EEBIOMASS Summer School 2024

Registration is open until August 2nd, 2024, at 24:00 CEST. To register use our online form online form.

The EEBIOMASS Summer School 2024 is jointly organized by the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (FSU) and EOS Jena GmbH, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and is supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

Preliminary program

October 21, 2024

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and opening 
 Nuno Carvalhais / Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)

09:30 – 10:30 ESA's BIOMASS mission Klaus Scipal / European Space Agency

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Introcduction by participants

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 Synthetic Apperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing: A microwave view of Earth Kostas Papathanassiou / DLR - Microwaves and Radar Institute

14:00 – 15:00 Synthetic Apperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing: Understanding microwave interaction

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:00 Synthetic Apperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing: Meassuring with microwaves Kostas Papathanassiou

16:00 – 17:30 BIOMASS ESA's 3D SAR Mission

18:00 - 22:00 Poster Session & Icebreaker

October 22, 2024

09:00 – 10:00 SAR Interferometry: The way to 3D forest structure

Kostas Papathanassiou

DLR - Microwaves and Radar Institute

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 12:00 SAR Interferometry: The way to 3D forest structure Kostas Papathanassiou

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 SAR Interferometry: Do it Yourself Kostas Papathanassiou

14:00 – 14:30 Coffee break

14:30 – 16:00 SAR Interferometry: Do it Yourself cont. Kostas Papathanassiou

16:00 – 17:00 Q & A

17:00 - 18:00 Poster Session II // Talks ECS

October 23, 2024

09:00 – 10:00 SAR Interferometry - Forest Height: Do it Yourself Kostas Papathanassiou

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 12:00 SAR Interferometry - Forest Height: Do it Yourself cont. Kostas Papathanassiou

12:00 – 13:00 Coffee break

13:00 – 14:00 How do Biomass Mission Products compare to other Biomass Products (e.g. CCI Biomass, WUR Forest Biomass, etc.)

Christiane Schmullius / Friedrich Schiller University

14:00 – 14:30 Value Added Products and what to expect

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 – 17:00 Hands-on Exercise Christiane Schmullius

17:00 - 18:00 Poster Session III // Talks ECS

October 24, 2024

09:00 – 10:00 (Modelling) Amazon rainforest responses to environmental change& Discussion Anja Rammig / Technical University of Munich

10:00 – 10:30 Modelling forest dynamics and remote sensing Friedrich Bohn / Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Simulation and Analysis of Forest Factory RTM
 Friedrich Bohn / Andreas Huth Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 15:00 Hands-on Excersice Simulation and Analysis of Forest Factory RTM Friedrich Bohn / Andreas Huth

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30 From AGB to terrestrial carbon cycle UFZ/MPI

16:30 - 18:00 Poster Session IV // Talks ECS

October 25, 2024

09:00 – 10:00 Understanding and forecasting the terrestrial carbon cycle: Inferring process dynamics from biomass data Nuno Carvalhais / Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

10:00 – 10:30 Bridging models and observation

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Exploratory model-data integration exercises Nuno Carvalhais, Sujan Koirala, Siyuan Wang / Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 Q&A Nuno Carvalhais, Sujan Koirala, Siyuan Wang

14:30 – 15:00 Feedback & Wrap up