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Registration Opens at 08:15, Bus from Frascati to ESRIN leaves at 08:00
Day 1 (Magellan Room): Monday, 12 June 2023
Opening Session
Chairs: Philippe Goryl (ESA), Michael Cosh (USDA), Fabrizio Niro (Serco/ESA)
09:00
09:20
Welcome and Meeting Objectives
Philippe Goryl (ESA), Michael Cosh (USDA), Fabrizio Niro (Serco/ESA)
Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM)
09:20
09:40
Fiducial Reference Measurements for Soil Moisture (FRM4SM): Where do we stand?
Alexander Gruber, TU Wien, Austria
09:40
10:00
Is the CEOS WGCV LPV two-stage validation approach suitable for conformity testing of coarse spatial resolution vegetation products? Outcomes of the FRM4Veg project 
Fernando Camacho, EOLab, Spain
10:00 10:20
Surface Reflectance Intercomparison Exercise for Vegetation (SRIX4Veg) Overview and Initial Results
Niall Origo, NPL, UK
10:20 10:40
Uncertainty Quantification for Retrieving BRDFs from bottom-of-atmosphere radiometers for Fiducial Reference Measurements Generation
Sebastian Schunke, Rayference, Belgium
10:40 11:00
COFFEE BREAK
Session 1: Cal/Val reference data: Supersites, Networks, and field campaigns
Chairs:  Valentina Boccia (ESA), Eric Vermote (NASA), Cody Anderson (USGS)
11:00 11:20
Copernicus Ground-Based Observation for Validation (GBOV) service: status and perspectives for phase 2
Christophe Lerebourg, ACRI, France
11:20
11:40
USGS Field Validation Updates
Cody Anderson, USGS, USA
11:40 12:00
The Next Generation Hyperspectral Radiometric Validation Network for Land and Water Reflectance – the HYPERNETS Project
Kevin Ruddick, RBINS, Belgium
12:00 12:20
ENMAP data product validation: initial steps towards data homogenization and interoperability 
Maximilian Brell, GFZ, Germany
12:20 12:40
Using European Research Infrastructures like ICOS and eLTER as robust and sustainable in-situ data providers for Cal/Val of Earth Observation products
Bert Gielen, University of Antwerp, Belgium
12:40 13:00
StrucNet: Supporting new spaceborne missions in the characterisation of vegetation vertical structure
Benjamin Brede, GFZ, Germany
13:00 14:00
LUNCH
Field Campaigns and Innovative Cal/Val solutions
14:00 14:20
TRISHNA Cal/Val activities: preparatory studies
Mark Irvine, INRAE, France
14:20 14:40
New Instrumented Site for Future Thermal Infrared Missions Calibration and Validation
Arthur Dick, CNES, France
14:40 15:00
Towards FLEX validation strategy. An overview of ground activities within the ESA DEFLOX project
Tommaso Julitta, JBHyperpsectral Devices, Germany
15:00 15:20
Multi-parameter field campaigns for satellite calibration and validation
Michael Cosh, USDA, USA
15:20 15:40 
SI traceable validation of satellite products using an fAPAR network
Harry Morris, NPL, UK
15:40 16:00
COFFEE BREAK
16:00 16:20
Ground based Validation over land of the passive optical remote sensing data
Eric Vermote, NASA, USA
16:20 16:40
Ground-based measurements for validation of L2A-products
Bringfried Pflug, DLR, Germany
16:40 17:00
The Canadian Airborne Biodiversity Observatory (CABO) – Standardized Cal/Val practices for biodiversity assessment at different spatial scales from hyperspectral remote sensing
Pablo Arroyo, NRC, Canada
17:00 17:20
Towards the validation of agricultural practices in order to support the transition towards a more sustainable agriculture
Sophie Bontemps, UCLouvain, Belgium
17:20 17:40
Near real-time validation of satellite-derived snow products using in-situ and webcam data 
Cemal Melih Tanis, FMI, Finland
17:40 18:20
Discussion 1: Cal/Val reference data (FRM, Networks and field campaigns): status, thematic/geographic data gaps and recommended evolutions 
Discussion led by session chairs 

18:20 19:30
Poster Session and Ice break
Day 2 (Magellan Room): Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Session 2: Cal/Val Protocols and Uncertainty budget estimate 
Chairs:  Marin Tudoroiu (ESA), Fernando Camacho (EOLab), Roberto Colombo (University of Milano Bicocca)
09:00
09:20
Surface reference database from the synergetic retrieval of AERONET andsatellite measurements
Pavlo (Pavel) Lytvynov, GRASP-SAS, France
09:20
09:40
Sentinel 2 uncertainty estimates and spectral correlation in landproducts
Javier Gorroño, IIAMA, Spain
09:40
10:00
Establishing an end-to-end uncertainty budget for the ECV Land Cover
Grit Kirches, Brockmann Consult, Germany
10:00 10:20
Approaches to global sampling for land cover map validation
Alexandra Tyukavina, University of Maryland, USA
10:20 10:40
Validation and Comparison of annual global land cover maps at 100m to 10m resolution 
Nandika Tsendbazar, Wageningen, The Netherlands 
10:40 11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 11:20
Quantifying the spatial-temporal mismatch between flux-tower ground measurements and satellite observation footprints: a prototype framework with Sentinel-2
Gregory Duveiller, MPI For Biogeochemistry, Germany
11:20
11:40
UAS Hyperspectral (UAS-HSI) data collection best practices and implementation of the spatial response resampling methodology for Cal/Val 
Margaret Kalacska, McGill University, Canada
11:40 12:00
Fire Radiative Product (FRP) product validation using wildfire progression maps to identify opportunistic near-simultaneous detections
Bernardo Mota, NPL, UK
12:00 12:20
Uncertainty budget analysis of the validation of soil moisture estimated by coarse resolution remote sensing: application to SMOS
François Gibon, Cesbio, France
12:20 12:40
Results of the Intercomparison and Validation of Northern Hemispheric Snow Extent Products 2015-2020 carried out within SnowPEx+
Thomas Nagler, ENVEO, Austria
12:40 13:00
GROUP PICTURE
13:00 14:00
LUNCH
Radiative Transfer Models and Intercomparison exercises
14:00 14:20
The Radiation Transfer Model Intercomparison: RAMI-V and RAMI4ATM results 
Nadine Gobron, JRC, Italy
14:20 14:40
Overview and Status of ACIX-III Land Atmospheric Correction Inter-comparison eXercise
Kevin Alonso Gonzales, Rhea for ESA, Italy
14:40 15:00
CMIX-II: Second edition of the Cloud Mask Inter-comparison eXercise
Jan Wevers, Brockmann Consult, Germany
15:00 15:20
Inter-comparison of PACO BOA surface reflectance between multi- and hyperspectral sensors: EnMAP overpasses with DESIS, Sentinel-2, Landsat and CalVal sites
Raquel De Los Reyes, DLR, Germany
15:20 16:00 
Discussion Session 2 – Cal/Val Protocols and Uncertainty budget estimate: status, remaining challenges, harmonization needs, recommended future research activities 
 Discussion led by session chairs 

16:00
16:20
COFFEE BREAK
Session 3: Retrieval and Validation of global satellite land products
Chairs:  Steffen Dransfeld (ESA), Jaime Nickeson (NASA), Jadu Dash (Soton University)
16:20 16:40
Validation and evolution of the Sentinel-3 OLCI Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (OTCI): current status and future applications 
Jadu Dash, Soton University, UK
16:40 17:00
Sentinel-3 OLCI GIFAPAR validation using the Copernicus Ground-Based Observations for Validation (GBOV)
Ana Perez-Hoyos, Albavalor, Spain
17:00 17:20
Progress in innovative retrieval methods and Cal/Val approaches for multi-sensor derived fAPAR and LAI 
Christiaan Van Der Tol, University of Twente, The Netherlands
17:20 17:40
GEOV2-AVHRR long-term time series of global LAI, FAPAR and FCover since 1981: principles and validation based on the comparison with ground measurements and with GEOV2-CGLS, GIMMS3g, GLASS and C3S products
Aleixandre Verger, CSIC, Spain
17:40 18:00
Cloud-free global maps of four essential vegetation variables retrieved with Gaussian Processes from S3-OLCI
Dávid Kovács, University of Valencia, Spain
18:00 19:30
Poster Session and Ice Break
Day 3 (Big Hall): Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Session 3: Retrieval and Validation of global satellite land products (continued)
Chairs: Steffen Dransfeld (ESA), Jaime Nickeson (NASA), Jadu Dash (Soton University)
09:00
09:20
The future of Copernicus DEM & WorldDEM: statistical analysis of the WorldDEM Neo
Ernest Fahrland, Airbus, UK
09:20
09:40
Validation of moderate and higher resolution satellite albedo products 
Angela Erb, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
09:40
10:00
On the suitability of SAIL-based algorithms for vegetation biophysical variable retrieval from decametric multispectral and hyperspectral missions
Luke Brown, University Of Salford, UK
10:00 10:20
Spatiotemporal Upscaling of In-situ Land Surface Temperature Data to Validate Copernicus Global Land Service datasets
Jasdeep Anand, University of Leicester, UK
10:20 10:40
Global Application and Evaluation of DisALEXI Evapotranspiration model on the OpenET Google Earth Engine Platform
Yun Yang, Mississippi State University, USA
10:40 11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 11:20
OSMOSE: 20-year of passive microwave and optical indices for the biomass
Arnaud Mialon, Cesbio, France
11:20 11:40
Evaluating the synergistic use of Sentinel mission data to derive terrestrial vegetation gross primary productivity (GPP): The SEN4GPP Project
Elise Belakebi-Joly, Noveltis, France
11:40 12:00
Development and validation of global productivity models using Earth Observations: the ECOPROPHET and TerrA-p projects
Manuela Balzarolo, University of Antwerp, Belgium
12:00 12:20
Validation of Copernicus pan-European high resolution vegetation phenology and productivity (HR-VPP) products based on Sentinel-2 observations
Enrique Martínez-Sánchez, EOLab, Spain
12:20 13:00
Discussion Session 3 – Advanced Retrieval methods and Validation of global satellite products: status, limitations, and recommendations for future land products  
Discussion led by session chairs 
13:00  14:20
LUNCH
Summary and Wrap-up session
Chairs: Michael Cosh (USDA), Fabrizio Niro (Serco/ESA)
14:20 15:20
Highlights from the session and Recommendations from the discussion:
• Session 1 – Cal/Val reference data: Supersites, Networks and field campaigns
• Session 2 – Cal/Val Protocols and Uncertainty budget estimate
• Session 3 – Retrieval and Validation of global satellite land products
Rapporteurs
15:20 16:00
Wrap up Discussion
ESA, CEOS-WGCV-LPV
16:00
End of the Workshop 

Demo Program

Time: during poster session (18:00 – 19:30)
Duration: 45 min 
Location: Annex Room

12 June

  • W. Preimesberger (TUW) – “The Quality Assurance for Soil Moisture (QA4SM) service for Cal/Val standardization and operability”
  • J.P. Arroyo Mora (NRC) and M. Kalacska (McGill University) – “Standalone flight planning application for push-broom hyperspectral imagers and Spatial Coverage Map and Resampling Error Assessment”

13 June

  • S. Schunke (Rayference) – “Eradiate: an open-source 3D radiative transfer model for Earth observation applications” 

Poster Programme

Utilizing the Largest Hyperspectral Surface Reflectance Data Set and Some Adjustment Techniques to Account for Spectral Response Differences Among Optical Sensors
Martin Claverie, UCL Geomatics, Belgium

Harmonization and comparison of atmospheric radiative transfer models with the ALG toolbox
Jorge Vicent, Magellium, France
Semi-empirical modelling and deep learning for burned area near-realtime monitoring in the framework of the Copernicus Global Land Service
Marc Padilla, Complutig, UK
An improved hyperspectral surface reflectance datasets and aerosol model over four selected PICS
Yves Govaerts, Rayference, Belgium
Earth Observation of ECVs tends to overestimate low and underestimate high values: blame statistics, not models
Hongxiao Jin, Lund University, Sweden
Validation of Copernicus Global Land Service Sentinel-3 OLCI Leaf Area Index, Fraction of Absorbed PAR and Vegetation Cover products
Enrique Martinez-Sanchez, Eolab, Spain
Validation of LSA-SAF EUMETSAT Polar System LAI, FAPAR and FVC global vegetation products derived from AVHRR sensor
Enrique Martinez-Sanchez, Eolab, Spain
Evaluation of Proba-V Collection 2 Products
Carolien Toté, VITO, Belgium
PRISMA for land cover mapping: different approaches for the classification of the Earth’s surface
Federico Carotenuto, CNR, Italy
Data fusion of PRISMA hyperspectral imagery with Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery for spatial resolution improvement
Giandomenico De Luca, CNR, Italy
SITES Spectral - Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science
José M. Beltrán Abaun, Lund University, Sweden
Intercomparisons of sentinel 3 SYNERGY surface directional reflectance – Results and plans for the OPT-MPC routine service validation
Naga Moparthy, ACRI-ST, France
Validating long-term actual and reference SEVIRI-MSG ET estimates along five dimensions
Bagher Bayat, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Multi-spectral UAV sensor limitations in mapping complex vegetation and satellite validation
Margaret Kalacska, McGill University, Canada
Artillery crater mapping in VHR satellite imagery: methodology and validation aspects
Sergii Skakun, University of Maryland, USA
The impact of mapping accuracy on crop area estimation: the case of winter wheat in Ukraine
Sergii Skakun, University of Maryland, USA
Web-based tool for validation of Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 derived bio‐geophysical products against ICOS terrestrial ecosystems measurements
Noelle Cremer, Serco/ESA, Italy
The Quality Assurance for Soil Moisture (QA4SM) service for Cal/Val standardization and operability
Pietro Stradiotti, TUW, Austria
Surface ALbedo VALidation (SALVAL) Platform: Towards CEOS LPV Validation Stage 4
Jorge Sanchez-Zapero, EOLab, Spain
Algorithm and preliminary validation of Sentinel-3 based surface albedo product for the continuity of Copernicus Climate Change Service
Jorge Sanchez-Zapero, EOLab, Spain
Validating long, temporally dense time-series from a network of autonomous field-spectrometers around the globe using Sentinel-2
Paul Naethe, JB Hyperspectral, Germany
Ground Reference Observations Underlying Novel Decametric Vegetation Data Products from Earth Observation (GROUNDED EO): Project Overview and Status
Luke Brown, University of Salford, UK
The Fire Radiative Power (FRP) Inter-comparison framework:  an approach to identify differences for non-simultaneous detection products
Bernardo Mota, NPL, UK
CEOS WGCV LPV Vegetation Index Validation Protocol
Else Swinnen, VITO, Belgium
Generating and validating an irrigation map in Spain using in-situ not collected specifically to be used with Earth Observation data 
Sophie Bontemps, UCLouvain, Belgium
Validation of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 Sen2cor Scene Classification Products
Avi Putri Pertiwi, DLR, Germany
Copernicus Snow & Ice products from Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 over Europe
Florence Marti, Magellium, France
Spatially explicit vegetation fractions to improve climate model simulation: A 29-year time series of annual Plant Functional Type (PFT) fraction maps through the fusion of the CCI MRLC 300 m land cover dataset and existing high-resolution data products 
Céline Lamarche, UCLouvain, Beglium
Time series performance of Copernicus Sentinel-2 operational L2A-Products of year 2022
Bringfried Pflug, DLR, Germany
ENMAP background mission: support for the Hyperspectral monitoring of Cal/Val network sites for satellite radiance, reflectances and land product validation
Sabine Chabrillat, GFZ, Germany
Overview of Copernicus Global Land LAI, FAPAR and FCover from SPOT/VEGETATION to Sentinel-3/OLCI
Aleixandre Verger, CSIC, Spain
3D forest model validation of woodland from inter-comparison between simulated and real Terrestrial LiDAR
Chloe Randall, NPL, UK
The CEOS Land Product Validation Subgroup
Jaime Nickeson, NASA, USA
Characterization and correction of the spatiotemporal mismatch between satellite and in situ measurements with independent high-resolution measurements 
Ruben Urraca, JRC, Italy
Correcting plant area index for woody material using near-infrared digital hemispherical photography
Luke Brown, University of Salford, UK
Land HYPERNET
Agnieszka Bialek, NPL, UK
Earth Observation LAI and FAPAR products operational Cal/Val. A new integrated system for long-term deployment of Digital Hemispherical Pictures systems
Gael Polles, TimeLapse Go, UK
Utilising the Land Hypernet sites for understanding the temporal dynamics of reflectance for vegetation
Harry Morris, NPL, UK
Cloud-based calibration & validation API 
Lauri Häme, Terramonitor, Finland
The synergy of microwave coarse-scale measurements and optical/thermal observations in a random forest regression for estimating 1 km soil moisture using Google Earth Engine
Farzane Mohseni, University of Bonn, Germany