Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring

The main objective of the conference is to present an updated view of the state-of-the-art in active and passive microwave remote sensing techniques and to provide a playground for scientists coming from different microwave sectors. In this context the conference will offer a platform to exchange ideas and foster applications which may take advantage from the use of radar and microwave radiometers alone, as well as their joint exploitation and combination with other sensors to take advantage from complementarity of the different techniques (SAR, scatterometer, radiometers, altimeter, GNSS).

Particular attention will be given to applications and algorithms exploiting data of operational sensors such as Sentinel 1, ALOS2, TerraSAR-X, COSMO-SkyMed, RADARSAT-2, AMSR-E/AMSR2, SMOS, and SMAP. Applications based on time series analysis are addressed as well. In fact, the incoming growing capabilities of the most recent sensors, in terms of temporal revisit time and electromagnetic spectrum sampling (in active and passive mode), offer a potential tool for new environmental applications especially related to the monitoring of natural disasters (such as earthquake, flood, drought, landslides, avalanches) and to the food and energy challenges, which can particularly benefit from multi-temporal image analysis.