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6 June 2025
Meet us at ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025
VITO Remote Sensing is looking forward to joining the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna from 22 to 27 June 2025. We’ll be contributing throughout the week with presentations, tutorials, trainings, and live demonstrations showcasing our expertise, services, tools, and applications.
Check the daily overview below to discover all contributions, see which topics are of most interest to you and where you can meet our experts. You can also meet us at the exhibition from Monday 23 June till Friday 27 June. Visit us at VITO's Remote Sensing booth (U31) to see how we turn Earth observation data into practical answers.
We're looking forward to joining the Earth observation community at one of the world’s key events for Earth observation and connect!
Check out the programme or get in touch to arrange a meeting at ESA LPS25.
Monday 23 June | Tuesday 24 June | Wednesday 25 June | Thursday 26 June | Friday 27 June
Sunday 22 June 2025
Time |
Type |
Title |
Speaker |
Room |
| 15:30-16:50 | Tutorial Session |
Code Once, Reuse and Scale Seamlessly: Build EO Workflows using openEO in the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem |
Pratichhya Sharma, Victor Verheart | Room 1.85/1.86 D.03.13 |
| 15:30 | Tutorial Session |
EO AFRICA – Continental Demonstrator LUISA project: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production Tutorial |
Tim Ng | Room 0.94/0.95 A.03.09 |
Monday 23 June 2025
Time |
Type |
Title |
Speaker |
Room |
| 09:00-10:20 | Hands-on training |
EO Data Processing with openEO: Transitioning from local to cloud |
Pratichhya Sharma | Room 1.34 D.04.08 |
| 9:00-10:20 | Tutorial session |
ESA WorldCereal: Cloud-based, Custom Crop Mapping Made Easy |
Jeroen Degerickx | Room 0.49/0.50 D.03.14 |
| 14:00-15:30 | Oral presentation |
Deploying your own openEO: the Geotrellis backend |
Jeroen Dries | Hall N1/N2 D.03.02 |
| 14.00-15.30 | Oral presentation |
ESA Agriculture Science Cluster |
Kristof Van Tricht | Room 1.51/1.16 A.02.10 |
| 14:22 - 14:42 | Demo at ESA booth |
Can I use your code? Free, fast and open processing of EO data in the EU |
Pratichhya Sharma | EO Arena D.04.20 |
| 15:30-16:15 | Demo as ESA Agora Session |
Implementing FAIR Open Science: Advancing ESA's EO science strategy |
Dennis Clarijs | Agora 3 D.03.07 |
| 16:15-17:45 | Oral presentation |
An overview of the Lunar Calibration developments driven by PROBA-V |
Stefan Adriaensen | 0.94/0.95 C.05.01 |
| 16:15-17:45 | Oral presentation |
FDR4VGT: building a 20+ years data record of land surface reflectances from SPOT-VGT and PROBA-V missions |
Sindy Sterckx | Room 0.94/0.95 C.05.01 |
| 16:15-17:45 | Oral presentation |
PV-CC In flight calibration performances during the commissioning |
Sindy Sterckx, Iskander Benhadj | 0.94/0.95 C.05.01 |
| 16:15 - 16:35 | Demo at ESA booth |
Revolutionizing EO Data Access: The Power of openEO Federation |
Jeroen Dries | EO Arena D.03.21 |
| 16:15-17:45 | Oral presentation |
VNIR-SWIR synergy for land applications |
Carolien Toté | Hall G1 C.03.06 |
| 17:00-17:20 | Demo at ESA booth |
The WorldCereal Reference Data Module: An open harmonized repository of global crop data |
Jeroen Degerickx | EO Arena D.03.25 |
| 17:00-17:45 | Demo at ESA Agora session - CDSE demo |
Unlocking Copernicus Browser & openEO Capabilities in the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem |
Jeroen Dries | Agora 3 D.04.07 |
| 17:45-19:00 | Poster |
EvoLand: Evolution of the Copernicus Land Service portfolio |
Tim Ng | X5 - Poster Area D.02.03 |
| 17:45 | Poster |
Cover Crop Type Mapping: A Candidate Prototype for the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service |
Mathilde De Vroey | X5 - Poster Area A.02.03 |
Tuesday 24 June 2025
Time |
Type |
Title |
Speaker |
Room |
| 08:30-17:45 | Invited sessions |
CDSE User Review Meeting 2025
|
discover the full programme | Hall N1/N2 D.05.05 |
| 08:30 | Oral presentation |
High Resolution Land Degradation Neutrality Monitoring – Achievements of the ESA SEN4LDN Project |
Carolien Toté | Room 1.61/1.62 F.04.03 |
| 09:15-09:30 | Oral presentation |
Results of the CDSE User Satisfaction Survey 2025 |
Dennis Clarijs | Hall N1/N2 |
| 10:07-10:27 | Demo at ESA booth |
ESA WorldCereal: Effortless Crop Mapping from Local to Global Scales |
Jeroen Degerickx | EO Arena D.04.14 |
| 10:52 - 11:12 | Demo at ESA booth |
Freedom to apply complex calculations and ML models on EO data |
Hans Vanrompay | EO Arena D.02.25 |
| 11.45-12.00 | Oral presentation |
CDSE User Review Meeting - User Innovations in Action |
Jeroen Degerickx | Hall N1/N2 D.05.05 |
| 14:00 | Oral presentation |
Earth Observation for Proactive Desert Locust Management in East Africa |
Koen De Vos | Room 1.85/1.86 B.01.02 |
| 14:37 - 14:57 | Demo at ESA booth |
Putting the A.I. in F.A.I.R.: Unlocking Reproducible Machine Learning through openEO |
Hans Vanrompay | EO Arena D.02.26 |
| 15:00-15:20 | Demo at ESA booth |
The Geo-Quest mobile application: Easy and accurate Earth Observation-enhanced ground data collection |
Jeroen Degerickx | EO Arena D.03.26 |
| 15:15-15:30 | Oral presentation |
Low-Cost, High-Impact: Advanced Copernicus Data Analysis with openEO on the Cloud |
Jeroen Dries | Hall N1/N2 |
| 15:45-16:15 | Demo at VITO booth |
APEx - Streamlining from EO innovation to operations |
Bram Janssen | EO Arena |
| 17:15 | Oral presentation |
High resolution flood maps through UAV imagery and deep learning |
Lisa Landuyt | Hall K2 B.04.05 |
| 17:45-18:15 | Demo at VITO booth |
AQUARIUS Funding Call for Marine and Freshwater Infrastructure Access |
Ils Reusen | EO Arena |
| 17:45 | Poster |
Forecasting Agricultural Drought Impact in Africa through Machine Learning and Earth Observation |
Koen De Vos | X5 - Poster Area F.02.01 |
| 17:45 | Poster |
Harvesting Earth Observation for Belize: Transforming Financial Strategies for Climate-Resilient Agriculture |
Koen De Vos | X5 - Poster Area B.01.02 |
| 17:45 | Poster |
The Sentinel-3 OLCI and SLSTR Surface Reflectance Product of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service |
Carolien Toté | X5 - Poster Area A.03.06 |
Wednesday 25 June 2025
Time |
Type |
Title |
Speaker |
Room |
| 8:30 | Oral presentation |
Multi-mission satellite retrieval of Vegetation Parameters |
Else Swinnen | Hall G1 D.02.09 |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Oral presentation |
Dredge plume monitoring in coastal waters |
Els Knaeps, Liesbeth De Keukelaere | Room 0.11/0.12 A.08.10 |
| 11:30-13:30 | Oral presentation |
A bottom-up approach to compiling wood provision ecosystem service accounts with EO data |
Marcel Buchhorn | Room 0.49/0.50 F.04.08 |
| 11:30-13:30 | Oral presentation |
Using public remote sensing data to facilitate corporate sustainability reporting |
Alexandra Evans | Room 0.49/0.50 F.04.08 |
| 11:30-13:00 | Oral presentation |
The World Ecosystem Extent Dynamics Solution |
TBD | Room 0.49/0.50 F.04.08 |
| 11:37 - 11:57 | Demo at ESA Agora session |
Enabling Open Science with EarthCODE and the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem openEO Federation |
Bram Janssen | EO Arena D.04.02 |
| 14.15-14.30 | Oral presentation |
ESA WorldCereal: Advancing Open-Source, On-Demand Crop Mapping at Any Scale, Anytime |
Kristof Van Tricht | Hall E1 F.02.07 |
| 15:45-16:15 | Demo at VITO booth |
Scalable EO Processing with openEO in the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem: Applications in WorldCereal and HRL-VLCC |
Jeroen Degerickx, Kasper Bonte, Hans Vanrompay | EO Arena |
| 16:07 - 16:27 | Demo at ESA booth |
EvoLand: New methods for the next generation of Copernicus Land Monitoring |
Tim Ng | EO Arena D.05.08 |
| 17:45-18:30 | Poster |
Taking the next step in vegetation productivity estimation: towards 10m vegetation class-specific GPP estimates |
Astrid Vannoppen | X5 - Poster Area A.02.06 |
| 17:45-19:00 | Poster |
Systematic Reference Data Quality Assessment For Global Crop Mapping |
Jeroen Degerickx | X5 Poster Area D.03.03 |
| 17:45 | Poster |
Pan-European mapping of Cropping Patterns at 10 m spatial resolution: methodology and product development |
Kasper Bonte | X5 - Poster Area A.02.06 |
| 17:45 | Poster |
A Multi-Year Pan-European Crop Type Map at 10 m Resolution: Introducing a New HRL Copernicus Product |
Kristof Van Tricht | X5 - Poster Area F.02.07 |
Thursday 26 June 2025
Time |
Type |
Title |
Speaker |
Room |
| 08:30 - 11:00 | Oral presentation |
Adaptive Computation for Resource-Efficient Flood-Water Segmentation |
Pratichhya Sharma | Room 0.94/0.95 |
| 08:30-10:00 | Oral presentation |
EvoNet: An Innovative Algorithm for Global Remote Sensing Mapping, Powering the Next Generation of Global Land Cover Products |
Daniele Zanaga | Hall L3 D.04.05 |
| 08:45-09:00 | Oral presentation |
Mapping Crops at Scale: Insights from Continental and Global Crop Mapping Initiatives |
Kristof Van Tricht | Hall L3 D.04.05 |
| 10:07-10:27 | Demo at ESA Agora session |
Transforming EO Research into On-Demand Cloud Services with APEx Algorithm Services |
Bram Janssen | EO Arena D.04.22 |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Oral presentation |
Facilitating the Transition to Scalable, Cloud-Based EO Services with APEx |
Bram Janssen | Hall L3 D.04.02 |
| 14:00-15:30 | Oral presentation |
Enhancing Global Land Cover and Tropical Forest Monitoring: The Copernicus LCFM Service |
Ruben Van De Kerchove | Hall F1 D.02.03 |
| 14:00-15:30 | Oral presentation |
From Edge to Insights: Transforming Earth Observation with Lightweight Foundation Models and Embeddings-as-a-Service |
Tanja Van Achteren | Hall G1 D.02.06 |
| 14:00-15:30 | Oral presentation |
The Role of Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy and Drone-based Calibration Data for Integrated Freshwater and Coastal Monitoring |
Sindy Sterckx | Hall G2 B.02.09 |
| 15:00-15:15 | Oral presentation |
What Does it Take to Deploy Foundation Models in an Operational Context? The WorldCereal Crop Mapping Case Study |
Christina Butsko | Hall G1 D.02.06 |
| 15:45-16:15 | Demo at VITO booth |
From Orbit to Insights: CORSA Live on Edge, Insights via Terrascope compressed Embeddings. In collaboration with Unibap |
Tanja Van Achteren | EO Arena |
| 15:45-16:15 | Demo at Copernicus booth |
Enhancing Global Land Cover and Tropical Forest Monitoring: The Copernicus LCFM Service |
Ruben Van De Kerchove and LCFM team | EO Arena |
| 16:15-17:45 | Oral presentation |
Integrating Sentinel, GEDI, and ICESat-2 Data for Improved Mapping of Canopy Structure Across Europe |
Wanda De Keersmaecker | Hall F2 A.02.04 |
| 17:45 | Poster |
EO Africa - Continental Demonstrator LUISA: Lessons Learned from Scaling HANNP for Local to Continental Scales |
Tim Ng | X5 - Poster Area A.03.09 |
| 17:45 | Poster |
Improved Cloud Screening for Global Land Cover Classification Using Sentinel-2 Imagery |
Yannis Kalfas | X5 - Poster Area D.04.05 |
| 17:45 | Poster |
Scaling Earth Observation Workflows with openEO: Managing Large-Scale Processing Efficiently |
Hans Vanrompay | X5 - Poster Area D.04.05 |
| 17:45 | Poster |
Unlocking ML and Foundation Models within openEO |
Hans Vanrompay | X5 - Poster Area D.04.03 |
Friday 27 June 2025
Time |
Type |
Title |
Speaker |
Room |
| 8:30 | Oral presentation |
Extending the SPOT/VEGETATION and PROBA-V Archives With Sentinel-3 SYN VGT: Challenges, Achievements and Consistency Evaluation |
Carolien Toté | Room 0.96/0.97 C.02.02 |
| 11:30-13:00 | Oral presentation |
openEO - STAC Integration for Enhanced Data Access and Sharing |
Victor Verheart | Hall K2 D.04.06 |
| 11:30-13:00 | Oral presentation |
Sentinel-3 Optical Synergy Products for Land Applications |
Carolien Toté | Room 0.94/0.95 C.03.14 |
| 13:00-14:00 | Poster |
Advancing Global Land Cover Monitoring: Innovations in High-Resolution Mapping with the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem |
Joris Coddé | X5 - Poster Area D.05.03 |
| 13:00 | Poster |
Validation of the CLMS NDVI 300m V2.1 Product Using In-situ Data From the PhenoCam Network |
Sarah Gebruers | X5 - Poster Area C.06.02 |
| 13:07 - 13:27 | Demo at ESA Agora session |
Empowering EO Projects with Cloud-Based Working Environments in APEx |
Bram Janssen | EO Arena D.04.02 |
| 14:30-16:00 | Oral presentation |
Efficient On-Board Processing Using a Shared AI Backbone Across Multiple Tasks |
Bart Beusen, Andreas Luyts | Room 1.85/1.86 C.01.03 |