GIS statistical comparison and integration of multi-temporal spaceborne optical and radar data for the analysis of the large Roman urban area expansion since the last three decades.

Luca Martino¹, Emanuele Loret², Magdalena Fitrzyk³

1: Serco Spa for ESA, User Services and Mission Planning (EOP-G), Italy; 2: University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science, Italy; 3: ESA, Science Strategy, Coordination and Planning Office (EOP-SA), Italy

GIS-based Estimation of Soil Erosion Potential and its Implications to Water Resources of City of Kinshasa, D.R. Congo

Martin Tshikeba Kabantu^1,2, Raphael Muamba Tshimanga^2,1, Webster Ngumindoga³

1: Congo River basin network for research and capacity building in water resources, Congo, Democratic Republic of the; 2: University of Kinshasa; 3: University of Zimbabwe

Advanced FORest ENvironmental Services Assessment - AFORENSA

Ivan Pilas¹, Ivan Medved¹, Jasnica Medak¹, Luka Rumora², Damir Medak²

1: Croatian Forest Research Institute, Croatia; 2: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy

Monitoring Land Cover and Land Use in Mediterranean Area using Landsat Data in NorthWest of Algeria

Tayeb SI TAYEB^1,2, Khadidja DAOUDI¹

1: University, Algeria; 2: Laboratory of biotoxicology, pharmacognosy and biological valorization of plants

Defining the accuracy requirements for pixel counting to be competitive with traditional statistical area estimates

François Waldner, Pierre Defourny

UCLouvain, Belgium

On the Set-up of National Forest Monitoring Systems for REDD+

Inge GC Jonckheere, Stefano Giaccio, Alessio Alfonsetti, Damiano Giampaoli

FAO of the United Nations, Forestry Department, Italy

Deriving Forest/Non-Forest Maps from TanDEM-XInterferometric SAR Data

Paola Rizzoli, Michele Martone, Christopher Wecklich, Carolina Gonzalez, Jose´ Luis Bueso Bello, Paolo Valdo, Gerhard Krieger, Manfred Zink

German Aerospace Center, Germany

On the spatial and temporal resolution of land cover products for applied use in wind resource mapping

Charlotte Hasager, Merete Badger, Ebba Dellwik, Rogier Floors, Andrea Hahmann, Jakob Mann

DTU, Denmark

SWOS: Partnership improving Wetlands Knowledge and Conservation through Earth Observation Monitoring

Kathrin Weise, Christian Huettich

Jena-Optronik GmbH, Germany

Sentinel-based Evolution of Copernicus Land Services on Continental and Global Scale

Linda Moser¹, Markus Probeck¹, Gernot Ramminger¹, Christophe Sannier², Baudouin Desclée², Mathias Schardt³, Heinz Gallaun³, Janik Deutscher³, Pierre Defourny⁴, Xavier Blaes⁴, Igor Klein⁵, Manfred Keil⁵, Andreas Hirner⁵, Thomas Esch⁵

1: GAF AG; 2: Systèmes d’Information à Référence Spatiale (SIRS) SAS; 3: JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH; 4: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) – Earth and Life Institute (ELI); 5: German Aerospace Center (DLR) – German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD)

Validation Techniques for Land Cover and Land Use Maps

Mykola Lavreniuk¹, Nataliia Kussul², Andrii Shelestov¹, Bohdan Yailymov²

1: National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”; 2: Space Research Institute, Ukraine

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION APPROACH IN THE SOYBEAN CONTOUR EXTRACTION ON CBERS IMAGE IN THE MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL

EDINÉIA APARECIDA DOS SANTOS GALVANIN, MAGAYWER MOREIRA PAIVA, Murilo Henrique Xavier PEREIRA

UNIVERSITY OF STATE OF MATO GROSSO, Brazil

Operational Land Cover Map Production using Sentinel Image Time Series Supervised Classification with Out-Of-Date Reference Data

Jordi Inglada¹, Benjamin Tardy¹, Dawa Derksen¹, Charlotte Pelletier¹, Arthur Vincent¹, Silvia Valero¹, Julien Michel², Vincent Thierion³

1: CESBIO - UMR 5126, 18 avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse CEDEX 9, France; 2: CNES/DCT/SI/AP, 18 avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse CEDEX 9, France; 3: CESBIO - UMR 5126, 18 avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse CEDEX 9, France and DYNAFOR, INP-ENSAT, INP-EI Purpan, INRA, University of Toulouse, Auzeville 31320, France

Forest vegetation under climate change of the 21^st century in central Siberia

Elena I. Parfenova, Nadezhda M. Tchebakova

Forest Institute of SB RAS, Russian Federation

Spatial uncertainties and integration of global land cover maps

Nandin-Erdene Tsendbazar, Martin Herold, Sytze de Bruin

Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands,

The Copernicus Global Land High Resolution Hot Spot Monitoring Program – responding to specific user requirements in mapping natural resources

Andreas Brink¹, Zoltan Szantoi¹, Andrea Lupi¹, Pier Lorenzo Marasco¹, Pere Roca-Ristol¹, Domenico Grandoni²

1: Joint Research Centre - European commission, Italy; 2: e-geos S.p.A.

Impact of Land Cover Map Classification and Spatiotemporal Characteristics on 300 m to 5 km Operational Evapotranspiration Mapping at Continent-scale

Nicolas Ghilain, Alirio Arboleda, Jose Miguel Barrios, Françoise Gellens-Meulenberghs

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Belgium

Tropical Forest Characterisation with SAR and Geomorphometric Data

Polyanna da Conceição Bispo¹, Heiko Balzter¹, João Roberto dos Santos², Márcio de Morisson Valeriano²

1: University of Leicester, United Kingdom; 2: National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil

Copernicus-based Detection and Monitoring of Tropical Wetlands in Rwanda: The DeMo-Wetlands project as contribution to Global Land Cover Mapping efforts

Adrian Strauch¹, Esther Amler¹, Natalie Cornish², Jonas Franke², Klaus Greve¹, Stefan Kirmaier², Maja Röse¹, Frank Thonfeld¹

1: University of Bonn, Germany; 2: Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH, Germany

Global-scale Auxiliary Variables Improve overall Accuracy of Regional Land Use / Land Cover Classification in Heterogenous Savanna Ecosystems

Pekka Juhani Hurskainen¹, Andreas Hemp²

1: University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Finland; 2: University of Bayreuth, Department of Plant Systematics, Germany

Land use/Land cover changes monitoring and analysis of Dubai Emirate, UAE using multi-temporal remote sensing data

SAMY ISMAIL ELMAHDY¹, MOHAMED MOSTAFA MOHAMED^1,2

1: Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, United Arab Emirates; 2: Irrigation and Hydraulics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University

River Channel Dynamics Detection Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies- A Case Study of River Chenab in Indo-Pak Region

Muhammad Luqman¹, Samiullah Khan¹, Farkhanda Akmal¹, Sajid Rashid Ahmad², Ahmad Raza¹

1: The Urban Unit, Pakistan; 2: College of Earth and Environmental Science, University of the Punjab

Dead Sea Recesssion

Entisar Ali Elhihi

Royal Jordanian Geographic centre, Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of

The synergy of Sentinels and Corona imagery to assess urban land cover change over 5 decades in Bucharest, Romania

Constantin Nistor¹, Bogdan Mihai¹, Liviu Toma², Irina Cârlan¹, Marina Vîrghileanu¹

1: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, Romania; 2: GISBOX Srl, Bucharest, Romania

An all-season sample set for mapping global land cover at various resolutions

Peng Gong¹, Congcong Li², Jie Wang³, Yuqi Bai¹, Zhiliang Zhu⁴, Greg Biging²

1: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; 2: Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA; 3: Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Beijing, China; 4: USGS, Reston, VA, USA

Remote sensing method for quantification of ground surface changes and environmental regime shifting in Semi-arid region

Buho Hoshino¹, Yuki Sofue², Kenji Kai³, PUREVSUREN Tsedendamba¹, Kenji Baba¹

1: Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan; 2: The Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Japan; 3: Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan

Castile and Leon Crops and Natural Land Map

David A. Nafría¹, Vicente del Blanco¹, José L. Bengoa²

1: Agricultural Technological Institute of Castile and Leon, Regional Ministry of Agriculture, Junta de Castilla y León, Spain; 2: Regional Ministry of Public Works and Environment, Junta de Castilla y León, Spain

Monitoring of Glacier Surface Properties with optical Satellite Data – Examples from the Eastern Alps (Austria and Italy) and the Khumbu-Himal (Nepal)

Lorenzo Rieg¹, Christoph Klug¹, Hannah Prantl¹, Rudolf Sailer¹, Lindsey Nicholson²

1: Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Austria; 2: Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Deep Learning for Land Classification and Palm Tree Counting for the United Arab Emirates

Paula Marti, Milena Napiorkowska, David Petit, Fabiano Costantini

Deimos Space UK, United Kingdom

Availability of Satellite Based Digital Surface Models – Comparison of ALOS-AW3D and ASTER-GDEM Data over Serbia

Branko Brkljač^1,2,3, Predrag Lugonja^1,2, Vladan Minić^1,2, Marko Panić^1,2, Oskar Marko^1,2, Sanja Brdar^1,2, Vladimir Crnojević^1,2

1: University of Novi Sad, Serbia; 2: BioSense Institute, Serbia; 3: Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia

Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 for High-Resolution Land Cover Mapping in Sustainable Agriculture

Predrag Lugonja^1,2, Oskar Marko^1,2, Marko Panić^1,2, Branko Brkljač^1,2, Sanja Brdar^1,2, Vladimir Crnojević^1,2

1: BioSense Institute, Serbia; 2: University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Sentinel-1 Potential for Land Cover Classification

Gottfried Schwarz, Corneliu Octavian Dumitru, Mihai Datcu

DLR Remote Sensing Technology Institute Germany

The Regional Distribution of Permafrost on Tröllaskagi peninsula, Northern Iceland

Hannah Prantl¹, Rudolf Sailer¹, Johann Stötter¹, Thomas Nagler², Ursula Blumthaler²

1: Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Austria; 2: Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria

Coastal Land Cover Classification Using Sentinel-1 Images

Mihai Datcu¹, Corneliu Octavian Dumitru¹, Daniela Espinoza-Molina¹, Gottfried Schwarz¹, Sébastien Clerc²

1: DLR Remote Sensing Technology Institute Germany; 2: ACRI-ST France

Linking land cover and biodiversity through the GEOBON Ecosystem Structure Working Group

Andrew Skidmore¹, Matt Hansen²

1: ITC University Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Maryland, USA

The Role of Land Cover and Land Use Change Datasets to Support the Sustainable Development Goals

Brice Mora^1,2, Martin Herold¹, Erika Romijn¹, Gregory Scott³, Jun Chen⁴, Gary Geller⁵, Andre Obregon⁵

1: Wageningen U., Netherlands, The; 2: GOFC-GOLD LC Office, The Netherlands; 3: Global Geospatial Information Management, United Nations; 4: National Geomatics Center of China, China; 5: Group on Earth Observations

Analysis of Protected Areas: The Use of Satellite Images for Data Mining within ECOPOTENTIAL

Reza Bahmanyar¹, Mihai Datcu¹, Corneliu Octavian Dumitru¹, Daniela Espinoza-Molina¹, Gottfried Schwarz¹, Christiaan Hummel², Herman Hummel², Alma Blonda³, Ricardo Diaz-Delgado⁴

1: DLR Remote Sensing Technology Institute Wessling Germany; 2: Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Department of Estuarine and Delta Studies Yerseke The Netherlands; 3: National Research Council Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation Bari Italy; 4: LAST (Remote Sensing & GIS Lab) Sevilla Spain

Remote sensing for Land Productivity dynamics assessment.

Maurizio Sciortino¹, Flavio Borfecchia¹, Simone Mantovani²

1: ENEA, Italy; 2: MEEO s.r.l, Italy

VecBorn: Mapping risk areas of Buruli Ulcer through monitoring of water dynamics

Kathrin Weise¹, Jan Bongard^1,2, Christian Huettich¹, Benjamin Koetz³, Gerd Pluschke⁴

1: Jena-Optronik GmbH, Germany; 2: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; 3: European Space Agency, ESA-ESRIN; 4: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Sentinel-2 for Agriculture: Synergy of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 for supporting operational national and global crop monitoring

Sophie Bontemps¹, Pierre Defourny¹, Nicolas Bellemans¹, Cosmin Cara², Gérard Dedieu³, Eric Guzzonato⁴, Olivier Hagolle³, Jordi Inglada³, Laurentiu Nicola², Thierry Rabaute⁴, Mickael Savinaud⁴, Cosmin Udroiu², Silvia Valero³, Benjamin Koetz⁵

1: Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 2: CS-Romania, Romania; 3: Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère, Université de Toulouse, France; 4: CS Systèmes d’Information, France; 5: ESA-ESRIN, Italy

Aerosol effect on the performance of a change detection technique

Cristiana Bassani¹, Cristina Tarantino¹, Khalid Tijani², Palma Blonda¹

1: Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Italian National Research Council (IIA-CNR), Italy; 2: Geophysical Applications Processing (GAP) s.r.l.

The Chilly Zones Of The Land Cover Mapped By Means Of Sentinel-2

Gabriele Schwaizer, Johanna Nemec, Thomas Nagler, Helmut Rott

ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria

An investigation of the synergistic use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data for wetland classification: a case study from Greece

Andromachi Chatziantoniou¹, George P. Petropoulos², Emmanouil Psomiadis¹

1: Department of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece; 2: Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Aberystwyth, UK

Sentinel 2, from analysis and perspectives to operation: the Common Agriculture Policy –CAP management and control

Livio Rossi, Fabio Volpe

e-GEOS spa, Italy

Wide-Area Mapping Of Invasive Species Spread And Containment Zones In Somaliland Using Phenometric Trends From MODIS Time-Series Data

Tobias Landmann¹, Olena Dubovyk², Gohar Ghazaryan², Jackson Kimani¹, Elfatih Abdel-Rahman¹

1: International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya; 2: Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL), University of Bonn, Germany

LanCovEU: a platform for Land Coverage in Europe

Maria Antonia Brovelli, Fernando Cesar Fahl, Monia Elisa Molinari

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Landscape fragmentation analysis using global LULC datasets and crowdsourcing mapping

Tetyana Kuchma

National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Institute of agroecology, Ukraine

Crop mapping in the Pampas, Argentina. A comparison between Maximum Likelihood and Machine Learning approaches.

Miguel Martín Nolasco¹, Carlos Marcelo Scavuzzo², Monica de Lourdes Bocco¹

1: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), Argentine Republic; 2: Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales, Argentine Republic

Rule-Based Framework for Crop Identification Using Temporal and Phenological Metrics: A Multi-Temporal and Multi-Sensor Approach

Gohar Ghazaryan¹, Olena Dubovyk¹, Fabian Löw², Mykola Lavreniuk³, Andrii Kolotii³, Jürgen Schellberg^1,4, Nataliia Kussul³

1: Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces, University of Bonn; 2: MapTailor Geospatial Consulting GbR; 3: Space Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and State Space Agency of Ukraine; 4: Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn

SPOT World Heritage : images from the past for time series

Julien Nosavan

CNES, France

A Fractal Perspective of urban expansion magnitude analysis based on multi-resolution images

Chunzhu WEI, Thomas Blaschke

university of salzburg, Austria

Land cover mapping in the framework of the FLOWERED project in the study areas of Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia.

Maria Teresa Melis¹, Francesco Gabriele Dessì¹, Stefania Da Pelo¹, Giorgio Ghiglieri¹, Claudio La Mantia², Paolo Loddo², Anna Maria Deflorio²

1: Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy; 2: Planetek Italia Srl

Sentinel-1 Forest Land Cover Classification and Forest Change of the Mai-Ndombe District,D.R. Congo

Jörg Haarpaintner¹, André Mazinga², Landing Mane²

1: Norut - Northern Research Institute, Norway; 2: OSFAC - Observatoire Satellital des Forêts d'Afrique Centrale

Using Landsat Data to Identify the “Forest/Nonforest” Border for the Last Two Decades in South-Central Siberia

Evgeny G. Shvetsov, Elena I. Parfenova, Nadezhda M. Tchebakova

Institute of Forest SB RAS, Russian Federation

LACO-Wiki: An Online Tool for the Validation of Land Cover at Global, Regional and Local Scales

Linda See¹, Christoph Perger¹, Christopher Dresel¹, Juan Carlos Laso Bayas¹, Steffen Fritz¹, Dmitry Schepaschenko¹, Juergen Weichselbaum²

1: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria; 2: GeoVille Information Systems GmbH, Austria

Maximising Spatial and Temporal Resolution: the Daily Worldwide 5m Coverage of the UrtheDaily Constellation

Fabrizio Pirondini

Deimos Imaging, Spain

Estimation of land use change and building heights from 1966 to 2015 in Yangon by Corona, Landsat, Geoeye and VIIRS nighttime light images

Wataru Takeuchi¹, Tanakorn Sritarapipat¹, Sao Hone Pha²

1: The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: Yangon Technological University, Myanmar

Global rice paddy and crop calendar mapping with sub-pixel land cover characterization

Wataru Takeuchi¹, Kei Oyoshi²

1: The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan

Landcover mapping north of the treeline

Annett Bartsch¹, Angelika Höfler¹, Christine Kroisleitner¹, Anna Maria Trofaier², Barbara Widhalm¹

1: Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Austria; 2: UNIS, Norway

Sentinel-1 versus Sentinel-2 for tundra shrub mapping

Annett Bartsch¹, Angelika Höfler¹, Barbara Widhalm¹, Marina Leibmann², Artem Khomutov², Yuri Dvornikov²

1: Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Austria; 2: Earth Cryosphere Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen, Russia

An Object-Oriented Method to Assess Semantic Similarity between LCML based Legends

Antonio DiGregorio¹, Nicola Mosca², Enrico Boldrini³, Simone Maffei¹, Palma Blonda³

1: FAO Consultant; 2: CNR-ISSIA, Italy; 3: CNR_IIA, Italy

Land Cover Classification using Sentinel-2 Data

Florin Andrei Georgescu^1,2, Corina Vaduva¹, Mihai Datcu^1,3

1: Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 011061, Romania; 2: Military Technical Academy, Bucharest, 050141, Romania; 3: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, D-82234 Wessling, Germany

Use of Sentinel-1 Polarimetric backscatter and Sentinel-2 spectral signatures for lava flow land cover type differentiation in Mt. Etna, Sicily

Aikaterini Karagiannopoulou¹, Olga Sykioti², Issaak Parcharidis¹, Salvatore Giammanco³, Pierre Briole⁴

1: Harokopio University, Athens, Greece; 2: Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece,; 3: National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy,; 4: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France,

The Challenge of multi-source, multi-temporal, multi-resolution Satellite Data for Forest Degradation Mapping

Rene Griesbach¹, Pablo Rosso¹, Gideon Okpoti Tetteh¹, Eliakim Hamunyela²

1: Planet Labs Germany GmbH, Germany; 2: Wageningen University, Netherlands

Sentinels synergy for seasonal agricultural crop mapping

Silvia Valero, Milena Planells, Alexandre Bouvet, Stephane Mermoz, Eric Ceschia, Gerard Dédie

CESBIO, France

Atmospheric correction of Sentinel 2 images for time series usage in agriculture

Fabio Volpe, Pasquale Pistillo, Marco Corsi, Massimo Zavagli, Maria Lucia Magliozzi

e-geos, Italy

A Sampling Approach for Advanced Multi-Temporal Classification of Sentinel-2 Data

Elke Kraetzschmar¹, Peter Hofmann¹, Stanisław Lewiński², Artur Nowakowski², Marcin Rybicki², Ewa Kukawska², Radosław Malinowski², Michal Krupinski², Conrad Bielski³, Denise Dejon⁴, Diego Fernandez Prieto⁵

1: IABG, Germany; 2: Space Research Centre (CBK PAN), Poland; 3: EOXPLORE UG, UK; 4: Friedrich Schiller University, Germany; 5: ESA-ESRIN, Italy

Towards Automatic Global Land Cover Classification On Sentinel-2 Data

Stanisław Lewinski¹, Artur Nowakowski¹, Marcin Rybicki¹, Ewa Kukawska¹, Radosław Malinowski¹, Michał Krupiński¹, Elke Krätzschmar², Peter Hofmann², Conrad Bielski³, Denise Dejon⁴, Diego Fernández Prieto⁵

1: Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Science, Poland; 2: Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH; 3: EOXPLORE UG; 4: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; 5: ESA-ESRIN

Inventory and Assessment of Global and Regional Data Bases related to Water Bodies for Training and Validation purposes

Herve YESOU¹, Mathias STUDER¹, Sadri HAOUET¹, Alain GIROS², Melanie VELTEN¹, Jerome Maxant¹, Robin FAIVRE¹, Alice ANDRAL², Nadine THOLEY¹

1: ICube-SERTIT, UNISTRA, France; 2: CNES, Toulouse, France

The value of combined intra-annual time series from Sentinel-2 and Landsat for crop type and land cover mapping

Patrick Griffiths¹, Patrick Hostert^1,2

1: Geography Department, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 2: Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Large Scale Crop Classification Using Deep Learning Approach

Nataliia Kussul¹, Mykola Lavreniuk², Andrii Shelestov², Alexei Novikov², Bohdan Yailymov¹

1: Space Research Institute, Ukraine; 2: National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”

Global Land Cover Products Validation and Inter-comparison in South Central and Eastern Europe

Jana Albrechtova¹, Ioannis Manakos², Petya Campbell³, Mihai Nita⁴, Lucie Kupkova¹, Konstantinos Karantzalos⁵, Garik Gutman⁶

1: Charles University, Faculty of Science, Czech Republic; 2: Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece; 3: Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA; 4: Faculty of Forestry, University of Transylvania, Brasov, Romania; 5: Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; 6: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC, USA

Opportunities and challenges for monitoring European forest disturbance dynamics

Dirk Pflugmacher¹, Cornelius Senf¹, Zhiqiang Yang², Cohen Warren², Hostert Patrick¹

1: Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany; 2: Oregon State University, United States

Remote sensing for the wise use of wetlands: 25 years of landscape changes in the Kilombero floodplain, Tanzania.

Javier Muro¹, Adrian Strauch¹, Ander Lopez¹, Frank Thonfeld^1,2, Stefanie Steinbach², John Truckenbrodt³

1: ZFL Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces, Germany; 2: Remote Sensing Research Group, Germany; 3: University of Jena

Remote Sensing of Arid Wetlands: An Overview of Methods for Optical Satellite Imagery Application in Combination with Hydrological Data

Maria Vladimirovna Kozlova¹, Olga Vladimirovna Gorelits¹, Alexander Vladimirovich Kozlov², Muhammad Hasan Ali Baig³, Igor Vladimirovich Zemlianov¹

1: N.N. Zubov State Oceanographic Institute, Information Support Department, Russian Federation; 2: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Navigation and Control Lab, Moscow, Russian Federation; 3: Institute of Geo-Information & Earth-Observation (IGEO) PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Mapping forest stand composition with use of Sentinel-2A multitemporal data

Ewa Grabska, Anna Zielonka, Katarzyna Ostapowicz

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Automated Derivation of Land Use and Land Cover Based on Landsat Time-series and Open Geodata

Patrick Leinenkugel, Benjamin Mack, Juliane Huth, Claudia Künzer

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Earth Observation Center (EOC), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD)

CadasterENV Sweden- New National Land Cover data with a focus on Change and Landscape Analysis

Camilla Jönsson¹, Mats Rosengren¹, Marc Paganini², Carl Gilljam¹, Sandra Wennberg¹

1: Metria AB, Sweden; 2: ESA, ESRIN, Italy

The ESA Research and Service Support : providing tools for Sentinels data exploitation

Jose Manuel Delgado Blasco^1,2, Roberto Cuccu^1,2, Daniele De Vecchi^3,4, Giovanni Sabatino^1,2, Giancarlo Rivolta^1,2

1: ESA Research and Service Support, via Galileo Galilei, 1, 00044 Frascati (Italy); 2: Progressive Systems Srl, Parco Scientifico di Tor Vergata, 00133 Roma (Italy); 3: University of Pavia, Corso Str. Nuova, 106/c, 27100 Pavia, Italia; 4: Eucentre, Via Adolfo Ferrata, 1, 27100 Pavia, Italia

Improved Space-based Remote Sensing for Land Cover Mapping; Towards A Sustainable Expansion of the bio-ethanol sector in Brazil

Ramses Molijn¹, Lorenzo Iannini¹, Rubens Lamparelli², Ramon Hanssen¹

1: Delft University of Technology - the Netherlands; 2: NIPE/UNICAMP - Brazil

Mapping of Framing Calendar Dates and Duration of the Growing Seasons in Russian Subarctic

Evgeny Panidi¹, Valery Tsepelev²

1: Saint Petersburg State University, Russian Federation; 2: Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Russian Federation

The impact of land cover map quality on spatial land-use mapping of carbon sequestration and competing land-use objectives

Rebekka Hüfner

Universität Kassel, Germany

Vegetation Mapping in European Outermost Regions by using Rapideye high-resolution multispectral imagery - the case study of Madeira Island (Portugal)

Andrea Massetti¹, Miguel Sequeira², Artur Gil³

1: Monash University, Australia; 2: University of Madeira, Portugal; 3: University of the Azores, Portugal

Land Cover and Land Use Mapping According to Latvian User Needs Using Sentinel-2 Data

Dainis Jakovels, Agris Brauns, Jevgenijs Filipovs, Juris Taskovs, Gatis Erins

Institute for Environmental Solutions, Latvia

Utility of local and global maps for improving estimates of forest area in north and north-east Armenia.

Andrew Haywood^1,2,3, Hovik Sayadyan⁴

1: Royal Melbourne Institutute of Technology, Australia; 2: Melbourne University, Australia; 3: European Forest Institute; 4: Armenian State Agrarian University

Hybrid land cover of Russia - 2010

Olha Danylo¹, Dmitry Schepaschenko^1,2, Anatoly Shvidenko¹, Myroslava Lesiv¹, Martina Dürauer¹

1: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; 2: Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia

Assessment and Monitoring of Grasslands in Latvia: Exploring the Capabilities of Sentinel-1 Radar and Sentinel-2 Optical Data

Dainis Jakovels¹, Agris Brauns¹, Jevgenijs Filipovs¹, Juris Taskovs¹, Gatis Erins¹, Roberts Rotbergs¹, Karlis Zalite^2,3,4

1: Institute for Environmental Solutions, Latvia; 2: KappaZetta Ltd., Estonia; 3: Tartu Observatory, Estonia; 4: Lund University, Sweden

Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) change detection assessment using OLI/ETM+ imagery in Nazlu basin, Iran

Edith Eishoeei, Mirhassan Miryaghoubzadeh

Urmia University, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Methods and Algorithms for Feature Extraction and Semantic Analysis of Very High Resolution Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Images

Radu Tanase¹, Mihai Datcu^2,1

1: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest; 2: German Aerospace Center

Estimating Forest Aboveground Biomass Using Sentinel 1 and 2 Data: The Case Study From The Polish Carpathians

Anna Maria Zielonka, Ewa Grabska, Marek Drewnik, Katarzyna Ostapowicz

Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Poland

A Review of existing Geo-Databases for Human Settlements Characterization in the Framework of Global Scale Risk Analysis

Nadine THOLEY¹, Mathias STUDER¹, Stephanie BATTISTON¹, Myldred MONTABORD¹, Nathalie FUENTES²

1: ICUBE-SERTIT, Université de Strasbourg, France; 2: CNES, Toulouse, France

Urban atlas data: a source of information about the dynamics of urbanised landscapes (example of Prague and Bratislava)

Premysl Stych¹, Robert Pazur^2,3, Jan Feranec², Monika Kopecka², Lucie Kupkova¹, Ondrej Micek¹, Lukas Holman¹

1: Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czechia; 2: Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Štefánikova 49, 814 73 Bratislava, Slovakia; 3: Swiss Federal Research Institute, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Adding Details to Urban Land Cover: Local Climate Zones as a Mapping Paradigm within the World Urban Database and AccessPortal Tools (WUDAPT) Initiative

Linda See¹, Benjamin Bechtel², Gerald Mills³, Michael Foley³, Jason Ching⁴, Valéry Masson⁵, Nathalie Theeuwes⁶, Oscar Brousse⁷, Johannes Feddema⁸, Iain Stewart⁹

1: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria; 2: University of Hamburg, Germany; 3: University College Dublin, Ireland; 4: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; 5: Météo France, France; 6: University of Reading, UK; 7: University of Leuven, Belgium; 8: University of Victoria, Canada; 9: University of Toronto, Canada

The deployment of a high resolution mapping for territorial planning application in the context of the NextGEOSS project

Nuno Grosso¹, David Petit², Paula Martí², Nuno Catarino¹

1: Deimos Engenharia, Portugal; 2: Deimos Space UK

Comparing Land Cover Maps derived from all annual Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Data at Different Spatial Scales

Christina Karakizi, Konstantinos Karantzalos

Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens

Land Cover Change Detection Using a Relevance Feedback System

Alexandru-Cosmin Grivei¹, Anamaria Radoi¹, Mihai Datcu^1,2

1: University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania; 2: Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Automatic update of land cover maps using satellite data and neural networks

Fabio Del Frate¹, Francesco Carbone², Matteo Picchiani¹, Daniele Latini², José Manuel Delgado Blasco^3,4, Roberto Cuccu^3,4, Giovanni Sabatino^3,4, Giancarlo Rivolta^3,4

1: University of Tor Vergata, Italy; 2: GEO-K Srl; 3: Progressive Systems Srl; 4: ESA Research and Service Support

Towards near daily update of land cover dynamics in global surface type products from VIIRS

Chengquan Huang¹, Rui Zhan¹, Panshi Wang¹, Xiwu Zhan², Ivan Csiszar²

1: University of Maryland, United States of America; 2: NOAA-NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, United States of America

Prediction of forest variables with Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1 and Suomi NPP satellite data to estimate carbon fluxes in boreal forest

Tuomas Häme¹, Laura Sirro¹, Heikki Astola¹, Yrjö Rauste¹, Jussi Rasinmäki², Mohammad Imangholiloo², Francesco Minunno³, Annikki Mäkelä³

1: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland; 2: Simosol Oy; 3: University of Helsinki

Ultra-high resolution sampling with UAVs for optimising fractional woody cover characterisations in dryland savannahs

Elias Symeonakis¹, Konstantinos Karantzalos², Panagiotis Zervos², Klaus Kellner³

1: Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom; 2: National Technical University of Athens, Greece; 3: North-West University

Validation of Forest Cover Products on the Territory of Bulgaria

Lachezar Hristov Filchev

Space Research and Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (SRTI-BAS), Bulgaria

Classification of tundra vegetation in the Krkonoše Mts. National Park using multispectral and hyperspectral image data

Lucie Kupková, Lucie Červená, Renáta Suchá, Lucie Jakešová, Jana Albrechtová

Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Landsense: A Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace for Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring

Inian Moorthy, Steffen Fritz, Linda See, Ian McCallum

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Combine Time Series Analysis of AVHRR, MODIS and Sentinel satellite images for better estimation of Vegetation Trend Indexes in arid and semi-arid zones of Central Asia.

Dildora Aralova

Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Combining expert-based and crowdsourcing approaches in a two-tier sampling design for validation: global experimental results for cropland maps

François Waldner¹, Raphaël d'Andrimont¹, Thomas De Maet¹, Anne Schucknecht², Javier Gallego², Ana Perez-Hoyos², Olivier Leo², Myroslava Lesiv³, Steffen Fritz³, Martina Duerauer³, Linda See³, Juan Carlos Laso-Bayas³, Pierre Defourny¹

1: UCLouvain, Belgium; 2: Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy; 3: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria

Spatial Region Data Model For 10 m Land Cover Mapping Dedicated To Biodiversity Research

Julien Radoux¹, Jessica Delangre², Pierre Defourny¹

1: Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 2: Université de Liège, Belgium

Can We Avoid Mixed Pixels Bias In Validation Of Land Cover Maps Derived From High Resolution Data ?

Julien Radoux, Patrick Bogaert, Sophie Bontemps, Eric Van Bogaert, Pierre Defourny

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Derivation of a circa-2010 Global Man-made Impervious Surface (GMIS) Dataset from Landsat

Chengquan Huang¹, Eric Brown de Colstoun², Panshi Wang¹, Bin Tan³, James Tilton²

1: University of Maryland, United States of America; 2: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States of America; 3: SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC., United States of America

Operational Aspects of Producing Consistent Quality Land Cover Maps from High and Medium Resolution Sensor Data

Martin Boettcher¹, Thomas de Maet², Olivier Arino³, Carsten Brockmann¹, Pierre Defourny², Fabrizio Ramoino³

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

Mapping secondary forest succession on abandonment agricultural lands using Sentinel 2 multitemporal data

Katarzyna Anna Ostapowicz, Ewa Grabska, Anna Zielonka

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Sentinel-1 SAR time series for regional cropland mapping

Xavier Blaes, Guillaume Chome, Francois Waldner, Pierre Defourny

UCL-Geomatics, Belgium

The LULUCF component of the EDGAR global emissions database

Simone Rossi, Raul Abad-Vinas, Monica Crippa, Diego Guizzardi, Mihaela Miclaus, Sandro Federici, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Giacomo Grassi

European Commission Joint Research Centre

Comparison and Validation of Freely Available Land Cover Products Over North-western Morocco

Mohamed IKSSI

Unisersité Abdelmalek Essadi - Faculté des Sciences de Tétouan, Morocco

Land Use Classification in Traditional Agricultural Areas Using Time-Series Remote Sensing Datasets and Rotation Forest Ensemble Algorithm

Soheil Radiom¹, Davoud Ashourloo^1,2, Hamid Salehi Shahrabi¹, Ali Parto¹

1: Remote Sensing Department, Iranian Space Research Center (ISRC), Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of; 2: Remote Sensing Center, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Monitoring land cover changes in and around protected area from local to global scale: An ESA CCI land cover mapping experience

Dorit Gross^1,2, Grégoire Dubois², Andrea Mandrici², Lucy Bastin², Luca Battistella²

1: Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, The; 2: European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy

Optimisation of Regional Scale Woody Vegetation Cover Mapping with Optical, Thermal and Radar Data

Elias Symeonakis¹, Kyriaki Petroulaki¹, Thomas Higginbottom¹, Ángel Marqués-Mateu²

1: Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom; 2: Universitat Politècnica de València

Mapping Croplands over Large Areas Using Landsat Data and a Generalized Classifier

Mutlu Ozdogan¹, Aparna Phalke¹, Prasad Thenkabail²

1: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, US; 2: USGS Flagstaff, AZ USA

A European Contribution to Comparable Global Land Cover and Land Use Systems

Stephan Arnold¹, Geir Strand², Geoff Smith³, Roland Grillmayer⁴, Gebhard Banko⁴, Michael Bock⁵

1: DESTATIS Germany; 2: NIBIO Norway; 3: Specto Natura UK; 4: UBA Austria; 5: DLR Germany

Development of a New Harmonized Land Cover/Land Use Dataset for Agricultural Monitoring in Africa

Ana Pérez-Hoyos, Felix Rembold, Javier Gallego, Anne Schucknecht, Michele Meroni, Hervé Kerdiles, Olivier Leo, Francois Kayitakire

Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy

Socioecological Carbon Production in Managed Agricultural-Forest Landscapes

Jiquan Chen, Kyla Dahlin, Ranjeet¹, John Phil Robertson², Steve Hamilton³, David Lusch⁴, Lauren Cooper⁵, Arnon Karnieli⁶, Raffaele Lafortezza⁷, Giovanni Sylos Labini⁸

1: CGCEO/Geography, Michigan State University; 2: GLBRC/KBS; 3: LTER/KBS; 4: RS/GIS, MSU; 5: MSU; 6: Ben GurionUniv, Israel; 7: UNIBA; 8: Planetek

National Scale Land-Cover / Land-Use Change Modelling for Sustainable Risk Management

Nathalie Stephenne¹, Benjamin Beaumont¹, Lien Poelmans², Eric Hallot¹

1: Remote Sensing & Geodata Unit, ISSeP, 200 rue du Chéra, 4000 Liège, Belgium; 2: Environmental Modelling Unit, VITO, 200, Boerentang, 2400 Mol, Belgium

10m SENTINEL-2 Composite - Cloud-free Southern Africa 2016

Fabrizio Ramoino¹, Florin Tutunaru², Fabrizio Pera¹, Olivier Arino³

1: Serco, Italy; 2: CS, Romania; 3: ESA