Luxembourg Earth Observation and Integrated Applications Day

Recent Technological Advances

Copyright picture: ESA / LIST

The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) organised the fifth Luxembourg Earth Observation and Integrated Applications Day, which took place on 13 October at the Domaine Thermal in Mondorf-les-Bains, in the south-east of Luxembourg.

This year's conference focused on the recent advances in Earth observation, among others in the areas of Luxembourg’s role in the Earth observation ecosystem, Digital Twins, and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on the impact new technologies have had on the market.

An overview of the ESA and Copernicus programmes, the support Luxembourg provides to Earth observation companies, and an insight into recent advances in remote sensing research and applications were provided. Luxembourg start-ups and newcomers were prominently featured: sponsorship packages offered at discounted rates and a dedicated session provided the possibility to present themselves.

Objectives

The conference aimed to increase awareness among users and service providers within the Greater Region of the potential that space technologies offer in the domain of environmental monitoring and management. Representatives from the private and public sectors, institutional entities, academia and especially start-ups had the opportunity to present their activities in the earth observation domain.

Posters

A poster session on the thematic of the event was organised in parallel of the conference.

 

Programme

8.30-12.30 - Morning session

Moderator: Jim Kent

08.30 - Registration and welcome coffee

09.00 - Welcome speech - Dr. Thomas Kallstenius, Chief Executive Officer, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

09.15 - Keynote address - Marc Serres, Chief Executive Officer, Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA)

09.30 - ESA EO programmes at CM22 - Michel Verbauwhede, Earth Observation Coordination, European Space Agency (ESA)

10.00 - "Newcomer" Pitches:

- Dr Albert Abello, Hydrosat
- Guy Schumann, RSS-Hydro
- Qiang Chen, Spacety Luxembourg
- Paolo Campanella, WASDI
- Frankwin van Winsen, WEO

10.30 - Coffee break and poster session

11.15 - The Earth observation market in Europe and in Luxembourg – Sylvain Drilholle, Senior Consultant, Euroconsult

11.45 - Roundtable - Luxembourg’s support and its impact on the Earth observation ecosystem
Moderator: Jim Kent - Panellists: Alessandro Grasso (LSA), Alexander Link (Luxinnovation), Richard Nakath (FNR)

12.30 - Networking lunch

13.30-18.00 - Afternoon session: “Advances in Earth Observation”

13.30 - Introducing the Digital Twin Earth - Hydrology - Francesco Avanzi, CIMA Research Foundation (IT)

14.00 - New possibilities in Earth observation - Melania Guerra, Director of Science Strategy at Planet (D)

14.30 - LIST projects showcase:
- Global Flood Monitoring System - Patrick Matgen, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
- European ECOSTRESS Hub for Mapping Land Surface Temperature and Evapotranspiration at High Spatial Resolution - Tian Hu, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
- Oil spill and VEssels monitoring from multi-tempoRal Satellite Earth observAtion dataSet - Ramona Pelich, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
- Esca- a threatening disease in viticulture and the development of remote sensing based management strategies. The MonESCA project - Miriam Machwitz, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

15.00 - High Performance Computing to increase the speed and computational capacity of EO services - Luis Vela Vela, LuxProvide

15.30 - Coffee break and poster session

16.00 - Keynote: AI for Earth Observation Applications: Opportunities and Challenges - Claudio Persello, University of Twente (NL)

16.30 - Exponentially growing EO data access: DIAS Lessons Learnt and outcome - Diego Pozo Morillas, Airbus DS Geo SAS

16.45 - LSA Data Centre - Dinesh Kumar Babu - Adwaiseo

17.00 - LUXEOsys – Bruno Perrot, LUXEOps Head of Technical & Director, Business Development RHEA System Luxembourg

17.15 - Best poster price (sponsored by Airbus, Lux Provide and Spacety)

17.20 - Closing - Lucien Hoffmann, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Networking cocktail (end  - 18.15)

Posters

• 1 - Evolution of the build-up volume in Luxembourg City using 2D and 3D remote sensing data based on GEOBIA approach and LiDAR point cloud analysis. | Karolina Zięba-Kulawik1,2, Konrad Skoczylas1, Piotr Wężyk2, Hichem Omrani1 | 1LISER - 2University of Agriculture in Krakow
• 2 - Archiving, preservation and dissemination in the Copernicus Ground Segment | Isabelle Gryglicki | adwäisEO
• 3 - Cancelled
• 4 - Very High Resolution imagery for forest condition monitoring in Walloon Region | Cozmin Lucau |Centre wallon de Recherches agronomiques et UCLouvain
• 5 - BELCAM – A tool for Agriculture Monitoring at parcel level for sustainable cropping systems | V. Planchon, D. Goffart, Y. Curnel, J.-P. Goffart, T. Demaet, B. Bedoret, D. Heymans, P. Houdmont, C. Champagne, P. Defourny | Centre wallon de Recherches agronomiques et UCLouvain
• 6 - CubeMAP: GomSpace's CubeSat Mission Solution for Earth Observation | Ariston Gonzalez, Mark Fittock, Vladimir Ten, Damien Wiedmann
• | Gomspace
• 7 - Crop Water Stress Quantification Using Thermal Infrared – From Field Experiments To Space Borne Irrigation Management, in collaboration with LIST and Curativo (South Africa) | Dr. Florian Werner | Hydrosat
• 8 - Estimating Crop Yield Using Remotely Sensed Vegetation Indices and Crop Simulation Models, in collaboration with University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA) and KAUST (Saudi Arabia) | Dr. Florian Werner | Hydrosat
• 9 - Change detection processing chain on Sentinel-2 data: application examples from redevelopment sites to airports and bombed cities | Benjamin Palmaerts | ISSep
• 10 - The CASMATTELE project: mapping the roof materials of entire Wallonia using EO data and AI techniques | Dr. Coraline WYARD | ISSep
• 11 - Belgian Experience in the Eagle LULUCF Cross Border Mapping Exercise | Benjamin Beaumont1, Nathalie Stéphenne2, Johannes Van Geertsom3, Stefan Kleeschulte4 | ISSeP, SPW, NGI, Space4Environment
• 12 - Linking airborne hyperspectral AVIRIS reflectance with plant traits affected by bark beetle infestation | Martin Schlerf | LIST
• 13 - The Lux5GCloud integrated soil moisture monitoring application, leveraging on EO, AI, IoT and 5G Technologies | M.R. Palattella, Y. Li, M. Chini, S. Barillaro, D. L. Phan | LIST
• 14 - Predictive performance of Sentinel-2 based models for estimating canopy nitrogen content in wheat | Christian Bossung, Miriam Machwitz and Martin Schlerf | LIST
• 15 - Multi-scale approach to estimate land surface temperature | Adriano Gama, Franz Kai Ronellenfitsch, Aaron Firoz | LIST
• 16 - Sentinel-1 high resolution soil moisture data: a case study in Southeast Luxembourg | Tessa Van Hateren | LIST
• 17 - DEM-guided Flood Segmentation in Sentinel-2 Images | Guy Schumann | RSS-Hydro
• 18 - Spire's GNSS-R Data Products | Vivien Stefan, Jessica Cartwright, Matthieu Talpe, Oyebade Oyedotun, Dennis Quick, Giorgio Savastano, Hameer Abbasi, Adriano Franci, Mohammed Ashour, Philip Jales, Vahid Freeman | Spire Global Luxembourg S.a.r.l

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