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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
WEP2.PE: Science and Applications in the First Year of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Mission
Wednesday, 12 August, 15:00 - 16:15
Location: Poster Area E
Session Type: Poster
Session Chair: Shadi Oveisgharan, Jet Propulsion Lab
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Poster Area E

WEP2.PE.1: Wet snow mapping threshold validation using Sentinel-1 SAR and in situ data in Himalaya and Utah mountain
Smriti Srivastava, Richard Forster, Summer Rupper, University of Utah, United States; Mohd. Farooq Azam, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India, India
Poster Area E

WEP2.PE.3: DEVELOPING NEAR REAL-TIME BURN SEVERITY ESTIMATION FROM NISAR DATA
Kurtis Nelson, US Geological Survey, United States; Peter Streufert, C2G, Contractor to the US Geological Survey, United States; Birgit Peterson, US Geological Survey, United States
Poster Area E

WEP2.PE.4: FOREST DISTURBANCE SENSITIVITY IN EARLY NISAR TIME SERIES
Leandra Sethares, Earth Big Data LLC, United States; Annemarie Peacock, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; Josef Kellndorfer, Earth Big Data LLC, United States; Alexandra Christensen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
Poster Area E

WEP2.PE.5: EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF RETRIEVED SWE USING NISAR INSAR DATA DURING THE WINTER 2026
Shadi Oveisgharan, Emre Havazli, Jet Propulsion Lab, United States
Poster Area E

WEP2.PE.6: EVALUATING NISAR L-BAND SAR SENSITIVITY TO LEGACY SUB-CANOPY DISTURBANCE IN DENSE TROPICAL FOREST
William Nicholls, Base Projects Limited, Taiwan
Poster Area E

WEP2.PE.7: IMPACT OF VEGETATION HETEROGENEITY ON NISAR BACKSCATTER VARIABILITY IN A HETEROGENEOUS CROPPING SYSTEM IN SOUTHERN INDIA
Anjali Parekattuvalappil Shaju, Vaibhav Gupta, Dnyaneshwar Pandurang Gawai, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India; Jasmeet Judge, University of Florida, United States; Debsunder Dutta, Elakkya T L, Nikhil Anand, Pratik Vithal Tikhe, Vidisha Chothani, Milan Goyal, Chandana T P, Karthik Burra, Syed Nawaz Shareef, Sooraj Saji, Katroth Prem Singh, Soundarrajan Murugeshan, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India; Dharmendra Kumar Pandey, Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, Ahmedabad, India; Sekhar Muddu, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Poster Area E

WEP2.PE.8: Evaluating NISAR Soil Moisture Product During the Growing Season in North-Central Florida
Michelle Prieto-Sanchez, Laura Almendra, Jasmeet Judge, Mawiyah Abdelkarim, Lillian Shoemaker, Hannah Sieg, University of Florida, United States
Poster Area E

WEP2.PE.9: NISAR Soil Moisture Product: First Results
Rajat Bindlish, NASA GSFC, United States; Rowena Lohman, Cornell University, United States; Narendra Das, Michigan State University, United States; Seungbum Kim, Xiaodong Huang, NASA JPL, United States; Joel Johnson, The Ohio State University, United States; Jeonghwan Park, NASA GSFC, United States; Jasmeet Judge, University of Florida, United States
Poster Area E

WEP2.PE.10: Mapping snow avalanches using L-band InSAR: Implications for NISAR
Richard Forster, University of Utah, United States; Jewell Lund, Stanford University, United States; Elias Deeb, USACE-ERDC CRREL, United States; Zach Hoppinen, Alaska Satellite Facility, United States; Avina Khatri, University of Utah, United States
Poster Area E

WEP2.PE.11: CROP EVAPOTRANSPIRATION ESTIMATION USING RADAR
Andrew N French, University of Arizona, United States; Jeffrey Orrey, Corvis Analytics, United States; Charles Sanchez, University of Arizona, United States