Land is one of the most precious resources for mankind: since the ascent of time, landscapes reflect how man modelled land morphology and its natural vegetation cover to organise our society, to grow houses to villages and cities, to cultivate land for food provision or to build transport networks. Along with population growth, awareness increases that land is a limited resource, which requires thoughtful management. The Coordination of Information on the Environment (CORINE) Land Cover (CLC) product of the European Environment Agency (EEA), part of the portfolio of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, is a well-known product that exists since the nineties. CLC provides valuable information on key land cover (LC) and land use (LU) aspects at European level. However, after 25 years of crucial information provision, and with new and more demanding Community policies, it is time for a major upgrade of the European LC/LU information basis. The European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET) Action Group on Land Monitoring in Europe (EAGLE) has been actively working towards creating specifications for the next generation Corine Land Cover product, code-named CLC+. The specifications for a new product such as CLC+ needs to address an as broad as possible user community. Therefore it goes through intensive consultation rounds before production will start in the context of the Copernicus programme and taking benefit of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. Preliminary specifications are currently being assessed by the EEA and its EIONET network partners in participating countries. This CLC+ User Consultation Workshop will allow a broad audience of stakeholders in public authorities, in industry or any other potential European user of LC/LU information to comment on these specifications. This workshop is considered a technical workshop which will give ample space to a constructive dialogue, on the next generation core product for land monitoring in Europe. The next step of the consultation process will be a political-strategic consultation. This workshop is a preparation of the discussion at the third level, which will take place in the appropriate Copernicus advisory and governance communities. Therefore governance aspects of the consultation process is not an objective of this workshop. This workshop is of interest to all end users and stakeholders of the land community in Europe who wish to give technical feedback on the specifications of the upcoming CLC+ product of EEA. The event is open and free to registered participants. Please go to “Register now” to sign up as a participant. The registration will close on 14 November 2017.
SUMMARY
Language: English Cost: free of charge
Venue: Albert Borschette Congress Center (CCAB), room 0.A Address: Rue Froissart 36 1040 Brussels, Belgium You can find a summary PDF here.
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09:00 - 09:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee 09:30 - 09:45 Welcome and introduction Catharina Bamps (DG GROW, European Commission) 09:45 - 11:15 Session one: Setting the scene 09:45 - 10:15: Community policies and LU/LC information needs (Hans Dufourmont, EEA) 10:15 - 10:45: National needs for LU/LC information
10:45 - 11:15: Current pan-EU and local land service: strengths and weaknesses (Barbara Kosztra, Stefan Kleeschulte, EAGLE) 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break 11:45 - 12:30 Session two: CLC+ vision and specification 11:45 - 12:10: Taking stock of existing LU/LC initiatives (Stefan Kleeschulte, EAGLE) 12:10 - 12:30: The concept towards CLC+ (Geoff Smith, EAGLE)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 - 15:45 Session three: CLC+ vision and specification 14:00 - 14:30: Technical specifications for CLC backbone (Gebhard Banko, EAGLE) 14:30 - 15:15: Walk through the initial tech specs, highlighting areas for particular consideration (Gebhard Banko, Johannes Scholz, EAGLE) 15:15 - 15:30: From CLC+ backwards to CLC legacy (Barbara Kosztra, EAGLE) 15:30 - 15:45: Implementing CLC+: from theory to practice (Hans Dufourmont, EEA) 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break 16:15 - 17:30 Session four: implementation and feedback 16:15 - 16:45: Feedback part 1: preselected questions and answers (All) 16:45 - 17:30: Feedback part 2: questions and discussion on CLC-Backbone specifications (All)
17:30 - 17:45 Conclusions
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TRAVELWorkshop venue Albert Borschette Congress Center (CCAB), room 0.A, Rue Froissart 36 1040 Brussels, Belgium
The workshop venue is walking distance (10 minutes) from Schuman metro station. There is a train connection between Schuman and BRU Airport and the journey takes about 35 minutes. The website stib-mivb.be provides real-time information and updates about public transport and has a supporting smartphone app. The accommodation information is for guidance only and the European Commission does not endorse any specific accommodation provider. Please arrive on time. Due to security measures there may be a queue to enter the building.
FURTHER INFOLocal coordinators: Hans Dufourmont, EEA Email: hans.dufourmont[at]eea.europa.eu
Annekatrien Debien, SpaceTec Partners T: +32 488 48 51 70 Email: debien[at]spacetecpartners.eu |