9th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RETRIEVAL OF BIO- & GEO- PHYSICAL PARAMETERS FROM SAR DATA FOR LAND APPLICATIONS

Session

Forest - Modelling and Retrieval I

18 Nov 2026, 09:30

Aula Master (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya )

32. Forest Height Estimation From BIOMASS Data: Actual Status, Challenges, Potential and Ways Forward

Roman Guliaev (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

18/11/2026, 09:30

Forestry

ORAL

ESA’s BIOMASS, launched on April 29, 2025, able to acquire fully polarimetric, interferometric and tomographic information, enables for the first time large scale Pol-InSAR forest height inversion at P-band. The spatial baseline distribution of BIOMASS is optimized for tropical forest height retrieval and tomographic (reflectivity) profile reconstruction, while the satellite’s short revisit...

9. Monitoring the progress of afforestation projects with C- and L-band SAR backscatter

Oliver Cartus (GAMMA Remote Sensing)

18/11/2026, 09:50

Forestry

ORAL

Carbon markets, operating on the principles of emission trading and carbon offsetting, offer market-based incentives to reduce emissions and to adopt low-carbon practices. New rules from leading registries such as Verra, Gold Standard, and Isometric are advancing digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (dMRV) systems to enhance transparency and reduce monitoring costs in carbon offset...

26. Physics-Informed Forest Aboveground Biomass Retrieval Using WCM and IWCM with Sentinel-1 and NISAR Data

Wenyu Yang (University of Napoli Parthenope)

18/11/2026, 10:10

Forestry

ORAL

Forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is an important indicator of forest carbon storage and plays a key role in carbon monitoring and forest management. The increasing availability of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations from Sentinel-1 and NISAR provides new opportunities for large-scale AGB estimation. In this study, a physics-based AGB retrieval framework is developed using...

50. Ground topography effects in biomass estimation from P-band Biomass data

Lars Ulander (Chalmers University of Technology)

18/11/2026, 10:30

Forestry

ORAL

Biomass is the seventh Earth Explorer mission of the European Space Agency. Its primary objective is to reduce uncertainties in global carbon stocks of the terrestrial biosphere as well as the corresponding carbon fluxes caused by land use change (LULUCF, mainly deforestation) and land uptake (mainly forest regrowth). To achieve this goal, Biomass will generate yearly and near-global maps of...