8th International Workshop on Retrieval of Bio- & Geo-physical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications

Session

INTERACTIVE SESSION

15 Nov 2023, 14:40

Rome, Italy

108. BIOMASS Forest Products: Evolutions and Perspectives

Francesco Banda (aresys)

15/11/2023, 14:40

Forestry

The next ESA's Earth Explorer will be BIOMASS, its launch is estimated in 2025 and its primary aim is to collect Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) acquisitions to improve the understanding of global forest status and temporal evolution [1]. BIOMASS is also the first P-band spaceborne SAR, with operational repeat-pass polarimetric-interferometric capabilities. This gives sensitivity to the full...

65. Forest Vertical Structure Characterization Using SAR Tomography and Deep Learning

Hossein Aghababaei (ITC, university of Twente.)

15/11/2023, 14:40

Forestry

Wenyu Yang [1] , H. Aghababaei [2], Giampaolo Ferraioli [1]
[1] Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope,” 80143, Naples, Italy
[2] University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Enschede, The Netherlands

Characterizing and monitoring forests are essential for tracking climate change and quantifying the global carbon...

114. Machine learning and Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 multi-temporal Analysis-Ready-Data (ARD) for estimating mixed pixel woody and herbaceous vegetation in South African protected savannas: Benfontein Nature Reserve

Ms Hilma Nghiyalwa (Friedrich Schiller University Jena & University of Namibia)

15/11/2023, 14:40

General Land Applications

Approximately more than 50% of Africa’s land surface is covered by the savanna biome. Estimation of savanna vegetation are essential to provide detailed land cover information. Prediction of savanna vegetation at pixel level is important for conservation purposes, understanding bush encroachment, herbivory and fire dynamics in savannas. However, estimating vegetation cover in the savannas can...

103. Project Office BIOMASS – Build a user community for ESA BIOMASS Mission

Hui Yang

15/11/2023, 14:40

Forestry

The European Space Agency (ESA) BIOMASS mission will be the first operational development of a fully polarimetric P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in space. Compared to all previous SAR mission, BIOMASS mission offers major advances by incorporating three distinct techniques, i.e., SAR Polarimetry (PolSAR), Polarimetric SAR Interferometry (Pol-InSAR), and SAR Tomography (TomoSAR) to...

116. Supporting Open Science with the BIOMASS Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP)

Clément Albinet (ESA), Tamara Queune (ESA)

15/11/2023, 14:40

Forestry

BIOMASS is ESA's 7th Explorer Mission. It features for the first time ever a spaceborne quad polarimetric SAR at P-band. BIOMASS is a polar orbiting satellite aiming primarily at deriving forest biophysical variables essential to the understanding of the carbon cycle.

In order to further support the science behind the upcoming BIOMASS satellite mission, ESA will set up a cloud-computing...

115. WIMEX (Wave Interaction Models EXploitation)

Mr Giancarlo Rivolta (Progressive Systems)

15/11/2023, 14:40

General Land Applications

G. Rivolta, C. Orrù, M. Iesué, C. Camporeale, A. Mujeeb, M. Zribi, E. Ayari, N. Baghdadi,N. Sami, J. Cohen, J. Jorge Ruiz, J. Lemmetyinen, A. Fiengo, F. Ticconi, and D. Comite

Forward and inverse models developed by the Earth Observation (EO) scientific community describe, respectively, the relation between electromagnetic waves interacting with natural surfaces and the methodologies for...