TH4.13: ESA's candidate Earth Explorer missions - BIOMASS, CoReH2O, PREMIER II

Session Type: Oral
Time: Thursday, July 26, 15:40 - 17:20
Location: Room 14B
Session Chairs: Klaus Scipal, ESA and Michael Kern, ESA
 
TH4.13.1: THE BIOMASS MISSION RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS: RESULTS FROM RECENT CAMPAIGNS
         Thuy Le Toan; Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère
         Lars M.H. Ulander; Swedish Defence Research Agency
         Konstantinos P. Papathanassiou; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
         Fabio Rocca; Politecnico di Milano
         Shaun Quegan; University Sheffield
         Malcolm Davidson; European Space Agency ESTEC
         Klaus Scipal; European Space Agency ESTEC
 
TH4.13.2: COREH2O, A DUAL FREQUENCY RADAR MISSION FOR SNOW AND ICE OBSERVATIONS
         Helmut Rott; University of Innsbruck
         Donald W. Cline; NOAA-NWS
         Claude Duguay; University of Waterloo
         Richard Essery; University of Edinburgh
         Pierre Etchevers; Météo-France
         Irena Hajnsek; DLR-HR
         Michael Kern; European Space Agency ESTEC
         Giovanni Macelloni; IFAC-CNR
         Eirik Malnes; Norut
         Jouni Pulliainen; Finnish Meteorological Institute
         Simon H. Yueh; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
 
TH4.13.3: ADDED VALUE OF COREH2O SAR TO THE MODELING OF CRYOSPHERIC PROCESSES AND TO THE RETRIEVAL OF SNOW AND ICE PARAMETERS
         Jouni Pulliainen; Finnish Meteorological Institute
         Donald W. Cline; NOAA-NWS
         Claude Duguay; University of Waterloo
         Richard Essery; University of Edinburgh
         Pierre Etchevers; Météo-France
         Irena Hajnsek; DLR-HR
         Michael Kern; European Space Agency ESTEC
         Giovanni Macelloni; IFAC-CNR
         Eirik Malnes; Norut
         Helmut Rott; University of Innsbruck
         Simon H. Yueh; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
 
TH4.13.4: PREMIER - A CANDIDATE ESA EARTH EXPLORER MISSION FOR SPACE-BASED OBSERVATIONS IN THE UTLS
         Brian J. Kerridge; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
         Michaela I. Hegglin; University of Toronto
         Jack McConnell; York University
         Donal Murtagh; Chalmers University of Technology
         Johannes Orphal; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
         Vincent-Henri Peuch; ECMWF
         Martin Riese; FZ Juelich
         Michiel van Weele; KNMI
         Joerg Langen; European Space Agency ESTEC