Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview |
| Date: Wednesday, 06/May/2026 | |
| 8:45am - 9:00am | Welcome coffee |
| 9:00am - 9:45am | Plenary session: the EU Copernicus programme Location: Big Hall |
| 9:45am - 10:00am | Coffee break Location: Externat Tent |
| 10:00am - 11:30am | Hands-on demos |
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ID: 146
/ 2.1.1: 1
Using ARIES for SEEA to support Ecosystem Service Accounting and reporting on Global Biodiversity Framework Headline Indicator B.1: A capacity building workshop 1Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Bizkaia, Spain; 2United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), New York ID: 104
/ 2.1.1: 2
Gaining Insights into Sentinel imagery using the Sentinel Hub Statistical API in Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem Sinergise Solutions GmbH, Austria |
| 10:00am - 11:30am | Thematic sessions - SDGs and environmental policies Location: Big Hall |
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ID: 118
/ 2.1.4: 1
High Resolution Land Degradation Neutrality Monitoring – Achievements of the ESA SEN4LDN Project 1VITO, Belgium; 2Lund University, Sweden; 3GFZ, Germany; 4Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands; 5Conservation International, USA; 6ESA-ESRIN, Italy ID: 119
/ 2.1.4: 2
Using EO data for policy-relevant indicators in global environmental frameworks OECD, France ID: 170
/ 2.1.4: 3
Monitoring Climate Change Adaptation using Earth Observation ESA, United Kingdom ID: 194
/ 2.1.4: 4
Remote Sensing-Based Estimation of Internal Renewable Water Resources: A global alternative to country statistics derived from ground-based hydrological estimates Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 00153 Rome, Italy ID: 258
/ 2.1.4: 5
Validation of commodity prediction models to support the implementation of EUDR by EU Member states 1TerraSphere, Netherlands, The; 2GAF, Germany ID: 270
/ 2.1.4: 6
Towards a standardised baseline methodology to support the EU carbon farming certification in agricultural mineral soils 1Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy; 2European Dynamics, Luxembourg; 3Unisystems, Luxembourg; 4Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands; 5Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 6University of Toulouse, France; 7Ecole Normale Superiere (ENS), France; 8University of Basilicata, Italy ID: 271
/ 2.1.4: 7
EO4Nature: From Earth Observation time series to statistics-ready indicators for nature-based climate action 1Luftbild Umwelt Planung GmbH, Germany; 2German Space Agency at DLR ID: 291
/ 2.1.4: 8
A framework for global ensemble land cover mapping at 30 m resolution (2000–2024) 1OpenGeoHub Foundation, Doorwerth, The Netherlands; 2Center for Agribusiness Studies, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV Agro), São Paulo, Brazil ID: 313
/ 2.1.4: 9
ESA Coastal Blue Carbon : new products for seagrass and coastal wetlands conservation, restoration, and climate action. Achievements and perspectives. 1i-Sea, France; 2BlueSeeds, France; 3CEAB-CSIC, Spain; 4IRD, France; 5Simon Fraser University, Canada; 6La Rochelle University, France; 7ESA, Italy |
| 10:00am - 11:30am | Thematic sessions - Agriculture II Location: Magellan |
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ID: 113
/ 2.1.2: 1
Integrating Earth observation and statistics across the agricultural policy cycle 1GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; 2Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Remote Sensing and Natural Resources Modelling Group, Belvaux, Luxembourg; 3German Aerospace Center (DLR), Space Research Division, Cologne, Germany; 4Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes, European Space Agency (ESA), Frascati RM, Italy; 5Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University (SU), Matieland, Stellenbosch, South Africa ID: 159
/ 2.1.2: 2
Supporting Policy and (National) Agricultural Statistics with Copernicus Annual High-Resolution Cropland Layers 1VITO, Belgium; 2GAF AG, Germany; 3EEA, Denmark ID: 232
/ 2.1.2: 3
Agriculture Statistics European Commission DG EUROSTAT, Luxembourg ID: 234
/ 2.1.2: 4
Earth Observation for Agriculture Statistics (technical) 1European Commission DG EUROSTAT, Luxembourg; 2Sword Group ID: 251
/ 2.1.2: 5
Overcoming interoperability challenges of crop area reported by farmer declarations, agricultural census, and Copernicus Earth Observation 1ARHS Developments, Luxembourg (Consultant with the European Commission, Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy); 2European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy; 3SEIDOR Consulting S.L., 08500 Barcelona, Spain (Consultant with the European Commission, Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy); 4European Commission, Eurostat, Luxembourg; 5International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria ID: 264
/ 2.1.2: 6
Ten Years to Cross the Threshold: When Sentinel-2 Finally Enabled Crop-Specific Monitoring 1Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission; 2Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (CENIA) ID: 267
/ 2.1.2: 7
From space to policy: exploiting Copernicus data to evaluate agricultural policies European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy ID: 276
/ 2.1.2: 8
Monitoring Crop Diversity Across the EU from Space: New Copernicus Insights for Agricultural Policy 1DG Agriculture & Rural Development (DG AGRI), European Commission, Brussels, Belgium; 2Joint Research Centre (JRC) , European Commission, Ispra, Italy; 3Joint Research Centre (JRC) , European Commission, Seville, Spain ID: 305
/ 2.1.2: 9
Mapping 30 years of agricultural land use in Germany 1Thünen Institut, Germany; 2Universität Greifswald, Germany |
| 10:00am - 11:30am | Thematic sessions - Sustainability indicators Location: James Cook |
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ID: 129
/ 2.1.3: 1
Climate Extremes and Food Security in Malawi 1Statistics Norway, Norway; 2Norwegian Space Agency, Norway ID: 149
/ 2.1.3: 2
Earth Observations and Machine Learning for Gridded Macroeconomic Data International Monetary Fund ID: 178
/ 2.1.3: 3
Earth Observation and AI for Construction Statistics (EO4ConStat): Developing an EO-based Approach for Quality Assessment in Building Statistics 1Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy Germany; 2Federal Statistical Office Germany; 3German Aerospace Center ID: 188
/ 2.1.3: 4
Has pasture already peaked in 2000? The first independent global statistical assessment of grassland, livestock association, and change 1International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); 2OpenGeoHub Foundation; 3World Resources Institute; 4Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory (LAPIG/UFG) ID: 207
/ 2.1.3: 5
Analysis of Earth Observation Data for Economic Statistics German Federal Statistical Office, Germany ID: 279
/ 2.1.3: 6
From long-term (>30 years) annual ESA CCI / EU C3S global 300 m categorical land use and land cover change maps to an equivalent long-term global annual series of spatially explicit sub-pixel plant functional type fractions informed by 10–30 m EO datasets 1UCLouvain-Geomatics (Belgium), Belgium; 2Met Office, UK; 3LSCE, France; 4Brockmann Consult Gmbh, Germany; 5European Space Agency ECSAT, UK ID: 299
/ 2.1.3: 7
Mapping the Unmapped: Integrating Earth Observation and Open Data to Construct Brazil’s National Rural Road Network Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Brazil |
| 11:30am - 11:45am | Coffee break Location: Externat Tent |
| 11:45am - 1:15pm | Hands-on demos |
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ID: 155
/ 2.2.1: 1
From research to operations: advancing SDGs-EYES services 1European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC), Belgium; 2Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC); 3Italian National Institute of Statistics; 4SISTEMA /MEEO; 5T6 Ecosystems; 6Wageningen University & Research (WUR); 7Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC); 8European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC), Belgium ID: 165
/ 2.2.1: 2
The SDGs-EYES platform for a timeless monitoring and reporting of Sustainable Development Goals 1CMCC, IT; 2Sistema GmbH, AT ID: 274
/ 2.2.1: 3
Integrating Small Landscape Features (HRL-SLF) into Land monitoring indicators - spatially aggregated statistics for policy support. 1European Environment Agency, Denmark; 2CLS Group ID: 217
/ 2.2.1: 4
Using Openly Available FAIR Science with EarthCODE 1Lampata, United Kingdom; 2ESA, Italy; 3Serco, Italy |
| 11:45am - 1:15pm | Thematic sessions - Environmental Accounting Location: Big Hall |
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ID: 101
/ 2.2.3: 1
Earth Observation Roadmap for Ecosystem Services Accounting in the EU European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy ID: 111
/ 2.2.3: 2
World Ecosystem Extent Dynamics, a toolbox for countries to report on SEEA-EA accounts and GBF Headline indicator A.2 1VITO, Belgium; 2BC3 Research, Spain; 3IDIV, Germany; 4University of Bonn, Germany; 5IIASA, Austria; 6ESA ESRIN, Italy ID: 128
/ 2.2.3: 3
Peatland mapping using Sentinel-2 in Ireland - a use case in Ecosystem Accounting Central Statistics Office, Ireland ID: 177
/ 2.2.3: 4
Ecosystem Service Accounting - Compatibility Assessment Tool (ESA-CAT) standardized reporting system 1Joint Reseach Centre, Italy; 2European Dynamics SA, Italy ID: 200
/ 2.2.3: 5
Accounting for Nature: EO-Derived Biodiversity Metric for Green National Income 1Assimila, United Kingdom; 2University of Copenhagen, Denmark ID: 223
/ 2.2.3: 6
Integrating Earth Observation into Official Statistics: The German Ecosystem Accounts Federal Statistical Office Germany ID: 247
/ 2.2.3: 7
From Sentinel to national Land Cover mapping to Ecosystem Accounting: A roadmap for integrating Earth Observation data into official statistics for Environmental-Economic Accounting Statistics Austria, Austria ID: 275
/ 2.2.3: 8
Bridging SEEA Air Emission Accounts and IPCC Inventories through Earth Observation–Based LULUCF Carbon Estimates OECD, France ID: 282
/ 2.2.3: 9
Data foundation for the next-generation EU ecosystem mapping product European Environment Agency, Denmark |
| 11:45am - 1:15pm | Thematic sessions - Agriculture III Location: Magellan |
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ID: 134
/ 2.2.2: 1
GAIG-Embeddings: A Multi-Modal Spatiotemporal Foundation Model for Agroecosystem Intelligence – Insights from Canadian Prairies 1Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Canada; 2Nutrien Centre for Sustainable and Digital Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Canada; 3Centre d'applications et de recherches en télédétection (CARTEL), Département de géomatique appliquée, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada ID: 141
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Earth Observation-Based Detection of Crop-Residues for Official Statistics in Sweden 1RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden; 2University of Stockholm, Sweden; 3Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB), Sweden ID: 152
/ 2.2.2: 3
Sentinel-2 Based Estimation of Crop Yields for Official Statistics in Germany Hesse Statistical Office, Germany ID: 203
/ 2.2.2: 4
Monitoring soil management dynamics in European arable systems with Sentinel-1&2 1Wageningen University, the Netherlands; 2University of Bonn, Germany; 3University of Twente, the Netherlands ID: 209
/ 2.2.2: 5
EO and agrometeorological data-driven crop yield forecasting at national and sub-national scales 1Joint Research Centre, Italy; 2Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) - Universitat de València; 3Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ID: 218
/ 2.2.2: 6
Grassland Monitoring for Official Statistics Using Satellite Data. Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia, Latvia ID: 229
/ 2.2.2: 7
YPSGlobe – one-stop high-resolution yield prediction for the Globe Vista GmbH, Germany ID: 261
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Mapping grassland age at a national scale using multidecadal satellite time series 1Thünen Institute of Farm Economics; 2Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geography Department; 3Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Integrative Research Institute of Transformations of Human-Environment Systems ID: 322
/ 2.2.2: 9
Seasons in the Algorithm: Error-Driven Insights into Winter and Spring Crop Classification: An Exploratory Study by Statistics Portugal Statistics Portugal, Portugal |
| 11:45am - 1:15pm | Thematic sessions - Forest statistics Location: James Cook |
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ID: 158
/ 2.2.4: 1
Integrating EO and ground biomass information through robust statistical techniques: GFOI recommendations for climate policy reporting 1GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany; 2Departament of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota; 3European Space Agency; 4Servicio Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR), Peru ID: 163
/ 2.2.4: 2
The National Satellite Information System for Environmental Indicators and Policy Support Polish Space Agency, Poland ID: 189
/ 2.2.4: 3
Seeing forests clearly: Insights from a Systematic Review of FI-EO Integration 1GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences; 2University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) ID: 215
/ 2.2.4: 4
Harmonized approach for multi-purpose activity data to support AFOLU policies 1GAF AG, Germany; 2IGN FI, France; 3The World Bank Group, USA ID: 266
/ 2.2.4: 5
Deriving policy-relevant Essential Biodiversity Variables from EO multi-modal approach to assess forest condition across ecological gradients 1University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Italy; 2University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Switzerland; 3SARMAP sa, Caslano, Switzerland; 4Climate Action, Sustainability and Science Department, European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy; 5SERCO for ESA - Climate Action, Sustainability and Science Department, European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy ID: 283
/ 2.2.4: 6
Innovative Restructuring of the FAO FRA 2025 Remote Sensing Survey 1FAO, Italy; 2ESF, USA ID: 319
/ 2.2.4: 7
From Land Cover to Land Use: A Remote Sensing–Based Map of Forest Area in Europe DG JRC European Commission, Italy ID: 320
/ 2.2.4: 8
Combining NFI and EO data – alley to success for a reliable European Forest Monitoring System? NIBIO, Norway ID: 321
/ 2.2.4: 9
Unit-level National-scale small-area estimation in Italy geoLAB, - Laboratory of Forest Geomatics, Dept. of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via San Bonaventura 13, 50145 Firenze, Italy |
| 1:15pm - 2:30pm | Lunch break Location: Canteen |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Hands-on demos |
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ID: 121
/ 2.3.1: 1
Geo-Quest and WorldCereal: From in-situ data to EO-driven crop maps 1IIASA, Austria; 2WUR, Netherlands; 3VITO, Belgium ID: 280
/ 2.3.1: 2
Sen4Stat : an open-source toolbox leveraging satellite Earth Observation to improve agriculture statistics UCLouvain, Belgium ID: 323
/ 2.3.1: 4
From Toolbox to Services: Cloudification of the Sen4CAP and Sen4Stat Processors CS GROUP - ROMANIA, Romania ID: 110
/ 2.3.1: 5
Sen4Stat approach: Leveraging the use of Earth Observation data for improved agricultural statistics 1UCLouvain, Belgium; 2CS Group Sopra Steria, Romania |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Thematic sessions - Land Use/Land Cover Location: Big Hall |
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ID: 100
/ 2.3.3: 1
Generalising Earth Observation AI/ML pipelines for European statistics Statistics Netherlands (CBS) ID: 114
/ 2.3.3: 2
Map quality assessment and area estimation to support the use of global land cover maps at (sub)national level 1Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands; 2College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China; 3Section 1.4 Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany; 4World Resources Insititute, the Hague, Netherlands ID: 115
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Promoting Good Practices for Land Cover and Change Map accuracy assessment and area estimation 1University of Maryland; 2Committee on Earth Observation Satellites, Land Product Validation Subgroup; 3Wageningen University, The Netherlands ID: 124
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Very High-Resolution Land Cover Mapping: A Reusable Pipeline for Official Statistics. 1Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), Italy; 2National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN), France; 3Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik),Denmark; 4Statistics Austria (Statistik Austria),Austria ID: 172
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The Copernicus LCFM Service: Next-Generation Global Land Cover at 10 m Resolution 1VITO - Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Belgium; 2IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; 3IGNFI - Geographic engineering and spatial information consultancy, France; 4JRC - Joint Research Centre (European Commission), Italy ID: 185
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Developing Land Use and Land Cover Statistics with Earth Observation - Statistics Portugal experience Statistics Portugal, Portugal ID: 191
/ 2.3.3: 7
Challenges in the Validation of Land Use and Land Cover Change Maps 1IIASA, Austria; 2VITO, Belgium; 3IGNFI, France; 4Google DeepMind, Switzerland ID: 201
/ 2.3.3: 8
Artificial Intelligence for Reliable Land Use Statistics: Opportunities and Challenges from Switzerland Federal Statistical Office, Switzerland ID: 220
/ 2.3.3: 9
Statistical calibration of land cover changes in CLMS CLCplus Backbone time-series 1GAF AG, Arnulfstr. 199, 80634 Munich, Germany; 2GeoVille GmbH, Sparkassenplatz 2, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria; 3European Environment Agency, Kongens Nytorv 6, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Thematic sessions - Emissions and air quality Location: Magellan |
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ID: 108
/ 2.3.2: 1
Assessing Air Quality in Nigerian States Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Environmetrics Model 1Abiola Ajimobi Technical University, Ibadan, Nigeria; 2Abiola Ajimobi Technical University, Ibadan, Nigeria; 3University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria ID: 131
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LULC time series for GHG reporting: the case of Wallonia (Belgium) Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium ID: 154
/ 2.3.2: 3
Operational integration of satellite Earth Observation and eddy covariance data to support carbon flux monitoring continuity and management event detection in Irish grasslands 1Geography, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; 2Botany, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland ID: 187
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From Demonstrator to Service: Operational Integration of High-Resolution Methane EO into European Statistical Workflows ABSOLUT SENSING, France ID: 192
/ 2.3.2: 5
Quantifying Forecast Uncertainty in EO-Derived Deforestation Baselines for Carbon Accounting 1Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy; 2SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, US ID: 199
/ 2.3.2: 6
The LULUCF Data Hub: regional- and national-level discrepancies between independent global datasets and national GHG inventories – insights from country examples on the use of EO 1European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy; 2Université de Bordeaux, France; 3CSIRO, Canberra, Australia; 4Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, IGES, Hayama, Japan; 5Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK; 6Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Paris, France; 7World Resources Institute, Washington DC, USA; 8GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; 9School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK; 10CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway; 11Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany; 12Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany; 13Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Bilbao, Spain; 14Ikerbasque Foundation, Euskadi Pl., 5, 48009 Bilbao, Spain ID: 230
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Integrating Satellite-Based Facility-Level Methane Emissions Data into National GHG Inventories: The UK InCubed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Watch Service GHGSat, United Kingdom |
| 4:00pm - 4:15pm | Coffee break Location: Externat Tent |
| 4:15pm - 5:15pm | Plenary session - Thematic sessions wrap-up Location: Big Hall |
| 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Ice breaker with Poster session Location: Externat Tent |
