Conference Agenda

Consistent 1992-2015 global land cover time series at 300 m thanks to a state-of-the-art reprocessing of multi-mission archives

Pierre Defourny¹, Sophie Bontemps¹, Céline Lamarche¹, Carsten Brockmann², Grit Kirches², Martin Boettcher², Julien Radoux¹, Thomas De Maet¹, Eric Vanbogaert¹, Paolo Gamba³, Goran Georgievski⁴, Martin Herold⁵, Stefan Hagemann⁴, Andrew Hartley⁶, Gianni Lisini³, Natasha MacBean⁷, Inès Moreau¹, Catherine Ottlé⁷, Philippe Peylin⁷, Maurizio Santoro⁸, Christiane Schmullius⁹, Marian Vittek¹, Frédéric Achard¹⁰, Fabrizio Ramoino¹¹, Olivier Arino¹¹

1: UCLouvain-Geomatics (Belgium), Belgium; 2: Brockmann Consult, Germany; 3: University of Pavia, Italy; 4: Max Planck Institute, Germany; 5: Wageningen University, The Netherlands; 6: Met Office, United Kingdom; 7: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France; 8: Gamma RS, Switzerland; 9: Jena University, Germany; 10: Joint Research Center, Italy; 11: European Space Agency, Italy

The Dynamic Global Land Cover Layer at 100m Resolution from Copernicus Global Land

Marcel Buchhorn¹, Ruben Van De Kerchove¹, Martin Herold², Nandika Tsendbazar², Jan Verbesselt², Steffen Fritz³, Myroslava Lesiv³, Bruno Smets¹

1: VITO, Belgium; 2: University of Wageningen, Wageningen, the Netherlands; 3: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

Validation and Change detection-based Updating of GlobeLand30

Jun Chen

National Geomatics Center of China, China, People's Republic of

Mapping Africa land cover at 10 m with Sentinel-2: challenges and current achievements of the Land Cover component of the ESA Climate Change Initiative

Céline Lamarche¹, Pierre Defourny¹, Frédéric Achard², Martin Boettcher³, Carsten Brockmann³, Grit Kirches³, Thomas De Maet¹, Julien Radoux¹, Jan Militzer³, Maurizio Santoro⁴, Goran Georgievski⁵, Stefan Hagemann⁵, Martin Herold⁶, Andrew Hartley⁷, Natasha MacBean⁸, Catherine Ottlé⁸, Philippe Peylin⁸, Inès Moreau¹, Christiane Schmullius⁹, Marian Vittek¹, Fabrizio Ramoino¹⁰, Olivier Arino¹⁰

1: UCLouvain-Geomatics (Belgium), Belgium; 2: Joint Research Center, Italy; 3: Brockmann Consult, Germany; 4: Gamma RS, Switzerland; 5: Max Planck Institute, Germany; 6: Wageningen University, The Netherlands; 7: Met Office, United Kingdom; 8: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France; 9: Jena University, Germany; 10: European Space Agency, Italy

Global Mapping of Human settlement with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data: Recent developments in the GHSL

Christina Corbane, Martino Pesaresi, Vasileios Syrris, Thomas Kemper, Panagiotis Politis, Pierre Soille, Aneta J. Florczyk, Filip Sabo, Dario Rodriguez, Luca Maffenini, Stefano Ferri

Joint Research Centre, Italy

Mapping urban areas globally by jointly exploiting optical and radar imagery – the GUF+ layer

Mattia Marconcini, Soner Üreyen, Thomas Esch, Annekatrin Metz, Julian Zeidler

German Aerospace Center - DLR, Germany

Envisat ASAR and Sentinel-1: a decade of observations exploited to map inland water bodies

Maurizio Santoro¹, Oliver Cartus¹, Urs Wegmüller¹, Andreas Wiesmann¹, Penelope Kourkouli¹, Celine Lamarche², Sophie Bontemps², Pierre Defourny², Fabrizio Ramoino³, Olivier Arino³

1: GAMMA Remote Sensing, Switzerland; 2: Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 3: ESA/ESRIN, Italy

Global scale mapping of the when and where of inland and coastal waters over 32 years at 30m resolution.

Jean-Francois Pekel¹, Andrew Cottam¹, Noel Gorelick², Alan Belward¹

1: European Commission - Joint Research Centre; 2: Google Earth Outreach

Large Scale decametric Cropland Mapping from Sentinel-2 and Validation: Lessons Learned from 2016 nationwide Demonstration for different Countries

Pierre Defourny¹, Sophie Bontemps¹, Bellemans Nicolas¹, Matton Nicolas¹, Cara Cosmin², Dedieu Gerard³, Hagolle Olivier³, Inglada Jordi³, Guzzonato Eric⁴, Savinaud Michael⁴, Udroiu Cosmin², Grosu Alex², Rabaute Thierry⁴, Nicola Laurentiu², Koetz Benjamin⁵

1: UCLouvain-Geomatics, Belgium; 2: CS-Romania, Romania; 3: CESBIO, France; 4: CS-France; 5: ESA-ESRIN

Mapping Paddy Rice in Asia - A Multi-Sensor, Time-Series Approach

Kersten Clauss¹, Marco Ottinger¹, Wolfgang Wagner², Claudia Kuenzer³

1: Department of Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany; 2: Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; 3: German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Earth Observation Center (EOC), German Aerospace Center

Mapping disturbances in tropical humid forests over the past 33 years

Christelle Vancutsem, Frédéric Achard

Joint Research Centre (EU), Italy

Mapping forest disturbances in European temperate forests using Landsat time series: Issues of disturbance attribution in coupled human and natural systems

Cornelius Senf^1,2, Dirk Pflugmacher¹, Rupert Seidl², Patrick Hostert^1,3

1: Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; 2: Institute for Silviculture, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, Austria; 3: Integrative Research Institute on Transformation of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Towards a global high resolution wetland inventory based on optical and radar imagery

Michael Riffler¹, Christina Ludwig¹, Wolfgang Wagner², Vahid Naemi², Christian Tottrup³, Marc Paganini⁴

1: GeoVille Information Systems, Innsbruck, Austria; 2: Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria; 3: DHI GRAS, Hørsholm, Denmark; 4: European Space Agency, Esrin, Italy

Assessing and modelling a functional relationship of L.C. and L.U. a possible new path forward. The LCHML (Land Characterization Metal-Language) a new proposed FAO UML schema.

Antonio DiGregorio

FAO Consultatnt

Advances in Copernicus High-Resolution Land Monitoring

Gernot Ramminger¹, Juergen Weichselbaum², Baudouin Desclée³, Regine Richter¹, David Herrmann¹, Markus Probeck¹, Linda Moser¹, Christian Schleicher², Andreas Walli², Christophe Sannier³

1: GAF AG; 2: GeoVille Information Systems GmbH; 3: Systèmes d’Information à Référence Spatiale (SIRS) SAS

The National Land Cover Database (NLCD): A Successful National Land Change Monitoring System

Jonathan Henry Smith

United States Geological Survey, United States of America

Global to Local Land Cover and Habitat Mapping: The Ecopotential Approach

Richard Lucas¹, Palma Blonda², Ioannis Manakos³, Anthea Mitchell¹, Joan Maso⁴, Cristina Domingo⁴, Antonello Provenzale²

1: University of New South Wales, Australia; 2: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; 3: Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece; 4: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Assessment of Trends in Ecosystem Health and Condition

Curtis Woodcock

Boston University, United States of America