2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

September 26 - October 2, 2020 • Virtual Symposium

2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

September 26 - October 2, 2020 • Virtual Symposium

TH2.R10: Remote Sensing Methods for Forest and Vegetation Properties

Thu, 1 Oct, 14:30 - 16:30 (UTC)
Thu, 1 Oct, 22:30 - 00:30 China Standard Time (UTC +8)
Thu, 1 Oct, 16:30 - 18:30 Central Europe Summer Time (UTC +2)
Thu, 1 Oct, 07:30 - 09:30 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
Track: Land Applications
14:30-14:40 (UTC)
22:30-22:40 (UTC +8)
16:30-16:40 (UTC +2)
07:30-07:40 (UTC -7)

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
14:40-14:50 (UTC)
22:40-22:50 (UTC +8)
16:40-16:50 (UTC +2)
07:40-07:50 (UTC -7)

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
14:50-15:00 (UTC)
22:50-23:00 (UTC +8)
16:50-17:00 (UTC +2)
07:50-08:00 (UTC -7)

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
15:00-15:10 (UTC)
23:00-23:10 (UTC +8)
17:00-17:10 (UTC +2)
08:00-08:10 (UTC -7)

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
15:10-15:20 (UTC)
23:10-23:20 (UTC +8)
17:10-17:20 (UTC +2)
08:10-08:20 (UTC -7)

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
15:20-15:30 (UTC)
23:20-23:30 (UTC +8)
17:20-17:30 (UTC +2)
08:20-08:30 (UTC -7)

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
15:30-15:40 (UTC)
23:30-23:40 (UTC +8)
17:30-17:40 (UTC +2)
08:30-08:40 (UTC -7)

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
15:40-15:50 (UTC)
23:40-23:50 (UTC +8)
17:40-17:50 (UTC +2)
08:40-08:50 (UTC -7)

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
15:50-16:00 (UTC)
23:50-00:00 (UTC +8)
17:50-18:00 (UTC +2)
08:50-09:00 (UTC -7)

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
16:00-16:10 (UTC)
00:00-00:10 (UTC +8)
18:00-18:10 (UTC +2)
09:00-09:10 (UTC -7)

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
16:10-16:20 (UTC)
00:10-00:20 (UTC +8)
18:10-18:20 (UTC +2)
09:10-09:20 (UTC -7)

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