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

Session

Ice and Snow II

20 Nov 2026, 13:30

Aula Master (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya )

8. Retrieving Glacier Elevation Change and Geodetic Mass Balance from TanDEM-X InSAR Time Series

Isabel Pieruschka (ETH Zürich)

20/11/2026, 13:30

Ice and Snow

ORAL

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-based Earth observation techniques provide an effective means of monitoring glacier changes over large spatial and extended temporal scales. The Swiss Alps offer an excellent opportunity for validating remote-sensing approaches to glacier monitoring due to the high availabilty of independent glacier observations. In particular, the Great Aletsch Glacier – the...

29. Subsurface Deformation Signatures in the Antarctic Ice Sheet from BIOMASS P-Band Polarimetry

Sara-Patricia Schlenk (Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR); Institute of Microwaves and Photonics, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg)

20/11/2026, 13:50

Ice and Snow

ORAL

Microwave remote sensing has become an indispensable tool for monitoring the polar regions, as signal penetration into dry snow and ice makes Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensitive to subsurface structures [1]. This sensitivity generally increases toward longer wavelengths, providing access to deeper englacial scattering contributions [1,3,4]. ESA’s BIOMASS mission, launched in April 2025,...

56. BIOMASS P-band TomoSAR for Subsurface Water Mapping in Antarctica

Francesco Banda (aresys)

20/11/2026, 14:10

Ice and Snow

ORAL

The characterization of ice structure and dynamic processes is essential for improving our understanding of the cryosphere and its role in the global water cycle [1]. The accelerating loss of ice masses and their contribution to sea-level rise call for increasingly extensive observations of polar regions. The limited spatial and temporal coverage and difficult accessibility of in situ...