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Date: Thursday, 29/Jan/2026
9:00am
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10:40am		 PolInSAR Campaigns
Location: Red Hall
Chair: Jean-Francois Nouvel, ONERA
Chair: Marc Simard, Jet propulsion Laboratory
 
9:00am - 9:20am

AGRIROSE-L AIRBORNE SAR EXPERIMENT FOR LAND COVER, VEGETATION PARAMETERS AND SOIL MOISTURE

Irena Hajnsek1,2, H. Schauer1, N. Basargin1, R. Guliaev1, M. Keller1, M. Jäger1, T. Hank4, R. Ludwig4, S. Steinhauser4, T. Ramsauer4, U. Heiden3, K. Kühl3, S. Chabrillat5, L. Homolová6, J. Kubanek7, M. Celesti8

1: DLR/ETH Zürich, Germany; 2: DLR, Microwaves and Radar Institute, Germany; 3: ETH Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Switzerland; 4: DLR, Method of Remote Sensing Institute, Germany; 5: LMU, Department für Geographie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,; 6: GFZ, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, German Research Center for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; 7: Czech Globe, Global Change Research Institute, Czech Republic; 8: ESA-ESTEC – Earth Observation Campaigns Section, Netherlands


9:20am - 9:40am

Tomographic investigations with a Ku-Band interferometer (KAPRI) on different natural environments

Esther Mas Sanz1, Othmar Frey1,2, Irena Hajnsek1,3

1: Institute of Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland; 2: GAMMA Remote Sensing AG, Gümligen,Switzerland; 3: Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Weßling, Germany


9:40am - 10:00am

UAVSAR TomoSAR and PolInSAR over Forest Biomes: Current Status and Developments

Richard Chen, Marc Simard, Yunling Lou

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA


10:00am - 10:20am

Mapping Tropical Forest in Gabon with L-/P-band Multibaseline Acquisitions: Results from the GABONX Campaigns

Irena Hajnsek1,2, Matteo Pardini1, Roman Guliaev1, Kostas Papathanassiou1, Fred Terrance Ndouni Missono1,3, Martin Keller1, Marc Jaeger1, Tania Casal4

1: DLR, Microwaves and Radar Institute, Germany; 2: ETH Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Switzerland; 3: AGEOS Agence Spatial de Gabon, Gabon; 4: ESA-ESTEC – Earth Observation Campaigns Section – Noordwijk (Netherlands)
10:40am
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11:10am		 Coffee Break
11:10am
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12:50pm		 Geology Applications
Location: Red Hall
Chair: Marco Lavalle, NASA JPL
Chair: Ake Rosenqvist, solo Earth Observation (soloEO)
 
11:10am - 11:30am

Processing Strategies for BIOMASS Digital Terrain Model Retrieval

Francesco Banda1, Francesco Salvaterra2, Stefano Tebaldini2, Laurent Ferro-Famil3, Claudio Prati2

1: aresys, Italy; 2: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 3: ISAE-Supaero/CEBSIO, France


11:30am - 11:50am

High-Resolution Techniques for Topography Estimation and Terrain Ground Steering within the ESA BIOMASS Processor

Francesco Salvaterra1, Laurent Ferro-Famil2,3, Francesco Banda4, Stefano Tebaldini1

1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: ISAE-SUPAERO; 3: CESBIO; 4: Aresys


11:50am - 12:10pm

Comparison of X, C, and L-band DEMs with Biomass P-band PolSAR Imagery in Desert Regions: A Geomorphological Analysis Approach

Mhamad El Hage1, Laurent Polidori2, Ahmed Gaber3, Laurent Ferro-Famil4, Ludovic Villard5

1: Lebanese University, Lebanon (Lebanese Republic); 2: Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil; 3: Port Said University, Port said, Egypt; 4: ISAE-SUPAERO / CESBIO, Toulouse, France; 5: CNRS / CESBIO, Toulouse, France


12:10pm - 12:30pm

Preliminary evaluation of BIOMASS interferometric data over desert environments

Yanghai Yu1,2, Stefano Tebaldini2, Francesco Banda3

1: National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, People's Republic of; 2: Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 3: Aresys, Italy


12:30pm - 12:50pm

Exploring Polarimetric Signatures for Geology of Arid Regions: Preliminary Biomass P-Band PolSAR Results Over the Tibesti Mountains

Zbigniew Perski, Maria Przyłucka, Michalina Cisło

Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute, Poland
12:50pm
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2:10pm		 Lunch Break
2:10pm
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3:50pm		 Cryosphere Applications I
Location: Red Hall
Chair: Francesco Banda, aresys
Chair: Georg Fischer, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
 
2:10pm - 2:30pm

BIOMASS ice flow mapping

Anders Kusk, Jørgen Dall, John Merryman Boncori

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark


2:30pm - 2:50pm

Polarimetric analysis of ESA’s BIOMASS mission over Antarctica

Sara-Patricia Schlenk1,2, Georg Fischer1, Irena Hajnsek1,3

1: German Aerospace Center – Microwaves and Radar Institute, Wessling, Germany; 2: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität – Institute of Microwaves and Photonics, Erlangen, Germany; 3: ETH Zurich – Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland


2:50pm - 3:10pm

Mapping of subsurface ice sheet structures in the Antartic dry snow and percolation zones with airborne P-band SAR data

Julius Kokholm, Jørgen Dall, Anders Kusk

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark


3:10pm - 3:30pm

Antarctic BIOMASS Tomography: Preliminary Results

Francesco Banda1, Jørgen Dall2, Stefano Tebaldini3

1: aresys, Italy; 2: DTU, Denmark; 3: Politecnico di Milano, Italy


3:30pm - 3:50pm

Investigating lake ice structure with polarimetric SAR tomography

Paloma Saporta1,2, Matteo Pardini1, Evan J. Wilcox3, Julia Boike4,5, Irena Hajnsek1,2

1: German Aerospace Center – Microwaves and Radar Institute, Wessling, Germany; 2: ETH Zurich – Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland; 3: University of Hamburg – Department of Earth System Sciences, Hamburg, Germany; 4: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research – Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany; 5: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Department of Geography, Berlin, Germany
3:50pm
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4:20pm		 Coffee Break
4:20pm
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6:00pm		 Cryosphere Applications II / Ocean Applications
Location: Red Hall
Chair: Jorgen Dall, Technical University of Denmark
Chair: Armando Marino, The University of Stirling
 
4:20pm - 4:40pm

Iceberg Detection using an iDPolRAD-SAR Deep Learning Pipeline.

Sonny Bailey1, John Stott1, Vahid Akbari2, Armando Marino2

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


4:40pm - 5:00pm

Iceberg Thickness from BIOMASS Polarimetry

Georg Fischer1, Jun Su Kim1, Irena Hajnsek1,2, Kostas Papathanassiou1

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: ETH Zurich, Switzerland


5:00pm - 5:20pm

Retrieval of Snow Water Equivalent Change Over Altay from Spaceborne L-band Lutan-1 InSAR data

Jingtian Zhou1, Yang Lei1, Jinmei Pan1, Chuan Xiong2, Jiancheng Shi1, Zhenzhan Wang1, Anmin Fu3

1: National Space Science Center Chinese Academy of Sciences 100190, Beijing, China; 2: Faculty of Geosciences and Engineering Southwest Jiaotong University 611756, Sichuan, China; 3: Academy of Forest and Grass Inventory and Planning National Forestry and Grass Administration 100714, Beijing, China


5:20pm - 5:40pm

Multi-Frequency Dual-Polarization SAR Data For Plastic Marine Litter Identification

Giovanni Anconitano1, Marco Polcari1, Christian Bignami1, Marina Locritani2, Filippo Muccini2, Silvia Merlino3, Marco Bianucci3, Ferdinando Nunziata4

1: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy; 2: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Lerici, Italy; 3: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine, Lerici, Italy; 4: Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Rome, Italy


5:40pm - 6:00pm

Preliminary Multi-frequency Wave Spectrum Analyses Using Sentinel-1, SAOCOM-1 and Biomass Observations Along the Coast

Yan Yuan, Owen O'Driscoll, Paco López-Dekker

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The
7:30pm
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10:00pm		 🍽️Hosted Dinner
Location: Grand Hotel Union

Conference Dinner
by the Slovenian Ministry of Economy, Tourism and Sport

🏨 Grand Hotel Union Eurostars – Official Conference Hotel