Schedule

8:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee

9:45 Opening Session

Welcome from the host institution
Bart Deronde - VITO & Joost Vandenabeele - BELSPO
Welcome to MultiTemp
Lorenzo Bruzzone - University of Trento
MutiTemp 2017 & Technical Programme
Else Swinnen - VITO & Gabriëlle De Lannoy - KU Leuven
PROBA-V: continuing the world's oldest daily global vegetation time series
Bianca Hoersch - ESA
KEYNOTE
A framework for Establishing Confidence in Earth Observation Datasets
Joanne Nightingale - National Physical Laboratory
KEYNOTE
Monitoring of soil moisture and vegetation dynamics with ASCAT and Sentinel-1
Wolfgang Wagner - TUWien

12:00 Lunch, poster session and small demonstrations

PROBA-V Mission Exploitation Platform (13:00 - 14:00)
HUB Time Series Viewer - A concept to visualize and label remote sensing time series in QGIS (13:00 - 14:00)

14:00 Parallel session: Climate (hydro/cryosphere) & Vegetation Dynamics

CLIMATE (hydro/cryosphere) - MEETING ROOM: Groeninghe Chairs: Claudia Notarnicola & Stef Lhermitte	Vegetation Dynamics - MEETING ROOM: Zeven Torens Chairs: Carolien Toté & Wolfgang Wagner
A non-linear data-driven approach to reveal global vegetation sensitivity to climate	Remote sensing monitoring of land restoration interventions in semi-arid environments using a before-after control-impact statistical design
Diego G. Miralles – Ghent University	Michele Meroni - European Commission,Joint Research Centre
Assessing Antarctic melt based on multi-source satellite time series.	Temporal Relationships between daily Precipitation and NDVI Time Series in Mexico
Stef Lhermitte – Delft University of Technology	Rene R. Colditz - National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO)
Mapping small reservoirs in semi-arid regions using multitemporal SAR: methods and applications	RGB SAR product exploiting multitemporal: general processing and applications
Giuseppe Ruello – University of Napoli Federico II	Donato Amitrano - University of Napoli Federico II
Multi-temporal and Multi-source Alpine Glacier Cover Classification	Multi-annual Phenology Metrics at Landsat Scale - Using Spatially Improved Land Surface Phenology to Support Monitoring of the Status and Change of Land Cover in Central Angola
Mattia Callegari - EURAC	Marion Stellmes - Freie Universität Berlin
Glacier ice loss monitored through the Planet cubesat constellation	A Novel Method for Unsupervised Multiple Change Detection in Hyperspectral Images Based on Binary Spectral Change Vectors
Altena Bas – University of Oslo	Daniele Marinelli - University of Trento

15:40 Coffee Break

16:00 Parallel Session: Climate (vegetation) & Forestry

CLIMATE (Vegetation) - MEETING ROOM: Groeninghe Chairs: Diego Miralles & Else Swinnen	FORESTRY - MEETING ROOM: Zeven Torens Chairs: Jan Verbesselt & Marcel Bucchorn
Contribution of radar Sentinel-1 data for vegetation seasonal monitoring	Remote sensing time series analysis of the biodiversity – stability hypothesis in European forests
Pierre-Louis Frison - Université Paris-Est / IGN - LaSTIG	Bjorn Rombouts – KU Leuven
Global climatic drivers of vegetation based on wavelet analysis	Amazon rainforests green-up during the dry season observed from SPOT-VEGETATION time series
Jeroen Claessen – Ghent University	Inès Moreau – Earth and Life Institute (UCL)
Remotely Sensed Sensitivity of Global Drylands to Climate Drivers	Identification of Amazonian bamboo patches and their flowering cycles using the entire Landsat TM/ETM+ archive
Wanda De Keersmaecker – KU Leuven	Jasper Van Doninck – Univeristy of Turku
Assessment of Time Series Consistency of Terrestrial ECVs	Using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-1 Data for Above Ground Biomass Assessment in Tamar Valley and Dartmoor
Bernardo Mota - JRC	Ahmed Alboabidallah – Plymouth University
Near real time and long term global monitoring of LAI, FAPAR and FCOVER from PROBA-V and VEGETATION at 300 m and 1 km	Humid Tropical Forest Monitoring with Multi-Temporal L-, C- and X-Band SAR Data
Verger Aleixandre - CREAF	Janik Deutscher – Joanneum Research

17:40 End of Day 1

18:00 Evening activity - Welcome Reception

8:00 Registration

8:30 Plenary Session: Multi-sensor methods and applications

MULTI-SENSOR METHODS AND APPLICATIONS - MEETING ROOM: Groeninghe Chairs: Philippe Goryl & Francesca Bovolo
Multi-sensor Landsat, Sentinel-1 and PALSAR-2 based near-real time deforestation detection in tropical dry forest
Johannes Reiche – Wageningen University
A Remote Sensing database for water productivity mapping
Laurent Tits – VITO
Reconstruction of reservoir and lake surface area dynamics from optical and SAR satellite imagery
Gennadii Donchyts - Deltares
Potato monitoring in Belgium with watchITgrow
Isabelle Piccard - VITO
ASAP - Anomaly hot Spots of Agricultural Production, a new early warning decision support system developed by the Joint Research Centre
Felix Rembold, JRC

10:10 Coffee Break

10:30 Parallel Session: Preprocessing & Land Cover

PREPROCESSING - MEETING ROOM: Zeven Torens Chairs: Fabrizio Niro & Bart Deronde	LAND COVER - MEETING ROOM: Groeninghe Chairs: Rogerio Bonifacio & Allan Nielsen
Automatic Smoothing of Remote Sensing Data	Image Representation Alternatives for the Analysis of Satellite Image Time Series
Paul Eilers - Erasmus University Medical Centre	Corneliu Octavian Dumitru – DLR
IFiltering mislabeled data for improving time series classification	The yearly 100m Global Land Cover Layer from Copernicus Global Land
Charlotte Pelletier – CESBIO	Marcel Buchhorn – VITO
Integrating Phenological Information for Pixel-Based Compositing - Generation of Multi-Seasonal Composites Using MODIS and Landsat Image Archives	Classification of anthropogenic landscapes: A case study in Northern Benin
David Frantz - Environmental Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Trier University	Eva M. De Clercq – Université Catholique de Louvain
Joint surface reflectance and aerosol properties retrieval on PROBA-V observations, part II: product validation	Analysis of riparian forest buffers dynamics in Colombian basins by Landsat Time Series
Erwin Wolters - VITO	Edgar Leonairo Pencue-Fierro – University of Cauca
Angular normalisation of PROBA-V 300m NDVI	Land-Cover Evolution Classes in Image Time Series of Landsat and Sentinel-2 Based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Jonathan Leon-Tavares - VITO	Daniela Espinoza- Molina - DLR

12:10 Lunch, poster session and small demonstrations

Potato monitoring in Belgium with watchITgrow (13:00 - 14:00)
Support for Multi-temporal and Multi-mission data processing: the ESA Research & Service Support (13:00 - 14:00)

14:00 Plenary Session: Methods for climate related applications

METHODS FOR CLIMATE RELATED APPLICATIONS - MEETING ROOM: Groeninghe Chairs: Feng Gao & Gabriëlle De Lannoy
KEYNOTE: Daily monitoring of vegetation conditions and evapotranspiration at field scale by fusing multi-satellite images
Feng Gao - Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Investigating the control of ocean-atmospheric oscillations over global terrestrial evaporation using a simple supervised learning method
Brecht Martens - Ghent University
Sea Surface Temperature changes analysis, an Essential Climate Variable for Ecosystem Services provisioning
Federico Filipponi – ISPRA
Spatiotemporal variations of alpine climate, snow cover and phenology
Sarah Asam – EURAC Research
Joint retrieval of surface reflectance and aerosol properties from PROBA-V observations, part I: algorithm performance evaluation
Marta Luffarelli – Rayference

15:50 Coffee Break

16:10 Poster session and small demonstrations

Assessing hypertemporal Sentinel-1 coherence maps for land cover monitoring
Temporal analysis with google Earth Engine
Multi temporal data visualization in EO mobile apps

17:00 End of day 2

17:30 Reception at City Hall, evening activity and conference diner

8:00 Registration

8:30 Plenary Session: Methods and data sets for land cover and change detection

METHODS AND DATA SETS FOR LAND COVER AND CHANGE DETECTION - MEETING ROOM: Groeninghe Chairs: Lorenzo Bruzzone
KEYNOTE: Remotely Sensed Resilience of Tropical Forests
Jan Verbesselt – Wageningen University
Leveraging Sentinel1 timeseries data for mapping agricultural land cover and land use in the tropics
Caitlin Kontgis – Descartes Labs
Change detection in a series is Sentinel-1 SAR data
Allan Nielsen – Technical University of Denmark
Circular Change Detection in Image Time Series Inspired by Two-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping
Manuel Bertoluzza – University of Trento
European Space Agency (ESA) Landsat MSS/TM/ETM+/OLI Archive: 42 years of our history
Roberto Biasutti – European Space Agency

10:10 Coffee Break

10:30 Parallel Session: Agriculture & Natural Hazards

AGRICULTURE - MEETING ROOM: Groeninghe Chairs: Sven Gilliams & Michele Meroni	NATURAL HAZARDS - MEETING ROOM: Zeven Torens Chairs: Emmanuel Trouvé
Optimization of multi-temporal Land Use Classification by Integration of Phenological time frames	Unsupervised Change Detection of Remote Sensing Images Using Superpixel Segmentation and Variational Gaussian Mixture Model
Cornelia Gläßer – University of Halle	Gang Yang – Southwest Jiaotong University
Assessment of AquaCrop for maize and winter wheat using satellite derived fCover data	Combined Use of SAR and Optical Time Series Data for Near Real-Time Forest Disturbance Mapping
Joost Wellens & Hamid Sallah – Université de Liège	Manuela Hirschmugl – Joanneum Research
Mountain crop monitoring with multitemporal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery	Lava emplacement mapping with SAR and Optical satellite data
Claudia Notarnicola –EURAC	Christian Bignami - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Spatio-temporal Evolution of crop fields in Sentinel-2 Satellite Image Time Series	Retrospective analysis of long-term landscape evolution based on archive satellite imagery and historical maps
Yady Tatiana Solano Correa – University of Trento	Kristof Daniel - Government Office of the Capital City Budapest
On the use of guided regularized random forests to identify crops in smallholder farm fields	Optimizing SAR change detection based on log-ratio features
Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier – University of Twente	Andrea Garzelli, University of Siena

12:10 Lunch, poster session and small demonstrations

The SPIRITS approach for earth observation based vegetation phenology (13:00 - 14:00)
The Greenmonitor: a simple and userfriendly web interface to monitor vegetation dynamics at field level - Quantification of crop yield damage by excessive precipitation (13:00 - 14:00)

14:00 Plenary Session: Methods and applications based on sar and hyperspectral data

METHODS AND APPLICATIONS BASED ON SAR AND HYPERSPECTRAL DATA - MEETING ROOM: Groeninghe Chairs: Thuy Le Toan & Mathieu Fauvel
KEYNOTE: SAR time series for vegetation monitoring
Thuy Le Toan - Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère
Handling coherence measures of displacement field time series: application to Greenland ice sheet glaciers
Tuan Nguyen - Univ Savoie Mont Blanc / LISTIC
Built-up areas mapping at global scale based on adaptive parametric thresholding of SENTINEL-1 intensity & coherence time series
Marco Chini - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Estimating Total ABoveground, Stem and Branch Biomass Using Multi-Frequency SAR
Oliver Cartus – Gamma Remote Sensing
Simulating urban vegetation dynamics and interception storage combining multi-temporal satellite with airborne hyperspectral imagery
Charlotte Wirion – Vrije Universiteit Brussel

16:00 End of MultiTemp 2017

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