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PRELIMINARY TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Monday Oct. 4 

Pre-registration: 18:00 - at Hotel Baglioni 

Tuesday Oct. 5

REGISTRATION: 08:00

WELCOME: 08:30

SMOS session (Chairs: Y. Kerr & M.Hallikainen)

09.00 - SMOS Almost 1 year in orbit (Y. Kerr et al.)

09.20 - SMOS Cal/Val 2010 Activities and RFI Research with Airborne HUT-2D Radiometer (M. Hallikainen et al.)

09.40 - SMOS calibration and level 1 data assessment (I. Corbella et al.)

10.00 - Development of a Forest Emission Model and first tests with SMOS signatures (R. Rahmoune et al.)

10.20 -  Validation of SMOS measurements over the ocean (J.Boutin et al.)

BREAK: 10:40-11.10

SMOS & COSMO sessions (Chairs: M.Hallikainen & Y. Kerr)

11.10 - SMOS Soil Moisture Mapping in West Africa and its use in water studies  (T. Pellarin et al.)

11.30 - Land use classification applied to Cosmo-Skymed (S. Mica and R. Ferrara)

11.50 - Signatures of atmospheric precipitation on atmospheric spaceborne synthetic aperture radar response (S. Mori et al.)

12.10 - A physical Optics-based polarimetric two scale model (A. Iodice et al.)

LUNCH: 12:30-14:00

SMAP session (Chairs: M. Moghaddam & L. Tsang)

14.00 - SMAP Radar Calibration Plans (R. West et al.)

14.20 - Analysis of Coincidental Microwave Radiometer and Radar Measurements: Experimental Results Applicable to SMAP Missions (A. Colliander and E. Njoku)

14.40 - Sensitivity of SMAP Radar Retrieval of Soil Moisture to Vegetation Cover: Analysis and Field Verification (M. Moghaddam)

15.00 - Estimating bare surface soil moisture with L-band radar (J. Shi et al.)

15.20 - SMAP mission: radar vegetated surfaces data cubes with comparisons to field data (Xiaolan Xu et al.)

BREAK: 15:40-16.00

Sensors and Missions (Chairs: P. Snoeij & J. Shi)

16.00 - Development of the Instrument Simulator Suite for Atmospheric Remote Sensing: modeling scattering and propagation in the microwave range in support to upcoming NASA and ESA/JAXA missions (S. Tanelli et al)

16.20 - Scientific Preparations for CoReH2O, an Earth Explorer Candidate Mission for Cold Regions Hydrology (H. Rott et al.)

16.40 - GMES Sentinel-1 Calibration (P. Snoej et al.)

17.00 - Wavemill: The Surface Current Instrument (C. Buck and C. Donlon)

END: 17:20

RECEPTION: 18:00 – At Palagio di Parte Guelfa (http://eng.archinform.net/projekte/9976.htm)

Wednesday Oct. 6

Keynote speech
08.30 – “Progress and challenges in microwave remote sensing of northern areas” by Martti Hallikainen

Radar signatures of soil and vegetation (Chairs: P. Ferrazzoli & R. Lang)

09.00 - A model for backscattering from Quasi-periodic corn canopies at L-band (R. Lang et al.)
09.20 - Multi-Reaction and scattering from rough multilayers (P. Imperatore et al.)
09.40 - Application of the Tor Vergata scattering model to L band backscattering during the corn growth cycle (A. Joseph et al.)
10.00 - On the use of multi-temporal series of SAR data for soil moisture retrieval over agricultural sites (A. Balenzano et al.)
10.20 - Surface soil moisture estimation over agricultural semi-arid site using ASAR/ENVISAT radar data (M. Zribi)
BREAK: 10:40-11.10

 
Radar signatures of soil and vegetation

(Chairs: R. Lang & P. Ferrazzoli) 
11.10 - ASAR multi-incidence angle temporal backscattering signatures of Doñana marshes (B. Marti-Cardona et al.)
11.30 - Complementary LAI retrieval from SAR and optical remote sensing imager: calibrating SAR inversion based on optical products (P. Defourny et al.)
11.50 - Sensitivity study on the use of SAR soil moisture data on the MM5 forecast model precipitation fields (N. Pierdicca et al.)
12:10 – Evaluation of forest effect on the retrieval of snow parameters from backscattering measurements (G. Macelloni et al.)
12.30 - Polarimetric radar observation of vineyards at C-Band (Burini et al.)
LUNCH: 12:50-14:00

 
LAND and INSAR applications (Chairs: A. Monti Guarnieri & N. Pierdicca)
14.00 - Rotation-invariant built-up presence index for SAR data (P. Gamba et al.)
14.20 - Monitoring surface deformation using SqueeSAR™ (A. Ferretti et al.)
14.40 - The extended SBAS technique for generating long-term full resolution ERS/ENVISAT deformation time series (M.Bonano et al.)
15.00 - Getting the submillimiter: performance analysis of a Ground based radar (A.Monti Guarnieri et al.)
15.20 - Exploiting fully polarimetric RADARSAT2 images for retrieval of soil moisture in alpine grassland and pasture (L. Pasolli et al.)
BREAK: 15:40-16.00

 
LAND (Chairs: Son Nghiem & E. Santi) 
16.00 - Combination of L and X band SAR data for estimating biomass and soil moisture of agricultural fields (S.Paloscia et al.)
16.20 - Emission model analysis of passive microwave signatures for river flow measurement using satellite radiometer data (Son Nghiem and G. Brokenridge)
16.40 - Monitoring flood events in Sundarban delta by microwave instruments (R. Chakraborty et al.)
17.00 - On the potential of AMSU-based soil wetness indices for soil moisture variations monitoring (T. Lacava et al.)
17.20 - Modelling of global-large scale natural microwave Earth radiation in decimeter wavelength scale (S. Golovachev et al.)
END: 17.40

 POSTER SESSION: 18:00-20:00

Thursday Oct. 7

 Keynote speech
08.30 – “Electromagnetic models for active and passive microwave remote sensing” by Leung Tsang

 GNSS (Chairs: L. Guerriero & C. Buck)
09.00 - Simulations of the GNSS-R signal over land (L. Guerriero et al.)
09.20 - GNSS-R: a consolidated technique for Earth Observation (A. Egido and M. Caparrini)
09.40 - Bi-static GNSS reflections for monitoring sea ice and dry snow (F. Fabra et al.)
10.00 - Earth's surface characteristics from GPS reflected signals (Shuanggen Jin)
10.20 - GIANO: Galileo Interferometer Scatterometer and Observer (C. Pirazzi et al.)
BREAK: 10:40-11.10

 GNSS/Ocean wind (Chairs: S. Zecchetto & A. Shibata) 
11.10 - Study on correlation between airborne L-band radiometric measurements and GNSS-R observations at the Baltic Sea (J. Kainulainen et al.)
11.30 - High wind measurements from active and passive MW sensors (T. Meissner et al.)
11.50 - Wavelet technique to infer the wind direction from SAR images (S. Zecchetto and F. De Biaso)
12.10 - Ocean wind speed retrieval algorithm using 36V/H and 6H (Akira Shibata)
LUNCH: 12:30-14:00

 Atmosphere (Chairs: A. Bosisio & C. Maetzler) 
14.00 - Emission of supercooled clouds and dielectric models of water (C. Maetzler)
14.20 - Polarimetric measurements of precipitating clouds with the ADMIRARI multi-wavelength radiometer (A. Battaglia et al.)
14.40 - Ground based thermosounding of atmosphere: Retrieval procedure (A. Feijin et al.
15.00 - A retrieval algorithm of atmospheric WV & cloud LW for AMSR-E (Masahiro Kazumori)
15.20 - Investigation of the spatial correlation of tropospheric constituents for the evaluation of a hypothetical deep-space site diversity system performance (C. Capsoni and L. Luini)
BREAK: 15:40-16.00

 Atmosphere (Chairs: C. Maetzler & A. Bosisio) 
16.00 - Complex for ground-based thermal sounding of atmosphere: setup description, results of first observation (A. Shvetsov et al.)
16.20 - Retrieval of the atmospheric specific attenuation coefficient through inversion of radiometric brightness temperature (A.Bosisio et al.)
16.40 - Microwave radar signatures of precipitation from S band to Ku band: application to GPM mission (C.V.Chandra)
17.00 - A new water vapor radiometer with minimized standing wave artifacts (G. Hochschild and J. Gross)
END: 17:20

 20:00 - AWARD DINNER (Hotel Minerva, Piazza Santa Maria Novella) http://www.grandhotelminerva.com/index_eng.html

Friday Oct. 8

Planets (Chairs: C. Notarnicola & D. Riccio) 
09.00 - The CASSINI mission: a scenario of innovative research (G. Franceschetti)
09.20 - A numerical analysis to assess the use of a multifrequency spaceborne microwave radiometry for the observation of the moon sub-surface thermal properties (M. Montopoli et al.)
09.40 - Retrieval of wind speed on Titan lakes by using SAR and radiometric data (B. Ventura et al.)
10.00 - Sub-Surface Radar Sounding of the Jovian Icy Moons (L. Bruzzone et al.)
BREAK: 10:20-10:50

 Criosphere (Chairs: G.Macelloni & S.Yueh) 
10.50 - Dual-frequency polarimetric radar observations of snowpack (S. Yueh et al.)
11.10 - Passive radiometric measurements of the Polar Regions using tower-based, airborne, and spaceborne L-band instruments (Kimmo Rautiainen et al.)
11.30 - Active/passive snow retrieval algorithms based on dense media radiative transfer theory (Xiaolan Xu et al.)
11.50 - Can MHS data be used to improve snow water equivalent estimates? (C. Harlow)
12.10 - The retrieval of snow cover and snow water equivalent: Toward the operativeness (M.Brogioni et al.)
END: 12:30

 
POSTERS
From Tuesday to Thursday – Poster Session on Wednesday Oct. 6 (18:00)

 Sensors & Missions
1 - MEMS-Based Antenna Technology for millimeter and submilliter wave remote imaging (F. Tripaldi et al.)
2 - A synthetic aperture sonar focusing technique for interferometric applications (R. De Paulis et al.)
3 - The EarthCARE Doppler radar: forward modelling and performance estimation (Battaglia et al.)
4 - Investigation of Propagation Effects for SIGNAL (SAR for Ice, Glacier and Ocean global dynamics) (A.Danklmayer)
5 - A RST-based analysis of AMSRE C-band Radio Frequency Interferences (T. Lacava et al.)

Atmosphere & Ocean
6 - A proposed criterion to filter out rainy sky thermal microwave emissions collected at the ground from a multi-channel radiometer (A.V. Bosisio et al.)
7 - Calculated Astroclimatic Estimations of Atmosphere Absorption (N. Ruzhentsev and A. Mihailov)
8 - Retrieval of Tropospheric Water Vapour Profiles by using spectra from a microwave spectro-radiometer at 22 GHz (R.Bleisch et al.)
9 - Wind direction determination with Radarsat2 polarimetric images (S. Zecchetto et al.)
10 - Development of a 22-GHz ground-based spectrometer for middle atmospheric water vapour monitoring (P.P. Bertagnolio et al.)

COSMO-SkyMed/InSAR
11 - Estimation of ship velocity by adaptive processing applied to Cosmo-SkyMed (R. Ferrara et al.)
12 - Ship detection applied to COSMO-Skymed (R.Ferrara et al.)
13 - Use of Cosmo-SkyMed data for calibration of hydrological models in semi-arid regions (G. Di Martino et al.)
14 - Fractal analysis of SAR images for volcano monitoring: the case of Vesuvio (Di Martino et al.)

Land
15 - Global monitoring of soil moisture and vegetation biomass by using multi-frequency AMSR-E data (E.Santi et al.)
16 - Temporal dynamics of large-scale radiation of land surface measured from satellites in L- and P- bands (S. Golovachev et al.)
17 - Spatial dynamics of large-scale microwave radiation for main types of land surface in decimeter range of wavelengths (A. Mil’shin et al)