The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and industry to review the current state-of-the-art in the retrieval of quantitative geophysical variables from high spatial resolution optical imagery.
The workshop will bring an opportunity to present and discuss R&D activities, and to evaluate how the obtained geophysical products satisfy the needs coming from land applications (e.g. forestry, agriculture, hydrology, environment monitoring, geology).
More precisely, this workshop aims at fulfilling the following objectives:
- Review the list of geophysical variables for land applications that can be retrieved from optical imagery (visible to thermal infrared domains) at high spatial resolution.
- Establish the state-of-the-art physically-based retrieval algorithms (including approaches based on the direct ingestion of radiometric measurements in assimilation schemes).
- Review the product validation strategies and results.
- Recommend research and development activities.
- Assess the capabilities of spaceborne and airborne sensors that are operational or currently under development.