IGARSS 2026 Summer School - Program
Program Schedule
| Day | Time | Program |
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Day 1 (Thursday, August 6, 2026) Chair: Prof. John J. Qu |
8:30-9:00 AM | Registration |
| 9:00-9:30 AM |
Opening Remarks:
Prof. John J, Qu, Co-Chair, IGARSS 2026 Summer School Prof. Pat Gillevet, Associate Dean for Research, COS Prof. Liping Di, Co-Chair, IGARSS 2026 Conference |
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| 9:30-9:45 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 9:45-11:45 AM |
Dr. Jack Kaye (George Mason University; Former Associate Director for Research, NASA SMD) Integrating Scientific and Societal Benefits Through Cross-Cutting Earth Science Perspectives |
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| 11:45-1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30-3:00 PM |
Dr. Chen Zhang (George Mason University) Towards Intelligent Crop Monitoring: Data, Platforms, and Future Directions |
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| 3:00-3:30 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30-5:30 PM |
Dr. Vinay Viswambharan (Esri) Using Geospatial Al in ArcGIS for Feature Extraction |
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Day 2 (Friday, August 7, 2026) Chair: Prof. Ramesh Singh |
8:30-10:30 AM |
Dr. Prasanjit Dash (NOAA, Maryland) Al Applications on Modern Geovisualization: from static maps to interactive, data-driven exploration using satellite observations and modeled products across the hydrosphere, coasts, atmosphere, land, and cryosphere. |
| 10:30-10:45 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 AM-2:00 PM |
Dr. Ujjwal Narayan (Geospatial Data Engineer) Leveraging Al techniques and models for Agricultural Applications |
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| 11:45 AM-1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00-5:30 PM |
Prof. Edward Oughton (George Mason University) Al refusenik to Al evangelist: Excelling at Al-assisted coding for satellite image analysis (with Al tool demo) |
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| 3:00-3:15 PM | Coffee Break | |
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Day 3 (Saturday, August 8, 2026) Chair: Prof. Mitchell Goldberg |
9:00 AM-12:15 PM (9:00 AM-12:00 PM) |
Prof. Sam Shen (San Diego State University), & Prof. Mitch Goldberg (City College of New York) Web-based data science and AI applications for visualization, delivery, analysis, and prediction of weather and climate conditions (Hands-on Tutorial) This tutorial introduces iCHARM for visualization and delivery of weather and climate datasets, and Al weather forecasting with NVIDIA FourCast Net, Google GraphCast, and NVIDIA CorrDiff. |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00-3:00 PM |
Ms. Zijing Wu (University of Hong Kong) AI-Based Census of Wildlife Migratory Populations in the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem |
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| 3:00-3:15 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 3:15-5:15 PM |
Prof. Prasad Goginen (University of Alabama, IEEE Fellow) Development of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radars and AI Applications for Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice |
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| 5:15-5:30 PM | Closing Remarks and Certificate Presentation |