Programme

8H30-9H30 – Welcome coffee break

9H30-9H45 – Session 1: Welcome words

• Thomas Kallstenius, Chief Executive Officer, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
• Seraphine Luneau, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Framework Partnership Agreement on Copernicus User Uptake
  

09H45-10H15 – Keynote speaker 1

• Machine learning for the environment: monitoring the pulse of our Planet with remotely sensed data
  Davis Tuia,  EPFL

10H15-10H45 – Keynote speaker 2

• (c) ALF (Coalitional) Active Learning Factory
  Olivier Dubois, Oscars S.A.

10H45-11H15 – Coffee break

11h15-11h55 – Session 2: Climate change and water security

• Accurate and automatic flood maps based on SAR and optical data
  Paolo Campanella, WASDI
• Global scale crisis analysis tool: CONTEC Space Studio
  Heein Yang – Contec Space SARL
  

11h55-12H35 – Session 3: Climate change and energy

• Climate and energy security initiatives at SatCen
  Sergio Albani, SatCen
• Making environmental science environmentally friendly: follow the merm(AI)d
  Francesco Bongiovanni, LuxProvide
• Satellites + AI for climate action (remote)
  Antoine Halff, Kayrros

12H35-13H20 – Lunch

13H20-14H00 – Poster session and networking

14H00-14H30: Ministerial welcome addresses

• Franz Fayot, Minister of the Economy
• Thomas Dermine, State Secretary for Science Policy, Recovery Program and Strategic Investments at Belgian Federal Government

14H30-15H15 – Session 4: Young researcher pitches

• Swin Transformers and U-Net for remote sensing based surface water monitoring
  Bart Beusen, VITO
• Automatic built-up area mapping from SAR and optical data with cross-fusion neural network
  Yu Li, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
• Use of active learning for object detection task in satellite images
  Tiffanie Godelaine, UCLouvain

15H15-16H15 – Session 5: Climate change and food security

• Towards the First Global Multitemporal Data Set of Glacier Outlines
  Claudio Persello, University of Twente
  

• Space for Climate Adaptation and Food Security
  Kathelijne Beenen, Netherlands Space Office

• Improved crop monitoring by removing clouds from Sentinel-2 time series
  Kristof Van Tricht, VITO

16H15-16H25 – Towards an EO data analytics platform to address climate change challenges: the needs from an industrial player perspective
Bruno Perrot, RHEA System Luxembourg

16H25 – Award ceremony best poster, Closure and drinK