Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview | |
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Location: Big Hall Bld. 14 |
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Introduction to the conference - welcome and high-level opening Location: Big Hall Chair: Giuseppe Ottavianelli |
| 10:45am - 11:45am |
Plenary session - Earth Observation for official statistics Location: Big Hall Chair: Márta Nagy-RothengassStreamlining of reporting requirements across EU policies for reduction of the reporting burden, and integration of Earth Observation (EO) in official statistics 1: EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Belgium; 2: Arcadia SIT s.r.l., for the Joint Research Centre, European Commission; 3: Independent Consultant 11:05am - 11:25am Earth Observation for Statistics (EO4S) in EUROSTAT 1: European Commission DG EUROSTAT, Luxembourg; 2: Sword Group 11:25am - 11:45am Earth Observation Support to Nature Policies European Environment Agency |
| 12:15pm - 1:30pm |
From Pilots to Operations: Earth Observation for Official Agricultural Statistics Location: Big Hall Chair: Valérie BizierSophie Bontemps (UCL) Zoltan Szantoi (ESA) Ousmane Sylla (DAPSA Senegal) Raphaël D’Andrimont (DG AGRI) |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Workshop - User needs, Experiences, Challenges Location: Big Hall Chairs: Sebastian Marcu and Rolf Maier Bode |
| 4:30pm - 5:40pm |
Thematic sessions - Agriculture I Location: Big Hall Chairs: Zoltan Szantoi and Katja BergerCross-border cropland indicators and field-scale rice system mapping from multi-sensor Earth observation in the Senegal River Valley 1: German Aerospace Center, Germany; 2: Instute for Geography and Geology, University of Wuerzburg 4:40pm - 4:50pm Comparison and Independent Validation of Global High-resolution Remote Sensing Cropland Extent Products 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; 3: Land and Water Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 4:50pm - 5:00pm Copernicus4GEOGLAM Service to support Food Security – A standardised approach for crop type area estimation and mapping 1: GAF AG, Germany; 2: VITO, Belgium; 3: TerraSphere, The Netherlands; 4: VH Consultores, Mozambique; 5: GISBOX, Romania; 6: Seidor S.A., Spain under contract with the European Commission, JRC, Ispra (VA), Italy; 7: European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy 5:00pm - 5:10pm Comparing Earth Observation and Traditional Survey Approaches for Estimating Rice Harvested Area: A Case Study from Indonesia BPS Statistics Indonesia, Indonesia 5:10pm - 5:20pm Operational Crop Mapping at Scale: How ESA WorldCereal Supports Agricultural Statistics 1: VITO, Belgium; 2: WUR, Netherlands; 3: IIASA, Austria; 4: University of Strassbourg, France; 5: University of Valencia, Spain; 6: GISAT, Czech Republic; 7: GEOGLAM Secretariat, Switzerland; 8: European Space Agency, Italy 5:20pm - 5:30pm Mapping minor and mixed crops in Zambia and Zimbabwe using ESA WorldCereal crop classification system 1: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT); 2: University of Strasbourg, France; 3: VITO, Belgium; 4: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; 5: University of Maryland, College Park, USA; 6: European Space Agency 5:30pm - 5:40pm Importance of In Situ data for EO integration in agricultural statistics: requirements and opportunities 1: UCLouvain, Belgium; 2: FAO |
| 5:40pm - 6:10pm |
Workshop reporting to plenary Location: Big Hall Workshop - User needs, Experiences, Challenges Design and Data, Germany |
| 9:00am - 9:45am |
Plenary session: the EU Copernicus programme Location: Big Hall
Chair: Marc Paganini |
| 10:00am - 11:30am |
Thematic sessions - SDGs and environmental policies Location: Big Hall Chairs: Marc Paganini and Mónica Miguel LagoHigh 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 10:10am - 10:20am Using EO data for policy-relevant indicators in global environmental frameworks OECD, France 10:20am - 10:30am Monitoring Climate Change Adaptation using Earth Observation ESA, United Kingdom 10:30am - 10:40am 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 10:40am - 10:50am Validation of commodity prediction models to support the implementation of EUDR by EU Member states 1: TerraSphere, Netherlands, The; 2: GAF, Germany 10:50am - 11:00am 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 11:00am - 11:10am 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 11:10am - 11:20am 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 11:20am - 11:30am 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 |
| 11:45am - 1:30pm |
Thematic sessions - Environmental Accounting Location: Big Hall Chairs: Federica Marando and Steven KingEarth Observation Roadmap for Ecosystem Services Accounting in the EU European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy 11:55am - 12:05pm 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 12:05pm - 12:15pm Peatland mapping using Sentinel-2 in Ireland - a use case in Ecosystem Accounting Central Statistics Office, Ireland 12:15pm - 12:25pm Ecosystem Service Accounting - Compatibility Assessment Tool (ESA-CAT) standardized reporting system 1: Joint Reseach Centre, Italy; 2: European Dynamics SA, Italy 12:25pm - 12:35pm Accounting for Nature: EO-Derived Biodiversity Metric for Green National Income 1: Assimila, United Kingdom; 2: University of Copenhagen, Denmark 12:35pm - 12:45pm Integrating Earth Observation into Official Statistics: The German Ecosystem Accounts Federal Statistical Office Germany 12:45pm - 12:55pm 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 12:55pm - 1:05pm Data foundation for the next-generation EU ecosystem mapping product European Environment Agency, Denmark |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Thematic sessions - Land Use/Land Cover Location: Big Hall Chairs: Marijn van der Velde and Márta Nagy-RothengassGeneralising Earth Observation AI/ML pipelines for European statistics Statistics Netherlands (CBS) 2:40pm - 2:50pm Strengthening Land Cover Validation: From Community Guidelines to Supporting (Sub)National Applications 1: Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands; 2: Committee on Earth Observation Satellites, Land Product Validation sub-group; 3: University of Maryland, Maryland, the USA; 4: College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China; 5: Section 1.4 Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany; 6: World Resources Insititute, the Hague, Netherlands 2:50pm - 3:00pm 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 3:00pm - 3:10pm 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 3:10pm - 3:20pm Developing Land Use and Land Cover Statistics with Earth Observation - Statistics Portugal experience Statistics Portugal, Portugal 3:20pm - 3:30pm 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 3:30pm - 3:40pm Artificial Intelligence for Reliable Land Use Statistics: Opportunities and Challenges from Switzerland Federal Statistical Office, Switzerland 3:40pm - 3:50pm 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 3:50pm - 4:00pm Standardised Reference Data Framework for Global Crop Mapping and Agricultural Statistics 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 |
| 4:15pm - 5:15pm |
Plenary session - Thematic sessions wrap-up Location: Big Hall |
| 9:00am - 9:45am |
Plenary session: data and services accessibility Location: Big Hall Chair: Tim Lemmens |
| 10:00am - 11:30am |
Workshops - Accessibility, data infrastructures & interoperability (including Copernicus services) Location: Big Hall Background and objectives
The workshop addresses challenges in accessing and integrating Earth Observation (EO) data within broader data ecosystems for official statistics. It focuses on data platforms, metadata standards, and interoperability between EO data, tools, and infrastructures and traditional statistical systems. Within this context, the workshop introduces the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE) as an operational and accessible platform, highlighting its role, together with other public services, in supporting national data infrastructures. The session aims to explore both technical and institutional solutions to improve accessibility and usability of EO data, including in low‑resource settings, and to identify remaining barriers to adoption of these systems by statistical offices. Expected outcomesParticipants will gain an overview of CDSE data collections and services relevant for statistics, including Sentinel data, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products, Copernicus Contributing Missions, and options for onboarding users’ own data. Concrete examples from Eurostat will illustrate current operational use. The session is expected to generate ideas for establishing steps towards better integration of EO data into official statistical workflows. CDSE for European Statistical System 1: European Commission DG EUROSTAT, Luxembourg; 2: Sword Group Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem - European funded and governed Earth Observation processing capacity 1: Sinergise Solutions GmbH, Austria; 2: T-Systems International |
| 11:45am - 1:30pm |
Workshops - Reference Data as a Backbone for EO-Based Environmental Statistics and Services Location: Big Hall Workshop Description:
At the end of this workshop, we expect to have a clearer idea of the availability, the governance and accessibility, of In-Situ data sets that are the ground truth data for the EO datasets. The workshop will also explore the idea of a single federate In-Situ data repository, and the requirements from the statistical processing point of view for the In-Situ data (temporal, spatial and semantic). The Workshop will kick off with three lightening presentations from EEA, Eurostat and JRC, followed by breakout group work. The workshop will conclude with key messages from each breakout group Reference Data as a Backbone for EO-Based Environmental Statistics and Services 1: European Commission DG EUROSTAT, Luxembourg; 2: Sword Group; 3: European Environmental Agency; 4: European Commision DG Joint Reserach Center One million LUCAS points European Commission DG EUROSTAT, Luxembourg |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Workshop - From pixels to statistics: working toward validated EO and in-situ data integration practices Location: Big Hall This interactive workshop will bring together EO practitioners, statisticians, and data providers to jointly address how Earth Observation data can be responsibly combined with in-situ measurements, statistical survey data and administrative dat.
Using short case studies (e.g. crop type mapping, yield estimation, biodiversity proxies), participants will explore where integration typically becomes difficult: spatial misalignment, scale effects, timing differences, and mismatches between observed variables and intended statistical constructs.
From pixels to statistics: working toward validated EO and in-situ data integration practices Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands, The |
| 4:15pm - 5:15pm |
Workshops wrap up Location: Big Hall |
| 5:15pm - 5:30pm |
Conference closure Location: Big Hall |
