Institute of Earth Sciences

In 2020, the Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development under MOST established a new interdisciplinary research alliance, the Taiwan Space Union (TSU), and proposed the FORMOSAT Satellite Science and Application Project. This project aims to address critical issues in the society via space technology and to trigger positive feedbacks to the development of the space industry in Taiwan.

In 2020, the Institute of Earth Sciences at Academia Sinica, the Department of Civil Engineering at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, and the Department of Geosciences at National Taiwan University collaboratively reacted to the call of MOST and proposed this integrated project From a City to a Country: Multi-scale SAR Processing Techniques and Applications. We propose new applications of SAR adapted to different radar wavelengths, image sizes, spatial resolutions, coherence decays, and sensitivities to tropospheric and ionospheric disturbances. The main theme is to investigate use cases at different spatial scales and radar wavelengths. Currently, most of the proposed methods and applications are under the proof of concept stage; we envision that the outcome of this project can lay the foundation for the progress of SAR in Taiwan.