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