Date
From 28 May 2026 to 28 May 2026
Address
Van Der Valk Sélys Liège Hotel
Rue du Mont Saint-Martin 9-11
4000 Liège
Belgium
Information
On 28 May 2026, the STEREO team will organize the annual Belgian Earth Observation Day (BEODay).
Following last year’s special lustrum edition celebrating 40 years of Belgian Remote Sensing research programmes, this year’s event returns to its core focus on the STEREO IV programme, picking up where the 2024 edition left off.
The programme will primarily highlight ongoing and recently finished STEREO projects, while also presenting the upcoming call for STEREO IV proposals. In addition, TERRASCOPE will introduce its newest and upcoming data products and services, ESA will present opportunities available through its latest programmes, and participants will learn more about the infrared THRISHNA mission and its potential for the Belgian Earth observation community.
Researchers, as well as professionals working in private companies and public administrations, are warmly invited to attend.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.
Programme
| 09:00 |
Registration
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| 09:30 |
Conference Opening
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Welcome
STEREO Team |
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The Earth observation landscape in the Netherlands
Wouter van der Wal – TU Delft & Lu Zhou – Utrecht University |
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| 10:20 |
The STEREO IV call 2022: final results
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DEEPVEEG (Multi-temporal forecasting of ecosystem response to meteorological and climate data)
Wouter Strauven – KULeuven |
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HERMES (A High-Resolution Land Evaporation Datacube from Satellite Data and Hybrid Modelling)
Diego Miralles – UGent |
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LACTOSE (Landslide dynamics and sediment impacts in changing African tropical landscapes)
Olivier Dewitte – Africamuseum |
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NORTH-HEAT (High Resolution Marine Heat Waves in the southern North Sea: history, impact, causes)
Aida Alvera-Azcárate – ULg |
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ONEKANA (Thermal inequalities in cities of the Global South)
Sabine Vanhuysse – ULB |
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RADCOR (Remote Sensing Adjacency Correction)
Quinten Vanhellemont – RBINS |
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| 11:55 |
ESA opportunities for BE scientists
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Frontiers of Space Science: Engaging with ESA
Inge Jonckheere – ESA |
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| 12:10 |
Lunch
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| 13:30 |
Thermal Session
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TRISHNA (an Indo-French mission to study the surface temperature at fine spatio-temporal resolution)
Hervé JEANJEAN - CNES |
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TRISHNA (Heat Exposure Retrieval to MAp Local Intra-urban heat Stress) – Case Study: Brussels
Jonathan Leon Tavares – VITO |
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| 14:00 |
STEREO permanent call: Application project
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SWIPE (Towards Early Warning: UAV-Based Oil Spill Detection in Maritime Port Environments)
Els Knaeps – VITO, Joeri Vandeperre – POAB |
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| 14:15 |
STEREO call 2025: presentation of selected projects by the STEREO team
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STEREO team |
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| 14:30 |
The TERRASCOPE programme
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From the sea to the skies – a common Earth Observation Data Space
Dimitry Van der Zande - RBINS, Jeroen Van Gent - BIRA, Jurgen Everaerts – VITO |
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| 15:00 |
Coffee break
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| 15:40 |
STEREO call 2024: Exploration projects
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CLIMAVISION (Remote Sensing-Driven Downscaling Solutions for Antarctica)
Stef Lhermitte – KULeuven |
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DYNEO4SLUMS (Space-time dynamics of slums and vulnerable communities exposed to multiple hazards)
Sabine Vanhuysse – ULB |
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FUELFUSION (UAV LiDAR–MS Fusion for Fine-Scale Fuel Type Mapping )
Atefe Chopani – PXL |
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METEORI (From Fields to Skies: Assessing Irrigation Impacts on Land–Atmosphere Coupling Using Earth Observations)
Vinayak Huggannavar & Jonas Mortelmans – KULeuven |
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MINESTRONI (Estimating particulate carbon stocks in the North Sea and its decadal changes from remote sensing)
Alexandre Castagna – UGent |
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PANACHE (Ground-truthing satellite estimates of industrial NOx emissions with a multi-scale approach)
Emmanuel Dekemper – BIRA |
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| 16:30 |
STEREO: What's next
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STEREO IV: The 2026-2027 call for proposals
Joost Vandenabeele & Jean-Christophe Schyns |
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| 16:45 |
Closure of the Workshop
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Venue
Rue du Mont Saint-Martin 9-11 - 4000 Liège - Belgium
We invite participants to travel with public transport. The venue can be easily reached by foot from the Liege-St-Lambert train station (5 minutes).
The venue also offers an outdoor car park in case you decide to drive, situated right in front of the Hotel Sélys. BELSPO will cover the parking fee for registered participants. Please note, however, that the number of available parking slots is limited.