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Monday, 13 May |
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14:00-16:00 Towards a Joint EC-ESA Grand Science Challenges Initiative EC/RTD-ESA pannel: Towards a coordinated EC-ESA science programme 2021+\n\nThe pannel will involve a discussion with the scientific community on the opportunities to develop an stronger collaboration and coordination of the ESA science programme and the next EC FP9. Detailed Session Description |
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16:00-18:00 Earth Observation for Africa –A Question of Scale African stakeholder & partnership panel Africa’s scale as the Earth second largest continent, enormous natural resources, with a high population dynamic and specific exposure to climate change demands for continuous geospatial monitoring. The panel will discuss the different social and scientific challenges which satellite Earth Observation can address of specific importance to Africa ranging from food and water scarcity, biodiversity, natural resources to conflicts and causes of migration. The adoption of the Africa Space Policy and Strategy by the African Heads of State in 2016 marks a new chapter in space research and technology and the evolution of the space sector in Africa. In this context of the “GMES and Africa”process taken by the AUC together key African stakeholders with EU support is a big step forward to establish Earth Observation services in Africa making optimal use and making the most of the Copernicus programme. The objectives of the panel are:
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Tuesday, 14 May |
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09:00-13:00 Observations for supporting the UNFCCC Paris Agreement Tuesday 14 March will be 'Climate Day' at LPS19, a day with a special focus on the contribution of Earth Observation to Climate Science. The central event of Climate Day will be two discussion panels, moderated by the ESA Climate Office with high-level speakers from key organisations that we collaborate with, including the UNFCCC, GCOS, GEO, C3S, UNESCO and WCRP. The discussion will be introduced by two keynote talks from leading IPCC authors, Prof. Jim Skea (Co-Chair of IPCC WGIII) and Prof. Peter Thorne (Lead of Observation chapter in IPCC AR6) The panels will examine how the contributing organisations can better support science-policy dialogue, in particular the work of the UNFCCC SBSTA, to translate climate science into information that’s timely and relevant for the IPCC Delegations. This includes reporting in the IPCC AR6, supporting the Global Stocktake as well as adaptation and mitigation measures, and reviewing the feedback from SBSTA and IPCC Delegations to see where EO data can better support them, i.e. what are the current data gaps and how they can be addressed. The panel discussion is intended as a high-level debate, concentrating on coordination across the various invited organisations. The discussion panels will take place in the Agorá ESA in the morning, and will be complemented by two scientific sessions on the same them in room Space 3 during the afternoon, featuring results from the main Climate programmes such as CCI and C3S. Detailed Session Description |
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13:00-14:00 Copernicus Global Land for integrated land management Information will be available soon |
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14:00-17:00 Earth Observation for Policy Forum Objectives: to address the role of satellite based EO data and services to support a number of EU policy areas e.g. Agriculture, Urbanization etc. in which Copernicus data play an integral role. Detailed Session Description |
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17:00-18:00 Future Career Development in Space - Which Skills will Matter This session highlights different aspects of what skills are essential for succeeding in the space and geospatial sector. Join us when Amanda Reagan from ESA will show us how a better understanding of our own perspective is essential for our future career development. Amanda’s talk will be followed by a panel discussion with five geospatial and space experts discussing essential career skills across the career ladder. Additionally, some community efforts such as the newly founded Women in Geospatial network and the FOSS4G 2019 conference will be presented. This session is organised by the newly founded network Women in Geospatial and we invite everyone to this session (men and women), who would like to join us in discussing different career development paths in the space sector. Detailed Session Description |
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18:00-19:00 LPS19 School Award ceremony (Climate Detective) The Ceremony to announce the winner of the LPS19 Climate Detective School Award |
Wednesday, 15 May |
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09:00-10:00 Intercontinental Collaboration in Earth Observation: A (now) Outsider's View of Opportunities and Challenges Doctor Michael Freilich, retired Director of the NASA Earth Science Division To discuss the key principles underlying successful intercontinental collaboration on the development and operation of spaceborne EO missions: (1) Free and open exchange of all post-launch science data/measurements, including low-level instrument data; (2) Commitment by each partner to meeting agreed development schedules above all else; (3) Open and honest communication throughout development and commissioning; (4) Clarity on the workshare agreement from the start |
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10:00-11:00 Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5, an overview of the two new atmospheric Copernicus missions Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5, the two new Copernicus atmospheric missions, are in their full implementation phase (phase C/D) . The presentation aim at providing an overview of the their complementary mission objectives , their operational and scientific value to the world users and their present technical and programmatic implementation status Detailed Session Description |
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11:00-13:00 Space 19+ preparation The Agora will start with a keynote speech by the Director of the European Environmental Agency Hans Bruyninckx on Environmental Monitoring and Climate Change. The Copernicus Core Services providers will present the latest status of their service offer and the audience will be invited to a Q&A session for questions and recommendations. Session convenor: M Verbauwhede Chaired/introduced by Josef Aschbacher, supported by EOP Team Panellists: Earth Science : Piet Stammes, KNMI, The Netherlands EU Copernicus: Christine Bernot, EC DG-GROW, Belgium Industry: Alexander Reissner, Enpulsion, Austria Institutional use: Patricia de Rosnay, ECMWF, |
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13:00-15:00 EC and ESA collaboration: Polar Science Challenges and future activities Polar regions are undergoing massive and complex changes with significant global and regional impacts. EO from satellites represents an unique capability to better observe and understand those change and contribute to enhance predictions to inform policy and society. In the last few years, EC DG-RTD and ESA have reinforced their collaboration to ensure a coordinate approach to science in Polar regions. This Session aims at presenting and discussing with the scientific community the joint EC-ESA activities and plans in the domain of polar research in view of launching a joint Flagship Action in 2020. Detailed Session Description |
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15:00-16:00 Why pay for Earth Observation Satellites? Does the EO community do a good job convincing governments and tax payers of the real value of public investments in Europe's Earth Observation capabilities? Should we do better? How? This forum will explore how the socio-economic impacts of Earth Observation are assessed. How are such assessments used? We invite researchers, companies developing Earth Observation systems, public servants who manage EO programmes, scientists and entrepreneurs who benefit from access to free and open Earth Observation data to join the discussion.
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16:00-17:00 EO for the Marine Litter challenge Session scope: The session aims at presenting and discussing with the scientific and users community how remote sensing technologies can contribute to tackle the issue of plastic marine litter. Invited Speakers (in alphabetical order): Manuel Arias (Argans Ltd.), Shungudzemwoyo Garaba (Univerisit of Oldenburg), Victor Martinez-Vicente (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), Erik van Sebille (University of Utrecht) Agenda:
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17:00-19:00 CAP Monitoring –1st experiences As part of its ongoing move to simplify and modernise the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the European Commission has proposed in 2018 as part of their CAP2020 reform to include satellite Earth Observation (EO) in the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) of the CAP. The Copernicus Sentinels will be at the heart of a so-called “Area Monitoring System”provide regular and systematic observations to monitor agricultural activities and practices. The advent of the unprecedented observations collected by the Sentinel satellite family allow for the first time the monitoring of the full agricultural dynamics at national scale down to the single fields. Over the last few years the different stakeholders –including the national Paying Agencies, the European Commission, ESA and the EO community –have started to prepare for this major reform of the CAP. The panel will outline these practical preparatory efforts, present first experiences from national Paying Agencies and discuss challenges in the implementation of the proposed CAP monitoring approach. Detailed Session Description |
Thursday, 16 May |
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9:00-11:00 Copernicus DWH Round Table Insight into the future needs; by the Copernicus Services towards the Copernicus Contributing Missions in the framework of the DWH evolution Detailed Session Description |
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11:00-14:00 Copernicus Outreach activities 2-2.5 hours to present success stories of the ESA and Commission outreach programmes including an programmatic overview of these activities. Winners and Sponsors of the Copernicus App Camp and Masters will present their views and lessons learnt. Detailed Session Description |
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14:00-19:00 Copernicus Services Session Convenors: Simon Jutz (ESA), Mauro Facchini (DG-Grow, European Commission) Session scope/description: Overview of the Core Services of the Copernicus Programme and understanding the use of the Services by Scientists/Researchers Agenda Points: discussions using the following high level questions:
14.00 14.20 Keynote Hans Bruyninckx EEA 14.20 14.30 10 Copernicus services M. Facchini 14.30 14.40 10 Land pan-eU Hans Dufourmont EEA 14.40 14.55 10+5 (Q&R) Land Global Michel Cherlet JRC 14.55 15.10 10+5 (Q&R) CMEMS Pierre Bahurel Mercator Ocean 15.10 15.25 10+5 (Q&R) CAMS Richard Engeelen ECMWF 15.25 15.40 10+5 (Q&R) C3S Jean-Noel Thepaut ECMWF 15.40 15.55 10+5 (Q&R) CEMS WANIA Annett JRC 15.55 16.00 5 Maritime surveillance Rui Meneses DG GROW 16.00 16.05 5 Border Surveillance Evaldas Kristopaitis FRONTEX 16.05 16.15 5+5 (Q&R) Support to EU External Action Denis Bruckert SATCEN 16.15 16.30 coffee break 16.30 17.30 DISCUSSION ON THE RESEARCH NEEDS |
Monday, 13 May |
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14:00-15:00 EO Science Mission and users interaction Interaction between EO science missions (e.g. Earth Explorers) and their data users: Beyond the traditional mission data access (i.e. data download), the panel would discuss the alternative possibilities envisaged by ESA for its science missions through the concept of Mission Analysis Platform, including:- enable users to discover, visualize and analyse mission data (without downloading data), provide a variety of data in the same coordinate reference frame to enable mission data validation,allow users to modify and improve the mission data processing algorithms including reprocessing and validation capabilities (Product Algorithm Laboratory),- address intellectual property issues related to collaborative algorithm development and sharing of data and algorithms. Panel target: remote sensing scientists working with agencies to improve data processing algorithms, i.e. the typical LPS audience. The panellists would include representatives of space agencies Detailed Session Description |
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15:00-16:00 New LEO Altitude Bands Session Convenors: Sérgio Brás and Valère Mazeau Invited Speakers: Juan Piñeiro, Valerie Fernandez, Andrea Monti-Guarnieri, Berthyl Duessman As of 2013, the scientific models estimate that the total number of space debris are on the order of 29,000 for sizes larger than 10 cm, 670,000 for sizes larger than 1 cm, and 170 million for sizes larger than 1 mm. Only about 1200 of those are functional spacecraft. Most of the 23 000 tracked debris objects are orbiting at a similar altitude range, and unfortunately for the EO community, most remote sensing spacecraft are placed in orbits in the same range. A quick survey of 61 ESA/NASA EO satellites showed that 65% of them are in the altitude band of 600-900 km, and approximately half of those satellites are in the critical 700-800 km altitude band. Despite the space debris mitigation guidelines put in place by the main space agencies, if a couple more of highly energetic spacecraft fragmentation events occur in this altitudes, these orbits will become so populated of space debris that they will no longer be usable. This Agorà will delve into the possibility of using different altitude bands for the EO space missions, either higher or lower. Lower altitude bands have the advantage of being "self-cleaning", that is, if contact is lost between a spacecraft and ground, this spacecraft will re-entry the atmosphere within 25 years without any intervention. On the other hand, it is not sure that all mission goals could be achieved from lower orbits. A panel of experts will present their considerations regarding the impact of such altitudes different on the scientific instruments and on the spacecraft platform. Following brief presentations by the experts, the audience will be able ask questions and to to express their own views on the topic. |
Tuesday, 14 May |
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09:00-10:00 Climate Mapathon @LPS - Sea Level Rise As a result of mutual efforts of Politecnico di Milano, ESA Climate Office and PolliMappers, the Climate Mapathon @LPS will be carried out during Living Planet Symposium 2019. The aim of the initiative is to introduce participatory mapping in the context of some of the phenomena linked to global climate change –deforestation and sea level rise. During this session, participants will map simple features using high-resolution satellite imagery, for which we will zoom in on an area within one of the Small Island Developing States that faces multiple threats due to climate change –including sea level rise. We intend to host the mapathon on Open Street Map (OSM) platform because in this way everyone who is interested can have benefit from the data collected. The use and purpose of this platform will be introduced as part of the session. Detailed Session Description |
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10:00-12:00 From National to European wide inSAR The Sentinel-1 (S1) satellite constellation is a big revolution within earth observation due to its capacity to acquire huge volumes of radar data all over the globe, in an open access scenario, with a wide spatial coverage and a short revisit time. S1 makes it possible to map ground motion at unprecedented large scale with millimeter accuracy, allowing the investigation of the Earth surface deformation dynamics through radar interferometry techniques (InSAR). The availability of ground motion measurements at large spatial scale is crucial not only to better understand the dynamics of ongoing natural and anthropogenic phenomena and make progress in science, but also to stimulate applied use of InSAR products in the public and commercial downstream sector. Application areas are within mapping and risk management including geohazard assesssment, geodesy and land management, urban and rural planning, climate services, infrastructure development, mining and other natural resources extraction, dam and groundwater monitoring, insurance topics and litigations, structural and civil engineering, the property market and transport. The aim of the session is to show the future potential of applied use of nationwide state-of-the-art ground motion services including the most advanced current national ground motion initiatives in Europe and the Copernicus European Ground Motion Service. Agenda:
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12:00-13:00 GEOHUB - Earth Observation open Innovation HUB Open innovation and cross-sector contamination supporting the evolution of geoinformation services, environmental protection and sustainable actions Artificial intelligence, Big Data, Small Satellite Constellations, Cloud Services are prominent words that typify the impact of technology in the evolution of Earth Observation and high technology sectors nowadays. The climate change, the environmental challenges, the hunger for sustainable solutions as well as emergent business intelligence needs give a new role in support to timely decision-making process. Telespazio and e-GEOS response to the fast-changing market is based on geoinformation services enabled by the combination of space big data, innovative technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, advanced algorithms, cloud infrastructure, big data management and new ways to provide globally the full range of solution form data to information driven solutions. To make our business and technological proposals effective, we are moving towards Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interaction based on subscription models which is the real lymph of the future business and digital services. How should geoinformation services evolve to match the new automated production chain as well as the new service exploitation paradigm? |
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13:00-15:00 10 years of SMOS - an ESA Earth Explorer satellite: From technology demonstrator to operational applications The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission was launched in 2009 and is successfully operating and delivering data to the scientific and operational user community since then. Originally conceived under ESA’s Earth Explorer initiative, it was intended to demonstrate novel technology in space and deliver unique data in support of scientific questions not been tackled previously. After almost 10 years in orbit SMOS has successfully achieved both:
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16:00-18:00 Coastal Erosion This event aims to present two Coastal Erosion projects recently launched by ESA as part of the Earth Observation Envelope Programme 5 - “EOEP-5”, aiming to develop innovative EO products and methods, in response to authoritative end-user requirements. This is done by exploiting new and historical EO data sources, developing innovative algorithms, validating novel EO thematic products, and engaging new end-users. The 2 selected projects shall prepare the ground for a long-term exploitation by large user communities, and is expected to provide substantial and concrete benefits to the targeted user communities. The 2 Parallel Contracts are highly complementary in terms of participating national users (ARGANS: UK, IE, ES, CA; I-SEA: FR, DE, RO, PT, GR), geographical areas covered (no overlaps as ARGANS will cover areas in UK, Ireland, Spain and Canada and I-SEA areas in France, Portugal, Greece, Germany and Romania), and industrial teams (ARGANS consortium composed of more established players such as geological institutions while I-SEA consortium composed of start-ups, SMEs, and research organisations). The two consortia differentiate themselves also in their technical implementation approach. The ARGANS implementation approach starts from a mature coastal mapping production chain (ARGANS). The SAR chain will be built around prototype capabilities (isardSAT). The coastal TEP (ACRI) will also be used. While starting from a solid basis, building on established and prototype processing systems, the I-SEA approach is innovative and includes R&D activities to extend the current performance limits of methods with SAR and optical data. They will investigate a range of SAR methods and applications, many of which are today at exploratory research stage. The advantage of the different approaches for ESA, the Member States (except landlocked Hungary, which is not an EOEP-5 Participating State) and the users (many of them are organisations with statutory responsibility for coastal monitoring in their country) lies in the complementarity and potential synergies of the implementation approaches: one more ‘mature’, the other more ‘exploratory’. The kick off the two projects was performed quite simultaneously, to put, on the one hand, the two consortia in competition to achieve better results, but also, on the other hand, to define early potential synergies between the two approaches, which are to be further developed in the course of the project lifetime. The two projects, under ESA coordination, will together achieve Europe-wide impact by advancing EO to maturity as an operational tool for monitoring coastal erosion in ESA Member States. |
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18:00-19:00 Demo within the Machine Learning for Earth Observation project The ML4EO project aims to develop an innovative technology that supports the adoption of Cloud and Machine Learning technologies by a large number of users and benefiting from their unique advantages. Such users include ESA, European Commission, national public organizations and commercial customers. ML4EO technology can support and provide Machine Learning for classification, patterns recognition, correlation, etc. to platform services to encourage massive use of Earth Observation (EO) data by a large number of users. It will be ready to be integrated into existing environments such as Thematic Exploitation Platforms (TEPs), Regional Exploitation Platforms (REPs), toolboxes or operate as a self-standing service. |
Wednesday, 15 May |
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09:00-11:00 CryoSat-2 and IceSat-2 Snow on Sea Ice Discussion An opportunity to discuss ideas amongst the international community to tackle the problem of snow load over sea ice and define new strategies and collaborations. New scenario for IC2 and CS2 coincident spatial and temporal measurements will presented and discussed |
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11:00-12:00 Climate Mapathon @LPS - Deforestation As a result of mutual efforts of Politecnico di Milano, ESA Climate Office and PolliMappers, the Climate Mapathon @LPS - Deforestation will be carried out during Living Planet Symposium 2019. The aim of the initiative is to tackle deforestation phenomena as it is one of the drivers of global climate change. Idea is to map parts of Amazonian rainforest in Brazil where forest is replaced by another type of land cover (i.e. cultivated land, barren land , artificial land, etc.). This can be useful for identifying underlying causes of deforestation, as well as deforestation rate and its consequences. The mapathon will be hosted on Open Street Map (OSM) platform because in this way everyone who is interested can have benefit from the data collected since OSM data are open access. Detailed Session Description |
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12:00-14:00 Global Primary Production with Sentinel-3 - way forward The TerrA-P projet developed and validated a GPP model ("P-model") using Sentinel-3 data as input, and also derived above-ground biomass. A scientific roadmap for further research and development will be discussed. Detailed Session Description |
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14:00-15:00 Copernicus DIAS and Data Analytics in the cloud with Mundi Information will be available soon |
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15:00-17:00 Climate Stories told through Data Information will be available soon |
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17:00-19:00 Makalu Climate Climb: observing the Earth from Land and Space In April 2018 the ESA Climate Office supported a campaign to the Himalayas. Swedish explorer and expedition lead, Carina Ahlqvist, attempted to be the first Scandinavian female to summit Mount Makalu, which at 8 481m is Earth’s fifth highest mountain, to raise awareness of climate change impacts across the region. In return, the expedition provided an opportunity to promote ESA and for scientists to take in-situ measurements to improve Sentinel-1 and -2 data interpretation that will directly benefit both the Glaciers CCI and the current ESA Climate Office Research Fellow’s investigation on climate-induced natural hazards, and to a lesser extent the Permafrost CCI. Carina Ahlqvist will present her experience as explorer and expedition lead. She will bring the expedition to life and describe her attempt to reach the Makalu summit. This will be followed by a climate scientist illustrating the role of the Cryosphere on climate change and by two young scientists presenting their experience and findings on the Barun Valley at the base of Mt. Makalu. The whole session will be illustrated by a photo exposition. Detailed Session Description |
Thursday, 16 May |
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09:00-11:00 The power of water Water is the element that enables life on Earth and in Space. Our civilization make extensive use of this resource, from daily life to industrial processes, from agriculture to space propellants. Life below water represents a valuable source of food and an indispensable element for various ecosystems. Oceans contains 97 % of the water on Earth, storing energy and carbon, and playing a key role in Earth’s climate. Are we taking care of the water on planet Earth sufficiently ? Are we properly planning the exploitation of water on other celestial bodies ? Building on the outcomes of the recently organized ESA workshop “Atlantic from Space”, the participants to this Round Table (Agora) will discuss these topics from the users perspective, showcasing the stories of citizens, NGOs, sailors, farmers, diplomats and scientists with the ultimate goals of sharing ideas, collecting needs and identifying requirements for developing innovative applications and planning the next generation of Earth Observation missions that could help safeguarding the most precious resource for human life in the Universe: water! |
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11:00-14:30 Digital agriculture Following six agriculture sessions with scientific presentations the preceding days, this event will present existing commercial services, and discuss the transfer of research results into such services. Different cases of vertical integration and recent approaches to partnering, producing and offering services as platforms/hubs will be illustrated. Uptake of EO in an agricultural sector will be illustrated by the agro-insurance case with presentation of current offering and uptake as well as a discussion on a best practices roadmap for the use of EO-based products and services within the agro-insurance sector. AGENDA 11:00 Welcome and introduction, Ola Grabak and Espen Volden (ESA) 11:10 Commercial services, vertical integration, platforms and hubs
12:30 Introduction: Earth Observation best practices for the Agro-Insurance Sector, Ola Gråbak (ESA), Eva Haas (Geoville) 12:45 Agro-Insurance - State-of-the-art and insights
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14:30-16:00 How can EO support Food Security related Science? We aim at identifying high priority Food Security scientific issues where Earth Observation could (potentially) provide an important contribution, with the aim of guiding future ESA and DG-RTD activities, in particular the planned joint initiative on Earth System Science. Earth Observation is here to be taken in the wide sense both in terms of data, i.e. satellite data, in-situ, airborne (including drones), and in terms of methodology, i.e. modelling, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, etc. However, the focus of the event is on identifying the big challenges in Food Security science that we should address, while giving evidence of the potential of EO to contribute, but not on how to address them in detail. Agenda: 14:30 Welcome by Hans-Jörg Lutzeyer, DG-RTD and Espen Volden, ESA 14:40 Terrestrial ecosystems, carbon, agriculture and food systems - Jose Moreno, University of Valencia 15:00 Water resources availability and extremes - Wouter Dorigo & Wolfgang Wagner, Technical University of Vienna; Peter Van Oevelen, WCRP 15:20 Discussion (All) 15:50 End |
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16:00-19:00 Back to the Future EO Planetek Italia is the main convenor of the “Back to the Future EO”session scheduled on Thursday, 16th May h. 16,00 Co-organizer is EARSC Association (European Association of Remote Sensing Companies), with support of ESA. |
Friday, 17 May |
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09:00-13:00 Towards an innovative skills strategy for Earth Observation/Geo-information sector The project ‘Towards an innovative strategy for skills development and capacity building in the space geo-information sector supporting Copernicus user uptake’(EO4GEO) is a milestone Erasmus+ Sector Skills Alliance. It gathers 26 partners from 13 EU countries, most of which are part of the Copernicus Academy Network. One of the main objectives of the project is the development of a long-term and sustainable strategy to fill the gap between the supply of and demand for space/geospatial education and training, establish a body of knowledge, relevant curricula, and occupational profiles. The meeting at the ESA Living Planet Symposium ‘Towards an innovative skills strategy for Earth Observation (EO) / Geo-Information (GI) sector’will be a consultation meeting with experts in the field of Earth Observation. The meeting will be a great opportunity to discuss and enrich the Body of Knowledge (BoK), a database that represents the knowledge, skills, and competencies required to master the field of EO and GI. The possibility of exchanging the ideas on the BoK will significantly enhance its quality, as well as, in the long term, contributing to the successful implementation of a sustainable skills strategy in EO/GI field. The goal is also to establish an active network of experts that will maintain the BoK beyond the EO4GEO lifespan. This work will be supported by a technology trend watch that monitors and analyses the evolution in space/geospatial and related sectors. Website: http://www.eo4geo.eu/2019/03/18/esa_living_planet_symposium/ Detailed Session Description |
Monday, 13 May |
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14:00-16:00 Digital Platform Economy and Science Use Digital platforms making data combined with processing resources and tools are increasingly available as commercially operated offerings to the community. How can science make best profit of this offering to accelerate scientific progress and who can sponsor it? Open but "guarded" access - a contradiction in itself? How can platforms create a step change from research to successful commercial spin-offs? What is the offering today and what experiences have been made? What do we need for the future? How can EO service Federations look like? Invited key questions and discussions include participation from:
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16:00-18:00 Scientific Societies and Space Agencies in the Space 4.0 era This Agora will feature a Panel on “Scientific societies and space agencies un the Space 4.0 era”, with contributions by the ESA, DLR and ASI, as well as the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the Italian Society for Remote Sensing. The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IEEE-GRSS) is one of 39 Societies of IEEE - 4000 Members in 94 Countries. IEEE-GRSS deals with the theory, concepts, and techniques of science and engineering as they apply to the remote sensing of the earth, oceans, atmosphere, and space, as well as the processing, interpretation and dissemination of this information. You will hear from the President of the society and meet several senior members on how the organization works, the benefits of membership, the opportunity to publish in an impactful, premier journals to a world-wide audience, and participate in technical, professional and social activities. Detailed Session Description |
Tuesday, 14 May |
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09:00-10:00 Sentinel-3- what new products are needed ? The Sentinel-3 mission, forming part of the European Union's Copernicus Programme, carries a suite of cutting-edge instruments, systematically measuring Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor and understand large-scale global dynamics. With two satellites now in orbit - Sentinel-3A since February 2016 and Sentinel-3B since April 2018, the Copernicus Sentinel-3 constellation monitors some parts of the world almost daily. They provide essential information in near-real time for a variety of scientific and operational applications. The Copernicus services already take large benefit from the use of Sentinel-3 data in their applications. At the start of the operational phase of the Sentinel-3 constellation it is now timely to review the data product catalogue and take on board emerging user requirements based on the in-orbit experience so far. This Agora will see a presentation on current Sentinel-3 data product evolution and will seek feedback on these activities, as well as on future data product needs the user community would like to express. |
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10:00-12:00 Commercial EO - New Supply Chain & Business models As cloud based processing, new collaborative models and a plethora of small satellites become increasingly operational, the traditional monolithic supply chain for the provision of EO derived information risks to become redundant. This evolution supports a more complex supply chain with multi-directional relationships, multi-faceted “market” structures and increased requirements for traceability. This session explores some of the on-going developments and will feed in to considerations as to how ESA should be changing approaches to foster early development of commercial applications over the coming years. A mixture of presentations of state of the art and discussion is planned. Actors presenting include TerraNIS, Planetek and Earth-i |
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12:00-13:00 Free Commercial EO services for European Research : requirements gathering There are several initiatives which are currently running with the aim to promote the use of EO services among the European Research communities, like , “Network of Resources”from ESA and “Open Cloud for Research Environments”from the EC in the context of the European Open Science Cloud, We will present the benefits of the Open Clouds for Research Environment for providers and for researchers. Additionally, we want to discuss with the research community to understand their needs and gather their requirements for the EO services which will be procured by the project and made available free-at-the-point-of-use. We want to hear from you, come and meet us! |
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13:00-16:00 EO for the Energy production sector Within the energy sector, EO data and services can support site assessment, operations and logistics planning, monitoring impacts and disaster response. Many successful use cases exist, but there is still great potential for future expansion. Translating EO into actionable information for the industry requires a close interaction between different actors, including data and service providers, industry, regulatory bodies, etc. This discussion session will focus on identifying barriers limiting full uptake of EO data within the Energy Production sector, including technical, data policy, commercial, legal and others, and on identifying ways in which they can be mitigated for the benefit of all actors. It will bring together data and service providers and industry representatives, allowing an exchange of perspectives. The session will look at how the needs of the more traditional actors, such as the Oil and Gas industry, can be aligned with those of newer energy actors in the renewable field. It will also consider how these challenges align with those faced in related sectors, for example in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A separate focus will be put on promoting innovative ideas and how can disruptive technologies and new Earth Observation data sources can be integrated for creating new products and services that will meet the future demands of the energy sector. This session is being organised on behalf of ESA by the “Expand Demand: Oil and Gas” consortium, led by CGI together with CLS, ERM and Hatfield Consultants. |
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16:00-17:00 Sobloo –bringing together “Medium Resolution”and “Very-High Resolution”to unleash the potential of Earth Observation Sobloo marks a major development milestone The dream of a unique access to “Medium Resolution”and “Very High Resolution”Earth observation data is now a tangible reality. SPOT-6, SPOT-7, Pléiades collections are now integrated in one single game-changer platform together with Copernicus Sentinel data. Ready to develop your own services and applications? Use sobloo as your universal docking station to get the most out of those complementary data. Everything you need is available on sobloo.eu: a huge data library, flexible & secured infrastructures and a wealth of value-added services.! |
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17:00-18:00 Get To Know The Queryable Earth: The Vision For Making Daily Global Imagery Accessible And Actionable When Planet achieved Mission 1 over a year ago, the ability to see daily change as it was happening was gained; but observing change is not the same as understanding it, and even further, predicting it. The vision for Queryable Earth is to index physical change on Earth and make it searchable for all. This will usher in the transition to insights about our planet that we dreamed of, but never had tools for – questions like, “How many new buildings were developed this month in Poland?”or “How many square-kilometers of crops were impacted by the floods in France last week?”or “What’s the daily average number of aircraft at the Frankfurt International Airport?” To get to the root of questions like these, Planet is building a suite of products that detect where relevant objects (including ships, planes, roads, etc) are on Earth over time. By applying machine learning to this imagery, we will extract powerful insights at scale and deliver them to people on demand. With Queryable Earth, Planet aims to not only increase transparency about global activity, but also empower people with the insights that drive better decision-making at the speed the world moves. We’re excited to get to work on this and we would like to discuss this further with you! |
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18:00-19:00 Atmosphere Chemistry and Dynamics This session is dedicated to discuss user recommendations in atmospheric chemistry and dynamics, gathered in previous workshops, specifically ATMOS-2018. Another focus is on the intended implementation of these recommendations within ESA projects and how they could potentially contribute to activities related to so-called grand challenges in atmospheric science. Panel members: Christian Retscher (ESRIN), Claus Zehner (ESRIN), Thorsten Fehr (ESTEC), Yasjka Meijer (ESTEC) |
Wednesday, 15 May |
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09:00-11:00 EO for SDG indicators The 2030 agenda on sustainable development represents a major milestone towards development policies that are data driven and evidence based. The integration of geospatial information and Earth Observations with traditional statistical data, combined with new emerging technologies such as big data processing and analytics offer unprecedented opportunities to make a quantum leap in the capacities of countries to efficiently track all facets of sustainable development. With the recognition that data is at the heart of the SDGs comes the reality that the least developed countries will have the most difficulty with the related institutional and technical challenges. This Agora Session with senior representatives from key organisations (Space Agencies, UN Agencies, Countries) will discuss the opportunities and challenges for EO to support the national monitoring and reporting on the SDG indicators, leaving no country behind. Detailed Session Description |
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11:00-14:00 EO for sustainable development The session will highlight the role and benefits that satellite environmental information is bringing to Development Assistance activities. The session is organized in three parts. The first part will present from a national perspective, with a strategic vision from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and case examples drawn from the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP). The second part will present from an internal perspective with future plans from ESA followed by key insights for the prospects of satellite environmental in a development aid context from World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, and OECD presenting recent approaches to assess the economic benefits. The session will close with a round-table panel discussion and Q&A from the audience. Detailed Session Description |
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14:00-17:00 Grand Challenges in Terrestrial Carbon Research The next launch of BIOMASS and FLEX represent a major opportunity for terrestrial carbon research. The potential synergies offered by the complementary use of FLEX, BIOMASS, S2, S2, S3, SMOS, TerraSAR-X and other non-European missions (e.g., GEDI, NISAR) will open an unique opportunity to address the main knowledge gaps in terrestrial carbon science. The ESA Carbon Science Constellation Initiative aims at preparing the community for the fast exploitation of the synergic capabilities provided by these missions. With this approach ESA aims at fostering new developments in terms of novel joint retrievals, innovative multi-mission products, advance modelling and new scientific results that non a single mission can achieve alone. In this context, this session aims at consulting with the community to establish such an initiative and collect feedback and recommendation that may guide ESA investments in the coming future. The session will present the results of preliminary discussion with the scientific community (e.g., IGARSS 2018) and ESA current activities and plans to address this issue in 2019. The ultimate target of the session is to collect recommendations from the community to launch a dedicated 1MEuro Invitation To Tender in 2019. Detailed Session Description |
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17:00-18:00 ESA SNAP Toolbox Developers' Corner: How to develop plugins & deploy SNAP on the cloud The SNAP developers will present what is required to develop Python/Java plugins for SNAP and how to deploy them on cloud-environments. There will be time for interactive discussions. |
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18:00-19:00 Sentinel Hub Custom Scripts Contest - award ceremony Sentinel Hub Custom Script Contest is a remotely run hackathon engaging data scientists worldwide to produce and share interesting algorithms for processing of Earth Observation data. The contest is lasting from March 18 until May 5th and is open to everyone. Participants can address one of five themes (Agriculture and Forestry, Marine environment, Snow and Glaciers, Disaster management and prevention, Air quality and Urban planning) or address any other topic. Algorithms have to be prepared in a way to be executable in EO Browser and should should be distributed under open license, so that whole community can benefit. The award ceremony will present the best results in each of the categories, the best algorithm using SAR data and the overall winner |
Thursday, 16 May |
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9:00-12:00 Blockchain and Earth Observation - From Vision to Action 09.00-9.30 Introduction & Moderation by Carsten Stoeker, CEO Spherity & Anna Burzykowska, European Space Agency 09.30–10.20 European policy vision and cross-industry innovation
10.35–10.45 Coffee Break 10.45-11.35 EO & Blockchain DeepDive
11.50-12.00 Conclusions and Call for Action Detailed Session Description |
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12:00-14:00 Introduction and Open Discussion about EO Exploitation Platform Common Architecture The “EO Exploitation Platforms Common Architecture”initiative aims at facilitating the user's life in the new EO ecosystem - full of different platforms, clouds, services - by ensuring that a common set of functions and interfaces exist across all providers that can be used without changes. Join our session |
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16:00-18:00 Ocean Sciences Grand Challenges Society is facing today a number of global environmental challenges requiring the better understanding and monitoring of the complex and interconnected Earth System processes. Ocean is one of the gearing of this complex engine. However, knowledge gaps remain in order to better understand, characterize and monitor its role in all major Earth System global cycles (e.g. water, energy, gas, and in particular carbon, momentum cycles…). To fill these gaps, dedicated research activities are needed, embracing a large number of disciplines as physical oceanography, biogeochemistry, ecology, and further exploring the interaction of the ocean with the other components of the Earth System, in particular the atmosphere, the land, and the cryosphere. To make the best of it, this research shall be based on the optimal exploitation of all available observing (space, in-situ) and modelling systems. In this context, the objective of this Agora session is to bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines to give and share their view on which are today the major ocean science open questions and how to best address them. Detailed Session Description |
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18:00-19:00 HAPs and Air Quality applications Information will be available soon. |
