Pioneering Advances in Spaceborne Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation: Observations, Retrievals, Theoretical Frameworks, and AI Innovations 1

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Pioneering Advances in Spaceborne Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation: Observations, Retrievals, Theoretical Frameworks, and AI Innovations 1

Session Organizers

Lei Bi

Zhejiang University

Wei Han

CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (CEMC)

Xianglei Huang

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Session Chairs

Lei Bi

Zhejiang University

Session Information

Remote sensing of our Earth system has significantly evolved over the past decade, driven by advances in satellite instrumentation and remote sensing theory, as well as the explosive usage of AI in retrievals. Observations from CubeSats and SmallSats are now starting to play increasingly important roles. This session aims to bring together leading scholars, industry experts, and young scientists to discuss the latest developments in spaceborne remote sensing of our Earth system and data assimilation, highlighting novel observational capabilities, retrieval methods, theoretical approaches, and AI applications that are shaping the future of Earth observation.

Submitted Articles

Note: The following submitted articles are not guaranteed to be scheduled in the final program at this stage. The final presentation type and arranged session will be decided by Technical Program Committee.
Note: +: Presenting Author, *: Corresponding Author

Talk Time	Paper Title \| Authors \| Abstract	Session Date / Room
8:00 Invited	Sounding the Atmosphere from Geostationary Orbit --- Progress and Applications +Jun Li (National Satellite Meteorological Center, CMA), Di Di (Nanjing University of Information and Science Technology), Pengyu Huang (Sun Yat-sen University), Suling Ren (National Satellite Meteorological Center, CMA), Hao Wang (CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (CEMC)), Chengli Qi (National Satellite Meteorological Center, CMA), Ruoying Yin (CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (CEMC)), Wei Han (CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (CEMC))*	1A1 2026-07-28 AM Room: 1 - CR 1
8:20 Invited	Research Progress on Atmospheric Composition Observation of Fengyun Satellites +Lin Chen (National Satellite Meteorological Centre (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration), Yidan Si (National Satellite Meteorological Centre (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration), *, Ling Gao (National Satellite Meteorological Centre (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration), *, Lu Zhang (National Satellite Meteorological Centre (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration), Yan Zhang (National Satellite Meteorological Centre (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration), , , Weihe Wang (National Satellite Meteorological Centre (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration), Xiuqing Hu (National Satellite Meteorological Centre (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration), Xingying Zhang (National Satellite Meteorological Centre (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration)*	1A1 2026-07-28 AM Room: 1 - CR 1
8:55	AI-driven Reconstruction of WRF-Chem Aerosol Fields Using Spaceborne Lidar **, +Feiyue Mao (Wuhan University)	1A1 2026-07-28 AM Room: 1 - CR 1
9:10	Hybrid Observing System Simulation Experiment (Hybrid-OSSEs) to Evaluate the Potential Impact of the FY-4 Geostationary Orbit Microwave Satellite on Numerical Weather Prediction +Ke Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)*	1A1 2026-07-28 AM Room: 1 - CR 1
9:25	Application of Brightness Temperature Remapping of FY-3G MWRI-RM in All-sky Assimilation for CMA-GFS +Yingying Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Ke Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Wei Han (CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (CEMC)), **	1A1 2026-07-28 AM Room: 1 - CR 1
9:40	Pretraining-enhanced Satellite Sensing Toward Instant On-orbit Monitoring +Xing Yan (Beijing Normal University)*	1A1 2026-07-28 AM Room: 1 - CR 1
10:00	Coffee Break
10:30	Cloud Thermodynamic Phase Inferred from Simultaneous Shortwave Infrared and Multi-angle Polarization Measurement +Haofei Wang (National Satellite Meteorological Center (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration), Peng Zhang (Meteorological Observation Centre, China Meteorological Administration), X. F. Tan (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology), Kentaroh Suzuki (The University of Tokyo)*	1A1 2026-07-28 AM Room: 1 - CR 1
10:45	Retrieval of Subpixel Cloud Fraction from Coarse Cloud Masks with Deep Learning **, Yannian Zhu (Nanjing University), *, Husi Letu (Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences), *, +Chen Zhou (Nanjing University)	1A1 2026-07-28 AM Room: 1 - CR 1
11:00	Assimilating All-sky Satellite Radiance Data for Binary Typhoon Forecasting Using the POD-3DEnVar Method +Mingyang Zhang (National University of Defense Technology)*	1A1 2026-07-28 AM Room: 1 - CR 1
11:15	AI-empowered Microwave Interferometric Radiometry +Hao Liu (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences)*	1A1 2026-07-28 AM Room: 1 - CR 1

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