Preliminary Program(download its pdf file)
On-site Registration: 14:00 - 22:00, March 17, Lobby at Jinshi Hotel On-site Registration: 08:00 - 12:00, March 18, Lobby at Yingdong Hall
March 18 (day 1):
9:00 -10:00 Opening Ceremony & Picture Taking (Chair: Dr. S. Liang)
10:00- 10:30 Keynote speech by Prof. Robert Dickinson
Characterization of albedos of complex land systems from a climate modeler's viewpoint and how their measurement can be used to constrain structural details of a model.
Jackson School of Geosciences , University of Texas Austin , USA
10:30-12:30 Estimation of Radiation Fluxes (Chair: Dr. P. Muller)
10:30-10:45 Prof. Shunlin Liang
Mapping High-Resolution Land Surface Radiation Budget from MODIS: Algorithms and Preliminary Validation Results
Department of Geography, University of Maryland , USA
10:45-11:00 Dr. Jean-Luc Widlowski
RAMI4PILPS: Assessing Shortwave Radiation Fluxes in Land Surface Schemes
European Commission, DG. Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Italy
11:00-11:15 Prof. Rong Fu
Observed changes in surface solar radiation and cloudiness over the tropical rainforests, the cause and implication to the tropical ecosystem
Jackson School of Geosciences, the University of Texas at Austin , USA
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-11:45 Xiaolei Niu
Impact of Improved Narrow-to-Broadband Transformations and Anisotropic Corrections on Satellite Estimates of Radiative Fluxes
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland , USA
11:45-12:00 Dr. Zhengming Wan
Validation of the V5 MODIS Land-surface Temperature product Worldwide
ICESS, University of California , Santa Barbara , USA
12:00-12:15 Maofang Gao
Generation of land surface temperature maps for entire China using MODIS data
Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
12:15-12:30 Dr. Juan M. Sánchez
Landsat 7 thermal band calibration and atmospheric correction: validation with ground-based measurements
Department of Earth Physics and Thermodynamics, University of Valencia , Spain
12:30-14:00 Lunch (Lanhui Hotel)
14:00-15:45 Albedo special session (I) (Chair: Dr. G. Schaepman)
14:00-14:30 Invited speech by Dr. Julienne Stroeve
Growing Non-Linearity in Arctic Sea Ice Loss
Research Scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado (CU), USA
14:30-14:45 Invited speech by Prof. Robert E. Dickinson
Characterization of albedos of complex land systems from a climate modeler's viewpoint and how their measurement can be used to constrain structural details of a model.
Jackson School of Geosciences , University of Texas Austin , USA
14:45-15:00 Dr. Yves Govaerts
Estimation of Surface Albedo Increase During the Eighties Sahel Drought from Meteosat Observations
EUMETSAT, Germany
15:00-15:15 Dr. Shusen Wang
Simulation of canopy radiation transfer and surface albedo in the EALCO model
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada
15:15-15:30 Dr. Fernando Camacho
Towards an Operational Production of Surface Albedo in the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service
EOLAB, Valencia , Spain
15:30-15:45 Dr. Jean-Louis Roujean
Validation of POLDER surface BRDF and albedo products based on a review of other satellites, ground and climate databases
CNRM/Météo-France, France
15:45-16:00 Break
16:00-18:00 Albedo special session (II) (Chair: Dr. C. Schaaf)
16:00-16:15 Dr. Crystal L. Schaaf
The MODIS Reflectance Anisotropy and Albedo Product: Applications and Enhancements
Center for Remote Sensing, Department of G eography and Environment, Boston University , USA
16:15-16:30 Prof. Jan-Peter Muller
ALBEDOMAP: MERIS land surface albedo retrieval using data fusion with MODIS BRDF and its validation using contemporaneous EO and in situ data products
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Department of Space and Climate Physics, University College London , UK
16:30-16:45 Dr. Dominique Carrer
Land Surface Albedo from MSG Geostationary Satellite: method for retrieval, validation, and application for weather forecast
Météo-France, CNRM/GAME, France
16:45-17:00 Dr. Fuqin Li
An Evaluation of the Use of Atmospheric and BRDF Correction to Standardise Landsat Data
Geoscience Australia , Australia
17:00-17:15 Dr. Philip Lewis
BRF/albedo inversion constrained by temporal smoothness
NCEO and Dept. Geography, UCL, Gower St. London . UK
17:15-17:30 Sihan Liu
The New Angular & Spectral Kernel Model for BRDF and Albedo Retrieval
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science , China
17:30-17:45 Dr. Yi Luo
An approach for developing surface albedo product from seven MODIS land bands at 250m spatial resolution over Canada and the Arctic circumpolar region
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada , Canada
18:30 Banquet
March 19 (day 2):
8:30-10:15am Tibetan special session (I):
Observations, data analysis, and modeling (Chair: Dr. K. Yang)
8:30-8:45 Invited speech by Prof. Toshio Koike
A Satellite-based atmosphere-land coupled data assimilation system
Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo , Japan
8:45-9:00 Prof. Hirohiko Ishikawa
Land Surface-Atmosphere Interaction on the Tibetan Plateau Observation and Infrared Remote Sensing
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University , Japan
9:00-9:15 Dr. Shigenori Haginoya
A climatological estimate of heat and water fluxes over the Tibetan Plateau
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan
9:15-9:30 Yingying Chen
Evaluating Three Land Surface Models against GAME/Tibet Dataset for the Tibetan Plateau
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences , China
9:30-9:45 Dr. Xiaofeng Guo
Variability and Trend of Sensible Heat Exchange over the Tibetan Plateau Using an Updated Surface Flux Parameterization
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences , China
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-12:00 Tibetan special session (II):
Remote sensing and data assimilation (Chair: Dr. T. Koike)
10:00-10:15 Invited speech by Prof. Yaoming Ma
Recent advances in land-atmospheric interaction observations on the Tibetan Plateau
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences , China
10:15-10:30 Weiqiang Ma
Estimating surface fluxes over the north Tibetan Plateau area with ASTER imagery
Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences , China
10:30-10:45 Margaret Wonsick
The Radiation Climate of the Tibetan Plateau
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland , USA
10:45-11:00 Lei Zhong
Estimation of Land Surface Parameters over the Tibetan Plateau area Using MODIS and AVHRR Data
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences , China
11:00-11:15 Dr. Hiroyuki Tsutsui
Application of the land data assimilation system for a frozen soil in the permafrost region of Tibetan Plateau
Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo , Japan
11:15-11:30 Dr. Hui Lu
Simulating Surface Energy Flux and Soil Moisture at the Wenjiang PBL Site Using a Land Data Assimilation System
Dept. of Civil Eng. , the Univ. of Tokyo , Japan
11:30-11:45 Dr. Katsunori Tamagawa
Estimation of the soil moisture and land surface flux at the Tibet Gaize station by using land data assimilation system developed at the University of Tokyo
Earth Observation Data Integration & Fusion Research Initiative, The University of Tokyo , Japan
11:45-12:00 Dr. Kun Yang
A Dual-pass Microwave Land Data Assimilation System for Estimating Soil Moisture and the Surface Energy Budget
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences , China
12:00-14:00 Lunch
12:15-14:00 Townhall meeting on LPV (Land Product Validation) (Chair: Dr. F. Baret)
14:15-14:45 Keynote speech by Dr. Martin Wild
Decadal changes in surface radiative fluxes
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Universitätstr. Switzerland
14:45- 15:45 Modeling and Inversion (Chair: Dr. P. Lewis)
14:45-15:00 W.J. Timmermans
Surface heterogeneity influence on land-atmosphere energy exchanges
International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation ，
Dept. of Water, The Netherlands
15:00-15:15 Feng Zhao
Unified Optical-Thermal Modeling for Row-planted canopies
Key Laboratory of Precision Opto-Mechatronics Technology, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing , China .
15:15-15:30 Jian Sun
Parameters Estimation of Coupled Water and Energy Balance Model Based on Stationary Constraints of Surface States
Boston University Department of Geography and Environment, USA
15:30-15:45 Dr. Sebastien Wagner
Optimal Estimation and Joint Retrieval of Aerosol Load and Surface Reflectance Using MSG/SEVIRI Observations: Analysis of the Rdiative Coupling Between the Surface and the Atmosphere and Evaluation Against MODIS Products
Research & Development, consultant at EUMETSAT, Darmstadt , Germany
15:45-16:45 Poster session (I)
• Estimation of shortwave radiation components
• Estimation of longwave radiation components
• Microwave remote sensing and soil moisture retrieval
16:45-18:00 Measurements and analysis (Chair: Dr. Yoshimura)
16:45-17:00 Dr. Xin Li
Flux Observations in the Watershed Airborne Telemetry Experimental Research
Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences , China
17:00-17:15 Dr. Jiemin Wang
Surface Energy Balance Closure and its Significance in the Validation of Evapotranspiration Retrieved by Remote Sensing Algorithms
Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences , China
17:15-17:30 Ziwei Xu
Evapotranspiration Measurements over Different Surfaces in the Heihe River Basin
State key laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University , China
17:30-17:45 Dr. Yuri Knyazikhin
Remote Sensing of Species Composition with Multi-angle and Hyperspectral data
Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University , USA
17:45-18:00 Dr. Mitsunori Yoshimura
Response of Tropical Rainforest to Daily Light Environmental Change
Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan (RESTEC), Japan
18:30- 19:30 Diner
19:15 Bus to Lao She Tea House at the Lan Hui Hotel
March 20 (day 3):
8:30-9:00 Keynote speech by Prof. Eric Wood
Continental and Global-scale Terrestrial Water and Energy Budgets Using Remote Sensing Observations
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University , USA
9-10:15 ET & Drought monitoring special session (I) (Chair: Dr. B. Kustas)
9:00-9:15 Dr. William Kustas
A physically-based drought product using thermal remote sensing of evapotranspiration
USDA-ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory , USA
9:15-9:30 Dr. R. Fensholt
Potentials for detecting canopy water stress using geostationary MSG-SEVIRI data
Dept. of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen , Denmark
9:30-9:45 Prof. Inge Sandholt
Combining multi resolution satellite data for assessment of surface water stre ss-the triangle method applied to MODIS and Geostationary MSG-SEVIRI data
Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen , Denmark
9:45-10:00 Lichun Wang
SEBS for ILWIS: A Multi-stage Tool for Surface Energy Balance Estimates in an open source operational RS/GIS Environment
International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands
10:00-11:15 Poster session (II)
• Estimation of evapotranspiration and energy budget components
• Modeling, inversion and applications
11:15-12:30 ET & Drought monitoring special session (II) (Chair: Dr. B. Kustas)
11:15-11:30 Dr. Kaicun Wang
Simple Methods to Estimate Global Evapotranspiration from Satellite Visible and Thermal Infrared Observations and its long-term trend from 1982-2002
Department of Geography, University of Maryland , USA
11:30-11:45 Prof. Assefa Mekonnen Melesse
Energy flux and surface parameters in an urban-agriculture-wetland interfaced area: The case of South Florida
Department of Environmental Studies, Florida International University , USA
11:45-12:00 Prof. Mingming Zhu
Estimation of evapotranspiration in Wetland of the Yellow River Delta based on remote sensing data
Yantai Institute of the Coastal Zone Research for Sustainable Development, China
12:00-12:15 Dr. E. Rubio
Evapotranspiration in a post-fire regenerated Mediterranean holm oak forest
Instituto de Desarrollo Regional (IDR), University of Castilla-La Mancha , Spain
12:15-12:30 Dr. John H Prueger
Long-term Eddy Covariance Monitoring of Evapotranspiration in a Semi-Arid Region over a Mesquite and Desert Grass Surface
USDA-ARS National Soil Tilth Laboratory, 2110 University Blvd. Ames , IA. USA
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00– 15:45 Landflux Special Session (Chair: Dr. E. Wood)
14:00-14:15 Dr. Be rnard Pinty
Retrieving Essential Climate Variables over Land from Operational Surface Albedo Products
Global Environment Monitoring Unit, IES, EC Joint Research Centre , Italy
14:15-14:30 Prof. Assefa Mekonnen Melesse
Energy fluxes as function of topography, land management and landscape features under different latitudes
Department of Environmental Studies, Florida International University , USA
14:30-14:45 Dr. Andrew Nichols French
Estimation of Spatial and Temporal Changes in Land Surface Emissivity to Improve Modeling of Evapotranspiration
USDA/ARS, Maricopa , Arizona , USA
14:45-15:00 Dr. Justin Sheffield
Development of a Long-Term Evapotranspiration Product for Mexico from Remote Sensing
Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University , USA .
15:00-15:15 Dr. Hongbo Su
Examination of the Spatio-Temporal Pattern of the Surface Heat Fluxes for China Based on the GSWP2 Dataset
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
15:15-15:30 Jun Xiong
Estimation and validation of land surface evaporation using remote sensing in North China
Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences , China
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:15 Keynote speech by Dr. Wade Crow
Enhanced Surface Water and Energy Flux Calculation through the Integration of Thermal Remote Sensing Retrievals with Land Surface Models
USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory , USA
16:15-17:15 Data assimilation (Chair: Dr. B. Pinty)
16:15-16:30 Tongren Xu
Estimation of sensible and latent heat flux by assimilating MODIS LST products
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University , China
16:30-16:45 Shihua Li
Assimilation of Flux Data into a Primary Production Model
Institute of Geo-spatial Information and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
16:45-17:00 Shenglei Zhang
Experiments of land surface soil moisture data assimilation system based on Ensemble Kalman Filter, the microwave complex land emissivity model and the Community Land Model
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University , China
17:00-17:15 Dr. Fausto Baroncini
Sub-Optimal Ensemble Filters and distributed hydrologic modeling: a new challenge in flood forecasting
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Florence , Italy
17:15-18:00 Closing Ceremony
18:30 Diner
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