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Date: Tuesday, 14/Mar/2017
8:15am - 9:00am	Registration Mtg. Room: Big Hall
9:00am - 10:30am	1.1: Opening Session Mtg. Room: Big Hall Chair: Bianca Hoersch, ESA Chair: Olivier Arino, ESA 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
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee Break Mtg. Room: Big Hall
11:00am - 12:20pm	Opening Session (cont'd) Mtg. Room: Big Hall 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
12:20pm - 1:00pm	1.2: Responding to User Needs Mtg. Room: Big Hall Chair: Barbara Ryan, GEO Chair: Martin Herold, Wageningen University & Research - WUR 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
2:10pm - 3:30pm	Responding to User Needs (cont'd) Mtg. Room: Big Hall 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
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Coffee Break Mtg. Room: Big Hall
4:00pm - 5:40pm	Responding to User Needs (cont'd) Mtg. Room: Big Hall 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)

Date: Wednesday, 15/Mar/2017
9:00am - 10:20am	2.1: Global/Continental LC Products Mtg. Room: Big Hall Chair: Pierre Defourny, UCLouvain-Geomatics Chair: Jun Chen, National Geomatics Center of China 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
10:20am - 10:50am	Coffee Break Mtg. Room: Big Hall
10:50am - 12:30pm	2.2: Large-scale Mapping of Specific LC Mtg. Room: Big Hall Chair: Matthew C. Hansen, University of Maryland Chair: Frédéric Achard, Joint Research Centre - European Commission 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
1:30pm - 2:50pm	Large-scale Mapping of Specific LC (cont'd) Mtg. Room: Big Hall 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
2:50pm - 3:20pm	Coffee Break Mtg. Room: Big Hall
3:20pm - 5:00pm	2.3: Classification Systems Mtg. Room: Big Hall Chair: John Latham, UN/FAO Chair: Curtis Woodcock, Boston University 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
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Round table discussion: Roadmap for High-resolution (10- to 30-meter) WorldCover2017 Mtg. Room: Big Hall Chair: Stephen Briggs (ESA) Participants: John Latham (UN-FAO), Tobias Langanke (EU-EEA), Matthew Hansen (University of Maryland), Tom Loveland (USGS), Jun Chen (NGCC, China), Christian Hoffmann (EARSC)

Date: Thursday, 16/Mar/2017
9:00am - 10:40am	3.1: Validation and Accuracy Mtg. Room: Big Hall Chair: Thomas R. Loveland, U.S.Geological Survey Chair: Sophie Bontemps, Université catholique de Louvain 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
10:40am - 11:10am	Coffee Break Mtg. Room: Big Hall
11:10am - 12:50pm	3.2: Methods and Algorithms Mtg. Room: Big Hall Chair: Carsten Brockmann, Brockmann Consult GmbH Chair: Mattia Marconcini, German Aerospace Center - DLR 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
1:50pm - 3:10pm	3.3: Platforms Mtg. Room: Big Hall Chair: Chris Steenmans, European Environment Agency Chair: Mark Doherty, ESA 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
3:10pm - 4:10pm	Conclusions by Chairs Mtg. Room: Big Hall

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