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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
WEP1.PK: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Missions and Their Contribution to Earth Science Applications III
Wednesday, 12 August, 09:45 - 11:00
Location: Columbia, Poster Area K
Session Type: Poster
Session Co-Chairs: Valerie Mikles, NOAA and Gary McWilliams, STC
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Columbia, Poster Area K

WEP1.PK.1: NOAA VIIRS ENTERPRISE AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH: VALIDATION AND UPDATES
Hongqing Liu, Science and Technology Corporation, United States; Shobha Kondragunta, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States
Columbia, Poster Area K

WEP1.PK.2: Identifying Paddy Rice Fields in China from the Operational VIIRS Flood Products
Donglian Sun, Tianshu Yang, George Mason University, United States; Satya Kalluri, Lihang Zhou, Andrew Lomax, NOAA, United States; Jay Hoffman, William Straka, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Columbia, Poster Area K

WEP1.PK.3: INTRODUCTION TO THE JPSS-2 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SOUNDER (ATMS) GOVERNMENT CALIBRATION DATA BOOK
ChengHsuan Lyu, EDWARD J KIM, Hu Yang, Saji Abraham, Matthew Sammons, Alexandra Bringer, Quanhua Liu, James Fuentes, James Kam, Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, Joelle Prince, Cooper Loughlin, Ninghai Sun, NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, United States
Columbia, Poster Area K

WEP1.PK.4: CHARACTERIZATION OF QUICKSOUNDER ATMS AT INSTRUMENT LEVEL TVAC
Saji Abraham, KBR, United States; Edward J. Kim, Matthew W. Sammons, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Cooper Loughlin, Lincoln Laboratory, United States; Hu Yang, SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS, INC., United States; Fuentes, James Fuentes, James, James G. Kam, Northrop Grumman, United States; Cheng-hsuan Lyu, MORGAN STATE UNIV, United States; Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, NOAA, United States; Robert V. Leslie, Lincoln Laboratory, United States; Quanhua Liu, SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC, United States; Andrew Manaster, Ninghai Sun, Kun Zhang, Slawomir Blonski, NOAA, United States; Giovanni De Amici, Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
Columbia, Poster Area K

WEP1.PK.5: Unsupervised Deep Learning for Cloud Removal in JPSS/VIIRS Vegetation Index Monitoring
Yifan Yang, Colorado State Univeristy, United States; Zhengwei Yang, USDA National Agriculture Statistics Services,, United States; Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, United States
Columbia, Poster Area K

WEP1.PK.6: UPDATES ON THE CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO) DATA PRODUCTS

Lihang Zhou, NOAA, United States
Columbia, Poster Area K

WEP1.PK.7: JPSS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SOUNDER (ATMS) END OF LIFE (EOL) TEST OPTIONS
ChengHsuan Lyu, EDWARD KIM, Hu Yang, Saji Abraham, matthew sammons, Quanhua Liu, James Fuentes, James Kam, Siena Iacovazzi, Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, R. Vincent Leslie, Cooper Loughlin, Ninghai Sun, NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, United States