Name: 7th International Workshop on Retrieval of Bio- & Geo-physical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications
Start: 2018-11-12T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2018-11-15T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

7th International Workshop on Retrieval of Bio- & Geo-physical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications

from Monday, November 12, 2018 (8:30 AM) to Thursday, November 15, 2018 (6:00 PM)

Monday, November 12, 2018

8:30 AM Tutorial I
Tutorial I
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM Tutorial II
Tutorial II
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Tutorial III
Tutorial III
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Tutorial: Assimilation of SAR data for land applications - Susan Steele-Dunne (TU Delft)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Tutorial IV
Tutorial IV
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

8:30 AM Opening Session
Opening Session
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Ice & Snow I
Ice & Snow I
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X for the mass balance of the Patagonian calving glaciers - Dana Floricioiu (DLR-IMF)

9:20 AM Surface elevation change of outlet glaciers in NE Greenland from TanDEM-X and Cryosat-2 - Lukas Krieger (DLR-IMF)

9:40 AM X-Band SAR Signal Penetration and Interferometric Bias in Antarctic Snow - Dana Floricioiu (DLR-IMF)

10:00 AM Wet snow depth from TanDEM-X single pass InSAR DEM Differencing - Silvan Leinss (ETH Zürich)
10:20 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Ice & Snow II
Ice & Snow II
10:50 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

10:50 AM Advancements in Snow Cover Monitoring Based on Synergy of Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-3 SLSTR Data - Thomas Nagler (ENVEO IT GmbH)

11:10 AM Snow: Modeling vs. Field Measurements: Chances and Challenge - Silvan Leinss (ETH Zürich)

11:30 AM Analysis of Multi-Frequency Polarimetric SAR Data Across Different Ice Zones of Greenland - Giuseppe Parrella (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

11:50 AM Time series of high-res vertical snow profiles obtained from tomographic profiling using SnowScat - Othmar Frey (Gamma Remote Sensing / ETH Zurich)

12:10 PM Recent Advances Towards Glacier Subsurface Information Retrieval by Means of Tomographic SAR Techniques - Georg Fischer (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

12:30 PM Round Table Discussion Ice & Snow
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Soil & Hydrology I
Soil & Hydrology I
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Surface Moisture and Vegetation Cover Analysis for Drought Monitoring in the southern Kruger National Park using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 - Marcel Urban

2:20 PM Hyper-temporal Water Body Dynamics Mapping using Sentinel-1 Time Series Clustering - Mikhail Urbazaev (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)

2:40 PM Validation activity of a Sentinel-1 Soil Moisture product - Francesco Mattia (CNR-IREA)

3:00 PM SenThIS – A project for generating information from Copernicus Sentinel satellite data for the administration of the Free State of Thuringia: The application case soil moisture. - Carsten Pathe (Earth Observation Services GmbH)
3:20 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM Soil & Hydrology II
Soil & Hydrology II
3:50 PM - 5:40 PM
Contributions

3:50 PM Soil moisture retrieval over Europe based on a fusion of Sentinel-1 and SMAP data implemented in the Google Earth Engine platform - Jan Musial (Institute of Geodesy and Cartography)

4:10 PM Performance analysis of different SAR radiative transfer models for soil moisture estimation over the a test site in south Germany - Thomas Weiß (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

4:30 PM Use of SAR-derived surface soil moisture to initialize the WRF model: effect on the forecast of two extreme weather events occurred in the Mediterranean region - Luca Pulvirenti (CIMA Research Foundation)

4:50 PM Water status inversion from SAR closure phases - Francesco De Zan (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) Giorgio Gomba (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

5:10 PM Round Table Discussion Soil & Hydrology
5:40 PM Appetizer Break
Appetizer Break
5:40 PM - 6:10 PM

6:10 PM Tutorial V
Tutorial V
6:10 PM - 7:30 PM
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
8:30 AM Forestry I
Forestry I
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Experiences on biomass retrieval with spaceborne SAR backscatter at C- and L-band in Swedish forest - Maurizio Santoro (GAMMA Remote Sensing)

8:50 AM Exploiting multi-temporal and multi-frequency radar backscatter for above-ground biomass estimation in boreal and tropical forest - Oliver Cartus (GAMMA Remote Sensing)

9:10 AM Forest Mapping exploiting Sentinel-1 interferometric time-series - Francescopaolo Sica (DLR)

9:30 AM Potential of Sentinel-1 time series for deforestation and forest degradation mapping in temperate and tropical forests - Mikhail Urbazaev (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Institute of Geography, Department for Earth Observation)

9:50 AM Biomass with InSAR - Svein Solberg (Senior scientist)
10:10 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM Forestry II
Forestry II
10:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

10:40 AM A Case for Polarimetric Phase: Dielectric Constant in Volume Scattering - Shane Cloude (AELc)

11:00 AM A Machine Learning Approach to PolInSAR and LiDAR Data Fusion for Improved Tropical Forest Canopy Height Estimation Using NASA AfriSAR Campaign Data - Maryam Pourshamsi (University of Leicester)

11:20 AM Retrieval of Forest biophysical parameters using L-band airborne multi-baseline UAVSAR datasets - Shubham Awasthi (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India) Kamal Jain (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India)

11:40 AM TropiScat-2: A multifrequency tower-based scatterometer experiment at P,L,C bands for a better characterization of temporal effects impacting tropical forests backscatter - Salma EL IDRISSI ESSEBTEY (ONERA-CESBIO)

12:00 PM Insights on temporal decorrelation from the AfriScat campaign: implications for the BIOMASS mission and beyond - Ludovic Villard (CESBIO)
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Forestry III
Forestry III
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Forest remote sensing in Sweden - Henrik Persson (SLU)

2:20 PM Retrieval of terrain topography in tropical forest by P-Band SAR Tomography - Stefano Tebaldini (Politecnico di Milano)

2:40 PM TomoSAR Focusing Through Statistical Regularization: A Way to Ease the Characterization of the Forest Structure - Gustavo Martín del Campo Becerra

3:00 PM P-Band Interferometry and Tomography for tropical forest parameters retrieval: lessons learned from BIOMASS preparatory studies - Stefano Tebaldini (Politecnico di Milano)

3:20 PM Towards a Physical Interpretation of SAR Tomography for Forest Structure Estimation - Victor Cazcarra-Bes (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Forestry IV
Forestry IV
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM An assessment of the contribution of multiple frequencies to the observation of 3-D forest structure by means of multi-baseline SAR data - Matteo Pardini (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

4:50 PM Understanding the link between Lidar and SAR measurements towards enhanced forest structure products: The model-based and the structure-based frameworks - Matteo Pardini (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

5:10 PM Round Table Discussion Forestry
Thursday, November 15, 2018
8:30 AM Agriculture I
Agriculture I
8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Identification of Soil Tillage Change by Temporal Series of SENTINEL-1 & SENTINEL-2 - Giuseppe Satalino (CNR-IREA)

8:50 AM Synergistic use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data for the retrieval of bio- and geophysical parameters using a data assimilation approach - Philip Marzahn (Department of Geography, University of Munich)

9:10 AM Using Sentinel-1 in Agricultural Applications - A case study in the Netherlands - Susan Steele-Dunne (TU Delft)

9:30 AM Potential of Sentinel-1 time-series for crop monitoring and disturbance mapping in Thuringia - Linara Arslanova
9:50 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM
10:20 AM Agriculture II
Agriculture II
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

10:20 AM Separating Ground and Volume Scattering in Agricultural Crops using MB Polarimetric Interferometric SAR Data - Hannah Joerg (German Aerospace Center)

10:40 AM Automated time-series analysis integrating optical and SAR based biophysical indices for agricultural applications - Jana Slacikova (GISAT s.r.o.)

11:20 AM Round Table Discussion Agriculture
11:50 AM General Land-Use & Classification I
General Land-Use & Classification I
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:50 AM Advanced Sentinel-1 Analysis Ready Data for the Ghana Open Data Cube and Environmental Monitoring - Jörg Haarpaintner (Norut - Northern Research Institute)

12:10 PM Demonstrations of Wide-area Radar Backscatter Time Series Applications - David Small (University of Zurich)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM General Land-Use & Classification II
General Land-Use & Classification II
1:30 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Use of L-band polarimetric data to classify flooded areas beneath vegetation - Nazzareno Pierdicca (Sapienza University of ROme)

1:50 PM SInCohMap: Land Cover Classification and Vegetation Mapping based on Sentinel-1 Multi-Temporal Interferometric Coherence - C. Lopez-Martinez (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)

2:10 PM Land observations with L-band bistatic systems - Leila Guerriero (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

2:30 PM Improved multi satellite retrieval by combining SAR with Optical observations - The MULTIPLY framework - Joris Timmermans (Leiden University)

2:50 PM Multi-temporal approach for the detection of temporary flooded vegetation based on Sentinel-1 data - Viktoriya Tsyganskaya (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

3:10 PM Round Table Discussion General Land-Use & Classification
3:40 PM Closure
Closure
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM

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