Welcome Address

Nicolaus Hanowski

ESA

Copernicus Programme

Michel Massart

DG-GROW, Belgium

Sentinel-1 Mission Status

Pierre Potin

European Space Agency, Italy

Sentinel-2 Mission Status

Bianca Hoersch

European Space Agency, Italy

Sentinel-3 Mission Status and Performance

Susanne Mecklenburg

European Space Agency, Italy

Meeting Evolving Needs for Large-area Land Cover and Land Change Information: The USGS Perspective

Thomas R. Loveland

U.S.Geological Survey, United States of America

Multi-Source Land Imaging for Developing Continental and Global Land-Cover/Use Products in the NASA LCLUC Program

Garik Gutman

NASA, United States of America

Land Cover – An Essential Element for Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Barbara J. Ryan, Gary N. Geller, Andre Obregon

GEO Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland

Challenges and Opportunities for Monitoring Land and its Cover Change through the use of Geospatial Information

John Latham

UN/FAO

Uncertainty in Land Cover observations and its impact on climate simulations

Goran Georgievski, Stefan Hagemann

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany

Uncertainty in satellite-derived land cover information and its impact on land surface models

Andrew Hartley¹, Natasha MacBean², Goran Georgievski³, Sophie Bontemps⁴

1: Met Office Hadley Centre, United Kingdom; 2: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France; 3: Max Planck Institut für Meteorologie, Germany; 4: Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Monitoring and Assessing Land Use: Progress for Land System Science through Climate Change Research and SDGs

Martin Herold¹, Patrick Hostert², Sebastian van der Linden², Jan Verbesselt¹

1: Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands; 2: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Land Cover Information Requirements for Supporting Countries to set Land Degradation Neutrality Targets and Ensure Further Monitoring

Sara Minelli¹, Sven Walter², Alain Retière³

1: UNCCD Secretariat, Bonn, Germany; 2: UNCCD Global Mechanism, Rome, Italy; 3: UNCCD Global Mechanism, France

Biodiversity and ecosystem service community user needs for global land cover and land use mapping

Brian O'Connor¹, Neil Burgess¹, Rachael Petersen², Andrew Skidmore³

1: UNEP-WCMC, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DL, United Kingdom; 2: World Resources Institute, 10 G Street NE, Washington, DC 20002, United States of America; 3: ITC, University Twente, Enschede, 7500 AA, Netherlands

Principles and Criteria for Creating, Disseminating, and Maintaining Operational Land Cover Monitoring Systems: Lessons Learned from More than 1 Million Users of Global Forest Watch

Mikaela J Weisse, Rachael Petersen, Fred Stolle

World Resources Institute

Using Earth Observation and Other Geospatial Data to Improve OECD's Environmental and Green Growth Indicators and Its Policy Guidance

Ivan Hascic, Alexander Mackie, Miguel Cardenas Rodriguez

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France

National Forest and Land Use Monitoring in Africa Countries: Cameroon and Malawi

Thomas Haeusler, Sharon Gomez, Fabian Enssle

GAF AG, Germany

New land cover data requirements for environmental accounting in Australia and globally

Albert Van Dijk, Michael Vardon, David Summers

Australian National University, Australia

Global Mapping of Forest Carbon Stocks using Spaceborne Radar

Oliver Cartus¹, Maurizio Santoro¹, Stephane Mermoz², Alexandre Bouvet², Thuy Le Toan², Adam Erickson³, Nuno Carvalhais³, Valerio Avitabile⁴, Martin Herold⁴, Christiane Schmullius⁵

1: GAMMA Remote Sensing, Switzerland; 2: Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France; 3: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany; 4: Wageningen University, The Netherlands; 5: Friedrich-Schiller-University, Germany

Towards a New Philosophy for Generating Land Cover Products

Gary Neil Geller¹, Andre Obregon¹, Alan Belward², Jun Chen³, Ivan Hascic⁴, Martin Herold⁵, Peng Gong⁶, Thomas Loveland⁷, Brice Mora^5,8, Gregory Scott⁹, Zoltan Szantoi²

1: Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Secretariat, Switzerland; 2: Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy; 3: National Geomatics Center of China (NGCC), China; 4: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); 5: Wageningen University, The Netherlands; 6: Tsinghua University, China; 7: United States Geological Survey (USGS), United States; 8: GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Office, The Netherlands; 9: UN Global Geospatial Information Management (GGIM)

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

Validation of global annual land cover map series and land cover change: experience from the Land Cover component of the ESA Climate Change Initiative

Sophie Bontemps¹, Frédéric Achard², Céline Lamarche¹, Philippe Mayaux³, Olivier Arino⁴, Pierre Defourny¹

1: UCLouvain-Geomatics (Belgium), Belgium; 2: Joint Research Center, Italy; 3: European Commission, Belgium; 4: European Space Agency, Italy

Comparative validation of Copernicus Pan-European High Resolution Layer (HRL) on Tree Cover Density (TCD) and University of Maryland (UMd) Global Forest Change (GFC) over Europe

Christophe Sannier¹, Heinz Gallaun², Javier Gallego³, Ronald McRoberts⁴, Hans Dufourmont⁵, Alexandre Pennec¹

1: Systèmes d'Information à Référence Spatiale (SIRS), France; 2: Joanneum Research, Austria; 3: Joint Research Centre, Italy; 4: US Forest Service, USA; 5: European Environment Agency, Denmark

Copernicus Global Land Hot Spot Monitoring Service – Accuracy Assessment and Area Estimation Approach

Heinz Gallaun¹, Gabriel Jaffrain², Zoltan Szantoi³, Andreas Brink³, Adrien Moiret², Stefan Kleeschulte⁴, Mathias Schardt¹, Conrad Bielski⁵, Cedric Lardeux⁶, Alex Petre⁷

1: JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria; 2: IGN FI, France; 3: Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission; 4: space4environment (s4e), Luxembourg; 5: EOXPLORE, Germany; 6: ONF International, France; 7: GISBOX, Romania

Forest degradation assessment: accuracy assessment of forest degradation products using HR data

Naila Yasmin, Remi D’annunzio, Inge Jonckheere

FAO Forestry Department, FAO of UN, Rome Italy

A New Open Reference Global Dataset for Land Cover Mapping at a 100m Resolution

Myroslava Lesiv¹, Steffen Fritz¹, Linda See¹, Nandika Tsendbazar², Martin Herold², Martina Duerauer¹, Ruben Van De Kerchove³, Marcel Buchhorn³, Inian Moorthy¹, Bruno Smets³

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

Sentinel-2 cloud free surface reflectance composites for Land Cover Climate Change Initiative’s long-term data record extension

Grit Kirches¹, Jan Wevers¹, Olivier Arino², Martin Boettcher¹, Sophie Bontemps³, Carsten Brockmann¹, Pierre Defourny³, Olaf Danne¹, Tonio Fincke¹, Céline Lamarche³, Thomas de Maet³, Fabrizio Ramoino²

1: Brockmann Consult GmbH, Germany; 2: ESA ESRIN, Italy; 3: Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Wide area multi-temporal radar backscatter composite products

David Small¹, Christoph Rohner¹, Adrian Schubert¹, Nuno Miranda², Michael Schaepman¹

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

Large area land cover mapping and monitoring using satellite image time series

Jan Verbesselt, Nandin-Erdene Tsendbazar, Johannes Eberenz, Martin Herold, Johannes Reiche, Dainius Masiliunas, Eline Van Elburg

Wageningen University, Netherlands, The

Towards a new baseline layer for global land-cover classification derived from multitemporal satellite optical imagery

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

German Aerospace Center - DLR, Germany

Advancing Global Land Cover Monitoring

Matthew Hansen

University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences

Land monitoring integrated Data Access - status and outlook on platforms

Bianca Hoersch¹, Susanne Mecklenburg¹, Betlem Rosich¹, Sveinung Loekken¹, Philippe Mougnaud¹, Erwin Goor²

1: European Space Agency, Italy; 2: VITO, Belgium

Sentinel-powered land cover monitoring done efficiently

Grega Milcinski

Sinergise, Slovenia

Bringing High Resolution to the Globe – A system for automatic Land Cover Mapping built on Sentinel data streams to fulfill multi-user application requirements

Michael Riffler, Andreas Walli, Jürgen Weichselbaum, Christian Hoffmann

GeoVille Information Systems, Austria

Land Cover data to support a Change Detection system for the Space and Security community

Sergio Albani, Michele Lazzarini, Paulo Nunes, Emanuele Angiuli

European Union Satellite Centre, Spain