Programme 2014

Program Wednesday 29.10.2014

08:30 Registration and setting up posters

09:00 Welcoming Copernicus session, chair: Mikko Strahlendorff

• Copernicus goes operational 2015 – finnish perspective, Mikko Strahlendorff
• Finnish Corine Landcover 2012 in Copernicus Land monitoring, Pekka Härmä
• Hi-res Copernicus Land Services layers over Finland, Markus Törmä
• Sodankylä national satellite data center, Jyri Heilimo
• ESA EO strategy 2014-2020 - finnish perspective, Jouni Pulliainen

10:40 Coffee Break

11:00 Session 1, Microwave remote sensing, chair: Jaan Praks

• 40+ years of Remote Sensing and Space Technology research, Martti Hallikainen
• Aalto university plans for microwave remote sensing, Jaan Praks
• Soil frost from microwave data, Kimmo Rautiainen

12:00 Lunch break

13:00 Session 2, Remote sensing the Atmosphere, chair: Johanna Tamminen

• OMI community within minutes for a decade, Timo Ryyppö
• OMI tropospheric NO2 for air quality monitoring in Northern Europe, Iolanda Ialongo
• ESA Ozone CCI: towards combined use of satellite ozone profiles, Viktoria Sofieva
• Ash and SO2 from recent volcanic eruptions in Iceland, Janne Hakkarainen
• Solar proton events and sudden stratospheric warmings on NOx and O3, S-M Päivärinta
• Effects of precipitating radiation belt electrons on *HO and O3, Monika Andersson

15:00 Presentations from sponsors & introduction to posters T-Kartor, SEN3APP, MoniMet Life+
15:20 Poster Bazar

16:20 Session 3, The cryosphere in change, chair: Kari Luojus

• Sea Ice SAR Segmentation and Ice Drift Estimation Using Edge Information, Juha Karvonen
• BAECC SNEX: Extensive snowfall campaign in Finland during 2014, Annakaisa von Lerber
• SnowPEX for EO-based snow product intercomparison/validation, Sari Metsämäki
• GlobSnow 2008-2014: new benchmark for Hemispheric snow cover info, Kari Luojus

18:00 Sauna, 5th floor

Thursday 30.10.2014

09:20 Session 4, Forestry all around the earth, chair: Tuomas Häme

• Comparison of current fPAR products in boreal forests, Titta Majasalmi, Video (sound from 5:40 onwards)
• Seasonal physiology using Hyperion images in central Finland, Rocio Hernandez-Clemente, Video
• Retrieval of leaf chlorophyll content using narrow-band indices for field crops, Xiaochen Zou, Video
• Forest understory reflectance from multi-angle data, Jan Pisek, Video
• SAOCOM-CS: A passive companion for single-pass L-band SAR interferometry, Tuomas Häme, Video 1, Video 2, Video 3

11:00 Coffee break

11:20 Session 5, Water environment and other topics, chair: Yrjö Sucksdorff

• What can fine resolution satellites provide for small coloured lakes?, Elar Asuküll
• Assessment of Radiometer Concepts for Advanced SST/OVW Mission, Juha Kainulainen
• Modelling trends in satellite observation time series using dynamic regression, Marko Laine
• EducEO - Education for EO capitalizing on a Citizen Science approach, Timo Toivanen
• Analysis of the Bright Fireball over Kola Peninsula, Maria Gritsevich, Meteorite video

13:10 Closing remarks, chair: Mikko Strahlendorff and session chairs

13:20 End of RSD2014