FR1.R9: Biomass I

Session Type: Oral
Time: Friday, July 27, 08:30 - 10:10
Location: Room 4D
Session Chairs: Thuy Letoan, CESBIO and Klaus Scipal, European Space Agency
 
08:30 - 08:50
FR1.R9.1: THE BIOMASS MISSION: OBJECTIVES AND REQUIREMENTS
         Thuy Le Toan; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO)
         Jerome Chave; Laboratoire EDB
         Jørgen Dall; Technical University of Denmark
         Kostas Papathanassiou; German Aerospace Center ( DLR)
         Philippe Paillou; Universite de Bordeaux
         Shaun Quegan; Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics
         Markus Reichstein; Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
         Sassan Saatchi; Jet Propulsion Laboratory
         Klaus Scipal; European Space Agency
         Hank Shugart; University of Virginia
         Stefano Tebaldini; Politecnico di Milano
         Lars M. H. Ulander; Chalmers University of Technology
         Mathew Williams; University of Edinburgh
 
08:50 - 09:10
FR1.R9.2: OVERVIEW OF THE BIOMASS SATELLITE
         Carl Warren; Airbus Defence and Space Ltd
         Chris Lloyd; Airbus Defence and Space Ltd
         Michael Fehringer; European Space Agency
 
09:10 - 09:30
FR1.R9.3: THE BIOMASS SAR INSTRUMENT: DEVELOPMENT STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW
         Thomas Fügen; Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
         Eckhardt Sperlich; Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
         Christoph Heer; Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
         S. Riegger; Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
         Carl Warren; Airbus Defence and Space Ltd
         Adriano Carbone; RHEA for ESA
         Florence Hélière; European Space Agency/ESTEC
 
09:30 - 09:50
FR1.R9.4: CALIBRATION CHALLENGES FOR THE BIOMASS P-BAND SAR INSTRUMENT
         Shaun Quegan; University of Sheffield
         Mark Lomas; University of Sheffield
         Kostas Papathanassiou; DLR - German Aerospace Center
         Jun-Su Kim; DLR - German Aerospace Center
         Stefano Tebaldini; POLIMI
         Davide Giudici; Aresys s.r.l
         Michele Scagliola; Aresys s.r.l
         Pietro Guccione; Politecnico di Bari
         Jørgen Dall; Technical University of Denmark
         Pascale Dubois-Fernandez; ONERA
         Philippe Paillou; University of Bordeaux
 
09:50 - 10:10
FR1.R9.5: IONOSPHERE CORRECTION OF POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC BIOMASS SAR DATA
         Konstantinos Papathanassiou; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
         Jun-Su Kim; German Aerospace Center (DLR)