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Location: Magellan Bld. 1, main entrance |
| Date: Tuesday, 05/May/2026 | |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Workshop - User needs, Experiences, Challenges Location: Magellan |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm |
Thematic sessions - People & Urban areas Location: Magellan Harnessing EO and census data for subnational risk analyses of environmental hazards Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France Mapping Urban Realities: Integrating Citizen Science and Earth Observation for the UMF 1: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; 2: Citizen Science Global Partnership (CSGP), Laxenbug, Austria; 3: The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London, London, United Kingdom; 4: UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme), Nairobi, Kenya Spatial Indicators of Soil Sealing for Environmental Monitoring in the Mediterranean: The Ulysses Med Land Approach Planetek Italia Yearly Urban Tree Canopy and Urban Green Space Coverage Indicators for Germany from Sentinel-2: An Operational Workflow for Deriving Indicators for the EU Nature Restoration Regulation Luftbild Umwelt Planung, Germany Integrating Earth Observation and Statistical Data through Location-Based Frameworks 1: U.S. Census Bureau; 2: European Commission Joint Research Centre; 3: United Nations Co-development of small area population estimates with governments to fill demographic data gaps WorldPop, University of Southampton, United Kingdom A multiscale demand analysis applied to urban cultural ecosystem services: an application in Hannover, Braunschweig (Germany); Milan, Naples (Italy) Leibniz University Hannover, Italy |
| Date: Wednesday, 06/May/2026 | |
| 10:00am - 11:30am |
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 |
| 11:45am - 1:15pm |
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 |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
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 |
| Date: Thursday, 07/May/2026 | |
| 10:00am - 11:30am |
Workshops - Agriculture statistics Location: Magellan Earth Observations for Agrifood systems applications 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 |
| 11:45am - 1:15pm |
Workshops - Capacity building Location: Magellan |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Workshop - integration of in-situ and EO data Location: Magellan From pixels to statistics: working toward validated EO and in-situ data integration practices Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands, The |