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

Session

Agriculture

20 Nov 2026, 09:30

Aula Master (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya )

37. ASSESSMENT OF FULLY POLARIMETRIC BIOMASS DATA FOR SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL

Prof. Irena Hajnsek (German Aerospace Center / ETH Zurich)

20/11/2026, 09:30

Agriculture

ORAL

Water management for irrigation is an essential activity especially in agricultural areas or where water is scarce. Water storage in the soil affects the vapour transpiration but also its heat storage capacity, its thermal conductivity and the energy separation between latent and sensible heat fluxes. From a hydrological perspective, soil moisture links the partitioning of rainfall into runoff...

30. Retrieval of Vegetation Water Content from C- and L-band SAR data: Methodology and Initial Assessment

Sofia Rossi (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) – Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente (IREA), Bari, Italy)

20/11/2026, 09:50

Agriculture

ORAL

Monitoring crop conditions is essential for forecasting agricultural production and supporting food security. Two key variables for this purpose are Surface Soil Moisture (SSM) and Vegetation Water Content (VWC). VWC quantifies the amount of water stored in the above-ground biomass per unit area and is commonly measured through destructive field sampling. While accurate, this approach is...

3. HydroDrone: a UAV-InSAR Campaign for Short-Term Temporal Decorrelation - Processing and Preliminary Results

Pietro Grassi (Politecnico di Milano)

20/11/2026, 10:10

General Land Applications

ORAL

HydroDrone is an ESA-funded UAV-based C-band SAR campaign designed to investigate short-term temporal decorrelation over vegetated scenes across timescales ranging from tens of seconds to minutes and several hours. Characterizing the temporal evolution of vegetation coherence at these timescales is important for understanding the dynamics of vegetated scatterers and their impact on...

40. Towards physically informed Sentinel-1 above-ground biomass retrievals over Alpine permanent meadows

Dr Giulia Graldi (Eurac Research)

20/11/2026, 10:10

Agriculture

ORAL

Reliable estimates of above-ground biomass in mountain grasslands are crucial for assessing production losses and supporting index-based insurance schemes, particularly as climate change causes more frequent drought events increasingly threatening alpine agriculture. However, biomass retrieval from SAR imagery remains challenging in mountainous regions because complex terrain introduces severe...