Technical Program

Monday, September 23

8:00

Registration

8:30-10:45

Opening Session and Keynote Speeches

8:30-8:45

Welcome Address

8:45-9:30

Vadim Nozdrin (ITU Radiocommunication Bureau, Switzerland)

ITU Activity for Space Science Services

9:30-10:15

Stephen English (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom)

The Value of Passive Bands Used by Microwave Instruments in Numerical Weather Prediction

10:15-11:00

Gelu Nita (New Jersey Instititute of Technology, USA)

The Generalized Spectral Kurtosis Estimator: A Review of Its Statistical Properties and Applications

11:00-11:25

Coffee Break

11:25-12:40

Operational RFI Mitigation – Chairs: Abraham Otto and Albert-Jan Boonstra

11:25-11:50

Alessio Sclocco, Dany Vohl, Rob van Nieuwpoort

Real-Time RFI Mitigation for the Apertif Radio Transient System

11:50-12:15

Haiyan Zhang, Hao Hu, Shijie Huang, Li Yang, Xinxin Zhang

Satellite RFI Mitigation on FAST

12:15-12:40

Jean-Michel Martin

WIBAR Spectrometer and RFI Mitigation

12:40-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-15:40

RFI Detection and Localization – Chairs: Alexandra Bringer and Roger Oliva

14:00-14:25

Eric Anterrieu, Francois Cabot, Ali Khazaal

Almost ten years of early RFI detection/quantification with the Noise Injection Radiometers onboard MIRAS

14:25-14:50

Roger Oliva, Antonio Martellucci, Elena Daganzo, Stephen English, Patricia Rosnay, Jose Barbosa

New Concept for RFI Detection in EO Data: Ground RFI Detection Station

14:50-15:15

Eric Anterrieu, Francois Cabot, Ali Khazaal, Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez, Yann Kerr

A Machine Learning Approach for Sub-Kilometric Geolocation of RFI Sources from SMOS Interferometric Data

15:15-15:40

Niccolò Franceschi, Riccardo Piantanida, Andrea Recchia, Davide Giudici, Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Nuno Miranda, Clément Albinet

RFI Monitoring and Classification in C-band Using Sentinel-1 Noise Pulses

15:40-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:50

Spectrum Management – Chairs: Thomas Von Deak and Paolo de Matthaeis

16:00-16:35

Markus Dreis

Role and Responsibilities of the ITU-R Working Party 7C on Remote Sensing Systems

16:35-17:00

Bevin Zauderer, Jonathan Williams

RFI 2029: New Challenges and New Approaches for the Coming Decade

17:00-17:25

Elena Daganzo, Alvaro Llorente, Roger Oliva, Ekhi Uranga, Yann Kerr, Antonio De la Fuente, Philippe Richaume

Lessons Learnt from SMOS RFI Activities After 10 Years in Orbit: Claiming Protection and Increasing Awareness of The Interference Problems in the 1400-1427 MHz Passive Band

17:25-17:50

Elena Daganzo, Edoardo Marelli

Frequency Management for Passive Remote Sensing from an ESA Perspective

18:00-20:00

Icebreaker

Tuesday, September 24

8:30-10:10

RFI Considerations in Instrument Design – Chairs: Urvashi Rao and Federico Di Vruno

8:30-8:55

Thushara Gunaratne, Peens-Hough Peens-Hough

Modeling of RFI and RFI Mitigation Techniques in SKA1 Mid Telescope

8:55-9:20

Luke Hawkins, Ryan Lynch

Active RFI Management at the Green Bank Observatory

9:20-9:45

Alan Erickson, Urvashi Rao Venkata

The Dimensions of RFI, and how ngVLA is Being Designed to Accommodate Them

9:45-10:10

Federico Di Vruno

RFI/EMC Management in the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope

10:10-10:25

Poster Introduction (2 minutes per poster) – Chair: Sidharth Misra

10:25-11:00

Coffee Break

10:25-11:25

Poster Session

Timothy Robishaw, Stephen Harrison, David Del Rizzo, Robert Messing, Benoit Robert

Bustin' Makes Me Feel Good: A Low-Cost Cell Phone Buster for the 850 MHz Band

Geng Lihong, Liu Donghao, Su Cang, Li Sha, Yan Yihua, Chen Zhijun

Complex Electromagnetic Environment and RFI Mitigation at Mingantu Observing Station

M.A. Brentjens, E. van Maanen, P. Bolli, M.J. Norden, B.A. Witvliet, G. Virone, F. Paonessa, A.J. Boonstra

Conditions for LOFAR Radio Telescope and Wind Farm Co-Existence

Edward Kim, Albert Wu, Eugenia De Marco

The NASA Goddard RF Explorer (GREX), an Instrument to Monitor the Interference Environment

Aravind Venkitasubramony, Albin Gasiewski, Eryan Dai, Maciej Stachura, Roger Carter, Jack Elston

RFI Detection and Mitigation in an L-Band Correlation Radiometer for sUAS Based Soil Moisture Measurements

Jorge Querol, Adrián Pérez, Adriano Camps

Real-time Radio Frequency Interference Detection and Mitigation with the Front-End GNSS Interference eXcisor (FENIX)

11:25-12:15

Panel Discussion on Remote Sensing Issues

Moderator:  Thomas von Deak

Panelists:    Markus Dreis, Chairman of ITU-R Working Party 7C

                    Stephen English, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

                    David Le Vine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

                    Alvaro Llorente, European Space Agency

12:15-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-17:00

AirBus Assembly Line Tour

Wednesday, September 25

8:45-10:00

RFI Impact and Monitoring – Chairs: Yann Kerr and David Le Vine

8:45-9:10

Sidharth Misra, Joel Johnson

Space-borne Demonstration of the CubeSat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Technology (CubeRRT) Validation Mission

9:10-9:35

Tobias Bollian, Marwan Younis, Gerhard Krieger

Digital Beamforming Based RFI Extraction for an On-Ground Correction of Synthetic Aperture Radar Data

9:35-10:00

Paolo de Matthaeis, David Draper, Joel Johnson, Steen Savstrup Krinstensen, Yan Soldo, Thomas von Deak, Mohammad Al-Khaldi, Rashmi Shah

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) Observed Over Water Surfaces at 18.6-18.8 GHz and the IEEE GRSS Involvement with ITU-R to Address this Issue

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-13:00

Spectrum Management – Chairs: Jean-Luc-Issler and Balthasar Indermühle

10:30-11:10

Tasso Tzioumis

Working Party 7D (of the ITU-R) and its Importance for the Radio Astronomy Community

11:10-11:35

Liese van Zee, Nathaniel Livesey, Sandra Cruz-Pol, William Emery, Namir Kassim, Amy Lovell, Mahta Moghaddam, James Moran, Scott Ransom, Gail Skofronick-Jackson, Paul Siqueira, Tomas Gergely, Darrel Emerson, Paul Feldman

The Committee on Radio Frequencies - Protecting the Scientific Use of the Radio Spectrum

11:35-12:00

Vadim Nozdrin

Digital Spectrum Management

12:00-12:25

Farzin Manshadi

Preventing Adjacent Band Interference from Earth Exploration Satellites to Space Research (Deep Space) Missions

12:25-12:50

Catherine Gabay

GNSS Interference Cases Handling and the Fight Against the Spread of Illegal GNSS Jammers by ANFR, the French Spectrum Management and Monitoring Authority

12:50-14:20

Lunch Break

14:20-16:00

New Developments in RFI Mitigation – Chairs: Greg Hellbourg and Timothy Robishaw

14:20-14:45

Jedda Boyle, Alessio Sclocco

Edge-Thresholding: A New Thresholding Based Real-Time RFI Mitigation Algorithm for Transient Detection

14:45-15:10

Yogesh Maan

Fourier Domain Excision of Periodic RFI

15:10-15:35

Gary J. Hovey, Federico Di Vruno

A Framework for RFI Simulation and Performance Verification

15:35-16:00

Gregory Hellbourg, Ian Morrison

Cyclic Imaging for All-Sky Interference Forecasting with Array Radio Telescopes

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

16:30-17:20

Panel Discussion on Radio Astronomy Issues

Moderator:  Balthasar Indermühle

Panelists:    Willem Baan, ASTRON

                    Federico Di Vruno, Square Kilometre Array

                    Harvey Liszt, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

                    Abraham Otto, University of Stellenbosch

                    Tasso Tzioumis, Chairman of ITU-R Working Party 7D                  

20:00-22:30

 Banquet

Thursday, September 26

9:00-10:40

Machine Leaning for RFI Mitigation – Chairs: Amit Mishra and Stephen Harrison

9:00-9:25

Stephen Harrison, Rory Coles, Timothy Robishaw, David Del Rizzo

RFI Novelty Detection using Machine Learning Techniques

9:25-9:50

Harrison Kyle, Amit Mishra

Supervised Neural Networks for RFI Flagging

9:50-10:15

Alexis Louis

Neural Networks Based EWF Detection

10:15-10:40

Mao Yuan, Weiwei Zhu, Di Li, Bo Peng, Haiyan Zhang

An Unsupervised Interference Classifier for Radio Telescope Data

10:40-11:10

Coffee Break

11:10-12:50

RFI Filtering – Chairs: Ryo Natsuaki and Yan Soldo

11:10-11:35

Alexandra Bringer, Matt Daehn, Gordon Weiss, Joel Johnson

A Time Series Method for Identifying and Removing Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) L-band radiometer data

11:35-12:00

Ali Khazaal, Roger Oliva, Philippe Richaume, Ignassi Corbella, Francois Cabot, Jose Barbosa, Gonçalo Lopes, Eric Anterrieu

Towards RFI Mitigation in SMOS Image Reconstruction Operational Processor: Impact on Retrieved Brightness Temperature and Soil Moisture

12:00-12:25

Ryo Natsuaki, Pau Prats-Iraola

Time Variant and Narrow Bandwidth RFI Detection in Multi-Receiver SAR: Preliminary Study in ALOS-2

12:25-12:50

Yan Soldo, David Le Vine, Paolo de Matthaeis

An Approach to Address Residual “Hot Spots” in SMAP RFI-filtered Data

12:50 -14:20

Lunch Break

14:20-15:45

Astronomical Site Management – Chairs: Haiyan Zhang and Aaron Chippendale

14:20-14:45

Riaan Wolhuter, Abraham Otto, Jason Fynn, Johannes Havenga, Carel Van der Merwe

A Band Comparison Investigation for RFI Emission Mitigation by a Mobile Radio Communications Network for the SKA Radio Astronomy Project

14:45-15:10

Abraham Otto, Riaan Wolhuter, Jason Fynn, Johannes Havenga

Radio Frequency Interference from an Operational Communications Networks in a Radio Astronomy Environment

15:10-15:35

Qi Liu, Ye Liu, Xiao Ming Su, Feng Liu

Shielding Engineering Progress for QTT Facilities

15:35-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-16:50

Astronomical Site Management – Chairs: Haiyan Zhang and Aaron Chippendale

16:00-16:25

Aaron Chippendale

Modelling RFI Propagation by Diffraction to Find Radio Quiet Sites in Australia

16:25-16:50

Balthasar Indermühle, Carol Wilson

Monitoring Results from the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory Since 2016

16:50-17:00

Closing Remarks