Conference Agenda

Climate Extremes and Food Security in Malawi

Hilde Orderud¹, Ola Nordbeck²

1: Statistics Norway, Norway; 2: Norwegian Space Agency, Norway

Earth Observations and Machine Learning for Gridded Macroeconomic Data

Marco Marini, Andinet Woldemichael, Jim Tebrake

International Monetary Fund

Earth Observation and AI for Construction Statistics (EO4ConStat): Developing an EO-based Approach for Quality Assessment in Building Statistics

Frederik Stellmach¹, Stefan Irrgang², Carola Stolle¹, Maren Köhlmann², Dorothee Stiller³, Michael Wurm³, Thorsten Dahms¹, Michael Hovenbitzer¹

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

Steffen Fritz¹, Myroslava Lesiv¹, Ivelina Georgieva¹, Leandro Parente², Katya Perez Guzman¹, Lindsey Sloat³, Ana Paula Matos⁴, Nathália Teles⁴, Vinicius Mesquita⁴, Laerte Ferreira⁴, Luis Baumann⁴, Ichsani Wheeler²

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

Maren Koehlmann, Stefan Irrgang, Melanie Brauchler

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

Céline Lamarche¹, Inès Bruyère¹, Kandice Harper¹, Andrew Hartley², Philippe Peylin³, Catherine Ottlé³, Vladislav Bastrikov³, Luis Olivera³, Rodrigo San Martín³, Grit Kirches⁴, Martin Boettcher⁴, Roman Shevchuk⁴, Carsten Brockmann⁴, Clément Albergel⁵, Pierre Defourny⁴

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

Ian Nunes, Vitor Franca, Bruna Rezende, Marcelo Maia

Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Brazil

Integrating EO and ground biomass information through robust statistical techniques: GFOI recommendations for climate policy reporting

Natalia Málaga¹, Daniela Requena Suarez¹, Chad Babcock², Neha Hunka³, Alexs Arana⁴, Ricardo de la Cruz Paiva⁴, Martin Herold¹

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

Radoslaw Gurdak, Adam Wasniewski, Wojciech Ciezkowski

Polish Space Agency, Poland

Seeing forests clearly: Insights from a Systematic Review of FI-EO Integration

Daniela Requena Suarez¹, Alexandra Runge¹, Natalia Málaga¹, Katja Berger¹, Viola Heinrich¹, Markus Immitzer², Linda Lück¹, Qian Song¹, Timothée Stassin¹, Martin Herold¹

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

Christophe Sannier¹, Gadriel Jaffrain², Adrien Moiret-Guigand², Naikoa Aguilar Amuchastegui³, René Siwe¹

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

Erika Piaser¹, Micol Rossini¹, Giulia Tagliabue¹, Luigi Vignali¹, Maria J. Santos², Martin Reader², Andreas Hueni², Giaime Origgi³, Francesco Holecz³, Federica Marando⁴, Marco di Tullio⁵, Cinzia Panigada¹

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

Valeria Contessa¹, Chiara Patriarca¹, Takayuki Ishikawa¹, Adolfo Kindgard¹, Stephen V Stehman², Anssi Pekkarinen¹

1: FAO, Italy; 2: ESF, USA

From Land Cover to Land Use: A Remote Sensing–Based Map of Forest Area in Europe

Daniele Marinelli, Guido Ceccherini, Alessandro Cescatti

DG JRC European Commission, Italy

Combining NFI and EO data – alley to success for a reliable European Forest Monitoring System?

Johannes Breidenbach

NIBIO, Norway

Unit-level National-scale small-area estimation in Italy

Elia Vangi, Giovanni D’Amico, Gherardo Chirici

geoLAB, - Laboratory of Forest Geomatics, Dept. of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via San Bonaventura 13, 50145 Firenze, Italy

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