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Session Overview
Location: Big Hall
Date: Monday, 13/May/2024
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Registration
Location: Big Hall
1:30pm
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3:00pm
S0: Opening Session: Welcome and Keynotes
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Inge Jonckheere, ESA-ESRIN
 
1:30pm - 1:35pm

Welcome by ESA: Rune Floberghagen

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1:35pm - 1:40pm

Workshop Objectives and Organisation: Espen Volden

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1:40pm - 1:45pm

Welcome by EC DG-JRC: Alessandra Zampieri (Remotely)

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1:45pm - 1:50pm

Welcome by EC DG-RTD: Franz Immler (Remotely)

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1:50pm - 1:55pm

Welcome by EC DG-AGRI: Orsolya Frizon-Somogyi (Remotely)

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1:55pm - 2:00pm

Welcome by EC DG-DEFIS: Mauro Facchini (Remotely)

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2:00pm - 2:05pm

Welcome by FAO: José Rosero Moncayo

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2:05pm - 2:17pm

Welcome by WFP & keynote: WFP EO activities and needs, Giancarlo Pini (Remotely)

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2:17pm - 2:29pm

Welcome by GEOGLAM & keynote: Essential Agricultural Variables, Sven Gilliams

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2:29pm - 2:49pm

Keynote: Machine Learning and EO for Agriculture, Athanasiadis Ioannis (WUR, NL)

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2:49pm - 3:00pm

Discussion

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3:30pm
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5:00pm
S1: New Missions to Agri-Space
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Michel Massart, European Commission
Chair: Benjamin Koetz, ESA - ESRIN
 
3:30pm - 3:55pm

Sentinel Expansion missions, Next Generation and FLEX

Marco Celesti (Remotely)1, Malcom Davidson (Remotely)2, Benjamin Koetz3, Jose Moreno4

1: HE Space for ESA - European Space Agency, Netherlands, The; 2: ESA-ESTEC, Netherlands, The; 3: ESA-ESRIN, Italy; 4: University of Valencia



3:55pm - 4:07pm

constellr HiVE – a satellite constellation for monitoring land surface temperature and supporting food security

Daniel Spengler1, Elsy Ibrahim2, Ariadna Pregel Hoderlein1, Jonas Berhin2, Christophe Lerot2, Mohammad Iranmanesh2, Matthieu Taymans2

1: constellr GmbH, Germany; 2: constellr S.A., Belgium



4:07pm - 4:19pm

Monitoring crop status dynamic with PRISMA imagery: vegetation traits estimation and crop residues quantification

Mirco Boschetti, Gabriele Candiani, Francesco Nutini, Monica Pepe

CNR-IREA, Italy



4:19pm - 4:31pm

NISAR, a repeat-pass L- and S-band SAR for Agriculture and Ecological applications (Remote Speaker)

Paul Siqueira

University of Massachusetts, United States of America



4:31pm - 4:43pm

Hydrosat and IrriWatch: water management from space

Florian Werner, Matteo G. Ziliani, Roula Bachour, Albert Abelló, Wim Bastiaanssen

Hydrosat



4:43pm - 5:00pm

Discussion

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5:00pm
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6:00pm
Panel 1: FAO
Location: Big Hall
Panel Agenda:

Keynote Speaker

Jose Rosero Moncayo, Director of Statistics Division, FAO

Moderator

Lorenzo De Simone, FAO

Speakers

  • Livia Peiser, Senior and Land Water Officer, FAO: Monitoring pressure on agriculture resource base: EO for land and water information systems
  • Lorenzo De Simone, Technical Adviser Geospatial, FAO: Crop mapping and crop yield process-based models for adaptive agriculture in the face of climate change
  • Anne Branthomme, Forestry Officer, FAO: Assessing and tackling drivers of deforestation
  • Neil Marsland, Senior Technical Officer, FAO: EO for the assessment of the impacts of war on agriculture in Ukraine
Date: Tuesday, 14/May/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
S2: Soil and Crop monitoring
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Kristof Van Tricht, VITO
Chair: Martin Claverie, JRC
 
9:00am - 9:12am

WaPOR Accounter: a web app to easily and interactively monitor Water Productivity at field scale

Bert Coerver, Livia Peiser

FAO, Rome



9:12am - 9:24am

Plant water monitoring in Africa – Expanding hyperspectral (PRISMA and EnMap) analysis capacity by exploiting free and open-source software

Veronika Otto1, Silke Migdall1, Jeroen Degerickx2, Heike Bach1

1: Vista, Germany; 2: Vito, Belgium



9:24am - 9:36am

Boosting Crop Classification by Hierarchically Fusing Satellite, Rotational, and Contextual Data

Valentin Barriere1,2, Martin Claverie3, Maja Schneider4, Guido Lemoine3, Raphael d'Andrimont3

1: Universidad de Chile, DCC, Chile; 2: CENIA, Chile; 3: JRC-Ispra, Italy; 4: TUM, Germany



9:36am - 9:48am

In-season Crop Type Mapping: An accuracy evaluation at European scale using the CHEAP Database

Martin Claverie1, Valentin Barriere2, Raphaël d'Andrimont1, Renate Koeble1, Marijn Van der Velde1

1: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra , Italy; 2: Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (CENIA), Santiago , Chile



9:48am - 10:00am

Earth Observation for estimating and predicting crop nutrients

Mariana Belgiu1, Michael Marshall1, Gabriele Candiani2, Mirco Boschetti2, Monica Pepe2, Francesco Nutini2, Micol Rossini3, Chiara Ferrè3, Luigi Vignali3, Cinzia Panigada3, Roberto Colombo3, Stephan Haefele4, Murray Lark4, Alice Milne4, Grace Kangara4, Tobias Hank5, Stefanie Steinhauser5, Rain Vargas Maretto1, Chris Hecker1, Alfred Stein1, Andy Nelson1

1: University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), the Netherlands; 2: Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, Italian National Research Council (CNR); 3: University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; 4: Rothamsted Research; 5: Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Department of Geography



10:00am - 10:12am

A Rapid Assessment Framework to monitor harvest progress in Ukraine

Shabarinath Sreedharan Nair1,3, Sergii Skakun2,3, Josef Wagner1,3, Yuval Sadeh4,3, Mehdi Hosseini2,3, Saeed Khabbazan5,3, Sheila Baber2,3, Blake Munshell2,3, Fangjie Li1,3, Eric Duncan2,3, Inbal Becker Reshef1,2,3

1: Laboratoire ICube, Team TRIO, Université de Strasbourg, France; 2: Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, MD, USA; 3: NASA Harvest; 4: Department of Geography, University of Monash, Australia; 5: Delft University of Technology



10:12am - 10:30am

Discussion

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11:00am
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12:00pm
Panel 2: High Level Policy Panel
Location: Big Hall
Panelists:
  • Rune FLOBERGHAGEN, Head of Climate Action, Sustainability and Science Department at European Space Agency, ESA
  • Francois KAYITAKIRE, Head of Unit of Food Security at JRC
  • Piero CONFORTI, Deputy Director of the Statistics Division at FAO
  • Sven GILLIAMS, Director of the GEOGLAM Program
  • Giancarlo PINI, Deputy Head of the WFP Geospatial and Remote Sensing Unit
Panel Moderators:
  • Sophie BONTEMPS, UCLouvain
  • Raphael D'ANDRIMONT, JRC
12:00pm
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1:30pm
S3: Small-holder farming
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Mark Noort, HCP international
Chair: Ruud Grim, Grim
 
12:00pm - 12:12pm

Satellite-based services for smallholder food producers in support of food security. A dream or a reality?

Ruud Grim, Kees van Duijvendijk

Netherlands Space Office



12:12pm - 12:24pm

Satellite-based germination insurance for smallholder farmers in Africa

Mark Noort

HCP international, Netherlands, The



12:24pm - 12:36pm

Development of a farm-scale water-accounting model incorporating farmers’ behaviour and remote sensed data

Pietro Sciusco1, Vincenzo Barbieri1, Laura Mirra2, Raffaella Mattarese2, Ivan Portoghese2, Giacomo Giannocchero3

1: Planetek Italia s.r.l., Italy; 2: Water Research Institute- National Research Centre (IRSA-CNR); 3: Department of Soil, Plant and Food Science, DiSSPA ,University of Bari Aldo Moro



12:36pm - 12:48pm

Near real-time monitoring of irrigation water use per farm by combining satellite and in-situ data with hydrological models

Joost Brombacher, Steven Wonink, Jelle Degen, Annemarie Klaasse, Mechteld Andriessen

eLEAF, Netherlands, The



12:48pm - 1:00pm

Retrieving crop phenology at field scale in the Nile Delta using the Sen2Like processor and PlanetScope imagery

Katarzyna Cyran1, Eatidal Amin2, Santiago Belda3, Italo Moletto-Lobos1, Belen Franch1, Zoltan Szantoi4, Francesco Fava5, James Wheeler6, Ahmed El Baroudy7

1: Global Change Unit, University of Valencia, Spain; 2: Laboratory for Earth Observation, University of Valencia, Spain; 3: Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Alicante, Spain; 4: European Space Agency, Italy; 5: Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Italy; 6: SOLENIX, Italy; 7: Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tanta, Egypt



1:00pm - 1:12pm

Mitigating Food Security Challenges in Afghanistan: A Geospatial and Remote Sensing Approach

Dario Spiller1, Qiyamud Din Ikram1, Matieu Henry1, Kaustubh Devale2, Sayed Sharif2

1: Geospatial Unit, NSL FAO; 2: FAO Afghanistan (FAOAF)



1:12pm - 1:30pm

Discussion

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3:00pm
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4:30pm
S4: Impact on Climate and Environment
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Heike Bach, Vista GmbH
Chair: Magdalena Fitrzyk, RSAC c/o ESA
 
3:00pm - 3:12pm

Earth Observation for Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency

Nicola Pounder1, Alex Cornelius1, Joe Walters2, Ian Davies1, Yara Al Sarrouh1, Clive Blacker2, Mechteld Blake-Kalff3, Laurence Blake3, Andy Shaw1

1: Assimila Ltd., United Kingdom; 2: AgAnalysts, United Kingdom; 3: Hill Court Farm Research, United Kingdom



3:12pm - 3:24pm

Blockchain and Earth Observation: Driving Sustainability in the Food System

Mihaela-Violeta Gheorghe1, Daniel García -Yusta2, Teodora Selea1, Javier Fontecha-Guadaño2

1: GMV Innovating Solutions, Romania; 2: GMV-SES, Spain



3:24pm - 3:36pm

Agri-Dashboard to Support CAP Monitoring

Gerhard Triebnig1, Bernadett Csonka1, David Kolitzus2, Donvan Grobler2, Stefan Achtsnit1, Stefan Brand1, Silvester Pari1, Elias Wanko1, Nikola Jankovic1

1: EOX IT Services, Austria; 2: GeoVille GmbH, Austria



3:36pm - 3:48pm

Landscape features in EU agricultural areas and their effects on farmland biodiversity

Talie Musavi1, Jon Skøien1, Bálint Czúcz2, Andrea Hagyo3, Xavier Rotllan Puig1, Ana Montero Castano1, Renate Koeble1, Marijn Van Der Velde1, Jean-Michel Terres1, Raphaël d’Andrimont1

1: European Commission - Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy; 2: Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Torgarden, P.O. 5685, 7485 Trondheim, Norway; 3: European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark



3:48pm - 4:00pm

Personalizing crop choice to increase soil organic carbon with causal inference

Georgios Giannarakis1, Vasileios Sitokonstantinou2, Ilias Tsoumas1,3, Gustau Camps-Valls2, Charalampos Kontoes1

1: BEYOND Centre, IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens; 2: Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), Universitat de Valencia; 3: Wageningen University & Research



4:00pm - 4:12pm

Pantropical Biweekly Monitoring of Oil Palm Plantations over the 6 Years of the 100m Proba-V Mission

Audric Bos1, Céline Lamarche1, Fabrizio Niro2, Pierre Defourny1

1: Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 2: European Space Agency



4:12pm - 4:30pm

Discussion

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5:00pm
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6:00pm
Panel 3: EUDR
Location: Big Hall
Panel Coordinators:
  • Felix Remboldt, European Commission, Joint Research Centre
  • Zoltan Szantoi, European Space Agency

Panelists:
  • D'Annunzio Remi, NFO
  • FRITZ Steffen, IIASA
  • Francesca Ronca, Unipalma
  • Felix Remboldt, European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Date: Wednesday, 15/May/2024
8:30am
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9:20am
Panel 7: Copernicus uptake for EU Agricultural policies
Location: Big Hall
Panelists:
  • Koen MONDELAERS, DG AGRI (Remote Speaker)
  • Bruno COMBAL, DG ENV (Remote Speaker)
  • Marijn VAN DER VELDE, DG JRC
  • Usue DONEZAR HOYOS, EEA
  • Tim LEMMENS, DG DEFIS (Remote Speaker)
  • Carla MARTINS, ESTAT (Remote Speaker)
9:20am
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10:50am
S5: Crop Yield estimation and Forecasting
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Belen Franch, Universitat de Valencia
Chair: Michele Meroni, JRC
 
9:20am - 9:32am

Rice and wheat yield modeling in the Nile Delta using Sentinel-1 + Sentinel-2 data fusion

Javier Tarín-Mestre1, Belen Franch1,2, Italo Moletto-Lobos1, Katarzyna Cyran1, Cesar Guerrero1, Lucio Mascolo1, Ahmed El Baroudy3, Zoltan Szantoi4

1: Universitat de València, Spain; 2: Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland; 3: Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tanta; 4: Climate, Science and Applications, European Space Agency



9:32am - 9:44am

Combining Sentinel-1 and 2 data with machine learning to improve field-scale crop yield forecasting

Piet Emanuel Bueechi1, Wouter Dorigo1, Felix Reuß1, Lucie Homolová2, Miroslav Pikl2, Lenka Bartošová2, Charis Chatzikyriakou3

1: Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Austria; 2: Global Change Research Institue CAS (CzechGlobe), Czech Republic; 3: Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring, Austria



9:44am - 9:56am

Estimation of wheat yield at field scale using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2

Belen Franch1,2, Lucio Mascolo1, Italo Moletto-Lobos1, Javier Tarin-Mestre1, Bertran Mollà-Bononad1, Eric Vermote3, Natacha Kalecinski2, Inbal Becker-Reshef2, Alberto San Bautista4, Constanza Rubio5, Marcos Caballero6, Sara San Francisco6, Miguel Angel Naranjo6, Vanessa Paredes7, David Nafria7

1: Global Change Unit, Image Processing Laboratory (UCG-IPL). Parque Cientifico, Universitat de Valencia, Spain; 2: Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742, United States; 3: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 619, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; 4: Departamento de Producción Vegetal, Universitat Politécnica de València (Valencia), 46022, Spain; 5: Centro de Tecnologías Físicas, Universitat Politécnica de València (Valencia), 46022, Spain; 6: Fertinagro Biotech, Teruel 44002, Spain; 7: Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León (ITACyL), Subdirección de Infraestructuras Agrarias, Área de Desarrollo Tecnológico, Finca Zamadueñas, Ctra. Burgos Km. 119, Valladolid, 47071, Spain



9:56am - 10:08am

Combining Earth Observations with digital tools and field assessments to form integrated agricultural monitoring systems at scale

Jonathan Pound1, Mario Zappacosta1, Christina Justice2, Blake Munshell2, Ritvik Sahajpal2

1: FAO, Italy; 2: University of Maryland/NASA Harvest



10:08am - 10:20am

Resilience under Extreme Circumstances – Harvest and Yield Estimation for Ukraine 2023

Solveig Blöcher, Miesgang Christian, Migdall Silke, Bach Heike, Mauser Wolfram

VISTA Geowissenschaftliche Fernerkundung GmbH, Germany



10:20am - 10:32am

Predicting in-season crop yield within fields: A Sentinel-2 time series based monitoring approach

Eatidal Amin1, Luca Pipia2, Santiago Belda3, Gregor Perich4, Lukas Valentin Graf4,5, Helge Aasen5, Shari Van Wittenberghe1, José Moreno1, Jochem Verrelst1

1: University of Valencia, Spain; 2: Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, Spain; 3: University of Alicante, Spain; 4: Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; 5: Division Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Switzerland



10:32am - 10:50am

Discussion

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11:10am
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12:10pm
Panel 4: In-situ: the last hurdle?
Location: Big Hall
Agenda and Panelists:
  • 11:10 - Raphael d'Andrimont (JRC) and Sven Gilliams (GEOGLAM)
  • 11:15 - Jose Miguel Rubio Iglesias (EEA)
  • 11:20 - Inbal Reshef (NASA HARVEST, Univ. Strasbourg)
  • 11:25 - Gregoire Tombez (Green Triangle)
  • 11:30 - Sophie Bontemps (UCLouvain)
  • 11:35 - Luca Kleinewillinghöfer (EFTAS)
  • 11:40 - Steffen Fritz (IIASA)
  • 12:10 - Panel Discussion and Q&A with the audience
12:10pm
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1:40pm
S7: Community Support Tools
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Sophie Bontemps, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
Chair: Inbal Becker-Reshef, NASA Harvest
 
12:10pm - 12:22pm

European ECOSTRESS Hub for agricultural water stress monitoring: Implications for future high-resolution thermal missions

Tian Hu1, Kaniska Mallick1, Patrik Hitzelberger1, Yoanne Didry1, Zoltan Szantoi2

1: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg; 2: ESRIN, European Space Agency, Italy



12:22pm - 12:34pm

ESA tools for agriculture: Sen4Stat toolbox for Sentinel EO information supporting the agricultural statistics & Agriculture Virtual Laboratory (AVL) for agricultural science

Sophie Bontemps1, Gunnar Brandt2, Lidia Baciu3, Cosmin Cara3, Pierre Defourny1, Norman Fomferra2, Pontus Lurcock2, Grega Milcinski4, Espen Volden5

1: Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium; 2: Brockmann Consult GmbH, Germany; 3: CS GROUP - ROMANIA; 4: Sinergise Ltd; 5: ESA-ESRIN



12:34pm - 12:46pm

Rapid Agricultural Assessments in Support of Policy and Food Security

Inbal Becker-Reshef1,2,3,4, Mary Mitkish1,2, Chris Justice1,2,4, Josef Wager1,3, Shabarinath Nair1,3, Sheila Baber1,2, Christina Justice1,2,4, Hannah Kerner1,5, Catherine Nakalembe1,2, Michael Humber1,2, Ritvik Sahajpal1,2, Brian Barker1,2,4, Sven Gilliams4

1: NASA Harvest; 2: University of Maryland; 3: University of Strasbourg; 4: GEOGLAM; 5: Arizona State University



12:46pm - 12:58pm

WorldCereal: a dynamic open-source system for global-scale, seasonal, and reproducible crop mapping

Kristof Van Tricht1, Jeroen Degerickx1, Christina Butsko1, Jeroen Dries1, Darius Couchard1, Stefaan Lippens1, Vincent Verelst1, Hendrik Boogaard2, Arun Pratihast2, Belen Franch3, Italo Moletto3, Katarzyna Cyran3, Inbal Becker-Reshef4, Shabarinath Nair4, Juan-Carlos Laso Bayas5, Santosh Karanam5, Fernando Orduña-Cabrera5, Steffen Fritz5, Lubos Kucera6, Martin Babic6, Zoltan Szantoi7

1: VITO, Belgium; 2: Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR), Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands; 3: Global Change Unit, Image Processing Laboratory, Universitat de Valencia, Spain; 4: University of Strasbourg, France; 5: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria; 6: Gisat, Czech Republic; 7: European Space Agency, France



12:58pm - 1:10pm

Leveraging EO Data for Environmental, Government, and Business Applications for Agriculture: Introducing the EO4EU Platform

Roberto Carrillo1, Vasileios Baousis2, Claudio Pisa2

1: Trust-IT Services, Italy; 2: ECMWF, UK



1:10pm - 1:22pm

Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem: Essential Provider of Satellite Data for Agricultural Monitoring (Remote Speaker)

Jędrzej Bojanowski

CloudFerro S.A., Warsaw, Poland



1:22pm - 1:40pm

Discussion

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3:00pm
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4:30pm
S8: Water Resources Intelligence
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Jacopo Dari, University of Perugia
Chair: Livia Peiser, FAO
 
3:00pm - 3:12pm

Monitoring and forecasting Irrigation Water Use by assimilating satellite land surface temperature and soil moisture into an energy-water balance model

Chiara Corbari1, Nicola Paciolla1, Diego Dos Santos Araujo1, Kamal Labbassi2, Justin Sheffield3, Sven Berendsen3, Zoltan Szantoi4

1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Chouaib Doukkali University, Morocco; 3: 3University of Southampton, United Kingdom; 4: ESA ESRIN, Italy



3:12pm - 3:24pm

Irrigation Mapping at national scale using Sentinel-2 Image time series: a use case in Spain.

Boris Norgaard, Sophie Bontemps, Pierre Defourny

UCLouvain, Belgium



3:24pm - 3:36pm

Monitoring irrigation dynamics from space: achieved results and next steps forward

Jacopo Dari1,2, Sara Modanesi2, Christian Massari2, Angelica Tarpanelli2, Silvia Barbetta2, Renato Morbidelli1, Carla Saltalippi1, Raphael Quast3, Mariette Vreugdenhil3, Vahid Freeman4, Pere Quintana-Seguí5, Anaïs Barella-Ortiz5, David Bretreger6, Espen Volden7, Clement Albergel8, Luca Brocca2

1: Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy; 2: Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council, Perugia, Italy; 3: Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Research Unit Remote Sensing, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria; 4: Earth Intelligence, Spire Global, 2763 Luxembourg, Luxembourg; 5: Observatori de l’Ebre (OE), Ramon Llull University - CSIC, 43520 Roquetes, Spain; 6: School of Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales 2308, Australia; 7: European Space Agency, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy; 8: European Space Agency Climate Office, ECSAT, Harwell Campus, Didcot, UK



3:36pm - 3:48pm

Multiresolution Analysis based Assessment of Agricultural Effects on Groundwater Levels

Michael Engel1, Stefan Kunz2, Maria Wetzel2, Marco Körner1

1: Technical University of Munich (TUM); 2: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe



3:48pm - 4:00pm

Water stress monitoring in Tensift Basin, Morocco

Corne Van der Sande1, Abdur Rahim Safi1, Annemarie Klaasse1, Mohamed Aboufirass2, Jihane Rmiza2

1: eLEAF, Netherlands, The; 2: RESING, Morocco



4:00pm - 4:12pm

Drought Assessment in Drylands with Hyperspectral Vegetation Index-based Evapotranspiration Methods

Michael Thomas Marshall1, Monica Pepe2, Giulia Tagliabue3, Micol Rossini3, Cinzia Panigada3, Francesco Fava4, Sonja Leitner5, Vincent Odongo5, Chris Hecker1, Agnieszka Soszynska6, Wim Timmermans1, Clement Atzberger7, Micro Boschetti2

1: ITC/University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: CNR-IREA; 3: University of Milano-Bicocca; 4: University of Milano; 5: International Livestock Research Institute; 6: University of Leicester; 7: BOKU



4:12pm - 4:30pm

Discussion

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5:00pm
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6:00pm
Panel 5: PRISMA, EnMAP and ECOSTRESS experiences
Location: Big Hall
Panel Coordinator:
  • Zoltan Szantoi, European Space Agency

    Panelists:

    • Monica Pepe, CNR
    • Anke Schickling, ESA
    • Simon J Hook, NASA, JPL
    • Heike Bach, Vista
Date: Thursday, 16/May/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
S9: Droughts,Pests and other Stressors
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Thuy LE TOAN, CESBIO/GlobEO
Chair: Jose Moreno, University of Valencia
 
9:00am - 9:12am

EO4CerealStress: Advancing Crop Stress Monitoring by Integrating Earth Observation Data and Modelling Techniques

Zaib un nisa1, Booker Ogutu1, Victor Rodriguez Galiano2, Roshanak Darvishzadeh3, Andy Nelson3, Furkan Celik3, Padmageetha Nagarajan3, Clement Atzberger4, Omid Ghorbanzadeh4, Catherine Champagne5, Aaron Berg6, Espen Volden7, Ewelina Agnieszka Dobrowolska8, Jadu Dash1

1: School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK; 2: Department of Geography, University of Seville, Spain; 3: Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands; 4: Institute of Geomatics, University of Natural Resources and, Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria; 5: Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada; 6: University of Guelph, Canada; 7: European Space Agency - ESRIN, Italy; 8: Serco Italia S.p.A, Italy



9:12am - 9:24am

Assessment of Multi-Source Agricultural Drought Indices: Sensitivity to Soil Moisture Variability in Africa

Aolin Jia1, Kanishka Mallick1, Tian Hu1, Zoltan Szantoi2

1: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg; 2: European Space Agency, Italy



9:24am - 9:36am

National Scale Drought Impact and Risk assessment with the use of Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 time series

Gohar Ghazaryan1,6, Maximilian Schwarz2, S. Mohammad Mirmazloumi1, Harison Kipkulei1, Tobias Landmann3, Henry Kyalo3, Rose Waswa4, Tom Dienya5

1: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany; 2: Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH, Germany; 3: International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya; 4: Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Kenya; 5: Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Kenya; 6: Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , Germany



9:36am - 9:48am

InfoSequia-4CAST: Enhancing impact-based seasonal forecasting by combining EO-based drought indices, climate data, and decision tree ensemble techniques

Sergio Contreras1, Alicja Grudnowska2, Amelia Rodríguez Fernández1, Gabriela G. Nobre3, Marthe Wens2, Gijs Simons4

1: FutureWater, Cartagena, Spain; 2: Water and Climate Risk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 3: Assessment and Monitoring Division, United Nations World Food Programme, Rome, Italy; 4: FutureWater, Wageningen, The Netherlands



9:48am - 10:00am

Utilizing remote sensing technology for the surveillance of mealybug pests in orange orchards as part of the Co-Fruit AGROALNEXT project.

Fàtima Della Bellver1, Belen Franch Gras1,2, Alberto San Bautista Primo3, Italo Moletto Lobos1, Constanza Rubio Michavila4, Cesar Guerrero Benavent1

1: Universitat de València, Spain; 2: Dept of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland,United States; 3: Departamento de Producción Vegetal, Universitat Politécnica de València, España; 4: Centro de Tecnologías Físicas, Universitat Politécnica de València, España



10:00am - 10:12am

Using Earth Observation to improve decision support in pest management

Bryony Taylor1, Pascale Bodevin1, Jon Styles2, Darren Kriticos3, Andy Shaw2, Tim Beale1, Gerardo Lopez Saldana2, Alex Cornelius2, Libertad Sanchez Presa1, Alyssa Lowry1, Joe Beeken1, Josephine Mahoney2, Charlotte Day1

1: CABI, United Kingdom; 2: Assimila LTD, United Kingdom; 3: Cervantes Agritech, Australia



10:12am - 10:30am

Discussion

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11:00am
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12:30pm
S10: Climate Adaption
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Lara Congiu, European Commission
Chair: Pierre Defourny, UCLouvain-Geomatics (Belgium)
 
11:00am - 11:12am

Enhancing Agricultural Productivity Assessment Through Integrated Earth Observations and Crop Suitability Analysis

Lorenzo De Simone, Muhammad Fahad, Ana Paula O Campo

Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO), Italy



11:12am - 11:24am

FAO PLANT-T: Enhancing Climate Adaptation for Maize Cultivation through Advanced Methodologies and Tools for Improved Decision Making

Ramiro Marco Figuera1, Stefano Natali1, Giulio Genova2, Marco Venturini2, Marcello Petitta2, Sandra Corsi3, Maria Michela Corvino4

1: SISTEMA GmbH, Austria; 2: Amigo Climate; 3: FAO; 4: ESA



11:24am - 11:36am

Spatial Changes of Winter Wheat Production Under Changing Climate

Leonid Shumilo, Sergii Skakun

University of Maryland, United States of America



11:36am - 11:48am

Quantifying rice adaptation to climate stressors in Senegal using time-dependent deep learning with the TAPAS platform.

Dualta O Fionnagain1, Michael Geever1, Jemima O'Farrell1, Patricia Codyre1, Louis Reymondin2, Ana Maria Loboguerrero2, Charles Spillane3, Aaron Golden1

1: University of Galway, Ireland, Ireland.; 2: Alliance Bioversity-CIAT.; 3: Ryan Institute, University of Galway, Ireland.



11:48am - 12:00pm

EO TO SUPPORT ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION MEASURES FOR RICE FARMING UNDER CLIMATE AND HUMAN PRESSURES -THE VIETSCO PROJECT

Thuy LE TOAN1,2, Stephane MERMOZ2, Nguyen LAM DAO3, Hironori ARAI4,5, Alexandre BOUVET1, Juan DOBLAS2, Thierry KOLECK6, Linda TOMASINI6

1: CESBIO, France; 2: GlobEO, France; 3: VNSC, Vietnam; 4: IRRI, Vietnam Office; 5: Osaka University; 6: CNES, France



12:00pm - 12:30pm

Discussion

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12:30pm
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1:40pm
S11: Data integration
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Marijn VAN DER VELDE, JRC
Chair: Linda See, IIASA
 
12:30pm - 12:42pm

Drone Sampling - increased efficiency of drone surveys for agricultural applications

Dries Raymaekers, Laurent Tits, Stephanie Delalieux, Klaas Pauly, Nick Gutkin, Sam Oswald

VITO, Belgium



12:42pm - 12:54pm

Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Land Cover Classification Through In-Situ Photo Analysis and Remote Sensing Integration

Laura Martinez-Sanchez1, Claudia Paris2, Momchil Yordanov1, Raphael D'Andrimont1, Marijn van der Velde1

1: Joint Research Center, Italy; 2: University of Twente



12:54pm - 1:06pm

A new high quality global hybrid herbaceous annual cropland map for the year 2020

Steffen Fritz1, Myroslava Lesiv1, Linda See1, Juan Carlos Laso Bayas1, Katya Perez Guzman1, Ivelina Georgieva1, Maria Shchepashenko1, Dmitry Shchepashenko1, Francesco Collivignarelli2, Michelle Meroni2, Hervé Kerdiles2, Felix. Rembold2

1: IIASA, Austria; 2: EC, Joint Research Center



1:06pm - 1:18pm

Knowledge Distillation from Big Administrative Data

Ayshah Chan1,2, Marco Körner1,2

1: Technical University of Munich (TUM), TUM School of Engineering and Design, Chair of Remote Sensing Technology, Arcisstr. 21, Munich, Germany; 2: Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI)



1:18pm - 1:40pm

Discussion

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3:00pm
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3:30pm
Panel 6: Experiment preparing for the use of new Sentinels
Location: Big Hall
Panel Coordinators:
  • Espen Volden, ESA
  • Joshua Gray, ESA
3:30pm
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4:30pm
Summaries and Closing
Location: Big Hall
Chair: Espen Volden, European Space Agency. ESA-ESRIN
5:00pm
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6:30pm
Lightning talk: Lightning Presentations of EC and ESA agriculture projects
Location: Big Hall

 
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