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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
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, Germany; Alby Duarte Rocha, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil; Christian Schulz, Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft (ZUG) gGmbH, Germany; Andrea Cominola, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
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, China
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, Australia
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, Brazil; Saleh Javadi, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden; Renato Machado, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil; Mats I. Pettersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden; Valentyn Tolpekin, ICEYE Oy, Finland; Eduardo M. Arraut, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil
Thu, 13 Aug, 09:30 - 09:45

TH1.R16.5: GENERALIZABLE SAR VISIBILITY MAPS FOR PLANNING OBSERVATIONS IN CONSTRAINED MISSION SCENARIOS
Evan Kramer, Caltech, United States; David Miller, MIT, United States