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Pioneering Advances in Spaceborne Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation: Observations, Retrievals, Theoretical Frameworks, and AI Innovations 2

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

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
Presenting Author Talk Time Paper Title | Authors | Abstract Session Date / Room
13:00

Invited
Passive Remote Sensing of Aerosol Vertical Distribution: Theory and First Results
+*Jun Wang (University of Iowa), Zhendong Lu (University of Iowa), Xi Chen (University of Iowa)
1P1
2026-07-28
PM
Room: 1 - CR 1
13:20

Invited
Impacts of Mineralogy and Size on the Spectral Variation of Dust Lidar Properties and Hyper-spectral Reflectance
***, +*Zhibo Zhang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), ***, ***
1P1
2026-07-28
PM
Room: 1 - CR 1
13:40

Linearized 1D and 3D Radiative Transfer Model Using Discrete Ordinate and Monte Carlo Methods
Dongbin Liang (Fudan University), Han Dou (Fudan University), +*Bingqiang Sun (Fudan University)
1P1
2026-07-28
PM
Room: 1 - CR 1
13:55

Retrieval of Aerosol Scattering Phase Function and Polarized Phase Function from Spaceborne Multiangle Polarimetric Observations
+*Jiachen Ding (Nanjing University)
1P1
2026-07-28
PM
Room: 1 - CR 1
14:10

Efficient Aerosol Retrieval via a Hybrid Mamba and Transformer
+*Zike Xu (Shenzhen University), Wenjuan Qi (Shenzhen University), Yunfei Ye (Shenzhen University), Huizeng Liu (Shenzhen University), Guanglang Xu (Shenzhen University)
1P1
2026-07-28
PM
Room: 1 - CR 1
14:25

Application of Super-spheroid and Hexahedron Models to Account for Particle Nonsphericity in Retrieval of Aerosol Properties Using GRASP Algorithm
+*Wushao Lin (GRASP-SAS), ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, Lei Bi (Zhejiang University)
1P1
2026-07-28
PM
Room: 1 - CR 1
14:40

Study on Reconstructing Aerosol Optical Depth in Cloud-covered Areas of Landsat Imagery Based on a Spatiotemporal Masked Transformer
+Yunfei Ye (Shenzhen University), Wenjuan Qi (Shenzhen University), Zike Xu (Shenzhen University), Huizeng Liu (Shenzhen University), *Guanglang Xu (Shenzhen University)
1P1
2026-07-28
PM
Room: 1 - CR 1
14:55

Seamless High-resolution AOD Retrieval via Generative Models and Multi-dimensional Heterogeneous Data Fusion
+Wenjuan Qi (Shenzhen University), Zike Xu (Shenzhen University), Yunfei Ye (Shenzhen University), Huizeng Liu (Shenzhen University), *Guanglang Xu (Shenzhen University)
1P1
2026-07-28
PM
Room: 1 - CR 1
15:10

ZJU-SCATTER-V1.0: A New Database of Single-scattering Properties for Aerosols and Ice Crystals to Support General Remote Sensing, Data Assimilation, and Climate Studies
+*Lei Bi (Zhejiang University), Senyi Kong (Zhejiang University), Yue Xi (Zhejiang University), Xuan Wang (Zhejiang University), Wushao Lin (Zhejiang University), Zhenhong Du (Zhejiang University), Wei Han (CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (CEMC)), Xiaoye Zhang (Institute of Atmospheric Composition, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences)
1P1
2026-07-28
PM
Room: 1 - CR 1
16:00Coffee Break

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