International Workshop – Dipartimento di Agraria Unina

PORTICI 27-29 MAY 2026

TWO SOURCE THERMAL REMOTE SENSING FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

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PORTICI 27-29 MAY 2026

TWO SOURCE THERMAL REMOTE SENSING FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

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27-29 May 2026 | University of Naples Federico II – Department of Agricultural Sciences

TWO SOURCE THERMAL REMOTE SENSING FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

International Workshop

27-29 May 2026 | University of Naples Federico II – Department of Agricultural Sciences


TWO SOURCE THERMAL REMOTE SENSING FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

INTERNATIONAL WORSHOP

International Workshop

Two Source Thermal Remote Sensing For
the Management of agricultural systems

Portici, 27-29 May, 2026

Thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing of the land-surface temperature (LST) provides an invaluable diagnostic of surface fluxes, including evapotranspiration (ET) and vegetation state, from plant and sub-field scales up to regional and global coverage. However, without proper consideration of the nuances of the remotely sensed LST signal, TIR imaging can give poor results for estimating fluxes, particularly ET.  In 1993, a Workshop on Thermal Remote Sensing of the Energy and Water Balance held in France led to the development of thermal-based models, including the Two-Source Energy Balance (TSEB) model, which has fueled research and applications in water resource management, crop stress detection, drought monitoring, and yield estimation from field to global scales.  Scientists from around the world have led the development of TIR- and TSEB-based multi-scale modeling systems aimed at providing physically based estimates of energy fluxes, ET, and crop conditions. These models are being applied internationally and used in operational decision support tools benefiting the agriculture industry and resource management agencies. The importance and applicability of those approaches will increase in the near future due to planned launches of public and commercial high-resolution TIR satellite missions.
This workshop will bring together an international team of researchers advancing TIR and related multi-wavelength modeling approaches using satellite, airborne and proximal sensing systems.

workshop venue

The workshop will take place at the University of Naples Federico II in Portici with plans to visit a local winery and vineyard experiment site for evaluating TSEB and other remote sensing models for monitoring grape vine water use and stress.

The Department of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II is excited to host this workshop bringing cutting-edge insights with hands-on learning, all in a setting where every vineyard tells a story.

Invited Key-Note Speakers

Special Guest Speaker Prof. John Norman

Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin

Dialogue on the impacts of open collaborative research and the development of TSEB

John Norman is a Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin.  He also held faculty positions in the Department of Meteorology at Penn State University, and Agronomy Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  He is co-author of the widely used textbook  Introduction to Environmental Biophysics and developer of a comprehensive model of the soil-plant-animal-atmosphere continuum (the Cupid Model).  John also worked closely with LICOR company engineers and scientists to produce the LAI2000 Plant Canopy Analyzer and the LI6200 Photosynthesis system used by many researchers internationally. At the 1993 workshop on thermal remote sensing of vegetation held in LaLonde Les Laures, France, John Norman and Bill Kustas worked together and developed the Two-Source Energy Balance (TSEB) model for thermal remote sensing of surface energy fluxes. At the same time at UW-Madison,  Martha Anderson, George Diak and John Mecikalski, were working on a km-scale model for continental-scale surface energy balance estimation using geosynchronous satellite data-eventually becoming the Atmosphere-Land Exchange Inverse (ALEXI) method. The linkage between the TSEB and ALEXI came from DisALEXI (Disaggregated ALEXI) at the surface-layer/Planetary-Boundary-Layer interface to connect field-plot-scale fluxes to continental-scale fluxes. Today this suite of multi-scale models and their results are routinely available over much of the world. John is a Fellow in the American Society of Agronomy, a Fellow in the Crop Science of America, a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the American Meteorology Society award for Outstanding Biometeorologist in 2004. 

Radoslaw Guzinski,

DHI,
Denmark

Dr. Radoslaw Guzinski has 15-years research experience in satellite-based modelling of evapotranspiration and other biophysical variables at various spatial scales. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Mathematics from University of Adelaide (2005 – Australia), Master in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Modelling from Lund University (2010 – Sweden) and PhD in Physical Geography from University of Copenhagen (2014 – Denmark). From 2016 to 2018 he held a Research Fellow position at European Space Agency Center of Earth Observation (ESRIN – Italy) during which time he was heavily involved in early preparatory activities for the upcoming Copernicus Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) mission. Currently working at DHI as Senior Remote Sensing Specialist, he focuses on applications in the domains of sustainable development, agriculture and water management and leads development of physically-based models and machine-learning methods utilising satellite data. Most recently he was instrumental to the design of the new global actual evapotranspiration product for the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.

Hector Nieto

Institute of Agricultural Sciences,
ICA-CSIC, Spain

Héctor Nieto is Tenured Scientist at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences (ICA‑CSIC).
Before joining CSIC, he worked at a Spanish spin-off COMPLUTIG, and previously held postdoctoral research positions at IRTA (Spain), IAS‑CSIC (Spain), ARS-USDA (US), and the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). His research has focused on generating new knowledge in evapotranspiration modeling, with applications in remote sensing at various scales, from proximal sensors to airborne and satellite platforms. As part of this research, he adapted the TSEB energy‑balance model to incorporate specific processes in row and woody crops, such as differential radiation transmission or turbulent transport of water and heat between the soil and the canopy. In addition to scientific publications, he made the complete TSEB modeling framework available to the community in an open‑source
repository (Link), which is
widely used by both scientific and industrial communities. This enabled the implementation
of TSEB as part of the new operational near‑real‑time ET product for the Copernicus
Global Land Monitoring Service, under a framework contract with VITO and the European
Commission (Link). He is currently Principal Investigator of a national project and work‑package leader in three international projects funded by ESA, on developing new products and services for the upcoming Copernicus LSTM, CHIME, and ROSE‑L missions, and the Horizon Europe program for water accounting using Earth-Observation. In addition to scientific dissemination, he
shares his models and algorithms in open repositories (Link). He has co‑supervised six doctoral theses and is currently supervising another, also
participating in university teaching at undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels, as well as in training activities for which he distributes educational material through open
technologies that combine repositories, interactive notebooks, and software
(Link).

Carmelo Cammalleri

Politecnico di Milano,
Milan, Italy

Carmelo Cammalleri is an environmental engineering, whose research focus is on hydrology. He earned his PhD in hydraulic and environmental engineering at the University of Palermo in 2011. Since then, he invested most of his research career in international institutions, first as a research fellow at the “Hydrology and Remote Sensing” laboratory at
the USDA-ARS (Beltsville, Maryland), where he worked on the use of remote sensing
techniques for the modelling of evapotranspiration fluxes and soil moisture, and then from
2013 as a researcher at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission,
where he contributed to the implementation and development of the European and Global drought observatories. He is currently associate professor at the Polytechnic University of
Milan, as part of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
His research interests include the integration of remote sensing techniques in hydrological modelling, with focus on water use in agriculture and drought modelling, the development
of near-real time monitoring and forecast technique for drought characterization and risk assessment, laboratory and field measurements of energy fluxes and soil moisture, also
through non-standard techniques, and the statistical analysis of time series for the
evaluation of climate change effects on the environment.

ABSTRACT & POSTER

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

TWO SOURCE THERMAL REMOTE SENSING FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Abstract session 1 (MAY 27)

Abstract session 2 (MAY 28)

Abstract session 3 (MAY 29)

POSTER

Accomodation

Accommodation Agreement for Workshop Participants

For participants attending the International Workshop organized by the Department of Agricultural Sciences, a special hotel accommodation agreement has been arranged with:

The Department of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II is excited to host this workshop bringing cutting-edge insights with hands-on learning, all in a setting where every vineyard tells a story.

Villa Signorini Events & Hotel**
Via Roma 43, 80056 Ercolano (NA), Italy

www.villasignorini.it

Validity Period of the Agreement

Stays from 27 to 29 May 2026
 (Additional nights subject to availability)

Special Agreed Rates

All rates listed below are per room, per night, and include breakfast.
(City tax is not included and amounts to €2.00 per person per day).

  • Double room for single use: €75.00
  • Double / Twin room: €90.00
  • Trple room: €110.00
  • Quadruple room: €130.00
  • Double room for single use: €90.00
  • Double room: €110.00
  • Double room for single use: €100.00
  • Double room: €120.00
  • Double room for single use: €110.00
  • Double room: €130.00
  • Triple room: €160.00
  • Double room for single use: €120.00
  • Double room: €140.00
  • Triple room: €160.00
  • Quadruple room: €200.00
  • Double room for single use: €150.00
  • Double room: €170.00
  • Triple room: €200.00
  • Quadruple room: €220.00

Booking Procedure

For availability and reservations, participants are requested to contact the hotel directly by email:

📧 prenotazioni@villasignorini.it

Please mention the “International Workshop – Department of Agricultural Sciences” accommodation agreement when making the reservation.
A credit card guarantee will be required at the time of booking.
→ Deadline to book at the agreed rates: 18 April 2026
Rooms are available subject to availability.

 

Cancellation Policy and No-Show

  • Free cancellation is allowed up to 4:00 PM, three days prior to the arrival date.
  • After this deadline, a penalty equal to the cost of the first night will apply.
  • In case of no-show, the penalty will be equal to the total cost of the booked stay.

workshop Programme

Day 1: May 27 (Wed)

9:00 | Registration

9:30 | Welcome address and Invited Key-Notes

Chair: Guido D’Urso, University of Naples Federico II

9:30 | Modelling evapotranspiration with TSEB and Copernicus data from local to global scales.
Radoslaw Guzinski, DHI, Denmark

10:10 | Incorporation of plant physiology and subsoil geophysics for linking water, energy and carbon fluxes in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum.
Hector Nieto, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ICA-CSIC, Spain.

10:50 | Analysis the role of LST and air temperature inconsistency in TSEB estimates.
Carmelo Cammalleri, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

11:30 | Open Discussion and Coffee Break

12:10 | Session 1
Development and applications of TIR-based two-source modeling schemes over different landscapes/environments

Chair: Mahyar Aboutalebi, Gallo

12:10 | The 1993 La Londe Workshop: A Turning Point in Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing Research.
Albert Olioso

12:30 | Fifteen Years of TSEB Applications in the Semi-Arid Southeastern Spain: Lessons from Field Experiments on Crop Water Use.
Juan Manuel Sánchez, Ramón López-Urrea, José González-Piqueras, Francisco Montoya, Álvaro Sánchez-Virosta, Vicente Caselles

12:50 | Poster presentations & lunch on site

14:30 | Session 1 (cont'd)
Development and applications of TIR-based two-source modeling schemes over different landscapes/environments

Chair: Andrew Gal, University of Davis

14:30 | Sensitivity of TSEB Turbulent Energy Fluxes to Stability Functions.
Milan Fischer et al.

14:50 | Assessing the effect of spatial resolution on energy flux estimates using the SPARSE two-source energy balance model.
M. Ippolito, D. De Caro, F. Capodici, V. Rivalland, G. Boulet, C. Cammalleri, O. Merlin, G. Ciraolo

15:10 | Spatial and Interannual Variability of Agricultural Evapotranspiration in Nebraska using Two-source energy balance model ALEXI and VIIRS Satellite. Sammy Z. Akasheh, Christopher M.U. Neale, Martha C. Anderson, Christopher R. Hain, Andy E. Suyker, Mitchell A. Schull

15:30 | Short Coffee Break

15:40 | Performance evaluation of a two-source surface energy balance model by exploiting remote sensing and reanalysis data. D. De Caro, O. Merlin, V. Rivalland, V. Simonneaux, G. Boulet, M. Ippolito, F. Capodici, C. Cammalleri, G. Ciraolo

16:00 | Best Practices on the Use of sUAS for the Estimation of Evapotranspiration and ET Partitioning Using the Two-Source Energy Balance Model: Examples from Vineyards, Almonds, Urban Green Areas, and Other Crops in the Western US and World’s Arid Regions. Alfonso Torres-Rua, Mahyar Aboutalebi, Ayman Nassar, Rui Gao, Karem Meza, Moises Duran, Sergio Alvarez, Lawrence Hipps, Mimar Alsina, Nicolas Bambach, Samuel Ortega-Farias, Lia Ramos-Fernandez, Emre Tunca

16:20 | Insights into Multi-Sensor UAV Parameterization of TSEB Across Crops. Jordan Steven Bates, Carsten Montzka, Harry Vereecken, François Jonard

16:40 | Open Discussion and Coffee Break

17:00 | Special Guest Speaker on-line John Norman, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison - USA.
"Dialogue on the impacts of open collaborative research and the development of TSEB"

Day 2: May 28 (Thu)

9:30-12:30 | Session 2
Merging/assimilating two-source remote sensing-based models for operational applications in water management

Chair: Maria P. Gonzalez-Dugo, Institute of Agricultural Research and Training of Andalusia, Cordoba

9:30 | Advancing Block-Level Irrigation Management through Enhanced Evapotranspiration Estimation by Integrating Satellite and Proximal Sensing in California Specialty Crops.
Nicolas Bambach, Karem Meza, Kyle Knipper, William Kustas, Martha Anderson, Andrew McElrone, Sebastian Castro

9:50 | Synergistic Use of VSWIR and TIR Satellite Data for Sugarcane Water Use Efficiency Assessment.
Saham Mirzaei, Francesco Rossi, Simone Pascucci, Stefano Pignatti

10:10 Benchmarking cotton water use efficiency in Australia using Earth Observation.
Brombacher J., Pelgrum H., Degen.J.

10:30 | Corn Irrigation Scheduling by using TSEB and UAV Images.
Emre Tunca, İhsan Buğra Buğdaycı, Durmuş Ali Kipritci, Şafak Ceylan

10:50 | Short Coffee Break

11:00 | Remote Sensing-Based Water Balance Modeling for Drought Assessment in Mediterranean Protected Forest Areas.
Jordi Cristóbal, Mahsa Bozorgi, Vicent Altava-Ortiz

11:20 | Real-Time Remote Sensing ET Estimation for Vineyard Irrigation Management: Current Limitations and Practical Challenges.
Mahyar Aboutaleb, Brent Sam, Nick Dokoozlian

11:40 | Combination equation models with Sentinel-2 data and comparison with thermal-based energy balance for operational water management.
Oscar Rosario Belfiore, Guido D’Urso, Salvatore Falanga Bolognesi, William B. Kustas, Kyle Knipper

12.00 | On the simultaneous estimation of Gross Primary Productivity and Evapotranspiration using the TSEB model.
Omar García-Tejera, Hector Nieto

12.20 | Open Discussion

12:40 | Poster presentations & lunch on site

14:30 - 21:30 | Travel by bus to Guardia Sanframondi (Benevento) “La Guardiense” Cooperative Winery Visit to experimental vineyard and to the Winery with degustation

Day 3: May 28 (Fri)

9:30 - 12:30 | Session 3
Future Research on improvements/refinements in two-source model inputs and formulations for improving agricultural management.

Chair: Francesco Vuolo, University of Vienna BOKU

9:30 | The TRISHNA mission (Thermal infraRed Imaging Satellite for High-resolution Natural Resource Assessment).
Philippe Gamet, Bimal K. Bhattacharya, Mehul R. Pandya, Jean-Louis Roujean, Mark Irvine, Gilles Boulet, Albert Olioso, Kanishka Mallick, Emmanuelle Autret, Laure Roupioz, Ghislain Picard, Kathrin Nägeli, Corinne Salcedo, Chinmay K. Rajhans, Sébastien Marcq, Emilie Delogu, Emmanuelle Sarrazin, Clément Luitot, Marie Weiss, Philippe Maisongrande

9:50 | Generating LST and TSEB-modelled ETa representative datasets for the future Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Mission Land Surface Temperature Monitoring.
Vannoppen Astrid, Snyders Louis, Blommaert Joris

10:10 | Dual Source Energy Budget in prescribed or retrieval conditions with the SPARSE framework: developments over a decade, pathways for the future.
Gilles Boulet, Samuel Mwangi, Albert Olioso, Sameh Saadi, Emilie Delogu, Nesrine Farhani, Athira K.V., Vincent Rivalland, Jérémy Auclair, Duong Dang Nguyen Hien, Pavan Amgoth, Kanishka Mallick

10:30 | Advances in the three-source energy balance model to improve flux partitioning in heterogeneous agro-ecosystems.
Vicente Burchard-Levine, Héctor Nieto, William P. Kustas, Radoslaw Guzinski, Andrew Gal, Nicolas Bambach, M.Dolores Raya-Sereno, Karem Meza, Andrew McElrone, Kyle Knipper, Bayu Hanggara, Arnaud Carrara, Sung-Ching Lee, M.Pilar Martin

10:50 | Short Coffee Break

11:00 | A three-source energy balance approach for estimating surface energy fluxes in heterogeneous crops with remotely sensed imagery.
Andrew Gal, Vicente Burchard-Levine, Nicolas Bambach Ortiz, Hector Nieto, Andrew McElrone, Kyle Knipper, William Kustas, Martha Anderson, Alfonso Torres-Rua, Karem Meza Capcha, Micah Levinson, Peter Tolentino, Sebastian Castro-Bustamante, Ian Wright, Lynn McKee, Kelsey Fenn, Mallika Nocco

11:20 | How to Represent Thermal Radiation Anisotropy for Improving Surface Flux Retrieval from Surface Temperature Measurements?
Samuel Mwangi, Albert Olioso, Gilles Boulet

11:40 | On the potential of constellr imagery for evapotranspiration and water stress monitoring: land surface energy balance experiments.
Samuel Mwangi, Albert Olioso, Olivier Hagolle, Emmanuelle Sarrazin, Nesrine Farhani, Benjamin Goffin, Jordi Etchanchu, Jérôme Demarty, Kanishka Mallick, Vincent Rivalland, Phillipe Gamet, Jean-Louis Roujean, Gilles Boulet, Guillaume Triquet, Daniel Spengler

12:00 | Development of a MATLAB-based Energy Transfer Model (METM) for Simulating Heat Transfer in Soil and Energy Exchange among the Atmosphere, Land Surface, and Vegetation Canopy.
Feifei Pan, Àngela Puig Sirera, Giovanni Rallo

12:20 | Poster presentations & lunch on site

14:00 | Training (Informatic Lab):
Hands on application of publicly available Python version PyTSEB using formulations in GitHub.

Hector Nieto (reservation required)

Sign Up

Registration fees: including coffee and lunch breaks, winery tour: € 300,00

Payment

Payment must be made by April 30, 2026 by credit card or bank transfer at:

Enjoy Comunicazione srls
Reason for bank transfer: TSE Worshop 2026
IBAN: IT54B0306976042100000007263

Abstract submission

Participants willing to give a Poster or Oral presentation will need to submit the Abstract in the following format: 1 page A4 (2000 characters approx.), with all margins equals to 2.5 cm, character Calibri 11 pt.; Title 14 pt bold; Authors and affiliation Italic. Use of figures and tables should be avoided. Complete address and E-mail address of presenting Author should be indicated.

The deadline for abstract submission is April 11th.

Abstracts must be uploaded in the Registration form

Preference for oral or poster presentation should be indicated.  Final decision on whether a presentation will be oral or poster will be decided by the scientific committee.

Abstract submission

April 11th, 2026

Confirmation of acceptance

April 20th, 2026

Registration and payment

April 30th, 2026

Terms & Conditions

Deadlines:

Scientific Committee

  • Mahyar Aboutalebi, Gallo Winery, CA, USA
  • Oscar R. Belfiore, Univ. Naples Federico II, Italy
  • Carmelo Cammalleri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Giuseppe Ciraolo, University of Palermo, Italy
  • Guido D’Urso, Univ. Naples Federico II, Italy
  • Radoslaw Guzinski, DHI, Denmark
  • Hector Nieto, Inst.Agric.Sci., ICA-CSIC, Spain
  • Albert Olioso, INRAE, France
  • Francesco Vuolo, Univ. BOKU Vienna, Austria

Organising Committee

Dept. Agric. Sci., Univ. Naples Federico II

Prof. Guido D’Urso, durso@unina.it

Dott.Oscar Rosario Belfiore, oscarrosario.belfiore@unina.it

Dott. Ing. Mariano Crimaldi

Dott. Benedetto Sica

Contacts

Prof. Guido D’Urso
durso@unina.it

Organizing Secretariat
info@enjoycomunicazione.com

Patrocinio

www.aiia.it

Sponsor

www.gallo.com