Conference Agenda

Mission Overview

Björn Rommen

European Space Agency-ESA, Netherlands, The

Mission Performance at the end of Commissioning phase

Antonio Leanza

ESA, Netherlands, The

Mission Planning, Orbit Performance and Potential Evolutions

Jakob Karg

European Space Agency-ESA, Germany

Results from BIOMASS In-Orbit Commissioning analyses

Laura Fioretti¹, Francesco Banda¹, Emanuele Giorgi¹, Marco Di Trocchio¹, Riccardo Piantanida¹, Andrea Recchia¹, Marco Manzoni²

1: aresys, Italy; 2: Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Evaluation of BIOMASS Radiometric Stability using Permanent Scatterers: first results from the commissioning phase

Marco Manzoni¹, Francesco Banda², Stefano Tebaldini¹

1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Aresys S.r.l.

Six+2 Months of BIOMASS in Orbit: Surprises and Challenges – A PolInSAR Perspective

Konstantinos Papathanassiou, Roman Guliaev, Noelia Romero-Puig, Jun-Su Kim, Matteo Pardini, Georg Fischer, Felipe Betancourt-Payan, Pau Prats

German Aerospace Center, DLR, Germany

Validating Global TEC Map by exploring BIOMASS polarimetric measurements

Jun Su Kim, Felipe Betancourt-Payan, Konstantinos Papathanassiou

German Aerospace Center, Germany

On the role of ionospheric layering in BIOMASS interferometry: phenomenology and correction methods

Stefano Tebaldini¹, Francesco Salvaterra¹, Francesco Banda², Muriel Pinheiro³

1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Aresys; 3: ESA ESRIN

Polarimetric and Interferometric Optimization of Ionospheric Calibration

Felipe Betancourt-Payan, Jun Su Kim, Pau Prats-Iraola, Roman Guliaev, Marc Rodriguez-Cassola, Kostas Papathanassiou

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

A critical gap filled in temporal decorrelation: P-band radar stability enables tomographic mapping of the Amazon

Dinh Ho Tong Minh¹, Yen-Nhi Ngo², Thanh Huy Nguyen³, Thuy Le Toan⁴

1: INRAE, France; 2: TomoSAR, France; 3: LIST, Luxembourg; 4: CESBIO-GlobEO

Investigation of P-band interferometry using early BIOMASS data

Urs Wegmüller, Christophe Magnard, Maurizio Santoro, Oliver Cartus, Andreas Wiesmann

Gamma Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland

Polarimetric Effects in P-band Interferometric Phase Triplets

Serdar Rama^1,2, Noelia Romero-Puig¹, Irena Hajnsek^1,2, Konstantinos Papathanassiou¹

1: German Aerospace Center, DLR e.V., Germany; 2: ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Statistical Analysis of InSAR Closure Phases in Various Land Cover Conditions Using Sentinel-1 and Biomass Observations

Yan Yuan, Paco López-Dekker

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The

BIOMASS 3D Reflectivity Reconstructions for Forest Structure Mapping: Early Mission Results

Matteo Pardini, Roman Guliaev, Noelia Romero-Puig, Felipe Betancourt-Payan, Pau Prats, Konstantinos Papathanassiou

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

First Tomographic Results with BIOMASS

Francesco Salvaterra², Francesco Banda¹, Naomi Petrushevsky², Stefano Tebaldini²

1: aresys, Italy; 2: Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Forest disturbance analysis of BIOMASS time-series in the Brazilian Amazon: comparison with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions

Marta Bottani¹, Laurent Ferro-Famil^1,2, Stéphane Mermoz³, Juan Doblas³, Thuy Le Toan³, Thierry Koleck^1,4

1: CESBIO, Toulouse, France; 2: ISAE Supaero, Toulouse, France; 3: GlobEO, Toulouse, France; 4: CNES, Toulouse, France

An Open-Source and Gpu Sar Polarimetric Processor for Ers-1/2 and Envisat

Clément Albinet¹, Michael Aspetsberger², Massimo Cardaci³, Helen Clifton⁴, Fabiano Costantini⁴, Laura Fioretti⁵, Marco Galli³, Andreas Hangler², Lisa Haskell⁴, Chloe Martella³, Sabrina Pinori³, Andrea Recchia⁵, Florian Steinschorn², John Swinton⁴

1: European Space Agency / Agence Spatiale Européenne, Italy; 2: Cloudflight, Austria; 3: SERCO, Italy; 4: Telespazio, UK; 5: Aresys, Italy

BioMassQuilombo-Amazon: Participatory Calibration and Validation of ESA BIOMASS SAR

Polyanna da Conceição Bispo¹, Laurent Ferro-Famil^2,3, Juan Doblas⁴, Marta Botanni³, Armando Marino⁵, Thiago Sanna F. Silva⁶, Celso H. L. Silva Junior⁷, Bruno Luize¹, Renata M. Ribeiro⁷, Tahisa N. Kuck⁸, James F. Moura Jr.¹, Fernando G. de Carvalho⁹, Paulo M. A. Graça¹⁰, Nívia Pires Lopes¹¹, Pitágoras da Conceição Bispo¹², Loïc Pellissier^13,14

1: University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 2: ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France; 3: CESBIO, University of Toulouse, France; 4: GlobEO, France; 5: Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, UK; 6: Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, UK; 7: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia – IPAM, Brazil; 8: Instituto de Estudos Avançados– IEAv, Brazil, Brazil; 9: Instituto Tecnológico Vale– ITV, Brazil; 10: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA, Brazil; 11: Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Roraima, Brazil; 12: Laboratório de Biologia Aquática (LABIA), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biociências—Interunidades, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP), Brazil; 13: Ecosystems & Landscape Evolution, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 14: Department of Landscape Dynamics & Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland

TWIST-NZ - Tree Water and Soil Moisture Integration for Satellite Calibration and Validation in New Zealand - Early BIOMASS results

Anke Fluhrer¹, Dean Meason², Konstantinos Andreadis³, Florian Hellwig^4,1, Clémence Dubois⁵, Mehdi Rahmati⁶, Donald White², Thomas Jagdhuber^1,4, Carsten Montzka⁶

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Microwaves and Radar Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 2: SCION Research, New Zealand; 3: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Northeast Climate Adaption Science Center, MA, USA; 4: University of Augsburg, Institute of Geography, Augsburg, Germany; 5: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Data Science, Jena, Germany; 6: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany

Exploring Polarimetric Signatures for Geology: Anticipated Biomass Data Applications in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Zbigniew Perski, Michalina Cisło, Maria Przyłucka, Antoni Wójcik

Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute, Poland

A TWO-STAGE MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR CHARACTERIZING AND ADDRESSING SYSTEMATIC BIAS IN GLOBAL ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS PRODUCTS FOR TROPICAL FORESTS

Gabriel da Rocha Bragion, Mounia El Baz, Clément Albergel, Klaus Scipal, Rochelle Schneider

European Space Agency

Evaluation of permanent scatterer interferometric phase based on atmospheric correction for ground-based radar

Yeojin Kim, Sang-Hoon Hong

Pusan National University/Geological sciences, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Validation of DTM Derived from P-band SAR Under the Amazon Rainforest: from Airborne Surveys to the Biomass Perspective

Laurent Polidori¹, Mhamad El Hage², Laurent Ferro-Famil³, Ludovic Villard³, Carlos Caldeira⁴

1: UFPA, Brazil; 2: Lebanese University, Lebanon; 3: CESBIO, France; 4: UFRA, Brazil

An Extension Of The MF3C Decomposition For PolSAR Data

J. David Ballester-Berman¹, Qinghua Xie², Hongtao Shi³

1: Universitat d'Alacant, Spain; 2: China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, P.R. China; 3: China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, P.R. China

Underlying Terrain and Forest Height Retrieval Based on Lutan-1 L-Band Bistatic InSAR Phase Height Histograms

Jinting Zheng¹, Yang Lei², Guoqing Li¹, Yuxiao Qin¹, Weiliang Li²

1: School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China; 2: National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China