visiting researcher. His research interests include the development of SAR data analysis techniques and their application to surface deformation monitoring.
