EEBIOMASS Summer School 2025
EEBIOMASS Summer School 2025
- Start: May 12, 2025
- End: May 16, 2025
- Location: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Room: Hörsaal
- Host: MDI
- Contact: nboerner@bgc-jena.mpg.de
Registration is open until March 23rd, 2025, at 24:00 CEST. To register use our 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.
You can find more information here.
Preliminary program
Monday, 12. May 2025
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
Kostas Papathanassiou, DLR - Microwaves and Radar Institute
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:00 Synthetic Apperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing: Meassuring with microwaves
Kostas Papathanassiou, DLR - Microwaves and Radar Institute
16:00 – 17:30 BIOMASS ESA's 3D SAR Mission
Kostas Papathanassiou, DLR - Microwaves and Radar Institute
18:00 – 21:00 Icebreaker
Tuesday, 13. May 2025
09:00 – 10:00 How do Biomass Mission Products compare to other Biomass Products (e.g.
CCI Biomass, WUR Forest Biomass, etc.)
Christiane Schmullius, Friedrich Schiller University / EOS Jena GmbH
10:00 – 12:00 Hands-on Exercise
Christiane Schmullius, Carsten Pathe, Friedrich Schiller University / EOS Jena GmbH
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 SAR Interferometry: The way to 3D forest structure
Kostas Papathanassiou, DLR - Microwaves and Radar Institute
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 SAR Interferometry: The way to 3D forest structure
Kostas Papathanassiou, DLR - Microwaves and Radar Institute
Wednesday, 14. May 2025
09:00 – 10:30 SAR Interferometry: Do it Yourself
Kostas Papathanassiou, Matteo Pardini, DLR - Microwaves and Radar Institute
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00 SAR Interferometry - Forest Height: Do it Yourself
Kostas Papathanassiou, Matteo Pardini, DLR - Microwaves and Radar Institute
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Poster Session
Thursday, 24. October 2024
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote TBD
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Understanding the terrestrial carbon cycle:
Inferring process dynamics from biomass data
Nuno Carvalhais & Sujan Koirala & Siyuan
Wang, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 15:00 Exploratory model-data integration exercises Part I
Nuno Carvalhais & Sujan Koirala & Siyuan
Wang, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Exploratory model-data integration exercises Part II
Nuno Carvalhais & Sujan Koirala & Siyuan
Wang, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Friday, 25. October 2024
09:00 – 10:00 Modelling forest dynamics and remote sensing
Andreas Huth, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
10:00 – 10:30 Simulation and Analysis of Forest Factory RTM
Friedrich Bohn, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Hands-on Excersice Simulation and Analysis of Forest Factory RTM
Friedrich Bohn, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Hands-on Excersice Simulation and Analysis of Forest Factory RTM
Friedrich Bohn, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
15:00 – 15:30 Feedback & Wrap up