Programme
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Monday, October 28 | |
10:30 - 13:30 | Registration |
12:30 - 13:20 | Lunch |
13:20 - 13:30 | Opening |
13:30 - 15:10 |
GNSS Reflectometry I (Oral) Session Chairs: Manuel Martin-Neira and Jens Wickert |
13:30 |
The NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Mission |
13:50 |
GEROS-ISS - GNSS Reflectometry, Radio Occultation and Scatterometry onboard the International Space Station |
14:10 |
PARIS In-Orbit Demonstration Mission: First End-to-End Breadboard Test Results |
14:30 |
System Performance Simulation of Spaceborne GNSS-R Altimeters |
14:50 |
TIGRIS Experiment: Characterizing a Typhoon with GNSS Reflectometry |
15:10 - 15:40 | Coffee Break |
15:40 - 17:40 |
GNSS Refletometry II (Oral) Session Chairs: Manuel Martin-Neira and Serge Reboul |
15:40 |
GNSS-R Experiments and Simulations for Soil and Vegetation Monitoring |
16:00 |
GNSS Reflectometry for Permittivity Retrieval of Wet Soil |
16:20 |
Normalized GNSS Interference Pattern Technique |
16:40 |
MIR: the Microwave Interferometric Reflectometer, a New Airborne Sensor to Experiment Different GNSS-R Techniques |
17:00 |
3Cat-2: A Novel Approach to Space-borne GNSS-R Ocean Altimetry Using CubeSats |
17:30 - 19:00 | Welcome Reception |
Tuesday, October 29 | |
8:20 - 10:00 |
Sensors and Calibration (Oral) Session Chairs: Yann Kerr and Paolo Pampaloni |
8:20 |
The SMOS Mission After Almost 4 Years into Orbit: Main Results and Achievements |
8:40 |
Performance of the Noise injection Radiometers Onboard SMOS |
9:00 |
Three Frequency Precipitation Profiling Radar in Helsinki |
9:20 |
Microwave Spectroradiometric Complex for Remote Sounding of the Earth Surface |
9:40 |
Microwave Sensor and Nanosatellite Research at Aalto University |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30 - 12:10 |
RFI in Remote Sensing (Oral) Session Chairs: Niels Skou and Janne Lahtinen |
10:30 |
Detection of Spread Spectrum RFI Signals |
10:50 |
Active/Passive RFI Environment at L-Band |
11:10 |
SMOS, L Band and RFI: Where are we? |
11:30 |
Protection of the 1.4 GHz Passive Frequency Band from Radio Interferences |
11:50 |
Radio Frequency Interference Maps to Locate Their Sources from a Fixed Location |
12:10 - 13:10 | Lunch |
13:10 - 15:10 |
Remote Sensing of Land (Oral) Session Chairs: Kyle McDonald and Urs Wegmüller |
13:10 |
Towards a Long-term Dataset of ELBARA-II Measurements in Support of SMOS Level-3 Product and Algorithm Validation at the Valencia Anchor Station (MELBEX Experiment 2010-2013) |
13:30 |
Global Soil Frost Detection Using SMOS |
13:50 |
The Light Airborne Reflectometer for GNSS-R Observations (LARGO) Instrument: Towards Soil Moisture Retrievals |
14:10 |
Soil Moisture Monitoring with SAR Time Series |
14:30 |
Flood Detection Using SAR Data: Key Radar Signatures and Possible Ambiguities |
14:50 |
Statistical Modeling and Fusion of Multifrequency PolSAR Features for Improved Rural Area Land Cover Classification |
15:10 - 15:40 | Coffee Break |
15:40 - 17:20 |
L-band Active/Passive Land Surface Retrievals and SMAP (Oral) Session Chairs: Thomas Jackson and Andreas Colliander |
15:40 |
SMAP Status and Calibration/Validation Activities |
16:00 |
Estimation of High Resolution Soil Moisture with Radar and Radiometer by a Spectral Downscaling Technique |
16:20 |
Monitoring Landscape Freeze/Thaw State with Microwave Remote Sensing: Characterization of the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle with NASA’s Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) Mission |
16:40 |
Comparison of Airborne PALS Measurements with SMOS and Aquarius during SMAPVEX Field Experiment |
17:00 |
Soil Moisture Retrieval Using L-band Time-series Radar Observations Provided by Ground and Airborne Scatterometer and SAR Data |
15:10 - 17:40 |
Poster Session I Session Chairs: Jaan Praks and Juha Kainulainen |
P1 |
Advanced Concept of Scatterometer METEOR-3 |
P2 |
SSPA-Based Ku Band Transmitter-Receiver Module for D3MON Radar |
P3 |
GROMOS-C, a New Ground Based 110 GHz Radiometer for Microwave Ozone Measurement Campaigns |
P4 |
GMES Sentinel-1 Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm Independent Assessment P. Snoeij, P. Imbo, T. Rabaute, N. Baghdadi, W. Wagner, F. Mattia, S. Paloscia, N. Pierdicca |
P5 |
Sentinel-1 Commissioning Phase Preparation |
P6 |
Intra-city Urban Heat Island: A Case Study for Delhi City. |
P7 |
Speckle Statistics and Coherency Matrix of L Band Polarimetric SAR over Bare Soil with Rough Surfaces Using Numerical 3D Simulations of Maxwell Equations |
P8 |
Airborne Radiometer Measurements of Soil Moisture in Boreal Areas |
P9 |
SMOS Satellite Soil Moisture Data Assimilation in the Watershed Modeling and Forecasting System in Finland |
P10 |
Influence of Radio Frequency Interference on SMOS Measurements over Finland |
P11 |
Modelling of TanDEM-X-Measured Forest Height from Small Footprint Lidar Data |
Wednesday, October 30 | |
8:20 - 10:20 |
Microwave Propagation in Vegetated and Snow Covered Soils: A Session in Honor of Paolo Pampaloni (Oral) Session Chairs: Simonetta Paloscia and Roger Lang |
8:20 |
30 Years of Research on Microwave Emission from Snow and Vegetation Covered Soils |
8:40 |
Exploiting the Effects of Snow Layering on the Retrieval of SWE from Active and Passive Microwave Measurements |
9:00 |
Microwave Snow Backscattering Modeling based on Three-dimensional Microstructure Reconstructed from Two-dimensional Snow Section Image |
9:20 |
Radar Scattering Signatures of Terrestrial Snow at X and Ku Band with a Multi-layer DMRT Model combined with NMM3D Boundary Conditions |
9:40 |
Modeling of Active and Passive Microwave Signatures over Grass |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Remote Sensing of Snow (Oral) Session Chairs: Leung Tsang and Jiancheng Shi |
10:30 |
Understanding L-band Data Acquired by SMOS over Antarctica Using in situ Measurements and Electromagnetic Modelling |
10:50 |
Radarsat and Snow Character at Greenland Summit |
11:10 |
Active and Passive Microwave Signatures of Seasonal Snow Cover: Four Years of the NOSREC Campaign J. Lemmetyinen, J. Pulliainen, A. Kontu, A. Wiesmann, C. Mätzler, H. Rott, T. Nagler, K. Voglmeier, A. Meta, A. Coccia, M. Schneebeli, M. Proksch, M. Davidson, D. Schüttemeyer, M. Kern |
11:30 |
Comparison of Snow Water Equivalent Estimates of CMIP5 Climate Model Simulations and Satellite-based Data |
11:50 |
Simulations of Microwave Brightness Temperature of Snow Using HUT Snow Emission Model with SNOWPACK and in situ Measurements |
12:10 - 13:10 | Lunch |
13:10 - 14:50 |
Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice (Oral): A Session in Memory of Richard K. Moore Session Chairs: Prasad Gogineni and Martti Hallikainen |
13:10 |
Airborne Ultra-Wideband Microwave Radars for Snow Measurements |
13:30 |
Experimental Brightness Temperature of Snow on Lake Ice |
13:50 |
Shortwave Broadband Black-sky Surface Albedo Estimation for Arctic Sea Ice Using Passive Microwave Radiometer Data |
14:10 |
Incidence Angle Dependence of HH/HV-polarized RADARSAT-2 SAR Backscattering over Homogeneous Ice and Open Water Regions |
14:30 |
On Estimation of Melt Pond Fraction on the Arctic Sea Ice with ENVISAT WSM Images |
14:50 - 15:20 | Coffee Break |
15:20 - 17:00 |
Remote Sensing of Forest and Vegetation (Oral) Session Chairs: Thuy Le Toan and Lars Ulander |
15:20 |
A P-band SAR for Global Forest Biomass Measurement: the BIOMASS Mission |
15:40 |
Topographic Effects in P-band Polarimetric SAR of Boreal Forests |
16:00 |
Analysis of Multitemporal Fully Polarimetric Radarsat-2 Data over Boreal Fores Zone for Land Cover Mapping |
16:20 |
Temporal Variability of X-band Extinction Coefficient in Boreal Forest |
16:40 |
Multiple Scattering Effects in Radar Signatures from an Isolated Tree |
14:50 - 17:20 |
Poster Session II Session Chairs: Jaakko Seppänen and Matti Vaaja |
P12 |
Advanced Radar Applications for Nano- and Microsatellites |
P13 |
Passive Microwave Emissivity Validation and Characteristic Analysis |
P14 |
Comparison of Microwave Radiometer Observations and Grain Size of Snow |
P15 |
Correction of Ionospheric Effects on SAR Interferometry Using an Combined TEC Estimator |
P16 |
Precursors of Convective Activity Using Ground Based Microwave Radiometer |
P17 |
Thermal Structure of the Boundary Layer under Strongly Stable Stratification |
P18 |
Including the Zeeman Effect in Retrievals of Stratospheric Temperature Profiles from a Ground-based Microwave Radiometer |
19:30 - 22:00 | Symposium Dinner |
Thursday, October 31 | |
8:20 - 10:00 |
Remote Sensing of Precipitation (Oral) Session Chairs: V. Chandrasekar and Francisco Navas-Guzman |
8:20 |
Dual-polarized Microwave Signatures of Precipitation from Earth and Space Between 3 GHz to 95 GHz |
8:40 |
Dual-polarization Radar Observations of Hail |
9:00 |
Linking Snowflake Microphysics and Radar Scattering Models |
9:20 |
Comparison of the Melting Layer Model Characteristics with GPM Ground Validation Campaign Data |
9:40 |
Influence of Snowflake Aggregation on Polarimetric Radar Signatures in Snow Storms |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Remote Sensing of Precipitation and Atmosphere (Oral) Session Chairs: Animesh Maitra and V. Chandrasekar |
10:30 |
Modelling X-band SAR Observations of Precipitating Clouds over Land and Sea Using C-band-dual Polarization Weather Radar |
10:50 |
Radar and Radiometric Studies of Rain Structure at a Tropical Location |
11:10 |
Atmospheric Observations and Laboratory Measurements of a Broadband 340 GHz Receiver System for STEAMR |
11:30 |
Study of Cloud Effect on the Tropospheric Temperature Retrievals |
11:50 |
First Continuous Middle-atmospheric Wind Profile Measurements with a Ground-based Microwave Doppler-spectro-radiometer |
12:10 | Closing Remarks |