Name: 6th International Workshop on Retrieval of Bio- & Geo-physical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications
Start: 2015-11-17T08:30:00+00:00
End: 2015-11-19T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Harwell, UK

6th International Workshop on Retrieval of Bio- & Geo-physical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications

from Tuesday 17 November 2015 (08:30) to Thursday 19 November 2015 (18:00)

Monday 16 November 2015
Tuesday 17 November 2015
09:20
09:20 - 09:50
Contributions

09:40 Welcome & Logistics - Björn Rommen (ESA)
09:50
09:50 - 10:50
Contributions

09:50 Presentation I - Opening Session

10:10 Presentation II - Opening Session

10:30 Presentation III - Opening Session - shaun quegan Quegan (University of Sheffield)
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 15:10
Contributions

11:10 Multi-temporal Sentinel-1 SAR data processing for thematic applications over land - Urs Wegmuller (Gamma Remote Sensing AG)

11:30 Multitemporal Sentinel-1 Backscatter Composite Products - David Small (University of Zurich)

11:50 Spatially Variant Methods for Improved SAR Coherence - Daniel Andre (Cranfield University, DAC)

12:10 Sensitivity of earth surface Ka radar backscatter to bio-geophysical parameters: a model based study - Nazzareno Pierdicca (Sapienza University of Rome)

14:00 Land Applications from High Resolution, X-band, Airborne SAR - Fiona Muirhead (University of Edinburgh)

14:20 Vegetation classification in the floodplains based on the MetaSensing airborne PolSAR-L and InSAR-X - Linda Corucci (MetaSensing)

14:40 Round Table on General Land-Use and Classification
15:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:10 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 A Multitemporal soil moisture retrieval algorithm applied to L-band radar data - Nazzareno Pierdicca (Sapienza, University of Rome)

15:50 Initial Results on Soil Moisture Retrieval from Sentinel-1 Data - Francesco Mattia (CNR-ISSIA)

16:10 Detection of water bodies at global scale with Envisat ASAR: lessons learnt and recent achievements - Maurizio Santoro (GAMMA Remote Sensing)

16:30 Round Table on Soil & Hydrology
17:15 Ice Breaker
Ice Breaker
17:15 - 19:00
Wednesday 18 November 2015
09:20
09:20 - 12:50
Contributions

09:20 Very High Resolution Imaging of the Vertical Structure of Snowpack and Sea Ice - Stefano Tebaldini (Politecnico di Milano)

09:40 Three Dimensional Imaging of the Internal Structure of an Alpine Glacier - Stefano Tebaldini (Politecnico di Milano)

10:00 A volume detector to identify icebergs in satellite radar imagery - Armando Marino (The Open University)

10:20 Modeling of Boreal Forest Canopy Effects in Satellite Snow Mapping - Juval Cohen (Finnish Meteorological Institution)

10:40 Towards an automated method for detection and monitoring of avalanche debris using Synthetic Aperture Radar - Hannah Vickers (Northern Research Insitute)

11:20 Ku- and X-band Radar Backscatter and SWE – Observations in Different Snow Cover Regions - Helmut Rott (ENVEO IT)

11:40 Radar imagery to investigate dynamic changes in alpine snow - Andreas Wiesmann (GAMMA Remote Sensing)

12:00 Snow Retrieval Algorithm for Sentinel-1 Interferometric Wide-Swath Mode Data - Thomas Nagler (ENVEO IT GmbH)

12:20 Round Table on Ice & Snow
12:50 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:30
Contributions

14:00 Physical interpretation of the Polarimetric SAR changes observed over agricultural time series - Alberto Alonso-Gonzalez (DLR)

14:20 Field Measurements in Support of the ESA SWINTOL Project - Keith Morrison (Cranfield University)

14:40 UK National Crop Mapping using Sentinel-1 - Mike Wooding (Remote Sensing Applications Consultants Ltd)

15:00 Agricultural Crop Structure by Means of Multi-Baseline Pol-InSAR and SAR Tomography - Hannah Joerg (German Aerospace Center, ETH Zurich)

15:40 Intelligent Farming with Sentinel 1 - Andrea Minchella (Satellite Applications Catapult) Dan Wicks (Satellite Applications Catapult)

16:00 Round Table on Agriculture
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 AfriSAR, a P-Band Airborne SAR campaign over Gabon - Pascale Dubois-Fernandez (ONERA)

16:50 The Potential of TanDEM-X InSAR Coherence for Mapping Tropical Forest Structure: A Case Study in East Kalimantan - Elsa Carla De Grandi (University of Edinburgh)

17:10 FoRAsT – Measuring Forest Degradation by Radar Remote Sensing - Simone Vaccari (LTS International Ltd.)

17:30 SAR for REDD+ - Jörg Haarpaintner (Norut - Northern Research Institute)
Thursday 19 November 2015
09:30 Continuation
Continuation
09:30 - 12:30
Contributions

09:30 Potentials of SAOCOM-CS Tomography for Boreal Forest Biomass Retrieval - Stefano Tebaldini (PoliMi)

09:50 SAR Tomography for Forest Structure Classification and Monitoring: Actual Status and Perspectives - Matteo Pardini (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

10:10 Radar backscatter of forests: Recent advances and application to the retrieval of forest biomass - Thuy Le Toan (CESBIO)

10:50 The role of optical and L-band SAR data in discriminating stages of tropical secondary forests - Joao Carreiras (National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), University of Sheffield)

11:10 Interest of Support Vector Regression (SVR) for Biomass retrieval from POLSAR data over Boreal Forests - Pierre-Louis FRISON (Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - MATIS - IGN / CESBIO)

11:30 Forest Above Ground Biomass Mapping in Biomass Mission Configuration : Applications to P-band TropiSAR data" - Ludovic Villard (CESBIO)

11:50 Round Table on Forestry
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Summary "General Land-Use and Classification"

14:15 Summary "Soil and Hydrology"

14:30 Summary "Ice & Snow"

14:45 Summary "Agriculture"

15:00 Summary "Forestry"

15:15 Workshop Conclusion & Recommendations