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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
FR2.R2: Sea Ice II
Friday, 14 August, 11:00 - 12:15
Location: Northwest
Session Type: Oral
Session Chair: Ming Li, UCAR
Track: Cryosphere
Fri, 14 Aug, 11:00 - 11:15

FR2.R2.1: Detailed Monitoring of the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone by Satellite Radar Altimeter Synergy—A Study of the Weddell Sea/Indian Ocean Sector in July 2017
Shiming Xu, Weixin Zhu, Tsinghua University, China; Lu Zhou, Utrecht University, Netherlands; Siqi Liu, Tsinghua University, China; Alexander Fraser, University of Tasmania, Australia; Xiaohui Cheng, Tsinghua University, China; Clare Eayrs, Korea Polar Research Institute, Korea (South); Marcello Vichi, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Fri, 14 Aug, 11:15 - 11:30

FR2.R2.2: Mapping Arctic sea ice thickness at daily time-scales through Gaussian Process fusion of ICESat-2, SMOS & SMAP data
Alek Petty, University of Maryland, United States; Michel Tsamados, University College London, United Kingdom; Christopher Cardinale, University of Maryland, United States
Fri, 14 Aug, 11:30 - 11:45

FR2.R2.3: SYSTEMATIC ELECTROMAGNETIC BIAS IN ICESAT-2 SEA ICE FREEBOARD RETRIEVALS: HEMISPHERIC AND SEASONAL DEPENDENCIES
Kamryn Robertson, Nathan Kurtz, Jesse Wimert, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States
Fri, 14 Aug, 11:45 - 12:00

FR2.R2.4: INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF SPATIAL CONTEXT ON MULTI-TASK SEA ICE SEGMENTATION
Behzad Vahedi, Rafael Pires de Lima, Sepideh Jalayer, University of Colorado Boulder, United States; Walter Meier, Andrew Barrett, National Snow and Ice Data Center, United States; Morteza Karimzadeh, University of Colorado Boulder, United States