IGARSS 2026 || Washington, D.C. || 9

WE4.R18: Forest and Vegetation VI

Wednesday, 12 August, 16:15 - 17:30

Location: Monroe

Session Type: Oral

Session Chair: Fuzhong Weng, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Track: Land Applications

Wed, 12 Aug, 16:15 - 16:30

WE4.R18.1: Leveraging GEDI waveform lidar for next-generation fire behavior modeling

Birgit Peterson, US Geological Survey, United States; Seth Price, KBR, United States; Ethan Ilse, C2G, United States; Katelyn Woolfrey, KBR, United States

Wed, 12 Aug, 16:30 - 16:45

WE4.R18.2: FROM MULTI-MODAL SENTINEL FEATURES TO FOUNDATION EMBEDDINGS: RETRIEVAL OF FOREST DIAMETER AT BREAST HEIGHT USING SWEDISH NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORY DATA AND MACHINE LEARNING

Samet Aksoy, Elif Sertel, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye; Johan E.S. Fransson, Linnaeus University, Sweden

Wed, 12 Aug, 16:45 - 17:00

WE4.R18.3: A HYDRAULIC FOREST MODEL DRIVEN BY TOMOGRAPHIC RADAR AT P-BAND

Patrik J. Bennet, Albert R. Monteith, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Jose Gutierres Lopez, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; Lars M. H. Ulander, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Wed, 12 Aug, 17:00 - 17:15

WE4.R18.4: EVALUATION OF MICROWAVE LAND EMISSIVITY MODEL USING GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS

YiDan Wang, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China; WenYing He, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Fuzhong Weng, CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre, China; MinZheng Duan, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Wed, 12 Aug, 17:15 - 17:30

WE4.R18.5: Characterizing Coastal Forest Change Using Landsat Time Series and Aerial Images with Deep Learning

Yuwei Fu, Zijun Yang, University of North Carolina Wilmington, United States