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

TU2.R17: Physical Modeling in Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing

Tue, 29 Sep, 14:30 - 16:30 (UTC)
Tue, 29 Sep, 22:30 - 00:30 China Standard Time (UTC +8)
Tue, 29 Sep, 16:30 - 18:30 Central Europe Summer Time (UTC +2)
Tue, 29 Sep, 07:30 - 09:30 Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7)
Session Co-Chairs: Robert Sundberg, Spectral Sciences, Inc. and Jean-Philippe Gastellu-etchegorry, Paul Sabatier University
Session Managers: Vanessa Núñez and Na Chen
Track: Invited Sessions
14:30-14:50 (UTC)
22:30-22:50 (UTC +8)
16:30-16:50 (UTC +2)
07:30-07:50 (UTC -7)

TU2.R17.1: INVESTIGATION OF THE FMASK CLOUD MASKING ALGORITHM USING SIMULATED MULTISPECTRAL DATA
Robert Sundberg, Spectral Sciences, Inc., United States
14:50-15:00 (UTC)
22:50-23:00 (UTC +8)
16:50-17:00 (UTC +2)
07:50-08:00 (UTC -7)

TU2.R17.2: MODELING MULTI-FREQUENCY TOMOGRAMS FOR SNOW STRATIGRAPHY
Xiaolan Xu, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Haoran Shen, Haokui Xu, Leung Tsang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
15:00-15:10 (UTC)
23:00-23:10 (UTC +8)
17:00-17:10 (UTC +2)
08:00-08:10 (UTC -7)

TU2.R17.3: RECENT ADVANCES IN DEVELOPMENT OF POLARIMETRIC MODTRAN®6
Fred Hawes, Alexander Berk, Spectral Sciences, Inc., United States; Jeannette van den Bosch, Air Force Research Laboratory, United States
15:10-15:20 (UTC)
23:10-23:20 (UTC +8)
17:10-17:20 (UTC +2)
08:10-08:20 (UTC -7)

TU2.R17.4: CHARACTERIZING THE COHERENT REFLECTED POWER DEPENDENCE ON ROUGH SURFACE HEIGHT AT LOW SIGNAL LEVELS
Ethan Raines, Joel Johnson, Robert Burkholder, The Ohio State University, 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)

TU2.R17.5: ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING OF SCATTERED GNSS SIGNALS
Davide Comite, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Laura Dente, Leila Guerriero, Tor Vergata University, Italy; Nazzareno Pierdicca, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
15:30-15:40 (UTC)
23:30-23:40 (UTC +8)
17:30-17:40 (UTC +2)
08:30-08:40 (UTC -7)

TU2.R17.7: A FOUR-PARAMETER SPECTRALLY-UNIVERSAL LINE SHAPE FUNCTION
Alexander Berk, Spectral Sciences, Inc., 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)

TU2.R17.8: RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DART MODEL FOR ATMOSPHERE, TOPOGRAPHY, LARGE LANDSCAPE, CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE, SATELLITE IMAGE INVERSION
Jean Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry, Yingjie Wang, Omar Regaieg, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France; Tiangang Yin, University of Maryland, United States; Zbynek Malenovsky, University of Tasmania, Australia; Zhijun Zhen, Xuebo Yang, Zhu Tao, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France; Lucas Landier, CNES, France; Ahmad Al Bitar, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France; Adrien Deschamps, CNES, France; Nicolas Lauret, Guilleux Jordan, Eric Chavanon, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France; Biao Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jianbo Qi, Beijing Forestry University, China; Abdelaziz Kallel, Centre de Recherche en Numérique de SFAX, Tunisia; Zina Mitraka, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Greece; Bruce Cook, Douglas Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States