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Session Overview | |
| Location: Aula |
| Date: Tuesday, 03/Mar/2026 | |
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
📝Registration and Welcome Coffee ☕ Location: Aula |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Welcome and Introduction Location: Aula Welcome message from Uni Bonn and FZ Juelich 1: University of Bonn, Germany; 2: FZ Juelich, Germany 10:40am - 10:50am Welcome message and Workshop objectives European Space Agency, Netherlands, The 10:50am - 11:00am Workshop Logistics Forschunsgzentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
🛰️FLEX Mission : Getting ready for Launch Location: Aula Chair: Marco Celesti, European Space Agency Chair: Uwe Rascher, Forschungszentrum Jülich The FLEX Mission Development Status ESA, The Netherlands 11:15am - 11:30am The FLEX Instrument Performance Simulator and Ground Prototype Processor: development status 1: ESA/ESTEC; 2: VITO Remote Sensing; 3: Exprivia S.p.A.; 4: Leonardo S.p.A.; 5: INDRA-Deimos; 6: Thales Alenia Space 11:30am - 11:45am FLEX mission products and validation status 1: Magellium, France; 2: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; 3: University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; 4: University of Twente, Netherlands; 5: ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands; 6: ESA/ESRIN, Italy 11:45am - 12:00pm The FLEX Collaborative Platform: Enabling Data Processing, Validation, and Scientific Exploitation of FLEX Fluorescence Products Terradue Srl, Italy 12:00pm - 12:30pm Q&A from the audience . |
| 2:00pm - 3:45pm |
Data Products and Validation Strategies I Location: Aula Chair: Alexander Damm, University of Zurich Chair: Marin Tudoroiu, European Space Agency-ESA The atmospheric correction processor of the FLEX Sentinel-3 tandem space mission 1: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; 2: University of Milano Bicocca, Italy; 3: Magellium Artal group, France; 4: University of Valencia, Spain; 5: European Space Agency 2:15pm - 2:30pm SIF Full-Spectrum Retrieval in the Framework of the FLEX Mission 1: University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; 2: Magellium Artal Group, France; 3: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; 4: European Space Agency, ESA-ESTEC, The Netherlands; 5: European Space Agency, ESA-ESRIN, Italy 2:30pm - 2:45pm Photosynthesis data products of FLEX 1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: Magellium, France; 3: Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany; 4: Nanjing Normal University, China; 5: University of Milano-Bicocca 2:45pm - 3:00pm Cal/Val Activities for the FLEX Mission: Approach and Current Status 1: Università Milano Bicocca, Italy; 2: Magellium, Toulouse, France; 3: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; 4: National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK; 5: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany; 6: University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; 7: University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; 8: JB Hyperspectral Devices, Dusseldorf, Germany; 9: European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands; 10: European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy 3:00pm - 3:15pm Point-to-pixel upscaling and associated uncertainties due to spatial and temporal variability in the context of FLEX L2 reflectance validation 1: NPL, Teddington, United Kingdom; 2: University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy 3:15pm - 3:30pm Bridging Observation Scales for the Calibration and Validation of FLEX SIF Products 1: University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; 2: JB Hyperspectral Devices GmbH, Germany; 3: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; 4: Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany; 5: University of Twente, The Netherlands; 6: The National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom; 7: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IBE-CNR), Italy; 8: Magellium Artal Group, France; 9: European Space Agency (ESA ESTEC), The Netherlands; 10: European Space Agency (ESA ESRIN), Italy 3:30pm - 3:45pm Validation of FLEX Level-2 Biophysical Products: Approaches and Current Status 1: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; 2: University of Twente, the Netherlands; 3: University of Bonn, Germany; 4: JB Hyperspectral, Germany; 5: University Milano-Bicocca, Italy; 6: National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom; 7: European Space Agency, ESA ESTEC, the Netherlands; 8: European Space Agency, ESA ESRIN, Italy; 9: Magellium, France |
| 3:45pm - 4:15pm |
Coffee Break Location: Aula |
| 4:15pm - 6:00pm |
Data Products and Validation Strategies II Location: Aula Chair: Marc Bouvet, European Space Agency-ESA Chair: Micol Rossini, University of Milano-Bicocca FLEXvalGER - In situ, UAV, airborne and satellite validation of FLEX L1C-L2C products in Germany 1: Forschunsgzentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; 2: Earth Observation Center, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 3: Helmholtz Center for Geosciences (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany; 4: JB Hyperspectral Devices GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany; 5: Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Earth System science department, Hannover, Germany; 6: Biogeochemical Integration, Max‐Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany; 7: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Remote Sensing and Landscape Information Systems / Sensor-based Geoinformatics, Tennenbacherstraße 4, 79106 Freiburg; 8: Department of Bioclimatology, Georg-August University, Büsgenweg 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; 9: Julius Kuehn-Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Forest Protection, Erwin-Baur-Str. 27, 06484 Quedlinburg, Germany; 10: Maitec, Isny, Germany; 11: Heinz Walz GmbH, Germany; 12: Competence Center Landscape Resilience, Georg-August University, Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; 13: Department of Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute for Biology, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 21-23, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; 14: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstraße 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; 15: Institute for Earth System Research and Remote Sensing, University of Leipzig, Talstraße 35, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 4:30pm - 4:45pm Validations Strategies for FLEX Level-2 Products: The SpaFLEX Multi-Scale Protocol and Application in Doñana National Park 1: Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia (UV) Paterna (Valencia), Spain; 2: Desertification research center (CIDE-CSIC-UV-GVA), Department of Ecology and Global Change, Moncada (Valencia),Spain; 3: National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain; 4: Doñana Biological Station, Spanish National Research Council (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain; 5: Agri-Food Research and Technology Centre of Aragon (CITA), Zaragoza, Spain; 6: Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain 4:45pm - 5:00pm FLORA – FLEX Leaf Observation and Retrieval via Hybrid Approaches: A Multi-Sensor Framework for Calibration and Validation of FLEX L2B/L2C Products 1: Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.; 2: Dept. of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.; 3: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto per la BioEconomia, Firenze, Italy.; 4: University of Siena - Department of Life Sciences, Siena, Italy.; 5: Meteorology and Air Quality group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands; 6: Satellite Observations Department, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Netherlands.; 7: Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands. 5:00pm - 5:15pm Upscaling photosynthetic function from leaf to canopy level and across the seasons for representative terrestrial ecosystems in the USA 1: UMBC/GESTAR II and NASA/GSFC, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, U.S.A.; 2: NASA/GSFC, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, U.S.A.; 3: ITC, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands 5:15pm - 5:30pm Integrating tower-based dual-geometry hyperspectral system and drone-based hyperspectral imaging system for calibration and validation of the FLEX mission across multiple ecosystems in South Korea Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) 5:30pm - 5:45pm INSIF, International Network of Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence 1: JB Hyperspectral Devices GmbH, Germany; 2: National Physics Laboratory. Teddington, United Kingdom; 3: Brockmann Consult. Hamburg, Germany; 4: INFLPR. Magurele, Romania; 5: Environmental Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Laboratory (SpecLab), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); 6: ESA. European Space Agency 5:45pm - 6:00pm Considerations on the use of in situ spectroscopy measurements for FLEX data validation 1: Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology, Surface Waters – Research and Management, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland; 3: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903, BirmensdorfBirmensdorf, Switzerland |
| 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
Posters display and 🍷IceBreaker Location: Aula Advancing SIF Retrieval for FLEX: Integrating UAV Hyperspectral, FluorSpec and Radiative Modelling in Potato and Maize Systems 1: Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands.; 2: Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.; 3: National Nanfan Research Institute (Sanya), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, China.; 4: 4. Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands. High-spatial-resolution gross primary production estimation from Sentinel-2: A baseline for future SIF integration 1: Image Processing Laboratory - University of Valencia, Spain; 2: Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) - University of Twente, The Netherlands; 3: Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation - TU Wien, Austria FRM4FLUO: Fiducial Reference Measurements for the Fluorescence. Overview. 1: JB Hyperspectral Devices GmbH, Germany; 2: National Physics Laboratory. Teddington, United Kingdom; 3: Italian National Research Council - CNR, Italy; 4: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; 5: University of Milano Bicocca, Italy; 6: iTUBS, Germany; 7: University of Twente, the Netherlands; 8: ESA. European Space Agency Meet the FLORES project: Mechanistically Tracking Forest Photosynthesis and Transpiration through Multiscale Chlorophyll Fluorescence Signals 1: BIODYNE Biosystems Dynamics and Exchanges, TERRA Teaching and Research Center, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium; 2: Department of Biology, Research Group PLECO (Plant and Ecosystems), University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium; 3: Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Meteorological and Climatological Research, Brussels, Belgium; 4: Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, Nancy, France; 5: Earth Observation and Ecosystem Modelling Laboratory, SPHERES Research Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measurements Across Scales at the Sodankylä ESA SUPERSITE 1: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; 2: Laboratory for Earth Observation, Image Processing Laboratory, Dept. of Earth Physics and Thermodynamics, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Operational Processing of High-Quality Fluorescence Products: the FLEX Mission Core Processing Facility 1: Werum Software & Systems AG, Germany; 2: ESA ESRIN, Italy On the use of the FLoX spectrometer for validating FLEX data over water 1: Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, CNR, Milano, Italy; 2: Department of Engineering, University of Sapienza, Rome, Italy; 3: Institute of Marine Sciences, CNR, Rome, Italy; 4: Institute of Marine Sciences, CNR, Venice, Italy; 5: Department of Optical Oceanography, Institute of Carbon Cycles, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany; 6: Department of Oceanography, NIVA, Oslo, Norway; 7: JB Hyperspectral Devices GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany; 8: Earth Observation Unit, Magellium, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France, European Space Agency; 9: ESA-ESTEC, the Netherlands Towards FLEX for inland waters: analysis of ground, airborne and spaceborne data in Lake Garda 1: Institute of Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, National Research Council, Italy; 2: Water Research Institute, National Research Council, Verbania, Italy; 3: Joint Research Centre - European Commission, Ispra (VA), Italy; 4: University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy; 5: CzechGlobe, Brno, Czech Republic; 6: Institute of BioEconomy, National Research Council, Florence, Italy; 7: Edmund Mach Foundation, Trento, Italy; 8: Italian Space Agency, Matera, Italy Project Transparent: genetically modified cotton plants overexpressing chromoproteins and their potential use in satellite imagery 1: UCIBIO – Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, Department of Chemistry, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus da Caparica, Caparica, Portugal; 2: Associate Laboratory i4HB – Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus da Caparica, Caparica, Portugal FLEX radiometry monitoring using VICALOPS service 1: Magellium, France; 2: NPL, England; 3: ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands Remote detection of drought stress with sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: a tale of scaling up and down 1: Universität Innsbruck, Austria; 2: Spanish National Research Council, Spain; 3: European Commission, Joint Research Center, Italy Evaluating the photosynthetic imprint in sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: a multi-site study 1: University of Antwerp; 2: University of Liège; 3: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena; 4: University of Innsbruck Measuring nighttime altitude-dependent O2A absorption bands deepening over an illuminated greenhouse 1: Institute for Bioeconomy of the National Research Council (CNR-IBE), Italy; 2: University of Milan Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy; 3: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ), Germany; 4: Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy Towards an emulation-based SIF retrieval method for FLEX data 1: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Advanced Simulation, IAS-8: Data Analysis and Machine Learning, Jülich, Germany; 2: Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 3: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Science, Jülich, Germany Understanding non-linear chlorophyll fluorescence dynamics for water stress detection 1: UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, IPL LABORATORY, Spain; 2: UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS, Spain; 3: UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, DEPARTMENT OF PLANT BIOLOGY, Spain; 4: DESERTIFICATION RESEARCH CENTER (CIDE-CSIC-UV-GVA), DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND GLOBAL CHANGE, Spain AndesFlux: First SIF ground-based observations in the western amazon flux network 1: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Peru; 2: Hochschule Rhein-Waal; 3: JB Hyperspectral Devices; 4: Forschungszentrum Jülich Assessing Plant Adaptive Strategies and Stress Tolerance via Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Photoprotective Pigment Dynamics 1: Desertification Research Centre (CIDE)/CSIC, Spain; 2: Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, Spain; 3: Doñana Biological Station (EBD)/CSIC, Spain; 4: National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), Spain Evaluation of remote sensing methods for non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) estimation 1: University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), the Netherlands; 2: Nanjing Normal University, China; 3: Beijing Normal University, China Simultaneous retrieval of water quality and fluorescence properties from FLEX-Sentinel-3 synergy 1: Magellium, France; 2: Saber Solution, India Comparative Assessment of Methods for Quantifying the Escape Probability of Remotely Sensed Red and Far-Red Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence from the Leaf to the Canopy Scale 1: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; 2: University of Twente, the Netherlands; 3: GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany; 4: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; 5: University of Valencia, Spain; 6: University of Leipzig, Germany; 7: University of Osnabrück, Germany; 8: Nanjing Normal University, China; 9: China Agricultural University, China; 10: University of Bonn, Germany SpaFLEX Procedure for Propagating in-situ Sun-induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Reflectance Uncertainty in Cal/Val FLEX L2 Product 1: National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain; 2: Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia (UV) Paterna (Valencia), Spain Desertification research center (CIDE-CSIC-UV-GVA), Department of Ecology and Global Change, Spain; 3: Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia (UV) Paterna (Valencia), Spain; 4: Doñana Biological Station, Spanish National Research Council (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain; 5: Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), 46022 Valencia, Spain Diurnal variation in solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and CO2 uptake of a Malaysian natural tropical forest: a tower-based study 1: National Institute for Environmental Studies NIES, Japan; 2: Hokkaido University, Japan; 3: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan; 4: Kyoto University, Japan; 5: Forest Research Institute Malaysia FRIM, Malaysia Intercomparison experiment of Field spectroradiometers for FLEX L2 product Validation 1: National Institute of Aerospace Technologies (INTA), Spain; 2: Laboratory for Earth Observation, Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, C/Catedrático Agustin Escardino, n° 9, 46980 Paterna, Spain; 3: Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC), C/ Americo Vespucio, 26. 41092 Sevilla (Spain) The retrieval of vegetation properties from TROPOSIF and multi-mission reflectance 1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: FastOpt, Germany; 3: VITO, Belgium A multi-scale spatial sampling strategy for FLEX product validation within the SpaFLEX project 1: Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC), C/ Americo Vespucio, 26. 41092 Sevilla (Spain); 2: National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), Crta. de Ajalvir km 4, Torrejón de Ardoz 28850 Madrid (Spain); 3: Laboratory for Earth Observation, Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, C/Catedrático Agustin Escardino, n° 9, 46980 Paterna (Spain) Doñana as a Cal/Val Supersite for the FLEX Mission: Multi-scale Field Campaigns within the SpaFLEX Project 1: Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC), C/ Americo Vespucio, 26. 41092 Sevilla (Spain); 2: National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), Crta. de Ajalvir km 4, Torrejón de Ardoz 28850 Madrid (Spain); 3: Laboratory for Earth Observation, Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, C/Catedrático Agustin Escardino, n° 9, 46980 Paterna, Spain.; 4: Desertification Research Centre (CIDE), CSIC-UV-GVA, Ctra CV 315, Km 10.7, Valencia, Moncada 46113, Spain Use of chlorophyll fluorescence for the early detection of pest infestation in sweet potato plants 1: IPL LABORATORY, Spain; 2: VALENCIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH (IVIA), CENTRE FOR CITRICULTURE AND PLANT PRODUCTION – HORTICULTURE, Spain; 3: DESERTIFICATION RESEARCH CENTER (CIDE-CSIC-UV-GVA), DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND GLOBAL CHANGE, Spain Downscaling solar-induced fluorescence of natural, complex tree canopies by combing LiDAR data and high-resolution hyperspectral images with3D radiative transfer modelling 1: Juelich Forschungszentrum, Germany; 2: University of Bonn, Department of Geography, Germany; 3: German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Germany; 4: Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute, Czech Republic Validation strategy of FLEX surface reflectance and irradiance using autonomous ground reference data 1: National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom; 2: University of Milano Bicocca, Italy; 3: JB Hyperspectral Devices GmbH, Germany SIFcam Dual Camera System for Sensing Solar-induced Fluorescence – Data Processing and Uncertainty Assessment 1: Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG), Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; 2: Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; 3: College of Engineering, Al Ain University Abu Dhabi Campus; 4: Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany SIFcam - Advancing a Research Prototype Towards a Scalable Platform with potential for FLEX validation 1: Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG), Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; 2: Application Centre for Machine Learning and Sensor Technology, Hochschule Koblenz, Germany Integrating Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Land Surface Temperature and Hyperspectral Vegetation Indices for Machine Learning-based Drought Stress Detection in Forests 1: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Germany; 2: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for Advanced Simulation, IAS-8: Data Analytics and Machine Learning, Germany; 3: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland; 4: University of Toronto, Department of Biology, Canada Airborne system design and data acquisition campaigns for the SpaFLEX project within the Spanish Cal/Val plan of ESA’s FLEX mission 1: National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain; 2: Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, Valencia (Paterna), Spain.; 3: Desertification Research Centre (CIDE)/CSIC, Spain; 4: Doñana Biological Station, Spanish National Research Council (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain; 5: Heligrafics Fotogrametría SL, Alcoi, Alicante, Spain Towards a FLEX sensor fusion system for monitoring gradual global land cover change Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands Bayesian solar-induced fluorescence retrieval algorithm (SIFFI) with tolerance against atmospheric uncertainties 1: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; 2: University of Eastern Finland, Finland Comparative Analysis of Full-Spectrum SIF Principal Component Reconstruction versus SpecFit 1: University of Valencia, Department of Earth Observation, Spain; 2: Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Plant Sciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany Assessing the impact of an explicit representation of the nitrogen cycle on SIF and GPP dynamics across European sites 1: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 2: Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, Guyancourt, France; 3: Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Ökologie, Innsbruck, Austria DART-based canopy-to-photosystem downscaling of airborne far-red solar-induced fluorescence of deciduous forest stands 1: Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany; 2: IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; 3: Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; 4: Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong How can we benefit from TROPOSIF observations in terrestrial biosphere model development? 1: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; 2: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany; 3: University of Saskatchewan, Canada; 4: University of Göttingen, Germany; 5: University of Reading, UK; 6: Environmental Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Laboratory (SpecLab), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); 7: University of California Santa Barbara, US; 8: University of Montana, US; 9: University of California Los Angeles, US FLEX Mission Support in Heterogeneous Ecosystems: Integrated Proximal Sensing and Ground-Based Monitoring at Majadas de Tiétar 1: Mediterranean Center of Environmental Studies (CEAM), Spain; 2: Environmental Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Laboratory (SpecLab), Spain Proximal Solar-Induced Fluorescence Imaging for Understanding SIF Signals within FLEX Footprints 1: University of California, Berkeley, United States of America; 2: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States of America Error Budget Tool: A Diagnostic Framework for SIF Retrieval Algorithm 1: University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; 2: Magellium Artal Group, France; 3: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; 4: European Space Agency, ESA-ESTEC, The Netherlands; 5: European Space Agency, ESA-ESRIN, Italy Detecting declines in forest productivity and vitality from biotic disturbance using multi-scale LAI and fAPAR estimation 1: Julius Kuehn-Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Forest Protection, Erwin-Baur-Str. 27, 06484 Quedlinburg, Germany; 2: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Processes Department, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany; 3: Georg-August-University Göttingen, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Germany Using TECs-SIF to unreveal site-dependent relationship between solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary productivity University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America Global reconstruction of the spectrum of terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence With TROPOMI Beihang University, People's Republic of China A Digital Twin of Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum Enhanced by Earth Observation (SPACEO) for Monitoring and Predicting Land Processes ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands, The Leveraging Solar-Induced Fluorescence for Mechanistic Understanding of Water and Carbon Fluxes 1: University of Twente, The Netherlands; 2: Zhengzhou University, China The MicroCarb Satellite Mission: Overview and Development of the SIF Retrieval 1: University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; 2: National Centre for Earth Observation, Leicester, UK |
| Date: Wednesday, 04/Mar/2026 | |
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Welcome Coffee ☕ Location: Aula |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Exploiting Novel Indicators for Vegetation Stress detection Location: Aula Chair: MaPilar Cendrero-Mateo, University of Valencia Chair: Albert Porcar-Castell, University of Helsinki SIF to measure actual photosynthesis and vegetation stress - lessons learned from 20 years of research in preparation of the FLEX satellite mission 1: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; 2: University Milano Biccoca, Italy 9:15am - 9:30am The Role of Species-Specific Physiology and Diurnal Phase in Interpreting Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence 1: Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany; 2: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle–Jena–Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; 3: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), Jena 07745, Germany; 4: Sensor-based Geoinformatics (geosense), Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79106, Germany; 5: Environmental Remote Sensing and Spectroscopy Laboratory (SpecLab), Spanish National Research Council (IEGD-CSIC), Madrid, Spain; 6: Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig 04107, Germany; 7: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig 04318, Germany 9:30am - 9:45am Activities and outcomes of the FLEX-ITA project airborne and ground campaigns 1: National Research Council, Institute for BioEconomy (CNR-IBE), Italy; 2: Edmund Mach Foundation, TN, Italy; 3: National Research Council, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR-IPSP), Italy; 4: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; 5: University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Italy; 6: Italian Space Agency, Italy; 7: University of Udine, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Italy; 8: Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences-CzechGlobe, Brno, Czech Republic; 9: University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences DISAT, Italy 9:45am - 10:00am Exploring the Nonlinear Relationship Between Photosynthesis and Chlorophyll Fluorescence Dynamics for Early Stress Detection 1: Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, Spain; 2: Desertification research center, Department of Ecology and Global Change, Spain; 3: Department of Genetics, University of Valencia, Spain; 4: University Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University of Valencia, Spain 10:00am - 10:15am Tracing Changes in Subsurface Water Storage Through a Novel Satellite-Based Time-Series of Far-Red Solar-Induced Fluorescence Quantum Efficiency 1: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, IBG-2, Germany; 2: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, IBG-3, Germany 10:15am - 10:30am Sun-induced fluorescence derived canopy level interactive effects of elevated CO₂ and Cercospora leaf spot on photosynthesis in field-grown sugar beet 1: Institute of Bio- and Geosciences 2 (IBG-2), Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; 2: Institute of Sugar Beet Research, Göttingen, Germany |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee Break Location: Aula |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
Understanding the Carbon and Water Cycles using Fluorescence Data Location: Aula Chair: Catherine Morfopoulos, Imperial College London Chair: Uwe Rascher, Forschungszentrum Jülich Monitoring photosynthetic quantum yield through non-photochemical quenching, from laboratory to field: integrating canopy fluorescence, reflectance, and GPP. 1: Laboratory for Earth Observation, Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, Spain; 2: Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragon (CITA), Spain; 3: Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies (CEAM), Spain; 4: Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC), Spain; 5: National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), Spain; 6: Department of Ecology, Universität Innsbruck, Austria 11:15am - 11:30am Beyond Photosystem II: How Photosystem I Dynamics Regulate Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Photosynthesis in a Rice Paddy 1: Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; 2: Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 3: Wageningen University, Horticulture and Product Physiology, Wageningen, Netherlands; 4: Seoul National University, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul, South Korea; 5: Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National University, South Korea 11:30am - 11:45am Shared light absorption rather than physiological coupling explains the apparent SIF-GPP relationship at canopy scale across diverse ecosystems 1: Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; 2: Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 3: National Forest Satellite Information & Technology Center, National Institute of Forest Science, Seoul, Republic of Korea 11:45am - 12:00pm Atmospheric dryness effects on canopy chlorophyll fluorescence and Gross Primary Production (GPP) in a deciduous forest during heat waves 1: Ecologie Société Evolution (ESE), Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, 91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 2: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Sorbonne Université, IPSL, CNRS, École polytechnique, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France 12:00pm - 12:15pm SIF-MIP Phase 2: Multi-Model Evaluation of SIF and GPP Simulations in Evergreen Forests Imperial College London, United Kingdom 12:15pm - 12:30pm Analyzing the global role of TROPOMI-derived SIF and Sentinel-3 fundamental vegetation traits as proxy predictors in GPP models University of Valencia, Spain 12:30pm - 12:45pm Tower-Based SIF Monitoring of Drought-Stressed Scots Pine Photosynthesis 1: University of Toronto, Department of Biology, Mississauga, Canada; 2: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; 3: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland; 4: JB Hypersepctral Devices GmbH, Dusseldorf, Germany 12:45pm - 1:00pm A Carbon-Water Cycle Reanalysis to Reconcile Earth Observations, Benchmark Models, and Advance Earth Science Understanding and Prediction 1: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States of America; 2: University of California, Los Angeles; 3: California Institute of Technology |
| 2:30pm - 3:15pm |
FLEX data for studying Inland and Coastal Waters Location: Aula Chair: Marco Celesti, European Space Agency Chair: Christiaan van der Tol, University of Twente FLEX mission data for inland water research: Insights from studies in Swiss lakes 1: Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology, Surface Waters – Research and Management, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland; 3: Marine Science Institute University of the Philippines, Quezon City 1101, Philippines 2:45pm - 3:00pm he PHY2FLEX project: PHYsiology and species mapping of global water PHYtoplankton from FLEX-Sentinel 3 synergy, focus on the top-of-atmosphere hyperspectral signature including the sun-induced fluorescence 1: Earth Observation Unit, Magellium, France; 2: Department of Optical Oceanography, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany; 3: Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, CNR, Milano, Italy; 4: Institute of Marine Sciences, CNR, Rome, Italy; 5: Department of Oceanography, NIVA, Oslo, Norway; 6: European Space Agency, ESA-ESTEC, the Netherlands 3:00pm - 3:15pm Aquatic product validation of the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) mission (AquaValiX) 1: Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany; 2: Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) / University of Bremen, Germany; 3: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 4: University of Freiburg, Germany |
| 3:15pm - 4:00pm |
Thinking beyond state-of-art: novel applications for FLEX data Location: Aula Chair: Marco Celesti, European Space Agency Chair: Christiaan van der Tol, University of Twente Development and validation of an approach to quantify maximum photosynthetic capacity of terrestrial plants from FLEX mission products 1: University of Kansas, United States; 2: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France; 3: Colorado State University, United States; 4: University of Wisconsin, United States; 5: California Institute of Technology, United States; 6: University of Bonn, Germany; 7: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; 8: University of Reading, United Kingdom; 9: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States; 10: Seoul National University, South Korea; 11: Universität Innsbruck, Austria; 12: China Agricultural University, China; 13: Nanjing University, China; 14: Carnegie Institution, United States 3:30pm - 3:45pm Linking Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence to Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions in low Arctic Tundra: A Field Spectroscopy Approach 1: Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen; 2: Center for Volatile Interactions, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen; 3: Institute for Bio-and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH 3:45pm - 4:00pm Inputs from the Audience . |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Coffee Break Location: Aula |
| Date: Thursday, 05/Mar/2026 | |
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Welcome Coffee ☕ Location: Aula |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Recent Advances in Modeling activities Location: Aula Chair: Zbynek Malenovsky, University of Bonn Chair: Georg Wohlfahrt, Universität Innsbruck Cloud-Operational Sentinel-3 Vegetation Trait Retrievals to Support FLEX L2/L3/L4 Products University of Valencia, Spain 9:15am - 9:30am AMLEC-2: Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Emulation Challenge (FLEX Mission Edition) 1: University of Valencia, Spain; 2: ESA/ESRIN, Italy 9:30am - 9:45am Physics-based emulation of at-sensor radiances as a tool for novel SIF retrieval schemes 1: Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 2: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Advanced Simulations, IAS-8: Data Analytics and Machine Learning, Jülich, Germany 9:45am - 10:00am SLOPE: A radiative transfer model for leaves incorporating fluorescence maitec, Australia 10:00am - 10:15am Modelling SIF in the JULES Land Surface Model 1: National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Reading, United Kingdom; 2: National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, United Kingdom 10:15am - 10:30am Terrestrial Carbon Community Assimilation System 1: The Inversion Lab, Germany; 2: University of Reading, UK; 3: FMI, Helsinki, Finland; 4: University of Edinburgh, UK; 5: University of Lund, Sweden; 6: MPI BGC Jena, Germany; 7: TU Delft, The Netherlands; 8: TU Wien, Austria; 9: CESBIO Toulouse, France; 10: DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy; 11: University of Sheffield, UK; 12: University of Valencia, Spain; 13: University of Southampton, UK; 14: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland; 15: ESA, ESTEC, The Netherlands |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee Break Location: Aula |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Combining multi-scale, multi-mission EO data for closing the temporal and spatial gap Location: Aula Chair: Matthias Drusch, European Space Agency (ESA) Chair: Timon Hummel, European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN) Retrievals of Solar Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence from Chinese Satellites Nanjing University, China, People's Republic of 11:15am - 11:30am Diurnal variations in red solar-Induced chlorophyll fluorescence retrieved from the TEMPO geostationary mission 1: Nanjing University, China; 2: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany 11:30am - 11:45am DESIS and EnMAP imaging spectroscopy data in support of the FLEX Mission 1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Earth Observation Center (EOC), Germany; 2: German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Space Agency, Germany 11:45am - 12:00pm Bridging the Gap to the FLEX Era: A Cloud-Computing Framework for 300 m Global SIF Retrieval from Sentinel-3 and TROPOSIF University of Valencia, Spain 12:00pm - 12:15pm Can extracting fluorescence efficiency from individual TROPOMI observations result in a better estimation of drought stress than gridded products? 1: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany; 2: Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Ökologie, Innsbruck, Austria; 3: Nanjing University, China 12:15pm - 12:30pm A roadmap towards estimating the diurnal dynamics of terrestrial ecosystem productivity with the help of FLEX 1: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany; 2: EUMETSAT, Germany; 3: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 4: Forschunsgzentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; 5: University of Leipzig, Germany; 6: Univeristy of Innsbruck, Austria; 7: Nanjing University, China; |
| 12:30pm - 1:00pm |
Discussions&Recommendations Location: Aula |
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Concept, protocols, results and tools for the validation of FLEX products Location: Aula Contributions from FRM4FLUO and DISC teams |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
International Network of Sun Induced Chlorophyll fluorescence (INSIF):ToR, user interface, data upload, access and analysis Location: Aula Contribution from INSIF team |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
FLEX Collaborative Platform: ToR, user interface, data upload, access and analysis Location: Aula Contribution from FLEX CP team |
| Date: Friday, 06/Mar/2026 | |
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Welcome Coffee ☕ Location: Aula |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Roles and interactions during the FLEX Cal/Val activities Location: Aula Contribution from ESA |
| 10:00am - 10:15am |
Announcement of Opportunity for FLEX Cal/Val: overview and next steps Location: Aula Contribution from ESA: Marco Celesti |
| 10:15am - 10:30am |
Introduction to the FLEX confluence page and its use Location: Aula Contribution from ESA |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee Break Location: Aula |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
Q&A: inputs from the audience Location: Aula |
| 1:00pm - 1:30pm |
Wrap-up and Conclusion of the workshop activities Location: Aula |

