Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Monday, 13/May/2024
12:30pm - 1:30pmRegistration
Location: Big Hall
1:30pm - 3:00pmS0: Opening Session: Welcome and Keynotes
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Inge Jonckheere, ESA-ESRIN
3:00pm - 3:30pmCoffee Break
Location: Marquee
3:30pm - 5:00pmS1: New Missions to Agri-Space
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Michel Massart, European Commission
Session Chair: Benjamin Koetz, ESA - ESRIN
5:00pm - 6:00pmPanel 1: FAO
Location: Big Hall
Panel Agenda:

Keynote Speaker

Jose Rosero Moncayo, Director of Statistics Division, FAO

Moderator

Lorenzo De Simone, FAO

Speakers

  • Livia Peiser, Senior and Land Water Officer, FAO: Monitoring pressure on agriculture resource base: EO for land and water information systems
  • Lorenzo De Simone, Technical Adviser Geospatial, FAO: Crop mapping and crop yield process-based models for adaptive agriculture in the face of climate change
  • Anne Branthomme, Forestry Officer, FAO: Assessing and tackling drivers of deforestation
  • Neil Marsland, Senior Technical Officer, FAO: EO for the assessment of the impacts of war on agriculture in Ukraine
6:00pm - 7:00pmPoster1: Poster Session with Ice-Breaker
Location: Marquee

Date: Tuesday, 14/May/2024
8:30am - 9:00amWelcome Coffee
Location: Marquee
The welcome coffee will be served in the Marquee located outside the Big Hall Conference room.
9:00am - 10:30amS2: Soil and Crop monitoring
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Kristof Van Tricht, VITO
Session Chair: Martin Claverie, JRC
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break
Location: Marquee
11:00am - 12:00pmPanel 2: High Level Policy Panel
Location: Big Hall
Panelists:
  • Rune FLOBERGHAGEN, Head of Climate Action, Sustainability and Science Department at European Space Agency, ESA
  • Francois KAYITAKIRE, Head of Unit of Food Security at JRC
  • Piero CONFORTI, Deputy Director of the Statistics Division at FAO
  • Sven GILLIAMS, Director of the GEOGLAM Program
  • Giancarlo PINI, Deputy Head of the WFP Geospatial and Remote Sensing Unit
Panel Moderators:
  • Sophie BONTEMPS, UCLouvain
  • Raphael D'ANDRIMONT, JRC
12:00pm - 1:30pmS3: Small-holder farming
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Mark Noort, HCP international
Session Chair: Ruud Grim, Grim
1:30pm - 3:00pmLunch Break
Location: Canteen
3:00pm - 4:30pmS4: Impact on Climate and Environment
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Heike Bach, Vista GmbH
Session Chair: Magdalena Fitrzyk, RSAC c/o ESA
4:30pm - 5:00pmCoffee Break
Location: Marquee
5:00pm - 6:00pmPanel 3: EUDR
Location: Big Hall
Panel Coordinators:
  • Felix Remboldt, European Commission, Joint Research Centre
  • Zoltan Szantoi, European Space Agency

Panelists:
  • D'Annunzio Remi, NFO
  • FRITZ Steffen, IIASA
  • Francesca Ronca, Unipalma
  • Felix Remboldt, European Commission, Joint Research Centre

Date: Wednesday, 15/May/2024
8:00am - 8:30amWelcome Coffee
Location: Marquee
The Welcome Coffee will be served in the Marquee outside the Big Hall Conference room
8:30am - 9:20amPanel 7: Copernicus uptake for EU Agricultural policies
Location: Big Hall
Panelists:
  • Koen MONDELAERS, DG AGRI (Remote Speaker)
  • Bruno COMBAL, DG ENV (Remote Speaker)
  • Marijn VAN DER VELDE, DG JRC
  • Usue DONEZAR HOYOS, EEA
  • Tim LEMMENS, DG DEFIS (Remote Speaker)
  • Carla MARTINS, ESTAT (Remote Speaker)
9:20am - 10:50amS5: Crop Yield estimation and Forecasting
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Belen Franch, Universitat de Valencia
Session Chair: Michele Meroni, JRC
10:50am - 11:10amCoffee Break
Location: Marquee
11:10am - 12:10pmPanel 4: In-situ: the last hurdle?
Location: Big Hall
Agenda and Panelists:
  • 11:10 - Raphael d'Andrimont (JRC) and Sven Gilliams (GEOGLAM)
  • 11:15 - Jose Miguel Rubio Iglesias (EEA)
  • 11:20 - Inbal Reshef (NASA HARVEST, Univ. Strasbourg)
  • 11:25 - Gregoire Tombez (Green Triangle)
  • 11:30 - Sophie Bontemps (UCLouvain)
  • 11:35 - Luca Kleinewillinghöfer (EFTAS)
  • 11:40 - Steffen Fritz (IIASA)
  • 12:10 - Panel Discussion and Q&A with the audience
12:10pm - 1:40pmS7: Community Support Tools
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Sophie Bontemps, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
Session Chair: Inbal Becker-Reshef, NASA Harvest
1:40pm - 3:00pmLunch Break
Location: Canteen
3:00pm - 4:30pmS8: Water Resources Intelligence
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Jacopo Dari, University of Perugia
Session Chair: Livia Peiser, FAO
4:30pm - 5:00pmCoffee Break
Location: Marquee
5:00pm - 6:00pmPanel 5: PRISMA, EnMAP and ECOSTRESS experiences
Location: Big Hall
Panel Coordinator:
  • Zoltan Szantoi, European Space Agency

    Panelists:

    • Monica Pepe, CNR
    • Anke Schickling, ESA
    • Simon J Hook, NASA, JPL
    • Heike Bach, Vista
6:00pm - 7:00pmPoster2: Poster Session with Social Event
Location: Marquee

Date: Thursday, 16/May/2024
8:30am - 9:00amWelcome Coffee
Location: Marquee
The Welcome Coffee will be served in the Marquee outside the Big Hall Conference room
9:00am - 10:30amS9: Droughts,Pests and other Stressors
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Thuy LE TOAN, CESBIO/GlobEO
Session Chair: Jose Moreno, University of Valencia
10:30am - 11:00amCoffee Break
Location: Marquee
11:00am - 12:30pmS10: Climate Adaption
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Lara Congiu, European Commission
Session Chair: Pierre Defourny, UCLouvain-Geomatics (Belgium)
12:30pm - 1:40pmS11: Data integration
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Marijn VAN DER VELDE, JRC
Session Chair: Linda See, IIASA
1:40pm - 3:00pmLunch Break
Location: Canteen
3:00pm - 3:30pmPanel 6: Experiment preparing for the use of new Sentinels
Location: Big Hall
Panel Coordinators:
  • Espen Volden, ESA
  • Joshua Gray, ESA
3:30pm - 4:30pmSummaries and Closing
Location: Big Hall
Session Chair: Espen Volden, European Space Agency. ESA-ESRIN
4:30pm - 5:00pmCoffee Break
Location: Marquee
5:00pm - 6:30pmLightning talk: Lightning Presentations of EC and ESA agriculture projects
Location: Big Hall