OpenSAR Insight

Held every three years, ESA’s Living Planet Symposium are among the world’s premier events on Earth observation. The symposium continue to expand in both size and scope. With the climate crisis intensifying, the Living Planet Symposium 2025 (LPS25) emphasises transitioning from ‘observation to climate action and sustainability for Earth’.

This workshop aims to bring together the scientific community and industry working on advanced processing techniques for spaceborne systems with the goal of fostering scientific exchange, accelerating innovation, and supporting the exploitation of emerging capabilities for the characterization of moving targets, sensor fusion, and AI-driven analytics in defense, security, and geointelligence applications. The event will focus on cutting-edge methods for high-resolution SAR imaging, long-dwell and time-resolved observation, multichannel and multistatic configurations, interferometric and tomographic techniques, AI-driven processing, and the integration of SAR with multisource capabilities. A session on new algorithms exploiting optical imagery will be included as well. The applications addressed in this workshop are expected to extend beyond traditional EO techniques and explicitly encompass domains related to security, situational awareness, and geospatial intelligence. Particular emphasis will be placed on methodologies that enhance the ability to detect, characterize, and monitor critical dynamics — such as activities around strategic infrastructures, ground and maritime moving targets, and rapid environmental or anthropogenic changes.

EUSAR, the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, is the world leading international conference dedicated to SAR techniques, technology and applications. EUSAR has accompanied the worldwide evolution of high-resolution imaging radar, both airborne and spaceborne, and has helped to establish an international community of SAR engineers and scientists. As in previous years, EUSAR 2026 will provide a forum for exchanging information and discussion on a wide variety of SAR topics, representing the latest SAR developments.