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 12 November 2018 (08:30) to Thursday 15 November 2018 (18:00)

Monday 12 November 2018

08:30 Tutorial I
Tutorial I
08:30 - 10:30

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

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

12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Tutorial III
Tutorial III
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Tutorial: Assimilation of SAR data for land applications - Susan Steele-Dunne (TU Delft)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00

16:00 Tutorial IV
Tutorial IV
16:00 - 17:30
Tuesday 13 November 2018

08:30 Opening Session
Opening Session
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Ice & Snow I
Ice & Snow I
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions

09:00 TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X for the mass balance of the Patagonian calving glaciers - Dana Floricioiu (DLR-IMF)

09:20 Surface elevation change of outlet glaciers in NE Greenland from TanDEM-X and Cryosat-2 - Lukas Krieger (DLR-IMF)

09:40 X-Band SAR Signal Penetration and Interferometric Bias in Antarctic Snow - Dana Floricioiu (DLR-IMF)

10:00 Wet snow depth from TanDEM-X single pass InSAR DEM Differencing - Silvan Leinss (ETH Zürich)
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
10:50 Ice & Snow II
Ice & Snow II
10:50 - 13:00
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 Round Table Discussion Ice & Snow
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Soil & Hydrology I
Soil & Hydrology I
14:00 - 15:20
Contributions

14:00 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

14:20 Hyper-temporal Water Body Dynamics Mapping using Sentinel-1 Time Series Clustering - Mikhail Urbazaev (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)

14:40 Validation activity of a Sentinel-1 Soil Moisture product - Francesco Mattia (CNR-IREA)

15:00 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)
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
15:50 Soil & Hydrology II
Soil & Hydrology II
15:50 - 17:40
Contributions

15:50 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)

16:10 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)

16:30 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)

16:50 Water status inversion from SAR closure phases - Francesco De Zan (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) Giorgio Gomba (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

17:10 Round Table Discussion Soil & Hydrology
17:40 Appetizer Break
Appetizer Break
17:40 - 18:10

18:10 Tutorial V
Tutorial V
18:10 - 19:30
Wednesday 14 November 2018
08:30 Forestry I
Forestry I
08:30 - 10:10
Contributions

08:30 Experiences on biomass retrieval with spaceborne SAR backscatter at C- and L-band in Swedish forest - Maurizio Santoro (GAMMA Remote Sensing)

08:50 Exploiting multi-temporal and multi-frequency radar backscatter for above-ground biomass estimation in boreal and tropical forest - Oliver Cartus (GAMMA Remote Sensing)

09:10 Forest Mapping exploiting Sentinel-1 interferometric time-series - Francescopaolo Sica (DLR)

09:30 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)

09:50 Biomass with InSAR - Svein Solberg (Senior scientist)
10:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 Forestry II
Forestry II
10:40 - 13:00
Contributions

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

11:00 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 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 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 Insights on temporal decorrelation from the AfriScat campaign: implications for the BIOMASS mission and beyond - Ludovic Villard (CESBIO)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Forestry III
Forestry III
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Forest remote sensing in Sweden - Henrik Persson (SLU)

14:20 Retrieval of terrain topography in tropical forest by P-Band SAR Tomography - Stefano Tebaldini (Politecnico di Milano)

14:40 TomoSAR Focusing Through Statistical Regularization: A Way to Ease the Characterization of the Forest Structure - Gustavo Martín del Campo Becerra

15:00 P-Band Interferometry and Tomography for tropical forest parameters retrieval: lessons learned from BIOMASS preparatory studies - Stefano Tebaldini (Politecnico di Milano)

15:20 Towards a Physical Interpretation of SAR Tomography for Forest Structure Estimation - Victor Cazcarra-Bes (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10 Forestry IV
Forestry IV
16:10 - 18:00
Contributions

16:10 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))

16:50 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))

17:10 Round Table Discussion Forestry
Thursday 15 November 2018
08:30 Agriculture I
Agriculture I
08:30 - 09:50
Contributions

08:30 Identification of Soil Tillage Change by Temporal Series of SENTINEL-1 & SENTINEL-2 - Giuseppe Satalino (CNR-IREA)

08:50 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)

09:10 Using Sentinel-1 in Agricultural Applications - A case study in the Netherlands - Susan Steele-Dunne (TU Delft)

09:30 Potential of Sentinel-1 time-series for crop monitoring and disturbance mapping in Thuringia - Linara Arslanova
09:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:50 - 10:20
10:20 Agriculture II
Agriculture II
10:20 - 11:50
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:10 Demonstrations of Wide-area Radar Backscatter Time Series Applications - David Small (University of Zurich)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 General Land-Use & Classification II
General Land-Use & Classification II
13:30 - 15:40
Contributions

13:30 Use of L-band polarimetric data to classify flooded areas beneath vegetation - Nazzareno Pierdicca (Sapienza University of ROme)

13:50 SInCohMap: Land Cover Classification and Vegetation Mapping based on Sentinel-1 Multi-Temporal Interferometric Coherence - C. Lopez-Martinez (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)

14:10 Land observations with L-band bistatic systems - Leila Guerriero (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

14:30 Improved multi satellite retrieval by combining SAR with Optical observations - The MULTIPLY framework - Joris Timmermans (Leiden University)

14:50 Multi-temporal approach for the detection of temporary flooded vegetation based on Sentinel-1 data - Viktoriya Tsyganskaya (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

15:10 Round Table Discussion General Land-Use & Classification
15:40 Closure
Closure
15:40 - 16:00

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