| Sunday, May 19 – University Main Building | ||
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Registration | |
| Welcome Reception | ||
| Day 1- Palazzo Paolo V | ||
| 8:20 - 18:00 | Registration | |
| 8:40 - 9:00 | Opening Session | |
| Day 1, Morning - Palazzo Paolo V | ||
| 9:00 - 12:00 | ||
| Satellite Missions (I) Chairs: Christopher Ruf, Jens Wickert | ||
| 09:00 | NASA CYGNSS Science Data Characterization and Applications | Chris Ruf |
| 09:20 | Towards a GNSS Reflectometry Service from UK TDS-1 Satellite | Martin Unwin |
| 09:40 | Design and Planning for the First Spire GNSS-R Missions of 2019 | Dallas Masters |
| 10:00 | The Flexible Microwave Payload-1: a combined GNSS-Reflectometer and L-band Radiometer for the Cat-4 Cubesat Mission | Lara Fernandez Capon |
| 10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break | ||
| Satellite Missions (II) Chairs: Adriano Camps, Manuel Martin-Neira | ||
| 10:40 | The Flexible Microwave Payload-2: A SDR-based GNSS-R instrument for CubeSats | Joan Francesc Muñoz Martin |
| 11:00 | PRETTY: Cubesat for precise altimetry using navigation satellites | Jens Wickert |
| 11:20 | SigNals Of Opportunity P-band Investigation (SNOOPI): In-Space Validation of Reflectometry from 240-380 MHz | Jim Garrison |
| 11:40 | Kepler observing Earth - A reflectometry concept for ocean altimetry | Maximilian Semmling |
| 12:00 - 13:20 Lunch + Modeling Technical Committee and IAG Sub-Commission 4.6 "GNSS-R" | ||
| Day 1, Afternoon - Palazzo Paolo V | ||
| 13:20 - 18:30 | ||
| Calibration and Validation Chairs: Scott Gleason, Martin Unwin | ||
| 13:20 | Characterization of GPS EIRP and CYGNSS Ocean Level 1 Calibration Update | Scott Gleason |
| 13:40 | Assessing the impact of the GPS Flex Power mode on CYGNSS Normalized Bi-Static Radar Cross Section | Jeonghwan Park |
| 14:00 | Effects of specular point inaccuracies on delay-Doppler maps shape over ocean | Giuseppe Grieco |
| 14:20 | Deployment of a Ground-Based Beacon System for On-Orbit Calibration of the CYGNSS Satellites | Andrew O’Brien |
| 14:40 | Validation of the NOC C-BRE v1.0 GNSS-R wind speed retrieval algorithm | Matthew Hammond |
| 15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break | ||
| Modeling Chairs: Joel Johnson, Valery Zavorotny | ||
| 15:20 | Simulations of spaceborne GNSS-R signal over land | Nazzareno Pierdicca |
| 15:40 | On the Nature of GNSS-R Land Surface Specular Scattering | Joel Johnson |
| 16:00 | Electromagnetic Scattering Model for GNSS-R Land Applications Including Effects of Multiple Elevations in Random Rough Surfaces | Leung Tsang |
| 16:20 | Bistatic scattering from sea surfaces at non-near-specular direction via the Polarimetric Two-Scale Model for maritime surveillance with GNSS-R | Antonio Iodice |
| 16:40 | Spatial Coherence of GNSS-R Signals: A Numerical Investigation | Davide Comite |
| 17:00 - 18:30 Poster & InLabs | ||
| Day 2, Morning - Palazzo Paolo V | ||
| 8:40 - 12:20 | ||
| Ocean Chairs: James Garrison, Christine Gommenginger | ||
| 08:40 | Approaches of incorporating wave model information into CYGNSS wind speed retrieval | Valery Zavorotny |
| 09:00 | First Look at NOAA CyGNSS winds in the Tropical Cyclone Environment | Faozi Said |
| 09:20 | Retrieval of Mean Square Slopes from CYGNSS Data | Maria Paola Clarizia |
| 09:40 | Detection of Convective Activity using CYGNSS Wind Speed Measurements | Alexandra Bringer |
| 10:00 | Wind Speed estimation from CYGNSS using Artificial Neural Networks | Jennifer Reynolds |
| 10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break | ||
| Sea Surface Altimetry Chairs: Weiqiang Li, Robert S. Nerem | ||
| 10:40 | Spaceborne Carrier Phase Altimetry Using GNSS Reflected Signals At Grazing Angles Of Observation Over Open Sea Water | Estel Cardellach |
| 11:00 | Improved Ocean Altimetry Methods with CYGNSS Observations in Indonesia | Andrew O’Brien |
| 11:20 | Towards precise synoptic altimetry by means of GNSS-R | Fran Fabra |
| 11:40 | Assessment of a CYGNSS Ocean Altimetry Product Using a Full DDM Approach | Eric Loria |
| 12:00 | An overview of tropospheric delays in ground-based GNSS reflectometry | Thalia Nikolaidou |
| 12:20 | Multidoppler GNSS-R ocean altimetry with TDS-1 | Manuel Martin-Neira |
| 12:40 - 14:00 Lunch + GRSS IFT-Technical Committe, GRSS | ||
| Day 2, Afternoon - Palazzo Paolo V | ||
| 14:00 - 17:30 | ||
| Land (I) Chairs: Andrew O'Brien, Rashmi Shah | ||
| 14:00 | Retrieval of Soil Moisture and Forest Biomass using CYGNSS Data and Artificial Neural Networks | Emanuele Santi |
| 14:20 | How much closer can GNSS-R hydrology retrievals from CYGNSS get us to "the truth"? | Clara Chew |
| 14:40 | Dependence of CYGNSS Reflectivity on Vegetation Water Content and Surface Roughness | Rashmi Shah |
| 15:00 | Examination of GNSS-R phase measurements over wetlands using CYGNSS | Eric Loria |
| 15:20 - 15:40 Coffee Break | ||
| Land (II) Chairs: Clara Chew, Felipe G. Nievinski | ||
| 15:40 | Sensitivity of CyGNSS to Above Ground Biomass and Canopy Height over Tropical Forests | Hugo Carreno-Luengo |
| 16:00 | GNSS derived soil moisture from the global IGS permanent network | Nikolaos Antonoglou |
| 16:20 | GNSS reflectometry for the retrieval of forest biomass | Emanuele Santi |
| 16:40 - 17:30 Poster & InLabs | ||
| 18:30 - 23:00 Evening Dinner | ||
| Day 3, Morning - Palazzo Paolo V | ||
| 8:40 - 12:40 | ||
| Signal Processing Chairs: Maria Paola Clarizia, Fran Fabra | ||
| 08:40 | An Outlier Detection Approach for GNSS-SNR Analysis | Tomke Lambertus |
| 09:00 | Cycle Ambiguity Resolution in GNSS-R Carrier Phase Altimetry | Manuel Martin-Neira |
| 09:20 | Super Resolution in GNSS coherent scattering | Maurizio di Bisceglie |
| 09:40 | Likelihood Map Waveform Tracking Performance for GNSS-R Ocean Altimetry | Santiago Ozafrain |
| 10:00 | Passive radar enabled by GNSS signals of opportunity for maritime surveillance applications | Debora Pastina |
| 10:20 | Blind Sea Clutter Suppression for Spaceborne GNSS-R Target Detection | Joon Wayn Cheong |
| 10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break | ||
| Cryosphere Chairs: Estel Cardellach, Jessica Cartwright | ||
| 11:00 | First Results of Grazing Angle Reflections from Sea Ice and Ocean Surfaces Collected by the Spire Cubesat Constellation | Dallas Masters |
| 11:20 | Sea-ice transition detection using incoherent integration and deconvolution | Benjamin Southwell |
| 11:40 | Estimation of Soil Moisture and Sea Ice Concentration: A GNSS Reflectometry Concept | Maximilian Semmling |
| 12:00 | Experimental Results of Snow and Soil Moisture Measurement using P-Band Signals of Opportunity | Rashmi Shah |
| 12:20 - 13:30 Lunch | ||
| Day 3, Afternoon - Palazzo Paolo V | ||
| 13:30 - 16:30 | ||
| Data Assimilation Chairs: Giuseppe Grieco, Maximilian Semmling | ||
| 13:30 | Assimilation of CYGNSS Delay-Doppler Maps by a Two-Dimensional Variational Analysis Method | Feixiong Huang |
| 13:50 | Forecast Impact Experiments To Optimize Utilization of CYGNSS Wind Observations of Tropical Cyclone Michael (2018) Using the Operational HWRF | Bachir Annane |
| 14:10 | Global Assessments of CYGNSS Data Impacts on Weather Forecasting and Ocean Surface Wind Analyses | Mark Leidner |
| 14:40 - 16:20 Discussion Panel: Meeting Science Requirements | ||
| 14:35 | Introductory notes | Estel Cardellach |
| 14:40 | Keynote speakers | John Eyre – UK Met Office |
| 15:00 | Dallas Masters – SPIRE Global | |
| 15:20 | Round Table | Manuel Martin-Neira – ESA Estec, Christopher Ruf – University of Michigan, Bachir Annane – NOAA, John Eyre – UK Met Office, Dallas Masters – SPIRE Global |
| 16:20 - 16:30 - Closing | ||
| 16:50 - 18:15 Bus to Napoli | ||
| POSTER SESSION | ||
| Day 1 - 17:00-18:30 | ||
| Day 2 - 16:40-17:30 | ||
| P1 - Ocean | ||
| A Forward Modelling Approach to Improve Storm Feature Characterization Using Spaceborne GNSS-R Systems | Mohammad Al-Khaldi | |
| Ocean Wind speed retrieval from Spaceborne GNSS-R technique by TDS-1 DDM | Yanling Chen | |
| Motivation for dense coastal ground-based GNSS-R networks | Joakim Strandberg | |
| Sensitivity of GNSS-R delay-Doppler maps to wind direction with a deconvolution approach | Generoso Giangregorio | |
| Impact of sea surface temperature on GNSS-R observations over mesoscale ocean eddies; preliminary results from CYGNSS | Mostafa Hoseini | |
| Analyses of the Anomalous Artefacts in TDS-1 Delay Doppler Maps | Changjiang Hu | |
| Processing of Raw GNSS Reflectometry Data from TDS-1 in a Backscattering Configuration | Lucinda King | |
| Development of Standards for GNSS-Reflectometry | Maria Paola Clarizia | |
| P2 - Land | ||
| Soil moisture estimation using CYGNSS constellation | Mehrez Zribi | |
| GNSS-based remote sensing: Innovative observation of key hydrological parameters in the Central Andes | Nikolaos Antonoglou | |
| Developing and validating forward models of CYGNSS delay-Doppler maps for soil moisture applications | James Campbell | |
| Forward and inverse modeling of SNR-based GNSS reflectometry for soil moisture retrieval in Luxembourg and South Africa | Sajad Tabibi | |
| A machine learning aided method for GNSS-R performance analysis | Patrizia Savi | |
| An initial evaluation of the TechDemoSat-1 potentialities for freeze-thaw monitoring via GNSS-Reflectometry | Nazzareno Pierdicca | |
| An Experimental Assessment of Rough Topography on Spaceborne Delay Doppler Maps | Hugo Carreno-Luengo | |
| P3 - Sea Surface Altimetry | ||
| Investigating the Altimetric Sensitivity of Grazing Elevation Data - A Case Study at Kongsfjorden, Svalbard | Maximilian Semmling | |
| Assessing Spaceborne GNSS-R Ocean Altimetry Precision using CYGNSS Data | Weiqiang Li | |
| P4 - Cryosphere | ||
| Sea ice detection using GNSS-R data from TechDemoSat-1 | Jessica Cartwright | |
| GNSS Reflectometry for Sea Ice Detection Using Differential Delay Waveform from UK TechDemoSat-1 Data | Kegen Yu | |
| P5 - Modelling and Signal Processing | ||
| Comparison of BPSK and BOC Modulations in GNSS Reflectometry | Jyh-Ching Juang | |
| Advanced GNSS-R signals processing with GPUs | Oriol Cervello | |
| Iterative regularization methods for NCRS field reconstruction from GNSS-R measurements | Matteo Alparone | |
| Ionospheric Effects in GNSS-R: Impact and Model Limitations | Adriano Camps | |
| A direct approach to calculate quantitative dielectric constant for GNSS-R | Junchan Lee | |
| Recent advances and prospects in spaceborne GNSS-R: Can machine learning help in data modeling and analysis? | Milad Asgarimehr | |
| A new technique to quantify the dominant sources of error in GNSS-R sea level measurements | David Purnell | |
| Simulation of spaceborne GNSS-R delay-Doppler Maps of the sea surface with ship targets | Alessio Di Simone | |
| Non-uniform Delay-Doppler Mappings and its application in wind speed retrieval | Junming Xia | |
| P6 - Calibration and Validation | ||
| Humidity Observation by Reflectometer Technique for Agriculture (HORTA): Monitoring Soil Moisture with CubeSats | Giorgio Rossi | |
| Impact of specular point inaccuracies on satellite GNSS Reflectometry observables over the ocean | Giuseppe Grieco | |
| On the Use of SMAP-Reflections to Enhance the Retrieval of Geophysical Parameters | Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez | |
| P7 - Ground Airborne Experiments | ||
| Experimental evidences of satellite cross-talk in interferometric GNSS-R during the first field campaign of the Microwave Interferometric Reflectometer | Raul Onrubia | |
| A GNSS-R multirotor UAV platform for soil moisture detection and altimetry | Georges Stienne | |
| P8 - Instrument Technology | ||
| Real-time reconfigurable GNSS-R for space applications | Junchan Lee | |
| Deployable L-Band Helix Antenna for a GNSS-R Receiver onboard a 1U CubeSat | Lara Fernandez Capon | |
| Open-source hardware options for SNR-based GPS/GNSS reflectometry Proof-of-concept and initial validation | Manuella Fagundes | |
| Towards a vertical sensor array for sub-hourly sea level retrieval in SNR-based GNSS reflectometry | Felipe Nievinski | |
| InLab SESSION | ||
| Day 1 - 17:50-18:30 | ||
| A generic simulator of spaceborne GNSS-R for land applications | Hyuk Park | |
| Simulation of GNSS+R scenarios with the open-source wavpy | Fran Fabra | |
| Day 2 - 16:40-17:30 | ||
| The Soil And Vegetation Reflectometry Simulator (SAVERS) | Nazzareno Pierdicca | |
| Real-time Radio Frequency Interference Detection and Mitigation with the Front-End GNSS Interference eXcisor (FENIX) | Adrian Perez | |
| Implementation of a testbed for GNSS-R payload performance evaluation | Adrian Perez | |