| Baba, Kenji | Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan | Remote sensing method for quantification of ground surface changes and environmental regime shifting in Semi-arid region |
| Badger, Merete | DTU, Denmark | On the spatial and temporal resolution of land cover products for applied use in wind resource mapping |
| Bahmanyar, Reza | DLR Remote Sensing Technology Institute Wessling Germany | Analysis of Protected Areas: The Use of Satellite Images for Data Mining within ECOPOTENTIAL |
| Bai, Yuqi | Tsinghua University, Beijing, China | An all-season sample set for mapping global land cover at various resolutions |
| Baig, Muhammad Hasan Ali | Institute of Geo-Information & Earth-Observation (IGEO) PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan | Remote Sensing of Arid Wetlands: An Overview of Methods for Optical Satellite Imagery Application in Combination with Hydrological Data |
| Balzter, Heiko | University of Leicester, United Kingdom | Tropical Forest Characterisation with SAR and Geomorphometric Data |
| Banko, Gebhard | UBA Austria | A European Contribution to Comparable Global Land Cover and Land Use Systems |
| Barrios, Jose Miguel | Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Belgium | Impact of Land Cover Map Classification and Spatiotemporal Characteristics on 300 m to 5 km Operational Evapotranspiration Mapping at Continent-scale |
| Bartsch, Annett | Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Austria | Landcover mapping north of the treeline
Sentinel-1 versus Sentinel-2 for tundra shrub mapping |
| Bassani, Cristiana | Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Italian National Research Council (IIA-CNR), Italy | Aerosol effect on the performance of a change detection technique |
| Bastin, Lucy | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy | Monitoring land cover changes in and around protected area from local to global scale: An ESA CCI land cover mapping experience |
| Battistella, Luca | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy | Monitoring land cover changes in and around protected area from local to global scale: An ESA CCI land cover mapping experience |
| BATTISTON, Stephanie | ICUBE-SERTIT, Université de Strasbourg, France | A Review of existing Geo-Databases for Human Settlements Characterization in the Framework of Global Scale Risk Analysis |
| Beaumont, Benjamin | Remote Sensing & Geodata Unit, ISSeP, 200 rue du Chéra, 4000 Liège, Belgium | National Scale Land-Cover / Land-Use Change Modelling for Sustainable Risk Management |
| Bechtel, Benjamin | University of Hamburg, Germany | Adding Details to Urban Land Cover: Local Climate Zones as a Mapping Paradigm within the World Urban Database and AccessPortal Tools (WUDAPT) Initiative |
| Bellemans, Nicolas | Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium | Sentinel-2 for Agriculture: Synergy of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 for supporting operational national and global crop monitoring |
| Belward, Alan | European Commission - Joint Research Centre;
Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy | Global scale mapping of the when and where of inland and coastal waters over 32 years at 30m resolution.
Towards a New Philosophy for Generating Land Cover Products |
| Bengoa, José L. | Regional Ministry of Public Works and Environment, Junta de Castilla y León, Spain | Castile and Leon Crops and Natural Land Map |
| Benjamin, Koetz | ESA-ESRIN | Large Scale decametric Cropland Mapping from Sentinel-2 and Validation: Lessons Learned from 2016 nationwide Demonstration for different Countries |
| Bielski, Conrad | EOXPLORE UG, UK | A Sampling Approach for Advanced Multi-Temporal Classification of Sentinel-2 Data
Copernicus Global Land Hot Spot Monitoring Service – Accuracy Assessment and Area Estimation Approach
Towards Automatic Global Land Cover Classification On Sentinel-2 Data |
| Biging, Greg | Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA | An all-season sample set for mapping global land cover at various resolutions |
| Bispo, Polyanna da Conceição | University of Leicester, United Kingdom | Tropical Forest Characterisation with SAR and Geomorphometric Data |
| Blaes, Xavier | UCL-Geomatics, Belgium;
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) – Earth and Life Institute (ELI) | Sentinel-1 SAR time series for regional cropland mapping
Sentinel-based Evolution of Copernicus Land Services on Continental and Global Scale |
| Blaschke, Thomas | university of salzburg, Austria | A Fractal Perspective of urban expansion magnitude analysis based on multi-resolution images |
| Blonda, Alma | National Research Council Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation Bari Italy | Analysis of Protected Areas: The Use of Satellite Images for Data Mining within ECOPOTENTIAL |
| Blonda, Palma | Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Italian National Research Council (IIA-CNR), Italy;
CNR_IIA, Italy;
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy | Aerosol effect on the performance of a change detection technique
An Object-Oriented Method to Assess Semantic Similarity between LCML based Legends
Global to Local Land Cover and Habitat Mapping: The Ecopotential Approach |
| Blumthaler, Ursula | Environmental Earth Observation IT GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria | The Regional Distribution of Permafrost on Tröllaskagi peninsula, Northern Iceland |
| Bocco, Monica de Lourdes | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), Argentine Republic | Crop mapping in the Pampas, Argentina. A comparison between Maximum Likelihood and Machine Learning approaches. |
| Bock, Michael | DLR Germany | A European Contribution to Comparable Global Land Cover and Land Use Systems |
| Boettcher, Martin | Brockmann Consult, Germany | Consistent 1992-2015 global land cover time series at 300 m thanks to a state-of-the-art reprocessing of multi-mission archives
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
Operational Aspects of Producing Consistent Quality Land Cover Maps from High and Medium Resolution Sensor Data
Sentinel-2 cloud free surface reflectance composites for Land Cover Climate Change Initiative’s long-term data record extension |
| Bogaert, Patrick | Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium | Can We Avoid Mixed Pixels Bias In Validation Of Land Cover Maps Derived From High Resolution Data ? |
| Boldrini, Enrico | CNR_IIA, Italy | An Object-Oriented Method to Assess Semantic Similarity between LCML based Legends |
| Bongard, Jan | Jena-Optronik GmbH, Germany;
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena | VecBorn: Mapping risk areas of Buruli Ulcer through monitoring of water dynamics |
| Bontemps, Sophie | Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium;
UCLouvain-Geomatics (Belgium), Belgium | Can We Avoid Mixed Pixels Bias In Validation Of Land Cover Maps Derived From High Resolution Data ?
Consistent 1992-2015 global land cover time series at 300 m thanks to a state-of-the-art reprocessing of multi-mission archives
Envisat ASAR and Sentinel-1: a decade of observations exploited to map inland water bodies
Large Scale decametric Cropland Mapping from Sentinel-2 and Validation: Lessons Learned from 2016 nationwide Demonstration for different Countries
Sentinel-2 cloud free surface reflectance composites for Land Cover Climate Change Initiative’s long-term data record extension
Sentinel-2 for Agriculture: Synergy of Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 for supporting operational national and global crop monitoring
Uncertainty in satellite-derived land cover information and its impact on land surface models
Validation of global annual land cover map series and land cover change: experience from the Land Cover component of the ESA Climate Change Initiative |
| Borfecchia, Flavio | ENEA, Italy | Remote sensing for Land Productivity dynamics assessment. |
| Bouvet, Alexandre | Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France;
CESBIO, France | Global Mapping of Forest Carbon Stocks using Spaceborne Radar
Sentinels synergy for seasonal agricultural crop mapping |
| Brauns, Agris | Institute for Environmental Solutions, Latvia | Assessment and Monitoring of Grasslands in Latvia: Exploring the Capabilities of Sentinel-1 Radar and Sentinel-2 Optical Data
Land Cover and Land Use Mapping According to Latvian User Needs Using Sentinel-2 Data |
| Brdar, Sanja | University of Novi Sad, Serbia;
BioSense Institute, Serbia | Availability of Satellite Based Digital Surface Models – Comparison of ALOS-AW3D and ASTER-GDEM Data over Serbia
Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 for High-Resolution Land Cover Mapping in Sustainable Agriculture |
| Brink, Andreas | Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission | Copernicus Global Land Hot Spot Monitoring Service – Accuracy Assessment and Area Estimation Approach
The Copernicus Global Land High Resolution Hot Spot Monitoring Program – responding to specific user requirements in mapping natural resources |
| Briole, Pierre | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, | Use of Sentinel-1 Polarimetric backscatter and Sentinel-2 spectral signatures for lava flow land cover type differentiation in Mt. Etna, Sicily |
| Brkljač, Branko | University of Novi Sad, Serbia;
BioSense Institute, Serbia;
Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia | Availability of Satellite Based Digital Surface Models – Comparison of ALOS-AW3D and ASTER-GDEM Data over Serbia
Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 for High-Resolution Land Cover Mapping in Sustainable Agriculture |
| Brockmann, Carsten | Brockmann Consult, Germany | Consistent 1992-2015 global land cover time series at 300 m thanks to a state-of-the-art reprocessing of multi-mission archives
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
Operational Aspects of Producing Consistent Quality Land Cover Maps from High and Medium Resolution Sensor Data
Sentinel-2 cloud free surface reflectance composites for Land Cover Climate Change Initiative’s long-term data record extension |
| Brousse, Oscar | University of Leuven, Belgium | Adding Details to Urban Land Cover: Local Climate Zones as a Mapping Paradigm within the World Urban Database and AccessPortal Tools (WUDAPT) Initiative |
| Brovelli, Maria Antonia | Politecnico di Milano, Italy | LanCovEU: a platform for Land Coverage in Europe |
| Brown de Colstoun, Eric | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States of America | Derivation of a circa-2010 Global Man-made Impervious Surface (GMIS) Dataset from Landsat |
| Buchhorn, Marcel | VITO, Belgium | A New Open Reference Global Dataset for Land Cover Mapping at a 100m Resolution
The Dynamic Global Land Cover Layer at 100m Resolution from Copernicus Global Land |
| Bueso Bello, Jose´ Luis | German Aerospace Center, Germany | Deriving Forest/Non-Forest Maps from TanDEM-XInterferometric SAR Data |
| Burgess, Neil | UNEP-WCMC, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DL, United Kingdom | Biodiversity and ecosystem service community user needs for global land cover and land use mapping |