Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
| Location: Purple Hall |
| Date: Tuesday, 27/Jan/2026 | |
| 9:00am - 10:40am |
Biomass Mission Status Location: Purple Hall 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. |
| 11:10am - 12:50pm |
Biomass First Results I Location: Purple Hall 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 |
| 2:10pm - 3:50pm |
Biomass First Results II Location: Purple Hall 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 |
| Date: Wednesday, 28/Jan/2026 | |
| 9:00am - 10:40am |
Biomass First Results III Location: Purple Hall 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 9:20am - 9:40am FIRST ASSESSMENT OF BIOMASS INTERFEROMETRIC PERFORMANCE AND FOREST HEIGHT RETRIEVAL DLR e.V., Oberpfaffenhofen 9:40am - 10:00am First Demonstration of Forest Structure Monitoring with Early P-Band BIOMASS Pol-InSAR Data German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany 10:00am - 10:20am First results from the ESA BIOMASS L1B IOC data in Brazilian Forests GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany 10:20am - 10:40am Assessment of early BIOMASS data in the context of global biomass estimation Gamma Remote Sensing, Switzerland |
| 11:10am - 12:50pm |
Biomass First Results IV Location: Purple Hall 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 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 11:50am - 12:10pm Biomass Product Status at the start of Operations European Space Agency (ESA), Italy 12:10pm - 12:30pm Biomass Opportunities and Challenges 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 |
| 2:10pm - 3:50pm |
Biomass Campaigns Location: Purple Hall 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 Quantifying propagation of uncertainty in biomass estimation across GEO-TREES sites 1: University of Ghent, Belgium; 2: University of Maryland, USA; 3: Dept. of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; and NERC National Centre for Earth Observation, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.; 4: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, USA 3:30pm - 3:50pm 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 |
| 4:20pm - 6:00pm |
Biomass and Ecosystem Modelling Location: Purple Hall 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 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 |