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

Session

General Land Applications I

19 Nov 2026, 14:00

Aula Master (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya )

67. BIOMASS overview

Bjorn Rommen

19/11/2026, 14:00

General Land Applications

ORAL

Overview

12. BIOMASS P-band coherence investigation

Dr Urs Wegmüller (Gamma Remote Sensing AG)

19/11/2026, 14:20

General Land Applications

ORAL

The coherence is a parameter that characterizes the noise of the interferometric phase, as well as the SNR improvement achieved with multi-image filtering or averaging of backscatter images. Our main interest relates to the fact that the coherence depends on specific characteristics of the imaged scatterers, so that it can support applications as land-use classification and bio- and...

25. Looking Through the Forest: Interferometric SAR Notching at P-Band for Below-Canopy Mapping with BIOMASS

Youssra EL BENNIOUI (ISAE-SUPAERO)

19/11/2026, 14:40

General Land Applications

ORAL

Mapping features lying beneath a forest cover using SAR measurements represents a major challenge, due to the response of the overlying vegetation volume, wave attenuation caused by propagation through the forest canopy, and high-intensity scattering mechanisms occurring at the ground level, which mask ground contributions and prevent direct interpretation of conventional SAR imagery....

5. Diverging post-fire SAR-derived trends of ground deformation and backscatter across permafrost gradients

Barbara Widhalm (b.geos)

19/11/2026, 15:00

General Land Applications

ORAL

Arctic wildfires can trigger long-lasting changes in permafrost landscapes, but the magnitude and persistence of these responses depend strongly on local environmental conditions. Here, we investigate post-fire landscape dynamics across North American Arctic tundra using a space-for-time approach, comparing fire scars of different ages along a gradient of permafrost conditions and ground...