Programme
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Day 1: Monday 31 October 2011
Room: Einstein
Session 1: Introducing Sentinel Convoy Land
10.30 Welcome and objectives of the workshop (John Remedios)
10.35 Introduction to the Sentinel Convoy studies (Amanda Regan)
10.50 Introduction to the Sentinel Convoy Land project (Stuart Eves)
11.05 Science analysis for the Sentinel Convoy Land project (John Remedios and Neil Humpage)
Session 2: Carbon/water cycles and vegetation
11.15 Investigations of the carbon cycle (Balzter)
11.30 Optical sensing of vegetation and carbon (Lewis)
11.45 A multi-scale LAI product from Sentinel data: beyond Geoland2 (Fernandes)
12.00 Inferring the state of the biosphere and ecosystem-atmosphere interactions (Mahecha and Reichstein)
12.15 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
Session 3: Land surface information: operational systems and biodiversity
13.30 ECMWF land surface activities (Albergel)
13.45 Biodiversity Monitoring Constellation: is it pie in the Sky? (Gerard and Jongman)
14.00 Discussion
Session 4: Fire and thermal sensing
14.15 Fire sensing: current status and needs (Wooster)
14.30 Fire mapping and monitoring (Lynham)
14.45 Thermal sensing of evapotranspiration and urban heat islands (Ghent and Wooster)
15.00 Urban heat islands (Maiheu)
15.15 Thermal sensing with TES-GAP, a new mission concept (Mueller/Buongiorno/Amici)
15.30 Discussion
15.45 Coffee
Session 5: Drawing the science together
16:15 Experiences from Hyspiri (Hook)
16.30 The SEN4SCI land study (Fernandes)
16.45 Energy balance modelling (Klaasse)
17.00 Combining high spatial resolution and revisit capabilities in the thermal infrared (Sobrino)
17.15 Discussion: assessing the science/operational gaps and future needs
18.00 Close of day 1
Poster Session
- Vegetation Dynamics from Earth Observation (VDEO): developing and testing a UK high resolution environmental change observatory (UK-CEO) (Danson)
- Remote sensing of snow properties using Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 (Kokhanovsky)
Workshop dinner
Day 2: Tuesday November 1st
Room: Escape Dance Hall (Sports Hall)
Session 5 (cont.) Summary and discussion of science gaps (plenary)
08.30 Presentation of science gaps (Land convoy team)
Session 6: Land surface mission concepts for Sentinel convoy
09.30 Sentinel Convoy candidates
1-3 slides on candidate mission concepts
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Working groups/plenary session
12.30 Lunch
Session 7: Consolidation of science gaps and Convoy mission concepts (plenary)
13.30 Presentation of science summary (Leicester team)
14.00 Refinement of concepts and evidence
15.00 Future activities, road mapping, publications
15.30 Workshop close.
