Conference Agenda

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Integrating Multi-Sensor Earth Observation Data for Coastal Change Indicators and Sea-Level Rise Scenarios: A Case Study from Northern Egypt

Mohamed Abdelfattah^1,2,3, Marie-Hélène Rio¹, Zoltan Szantoi¹, Giuseppe Ottavianelli¹, Mariam Hassan Sheta⁴

¹Science, Applications & Climate Department, European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Frascati, Italy; ²African Research Fellow; ³Geology department, Faculty of Science, Port Said University, 42522 Port Said, Egypt; ⁴Environmental Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Port Said 42522, Egypt

ID: 212 / 1.6: 2

AgriGuard: A Regional EO-Based Platform for Agriculture and Hazard Monitoring in Support of Policy and Early-Warning Applications

Abdullah Barhy, Almutaz Mohammed, Livia Peiser

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy

ID: 226 / 1.6: 3

Hydro-Climatic Drivers of SAR Backscatter in Vineyards to Support Agricultural Statistics

Andrea Bergamaschi¹, Ashmitha Nihar², Abhinav Verma², Anna Verlanti³, Avik Bhattacharya², Fabio Dell'Acqua¹, Ferdinando Nunziata⁴

¹Department of Electrical, Computer, Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; ²Microwave Remote Sensing Lab (MRSLab), Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India; ³Department of Engineering, University of Naples Parthenope, Naples, Italy; ⁴Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

ID: 248 / 1.6: 4

EO-assisted estimation enhances the precision of National Forest Inventory indicators, also in a data-poor context

Annabel Burg^1,2,3, Sytze de Bruin¹, Johannes Reiche¹, Gert-Jan Nabuurs^2,3

¹Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands; ²Sustainable Forest Ecosystems, Wageningen Environmental Research, the Netherlands; ³Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands

ID: 210 / 1.6: 5

AI-Powered Web-GIS Platform for EO-Based Transport Infrastructure Monitoring and Risk Management

Giada Possemato⁴, Paolo Caporossi¹, Giovanni Quacquarelli¹, Lorenzo Lipparini², Francesco Menniti³, Gerardo Ferraioli¹

¹TITAN4 S.r.l., Via dell’Arte 19, 00144 Rome, Italy; ²Department of Earth Science, University of Roma Tre, Via Ostiense, 133, 00154 Rome, Italy; ³Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Via Vitaliano Brancati, 48, 00144 Rome, Italy; ⁴• University of Rome Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro, 00185 Roma & TITAN4, Via dell'Arte 19, 00144 Roma

ID: 169 / 1.6: 6

Enhancing Earth Observation to Track Progress Towards the Global Goal on Adaptation

Sarah Connors¹, Rochelle Schneider¹, Johanna Nalau², Michelle Hawkins³, et al⁴

¹ESA, United Kingdom; ²Australian Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; ³National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C., USA; ⁴various

ID: 307 / 1.6: 7

Biodiversity Carbon Farming Index (BCFI) - EO-driven Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) for Supporting Policy and GHG Inventories

Bernadett Csonka¹, Emma Seneschal¹, Dr. Gerhard Triebnig¹, Madhavan Srijit S¹, Elias Wanko¹, Martin Gruböck², Anne Gruböck¹

¹EOX IT Services, Austria; ²PRO-NATURE Nature Conservation, Austria

ID: 310 / 1.6: 8

Natural Capital Solutions Platform: Scaling EO-Driven Ecosystem Metrics

Anne Gruböck¹, Emma Seneschal¹, Dr. Gerhard Triebnig¹, Martin Gruböck², Stefan Brand¹, Srijit Madhavan¹, Elias Wanko¹, Anita Miskovic¹, Bernadett Csonka¹

¹EOX IT Services, Austria; ²PRO-NATURE Nature Conservation NGO, Austria

ID: 184 / 1.6: 9

Improving forest monitoring and management with fine-scale maps of forest parameters at the EU and global scale

Wanda De Keersmaecker¹, Astrid Verhegghen¹, Myroslava Lesiv², Daniele Zanaga¹, Cornelius Senf³, Alba Viana-Soto³, Luc Bertels¹, Steffen Fritz², Johanna Klapper⁴, Lukas Blickensdörfer⁵, Leen Govaere⁶, Bas Lerink⁷, Anja Leyman⁶, Mart-Jan Schelhaas⁷, Sander Teeuwen⁸, Dmitry Schepaschenko², Pieter Johannes Verkerk⁴, Ruben Van De Kerchove¹

¹Flemish Institute for Technological Research; ²International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; ³Technical University of Munich; ⁴European Forest Institute; ⁵Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut; ⁶Agency for Nature and Forests; ⁷Wageningen Environmental Research; ⁸Stichting Probos

ID: 301 / 1.6: 10

Fusing LEO and GEO observations for agricultural monitoring

Riccardo D'Ercole¹, David Seu², Chiara Maria Cocchiara¹

¹Φ-lab, European Space Agency (ESA), ESRIN, Via Galileo Galilei, Frascati, Italy; ²Co2 Angels, Cluj-Napoca, Romani

ID: 324 / 1.6: 11

Enabling Agentic capabilities in Earth Observation using EVE – applications in the EO Dashboard and drought monitoring

Riccardo D'Ercole¹, Kaushik Pillalamarri², Eva Gmelich Meijling¹, Anca Anghelea³, Chiara Maria Cocchiara³

¹European Space Agency, Φ-Lab, Frascati, Italy; ²North Carolina State University; ³European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy

ID: 318 / 1.6: 12

An ensemble-based approach for continuous monitoring and attribution of vegetation loss agents at regional to national scale using Landsat imagery

Vangelis Fotakidis, Giorgos Mallinis

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

ID: 112 / 1.6: 13

Leveraging citizen science, Earth Observation, and AI for plastic litter to inform official statistics, SDG reporting, and policy development

Dilek Fraisl¹, Konstantinos Topouzelis², Omar Seidu³, Linda See¹, Maryam Rabiee⁴

¹International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); ²SciDrones; ³Ghana Statistical Service (GSS); ⁴Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

ID: 107 / 1.6: 14

Building Data from High-Resolution Images

Cristina Gabriel, Francisco Caldeira

Statistics Portugal, Portugal

ID: 132 / 1.6: 15

Monitoring Forest Condition and Disturbance with Sentinel-1 SAR: Indicators for Environmental Reporting

Omid Ghorbanzadeh¹, Khalil Gholamnia², Thomas Blaschke¹

¹Department of Geoinformatics—Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, 5020, Salzburg, Austria; ²Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43, Prague 2, Czech Republic

ID: 130 / 1.6: 16

EO-based Grassland Production Index for estimating drought related yield losses: development in mountain environment and current challenges

Giulia Graldi¹, Gaia Vallarino¹, Abhishek Singh¹, Michele Claus¹, Abraham Mejia Aguilar², Alice Crespi³, Mariapina Castelli¹

¹Eurac Research, Institute of Earth Observation, Bolzano, Italy; ²Eurac Research, terraxcube, Bolzano, Italy; ³Eurac Research, Center for Climate Change and Transformation, Bolzano, Italy

ID: 208 / 1.6: 17

terrAIntel: Enabling Thematic Earth Observation Data Exploitation through Natural Language Interfaces and Cloud-Native Workflows

Donvan Grobler¹, Markus Tretzmüller², David Hinterndorfer²

¹GeoVille, Austria; ²cortecs, Austria

ID: 164 / 1.6: 18

Evaluating Deep Learning based Building Damage Assessment Methods in earthquake-affected, densely built-up urban areas: The case of Kahramanmaraş

Julian Kath

OECD, Paris

ID: 262 / 1.6: 19

EO and Spatial Modeling for Urban Climate Risk Assessment in Eight African Cities

Anna Lisa Labaar³, Camilla Foggia², Luca Malatesta², Enrico Mazzoli¹, Fabio Attorre², Marcella Veneziani³

¹FAO; ²Sapienza Università di Roma; ³S[&]T Italy

ID: 126 / 1.6: 20

Mapping Urban Trees from Space to support EU Green policies and SDGs

Alice Lhernould, Eve Poitevin, Loïc Faucqueur, Hugues Bellevier-Royal

CLS, France

ID: 246 / 1.6: 21

From public geodata to a multi-dimensional 3d cadastre - a legal-environmental Digital City Twin Concept for Krakow

Hubert Aleksander Malyszek, Aleksandra Podzorska

University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland

ID: 237 / 1.6: 22

Earth Observation for Statistics (EO4S) in EUROSTAT

Carla Martins¹, Hannes Reuter¹, Zacharias Kandylakis²

¹European Commission DG EUROSTAT, Luxembourg; ²Sword Group

ID: 135 / 1.6: 23

How Earth Observation facilitates the extensive monitoring of woody landscape features and their ecosystem functions

Verena Huber-Garcia¹, Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt², Sophie Reinermann¹, Sarah Asam¹, Susanne Karg³, Michael Stellmach³, Kristel Kerler³, Jonas Meier¹, Ursula Gessner¹

¹German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; ²Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany; ³Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt (LfU), Germany

ID: 206 / 1.6: 24

A predictive model of GDP composition by sector

Bachir Belaid, Daniel Moran

NILU, Norway

ID: 290 / 1.6: 25

High-resolution global land cover maps for national-scale area change estimation and reporting: case study for Uganda

Olga Nepomshina¹, Nandika Tsendbazar², Daniela Requena Suarez¹, Martin Herold¹

¹GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany; ²Wageningen University & Research

ID: 312 / 1.6: 26

High-resolution global land cover maps for national-scale area change estimation and reporting: case study for Uganda

Olga Nepomshina¹, Nandika Tsendbazar², Daniela Requena Suarez¹, Martin Herold¹

¹GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany; ²Wageningen University & Research

ID: 302 / 1.6: 27

A Comprehensive Framework for Scalable and Cost-Effective Crop Monitoring: Leveraging Parcel Segmentation and Satellite Image Time-Series.

Ian Nunes¹, Mateus Pinto^1,2, Jefersson Santos^1,3, Hugo Oliveira^1,2

¹Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Brazil; ²Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil; ³University of Sheffield, UK

ID: 304 / 1.6: 28

SITS-ORDER: Discriminative Error Retrieval for Robust Crop Classification in the US and Brazil

Ian Nunes¹, Mateus Pinto^1,2, Jefersson Santos^1,3, Hugo Oliveira^1,2

¹Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Brazil; ²Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil; ³University of Sheffield, UK

ID: 133 / 1.6: 29

Can remote sensing support biodiversity certification ?

Julien Radoux, Lisa Delvaux, Pierre Defourny

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

ID: 106 / 1.6: 30

Assessing Urban Expansion using Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem Data & APIs

William Ray

Sinergise Solutions GmbH, Austria

ID: 242 / 1.6: 31

Operational reporting of SDG 14.1.1 indicator in Portugal and Cape Verde based on CMEMS data

Pedro Ribeiro, Constantinos Lordos, Nuno Grosso

Indra Space, Portugal

ID: 277 / 1.6: 32

Scalable ecosystem indicators on the Baltic GTIF Dashboard

Emma Seneschal¹, Gerhard Triebnig¹, Anne Gruboeck¹, Daniel Santillan¹, Tyna Dolezalova¹, Lubo Dolezal¹, Sylvester Pari¹, Joachim Ungar¹, Edvinas Aglinskas², Bernadett Csonka¹

¹EOX IT Services GmbH, Austria; ²National Paying Agency Luthiania (NPA)

ID: 156 / 1.6: 33

SDG 15.4.2 Mountain Green Cover-indicator for Finland

Markus Törmä, Pekka Hurskainen

Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

ID: 144 / 1.6: 34

Operational Earth Observation for Wildfire Damage Assessment in Olive Groves: An Integrated Court–Agency Case Study from the Mediterranean Region

Tahsin Unal

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Aliağa District Directorate, Turkiye

ID: 123 / 1.6: 35

Development of past and present annual winter wheat yield statistics at the level of administrative districts (“raions”) in South European Russia based on statistical modelling and large scale EO data

Sergey Venevsky^1,2, Valerii Kulygin¹, Liudmila Dashkevich¹, Sergey Berdnikov¹, Alexey Kleshchenkov¹, Samir Misirov¹, Anna Parfenova¹, Igor Sheverdyaev¹, Vera Sorokina¹

¹FSBIS Federal Research Centre The Southern Scientific Centre of The Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; ²Tsnghua University

ID: 288 / 1.6: 36

Optimizing Crowdsourced Training Samples for Large-Scale Crop Mapping

Qingying Wu¹, Qiangyi Yu¹, Hendrik Boogaard², Arun Pratihast²

¹The Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China; ²Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands