What is Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing? The scientific-technical disciplines of photogrammetry and remote sensing focus on obtaining information about distant objects and processes from sensors that are not in contact with the objects, and by subsequent analysis of the acquired data. While photogrammetry concentrates on reconstructing the geometric form of objects, remote sensing puts emphasis on the retrieval of physical object properties.   News Global soil moisture data set presented at the EGU Conference 2012 Monitoring drought conditions in Europe from space Wolfgang Wagner was invited to become a member of the Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate (TOPC) EuroSDR Workshop completed successfully   Latest IPF Publications Y. Liu, W. Dorigo, R. Parinussa, R. De Jeu, W. Wagner, M. McCabe, J. Evans, A. Van Dijk: "Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals"; Remote Sensing of Environment, 123 (2012), 280 - 297. More information D. Sabel, Z. Bartalis, W. Wagner, M. Doubkova, J. Klein: "Development of a Global Backscatter Model in support to the Sentinel-1 mission design"; Remote Sensing of Environment, 120 (2012), 102 - 112. M. Doubkova, A. Van Dijk, D. Sabel, W. Wagner, G. Blöschl: "Evaluation of the predicted error of the soil moisture retrieval from C-band SAR by comparison against modelled soil moisture estimates over Australia"; Remote Sensing of Environment, 120 (2012), 188 - 196. More information