TH2.R10.9

VICARIOUS VALIDATION OF L-BAND VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH

Colin Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa, United States; Richard Cirone, Iowa State University, United States; Victoria Walker, University of Montana, United States; Andrew Feldman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Julian Chaubell, Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, United States; Brian Hornbuckle, Iowa State University, United States

Session:
Remote Sensing Methods for Forest and Vegetation Properties

Track:
Land Applications

Presentation Time:
Thu, 1 Oct, 15:50-16:00 (UTC)
Thu, 1 Oct, 23:50-00:00 China Standard Time (UTC +8)
Thu, 1 Oct, 17:50-18:00 Central Europe Summer Time (UTC +2)
Thu, 1 Oct, 08:50-09:00 Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7)

Session Co-Chairs:
Thomas Jagdhuber, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, U. Southern California
Session Managers:
Sujan Sapkota and Maryam Salim

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Resources

Session

TH2.R10.1: DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR FOREST GROWING STOCK VOLUME RETRIEVAL: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS FOR L-BAND SAR DATA
Mihai Tanase, Gheorghe Marin, National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry “Marin Dracea”, Romania; Miguel Belenguer-Plomer, Ignacio Borlaf, Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Spain; Flaviu Popescu, Romanian Forest Owners' Association, Romania; Ovidiu Badea, National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry “Marin Dracea”, Romania
TH2.R10.2: TROPICAL FOREST HEIGHT AND UNDERLYING TOPOGRAPHY FROM TANDEM-X SAR INTERFEROMETRY
Yang Lei, California Institute of Technology, United States; Robert Treuhaft, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Fabio Gonçalves, Canopy Remote Sensing Solutions, Brazil
TH2.R10.3: HIGH-RESOLUTION WOODY VEGETATION COVER, HEIGHT AND BIOMASS MAPPING ACROSS AUSTRALIA
Albert Van Dijk, Australian National University, Australia; Zhanmang Liao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
TH2.R10.4: ESTIMATION OF FOREST ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS WITH C-BAND SCATTEROMETER BACKSCATTER OBSERVATIONS
Maurizio Santoro, Oliver Cartus, Urs Wegmüller, Gamma Remote Sensing, Switzerland
TH2.R10.5: A REGIONAL L-BAND HIGH BIOMASS ESTIMATION FRAMEWORK LEVERAGING SPACEBORNE LIDAR AND INTERFEROMETRIC DATA TO OVERCOME BACKSCATTER SATURATION
Charlie Marshak, Marc Simard, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Laura Duncanson, Carlos Silva, University of Maryland, United States; Michael Denbina, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Tien-Hao Liao, California Institute of Technology, United States
TH2.R10.6: WEAK RESPONSE OF VEGETATION PHOTOSYNTHESIS TO METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHTS IN SOUTHWEST CHINA: INSIGHTS FROM GOME-2 SOLAR-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE
Yangqian Qi, University of British Columbia, Canada; Zhao-Cheng Zeng, California Institute of Technology, United States
TH2.R10.7: ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS AND LIDAR FULL WAVEFORM MEASUREMENTS – POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS INVESTIGATION (GEDI) MISSION
Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College of The City University of New York, United States; Shihyal Lee, Science Application International Corp. and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
TH2.R10.8: VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVAL FROM AMSR-E/AMSR2 OBSERVATIONS USING L-MEB INVERSION
Mengjia Wang, Beijing Normal University, China; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRAE), France; Rui Sun, Beijing Normal University, China; Philippe Ciais, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, France; Martin Brandt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Yi Liu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China; Frédéric Frappart, Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), France; Xiaojun Li, Xiangzhuo Liu, National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA), China; Lei Fan, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China; Rasmus Fensholt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
TH2.R10.9: VICARIOUS VALIDATION OF L-BAND VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH
Colin Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa, United States; Richard Cirone, Iowa State University, United States; Victoria Walker, University of Montana, United States; Andrew Feldman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Julian Chaubell, Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, United States; Brian Hornbuckle, Iowa State University, United States
TH2.R10.10: NEW ASCAT VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH (IB-VOD) RETRIEVALS OVER AFRICA
Xiangzhuo Liu, J.-P. Wigneron, INRAE, France; Frédéric Frappart, Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), France; Nicolas Baghdadi, IRSTEA, France; Mehrez Zribi, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, CESBIO, France; Thomas Jagdhuber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; Xiaojun Li, Mengjia Wang, INRAE, France; Lei Fan, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China; Christophe Moisy, INRAE, France
TH2.R10.11: A HIGHLY CHLOROPHYLL-SENSITIVE AND LAI-INSENSITIVE INDEX BASED ON THE RED-EDGE BAND: CSI
Hu Zhang, Jing Li, Qinhuo Liu, Jing Zhao, Yadong Dong, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China