Space Days

Workshops

Instruments

13:00-13:30 Etienne Renotte, Head of Space systems Program - CENTRE SPATIAL DE LIÈGE
Calibrating Earth observation sensors : An overview
of CSL’s activities
13:30-14:00 Dr Olivier Dupont, Chief Executive Officer - LAMBDA-X
Unmanned aerial vehicle payload with ultra-light optics for Earth observation
14:00-14:30 Dominique Baudoux, System Group Manager - SPACEBEL & Vincent Moreau, Project Manager - AMOS
An innovative HS instrument
for microsatellite based Earth observation mission
14:30-15:00 Luc Frecon, Director French & Export Programmes - BS Optical Observation and Science - THALES ALENIA SPACE
Pleiades instrument
15:00-15:30 Mr Emmanuel Dekemper,Reserchaer - BELGIAN INSTITUTE
 FOR SPACE AERONOMY
ALTIUS Atmospheric Limb
Tracker for the Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere
15:30-16:00 Vincent Chorvalli, Sentinel2 MSI System Engineer - ASTRIUM
Sentinel2 MSI instrument
16:00-16:30 Caroline Veys, HQS North Simulation Sales Engineer - LMS SAMTECH & 
Christophe Delrez, Head of Electro-Mechanical Department – AMOS
SAMCEF modeling and
simulation capabilities for observation instruments
16:30-17:00 Joost Vandenabeele, Programme Management - BELSPO
Zooming in on planet Earth    











 

  Data & Image Processing

13:00-13:30 Dr Christian Barbier, Head of Signal Laboratory - CENTRE SPATIAL DE LIÈGE
Advanced SAR image processing techniques
13:30-14:00 Frédérick Lupo, Project Manager Geospatial Information & Systems - SPACEBEL
Demonstration of remote sensing services based on hyperspectral data
14:00-14:30 Michal Shimoni, Researcher - ERM
Advanced image
processing methods for hyperspectral
14:30-15:00 Dr Alessandro Burini, CEOS Cal/Val Portal Manager - Remote Sensing Engineer - RHEA SYSTEMS
Spaceborne radar sensor for environmental security :
floods monitoring, vessels tracking and oil spill detection
15:00-15:30 Bart Deronde, Programme Manager at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research - VITO
Global land image
processing centre
15:30-16:00 Didier Rigal, Sustainable Development Manager - Corporate Strategy - GEO-INFORMATION 
SERVICES – ASTRIUM SERVICES
A successful partnership between Astrium and AFD for establishing a spatial
observatory of tropical forest over Congo basin







  

Ground Applications

13:00-13:30 Pierre Defourny, Professor - UCL
Global land cover monitoring : 10 years experience to deliver the most detailed map of the world from multi-year multi-sensor observations
13:30-14:00 Philippe Ledent, Business Unit Manager - SPACEBEL
Serving forestry with space-based information
14:00-14:30 Lauriane Cayet, Project Engineer - WALPHOT
EO4REDD - Earth observation for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
14:30-15:00 Herbert Hansen, Chief Executive Officer - KEYOBS
Mapping Mediterranean wetlands from space, a project of the Ramsar convention
15:00-15:30 Joost Vandenabeele, Programme Management & Peter Van
Geloven, Advisor - BELSPO
How can Earth observation keep 
Belgium green ?
15:30-16:00 Pierre Coheur, Researcher FRS-FNRS - ULB - Atmospheric 
Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry and Photophysics
Atmospheric chemistry with hyperspectral infrared 
sounders : illustration from IASI Mission
16:00-16:30 Lieven Bydekerke, Programme Manager at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research - VITO
Space applications for food security and agriculture