Programme

Multidisciplinary Imaging for Planetary and Small-Body Missions: Advanced Image Processing Across Radar, Optical, Hyperspectral and In-Situ Systems

Thursday, 17 September 2026

The workshop brings together methodological and application-oriented perspectives on imaging for planetary and small-body missions, including radar, optical, hyperspectral, remote-sensing, and in-situ measurement techniques.

Presentation format: Invited talks are 30 minutes and contributed talks are 20 minutes. The programme concludes with a 40-minute panel discussion.

10:30–11:00 — Invited talk
Tomáš Kohout
ASPECT Hyperspectral Camera of the ESA Hera Mission to Binary Asteroid – Observation Strategy and On-Board Data Processing

11:00–11:20 — Contributed talk
Pamela Such
Quantum-Relational Resource Mapping: A Terrain-Aware Geometric Spectral Framework for Multi-Sensor Lunar Imaging and Resource Mapping

11:20–11:40 — Contributed talk
Xiaonan Jiang
Object Detection in Optical-SAR Remote Sensing Image Fusion Based on Scattering-Aware Gating Fusion

11:40–12:00 — Contributed talk
Myeong-jin Lee
A Simulation Framework for Evaluating UAV InSAR/DInSAR Configurations in Complex Terrains

12:00–13:30 — Lunch break

13:30–14:00 — Invited talk
Camilo Reyes
PROXIMA GeoAI: Making Satellite Image Analysis Accessible Through Natural Language Intelligence

14:00–14:30 — Invited talk
Sampsa Pursiainen
From Geoscience to Astrophysics: Inverse Imaging of Small-Body Interiors

14:30–14:50 — Contributed talk
Mahsa Heydari
Radar-SRNET: Spatiotemporal Super-Resolution of Radar Point Clouds From Raw I/Q Data

15:00–15:30 — Coffee break

15:30–16:00 — Invited talk
Pamela Such
The Measured Universe: How Multidimensional Space-Mission Data Shape the Reality We Can Perceive

16:00–16:20 — Contributed talk
Topi Pajala
Impact of Wave Polarization on Monostatic Radar Tomography of Asteroids: A Numerical Study

16:20–17:00 — Panel discussion
Using Multimodal Measurements in Structural Imaging: Challenges for Future Planetary and Small-Body Missions