Conference Agenda

FIRST ASSESSMENT OF BIOMASS INTERFEROMETRIC PERFORMANCE AND FOREST HEIGHT RETRIEVAL

Roman Guliaev, Matteo Pardini, Noelia Romero-Puig, Junsu Kim, Felipe Betancourt-Payan, Konstantinos Papathanassiou

DLR e.V., Oberpfaffenhofen

First Demonstration of Forest Structure Monitoring with Early P-Band BIOMASS Pol-InSAR Data

Noelia Romero-Puig, Matteo Pardini, Roman Guliaev, Junsu Kim, Kostas Papathanassiou

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

First results from the ESA BIOMASS L1B IOC data in Brazilian Forests

Mikhail Urbazaev, Viola Heinrich, Martin Herold

GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany

Assessment of early BIOMASS data in the context of global biomass estimation

Maurizio Santoro, Oliver Cartus, Christophe Magnard, Urs Wegmüller

Gamma Remote Sensing, Switzerland

Ground notched SAR tomography: principles and first application to BIOMASS data

Laurent Ferro Famil^1,2, Marta Bottani², Yue Huang³, Francesco Savaterra^4,5, Francesco Banda⁵, Stefano Tebaldini⁴

1: ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France; 2: CESBIO, University of Toulouse, France; 3: Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; 4: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 5: Aresys, Milano, Italy

Early assessment of BIOMASS P-band observables for above-ground biomass density mapping over the Amazon

Maciej Soja¹, Francesco Banda², Klaus Scipal³

1: Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands, The; 2: Aresys Srl, Italy; 3: European Space Agency, Italy

Biomass Product Status at the start of Operations

Muriel Pinheiro

European Space Agency (ESA), Italy

Overview of the BIOMASS Level 3 product processor

Laurent Ferro Famil¹, Clement Albinet², Francesco Banda³, Marta Bottani¹, Paolo Mazzucchelli³, Antonio Novelli⁴, Nathan Paillou⁵, Muriel Pinheiro², Bjorn Rommen⁶, Klaus Scipal²

1: ISAE-SUPAERO & CESBIO, France; 2: ESA ESRIN, Italy; 3: ARESYS, Italy; 4: RHEA, Italy; 5: Private; 6: ESA ESTEC, The Netherlands

ESA MAAP, Biomass MAAP and BioPAL

Roberto Alacevich, Saskia Brose, Clement Albinet

European Space Agency / Agence Spatiale Européenne, Italy

The Biomass Product Algorithm Laboratory (PAL): A Collaborative and Experimental Environment for Algorithm Development, Processing and Data Analytics within the ESA MAAP Framework

Erminia De Grandis¹, Alessandro Marin¹, Francesco Cantavenera¹, Roberto Alacevich², Cristiano Lopes², Saskia Brose², Clement Albinet², Francesco Ferrante³, Benedetta Antonielli³, Joseph Melizza³

1: CGI Italia, Frascati, Italy; 2: European Space Agency (ESA), ESRIN, Frascati, Italy; 3: Serco Italia, Rome, Italy

Exploiting X-Band PolInSAR for High-Resolution Agricultural Monitoring: Sub-surface Humidity and Sowing / Ridge Signatures

Elise Colin¹, Jean Bouchat², Frédéric Brigui³, Hubert Cantalloube³

1: DTIS, Onera, Université Paris Saclay, France; 2: ESRIN, European Space Agency, Italy; 3: DEMR, Onera, Université Paris Saclay, France

Estimating Soil Moisture Anomalies via Temporal-SKP Decomposition

Giovanni Costa, Stefano Tebaldini, Andrea Virgilio Monti Guarnieri

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Scattering Physics and Deep Learning: an Explainable Physics–Informed AI Framework for Soil Moisture Retrieval

Lorenzo Giuliano Papale¹, Xiaodong Huang², Marco Lavalle², Fabio Del Frate¹, Giovanni Anconitano³

1: Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy; 2: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; 3: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy

Limits of Soil Moisture Retrieval at L-Band over Bare and Vegetated Fields using Airborne Polarimetric D-InSAR

Henri Schauer^1,4, Nikita Basargin^1,2,3, Irena Hajnsek^1,4

1: German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 2: School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany; 3: Munich School for Data Science (MUDS), Munich, Germany; 4: Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

AgriROSE-L 2025 Case Study: Soil Moisture Estimation from L-Band PolSAR Time Series

Nikita Basargin^1,2,3, Alberto Alonso-González⁴, Irena Hajnsek^1,5

1: Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Weßling, Germany; 2: School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany; 3: Munich School for Data Science (MUDS), Munich, Germany; 4: Signal Theory and Communications Department, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain; 5: Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Calibration and Validation of ESA’s Biomass and NASA’s NISAR Missions Using UAVSAR and Lidar Data Sets in Africa, and Central and South America

Marc Simard, Yunling Lou, Richard Chen, Naiara Pinto

Jet propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States of America

Next TropiSAR-2 airborne campaign in support to BIOMASS Cal/Val

Jean-Francois Nouvel

ONERA, France

GEO-TREES: high-accuracy ground data for satellite-derived biomass mapping

Jerome Chave¹, Klaus Scipal², Cheryl Brown³, Stuart Davies³, Alvaro Duque⁴, Ayala Loisel¹, Beatriz Marimon⁵, Oliver L. Phillips⁶, Camille Piponiot-Laroche⁷, Lillian Rodriguez⁸, Irié Zo-Bi⁹

1: CNRS, Toulouse, France; 2: European Space Agency, Italy; 3: Smithsonian Institution, USA; 4: National University of Colombia, Colombia; 5: Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Brazil; 6: University of Leeds, UK; 7: CIRAD, France; 8: University of the Philippines, the Philippines; 9: INPHB, Côte d'Ivoire

Aboveground Biomass Reference Estimates Through Terrestrial Laser Scanning

Kim Calders¹, Louise Terryn¹, Martin Herold², Pasi Raumonen³, Tom Verhelst¹, Hans Verbeeck¹, Mathias Disney⁴

1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geoscience, Germany; 3: Tampere University, Finland; 4: University College London, UK

3D Virtual Forest Replicas from Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Microwave Interaction Modelling

Wouter A. J. Van den Broeck¹, Zane T. Cooper¹, Wout Cherlet¹, Niall Origo¹, Pablo Sanchez-Martinez², Lion Martius², Patrick Meir², Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa³, Ludovic Villard⁴, François Demontoux⁵, Sassan S. Saatchi⁶, Kim Calders¹

1: Q-ForestLab, Ghent University, Belgium; 2: School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK; 3: Universidade Federal de Para & Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Brazil; 4: Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université de Toulouse, France; 5: Laboratoire IMS, Université de Bordeaux, France; 6: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Using a ground Synthetic Aperture Radar to simulate multi-frequency quad-pol backscatter from a flood environment

Felix K. Isundwa¹, Armando Marino¹, Andrea Berardi², Isabella Bovolo³, Peter Hunter¹, Claire Neil⁴, Thiago S. F. Silva¹

1: University of Stirling, United Kingdom; 2: The Open University, United Kingdom; 3: Durham University, United Kingdom; 4: Scottish Environment Protection Agency, United Kingdom

Proposing a new POLSAR optimisation for monitoring of Wetland Flood dynamics using Sentinel-1 SLC images. A case of Rupununi in Guyana.

Felix Isundwa¹, Armando Marino¹, Andrea Berardi², Isabella Bovolo³, Peter Hunter¹, Claire Neil⁴, Thiago S. F. Silva¹

1: University of Stirling, United Kingdom; 2: The Open University, United Kingdom; 3: Durham University, United Kingdom; 4: Scottish Environment Protection Agency, United Kingdom

Using quad-pol multi-frequency ground SAR data to assess water table depth changes in a controlled peatland bog

Georgina Page¹, Armando Marino¹, Peter Hunter¹, Jens-Arne Subke¹, Brian Barrett²

1: University of Stirling, United Kingdom; 2: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Soybean Phenology Monitoring Using Dual-Pol H-Alpha Decomposition

Sakshi Jain¹, Unmesh Khati¹, Vineet Kumar²

1: Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India; 2: IHE Delft Institute for Water Education 2611 AX Delft,

High-resolution Surface Soil Moisture Mapping from Time-series SAR over Agricultural Areas with Constraints of Coarse Resolution Microwave Observations

Hongtao Shi¹, Jiangyuan Zeng^2,3, Nan Xu⁴, Zhong Lu¹, Jinqi Zhao¹, Qing Wu¹

1: China University of Mining and Technology; 2: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; 3: Aerospace Infopprmation Space Research Insititute, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 4: Shenzhen University

Temporal Variability of P-band Backscatter over Tropical Rainforests : Insights of the TropiScat-2 experiment for Biomass Cal-Val activities

Ludovic Villard¹, Thierry Koleck², Laurent Ferro-Famil³, Thuy Le Toan⁴, Benoit Burban⁵, Damien Bonal⁶

1: CESBIO / CNRS, France; 2: CESBIO / CNES, France; 3: CESBIO / INSAE, France; 4: CESBIO / Globeo, France; 5: EcoFoG / INRAE, France; 6: SILVA / INRAE, France

Assessing the impact of canopy structure on modelled P-band radar backscatter for ESA BIOMASS calibration and validation

Wanxin Yang^1,2, Russell Thomas¹, Mathias Disney^1,2, Philip Lewis^1,2, Casey Ryan³, Steven Hancock^2,3, Reza M. Asiyabi³, Kyle Dexter³, John L. Godlee³, Nezha Acil^2,4, Mark R. Lomas⁵, Shaun Quegan^2,5, Oliver McFarlane⁶

1: Department of Geography, University College London, United Kingdom; 2: National Centre for Earth Observation, United Kingdom; 3: School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 4: School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Centre for Landscape and Climate Research, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; 5: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 6: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Long-term impacts of forest degradation on biomass: Insights from P-band SAR

Stéphane Mermoz¹, Juan Doblas Prieto¹, Claudio Almeida², Thierry Koleck^3,4, Mariane Souza Reis², Laurent Ferro-Famil^3,5, Cassiano Gustavo Messias², Alexandre Bouvet³, Marta Bottani^3,4,5,6, Thuy Le Toan^1,3

1: GlobEO, Toulouse, France; 2: INPE, São José Dos Campos, Brazil; 3: CESBIO, Toulouse, France; 4: CNES, Toulouse, France; 5: ISAE-Supaéro, Toulouse, France; 6: TéSA, Toulouse, France

Large scale vegetation-atmosphere dynamics and interactions

Nuno Carvalhais¹, Hui Yang², Siyuan Wang¹

1: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany; 2: College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Constraining Turnover Processes in Terrestrial Biosphere Model by Using L-/P-band Backscatter

Xu Shan, Sujan Koirala, Markus Zehner, Nuno Carvalhais

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany