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Conference Agenda

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Date: Thursday, 07/May/2026

8:45am
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9:00am

Welcome coffee
Location: Externat Tent

9:00am
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9:45am

Plenary session: data and services accessibility
Location: Big Hall

9:45am
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10:00am

Coffee break
Location: Externat Tent

10:00am
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11:30am

Workshops - Accessibility, data infrastructures & interoperability (including Copernicus services)
Location: Big Hall

CDSE for European Statistical System

Carla Martins¹, Hannes Reuter¹, Zacharias Kandylakis²

1: European Commission DG EUROSTAT, Luxembourg; 2: Sword Group

Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem - European funded and governed Earth Observation processing capacity

William Ray¹, András Zlinszky¹, Maxim Lamare¹, Grega Milcinski¹, Jurry de la Mar²

1: Sinergise Solutions GmbH, Austria; 2: T-Systems International

Workshops - Agriculture statistics
Location: Magellan

Earth Observations for Agrifood systems applications

Pengyu Hao¹, Zhongxin Chen¹, Francesco N. Tubiello², Gianfausto Bottini²

1: Digital FAO and Agro-Informatics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; 2: Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

11:30am
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11:45am

Coffee break
Location: Externat Tent

11:45am
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1:15pm

Workshops - Reference data for EO-based statistics
Location: Big Hall

Reference Data as a Backbone for EO-Based Environmental Statistics and Services

Jose Miguel Rubio³, Timo Breure⁴, Hannes Reuter¹, Zacharias Kandylakis², Carla Martins¹

1: European Commission DG EUROSTAT, Luxembourg; 2: Sword Group; 3: European Environmental Agency; 4: European Commision DG Joint Reserach Center

Standardised Reference Data Framework for Global Crop Mapping and Agricultural Statistics

Arun Pratihast¹, Hendrik Boogaard¹, Jeroen Degerickx², Belen Franch Gras³, Steffen Fritz⁴, Sven Gilliams⁵

1: Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands; 2: Vlaamse Instelling Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), Mol, Belgium; 3: Global Change Unit, Image Processing Laboratory, Universitat de València, 46980 València, Spain; 4: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; 5: GEOGLAM Secretariat 7 bis Avenue de la Paix, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland

One million LUCAS points

Hannes Reuter, Alessandra Palmieri, Beatrice Eiselt

European Commission DG EUROSTAT, Luxembourg

Workshops - Capacity building
Location: Magellan

1:15pm
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2:30pm

Lunch break
Location: Canteen

2:30pm
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4:00pm

Workshop - Stadardization and quality of EO in Statistical processes
Location: Big Hall

Workshop - integration of in-situ and EO data
Location: Magellan

From pixels to statistics: working toward validated EO and in-situ data integration practices

Marko Roos, Remco Paulussen

Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands, The

Workshop - forest statistics
Location: James Cook

GFOI R&D Session on integrating EO- and ground-data for enhanced forest-related biomass estimation

Natalia Málaga¹, Daniela Requena Suarez¹, Martin Herold¹, Neha Hunka², Javier García Pérez Gamarra³

1: GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences; 2: European Space Agency; 3: Food and Agriculture Organization

4:00pm
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4:15pm

Coffee break
Location: Externat Tent

4:15pm
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5:15pm

Workshops wrap up
Location: Big Hall

5:15pm
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5:30pm

Conference closure
Location: Big Hall