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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
WE2.R17: Science and Applications in the First Year of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Mission (2/3)
Wednesday, 12 August, 11:00 - 12:15
Location: Lincoln West
Session Type: Oral
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Wed, 12 Aug, 11:00 - 11:15

WE2.R17.1: Calibration/Validation efforts for the NISAR Soil Moisture Product
Rowena Lohman, Cornell, United States; Rajat Bindlish, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Narendra Das, Michigan State University, United States; Seungbum Kim, Xiaodong Huang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Joel Johnson, Ohio State University, United States; Jeonghwan Park, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Jasmeet Judge, University of Florida, United States; Dharmendra Pandey, ISRO, India
Wed, 12 Aug, 11:15 - 11:30

WE2.R17.2: TROPISAR-L – AN AIRBORNE SAR CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT OF NISAR CAL/VAL
Bruce Chapman Bruce Chapman, Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, United States; Naiara Pinto Naiara Pinto, Yunling Lou, Erika Podest, JPL, United States; Kyle McDonald, City University of New York, United States
Wed, 12 Aug, 11:30 - 11:45

WE2.R17.3: NISAR OPEN-SOURCE WORKFLOWS FOR CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF LEVEL 3 ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE PRODUCTS
Alexandra Christensen, Bruce Chapman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; KC Cushman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; Josef Kellndorfer, Earth Big Data, LLC, United States; Marco Lavalle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Jessica Martinez, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States; Kyle McDonald, City College of New York, United States; Annemarie Peacock, Naiara Pinto, Naveen Ramachandran, Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Leandra Sethares, Earth Big Data, LLC, United States; Paul Siqueira, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States; Max Zhan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States
Wed, 12 Aug, 11:45 - 12:00

WE2.R17.4: NISAR TROPICAL WETLANDS VALIDATION EXPERIMENT (WETVEX): A FIELD CAMPAIGN FOR CALIBRATION-VALIDATION OF NISAR DATASETS FOR A TROPICAL WETLANDS COMPLEX

Kyle McDonald, Nicholas Steiner, The City College of New York, United States; Erika Podest, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States; Reiner Zimmermann, University of Hohenheim, Germany; Armin Niessner, Panguana Foundation, Germany; Marcos Rios, David Urquiza, National University of the Peruvian Amazon, Peru; Derek Tesser, Saint Louis University, United States; Brandi Downs, Bruce Chapman, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Instutute of Technology, United States
Wed, 12 Aug, 12:00 - 12:15

WE2.R17.5: CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF NISAR SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT OVER HETEROGENEOUS CROPPING SYSTEMS IN SOUTHERN INDIA
Anjali Parekattuvalappil Shaju, Vaibhav Gupta, Dnyaneshwar Pandurang Gawai, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India; Jasmeet Judge, University of Florida, United States; Debsunder Dutta, Elakkya T L, Nikhil Anand, Pratik Vithal Tikhe, Vidisha Chothani, Milan Goyal, Chandana T P, Karthik Burra, Syed Nawaz Shareef, Sooraj Saji, Katroth Prem Singh, Soundarrajan Murugeshan, Sekhar Muddu, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India