Programme

Remote Sensing of the Environment

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) Environmental Sciences Group (ESG)


Time

Activity / Title

Speaker

 

08:30 – 09:00

Registration

 

Entrance Hall Atlas building
 

09:00 – 09:15   Kees Slingerland Director ESG
       

Session Chair

Tom Veldkamp

 

Landscape Centre
Wageningen University
Wageningen (NL)

     

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
Land Use/Cover Change Alan Belward  Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Global Environment Monitoring (GEM) Unit
Ispra (It)
 
       

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee Break

 

 

       
10:45 – 11:15
European Landscapes and Habitats – Spatial identification and associated changes
 
Sander Mücher Centre for Geo-Information
Alterra
Wageningen (NL)
11:15 – 11:45
Land degradation Stephen Prince Dept. of Geography
University of Maryland
College Park (MD, USA)
 
       

11:45 – 13: 00

Lunch

 

 

     

Session Chair

Rolf de Groot

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
SRON Programme Bureau Space Research
Utrecht (NL)

     

13:00 – 13:30

Hydrology

Eric F. Wood

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton (NJ, USA)
 

13:30 – 14:00

Recent advances and future developments in remote sensing of precipitation

Remko Uijlenhoet

Centre for Water & Climate
Wageningen University
Wageningen (NL)

       

Session Chair

Gabriela Schaepman-Strub

Centre for Ecosystem Studies
Wageningen University
Wageningen (NL)

     

14:00 – 14:30

Retrieving Essential Climate Variables over Land from Operational Surface Albedo Products
 

Bernard Pinty

Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Global Environment Monitoring (GEM) Unit
Ispra (It)

14:30 – 15:00

Climate, Water and Energy Cycles: a Key Role of Satellite Based Observations

Pavel Kabat

Centre for Water & Climate
Wageningen University
Wageningen (NL)

       
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break    
       
Session Chair Frank Berendse Centre for Ecosystem Studies
Wageningen University
Wageningen (NL)
       
15:30 – 16:00
National Ecological Observatory Network
 
David Schimel National Ecology Observatory Network (NEON)
(USA)
16:00 – 16:30
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
Earth System Science
Related Imaging Spectroscopy

 
Michael E. Schaepman

 

Centre for Geo-Information
Wageningen University
Wageningen (NL)
17:00 – 17:30 Closing Remarks Martin Kropff Rector Wageningen University

 

Kees Slingerland

Director ESG
 

17:30 – 18:30

Reception

 

Arnold Bregt

Entrance Hall Atlas building

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