Programme
The programme for the workshop is as follows:
| Satellite Soil Moisture Validation & Application Workshop 2014 |
Amsterdam, NL |
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| Day 1: 10 July 2014 | |||||
| 09:00 | 10:50 | Sensors (Chair: Yann Kerr) | |||
| 09:00 | 09:10 | Welcome and workshop objectives | Richard de Jeu (VUA) | ||
| 09:10 | 09:50 | The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Combined Instrument Surface Soil Moisture Product | Dara Entekhabi (MIT) (Invited) |
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| 09:50 | 10:10 | ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission - An overview on the mission’s performance and scientific results | Susanne Mecklenburg (ESA) | ||
| 10:10 | 10:30 | Towards Sentinel-1 Soil Moisture Data Services: The Approach taken by the Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring | Wolfgang Wagner (TU Wien) | ||
| 10:30 | 10:50 | Current developments in ASCAT soil moisture services | Julia Figa (Eumetsat) | ||
| 10:50 | 11:15 | Coffee | |||
| 11:15 | 12:35 | Validation, Data Products and Networks I (Chair: Peter van Oevelen) | |||
| 11:15 | 11:35 | Towards Validation of SMAP Downscaled Soil Moisture | Jeffrey Walker (Monash University) | ||
| 11:35 | 11:55 | Synergies and complementarities between ASCAT and SMOS soil moisture products | Maria Jose Escorihuela (isardSat) | ||
| 11:55 | 12:15 | Monitoring Surface Soil Moisture by Combining SMOS and MODIS Products with In-situ Measurements | John Qu (George Mason University) |
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| 12:15 | 12:35 | The Joint Assessment of Soil Moisture Indicators (JASMIN) Project: A community effort to respond to user needs in agriculture and water resources | Ernesto Hugo Berbery (University of Maryland | ||
| 12:35 | 13:50 | Lunch | |||
| 13:50 | 15:10 | Validation, Data Products and Networks II (Chair: Matthias Drusch) | |||
| 13:50 | 14:10 | The updated CCI soil moisture product: 35 years of observations for climate research | Wouter Dorigo (TU Wien) |
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| 14:10 | 14:30 | Assessing the large-scale spatial representativeness of temporal dynamics of soil moisture over the United States using point and global scale data sets | Nadine Nicolai-Shaw (ETH) |
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| 14:30 | 14:50 | Evaluation of a global soil moisture product by means of finer spatial resolution SAR data and ground measurements over Europe | Chiara Pratola (UCC) | ||
| 14:50 | 15:10 | Toward assimilation of satellite soil moisture products over Europe | William Lahoz (NILU) |
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| 15:10 | 15:30 | Coffee | |||
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Discussion | |||
| 16:00 | 18:00 | Poster Session + Drinks (optional tour Trippenhuis) | |||
| 19:00 | Dinner at the Waag | ||||
| Satellite Soil Moisture Validation & Application Workshop 2014 |
Amsterdam, NL |
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| Day 2: 11 July 2014 | |||||
| 09:10 | 10:30 | Soil Moisture Applications I (Chair: Wolfgang Wagner) | |||
| 09:10 | 09:50 | Downscaling Coarse-scale Satellite Soil Moisture for Validation Studies and Applications | Eric Wood (Princeton) (Invited) |
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| 09:50 | 10:10 | SMOS – Land Product Developments and Applications | Matthias Drusch (ESA) | ||
| 10:10 | 10:30 | Using satellite soil moisture in large-scale water resources estimation | Albert van Dijk (ANU) | ||
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Coffee | |||
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Soil Moisture Applications II (Chair: Jaap Schellekens) | |||
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Soil Moisture Monitoring For Agricultural Risk Assessment in Canada Using a Multi-Sensor Dataset | Catherine Champagne (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) | ||
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Joining forces for food security – Linking earth observation and crowd-sourcing for improved decision-support to aid organizations | Markus Enenkel (TU Wien) |
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| 11:40 | 12:00 | Data assimilation of satellite observed soil moisture in the vegetation model SiBCASA, and the effects on carbon turnover | Michiel van der Molen (WUR) |
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| 12:00 | 12:20 | Correction of Real-Time Global Precipitation Measurements with multi-sensor satellite observations | Niko Wanders (Utrecht University) | ||
| 12:20 | 13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | 14:50 | Soil Moisture Application III (Chair: Richard de Jeu) | |||
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Relations between meteorological, soil moisture and hydrological drought in a region with complex regional groundwater flow (Gelderland, The Netherlands) | Ryan Teuling (WUR) |
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| 13:50 | 14:10 | Recent Progress in Land Data Assimilation at the Met Office | Brett Candy (Met Office) |
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| 14:10 | 14:30 | Soil moisture and vegetation trend shifts in the African Sahel? | Jan Verbesselt (WUR) | ||
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Global land evaporation from satellite data: applications for hydrology and climate | Diego Miralles (Gent Univ.) |
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| 14:50 | 15:15 | Coffee | |||
| 15:15 | 16:15 | Algorithm development (Chair: Susanne Mecklenburg) | |||
| 15:15 | 15:35 | An application of ANN techniques for the soil moisture retrieval from active and passive microwave satellite acquisitions | Emanuele Santi (IFAC CNR) | ||
| 15:35 | 15:55 | Considering combined roughness and vegetation effects in soil moisture retrievals | Marie Parrens (INRA CESBIO) |
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| 15:55 | 16:15 | A study towards the integration of SMOS Soil Moisture in a consistent climate record | Richard de Jeu (VUA) | ||
| 16:15 | 16:30 | Closure Workshop (Han Dolman) | |||
| Satellite Soil Moisture Validation & Application Workshop 2014 |
Amsterdam, NL |
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| Poster Presentations | ||||
| Surname | Name | Institution | Abstract Title | |
| Brocca | Luca | CNR | Estimating Rainfall from Global Satellite Soil Moisture Data: Recent Improvements and Applications | |
| de Nijs | Anne | VU University | A Methodology to Determine Radio Frequency Interference in AMSR2 Observations | |
| Diamandi | Andrei | National Meteorological Administration | The Romanian Soil Moisture & Temperature Observation Network for Satellite Soil Moisture Products Validation | |
| Gevaert | Anouk | VU University | Improved Downscaled Soil Moisture Product by Masking Precipitation | |
| Haarbrink | Roland B. | Miramap | Systematic L-band Fieldscans over Agricultural Fields in the Netherlands and Belgium | |
| Kothe | Steffen | Goethe University Frankfurt | Soil moisture assimilation in the framework of regional decadal climate predictability | |
| Laiolo | Paola | CIMA research Foundation | Impacts of the assimilation of remote sensing soil moisture products into a continuous distributed hydrological model | |
| Mittelbach | Heidi | ETH Zurich | Validation of the ESA CCI soil moisture product | |
| Petrova | Irina | Max Planck Institute for Meteorology | Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Mesoscales Using Observations over the Sahel | |
| Rasmy | Mohamed | University of Tokyo | A coupled atmosphere and land data assimilation system (CALDAS): a way forward for enhancing the skills of numerical predictions | |
| van Emmerik | Tim | Delft University of Technology | Impact of diurnal differences in vegetation water content on radar backscatter of maize during water stress | |
| Vreugdenhil | Mariette | Vienna University of Technology | Linking vegetation parameters derived from active and passive microwave observations | |
| Wang | Zengyan | Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences | A study on the parameter sensitivity analysis of L-MEB model for passive microwave soil moisture retrieval | |