23-27 May: Living Planet Symposium

Participants will also be able to explore how emerging technologies are revolutionising the use of Earth observation and how business and the economy can benefit. There will be a series of climate-focused events on May 25^th – Climate Day at the Symposium including ‘meet the scientist’ sessions on the main ESA climate stand.

S4C members & Champions at Living Planet Symposium

Here are some of the activities involving our members and our Space4Climate Champions:

TreeView:

• Thursday, May 26th: (programme item number) B07.03, 3.40-5.20pm

Presentation ‘TreeView: A small satellite supporting precision forestry for nature-based solutions in a changing climate’ by James Endicott, Space Academic Network (SPAN) and TreeView Technical Lead & Open University

Telespazio UK:

• Monday, May 23^rd: B2.03

Poster session  ’12 years of CryoSat Quality Control: Evolution and Current Status of the Ice Processors’ and ’12 years of CryoSat Quality Control: Evolution and Current Status of the Ocean Processors’ both presented by Erica Turner who will be on the ESA stand to answer questions on CryoSat.

Presentation C5.02 by Richard Conway ‘Towards a Common Architecture for EO Exploitation Platforms’

Poster session B4.01 ‘The 4th (A)ATSR Reprocessing’ by Fay Done

Poster session B1.05 ‘The Data Quality Assessments of Very High Resolution Optical Data from Potential Third Party Missions under the ESA Earthnet Data Assessment Pilot (EDAP) Project’ by Fay Done

• Thursday, May 26^th

Poster session B6.01 ‘ESA Third Party Mission Processing Campaigns for ALOS Optical, Landsat 5 TM and Landsat 7 ETM+’ by Fay Done and Chris Doyle

Presentation ‘Towards a family of SAR ARD products’ by Kajal Haria supporting ESA

Poster session ‘(A)SAR NRB CARD4L Project’ by Kajal Haria

Poster session ‘Reprocessing and Quality Control of the Optical Japanese MOS Historical Archive held by ESA’ by Kajal Haria

Satellite Vu

• Thursday, May 26^th

Poster session 6.05pm ‘Hot data from space – how Satellite Vu’s high resolution thermal infrared satellite imagery will provide a new source of climate and environmental intelligence’ by Alex Gow

ESA Climate Office:

• May 23rd-27^th

ESA Climate Office will be showcasing climate data from space on the main European Space Agency stand, on a 1.6m half-globe. Also look out for updates on the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) International Project Office which opened on March 1st,  led by Eleanor O’Rourke and based at ECSAT, Harwell, Oxfordshire.

CGI:

• Monday 23^rd: (programme item A8.04) Ocean Health

Poster session for Project Seagrass (17.30 – 19.00)

• Wednesday 25^th: C5.02 Big EO data Platforms

Poster session for Expand Demand Oil and Gas Platform (17.30 – 19.00)

• Thursday 24^th: C2.01 Towards a Digital Twin of the Earth –

Digital Twin Earth Talk  (13.30 – 17.20)

(Chandra Taposeea-Fisher, Senior Consultant Earth Observation Space, Defence and Intelligence, CGI, chairing a session)

• Thursday 24^th: B3.04 TRUTHS

PDGS Talk (15.40 – 17.20)

• Friday 25^th: D1.06 Satellite EO and Machine Learning for monitoring Natural Hazards

Poster session for AI4EO Wildfires (12.20-14.00)

NPL:

• Monday 23^rd: B1.03.1 Present and future of Validation for Optical Imaging Sensor Products – 1

At the cutting edge of vegetation measurements: Fiducial Reference Measurements for the validation of biophysical products

• Thursday 26th B1.01.1 SI-Traceable Satellites – a Gold Standard for Climate and Intercalibration

Chaired by Dr Thorsten Fehr (ESA – ESTEC) & Prof. Nigel Fox (National Physical Laboratory)

Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio- Studies (TRUTHS) – A ‘gold standard’ reference for an integrated space-based observing system for environment and climate action. Prof. Nigel Fox, National Physical Laboratory

C4.01.2 Innovative UAV applications – 2

UAV-mounted hyperspectral imaging for satellite surface reflectance validation

Niall Origo, National Physical Laboratory

TRUTHS SESSION: B3.04.1 TRUTHS: a new ESA Earth Watch mission for climatology and radiometric calibration from Space

Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML):

• Tuesday 24^th11 Earth Observation for Health

Title: Using multi-spectral remote sensing for flood mapping: A case study in Lake Vembanad, India. Space4Climate Champion Gemma Kulk.

• Wednesday 25^th Ocean Carbon From Space

Chaired by Shubha Sathyendranath PML & Jamie Shutler University of Exeter.

Poster presentation in session. Title: Primary Production, an Index of Climate Change in the Ocean: Satellite-Based Estimates over Two Decades. Space4Climate Champion Gemma Kulk.

University of Edinburgh:

• Tuesday 23rd, A8.04.1 Ocean Health – 1

High resolution estimation of sea surface temperature and salinity from multi and hyperspectral ocean radiances University of Edinburgh – Space4Climate Champion Solomon White.

University of Reading:

• Wednesday, May 25^th – Climate Day – 10:40-12noon

Professor in Ocean and Earth Observation, and Space4Climate Board member, Chris Merchant, will be a panel member for a discussion of how CCI climate data can increase support for the Paris Agreement. The panel is titled ‘Supporting national action towards Paris Goals – the evolving role of observations’ on  10:40-12:10 in the Plenary.

Space4Climate Champion Heather Selley, a PhD student at the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, will be attending the conference.

Headline news stories are due to come out of the in-person ESA event. Follow https://twitter.com/ESA_EO, https://www.linkedin.com/company/european-space-agency/ and https://www.instagram.com/europeanspaceagency/?hl=en using #LPS22.

See the full programme for Living Planet Symposium.