December 08 2015
Meeting Summary and Action Items
Monday 16 November 2015 (Day 1)
8:30 Registration
Opening Session: Chair: Jean-Christophe Schyns
9:00 Welcome address (Belgian Science Policy Office)
9:10 Meeting Objective – Pierre Defourny, JECAM co-lead
9:20 JECAM network update and report back from GEOGLAM advisors comittee meeting – Ian Jarvis, JECAM co-lead
9:40 GEOGLAM: Status and achievements – Michel Deshayes, GEOGLAM
1st Session: Cross JECAM Sites experiment Chair: Olivier Leo
9:55 JECAM/SIGMA large fields experiment for cropland – Nataliia Kussul
10:15 JECAM/SEN2AGRI cross sites benchmarking for cropland – Sophie Bontemps
10:35 JECAM/SEN2AGRI cross sites benchmarking for crop type – Gérard Dedleu
10:55 Coffee Break
2nd Session: 2015 Highlights from JECAM Sites Chair: Don Ball
11:25 SA di Areco JECAM Site (Argentina) – Diego de Abelleyra, Santiago Veron
11:40 Kyiv JECAM Site Progress (Ukraine) – Nataliia Kussul, Andrii Shelestov
11:55 Free State JECAM Site (South Africa) – Terry Newby
12:10 Shandong JECAM Site (China) – Miao Zhang
12:25 Tari JECAM Site (Taiwan) – Chen-Ru Chen
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Koutiala JECAM Site (Mali) – Pierre Sibiry Traore
14:15 Koutiala JECAM Site (Mali) – Agnès Bégué
14:30 Antsirabe JECAM Site (Madagascar) – Valentine Lebourgeois
14:45 Marrkech JECAM Site (Morocco) – Vincent Simoneaux
14:45 Merguellil JECAM Site (Tunasia) – Bernard Mougenot
15:00 Sud-Midi Pyrenees JECAM Site (France) – Gérard Dedieu
15:15 Coffee Break
15:45 Hesbaye JECAM Site (Belgium) – Aline Léonard, Cindy Delloye
16:00 Barrax JECAM Site (Spain) – Fernando Carmacho
16:15 São Paulo JECAM Site (Brazil) – Agnès Bégué
16:15 Tocantins JECAM Site (Brazil) – Agnès Bégué
16:30 Asia-Rice experiment: current achievements – Shin-Ichi Sobue (by Skype)
16:30 Demmin JECAM Site (Germany) – B. Fichtelmann
16:45 Standards for in situ LAI and biophysical variables measurements – Fernando Camacho
Discussion towards JECAM guidelines for in situ biophysical measurements
17:30 Open discussion on exhisting JECAM guidelines and expected evolution
18:00 Adjourn
Tuesday 17 November 2015 (Day 2)
3rd Session: CEOS support from Agricultural Monitoring Chair: Benjamin Koetz
9:00 ESA Sentinel-1 and 2 mission status – Benjamin Koetz, ESA
9:20 CEOS Update, JECAM EO data access & NASA/JECAM Cloud based SDMS – Alyssa Whitcraft, Brian Killough, NASA
9:40 The Canadian Space Agency and engagement in support of the JECAM Science objectives – Yves Crevier, CSA
10:00 PROBA-V mission status and achievements – Joost Vandenabeele, Jean-Christophe Schyns, BELSPO
10:20 Pléiades, SPOT4/5 Take 5 & Venus mission – Gérard Dedieu, CNES
10:40 Coffee Break
4th Session: Collaborative Initiatives across JECAM Sites Chair: Yves Crevier
11:10 Data Sharing: JECAM EO and in situ data licenses – Ian Jarvis, Pierre Defourny
Discussion
11:30 JECAM SAR Cross Sites multi-platform Experiment – Heather McNairn, Pierre Defourny
Discussion on scientific objectives and joint protocols
Update on Cloud Services supporting the 2015 Collections of Radarsat-2 and Sentinet-1 data – Ian Jarvis
12:30 Lunch
5th Session: The Way Forward Chair: Pierre Defourny
13:45 Feedback from GEOGLAM Advisory Committee – Alyssa Whitcraft, Ian Jarvis
14:05 SIGMA current achievement and plans – Sven Gilliams
14:25 SEN2AGRI 2016 demonstration phase – Sophie Bontemps
GeoODK – Xavier Blaes
15:30 Building on the Minimum Datasets Concept
Open discussion about research questions to be addressed
16:00 Forthcoming research activities
- JECAM/SIGMA small fields experiment
- JECAM-AGMIP joint experiment opportunities
- Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 fusion experiment
- UAV experiences exchange for ‘in situ’ calibration/validation data
- SIGMA in situ data collection tool
- JECAM/SEN2AGRI demonstration phase
17:00 Summary, Action Items and Closing Remarks – Ian Jarvis, Pierre Defourny
17:30 End of 2015 JECAM Science Meeting