| 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) |