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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: Poster Area K
Session Type: Poster
Session Co-Chairs: Valerie Mikles, NOAA and Gary McWilliams, STC
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Poster Area K

WEP1.PK.1: NOAA VIIRS ENTERPRISE AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH: VALIDATION AND UPDATES
Hongqing Liu, Science and Technology Corporation; Shobha Kondragunta, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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; Satya Kalluri, Lihang Zhou, Andrew Lomax, NOAA; Jay Hoffman, William Straka, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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
Poster Area K

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

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

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

Lihang Zhou, NOAA
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