The first Global Space Conference on Climate Change (GLOC2023) gets underway on May 23rd with an impressive list of presentations and activities from the UK climate data from space community.
The UK, as current Chair of the of the International Charter: Space and Major Disasters, is one of the sponsors. Space4Climate has joined their stand to showcase UK climate services, products and decision-support tools, represented by our Climate Services Development Manager, Krupa Nanda Kumar. Krupa is also presenting an interactive poster in the afternoon of the opening day.
Round-up of UK contributions to GLOC 2023
Tuesday, 23rd May
Session 2A – Climate Change Impacts and Challenges (Biodiversity, Forests and Land, Ocean/Marine Ecosystems, the Artic and beyond) [1] 15:30-17:20. UK role: Session chaired by Joe Gibbs (University of Glasgow).
IAF GNF Session: Fire – addressing climate change measurement and impacts in the tropics
16:30-17:20 UK role: Panellists include Susanne Mecklenburg (Head of the ESA Climate Office) and Dominic Fawcett (Earth Observation Scientist and Research Fellow, Landscape and Ecosystem Dynamics Group, University of Exeter)
Wednesday, 24th May
Session 3B: Earth Observing Missions and Systems to Address Climate Change and Its Impacts [2] 11:00-12:50 UK role: Manuel Sanabria (Satellite Vu) will be giving the talk “High resolution thermal monitoring in climate; opportunities and challenges” at 12:15-12:30
Thursday, 25th May
Session 1: Understanding and Predicting the Climate Change for our Planet
11:00-12:50 UK role: Dr Susanne Mecklenburg (ESA) will be giving a talk called “ESA’s Climate Change Initiative: how space data support our understanding of climate change and support policy action” at 11:45-12:00
Session 4: Weather, Climate and Environmental Intelligence
11:00-12:50 UK role: Joe Gibbs (University of Glasgow) will be co-chairing the session and Rushanka Amrutkar (Environment Agency) will be giving the talk “Agricultural Regulation and Compliance – Earth Observation in Intensive Farming” at 12:00-12:15
Session 9: The Social, Communications, Economic and Cultural Dimensions of Environmental Change
11:00-12:50 UK role: Dr Amanda Hall (Telespazio UK) will be giving the talk “Climate Risk Indicators for Industry” at 12:15-12:30
IAF Global Networking Forum session: Global action in space for disasters within a changing climate and the role of the international charter for space and major disasters
13:50-14:50 UK role: UK Space Agency organising
Session 2B: Climate Change Impacts and Challenges (Biodiversity, Forests and Land, Ocean/Marine Ecosystems, the Artic and beyond) [2]
13:50-14:50 UK role: The session will be chaired by Joe Gibbs (University of Glasgow), and there are 2 UK talks:
14:05-14:20 Dr Clement Albergel (ESA/ECSAT) – “Advances in burned area detection from remote sensing: The FireCCI products”
14:20-14:35 Dr Dominic Fawcett (University of Exeter) – “Earth observation enables high resolution modelling of fire related emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes”
Interactive Poster Presentations (times yet to be confirmed)
- Prof Christopher Merchant (University of Reading) – A new Earth Observation Climate Information Service in the UK
- Joshua Bernard-Cooper (Cranfield University) – Assessment of Self-Organising Maps for the Unsupervised Classification of Sentinel-3 SRAL Data for Lead Detection in the Arctic Ocean
- Krupa Nanda Kumar (Space4Climate) – Coordination, Cohesion, Collaboration – Inspiring and driving innovation and success by convening the Earth Observation for Climate community
- Dr Clement Albergel (ESA/ECSAT) – ESA Climate Change Initiative Terrestrial Essential Climate Variables in support of climate services and terrestrial carbon
- Beatrice Barresi (ESA) – ESA’s Business Applications and Space Solutions to develop green and commercially sustainable climate services
- Prof Lucy Berthoud (Thales Alenia Space) – Investigating the use of Linear Variable Filters for Gas detection on Earth Observation Instruments
- Joe Gibbs (University of Glasgow) – Nanosatellite platforms for generation of responsive and targeted datasets on coastal dynamism
- Dr David Summers (Thales Alenia Space) – Quantum Accelerometer Climate Explorer (Q-Ace)
- Alexandra Gravereaux (Telespazio UK) – TRUTHS Ground Segment to improve confidence in climate change forecasts
- UNCONFIRMED – Dr Fionagh Thomson (Durham University) – Not all that Glistens is Gold: opportunities and challenges to implementing a viable/ethical Space Sustainability Mark in the colonial, competitive environment of New-Space.