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

Session

Forest - Tomography I

18 Nov 2026, 14:00

Aula Master (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya )

31. 3D Forest Structure Mapping Using BIOMASS Tomography: Challenges, Potentials and Ways Forward

Matteo Pardini (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

18/11/2026, 14:00

Forestry

ORAL

Since November 2025 the ESA BIOMASS Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mission is acquiring multi-baseline full-pol P-band data in a 3 day repeat pass mode enabling the reconstruction of the full 3D distribution of the backscattered radar power (reflectivity) by means of tomographic (TomoSAR) techniques. In this context, BIOMASS TomoSAR reconstructions provide for the first time the unique...

33. Identification and measurements of individual trees with tower-based L-band 3D radar tomography in a boreal forest

Theresa Leistner (Department of Environmental and Energy Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

18/11/2026, 14:20

Forestry

ORAL

Understanding temporal variations in L-band forest backscatter remains challenging because the conventional SAR observations represent a mixture of canopy, branch, trunk and ground scattering contributions from multiple trees within a single resolution cell. High-resolution radar tomography provides an opportunity to separate these contributions and investigate forest dynamics at the scale of...

47. Parametric 3-D imaging of forests using an improved PolTomoSAR approach and BIOMASS data

Laurent Ferro Famil (ISAE-SUPAERO & CESBIO)

18/11/2026, 14:40

Forestry

ORAL

SAR tomography (TomoSAR) is a powerful technique for characterizing natural volumes over large areas, as it enables three-dimensional mapping of reflectivity by coherently combining two-dimensional SAR images acquired along slightly shifted trajectories. SAR systems operating at low frequencies can be efficiently used in tomographic mode to characterize the vertical structure of densely...