PROGRAMME
Agenda
Wednesday 23rd August 2017
20:00 Welcome reception at Tartu Loodusmaja saal, Lille 10, Tartu
Thursday 24th August 2017
09:00 Bus departure to Tartu Observatory from Tartu (parking lot in front of Hotel Dorpat, Soola 6, Tartu)
09:30 – 12:30 Registration and morning session
10:00 - 10:10 Opening remarks, Ranga Myneni, Boston University
10:10 – 10:40 Invited Keynote: Radiative transfer in vegetation and Juhan Ross, Tiit Nilson, Tartu Observatory (pdf)
10:40 – 11:00 Legacies of Juhan Ross (1925-2002), Paul Jarvis (1935-2013) and Piers Sellers (1955-2016) in Earth System Models,
Richard Essery, University of Edinburgh (pdf)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break + posters
11:30 – 11:50 20 years of algorithms for the derivation of global vegetation products from European medium resolution sensors,
Marie Weiss, INRA (pdf)
11:50 – 12:10 Influence of Sky Radiation on Vegetated Surface Reflectance, Yves Govaerts, Rayference (pdf)
12:10 – 12:30 Two decades of systematic radiation transfer model intercomparison (RAMI), Jean-Luc Widlowski, JRC–EC (pdf)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:20 Afternoon session
14:00 – 14:20 Ecosystem services under changing climate, Oleg Anisimov, State Hydrological Institute, Russian Federation (pdf)
14:20 – 14:40 Leaf optical properties: what is the challenge? Stéphane Jacquemoud, IPGP-Paris Diderot University (pdf)
14:40 – 15:00 Angular Normalization of Satellite Observations of Sun-induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence as an Improved Proxy
of Vegetation Productivity, Jing Ming Chen, University of Toronto (pdf)
15:00 – 15:40 Coffee break + posters
15:40 – 16:00 Extremely high spatial resolution (cm-mm) observations for deriving vegetation characteristics: Recent advances,
Fred Baret, INRA-EMMAH (pdf)
16:00 – 16:20 Seasonal changes of spectral reflectance in Alaskan boreal forests,
Hideki Kobayashi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (pdf)
16:20 – 16:40 DART recent advances in remote sensing modeling: vegetation and urban radiative budget, chlorophyll fluorescence,
atmosphere, polarization, Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry, Cesbio - Université Paul Sabatier (pdf)
16:40 – 17:00 Discussions, posters, group photo
17:00 Bus to Tartu
19:00 Symposium Dinner at Ülikooli kohvik, Ülikooli 20, Tartu
Friday, 25th August 2017
8:30 Bus departure to Tartu Observatory from Tartu (parking lot in front of Hotel Dorpat, Soola 6, Tartu)
9:00 – 13:10 Morning session
09:00 – 9:40 Invited Keynote: 3D radiative transfer equation as the theoretical basis for vegetation remote sensing,
Yuri Knyazikhin, Boston University (pdf)
09:40 – 10:00 Using the EPIC/DSCOVR O2 B-band for monitoring vegetation dynamics, Alexander Marshak, NASA/GSFC (pdf)
10:00 – 10:20 Accounting for scattering asymmetry in recollision probability models, Philip Lewis, UCL (pdf)
10:20 – 10:40 A unified 3D model for optical reflectance and microwave backscattering, Huaguo Huang, Beijing Forestry University (pdf)
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break + posters
11:10 – 11:30 Use of spatial context information during RTM inversion, Clement Atzberger, BOKU Vienna (pdf)
11:30 – 11:50 Canopy Polarized BRDF Simulation based on Non-stationary Monte Carlo 3-D Vector RT Modeling,
Abdelaziz Kallel, Digital Research Centre of Sfax (pdf)
11:50 – 12:10 Forest carbon balance estimation with the help of optical satellite data and modeling, Tuomas Häme, VTT (pdf)
12:10 – 12:30 WorldView-2 calibration experiment at Järvselja, Andres Kuusk, Tartu Observatory (pdf)
12:30 – 13:00 Concluding remarks/discussion
13:00 – 14:20 Lunch
14:30 Bus to Tartu
Posters
- Understanding the quality of field measurements used to validate EO-derived biophysical parameters: A 3D Radiative Transfer modelling approach, Jennifer Adams, JRC/UCL (pdf)
- Moving towards traceable fAPAR validation using radiative transfer models with 3D forest structure, Niall Origo, NPL/UCL (pdf)
- Generality of relationships between leaf pigment contents and spectral vegetation indices, Lea Hallik, Tartu Observatory (pdf)
- Seasonality of albedo and FAPAR in a boreal forest, Aarne Hovi, Aalto University (pdf)
- Measured and modelled bidirectional reflectance of mature hemiboreal forests, Joel Kuusk, Tartu Observatory (pdf)
- Juhan Ross legacy in remotely monitoring of forested areas, Urmas Peterson and Jaan Liira, Tartu Observatory/Tartu University
- On the relationship between photon recollision probability and foliage clumping derived from MODIS BRDF data in vegetation canopies, Jan Pisek, Tartu Observatory
- Modelling primary productivity in northern Europe using the process-based model BEPS, Kairi Raabe, Tartu Observatory
- Development and characterization of radiometric instruments at Tartu Observatory, Riho Vendt, Tartu Observatory
- Detecting changes in forest structure using repeated ALS measurements, Tauri Arumäe, Estonian University of Life Sciences/RMK