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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
WE2.R3: UAV Active and Passive Applications
Oral
Wed, 12 Aug, 11:00 - 12:15
Location: TBD
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Cody Anderson, USGS and Jeffrey Clauson, USGS
Track: Sensors
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Wed, 12 Aug, 11:00 - 11:15

WE2.R3.1: FlameVQA: A Physically-Grounded UAV Wildfire VQA Benchmark with Radiometric Thermal Supervision
mobin habibpour, John Spodnik, Niloufar Alipour Talemi, fatemeh afghah, Clemson university, United States
Wed, 12 Aug, 11:15 - 11:30

WE2.R3.2: Multiband Drone-Borne Subsurface TomoSAR of Ancient Irrigation Systems
Luciano Prado de Oliveira, Eduardo L. de Freitas, Teguh Teguh Prabowo, Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates; João Roberto Moreira Neto, University of Campinas, Brazil; Islem Yari, Felix Vega, Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates
Wed, 12 Aug, 11:30 - 11:45

WE2.R3.3: DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF A SUITE OF RADARS FOR ICE AND SNOW MEASUREMENTS ONBOARD UAS
Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Carl Leuschen, Emily Arnold, Mark Ewing, Daniel Gomez-Garcia, Richard Hale, Shawn Keshmiri, Jilu Li, John Paden, Gabriel Rose, Lee Taylor, University of Kansas, United States
Wed, 12 Aug, 11:45 - 12:00

WE2.R3.4: Soil Moisture Retrieval from a UAV-based S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar in Bare Agricultural Fields
Weihang Li, Lena Azimi, Melba Crawford, James Garrison, Purdue University, United States
Wed, 12 Aug, 12:00 - 12:15

WE2.R3.5: DGMFUSE: RECONSTRUCTION FIDELITY-DRIVEN DYNAMIC GRADIENT MODULATION FOR INFRARED AND VISIBLE IMAGE FUSION
Qian Xia, Jian Zhou, Southwest University of Science and Technology, China; Yanan Li, Automation Research Institute Company Limited Of China South Industries Group Corporation, China; DongMei Deng, Southwest University of Science and Technology, China; Jinfu Li, Beijing Institute of Technology, China