LPS 2022

European Space Agency - Living Planet Symposium 2022, Bonn, Germany

After three years since the last Living Planet Symposium in Milan, it was Bonn’s turn to host the event. This year around 5,000 participants attended the biggest Earth observation conference in the world.

It was an opportunity not to be missed by TUD’s Environmental Remote Sensing Group and as such Matthias Forkel, Luisa Schmidt, Xiao Liu, Konrad Bauer, Eric Kosczor, Naixin Fan, Johanna Kranz, Christine Wessollek and Christopher Marrs set off to Bonn in search of knowledge and to share ours with the wider Earth observation community.

The Remote Sensing Group were asked to give two presentations during the conference. Matthias introduced our ESA-Funded project Sense4Fire with his presentation titled “Integrating the Sentinels for novel fuel, fire and fire emission products”. Luisa presented her work titled “Developing a long-term live-fuel moisture content dataset based on passive microwave vegetation optical depth’.

Other team members gave a poster presentation, Xiao presented his work on estimating the vertical distribution of biomass using spaceborne lidar and TomoSAR, Christine presented her work on estimating vegetation fuel loads using Earth observation data, and Konrad about sharing UAV data and metadata control.

After long and intense five days, TUD’s remote sensing team have come back with new ideas to explore, new contacts and importantly a sense of pride in the work we all do in Earth observation and just how vital it is.