Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Registration and Welcome Coffee Location: Registration desk |
| 10:30am - 11:10am |
Workshop Opening Location: Red Hall Chair: Francesco Sarti, European Space Agency (ESA) Chair: Klaus Scipal, European Space Agency ESA Welcome & Objectives ESA, Netherlands, The 10:37am - 10:44am Welcome Message from State Secretary, Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport, Slovenia 10:44am - 10:51am Welcome Message from Vice-rector for research and development of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 10:51am - 10:58am Workshop Agenda & Logistics European Space Agency-ESA, Germany 10:58am - 11:10am PolInSAR achievements since PolInSAR 2023 RSAC c/o European Space Agency ESA-ESRIN, Italy |
| 11:10am - 12:50pm |
SAR Missions and PolInSAR Initiatives Location: Red Hall Chair: Irena Hajnsek, DLR/ETH Zürich Chair: Francesco Sarti, European Space Agency (ESA) ESA SAR Missions Status European Space Agency (ESA), Italy 11:30am - 11:50am The NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission: Overview and Status NASA JPL, United States of America 11:50am - 12:10pm ALOS-4 PALSAR-3 – An L-band SAR Mission with Operational Polarimetric Capacity 1: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; 2: solo Earth Observation (soloEO), Japan 12:10pm - 12:30pm Modernizing PolSARpro: A Python-Based Re-Implementation for Research and Education 1: SAREO, Poland; 2: University of Stirling, UK; 3: IETR, France; 4: SATIM, Poland; 5: RSAC c/o ESA, Italy; 6: European Space Agency, ESA, Italy 12:30pm - 12:50pm Introducing the LSI-VC PolSAR Activity – A CEOS Effort to Support the Advancement of Polarimetric SAR R&D for Experts and New Users 1: solo Earth Observation (soloEO), Japan; 2: RSAC c/o ESA, Italy; 3: European Space Agency, Italy; 4: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan |
| 12:50pm - 2:10pm |
Lunch Break |
| 2:10pm - 3:50pm |
PolSAR and PolInSAR Methods Location: Red Hall Chair: Laurent Ferro Famil, ISAE-SUPAERO & CESBIO Chair: Magdalena Fitrzyk, RSAC c/o ESA Modeling Multi-Static and Multi-Polarization Radar Scattering Off Anisotropic Soil sapienza university of rome, Italy 2:30pm - 2:50pm Testing different methodologies to decompose PolSAR data into an Focus partial target plus a Residual one (1F+R) The University of Stirling, United Kingdom 2:50pm - 3:10pm Quad-pol Data Reconstruction from Compact-pol Data Using Deep Learning Methods 1: University of Stirling, United Kingdom; 2: University of Isfahan, Iran 3:10pm - 3:30pm Decomposition of PolSAR heterogeneous targets using tensor fields The University of Stirling, United Kingdom 3:30pm - 3:50pm Comprehensive Analysis of Helical Scattering Component using ISRO’s EOS-04 Full Polarimetric SAR Data (💻online) 1: National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India; 2: Samskruti College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India |
| 3:50pm - 4:20pm |
Coffee Break Location: Upper Lobby |
| 4:20pm - 6:00pm |
PolSAR and PolInSAR Methods / Forest Applications Location: Red Hall Chair: Clément Albinet, European Space Agency / Agence Spatiale Européenne Chair: Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center, DLR e.V. Full-Polarimetric Calibration of Ground-Based Radar using Corner Reflectors Pusan National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) 4:40pm - 5:00pm Shedding New Light on the Lunar South Pole Through Quad-Polarimetric Chandrayaan-2 L-band Data 1: Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: University of Stirling; 3: Imperial College London 5:00pm - 5:20pm Multiscale Analysis of InSAR Phase Measurements for Forest Structure Characterization DLR, Germany 5:20pm - 5:40pm Exploiting Sentinel-1 Polarimetric Diversity for Near Real-Time Forest Loss Monitoring using a Bayesian Detector 1: CESBIO, Toulouse, France; 2: ISAE Supaero, Toulouse, France 5:40pm - 6:00pm Polarization Coherence Tomography for Reconstructing Forest 3D Reflectivity from Multi-Frequency SAR and Lidar Measurements 1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: University of Pisa, Department of Earth Science; 3: University of Pisa, Department of Information Engineering |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
Icebreaker Location: Lower Lobby |
| 9:00am - 10:40am |
Biomass Mission Status Location: Red Hall Chair: Thuy Le Toan, CESBIO-GlobEO Chair: Shaun Quegan, University of Sheffield Mission Overview European Space Agency-ESA, Netherlands, The 9:20am - 9:40am Mission Performance at the end of Commissioning phase ESA, Netherlands, The 9:40am - 10:00am Mission Planning, Orbit Performance and Potential Evolutions European Space Agency-ESA, Germany 10:00am - 10:20am Results from BIOMASS In-Orbit Commissioning analyses 1: aresys, Italy; 2: Politecnico di Milano, Italy 10:20am - 10:40am Evaluation of BIOMASS Radiometric Stability using Permanent Scatterers: first results from the commissioning phase 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Aresys S.r.l. |
| 10:40am - 11:10am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:10am - 12:50pm |
Biomass First Results I Location: Purple Hall Chair: Michael Fehringer, European Space Agency (ESA) Chair: Björn Rommen, European Space Agency-ESA Six+2 Months of BIOMASS in Orbit: Surprises and Challenges – A PolInSAR Perspective German Aerospace Center, DLR, Germany 11:30am - 11:50am Validating Global TEC Map by exploring BIOMASS polarimetric measurements German Aerospace Center, Germany 11:50am - 12:10pm On the role of ionospheric layering in BIOMASS interferometry: phenomenology and correction methods 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Aresys; 3: ESA ESRIN 12:10pm - 12:30pm Polarimetric and Interferometric Optimization of Ionospheric Calibration German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany 12:30pm - 12:50pm A critical gap filled in temporal decorrelation: P-band radar stability enables tomographic mapping of the Amazon 1: INRAE, France; 2: TomoSAR, France; 3: LIST, Luxembourg; 4: CESBIO-GlobEO |
| 12:50pm - 2:10pm |
Lunch Break |
| 2:10pm - 3:50pm |
Biomass First Results II Location: Purple Hall Chair: Marta Bottani, CESBIO Chair: Muriel Pinheiro, European Space Agency (ESA) Investigation of P-band interferometry using early BIOMASS data Gamma Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland 2:30pm - 2:50pm Polarimetric Effects in P-band Interferometric Phase Triplets 1: German Aerospace Center, DLR e.V., Germany; 2: ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2:50pm - 3:10pm Statistical Analysis of InSAR Closure Phases in Various Land Cover Conditions Using Sentinel-1 and Biomass Observations Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The 3:10pm - 3:30pm BIOMASS 3D Reflectivity Reconstructions for Forest Structure Mapping: Early Mission Results German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany 3:30pm - 3:50pm First Tomographic Results with BIOMASS 1: aresys, Italy; 2: Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| 3:50pm - 4:20pm |
Coffee Break |
| 4:20pm - 6:00pm |
📌Poster Session and Networking Aperitivo 🍷 Location: Lower Lobby Forest disturbance analysis of BIOMASS time-series in the Brazilian Amazon: comparison with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions 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 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 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 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 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 European Space Agency Evaluation of permanent scatterer interferometric phase based on atmospheric correction for ground-based radar 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 1: UFPA, Brazil; 2: Lebanese University, Lebanon; 3: CESBIO, France; 4: UFRA, Brazil An Extension Of The MF3C Decomposition For PolSAR Data 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 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 Dual-polarimetric scattering information for AGB modeling using NISAR Simulated data 1: Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India; 2: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India Algorithm Calibration Analysis of a Brazilian Amazon Forest Biomass Estimation Based on Satellite Data Extracted from Esa’s Biomass Project 1: Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal; 2: Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brasil; 3: 6bios Environmental Technologies Europe, Portugal; 4: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brasil; 5: Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal A unified deep learning Model for despeckling in multi-modal polarimetricSARdata 1: Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; 2: University of Twente, The Netherlands Physical scattering model-based forest height retrieval Using Lutan-1 L-Band Bistatic Single-Baseline Single-Polarization InSAR Data 1: National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, People's Republic of; 2: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, People's Republic of Multi-Stage Coherence-Polarization Fusion Modeling for Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent Estimation from Sentinel-1 Dual-Pol Data Indian Institute of Technology Bombay The prospect of synergistic above-ground biomass monitoring with BIOMASS, Sentinel-1, NISAR, and TanDEM-X SAR polarimetric and interferometric SAR data 1: Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands, The; 2: Forest Research Institute, Poland; 3: INIA-CIFOR, Spain; 4: MITECO, Spain; 5: European Space Agency, Italy Citizen Science Mobile App for Collecting Ground Data for the Cal/Val of the ESA Biomass Satellite The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria Forest height inversion using Hongtu-1 multi-static X-band SAR tomography Beihang University, China, People's Republic of Using Sentinel-1 Coherence Change as an Indicator of Forest Disturbances 1: Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; 2: TUD | Dresden University of Technology Towards a Foundation Model for Global Terrestrial 3D Above and Below Ground Carbon Stock Mapping (3D-ABC) 1: German Aerospace Centre, Microwaves and Radar Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 2: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany; 3: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany; 4: Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany; 5: Hemlholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; 6: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany The Role of Polarimetry in D-InSAR Retrievals of SWE on Glaciers 1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: ETH Zürich, Switzerland Simulating Sub-daily Backscatter to Advance the Development of a SAR Mission for Vegetation Water, Carbon and Health 1: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; 2: Ghent University, Belgium Quantifying Forest Diversity through Spectral Metrics from PRISMA and Structural Information from BIOMASS P-band SAR 1: Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Forest Management and Applied Geoinformatics, Brno, Czechia; 2: Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces, Salzburg, Austria Potential of P-band BIOMASS data to estimate subsurface soil moisture in a semi-arid region of the southern Mediterranean 1: CRSA, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco; 2: VPE, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden Polarimetric Differential Entropy Analysis for Mapping Ancient Riverbeds in the BirsafSaf Region (Egypt) Using Multi-Sensor SAR Data 1: Private; 2: SONDRA, France Novel insights of the water cycle and flood dynamics using BIOMASS Cal/Val data 1: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg; 2: INRAE; 3: Collecte Localisation Satellites MAPPING OF ACACIA XANTHOPHLOEA SPP USING SENTINEL 1 SINGLE LOOK COMPLEX AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES Technical University of Kenya, Kenya Long Term Temporal Stability of Forest Scatterers at P-band: An Assessment based on Air- and Space-borne Data Sets 1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: ETH Zurich Institute of Environmental Engineering, Switzerland; 3: Gabonese Agency for Space Studies and Observations (AGEOS) Integration of interferometric and polarimetric observables for permafrost characterization at P- and L-band 1: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway; 2: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; 3: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS Improving cotton yield and biomass prediction by assimilating SAR data into a modified crop growth model with simple calibration 1: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; 2: Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen, Netherlands Global Coverage of Sentinel-1 InSAR and Spaceborne LiDAR: A Pathway to Data-Driven Forest Height Modeling 1: University of Twente, Netherlands,; 2: University of Parthenope, Italy; 3: Aalto University, Finland; 4: University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland; 5: European Space Agency, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy Forest Vertical Profile Estimation Using SAR Tomography with L-band UAVSAR Datasets Imperial Collge London, United Kingdom Exploring Context Learning for SAR-Based Global Biomass Estimation: A Proof-of-Concept Using Sentinel-1 and ESA Biomass Mission Data CGI Italia, Frascati, Italy Estimation of AGB Density by Fusing PolInSAR, Sentinel-2, Dynamic World V1 and GEDI Data with Machine Learning in Pongara National Park, Gabon USTHB, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Algeria Developing a UAV-SAR Measurement Concept for Diurnal Vegetation Water Monitoring 1: TUD Dresden University of Technology, Professorship in Environmental Remote Sensing, Dresden, Germany; 2: Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; 3: TUD Dresden University of Technology, Chair of Forest Sites and Hydrology, Dresden, Germany Detection of burnt area using dual polarimetric SAR data: the case study of May 2022 Stromboli wildfire Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy Detecting Reflection Symmetry in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery 1: Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing, National University of Singapore, Singapore; 2: Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore Concealed Object Detection in Forested Areas Using PolTomoSAR with Various Baseline Configurations 1: ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France; 2: CESBIO, University of Toulouse, France Calibration and Validation of Aboveground Biomass Estimates from the ESA BIOMASS Mission Using Brazilian Atlantic Forest Plots University of São Paulo, Brazil BIOMASS height product validation using airborne laser scanning and field data over the Brazilian Amazon 1: National Institute for Space Research - INPE, São José dos Campos, SP 12227-010, Brazil; 2: European Space Agency - ESA, Frascati, RM 00044, Italy; 3: CTrees, Pasadena, CA 91105, USA; 4: Brazilian Forest Service - SFB, Brasília, DF 70818-900, Brazil; 5: University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK; 6: Technical University of Munich, Freising, 85354, Germany BIOMASS Cal/Val with forest inventory and UAV lidar data in the Peruvian rainforest 1: TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany; 2: Wilderness International Assessing the potential of the BIOMASS mission for the Arctic Methane and Permafrost Challenge (AMPAC) b.geos, Austria Assessing Permafrost Coastal Erosion and Retrogressive Thaw Slumps through X-Band Interferometry and Environmental Covariate Analysis 1: University of Munich (LMU); 2: German Aerospace Center (DLR); 3: ETH Zurich Analysis of L- and P-band InSAR Histograms for Mapping Forest Structure 1: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Analysis of Congo Basin rainforest regrowth trajectories by land use history 1: Ghent University; 2: Université catholique de Louvain Aboveground biomass global comparative analysis framework 1: GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany; 2: Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands A Novel Corner-Reflector Approach for Active Microwave Monitoring of Forest VOD 1: Dresden University of Technology (TUD); 2: Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU) A DEM-Constrained and Multi-Orbit Fusion Approach for Forest Height Retrieval in Mountainous Areas Using SAOCOM L-Band PolInSAR Data 1: Chinese Academy of Sciences Aerospace Information Research Institute; 2: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Resources and Environmental Science; 3: College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum (East China) A Comparison of P- and C-band SAR Sensitivity for Ecosystem Mapping in the Brazilian Amazon 1: Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces, Salzburg, Austria; 2: Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Forest Management and Applied Geoinformatics, Brno, Czechia Time-Series Analysis Of S-1 Coherence For Deforestation Mapping Across The Tropics Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, 453552, India Assimilation of Microwave Satellite-derived Vegetation Optical Depth within NUCAS For Improved Biomass Modelling 1: Nanjing University, China, People's Republic of; 2: University of Toronto Full and Hybrid polarimetric analysis on Lunar Surface using chandrayaan-2 DFSAR data Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India Geometry-driven extraction of forest vertical layers from single-polarized TomoSAR data 1: Department of Geoinformatics, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; 2: Antennas and Microwave Devices Laboratory, Ecole Militaire Polytechnique, Algiers, Algeria; 3: Department of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", Naples, Italy Using Dual-Polarimetric information for Forest Above-Ground Biomass Estimation from Simulated NISAR data Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Bharat (India) An Airborne P-band TomoSAR with GPU-Accelerated TDBP and Trajectory Error Correction: The Saihanba Forest Campaign, China 1: Wuhan University, Luoyu Road 129, Wuhan, 430079, China; 2: National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China |
| 8:00pm - 11:59pm |
Celebrating Biomass Non-hosted event at the Zorica Bar - venue website👉
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Biomass First Results III Location: Red Hall Chair: Clément Albinet, European Space Agency / Agence Spatiale Européenne Chair: Dinh Ho Tong Minh, INRAE FIRST ASSESSMENT OF BIOMASS INTERFEROMETRIC PERFORMANCE AND FOREST HEIGHT RETRIEVAL DLR e.V., Oberpfaffenhofen 9:20am - 9:40am First Demonstration of Forest Structure Monitoring with Early P-Band BIOMASS Pol-InSAR Data German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany 9:40am - 10:00am First results from the ESA BIOMASS L1B IOC data in Brazilian Forests GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany 10:00am - 10:20am Assessment of early BIOMASS data in the context of global biomass estimation Gamma Remote Sensing, Switzerland 10:20am - 10:40am Ground notched SAR tomography: principles and first application to BIOMASS data 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 |
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Biomass First Results IV Location: Red Hall Chair: Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center, DLR e.V. Chair: Klaus Scipal, European Space Agency Early assessment of BIOMASS P-band observables for above-ground biomass density mapping over the Amazon 1: Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands, The; 2: Aresys Srl, Italy; 3: European Space Agency, Italy 11:30am - 11:50am Biomass Product Status at the start of Operations European Space Agency (ESA), Italy 11:50am - 12:10pm Overview of the BIOMASS Level 3 product processor 1: ISAE-SUPAERO & CESBIO, France; 2: ESA ESRIN, Italy; 3: ARESYS, Italy; 4: RHEA, Italy; 5: Private; 6: ESA ESTEC, The Netherlands 12:10pm - 12:30pm ESA MAAP, Biomass MAAP and BioPAL European Space Agency / Agence Spatiale Européenne, Italy 12:30pm - 12:50pm The Biomass Product Algorithm Laboratory (PAL): A Collaborative and Experimental Environment for Algorithm Development, Processing and Data Analytics within the ESA MAAP Framework 1: CGI Italia, Frascati, Italy; 2: European Space Agency (ESA), ESRIN, Frascati, Italy; 3: Serco Italia, Rome, Italy |
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Lunch Break |
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Land Applications I Location: Red Hall Chair: Felix Isundwa, University of Stirling Chair: Krištof Oštir, University of Ljubljana Exploiting X-Band PolInSAR for High-Resolution Agricultural Monitoring: Sub-surface Humidity and Sowing / Ridge Signatures 1: DTIS, Onera, Université Paris Saclay, France; 2: ESRIN, European Space Agency, Italy; 3: DEMR, Onera, Université Paris Saclay, France 2:30pm - 2:50pm Estimating Soil Moisture Anomalies via Temporal-SKP Decomposition Politecnico di Milano, Italy 2:50pm - 3:10pm Scattering Physics and Deep Learning: an Explainable Physics–Informed AI Framework for Soil Moisture Retrieval 1: Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy; 2: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; 3: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy 3:10pm - 3:30pm Limits of Soil Moisture Retrieval at L-Band over Bare and Vegetated Fields using Airborne Polarimetric D-InSAR 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 3:30pm - 3:50pm AgriROSE-L 2025 Case Study: Soil Moisture Estimation from L-Band PolSAR Time Series 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 |
Biomass Campaigns Location: Purple Hall Chair: Nuno Carvalhais, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Chair: Ludovic Villard, CESBIO / CNRS 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 Jet propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States of America 2:30pm - 2:50pm Next TropiSAR-2 airborne campaign in support to BIOMASS Cal/Val ONERA, France 2:50pm - 3:10pm GEO-TREES: high-accuracy ground data for satellite-derived biomass mapping 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 3:10pm - 3:30pm Aboveground Biomass Reference Estimates Through Terrestrial Laser Scanning 1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geoscience, Germany; 3: Tampere University, Finland; 4: University College London, UK 3:30pm - 3:50pm 3D Virtual Forest Replicas from Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Microwave Interaction Modelling 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 |
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Coffee Break Location: Upper Lobby |
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Land Applications II Location: Red Hall Chair: Elise Colin, ONERA Chair: Alberto Alonso-Gonzalez, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Using a ground Synthetic Aperture Radar to simulate multi-frequency quad-pol backscatter from a flood environment 1: University of Stirling, United Kingdom; 2: The Open University, United Kingdom; 3: Durham University, United Kingdom; 4: Scottish Environment Protection Agency, United Kingdom 4:40pm - 5:00pm Proposing a new POLSAR optimisation for monitoring of Wetland Flood dynamics using Sentinel-1 SLC images. A case of Rupununi in Guyana. 1: University of Stirling, United Kingdom; 2: The Open University, United Kingdom; 3: Durham University, United Kingdom; 4: Scottish Environment Protection Agency, United Kingdom 5:00pm - 5:20pm Using quad-pol multi-frequency ground SAR data to assess water table depth changes in a controlled peatland bog 1: University of Stirling, United Kingdom; 2: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom 5:20pm - 5:40pm Soybean Phenology Monitoring Using Dual-Pol H-Alpha Decomposition 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 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 |
Biomass and Ecosystem Modelling Location: Purple Hall Chair: Jerome Chave, Cnrs Chair: Roman Guliaev, DLR e.V. Temporal Variability of P-band Backscatter over Tropical Rainforests : Insights of the TropiScat-2 experiment for Biomass Cal-Val activities 1: CESBIO / CNRS, France; 2: CESBIO / CNES, France; 3: CESBIO / INSAE, France; 4: CESBIO / Globeo, France; 5: EcoFoG / INRAE, France; 6: SILVA / INRAE, France 4:40pm - 5:00pm Assessing the impact of canopy structure on modelled P-band radar backscatter for ESA BIOMASS calibration and validation 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 5:00pm - 5:20pm Long-term impacts of forest degradation on biomass: Insights from P-band SAR 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 5:20pm - 5:40pm Large scale vegetation-atmosphere dynamics and interactions 1: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany; 2: College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 5:40pm - 6:00pm Constraining Turnover Processes in Terrestrial Biosphere Model by Using L-/P-band Backscatter Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany |
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Ljubljana Old Town Walking Tour Location: City of LJUBLJANA |
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PolInSAR Campaigns Location: Red Hall Chair: Jean-Francois Nouvel, ONERA Chair: Marc Simard, Jet propulsion Laboratory AGRIROSE-L AIRBORNE SAR EXPERIMENT FOR LAND COVER, VEGETATION PARAMETERS AND SOIL MOISTURE 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 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 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 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 - 11:10am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:10am - 12:50pm |
Geology Applications Location: Red Hall Chair: Marco Lavalle, NASA JPL Chair: Ake Rosenqvist, solo Earth Observation (soloEO) Processing Strategies for BIOMASS Digital Terrain Model Retrieval 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 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 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 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 Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute, Poland |
| 12:50pm - 2:10pm |
Lunch Break |
| 2:10pm - 3:50pm |
Cryosphere Applications I Location: Red Hall Chair: Francesco Banda, aresys Chair: Georg Fischer, German Aerospace Center (DLR) BIOMASS ice flow mapping Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 2:30pm - 2:50pm Polarimetric analysis of ESA’s BIOMASS mission over Antarctica 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 Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 3:10pm - 3:30pm Antarctic BIOMASS Tomography: Preliminary Results 1: aresys, Italy; 2: DTU, Denmark; 3: Politecnico di Milano, Italy 3:30pm - 3:50pm Investigating lake ice structure with polarimetric SAR tomography 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 - 4:20pm |
Coffee Break |
| 4:20pm - 6:00pm |
Cryosphere Applications II / Ocean Applications Location: Red Hall Chair: Jorgen Dall, Technical University of Denmark Chair: Armando Marino, The University of Stirling Iceberg Detection using an iDPolRAD-SAR Deep Learning Pipeline. 1: Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Stirling, United Kingdom 4:40pm - 5:00pm Iceberg Thickness from BIOMASS Polarimetry 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 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 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 Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The |
| 7:30pm - 10:00pm |
🍽️Hosted Dinner Location: Grand Hotel Union
Conference Dinner |
| 9:00am - 10:40am |
TomoSAR Methods Location: Red Hall Chair: Matteo Pardini, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Chair: Stefano Tebaldini, Politecnico di Milano Single baseline Tomography with the PolInSAR two layer model 1: Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain; 2: Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Spain 9:20am - 9:40am Layered Investigation of Wind-induced Forest Scattering Decorrelation for Tandem Satellites Tomo-SAR University of Pisa, Dept. Information Eng., Italy 9:40am - 10:00am Model-free and High-Resolution 3D Imaging of Forests Using Moment-based SAR Tomography 1: ISAE Supaero, University of Toulouse, France; 2: CESBIO, University of Toulouse, France 10:00am - 10:20am Forest Structure Characterization Using Multi-Baseline SAR Tomography 1: Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India; 2: Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun 10:20am - 10:40am TomoSAR over forest: a deep learning perspective German Aerospace Center, Germany |
| 10:40am - 11:10am |
Coffee break Location: Upper Lobby |
| 11:10am - 12:50pm |
Recommendation & Summary Location: Red Hall |
| 12:50pm - 2:10pm |
Final remarks and end of workshop Location: Red Hall |
