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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
WEP2.PJ: Sea Ice III
Wednesday, 12 August, 15:00 - 16:15
Location: Poster Area J
Session Type: Poster
Session Chair: Chao Wang, Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Track: Cryosphere
Poster Area J

WEP2.PJ.1: Evaluating Incidence Angle Features for Improved Sea Ice Classification from GF3B TOPSAR Data
Jiande Zhang, Shan Dong Laboratory of Aerospace Information Research, QiLu Aerospace Information Research Institute, China; Wenyi Zhang, Di Yin, Aerospace Information Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Xiao Zhou, Shan Dong Laboratory of Aerospace Information Research, QiLu Aerospace Information Research Institute, China; Qingwei Chu, Aerospace Information Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Shuo Hu, Shan Dong Laboratory of Aerospace Information Research, QiLu Aerospace Information Research Institute, China
Poster Area J

WEP2.PJ.2: FLOE EDGE MONITORING USING RADARSAT CONSTELLATION MISSION AND DEEP LEARNING
Aya Sayedelahl, Brendan Kupiak, Yue Ma, John Bennett, Mark Howell, Michael Henschel, Pradeep Bobby, C-CORE, Canada
Poster Area J

WEP2.PJ.3: Sea Ice Classification Using Position Attention Gated RefineNet with Spatial Enhancement Module
Fukun Jin, Wenyi Zhang, Qingwei Chu, Xiaoyi Yin, Tianyang Cao, Kai Wang, The Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Poster Area J

WEP2.PJ.4: Sea ice detection on Lake Ladoga using data from the DPR radar onboard the GPM satellite
Maria Panfilova, Vladimir Karaev, Federal research center A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Poster Area J

WEP2.PJ.5: MISSION CONCEPT FOR ALL-WEATHER HIGHER RESOLUTION ARCTIC IMAGERY
Justin Bobak, Magdalena Anguelova, Elizabeth Twarog, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, United States
Poster Area J

WEP2.PJ.6: Discrimination of Oil Types and Thickness during Oil Spills on Newly Formed Sea Ice using C-band Radar
Durell Desmond, Mahdi Zabihi Mayvan, Shiva Lashkari, Aura Diaz, University of Manitoba, Canada; Alexander Komarov, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada; Dustin Isleifson, University of Manitoba, Canada
Poster Area J

WEP2.PJ.7: Algorithmic Improvements to ICESat-2 Sea Ice Lead Detection Under Partially-Cloudy Conditions
Monojit Saha, University of Maryland College Park, United States; Nathan T. Kurtz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Jesse T. Wimert, NASA Goddard Space Flight, United States; Stephen P. Palm, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Yiqun Xie, University of Maryland College Park, United States
Poster Area J

WEP2.PJ.8: LEVERAGING HIGH RESOLUTION COMMERCIAL SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR ICESAT-2 SEA ICE SURFACE CLASSIFICATION VALIDATION
Kavya Sivaraj, Ellen Buckley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States; Alek Petty, University of Maryland, United States
Poster Area J

WEP2.PJ.9: DYNAMIC PHOTON RATE THRESHOLD FOR IMPROVED SPECULAR LEAD DETECTION IN ICESAT-2 SEA ICE DATA PRODUCTS
Jesse Wimert, Nathan Kurtz, Kamryn Robertson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
Poster Area J

WEP2.PJ.10: Scattering Characteristics of Acoustic Ultrasonic Pulses from Saline Ice Cover in Laboratory Experiments
Dmitry Kovaldov, Yuriy Titchenko, Vladimir Karaev, Federal Research Center A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Vladimir Likhomanov, Alexey Chernov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russia