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