Conference Agenda

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

Irena Hajnsek^1,2, 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

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

Esther Mas Sanz¹, Othmar Frey^1,2, Irena Hajnsek^1,3

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

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

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

Irena Hajnsek^1,2, Matteo Pardini¹, Roman Guliaev¹, Kostas Papathanassiou¹, Fred Terrance Ndouni Missono^1,3, 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)

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

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

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

Francesco Salvaterra¹, Laurent Ferro-Famil^2,3, Francesco Banda⁴, Stefano Tebaldini¹

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

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

Preliminary evaluation of BIOMASS interferometric data over desert environments

Yanghai Yu^1,2, 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

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

BIOMASS ice flow mapping

Anders Kusk, Jørgen Dall, John Merryman Boncori

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Polarimetric analysis of ESA’s BIOMASS mission over Antarctica

Sara-Patricia Schlenk^1,2, Georg Fischer¹, Irena Hajnsek^1,3

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

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

Antarctic BIOMASS Tomography: Preliminary Results

Francesco Banda¹, Jørgen Dall², Stefano Tebaldini³

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

Investigating lake ice structure with polarimetric SAR tomography

Paloma Saporta^1,2, Matteo Pardini¹, Evan J. Wilcox³, Julia Boike^4,5, Irena Hajnsek^1,2

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

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

Iceberg Thickness from BIOMASS Polarimetry

Georg Fischer¹, Jun Su Kim¹, Irena Hajnsek^1,2, Kostas Papathanassiou¹

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

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

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

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