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Session Overview |
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| 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 ESA Copernicus Programme DG-GROW, Belgium Sentinel-1 Mission Status European Space Agency, Italy Sentinel-2 Mission Status European Space Agency, Italy Sentinel-3 Mission Status and Performance 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 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 NASA, United States of America Land Cover – An Essential Element for Multilateral Environmental Agreements GEO Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland Challenges and Opportunities for Monitoring Land and its Cover Change through the use of Geospatial Information 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 Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany Uncertainty in satellite-derived land cover information and its impact on land surface models 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 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 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 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 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 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France National Forest and Land Use Monitoring in Africa Countries: Cameroon and Malawi GAF AG, Germany New land cover data requirements for environmental accounting in Australia and globally Australian National University, Australia Global Mapping of Forest Carbon Stocks using Spaceborne Radar 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 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) |
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| 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 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 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 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 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 Joint Research Centre, Italy Mapping urban areas globally by jointly exploiting optical and radar imagery – the GUF+ layer German Aerospace Center - DLR, Germany Envisat ASAR and Sentinel-1: a decade of observations exploited to map inland water bodies 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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. FAO Consultatnt Advances in Copernicus High-Resolution Land Monitoring 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 United States Geological Survey, United States of America Global to Local Land Cover and Habitat Mapping: The Ecopotential Approach 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 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) |
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| 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 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 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 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 FAO Forestry Department, FAO of UN, Rome Italy A New Open Reference Global Dataset for Land Cover Mapping at a 100m Resolution 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 1: Brockmann Consult GmbH, Germany; 2: ESA ESRIN, Italy; 3: Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Wide area multi-temporal radar backscatter composite products 1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy Large area land cover mapping and monitoring using satellite image time series Wageningen University, Netherlands, The Towards a new baseline layer for global land-cover classification derived from multitemporal satellite optical imagery German Aerospace Center - DLR, Germany Advancing Global Land Cover Monitoring 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 1: European Space Agency, Italy; 2: VITO, Belgium Sentinel-powered land cover monitoring done efficiently 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 GeoVille Information Systems, Austria Land Cover data to support a Change Detection system for the Space and Security community European Union Satellite Centre, Spain |
| 3:10pm - 4:10pm |
Conclusions by Chairs Mtg. Room: Big Hall |