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Sunday 27 June 2010

16:00
19:00

Tutorials

Monday 28 June 2010

08:00 09:30	Registration
09:30 12:00	Opening Plenary Session
12:00 13:30	Lunch break
	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5	Room 6	Room 7	Room 8
13:30 15:10	GEO Task on Forestry	SAR Waves	EO Data Policy, Access & Preservation	SAR Methods	International Relations	OPT/IR Cal/Val Posters on 29 June	ALT Cal/Val	Atmos Cal/Val Posters on 29 June
15:10 15:40	Coffee break
15:40 17:20	GEO Task on Forestry	SAR Waves Posters on 29 June	ENVISAT Mission beyond 2010	SAR Methods Posters on 29 June	International Relations	OPT/IR New Methods & Products	ALT Cal/Val Posters on 29 June	Tropospheric NO2 and O3 Posters on 29 June
17:20 19:30	Welcome Cocktail

Tuesday 29 June 2010

	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5	Room 6	Room 7	Room 8
08:30 10:10	Global Biomass	Sea Ice	GOCE	GMES	Volcanic Emissions Posters	OPT/IR New Methods & Products Posters	Wave & Wind from Altimetry Posters	Hazards Assessment & Mapping
10:10 10:40	Coffee break
10:40 12:20	Forestry & Biomass	Sea Ice	GOCE	GMES	Volatile Organic Compounds Posters	Ocean Color	SAR Winds	Hazards Assessment & Mapping Posters
12:20 13:50	Lunch break
13:50 15:30	Forestry & Biomass	Sea Ice	GOCE	GMES	Water Vapour	Ocean Color	SAR Winds Posters	Earthquakes & Tectonics Posters
15:30 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 17:40	Forestry & Biomass Posters	Sea Ice Posters	GOCE	GMES Posters	Water Vapour Posters	Ocean Color Posters	Sea Surface Temperature Posters	Volcanoes Posters
17:40 19:00	Poster Session (it includes posters referring to sessions organised on 28 June)

Wednesday 30 June 2010

	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5	Room 6	Room 7	Room 8
08:30 10:10	SMOS	Glaciology	GOCE	GMES	Stratospheric Constituents	Persistent Scatterers Interferometry	DRAGON	Carbon Cycle
10:10 10:40	Coffee break
10:40 12:20	SMOS	Glaciology	GOCE	GMES	Stratospheric Constituents	Persistent Scatterers Interferometry Posters	DRAGON	Forestry Posters
12:20 13:50	Lunch break
13:50 15:30	Cal/Val Activities	Glaciology Posters	GOCE	GMES	Stratospheric Constituents Posters	Future EE	DRAGON	Global Veget. & Bio-geophysical Products
15:30 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 17:40	Cal/Val Activities Posters	Permafrost Posters	GOCE Posters	Polarimetry & Polinsar Posters	Clouds Posters	Future EE Posters	EO Quantification of Ecosystems	Global Veget. & Bio-geophysical Products Posters
17:40 19:00	Poster Session
	Social Event

Thursday 1 July 2010

	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5	Room 6	Room 7	Room 8
08:30 10:10	Soil Moisture & Hydrology	Cryosphere & Climate Posters	QA4EO	Sentinel 1	Coastal Zones	Aerosols Posters	Land Altimetry	Third Party Missions
10:10 10:40	Coffee break
10:40 12:20	Soil Moisture & Hydrology Posters	Ocean Circulation & Currents Posters	QA4EO Posters	CRYOSAT	Coastal Zones Posters	Greenhouse Gasses Posters	Land Altimetry Posters	Third Party Missions
12:20 13:50	Lunch break
13:50 15:30	Wetlands	The Changing Earth Science Network	ESA Climate Change Initiative	CRYOSAT	Land Cover & Land Use	Future Atmospheric Missions	Coastal Altimetry	Third Party Missions
15:30 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 17:40	DEM, Geology & Geo- morphology Posters	The Changing Earth Science Network	ESA Climate Change Initiative	CRYOSAT Posters	Land Cover & Land Use Posters	Future Atmospheric Missions Posters	Coastal Altimetry Posters	Third Party Missions Posters
17:40 19:00	Poster Session (it includes posters referring to sessions organised on 2 July)

Friday 2 July 2010

	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5	Room 6	Room 7	Room 8
08:30 10:10	Agriculture	Land Surface Temperature Posters on 1 July	Oil Spills Posters on 1 July	Snow	Land Cover & Land Use	SAR & Atmosphere Posters on 1 July	Data Assimilation Posters on 1 July	Ocean Altimetry
10:10 10:40	Coffee break
10:40 12:20	Agriculture Posters on 1 July	Global Climate Change	Sentinel 2/3 Posters on 1 July	Snow Posters on 1 July	Land Cover & Land Use	Orbits	Data Mining	Ocean Altimetry Posters on 1 July
12:30 13:00	Closing Plenary Session

Opening Plenary Session
Monday, 28 June 2010
09:30-12:00

09:30	Welcome by Mayor of Bergen: Gunnar Bakke Address by Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA’s Director General GOCE: Reiner Rummel, Principal Investigator, Technical University of Munich, Germany SMOS: Yann Kerr, CESBIO, Toulouse SMOS: Jordi Font, Institut de Ciencies del Mar, Barcelona CryoSat: Duncan Wingham, Lead Investigator, University College, London ERS/Envisat results: Johnny A. Johannessen, ESAC Chair, NERSC, Norway ESA EO: Volker Liebig, Director of ESA EO Programmes
11:30	Trond Giske, Norwegian Minister for Trade and Industry
12:00-13:00 - Press Conference

Session 1.1.1 - GEO Task on Forestry
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 1
13:30-14:50

13:30	GEO Forest Carbon Tracking Task in Support of UNFCCC – Advanced SAR / Optical Monitoring of Tropical Forests Per Erik, Skrøvseth 1; Seifert, Frank Martin 2; Held, Alex 3; Ward, Stephen 3; Rosenqvist, Ake 4; Ochiai, Osamu 4 1NSC (NORWAY); 2ESA (ITALY); 3CSIRO (AUSTRALIA); 4JAXA (JAPAN)
13:50	Forest Carbon Tracking task - Product Specification and Methods for Sensor Interoperability Caccetta, Peter 1; Herold, Martin 2; Hoekman, Dirk 2; Kastdalen, Leif 3; Kellndorfer, Josef 4; Lindquist, Erik 5; Woodcock, Curtis 6; Wulder, Mike 3 1CSIRO (AUSTRALIA); 2Wageningen University (NETHERLANDS); 3NCS (NORWAY); 4WHRC (UNITED STATES); 5FAO (ITALY); 6Boston University (UNITED STATES)
14:10	Global Forest Change Monitoring System Using Multi-Resolution and Multi-Temporal Remotely Sensed Data Hansen, Matthew; Potapov, Peter P.; Stehman, Stephen; Broich, Mark; Adusei, Bernard South Dakota State University (UNITED STATES)
14:30	JAXA’s activities for Forest Carbon Tracking – Global Forest Mapping Dataset and K&C Shimada, Masanobu; Rosenqvist, Ake; Ochiai, Osamu JAXA (JAPAN)

Session 1.1.2 - GEO Task on Forestry
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 1
15:40-17:00

15:40	Deforestation and Forest Degradation Assessment by Multi-resolution Remote Sensing: The Brazilian Amazonia Forest Monitoring Escada, Maria Isabel S.; Rennó, Camilo D.; Amaral, Silvana; Valeriano, Dalton M.; Maurano, Luis Eduardo P.; Almeida, Cláudio A.; Pinheiro, Taise F.; Monteiro, Antonio Miguel V.; Câmara, Gilberto; Soares, João V. INPE (BRAZIL)
16:00	Joining Task Forces of CONABIO and FRA-SAR-2010 Teams to support the FCT National Demonstrator Mexico Schmidt, Michael 1; Tovar, Carmen Meneses 2; Hernandez, Rafael Flores 2; Palafox Rivas, Rigoberto 2; Paz, Fernando 3; Schmullius, Christiana 4; Santoro, Maurizio 5 1DLR@CONABIO (GERMANY); 2CONAFOR (MEXICO); 3COLPOS (MEXICO); 4Uni Jena (GERMANY); 5Gamma Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND)
16:20	Mapping of forest extend and change in Tasmania using ALOS PALSAR data in support of the GEO Forest Carbon Tracking Mitchell, Anthea L. 1; Milne, Tony 1; Tapley, Ian 2; Caccetta, Peter 2; Lehmann, Eric 2; Zhou, Zheng-Shu 2; Held, Alex 2 1UNSW (AUSTRALIA); 2CSIRO (AUSTRALIA)
16:40	Monitoring Australian continental land cover changes using Landsat imagery as a component of assessing the role of vegetation dynamics on terrestrial carbon cycling Caccetta, Peter 1; Waterworth, R. 2; Furby, S. 1; Richards, G. 2 1CSIRO (AUSTRALIA); 2Dep. CC (-Not Specified-)

Session 1.2.1 - SAR Waves
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 2
13:30-15:10

13:30	A New Empirical Algorithm for the Deriving Information on Two-Dimensional Surface Wave Spectra from SAR Image Spectra Romeiser, Roland; Graber, Hans University of Miami (UNITED STATES)
13:50	Project GlobWave Busswell, Geoff 1; Ash, Ellis 2; Piolle, Jean-Francois 3; Poulter, Dave 4; Snaith, Helen 4; Collard, Fabrice 5; Sheera, Harjit 1; Pinnock, Simon 6 1Logica (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Satellite Oceanographic Consultants (UNITED KINGDOM); 3Ifremer (FRANCE); 4National Oceanography Centre Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM); 5CLS BOOST Technologies (FRANCE); 6ESA (ITALY)
14:10	The GlobWave Pilot Wave Forecast Verification Scheme Poulter, David 1; Snaith, Helen 1; Busswell, Geoff 2 1National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Logica (UNITED KINGDOM)
14:30	Variations of swell under conditions of opposing wind-sea analyzed through SAR forward mapping Ocampo-Torres, Francisco J. 1; Díaz Méndez, Guillermo 2; Cavaleri, Luigi 3 1CICESE (MEXICO); 2UABC (MEXICO); 3CNR, ISMAR (ITALY)
14:50	Monitoring and Analysis of Ocean Swell Fields: A New Look from Space Chapron, Bertrand 1; Collard, Fabrice 2; Ardhuin, Fabrice 1 1Ifremer (FRANCE); 2CLS (FRANCE)

Session 1.2.2 - SAR Waves
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 2
15:40-17:00

15:40	Ocean Swell in the Vicinity of the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico Díaz Méndez, Guillermo1; Ocampo-Torres, Francisco J.2 1UABC (MEXICO); 2CICESE (MEXICO)
16:00	Monitoring of Internal Waves on Shelf of the Japan Sea Using Panoramic Camera, Acoustic and Satellite SAR Measurement Serebryany, Andrey 1; Konstantinov, Oleg 2; Dubina, Vyacheslav 2 1Space Research Institute RAS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2Pacific Oceanological Institute (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
16:20	Observations of Productivity Enhancement Due to Internal Solitary Waves in the Tropical Oceans Ostrowski, Marek 1; New, Adrian L. 2; da Silva, J.C.B. 3; Bornman, Tommy 4 1IMR (NORWAY); 2National Oceanography Centre (UNITED KINGDOM); 3University of Lisbon (PORTUGAL); 4South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SOUTH AFRICA)
16:40	Internal Waves Surface Manifestations in Non-Tidal Seas Lavrova, Olga; Mityagina, Marina; Sabinin, Konstantin; Serebryany, Andrey Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Science (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
17:00	Retrieval of Quantitative Properties of Oceanic Internal Waves from Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery Dagestad, Knut-Frode 1; Kudryavtsev, Vladimir 2; Johannessen, Johnny 1; Hansen, Morten Wergeland 1 1Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY); 2Nansen International Envirnomental and Remote Sensing Center (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

Session 1.3.1 - EO Data Policy, Access & Preservation
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 3
13:30-14:50

13:30	ESA's Earth Observation Data Policy Mecklenburg, Susanne; Laur, Henri ESA (ITALY)
13:50	Earth Observation data access at ESA Jutz, Simon ESA-ESRIN (ITALY)
14:10	G-POD: a Collaborative Environment for Earth Observation at the European Space Agency Mathot, Emmanuel ; Pinto, Salvatore ; David, Miguel ; Colin, Olivier ESA (ITALY)
14:30	Information Mining and Services at ESA D'Elia, Sergio ESA (ITALY)
14:50	A European framework for the long term preservation of EO data Albani, Mirko ; Beruti, Vincenzo ESA (ITALY)

Session 1.3.2 - ENVISAT Mission beyond 2010
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 3
15:40-17:00

15:40	ENVISAT Mission Extension beyond 2010 Vogel, Pierre; Canela, Miguel; Duesmann, Berthyl ESA (NETHERLANDS)
16:00	ENVISAT Mission Operations after Orbital Change Vazzana, Sergio ESA (ITALY)
16:20	The ENVISAT Mission Extension 2010 - Implications for On-Ground and On-Board Operations Diekmann, Frank-Jürgen ; Mesples, Daniel ESA (GERMANY)
16:40	Spacecraft performance and mission extension Vogel, Pierre ; Canela, Miguel ESA (NETHERLANDS)

Session 1.4.1 - SAR Methods
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 4
13:30-15:10

13:30	The Performance of the ERS-2 SAR after 15 Years Meadows, Peter 1; Miranda, Nuno 2; Pilgrim, Alan 1; Griffiths, Emma 3 1BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ESA (ITALY); 3SELEX Systems Integration Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM)
13:50	Envisat SAR Instrument Status Miranda, Nuno 1; Meadows, Peter 2; Small, David 3; Johnsen, Harald 4; Collard, Fabrice 5; D'Aria, Davide 6 1ESA (ITALY); 2BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre (UNITED KINGDOM); 3University of Zurich (SWITZERLAND); 4Norut Tromsø (NORWAY); 5CLS - Direction des Applications Radar Brest (FRANCE); 6ARESYS s.r.l. (ITALY)
14:10	Assessing SAR Calibration Requirements Using Geophysical Retrieval Algorithms Macklin, Trevor 1; Wright, Patricia 1; Pilgrim, Alan 1; Le Toan, Thuy 2; Bouvet, Alexandre 2; Walker, Nick 3; Floury, Nicolas 4 1BAE SYSTEMS (UNITED KINGDOM); 2CESBIO (FRANCE); 3eOsphere Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 4ESA (NETHERLANDS)
14:30	Terrain-corrected Gamma: Improved Thematic Land-cover Retrieval for SAR with Robust Radiometric Terrain Correction Small, David 1; Miranda, Nuno 2; Zuberbuehler, Lukas 1; Schubert, Adrian 1; Meier, Erich 1 1University of Zurich (SWITZERLAND); 2ESA (ITALY)
14:50	Focusing of Spaceborne SAR data with High Squint: Beyond the Hyperbolic Range Migration Model Larsen, Yngvar 1; Engen, Geir 2 1Norut (NORWAY); 2Norut Tromsø (NORWAY)

Session 1.4.2 - SAR Methods
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 4
15:40-17:20

15:40	A Global Backscatter Model for C-band SAR Sabel, Daniel 1; Doubkova, Marcela 1; Wagner, Wolfgang 1; Snoeij, Paul 2; Attema, Evert 2 1Vienna University of Technology (AUSTRIA); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS)
16:00	Mixed-mode SAR Interferometry Liang, Cunren ; Zeng, Qiming ; Cui, Xiai ; Jiao, Jian Institute of RS & GIS, Peking University (CHINA)
16:20	SuperSAR: A Mission to Detect Earth Surface Deformation in Three Dimensions Shepherd, Andrew 1; Chapron, Bertrand 2; Hooper, Andy 3; Lanari, Riccardo 4; Marsh, Stuart 5; Werner, Charles 6; Wright, Tim 1; Zebker, Howard 7; Hall, David 8; Richard, Jacques 9 1University of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM); 2IFREMER (FRANCE); 3Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS); 4IREA -CNR (ITALY); 5BGS (UNITED KINGDOM); 6Gamma Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 7Stanford University (UNITED STATES); 8EADS Astrium Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 9Thales Alenia Space (FRANCE)
16:40	Emulation of TOPSAR Mode Data for its Interferometric Capabilities Analysis Duro, Javier 1; Albiol, David 1; Arnaud, Alain 1; Tison, Céline 2; Souyris, Jean-Claude 2 1Altamira Information, S.L. (SPAIN); 2Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) (FRANCE)
17:00	Sub-Meter Geoposition Accuracy of Image Pixels in TerraSAR-X Data Weydahl, Dan Johan ; Eldhuset, Knut Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (NORWAY)

Session 1.5.1 - International Relations
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 5
14:00-15:10

14:00	Introduction Cheli, S.; Hoersch, B. ESA-ESRIN (ITALY)
14:10	Indian Earth Observation Programme Hedge, V.S. ISRO (INDIA)
14:30	NASA Earth Observation Programme Freilich, Michael H. NASA (UNITED STATES)
14:50	New Directions in Land Remote Sensing Policy and International Cooperation Stryker, Timothy S. USGS (UNITED STATES)

Session 1.5.2 - International Relations
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 5
15:40-17:20

15:40	Korean Earth Observation activities Youn-Soo, Kim Kari (KOREA)
16:00	Brazil Earth Observation activities Kampel, Milton INPE (BRAZIL)
16:20	European research activities in the GEO context Ollier, Gilles EC (BELGIUM)
16:40	Chinese Earth Observation Programme Zengyuan, Li Chinese Academy of Forestry (CHINA)
17:00	JAXA Earth Observation Programme Ochiai, Osamu JAXA (JAPAN)

Session 1.6.1 - OPT/IR Cal/Val
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 6
13:30-15:10

13:30	MERIS 3rd Reprocessing Goryl, Philippe 1; Bourg, Ludovic 2; MERIS Quality Working Group, MQWG 1 1ESA (ITALY); 2ACRI (FRANCE)
13:50	Results of the MERIS Level 2 Vicarious Adjustment in the NIR and Visible within the 3rd Reprocessing Mazeran, Constant 1; Lerebourg, Christophe 1; Huot, Jean-Paul 2; Antoine, David 3 1ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS); 3Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV) (FRANCE)
14:10	Radiometric Equalisation for Meris using Dimitri Bouvet, Marc ; Ramoino, Fabrizio ; Delwart, Steven ; Duca, Ricardo ESA (NETHERLANDS)
14:30	Intercomparison of Medium Resolution Multi-Spectral over Natural Targets using Dimitri Bouvet, Marc ; Ramoino, Fabrizio ESA (NETHERLANDS)
14:50	Uncertainties Associated with Validation of the MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (MTCI) Dash, Jadunandan 1; Vuolo, Francesco 1; Curran, Paul J 2; Lajas, Dulce 3; Kwiatkowska, Ewa 3 1University of Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Bournemouth University (UNITED KINGDOM); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS)

Session 1.6.2 - OPT/IR New Methods & Products
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 6
15:40-17:20

15:40	Monitoring the South Atlantic Anomaly using ATSR Instrument Series Casadio, Stefano 1; Arino, Olivier 2; Serpe, Danilo 1 1SERCO (ITALY); 2ESA (ITALY)
16:00	Gas flaring Monitoring from Satellite using ATSR Instrument Series Casadio, Stefano 1; Arino, Olivier 2; Serpe, Danilo 1 1SERCO (ITALY); 2ESA (ITALY)
16:20	ENVISAT/MERIS and Landsat/TM Image Fusion using a Multi-Resolution Linear Unmixing Amoros Lopez, Julia ; Gomez Chova, Luis ; Guanter , Luis ; Alonso, Luis ; Camps Valls, Gustavo ; Moreno, Jose University of Valencia (SPAIN)
16:40	Pumice Rafts Monitoring using Multi-Mission Data as an Aid for Ship Navigation and Marine/Coastal Resource-Management Mantas, Vasco M. ; Pereira, A.J.S.C. IMAR, Institute of Marine Research (PORTUGAL)
17:00	MSG Monitoring of Vegetation Fires in Brazil Setzer, Alberto ; Yoshida, Marcos C. ; Morelli, Fabiano ; Maurano, Luis E. INPE - National Space Institute of Brazil (BRAZIL)

Session 1.7.1 - Altimetry Cal/Val & New Algorithms
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 7
13:30-15:10

13:30	Corsica: an Experiment for Long-Term Altimeter Calibration and Sea Level Monitoring Bonnefond, Pascal 1; Exertier, Pierre 1; Laurain, Olivier 1; Lyard, Florent 2; Bijac, Sandrine 3; Chimot, Julien 3; Féménias, Pierre 4 1Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (FRANCE); 2LEGOS-OMP-CNRS (FRANCE); 3NOVELTIS (FRANCE); 4ESA (ITALY)
13:50	A Global Assessment of the EnviSat RA-2 performance over non-ocean surfaces Berry, Philippa ; Smith, Richard Gavin EAPRS Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM)
14:10	Envisat ocean altimetry performance assessment Ollivier, Annabelle 1; Faugere, Yannice 1; Picot, Nicolas 2; Femenias, Pierre 3 1CLS (FRANCE); 2CNES (FRANCE); 3ESA (ITALY)
14:30	Cross-Comparisons of Sea Surface Height (SSH) derived from In-Situ and Altimeter Measurements Ablain, Michael 1; Valladeau, Guillaume 1; Legeais, Jean-François 1; Lombard, Alix 2; Femenias, Pierre 3 1CLS (FRANCE); 2CNES (FRANCE); 3ESA (ITALY)
14:50	Reprocessing of Altimeter Products for ERS: The Reaper Project Steven, Baker1; Massmann, Franz-Heinrich2; Otten, Michiel3; Roca, Mònica4; Scharroo, Remko5; Soussi, Batoula6; Visser, Pieter7 1University College London (UNITED KINGDOM); 2GFZ Potsdam (GERMANY); 3ESOC (GERMANY); 4isardSAT (SPAIN); 5Altimetrics (UNITED STATES); 6CLS (FRANCE); 7TUD-DEOS (NETHERLANDS)

Session 1.7.2 - Altimetry Cal/Val & New Algorithms
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 7
15:40-17:20

15:40	RADS: Towards an Altimetric Climate Data Record Scharroo, Remko 1; Leuliette, Eric 2; Naeije, Marc 3; Doornbos, Eelco 3; Schrama, Ernst 3; Lillibridge, John 2; Miller, Laury 2 1Altimetrics LLC (UNITED STATES); 2NOAA / Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry (UNITED STATES); 3Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS)
16:00	Recovery of Short Wavelength Geophysical Signals from Future Delay-Doppler Altimeters (CRYOSAT II and Sentinel type) Andersen, Ole Baltazar DTU Space (DENMARK)
16:20	Radar Altimeter Retracking Using Bayes Linear Methods Challenor, Peter National Oceanography Centre (UNITED KINGDOM)
16:40	Sentinel-3 Surface Topography Mission SPS and GPP development and Topography Expertise Amarouche, Laiba 1; Dumont, Jean-Paul 1; Valette, Jean-Jacques 1; Sicart, Philippe 1; Blusson , Annick 1; Soulat, François 1; Frery, Marie-Laure 1; Thibaut, Pierre 1; Jourdain, Sylvain 1; Houpert, Alexandre 2; Mavrocordatos, Constantin 3; Rebhan, Helge 3; Picot, Nicolas 4; Obligis, Estelle 1 1CLS (FRANCE); 2TAS (FRANCE); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS); 4CNES (FRANCE)
17:00	Basic Radar Altimetry Toolbox: a Set of Tools for All Altimetry Users Rosmorduc, Vinca 1; Benveniste, Jerome 2; Bronner, Emilie 3; Dinardo, Salvatore 4; Lucas, Bruno Manuel 5; Niejmeier, Sander 6; Picot, Nicolas 3; Breebaart, Leo 6; Earith, Didier 7 1CLS (FRANCE); 2ESA (ITALY); 3CNES (FRANCE); 4SERCO/ESRIN (ITALY); 5Deimos/ESRIN (ITALY); 6Science & Technology (NETHERLANDS); 7Akka (FRANCE)

Session 1.8.1 - Atmosphere: Cal/Val
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 8
13:10-14:50

13:10	ESA's Atmospheric Chemistry Mission - A Status Report Fehr, Thorsten 1; Laur, Henri 1; Hörsch, Bianca 1; Barois, Olivier 1; Canela, Miguel 2; Gessner, Roland 3; Perron, Gaetan 4; Raspollini , Piera 5; Barrot, Gilbert 6; Bovensmann, Heinrich 7; Gottwald, Manfred 8; Kuhlmann, Rolf von 1; Meijer, Yasjka 1 1ESA (ITALY); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS); 3EADS Astrium (GERMANY); 4ABB (CANADA); 5IFAC/CNR (ITALY); 6ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 7IFE/University of Bremen (GERMANY); 8DLR-IMF (GERMANY)
13:30	Validation of MIPAS Optimized Resolution Products based on Balloon Measurements Oelhaf , H. 1; Wetzel, G. 1; Kleinert, A. 1; Friedl-Vallon, F. 1; Maucher, G. 1; Raspollini, P. 2; Ceccherini, S. 2; Forzieri, G. 2; Carli, B. 2; Ridolfi, M. 3; Carlotti, M. 3; Fehr, T. 4 1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (GERMANY); 2Istituto di Fisica Applicata 'Nello Carrara' (IFAC) (ITALY); 3Universita di Bologna (ITALY); 4ESA (ITALY)
13:50	Optimal Representation of Level 2 Products of Atmospheric Measurements, in View of Subsequent Applications Carli, Bruno ; Ceccherini, Simone ; Raspollini, Piera IFAC-CNR (ITALY)
14:10	Impact of Level 1 Quality on SCIAAMCHY Level 2 Retrieval Lichtenberg, Günter 1; Gimeno-Garcia, Sebastian 1; Schreier, Franz 1; Slijkhuis, Sander 1; Hrechanyy, Serhiy 1; Doicu, Adrian 1; Snel, Ralph 2; Bovensmann, Heinrich 3 1DLR - IMF (German Aerospace Centre) (GERMANY); 2SRON (Netherlands Institute for Space Research) (NETHERLANDS); 3Institute of Environmental Physics/Remote Sensing, University Bremen (GERMANY)
14:30	Multi-Mission Validation by Radio Occultation: System Setup and Example Results from GOMOS and MIPAS Validation Koerner, Stefan 1; Kirchengast, Gottfried 1; Fritzer, Johannes 1; Retscher, Christian 2; Fehr, Thorsten 3 1University of Graz (AUSTRIA); 2NASA (UNITED STATES); 3ESA (ITALY)

Session 1.8.2 - Tropospheric NO2 & O3
Monday, 28 June 2010 - Room 8
15:40-17:40

15:40	Reactive trace gases observed from GOME and SCIAMACHY: the evolution of early morning measurements John, Burrows ; Heinrich, Bovensmann ; Folkard, Wittrock ; Anja, Schoenhardt ; Mathias, Begoin University of Bremen (GERMANY)
16:00	European NO2 Changes During the Operation Period of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument OMI (2004 – present) Brunner, Dominik ; Zhou, Yipin ; Popp, Christoph ; Buchmann, Brigitte Empa (SWITZERLAND)
16:20	Tropospheric Ozone from GOME-2 NNORSY retrievals Kaifel, Anton ; Huckle, Roger ; Felder, Martin Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (GERMANY)
16:40	O3 Profile and Tropospheric O3 Retrievals from BUV Measurements Measured by GOME, GOME-2 and OMI Liu, Xiong 1; Liu, Xiong 2; Cai, Zhaonan 3; Chance, Kelly 1; Bhartia, Pawan 4; Kurosu, Thomas 1; Nowlan, Caroline 1; Yang, Kai 2 1Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (UNITED STATES); 2UMBC (UNITED STATES); 3Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHINA); 4NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (UNITED STATES)
17:00	Determining Tropospheric Ozone Columns from Space by Assimilation of GOME-2 Ozone Profiles van Peet, Jacob; van der A, Ronald KNMI - Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (NETHERLANDS)
17:20	Air Quality Measurements for the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai from Space Hao, Nan 1; Valks, Pieter 1; Rix, Meike 1; Loyola, Diego 1; Van Roozendael, Michel 2; De Smedt, Isabelle 2; Zhou, Bin 3; Zimmer, Walter 1; Emmadi, Sunil 1 1German Aerospace Center (GERMANY); 2Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM); 3Fudan University (CHINA)

Session 2.1.1 - Global Biomass
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 1
08:30-10:10

08:30	Biomass from Space: a new Page in Understanding the Earth's Carbon Cycle Quegan, Shaun University of Sheffield (UNITED KINGDOM)
08:50	Developments Needed to Reduce Uncertainties in Carbon Flux Estimates from Tropical Deforestation and Degradation Achard, Frederic Joint Research Centre of the EC (ITALY)
09:10	Biomass mapping in tropical regions Hoekman, Dirk 1; Quiñones, Marcela 2 1Wageningen University (NETHERLANDS); 2SarVision (NETHERLANDS)
09:30	Forest Mapping of the Northern Hemisphere with Spaceborne Radar Santoro, Maurizio 1; Schmullius, Christiane 2; Beer, Christian 3; Cartus, Oliver 2; Eriksson, Leif 4; Leiterer, Reik 5; Reiche, Johannes 5; Thiel, Carolin 2; Thiel, Christian 2 1Gamma Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 2Friedrich-Schiller University (GERMANY); 3Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (GERMANY); 4Chalmers University of Technology (SWEDEN); 5Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (GERMANY)
09:50	Mapping of Vegetation Structure in the African Savanna - the SARvanna Project Schmullius, Christiana 1; Vollrath, Andreas 2; Paradzay, Charles 3; Smit, Izak 4; Lück, Wolfgang 5; Hajnsek, Irena 6; Annegarn, Harold 3; Erasmus, Barend 7; Woodhouse, Ian 8; Renaud, Mathieu 5 1Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (GERMANY); 2FSU Jena (GERMANY); 3University of Johannesburg (SOUTH AFRICA); 4Kruger National Park/SANParks (SOUTH AFRICA); 5CSIR (SOUTH AFRICA); 6DLR (GERMANY); 7Univ. of Witwatersrand (SOUTH AFRICA); 8University of Edinburgh (UNITED KINGDOM)

Session 2.1.2 - Forestry & Biomass
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 1
10:40-12:20

10:40	Earth observation and political negotiations: supporting developing countries in implementing post-Kyoto Herold, Martin Wageningen University (NETHERLANDS)
11:00	The BIOMASAR Algorithm: an Approach for Retrieval of Forest growing Stock Volume using Stacks of Multi-Temporal SAR Data Santoro, Maurizio 1; Cartus, Oliver 2; Schmullius, Christiane 2; Wegmüller, Urs 1 1Gamma Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 2University of Jena (GERMANY)
11:20	C-Band Intensity-Based Stem Volume Estimates Versus MODIS VCF Tree Canopy Cover: Does C-Band see more than Canopy Cover? Cartus, Oliver 1; Santoro, Maurizio 2; Wegmüller, Urs 2; Schmullius, Christiane 1 1Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (GERMANY); 2GAMMA Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND)
11:40	Assessment of Potential of L-band Quadpol Radar for Retrieval of Growing Stock Volume and Forest Parameters in Siberia Chowdhury, Tanvir Ahmed ; Thiel, Christian ; Schmullius, Christiane Friedrich-Schiller-University (GERMANY)
12:00	Dual-Band Radar Estimation of Stem Volume in Boreal Forest Rauste, Yrjo ; Astola, Heikki ; Heikki, Ahola ; HÃ¤me, Tuomas VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (FINLAND)

Session 2.1.3 - Forestry & Biomass
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 1
13:50-15:30

13:50	Analysis of Forest Structure at Longer Wavelengths: Experimental Results from the BioSAR 2008 Campaign Tebaldini, Stefano ; Rocca, Fabio Politecnico di Milano (ITALY)
14:10	The Potential of Polinsar ALOS PALSAR Data to Detect Land Use/Cover Changes in Amazon Liesenberg, Veraldo ; Gloaguen, Richard Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (GERMANY)
14:30	SAR Satellite Images and Terrestrial Laser Scanning in Forest Damages Mapping in Finland Karjalainen, Mika 1; Kaasalainen, Sanna 1; Hyyppä, Juha 1; Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa, Päivi 2; Holopainen, Markus 2; Krooks, Anssi 1; Jaakkola, Anttoni 1Finnish Geodetic Institute (FINLAND); 2University of Helsinki (FINLAND)
14:50	Monitoring of Tropical Forest Cover and Biomass by Combining VHR Image Sample and Wall-to-Wall Optical and SAR Data Häme, Tuomas ; Kilpi, Jorma ; Ahola, Heikki ; Rauste, Yrjö ; Sirro, Laura VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (FINLAND)
15:10	Large Scale Land Cover Classification using PALSAR/ALOS data: Case of the Tropical Rain Forest in Indonesia Longepe, Nicolas 1; Rakwatin, Preesan 1; Isoguchi, Osamu 1; Shimada, Masanobu 1; Uryu, Yumiko 2 1Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAPAN); 2World Wildlife Fund (INDONESIA)

Session 2.1.4 - Forestry & Biomass
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 1
16:00-17:40

16:00	Monitoring Indonesian Forest Management in Support of Sustainable Forestry and Carbon Emissions Reductions Dean, Andrew 1; Shono, Kenichi 1; Hughes, Simon 2; Kliparchuk, Karl 2; Salim, Agus 1; van Goor, Wouter 3; Beck, Rob 3; Boivin, Thomas 2 1PT Hatifeld Indonesia (INDONESIA); 2Hatfield Consultants (CANADA); 3NEO B.V. (NETHERLANDS)
16:20	Complementarity of Different SAR Sensors (ERS, ASAR, PALSAR) for Land use over Tropical Environment Dikongo, Calvin 1; Lardeux, Cédric 2; Niamien, David 1; Frison, Pierre-Louis 1; Riera, Bernard 3; Rudant, Jean-Paul 1 1University Paris-Est (FRANCE); 2Universitè Paris-Est Marne La Vallèe (FRANCE); 3CNRS-MNHM (FRANCE)
16:40	Assessing Peatlands in Tropical Swamp Forest of Central Indonesia with Dual-Polarimetric TerraSAR-X data Wijaya, Arief 1; Marpu, Prashanth Reddy 2; Liesenberg, Veraldo 3; Gloaguen, Richard 3 1Gadjah Mada University (INDONESIA); 2University of Pavia (ITALY); 3TU-Bergakademie Freiberg (GERMANY)
17:00	Potential of Fusion of SAR and Optical Satellite Imagery for Biomass Estimation in Temperate Forested Areas Ackermann, Nicolas 1; Thiel, Christian 2; Borgeaud, Maurice 3; Schmullius, Christiane 2 1Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (GERMANY); 2Friedrich-Schiller University (GERMANY); 3Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) (SWITZERLAND)
17:20	SAR Sensitivity to burn Severity and Forest Recovery Tanase, Mihai Andrei 1; Santoro, Maurizio 2; Wegmüller, Urs 2; de la Riva, Juan 1; Perez-Cabello, Fernando 1; Le Toan, Thuy 3 1University of Zaragoza (SPAIN); 2Gamma Remote Sensing AG (SWITZERLAND); 3CESBIO (FRANCE)

Session 2.2.1 - Sea-Ice
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 2
08:30-10:10

08:30	Sea Ice Investigation by Combining SAR Backscatter and Doppler Shift Data Hansen, Morten Wergeland ; Sandven, Stein NERSC (NORWAY)
08:50	Evaluation of Sea Ice Concentration Algorithm for SAR Data from the Bay of Bothnia Berg, Anders ; Eriksson, Leif Chalmers University of Technology (SWEDEN)
09:10	Evaluation of Multi-Polarization SAR Data at L-, C- and X-Band for Sea-Ice Monitoring in the Baltic Sea Eriksson, Leif E. B. 1; Borenãs, Karin 2; Dierking, Wolfgang 3; Berg, Anders 1; Pemberton, Per 2 1Chalmers University of Technology (SWEDEN); 2Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SWEDEN); 3Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (GERMANY)
09:30	Multi-Frequency SAR Use at the Canadian Ice Service-An Operational Perspective Arkett, Matt 1; De Abreu, Roger 1; Flett, Dean 2; Zagon, Tom 1; Dekorte, Jessica 3 1Canadian Ice Service (CANADA); 2Canadian Space Agency (CANADA); 3University of Ottawa (CANADA)
09:50	Methodology of Complex Analysis of Sea Ice SAR Images Alexandrov, Vitaly 1; Sandven, Stein 2; Johannessen, Ola M 2; Bobylev, Leonid 1; Yarygina, Alexandra 1; Volkov, Vladimir 1; Zakhvatkina, Natalia 1 1Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY)

Session 2.2.2 - Sea-Ice
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 2
10:40-12:20

10:40	Accurate Monitoring of Grounded Ice and Sea Ice Dynamic by Means of ERS-EnvisatTandem Cross-Interferometry Pasquali, Paolo 1; Cantone, Alessio 1; Barbieri, Massimo 1; Engdahl, Marcus 2 1sarmap s.a. (SWITZERLAND); 2ESA (ITALY)
11:00	Arctic Sea Ice dynamics for Global Climate Models: Results from the GlobICE Project Baker, Steven ; Laxon, Seymour University College London (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:20	Giant Rings on Ice of the Lake Baikal: a Look from Space and from Beneath Kouraev, Alexei 1; Shimaraev, Michail 2; Remy, Frederique 1; Ivanov, Andrei 3; Golubov, Boris 4 1LEGOS (FRANCE); 2Limnological Institute (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 3P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 4Institute of Dynamics of Geosphere (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
11:40	STSE SAR Ice Constellation -Project Review and Status Power, Desmond 1; Davidson, Malcolm 2; Youden, James 1; Walker, Nick 3 1C-CORE (CANADA); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS); 3eOsphere (UNITED KINGDOM)
12:00	Small-scale and Large-scale Studies of Sea Ice Gudmandsen, Preben 1; Wilkinson, Jeremy 2; Hanson, Susanne 3 1Danish National Space Center, Technical University of Denmark (DENMARK); 2The Scottish Association for Marine Science (UNITED KINGDOM); 3Danish Meteorological Institute (DENMARK)

Session 2.2.3 - Sea-Ice
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 2
13:50-15:30

13:50	Bayesian Sea Ice Detection with ASCAT Verspeek, Jeroen ; Belmonte, Maria ; Stoffelen, Ad ; Vogelzang, Jur KNMI (NETHERLANDS)
14:10	Recent Changes in the Arctic Ocean from ESA's Radar Altimetry Missions Giles, Katharine ; Laxon, Seymour ; Ridout, Andy University College London (UNITED KINGDOM)
14:30	CBSIT 2009: Airborne Validation of Envisat Radar Altimetry and In Situ Ice Camp Measurements over Arctic Sea Ice Connor, Laurence 1; Farrell, Sinead 2; McAdoo, David 1; Krabill, William 3; Laxon, Seymour 4; Richter-Menge, Jacqueline 5; Markus, Thorsten 3 1NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry (UNITED STATES); 2University of Maryland (UNITED STATES); 3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (UNITED STATES); 4University College London (UNITED KINGDOM); 5U.S. Army Cold Regions Research Laboratory (UNITED STATES)
14:50	Pre-Launch Calibration and Validation Measurements on Arctic Sea Ice for CryoSat-2 Nicolaus, Marcel 1; Hendricks, Stefan 1; Gerdes, Ruediger 1; Haas, Christian 2 1Alfred Wegener Institute (GERMANY); 2University of Alberta (CANADA)
15:10	On Level Ice Thickness Retrieval in the Kara Sea using MODIS and ENVISAT ASAR Data Mäkynen, Marko; Similä, Markku; Cheng, Bin; Laine, Vesa Finnish Meterological Institute (FINLAND

Session 2.2.4 - Sea-Ice
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 2
16:00-17:40

16:00	Thin ice classification and thickness estimation by means of SAR Dierking, Wolfgang 1; Luepkes, Christof 1; Busche, Thomas 2; Skriver, Henning 3 1Alfred Wegener Institute (GERMANY); 2German Aerospace Center (GERMANY); 3Technical University of Denmark (GERMANY)
16:20	Satellite Altimetric Mappings of Arctic Gravity and Sea Surface Topography from Envisat RA-2 and ICESat Data McAdoo, David 1; Farrell, Sinead 1; Laxon, Seymour 2; Ridout, Andy 2; Zwally , Jay 3; Yi, Donghui 3 1NOAA (UNITED STATES); 2University College London (UNITED KINGDOM); 3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (UNITED STATES)
16:40	Analysis of Arctic ice thickness, freeboard and snow cover from the data of Russian Sever expeditions Alexandrov, Vitaly 1; Sandven, Stein 2 1Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY)
17:00	In-Situ, Airborne and Satellite Observations of Ku-Band Radar Penetration into Snow on Sea Ice in Support of CryoSat-2 Willatt, Rosemary 1; Laxon, Seymour 2; Giles, Katharine 1; Ridout, Andrew 1; Cullen, Robert 3 1UCL (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University College London (UNITED KINGDOM); 3ESA/ESTEC (NETHERLANDS)
17:20	Melt Ponds as Observed with a Helicopter-Borne, Multi-Frequency Scatterometer in the Arctic Ocean in 2007 Kern, Stefan 1; Brath, Manfred 1; Stammer, Detlef 2 1Center for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hamburg (GERMANY); 2Center of Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hamburg (GERMANY)

Session 2.3.1 - GOCE: Mission Status & first science results
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 3
08:30-10:10

08:30	Satellite Status & Performance Fehringer, M.1; Floberghagen, R.1; Muzi, D.1 1ESA (NETHERLANDS)
08:50	Flight Operations for GOCE, ESA's Gravity Mission Steiger, Christoph 1; Floberghagen, Rune 2; Fehringer, Michael 3; Pineiro, Juan 1; Emanuelli, Pier Paolo 1 1ESA (GERMANY); 2ESA (ITALY); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS)
09:10	Payload Status, Data Quality and Availability Floberghagen, R.; Fehringer, M.; Lamarre, D.; Muzi, D.; GOCE Team ESA (ITALY)
09:30	First Gravity Field from GOCE Rummel, R. Technical University Munich (GERMANY)
09:50	Rapid and Precise Orbit Determination for the GOCE Satellite Visser, P. 1; van den IJssel, J. 1; Van Helleputte, T. 1; Bock, H. 2; Jaeggi, A. 2; Beutler, G. 2; Heinze, M. 3 1Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS); 2Astronomical Institute, University of Bern (AIUB) (SWITZERLAND); 3Technische Universitaet Muenchen (GERMANY)

Session 2.3.2 - GOCE: Level 1b data processing and in-flight calibration
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 3
10:40-12:20

10:40	GOCE L1b Processing Frommknecht, Bjoern 1; Stummer, Claudia 2; Gilles, Pascal 1; Floberghagen, Rune 1; Cesare, Stefano 3; Catastini, Giuseppe 3; Meloni, Marco 4; Bigazzi, Alberto 4 1ESA (ITALY); 2IAPG - TU Munich (GERMANY); 3TAS-I (ITALY); 4SERCO (ITALY)
11:00	Overview of GOCE Gradiometer Cal/Val Activities Bouman, Johannes 1; Brieden, Phillip 2; Catastini, Giuseppe 3; Cesare, Stefano 3; Floberghagen, Rune 4; Frommknecht, Björn 4; Haagmans, Roger 5; Kern, Michael 5; Lamarre, Daniel 5; Müller, Jürgen 2; Plank, Gernot 5; Rispens, Sietse 6; Stummer, Claudia 7; Tscherning, Christian 8; Veicherts, Martin 8; Visser, Pieter 9 1DGFI/IAPG (GERMANY); 2Leibniz Universität Hannover (GERMANY); 3Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) (ITALY); 4ESA (ITALY); 5ESA (NETHERLANDS); 6SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS); 7TU München, IAPG (GERMANY); 8Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (DENMARK); 9Astrodynamics and Satellite systems (A&S) (NETHERLANDS)
11:20	Accelerometers of the GOCE Mission: Return of Experience from One Year of In-Orbit Marque, J.-P. ONERA (FRANCE)
11:40	The In-flight Calibration of the GOCE Gradiometer Cesare, Stefano 1; Catastini, Giuseppe 1; Floberghagen, Rune 2; Lamarre, Daniel 3 1Thales Alenia Space Italia (ITALY); 2ESA (ITALY); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS)
12:00	Alternative In-Flight Calibration of the Gradiometer using ESA's L Method Lamarre, D.; Kern, M. ESA (NETHERLANDS)

Session 2.3.3 - GOCE: Level 2 data processing and products I
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 3
13:50-15:30

13:50	Quality Assessment of GOCE Gradients Müller, Jürgen ; Brieden, Phillip Leibniz Universität Hannover (GERMANY)
14:10	GOCE Gravity Gradients in Instrument and Terrestrial Frames Bouman, J. 1; Gruber, T. 2; Rispens, S. 3; Schrama, E. 4; Tscherning, C.C. 5; Veicherts, M. 5; Visser, P. 4 1DGFI (GERMANY); 2Technische Universität München (GERMANY); 3SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS); 4TUDelft (NETHERLANDS); 5University of Copenhagen (DENMARK)
14:30	GOCE Gravity Field Recovery by Means of the Direct Numerical Method Bruinsma, S.L. 1; Marty, J.C. 1; Balmino, G. 1; Biancale, R. 1; Foerste, C. 2; Abrikosov, O. 2; Neumayer, H. 2 1CNES (FRANCE); 2GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam (GERMANY)
14:50	Global Gravity Field Model derived from GOCE Orbit and Gradiometry Data Pail, Roland¹; Goiginger, Helmut¹; Mayrhofer, Reinhard¹; Fecher, Thomas²; Gruber, Thomas²; Schuh, Wolf-Dieter³; Brockmann, Jan-Martin³; Krasbutter, Ina³; Höck, Eduard⁴ ¹TU Graz, Institute of Navigation and Satellite Geodesy, GERMANY; ²Technical University Munich, Institute of Astronomical and Physical Geodesy, GERMANY; ³University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, GERMANY; ⁴Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, AUSTRIA
15:10	GOCE Data Analysis: the Space-Wise Approach and the First Space-Wise Gravity Field Model Migliaccio, F. 1; Reguzzoni, M. 1; Sansò, F. 1; Tscherning, C.C. 2; Veicherts, M. 2 1POLIMI GROUP (ITALY); 2UCPH GROUP (- Not specified -)

Session 2.3.4 - GOCE: Level 2 data processing and products II
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 3
16:00-17:40

16:00	Validation of GOCE Gravity Field Models and Precise Science Orbits Gruber, T. 1; Ackermann, C. 1; Fecher, T. 1; Heinze, M. 1; Visser, P. 2 1Institut für Astronomische und Physikalische Geodäsie (IAPG), Technische Universität München (GERMANY); 2Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS)
16:20	Discussion on data products and processing
16:40	Precise Science Orbits for the GOCE Satellite: Aiming at cm-Level Precision Bock, H. 1; Jaeggi, A. 1; Meyer, U. 1; Beutler, G. 1; Heinze, M. 2 1Astronomical Institute, University of Bern (AIUB) (SWITZERLAND); 2Institute of Astronomical and Physical Geodesy (IAPG), Technische Universitaet Muenchen (GERMANY)
17:00	Quick-Look Gravity Field Solutions as Part of the GOCE Quality Assessment Mayrhofer, Reinhard 1; Pail , Roland 1; Fecher , Thomas 2 1TU Graz, Institute of Navigation and Satellite Geodesy (AUSTRIA); 2Technical University Munich, Institute of Astronomical and Physical Geodesy (GERMANY)
17:20	Refinement of the Stochastic Model of GOCE Scientific Data and its Effect on the in-situ Gravity Field Solution Schuh, Wolf-Dieter1; Brockmann, Jan Martin1; Kargoll, Boris1; Krasbutter, Ina1; Pail, Roland2 1University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (GERMANY); 2TU Graz, Institute of Navigation and Satellite Geodesy (AUSTRIA)

Session 2.4.1 - GMES Programmatic Overview
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 4
08:40-10:10

08:40	Welcoming Remarks Liebig, Volker ESA (ITALY)
08:50	Programme Overview Facchini, M. EC
09:10	Space Component Aschbacher, J. ESA (ITALY)
09:30	Ground Segment and Data Access Kohlhammer, G. ESA (ITALY)
09:50	In Situ Component Steenmans, C. EEA (DENMARK)

Session 2.4.2 - GMES Space Component
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 4
10:40-12:40

10:40	Sentinel-1 Mission and System Overview Torres, Ramon 1; Attema, Evert 1; Snoeij, Paul 1; Levrini, Guido 2 1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2ESA/ESTEC (NETHERLANDS)
11:00	The GMES Sentinel-2 Operational Mission Spoto, Francois; Martimort, Philippe; Sy, Omar; Laberinti, Paolo; Carlier, Stefane ESA (NETHERLANDS)
11:20	The Sentinel-3 Mission Berruti, Bruno ; Mavrocordatos, Constantin ESA (NETHERLANDS)
11:40	The Sentinel-4 Mission and its Instrument on MTG Stark, Hendrik ; Bazalgette Courreges-Lacoste, Gregory ; Bezy, Jean-Loup ESA (NETHERLANDS)
12:00	Sentinel-5 Precursor Mission McMullan, Kevin ; McMullan, Kevin ESA (NETHERLANDS)
12:20	GMES Contributing Missions - Status and Plans Hoersch, Bianca ESA (ITALY)

Session 2.4.3 - GMES for Marine & Cryosphere Applications
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 4
13:50-15:30

13:50	The MyOcean GMES Marine Core Service for Ocean monitoring and forecasting Bahurel, Pierre 1; Bell, M. 2; Jacq, F. 3; Johannessen, J. 4; Le Traon, P.-Y. 5; Pinardi, N. 6; She, J. 7; Adragna, F. 1 1Mercator Ocean (FRANCE); 2Met Office (UNITED KINGDOM); 3CLS (FRANCE); 4Nansen Environment Research and Scientific Centre (NORWAY); 5Ifremer (FRANCE); 6Institute National for Geophysics and Vulcanology (ITALY); 7Danis Met Institute (DENMARK)
14:10	Polar View - A Unique View of the Environment, the Economy and Safety Puestow, Thomas C-CORE (CANADA)
14:30	MARCOAST - Marine & Coastal Environmental Information Services Brockmann , C. Brockmann Consult, GERMANY
14:50	Ocean and Cryosphere Sciences Using the Sentinels 1 and 3 Johannessen, Johnny A. 1; Chapron, Bertrand 2; Drinkwater, Mark 3 1NERSC (NORWAY); 2Ifremer (FRANCE); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS)
15:10	Discussion

Session 2.4.4 - GMES for Land Applications
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 4
16:00-18:00

16:00	G eoland2 - Operational Monitoring Services for our Changing Environment Lacaze, R. 1; Knabe, Stefan 2 1Hygeos (FRANCE); 2Infoterra GmbH (GERMANY)
16:20	GMFS Service Integration and know how Transfer to Africa Haub, Carsten 1; Gilliams, Sven 2 1EFTAS (GERMANY); 2VITO (BELGIUM)
16:40	The Globwetland2 Project Paganini, Marc ESA (ITALY)
17:00	GSE Forest Monitoring for the UNFCCC REDD Process Haeusler, T.1; Gomez, S.1; Siwe, R.1; Ramminger, G.1; Amougou, J.2 1GAF-AG, GERMANY; 2MINEP, CAMEROON
17:20	The Contribution of GMES / Sentinels to Land-Surface Earth System Science Moreno, Jose University of Valencia (SPAIN)
17:40	Discussion

Session 2.5.1 - Volcanic Emissions
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 5
08:30-10:10

08:30	Support to Aviation for Volcanic Ash Avoidance: Using Remotely Sensed Data to Manage the Volcanic Risk to Air Traffic Buongiorno, Fabrizia 1; Corradini, Stefano 1; Eckhardt, Sabine 2; Kristiansen, Nina 2; Merucci, Luca 1; Richter, Andreas 3; Seibert, Petra 4; Stohl, Andreas 2; Zehner, Claus 5; Prata, Fred 2 1INGV (ITALY); 2NILU (NORWAY); 3University of Bremen (GERMANY); 4BOKU (AUSTRIA); 5ESA (ITALY)
08:50	Monitoring of Volcanic Eruptions and Determination of SO2 Plume Height from GOME-2 Measurements Rix, Meike 1; Valks, Pieter 1; Loyola, Diego 1; Maerker, Cordelia 1; Seidenberger, Katrin 1; Van Gent, Jeroen 2; Van Roozendael, Michel 2; Spurr, Robert 3; Hao, Nan 1; Emmadi, Sunil 1; Zimmer, Walter 1 1German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY); 2Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM); 3RT Solutions Inc. (UNITED STATES)
09:10	Using UV Aerosol Index and Reflectances from SCIAMACHY and GOME-2 to Study Aerosols from the Kasatochi Eruption Penning de Vries, Marloes ; Kohnemann, Svenja ; Hörmann, Christoph ; Sihler, Holger ; Wagner, Thomas Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (GERMANY)
09:30	SO2 Plume Height Retrieval from Direct Fitting of GOME-2 Backscattered Radiance Measurements van Gent, J. 1; Spurr, R. 2; Van Roozendael, M. 1; Rix, M. 3; Valks, P. 3 1Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM); 2RT Solutions, Inc. (UNITED STATES); 3German Aerospace Center (GERMANY)
09:50	An Optimal Estimation Approach to Sulphur Dioxide Retrievals from GOME-2 Nowlan, Caroline R. 1; Liu, Xiong 2; Chance, Kelly 1; Kurosu, Thomas P. 1; Cai, Zhaonan 3; Lee, Chulkyu 4; Martin, Randall V. 4 1Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (UNITED STATES); 2University of Maryland Baltimore County (UNITED STATES); 3Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHINA); 4Dalhousie University (CANADA)

Session 2.5.2 - Volatile Organic Compounds
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 5
10:40-12:20

10:40	VOC and BrO Observations from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument Kurosu, Thomas P. ; Chance, Kelly Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (UNITED STATES)
11:00	Sources and trends of Tropospheric Formaldehyde (HCHO) derived from GOME-1 and -2 Marbach, Thierry ; Beirle, Steffen ; Penning de Vries, Marloes ; Liu, Cheng ; Wagner, Thomas Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry (GERMANY)
11:20	ACE: Detecting Volatile Organic Compounds from Orbit Harrison, Jeremy ; Allen, Nicholas ; Bernath, Peter University of York (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:40	Using IASI to Investigate Carbon Monoxide and Volatile Organic Compounds Emissions from Local African Fires Illlingworth, Samuel ; Remedios, John ; Boesch, Hartmut ; Moore, David ; Sembhi, Harjinder ; Tansey, Kevin University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM)
12:00	Interannual Variability of CO and its Relation to Long-Range Transport and Biomass burning as seen by SCIAMACHY Gloudemans, Annemieke 1; De Laat, Jos 2; Dijkstra, Rien 1; Schrijver, Hans 1; Aben, Ilse 1; van der Werf, Guido 3; Krol, Maarten 4 1SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS); 2KNMI (NETHERLANDS); 3Free University of Amsterdam (VU) (NETHERLANDS); 4Wageningen University (NETHERLANDS)

Session 2.5.3 - Water Vapour
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 5
13:50-15:30

13:50	8-Years of Global Observations of Water Isotopologues in the Stratosphere and Mesosphere by the Odin Satellite Urban, Joachim ; Murtagh, Donal ; Eriksson, Patrick Chalmers University of Technology (SWEDEN)
14:10	Water Vapour Trends from GOME, SCIAMACHY and GOME-2 Satellite Measurements Mieruch, Sebastian ; Noel, Stefan ; Bovensmann, Heinrich ; Burrows, John University Bremen (GERMANY)
14:30	A New Look at the Atmospheric Water Cycle: Water Vapor Isotope Measurements using SCIAMACHY Scheepmaker, Remco 1; Frankenberg, Christian 1; Aben, Ilse 1; Rockmann, Thomas 2; Yoshimura, Kei 3 1SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS); 2Utrecht University (NETHERLANDS); 3University of California (UNITED STATES)
14:50	ESA WACMOS multi satellite water vapour products Schroeder, Marc ; Hungershoefer, Katja ; Schulz, Joerg DWD (GERMANY)
15:10	MIPAS Middle Atmosphere Water Vapor Distributions García-Comas, Maya 1; López-Puertas, Manuel 2; Funke, Bernd 1; Bermejo-Pantaleón, Diego 1; Stiller, Gabriele 3; Grabowski, Udo 3; von Clarmann, Thomas 3 1IAA-CSIC (SPAIN); 2Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC) (SPAIN); 3IMK (GERMANY)

Session 2.5.4 - Water Vapour
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 5
16:00-17:40

16:00	The Diurnal Cycle of Water in the Tropical Upper Troposphere Eriksson, Patrick ; Rydberg, Bengt ; Johnston, Marston Chalmers University of Technology (SWEDEN)
16:20	Water Vretrieval in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere from SCIAMACHY Limb Measurements Weigel, Katja ; Rozanov, Alexei ; Weber, Mark ; Bovensmann, Heinrich ; Burrows, John University of Bremen (GERMANY)
16:40	Water Vapour Retrieval with MERIS Fischer, Juergen ; Diedrich, Hannes ; Leinweber, Ronny Freie Universitaet Berlin (GERMANY)
17:00	The ESA DUE GlobVapour Project Schulz, Joerg 1; Schroder, Marc 1; Fischer, Juergen 2; Preusker, Réne 2; Loyola, Diego 3; Saunders, Roger 4; Ringer, Mark 4; Gleisner, Hans 5; Brockmann, Carsten 6; Bojkov, Bojan 7 1Deutscher Wetterdienst (GERMANY); 2Freie Universität Berlin (GERMANY); 3German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY); 4UK Met Office (UNITED KINGDOM); 5Danish Meteorological Institute (DENMARK); 6Brockmann Consult (GERMANY); 7ESA (ITALY)
17:20	The ESA'S STSE Water Cycle Project: WACMOS Fernandez Prieto, Diego 1; Su, Z. (Bob) 2; Dorigo, W. 3; de Jeu, R 4; Parinussa, R 4; Timmermans, J. 5; Roebeling, R 6; Schulz, J. 7; Schröder, M. 7; Stammes , P 6; Wagner, W 8; Wang, P 6; Wolters, E. 6 1ESA (ITALY); 2International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) (NETHERLANDS); 3Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology (AUSTRIA); 4Department of Hydrology and Geo-Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences (NETHERLANDS); 5International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) (NETHERLANDS); 6KNMI (NETHERLANDS); 7DWD (GERMANY); 8VUT (AUSTRIA)

Session 2.6.1 - OPT/IR New Methods & Products
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 6
08:30-10:10

08:30	EO - In Situ Data - Numerical Oceanographic and Ecosystem Modelling; an Effective Tool for Aquaculture Decision Support Tornfeldt Sørensen, Jacob V. ; Kaas, Hanne ; Hansen, Lars B. ; Kronborg, Mai-Britt ; Erichsen, Anders ; Møhlenberg, Flemming ; Mariegaard, Jesper DHI (DENMARK)
08:50	A Hyperspectral Multispectral Algorithm for Fluorescence and Reflectance Retrieval from Space Mazzoni, Marina 1; Falorni, Pierluigi 2; Verhoef, Wouter 3 1Institute of Applied Physics- IFAC-CNR (ITALY); 2CNR-IFAC (ITALY); 3International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation- ITC (NETHERLANDS)
09:10	DUE Innovator-II Project: Assessing the Risk for Ballast Water Exchange - How can Remote Sensing Contribute? Stelzer, Kerstin ; Brockmann, Carsten ; Kraemer, Uwe Brockmann Consult (GERMANY)
09:30	Earth Observation and Spatial Analysis for an Early Warning System for Meniggitis,Malaria or Buruli Ulcer Weise, Kathrin 1; Isabelle, Jeanne 2; Pluschke, Gerd 3 1Jena-Optronik GmbH (GERMANY); 2CERMES (NIGER); 3Swiss Tropical Institute (SWITZERLAND)
09:50	The GHRSST Diagnostic Data Set Poulter, David 1; Robinson, Ian 1; Donlon, Craig 2 1National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS)

Session 2.6.2 - Ocean Colour
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 6
10:40-12:20

10:40	Exploitation of GlobColour Merged Products, New Products and Biological Assimilation in Ecological Models Fanton d'Andon, Odile 1; Lavender, Samantha 2; Barciela, Rosa 3; Mangin, Antoine 1; Antoine, David 4; Morel, André 5; Maritorena, Stéphane 6; Pinnock, Simon 7 1ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 2ARGANS Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 3UK Met Office (UNITED KINGDOM); 4Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV) (FRANCE); 5LOV (FRANCE); 6University of California - Santa Barbara (UNITED STATES); 7ESA (ITALY)
11:00	Analysis of MERIS Chlorophyll Time Series (2003-2008) Krasemann, Hajo ; Müller, Dagmar ; Doerffer, Roland GKSS Research Centre (GERMANY)
11:20	Pan-Arctic View of Ice-Edge Phytoplankton Blooms Perrette, Mahé 1; Quartly, Graham 2; Popova, Katya 2; Yool, Andrew 2 1Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) (GERMANY); 2National Oceanography Center, Southampton (NOCS) (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:40	Using MERIS Data to Evaluate Coupled Physical/Ecosystem Ocean Models at Large Spatial and Temporal Scales Saux Picart, Stephane ; Butenschon, Momme ; Shutler, Jamie ; Holmes, Robert ; Torres, Ricardo ; Allen, Icarus Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM)
12:00	Global Yearly Observation of Phytoplankton Groups Using PhytoDOAS on SCIAMACHY Data: Validation and First Application Bracher, Astrid 1; Dinter, Tilman 1; Schmitt, Bettina 1; Vountas, Sadeghi 2; Sadeghi, AliReza 2; Burrows, John P. 2; Röttgers, Rüdiger 3; Peeken, Ilka 1; Sailley, Sevrine 1; Ye, Ying 1 1Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (GERMANY); 2University Bremen (GERMANY); 3GKSS Research Center Geesthacht (GERMANY)

Session 2.6.3 - Ocean Colour
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 6
13:50-15:30

13:50	Improved Global Ocean Color using POLYMER Algorithm Steinmetz, François 1; Ramon, Didier 1; Deschamps, Pierre-Yves 2; Frouin, Robert 3; Stum, Jacques 4 1Hygeos (FRANCE); 2(FRANCE); 3Scripps Institute of Oceanography (UNITED STATES); 4CLS (FRANCE)
14:10	Estimating pCO2 from Remote Sensing in the Belgian Coastal Zone Borges, Alberto V. 1; Astoreca, Rosa 2; Rousseau, Vérnoique 2; Lacroix, Geneviève 3; Ruddick, Kevin 3 1University of Liège (BELGIUM); 2Université Libre de Bruxelles (BELGIUM); 3Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (BELGIUM)
14:30	Advances in the MERIS Atmospheric Correction over Turbid Waters Mazeran, Constant 1; Babin, Marcel 2 1ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 2Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, CNRS (FRANCE)
14:50	Ocean-Color Remote Sensing of the SE Levantine Basin and Possible Linkage to Natural Factors and Land-Use Changes Moufaddal, Wahid 1; Lavender, Samantha 2; Pradhan, Yaswant 3 1National Institute of Oceanography & Fisheries (EGYPT); 2ARGANS Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 3Met-Office (UNITED KINGDOM)
15:10	Detecting Cyanobacterial Blooms in Large Lakes and Baltic Sea using MERIS Images Alikas, Krista 1; Kangro, Kersti 2; Reinart, Anu 1 1Tartu Observatory (ESTONIA); 2Centre for Limnology (ESTONIA)

Session 2.6.4 - Ocean Colour
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 6
16:00-17:40

16:00	Monitoring the Spring Bloom in Coastal Waters of British Columbia, Canada using FLH Stephanie, King ; Gower, J.F.R. Institute of Ocean Sciences (CANADA)
16:20	An Update on Global Observations of Intense Surface Plankton Blooms and Floating Vegetation using MERIS Gower, Jim ; King, Stephanie Institute of Ocean Sciences (CANADA)
16:40	Detecting Phytoplankton Structure in the Global Ocean from Ocean Colour Observations Hardman-Mountford, Nick1; Brewin, Robert2; Hirata, Takafumi3; Aiken, Jim4 1National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UNITED KINGDOM; 2National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Plymouth, UNITED KINGDOM; 3Hokkaido University, JAPAN; 4Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UNITED KINGDOM
17:00	Monitoring of Phytoplankton and Water Quality in the Arctic Folkestad, Are ; Sørensen, Kai Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NORWAY)

Session 2.7.1 - Wave & Wind from Altimetry
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 7
08:30-10:10

08:30	Long Term Assessment of ERS-1 and ERS-2 Wind and Wave Products Using ERA-Interim Abdalla, Saleh ; Hersbach, Hans ; Bidlot, Jean-Raymond ECMWF (UNITED KINGDOM)
08:50	Operational Altimetry Applications at NOAA's National Weather Service Lillibridge, John L. 1; Sienkiewicz, Joseph M. 2; Tolman, Hendrik L. 2; Blake, Eric S. 2; Russell, Lamar 3 1NOAA/NESDIS (UNITED STATES); 2NOAA/NWS (UNITED STATES); 3U.S. Navy (UNITED STATES)
09:10	Analysis of Seasonal Wave Height Anomalies from Satellite Data over the Global Oceans Queffeulou, Pierre ; Bentamy, Abdérrahim ; Croizé-Fillon, Denis IFREMER (FRANCE)
09:30	The impact of the assimilation of Altimeter and ASAR wave data on regional wave model Aouf, Lotfi 1; Lefèvre, Jean-Michel 1; Ardhuin, Fabrice 2 1Météo France (FRANCE); 2SHOM (FRANCE)
09:50	Altimeter as a High Resolution Imager of the Surface Roughness Tournadre, Jean ; Chapron, Bertrand ; Quilfen, Yves IFREMER (FRANCE)

Session 2.7.2 - SAR Winds
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 7
10:40-12:20

10:40	Using SAR and LAM Wind Fields to Investigate the Effects of Land/Atmosphere Interaction Zecchetto, Stefano 1; De Biasio, Francesco 1; Miglietta, Mario Marcello 1; Trivero, Paolo 2 1Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ITALY); 2Universita' del Piemonte Oriantale (ITALY)
11:00	Comparison of High-Resolution Wind Fields Extracted from TerraSAR X with Predictions from WRF Thompson, Donald 1; Winstead, Nathaniel 1; Sterner, Raymond 1; Monaldo, Frank 1; Horstmann, Jochen 2; Mouche, Alexis 3 1Johns Hopkins University/APL (UNITED STATES); 2NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC) (ITALY); 3Collecte Localisation Satellite (CLS) (FRANCE)
11:20	Offshore wind atlas for Northern European Sea Hasager, Charlotte 1; Karagali, Ioanna 1; Astrup, Poul 1; Badger, Merete 1; Mouche, Alexis 2; Stoffelen, Add 3 1Risø DTU (DENMARK); 2CLS (FRANCE); 3KNMI (NETHERLANDS)
11:40	A Hybrid Method for Offshore Wind Resource Assessment Badger, Merete ; Badger, Jake ; Nielsen, Morten ; Hasager, Charlotte Risoe DTU (DENMARK)
12:00	Tropical Cyclone Winds Retrieved from Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Horstmann, Jochen ; Falchetti, Silvia NATO Undersea Research Center (ITALY)

Session 2.7.3 - SAR Winds
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 7
13:30-15:10

13:30	Study of Wind Fields Associated with Subtropical Squall Lines using Envisat ASAR Images and Ground-based Weather Radar Data Alpers, Werner 1; Chan, P.W. 2; Cheng, C.M. 2 1University of Hamburg (GERMANY); 2Hong Kong Observatory (HONG KONG)
13:50	QuickScat and SAR Wind Stress Analysis for the Nordic Seas - Implications for Climate Variability and Mesoscale Dynamics Furevik, Birgitte R. 1; Furevik, Tore 2; Breivik, Øyvind 1 1The Norwegian Meteorological Institute (NORWAY); 2Geophysical institute, University of Bergen (NORWAY)
14:10	Observation of Local Wind Fields and Cyclonic Atmospheric Eddies Over the Eastern Black Sea Using Envisat ASAR images Alpers, Werner 1; Ivanov, A. Yu. 2; Dagestad, K.-F. 3 1University of Hamburg (GERMANY); 2P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 3Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY)
14:30	ASCAT Scatterometer Wind Quality Control Portabella, Marcos 1; Stoffelen, Ad 2; Verhoef, Anton 2; Verspeek, Jeroen 2 1Unitat de Tecnologia Marina (UTM-CSIC) (SPAIN); 2Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) (NETHERLANDS)
14:50	On High-Resolution ASCAT Winds near the Coast Stoffelen, Ad 1; Verhoef, Anton 1; Vogelzang, Jur 1; Figa-Saldana, Julia 2; Portabella, Marcos 3 1KNMI (NETHERLANDS); 2EUMETSAT (GERMANY); 3CSIC (SPAIN)

Session 2.7.4 - Sea Surface Temperature
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 7
16:00-17:40

16:00	ATSR Reprocessing for Climate: Sea Surface Temperature Merchant, Christopher University of Edinburgh (UNITED KINGDOM)
16:20	Long-term validation of the ATSR SST record Corlett, Gary University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM)
16:40	Use of ENVISAT AATSR in the Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis (OSTIA) Donlon, Craig 1; Martin, Matthew 2; Roberts-Jones, Jonah 2; Fiedler, Emma 2 1ESA (ITALY); 2Met Office (UNITED KINGDOM)
17:00	Validation of ENVISAT AATSR using the ISAR radiometer -6 years of validation experience and new ideas Wimmer, Werenfrid 1; Robinson, Ian 1; Donlon, Craig 2 1National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS)
17:20	The MEDSPIRATION Project : toward the sustained delivery of satellite SST products and services over European seas Piollé, Jean-François 1; Autret, Emmanuelle 1; Arino, Olivier 2 1Ifremer (FRANCE); 2ESA (ITALY)

Session 2.8.1 - Hazards Assessment & Mapping
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 8
08:30-09:50

08:30	Detailed Flood Mapping Using 10 Remote Sensing Sensors - a Key Issue for Modelling and Risk Management Allenbach, Bernard ; Battiston, Stéphanie SERTIT (FRANCE)
08:50	Synergy of Earth Observation and In-Situ Monitoring Data for Flood Hazard Early Warning System Brodsky, Lukas 1; Kodesova, Radka 2; Spazierova, Katerina 1 1GISAT (CZECH REPUBLIC); 2Czech Universit of Life Sciences Prague (CZECH REPUBLIC)
09:10	Towards an Automated ENVISAT ASAR-Based Flood Monitoring System Matgen, P. 1; Hostache, R. 1; Pfister, L. 1; Hoffmann, L. 1; Giraud, H. 2; Yesou, H. 2; Schumann, G. 3; Bally, P. 4 1Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann (LUXEMBOURG); 2SERTIT (FRANCE); 3University of Bristol (UNITED KINGDOM); 4ESA (ITALY)
09:30	Satellite-Based River Ice Monitoring for Flood Forecasting, River Flow Management and Climate Change Adaptation Khan, Amir Ali NL Dept. of Environment and Conservation (CANADA)

Session 2.8.2 - Hazards Assessment & Mapping
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 8
10:40-12:20

10:40	Requirements for Earth Observation Services for the Insurance Industry Hausknecht, Britta 1; Bach, Heike 1; Ebel, Ulrich 2; Fellah, Kader 3 1Vista Remote Sensing in Geosciences GmbH (GERMANY); 2Swiss Re Europe S.A., Niederlassung Deutschland (GERMANY); 3SERTIT (FRANCE)
11:00	Canadian Disasters Initiatives Using ENVISAT and RADARSAT-2 Aube, Guy Canadian Space Agency (CANADA)
11:20	Use of Satellite Sar Data for Seismic Risk Management:Results from the Pre-Operational Asi-Sigris Project Salvi, Stefano 1; Vignoli, Stefano 2; Serra , Marco 3; Zoffoli, Simona 3; Bosi, Vittorio 4 1Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (ITALY); 2Advanced Computer Systems srl (ITALY); 3Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ITALY); 4Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (ITALY)
11:40	Insights into the Emergency Mapping Service within the GMES Project SAFER - Highlights, Main Achievements and Challenges Schneiderhan, Tobias ; Gaehler, Monika ; Kranz, Olaf ; Voigt, Stefan German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY)
12:00	Stability Monitoring of Water Defense Structures by Satellite Radar Interferometry van Leijen, Freek J. 1; Hanssen, Ramon F. 2; Humme, Astrid J.M. 1 1Hansje Brinker B.V. (NETHERLANDS); 2Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS)

Session 2.8.3 - Earthquakes & Tectonics
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 8
13:50-15:30

13:50	Progress in Understanding Active Processes in North America by Scientists of the WinSAR Consortium Amelung, Falk University of Miami (UNITED STATES)
14:10	Geodetic Imaging of Plate Boundary Deformation in Central and Northern California for Hazard Assessment Fielding, Eric 1; Burgmann, Roland 2; Funning, Gareth 3; Johanson, Ingrid 2; Ryder, Isabelle 4; Ferretti, Alessandro 5; Lei, Ling 2; Hartnett, Alex 2; Normand, Jonathan 6; Hensley, Scott 1 1Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech (UNITED STATES); 2University of California, Berkeley (UNITED STATES); 3University of California, Riverside (UNITED STATES); 4University of Liverpool (UNITED KINGDOM); 5Tele-Rilevamento Europa (ITALY); 6University of Quebec at Montreal (CANADA)
14:30	Time series analysis of ERS and ENVISAT InSAR data in Northern Mojave, California Peltzer, Gilles 1; Lundgren, Paul 2 1University of California Los Angeles (UNITED STATES); 2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech (UNITED STATES)
14:50	Earthquake Mechanisms, Faulting and Seismic Hazard Parsons, Barry 1; Elliott, John 1; Walker, Richard 1; Walters, Richard 1; Jackson, James 2; Nissen, Ed 2; Sloan, Alistair 2; D’Agostino, Nicola 3; Shan, Xinjian 4; Tatar, Mohammad 5; Talebian, Morteza 6 1University of Oxford (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Cambridge (UNITED KINGDOM); 3Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanogia (ITALY); 4China Earthquake Administration (CHINA); 5International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF); 6Geological Survey of Iran (IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)
15:10	InSAR Observations Reveal Details of the 2009 Rifting Event in Harrat Al-Shaqah (Lunayyir), Western Saudi Arabia Jonsson, Sigurjon 1; Lu, Zhong 2; El-Hadidy, Salah 3; Zahran, Hani 3 1King Abduallah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (SAUDI ARABIA); 2U.S. Geological Survey (UNITED STATES); 3Saudi Geological Survey (SAUDI ARABIA)

Session 2.8.4 - Volcanoes
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 - Room 8
16:00-17:40

16:00	GPS and InSAR Integration by Applying the Novel SISTEM Method Guglielmino, Francesco 1; Puglisi, Giuseppe 1; Spata, Alessandro 2; Nunnari, Giuseppe 2 1INGV (ITALY); 2Università di Catania (ITALY)
16:20	InSAR observations at oceanic Island volcanoes: Examples from Fernandina volcano, Galapagos and Kilauea volcano, Hawaii Amelung, Falk; Bagnardi, M.; Baker, S. University of Miami, Geology and Geophysics (UNITED STATES)
16:40	Volcano Source Processes Constrained by InSAR Analyses of Envisat, ALOS, TerraSAR-X, and UAVSAR Data Lundgren, Paul 1; Hensley, Scott 1; Poland, Michael 2; Senyukov, Sergey 3 1Jet Propulsion Laboratory (UNITED STATES); 22HawaiianVolcano Observatory, U.S. Geological Survey (UNITED STATES); 3Kamchatkan Branch of Geophysical Survey of the RAS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
17:00	Surface Deformation Analysis of Mauna Loa and Kilauea Volcanoes through a Combined ScanSAR-to-StripMap InSAR Analysis Pepe, Antonio 1; Bertran Ortiz, Ana 2; Lanari, Riccardo 3; Lundgren, Paul 2; Rosen, Paul 2 1Italian National Research Council (CNR) (ITALY); 2Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (UNITED STATES); 3IREA-CNR (ITALY)
17:20	Globvolcano: Global Monitoring of Volcanoes from space Tampellini, Maria lucia 1; Ratti, Raffaella 1; Seifert, Frank Martin 2; Borgstrom, Sven 3; Peltier, Aline 4; Kaminski, Edouard 4; Bianchi, Marco 5; Branson, Wendy 6; Ferrucci, Fabrizio 7; Hirn, Barbara 8; van der Voet, Paul 9; van Geffen, Jos 10 1Carlo Gavazzi Space (ITALY); 2ESA (ITALY); 3Osservatorio Vesuviano (ITALY); 4Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (FRANCE); 5Tele-Rilevamento Europa – T.R.E (ITALY); 6MDA Geospatial Services (CANADA); 7Università della Calabria (ITALY); 8IES Consulting SrL (ITALY); 9TerraSphere Imaging & GIS B.V (NETHERLANDS); 10Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM)

Session 3.1.1 - SMOS Overview & Instrument Performance
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 1
08:30-10:10

08:30	Overview on ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission Mecklenburg, Susanne 1; Hahne, Achim 2 1ESA (ITALY); 2European Space Agency (NETHERLANDS)
08:50	First Results of the SMOS Mission over Land Kerr, Yann 1; Waldteufel, Philippe 2; Cabot, François 1; Wigneron, Jean Pierre 3; Richaume, Philippe 1; Mialon, Arnaud 1; Al Bitar, Ahmad 1; Jacquette, Elsa 1; Kauzar, Saleh 4; Delwart, Steven 5 1CESBIO (FRANCE); 2IPSL/SA (FRANCE); 3INRA EPHYSE (FRANCE); 4Cambridge University (UNITED KINGDOM); 5ESA (NETHERLANDS)
09:10	SMOS: objectives and approach for ocean salinity observations Font, Jordi Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC (SPAIN)
09:30	SMOS Payload Commissioning Plan Martin-Neira, Manuel 1; Brown, Michael 1; Martin-Porqueras, Fernando 1; Closa, Josep 2; Corbella, Ignasi 3; Kainulainen, Juha 4; Barbosa, Jose 5; Cabot, Francois 6 1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2EADS-CASA Espacio (SPAIN); 3Polytechnic University of Catalonia (SPAIN); 4Helsinki University of Technology (FINLAND); 5DEIMOS (PORTUGAL); 6CESBIO (FRANCE)
09:50	Overview on calibration and validation activities for the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission Mecklenburg, Susanne 1; Delwart, Steven 2; Bouzinac, Catherine 2 1ESA (ITALY); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS)

Session 3.1.2 - SMOS Overview & Instrument Performance
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 1
10:40-12:20

10:40	First assessment of the MIRAS in-orbit instrument verification Josep, Closa Soteras 1; Closa, Josep 2; Benito, Javier 2; Bergada, Marc 2; Borges, Andres 2; Cortes, David 2; Garcia, Quiterio 2; Olea, Ana 2; Lamela, Felix 2; Rubiales, Pilar 2; Sancho, Luisa 2; Sanz, Juan Andres 2; Solana, Andres 2; Martin Neira, Manuel 3 1EADS CASA Espacio (SPAIN); 2EADS-CASA Espacio (SPAIN); 3ESA, (NETHERLANDS)
11:00	SMOS-MIRAS calibration and performance Corbella, Ignasi 1; Torres, Francesc 2; Veronica, Gonzalez-Gambau 2; Duffo, Nuria 2; Closa, Josep 3; Martin-Neira, Manuel 4 1UPC (SPAIN); 2Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, UPC (SPAIN); 3EADS-CASA (SPAIN); 4ESA (NETHERLANDS)
11:20	In-Orbit Performance of the SMOS Reference Radiometers - Results from the Commissioning Phase Kainulainen, Juha 1; Colliander, Andreas 2; Closa, Josep 3; Barbosa, Jose 4; Castro, Rita 4; Martin-Neira, Manuel 5 1Helsinki University of Technology (FINLAND); 2California Institute of Technology (UNITED STATES); 3EADS-CASA Espacio (SPAIN); 4DEIMOS Engenharia (PORTUGAL); 5ESA (NETHERLANDS)
11:40	L1PP Performance Analysis for SMOS In Orbit Commissioning Phase Castro, Rita 1; Oliva, Roger 1; Freitas, Sofia 1; Barbosa, Jose 1; Gutierrez, Antonio 1; Anterrieu, Eric 2; Camps, Adriano 3; Martin-Neira, Manuel 4; Zundo, Michele 4; Catarino, Nuno 1 1Deimos Engenharia (PORTUGAL); 2Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (FRANCE); 3Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (SPAIN); 4ESA (NETHERLANDS)
12:00	Early In-Flight SMOS System Performance Assessment Cabot, Francois 1; Kerr, Yann 2; Waldteufel, Philippe 3 1CESBIO/CNES (FRANCE); 2CESBIO (FRANCE); 3IPSL/SA (FRANCE)

Session 3.1.3 - Cal/Val Activities
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 1
13:30-15:30

13:30	SMOS L-Band Brightness Temperatures Compared to Other Passive Microwaves Sensors over West Africa Area Gruhier, Claire 1; Kerr, Yann 1; Cabot, François 1; Mialon, Arnaud 1; Pellarin, Thierry 2; De Rosnay, Patricia 3; Grippa, Manuela 4 1CESBIO (FRANCE); 2LTHE (FRANCE); 3ECMWF (UNITED KINGDOM); 4LMTG (FRANCE)
13:50	The Australian Airborne CAL/VAL Experiment for SMOS - First Results Walker, Jeffrey 1; Rüdiger, Christoph 1; Allahmoradi, Mahdi 1; Barrett, Damian 2; Gurney, Robert 3; Kerr, Yann 4; Kim, Edward 5; Le Marshall, John 6; Peischl, Sandy 1; Ye, Nan 1 1The University of Melbourne (AUSTRALIA); 2University of Queensland (AUSTRALIA); 3University of Reading (UNITED KINGDOM); 4CESBIO (FRANCE); 5NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (UNITED STATES); 6Bureau of Meteorology (AUSTRALIA)
14:10	Preliminary Results of SMOS Data Analysis over the Ocean During Commissioning Phase Yin, Xiaobin 1; Boutin, Jacqueline 1; Meirold-Mautner, Ingo 2; Vergely, Jean-Luc 2; Waldteufel, Philippe 3; Spurgeon, Paul 4 1Laboratoire d¡¯Oc¨¦anographie et du Climat-Exp¨¦rimentation et Approches num¨¦riques /Institut Pierre (FRANCE); 2ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 3Laboratoire Atmosph¨¨res, Milieux, Observations Spatiales / Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (FRANCE); 4ARGANS Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM)
14:30	Preliminary Cross-Validation of the SMOS Measurements against Modeled Brightness Temperatures and External Salinity Data Sabia, Roberto 1; Gourrion, Jerome 1; Gabarró, Carolina 1; Talone, Marco 2; Portabella, Marcos 3; Ballabrera, Joaquim 1; Lopez de Aretxabaleta, Alfredo 1; Camps, Adriano 2; Monerris, Alessandra 2; Font, Jordi 1 1Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SPAIN); 2Remote Sensing Laboratory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SPAIN); 3Unitat de Tecnologia Marina CSIC- SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SPAIN)
14:50	Tropical Ocean Major Freshwater Pools Characteristics as Viewed from Space with Low Frequency Microwave Radiometers Reul, Nicolas 1; brachet, sidonie 1; Tenerelli, Joseph 2; Chapron, Bertrand 1; Tournardre, jean 1; Vandemark, Doug 3 1IFREMER (FRANCE); 2CLS (FRANCE); 3UNH (UNITED STATES)
15:10	Validation of the SMOS L-Band Emission Model L-MEB: From Ground-Based Radiometry to SMOS Data Saleh, Kauzar 1; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre 2; Antolin, M. Carmen 3; Cano, Aurelio 4; Kerr, Yann H 5; Juglea, Silvia 5; Millan-Scheidin, Cristina 6; Novello, Nathalie 2; Lopez Baeza, Ernesto 7 1University of Cambridge (UNITED KINGDOM); 2INRA-EPHYSE (FRANCE); 3Center for Desertification Research (CIDE) (SPAIN); 4Universitat de Valencia (SPAIN); 5CESBIO (FRANCE); 6Cide-Universitat de Valencia (SPAIN); 7University of Valencia (SPAIN)

Session 3.1.4 - Cal/Val Activities
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 1
16:00-18:00

16:00	Sensitivity to soil moisture variations of microwave radiometric signatures over the Argentinian Chaco Forest Rahmoune, Rachid 1; Ferrazzoli, Paolo 1; Grings, Franscisco 2; Vanesa, Douna 2; Mercedes, Salvia 2; Karszenbaum, Haydee 2 1Rome Tor Vergata University (ITALY); 2Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (ARGENTINA)
16:20	SMOS Soil Moisture: Status at Upper Danube Cal/Val Site Eight Months after Launch Loew, Alexander 1; Dall'Amico, Johanna 2; Schlenz, Florian 2; Mauser, Wolfram 2 1Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (GERMANY); 2University of Munich (GERMANY)
16:40	Surface Soil Moisture Distribution Results for the CAROLS Campaign at the Valencia Anchor Station Study Area, 2009 Millan-Scheiding, Cristina1; Antolin, M. Carmen1; Requena, Fernando1; Torre, Elena1; Alcantara, Mireia1; Abalos, Beatriz1; Andres, Clara1; Saleh, Kauzar2; Lopez-Baeza, Ernesto3 1Center for Desertification Research (CIDE) (SPAIN); 2University of Cambridge (UNITED KINGDOM); 3University of Valencia (SPAIN)
17:00	Use of ESA's ELBARAII L-Band Radiometer System for SMOS Validation Monitoring Purposes at the Valencia Anchor Station Schwank, Mike 1; Antolin, M. Carmen 2; Bouzinac, Catherine 3; Coll, M. Amparo 4; Delwart, Steven 3; Kerr, Yann H. 5; Mätzler, Christian 6; Millan-Scheiding, Cristina 7; Saleh, Kauzar 8; Voelksch, Ingo 1; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre 9; Lopez-Baeza, Ernesto 4 1Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (SWITZERLAND); 2Center for Desertification Research (CIDE) (SPAIN); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS); 4University of Valencia (SPAIN); 5Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO) (FRANCE); 6Universität Bern (SWITZERLAND); 7Center for Desertification Research (SPAIN); 8University of Cambridge (UNITED KINGDOM); 9Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (FRANCE)
17:20	Monitoring SMOS Brightness Temperatures Over Land: Preliminary Results During the Commissioning Phase Muñoz Sabater, Joaquín 1; de Rosnay, Patricia 1; Drusch, Matthias 2; Dahoui, Mohamed 1; Delwart, Steven 2; Wright, Norrie 3 1ECMWF (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS); 3ESA (ITALY)
17:40	Verification and assimilation of the SMOS data Calvet, J.-C. 1; Albergel, C. 1; Mahfouf, J.-F. 1; Barbu, A. 1; Lafont, S. 1; Wigneron, J.-P. 2; Walker, J. 3; Kerr, Y. 4 1CNRM/GAME, Meteo-France, CNRS (FRANCE); 2INRA, EPHYSE (FRANCE); 3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Melbourne (AUSTRALIA); 4CESBIO, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS (UMR5126) (FRANCE)

Session 3.2.1 - Glaciology
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 2
08:30-10:10

08:30	Mapping Ice Motion in Antarctica using Envisat ASAR, ALOS PALSAR, ERS-1-2, and RADARSAT-1-2: a Comprehensive View Rignot, Eric1; Scheuchl, Bernd2; Mouginot, Jeremie2 1University of California Irvine, and JPL, UNITED STATES; 2University of California Irvine, UNITED STATES
08:50	ERS InSAR observations of ice elevation and velocity fluctuations of the Flade Isblink ice cap, eastern North Greenland Palmer, Steven 1; Shepherd, Andrew 1; Sundal, Aud 1; Rinne, Eero 2; Nienow, Peter 2 1University of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM); 2The University of Edinburgh (UNITED KINGDOM)
09:10	Temporal Change of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Volume and Mass Legresy, Benoit 1; Horwath, Martin 1; Blarel, Fabien 1; Remy, Frederique 1; Lemoine, Jean-Michel 2 1LEGOS (FRANCE); 2CNES/GRGS (FRANCE)
09:30	Antarctic ice sheet mass balance: volume and shape changes from Envisat RA-2 Remy, Frédérique 1; Blarel, Fabien 1; Legresy, Benoît 2 1CNRS (FRANCE); 2LEGOS (FRANCE)
09:50	Greenland Ice Sheet Changes from Space Using Laser, Radar and Gravity Sandberg Sorensen, Louise 1; Forsberg, Rene 1; Poulsen, Stine K. 1; Simonsen, Sebastian B. 2; Stenseng, Lars 1 1Danish Technical University (DENMARK); 2University of Copenhagen (DENMARK)

Session 3.2.2 - Glaciology
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 2
10:40-12:20

10:40	Variability of the Helheim Outlet Glaciers in the Sermilik Fjord on the East Coast of Greenland Johannessen, Ola M. ; Johannessen, Ola M. ; Miles, Victoria V. ; Korablev, Alexander Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY)
11:00	Ice Velocity Determined Using Conventional and Multiple-Aperture InSAR Gourmelen, Noel 1; Kim, Sang-Wan 2; Shepherd, Andrew 1; Sundal, Aud 1; Bjornsson, Helgi 3; Palsson, Finnur 3; Palmer, Steve 1 1U of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Sejong University (KOREA, REPUBLIC OF); 3University of Iceland (ICELAND)
11:20	Glacier mapping with ALOS PALSAR Data within the ESA GlobGlacier Project Strozzi, Tazio 1; Paul, Frank 2; Kääb, Andreas 3 1Gamma Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 2University of Zurich (SWITZERLAND); 3University of Oslo (NORWAY)
11:40	Eurasian Arctic Ice Cover Variations in Nonhomogeneous Geopotential Sharov, Aleksey 1; Pail, Roland 2; Perko, Roland 1; Gisinger, Christoph 2; Heuberger, Florian 2; Rieser, Daniel 2 1Joanneum Research (AUSTRIA); 2TU Graz (AUSTRIA)
12:00	Sea Level Contribution Due to Floating Ice Shepherd, Andrew 1; Wingham, Duncan 2; Wallis, David 2; Giles, Katharine 2; Laxon, Seymour 2 1University of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University College London (UNITED KINGDOM)

Session 3.2.3 - Glaciology
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 2
13:50-15:30

13:50	Combining satellite based interferometric synthetic aperture radar with tide models to map ice shelf flow velocity McMillan, Malcolm 1; Shepherd, Andrew 2 1University of Edinburgh (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM)
14:10	Break-up and Retreat of Wilkins Ice Shelf (Antarctic Peninsula) as observed by Multi-Mission Satellite Data Braun, Matthias 1; Humbert, Angelika 2 1University of Alaska (UNITED STATES); 2University of Münster (GERMANY)
14:30	Icebergs in the Southern Ocean - An IPY Census Young, Neal Australian Antarctic Division (AUSTRALIA)
14:50	Separation of Icebergs and Sea Ice in SAR Images Wesche, Christine ; Dierking, Wolfgang Alfred Wegener Institute (GERMANY)
15:10	From ERS to Sentinel-1, From R&D to Operations-Present and Future of Ship and Iceberg Detection/Discrimination with SAR Youden, James ; Howell, Carl ; Bobby, Pradeep ; Desmond, Power C-CORE (CANADA)

Session 3.2.4 - Permafrost
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 2
16:00-17:20

16:00	Seasonal Periglacial Activity in Permafrost Landscapes Measured with Radar Satellite Time-Series and Field Measurements Lauknes, Tom R. 1; Larsen, Yngvar 1; Malnes, Eirik 1; Christiansen, Hanne H. 2 1Norut (NORWAY); 2The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) (NORWAY)
16:20	High Resolution Vegetation and Water Body Mapping in Arctic Permafrost Regions Poecking, Stefan 1; Hese, Soeren 1; Urban, Marcel 1; Herold, Martin 2; Schmullius, Chistiane 1 1FSU Jena (GERMANY); 2Wageningen University (NETHERLANDS)
16:40	GLOF, Glacial Lake Mapping an ESA DUE INNOVATOR2 project Wiesmann, Andreas 1; Strozzi, Tazio 1; Kääb, Andreas 2 1GAMMA Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 2Department of Geoscience University of Oslo (NORWAY)
17:00	The Contribution of InSAR Data to the Early Detection of Potentially Hazardous Active Rock Glaciers in Mountain Areas Delaloye, Reynald 1; Strozzi, Tazio 2; Lambiel, Christophe 3; Mari, Stefano 1; Stocker, Andrea 1; Techel, Frank 1; Raetzo, Hugo 4 1University of Fribourg (SWITZERLAND); 2Gamma Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 3University of Lausanne (SWITZERLAND); 4Federal Office for the Environment (SWITZERLAND)
17:20	Implementation of a Satellite Data based Permafrost Information System - the DUE Permafrost Project Bartsch, Annett 1; Wiesmann, Andreas 2; Strozzi, Tazio 2; Schmullius, Christiane 3; Hese, Soeren 3; Duguay, Claude 4; Heim, Birgit 5; Boike, Julia 5; Herold, Martin 3 1Vienna University of Technology (AUSTRIA); 2Gamma Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 3Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (GERMANY); 4University of Waterloo (CANADA); 5Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (GERMANY)

Session 3.3.1 - GOCE: Validation, regional solutions and methodology
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 3
08:30-10:10

08:30	Upward Continuation of Satellite Altimeter Data for GOCE Validation Sebera, Josef 1; Bosch, Wolfgang 1; Bouman, Johannes 1; Kostelecký, Jan 2; Klokocnik, Jaroslav 3; Bezdek, Ales 3 1DGFI (GERMANY); 2Czech Technical University in Prague (CZECH REPUBLIC); 3Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CZECH REPUBLIC)
08:50	Regional High Resolution Geoid and Mean Sea Surface Topography Determination by a Combination of GOCE and Altimetry Data Mayer-Guerr, Torsten ; Eicker, Annette ; Schall, Judith University of Bonn (GERMANY)
09:10	Combination of GRACE and GOCE In Situ Data for high Resolution Regional Gravity Field Modeling Schmeer, Martin 1; Gruber, Christian 1; Schmidt, Michael 2; Flechtner, Frank 1 1Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (GERMANY); 2Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI) (GERMANY)
09:30	GRAVNOR: Determination of GRAVity field over NORwegian territories using GOCE data and space geodesy software GEOSAT Mysen, Eirik 1; Andersen, Per Helge 2 1Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority (NORWAY); 2Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (NORWAY)
09:50	GOCE Data Analysis: Realization of the Invariants Approach in a high Performance cCmputing Environment Baur, Oliver ; Sneeuw, Nico ; Cai, Jianqing ; Roth, Matthias University of Stuttgart (GERMANY)

Session 3.3.2 - GOCE in oceanography
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 3
10:40-12:20

10:40	GOCE in Ocean Modelling and the GOCINO Project Knudsen, Per 1; Rio, Marie-Helene 2; Johannessen, Johnny 3; Haines, Keith 4; Lea, Daniel 5 1DTU Space (DENMARK); 2CLS (FRANCE); 3NERSC (NORWAY); 4University of Reading (UNITED KINGDOM); 5UK Met Office (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:00	Dynamic Ocean Topography from GOCE - Some Preparatory Attempts Albertella, Alberta 1; Rummel, Reiner 1; Savcenko, Roman 2; Bosch, Wolfgang 2; Janjic , Tijana 3; Schroeter, Jens 3; Gruber, Thomas 1; Bouman, Johannes 2 1Technische Universität München (GERMANY); 2Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (GERMANY); 3Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (GERMANY)
11:20	Full Resolution Geoid from GOCE Gradients for Ocean Modeling Herceg, Matija 1; Knudsen, Per 1; Andersen, Ole Baltazar 1; Tscherning, Carl Christian 2 1DTU Space (DENMARK); 2University of Copenhagen (DENMARK)
11:40	Geostrophic Surface Currents in the Northern North Atlantic revealed by GOCE, Gravity Anomalies, and MSSH Lysaker, Dagny I. ; Omang, Ove C. D. ; Solheim, Dag Norwegian Mapping Authority (NORWAY)
12:00	Tidal Field Refinement from GOCE and GRACE -A Sensitivity Study Stefano, Casotto ; Panzetta, Francesca University of Padua (ITALY)

Session 3.3.3 - GOCE in geophysics
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 3
13:50-15:30

13:50	The SEEGOCE Project Diament, Michel 1; SEEGOCE, project team 2 1IPGP (FRANCE); 2BRGM, IGN, IPGP, IRD, ORB (FRANCE)
14:10	A Spherical Fourier Approach to Estimate the Moho from GOCE Date Sampietro, D.1; Reguzzoni, M.2 1Politecnico di Milano, Polo Regionale di Como; 2Italian National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
14:30	GOCE Observations for Detecting unknown Tectonic Features Braitenberg, Carla 1; Mariani, Patrizia 1; Ussami, Naomi 2 1University of Trieste (ITALY); 2 Universidade de São Paulo (BRAZIL)
14:50	Refining Regional Gravity Field Solutions with Goce Gravity Gradients for Cryospheric Investigations Rieser, Daniel 1; Pail, Roland 1; Sharov, Aleksey 2 1TU Graz (AUSTRIA); 2Joanneum Research (AUSTRIA)
15:10	GOCE gravity field error variances/covariances and the related tools; example with a recent solution Balmino, G.; Marty, J.C.; Bruinsma, S. CNES, FRANCE

Session 3.3.4 - GOCE: National activities, laser tracking and orbit considerations
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 3
16:00-17:20

16:00	GOCE ITALY: Scientific Tasks and First Results Sansò, Fernando 1; Bianco, Giuseppe 2; Braitenberg, Carla 3; Casotto, Stefano 4; Fermi, Marco 5; Poulain, Paul 6; Sabadini, Roberto 7; Solitro, Filomena 8 1Politecnico di Milano (ITALY); 2ASI (ITALY); 3University of Trieste (ITALY); 4University of Padua (ITALY); 5Galileian Plus (ITALY); 6OGS (ITALY); 7University of Milan (ITALY); 8ALTEC (ITALY)
16:20	EUPOS AND SLR Contribution to GOCE Mission Zarinjsh, Ansis ; Balodis, Janis ; Janpaule, Inese ; Caunite, Madara ; Rubans, Augusts ; Silabriedis, Gunars University of Latvia (LATVIA)
16:40	Some Aspects of the Orbit Selection for the Measurement Phases of GOCE Bezdek, Ales1; Klokocnik, Jaroslav1; Kostelecky, Jan2; Floberghagen, Rune3; Sebera, Josef1 1Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CZECH REPUBLIC); 2Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography (CZECH REPUBLIC); 3ESA (ITALY)
17:00	Discussion, plans ahead, ideas for improvement

Session 3.4.1 - GMES for Emergency Response & Security Applications
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 4
08:30-10:10

08:30	The G-MOSAIC Project: GMES Pilots Services for Security Di Federico, Annalaura 2; Proietti, Sergio 1 1Telespazio (ITALY); 2e-GEOS S.p.A. (ITALY)
08:50	En route for a SAFER world with the GMES Emergency Response Service Hello, David Infoterra France (FRANCE)
09:10	The MARISS Project Giomi, Alessandro e-geos S.p.A. (ITALY)
09:30	Potential of the Sentinels for Emergency Response & Security Applications Cardaco, C. Italian Civil Protection Agency (ITALY)
09:50	Discussion

Session 3.4.2 - GMES for Atmosphere Applications
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 4
10:40-12:20

10:40	Core Development of GMES Atmospheric Environmental Services Simmons, Adrian European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:00	PASODOBLE - the GMES Atmosphere Downstream Service Project for Air Quality Erbertseder, Thilo DLR, DFD (GERMANY)
11:20	The Airwatch Initiative Steenmans, C. EEA (DENMARK)
11:40	Potential of the Sentinels for Atmosphere Applications Levelt, Pieternel KNMI (NETHERLANDS)
12:00	Discussion

Session 3.4.3 - GMES for Solid Earth Applications
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 4
13:50-15:30

13:50	Terrafirma: A pan-European ground motion hazard information service Cooksley, Geraint Altamira Information (SPAIN)
14:10	SubCoast - A GMES-Downstream Service for delivering Subsidence Data and Information in Coastal Lowland Areas Bremmer, Chris 1; Fokker, Peter 1; Kooijman, Jan 1; Marsh, Stuart 2; Capes, Ren 3; van Leijen, Freek 4; Ramon, Hanssen 5; Bianchi, Marco 6; Pedersen, Stig 7; Westerhoff, Rogier 8; Cyziene, Jolanta 9; Graniczny, Marek 10; Crosetto, Michele 11; Bitelli, Gabriele 12 1TNO (NETHERLANDS); 2BGS (UNITED KINGDOM); 3Fugro-NPA (UNITED KINGDOM); 4Hansje Brinker (NETHERLANDS); 5Delft Technical University (NETHERLANDS); 6TRE (ITALY); 7GEUS (DENMARK); 8Deltares (NETHERLANDS); 9LGT (NETHERLANDS); 10PGI (POLAND); 11Institut Geomatica (SPAIN); 12Universita di Bologna (ITALY)
14:30	European Volcano Observatory Space Services (EVOSS) Tampellini, M. L. 1; Tait, S. 2; Ferrucci, F. 2 1Carlo Gavazzi Space S.p.A. (ITALY); 2Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (FRANCE)
14:50	Sentinel-1 Science: Operational Deformation Monitoring Hanssen, Ramon ; Hooper, Andrew TU Delft (NETHERLANDS)
15:10	Discussion

Session 3.4.4 - Polimetry & Polinsar
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 4
16:00-17:40

16:00	Polarimetric Scattering from Shallow Firn and Forests with Snow Cover Brown, Ian Stockholm University (SWEDEN)
16:20	Estimation of Vertical Structure of Volume Scatterers by Means of Multi-Baseline Polarimetric sar Interferometry Hajnsek, Irena 1; Papathanassiou, Kostas 2; Krieger, Gerhard 2; Moreira, Alberto 2 1ETH Zurich & DLR (GERMANY); 2DLR (GERMANY)
16:40	Contribution of Spaceborne SAR data (ASAR, PALSAR, RadarSAT2) for the Environmental Monitoring in French Guiana Niamien, N'Goran David 1; Lardeux, Cédric 1; Frison, Pierre Louis 1; Riera, Bernard 2; Rudant, Jean Paul 1 1Université Paris Est Marne la Vallée (FRANCE); 2CNRS (FRANCE)
17:00	Dual and full Polarimetric-Interferometric Capabilities of Alos/Palsar for forestry Applications Lavalle, Marco 1; Solimini, Domenico 2; Pottier, Eric 3; Desnos, Yves-Louis 4 1Tor Vergata University/Rennes University (ITALY); 2Tor Vergata University (ITALY); 3University of Rennes (ITALY); 4ESA (ITALY)
17:20	A Truly Polarimetric Constant False Alarm Rate Algorithm for Ship Detection in Multilook Complex Radar Images Anfinsen, Stian Normann ; Brekke, Camilla University of Tromsø (NORWAY)

Session 3.5.1 - Stratospheric Constituents
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 5
08:30-10:10

08:30	MIPAS Observations of Stratospheric and Upper Tropospheric Trace Gases: an Overview von Clarmann, Thomas 1; Bermejo-Pantaleón, Diego 2; Funke, Bernd 2; García-Comas, Maya 2; Glatthor, Norbert 1; Grabowski, Udo 1; Grutter de la Mora, Michel 3; Hoepfner, Michael 1; Kellmann, Sylvia 1; Kiefer, Michael 1; Linden, Andrea 1; López-Puertas, Manuel 2; Orphal, Johannes 1; Schieferdecker, Tobias 1; Stiller, Gabriele 1; Versick, Stefan 1 1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (GERMANY); 2Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC) (SPAIN); 3Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera - UNAM (MEXICO)
08:50	Stratospheric Composition Changes caused by Energetic Particle Precipitation: What have we learned from MIPAS? Funke, Bernd 1; Lopez-Puertas, Manuel 1; Garcia-Comas, Maya 1; Bermejo-Pantaleon, Diego 1; Hapfner, Michael 2; Stiller, Gabriele 2; von Clarmann, Thomas 2 1Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucìa, CSIC (SPAIN); 2Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Universitat Karlsruhe (GERMANY)
09:10	Long-Term Measurements of Stratospheric NOy from MIPAS-ENVISAT Walker, Joanne ; Dudhia, Anu University of Oxford (UNITED KINGDOM)
09:30	MIPAS-Observations and Model Results for H2O2 Versick, Stefan ; Clarmann, T.V. ; Glatthor, N. ; Grabowski, U. ; Höpfner, M. ; Kellmann, S. ; Kiefer, M. ; Linden, A. ; Reddmann, T. ; Ruhnke, R. ; Stiller, G. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (GERMANY)
09:50	Assimilation of Mipas Limb Radiances in the ECMWF System Dragani, Rossana ; Bormann, Niels ECMWF (UNITED KINGDOM)

Session 3.5.2 - Stratospheric Constituents
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 5
10:40-12:20

10:40	GOMOS/ENVISAT Contribution to the Research on Stratospheric and Mesospheric Climatology and Processes Hauchecorne, Alain 1; Bertaux, Jean-Loup 1; Dalaudier, Francis 1; Pérot, Kristell 1; Kyrölä, Erkki 2; Tamminen, Johanna 2; Sofieva, Viktoria 3; Fussen, Didier 4; Vanhellemont, Filip 5; Fanton d'Andon, Odile 6; Barrot, Gilbert 6; Blanot, Laurent 7; Fehr, Thorsten 8; Saavedra de Miguel, Lidia 9 1LATMOS, UVSQ, CNRS (FRANCE); 2FMI, Helsinki (FINLAND); 3FMI, Helsinki (FRANCE); 4IASB, Brussels (BELGIUM); 5IASB (BELGIUM); 6ACRI-ST, Sofia Antipolis (FRANCE); 7ACRI-ST, Verrières le Buisson (FRANCE); 8ESA (ITALY); 9SERCO, Frascati (ITALY)
11:00	Changing Middle Atmosphere as Measured by GOMOS, OSIRIS and SAGE Instruments Kyrölä, Erkki ; Kyrölä, Erkki ; Tukiainen, Simo ; Tamminen, Johanna ; Sofieva, Viktoria ; Laine, Marko Finnish Meteorological Institute (FINLAND)
11:20	Descent from the polar mesosphere in water vapor and temperature satellite observations by Odin SMR Orsolini, Yvan 1; Urban, Joachim 2; Murtagh, D 2; Lossow, Stefan 2; Limpasuvan, Varavut 3 1Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NORWAY); 2Chalmers University of Technology (SWEDEN); 3Coastal Carolina University (UNITED STATES)
11:40	2D Tomography for SCIAMACHY Measurements of Scattered Sunlight Pukite, Janis 1; Kühl, Sven 1; Deutschmann, Tim 2; Beirle, Stefen 1; Platt, Ulrich 2; Wagner, Thomas 1 1Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (GERMANY); 2Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg (GERMANY)
12:00	Reconstruction of Trends, QBO, AO, and SAO in Stratospheric SCIAMACHY Ozone Data using a Multivariate Regression Model Dikty, Sebastian ; Weber, Mark ; von Savigny, Christian ; Rozanov, Alexei ; Sonkaew, Thiranan ; Burrows, John P. Institute of Environmental Physics (GERMANY)

Session 3.5.3 - Stratospheric Constituents
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 5
13:50-15:30

13:50	Data Fusion of Vertical Profiles of an Atmospheric Constituent Retrieved from Remote Sensing Measurements Ceccherini, Simone; Cortesi, Ugo; Del Bianco, Samuele; Raspollini, Piera; Carli, Bruno IFAC - CNR (ITALY)
14:10	Synergistic One Step Ozone Profile retrieval from GOME-2 and IASI Measurement with a Machine Learning Approach Kaifel, Anton ; Felder, Martin ; Huckle, Roger Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (GERMANY)
14:30	Stratospheric Profiles of NO2, BrO and OClO: Observations by SCIAMACHY and Comparisons to ECHAM5/MESSy1 Kühl, Sven 1; Pukite, Janis 1; Dörner, Steffen 1; Jöckel, Patrick 2; Deutschmann, Tim 3; Platt, Ulrich 3; Wagner, Thomas 1 1MPI Chemie, Mainz (GERMANY); 2DLR-IPA (GERMANY); 3IUP Heidelberg (GERMANY)
14:50	GDP 5.0 - The New Operational GOME Total Ozone Product Based on the GODFIT Algorithm Loyola, Diego 1; Van Roozendael, Michel 2; Spurr, Rob J.D. 3; Balis, Dimitris 4; Lambert, Jean-Christopher 5; Zimmer, Walter 1; Lerot, Christophe 2; Koukouli, MariLiza 4; van Gent, Jeroen 2; Granville, Jose 2; Adrian, Doicu 1; Zehner, Claus 6 1German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY); 2BIRA-IASB (BELGIUM); 3RT-Solutions, Inc (UNITED STATES); 4Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GREECE); 5Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM); 6ESA (ITALY)
15:10	Building Consolidated Climate-Relevant Ozone Data Sets in the Framework of the ESA CCI Programme Van Roozendael, Michel 1; Loyola, Diego 2; van der A, Ronald 3; Weber, Mark 4; Lambert, Jean-Christopher 1; Balis, Dimitris 5; Braesicke, Peter 6; Dameris, Martin 7; Fussen, Didier 1; Hauchecorne, Alain 8; Kerridge, Brian 9; Kyrola, Erkki 10; Orphal, Johannes 11; Siddans, Richard 9; von Savigny, Christian 4; Stiller, Gabriele 11; Tamminen, Johanna 10; van Velthoven, Peter 3; Wolfmueller, Meinhard 7; Zerefos, Christos 12 1Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM); 2German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY); 3Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (NETHERLANDS); 4Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen (GERMANY); 5Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GREECE); 6University of Cambridge (UNITED KINGDOM); 7German Aerospace Center (GERMANY); 8LATMOS (FRANCE); 9Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM); 10Finnish Meteorological Institute (FINLAND); 11Karlsruhe Institute of technology (GERMANY); 2University of Athens (GREECE)

Session 3.5.4 - Clouds
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 5
16:00-18:00

16:00	First Results of MIPclouds: A Cloud Parameter Processor for MIPAS/Envisat Spang, Reinhold 1; Hoffmann, Lars 1; Griessbach, Sabine 1; Dudhia, Anu 2; Hurely, Jane 2; Grainger, Don 2; Siddans, Richard 3; Waterfall, Alison 3; Remedios, John 4; Sembhi, Harjinder 4; Höpfner, Michael 5; Stiller, Gabi 5 1Forschungszentrum Jülich (GERMANY); 2University of Oxford (UNITED KINGDOM); 3Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM); 4University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM); 5Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (GERMANY)
16:20	Investigating the Long- Term and Seasonal Behaviour of Clouds with MIPAS Sembhi, Harjinder 1; Horseman, Andy 2; Remedios, John 1; Delanoe, Julien 3 1University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Lancaster University (UNITED KINGDOM); 3University of Reading (UNITED KINGDOM)
16:40	15 Years of Global Cloud Time Series derived from FRESCO O2 A Band Algorithm Wang, Ping ; Stammes, Piet ; van der A, Ronald Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) (NETHERLANDS)
17:00	Contrails and Climate Change: an Investigation of the Role of Aviation-Induced-Cloudiness in Ireland using AATSR Imagery Cawkwell, Fiona 1; Whelan, Gillian 1; Mannstein, Hermann 2; Minnis, Patrick 3 1University College Cork (IRELAND); 2DLR (GERMANY); 3NASA (UNITED STATES)
17:20	Synergistic use of MERIS and AATSR Data for Cloud Screening Gómez-Chova, Luis 1; Muñoz-Marí, Jordi 1; Izquierdo-Verdiguier, Emma 1; Camps-Valls, Gustavo 1; Calpe-Maravilla, Javier 1; Moreno, Jose 1; Preusker, Rene 2; Fischer, Jürgen 2; Brockmann, Carsten 3; North, Peter 4; Regner, Peter 5 1University of Valencia (SPAIN); 2Freie Universität Berlin (GERMANY); 3Brockmann Consult (GERMANY); 4Swansea University (UNITED KINGDOM); 5ESA (ITALY)
17:40	Remote sensing of multilayer cloud-top pressure using measurements of MERIS and AATSR on board ENVISAT Lindstrot, Rasmus ; Preusker, Rene ; Fischer, Juergen Freie Universitaet Berlin (GERMANY)

Session 3.6.1 - Persistent Scatterers Interferometry
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 6
08:30-10:10

08:30	Ten Years of Permanent Scatterers in SAR Interferometry Ferretti, Alessandro 1; Novali, Fabrizio 1; Fumagalli, Alfio 1; Rocca, Fabio 2; Prati, Claudio 2; Rucci, Alessio 2 1Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E. srl, (ITALY); 2Politecnico di Milano (ITALY)
08:50	Demystifying InSAR, the need for falsifiable results Hanssen, Ramon ; Mahapatra, Pooja ; Samiei Esfahany, Sami TU Delft (NETHERLANDS)
09:10	Submillimiter Accuracies are Usable and Measurable Monti Guarnieri, Andrea 1; Ferretti, Alessandro 2; Rocca, Fabio 1 1Politecnico di Milano (ITALY); 2TeleRilevamento Europa (ITALY)
09:30	A Least-Square Approach for Joining Persistent Scatterer InSAR Time Series Acquired by Different Satellites Caro Cuenca, Miguel ; Hanssen, Ramon Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS)
09:50	New Methodology for Ground Deformation PSI Monitoring over Large Time Series of SAR Data Duro, Javier 1; Mora, Oscar 1; Arnaud, Alain 1; Deffontaines, Benoît 2; FRUNEAU, Bénédicte 3 1Altamira Information, S.L. (SPAIN); 2Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6 (FRANCE); 3 Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée (FRANCE)

Session 3.6.2 - Persistent Scatterers Interferometry
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 6
10:40-12:20

10:40	PSP Approach for Very High Density Coherent Scatterers Identification and Analysis in COSMO-SkyMed SAR Interferometry Costantini, Mario ; Falco, Salvatore ; Malvarosa, Fabio ; Minati, Federico ; Trillo, Francesco ; Vecchioli, Francesco E-GEOS - an ASI/Telespazio Company (ITALY)
11:00	Deformation monitoring over urban areas: ERS and Envisat vs. VHR SAR imagery Crosetto, Michele 1; Monserrat, Oriol 1; Iglesias, Ruben 1; Crippa, Bruno 2 1Institute of Geomatics (SPAIN); 2University of Milan (ITALY)
11:20	Persistent Scatterer Interferometry on the Whole Italian Territory from ERS/Envisat Data: the PST-A/2 Project Minati, Federico 1; Colombo, Davide 2; Costantini, Mario 1; Ferretti, Alessandro 2; Ciminelli, Maria Grazia 1; Costabile, Salvatore 3 1e-GEOS an ASI/Telespazio Company (ITALY); 2Tele-Rilevamento Europa – T.R.E. S.r.l. (ITALY); 3Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare (ITALY)
11:40	Swelling soils and vegetation interactions : New results from PSI monitoring on eastern Paris area (France) Kaveh, Heydar Frederic 1; Deffontaines, Benoit 2; Fruneau, Benedicte 1; Cojean, Roger 3; Arnaud, Alain 4; Duro, Javier 4 1University Paris Est (FRANCE); 2Université Pierre et Marie Curie (FRANCE); 3Centre de Géosciences (FRANCE); 4Altamira Information (SPAIN)
12:00	Comparing Mid-Resolution C-Band and High-Resolution X-Band PS-InSAR Results over Shanghai Balz, Timo ; Liao, Mingsheng ; Pei, Yuanyuan ; Zhang, Lu Wuhan University (CHINA)

Session 3.6.3 - Future Earth Explorers
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 6
13:50-15:30

13:50	ADM-Aeolus: ESA's Wind Mission Ingmann, Paul ; Straume, Anne Grete ; Nett, Herbert ; Veith, Wolfgang ESA (NETHERLANDS)
14:10	EarthCARE: The ESA-JAXA Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation Mission Wehr, Tobias ; Ingmann, Paul ; Lajas, Dulce ; Eisinger, Michael ; Lefebvre, Alain ESA (NETHERLANDS)
14:30	Swarm: ESA's Magnetic Field Mission Haagmans, Roger 1; Plank, Gernot 1; Menard, Yvon 1; Floberghagen, Rune 2 1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2ESA (ITALY)
14:50	The Candidate ESA Earth Explorer 7 Missions: BIOMASS, CoReH2O, PREMIER Arcioni, Marco ; Bensi, Paolo ; Bézy, Jean Loup ; Carnicero Domínguez, Bernardo ; Caron, J. ; Davidson, Malcolm ; Drinkwater, Mark ; Fois, Franco ; Gabriele, Antonio ; Haagmans, Roger ; Heliere, Florence ; Ingmann, Paul ; Kangas, Ville ; Kraft, Stefan ; Langen, Joerg ; Lecuyot, Arnaud ; Lin, Chung-Chi ; Meynart, Roland ; Scipal, Klaus ; Silvestrin, Pierluigi European Space Agency (NETHERLANDS)
15:10	Candidate missions for the eighth Earth Explorer satellite mission Herland, Einar-Arne ESA (ITALY)

Session 3.6.4 - Future Earth Explorers
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 6
16:00-17:40

16:00	Retrieval of forest biomass from P-band SAR data: Prospects for the future BIOMASS mission Le Toan, Thuy 1; Ulander, Lars 2; Dubois-Fernandez, Pascale 3; Papathanassiou, Kostas 4; Rocca, Fabio 5; Davidson, Malcolm 6 1CESBIO (FRANCE); 2FOI (SWEDEN); 3ONERA (FRANCE); 4DLR (GERMANY); 5Politecnico di Milano (ITALY); 6ESA (NETHERLANDS)
16:20	Scientific Preparations for CoReH2O, an Earth Explorer Candidate Mission for Cold Regions Hydrology Rott, Helmut 1; Cline, Donald 2; Duguay, Claude 3; Essery, Richard 4; Etchevers, Pierre 5; Hajnsek, Irena 6; Kern, Michael 7; Macelloni, Giovanni 8; Malnes, Eirik 9; Pulliainen, Jouni 10; Yueh, Simon 11 1University of Innsbruck (AUSTRIA); 2NOAA-NOHRSC (UNITED STATES); 3University of Waterloo (CANADA); 4University of Edinburgh (UNITED KINGDOM); 5Météo France (FRANCE); 6DLR-HR (GERMANY); 7ESA (NETHERLANDS); 8IFAC-CNR (ITALY); 9NORUT (NORWAY); 10FMI (FINLAND); 11JPL-CalTech (UNITED STATES)
16:40	SnowScat, X- to Ku-Band Scatterometer Development Wiesmann, Andreas 1; Werner, Charles 1; Strozzi, Tazio 1; Matzler, Christian 2; Nagler, Thomas 3; Rott, Helmut 3; Schneebeli, Martin 4; Wegmüller, Urs 1 1GAMMA Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 2Inst. Appl. Physics IAP, University of Bern (SWITZERLAND); 3ENVEO (AUSTRIA); 4WSL-SLF Davos (SWITZERLAND)
17:00	PREMIER: Mission to Observe Processes Controlling Atmospheric Composition in the Height Range Most Important to Climate Kerridge, Brian 1; Bormann, Neils 2; Engelen, Richard 2; Dudhia, Anu 3; Orphal, Johannes 4; Fischer, Herbert 4; Hoepfner, Michael 4; Friedl-Vallon, Felix 4; Oelhaf, Hermann 4; Kleinart, Anne 4; Forster, Piers 5; Gerber, Daniel 1; Latter, Barry 1; Miles, Georgina 1; Reburn, Jolyon 1; Siddans, Richard 1; Waterfall, Alison 1; McConnell, John 6; Lupu, Alexandru 6; Neary, Lory 6; Semeniuk, Kiril 6; Murtagh, Donal 7; Eriksson, Patrick 7; Urban, Joachim 7; Palmer, Paul 8; Reise, Martin 9; Hoffmann, Lars 9; Konopka, Paul 9; Spang, Reinhold 9; van Weele, Michiel 10; Peuch, Vincent-Henri 11; Hegglin, Michaela 12; Elbern, Hendrik 13; Flaud, Jean - Marie 14; Bernath, Peter 15 1Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ECMWF (UNITED KINGDOM); 3University of Oxford (UNITED KINGDOM); 4Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (GERMANY); 5University of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM); 6York University (CANADA); 7Chalmers University of Technology (SWEDEN); 8University of Edinburgh (UNITED KINGDOM); 9Forschungszentrum Julich (GERMANY); 10KNMI (NETHERLANDS); 11MeteoFrance (FRANCE); 12University of Toronto (CANADA); 13Univeristy of Koeln (GERMANY); 14LISA-CNRS, Univ. Paris (FRANCE); 15University of York (UNITED KINGDOM)
17:20	Observations of Gravity Waves from Space - a Study in Support of the Limb Imaging Mission PREMIER Preusse, Peter 1; Lehmann, Catrin 1; Ern, Manfred 1; Hoefer, Sebastian 1; Riese, Martin 1; Hoffmann, Lars 1; Hoepfner, Michael2 1Forschungszentrum Jülich (GERMANY); 2Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (GERMANY)

Session 3.7.1 - DRAGON
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 7
08:30-10:10

08:30	Satellite Monitoring of Urbanization in China for Sustainable Development Ban, Yifang 1; Gamba, Paolo 2; Gong, Peng 3; Du, Peijun 4 1Royal Institute of Technology - KTH (SWEDEN); 2University of Pavia (ITALY); 3Chinese Academy of Sciences & Beijing Normal University (CHINA); 4China University of Mining and Technology (CHINA)
08:50	Monitoring Water Resource of the Yangtze Middle Reaches Exploiting ENVISAT and Altimetrical Data, and Field Measurements Yésou, Hervé 1; Li, Jiren 2; Daillet, Sylviane 3; Lai, Xijun 4; Bergé-Nguyen, Muriel 3; Chen, Xiaoling 5; Huang, Shifeng 2; Burnham, James 6; Crétaux, Jean-François 3; Huber, Claire 1; Marié, Tiphanie 1; Li, Jinggang 2; Andréoli, Rémi 7; Uribe, Carlos 1 1SERTIT (FRANCE); 2IWHR (CHINA); 3LEGOS / CNES (FRANCE); 4NIGLAS (CHINA); 5LIEMARS (CHINA); 6ICF (UNITED STATES); 7BLUECHAM (NEW CALEDONIA)
09:10	nvestigating the Earthquake Cycle on the Tibetan Plateau with InSAR Parsons, Barry 1; Bell, Marcus 1; Elliott, John 1; England, Philip 1; Walters, Richard 1; Garthwaite, Matthew 2; Wright, Tim 2; Wang, Hua 3; Li, Zhenhong 4; Jackson, James 5; Ryder, Isabelle 6 1University of Oxford (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM); 3Guangdong University of Technology (CHINA); 4University of Glasgow (UNITED KINGDOM); 5University of Cambridge (UNITED KINGDOM); 6University of Liverpool (UNITED KINGDOM)
09:30	A Multiscale Approach for Semi-Automatic Comparison Assessment of Large Scale Forest Maps Leiterer, Reik 1; Reiche, Johannes 1; Cartus, Oliver 1; Santoro, Maurizio 2; Thiel, Christian 1; Herold, Martin 3; Schmullius, Christiane 1 1Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (GERMANY); 2GAMMA Remote Sensing Research and Consulting (SWITZERLAND); 3Wageningen University and Research Centre (NETHERLANDS)
09:50	Assessment of Maize Acreage on the North Chian Plain using Sub-Pixel Classification of SPOT-VEGETATION Times Series Dong, Qinghan 1; Li, Qiangzi 2; Eerens, Herman 1; Wu, Bingfang 2 1VITO (BELGIUM); 2IRSA, CAS (CHINA)

Session 3.7.2 - DRAGON
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 7
10:40-12:40

10:40	Mapping of Sea Ice in Liaodong Bay with Polarimetric SAR Data (DRAGON-2 Project) Yonggang, Ji 1; Jie, Zhang 1; Xi, Zhang 1; Junmin, Meng 1; Tongzhen, Lu 1; Yuwei, Liu 1; Dierking, Wolfgang 2 1First Institute of Oceanography (CHINA); 2Alfred Wegener Institute (GERMANY)
11:00	Progress toward Demonstrating SAR Monitoring of Chinese Seas Huang, Weigen 1; Johannessen, Johnny 2; Alpers, Werner 3; Huang, Weigen 4 1Second Institute of Oceanography (CHINA); 2Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NORWAY); 3Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg (GERMANY); 4Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA (CHINA)
11:20	Validation Campaigns for Sea surface Wind and Wind Profile by Ground-based Doppler Wind Lidar Liu, Zhishen ; Wu, Songhua ; Song, Xiaoquan ; Liu, Bingyi ; Li, Zhigang Ocean University of China (CHINA)
11:40	Global Sea State Using ASAR Wave Mode Measurements Li, Xiao-Ming 1; Lehner, Susanne 2; Graßl , Hartmut 3 1Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY); 2Remote Sensing Technology Institute (GERMANY); 3Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg (GERMANY)
12:00	Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting in China Mijling, Bas 1; van der A, Ronald 1; Zhang, Pang 2 1KNMI (NETHERLANDS); 2NSMC (CHINA)
12:20	Exploitation of GOMOS, OSIRIS, OMI and MIPAS Measurements for Studying the Change in the Middle Atmosphere (Dragon 5311) Kyrölä, Erkki 1; Sofieva, Viktoria 1; Kalakoski, Niilo 1; Liu, Yi 2; Cai, Zhaonan 2; Liu, Chuanxi 2 1Finnish Meteorological Institute (FINLAND); 2Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (CHINA)

Session 3.7.3 - DRAGON
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 7
13:50-15:30

13:50	Landslides and Dam Stability Monitoring with Time Series InSAR Analysis in the Three Gorges Region Rocca, Fabio 1; Liao, Mingsheng 2; Perissin, Daniele 3; Wang, Teng 1 1Politecnico (ITALY); 2Wuhan University (CHINA); 3Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK (CHINA)
14:10	FOREST DRAGON 2: Large-area forest stem volume mapping in China, using ERS-1/2 tandem coherence Reiche, Johannes 1; Leiterer, Reik 1; Cartus, Oliver 1; Santoro, Maurizio 2; Schmullius, Christiane 1; Zengyuan, Li 3 1Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (GERMANY); 2Gamma Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 3Chinese Academy of Forestry (CHINA)
14:30	An Unsupervised Classification Using Agglomerative Hierarchical clustering and the H/α/A Decomposition for ALOS POLSAR Cao, Fang 1; Pottier, Eric 2; Hong, Wen 3 1National Key Lab. of Microwave Imaging Technology, CHINA; IETR UMR CNRS 6164, University of Rennes 1 (FRANCE); 2IETR UMR CNRS 6164, University of Rennes 1 (FRANCE); 3National Key Lab. of Microwave Imaging Technology; Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy Science (CHINA)
14:50	Evaluation of Vegetated Area Soil Moisture Estimation Using Compact Polarimetry Yan, Jian ; Chen, Lin ; Li, Yang ; Yin, Qiang ; Hong, Wen National Key Lab. of Microwave Imaging Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Scie (CHINA)
15:10	DEM Generation Using Single Pass Polarimetric SAR Data Li, Yang 1; Hong, Wen 1; Pottier, Eric 2; Cao, Fang 1; Goodenough, David 3; Chen, Hao 3 1Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHINA); 2University of Rennes 1 (FRANCE); 3 Pacific Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC (CANADA)

Session 3.7.4 - EO Quantification of Ecosystems
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 7
16:00-18:00

16:00	Monitoring, Mapping and Assessing Ecosystem Services for National and International Decision-Makers - Progress & Future Walpole, Matt ; Miles, Lera ; Walker, Susan ; Winn, Jonathan ; Moon, Sarah United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) (UNITED KINGDOM)
16:20	Accounting for Nature: the Case for Corporate Ecosystem Valuation Kallesoe, Mikkel World Business Council for Sustainable Development (SWITZERLAND)
16:40	Joint Use of Socio-Economic Statistics, in Situ and EO Data Enable an Implementation of Ecosystem Capital Accounts Weber, Jean-Louis 1; Ivanov, Emil 2 1European Environment Agency (DENMARK); 2European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information, Autonomous University of Barcelona (SPAIN)
17:00	Mapping and Evaluation of Ecosystem Services to improve Human Livelihoods and save Species Shapiro, Aurélie C. WWF-Deutschland (GERMANY)
17:20	Underpinning the Quality of Forestry Ecosystem Services with Geospatial Data Using the Latest in Earth Observation Tools Crosthwaite Eyre, Charles 1; Crosthwaite Eyre, Charles 1; Holecz, Francesco 2; Mönnig, Nico 3; Seifert, Frank Martin 4 1Eyre Consulting Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 2sarmap SA (SWITZERLAND); 3York Timbers (Pty) Ltd (SOUTH AFRICA); 4ESA (ITALY)
17:40	Capabilities of EO Service Industry in Responding to Monitoring and Assessing Ecosystems Pradhan, Chetan European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) (UNITED KINGDOM)

Session 3.8.1 - Carbon Cycle
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 8
08:30-10:10

08:30	The GLOBCARBON Initiative: Final Results Plummer, Stephen ; Arino, Olivier ESA (ITALY)
08:50	Monitoring Soil and Vegetation Fof Carbon and Water at the Global S: towards a GMES Service Calvet, J.-C. 1; Balsamo, G. 2; Barbu, A. 1; Balzarolo, M. 3; Cescatti, A. 4; Chevallier, F. 5; Delbart, N. 5; de Vries, J. 6; Kullmann, L. 7; Lafont, S. 1; Papale, D. 3 1CNRM/GAME, Meteo-France, CNRS (FRANCE); 2ECMWF (UNITED KINGDOM); 3University of Tuscia (ITALY); 4JRC, IES (ITALY); 5LSCE, CEA (FRANCE); 6KNMI (NETHERLANDS); 7OMSZ (HUNGARY)
09:10	Can Remotely Sensed Data Be Used to Estimate Surface Water fCO2 in the Southern Polar Ocean? Chierici, Melissa 1; Fransson, Agneta 1; Signorini, Sergio 2; Olsen, Are 1 1University of Gothenburg (SWEDEN); 2NASA (UNITED STATES)
09:30	Interannual Variations of Sea-Surface pCO2 based on Remote Sensing Variables Jutterström, Sara 1; Chierici, Melissa 2; Olsen, Are 1 1Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (NORWAY); 2University of Gothenburg (SWEDEN)
09:50	The role of croplands and grasslands in the carbon budget in China - The Dragon project Le Toan, Thuy 1; Huang, Yao 2; Bondeau, Alberte 3; Delbart, Nicolas 4; Buchwitz, Michael 5; Tan, BingXiang 6 1CESBIO (FRANCE); 2Institute of Atmospheric Physics (CHINA); 3Potsdam Institute for Climate Research (GERMANY); 4LSCE (FRANCE); 5University of Bremen (GERMANY); 6Research Institute of Forest Resources Information Technique (CHINA)

Session 3.8.2 - Forestry
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 8
10:40-12:20

10:40	Usability of MERIS MTCI for Extracting Forest Phenology and Exploring Phenology Based Classification Chockalingam, Jeganathan ; Dash, Jadu ; Atkinson, Peter M. University of Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:00	Satellite Data Analysis for Climate Changes Impacts on the Surface Albedo of a Forest Ecosystem Zoran, Maria National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics (ROMANIA)
11:20	Towards Operative Forest Inventory by Extraction of Tree Level Information from VHR Satellite Images Astola, Heikki ; Häme, Tuomas ; Molinier, Matthieu ; Andersson, Kaj ; Ahola, Heikki VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (FINLAND)
11:40	Comparison and Evaluation of Leaf Area Index (LAI) Estimated from Medium Resolution Remote Sensing Data in a Broadleaf Deciduous Forest in Southern England, UK Ogutu, Booker; Dash, Jadu; Dawson, Terry University of Southampton, UNITED KINGDOM
12:00	Modelling Fractional Tree Cover using Different Satellite Sensor Data Donmez, Cenk 1; Berberoglu, Suha 1; Erdogan, Mehmet Akif 2 1Cukurova University (TURKEY); 2Istanbul Technical University (TURKEY)

Session 3.8.3 - Global Vegetation & Bio-geophysical Products
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 8
13:50-15:30

13:50	Global Changes in Biosphere Vegetation Dynamics Using MERIS data Gobron, Nadine 1; Belward, Alan 1; Pinty, Bernard 1; Knorr, Wolfgang 2 1EC-JRC (ITALY); 2Univ. Bristol (UNITED KINGDOM)
14:10	Monitoring Vegetation using DOAS Satellite Observations Eigemeier, Ellen 1; Beirle, Steffen 1; Marbach, Thierry 1; Platt, Ulrich 2; Wagner, Thomas 1 1Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (GERMANY); 2University of Heidelberg (GERMANY)
14:30	The ESA GlobAlbedo Project for Mapping the Earth's Land Surface Albedo for 15 Years (1995-2010) from European Sensors Muller, Jan-Peter 1; Lewis, P 1; Fischer, Jürgen 2; Guanter, Luis 2; Heckel, Andreas 3; Krämer, Uwe 4; Disney, Mathias 1; North, Peter 3; Preusker, Réné 2; Fomferra, Norman 4; Brockmann, Carsten 4; Kennedy, Tom 1 1University College London (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Freie Universität Berlin (GERMANY); 3Swansea University (UNITED KINGDOM); 4Brockmann Consult (GERMANY)
14:50	The Extraction of Seasonality Measures from MERIS Reduced Resolution Data to Characterise Trends in Irish Vegetation Cawkwell, Fiona ; O'Connor, Brian ; Dwyer, Ned University College Cork (IRELAND)
15:10	Turbulent flux partitioning from local to meso scale over high elevation arid regions of China Colin, Jerome 1; Menenti, Massimo 2; Liu, Qiang 3; Shen, Xueshun 4; Li, Xin 5 1University of Strasbourg (FRANCE); 2TU Delft (NETHERLANDS); 3Institut for Remote Sensing Applications, CAS (CHINA); 4Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA, CAS (CHINA); 5Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, CAS (CHINA)

Session 3.8.4 - Global Vegetation & Bio-geophysical Products
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Room 8
16:00-17:40

16:00	Exploiting Surface Albedo Products: Examples of anticipated Downstream Applications from the GlobAlbedo Initiative Pinty, Bernard 1; Clerici, Marco 2; Andredakis, Ioannis 2; Kaminski, Thomas 3; Lewis, Philip 4 1EC-JRC/ESA-ESRIN (ITALY); 2EC-JRC (ITALY); 3Fastopt (GERMANY); 4UCL (UNITED KINGDOM)
16:20	Evaluating the Potential of Vegetation Chlorophyll Content Product: Harmonization of MERIS and Sentinel 3 Sensor Data Dash, J. 1; Vuolo, F. 1; Curran, P. 2; Jeganathan, C. 1; Lankester, T. 3 1University of Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Bournemouth University (UNITED KINGDOM); 3Infoterra Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM)
16:40	ALANIS: a Multi-mission Atmosphere-Land Interaction Study over Boreal Eurasia Marconcini, Mattia 1; Fernandez-Prieto, Diego 1; Reissell, Anni 2 1ESA (ITALY); 2iLEAPS International Project Office - University of Helsinki (FINLAND)
17:00	MERIS fAPAR as a Drought Indicator: Performance in Different Contexts Rossi, Simone ; Niemeyer, Stefan ; Gobron, Nadine European Commission Joint Research Centre (ITALY)
17:20	Empirical and Statistical Approaches for the Improved Retrieval of Chlorophyll and Lai from Sentinel-2 Data Verrelst, Jochem; Alonso, Luis ; Camps-Valls, Gustavo ; Delegido, Jesus ; Guanter, Luis ; Contreras Marin, Carlos Julio ; Acosta Rubiano, Jennyfer ; Meza Naranjo, Carlos Mauricio ; Moreno, Jose University of Valencia (SPAIN)

Session 4.1.1 - Soil Moisture & Hydrology
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 1
08:30-10:10

08:30	Global Monitoring of the Hydrosphere: From ENVISAT ASAR to Sentinel-1 Sabel, Daniel ; Wagner, Wolfgang ; Pathe, Carsten ; Doubkova, Marcela ; Dorigo, Wouter ; Bartsch, Annett Vienna University of Technology, (AUSTRIA)
08:50	Quantification of uncertainties in global coarse-resolution soil moisture products using in-situ observations and ASAR Su, Z. (Bob) 1; van der Velde, Rogier 1; Dente, Laura 1; Wang, Lichun 1; Vekerdy, Zoltan 1; van Helvoirt, Marcel 1; Ma, Yaoming 2; Wen, Jun 3; van Oevelen, Peter 4 1ITC (NETHERLANDS); 2Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP/CAS) (CHINA); 3Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI/CAS) (CHINA); 4GEWEX IPO (UNITED STATES)
09:10	Generation of High Resolution Soil Moisture Maps from ENVISAT/ASAR Images Santi, Emanuele ; Pampaloni, Paolo ; Paloscia, Simonetta ; Pettinato, Simone ; Brogioni, Marco ; Macelloni, Giovanni CNR-IFAC (ITALY)
09:30	Adaptive Algorithm for Soil Moisture Retrieval in Agricultural and Mountainous Areas with High Resolution ASAR Images Notarnicola, Claudia 1; Paloscia, Simonetta 2; Pettinato , Simone 2; Preziosa, Giovanni 3; Santi, Emanuele 2; Ventura, Bartolomeo 4 1EURAC (ITALY); 2IFAC-CNR (ITALY); 3Politecnico di Bari (ITALY); 4Università di Bari (ITALY)
09:50	Bistatic Measurements of Soil Moisture by Using GNSS Signals: The LEIMON Project Brogioni, Marco 1; Caparrini, Marco 2; Egido, Alejandro 2; Farres, E. 2; Motte , Erwan 2; Floury, Nicolas 3; Guerriero, Leila 4; Paloscia, Simonetta 5; Pampaloni, Paolo 1; Pettinato, Simone 1; Pierdicca, Nazzareno 6; Santi, Emanuele 5 1Center For Microwave Remote Sensing (ITALY); 2Starlab, Barcelona (SPAIN); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS); 4Tor Vergata University, Rome (ITALY); 5CNR-IFAc, Florence (ITALY); 6 Sapienza University, Rome (ITALY)

Session 4.1.2 - Soil Moisture & Hydrology
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 1
10:40-12:00

10:40	Merging Active and Passive Microwave Soil Moisture Data to Construct Long-Term Time Series in Support of Climate Studies Dorigo, Wouter 1; de Jeu, Richard 2; Parinussa, Robert 2; Liu, Yi 2; Hasenauer, Stefan 1; Wagner, Wolfgang 1; Su, Bob 3 1Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) (AUSTRIA); 2VU Amsterdam (NETHERLANDS); 3ITC (NETHERLANDS)
11:00	Accuracy and Stability Requirements of ERS and METOP Scatterometer Soil Moisture for Climate Change Assessment Wagner, Wolfgang ; Dorigo, Wouter ; Bartalis, Zoltan ; Naeimi, Vahid Vienna University of Technology (AUSTRIA)
11:20	Use of multi-temporal C-band radar data for the monitoring of evaporitic soils Frison, Pierre-Louis 1; Paillou, Philippe 2; Freeman, Anthony 3; Pottier, Eric 4; Baup, Frédéric 5 1Univesité Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (FRANCE); 2Université de Bordeaux (FRANCE); 3Jet Propulsion Laboratory (UNITED STATES); 4Université de Rennes (FRANCE); 5CESBIO (FRANCE)
11:40	ASCAT-Envisat Asar 1 KM Resolution Downscaled Soil Moisture Product: Soil Wetness Indices Retrieval over Luxembourg Heitz, Sonia 1; Matgen, Patrick 1; Hasenauer, Stefan 2; Pfister, Laurent 1; Wagner, Wolfgang 2; Hoffmann, Lucien 1 1Centre de Recherche Public Gabriel Lippmann (LUXEMBOURG); 2Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (AUSTRIA)

Session 4.1.3 - Wetlands
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 1
13:50-15:30

13:50	Characterizing Status of Selected Ecosystems Using Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing Data Budzynska, Maria ; Dabrowska - Zielinska, Katarzyna ; Kowalik, Wanda ; Malek, Iwona ; Turlej, Konrad Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (POLAND)
14:10	DRAGON ENVISAT and TRM Data for Characterization of the Schistosomiasis Vector's Habitat in the Poyang Lake area, China Marié, Tiphanie 1; Lai, Xijun 2; Huber, Claire 1; Chen, Xiaoling 3; Uribe, Carlos 1; Huang, Shifeng 4; Tang, Linhua 5; Lacaux, Jean-Pierre 6; Lafaye, Murielle 7; Yésou, Hervé 1 1SERTIT (FRANCE); 2NIGLAS (CHINA); 3LIERMARS (CHINA); 4IWHR (CHINA); 5National Institute of Parasitic Disease (CHINA); 6Observatoire Midi Pyrénées (FRANCE); 7CNES (FRANCE)
14:30	Object Oriented Extraction of Wetlands Based on Synergistic Use of Multispectral and Microwave Remote Sensing Data Leiterer, Reik 1; Kropacek, J. 2; Chen, F. 3; Thiel, C. 1; Krause, P. 4; Hochschild, V. 2; Helmschrot, J. 4 1Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (GERMANY); 2Tübingen University, Institute of Geography (GERMANY); 3Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (CHINA); 4Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Institute of Geography (GERMANY)
14:50	Remote Sensing for Hydrological Modeling of Seasonal Wetlands - Concepts and Applications Meier, Philipp 1; Wang, Haijing 1; Milzow, Christian 2; Kinzelbach, Wolfgang 1 1ETH Zürich (SWITZERLAND); 2Technical University of Denmark (DENMARK)
15:10	A protoype observation system for water resources in South ¨C East Asia: ground and space observations Menenti, Massimo 1; Colin, Jerome 2; Jia, Li 3; Wang, Jian 4; Shen, Xueshun 5; Ueno, Kenichi 6; Immerzeel, Walter 7 1Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS); 2University of Strasbourg (FRANCE); 3Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre (NETHERLANDS); 4CAREERI - CAS (CHINA); 5Chinese Academy Meteorological Sciences (CHINA); 6University of Tsukuba (JAPAN); 7FutureWater (NETHERLANDS)

Session 4.1.4 - DEM, Geology & Geomorphology
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 1
16:00-17:40

16:00	ACE2: Global Digital Elevation Model Smith, Richard Gavin 1; Berry, Philippa 1; Benveniste, Jerome 2 1EAPRS Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ESA (ITALY)
16:20	Potential and Limitation of ERS - ENVISAT Cross-Interferometry DEM Generation Wegmüller, Urs ; Santoro, Maurizio ; Strozzi, Tazio ; Werner, Charles Gamma Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND)
16:40	Generation and Validation of Accurate DEMs Over Large Areas Using ERS-ASAR Cross-Interferometry Pasquali, Paolo ; Cantone, Alessio ; Barbieri, Massimo Sarmap s.a. (SWITZERLAND)
17:00	Generation of Multitemporal Digital Elevation Models with Optical Remote Sensing Imagery in the Mount Everest Region Pieczonka, Tino 1; Bolch, Tobias 2; Buchroithner, Manfred 1 1TU Dresden (GERMANY); 2University of Zurich (SWITZERLAND)
17:20	Sub-Surface DEM Mapping in Desert Regions Using ALOS-PALSAR Muller, Jan-Peter 1; Li, Xiaofan 1; Li, Xiaofan 2; Rao, Kato 3; Al-Jassar, Hala 3; Amirrad, Mohammed 3 1University College London (UNITED KINGDOM); 2now at Peking University (CHINA); 3Kuwait University (KUWAIT)

Session 4.2.1 - Cryosphere & Climate
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 2
08:50-10:10

08:50	Recent Ice-Sheet Decay in the Interior of Greenland Johannessen, Ola M. 1; Johannessen, Ola M. 1; Khovorostovsky, Kirill 1; Chen, Linling 2 1Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY); 2Nansen Scientific Society (NORWAY)
09:10	A Fifty Year Reconstruction of Freshwater Fluxes from the Greenland Ice Sheet Bamber, Jonathan 1; van den Broeke, Michiel 2; Ettema, Janneke 2; Rignot, Eric 3 1University of Bristol (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Utrecht University (NETHERLANDS); 3University of California, Irvine (UNITED STATES)
09:30	Geophysical Quantification of Present-Day Sea Level Rise Shum, C.K. 1; Kuo, Chungyen 2 1Ohio State University (UNITED STATES); 2National Cheng Kung University (TAIWAN)
09:50	First Results from the CryoClim System for Cryospheric Climate Monitoring Solberg, Rune 1; Breivik, Lars-Anders 2; Andreassen, Liss Marie 3; König, Max 4; Solberg, Rune 1 1Norwegian Computing Center (NORWAY); 2Norwegian Meteorological Institute (NORWAY); 3Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NORWAY); 4Norwegian Polar Institute (NORWAY)

Session 4.2.2 - Ocean Circulation & Currents
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 2
10:40-12:20

10:40	Application of ASAR WSM Doppler Centroid Anomalies for Current Retrievals in the Northeast Atlantic Hansen, Morten Wergeland 1; Collard, Fabrice 2; Johannessen, Johnny A. 1; Dagestad, Knut-Frode 1 1NERSC (NORWAY); 2CLS (FRANCE)
11:00	Status Report on Current Measurements by TerraSAR-X Along-Track Interferometric SAR Romeiser, Roland 1; Runge, Hartmut 2; Suchandt, Steffen 2; Graber, Hans 1 1University of Miami (UNITED STATES); 2German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY)
11:20	Monitoring Intense Current Dynamics from Envisat ASAR Chapron, Bertrand 1; Johannessen, Johnny A. 2; Collard, Fabrice 3; Mouche, Alex 3; Rouault, Marjolaine 4; Tournadre, Jean 1 1Ifremer (FRANCE); 2NERSC (NORWAY); 3CLS (FRANCE); 4CSIR (SOUTH AFRICA)
11:40	Multi-sensor satellite observations of the Southern California Bight - Circulation and Stormwater Discharge Holt, Benjamin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (UNITED STATES)
12:00	InfoceanDesk: Two Demonstrators of GMES Downstream Commercial Applications Baudel, Sophie 1; Mangin, Antoine 2; Durand, Edmée 3; Hoffman, Joël 4 1CLS (FRANCE); 2ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 3Mercator Ocean (FRANCE); 4Meteo France (FRANCE)

Session 4.2.3 - The Changing Earth Science Network
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 2
13:50-15:30

13:50	The Changing Earth Science Network -Projects and Results from the First Call Fernandez, Diego ; Dransfeld, Steffen ESA (ITALY)
14:10	Open Ocean and Coastal CO2 Fluxes from Envisat in Support of Global Carbon Cycle Monitoring - an ESA STSE Project Shutler, Jamie1; Woolf, David2; Hardman-Mountford, Nick1; Nightingale, Phil1; Donlon, Craig3 1Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Environmental Research Institute (UNITED KINGDOM); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS)
14:30	Decadal variability in global ocean phytoplankton through satellite remote sensing and in-situ measurements Martinez, Elodie CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (FRANCE)
14:50	CESN/ASSOCO Project: Assimilation of Ocean Colour Data. Results from Twin Experiments and Development of the Methodology Doron, Maeva ; Brasseur, Pierre ; Brankart, Jean-Michel LEGI/CNRS (FRANCE)
15:10	Wind Retrieval over the Ocean from Combined Use of Synthetic Aperture Radar and Weather Forecast Models Dagestad, Knut-Frode ; Johannessen, Johnny ; Hansen, Morten Wergeland Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY)

Session 4.2.4 - The Changing Earth Science Network
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 2
16:00-18:20

16:00	CLouds and Aerosol Radiative Interaction and Forcing Investigation (CLARIFI): the semi-direct effect De Graaf, Martin ; Tilstra, Gijsbert ; Stammes, Piet ; Donovan, David Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) (NETHERLANDS)
16:20	Sounding the Upper Troposphere-Lower Stratosphere with Satellite measurements Papandrea, Enzo 1; Castelli, Elisa 2 1University of Bologna (ITALY); 2Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, CNR (ITALY)
16:40	CARBONGASES: Retrieval and analysis of carbon dioxide and methane greenhouse gases from SCIAMACHY on ENVISAT Schneising, Oliver ; Buchwitz, Michael ; Reuter, Maximilian ; Bovensmann, Heinrich ; Burrows, John P. University of Bremen (GERMANY)
17:00	Diagnostics of Transport and Mixing in the Atmospheric Interfaces Palazzi, Elisa; Fierli, Federico ISAC/CNR (ITALY)
17:20	The CHOCOLATE project Garcia-Comas, Maya IAA-CSIC (SPAIN)
17:40	InSAR Survey of the Magmatic Effects on Rift Development Biggs, Juliet University of Oxford (UNITED KINGDOM)
18:00	Burn Severity Estimation Using MERIS Full Resolution Imagery Oliva , Patricia 1; De Santis, Angela 2 1University of Alcalá (SPAIN); 2INSA, Ingeniería y Servicios Aeroespaciales, S.A. (SPAIN)

Session 4.3.1 - A Multi-mission & QA4EO
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 3
08:30-10:10

08:30	GEO and QA4EOα Koopman, Rob GEO Secretariat (SWITZERLAND)
08:50	An Overview of Current and Future ESA Activities Related to QA4EO Martimort, Philippe 1; Isola, Claudia 1; Nieke, Jens 1; Goryl, Philippe 2; Ottavianelli, Giuseppe 2; Rosich, Betlem 2 1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2ESA (ITALY)
09:10	QA4EO (Quality Assurance for Earth Observations) for Atmospheric Composition Measurements Kwiatkowska, Ewa 1; Fehr, Thorsten 2; Gessner, Roland 3; van Gijsel, Anne 4; Lambert, Jean-Christopher 5; Weber, Mark 6; Kirchengast, Gottfried 7; van Roozendael, Michel 8 1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2ESA (ITALY); 3EADS ASTRIUM GmbH (GERMANY); 4RIVM (NETHERLANDS); 5Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM); 6University of Bremen (GERMANY); 7WegCenter, University of Graz (AUSTRIA); 8IASB-BIRA (BELGIUM)
09:30	Application of QA4EO principles to SCIAMACHY Level 1 data Lichtenberg, Günter 1; Slijkhuis, Sander 1; Gottwald, Manfred 1; Snel, Ralph 2; Fox, Nigel 3; Mackin, Stephen 3; Bramstedt, Klaus 4; Krijger, Johannes M. 2; Noël, Stefan 4 1DLR - IMF (German Aerospace Centre) (GERMANY); 2SRON (Netherlands Institute for Space Research) (NETHERLANDS); 3NPL (National Physical Laboratory) (UNITED KINGDOM); 4Institute of Environmental Physics/Remote Sensing, University Bremen (GERMANY)
09:50	International CEOS Comparisons in Support of QA4EO Fox, Nigel 1; Goryl, Philippe 2; Chander, Gyanesh 3 1National Physical Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ESA (ITALY); 3SGT inc contractor to United States Geological Survey (UNITED STATES)

Session 4.3.2 - A Multi-mission & QA4EO
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 3
10:40-12:20

10:40	Products Definition and Determining Uncertainties; Sentinel-3 Optical Level 2 Prototype Processor Lavender, Samantha 1; Hembise Fanton d’Andon , Odile 2; Emsley, Stephen 1; Vincent, Emmanuel 2; Bourg , Ludovic 2; Nightingale, Tim 3; North, Peter 4; Fomferra, Norman 5; Quast, Ralf 5; Bates, Martin 3; Nasir-Habeeb , Rabiah 1; Goryl, Philippe 6; Sotis, Gianni 7; Brockmann, Carsten 5 1ARGANS Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 3Science and Technology Facilities Council (UNITED KINGDOM); 4University of Wales Swansea (UNITED KINGDOM); 5Brockmann Consult (GERMANY); 6ESA (ITALY); 7Elsag Datamat spa (ITALY)
11:00	The Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Donlon, Craig 1; Corelet, Gary 2 1ESA (ITALY); 2University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:20	Implementation of a QA4EO Compliant QA/QC System for the DMC Constellation of Satellites Mackin, Stephen DMC International Imaging Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:40	The EnMAP Mission: The Basic Sequence from Measurement to Product Including Quality Indication and Validation von Bargen, Albrecht 1; Bachmann, M. 1; Chlebek, C. 1; Guanter, L. 2; Hofer, S. 3; Kaufmann, H. 2; Mogulsky, V. 3; Müller, R. 1; Neumann, A. 1; Rossner, G. 1; Sang, B. 3; Segl, K. 2; Storch, T. 1; Walzel, T. 1 1German Aerospace Center (GERMANY); 2GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (GERMANY); 3Kayser-Threde GmbH (GERMANY)
12:00	Introducing Quality Methodologies in Forest Carbon Tracking: GEO FCT and QA4EO Plummer, Stephen ; Lecomte, Pascal ; Martin Seifert, Frank ESA (ITALY)

Session 4.3.3 - ESA Climate Change Initiative
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 3
13:30-15:30

13:30	The CCI Programme Doherty, Mark ESA, ITALY
13:50	The Climate Model User Group - CMUG Saunders, Roger Met Office, UK
14:10	Cloud_cci Hollman, Rainer Deutscher Wetterdienst, GERMANY
14:30	Ozone_cci van Roozendael, Michel BIRA / IASB, BELGIUM
14:50	Aerosols_cci Holzer-Popp, Thomas DLR, GERMANY
15:10	GHG_cci Buchwitz, Michael IUP, University of Bremen, GERMANY

Session 4.3.4 - ESA Climate Change Initiative
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 3
16:00-18:00

16:00	Sea Level_cci Lead Scientist CLS, France
16:20	SST_cci Merchant, Chris University of Edinburgh, UK
16:40	Ocean Colour_cci Platt, Trevor Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
17:00	Glaciers_cci Paul, Frank University of Zurich, SWITZERLAND
17:20	Landcover_cci Defourny, Pierre Université Catholique de Louvain, BELGIUM
17:40	Fire_cci Chuvieco, Emilio University of Alcalá, SPAIN

Session 4.4.1 - Sentinel-1
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 4
08:30-10:10

08:30	Sentinel-1 Ground Segment and Data Products Rosich, Betlem 1; Mirko , Santuari 2; Nuno, Miranda 1; Cosimo, Putignano 2 1ESA (ITALY); 2SERCO (ITALY)
08:50	The GMES Sentinels Flight Operations Segment Bargellini, Pier 1; Emanuelli, PierPaolo 1; Shurmer, Ian 1; Marchese, Franco 1; Morales, Jose 1; Moeller, Hermann 2 1ESA (GERMANY); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS)
09:10	Sentinel-1 Coverage and Revisit Capabilities Attema, Evert 1; Snoeij, Paul 1; Duesmann, Berthyl 1; Rommen, Bjorn 1; Floury, Nicolas 1; Davidson, Malcolm 1; Rosich, Betlem 2 1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2ESA (ITALY)
09:30	Assessment of Sentinel-1 TOPS for Ocean Wave Spectra Retrieval Johnsen, Harald ; Geir, Engen Norut (NORWAY)
09:50	ENVISAT AP Data used as Preparation for Sentinel-1 Hannevik, Tonje Nanette Arnese ; Olsen, Richard B. Norwegian Defence Research Est. (NORWAY)

Session 4.4.2 - CRYOSAT
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 4
10:40-12:20

10:40	Cryosat-2: a status update Francis, Richard ESA (NETHERLANDS)
11:00	Launch and Early Orbit Operations for CryoSat-2 Marchese, Franz ; Mardle, Nic ESA (GERMANY)
11:20	CryoSat-2 Payload and Platform Performance Cullen, Robert ESA (NETHERLANDS)
11:40	Cryosat Measurements of over Ice Sheets and Trends Wingham, Duncan UCL (UNITED KINGDOM)
12:00	CryoSat Measurements of Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Trends Laxon, Seymour ; Ridout, Andrew ; Giles, Katharine University College London (UNITED KINGDOM)

Session 4.4.3 - CRYOSAT
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 4
13:50-15:30

13:50	The CryoSat Mission Calibration and Validation Activities Davidson, Malcolm 1; Wingham, Duncan 2 1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2UCL (UNITED KINGDOM)
14:10	Airborne Campaigns for CryoSat pre-launch Calibration and Validation Hvidegaard, S.M. ; Forsberg, R. ; Skourup, H. ; Stenseng, L. Danish Technical University (DENMARK)
14:30	Calibration of Siral (CryoSat-2) over the Svalbard Transponder Roca, Monica 1; Reche, Mercedes 2; Montolio, Josep 2; Cullen, Robert 3; Francis, Richard 3 1isardSAT (SPAIN); 2Pildo Labs (SPAIN); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS)
14:50	CryoSat-2 Pre-Launch Calibration and Validation Studies over Glacier Ice and Sea Ice on and off Svalbard Brandt, Ola 1; Gerland, Sebastian 1; Kohler, Jack 1; ForsstrÃ¶m, Sanja 1; Tronstad, Stein 1; Haas, Christian 2; Nicolaus, Marcel 1; Hendricks, S. 3; Hawley, Robert 4 1Norwegian Polar Institute (NORWAY); 2University of Alberta (CANADA); 3Alfred Wegener Institute (GERMANY); 4Dartmouth College (UNITED STATES)
15:10	CryoSat-2 POD and LRM Altimeter CAL/VAL: Early Results Naeije, Marc 1; De Ridder, Sven 1; Schrama, Ernst 1; Scharroo, Remko 2 1TUDelft (NETHERLANDS); 2Altimetrics LLC (UNITED STATES)

Session 4.4.4 - CRYOSAT
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 4
16:00-18:00

16:00	SIRAL 2 performance on ground and first results in orbit Rey, L.; Rys, L. Thales Alenia Space Industrie (FRANCE)
16:20	CryoSat-2: From SAR to LRM (FBR) for Quantitative Precision Comparison over Identical Sea State Martin-Puig, Cristina1; Raney, R. Keith2; Marquez, Jose1; Gommenginger, Christine3 1Starlab Barcelona S.L, SPAIN; 2Johns Hopkins University, UNITED STATES; 3Ocean Observing and Climate National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UNITED KINGDOM
16:40	CryoSat SAR-Mode Looks Revisited Raney, R. Keith Johns Hopkins University (UNITED STATES)
17:00	The SAMOSA Project: Assessing the Potential of SAR Altimetry Over Water Surfaces Cotton, David 1; Andersen, Ole Baltazar 2; Berry, Philippa 3; Cipollini, Paolo 4; Gommenginger, Christine 4; Stenseng, Lars 5; Benveniste, Jerome 6; Dinardo, Salvatore6; Martin-Puig, Cristina7 1Satellite Oceanographic Consultants (UNITED KINGDOM); 2DTU Space (DENMARK); 3De Montfort University (UNITED KINGDOM); 4National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM); 5DTU Space, National Space Institute (DENMARK); 6ESA (ITALY); 7STARLAB (SPAIN)
17:20	The Potential of CryoSat for Recovery of High Resolution Gravity and Bathymetry Sandwell, David T. 1; Smith, Walter H.F. 2 1UCSD (UNITED STATES); 2U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (UNITED STATES)
17:40	Cost Effective Approach to Mission Operations Preparation and Execution for ESA Earth Explorer Missions Mardle, Nic ; Emanuelli, Pier Paolo ESA (GERMANY)

Session 4.5.1 - Coastal Zones
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 5
08:30-10:10

08:30	Meris/Envisat-Images for modeling of Chlorophyll Concentration Fields for Novosibirks Reservoir (South West Siberia) Kovalevskaya, Nelley ; Kirillov, Vladimir ; Kirillova, Tatiana ; Lovtskaya, Olga IWEP SB RAS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
08:50	DUE Coastcolour Brockmann, Carsten 1; Pinnock, Simon 2; Doerffer, Roland 3; Sathyendranath, Shuba 4; Ruddick, Kevin 5; Santer, Richard 6; Brotas, Vanda 7 1Brockmann Consult (GERMANY); 2ESA (ITALY); 3GKSS Research Centre (GERMANY); 4Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM); 5MUMM Mathematical Unit of the North Models (BELGIUM); 6LISE-ADRINARD (FRANCE); 7University Lisbon (PORTUGAL)
09:10	Uncertainties and Certainties in Ocean Colour Remote Sensing of Coastal Waters Doerffer, Roland 1; Dowell, Mark 2 1GKSS Research Center (GERMANY); 2European Commission - Joint Research Center (ITALY)
09:30	Inner-Shelf Response to an early Spring Upwelling Event off NW Portugal Oliveira, Paulo B. 1; Lencart e Silva, João D. 2; Marta-Almeida, Martinho 3; Nolasco, Rita 2; Dubert, Jesus 2 1INRB / IPIMAR (PORTUGAL); 2CESAM, Departamento de Física (PORTUGAL); 3CESAM (PORTUGAL)
09:50	Application of the BPAC: Derivation of TSM, Chlorophyll, Fluorescence Yield and Atmospheric Properties Moore, Gerald 1; Kratzer, Suzanne 2; Icely, John 3 1Bio-Optika (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Stockholm (SWEDEN); 3Sagremarisco (PORTUGAL)

Session 4.5.2 - Coastal Zones
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 5
10:40-12:20

10:40	Estimation of the Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient KdPAR using MERIS Satellite Reflectances for European Coastal Waters Saulquin, Bertrand1; Populus, Jacques2; Hamdi, Anouar3; Loutier, Romain1; Mangin, Antoine1 1ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 2Ifremer (FRANCE); 3Institut des milieux aquatiques (FRANCE)
11:00	Observation of Multi-Year Spatial Dynamics of Biogeochemical Variables in the Bay of Biscay from Space Pozdnyakov, Dmitry 1; Morozov, Evgeny 1; Korosov, Anton 1; Pettersson, Lasse 2 1Nansen International Environmental and remote sensing centre (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NORWAY)
11:20	Global Shelf Seas Ecosystems: On the Use of Ocean Colour for Model Validation Allen, Icarus Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:40	STSE Water Radiance: Effect of Salinity and Temperature on Pure Water Optical Properties and Reflectance Roettgers, Ruediger 1; Doerffer, Roland 1; Heymann, Kerstin 1; Schoenfeld, Wolfgang 1; Bouvet, Marc 2 1GKSS Research Center (GERMANY); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS)
12:00	Mapping Seasonal Seaweed Communities Along the South Coast of Oman Using High Resolution Superspectral Satellite Imagery Pauly, Klaas ; Goossens, Rudi ; De Clerck, Olivier Ghent University (BELGIUM)

Session 4.5.3 - Land Cover & Land Use
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 5
13:50-15:30

13:50	GlobCover2009 Arino, Olivier 1; Ramos, Jose 2; Kalogirou, Vasileios 3; Defourny, Pierre 4; Achard, Frederic 5 1ESA (ITALY); 2Deimos Space SLU c/o ESA ESRIN (ITALY); 3RSAC Ltd c/o ESA ESRIN (ITALY); 4Université Catholique de Louvain (BELGIUM); 5Joint Research Centre of the EC (ITALY)
14:10	GlobCorine - a Joint EEA-ESA Project for Operational Land Cover and Land Use Mapping at Pan-European Scale Bontemps, Sophie 1; Defourny , Pierre 1; Van Bogaert, Eric 1; Weber, Jean-Louis 2; Arino, Olivier 3 1Université catholique de Louvain (BELGIUM); 2European Environment Agency (DENMARK); 3ESA (ITALY)
14:30	Accuracy Assessment of Global Land Cover Maps: lessons learnt from the GlobCover and GlobCorine Experiences Defourny, Pierre 1; Bontemps, Sophie 1; Obsomer, Valérie 1; Schouten, Leon 2; Bartalev, Serguey 3; Herold, Martin 4; Bicheron, Patrice 5; Van Bogaert, Eric 1; Leroy, Marc 5; Arino, Olivier 6 1Université catholique de Louvain (BELGIUM); 2Infram b.v. (NETHERLANDS); 3IKI (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 4Wageningen University (NETHERLANDS); 5MEDIAS-France (FRANCE); 6ESA (ITALY)
14:50	DUE SEVESEO EO-Based Services in Support to Industrial and Technological Risk Management Lefebre, Filip 1; Smeets, Nele 1; Op 't Eyndt, Tim 1; Sterckx, Sindy 1; Meulenbrugge, Jan 2; Pénelon, Thibauld 3; Ringlet, Jean-Paul 4; Booten, Michèle 4; Henry, Jean-Paul 5; Paganini, Marc 6 1VITO (BELGIUM); 2TNO (NETHERLANDS); 3INERIS (FRANCE); 4APS (BELGIUM); 5Créaction (BELGIUM); 6ESA (ITALY)
15:10	GlobCover Map - Can We Go from Global to National Scale? Caetano, Mário ; Carrão, Hugo ; Nunes, Vasco Portuguese Geographic Institute (PORTUGAL)

Session 4.5.4 - Land Cover & Land Use
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 5
16:00-17:20

16:00	DUE DIVERSITY2010 - Biodiversity 2010 target assessment Kleeschulte, Stefan 1; Gangkofner, Ute 2; Paganini, Marc 3 1GeoVille Environmental Services (LUXEMBOURG); 2GeoVille Information Systems (AUSTRIA); 3ESA (ITALY)
16:20	The Potential of MODIS Time Series Metrics for Bottom-Up Vegetation mapping in a Semi-Arid Savanna Ecosystem in Namibia Huettich, Christian 1; Strohbach, Ben J. 2; Herold, Martin 3; Manfred, Keil 4; Dech, Stefan 4 1University of Wuerzburg (GERMANY); 2National Botanical Research Institute of Namibia (NAMIBIA); 3Friedrich-Schiller University (GERMANY); 4German Aerospace Center (GERMANY)
16:40	New spatial analysis and data fusion tools for high-level semantic geo-information in support of GMES applications Popescu, Anca 1; Vaduva, Corina 1; Bratasanu, Dragos 2; Nedelcu, Ion 2; Datcu, Mihai 3 1University Politechnica Bucharest (ROMANIA); 2Romanian Space Agency (ROMANIA); 3DLR (GERMANY)
17:00	The use of Chris/Proba data to assist Vegetation Growth Modelling Oppelt, Natascha University Kiel (GERMANY)

Session 4.6.1 - Aerosols
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 6
08:30-10:10

08:30	Global Aerosol and Cloud Detection Using SCIAMACHY Visible and near Infrared Limb Spectra Eichmann, Kai-Uwe ; Ernst, Florian ; von Savigny, Christian ; Bovensmann, Heinrich ; Burrows, John P. University of Bremen (GERMANY)
08:50	Retrieving Information on Aerosol Properties from Aatellite Observations of the Ring Effect Wagner, Thomas ; Penning de Vries, Marloes MPI for Chemistry (GERMANY)
09:10	Global Monitoring of Absorbing Aerosols using Multiple Satellite Sensors Stein Zweers, Deborah ; Tilstra, Gijsbert ; Stammes, Piet ; Veefkind, Pepijn KNMI - Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (NETHERLANDS)
09:30	Determination of Trends in Aerosol Optical Thickness from MERIS and SeaWiFS Observations von Hoyningen-Huene, Wolfgang ; Yoon, Jongmin ; Vountas, Marco ; Istomina, Larysa ; Kokhanovsky, Alexander A. ; Burrows, John P. University of Bremen (GERMANY)
09:50	Aerosol Remote Sensing over Land using AATSR de Leeuw, Gerrit 1; Komonen, Pekka 2; Sogacheva, Larisa 2; SundstrÃ¶m, Anu-Maija 3; Rodriguez, Edith 2 1FMI/UHEL (FINLAND); 2FMI (FINLAND); 3University of Helsinki (FINLAND)

Session 4.6.2 - Greenhouse Gasses
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 6
10:40-12:20

10:40	The Recent Change in the Methane Growth Rate as observed by SCIAMACHY Houweling, Sander 1; Frankenberg, Christian 1; Aben, Ilse 1; Bergamaschi, Peter 2 1SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS); 2European Commission Joint Research Centre (ITALY)
11:00	An Integrated Approach to the Remote Sensing of Seasonal Cycles of Greenhouse Gasses with SCIAMACHY and IASI Miles, Georgina ; Kerridge, Brian ; Latter, Barry ; Waterfall, Alison ; Siddans, Richard Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:20	Retrieval of Atmospheric CO2 from SCIAMACHY Nadir Spectra Considering Scattering at Thin Ice Clouds and Aerosols Reuter, Maximilian ; Buchwitz, Michael ; Schneising, Oliver ; Heymann, Jens ; Bovensmann, Heinrich ; Burrows, John P. Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) (GERMANY)
11:40	A Critical Comparison of GOSAT CO2 and CH4 Observations with the GEOS-Chem Transport Model Parker, Robert 1; Boesch, Hartmut 1; Cogan, Austin 1; Knappett, Diane 1; Monks, Paul 1; Palmer, Paul 2; Feng, Liang 2; Fraser, Annemarie 2; Bloom, Anthony 2 1University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Edinburgh (UNITED KINGDOM)
12:00	Retrieval of Greenhouse Gas Profiles from SCIAMACHY Solar Occultation Measurements with Onion Peeling DOAS Noël, Stefan ; Bramstedt, Klaus ; Rozanov, Alexej ; Bovensmann, Heinrich ; Burrows, John P. University of Bremen (GERMANY)

Session 4.6.3 - Future Atmospheric Missions
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 6
13:50-15:30

13:50	ESA CAMELOT study: Challenges in Future Operational Missions for GMES Atmospheric Monitoring, Sentinel 4 and 5 Levelt, Pieternel 1; Veefkind, J.P. 1; team, CAMELOT 2 1KNMI (NETHERLANDS); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS)
14:10	Calibration Method for the Sentinel 5 Precursor TROPOMI Snel, Ralph 1; Dobber, Marcel 2; Otter, Gerard 3 1SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS); 2KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (NETHERLANDS); 3TNO (NETHERLANDS)
14:30	ACCURATE Profiling of Greenhouse Gases, Thermodynamic State, and Wind from Space by Combined IR-laser and MW Occultation Kirchengast, Gottfried 1; Schweitzer, Susanne 1; Bernath, Peter 2; and Team, ESA Science Studies 3 1University of Graz (AUSTRIA); 2University of York (UNITED KINGDOM); 3U. Graz (AT), U. York (UK), DMI (DK), CNIT (IT), DLR (DE), (NIUE)
14:50	Spectral Signatures of the Earth's Changing Climate from Space Harries, John ; Bantges, Richard ; Belotti, Claudio ; Brindley, Helen Imperial College (UNITED KINGDOM)
15:10	What Can we Learn from the Combination of In-Situ and Remote Sensing Methods for Future Earth Explorer Missions? Weinzierl, Bernadett ; Esselborn, Michael ; Petzold, Andreas ; Fix, Andreas ; Wirth, Martin ; Christoph, Kiemle ; Gerhard, Ehret DLR Oberpfaffenhofen (GERMANY)

Session 4.6.4 - Future Atmospheric Missions
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 6
16:00-17:20

16:00	Synergistc Use of MERIS/AATSR for Aerosol Retrieval and Atmospheric Correction, and Potential for Sentinel-3 North, Peter 1; Heckel, Andreas 1; Brockmann, Carsten 2; Fischer, Juergen 3; Gomez-Chova, Luis 4; Grey, Will 5; Moreno, Jose 4; Preusker, Rene 3; Regner, Peter 6 1Swansea University (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Brockmann Consult (UNITED KINGDOM); 3Freie Universität Berlin (GERMANY); 4Universitat de Valencia (SPAIN); 5UK Met Office (UNITED KINGDOM); 6ESA (ITALY)
16:20	Processing of SEN3EXP EO Data with Focus on Instrument Performance Assessment and Estimation of Biophysical Parameters Guanter, Luis 1; Alonso, Luis 1; Moreno, Jose 1; Brockmann , Carsten 2; Lavender, Samantha 3; Fischer, Juergen 4; Gomez-Chova, Luis 1 1University of Valencia (SPAIN); 2Brockmann Consult (GERMANY); 3ARGANS Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 4Free University Berlin (GERMANY)
16:40	ICAROHS - Inter-Comparison of Aerosol Retrievals and Observational Requirements for Multi-wavelength HSRL Systems Petzold, Andreas 1; Esselborn, Michael 1; Mayer, Bernhard 2; Weinzierl, Bernadett 1; Ansmann, Albert 3; Müller, Detlef 3; Donovan, Dave 4; van Zadelhoff, Gerd-Jan 4; Wiegner, Matthias 2; Gasteiger, Josef 2; Acarreta, Juan R. 5; Lajas, Dulce 6; Wehr, Tobias 6 1DLR Oberpfaffenhofen (GERMANY); 2University of Munich (GERMANY); 3Institute for Tropospheric Research Leipzig (GERMANY); 4KNMI (NETHERLANDS); 5DEIMOS (SPAIN); 6ESA (NETHERLANDS)
17:00	Expectations for Aeolus Space-Based Wind Profiling Stoffelen, Ad ; Marseille, Gert-Jan ; de Kloe, Jos ; Houchi, Karim KNMI (NETHERLANDS)

Session 4.7.1 - Land Altimetry
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 7
08:30-10:10

08:30	Rainforest Canopy Mapping - a Unique Snapshot from the new GDEM, ACE2 Smith, Richard Gavin ; Berry, Philippa EAPRS Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM)
08:50	Terrestrial Water Dynamics in Bangladesh Using GRACE and Satellite Radar Altimetry Lee, Hyongki 1; Shum, C. K. 1; Hossain, Faisal 2; Alsdorf, Doug 1; Calmant, Stephane 3; Duan, Jianbin 1; Jung, Hahn Chul 1; Kim, Jin-Woo 1 1Ohio State University (UNITED STATES); 2Tennessee Technological University (UNITED STATES); 3Universite Paul Sabatier (FRANCE)
09:10	Global Inland Water Monitoring from Satellite Radar Altimetry - a Glimpse into the Future Berry, Philippa ; Smith, Richard Gavin ; Witheridge, Simon ; Wheeler, James EAPRS Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM)
09:30	The ESA Near-Real-Time River & Lake Processor Wheeler, James 1; Berry, Philippa 1; Smith, Richard 1; Benveniste, Jerome 2 1EAPRS, De Montfort University (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ESA (ITALY)
09:50	Water Level monitoring in Poyang and Dongting Lakes using ENVISAT & JASON2 Altimeters. Validation against In Situ Data Daillet, Sylviane 1; Lai, Xijun 2; Cretaux, Jean-François 1; Huang, Shifeng 3; Huber, Claire 4; Chen, Xiaoling 5; Berge-Nguyen, Muriel 1; Li, Jiren 3; Yesou, Hervé 4; Gennero, Marie Claude 1 1LEGOS/CNES (FRANCE); 2NIGLAS (CHINA); 3IWHR, Ministry Water Resource (CHINA); 4SERTIT (FRANCE); 5LIESMARS (CHINA)

Session 4.7.2 - Land Altimetry
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 7
10:40-12:20

10:40	Water Level Dynamics in Rybinsk Reservoir of the Volga River (Satellite Altimetry Measurements and in Situ Observations) Rybushkina, Galina 1; Troitskaya, Yuliya 1; Soustova, Irina 1; Panyutin, Andrey 2; Lebedev, Sergey A. 3 1Institute of Applied Physics RAS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Center in Nizhny Novgorod (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 3Geophysical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
11:00	Analysis of EnviSat RA-2 Burst Echoes over Lake surfaces Witheridge, Simon ; Berry, Philippa ; Smith, Richard EAPRS, De Montfort University (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:20	Estimating river discharge from Earth Observation measurement of river surface hydraulic variables Negrel, Jean ; Kosuth, Pascal ; Bercher, Nicolas Cemagref (FRANCE)
11:40	Model of Overflow Wave Distribution on the Caspian Sea and its Verification Based on the Satellite Altimetry Data Lebedev, Sergey A. Geophysical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
12:00	12:00__Retracking Jason-1,2 waveforms over Gorky reservoir of the Volga River Troitskaya, Yuliya 1; Rybushkina, Galina 1; Soustova, Irina 1; Lebedev, Sergey A. 2; Panyutin, Andrey 3 1 Institute of Applied physics RAS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2Geophysical center of Russian Academy of Science (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 3Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Center in Nizhny Novgorod (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

Session 4.7.3 - Coastal Altimetry
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 7
13:50-15:30

13:50	The PISTACH Project for Coastal Altimetry Mercier, Franck 1; Pistach, Team 2 1CLS (FRANCE); 2CLS/CNES/LEGOS/IRD (FRANCE)
14:10	Coastal Altimetry Moves Forward: a Summary of the COASTALT Project Cipollini, Paolo 1; COASTALT, The Project Partners 2 1National Oceanography Centre (UNITED KINGDOM); 2 (EUROPE)
14:30	Flashes of Brilliance: Investigating Causes of Altimeter Anomalies in the Coastal Zone Gomez-Enri, Jesus1; Quartly, Graham2; Vignudelli, Stefano3; Cipollini, Paolo2; Scozzari, Andrea3 1University of Cadiz (SPAIN); 2National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM); 3CNR (ITALY)
14:50	Tropospheric Corrections for Coastal Altimetry Fernandes, M. Joana1; Lazaro, Clara2; Nunes, Alexandra L.3; Pires, Nelson1; Cipollini, Paolo4 1Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (PORTUGAL); 2University of Porto, FCUP (PORTUGAL); 3Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (PORTUGAL); 4National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM)
15:10	Validation of Coastal Altimetry Data along the West Iberian Coast Barbosa, Susana 1; Fernandes, M. Joana 2; Lazaro, Clara 2; Nunes, Alexandra 2; Pires, Nelson 2; Cipollini, Paolo 3 1University of Lisbon, IDL (PORTUGAL); 2University of Porto, FCUP (PORTUGAL); 3NOCS (UNITED KINGDOM)

Session 4.7.4 - Coastal Altimetry
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 7
16:00-17:20

16:00	EOT10a **- Empirical Ocean Tide Model Upgraded Savcenko, Roman ; Bosch, Wolfgang DGFI (GERMANY)
16:20	Coastal Ocean Tide Modeling Using Multi-Satellite Altimetry: With a Focus on the Indonesian Sea Fok, Hok Sum 1; Shum, C.K. 1; Yi, Yuchan 1; Iz, H. Baki 2; Kuo, C.Y. 3; Matsumoto, Koji 4; Song, Tony Y. 5 1The Ohio State University (UNITED STATES); 2The HK polytechnic University (HONG KONG); 3National Cheng Kung University (TAIWAN); 4National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (JAPAN); 5California Institute of Technology (UNITED STATES)
16:40	Vertical Land Movement for the Italian Coasts by Altimetric and Tide Gauges Measurements Tunini, Lavinia ; Braitenberg, Carla ; Ricker, Robert ; Mariani, Patrizia ; Grillo, Barbara University of Trieste (ITALY)
17:00	Long Term Sea Level Change from Satellite Altimetry and Tide Gauges in the Indonesian Region Nurmaulia, Sella 1; Fenoglio-Marc, Luciana 2; Becker, Matthias 2 1Darmstadt University of Technology (INDONESIA); 2Darmstadt University of Technology (GERMANY)

Session 4.8.1 - Third Party Missions
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 8
08:30-10:10

08:30	ESA's Third Party Missions and GMES Contributing Missions: EO Data Access for Science, Application and Operational Services Hörsch, Bianca ; Amans, Veronique ; Fischer, Peggy ; Laur, Henri ; Forcada, Eugenia ESA (ITALY)
08:50	A Small Satellite Mission Demonstrating Multi-Angular Hyperspectral Applications Over a Period of Nine Years Cutter, Mike Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM)
09:10	Contributions of SPOT, F-2 and K-2 Satellites to the Third Party Missions Programme and to the GMES Data Access Lampin, Igor ; Faget, Nathalie ; Salson, Laetitia ; Leduc, Cecilia Spot Image S.A. (FRANCE)
09:30	Pleiades : a Metric Resolution Optical System for European Civil and Defence Users Boissin, Benoit ; Boussarie, Eric ; Garrigies, Sebastien CNES (FRANCE)
09:50	Germanys GMES Missions: Present Situation and Future Perspectives Schaadt, Peter DLR - German Space Agency (GERMANY)

Session 4.8.2 - Third Party Missions
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 8
10:40-12:20

10:40	RADARSAT Contribution to the GMES and the TPM Programme Belton, David MDA Geospatial Services (CANADA)
11:00	The RADARSAT Constellation Mission: Mission Update and Opportunities for Synergie with Sentinel-1 Flett, Dean ; Crevier, Yves Canadian Space Agency (CANADA)
11:20	Exploitation of COSMO-SkyMed Mission: Preliminary Results using the One-Day Interferometry Configuration Alessandro, Coletta ; Fabio, Covello ; Fabrizio, Battazza ; Gemma, Manoni ; Giovanni, Valentini Italian Space Agency (ITALY)
11:40	e-GEOS, the Multimission Hub for VHR SAR and Optical Satellite Images Oddone, Axel ; Pietranera, Luca e-GEOS (ITALY)
12:00	Operational RapidEye: 5 Small Satellites and a Spectrum of Possibility Jung-Rothenhäusle, Frederik RapidEye AG (GERMANY)

Session 4.8.3 - Third Party Missions
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 8
13:50-15:30

13:50	Contribution of the Indian IRS Program to European Data Requirements through Euromap Barner, Frithof 1; Maass, Holger 2 1Euromap (GERMANY); 2DLR (GERMANY)
14:10	Local Tasking of WorldView-2 using the European Direct Access Facility EDAF - Mapping, CwRS, Rapid Response Ellis, George European Space Imaging (GERMANY)
14:30	TPM: The growing DMC constellation and its contributions to GMES Holmes, Gary ; Stephens, Paul DMCii (UNITED KINGDOM)
14:50	Launch, Early Operations, Commissioning and Current Operational Concept of Deimos-1 Duque, Pedro 1; Casanova, José-Luis 2; Belló, Miguel 1; Barreiro, Alfonso 1; Romo, Alfredo 1; Calle, Abel 2; Sanz, Julia 2 1Deimos Imaging (SPAIN); 2University of Valladolid (SPAIN)
15:10	Future Spanish Earth observation Satellite System in high Spatial Resolution López, Mónica ; Vez, Emilio ; Ureña, Juan ; Trigo, Roberto CDTI (SPAIN)

Session 4.8.4 - Third Party Missions
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - Room 8
16:00-18:00

16:00	The Landsat Data Continuity Mission - Continuation of the Landsat Program Quirk, Bruce1; Gutman, Garik 2; 1USGS (UNITED STATES); 2NASA (UNITED STATES)
16:20	Towards the Continuity of SPOT Vegetation: the ESA Proba-V Mission Mellab, Karim 1; Zender, Joe 1; Santandrea, Stefano 1; Duca, Riccardo 1; Tilmans, Etienne 2 1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2ESA (BELGIUM)
16:40	An Overview of Odin's Mesosphere Mission Gumbel, Jörg 1; Lossow, Stefan 2; Karlsson, Bodil 3; Stegman, Jacek 1; Hedin, Jonas 1; Hultgren, Kristoffer 1; Körnich, Heiner 1; Witt, Georg 1; Urban, Joe 4; Eriksson, Patrick 4; Murtagh, Donal 4; Degenstein, Doug 5; Lloyd, Nick 5; Sheese, Patrick 5; Petelina, Svetlana 6; Gattinger, Dick 5; Llewellyn, Ted 5 1Stockholm University (SWEDEN); 2Chalmers University of Technology (SWEDEN); 3University of Colorado (UNITED STATES); 4Chalmers (SWEDEN); 5University of Saskatchewan (CANADA); 6La Trobe University (AUSTRALIA)
17:00	The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission Overview and Results from (almost) Seven Years in Orbit Walker, Kaley A. 1; Boone, Chris D. 2; Bernath, Peter F. 3; McElroy, C. Thomas 4 1University of Toronto (CANADA); 2University of Waterloo (CANADA); 3University of York (UNITED KINGDOM); 4Environment Canada (CANADA)
17:20	Land Cover and Land-Cover Change Products from Optical Coarse and Moderate Spatial Resolution Global Datasets Gutman, Garik1; Justice, Chris2 1NASA (UNITED STATES); 2University of Maryland (UNITED STATES)
17:40	The German Radar Missions TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X Buckreuss, Stefan DLR - Microwaves and Radar Institute (GERMANY)

Session 5.1.1 - Agriculture
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 1
08:30-10:10

08:30	Progress in the Understanding of Narrow Directional Scattering over Agriculatural Fields Wegmüller, Urs 1; Santoro, Maurizio 1; Mattia, Francesco 2; Balenzano, Anna 2; Satalino, Giuseppe 2; Marzahn, Philip 3; Fischer, Georg 3; Ludwig, Ralf 3; Floury, Nicolas 4 1Gamma Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 2Consiglio Nazionale di Ricerca – ISSIA (ITALY); 3University of Munich (GERMANY); 4ESA (NETHERLANDS)
08:50	Microwave Remote Sensing of Rice Crops Golovachev, Sergey 1; Shutko, Anatolij 1; Yazerijan, Georgij 1; Novichikhin, Eugene 1; Vorobejchik, Eugenij 2 1Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2Rostov-Don Environment Administration, Russia (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
09:10	Classification of Agricultural Areas using Multi-Temporal and Multi-Polarized ASAR Data Satalino, Giuseppe ; Mattia, Francesco CNR-ISSIA (ITALY)
09:30	Classifying Multitemporal Dual-Polarized SAR Data from Agricultural Areas in View of Sentinel-1 Waske, B. ; Braun, M. ; Thonfeld, F. ; Elbertzhagen, I. University of Bonn (GERMANY)
09:50	On Crop Acreage Estimation in Small Plot Agriculture Holecz, Francesco ; Barbieri, Massimo ; Monaco, Stefano Sarmap (SWITZERLAND)

Session 5.1.2 - Agriculture
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 1
10:40-12:00

10:40	DeCOVER 2 - The German GMES Extension to Support Land Cover Data Systems: Status and Outlook Buck, Oliver EFTAS Remote Sensing GmbH (GERMANY)
11:00	Estimation of Crops Biomass and Evapotranspiration from High Spatial and Temporal Resolutions Remote Sensing Data Claverie, Martin ; Demarez, Valérie ; Duchemin, Benoît ; Ceschia, Eric ; Hagolle, Olivier ; Ducrot, Danielle ; Keravec, Pascal ; Beziat, Pierre ; Dedieu, Gérard CESBIO (FRANCE)
11:20	Added Value Products derived from a MERIS Near Real Time Processing Line: Overland Poilve, Herve ; Mathian, Charlotte ; Cayrol, Pascale ; Bruschini, Claire ; Escalbert, Bruno ; Bicheron, Patrice Infoterra France (FRANCE)
11:40	A MODIS-Based Approach for Crop Yield Prediction in irrigated Areas of Central Asia using Light Use Efficiency Modeling Fritsch, Sebastian 1; Conrad, Christopher 1; Ruecker, Gerd 2; Ehammer, Andrea 3; Dech, Stefan 2 1University of Wuerzburg (GERMANY); 2German Remote Sensing Data Center / German Aerospace Agency (GERMANY); 3University of Innsbruck (AUSTRIA)

Session 5.2.1 - Land Surface Temperature
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 2
08:30-10:10

08:30	Trends in ERS and ENVISAT (A)ATSR global land surface temperature data since 1991 Kogler, Christian 1; Pinnock, Simon 1; Arino, Olivier 1; Prata, Fred 2; Bras, Teresa 1 1ESA (ITALY); 2NILU (NORWAY)
08:50	Validation of land surface temperatures derived from the Envisat/Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer Coll, C. ; Valor, E. ; Galve, J. M. ; Mira, M. ; Bisquert, M. ; García-Santos, V. ; Caselles, E. ; Caselles, V. University of Valencia (SPAIN)
09:10	DUE '" Urban Heat Islands and Urban Thermography" Project Manunta, Paolo 1; Ceriola, Giulio 1; Daglis, Ioannis A. 2; Giannaros, Theodoros 3; Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia 2; Maiheu, Bino 4; Melas, Dimitrios 3; Montero Herrero, Enrique 5; Palacios, Marino 5; Radius, Andrea 6; Sapage, Tania 6; Tamame, Maria 5; Tambuyzer, Han 7; Viel, Monique 1; Paganini, Marc 8 1Planetek Italia srl (ITALY); 2National Observatory of Athens (GREECE); 3Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GREECE); 4VITO - Flemish Institute for Technological Research (BELGIUM); 5INDRA ESPACIO, S.A. (SPAIN); 6EDISOFT S.A. (PORTUGAL); 7EUROSENSE (BELGIUM); 8ESA (ITALY)
09:30	The Dual-use Eurpean Security IR Experiment(Desirex 2008) a Study of the Urban Heat Island in Madrid Sobrino, José Antonio 1; Oltra-Carrio, Rosa 1; Soria, Guillem 1; Bianchi, Remo 2; Paganini, Marc 2; Jiménez-Muñoz, Juan Carlos 1; Franch, Belen 1; Hidalgo, Victoria 1; Mattar, Cristian 1; Julien, Yves 1; Cuenca, Juan 1; Gómez, José Antonio 3; De Miguel, Eduardo 3; Fernandez-Renau, Alix 3; Nerry, Françoise 4; Najjard, George 4; Pujadas, Manuel 5; Molero, Francisco 5 1University of Valencia (SPAIN); 2ESA (ITALY); 3INTA (SPAIN); 4University of Strasbourg (FRANCE); 5CIEMAT (SPAIN)
09:50	The DUE Permafrost Project - Land Surface Temperature Products: Overview and Cross-Comparison between MODIS and AATSR Duguay, Claude ; Hachem, Sonia ; Soliman, Aiman University of Waterloo (CANADA)

Session 5.2.2 - Global Climate Change
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 2
10:40-12:00

10:40	Detecting short-/long-term vegetation anomalies in response to climate conditions by harmonic analysis of NDVI and LST Jia, Li 1; Menenti, Massimo 2 1Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre (NETHERLANDS); 2Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS)
11:00	Towards operational global and cover observations: GEO and observing Essential Climate Variables (ECV’s) Herold, Martin Wageningen University (NETHERLANDS)
11:20	Global Fire Trends from Satellite Using ATSR Instrument Series Arino, Olivier 1; Casadio, Stefano 2; Serpe, Danilo 2 1ESA (ITALY); 2SERCO (ITALY)
11:40	Continuous snow cover estimation over the Northern Hemisphere through assimilation of MERIS and AVHRR data Fernandes, Richard ; Zhao, Hongxu Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada (CANADA)

Session 5.3.1 - Oil Spills
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 3
08:30-10:10

08:30	CleanSeaNet: The EU Satellite Based Oil Spill Detection and Maritime Surveillance Service of EMSA Trieschmann, Olaf ; Bal, Leendert ; Chintoan-Uta, Marin ; Djavidnia, Samuel ; Hayes, Anne Marie ; Journel, Marc ; Lourenco-Bento, Pedro ; Pelizzari, Sonja ; del Rio Vera, Jorge European Maritime Safety Agency (PORTUGAL)
08:50	Influence of Wind on Oil Slick Detectability in SAR Images Trivero, Paolo 1; Zecchetto, Stefano 2; De Biasio, Francesco 2; Biamino, Walter 1 1Università del Piemonte Orientale (ITALY); 2ISAC - CNR (ITALY)
09:10	Detection and Tracking of Natural and Man-made Oil Slicks Utilizing ENVISAT ASAR Imagery in the Gulf of Mexico Li, Xiaofeng 1; Garcia-Pineda, Oscar 2; Cheng, Yongcun 3; Pichel, William 1; Gallegos, Sonia 4 1NOAA (UNITED STATES); 2Florida State University (UNITED STATES); 3Hohai University (CHINA); 4Naval Research Lab (UNITED STATES)
09:30	Integration of Remote Sensing Data into the BSH Oil Spill Drift Model within the German DeMarine-Environment Project Kuebert, Carina 1; Baschek, Björn 1; Janssen, Frank 2; Dick, Stephan 2 1German Federal Institute of Hydrology (GERMANY); 2German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (GERMANY)
09:50	The Role of Envisat and other SAR Missions for Operational GMES Services for Environment and Security Pedersen, Gunnar; Pedersen, Jan Petter ; Steinbakk, Line ; Hall, Richard ; Bauna, Tony ; Indregard, Marte Kongsberg Satellite Services (NORWAY)

Session 5.3.2 - Sentinel-2/3
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 3
10:40-12:20

10:40	Towards a Sentinel-2 Scenario for Operational Precision Farming Services Migdall, Silke 1; Bach, Heike 1; Ohl, Natalie 1; Hank, Tobias 2; Mauser, Wolfram 2 1VISTA Remote Sensing in Geosciences GmbH (GERMANY); 2Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (GERMANY)
11:00	A Novel Sensor-Independent Partially-Supervised Approach to Change Detection: Application to Simulated Sentinel-2 Data Fernandez-Prieto, Diego ; Marconcini, Mattia ESA (ITALY)
11:20	Sentinel 3: Overview on Optical Payload and L1/L2 Processor Development Nieke, Jens 1; Goryl, Philippe 2; Rebhan, Helge 1; Frerick, Johannes 1; Stroede, Juergen 1; Mavrocordatos, Constantin 1; Berruti, Bruno 1 1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2ESA (ITALY)
11:40	Sentinel-3 Level 1 Optical Ground Prototype Processor (O-GPP) Muguet, Isabelle 1; Bourg, Ludovic 1; Fanton d'Andon, Odile 1; Nieke, Jens 2; Rebhan, Helge 2; Goryl, Philippe 3; Francesconi, Benjamin 4; Birks, Andrew 5; Nightingale, Tim 5; Smith, Dave 5 1ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS); 3European Space Research Institute (ITALY); 4Thales Alenia Space (FRANCE); 5Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM)
12:00	SEN3EXP, an extensive experiment campaign to assess future performance of the the Sentinel-3 sensors Brockmann, Carsten 1; Bianchi, Remo 2; Moreno, Jose 3; Gomez Sanchez, Jose-Antonio 4; Sobrino, José Antonio 3; Howse, Jason 5; Bourg, Ludovic 6; Magnani, Federico 7; Lavender, Samantha 8; Nieke, Jens 9; Schaepman, Michael 10; Geißler, Jasmin 1; Alonso, Luis 11; Ruiz-Verdu, Antonio 4; Pearson, Tim 12; Barker, Kathryn 13 1Brockmann Consult (GERMANY); 2ESA (ITALY); 3University Valencia (SPAIN); 4INTA (SPAIN); 5ITRES (CANADA); 6ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 7University Bologna (ITALY); 8ARGANS Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 9ESA (NETHERLANDS); 10RSL (SWITZERLAND); 11University of Valencia (SPAIN); 12RSAC (UNITED KINGDOM); 13ARGANS (UNITED KINGDOM)

Session 5.4.1 - Snow
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 4
08:30-09:50

08:30	Esa Due Globsnow-Global Snow Database for Climate Research Kari, Luojus 1; Pulliainen, Jouni 1; Rott, Helmut 2; Nagler, Thomas 2; Solberg, Rune 3; Wiesmann, Andreas 4; Derksen, Chris 5; Metsämäki, Sari 6; Malnes, Eirik 7; Bojkov, Bojan 8 1Finnish Meteorological Institute (FINLAND); 2ENVEO IT GmbH (AUSTRIA); 3Norwegian Computing Center (NORWAY); 4GAMMA Remote Sensing AGs (SWITZERLAND); 5Environment Canada (CANADA); 6Finnish Environment Institute (FINLAND); 7Northern Research Institute (NORWAY); 8ESA (ITALY)
08:50	A new global snow extent product Solberg, Rune 1; Solberg, Rune 1; Sari, Metsämäki 2; Nagler, Thomas 3 1Norwegian Computing Center (NORWAY); 2Finnish Environment Institute (FINLAND); 3ENVEO (AUSTRIA)
09:10	STSE Snowradiance: The radiance field of snow, detection of snow/cloud and retrieval of snow properties Krüger, Olaf 1; Brockmann, Carsten 1; Kokhanovsky, Alexander 2; Fischer, Jürgen 3; Pouliainen, Jouni 4; Drusch, Matthias 5; Bouvet, Marc 5 1Brockmann Consult (GERMANY); 2University Bremen (GERMANY); 3Freie Universität Berlin (GERMANY); 4Finish Meteorological Institute (FINLAND); 5ESA (NETHERLANDS)
09:30	The Retrieval of Snow Grain Size from Space Using MERIS and AATSR Top-of-Atmosphere Spectral Reflectance Measurements Kokhanovsky, Alexander 1; Rozanov, Vladimir 1; Krüger, Olaf 2; Brockmann, Carsten 2; Bouvet, Marc 3; Mathias, Drusch 3 1University of Bremen (GERMANY); 2Brockmann Consult (GERMANY); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS)

Session 5.4.2 - Snow
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 4
10:40-12:20

10:40	An operational algorithm for snow cover mapping by using optical and ENVISAT SAR data Pettinato, Simone ; Santi, Emanuele ; Brogioni, Marco ; Pampaloni, Paolo ; Paloscia, Simonetta CNr-IFAC (ITALY)
11:00	Spatial and Temporal Snow Grain Size Variability along the Japanese Swedish Antarctic Expedition 07/08 Traverse Route Ingvander, Susanne ; Brown, Ian Stockholm University (SWEDEN)
11:20	Satellite monitoring of the snow coverage and its relation to vegetation and growing seasons on Svalbard Malnes, Eirik ; Karlsen, Stein Rune ; Johansen, Bernt ; Høgda, Kjell Arild Norut (NORWAY)
11:40	Polar View Snow Service - Operational Snow Cover Mapping for Downstream Runoff Modeling and Hydropower Predictions Bach, Heike 1; Appel, Florian 1; Ohl, Natalie 1; Mauser, Wolfram 2 1VISTA GmbH (GERMANY); 2Ludwig-Maximilians University (GERMANY)
12:00	Snow Services from GSE Polar View - Five Winters of Operational Service and the Extension towards a Pan-European Service Appel, Florian 1; Bach, Heike 1; Hall, Richard 2; Metsamaki, Sari 3 1VISTA Remote Sensing in Geosciences GmbH (GERMANY); 2KSAT Kongsberg Satellite Services AS (NORWAY); 3SYKE Finnish Environment Institute (FINLAND)

Session 5.5.1 - Land Cover & Land Use
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 5
08:30-10:10

08:30	The GOFC-GOLD/CEOS land cover harmonization and validation initiative: Technical design and implementation Herold, Martin 1; Nightingale, Joanne 2; Friedl, Mark 3; Schmullius, Chris 4 1Wageningen University (NETHERLANDS); 2CEOS Cal-Val working group (UNITED STATES); 3Boston University (UNITED STATES); 4Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (GERMANY)
08:50	Extension of DesertWatch to Portuguese Partners Franco, Tiago 1; Ricardo, Armas 1; Mário, Caetano 2; Conceição Pereira, Maria 2; Soares, Amilcar 3; João Pereira, Maria 3; Gutiérrez, Antonio 4; Rocha, António 4; Carrão, Hugo 2; Paganini, Marc 5 1Critical Software (PORTUGAL); 2Instituto Geográfico Português (PORTUGAL); 3Instituto Superio Técnico (PORTUGAL); 4Deimos Engenharia (PORTUGAL); 5ESA, (ITALY)
09:10	Estimation of land surface energy balance using satellite data of spatial reduced resolution Vintila, Ruxandra 1; Simota, Catalin 1; Savin, Elena 2; Poenaru, Violeta 2 1National Institute for Research and Development in Soil Science, Agrochemistry and Environment (ROMANIA); 2Romanian Space Agency (ROMANIA)
09:30	Assessment of degraded areas in East Africa using ASAR and MERIS data Klein, Doris1; Braun, Matthias2; Menz, Gunter3 1University of Würzburg, GERMANY; 2University of Alaska, UNITED STATES; 3University of Bonn, GERMANY
09:50	Evaluation of Remote Sensing Products over the Amma-Catch Observatory in West Africa Mougin, E. 1; Grippa, M. 2; Demarez, V. 3; Kergoat, L. 2; Gruhier, C. 3; Hiernaux, P. 2; Baup, F. 3; de Rosnay, P. 4; Pellarin, T. 5; Galle, S. 5; Lebel, T. 5; Descroix, L. 5; Zin, I. 5; Peugot, C. 6; Cappelaere, B. 6; Demarty, J. 6; Boulain, N. 6; Seguis, L. 6; Ottle, C. 7; Saux-Picart, S. 7; Zribi, M. 8 1CNRS-UPS-IRD (FRANCE); 2LMTG (FRANCE); 3CESBIO (FRANCE); 4ECMWF (UNITED KINGDOM); 5LTHE (FRANCE); 6HSM (FRANCE); 7LSCE (FRANCE); 8CETP (FRANCE)

Session 5.5.2 - Land Cover & Land Use
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 5
10:40-12:20

10:40	Monitoring of Land Cover Change Using SAR and Optical Data From the ESA Rolling Archives Borgeaud, Maurice Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (SWITZERLAND)
11:00	Synergistic Usage of Multifrequency SAR Data for Automated Land Cover Mapping Riedel, Tanja 1; Elbertzhagen, Ingo 2; Menz, G. 2; Schmullius, C. 1 1Friedrich-Schiller-University (GERMANY); 2Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn (GERMANY)
11:20	Monitoring Surface Parameters over a Sahelian Region using ENVISAT/ASAR Alternate Polarization Data Frison, Pierre-louis 1; Baup, Frederic 2; Mougin, Eric 2; Faye, Gayane 1; Hiernaux, Pierre 2; Grippa, Manuela 2 1Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (FRANCE); 2CESBIO (FRANCE)
11:40	A Comparative Analysis of MLC and SVM Approaches for mapping Savanna Woodlands using Freeman Decomposition Paradzayi, Charles 1; Annegarn, Harold 1; Schmullius, Christiane 2 1University of Johannesburg (SOUTH AFRICA); 2Friedrich Schiller University (GERMANY)
12:00	Support Vector Machines for Multitemporal and Multisensor Change Detection Hecheltjen, Antje 1; Waske, Björn 1; Thonfeld, Frank 1; Braun, Matthias 2; Menz, Gunter 1 1University of Bonn (GERMANY); 2University of Alaska (UNITED STATES)

Session 5.6.1 - SAR & Atmosphere
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 6
08:30-10:10

08:30	On the Tropospheric Water Vapour Mapping: GPS, SAR Interferometry and Numerical Forecasting Models Mateus, Pedro ; Nico, Giovanni ; Tome, Ricardo ; Catalao, Joao ; Miranda, Pedro IDL, Univ. Lisboa (PORTUGAL)
08:50	On the Exploitation of Meteo Information for Atmospheric Phase Screen Compensation in GB-SAR Interferometry Monti Guarnieri, Andrea ; Iannini, Lorenzo ; Giudici, Davide Politecnico di Milano (ITALY)
09:10	Mitigating InSAR phase delay due to tropospheric stratification using GPS and weather models, a corner reflector study Lauknes, Tom R. 1; Larsen, Yngvar 1; Dehls, John F. 2; Dehls, John F. 3 1Norut (NORWAY); 2Alberta Geological Survey (CANADA); 3Geological Survey of Norway (NORWAY)
09:30	Atmospheric Phase Shift Identification for Individual Dates based on Multi-Reference DInSAR or PSI Data Schaefer, Michael ; Hannemann, Wilhelm Clausthal University of Technology (GERMANY)
09:50	Estimation of Integrated Water Vapour using Interferometric Point Target Analysis and GPS Measurements Santoro, Maurizio 1; Wegmüller, Urs 1; Mätzler, Christian 2; Morland, June 2 1Gamma Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 2University of Bern (SWITZERLAND)

Session 5.6.2 - Orbits
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 6
10:40-12:20

10:40	Improved Homogeneous Orbits of ERS Satellites Otten, Michiel 1; Visser, Pieter 2; Rudenko, Sergei 3; Scharroo, Remko 4; Massmann, Franz-Heinrich 3 1ESA (GERMANY); 2Delft Institute of Earth Observation and Space Systems, Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS); 3Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (GERMANY); 4Altimetrics LLC (UNITED STATES)
11:00	The Benefits of New Improved Orbits of ERS Satellites for Altimetry and InSAR Applications Rudenko, Sergei ; Raimondo, Jean-Claude ; Schoene, Tilo ; Anderssohn, Jan ; Massmann, Franz-Heinrich Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (GERMANY)
11:20	Generating Precise and Homogeneous Orbits for Envisat, Jason-1 and Jason-2 Flohrer, Claudia ; Otten, Michiel ; Springer, Tim ; Dow, John ESA (GERMANY)
11:40	Envisat Radar Altimeter Calibration by Multi-Mission Crossover Analysis Dettmering, Denise ; Bosch, Wolfgang DGFI (GERMANY)
12:00	Precise Orbit Determination of Low Earth Satellites at AIUB Jaeggi, Adrian ; Bock, Heike ; Thaller, Daniela ; Dach, Rolf ; Beutler, Gerhard ; Prange, Lars ; Meyer, Ulrich University of Bern (SWITZERLAND)

Session 5.7.1 - Data Assimilation
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 7
08:30-10:10

08:30	Assimilation of MERIS FAPAR into a Terrestrial Vegetation Model and Mission Design Kaminski, Thomas 1; Knorr, Wolfgang 2; Scholze, Marko 2; Gobron, Nadine 3; Pinty, Bernard 3; Giering, Ralf 1; Mathieu, Pierre-Philippe 4 1FastOpt (GERMANY); 2University of Bristol (UNITED KINGDOM); 3EC-JRC/ESA-ESRIN (ITALY); 4ESA (ITALY)
08:50	The operational phase of GMES – a knowledge Earth observation data handling and feature extraction shared platform Nedelcu, Ion 1; Craciunescu, Vasile 2; Serban, Florin 3; Datcu, Mihai 4 1Romanian Space Agency (ROMANIA); 2Meteo Romania (ROMANIA); 3Advanced Studies and Research Centre (ROMANIA); 4DLR (GERMANY)
09:10	Joint state-parameter estimation in a 3D coupled physical-ecosystem model with a non-Gaussian extension of the EnKF Simon, Ehouarn ; Bertino, Laurent NERSC (NORWAY)
09:30	The NILU SURFEX-EnKF land data assimilation system Lahoz, William 1; Walker, Sam-Erik 1; Mahfouf, Jean-François 2 1NILU (NORWAY); 2Météo-France (FRANCE)
09:50	Assimilation of Ocean Colour Data with a Biogeochemical Model of the Western English Channel Ciavatta, Stefano ; Torres, Ricardo ; Smyth, Tim Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM)

Session 5.7.2 - Data Mining
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 7
10:40-12:20

10:40	Identification of Specific Objects by Time Frequency Analysis of Images Datcu, Mihai 1; Singh, Jagmal 1; Popescu, Anca 2; Schwarz, Gottfried 1 1German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY); 2University Politehnica, Bucharest (ROMANIA)
11:00	Spatio-Temporal Mining of Satellite Image Time Series Trouvé, Emmanuel 1; Meger, Nicolas 1; Julea, Andrea 1; Fallourd, Renaud 1; Rigotti, Christophe 2; Bolon, Philippe 1; Lazarescu, Vasile 3; Nicolas, Jean-Marie 4 1Université de Savoie (FRANCE); 2INSA de Lyon (FRANCE); 3Politehnica University of Bucharest (ROMANIA); 4Télécom ParisTech (FRANCE)
11:20	Land Cover Monitoring by Automated Image Content Extraction Schwarz, Gottfried ; Datcu, Mihai German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY)
11:40	KEO: a Multi-Paradigm EO Archive Search System Zelli, Carlo ; Quartulli, Marco ; Rosati, Claudio ; Valente, Achille ; Sagona, Manuela ; Galli, Lucia Advanced Computer Systems SpA (ITALY)
12:00	Mining Satellite Image Time Series Archives Quartulli, Marco ; Valente, Achille ; Rosati, Claudio ; Zelli, Carlo ; Sagona, Manuela ; Galli, Lucia Advanced Computer Systems SpA (ITALY)

Session 5.8.1 - Ocean Altimetry
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 8
08:30-10:10

08:30	Merging ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat into a Multi-Mission Climate Data Record Scharroo, Remko 1; Leuliette, Eric 2; Miller, Laury 2; Lillibridge, John 2; Giles, Katharine 3 1Altimetrics LLC (UNITED STATES); 2NOAA / Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry (UNITED STATES); 3University College London (UNITED KINGDOM)
08:50	The Absolute Dynamic Ocean Topography (ADOT) - Estimation and Application Bosch, Wolfgang 1; Savcenko, Roman 1; Luz, Roberto Teixeira 2 1DGFI (GERMANY); 2IBGE (BRAZIL)
09:10	A New Global Mean Dynamic Topography Computed from the Combination of GRACE Data, Altimetry and In-Situ Measurements RIO, Marie Helene 1; Moreaux, Guillaume 1; Bourgogne, Stephane 2; Lemoine, Jean-Michel 3; Bronner, Emilie 4; Larnicol, Gilles 1 1CLS (FRANCE); 2Noveltis (FRANCE); 3CNES/ GRGS (FRANCE); 4CNES (FRANCE)
09:30	Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Monitoring Using Contemporary Satellite Observations Kuo, Chungyen 1; Shum, C. K. 2; Rashid, Harunur 2; Yi, Yuchan 2 1National Cheng Kung University (TAIWAN); 2Ohio State University (UNITED STATES)
09:50	Global Sea-Level Rise from Satellite Altimetry: the Tale of the Mean Barbosa, Susana University of Lisbon, IDL (PORTUGAL)

Session 5.8.2 - Ocean Altimetry
Friday, 2 July 2010 - Room 8
10:40-12:20

10:40	Use of Envisat RA2 and Jason Altimetry in the Bluelink Sea Level Anomaly Analysis and Eddy-Resolving Ocean Models Griffin, David ; Cahill, Madeleine ; Oke, Peter CSIRO (AUSTRALIA)
11:00	Preliminary inter-model comparison of the Agulhas Current with velocity estimates from SAR Backeberg, Bjorn 1; Johannessen, Johnny 2; Rouault, Marjolaine 3 1University of Cape Town / Mohn-Sverdrup Center (SOUTH AFRICA); 2Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY); 3Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (SOUTH AFRICA)
11:20	Estimating the Indo-Atlantic Heat and Salt Fluxes from ARGO and Altimetry Quartly, Graham ; Georgiou , Josh ; Srokosz, Meric National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:40	Observations of oceanic planetary waves and eddies from altimetry and other satellite datasets Cipollini, Paolo ; Sutcliffe, Anna ; Robinson, Ian S. National Oceanography Centre (UNITED KINGDOM)
12:00	Extraction of Dynamical Information from High Resolution Satellite Measurements Isern-Fontanet, Jordi 1; Chapron, Bertrand 2; Klein, Patrice 3; Lapeyre, Guillaume 4; Collard, Fabrice 5 1Institut Catala de Ciencies del Clima (SPAIN); 2Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Spatiale (FRANCE); 3Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans (FRANCE); 4Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (FRANCE); 5Collecte Localisation Satellites, Radar Division (FRANCE)

Poster Session - ALT Cal/Val
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

197-D2 Validation of Envisat RA2-MWR Wet Tropospheric Correction by Means of Radiosondes
Picard, Bruno 1; Obligis, Estelle 1; Frery, Marie-Laure 1; Abdalla, Saleh 2; Féménias, Pierre 3
1CLS (FRANCE); 2ECMWF (UNITED KINGDOM); 3ESA (ITALY)

200-D2 Sentinel-3 Surface Topography Mission Products and Algorithms Definition
Amarouche, Laiba 1; Dumont, Jean-Paul 1; Soulat, François 1; Sicart, Philippe 1; Blusson, Annick 1; Labroue, Sylvie 1; Obligis, Estelle 1; Valette, Jean-Jacques 1; Tran, Ngan 1; Mercier, Franck 1; Gayrard, Nadine 1; Baker, Steve 2; Brockley, David 2; Mantovani, Pier Luca 3; Antonacci, Marica 3; Femenias, Pierre 4; Picot, Nicolas 5; Lambin, Juliette 5
1CLS (FRANCE); 2UCL/MSSL (UNITED KINGDOM); 3ACS (ITALY); 4ESA (ITALY); 5CNES (FRANCE)

194-D2 An Analysis of Seasonal Signals and Long Term Drift in the Autonomous Resolution Switching Logic of the RA2
Baker, Steven ; Muir, Alan ; Gaudelli, Julia
University College London (UNITED KINGDOM)

195-D2 Retracking Algorithms for Altimeter Waveforms Processing
Thibaut, Pierre 1; Poisson, Jean Christophe 1; Femenias, Pierre 2
1CLS (FRANCE); 2ESA (ITALY)

193-D2 Calibration of Satellite Radar Altimeters at Gavdos Cal/Val facility using three Different Methodologies
Mertikas, Stelios 1; Ioannides, Rigas 1; Hausleitner, Walter 2; Tziavos, Ilias 3; Zervakis, Vassilis 4; Frantzis, Xenofon 1; Tripolitsiotis, Achilles 1; Vergos, George 3; Partsinevelos, Panagiotis 1; Andrikopoulos, Demitris 1
1Technical University of Crete (GREECE); 2Austrian Academy of Sciences (AUSTRIA); 3Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GREECE); 4University of Aegean (GREECE)

196-D2 ENVISAT RA2 Dry Troposphere Correction
Blarel, Fabien ; Parouty, Soazig ; Remy, Frederique ; Legresy, Benoit
LEGOS (FRANCE)

199-D2 Validation of SAR Mode Altimeter Return Waveform Model for Sentinel 3
Dinardo, Salvatore 1; Lambert, Josse 2; Benveniste, Jerome 2
1SERCO/ESRIN (ITALY); 2ESA (FRANCE)

198-D2 Validation of ENVISAT Radar Altimetry within the OSCAR Project
Blarel, Fabien ; Legresy, Benoit ; Remy, Frederique
LEGOS (FRANCE)

Poster Session - Atmos Cal/Val
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

001-D2 SCIAMACHY New Polarisation Calibration
Krijger, Matthijs ; Snel, R.
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS)

002-D2 Validation of Solar Spectral Irradiance Measurements from SCIAMACHY/Envisat and from SIM/SORCE
Pagaran, Joseph 1; Harder, Jerald 2; Weber, Mark 1; Fontenla, Juan 2; Burrows, John 1
1Institute of Environmental Physics (GERMANY); 2Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (UNITED STATES)

003-D2 NDACC Network based Study of the Consistency of Ozone Profile Data from Envisat, TPM and Historical Satellites
Vandenbussche, Sophie ; De Clercq, Coralie ; Granville, José ; Lambert, Jean-Christopher ; Multi-TASTE, Ozone Profiling
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM)

004-D2 Long-term multi-mission validation of ozone and temperature profiles by the Validation with Lidar (VALID) project
van Gijsel, J.A.E. 1; Baray, J.-L. 2; Claude, H. 3; Fehr, T. 4; von der Gathen, P. 5; Godin-Beekmann, S. 6; Gumbel, J. 7; Hansen, G.H. 8; Keckhut, P. 9; Kwiatkowska, E. 10; Leblanc, T. 11; Leclair de Bellevue, J. 2; Maturilli, M. 5; McDermid, I.S. 11; Nakane, H. 12; Quel, E.J. 13; Steinbrecht, W. 3; Strawbridge, K.B. 14; Tatarov, B. 12; Wolfram, E.A. 13; Swart, D.P.J. 1
1RIVM (NETHERLANDS); 2Laboratoire de l’Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), Université de la Reunión, UMR CNRS (FRANCE); 3Deutscher Wetterdienst (GERMANY); 4ESA (ITALY); 5Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (GERMANY); 6Service d’Aeronomie/IPSL, CNRS/UPMC/UVSQ, UPMC (FRANCE); 7Meteorological Institute Stockholm University (SWEDEN); 8Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NORWAY); 9LATMOS, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin (FRANCE); 10ESA (NETHERLANDS); 11Jet Propulsion Laboratory (UNITED STATES); 12National Institute for Environmental Studies (JAPAN); 13CEILAP (CITEFA-CONICET) (ARGENTINA); 14Science and Technology branch, Centre for Atmospheric Research Experiments (CARE), Environment Canada (CANADA)

005-D2 SCIAMACHY new Degradation Approach
Krijger, Matthijs 1; Snel, R. 1; S., Noel 2; Bramstedt, K. 2
1SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS); 2Institut fuer Fernerkundung/ Umweltphysik (GERMANY)

006-D2 SCIAMACHY new Radiance and Irradiance Calibration, Degradation and Validation
Krijger, Matthijs ; Snel, R. ; van der Meer, P.
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS)

007-D2 Highlights of the new SCIAMACHY Calibration Approach and Validation
Krijger, Matthijs 1; Snel, R. 1; Sciamachy, Qwg 2
1SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS); 2Institut fuer Fernerkundung/ Umweltphysik (GERMANY)

008-D2 SCIAMACHY 2.3 Micron Retrievals: Recent Updates
Dijkstra, C. ; Schrijver, H. ; Gloudemans, A.M.S. ; van der Meer, P. ; van Hees, R.M. ; Scheepmaker, R.A. ; Frankenberg, C. ; Aben, Ilse
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS)

009-D2 SCIAMACHY Monitoring Factors: Observation and End-to-End Correction of Instrument Performance Degradation
Bramstedt, Klaus 1; Noël, Stefan 1; Bovensmann, Heinrich 1; Burrows, John P. 1; Lerot, Christophe 2; Tilstra, Gijsbert Lieuwe 3; Lichtenberg, Günter 4; Dehn, Angelika 5; Fehr, Thorsten 6
1Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) (GERMANY); 2Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA) (BELGIUM); 3Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) (NETHERLANDS); 4Institut für Methodik der Fernerkundung (MF-AP - DLR) (GERMANY); 5Serco (ITALY); 6ESA (ITALY)

010-D2 Sensitivity Analysis for SCIAMACHY Ozone Limb Retrieval
Hrechanyy, Serhiy ; Doicu, Adrian ; Aberle, Bernd ; Lichtenberg, Guenter ; Meringer, Markus
DLR (GERMANY)

011-D2 Eight Years of MIPAS Measurements
Raspollini, Piera 1; QWG, MIPAS 2
1IFAC-CNR (ITALY); 2ESA (ITALY)

013-D2 The Status of the SCIAMACHY Line-of-Sight Knowledge
Gottwald, Manfred 1; Krieg, Eckhart 1; Lichtenberg, Günter 1; Slijkhuis, Sander 1; von Savigny, Christian 2; Noel, Stefan 2; Bovensmann, Heinrich 2; Bramstedt, Klaus 2
1DLR (GERMANY); 2IUP/IFE, University of Bremen (GERMANY)

014-D2 XCO2 Sciamachy Total Column and CO2 Ground Intercomparison Results in the Spanish Plateau
Sanchez, Maria Luisa 1; Sanchez, Maria Luisa 1; Perez, Isidro 1; Buchwitz, Michael 2; Garcia, M. Angeles 1
1University of Valladolid (SPAIN); 2University of Bremen (GERMANY)

015-D2 SCIAMACHY: Monitoring Instrument and Data Processing in Support to Science
Brizzi, Gabriele 1; Dehn, Angelika 1; Fehr, Thorsten 2; Niro, Fabrizio 1; Saavedra de Miguel, Lidia 1; Scarpino, Gabriella 1; Bovensmann, Heinrich 3; Gottwald, Manfred 4; Lecomte, Pascal 2
1Serco S.p.A. (ITALY); 2ESA (ITALY); 3IFE/University of Bremen (GERMANY); 4DLR-IMF (GERMANY)

016-D2 MIPAS Level 1B Algorithm Evolutions
Perron, Gaétan 1; Aubertin, Ginette 1; Desbiens, Raphaël 1; Fehr, Thorsten 2; Niro, Fabrizio 3; Kleinert, Anne 4; Kiefer, Michael 4; Birk, Manfred 5; Wagner, Georg 5
1ABB (CANADA); 2ESA (ITALY); 3SERCO SpA (ITALY); 4KIT-IMK (GERMANY); 5DLR (GERMANY)

018-D2 Intercomparison of Near Infrared SCIAMACHY and Thermal Infrared Nadir Vertical Column Densities
Schreier, Franz ; Gimeno-Garcia, Sebastian ; Lichtenberg, Günter ; Hess, Michael
DLR - German Aerospace Center (GERMANY)

019-D2 Preparing SCIAMACHY for the Mission Extension Phase
Gottwald, Manfred 1; Krieg, Eckhart 1; Lichtenberg, Günter 1; Noel, Stefan 2; Bramstedt, Klaus 2; Bovensmann, Heinrich 2; Cirillo, Francesca 3; Lützow-Wentzky, Peter 3
1DLR (GERMANY); 2IUP/IFE, University of Bremen (GERMANY); 3EADS, Astrium GmbH (GERMANY)

020-D2 Comparison Between REFIR-PAD and GERB Observations of the Outgoing Longwave Radiation Flux
Palchetti, L. 1; Belotti, C. 2; Bianchini, G. 1; Carli, B. 1; Harries, J.E. 2
1Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara - CNR (ITALY); 2Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College (UNITED KINGDOM)

021-D2 QA4EO - Guidelines for Polarisation Calibration, Both On-Ground and In-Flight
Krijger, Matthijs 1; Snel, R. 1; Tilstra, L.G. 2; Stammes, P. 2; Aben, Ilse 1
1SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS); 2Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) (NETHERLANDS)

Poster Session - Earthquakes & Tectonics
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

052-D2 Damage Assessment in Post-Event VHR Radar Images: a Preliminary Study on COSMO/SkyMed Data from 2009 Italy Earthquake
Polli, Diego Aldo ; Dell'Acqua, Fabio
University of Pavia (ITALY)

055-D2 Coseismic Deformation Detection of the 1997 Mani Earthquake Using ERS SAR Data
Wang, Xinhong1; Tang, Lingli1; Li, Chuanrong1; Ouyang, Guangzhou1; Zhang, Jingfa2
1Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA; 2Institute of Crustal Mechanics, Chinese Seismological Bureau, China, CHINA

062-D2 Exploiting Satellite Data for Large-Scale Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability in Human Settlement Areas (GEO DI-09-01a)
Polli, Diego Aldo ; Dell'Acqua, Fabio ; Gamba, Paolo
University of Pavia (ITALY)

061-D2 Integration of SAR interferometry modules with analytical modeling for geophysical applications
Atzori, Simone 1; Pasquali, Paolo 2; Barbieri, Massimo 2; Cantone, Alessio 2
1INGV (ITALY); 2sarmap s.a. (SWITZERLAND)

051-D2 Synergy of ASAR and RADARSAT-2 Ultra-Fine Acquisitions for Ground Deformation Monitoring by Means of DInSAR and PSI
Elias, Panagiotis 1; Briole, Pierre 2; Sykioti, Olga 1
1National Observatory of Athens (GREECE); 2Ecole Normale Supérieure (FRANCE)

050-D2 Bayesian Inversion of Wrapped InSAR Data for Geophysical Parameter Estimation
Hooper, Andrew
Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS)

057-D2 Application of C-band Interferometry to Investigate Crustal Unloading around the Dead Sea
Westerhaus, Malte 1; Schenk, Andreas 1; Kuny, Silva 1; Ben-Avraham, Zvi 2; Hanssen, Ramon 3
1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (GERMANY); 2Tel Aviv University (ISRAEL); 34) Delft Institute of Earth Observation and Space Systems (NETHERLANDS)

054-D2 InSAR Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Tectonic Deformation in the Southwestern Part of Turkey
Cavalié, olivier 1; Jonsson, Sigurjon 2
1ETH Zurich (SWITZERLAND); 2KAUST (SAUDI ARABIA)

058-D2 Interseismic deformation model of the Tjörnes Fracture Zone, North Iceland, derived from InSAR and GPS Time Series
Metzger, Sabrina 1; Jónsson, Sigurjón 2
1ETH Zürich (SWITZERLAND); 2King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (SAUDI ARABIA)

056-D2 Time Series Analysis of Strain Accumulation Across the Haiyuan Fault, China, from ENVISAT InSAR Data (2003-2009)
Jolivet, Romain 1; Lasserre, Cecile 1; Doin, Marie-Pierre 2; Guillaso, Stephane 2; Cavalié, Olivier 3; Peltzer, Gilles 4; Jianbao, Sun 5; Rong, Dailu 5
1UJF-LGIT (FRANCE); 2Ecole Normale Supérieure (FRANCE); 3ETH (SWITZERLAND); 4UCLA (UNITED STATES); 5Chinese Eathquake Administration (CHINA)

059-D2 Visulization System of Precursory Anomaly Analysis of Seismic Events based on the Micro-Satellite DEMETER
Ma, Lingling ; Li, Ziyang ; Tang, Lingli ; Li, Chuanrong ; Wang, Xinhong
Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHINA)

060-D2 Detection of Earthquake Precursors by Satellite Methods and their Verification Using the Laser Strainmeter Systems
Dubrov, Mstislav ; Smirnov, Vladimir ; Pavelyev, Alexander ; Golovachev, Sergey
Kotel’nikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

Poster Session - Forestry & Biomass
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

096-D2 Examination of Summer and Winter ALOS PALSAR Interferometric Coherence and Phase in Siberia
Thiel, Christian ; Schmullius, Christiane
Friedrich-Schiller-University (GERMANY)

091-D2 Forest Biomass Estimation with X-Band Interferometric SAR
Solberg, Svein 1; Astrup, Rasmus 1; Weydahl, Dan 2; Næsset, Erik 3; Gobakken, Terje 3; Bollandsås, Ole Martin 3
1Norwegian forest and landscape institute (NORWAY); 2Norwegian defense research establishment (NORWAY); 3Norwegian university of life sciences (NORWAY)

095-D2 Forest Stem Volume Estimation with Multi-Parameters ALOS PALSAR and Forest Inventory Data
Chen, Erxue ; Li, Zengyuan ; Yang, Yongtian ; Fan, Fengyun ; Ling, Feilong
Insitute of Forest Resources Informaiton Technique (CHINA)

094-D2 Classification of Fuel Types using ENVISAT Data
Wozniak, Edyta ; Nasilowska, Sylwia
University of Warsaw (POLAND)

092-D2 Mapping 3D forest Structure using Satellite, Multifrequent Radar and Lidar Data in Thuringian Forest, Germany
Hilbert, Claudia ; Schmullius, Christiane
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (GERMANY)

093-D2 SAR-monitoring Concept and Estimation of Woody Cover by Means of the SIR-C/X-SAR Kruger National Park Data Set
Vollrath, Andreas ; Schmullius, Christiane C.
Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena (GERMANY)

097-D2 Thaw Lakes and Forest Line Dynamics of North-East Europe Russia as Markers of Climatic Changes
Elsakov, Vladimir
Institute of Biology KomiSC UrD RAS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

098-D2 Forest Canopy LAI Estimation Using Quad-Polarization Radarsat-2 Data in Hilly Areas
He, Qisheng 1; Chen, Erxue 2; Cao, Chunxiang 1; Ling, Feilong 2; Zhang, Hao 2
1Institute of Remote Sensing Applications (CHINA); 2Institute of Forest Resource Information Technique (CHINA)

099-D2 SAR Analysis in Tropical Forest Environments to Support FAO's next Global Forest Resources Assessment
Knuth, Ralf ; Schmullius, Christiane ; Richter, Nicole ; Eckardt, Robert
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (GERMANY)

Poster Session - GMES
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

086-D2 Services down to Earth - Interfacing GMES and National Needs
Braun, Gerald
DLR Space Agency (GERMANY)

Poster Session - Hazards Assessment & Mapping
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

063-D2 ITA Face a Dedicated WEBGIS for Added Value Information Delivery
Massimo, Musacchio ; Buongiorno, Fabrizia ; Doumaz, Fawzi
INGV (ITALY)

064-D2 Deformation Monitoring using PS Insar in the Areas Suspected for Deformation near the Open-Mine Pits and on Waste Dumps
Hlavacova, Ivana ; Halounova, Lena ; Knechtlova, Barbora ; Svobodova, Kvetoslava
Czech Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering (CZECH REPUBLIC)

084-D2 Implementation of a Livestock Early Warning System in Mongolia: The Gobi Forage Example
Davaasuren, Narangerel 1; Jay, Angerer 2; Magsar, Urgamal 3; Lhamsuren, Bolor-Erdene 3
1Wageningen University (NETHERLANDS); 2Texas A&M University (UNITED STATES); 3Mercy Corps Mongolia, Gobi Forage project (MONGOLIA)

066-D2 Monitoring the Subsidence of Jing-Jin Intercity High Railway Roadbed by the Advanced Network PS-InSAR
Zhang, Hong 1; Wang, Chao 2; Tang, Yixian 2; Tao, Li 2
1Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth (CHINA); 2CEODE, CAS (CHINA)

068-D2 Radar Interferometry Techniques for Monitoring Subsidence Induced by Excessive Ground Water Pumping in Crete, Greece
Mertikas, Stelios ; Papadaki, Eirini ; Paleologos, Vagelis
Technical University of Crete (GREECE)

082-D2 Rapid Fire Damage Assessment by Using a Synergic Approach with Optical and Radar Data
Cadau, Enrico 1; Burini, Alessandro 2; Goryl, Philippe 3; Gascon, Ferran 3; Miranda, Nuno 3; Laur, Henri 3; Putignano, Cosimo 1
1SERCO (ITALY); 2Rhea (ITALY); 3ESA (ITALY)

079-D2 Landslides Phenomena in Sevan National Park - Armenia
Lazarov, Andon ; Minchev, Dimitar
Burgas Free University (BULGARIA)

069-D2 Extrusive Salt Deformation Monitoring in the Great Kavir of Central Iran Using SAR Interferometry
Abdolmaleki, Nastaran ; Motagh, Mahdi ; Bahroudi, Abbas ; Sharifi, Mohammad Ali
University of Tehran (IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)

077-D2 C- and X-band SAR Interferometric Analysis over Alpine Regions (Italy)
Nitti, Davide Oscar 1; Bovenga, Fabio 2; Nutricato, Raffaele 3
1Politecnico di Bari (ITALY); 2CNR-ISSIA (ITALY); 3GAP srl (ITALY)

072-D2 Monitoring Water Dams Related Increased Ground Instability using SAR Interferometric Techniques
Poncos, Valentin 1; Teleaga, Delia Cosmina 2; Micu, Mihai 3
1ASRC (CANADA); 2Advanced Studies and Research Center (ASRC) (ROMANIA); 3Institute of Geography, Romanian Science Academy (ROMANIA)

073-D2 Monitoring Dams and Reservoir Slopes with Interferometric SAR
Vöge, Malte 1; Larsen, Yngvar 2; Frauenfelder, Regula 1
1Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NORWAY); 2Norut (NORWAY)

070-D2 Anthropogenic Subsidence Revealed by PS-InSAR in an Area of Active Tectonics: Granada Basin
Sousa, Joaquim 1; Ruiz, Antonio 2; Hanssen, Ramon 3; Persky, Zbigniew 4; Bastos, Luisa 1; Gil, Antonio 2; Galindo-Zaldivar, Jesus 5; Sanz de Galdeano, Carlos 5
1University of Porto (PORTUGAL); 2University of Jaen (SPAIN); 3Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS); 4University of Silesia (POLAND); 5University of Granada (SPAIN)

074-D2 Using ERS data for monitoring of ground failures in Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Southern Poland
Czarnogorska, Magdalena ; Graniczny, Marek
Polish Geological Institute (POLAND)

083-D2 The Use of Eo Data in Assessing Hydro-Geological Risks in the Lake Nyos Region West Cameroon
Tchindjang, Mesmin 1; Bizenga, JEan Francois 2; Kah, Elvis Fang 1; Mphoweh, Jude Nzembayie 1
1University of Yaounde I (CAMEROON); 2CERDEC (CONGO)

075-D2 Subsidence of the Grenoble Urban Area (French Alps) from INSAR and its Relationship to Basin Sedimentary Deposits
Fruneau, Benedicte 1; Michel, Sylvain 2; Kniess, Ulrich 2; Pathier, Erwan 2; Cornou, Cécile 2; Ménard, Gilles 3; Casagli, Nicola 4
1Université Paris-Est (Marne-la-Vallée) (FRANCE); 2LGIT, Université Grenoble 1 (FRANCE); 3Edytem, Université de Savoie (FRANCE); 4Department of Earth Sciences from the University of Firenze (ITALY)

081-D2 IDP Camp and Reconstruction Monitoring Experience at SERTIT
Giraud, Henri ; Uribe, Carlos ; Caspard, Mathilde ; Montabord, Myldred ; Fellah, Kader ; Yésou, Hervé ; Battiston, Stéphanie ; Clandillon, Stephen
SERTIT (FRANCE)

076-D2 Monitoring of fast subsidence in a mining area of Northern Moravia, Czech Republic
Lazecky, Milan ; Jiránková, Eva ; Böhmová, Dagmar
VSB-TU Ostrava (CZECH REPUBLIC)

067-D2 Measuring Subsidence in the Centre of Lisbon with Persistent Scatterers Interferometry (PSI), CGPS and Levelling Surveys
Heleno, Sandra 1; Henriques, Maria Joao 2; Falcao, Ana Paula 1; Lima, Nuno 2; Fonseca, Ana Maria 2; Mancuso, Malva 2; Fonseca, Joao 1; Pinheiro, Andre 1
1Instituto Superior Tecnico (PORTUGAL); 2Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil (PORTUGAL)

080-D2 Landslide Susceptibility Mapping based on Persistent Scatterers Inventories
Nico, Giovanni 1; Oliveira, Sergio 2; Catalao, Joao 1; Zezere, Jose Luis 2; Garcia, Ricardo 2
1IDL, Univ. Lisboa (PORTUGAL); 2CEG, Univ. Lisboa (PORTUGAL)

065-D2 Detection of ground surface displacements in area of intensive oil and gas production by InSAR data
Filatov, Anton; Yevtyushkin, Arkadi
Ugra Research Institute of Information Technologies, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Poster Session - Ocean Color
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

150-D2 Determination of Commonalities in Oceanic Processes on a Global Scale Using Satellite Measurements
Shevyrnogov, Anatoly 1; Vysotskaya, Galina 2
1Institute of biophysics SB RAS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2Institute if Biophysics SB RAS, Institute of computation modeling SB RAS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

147-D2 EO Based Monitoring of Large Infrastructure Projects at Sea - the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link EIA
Tornfeldt Sørensen, Jacob V. ; Hansen, Lars B. ; Nyborg, Lotte ; Kaas, Hanne ; Mariegaard, Jesper
DHI (DENMARK)

148-D2 NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition & Analysis Service : Science Area Applications
Saux Picart, Stephane 1; Lonie, Neil 2; Miller, Peter 1; Shutler, Jamie 1; Taylor, Benjamin 1; Christodoulou, Stelios 1; Prieto-Blanco, Ana 1; Groom, Steve 1
1Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM); 2NEODAAS Dundee (UNITED KINGDOM)

142-D2 Detection of Decadal Cimate Change Based on Consistent Satellite Observation of the Nordic Seas Aquatic Ecosystem
Korosov, Anton ; Pettersson, Lasse
Nansen Enviromental and Remote Sensing Centre (NORWAY)

136-D2 MERIS Ocean Colour Data for the Estimation of Surface Water pCO2: The Case Studies of Peru and Namibia
Karagali, Ioanna 1; Badger, Merete 1; Sørensen, Lise Lotte 2
1Risø¸ DTU (DENMARK); 2DMU (DENMARK)

138-D2 Sensitivity of Ocean-Colour-Based Phytoplankton Productivity Estimates to Mixed Layer Depth
Milutinovic, Svetlana 1; Behrenfeld, Michael J. 2; Johannessen, Johnny A. 1; Johannessen, Truls 3
1Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY); 2Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University (UNITED STATES); 3Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen (NORWAY)

143-D2 Downwelling Solar Irradiance as a Critical Parameter for In-Situ Measurements in the MERMAID Database
Barker, Kathryn 1; Huot, Jean-Paul 2; Moore, Gerald 3; Mazeran, Constant 4; Lerebourg, Christophe 4
1ARGANS Limited (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS); 3Bio-Optika (UNITED KINGDOM); 4ACRI-ST (FRANCE)

144-D2 Absorption coefficients of particulate matter in southwest Europe: A contribution to the validation of the MERIS sensor
Goela, Priscila 1; Icely, John 2; Cristina, Sónia 1; Newton, Alice 3
1IMAR -FCT (PORTUGAL); 2Sagremarisco Lda (PORTUGAL); 3LOICZ, NILU-CEE (NORWAY)

141-D2 MERIS Applications in the Baltic Sea, Upwelling Regions off West-Africa and Indonesian Coastal Discharge Areas
Siegel, Herbert ; Ohde, Thomas ; Gerth, Monika ; Stottmeister, Iris
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (GERMANY)

131-D2 Self-Calibrated Model for the Rereaval of Suspended Sediment Concentrations in Turbid Water
Milan, Onderka
Institute of Hydrology, SAS (SLOVAKIA)

145-D2 Vicarious Adjustment of MERIS Reflectances Using an Inverse Technique
McCulloch, Mike 1; Barker, Kathryn 1; Ondrusek, Michel 2
1ARGANS Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 2NOAA (UNITED STATES)

137-D2 OCoc- from Ocean Colour to Organic Carbon
Heim, Birgit 1; Overduin, Paul 1; Lantuit, Hugues 1; Schirrmeister, Lutz 1; Doerffer, Roland 2
1Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (GERMANY); 2GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht (GERMANY)

146-D2 Predictiion of Sky Dome Radiance to Improve Computation of in-situ Water-Reflectancies in Meris Matchups
Zagolski, Francis 1; Santer, Richard 2
1PARBLEU Technologies Inc. (CANADA); 2ULCO, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (FRANCE)

139-D2 Integrated Monitoring and Forecasting of Harmful Algae Bloom Events in Coastal Waters
Pettersson, Lasse Herbert 1; Korosov, Anton 2; Hamre, Torill 1; Samuelsen, Annette 1
1Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY); 2Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

149-D2 Integrating Optical Remote Data into Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of the Ocean
Ermakov, Dmitry ; Smirnov, Mikhail ; Polyakov, Vitaliy
Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of RAS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

140-D2 Operational Detection and Mapping of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Baltic Sea using MERIS and MODIS
Hansson, Martin 1; Pemberton, Per 1; Håkansson, Bertil 1; Reinart, Anu 2; Alikas, Krista 2
1Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute - SMHI (SWEDEN); 2Tartu Observatory (ESTONIA)

Poster Session - OPT/IR Cal/Val
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

102-D2 Cross-Calibration of CBERS-02B/CCD against Terra/MODIS and SPOT-4/HRVIR1
Ma, Lingling ; Tang, Lingli ; Li, Chuanrong ; Li, Ziyang
Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHINA)

106-D2 Remote Sensing of Lakes: The Main Results after Eight Years of MELINOS Project
Giardino, Claudia ; Bresciani, Mariano
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ITALY)

107-D2 Validation of MERIS satellite products in oceanic waters off Cape Sagres on the south-west coast of Portugal
Cristina, Sónia 1; Icely, John 2; Goela, Priscila 1; Newton, Alice 3
1IMAR -FCT (PORTUGAL); 2Sagremarisco Lda (PORTUGAL); 3LOICZ, NILU-CEE, (NORWAY)

108-D2 A Comparison between SST and AOT derived from AVHRR and MODIS Data in the Frame of the CREPAD Program
Robles-Gonzalez, Cristina ; Fernandez-Renau, Alix
National Institute for Aerospace Technology, INTA (SPAIN)

105-D2 Field inter-comparison and validation of in water radiometers and sun photometers for MERIS validation
Moore, Gerald 1; Kratzer, Suzanne 2; Icely, John 3; Kathryn, Barker 4; Huot, Jean-Paul 5
1Bio-Optika (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Stockholm (SWEDEN); 3Sagremarisco (UNITED KINGDOM); 4ARGANS (UNITED KINGDOM); 5ESA (NETHERLANDS)

104-D2 Auxiliary data for calibration sites
Santer, Richard 1; Goryl, Philippe 2; Berthelot, Beatrice 3
1ULCO (FRANCE); 2ESA (ITALY); 3Vegatechnologies (FRANCE)

Poster Session - OPT/IR New Methods & Products
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

124-D2 Exploiting Hyper Spectral Satellite Measurements to Deduce Oceanic Components using Phytodoas
Dinter, Tilman 1; Sadeghi, A. 2; Vountas, M. 2; Blum, M. 2; Burrows, J.P. 2; Bracher, A. 1
1Alfred-Wegener-Insitute of Polar and Marine Research (GERMANY); 2Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen (GERMANY)

112-D2 Automatic matching of Landsat image series to high resolution orhorectified imagery
Pons, Xavier 1; Moré, Gerard 2; Pesquer, Lluis 2
1Autonomous University of Barcelona (SPAIN); 2CREAF (SPAIN)

110-D2 Gridding Artifacts on ENVISAT/MERIS Temporal Series
Gómez-Chova, Luis 1; Zurita-Milla, Raul 2; Alonso, Luis 1; Guanter, Luis 1; Amoros-Lopez, Julia 1; Camps-Valls, Gustavo 1; Moreno, Jose 1
1University of Valencia (SPAIN); 2ITC (NETHERLANDS)

113-D2 Fully automated and coherent radiometric (atm+top) correction of Landsat MSS-TM-ETM images through pseudoinvariant areas
Pons, Xavier 1; Cristóbal, Jordi 1; Pesquer, Lluis 2; Moré, Gerard 2; Gonzalez, Oscar 1
1Autonomous University of Barcelona (SPAIN); 2CREAF (SPAIN)

119-D2 Empirical correction of stray light within the MERIS oxygen A band channel
Lindstrot, Rasmus ; Preusker, Rene ; Fischer, Juergen
Freie Universitaet Berlin (GERMANY)

125-D2 CHRIS01/PROBA for Water Quality Assessment-First Results and Ongoing Progress
Beiermann, Timo
TU Braunschweig (GERMANY)

128-D2 Cinclus: an Instrument for the Remote Sensing of Inland Water Quality
Ruiz-Verdú, Antonio ; de Miguel, Eduardo ; Robles, Cristina ; Fernández-Renau, Álix
National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) (SPAIN)

130-D2 Evaluation of MERIS Water Quality Products for Inland Waters at Itumbiara Reservoir, Brazil
Nascimento, Renata ; Kampel, Milton ; Stech, José Luiz ; Alcantara, Enner
National Insitute for Space Research (BRAZIL)

126-D2 Influence of Resolution on Water Detection and on the Water Height and Level Relationship, Case of Poyang Lake, China
Huber, Claire 1; Lai, Xijun 2; Uribe, Carlos 1; Huang, Shifeng 3; Marie, Tiphanie 1; Chen, Xiaoling 4; Andréoli, Rémi 5; Li, Jiren 3; Yesou, Hervé 1
1SERTIT (FRANCE); 2NIGLAS (CHINA); 3IWHR (CHINA); 4LIEMARS (CHINA); 5BLUECHAM (NEW CALEDONIA)

127-D2 Remote Detection of Aquatic Point Pollution Sources
Puestow, Thomas
C-CORE (CANADA)

115-D2 Determining the hydrological benefits of clearing invasive alien vegetation on the Agulhas Plain, South Africa
Nowell, Megan 1; Le Maitre, David 2; Esler, Karen 1
1Stellenbosch University (SOUTH AFRICA); 2CSIR (SOUTH AFRICA)

116-D2 DUE Innovator-II Project: Assessing the Risk for Ballast Water Exchange - How can Remote Sensing Contribute?
Stelzer, Kerstin ; Brockmann, Carsten ; Kraemer, Uwe
Brockmann Consult (GERMANY)

123-D2 Adjacency Effect Correction on Case 2 Waters
Santer, Richard 1; Santer, Richard 1; Danne, Olaf 2; Brockmann, Carsten 2
1ULCO (FRANCE); 2Brockmann Consult (GERMANY)

129-D2 Integrated In-Situ and Satellite Observations of Water Quality at Lake Manzalah, Egypt
Puestow, Thomas
C-CORE (CANADA)

118-D2 Special View on the Ocean, Land and the Atmosphere from Space - a Video Show Installation
Paperin, Michael ; Stelzer, Kerstin
Brockmann Consult (GERMANY)

121-D2 Adjacency effect correction: from nadir to off nadir
Santer, Richard 1; Santer, Richard 1; Danne, Olaf 2; Brockman , Carsten 2
1ULCO (FRANCE); 2Brockman Consult (GERMANY)

122-D2 Adjacency effect correction for Sentinel 2
Santer, Richard 1; Danne, Olaf 2; Brockmann, Carsten 2
1Université du Littoral Cote d'Opale (FRANCE); 2Brockman Consult (GERMANY)

117-D2 Pumice Rafts Monitoring using Multi-Mission Data as an Aid for Ship Navigation and Marine/Coastal Resource-Management
Mantas, Vasco M. ; Pereira, A.J.S.C.
IMAR, Institute of Marine Research (PORTUGAL)

111-D2 Ten-Daily Global Composites of METOP-AVHRR
Deronde, Bart ; Eerens, Herman ; Ooms, Bart ; Goor, Erwin ; Swinnen, Else ; Heyns, Walter ; Jacobs, Tim ; Timmermans, Adri ; Vereecken, Johan
Flemisch Institute for Technological Research (VITO) (BELGIUM)

120-D2 Predict The Satellite Signal Over Dark Water: Application to Meris and Others
Santer, Richard 1; Berthelot, Béatrice 2
1Université du Littoral Cote d'Opale (FRANCE); 2VEGA Technologies (FRANCE)

Poster Session - SAR Methods
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

088-D2 Phase Requirements, design and validation of phase preserving processor for a spaceborne SAR
Monti Guarnieri, Andrea 1; Davide, D'Aria 2; Betlem, Rosich 3; Scirpoli, Silvia 1
1Politecnico di Milano (ITALY); 2Aresys (ITALY); 3ESA (ITALY)

087-D2 A new Algorithm for Descalloping ScanSAR Images by Post Processing
Romeiser, Roland 1; Horstmann, Jochen 2; Graber, Hans 1
1University of Miami (UNITED STATES); 2NATO Undersea Research Center (ITALY)

089-D2 Roll-steering for Sentinel-1 SAR: optimization and performance improvements
Monti Guarnieri, Andrea 1; Giudici, Davide 2; Maggi, Lorenzo 2; Michael, Volker 3
1Politecnico di Milano (ITALY); 2Aresys (ITALY); 3Astrium GmbH (GERMANY)

090-D2 Synergy of Earth Observation and In-Situ Monitoring Data for Flood Hazard Early Warning System
Brodsky, Lukas 1; Kodesova, Radka 2; Spazierova, Katerina 1
1GISAT (CZECH REPUBLIC); 2Czech Universit of Life Sciences Prague (CZECH REPUBLIC)

Poster Session - SAR Waves
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

188-D2 What do reflected GPS signals tell us about ocean waves? An experimental and numerical study
Clarizia, Maria Paola 1; Di Bisceglie, Maurizio 2; Galdi, Carmela 2; Gommenginger, Christine 1; Srokosz, Meric 1
1National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Universitá degli Studi del Sannio (ITALY)

189-D2 Application of Multi-Angle Microwave Measurements for Gravity-Capillary Wave Spectrum Retrieval
Sadovskiy, Ilya
Space Research Institute (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

186-D2 Comparative Analysis of Internal Waves Surface Manifestations observed by Envisat ASAR in different Non-Tidal Seas
Mityagina, Marina ; Lavrova, Olga
Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

187-D2 On the Discrimination of Radar Signatures of Atmospheric Gravity Waves and Oceanic Internal Waves
Alpers, Werner 1; Huang, W. 2
1University of Hamburg (GERMANY); 2State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics (CHINA)

Poster Session - SAR Winds
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

182-D2 Validation of Sub-Kilometer ENVISAT SAR Wind Products for the NOAA Alaska SAR Demonstration
Pichel, William 1; Li, Xiaofeng 2; Monaldo, Frank 3
1NOAA (UNITED STATES); 2IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS (UNITED STATES); 3The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (UNITED STATES)

184-D2 Using SAR and LAM Wind Fields to Investigate the Effects of Land/Atmosphere Interaction
Zecchetto, Stefano 1; De Biasio, Francesco 1; Miglietta, Mario Marcello 1; Trivero, Paolo 2
1Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ITALY); 2Universita' del Piemonte Oriantale (ITALY)

181-D2 Development of the Multi-Sensor Approach for Polar Low Study
Zabolotskikh, Elizaveta1; Bobylev, Leonid1; Mitnik, Leonid2; Smirnova, Julia3; Myasoedov, Alexander3
1NIERSC (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2POI (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 3NIERSC/RSHU (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

Poster Session - Sea Surface Temperature
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

151-D2 Constructing a Time Series of Global and Regional ATSR SST
Karen, Veal ; Gary, Corlett ; Remedios, John ; David, Llewellyn-Jones
University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM)

153-D2 Sea Surface Temperature in the Aegean Sea for 2005-2008
Varnava, Stefani ; Topouzelis, Konstantinos ; Soulakellis, Nikolaos
University of the Aegean (GREECE)

156-D2 VirtuelGalathea3 and Satellite Images for Education
Hasager, Charlotte 1; Sørensen, Peter Brøgger 2; Andersen, Ole Baltazar 3; Badger, Merete 1; Højerslev, Niels Kristian 4; Høyer, Jacob 5; Løkkegaard, Bo 6; Lichtenegger, Jürg 7; Nyborg, Lotte 8; Saldo, Roberto 3
1Risø DTU (DENMARK); 2Eduspace (DENMARK); 3DTU Space (DENMARK); 4NBI KU (DENMARK); 5DMI (DENMARK); 6nature and science (DENMARK); 7Eduspace (SWITZERLAND); 8GRAS A/S (DENMARK)

154-D2 Changing Seasonality of AVHRR Sea Surface Temperature along the west Iberian Coast
Barbosa, Susana 1; Lazaro, Clara 2; Fernandes, M. Joana 2; Ferreira, Ana 2
1University of Lisbon, IDL (PORTUGAL); 2University of Porto, FCUP (PORTUGAL)

152-D2 The MEDSPIRATION Project : toward the sustained delivery of satellite SST products and services over European seas
Piollé, Jean-François 1; Autret, Emmanuelle 1; Arino, Olivier 2
1Ifremer (FRANCE); 2ESA (ITALY)

155-D2 Summer North Atlantic Oscillation: Decadal Change, Impact, and Possible Mechanisms
Sun, Jianqi 1; Wang, Huijun 2; Yuan, Wei 3
1 Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHINA); 2Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHINA); 3China Meteorological Administration Training Centre (CHINA)

157-D2 Study of SSTD
Uiboupin, Rivo
Tallinn University of Technology (ESTONIA)

Poster Session - Sea Ice
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

160-D2 Impact from Different Types of Observations in the Data Assimilation System TOPAZ
Pavel, Sakov ; Bertino, Laurent ; Counillon, Francois
NERSC (NORWAY)

164-D2 Ice Motion and Ice Area Flux in the Fram Strait at 79N using ASAR and Passive Microwave Since Summer 2004
Kloster, Kjell 1; Wahlin, Johan 2; Sandven, Stein 2
1Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY); 2Nansen Env. and Rem.Sens. Center (NORWAY)

177-D2 ASAR Catalogue Ice Parameters Valid for Sustainable Development Harp Seals White Sea, Newfoundland, Jan-Mayen Population
Melentyev, Vladimir 1; Chernook, Vladimir 2; Melentyev , Konstantin 3; Bobylev, Leonid 1; Pettersson, Lasse 4; Sandven, Stein 4
1International Foundation “Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center” (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2Research Institute of Marine Fishery Fleet Designing (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 3Petersburg Branch of the State Academy of Custom (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 4Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY)

179-D2 Sea-Ice and Snow Facies Classification from Envisat Altimetry Data over the Polar Regions
Tran, Ngan 1; Girard-Ardhuin, Fanny 2; Rémy, Frédérique 3; Feng, Hui 4; Féménias, Pierre 5
1CLS (FRANCE); 2IFREMER (FRANCE); 3LEGOS (FRANCE); 4University of New Hampshire (UNITED STATES); 5ESA (ITALY)

165-D2 Sea Ice Extent and Movement in the Fram Strait 2007-2009
Hall, Jennifer 1; Bigg, Grant 1; Hall, Richard 2
1University of Sheffield (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Kongsberg Satellite Services AS (NORWAY)

166-D2 Satellite based Technology for Monitoring of Ship Ice Navigation and it's Influence on Seals Population at the White Sea
Gershenzon, Olga 1; Kucheiko, Alexey 1; Evtushenko, Natalia 1; Targulyan, Oganes 1; Filippova, Anna 2
1RDC ScanEx (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2IFAW (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

161-D2 Use of Satellite in the Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System (Arctic ROOS)
Sandven, Stein ; Johannessen, Ola M.
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NORWAY)

169-D2 Comparison of Envisat ASAR and Submarine Sea Ice Thickness Statistics
Hughes, Nicholas 1; Rodrigues, Joao 2; Wadhams, Peter 2
1Norwegian Meteorological Institute (NORWAY); 2University of Cambridge (UNITED KINGDOM)

170-D2 Observation of FY Sea Ice by ENVISAT ASAR, TerraSAR-X and ALOS PALSAR in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard in the Spring 2009
Yang, Chan-Su
Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI) (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)

178-D2 Vizualization of Arctic Landscapes in Geoinformation System
Bobkov, Andrey 1; Tsepelev, Valery 2; Panidi, Evgeny 1
1Saint-Petersburg State University (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2Saint-Petersburg Center for Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of Environment (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

171-D2 Correlation between Polynya Extents and Katabatic Winds at Terra Nova Bay
Parmiggiani, F. ; Marra, G.P. ; Lavanya, I.
ISAC-CNR (ITALY)

172-D2 Sea ice motion from low resolution spaceborne instruments: an alternative method and its validation in the Arctic
Lavergne, Thomas ; Eastwood, Steinar ; Schyberg, Harald ; Breivik, Lars-Anders
Met.no (NORWAY)

173-D2 An Ice-Ocean Discrimination Algorithm for Dual-Polarized SAR Imagery
Haarpaintner, Jörg
Northern Research Institute Tromsø - Norut (NORWAY)

174-D2 Monitoring of Sea Ice Drift and Deformation with SAR Satellite Data
Hollands, Thomas ; Dierking, Wolfgang
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (GERMANY)

163-D2 Sea Ice Passive Microwave Algorithms and SAR Validation
Johannessen, Ola M. ; Ivanova, Natalia
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) (NORWAY)

176-D2 The Use of SAR Imagery for Expedition Planning and Ice Flux Estimations
Krumpen, Thomas 1; Haas, Christian 2; Busche, Thomas 3; Hendricks, Stefan 1; Hoelemann, Jens 1; Rabenstein, Lasse 1; Gerdes, Rüdiger 1; Nicolaus, Marcel 1; Willmes, Sascha 4
1Alfred-Wegener Institute (GERMANY); 2University Alberta (CANADA); 3German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY); 4University of Trier (GERMANY)

159-D2 Sea Ice Monitoring Using Dual-Pol C and L Band SAR Data in the Baltic Sea
Uiboupin, Rivo ; Sipelgas, Liis
Tallinn University of Technology (ESTONIA)

162-D2 MyOcean SIW TAC, Sea Ice products and service
Breivik, Lars-Anders¹; Ardhuin, Fanny²; Dinessen, Frode¹; Dybkjær, Gorm³; Eastwood, Steinar¹; Fleming, Andrew⁴; Hamre, Torill⁵; Karvonen, Juha⁶; Lavergne, Thomas¹; Pedersen, Leif Toudal³; Saldo, Roberto⁷; Sandven, Stein⁵; Seina, Ari⁶; Tonboe, Rasmus³
¹Norwegian Meteorological Institute, NORWAY; ²Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Spatiale, FRANCE; ³Danish Meteorological Institute, DENMARK; ⁴British Antarctic Survey, UNITED KINGDOM; ⁵Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, NORWAY; ⁶Finnish Meteorological Institute, FINLAND; ⁷Technical University of Denmark, DENMARK

Poster Session - Tropospheric NO2 & O3
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

023-D2 An improved tropospheric NO2 retrieval based on high-resolution anisotropic surface reflectance data
Zhou, Yipin 1; Brunner, Dominik 1; Spurr, Robert 2; Stammes, Piet 3; Popp, Christoph 1; Sneep, Maarten 3; Boersma, Folkert 3
1Empa (SWITZERLAND); 2RT solutions Inc (UNITED STATES); 3KNMI (NETHERLANDS)

024-D2 OMI Tropospheric Measurements from Space and their Unprecedented Importance for Air Quality and Climate Change
Levelt, Pieternel 1; Veefkind, P. 1; Dobber, M. 1; Aben, Ilse 2; Bhartia, P.K. 3; Joiner, J. 3; Krotkov, N. 3; Martin, R. 4; team, OMI Science 5
1KNMI (NETHERLANDS); 2SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS); 3NASA-GSFC (UNITED STATES); 4Dalhousie University (CANADA); 5KNMI, FMI, NASA-GSFC, (NETHERLANDS)

025-D2 Operational O3M-SAF Trace Gas Column Products: GOME-2 NO2, BrO, SO2, CH2O, OClO and H2O
Valks, Pieter 1; Beirle, Steffen 2; De Smedt, Isabelle 3; Emmadi, Sunil 1; Hao, Nan 1; Kalakoski, Niilo 4; Lambert, Jean-Christopher 3; Loyola, Diego 5; Mies, Kornelia 2; Pinardi, Gaia 3; Richter, Andreas 6; Rix, Meike 1; Van Roozendael, Michel 3; Slijkhuis, Sander 1; Theys, Nicolas 3; Wagner, Thomas 2; Zimmer, Walter 1
1German Aerospace Center (GERMANY); 2Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (GERMANY); 3Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM); 4Finnish Meteorological Institute (FINLAND); 5German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY); 6University of Bremen (GERMANY)

026-D2 NO2 Measurements from the GOME-2 Instrument from Direct Fitting of Radiances
Wang, Huiqun 1; Chance, Kelly 1; Martin, Randall 2; Kurosu, Thomas 1
1Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (UNITED STATES); 2Dalousie University (CANADA)

027-D2 Factors Controlling the Tropospheric PAN Budget
Richards, Nigel ; Chipperfield, Martyn ; Steve, Arnold
University of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM)

028-D2 The DUE Innovators II APOLLO Project: monitoring Atmospheric POLLution with Earth Observations
Sellitto, Pasquale 1; Del Frate, Fabio 1; Di Noia, Antonio 1; Sambucini, Valter 2; Bojkov, Bojan 3
1Tor Vergata University (ITALY); 2ISPRA (ITALY); 3ESA (ITALY)

029-D2 PASODOBLE - the GMES Atmosphere Downstream Service Project for Air Quality
Erbertseder, Thilo
DLR (GERMANY)

030-D2 Cloud-dependency of NO2 columns from satellite measurements: gaining profile information
Beirle, Steffen ; Wagner, Thomas
MPI Chemie Mainz (GERMANY)

Poster Session - Volatile Organic Compounds
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

037-D2 Relation between carbon monoxide, from MOPITT and SCIAMACHY, and large fires emissions
Calle, Abel ; Calle, Abel ; Casanova, José-Luis
University of Valladolid (SPAIN)

036-D2 Smoke Injection Height from Biomass Burning in Eastern Europe using Calipso and Modis
Amiridis, Vassilis 1; Giannakaki, Elina 2; Balis, Dimitris 2; Pytharoulis, Ioannis 2; Zanis, Prodromos 2; Melas, Dimitris 2; Zerefos, Christos 3
1National Observatory of Athens (GREECE); 2Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GREECE); 3University of Athens (GREECE)

035-D2 Interpretation of Organic Compound Measurements from the MIPAS-E
Moore, David 1; Remedios, John 1; Richards, Nigel 2; Parker, Robert 1; Chipperfield, Martyn 2; Bernath, Peter 3; Panchal, Manasvi 1
1University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM); 3University of York (UNITED KINGDOM)

Poster Session - Volcanic Emissions
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

038-D2 Satellite SO2 Retrieval in the Wavelength Range 360-390nm
Hörmann, Christoph 1; Wagner, Thomas 1; Mies, Kornelia 1; Beirle, Steffen 1; Bobrowski, Nicole 2; Kern, Christoph 2; Platt, Ulrich 2
1Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry (GERMANY); 2University of Heidelberg (GERMANY)

039-D2 Satellite Retrievals and Transport Modeling of Volcanic Eruption Clouds
Kristiansen, Nina Iren ; Stohl, Andreas ; Prata, Fred ; Eckhardt, Sabine
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NORWAY)

040-D2 Monitoring volcanic ash with satellites at the London VAAC
Saunders, R.; Francis, P.; Francis, R.; Millington, S.; Atkinson, N.
Met Office, UNITED KINGDOM

Poster Session - Volcanoes
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

048-D2 Etna: Lava Flows Detection and D-InSAR Deformation Studies
Costantini, Fabiano 1; Delgado Blasco, Jose Manuel 2; Ruescas Orient, Ana Belen 2; Moser , Linda 3; Sarti, Francesco 2
1Tor Vergata University (ITALY); 2ESA (ITALY); 3ESA (AUSTRIA)

045-D2 Evaluation and comparison of ASAR and PALSAR data in the mapping of Landcover and volcanic monitoring in Comoros Islands
Amir, Ahmed 1; Lardeux, Cedric 1; Frison, Pierre-Louis 1; Fruneau, Benedicte 1; Rakotodraompiana, Solofo 2; Briole, Pierre 3; Rudant, Jean-Paul 1
1Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (FRANCE); 2Université d'Antananarivo (MADAGASCAR); 3Ecolole Normale Supérieure (FRANCE)

049-D2 Monitoring Volcanoes in the Tropics using L-band InSAR: Central America and the Northern Andes
Biggs, Juliet 1; Ebmeier, Susanna 1; Parks, Michelle 1; Mather, Tamsin 1; Amelung, Falk 2
1University of Oxford (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Miami (UNITED KINGDOM)

046-D2 Evaluation of Teide Volcano Deformation: Persistent Scatterers Interferometry with Ascending-Descending ENVISAT SAR
Marquez, Alvaro1; Izquierdo, Tatiana1; Deffontaines, Benoit2; Duro, Javier3; Arnaud, Alain3; Adatte, Sabrina4; Fruneau, Benedicte4
1University Rey Juan Carlos, SPAIN; 2Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, FRANCE; 3Altamira Information, SPAIN; 4Université de Marne-la-Vallée, FRANCE

047-D2 InSAR Measurements of Flank Stability at Cumbre Vieja Volcano, La Palma (Spain)
Holley, Rachel 1; Thomas, Adam 1; Li, Zhenhong 2; McGuire, Bill 3; Ziebart, Marek 4; Day, Simon 4
1Fugro NPA Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Glasgow (UNITED KINGDOM); 3Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre (UNITED KINGDOM); 4Satellite Geodesy and Navigation Research Group, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Eng (UNITED KINGDOM)

044-D2 InSAR observations at oceanic Island volcanoes: Examples from Fernandina volcano, Galapagos and Kilauea volcano, Hawaii
Amelung, Falk; Bagnardi, M.; Baker, S.
University of Miami, Geology and Geophysics (UNITED STATES)

Poster Session - Water Vapour
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

032-D2 A New Opportunity to survey the Global Water Vapour Distribution: the 2.3-Micron Channel of SCIAMACHY
Schrijver, Hans ; Gloudemans, Annemieke ; Frankenberg, Christian ; Scheepmaker, Remco ; Dijkstra, Rien ; Aben, Ilse
SRON Netherlands institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS)

033-D2 A Comparison of Integrated Water Vapour Measurements of MERIS with COSMO-DE and COSMO-EU Model Outputs
Leinweber, Ronny ; Fischer, Juergen
Freie Universitaet Berlin (GERMANY)

034-D2 Consistent Global Long Term (1995-2010) Water Vapor Observations from UV/vis Satellite Sensors
Beirle, Steffen 1; Slijkhuis, Sander 2; Kalakoski, Niilo 3; Loyola, Diego 4; Mies, Kornelia 1; Wagner, Thomas 1
1MPI for Chemistry (GERMANY); 2Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Oberpfaffenhofen (GERMANY); 3Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki (FINLAND); 4German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY)

Poster Session - Waves & Winds from Altimetry
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
17:40-19:00

191-D2 Significant Wave Height Merged from Multiple Satellite Altimeters
Yang, Jingsong
Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration (CHINA)

192-D2 Status of Envisat Fast Delivery Wind and Wave Products
Abdalla, Saleh ; Janssen, Peter A.E.M. ; Bidlot, Jean-Raymond
ECMWF (UNITED KINGDOM)

Poster Session - Clouds
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

142-D3 Simultaneous Retrieval of O3 Vertical Column and Cloud Properties from Satellite Measurements by Using the Ring Effect
van Gent, J. 1; Spurr, R. 2; Lerot, C. 1; Van Roozendael, M. 1
1Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM); 2RT Solutions, Inc. (UNITED STATES)

139-D3 Stereo Retrievals of Cloud-Top Height and Winds from Combining ATSR2 and -AATSR
Fisher, Daniel ; Muller, Jan-Peter
UCL (UNITED KINGDOM)

143-D3 Estimation of Errors when Calculating the Radiative Transfer within Cloudy Atmospheres
Gimeno García, Sebastián 1; Venema, Victor 2; Schreier, Franz 1; Trautmann, Thomas 1
1DLR (GERMANY); 2Universitaet Bonn (GERMANY)

144-D3 Collocating Satellite-Based Radar and Radiometer Measurements -- Methodology and Usage Examples
Holl, Gerrit 1; Buehler, Stefan 1; Rydberg, Bengt 2; Jiménez, Carlos 3
1Luleå University of Technology (SWEDEN); 2Chalmers University of Technology (SWEDEN); 3Observatiore de Paris (FRANCE)

145-D3 The retrieval and validation of cloud parameters derived from GOME-1 data
Lelli, Luca ; Kokhanovsky, A.A. ; Vountas, M. ; Rozanov, V. ; Burrows, J.P.
University Bremen (GERMANY)

137-D3 How to account for clouds in the adjacency effect correction?
Santer, Richard 1; Danne, Olaf 2; Brockmann, Carsten 2
1ULCO (FRANCE); 2BROCKMANN CONSULT (GERMANY)

146-D3 The Retrieval and Validation of Cloud Parameters Derived from SCIAMACHY Data
Martinecz, Cornelia ; Kokhanovsky, A.A. ; Vountas, M. ; Rozanov, V.V. ; Burrows, J.P.
University of Bremen (GERMANY)

138-D3 MERIS: the oxygen band and the pixel classification
Santer, Richard 1; Brockmann , Carsten 2
1Université du Littoral Cote d'Opale (FRANCE); 2Brockman Consult (GERMANY)

140-D3 Ship Emission Influence on Clouds: A Study using ATSR-2 retrieved Cloud Properties
Peters, Karsten ; Quaas, Johannes ; Sandu, Irina ; Stevens, Bjorn ; Grassl, Hartmut
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (GERMANY)

141-D3 Cloud Properties from ATSR-2 and AATSR: The ORAC Algorithm and GRAPE Dataset
Sayer, Andrew 1; Grainger, Don 1; Thomas, Gareth 1; Arnold, Chris 1; Poulsen, Caroline 2; Siddans, Richard 2
1University of Oxford (UNITED KINGDOM); 2STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM)

147-D3 SCIAMACHY PMD Identification of Clouds and Ice/Snow Method (SPICI) III
Krijger, Matthijs ; Schrijver, H. ; Tol, P. ; Aben, Ilse
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS)

Poster Session - Forestry
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

127-D3 The Study of Interannual Boreal forests vegetation Phenology by Meris Data and its Connections to Climate
Chernetskiy, Maxim ; Shevyrnogov, Anatoly ; Pasko, Irina
Institute of biophysics SB RAS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

124-D3 NEA-FOREST: Monitoring of carbon cycle dynamics in the forests of Northeastern Asia
Dong, Qinghan ; Swinnen, Else ; Eerens, Herman
VITO (BELGIUM)

125-D3 Feature Selection Supporting Species-wise Forest Variable Estimates in Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery
Molinier, Matthieu ; Astola, Heikki
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (FINLAND)

Poster Session - Future Earth Explorers
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

149-D3 Tomographic Retrievals for high Spatial Resolution Measurements of the PREMIER Infrared Limb Sounder
Hoffmann, Lars ; Ungermann, Joern ; Kaufmann, Martin ; Riese, Martin
Forschungszentrum Juelich (GERMANY)

Poster Session - Glaciology
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

041-D3 Envisat Asar Technology for Monitor of Habitat of Ice-Accociated Marine Mammals as Measure Stability of Living Atric
Melentyev, Vladimir 1; Melentyev, Vladimir 1; Chernook, Vladimir 2; Melentyev, Konstantin 3; Bobylev, Leonid 1; Pettersson, Lasse 4
1International Foundation “Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center” (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 2Research Institute of Marine Fishery Fleet Designing (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 3St. Petersburg Branch of the State Academy of Custom (RUSSIAN FEDERATION); 4“Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center” (NORWAY)

037-D3 Ice Cap Surface Elevation Changes from EnviSAT Radar Altimeter 2
Rinne, Eero 1; Shepherd, Andrew 2; Muir, Alan 3; Wingham, Duncan 3
1University of Edinburgh (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM); 3University College of London (UNITED KINGDOM)

039-D3 Near Real-Time Monitoring of Glacial Lake Imja (Khumbu-Everest region)
Lichtenegger, Juerg 1; Gurung, Deo Raj 2; Mool, Pradeep Kumar 2; Bigot, Jean-Charles 3
1ESA (SWITZERLAND); 2ICIMOD (NEPAL); 3ESA (FRANCE)

043-D3 New Glacier Inventories from the ESA Project GlobGlacier: Techniques, Challenges and Results
Paul, Frank ; Frey, Holger ; LeBris, Raymond
University of Zurich (SWITZERLAND)

045-D3 Seasonal Ice Velocity Measurements from the Northeast of Greenland with Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry
Briggs, Kate 1; Shepherd, Andrew 2; Nienow, Pete 1
1University of Edinburgh (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM)

046-D3 Hydrological forcing of Ice Motion in South West Greenland
Sundal, Aud 1; Shepherd, Andrew 1; Nienow, Pete 2; Hanna, Edward 3; Palmer, Steve 1; Huybrechts, Phillip 4
1University of Leeds (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Edinburgh (UNITED KINGDOM); 3University of Sheffield (UNITED KINGDOM); 4University of Vrije (BELGIUM)

047-D3 Validation and Operational Measurements with a SAR Ice-Motion Processing Chain developed within PROMICE
Merryman Boncori, John Peter 1; Dall, Jørgen 1; Ahlstrøm, Andreas Peter 2; Andersen, Signe Bech 2
1Technical University of Denmark (DENMARK); 2Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (DENMARK)

042-D3 Non-Gaussian Clustering of SAR images for Glacier Change Detection
Doulgeris, Anthony ; Akbari, Vahid ; Eltoft, Torbjørn
University of Tromsø (NORWAY)

034-D3 Greenland Mass Balance Estimation from Satellite Gravity Measurements
Joodaki, Gholamreza ; Nahavandchi, Hossein
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NORWAY)

044-D3 Glacier Acceleration and Ice Retreat after Collapse of Larsen Ice Shelf Observed by TerraSAR-X and Envisat ASAR Data
Mueller, Florian 1; Rott, Helmut 2; Nagler, Thomas 1; Floricioiu, Dana 3; Sander, Roman 2
1ENVEO IT GmbH (AUSTRIA); 2University of Innsbruck (AUSTRIA); 3DLR IMF (GERMANY)

038-D3 Antarctic Ice Shelf Thickness Estimates derived from Satellite Altimetry
Griggs, Jennifer ; Bamber, Jonathan
Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol (UNITED KINGDOM)

033-D3 Observability of Cryospheric Signals with Satellite Gravity Missions
Bentel, Katrin 1; Gerlach, Christian 2
1Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NORWAY); 2Kommission für die Internationale Erdmessung (GERMANY)

040-D3 Using SAR Images to Investigate Supra-Glacial Lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Johansson, Malin ; Brown, Ian A.
Stockholm University (SWEDEN)

036-D3 Elevation changes and corrections in the area of the Kangerdlugssuaq glacier in the period 2003-2008
Levinsen, Joanna Fredenslund ; Aakjaer, Cecilie Drost
Niels Bohr Institute, UCPH (DENMARK)

Poster Session - Global Vegetation & Bio-geophysical Products
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

131-D3 Using of Time Series Analysis of NDVI for Landscape Monitoring
Halabuk, Andrej
ILE SAS (SLOVAKIA)

132-D3 Estimation of Forage Biomass and Nitrogen Using MERIS Data
Ullah, Saleem
Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) (NETHERLANDS)

133-D3 Phenological Trends of Vegetation in Southern England From Envisat MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (MTCI) data
Doreen, Boyd 1; Almond, Samuel 2; Dash, Jadu 3; Curran, Paul 4
1University of Nottingham (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM); 3University of Southampton (UNITED KINGDOM); 4Bournemouth University (UNITED KINGDOM)

134-D3 MODIS and NOAA-AVHRR based Mapping of the Growing Season of Fennoscandia and Svalbard
Høgda, Kjell Arild ; Karlsen, Stein-Rune
Norut (NORWAY)

Poster Session - GOCE
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

008-D3 A Methodology to Use Terrestrial Gravity Data Sets for Regional Validation of GOCE Products in Central Europe
Schäfer, Uwe ; Schirmer, Uwe ; Rülke, Axel ; Liebsch, Gunter ; Ihde, Johannes
BKG (GERMANY)

009-D3 Gravity gradient expansion into spherical harmonics
Gruber, Christian 1; Snopek, Krzysztof 1; Oleh, Abrykosov 1; Sebera, Josef 2
1GFZ Potsdam (GERMANY); 2Czech Technical University (CZECH REPUBLIC)

010-D3 First Results Using ESA's Internal Calibration Method GRADNET
Kern, Michael 1; Haagmans, Roger 1; Plank, Gernot 1; Lamarre, Daniel 1; Fehringer, Michael 1; Floberghagen, Rune 2; Drinkwater, Mark 1
1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2ESA (ITALY)

011-D3 External Calibration of GOCE Differential Accelerations
Rispens, Sietse
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS)

012-D3 Crustal Induced Gravity Signal at GOCE Altitude
Tsoulis, Dimitrios ; Papanikolaou, Thomas ; Vassiliadis, Ioannis ; Venesis, Christos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GREECE)

013-D3 Validation of GOCE with Terrestiral Gravity Data in Norway
Gerlach, Christian 1; Pettersen, Bjørn Ragnvald 2
1Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (GERMANY); 2Norwegian University of Life and Environmental Sciences (NORWAY)

006-D3 GOCE Rapid Science Orbits: Achieving Sub-Dm Orbit Precision with Minimal Latency
van den IJssel, J. 1; Visser, P. 1; van Helleputte, T. 1; Bock, H. 2
1Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS); 2Astronomical Institute, University of Bern (AIUB) (SWITZERLAND)

014-D3 External Calibration of the GOCE Gravity Gradients at the High-Level Processing Facility
Bouman, J. 1; Rispens, S. 2; Tscherning, C.C. 3; Veicherts, M. 3; Visser, P. 4
1DGFI (GERMANY); 2SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS); 3University of Copenhagen (DENMARK); 4TUDelft (NETHERLANDS)

015-D3 Goal and Usage of the HPF Level 2 XML parser
van Hees, R. ; Fiorot, S. ; Rispens, S.
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NETHERLANDS)

007-D3 The End-to-End System Simulator of GOCE
Cesare, Stefano 1; Catastini, Giuseppe 1; Dumontel, Massimo 1; Parisch, Manlio 1; Sechi, Gianfranco 1; Floberghagen, Rune 2
1Thales Alenia Space Italia (ITALY); 2ESA (ITALY)

016-D3 Performance Analysis of GOCE Gradiometer Measurements
Yi, Weiyong ; Murböck, Michael ; Rummel, Reiner ; Gruber, Thomas
Technische Universität München (GERMANY)

017-D3 Refinement of a Regional Gravity Field Model using a Combination of GOCE Data and Terrestrial Gravity Data
Janak, Juraj 1; Wild-Pfeiffer, Franziska 2; Faskova, Zuzana 1; Mikula, Karol 1
1Slovak University of Technology (SLOVAKIA); 2University of Stuttgart (GERMANY)

018-D3 Widespread Ground Fissures in the Northern Flank of Indian Peninsular Shield - Multi Sensor Data Analysis
Singh, Ramesh
Chapman University (UNITED STATES)

019-D3 Non-linear Anisotropic Diffusive Filtering Applied to the Ocean's Mean Dynamic Topography
Bingham, Rory
Newcastle University (UNITED KINGDOM)

020-D3 Combining Satellite Gravity and Seismology for Crustal Structure In Africa
van der Meijde, Mark ; Tedla, Getachew
ITC (NETHERLANDS)

021-D3 Ice mass change versus gravity-local models and GOCE's contribution
Gisinger, Christoph 1; Heuberger, Florian 1; Pail, Roland 1; Sharov, Aleksey 2
1TU Graz (AUSTRIA); 2Joanneum Research (AUSTRIA)

022-D3 RIFUGIO - Rigorous Fusion of Gravity Field into Stationary Ocean Models
Freiwald, Grit 1; Losch, Martin 1; Schuh, Wolf-Dieter 2; Becker, Silvia 2
1Alfred-Wegener-Institut (GERMANY); 2Universitaet Bonn, Institut fuer Geodaesie und Geoinformation (GERMANY)

003-D3 The GOCE User Toolbox - GUT- An ESA Effort to Facilitate the use of GOCE Level-2 Products
Knudsen, Per 1; Benveniste, Jerome 2
1DTU Space (DENMARK); 2ESA (ITALY)

023-D3 Fast and Robust Method for the Computation of Spherical Harmonic Coefficients from SST Data of GOCE Satellite
Touati, Fatah 1; Idres, Mouloud 2; Kahlouche, Salem 1
1Centre des Techniques Spatiales (ALGERIA); 2University of Science and Technology H.B. (ALGERIA)

005-D3 Dynamic Orbit Analysis of Current Low Earth Orbiters
Tsoulis, Dimitrios ; Papanikolaou, Thomas
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GREECE)

024-D3 An Assessment Toolbox for the Band-Limited Analysis of Current Satellite-Only Earth Gravity Models
Tsoulis, Dimitrios ; Patlakis, Konstantinos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GREECE)

025-D3 GOCE+
Kern, Michael 1; Haagmans, Roger 1; Floberghagen, Rune 2; Drinkwater, Mark 1; Fernandez, Diego 2; Plank, Gernot 1
1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2ESA (ITALY)

004-D3 How Important is the Dynamical Information In Determination of LEO Orbits
Shabanloui, Akbar ; Kusche, Jurgen ; Ilk, Karl Heinz
University of Bonn (GERMANY)

026-D3 Instantaneous Reference Frame Realization for the Goce and Jason-2 Orbit
Svehla , Drazen
ESA (GERMANY)

027-D3 Earth’s Gravity Field Recovery using the Multiplicative Schwarz Alternating Algorithm
Safari, Abdolreza ; Sharifi, Mohammad Ali ; Amjadiparvar, Babak
University of Tehran (IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)

001-D3 GOCE Payload Data Ground Segment - Architecture and data access
Bigazzi, Alberto1; Meloni, M.1; Frommknecht, B.2; Floberghagen, R.2
1Serco S.p.A. (ITALY); 2ESA (ITALY)

002-D3 Quality control of GOCE Level 1b data products
Meloni, M.1; Bigazzi, A.1; Bigazzi, A.1; Frommknecht, B.2; Floberghagen, R.2
1Serco S.p.A. (ITALY); 2ESA (ITALY)

028-D3 Combined Global Gravity Field Models from GOCE Data and Complementary Data Types
Pail, Roland 1; Goiginger, Helmut 1; Gruber, Thomas 2; Fecher, Thomas 2; Schuh, Wolf-Dieter 3; Brockmann, Jan-Martin 3; Kusche, Jürgen 3; Eicker, Annette 3; Jäggi, Adrian 4; Hausleitner, Walter 5; Höck, Eduard 5
1Graz University of Technology (AUSTRIA); 2TU Munich (GERMANY); 3University of Bonn (GERMANY); 4University of Bern (SWITZERLAND); 5Austrian Academy of Sciences (AUSTRIA)

Poster Session - Permafrost
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

051-D3 The Lena River Delta, Arctic Siberia: an Arctic ground data observatory of the DUE Permafrost Project
Heim, Birgit 1; Boike, Julia 1; Langer, Moritz 1; Muster, Sina 1; Sobiech, Jennifer 1; Piel, Konstanze 1; Bartsch, Annett 2
1Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (GERMANY); 2Vienna University of Technology (AUSTRIA)

053-D3 Synergistic Analysis of Coarse Resolution Vegetation and Land Cover Data for Permafrost Monitoring
Urban, Marcel 1; Herold, Martin 2; Hese, Sören 1; Pöcking, Stefan 1; Schmullius, Christiane 1
1Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GERMANY); 2Wageningen University (NETHERLANDS)

050-D3 Rock glacier activity in the South Shetland Islands:DINSAR, ground-truth and GIS analysis. Methodology and first results
Jorge, Marco 1; Vieira, Gonçalo 1; Catalão, João 1; Ramos, Miguel 2
1Universidade de Lisboa (PORTUGAL); 2Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (SPAIN)

052-D3 Study of thermokarst lakes areas changes in West-Siberian permafrost using ERS-2
Kopylov, Vasily; Bryksina, Nataly; Polishchuk, Vladimir; Polishchuk, Yury
Ugra Research Institute of Information Technologies, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Poster Session - Polarimetry & Polinsar
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

118-D3 Application of Genetic Algorithm and Multilayer Neural Networks in Classification of Fully Polarimetric SAR Images
Entezari, Iman 1; Motagh, Mahdi 1; Mansouri, Babak 2
1University of Tehran (IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF); 2International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)

121-D3 An Improved Repeat-Pass PolinSAR Tree Height Inversion Algorithm Based on Three-Stage Method
Zhang, Hong ; Chen, Jiehong ; Wang, Chao
Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, CAS (CHINA)

120-D3 A Novel Method for Determination of Building Heights Using Fully Polarimetric SAR Data
Entezari, Iman 1; Mahdi, Motagh 1; Babak, Mansouri 2
1University of Tehran (IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF); 2International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)

117-D3 POLSAR Images Filtering by Wavelets Transform
Smara, Youcef ; Bouchemakh, Lynda ; Boutarfa, Souhila
Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science / U.S.T.H.B (ALGERIA)

119-D3 Evaluating Methods for Polarimetric SAR Land Classification in Regions of Moderate Topography
Atwood, Don 1; Small, David 2
1Geophysical Institute (UNITED STATES); 2University of Zurich (SWITZERLAND)

Poster Session - Persistent Scatterers Interferometry
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

110-D3 Satellite-based PSI and terrestrial SAR: complementary aspects and limitations
Crosetto, Michele ; Monserrat, Oriol ; Iglesias, Ruben ; De Arriba, Jorge ; Ibarz, Merce
Institute of Geomatics (SPAIN)

112-D3 Evaluation of Ps-Insar Feasibility for Monitoring Millimetric Deformation in Montainous Millimetric in Montainous Areas
Sousa, Joaquim 1; Hooper, Andy 2; Hanssen, Ramon 2; Bastos, Luisa 1; Ruiz, Antonio 3
1University of Porto (PORTUGAL); 2Delft University of Technology (NETHERLANDS); 3University of Jaen (SPAIN)

111-D3 Combination of Techniques Based on Point- and Distributed-Targets for Interferogram Stacks Processing
Pasquali, Paolo ; Cantone, Alessio
Sarmap s.a. (SWITZERLAND)

113-D3 PS Interferometry for monitoring displacements due to variation of the water table in Paris (Grand-Palais/Invalides)
Magalhaes, Samuel 1; Deffontaines, Benoît 2; Fruneau, Bénédicte 1; Cojean, Roger 3; Prunier-Leparmentier, Anne-Marie 4; Arnaud, Alain 5; Duro, Javier 5
1Université Paris-Est (FRANCE); 2Université Pierre et Marie Curie (FRANCE); 3Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Mines ParisTech (FRANCE); 4Inspection Générale des Carrières (FRANCE); 5Altamira Information (SPAIN)

Poster Session - SMOS
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

065-D3 The SMOS Brightness Temperature Ocean Monitoring: Preliminary Results
Sabia, Roberto 1; De Rosnay, Patricia 2; Muñoz-Sabater, Joaquin 2; Spurgeon, Paul 3; Portabella, Marcos 4; Font, Jordi 1; Vall-llossera, Mercè 5; Takay, Yuhei 2; Balmaseda, Magdalena 2
1Institut de Ciencies del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SPAIN); 2European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (UNITED KINGDOM); 3ARGANS Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 4Unitat de Tecnologia Marina CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SPAIN); 5Remote Sensing Laboratory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SPAIN)

058-D3 Scientific and Operational Exploitation of Global SMOS Observations: ESA's Supporting Activities
Drusch, Matthias 1; Hahne, Achim 1; Bouzinac, Catherine 1; Delwart, Steven 1; Mecklenburg, Susanne 2; Wright, Norrie 2
1ESA (NETHERLANDS); 2ESA (ITALY)

061-D3 In-Situ Datasets and Gridded Fields for Calibration and Validation of SMOS
Gaillard, Fabienne 1; Brion, Emilie 1; Petit de la Villeon, Loic 2; Delcroix, Thierry 3; Alory, Gael 3; Reverdin, Gilles 4
1LPO/IFREMER-CNRS-UBO-IRD (FRANCE); 2SISMER/IFREMER (FRANCE); 3LEGOS (FRANCE); 4LOCEAN (FRANCE)

075-D3 Uncertainties on the Global Near-Surface Vertical Structure of Salinity
Konstantinidou, Anna ; Lopez Aretxabaleta, Alfredo ; Gourrion, Jerome
Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SMOS-BEC) (SPAIN)

087-D3 Weighting Matrices applied in Image Reconstruction Algorithm in L1PP and their impact on Soil Moisture retrieval
Castro, Rita 1; Anterrieu, Eric 2; Cabot, Francois 3; Gutierrez, Antonio 1; Barbosa, Jose 1
1Deimos Engenharia (PORTUGAL); 2Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (FRANCE); 3Cesbio (FRANCE)

089-D3 Validating SMOS on the Wetland Polesie, in Poland
Marczewski, Wojciech 1; Usowicz, Bogus³aw 2; Lukowski, Mateusz 2; Wójciga, Anna 2; Usowicz, Jerzy 3; Somiñski, Jan 4
1Space Research Centre/Polish Academy of Sciences (POLAND); 2Institute Of Agrophysics/Polish Academy of Sciences (POLAND); 3University of N. Copernicus (POLAND); 4Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences (POLAND)

191-D3 Airborne Campaigns in the Upper Danube Catchment in the Context of the Calibration and Validation of SMOS
Dall'Amico, Johanna 1; Schlenz, Florian 1; Loew, Alexander 2; Mauser, Wolfram 1
1University of Munich (GERMANY); 2Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (GERMANY)

066-D3 Evaluation of SMOS brightness temperature over the Valencia Anchor Station
Juglea, Silvia 1; Kerr H., Yann 1; Mialon, Arnaud 1; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre 2; Saleh, Kauzar 3; Lopez-Baeza, Ernesto 4; Delwart, Steven 5
1CESBIO (FRANCE); 2INRA/EPHYSE (FRANCE); 3University of Cambridge (UNITED KINGDOM); 4University of Valencia (SPAIN); 5ESA (NETHERLANDS)

059-D3 SMOS User Support Tools: The SMOS-BOX and CalVal Data Distribution
Quast, Ralf 1; Fomferra, Norman 1; Thomas, Block 1; Delwart, Steven 2; Goryl, Philippe 3
1Brockmann Consult (GERMANY); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS); 3ESA (ITALY)

092-D3 L-Band Radiometer Experiment in the SMOS Test Site Upper Danube
Schlenz, Florian 1; Gebhardt, Timo 1; Loew, Alexander 2; Marzahn, Philip 1; Mauser, Wolfram 1
1University of Munich (GERMANY); 2Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (GERMANY)

093-D3 SMOS Validation Activities at Different Scales in the Skjern River Catchment, Western DK
Skou, Niels ; Bircher, Simone ; Balling, Jan
Technical University of Denmark (DENMARK)

094-D3 SMOS Cal-Val Activities in the Alps (Vercors site)
Pellarin, Thierry 1; Cohard, Jean-Martial 2; Laurent, Jean-Paul 3; Mercier, Bernard 3; Biron, Romain 4; Muller, Lucas 4; Coulaud, Catherine 5; Kerr, Yann 6; Miallon, Arnaud 6
1CNRS / LTHE (FRANCE); 2UJF/LTHE (FRANCE); 3CNRS/LTHE (FRANCE); 4IRD/LTHE (FRANCE); 5LTHE (FRANCE); 6CESBIO (FRANCE)

095-D3 Downscaling of SMOS-Derived Soil Moisture During SMOS Calibration/Validation Phase at Remedhus Site
Maria, Piles 1; Mercè, Vall-llossera 1; Alessandra, Monerris 1; Albert, Aguasca 1; Rene, Acevo-Herrera 1; Jose, Martínez-Fernández 2; Nilda, Sánchez 2; Carlos, Pérez 2; Guido, Baroncini-Turicchia 2; Adriano, Camps 1
1Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (SPAIN); 2University of Salamanca (SPAIN)

096-D3 On the Effective Soil Moisture Sampling Depth of L-Band Radiometry
Escorihuela, Maria Jose 1; Chanzy, AndrÃ© 2; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre 3; Kerr, Yann 4
LisardSAT (SPAIN); 2UMR EMMAH, INRA, UAPV, Avignon (FRANCE); 3INRA, EPHYSE, Bordeaux (FRANCE); 4Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphÃ¨re, Toulouse (FRANCE)

070-D3 Ocean Salinity Retrieval Approaches for the SMOS Satellite
Spurgeon, Paul 1; Spurgeon, Paul 1; Font, Jordi 2; Boutin, Jacqueline 3; Tenerelli, Joe 4; Vergely, Jean-Luc 5; Reul, Nicolas 6; Gabarro, Carolina 2; Yin, Xiaobin 3; Gourrion, Jerome 2; Talone, Marco 2; Chuprin, Andrei 1; Waldteufel, Philippe 3; McCulloch, Mike 1; Lavender, Samantha 1
1ARGANS Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 2Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) (SPAIN); 3Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL) (FRANCE); 4CLS/Ifremer (FRANCE); 5ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 6Ifremer (FRANCE)

097-D3 Use of Satellite Data for Soil Moisture Analysis at ECMWF
de Rosnay, Patricia 1; Muñoz Sabater, Joaquin 1; Balsamo, Gianpaolo 1; Matthias, Drusch 2; Scipal, Klaus 2; Vasiljevic, Drasko 1; Beljaars, Anton 1; Isaksen, Lars 1
1ECMWF (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS)

098-D3 SMOS Soil Moisture Validation with Dense and Sparse Networks
Jackson, Thomas ; Cosh, M. ; Bindlish, R.
USDA (UNITED STATES)

071-D3 Improvement of the empirical roughness-induced emissivity model for the SMOS mission
Gabarro, C. 1; Portabella, M. 2; Camps, A. 3; Martinez, J. 1; Gourrion, J. 1; Talone, M. 4; Sabia, R. 1; Ballabrera, J. 1; Font, J. 1
1Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM-CSIC) & SMOS Barcelona Expert Center (SMOS-BEC) (SPAIN); 2Unitat de Tecnologia Marina, CSIC (SPAIN); 3Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya & Institut d'Estudis Especials de Catalunya (IEEC-CSIC) (SPAIN); 4Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya & SMOS Barcelona Expert Center (SMOS-BEC) (SPAIN)

099-D3 SMOS CAL/VAL Activities in the Takelamakan Desert
Zhang, Weiguo 1; Wu, Ji 2; Liu, Heguang 1; Liu, Hao 1; Kerr, Yann 3
1Center for space science and application research (CHINA); 2Centre for space science and application (CHINA); 3CESBIO (FRANCE)

080-D3 SMOS-BEC: The Expert Centre for the SMOS Mission at Barcelona
Monerris, Alessandra 1; Font, Jordi 2; Corbella, Ignasi 1
1RSLab TSC-UPC, SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SMOS-BEC) (SPAIN); 2Institut de CiÃ¨ncies del Mar (ICM-CSIC), SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SMOS-BEC) (SPAIN)

100-D3 Activities over Land at the REMEDHUS Cal/Val Site for the SMOS Mission
Monerris, Alessandra 1; Rodriguez-Alvarez, Nereida 2; Vall-llossera, Merce 1; Martinez-Fernandez, Jose 3; Sanchez, Nilda 3; Baroncini-Turricchia, Guido 3; Perez-Gutierrez, Carlos 3; Acevo-Herrera, Rene 2; Piles, Maria 1; Aguasca, Albert 2; Camps, Adriano 4
1RSLab TSC-UPC, SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SMOS-BEC) (SPAIN); 2RSLab TSC-UPC (SPAIN); 3Universidad de Salamanca (SPAIN); 4RSLab TSC-UPC, IEEC/CRAE, and SMOS-BEC (SPAIN)

067-D3 SMOS Brightness Temperatures over the Global Oceans: Contaminating Effects and Salinity Retrieval
Tenerelli, Joseph 1; Reul, Nicolas 2
1CLS (FRANCE); 2IFREMER (FRANCE)

072-D3 Measurements of Salinity in the Top 50cm of the Sea surface using Autonomous Drifters
Boutin, Jacqueline 1; Reverdin, Gilles 2; Martin, Nicolas 2; Lourenço, Antonio 2; Gaillard, Fabienne 3; Roland, Jean 4; Blouch, Pierre 4; Hénocq, Claire 5
1CNRS (FRANCE); 2CNRS/LOCEAN (FRANCE); 3IFREMER/LPO (FRANCE); 4METEO-FRANCE (FRANCE); 5ACRI-st (FRANCE)

088-D3 Estimation of Soil Hydraulic Parameters by Satellite Observations and Particle Filtering-a Virtual Experiment
Montzka, Carsten 1; Canty, Morton 1; Hendricks-Franssen, Harrie-Jan 1; Moradkhani, Hamid 2; Weihermüller, Lutz 1; Vereecken, Harry 1
1Research Centre Juelich (GERMANY); 2Portland State University (UNITED STATES)

060-D3 Radiometric Noise and Autocorrelation of TB Residuals Obtained during SMOS Commissioning
Meirold-Mautner, Ingo 1; Vergely, Jean-Luc 1; Yin, Xiaobin 2; Boutin, Jacqueline 2; Spurgeon, Paul 3
1ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 2IPSL (FRANCE); 3ARGANS (UNITED KINGDOM)

073-D3 Ground Sampling Strategy for the Validation of SMOS at the Valencia Anchor Station
Antolin, M. Carmen 1; Millan-Scheiding, Cristina 1; Carbo, Ester 1; Lopez-Baeza, Ernesto 2
1Center for Desertification Research (CIDE) (SPAIN); 2University of Valencia (SPAIN)

085-D3 Satellite based estimates of soil moisture over the Tibetan Plateau
Su, Z. Bob 1; Wang, Lichun 1; Dente, Laura 1; Vekerdy, Zoltan 1; van der Velde, Rogier 1; Wen, Jun 2; Ofwono, Mathew 1
1ITC (NETHERLANDS); 2Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI/CAS) (CHINA)

074-D3 A Match-up Database for Satellite-Borne Ocean Salinity Validation
Emelianov, Mikhail 1; Gourrion, Jérôme 1; Aretxabaleta, A.L. 1; Konstantinidou, Anna 1; Rosell, Miquel 2; Martínez, Justino 1; Perez, Fernando 1; Salvador, Joaquin 1; Pedro, Fernandez 1; Ballabrera, Joaquim 1
1Instut de Ciències del Mar CSIC- SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SPAIN); 2Instut de Ciències del Mar CSIC (SPAIN)

077-D3 Preliminary Validation of SMOS Products (Levels 3 and 4)
Ballabrera, Joaquim 1; Turiel, Antonio 1; Mourre, Baptiste 2; Aretxabaleta, Alfredo López 1; Gourrion, Jérôme 1; Kalaroni, Sofia 1; Solé, Jordi 3; Hoareau, Nina 1
1Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC & SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SPAIN); 2Nato Undersea Research Centre (ITALY); 3Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC (SPAIN)

076-D3 Bridging the Gap between Surface Salinity Satellites: SMOS and Aquarius
Aretxabaleta, Alfredo 1; Gourrion, Jérôme 1; Ballabrera, Joaquim 1; Font, Jordi 1; Schmitt, Raymond 2
1Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) (SPAIN); 2Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (UNITED STATES)

082-D3 SMOS Validation at the Rur and Erft Catchments, Germany
Montzka, Carsten ; Bogena, Heye ; Vanderborght, Jan
Research Centre Juelich (GERMANY)

083-D3 Development of an Ensemble Kalman Filter for Land-Surface Data Assimilation of Soil Moisture Brightness Temperatures
Carrera, Marco ; Belair, Stephane ; Bilodeau, Bernard ; Solomon, Sheena
Environment Canada (CANADA)

068-D3 Interpretation of CAROLS L-Band Measurements in the Gulf of Biscay
Martin, Adrien1; Boutin, Jacqueline 1; Hauser, Danièle 2; Reverdin, Gilles 1; Parde, Mickael 3; Zribi, Mehrez 4; Fanise, Pascal 3; Reul, Nicolas 5
1LOCEAN / CNRS (FRANCE); 2LATMOS / CNRS (FRANCE); 3LATMOS (FRANCE); 4CESBIO (FRANCE); 5LOS / IFREMER (FRANCE)

084-D3 SMOS Cal-Val activities in West Africa
Pellarin, Thierry 1; Pellarin, Thierry 1; Grippa, Manuela 2; de Rosnay, Patricia 3; Gruhier, Claire 4; Laurent, Jean-Paul 5; Mougin, Eric 2; Galle, Sylvie 6; Cappelaere, Bernard 7; Kerr, Yann 4
1CNRS / LTHE (FRANCE); 2LMTG (FRANCE); 3ECMWF (UNITED KINGDOM); 4CESBIO (FRANCE); 5CNRS/LTHE (FRANCE); 6IRD/LTHE (FRANCE); 7IRD/HSM (FRANCE)

090-D3 ELBARAII, L-band Radiometer Systems to be deployed for SMOS Cal / Val Purposes
Wiesmann, Andreas 1; Werner, Charles 1; Schwank, Mike 1; Mätzler, Christian 2; Wegmüller, Urs 1
1GAMMA Remote Sensing (SWITZERLAND); 2Inst. Appl. Physics IAP, University of Bern (SWITZERLAND)

078-D3 First Preliminary Results of Sea Ice Thickness Retrieval Using SMOS Data
Maaß, Nina ; Kaleschke, Lars
Institute of Oceanography (GERMANY)

063-D3 SMOS Brightness Temperatures Statistical Characterization: Methodology and First Results after the Commissioning Phase
Talone, Marco 1; Gourrion, Jérôme 2; González, Veronica 3; Sabia, Roberto 2; Camps, Adriano 3; Corbella, Ignasi 3; Turiel, Antonio 2
1Remote Sensing Laboratory (SPAIN); 2Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SPAIN); 3Remote Sensing Laboratory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SPAIN)

064-D3 Calibration and Validation of SMOS Brightness Temperature over the Salar de Uyuni
Escorihuela, Maria Jose1; Kerr, Yann2; Richaume, Philippe2; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre3; Roca, Mònica1
LisardSAT (SPAIN); 2CESBIO (FRANCE); 3INRA, EPHYSE, Bordeaux (FRANCE)

081-D3 SMOS/MIRAS Calibration Using Earth Surface Targets
Kim, Edward 1; Walker, Jeff 2; Rudiger, Chris 2; Costelloe, Justin 2; Nan, Ye 2; Peischl, Sandy 2; Allahmoradi, Mahdi 2; Marks, Alan 3
1NASA GSFC (UNITED STATES); 2The University of Melbourne (AUSTRALIA); 3CSIRO (AUSTRALIA)

086-D3 One Point Calibration in Interferometric Radiometers. MIRAS/SMOS Preliminary Results
Francesc, Torres 1; Ignasi, Corbella 1; Nuria, Duffo 1; Verónica, Gonzalez-Gambau 1; Manuel, Martin-Neira 2
1Universitat Politècnica Catalunya (SPAIN); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS)

Poster Session - Stratospheric Constituents
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

155-D3 Bayesian Model Selection and Averaging for Remote Sensing Inverse Problems
Laine, Marko 1; Tamminen, Johanna 1; Veefkind, Pepijn 2
1Finnish Meteorological Institute (FINLAND); 2KNMI (NETHERLANDS)

153-D3 On the quality of ozonesonde profile: possible improvements of the ground based data
Stübi, René ; Maillard Barras, Eliane
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss (SWITZERLAND)

156-D3 Changes in Chemical Composition of the Middle Atmosphere caused by Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
Kalakoski, Niilo 1; Sofieva, Viktoria 1; Kyrölä, Erkki 1; Verronen, Pekka 1; Liu, Yi 2
1Finnish Meteorological Institute (FINLAND); 2Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese academy of sciences (CHINA)

157-D3 First Measurements of Chemical Changes above Sprite-Producing Thunderstorms
Arnone, Enrico 1; Kero, Antti 2; Soula, Serge 3; São Sabbas, Fernanda 4; Carlotti, Massimo 1; Dinelli, Bianca Maria 5; Chanrion, Olivier 6; Papandrea, Enzo 1; Castelli, Elisa 5; Neubert, Torsten 6
1University of Bologna (ITALY); 2Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory (FINLAND); 3Université de Toulouse, UPS, CNRS (FRANCE); 4Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas (BRAZIL); 5Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima - CNR (ITALY); 6National Space Institute (DENMARK)

159-D3 Towards a NNORSY Ozone Profile ECV from European Nadir UV/Vis Measurements
Felder, Martin ; Kaifel, Anton ; Huckle, Roger
ZSW (GERMANY)

160-D3 Validating global atmospheric models using Odin satellite data
Brohede, Samuel ; Urban, Joachim ; Lossow, Stefan ; Murtagh, Donal ; Eriksson, Patrick
Chalmers University of Technology (SWEDEN)

171-D3 Venus Modeled Spectrum Compared with SCIAMACHY Observations
Vasquez, Mayte ; Schreier, Franz ; Gimeno Garcia, Sebastian ; Gottwald, Manfred ; Slijkhuis, Sander ; Lichtenberg, Guenter
D L R - German Aerospace Center (GERMANY)

158-D3 NNORSY Dynamic Ozone Profile Climatology
Kaifel, Anton 1; Felder, Martin 1; DeClercq, Coralie 2; Lambert, Jean-Christopher 2
1Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) (GERMANY); 2Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM)

172-D3 An Improved High-Resolution Solar Reference Spectrum for Earth's Atmosphere Measurements in the UV, Visible, and near IR
Chance, Kelly ; Kurucz, Robert
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (UNITED STATES)

169-D3 SCIAMACHY Solar Occultation: Trace Gas Profiles Retrieved with an Optimal Estimation Approach
Bramstedt, Klaus; Azam, Faiza; Noël, Stefan; Alexej, Rozanov; Bovensmann, Heinrich; Burrows, John P.
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) (GERMANY)

164-D3 Overview of MIPAS Observations of the Middle and Upper Atmosphere
Lopez-Puertas, Manuel 1; Funke, Bernd 1; Garcia-Comas, Maya 1; Bermejo-Pantaleon, Diego 1; von Clarmann, Thomas 2; Glatthor, Norbert 2; Grabowski, Udo 2; Hapfner, Michael 2; Stiller, Gabriele 2; Kaufmann, Martin 3
1Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucìa, CSIC (SPAIN); 2Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Universitat Karlsruhe (GERMANY); 3Forschungszentrum Jalich GmbH (GERMANY)

180-D3 Experience of an External Payload on the ISS : the SOLAR Payload, Implication for Earth Observations from the ISS
Muller, Christian 1; Michel, Alice 2; Moreau, Didier 2
1B.USOC-BIRA-IASB (BELGIUM); 2B.USOC (BELGIUM)

170-D3 SCIAMACHY Lunar Occultation Water Vapor Measurement Validation and Interpretation
Azam, Faiza ; Bramstedt, Klaus ; Rozanov, Alexei ; Bovensmann , Heinrich ; Burrows, John
University Of Bremen (GERMANY)

168-D3 Assimilated Total Ozone Record from 30 Year of UV-VIS Satellite Observations
van der A, Ronald ; Eskes, Henk ; Allaart, Marc
KNMI (NETHERLANDS)

165-D3 Variable Tikhonov Regularization in the Retrieval of Atmospheric Profiles from MIPAS Data
Sgheri, Luca 1; Ridolfi, Marco 2
1CNR (ITALY); 2University di Bologna (ITALY)

173-D3 Covariance Matrix and Averaging Kernels for the Levenberg-Marquardt Solution of the Retrieval of Atmospheric Profiles
Ridolfi, Marco 1; Ceccherini, Simone 2
1University of Bologna (ITALY); 2Istituto di Fisica Applicata "Nello Carrara" - CNR (ITALY)

154-D3 Improvement on Ionospheric Corrections for Altimeters using Ground GNSS Data and Vertical Profiles of Electron Density
Garcia Fernandez, Miquel 1; Motte, Erwan 1; Féménias, Pierre 2
1Starlab (SPAIN); 2ESA (ITALY)

182-D3 Extreme Geoengineering in Solar-Terrestrial System: Towards a European Perspective
Mukhopadhyay, Arun
Matrivani Institute of Experimental Research and Education (INDIA)

174-D3 Daytime Ozone and Temperature Variations in the Mesosphere: A Comparison between SABER Observations and HAMMONIA Model
Dikty, Sebastian 1; Schmidt, Hauke 2; Weber, Mark 1; von Savigny, Christian 1; Mlynczak, Martin G. 3
1Institute of Environmental Physics (GERMANY); 2Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (GERMANY); 3NASA Langley Research Center (UNITED STATES)

162-D3 Measurements of Polar Mesospheric Clouds in infrared Emission by MIPAS/ENVISAT
Lopez-Puertas, Manuel 1; Funke, Bernd 1; Garcia-Comas, Maya 1; Bermejo-Pantaleon, Diego 1; von Clarmann, Thomas 2; Glatthor, Norbert 2; Grabowski, Udo 2; Hapfner, Michael 2; Stiller, Gabriele 2; von Savigny, Christian 3
1Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía, CSIC (SPAIN); 2Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Universitat Karlsruhe (GERMANY); 3University of Bremen (GERMANY)

181-D3 MEDIPIX/TIMEPIX Cosmic Ray Tracking on BEXUS Stratospheric Balloon Flights
Urbar, Jaroslav 1; Jakubek, Jan 2; Scheirich, Jan 3
1Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University (CZECH REPUBLIC); 2Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague (CZECH REPUBLIC); 3Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (CZECH REPUBLIC)

175-D3 Solar Cycle 23 in SCIAMACHY and HAMMONIA Mesospheric Data
Kaufmann, Martin 1; Lehmann, Catrin 1; Riese, Martin 1; Schmidt, Hauke 2
1Forschungszentrum Jülich (GERMANY); 2Max Planck Institut für Meteorologie (GERMANY)

176-D3 Harmonisation of Gome,Sciamachy and Gome-2 Ozone Cross-Sections
Gorshelev, Victor ; Serdyuchenko, Anna ; Chehade, Wissam ; Weber, Mark ; P. Burrows, John
University of Bremen (GERMANY)

166-D3 Measurements of Temperature and Nitric Oxide in the Thermosphere from 5.3 μm Emission taken by MIPAS on Envisat
Bermejo-Pantaleon, Diego 1; Lopez-Puertas, Manuel 1; Funke, Bernd 1; Garcia-Comas, Maya 1; von Clarmann, Thomas 2; Stiller, Gabriele 2; Grabowski, Udo 2; Glatthor, Norbert 2
1Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía, CSIC (SPAIN); 2Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Universitat Karlsruhe (GERMANY)

179-D3 Utilization of All Spectral Channels of IASI for the Retrieval of the Atmospheric State
Del Bianco, Samuele ; Cortesi, Ugo ; Carli, Bruno
IFAC-CNR (ITALY)

177-D3 Global Retrieval of the Stratospheric Trace Gases O3, NO2, and BrO Using SCIAMACHY Limb Spectra
Eichmann, Kai-Uwe ; Rozanov, Alexej ; von Savigny, Christian ; Bauer, Ralf ; Weber, Mark ; Sonkaew, Thiranan ; Dikty, Sebastian ; Sinnhuber, Björn-Martin ; Bovensmann, Heinrich ; Burrows, John P.
University of Bremen (GERMANY)

167-D3 Constrained Inversion Methods applied to Retrieval of Ozone Profiles from UV/VIS Nadir Sounding Instruments
Schuessler, Olena 1; Loyola, Diego 2; Doicu, Adrian 1
1DLR (GERMANY); 2German Aerospace Center (DLR) (GERMANY)

178-D3 Validation of Ozone Profiles from SCIAMACHY (2002-present) by Comparison with MLS, SABER, HALOE, SAGE, SMR and ACE
Mieruch, Sebastian ; von Savigny, Christian ; Rozanov, Alexei ; Burrows, John ; Weber, Mark
University Bremen (GERMANY)

Poster Session - Tools
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
17:40-19:00

186-D3 ESAs Toolboxes for optical Earth Observation Data: BEAM, CHRISBOX and the GLOBTOOLBOX
Fomferra, Norman1; Quast, Ralf1; Zühlke, Marco1; Brockmann, Carsten1; Regner, Peter2
1Brockmann Consult, GERMANY; 2ESA, ITALY

185-D3 ESOV-NG: The ESA tool for visualising and analysing instruments ground tracks
Block, Thomas1; Kock, Olaf1; Danne, Olaf1; Zundo, Michele2; Pinol, Montserrat2; Duesman, Berthyl2; Fomferra, Norman1
1Brockmann Consult, GERMANY; 2ESA, NETHERLANDS

Poster Session - QA4EO
Thursday, 1 July 2010
17:40-19:00

001-D4 The CEOS Cal/Val Portal
Burini, Alessandro 1; Block, Thomas 2; Brockmann, Carsten 2; Goryl, Philipp 3
1Rheagroup S.a. (ITALY); 2Brockmann Consult (GERMANY); 3ESA (ITALY)

002-D4 Calval, user services and processing of large volume of Earth Observation data based on the Google MapReduce technology
Fomferra, Norman 1; Brockmann, Carsten 1; Kwiatkowska, Ewa 2
1Brockmann Consult (GERMANY); 2ESA (NETHERLANDS)

008-D4 Envisat Microwave Radiometer (MWR) Operational Quality Control Monitoring by Ideas
Louis, Jerome 1; Jan, Gwenaele 1; Pinori, Sabrina 2
1VEGA Technologies (FRANCE); 2SERCO (ITALY)

007-D4 Operational Quality Control of SAR Data under the IDEAS Contract
Griffiths, Emma 1; Haria, Kajal 1; Meadows, Peter 2; Miranda, Nuno 3
1VEGA in Space (UNITED KINGDOM); 2BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre (UNITED KINGDOM); 3ESA (ITALY)

010-D4 ERS-2 Altimeter Data Quality Assessment-Comparison with Envisat
Mertz, Françoise 1; Piolle, Jean-François 2; Féménias, Pierre 3; Bronner, Emilie 4
1CLS (FRANCE); 2IFREMER (FRANCE); 3ESA (ITALY); 4CNES (FRANCE)

012-D4 The ERS-2 Scatterometer Mission: Instrument Performances, Data Quality Control and Reprocessing Status
De Chiara, Giovanna 1; Crapolicchio, Raffaele 1; Lecomte, Pascal 2
1Serco S.p.A. (ITALY); 2ESA (UNITED KINGDOM)

011-D4 Operational Quality Control Monitoring of Fast Delivery Altimeter Data from ESA missions
Cotton, David 1; Pinori, Sabrina 2; Femenias, Pierre 3; Morabito, Bruno 4
1Satellite Oceanographic Consultants (UNITED KINGDOM); 2SERCO (ITALY); 3ESA (ITALY); 4VEGA (ITALY)

015-D4 Sensor Inter-Calibration for the ESA GlobAlbedo Project Using QA4EO Protocols
Potts, Dale 1; Muller, Jan-Peter 1; Fox, Nigel 2; Mackin, Steve 2
1University College London (UNITED KINGDOM); 2National Physical Laboratory (UNITED KINGDOM)

016-D4 Quality Control Activities for AATSR
O'Hara, Sian 1; Cowie, Sophie 1; Corlett, Gary 2
1VEGA (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM)

013-D4 GOMOS Mission 2002-1010 and Beyond: Instrument Status, Performance Evolution and Operational Data Availability
Saavedra de Miguel, Lidia 1; Brizzi, Gabriele 1; Niro, Fabrizio 1; Dehn, Angelika 1; Scarpino, Gabriella 1; Barrot, Gilbert 2; Canela, Miguel 3; Laur, Henri 4; Fehr, Thorsten 4; Lecomte, Pascal 4
1Serco S.p.a (ITALY); 2ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS); 4ESA (ITALY)

005-D4 IDEAS and QA4EO: Assuring EO Data Quality
O'Hara, Siân 1; Davies, Gareth 1; Ottavianelli, Giuseppe 2
1VEGA (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ESA (ITALY)

017-D4 Quality Control of a Long-Term Dataset: the (A)ATSR Archive
O'Hara, Siân 1; Cowie, Sophie 1; Corlett, Gary 2
1VEGA (UNITED KINGDOM); 2University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM)

004-D4 Data Quality Control for Operational Satellite Borne Instruments
Kent, Chris 1; Jackson, Jan 1; Bourg, Ludovic 2; Lavender, Samantha 1; Borg, Alexa 1; Goryl, Philippe 3
1ARGANS Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM); 2ACRI-ST (FRANCE); 3ESA (ITALY)

006-D4 Instrument Data Quality Evaluation and Analysis Service (IDEAS)
Swinton, John ; Davies, Gareth
Vega (UNITED KINGDOM)

014-D4 Data Quality Processes Applied to the MIPAS/ENVISAT Mission: Status and Evolution
Niro, Fabrizio 1; Dehn, Angelika 1; Saavedra de Miguel, Lidia 1; Brizzi, Gabriele 1; Scarpino, Gabriella 1; Fehr, Thorsten 2; Laur, Henri 2; Lecomte, Pascal 2; Canela, Miguel 3; Gessner, Roland 4; Perron, Gaetan 5; Raspollini, Piera 6
1Serco SpA (ITALY); 2ESA (ITALY); 3ESA (NETHERLANDS); 4EADS ASTRIUM GmbH (GERMANY); 5ABB BOMEM (CANADA); 6IFAC-CNR (ITALY)

009-D4 Quality control of L1 AVNIR-2 and PRISM data in the frame of the ESA IDEAS project
Jan, Gwenaele 1; saunier, sébastien 2; Berthelot, Beatrice 1
1Vegatechnologies (FRANCE); 2Gael consult (FRANCE)

003-D4 GECA: ESA's next Generation Validation Data Centre
Meijer, Y.J. 1; Fehr, T. 1; Pellegrini, A. 1; von Kuhlmann, R. 1; Koopman, R.M. 2; Busswell, G. 3; Scott, N. 3; Williams, I. 3; De Maziere, M. 4; Niemeijer, S. 5; van Deelen, R. 5; Balzter, H. 6; Corlett, G. 6; Tansey, K. 6; Collard, F. 7; Dorandeau, J. 8; Lambert, Jean-Christopher 9; Piters, A. 10; Smith, D. 11
1ESA (ITALY); 2GEO Secretariat (SWITZERLAND); 3Logica (UNITED KINGDOM); 4BIRA-IASB (BELGIUM); 5S[&]T (NETHERLANDS); 6University of Leicester (UNITED KINGDOM); 7CLS (BOOST) (FRANCE); 8CLS (FRANCE); 9Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BELGIUM); 10KNMI (NETHERLANDS); 11RAL (UNITED KINGDOM)

Poster Session - Aerosols
Thursday, 1 July 2010
17:40-19:00

121-D4 GOMOS Data Processing by LPC2E Algorithm and a Climatology of Middle Stratosphere Aerosols for the 2002-2006 Period
Salazar, Veronica ; Renard, Jean Baptiste
CNRS (FRANCE)