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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
TH1.R8: Measuring Bare Earth Surface Topography and Vegetation Structure with a Multi-Modal Observing System Approach
Thursday, 13 August, 08:30 - 09:45
Location: Embassy
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Andrea Donnellan Andrea Donnellan, Purdue University and Craig Glennie, University of Houston and John Yorks, NASA Godard Space Flight Center
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Thu, 13 Aug, 08:30 - 08:45

TH1.R8.1: SINGLE AND MULTIPLE PLATFORM INTERFEROMETRIC DEMONSTRATIONS FROM ALOFT SENSING'S STRATOSPHERIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR SYSTEM
Brian Pollard, Lauren Wye, Patrick Rennich, Brian Kiedinger, Yusuf Eshqi Molan, Aloft Sensing, Inc., United States
Thu, 13 Aug, 08:45 - 09:00

TH1.R8.2: NASA’s Surface Topography and Vegetation (STV) Incubation Study Progress and Plans
Andrea Donnellan Andrea Donnellan, Purdue University, United States; Craig Glennie, University of Houston, United States
Thu, 13 Aug, 09:00 - 09:15

TH1.R8.3: THE PATHWAY TO A NEW SPACEBORNE LIDAR FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION SWATH-MAPPING OF SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY AND VEGETATION
John Yorks, Guangning Yang, Jeffrey Chen, David Harding, Stanley Scott, Gregory Clarke, John Cavanaugh, Zachary Mulhollan, NASA Godard Space Flight Center, United States; Jeffrey Lee, KBR, inc., United States; Natalie Midzak, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, United States; Patrick Selmer, University of Maryland College Park, United States; Durgesh Rai, Technology Project Managers, United States
Thu, 13 Aug, 09:15 - 09:30

TH1.R8.4: QUAKES-I and SAR-Fusion Airborne Stereoimaging Instruments Contributions to STV
Andrea Donnellan Andrea Donnellan, Purdue University, United States; Curtis Padgett, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States
Thu, 13 Aug, 09:30 - 09:45

TH1.R8.5: NATURAL FOREST TO RANDOM FOREST: CONTINENTAL SCALE VEGETATION CANOPY HEIGHT MODELING WITH SPACE-BORNE LIDAR AND MACHINE LEARNING
Justinn Jones, Hailey Schmidt Melzow, Sorin Popescu, Texas A&M University, United States