| Day 3, Wednesday 24 September 2008 |
| Magellan |
| 17:50-19:50 | Poster Session and Cocktail | |
| Poster Session | |
| Validation of MERIS water products in the Southern North Sea | Youngje Park (MUMM) |
| Validation of MERIS remote sensing reflectance in Atlantic case 1 waters with ground based in-situ measurements | Anja Theis (Alfred-Wegener-Institute) |
| Geometrical performances of MERIS, VEGETATION and MODIS fAPAR products | Marie Weiss (INRA-EMMAH) |
| Monte Carlo Code as a Reference Radiative Tranfer Code to Compute Atmospheric Scattering and Correction | Pierre-Yves Deschamps (Université de Lille 1-CNRS) |
| Trend analysis of MERIS water vapour measurements over cloud free land areas for a period of five years. | Ronny Leinweber (Fu-Berlin) |
| An improved smile correction for the MERIS instrument | Jean-Paul Huot (ESTEC) |
| Implications of MERIS surface anomalies for the quality of the MERIS straylight correction | Jean-Paul Huot (ESA/ESTEC) |
| The Determination of the Cloud Fraction in the SCIAMACHY Pixel using MERIS: | Alexander Kokhanovsky (University of Bremen) |
| Comparison of theoretical and empirical algorithms for the estimation of atmospheric water vapour using AATSR data | Ian Barton (CSIRO) |
| A Precise “Smile-Correction” for MERIS Oxygen Band | Helmut Schiller (GKSS Research Centre, Inst.f.Coastal Research) |
| EXPLOITATION OF THE MERIS O2 ABSORPTION BAND | Rene Preusker (FU Berlin) |
| Benchmarking MERIS derived high resolution aerosol optical thickness over Athens on the basis of MODIS products | Adrianos Retalis (National Observatory of Athens) |
| Aerosol Indices from SCIAMACHY: More Than a Qualitative Measure for Scattering and Absorbing Aerosols? | Marloes Penning de Vries (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry) |
| Sensitivity Study of the Dual-View Algorithm for Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieval Over Snow and Ice | Larysa Istomina (University of Bremen) |
| Atmospheric correction of MERIS images of inland waters using a MODTRAN LUT approach | Steef Peters (Water Insight) |
| DERIVING GPP BY MEANS OF THE fAPAR MERIS PRODUCT IN AN AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM OF CASTILE AND LEON (SPAIN) | María Luisa Sánchez (University of Valladolid) |
| Evaluation of MERIS FR LAI products derived using MERIS TOA_VEG and TOC_VEG algorithms over four different land uses in Canada | Francis Canisius (Canada Center for Remote Sensing (CCRS)) presented by Dr. Richard Fernandes |
| A study on evapotranspiration retrieval using MERIS and AATSR data over the Loess Plateau mesa regions | LIU Rong (CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
| Analysis of Landcover Dynamics in the Niger Inland Delta using MERIS Full Resolution Data | Ralf Seiler (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| Assessment of Aspen Defoliation in Canada with MERIS | Joost van der Sanden (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) |
| Global monitoring of annual vegetation cycles using DOAS UV/vis satellite observations | Ellen Eigemeier (MPI for Chemistry) |
| LAI estimation of wheat fields from MERIS and ASAR data | Giuseppe Satalino (CNR-ISSIA) |
| Consistency between MERIS and SPOT derived fAPAR to optimize ecosystem model parameters | Cédric Bacour (LSCE) |
| Geo-location assessment of MERIS Globcover ortho-rectified products | P. Bicheron (MEDIAS-France) |
| An interactive 3D viewer for navigating the Land Cover map | E Chauvineau (VEGA Technologies) |
| MERIS–based Aquatic Petroleum Pollution Monitoring Mode | Miao-fen Huang (Dalian Fisheries University) |
| Deducing Salinity from Chlorophyll-a using Envisat MERIS Satellite Imagery: A Case Study in Modaomen and Shawan Waterway, Pearl River Estuary, South China | Shuisen Chen (Guangzhou Institute of Geography) |
| MERIS Validation with respect to operational monitoring needs in the North and Baltic Sea | Kerstin Stelzer (Brockmann Consult) |
| Compensating for optical heterogeneity in extreme case-2 waters | Annelies Hommersom (IVM) |
| Near shore oceanographic conditions off SW Portugal in summer 2006 and 2007 from satellite and in situ data | Paulo B. Oliveira (INRB/IPIMAR - Investigação das Pescas e do Mar) |
| MERIS Ocean Color processing at NOAA CoastWatch | Linda Stathoplos (NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD) |
| Using ENVISAT MERIS data to detect oceanic coccolithophore blooms in the North Atlantic | Kerstin Ebert (Freie Universitaet Berlin) |
| A twelve years ATSR-2/AATSR preliminary classification maps database | Mario Cavicchi (MEEO Srl) |
| ATSR-WFA new algorithms for hot spot detection | Stefano Casadio (SERCO spa) |
| Smoke plume detection with (A)ATSR | Anu-Maija Sundström (University of Helsinki) |
| Synergy between MERIS, ATSR and SCIAMACHY cloud retrieval | Michael Grzegorski (University of Heidelberg) |
| Synergetic use of MERIS and (A)ATSR for algal bloom monitoring in Skagerrak | Are Folkestad (Norwegian Institute for Water Research) |
| The ATSR-WFA Web Tool: easy access to the WFA archive | Stefano Casadio (SERCO spa) |
| Stereo analysis tools for cloud-top heights and cloud masks from (A)ATSR(2) | Jan-Peter Muller (University College London) |
| Impacts of sand mining on shared perennial rivers and ephemeral watercourses in Namibia | Silvanus Kweenda Uunona (MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, WATER AND FORESTRY) |
| Land Surface Temperature from AATSR data: Comparison of Split-window and Single Channel correction methods | Joan Miquel Galve Romero (University of Valencia) |
| Ocean Colour (MERIS/MODIS/SeaWiFS) and SST (AATSR/MODIS/AVHRR) inter-sensor comparison for the Azores region | Ana Martins (University of the Azores) |
| A study on evapotranspiration retrieval using MERIS and AATSR data over the Loess Plateau mesa regions | Rong Liu (CAREERI/CAS) |
| Multitemporal MERIS data for Agricultural Monitoring in Greece | Leonidas Toulios (National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF)) |
| SOIL MAPPER® (A)ATSR Version: (A)ATSR preliminary spectral categorization system | Stefano Natali (MEEO S.r.l.) |
| Arctic coastal pathways of organic matter | Heim Birgit (Alfred-Wegener-Institute) |
| SOMAFID: a second level stratified image processing system for thermal anomalies identification in (A)ATSR imagery | Stefano Natali (MEEO Srl) |
| Use of MERIS and AATSR data in previsional fire danger index computation system for alpine regions | Lorenzo Corgnati (Politecnico di Torino) |
| Laser remote sensing of chromophoric dissolved organic matter and algal pigments off the Svalbard Islands: an opportunity for MERIS cal/val in the Arctic Ocean | Luca Fiorani (ENEA) |
| Mt. Etna volcanic aerosol and ash using MERIS and AATSR data | Claudia Spinetti (INGV) |
| Aerosol remote sensing using AATSR: The dual-view ORAC retrieval scheme | Andrew Sayer (University of Oxford) |
| Testing available MERIS image processors for lakes. | Krista Alikas (Tartu Observatory) |
| Remote sensing for environmental control of Dociostaurus maroccanus (Orthoptera, Acrididae) in Apulia (Italy) | Belviso Luciano (University of Bari) |
| Monitoring water level and water quality of lakes Macro Prespa and Ochris using radar altimetry and MERIS data | Marianthi Stefouli (Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration,) |
| Use of airborne and field data to validate sea surface temperature data from MODIS and ATSR in the Ria de Vigo | Luis Gonzalez-Vilas (University of Vigo) |
| MERIS images for Doñana marshlands monitoring | Ricardo Díaz-Delgado (Doñana Biological Station (CSIC)) |
| Development of a neural network to retrieve chlorophyll concentrations from MERIS images in the Galician coastal waters. | Angela Mosquera Giménez (University of Vigo) |
| Signal-to-noise ratio for MTCI and NDVI time series data | Jadunandan Dash (University of Southampton) |
| DISASTER MONITORING WITH THE UTILIZATION OF ENVISAT MERIS SATELLITE IMAGES IN HUNGARY | Gizella Nádor (Inst. of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing) |
| Estimation of rice Plant Nitrogen Content from MERIS using a field-based empirical model | Mirco Boschetti (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - IREA) |
| Multisource detection of drought events at the European scale | Simone Rossi (European Commission Joint Research Centre) |
| A methodology to validate coarse resolution biophysical products from multi-resolution MERIS data | F. Javier García-Haro (University of Valencia) |
| Monitoring drought conditions in the Iberian Peninsula using moderate and coarse resolution satellite data | F. Javier García-Haro (University of Valencia) |
| Processor Development and Application with BEAM | Zühlke Marco (Brockmann Consult) |
| Orbit prediction of MERIS and AATSR with ESOV-NG | Olaf Danne (Brockmann Consult) |
| MERCI - Operational Management of MERIS and AATSR large data archives | Thomas Block (Brockmann Consult) |
| Test of Ground Reflectance Derived Using the AATSR Dual-view Algorithm | Pekka Kolmonen (Finnish Meteorological Institute) |
| Estimation of the chlorophyll content of the Monarch Butterfly reserve | Maria Luisa España (UMSNH) |
| EVALUATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF REMOTE SENSING FOR MONITORING PORTOFINO MARINE PROTECTED AREA (LIGURIAN SEA) | Marta Manca Zeichen (ICRAM) |
| AEROSOL RETRIEVAL OVER FINLAND USING THE DUAL-VIEW AATSR ALGORITHM | Larisa Sogacheva (University of Helsinki) |
| Validation of MERIS Level 2 Products on the Apulian Coastal Areas | V. De Pasquale (CNR-ISSIA) |
| Internal waves effect on near-surface chlorophyll concentration: remote sensing and modelling | Sérgio Muacho (Institute of Oceanography - University of Lisbon) |