Soil and Hydrology

Session Type: Oral
Time: Thursday, April 14, 08:00 - 09:40
Location: Lecture Hall B
Session Chairs: Simonetta Paloscia, CNR-IFAC and Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
1: SMOS AND HYDROLOGY
         Yann H. Kerr; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO)
         Ahmad Al Bitar; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO)
         Simone Bircher; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO)
         Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO)
         Beatriz Molero; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO)
         Marie Parrens; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO)
         Delphine Leroux; LTHE
         Thierry Pellarin; LTHE
         Jean-Pierre Wigneron; INRA ISPA
         Susanne Mecklenburg; ESA-ESRIN
 
2: DEVELOPMENT OF A WEAKLY CONSTRAINED LAND SURFACE DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION FOR LONG TERM TERRESTRIAL WATER CYCLE SIMULATION
         Hui Lu; Tsinghua University
         Jianchen Shi; Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
 
3: COVARIATIONS OF BACKSCATTER AND BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE: COMPARISON OF OBSERVED L-BAND AND L- AND C-BAND PAIRS
         Narendra Das; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech
         Dara Entekhabi; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
         Seungbum Kim; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech
         Simon Yueh; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech
 
4: GLOBAL DETECTION OF SOIL FREEZING AND THAWING
         Kimmo Rautiainen; Finnish Meteorological Institute
         Juha Lemmetyinen; Finnish Meteorological Institute
         Chris Schwank; GAMMA Remote Sensing Research and Consulting AG
         Jaakko Ikonen; Finnish Meteorological Institute
         Chris Derksen; Environment Canada
         Alexandre Roy; Université de Sherbrooke
         Matthias Drusch; European Space Agency, ESRIN
         Jouni Pulliainen; Finnish Meteorological Institute
 
5: MONITORING BOREAL AND ARCTIC FREEZE/THAW WITH THE FIRST YEAR OF SMAP BRIGTHNESS TEMPERATURES
         Alexandre Roy; Université de Sherbrooke
         Alain Royer; Université de Sherbrooke
         Chris Derksen; Environment Canada
         Alexandre Langlois; Université de Sherbrooke
         Oliver Sonnentag; Université de Montréal