Informations
In the year 2001, the Belgian Government launched the programme "STEREO: Support to the exploitation and research of earth observation data". Since the launch of the programme annual meetings have been organised intended as a forum where the Belgian players in the field of remote sensing could meet, present and discuss their work.
STEREO II Support to Exploitation and Research in Earth Observation
The STEREO II programme aims at putting Belgium on the map as a centre of expertise in a number of remote sensing areas and to establish the use of remote sensing as a common technique in the greatest possible number of research and application fields.
Scientific research
Research focuses on following topics:
- Global monitoring of vegetation and changes in large terrestrial ecosystems
- Environmental management (water, soil, forests, agriculture, coastal areas, urban areas and suburban areas)
- Health and humanitarian aid
- Security and risk management
- Three types of projects are financed: large thematic networks, smaller satellite projects and development of products and services.
Exploitation
STEREO II puts a lot of emphasis on the promotion of its scientific results and of remote sensing as a whole. The Earth Observation HelpDesk is the hub of this activity. Its website (http://eo.belspo.be) is both a user-friendly tool for the teams involved in the programme and an open door to the general public and international scientific community.
Programme
Download programme| 08:30 |
Registration and coffee
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| 09:00 |
Conference Opening - STEREO II and beyond
STEREO Team |
| 09:10 |
Keynote
- Opportunities within the upcoming ESA Earth observation programmes
Marc Paganini (ESA) |
| 09:40 |
First session: Final results of projects – call 2007
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| 09:40 | |
| 10:00 |
Remote sensing support for a jellyfish forecasting model
Quinten Vanhellemont, Kevin Ruddick, Anton Albajes-Eizagirre, Laia Romero, Aureli Soria-Frisch, Charlotte O'Kelly and Rory O'Connell |
| 10:20 |
Optimizing a coupled hydrologic-hydraulic model using remotely sensed soil moisture and flood extents
Niko Verhoest, Marnick Vanclooster, Bernard De Baets, Valentijn Pauwels, Lucien Hoffmann, Hans Lieven, Sébastien Lambot, Julien Minet, Hilde Vernieuwe, Douglas Plaza, Patrick Matgen and Laura Giustarini |
| 10:40 |
Coffee break
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| 10:55 |
Proba-V: New opportunities for evapotranspiration monitoring at continental scale
Nicholas Ghilain, Frederik De Roo and Françoise Gellens-Meulenberghs |
| 11:15 |
Second session: Presentation new projects – call 2011 (max 10 min each)
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| 11:15 | |
| 11:15 |
Using DINEOF for the estimation of inter-sensor biases in sea surface temperature fields
Igor Tomazic, Aida Alvera-Azcárate, Charles Troupin, Alexander Barth, Jean-Marie Beckers and Françoise Orain |
| 11:15 | |
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| 11:15 |
Spatio-temporal characterisation of small water bodies using very high resolution satellite and helicopter imagery
Els De Roeck, Frieke Van Coillie, Robert De Wulf, Karen Soenen, Johannes Charlier, Jozef Vercruysse, Wouter Hantson, Els Ducheyne and Guy Hendrickx |
| 11:15 | |
| 12:30 |
Lunch
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| 14:00 |
Improvement of remote sensing products for soil moisture using ground-penetrating radar
Sébastien Lambot and Xavier Neyt |
| 14:00 | |
| 14:00 |
Monitoring of urban sprawl and ecological corridors
Emilie Hanson, Anne Puissant, Laurence Hubert-Moy and Eléonore Wolff |
| 14:00 | |
| 14:40 |
Third session: Presentation of first results thematic projects – call 2008
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| 14:40 |
Tropical forests phenology from SPOT-VEGETATION 10-yr time series to improve land-surface modelling in the Amazon and Congo basin for terrestrial carbon dynamics assessment
Hans Verbeeck, Inès Moreau, Marjolein De Weirdt , Astrid Verhegghen, Kathy Steppe and Pierre Defourny |
| 15:00 | |
| 15:25 |
Coffee break
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| 15:45 |
Forest transition in mountain environments: topographic corrections and modelling of ecosystem services
Anton Van Rompaey, Veerle Vanacker, Vincent Balthazar, Eric Lambin, Jacklyn Hall, Patrick Hostert, Patrick Griffiths, Steven Vanonckelen and Armando Molina |
| 16:05 | |
| 16:25 |
Integration of remote sensing and field geomorphology for studying dune dynamics and aeolian-fluvial-human interaction in central Egypt
Ihab Mohamed, Gert Verstraeten, Véronique De Laet, José Manuel Delgado Blasco and Marijn Hendrickx |
| 16:45 |
Closure of the workshop
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Venue
Hoogstraat 6 - 8000 Bruges - Belgique
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.