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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
TH4.R16: Soils: Active Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture I
Thursday, 13 August, 16:15 - 17:30
Location: Lincoln East
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Rajat Bindlish, Goddard Space Flight Center and seungbum kim, university of california los angeles
Track: Land Applications
Thu, 13 Aug, 16:15 - 16:30

TH4.R16.1: NISAR Soil Moisture Retrievals Using a Time-Series Ratio Method: Results and Validation
Jeonghwan Park, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / GST; Rajat Bindlish, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Dustin Horton, Miranda Holloway, Mohammad Al-Khaldi, Joel Johnson, The Ohio State University
Thu, 13 Aug, 16:30 - 16:45

TH4.R16.2: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF AN UPDATED TIME-SERIES RATIO SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM USING NISAR DATA
Miranda Holloway, Dustin Horton, Joel Johnson, The Ohio State University; Jeonghwan Park, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Mohammad Al-Khaldi, The Ohio State University; Rajat Bindlish, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Thu, 13 Aug, 16:45 - 17:00

TH4.R16.3: Physical Model Inversion for NISAR Soil Moisture Retrieval over Steep Hills and Farms
seungbum kim, university of california los angeles; xiaodong huang, california institute of technology; narendra das, Michigan State University; ann close, White Buffalo Land Trust; alisa coffin, department of agriculture
Thu, 13 Aug, 17:00 - 17:15

TH4.R16.4: Measuring Near-Surface Soil Moisture with a High-Resolution Airborne L-Band SAR: First Results
Jakov Toporkov, Yanting Wang, Steven Menk, Trina Merrick, Michael Vermillion, Andrei Abelev, Peter Finocchio, US Naval Research Laboratory
Thu, 13 Aug, 17:15 - 17:30

TH4.R16.5: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF MULTI-FREQUENCY SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL AT NADIR INCIDENCE
Luke Jacobs, Parham Chavoshian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, The Aerospace Corporation; Elahe Soltanaghai, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign