Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy Workshop 2012 | Belgian Platform on Earth Observation

Date
4 September 2012

Address
Grand
Hoogstraat 6
8000 Bruges
Belgium

Information

Airborne imaging spectroscopy is an established remote sensing technique with an expanding range of applications in the environmental and earth sciences. Based on the detection of narrow contiguous bands, it allows the identification of terrestrial materials by their reflectance spectrum

Over the past few years, ESA’s Airborne Imaging Spectrometer APEX (Airborne Prism Experiment) was developed under the Prodex program by a Swiss-Belgian consortium, with the aim of fostering the use of imaging spectroscopy for scientific applications and support simulation and cross-calibration/validation of new sensors.

APEX features up to 532 spectral bands acquired in 1000 pixels across track with a FOV of 28°, resulting in ground pixels sizes of 1.5-2.5m at typical flight levels of 3000-5000m above target.

APEX has been formally accepted by ESA at the end of 2010. Consequently, 2011 was the first year of operations, resulting in two flight windows of a total of 7 weeks in 2011.

For more information about the instrument, visit http://www.apex-esa.org.

Programme

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09:00	Registration and coffee
10:00	Opening Johan Stessens, VITO
10:15	Keynote: Hierarchical representation of hyperspectral images using binary partition trees Jocelyn Chanussot (GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble Institute of Technology), Silvia Valero (GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble / UPCBarcelona) and Philippe Salembier (UPC Barcelona)
10:45	APEX sensor and data calibration & flight data acquisition to higher level products Andreas Hueni, Koen Meuleman, Sindy Sterckx, Michael Jehle, Kristin Vreys, Bart Bomans, Johan Mijnendonckx, Bart Michiels, Jan Biesemans, Tim Deroose, Michael Schaepman and the APEX Team
11:25	Deriving water quality from APEX imagery Els Knaeps, Dries Raymaekers, Sindy Sterckx and Daniel Odermatt
11:45	Mapping the spatial variability of optical properties in Mantua lakes with the APEX sensor Mariano Bresciani, Claudia Giardino, Erica Matta, Federica Braga and Marco Bartoli
12:05	Littoral bottom mapping and water constituent retrieval in lakes using APEX data, the bio-optical model BOMBER and submersed artificial surfaces Sebastian Roessler, Patrick Wolf, Thomas Scheider and Arnulf Melzer
12:25	Lunch
13:50	Improved target detection in urban area using combined LiDAR and APEX data Michal Shimoni and Koen Meuleman
14:10	Mapping urban land cover from APEX hyperspectral data: a case study on the Woluwe catchment, Brussels Luca Demarchi, Jonathan C.-W. Chan and Frank Canters
14:30	SOC3D: three dimensional soil organic carbon monitoring using VNIR reflectance spectrometry Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez, Kim Knauer, Bas van Wesemael, Martin Schlerf, Antoine Stevens, Thomas Udelhoven and Lucien Hoffmann
14:50	Integrated sensing to support fertilization management in precision agriculture Lammert Kooistra, Jan Verbesselt, Petra van Vliet, Jacob van den Borne and Wilco van der Velde
15:10	Preparing for the EnMAP satellite mission – test and evaluation of the EnMAP-box for the retrieval of agriculturally relevant biophysical variables using APEX data Tobias Hank, Katja Richter, Matthias Locherer and Wolfram Mauser
15:30	Coffee break
16:00	APEX for heathland and coastal vegetation monitoring applications: first results and ongoing activities Birgen Haest, Jeroen Vanden Borre,Toon Spanhove, Luc Bertels, Markus Reinhold, Sebastien Schmidtlein, Stephanie Delalieux, Sander Veraverbeke, Els Knaeps and Désiré Paelinckx
16:20	On the use of APEX data for a spatially explicit mapping of vegetational composition and habitat types in a dryland nature reserve Carsten Neumann, Daniel Spengler and Sibylle Itzerott
16:40	Change detection in the case of continuous gradients in species composition Sebastian Schmidtlein, Ulrike Faude, Hannes Feilhauer and Markus Reinhold
17:00	A multiscale segmentation approach to filling the gap of strip dark line in APEX hyperspectral imageries Zahra Dabiri, Stefan Lang and Thomas Blaschke
17:20	Retrieving the bioenergy and biomass potentials from energy crops using APEX and HyMap data Thomas Udelhoven, Miriam Machwitz, Martin Schlerf, Christian Bossung, Laura Giustarini and Lucien Hoffmann
17:40	APEX and LiDAR remote sensing supporting fine-scale forest management Ben Somers, Pieter Kempeneers, Flore Devriendt, Frieke Vancoillie and Kris Vandekerkhove
18:00	APEX data and animal movement patterns: mapping vegetation quantity and quality in the Swiss National Park Anna-Katharina Schweiger, Maja Rapp, Alexander Damm, Anita C. Risch and Ruedi Haller
19:00	Tour and dinner in Brewery ”De Halve Maan”

Venue

Hoogstraat 6 - 8000 Bruges - Belgium

The workshop will take place at the the Grand Hotel Casselbergh, located at the heart of the historical centre of the UNESCO world heritage city of Bruges.