IGARSS 2026 || Washington, D.C. || 9

TH1.R16: Monitoring Global Urban Areas from Space

Thursday, 13 August, 08:30 - 09:45

Location: Lincoln East

Session Type: Oral

Session Co-Chairs: TC Chakraborty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Rohit Mukherjee, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Track: Community Contributed Themes

Thu, 13 Aug, 08:30 - 08:45

TH1.R16.1: MODELING DAILY SOIL MOISTURE IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT WITH MACHINE LEARNING USING SATELLITE IMAGERY, GEO-DATA, AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA

Stenka Vulova, Basem Aljoumani, Technische Universität Berlin; Alby Duarte Rocha, National Institute for Space Research (INPE); Christian Schulz, Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft (ZUG) gGmbH; Andrea Cominola, Technische Universität Berlin

Thu, 13 Aug, 08:45 - 09:00

TH1.R16.2: COMMUNITY-LEVEL URBAN LIVABILITY ASSESSMENT USING MULTIMODAL VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS: A CASE STUDY OF SHANGHAI AND WUHAN

Xingyu Liu, Fengqiong Zhang, Shuhao Cui, Ruiyi Yang, Yinhe Liu, Yanfei Zhong, Wuhan University

Thu, 13 Aug, 09:00 - 09:15

TH1.R16.3: Defining Background Rural Areas for Surface Urban Heat Island analysis using directional ring profiling of summer and winter Land Surface Temperature along the urban–rural gradient

Percy Yvon Rakoto, Amy L. Griffin, Alan Both, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Thu, 13 Aug, 09:15 - 09:30

TH1.R16.4: MEASURING GROUND DISPLACEMENT FROM SÃO PAULO LINE 2 SUBWAY EXCAVATION USING PSI WITH SENTINEL-1 AND ICEYE DATA

Bruna B. Miraya, Aeronautics Institute of Technology; Saleh Javadi, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Renato Machado, Aeronautics Institute of Technology; Mats I. Pettersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Valentyn Tolpekin, ICEYE Oy; Eduardo M. Arraut, Aeronautics Institute of Technology

Thu, 13 Aug, 09:30 - 09:45

TH1.R16.5: GENERALIZABLE SAR VISIBILITY MAPS FOR PLANNING OBSERVATIONS IN CONSTRAINED MISSION SCENARIOS

Evan Kramer, Caltech; David Miller, MIT