Name: 8th International Workshop on Retrieval of Bio- & Geo-physical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications
Start: 2023-11-15T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-11-17T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Rome, Italy

Monday 13 November 2023
Tuesday 14 November 2023
Wednesday 15 November 2023

09:00

09:00 - 09:20
09:20
09:20 - 10:40
Contributions

09:20 Quantifying forest aboveground biomass globally with spaceborne SAR datasets: the CCI Biomass CORE algorithm - Maurizio Santoro (GAMMA Remote Sensing)

09:40 Combining Multi-Mission Datasets and Structure Measurements to Estimate Tropical Forest Biomass in the Scope of the ESA BIOMASS Mission - Benedikt Hartweg (German Aerospace Center (DLR) & University of Munich (LMU))

10:00 Estimating the properties of tropical dryland forests with ALOS L-band polarimetric data - Shaun Quegan (University of Sheffield)

10:20 Insights of MIPERS-4D simulations for the retrieval of forest height and biomass: study cases related to the BIOMASS mission - Ludovic Villard (CESBIO)
10:40 Comfort break
Comfort break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 Boreal Forest Characterization with Sentinel-1 Coherence - Marc Herrera-Giménez (IEEC UPC)

11:20 POLARIMETRIC-INTERFEROMETRIC TEMPORAL SAR COHERENCE: PHYSICAL MODELS AND RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS FOR FOREST PARAMETER ESTIMATION - Marco Lavalle (NASA JPL)

11:40 Analysis of the SAOCOM L-Band System Capabilities for Forest Height Estimation - Carlos López-Martínez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:40
13:40
13:40 - 14:40
Contributions

13:40 Combining AI Techniques with Physical Models: Forest Height Inversion from TanDEM-X InSAR Data Using a Hybrid Modeling Approach - Islam Mansour (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

14:00 TanDEM-X and Sentinel-1 InSAR Coherence for Mapping Forests using Deep Learning - Paola Rizzoli (DLR)

14:20 Applications and challenges of deep learning approaches for forest height estimation from InSAR products - Daniel Carcereri (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
14:40
14:40 - 15:40
Contributions

14:40 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 - Hilma Nghiyalwa (Friedrich Schiller University Jena & University of Namibia)

15:00 BIOMASS Forest Products: Evolutions and Perspectives - Francesco Banda (aresys)

15:00 Forest Vertical Structure Characterization Using SAR Tomography and Deep Learning - Hossein Aghababaei (ITC, university of Twente.)

15:00 WIMEX (Wave Interaction Models EXploitation) - Giancarlo Rivolta (Progressive Systems)

15:00 Project Office BIOMASS – Build a user community for ESA BIOMASS Mission - Hui Yang

15:20 Supporting Open Science with the BIOMASS Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP) - Clément Albinet (ESA) Tamara Queune (ESA)
15:40
15:40 - 17:20
Contributions

15:40 Sensitivity of SAR Tomographic Reconstructions to Forest Structure Changes - Matteo Pardini (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

16:00 Understanding Forest Change from P-band Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Data - Noelia Romero-Puig

16:20 New Near Real-Time Deforestation Monitoring Technique Based on Bayesian Inference - Marta Bottani (ISAE Supaero, TéSA, CNES)

16:40 Retrieve of disturbance regime from high-resolution biomass observations - Siyuan Wang (Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany)

17:00 Estimate phenological metrics and identify forest disturbance from Sentinel-1 C-SAR time series - Federico Filipponi (ISPRA)
17:20

17:20 - 18:00

18:00 Ice breaker
Ice breaker
18:00 - 19:00
Thursday 16 November 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Studying the effects of forest water dynamics using the BorealScat-2 tower-based multi-frequency and tomographic radar - Lars Ulander (Chalmers University of Technology)

09:20 Analysing the sensitivity of Sentinel-1 SAR to water dynamics in vegetation in a combined model approach - Johanna Kranz

09:40 Sub-daily Land Atmosphere INTEractions (SLAINTE) from sub-daily SAR - Susan Steele-Dunne (TU Delft)

10:00 HIGH RESOLUTION MAPPING OF SOIL MOISTURE AND VEGETATION BIOMASS USING X- AND C- BAND SAR AND MACHINE LEARNING - Emanuele Santi (CNR - IFAC)

10:20 High spatio-temporal soil moisture retrieval over agricultural fields using a microwave radiative transfer model framework - Thomas Weiß (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD))
10:40 Comfort break
Comfort break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 Soil texture prediction using optical and radar remote sensing data in a random forest approach - Swen Meyer (University of Rostock, Geodesy and Geoinformatics)

11:20 Sentinel-1 time-series to detect alluvial small-scale gold mining in the Dem. Rep. Congo - Jörg Haarpaintner (NORCE Climate & Environment)

11:40 Monitoring Soil Dynamics in the Netherlands Using Sentinel-1 Distributed Scatterer InSAR - Philip Conroy (TU Delft)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:40
13:40
13:40 - 15:00
Contributions

13:40 Model-based Tensor Decompositions for Bio- and Geophysical Parameter Retrieval - Nikita Basargin (DLR & TUM)

14:00 Extraction of different scattering mechanisms for soil moisture retrieval over agricultural fields - Lorenzo Giuliano Papale (Tor Vergata University of Rome)

14:20 A comprehensive approach for Enhancing Sub-Surface Soil Moisture Assessment from SAR Quad-Pol Datasets in the San Francisco Area, California. - Divyeshkumar Rana (Sapienza University of Rome)

14:40 Daily Monitoring of the May 2023 Emilia-Romagna Flood Using COSMO-SkyMed data - Luca Pulvirenti (CIMA Research Foundation)
15:00 Comfort break
Comfort break
15:00 - 15:20
15:20
15:20 - 17:20
Contributions

15:20 InSAR Closure Phases over South Spain Agricultural Areas: Observations and Modelling - Yan Yuan

15:40 UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF PLANT ROW ORIENTATION ON SENTINEL-1 BACKSCATTER TIME-SERIES OF AGRICULTURAL FIELDS - Linara Arslanova (Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena)

16:00 Polarimetric Decomposition Using A Physics-Based ML Approach: A Sensitivity Analysis For Soil Moisture Retrieval - Lorenzo Giuliano Papale (Tor Vergata University of Rome)

16:20 Modelling Biophysical Parameters of Alpine Grassland from Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 Data using Spatial Gap-filling - Caroline Göhner (Eurac Research, Institute for Earth Observation, 39100 Bolzano, Italy)

16:40 Case studies on the retrieval and classification of agricultural parameters - Francesco Mattia (CNR-IREA)

17:00 TanDEM-X for Tree Height Mapping in the Parklands of Burkina Faso - Maciej Soja (Wageningen Environmental Research)
17:20

17:20 - 18:00
Friday 17 November 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 SNOW PARAMETER RETRIEVAL BY SPACEBORNE MIMO FDM SAR TOMOGRAPHY - Stefano Tebaldini (Politecnico di Milano)

09:20 Snow Parameter Estimation by Simultaneous Multiple Squint Differential InSAR: A Study for the Harmony Mission - Andreas Benedikter (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

09:40 On the Potential of Bistatic SAR Features for Monitoring Snow Facies over Ice Sheets and Radar Penetration Estimation - Alexandre Becker Campos (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg/DLR)

10:00 Monitoring Cryosphere Sub-Surfaces with BIOMASS mission - Thibault Taillade (ESRIN)

10:20 Pol-InSAR and TomoSAR for Subsurface Ice Sheet Information Retrieval with a Perspective on BIOMASS - Georg Fischer (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
10:40 Comfort break
Comfort break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 Characterization of tropical forests using parametric SAR tomography: preparation of the upcoming ESA BIOMASS mission - Pierre-Antoine Bou

11:20 Multi-Wavelength Mono- And Bi-Static Phenomenological Analysis of the Kermeter Temperate forest: Results From The Tomosense Campaign - Stefano Tebaldini (Politecnico di Milano)

11:40 Performance of PolTomoSAR imaging for tropical forest characterization in the BIOMASS configuration - Laurent Ferro-Famil (ISAE-SUAPERO & CESBIO, University of Toulouse, France)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:40
13:40
13:40 - 15:00
Contributions

13:40 Airborne experiment on SAR based observation of snow mass in Alpine terrain - Helmut Rott (ENVEO IT)

14:00 RETRIEVAL OF SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT AND LIQUID WATER CONTENT WITH MACHINE LEARNING METHODS EXPLOITING X- AND C-BAND SAR DATA AND MODEL SIMULATIONS - Simone Pettinato (CNR-IFAC)

14:20 Monitoring ice sheet melt and refreeze using active microwave measurements - Thomas Nagler (ENVEO IT GmbH)

14:40 Polarimetric and interferometric analysis of heterogeneous ice types in the ablation zone of Greenland - Patricia Schlenk (German Aerospace Center)
15:00 Comfort break
Comfort break
15:00 - 15:20

15:20

15:20 - 16:00

16:00

16:00 - 16:20