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Activity / Title |
Speaker |
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08:30 – 09:00 |
Registration |
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Entrance Hall Atlas building |
| 09:00 – 09:15 |
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Kees Slingerland |
Director ESG |
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Session Chair |
Tom Veldkamp
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Landscape Centre Wageningen University Wageningen (NL) |
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09:15 – 09:45 |
The Global Earth Observations System of Systems: Challenges Ahead |
Jose Achache |
Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Geneva (CH) |
09:45 – 10:15
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Land Use/Cover Change |
Alan Belward |
Joint Research Centre (JRC) Global Environment Monitoring (GEM) Unit Ispra (It) |
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10:15 – 10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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10:45 – 11:15
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European Landscapes and Habitats – Spatial identification and associated changes |
Sander Mücher |
Centre for Geo-Information Alterra Wageningen (NL) |
11:15 – 11:45
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Land degradation |
Stephen Prince |
Dept. of Geography University of Maryland College Park (MD, USA) |
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11:45 – 13: 00 |
Lunch |
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Session Chair |
Rolf de Groot |
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) SRON Programme Bureau Space Research Utrecht (NL) |
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13:00 – 13:30
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Hydrology |
Eric F. Wood |
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Princeton University Princeton (NJ, USA) |
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13:30 – 14:00
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Recent advances and future developments in remote sensing of precipitation |
Remko Uijlenhoet |
Centre for Water & Climate Wageningen University Wageningen (NL) |
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Session Chair |
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub |
Centre for Ecosystem Studies Wageningen University Wageningen (NL) |
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14:00 – 14:30
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Retrieving Essential Climate Variables over Land from Operational Surface Albedo Products |
Bernard Pinty |
Joint Research Centre (JRC) Global Environment Monitoring (GEM) Unit Ispra (It) |
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14:30 – 15:00
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Climate, Water and Energy Cycles: a Key Role of Satellite Based Observations |
Pavel Kabat |
Centre for Water & Climate Wageningen University Wageningen (NL) |
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| 15:00 – 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| Session Chair |
Frank Berendse |
Centre for Ecosystem Studies Wageningen University Wageningen (NL) |
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15:30 – 16:00
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National Ecological Observatory Network |
David Schimel |
National Ecology Observatory Network (NEON) (USA) |
16:00 – 16:30
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Mapping and Measurement of Ecological Patterns and Processes at the Regional Scale |
Susan L. Ustin |
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources University of California Davis (USA) |
16:30 – 17:00
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Earth System Science Related Imaging Spectroscopy |
Michael E. Schaepman
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Centre for Geo-Information Wageningen University Wageningen (NL) |
| 17:00 – 17:30 |
Closing Remarks |
Martin Kropff |
Rector Wageningen University |
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Kees Slingerland |
Director ESG |
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17:30 – 18:30 |
Reception
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Arnold Bregt |
Entrance Hall Atlas building |