Belgian Earth Observation Day – 2026 edition | Belgian Platform on Earth Observation

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
09:30	Conference Opening
	Welcome STEREO Team
	The Earth observation landscape in the Netherlands Wouter van der Wal – TU Delft & Lu Zhou – Utrecht University
10:20	The STEREO IV call 2022: final results
	DEEPVEEG (Multi-temporal forecasting of ecosystem response to meteorological and climate data) Wouter Strauven – KULeuven
	HERMES (A High-Resolution Land Evaporation Datacube from Satellite Data and Hybrid Modelling) Diego Miralles – UGent
	LACTOSE (Landslide dynamics and sediment impacts in changing African tropical landscapes) Olivier Dewitte – Africamuseum
	NORTH-HEAT (High Resolution Marine Heat Waves in the southern North Sea: history, impact, causes) Dimitry Van der Zande - RBINS et Aida Alvera-Azcárate – ULiège
	ONEKANA (Thermal inequalities in cities of the Global South) Sabine Vanhuysse – ULB
	RADCOR (Remote Sensing Adjacency Correction) Quinten Vanhellemont – RBINS
11:55	ESA opportunities for BE scientists
	Frontiers of Space Science: Engaging with ESA Inge Jonckheere – ESA
12:10	Lunch
13:30	Thermal Session
	TRISHNA (an Indo-French mission to study the surface temperature at fine spatio-temporal resolution) Hervé JEANJEAN - CNES
	TRISHNA (Heat Exposure Retrieval to MAp Local Intra-urban heat Stress) – Case Study: Brussels Jonathan Leon Tavares – VITO
14:00	STEREO permanent call: Application project
	SWIPE (Towards Early Warning: UAV-Based Oil Spill Detection in Maritime Port Environments) Els Knaeps – VITO, Joeri Vandeperre – POAB
14:15	STEREO call 2025: presentation of selected projects by the STEREO team
	STEREO team
14:30	The TERRASCOPE programme
	From the sea to the skies – a common Earth Observation Data Space Dimitry Van der Zande - RBINS, Jeroen Van Gent - BIRA, Jurgen Everaerts – VITO
15:00	Coffee break
15:40	STEREO call 2024: Exploration projects
	CLIMAVISION (Remote Sensing-Driven Downscaling Solutions for Antarctica) Stef Lhermitte – KULeuven
	DYNEO4SLUMS (Space-time dynamics of slums and vulnerable communities exposed to multiple hazards) Sabine Vanhuysse – ULB
	FUELFUSION (UAV LiDAR–MS Fusion for Fine-Scale Fuel Type Mapping ) Atefe Chopani – PXL
	METEORI (From Fields to Skies: Assessing Irrigation Impacts on Land–Atmosphere Coupling Using Earth Observations) Vinayak Huggannavar & Jonas Mortelmans – KULeuven
	MINESTRONE (Estimating particulate carbon stocks in the North Sea and its decadal changes from remote sensing) Alexandre Castagna – UGent
	PANACHE (Ground-truthing satellite estimates of industrial NOx emissions with a multi-scale approach) Emmanuel Dekemper – BIRA
16:30	STEREO: What's next
	STEREO IV: The 2026-2027 call for proposals Joost Vandenabeele & Jean-Christophe Schyns
16:45	Closure of the Workshop

Venue

Rue du Mont Saint-Martin 9-11 - 4000 Liège - Belgium

Van Der Valk Sélys Liège

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.

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