Conference Agenda

Welcome by ESA: Rune Floberghagen

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Workshop Objectives and Organisation: Espen Volden

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

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

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

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

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Welcome by FAO: José Rosero Moncayo

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

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

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

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Discussion

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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

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

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

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

Hydrosat and IrriWatch: water management from space

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

Hydrosat

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Time-Series Dataset Construction for Analyzing Soil Moisture, Water Retention, and Carbon Sequestration Dynamics Using Earth Observation

Carlo Cena¹, Giacomo Franchini¹, Andrea Magnano², Marcello Chiaberge¹, Danilo Demarchi¹

1: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2: Nabu SRL, Italy

After the Waters Receded: Destruction of Khakovka Dam affects Ukraine’s agricultural production

Sheila Baber¹, Yuval Sadeh⁴, Inbal Becker-Reshef^1,2,3, Sergii Skakun¹

1: University of Maryland, United States of America; 2: University of Strasbourg, The Engineering science, computer science and imaging laboratory (Icube), France; 3: GEOGLAM Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland; 4: Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

A field-parcel-based algorithm for mapping potato distribution with multi-temporal Sentinel-2 images

Hasituya ., Zhongxin Chen

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

SmartFarm: Combining Sentinel 1 & 2 to Derive Near-realtime Pasture Biomass

Alex Cornelius¹, Andy Shaw¹, Clive Blacker²

1: Assimila, United Kingdom; 2: Aganalyst, United Kingdom

AI-based SAR-to-optical GAI regression for crop monitoring

Jean Bouchat, Quentin Deffense, Pierre Defourny

Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Remote sensing-based Weather Area Index Insurance (WAII) - An affordable insurance solution to increase resilience of small-scale farmers

Francesco Holecz¹, Luca Gatti¹, Alessandro Cattaneo¹, Massimo Barbieri¹, Loris Copa¹, Giaime Origgi¹, Jan Kerer²

1: sarmap, Switzerland; 2: Jan Kerer Consulting, Germany

Remote sensing based estimation of crop yields for official statistics

Oliver Reitz

Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, Germany

AI-based tillage detection for improved agricultural and climate policies

Catherine Akinyi Odera, Indrek Sünter, Mariana Rohtsalu, Tetiana Shtym, Heido Trofimov, Karoli Kahn

KappaZeta Ltd, Estonia

Global high-resolution remote sensing cropland extent products comparison

Pengyu Hao¹, Zhongxin Chen¹, Francesco N. Tubiello², Giulia Conchedda², Leon Casse²

1: Digital FAO and Agro-Informatics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; 2: Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The SPADE ecosystem: Airborne edge computing practices for animal production, raising the issues for a trustworthiness framework.

Dionysis Bochtis³, Costas Davarakis¹, Steve Brewer², Aristotelis Tagarakis³, Alex Loos⁴, George Kyriakarakos⁵

1: NST AE, Greece; 2: University of Lincoln, United Kingdom; 3: Institute of Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology IBO-CERTH, Greece; 4: Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, Germany; 5: Farm-B, Greece

Sentinels for Agricultural Statistics (Sen4Stat) – Sentinel EO information supporting the agricultural statistics

Sophie Bontemps¹, Luis Ambrosio², Cosmin Cara³, Pierre Houdmont¹, Laurentiu Nicola³, Boris Nörgaard¹, Cosmin Udroiu³, Lorenzo de Simone⁴, Zoltan Szantoi⁵, Pierre Defourny¹

1: Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium; 2: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; 3: CS Romania, Romania; 4: FAO; 5: ESA-ESRIN

Quantitative Measurement of Landscape Features in EU Agriculture: A Novel Indicator Approach

Raphaël d'Andrimont¹, Jon Skøien¹, Talie Musavi¹, Momtchil Iordanov¹, Javier Gallego¹, Davide De Marchi¹, Renate Koeble¹, Irene Guerrero¹, Ana Montero-Castaño¹, Jean-Michel Terres¹, Bálint Czúcz²

1: European Commission, Join Research Centre, Belgium; 2: Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway

Remote sensing of agricultural land use for enhanced climate policy implementation

Stefan Erasmi¹, Felix Lobert¹, Lukas Blickensdörfer¹, Roland Fuß², Javier Muro¹, Marcel Schwieder¹

1: Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Institute of Farm Economics, Germany; 2: Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Germany

THEROS: An Integrated Toolbox Enhancing Verification in Food Supply Chains

Dimitra Tsiakou, Valantis Tsiakos, Angelos Amditis, Georgios Tsimiklis

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), National Technical University of Athens, Greece

In-season and Dynamic Crop Mapping for Sustainable Agriculture Leveraging Sentinel-2 Data and Deep Neural Networks

Ignazio Gallo¹, Mirco Boschetti²

1: University of Insubria, Italy; 2: National Research Council of Italy, Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of Environment (CNR-IREA)

A spatially explicit risk indicator to monitor residential pesticide exposure from earth observation

Francesco Galimberti¹, Thomas Fellmann², Pietro Florio¹, Pieter Kempeneers¹, Ana Klinnert², Michael Olvedy¹, Raphael d'Andrimont³

1: European Commission - JRC, Italy; 2: European Commission - JRC, Seville; 3: European Commission - JRC, Brussels

Evaluating the Causal Impact of Humanitarian Interventions on Food Insecurity in Climate-Vulnerable Regions of Africa

Jordi Cerdà-Bautista, José María Tárraga, Vasileios Sitokonstantinou, Gustau Camps-Valls

Universitat de València, Spain

Fine scale cocoa mapping with deep learning methods

Kasimir Alexander Orlowski¹, Filip Sabo², Astrid Verhegghen³, Michele Meroni⁴, Felix Rembold²

1: FINCONS S.P.A., Milan, Italy; 2: European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy; 3: ARHS Developments Italia S.R.L., Milan, Italy; 4: Seidor Consulting, Barcelona, Spain

Exploring Sentinel-1 data for agricultural monitoring maize growth, soil moisture, and clay content analysis in Umbria, Italy

Iva Hrelja, Andrea Soccolini, Sara Antognelli

Agricolus s.r.l, Italy

EO4CarbonFarming – A Monitoring, Reporting and Verification Tool for Carbon Farming – Case Study of Carbon Sequestration between 2017 and 2022 for a pilot area in Austria

Jakob Wachter, Isabella Kausch, Silke Migdall, Heike Bach

VISTA Geowissenschaftliche Fernerkundung GmbH

National-scale, within-season sunflower mapping and area estimation in Ukraine without field-level labels

Abdul Qadir, Sergii Skakun, Inbal Becker-Reshef

University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America

EMBAL - European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes

Luca Kleinewillinghöfer¹, Clemens Baier², Laura Sutcliffe², Lars Roggon¹, Carsten Haub¹, Rainer Opperman²

1: EFTAS Fernerkundung Technologietransfer; 2: Institut für Agrarökologie und Biodiversität (ifab)

Remote-C project in a nutshell: scaling soil C sequestration in croplands with operational remote sensing-based MRV tools

Francesco Nutini¹, Mirco Boschetti¹, Monica Pepe¹, Federico Filipponi¹, Satalino Giuseppe¹, Giorgio Ragaglini², Andrea Ferrarini³

1: National Research Council of Italy; 2: University of Milan; 3: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Improving high-resolution spatial information on grassland management by integrating remotely sensed products with statistical and in situ data

Linda See, Žiga Malek, Zoriana Romanchuk, Orysia Yashchun

IIASA, Austria

Challenges in monitoring continental-wide yield gap: An Australian story

Jonathan Richetti¹, Javier Navarro², Marta Monjardino³, Masood Azeem³, Roger Lawes¹, John Kirkegaard⁴, Zvi Hochman⁵, Rick Llewellyn³

1: CSIRO, 147 Underwood Av Floreat, 6014 - WA, Australia; 2: CSIRO, 306 Carmody Road Sta Lucia, 4067 - QLD, Australia; 3: CSIRO, 4 Waite Road Urrbrae, 5064 - SA, Australia; 4: CSIRO, 2-40 Clunies Ross Street Acton, 2601 - ACT, Australia; 5: University of Melbourne, Grattan Street Parkville, 3010 - VIC, Australia

Multi-annual assessment of farming practices using Sen4CAP in order to support carbon farming

Louise Lesne¹, Bernard Tychon², Pierre Defourny¹

1: Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium; 2: Spheres Research Unit, ULiège, Belgium

Dashboard service supporting agricultural decision-making based on satellite and in-situ data

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

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

Assessing the Quality of New HRL Crop Types: A Comparative Analysis with Farmers' Declarations across the European Union

Martin Claverie¹, Raphael D’Andrimont¹, Usue Donezar², Ludvig Forslund², Marijn Van der Velde¹

1: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra , Italy; 2: European Environment Agency (EEA), Copenhagen, Denmark

Data processing for in-season crop type mapping within GEOGLAM framework

Menno de Vries¹, Alexandre Pennec², Ilaria Palumbo³, Felix Rembold³, Carlos de Wasseige², Paul van der Voet¹, Eric van Valkengoed¹

1: TerraSphere BV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 2: CLS, Collecte Localisation Satellites, 31250 Ramonville Saint-Agne, France; 3: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)—Food Security Unit, 21027 Ispra, Italy

Exploring the temporal and spatial extent of image collections to deliver soil health indicators supporting sustainable agriculture.

Panagiotis Ilias, Tuna Coppens, Bert Callens, Nick Berkvens

ILVO, Flanders research institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Mapping Commodity Crops and Forest-Related Carbon Emissions Across the Tropics: A Machine Learning Approach

Robert N. Masolele¹, Camilo Ernesto Zamora Ospina², Johannes Reiche¹, Martin Herold²

1: Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708, Wageningen, PB, The Netherlands; 2: GFZ, German GeoResearch Center, Potsdam, Germany

The Copernicus4GEOGLAM Crop Monitoring Service

Ilaria Palumbo¹, Felix Rembold¹, Michele Meroni¹, Alexandre Pennec², Menno de Vries³, Carlos de Wasseige², Eric van Valkengoed³

1: European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Ispra; 2: Collecte Localisation Satellites; 3: TerraSphere

Combat Against Climate Change on Cotton Communities (C5): An Earth observation advisory tool to secure a climate resilient cotton supply chain.

Gerardo Lopez Saldana¹, Josephine Mahony¹, Andy Shaw¹, Sunaina Chaturvedi², Suraiya Jamy², Farid Uddin²

1: Assimila, United Kingdom; 2: CottonConect, Bangladesh

Utilizing UAV technology to streamline monitoring for the conservation of segetal flora in arable land

Caterina Barrasso^1,2, Robert Krüger³, Lisanne Hölting¹, Anette Eltner³, Anna Cord^1,2,4

1: Chair of Computational Landscape Ecology, Technische Universität Dresden; 2: Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI) Dresden/Leipzig; 3: Chair of Geosensor systems, Technische Universität Dresden; 4: Agro-ecological Modeling, University of Bonn

Advancing Irrigation Mapping and Modeling in Temperate Regions

Gohar Ghazaryan^1,2, Stefan Ernst², Rachel Escueta¹, Claas Nendel^1,3,4

1: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany; 2: Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , Germany; 3: Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany; 4: Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Monitoring production of Pairing large and small farmers in Ukraine using EO Tools

Molly Brown, Min Feng, Vladimir Eskin

6th Grain Corporation, United States of America

Early and In-Season Crop Type Mapping Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 Data in Absence of Current-Year Ground Truth Field data

Gautam Dadhich, Matieu Henry

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Early and In-Season Crop Type Mapping Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 Data Without Current-Year Ground Truth Field data

Gautam Dadhich, Matieu Henry

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The Transition towards a Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: The Potential of Remote Sensing to Support Small Holder Farmers in West Africa

Jonas Meier¹, Frank Thonfeld¹, Niklas Heiss¹, Pierre C. Sibiry Traore², Celeste Tchapmi Nono Nghotchouang², Janet Mumo Mutuku², Sidy Tounkara³, Laure Tall³, Ursula Gessner¹

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR); 2: Manobi Africa; 3: Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR)

FuseTS: A Cloud-based Toolbox for S1 and S2 Time Series Fusion, Gap-filling, and Cropland Phenology Analytics

Jochem Verrelst¹, Bram Janssen², Matic Lubej³, Jeroen Dries², Darius Couchard², Kristof Van Ticht², Nejc Vesel³, Grega Milcinski³, Matias Salinero Delgado¹, Eatidal Amin¹, Patrick Griffiths⁴

1: University of Valencia, Spain; 2: VITO, Belgium; 3: Sinergise, Slovenia; 4: ESA-ESRIN, Italy

Crop Type Classification over Germany using Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 Data. Potential for Crop Rotation Assessments and within-Season Mapping

Ursula Gessner¹, Andreas Hirner¹, Sarah Asam¹, Sophie Reinermann², Jonas Meier¹

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Germany; 2: University of Wuerzburg, Earth Observation Research Cluster, Germany

In-season unsupervised mapping and planted area estimation of major crops in war-affected Ukraine

Josef Wagner¹, Sergii Skakun^2,4, Shabarinath Nair¹, Yuval Sadeh^2,3, Sheila Baber², Oleksandra Oliinyk², Fangjie Li¹, Inbal Becker-Reshef^2,1

1: ICube Laboratory, University of Strasbourg, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, 67400, France; 2: Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College-Park, 20742, Maryland, USA; 3: School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Clayton, 3800, Victoria, Australia; 4: College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College-Park, 20742, Maryland, USA

Locating and estimating cropland abandonment areas in conflict situation: a case study in Masisi and Rutshuru regions, DRC

Josef Wagner¹, Inbal Becker-Reshef^2,1, Shabarinath Nair¹, Manav Gupta¹, Erik Duncan²

1: ICube, University of Strasbourg, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, 67400, France; 2: Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College-Park, 20742, Maryland, USA

Assessing yield and protein content of winter wheat with organomineral fertilizers in Mediterranean soils using PlanetScope imagery

Katarzyna Cyran¹, Italo Moletto-Lobos¹, Silvia Sánchez-Méndez², Luciano Orden^2,3, Jose Saéz-Tovar², Encarni Martínez Sabater², Javier Andreu Rogriguez², Raul Moral², Belen Franch¹

1: Global Change Unit, University of Valencia, Spain; 2: Department of Agrochemistry and Environment, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain; 3: Estación Experimental Agropecuaria INTA Ascasubi (EEA INTA Ascasubi), Argentina

Linking EO and Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor Technology for Enhancing Agricultural Water Management

HAMI SAID AHMED¹, MODOU MBAYE², NOUR EDDINE AMENZOU³, GERD DERCON¹

1: Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture; 2: Centre d'Etude Régional pour l'Amélioration de l'Adaptation à la Sécheresse (CERAAS), Institut Sénégalais de Recherche Agricole (ISRA), Thiès Sénégal; 3: Division Eau et Climat (DEC) CNESTEN (Centre National de l'Energie, des Sciences et des Techniques Nucléaires)

Within-field Spatial Heterogeneity of Crop Growth from Multi-year Green Area Index Time Series Analysis

Tom Kenda, Céline Champagne, Xavier Draye, Pierre Defourny

Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium

Evaluating Biodiversity in Mountain Agroecosystems Using PRISMA Hyperspectral Imaging: A Case Study in South Tyrol's Sciliar Natural Park

Emanuela Patriarca, Mariapina Castelli, Emilio Dorigatti, Ruth Sonnenschein, Laura Stendardi, Basil Tufail, Bartolomeo Ventura, Claudia Notarnicola

Eurac Research, Institute for Earth Observation, Bolzano, Italy

Quantifying and reducing environmental impacts of agricultural supply chains using Landgriffon

Michael Harfoot¹, Elena Palao², Francis Gassert²

1: Vizzuality, UK; 2: Vizzuality, Spain

Enhancing Sustainable Agriculture Through Earth Observation: The CRISP Project

Giaime Origgi¹, Luca Gatti¹, Massimo Barbieri¹, Loris Copa¹, Alessandro Cattaneo¹, Francesco Holecz¹, Alessandro Marin², Renaud Mathieu³, Emma Quicho³, Sushree Satapathy³

1: sarmap sa, Switzerland; 2: CGI,Italy; 3: IRRI, Philippines

PEOPLE4NewCAP - Pioneer Earth Observation apPLications for the Environment - Monitoring The New CAP and Agriculture Eco-schemes

Lucie Dekanova

GISAT, Czech Republic

"Dragonfly",the Digital Agri Platform for Smart & Precision Farming

Poramet Thuwakham, Porutai ThianThai

GISTDA International Relations Officer | International Affairs Division, Thailand

Monitoring land surface temperature: New opportunities with very high satellite revisit rates

Kathrin Umstädter, Lukas Kondmann, Christian Mollière, Julia Gottfriedsen Gottfriedsen

OroraTech GmbH, Germany